Volume XVIII,

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28,1900.

IM PORTANT  FEATURES. 

Page. 
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2.  G etting  th e   People.
3.  W indow   D ressing.
4.  A ro u n d   th e   State.
5.  G rand  R apids  Gossip.
6.  D ry  Goods.
7.  C lothing.
8.  E d ito rial.
9.  E d ito rial.
IO.  F u tu re   o f  F u rn itu re .
12.  Shoes  and  R ubbers.
14.  H a lf a  C entury.
16.  T he  M eat  M arket.
17.  F ro m   C redit  to   Cash.
18.  V illage  Im p ro v em en t.
19.  Successful  Salesm en.
20.  W om an’s  W orld.
22.  T he  New  Y ork  M arket.
23.  P o u ltry .
24.  C lerk’s  C orner.
25.  C om m ercial  T ravelers.
26.  D rag s  an d   C hem icals.
27.  D ra g   P rice  C arren t.
28.  G rocery  P rice  C u rren t.
29.  G rocery  P rice  C u rren t.
30.  H ardw are.
31.  H ard w are  P rice   C urren t.
32.  G rain M arket.

T H A N K S G IV IN G .

The  season  of  seedtime  and  harvest 
is  over  and  to-morrow  the  Nation  will 
sit  down  to 
its  annual  Thanksgiving 
dinner.  It  will  be  well  worth the eating. 
The  year  has  been  one  of 
increase. 
Fields  and  orchards  have  done  their 
best;  bins  and  barns  are  bursting  with 
an  abundance  of  grain  and  fruit  not 
often  known  and  the  tables  will  be  bur­
dened  by  a  feast  that  only  the  fat  of  the 
land  can  furnish.  Around  it  will  gather 
every  phase  of 
life  and,  for  the  first 
time 
in  many  years,  there  will  be  few 
who  will  come  breakfastless  to  dinner. 
It  will  be  spread  everywhere  with  better 
surroundings.  The  borne  may  be  poor, 
but  there  will  fewer  bare  walls  to 
look 
down  upon  the  feast.  They,  who  sit 
down  to  it  will  be  better  clad,  the  faces 
less  wan,  the  rooms  will  be 
will  be 
warmer  and  better 
Tiny 
T im 's  broken  teacup  and  cracked  tum­
bler  will  be  displaced  by something bet­
ter;  and  so,  from  alley  home  to mansion 
house,  there  will  be  more  than  enough 
to  eat  and  drink  and  wear.  For  this 
abundance  of  good  things 
let  us  be 
thankful.

furnished. 

free 

The  year  has  not  been 

from 
suffering  and  disaster.  There  will  be 
many  a  table  to-morrow  that  will  miss 
some  of  the  brightness  that  blessed  it  a 
year  ago.  Some  well-remembered  day 
between  then  and  now  closed  the  bright 
eyes  forever,  some  untoward  act  ended 
a  friendship  never  to  be  renewed,  cir­
cumstance  and  distance  are  keeping 
from  the  home-circle  the hearts that still 
beat  in  unison  with  it,  and  sorrow  and 
grief  unseen  will  stand  behind  many  a 
partaker  of  the 
feast.  Tempest  and 
flood  have  come  down  and,  with  the 
besom  of  destruction,  have  swept 
from 
the  earth  friends  and  homes  and  posses­
sions.  There  is  little  of  life’s  sunshine 
here  to  be  thankful 
for  and  yet  the 
bright  eyes,  to  be  seen  here  no  more— 
would  we,  if we  could,  recall  them  from 
the  house  of  many  mansions?  The 
friend  is  gone,  but  if  no  word  of  ours 
has  banished  him  we  have  that  to  com­
fort  us.  Sorrow  and  grief  are  the  lot  of 
humanity.  They  come,  as  God  wills, 
the  storm  and  the  flood  com e;  but
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A Reserve Fond  Order

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

EDWIN 0. WOOD, Flint, Mich.

S uprem e  C om m ander  in  Chief.
American  Jewelry  Co.,

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Jewelry  and  Novelties

45  and  46  Tower  Block,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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KOLB  &  SON,  the  oldest  wholesale 
clothing manufacturers, Rochester, N. Y. 
See our elegant line of SPRING  &  SUM­
MER  SUITS.  We  are  the  only  house 
having all through the fall season  a  good 
line  of  Winter  Suits,  Overcoats  and 
Ulsters.
WM.  CONNOR, 20  years with us, will be 
at Sweet’s Hotel,  Grand Rapids,  Dec. 13 
to  Dec. 17.  Customers’ expenses paid, or 
write him Box 346, Marshall, Mich., to call 
on you and you will see  one  of  the  best 
lines manufactured, with  fit,  prices  and 
quality 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.

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

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R.  Q.  DUN  &   CO.

Widdicomb  Bid’s*  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

L.  P.  W ITZLEBEN,  Manager.

Tradasmao Coupons

they  who  sit  at  the  feast  to-day  with 
joy  in  their  hearts  remember  that  not  a 
kind  thought  or  word  was  lacking  when 
it  and  that  calamity 
affliction  needed 
was  robbed  of  half 
its  agony  by  the 
prompt  and  generous  gifts  which  they 
so  heartily  gave.  Let  us  be  thankful 
that  the  means  was  ours,  and  thankful, 
too,  that  we  were  glad  to  give.

Since  our  National 

life  began,  we 
have  never  been  so  prosperous  as  now. 
With  a  territory  upon  which  the  sun 
never  sets,  with  a  variety  of  climate 
that  furnishes  every  desired  condition, 
with  a  continent  full  of resources so  vast 
and  varied  that  calculation  wearies 
in 
numbering  them,  with  a  people  better 
ingen­
trained,  more 
intelligent,  more 
ious,  more  liberal  than,  and  as 
indus­
trious  as,  the  other  nations  of  the  earth, 
we  have  become  the  most  prosperous  of 
them  a ll;  and,  what  never can  cease  to 
be  a  marvel,  we  have  done  all  this  in 
something  over  a  hundred  years.  For 
this  unequaled  prosperity,  let  us  to-day 
be  thankful.

Tim e  was when  the  United  States  was 
a  strip  of  territory  a 
few  leagues  in 
length  along  the  western  border  of  the 
Atlantic,  with  a  people  so  given  to 
spades  and  bargains  as  to  be  looked 
upon  as  good  for  nothing  else.  They 
had  the  docility  of  the  ox  they  liked  to 
drive.  They  had  fists,  but  they  fought 
not.  They  guessed  too  often 
for  their 
own  advantage.  If  they  had  courage  the 
world  had  not  and  probably  would  not 
find  it  out.“ On this side  of  the  sea  their 
fear  or  favor  was  a  matter of unconcern. 
A   wild  waste,  lacking 
in  civilization 
and  knowing  nothing  of  refinement,  it 
could  never amount  to  much  in  the  arts 
of  war  or  peace,  or  anything  else.  The 
story  from  this  extreme  to  the  other  is 
not  too 
is  trite  and  tire­
some.  The  world  knows  it  already  by 
heart.  Some  bitter  experiences  have 
opened  the  Old  World’s  eyes  and  to-day 
at  the  council  hoard  of  the  Nations  the 
Old  World  listens  with  distinguished 
consideration  to  the  opinion  of  that  Na­
tion  that  digs  and  guesses,  and  finds 
it 
to  her  advantage  to  do  what  that  Na­
tion  says.  Surely  we  Americans  have 
much  to  be  thankful  for  to-day !

long,  but 

it 

The  Tradesman  is  hearty  in  its  hope 
that  its  readers  may  have  much  to-mor­
row  to  be  thankful  for.  It  has  recounted 
a  few  of  their  countless  blessings  and, 
when  the  day  and  its  delights  are  over, 
may  they  more  than  ever  rejoice  over 
the  blessing  of  seedtime and harvest and 
be  thankful!

Oom  Paul  must  be  smiling  all  along 
his  Boer  mouth  when  he  hears  all 
France  cheering  for  him  as  an  exile, 
and  remembers  that  not  one  of  them 
fought  for  him  when  he  was  fighting  for 
liberty  and  needed  help.

It 

is  easy  for  a  man  to  be  called  a 
millionaire  until  his  debts  are  paid  and 
his  estates  are  settled  and  found to leave 
no  margin  for  expectant  relatives.

Number 897

T H E   A G E   O P  SP E C IA L IS M .

last  Wednesday 

It  naturally  affords  the  Tradesman 
much  satisfaction  to  be  able  to  present 
to 
its  readers  a  verbatim  copy  of  the 
paper  read  by  Mr.  Wm.  Widdicomb  at 
the  semi-centennial  celebration  of  the 
incorporation  of  Grand  Rapids  as  a 
city,  held 
evening. 
Even  the  most  casual  reader  will  not 
fail  to  note  the  emphasis  the  writer  has 
placed  upon  concentrating  every  effort 
in  promoting  the  city’s  prosperity  upon 
the  single 
industry  for  which  Grand 
Rapids  has  become  famous.  The  con­
vincing  proofs  he  presents  to  strengthen 
his  position  will  win  a  hearty  assent, 
but  after all  there  will  be  in  some  quar­
ters  a  doubtful  shake  of  the  head  and 
an  impressive  enunciation  of  the  adage 
that  nevertheless  all  the  eggs  should  not 
go  to  market  in  a  single  basket.

In  the 

The  trouble  with  the  proverb,  as  Mr. 
Widdicomb  declares,  is  that  it  has  out­
its  usefulness.  He  might  have 
lived 
gone  still  further  and  insisted  that  it 
is 
good  in  any  period  only  as  it recognizes 
the  existence  of  chance,  which  modern 
business  has  struck  from  the  list  of  pos­
sibilities. 
lexicon  of  business 
there 
is  now  no  such  word,  and  the 
energy  which  was  once  directed towards 
providing  for  a  possible  evil  is  concen­
trated  upon  the  accomplishment  of  the 
single  purpose. 
It  enters  now  into  no 
well-formed  plan.  Business is  not  built 
upon  that  quicksand.  There  will  be 
difficulties  to  overcome.  There  will  be 
hardships  to  endure.  Patience  and  per­
severance  will  weaken  the  energy  and 
whiten  the  hair.  They  are  the  willing 
tributes  paid  for  the  success  that  is  far 
off  and  slow  com ing;  but  a  business 
question  to-day  is  a  question  of  mathe­
matics,  and chance  is  not  found  among 
its  self-evident  truths.

look 

All  this  and  much  more  is  brought 
in  Mr.  Widdicomb’s  paper.  The 
out 
its  relations  to  the  future 
present  and 
are  of  more  importance  than  what  has 
been.  Eggs  have  been  broken  on  the 
way  to  market.  It  was  at  a  period  when 
carelessness  and  thoughtlessness  mis­
managed  the  transportation  of  eggs,  but 
it  is  submitted  that  transportation  com­
panies  to-day  would  hardly 
for 
leniency  on  the  delivery  of  the  broken 
merchandise  because  some  rustic  Solo­
mon  years  ago 
cost 
that 
it  is  safer  not  to  carry  all  the  eggs 
to  market  in  one  basket.  The  concen­
tration  upon  a  single  point,  with  no 
thought  of  chance,  is the  strong  point  of 
It  is  a  confirmation  of  the 
the  paper. 
in  this  age  of  the  specialist 
idea  that 
only  the  specialist  can  produce 
the 
best— a  fact  which  this  city  and  other 
cities  equally  prosperous  affirm,  and  a 
fact  to  which  Mr.  Widdicomb’s  paper 
bears  witness.

learned  to  his 

The  exports  of  butter,  cheese,  eggs, 
bacon,  hams,  mutton,  pork, 
apples, 
oats,  peas,  wheat,  flour  and  potatoes  to 
Great  Britain 
from  Canada  have  more 
than  doubled  since  1896.

A   young  trade  journal  which  jumps 
on  to  everybody  and  is  generally  dis­
agreeable  claims  the  credit  of  being 
fearless  and  impartial.

Whisky  is  recommended  as  a  cure  for 
snake  bites.  There  must  be  something 
in  it.  An 
intemperate  use  of  whisky 
makes  men  see  snakes.

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Petting  the  People

Use  an d   A buse  o f Illu stra tio n s  in   A dver­

tising;.

A  few  years  ago  the  columns  of  coun­
il­
try  papers  were  crowded  with  crude 
lustrations,  intended  for  aids  to  gain 
the  attention  of  the  people.  The  tend­
ency  now 
is  to  greater  discrimination 
as  to  the  kind  of  cuts  to  be  used  and 
there 
in  the 
quantity.

is  a  decided 

lessening 

There  is  nothing  which  more  disfig­
it  look 
ures  a  newspaper  and  makes 
cheap  than  to  fill 
its  advertising  col­
umns  with  a  random  aggregation  of  all 
sorts  and  sizes of cuts.  Scattered through 
the  paper,  a  bold,strong  design will  kill 
its  smaller  and  more  delicate  neigh­
bors. 
In the old  days,  it  was  customary 
in  many  papers  to  group  the  illustra­
tions  so  as  to  have  the  large  and  bolder 
together,  but 
in  doing  this  the  result 
was  a  hodge  podge,  and  the  distinctive 
value  of  the  cuts,  if  there  was  any,  was 
lost.

In  the  more  recent  use  of  illustrations 
there  is,  as  I  have  intimated,  a  decided 
lessening  of  quantity  and  a  great 
im ­
provement  in  quality.  The  local  pub­
lisher,  as  a  consequence,  has  a  much 
simpler  problem  in  the  management  of 
his  columns.  He  can  now  separate  the 
illustrations,  so  that  they  will  not  kill 
each  other,  and  can  preserve  a  more 
tidy  and  business 
look  to  his  paper. 
This  improvement  has  not  yet  reached 
its  full  development,  but  much  has  been 
done,  and  the  work  will  not  stop  until 
illustration 
is  made  to  serve  a  definite 
purpose  in  advertising  work.

In  the  advertising  of  specialties  and 
proprietary  articles,  which  so 
largely 
monopolizes  the  magazines  and  class 
papers,  the  use  of  illustrations  is  natur­
ally  much  greater  than  in  any  other  ad­
vertising.  Small  devices  can  usually  be 
shown  by  simple  cuts  which  people 
can  comprehend  and  so  they  serve  a 
good  purpose.  Then,  in  catchy  artistic 
illustration,  there  is  an  infinite  variety, 
and  there  is  much  that  is  of  the  high­
est  illustrative  art. 
In  the  old  days  the 
magazines  printed  their  reading  pages 
on  a  fine  paper  and  the  advertising 
pages  on  coarse,  that  which  was  cheap­
er.  Now,  if  any  distinction  is  made, 
the  advertising  pages  must  have  the 
finer.  For these pages the  engravers  are 
furnishing  their  best  plates,  but  such 
plates  are  much  worse  than  none  for  the 
daily  and  weekly  press.

The  discriminating  merchant  is  com­
ing  to  use  illustrations  in  his  advertis­
ing  less  and  less.  The  old  enquiry  was, 
Haven’t  you  some  good  cut  you  can  put 
in  to  make  my  advertisement  more  at­
tractive?  Now  it  is,  Give  me  a  good, 
strong  display,  with  plenty  of  white  to 
bring  it  out.  Occasionally  he  will  grat­
ify  some  o f . his-  customers  by  using  a 
simple  cut  of  their  specialty,  but  if  he 
is  judicious  he  is  chary  of  this  and  de­
pends  on  matter  that  will  interest  in 
clear  type  and  paper.

In  some  cases  the  use  of  a  distinctive 
design  of  the  firm  name  may  be  of 
value.  This 
is  shown  by  the  fact  that 
many  of  the  large  department  stores  use 
such  designs  for  their  signatures. 
It  is 
to  be  noted,however,that  the  distinction 
is  generally  obtained  as  simply  as  pos­
sible,  as  in  the  case  of  Mandel  Bros.,  a 
plain  gothic  type  with  letters  cut  under 
on  a  slope  so  as  to  admit  the  number  of 
the  street.  The  object  of  these  signa­
tures  is  to  get  the  form  ihto  the  minds 
of  customers  so  as  to  quickly  catch  the 
is  watched  for,  as  in  the
eye  when 

it 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

11 

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A   New  Feature!

A   Department  of  Bargains.

We are using a portion of our second  floor for a 

Bargain  Room

Odds  and  Ends,  Slow  Selling 

Goods,  Soiled  Goods,  Im­

perfect  Goods  and 

Back  Numbers,

can  be found  in  this  department.  A  portion ol  these 
goods can be used to good  advantage  in any household 

and we feel  that if w»*  realize only a

Small  Fraction  of  the  Original  Cost

Throw away 
your old 
toothbrush

1  will give yen  another 
special sale of

the

toothpowder

a common necessity, common­
ly neglected  A  good  tooth- 
powder  must  potftest  at  least 
three  particular 
features: 
first,  absolutely  pure  clean 
materials;  second  these must 
he  reduced  to  extreme  tine* 
nos6;  third,  it  lunst  carry  a 
safe, non-poisonous antiseptic
V a n s antiseptic 
toothpowder

year to another

it is better  thaD  to carry a  lot  of  dead  stock  from one 

Pant Buttons 
Dress Trimmings, original  price 20c 

Dress  Buttons, original  price from 10c to 15c at 2c a doe 
12 dozen  for 5c
Dress Trimmings, original price from  10c to 15c at 
3c 
Neckwear, original price 25c 
Chiffon Trimming, original  price JJ5c and  50c 
Jackets, original  price $5.u0 
$1.5o
Rubber Circulars, original price $1.50 and $2.50. 25 5oc

Red  Handkerchiefs 

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Hosiery,  Cloaks,  Belts.  Laces.  Ribbons.  Veilings. 

Underwear.  Fascinators, and many other articles 

will be sold  just  as  cheap  as above men­

tioned goods.

Visit  Our  Bargain  Department.
I^ohlensteir) Bros.

Seeing is Believing

Fred Gunther

C an  g iv e  you th e b est bargain s.

That

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Dustless  Sweeping.

We  have  a  floor  brush  with  which  you  can  sweep  i ly  floor 

wttn  absolutely  no  dust.  Obiy  $2.

Door Ch^ck and Springs.

For $3.S0 we will sell you a spring  fur  heaviest  doors.  Ve  have 

. some  for  lighter “doors  at  $2.&0

Ladies’ and Gents’ Skates.

Hockey,  racing,  dub  knd  ladles  skates.

Stovepipe Elbows.

A  most  important  matter  In  connection  with 

stoves. 
We  have  a  one-piece  elbow  tbat  is  strong  enough  to  step  upon. 
No more joint*) to come apart and  set  your house afire.

your 

Stoves  and Ranges.

Garland  Heaters.  Majestic  Malleable  Iron  Ranges.

The Laurium  Hardware Company
Tit Waking Your Selections 
for toilet Soaps

Bear in  m ind  the fact th a t we can  fit  you o u t w ith th e beat 

quality of selected soaps a t prices  from  5c to *i5c per cake.

W e buy io quantities,  and  m ake  th e  pri^e right.  All tb s 

goods in  this line are from  well  known  makers.

Jas. 6. Johnson, Druggist.

combines all  these  in  larger 
measures than any  other. 
It 
is  prepared  after  a  formula 
devised  by the proprietor, ex­

amined and  recommended  t>7 

a  proiqincut  dental  surgeon. 
In order that many,  who  do 
not know of  its  good  quali­
ties,  may give it a trial  under 
proper  antiseptic  conditions 
with  a new, clean brush, on

Saturday, 
November 10
l  will  give  oue  of 
the 
“ AMERICAN  BEAUTY” 
tooth-brushes  made  bj 
the 
fatuous  French  makers,  Du­
pont & Oie, of Paris. 
I gave 
a large import order for these 
fine brushes  months  ago,  in 
order to have an article of the 
highest quality  to sell  at  the 
popular  price  of  twenty-five 
cents.  Remember  that  ou 
SATURDAY ONLY  I  will 
give one  of  these “American 
Beauty”  brushes  with  each 
bottle  of  Van’s  Antiseptic 

tooth powder for only 25 cents.

George D . 
VanVranken,

Cadillac,  Michigan.

a specialty  of Butter 
and  Eggs. 
Rest 
kind  of  price,  for 
No.  i  articles.  Onr 
trade  is  steadily  in­
and  we 
creasing 
wish 
the 
ball  rolling.  Give 
ns a friendly call.

to  keep 

STIMSON BROS.
Smokers 
do you ever 
stop to think?

W e pay  our  rent, lig h t 
and heat tax es at hom e, 
not  in som e o th er tow a. 
W e  pay  our  workm en 
in your town.  W e buy 
our  goods  and  spend 
our  m oney 
in  yon* 
town.  Please  ■ rem em ­
b er th is when  you  buy 
a   Cigar

Call  lor  a  Plainwcll  Cigar  and 

-v e rily   thou  shall  g et thy

‘Reward.’ ”

Yours,

WM. S. FORBES

case  of  special  sales  and attractions.  It 
is  a  question  whether  the  use  of  such  a 
signature  by  the  general  merchant  will 
be  an  advantage,  or  whether  the  con­
stant  use  of  the  same  form  will  not  be­
come  tiresome  or  lose  its  effect  by  too 
great  familiarity.

*  *  *

indirectly  to 

The  question  as  to  the  advisability  of 
cultivating  a  cheap  bargain  trade 
is 
more  a  question  of  business  policy  than 
of  advertising  except  in  so  far  as  it 
serves 
increase  the  more 
profitable  trade. 
If  Kohlenstein  Bros, 
did  not  find  that  it  brings  such  trade, 
they  would  probably  discontinue 
it. 
Their  advertisement  is  well  written  for 
such  trade  and  is  well  handled  by  the 
printer,  although  I  am  not  partial  to 
“ astonishers. ”   If  the  first  and  last lines 
could  have  been  set  in  the  same  series 
of  type  as  the  remainder,  it  would  have 
been  an  improvement.

I 

Rather an  ambitious  effort  of  display 
is  that  of  Fred  Gunther. 
It  is  written, 
however,  in  a  style  against which  1 have 
suppose  the  bargain 
a  prejudice. 
idea  must  serve  an  effectual  purpose 
in 
it  would  not  be  em­
selling  goods,  or 
ployed  so  much,  but  I  believe 
is 
repellent  to  much  of  the  better  custom. 
“ The  best  goods  at  the  right  prices”   is 
a  better  shibboleth  than  “ bargains.”  
The  display  is  symmetrical,  hut  is  too 
heavy  for  the  business  or  space.

it 

The  advertisement 

The  Laurium  Hardware  Co.  falls  into 
the  hands  of  a  printer who  employs  a 
degree  of  Simplicity 
in  his  work  that 
might  suggest  laziness,  and  yet  his  dis­
play  could  be  worse. 
I  do  not  like  the 
mourning  rules  and  there  should  be 
more  white  space  between  the  border 
and  type.  The  fact  that  the  paragraphs 
indented  alike  strikes  the  eye 
are  not 
disagreeably. 
is 
carelessly  written 
in  that  much  trade 
will  not  be  attracted  by  a  $2  brush  if 
there  are  not  other  merits  than  avoiding 
dust.  Pricing  the  skates  would  have 
made  sales. 
I  should  imagine  that  at 
this  season  stoves  and  ranges  would  be 
of  some  importance,  but  they  bring  up 
at  the  rear  of  the  procession  in  a  way 
that  would  suggest  that  they  are  subor­
dinate  to  elbows. 
1  should  call  it  a 
carelessly  written  and  lazily  set  produc­
tion.

Jas.  G.  Johnson  shows  dignity  and 
directness 
in  the  writing  of  his  adver­
tisement,  and  the  display  is  attractive.
Geo.  D.  Van  Vranken  presents  a 
carefully  planned  and  written advertise­
ment,  for  a  special  one  day  leader.  The 
description  of  the  tooth  powder  is  defi­
nite  and  clear  and  will  prove  popularly 
attractive.  Probably  the  printer could 
not  have  hit  upon  a  better  scheme  of 
display  and  paragraphing.

Stimson  Bros,  have  written  about  as 
poor  an  advertisement  as  I  have  seen 
It  is  especially  strong 
in  some  time. 
in  awkward  expression. 
“ Best  kind  of 
prices” — why  “ kind?”   What  is  better 
than  “ best  prices?”   This 
is  one  of 
those  productions  which  should  be 
thrown  away  and  all  begun  new.  The 
printer  seems  to  have  been  all  at  sea; 
and  I  do  not  blame  him.

Wm.  S.  Forbes  makes  an  attractive 
play 
in  his  advertisement  and  the 
printer has done  his  work well.  I  should 
have  written  it,”  We  pay  our taxes for, ”  
etc.,  which  would  have  read  better. 
In 
quoting  from  scripture  it  would  be  well 
to  be  accurate— ‘ fthou  shalt  receive.”  
Also  the  word  “ Yours”   would  be  better 
omitted.

Minnesota’s  binding-twine  plant,  es­
is 
tablished  in  the  State  penitentiary, 
insti­
as  much  of  a  success  as  the 
tution 
in  Kansas.  By  this  means  the 
problem  of  convict  labor has been solved 
in  these  two  states  to  the  satisfaction  of 
about  everyone  concerned.

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Crockery  and  Glassware.

A KRON  STONEW ARE. 

R atters

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2 to 6 gal., per  gal...............................  
k gal. e a c h ..... .....................................  
10 gal. each............................................. 
12 gal. each............................................. 
15 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 
20 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 
25 gal. meat-tubs, each......................... 
30 gal. neat-tubs, each......................... 

C hurns

Churn Dashers, per doz....................... 

M ilkpans

H gal. flat or rd. b o t, per poz............. 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot„ each.................. 
F in e  Glazed  M ilkpans
Vt gal  flat or rd. b o t, per doz............  
1 gab flat or rd  bot., each............... 

Stew pans

K gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............. 
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............. 

Ju g s

yt gal. per doz........................................ 
\  gal. per doz........................................ 
1 to 5 gal., per gal.................................  

5 lbs. in package, per lb.......................  

Sealing  W ax

LA M P  BURNERS

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No. 3 Sun................................................ 
Tubular.......................................................... 
Nutmeg.........................................................  
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Window  Dressing

E m p ty   W all  Space—F alse  B acking—W in­

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the 

empty  wall  and 

Many  merchants  do  not  properly  ap­
ledge 
preciate 
spaces  in  their  stores. 
It should  always 
be  remembered  that  the more  goods  that 
can  be  put  on  exhibition,  the  better.  If 
a  store  has  a  blank  wall  (it 
it  up  with 
narrow  shelves,  on  which  can  be  placed 
shirt  stands,  displaying  new  styles  of 
shirts  prominently.  We  saw  not  long 
ago  a  store  where  the  proprietor  had  a 
long  blank  wall.  He  fitted 
it  up  with 
narrow  shelves,  on  which  he  displayed 
shirts,  neckties  and  underwear,  and  he 
said  that  very  often  people  would  catch 
sight  of  something  displayed  on  that 
side  of  the  store  when  they  would fail  to 
see  the  same  thing  in  the  showcase  and 
it  when 
as  a  result  they  would  buy 
otherwise  he  would  have  lost  a  sale. 
It 
is  certainly  not  advisable  for  the  pro­
prietor  of  a  store  to  put  goods  on  exhi­
bition  if  he 
is  not  careful  to  change 
them  before  they  become  spoiled  and 
dirty.  Very  often  the  article  on  the  top 
of  a  showcase  or  on  a  narrow ledge right 
in  the  line  of  a  person’s  sight  will  sell 
when  otherwise  it  would  have  remained 
in  the  store.

*  *  *

Some  merchants  find  it  necessary  to 
trim  their  windows  with  more  than  one 
line  of  goods  at  a  time. 
In  a  haber­
dasher’s  window 
in  New  York  the  fol­
lowing plan of arrangement was adopted. 
The  upper  bars  of  the  window  were  oc­
cupied  with  shirts  and  the  lower  bars 
with  gloves.  The  shirts  were  hung  by 
the  shoulder  to  the  bars  and  across  the 
shoulder was  draped  a  butterfly  or  bat- 
w’ing  tie.  The  gloves  were  hung  on  the 
lower  bars,  alternating  with  collars  and 
cuffs.  The  floor  of  the  window  was  oc­
cupied  by  hat  stands  displaying a  large 
variety  of  hats.  Each  line  of  articles 
that  was  displayed  was  in  a  group  by 
itself  and  not  scattered  about  the  win­
dow  promiscuously  with  other  articles. 
And,  as  each  line  of  goods  was  brought 
to  the  front  of  the  window,  each  line  at 
tracted  the  attention  of  the  passerby im­
mediately,  and  told  its  story  effectively.

*  *  *

It 

is  a  good  idea  to  construct  a  false 
background  that  can  be  used  a  number 
of  times  and  on different  occasions.  For 
instance,  a  false  backing  can  be  made 
for  the  window  and  covered  in  plain 
burlap  or  denim,  which, ’ after  being 
sized  with  gloss  oil,can  be  painted  with 
various  colors,  as  may  be desired.  After 
it  has  been  used  in  one  color  it  can  be 
varied  by  tacking  narrow  moldings  up­
on 
it  to  give  a  paneled  effect,  and  the 
panels  can  be  painted  in  one  color,  the 
in  another.  The 
rest  of  the  backing 
moldings  can  be  changed  from  time 
to 
time  to  make  panels  of  different  sizes 
and  shapes.  This  may  be  further  varied 
by  the  use  of  different  draperies  on 
parts  of  it.  A  simple  drapery  is  made 
by  taking  any  material  a  yard  wide and 
three  times  the  length  of  the  line  along 
which 
is  to  be  draped.  The  upper 
edge  of  the  material  at  intervals  of 
about  a  foot  apart  is  gathered  into  a 
puff  and  fastened  with  tacks  or  with  a 
pin.  Part  of  the  background  can  be 
draped  with  cloth  applied 
in  plain  or 
box  pleats.  The  rest  can  be  draped 
with  curtains  bung  in  natural  folds  or 
with  a  combination  of  curtains  and 
This  background 
smaller  draperies. 
can  be  further  varied  by  setting  into 
it 
mirrors  with  their  edges  puffed.  Or  the 
mirror  can  be  covered  by  fine  lace  of  a 
pretty  pattern,  drawn  smoothly  over

it 

the  face.  Again,  the  interior  of  some 
panels  can  be  covered  with  puffing 
across  which  ribbons  are  drawn in a net­
work  effect.  By  such  varied  combina­
tions  of  drapery,  puffing,  mirrors,  paint 
and  other accessories  that  will  suggest 
themselves  from  time  to  time,  a  well- 
made  backing  can  be  made to do service 
for  a  considerable  length  of  time  before 
it  becomes  useless.

*  *  *

There  was  a time when the  art  of  win­
dow  trimming  was  yet  in  its  infancy, 
when  the  window  trimmer  was  forced to 
depend  upon  his  own  mechanical  in­
genuity and general  power  of  inventive­
ness  for  all  the  fixtures  that  he  desired 
to  use 
in  his  window  trims.  But  that 
time 
is  so  far  past  and  the  results  of 
the  combined  experiences  of  so  many 
window  trimmers  have  been  so  com­
pletely  taken  advantage  of  by  the  man­
ufacturers  of  window  fixtures  that  at  the 
present  time  the  merchant  who  appre­
ciates  the  value  of  time  in  his  business 
and  the  necessity  of  having  a  window 
outfit  that 
is  modern  and  up  to  date 
does  not  desire  the  window  trimmer,ex­
cept  for  particular  and  exceptional  dis­
plays,  to  invent  window  fixtures  of  his 
own,  hut  to  make  use  of  the  best  of 
those  that  are  produced  by  the  various 
fixture companies.  The business of mak­
ing  window  fixtures  has  now  assumed 
such  proportions  and  such  a  large  vari­
ety  of  fixtures  are  always  being  pro­
duced  that  it  is  worth  while  to  make 
some  mention  of  the  most  indispensable 
fixtures  for  the  use  of  the  haberdasher. 
The  most  valuable  of  these  is  the  dis­
play  frame,  which  consists  of  two  up­
right  metal  supports  in  the  window, 
with  projecting  arms  for  the  support  of 
bars,  on  which  the  articles  of  the  dis­
play  are  hung.  This  fundamental  idea 
is  worked  out  in  various  forms.  Some­
times  the  metal  supports  are  suspended 
from  the  roof  of  the  window  and  made 
movable  on  arms  extending  across  the 
top  of  the  window  so  that  they  can  be 
easily  shifted  in  position  in  the  window 
or 
in  relation  to  each  other,  or  for the 
purpose  of  altering  the  rods  used  on 
them  from  straight  to  various  forms  of 
curved  rods.  Another  staple  window 
fixture  is  the  haberdasher’s  tree.  This 
consists  of  a  single  straight  metal  sup­
port  from  which  project  straight  arms, 
made  fixed  or  movable  and  varying 
in  number 
four  upward.  This 
form  of  fixture  is  valuable  in  small win­
dows  where  the  fixture  first mentioned is 
not  available  on  account  of  the  lack  of 
space.  Swinging  or  fixed  brackets  with 
side  arms  for  the  sides  r f  the  window 
are  still  another  form  of  fixture  that  is 
staple  and  that  has  received  various 
forms  of  treatment.  For  the  utilization 
of  wall  space  these  fixtures  are  indis­
pensable.  For  the  floor  of  the  window 
the  T-stand,  with  or  without  a  flat 
lop 
of  glass,  metal  or  wood,  is  the  fixture 
that 
is  most  commonly  and  variously 
employed.  With  a  window  equipped 
with  such  fixtures  in  good  condition and 
properly  selected  according  to  the  na­
ture  of  the  window,  the  window  trim­
mer  has  a  fair  chance  to  show  what  he 
can  do  in  the  displaving  of  goods.  It  is 
a  common  practice  for trimmers in large 
stores  to  order  little  attachments of their 
own,  or  peculiarly  designed  stands,  for 
the  special  display  of  particular  lines 
of  goods,  but  the  fixtures  for ordinary 
window  work  are  the  fixtures  enumer­
ated  above.

from 

The  London  Daily  Mail  says  that  the 
days  of  the  banjo  are  numbered in Eng­
land,  and  that  that  instrument  will  soon 
be  included  in  the  same  category  with 
the  mouth  organ  and  the  accordion. 
The  zither  is  growing 
in  popularity, 
and  will  probably  be  the favorite instru­
ment  during  the  coming  winter.

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promptly.  Prices are right.  Send us your order.

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Baskets,  Potato  Baskets,  Coal  Baskets,  Lunch 
Baskets, Display Baskets, Waste  Baskets,  Meat 
Baskets,  Laundry  Baskets,  Baker  Baskets, 
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Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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No. 2 Sun................................................ 

F irs t  Q uality

No. 0 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 

XXX  F lin t

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab........  

P e a rl  Top

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........ 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ 
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled......  
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................................... 

L a  B astie

No. 1 Sun, plain  bulb, per  doz........... 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz...........  
No. l Crimp, per doz............................ 
No. 2 Crimp, per doz............................ 

R ochester

No. 1 Lime (65c  doz)............................  
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)............................ 
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)— .;..................  

E lectric

No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)............................ 
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)............................ 

O IL  CANS

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.. 
9 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
6 gal. Tilting cans..................................  
5  gal. galv. iron  Nacefas.....................  

P u m p   Cans

5 gal. Rapid steady stream ..................  
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow................  
3 gal. Home Rule................................... 
5 gal. Horae Rule................................... 
5 gal. Pirate King.................................  

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift....................... 
No.  IB  Tubular................................... 
No. 15 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 laoz. each 

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples *nd prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Clark St.,  Chicago,  III.

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4

Around  tbe State

M ovem ents  o f M erchants.

Galesburg— Orin  H.  Powers,  baker 

has  sold  out  to  H.  J.  Perry.

Woodmere— G.  T.  Kast  has  sold  his 

drug  stock  to  J.  D.  Hamilton.

Hudson—Will  O ’ Riley  succeeds  A.  J. 

Colvin  in  the  bakery  business.

Pontiac— Bird  tk  Peck  continue  the 

grocery  business  of  Bird  Bros.

Ionia— Wm.  L.  Amphlett  will  shortly 

engage  in  the  grocery'  business.

Clare— C.  J.  Stone  has  purchased  the 

meat  market  of  Harvey  T.  Ritter.

Detroit— A.  P.  Breitenback  has  pur­

chased  the  drug  stock  of  Bird  Bros.

Hart— A.  M.  Kobe  succeeds  Chas.  J. 
Kobe  in  the  grocery  and  dry goods busi­
ness.

Dowagiac— Eugene  E.  Anderson  has 
sold  his  boot  and  shoe  stock  to  J.  G. 
Smith.

Saginaw— Enos  C.  Kinsman  has  pur­
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Adam  L. 
Klemm.

Battle  Creek— Weaver  &  Gawell  suc­
ceed  Mrs.  E.  I.  Weaver  in the millinery 
business.

Rochester— E.  R. 

succeeds 
Griggs  Bros,  in  the  grain  and  produce 
business.

Letts 

Jackson— John  W.  Pool,  Jr.,  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Walter  A. 
Cunningham.

Tekonsha— Hollenbeck  &  Able,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved partnership,  Mr. 
Able  succeeding.

Meyer— Meyer  &  Co.  is  the  style  of 
the  new  merchandise  firm  which  suc­
ceeds  Renner  &  Meyer.

Wolverine— Bion  E.  Foley  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery,  drug,  hardware  and 
notion  stock  of  P.  E.  Hackett.

East  Tawas— Morris  D.  Myers  con­
tinues  the  clothing,  dry  goods  and  m il­
linery  business  of  Abram  Myers.

Decatur—C.  J.  Rowlee  has  engaged 
implement,  carriage  and  wagon 

in  the 
business  in  the  Crippen  building.

Chatterton— Joshua  Fuller  has  closed 
out  his  general  stock  and  will  seek  an­
other  location  for  his  shingle  mill.

Niles— Scott  &  Briggs,  dealers  in  im ­
plements,  carriages  and  harnesses,  have 
sold  out  to  Elizabeth  Starkweather.
'  Berlin— W.  A.  Thomas,  grocer,  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  John 
Rowlin  and  consolidated  the two stocks.
Frankenmuth— The  general  merchan­
dise  store  of  Jacob  C.  Schluckebier  has 
been  closed  by  virtue  of  a  chattel  mort­
gage.

Vicksburg—Clark  Bros.  Co. 

is  the 
style  of  the  new  firm  which  succeeds 
Clark  Bros,  in  the  manufacture  of steam 
specialties.

St.  Louis— Geo.  Killeen  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Geo.  White 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
same  location.

Port  Huron—J.  A.  Goodfellow,  of 
Grand  Rapids,  will  open  a  5  and  10 
cent  store  here  in  case  he  can  obtain  a 
suitable  location.

Traverse  City— Freeborn  Gardner 
has  sold  his  grocery  stock  to  Elliott 
&  East.  Mr.  Gardner  will  remain  in 
their  employ  for  a  short  time.

Rockford— A.  G.  Wellhrook  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  R.  B.  Hayes  in 
the  grocery  firm  of  Wellbrook  &  Hayes 
and  will  continue  the  business  in  his 
own  name.

Sturgis— Oliver  Moore  and  Packard 
&  Son  have  purchased  the  greater  por­
tion  of  the  John  Clapp  grocery  stock 
and  the  remainder  was  shipped  to  tbe 
Grand  Rapids  creditors..

Saginaw— Mrs.  Alexander  Swift,  of 
Cincinnati,  owner  of  the  Saginaw  West 
Side  Gas  Co.,  has  sold  same  to  Geo.  B. 
and  J.  M.  Morley,  of  this  city,  the  con­
sideration  being  $90,000.

Clarksville— O.  Prosser  and  Volney 
Strong,  composing  the  implement  firm 
of  Prosser  &  Strong,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  Mr.  Strong  will  continue 
the  business  in  his  own  name.

Belding—The  Belding  Feed  &  Fuel 
Co.  is  the  style  of  a  new  firm  estab­
lished  to  engage  in  the  wood,  coal,  hay, 
feed  and  salt  business.  G.  B.  Hill,  of 
Orleans,  is  the  business  manager.

Scotts— The  Richardson  Mercantile 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $20,000.  The  incorporators  are 
f.  A.  Richardson,  Herbert  C.  Richard­
son,  Wells  Adams  and  Fred  Horsfall.
Plainwell— James  Smith,  formerly  of 
the  firm  of  Smith  &  Ingraham,  has  en­
gaged  in  the  wholesale produce business 
on  Bridge  street  in  the  building  former­
ly  occupied  by  the  Citizens  telephone 
office^

Benton Harbor— The grocery stock for­
merly  owned  by  J.  C.  Calkins,  who  re­
cently  filed  a  petition  in  bankruptcy, 
has  been  purchased  by  C.  S.  Boyle. 
The  stock  was  appraised  at  $7,000  and 
was  sold at  75  cents  on  the  dollar.

Ludington— W.  G.  Adams,  meat  deal­
er,  has  purchased  the  meat  market  cf 
Joseph  Mitchell,  and  has  already  taken 
possession  of  same,  and  will  be  assisted 
by  his  son,  Will.  His  son,  Percy,  will 
continue  the  business  at  the  old  stand.

1 

Evart— After  Jan. 

the  hardware 
house  of  the  E.  F.  Birdsall  Co.  will 
occupy  the adjoining  store now occupied 
by  Hon.  E.  C.  Cannon,  who  will  retire 
from  the  mercantile  business,  in  which 
he  has  been  engaged  for  nearly  thirty 
years.

Howard  City— The  grocery 

firm  of 
Bradley  &  McGeorge  has  been  reorgan­
ized,  C.  F.  McGeorge  having  sold  his 
interest  to  John  B.  King.  The new  style 
will  be  Bradley  &  King.  Mr.  King  will 
have  the  management  of  the  store,  as­
sisted  by  his  two  sons,  Bert  and  Walter.
Cass  City— James  L.  Hitchcock  has 
merged  his  general  merchandise  busi­
ness 
into  a  corporation  under  the  style 
of  J.  L.  Hitchcock  &  Sons.  The  capi 
tal  stock  of  the  corporation  is $33,000. 
Two  sons  appear  with  the  father  as 
in­
corporators— G.  L.  and  A.  A.  Hitch­
cock.

Three  Rivers— B.  H.  Lester  &  Co., 
who  conducted  a  clothing  store  at  Cale­
donia,  have  purchased  the  general  mer­
chandise  stock  of  J.  T.  Muncey  &  Co. 
here  and  will  continue  the  business  un­
der  the  style  of  Lester  &  Son.  The 
Caledonia  stock  will  be  removed  to  this 
place.

M an u factu rin g   M atters.

Fenton— Henry  L.  Schulte  has  retired 
from  the  cigar  manufacturing  business.
Detroit— The  Union Talc Co.* succeeds 
the  Columbian  Talc  Co.  in  the  manu­
facture  of  asbestine  pulp.
Kalamazoo— Dickinson 

and  Tudor 
R iley  succeed  John  A.  Stark  as proprie­
tors  of  the  Michigan  Top  &  Dash  Co.
has
placed  the  contract  for  the  plans  of  its 
new  wheel  factory  with  an  architect. 
It 
will  be  240x96  feet  in  dimension.

Flint— The  Durant-Dort  Co. 

Portland— The  Standard 

Portland 
Cement  Co.  is  the  style  of  the  new  en­
terprise  recently  launched  at  this  place 
with  a  capital  stock  of $1,000,000.  The 
incorporators  are  G.  H.  Barbour,  M.  S. 
Williams,  J.  Harris,  W.  E.  Macklem 
and  G,  E.  Moody,  all  of  Detroit.

Hudson— Phineas  Elliott  has  sold  his 
interest 
in  the  Elliott  M illing  Co.  to 
Samuel  Stephenson,  who  will  continue 
the  business.  Mr.  Elliott  has accepted a 
position  with  the  Kefuss  Milling  Co.

East  Tawas— The  National  Evaporat­
ing  Co.  has  already  purchased  43,000 
bushels  of  potatoes  to  manufacture 
into 
potato  flour.  Two  carloads  of  the  prod­
uct  were  shipped  the  past  week  to  Eng­
land.

St.  Joseph— Engberg’s  Electrical  & 
Mechanical  Works  has  been  organized 
for  the  manufacture  and  sale of engines, 
dynamos,  etc.,  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000.  Those  connected  with  the  new 
enterprise  are  C.  Endberg,  J.  G.  End- 
berg  and  J.  Erickson.

Portland-----The  Dellenbaugh-Alton
Co.,  which  bid 
in  the  plant  of  the 
Michigan  Cabinet  &  Commode  Co.  at 
$3,800  on  a  chattel  mortgage  sale,  by 
assuming  a  portion  of  the 
indebtedness 
of  the  former  company,  has  acquired 
permanent  possession  of  the  property 
and  will  continue  the  manufacture  of 
crokinole  boards  on  a  larger  scale  than 
ever  before.

Traverse  City-----The  confectionery
manufacturing  firm  of  Straub  Bros.  & 
Amiotte  has 
just  installed  a  new  gaso­
line  gas  plant.  The  gas  is  generated 
by  forcing  air  over  tanks  of  gasoline, 
after  which  the  gas  is  mixed  with  85 
per  cent,  of  air  and  piped  to  the lamps.
Cheboygan— C.  M.  Robinson  has  pur­
chased  an 
in  the  Cheboygan 
Wood  Turning  Works  of  John  H.  Clune 
is  now  known  as 
and  the  new 
Clune  &  Robinson. 
im­
provements  will  be  made  in  the  plant, 
including  the  addition  c f  new  machin­
ery.  The  company  has  several 
large 
tracks  of  birch  timber  lands  which  will 
be  lumbered  this  winter.

Extensive 

interest 

firm 

in  the 

intention 

interested 

Bay  City— A  company 

is  being 
formed  with  outside  capital  for  the  pur­
pose  of  building  another  sugar  factory 
at  this  point.  Bay  City  men  will  be 
slightly 
company, 
which  will  be  capitalized  at  $400,000. 
The 
is  to  go  ahead  with  the 
building  at  once  and  have  the  mill 
ready  for the  next  campaign.  There  is 
also talk  of  another  chemical works,  and 
another  institution  which  will  be  the 
largest  industry  in  the  Saginaw  Valley. 
Plans  are  maturing,  but  a  few  prelimi­
naries  must  be  closed  before  a  public 
announcement  of  the  enterprises  can  be 
made.

In   C ontinuous  Service  N inety-five  Years. 
From the New  York  Sun.

the  schooner  Polly  has 

Full  of  years  and  with  the  proud  dis­
tinction  of  having  borne  the  Stars  and 
Stripes  on  the  seas  longer than any other 
craft, 
been 
wrecked  at  North  Brookville  on  the 
Maine  coast.  She  was  built  in  Ames- 
bury  in  1805  and  had  been 
in  continu­
ous  service  ever  since.  She  was  a  pri­
vateer  in  the  war of  1812  and  it  is  re­
ported  that  she  captured  no  less  than 
eleven  British  vessels  as  prizes.  From 
that  time  on  she  kept  to  the  peaceful 
track  of  commerce  until  her  end  on  the 
shore  of  that  part  of  the  United  States 
where  the  sturdiest  of  American  ships 
were  fashioned.  A  splendid  specimen 
of  a  noble  handicraft  she  must  have 
been,  and  hers  was  the  honor of  outlast­
ing  all  the  great  creations  of  our  ship­
builders  in  the  opening  days  of  the cen­
tury.  Let  as  much  of  the  Polly  be 
saved  as  possible  and  then  let  New 
England  enterprise  build  new  Pollies 
the  smartest  of  their  kind.

E.  D.  Richmond,  with  A.  R.  Bremer 

Co.,  Chicago: 
I  hand  you  check  for $1 
to  renew  my  subscription  to  the Trades­
man.  I  can  not  get  along  without  it. 
I 
wish  to  keep  posted  on  Michigan  mat­
ters.

T he  Boys  B eh in d   th e   C ounter.
Kalamazoo— C.  W.  Folger  has 

re­
signed  his  position  as  clerk  in  the  A. 
W.  Walsh  grocery  store  to  take  a  sim i­
lar  position  with  the  Witwer Baking Co.
Ovid— John  W.  Norris,  of  Selkirk, 
has  been  engaged  by  C.  E.  Jillson  to 
clerk  in  his  dry  goods  store.

