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Eighteenth  Year

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  13,1901.

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Buy  Trust  Rubbers

if  you  believe  your  interests  will  be  best  served  by  having  an 
unscrupulous  monopoly  control  the  manufacture  of  Rubber 
Footwear. 
remember  past  experience!
We  are  not in  the  trust  and  intend  to  stay  out,  but  the  sup­
port  of  the  retailer  is  of  vital  interest  to  us.

Don’t  be  deceived; 

Our  Prices will  be  as  low  or  lower  than  those  quoted  by 
the  trust  on  their  standard  brands  and  the  high  quality  of  the 
line  will  be  maintained.

The  Beacon  Falls  Rubber  Shoe  Co.,

207  and  209  Monroe  Street,
Chicago,  Illinois

Don’t  forget that we  have the finest line of  Felt and  Sock  Combinations 

ever shown  at bottom  prices.

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It  doesn’t  make  much  difference  what  a  merchant  takes  up  to  push. 

It  must  be  good,  but  no  matter  how  good,  it  must  have  be-  \

hind  it  a  pushing  dealer who  genuinely  believes  in

Good  Goods

instead  of cheap  goods. 

In

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we  have  goods  of quality.  They  are  without  question  the  best  goods  made  in  this  country.  W e  solicit  a  trial.

PHELPS,  BRACE  & e©.,  Detroit,  Michigan

The  Largest  6igar Dealers  in  the  Middle  West

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W e  are  doing  a  splendid  business  in  our  Perfection  Brand 
Spices  because  the  merchants  who  handle  them  find  they  are 
as  represented— pure  and  unadulterated. 
If  you  are  not  handl- 
ing  them  you  should  for  they  are quick sellers and profit earners. 
Manufactured  and  sold  only  by  us. 

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LANSING,  MICHIGAN

MICA 

AXLE 
GREASE

has become known on account of its  good  qualities.  Merchants  handle 
Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get for 
their money.  Mica is the best because  it  is  made  especially  to  reduce 
friction, and friction  is  the  greatest  destroyer  of  axles  and  axle  boxes. 
It' is becoming a  common  saying  that  “Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
required for satisfactory lubrication as of any other axle  grease," so  that 
Mica is not only the best  axle  grease  on  the  market  but  the  most  eco-. 
nomical as well.  Ask  your  dealer  to  show you  Mica  in  the  new white 
and blue tin packages.

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

WATER WHITE  HEADLIGHT  OIL  IS THE 

STANDARD  THE  WORLD  OVER

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Powder

W ill in  future  bear  this  special  label  to  meet  un­
fair  and  unjust  attacks— you know what  we  mean:

The powder  in  this  can  con­
tains no alum and is composed of 
the most wholesome ingredients 
as understood by  the Pure Food 
Laws.

W e count on  the  help  of  Dealers  because 
the  Dealers  can  absolutely  count  on  us  to 
maintain  price,  profit  and  quality.

Home  Office, 80 West  street,  New York. 

523 Williamson Bl’dg, Cleveland. 
Indianapolis. 
Cincinnati 
Grand Rapids 

Western Office,
Branch Offices: 
Detroit
Fort Wayne
Columbus

Capital  apd  Bfaips

These  attributes  are  essential  to  a  grocer  in  transacting  business, 
but  to  G E T   A L L  YO U R  P R O FIT  and  economize your  time  it  is 
necessary to  secure  a

Stijnpson  Cojnputipg  Gfoceps’ Scale

They  are  better  than  an  extra  clerk  and  will  make  you  more 
money  than  most  salesmen.  They  absolutely  prevent  the  most 
minute loss  and  are  superior  to  all  other  scales  on  the  market. 
Ask  for  further  information. 

It’s  to your  advantage.

THE  W.  F.  STIM PSO N  CO.
DETROIT. MICH.

Volume XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  FEBRUARY  13,1901.

Number 908

A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer  In

Cigars and  Tobaccos,

157 E.  Fulton  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Knights of the  Loyal Guard

A  Reserve Fund  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 u p re m e   C o m m a n d e r  in   C h ie f.

Perfection Time 
Book and Pay Roll

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

Barlow  Bros.
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

CITIES

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

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

Established 1841.

R.  a .  DUN  &  CO.

Wlddicomb  Bid’s;,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

L.  P.  WITZLEBEN,  Manager.

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Nearly  all  kinds,  for  all  seasons,  for 
Men, Boys and Children.  Meet
W ILLIAM   CONNOR

who  will  be  at  Sweet's  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids, February 9 to 20, and you will see 
a  large  line  of  samples  to  select  from. 
Customers’ expenses allowed.  Or  if you 
prefer,  write  him,  care  Sweet’s  Hotel, 
and he will call on you.  He pays prompt 
attention to mail orders.

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2.  G e ttin g   th e   P e o p le .
3.  A lo n g   th e   S tre e t.
4 .  A ro u n d   th e   S ta te .
5 .  G ra n d   R a p id s   G o ssip .
6.  R e p re s e n ta tiv e   R e ta ile rs .
7.  S a la b le   S h ap e.
8.  E d ito r ia l.
9.  P ro b le m s   o f T a x a tio n .
12.  S h o es  a n d   R u b b e rs .
14.  D ry   G oods.
1 5.  C lo th in g .
16.  H a rd w a re .
17.  H a rd w a re   Q u o ta tio n s .
18.  C le rk ’s  C o rn e r.
19.  W in d o w   D re s sin g .
2 0 .  W o m a n ’s  W o rld .
2 2 .  B u tt e r   a n d   E g g s.
2 3 .  T h e   N ew   Y o rk   M a rk e t.
24.  V illa g e   Im p ro v e m e n t.
25.  C o m m e rc ia l  T ra v e le rs .
26.  D ru g s   a n d   C h e m ic a ls.
2 7 .  D ru g   P r ic e   C u rre n t.
28.  G ro c e ry   P r ic e   C u rre n t.
29.  G ro c e ry   P r ic e   C u rre n t.
3 0 .  G ro c e ry   P r ic e   C u rre n t.
3 1.  B e e a k iu g   D o w n .
3 2.  T h e   G ra in   M a rk e t.

A D A P T A B IL IT Y   O F   W O M E N .

One  of 

the  things  that 

is  always 
charged  against  a  woman as a weakness, 
whereas  it  should  be  credited  to  her  for 
a  virtue,  is  her ability  to  change.  What 
she  is  to-day  is  no  indication  of  what 
she  was  yesterday  or  prophecy  of  what 
she  will  be  to-morrow,  and  this  fact  not 
only  robs 
life  of  much  of  its  dulness, 
but  gives  every  woman  an additional  in­
terest  by  making  her  a  never-ending 
puzzle.  We  all 
laughed  at  the  clever 
speech  of  the  man  of  the world  in  “ The 
Ambassador”   who  said  that  he  “ had 
written  250  sonnets  to  as  many  different 
women,  or  to  the  same  woman  in  250 
different  moods,”   but  the  cynicism  has 
the  very  heart  of  truth  in  it. 
It  was  her 
variety  that  was  the  perpetual  charm. 
No  lover  could  possibly  go  on  writing 
verses  to  the  same  woman  in  the  same 
mood. 
thing 
would  be  fatal.

The  monotony  of  the 

If women are  adaptable  everywhere,  it 
is 
in  America  that  they  have  brought 
the  art  of  lightning  changes  to  perfec­
tion.  Nowhere  else  is  Fortune  so  fickle 
as  it  is  with  us,  and  we  are  accustomed 
to  the  family  who  were  poor  yesterday 
being  rich  to-day,  or  the  ones  who  were 
rolling  in  wealth  and  splendor  suddenly 
becoming  reduced  to  penury.  Men  find 
it  hard  to  meet  these  altered  conditions 
and  it  is  no  uncommon  thing  to  see  the 
husband  and  father  looking  like a  clown 
in  the  palace  that  his  genius  in  money­
making  paid  for,  but  all  that  his  wife 
and  daughters  need  is  time  to  pull  off 
their  kitchen  aprons  and  roll  down  their 
sleeves,  to  look  and  conduct  themselves 
as  if  they  had  always  had  a  maid  to  do 
their  hair  and  a  buttons  at  the  front 
door. 
In  the  reverses  of  fortune  it  is 
women,  too,  that  rise  quicker  to  the 
occasion.  Far  more  men  than  women 
succumb  under the misfortune of poverty 
and  bad  luck.

Another  curious  phase  of  women’s 
adaptability  is  in  the  power  they  seem 
to  have  to  meet  a  new  physical  demand 
or  ideal.  One  year  women  will  all  be 
plump  and  well-fed  looking,  the  next, 
as  in  the  present  season,  they  will  have

a 
lean  and  hungry  look.  Fashion  de­
crees  a  certain  figure  and  women  con­
form  to  the  mandate.  A  decade  back 
when 
languorous  grace  was  demanded 
and  every  man  described  his  sweetheart 
by  the  epithet  “ little,”   we  had  a  gen­
eration  of  diminutive  women,  with fairy 
like  hands  and  feet.  Now  the  tall, 
statuesque  Gibson  type  is  in  the ascend­
ency,  literally  and  figuratively,  and  we 
are  confronted  on  every  hand  with 
daughters  of  the  gods  divinely  tall  and 
most  divinely  fair.  Where did they come 
from?  What  has  become  of  the  little 
ones?  Has  adaptable  woman  achieved 
a  miracle  and,  by  taking  thought,  lit­
erally  added  to  her  stature?

Nor  is  this  all.  Any  observing  person 
must  notice  that  any  much  pictured  so­
ciety  woman  or  popular  actress  will  set 
a  fashion,  so  that  all  at  once  whatever 
was  her  distinguishing  characteristic— 
raven  locks,  golden or  Titian  hued  hair, 
pale  complexion,  thin 
lips,  big,  inno­
cent  looking  eyes,  or  what  not—will  be 
as  common  as 
its  opposite  was  six 
months  before.  Whatever  type  happens 
to  strike  popular  fancy 
lovely  woman 
seems  able  to  evolve  at  a  moment’s  no­
tice.  All  this  only  shows  her  adaptabil­
ity  and  suggests  anew  how  much  we  are 
indebted  to  her  for that  variety  that  is 
the  spice  of  life.

Likewise,  whatever 

There  is  no condition to  which  the  in­
dividual  merchant  may  properly  aspire 
that  the  association  of  retail  dealers  can 
not  legitimately  espouse.  Whatever 
is 
right  and  proper  for  the  individual  is 
equally  the  proper  province  of  the  asso­
ciation. 
is  not 
proper  for  the  individual  is  not  proper 
for the  association.  Honesty  is  honesty, 
whether 
individual 
or  applied  to  a  collection  of  individ­
uals,  and 
is  very  necessary  that  this 
fact  should  be  kept  constantly  in  mind, 
because  any  attempt  to  overstep 
the 
mark  invariably  leads  to  disaster.

restricted 

to  the 

it 

It 

is  a  very  common  thing  after  a 
man  dies  to  undertake  to  prove  him  in­
sane,  provided  his  will  is  not  satisfac­
tory  to  all  of  those  who  expected  to  in­
herit  handsome  sums  from  the  testator. 
Some  curious  claims  are  put  forward  in 
this  connection  on  which  to  predicate 
mental  unsoundness.  A  case  recently 
came  up  in  New  York  where  one  of  the 
principal  supports  for the  lunacy  theory 
was  proof  that  the  deceased  had  com­
pelled  his  wife  to  wear  the  same  hat  for 
nine  years,  and  that  he  had  undertaken 
to  inaugurate  a  movement  to  have  the 
show  windows  of  the  big  stores  shut  out 
from  public  view,  so  that  the 
ladies 
would  not  be  tempted  to  extravagance 
by  the displays made therein.  Of course, 
such  a  man  must  have  been  erratic  and 
his  principles  were  calculated  to  make 
him  unpopular  with  that  part  of  the 
population  which finds  pleasure  in  look­
ing  in  at  the  shop  windows  and  which 
usually 
irresistible 
temptation. 
Presumably  there  are  a 
great  many  men  in  this  country,  most 
of  whom,  by  the  way,  are  not  million­
aires,  who  would  be  very  glad indeed  to 
see  the  gorgeous  displays  of  the  dry 
goods  store  windows  abolished,  and  if 
that  could  be  done  they feel  certain they 
could  save  a  great  deal  of  money. 
It 
will  be  a  thousand  years  and  more  be­
fore  that  undertaking  will  be successful.

therein  an 

finds 

is  now  alive. 

So  fatal  have  the  endless  and  most ex­
hausting  duties  of the  office  of Governor 
of  Indiana  proved  during  the  past  ten 
years  that  not  an  ex-Governor  of  that 
State 
In  this  time  four 
men  have  been  called  to  discharge  the 
duties  of  the  office,  and  three  of  them 
were  comparatively  young,  were  in  ro­
bust  health  when  they  succeeded  to  the 
office,but  gave evidence of failing health 
before  the  close  of  their terms.  The 
people  demand  too  much  of  their  Gov­
ernors  aside  from  the  executive  work 
pertaining  to  the  office.

The  first  reform  which  is  usually  un­
dertaken  by  new  associations  is  that  of 
shorter  hours and early closing.  Twenty- 
five  years  ago  no  grocery  store  or  meat 
market  in  Gand  Rapids  closed  before 
10  o’clock.  Now 
it  is  very  unusual  to 
find  a  store  of  either  class  open  after 
6 :30  down  town  and  7  o’clock  in  the 
outlying  districts. 
impos­
sible  to  find  a  grocery  store  or  meat 
market  open  on  Christmas  or  Fourth  of 
July  and  seldom  afternoon  on  the  other 
holidays  of  the  year.  Such  a  thing  as 
Sunday  traffic  in  meat  and groceries  has 
practically  disappeared.

It  is  almost 

The  everlasting,  universal,  apparently 
inborn  tendency  to  fraud  and  humbug 
in  this  country  has  its  latest  illustration 
in  an 
imitation  vaccination  scar  that 
can  he  bought  for  a  dime  and  pasted  on 
the  arm. 
is  meant  to  fool  the  in­
spector,  not  the  smallpox.

It 

New  York  commission  merchants  are 
sending  representatives  to  Cuba  to  pur­
chase  produce  for  shipment  to this coun­
try. 
It  is  believed  that  Cuban  products 
in  large  quantities  will  soon  make  their 
appearance  in  Eastern  markets.

Systematic  protection  of  the  forests 
against  fire  is  an  issue  before  the  New 
Jersey  Legislature.  The  total  forest  area 
of  New  Jersey 
is  more  than  2,000,000 
acres,  which  is  believed  to  be  larger  in 
proportion  to  its  size  than  that  of  any 
other  Middle  State.  The  proposed  pre­
ventive  measures  will  follow  the general 
lines  of  a  suggestion  made  by  Gifford 
Pinchot,  an  authority  on  forestry,  which 
involves  a  system  of  fire  lanes,  to  he 
patrolled  daily  by  wardens.

The 

legal  rate  of  interest  in  Canada 
is  now  5  per  cent.,  the  reduction  from 
6  per  cent,  having  been  made  by  a 
statute  of  the  dominion  which  went  into 
effect Jan.  1.

The  Solvay  Process  Co.,  of  Wyan­
dotte,  claims  to  be  abie  to  produce  re­
fined 
illuminating  gas  at  13  cents  per 
thousand  feet.

The  trouble  the  ship  subsidy  bill  is 
giving  the  Senate  is  nothing  to  what  it 
would  give  the  Treasury  if  it  became  a 
law.

Ambition  in  the  true  sense inspires us 

to  noble  deeds.

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Getting the People

S o m e th in g   to   S e ll  a n d   S o m e b o d y   to   S e ll 

I t   T o.

Advertising 

is  an  efficient  factor  in 
business  success  when  the  value  of  a 
pull  all  together  is  appreciated.

It  is  not  enough  that  the  aspirant  for 
mercantile  success  comes  to  a  sudden 
and  heroic  resolve  that  he  will  adver­
tise.

For advertising  to  be  successful  there 
must  be  the  most  careful  conservatism 
and  correlation  of  all  the  elements  oper­
ating  to  bring  lucrative  returns  from  a 
business.

There  must  be  goods  to  sell. 

I  re­
member  an  instance  in  the  experience 
of  an  old  Grand  Rapids  medicine  ad­
vertiser.  He  had  a  new  preparation 
nearly  ready  for  market  and  thought  it 
would  be  well  to  make  a  start  in adver­
tising.  As  a  beginning  he  took  $1,000 
space  in  one  of  the  Chicago  dailies.  By 
some  means  he  was  delayed  in  prepar­
ing  his  packages  so  that  the  advertise­
ment  had  done  its  work  before  he  was 
ready.  He  said 
it  would  have  been 
much  better  for  him  had  he  made  a 
bonfire  of  the  money.  Not  only  was  the 
correspondence  a 
loss  and  annoyance, 
but  the  premature  publicity  gave  the 
preparation  such  a  black  eye  with  the 
trade  that  he  was  compelled  to  change 
its  name  before  he  could  push 
it  to 
success. 
incident  he  has 
something to  sell  before  he  advertises it.
The  successful  advertiser  makes  ad­
vertising  a  part  of  his  business.  He 
makes 
it  a  means  of  reaching  his  con­
stituency.  It  necessarily  follows  that  he 
must  have  a  constituency.  Now  a  con­
stituency  in  trade  is  a  collection  of  con­
sumers  which  can  be  reached  by public­
ity.

Since-  that 

The  reaching  of  such  a  constituency 
is  a  gradual  work. 
It  is  useless  to  ad­
vertise  unless  the  business  is  so  consti­
tuted  and  so  conducted  as  to  command 
trade.  The  new  merchant,  or the  mer­
chant  newly  come  to  the  knowledge  of  a 
buyer,  is  on  trial.  If  the  promises  made 
by  the  advertisement  are  carried  out  the 
merchant  meets  the  trial  successfully 
and  gives  value  to  the  advertising. 
If 
his announcements  are  of  the  best  goods 
at  fair  prices,  and  he  makes  them good, 
his  advertising  space  will  be  a  gold 
mine. 
If  he  advertises  big  bargains, 
and  gives  big  bargains,  he  will  gain  a 
clientage  of  bargain  hunters,  and  if  he 
strikes  a 
it  will  be  thin,  or  poor, 
ore.

lead 

in  welcoming 

Advertise  when  you  are  ready,  be 
ready  when  you  advertise.  Have  the 
conditions  of  your  business  such  that 
you  can co-operate in every possible  way 
— in  good  values,  in  prompt  and  cour­
to  a 
teous  treatment, 
bright  and  attractive  store, 
in  mani­
interest  in  the 
festing  an  appropriate 
welfare  of  the  customer, 
in  widening 
personal  acquaintance— in  short,  leav­
ing  no  stone  unturned  to  gain  a  favor­
able  standing  with  those  you  desire  for 
customers.  It  is  not  enough  to  do some­
thing  remarkable  to  get  talked  about; 
the  successful  advertiser  must  be  talked 
about  in  the  right  way.
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I 

strongly  suspect  that  Warner  & 
Sackett  are  the  victims  of an  aspiring 
printer’s  devil  with  a  chisel.  The  re­
ductions  of  the  advertisement  do  not 
give  the  characteristics  of  the  cuts  of 
brooms,  which  appear  to  have  been 
made  of  inverted  wood  type. 
is  not 
worth  while  to  produce  such  ridiculous 
makeshifts  when  a  few  cents,  properly

It 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

B R O O M S !

The* best three sewed  carpet  broom,  made  of  a 

good quality of corn with nice straight handies at

15  cents.

We  have  10  dozen  of  these  brooms  which are 

good valves at 25c.  While they last they go at

15 cents.

Good Four Sewed  Brooms................................. 35c
Good Three Sewed Brooms................................35c
Good Four Sewed  Brooms................................. 25c
Good Three Sewed Brooms.......................  
... 30c

Warner  &  Sackett.

the  best wo/k at the lowest prices?

the best goods at the  lowest  prices?

Do  You  Want

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A  Good 
Resolution

That will  be  easy  to  keep 
from economy  and  exped­
iency  alone  is  to  nse  no 
tools but those

Made B y  The Best...

Manufacturers,  and  made  from  the  best  steel,  with 
finest hardwood handles, such as we  keep  at  all  times 
in our superior stock.  Carpenters  and  builders  know 
that we keep a superior line of tools, at  all  times,  and 
at prices above competition.

Drury  &  Kelley  Hdw. Co.
Hand Sleds

With  solid'steel  bodies—Sleds  that  will 
stand  the  wear  and  tear  for  years.  We 
have  them  in  two styles  and  will  sell  them 
this  week  at  $1  and  $1.25.  Remember 
these are  not  ordinary  sleds—They  are  the 
best  and  stoutest  sleds  made  and  are  just 
the  kind  for  a  lively  boy  or  girl  to  knock 
around.  They  won’t  break 
them  either, 
unless they use an ax.

S o ld  a t . . .

BEMENT’S  RETAIL  STORE

Tooth
Brush
Economy.

We have  tooth  brushes  for  fire 
and  ten cents  that are  sold  for 
double the  price  in  some  placet. 
Extra good ones  for fifteen cents, 
splendid  value«  for  the  money, 
but  we do not  urge  the  sale of 
any of  these  because  real down­
right  economy comes  iu  buying 
something  a . little  better.  We 
would advise you to pick a btuah. 
costing  25c  or  more  for  two 
reason

F irst— Four l e d h.arc  worthy 
of  the  best  brush  made.  The 
better the brush  the more perfect 
its work.
.S econd — The  higher  grade 
brushes  are  guaranteed  to  give 
long and  perfect service.

W i l c o x   &   G o d d i n g ,

Druggists.Ward
Brothers

Are  Buying  Hardwood 

Logs  and  are 

Paying

$ 7.00 
Thousand

p e t

For  No.  I  Hard  Maple 

Logs  141-2 Feet 

in  Length.

AT  THE 

GATE  OF  1901

W e  wish to   commence 
the  new  century  as  we 
have ended  the  old  one 
and  will  mi-6 no  uppor* 
tunity  to  secure  fo r  o u r 
custom ers  the  finest  of 
m ea ts gruw n  in country 
and  w hatever  ib  offered 
will  be found  in  the pink 
of condition, new enough

P elts,  a 
them to 
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expended,  will  obtain  suitable  cuts. 
The  large  display  line  is  much  too large 
and  black.

is  not  enough  room 

I  should  say  of  the  announcement  of 
A.  B.  Hull  that  the  statements  of  the 
writer  are  too general  and  pointless  to 
gain  attention.  The  propositions  are 
too  self-evident. 
In  the  composition 
there 
inside  the 
border.  Where  a  border  is  composed  of 
such  large  characters  it  is  necessary  to 
have  enough  white  space  to  prevent  the 
border  and  display  type  from  looking 
all  mixed  up.  The  body  type  should 
have  been  smaller  to  admit  more  white 
around  it.

The  Drury  &  Kelley  Hardware  Co. 
presents  an  advertisement  having  ele­
ments  of  value  and  yet  I  note  one  or 
two  faults.  The  display  is  good  and 
the  type  is  not  so  heavy  as  to  injure  the 
cut  and  the  white  is  well  proportioned, 
but  I  notice  that  the  writer  has  repeated 
himself  in  the  last  two  sentences  badly. 
The  advertisement  is  written  to  fit  the 
cut,  which  is  often  done  at  the  expense 
of  strength.  The  cut  would  have  been 
more  appropriate  had  it  been  designed 
for  this  century  instead  of  the  last.

Bement's  Retail  Store  has a well-writ­
ten  and  well-displayed  advertisement. 
The  heavy  type  and  broad  white  help 
out  the  black  border, but I  think  a  light­
er  display  would  conduce  more  to  the 
good  appearance  of  the  paper and  be 
fully  as  effective.

Wilcox  &  Godding  write  a  good  ad­
vertisement 
is  to  be 
changed  every week,  and the  compositor 
has  done  his  work  well.

for  one  which 

Ward  Brothers’  log  buying notice is to 
the  point,  but  I  think  the  object  aimed 
at  would  have  been  better  served  with 
a 
larger  display  of  “ buying  hardwood 
logs’ *  and  a  less  one  of  Ward  Brothers.
I  have  already  criticised  the  adver­
tisement  of  H.  Roe  &  Son,  but  it  is 
again  presented.  I  think  the  opening  of 
the  wording 
is  just  as  bungling  as  it 
was  before  and  there  is  an  unpleasant 
suggestion  in  “ We  want  your  hides.’ ’

C o n s ta n t  A d v e rtis in g   E c o n o m ic a l.

satisfy 

A  New  York  clothing  merchant  ad­
vertised  extensively  and  regularly in the 
newspapers  during  the  first  year  of  his 
business  career,  and  then,  having  suc­
ceeded  in  winning  a  satisfactory  trade, 
adopted  the  plan  of advertising  only  oc­
casionally.  Business  did  not  continue 
to 
the  merchant,  and  after 
eighteen  months  he  found  it  was  neces­
sary  to  do  all  his  work  over  again. 
“ It 
cost  more  to  re-establish  myself,”   he 
said  to  an  advertising  agent,  “ than  it 
would  if  I  had  continued  to  take a  rea­
sonable  amount  of  space  every  day  the 
year around;  but  the  lesson  has  been 
worth  its  cost.”

Windows  Steam?

It’s a nuisance which our preparation  will re­
move.  Your windows will remain clear as  crys­
tal.  Have put it Into practical use ourselves for 
a long time.  Guaranteed  to do all we claim for 
it.  Easily applied.  Price  $1.00 postpaid.

B.  R.  SMITH, Box 695, Marshall, Mich.

We make a specialty of

Pure  Rye  Flour

We have the best equipped mill  in Mich­
igan for this purpose.  Write  for  prices. 
We deal direct with merchants.
Olsen & Youngquist,  Whitehall,  Mich.
O A   A MONTH
t a   v C   is  all it costs for the 
CAS  LIGHT

VERY  BEST

equal  to  10 or 13  coal oil  lamps 
anywhere if yon will get the
for Agency.  B r il lia n t  G a t   L a m p . 
BrilUant Gas Lamp Co., 42 Stab, Chicago

ALONG TUE  STREET#

Sidelights  F am iliar  to the Observant Mer­

chant.
Written for the Tradesman.

Not  earlier than  8  o’clock,on  a  week­
day  morning,  is  there  much  astir.  True 
the  stores  are  open  and  the  early  cus­
tomers  by  that  time  have  come  and 
gone,  but  by  8  o'clock  things  are 
settling  down  for  the  business  of the day 
and,  after  that  hour,  the  storekeepers, 
ready  now  for  all  customers,  have  no 
longer  that  “ What!  you  here  at  this 
time  of  day?”   look  which  earlier  their 
faces  are  sure  to  put  on.  On  Saturday 
morning  the  air  was  burdened  with  the 
heartiest  of  How-are-yous?  It  was  full 
of  the  best  of  good  cheer.  Young  fel­
lows,  with  their heads  burrowed  in  high 
coat  collars  and  with  gloved  hands 
scornful  of  pockets,  hurried  along  want­
ing  to  know  how  the  other  fellow 
liked 
it  and  the  responsive,  “ She’s  a daisy !” 
in  the  cheeriest  tones declared,  better 
than  anything  else  could,  what  a  clear, 
crisp,  cold  and  delightful  winter  morn­
ing  it  was,  to  be  sure !

The 

idea  was  not  confined  to  the 
young  people,  either.  There  was  an  oc­
casional  careworn  face, utterly  oblivious 
of  the  winter  ozone  and  its  exhilarating 
effect,  among  the  men  whose  brown  was 
mingled  with  the  gray,  but  for the  most 
part  the  frosty  air,  that  had  been  taking 
such  liberties  with  cheeks  and  ears  and 
noses,  called  out  the  cheerful  greeting 
as  they  met  and  parted.  There  is  some­
thing  especially  pleasing in manner and 
voice  when  middle  age  slaps  middle 
age  on  the  shoulder  with  a  “ Hello,  old 
man!”   or  “ Jack !”   or  “ Tom !”   as  the 
case  may  be.  How  the  keen  air  reminds 
them  of  “ that  time,  you  know, ” —and 
the  other  fellow  always  does  know 
when  the  same  cold  and  the  same  snow 
and  the  same  hilarity  had  the  upper 
hand,  as  they  have  now,  and  they  were 
somewhere  and  something  excessively 
funny  happened  which  they  have  not 
forgotten  and  never  can  forget.  They 
pass  on  together,  shoulder to  shoulder, 
the  gioved  hand  finding  its  old  restful 
place  on  the  other’s  coatsleeve.  The 
day  and  the  week  will  end  all  the  more 
pleasantly  for this  chance,  cheery  meet 
ing  and  they  who  come  in  contact  with 
these  a 
later  when  each  has gone 
his  way  will  wonder at  the  added  sun 
shine  which  has  come  in  with  them this 
morning.

little 

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in 

A  grocery 

isn’t  a  bad 

is  not  a  bad  place  at  any 
time  in  which  to  watch  and  be  amused 
but  when  a  good  cold  morning  is abroad 
it 
idea  to  get  into  a  nook 
where  one  need  not  be  in  the  way  and 
take  in  what  comes  along.  Here  are  to 
be  found all sorts and conditions of worn 
en.  The  raiment  sometimes  tells  that, 
the  voice  frequently  adds  its  testimony 
and  the  giving  of  the  order finishes  the 
business.  The  rank 
life,  so  far as 
we  have  any  such  thing,  need  never to 
be  taken  into  account;  and  here  is  the 
place  for  the  greatest  surprises.  The 
woman  who  has  just  stepped  from  her 
carriage  is  not  always  low  voiced—“ an 
excellent  thing 
in  woman” —and  she 
with  the  black  alpaca,  whose  grocery 
order  is  the  simplest  and  plainest,  has 
something 
in  manner  and  gentleness 
which  the  carriage-riding  woman  will 
never  possess  although  she  have  the 
world’s  wealth  at  her  command.  But  il 
is  the  medium—not  the  “ happy  me 
dium, ”   however— which  always 
fur 
nisbes  the  expected  amusement.  She 
brings  a  breeze  with  her,  and  in  other 
ways  is  sure  to  make  her  presence  felt 
She  brushes  rudely  past  Mrs.  Carriage

is  cleaner 

Woman  and  looks  upon  Mrs.  Real  Blue 
Blood  with  unconcealed scorn.  She  calls 
the  clerk  by  his  first  name  and  loudly 
delivers  her  order,  giving  ultimatum 
fter  ultimatum  if  each  item  isn’t  “ way 
up  and  a  good  deal  better  than  the  last 
ordered.  Mind,  now!”   She  is  the 
class  that  wants  to  know  what  she  is 
buying  and  insists  on  sampling  it.  She 
pinches  the  pickles  and,  removing  the 
vinegar  from  her  fingers  in  her  mouth— 
nothing 
than  a  person’s 
mouth,  you  know!— she  tests  with  those 
same  fingers  the  cheese,  and  with  her 
thumb-nail  scoops  a  sample  particle 
from  the  dairy  treasures  before  her.  She 
finds  everything  charged  at  “ the  top 
notch”   and  she  likes  to take  clerk  and 
storekeeper  down, 
if  she  can’t  their 
prices,  by  telling  them  how  much  better 
she  can  do  by  trading  somewhere  else. 
To  get  rid  of  her,  customers  coming  be­
fore  her  give  way  and,  when  she  goes 
out  as  she  came  in,  all  parties  breathe  a 
sigh  of  relief  and  business  goes  briskly 
on.  The  woman  who  “ just  likes  to 
make  things  stand  ’round”   is  the  terror 
of  this  day  and  generation  and  the  re­
moval  or the  suppression  of  her  will  be 
found 
the  hardest  problem  to  solve 
which  the  old  century  has  left  to  the 
new.

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indeed 

is  often—always, 

A  specimen  of  the  would-be  country 
dandy  appeared  on  the  street  this  morn 
ing.  There  are  two  kinds  of  him—he 
of  the  super-dainty  class,  for whom there 
is  no  help  or  hope,  and  the  one  who 
likes  to  come  in  “ just  as  he  is,”   to 
show  his  independence  and  at  the  same 
time  have  it  perfectly  apparent  to  “ the 
madding  crowd”   that  he  “ belongs  to 
the  bon  ton”   and  knows  a  thing  or  two 
even  if  he  says  nothing  about  it.  This 
last  is  of  the  wholesome  order  and  was 
the  one  who  came  in  this  store  “ just  as 
he  was.”   There  is  nothing  bad  about 
him.  He 
conceited ;  but  that  is  no  objection—the 
world  gauges  the  strong  character  ac 
cording  to  its  own  standard  always  and 
the  conceit  dwindles  finally  into  a  fai 
amount  of  self-respect.  The  young  fel 
low  was  “ good  and  tall,”  a  rapid  grow 
er  and  so  a  little  stooped,  with  a  swing 
to  his  walk  and 
inclined  to be  slow 
There  wasn’t  quite  coatsleeve  enough 
and  the  vest  and  trousers  had  been  hav 
ing  a 
lively  neighborhood  quarrel  and 
during  a  truce  were  keeping  from  each 
other as  far  as  possible.  The shoes were 
good, 
made  no  odds” — the  hat  was  a  good one 
and  not  faded;  but  the  sign  of  gentility 
upon  which  the  good  looking  young  fel 
low  was  priding  himself  was  the  sharp 
crease  in  his  trousers  and  their  decided 
tum-up  at  the  bottom.  Without  the 
turn-up  they  were  hardly  long  enough 
With  it—and  they  were  deeply  turned— 
there  was  an  unfortunate  display  of  gor­
geous  stocking  not  at  all  in  harmony 
with  the  unassuming  trouser-leg  above 
or the  unpolished  shoe below.  Long be­
fore  five  years  from  now  that  good  fel­
low  will  have  come  to  his  senses,  and 
then 
if  those  stockings  should  ever  be 
referred  to  he  will  give  a  long  hearty 
laugh,  as  honest  as  it  is  hearty,  and just 
as  heartily  say,  “  What-a-great-big-fool- 
I-was!”   This  kind  of  boy,  when  he 
gets  over  his  foolishness—and  they  al­
ways  do—is  generally  the  kind  that 
matures  slowly  and  then  takes  up  the 
burdens  of  life  and  determinedly carries 
them  to  the  successful  end.  This  boy 
will,  and  the  man  rather  inclined  to 
laugh  at  him  now  may  be  glad,  one  of 
these  days,  that  he  used  to  know  him.
R.  M.  Streeter.

long  neglected— 

although 

Erom   the  State  to  tlie  Township  System.
The  officers  of  the  Michigan  Retail 
Grocers’  Association  have  placed  in  the 
hands  of  Hon.  Samuel  W.  Mayer,  chair­
man  of  the  Legislative  Committee,  the 
following  draft  of  a  bill  amending  the 
present  law  relating  to  the 
licensing 
and  regulation  of  country  peddlers :
An  Act  to  License  the  Business  of 
Hawking  and  Peddling  Goods, 
Wares  and  Merchandise  in  the  sev­
eral  Townships  of  this  State.