Bay  City— The  Clerks’  Association 
has  everything  in  readiness  for  the  gay 
carnival  and  Paris  midway  that  opens 
at  Armory  hall  December  3.  The  work 
incidental  to  this  big  enterprise  has 
been  going  steadily  on  for  the  past  few 
weeks,  and  from  now  until  the  evening 
of  the  opening  the  finishing  touches 
will  be  added.  The  scene  which  will 
be  presented  when  the  show  is  finally 
opened  will  be  a  most  attractive  one. 
The  main  hall  will  be  devoted  to  the 
immense  holiday  display  of  the  Bay 
City  merchants,  together with the  Amer­
ican,  German,  Irish,  Turkish  and  Jap­
anese  villages.  The  scenes  in  connec­
tion  with  these  villages  will  be  true  to 
life  and  pretty  waiter  girls  will  be  seen 
in  native  costume 
in  the  German  vil­
lage,  gay  dancing  girls  in  the  Turkish 
village,  while  a  continuous  show  will  be 
going  on  in  the  others.  The  Egyptian 
Hall  of  London  will  present  sensational 
including  the  disappearing 
illusions, 
the  mermaid,  half-child  and 
woman, 
others. 
In  the  rear  portion  of  the  big 
hall  a  miniature  theater  will  be  erected, 
where  a  continuous  show  will  be 
in 
progress.  Sensational  trapeze  acts,  dar­
ing  acrobatic  turns,  refined  songs  and 
dances,  illustrated  songs,  etc.,  will  be 
presented,  with  a 
list  of  some  twenty- 
two  performers.  No  objectionable  fea­
tures  will  be  seen.  Everything  is  prom­
ised  to  be  a  first-class,  clean  entertain­
ment.  The  members  of  the  Clerks’ 
Association  are  working  hard  to  make 
this  affair  one  long  to  be  remembered.
A sked  to  Confirm   o r  M odify  H is  S tate­

m en t.

in 

Bath,  Nov.  27— We  notice 

the 
Michigan  Tradesman  of  Nov.  21  an  ar­
ticle  by  Graeme  Stewart  on  “ How  Tax 
Improves  and  Lowers 
the  Price  of 
T ea.”   Among  other  things  he  says: 
“ This  tax,  contrary  to  expectation,  did 
not  increase  the  price  of  tea  to  the 
job­
ber,  retailer  or  consumer. ”

While  we  believe  the  law  is  a  good 
one  and  ought  to remain,  our experience 
does  not  agree  with  the  above  state­
ment,  as  our  jobber at  once  raised  the 
price  to  correspond with  that  of  the duty 
and  has  maintained  it  ever  since— that 
is  to  say,  about  10  cents  per  pound.

Now,  if  Mr.  Stewart 

is  correct,  the 
jobber  has  certainly  taken  advantage  of 
the  ignorance  of  the  retailer  by  making 
him  pay  a  price  which  does  not  right­
fully  belong  to  the  jobber,  or  else  Mr. 
Stewart  is  entirely wrong.  The  question 
of  interest  to  the  retailer  would be,  Does 
tea  now  cost  more  to  the  jobber  or  re­
tailer  than  before  the  act  was  passed? 
As  the  Tradesman  is  our  Bible  on  mat­
ters  of  this  kind,  we  would  like  to  have 
you  ask  Mr.  Stewart  to  confirm  or  mod­
ify  his  statement.  J.  C.  Davis &  Son.

A  Choice  o f Term s.

“ Here’s  another  man  who  got  away 
with ^ some  money  that  didn’t  belong  to 
him ,’ ’  said  the  young  woman  who  was 
reading  the  paper.

“ How  much?”   enquired  Miss  Cay­

enne.

“ It  doesn’ t  state.”
“ That’s  too  bad! 

I  wanted  to  deter­
mine  whether  he 
is  a  plain  thief,  a 
misguided  embezzler  or  a  bold  finan­
cier.”

Two  O re st  O bjects.

“ They  say,”   remarked  the  very  cyn­
ical  person,  “ that 
in  this  corrupt  and 
superficial  age  the  great  object  is  not  to 
be  found  out.”

“ That  shows  you  have  very  little  ex­
perience  with  bill  collectors, ”  answered 
the  impecunious  friend.  “ My  great  ob­
ject  is  not  to  be  found  in .”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

C.  B.  Ingersoll  has  opened  a  cigar 
and  tobacco  store  at  Alma.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  B.  J.  Reynolds.

A.  B.  Large  has  engaged  in  the  res- 
aurant  and  cigar  business  at  Bellaire. 
B.  J.  Reynolds  supplied  the  cigars.

F.  E.  Russell  has  engaged 

in  the 
cigar  and  tobacco  business  at  Manton. 
B.  J.  Reynolds  furnished  the  stock.
Wm.  L.  Amphlett  has  engaged 

in 
the  grocery  business  at  Ionia. 
The 
Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  furnished 
the  stock.  ______________

removed 

Frank  L.  Orcutt,  produce  dealer  at 
Beulah,  has 
to  Homestead 
and  embarked  in  the  grocery  business. 
The  Worden  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the 
stock.

G.  J.  Baker  has  opened  a  grocery
the  corner  of  Wealthy  and 
store  at 
Grandville  avenues. 
The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler 
Com pany.______________

Chas.  B.  Metzger  has  sold  his  bean 
cleaning  fixtures  in  the  old  Valley  City 
Cold  Storage  Co.  plant  to  the  J.  K. 
Armsby  Co.,  of  Chicago,  which  has 
leased  the  building  and  will  continue 
the  business  on  a  larger  scale.
T he  P roduce  M arket.

Apples— Fancy  fruit  fetches  $2.50© 
2.75  per  bbl.  Choice  commands  $2.25 
@2.50.  Baldwins  appear  to  be  in  the 
greatest  demand.

Bananas— Are  slightly  higher,  having 
advanced  on  an  average  of  10c  per 
bunch.  This  is  due  to  the  increased  de­
mand  and  small  arrivals.

Beans— The  market  is  being  held  up 
by  operators  on  the  Detroit  Board  of 
Trade,  who  have  sold  themselves  short. 
Local  handlers  pay  $ i .2 5 @ i .5 °   per  bu., 
less  waste,  which  averages  about  5  lbs. 
to  the  bu.

Beets—$1  per  bbl.
B u tter—C ream ery  is  w eak  a t  24@25c, 
th e  m ark et  h a v in g   sag g ed   off  both  E a st 
a n d   W est.  R ec e ip ts  of  d a iry   are  lib eral 
for 
th e  year,  the  p rice 
from   18c  for  fancy  tab le  to  13 
ra n g in g  
@I4C  for  p ack in g   stock.

th is  season  of 

Cabbages— 50c  per  doz.
Carrots—$1  per  bbl.
Celery— 18c  per  bunch.
Cider— n @ i2c  per  gal.  for  sweet.
Cranberries—The  market  continues  to 
strengthen.  Walton  and  Cape  Cod 
command  $2.75  Per  bu.  an<^  $7>5°  Per 
bbl.
is  steady  at  20c 
for  strictly  fresh,  19c  for  No.  1  cold 
storage  and  18c  for  No.  1  pickled  stock. 
The  demand  is  moderate.

Eggs— The  market 

Game— Local  handlers  pay  $i @ i.20 
per doz.  for gray and fox squirrels.  Com­
mon  cottontail  rabbits  are  taken  readily 
at  $1.20  per  doz.  Venison 
is  arriving 
freely,  local  dealers  paying  for  No  1 
stock  8@9C  for  carcasses  and  9@ioc  for 
saddles.  The  season  closes  Dec.  1,  but 
hunters  have  three  days  to  get  their 
gzoic  out  of  the  woods  and  dealers  have 
five  days  to  work  off  their  stocks.

Grapes—Cold  storage  Niagaras  com­
mand 
i7@2oc  per  8  lb.  basket;  storage 
Delawares,  25c;  storage  Concords  in  25 
lb.  crates,  $1. 
Lake  Kueka  (N .Y .) 
Catawbas  are  in  the  market  at  18c  per 
4  lb.  basket.

Floney— Fancy  white 

is  scarce,  but 
the  demand  is  slow.  Prices  range  from 
I4@i5c.  Amber  goes  at  I3@HC  and 
dark  buckwheat  is  slow  sale  at  io@i2c.
Lemons— Are  quiet  and  prices  low, 
with  California  lemons  selling  fully  25c 
higher  than  Sicilies.  The  demand  is 
chiefly for  small  lots,the old  Thanksgiv­
ing  activity  in  lemons  apparently  being 
lemons 
a  thing  of  the  past.  California 
are  coming  in  quite  freely  and  there 
is 
no  doubt  but  there  will  be  enough  to 
supply  the  present  demand.

Lettuce— Hot  house  is  in  fair  demand 

at  iajkc  per  lb.  for  leaf.

Onions— Dry  are 

fairly  firm  at  60c. 
Spanish  are slow  sale  at  $1.50  per  crate.

Parsnips— $1.25  per  bbl.
Pears— Cold 

storage  Kiefers  com­

mand  $1  per  bu.

Pop  Corn—$1  per  bu.
Potatoes— Country  buyers  are  paying 
25c  at  the  principal  outside  buying 
points.

Poultry— Local  dealers  pay  9@ioc  for 
young  turkeys  and  7@8c  for  old.  R ul­
ing  prices  for other  lines  of  poultry  are 
as  follows: 
Spring  chickens,  7@8c; 
fowls,  6)£@7c ;  spring  ducks,  8@ioc— 
old  not  wanted  at  any  p rice;  spring 
geese,  8@ioc— old  not  wanted.

Sweet  Potatoes—$2.25 

for  Virginias, 
$2.75  for  Illinois  and  $3.50  for  Jerseys.

Squash— 2c  per  lb.  for  Hubbard.
Turnips—$1  per  bbl.
Hide».  P elts,  F u rs,  T allow   and  W ool.
The  hide  market  is  rather quiet  after 
the  heavy  buying  of  the  past 
two 
weeks.  Prices  were  moving  up  beyond 
the  safety  point  and  buyers  called  a 
halt.  The  demand  is  equal  to  all  offer­
ings,  at  good  prices  and  fair  values, 
while  tanners  see  a  lim it  they  should 
pay.

Pelts  have  been  in  fair  supply,  with 
a  demand  at  old  prices.  Values  do  not 
increase,  as  they  are 
largely  governed 
by  the  price  of  wool.

Furs  are  in  demand  at  fair  prices  for 
the  holiday  trade.  The  export  demand 
light  and  at  low  values.  The  warm 
is 
weather 
large  catch  of 
coarser  qualities.  Prices  are  not  well 
established,and  there  are  no  indications 
of  higher  values.

indicates  a 

Tallow 

shows  some 

with  a  fair  trade.  The  market 
mal.

improvement, 
is  nor­

in  small 

Wool  does  not  improve  to  any  extent. 
Sales  are 
lots.  There  is  no 
kick  to  the  trade,  nor  do  prices  at  the 
seaboard  give  a  profit  to  inland  pur­
chasers.  Stocks  do  not  move  out  of  the 
State  and  there  are  no  Eastern  buyers 
in  the  field.  Holders  must  still  hold  or 
take  a  loss,  which  they  are  slow  to  do.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

H usband  and  W ife  In su re d   for  $500,000. 
From the Chicago Times-Herald.

Mrs. 

Florence  Pullman  Lowden, 
daughter  of  the late George M.  Pullman, 
is  the  most  heavily  insured  woman  in 
the  world.  She  has  just  taken  out  poli­
cies  which  aggregate $250,000.  Her hus­
band,  Col.  Frank  O.  Lowden,  has  been 
“ written”   for  a  similar  amount,  so  that 
the  total  of  all  of  their  policies  amounts 
to  half  a  million.  Col.  and  Mrs.  Low­
den  left  for  the  Pacific  coast  a  few  days 
their  departure  policies 
ago.  Before 
representing  $500,000 
insurance 
were  turned  over  to  them.  These  in­
in­
struments  are  in  the  class  known  to 
surance  men  as  twenty-year 
life  and 
twenty-year 
policies. 
Should 
either  of  the  holders  die  the  survivor 
will  be  paid  an  annuity  of  $12,500.  The 
annual  premium  on  the  joint 
insurance 
will  be  about  $16,000.

trust 

life 

O.  A.  Ball  has  surprised  his  friends 
by  taking  a  fortnight’s  respite 
from 
business  cares.  Accompanied  by  his 
wife,  he  left  this  morning  for  Syracuse, 
N.  Y .,  where  he  will  spend  a  day  with 
his  son,  Fred.  H.  Ball,  and 
family, 
thence  proceeding  to  his  birthplace, 
South  New  Berlin,  where  he  has  three 
brothers  living.

Amos  S.  Musselman,  President  of  the 
Musselman  Grocer  Co.,  returned  this 
morning  from  New  York,  where  he 
spent  three  or  four  days  on  business.

Wm.  Judson  has  returned  from  New 
York,where  he  delivered  an  address  be­
fore  the  New  York  Wholesale  Grocers’ 
Association.

For G illies’  N.  Y.  tea,  all kinds,grades 

and  prices.  Visner,  both  phones.

T he  G rocery  M arket.

Sugar— The  raw  sugar  market  is  un­
changed,  96  deg.  test  centrifugals  being 
still  quoted  at  4y%c.  Offerings,  however, 
are  light  and  sales  are 
few.  Although 
the  Eastern  list  on  refined  sugar  is  un­
changed,  the  selling  prices  in  Michigan 
and  vicinity  are  somewhat  demoralized, 
owing  to  disturbing  influences  among 
the  jobbers.  On  account  of  the  holiday 
season,  the  usual  increase  in  demand  is 
expected.  Michigan  beet  granulated  is 
in  good  demand.

is  no 

looking  a 

Canned  Goods— Dulness  still  prevails 
throughout  practically  the  entire  list  of 
canned  goods.  There  are  some  signs 
of  a  better  market  coming,  however. 
Reports  of  a  more  active  demand  and  a 
firm  market  at  Baltimore  constitute  one 
of  these 
influences,  although  the  effect 
as  yet  is  slight.  Between  now  and  Jan. 
15  there  will  probably  be  very  little 
in­
in  canned  goods,  because 
terest  taken 
the 
jobbers  will  not  stock  up  on  this 
line  when  they  have  to  give  their  whole 
attention  to  those  goods  appertaining  to 
the  Christmas  holidays.  No  matter  how 
line  of  goods  ap­
attractive 
pears,  there 
interest  taken  in  it 
unless  it  is  wanted.'  This  is  one  of  the 
tomato  market  has 
reasons  why  the 
quieted  down  and  weakened  as 
it  has. 
We  do  not  anticipate  much,  if  any,  im­
provement  in  the  tomato  market  before 
the  first  of  the  year,  but  we  do  think 
that  about  the  middle  of  December  will 
be  a  good  time  to  buy  tomatoes  for  fu­
ture  needs,  as  prices  will  undoubtedly 
advance  shortly  after  the  opening  of  the 
new  year.  Corn is  weak  and  neglected. 
We think  that  this  article  will also bring 
better  prices  within 
two 
months.  Peas  are  firm  and  in  some  de­
mand.  The  better  grades  are  getting 
very  scarce  and  we  think  now  a  good 
time  to  buy  these  better  grades,  for  as 
the  scarcity  increases  prices  will  surely 
go  higher.  Canned  apples  are  selling 
very  slowly. 
fact,  this  article  has 
had  but  a  slow  sale  so  far  this  season, 
compared  with  the  corresponding  time 
in  past  years.  There  isn’t  anything  new 
to  say  of  the  string  bean  market  and 
it 
likely  that  there  will  be 
is  not  at  all 
any 
further  advance  in  price  until  the 
first  of  the  year.  Present  prices  are 
steady  but  unchanged. 
oyster 
packers  are  experiencing  at  this  time 
one  of  the  most  unsatisfactory  seasons 
they  have  ever  had.  The  Chesapeake 
is  not  yielding  as  many  oysters  as  the 
packers  would 
like  to  see,  and  those 
dredgers  who  have  succeeded  in  secur­
ing  cargoes  have  found  ready  purchas­
ers 
fresh  oyster  shippers  who 
paid  high  prices— so  high,  in  fact,  that 
the  cove  oyster  packers  couldn’t  touch 
them.  There  will  be  very 
few  oysters 
canned  until  after  Thanksgiving.  Sal­
mon 
is  rather  quiet  at  present,  but 
prices  are  unchanged.

the  next 

in  the 

The 

In 

Dried  Fruits— A  'somewhat  better 
feeling  exists  in  the  dried  fruit  market, 
but  trading  lacks  the  briskness  usually 
in  evidence  at  this  season  of  the  year. 
Raisins  are  held  firmly  at  quotations, 
but  the  demand 
lacks  the  volume  so 
characteristic  during  last  month.  Sell­
ers  continue  to  hold  offerings  steady  at 
the  prevailing  prices  in  anticipation  of 
a  general  revival  in  trade.  Jobbers  are 
pretty  well  stocked  up  with  raisins  of 
all  kinds  and  the  consumptive  demand 
is  not  what  was  expected.  Prunes  are 
firmer  and  small  sizes  are  getting  quite 
scarce. 
is  reported  that  the  Prune 
Association  has  sold  over  30,000,000 
pounds,  or  about  1,250  cars,  of  Associa­
tion  goods.  When  it  is  remembered  that 
the  crop  of  prunes  all  over  the  world

It 

has  been  a  large  one  and  that  the  crop 
of  fruit  in  this  country  has  been  a  more 
abundant  one  than  usual,  it  would  seem 
that  the  Association  has  done  well  to 
market  the  amount  that  it  has.  There 
is  a 
fair  demand  for  the  better  grades 
of  California  peaches  and  a  little  en­
quiry  for  apricots.  Holders  of  apricots 
are  said  to  be  closely  cleaned  up  on 
fancy  grades  and  offerings  are  very 
light.  The  market 
is  slightly  firmer, 
in  sympathy  with  coast 
holders  being 
markets,  which  are  somewhat  higher. 
The  demand  for  cleaned  currants 
is 
good  at  unchanged  prices.  The  statis­
tical  position  of  currants 
is  a  strong 
one.  There  is  a  slight  improvement  in 
the  demand 
for  figs,  but  prices  are  as 
yet  unchanged.  The  date  situation  is 
strong  and,  if  the  demand  continues  as 
brisk  during  the  next  two  or  three  days 
as 
it  has  been  recently,  an  advance  is 
likely.  The  market  for  evaporated  ap­
ples 
is  firm,  but  shows  no  positive 
in  price.  The  demand  is  good 
change 
and  stock 
is  getting  very  scarce  in  the 
country.

in  rice 

Rice— Transactions 

in  both 
domestic  and  foreign  are  moderate,  the 
trade  in  general  purchasing  on  a  hand- 
to-mouth  basis.  Spot  supplies  are  small 
and  prices  are  well  maintained.  A d­
vices  from  New  Orleans  state  that  the 
rice  combination  recently  formed  by 
Eastern  capitalists  has  placed  the  sale 
of  all  its  rice  in  the  hands of  one  New 
York  firm.  There  is  no  doubt  that  the 
concentration  of  the  sale  of  rice  in  the 
hands  of  one  firm  will  result  in a strong­
er  market  and  tend  to  advance prices  in 
the  near  future.

Tea— There  are  no  new  features  of in­
in  the  tea  market.  There  is  a 
terest 
slightly 
improved  enquiry,  but  only 
small  sales  are  made,  purchases  being 
lower  grades  and  of  a 
mostly  of  the 
hand-to-mouth  character. 
Prices  rule 
somewhat  steadier,  but  without  change. 
Business  transacted  this  fall  shows  a 
material  decrease,  compared  with  the 
same  period  last  year.

Molasses— The  demand  is  only  mod­
erate, but  prices  remain  firm  for grocery 
grades  of  New  Orleans,  influenced  by 
continued  firmness  of  primary  markets 
I and  moderate  spot  supplies.  Advices 
from  New  Orleans  state  that  arrivals  of 
new  crop  are  fair  and  are  readily  ab­
sorbed  at 
full  prices,  particularly  the 
better  grades.  The  market  is  firm  and, 
with  cooler  weather,  an 
increased  de­
mand  is  expected.  Com  syrup continues 
in  good  demand  at  unchanged  prices, 
especially  for the  goods  in  cans.

left 

Nuts— The  strength  of  walnuts  is  the 
feature  of  this  market  at present.  Stocks 
of  almost  all  kinds  of  walnuts  are  great­
ly  reduced  and  the  market  is exceeding­
ly  strong.  Grenobles  attract  chief  at­
tention  because  of  their  extreme  scar­
city,  there  being  practically  no  spot 
goods 
in  first  hands.  Prices  are 
strong  and  advancing.  There  is  a  good 
enquiry  for  California  walnuts.but  there 
are  not  many  here.  The  market  on  Cal- 
ifomias  is  about 
higher  also.  F il­
berts  continue  in  good  demand,  but  al­
monds,  Brazil  nuts,  etc.,  are  not  much 
wanted,  and the  tendency  of  these  goods 
is  easy.  Mixed  nuts  are  going  out  fair­
ly  well  and  there  is  a  fair  demand  for 
peanuts  at  unchanged  prices.

Rolled  Oats— Prices  on  rolled  oats  are 
unchanged.  The  demand 
is  very  ac­
tive  and  millers  are  ten  days  to  two 
weeks  oversold.

Pickles— Pickles  are  meeting  with 
only  a  moderate  demand  at  present. 
Prices  are  unchanged.

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6

Dry Goods

T he  D ry   Goods  M arket.

Staple  Cottons— There  is  considerable 
activity  considering  the  season,  in  the 
finer  grades  of  staples,  and  for these  the 
market  is  very  firm.  On  heavy  lines  of 
brown  goods,  however,  there 
is  some 
uneasiness.  At  present  writing  there 
have  been  no  open  changes  in  prices, 
but  some  may  be  named,  although  this 
is  not  by  any  means  certain.  Just  now 
the  agents  are  holding  matters  steady, 
and  say 
individually  that  they  do  not 
expect  to  make  any  reductions.  Furth-  j 
is  more 
ermore,  it  is  hinted  that  there 
business  being  transacted  than 
is  gen­
erally  supposed,  but  it  is  claimed  that 
on  the  basis  of  present  prices  the  busi­
is  far  from  profitable.  Higher 
ness 
prices  for  raw  material  are 
looked  for, 
and  for  this  reason  manufacturers  are 
holding  things  stiller  than  they  other­
wise  would.  Bids  have  been  made  that 
are  only  %c  under  quoted  prices  for 
drills  and other coarse cottons.  Bleached 
cottons  are  in  small  supply,  so although 
the  demand  is  not  large,  the  conditions 
remain  healthy.  The  cutting  up  trade 
report  that  business  is  good  with  them, 
and  they  will  be 
in  the  market  soon 
for 
large  quantities.  They  have  not 
been  in  any  hurry,  for  they  say  they be­
lieve  the  market  has  reached  top  notch, 
and  any  change  will  probably  be  down­
ward.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Jobbers 

in  a 
number  of  cases  bought  goods  early,  at 
what  now  would  be  very  low  prices.  In­
stead  of  being  reserved,  and  waiting  for 
further  advances,  however, 
they  are 
making  efforts  to  unload  their stocks, 
preferring  to  clean  up  their  shelves  to 
the  risk  of  carrying  them.  This  is  con­
strued  by  some  retai lers  to  mean  that 
the  jobbers  do  not  have  any  great  ex­
pectation  of  prices  advancing  further, 
and  that  there  is  some  chance  of  their 
receding.  Fancy 
light  prints  show  a 
good  amount  of  advance  business,  and 
agents  report that  the  number and size of 
the  orders  have  been  very  satisfactory, 
fully  up  to  the  average  for  this  time  of 
year,  and  with  every  prospect  of 
its 
continuing.  Jobbers  have  very  small 
stocks,  and  look  forward  to  an  excellent 
season  at  good  prices.  Ginghams  are 
reported  to be quiet in the agents’ hands, 
but  the  market  is  well  situated,  and  lit­
tle  is  to  be  expected  just  now.  On  ad­
vance  orders  a  fair  business  is  moving. 
Staple  and  dress  styles  of  ginghams  are 
quiet  but  steady;  no  developments  are 
expected  for the  present.

Denims— Have  been a disappointment 
to  the  trade.  Prices  secured  by  the 
manufacturers  are  said  to  be  too  low  for 
the  class  of  goods  made  from  them,  and 
as  a  consequence  they  have  not  been 
buying.

Dress  Goods— Jobbers  during  the  past 
week  have  experienced  considerable de­
mand  for  heavyweight  goods,  in  conse­
quence  of  the  life  injected  into  the  re­
tail  business  by  the  favorable  weather 
development.  The  best  business  has 
come  from  the  nearby  trade,  although 
some  fair orders  have  also  been  secured 
from  the  more  distant trade.  The  initial 
market  continues  dull,  although  there 
are  some 
indications  of  improvement. 
There  is  an  evident  expectancy  that  the 
next  two  or  three  weeks  will  serve  to 
bring  forward  some  good  spring  orders 
from  the  suitmakers  and  large  retailers.
It  is  generally  believed  that  the  jobbers 
have  placed  the  most  of  their  initial 
spring  orders.  The  suit  trade  and  many

of  the  large  retail  merchants  have  not 
made  a  full  provision,  as  have  the 
job­
bers,  and  from  that  source  considerable 
business  is  expected  in  the  near  future. 
Already  there  are  some  indications  of 
increasing  business  from  this  source, 
but  as  yet  the  orders  lack  volume.

Blankets— The  blanket  market  is  in  a 
good  position  and  things  are  shaping 
themselves  satisfactorily  for  the  new 
season,  which  it  is  believed  will  not  de­
velop  before  the  first  of  the  new  year. 
The  mills  making  all  wool  and  cotton 
mixed  blankets  are  generally  well  en­
gaged  on  orders  in  hand  and  have  work 
sufficient  to  keep  them  going  until  the 
new  season  opens.  The  effect  of  the  re­
cent  drop  in  temperature  has  brought 
about  a  noticeable  improvement  in  de­
mand  at  retailers’  and  jobbers’  hands. 
There  has  been  some  fear,  in  view  of 
the  recent  unfavorable  weather,  that  the 
new  season  would  open  with  a  consid­
erable  stock  left  in  the  hands  of  jobbers 
and  retailers,  but  the  advent  of  favor­
able  weather  tends  to  dissipate  these 
fears.

Hosiery— The  domestic  hosiery  mar­
ket,  while  quite  well filled  with  orders, 
is  not  receiving  much  attention  from 
the  buyers  at  the  present  time.  The 
mills,  however,  are  reported  as  well 
filled  with  orders,-and  the  importers  are 
having  all  they  want  to  do  at  the  pres­
ent  time.  The holiday trade  has  brought 
out  a  very  handsome assortment of fancy 
hosiery,  which  the 
jobbers  have  been 
displaying  for some  time.  They  report 
a  very  good  business  in  them.  The  pat­
terns  and  colorings  cover  every  im agin­
able  style,  but  at  the  same  time,  even 
for  the  gala  season,  modest,  conserva­
tive  effects  are  selling  best,  and  it  is 
not  believed  that  “ thunder and  light­
ning”   styles will  be any appreciable fac­
tor 
in  the  business  again,  either  for 
men  or  women.  Some  of  them  will  be 
sold,  but 
it  will  be  but  a  very  small 
item  in  the  total  amount.

Carpets— The  large  manufacturers  of 
%  goods  have 
in  some  instances  ad­
vanced  their  goods  from  2@3c  per yard. 
This  should  result 
in  giving  all  wool 
extra  supers  and  other  lines  of  ingrains 
more  attention,  as  the  price  of  the  latter 
remains  about  the  same  as  last  season, 
although  at  this  writing  it  is  rumored 
that  one 
large  Eastern  mill  will  open 
their  ingrains  at  a  lower  figure.  The 
manufacturers are  anxious  to obtain  first 
of  all  sufficient  orders  to  run  their  mills 
at  full  capacity  instead  of only a limited 
amount,  as 
last  season.  To  do  this  it 
has  been  essential  that  the  price  should 
be  right  to  the  buyer  who  has  been 
led 
away 
lines 
which  have  during  the  past  two  years 
replaced  the  extra  super.  At  the  open- 
ing  of  last  season some manufacturers  of 
standard  extra  supers,  who  held 
for 
52^c  per  yard,  found  that  the  buyers 
were  not  eager  to  place  large  orders  at 
this  figure,  but  the  manufacturers  hesi­
tated  later on  in  reducing  the  pric“ ,  as 
they  would  have  been  obliged  to  have 
made  a  proportionate  reduction  on 
ini­
tial  orders.  The  manufacturers  of  the 
lower  grades,  while  not  obtaining  so 
many  orders  as  they  expected,  were,  in 
comparison  with 
those  engaged  on 
standard  goods,  the  most  favorably  situ­
ated,  as  far  as  the  volume  of  business 
was  concerned.

ingrains  by  other 

from 

Lace  Curtains— Are  selling  very  well 
at  retail,  especially  domestic  Notting- 
hams.  The  fine  yams  used  in  the  best 
grades  are  firm  in  price.  Stocks  of  for­
eign  lace  curtains  in  fine goods  are  very 
limited  in  the  market.

T he U sual  Result.

the 

She  stood  beside  the  counter  in  one 
large  department  stores  and 

of 
seemed  to  be  waiting  for  some  one.

“ Was  there  something  wanted?’ ’  said 

the  clerk  of the  millinery  department.

“ Oh,  no,”   she  returned.  “ I  am  wait­
ing  for  my  chum  who  is  on  the  next 
floor. ’ ’

“ May  I  not  show  you  a  hat?”   replied 
is  one  of  the  latest 

“ Here 

the  clerk. 
patterns. ”

“ This  one 

“ I  thank  you,”   she  said,  “ but  I 

in­
tend  making  over  my last winter’s hat. ”  
is  of  a  peculiar  pattern 
and  I  contemplate  changing  the  velvet. 
May  I  try  it  on  you  to  see  how  it 
looks 
with  your  color  of  hair?”

The  clerk  placed  one  of  the  beautiful 
hats  on  her  head  and  turned  the  mirror 
for  her to  see.

“ Carrie,”   called  the  clerk  to  another 

at  the  end  of  the  counter.

“ Y es,”   was  the  answer  and  the  sec­

ond  clerk  came  closer.

“ Had  I  better change  the  velvet?”
“ No. 

I  would  leave  it  just  as  it’ is. 
Pretty,  isn’t  it?  Matches  her  hair  ex­
actly.  Makes  her  look  taller.  No,  leave 
it  as  it  is. 

It  could  not  be  better.”

The  second  clerk  walked  back  to  the 

end  of  the  counter.

“ Oh,  you  want  to  see 

it  from  the 

back?”

“ Change  the  feather?”
“ Fifteen  dollars.”
“ In  time  for  Friday  afternoon  tea? 

Oh,  y e s!”
“ Have 

it  delivered?  Yes,  ma’am. 

It  will  be  sent  imm ediately.”

The 

largest  toy  factory  in  the  world 
in  New  York,  where  playthings jn 
literally  by  the

s 
tin  are  manufactured 

million.  It  stands  five  stories  high,  and 
turns  out  1,607  distinct  varieties 
in 
tin  toys.  No.  1  is  a  tin  horse;  1,607  a 
tin  menagerie.  The  output  of  circular 
tin  whistles  is  2,000,000  per  annum.

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In  all  the  new  shapes  for  Ladies 

and  Misses.

Prices  from  $6 00  to  $21.00  per 

dozen.

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Christmas
Goods

Now 
is 
the  time  to 
stock  up  on 
up  on  Xmas
Goods.  W e  have  the 
best 
assortment  we 
ever  carried  in  the  fol­
lowing  lines:

D O L L S  
P E R F U M E S  

R U G S 
H AN D   M IR R O R S 

R IB B O N S  

B R U S H E S  

L A C E   C U R T A IN S  

H A N D K E R C H IE F S  

F A N C Y  C U SH IO N S 

N E C K T IE S  

S U S P E N D E R S  

M U F F L E R S  

S T E R L IN G   S IL V E R   N O V E L T IE S  

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WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

' 

Make  appropriate  Xmas  presents. 
W e  have  just  received  a  lot  of  them, 
and  they  are  really  pretty— we  think 
by 
the  best  ever  offered  .for  the 
money.  Let  s  have your order soon  as  they  are  going  rapidly. 
Prices,  $ 4 SO, $7.50,  $9.00  and  $12.00  per  dozen.’  Colors  assorted.

far 

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Clothing

The  diversity  of  styles 

No  F ixed  Standard  o f  Style  th is  Season.
in  men’s 
clothes,  which  has  been  so  noticeable at 
the  Horse  Show  the  past  week,  is  in 
strong  contrast  with  the  single  standard 
of  fashion  which  prevailed  a  few  years 
ago.  When 
the  name  “ dude”   was 
coined 
it  described  a  class  of  men  who 
were  recognized  at  a  glance  wherever 
they  went.  For  several  years  the dandy 
of  the  season  was  dressed  like  every 
other  man  of  his  class.  He  was  pic­
tured  truly 
in  the  newspapers,  and  he 
was  caricatured  by  them.  The  styles  for 
men’s  clothes  then  were  more  extreme 
than  they  are  now.  Moreover,  a  man 
with  a  desire  to  dress  in  the  fashion 
was  not  expected  to  wear  the  style  of 
clothes  which  most  became  him.  He 
must  follow  the  single  standard  set  up 
by  men  whose  names  became known be­
cause  of  their  clothes.  He  might  not 
go  to  the  extreme  of  those  fsahions,  but 
he  must  approximate  them.  For  in­
stance  the  fashion  of  having  trousers cut 
so  tight  that  the  wearer got  into  them 
with  difficulty  was  extremely  trying  for 
men  who  were  thin  enough  to  be  con­
spicuous  in  these  garments  or  had  the 
misfortune  to  be  knock-kneed  or  bow- 
legged,  and  yet  rather  than  be  behind 
the  fashion  they  wore  these  closely  fit­
ting  trousers.  There  was  the  same  uni­
formity  in  hats.  The  style  for  one  sea­
son  resembled  a  pancake  with  a  slight 
suggestion  of  brim,  and  every  man  who 
wanted  to  be  well  dressed  wore  such  a 
hat.  The  skirts  of  cutaway  coats  sud­
denly 
length  until  they 
reached  far  below  the  knees,  and  when 
worn  by  fat  men  they  suggested  the  tail 
of  a  kite.

increased 

in 

There  has  been 

in  recent  years  a 
gradual  breaking  away  from set fashions 
in  men’s  clothes,  and  it  would  be  diffi­
cult'to  describe  the  typical  dandy  of the 
day.  Because  the  Horse  Show  comes 
at  a  time  when  a  new  season  is  just 
opening,  its  sartorial  styles  are 
looked 
upon  as  decisive.  There  were more  va­
rieties  of  men’s  clothes  worn  at  the 
show  this  year  by  men  who  are  recog­
nized  as  leaders  in  dress  than  ever  be­
fore,  and  a  visitor  might  safely  draw 
the  conclusion  that  the well-dressed man 
in  New  York  now  was  the  man  who was 
guided  only 
in  a  general  way  by  the 
prevailing  fashions  as  announced  by the 
tailor  and  who  corrected  them  to  suit 
his  own  individual  taste  and  style.  A l­
most  every  conceivable  block  of  a derby 
hat  was  represented  by  the men who  ap­
peared  in  the  short  sack  cutaway  coats, 
which  are  merely  a  slight  modification 
of  the  business  suit.  They  ranged  from 
the  small  crowned  hat,  which  was  put 
forward  early  in  the  fall  by  the  batters 
as  the  proper  article of  head  wear,to  the 
old-fashioned  high  block  won by several 
men  of  fashion,  who  now  wear the  same 
style  of  hat  year  after  year.  The  two 
brothers  who  were  conspicuous  first  a 
few  years  ago  because  they  wore  always 
a  peculiar  model  of  derby  hat,  and later 
became  known  for  other  things,  would 
attract  now  no  special  attention  by their 
derbies. 
In  fact,  the  individual  block, 
if  becoming  to  the  wearer,  may  now  be 
used  year  in  and  year out.

The  sack  coats  which appeared  in  un­
usually  large  numbers  vary  in  a  general 
way  from  the  sack  coats  of  a  year  ago. 
They  are  a 
little  shorter  and  there  is 
just  a  suggestion  of  a  spring  or  flare 
from  the  waist  to  the  bottom  of the coat. 
The  man  who  exaggerates  in  his  clothes 
wears  a  sack  coat  that  suggests a French

soldier's  army  tunic.  The  trousers  are 
all  larger  around  the  hips,  and  in  some 
cases  almost  baggy.  They  are  cut  to 
hang  straight  to  the  foot,  narrowing 
down  to  a  peg-top  effect.  With  properly 
squared  shoulders  a  man  dressed  in  this 
style 
looks  about  twenty  pounds  over 
weight. 
It  gives  him  an  athletic  ap­
pearance,  and  that  just  now  is  very  de­
sirable.  There  have  been  years  when 
the  men  who  appeared  at  the  Horse 
Show  in  the  afternoon  without  frock 
coats  were  the  exceptions.  This  year 
they  have  greatly increased  in  numbers. 
The  average  man  dislikes  a  frock  coat. 
Those  who  did  wear  them,  of  course, 
were  numerous.  Their  coats  did  not 
reach  the  knees  in  length,  and,  like  the 
sack  coat,  there  was  a  decided  sugges­
tion  of  a  spring in them.  The waistcoats 
were  nearly  all  double-breasted 
and 
made  either  of  the  same  material  as  the 
coat  or  of  subdued  pattern 
in  fancy 
styles.  A  few  men  appeared  wearing 
high-cut  double-breasted  white  waist­
coats. 
It  was  a  noticeable  fact,  also, 
that  the  men  who  were  the  most  formal­
ly  dressed 
in  frocks  wore  with  them 
soft,  colored  shirts  of  bright  designs. 
This  may  have  been  merely  a  conces­
sion  to  the  fact  that  the  occasion  was  a 
horse  show,  or 
it  may  mean  that  the 
colored  shirt  may  appropriately be  worn 
with  a  frock  on  the  most  formal  occa­
sions.

The  evening  clothes  ranged  from  the 
conventional  long-tailed  coat,with  white 
or  black  single or double-breasted waist­
coats,  to  the  short  dinner  coats  with 
derby  hats.  Properly  worn  the  dinner 
coat  demands  a  black  waistcoat. and 
black  derby  hat.  Many  of  the  wearers 
of  dinner  coats,  however,  wore  double- 
breasted  white  waistcoats  with gold  but­
tons.  Some  men  in  evening clothes wore 
what  is  now known  as  the  campaign  hat 
of  felt  with  broad  brim.

In  the  matter of  overcoats  the  range 
of  styles  was  wide.  The  loose  Raglan 
coat,  which  has  been  worn  for  the  past 
year,  outnumbered  all  other  styles.  The 
really  horsey  men  turned  out  in  driving 
coats,  loose  and  baggy,  and  constructed 
according  to  the  owner’s  own  pet  ideas. 
It  is  a  mark of horsey distinction to have 
a  driving  coat  unlike  any  one  else’s, 
and  some  of  these  coats  were  enough  to 
make  the  wearers  weary  of  life,  if  they 
had  to  walk  around  much  in  them.  For 
the  men  who  did  not  drive  or  pose  as 
drivers, 
in  addition  to  the  Raglans 
there  were  the  so-called  Chesterfield 
coats  and  a  straight  hanging  loose  coat 
which  reached  down  just  far  enough  to 
hide  the  skirts  of  a  frock  coat.  One  of 
the  things  which  a  celebrated  English 
writer  commented  on  satirically  after  a 
visit  to  New  York  years  ago  was  the 
alleged  fact  that  most  of  the  men  whom 
he  met  wore  sometimes  two  or  three 
diamond  rings.  This  was  many  years 
ago.  The 
jewelry  a  man  wears 
now  the  more  certain  he  may  be  that 
he  is  not  offending  the  dictates  of  good 
form.  A  single  gold  seal  ring  seems  to 
be 
this  rule. 
Horse  Show  scarf  pins  are  always  an 
exaggeration  of  the  week,  and  they  ap­
peared  the  past  week  in  every  conceiv­
able  shape,  from  gold  bits  to  a  small 
jeweled  horse’s  hoof.— N.  Y.  Sun.

the  only  excetpion 

less 

to 

W h at  Cam e  o f D oing a   F rien d   a  F avor.
A   young  bachelor  met  a  friend— a 
married  man— and  poured  out  his  tale 
of  woe  in  something  like  this:

“ I  say,  old  chap,  I’m  up  against  it. 
To-morrow  is  the  birthday  of  my  best 
girl,  and,  of course,  I  want  to  make  her 
some  sort  of  present.  To  tell  you  the 
truth,  I  have  promised  her a  gold  belt 
buckle  that  she  fancies,  but  the  darned

7

Men’s

Spring Suits 
to  Retail at 
j$10  and  $15

This line Is now complete and  ready  for  inspec­
tion.  Both regular and military sacks are shown, 
in unfinished worsteds and cheviots, in mixtures, 
stripes and checks, as well as  all  the  new  color­
ings and effects in smooth worsteds.  Workman 
ship,  originality  and  approved  materials  have 
been combined to produce in these suits the best 
values  on  the  market—up to-date,  clean  cut, 
swell garments that  will  sell  on  sight  and  give 
satisfaction, and  at  the  same  time  make  good 
money for  the  dealer.  A  look  at  them  costs 
nothing.  We’ll  send  you  samples  or  have  our 
representative call any time you say.

To=day

We still have a fair  assortment  of  Winter  Rag­
lans and box overcoats in Cambridge and Oxford 
effects  which  we  can  ship  on  hurry  orders. 
Prices right—sure!

^fje&venrichftroslffi

thing  costs  $25,  and  all  the  money  I  can 
rake  and  scrape  just  now  is  a  beggarly 
$10.  Now,  if  you’ ll  let  me have the other 
$15  I’ll  hand  it  back  the next pay d ay.’ ’ 
The  married  man  was  not  flush  him­
self  just  then,  but  as  he  knew  his  friend 
was  all  right  and  really  wished  to  do 
him  a  favor  he  said :

“ I  haven’t  the  money  about  me,  but 
I  have  an 
I’ ll  tell  you  what  I’ ll  do. 
account  at  Blank’s  jewelry  shop.  Let’s 
go  down  there  and  see  the  buckle. 
I’ll 
buy 
it  and  have  it  charged  to  my  ac­
count  and  you  can  hand  me  the  $25  any 
time  before  the  first  of  the  month,  when 
the  bill  will  be  rendered.’ ’

This  scheme  worked  to  a  charm.  The 
young  man  with  the  “ best  girl”   was 
delighted  and  the  buckle  was  carried off 
in  triumph.  That  would  have  been  the 
end  of  the  episode,  doubtless,  had  not 
the  wife  of  the  lender  got  hold  of  the 
bill  during  the  absence  of  her  husband 
on  a  business  trip.  Judge  of  his  con­
sternation  upon  receiving  a  telegram  in 
these  words:

“ Come  home'at  once. 
I  know  a ll.”  
Taking  the  fast  train,  he  reached  the 
city,  took  a  cab  to  ride  home,  and, 
dashing  upstairs  three  steps  at  a  time, 
he  entered  his  bedroom  and  found  his 
wife  in  tears  while  engaged  in  packing 
her  trunk.

“ You  wicked,  deceitful  wretch!”   she 
exclaimed  between  sobs. 
“ Who  would 
have  believed  that  you  would  have  de­
I  am  going 
ceived  me 
in  this  way? 
home  to  m— mo— mother! 
I  wi— wi— 
wish  1  had  ne— nev—never  left  her  at 
all—boo-hoo-hoo!”

“ Deceive  you!”   cried  the  frantic and 
bewildered  husband, 
“ what  do  you 
mean?  Who,  what— why,  I  never  de­
ceived  you  in  my  life !”

“ Oh !  you  needn’t stand  there  and  try 
to  lie  out  of  i t ! 
I  know 
all  about  the  hussy!  Look,  here  is  the 
bill  for  the  gold  belt  buckle  you  bought 
her!  To  think  that  it  should  ever  come 
to  th— this— boo-hoo-hoo!”

I  know  a ll! 

Then  followed  the  copious  tears  and 
sobs.  When  the  w ife’s  grief  had  about 
spent  itself  in  tears,  the  husband  got  an 
opportunity  to  explain,  but  it  took  re­
markable  eloquence  and  an  abundance 
of  caresses  to  straighten  matters  out.

“ But  wasn’t 

it  a  narrow  escape?”  
story. 
said  he,  as  he  detailed  the 
It  had  a 
“ Everything  was  against  me. 
suspicious 
look,  certainly.  After  this, 
when  a  friend  wants  an  accommodation 
he  gets  it  in  cool  cash,  if  I  have  to  go 
out  and  borrow  it.”

T he  Q uestion  of th e   Day.

“ A dele,”   said  the  fond  mother,  “ is 
reaching  the  age  where  a  girl  naturally 
thinks  of  marriage.”

“ T rue,”   replied  the  father  regretful­
ly,  "b u t  do  you  think  we  can  afford  a 
son-in-law?’ ’

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S T A T E   OF  M ICH IGAN  >

County  of  Kent 

j ss'

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de 

poses  and  says  as  follows :

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
that 
and 
folded  7,ooo  copies  of  the 
Nov.  2i,  1900,  and 
mailed 
further  deponent  saith  not.

saw  the  edition 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 

establishment. 

printed 

issue 

I 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  . 
notary  public 
in  and  for  said  county, 
this twenty-fourth day of November, 1900 

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

G EN E RA L  TR A D E  R E V IE W .

There 

is  enough 

in  reorganizations  and 

stocks  were  subjected  a 

irregularity  in  the 
upward  movement  of  stock  values  to 
lessen  the  danger  of  serious  reaction. 
The  upward  movement  continued steady 
until  Friday,  when  a  reaction  set  i 
sufficient  to 
lower  the  average  of  rail 
ways  69  cents  per  share  and 
industrials 
$2.85.  This  week  sees  a  prompt  re 
sumption  of  the  advance,  which  prom 
ises  to  continue  until  many  properties 
are  represented  by  truer  values.  The 
growth  of  the  country’s  industries  has 
in  many  cases  equaled  the  watering  to 
few 
which 
years  ago 
in 
some  the  actual  value  has  gone  beyond 
the  price  changes. 
Investors  are  now 
looking  for  these  shares  and 
diligently 
many  are  finding  them.  During  the 
advance  the  sixty  most  active  railway 
securities  gained  an  average  of $10.23 
a  share,  making  the  top  point  $78.88. 
It 
is  necessary  to  go  back  eighteen 
years  to  find  these  stocks  so  high.  The 
top  point  of  the  last  seventeen years was 
September  5,  1899,  when  the  average 
was  $2.59  lower  than  on  last  Tuesday. 
The  gain  was  still  greater  in  the  ten 
most 
industrials,  which  rose 
$16.54  in  about  two  months,  and  the five 
most  active  gas  and  traction 
shares 
gained  $26.28.

active 

It 

is  significant  that,  without  any 
great  amount  of  refunding  and  organ­
ization,  business  reports  of  bank  clear­
ings  are  again  breaking  all records.  For 
a  long  time  the  Eastern  centers  have 
been  below  the  phenomenal  business  of 
the  great  reorganizing  year,  1899,  while 
the  other  parts  of  the  country  were 
steadily  breaking  all  records.  Now  the 
resumption  of stock activity has changed 
the  situation  in  the  East  and  the  aver­
age  of  the  entire  country  exceeds  the 
extraordinary  figures  of  last  year  by  7.2 
per cent.,  and  those  of  1898  by  33.2  per 
cent  But  that  accelerated  activity  in 
Wall  Street 
is  not  mainly  responsible

of  not  only  sparing  the  rod  but  of  shut­
ting  the  eyes to the fearful consequences, 
leads  easily  to  the  conclusion  that,  if 
the  old  has  wholly  passed  away,  there 
is  now  and  then  a  bit  of  it  which it may 
be  well  enough  to  restore,  and  that  the 
Puritan  birch  should  still  be  kept  as  a 
memento  of  the  Mayflower  to  remind 
the  wayward  descendants  of that sterling 
ancestry  that  there 
is  still  “ a  God  in 
Israel. ”

It 

is  pleasant 

in  this  connection  to 
recognize  the  fact  that  a  German,  the 
Mayor  of  Allentown,  Pa.— brought  up 
according  to  the  wholesome  idea  that 
childish  ills  should  be  cured  by  child­
hood’s  Solomon-recommended  panacea 
— has  introduced 
into  that  thrifty  city 
a  means  of  managing  a  certain  class  of 
misdemeanor  which  can  not  be  too 
strongly  commended.  A  band  of  bad 
boys,  fancying  themselves  college  stu­
dents  on  a  Thanksgiving  day  baseball 
tear,  fell  into  the  hands  of  the  police. 
As  their  parents  were  too  poor  to  pay 
fines  the  Mayor  ordered.them to go home 
and  ask  for  the  old-fashioned  treatment 
they  would  receive  in  the  Fatherland. 
They  did  not  obey  orders  and  now, 
when  the  boy  becomes  the  tyrant  and 
terror  of  the  city  to  the  verge  of  ordi­
nance-breaking,  the  services  of  a  stout, 
horny-handed  court  bailiff are called up­
on.  The  officer  in  open  court  can  not 
slight  his  duty  and 
is  a  matter of 
record  that  no  boy  has  come  back  to 
court  a  second  time.

it 

It 

is  a  matter  of  deep  regret  that  the 
is  con­
needed,  time-honored  cure-all 
fined  to  that  well-governed  city. 
It  is 
a  matter  of  deeper regret that the wrong­
doing 
it  so  effectually  stops  can  not  be 
also  confined  there.  Consider  for  one 
blissful  moment  even  the  thought of this 
simple  and  wholesome  treatment  upon 
those  boys  who  ‘ ‘ will  be  boys”  and  who 
insist  upon  showing  their 
long-legged, 
short-sighted,  empty-headed  smartness 
in  defacing  school  property that  was  in­
tended  to  prevent  the  vandalism  they 
are  guilty  of.  The  Eastern  Mayor’s 
treatment  should  he  put  to  the  test  in 
such  cases. 
In  the  open  court,  over the 
big  knee  of  the  big  bailiff,  the  junior 
depravity  and  the  senior  depravity,  and 
any  depravity  of  schooldom,  should  be 
laid  and,  in  the  presence  of  the  as­
sembled  fathers  and  mothers  and  teach 
ers  and  school  board,  should  descend 
with  resounding  whacks  the  avenging 
justice,  until  to  the 
hand  of  outraged 
life  every  deserving 
last  day  of  his 
sufferer  should  understand 
full, 
deep-seated  meaning 
of  Whitcomb 
Riley  s  oft-repeated  line when he wrote: 
“The golden, olden glowry of the days gone by

the 

So far as  the  Tradesman’s  information 
goes,  there  are  but  two  candidates  for 
the  position  of  State  Dairy  and  Food 
Commissioner,  which  is  an  appointive 
office  under  Governor  Bliss— Hon.  E. 
N.  Bates,  of  Moline,  and  Hon.  F.  W. 
Redfem,  of  Maple  Rapids.  Both  gen­
tlemen  have  served their districts  in  the 
House  of  Representatives,  where  they 
were  known  as  outspoken  advocates  of 
pure  food  legislation  along  the  most  ad 
vanced 
lines.  Mr.  Bates  has  been  an 
ardent  exponent  of  pure  food  for  the 
past  fifteen  years,  having  repeatedly 
agitated  the  subject 
in  the  Michigan 
Business  Men’s  Association  and  M ich­
igan  Dairymen’s  Association,  having 
served  the 
in  the 
capacity  of  President  for  several  years.

latter  organization 

The  man  who  compiles  history  makes 
a  useful  work.  The  man  who  writes 
it 
gets  away  off  from  what  people  want  to 
know  to  say  pretty  things.

A RT  AND  T H E   A R TISA N .'

ideal 

levy.  A 

little  sounding 

While  the  Chicago  Art  Association  is 
planning 
for  a  tax  of  one  mill  on  the 
dollar to  be  levied  in that city for money 
to  be  spent  in  educating  the  public  in 
art  ideals,  there is  a  general  feeling  that 
just  now  financial  matters  are  in  such  a 
condition  as  not  to  warrant  an  immedi­
ate 
into  the 
depth  of  public  opinion  brings  up  the 
fact  that  art  ideals  are  high  enough 
for 
all  practical  purposes  already  and  that 
it 
is  hardly  desirable  to  increase  the 
distance  now  existing  between  art  and 
the  artisan.  It is  not  to  be  disputed  that 
the  higher  the 
the  grander  its 
realization;  but  there  is  such  a  thing  as 
the  head's  getting  so  far  away  from  the 
hand  as  to  make  the  outline  unceitain.
In  these  days  when  the  fine  has  come 
out  of  the  parlor  and  set  about  picking 
up  the  sittingroom  and  the  kitchen  it  is 
noticeable  that  the 
fine  idea  has  gone 
with  her  and  is making.its presence felt. 
Use  has  not  been  disturbed  in  her  right 
of  possession,  but  in  a  thousand  ways 
she  has  been  taught  that  a  convenient 
article  need  not  be  an  ugly  one.  The 
artisan  has  come  to  her  assistance  and 
with  his  skillful  fingers  has  turned 
into 
comliness  and  beauty  what  was  sup­
posed  to  be,  of  necessity,  clumsy  to 
handle 
look  at.
is  u gly,”   sighed  the  house­
keeper  as  she 
looked  at  the  then  new- 
fashioned,  airtight  stove,  “ but  then  it 
will  keep  us  from  freezing.”   That  was 
enough,  and  when  the  cold  came  hack 
the  next  season  there  was  a  stove  that 
would  warm,  and  of  a  pattern  so  hand­
some  that  use  and  beauty  held  out  their 
hands  together  at  the  comfort  and  the 
comliness  com bined;  and  to-day  the 
same  skillful  workman  has  banished  the 
coal  and  the  ashes  to  the  cellar  and  so 
emoved  from  sight  what  refinement had 
resignedly  supposed  must  be  endured.
In  the  kitchen  there  have  been greater 
changes.  Not  an  article  there  that  does 
not  show  that  parlor-imprisoned  art  has 
been  making  the  most  of  her  liberty. 
She  must  have  useful  things,  but  they 
must  be  pretty. 
“ Make  me  a  carpet 
that  will  hide  his  rough floor.  Twist this 
stovepipe  elbow 
into  a  curve.  Add  to 
this  wooden  chair  a  bit  of  ornament 
that  will  make  it  attractive.  Tint  the 
wall  or  paper 
it  with  some  pleasing 
design.  Bend  into  beauty  these  ungain­
ly  utensils. 
She  has  been  obeyed  until 
the  commonest  kitchen  holds  more  art 
treasures  than  the  old-time  parlor  ever 
hoped  to  have.

and  unpleasant  to 

Well,  it 

for  the 

Well,  now,  to  go  back  to  the  art  tax, 
when  it  is  available,  why  not  expend  it 
along  just  these  lines?  Why  not  encour- 
age  the  artisan  more  in  his  work  who  is 
doing  so  much 
‘ ‘ uplifting  of 
the  masses”   in  this  practical  way?  Not 
a  breath  is  to  be  breathed  against  the 
advancement  of  art,  not  a  protest  made 
that  the  artisan  will  be  uplifted  by  the 
higher  art  id eal;  but  the  masses  are  not 
yet  ready  for  the  advance  all  along  the 
line,  and not  until  they  are  ready  should 
the  advance  be  ordered.  Let  us  have  a 
little  more  street  cleaning.  Let  there  be 
more  pickng  up  in  the  bad  quarters  of 
the  town;  and  when  things  there  are 
spick  and  span  and  the  humanity  hud­
dled  there  are  a  counterpart  of  the 
im­
proved  condition  of  the  neighborhood, 
there  will  be  a  self-uplifting  of  art 
everywhere,due,  it may be well believed, 
to  the  artisan  as  well  as  the  artist— an 
uplifting  that  will  be  evidence  enough
better  appreciation 

of  higher  ideals  in  art  has  come.

f°r 

The  man  who  will  stop  work  to  tell 
his troubles  fears  he  may  forget  them.

is  demonstrated  by 
for  the  difference 
. gains  of  4.1  per  cent,  over  last  year and 
i  60.5  per  cent,  over  1898  at  Chicago,  9.1 
|  and  62.6  at  Philadelphia,  4.8  and  50.1 
at  Boston,  16.1  and  59  at  Baltimore, 
15.7  and  135  at  Pittsburg,  io.6and57.4 
at  Cincinnati,  16.1  and  64.8  at  Cleve­
land,  19.3  and  59  at  St.  Louis,  23.7  and 
78.6  at  Kansas  City  and  51.8  and  78.7 
at  New  Orleans.  These  percentages  of 
increase  over  the  same  week 
last  year 
and  two  years  ago  tell  the  story  most 
eloquently.

In  spite  of  the  shortage  in  cotton,  and 
in  the  wheat  shipments  over the granger 
roads  which  show  a  lessening  of  13.6 
last  year,  the  aggregate 
per  cent,  from 
for  the  country  is  slightly 
larger  than 
last  November,  and  more  than  10  per 
cent,  in  excess  of  the  figures  of  two 
years  ago.  Moreover,  the  movement  of 
merchandise  is  so  heavy  as to embarrass 
the  railroads  and  at  many  points  there 
interruption  to  traffic,  while 
is  serious 
inability 
to  secure 
freight  cars  has 
made  necessary  the  cancellation  of some 
contracts  where  immediate  delivery  was 
specified.  It  is  obvious  that  much  heav 
ier  freight  business  could  be  done  were 
facilities  available  in  proportion  to  the 
business  offered  by  shippers.

in 

further  reduction 

Moderate  advances 

in  quotations  of 
pig  iron  appear  warranted  by  the  vig ­
orous  demand  and  there  is  reason  to  ex 
furnace 
pect  a 
stocks  this  month,  although  many 
idle 
concerns  have  resumed  operation  and 
production  will  undoubtedly 
increase. 
Manufacturers  of  railway cars have large 
orders  and 
in  all  lines  of  finished  ma 
terial  there  is  activity.  While  domes 
tic  prices  are  firmer,  it  is  known  that 
some  export  contracts  have  been  made 
at 
to  meet  reductions 
broad.  Notwithstanding  our  compe­
tition,  the  German  production  of  pig 
ron  in  October  reached  a  record-break- 
ng  total  of  742,720 tons.

terms, 

lower 

T H E   AVENGING  HAND  O F  JUSTICE.
In  the  splendor  of  its  achievements 
the Nineteeth  Century  is  prone  to  insist 
that  under  its  marvelous  incentives  the 
old  has  passed  away,  and that  all  things 
have  become  new.  Never  before  in  the 
recorded  history  of  mankind  has  so 
much  been  done  for  its  amelioration 
as  during  the 
last  one  hundred  years, 
n  the  field  of  physical  suffering  this  is 
especially  noteworthy.  The  patient  no 
longer  quivers  and  groans  under  the 
surgeon’s  knife.  He  quietly  goes  to 
sleep  and,  on  waking,  finds  the  tooth 
out,  the  limb  cut  off,  the  eye  taken  out, 
recti Sed  and  put  back,  and  finds  to  his 
amazement  that  the  operation 
is  over 
and  that  he  is  expected  to  turn  his  un 
"vid ed  attention  to  the  simple  and 
agreeable  duty  of  getting  well.

ish 

In  certain 

lines,  however,  it 

is  be 
coming  manifest  that  this  idea  of  pre 
eluding  humanity from all fear  of  physi 
cal  pain  is  not  only  leading to mischief, 
but  has  actually  got  there.  Maturity, 
depending  upon  the  fact  that  childhood 
over  and  forgetting  its manhood,  with 
fear  of  the  punishment  which  child­
indiscretion  and  lawlessness  would 
sure  to  receive,  occasionally  breaks 
out 
into  brutish  cruelty  and  impudent­
ly  asks  of  an  objecting community  what 
it  is  going  to  do  about  it.  That  trying 
period  of 
life,  where  the  strength  of 
manhood  is  under the  control  of  child­
ish  fickleness  and  foolishness,  indulges 
in  both  in  proportion  as  it  believes 
it 
self  above  the  possibility  of  the  correc­
tive  which  Solomon  so  concisely  com­
mends;  and  the  modem 
idea,  confined 
wholly  to  this  pain  removing  century,

MICHIGAN.  TRADESMAN

9

A   G EN ERA L  M ISTAKE.

Considerable  uneasiness,  if  not 

im­
patience,  has  been  lately  manifested  at 
what  has  been  styled  “ the 
laxity  of 
duty  in  the  public  official.”   We  have 
a  protection  which  does  not  protect. 
From  city  hall  to  street  corner  there isa 
regular  chain  of  authority,  every  link 
of 
it  forged  and  welded  with  the  one 
purpose  of  restraining  wickedness  and 
vice,  and  yet,  on  both  sides  of  the 
chain  and  all  along  the  line,  the  dis­
turbers  of  the  public  peace  have  never 
been  more  numerous  nor  more  deter­
mined  than  now  and  the  sharpest  criti­
cism  has  been  directed  to  what has been 
supposed  to  be  an  unparalleled  remiss­
ness  of  duty  on  the  part  of  the  officer  of 
the  law. 
It  is  all  a  mistake.  The  offi­
cer  is  both  alive  and  alert.  He  sees, 
but  in  these  modern  days  of  make-be­
lieve  he  must  be  sure.  He  is  deter­
mined  that  no  guilty  man  shall  escape, 
but  he  must  be  sure  that  the  man  is 
guilty.  Murder,  robbery,  vice  in  every 
form  are  constantly  occurring,  but  not 
found  in  that  neighborhood 
every  man 
is  the  author of  i t ;  and  right  there 
lies 
the  general  mistake.  “ Chief,  if  I  catch 
a  burglar  in  the  act  of  breaking  into my 
house  and  bring  him  here,  will  you  see 
that  he  is  locked  up?”   “ I  should  prob­
ably  require  you,  sir,  to  bring  satisfac­
tory  evidence  that  you  didn’t  commit 
the  burglary  yourself,”   was  the  prompt 
and  conclusive  answer—a  response  that 
furnishes  the  gist  of  the  whole  matter.
The  public  has  queer notions of proof. 
It  seems  to  think  that  its  unsupported 
opinion  amounts  to  something.  A  man 
whom  it  has  complained  of  as  a  sot 
is 
to  be  condemned  because  he  has  been 
seen  to  stagger  and  because  his  breath 
suggests  whisky.  The policeman,  fam il­
iar  with  that  suggestion,  knows  better 
than  to  make  the  arrest.  He  has  no 
proof.  Who  saw  this  man  take  whisky? 
Who  on  his  oath  can  swear that  the  con­
tents  of  the  glass  or  the  bottle  was 
whisky?  Where  did  he  get  it  and  who 
can  swear  or  even  affirm  that  that  was 
the  place  and  this  the  man  who  drank 
in  that  particular  place  this  particular 
whisky?  It is  very  easy  to  make  a  state­
ment,  but  it  is  quite  another  thing  to 
back 
it  up  with  unquestioned  and  in­
controvertible  fact.  There  is  no  proof 
and,  of  course,  the  staggering  man  is 
not  molested.  Let  us  have  substantial 
fact  and  the  law  shall  be  enforced.

is,  in 

in  there 

We  are  hearing  much  of  New  York’s 
misconduct. 
It  may  be  the  Sodom  and 
Gomorrah  which  the  newspapers  are  in­
sisting  it  is;  but  the  policeman  can  not 
be  expected  to  go  beyond  his  limits. 
The  tenderloin  neighborhood  may  be  a 
ticklish  place  to  get  into  and  a hard  one 
to  get  out  of  with  an  untouched  pocket- 
book  and  a  whole  skin,  but  the  man 
who  will  go 
the  first 
place,  no  chicken  and,  if  he  comes  out 
bereft  of  a  few  feathers more or less than 
he  expected  to  come  away  with,  it  is 
his  affair and  not  the  policeman’s.  He, 
however,  must  have  the  proof  of  the 
crim e;  and  the  policeman’s  action,  his 
seeming  indifference,  his  apparent w ill­
ingness  to  charge  the  complainant  with 
being  the  author  of  the  mischief  are  all 
along  the  tight  lines. 
It  is  the  public 
that  is  making  the  general  mistake,  not 
the  official,  and  any  other  conclusion  is 
as  wrong  as  it  is  prejudiced.

Absurd  as  all  this  is,  there  are  peo­
ple  who  seemingly  believe 
It  re­
mains  to  he  seen,  however,  whether  the 
time  has  not  come  for  those  who  have 
been  fooled  part  of  the  time  to  give 
way  to  the  class  who  are  not  to  be 
fooled  all  the  time  and  so  have  such

it. 

It 

changes  effected  that  decency  and  order 
may  again  be  respected  even 
in  the 
is  not  a  ques­
worst  communities. 
tion  of  party. 
It  is  a  question  of  good 
living;  and  whether  it  be  abroad  or  at 
home,  the  man  who  has  abused  the  con­
fidence  reposed  in  him  should  be  dis­
placed.  Protection  should  protect  and 
the  official  in  office  who  must  be bribed 
to  do  his  duty  is  the  official  to  be  rele­
inefficiency 
gated  to  a  position  where 
can  not  thwart  the  purposes  of 
justice 
and  where  bribes  shall  be  no  more.

ADVISING  AND  DOING.

front. 

in  contentment. 

It  is  a  merciful  dispensation  of  Prov­
idence,  for  which  we  can  never  be  suffi­
ciently  grateful,  that  there  is  no  way  to 
compel  us  to 
live  up  to  our  theories. 
We  all  know  what  other  people  ought  to 
do  to  be  healthy,  wealthy  and  happy, 
and  the  wonder  is  that  there  is  anybody 
ailing,  or poor,  or  miserable,  when  there 
are  so  many  ready  to  steer  them  into 
the  right  path.  Any  spendthrift  will 
lay  down 
for  you  an  unassailable  rule 
for  accumulating wealth.  It’s the  easiest 
thing  in  the  world.  Always  live  within 
your  income.  Be  industrious  and 
fru­
gal.  Attend  strictly  to  business.  Lay 
aside  something  every  year.  Never 
plunge  on  the  races  nor  gamble. 
It’s  a 
cinch,  my  boy.  You  can’t  lose  on a  tip 
like  that.  Every  preacher  in  the 
land 
can  point  you  out  the  road  to  righteous­
ness.  It  is  merely  a  little  matter  of self- 
sacrifice  and  charity  and  good  deeds 
and  brotherly 
love.  Any  philosopher 
will  tell  you  that the  secret  of  happiness 
lies 
Be  moderate. 
Don’t  envy  the  rich  and  great.  Don’t 
encourage  ambitions  and  aspirations. 
Be  satisfied  with  your  humble  cottage, 
instead  of  yearning  after  your neigh­
bor’s  brownstone 
Every  old 
maid  has  a  gilt-edged  theory  for  bring­
ing  up  children,  and  every  bachelor 
knows  precisely  how  he  would  manage 
a  wife,  if  he  had  one.  The  theories 
are  all  right.  The  trouble  is  that  when 
we  try  to  put  them  into  practice  on  our­
selves,  they  run  counter  to  too  many  of 
our  tastes  and  pet  weaknesses  and  make 
us  too  uncomfortable.  That  is  the  rea­
son  we  reserve  them  for  our  friends,  in­
stead  of  using  them  for  home  consump­
tion.  Among  the greatest offenders along 
this  line  are  doctors.  Of  course,  a  doc­
tor  has  a  certain  liberty.  He  is  paid 
for  telling  us  truths  we  don’t  want  to 
hear  and  giving  us  things  we  don’t 
want  to  take ;  but  there  is  no  use  in  his 
abusing  his  privileges.  We  all  know 
how  wise  he  looks  when  he  shakes  his 
head  over  our  case  and  intimates  that 
we  brought  our  sickness  on  ourselves  by 
overeating  or  overdrinking  or  not  tak­
ing  proper  care  of  ourselves  and  says 
we  must  exercise  in  the open  air.  Don’t 
work  too  hard.  Don’t  worry.  Above 
all,  eat  moderately.  Eat  plain  food. 
Don’t  take  too  much 
liquid  at  one 
time.  Take  but  one  kind  of  wine  at  a 
meal.  A'-oid 
liquors  and  punches. 
Eschew  sweets.  But  do  these  wise  men 
follow 
their  own  advice?  A  doctor 
never,  never  takes  his  own  medicine. 
He  generally  works  himself  to  death, 
if  he  doesn’t  kill  hmiself  eating  and 
smoking  first.

It 

is  a  strange 

fact  that  the  right 
hand,  which  is  more  sensitive  to  the 
touch  than  the  left,  is less  sensitive  than 
the  latter  to  the  effect  of  heat  or  cold.

The  Pan-American  Exposition  is  ex­
ceedingly  anxious  for  several  million 
people  to  be  put  off  at Buffalo next year.

The  more  a  man  knows,  the  less  cer­

tain  he  is  of  knowing  anything  sure.

CA REERS  CUT  BY  M ARRYING.

A  woman  wedded  to  art  and  to  a  man 
is  apt  to  neglect  one  or  the  other.  Our 
Mary  Anderson  cut  short  her  glorious 
career  to  become  the  wife  of  an  unim­
portant  man.  Julia  Arthur,  just  begin­
ning  to  be  as  great,  marries  millions, 
and  is  seen  no  more  on  the  stage.  Julia 
Marlowe  had  a  struggle  with  art  and 
marriage. 
It  came  to  pass  that  if  she 
obeyed  her  husband  she  must  content 
herself  with  being  simply  Mrs.  Tabor 
or  nothing.  She  compromised  by  ask­
ing  Mr.  Tabor  to excuse  her  while  she 
went  her  own  way  and  glorified  her  own 
career.  Fanny  Davenport  had  two  hus­
bands,  one  after  the  other;  but  she  was 
always  Fanny  Davenport. 
Charlotte 
Cushman,  the  empress  of  all  American 
actresses,  knew  she  was  so ugly  that  if  a 
man  sought  her  hand  it  would be  for  the 
money  that  was  in  it  and  she  continued 
wedded  to  her  art.  Mary  Ellen  Lease 
is 
independent  of  the  drug  store  man 
who  calls  her  wife when  she  is  at  home. 
Susan  B.  Anthony,  who  has  given  her 
life  to  the  cause  of  woman  suffrage,  has 
had  no  time  to  become  the  better  half 
of  a  worser  man.  Rosa  Bonheur,  in  her 
grand  strength  as  an  artist  transferring 
to  canvas  the  strongest  of animals,  could 
not  come  down  to  trifling  with  weak 
men.  The  patient  sisters 
in  the  hos­
pitals  who  take  young  girls  who  come 
to  them  to  be  trained  nurses  smile  sad­
ly  when  they  remember  how  many  of 
their  most  promising  pupils  end  their 
careers  to  become  married  women,  and 
the  trained  nurse  leaves  her  work  to  be­
come  a  trained  wife  of  some  man  who 
does  not  need  sick  nursing.  The  Atchi­
son  Globe  stops  to  remark :

It  will  be  remembered  that  a  year  ago 
the  power  was  given  Governor  Stanley 
to  appoint  some  girl who would be given 
her  tuition  free 
in  a  New  York  art 
school.  Every  section  pointed  to  some 
girl  with  a  career,  but  no  money  to 
achieve 
i t ;  every  section  begged  the 
Governor  to  make  no  mistake  and 
lose 
to  the  world  a  famous  artist  by  appoint­
ing  the  wrong  girl.  After  a  number  of 
prayerful  nights,  he  made  Miss  Lillian 
Dyer,  of Abilene,  the  fortunate girl  with 
a  career.  She  was  engaged  in  the  study 
of  art 
in  New  York  just  three  months, 
when  she  became  engaged,  and  she  was 
It  seems  that  any 
married  Thursday. 
man  with  a  marriage 
in  his 
pocket  can  bust  up  a  career.

license 

The  Globe  man  may  be  right.

ATTACKS  UPON  RULERS.

The  general  betterment  in  the  condi­
tion  of  the  masses  of  the  people 
in  all 
countries  and  the  almost  complete  ex­
tinction  of  arbitrary  power  wielded  by 
monarchs  do  not  appear  to  have  dimin­
ished  the  number  of  political  assassina­
tions  and  regicides.  As  a  matter  of 
fact,  attempts  upon  the 
lives  of  mon­
archs  and  rulers  seem  to have increased, 
rather  than  to  have  diminished,  in  re­
cent  times.

Were  it  merely  the  risk  of  assassina­
tion  because  of  political agitation which 
rulers  had  to  run,  the  matter  would  be 
bad  enough ;  but  they  are 
likewise  ex­
posed  to  the  attacks  of  all  descriptions 
of  insane  people,  persons  with  supposed 
grievances  and  anarchists  who  have  no 
other  object  than  a  general  overturning 
of  society  as  it  is  now  constituted.  So 
precaiious  has  the  existence  of  rulers  of 
large  states  become  that practically none 
of  them  escape  from  one  or  more  such 
attempts  in  the  course  of  their  careers.
One  need  only  recall  the  many  em­
perors,  kings,  presidents  and  rulers  of 
all  grades  who  have  been  murdered 
within  a  generation,  or whose lives  have 
been  attempted,  to  realize  the  extreme 
important  person­
danger  in  which  all 

ages  in  public life live.  Beginning  with 
the  terrible assassination by the  nihilists 
of  the  Czar  Alexander  about 
twenty 
years  ago,  a  King  of  Italy,  a  President 
of  France,  a  President  of  the  United 
States,  an  Empress  of  Austria,  a  Shah 
of  Persia,  a  President  of  Uruguay,  a 
Prince  Minister  of  Spain  and a  Premier 
of  Bulgaria  have  been 
assassinated, 
while  a  score  of  lesser  personages  in 
public 
life  have  met  the  same  fate.  It 
is  only  a  few  months  since  King  Hum­
bert  of  Italy  was  assassinated,  and with­
in  the  week  the  Empress  of  Japan  and 
the  Emperor  of  Germany  have  been  at­
tached  by  insane  people.

The  assassin’s  knife  or  bullet  has 
been  no  respecter  of  persons,  presidents 
of  republics  being  attacked  as  freely  as 
autocratic  rulers. 
In  not  a  single  case 
did  the  victim,  through  oppressive  acts, 
merit  the 
fate  which  was  meted  out  to 
him.  Most of  the  great  personages  thus 
murdered  were,  in  fact,  noted  for  their 
excellent  qualities  and  broad-minded 
and  humane  treatment  of  their  people. 
The  great  majority  of  the assassinations 
were  the  work  of  anarchists  or  nihilists, 
whose  sole  object  was  to  overturn  or­
ganized  society.

It  would  seem  that  the  time  has  ar­
rived 
for  all  governments  to  arrange 
some  concerted  plan  of  better protecting 
the  heads  of  states.  The  assassination 
of  a  king  or  president  is a crime against 
a  nation  and  not  merely  against  an 
in­
dividual.  Not  only  should  the  persons 
of  rulers  be  more  jealously  guarded,  but 
the  police  authorities  everywhere should 
keep  a  careful  espionage  over  danger­
ous  agitators  and  anarchists  and  seize 
upon  every  pretext  to  land  them  behind 
prison  bars.  The mere expulsion  of  such 
persons  only  sends  them  to  other  coun­
tries  to  spread  their  dangerous doctrines 
and  commit  their  frightful  crimes  when 
opportunity  offers.  The  old  right  of 
asylum  for  political  offenders  does  not 
in  any  sense  apply  to  the  modern  regi­
cide  or assassin  of  a  president  or  other 
head  of  a  state.  Such  a 
fiend’s  hand 
is  against  all  men,  and  all  men  should 
treat  him  very  much  as  they  would  a 
mad  dog  or  wild  beast.

The 

late  banker,  Abraham  Wolff,  of 
New  York,  whose  estate  has 
just  been 
figured  up,  left  about  $20,000,000.  And 
yet  he  was  never  reckoned  among  the 
heavy  millionaires.  He  began  his  ca­
reer  as  an  office  boy,  without  a  penny, 
and  worked  his  way  up.  He  never 
talked  about  his  wealth  or  splurged with 
it,  but  when  he  made  his  will  he  didn’t 
forget  to  remember  generously  every 
employe  in  his  banking  house,  from  the 
highest  to  the  lowest.

The  stockholders  of  a  bank  know  how 
much  reserve  cash  on  hand  the  bank 
has  been  carrying  when  they  read  how 
much  the  cashier  carries  when  he  ab­
sconds. 

______________

Lovely  as  heaven  is,  the  average  per­
son  wishes  to  postpone  going  there  as 
long  as  possible.

The  man  who  is  not  after  the  dollar 
is  loafing  and  expecting  someone  else to 
get  it  for him.

The  bad  eggs  that  hoodlums  throw  at 
a  public  speaker  are  too  good  for  them 
to  eat. 

___________

Visionary  people  should  not  count 
their  chickens  before  they  come home to 
roost.

The  only  man  who  can  take 

life 
is  the  photogra­

without  destroying 
pher.

it 

IO

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

accumulated  by  prudent  economy,  and 
this  was  about  ten  times  the  capital  I 
had when  the  Widdicomb  Furniture  Co. 
was  founded;  in 
fact,  gentlemen,  as  I 
recall  those  early  days,  we  had  nothing 
to show  but disadvantages,except in  this 
one  particular— the  indomitable will and 
energy  of  the  men  first  engaged 
in  the 
business.  I  doubt  whether  Julius Berkey 
knew  the  meaning  of  the  word  discour­
agement,  and  perhaps  I  was  equally 
dense  in  my  ignorance,  and  I  shall  give 
this  perseverance,  combined  with 
in­
genuity  and  unflagging  industry,  as  the 
forces  developing  tiie  business  which 
sustains  our  city, 
for,  mind  you,  the 
men  who  came  in  later  years  brought  to 
the  business  the  same  characteristics  or 
they  would  have  fallen  from  the  ranks 
as  the  years  went  by,  for  our  business 
will  tolerate  no  negligence  nor  incom­
petence.

Having  no  capital,  we  pioneers  were 
thrown  upon  our  own  resources,  with  a 
rapid  development  of  the  native  apti 
tude  and  ingenuity  which  designed  the

P le a   fo r  G rea ter  L o y a lty   to  O u r  L ea d in g 

In terest.

The  furniture 

“ Furniture  made  Grand  Rapids  fa 
industry  has 
mous. ”  
given  our  city  a 
fame  almost  world 
wide.  Not  so  much  for  magnitude  as 
reputation  for  exceptional  skill  and 
in­
genuity  in  technical  detail  of  construe 
tion,  combined  with  cultivated  taste  in 
design  and  superior  quality  of  work­
manship.

We  can  not  point  to  ourselves with the 
pride  that 
is  so  peculiarly  American 
and  say  we  are  the  biggest in the world ; 
can  not  even  say  we  are  the  largest  in 
our  own  country,  for  both  at  home  and 
abroad  are  cities  that  exceed  us  in  cap­
ital,  number of  workmen  and  value  of 
product. 
It  is  the  combination  of  orig­
inal  design,  with  attentive  skill  in  con­
struction  and  finish,  that  awards  us  our 
superior  position  in  furniture  circles.

A  historical  sketch  of  the  causes  of 
this  prominence  is  worthy  the  occasion 
that  gathers  us  together  to  celebrate  the 
fiftieth  anniversary  of  our  civic  life,  for 
we  at  the  same  time  mark  the  close  of 
the  fourth  decade  of  our industrial prog­
ress.  It  is  just  forty  years  since  the  first 
step  was  taken  by  Julius  Berkey that de­
manded  a  broader  market  for  the  prod­
uct ;  and 
is  with  pleasure  that  we 
note  that  the  originator of  our  wholesale 
manufacturing  is  still  in active manage­
ment  of  the  business  which  he  founded 
forty  years  ago.

it 

first 

George  Widdicomb,  my 

father,  had 
made  a  small  quantity  of  furniture  a 
year or so before M r.  Berkev entered  inte 
the business, and I had visited Milwaukee, 
the 
fnrniture  commercial  sales­
man  from  Grand  Rapids,  to  sell  the  few 
pieces  made;  my  father’s  business  was 
not  continuous,  for  the  war  called  his 
four  sons  into  the  army  and  his working 
force  was  taken  away;  hence  to  Mr. 
Berkey,  in  my  opinion,  must  be  ac­
corded  the  origin  of  the  furniture  man 
ufacturing  of  our city  as  it  is  known  to­
day.

into 

throwing 

C.  C.  Comstock, who  succeeded  to  the 
retail  business  of  the  Winchester  Broth 
it  his  accustomed 
ers, 
energy,  was  soon  manufacturing 
in  a 
wholesale  way,  and 
in  1864  made  the 
first  carload  shipment  from  our  city  to 
Mr.  Comstock,  of Peoria,  who  is  still  in 
business— the  Scarritt-Comstock  Co.,  of 
St.  Louis.  On  a  recent visit to  this  city, 
Mr.  Comstock  spoke  of  this  purchase  of 
Grand  Rapids  furniture  and 
its  then 
importance.

It  is  often  asked,  what  peculiar  con­
ditions  existed,  or  what  local  advantage 
did  we  have,  that  could  develop  from 
this 
insignificant  beginning  the  busi­
ness  and  position  we  now  hold?  This 
question 
is  not  easily  answered,  for 
doubtless  a  combination  of  causes  pro­
duced  the  business  now  employing  such 
magnificent  establishments  as  are  the 
life  and  pride  of  our  people.

In  a  former  address  I  touched  upon 
this  point  and  said  there  was  no  spe­
cial  local  advantage  that  was  of 
impor­
tance  after  the  first  year  or  tw o;  at  first 
walnut lumber  was  abundant  and  cheap.
It  was  equally  abundant  at  other  places 
manufacturing 
furniture,  and  perhaps 
lower  in  price,  for there  was  a  shipping 
business  in  walnut  from  this  section  to 
the  Boston  market which  gave  that  lum­
ber  a  higher  value  here. 
I  mention 
walnut,  as  comparatively  no  other  lum­
ber  was  used  then  in  furniture  manu­
facturing.

Certainly 

it  was  not  our  wealth,  al 
though  I  might  except  Mr.  Berkey  with 
his  capital  of  some  $250,  which  he  had

goods,  invented  the  processes  and  ma­
chinery  and 
found  a  market  for  the 
product.  The  successful  manufacturer 
then  combined  all  these faculties  within 
himseli  While our ideas  may  have  been 
simple— very  crude  indeed  as  compared 
with  the  artistic  efforts  of  to-day— our 
experience  was  an  education 
in  furni­
ture  manufacturing  that  was  unap­
proachable,  and  laid  the  foundation  for 
the  business  which  supports  our  city 
and  gives  employment  to  its  thousands 
of  artisans.

In  these  forty  years  we  have  grown 
from  the  business  of  a  few  hundred  dol­
lars  per  annum  to  sixty-four  manufac­
turing  establishments,  using  a  capital 
of  $6,000,000,  employing  8,000  work­
men,  producing  $7,000,000  per  annum. 
This 
is  our  record  and  success.  We 
may  well  be  proud,  and  especially  par 
donable  is  our  pride  when  we  consider 
this  has  been  accomplished without  nat 
ural  advantages,  either 
location  or 
raw  material,  not  even  having  the  nav­
igable  river  which  so  many  of  our  good 
citizens  and  manufacturers  have  fondly 
hoped  and  sadly  waited  for.

in 

Very  briefly,  this 

is  our  past,  and 
while  the  record 
is  good,  it  will  not 
answer  to  rest  upon  our  laurels.  Modem 
business  is  one  of  relentless competition 
in  which  there  is  no  such  thing  as  as­
surance 
is  permanent. 
Progress  or  death  is  the  inexorable busi­
ness  condition  of  the  present,  and,  aus­
picious  although  our  position  may  be, 
the  graver  problem  is,  what  shall  we  do

victory 

that 

to  retain  this  supremacy,  and  what  de­
volves  upon  us  to  preserve  the  superior 
position  we  now  occupy,  for  it  is  folly 
to  think  it  can  be  held  without unremit­
ting  effort?

Reputation 

is  the  best  asset  any  in­
terest  can  have  which  lives  exposed  to 
competition,  but  it  is  far  easier  to  let  it 
slip  away  than  to  win 
it  back.  Other 
towns,  other  men,  are  striving  to  follow 
in  our  footsteps  and,if  we  lag,  their  feet 
will  be  in  advance  and  we  but  the 
fol­
lowers.  A  grand  history  is  well  enough, 
and  ancestry 
is  to  be  respected,  but 
the  “ has  been”   can  not  hold  a  business 
at  the  present  time.

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.

At  the  Board  of  Trade  banquet  some 
four  years  ago,  R.  W.  Butterfield  made 
an  address  that  should  have  been  an  in­
spiration  to  every  manufacturer of  this 
city;  his  eloquent  and  impassioned  ap­
peal  to  the  furniture  manufacturers  to 
educate  themselves  upon  broader 
lines, 
encourage 
their  designers  to  higher 
efforts,  improve  the  skill  and  character 
of  their  workmen,  should,  and  doubtless 
did,  have  permanent  influence  upon  all 
who  heard  his  glowing  words;  for,  gen­
tlemen,  words  may  glow just  as  brightly 
and 
just  as  highly  when  ap­
plied  to  your  business  as  if  they  were 
appealing  to  the  moral  or  aesthetic  side 
of  your  nature.  Only  through  such  re­
gard  and  devotion  to  the  industry  we 
are  following  can  we  expect  to  hold  our 
own  in  the  industrial  conflict  certainly 
impending,  and  it  is  for  the  direct 
in­
terest  of  every  individual  manufacturer 
of  this  city  constantly  to  improve  the 
character  of  his  product  and  the  condi­
tion  of  his  business.

inspire 

Much  has  been  said  during  the  last 
six  or  eight  years  upon  what  is  called 
the  weakness  of  having  one  prominent 
industry  only  to  depend  upon,  and  our

^  

Sellable 
Robes

The dealers  who have looked 
over  our  stock  of  robes  and 
blankets say they  are  the  most 
sellable ones they  have seen.

This  partially  accounts  for 
the  many  duplicate  orders  we 
have  received.

You  can  get  anything  from 
our stock  promptly— either  tel­
ephone or wire us.

Brown  &  Sehler
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

A  Holiday 
Opportunity

W e believe the fact is established 
that  T h e   I m p e r i a l   G a s   L a m p  
is  in  all  respects  the  most  satis­
factory and  the most  ornamental, 
and  prices  named  below  will  es­
tablish the additional  fact  that  it 
is  the  cheapest.  Here  are 
our
cash  with  order  prices:

No. 113,  W a ll  L a m p .................................. $2.39
No. 101,  H arp   L am p  
3.19
No. 121,  T w o  L ig h t  P en d an t  - 

5.39

- 

- 

- 

Boxing and carting free.  Shipped 
f.  o.  b.  Chicago.  Every 
lamp 
guaranteed. 
Terms  to  secure 
these special  low prices  are  cash 
with  order.  We  guarantee  lamps 
will  do  all  we claim  for them.

THE IMPERIAL GAS LAMP CO.,

132 & 134 LAKE STREET, CHICAGO,  ILL

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

i l

Board  of  Trade,  following  this  idea,  has 
given  much  effort  and  time,  as  well  as 
some  money,  to  encourage  other lines of 
manufacturing  to  locate  in  Grand  R ap­
ids.

I  would  not  depreciate  such  efforts, 
yet  1  can  not  agree  with  the  policy  that 
ignores  the  manufacturing  which  we  so 
largely  depend  upon  and  seeks  to  de­
velop  other  interests  with  which  we  are 
not  familiar,  or  which  may  not  be  nat­
urally  adapted  to  this  locality;  from  an 
altruistic  point  of  view,  it  may  be  well 
to  leave  your  ninety  and  nine  to  care 
for  themselves  and  go  after  that  other 
one,  but,  from  the  practical  standpoint, 
prompted  by  the  vigorous  competition 
of  to-day,  it 
is  wiser  to  protect  what 
you  have  now 
in  the  fold  than  share 
your  strength  with  strangers.

The  plea  for  diversified  industries  is 
alluring  but  fallacious,  as  can  be  found 
by  careful  examination  into  the  facts.

it 

line 

The  argument 

is,  we  should  not  de­
pend  upon  one  interest  only,  that 
is 
not  wise  to  confine  ourselves  to  one  par­
ticular 
in  manufacturing,  or,  in 
common  phrase,  not  wise  to  “ carry  all 
our  eggs 
in  one  basket;’ ’ this  might, 
and  doubtless  did,  hold  good  under 
business  conditions  of  thirty  or  forty 
years  ago,  but  to-day  the  theory  has  lost 
much  of  its  force.

This  is  an  age  of  specializing  and the 
individuals  or  towns  that  concentrate 
their  energies  toward  one  interest  gain 
such  high  degree  of  perfection 
in  both 
quality  and  quantity  that  they  can  dis­
tance  all  competitors  and  supply  and 
control  the  markets  for  their  special 
productions.

I  do  not  need  to  dwell  upon  this,  for 
it  must  be  apparent  to  all  of  you,  and  1 
do  think  the  opinion  so often expressed, 
that,  should  depression  appear,  the town 
having  a  single  manufacturing 
interest 
must  suffer  excessively,  is  equally  mis­
leading ;  there is  no  general  evidence  to 
Some 
support  that  view. 
industries 
having  exceptionally 
favorable  condi­
tions  may  partially  escape  the  influence 
of  reverses  or  panic,  but  there 
is  no 
universal  law  to  that  effect,  and certain­
ly  there  is  no  reason  to  suppose  our  in­
dustry  should  be  singled  out  to  endure 
more  than  the  country  at  large,  or suffer 
more  because  we  have  brought  it  to  a 
high  degree  of  perfection;  the  fact  that 
we  have  secured  exceptional success  but 
provides  a  positive  degree  of  strength 
and  safety  to  protect  us  against  disas­
ter,  for  other  less  favored  cities  must 
suffer  great 
loss  in  business  before  we 
would  feel  the  effects  of  a  depression.

Now  this  is  just  the  situation  we  oc­
cupy,  a  prominent  position  as manufac­
turers  of  furniture  which  is  conceded by 
the  whole  country,  a  prominence  that 
should  excite  our  pride,  and  I  maintain 
we  should  encourage  and  develop  by  all 
honorable  and 
legitimate  means  this 
valuable  business  which  we  certainly 
have  in  our  possession,  rather  than  go 
after  enterprises  which  may  not  affiliate 
with  our  present  industries.

This  can  be  done 

in  several  ways, 
and  I  should  place  as first  and  most  im­
portant  the  importation  of  other  furni­
ture  manufacturing,  both 
in  lines  al­
ready  here  and  kindred  branches  which 
are  not  represented.

I  am  not  of  those  who  fear  competi­
tion,  and  as  we  must  have  competition, 
I  prefer  it  right  here  where  we  can  in­
it  to  the  good  of our city  and 
fluence 
ourselves. 
In  my  opinion  we  can  not 
expand  our  business  too  much,  but  we 
should  bring 
in  only  those  who  are 
worthy  to  rank  among  our  numbers  to 
share  with  them  the  advantage  of  our

rection ;  cultivate 
lawns  in  the  vicinity 
of  our  factories,  get  the  factory  owners 
the  desolate  grounds 
to  make  green 
around  their  buildings,  persuade 
the 
Board  of  Public  Works  to  allow  gener­
ous  privileges  in  the  use  of  water  for 
such  purposes.  Our  workmen  appreci­
ate  all  this,  they  prefer  to  work  where 
attention 
is  had  to  the  hygienic  and 
handsome  condition  of  the  factory  and 
its  grounds,  and all  this  will  add  greatly 
to  the  general  beauty  of  our  city  at 
large.

I  might  say  much  more  upon this  and 
other  points  were  time  given  me,  still 
you  will  understand  my  view  is,  that  on 
this  anniversary  day we  should  look  for­
ward,  forecast  our  future,  not  give  our j 
attention  to  the  past.  The past has cared 
for 
itself  and  will  not  supply  business 
to-day  nor  for  future  days;  nothing  will 
do  that  successfully  but 
indomitable 
energy,  with  perseverance  and  honor­
able  business  conduct  combined with  an 
ambition  to  produce  the  finest  furniture 
in  the  United  States,  yes,  in  the  world.

Wm.  Widdicomb.

A   D ru m m er’s  J o k e.

“ I  met  a  grocery  drummer  on  the 
road  as  I  drove  in  this  morning,”   said 
a  man  from  Minot  to  a  friend  in  Au­
burn,  recently. 
“ I  was  driving  a  pair 
of  heavy  horses  and  was  going  slowly, 
but  I  can’t  see  how  that  was  any  busi­
ness  of  the  drummer.  Nevertheless,  he 
stopped  me  and  entered into  a conversa­
tion  with  me.  ‘ Why  don’t  you  swap  that 
team  for  a  horseless  carriage?’  said  he. 
‘ Why,  I  don't  know,’  said  I.  ‘1  never 
thought  much  about  it.’ 
‘ W ell,’  said! 
he,  ‘ these  horseless  carriages  are  all  the | 
go  now.’ 
‘ What  kind  of  motor  power! 
would  you  advise  me  to  get?’  1  asked.  ' 
‘ Mules,’  said  he,  and  with 
that  he  j 
clucked  to  his  horse  and  drove along be­
fore  I  had  time  to  get  my  breath  back 
sufficiently  to  swear  at  him .”

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best, but we carry every  make.  Our  prices  are 
the  lowest.  Try  Glover’s  Mantle  Kenewer. 
One bottle will make 100 old  mantles like  new— 
removes all spots, etc.  90c per doz. bottles.

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Manufacturers.  Importers  and  Jobbers  of 

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A SOLID  OAK
PARLOR TABLE

With  21-inch top;  also made 
in  mahogany  finish.  Not  a 
leader, but priced the same as 
as  the balance  of our superb 
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National  Cash  Registers 

for  $ioo

facilities.  There  would  be  no  more 
competition  than  we  have  now  and  it 
were  better  to  have  it right here to  assist 
in  building  up  our  city  than  to  have  it 
located  elsewhere  to  our  detriment.

Those  who  call  upon  the  Board  of 
Trade  to  bring  in  other 
industries  for­
get  the  localizing  tendencies  of  manu­
facturing 
in  this  age,  how  one  locality 
becomes  the  center  of  an  industry  and 
another  the  center  of  other  manufactur­
ing,  for  the  natural  home  of  the  manu­
facturer  is  in  the  vicinity  of  his  partic­
ular  line.  There, and  there  only,can  he 
hope  to  attain  the  highest  degree  of 
success.

So  many 

illustrations  of  this  can  be 
seen  as  to  make  mention  almost  unnec­
essary,  although  I  might  speak  of  the 
brass  manufacturing  concentrated 
at 
Waterbury,  silver  plating  and  bronze 
working  at  Meriden,  lock manufacturing 
at  Eagle  River,  morocco 
leather  at 
jewelry  at  Providence,  an 
Newark, 
glove  manufacturing  at  Gloversville and 
Johnstown.  Many  other  examples  can 
be  cited,  but  the  lock  and  glove  manu­
facturing  are  perhaps  the  most  interest­
ing  to  us  as  they  bear  the  same  relation 
to  their  localities  that  furniture  manu­
facturing  did  and  does  to  Grand  Rap­
ids.  They  had  no  original  local  advan­
tage,  one  might  say  as  with  us,  they 
bad  many  adverse  conditions  to  over­
come,  yet  at  no  other  points 
in  the 
United  States  can  these  articles  be  so 
successfully  produced as in  or near  those 
towns;  and  the  parallel  is  peculiar,  for 
the  glove  business  at  Gloversville  and 
Johnstown  had  even  no shipping  facil­
ities  until  a  comparatively  recent  day, 
all  their  material  and  manufactured 
product  having  been  freighted  fifteen  to 
thirty  miles  each  way  in  wagons  to  the 
railroad;  to  this  day  the  lock  business 
at  Eagle  R iver  is  in  this  condition  and 
Meriden  depends 
little 
branch  railroad;  still,  even  so  situated, 
these  places  are  invincible  in  meeting 
competition.

upon  one 

What  should  the  Board  of  Trade  do 
to  further  our  furniture  manufacturing? 
1  grant  this  is  a  far-reaching  question, 
requiring  for  consideration  more  time 
than  I  can  take,  still  let  me  mention  a 
point  or tw o:

The  Board  can  assist  in  establishing 
a  school  of  design.  It  should  encourage 
the  Board  of  Education  to  develop  the 
manual  training  school  into  a  school  for 
skillful  mechanics. 
It  can  animate  and 
assist  the  younger  and  struggling  mem­
bers  of  our  fraternity  already  here. 
It 
can  invite  and  aid 
furniture  manufac­
turers 
in  good  standing  with  the  trade 
to  move  here.

are 

Within  our  own  State— nay,  in  our 
vicinity— there 
factories  which 
should  be  persuaded  to  locate  in  Grand 
Rapids;  they  will  increase  our  business 
volume,  multiply  our  population,  and 
all  this 
in  the  direction  we  should  and 
can  naturally  grow,  and  a  natural  ex­
pansion 
in  manufacturing  will  arise 
from  this  continued  growth  of  our furni­
ture  business,  for  more  and  more  of  the 
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1 2

Shoes  and  Rubbers

U n n atu ral  C on d ition s  Im posed on W om en 

B y   D am e  F ash ion .

From  time 

immemorial  the  feet  of 
women  have  been 
fettered,  with  their 
own consent,  by  some  sort  of  foot  cover­
ings,  and  tyrannized over by their eccen­
tricities  of  shape  and  fashion.  The  fair 
shoe  wearer  has  always  welcomed  each 
aspirant  for  favor  and  claimant  for  her 
foot  with  the  pleasure  due  on  her  part 
to  a  new  offering  at 
shrine  of 
Its  striking  novelty  and  de­
beauty. 
parture  from  former  conventional 
lines 
have  sometimes  almost  taken  her  breath 
away,  and  she  has  been  disposed  to 
rebel  against  accepting  it,  but  this  re­
sentment  soon  passed,  and  when  she 
was  assured  that  the  inexorable  dame 
had  pronounced  it  the  fashion,  she  not 
only  adopted 
it,  but  was  glad  that  it 
had  come  to  her.

the 

Sometimes,  in  the  past  at  least,  the 
newly  created  thing  called  for  such  sac­
rifice  of  comfort  and  such changed phys­
its 
ical  conditions  on her  part  that  only 
irresistible  beauty  and  the  fact  that 
it 
was  sanctioned,  nay,  prescribed  by 
good  form,  prevailed  upon  her  to  make 
it  her  own  “ for  keeps, “ and  to  sacrifice 
herself  a  little  for  so  novel and captivat­
ing  a  th in g;  and  it  was  this  sacrifice  of 
physical  comfort  to  beauty  and  novelty 
in  the  shoes  which  led  her  to  call  them, 
half  reproachfully and  half  endearingly, 
“ those  lovely  little  tyrants,”   and  to  ac­
cept  her  martyrdom  more  cheerfully.