Section  i.  The  People  of  the State  of 
Michigan  enact,  That 
it  shall  not  be 
lawful  for  any  person  or  persons  to  en­
gage 
in  the  business  of  hawking  and 
peddling  goods,  wares  or  merchandise, 
by  going  about  from  door  to  door or 
from  place  to  place,  or  from  any  stand, 
cart,  vehicle,  or  in  any  other  manner  in 
the  public  streets,  highways  or  in  or 
upon  the  wharves,  docks,  open  places 
or  spaces,  public  buildings  or  public 
grounds  in  any  township  in  this  State, 
without  first  having  obtained  from  the 
township  board  of  the  township  where 
such  business 
is  to  be  carried  on,  a 
icense  therefor.
Sec.  2.  Before  such  license  shall  be 
granted,  the  applicant  therefor  shall  pay 
into  the  treasury  of  such  township,  to 
be  placed  to  the  credit  of  the  contingent 
fund,  such  sum  as  shall  be  fixed  by  the 
in 
township  board,  which 
townships 
having  a  population  of 
less  than  one 
thousand  shall  not  exceed  five  dollars ; 
in  townships  having  a  population  of 
not  less  than  one  thousand  nor  more 
than  twenty-five  hundred  shall  not  ex­
ceed  twenty-five  dollars,  and  in  town­
ships  having  a  population  of  more  than 
twenty-five  hundred  shall  not  exceed 
thirty  dollars.

Sec.  3. 

It  shall  be  the  dutv  of  the 
township  boards  of  the  several  town­
ships  of this  State  to  fix  the  amounts  to 
be  paid  for  such  license  in  their  respec­
tive  townships  immediately  after  this 
act  shall  take  effect,  which  amount  so 
fixed  may  be  changed  from  time to  time 
within  the  limits  specified  in  this  act,

but  no  change  so  made  shall  affect  any 
license  already  issued.

Sec.  4.  The  township  clerk  shall  sign 
all 
licenses  and  keep  a  record  thereof 
showing  the  number  and  date  of  the 
license  and  the  name  of  the  person  to 
whom  it  is  issued.  He  is  authorized  to 
receive  the  amount  fixed  by  the  town­
ship  board  to  be  charged therefor,  which 
he  shall  turn  over to  the  township  treas­
urer.

Sec.  5.  Licenses  granted  under  this 
act  shall  not  be  transferable,  and  shall 
expire  on  the  first  Monday  of  May  next 
after the  granting  thereof.

Sec.  6.  Any  person  who  shall  violate 
any  of  the  provisions  of  this  act  shall be 
deemed  guilty  of  a  misdemeanor,  and 
on  conviction  thereof,  shall  be  punished 
by  a  fine  not  exceeding  fifty  dollars and 
costs  of  prosecution,  or  by 
imprison­
ment  in  the  county  jail  not  to  exceed 
three  months,  or both  such  fine  and  im­
prisonment 
in  the  discretion  of  the 
court.
Sec.  7.  All  acts  or  parts  of  acts  con­
travening  the  provisions  of  this  act  are 
hereby  repealed.

It  will  be  noted  that  this  draft  is 
much  shorter than  the  statutes  enacted 
two  and  four  years  ago,  which  were  de­
clared  unconstitutional  by  the  courts— 
the  former  by  reason  of  a  defect  in  the 
title  and  the  latter  because  of  the  un­
constitutionality  of  certain  amendments 
not  included  in  the  original  draft  pre­
pared  by  the  attorney  of  the  Associa­
tion,  but  tacked  unto the  law  by  the  for­
mer  members  of  the  House.

As  soon  as  the  measure  is  referred  to 
the  appropriate  committee  and  given  a 
number,  the  Tradesman  will  undertake 
to  post 
its  readers  on  the  subject,  so 
that  those  who  feel  so  disposed can com­
municate  with  their  Representatives 
and  Senators.

When  you  get  a  good  man,  keep  him 
— for  sometimes  in  changing  shoes  you 
sign  a  contract  for  raising  corns.

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seller,  better  liked,  better  money­
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W heat  F lour  on  the  market.

Sold  only  by

Worden  Grocer

Grand  Rapids.

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Around  the State

Movements of M erchants.

Manton— D.  L.  Ensign  has  removed 

his  notion  stock  to  Kingsley.

Cadillac— Laney  Bros.,  grocers,  have 

sold  out  to  Napoleon  Bodway.

Marlette—Arthur  T.  Baker  has  sold 

his  general  stock  to  James  L.  Curry.

Lansing—August  C.  Roller  succeeds 

Fred  W.  Bertch  in  the  meat  business.

Fulton—Boardman  &  Pierce,  meat 
dealers, have sold out  to  Harvey  Weaver.
Pottersville—W.  H.  Hill  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock  to  H.  G.  Mulholland.
Detroit— Nathan  Rosenzweig  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Philip  Sil- 
man.

Banner—Wm.  Medcoff  has  purchased 
the  general  merchandise  stock  of  Peter 
Fair.

Ionia—G.  H.  McMullen,  of the  drug 
firm  of  G.  H.  McMullen  &  Co.,  is 
dead.

St.  Charles— F.  J.  Storrer has removed 
his  clothing  stock  from  Ovid  to  this 
place.

Detroit—C.  C.  Becker  & Co.  continue 
the  boot  and  shoe  business  of  John 
Becker.

Lansing—Glenn  &  VanDeusen  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Chas.  C. 
Longstreet.

Capac— Frank  T.  Burch has purchased 
the  general  merchandise  stock  of  Miles
M.  Christie.

Bay  City— The  Bay  City  Dry  Goods 
&  Carpet  Co.  has  increased  its  capital 
stock  $8,000.

St.  Clair— Frank  T.  Burch  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise stock  of 
Miles  M.  Christie.

St.  Charles— Harris  Wilensky,  dealer 
in  dry  goods,  clothing  and  shoes,  has 
removed  to  Saginaw.

Stanton—John  Hansen  succeeds  Han­
sen  &  Jorgensen  in  the  dry  goods,  shoe 
and  grocery  business.

Chesaning—O.  C.  Sperry  and  H.  C. 
Dolloff  will  engage  in  the  agricultural 
implement  business.

Bad  Axe—W.  H.  Comfort,  of  Imlay 
City,  has  established  the  Comfort  Prod­
uce  Co.  at  this  place.

Manistique— Parker  &  Nessman  con­
tinue  the  grocery  and  crockery  business 
of  Patterson  &  Parker.

Corunna—Anderson  &  Jacobs  con­
tinue  the  hardware  business  formerly 
owned  by  Edward  B.  Anderson.

Caro— Myer  Himelhoch  succeeds Rose 
in  general 

(Mrs.  Myer)  Himelhoch 
trade  and  the  millinery  husiness.

Fairgrove—Oliver  T.  Johnson  has 
purchased the  interest of  his partner  in 
the  hardware  firm of Johnson  Bros.

in 

Lansing—The  style  of  the  Dunham 
Hardware  &  Implement  Co.  has  been 
changed  to the  Dunham  Hardware  Co.
Mount  Morris—White  &  Pailthorp, 
implements,  have  dissolved 
dealers 
partnership,  Chas.  E.  Pailthorp succeed­
ing.

Eaton  Rapids—The  Star  Furniture 
House,  of  which  N.  Jopp  was  pro­
prietor, 
is  succeeded  by  LaFever  & 
Minnie.

Hart— B.  F.  Archer  will  remove  his 
hardware  stock  from  Ferry to this place, 
forming  a  copartnership  with  his  bro­
ther, C.  B.  Archer.

Detroit—The  drug  firm  of  the  Hurd 
&  Gray  Co.  has  merged 
its  business 
into  a  corporation  under  the  style  of 
Gray  &  Worcester.

Traverse City— Emmet  Hagadom  suc­
ceeds  Hagadorn  &  Sommer  in  the  feed, 
hay  and  grain business at  this  place  and 
also  at  Fife  Lake.

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Detroit— The  Vienna  Ladies’  Tailor­
ing  Co.  has  been  dissolved.  The  busi­
ness  will  be  continued  under  the  style 
of  McVay  &  McVay.

Grand  Haven— Harm  Koenes  has pur­
chased  the  stock  of  groceries  formerly 
owned  by  John  Cook  at  the  comer  of 
Seventh  and  Washington  streets.

Flint—Arthur  Davison,  formerly  clerk 
in  the  clothing  store  of  W.  H.  Davison, 
at  Alpena,  has  established  himself  in 
the  clothing  business  at  this  place.

Big  Rapids—John  Powers  has  pur­
in  the  grocery 
chased  a  half 
stock  of  Wm.  E.  Haney.  The  new  firm 
will  be  known  as  Haney  &  Powers.

interest 

Eaton  Rapids—J.  H.  Ford,  dealer  in 
drugs  and  groceries,  has  purchased  at 
trustee’s  sale  the  Howard  grocery  stock, 
at  Albion,  and  will  remove  same  to  this 
place.

Port  Huron—Spring  &  Davy  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  A.  Lee, 
on  Water street.  Mr.  Davy  is  from  Mt. 
Clemens  and  Mr.  Spring  from  Osceola 
county.

Detroit—Jos.  A.  Marks  &  Co.  suc­
ceed  the  sporting  goods  and  builders’ 
hardware  house  of  Hodgson,  Howard  & 
Marks.  Oren  Scotten  is  the  special 
partner.

North  Adams—The  dry  goods,  cloth­
ing  and  boot  and  shoe  house  of  A.  F. 
Fuller  &  Co.  has  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  is  continued  by  Wm.  H. 
Mobley.

Port  Huron— L.  E.  McCollom  &  Co. 
will  shortly  embark 
in  the  bay,  flour 
and  feed  business  in  the  building  for­
merly  occupied  by  the  Riverside  Wood­
working  Co.,  on  River street.

Byron—A.  W.  Hoisington has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  A.  H.  Taggart,  of  De­
troit.  Mr.  Taggart  will  continue  the 
business  here,  while  Mr.  Hoisington 
will  move  to his  farm  near  Linden.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—L.  S.  Jacob  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  John  F. 
Moloney,  in  the  Newton  block.  He  will 
have  associated  with  him  his  brothers, 
and  the  firm  name  will  be  Jacob Bros.

Ensley—Olney  McCutcheon,  for  the 
past  three  years  clerk  for Geo.  F.  Cook, 
of  Grove,  has  purchased  the  general 
stock  of  Mrs.  Nettie  Watts  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location.
Negaunee—Thomas  M.  Wells  has sold 
his  stock  of  general  merchandise  to 
Mrs.  Thomas  Tippett,  John  Smedman 
and  Fred  Pearce,  who  will  run  it  as  a 
co-operative  store.  The  consideration 
was  $8,000.

Greenville—George  R.  Slawson,  who 
has  been  engaged  in  the  drug  business 
in  this  city  for thirty  years,  died  Feb. 
12,  at  the  age  of  55.  He  was  a  member 
of  the  Masonic  fraternity  and  the  Wash­
ington  club.  He  leaves  two sons.

Petoskey—Ad.  Fochtman has removed 
his  stock  of  groceries  to  the  old  Daly 
building,at  the  comer of  Mitchell  street 
and  Waukazoo  avenue,  and  will  at  once 
begin  the  erection  of  a  three-story  brick 
block  to  replace  the  old  building  for  so 
many  years  occupied  by  him.

Muskegon— Fred  B.  Baldwin  has  pur­
chased  of  C.  B.  Mann  the remaining  in­
terests 
in  the  clothing  and  merchant 
tailoring  firm  of  C.  B.  Mann  &  Co. 
The  original  firm  of  Mann  &  Pierce, 
which  was  composed  of  C.  B.  Mann,  of 
this  city,  and  E.  S.  Pierce,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  was  established  in  April,  1875. 
In  March,  1877,  Mr.  Baldwin  entered 
the  employ  of  the  firm,  and  in  1881  a 
branch  establishment  was  opened  by 
Mr.  Baldwin  in  Manistee  under the  firm 
name  of  Baldwin,  Pierce  &  Co. 
In 
April,  1889,  Mr.  Pierce  retired  from the 
business  and Mr.  Baldwin  returned  from

Manistee  and  connected  himself  with 
Mr.  Mann  under the  firm  name  of C.  B. 
Mann  &  Co.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Sam  Sarasbohn, 
who  for  several  years has been connected 
with  the  proprietorship  of  the  general 
merchandise  store  at  the  Mission,  near 
Bay  Mills,  and  recently  purchased  the 
entire  business,  has  sold  out  to  B. 
Baron,  formerly 
landlord  of  the  new 
European  Hotel  in  this  city.  „

Pontiac— The  firm  of  Waite  Brothers, 
Robertson  &  Co.,  the  largest  dry  goods 
establishment  in  Pontiac,  has  been  dis­
solved  and  reorganized.  Judge  J.  S. 
Stockwell  withdrew  from  the  firm, which 
is  now  Waite  Brothers  &  Robertson. 
The  old  firm  succeeded  Mr.  Stockwell 
in  the  dry  goods  business  here five years 
ago.

Lansing— Pure  Food  Commissioner 
Snow  has  reappointed  G.  M.  Dame,  of 
Nortbport,  an  inspector,  and  has  made 
other  appointments  as  follows:  Fred 
Stayle,  of  Houghton;  Fiank  Geiger,  of 
Bay  City,  and  John  McMahon,  of  De­
troit.  Several  prosecutions  have  late­
ly  been  made  for  selling  adulterated 
food.

Marquette—Some  dozen  Marquette 
business  men  are  mixed  up  with  the 
Comstock  Collection  Co.,  of  Oswego,
N.  Y.  The  agency  is  suing  for amounts 
of  $30  notes  signed  by  merchants. 
It 
never did  any  collecting  and  Marquette 
men  will  fight.  The  summons  are  for 
Republic  in  the  extreme  end  of  the 
county,  but  the  agency’s representatives 
are  having  trouble  in  getting anybody to 
serve  them.

Ypsilanti—The  proposed  organization 
of  all  the  grocers  of  the  city  for the pur­
pose  of  clubbing  together  in  the  deliv­
ery  branch  of  their  business  has  fallen 
through,  as  the  different  firms  disagreed 
on  the  details.*  Some  concerns  wished 
to  let  the  delivery  business  by  contract, 
the  expense  to  be  paid  by  assessment  of 
the  members;  others  held  that  the  con­
tract  system  was  entirely  impracticable. 
There  was  also a  disagreement  on  how 
much  the  firm  that  contributed  a  wagon 
and  team  should  be  allowed  for  the 
same,  and  there  were  disputes  as  to 
what  proportion  of  the  cost  of  the  de­
livering  each  should  pay.  The  upshot 
was  that  the  whole  thing  was  called  off. 
When 
it  was  seen  that  there  was  no 
chance  for  a  combination  which  should 
include  all  the  groceries  of  the  city,  five 
concerns,  D.  L.  Davis  &  Co.,  Hopkins 
&  Davis,  Amerman  &  Scott,  Dunlap  & 
Welch  and  the  Haynes  Co.,  decided  to 
form  an  organization  among themselves. 
The  matter  is  not  yet  definitely  settled, 
as certain  details have  not  been  deter­
mined,  but the  signing  of  the  agreement 
is  now  but  a  matter of  days.  The  five 
concerns  expect  to  put  on  the  road  three 
double  wagons,  which  shall  make  four 
or five  trips  a  day.

M anufacturing: M atters.

Lawrence— Fuller  Bros,  have  engaged 

in  the  lumber  business.

Port  Huron—Charles  Sheldon  has  es­

tablished  a  planing  mill.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Automobile  Co. 

has  discontinued  business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—J.  B.  Sweatt  has 

completed  a  new  sawmill.

Constantine—The  Constantine  Lum­

ber  Co.  has  sold  out  to  W.  H.  Smith.

Gladstone— The Northwestern  Cooper­
age  &  Lumber  Co.  will  establish  a  fac­
tory.

Hart—Carter  Bros.  &  Co.  are  re­
modeling  the  old  creamery  building 
preparatory  to  putting  in  machinery  for 
| a  modem  planing  mill.

Holly—The  Michigan  Manufacturing 
&  Lumber  Co.  is  building  a  truck  and 
cart  factory.

Benton  Harbor— A.  E.  Covell  has  en­
gaged  in  the  planing  mill  and  sash  and 
door  business.

New  Baltimore—The  Anchor  Bay Salt 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $25,000.

Milan—The  Model  Hoop  &  Stave  Co. 
has  been  started  up  after  a  long  period 
of  idleness,  with  a  force  of  seventy-five 
men.

Lansing— The  Hall  Lumber Co.  has 
merged  its  business  into  a  corporation 
under the  style  of  the  Hall  Lumber Co., 
Limited.

Trenton— Local  business  men  haye 
subscribed  $3,000 of  the  $5,000  needer 
to  secure  the  factory  of  the  Indfei* 
Glass  Co.

Dryden— L.  H.  Peck  has  purchased 
the  Dryden  creamery,  which  will  be 
operated  by  P.  B.  Gavitt,  of Dead wood, 
South  Dakota.

Conklin— The  Conklin  Creamery  Co. 
has  closed  its  creamery  until  March  1. 
Many  needed  repairs  to  machinery  and 
buildings  will  be  made  before  resum­
ing.

Berrien  Springs—Uline  &  Yarian, 
manufacturers  of  staves,  headings  and 
have  dissolved  partnership. 
boxes, 
Walter  C.  Uline 
is  now  sole  owner of 
the  business.

Byron—V.  L.  Stark  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  to  George  Nisley,  of  Saline, 
who  will  continue  the  business  here. 
Mr.  Stark  goes  to  Howell  as  secretary 
and  manager  of  a  lamp  manufacturing 
plant  there.

Homer—Cornelius  C.,  William  and 
Frederick  Cortright  have  merged  their 
elevator  and  grist  mill  husiness  into  a 
corporation  under the  style  of  the  Cort­
right  Milling  Co.  The  authorized  cap­
ital  stock  is  $22,000.

Cheboygan—The  Cheboygan  Hoop  & 
Heading  Co.  is  cutting  600,000  feet  of 
elm  and  basswood  this  winter  to  stock 
its  plant,  which  occupies  a  portion  of 
the  McCarty  sawmill,  and  the  machin­
ery  is  now  being  placed.

Marshall—J.  S.  Stevens  announces 
that  he 
is  about  to  reopen  the  Hard 
flouring  mill  situated  near the  Michi­
gan  Central  station,  which  has  been 
closed  for  a  year.  The  mill  has  a  ca­
pacity  of  500  barrels  per day.

Onaway—The  Huron  Handle  &  Man­
ufacturing  Co.  plant,  which  has  been 
removed  from  Alpena  to this  place,  has 
been  somewhat  handicapped  by the  cold 
weather,  but 
is  expected  the  plant 
will  begin  operations  this  week.

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Manistee—L.  J.  Esslinger,  of Detroit, 
who  is  promoting  a  flour  mill  scheme  at 
this  place,  is  meeting  with  considerable 
capitalists 
encouragement, 
here  who  have  been  caught 
several 
times  on  poor  investments  are  conserv­
ative.

although 

Alpena— The  sawmills  at  Alpena  cut 
about  50,000,000  feet  of lumber last year, 
of  which  5,766,000  feet  were pine,  about 
35,000,000  feet  hemlock  and  the  re­
mainder  hardwoods.  No 
logs  were 
towed  to  Alpena  from  Georgian bay  and 
the  stock  of  the  mills  was  all  home­
grown.  There  were  shipped  by  water 
from  Alpena  52,578,000  feet  of  lumber, 
5.737.000  shingles,  1,042,000  pieces  of 
lath  and  1,400,000  pieces of cedar.  Some 
lumber  was  shipped  by  rail,  the  exact 
figures  not  being  at  hand. 
It  is  calcu­
lated  that  the  output  the  present  year 
will  be  no  larger  than  last.

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Richard  Rademacher  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner,  Frank  Man 
tei,  in  the  grocery  firm  of  Rademacher 
&  Mantei,  at  104  West  Bridge  street.

T.  H.  Fahey,  who  is  engaged  in  the 
drug  business  at  Hubbardston,  has 
added  a 
line  of  groceries.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  the Worden Grocer Co.
Vinkemulder  &  Bruggink have opened 
a  grocery  store  at  the  corner of  Jefferson 
avenue  and  Sycamore  street.  The  stock 
was  furnished  by  the  Olney  &  Judson 
Grocer  Co.

John  Berner,  whose  grocery  stock  at 
Luther  was  recently  destroyed  by  fire, 
has  re-engaged  in  the  grocery  business. 
The  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co.  fur­
nished  the  stock.

Stace  &  Raven  have  sold  their  corset 
manufacturing  business,  at  55  South 
Division  street,  to  the  Pandora  Corset 
Co.,  of  Jackson,  which  will  remove  the 
machinery  and  fixtures  to  that  place.

Thos.  Heffernan,  dealer  in  drugs  and 
groceries  at  the  corner of  Hollister and 
East  streets,  has  sold  his  grocery  stock 
to  E.  J.  Meyers  and  removed  his  drug 
stock  to  Baldwin,  where  he  has  engaged 
in  business.

R.  T.  Treen  has  purchased  the  stock 
of 
fruits,  nuts  and  confectionery  of 
Frank  T.  Lawrence,  at  77  Canal  street, 
and  will  continue  the  business  at  the 
old  stand.  Mr.  Lawrence  will  continue 
the  wholesale  oyster business.

H.  M.  Reynolds  &  Son  have  moved 
their  roofing  factory  from  the  corner  of 
First  avenue  and  the  M.  C.  Railway  to 
Oakland  avenue  and  the  G.  R.  &  I. 
right  of  way,  where  they  have  erected 
and  equipped  an  establishment  which 
has  a  capacity  of  40,000  squares  per 
year. 

_____________

E.  E.  Hewitt,  who  purchased  a  half 
interest  in  the  commission  business  of 
C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co.  a  year  ago,  has  pur­
chased  the  other  half  interest  and  will 
continue  the  business  in  his  own  name. 
Mr.  Rapp  has  removed  to  Buffalo, 
where  he  established  a  commission 
house  several  years  ago.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Russets  and  Ben  Davis  are 
in  active  demand  at  $2.50.  Baldwins 
and  other  fancy  varieties  command  $3 
@3-25
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

Bananas— Prices  range  from$i.25@ 

Beets—$1  per  bbl.
Butter— Factory  creamery  is  in  mod­
erate  demand  at  20c  and  choice to  fancy 
dairy 
is  stronger  and  higher,  ranging 
from  I3@i5c.  Receipts  are  cleaned  up 
as  fast  as  they  come  in  and  the  market 
is 
in  better  shape  than  it  has  been  for 
many  months.
Cabbage— Home  grown  is  steady at  50 
@6oc  per  bu.  Florida  stock is in limited 
demand  at  $4  per  bbl.
Carrots—$1  per  bbl.
Celery— Scarce  at  30c  per  bunch.
Cider— 13c  per  gal.  for sweet.
Cranberries—Jerseys 

are  steady  at 

$2.75  per bu.  box  and  $8  per  bbl.

Eggs—Receipts  are 

increasing,  but 
all  supplies  of  fresh  are  cleaned  up  as 
fast  as  they  arrive  on  the  basis  of  18c. 
The  market 
is  in  a  healthy  condition.
Game— Local  handlers  pay  $1.20  per 
doz.  for  gray  and  fox  squirrels.  Com­
mon  cottontail  rabbits  are  stronger  and 
higher,  fetching  qoc@$i  per  doz.  Bel­
gian  hares  command  8@ioc  per  lb.  for 
dressed.

Grapes— Growers 

in  Western  New 
York,  through  their  several  local  organ­
izations,  are  determined  to  stamp  out 
the  evil  of  poor  packing.  They  have

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

passed  resolutions  advocating  the  sys­
tem  of  rejection,  accompanied  by  re­
duced  prices  for  any  that  escape  the  in­
spector.  They  think  that  if  they  were 
carefully 
inspected  upon  arrival  at  the 
point  marketed,  and  the  price  paid  cor­
responded  to the  actual  condition,  there 
would  be  less 
likelihood  of  growers 
sending  forward  poor stock.

Hickory  Nuts—$2@2.2$  per  bu.
Honey— Fancy  white 

is  scarce,  but 
the  demand  is  slow.  Prices  range  from 
I5@ i6c.  Amber  goes  at  I4@i5c  and 
dark  buckwheat  is  slow  sale  at  io@i2c. 
Dealers  predict  that  this  will  be  a  ban­
ner year for  that  product.  From  all  sec­
tions  come  reports  that  the  bees  are 
wintering  well  and  will  be  unusually 
busy  as  soon  as  the  flowers  are  out. 
Honey  has  been  high  for  some  time. 
The  best  and  highest  priced  honey  is 
from  Southern  California.  Not  for three 
years  has there  been  any  on  sale.  Thus 
far  the  rains  in Southern California have 
been  copious.  The  yield  will  be  very 
large  with  plenty  of  sage  blooms,  and 
this  is  sure  to  send  down  the  price  on 
comb.  Dealers  here  say  it  will  reduce 
it  from  3c  to  5c  a  pound,  and  will affect 
extract  about  ic  a  pound.

Lemons— Messinas command  $3.50  for 
all  sizes.  Califomias  fetch  $3.50  for 
300s  and  $3.75  for 360s.

Lettuce— Hothouse  stock  is  in  good 
demand,  commanding  15c  per  lb.  for 
leaf.

Limes—$1.25  per  100;  $i@ i.25  per 

box.

Lima  Beans—7c  per  lb.
Onions— Dry  are  strong  and  have  ad­
vanced  to  $1.  Spanish  are  in  fair  de­
mand  at  $1.60  per  crate.  Bermudas 
are  beginning  to arrive,  fetching  $3  per 
crate.

Oranges— Supplies  of  Floridas  are 
practically  exhausted,  for  which  every 
one  is  duly thankful.  Californias  fetch 
$2.50  for  the 
larger  sizes  and  $2.75@3 
for the  smaller  sizes.

Pineapples— Floridas  are  beginning 
to  arrive  and  are  taken  in  a limited  way 
at  $2.75  per  doz.

Pop  Com—$1  per  bu.
Potatoes—The  anticipated  slump  in 
the  market  has  put  in  an  appearance. 
Choice  Burbanks  and  Rurals,  which 
sold 
last  week  for  47c,  can  be  had  in 
Chicago  now  at  41c.  There  is  a  great 
accumulation  of  common and poor stock, 
and  until 
is  cleaned  up  the  market 
will  do  no  better.  Choice  stock  is in fair 
demand,  but  the  common  is  so  plenti­
ful  that  it  affects  the  market  on  choice. 
Bears  on  the  St.  Louis  market  have sent 
out  circulars  which  have 
frightened 
shippers,  and  there  has  been  a tendency 
to  rush  stock  to  market.  This 
is  one 
cause  of  the  low  prices.

it 

Poultry—Chickens,  turkeys  and  ducks 
are  scarce  and  higher.  Local  dealers 
pay  as  follows:  Spring  turkeys,  i i @ 
12c;  old,  8@qc;  spring  chickens, 
io@ 
11c;  fowls,  7>£@8c ;  spring  ducks,  i i @ 
12c—old  not wanted at  any price ;  spring 
geese,  8@gc—old  not  wanted.

Strawberries— Floridas  have  declined 
to  40c  per qt.  box.  Florida  berries  are 
a  disappointment  this  year.  There  has 
been  very 
little  activity  to  date,  and 
prices  generally  low.  Growers  say  there 
is  no  money  in  the  business  for them  at 
present  prices.  A gentleman  from  North 
Carolina  says  that  strawberries  will  not 
be  very  plentiful  there  this  season,  be­
cause  drought  killed  the  new  plants, 
which  were  set  on  the  ground  where  old 
plants  were  plowed  under.  He  thinks 
the  quality  of  the  berries  will  be  fully 
as  good  as  usual.  He  says  also  that  the 
largest  crop  of  cantaloupes  ever  har­
vested 
in  the  State  will  be  grown  this 
year.  Last  year  was  the  first  time  they 
had  been  shipped 
in  carlots  from  the 
State.

Sweet  Potatoes—$2.50  for  Virginias 

and  $3.50  for Jerseys.

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

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Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market is  very 
firm  on  the  basis  of  4#c  for 96 deg.  test 
centrifugals.  Refiners  are  ready  buy­
ers,  but  as  offerings  are 
limited  and 
holders  very  confident,  business  trans­
acted  was  of  a  comparatively 
small 
amount.  Advices  from  Barbadoes  as  to 
the  sugar  crop  prospects  are  that,  owing 
to  the  dry  weather  prevailing,  reaping 
will  commence  earlier than  was  at  first 
expected. 
Prospects  for  a  favorable 
yield  continue  good.  The  refined  mar­
ket  is  firm  and  shows  quite an improved 
demand,  resulting  in  a  fair  volume  of 
business.  The  general  feeling  is  very 
firm  and,  as  refiners  are  now working  in 
harmony, 
if  any 
changes  are  made  by  the  trust,  the  other 
refiners  will  follow  suit.
Canned  Goods—The 

is  believed  that 

little  more  enquiry 

canned  goods 
market  is  practically  unchanged.  There 
is,  perhaps,  a 
in 
some  lines,  but  not  enough  to  cause  any 
great  interest.  Everybody wonders  why 
the  market  does  not  improve,  while  all 
the  conditions  surrounding  it  are  of  the 
most  favorable  character.  The consump­
tion  of  all  the  different  lines  continues 
unabated  and,  as  we  are  now  nearing 
the  season  when  the  consumption  is  al­
ways  the  largest,  we  can  not  help  but 
feel  that  the  continuous  drain  upon  the 
stocks  will  tend  to  bring  about  a  higher 
range  of  values  for  all  the  staple 
lines. 
The  tomato  question  is  the all absorbing 
topic  of 
interest.  Compared  to  it  all 
other  lines  dwindle  into  insignificance. 
The  present 
low  price  at  which  stand­
ard  tomatoes  have  been  selling  has  at­
tracted  the  attention  of  the  trade  gener­
ally  and  there  has  been  quite  a  little 
speculative  buying,  but  most  buyers  ap­
pear satisfied  with  their  present  stocks 
and  are  not 
inclined  to  buy  under the 
prevailing  conditions.  Standard  toma­
toes  are  cheap  at  the  present  quotations 
and  we  think  they  will  prove  to  be  a 
winner  before  the  new  season opens. 
It 
would  certainly  seem  that  they  are down 
to  rock  bottom  now  and  that any  change 
must  be  for  the  better,  especially  as  we 
have  before  us  nearly  six  of  the  best 
consumptive  months  in  the  year.  There 
is  little  that  is  new  or  interesting  to  say 
about  the  corn  situation.  The  market 
drags  along  and  seems  to  have  settled 
down  for  a  time  at  least.  Prices  are 
unchanged,  but  have  an  easier tendency 
and  there 
is  almost  no  demand  at  all. 
So  much  has  been  said  about 
com 
and  the  buyers  all  over  the  country  are 
so  well  posted  on  the  situation  that 
there  remains  nothing  further  to  say, 
excepting  that  in  purchasing  corn,  no 
matter  what  grade,  the  quotations  will 
be  governed  by  the  quality.  There  is 
some  enquiry 
for  peas  at  previous 
prices.  There  will  be  the  usual  buying 
of  all  grades  of  peas  to  meet  the  spring 
demand  and  we  would  advise  keeping  a 
close  watch  of the  market.  There  is  no 
late  packed  peas,  but 
scarcity  of  the 
is  a  decided  scarcity  of  the  very 
there 
best  quality. 
It  will  be  three  months 
before  the  new  peas  are  ready  and  it 
will  take  a  good  many  peas  to  satisfy 
the 
requirements  until 
that  time.  The  quotations  on  peas  all 
depend  entirely  on  the  quality.  Prices 
on  the  new  pack  have  been  made  by 
some  packers,  but  sales  as  yet  have 
been  small.  The  string  bean  market 
was  quite  active  for  a  few  days,  but 
has  now  settled  down  again  to its former 
dulness.  Peaches  are  unchanged  and 
in  only  fair  request.  However,  a  better 
demand 
is  expected  shortly  and,  with 
any  increased  demand,  prices  will  un­
doubtedly  advance.  There  are  no  de­

consumptive 

velopments 
in  the  pineapple  situation 
as  yet,  but  it  is  expected  that  some  ac­
tion  will  be  taken  by  the  packers  the 
coming  week  relative  to  the  mode  of 
handling  the  fruit  the  coming  season, 
and  as  soon  as  this  is  settled  and  some 
estimate  of  the  crop  obtained,  prices  on 
the  new  pack  will  be  made.  Salmon  is 
dull.  Some  little  enquiry  is  noted  and 
stocks  generally  throughout  the  country 
are  believed  to  be  very  light.

Dried  Fruits—There 

is  still  an  ab­
sence  of  any  general  activity  in  dried 
fruits  and  prices  continue  to  be  in  favor 
of  buyers.  There  is  a  considerably  bet­
ter  feeling  in  California  loose  muscatel 
raisins.  An  improved  enquiry  has  re­
sulted  in  a  very  good aggregate business 
and  there  has  been  a  better activity than 
in  some  time.  There 
is  also  a  very 
good  demand  for  seeded  raisins.  There 
is  considerable  talk  about  the  1,500  cars 
still  on  the  coast,  but  they  will  undoubt­
edly  go  out  at  some  price  and  we  think 
that  by  Sept.  1  there  will  be  very  few, 
if any,  raisins  on  the  coast.  Prunes con­
tinue  to  go  out  only  fairly  well  and 
small  orders  are  the  rule.  All  sorts  of 
prices  are  obtainable  and  for  large 
lots 
holders  as  a  general  thing  are  disposed 
to  meet  buyers’ 
ideas  very  quickly. 
Sizes  80-90S,  which  have  been  among 
the  slowest  sellers  on  the  list,  have  been 
reduced  about  %c,  and  are  now  going 
out  more  freely.  There  is  a  little  bet­
ter  request  also  for  70-80S,  which  are 
also  lower.  There  is  but  little  business 
reported 
in  either  peaches  or apricots. 
Prices  are  unchanged,  but  the  demand 
is  very  light.

Rice—The  rice  situation  is strong and 
prices  are  fully  maintained.  Dealers 
remain  confident,  having  only  moderate 
supplies  of  both  domestic  and  foreign. 
The  demand  is  slightly  improved.

Teas—'The  tea  market 

is  firm  and 
prices  remain  steady.  Holders  gener­
ally  maintain  confidence  and  no  pres­
sure  is  shown  to  market supplies.  There 
is  a  generally 
improved  demand  and 
importers’  views  are  firm  and low prices 
are  not  expected 
in  the  near  future. 
Japan  teas  rule  strong  and  a  scarcity  of 
supplies  is  expected,  owing  to  the  short 
crop,showing a decrease  of  about  3,000,- 
last 
000  pounds  compared  with 
crop,  which  was  also  small. 
inti­
mated  that  with  the  opening  of  the  sea­
son,  about  May  15,  supplies  will  be 
practically  exhausted.

the 
It  is 

Molasses  and  Syrups— Prices  on  mo­
lasses  are  firmly  held  for  all  grocery 
grades  of  New  Orleans  and  the  market 
remains  strong,  but  trade 
continues 
quiet  and  strictly  of  a  hand-to-mouth 
character.  Owing  to moderate  supplies, 
and  the  strong  statistical  position,  no 
lower  prices  are  in  prospect.  Advices 
from  New  Orleans  note  that  some  con­
sider the  estimates  of  the  molasses  crop 
large  and  think  that  the  actual  result 
will  not  be  over  half  of  the  smallest  es­
timate  that  has  been  put  on  low  grade 
molasses. 
Indications  are  that  planters 
will  be  running  their  thirds  this  year 
earlier than  usual  and  receipts  of  mo­
lasses  from  these  goods  will  be  unus­
ually 
light.  The  corn  syrup  market  is 
strong  and  prices  have  advanced 
}£c 
per gallon  and  ic  per  case.

Fish—The  fish  market  for all varieties 
s  steady  and  prices  show  an  upward 
tendency.  The  demand 
is  very  good 
and  some  grades  of  codfish  have  been 
advanced  25c  per  cwt.

Nuts— Nuts  are  quiet.  Almonds  are 
slightly  easier.  Walnuts  are 
in  some 
demand  and  prices  remain  unchanged. 
The supply of Naples walnuts is unusual­
ly  short.  Sicily  filberts  are  slightly  low­
er.  Peanuts  are  unchanged.

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REPRESENTATIVE  RETAILERS.

M ilo  Bolender,  D ealer  in D rugs and Med­

icines a t  Sparta.

gets 

industriously 

There  are  two  methods  of accomplish­
ing  equally  well  the  purposes  of  life. 
One 
insists  upon  meeting  difficulties 
more  than  half  way,  the  other calmly 
and 
“ good  and 
ready”   and  waits  for the  opposition  to 
traverse  the  whole  distance  before  the 
struggle  begins.  One  makes  his  circum­
stances  and  the  other  makes  the  most 
of  his.  The  first  tunnels  the  mountain, 
the  second  goes  around  it.  Both  attain 
the  desired  end  and  both,  satisfied,  set­
tle  down 
to  enjoy  what  they  have 
achieved.

in 

Milo  Bolender  has  found  the  second 
method  the  one  better  adapted  to  his 
purposes.  There  is  no  particular bene­
fit 
turning  the  world  upside  down 
because  he  is  determined to  earn  a  good 
living  in  a  corner of  it  and  he  thinks 
too  much  of  himself  and  that  corner to 
stir  up  either  in  getting  what  he  has 
made  up  his  mind  to  have.  As  far  back 
as  he  can  remember he  has  never  found 
it  necessary  to make a  fuss.  Whether the 
quiet  of  the  farm,  where  his  life  began 
October  31,  1853,  in  Stark  county,  Ohio, 
settled  down  upon  him  and  so gave tone 
to  the  rest  of  it,  may  be  a  question,  but 
true  it  is  that  on  the  farm  and  off  it  he 
has  found the  Fabian  policy  the  best for 
him  and  he  has  practiced  that  policy  in 
prosperity  and  adversity  all  the  days  of 
his  life.

One  fact  that  the  farm  life  developed 
was,  that  for this  boy  the  work  was  too 
hard.  Farming  to the  senior  Bolender 
was  not  a  piece  of  ground  to  eke  out  a 
mere  existence  on.  That  was  not  liv­
ing  and  he would have none of it.  Those 
one  hundred  acres  should  give  him  and 
his  a  good  living  and  something  more 
and  early  and 
late  he  gave  that  land 
no  rest.  A  worker  himself,  and  believ­
ing  that  in  work  the  whole  problem  of 
life  lies,  he  bent  to  his  task and insisted 
that  the  farm  should  receive 
its  tribute 
of  labor  from  every 
inmate  of  the  farm 
house.  So  in  that  line  of  industry  this 
boy  grew  up.  He  went  on  errands,  he 
drove  the  cows to  pasture,  he  did  the 
chores,  he  put  his  hands  to  the  plow 
when  he  was  large  enough  and  so,  one 
by  one,  became  familiar with  the  tools 
of  the  farm.

The  long  hours,  however,  and the hard 
work  were  too  much  for him.  He  grew 
“ thin  and  peaked”   and  when  he  was 
13  years  old  he  went  to  Akron,  Ohio, 
where  for  three  years  he  attended  the 
excellent  public  schools  of  that  town, 
finishing  during  that  time  the  studies 
of the  grammar grade.  With  health  re­
indoor  life
stored  and  believing  that 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

was  better  for him,  with  his  school  days 
over,  he  went 
into  a  machine  shop  at 
Akron  and  worked  there seven years.  At 
the  end  of  that time  he  joined  his father 
in  the  management  of  a  dairy  farm  and 
at  the  end  of  three  years  he  went  to 
Hubbardston,  Mich., 
in  the  spring  of 
1880,  where  farming  for  a  while  again 
kept  him  busy.  While  working  there, 
a  vacancy  occurred  in  a  drug  store  and, 
applying  for  it,  he  began  clerking  for 
Dr.  J.  J.  Robbins,  of  Hubbardston. 
Liking  the  business  and  finding  that  it 
agreed  with  him,  he  kept  on  as  clerk 
until  1885,  when  he  bought  a  half  inter­
est  in  the  business.  Four  years  later he 
bought  the  Doctor’s  half  and  continued 
a  prosperous  business  until  May,  1900. 
On  the  night  of  May  1,  of  that  year,  a 
fire  burned  up  almost  the  entire  stock. 
That  was  a  setback.  A  man  does  not 
watch  with  perfect  composure  the  de­
struction  of  years  of  his  industry;  but 
disaster  had  come  and  it  remained  for 
the  druggist  to  grapple  with  it.  The 
last  dickering  flame  had  been  hardly 
put  out  when  Mr.  Bolender had  rented 
the  only  available  room  in  the  village,

hand  and  ready  to  assert  itself. 
It  was 
hard  work  from  beginning  to  end,  but 
every  stroke  told  and  every  day  scored 
it,  and  one  who  has  had  trouble  and 
finally  overcome 
it  can  easily  under­
stand  Mr.  Bolender’s  satisfaction  when 
he  and  his  wife  went  down  to  the  store 
together  on  the  evening  before 
the 
opening  next  morning  to  look  it  all over 
and  to  add  those  final  touches  which 
every  enterprise  is  sure  to  need.  These 
were  given  and,  pronouncing  the  whole 
good,  they  turned  the  key 
lock 
and  went  home  to  sleep  the  sleep  of  the 
just.

in  the 

The  next  morning  an  ash heap was  all 

that  was  left  of  that  drug  store!

No  human  pen  can  write  the  para­
graph  which  should  come  in  here. 
It 
would  be  the  record  of  a  time  that  tries 
men’s  souls.  Words  are  of  no  earthly 
use.  All  that  the  man  had  was  gone 
and,  with  a  heart  heavier  than  he  will, 
in  all  probability,  ever  have  again,  he 
made  up  his  mind  that  that  was  the  last 
of  Hubbardston  for him.  The  lights  of 
Sparta  glimmered  upon  him  through the 
gloom  and  to  Sparta  he  made  his  way. 
He  found  there  the  Hastings  Drug  Co. 
ready  to  dispose  of  its  stock  and,  buy­
ing  it,  he  started  in  once  more.  He 
is 
there  now  with  coat  off  and  sleeves 
in 
rolled  up,  if  that  is  the  figure  to  use 
regard  to  a  live  druggist. 
It  looks  as 
if  the  fires  have  decided  to  let  him 
alone  and  if  the  future  realizes  all  that 
it  promises  he  will  be  able  to  forget 
what  thoughts  were  his  when  he  turned 
away  from  that  last  conflagration  at 
Hubbardston.

March  29,  1883,  was  Mr.  Bolender’s 
wedding  day.  He  married  Miss  Clara 
A.  Mitchell,  of  Hubbardston. 
Four 
children  have  been  born  to  them,  one 
having  passed  away.  The  family  reside 
at  the  comer  of  Main  and  Division 
streets  and  worship  at  the  Methodist 
Episcopal  church.  Mr.  Bolender  is  a 
Mason—a  Past  Master of Tuscan Lodge ; 
a  member  of  the  Maccabees  and  be­
longs  to the  Eastern  Star.

Hubbardston,  a  member  of  the  board  of 
trustees,  the  clerk  of the  township  and 
president  of the village— positions which 
he  filled  to  the  satisfaction  of  his  fellow 
citizens  and  so  with  credit  to  himself. 
It  has  been  a  good  useful  life  from  the 
beginning. 
It  will  continue  to  be  one 
to  the  end  and,  while  there  might  have 
been  a  great  deal  more  noise  and  con­
fusion 
in  realizing  what  Mr.  Bolende** 
has realized  during  the  forty-eight yeaijr 
of  his 
life,  it  may  well  be  questioned 
whether  more  could  have  been  accom­
plished  than  has  been  to the  supreme 
satisfaction  of  all.

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it  up  as  a  drug  store,  moved  in 
fitted 
what 
little  had  been  rescued  from  the 
fire,  and,  at  the  end  of  a  month,  was 
ready  to  begin  life  again  where  he  had 
left  off.

It  had  been  a  month  of  unremitting 
work,  discouragement  and worry.  There 
had  been  no  end  of  the  troubles  that  al­
ways  follow  in  the  path  of  a  fire.  An­
noyance  stepped  upon  the  heels  of  an­
noyance  and  perplexity  after  perplexity 
insisted  on  making  its  presence  known. 
They  all  only  hindered.  That  quiet, 
determined  way  of  doing  things,  ger­
in  Ohio,  was  on
minated  down  there 

It  is  a  fact  worthy  of  note  that  com­
munities  are  constantly  on  the  lookout 
for  municipal  balance  wheels.  Here  the 
maker  of  circumstances  is  not  wanted. 
There 
is  already  too  much  energy  let 
loose  and  some  one  is  needed  to  keep 
things  going  at  a  speed  best  adapted  to 
the  public  requirements.  The  man  who, 
come  storm  come  calm,  keeps  on  in  the 
even  tenor of  his  way  in  his  own  affairs 
is  the  one  who  can  so  best  serve  the 
public  and  it  is  written  here,  as  a  mere 
matter of  course,  that  Mr.  Bolender  was 
called  upon  to  make  himself  useful  in 
the  places  where  he  has  lived.  So  he 
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S A L A B L E   S H A P E .

Lack  of  Care  Shown  by  Many  Country 

Shippers.

it 

that 

is  to  be  sold. 

One  of  the  most  frequent  complaints 
from  commission  dealers  all  over the 
country 
is  that  country  merchants  who 
buy  produce  do  not  give  enough  atten­
tion  to  the  matter  of  grading  and  re­
packing  before  shipping  to  the  central 
It  not 
market,  where 
infrequently  happens 
turkeys, 
chickens,  butter  and  other  commodities 
received  by the  commission  dealers  on 
Sixth  street  in  this  city  are  re-packed, 
sorted  up  and  cleaned  up  before  they 
are  sold.  While  the  retailer  may  not 
know  this,  it  is  a  fact  that  he  pays  the 
freight  when  such  work  is  done. 
If  he 
did 
it  in  his  own  store  and  took  per­
sonal  charge  of  it  the  cost  would  be 
much  less,  he  would  command  a  better 
price  for  his  produce  and  the  produce 
trade  generally  would  be  more  satisfac­
tory  to  him.  Not  only  should  he  do 
this,  but  he  should  instruct  the  farmers 
who sell  their  produce  to  him,  so that 
they  would  market  their  stuff  in  more 
presentable  shape.  A 
little  education 
among  the  farmers  along  this  line  will 
work  wonders  within  a  short  time.

The  country  dealer  in  produce  must 
bear  in  mind  that 
if  be  has  goods  to 
sell  to  his  customers  at  home  be can  sell 
them  to  better  advantage  if  they  are  in 
a  salable  condition.  Goods  mussed  up, 
dirty  or  unassorted  will  never  sell  as 
readily  as  clean  goods,  well  assorted, 
neatly  put  up  and  attractively  dis­
played.  The  city  commission  dealer  or 
the  city 
retailer  who  purchases  his 
goods  through  the  commission  dealer  is 
as  much  a  customer of  the  country  re­
tailer as the  farmer  who  comes  into  his 
store  and  puts  down  a  dollar and  orders 
sugar,  tea,  coffee  and  dried  prunes. 
In 
preparing  dairy  or  roll  and  print  butter 
for  shipment  the  country  retailer will 
profit  by  it  if he  sees  that  this  butter  is 
wrapped  in  neat  but  cheap  cheese  cloth 
or  muslin,  is  packed  systematically  in 
the  package in which  it  is  to  be  shipped 
and  presents  a  fresh,  appetizing  appear­
ance.  Dirty,  checked  and  small  eggs 
may  well  be  sorted  from  the  clean, 
bright, fresh  stock  and  should  be  packed 
systematically.  If  they  are  not  the  com­
mission  dealer  may  sell  the  whole  case 
for  dirties  or checks  at  a  lower  figure.
In  the  packing  of  poultry,  however, 
probably  the  least  care  is  shown  by  the 
country  dealer.  The  poultry  should  first 
be  graded  according  to  size,  weight  and 
appearance.  All 
the  plump,  bright 
looking  birds  might  be  placed  in  one 
package,  with  the  heads  pointing  one 
way,  and 
layers,  with  a 
sheet  of  wrapping  paper  between  each 
The  medium  stock  may  be 
layer. 
placed 
in  another  case,  but  the  same 
care  should  be  taken  in  packing.  The 
thin  and  light  weight  poor  fowls  should 
be  shipped  by  themselves.  The 
latter 
should  also  be  packed  uniformly  and 
with  wrapping  paper between  each  lay­
If  you  have  never tried  this  plan, 
er. 
try 
it  the  next  time  you  make  a  ship­
ment  and  when  the  returns  come  in  see 
if  the  amount  paid  you  for  the  best 
stock  does  not  more  than  repay  you  for 
the 
little  extra  effort.  A  trip  through 
the  commission  district  at  any  time will 
prove  the  wisdom  of  this  advice.  Poul­
try  comes  into this  market  in  the  worst 
mixed  variety  that  it  is  possible  to  con­
ceive  of. 
geese, 
springs  and  old  hens  are  piled  promis­
cuously  into  a  box,  the  cover  is  nailed 
on,  and  the  package  is  carted  to the 
nearest  express  office  and  sent  on  its 
way.  When  the  returns  come  back  the

Turkeys,  ducks, 

in  uniform 

country  shipper  is  fortunate  if  he  comes 
within  getting  2  or  3  cents  of  the  mar­
ket  price,  and  then  he  blames  the  com­
mission  dealer  and  charges  him  with 
dishonesty.  Now,  watch  that  package, 
and  if  you  are  a  country  dealer  you  will 
place  the  blame  where 
it  belongs,  at 
home,  and  perhaps  you  will  attempt  to 
reform.  The  package  arrives  in  the  city 
in  the  morning.  There  are  a  crowd  of 
retailers  ready  to  buy  poultry. 
It  is 
opened  and  on  top  there  is  a  twenty- 
pound  turkey  alongside  of  a  pound  and 
a  half  hen.  The retailer  digs  down  and 
he  brings  up  a  goose  and  a  duck  and  a 
small  turkey  and  a  spring  chicken. 
The  assortment  is  mixed.  The  com­
mission  dealer  wants  full  prices  for  the 
lot,  the  retailer  won’t  have  them  and 
names  a  figure  1  or  2  or 3  cents  lower 
per  pound.  The  offer  is  not  accepted. 
The  commission  dealer  has  a  dozen  or 
fifteen  lots  similar to  this  one,  his  force 
of  men  are  engaged 
in  selling  goods 
and  candling  eggs;  he  hasn’t  the  time 
to  sort  the  box  up  and  it  remains  on  the 
walk  for  a  couple  of  days  with  no  one 
ready  to  take  it  at  full  prices.  A  few 
days  later the  same  retailer  comes  alcng 
and  offers  a  still 
lower  price.  Rather 
than  have  the  goods  go  to  the  dump  his 
offer  is  accepted.  Now,  who  is 
to 
blame? 
Is  it  the  commission  dealer, 
who  only  acts  as  selling  agent  or the 
man  who  shipped  his  goods  in  unpre­
sentable  shape  for  sale?  The  answer  is 
an  easy  one  to  give.  Supposing  goods 
bought  by  the  retailer  from  his  jobber 
had  been  shipped  in  the  same  unpre­
sentable  shape  as that poultry, who would 
be  to  blame.  One  proposition  is  just 
as  fair  as  the  other.  The  commission 
dealer  is  a  selling  agent  for the  country 
shipper  and  the  goods  shipped to him  to 
be  sold  should  be  shipped  in  a  present­
able,  salable  shape.— Commercial  Bul- 
etin.

Keep  on  Learning.

When  the  young  man  has  made  up 
his  mind  to  engage 
in  business  ana 
be  master of  it  from top  to  bottom,  then 
let  him  understand  that  he  has  every­
thing  to  learn  and 
let  him  never  get 
that  idea  out  of  his  head.  He  can  rec­
is  growing,  but  there 
ognize  that  he 
must  be  always  more  to  learn. 
If  he 
can  keep  on  this  basis  he  will  be  all 
right,  but  the  moment  he  feels  that  he 
is  amounting  to  something  in  an  indi­
vidual  capacity,  that  moment  he  will 
begin  his  decline.  More  men  have  gone 
to  the  bottom  because  of  the  impression 
that  they  know  it  all  than  for any  other 
cause.  The  growing  man  keeps  on 
learning  as  the  years  come  and  go. 
Throw  aside  the  things  that  make  one 
ridiculous;  let  social  ambition,  as  such, 
go  to  the  winds,  it  is  unworthy  of  an 
honest  man’s  effort; 
intellectual 
standards  take  the  place  of  social  prom­
inence  and  one  will  begin  to  be  happy. 
Study  from  morning  until  night,  study 
something.  Make  the  acquaintance  of 
men  who are  competent  leaders  and  do 
not  waste  time  with  those  who  are  in­
competent.  Be  courteous  to  all,  but  not 
intimate  with  all.  Then  you  may  hope 
to  win.

let 

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A  Maine  paper  publishes  a  weird 
story  about  a  farmer  chopping  down  a 
big  tree  and  feeling  his  axe 
strike 
something  soft.  Thinking  that  there 
might  be  a  bear  inside,  he  proceeded 
cautiously, using  wooden  wedges  to  split 
the  stub  apart.  When  the  hollow,  dry 
log  fell 
in  halves  there  in  the  cavity 
lay  eight  fat  coons,  snugly  housed  away 
for  the  winter.  Further  up  the  trunk 
were  two  more  coons,  while  in the stump 
was  a  fifty-pounder—the  biggest  ana 
fattest  of  the 
lot.  This  lucky  farmer 
thus  got,  besides  a  cord  of  dry  wood, 
over  200  pounds  of 
coon  meat  and 
eleven  coon  skins,  and  ever since  that 
day  he  has quit  all  other work  and  goes 
about 
in  the  woods  looking  for  more 
hollow  logs  with  coons  in  them.

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STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN  )

County  of  Kent 

t 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 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,ooo  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
Feb.  6, 
saw  the  edition
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
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John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
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BOYS  AND  TH EIR  BATTLES.

in  anything  so  brutal, 

Oue  of  the  earliest  intimations  that  a 
mother gets  that  her  angel  boy  isn’t  al­
together  a  seraph  after  all,  but  a  very 
human  creature,  is  when  he  comes  run­
in  with  his  embroidered  collar 
ning 
tom  and  his 
lovely  blue  eyes  bunged 
up,  and  confesses  between  his  sobs that 
he  has  just  had  a  fight  with  the  boy 
across  the  street.  At  first  she  is  horri­
idea  of  those  soft  baby  fists 
fied.  The 
engaged 
the 
thought  of  that  little innocent  white  soul 
harboring  such  anger  and revenge is ter­
rible  to  her.  She  feels  it  her duty  to 
preach  to  him  submission  and  forgive­
ness  and  peace,  and  all  the  rest  of  it, 
and  winds  up  with  a  final  admonition 
never,  under  any  circumstances,  to fight. 
After  awhile,  if  he  obeys  her,  she  finds 
out  that  he 
is  imposed  upon,  derided 
and  despised  by  his  companions,  and 
she  begins  to  doubt  the  wisdom  of  her 
position  on  the  fighting  question.

At  the  meeting  of  the  Mothers’  Con­
gress  in  Albany 
last  year,  Governor 
Roosevelt  had  something  to  say  on  this 
topic,  and  his  advice  was  to  let  the 
boys  fight. 
“ A  boy  that  won’t  fight,”  
he  said,  ‘ ‘ is  not  worth  his  salt.  He  will 
be  of  no  use  in  life,  and  is a  coward. 
Teach  him  to  use  his  strength  on  the 
side  of  righteousness.  Do  not  punish 
him  if  he  fights,  if  he  is  right.  Teach 
him  to  be  able  to  take  care  of  himself, 
and  know  how  to  act  under  all  circum­
stances. ’ ’

Without  pushing  this  theory  to the 
extent  of  encouraging  fighting,  there 
is 
much  sound,  good  sense  in  it.  The  boy 
who  is  never  permitted  to  defend  him­
self,  but  who  must  take  the  blows  and 
insults  of  his  comrades,  is  bound  to 
grow  up  weak-spirited  and  craven—one 
whose  whole  idea  of  life  is  in  avoiding 
difficulties  instead  of  meeting  them face 
to  face  and  fighting  them  out  to  the 
end.  What  the  world  needs  is  not  neg­

atively  good  people,  but  the  fearless 
souls  who  have  courage  to  champion the 
right  and  do  battle  for  it.

Another  thing  that  mothers  will  do 
well  to  remember  in  letting  boys  settle 
their own  disputes  in  their own  fashion 
is  that  the  play  ground  is  very  nearly 
the  world  in  miniature  and  the  boy  who 
fails  to  learn  its  lessons  misses  a  valu­
able educational  opportunity.  He  must 
learn  to  give  and  take.  He  must  learn 
to  stand  on  his  own  merits.  He  is  no­
body’s  pretty  darling  there,  and  many 
a  boy  gets  at  school  the  discipline  he 
ought 
to  have  gotten  at  home,  and 
is  a  better  man  to the  longest  day  he 
lives  for  the  sound  thrashing  adminis­
tered  by  a  companion.  Boys  are  the 
only  real  democrats  in  the  world.  The 
little  girl  is  an  aristocrat  at  heart.  She 
is  never  too  young  to  understand  and 
value  people  for  position,  and  clothes 
and  what  they  have,  but  the  true  boy 
cares nothing for these  things  until  he  is 
taught.  His  hero  is  the  boy  who  can 
do  things,  not  the  one  who  has  things, 
and  this  ideal  has  done  more  than  any­
thing  else  to  check  the  arrogance  of 
youngsters  who  were  despots  at  home, 
but  found  out  that  they  were  of  small 
consideration  at  school.

Many  mothers  fear  that  if  they permit 
their  boys  to  settle  their  differences  by 
fighting  they  will  encourage  a  spirit  of 
pugnaciousness.  Not  a  bit  of  it.  Sooner 
or  later  each  will  meet  his  Waterloo, 
and  there  is  no  such  conserver of  peace 
and  politeness  as  an  enemy  who  is  the 
bigger.  The  boy  who  has  put  up  the 
best  fight  that  is 
in  him,  and  gotten 
whipped,  is  never  the  one  who  goes 
about  with  a  chip  on  his  shoulders.  He 
has  learned  to  respect  his  adversary,  to 
measure  his  own  strength  and to  depend 
on  himself  to  get  himself  out  of  the 
difficulties  he  has  gotten  into,  and  that 
is  a  valuable  lesson  for  anybody  to  ac­
quire.

it 

issue,  changing 

The  Tradesman  urges  its  readers  to 
consider  carefully  the  draft  of  a  bill, 
published  on  the  third  page  of  this 
week’s 
the  system  of 
taxing  and 
licensing  country  peddlers 
from  the  State  to  the  township  method. 
The  city  merchant  may  not  realize  how 
important 
is  to  him  that  the  opera­
tions  of  the  country  peddler  should  be 
curtailed,  but  if  he  will  give  the  matter 
careful  consideration  he  will  discover 
that  the  country  peddler  cuts  into  his 
trade  both  ways— by  furnishing  his 
country  customers  with  groceries  and 
his  city  customers  with  butter and eggs. 
The  city  peddler  cuts  into  his  trade  in 
one  direction  only,  but  he  can  be  cir­
cumvented  to  a  great  extent  by  constant 
watchfulness  and  the  assistance  of the 
license  department  of  the  city  govern­
ment.

in  this  week’s  issue. 

The  Tradesman  feels  no  hesitation  in 
commending 
its  readers  to  a  careful 
perusal  of  the  paper on  taxation,  read 
by  George  Clapperton  before  the  Grand 
Rapids  Board  of  Trade  and  published 
elsewhere 
It  is 
a  fit  companion  to  his  masterly  paper 
on  the  same  subject  published  in  the 
last  anniversary  issue  of  the  Trades­
man.  The  next  paper  of  this  series, 
which  will  be  published  next  week  and 
embellished  with  handsome 
illustra­
tions,  will  be  a  treatise  on  the  Relation 
of  Taxation  to  Forestry,  by  J.  J.  Hub- 
bell,  of  Manistee.

So  Mrs.  Nation  is  accused  of  showing 
the  ‘ ‘ white  feather?”   But  possibly  the 
lady  does  not  claim  to  be  an  Alexander 
and  knows  when  she  has  got  enough.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

WOMAN  ON THE  RAMPAGE.

In  their  gentler  moods,  women  fill  to 
perfection  all  the  requirements  of sweet­
hearts,  wives,  mothers, 
sisters  and 
daughters. 
In  the  role  of  ministering 
angels  they  are  nearly  divine,  and  in 
what  may  well  be  considered  their 
proper  sphere,  they  contribute  not  only 
a  great  share  to  the  possibilities  of  life, 
but  they  are  the  chief  factors  in  making 
life  worth 
living.  Without  them,  the 
goodliest  regions of  the  earth  would  be 
only  barren  and  joyless  deserts,  while 
their  companionship is  capable  of  creat­
ing  a  paradise  in  a  wilderness.

But  woman's  capabilities  are  almost 
unlimited.  The  eleventh  census  of  the 
United  States  (that  of  1890)  records 
industries,  trades, 
some  four  hundred 
callings  and  professions,  and  there 
is 
not  one  irom  which  women  are  absent, 
and  this  includes  military  and  marine 
callings.  Woman  as  a  warrior  has  a 
prominent  place  in  the  history  of  every 
age  and  people.  The Amazons, Tomyris, 
Zenobia,  Semiramis,  Boadicea,  Joan  of 
Arc,  the  Maid  of  Saragossa  and  Molly 
Pitcher  are  only  a  few  of  the  women 
warriors  who  may  be  named  among  the 
heroines  of  the  battle  field. 
In  our own 
times,  women  lawyers  and  doctors  are 
numerous,  and  a  few  years  ago a woman 
was  United  States  Marshal  of  St.  Louis. 
In  some  of  the  states  women  have  the 
ballot,  and  in  others,  where  they  are  not 
suffragans,  they  are  in  many  other ways 
sufferers,  so  that  their time  is  generally 
filled  up  either  with  private  or  public 
affairs.

One  of  the  latest  developments  of  the 
female  genius  is  in  the  direction  of 
lynch  law  or  popular justice.  Sometimes 
singly,  and  at  others  in  organized  par­
ties,  they  have  been  going  about  wreak­
ing  their  rage  upon  drinking  saloons 
and  gambling-houses.  The  movement 
started  in  Kansas  towns  where  prohibi­
tion  laws  are  in  force.  As  is  too  often 
the  case,  anti-liquor and  anti-gambling 
laws  are  enacted  by  the  legislators  in 
response  to a  demand  of  public  senti­
ment,  but  the  officeholders  who  are  en­
trusted  with  the  enforcement of the  laws 
deliberately  neglect  or  refuse  to  do  so, 
permitting  all  sorts  of  lawlessness  to 
“ run  wild  and  wide  open.”  
It  was 
demonstrated  beyond  any  possibility  of 
a  doubt  that  not  only  policemen,  but 
public  officials  of  the  highest  rank,  in 
the  City  of  New  York  participated  in 
the  pecuniary  bribes  paid  for  protection 
and 
immunity  by  the  proprietors  of 
dens  of  iniquity,  and  by  other criminals 
and  lawbreakers.

What  was  openly  and  unblushingly 
done  in  New  York  in  protecting  crimi­
nals  and  criminal  establishments  en­
abled  many  public  officials  to  amass 
large  wealth,  and  their  example  has 
been  followed  in  most  other  cities,  and 
probably  in  all.  The  flagrant  disregard 
of  the  law  against  bar-rooms  in  the 
Kansas  town  where  Mrs.  Nation  lives, 
and  the  unrestrained  selling  of  liquors 
to  children,  appear so  to  have  operated 
on  the  sensibilities  and  sense  of  justice 
of-  the  unfortunate  woman  that  she  has 
been  driven  daft,  and  so  has  begun  a 
crusade  against  the  lawless  establish­
ments.  Other  women  in  other  Kansas 
towns  and 
states  who  are 
cursed  with  drunken  husbands,  or  have 
seen  their  young  sons  enticed  into  dens 
of  crime  and  vice  and  there  robbed  and 
debauched,  have  doubtless  also  been 
driven  to  such  desperation  that  they 
have  also  engaged 
crusade 
against  the  protected  lawbreakers.

in  other 

in  the 

When  woman  goes  on  a  “  rampage, ’ ’ 
she  becomes indeed  a  formidable,  a  ter-

execute 

rible  creature,  and  woe  to  the  luckless 
wretch  or  rascal  of  a  man  who  becomes 
the  object  of  her  just  anger.  The  real 
and  most  unjust  grievance  from  which 
woman  has  oftenest  to  suffer,  and  that 
naturally  makes  her  desire  to  take  part 
in  the  business  of  government,  is  not 
merely  that  she  is  deprived  of the  polit­
ical ballot, but  that  her  husband, her  sons 
and  her  brothers  become  drunkards, 
hoodlums,  loafers  and  absolutely  worth­
less  creatures  through  the  operation  of 
criminal  establishments 
vicious  and 
which  are  protected  against  all 
law  by 
the  criminal  corruption  and  participa­
tion  of  the  very  officials  who have sworn 
to  uphold,  enforce  and 
the 
laws.
It 

is  not  strange  that  women,  honest 
long-suffering 
and  hard-working  and 
wives  and  mothers,  believe  that  if  they 
had  the  power to  vote  they  would  elect 
public  officials  who  would  recognize  the 
solemnity  of  an  oath ;  who  would  have 
some  sense  of  honor  and  duty,  and  who 
would  not  sell  themselves  to  the  robbers 
and  debauchers  of  their fellow  creatures 
and  use  the  opportunities  created  by 
public 
trust  and  official  position  to 
aid  and  abet  criminals  of  the worst  sort. 
It 
is  this  evil,  or  series  of  evils,  more 
than  all  else,  that  has  forced  women  to 
industry 
invade  every  department  of 
which  once  was  open  only  to  men. 
It 
is  because  so  many  of  the male sex,  who 
ought  to  be  the  protectors  and  support 
of  their  female  relatives,  have  become 
drunkards,  hoodlums  and 
loafers  and 
have  to  be  supported,  so  that  they  may 
continue  to  live  and  curse  the  world 
with  their  presence.

It  is  this  growing  realization  by  wom­
en  that  the  burden  of  life  is  growing 
daily  more  heavy to  them,  and  that  it  is 
through  the  increase  of  official  corrup­
tion  and  of  the  individual  worthlessness 
of  men.  Under  these  conditions,  thous­
ands  of  women  in  every  community who 
have  no  desire  to  participate  in  politics 
are  driven  to  the  belief  that  the  only 
hope  of  succor  and  of  relief  to  them 
is 
through  the  taking  hold  with  their  own 
hands  of  the  machinery  of  government. 
The  day  will  come  when  women  will do 
this,  and  they  will  be  driven  to  do  it 
through  the  failure  of  the  men.  What 
the  men  will  be  too  weak  and  worthless 
to  hold  the  women  will  seize  and  hold 
and  administer.  That  will  be  suprem­
acy,  control,  dominion.  Women  have 
held  the  scepter  and  have  wielded  it 
with  a  strong  will  and  great power.  The 
time  will  come  when  they  will  hold  the 
ballot,  and  they  will  wield  it  to  some 
purpose.

The  most  radical  anti-cigarette  meas­
ure  yet  proposed  is  now  under  consider­
ation  in  the  Minnesota Legislature,  hav­
ing  been  introduced  by  Senator  Halvor- 
sen,  one  of  whose  constituents  recently 
died  from  smoking  too  many  cigarettes. 
The  proposed  bill 
is  modeled  on  the 
Tennessee  law,  which  the  United  States 
Supreme  Court  has  held  to  be  constitu­
tional,  and  makes  it  a  misdemeanor  to 
use  tobacco  in  this  form, bars  merchants 
from  bringing  cigarettes  into  the  State, 
makes  giving  away  cigarettes an equally 
grave  offense,  and  even  prohibits  the 
sale  of  the  papers  used  in  rolling  ciga­
rettes.

In  consequence  of  emigration  there  is 
a  greater  preponderance  of  women  in 
Norway  than  in  almost  any  other  coun­
try  in  Europe.  The  census  of  1891 
showed  that  there  was  an  excess  of 
women over men  of almost  70,000,  while 
in  1876  this  excess  only  amounted  to
43.000.

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PROBLEM  OF TAXATION.

Some F aults in O ur P resent System—Rem­

edies  Suggested.

In  addressing  a  gathering  of  business 
men,  I  need  hardly  allude  to  the 
im­
portance  of  a  fiscal  system  in  our  Gov­
ernment.

We  know  that  public  expenditures, 
national,state  and  municipal,  have  kept 
pace  with  our  enormous increase in pop­
ulation  and  our  industrial  and  social 
development. 
It  is  possible  through  an 
efficient  administration  of  government 
to  reduce  and  minimize  those  expendi­
tures ;  but,  at  best,  they  constitute  a 
grievous  and 
increasing  burden  upon 
the  people.  The  public  revenues  must 
be  raised  by  some  form  of  taxation. 
Taxation,  therefore,  becomes  the  most 
important  fiscal  problem  in a  growing 
industrial  state.

The  rapid  growth  of  population,  the 
enormous  increase  of  wealth 
in  great 
diversity  of  form  and  character  make 
absolutely  essential  a  system  of  taxation 
that  shall  be  in  harmony  with  and  ade­
quate  to  the  needs  of  modern  economic 
conditions.