It  is  hardly  fair  to  ascribe  to  the  gen­
lavish 
love 
tler  sex  all  the  vanity  and 
least,  are  by 
of  dress.  Some  men,  at 
no  means  behind  the 
former  in  their 
efforts  to  go  to  the  very  extreme  of  fas­
tidiousness 
in  their  apparel,  and  toj 
adopt  at  once  every  new  mandate  of 
fashion  however  great  the  departure 
from  its  predecessor.  Now  the  quezzel, 
or  bird  of  liberty,  of  Guatemala,  is  a 
good  deal 
love  for 
dress;  but,  unlike  man,  his  clothes  are 
part  of  his  equipage,  furnished  by  na­
ture,  and  changed  without  the  co-oper­
ation  of  the  tailor.  The  national  bird 
stands  very  high 
in  his  own  country, 
both 
literally  and  figuratively,  being 
often  four  feet  from  beak  to  tip  of  the 
tail.  The  caged  eagle  is  as  nothing  in 
its  manifest  degradation  to  that  of  the 
quezzel  in  confinement.

like  man 

in  his 

Its  pride 

The  latter  is  never  caged  longer  than 
a  few  hours.  It  is  truly  a  bi  d  of  liberty 
and  dies  almost  immediately  when  cap­
tured. 
in  its  rear  feathers  is 
greater  than  the  love  of  life.  When  one 
of  these  appendages  gets  broken  or 
soiled,  the  bird  goes  to  its  nest  and  sits 
down  and  dies.  Here  is a  touching  and 
beautiful  example  of  the  love  of  dress 
iarely  equaled  by  man  or  woman.  We 
have  heard  of  heart-broken  tailors  and 
shoemakers  who have  died  from  chronic 
m isfits;  and  we  have  reason  to  believe 
that  these  men  would  have 
long 
and  happily  under  a  constant succession 
of  fits,  anomalous  as  it  may  seejn.  Of 
course,  no  mishap  that  could  possibly 
come  to  the  little  tyrants  of  shoes,  how­
ever  lovely  they  might  be,  would  have 
any  such  effect  upon  their  wearers  as 
that  of  the 
loss  of  a  tail  feather  to  the 
quezzel.

lived 

Among  the  tyrannical 

footwear  al­
lotted  to  women,  none  has  been  more 
conspicuous  or  harmful 
its  effects 
than  the  extremely  high-heeled  shoe; 
but  the  extreme  high  heels  of  any  age 
sink 
into  insignificance  before  some  of 
the  ancient  devices  for  obtaining  physi­
cal  altitude.  The  Turkish  women  of the

in 

its  way. 

sixteenth  century  wore  a  sort  of footgear 
called  the  choppine,which  was  an  effec­
tual  elevator,  in 
In  Hamlet 
we  read:  “ Your  ladyship  is  nearer  to 
heaven  than  when  I  saw  you  last  by  the 
altitude  of  a  choppine.”   This  was  a 
sort  of  high  clog  or  pattern  worn  by 
ladies  of  that  time  to  raise  them  from 
the  ground.

too, 

indulged 

Venetian  women, 

in 
choppines,  which  were  made  of  wood, 
covered  with  leather  or cloth. 
It  was  a 
foolish  custom  and  shows  the  power of 
fashion  to  rule  even  to  the  verge  of  ab­
surdity.  Some of  these  ridiculous  things 
were  built  quite  high,  and  required 
considerable  practice  to  become  skilled 
in  their  use.  They  were  not  only  awk­
ward  but  perilous,  and  a  wearer  some­
times  had  to  be  supported  by  another 
person 
in  order  to  make  any  progress. 
But  the  Venetian  woman  was  small  of 
stature,  and  accepted  the  aid  of  chop- 
pines  to  increase her apparent height.  It 
was  said  of  the  Venetian  woman  that 
she  was  composed  of  three  parts:  One 
part  of  wood,  one  part  clothes  and  one 
part  woman.

Now,  of  course,  our  modern  woman 
would  never  consent  to  put  her  foot  into 
the  clutches  of  such  ridiculous  tyrants 
as  those,  nor  does  she  have  to,  either; 
but  in  many  ways,  since  the  passing  of 
the  choppine,  the  gentler  sex  have  en­
dured  martyrdom  at  the  foot  in  compli­
ance  with 
the  mandates  of  fashion. 
Short  shoes,  high  heels,  pivot  heels, 
narrow  shoes  and  other  unnatural'con- 
dilions  have  been  endured  for  ages  as 
an  imaginary  sacrifice  on  the  shrine  of 
beauty.

instep 

In  the  use  of  inordinately  high  heels 
to  shoes  it  is  not  alone  the  crowding  of 
the  weight  of  the  body  forward  against 
the  toes,  but  also  the  severe  strain  upon 
the 
in  trying  to  hold  back  and 
relieve  this  painful  pressure,  that makes 
them  obnoxious  to  sound  feet.  This  of 
itself  ought  to  condemn  them ;  but when 
it  is  also  made  manifest  that the  posture 
of  the 
foot  in  one  of  these  unnatural 
things  renders  the  office  of  the  foot, 
even  in  standing,  difficult,  and  that  by 
it  the  normal  functions  of  the  bones  and 
muscles  are  made  partially  inoperative, 
it  might  be  supposed  that  no  right- 
minded  person  would  continue  to  use 
such  artificial  elevators,  however  much 
they  might  contribute  to  personal  van­
ity.

In  a  high-heeled  shoe  the  ball  of  the 
foot,  which  should  naturally  lie  level, 
is  in  a  constrained  posture,  being  at  an 
angle  with  the  sole,  and,  consequently, 
has  to  sustain  almost  double  the  weight 
that  nature  intended  it  should.  The  ball 
into  an 
of  the  great  toe  is  also  forced 
upward  angle  with  the  former;  the 
in­
step  of  the  shoe  has  all  it  can  do  to hold 
the  toes  back  from  the  front,  and  the 
leg,  which  would  naturally  lean  consid­
erably  forward  to  form  its  natural  right 
angle  with 
this  case 
straightened  up,  for  the  safety  of  its 
owner,  into  the  erect  attitude,  thereby 
giving  painful  work  to  the exterior mus­
cles  of  the 
foot  above  the  instep,  and 
also  the  great  tendon  of  the  heel  behind 
to  keep  the  latter flexed  in  this  unnat­
ural  position. 
In  short,  the  whole  atti­
tude  of  the  foot  is  contrary  to  that  de­
signed  by  nature,  and  consequently  the 
joints  and  muscles  of  the 
foot  are 
called  upon  to  act  in  a  different  direc­
tion  from  that  for  which  they  were  de­
signed.

foot,  is 

the 

in 

is  brought  to  bear  upon  the  muscles  of 
the  calves.  Let  anyone  not  accustomed 
to  wearing  high-heeled  shoes  place  arti­
ficial  props  under  his  own  and  stand  for 
a  few  moments  in  this  position  and note 
the  results  of  the  experiment  at  the 
calves  of  his  legs.

In  that  irrepressible  struggle  in which 
humanity  has  been  the  chief  actor  and 
shoes  were the  principal objects,  and  in 
which  the  capacity  and  endurance  of 
the  foot  have  been  sorely tested, the  goal 
of  reward  and  happiness  seems  to  have 
been,  too  often,  the  minimum  size  of 
shoe  that  could  be  worn.  To  assert  that 
women  have  often  been  deceived  as  to 
the  actual  number  of  the  foot-covering 
they  wear  would  be  to  tell  the  retailer 
an  old,  old  story.

By  taking  a  woman’s  shoe,  for  in­
stance,  with  a  pivot  heel,  set  well 
for­
ward  under  the  shank,  and  clapping  the

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Something  New 

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A  Cordovan  Shoe,  which  we  call  “ Eureka,”   made  in 
our  own  factory  over  new  lasts,  stylish  and  up  to  date. 

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size-stick  on  the  sole  so  that 
it  will 
measure  only  from  the  toe  to  the  back 
of  the  deceptive  heel,  instead  of  from 
the  toe  to  the  back  of  the  counter  of  the 
shoe  where  the  natural  heel  must  rest 
when 
it,  you  can  flatter  your  fair, 
credulous  purchaser  to 
the  extent  of 
about  two  sizes.  If  she  is  already  wear­
ing  a  number  five  for  a  number  three, 
the  most  you  can  do  is  to  confirm  the 
deception.  By  placing  the  size-stick  a 
little  higher on  the  tapering  heel  of  the 
shoe  you  can  compromise  matters  by 
about  one  size.  But  an  honest  test  can 
be made  only  by  placing the two upright 
parts  of  the  instrument  at  the  toe  and 
the  back  of  the  counter,  just  where  the 
extremities  of  the  foot  will  rest  in  a 
close-fitting  shoe.

Again,  with  a  projecting  sole,  nearly 
a  full  size  is  added  to  the  length  of  the 
shoe  “ over  a ll,”  to  use  a  nautical  term, 
so  that  the  same  size-stick,  on which are 
those  “ figures  that  never  lie ,”   tells  but 
little  about  the  actual  length  of  the 
last 
on  which  the  shoe  is  made;  and  it  is 
the  length  of  the  last,  with  a  slight  al­
lowance  beyond 
its  toe, 
which  forms  the  true  receptacle  for  the 
foot  which  is  to  occupy  it.

the  end  of 

look  upon  an 

To  the  average  woman  the  size  of  her 
is 
shoes  is  a  momentous  matter.  She 
prone  to 
increase  with 
dread,  and  upon  a  diminution,  even  of 
half  a  size,  with  exultation.  The  shoe 
man,  after  doing  his  best  to  put  his 
wares  in  their  best  light  to  the  particu­
lar  customer,  still  has  an  arduous  task 
before  him  in  compassing  a  too  exact­
ing  foot  with  a  refractory  shoe.  His 
own  opinion  he  often  finds  of 
little 
weight.  Muscle  and  physical  energy 
must  do  the  rest  to  force  the  shoe  to 
cover  such  a  foot  or else  he  must  try  to 
persuade  the  buyer  to  yield  to  the  adop­
tion  of  one  a  half-size  larger,  and  this 
is  not  always  successful.

leap 

And  this  brings  us  to  a  revelation  as 
to  what  a  size  in  shoes  is,  for  the  bene­
fit  of  the  feminine  customer who regards 
it  as  a  stupendous 
in  footwear. 
Very  few  of  these  startled  persons  prob­
ably  know  that  a  full  size  in  shoes  is 
only  a  paltry  third  of  an  inch,  anyway. 
This  is  very  little  in  length,  and  yet  to 
some  women  it  is  miles.  Two  inches  in 
a  waist  or bust  measurement  are  seem­
ingly  not  as  great  to them  as  one  size  in 
their  shoes,for in the  latter  it  is  direct or 
lineal  measure  of  increase.

If  shoes, 

The  distaste  for  increasing  the  size  of 
our  shoes  becomes  more  pronounced  as 
we  ascend  the  scale  of  the  size-stick.  A 
woman  who  has  perpetually  worn  a 
number  three  shoe,  when  necessity  de­
mands,  will  accept  a  three  and  a  half 
size  without  much  fuss.  She still  retains 
the  integral  number  three,  and  this,  in 
for  the 
some  measure,  compensates 
added 
fraction.  But  a  new 
integer, 
number  four,  is  distasteful,  because  of 
its  formidable  sound. 
like 
hats,  could  be  graded  by  eighths  of  an 
inch,  she  could  take  refuge  in  a  three 
and  seven-eighths  shoe  and  still  be 
comparatively  happy.  From  a  number 
four  and  a  half  to  a  number  five  is  a 
still  greater  trial  to 
feminine  nerves; 
and 
in  the  realm  of  sixes—well,  few 
women  speak  ot  this  size  to  any  but 
looking  at  the 
the  dealer.  And  yet, 
matter  more  closely,  a  third  of  an 
inch 
length  of  our  shoe  is  no  trivial 
in  the 
matter,  after  a ll;  for  one  single 
inch 
changes  a  man’s  number  six  shoe  into 
a  number  nine,  and  a  woman’s  number 
three  into  a  six.

A   noteworthy  fact  gleaned 

from  the 
cobbler’s  realm 
is  that  of  the  great 
number  of  women’s  shoes  with  uppers

in  various  stages  of  dissolution,  while 
the  soles  are  still  but  little  the  worse 
for  wear.  There  are 
three  principal 
causes  for  this  unequal  wear.  The  up­
per stock,  as  a  rule,  is  less  durable  than 
that  in  men’s  shoes;  the  shoes  are  usu­
ally  found  to  have  been  a  little too small 
for  the  feet,  thereby  being  subjected  to 
a  great  strain;  and  then,  women  do  not 
wear  out  as  much  sole  leather  as  men 
do,  anyw ay;  they  take  more  steps 
in 
a  given  distance,  but  their  average 
tread 
If 
the  uppers  in  women’s  shoes  were  rela­
in  men’s 
tively  as  durable  as  those 
shoes,  allowing  for  the  difference 
in 
weight,  their  shoe  bills  for  the  year 
would  not  exceed  those  of  men,  which 
they  usually  do.

lighter  than  that  of  men. 

is 

But,  after  all,  the  modern  woman 

in 
the  long,  slim,  graceful  modern  shoe  is 
longer  tyrannized  over  at  her  toe 
no 
tips,  as  she  was  in  former  days 
in  the 
stubby  shoe.  Her  immaculate  footwear 
continues  to  hug  her  willing  foot  pretty 
much  in  the  same  old  way,  giving  her 
an  occasional 
twinge  of  nerves,  but 
more  of  conscience,  as  she  views  the 
effects  with  admiring  eye;»;  and  alto­
gether  she  is  just  as  pleased  in her love­
ly  little  tyrants  as  were  her  ancient  sis­
ters  in  stub-toed,  stilted-heeled  affairs, 
or  the  petite  Venetian  women  mounted 
on  choppines.— E.  A.  Boyden 
in  Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder.

L ife ’s  Ups  and  D owns.

A  few  years  ago,  while Robert Stewart 
was  governor  of  Missouri,  a  steamboat 
man  was  brought  in  from  the  peniten­
tiary  as  an  applicant  for  a  pardon.  He 
was  a  large,  powerful  fellow  and,  when 
the  governor  looked  at  him,  he  seemed 
strangely  affected.  He  scrutinized  him 
long  and  closely.  Finally  he  signed  the 
document  that  restored  the  prisoner  to 
liberty.  Before  he  handed  it  to  him  he 
said:  “ You  will  commit  some  other 
crime  and  be  in  the  penitentiary  again, 
I  fear.”

The  man  solemnly  promised  that  he 
would  not.  The  governor  looked  doubt­
ful,  mused  a  few  minutes  and  said :

“ You  will  go  back  on  the  river  and 

be  a  mate  again,  I  suppose?”

the  governor. 

The  man  replied  that  he  would.
“ Well,  I  want  you  to  promise  me  one 
thing,”   resumed 
“ I 
want  you  to  pledge  your  word  that, 
when  you  are  mate  again,  you  will 
never  take  a  billet  of  wood  in your hand 
and  drive  a  sick  boy  out  of  a  bunk  to 
help  you 
load  your  boat  on  a  stormy 
night.”   The  steamboat  man  said  he 
would  not  and  enquired  what  the  gov­
ernor  meant  by  asking  him  such  a ques­
tion.

replied: 

The  governor 

“ Because 
some  day  that  boy  may  become  a  gov­
ernor  and  you  may  wantjhim  to  pardon 
you 
for  a  crime.  One  dark  stormy 
night,  many  years  ago,  you stopped your 
boat  on  the  Mississippi  River  to  take 
on  a  load  of  wood.  There  was  a  boy  on 
board  who  was  working  his  passage 
from  New  Orleans  to  St.  Louis,  but  he 
was  very  sick  of  fever  and  was  lying  in 
a  bunk.  You  had  plenty  of  men  to  do 
the  work,  but  you  went  to  that  boy  with 
a  stick  of  wood  in  your  hand  and  drove 
him  with  blows  and  curses  out  into  the 
wretched  night  and  kept  him  toiling 
like  a  slave  until  the 
load  was  com­
pleted. 
I  was  that  boy.  Here  is  your 
pardon.  Never  again  be  guilty  of  such 
brutality. ”

The  man,  cowering  and  hiding  his 

face,  went  out  without  a  word.

What  a  noble  revenge  that  was,  and 

what  a  lesson  to  a  bully.

N ot  an   E n co u ragin g  B eg in n in g.

A   young  doctor  has  waited  long  for 
his  first  patient  and  at  last  is  rejoiced 
to  find  a  sick  man  at  his  office.

“ Well,  my  good man, what is troubling 

you?”   asks  the  doctor.

“ I  wanted  to ask, ”   said  the sick man, 
“ if  you  can  tell  me  the  address  of  your 
predecessor?”

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

after  the  discovery  of  extensive  gypsum 
beds  or  mines  along  Plaster  Creek south 
of  the  city.  The  first  mill  for grinding 
the  gypsum  was  erected  by  Warren 
Granger  and  Daniel  Ball  at  the crossing 
of  Plaster  Creek  and  the  Grandville 
road.  This  was  several  years  earlier 
than  1850  and  the  mill  was  not  a  large 
one,  but  the  demand 
for  its  product 
grew  so  rapidly  that  by  1850  the  output 
reached  sixty  tons  daily,  and  found  a 
ready  market,  teams  coming from points 
100  miles  distant  to  secure  loads  which 
were  not  always  to  be  had.  Granger  & 
Ball  were  succeeded  in  the  ownership 
of  the  mill  by  Henry  R.  Williams,  who 
afterwards  sold  to  E.  B.  Morgan  and  N. 
L.  Avery.  Later James  A.  Rumsey  be­
came 
it  and  remained 
for  more  than  a  quarter  of  a  century  as 
manager.  The  plaster  business  was  to 
Grand  Rapids  fifty  years  ago  what  the 
furniture  business  is  to-day,  advertising 
the  village  as  a  “ plaster  town”   wher­
ever  the  settlers  had 
found  homes  in 
this  and  adjoining  states.  The  growth

identified  with 

it 

bank 

a  commercial  way  fifty  years  ago  and 
what 
is  to-day  is  forcibly  told  by 
enumerating  the  various  industries  now 
in  successful  operation.  These  are  fur­
niture,  machinery,  carpet  sweepers 
knitting  works,  wagons  and  carriages 
tanneries,  refrigerators,  barrels,  belting, 
engraving  and  printing,  metal  work, 
gas  engines  and  boats,  furnaces  and 
grates,  brass  ornaments,  boilers,  office 
and 
fixtures,  brushes,  carved 
mouldings,  veneer works,  caskets,  bas 
kets,  flour,  saddlery  and  harness,  paper 
boxes,  cigar  boxes,  cigars,  extracts, 
clothing,  candy,  band instruments,  book 
binding, 
patent  medicines,  mirror 
plates,  brooms,  fly paper,  awnings,  fruit 
canning,  brick  and  pottery,  glue,  vapor 
stoves, 
slot  machines, 
soap,  wooden  shoes,  rugs,  excelsior, 
shirts,  boots  and  shoes.  This  statement 
proves  that Grand  Rapids  is  not  a  “ one 
industry”   town,  as 
sometimes 
claimed,  and  further  proof  of  the  fact is 
in  the  showing  made  that  only  40  per 
cent,  of the  manufacturing  output  of  our

electrotypes, 

is 

it 

reach  mature  years  they  become  good 
men  and  women  and  desirable  members 
of  our  citizenship.  The  condition  of 
labor  should  be  quite  as  gratifying  to 
us  all  as  is  the  wonderful  growth  of  our 
commercial  and  manufacturing  enter­
prises,  and 
let  us  hope  that  it  may  be 
continued  and 
improved  upon  when 
circumstances  make  improvement  pos­
sible.

Our  jobbing  trade  has  sprung  into ac­
life  during  recent  years  and  has 
tive 
to 
now  reached  such  proportions  as 
divide attention  with  the  manufacturing 
interests.  There  are  now  117  jobbing 
houses  in  the  city,  representing  an 
in­
vested  capital  of  $3,417,000,  giving  em­
ployment  to  1,123  hands.  The  sales  for 
1900  will  aggregate  $16,969,000.  There 
are  employed  by  manufacturers and  job­
bers  of  the  city  463  traveling  salesmen.
Thus  as  the  sun  is  about  to  set  upon 
the  closing  scenes  of  the nineteenth cen­
tury  we  are  able  to 
look  back  at  the 
foundation  laid  for the  city  by  the  pio­
neers,  who 
in  the  main  have  passed  to 
their  reward,and  declare  that  their work 
was  well  done.  At  the  same  time  our 
bosoms  swell  with  pride  at  what  has 
been  accomplished  by  the  succeeding 
generations.  The  work  so  well  started 
by  the  pioneer  business  men  has  been 
taken  up  and  intelligently  and  energet­
ically  carried  ou t;  as  a  result  we  have 
“ Grand  Rapids  As  It  Is.”   May  the 
dawn  of  the  new  century  bring  to  the 
city  we  all 
love  so  much  continued 
prosperity  and  happiness  to all  her  peo­
ple,  and  when  our  part  of  the  work  of 
development  and 
improvement  shall 
have  been  finished  may  others,  imbued 
with  the  same spirit that has ever guided 
and  controlled  the  makers  of  the  city, 
be  on  hand  to  take  up  the  lines  and 
direct  the  great  and  growing enterprises 
with  the  same  success  that  they  have 
met  with  in  the  past.

Lester J.  Rindge.

14

H A L F   A   C E N T U R Y .

G ro w th   o f L o ca l  J o b b in g   and  M an ufac­

tu r in g   In terests.

To  tell  the  story  of  the  growth  of  the 
jobbing  and  manufacturing  trade  of 
Grand  Rapids  during  the past fifty years 
would  be  to  write  a  complete  history  of 
the  business  evolution  that  has  taken 
place:  the  change 
from  “ wild  cat’ ’ 
banks  of  the  early  day  to  our  numerous 
institutions  of  the  pres­
solid  financial 
ent;  from  such  “ infant”  
industries  as 
William Haldane’s furniture shop located 
on  Prospect  hill  and  James  M cCray’s 
foundry  at  the  foot  of  Huron  street  and 
the  hundreds  of  great  and  flourishing 
manufacturing  and  commercial  estab­
lishments  that  now  dot  the  valley  from 
the  D.  &  M.  railroad  bridge  to  the 
black  hi ils.  This  would  be  a  scope  too 
broad  and  one  that  is  too  fertile  with 
material  to  be  properly  handled  in  a 
single  paper  to  be  submitted  at  a  time 
when  there  are  several  other subjects  to 
be  treated,  each  requiring  considerable 
time  and  making  demands  upon  the  at­
tention  of  those  present,  therefore I shall 
only  briefly  refer  to  a  few  small  enter­
prises  established  and  fostered  by  the 
plucky  pioneers  of  fifty  years  ago,  who 
foresaw  a  future  for  Grand  Rapids  as  a 
manufacturing  center,  and  then,without 
attempting  to  follow 
in  detail  step  by 
step  the  steady  and  healthy  growth  and 
development  that have since taken place, 
shall  present,  by  way  of  comparison  as 
showing  the  strides  that  have  been 
made,statistics  giving the  city’s  present 
manufacturing,  industrial  and  commer­
cial  improvements.

Necessarily  the  data  used  in  the prep­
aration  of  this  article  has  been  gleaned 
from  historical  articles  published 
in 
newspapers,  contributions 
from  gentle­
men 
identified  with  different  enter­
prises  that  are  now  a  leading  part  of 
our  whole,  from  Albert  Baxter’s  valu­
able  history  of  the  city  of  Grand  Rap­
ids  and  other  sources.  There  may  be 
trifling  and  unimportant  inaccuracies in 
some  of  the  early  history,  but  it  should 
be  remembered  that  fifty  years  have 
elapsed  since  the  beginning  of  the 
chapter  and  that  at  that  time  there  was 
no  Board  of  Trade  to  collect  and  care­
fully  preserve  statistics  and  to  keep  tab 
on  the  changes  as  they  took  place  dur­
ing  the  process  of  development.

Previous  to  1850  there  were  small 
manufacturing  enterprises  undertaken 
by  some  of  the  settlers  of  the  village, 
but  they  taxed  the  ability  of  the  pro­
moters  to  keep  them  moving. 
The 
country  was  sparsely  settled  and  those 
who  would  purchase  the  output  were 
without  money  to  pay  for their  wants 
and  could  only  do  business  when  some 
kind  of  a  trade  or  exchange  of  products 
could  be  struck  up.  There  was  a  small 
lime  kiln  near  what  is  now  thecornerof 
Oakes  and  South  Division  streets,  a 
wagon  shop  near  where  the  old  stables 
stand  on  Ionia  street  opposite  the  Mor­
ton  House ;  a  sawmill  for  the  Indians 
near  the  present  west  end  of  Bridge 
street  bridge  and  another  one  where 
Sweet’s  Hotel  stands,  which  was  oppo­
site  the  boat 
foundry 
where  the  Valley  City  mill  now  stands. 
life  was  represented  by  J. 
Mercantile 
Morrison,  who  engaged 
in  trade  at  a 
point  near  the 
foot  of  Monroe  street, 
while  Toussaint  Campau,  Richard  God’- 
froy  and  one  or  two  others  had  estab­
lished  a  “ business  center”   and  con­
ducted  “ general  stores”   in  the  vicinity 
of  the  Eagle  Hotel.

landing,  and  a 

The  first 

important  enterprise,  how 
ever,  to  attract  attention  to  the  village 
was  the  manufacture  of 
land  plaster

of  the  business  since  that  early  date  as 
developed  by  the  Godfreys,  Freeman 
and  Silas,  Amos  Rathbone,  George  H. 
White  and  Alfred  Rathbone  is  a  matter 
of  current  knowledge  and  does not prop­
erly  call  for  extended  review  in  this  ar­
ticle.

Of  the 

lesser  enterprises  that  were 
considered  important  in  the  early  days 
were  the  wool  and  carding  mills of Ste­
phen Hinsdill,  and McCray’s  and Smith 
&  Deane’s  foundry  and  machine  shop 
where  cultivators  and  plows  were  man­
ufactured.  David  Caswell  made  pails 
and  tu'-'s  south  of  Bridge  street  bridge 
and  David  Scott  turned  out  sash,  doors 
and  blinds  north  of  Bridge  street.  W. 
T.  Powers  and  Deacon  Haldane  repre­
sented  the  furniture  interest,  and turned 
out  a  few  coffins  as  a  side  line.  Charles 
W.  Taylor  and  Perkins  &  Boyer  opera­
ted 
tanneries  and  made  boots  and 
shoes,  while  Foster  &  Parry  and  W.  H. 
McConnell  engaged 
the  hardware 
trade  and  manufactured  tinware.

in 

This  in  brief  was  Grand  Rapids 

in

in 

The 

factories 

is  furniture. 

list  em­
factories 
larger  industries  and 
braces  only  the 
does  not 
include  the  numerous  small 
ones  giving  employment  to  a  half  dozen 
or  more  hands,  each  of  which  performs 
its  part 
in  giving  to  Grand  Rapids 
its  fame  as  a  manufacturing city.  There 
are  at  present  396 
the 
city,  employing  16,473  bands  with  a 
daily  pay  roll  of $24,709.50.  The  out­
put  from  these  factories  for  1900  will 
reach  $34.319,000. 
In  connection  with 
these  figures  it  is  but  proper  to  speak of 
the  condition  of  the  men  who  draw  the 
weekly  wage 
fund  of  about  $150,000. 
No  city  can  boast  of  a  better  class  of 
citizens  than  the  men  who  toil  in  our 
factories  and  workshops,  and  that  they 
are  prosperous  and  happy  is conclusive­
ly  shown  by  their comfortable  and  well- 
furnished  homes  and  the  personal  ap­
pearance  of  the  men  and  their  families. 
They  are  well  clothed,  well 
fed  and 
well  housed,  largely 
in  homes  owned 
by  themselves.  Their children  are  edu­
cated  in  our  public  schools  and  as  they

L ab el  Used  on  R o y a l  B aking:  P o w d er  in 

M innesota.

Traverse  City,  Nov.  26— I  understand 
that  all  baking  powder  sold  in  Minne­
sota  must  have  a  label  on  the  can  giv- 
mg  the  formula  of  the  contents. 
Is 
such  a  fact? 
If  so,  can  you  kindly  fur­
nish  me  with  the  printed  formula  used 
on  Royal  baking  powder?

The  law  does  not  require  the  formula, 
but  a  list  of  all  the  ingredients  entering 
into  the. composition of the powder.  The 
Royal  Baking  Powder  Co.  contested  the 
law  in  the  courts,  with  unsuccessful  re­
sults,  and  now  uses  the  following 
label 
on  all  the  cans  it  sends  into  Minnesota: 
Royal  Baking  Powder,  a  pure,  cream 
of  tartar  powder.  This  baking  powder 
is  composed  of  the following ingredients 
and  none  other:  Potassium  bitartrate, 
acidum  tartaricum,  sodium  bicarbon- 
ate, 
scienticfially 
combined  by  original  and  exclusive 
processes,to  produce  the  purest  and best 
baking  powder.

refined  cornstarch, 

W om an ’s  Id ea   o f E conom y.

Gazley— Now  that  we’re  engaged  my 
girl 
is  beginning  to  make  me  econo- 
mize.  You  know  I  used  to  take  her  a 
pound  of  80-cent  bonbons  every  Satur-

Hazley  Yes,  and  now  she  insists  on 

a  cheaper  sort,  eh?

Gazley— O h !  no.  You  can  get  two 
pounds  of  the  80-cent  kind  for $1.50,  so 
she  insists  on  a  two-pound  box.

P ro v ed   an   A lib i.

Mistress  Mary,  I  was  almost  sure, 
once  last  evening  while  the  policeman 
was  in  the  kitchen,  that  1  heard  a sound 
VCa?  much  like  two  people  kissing.
mum? 

it  only  wanst, 
•

Masry 
Mistress— Yes.
Mary— Then  it  wasn’t  us.

you  hear 

• 

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Prepare for Cold  Weather

W e   o ffe r  y o u   th e   fo llo w in g :

.

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Heel  Perfections, 6-9, 6-10, 6-11,  7-10,  7-11,  8-12, at 

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$23  00

Boot  Heel  Perfections, 6-9,  6-10, 7-10, at 

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6.001  Men’s Combination  First Quality Gray  Felt  Boots, Hood Boot
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5.996  Men’s  First Quality  White  Felt  Boots,  4  Stays,  6-11,  7-12,  at 

18  50
7  00
9  50
TER M S —30 days.  When ordering  combinations  always  give  the  size 
of boot wanted.  W e will  not  break  sizes  W e will  sell  them  to  you  at the 
above prices as long as they  last.  Send  us your orders.

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M ILW A U K E E .  W IS.

“ YER MA ”  CUSHION  TURN  SHOE

A  SHOE  FOR  DELICATE  FEET

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
ples.  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.

F.  M a y e r   B o o t   &  S h o e   C o .

Exclusive  M anufacturers.  M ilwaukee,  W is.

15

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.

G R A N D   R A P ID S   G A S  L IG H T   CO., 
Grand  R apid s,  M ich.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Organized  1881.

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Michigan.
Cash Assets, $800,000.
D.  M.  F e r r y , V ice P res.

Cash Capital, $400,000.  Net Surplus, $200,000.
D. W h itn ey, J r., Pres.

F. H.  W h itn e y, Secretary.
M.  W.  O ’B r ien, Treas.

E. J.  B ooth, A sst  Sec’y. 

Dir e cto 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.  A .  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace,  _ 
«   James  McMillan,  F.  E.  Driggs,  Henry  ® 
jg  Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D.  ® 

Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S.
G.  Gas key,  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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G A S   OR  G A SO LIN E  ST O V E

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The bread is then placed around in wire holders.! 
Four slices can be toasted beautifully in two min-1 
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ANN  ARBOR,  MICH.

WHEN  TROUBLE  OVERTAKES  YOU.
When  trouble  overtakes  you  in  your  business  cares  and  strife,
And  things  get  kinder  whopper-jawed  in  everything  in  life,
Just  stop  and  ask  the  reason,  and  you’ll  find  it  never  fails 
That  the  cause— if you’re  a  grocer— is  somewhere  in  your  scales.

Opening  store  up  bright  and  early  ain’t  the  only  thing  that  wins 
When  a  fellow’ s  out  for  profit,  for  your  trouble  just  begins 
When  you  start  the  wheels  of business  weighing  out  the  things  you  sell 
If  you  try  to  use  old  methods  and  hope  to  get  on  well.

There’s  a  system  they’ve  invented  that  they  call  the  Money-Weight,
That  seems  to  set  things  right  and  sort  of  regulate
This  trouble  that  has  kept  men  poor  and  robbed  them  all  day  long,
And  it’s  just  a  simple  method  that  prevents  your  weighing  wrong.

This  king  of  all  the  Systems  grabs  a  dollar  by  the  hand—
Of  course  that’ s  metaphoric,  but  you  seem  to  understand—
And  it  swoops  down  on  a  penny just  like  a  bird  of prey;
It  doesn’ t  seem  like  it’s  restful  ’ till  that  penny’ s  stored  away.

Now  the  moral  that  this  teaches  isn’ t  hard  to  demonstrate,
If you  want  a  paying  business  you  must  use  the  Money-Weight.
It’ s  a  simple  little  system,  handling  everything  that’s  sold,
Just  as  if  the  goods  were  money  and  every  cent  was  gold.

THE  COMPUTING  SCA L E   CO.,  D ayton,  Ohio.

Im p ro ved   M ajestic  M o n ey-W eigh t  Scale.

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1 6

The  Meat  Market

and 

H ow   to  C ircu m ven t  D ep a rtm en t  Stores.
Advertising  is  good  all  the  time,  but 
at  this  season  the  butchers  should  give 
more  than  the  usual  attention  to  the 
subject.  The  turkey  business  is  enor­
mous  during  the  holidays 
the 
butcher  who  does  the  best  advertising 
will  get  the  bulk  of  the  trade.  Butch­
in  small  towns  should  immediately 
ers 
place  an  advertisement 
in  their  local 
in  large  cities,  who 
newspapers;  those 
do  not  think  advertising 
in  the  city 
papers  will  pay,  can  reach  thousands  of 
consumers  by  distributing  circulars, 
and  by  giving  a  fine  display  in  their 
windows.  Especially  should  the  butch­
ers  who  are  located  in  cities  where  de­
partment  stores  are  established  wake  up 
to  the  need  of  making  strenuous  efforts 
to  turn  the  tide  of  trade  in  their  direc­
tion 
instead  of  allowing  it  to  go  to  the 
department  stores.  Within  a  day  or  two 
every  department  store  having  a  meat 
department  will  begin  to  boom  turkey!

Department  Store

Turkeys

are no  Detter  than  others.  But  they 
charge more  for  them.  W e  will  sell 
you  a  fresh  killed  turkey  for  ic  a 
pound less than  the department stores 
ask, and we deliver it free  Our stock 
is as fine as  any  in  the  State. 
If  we 
don’t  substantiate  all  we  claim,  we 
will  give  you  a  turkey  for  nothing.

BUTCHER  &  CO.

through  the  big  daily  papers.  Last  year 
the  consumption  of  turkeys in New York 
City  during  Thanksgiving  week  was 
larger  than  ever  before  in  the  history  of 
the  city.  But  a  large  percentage  of  the 
butchers  did  not  sell  as  many  as  in  for­
mer  years.  This  result  should  have  been 
anticipated,  because  every  day  for  a 
full  week  before  Thanksgiving  day  the 
department  stores  used  pages  of  space 
in  the  newspapers  advertising  turkeys. 
One  store  announced  that  only  one  tur­
key  would  be  sold  to  each  customer, 
which  was  a  sort  of  “ come  on”   game 
that  hypnotized  the  unsuspecting  con­
sumer,  who  did  not  stop  to  think  that 
not  one  in  a  thousand  would  want  more 
than  one  turkey.  Another  department 
store  put  up  regular  Thanksgiving  din­
ners,  consisting  of  a  turkey,  cranberries 
and  the  usual  materials  that  go  toward 
completing  a  holiday  menu.  All  sorts 
of  schemes  were  put  forth  to  pull  trade 
from  the  regular  butchers. 
It  is  esti­
mated  that  500,000  turkeys  were  eaten 
on 
in 
Thanksgiving  day.  Of 
these,  stores 
other  than  regular  butcher  shops  sold 
and  gave  away  125,000.  Had  the  2,500 
retail  butchers  of  Manhattan  sold  all  of 
the  500,000  turkeys,  it would have  meant 
an  average  of  200  turkeys  for  each,  at 
an  average  profit  on  each  bird  of  40 
cents,  or S80  profit  on  the  200. 
Instead 
of  which  their  profit  amounted  to  some­
thing  like  $40  each,  and  that  of  the  de­
partment  stores  to  $50,000— or  more—  
because  they  charged  14  cents  a  pound, 
while  most  of  the  butchers were satisfied 
with  12  cents. 
It  was  this  advertising 
that  humbugged  the  public  into  think­
ing  “ bargains”   could  be  had  by  going 
to  the  department  stores  for  their  tur­
keys.  One  Third  avenue  establishment 
advertised : 
“ Only  one  turkey  to  a per- j 
son.  Our  price,  14  cents  per  pound.”

the  Borough  of  Manhattan 

People  came  from  surburban  towns  to 
take  advantage  of  the  bargain  and  car­
ried  home  the  turkey.  They  could  have 
gone  to  their  nearest  butcher and bought 
just  as  good  a  bird  for  12  cents  a  pound 
and  had  it  delivered. 
I  know  of  one 
Tenth  avenue  butcher  who  cut  out  the 
department  store  advertisement  which 
gave  the  “ one  to  a  person”   game,  and 
pasted  it  on  his  window.  Under  it  he 
marked:  “ We  can  beat  this.  One or  a 
hundred  at  12  cents  a  pound.”   This 
was  a  bright  piece  of  work  and  brought 
him  much  business.

it  to-day;  place 

As  I  have  said,  the  department  stores 
will  begin  the  same  tactics within  a  day 
or  so,  and  every  retail  butcher  owes 
it 
to  himself  to  do  something  to  offset  the 
effect  of  that  advertising.  One  good 
method  of  attracting  attention 
is  by 
having  a  fine  specimen  of  turkey  alive 
in  the  show  window.  But  do  not  wait 
until  the  last  moment  to  get the live tur­
key.  Get 
it  in  your 
window  as  soon  as  you  get  it.  You  will 
find  a  crowd  standing  in  front  of  that 
window  all  day;  the  children  will  tell 
their  parents  about 
it,  and  when  the 
time  comes  to  go  out  and buy a Thanks­
giving  dinner— an  important  part  of  the 
holiday  duties— the  mind  of  the  buyer 
will  lean  toward  your  market for the tur­
key.  Have  a  large  placard  in  the  win­
dow,  too,  telling  how  you  got  your  tur­
keys,  where  they  came  from,  how  ad­
vantageously  you  bought them,  and  con­
sequently  how  reasonably  you  can afford 
to  sell  them.

there 

Then 

is  a  decidedly  catchy 
way— and  one  that  is  not  expensive—of 
lettering  your  window  for  the  occasion. 
Mix  some  flour  and  water  with  a  trifle 
of  glue  in  it, which  makes  a  good  paste. 
Mark  on  the  outside  of  the  glass  in  let­
ters  as 
large  as  the  size  of  the  window 
will  permit,  “ Get  Your  Thanksgiving 
Turkey  H ere.”   After  having  formed 
the  first  letter  with  the  paste,  place over 
it  cotton  batiing.with the  fluffy  side  out, 
and  so  prepare  all  the  letters.  Have 
them  so  high  as  to  be  out  of  the  reach 
of  children,  who  may  be  tempted  other­
wise  to  pull  off  the  cotton.  The  beauty 
of  these  signs  is  that  the  cotton  waves 
in  the  breeze,  and  gives  a  pretty  effect.
turkey  and 
made  your  cotton  sign,  you  have  taken

Having  got  your 

live 

TURKEYS

Last  season  thousands  of  turkeys 
were  left  over.  They  were  kept  in 
cold  storage. 
'Now  they  are  being 
sold cheap—almost  given  away— and 
some butchers will  offer  them  as  this 
season’s goods.  W e have  none;  ours 
are  alive now— some of  them— but to­
morrow they will be killed and  placed 
on sale.  They are  corn  fed,  fat  and 
tender.  The  President could  not have 
better.  They  will  go  fast  at  14c  per 
pound.  Get your order in  early.
B U T C H E R   <&  C O .

T elep h o n e yo n r ord er. 

F ree d e liv e ry .

a  good  step  toward  advertising yourself. 
But  thus  far  you  have  done  nothing  to 
reach  those  who  do  not  have  occasion  to 
pass  your  shop. 
If  you  are  satisfied 
with  having  accomplished  this  much, 
nothing  remains  but  to  decorate  the  in­
terior  of  your  shop  so  as  to  give  it  a 
holiday  aspect.  But 
if  you  desire  to 
reach  a 
few  thousand  people  in  your 
neighborhood  who  ordinarily  have  no 
occasion  to  pass  your  shop,  have  cir­
culars  printed  and have them distributed 
by  one  of  your  clerks.  This work  should 
not  be  trusted  to  a  boy.  He  will  likely

in  their  distribution. 

least  use  no 
throw  they  away,  or  at 
judgment 
In­
struct  the  clerk  to  place  a  circular  in 
every 
letter  box  in  every  flat,  to  leave 
them  on  the  steps  of  private  houses,and 
place  them 
in  the  hands  of  those  per­
sons  who  seem  to  be  residents  of  the 
neighborhood. 
I  have  prepared  a  few 
sample  advertisements  which  can  be 
used  to  advantage  as  placards,  circulars 
or  newspaper  advertisements—Jonathan 
Price  in  Butchers’  Advocate.

F o r  Once  She  K n ew   W h ere Jo h n   W as.
A   party  of  young  men  were  taking 
dinner  a  few  nights  ago  at  a  local  club, 
when  one  of  them,  who  is  somewhat  of 
a  jester,  called  the  waiter  and  said :

“ John,  go  and  call  4,705.  If  a woman 
it  will  be  my  wife.  Tell  her 
answers 
that  I 
instructed  you  to  say  that  I  am 
in  the  police  station  for  a  few  hours and 
will  not  be  at  home  for  dinner.  Say  to 
her  that  the  possibilities  are  that  I  shall 
not  be  at  home  to-night.  Understand 
me,  sir?”

John  winked  a  couple  of  times  in  a 
knowing  way,  bowed  deferentially,  and 
suggested:

“ Supposin’— . ”
“ Supposing  nothing,  sir. 

If she  asks 
who  is  talking  say  it  is  the  turnkey  at 
the  station,  and  she’ ll  never  know  who 
told  her  the  lie .”

The  waiter  shambled  away  and  was 
presently  seen  to  be  having  a  good  deal 
of  fun  with  himself.  The  jester  inferred 
that  it  might  have  something  to  do  with 
his  case  and  called  him  over.

“ What’s  amusing  you,  John?”
“ Wouldn’t 

like  to  tell  you,  sir—at 

least,  right  here.”

“  I guess  these fellows  understand— let 

’er  go.”

“ Missus  says  to  tell  her  husband  she 
is  glad  he  is  so  nicely 
for  the 
night— she  knows  where  he is for once. ’ ’

located 

Men 

live  by  contrast.  Successes  in 
business  are  frequently  attained  through 
failures.

We  want

Potatoes

Are you open to a

proposition to 

buy

or can you

quote  us  prices?

It will  pay you to

Write  U S

Albert  Miller 

&  Co.

8 So.  Clark St.,  Chicago

Ask  this paper about  us.

We Offer $100

For  every  ounce  of  adulteration  or  impurities  of 
any  kind  found  in  a  can  of

Queen Flake 
Baking Powder

W e  do  this  because  we  are  positive  that  it  is  abso­
lutely  pure.  Manufactured  and  sold  only  by

NORTHROP,  ROBERTSON  &  CARRIER

L A N S I N G .  M IC H IG A N

|  Fleischmann & Co.’s

Compressed Yeast

Strongest  Yeast 
Largest  Profit 

Greatest  Satisfaction

to  both  dealer  and  consumer. 
Fleischmann & Co.,

Grand Rapids Agency, 29 Crescent Ave.  Detroit Agency, 111 West Lamed Street

419  Plum  Street,  Cincinnati,  Ohio.

f r o m :  c r e d i t   t o   c a s h .

E x p erien ce  o f a   M erch an t  W h o  M ade  the 

Change.

My  experience  in  a  store  began  about 
ten  years  ago.  Previous  to  that  time  I 
had  Jived  on  a  farm  and taught  school  a 
few  years.  About  ten  years  ago  I  began 
clerking 
for  my  brother,  who,  at  that 
time,  was  conducting  an  extensive 
credit  business. 
in 
buying  and  it  was  but  a  few  months un­
til  my  brother told  me  I  could  beat  him 
as  a  buyer  and  therefore  had  better  do 
all  of  it.

I  took  an 

interest 

During  my  service  as  stock  buyer  I 
experienced  a  growing  conviction  that 
absolute  cash  buying  secured  goods  at  a 
closer  figure  than  did time buying.  This 
led  me  into  a  study  of  the  cash  system. 
The  competition  of  catalogue  and  de. 
partment  stores  was  worrying  uS.  They 
certainly  were  not  selling  on  credit.  So 
1  decided  it  might  not  do  wrong  to  get 
on  the  same  basis  as  the  competition 
that  was  hurting  us  most.  Perhaps  the 
mail  order  business  more  than  any other 
one  thing  confirmed  my  conviction  con­
cerning  the  cash  system. 
I  discovered 
that  the  cash  system  was  an  established 
factor  in  city  life.  But  we  are  an  agri 
cultural  and  stock  community,  and  the 
doubt  arose  as  to  the  desirability  of  try­
ing  city  methods  in  such  a  district.  My 
friends,  whom  I  consulted,  declared 
that 
it  would  be  a  failure.  But  I  con­
cluded  to  try  it  and  bought  my  brother 
out. 
That  was  five  years  ago.  The 
way  1  did  it  was  th is:

Two  weeks  before  I  took  possession 
of  the  store  I  advertised  thoroughly  that 
the  store  was  to  be  conducted  under  my 
management  as  a  cash  store. 
1  did  my 
best  to  show  the  benefits  of  selling  for 
cash,  laying  emphasis  on  the  needs  and 
conditions  of  the  present  as  compared 
with  the  past; 
that  I  could  better  pro­
tect  the 
interests  of  my  customers  by 
selling  for  cash.  I  made  a  point  of  per­
sonally  talking  about  the  change  with 
every  one  coming  into  the  store,others  1 
saw  out  of  the store,  and  urged  the  mer­
its  of  the  cash  system. 
I  talked  prices 
the  strongest.

I  do 

There  was  little  doubt  when  I  opened 
as  to  my  purposes,  and  if  the  trade  had 
any  doubt  it  was  soon  dispelled,  for  1 
refused  credit  to  everyone,  even  my  rel­
atives.  I  made  leaders,  but  endeavored 
to  sell  always  above  cost.  Staples  1 
sometimes  use  as  leaders,  but  try  to  sell 
everything  cheaper  than  the  credit  mer­
1  sell  at  a  fair  margin,  with  no 
chant. 
misrepresentations. 
little  with 
special  sales  as  to  hours  and  days. 
Goods  put  on  sale  at  a  special  price 
are  kept  at  that  price  until  sold.  Our 
is  too  small  for  special  sales,  as 
town 
I receive  prod­
conducted in  the  cities. 
uce  in  exchange  for  goods  and  turn 
it 
over to  buyers  at  once,  givin g  due  bills 
for  the  amount  not  traded  out  at  the 
time. 
I  buy  some  goods  to  stir  up  the 
trade  with.  I  aim  always  to  secure  good 
merchandise,  however,  and  will  make 
exchanges  and  all  goods  satisfactory.  It 
pays  to  treat  the  trade  conscientiously.
1  have  had  my  advertisement  in  the 
paper  every  week  since  I  began.  I  talk 
in  these  advertisements  just  as  over  the 
counter,  with  as  few  adjectives  as  pos­
sible.  Quoting  prices  is  a  strong  point 
in  these  advertisements. 
The  credit 
merchants 
look  upon  me  as  a  cutter, 
but  this  is  the  result  of  selling  for  cash. 
Before  1  started  customers  would  come 
into  our  store  and  tell  how  they  could 
buy  cheaper  in  other  towns.  My  cash 
system  has  stopped  all  that. 
I  am  now 
pulling  trade  from  other towns  and  am 
confident  I  can  hold  it.  My  sales  ran

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

Christmas  Decorations

Delaware
Holly

Boquet

Green

1  Fancy,  per large case....................................
J  Fancy,  per barrel............................................
j  Fancy  Double faced  Wreaths, per doz.............
(  Fancy Single-faced  Wreaths, per d o z .............

$3 75 
. ..   125 
. . .  2.00 
..  1.50

f  Festooning, heavy, per  too yards.......................
-<  Double  Wreaths, wound  both  sides,  per doz... 
(.  Single  Wreaths, wound  one side,  per doz.........

. .$4 00 
...  1.50 
....  1.00

The wreaths are all our own  make and  will  sell  on  sight  Other  decora­
tions,  such as Wild Smilax,  Long  Pine  Needles,  Palm  Leaves,  Mistletoe, 
Laurel  Festooning,  etc 
Prices on application.  W e  guarantee  all  work 
strictly first class.  Order early.
ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.,  Grand  Rapids

a 
little  behind  the  first  three  months, 
but  1  showed  a  nice  increase  at  the  end 
of  the  first  twelve  months. 
Iam   both 
selling  more  goods  and  making  more 
money  than  the  business  did  under  a 
credit  system.

I  am  to  visit  the  distant markets three 
or  four  times  a  year,  but  our  local 
job­
bing  markets  once  a  month.  The  suc­
cessful  merchant  must  get  away  from 
home.  The merchant who  sticks at  home 
is  not  a  good  buyer.  Visiting  the  mar­
kets  frequently  puts  an  edge  on  a  buyer 
that  he  can’t  get  otherwise.  1  buy  most 
of  my  stuff  in  the  markets.