In  the  financial  and 

industrial  prog­
ress  of  Michigan,  taxation  has  become 
the  paramount  public  problem.  No 
question  before  the  people  affects  so 
vitally  the  growth,  the  prosperity,  the 
business,  the  social 
life  and  even  the 
morals  of  the  State.  We  have  been 
passing  through  a  period  of  intense  ag­
itation  upon  the  subject,  which  has 
aroused  a  positive  public  sentiment. 
The  time  for 
intelligent  action  has 
come.

Under  existing 

conditions, 

these 

things  are  self  evident:

1.  Gross  evils  exist  in  our  present 
alleged  system.  Taxation  is  not  equal 
Some  forms  of  property  are  overtaxed ; 
others  are 
inadequately  taxed;  still 
others  escape  taxation.  These  classes 
are  in 
inverse  order to  their ability  to 
contribute  to  the  revenues  of  the  State.
is  a  pressing,  widespread 

2.  There 

demand  for  reform  tax  legislation.

3.  We  face  a  transition  period  in 
taxation  and  the  practical  question  is 
whether  inevitable  changes  shall  be evo­
lutionary  or  revolutionary.

4.  The 

result  will  depend  upon 
whether  these  inevitable  changes  shall 
be  directed  by  intelligence  and  experi­
ence  or  by  ignorance  and  prejudice.

5.  Justice  requires  that  certain  so- 
called  new  forms  of  wealth,  or  rather 
the  owners  of  such  forms,  now  inade­
quately  taxed,  be  subjected  to  fair  and 
equitable  contribution  to  the public  rev­
enues  under  sound  methods.

Before  appropriate  remedies  can  be 
prescribed  or an  intelligent  course  pur­
sued,  it 
is  essential  to  ascertain  defi­
nitely  the  nature  and  causes  of  our 
trouble.

In  this  State,  the  evils  of  taxation  are 
traceable,  First,  to  the  system 
itself; 
second,  to  the  faulty  administration  of 
the  laws.

Aside  from  the  classes  of  property 
now  paying  specific  taxes,  the  prevail­
ing  system  in  Michigan  is  what  is  com­
monly  designated  the  general  property 
tax,  which 
in  theory  is  the  assessment 
of  all  classes  of  property  by one uniform 
rule  of  valuation and taxation at uniform 
rates,  but  which  in  practice 
is  inevit­
ably  unequal  taxation.

This  system  was  developed  in  primi­
tive  times,  when  public  expenditures 
were  light  and  wealth  existed  principal­
ly 
in  the  forms  of  real  estate  and  per­
sonal  chattels,  the  former  constituting 
the  principal  portion.  The  system  in 
its.  origin  was  contemporary  with  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

loom  and  the 
stage  coach,  the  hand 
sickle. 
It  was  the  system  of  the  pio­
neers.  It should  be  remembered  that  the 
purpose  of  the  system  was  and  is to 
reach  persons, not  property,  for taxation. 
It  was  based  upon  the  assumption  that 
the  property  of  an 
individual  was  an 
adequately  reliable  test  of  his  ability  to 
contribute  to  the  revenues  of  the  com­
monwealth  and  was  measurably  in  har­
mony  with  primitive  industrial  life.

There  were  no  great  differences  in the 
kinds  of  property  and  it  was,  therefore, 
a  fairly  adequate  gauge  of  income. 
It 
was  comparatively  easy  for the  assessor 
to  ascertain,  with  reasonable  accuracy, 
the  amount  and  value  of  property owned 
by  each  individual  in  his  district  and, 
with  reasonable  diligence,  comparative­
ly  little  escaped  taxation.  The  essen­
tial  qualifications  of  an  assessor  were 
fairly  good  eyesight  and  the  ability  to 
make  legible  letters  and  figures.  Prop­
erty  was  a  reasonably  fair test  of  ability 
to  pay  taxes.  The  system  was  based 
upon  crude  ideas  of  equality  and  uni­
versality  of  taxation.  Restricted  to  the 
classes  of  property  for  which  it  was 
originally designed,  it  might,  even  now, 
be  reasonably  successful  in  conjunction 
with  other  mehods,  for  new  forms  of 
property.

is 

in 

With  the  growth  of  cities,  inventions 
and  marvelous  changes 
industrial 
conditions  has  come  a  transformation in 
the  forms  of  property  until  the  greater 
portion  of  existing  wealth 
in  new 
and  entirely  different  forms  from  those 
existing  when  the  system  was  adopted. 
Corporations,  railroads,  the  telegraph, 
telephones,  banks,  manufactures,  etc., 
have  multiplied  and  become 
important 
productive  factors.  The  crude  machin­
ery  of  the  general  property  tax  does  not 
adequately  reach  them.  What  is  termed 
invisible  or  intangible  personality,  such 
bonds,  notes,  stocks,  mortgages, 
credits,  deposits,  etc.,  has  been  enor­
mously  augmented  and  under existing 
conditions  has  largely  escaped  taxation 
through  the  property  tax.

Under these  changed  economic  condi­
in  Michigan,  as  in 
tions,  this  system 
other  great 
industrial  states  and  coun­
tries,  has  become  entirely  inadequate. 
The  Commonwealth  has  outgrown  it. 
It  is  entirely 
inapplicable  to  present 
conditions.  The  attempt  to  expand  the 
general  property  tax  to  include  these 
new  forms  of  wealth  is  futile. 
It  can’t 
be  made  over  or  extended  to  fit  the 
grown  man.  .Existing  evils  are  inherent 
in  the  system.

This  general  property  tax  system  in 
actual  practice  may  be  crudely  illus­
trated  as  follows:  One  man  owns  a 
home  worth  $2,000 and  has  a  small  in­
come.  Another  has  an  income  of $2,000 
and  substantially  no  taxable  property. 
Another  owns  a  $2,000  mortgage.  An­
other,  $2,000  bank 
stock.  Another, 
$2,000  deposited 
in  bank.  Another, 
$2,000 gas  stock,  representing  a  small 
amount  of  tangible  property,  but  large 
productive  power.  Another,  $2,000 
a  stock  of  goods.  Another,  $2,000  in 
private  corporation,  paying  large  divi­
dends  upon  its  invesment.  Along  comes 
the  local  assessor,  sworn  to  tax  all prop­
erty  at  full  cash  value  and  at  one  uni­
form  rate.  He  is  anxious  to  relieve  his 
district  from  the  burden  of  State  taxa­
tion  and  be  re-elected.  The  home  is  as­
sessed  at $500 or  some  proportion of true 
value  and  never  escapes  the  rolls.  The 
mortgage  isn’t  found  or the  owner  con­
vinces  the  assessor that  it  isn’t  property 
at  all,but  only  a  mere  evidence  of  prop­
erty.  The  man  with  a  salary  receiving 
the  advantages  of  society  and  govern­

ment,  whose  children  are  educated  in 
the  public  shcools,  is  exempt,  although 
abundantly  able  to  pay  his  share.  The 
bank  stock,  under  special 
law,  is  as­
sessed  at  full  value  and  does  not escape. 
The  bank  deposit  escapes.  The  gas 
stock  escapes  with  a  proportionate  tax 
of  the  company  upon  real  estate  and 
visible  personality,  although  its  value, 
based  upon  productive  power,  may  be 
many  times  that.  The  stock  of  goods 
or the  tangible  propety  of  manufactur­
is  guessed  at  or esti­
ing  corporations 
mated  by  an  unskilled  assessor. 
In 
short,  the  burden 
is  imposed  upon  the 
few  who  can  not  escape.  With  enor­
mously  increasing  wealth  in  new  intan­
gible  forms,  which  vastly  increases  the 
public  expenditures,  the  burden  is  cor­
respondingly 
increased  upon  the  few 
is  of  such  a  character 
whose  property 
that  the  assessor  falls  over  it. 
It  is  at 
best  an  unequai  and  discriminating  as­
sessment  of  real  estate  with  a  more  or 
less  wild  guess  at  some  forms  of  per­
sonal  property.
In  practice, 

is 
generally  regarded  by  economists,  pub­
licists  and  state  taxing  officials  as  im­
practicable,  for  the  reason  that  a  large 
portion  of  property,  especially  that  of  a 
corporate  and  intangible  character,  es­
capes  taxation,  and  that  which  escapes 
is  the  property  of  those  best  able to pay. 
A  high  authority  on  the  subject  has 
said,  “ The  failure  to  reach  personal 
property 
it  has  be­
come  a  mere  byword  throughout  the 
land.  Personal  property  nowhere  bears 
its  just  proportion  of  the  burdens,  and 
it  is  precisely  in  those  localities  where 
its  accumulation  is greatest  that  its  as­
sessment  is  the  least.  The  taxation  of 
personal  property  is  in  inverse  relation 
to  its  quantity.  The  more  it  increases, 
the  less  it  pays.”

the  present  system 

is  so  patent  that 

Economists  say  that  this  method  has 
never  worked  well  where  it  has  been 
tried 
in  the  civilized  world  and  that 
the  United  States,  Switzerland  and  parts 
of Australia  are  the  only  civilized  coun­
tries  in  the  world  to-day  where  this  sys­
tem  with  respect  to  intangible  prop­
erty  is  retained.  Although  it  is  a  no­
torious  fact  that  the  wealth  invested 
in 
personal  property  has  greatly  increased, 
nearly  all  states  show  a  decrease  in  the 
amount  of  personal  property  assessed. 
A  prominent  committee  of  Boston  men, 
investigating  the  subject,  estimated  the 
value  of  the  persona'l  property  of  Mass­
achusetts  to  be  double  that  of  the  real 
estate,  while  the  personal  property  as­
sessed  is  only  about  one-fifth  that  of  the 
real  estate  assessed. 
In  New  York,  the 
actual  value  of  personal  property  is  re­
garded  as  even  greater  in  proportion  to 
real  estate  than  in  Massachusetts,  being 
four  to  one,  yet  the  assessed  value  of 
personalty  in  twenty-five  years  dimin­
ished  about  $40,000,000,  while  the  as­
sessed  value  of  real  estate  ducing  that 
time  increased  over $2,000,000,000.

The  percentage  of  personalty,  com­
pared  with  realty,  found  on  the  New 
York  assessment  rolls,  is  only  about  12 
per  cent.,  while 
it  is  said  upon  good 
authority  that  less  than  3  per  cent,  of 
personalty  is  assessed.  Last  year  about 
nine-tenths  of  all  taxes  in  that  State 
were  upon  real  estate.

A  prominent  State official  of that State 
told  me 
last  summer that  last  year the 
assessors  in  New  York  City  found  per­
sonal  property  amounting  to $1,400,000,- 
000,  but  allowed  as  a  deduction  there­
from  $1,000,000,000  in  debts.

These  conditions  exist  in  a  greater or 
It  is  suffi­
less  degree 
cient  for  our  purpose  to  say  that  the

in  every  state. 

in  Michigan,  in 
general  property  tax 
practice,  presents  all  the  evils 
inherent 
in  the  system,  enhanced  by  faulty  ad­
ministration,  and  that  the  efforts  thus 
far  made  to  improve  it  tend  to  demon­
strate  the  famous  criticism  oi  Dr.  Ely 
is  so  radically  bad  that the 
that  “ it 
more  you  improve  it,  the  worse 
it  be­
comes. ’ ’

Instead  of  adopting  modern  advanced 
methods  of  taxation,  based  upon  cor­
rect  principles  for  modern 
forms  of 
wealth  by  which  they  might  be  sub­
jected  to  fair  contribution  to  public 
revenues,  we  are  now  trying,  not  only 
to  enforce  the  application  of  a  bad  sys­
tem  to  all  property  now  taxable  under 
the  general  law,  but  to  extend  it  with 
modifications to  property  now  taxed  by 
more  advanced  and  scientific  methods 
and  upon  the  more  correct  basis of earn­
ing  power  or  productivity,  and 
to 
classes for which,  because  of its  peculiar 
character,  the  machinery  of  the property 
tax  is  entirely  inadequate.

I  have  said  that  the  causes  of  these 
conditions  are 
inherent  in  the  system. 
The  speeches  of  statesmen,  the  writings 
of  publicists,  the  reports  of  prominent 
state  taxing  officials— in  short,  the  en­
tire  literature  of  taxation  is  filled  with 
pessimistic  comments  upon  these condi­
tions  and  bitter  denunciations  of  the 
classes  of  citizens,  who,  having  abun­
dant  ability  to  pay,  yet  escape  their 
just  share  of  the  public  burden  some­
times  designated  “ tax  dodging  constit­
uency.”  
I  have  studied  this  literature 
to  a  considerable  extent,  have  read  the 
philippics  of  such  men  as  ex-President 
Harrison,  have  even  read  the  sulphuric 
executive  messages  of  our  own  “ good 
gray  ex-Governor, ”   all  of  which,  at 
first,  naturally  incline  the  patriotic  stu­
dent  to  a  participation  in  this  general 
personal  criticism  and  denunciation, 
for  which  there 
is  much  justification. 
In  my  case,  however,  a  characteristic 
Scotch  caution  and  conservatism 
in­
duced  a  more  careful  examination 
into 
causes  of  the  conditions  existing  in  va­
rious  states, 
leading  me  to  the  con­
clusion  that,giving  due'force  to  the uni­
versal  disposition  to  evade  public  bur­
dens,  the  primary  trouble 
in  the 
systems  of  taxation  in  vogue rather than 
in  a  general  desire  and  attempt  upon 
the  part  of  representatives  of  corporate 
and 
intangible  wealth  to  escape  just 
taxation.  These  more  modern  forms  of 
property  must  be  fairly  taxed with  other 
property,  but,  in  my  judgment,  should 
be  reached  by  methods  particularly 
adapted  to  these  special  forms  of  wealth 
which  will  appeal  to  their  owners’ 
sense  of  fairness,  because  they  are  fair 
in  practice  and  results  and  avoid  the 
antagonism  aroused  by  the general prop­
erty  tax,  which,  when  it  reaches  these 
elusive  forms  of  property,  subjects  it  to 
excessive  and disproportionate taxation.
In  making  suggestions  for  changes  in 
the  present  system,  I  am  sensible  of  the 
recognized  truth  that  any radical change 
in  a 
long-established  system  is  a  diffi­
cult  and  dangerous  undertaking  and 
should  be  made  with  due  care,  caution 
and  intelligence,  and  in  a  conservative 
and  practical  spirit.  Reform  is change, 
but  change  is  not  always  reform.  Con­
stitutional  limitations,public  sentiment, 
business  conditions  and  many  other 
things must  be  considered.

lies 

Obivously  in  this  State,  the  progress 
of  tax  reform  is  impeded  by  the  early 
constitutional  limitations;  and  the  re­
cent  hasty  and  ill-advised  constitutional 
amendments  adopted  by  the  people 
because  they  wanted  more  equal  taxa­
tion,  without  due  regard  to  the  methods

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ni  ulil»ihii!(.;  ||,  lirtvr  ini ir.imd  III«*  dilli 
i iilly  in  thin  i(‘B|ii'ii  Ninni'  rrfurm nmy 
tu' 
11un|»11alitili  III  «pitr  ni  them,  Imi 
Utili-  liminoli  llirir  umidIìiiii r,

W r 

llil VI'  Ill'll III  D 

ir* •* t  (ietti,  HI II HI « II- 
ni  M11 IIImt*II,  nlinut  i i111,i I 
.imi  uni Ini m 
t M M Mi il Ut 
till  ulmt litri  pilli!  1111  wliicll 
In  imi veruni ly  endorsed.  Wr  unmt  rnin- 
111«mi  tlir  /cui  ni  nil  refiiritirm  who  .ni 
vomir  muli  n  beneficent  principle,  /mi 
III  il  i^irnt  mimr  m  u  most  niliulrnlilr 
i|imlity  ;  Imi  /mi  without  kiinwlrdgc 
nini  nniinil  |ii(lnmi'ni  in  dtutgrroua.  This 
In  esperiti II v  Irne  tv li«* u  vrttrd  with 
[mi* 
Itili .«I  ni  otite ini  |inwri  nini  inlliirin r,

I In  "olir  Ulti («imi  lulr"  ni  valuation 
nini  "olle  iinilniiii  m ie"  in  tlir  olii  miti* 
i|iinleil  properly  in*  with  iln 
iurvitnlilr 
remili  ni  tiitei|tinl  nini  uunntlnfnrtory 
liixiilinii,  disguise  il  nn  wr  uiny 
liy  ni* 
tilling  aigutiieuls,

I  linvr  inirliillv  nlinlinl  lite  vigorous 
rllmi»  ni  vniimm  nlnlrn  in  improve  tliìn 
iIh  application  tn 
nynlriu  nini  rniorer 
nil  propelle  nini  ml.ipi  il  In  mntlrrii 
in­
dulti Ini  mudi tinnì.  Sm li  rltnitn  have 
lim i  cita lacfrli red  l>v  drastic  doomage 
and  listing  nyXeiii»,  the  adoption  ni  the 
muni  rigorous  lawn  that  could he devised 
lm  the  dincoverv  >d  property  and  hung 
tog  it  upon  the  mils,  the  rnpiivement  of 
sworn  statements,  the  employment  of 
"ta\  tenets"  and  "tax  inquisitors''  to 
assist  in  the  discovery  nt  elusive 
forms 
of  property,  They  have  nowhere  suc­
I he  system  undei  modern  con­
ceeded. 
ditions  is  a  failure. 
It  does  not  reach 
the  great  mass  of  new  forms  of  corpo- 
rate  and  intangible  property.

The  evils  ol  the  existing  system  may 

he  roughly  stimma vised  as  follows :

I-list,  tiros*  inequality  in  assessment 
of  vlitfcirnt  pieces  of  the  same  Wind  ot 
pmperty  owned  hv  different  persvvns  in 
the  same  taxing  district  and  ot  differ­
ent  Winds  ot  pmperty  regardless of  own 
eiship,  as  ical  estate  and personalty, the 
former  all  unequally  valued,  and  the 
lattei  in  part  unequally  valued  and  in 
pait  esc'aping  entirely,  The  disettmt- 
nation*  in  assessable  values of  even  teal 
estate  atv 
invidious  and  untust,  while 
llnvse 
in  favor  ot  personalty  as  against 
teal  estate  atv  still more  glaring  and un- 
beatable, 
\ssessors  combine  with  tax 
$ va ve vs  to  bring'  about  these  discrimina-
Hows,  while  l!>e  atqwtuvmuent  ol  slat«
taxes  to  Uvai  ■dtsti icts  creates  a  SNSteu
of  oompetime unokivahiatton  ot  prop
em   conducive-  to  1injustice,  The  restili
is  that  the  *Hltxfc-ns  now  borite  by  rea
estate  atv  unduly grievous  and  stnxiic
is.  perhaps,  iniixs
tv 
tor
sihbr  to  suggest  an  efficient  remedy 
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unless  svxtte  m ethod  be  dev : see 
the 
separation  ot  state  and  ,va  revenues.

tightened.

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such  separation, 

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feature  tn  the  be:  d’.ixg  ,xt  a  sound  rev- 
enee  sestetti- 
"  u h   th is,  a».4,  a  system ­
atic  ad tv v o sitatto *   ot  assessse-e-ai  a »s, 
»tmk-r  tire  genera 
sc pe re :sio*  vt  the 
biave  Tax  v',vk» : ss  oev  «vw tw tattve.v 
adogeate  taxation 
,v  these  e-asses  ,y 
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property 
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essane  ex-eeet  that  et

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,  -treses  ,v  ,"*e--v**-'  are  uvex* 
'W'b.vber  tie  u*re
avcbvss, 

Inis  come 
in  Michigan  when  such  a 
change  would  he  practical  and  how  un­
der  existing  constitutional  provisions  to 
bring  it  almiit  are  other questions.

Second,  The  present  system  is  en­
tirely  inadequate  for  the  equitable  taxa­
tion  of 
intangible  personalty,  such  as 
bonils,  stocks,  notes,  mortgages,  credits, 
bank  deposits,  etc.  They  are  elusive 
lorms  of  property  and  their  taxation, 
under  the  present  system,  easily evaded. 
Their  owners  should  hear  their 
fair 
share  ol  taxes,  but  when  such  property 
is  placed  upon  the  tax  roll  at  full  value 
and  rates  uniform  with  other  property, 
it  is  disproportionately  taxed, 
llencc, 
they  are  rarely  discovered  and  never 
stay  discovered.  The  greater  the  effort 
to  discover  and  subject  it  to  assessment 
and  taxation,  under  the  present  system, 
the  more  elusive  and  deceptive  it  be­
Full  valuation  and  uniform 
comes. 
rates  with  other  property  result 
in  un­
equal  taxation.  The  rigorous  methods 
ol  the  present  laws,  as  enforced  by  the 
Tax  Commission,  disclose  the 
inherent 
weakness  of  our  system 
in  respect  to 
this  class  of  property,  by  subjecting 
some  ot  it  to temporary disproportionate 
burdens,  (tightening 
into  an  exodus 
from  the  State  and  placing  an  embargo 
upon  capital  and  business.

it 

Mr.  Campbell,  the  able  ex-chairman 
ot  the  State  Tax  Commission,  after  a 
year’s  experience  on  that  Commission 
says:  "W e  never  have  found  and  as­
sessed  mortgages,  bank deposits,  stocks, 
bonds  and  other  intangible  properties 
successfully  by  the  same 
law  under 
which  we  assess  the  farm.  All  property 
can  not  be  assesed  uj*on  an  ad  valorem 
l*asts:  specific  taxation 
for 
some  properties  and  kinds  of  business, 
while  ad  valorem  taxation  is  preferable 
for  others,"

is  right 

This  class  of  property  should,  per­
haps,  be  taken  out  of  the  jurisdiction  of 
local  assessors  and  taxed  by  the  State 
and  its  assessment  at  full  value  placed 
in  the  hands  of  appointive  State  or 
county  assessors,  aided  by  appropriate 
listing  and  recording  systems  and  taxed 
law.  the 
at  a  low  uniform  rate  fixed  by 
rate  probable  not  to  exceed 
live  mills
on  the dollar. At  least  some  separate
and  dis[¡notice method  for  the  taxation
of  such proper:v  should  be  adopted  to
suopiement  thr  general  propen v  tax.
In
,itng  re ref  from  in>asti<re  to one
daw   w:  propc rtv.  the  State  should  tK>t
Attempt to  ìndi ct  in>ust:ce *>sn another.

W 

w hue

in  thi s  Stare. nvrtgage  : «de ‘.«ted ness.
legal:« taxable,  has  ixt  been
prodactive  of  much  revenue.
v rr  «»ay be  the  reason,  the  fact
the  o«(tiers  Cm  mcirtgages  a net
«TOSS ot -.ndeOtexiness.  as  a  class.
cvxnriK :re  vere Mule  to  the  public  rev-

that

In  the  tew  cases  w here  such  property 
g-.res  upon  the  rods,  the  -oca.  rates  oper­
ate  with  undue  sever:tv,  Th:s  is  shvwr
vvesp: cuocs'v  hv 
I a v  C'.xc.v  ssuxi  duri
la   v'ìBsr isssaace  wttfeia %  obss* TV’At 1,01?
A

the » v : i   of  ib i 

» k >  had  $ > a c
lew 
im  a  re*«-a  where tbe  'oca.  :ax
’ discovered  '  hv 

was  h:.ch  was 
the 
Cow »  ss'oe  aaxt  rxrt d  >o>  sere  than r  s 
(Wftt'.re  : *cocv tr-oasthe  : %* escaaeag.  Tax- 
at*c*  ot 
: : s   cass at  recce tty  a:  .xva. 
ares,  tree  fit  1 »a  re.  taiesa  vert  a~ge 
peccx.-tfOE  o£  tre  ijcvcae  t se re trout.

•

i

The  cases  ot  sug-eeaw  ha rise  r  are 
osua  x  tsvxse  ease  ar,e  to  hear tie  a x . 
e.x'S  as  a-e  atwerrsra  y  cewecsea;  otss  or

That  sux'h  re~scsfts  shxv ai  he  assrssrt a: 
~o  or  sx-w  oe  tie  tascewae  ipve 
such  sex'i t- t -o^.  wh.: ,e  tie  great  s a ss ot

such  property  escapes  and  should  he 
assessed  much  higher  in proportion than 
ether  taxable  property,  is  a  glaring 
in­
justice,  for  which  such  elusive  property 
can  and  will  find  a  remedy;  and  yet,  it 
being  the  purpose  of  the  law  to  reach 
persons  rather  than  property,  people 
having  such 
investments  should  bear 
their  due  share  of  the  public  burden.

Moreover,  in taxing such  property,  we 
must  not  be  unmindful  of  the  fact  that 
if  the  rate*  is  made  too  high,  the  tax 
will  operate  as  a burden upon borrowers, 
will  be,  in  fact,  an  additional  tax  upon 
real  estate.

Investigation  in  some  states,  notably 
New  York,  has  led  to  the  conclusion 
that  a  five  mill  rate  for  state  purposes, 
accompanied  by  exemption  from  tax­
ation  for 
local  purposes,  would  not 
operate  as  an  additional  burden  upon 
real  estate,  but  would  improve  the  con­
dition  of  borrowers,  would  be  an  actual 
tax  upon  mortgagees  and  make  no  sub­
stantial  change 
interest 
rates.

in  average 

It  must  be  remembered  that,  under 
the  present  system,  mortgage  debts  are 
liable  to  a  very  heavy  taxation.  While 
they,  as  a  rule,  elude  the  tax  collector, 
the  money  lender obtains in an increased 
rate  of 
interest  compensation  for  the 
risk.  Competent  experts  believe  that 
under such  conditions,  one-half  of  I  per 
cent,  of  the  average  rate  of  interest  on 
mortgage  loans  is  now  paid  by  the  bor­
rower.  The  most  common  objection  to 
the  taxation  of  mortgages  is  double  tax­
ation,  which  the  New  York  committee 
designates  as  a  "phrase  which  is  brim­
ful  of  duplicity  and  highly  convenient 
for sophistical  reasoners. *’

The  tax  proposed  is  not  double  in  a 
legal  sense,  as  the  value  represented  by 
the  mortgage  will  be  taxed  but  once  for 
state  purposes,  assuming  that  there  will 
be  a  separation  of  state  and  local  rev­
enues.  The 
tax  would  be  uniform 
throughout  the  state,  no  one  would  es­
cape,  there  would  be  no  deduction  for 
debts  and  no  exemptions.  In  New  York 
where  this  subject  has  been  very  care­
fully  investigated  by  ihe  committee  re­
ferred  to,  where  under  the  present  prop­
erty  tax  such  property  escapes  almost 
entirely,it  is  estimated  that  this  special 
tax  wx'uid  raise  from  that  class  of  se­
curities*  Sto.cxxv.xxx>  annually,  and  to 
that  extent  relieve  overburdened real  es­
tate,  This  system  is  in  vogue  in  Penn­
sylvania.

Third.  The  aggregated  capital  em­
ployed  in  industrial  enterprises  in  cor- 
tvirate  form  is  of  such  a  character  that 
its  value  can  not  be  reliably  measured 
by  methods  and  rules  applicable  to  real 
estate  and  chattels;  hence  the  general 
property  tax  method  of  valuation  on  a 
property  has-s  and  taxation  at  uniform 
in­
rates  with  other  property  is  utterly 
adequate  to  reach  it  fully  and fairly. 
It 
consists 
largely  of  sntangihle  elements 
ot  vi.ae  wh;cfc  can  not  be  separated 
troca  tang:b;e  or  estimated  accurately 
on  a  property  basis  and,  therefore, 
s»v--c  he  subjected  to some  other  prin­
ciple  of  taxattoc  adapted  to  it.

A  quast-ruh. :c corporation  should  be 
treated  ter  taxation  as  a  unit  and  esti­
mated  h*  socse  method  consistent  with 
:ts  txrcu  :ar  character  and  the extent and 
ccctr.ev.tx  oi  Its  aSairs.  A  principle
Such
C'crev'cat. cos.  asd  to  a  great  extent  to 
nervate  cccevexticns  as  »'ell,  that  will 
trx*cil-se  va.oes.  earning  power 
i* c  ccawt eeiuents  recvxgsuted  by  busi­
ness  investors,  asse  s h e e t   them  to  fair, 
-adequate  ase  certain  taxation  upon  that 
eiteaoic  rases.  Fit  s  should  be  done

AV  11 iij 

.‘(^ 

through  a  state  system  at  uniform  rates 
of  taxation  fixed  by 
law  upon  gross 
earnings  or  capital  stock  values.

They  should,  in  my  judgment,  so  far 
as  constitutional  provisions  will  permit, 
be  taken  out  of  the  general  property  tax 
system,  both  with  respect  to  valuation 
and  rates.

With  respect  to  railroads and so-called 
transmission  companies,  generally,  my 
investigation  of  the  various  systems  in 
vogue  in  several  of  the  great  states  has 
convinced  me  that,  although  not  perfect 
and  although  susceptible  of  improve­
ment,  there  is  no  better  system  now  in 
vogue  than  the  tax  upon  gross  earnings 
in  this  State. 
I  can  not  undertake  to 
discuss  that  method  upon  its  merits  at 
this  time,  but  in  my  judgment  the  at­
tempt  to  substitute  for  it  the  unsound 
method  of  ad  valorem  taxation  is  a  de­
cisive  step  in  the  wrong  direction.  The 
present  system  is  simple,  efficient,  cer­
tain  and  from 
it  there  can  be  no  es­
cape ;  that 
is  the  point  with  respect  to 
property  of  this  character,  a  tax  from 
which  there  can  be  no  escape.

Everybody 

in  this  State  believes  in 
the  abstract  principle  of  equal  taxation. 
However,  that  principle  has,  of  recent 
years,  unfortunately  been  associated 
with  an 
impractical  method—the  one 
uniform  tax  upon  all  forms  of  property. 
Unfortunately  for  the  cause  of  equal 
taxation,  what  were  termed  “ the  prin­
ciples  of  the  Atkinson  b ill"  have  been 
transformed  into  political  doctrine,  the 
adjustment  of  taxation  has  been  coined 
into  political  capital  and  alluring  and 
deceptive  appeals  to  class  interests have 
taken  the  place  of  educational 
instruc­
tion 
in  the  principles  of  correct  taxa­
tion.

It  seems  to  me  misleading  to  assume 
that  any  class  of  property  or  persons  is 
opposed  to  equal  and  just  taxation  in 
principle  or that  there  is  a  conflict  be­
tween  the  people  on  the  one  side  and 
privileged classes  and  special  interests 
on  the  other,  with  respect  to  the  prin­
ciple  of  equal  taxation. 
It  is  a  conflict 
of  principles  and  methods  of  taxation, 
rather than  desirable  results.

In  the  arguments  of  the  advocates  of 
the  abolition  of  specific  taxation,  we 
search 
in  vain  for  recognition  of  the 
cardinal  principles  of  correct  system  of 
taxation  or  the  suggestion  that  ability 
to  pay 
is  a  correct  principle  or  that 
earnings  or  income  might 
in  any  in­
stance  be  a  fitting  test  of  such  ability. 
We  find  no  suggestion  that  a  system 
based  upon  a  correct  principle  might 
be  remedied  in defective features,  rather 
than  destroyed.  Assuming that  the  earn­
ings  tax  does  not  yield  proceeds as large 
as  would  be  raised  under  some  other 
systems,  no  remedial  suggestions  with 
respect  to  that  system  are  offered,  hut 
it 
is  vehemently  condemned  and  de­
clared  to  be  "radically  wrong."

Among  the  more  satisfactory  of  the 
modern  methods  for  the  taxation  of 
other  corporate  property,  such  as  gas 
and  electric 
light  companies,  manu­
facturing  and  other  corporations,  I  may 
mention  the  taxation  of  real  estate  and 
tangible  personalty  locally  for  local pur­
poses,  and  a  uniform  State tax  upon  the 
true  value  of  bonds  and  stock  of  such 
companies,  which 
includes  franchise 
values,  earning  power and  all  elements 
of  value,  at  a  reasonable  rate  fixed  by 
law.  This  is  what  is  called  the  taxation 
of  corporations  as  the  source,  thereby 
refraining  from  any  dealings  with  the 
individual  holders  of  corporate  securi­
ties  -a  method  admitted  on  ail  hands  to 
he  the  simplest,  most  efficient and  most

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1 1

equitable  in  the  taxation  of these classes 
of  corporate  property.

With 

improved  methods  along  the 
lines  suggested  for the  taxation  of  vari­
ous  classes  of  corporations  and  of  secu­
rities  and  other  intangible  property  that 
will  be  adequate  and  yet  fair  and  a 
complete  businesslike  system for the  ad­
ministration  of  the  general  property  tax 
as  to  other  property,  tax  reform,  based 
upon  justice and  equality,can eventually 
be  secured  in  practice  as  well  as theory.
It  goes  without  saying  that  changes 
along  the  lines  suggested  or any changes 
in  laws  so  vital  to the  well  being  of  the 
community  as  those  of  taxation,  should 
be  made  carefully, 
intelligently  and 
gradually,  with  due  regard  to  estab­
lished  business  and  property  interests 
and  conditions  and  with  the  ultimate 
purpose  always  in  view  of  building  up 
a 
complete,  harmonious  system  that 
will  reach  fairly  and  adequately  all 
classes  of  property  or  persons.  To  this 
end,  it  has  often  occurred  to  me  that 
it 
might  be  well  to  follow  the  experience 
of  other  advanced  states  and  provide 
for  the  appointment  of  a  special  com­
mission  or counsel  to  examine  the  laws, 
methods  and  systems  of  taxation  in  this 
and  other  states,  investigate  existing 
conditions  in  our  own  State,  reconcile 
conflicting  opinions,and  with  respect  to 
legislation  from  time  to  time,  advise 
what  should  be  preserved  and  what  re­
jected  and recommend desirable changes 
in  laws  and  administrative  machinery, 
to  the  end  that  taxing  evils  may  be 
abolished  and  a  sound  revenue  system 
built  up  within  constitutional  provi­
sions. 
if  ap­
pointed,  should  be  composed  of  men  of 
high  standing,  diversified  talent  and 
training  and 
familiar 
with  national  and  state  constitutions 
and  systems  and  with  practical  experi­
ence  in  industrial  affairs,  and  should be 
given  sufficient  scope,  authority,  time 
and  power  to  bring  about  complete  and 
satisfactory  results.

Such  a  Commission, 

learning, 

legal 

Such  a Commission was  suggested  by 
Senator  McMillan,  a  couple  of  years 
ago.  Had  the  suggestion  been  followed, 
the  State  would  probably  have  been 
saved  the  expense  of  two  fruitless  spe­
cial  sessions  of  the  Legislature,  serious 
mistakes  would  have  been  avoided,  and 
the  State  would  have  been 
intelligently 
started  out  of  the  existing  chaos of  taxa­
tion  toward  a  practical,  efficient  and 
harmonious  system.

Geo.  Clapperton.

Co-operation  by  F lorida Pineapple Grow- 

erg.

All  the  pineapple  growers  in  South 
Florida  assembled  at  Tampa,  Fla.,  last 
Wednesday  and 
formed  a  Pineapple 
Growers’  Association,  which  will  con­
trol  the  product  of  “ shedded”   pine­
apples  in  Florida.  The  movement  got 
first 
impetus  from  the  organization  of 
the  South  Florida  Pineapple  Associa­
tion,  of  St.  Petersburg,  which  has 
proved  so  beneficial  as  to  serve  admir­
ably  as  an  object 
lesson.  Under  the 
combine  every  man  who  raises  a  crop 
will  ship  his  product  to  the  central  sta­
tion  of  the  company  at  Tampa,  and 
shipments  to  the  markets  will  be  made 
from  this  place  exclusively.  The  same 
routine  has  been  in  use  by  East  Coast 
pineapple  growers  for  a  year or  two, 
and  they  have  made  money  by  such 
union.  They  will  also  come  under  the 
workings  of  this  combine,  and  all  pine­
apple  growers  in  the  State  will  work  in 
unison. 

_ 

____
In   a  Vicions  Circle.

“ I  wonder  what  makes  a  man’sjbair 

fall  out  so  fast  when  it  once  starts?”

“ Worry!  Nothing  tends  to  make  a 
man  bald  so  much  as  worry ;  and  noth­
ing  worries  a  man  so  much  as  the  idea 
that  he  is becoming  bald.”

RAZOR STROPS.

M illions of Them  Made  in  This  Country 

Yearly.

Razor  strops  are  made  in  hundreds  of 
varieties,  counting  kinds,  qualities,  ma­
terials,  sizes,  styles  and  manner  of  fin­
ish.  They  are  produced  in  this  coun­
try  to  the  number  of  millions  annually 
and  American  razor strops  are  exported 
to  all  parts  of  the  world.

The  very  best  of  the  swing  strops 
now  so  extensively  used  are  made  of 
Russian  leather.  Strops  of  this  kind, 
with  the  very  simplest  sort  of mountings 
at  one  end  to  hang  the  strop  up  by  and 
at  the  other end  to  hold  it  by  cost,  from 
$i  to  $2  each.  Strops  of  imitation Rus­
leather  are  sold  as  cheaply  as  50 
sian 
cents. 
leather  swing 
strops  with  silver  mountings  range  in 
price  from  $5  to $25  each.

Fine  Russian 

After those  of  Russian leather the  best 
swing  razor  strops  are  made  of  horse- 
hide,  of  which  in  fact  a  very  large  pro­
portion  of  all  swing  strops  are  made. 
Horsehide  strops  are  produced  in  great 
variety,  genuine  horsehide  strops  being 
sold  at  from  25  cents  to $1.25  each.  Im­
itation  horsehide  strops,  made  of  cow­
hide,  are  sold  at  various  prices,  from 
10  cents  to  75  cents  each.  Swing  razor 
strops  are  made  also  of  calfskin  and  of 
porpoise  leather.

Perhaps  5  per  cent,  of  the  swing 
strops  sold  consist  of  the  leather  alone; 
but  the  great  majority  of  them,  of 
whatever kind,  grade  or quality,  consist 
of  two  parts:  the  leather  strop  and  a 
strop  of  corresponding  dimension of cot­
ton  or  linen.  On  cheap  strops  this  part 
is  of  cotton;  on  the  best  strops  of  what­
it  is  of  the  best  Irish  linen, 
ever  kind 
woven 
in  the  form  of  a  hose  and  then 
flattened  into  strop  form.

leather  can 

There  is  a  swing  strop  that  is  reversi­
ble. 
If  the  face  of  the  leather  is  cut  in 
use  the  strop  attachments  are  such  that 
the 
turned. 
is  also  a  swing  strop  that  rolls 
There 
up  like  a  window  shade 
into  the  at­
tachment  from  which  it  swings  on  the 
wall.

readily  be 

Hand  strops,  the  familiar  two-sided 
and  four-sided  strops,  with  a  handle  at 
one  end,are  made  in  very  great  variety, 
including, for  example,  traveling  strops, 
one  sort  of  which,  small  in  size,  has  a 
handle 
can  be 
dropped  inside  a  place  made  to  receive 
it  in  the  strop.

that  unscrews  and 

Besides  the  hand  strops  of  solid  con­
struction  with  two  or  four  sides  there 
are  hand  strops  whose  sides  are  com­
leather straps  drawn  at  either 
posed  of 
end  over  a  supporting 
frame-work, 
which  can  be  tightened  by  turning  up 
on  the  handles.

Hand 

strops 

are  sold  at  various 
prices,  ranging from  15  cents  to $4  each; 
silver-mounted  hand  strops  run  up  to 
$25  each.

By  no  means  every  man  that  shaves 
himself  and  has  a  razor  strop  of  some 
sort  has  also  a  razor  hone,  or  stone;  as 
a  matter  of  fact  not  one  man  in  a  hun­
dred,  perhaps  not  one 
in  a  thousand, 
has  one.  There  are  men  that  hone  their 
own  razors,  using,  perhaps,  a  stone  that 
came  down  to  them  from  their  father,  or 
it  might  be  from  their  grandfather. 
And  stones  can  be  bought,  if  one  wants 
them  that  way,  in  a  silver  box.  But  as 
a  rule  when  a  man’s  razors  need  honing 
he 
is  more  than  likely  to  take  them  to 
the  barber’s ;  so  that  the  razor stone  is 
virtually  a  professional  implement,used 
almost  exclusively  by  the  barbers.

Of  razor stones  there  are  two  general 
kinds,  almost  all  of  which,  of  both 
imported,  the  water stones,
kinds,  are 

as  they  are  called,  because  they  are 
used  with  water,  from  Germany;  and 
the  oil  stones,  used  with  oil,  and  called 
Belgian  oil  stones,  from  Belgium.  Some 
barbers  use  one  and  some  the other;  and 
some  use  both.  Of  course  the  razor 
stone 
important  part  of  the 
barber’s  kit  of  tools  and  he  values  a 
good  stone  highly.  And  a  good  razor 
stone  is  rather a  costly  thing.

is  a  very 

German  water  stones  cost  from  25 
cents  to $2  each ;  and Belgian oil stones, 
according  to  the  grit  and  quality,  from 
75  cents  to $5  each,  these  prices  being 
for  stones  from  six  to  fifteen  inches  in 
length;  eight-inch  and  ten-inch  being 
the  sizes  most  commonly  used.
The  Village  Store  of  Seventy-five  Years 
Ago.
Written for the Tradesman.

In  my  last  contribution  I  mentioned 
the  barter trade  that  was such  an  impor­
tant  part  of  the  business  of  the  country 
store,  the  miscellaneous  items  of  which 
lay,  or  hung, 
in  scattered  confusion 
around  the  store.
To  realize  the  disadvantages  and  diffi­
culties  that  beset  the  village  merchant’s 
pathway  to  success  it  must  be  remem­
bered  that  the  nearest  market  for the 
disposal  of  these  accumulated  hetero­
geneous  articles  received  from  his  cus­
tomers  in  exchange  was  the  then  village 
of  Rochester,  New  York,  thirty  miles 
away.  Here  the  Erie  Canal,  the  pride 
and  glory  of  New  York  and  the  endur­
ing  monument  to  the  memory  of  De- 
Witt  Clinton,  came  to  his  aid  and 
opened  up  a market slow but  sure  for his 
surplus.

The  principal  staples  that  made  up 
the  list  were  butter,  eggs,  cheese,  honey, 
men’s  woolen  mittens,  socks,  stocking 
varn,  and  rolls of home made  flax  in  the 
raw  state  just  as  it  came  from  the  farm­
er’s  crude  hand  machinery  for  separat­
ing  the  woody  fibre  from  the  staple,  and 
a  long  list  of  other  home  made  truck  to 
enumerate  which  would  extend 
this 
paper  beyond  its  limit.

in 
When  the  roads  were  passable 
summer or there  was  good  sleighing 
in 
winter  teams  were  hired  from  the  store­
keeper’s  farmer  customers,  who  were  al­
ways  ready  to  work  cheap  for the  priv­
ilege  of  a  visit  to  Rochester  and  a 
chance  to  view  the  falls  of  the  Genesee 
River,  one  of  the  wonders  of  Western 
New  York,  and  enjoy  a  holiday  visit  at 
someone  else’s  expense.

Huge 

loads  were  piled  into  covered 
conveyances  and  the  caravan  started  for 
Rochester.  The  round  trip  usually cov­
ered  three  or  four  days.  During  the 
season  of  navigation  the  demand  was 
always  equal  to  the  supply,  and  the  bar­
ter  truck  was  sold  readily  for  cash,  but 
in  winter  the  country  merchant  was 
often  glad  to  exchange  for  groceries  or 
salt  to  replenish  his  stock  and  went 
through  the  same  process  of  exchange 
again.  Salt  was  always  cheap  in  Roch­
ester  for the  reason  that  it  was  used  by 
the  canal boats  for  ballast  between  there 
and Syracuse. 
It  was,  therefore,  a  very 
profitable  article  for  the  country  mer­
chant  to  keep. 
It  often  retailed  at  a 
profit  of  a  dollar  a  barrel  over  cost  and 
transportation.

Dry  goods  were  very different  in  their 
character  and  variety  then  and  now. 
The  manufacture  of  calicoes,  as  they 
were  called,  was  in  its  infancy in Amer 
ica  and  English  calicoes  were  the staple 
dress  goods  in  that  line.  They  were  al­
ways 
fast  colors  and  very  durable. 
French  calicoes  were  less  in  demand. 
They  were  invariably  a  full  yard  wide 
and  were  soft  and  delicate  in  texture 
and  coloring.  The  price  of  these  differ­

ent  calicoes  varied  all  the  way  from  25 
to  50  cents  a  yard,  depending  upon 
width  and  quality. 
first  home 
manufacturers  were  soon  followed  by 
others  and  they  were  able  successfully 
to  compete  with  the 
imported  article 
and  drove  it  out  of  the  market.

The 

flax 

supplied 

indulged 

Then  a  calico  dress  was  a  luxury  not 
in  for  everyday  wear. 
to  be 
An 
important  part  of  the  household 
furniture  of  every  family  was  its  spin­
loom.  The  farmers 
ning  wheels  and 
generally 
themselves  with 
goods  for  girls  and  women’s  everyday 
wear  which  they  called  linsey-woolsey, 
which  was  made  of  a  warp  of  finely 
spun  home  grown 
filled  with  a 
brilliantly  colored  fine  woolen  yarn  and 
woven  into  plaids  or  stripes  as  suited 
the  taste  of  the  wearer.  They  were  very 
durable  and  soon  attracted  the  attention 
of  New  England  manufacturers,  who 
were  not  slow  to  substitute  the  cheaper 
article,  cotton,  for  the  flax  warp,  multi­
plying  the  variety  of  patterns  and  giv­
ing  them  a  prominent  place  in  the  dry 
goods  store  as  staple  goods  for  women’s 
everyday  dresses,  a  distinction  which 
they  held  for  many  years.  The  last  uses 
to  which  they  were  put  was  by the cloth­
ing  manufacturers  as  linings  for  men’s 
and  boys’  coarse  overcoats.

The  dress  goods  in  our  village  store 
were  all  placed  upon  the  shelves  and 
folded  so  as  to  show  the  pattern 
from 
the  outside. 
This  was  for  the  purpose 
of  giving  the  customer a  chance to point 
out  whatever  she  saw  and  fancied  and 
ask  to  have 
it  laid  on  the  counter for 
further inspection.  Frequently she might 
be seen behind the counter for a closer ex­
amination.  Absurd  as this  may  seem,  it 
is  true.  Pins  were  all 
imported  and 
were  known  as  London  pins.  They 
came  assorted  as  to  size  and  were  sold 
in  bulk  by  the ounce  or  less.  They  were 
not  solid  headed  and  the  separate  heads 
were  very  liable  to  pull  off  by  use.  The 
solid  headed,  up-to-date  pin  was  the 
invention  of  a  Connecticut  Yankee. 
Hooks  and  eyes,  also imported,  came  in 
bulk;  cotton  thread,  all  numbers, 
in 
skeins  imported  in  bundles of one pound 
each.  Spools  were  not  in  use  either  for 
thread  or  silk.

Here  I  will  drop  the  list and bid adieu 
to  the  village  store  and  its environments 
until  another  issue  of  the  Tradesman.
W.  S.  H.  Welton.

Meat  W ar  in  a New  York  Town.

local 

labor  unions  to 

There  has  been  a  cut  of  40  per  cent, 
in  the  price  of  fresh  meats  in  Olean, 
N.  Y.,  the  result  of  the  boycott  recently 
placed  on  the  market  of  Gault  Bros., 
of  Olean,  who  continued*to  supply  cus­
tomers  with  the  goods  of  the Dold  Pack­
ing  Co.,  of  Buffalo,  after  being  warned 
by  the 
cease 
handling  them.  All  the  other  markets 
in  the  city  refused  to handle  the  Dold 
goods  after  being  warned.  At  noon  to­
day  the  union  cutters  employed  by 
Gault  Bros,  refused  to  give up their jobs 
when  ordered  out  by  the  union.  The 
war  began  on  Saturday  week,  when 
hams  were  cut  from  12  to 8  cents,  and 
other  smoked  goods  in  proportion.  The 
Dold Packing  Co.  is  behind  Gault  Bros. 
So  far  Armour  &  Co.,  who  have  a  cold- 
storage  plant  in  Olean,  have  taken  no 
hand 
in  the  fight.  The  Olean  grocers 
continue  to handle the  Dold  smoked  and 
preserved  meats  in  defiance  of  a  warn­
ing  from  the  union.

Dresses  on  N othing  a Year.

is  said  to  be  an-  American 
There 
woman 
in  Paris  who  dresses  superbly 
on  nothing  a  year,because  she  has a  fine 
figure  and 
is  a  good  advertisement  for 
the  fashionable  dressmaker who  clothes 
her.  His  creations  are  so  enhanced  by 
the  wearer’s  charms  that  she  is besieged 
by  enquiries  for the  name  of  her coutur­
ier,  who  thus  has  secured  a  greatly  in­
creased  clientele  in  the  fashionable  cir­
cle  in  which  she  moves.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 2

Shoes  and  Rubbers

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III  TrH(l<1  I *11 |M* l*M.

The  main  considerations  in  the  pur­
chase  of  a  stock  of  shoes  are  quality, 
style,  lit  and  value ;  secondary  consid­
erations  being  the  proper  filling;  of  or­
ders  and  shipments  being  made  as  de­
sired. 
In  the  shoe  lotirnals  of  the  pres­
ent  time  the  dealer  reads  the  advertise­
ment  of  the  tanner  who  tells him  that he 
is  finishing  a  certain  brand  of  leather 
which  he  has  given  a  name.  He  could 
not  afford  to  do  this  unless  his  product 
combined  necessary  qualities  essential 
for  the  kind  of  stock  he  is  making. 
For 
instance,  it  a  dealer  buys  a  shoe 
with  a  sole  of  Kock  Oak,  he  knows  posi­
tively  that  he  has  an  absolutely  reliable 
bottom,  or  if  the upper  is  made  of  Vici, 
Velours  calf  or  Phoenix  kid,  and  so 
on,  he  knows  that  he  is  buying  the  best 
product  there  is  to  be had  for  those  pur­
poses  for  the  reason  that  they  have  had 
the  test  ot  time  and  their  makers  could 
not  afford  to  put  their  reputations  in 
the  balance  by  sending  out  an 
inferior 
grade  of  leather  over  their  names,  they 
putting  years  of  work  and  large 
invest­
ments  of  capital  as  a  guarantee  of  the 
fulfillment  of  their  promises.  Thus  the 
dealer  knows  that  he  is  buying  quality.
There  is,  and very often  unknowinglv. 
a  great amount  of personal feeling,either 
favorable  or  prejudiced,  between  the 
buyer  and  the  salesman,  often  to  the 
detriment  of  the  buyer.  These  chances 
are  eliminated  in  dealing  directly  with 
an  advertiser;  you  do  not  know  whether 
he 
is  pleasant,  young,  old,  man  or 
woman.  You  ate  simply  buying  shoes j 
strictly  on  their  merits.

In  sending  an  order  directly  to  a 
house  you  know  that  it  will  not  lose  any 
time  in  the  hands  of  a  third  person,  but 
will  fw  delivered  in  the  shortest  pos­
sible  time  and  so  receive  prompt  atten­
tion. 
this  being  especially  desirable 
during  the  season  when  you  wish  to  till 
in  and  want  special  pairs  rushed  out  to 
you.

All  orders,  and  specifications  apper­
taining  to  them,  sent  through  the  mails 
ate  matters  of  record  and  are  not  sub-
sect  to  fa »ling  memories  or  all¡erations
while  in  transit,  the dealer in  tihis  wav
knowing  tftat  an  adveniser will
till  his
order  exacitlv  as  rece ived.

The  com petition  between advertisers
is  sharp  and  keen,  each  aiming tv.  get
his  port:01n  of  the tra vie And,  if  pos-
sibie.  a  part  of  his  competi tors '.  There-
fore,  every article he  adv
be  made  tv'  the  best of  his ahi!lity  and
his  prices be  as  kw as  he can consì st-
ese  being the  me-
cntlv  make
vii urns  bv which  he  nreas
his  sue-
cess,  amounting  to persona!
iarantees
to the  prospective  biavers*

Yerv  often  large  and  successful  man­
ufacturers  are  not 
thoroughly  repre­
sented  by  traveling  salesmen  and  many
in: portant  towns and  cities  a:r   not  cor- j
errd bv  their
représentât:* es,  coarse-1
v  the  dealer  in  one  ci  these places -
can  t1a  all  saù“tv  place  an order  with  ;
perite t  coonden.ce 
^V«,e  medium  j

give  him,  especially  so  in  looking  at  a 
line  with  which  he 
is  not  familiar. 
However,  when  reading  the  advertise­
ment  (of  possibly  the  same  salesman’s 
house)  he  has  their  goods  placed  before 
him  and  can  give  them  serious  consid­
eration  and  study  without  the  confusing 
arguments  which  are  often  advanced, 
and  will  buy  strictly  on  his  own 
judg­
ment, influenced  only  by  the  plain  state­
ment  of  facts  and  prices  by  the  adver­
tisement,  which 
really  are  the  only 
points  to  be  considered  in  placing  an 
order.

An  advertised  shoe 

is  subjected  to 
the  severest  test  known  to  any  class  of 
merchandise,being held  up  for criticism 
to  every  dealer  in  footwear,  and  goods 
which  are  not  in  all  respects  exactly  as 
advertised  do  not 
long  seek  publicity 
in  this  manner. 
In  buying  a  well- 
known  brand  of  shoes,  or  a  line  from 
a  well-known  house  that  advertises 
its 
goods,  the  dealer  is  protected,  inasmuch 
as  no  such  advertiser can  afford  to  send 
out  any other  goods  than such  as  he  dis­
plays  in  printer's  ink;  and 
if  occasion 
should  possibly  arise  for  a  complaint  he 
knows  positively  that 
it  will  be  given 
due  consideration  and  that  he  will  re­
ceive  just  treatment  from  him.

In  considering  styles  the  advertiser 
can  not  afford  to  display  any  shoes  not 
made  up 
in  accordance  with  the  de­
mands  of  the  season  and  shows  only 
the  most  staple  and  best  styles he is able 
to  obtain.  The  influence  of  competition 
being  always  in  his  mind  he  offers  only 
the  best  at  his  command.

Statistics,  gathered 

from  the  largest 
and  most  successful  manufacturers, show 
that  their  advertised 
lines  are  among 
their  best  selling  goods,  and that  a  large 
percentage  of  their  sales 
is  effected 
through  their  advertising  and  mail  or­
der  business,  which 
is  one  of  the  best 
arguments  in  favor  of  this  system of  do­
ing  business;  and 
its  healthy  growth 
from 
season  proves  con-1 
clusivelv  that  the  buyer of to-day  has I 
contidence 
in  shoes  and  houses  adver-1 
tised  in  the  trade  journal.

season  to 

The  retailer  uses  show  windows  to 
display  his  styles  and  prices  to  the  peo­
ple  of  his  town  and  he  knows  how  they 
must  be  treated  if  he  expects  to  make I 
regular  customers  of  them :  and  so  the 
manufacturers  and  jobbers  displav  their 
stales  and  prices  in  the  trade 
journals,  I 
which  are  the  show  windows  of  their j 
business,  and  the  dealer  knows  he  will I 
receive  the  same  treatment  he  gives 
customers  gained  in  this  way,  and  can j 
buy  accordingly.

and 

The 

enormous 

unparalleled j 
growth  of  the  Western  shoe  markets  isi 
the*  result  of  aggressive  trade  journal s 
| advertising  and  were  this  business  not; 
of  a  healthy  and  regular  growth  the  re-1 
[suit  would  have  been  apparent  before j 
thts.  They  all  grew  strong  and  pros- j 
| perous 
their  mail  orders,  ■ 
[brought 
the  trade 1 
journals,—A.  B.  Leever  in  Roots  and \ 
Shoes  \\ eek  v.
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in  most I v  through 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

much  greater  now  than  formerly,  but 
there 
is  still  room  for  improvement  in 
most  retail  stores  in  this  respect.  The 
movement,  however,  is  in  the  right  di­
rection,  and  the  not  distant  future  will 
probably  see  as  near  perfection  as  we 
can  expect 
in  this  world  of  error  and 
shortcoming.

Other  features  of  the  retail  shoe  store' 
where  great 
improvements  have  been 
made  might  be  mentioned,  but  space 
forbids.  The  march  of  events  is  on­
ward  and  upward,  and  the  regrettable 
feature  of  it  all  is  that  middle-aged men 
are  not  the  pioneers 
in  pushing  new 
ideas  to  the  front.  Dealers  who  have 
been 
long  enough  to 
know  a  good  thing  when  they  see  it  are 
prone  to  let  well  enough  alone  and  keep 
on  in  the  way  their  predecessors  did  for 
years  and  years  before  the  twentieth 
century  dawned.

in  the  business 

This,  men  and  brethren,  is  net  right. 
So  long  as  a  man  is  carrying  on  a  busi­
ness  he  should  work  it  for  all  there  is 
in  it.  Not  necessarily  for the  increased

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profit,  although  that  is  a  matter  for  con­
sideration,  but  he  should  strive  always 
to  keep  up  with  the  latest  ideas  and 
"prove  them,  whether  they  be  good  or 
whether they  be  evil.”   He  should  keep 
abreast  the  times  for the  benefit  of  his 
clerks  and  salesmen,  so  when  they  go 
into  business  for themselves  their  meth­
ods  will  not  be  obsolete  and  archaic, 
and  finally  he  should  keep  up  for his 
own  sake.  Unless  he  is  putting  his  en­
ergy 
into  the  business,  or  some  other 
business,  he  is  not  making  the  most  of 
himself  and  is  therefore  on  a  retrograde 
move,  for the  rule  is  the  same  as  with 
the  tide—when  the  flood  ceases  the  ebb 
begin.

Brother  retailers,  let  us  exhort  you  to 
keep  out  of the  ruts  of  inertia  and  self- 
sufficiency  and  make  every  possible  en­
deavor to  improve  the  conditions  of  the 
retail  trade,  so  that  the  life  of  the  retail 
shoe  dealer  at  the  close  of  the  century 
just  opening  shall  be  one  glad,  sweet 
song.— Hubert  Edwards 
in  Boot  and 
Shoe  Recorder.

this,  we  say,  he  has  probably  lost  the 
keen  interest  which  he  felt  in  his  busi- 
ness  when  he  first  opened  on  his  own 
account.  He  sees  trade  as  good  as  last 
year  at  this  time,  profits  equal  to  the 
profits  of  last  year and apparently every­
thing  is  going  on  in  a  prosperous  man­
ner.  Why  should  he  be  expected  to  put 
in  all  his  time  when  the  store  gets  on 
just  as  well  without  him?

That  is  the  question,  does  it  get  along 
just  as  well  without  him?  As  well  say 
a  train  of  cars  will run  just  as well with­
out  the  engine.  True  the  rails  keep  the 
cars  from  running  off  into  the  ditch  on 
either  side,  and  after  they  receive  an 
impetus  they  will  move  some  distance 
without  the  aid  of  the 
locomotive,  but 
it  is  with  diminishing  momentum  and 
speed,  and 
in  a  short  time  the  whole 
train  stops.  So  in  the  retail  shoe  store, 
when  the  motive  force,  the  proprietor, 
ceases  to  devote  his  time  and  energy  to 
the  store  the  vis  inertiae becomes potent 
at  once  and 
increases  with  alarming 
rapidity.

"Stagnation 

is  death"  is  a  principle 
as  old  as  humanity.  To  be  alive 
it  is 
necessary  to  keep  moving,  or,  in  other 
words,  motion 
is  the  evidence  of  life. 
Every  business  has  in  recent  years  un­
dergone  more  or  less  of 
revolution. 
Combinations  of  capital  have  made 
production  cheaper,  and  at  the  same 
time  competition  may  have  reduced 
profits,but through  all  the  changes  and 
vicissitudes  there  are those who  make no 
change  in  their  regular  routine.

In 

An  extreme  case  within  the  writer’s 
knowledge  is  that  of  a  man  now  in  the 
"sear and  yellow  leaf,"  the  proprietor 
of  a  retail  store  not  a  thousand  miles 
from  Boston—that  is  sufficiently  indefi­
nite  to  allow  him  to  escape,  but  this 
will  be  read  by  many  who  know  the 
gentleman. 
the  early  "sixties,”  
when  goods  of  every  kind  sold  at  fabu­
lous  prices,  this  retailer’s  father ordered 
an  immense  stock  thinking  he  was  do­
ing  well  to  buy  before  another  rise. 
It 
turned  out,  however,  that  there  was  no 
further  rise.  The  backbone  of  the  Con­
federacy  was  broken  and  the  price  of 
everything  began  to  drop.  Rather than 
sell  at  a  loss  the  old  gentleman  refused 
to  sell  at  all  and  the  son  has  followed  in 
his  footsteps,  so  now  there  is  a  fully 
stocked  store  awaiting a "conservative”  
dealer  who  wants  goods  nearly  forty 
years  old.

This,  as  we  said,  is  an  extreme  case, 
but  the  difference  is  only  in  degree  be­
tween  these  two  and  the  dealer of  to-day 
who  does  not  keep-in  touch  with  the 
latest  and  best  methods  of  conducting 
the  business  and  with  the 
improve­
ments 
in  the  conditions  under  which  a 
retail  business  is  carried  on.

Mind,  we  do  not  say,  and  do not want 
to  be  understood  as  saying,  that  a  re­
tailer should  invest  his  savings  in  every 
clap-trap  device  or  catch-penny  notion 
that  he  runs  across  simply  because  it 
nominally  relates  to the  retail  business. 
Not  at  all.  But  he  should  and  must 
avoid  getting 
into  a  rut  and  staying 
there,  or  his  competitors  will  easily 
pass  him  in  the  race  to  success,  and  the 
man  in  the  rut  will  have  the  weariness 
and  the  labor  and  the  jolting  and  hard 
work,  but  the  one  who  keeps  on  firm 
ground  and  keeps  moving  will  be  the 
one  to  receive  the  prize.

There  is  as  much  difference  between 
the  business  methods  of  to-day  and  two 
or  three  decades  ago  as  there  is  in  the 
styles  of  footwear. 
In  those  days  no 
gentleman  was  dressed  without boots, 
and  to-day  boots  are  useful  only  to 
emphasize  the  villainy  of  the  bad  man

in  the  melodrama.  There  seems  to  be 
a  slight  tendency  here  and  there  to  re­
turn  to  the  boots,  but  there  never can  be 
a  return  to  obsolete  methods.  The  re­
tailer  who  is  laying  the  flattering  unc­
tion  to  his  soul  that  there  will  be  a  re­
turn  to the  good  old  ways  must  wake  up 
or  he  will  be  numbered  with  the  "also 
rans. ’ ’

the  word  aesthetic  had 

Take,  for  instance,  the  exterior  of  a 
retail  store,  as  compared  with  the  same 
twenty-five  or thirty  years  ago.  At  that 
time 
little 
meaning  to  the  average  citizen  and  as 
little  to  the  shoe  dealer  as  to  any  one. 
But  a  change  came  about.  The  win­
dows  of  a  shoe  store  receive  as  much 
care  as  those  of  any  mercantile  busi­
ness,  and  the  services  of  an  expert  win­
dow  dresser are  required  to  bring  about 
the  best  results.  The  expert  profes­
sional  window  dresser,  by  the  way,  is  a 
creation  of  yesterday.  True,  he  reaches 
now  back  into  the  last  century,  but  it  is 
only  a  short  time  that  the  profession has 
existed.  How  do  the  methods  of  the 
dreamer  compare  with  the  results  of  a 
professional’s work  in  the  matter  of  dis­
playing  goods  in  a  manner to attract  the 
public?  Of  course  the  professional’s 
work  may  be  followed  and  copied,  but 
that  does  not  detract  from  the  value  of 
his  work.  On  the  contrary,  it  is  an 
acknowledgment  on  the  part  of  the 
copyist  that  the  up-to-date  method  is 
right  and  old-fogyism 
is  not  able  to 
keep  up  with  the  modern  methods.  The 
copyist  is  trying  to  get  out  or  keep  out 
of  the  rut  which  lay  open  for  him,  and 
his  effort 
is  to  be  commended  rather 
than  the  other  who  refuses  to see  any 
good  in  the  advance  of  conditions.

Another  feature  of  the  retail  store  in 
which  improvements  have  been  made  is 
the  fixtures  and  furniture.  New 
ideas 
in  interior  fitting  and  decorating  have 
crept  in  until  the  retail  shoe  store  is 
now  a  palace  as  compared  with  the  re­
cent  past.  The  question  is  superfluous 
whether  the  public  is  better  pleased  to 
trade  at  the  modem  store  or to  give  its 
patronage  to  the  "back  number”   con­
cern.  There  are  cases,  of  course,  where 
the  older store  has,  by its long continued 
and  honorable  service  to  the  public, 
really  by  the  force  of  character,  honesty 
and 
integrity  of  its  proprietors  and  as­
sistants,  held  out  against  the  modern 
store,  but  such 
instances  are  rare,  and 
the  dealer  who  depends  upon  such  a 
chance  falling  to  his 
lot  is  going  to 
wake  up  to  a  realizing  sense  that  he 
did  greatly  err.

Very  little  happens  in  the  retail  shoe 
business  by  chance  any  more  than 
in 
other  lines  of  trade,  and  while  chance, 
may  once 
in  a  while  help  out  a  good' 
man,  the  safer  way  to encourage  fortune 
is  to  keep  moving  in  the  direction  of 
improvement  in  store  fixtures,  fittings 
and  furnishings,  so  that  the  place  will 
be  at  least  equally  attractive  with  any 
other shoe  store  in  town.

Similar  comment  might  be  made  on 
changes  and  improvements  made  in  the 
matter of  arrangement  of  stock.  Great 
changes  have  also  taken  place  in  the 
advert’sing  department. 
Time  was 
when  a  wooden  boot  hung  over the  door 
was  all  the  advertising  the  disciple  of 
St.  Crispin  needed.  Now  he  wants  all 
the  newspaper space  he  can  control  and 
takes  advantage  of every  possible means 
of  getting  himself  and  his  wares  before 
the  public  and  remaining  there.

Books  and  accounts  are  kept  now  by 
different  methods  from  those  of our fath­
ers.  They  may  be  better  kept  now,  the 
old  way  may  have  been  better,  but  the 
change  has  come  and  has  come  to  stay. 
The 
long  legged  book-keeper  on  the 
high  stool  with  the  goose  quill  over  his 
ear  was  a  picturesque  and  imposing 
sight,  striking  terror  into  the  heart  of 
the  small  boy,  but  he  has  passed  with 
his  single  and  double  entries  as  fully 
and  completely  as  the  goose  quill  pen. 
Accommodations  for  the  public  are

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Are  made  with  greatest  care  as  to  appearance; 
they  are  neat  and  nobby.  But  they’ll  stand 
the  racket  longer  than  any  other  shoes  made. 
We  also  make  them  in  Misses’  and  Little 
Gents’  sizes.

HEROLD-BERTSCH  SHOE CO.,  Grand Rapids, Mich.

MAKERS  OF  SHOES.

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D r y   P o o d s

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—The  demand 

in  the 
market  for staple  cottons  has  remained 
this  week  about  the  average  of  the  pre­
vious  week.  There  is  but  a  very  small 
difference  between  the  offering  price  of 
the  buyers  and  the  demanding  price  of 
the  sellers,  yet  both  are  firm  to  all  out­
ward  appearances,  and  the  difficulty 
which  agents  have  met,  and  which  we 
have  spoken  of  before,  is  the  fact  that 
jobbers  are  offering  goods  in  a  number 
of  cases  at  a  lower  price  than  the agents 
can  sell  them  for,  and,  of  course,  this 
absorbs  a  good  many  small  orders,  for 
bleached  goods  in  particular,  that would 
ordinarily  help  swell  the  agents’  busi­
ness.  Brown  goods 
in  stock  are  still 
quite  irregular.  Bleached  cottons,  while 
rather quiet,  are  held  very  firm.  Small 
sales  are  reported  for  ticks  and  the 
general 
line  of  coarse  colored  cottons 
for  immediate  delivery.

Prints—Salesmen  on  the  road 

this 
week  sent  in  quite  a  fair  amount  of  or­
ders  for  printed  calicoes.  This,  how­
ever,  constitutes  the  principal  business 
that  is  being  done  in  them,  the  spot  de­
mand  continuing  quite  slow  and  the  to­
tal  average 
is  not  particularly  good. 
Staple  calicoes  were  taken  up  in  pretty 
good  sized 
last  of  last  week. 
Local  business  has  been  quiet.  Staples 
are 
in  most  quarters. 
Fancy  calicoes  are  wanted  principally 
for the  special  finishes.

in  good  shape 

lots  the 

increase 

Ginghams—There  has  been  a  moder­
ate 
in  a  number of  orders  for 
staple  ginghams,  and  dr^ss  styles  are 
particularly  well  sold,  although  quiet 
for  the  present.

Dress  Goods— Business 

in  the  dress 
goods  division  of  the  market  remains 
in  the  same 
impassive  condition  as  a 
week  ago.  Buyers  show  practically  no 
interest  in  anything  aside  from  staples 
and  separate skirting  fabrics,  on  which 
some  fair  orders  are  still  coming  for­
ward.  As  regards  cloaking  business, 
there 
is  practically  nothing  doing  ex­
cept  on  colored  kerseys.  The  suiting 
end  of  the  market 
is  in  a  quiet  posi­
tion,  buyers  not  yet  having  reached  the 
duplicating  stage.