The  cash  method  needs  peculiar  kind 
It  is  a  revo­
of  nerve  in  small  towns. 
from  credit  of  twenty  years  to  a 
lution 
strictly  cash  basis.  And  I  would  say 
that  only  absolute  cash  is  the  winning 
way  to  conduct  such a system.  A young 
man  with  small  capital  can  do  best  on 
cash  idea. 
into 
loaning  business  and  has  sufficient 
a 
capital,  the  credit  racket  is  a  capital 
place  for  him.  He  will  make  money. 
For  the  credit  business  is  nothing  more 
nor 
loaning  business,  and 
is  money  in  that.  But  I’ll  stick 
there 
to  cash. 
is  more  modern.— Ed.  E. 
Johnston  in  Dry  Goods  Reporter.

If  a  man  desires  to  go 

less  than  a 

It 

E loq u en t  T rib u te  to   Grass.

Grass 

constant 

fibres  hold 

benediction. 

Its  tenacious 

is  the  forgiveness  of  nature— 
her 
Fields 
trampled  with  battle,  saturated  with 
blood,  torn with the  ruts  of  cannon,grow 
green  again  with  grass,  and  carnage 
is 
forgotten.  Streets  abandoned  by  traffic 
become grass-grown  like  rural  lanes  and 
are  obliterated.  Forests  decay,  harvests 
perish,  flowers  vanish,  but  grass  is 
im­
mortal.  Beleaguered  by  the  sullen  hosts 
of  winter,  it  withdraws 
into  the  im­
its  subterranean 
pregnable  fortress  of 
first 
vitality,  and  emerges  upon 
the 
solicitation  of  spring.  Sown  by 
the 
winds,  by  wandering  birds,  propagated 
by  the  subtle  horticulture  of  the  ele­
ments,which  are  its  ministets  and  serv­
ants,  it  softens  the  rude  outline  of  the 
world. 
the 
earth 
in  its  place  and  prevent  its  solu­
ble  compounds  from  washing  into  the 
wasting  sea.  4t  invades  the  solitude  of 
deserts,  climbs  the 
inaccessible  slopes 
and 
forbidding  pinacles  of  mountains, 
modifies  climates  and  determines  the 
history,  character  and  destiny  of  na­
tions.  Unobtrusive  and  patient,  it  has 
immortal  vigor  and  aggression.  Ban­
ished  from  the  thoroughfare  and  field, 
it  bides  its  time  to  return,  and  when 
vigilance  is  relaxed,  or the  dynasty  has 
perished,  it  silently  resumes  the  throne 
from  which 
it  has  been  expelled,  but 
which  it  never  abdicates. 
It  bears  no 
blazonry  of  bloom  to  charm  the  senses 
with 
its 
homely  hue  is  more  enchanting  than the 
lily  or  the  rose. 
It  yields  no  fruit  in 
earth  or air,  and  yet,  should  its  harvest 
fail  for a  single  year,  famine  would  de­
populate  the  world.—J.  J.  Ingalls.

fragrance  or  splendor,  but 

M ust  F o llo w   th e D octor’s In struction s. 
Husband— What  did  the  doctor  say, 

Mary?

Wife— Not  much.  He  asked  me  to 

put  out  my  tongue.

Husband—Yes?
Wife— And  he  said,  “ Overworked.”  
Husband  (with  a  long breath of relief) 
— Then  you’ ll  have  to  give  it  a  rest. 
That  doctor  knows  his  business.

T h e  W o rm   Turns.

“ Y es,”   said  Mr.  Henpeck,  “ I,  too, 

have  my  favorite  flowers.”

“ And  what  may  they  be,  pray?”  

sneered  his  wife.

“ They  are  the  ones  that  ‘ shut  up’  at 
night,”   he  bravely  managed  to  articu­
late.

and  alert  and up to 
date.  Do  not  let 
your  business  get 
dull  for  the  lack 
of  good  advertis­
ing.

Get  some  C a le n ­
d a r s   with your  por­
trait  printed  upon 
them  to  give 
to 
your customers the 
first  of the year.

These  calendars 
will  keep  a  sharp 
outlook 
for  your 
business during the 
entire year.

W e make a spec­
ialty  of  portrait 
calendars  and  will 
send  you  samples 
and prices upon ap­
plication.

Now is  the  time 

to order.

Tradesman
Company,

Grand Rapids, Mich.

1 8

Village  Improvement

In d ifferen ce o f th e F a rm e r to  G ood Roads.
Anything  having  a  tendency  to  show 
improvement  in  the  country  road is sure 
to  be  interesting  to  the  public. 
It  may 
be  conceded  that  the  subject  is  still  at 
the  stage  which  is  fairly  if  not  best  ex­
pressed  by  “ breaking  out 
in  spots,”  
but  the  spots  are  not  only  increasing  in 
number—they  are  growing  in  size;  and, 
while  the  enlargement  of  these  spots  is 
not  astonishingly  rapid,  it  is  continuous 
and  they  are  sure  to  come  together  in 
time.

Now,  as  always,  the  great  stumbling 
block  in  the  path  of this particular prog­
ress  is  the  country  land  owner  and  he, 
as  ever,  is  still  afraid  of  paying  out  of 
his  own  pocket  for  something  that  per­
tains  only  to  the  public  good,  forget­
ting 
in  his  supreme  selfishness  that  he 
is  a  part  of  the  public  and  a  part,  too, 
which 
is  to  be  most  benefited  by  the 
proposed  improvement.  The  stinginess 
of  these  men  blinds  them  to  the  fact 
that  it  is  cheaper  to  have  a  good  road, 
even  if  they  have  to  pay  for  it,  than  to 
flounder  through  bad  ones  during  two 
seasons  of  the  year,  with  nothing  to 
brag  of 
in  that  line  for the  other  two. 
We  are  now  trying  to  live  through  the 
effects  of  the 
rain 
storm.  At  the  end  of  the  city  streets  the 
trouble  begins  and,  wherever these roads 
radiate,  they  are,  in  too  many  cases,  so 
many  radii  through  that  number  of  ex­
tended  mud  holes.

last  tremendous 

the 

journey 

farmer’s 

How  much  this  condition  of  the  roads 
interferes  with  traffic  can  not  be  com­
puted.  It  is  simply  a  repetition  of  Shy- 
lock’s  “ loss  upon  loss.”   For  days  the 
coming  to  market  must  be  put  off  and, 
when  the  deferred 
is  under­
taken,  the  almost  impassable  condition 
of  the  roads  will  compel  two  trips  to 
carry  the  one  good  load  which  would 
be  taken  if  the  condition  of the highway 
permitted.  Where  much  is  to  be  carted 
greater 
facilities  must  be  provided. 
There  are  more  horses  to  be  kept  and 
taken  care  of,  new  wagons  are  bought 
oftener,  and  kept  in  repair  at  consider­
able  expense,  and  the  single 
item  of 
wasting  time,  which  never  seems  to  en­
ter  into 
calculations, 
would, 
in  connection  with  the  other 
wastes  mentioned,  pay  for  good  roads 
wherever there  are  farmers  to  use  them.
With  a  hearty  assent  to  every  argu­
ment  in  favor  of  good  roads,  acknowl­
edging  from  painful  and  costly  experi­
ence  the  need  of  them,  it remains an  un­
fathomed  mystery  why  these same  farm­
ers— practical 
long-headed— are 
such 
invariable  shirks  when  they  come 
to  the  matter  of  road  repair  and  road­
is  no  art  they  will  not 
making.  There 
practice.  Yesterday  the 
length  of  the 
day’s  work  was  “ from  daylight  till 
dark,’ ’  and  woe  betide  the  hired  man 
it  or  grumbled  at  its 
who  shortened 
length.  To-day  the 
io  hour  labor  law 
is 
in  favor  with  a  stubborn  assertion 
that  the  day’s  work  begins,  as  the 
plumber’s  does,  when  be  starts  from 
home. 
If  he  leaves— let  us  say,  inad­
vertently— at  home  a  shovel  or  a  hoe, 
he  saunters  back  after  i t ;  he  is  inclined 
to  tell  stories  with  far-off  conclusions ; 
thirst  forces  him  often  to  the water pail, 
and  he  removes  after  much  hoe-dally­
ing  a  stone  that  at  home  his  hands 
would  instantly  toss  away.  He  sees  to 
it  that  his  team,  if  he  has  one,  is  not 
overworked.  He 
in  wrangling 
with  the  roadmaster  over  roadmaking 
points  that  have  long  been  settled  and, 
when  his  good  for  nothing  day’s  work

insists 

and 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

is  done,  he  goes  home  chuckling  over 
the  fact  that  he  is  going  to  get  full  pay 
for  the  quarter  amount  of  work  that  he 
has  poorly  done.  He  has  plowed  two 
furrows  on  each  side  of  the  road  for  a 
quarter  of  a  mile  and  made  a  miserable 
attempt  to  haul  them  into  the  middle  of 
the  road— an  attempt  that  might  have 
succeeded 
if  he  had  not  posed  most  of 
the  day  in  the  attitude of M illet’s “ Man 
with  the  H oe!”

A  story  attributed  to  General  Miles 
removes  the  need  of  describing  the  re­
sult  of  such  road  w ork:  An  old  teamster 
was  driving  over  a  rough  road  in  the 
Rocky  Mountains— and  only  those  who 
have  been  there  have  any  idea  of  what 
“ rough’ ’  really means— shortly  after  the 
Geronimo  campaign.  The  General  was 
a  passenger.  The  wagon  was  an  old 
prairie  schooner,  without  springs  or 
cushions,  and  the  General  was  trying  to 
go  to  sleep. 
“ There  was  no  sleep  for 
me  on  that  trip ,’ ’  the  General  said, 
“ for  the  old  rascal  drove  over  every 
in  the  road,  and  seemed  to  be 
bowlder 
doing 
it  purposely.  Finally  I  became 
interested  and  began  to  count  the  num­
ber  of  rocks  the  wagon  wheels  passed 
over  or  struck.  Suddenly,  to  my  con­
sternation,  he  missed  one— a  huge 
bowlder  in  the  middle of the  roadway.

‘ Whoa!  H ey!’  ”   1  cried. 

‘ Back 

u p !  Back  u p !’

“ He  quietly followed my  instructions, 
seeming  to  be  not  at  all  surprised  by 
in  the 
them.  When  he  had  the  wagon 
’ Now  drive 
proper  position  I  said: 
over  that  rock,  confound  you ! 
It’s  the 
only  one  you’ve  missed.'  Without  so 
much  as  a  glance 
in  my  direction  he 
‘ Cert,  pard.  Never  noticed 
replied: 
it.  A in ’t  got  a  chew  about  yer?’ 
I  got 
out  and  walked  the  remaining  eight 
miles. ’ ’

It 

'tis, 

’tis  true” — where 

is  a  story— “   ’T is  true,  ’tis  pity 
the 
and  pity 
for  either 
driver  was  not  responsible 
team  or  highway  and  both  were a  matter 
of  utter  indifference  to  him,  but  here 
and 
in  other  parts  of  the  country  the 
farmer  will  drive  over  roads  that  are  a 
disgrace  to  civilization  at  an  enormous 
personal  expense  and  “ kick 
like  a 
steer”   at  any  and  every  attempt  to  save 
his  own  time,  money  and  patience.

For  all  that,  however,  the  good  road 
is  sure  to  come.  Every  section  of  the 
country  is  giving  attention  to  this  great 
need.  Good  roads  conventions  are  gath­
ering.  The  South,  where  “ the  people 
have  always  been  accustomed  to  bad 
roads  and  the  majority  have  never  seen 
a  really  good  one,”   is  concluding  with 
the  North  that  this  is  a  matter  of  com­
mon  concern  and  the  Middle  West  is 
joining  hands  with  her  neighbors  on 
in  the  encouragement  and 
either  side 
the  promotion  of  the  same  grand 
idea. 
It  will  come  in  time  and  the  pessimist 
of  the  period  will  be  forced  to  acknowl­
edge  that  the  good  as  well  as  the  bad  is 
contagious  and  that  the  breaking  out  in 
spots  of  the  good  roads  movement  is  a 
proof  of  it.

the  subject  justice;  and  then  we  figure 
that  the  results  from  advertising  are  un­
satisfactory  or  doubt  whether  it  pays  or 
not.  Enclosed  find  clipping  from  our 
last  advertisement.  Please  criticise  it in 
your  next  issue  and  oblige.

A.  F.  Wixson.

B u reau s  and  Coffins  and  L eg a l  Lore. 

From the Tustin Topics.

Richard  L.  Lewis  has  rented  the store 
room  in  the  Spencer  building,  formerly 
occupied  by  E.  Blomelv,  in  which  he 
will  next  week  open  a  stock of  furniture 
and  undertaking  goods  to  be  run  in 
connection  with  his  law  practice.

Salt  and  P ep p er.

Handles  of  knives  and  forks  are  util­
ized  for  the  storage  of  salt  and  pepper, 
under  a  new  patent,  each  handle  being 
formed  of  a  tube,  which has spring  clips 
to  hold  it  on  the  shank ;  and  has  an  in­
ternal  reservoir  for  salt  and  pepper, 
which  is  shaken  throgh  the  ends.

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MAKER  OF

Store and Office 

Fixtures

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

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The above cut represents our grocery display counter.  These counters should be  seen  to  be  ap- 
predated.  W e build them in three different ways, all  having a similarity in design.
*» l*he above cut, is fitted with  plate glass,  has  16 display fronts, and a  paper  rack  the  entire 
length, below that sliding doors.  Quarter sawed oak top  ij{  inches thick.  The  projectiles  both  front 
and  back are so arranged that the feet never  mar  the  wood  work. 
It  is  handsomely  finished  built  in 
loand  i2 foot  lengths.  With  parties contemplating remodeling their  stores  we  solicit  correspondence 
as  we  will make special  prices for complete outfits of store furniture.
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Laurium,  Nov.  18— I  read  with  much 
interest  your  Getting  the  People depart­
ment  and  have  been  able  to  embody  a 
great  many valuable suggestions into our 
own  advertisements. 
In  my  opinion, 
your  efforts  to  instruct  us should be more 
appreciated.  Few  of  us  have  the  proper 
knowledge  of  the  science  of  advertising 
and  few  of  us  devote the  time we  should 
to  a  study  of  the  subject. 
I  know  from 
my  own experience  that  most  of us write 
a  synopsis  of  what  we  wish  to  say  and 
let  the  newspaper  man  do  the  rest.  Few 
of  us  have  the 
idea  of  how  the 
copy  we  write  in  our  offices  will  look  in 
print,  and  we  are  often  too  busy  to  do

least 

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“Sent you $1.00.  It cost me $3.75 to put  the  plan 
in motion  and  it’s  growing  like  the  little  boy's 
snowball.”  “A clever idea and  it  works  like  a 
charm.  We’re  open  for  more  schemes  if  you 
have them.”  " It will take me about a minute  to 
make up my mind to chance a dollar if  you  have 
any  other  advertising  plans  as  good  as  this 
‘Flour Trade Builder.’”

If you sell flour and are  dissatisfied with  trade 
or reasonably satisfied,  you’ll  be  highly  pleased 
with  the  results  from  this  clever, well-thought- 
out plan, and  think—it’s  only  risking  a  dollar. 
Chance  it—send  it  now.  Don’t  wait  for  your 
competitor to send his—too late then.

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It 

is  a  pleasant  article  to  write,  this 
story  of  young  English  life  which  be­
gan  June  6,  1869,  in  Nottingham;  but, 
with  so  many  inviting  byways,  now  to 
the  right,  now  to  the  left,  like  the  foot­
paths  skirting  the  hedges  that  brighten 
the  beautiful  English  isle,  the  task  will 
not  be  an  easy  one.  The main road goes 
straight  on  like  the  life  that  travels 
it, 
but  many  a  bit  of 
landscape  beauty 
leads  to  loitering,  many  a  wayside  in­
cident  which  is  worth relating  occasions 
delay  and  the  tale,  be  it  long  or  short 
in  telling,  will depend upon time,  rather 
than  material.

finished— this 

Early  coming  to  the  conclusion  that 
he  must  depend  upon  himself  for  what 
the  world  had  to  offer,  the 
lad  Jack 
made  the  most  of  what  the  schools could 
do  for  him  until  he  had  reached  the 
mature  age  of  10.  Then  after  covering, 
in  those  few  years  of  school  life,  what 
many  required  a  time  much  longer  for, 
with  the  course 
is  no 
story  of  cutting  crosslots— he  went  to 
farming,  at  the  munificent  sum  of $25 
a  year!  One  is  inclined  to  linger.a  lit­
tle  here;  not  for  the  purpose  of  indulg­
ing  in  the  old  refrain of  stating the hard 
and  homely  routine  of  duty  that  falls  to 
the 
fate  of  the  youngest  hand  on  the 
farm—for  in  England,  as elsewhere,  the 
hardest  work  often  comes  to  the  man 
with  the  smallest  pay— but  to  state  thus 
early  a  featute  that  has  had  much  to 
do  with  that  lad’s  after  life.  “ Blowing 
in”   was  not  then  a  phrase  heard  any­
where. 
It  certainly  was  not  known  in 
England  and  the  hearty,  healthy  Jack 
Watkins  did  not  know  until  years  after 
the  meaning  of  the  words  and  then  it 
was  too  late  to  be  harmed  by  them. 
When,  then,  the  first  year  of  farm  life 
was  over,  there  had  been  no  “ blowing 
in”   and  the  boy  of  11  stood  facing  the 
world  the  possessor  of  $25,  which  his 
own  childish  hands  had  earned  on  an 
English  farm.  What  a  big  sum  it  w as! 
it  then;  it  may  he 
He  did  not  know 
doubted 
if  he  fully  realizes  to-day  that 
his  hand  then  held  the  future  in  its  en­
tirety  when  his  fingers  closed  upon  the 
rewards  of  that  first  year’s  work.  No,  it 
was  not  blown  in ;  but  it  was  put  where 
it  would  do  its  share  in  building  up  the 
future.

If 

The  second  year  was  a  counterpart  of 
the  first.  The  boy  had  his  $25  at  the 
end  of  it  and  the  sum  was  put  with  the 
first  and  so  three  parties  were  heart  and 
soul  at  work  for  * * the  sweet  bye  and 
b ye!”   Did  the  boy  have  any  fun  in  the 
meantime? 
it  was  all  work  and  no 
play,  wasn’t Jack a  dull  boy?  and  hasn’t 
that 
idea  been  condemned  time  and 
again  in  the  columns  of  the Tradesman? 
In  the  training  of  one’s  children,  yes; 
but  when  Jack  trains  himself,  is  it  at all 
unlikely  that  he 
looked  carefully  for 
enough  of  the bright side and the amuse­
ment  side  to  keep  his  heart  young? 
and  when  that  fact  has  been  candidly 
stated,  may  the  writer  without  further 
interruption  go  on  to  say  that  two  years 
more— four  in  all— saw 
in­
dustrious, 
long-headed  boy  the  right­
ful  owner  of $100?

this  same 

After  four  years  of  this  apprentice­
ship  he  found  himself  large  enough  to 
work  on  a  milk  route— that 
is,  finan­
cially— and  for  a  year  was  so  engaged. 
Then  it  happened that a mail carrier was 
wanted;  and  again  it  happened  that the 
man  with  the 
to 
take  a  fancy  to  our Jack— it’s  a  great 
pity  his  photograph  was  not  procurable, 
that  the  reader  might  easily  understand

influence  happened 

so  back 

why— and 
in  Nottingham, 
trudging  his  daily  round,  we  find  him, 
with  the  $100  where  it  was  working 
for 
him  night  and  day.  Until  he  was  19 
the  mail  carrier  went  his  rounds,  and  it 
may  be  stated  here  that  there  was  not  a 
man,  woman  or  child  in  all  the  route 
that  was  not  glad  to  greet  the  carrier—  
with  a  letter  or  without  one. 
They 
liked  him  on  his  own  account,  and  for 
five  years  the  liking  grew.

Then  came  the  test  of  their  fondness 
for  him.  During  those  four  years  he 
had  kept  in  mind  the  milk  business 
and,  with  the  accumulated  wages,  he 
bought  the  route— this  boy  of  19—and 
went  into  business  for  himself.  His  old 
friends  clung  to  him  and  he  furnished 
them  with  milk,  instead  of  mail.  He 
prospered  and  for  ten  months  the  world 
went  well  with  him.  Then  came his first 
setback.  The 
fever  took  him  and  very 
close  to  the  grave  it  pushed  him,  so that 
for  awhile  it  seemed  that  only  a miracle 
could  save  him.  A  good  constitution 
and  a  wholesome  life  were  both 
in  his 
favor and  the  disease  was  finally  forced 
to  relax  its  hold.  He  found  on  recovery 
that  mismanagement  had  played'  havoc 
with  his  business  and,  having  received 
an  offer  for  it,  he  sold  out  and  came  to 
the  United  States.

After  a  sea  voyage  of  unusual  length 
he  landed  in  Baltimore  and  from  there 
he  went  directly  to  an  uncle  living  in 
Lansing,  Mich.  There  may  have  been 
a  little  time  given  to  recuperation,  but 
only  a  little.  A  young  man,  turning  21, 
does  not  come  to  this  country  to  waste 
any  time.  John  Watkins  did  not,  at 
any  rate,  and  with  some  good  papers 
in  his  pocket  which  some  good  friends 
in  England  wrote,  he  was  not  long  in 
finding  a  place  as  foreman  with  the 
Genesee  Fruit  Co.  Five  months  of  duty 
was  enough  in  that  capacity  and  then, 
taking  up  his  gripsack,  he  followed  the 
life  of  a  traveling  salesman  for  seven 
good  years.  Michigan,  Indiana  and 
Ohio  was  his  territory.  He  thrived  and, 
what  is  quite  as  well to  the  purpose,  his 
customers  thrived,  too.  They  increased 
in  number.  They  liked  him  and  looked 
for  his  coming  and,  like  the  patrons  of 
his  mail  route 
they 
clung  to  him.  When  the  seven  good 
years  were  over,  he  had  a  chance  to 
better  himself  and  he  united  his  for­
tunes  with  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.,  wholesale  grocers  in  Grand  Rap­
ids.  At  the  end  of  a  year  he  had  a  busi­
ness  interview  with  the  Musselman Gro­
cer  Co.,  which  resulted  in  a  transfer  of 
Mr.  Watkins’  services  to  a  position 
which  he holds to the evident satisfaction 
of  all.

in  Nottingham, 

In  August  Mr.  Watkins  made  up  his 
mind  to  go  home  to  England  to  look 
over  the  old  familiar places,  see how  the 
Paris  Exposition  would  compare  with 
the  Dream  City  at  Chicago  and  so  take 
a  much  desired  “ lay  off.”   Two  months 
were  passed  in  England  and  in  France, 
to  the  enjoyment  of  the  traveler.  He 
had  vowed  when  he  went  from  home 
that  he  would  never  return  until  he  had 
been  something  of  a  success  and— well, 
he  went  home,  had  a  good  visit  and  has 
come  back  to  his  friends,  satisfied  with 
his  trip  and  more  than  ever  convinced 
that  America  is  far  ahead  of  the  con­
tinent  he  has  left  behind  him.

Mr.  Watkins  has  his  home  at  811 
Prospect  street,  Lansing.  He 
is  a 
Knight  of  the  Grip,  a  Knight  of  the 
Loyal  Guards  and  an  Elk  and,  what 
is 
better  than  all  the  rest,  a  royal  good 
fellow !

I have no doubt you’ve noticed, too. 
This most peculiar thing—
The man up to his ears in debt 
Can’t hear the doorbell ring.

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lightened  way  of  doing  it,  she  can’t  be 
in  better  business  than  finding  out  what 
idea  of  modern  times  has 
it 
seemed  more 
inspiring  and  hopeful  or 
more  practical  than  that  of  the  mothers 
meeting  together  to  discuss  wiser  meth­
ods  of  developing  their  children physic­
ally,  morally  and  mentally,  and 
learn­
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teach  them  on  the  subject:  Learning 
from  physiologists  how  to maintain such 
hygienic  conditions  in  the  home,  they 
may  secure  to  their  children  the  vigor­
ous  bodies  that  must  underlie  all happi­
ness  and  success  in  this world;  learning 
from  the  specialist  what  may  be  done 
i  tellect 
to  cherish  the  feeble  flicker  of 
in  the  poor  unfortunate  who 
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feeble-minded ;  learning  from  the  mor­
alist  how  best  to  guard  the  little  feet 
and  set  them  in  the  safe  paths  of  life.

in  the 

In  all  good  truth  it  has  seemed  one  of 
longest  steps  yet  taken  towards  a 
the 
a 
common  sense  millennium,  when 
mother  would  recognize  her  responsi­
bility  for  the  way  her  children  turned 
out,  and  not  try  to  shove  the  blame  off 
on  Providence  when  they  went  wrong. 
All  should  have  gone  well  with  the 
mothers’  congress,  and  it  should  have 
been  a  power 
land,  if  only  it 
could  have  been  protected  from the fatal 
attentions of its indiscreet friends.  That, 
however,  seems  to  be  always  an  impos­
sibility.  One  of  them,  an  old  maid, 
who  has  never  had  to  keep  the  baby 
quiet  while  she  patched  her  husband's 
trousers,  addressed  the  mothers’  con­
vention  at  Buffalo  the  other  day.  She 
took  as  her  text  the 
iniquity  of  the 
empty  feeding  bottle,  which  she  de­
clared  to  be  the  root  of  all  evil  and  the 
parent  of  intemperance.  With  a  logic 
that  has  never  been  paralleled  outside 
of  a  comic  opera  she  argued  that  it  was 
the  bottle  with  nothing  in  it  that  shat­
tered  a  baby’s  faith 
in  human  nature 
and  was  at  the  bottom  of  that  dark  pes­
simism  so  characteristic  of  the  present 
day.  Thus  early  initiated  into  a  life  of 
deceit,  with  its  principles  undermined 
in  the  very  cradle,  and  a  morbid  crav­
ing 
for  something  to  drink  inculcated 
by  its  futile  pulling  on  a  rubber  mouth­
piece,  a  child  was  started  on  its  down­
ward  way,  and the  descent  into  a  drunk­
ard’s  grave  was  so  easy  the  wonder 
is 
that  any  bottle  baby  has  escaped.

If  this  were 

for  humor  it 
would  be  delicious.  Offered  seriously.

intended 

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Woman’s World

li  the  earnest  women 

F o o l  W om en   W b o   D iscred it  T h e ir  Sex.
in  the  world 
who  are  trying  faithfully,  bravely,  per­
sistently,  to  raise  the  status  of  their  sex 
in  public  estim ation;  who  are  trying  to 
prove  that  women  have  brains  as  well 
as  hearts;  that  they  have  sense  as  well 
as  sentiment;  that  they  have  rights  as 
well  as  privileges;  that  they  are  to  be 
respected  for  their  judgment-as  well  as 
loved  for their  graces,  could  put  up  one 
prayer  more  fervent  than  the  rest  it 
would  be,  “ Good  Lord,  preserve  us 
from  our  friends,  who are our enemies. ”  
It 
is  not  the  opposition  and  prejudice 
of  men  that  stand  in  the  way  of  wom­
an’s  progress.  It  is  the  fool  women  who 
discredit  their  sex  and  bring ridicule  on 
woman  and  all  her  works.

For  years  and  years  millions  of  wom­
en  all  over the country have been  banded 
together  to  promote  reforms  and  sup­
press  vice.  They represent  what  we  call 
the  best  people,  in  every  sense  of  the 
term.  They  comprise  a  high  degree  of 
intelligence  and  culture  and  have  a 
singleness  of  purpose  and  purity  of  aim 
that  no  one  has  ever  questioned.  They 
ought  to  be  a  power  for  good  that would 
be  simply 
irresistible,  and  that  these 
great  organizations  are  comparatively 
ineffectual 
is  to  be  attributed  alone  to 
the  members  within  their own ranks.  At 
some  point  of  the  game  they always suc­
ceed  in  making  the  movement  so absurd 
that  nobody  thereafter  can  be 
induced 
to  take  it  seriously.  Cervantes  laughed 
Spain’s  chivalry  away,  and  the  mudern 
female  Don  Quixote,  out  gunning  for 
windmills,  has  killed  many  a  good 
cause  that  would  have been impregnable 
under  all  the  assaults  of  its  foes.

Considerable  attention  was  given,  for 
instance,  during  the  recent  presidential 
election,  to  the  scheme  of  the  woman 
who  gravely  proposed  to  defeat Mr.  Mc­
Kinley  by  uniting  all  the  Democratic 
women 
in  an  endless  chain  of  prayer. 
It  was  the  most  potent  argument against 
woman’s  suffrage  that  has  been  ad­
vanced  in  the  last half century.  Imagine 
anyone  presenting  such  a  plan  of  cam­
paign  to  Mr.  Croker or  any  other  prac­
idea  is  so 
tical  politician!  The  very 
wild  it  can  only  suggest  one  thing: 
If 
that  is  all  that  women  know  about  pol­
itics,  nobody  -would  be  crazy  enough  to 
imperil  the  welfare  of  the  nation  by 
even 
letting  them  vote  for  a  town  dog 
catcher.  A   political  campaign  is  bad 
enough  and  hot  enough  as  it 
is  without 
it  the  ludicrous,  not  to  sav 
adding  to 
blasphemous,  spectacle  of  ihe  women 
of  the  country  engaged  in  rival  praying 
bees  for  their  respective  candidates.

Of  course,  one  may  well  say  such  a 
woman  is  far  enough  from  representing 
the intelligent,  conservative,  newspaper­
reading  women  who  are  just  as  well  in­
formed  on  political  matters  and  just  as 
capable  of  forming  an  opinion  as  a 
man,  but  she  has  gotten  in  her  deadly 
work.  She  has  succeeded 
in  making 
woman’s  view  of  politics  a  thing  for 
derision  and  scorn.  You  can  refute  an 
argument,  but  a  cartoon 
is  unanswer­
able.  You  can  only  gnash  your teeth 
over  the  thing  that  makes  you  a  laugh­
ing  stock  for the  whole  country and bear 
it  with  what  patience  you  can.
Another  thing  that  seems 

likely  to 
its 
be  assassinated 
is  the  mothers’  congress.  No 
friends 
one  will  deny  that  the  most 
important 
work  that  ever  engages  the  attention  of 
a  woman  is  the  proper  rearing  of  her 
children,  and  if  there  is  any  more  en­

in  the  house  of 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

as  a  reform  worthy  the  consideration  of 
women  who  had  enough  sense  to  keep 
out  of  the  fire,  it  is  heart-breaking. 
It 
covers  a  noble  movement  with  unde­
served  ridicule.  Nobody  can  take  a 
convention  seriously  that  wastes its time 
discussing  the  moral  effect  of  an  empty 
bottle  on  a  baby  or  resist  the  inevitable 
conclusion  that 
is  the  kind  of 
sterilized nonsense  they  offer  each  other 
far  better  had  stayed  at  home, 
they 
where  at 
sense 
wouldn’ t  have  attracted  public  attention 
or  reflected  on  other  women.

least  their 

lack  of 

if  that 

Equally  absurd 

is  the  crusade  that  a 
body  of  New  York  women  have  just  in­
augurated  against  the  wax  dummies  on 
which  gowns  are  displayed  in the shops. 
These  ladies,  who  are  too  good  for  any­
thing,  have  discovered  that  these  wax 
figures  are  highly 
immoral,  that  they 
are  calculated  to  bring  the  blush  of 
shame  to  the cheek of  the  young  person, 
and  that  they  have  a  most  demoralizing 
influence  on  the  hus­
and  pernicious 
bands  who  go  shopping  with 
their 
wives  and  the  men  clerks  in  the  stores. 
A  good  deal  might  be  said  about  the

m m m wm

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. 
It  is  not  so  much  what  you 
make  on  one  pound. 
It’s  what  you 
make in the year. 

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

National  Biscuit Co.

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I  ] hey all say ~ 

“Its as good as  Sapolio,”  when  they try to sell you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to aid  their —g  
new  article. 

:
W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

:
Is it not  the 

public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi- —3  
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very presence creates  a demand for other articles.

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Lambert's 
Salted  Peanuts

New  Process

if 

these 

prurient  prudery  of  a  woman  who  can 
be  shocked  by  a  store  dummy  or  whose 
mind  can  be  incited  to  unclean thoughts 
by  the  spectacle  of  a  wax  figure  with  a 
decollette  dress  on.  Somewhere  Kipling 
quotes  a  Hindoo  proverb  to  the  effect 
that  neither  you  nor  I  knew  there  was 
so  much  evil  in  the  world  as  the  overly- 
good  discovers.  Thank  heaven,  such 
people  are  always  in  a  hopeless  minor­
ity.  To  the  rest  of  us  a  wax  dummy  in 
is  a  wax  dummy  and 
a  store  window 
nothing  more,  and 
it  is  utterly  certain 
that 
inconsequent  reformers 
would  rake  the  city  over  they  could  not 
find  one  single  person  who  would  ad­
mit  to  having  been  demoralized  by  the 
corrupting  association  of  a  wax  figure.
Leaving  this  view  of  the  subject  en­
tirely  out  of  the  question,  however, 
think  of  the  absurdity  of  a  band  of 
women  devoting  their  energies and their 
influence  to  suppressing  wax  dummies 
in  stores,  when  they  stand  face  to  face 
with  all  the  corruption  and  vice  of  a 
great  city.  All  about  them  are  young 
girls  standing  on  the  very  brink  of 
temptation  and  needing  a 
steadying 
hand  and  a  word  of  hope  and  cheer. 
There  are  real  reforms  to  be  wrought, 
real  evils  to  be  suppressed,  real  wrongs 
to  be  righted  at  their  very  doors,  and 
they  are  concerning  themselves  with  the 
immoral  influence  of  wax  dumm ies! 
It 
is  a  specialized  branch  of 
insanity 
which  women  monopolize,  and  nobody 
need  wonder  that  women’s  societies  are 
regarded  by  the  world  as  a  choice  piece 
of  humor  that  contributes  to  the  gayety 
of  the  nations.  It  is  our  own  fault.  No­
body  else  could  make  us  so  ridiculous 
as  we  make  ourselves.

it 

If  this 

is  true 

in  public  affairs  in 
is 
which  women  seek  to  engage, 
equally  true 
in  the  private  affairs  of 
life.  Every  woman  who  goes  into  any 
business  or  profession  has  to  live  down 
the 
follies  of  some  goose  of  a  woman 
who  preceded  her— some  woman  who 
could  never  be  convinced  that  business 
wasn’t  run  on  the  same  principle  as  a 
5  o’clock  tea,  when  you  could  drop  in 
when  you 
felt  like  it  and  go  when  you 
pleased ;  who  was  always  asking  favors 
on  account  of  her  sex ;  who  wept  when 
her  work  was  criticised  and  thought  her 
employer  a  brute  because  he  didn’t  pay 
her  compliments.  She  was  all  that  was 
inefficient  and  unreliable  and  uncom­
fortable  and  she  lost  her  place,  as  she 
deserved,  but  the  evil  didn't  stop  there. 
She  had  depreciated  the  value  of  every 
other  woman’s  work.

“ Hire  another  woman  employe?”   her 
employer 
is  sure  to  say;  “ not  on  your 
life.  I  have  had  one  and  she  nearly  ran 
me  crazy  with  her  mistakes.”  
The 
reason  that  women  have  to  work  for less 
wages  than  men  is  not  because  men  are 
so  anxious  to  grind  them  down. 
It  is 
because  th-re  is  so  much  poor  woman’s 
work  that  it  has  cheapened  all  women’s 
work.  We  have  got  to  establish  a good, 
honest,  reliable  brand  of  women’s  labor 
before  we  shall  ever  be  able  to  get  the 
top  price  in  the  market  for  it,  and don’t 
forget  that,  my  sisters.

What  are  we  to  do  toward  remedying 
the  evil  wrought  by  the  sentimental 
crank 
in  our  clubs  and  the  unreliable 
goose  in  our  offices  and stores?  Sit down 
on  her  hard  in  the  clubs.  Squelch  her 
plans  that  commit  us  to  Don  Quixote 
issues. 
Try  to  educate  the  working 
woman  into  seeing that  she  is the enemy 
of  her  sex  when  she  does  poor  work  and 
that  she  is  hurting  every  woman  who  is 
fighting  her  battle  for  daily  bread.  It  is 
time  to  realize  that  we  must  take  some 
against  our
precautionary  measure 

friends,  who  are  our  enemies.  They 
have  made  us  ridiculous  in  the  eyes  of 
the  world  long  enough.

Dorothy  Dix.

O bjected  to  an  E xcess  o f  D evotion.

One  of  the  common  complaints among 
married  women  is  that  after  marriage  a 
sudden  frost  seems  to  fall  upon  their 
husband’s  lovemaking. 
Indeed,  the  at­
titude  of  a  man  on  this  subject  may  be 
said  to  be  fairly  representative  of  the 
before  and  after  taking  remedies.  He 
discontinues  the  delicate  compliments 
with  which  he  jollied  along  his  sweet­
heart  in  the  days  of  courtship.  He  be­
stows  upon  her  cheek  the  perfunctory 
peck  of  duty  instead  of  the  warm  kiss 
of  devotion.  He  expects  her  to  take  his 
affection  on*  trust 
instead  of  assuring 
her  of  it  a thousand  times  an  evening as 
has  been  his  wont.

Women  who  have  this  grievance  and 
who  hold  to  the  cherished  belief  that 
you  can’t  have  too  much  of  as  good  a 
thing  as  love  will  be  interested in learn­
ing  that  a wife  in  Philadelphia has been 
compelled  to  have  her  husband  ar­
raigned  before  the  court  for  loving  her 
too  well.  The  woman,  it  appears,  goes 
out 
to  service  as  a  cook,  and  her  hus­
band  was  so  devoted  to  his  dear  little 
wife  for  supporting  him  so  comfortably 
that  he  insisted  on  following  her  to  her 
place  of  work  and  there  overwhelming 
her  with  demonstrations  of his affection, 
which  so  interfered  with  her  duties  that 
she  had  to  have  him arrested  and  bound 
over  not  to  keep  the  peace,  but  to  leave 
her  in  peace.

This 

is  coming  to 

in  the  way  of  affection. 

is  the  first  case  on  record  in 
which  a  woman  ever  objected  to  an  ex­
cess  of  devotion,  and  it  is  a  sad  com­
mentary  on  the  practical  way  in  which 
the  sex 
look  upon  the 
sentimental  affairs  of  life.  It  also  seems 
to 
indicate  that  we  are  beginning  to 
take  the  quality  of  love  into  considera­
tion,  in  making  up  our  estimation  of 
its  value,  as  well  as  the quantity.  Here­
tofore,  with  a  woman,  any  old  thing 
went 
She 
looked  for  no  flaws  in  what  was  offered 
her,  and  any  kind  of  a  kiss  was  legal 
tender 
in  the  treasury  of  her  heart. 
Nothing  has  been  more  pathetic  than 
the  very  familiar  spectacle  of  a  mother 
clinging  tenaciously  to  the  belief  that 
her  son  loved  her,  although he  disgraced 
and  deserted  her,  or  of  the  wife  who 
was  expected  to  console  herself  for the 
blows  a  drunken  brute  of  a  husband 
gave  her  with  his  maudlin  protestations 
of  affection  when  he  was  sobering  up 
and  felt  repentant  and  weepy.

it 

his 

The  man  who  expects  a  woman  to  be­
lieve  he  loves  her,  or  to  care  whether 
he  does  or  not  when  he  is  doing  things 
that  wring  her  heart,  has  his  nerve with 
him,  and 
is  a  hopeful  sign  when  a 
wife  has  such  a  husband  arrested  for 
bothering  her  with 
vows  and 
caresses.  Love  without  works  to  back 
it  up  is  as  meaningless.as  a  last  year’s 
valentine. 
It is  the  love  that  stands  be­
tween  a  woman  and  the  hardships  of 
life,that makes  the  home  nest  warm  and 
soft  for  her,  that  bears  uncomplaining­
ly  the  daily  drudgery  for  her  dear  sake, 
that 
is  worth  having,  and  some  day 
women  will  accept  this  devotion  at  its 
true  value,  no  matter  whether  it  ever 
puts  itself  in  words  or  not.

Cora  Stowell.

Cause  U nknow n.

fired  with  a  new  ambition.

Soap  Clerk—1  heard  “ 18”   say  he  was 
Ribbon  Clerk— He  was  fired,  but  I 
don’t  know  anything  about  the  new  am­
bition.

T h e  H ou sew ife’s  P a rt.

Oh. men. and oh, brothers, and all of you others, 
I beg of you pause and  listen a bit.
And I ’ll tell, without alteriug any of it.

The tale  of  the  housewife's part.

Mixing and fixing.
Brewing and stewing,
Ba’-tiug and tasting.
Lifting and sitting,
Stoning and honing,
Toasting and roasting,
Kneading and seeding,
Straining and draining,
Poking and soaking,
Choosing and using,
Reasoning and seasoning.
Paring and sharing—

This is the housewife’s part.

Filling and spilling,
Pouuuing and sounding.
Creaming and steaming.
Skimming and trimming.
Mopping and chopping,
Coring and pouring.
Shelling and smelling.
Grinding and  minding,
Firing and  tiring.
Carving and serving—

This is the housewife’s part.

Oiling and boiling and broiling.
Buying and trying and frying,
Burning and  turning and churning,
Pricing and icing and slicing.
Hashing and mashing and splashing. 
Scanning and planning and canning. 
Greasing and  squeezing ami freezing—
This is the housewife’s part.

Aching and baking and making and shaking, 
Beating and heating and seating and treating. 
Oh, men, and oh, brother- , and all of you others— 
Do you envy the housewife’s part?

Susie  M.  Best.

M isunderstood  H is  M eaning.

“ Can’t  we  squeeze  in  here?”   asked 
the  young  man  with  the  red  necktie,  as 
he  and  his  young  lady  got  into  the well- 
filled  omnibus.

“ Well,  I  reckon  you  kin,  if  you  want 
to,  stranger,”   replied  the  man  from 
the  country,  “ but  I’m  thinkin’  it  would 
look  a  trifle  better  if  you  reserved  that 
mark  of  affection  till  you  reached  the 
girl’s  home.”

The  fidgety  woman  never  has  nerovus 
it  to  other 

prostration,  but  she  gives 
people.

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

TUg Lambert 
Nut f-ood Go.,

Battle Greek, MiGti.

W hy  deceive  your  customers  with  poisonous 
trash  “Package  Coffee”  when  you  can  buy  our

“GOODEAL” 
RIO  COFFEE

This  week  at  u 1/^  cents  per  pound  delivered? 
Goodeal  is  a  large  bean  fancy  looking  coffee 
free  from  stones  or  broken  stuff.  Packed  in 
barrels,  125 lbs.  net.
Order a barrel  as a sample  and  if it is  not  right 
return it.
This price is good for one week  only.

REID,  HENDERSON  *   CO., 

COFFEE  ROASTERS

CHICACO,  U. S. A.

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The New York Market

a  Sp ecial  F eatu res  o f th e  G ro cery and  P ro d ­

Special Correspondence.

u ce  Trades.

New  York,  Nov.  24— In  certain  lines 
is  considerable  activity  among 
there 
johbers.  Holiday  trade  is  fair  and  this 
calls  for  many  things  on  the  grocer’s 
list.  Fancy  fruits  and  nice  dried  fruits 
are  moving  well  at  fair  prices.

large  and 

Coffee  has  had  rather  a  poor week and 
at  the  close  the  situation  favors the buy­
ers.  Jobbers  report  a  “ dragging  feel­
in g”   and  seem  to  be  at  a  loss  to  know 
just  what  to  do.  Supplies  are  seemingly 
ample  and  the  daily  receipts  at  primary 
points  continue  large.  Add  to  this  the 
fact  that  the  coming  crop  promises  to 
be 
that 
there  is  some  weakness.  At  the  close 
R io  No.  7 
is  hardly  steady  at  7>£c. 
The  amount  of  Brazil  coffee  in store and 
afloat  amounts  to  1,312,439 bags,  against 
*» *33.937  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
year.  Mild  sorts  of  coffee  are  very 
quiet  and  both  jobbers  and roasters state 
that  matters  seem  to  be  almost  at  a 
complete  standstill.  Good  Cucuta 
is 
nominally 

it  is  no  wonder 

Hoc.

There  is  hardly  an  iota  of  change 

in 
teas  from  previous  reports.  The  volume 
of  business  is  not 
large,  although  pos­
sibly  of  an  average  character.  What 
orders  are  received  are  for  small  lots 
and,  while  every 
little  helps,  dealers 
certainly  wish  for  something  better after 
Jan.  1.  Supplies  seem  sufficient.

The  sugar  refiners  have  been trying  to 
fill  large  inland  orders  by  water  transit 
before  navigation  closed  and  for this 
reason  have  announced  that  they  are 
somewhat  behind 
in  filling  other con­
tracts.  The  demand  is  fair  and  there 
seems  to  be  a general  feeling that quota­
tions  will  be  no  lower.  Raws  are  quiet 
and  unchanged.

Nobody 

is  buying  rice  for  specula­
is  of  an  average 
tion.  The  demand 
character  and  neither  buyer  nor  seller 
seems  to  care  whether  anything  “ hap­
pens”   or  not.  Quotations  are  not  weak 
and  purchasers  seek  no  concessions, 
seeming  to  realize  that  if  they  buy  they 
must  pay  the  price named.  No changes 
have  taken  place 
in  price.  Prime  to 
choice  Southern,  4f£@5^c.

There 

prices 

is  a  fair  demand  for  pepper 
and 
firmly  maintained. 
Cloves,  also,  are  well  held,  but  with 
other  lines  the  market  shows  only  the 
usual  volume  of  trading  and  quotations 
are  practically  unchanged.

are 

The  molasses  market  is steady.  While 
orders  are  not  large  in  many 
instance, 
they  come  with  satisfactory  frequency 
and  dealers  are  hopeful  that  the  year 
will  end  with  a  better  business  than 
in 
1899.  Quotations,  while  not  higher 
than a  week  ago,are more firmly  adhered 
to  and  sellers  are  very  determined  in 
their  opinions.  Good  to  prime  centrif­
ugal,  i7@26c.  Supplies  of  some  of  the 
better grades  are  not  overabundant  and 
it  is  likely  we  shall  have  a  firm  market 
for the  remainder  of  the  year.  Syrups 
are  without  change,  either in demand  or 
prices.

goods 

Really, 

canned 

Last  week  we  noted  as  the  dullest  yet 
in  the  canned  goods  market.  That  held 
good  until  this  week  had  been  heard 
from. 
are 
“ tired.”   While  Baltimore  reports  pro­
fess  to  have  a  cheerful  ring  about  them, 
there  is  doubt  and  almost dismay among 
dealers  here.  Still,  they  are  not  without 
hope. 
is  early  yet  and  there  is  an 
ample  supply  of  a  good  many  sorts  of 
fresh  eatables,  and  the  time  of  the  tin 
can  will  come  when  snow  is  deep  and 
the  housewife  can't  get  out  doors.  Corn 
is  now  weaker,  possibly,  but  tomatoes 
certainly  are,  and  so  are  peas. 
In  fact, 
if  good  lots  can  be  disposed  of  conces­
sions  will  be  made  on  almost  anything.
Lemons  have  met  with  a  cool  recep­
tion  and  prices  have  shrunken  to  the

It 

very  smallest  proportions.  Oranges  are 
showing  up  well  and  arrivals  from  Flor­
in  evidence. 
ida  are  becoming  more 
Quotations  are 
fairly  well  sustained. 
Bananas  are  meeting  with  better  de­
mand  and  prices  have  shown  some  ad­
vance.  Domestic  fruit,  such  as  apples, 
pears  and  quinces, 
fairly 
well,  and  the  better  grades  fetch  good 
rates.

is  selling 

There  is  a  holiday  appearance  to  the 
dried  fruit  market  and  almost  all  lines 
are  doing  well.  Quotations,  while  per­
haps  not  appreciably  higher,  are  cer­
tainly  firmer  and  the  outlook is for some 
advance  on  several  articles. 
Raisins 
and  prunes,  especially,  are  selling  free­
ly  and  currants  also  maintain  a  good 
record.  Nuts  are  selling  pretty  well  and 
there  is  a  steady  improvement.  Quota­
tions  are  well  sustained,  but  no  particu­
lar  change  has  taken  place.

R elatio n   o f F eed  to  th e  F la v o r  o f  E ggs.
Housewives  who  use  many  eggs,  and 
all  who  habitually  eat  them  boiled, 
know  that  there  is  much  difference 
in 
the  flavor of  even  those  which  are  un­
deniably  fresh.  There  is  a  very  general 
belief  that  the  flavor  is influenced by the 
feed  which  the  hens  receive  and  that 
materials  possessing  strong’ flavors,  like 
onions,  turnips,  etc.,  impart  an 
injuri­
ous  flavor  to  the  eggs.  The  truth  of  this 
belief  was  shown  by  recent  experiments 
at  the  North  Carolina  Experiment  Sta­
tion.