Underwear— The  same  uncertainty  in 
regard  to  fleeced  goods  exists  to-day  as 
was  noticeable  earlier 
in  the  season. 
lines  have  been  sold  to  a 
Only  a  few 
satisfactory  extent,  but 
in  most  cases 
business  is  rather dull.  There  are  cer­
tain  lines  which  have  particular  merit, 
either  in  quality  or  originality, 
that 
have  succeeded  fairly  well  as  far  as  or­
ders  are  concerned,  and  at  the  same 
time  have  kept  up  prices.  Buyers  who 
have  been  to  market  and  left  for  home 
have  frequently  expressed  the 
intention 
of  waiting  until  they  were  sure  that 
prices  had  reached  "rock  bottom.”  
Some  prominent  firms  have  reduced 
their  prices  on  fleeces  two  or three times 
already,  and  the  conditions  are  so  un­
certain  that  neither  buyers  nor agents 
know  where  they  stand.  Regular  13 *4 
and  14  pound  fleeces  that  opened  at 
$3.75  are  down  now,  in  some  cases  as 
low  as  $3.50  for  a  full  standard  shirt. 
There are  a  few  in  the  market  who have 
attempted  to  maintain  their  prices  at 
$3-75  from  the  beginning  to the present 
time,  but  their sales  have  not  only  been 
quite 
limited  but  cancellations  fre­
quent.  Even  where  they  have  attempted 
to  hold  the  orders,  it  has  only  made 
trouble  and  had  to  be  relinquished  in 
the  end.  There  are  several  mill  own­

ers  who  have  stated  that  they  would 
give  up  the  manufacture  of  fleeces  after 
this  season,  as  there  was  no  longer  any 
money  in  it.  Other  lines  of  knit  goods 
are  also  under the  cloud  of  cut  prices, 
especially  ribbed  goods.  Ladies’  goods 
especially  are  suffering. 
The  better 
grades  of  men’s  and  women’s  wool 
goods  are  in  a  more  satisfactory  condi­
tion,  and  although  prices  show  no  ad­
vances  over  those  of  a  year ago,  they are 
more  firmly  maintained  and  a  really 
good  amount  of  good  orders  has  been 
booked.

Hosiery— Woolen  goods  show  a  con­
dition  that 
is  not  particularly  lively, 
but  prices  remain  steady,  although  the 
weather 
conditions  are  against  any 
heavy  movements.  Cheap  grades  are 
suffering  from  small  prices.  The  in­
creased  cost  of  material  for  cheap 
lines 
kills  what  little  profit  there  was  in  them 
and 
it  seems  impossible  to  secure  any 
better  prices.  Jobbers  have  not  done 
much  business  in  their new  lines  as  it 
is  a  little  early  yet  and  the  chances  are 
that  they  will  move  rapidly  within  an­
other  week  or  two.  Much 
is  expected 
in  fancy 
in  domestic  and 
lines,  both 
foreign  manufactures.

improvement 

Carpets— Wilton 

carpets  and  other 
lines  of  three-quarter goods,  including 
tapestries,  velvets  and  axminsters,  have 
moved  very  well  this  season  at  good 
prices,and  the  tendency  is  still  upward. 
Many  mills  on  %  goods  have  run  full 
from  the  opening  of  the  season  up  to 
the  present  time.  Manufacturers  of  this 
line  report  business  as  still  slow,  espe­
cially  on  standard  extra  supers,  and  the 
majority  of  them  are  not  pushing  for 
business.  Manufacturers  claim  that  they 
were  compelled  to  make  reductions  in 
prices  this  season,  and  some  of  them 
realize  that  they  will  have  to make some 
move  to  induce  business,  probably  a 
change 
in  the  fabric,  introducing  new 
and  original  effects.  This,  however, 
can  not  be  done  without  increasing  the 
jacquard  capacity  on  their  looms,  and 
to  do  this  it  would  be  necessary  to 
in­
crease  the  number of  needles  or  hooks. 
At  this  time  about  272  hooks are  used 
in  jacquard  machines for ingrains.  This 
number,  however,  does  not  permit  of 
in  the  originality  of 
the 
designs,  but  a 
larger  number of  hooks 
would  give  a  much  larger scope  to  the 
designers’ 
ideas  and  help  restore  the 
ingrains  to  their  former  popularity.  On 
the  other  hand,  there  are  manufacturers 
who  claim  that  everything  is  running  to 
cheapness,  and  to  produce  a 
line  of 
goods  at  higher  prices  would  be  to  lose 
the  trade.  They  state  that standard extra 
super  ingrains  are  too good  for  the price 
at  which  they  are  sold.  Buyers  should 
remember that  standard  ingrains  are  4-4 
goods  (full  yard  wide)  and  reversible 
and  contain  2-14S  worsted  warp  and 
60-yard  standard 
filling,  while  some 
grades  of  tapestry  carpets  are  woven  in 
i+  wide,  and  have 
the  piece, 
jute 
backs,  and 
instead  of  worsted  filling 
they  are  made  of  soft  yarn,  similar  to 
ingrain  filling,  which  is  woven  in  such 
a  way  that a  small portion only  is thrown 
to  the  surface,  and  when  woven,  they 
are  printed 
in  the  piece.  They  are 
also  one  face goods.  The  better class  of 
X   goods  are  made  of  much  better  ma­
terial,  12s  and  13s,  2  and  3*ply  worsted 
yam,  which 
is  printed  and  the  design 
matched  before  being  woven.  Manu­
facturers  are  now  making  enquiry  for 
original  designs  for  the  fall  of  1901.

\\ hen  a  fellow 

is  all  wrapped  up  in 
himself  he  usually  thinks  he’s a  pretty 
warm  proposition.

Cleaning  Colored  Gold  Articles.

Greasy  jewelry  of  this  class  may  be 
effectually  cleaned  by  washing  with 
warm  water  in  which  a  little  soap  has 
been  dissolved  along  with  a  small quan­
tity  of  soda-ash,  using  a soft clean white 
bristle  brush  for  brushing  the  articles 
with  the  solution,  and  when  this 
is 
done,  drying  the  articles  in  warm  box­
wood  sawdust  will  render them perfectly 
clean  and  free  from  greasy  stains.  A 
mixture  producing  excellent  results  in 
the  restoration  of  colored  gold  work 
which  may  have  become  tarnished  by 
atmospheric  influences  is  the  following :

Bi-caibonate  of  soda  1  oz.
Chloride  of  lime, 
Common  salt,  %  oz.
Boiling  water,  40 ozs.
Reduce  these 

oz.

ingredients  to  a  fine 
powder and  pour over them  the  boiling 
water  in  a  dish  or  basin.  The  dirty  or 
tarnished  articles  are  well  brushed  or 
lightly  touched  up  with  this  preparation 
until  all  dirt  or oxide has been removed. 
They  are  then  rinsed  in  clear  hot  water 
and  dried 
in  sawdust,  when  they  will 
appear  almost  new.  This  mixture  is 
of  no  further  use  for cleansing  purposes 
when  once  used;  it  wi 11  therefore  be 
advisable  not  to  prepare  more  of  the 
liquid  than  is  needed  at  the  time  to  ac­
complish  the  object  in  view.  For the 
soda-ash  mixture  about  %  oz.  of  soda- 
ash  to  the  pint  of  water will  be  strong 
enough  to  effect  the  purpose  desired, 
and  it  will  be  sufficient— instead  of  dis­
solving  the  soap 
in  water—to  rub  the 
brush  a  time  or  two  across  the  soap, 
after  having  been  dipped 
in  the  hot 
water  in  which  the  soda-ash  has  been 
dissolved,  to  take  up  enough  soap  on 
the  brush  to  produce  the  required  slip­
pery 
lather  which  causes  the  brush  to 
pass  smoothly  and  easily  over  the  sur­

after  the 

face  of  the  articles  to  be renovated.  The 
compound  recipe  may  be  prepared  in 
quantity,  and 
in  some  businesses  this 
is  found  to  be  an  advantage. 
In  doing 
this, 
ingredients  are  well 
stirred  in  the  boiling  water,  by  the  time 
the  latter  is  cold  the  unmixed  portion 
will  have  settled  at  the  bottom  of  the 
vessel.  The  liquid  above  the  sediment 
is  then  carefully  poured  off  and  pre­
served 
in  a  securely  stoppered  bottle 
for  future  use,  when  the  necessary  quan­
tity  may  be  taken  as  wanted  for the 
work 
in  hand,  and  used  in  accordance 
with  either  of  the  methods  described 
which  suggests  itself  to  the  mind  as  the 
more  suitable  for  the  object  to  be  at­
tained.

The  woman  who  has  a  telpehone  in 
her  house  receives  more  calls  than  the 
woman  who  hasn’t.

Don’t
buy
an
Awning 
until 
you  get 
our 
prices.

>CHAS.  A.  COYE,

Chas.  A.  Coye,

11  Pearl  St.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Clothing

Mourning:  G arm ents  in  Vogue  in  New 

York.

London  fashions  are  of  course  pro­
foundly  affected  by  the  death  of  the 
Queen,  and  as  fashions  on  the  other 
side  of  the  water  have  their effect  on 
styles  here,  it  is  of  interest  to  know that 
the  period  of  deep  mourning  is  to  be 
curtailed  by  royal  request  and  that  the 
whole  period  of  public  mourning 
is  to 
be  a  short  one  in  England.  The  death 
of  the  Queen  has  had  no  material  effect 
on  dress  here.  Aside 
from  a  small 
number of  Englishmen  and  people  con­
nected 
intimately  with  England,  there 
his  been  no  change  in  apparel  because 
of  her  death.  New  York  society  may 
sympathize  with  the  bereavement  of  the 
English  nation,  but  not  to  the  extent  of 
;;eriously  altering  its  mode  of  dress.

The  subject  of  mourning garb  brought 
up  by  the  death  of  the  queen  is one  that 
deserves  some  attention. 
There  are 
times  in  life  when  fashion  decrees,  for 
perfectly  proper  and  obvious  reasons, 
that  individuals  shall  express  by  their 
manner of  dress  the  sorrow  that  has  be­
in  the  death  of  near and 
fallen  them 
dear  relatives. 
Ideas  on  this  subject 
are  not  as  rigid  as  they  once  were,  for 
it 
is  now  generally  recognized  that  the 
constant  reminder  of  loss  for  a  long 
period  of  time  has  an  effect  on  the 
in­
dividual  that  is  not  healthful  and  that 
for  many  other  reasons  is  not  desirable. 
Still,  as  mourning  must,  unfortunately, 
be  worn,  it  is  well  to  say  a  few  words 
on  the  subject.

For  evening  dress  no  changes  from 
the  ordinary  garb  are  necessary  except, 
perhaps,  that  the  black  waistcoat 
is 
worn 
instead  of  a  white  one,  and  that 
the  shirt  studs  are  either  plain  white 
or black and  the  cuff  links  of  plain  dark 
metal  or  jet.  The  severity  of  the  plain 
white  and  black  of  evening  garb  makes 
no  further changes  necessary.

For  afternoon  wear  the  plain  black 
frock  coat  or  vest,  trousers  of  black,  or 
a  very  dark  worsted,  black glace gloves, 
black  neckwear,  with  a  plain  white 
handkerchief  and  an  absence of jewelry, 
except  possibly  a  gold  seal  ring,  with  a 
quiet  scarfpin  and  plain  gold,  gun 
metal  or  black  cuff  links,are required.

For  morning  wear  plain  black  cloth­
ing  or  clothing  of  a  dark  gray  tone  in 
some  inconspicuous  pattern is desirable. 
If  shirts  other than  plain  white are  worn 
they  should  be,  preferably,  in  black  and 
white  of  some  quiet  pattern,  and  gloves 
either  of  black  or  of  a  dark  shade 
should  be  worn.  Black  neckwear  or 
neckwear  with  very  neat  and  inconspic­
uous  color effect  is  desirable.

The  changes  made 

from  ordinary 
dress  are  the  elimination  of  other  col­
ors  than  plain  black  or  white,  and  the 
cultivation  of  severity  and  quietness 
in 
dress.  For this  reason  garments  that  are 
not  conspicuous 
in  an  way  should  be 
worn.  The  period  of  mourning  varies 
from  three  months  to  a  year,  or  longer, 
according  to the  nearness  of  relation­
ship.  For a  wife  it  is  a  year  or longer, 
for  children  or  a  mother, 
six 
months  "to  a  year.  For  relation  more 
distant,  such  as  cousins,  three  months. 
In  the  period  of  half  mourning,  colors 
are  used  so  that  the  severity  of  deep 
mourning 
is  modified  quietly.  Any­
thing  loud  or  striking  should,  of  course, 
be  avoided,  although  some  brightness 
;s  shown  in  the  garb.  The  period  of 
half  mourning  is  ordinarily  one-half  of 
the  mourning  period.  The  black  band 
worn  about  the  left  sleeve  of  the  over­

from 

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When  assured  that  they  are  clean,  pull 
them  off  carefully  by  loosening  the  fin­
gers  at  the  tips.  Hang  them^up  to  dry 
in  the  open  air. 
In  half  an  hour  all 
disagreeable odor  will have disappeared. 
One  quart  of  this  cleansing  fluid  will 
not  cost  over  forty  cents  and  it  ought  to 
clean  six  pairs  of  gloves.

The  Only  A lternative.

“ I  do  wish  you  would  promise  to  be 

an  abstainer.”
‘ ‘ Couldn’t,  ma’am.  Not  built  that 
way.  Born  in  Kentucky,  ma’am.  Have 
to  be  born  again,  in  Ohio  or  Kansas, 
or  some  such  place,  before  I  could 
promise  that._________________ _
YOU  CAN  DO  WITHOUT 

H.  BROS.  “ CORRECT 

CLOTHES”  THIS SPRING 
BUT  YOU  CAN’T  MAKE 
ANY  MONEY  DOING  SO

Let us send you samples or have 
our representative call.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A 

D irections  for Cleaning:  K id  Gloves.
A  card  with  a  copy  of  these  rules 
might  prove  a  good  advertisement  for 
the  glove  counter:

successful  wash 

for  soiled  kid 
gloves  of  the  more  delicate  shades,  as 
well  as  white,  will  be  owned  by  many 
housewives  as  one  of  the  greatest  bless­
ings  of  the  day.  Many  of  the  cleaners 
will  say  that  light  gray  or  pale  lavender 
kids  can  not  be  cleaned  successfully, 
but  they  are  wrong.  Go  to  any  drug 
store,  and  ask  for  a cleaning  fluid  made 
as  follows:  Deodorized  benzine, 
two 
pints;  sulphuric  ether,  one  drachm; 
chloroform,  one  drachm;  alcohol,  two 
drachms.

Open  the  windows  wide,  and  have  no 
fire  and  no  light  in  the  room  while  do­
ing  the  cleaning.  Select  a  large  earthen 
bowl,  and  pour  in  enough  of  the  fluid 
to  well  cover the  pair  of  gloves.  Wash 
the  gloves  just  as  you  would  a  clotn  or 
a  piece  of  lace.  Rub the fingers  together 
until  the  seams  are  entirely  clean.  Use 
one  glove  to  rub  the  other  with.  When 
they  seem  to  be  clean,  squeeze  out  and 
dry  them  with  a  towel  sufficiently  to 
put  on  the  hand. 
If  a  spot  shows  any­
where,  wet  it  again  with  the  fluid,  and 
rub  the  kid  gently  with  the  towel.
If  you  have  plenty  of  the  washing 
fluid  and  are  desirous  of  having  the 
gloves 
like  new,  rinse  them 
before  trying  them  on  in  a  clean  wash.

look 

just 

coat,  between  elbow  and  shoulder,  is 
affected  by  some  men  during the mourn­
ing  period, but  it  is  a  custom  that  is  not 
likely  to  become  permanent  or to  have 
much  popularity.  The  tendency  of  the 
times  is  away  from  anything  conspicu­
ous  or  pronounced 
in  mourning  as  in 
other  garb.

Of  course,  in  sporting  garb  of  all 
kinds  worn  during  the mourning period, 
If  any­
greater  latitude  is  permissible. 
thing  unduly  bright  or 
is 
avoided  and  a  general  tone  of  quietness 
is  cultivated  no  serious  changes  other­
wise  need  be  made 
in  dress  for  such 
purposes.

striking 

In  general,  if  good  judgment is shown 
in  the  selection  of  quiet  and  severe 
effects  in  dress,  no glaring  impropriety 
is  likely  to  be  committed  in  the  garb 
worn  during  the  mourning  period.

For attendance  at  morning  and  after­
noon  church  service  the  ordinary  formal 
afternoon  dress  is  worn—silk  hat,  frock 
coat,  dark  trousers,  etc.  As  the  dress 
cutaway  is  now  much  worn  on  occasions 
when  the  frock  coat  was  formerly  worn, 
this  garment  is  also  worn  at  day  serv­
ice.  As 
in  mourning,  but  to  a  less 
marked  extent,  dress  for  church  should 
be  quiet  and  inconspicuous. 
It  is  not 
considered  proper  to  wear  evening 
dress,  formal  or  informal,  to  church 
in 
the  evening.  The  long  coat  or  the  dress 
cutaway  is  worn.  Just  why  it  is  not con­
sidered  proper to  wear evening  dress  to 
church  it  is  hard  to  say.  Probably 
it 
is  felt  that  garments  ordinarily  worn 
on  distinctively  festive  occasions  are 
not  suitable  for the  more  serious  occa­
sions  of  life.— Apparel  Gazette.
Signs  About the  Store.

WALTER  BUHL  &  CO.,

DETROIT,  MICH.

ARE  HEADQUARTERS  FOR  NOVELTIES.

THE  1901  WINNER  IN  ALL  NEW  SHADES 

Prompt  attention to  all  mail  orders.

There  are  numerous 

The  signs  throughout  the  store  dis­
playing  prices  or  giving 
information 
about  goods  should  always  be neatly and 
carefully  made.  They  are  a  very  im­
portant  part  of  the  interior  display  of 
the  store,  and  give  a  very  shabby  ap­
pearance  where  they  are  untidy  and 
poorly  made.  The  effect  of  good  signs 
is  also  sometimes  spoiled  by  hanging 
them  poorly,  or  placing  them  in  a  bad 
position. 
little 
points  about  this  that  it  would  pay 
every  retail  merchant to watch very care­
fully.  See  that  your signs hang  straight; 
they  do  not  look  very  nice  when  one 
comer  droops  by  fastening  them 
to 
goods  with  pins,  where  the  pin  is  some­
times  removed  and  replaced  in  another 
position,  leaving  old  pin  holes  showing. 
A  sign  should  always be carefully placed 
with  regard  to  its  height  from  the  floor. 
It  should  not  be  so  high  up  that  it  is 
read  with  difficulty,  or so  low  down  that 
a  person  of  ordinary  height  is  apt  to 
overlook 
it.  Signs  are  best  displayed 
by  hanging  them  on  or  from  a  stand,or 
by  framing  them  neatly  and  placing 
them  in  the  position  desired.

These  remarks  about  signs  apply  as 
well  to  signs  in  the  window  as  to those 
used  inside  the  store. 
It  is  also  well  to 
be  careful  that  you  have  your  signs 
made  and  ready  to  place  on  goods  as 
soon  as  the  goods  go  in  the window. 
If 
intend  to  make  a  display  of  signs, 
you 
why  not  get  the  benefit  of  it  from  the 
very  first  moment  that  you  can,  instead 
of  waiting,  as  some houses do,  for a  half 
day  or  day,  before  they  place  their 
signs  in  proper  position?  Another thing 
is to  have  your signs  well  worded  and 
attractively  printed. 
In  printing  your 
signs  do  not  use  generalities,  but  be 
specific  in  any  information that you may 
choose  to  give.— C.  F.  Jones in Printer’s 
Ink. 

____  

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A  stiff  upper  lip  is useless when pitted 

against  a  wagging  lower  jaw.

T R A D E S M A N   CO U PO N   B O O K S

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Hardware

IftmlltIK  wild  V t'lil llitl lnu  1»  Mom*'.

le.itned  that 

The  modern  home 

is  a  well  heated 
and  well  ventilated  ImtiNr,  (or  every­
body  now  knows  that  (lie  health  and 
Comfort  of  the 
family  depend  more 
upon  pure,  warm  air  than  upon  any 
other  thing  about  the  house.  We  have 
alao 
it  costs  no  more  to 
heat  anti  ventilate  a  house properly  than 
it  did  the  old  fashioned  way,  with  over­
heated  or  burnt  air.  The  cost  of  the 
is  very  stttall  and 
ventilating  system 
will  be  saved 
in  the  fttel  bill  almost 
every  year.
A  thorough  System  can  be  installed  at 
a  very  small  cost  by  putting  a  four-inch 
into  the  base  board  in  the 
vent  pipe 
widest  part  of  each  room,  and  as  far 
away  from 
the  heat  center  as  possible. 
This  draws  I'll  the  cold  and  bad  air  and 
draws 
the  warm  over  to  take  its  place 
and  obviates  fully  the  difficulty  some­
times  found  on  windy  days  of  not  being 
to  heat  certain  rooms exposed  to 
able 
the  wind.
The  wall  pipes  conducting  the  hot  air 
to  the  second  and  third  floors  should  be 
placed  in  the  partitions  as  close  to  the 
furnace  as  possible,  avoiding  all  sharp 
angles,  also  avoiding 
their  being  car­
ried  by  flat  runs  under 
the  doors  as 
much  as  possible.  These  pipes  should 
be  carefully  and 
thoroughly  wrapped 
with  asbestos  paper,  run  straight  to  the 
registets, 
the 
walls  without  frames.  The  shoes  at  the 
bottom,  to  which  the  round  pipes  con­
nect,  should  be  angled  so  that  the  heat 
will  come  Into  the  pipes  from 
the  bot­
tom
trtuin pipe  ft\'»n  the  hall  should
he  urn  «»long the  cellsit  ceiling  until 
it
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to  tv  taken  into  consideration  is  to  £ct 
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be  dug  a  pit  not  less  than  .v  inches  tn 
kfeptfi.  bricked  .‘o  with  one  gwv!  course 
bricky  the  d a  ine ter  ot  this  pit  ***>•>

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

room)  just  below  the  elbow,  is  placed  a 
tee  with  a  ^-inch  opening,  from  which 
is  taken  the  pipe  leading  up  to  the  ex­
pansion  tank.  The  sizes  of  the  opening 
in  these  hot  water  radiators  should  be 
for  front  40  square  feet  and  under,  1 
inch j  above  40  feet,  not  exceeding  72 
square  feet, 
inch;  and  above  72
square  feet,  1 Yi  inch.
The  area  of  different  main  pipes 
must,  of  course,  be  equal  to  the  area  of 
all 
its  branches.  The  following  tables 
will  perhaps  serve  as  a  guide:

inch  main  will  supply  two  J^-inch

1X-inch  main  will  supply  two 

i-incb 

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1- 

branches. 

branches.

t^-inch  main  will  supply  two  1J4- 

inch  branches.

2- 

inch  main  will  supply  two  i^-inch 

branches.
inch*  and  one 
and  one  1 

-inch.

2j^-inch  main  will  supply  two  i% - 
i ^-inch  and  one  2-inch 

3- 

inch  main  will  supply  one  2)£-inch 

and  one  2-inch  and  two  2-inch  and  one 
13^-inch.
By  following  this  table  and  using  or­
dinary  judgment  there  should  be  no 
trouble  whatever 
in  determining  the 
proper  size  of  the  piping  for  an  ordi­
nary  combination  plant.

In  many  respects  the  combination 

is 
preferable  over  either  the  straight  hot 
water  or  the  straight  hot  air;  over  the

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Paint, Color and  Varnish  Makers.

Mixed  Paint,  White  Lead,  Shingle  Stains,  Wood  Fillers.

Sole  Manufacturers CRYSTAL ROCK FINISH  for  Interior  and  Exterior Use. 

Corner  15th  and Lncas Streets, Toledo, Ohio.

“DETROIT” Vapor  Stoves

(22 styles)

Are  entirely  different  from  all  others.  No 
tank  in  sight.  The  “ Detroit”   burner  is  the 
ONLY  burner. 
It  has  proven  its  superiority 
during  the  past  five  years.

Write  for catalogue  and  secure  agency.

The  Detroit Vapor Stove Co.t

Kindly mention this journal. 

Detroit, Michigan.

mutely  400  square  inches.  This  would 
give  you  a  duct  20x20  inches.

The  best  duct 

is  made  by  bricking 
the  sides  and  arching  over  the  top. 
Over  this  should  be  thrown  a  couple  of 
inches  of  sand  and  then  the  cement 
lloor  of  the  cellar  can  be  laid  over  this. 
Right  under  the  window  should  be 
left 
an  opening  the  full  size  of  the  duct. 
From  this  should  be  built  a  wooden 
riser  up  to  and  including  the  window, 
and  just  above  the  window'  should  be 
put  a  slide,  which  can  be  drawn  in  and 
out  so  as  to  regulate  the  amount  of  air 
In  the  place 
taken  from  the  outside. 
where  the  window  sash 
is  generally 
placed,  out  a  screen  the  full  size  of  the 
window.  Tltjs  will  keep  out  insects  and 
vermin,  and  at  the  same  time  will  not 
obstruct  the  (low  of  air.

In  setting  up  the  furnace,  care  should 
be  taken  that  every  piece  tits  smoothly; 
that  all  the  joints are  well  packed  with 
asbestos  cement  and  that  furnace  sets 
plumb  and  level.

The  outside 

jacket  of  the  furnace 
should  he  made  of  galvanized 
iron, 
lined  up  on  the  inside  with  a good qual­
ity  of  bright  tin,  leaving  an  air  space 
of  about  half-inch  between.

The  smoke  pipe  from  the  furnace  to 
the  chimney  should  not  be  lighter  than 
No.  ¿4  steel  or  galvanized 
iron,  the 
full  size  of  the  collar  in  the  furnace.

The  opening 

in  the  chimney  should 
have  a  goini  heavy  iron  thimble,  into 
which  the  smoke  pipe  should  tit  firmly. 
This  enables  the  sm*»ke  pipe  to be  eas­
ily 
taken  »nit  without  disturbing  the 
chimney,  when  it  becomes  necessary  to 
clean  the  same.

The  tirst  and  second  joint  of  smoke 
pipe,  after 
leaving  the  furnace,  should 
l»e  a  tee  joint,  on  which  the  check  dam- 
pet  should  be  placed,  and  tt  which  the 
chain  should  be  connected  running  up 
to  the  tirst  door,  so  that  the  furnace  can 
lx-  regulated  without  going  downstairs 
every  time 
is  desired  to change  the 
dampers.

possible, 
lys«

Front  the  cone  top  of  the  tumace. 
the  hot  air  pipes  should  be  taken,  run 
at  as  heavy  an  angle  as  the  depth  of  the 
cellar  will  allow.
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Round  three-piece  elbows  should  be
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All  registers  on  the  first  floor  should 
ave  tt âmes»  so  as  to  leave  an  air  space 
et ween  where  the  tin  register  box  fits 
n  and  exposed  woodwork* 
Should, 
or  an\  reason,  the  woodwork  touch  the 
iping  at  any  point,  at least  three  thick* 
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hot  air  for the  reason  that  it  softens  the 
temperature  of  the  very  hot  air coming 
from  the  furnace  down  to  a  mild  tem­
is  preferable  over  the  hot 
perature. 
water,  because  with 
it  there  is  a  con­
stant  stream  of  fresh  air coming  in  from 
outside,  thoroughly  warmed  as  it  passes 
by  the  furnace.  A  constant  circulation 
of  air  is  obtained,  securing  thorough 
ventilation  of  the  rooms,  which  can  not 
be  done  with  a  straight  hot  water  plant, 
without  the  use  of  ‘ ‘ indirects,”   which 
are  expensive.  At  the  same  time,  it 
takes  the  rooms  which  are  farthest  away 
from  the  furnace,  heating  them  with hot 
water  by  means  of  circulation,  giving 
economy  of  fuel  as  well  as  far better sat­
isfaction  in  results.

In  the  hot  water heating,  the  first  es­
sential  thing  is  to  get  ample  radiation. 
Architects  and  fitters  vary  in  the  way 
of  estimating  this.  Perhaps,  however, 
as  safe  a  rule  as  can  be  laid  down  for 
general  use,  i s :  Where  the  house  is  not 
more 
than  ordinarily  exposed,  one 
square  foot  of  heating  surface  to  every 
thirty  or thirty-five  cubic  feet  of  air  to 
be  heated,  adding  about  50  per cent, 
for  rooms  which  want  to  be  especially 
warm,  such  as  bathroom,  also  adding 
50  per  cent,  for  indiiect radiation,  when 
used.

The  open  tank  system  is  ordinarily 
used,  because  of 
its  absolute  safety. 
The  pressure  in  such  a  system,  in  case 
the  fire  gets  too  hot  so  as  to  form steam, 
finds  a  vent  through  the  open  expansion 
tank.

In  small  houses,  where  less  than  §00 
feet  of  radiation 
is  used,  a  round  fire 
pot  and  boiler  is  preferable  to the  rect­
angular.  Where  more  than  this  is used, 
the  rectangular  fire  pot  and  boiler has  a 
preference.

The  first  essential  thing,  of  course,  in 
this  as  well  as  in  any  other  heating 
plant,  is  to  have  a  boiler that  is  thor­
oughly  capable  of  doing  the  work,  and 
for this,  perhaps,  the  return flue  is  pref­
erable ;  that  is,  the  heat  from  the  com­
bustion  chamber  is  carried  to  the  rear 
of  the  boiler,  then  up  and  through  the 
openings  between  the 
sections,  then 
drawn  to the  front  and  back  to the  rear, 
allowing  for  great  fire  travel  through 
the  water sections,  the  water  absorbing 
the  heat  from  the  smoke  and  gas  as they 
pass.  With  such  a  boiler  as  this,  the 
smoke  pipe  should  not  get  hot,  the 
water  absorbing  the  heat  before 
it 
reaches  the  smoke  pipe.

From  the  top  of  the  boiler  is  taken 
the  main  flow  pipe,  having  an  eleva­
tion  of  one inch  in  every  ten  feet,  being 
reduced  in  size,as  the different  branches 
to  the  radiators  are  taken  off  and  con­
nections  to  the  radiators  being  made  by 
means  of quick  opening  radiator valves.
The  return  is  taken  from  the  opposite 
end,  the  same  size  as  the  flow  pipe,  and 
carried  back  to  the  bottom  of  the  heater 
so  as  not  only  to take  the  place  of  the 
hot  water  leaving  the  boiler,  but  also  to 
give  the  force  of  the  drop  in  the  pipes.
air, 
which,  as  the  water  is  warmed,  rises to 
the  top,  so  that  an  air vent  should  be 
placed  in  the  top  of  the  radiator  oppo­
site  the  feed  sections  and  opened  occa­
sionally  for the  exhaust  of  this  air  and 
to  maintain  a  circulation.

Water  contains  more  or 

Steam  work  differs  from  hot  water 
work;  first,  in  that  it  has  one  pipe 
in­
stead  of  two,  the  steam  going  from  the 
boiler and  the  water of  condensation  re­
turning  through  the  same  piping.

less 

The  main  piping  in  a  steam  plant  in­
stead  of  pitching  up  from  the  boiler,  as 
in  hot  water  pitcnes  down  from  the 
boiler.  After the  different  branches  are 
taken  off,  a  smaller  pipe,  called  the  re­
turn  pipe,  is  brought  back  to  and  into 
the  bottom  of  the  boiler.

The  risers  and  connections  to the  ra­
diators  are  taken  either  from  the  side 
or top,  as  thought  best;  the  horizontals 
being  made  one  size  larger  than  the  up­
rights ;  the condensation  from  the  steam 
returning  by  the  main  piping  and  the 
return  pipe.

Steam  radiation  should  be  about  one- 
third  less  than  hot  water  radiation,  the 
style  and  make  of the  boiler  being  one 
of  the  most  essential  items  to  be  taken 
into account. 
In  ordinary  house  work, 
the  upright  sectional  boiler  is  preferred 
to  the  horizontal  tubular boiler,  which

is  used  in  large  buildings.  These  boil­
ers  are  usually  set  on a  good  brick  base, 
covered  with  about  two  inches  of  asbes­
tos  covering,  well  put  on,  dried,  shrunk 
and  recemented,until  there  is  no  further 
shrinkage.

is  simple 

About  1883  improvements  were  made 
by  using  thermostats  to  regulate  the 
temperature  of  the  home  by  controlling 
automatically  draughts  and  dampers  of 
the  heating  plant.  From  this  small  be­
ginning  constant  advancement  has  been 
made  until  at  the  present  time,  temper­
ature  controlling 
is  as  essential  to the 
complete  heating  plant  as  the  draughts.
In  selecting  a  device  for the control of 
the  temperature  of  the  house,  several 
things  are  important.  Select  a  device 
that 
in  its  construction  and 
operation,  easily  applied  and  kept  in 
order;  a  device  by  means  of  which  the 
point  of  temperature  desired 
to  be 
maintained  can  be  changed  quickly  and 
readily  without  going  to  the  basement. 
The 
last  thing  to  consider  is  the  ex­
pense.  The  difference  of  a  few  dollars 
on  a  device  of  this  kind  is  immaterial. 
The 
lasting  qualities,  construction,  in­
stallation  and,  as  before  mentioned, 
simplicity,  are  all 
important  matters, 
and  should  receive  careful  considera­
tion.

After having  selected  the  device,  care 
should  be  used 
in  the  location  of  the 
thermostat,  as  this  is  all  important.  See 
that 
is  located  in  a  living  room  and 
that  in  its  location  it  is  not  exposed  to 
unusual  conditions  of  draughts,  etc.  An 
inside  partition 
is  better than  an  out­
side  wall.

By  means  of  the  automatic  heat  regu­
lator,  it  is  possible,  with  a  properly 
constructed  heating  plant,  to  maintain 
the  temperature  of  the  house  at  prac­
tically  a  fixed  point,  night  and  day.— 
Domestic  Engineering.

it 

Difficulties of Selling H ardw are a t a Profit.
We  all  realize  that  competition  is 
strong, and  catalogue  houses  are  spread­
ing  more  and  more  through  the country. 
I  think  hardware  can  be  sold  at  a  profit 
if  there  are  not  too  many  stores  in  the 
I  will  admit  that  there  is  always 
town. 
some  trade  that  can  not  be  held. 
In 
the  first  place,  the  hardware  man  must 
be  a  real-born  hardware  man.  He must 
understand  the  business  and  work  hard 
to  get  the  influence  of  his  customers. 
I 
think  that  is  the  main  thing—to  get  the 
people  to  think  that  you  are  working for 
their  interest  as  much  as  you can.  When 
they  come 
into  the  store  stop  and  talk 
with  them,  and  when  they  ask  your 
opinion  about  anything,  stop  and  tell 
them  your  idea,  as  they  will  always  ap­
preciate  i t ;  and  keep  a  large  amount  of 
different  styles  and  different  priced  ar­
ticles  on  hand.