Chopped  wild  onion  tops  and  bulbs 
were  fed  to  hens  and  the  length  of  time 
before  there  was  a  change  in  the  flavor 
of  the  eggs  was  noted,  as  well  as  the 
length  of  time  which  must  elapse  after 
onion 
feeding  was  discontinued  before 
the  objectionable  flavor  would  disap­
pear.  At  the  beginning  of  the  trial  a 
half  ounce  of  chopped  onion  tops  per 
head  daily  was  fed  to  twelve  hens  of 
different  breeds.  Repeated  tests  did 
not  show  any  onion  flavor  in  the  eggs 
until  the  fifteenth  day,  when  it  was  dis­
tinctly  noticeable.  The  amount  of  onion 
fed  was  doubled  for  four  days  and  then 
discontinued.  The  eggs  laid  while  the 
larger  amount  of  onion  was  fed  were  so 
strongly  flavored  that  they  could  not  be 
used.  After  discontinuing  the 
feeding 
of  onions  the  flavor  became  less  notice­
able  and 
in  a  week  the  eggs  were  of 
normal  flavor.  The  main  point  brought 
out  by  the  tests  was  that  flavor  can  be 
fed  into  eggs.  Therefore  it  appears  that 
to  insure  finely  flavored  eggs  it  is  nec­
essary  to  restrict  runs  so  that  no  consid­
erable  amount  of  food  which  will  pro­
duce  badly  flavored  eggs  can  be  ob­
tained.

lot 

Some  years  ago  the  New  York Cornell 
Station,  in  studying  the  effect  of  nitro­
genous  vs.  carbonaceous  food  for  poul­
try,  reported  observations  on  the  effect 
of  the  different  rations  on  the  flavor  of 
eggs.  One 
lot  of  fowls  was  fed  a  m ix­
ture  of  wheat  shorts,  cottonseed  meal, 
and  skim  m ilk;  another 
cracked 
corn  and  com  dough.  The former  ration 
contained  much  more  nitrogen  than  the 
latter.  The  hens  fed  corn  laid  fewer 
eggs  than  those  fed  the  nitrogenous  ra­
tion,  but  the  eggs  were 
larger.  The 
eggs  produced  by  the  nitrogenous ration 
were  of  a  disagreeable  flavor and  smell, 
had  a  small  yolk,  and  did  not  keep 
well.  The  flesh  of  the  poultry  fed  this 
ration,  however,  was  darker,  more  suc­
culent  and  tender  than  that  of  the  fowls 
fed  the  carbonaceous  ration.

These  experiments  also  show  that  the 
food  has  a  marked  effect  on  the  flavor 
of  eggs.  The  general  experience  of 
poultry  raisers 
is  that  nitrogenous  ra­
tions  are  more  profitable  to  feed  since 
they  produce  a  larger  number  of  eggs. 
In  view  of  the  fact  that  such  a  ration,  if 
too  rich  in  nitrogen,  may  produce  eggs 
of  unpleasant  flavor,  it  would  seem  ad­
visable  to  note  the  effect  of  any  ration 
fed  upon  flavor,  and  modify  it  if  the 
eggs  are 
found  to  be  inferior  in  this 
respect. 

C.  F.  Langworthy.

America  supplied  England  with  23 
in  that 

per  cent,  of  the  beef  consumed 
country  last  year.

P ro gressiv e O rth o g rap h y.

“ Mamma,”   said  the  small  girl  who 
was  just  learning  to  spell,  “ how  do  you 
spell  hell?”

“ W hy,”   said  the  mother,  “ hell  is  a 
naughty  word.  You  should  not  use  it. 
Why  do  you  want  to  spell  it?”

“ O h,”   was  the  reply,  “ I  wanted  to 
spell  Helen  and  I  thought  I  would  learn 
to  spell  hell  first. ”

F u lly   Id en tified .

Pearl— Gossip  says  they  have  a  skele­

ton  in  their  closet.

Ruby—Yes,  it  is  the  cat  they 

forgot 
all  about  when  they  went  away  for  the 
summer.

F. CUTLER & SONS,  Ionia, Mich.

W HOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

BUTTER,   EGGS  AND  POULTRY,  

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

Brooklyn, 225  Market avenue,

ESTABLISHED  1886.

Branch  Houses.

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Poultry

H ow   to  D ress  P o u ltry   F o r  th e  New  Y o rk 

M arket.

There  are  two  methods  of  dressing — 
dry  picking  and 
scalding.  Usually 
chickens,  fowls  and  turkeys  will  com­
mand  the  highest  prices  when  dry 
picked.  Should,  however,  the  poultry 
be 
lean  and  thin,  we  advise  scalding 
and  plumping.  Ducks  and  geese  should 
always  be  scalded.

It  is  very  important  in  dressing  poul­
it  carry  well,  that  all  the 
from  the 

try,  to  have 
blood  possible  be  removed 
body.

The  manner  of  killing  affects  the  flow 
of  the  blood  materially.  This  should 
be  done  by  cutting  through  the  roof  of 
the  mouth  to  the  brain  with  a  sharp- 
pointed  knife,  care  being  taken  not  to 
stick  too  deeply  so.  as  to  cause  instant 
death,  for  then  the  blood  would  not  flow 
freely,  and  the  feathers  would  set  so  as 
to  be-difficult  to  remove.  Proper  killing 
requires  practice  and  judgment.

Free  bleeding  is  so  important that  too 
in  acquir­

much  care  can  not  be  taken 
ing  the  proper  method  of  killing.

Dry  Picking— Immediately  after  kill 
ing  remove  the 
feathers  carefully  and 
cleanly,  being  particular  not  to  tear  the 
flesh. 
If  the  weather  is  cold  enough  to 
ship  dry,  the  fowl  should  be  hung  up, 
head  down,  in  a  cold  place  (where  it 
will  not  freeze)  and  left  until thoroughly 
cold,  and  until  the  animal  heat 
is  en­
tirely  out  of  the  body.  When preparing 
ice-packed— or  during  warm 
to  ship 
in  water 
weather— it  should  be  placed 
of  natural  temperature  and 
left  there 
for  about  twenty  minutes,  then  placed 
in  ice  water,  where  it should  remain  for 
about  ten  hours,  when  it  will  he  ready 
to  pack.

Scalding— The  water 

for  scalding 
should  be  just  at  the  boiling  point,  but 
not  actually  boiling.  Immerse the  birds, 
holding  by  the  head  and  legs  and 
lift­
ing  up  and  down  three  or  four  times. 
Immediately  after  scalding  chickens, 
fowls  and  turkeys  remove  the  feathers— 
pin  feathers  and  all— cleanly  and  with­
out  breaking  the  skin.  After  scalding 
ducks  and  geese,  wrap  them  up  in  a 
cloth  about  two  minutes;  then  the  down 
will  come  off  with  the  feathers.

All 

should 

poultry 

scalded 

be 
“ plumped”   after  picking  by  dipping 
for  about  two  seconds  in  very  hot  water 
— just  under  the boiling  point— and then 
put  in  cool  water  of  natural  tempera- 
ure  for  fifteen  to  twenty  seconds.  When 
it 
is  to  be  packed  dry— or  during  cold 
weather— it  should  be  taken  from  the 
cold  water  and  hung  up  by  the  feet  un­
til  thoroughly  cold  and  dry.  But  when 
intended  to  pack 
ice— or  during 
warm  weather— it  should  be  taken  from 
the  cool  bath  and  placed  in  another  of 
colder  water  (not  ice  water)  there  to  re­
main  for  about  one  hour,  after  which  it 
should  be  transferred  to  a  tank  of  ice 
water  and  left  for  about  ten hours,  when 
it  will  be  ready  to  pack.  Guard  against 
overscalding  or  underscalding  by  hav­
ing  water  at  proper  temperature.

in 

ice 

When  packing 

for  shipment  in  ice, 
use  sugar  barrels.  They  should  be  thor­
oughly  washed  with  hot  water  to  re­
move  all  traces  of  the  sugar.  Place  a 
layer  of  cracked 
in  the  bottom  of 
the  barrel,  and  alternate  layers  of  poul­
try  and  ice  until  the  package  is  nearly 
full.  Over  the  top  layer  of  poultry  place 
a  layer of  cracked  ice,  then  a  piece  of 
burlap,  and  cover 
layer  of 
cracked  ic e ;  on  top  of  that  put  a  large 
ice,  over  which  place  a
chunk  of  solid 

it  with  a 

burlap  cover secured under  the top hoop. 
Pack  poultry  breast  down,  with 
legs 
out  straight  toward  the  center  of  the 
barrel.

When  packing  for  dry  shipment,  use 
strong,  neat  packages  of  uniform  size— 
barrels  preferably  for  chickens,  fowls, 
ducks  and  geese,  and  boxes  for  turkeys. 
If  the  poultry  is  scalded,  pack  in  clean, 
diy  rye  or  wheat  straw,  placing  a  layer 
of  straw  in  the  bottom,  and  then  alter­
nating  layers  ol  poultry and straw.  Stow 
in  snugly  backs  up and  legs out straight, 
filling  the  package  so  full  that  the  con­
tents  can  not  shift.

Dry  picked  poultry  should  not  be 
packed 
in  straw,  but  place  between 
each  layer  a  sheet  of  parchment  paper, 
using  same  for  bottom,  top  and  sides  of 
the  package.

free 

An  ordinance 

in  this  city  prohibits 
the  sale  of  poultry,  the  crops  of  which 
are  not 
food,  and  which 
makes  it  imperative  that  poultry  should 
be  kept  from  food  long  enough  before 
killing  to  insure  the  crops  being  entire­
ly  empty.

from 

All  poultry 

intended  for  this  market 

should  be  undrawn.

Do  not  remove  the  head  and feet.— A. 

Paul,  Jr.,  in  Egg  Reporter.

Cows  A g ain st  Hens.

A  New  York  State  poultryman  main­
tains  that  2,000  hens  will  beat  twenty 
cows  in  profirs  by  over $1,300  per  year. 
To  prove  his  estimates  not  extravagant, 
he  gives  his  figures  from  March  1  to 
November  1,  1893,  a  period  of  eight 
months,  during  which  he  had  about 
1,200  hens  most  of  the  time,  and  they 
laid  129,418  eggs,  or  not  much  over  100 
each,  and  he  sold  to  the  amount  of 
$1,984  from  them,besides  hatching  over
1.000  chickens.  This  is better than $1.50 
worth  of  eggs  per  hen  in  eight  months.
His  method  of  feeding  is  an  unusual 
one,  as  during  those  eight  months  they 
had  corn  constantly  by  them  in  boxes, 
which  were  filled  automatically  from  a 
bin  holding  a  month’s  supply.  Mash, 
rich  in  what  the  corn 
lacked,  nitrogen 
and  organic  mineral  matter,  was  also 
kept 
in  troughs  all  the  time,  taking 
care  not  to  mix  enough  at  any  time  to 
have  it  get  sour.  The  hens  made  a  bal­
anced  ration  to  suit  themselves.  He 
was  by  this  plan  able  to  mix  the  food 
and  distribute 
in  the  troughs  for  over
2.000  fowls,  including  the  young  stock, 
in  two  hours’  work 
in  a  day,  and  he 
thinks 
if  he  had  them  all  in  one  long 
building,  with  a  hallway  along  the  back 
side,  and  a  car  in  which  to  carry  food, 
eggs,  etc.,  he  could  care  for  4,000  hens 
without  help.— Farm  Journal.

W h erein   Cnnadians  E x cel  A m erican s. 

From the Kennebec Journal.

“ The  Canadians  are  far ahead  of  us 
in  the  matter  of  packing 
fruit  for  ex­
port, ”   says  a  business  man,  “ and  con­
sequently  they  have  less  trouble  in  dis­
posing  of their  fruit.  Look at  our  pres­
ent  method  of  shipping  apples.  An  old 
flour  barrel,  dingy  and  dirty  on  the  out­
side  and  white  with  flour  on  the  inside, 
is  the  usual  way  our  apples  are  packed 
for  the 
foreign  market.  As  the  fruit 
shrinks  they  become  loose  in  the  barrel, 
and  the  rolling  of  the  ship  or  jarring  of 
the  cars  causes  them  to  be  bruised  and 
disfigured.  By  the  time  they  reach  the 
buyer  they  are  badly  damaged,  or  at 
least  present  an  unsightly appearance  to 
the  eye.  We  can  never  build  up  a 
European 
is 
remedied.

this  matter 

trade  until 

C ould n ’t  H elp   H erself.

Clara— How  did  you  come  to  accept 

Mr.  Sapbead?

Dora— I  had  to.  He  proposed  to  me 
in  a  canoe,  and  he  got  so  agitated I was 
afraid  we’d  upset.

We are  in the  market for all  grades,  good  or poor, 
car lots  or less.  Send  one or two  pound  sample.

A L F R E D   J.  BROWN  S E E D

B E A N   G R O W E R S  A N D   D E A L E R S

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

BEANS— BEANS

W AN 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.

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Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  ami  Potatoes

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Commission  Merchants.

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Fruits of  all  kinds in  season.

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Express Companies, Detroit, or the trade generally.

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Carl’s  nose,  which  began  to  assume  the 
hue  of  a  cherry.  When  the  right  tem­
perature  had  been  reached  to  satisfy 
that  old  sinner,  they  stopped  at  a  win­
dow  where  woolens  were  displayed  and 
the  Old  Man,  looking  at  them a moment 
and  then  up  at  the  sign,  said,  “ Why, 
here’s  Cutham’s.  Let’s  go  in .”

There  was  cheerful  exchange  of greet­
ings  and  then Cutham,  going to  a  case, 
said,  as  he  took  out  an  overcoat,  “ I 
finished  it,  you  see. 
Is  this  the  young 
fellow  it  is  intended  for?”

“ You  can  tell  better,  or  he  can,  after 
lively, 
there 

he’s  tried  it  on.  Get  into  that 
young 
fellow,  and  don’t  stand 
staring  me  out  of  countenance.”

The  boy  obeyed,  wondering  as  he  did 
It  fitted  him  to  a  T   and  was  as 
so. 
handsome  a  garment  as  even  a  fellow 
finicky  about  his  clothes  could  ask  for. 
There  was  a  quivering  of  the  lips  and 
the  eyes  were  suspiciously  moist,  but 
the  Old  Man  was  equal  to  all  that  and, 
stepping  between  the  tailor  and the boy, 
said  in  an  undertone,  “ Carl,  you  say  a 
word  and  I ’ ll  tell  him  about  your  moth­
er’s  cloak,  confound  you!”

“ Well,  that’s  all  right.  Come  on, 
we've  no  time  to  waste,”   and  out  they 
went.

Old  Man  Means’  Thanksgiving  was 
carried  out  to  a  dot— the  college  inspec- 
on,  the  ride,the  game  the  hotel  din­
ner,  the  play,  the  one o’clock train— and 
the  nearer  home  he  drew  the  happier  he 
was,  thinking  of  the  dinner  so  near  and 
that  other  one  ten  years  off.  A h !  Tom, 
Tom !  There  was  a  wail  even  in  his 
thought;  but he  strangled  it  and,  taking 
the  arm  of  his  clerk  as  they  left  the 
station,  said,  “ Come,  Carl,  you  are  go­
ing  home  with  me  to-night.  The  best 
it  all  is  still  to  com e;”   and  as 
part  of 
it  a  well-muffled  figure  ap­
he  said 
proached  him  and  a  voice 
from  the 
muffler  exclaimed, 
you, 
L e ig h !”

“ How  are 

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T h e   A l a b a s t i n e   C o m ­
p a n y ,  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:

Plasticon

The  long  established  wall 
plaster 
formerly  manufac­
tured and  marketed  by  the 
American  Mortar Company. 
(Sold with or without  sand.)

N.  P.  Brand of Stucco

The  brand  specified  after 
competitive  tests  and  used 
by the Commissioners for all 
the W orld’s  Fair statuary.

Bug  Finish

The  effective  Potato  Bug 
Exterminator.

Land  Plaster

Finely ground and  of  supe­
rior quality.

For lowest prices address 

Alabastine  Company,
Plaster Sales Department 

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Clerks’  Corner.

W h y   th e  B o y   H ad  G ood  Cause  to   be 

W ritten for the Tradesman.

T h a n k fu l.

if 

undergraduates 

The  more  Old  Man  Means  thought  of 
the  football  game at  Meadville  the  more 
it  seemed  to  him  advisable  to  go.  He 
began  to  feel  a  trifle  “ shy,”   as  Carl 
would  put  it,  about  a  man  of  his  age—  
he  had  hustled  along  into  middle  life 
and  so  began  to  feel  as  if  his  football 
days  were 
over— driving  across  the 
country  just  to  see  a  lot  of  chrysan­
themum-headed 
fight 
over  a  pigskin.  He  began  to  have  the 
feeling  supposed  to  be  confined 
to  the 
man  who  goes  to  the  circus  for  the  sake 
of  giving  “ the  kids”   a  good  time. 
It 
was  rather  rough,  he  thought,  that  Carl 
had  got  so  far  along  in  his  teens  with­
that  much  of  the  sporting 
out  seeing 
world  and  he  began  to  wonder 
it 
wouldn't  be  a  good  plan,  after  all,  for 
him  to  show  his  growing  liking  for  the 
boy  in  just  that  way.  Hustleton  senior 
was  of  no  earthly  use,  the  lad’s  mother 
was  straining  every  nerve  to  keep  her 
accounts  straight  and,  while  meeting 
with  cheering  success,  had not  reached 
that  point  where  any  encouragement 
could  be  given  financially  to  the  grid­
iron  form  of  dissipation.  That,  and  the 
admission  to  himself  that  he  did  want 
to  see  the  game  just  because  he  wanted 
to,  that  he  did  not  intend  to  grow  old 
before  his  time,  that  thirty-five,  and 
even 
forty,  did  not,  necessarily,  forbid 
a  man’s  wearing  a  red  necktie  and light 
tan  gloves  and  a  tall  hat,convinced  him 
that  Carl  was  more  than  three-quarters 
right  about  Springborough  monotony 
and  that  driving  across  the  country  to 
see  the game  wasn't  so bad  an  idea after 
all.

With  the  going  settled,  a  thousand 
projects  promptly  centered  about 
it. 
The  drive  was  a  long  one— too long any­
way  to  be  enjoyable— and,  as  long  as 
they  were  going,  they might  just  as  well 
it  all  it  held.  They’d  take 
get  out  of 
the  early  train  and 
that  would  give 
them  a  chance  to  look  the  town  over. 
They  would  visit  the  college— who knew 
what  ideas  it  might  waken  in  the  boy’s 
heart?— and  if  the  day  was  fine  it  would 
not  be  much  of  a  job  to  take  a  ride 
in ­
to  the  outlying  country.  When  the 
morning  paper  came  he  looked  for  the 
amusement  column  and  there  was  the 
announcement  that  the  “ Merchant  of 
Venice”   by a  good  company  would  hold 
the  boards  Thanksgiving  night.  Good 
enough.  At  the  close  of  the  entertain­
ment  they  could  come  home  on  a  late 
train,  about one  o’clock.  That was good, 
into  the 
too;  and  then— he  looked  out 
sober  gray  of  the  November 
landscape, 
leafless  and  chili,  and  saw  across  the 
field  of  memory  a  Thanksgiving  night 
ten  years  ago  when  he  saw  that  same 
play 
in  a  distant  city  with  one  of  the 
dearest 
friends  he  had  ever  known. 
They  had  reached  home  at  one  and  he 
had  ordered  a  supper  to  be  ready  for 
them  on  their  return  and  there  it  was. 
In  a  private  dining  room,  where  the 
bright  maple  fire  was  doing  its  best  to 
welcome  them,  the  feast  for  two  was 
spread.  They  were  young  men  with 
young  men’s  appetites,  the  supper  was 
good  and  the  time  unlimited  and  with 
no  haste  they  lingered  over  the  meal 
until  the  fire  had  gone out  and  the  ashes 
were  all  that  remained  of the best dinner 
together  they  had ever had.  Then,  * ‘ just 
for the  oddness  of  the  idea  and  the  fun 
of  the  thing,”   they  each  took  as a keep­
sake  a  pinch  of  the  ashes  of  that 
Thanksgiving  fire,  “ sacred  to  the  mem­

ory  of. ’ ’  He  had  those  ashes  among 
his  treasures  to-day,  and,  although  they 
were  the  ashes  of  a  friendship  dead 
through  no 
fault  of  his,  grieved  as  he 
had  over  it,  the  picture  of  that  glad  day 
always  came  back  to  him  when  the  Na­
tional 
feast  day  came  and  it  always 
found  him  anxious  to  repeat  its delight­
ful  experiences.  He  would  do  it  now. 
He  would  have  a  dinner  just 
like  it 
when 
they  got  home  from  Meadville. 
There  should  be  a  blazing  fire  in  the 
fireplace,  and 
it  should  be  as  great  a 
surprise  for  Carl  as  it had  been for Tom, 
and  he  would  watch  again  the  fading 
firelight  with  this  friend  who,  he  was 
beginning  to  think,  might  as  well  take 
the  place  of  the  old.

There  were  other  matters,  however, 
to  be  looked  after.  The  boy  had  made 
up  his  mind  and  announced  the  fact 
that  he  did  not  need  any  overcoat 
that  winter.  When  Mrs.  Hustleton  came 
out  on  the  Sunday  before  with  a  new 
cloak  the  storekeeper  knew  w h y;  and 
then  it  occurred  to  him  that  Carl  should 
have  two  good  reasons  for  Thanksgiv­
ing  when  the  day  came  around.  As luck 
would  have  it  his  own  tailor  had,  on  his 
last  call  to  Springborough,  settled  a  dis­
pute  of  measurement  between  the  store­
keeper  and  his  clerk  and  when  he  de­
cided  to  see  the  ball  game  he looked  for 
and  found  in  his  desk  the  tailor’s  meas­
urements  and  sent 
them  to  the  mer­
chant,  telling  him  to  make  an  up-to- 
date  overcoat  for  the  boy  as  good  as  he 
could  afford  to  put  up  for  an  average 
figure  out  of  some  pretty  fair  goods, 
leaving  the  question  of  color  with  the 
tailor,  with  the  addendum  that,  to  be 
available,  the  garment  must  be  ready 
on  Thanksgiving  day.

These  things  settled,  the  day  for  roast 
turkey  drew  near.  Monday  and  Tues­
day  came  and  went  and  left  the  boy  no 
sign.  He  talked  about  the  President's 
proclamation  and the Governor’s.  Every 
item  that  referred 
in  any  way  to  the 
game  was  read  aloud.  The  reduced 
rate  on  the  railroad  was  strongly  com­
mented  o n ;  but  not  a  word  did  that 
provoking  Old  Man  Means utter through 
it  all.  When the  blinds  were  put  up  on 
Wednesday  night,  and  the  boy  could 
endure  the  agonizing  suspense  not  an­
other  instant,  he  said  dejectedly,  as  he 
was  about  to  put  out  the  light,  “ I  don’t 
suppose  you’re  going  to  the  ball  game 
to-morrow. ’ ’

“ Why  don’ t  you?”
“ You  haven’t  said  anything  about  it. 

Are  you  going?”

“ Certainly.”
“ Am  I  going?”
“ That’s  the  way  the  program  reads.”  
in  this  in­
“ Hoo— ray!”   The  dash 
stance  stands  for  as  pretty  a  handspring 
as  could  be  asked for outside  of  a  circus 
ring. 
“ You’re  a  daisy!  A   peach!  A 
huckleberry!  You’ re  the  dandiest  old 
boss  that  ever  walked  on  le g s!  Early 
train?”

“ M — h m .”
“ Home  on  late  train?”
“ M idnight.”
“ H oop!”
The  roof  didn’t  come  off  because  the 
door  opened 
just  then  and  a  yeliing 
black  streak  rushed  to  the  Hustleton 
cottage  through  the  dark.

Thanksgiving  morning  dawned  raw 
and  cold;  but  not  a  shiver  showed  the 
need  of  an  overcoat,  although  the  Old 
Man’s  was  buttoned  to  his  chin.  They 
reached  the  city  in  due  time  and  then 
the 
fun  began.  They  had  breakfast  at 
the  Tiverton  and  then  they  struck  Main 
street  and  began  the  sightseeing,  Old 
Man  Means  keeping  a  good  lookout  for

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Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

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This 

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights of the Grip

President,  E.  J .  Sc h r k ibe r,  Bay  City;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St itt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
O.  C.  Gould, Saginaw.

President,  A.  Marym o nt,  Detroit;  Secretary 

Michigan  Commercial  Trarelers’  Association 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hil l, Detroit.
United Commercial Traielers of Michigan 

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

Grand Rapids  Council Ho.  131,  U.  C.  T.

Senior  Counselor,  John  G.  K o lb;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan Commercial Trarelers’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J .  Boyd  Pan tlin d,  Grand  Eaplds; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids.

full 

T h e  M an  B eh in d   th e  P otato  Parer.
Monroe  street 

is  to  the  citizen  of 
Grand  Rapids  what  Fleet  street  was  to 
Samuel  Johnson-the  only  part  of  the 
world  that  is  really  worth consideration. 
While  not  an  extended  thoroughfare,  it 
is 
to  richness  with  constantly- 
changing  conditions  and  circumstances 
and  he  who  cares  to  make  the  trial  will 
find  that  a  saunter  along  its  busy  side­
walks,  while  not  at  all  suggestive  of 
London’s  Treadneedle  street  at  noon­
day,  will  discover  many  a  touch  of  hu­
man  nature  which  will  reveal  confirm­
ing  features  of  the  world’s  kinship.

theories 

in  regard 

That  is  what  a  certain  member  of  the 
gripsack  brigade  some  time  ago  de­
clared  when  c  lied  upon  to  explain  why 
he  was 
loitering  at  a  certain  Monroe 
street  corner;  ” 1  found  there  a  man  be­
hind  a  potato  parer  who  was  playing 
iconoclast— iconoclast  is  a  good  word 
forget  it!— with  all  my 
and  don’t  you 
fine-spun 
to  the 
record-breaking  qualities  of  the  aver­
age  woman’s  tongue.  Ease,  smoothness, 
nimbleness,  speed,  persistency  were  all 
there  and  exactly  where  he  wanted  them 
— at  the  end  of  his  tongue. 
I  saw  him 
first  in  Omaha*in  midsummer.  He  was 
then  in  his  shirt  sleeves,  as  he  is  now. 
A   strong,  well-built  fellow 
in  the  late 
twenties,  he  has  considerable  claim  on 
manly  beauty,  with  not  a  hint  of  the 
feminine  except 
in  a  single  direction. 
He 
is  evidently  talking  his  way  to  the 
seaboard,  with  fair  prospects  of  an  ar­
rival 
enough  and  profitable 
enough.

certain 

“ One  peculiarity  of  the  fellow  is  the 
crowd  that  gathers  around  him.  Six 
deep 
is  the  smallest  and  it  is  rarely  of 
the  rag-tag  order.  There  is  something 
of  the  crowd-right-up-here-sonny  in  his 
voice,  and  gray  beard  and  black  beard 
and  boy,  as  if  each  were  personally  ap­
pealed  to,  obey  him.  When  you  saw  me 
I  was  taking  a  sort  of  inventory  of  the 
lot.  One  old  rooster  with  stovepipe  and 
white  tie  was  gazing  at  him  in  wonder 
and  astonishment,  a  middle-aged  busi­
ness  well-to-do  was  craning  his  neck 
for  a  minute  to  hear  as  well  as  to  see 
what  was  to  him,  evidently,  the  marvel 
of  the  age  and  a  crowd  of  well-dressed 
boys  were 
looking  at  him  with  all  the 
eyes  they  had  and  were  then  and  there 
deciding  that,  when  manhood  should 
release  them  from  the galling chains and 
deep-seated  prejudices  of  home,  they, 
too,  would  stand  on  the  corner  of  the 
street  and  pare  potatoes  and  cut  them 
sometimes  after the  English  and  some­
times  the  French  and  sometimes  the 
German  method.

“ I  haven’t  the  thing  down  to  a  fine 
point ;  but  I  stayed  long  enough  to  get 
the  drift  of  what  he  said  and  the  man­
ner  of  it. 
I’m  going  to  give  my  wife  a 
sample  of  the  man  that  can  beat her and 
her  club  of  gibble-gabblers  all  hollow, 
and  I  stopped  him  long  enough  to  re-

lieve  him  of  one  of  his  parers  for  io 
cents.  Here  ’tis.  There 
is  one  thing 
that  will  bother  me,  but  I  think  I  can 
get 
it  with  practice.  He  didn’t  make 
any  pauses  nor  stop  to  take  breath. 
There  was  a  continuous  and  mellifluous 
flow  of  words,  something  like  the  gur­
gle-gurgle  of  liquid  poured  from  a  bot­
tle  or  a  jug.

“ Y es,I  just  as  lief  give  you  a  sample 
of  what  I’m  going  to  do  when  I  get 
home,only  I’m  going  to put it into a sen­
tence  that  will  reach  from  Grand  Rap 
ids  to  Buffalo  when I get the  thing  down 
p at:

“   ‘ This  simple  and unpretending arti­
cle  designed  for  culinary  purposes  gen­
tlemen the  good  qualities  of  which  I  am 
about  to  disclose  to  you  if  I  am  so  for­
tunate  as  to  attract  retain  and  make  the 
most  of  the  attention  which  I  hope  you 
will  be  kind  enough  to  extend  to  me 
is 
not  an  article  to  stir  up  the  fancy  or  the 
imagination  of  the  poet  to  any  of  those 
wild  flights  we  hear  of  and  laugh  over 
so  often  but  a  common  simple  and  un­
pretending  piece  of  well  and  carefully 
tempered  steel  intended  for  the common 
every  day  purpose  of  removing from  our 
commonest  of  vegetables  the  paring  of 
which  so  many  indeed  I  may  well  say 
the large majority of  consumers  object to 
both  on  account  of  the  lack  of nutritious 
properties  of  the  outer covering  of  the 
potato  and  in  addition  to  that  the  diffi­
culty  which  the  stomach  that  is  to  say 
the 
food  supplier  of  the  human  body 
experiences  in  its  strenuous  endeavors 
to  digest  the 
indigestible  mass  which 
Nature  intended  as  a  protection  for  the 
¡vegetable  until  it  is  used  as an article of 
food consumption and then as a waste. ’  ’ ’
That  was  some time go.  Recently the 
same  gripsack  was  corralled  at  the Mor­
ton  House  and  the  gripper  was  ques­
tioned  as  to  the  result  of  his  potato- 
parer  pleasantry. 
It  was  evident  that 
the  outcome  had  not  been  a  success. 
Eve  had  again  proved  victor over the 
self-conscious  Adam  who  had  foolishly 
invaded  her  territory.  The  facts  with­
out  garnishing  are  these:  He  had  at  his 
first  opportunity  easily  led  up  to the fact 
that  a  woman’s  tongue,endless  as  it was 
supposed  to  be,  had  been  out-talked  at 
last  by  a  m an;  but  it  was  the  exception 
that  only  confirmed the rule.  That called 
for  proof  and  he  gave  it  and  when  he 
had  about  finished  his  wife  switched 
him  off:  “ I’ve  always  told  you,  John, 
that  you  had  mistaken  your  calling  and 
I’m  glad  you’ve  found  it  out  at  last. 
Now  with  your  parer  and  potatoes  at  25 
cents  a  bushel  I’ ll  have  that  sealskin 
you’ve  been  promising  me  all  these 
years.”   “ Well, I haven’t anything more 
to  say  except  she  got  her  sealskin. 
That’s  the  only  blamed  thing that  would 
stop  her  noise  at  the  guy  I  made  of  my­
self,  and  I’ ll  bet  that  against  nothing 
that  at  the  next  church  fair  I  shall  be 
asked  to  sell  potato  parers  as  a  leading 
attraction. ’ ’

Sausage  J o k e   No. 8,978.

“ How  much  are  the  sausages?“ sbe 

asked  the  butcher.

“ Not  a  cent,  madam,”   he  replied. 
“ We'll  make  an  even  exchange  of  it.”  

“ Why— er— I  don’t  understand.”  
“ No,  but  your  dog  does.  He  wan­

dered  in  here  last  night.”

Two hundred samples from his trunks 
Upon the table now he plunks,
Then hustles out to And the guy 
To look ’em o’er, perchance to buy;
He never quarrels with his lot,
Just shakes with fate for what he’s got.
At 1 p. m. with might and main 
He packs his samples up again;
Then waits the porter’s lusty knock 
Jo  take the train at three o’clock.

M A N ’S  V A N IT Y .

Use  o f H is  Own  P ic tu re   on  H is  A d v ertis­

in g   M atter.

One  of  the  funniest,  queerest  things 

in  life  is  our vanity.

Notice  that  I  say  our  vanity,  instead 
of  your  vanity,as  I suppose  I  shouid  do.
My  wife  says  I ’m  the  vainest  indi­
vidual  she  ever  saw ;  but 
in  my  case, 
as  I  tell  her,  it  isn’t  vanity  at  all— it’s 
natural  appreciation  of  an  unusually 
large  number  of  fine  qualities. 
If  1 
should  ignore  the  fact  that  my  Creator 
has  given  me  a  Grecian  face  and  a 
noble  form,  I  should  be  showing  ingrat­
itude  to  the  Almighty.

Some  people  have  the  right  to  be 

vain.

I  regard  vanity  as  the  strongest  force 
in  life  to-day.  More  men  can  be 
in­
duced  to  do  more  things  through  a  dip­
lomatic  appeal  to  their  vanity  than  by 
any  other  means  whatever.  Cupidity  is 
a  strong 
in  it 
with  vanity.

incentive,  but 

isn’t 

it 

A  man  will  use  his  face  in  his  ad­
vertising  matter. 
It’s  vanity  all  right, 
but  between  you  and  me  and  William J. 
Bryan,  did  you  ever  know  a  man  who 
used  his  face  as  his  trade-mark  to  fail?
You  needn’t  try  to  think  of  any ;  that 
kind  don’t  fail.  At  least,  I  never  knew 
one  to.
The 

fellows  who  use  their  mugs  in 
their  advertising  are  the  only  ones  who 
make  the  money.  Look  at  Douglas  the 
$3  shoe  man.  Why, I  believe  lots of  fel­
lows  buy  Douglas  shoes,  not  because 
they  think  they’ re  any  better  than  any 
others,  but  because  Douglas  has a pleas­
ant  phiz,  and  they  want  to  slide  down 
his  cellar  door.

Look  at  Woodbury,  the 

face-improv­
ing  fellow.  The  only  trade-mark  he 
is  his  face,  and  you  see  it  every­
has 
where. 
I  have  one  of  his  cards  in  my 
pocket  now— my  wife  wants  me  to  go 
see  him.

Woodbury  is  a  very  rich  man.
Look  at  Mennen,  the  man  who  makes 
talcum  powder.  His  powder  sells  three 
times  where  any  other  sells  once.

I  don’t  say  that  the  face  in these cases 
is  the  thing  that  sells  the  goods,  but  the 
fact  remains  that  every man  I  have  ever 
known  to  use  his  mug  as  an  advertising 
trade-mark  has  gotten  along.

One  thing  is  that  nobody  will infringe 
on  your  trade-mark  if  you  use  your  face 
for  it.  Our  faces  are  exclusive  if  noth­
ing  else  is.

I  thank  God  that  some  faces  are  ex­

clusive.

fellow  was 

letter  head— said 

I  saw  the  other  day  that that “ Science 
calling 
of  Advertising”  
somebody  down  for  using  his  picture  on 
it  wasn’t  good 
his 
taste.  Suffering  falseface!  Why, 
the 
only  reason  old  “ Science”   doesn’t  have 
his  own  mug  at  the  head  of  his  column 
is  because everybody'd die a-laffin’  at it.
I  never  did  any  advertising  solicit­
ing,  but  I’ ll  bet  I  can  go  out  into  any 
country  town  and  get  the  advertisement 
of  nine  out  of  every  ten  retailers 
in  it. 
The  medium  is  a  secondary  considera­
tion ; 
I’ll  get  the  advertisements  for 
anything  that  will  allow  me  to  use  a  cut 
of  an  advertiser’s  face. 
I ’ll  get  grocers 
and  I’ll  get  butchers;  I’ ll  get  undertak­
ers  and  stove  men;  I’ ll  get  real  estate 
lawyers,  and 
men,  insurance  men  and 
I’ ll  get  everybody 
in  the  place  worth 
I  will  simply  say,  as  I  walk 
having. 
intended  to  make  this  a 
in,  that 
it 
pictorial  gallery  of  the 
leading  mer­
chants  of  the  town  and  that  it  is  greatly 
preferred  that  every  advertiser  use  his 
photograph.

is 

And  while  the  most  of  these  amiable 
brethren  will  give  me  a  gilt-edged  bluff 
about  disliking  publicity,  above  all  the 
exposure  of  their  noble  mugs,  they  will 
all,  “ if  I  insist,”   allow  me  to  use  their 
photographs,  and  a  lot  of  ’em  will  even 
paddle  down  to  the 
local  photographer 
and  have  one  taken  especially  for me.

Oh, 

I  know;  I’ve  paid  to  have  my 
I  long 
in 

own  mug  printed  lots  of  times. 
ago  gave  up  any  idea  of  its  getting 
the  papers  any  other  way.

1  met  the  other  day  a 

fellow  who 
works  for  a  big  patent  medicine  con­
cern.  He  is  a  securer  of  testimonials— 
the  sort  of testimonials where the picture 
of  the  lucky  dog  who  has  been  miracu­
lously  saved  from  death  appears  at  the 
top.  Under  the  cut  there  is  usually  a 
lot  of  gab  about  “ Mr.  John  Smith,  a 
leading  citizen  of  Podunk,  N.  J.,  who 
has  been 
long  and  favorably  known  in 
his  State  through  being  mentioned  on 
several  occasions  as  a  strong  candidate 
for  school  director,”   etc.

I  asked  this  fellow  whether  he  didn’t 
find 
it  hard  to  get  hold  of  people  who 
were  willing  to  have  their  faces  printed 
as  backers  of  a  patent  medicine.

He  stopped  smoking  and  looked  at 

me  a  moment.

“ Don’t  I  find  it  hard?”   he  repeated. 
it  hard  to  get  rid  of  all  those 

“ I  find 
who  want  their  faces  printed !

“ Why,  don’t  you  know,”   he  said, 
“ that  that  represents  fame  to  the  most 
of  these  people?  They  would  cheerfully 
pay  to  have  their  faces  in  the  paper, 
and  when  I  come  along  and  generously 
offer  to  do 
it  for  nothing,  they  think 
I’m  the  greatest  thing  that  ever  hap­
pened.  Big  men,  too— you’d  be  sur­
prised.  Men  that  you'd  think  would 
be  dead  against  it  are  as  tickled  as 
lit­
tle  children  over the  chance.”

I  tell  you,  it’s  the  greatest  thing  in 
the  world— vanity— and 
it’s  a  disease 
that  strikes  the  big  fish  just  as  hard  as 
the  little  ones.  As  a rule,  the  bigger  the 
fish  the  vainer.  The  vainest  man  I  ever 
met  was  George  W.  Child. 
I’ve  been 
in  his  office  a  good  many  times,  but  he 
never  once  missed  toddling  out  to  his 
outside  room  to  get  a  biography  of him­
self  to  give  me.

One  day  I  thought  I’d  get  square. 

I 
went  down  there to give him a biography 
of  myself,  but  he  had  up  and  died.— 
Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Warfare  upon  cigarettes 

is  greatly 
strengthened  by 
the  decision  of  the 
United  States  Supreme  Court,  rendered 
last  week.  The  decision  sustained  that 
of  the  Tennessee  Supreme  Court  up­
holding  a  drastic 
law  of  that  State 
against  cigarettes.  The  statute  makes 
it  a  misdemeanor,  punishable  by  a  fine 
of  not  less  than  $50,  ‘ ' for  any  person, 
firm  or  corporation  to  sell,  offer  to  sell 
or  to  bring  in  the  State  for  the  purpose 
of  selling,  giving  away  or  otherwise 
disposing  of  any  cigarettes,  cigarette 
paper  or  substitute  for  the same. ”   The 
American  Tobacco  Company,  to test  the 
law,took into Tennessee  from North Car­
olina  several  packages  of  cigarettes, 
with  the  result  now  finally  declared— a 
result  that  sustains the authority of every 
state  to  bar  cigarettes  from  its  territory. 
The  decision  at  Washington  was  by  a 
majority  of  one,  the  minority  of  the 
court  comprising  Chief  Justice  Fuller 
and  Justices  Shiras,  Brewer  and  Peck- 
ham. 

_____

A  family  hotel,  twenty-three  stories 
high,  is  to  be  erected  in Brooklyn.  So­
ciety  occupying  the  top  floor  will  be 
“ at  home”   only  when  the  elevator?  are 
running.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Drugs—Chem icals

M ich igan   State  B o a rd   o f  P h a rm a cy

Term expires
- 
Dec. 31,1900
- 
Guo.  Gundrum, Ionia 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St.  Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1902
Hr n r y  He im , Saginaw 
- 
Dec. 31,1903
Wir t  F.  Do ty, Detroit - 
A. C. Schum acher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 

President, A.  C.  Schum acher,  Ann Arbor, 
Secretary, He n r y  He im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W .  P.  Do ty,  Detroit.

M ich .  State  P h a rm a ceu tica l  A ssociation

President—Ch as.  F.  Man n, Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Sch m idt, Grand Rapids.

F o lly   o f  B u y in g   F ro m  

Irresp o n sib le 

P a rties.

Recently  there  was  arrested,  in  St 
Louis,  a man by  the  name  of  John  Bick 
under  a  charge  of  counterfeiting  the 
Castoria  labels  of  the  Centaur  Co.  The 
arrest  was  made  under the  Missouri  law 
which  makes  his  act  a  grave  misde 
meanor,  punishable with  a  heavy  fíne  or 
impri sonment.or both— at  the  discretion 
of  the  court.

This  same  man  Bick  has  for  the  last 
five  or  six  years  been  operating  under 
the  name  of  the  Palestine  Drug  Co. 
among  the  druggists  of  the  West  and 
Southwest,  and,  no  doubt,  many  of  his 
victim s  will  be  delighted 
to  hear  that 
he  has  at  last  been  overtaken  in  his  ne 
farious  proceedings.  Tim e  and  time 
again,  he,  or  rather  the  company  under 
whose  alias  he  was  operating,  has  been 
exposed  by  this  journal,  yet  he  seemed 
never  to  lack  victims  when  he  went 
in 
search  of  them.

To  us,  as  it  must  be  to  everyone  of  at 
least  average 
intelligence,  it  is  abso­
lutely  incomprehensible  how  it  is  pos­
sible  for  a  man,  under  such  circum­
stances,  to  continue  to  work  the  trade 
for  so  long  a  time  with  almost  complete 
immunity,  and  is  caught  up  with  at 
last  only  through  the  intervention  of 
interested  persons  entirely out of the ter­
ritory  thus  preyed  upon.

While  we  do  not  believe  in  the  prin­
ciple  of  “ treating  every  man  as  a  rogue 
until  he  has  been  proven  to  be  honest,”  
we  can  not  conceive  how  a  merchant 
can  be  so  foolish  as  to  purchase  goods, 
of  any  description,  from  an  entirely  un­
known  person,  and  especially  if  this 
person  makes  offers  of any extraordinary 
inducements  to  purchase  from  him  or 
the  house  he  claims  to  represent.  On 
the  contrary,  such  offers  should  at  once 
excite  suspicion.  When  a  man  comes 
in  and offers  to  sell  Castoria or Phenace- 
tine,  or  instance,  which  just  now  seems 
to  be  the  favorite  with  this  class  of 
swindlers,  or  any  other  standard  article 
whose  market  value  is  well  known  to 
the  merchant,  at  figures  below  those  of 
the  manufacturer  or  proprietor  of  the 
same,  the  mere  offer  should  act  like  the 
ringing  of  a  burglar alarm,  giving warn­
ing  of  attempted  fraud  or  robbery.

The  fact  is,  that a man  who  gets  taken 
in,  in  such  instances,  is  guilty  of  gross 
contributory  negligence, 
if  nothing 
worse.  Instead  of  asking  any  new  party 
that  comes  along 
the  questions  sug­
gested  by  ordinary  caution,  and  making 
some  effort  to  assure  himself  of  the  re­
sponsibility  of  this  party,or  of  those  he 
represents,  he  becomes  overpowered 
with  the  glamour  of  the  “ splendid  bar­
gain”   offered  him,  and  bolts  the  bait 
incontinently,  only  to  be  tortured  by  the 
hook  at  his  leisure.

Nine-tenths  of  the  swindling  schemes 
of 
these  Jeremy  Diddlers  would  be 
avoided  entirely  did  the  druggist  atten­
tively  read  his  trade  journals— read  not 
merely  the  editorials and news items, but 
study  the  advertising,  and  thus  make 
himself  familiar  with  the  responsible

in  his  line  of  business.  We  do 
bouses 
not,  of  course,  pretend  to  say  that  only 
those  houses  which  advertise are respon 
sible,  but  it  is  safe  to  say  that  the  great 
majority  of  advertising  houses  are  re 
sponsible,  and  that 
those  who  do  not 
furnish  their  travelers  with 
advertise 
credentials  which  sufficiently  indentify 
them. 
In  any  and  all  cases,  however, 
let  the  trade  beware  of  the  man  who 
offers  something  for  nothing.  Beware 
too, of ail unknown  vendors  and  peddlers 
offering  wonderful  bargains— in  the  end 
they  are  frauds,  one  and  all.— National 
Druggist.

C o n clusion s  D ed ucted   F ro m   Sale  o f P h o  

to g ra p h ic  Sup plies.

1.  That  photographic  supplies  is 

much  more  profitable  side  line  for the 
druggist  to  handle  than  either  toilet  ar 
tid es  or  stationery

2.  That  it  is  a  perfectly 

legitimate 

line  for  the  druggist  to  engage  in.

3.  That 

it  has  a  tendency  to  bring 
to  your  store  a  class  of  people  of means, 
and  in  all  a  very  desirable trade,  a trade 
which, 
if  satisfied  with  your  photo 
graphic  supplies,  will  purchase  other 
necessaries.

4.  That  amateur  photography  is  not 
a  fad  which  will  soon  cease  to exist,  but 
one  which  has  surely  come  to  stay  and 
that,  if  you  do  not  make  an  effort  to 
gain  the  trade,  your  neighbor,  who  ii 
not  so  well  equipped  to  furnish  the  sup 
plies,  will  get  the  business.

stock  a 

5.  That  it  is  not  advisable  to  place 
large  number  of  cameras—
simply  a  few  as  an  advertising  medium 
being  sufficient— but  that  one  must  be 
able  to  supply,  on  short  notice,  all 
chemicals,  printing  papers,  and 
the 
different  requisites  for  amateur  work.
D.  A.  Taylor.

Scared  th e  D ru g   C lerk .

In  a  Philadelphia  drug  store  there 
conspicuous  sign  which  reads,  “ Do 
not  talk  to  the  clerk  when  he  is  putting 
up  prescriptions.”   This  has  been  ren­
dered  necessary  by  the  loquacity  of  the 
foreign  residents  of  the  neighborhood.
The  other  day  a  crowd  surged  into 
the  store,  talking  excitedly  and  with 
many  gestures.  The  clerk,  fearing  that 
some  mistake  had  been  made  in  medi­
cines  and  that  his  life  was  in  danger, 
escaped  by  the  rear door  and  returned 
with  a  policeman.  The  Italians  were 
still  in  possession,  and  appeared  to  be 
laboring  under  intense  excitement.

An 

interpreter 

finally  discovered 
that  a  mischievous  boy  had  told  the for­
eigners  that  a  large  crystal of sulphur  in 
the  window  was  a  lump  of  gold-bearing 
quartz  from  Cape  Nome,  and  that  any 
one  by  paying  10  cents  could  guess  at 
the  weight  of  the  crystal,  and  he  who 
guessed  right  would  win  it. 
It  took  the 
greater  part  of  an  hour  to  convince  the 
excited  Italians  of  their  error.

L o o k   O u t  F o r  D am aged   Cod  L iv e r   O il.
Eighty-five  barrels  of  Norwegian  cod 
liver  oil,  saved 
in  a  badly  damaged 
condition 
from  the  recent  Hoboken 
dock  fire,  were  offered  at  auction  last 
week  and  sold  at  about  $7  to  $9  per 
barrel.  This  was  part  of  a  lot  of  100 
barrels, the  balance  of  which  was  totally 
destroyed. 
It  is  said  that  the  oil  which 
was  sold  is  scarcely  fit  even  for  tanning 
purposes,  yet  a  holder  of  fifty  barrels 
has  been  offering  it  around  to  jobbers 
and  manufacturers.

T o   P u r ify   W a ter  b y   P rec ip ita tio n .

One  excellent  method,  applicable  to 
muddiest  of  water,  consists  in  adding  to 
every  gallon  5  grains  of  sodium  bicar­
bonate  and  then  5  minims  of  official  so­
lution  of 
iron  tersulfate,  and  then  al­
lowing  to  settle  over  night.  About  1 
grain  of  alum  in  solution  added  to  one 
gallon  of  water  precipitates  all  impuri­
ties  and  most  of  the  microbes,  but  the 
amount  of  alum  must  be  adjusted  for 
different  kinds  of  water.

T h e D ru g   M arket.

Opium— Is  without  change  in  price, 
but  is  very  firm.  News  from  the  grow 
ing  district  is  again  unfavorable. 
It  i 
stated  that  native  speculators  are  trying 
to  buy.

Morphine— Is  as  yet  unchanged. 
Quinine— Is  weak  and  easier, 

though  manufacturers  have  not  changed 
their  price.  The  demand  is  small  and 
bark  is  weak.

Carbolic  Acid— Is  easier and  supplies 

are  more  plentiful.

Cocaine— The  market  is  very firm  and 
small  manufacturers  are  out  of  market 
Glycerine— Is  active  and very  firm.  It 
is  believed  that  higher  prices  will  rule 
after  the  first  of  the  year.

Santonine— Has  advanced  60c  per 
pound  in  the  last  few  days  and  is  tend 
ing  higher.

Balsam  Copaiba— Is  in  good  demand 

and  advancing.

Gum  Asafoetida— Is  in  small  supply 
and  steadily  advancing.  Cheap  grades 
can  not  be  imported  and  higher grades 
are  very  scarce.  Advance  has  been  8c 
within  the  last  week.

Canary  Seed— Has  advanced,  in  sym 

pathy  with  the  primary  markets.

Rape  Seed— Is  very  firm.
Cloves— Are  very  firm  and advancing 
Linseed  O il— Is  steady  at  unchanged 

prices.

T h e  Cocaine  S e llin g   E v il.

The  cocaine  habit  is  spreading  with 
rapidity,  particularly  with  the  negroes 
of  the  South,  and  it  is  becoming  more 
and  more  evident  that  something should 
be  done  to  restrict  the  sale  of  the  drug 
so  far  as  possible.  The  State  Board  of 
Pharmacy  of  Tennessee  will  have  intro 
duced 
into  the  coming  session  of  the 
Legislature  a  bill  preventing  the  sale  of 
cocaine,  morphine,  and  other  narcotics 
except  on  a  physician’s  prescription, 
and  providing  for  adequate  penalties 
upon  conviction  of  violation.  As  we 
have  reported  from  time  to  time,several 
city  councils  in  the  South  have  recently 
passed  ordinances  to  this  effect  and it is 
sincerely  to  be  hoped  that  these  meas 
res  will  prove  efficacious.— Bulletin  of 
Pharmacy.

H ead ach e  P o w d ers  in   L iq u o r  Saloons.
The  Kentucky  Board  of  Pharmacy 

is 
instituting  proceedings  against  saloon 
keepers  who  retail  headache  powders. 
The  sale  of  such  preparations  has 
reached large dimensions of  recent  years 
and  druggists  have  complained 
that 
such  sales  were  a  breach  of  the  Phar­
macy  Law.  Owing  to  the  action  of  the 
Board  most  of  the  saloons  have  discon­
tinued  their  sale,  but  action  will  be 
taken  against  a  few  who  refuse  to  give 
way. 
It  is  alleged  by  some  of  the 
offenders  that  such  sales  are only  a  quid 
3ro  quo  for  the  druggists  who  sell 
iquor.

N o vel  W in d o w   D isp lay.

six 

lively 

A   druggist 

in  Worcester  made  a  big 
hit  recently  by  a  clever  window  display 
of 
tortoise-shell  kittens, 
which  attracted  spectators  at 
times 
that  blocked  the  sidewalk  for  a  few 
minutes.  The  kittens  were  ail  double- 
toed,  with  a  single  exception.  They 
were  surrounded  by  mirrors  which  mul- 
plied  the  six  into  twice  that  number 
when  looked  at  from  the  sidewalk.  The 
mother  cat  has  a  record  of  twenty-nine 
kittens  in  two  years!

B la c k   In k .

B ru ised   g alls,  24  ozs.
Rasped  logwood,  8  ozs.
Iron  sulphate,  12  ozs.
Powdered  acacia,  6 ozs.
Creosote,  30 drops.
Soft  water,  3  gals.
Boil  the  galls  and 

logwood 

in  the 
water  until  reduced  to  2  gallons;  then 
add  the  other  ingredients  and  set  aside 
for  fourteen  days,  stirring  frequently, 
when  it  will  be  ready  for  use.

T h e  M an  W h o   Snores.
Dedicated to Lloyd Maximilian Mills.
I ’ve thought of all the drummers 
And the merchants 'h at each bores;
I ’d rather be kicked by one of them 
Than sleep with a man that snores.

I ’ve thought of all the armies,
The Chinese, Japs and Boers,
I ’d rather be sh"t by one of them 
Than sleep with a man that snores.

I ’ve thought of the cats In the kitchen, 
I ’d rather be scratched  1 y both of them 

The Tommies in the stores
Than sleep with a man that snores.

I ’ve thought of all the animals,
The Guinea pigs and boars;
I ’d rather sleep with one of them 
Than sleep with a man that snores.

We know that Mills is a rustler 
But, boys, you must excuse ire.

And laziness deplores;
From sleeping with a man that snores.

“ W hat Is a pharmacist?”  asked Pat.
“ If that's the case.” Pat then replied, 
I  am a pharmacist by birth,

The answer was. “ A mixer.”
“ I ’ll W1 ye mighty quick, sir,
For, shure. ain’t I a mlck, sir?”

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WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

A dvanced—Assafoetida, Canary Seed. 
D eclined—

6
8

6® 

Tartaricum  .............  
A m m o n ia

8 
6@ $ 
70®  75
@  17
30®  42
45®  48
5
3® 
8®  
10
14
15 
®
60
5

A cid n m
Aceticum  ................$
Benzolcum, German.
Boraclc......................
Carbollcum..............
Oitricum....................
Hydrochlor.............
Nltrocum..................
Oxalicum..................  
Phosphorium,  d ll... 
Salicyllcum .............. 

Carbonas..................  
Chlorldum................. 
A n ilin e
Black.........................   2 
Brown........................ 
B ed............................ 

12®
56®
Sulphuricum............  19i@
10® 1 20
Tannicum.................. 1 
38®  40
Aqua, 16 deg.............  
4® 
Aqua, 20 deg.............  
13® 
15
12® 
14
00®  2 26
45®  60
Yellow.......................  2 
50® 3 00
Cubebae..........po,25  22«  
24
75© 
80
50©  B6
©  1 85
50©  55
40© 
45
18
18
30
20
12
12
15
16

Junlperus.................. 
Xanthoxylum.......... 
B alsam n m
Copaiba....................  
P e r u ......................... 
Terabln,  Canada.... 
Tolutan.....................  

Abies, Canadian....... 
Casslae.......................  
Cinchona  Flava....... 
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrica  Cerliera, po. 
Prunus Virgin!........  
Quillala, grrd ............ 

Sassafras....... po. 20 
Ulmus...po. 15, gr’d 

80®  l  oo

C ortex

B a c c »

6© 

12

8

Conium Mac.............  50©  60
Copaiba....................  i  15®  1  25
Cubebae....................  1  20®  1  25
Exechthitos.............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron..................  1  io®  1  20
Gaultheria..............   2 20®  2  30
Geranium, ounce.... 
@  76 
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeom a................  1  40®  1  50
Junlpera..................  1  50® 2  00
Lavendula  ..............  
90® 2 00
Limonis..................   1  60®  1  60
Mentha  Piper..........  1  40® 2  00
Mentha Verid..........  1  50®  1  60
Morrhuae, ]gal..........  1  20®  1  25
M yrcia.....................   4 00® 4  50
Olive........................  
76® 3 00
Picis Liquida.......... 
io® 
12
Plcls Liquida,  gal . ..  @  35
Ricina.......................  1  00®  1  08
Rosmarini................   @  1  00
Rosae, ounce.............  6 00® 6  50
Succlnl.....................   40®  45
S abina.....................   90®  1  00
San ta l.......................  2 75® 7 00
Sassafras..................  60®  65
®  65
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
Tiglfl........................   1  50®  1  60
40©  50
Thyme....................... 
Thyme, opt............... 
@  1  60
Theobrom as...........  
16®  20
Potassium
15® 
Bi-Carb.....................  
18
13@ 
Bichromate.............  
16
52®  67
Brom ide.................. 
12® 
C arb ......................... 
15
Chlorate., .po. 17®19 
16® 
18
Cyanide.................... 
34@  38
Iodide..-....................  2 60®  2  66
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
15
7@ 
Potass Nltras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nitras.......... 
6@ 
8
Prussiate.................. 
23@  26
Sulphate  po............. 
15®  18

R adix

E x tractn m  

Glycyrrhiza  Glabra
Glycyrrhiza,_ ço
Hæmatox, 16 lb. box
Hæmatox, is ............ 
Hæmatox,  Hs.......... 
Hæmatox, H s.......... 
F e rr a  
Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Quinta..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride.
Sulphate,  com’l.......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bfel, per  cwt..........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lo ra

Arnica....................... 
Anthemis.................. 
Matricaria................. 

24©
28©
11©
13©
14©
16@

15 
2  25 
75 
40 
15 
2
80

15©
22©
30©

20®  25
Aconitum.................. 
Althae.......................  22®  25
A nchusa.................. 
io® 
12
Arum  po.................. 
©  26
20®  40
Calamus.................... 
Gentiana........ po. 16 
12® 
15
16®  18 
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
@  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po.................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po................   4  26® 4 35
Iris  plox...po.35®38  35®  40
Jalapa, p r................   26®  30
®  35
Maranta,  14s...........  
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Rhei..........................  
75® 1  00
Rhei,  cut.................. 
®  1  25
Khel, pv.................... 
75®  1  35
Spigelia.................... 
35®  38
Sanguinaria.,  po.  15 
18
Serpentaria.............  
40@  45
60®  65
Senega.....................  
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smllax, M.................
@  25 
SciUæ............po. 35
12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po................
@  25
Valeriana, Kng. po. 30 
@  25
Valeriana,  German.
15@  20
Zingiber a ................  
14®
Zingiber j .................. 
25®

10®  

® 

35©  33
20©  25
25©  30 
12©  20 
8© 
10

F o lia
Barosma...................
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly..................  
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and H s ..................
UvaUrsl....................
G u m m i 
Sem en
© 65
Acacia, 1st picked...
© 45 Auisum..........po.  15
Acacia, 2d  picked...
@ 12
© 35 Apium (graveleons).
13® 15
Acacia, 3d  picked...
© 28 Bird, ls .....................
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
4@ 6
45© 65 Carul...............po.  18
12® 13
14 Cardamon................. 1  25®  1 75
12«
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20
© 12 Coriandrum..............
8® 10
Aloe, Cape__ po. 15.
© 30 Cannabis Satlva....... 4H® >
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40
55© 60 Cydonium................
75®  1  00
40© 45 Cnenopodium..........
Assafoetida— po. 40
10® 12
50© 55 D'pterlx Odorate.... 1  00®  1 10
© 13 Fceniculum..............
@ 10
Catechu, is ...............
© 14 Fcenugreek, po........
9
7®
Catechu, H s.............
16 L ini..........................
4®
5
Catechu, 14s.............
69® 73 Lini, grd.......bbl. 4
Campnoræ...............
4H@ 5
@ 40 Lobelia.....................
35® 40
Euphorbium... po. 35
@  100 Pharlaris Canarian.. 4H@ 5
65® 70 R ap a........................
4H@ 5
Gamboge............. po
@ 30 Sinapis  Alba............
Guaiacum...... po. 25
9® 10
@ 75 Sinapis  Nigra..........
Kino............po. $0.75
11® 12
Mastic  ......................
S piritus
@  40
Myrrh.............po. 45
0pil....pO.  5.n0@5.20 3  60®  3  65
25@  35
Shellac...................... 
Shellac, bleached.... 
40®  45
Tragacanth............... 
60®  90

Frumenti, W. I). Co.  2 00®  2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00®  2  25
Frum enti.................   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T ...  1  65® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........   1  75® 3  50
Saacharum  N. E __   1  90@ 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli..........  1  75® 6 60
Vini  Oporto.............   1  25® 
Vini Alba..................  1  25® 

H erb a

25
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
Lobelia........ oz. pkg 
M ajorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg 
Rue............... oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V-oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
M agnesia
Calcined, P a t............ 
55®  60
18®  20
Carbonate, P at........  
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings 
18®  20

O leum

Absinthium..............  6 50®  7  00
Amygdalae,  Dulc__  
38®  65
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
A nisi.........................2  io@  2  20
Auranti Cortex........ 2 25® 2  30
Bergamll.................. 2 75® 2  85
80®  85
Cajlputl....................  
Caryophylli..............   80©  85
C edar.......................  
65®  90
Chenopadil............... 
@ 2  76
Clnnamonll..............  1  so®  1  40
OttroneUa................. 
36®  40

2 00
2 00

2 75
2 76

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................  2 50® 
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.................   2 50® 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage....... 
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................  
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................  
Syrups
A cacia.....................  
Auranti Cortex 
Zingiber..........
Ipecac.
Ferri Iod..................
Rhei Arom...............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega .....................
SciUæ.................. .

60®

@  1  50
@  1  25
@ 100
@  75
@ 140

@  50

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

27

Menthol.................... 
@ 4  50
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 25® 2 60 
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q.
& C. Co.................. 2  15® 2  40
@  40
Moschus  Canton.... 
Myrlstlca, No. 1....... 
65®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
35®  37
Os Sepia.................... 
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co.....................  
@  1  00
Picis Liq. N.N.H gal.
@ 200
doz......................... 
Picis Liq., quarts__  
@  1  00
Picis Liq.,  pints....... 
@  85
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80  @  50
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22  @ 
18
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35  @  30
Piix Burgun.............  
@ 
7
Plumb! Acet.............  
io@  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30®  1  50 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  76
Pyrethrum,  pv........   26®  30
8® 
Quassias.................... 
10
37® 
Quinta, S. P. &  W ... 
47
37®  47
Quinta, S.  German.. 
Quinia, N. Y.............  
37®  47
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
12®  14
SaccharumLactis pv 
18®  20
Salacln.....................   4 50® 4 75
40®  50
Sanguis  Draconls... 
12® 
Sapo, W.................... 
14
SapoM ...................... 
10® 
12
Sapo  G .....................  
@ 
15

Setdlitz Mixture.......
Sinapis......................
Sinapis,  opt.............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Soda, Boras..............
Soda,  Boras, po.......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb...............
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Soda,  Ash.................
Soda, Sulphas..........
Spts. Cologne...........
Spts. Ether  Go........
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect. Hbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Sulphur,  Subl..........
Sulphur, Roll............
Tam arinds...............
Terebenth  Venice...
Theobromae..............
Vanilla......................
Zlnci Sulph..............
O ils

20®  

22 
@  18 
@  30
41 
41 
@
11
9®  11
23®  25
2
1H@ 
5
3® 
3H@ 
4
@ 
2 
@ 2 60 
50®  55@ 2 00

1  05®  1  25 
2H@ 
4
2H@  3H 
8®  
10 
28®  30
60®  65
9 00@16 00 
7® 
8

Whale, winter.......... 
70 
Lard, extra...............  60 
Lard, No. 1............... 
45 

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
50

Linseed, pure raw...  68 
Linseed, boiled........ 
69 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine..  50 

71
72
60
66
P a in ts  b b l .  LB.
Red  Venetian.......... 
i \   2  @8
IK  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
IK  2  @3 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
Putty,  commercial..  2H  2H@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2H  2K@3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
A m erican.............  
13® 
15
75
Vermilion, English..  70® 
Green,  Paris............ 
14®  18
Green, Peninsular...  13® 
16
Lead,  red..................  CM®  6H
Lead,  white..............  6H@  6H
Whiting, white Span  @  85
Whiting, gilders’.... 
@  90
®  1  25 
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff......................... 
@ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

V arn ish es

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  56®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

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M iscellaneous 

ScUlae  Co..................  
@
Tolutan.....................  @
Prunus  virg.............  
@
T inctures 
Aconitum NapeUis R 
Aconitum NapelUs F
Aloes ........................
Aloes and M yrrh__
A rnica.....................
Assafoetida...............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum.................
Cardamon................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba..................
Cubebae.....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chlorldum__
G entian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guiaca.......................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine  ....................
Iodiner colorless......
K in o .........................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomica.............
Opii...........................
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia  ...-...............
Rhatany....................
Rhei..........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentaria.............
Stromonium.............
Tolutan....................
Valerian  ..................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber....................

50 
60 
60 
50 50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
1  00 
50 50 
60 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
50 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  So 
50 
80 
»0 
50 
50 
®0 
60 
80 
BO 
20
35
¿Ether, Spts. Nit.? F  30® 
38
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
3
Alum en....................  214®
4 
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
50
Aunatto.......................  
40®
5 
Antimoni, po............
40®
50
Antimoni et Potass T
Antipyrin................
@  25
@ 
Antifebrin  ...............
20 
Argenti Nitras, oz...
@  61 
Arsenicum............... 
10®
12 
40
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N...........   1  90®  2 00
9
Calcium Chlor.,  ls.. 
Calcium Chlor.,  Hs.. 
@ 
10 
Calcium Chlor.,  Hs.. 
@ 
12 
@  80 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsici Fructus, af.. 
@ 
lö 
@  15
Capsici  Fructus, po. 
Capsici Fructus B, po 
@  15
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 15 
@ 3 00
Carmine, No. 40.
Cera  Alba................. 
50®  55
40®
42 
Cera  Flava.
40 
Coccus  .............
35 
@
Cassia  Fructus........ 
Centraria.................  @
10 
45 
Getaceum.................. 
@
60 
Chloroform.............  
55@
Chloroform,  squibbs
1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  65@  1  90
Chondrus.................  
20®
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38®
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®
Cocaine....................  7 05®  ‘
Corks, list,dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............  @
@
C reta.............bbl. 75 
Creta, prep.............. 
©
Creta, precip...........  
9®
@
Creta,  Rubra...........  
Crocus...................... 
15®
@
Cudbear.................... 
Cuprl  Sulph.............   6H@
Dextrine.................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............. 
75®
@
Emery, all numbers. 
Emery, po
E rgota........... po. 90 
85®
Flake  W hite...........  
12®
@  23
Galla......................... 
Gam bler..................  
8® 
9
@  60
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
35®  60
Gelatin, French....... 
75  &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......  
70
Glue, brown............. 
11®  13
Glue,  white.............  
15®  25
Glycerina..................  17H@  25
Grana Paradisi........ 
©  25
Humulus.................. 
25®  55
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @  1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..  @  90
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m .  @  1  10
Hydrarg  Ammoniati  @  1  20 
HydrargU nguentum  50®  60
Hydrargyrum.......... 
@  85
IchthyoboUa,  Am ... 
65®  70
Indigo....................... 
75®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 85® 4 00
Iodoform..................  3 85® 4 00
Lupulin.....................  
@  60
Lycopodium.............  
80®  85
M acis.......................  
66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod...............  @ 2 5
LiquorPotassArsinit 
10®  12
3
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2® 
®  1H 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Mannla, 8.  F . ......... 
50®  80

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Guaranteed  correct  at time  of issue, 

Not  connected

with any jobbing house.

ADVANCED

Sisal  C lotheslines
Cordage

DECLINED

R olled  Oats
P ackage  Coffee
P e a rl  B arley
'W arehouse  B room s
R ock  C andy

A LA BA STIN E

White in drum s.................... 
9
Colors In drum s....................  10
White in packages...............  10
Colors in packages...............  11

Less 40 per cent discount. 

..........

A X LE  GREASE
doz. gross
6 00
..55
» urorc 
7 C9
Castor  Oil................... 60
4 25
Diamond..................... 50
9 00
Frazer’s ........... ........... 75
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

M ica, tin boxes......... 75 
Paragon...................... 55 

9 00
6 00
Per Doz.
Arctic 12 oz. ovals................   86
Arctic pints, round...............1  20

AMM ONIA

B A K IN G   PO W D ER  

M lb. cans 3 doz...................  46
u  lb. cans 3  doz...................  75
l 
lb. cans 1  doz...................100
Bulk.................... 
10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers.............   90

 

 

A rctic
Egg

A cm e

H lb. cans,  4 doz. case........ 3 75
54 lb. cans,  2 doz. case........ 3 75
1 lb. cans, 
1 doz. case.........3 75
5 lb. cans,  14 doz. case.........8 00

Q ueen  F lak e

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.,  1 doz. case................... 9 00

R oyal

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

BA TH   B R IC K

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

BLUING

CONDENSED

sS te

Small 3 doz............................   40
Large, 2 doz...........................  75
Arctic, 4 oz, per gross........ 4 00
Arctic, 8 oz, per gross........ 6 00
Arctic, pints, per  gross__ 9 00

BROOMS

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 W hisk....................  95
Fancy Whisk,...................... 1  25
Warehouse........................... 3 50
Electric Light, 8s................. 12
Electric Light, 16s ................12*4
Paraffine, 6s ..........................1014
Paraffine, 12s..  .................... 11
.......... .....20
Kicking 

CANDLES

., 

CANNED  GOODS 

B eans

65@1 85

M ushroom s

G ooseberries

B lack b erries

85
1  00 
1  50
85 
1  15
75
85
95
90
85
1  85 
3  40
2  35
1  76
2  80
1  75
2 80
1  75
2 80
18@20
22@25
1  00 
1  80

A pples
80
3 lb. Standards......... 
2 30
Gallons, standards.. 
Standards................. 
75
B aked........................  1  00@i  30
Red  Kidney.............  
75®  85
String
Wax...........................
Blueberries
S tandard.....................
Clam s.
Little Neck, 1 lb ......
Little Neck, 2 lb.......
C herries
Red  Standards............
W hite...........................
C orn
F air......................... -
Good.........................
Fancy......................
Standard..................
H om iny
Standard...................
L obster
Star, 14 lb..................
Star, 1  lb...................
Picnic Tails.............
M ackerel
Mustard, l i b ............
Mustard, 2 lb ............
Soused, 1 lb ...............
Soused, 2 lb.............
I Tomato, 1 lb .............
Tomato, 2 lb..............
Hotels.........................
Buttons......................
O ysters
Cove, 1 lb ...................
Cove, 2 lb...................
Peaches
P ie .............................
Yellow......................  1 
P ears
Standard...............
Fancy......................
P eas
M arrowfat.............
Early June.............
Early June  Sifted.
G rated......................  1 
Sliced.........................   1 
P u m p k in
F a ir........................... 
Good.........................  
Fancy.
......................................... 85
R aspberries
Standard.................... 
90
Salm on
Columbia River........ 2 00®2  15
Red Alaska..............
1  40
Pink Alaska.............
1  10
S hrim ps
Standard..................
1  50
Sardines
4
Domestic, Ms...........
Domestic, M s..........
8
Domestic,  Mustard.
8
California, 4 s ..........
17
French, Ms...............
22
French, 4 s ...............
28
Standard ..................
85
1  25
Fancy.......................
Succotash
Fair............................
90
Good.........................
1  00
1  20
Fancy.......................
Tom atoes
F a ir...........................
90
Good.........................
95
1  15
Fancy.......................
Gallons......................
2  50
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints.........
........ 2  00
........ 1  25
Columbia, 4  pints....
CH EESE
Acme.........................
®124
Amboy......................
@124
Carson City..............
@12
Elsie..........................
@13
Emblem....................
@124
Gem...........................
@124
Gold Medal...............
@114
Id e a l.......................
©12
Jersey.......................
@124
Riverside..................
@12
B rick.........................
14@15
Edam ........................
@90
L eiden......................
@17
Limburger................
13@14
Pineapple................. 50  @75
Sap  Sago.................
19® 20

70
80
1  00 
1  00 
1  60
25@2 75
35@2 55

S traw berries

P in eap p le

70
75

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Runkel Bros.

German  Sweet......................  22
Premium................................  34
Breakfast Cocoa....................  45
Vienna Sw eet.....................   21
Vanilla...................................  28
Premium................................  31
Bulk........................................ 
5
B e d ................... 
7

CHICORY

 

COCOA

Webb................................... 
30
Cleveland................................  41
Epps.......................................   42
Van Houten, 4 s ....................  12
Van Houten, 14s....................  20
Van Houten, Ms....................  38
Van Houten,  is ....................  70
Colonial, Ms  .........................   35
Colonial, Ms...........................  33
H uvler...................................   45
Wilbur, Ms.............................  41
Wilbur, Ms.............................  42

CIGARS 

A. Bomers' brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Plaindealer.......................... 35 00
Fortune  Teller..................   35 00
Our Manager......................  35 00
Quintette............................   35 00
G. J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

3. C. W.................................   35 00
B. L .......................................$33 00
Gold Star.............................  35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers............. 55®  80 00
Royal  Tigerettes....... 35
Vincente Portuondo ..35© 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co.............25® 70 00
Hilson  Co.....................3G@U0 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....... 10®  35 00
Seidenberg  & Co....... 56@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................... 36® 90 00
Benedict & Co..........7.60® 70  00
Hemmeter Cigar Co...35®  70 00 
G .J. Johnson Cigar Co.35® 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  ___ 50@175 00
Bock & Co....................65(5 300 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
S tar G reen ......................35  OO

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand. 

C O FFE E
Roasted

■ _   HIGH GRADE.
Coffees

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

Less 33M  per  cent.

R io

Common................................ 10J4
F a ir....................................... 11
Choice.................................... 13
Fancy.....................................15

Santos

Common................................ 11
F a ir....................................... 14
Choice....................................15
F ancy....................................17
Peaberry................................13

M aracaibo

F a ir....................................... 12
Choice....................................16

M exican

Choice....................................16
Fancy.....................................17

G u atem ala

Choice....................................16

J a v a

African.................................. 12M
Fancy A frican.....................17
O. G........................................25
P. G........................................ 29

Arabian................................. 21

M och a

P ackage 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle.............................. 12  00
Dilworth...............................12  00
Jersey....................................12  oo
Lion.......................................11 00
M cL aughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City M  gross.............   75
Felix M gross......................... 1  15
Hummers foil M gross........   85
Hummel’s tin 4  gross........ 1  43

E x tra ct

S u bstitutes

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, 4  case..............1  75
24 packages,  1 case 
.......3  50
COCOA  SHELLS
2M
201b. bags........................ 
Less quantity..................  
3
Pound packages.............  
4
CLOTHES  LIN ES
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............l  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  
95
CONDENSED  M IL K
4 doz in case.
Gail Borden E agle............... 6 75
Crown..................................... 6 25
Daisy.......................................5 75
Champion..............................4  50
Magnolia............................... 4  25
Challenge.............................. 4 00
Dime.......................................3 35
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 re c eiv es  s p e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

COUPON  BOOKS 

C oupon  Pass  Books 
denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
50  books.........................  1  50
100  books.........................  2  50
500  books.........................  11  50
1.000  books.........................  20  00

C redit  Checks 

500, any one denom........   2 00
1.000, any one denom .......  3 00
2.000, any one denom........   5 00
Steel  punch.......................  
75
CREAM   TA RTA R
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes...... 30
Bulkin sacks.............................29

D R IE D   FR U IT S 

A pples

7M

P eel

C itron

R aisins

C u rran ts

C alifornia  F ru its

C alifornia P ru n es

Sundried.............................4®4M
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  ®5 
Apricots......................  
8®10
Blackberries...............
N ectarines..................
Peaches.......................   8  @11
Pitted Cherries........... 
Prunnelles..................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........   @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........   @ 4M
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........   @ 5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........   @ 5M
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........   @ 6
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........   @ 6M
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........   @7
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........  
8M
M cent less in 50 lb. cases 
Leghorn...................................U
Corsican..........: .......................12
Cleaned, b u lk .......................13M
Cleaned,  packages.............. 14
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 10M 
Orange American 10 lb. bx .. 104 
London Layers 2 Crown.
2  15
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown.............  
2  76
7M
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
84
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
84
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  l b .......iom@U
L. M., Seeded. M  lb __   8M©
Sultanas, b u lk .....................llM
Sultanas, package.............. 12
FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima............................  6M
Medium Hand Picked 
1  85
Brown Holland.....................
Cream of Cereal....................  90
Grain-O, sm all............................1 35
Grain-O, large............................ 2 25
Grape Nuts..................................1 35
Postum Cereal, sm all...........1  35
Postum Cereal, large........  2 25
241 lb. packages........................1 25
Bulk, per 100 Tbs......................... 3 00
36  2 lb. packages........................3 00
Flake, 50 lb. sack................... 
80
Pearl,  2001b.bbl........................2 40
Pearl, 100 lb. sack...................... 1 17
M accaroni  an d  V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............   60
Imported, 25 lb. box...................2 50

H ask ell’s W h eat F lak es

H om iny

C ereals

F a rin a

B eans

P e a rl  B arley  
Common.......................
Chester...................................2 50
Empire...................................3  10

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

24 2 lb. packages..................2  00
100 lb. kegs........................... 3  00
200 lb. b arrels.......................6  70
100 lb. bags............................2  90
Green, Wisconsin, bu......... 1  30
Green, Scotch, bu................1  35
Split, bu.................................  
3
R olled  Oats
Rolled Avena. bbl................3  60
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks 
..  2 00
Monarch, bbl........................3  30
Monarch, M bbl................... 1  80
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks......... 1  55
Quaker, cases.......................3  20
East India.............................   2M
German, sacks......................  3M
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks............... 4M
Pearl, ISO lb.  sack«...............  3%
Pearl, 24 1 lb.  packages.......  6
Cracked, bulk.......................   3M
24 2 lb. packages............>. „2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS 
VanillaD.  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

D eBoe’s

T apioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE  & JE N K S ’

JAXON

H igh est  G rade  E x tracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

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

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

Jen n in g s’

A rctic

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

B ig  V alne

f L4vor ing "ext

Standard

P errig o ’s

FLY  P A P E R

Reg. 2 oz.  D. C. Lemon__ ..  75
No. 4 Taper D. C. Lemon . . .1  52
Reg. 2oz*.  D. C.  Vanilla.... ..1  24
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla. ..2 08
2 oz. Vanilla Tonka........... ..  70
2 oz. flat Pure Lemon.......
..  70
N o rth ro p   B rand
Lem. Van.
2 oz. Taper Panel__  75
1  20
2oz. Oval..................   75
•1  20
3 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  35
2 00
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60
2 25
Van. Lem.
doz.
doz.
XXX, 2 oz. obert__ 1  25
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper— 2  25
1  25
XX, 2 oz. obert........ 1  00
No. 2,2 oz. o b ert__   75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz
2  25
XXX D D ptchr,4oz
1  75
K. P. pitcher. 6 oz...
2  25
Perrigo’s Lightning,  gro.. ..2 50
Petrolatum, per doz.......... ..  75
Sage..................................... ....15
H ops................................... ....15
Madras, 5 lb. boxes.......... ....56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes. ...5 0
5 lb. pails.per doz............
1  85
15 lb. palls........................... ..  35
30 lb. palls........................... ..  62
P u re.................................... ..  30
Calabria.............................. ..  23
Sicily................................... ..  14
Roof..................................... ..  10
Condensed. 2 doz.............. ..1  20
Condensed, 4 doz............... ..2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur.................... ..1  65
Anchor r a rlo r.................. ..1  50
No. 2 Hom e........................ ..1  30
Export Parlor.................... ..4 00
Wolverine........................... ..1 50

LICO RICE

MATCHES

IN D IG O

H ER B S

JE L L Y

LYE

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans
 

Black........................ 
 
124
1«
F a ir..................................... 
Good.................................... 
20
Fancy.................................  
25
Open K ettle........................25®34
Half -barréis 2c extra 
MUSTARD
Horse Radish, 1 doz.............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz.............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz............. 1 75
Victor, pints..........................10 00
Victor, quarts....................... 15 00
Victor, 2 quarts....................20 00

OYSTER  PA IL S

P A P E R   BAGS

Satchel 
Bottom 

H ....... .............   28
4 .....................   34
1....... .............   44
2....... .............   54
3....... .............   66
4....... ..............  76
5.....................   90
6....... ............. 1  06
8...... ..............1  28
10....... ............. 1  38
12..................... 1  60
14....... ............. 2  24
16..................... 2 34
20....... ............. 2 52
25......

Union 
Square
‘ 50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2 00
2 40
2  60
3  15
4  15
4 50
5 00
5 50

PIC K L E S
M edium

Sm all

Barrels, 1,200 cou n t___...... 4  5
Half bbls, 600 count..............2 75
Barrels, 2,400 co u n t............. 5  50
Half bbls, 1,200 count...........3 30
Clay, No. 216................ 
1  70
Clay, T. D., full count..........  65
Cob, No. 3..............................  85

P IP E S

POTASH 

48 cans in case.

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

R IC E

D om estic
Carolina head............
Carolina  No. 1 ..........
Carolina  No. 2 ..........
Broken .......................
Im p o rted .
Japan,  No.  1.............
Japan,  No.  2..............
Java, fancy head.......
Java, No. 1.................
Table...........................

,7

54@6
4 4  @5
5  @54 

5  @...  @

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3 00
Deland’s.......................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow........................3 00
Emblem.......................................2 10
L.  P ............................................. 3 00
Sodlo............................................3 00
Wyandotte, 100  Ms.................... 3 00

SAL  SODA

Granulated,  bbls..................   so
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__   90
Lump, bbls...........................  
7E
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  80

SALT

D iam ond C rystal 

Com m on  G rades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.2  85 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 50 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  50 
Butter, barrels,20 I41b.bags.2 60
Butter, sacks, 28  lbs.......... .  27
Butter, sacks, 56  lbs............  62
100 31b. sacks..........................2 15
60 51b. sacks..........................2 06
2810 lb. sacks.........................1 95
56 lb. sacks.........................   40
28  lb. sacks.........................   22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags.......  30
28 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  15
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb..dalry in linen sacks...  60 
561b. sacks....................... 
  25
Granulated  Fine....................1 20
Medium Fine...........................1 26

So lar  R o ck

Com m on

H iggin s

A sh ton

SOAP

JA XO N

Single box............................... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered.............2 96
10 box lots, delivered.............2 90

d8.8 KIRK S CO.’S BRMDS.

American Family, wrp’d... .3 «0
Dome.......................................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 X lb...............3 00
Kirkollne.............................  .3 50
Eos...........................................2 65

100 12 oz bars......................... 3  00

Single box............................3  00
Five boxes, delivered..........2 96

SOAP

A. B.  Wrisley brands—

Bell & Bogart brands-
Coal  Oil Jo h n n y __
3 90
Peekin.......................
4 00
Lautz Bros, brands—
4 00
Big Acme.................
Acme 5c....................
3 25
4 00 
Marseilles................
3 ;o
Master......................
Proctor & Gamble brands-
Lenox............................... 3 00
4  00
Ivory, 6 oz.......................
Ivory, 10 oz.......................
6 75
N. K. Fairbanks brands—
Santa  Claus...................... 3  20
2 40
Brown..............................
3  95
Fairy.................................
Detroit Soap Co. brands—
3  15
Queen Anne
1  75
Big  Bargain...............
2  15 
Umpire............................
German  ram ily.............
2  45
3 80 
Good C heer....................
Old Country....................
3  20
Johnson soap Co. br.inds-
3  60 
silver King 
..................
2 70 
Calumet Family.............
2 50
Scotch Family................
2  40
Cuba.................................
Cowans & Sons brands—
3 25
Oak Leaf.........................
4  00
Oak Leaf, big 5...............
Beaver Soapi o. brands— 
Grandpa Wonder,  large.  3  25 
Grandpa  Wonder, small.  3  85 
Grandpa Wonder,  small,
50  cakes......................   1 95
Bicker’s M agnetic.............3 90
Dlngman Suap Co. brand—
3  85
Dingman...........................
Schultz & Co. b ra n d - 
3 00
Star....................................
B. T. Babbit brand—
4  00 
Babbit’s Best...................
Fels brand—
4  00
Naptha..............................

Scouring

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

W ashing T ablets

T-V, per gross........................10 00

120 samples free.
SALT  FISH  

Cod

Georges cured.............   @4514
Georges  genuine.........  @ 5*
Georges selected........   @  554
Grand Bank..................   @4*
Strips or  bricks.......... 6  @ 9
Pollock..........................  @ 3*

H alib u t.

Strips..........................................14
Chunks...........................  
15

H errin g

Holland white hoops,  bbl. 
Holland white hoops*bbl. 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
Holland white hoop mchs.
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs......................
Bound 40 lbs.......................
Scaled................................
Bloaters...............................

11  00 
6  00 
80 
85
3  15 
1  55 
16

M a ck erel
Mess 100 lbs..............
Mess  40 lbs..............
Mess  10 lbs..............
Mess  8 lbs..............
No. l ioo lbs..............
No. l   40 lbs..............
No. 1  10 lbs..............
No. 1  8 lbs..............
No. 2 100 lbs..............
No. 2  40 lbs..............
No. 2  10 lbs..............
No. 2  8 IbS..............
T ro u t

12  00 
5  10 
1  35 
1  10 
10 50 
4 50 
1  20 
1  00 
8  50 
3  70 
1  00 
82

No. 1100 lbs........................  5 50
No. 1  40 lbs........................  2  60
No. 1  10 lbs........................  
70
No. 1  8 IttS........................ 
60

W h ite  fish

100  lbs...........   7  25  7  00 
40  lbs...........   3  20  3  10 
10 lbs............ 
85 
8 IbS............ 
71 

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 50
1  30
40
35

88 
73 
SPICKS

W h o le Spices

^ lCt...... „ ..............  
12
11
a, China In m ats......  
28
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
38
55
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna...............  
17
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
14
Mace...................................  
56
50
Nutmegs,  75-80..................  
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
40
35
Nutmegs, 115-20.................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black.  15*
Pepper,  Slngagore, white. 
23
Pepper, shot..................... 
  16*4

P u re  G round In B u lk
Allspice...............................  
Cassia, Batavia................... 
Cassia, Saigon.................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
Ginger, African................. 
Ginger, Cochin..................  
Ginger.  Jam aica............... 
Maee....................................  
Mustard..............................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, C ay en n e.......... 
¡sage..................................  

16
28
48
17
16
18
25
65
is
19
25
20
20

SE ED S

Anise........................................9
Canary, Smyrna............. .1.1  4
Caraw ay................................. g
Cardamon,  Malabar..............60
Celery.......................................
Hemp, Russian...............  " ’  4*
Mixed Bird............................  4*
Mustard, white.....................   9
Poppy......................................10
R ape......................................  44
Cuttle Bone............................ 15

ST A R CH

K in gsfo rd ’s  Corn
10 l-lb. packages................  6*
20 l-lb. packages...... ......... 
634
6 lb. packages................ 
7*
K in g sfo rd ’s S ilver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages................  
7
7*
6 lb. boxes......................... 

Com m on Corn

20 l-lb.  packages............... 
434
40 l-lb.  packages...............  4 *

Com m on Gloss

l-lb. packages.................... 
414
3-lb. packages....................  4*
6-lb. packages.................... 
5
40 and 50-lb. boxes.............  
3H
barrels...........................  314

STOVE  PO LISH

SODA

SNUFF

SUGAR

No. 4, 3 doz In case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6, 3 doz In case, gross..  7  20 
Scotch, in bladders...............  37
Maccaboy, in jars.................  35
French Rappee, in jars.......  43
Boxes.......................................514
Kegs,  English.......................   434
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New  York  to  your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  In  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds tor the  weight  of  the 
barrel.
Domino...............................  5 85
Cut  Loaf.............................   6  00
Crushed..............................  6 00
Cubes..................................  5  75
Powdered..........................   5 70
Coarse  Powdered.............  6  70
XXXX  Powdered.............   6  75
Standard  Granulated.......  5 60
Fine Granulated........ ........  6  60
Coarse Granulated............  5 70
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 70
Conf.  Granulated..............  5  85
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........   5  70
Mould A..............................  5 85
Diamond  A.........................• 5 60
Confectioner’s  A...............  5  40
No.  1, Columbia A...........   5 25
No.  2, Windsor A.............  5 20
No.  3, Ridgewood A........   5 20
No.  4, Phoenix  A .............   5  15
No.  6, Empire A ...............  5  10
No.  6..................................   5  05
No.  7................. 
4  95
NO.  8...................................  4  85
NO.  9..................................   4  75
No. 10..................................   4  70
No. 11...................................  4  65
No. 12..................................   4  60
No. 13..................................   4  60
NO. 14................................  
4  56
No. 15..................................   4  56
no. ID.....................................

 

 

SYRUPS

Corn

. ..¿8
...20
...3 1 0
...1   75
...  90

Half bbls........................
1 doz. 1 gallon cans........
i doz. *  gallon cans......
2 doz. *  gallon cans.......
F a ir.................................
. ..   16
Good................................. . ..   20
Choice.............................. . ..   25

P u re   Cane

TA BLE  SAUCES
LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........   3 75
Lea & Perrin’s,  small.......  2 50
Halford, large....................  3  75
Halford, small....................  2  25
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 56
Salad Dressing, small.......  2 75

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
Grains and Feedstuffs 
W h eat................................ 
73

TEA
Jap a n

W heat

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

G unpow der

Moyune, medium.................26
Moyune, choice.................... 35
Moyune,  fancy......................50
Pingsuey,  medium............... 25
Pingsuey, choice...................30
Pingsuey, fancy.................... 40

Y oung  H yson

In d ia

Oolong

E nglish B reakfast

Choice.....................................30
Fancy..................................... 36
Formosa, fancy..................... 42
Amoy, medium..................... 25
Amoy, choice.........................32
Medium..................................27
Choice.....................................34
Fancy..................................... 42
Ceylon, choice.......................32
Fancy..................................... 42
Scotten Tobacco Co.’s Brands.
Sweet Chunk plug............... 34
Cadillac fine cut........   .........57
Sweet Loma fine cut............38
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..li
Pure Cider, Red Star............12
Pure Cider, Robinson...........11
Pjire Cider,  Silver.................11

TOBACCO

VINEGAR

W ASHING  PO W D ER

W ICK IN G

Kub-No-More, 100 12 o z .....3 50
No. n, per gross....................20
N o.1, per gross....................25
No. 2, per gross....................35
No. 3  n«r cross........... 
55

W OODENW ARE

B askets

Bushels................................ l  10
Bushels, wide  band............1  20
M arket..................................  30
Splint, large.........................4 00
Splint, medium..................  3  75
Splint, sm all........................3  50
Willow Clothes, large.........7  00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 25
Willow Clothes,  small.........5 50
No. 1 Oval, 260 In  crate.......1  80
No. 2 Oval, 260 in crate.......2 00
No. 3 Oval, 260 in crate.......2  20
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate.......2  60
Round head. 5 gross box__  45
Round head, cartons...........   62

B n tte r  Plates

Clothes  Pins

W in ter  W h eat  F lo u r 

Local Brands

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Patents...............................  4  35
Second Patent....................  3  85
Straight...............................  3  65
C lear...................................  3  25
Graham ..............................  3  30
Buckwheat.........................  4  50
Rye......................................  3  25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond * s.......................  3  85
Diamond las.......................  3  85
Diamond  14s.......................  3  85
Quaker * s ..........................   3  90
Quaker * s..........................  3  90
Quaker 14s..........................  3  90
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 14s..........  4  65
Plllsbury’s  Best * s ..........  4 65
Pillsbury’s  Best 14s..........  4  45
Plllsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4  45 
Plllsbury’s Best las paper.  4  45 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 14s.........   4  80
Duluth  Imperial las.........   4  40
Duluth  Imperial * s .........   4  30
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  14s.....................   4  55
Wlngold  las.....................   4  45
Wingold  14s.....................  
4  35

Spring  W heat  F lo u r 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Ceresota 14s.......................   4  65
Ceresota 14s.......................   4  65
Ceresota 14s.......................   4  45
Laurel  14s..........................   4  50
Laurel  las...........................  4  40
Laurel  * s ..........................   4  30
Laurel 14s and las paper..  4  30 
Washburn-Crosby  Co.’s  Brand

jj

Prices  always  right. 
Write or wire Mussel- 
man  Grocer  Co. 
tor 
special  quotations.

M eal

Egg Crates

Mop  Sticks

Humpty D um pty............... 2 25
No. 1, complete....................  30
No. 2, complete....................  25
Trojan spring.......................  85
Eclipse patent spring..........  85
No 1 common........................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder ..  80
12  lb. cotton mop heads......1  25
P ails
2- 
hoop'Standard...................1  50
3- 
hoop Standard...................1  70
2- 
wire,  Cable....1  60
3- wire,  Cable....................... 1  85
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka.................... 2 25
Fibre.....................................2 40

F eed  an d  M illstuffs

Bolted...................................  2 00
Granulated...........................  2 10
St. Car Feed, screened__   1'8 26
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........   17  75
Unbolted Corn  Meal........   17  75
Winter Wheat Bran..........  14 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  15 00
Screenings..........................  14 00
Corn, car  lots old  ............  42
Car lots new.......................  3714
Car  lots...............................  261a
Car lots, clipped.................  28*
Less than car lots.............
No. 1 Timothy car  lots__ 11  00
No. 1 Timothy ton  lots__   12 00

Corn

Oats

H ay

•  

Toothpicks

Tubs

W ash  Boards

Hardwood............................2 75
Softwood..............................2  75
Banquet................................1  40
Ideal.....................................1  40
20-inch, Standard, No. 1......7 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2......6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3......5 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. 1............7  50
18-inch, Cable,  No. 2............6  50
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3............5 50
No. 1 Fibre........................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre........................... 7 95
No. 3 Fibre........................... 7  20
Bronze Globe........................2 50
Dewey.................................l  76
Double Acme........................2 75
Single Acme..........................2 25
Double  Peerless...................3 20
Single  Peerless.....................2 60
Northern Q ueen................. 2 60
Double Duplex.....................3 00
Good Luck..........................   2  75
Universal.............................. 2 25
11 In. B utter..........................  75
13 In. Butter..........................1  00
15 in. Butter..........................1  76
17 in. Butter..........................2  60
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......................l  00
Sunlight, 1*  doz..................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.............. 1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.............. l  00
Yeast Foam, l *   d o z ........  50

YEAST  CAKE

W ood  Bowls

H ides

Hides  and  Pelts
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No.  1........... 
Green  No. 2.............  
Cured  No.  1........... 
Cured  No. 2.............  
Calf skins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,greenNo.2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins.curedNo.2 
Pelts,  each..................  
Lamb...............................
No. 1........................... 
No. 2..........................  
Washed, fine............ 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 

& 8
& 7
@ 9
@ 8
@10
@  814
@11
@  914
50@i 25

18@20
22@24
12@14
16@18

@ 4k
@314

T a llo w

W ool

P elts

Oils
B a rrels

Eocene.........................  @1114
Perfection....................  @10
XXX W.W. Mich. Hdlt  @10
W. W. Michigan........   @914
Diamond W hite..........  @ 9
D., S.  Gas....................  @ nii
Deo. Naphtha.............   @1014
Cylinder.......................29  @34
Engine........................ 19  @22
Black, winter............  @11)4

Fresh  Meats

B e e f

6  @  8
Carcass...................... 
Forequarters..........  
514@ 6
H indquarters.......... 
7!4@  9
Loins No. 3............... 
9  @14
Ribs...........................  9  @12
Rounds...................... 
@ 7
Chucks.....................  
5!4@ 6
Plates.......................   4  @ 5
@ 6
D ressed.................... 
@ 8
Loins........................  
@  7*
Boston  Butts............ 
Shoulders................. 
@714
Leaf  Lard................. 
@ 8
M utton
Carcass..................... 
Spring Lambs.......... 
Carcass..................... 

7  @  7*
@10
8  @ 9

F o rk

V eal

8*

8* 

D ry  S alt  M eats

Sm oked  M eats 

L ards—In Tierces

@14  60 
@14  50 
@14  25 
@15 75 
@
@14 75

Provisions
B arreled   F o rk
. 
Mess...........................  .
B ack........................
Clear back.................
Short cu t..................
P ig ............................
Bean...........................
Family Mess.
Bellies.......................
Briskets....................
Extra shorts.............
Hams, I2lb.average.  @  1014
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @  10
@  9% 
Hams, I61b.average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
@  9* 
Ham dried  beef.......
@  11* 
_
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
7
Bacon, clear.............   11  @  12
California hams__
Boneless  hams.......
@  11 
Boiled Hams...........
@  15)4
Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Hams..........
@  8* 
Mince H am s..........
@  9
5%
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. Palls.. advance
Sausages
Bologna....................
L iver.........................
Frankfort.................
P o r k .........................
Blood.........................
Tongue.....................
Headcheese..............
B eef
Extra Mess...............
10  75
Boneless....................
11  00
R um p.......................
11  00
P igs’  F eet
*  bbls., 40  lbs..........
1  75
*  bbls., 80 lbs..........
3 75
T ripe
Kits, 15  lbs...............
70
*  bbls., 40  lbs..........
1  25
*  bbls., 80 lbs..........
2 25
Casings
P o r k .........................
20
Beef  rounds.............
3
Beef  middles...........
10
Sheep.........................
60
B u tterin e
Solid, dairy...............
12 *@13*
Rolls, dairy............... 13 @14
Rolls, creamery.......
19
Solid,  creamery.......
18*
Corned beef, 2 lb __
2  75
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
17  50
Roast beef, 2 lb........
2 76
Potted ham,  * s .......
50
Potted ham,  * s .......
90
Deviled ham,  * s __
50
Deviled ham,  * s __
90
50
Potted tongue,  * s..
Potted tongue,  * s..
90

1
5%
6
7*
7*
6*
9
6

C anned  M eats

Fish  and Oysters

F resh   F ish

Per lb.
White fish......................  @  10
@ 10
Trout............................   @  9
@ 9
9@ 10
Black  Bass....................9@  10
@ 15
Halibut..........................  @  15
_
Ciscoes or Herring 
@ 4*
Bluefish.........................  @  10
@ 10
Live  Lobster.................  @ 18
@ 18
Boiled  Lobster...........   @  18
@ 18
@ 10
Cod...............................   @  10
Haddock............
@ 7
No. 1 Pickerel.............   @  9
@ 9
P ike....................
@ 7
Perch..................
@ 4
Smoked  W hite..
@ 9
Red  Snapper__
@ 9
Col River  Salmon.......  @  13
@ 13
Mackerel.......................   @  18
@ 18
Per gal.
Counts................................   1 75
Ext.  Selects.........  ............  1 60
Selects...............................   1 40
Standards..............................1  20
Anchor Standards...........   1 25
F. H.  Counts............
35
30
F. J. D. Selects........
25
Selects......................
F. J. D.  Standards..
22
Anchors....................
20
18
Standards.................
Favorite....................
Shell Goods.
Clams, per 100.............
Oysters, per 100.........