When  people  come  in  and  want  some­
thing  for  25  cents,  show  them  something 
for  25  cents,  and  show  them  the  same 
style  as  those  for  15,  20  or 30  cents,  and 
give  them  their choice.  As  a  rule  they 
will  always  go  away  satisfied,  and  if  a 
customer  comes  in  that  is  in  the  habit 
of  looking  over  department  store  goods, 
and  you  have  those  cheap  goods to  show 
him  and  also  have  the  good  goods  he 
has  a  chance  to  compare,  and  as  a  rule 
he  always  will  select  the  better  goods. 
Where  there  is  a  chance  to  make  a  fair 
or  good  profit  some  merchants  say  that 
merchants  ought  to come  together  and 
make  prices. 
I  think  that  is  entirely 
wrong,  as  there  are  always  some  people 
that  you  can  not  depend  on,and you will 
find  among  business  men  some  are 
bright  and  hard  workers,  where  others 
are  sleepy  and  sit  and  do  nothing  and, 
where  the  dealers  would  make  prices 
and  have  same  prices,  quite  often  peo­
ple  will  just  buy  where  they know prices 
are  all  alike,  and  the  man  that  works 
hard  will  lose  the  sale,  as  some  people 
it  is  most  convenient, 
will  go  where 
and, 
it  causes  a  jealous 
feeling  among  business  men.  My  motto 
is,  get the  people  so that  they  have con­
fidence  in  you  and  treat  them  pleasantly 
and  honestly,  and  you  will  find  that  you 
can  sell  hardware  at  a  profit.— Charles 
F.  Schraeder  in American  Artisan.

furthermore, 

Hardware  Price  Current

A m m unition

Caps

6 .  D., full count, per m.................. 
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m.................. 
Musket, per m..................................... 
Ely’s Waterproof, per m....................  
No. 22 short, per m............................. 
No. 22 long, per m..............................  
No. 32 short, per m ..................;......... 
No. 32 long, per m..............................  

Cartridges

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 250, per m........ 
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 280,  per  m.. 

Primers

Gun Wads

Black edge,  Nos. 11  and 12 U. M. C... 
Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10,  per m ...... 
Black edge, No. 7, perm .... r............  

Loaded Shells

New Rival—For  Shotguns

Drs. of 
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
135
164
200
208
236
265
264

oz.of
Shot
lVi
1%
lVi
lVi
lVi
1 ?4
1
1
lVi
1V6
lVi
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
4«
4 Vi
3
3
3V4
3Vi
3VÍ
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 

Size
Shot
10
9
8
6
5
4
10
8
6
5
4

Gauge
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12

Gunpowder

Kegs, 28 lbs., per keg........................  
Vi kegs, 12Vi lbs., per  Vi  keg.............. 
54 kegs, 6« lbs., per V4  keg...............  

Shot

 

Axes

A ugurs  and  Bits

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B........... 
Snell’s ..................... 
 
Jennings  genuine............................... 
Jennings’ imitation.............................  
First Quality, S. B. Bronze................. 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...............  
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel................ 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel................... 
Railroad..............................................  
Garden................................................net 
Bolts
Stove................................................... 
Carriage, new 11«* 
............................ 
Plow........... 
Buckets
Well, plain.......................................... 
Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................  
Wrought Narrow............................... 

B utts,  Cast

Barrow s

 

 

Chain

40
80
78
60

280
3 00
4 95
880

X  20
I  20 

60
70
80

Per
100
$2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 95
3 00
2 60
2 50
2 66
2 70
2 70

72
64

4 00
2 25
1  25

1  40
60
26
50

7 00
11  50
7 76
13 00
15 00
30 00
60
65&10
so
$4  00
68
60

6-16 In. % In.

54 In.
Vi In.
7  c.  ...  6 c . . . .  5  C.  . ..  4XC.
814 
814 
. -   6 Vi

.. .  614  ■..  6
.. .  6X 

. ..  7* 
-..  7X 
Crowbars 
Cast Steel, per lb......................

Chisels

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

Elbows

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

Expansive  Bits

Files—New  List

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.............. 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................  
New American.................................... 
Nicholson’s.......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... 
NOS. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27, 
List  12 
16. 

Galvanized  Iron

16 

14 

13 

Discount,  70

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

Gauges

Glass

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

H am m ers

6
65
66
66
66

66
126
40&10

40
28
70&10
70
70
28
17

6O&10

86&
86&
80&20

Hinges

Horse  Nails

Hollow  W are

33 Vi
40&10
70
60&10
50&10
50&10
50&10

Maydole & Co.’s, new list..................dls 
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................. dls 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............... 30c list 
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3............................dls 
Pots...........................................' ......... 
Kettles................................................ 
Spiders................................................ 
Au Sable........................................... dls 
40&10
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................  
70
Japanned Tinware..............................  
20&10
Bar Iron............................................. 2 26  e rates
Light Band.........................................   3 c rates
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
76
86
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz....................... 
5 00
Warren,Galvanized  F ount...,.......... 
6 00

Knobs—New  List

Lanterns

Iro n

17

70

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

Levels

Mattocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages.........................................  
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
Screws, New L ist............................... 
Casters, Bed and Plate................ 
 
Dampers, American...........................  
Molasses  Gates

Stebbins’ Pattern...............................  
Enterprise, self-measuring................. 

7%
g

40
76
80
50&10&10
60

60&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................  6O&10&10
Common,  polished.............................  
70&6
P atent  Planished  Iron 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 76 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 76

Broken packages Vic per pound extra.

80
60
60
to

2 66
2  65
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
60
16
26
36
26
36
46
86

50
46

6 50
7 60
13 00
6 50
6 60
11 00
13 00

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

Nails

Steel nails, base................................ 
Wire nails, base.................................  
20 to 60 advance.................................. 
10 to 16 advance..................................  
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............................... 

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean..........................  
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean..........................  
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.........................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
14x20IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 

Sisal, Vi Inch and larger.....................  
Manilla......................................... 

Ropes

List acct.  19, ’86..................................dls 

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

Sand  P aper

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

12

 

8

 

50

26 00

com. smooth,  com.

Nos. 10 to 14  ......................................... 
Nos. 16 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.

3 40
3 50
3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

$3 20
3 20
3 30

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz__ :.......................... 
Second Grade, Doz............................. 

8 00
7  50

Solder

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

Squares

Steel and Iron..................................... 

Tin—Melyn  Grade

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
20x14 IX, Charcoal..............................
Tin—A llaw ay  Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
10x14 IX, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IX, Charcoal...............................
B oiler Size  Tin  Plate

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

ton’s...................- 

14x66 EX, for No. 8 Boilers, ? 
DOUnd 
14x56 IX, for No.9 Boilers, f P®r pouna"
Traps
Steel,  Game........................................
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
Oneida  Community ,  Hawley  &  Nor­
.........................
Mouse, choker  per doz.....................
Mouse, delusion, pe.* doz......  ...........
Bright Market....................................
Annealed  Market...............................
Coppered Market................................
Tinned  Market...................................
Coppered Spring Steel.......................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized.................
Barbed Fence, Painted......................
Bright................................................
Screw Eyes.........................................
Hooks.................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes........................

W ire  Goods

W ire

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine....................................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, IWrought. ■ to&i 0

66

$ 8 50 
8 80 
9 76

7 00
7 00
8 60 
8 60

10

76
40&10
66 
15 
1  26
60
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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Clerks’  Corner.

P ilferin g   Clerk  Profited  by  One  B itter 

Written for the Tradesman.

Experience.

George  Foster  had  risen  step  by  step 
from  the  position  of  under  salesman  to 
that  of  manager  in  Dun  &  Dailey's  de­
partment  store.  Without  any  sign  of 
swelledheadism  he  had  entered  upon his 
new  duties.

There  were  not  wanting  those  who en­
vied  him  his  good  luck,  nor  yet  those 
who  were  willing  to  predict  that,  as  a 
manager,  he  would  prove  a  failure. 
Foster  no  doubt  heard  of  many  of  these 
remarks,  but  in  his  quiet,  self-possessed 
way  took  no  notice  of  them.  While  fill­
ing  his  place  as  a  salesman  behind  the 
counter  he  had  always  been  pleasant 
and  agreeable  but  never  intimate  with 
his  fellows.  He  had  never  taken  any 
part 
little  social  events  gotten 
up  by  his  fellow  clerks,  nor  in  any  way 
had  he  ever  identified himself with them 
except  during  business  hours.  This  had 
often  been  commented  upon  by 
the 
other  clerks,  both  male  and  female,  and 
they  had  almost  without  exception 
dubbed  him  a  snob.  Foster  was  not the 
sort  of  fellow  to  be  at  all  disturbed  by 
this  opinion and  made  no  effort  what­
ever to  change  it.

in  the 

As  a  young  man  of  22  he  had  come  to 
the  town  a  total  stranger and had entered 
Dun  &  Dailey’s  employ  as  under  sales­
man  in  the  domestic department.  After 
five  years 
in  the  establishment  he  was 
as  much  of  a  stranger  to  the  majority  of 
its  employes  as  when  he  first  entered  it. 
Although  to  his  fellow  workmen  he  was 
a  mystery,  the  subject  of  speculation, 
to  his  friends,  of whom  he had  many,  he 
was  no  mystery  at  all.  They  honored 
and  respected  him  for  his  pluck  and 
perseverance.  At  the  same  time  they 
found  fault  with  him  for  wasting  his 
time,  they  so  expressed  it,  selling  dry 
goods  when  he  might  have  been  using 
his  ability  in  some  more  profitable way. 
His  reply  was  always  “ Wait  and  see.”  
For  five  years  his  friends  had  waited, 
watching  with  no  little  interest  his  slow 
but  gradual  promotion.

I  have  already  stated  that  Foster  had 
no  intimates  among  the  salespeople  of 
Dun  &  Dailey’s;  yet  there  were  some 
in  whom  be  took  more  or  less  interest. 
Among  them  was  a  youth  who  had  be­
gun  as  a  cash  boy  and  now  was  serving 
as  an  under  salesman  in  the  silk depart­
ment.  Foster’s  interest  in  this  boy  had 
been  aroused  because  of  his  evident 
poverty  and,  unknown  to  any  one  else, 
he  had  informed  himself  regarding  the 
circumstances  of  the  boy's  family.  He 
found  that  the  boy  was  the  mainstay  of 
a  family  of  five  people.  Although  at 
this  time  his  own  salary  was  not  large 
he  managed  to  give  the  boy  an  oc­
casional  pair  of  shoes  and  every  two 
months  he  sent  a 
load  of  coal  to  the 
humble  cottage  where  lived the widowed 
mother  and  her  helpless  little  flock. 
It 
is  still  a  matter  of  wonder to the  boy 
and  his  mother as  to  who  sent  the  shoes 
and  the  coal.  This  was  Foster's  way.
When  he  first  came  to the  city  Foster 
had  taken  rooms 
in  the  same  house 
where  I  resided  and  in  this  way  I  be­
came  acquainted  with  him  and  finally 
we  grew  to  regard  each  other as friends. 
1  visited  him  more  than  he  did  me  be­
cause  his  rooms  were  the  acme  of  bach­
elor elegance  and  comfort.

It  was  on  a  certain  stormy  January 
night  that  I  entered  Foster's  cosy  sit­
ting  room  in response to his “ Come in, ”  
and  found  him  standing  with  his  back

to  the  cheerful  grate  and  wearing  a  look 
upon  his  face  that  made  me  ask  at  once 
what  the  trouble  was. 
“ I  wish,”   he 
said,  “ that  I  held  almost  any  other  po­
sition  than  my  present  one.  Three 
months  ago  when  I  received  this  pro­
motion  I  did  not  think  for a  moment 
that  I  should  ever  have  anything  so 
difficult  to  do  as  that  which  at  this  very 
moment  confronts  me.  Pull  your  chair 
up  to  the  fire  and  I’ll  tell  you  all  about 
it.— You  remember  I 
told  you  once 
about  a  young  chap  who  works  in  our 
place  who  is  the  mainstay  of  a  family 
of  five?  Well,  shortly  after  I  was  made 
manager  I  raised  his  salary  from  seven 
to  nine  dollars  a  week. 
I  knew  the 
struggle  the  poor  devil  was  having  to 
keep  his  head  above  water and  knew 
that  the  increase  would  lighten  his  bur­
den. 
It  seemed  to  do  so,  for  I  noticed 
that  he  began  wearing  better  clothes 
than  formerly,  and  I  felt  glad. 
The 
burden  that  boy  has  borne  since  he  was 
14  has  been  no  light  one,  I  can  tell  you. 
Many  a  man  with  an  income  of  sixty 
a  month  would  hesitate  to  assume 
it, 
I’m  sure.  But  to  go  on  with  my  story: 
This  afternoon  a  police  officer called  at 
the  store  and  requested  me  to  go to 
police  headquarters  and 
identify  some 
goods. 
I  did  so  and  found  that  a  re­
ceiver of  stolen  goods  had  been  arrested 
and  that  among  the  goods 
in  her  pos­
session'  were  about  two  hundred  dol­
lars’  worth  of  our  silks.  The  woman 
under arrest  declared  that she  purchased 
them  without  knowing  they  were  stolen. 
She  gave  such  an  accurate  description 
of  the  person  who  sold  them  to  her  that 
I  at  once  recognized  my  young  protege.
I  returned  to  the  store  just  as  the  clos­
ing  bell  rang  and,  without  attracting  at­
tention, 
told  the  young  man  that  I 
wished  to see  him  before  he  went home. 
He  already  bad  his  hat  and  overcoat 
on  and,  as  soon  as  the  other  salespeople 
had  gone,  we  left  the  store  together  and 
went  directly  to  police  headquarters. 
When  confronted by the receiver of stolen 
goods  he  turned  the  color of ashes.  She 
identified  him  at  once  and  he  broke 
down  completely  and  made  a  full  con­
fession. 
I  have  never  before  seen  any­
thing  so  pitiful  as  this  youth  as  he 
pleaded  with  me  to  shield  him.  I  could 
not  decide  at  the  time  just  what  I  ought 
to  do  and  so  sent  him  home  until  I 
should  have  a  chance  to  think 
it  over. 
Knowing  his  circumstances  as  I  do,  it 
seems  almost  a  crime  to  discharge  him, 
and  yet  my  employers’  interests  have 
also  to  be  considered. 
If  he  should  go 
altogether to the  bad  I  could  never  for­
give  myself,  and  besides  I  can  not  bear 
to  think  of  his  mother’s  grief  if  her 
boy's  dishonesty  were  made  known  to 
her. 
It  would  be  a  humane  thing  to 
give  the  boy  another trial,  but  do  you 
think  it  would  be  wise?”

“ Foster,”   I  replied,  " I   appreciate 
your  position  fully,  yet  I  would  be 
in­
clined  to  lean  toward  the  humane  side 
of  the  question. 
If  the  boy  is  turned 
out  with  a  stain  of  this  sort  on  him  he 
will,  no  doubt,  go  from  bad  to  worse 
and  finally  end  in  the  penitentiary. 
I 
would  say  that  this  boy’s  life  for the 
here  and  the  hereafter  was  worth  more 
than  the  risk  which  your employers  will 
run  if  you  give  him  another chance.”  

“ That’s  just  how  I  feel,”   exclaimed 
Foster,  “ and,  by  Jove!  I’ll  shoulder the 
The  youngster  shall 
responsibility. 
have  a  chance  to  redeem  himself. 
It 
may  be  the  making  of  him .”

It  was. 

To-day  Foster  is  junior 
partner  in  the  firm  of  Dun  &  Co.  and 
the  young  man  he  saved  is  the  trusted 
head  buyer  in  the  silk  department.

Mac Allan.

South  Carolina Tea Doing W ell.

From the Atlanta Journal.

It  has  been  demonstrated  that  good 
tea,  both  green  and  black,  can  be  raised 
in  South  Carolina,  and  that  when  prop­
erly  planted  and  cultivated  it  may  be 
made  a  profitable  crop.  Dr.  Shepard 
sold  $3,500 worth  of  tea  from  his  farm 
at  Pineburst  Gardens,  S.  C.,  in  1899, 
and  for  some  he  received  $1  a  pound.

Dr.  Shepard  gives  it  as  his  opinion, 
based  on  experience,  that  good  tea  can 
be  grown  in  his  section  of  South  Caro­
lina  for  15  cents  a  pound,  and  that  such 
tea  will  bring  from  30  cents  to  50  cents 
a  pound  on  the  market.  He  says  an 
acre 
in  tea  properly  attended  to  will 
bring  400  pounds.  The  entire  expense 
of  the  crop  will  not  be  over $60 at  the 
outside,  leaving  a  profit  of  from  $60  to 
over $100 an  acre.

Mystified  by  an  A rrival.

From the London  King.

As  a  portly  city  merchant  hurriedly 
took  a  seat  in  his  office,  he  wiped  the 
perspiration  from  his  brow.  The  cares 
and  worries  of  his  business  were  begin­
ning  to tell  on  him ;  for some weeks  one 
of  his  vessels  had  been  missing,  and  it 
was the  uncertainty  of  its  whereabouts 
that  was  now  bothering  him.

‘ ‘ Come 

in,”   he  said,  as  a  knock 

sounded  at  the  door.

“ Please,  sir,”   said  his  clerk,  enter­
ing  excitedly,  “ the  Mayflower  is  in 
jeopardy.”

“ Thank  goodness!”   cried  the  mer­
chant,  heaving  a  sigh  of  satisfaction. 
“ But  where,”   he  added,  jumping  up, 
it  on  the  map 
“ is  Jeopardy?  Find 
quickly. 
Jeopardy,  Jeopardy,  where 
is  it?”

“Latest and Greatest”

Without doubt a great many 
of  the  readers  of  this  paper 
have  experimented,  or know 
some who have experimented, 
with a number of the gasoline 
lamps  on  the  market.  They 
have caused  so much trouble 
and been so irritating to your 
nerves that you have become 
somewhat disgusted with gas­
oline lamps.  We do not blame 
you;  it  must  be  very  disa­
greeable  to  have  your  store 
illuminated in grand style  for 
a week or two and  then  have 
your  lamps  clog  up  and  go 
out.  Why  do  they  go  out?
Because  they  are  made  of 
iron—gasoline  corrodes  iron 
and  fills  your  generator  up.
Then  how  can  you  expect 
them to burn?  If  that  is  not 
the  trouble  they  are  made 
with needle valves and  under 
generators  that  are everlast­
ingly 
troublesome  because 
they  lack  generation.  You 
cannot  run  a  gasoline  lamp 
successfully without the prop­
er amount of generation.  We 
have it.  Look at our  lamp— 
the  principle  demonstrates 
Itself.  Our generator utilizes 
the entire volume of heat pro­
duced  by  the  lamp  while  in 
operation.  Look  a t  ou r 
G e n e ra to r.  How can it help 
but  generate? 
It  makes  a 
complete circle of the chimney 
therefore getting seven inches 
of  pure  generation.  That is 
not all.  Our oil is hot when it 
enters  generator,  therefore 
always having per­
fect generation. Do 
not  be  deceived 
any  longer.  We 
have  lamps 
that 
are  always  right.
We can  guarantee 
them.  What more 
can you ask?
PENTONE  GAS 

LAMP  CO.

The  Key  W hich  Unlocks  Hearts.

Bass— I  got  some  eggs  of  Mrs.  Fowler 
I  praised  her 

for  15  cents  a  dozen. 
baby,  you  know.
I  bought 
some  of  Fowler  himself for  12  cents.  1 
spoke  in  admiration  of  his  dog.

Fogg—That’s  nothing. 

240  South  Front 

Street

Orand  Rapids,

Mich.

Near Fulton
Street  Bridge.

Bell phone W. 595.  P rice  Complete  $5.00.

Well  Packed 
Soon  Sold

The  package  of  Diamond  Crystal  Salt  commends  the 
goods  to  every  thoughtful  grocer. 
It’s  in  attractive 
boxes and  bags  making  a  good  shelf  show  and  giving 
perfect  protection  to  the  contents. 
It’s  cleanly  to  han­
dle,  easy  to  show,  convenient  to  deliver.

Diamond  Crystal  Salt

“ T h e   S a l t   T h a t ’s   A l l   S a l t ”

It is perfectly 
is  much  purer,  too,  than  any  other  salt. 
dry,  does  not  cake  in  the  shaker;  does  not  absorb 
moisture  readily;  gives  the  savor  of  s a l t   and  nothing 
but  salt. 
Every  sale of  Diamond  Crystal  Salt  assures 
another sale.  Can  we  send you  our  salt  booklet?

Diamond  Crystal  Salt Co.

St.  Clair,  Michigan

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Window  Dressing
Trim s  A ppropriate  for  F ebruary  and  St.

V alentine’s  Day.

The  month  of  February,  coming  as  it 
does  between  the  time  of  clearing  sales 
and  the  time  for opening  lines  of spring 
goods,  is  a  month 
in  which  business 
tends  to  be  a 
little  slow  with  many 
dealers,  and  consequently  the  windows 
are  neglected 
in  comparison  with  the 
periods  of  fall  and  spring.  Do  not 
make  this  mistake.  Business  is  to  be 
got  at  all  times  of  the  year  by  well 
trimmed  windows.  Now  is  the  time  to 
test  the  trade-bringing  powers  of  your 
windows.  Give  them  as  much  attention 
as  at  any  time  of  the  year.  Study  to 
put  in  backgrounds  and  accessories  that 
shall  make  them  so  attractive  that  your 
look  as  inviting  as 
winter  goods  shall 
possible.  When  goods  are  new 
and 
trade  is  active  you may  possibly  depend 
upon  the  windows  but  little,  but  when 
trade  is  slow  try  to  make  them  as  en­
ticing  as  possible.  There  is  always  a 
good  reason  for  careful  and  painstaking 
window  dressing.  Perhaps  the  best  one 
is  that  now  is  the  time  when  you  need 
to  make  use  of  every  device  in  your 
power.

*  *  *

it 

The  beauty  of  fine lace  drawn  smooth­
ly  over  the  surface  of  a  sheet  of  glass  is 
well  known  to  interior  decorators,  and 
in 
is  a  method  that  is  much  employed 
draping  and  screening  windows. 
If  a 
merchant  has  a  large  piece  of  plate  or 
the  fragment  perhaps  of 
other  glass, 
some  window,  he  might  utilize 
in 
his  windows  as 
follows:  Have  the 
glass  cut  to  a  regular  edge,  whether 
oval,  square,  or  oblong,  and  then  have  a 
heavy  frame  made  for  it  into  which  it 
can  be  set,  just  as  a  picture  is  set  into 
its  frame.  Mount  this  frame  upon  sup­
ports  attached  to  each  of  the  lower  cor­
ners.  These  supports  must  be  heavy 
enough  to  hold  the  frame  upright  with­
out  danger  of  falling.  The  surface  of 
the  glass  can  be  covered  with  lace  and 
then  set  into  the  frame,  where  it  is  se­
cured  at  the  back  by  metal  clips  or 
otherwise.  The  screen  thus  made  will 
admit 
light  into  the  store  and  can  be 
used  as  a  portion  of  the  background  of 
a  trim  or  as  the  entire  background  for 
a  small  window.  A  mirror  can  be  used 
in  the  same  manner or,  by  pasting  up­
on  one  surface  of  the  glass  the  paper 
which 
is  sold  for  the  purpose  of  imi­
tating  stained  glass  effects,  a  good  imi­
tation  of  a  stained  glass  screen is  made. 
This  can  be  placed  in  a  window in  such 
a  way  that  natural  or  artificial  light 
shines through  it  with  very pretty  effect. 
By  gilding  the  frame,  which  can  he 
either  beveled  or  made  of  plain  flat 
hardwood,  a  very  ornamental  screen  is 
made. 
Instead of  using  a  sheet  of  plate 
glass  a  plain  backing  of  wood  could  be 
used,  which  could  from  time  to  time  be 
covered  with  different  colored  material.

*  *  *

Very  often  the  window  man  needs 
some  color  medium  for  use  on  price 
cards  for  the  details  of  window  trims. 
For this  purpose  water colors  are  often 
superior  to  oil  paints,  being  much  more 
easily  used  and  more  readily  manipu­
lated  than  oils.  A 
for 
drawing  simple  designs,  combined  with 
a  little  facility  in  the  use  of  water  col­
ors,  will  enable  the  trimmer to  produce 
window  cards  that  will  be  original  and 
attractive.  Water  colors  are  cheap  and 
easy  to  handle  and  a  little  experience 
with  them  will  prove  their  utility  for 
many  window  purposes.  Some  simple 
geometrical  design  outlined  on  a  price

little  talent 

in  pencil  and  then  blocked 

card 
in 
solidly  with  one  or two colors  will  be  a 
variation  from  the  monotony  of  plain 
cards  and  can  be  made  very  attractive. 
Price cards can he quickly  prepared  in 
different  colors  by  washing  them  over 
with  water colors  to  harmonize  with  the 
different colored backgrounds employed. 

*  *  *

St.  Valentine’s  Day,  so  named  from 
one  of  the  early  Christian  martyrs,  was 
for  centuries  marked  by  very  curious 
customs,  of  which  the  modern  practice 
of  sending  valentines  is  only  a  late  one. 
Before  the  Christian  era  it  was  the  cus­
tom  in  Rome  for  young  men  and  maid­
ens  to  draw  lots  from  an  urn  in  one  of 
the  temples  and  by  the  selection  of 
couples  thus  accomplished  many  love 
affairs  began  which  afterwards  ended 
in  marriage.  The  country  people  of 
England  long  believed  that  St.  Valen­
tine’s  Day  was  the  day  on  which  the 
birds  chose  their  mates,  and  that  the 
first  man  a  woman  saw  on  that  day  was 
to  be  her  future  husband  provided  that 
she  was then  unmarried. 
The  custom 
of  sending  valentines  is  the  outgrowth 
of  these  beliefs,  centuries  old,  that  date 
back  to  the  earliest  times  of  antiquity. 
Of  course  the  bleeding  heart  pierced  by 
Cupid's  shaft  is  the  affecting  and  sig­
nificant  emblem 
for  St.  Valentine’s 
Day.  One  scheme  for a  window  would 
be  to trim  the  background  with  red  and 
white  bunting  with  a 
large  red  heart 
pierced  with  a  golden  arrow  attached  to 
the  background,  its edges  surrounded  by 
tinsel  or  puffing.  The  heart,  or  two 
hearts, pierced by an  arrow,  could  be  cut 
from  cardboard  with  the  arrow  attached 
and  both  could  afterward  be  colored 
with  red  paint  and  gilding.  A  number 
of  smaller  hearts  also  cut  from  paste­
board  could  be  used  for the  corners  of 
the  window  or  for a  continuous  border 
about  the  background.  At  each  side  of 
the  central  heart  might  be  tacked  a  fan 
shaped  bunch  of  playing  cards  (all  the 
hearts,  taken  from  several  packs)  with 
the  legend  “ hearts  are  trumps”   promi­
nently  displayed.  Or 
instead  of  the 
cards,  four hearts  strung  on  a  golden  ar­
row  might  be  displayed  at  each  side  of 
the  central  heart  or  pair of  hearts.  An­
other 
idea  would  be  to  hang  from  the 
roof  of  the  window  a  large  number  of 
winged  hearts,  each  of  which  would 
have  attached  to  it  by  mucilage  (which 
is  a  sort  of  emblem  of  affection)  the 
end  of  a  fine  strip  of  baby  ribbon  in 
red  or  white,  the  ends  of  all  the  rib­
in  the  hand  of  a  boy 
bons  being  held 
figure,  robed 
in  a  loose  white  garment 
and  holding  a  gilded  bow  in  his  band, 
representing  Cupid,  the  god  of  love. 
The  figure  might  be  mounted  in  a  char­
iot  on  a  raised  pedestal  at  one  side  of 
the  window.  The  chariot  could  be  made 
of  a  small  cart  gilded  and  covered  with 
blue  bunting  with  hearts  tacked  over 
it. 
It  might  be  advisable  to  introduce 
birds  into  the  trim  by  placing  them  in 
pairs  on  the  boughs  of  one  or  two  small 
trees  near Cupid.  For  Cupid  a  small 
plaster cast  or  the  dummy  of  a  boy 
draped  in  white  cheese  cloth  might  be 
used.  We  once  saw  a  clothing  trim 
where  comic  valentines  were  introduced 
into  an  otherwise  plain  trim  by  simply 
pasting  them  on  the  background  of  the 
window  and  carelessly  scattering  them 
about  the  window.  If  one  had  any  abil­
ity  as  a  draughtsman  or  a  rhymester  he 
might  sketch  on  paper some  caricatures 
of  the  comic  valentine  order and  dis­
play  them 
in  his  window  with  rhymes 
attached,  which  should  drolly  set  forth 
the  various  advantages  of  his  clothing 
of furnishing  goods.—Apparel  Gazette.

Slim  Picking  for the  Creditors.

From the Big Rapids Herald.

C.  C.  Fuller has  disposed  of the Terry 
Laughlin  grocery  stock  turned  over  to 
him 
in  trust  for  creditors  to  J.  K. 
Sharpe  &  Co.  and  sent  out  a  report  to 
creditors,showing  receipts  and  expendi­
tures.  He  says  prior  to  accepting  the 
trust  Mr.  Laughlin  estimated  his  liabil­
ities  at  from  $700  to  $800  and  stock 
worth  from  $2,000 to $3,000.  He  found 
the  debts  to  be  about  $2,500  and  the 
assets  about  $850.  When  he  came  to 
pay  taxes  and  expense  of  trust,  together 
about  $120,  and  deduct $250 exemptions, 
he  had  cash  on  hand  only  $360.  Of this 
amount  $240  had 
to  be  paid  to  his 
clients,  leaving  in  his  hands  only  about 
$120  all  told  to settle  the  balance  with, 
and  the  first  Big Rapids creditor’s claim 
is  $248;  Mr.  Fuller  says,  therefore,  it 
is  a  clean  loss—creditors  representing at 
least  $2,150 will  not  get  a  nickel.

Twenty  Millions  in Gold From  Alaska.
Five  millions  of  this  came  from  the 
Nome  district.  Government  officials 
estimate  the  output  from  the  Nome  dis­
trict  will  be  doubled  the coming  season. 
The  Bluestone,  Kougarok  and  Pilgrim 
rich. 
Rivers  have  been 
There  is  hardly  a  creek  from  Port  Clar­
ence  to  Norton  Sound 
precious  metal 
is  not  found,  and  hun­
dreds  of  creeks  unprospected.  A  rich 
strike  has  been  made  on  the  Yellow 
River,  a  tributary  of  the  Kuskokwim.

found  very 

For  full  information  regarding  routes, 
steamship  accommodations  and  rates  to 
all  points  in  Alaska,  address  C.  N. 
Souther,  General  Agent,  Passenger  De­
partment,  C.  M.  &  St.  P.  R ’y,  95 
Adams  Street,  Chicago.

in  which  the [ 

Answered  H er laterally .

Shopper—No,  I  don’t  care  to  see  any 
sealskin.  There’s  a  nice-looking  collar­
ette  over  there.  What  is  that  fur?

Clerk—Why,  that’s  for  to  keep  your 

neck  warm,  of  course.

The  most  attractive, 
the  most  labor-saving, 
the  most  modern,  the 
most successful

Retail
Grocery
Stores

in  the Union have been 
designed  and  fitted  by

F.  A.  FLESCH,

manager grocery  store 
outfitting  department.

Borden & 

Selleck  Co.,

Chicago,  III.

Correspondence for partial or com­
plete outfits solicited.

The  people  who  are  always 

never get  along.

short 

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and  make  more  profit  than  those 
who  buy  it  roasted.  That’s  one 
reason  why you  should  own  a

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Will you let  us  tell  you  some  more 
good  reasons?  A  postal  card  will 
bring  them.
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little  sketches  that  would  have 
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Infinite  trouble,  got  her  an  order  from 
a  swell  caterer  for  dinner  cards that 
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artistic  career  and  would  at  least  have 
kept  the  wolf  from  the  door,  but  the 
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if  she  had  been  a 
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inn*  one, 
little  dress­
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I air  and  discoursed  so  continually  of 
* bet  former  splendor  and  patronized  her 
l employer  until  site  got  so  unendurable 
f he  had  to  discharge  her.

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Everybody  has  had  experiences  of 
1 like  character  and  knows that  the  most 
i'.invssiNe  and  hopeless  and  heart­
breaking  thing 
in  the  world  is  the  at- 
j tempt  tv'  try  tv' help  smart  women  who 
. have  iv   sense  to help  themselves.  They 
may  be  as  p o t  as  poverty,  with  desper-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  New  White  Light  Gas  Lamp  Co. 

ILLUMINATORS.

More brUluuit autl tUteen times  cheaper  than 
electricity.  The coming light  of  the  future  for 
homes, stores and churches.  They are odorless, 
smokeless, ornamental, portable, durable,  inex­
pensive and absolutely safe.  Dealers and agents 
be  judicious  and  write  us  for  catalogue.  Big 
money in selling our  lamps.  Live  people  want 
light, dead ones don’t need any.  We have twenty 
different designs, both pressure and  gravity, in­
cluding the best lighting  system  for  stores  and 
churches.  Mantles  ana  Welsbach  supplies  at 
wholesale prices.

THE NEW WHITE LIGHT GAS LAMP CO., 
Chicago,  III.

283 W. Madison St„ 

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

PURE,  HIGH-GRADE

Their preparations are  pot op 
in  conformity  to  the  Pore-Food 
Lavs  of all  the  States.

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

Grocers  will  tod  them  in 
the loag nut the most profit­
able to  hoodie,  os  they  are 
absolutely pore  end  of  uni- 

mao'-oatt*.  ^

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

WALTER BAKER & CO. Lwted, 

NKSEsmr suss.

Established t-5o.

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ing  of  these  matters  is  coming  to  us, 
and  it  may  be  that  the  next  great  dis­
covery  women  make  will  be  that  there 
is  no  use 
in  giving  in  to  melancholy 
without  at  least  making  a  fight  for  hap­
piness. 

Cora  Stowell.

Encourage  Thought.

Encourage  your  employes  to  think. 
Make  them  responsible  for  what  they 
do,  and 
let  them  feel  that  they  have 
scope  for thought  in  the  performance  of 
their duties.  There  are  some  employes 
who  effectually  kill  any  chance  of  inde­
pendent  thought  and  action  on  the  part 
of  their  employes.  They  insist  on  giv­
ing  their  instructions 
in  every  detail, 
and  follow  this  with  such  frequent  en­
quiries  as  to  whether  this  or  that  has 
been  done  that  the  employe  quits  think­
ing  for  himself  and  becomes  a  mere 
machine  that  stops  or goes  ahead  at  the 
beck  of  the  man  who  pays  his  salary. 
Give  your  clerks  a  chance  to  think  for 
themselves.  You  will  be  surprised  at 
the 
improvement  on  your  own  plans 
they  will  develop,  and  more  than  all, 
you  will  be  gratified  at  their  increased 
interest  in  your  business. 
If  a  young 
man  or  a  young  woman  has  not  brains 
enough  to  be 
largely  alone  when 
given  a  certain  position  or entrusted 
with  certain  duties,  you  are  better  with­
out  them.  Get  help  who  think,  and 
see  to  it  that  you  do  not hamper thought 
with  your  own  leading  strings.

left 

The  Intelligent  Office  Boy.