O ysters  in   B u lk .

O ysters in  Cans.

161 00 

1 00

Candies
S tick   C and y

bbls.  pails

M ixed Candy

Standard...............
Standard H.  H .... 
Standard  Tw ist... 
Cut Loaf.................
Jumbo, 32 lb............
Extra H .H ...............
Boston Cream..........
Beet Root..................

Grocers......................
Competition..............
Special......................
Conserve...................
R oyal........................
Ribbon......................
Broken......................
Cut Loaf....................
English Rock............
Kindergarten..........
French Cream..........
Dandy Pan...............
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed...................;
Crystal Cream m ix..

F ancy—In  B u lk  

F a n c y —In  5 lb . B o x es
@65@80

@56
@60

29

@
@
@ 8*  
©  9 
cases 
@ 7* 
@10* 
@10 
@ 8

@ 6*  
@  7 
@7K 
@ 8*  
@  8* 
@
@ 834 
@ 9 
@  9 
@  9 
@  9* 
@10
@15*
@13

@12 
@  9* 
@10 
@11* 
@14 
@14 
@  5 
@ 9* 
@10 
@10 
@12
@12
@14
@12*
@12
@12

@90 
@30 
@75 
@55 
@60 
@60 
@60 
@55 
@55 
80  @90
@65
@65
@60

@50
55@60

@4 00 
@4 00

@
@@4  00

4  00@4  50 
3  59(a)
3  50©

1  75(0,2  00
2  00@2  25 
F ru its

San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain .......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Choc.  Monumentals.
Gum Drops...............
Moss  Drops.......... .
Lemon Sours............
Imperials..................
Ital. Cream O pera...
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. pails.............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails..................
Pine Apple Ice........
Maroons....................
Golden Waffles........

boxes.

Lemon  Sours..........
Peppermint Drops.’ 1
Chocolate  Drops__
H. M. Choc. D rops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice  Drops........
Lozenges,  plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials...................
Mottoes...............
Cream  B ar...............
Molasses Bar............
Hand Made Creams. 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt............
String Rock............
WIntergreen Berries 
C aram els 
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb. 
Penny Goods............ 
Fruits
O ranges
Florida Russett........
Florida  Bright........
Fancy  Navels..........
Extra Choice............
Late Valencias........
Seedlings..................
Medt. Sweets...........
Jam aicas..................
Rodl.......................
Lem ons
Messina, 300s...........
Messina, 360s...........
California 360s.........
California 300s..........
B ananas
Medium bunches__
Large  bunches........
F o reig n   D ried 
Califomias,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes.......................
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, in bags....
D ates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards in 60 lb. cases. 
Persians,  P .H . V ...
lb.  cases, new.......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases__
Nuts
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca.......
Alnionas, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils.......................
..................
Filberts 
Walnuts  Grenobles. 
Walnut-., soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table  Nuts,  fancy... 
Table  Nuts,  choice..
Pecais,  Med............
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
P ean u ts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Flags
Roasted.................
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
Roasted.................
Span. Shelled No. l..

F igs

6*@ 7

&

7*@ 8

30

Hardware

H o lid a y  Goods  F o r  H ard w are  D ealers.
Is 

it  desirable  to  make  a  special 

effort  to  obtain  holiday  trade?

Y es;  more 

than  desirable.  Very 
profitable,  too,  we  have  found  it,  and 
with  bright,  clean  show  windows,  a 
clean  store  and  attentive  clerks,  who 
make  themselves 
the 
goods  offered,  you  will  be  greatly  sur­
prised  to  see  how  much  you  have  in­
creased  your  profits  and  your  business 
with  comparatively  little  effort.  As  to 
what  plans  do  wide  awake  merchants 
adopt  to  build  up  holiday  business?

familiar  with 

They  are  many  and  yet  need  not  be 
laborious.  As  the  years  go  on,  satisfied 
with  your  first  experience,  you  will 
keep  adding  line  after  line,  until  your 
holiday  stock  will  have  become  as  im ­
portant  to  you  as  any  other  sesaon’s 
buying  of  the  year.

First  you  must  select  your  goods—the 
line  you  will  carry— and  whatever  you 
do,  buy  them  as  early  as possible.  They 
all  have  a  dating—many  are 
laid  away 
and  sold  ahead  of  time—and  the  fact 
that  you  have  them  in  your  house  and 
are  showing  them  is  of  itself  a  great ad­
vertisement.

As  an 

instance  at  hand,  our  entire 
stock  of  chafing  dishes  and  outfits  came 
in  by  mistake  nearly  two  months  ahead 
of  time,  hut  with  a  December  dating. 
The  result  of  having  them  in  the  house 
before  December  is  that  we  have  closed 
out  the  entire  stock  and  are  compelled 
at  once  to  order  more  for  the  holiday 
trade.

Talk  about  your  line  and instruct your 
clerks  to  make  casual  mention  of  the 
fact  to  likely  purchasers— in  particular 
speak  of  these  things  to  the  ladies  as 
you  hand  them 
their  purchases.  No 
one  can  do  you  more  good— they  don’t 
forget  and  they  tell  their  neighbors.

It 

is  a  good  plan  after  the  goods  are 
in  to  have  printed  and  mailed  to 
inter­
ested  parties  a  little  folder containing 
simply  a  list  of  holiday  goods  that  you 
w ill  offer.

For  your  skates  and  sleds  have  a good 
boy  with  printed  matter  (which  will 
nearly  always  be  furnished  by the  man­
ufacturer)  stand  at  the  school  houses 
one  afternoon  of  the  week  and  give  a 
card,  cut  or  folder  to  each  of  the  chil­
dren  as  they  come  out.  Children  never 
forget,  and,-treated  cordially  and  polite­
ly,  are  the  source  of capital advertising. 
Then,  whatever  else  you  do— and  it 
should  apply  all  through  a  business— 
advertise 
in  your  home  paper,  and,  if 
surroundings  are  large  enough,  perhaps 
in  the  nearby  papers  of  smaller  towns, 
as  the  people  always  seek  the 
larger 
during  the  holiday  season.  Your  adver­
tising  need  not  be  expensive— if  but 
single  lines. 
“ Locals”   sometimes  pay 
the  best.  You  will  be  surprised  to  find 
the  number  of  people  who  will  mention 
the  fact  of  having  seen  the  item  or 
items:  Brown  sells  the  Jones  Carpet 
Sweeper,  See  Brown’s  new  stock  of 
Crumb  Trays,  Brown  just  received  200 
pairs  handsome  Skates.

It  follows  naturally  that  after the  first 
year  people  look  to  you  for  these goods. 
They  come  in  early  and say,  “ Of course 
you  are  going  to  have  so  and  so  for  the 
holidays?”   So  they  come  back  again 
and  are  almost  invariably  the  means  of 
bringing  you  a  new  customer  for  the 
goods.

No  line  of  goods  in  the  store  pays  as 
well  as  holiday  articles. 
They  are 
turned  quickly  and,  as  a  rule,  they  go 
for  cash.

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

It 

the 

year. 

With  careful  buying  there  is  but  little 
danger  of  carrying stock  over  to  another 
year.  Even 
if  that  is  the  case,  many 
articles  in  the  fancy  goods  line  are  now 
bought  throughout 
known  that  you  keep  them,  and  it  has 
been our  almost  invariable  experience, 
in  carrying  over  forty  or  fifty  pairs  of 
carvers,  a  dozen  or  two  pearl 
table 
knives,  more  or 
less  of  plated  ware, 
from  what  may  have  been  an  unfavor 
able  season,  that  every  piece  Las  been 
sold  during  the  other  months  of  the 
year.  There  was  a  time  when  we  car 
ried  none  of  these  lin es;  now  we  feel 
we  could  not  get  along  without  them.

Don’t  fail  to  use  and  change  the show 
windows,  and  put  holiday  goods  in  the 
window  with  plain  card  prices  in  fig 
ures,  not  in  characters. 
It is  surprising 
to  note  how  often  the  silent  salesman 
completes  the  transaction 
itself,  and 
without  your  help.

What  articles  are  suitable? 

It’s 

list,  but  here  at  least  is  a  part  of 
long 
it.  Of  course  many  articles  can  be 
added  the  second  or  third  year,  or  when 
you  have  established  yourself 
in  this 
lin e :

Fancy  lamps.
Smokers’  sets.
Toiler  or  manicure  sets.
Scissor  cases.
Plated  knives  and  forks.
Carving  sets.
Chafing  dishes.
Baking  dishes.
Fancy  tea  and  coffee  pots.
Nut  picks  in  sets.
Shaving  sets.
Nickel  cuspidors.
Brass  fire  irons.
Brass  fenders.
Brass  andirons.
Satuettes.
Candelabra.
Small  clocks.
Cheap  watches.
Bronze  vases.
Small  cut  glass  pieces.
Small  mirrors.
Fruit  knives  in  sets.
Fancy  bread  knives.
Fancy  thermometers.
Boys’  sleds.
Boys’  wagons.
Boys’  velocipedes.
Skates.
Crumb  trays.
Small  sterling  silver  pieces.
Carpet  sweepers.
Coal  vases. 
Toy  wringers.
Toy  sweepers.
Food  choppers.
Tool  boxes.
Safety  razor  sets.
Bracket  saws.
Boxing  gloves.
Striking  bags,  etc.
You  will  be  surprised  to  see  how  the 
lines  will  grow  with  you  and  how  very 
many  pieces  you  will  be  able  to  order 
from  catalogue  without  the  investment. 
The 
location,  too,  may  add  quite  a 
number  not  mentioned  above since there 
is  scarcely  any  lim it.— Iron  Age.

*

T h e  W om an ’s  H ard w are  Store»

“ I  will  tell  you  of  the  hardware  store 
that  the  women  like  to  patronize,”   said 
the 
things,  “ and 
where  they  had  rather do  their  buying 
than  in  the  department  store.

lady  who  observes 

“ It  is  that  style  of  a  hardware  store 
that  seems  to  be  saying,  ‘ Come  right  in 
and  see  how  pretty  we  are.  See  how 
bright  and  cheery  we  can  make  a  lot  of 
;?oods 
look,  when  we  set  out  to.  You 
Save  no  idea  how  much  real  art  there  is 
in  hardware  manufacturing  of  the  pres­
ent  day,  until  you  have  taken  a  look  at 
our  showcases  and  shelves.’

“ That’s  the  sort  of  an  invitation  the 
women  want.  You  have  no  idea  how 
many  things  they  will  discover that they 
are 
in  need  of,  when  they  cast  an  eye 
over  a  well-selected  and neatly-arranged 
stock.  And  the  thing  that  they  see,  and 
don’t  want  to-day,  will  stick  like  a  burr

“ I 

to  the  memory,  and  when  they  do  need 
it,  they  will  know  where  it  is  to be had.
“ When  I  see  a  store  window  dark 
and  grimy,  full  of  spades  and  coal  hods 
that  iook  as  though  Noah  had  used them 
in  his  vineyard  and  for  the  ark’s  winter 
coal,  I  do  not  go  in. 
It  is  not  very  in­
viting  when  you  run  up  against  a  lot  of 
stoves  and  wheelbarrows 
in  the  door­
way.  Women  don’t  buy  these  things, 
and  when  men  want  them  they  can  go 
in  and  ask  for them.
like  to  see  a  window  full  of  bird 
cages,  shining  silver  coffee  pots,  carv­
ing  sets  in plush-lined cases,a  handsome 
lamp  here  and  there,  brass-work,  fancy 
cutlery,and  things  of  that  sort.  It makes 
you  think  of  a 
Then 
there  is  a  fascination  in those square lit­
tle  boxes  in  rows  on  the  wall,  with  a 
bright  sample  on  the  outside  of  each.  1 
always  run  my  eye  over  them,  hoping 
that  I  will  see  something  that  1  need  at 
home.

jewelry  store. 

“ Yes,  if  the  hardware  dealers  would 
pay  more attention to 1 women’s notions, ’ 
they  would  get  a  great  deal  of trade that 
now  goes  to  the  dry  goods  stores  and 
the  department  stores.”

D ifficulties o f Selling: H ard w are a t a  Profit. 
J. H. McDonald in American Artisan.

To  run  a  hardware  store  with  success 
and  profit  does  not  materially mean  that 
you  must  open  your  store  one  hour 
earlier  and  close  an  hour  later than your 
competitor,  or  sell  your, goods  cheaper, 
run  down  your  competitor  or  his 
goods.  This is  all  injustice,  and  it  sel­
dom  if  ever  wins  in  this particular busi­
ness, and  the  dents  of  its  rebounding  are 
always  deep.  Open  your  store  regularly 
and  promptly  the  same hour every morn­
ing  and  close  after  the  same  manner. 
At  all  times  be  polite  and  courteous  to 
your  customers,  and  a  little  more  so  to 
your  clerks  and  workmen,  as  they  are 
your  profit  and  success  earners.

Keep  well  posted  on  prices  and  dis­
counts;  this  will  enable  you  to  buy 
right.  And  do  not  forget  to  discount  all 
your  bills,  as  it  easily  earns  the  biggest 
profit  in  the  business.  And  do  not 
let

some  customers’  bills  run for six months 
simply  because  they  are  rated  rich,  or 
hound  some  others  because  they  have no 
rating  at  all,  but  establish  a  strict  sys­
tem  of  your  own  to  deal  with  such  prob­
lems,  and  make  it  cash  if  possible,  but 
never  more  than  thirty  days.  Always 
sell  your  goods  for  what  they  are,  as 
right  is  always  right  and  wrong  is never 
right.

So  never  be  tempted  to  sell good look­
ing  seconds  for  firsts;  by  so  doing  you 
will  establish  a  business  honor  for  your­
self  which  alone  is  constant  profit,  and 
profit  is  the  true  definition  of  success.

IË I NULITE

75!)  Candle  Power  AR C   ILLU M IN A TO R S 
Produce the  finest  artificial  light  in  the  world.

Superior to electricity or gas, cheaper than kero­
sene oil.  A 20th century revelation in the  art of 
lighting.

They darkness into daylight turn,
And air instead of money burn.

No smoke,  no  odor,  no  noise,  absolutely  safe. 
They are portable, hang or stand them anywhere.
We  also  mrnufacture  T able  Lam ps,  W all 
L am ps,  P endants,  C handeliers,  S treet 
L am ps, etc.  The best and only  really  success­
ful Incandescent Vapor Gas Lamps made.  They 
sell at sight*  Good  agents  wanted.  W rite  for 
catalogue and prices.

C H ICA G O   SOLAR  LIGHT  C O ..

81  L.  Fifth Ave. 

Chicago,  111.

Sporting  Goods,  Ammunition,  Stoves, 
Window  Glass,  Bar  Iron,  Shelf  Hard­
ware, etc.,  etc.

<a>

Foster, Stevens & Co.,

3 *»  33» 35» 37* 39  Louis St. 

10 &  12  Monroe St.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

J^ êeley
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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
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Opium,
Tobacco,
Neurasthenia

Drunken ness.  Drug  Us- 
 
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31

Is  th e  J o b b er  E ssen tial  as  a   D is trib u te r?  
•  When  speaking  of  him  as  a  distribu­
ter,  it  is  only  contemplated  that  such 
distribution  is  to  the  wholesale  and  re­
tail,  or  to  the  regular  retail 
trade, 
which  houses  in  turn  sell  to  the  con­
sumer.

this,  where  the  manufacturer  and  the 
jobber  meet  on  common  ground  in  or­
der  to  discuss  trade  questions,  we  may 
hope  to  cement  the  bond  of  union  be­
tween  them  stronger  and  stronger.

Robert  Garland.

in  hardware 

The  manufacturer  of 

to-day  who 
makes  goods  that  are  handled  by  the 
jobber 
recognizes  very 
clearly  that  there  is  only  one  successful 
way  in  which  he  can  market  his  goods. 
This  must  be  through  the  regular  me­
dium—th-  jobber.  With  a  limited  line 
of  goods,  in  many  cases  only  one  or 
two  specialties,  a  manufacturer  could 
not  afford  to  visit  every  town  in  order 
to  sell  bis  goods  in  small 
lots,  and  no 
amount  of  advertising  or  circularizing 
on  his  part,  however  catchy,  can  reach 
the  small  trade  in  the  effective  manner 
in  which  the  jobber  reaches it  by  means 
of  his  efficient  corps  of  traveling  men, 
who  naturally  have  a  great  deal  in  com­
mon  with  the  retail  houses,  visiting 
them  at  regular  intervals  and  inviting 
their  attention  to  a  full  line  of  goods. 
There  are  other  questions 
involved 
which  might  well  be  brought  up  while 
this  subject 
is  under  discussion,  and 
one  of  these  is  where  to  draw  the 
line 
as  to  this  distribution  of  the  goods  of  a 
manufacturer.  There  are  large  users  of 
manufactured  goods  who  prefer  buying 
direct  from  the  manufacturer.  For 
in­
stance,  the  railroad  and  car  companies, 
the  wagon  and  agricultural  implement 
manufacturers,  as  well  as  others  who 
lines  for  sale  and 
manufacture  certain 
only  purchase  goods  for  use 
in  their 
own  works  or  factories.  This  is  a  trade 
that  the  manufacturer  must  deal  with 
direct,  so  that  the  subject,  Is  the  jobber 
essential  as  a  distributer?”  has  its  lim i­
tations  as  well  as  its  reservations.

Without  question  the  manufacturers 
will  prefer  to  allow  present  conditions 
to  exist,  selling  to  the  jobbers  at  suffi­
ciently  favorable  prices  to  allow them to 
sell  to  the  retail  trade,  the  manufacturer 
keeping  strictly  away  from  the  smaller 
trade ;  or  if ‘at  times,  from  the  nature  of 
his  business  or  under  certain  circum­
stances,  he  must  sell  this  small  trade, 
preserve  a  proper differential 
in  order 
to  protect the jobber,  the  jobber,  by  rea­
son  of  his 
larger  quantity  purchases 
and  the  fact  that  he  is  a  distributing 
medium,  being  entitled  to  such  protec­
tion.

the 

to  protect 
its 

This  disposition  on  the  part  of  the 
jobber 
manufacturer 
should  have 
consideration.  He 
should  buy  from  the  manufacturer  in 
bulk  and  in  good  round  lots,  paying  ex­
tra  when  he  buys 
in  broken  packages. 
And  he  should  place  bona  fid 2  orders  or 
contracts  with  the  full  intention  of  tak­
ing  out  the  goods  instead  of considering 
such  an  order  for  goods  as  simply  an 
option  to  be  taken  out  to  the  last  pound 
on  an  advancing  market  and  to  be  can­
celed  in  case  of  a  decline. 
It  is  not  on 
this  basis,  gentlemen,  that  the manufac­
turer  buys  his  material  or  pays  for his 
labor.  The  guarantee  against  decline 
is  another  consideration  that  the  manu­
facturer  generally  gives  the 
jobber,  al­
is  a  rare  exception  when  the 
though 
manufacturer  can  insert  this  clause 
in 
the  purchase  of  his  material.

it 

And  yet,  notwithstanding the  fact  that 
contracts  are  often  options  only  and 
prices  are  guaranteed,  and  twenty  days 
is  oftentimes  mistaken 
for  ten  in  the 
discounting  of  his  bills,  we  must  stick 
to  the 
jobber  and  decide  in  his  favor 
as  the  proper  distributing  medium,  as 
we  believe  he  means  well,  and  through 
the  influence  of  just  such  gatherings  as

P o in t  P o r  Tow n   B oom ers  to  Consider.
A  movement  has  been  started  in  one 
of  our  large  cities  to  encourage  the 
lo­
cation  there  of  new  manufacturing  en­
terprises.  The  times  are  deemed  pro­
pitious  to 
inaugurate  an  undertaking 
of  this  kind.  Hitherto  the  real  estate 
interests  of  that  city  have  not  attempted 
concerted  action 
in  building  up  their 
manufacturing  industries,  but have  been 
satisfied  with  what  was  being  done 
through 
Believing 
is  needed  to 
that  a  strong 
awake  real  estate  speculation 
in  their 
locality,  and  observing  that  other  places 
have  accomplished  much  through  an  or­
ganization  of  the  interests  to  be  directly 
benefited,  they  propose  to  set  to  work  in 
this  way  as  quickly  as  possible  while 
the  elements  of  prosperity  are  in  full 
swing  and  the  future 
is  bright  with 
hope.

individual  effort. 

impetus 

its 

there. 

located 

It  may  seem  harsh  to  criticise  such 
a  project.  Those  who  are  promoting  it 
have  unbounded  faith  in  their city,  and 
so  far  as 
its  location  and  commercial 
advantages  are  concerned  it  is  certainly 
a  most  advantageous  point  for  many 
manufacturing  lines.  It enjoys  excellent 
transportation  facilities,lies  within  easy 
reach  of  cheap  fuel  and  abundant  sup­
plies  of  raw  materials,  is  blessed  with 
a 
fair  climate  and  is  central  to  a  very 
large  population  of  the  best  character to 
form  a  good  market  for  any  manufac­
tured  product.  Nevertheless, 
ap­
parent  advantages  are  clouded  by  one 
serious  drawback,  which 
is  so  serious 
it  outweighs  them  all  in  the  esti­
that 
mation  of  important  manufacturing 
in­
terests  already 
This 
drawback  is  the  disposition  of  the  city 
authorities  to  dally with lawlessness.  In­
stead  of  enforcing  the  city  ordinances 
impartiality,  compelling  all  citi­
with 
zens  to  respect  the 
law,  securing  to 
every  man  his  rights  as  a  freeman,  per­
mitting  no  special  privilege  to  any  set 
of  persons  and  sternly  repressing  dis­
order,  the  authorities  of  this city actual­
ly  confess  themselves  powerless to estab­
lish  more  than  a  pretense  of  good  gov­
ernment.  Outrages  of  almost  every 
character  are  of  daily  occurrence, 'and  a 
labor  trouble  is  the  signal  for  a  general 
upheaval  of  the  riotous  element.  Per­
son  and  property  are  far  from  safe  at 
any  time,  but  when  a  labor  trouble  de­
velops  the  arm  of  authority 
is  palsied 
and  efforts  to  repress  disorder are feeble 
indeed.  The  state  of  affairs 
is  such 
that  important  manufacturing  establish­
ments,  long  located  in  the  city,  have re­
moved  from  it  to  other  points  having no 
better  advantages  save  in  the  one  par­
ticular  of  greater, safety  to  person  and 
property.

It  is  to  the  correction  of  such  condi­
tions  that  town  boomers  should  address 
their  best  energy  before  embarking  in  a 
campaign  of  solicitation  of  new 
indus­
tries.  A   number  of  cities  and  towns 
will  be  found  to  which  the  foregoing 
description  can  be  fitted.  Their  indus­
tries,  and  consequently  their  population 
and  commercial  interests,  are  not  grow­
ing  as  they  should,  because  those  in­
trusted  with  the  management  of  civic 
affairs  are  not  fearless  in  the  discharge 
of  their  duties  and  prompt  to  maintain 
the  rights  of  all  citizens.  The  favor  of 
the  lawless  element  is  sought  for  politi­
cal  reasons,  and  the  good  of  the  com-

In 
leaders 

ignored. 
labor 

every 
labor 
munity 
is 
trouble  the 
themselves 
discountenance  violence  and  urge  the 
preservation  of  order.  Why, 
then, 
should  city  authorities  hesitate  to  act 
with  vigor  and  repress  all  outbreaks? 
Every  consideration  of  duty  demands 
irrespective  of  the 
that  they  should, 
gravity  of  the  business 
in­
volved.— Iron  Age.

interests 

An  American  minister  who  recently 
visited  Ireland  says  he heard  a  preacher 
conclude  his  sermon  with  these  words : 
‘ ‘ My  brethren,  let  not  this  world  rob 
you  of  a  peace  which  it  can neither give 
nor  take  aw ay.”

Hardware  Price Current

A u g u rs   an d  B its

Snell’s ..................................................... 
Jennings  genuine.................................  
Jennings’ Imitation...............................  

A x es

B a rro w s

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.................. 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze................. 
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel................. 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel.................... 
Railroad................................................  
• 
Garden................................................... net 
B o lts
Stove......................................................  
.............................. 
Carriage, new li=* 
P lo w ............ 
 
 
B a ck e ts
WeU, p la in ............................................ 

 

 

B u tts,  Cast

Cast Loose Pin, figured....................... 
Wrought N arrow .................................  

60
26
50

7 00
11  50
7 76
13 00
17 00
32 00
60
70&10
50

$400

66
60

C artrid ges

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

 

 

 

40&10
20

 

Com.
BB..
BBB

C hain

5-16 'u.

H In.
7  c.  ...  6 * .... . 5 C . .
814  ■..  714
834
..  734 
C row bars

.  6J4 
.. .  6% 

%  in. Min.
..  434c.
•..  6
. ..  6M

Cast Steel, per lb,

Caps

Ely’s 1-10, per m ..................................... 
Hick’s C. F., per m ...............................  
G. D., p erm ...........................................  
Musket, per m........................................ 

Socket F irm e r......................................  
Socket Framing..................................... 
Socket Comer........................................ 
Socket Slicks.......................................... 

C hisels

Elbow s

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz.................net 
Corrugated, per doz.............................. 
Adjustable............................................ dls 

E xpansive  B its

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

F iles—New  L ist

New American...................................... 
Nicholson’s ............................................. 
Heller’s Horse Rasps............................ 

G alvanized  Iro n

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

15 

14 

13 

Discount,  70

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

Ganges

Glass

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

H am m ers

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

6

66
66
45
75

66
66
66
65

65
1  25
40&10

40
25

70&10
70
70

28
17

60&10

85&20
85&20
85&

33%
40&10
70

Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3.................................dis  60&10

H in ges

H o llo w   W are

P0t8..............Z..............................*......... 
K ettles.................................................... 
Spiders..................... 

 

 

H orse  N ails

Au Sable..................................................dis  40&10
Putnam.....................................................dls 
5

H ouse  F u rn ish in g  Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list..................  
Japanned Tinware................................. 

70
20&10

Iro n

Bar Iron................................................. 2 25  c rates
Light Band............................................  
3 c rates

K n o b s—N ew   L ist

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........  
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.........  

L an tern s

L evels

M attocks

Regular 0 Tubular, Doz........................ 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount................. 

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

Adze Eye...................................$17 00. .dls

M etals—Z in c

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

Sheet  Iro n

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 
Loaded with  Nitro  Powder................dis 

40
40&10

Shot

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

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  D oz................................  
Second Grade, Doz............................... 

1  46
1  70

8  00
7  50

Solder

21
M@M......................................... 
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Squares

Steel and Iron........................................ 

T in —M elyn   Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal................................. 
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................. 
20x14 IX, Charcoal................................. 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

T in —A lla w a y   G rade

10x14 IC, Charcoal................................. 
14x20 IC, Charcoal................................. 
10x14 IX, Charcoal................................. 
14x20 IX, Charcoal................................. 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

50&10
50&10
50&10

B o ile r  Size  T in   P la te  

14x56 IX, for No.8Boilers,)
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, \ per pound" 

Traps

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

W ire

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

 

W ire   Goods

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

W renches

75
85

5 00
6 00

70

70—10
7%
8

M iscellaneous

Bird Cages............................................  
40
Pumps, Cistern.....................................  
75
Screws, New L ist.................................  
go
Casters, Bed and Plate........................  60&10&10
Dampers, American............................. 
go

M olasses  Gates

Stebbins’ Pattern.................................. 
60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring.................. 
30
Fry, Acme.......  .....................................  60&10&10
Common,  polished...............................  
70&5
P a ten t  P lan ish ed   Iron  

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 2f  9 75 

Pans

Broken packages Me per pound extra.

Plan es

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

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

N ails

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......................................  
Casing 10 advance............. ..................  
Casing 8 advance..................................  
Casing 6 advance................................... 
Finish 10 advance................................. 
Finish 8 advance................................... 
Finish 6 advance................................... 
Barrel  % advance.................................  

R ivets

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

Roofing  P lates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean.....................  
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.....................  
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.....................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  G rade... 
14x20 IX,Charcoal, Allaway  G rade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  G rade... 
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway  G rade... 

Ropes

Sisal, M inch and larger....................... 
Manilla................................................... 

Sand  P ap er

List  acct.  18, ’86.................................... dis 

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

Sash  W eigh ts

60

60
60
so

2  65
2  E5
Base
e
10
20
30
45
70
so
15
25
35
26
35
45
85

50
45

6  50
7  60
13 00
5 50
6  60
11  00
13 00

8%
12

60

2500

66

$850
8  50
9  75

7  00
7  00
8  50
8  50

10

40&10
65
15
1  25

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

80
80
80
80
30
30

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

32

T h e  G ra in   M a rk et 

Wheat  has  been  very  tame  during  the 
week.  Prices  have  advanced  some,  but 
the  market,  being 
lifeless,  closed  to­
day  for  option  wheat  the  same  as  one 
week  ago. 
In  cash  wheat  there  is  more 
doing.  No.  2  red  is  2c  over  December 
options.  Receipts  are  growing  less,  in 
winter  as  well  as  spring  wheat. 
In  the 
Northwest  the  receipts  were  about  two 
thirds  of  what  they  were  one  year  ago. 
Export  shipments  are  fair,  being  nearly 
the  4, 000,000  bushels  marked 
for  the 
week,  notwithstanding  the  bear  clique 
tried  to  make  out  that  there  is  no export 
demand.  The  visible  made  a  small  de­
crease  of  100,000  bushels,  against  an  in­
crease  of  1,935,000  bushels  for  the  cor 
responding  time  last  year.  There  is  but 
little  wheat 
in  the  Northwest  that  will 
come  up  to  grade,  and  had  the  North­
western  mills  been  in  full  operation,  the 
visible  would  have  shown  a  decrease  of 
over  1, 000,000  bushels.  However,  as 
wheat  is  one  of  the  cheapest  commodi­
ties  we  have,  there  may  come  a  change 
over  the  wheat  bears  that  they  will  not 
relish.

The  corn  corner  has  at  last  material­
ized,  so  much  so  that  November  corn 
sold  to-day  at  5°c>  while  December  was 
only  36^0,  and  the  end  is  not  yet.  Geo. 
H.  Phillips,  the  young  plunger  in  corn 
has  the  corn  market  well  in  hand.  He 
is  said  to  have  5,ooo,000 to  6,000,000 
bushels  bought  around  353i'@36c.  As 
there  is  hardly  1,000,000  bushels  of con­
in  Chicago,  the  bears  are 
tract  corn 
scurrying  around 
for  com,  as  there  is 
no  stock  of  old  corn  of  any  amount  any­
where,  so  they  have  tried  to convert No.
3  into  No.  2  grade.  However,  this  does 
not  work,  as  about  20,000  bushels  were 
found  mixed  with  inferior  com  to  have 
it  pass,  in  consequence  of  which  two  of 
inspectors  were  debarred  from  in 
the 
specting  com 
for  the  next  ten  days. 
The  damp  weather  has  also  worked  in 
the  com  king  s  favor.  As  an  example, 
out  of  350  cars  received  in  Chicago, 
only  thirteen  were  of  contract  grade. 
It 
looks  like  a  pretty  squeeze  which  will 
net  Mr.  Phillips  about  $250,000,  if  not 
more.  The  December  shorts  are  like­
wise  beginning  to  feel  uneasy  at  the 
situation,  as  the  market  is  largely  over­
sold,  and  the  present  outlook 
is  any­
thing  but  flowery  for  the  corn  shorts 

oats;  8  cars  of  com ;  1  car  of  buck­
wheat ;  8  cars  of  potatoes.

Potatoes  can  not  be  classed  as  grain. 
However,  we  report them,  as  the amount 
is 
large  and  the  trade  want  to  know 
about  potatoes.

Millers  are  paying  73c  for  No.  2  red 

and  No.  1  white  wheat

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

O u r  G rea t  F o reig n   Trade.

It 

loans  are  sought 

is  not  surprising  that  European 
countries  should  seek  to  raise  loans  in 
the  United States  when  one  consider  the 
immense  trade  balances  against  them 
which  the  people  of  the  United  States 
have  accumulated.  Those  who  imagine 
that 
in  this  country 
merely  because  money  is  more  plentiful 
here  than  elsewhere  have  not  grasped 
the  full  significance  of  the  movement. 
The  truth  is  that  money  is  borrowed 
in 
this  country  in  order  to  stop  the  ship­
ment  of  gold  from  Europe  here,  and  as 
far  as  possible  turn  the  flow  of  the  yel­
low  metal  in  the  other  direction.

With  every  possible  expedient,  how 
ever,  the  balance  of  trade  continues  to 
pile up  in  our  favor.  Not  only  was  the 
total  of  exports  for  October  the  largest 
for  any  October  on  record,  but  the  total 
for  the  ten  months  of  the  calendar  year 
ending  with  October  has  been  the 
larg­
est  in  the  history  of  the  country.

The  total  exports  during  the  month  of 
October,  as  shown  by  the  records  of  the 
Treasury  Bureau  of  Statistics,  were 
63.093,597,  or  practically  double  the 
exports  of  October, 
1894,  when  they 
were  $83,653,121.  The  total  for  the  ten 
months  ending  with  October,  1900,  is 
Sb 194.775.205,  or  practically  double 
that  of  the  ten  months  ending  with  Oc­
tober,  1894.  Exports  exceeded  imports 
during  the  ten  months  ending  with  Oc­
tober  by  practically  five  hundred  mil 
lion  dollars,  or,  to  be  exact,  $499,667, 
936;  while 
in  the  corresponding  ten 
months  of  1894 imports exceeded exports 
by  $96,663,365.  The  year  1900  will,  for 
the  first  time  in  the  history  of  our  com­
merce,  show  an  export  of  more  than 
$100,000,000  value 
in  every  month  of 
the  year;  while,  for  the  first  time,  a 
single  month  October,  1900—-passes  the 
one  hundred  and 
fifty  million-dollar 
line,  being,  as  already  stated, $163,093,- 
597. against  the  highest  preceding record 
in 

S134.157.225,  which  was  made 

March,  1900.

Oats,  contrary  to  expectations,  are ex­
tremely  strong.  Prices  are  more  than 
yic  up.  The  visible  of  December  oats 
showed  a  decrease  of  1,063,000  bushels. 
Where  that  went  is  a  question.  Prices 
are  very  firm  at  present.

Rye  has  been  uninteresting.  Prices 
declined  another  ic  per  bu.  With  slack 
demand,  prices  will  seek  a  lower  level 
Flour  has  remained  steady.  There 
is  no  shading  of  prices  at  present  and 
there  will  not  be  in  the  near  future,  as 
sated 
last,  on  account  of  the 
scarcity  of  wheat.

in  our 

feed 

M ill 

is  also 

in  good  demand, 
prices  being  $15  per  ton  for  bran  and 
$16  for  middlings.  The demand  exceeds 
the  supply.

There  is  nothing  new,  as  to  the  grow­
ing  wheat  crop,  except  that  the  wheat 
fields  do  not  seem  to  be  in  as  good  con­
dition  as  they  were  last  year  in  Ohio, 
Indiana  and  Michigan,  while  Tennessee 
makes  bitter complaints,  claim ing  that 
the  fly  has  injured  the  crop  40 per cent., 
and  many  of  the  farmers  have  plowed 
their  wheat  up  and  have  sown  rye  or 
will  sow  oats  next  spring.  We  must 
hope  for  the  best.

Receipts  of  grain  here  have  been  as 
follows:  79  cars  of  wheat;  3  cars  of

A ll  the  great  branches  of  agriculture 
and.  industry  have  contributed  to  this 
increase.  While  the  totals  for  October 
have  not  yet  been  completed  in  detail, 
those  for  the  nine  months  ending  with 
September  show  that  the  exports  of  ag­
ricultural  products  are 
fifty  millions 
greater  than  in  1899,  manufactures  sixty 
millions  greater,  products  of  the  mine 
seven  millions  greater  and  products  of 
the  forest  five  millions  greater.  The  ex­
ports  of  cotton  have  contributed  not  a 
little  to  this  result.  During  October 
alone  $60,000,000  worth  of  cotton  was 
exported,  as  against  $28,000,000  worth 
in  October,  1899.

With  such  an  immense  export  move­
ment,  it  is  not  astonishing  that  Europe 
has  become  anxious  as  to  its  gold  sup­
ply  and  should  resort  to  every  possible
t h if  d\am  rC uhCA  ,to  keeP  tije  g °]d  on 
that  side  of  the  Atlantic  or  to  draw 
it 
there,  where  it  is  needed

After  a  protracted  series  of  experi­
ments 
it  has  been  decided  to  establish 
telephonic communication between  Eng­
land  and  Belgium,  to  be  opened  to  the 
public  about  Feb.  i,  i q o i .  The  Belgian 
bne  will  start  from  La  Panne,  near  the 
rrench  frontier,  and  will be  about  forty- 
five  miles 
long.  The  tariff  is  fixed  at 
#*•93  Per  three  minutes.

T h e  D iv o rce  F rauds.

Throughout 

The  divorce  frauds  that  have been  ex 
in  New  York  City  are  not  alto­
posed 
the 
gether  astonishing. 
country 
it  is  well  known  that  there  are 
many  evils  in  connection  with  the  legal 
practice  in  divorce  proceedings.  There 
are  thousands  of  cases  in  which  decrees 
have  been  granted  that  are  of  extreme­
ly  doubtful  validity.  Any  kind  of  a  de- 
cree  appears  to  answer  the  purpose  for 
those  who  wish  to  be  relieved  of  their 
marriage  obligations  in  order  to  enter 
upon  new  relations.  The  secrecy  that 
surrounds  the  trial  of  divorce  suits  un­
doubtedly  facilitates  fraud  in  many 
in­
If  the  referee  can  be  deceived 
stances. 
or  if  he  can  be  induced  to  wink  at 
ir­
regularities  there  is  no  chance  that  the 
fraud  will  be  discovered.  The  sugges­
tion  has  been  made  that  a  special  court 
officer  be  employed  to  investigate  d i­
vorce  cases  and  be  provided  with  am­
ple  power  to  disclose  the  facts,  however 
unwilling  the  parties  might  be  to  have 
them  known.  This  remedy,  however, 
has  its  objections  and  would  not  prove 
wholly  effective.

law  uniform 

In  the  opinion  of  men  who  give  the 
subject  careful  consideration,  the  best 
thing  to  do  is  to  put  all  divorce  matters 
under  the 
jurisdiction  of  the  United 
States  courts  and  to  pass  in  Congress  a 
divorce 
in  all  the  states. 
The  authority  of  state  courts  is  limited, 
while  that  of  the  United  States  courts 
covers  the  country.  Abuses  that  pre 
vail  under  present  conditions,  which 
differ  in  every  state,  would  largely  dis­
appear  under  the  operations  of  a  gen 
eral 
law  applying  to  every  state  and 
territory.  Measures  may  be  adopted  by- 
state  legislatures  that  will  check  the  d i­
vorce  evil,  but  a  uniform  divorce  law 
offers  the  only  true  solution  of  the  prob­
lem.  The  revelations  in  the  metropolis 
will  serve  a  useful  purpose 
if  they 
hasten  a  movement  in  this  direction,  it 
can  not  be  supposed  that  the  country 
will  much  longer  endure  such  practices 
or  continue  conditions  under  which they 
are  possible.

T h e  H en's  G ift  to   th e   Nation.

laid 

Fairly  reliable  statistics  show  that 
13,°oo,oo°,000  of  hens’  eggs  will  have 
been 
in  the  United  States  during 
the  year  1900—a  startling estimate truly, 
inasmuch  as  these  eggs,  stood  one  on 
top of another point to butt, would make a 
column  461,648  miles in altitude  - nearly 
twice  the  height  of  the  moon  from  the 
earth  when  that  orb  is  seen  overhead. 
1 he  annual  value  of  this  product  ex­
ceeds  that  of  any  mineral  except  coal 
and  is  greater  even  than  that  of  our  pig 
iron. 
6

thf.d T.e^ % m e^te  Wl11  h®  Inserted  un d er 
fhi83 i ead  fo!!  tw o   cents  a   w ord   th e  first 
in sertion   and  one  c ,n t   a   w ord   fo r  each 
subsequen t  in sertion .  No  ad vertisem en ts 
less  th an   2&  cents.  A d v an ce 
ta k en   fo r 
paym en ts.

BU SIN E SS  C H A N CE S.

t

S

P ^ „ ^ Á X E = ñ J L L   BLOODED  ORANGE 
weiirhínd»wiD^!?i?n^a,ed % ’. twelvft  months  old;
Â Æ
  Address  N°*  60'’  ^are
F H ?   ®ALE  AT  A  BARGAIN  FOR  CASH— 
A ,   Harness shop, building and  stock-  onlv  one 
Mich?11’  g00d trade-  Address Box 3 \   Pompeii?
r OF  HARDWARE  AND  IMPLE- 
yP  m®nts for sale In a thriving  Southern  Micht- 
x?n town;  also store  to  sell  or  lease  Address 
No. 600, care Michigan Tradesman 

F (?.?_1*_A-L e7 "A,  HBDG, W ALL  PAPER  AND 

ORSALK  ---------------------

cate§*lrPni£^F)i!h' ?r ^iu  sel1  either  alone;  lo- 
ln one of the business  towns  of  Southern 
^ e a r s ^ L r *1  -trade’c  been  established
a big bargain for first  applicant;  obliged 
io go South on  account  of  health;  wish  to le t 
F O y R ^   ooMw0^
F. o . B., care Michigan Tradesman 

  yy ri te  at  once 
597

& n

592

590

________ ]___________  

Fo r   s a l e - s t o r e   b u il d in g   c e n t r a  l-
ly located in  first-class  business  town.  Un- 
stafrs rooms  finished  in  modern  style.  Owner 
wishes to  go  West.  Address  Box  462,  Shelby, 
603
F OR  s a l e —g o o d , c l e a n   s t o c k   h a k ii-
ware, from *3,000 to *3.500, In one  of  Michi­
gan s best small towns; best location;  low  rent- 
9?.!y 
»hop;  no  traaes;  best  of  reasons  for 
selling.  Address E. W., care  Michigan  Trades-
man.
599
Fo r   s a l e - s t o c k   o k  g r o c e r ie s ,  d r y  
goods and shoes  inventorying  about  $2.500 
enjoying lucrative  trade  in  good  country  town 
nty.  mll“ „iE°m  Grand  Rapids*  WiH 
nS aa« budding.  Buyer can  purchase 
team  and  peddling  wagon,  if  desired.  Tern s. 
half  cash,  balance  on  time.  Address  No.  592. 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
W E  HAVE A FINE TEAM OF 6-YEAR-OLD 
. 
horses, weighing about  2,400  pounds;  also 
harness  and  wagon.  Will  exchange  for  sound 
u.UfhiLed^r shin?ie£-  We als° have two good lots 
this city worth $300 each.  Will  exchange  for 
5,h|a£les.  C. C.Folmer & Co ,  Shingle  Dealers, 
fxrand  Rapids.  Mich. 
I 
S7 ^ KE FOR SALE IN  GOOD  TOWN
in Southern  Michigan  of  1.500  population. 
n ^ ? t«ean f tock an? BOod established business; 
?BHwt n? ;al?vent,0>ries S5-000-  Good reasons for 
selling.  Address Borax, care  Michigan  Trades-
555L________ ________________________   596
F°v.K  SALE  — A  GENERAL  STOCK  OF 
x  hardware,  harnesses,  cutters,  sleighs,  bue- 
and farming implements, surrounded 
i£ ,??°.lf a r cing.eountry in Northern  Michigan, 
“ {“ t h e   sold  at  once.  Address  No.  595, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
F * °JL .lA*iE ~   g e n e r a l   MERCHANDISE
4   *tock,-„lnvo‘cing  about  $7,000;  stock  in  A1 
fhape;  selling about  $25,000  a  year,  with  good 
fronts;  trade established over  twenty  years-  a 
*!e re *o r a hustler,  terms,one-half  ea.h 
down, balance one and two  years,  well  secured 
hy  real  estate  mortgage;  also  store  building 
and fixtures for sale or exchange for good Grand 
fill^ s'd e n c e  property  on  East  Side;  must 
he  free  from  debt  and  title  perfect.  Address 
No. 520. care Michigan  Tradesman. 
ITGK  SALE-A  COMPLETE  BAKERY  AND 
ion ii.u ™b 
including oven,-  capacity,
ea?silv *fin 
'w rix ®11 ,for $M) 
cash.  Worth 
W rtte a t once.  Thompson Bros. & 
Co., Newaygo. Mich._____________  
W '  ANTED — MERCHANTS  TO  CORRE- 
» »  spond with us who wish to sell  their entire 
Enterprise  Purchasing 
Co., 153 Market St., Chicago, Ilf
STOCK 
INVOICING 
jl  $2.000, in good corner store in the  best  town 
in W estern Michigan.  The  best  of  reasons  for
selling
Address No. 583, care Michigan Trades- 
man.
f t EyRRAL  STOCKS»  O*  CLOTHING,  SHOES 
and dry goods, 70 cents  on  the  dollar,  hard­
i e
r
“ ™1  and  grocery  bargains,  for  sale 
e-I*? trade.  Clark’s  Business  Exchange,  Grand 
twipiuS. 
F0lC  RENT—A  GOOD  BRICK  STORE  IN 
business  town  on  Michigan  Central 
Railroad; good living rooms above; good storage
w )CiSL ^ateri»^nK  electric  1'gbt.  Address 
box 298, Decatur, Mich, 
F ° S   SALE-COMPLETE  22  FOOT,  TWO 
™ivC£Lin<ier,£k* 
Sswoltae  launch;  in  water 
monti s 5  regular  price  $650.  Will  sell

------- ‘ “ w  mvo*  vi  icaauuh  IUI

5 -o

583

587

585

588

594

595

1383

A vaPDetroit,SMich:  *  
I  U'OR  SALE—ONE  SET  DAYTON  COMPUT- 
and one  medium-sized  safe.  Ad- 
dress 0. L.  Dolph, Temple, Mich.
„ RGg .  RRNT , o r   s a l e —ste AM
T
T
heat- electric lights,  hardwood  floors,  eteV; 
located in Bessemer, Mich., county seat  Gosrebic 
M k*^'  Address  J -  M-  Whiteside,  Bessemer,
UXIR  SALE  OK  EXCHANGE  FOR  GEN- 
fa™ecrai i St^?!k»,?i  Merchandise—Two  80  acre 
A1a a ^ ,ubi® ^ reb u ild in g .  Good trading 
point.  Address No. 388,  care  Michigan  Trades*

ggg
OF  GOODS
A  . “f.Ahy hind, farm or city  property  or  manu- 
facturing plants,  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ei- 
for our free 24-page catalogue of 
i-StLS?»  and business chances.  The Derby  & 
Choate Real Estate Co,, Lansing, Mich. 
I  If10!1  SALE  CHEAP — $2,000  GENERAI 
8'  Address  No.  240, ^ r e
1 M l c C S S

____ . 

259

MISCELLANEOUS.

W   ANTED—A  POSITION  AS  CLERK  OR 
hla  fiff^Pager in gfoeery  or general store;  have 
years  experience;  speak  German! 
Scandinavian;  30years  old;  want  steady  posl- 
S l? :  ^ t H x ^ h n e e s .   Address,  John  C. 
Peterson, 315 6th street, Manistee, Mich. 
605
W nWt KàìrA  REGISTERED  d r u g  
¿ ! Ä e y   kitcrhDCeSreqU,red-  Barber^ * g
\lf A N T E D - SITUATION  AS  CLERK  OK 
v v  manager of general store.  Nine years’ ex- 
perjence.  Can give  good  references.  Address, 
J, C. Cameron.  Millbrook. Mich. 
W A,NTED—POSITION  IN  DRUG  STORE- 
.V . nineteen years’experience:  good reference’ 
Address Box 36. Walkerville. Mich. 
593  ‘

593

Dissolution  of  Copartnership.

The firm of Wellbrook  &  Hayes  has  dissolvali 
partner-hip by mutual consent:A  (L W eX ro^k 
purchasing the interest of R.  B.  Hayes  and con- 
tinuing the  grocery business  under  thè  style  of 
A-  ?- .Wellbrook.  Mr.  Wellbrook  assumes  all
formarbfliiifs a? d ^cqulre8 411  the  assets  of  the 
former firm and releases Mr. Hayes from pavtna
WeUbrook°& HayestS 
by
A.  G.  WELLBROOK. 

°f  eDtered 

Rockford, Mich., Nov. 26, 1900.