The  office  boy  was  alone  in  the  tele­

graph  room.

gan  to  click.

Suddenly  one  of  the 

instruments  be­

He  stood  it  a  minute  or two,  and  then 
went  over  to the  corner  whence the noise 
proceeded.
“ Say!”   he  bawled  out,  with  his 
mouth  close  to  the  instrument,  “ ring 
off!  Der  ain’t  none  o’  de  telegraft  fel­
lers  here  y it!”

2 1

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

Plasticon

long  established wall 
The 
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 World’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

Grand Rapids, Mich.

\

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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ate  need,  and  have  every  element  for 
success  in  their  hands  and  then  deliber­
ately  throw  it  away.  You  can  only  look 
on  and  pity  them.  You  can’t  do  any­
thing.  You  can’t  even  protect  them, 
because  nothing  short  of  inspired idiocy 
can  tell  what  they  are  going  to  do  next.
It  is  the  smart  women  without  sense, 
in  public  affairs,  that  are  the  bane  and 
the  despair  of  the  woman  movement. 
They  are  the  ones  who  cast  ridicule  on 
a  noble  cause  and  make  it  the 
laugh­
ing  stock  and  derision  of  the  world.  A 
thousand  women  sane  and  sweet  and 
seeking  to win  people  from  drunkenness 
by  argument  and  persuasion  can  not 
offset  the  harm  a  wild  fanatic  like  Mrs. 
Nation  does  the  temperance  cause  in 
her  hoodlum  pastime 
smashing 
of 
saloons  with  a  hatchet. 
It  is  not  dull 
women  who  mother  all  sorts  of  wild 
schemes  in  clubs  and  stand  for  any  sort 
of  crazy  reform  or  run  off  after any  kind 
of  a  new  religion. 
It  isn’t  your com­
monplace  woman  who  doesn’t  read  and 
doesn’t  think  who  sends  flowers  to  wife 
murderers  and  whose  hysterical  sym­
pathy  is  always  on  tap  and  ready  to  be 
utilized  by  any  fakir that  comes  along 
and  wants  to  work  her  for his own selfish 
ends.  It  is  the  smart  woman—alas!  that 
one  should  have  to  say  it—the  woman 
of  intelligence,  of  education,  of  read­
ing,  but  whose  brilliancy 
is  not  bal­
lasted  by  good  sense.  There  is  no  lack 
of  talent  among  women.  You  couldn’t 
throw  a  bouquet  into  any  woman’s clubs 
without  hitting  a  dozen  whose  attain­
ments  and  abilities  are  equal  to those  of 
the  most  intelligent  men 
in  the  com­
munity,  but  there  is  a  doleful  dearth  of 
women  who  can  see  right  straight  and 
judge  a  question  on  its  merits  without 
any  reference  to  its  appeal  to  their  sen­
timents.

judgment. 

The  ideal  woman  is the  one  who com­
bines  cleverness  and 
She 
has  the  wit  to  charm  us,  the  intelli­
gence  to  attract,  the  cultivation  that 
makes  her  society  a  delight,  but  under­
neath 
it  is  the  good  hard  bedrock  of 
common  sense  that  directs  all  her  acts 
and  makes  them  sweet  and  reasonable. 
That  is  the  woman  the  new  century  will 
bring  us—the  woman  who  is  smart  and 
has  sense  with  it. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Costly  A rithm etic.

A  school  teacher  in  Sheffield  received 
the  following  from  a complaining parent 
a  few  days  ago:

“ Sir—Will  you  please  for the  future 
give  my  boy  sum  easier  somes  to  do  at 
nights.  This  is  what  he  brought  hoam 
to  or three  nites  back : 
’ If  fore  gallins 
of  bere  will  fill  thirty-to  pint  bottles, 
how  meny  pint  and  half  bottle  will  nine 
gallins  fill?’  Well,  we  tried,  and  could 
make  nothing  of  it  at  a ll;  and  my  boy 
cried  and  sed  he  didn’t  dare  go  back  in 
the  morning  without  doin’  it.

“ So  I  had  to go  an’  buy  a  nine-gallin 
cask  of  bere,  which  I  could  ill  afford  to 
do,  and  then  we  went  and  borrowed  a 
lot  of  wine  and  brandy  bottles,  besides 
a  few  we  had  by  us.  Well,  we  emtied 
the  cask 
the  bottles  and  then 
counted  them,  and  there  were  19,  and 
my  boy  put  the  number  down  for an  an­
swer.
“ I  don’t  know  whether  it  is  rite  or 

into 

not,  as  we  spilt  sum  while  doin’  it.

“ P.  S.— Please  let  the  next  some  be 
in  water,  as  I’m  not  able  to  buy  any 
more  bere. ”

Should  Have  T hought  Before Acting.
Teddy— I  wish  I  hadn’t  licked  Jimmy 

Brown  this  morning.

Mamma— You  see  now  how  wrong  it 

was,  don’t  you,  dear?

Teddy— Yes,  ’cause  I  didn’t know  till 
noon  that  he  was  going  to  give  a  party.

Success  is  not  an  accident— it’s al­

ways  incubation  before  chickens.

How  to  A cquire  the  A rt  of Happiness.
One  of  the  most  pathetic  things  in 
life  is  the  frantic  human  desire  for  hap­
piness,  and  yet  the  easiness  with  which 
we  acquiesce 
in  melancholy.  We  are 
like  a  blind  man  who starts out  hunting, 
he  knows  not  for  what  treasure,  going 
he  knows  not  whither and,after  blunder­
ingly  following  a  false  clew,  folds  his 
hands  and  gives  up  the  quest.  This  is 
particularly  true  of  women,  except  that 
women  seldom  have  the  courage  of their 
desires  and  do  not  even  attempt  to 
search  for  happiness.  When  one 
is 
happy  she  has  been  born  happy  or  had 
happiness  thrust  upon  her.  She  rarely 
achieves  happiness  for  herself.

It  must  be  confessed  that  women  gen­
erally  look  upon  happiness  pretty  much 
as  they  do  a  lottery  ticket. 
It  is  big 
luck 
if  things  come  your  way  and  you 
draw  the  prize,,  but  you  deserve  no 
credit  for  winning  or  blame  for  losing. 
It  doesn’t  occur to  them  that  there  is  an 
art  of  being  happy  that  they  might 
learn 
just  as  they  learned  to  play  the 
piano  or  paint  in  water colors.  Perhaps 
woman  has  been  confirmed  in  this  atti­
tude  by  the  opinion  of  the  rest  of  the 
world  that  has  always  allotted  her  the 
shadows  instead  of  the  sunshine.  Poetry 
and  romance  are  full  of  women’s  tears, 
and  so  entirely  has  the  whole  sex  been 
doomed  to  melancholy  that  we  have 
come  to  look  upon  a  gay  woman—one 
who  laughs 
instead  of  smiles— with  a 
certain  degree  of  suspicion.

This  is  all  great  nonsense.  There 

is 
no  virtue  in  a  person  going about  in  the 
doleful  dumps  all  the  time,  and  the 
most  hopeful  and 
inspiring  work  the 
new  woman  can  set  herself  is  to  study 
the  art  of  being  happy.  We  have  been 
finding  out  in  the 
last  few  years  that 
women  have  given  in  to  many  things, 
believing  them  to  be  the  immutable  de­
crees  of  fate,  that  were  the  result  of 
nothing  but  their  own  stupidity,  and 
that  all  that  was  needed  to  change  them 
was  a  slight  effort.

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There  was  a  time  when  we  reconciled 
ourselves  to  sickness  as  a  mysterious 
dispensation  of  Providence.  Now  we 
know  that  it  is  generally  bad  plumbing 
and  unboiled  water  and 
lack  of 
knowledge  of  the 
laws  of  health  and 
there’s  not  one  sickly  woman  where 
there  used  to  be  a  dozen.  So  it  was 
with  poverty.  When  a  woman  was 
left  without  money  she  tamely  gave  in 
and  settled  down  on  some  of  her  rela­
tives  to  eat  the  bitter  bread  of  depend­
ence  the  balance  of  her  life.  Now  she 
hustles  out  and  makes  a  living  for  her­
self,and  in  many  cases  her  last  estate  is 
more  prosperous  than  her first.

Men  display  far  more  sense  on  this 
subject  than  women  do. 
If  a  man  let i 
his  clerks’  shortcomings  and  mistakes 
worry  him  as  much  as  a  woman  lets  her 
servants’,  he  would  be 
in  hands  of  a 
doctor with  nervous  prostration  half  the 
time. 
If  he  borrowed  as  much  trouble 
about  the  outcome  of  every  business 
venture  as  his  wife  does  over  the  way  a 
company  dinner  will  turn  out,  he  would 
be  a  raving 
lunatic  inside  of  a  week, 
and 
if  he  had  the  same  amount  of  ap­
prehension  as  to  whether he  could  meet 
in  the  bank  as  she  feels  as 
every  note 
to  whether  the  baby  will  get 
the 
measles,  he  would  end  his  troubles  by 
committing  suicide.

Even 

in  the  great  sorrows  that  tear  a 
man's  heart  as  much  as  they  do  a  wom­
an’s  he  shows  his  greater  wisdom.  He 
goes  out  among  his  fellows  where  there 
is  something  to  distract  his  mind  from 
the  dull ache  of  loss.  She  stays  at home, 
shrouds  herself  in  crepe  and  broods.

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Good  goods create a  demand  for them- 
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It  is  not  so  much  what  you  — 

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Butter  and  Eggs

in  the  egg 

O bservations  by  a  Gotham   Egg  Man.
The  egg  market  continues  to  bob  up 
and  down  in  a  most  erratic  manner,  but 
these  fluctuations  are  entirely  natural 
to  the  season.  Speculation  as  to  the 
possibilities  and  probabilities of  the  fu­
ture  is  interesting  and  provokes  consid­
erable  discussion 
stores. 
Bets  among  the  more  sportive  element 
are  frequent  and  indulged  in  by  many, 
the  stakes  ranging  from  a  “ big  apple”  
or  a  “ cigar”   to  small  sums  of  money. 
Some  of  the  “ boys”   have  a  new  way of 
making  small  bets;  it  is  to  buy  or sell 
five  cases  for  future  delivery  and  settle 
according  to  the  changes  in  the  mar­
ket. 
1  heard  of  one  such  betting  sale 
(made 
in  December  before  the  market 
broke)  that  amounted  to  a  nine  dolla
bill  for  the  loser.

*  *  *

It 

case  of  queer  accident,  but 
loss. 

put  out  a  shingle  advertising  camphor­
ated  eggs  and  sell  them  as  sure  cure  for 
grip. 
looked  very  much  as  if  some 
one  had  spilled  a  bottle  of  medicine 
over  the  eggs.  Of  course  this  is  only 
it  might 
have  resulted  in  serious 
If  these 
eggs  had  gone  to  the  baker  as  ordinary 
fresh  dirties  there  was  nothing  about 
them  to  show  their  defect  before  they 
had  been  broken  out,  and 
if  put  in  a 
big  batch  of  cake  or  pastry  the  whole 
would  have  been  ruined  and  somebody 
would  have  been  compelled  to  stand  a 
good-sized 
is  also  in­
teresting  as  showing  how  an  egg  will 
absorb  and  retain  a  pungent  odor to 
which  it  is  exposed  even  after  the  smell 
has  entirely  disappeared  from  the  out­
side.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

loss.  The 

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Much  Goat  Flesh  Sold  as  M utton. 

it 

Of  course  as  the  winter  advances 
without  bringing 
any  very  serious 
storms  in  the  principal  winter  produc 
ing  sections  the  chances  of  a  dearth  of 
eggs  grow  constantly  less.  We  have  had 
two  months 
in  which  conditions  were 
generally  favorable  to  egg  production 
and  although  a  good  deal  of  stock  has 
been  marketed 
is  probable  that 
good  many  eggs  have  accumulated 
some  sections  between  the  producers 
and  the  shippers.  Collectors 
in  the 
Southwest  put  their  prices  down  pretty 
promptly  this  year,  so  as  to  be  on  the 
safe  side,  and  the  rates  paid  to  country 
storekeepers  and  farmers  have  seemed 
pretty  low  for January.  Very  likely  they 
have  held  back  a  good  deal  of  stock 
which  would  be  brought  forward  should 
conditions  induce  any  material  advance 
in  country  prices,  or  when  a  further  ad­
vance  in  the  season  with  continued good 
production  might  reduce  the  chances  of 
gain  by  holding.

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Consumptive  demand  for eggs  in  this 
vicinity  seems  to  increase  slower  than 
was  generally  anticipated.  Here  and 
there  a  dealer  reports  a  considerable 
enlargement  of  sales,  but  as  a  rule  those 
who  sell  direct  to  grocers  report  that 
retail  prices  have  not  been  reduced  to 
correspond  with  wholesale  rates and that 
the  quantity  of  eggs  moving is  still  very 
moderate.  The  retail  dealer  does  not 
approve  of  putting  prices  down  and  up 
according  to  momentary  conditions;  he 
is  inclined  to  think  low wholesale prices 
in  winter  are  not  likely  to  be permanent 
and  as  a  rule  he  will  not  put  prices 
down  very  much  until  he  thinks  they 
can  be  kept  down  for good.

During  the  past  year  or  two  the  de­
mand  for  the  flesh  of  goats  has  greatly 
increased  in  this  country.  Goat  breed­
ers  have  formed  associations,  and  at 
every  opportunity  have  given  to  the 
public  the  information  that  the  meat  of 
an  Angora  goat 
is  the  finest  kind  of 
food.  The  Department  of  Agriculture 
has,  up  to  this  time,  quietly  kept  an 
eye  on  the  progress  of  the  goat  meat 
industry,  has  noted  the  increase  in  the 
demand,  and  very  recently  has  issued  a 
bulletin  by  George  Fayette  Thompson, 
entitled  “ Information  Concerning  the 
Angora  Goat.”   Much  of  the  informa­
tion  is  given  to  the  value  of  the  fleece 
of  that  breed  of  goats,  but  the  main 
object 
is,  no  doubt,  to  encourage  the 
raising  of  goats  for  food  purposes,  as 
will  be  seen  by  the  extracts  from  it 
which  we  print.

There 

is  a  deep-seated  prejudice 
against  the  use  of  goats  of  any  kind 
for  meat.  This  is  founded  upon  ignor 
ance  rather  than  experience.  The  most 
ill-smelling  “ billy”   of  the  worst  pos 
sible  type  is  by  many  made  the  stand 
ard  of  goat  meat  for the  whole  of  the 
goat  family.  As  far back  as  Abraham’ 
day  we  read  of  goats  being  used  for 
meat  (very 
likely  Angoras),  and  this 
too,  when  there  were  many  cattle  and 
sheep.  Certainly  no  prejudice  existed 
against  them  at  that  time.  There  is  not 
much  to  be  said  about  the  meat  of  the 
common  goat. 
It  is  not  so  generally 
used  as  that  of  the  Angoras.  The  flesh 
of  their  kids 
is  considered  very  fine 
and 
in  some  sections  of  the  country 
goats  of  all  ages  are  killed  for  meat 
There  are  comparatively  few  common 
goats  in  the  United  States,  and  no  at 
tempt  is  being  made  to  put them  on 
the  market.

W.  A.  Gude,  of  Gude  Bros.,  brought 
to  our  office  one  day  last  week  a  curi­
osity  in  the  egg  line,  the  like  of  which 
we  had  never  before  seen. 
In  taking 
out  a  case  of  eggs  purchased  on  the 
market  his  candler  had  found  an  un­
usual  number  of  dirty  eggs;  these  were 
strictly  fresh,  showing  perfectly  full  and 
clear  before  the  candle  and,  under  ordi­
nary  circumstances,  would  have  gone  to | 
bakers’  trade.  But  one  of  these  stained j 
eggs,  being accidentally  broken,  emitted 
such  a  smell  as  to  cause  closer examina­
tion,  upon  which 
it  appeared  that  the 
eggs  had  been  wet  with  some  kind  of 
liquid  that  not  only  stained  the  shells 
but  saturated  the  meat  of  the  egg  with a 
pungent  odor of  chemicals.  Mr.  Gude 
brought  some  of  the  eggs  to the  Review 
office  as  a  novelty.  No  smell  could  be 
detected  on  the  outside  of  the  eggs  in 
spite  of  the  stains  on  the  shell,  but 
when  broken  they  gave  a  strong  odor  of 
camphor.  We  suggested  that  Mr.  Gude

The  flesh  of  the  Angora  is  exceeding 
ly  nutritious  and  palatable.  Shropshi 
lambs,  which  are  considered  as  among 
the  best  kinds  of  meat,  are  said  not 
be  superior  to  a  well-fed  and  well 
cooked  kid. 
In  the  Southwest  these 
I animals  are  as  readily  sold  for  meat  as 
sheep,  and  the  market  has  never  been 
overstocked.  A  gentleman 
in  Texas 
found  a  ready  market  for his  canned 
Angora  mutton,  but  was  compelled  to 
close  his  cannery  because  the  supply  of 
goats  was  not  nearly  sufficient  to  supply 
the  demand.  In  the  Northwest  the  prin­
cipal  use  of  the  Angora  is  for  clearing 
bushy 
land,  and  consequently  they  are 
not  so  extensively  used  as  food.  How­
ever, in  nearly  every  locality there,  some 
have  been  killed  for  mutton,  and  there 
has  never  been  a  derogatory  statement 
its  quality,  so  far  as  Mr. 
concerning 
Thompson 
is  able  to  learn. 
In  Cape 
Colony 
it 
is  said  that  the  old  does  are 
I  slaughtered  to  furnish  meat  for  farm

in  the  town. 

hands,  and  young  wethers  are  sold  to 
butchers 
In  California 
many  miners  purchase  Angora  wethers 
in  preference  to  sheep  wethers  for  salt­
ing  down  for  winter* use,  because,  as 
they  state,  the  Angora  contains  less  fat, 
is  more  easily  kept,  and  is  just  as  pala­
table.
We 

learn  from  the  bulletin  that,  in 
order  to  test  the  qualities  of  Angora 
and  sheep  mutton,  it  was  planned  that 
a  dinner  be  prepared  with  the two kinds 
of  meat,  and  that  the  guests  were  not  to 
be  informed  as  to  which  was  sheep  and 
which  was  goat,  but  they  were  to  decide 
upon  the  merits  of  the  dishes.  Twelve 
disinterested  men  were  invited  to  par­
take  of  the  dinner  and  express  their 
opinions  of  the  various  dishes  they  had 
eaten.  Four decided 
in  favor  of  the 
sheep’s  and  eight  in  favor  of  the  goat  s 
flesh,  and  since  that  breeders  in  the  lo­
cality  where  the  dinner  was  served  have 
no  difficulty  in  selling  their goats  to  the 
neighboring  butchers  for the  same  price 
paid  for  the  best  mutton.

Getting  into  debt  is  like  getting 

into 
„  mudhole— in  scraping  off  the  dirt  you 
generally  spoil  the  boots.

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The New York Market

Special F eatures of the Grocery and P rod­

Special Correspondence.

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New  York,  Feb.  8—Coffee  has  ad­
if  true. 
vanced.  This 
The  remark  applies  to  what 
is  known 
as  the  “ speculative  market.”   Just  why 
seems  to  be  hard  to  tell  except  from  the 
speculators’  standpoint. 
Supplies  at 
primary  points  continue  large  and,  so 
far as  the  statistical  position  goes,  there 
seems  no  earthly  use  of  claiming  any 
advance.  At  the  close  Rio  No.  7  is 
worth  7%c. 
In  store  and  atioat  the 
amount  aggregates 931,637 bags,  against 
1,272,918  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
year.  As  to  the  actual  market  condi­
tions  for  real  coffee  the  demand is rather 
light.  Mild  grades  are  especially  drag­
ging  and  yet  matters  might  be  worse. 
Good  Cucuta  seems  to be  firmly  estab­
lished  at  not  less  than  9c.  East  India 
sorts  bring  full  rates,  but  the  volume  of 
trade  is  somewhat  limited.

The  tea  market  has  lately  been  rather 
inactive,  dealers  seeming  to  be  waiting 
to  see  what  Congress  will  do  with  the 
duty.  Meantime  prices  are  very  firmly 
adhered  to  and,  as  soon  as  the  tariff 
question 
it  now  seems 
likely  that  the  tea  tax  will  be  retained 
—dealers  seem  to  think  there  will  be 
decided  improvement.  They 
intimate 
that  it  is  a  good  time  to  buy  and  that 
it  might  be  well  to  purchase  ahead  of 
current  needs.

is  settled—and 

to 

trade. 

Jobbers  generally  report  an 

improve­
ment  in  the  tone  of  the  sugar  market. 
Quite  a  good  many  new  orders  have 
come  to  hand.  The 
impression  pre­
vails  that  very  soon  we  shall  see  some 
advance  and  it  is  perhaps  well to “ come 
to  town”   for  sugar  now  at  once.  Quo­
tations  on  hards  remain without  change, 
but  some  “ shopping”  
is  going  on  in 
softs.

The  rice  business 

is  of  a  hand-to- 
mouth  character.  This  is  the  rule  al­
most  without  exception,  either 
from 
local  or  out-of-town 
Prices, 
however,  are  pretty  well  maintained and 
altogether  the  sellers  seem 
think 
there  is  no  use  of  making  concessions. 
Prime 
to  choice  domestic,  5@5^c. 
Foreign  sorts  are  quiet,  but  selling  at 
full  rates.

The  spice  business  is  conspicuous  by 
its  absence.  One  may  walk  up and down 
the  market  all  day  without  finding  an 
item  or  seeing  a  dealer  who  seems  to 
care  whether  school  keeps  or not.  Buy­
ers  are  not  buying,  and  that's  all  there 
is  about 
it.  Singapore  pepper  in  an 
invoice  way  is  quotable  at  I3X@I3>£c ; 
Zanzibar  cloves,  g%@9%c.
There  has  been  a  fair trade  in  me­
dium  grades  of  molasses,  and  in  fact 
the  market  all  around  shows  some 
im­
last  week.  The  ex­
provement  over 
ception 
low  grades,  which 
languish.  Good  to  prime  centrifugal, 
I7@ 26c;  open  kettle,  32(^ 400.

in  very 

Offerings  of  syrup  are  light  and  the 
market  is  decidedly  firm  for the  better 
sorts,  which  are  working  out  within  the 
range  of  20@25c  for  prime  to  fancy 
stock.

There  is  a  good  deal  of  activity  per­
sonally  among  the  canning  fraternity 
just  now  in  making  preparations  for the 
convention  at  Rochester.  A  good  many 
leading  spirits 
in  the  business  have 
been  here  and,  as  a  rule,  they  appear to 
be  hopeful  for the  future.  Actual  trad­
ing  at  the  moment 
large 
volume  and  the  quotations,  especially  of 
tomatoes,  remain  disappointingly 
low. 
is  hardly  anything  doing  in  fu­
There 
tures  and  neither  buyer  nor  seller  ap­
pears  to  take  any  interest  in  the  here­
after.  Trouble  is  anticipated  from  the 
pesky  pea  louse  and  Wisconsin  packers 
are  putting  a  protective  clause  in  their 
contracts.

is  not  of 

"Dried  fruits  are  quiet.  No sales  of

is 

We  can  use  your 
S M A L L   S H I P ­
M E N T S   as  well 
as the  larger ones.

in 

large  quantities  are  being  made  and  al­
together  the  outlook  is  flat, stale  and  un­
profitable.  The  only  exception 
is  a 
slightly  improved  enquiry  for California 
loose  raisins.

The  dulness  for dried  fruits  is  shared 
by  the  market  for  fresh  fruits.  Lemons 
and  oranges  are  moving 
just  an 
every-day  sort  of  way  and  no  changes 
in  quotations  have  developed.  F lorida 
oranges  range  from  $2.5o@3.50  per  box.
The  bean  market drags.  Choice  mar­
rows  are  held  at  $2.50;  medium,  $2.25; 
pea,  $2.27^.

The  butter  market  is  steady,  but  quo­
tations  are  practically  the  same  as  last 
week.  The  supply  of  fancy  creamery 
is  not  large  and  yet  there  seems  to  be 
enough  to  go  around.  The  rate  of  22c 
for top  grades  is  well  established.  Sec­
onds  to  firsts,  i8@ 2ic;  factory,  14%@ 
\\Y iC ;  imitation  creamery,  1 7@ i7^c.
in 
cheese  and  dealers  seem  to  be  quite 
well  pleased  with  the  outlook.  Quite 
a  volume  of  trading  has  been  done  by 
exporters  and  the  market  will  be  fairly 
well-conditioned  by  the  time  new  stock 
arrives.

is  an  average  movement 

Arrivals  of  eggs  have  been  somewhat 
larger,  but  the  demand  has  also  im­
proved  and  the  week  closes  on  a  market 
in  good  shape.  Best  Western,  2o@2ic.

There 

The  Big  B atcher  Passing Away.

From the Butchers’  Advocate.

“ Twenty  years  ago,”   said  the  ob­
serving  man,  “ butchers  were  invariably 
persons  of  great  size.  They  were  tall 
and  well-proportioned.  It  was  common, 
in  describing  a  person  of  magnificent 
physique,  or  of  superior health,  to say 
he  was  as  big  as  a  butcher,  or  as  robust 
as  a  butcher.  At  that  time  1  was  in 
the  business  of  making  butcher  blocks, 
as  I  am  now,  and  blocks  were  made  of 
a  uniform  height.  There  was  no  ques­
tion  about  what  height  they  were  to  be 
made—all  butchers  were  big  men,  and 
they  wanted  high  blocks.  Now,  how­
ever,  it  is  not  well  to  fill  an  order with­
out  enquiring  about  the  size  they  are  to 
be  made.  The  big  butch  r  is  growing 
to  be  a  thing  of  the  past,  and  the  me­
dium-sized  or  under-sized  man 
is  rap­
idly  taking  his  place.  Very  often  I  re­
ceive  orders  for  low  blocks,  and  I  sel­
dom  proceed  to  make  a  block  for  a  man 
I  do  not  know  until  I  have  had  a  look 
at  him,  for  it  is  a  hard  job  to  put  new 
legs  in  a  block.  How  do  I  account  for 
it?  Well,  you  see,  some  years  ago the 
butcher  was  a  butcher  in  the  full  sense 
of  the  word.  He  did  his  own  killing, 
and  whether or  not  a  man  needed  to  be 
big  and  strong  to  do  that  sort  of  work, 
such  was -the  impression,  and  the  little 
fellows  kept  out  of  the  business.  Now, 
I’ll  venture  to  say,  there  isn’t  a  retail 
butcher  in  all  of  Greater  New  York  who 
actually  does  his  own  killing.  There 
are  a  few  who  buy  cattle  and  have  the 
animals killed  for  them,  but  they  do  not 
take  any  part 
It  is  no 
longer  necessary  to  possess  strength— if 
it  ever  was—to  be  a  successful  butcher 
—or  more  accurately  speaking,  a  meat 
market  proprietor.  There 
is  no  need 
for  strength ;  he  has  only  to  go to  the 
wholesale  house,  pick  out  what  he 
wants,  have  it  loaded  on  his  wagon, 
and  cut  it  up  when  he  gets  it  to  his 
shop.  The  big,  jolly,  powerful  butcher 
is  certainly  passing  away,  and 
the 
growing  demand  for  low  blocks  is  evi­
dence  of  it.”

in  the  work. 

W ant to  Stop  Sunday Slaughtering.
The  police  of  Boston,  Mass.,  are  con­
ducting a  warfare  upon  all  kinds of Sun­
day  labor which  they  consider  unneces­
sary.  As  a  result  they  have  notified  the 
proprietors  of 
at 
Brighton  that  Sunday  slaughtering  must 
cease.  When  it  is  fully  explained  to the 
police  that  such  work  is  necessary,  it  is 
believed  they  will  pull  back  the  order.

slaughter-houses 

L. 0. SNEDECOR  Egg  Receiver

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York

-R E F E R E N C E N E W   YORK  NATIONAL  EXCHANGE  BAN K,  NEW  YO R K =

 

...I ' ~

We  want  Fresh 
E G G S .   We  are 
candling  for  our 
retail  trade all  the 
time.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The  B atcher  and  Grocer.

From the Retail Butchers’ Review.

There 

legislature 

is  no  class  of  business  men 
more  deserving  of  consideration  at  the 
hands  of  the  state 
than 
butchers  and  grocers.  They  are  the 
poor  man's  purveyors  in  time  of  plenty 
and  his  creditors  during  hard  times. 
Every  locality  has  its  improvident  peo­
ple  and  its  dishonest  ones.  When  heads 
of  families  are  out  of  work,  and  the 
savings  of  the  past  month  ate all needed 
to  buy  the  winter’s  coal,  the  grocer  and 
butcher wait  for  their  pay.  They  ex­
tend  credit  as  far  as  discretion  will 
warrant  and  then  attempt  to  cut  off  the 
drain  upon  their  resources,  but  a  pa­
thetic,  hard-luck  story  and  a  few  tears 
will  usually  reopen  the  credit,  and  the 
unfortunate  families  of  the  neighbor­
hood  practically  live  off  these  two  deal­
ers  during  the  dull  season  and  in  times 
of  sickness.

When  employment 

Elmdale,  Feb.  6—A  word 

is  obtainable,  to 
the  honor  of  the  workingman,  most  of 
the  debtors  begin  paying  up  their bills. 
Many,  however,  are  disposed  to  forget 
their  obligations  and  to  reward  their 
benefactors  with  promises  that  are  not 
made  to  be  kept,  or  with  insolent  re­
fusals  to  pay.  It  is  this  class  that makes 
the  lot  of  the  butcher  and  grocer  hard  to 
endure.
Gloomy O utlook for the Country M erchant.
in  regard 
to  rural  free  delivery  and  the  disasters 
that  will  follow.  Take  rural  free  deliv­
ery  and  peddlers  and  catalogue  houses 
and  express  companies  and  there  will 
left  for  the  merchants  in  the 
be 
small  towns. 
1  was  talking  with  an  ex­
press  man  to-day  and  he  said  that  they 
were  sending  out  men  soliciting  con­
signments  of  butter and  eggs  and  farm 
produce  wherever  rural  delivery  has 
been  established  and  selling  the  same 
for them  and  buying  whatever they  wish 
and  sending  it  to them. 
If  such  busi­
ness 
is  allowed  to  go  on,  it  will  drive 
every  merchant  out  of  business  in  the 
small  towns. 

L.  E.  Lott.

little 

23

Lambert's 
Salted  Peanuts

New Process

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

The Lambert 
Nut hood Go.,

Battle Greek, Mich.

Highest Market Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98  South  Division  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Qeo.  N.  Huff &  Co.,

WHOLESALE  DEALERS  IN

Butter, Eggs, Poultry, Game, Dressed Meats, Etc.

COOLERS  AND COLD  STORAGE ATTACHED.

Consignments  Solicited. 

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

A N S

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

BEAN  GROWERS  AND  DEALERS

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   MI CH.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Village Improvement

Public  A dvertising Versus the Village Im ­

provem ent  Society.

when  art had  no  recognized  claim,  and I has  deP*?e
certainly  no  admission,  into the  country  gence, 
•cbool,  advertising,  especially  the  put-  ®  stay  on  the  a ™ ^   Soci 
torial,  was  looked  upon  with 
Rude as were the cats,  gorgeously onreal  count  hint  amo  g 
as  were  the  colors,  the,  still  conveyed  bershtp.  The  V 'lt o g e j
■ °  «bn  country  eye

favor.  I home. ^ The  Imprevem ^  

d

^at,  has  decided 
make  it  his

^

8  conne-

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found  on  the  home  wa  s. 

topic  at  the  next  morning  s  0ften  are 

dreadful  circus  ment  o
too graphic  de-1 of the neigh
lessons  thelesto  jec 10 

'|,' r'„e  rfrVmaT nowhere
limits  will  be  found  a  sign
.  , 
fae  village  Improve-
the  acknowledged  arbiter
can ogerthe slight

The  tragedy  was  one  of  Shakepeare  s 
best. 
It  was  played  by  the  country  s 
best  talent.  The  theater was  the  finest
in the'city and  the  performance  was the I ¡¡¡e  more  ambitious  pictures  which  too I this 
natural 
a 
breakfast  table.  Commendation  fell from  without  pushing  the  thought 
farther  wlthin 
every  tongue  except  one.  The  play  was I tban  jt  v.'ill  bear,  there  is no question I or  pos 
fine  and  handsomely  staged.  There  was 
that  for  a  iong  time  the 
not  a  single  stick  among  the  players.  biHi  with  jts  altogether 
The  orchestra  was  up-to-date  and  fur-1 tajjs>  taught  the  only  art 
nished  good  music,  but  “ the  whole  play  covmtry  people  received.  Now,  with 
was  spoiled  for  me  by  the  advertise-  drawing  a  part  of  the  daily  school  pro- 
ments  on  the  drop  curtain. 
I  can  not  gram,  the  decorated  bam,  the  flaming- 
reconcile Tannhaeuserwith Quaker oats;  postered  corncrib  and 
II  Trovatore  does  not  reach  the  pathetic  papered  outbuilding  generally  are  pass-  0ne:way  second  class  ticket 
with  me  while  I  am  compelled  to  read  ing  into disrepute  and  the  agent  whose  lowing  very  MJ 
where  the  best  chewing  gum  can  be  ob 
tained,  and  Chopin,  be  he  rendered  whom  the  farm  building  was  to  be  had  T q California( 
never  so  divinely,  can  never  appeal  to  {or  the  asking  is  now  often  met  with  an 
the  divine 
templating  the  virtues  of  Popular  Plug.  L e n t,  if 
That  first  fifteen  minutes  with  one  of I exjstence  on  the  modern  farm  building, 
these  would  spoil  the  play.  The  three, 
Two  ways  Qf  fighting  the  evil  have 
with  the  fall  of  the  drop  curtain  as  a  re-  been  suggested,  one  by  legislation,  the 
minder 
‘ lest  we  forget, ’  will  keep  me I other  by  ridicule.  These  are  hardly 
away from  that  theater  until  1  learn  that  avanable,  however,  without  the  help  of 
the  offensive  advertisements  have  been I tbe  public  press. 
It  is  suggested,  also, 
to  the  Improvement  Society  that  the
removed.”  
—   — «------  

$25.00
3a o °
30-°°
These  tickets  will  be  gool  on  a 
romising  No,  or  his  advertise-  trains  and  purchasers  w.l  have  cno.ce
Paul  and  two  routes  and  three trains  via 
Missouri  River  each  Tuesday.  The 
route  of  the  Famous  Pioneer  Limited 
trains  and  the  U.  S.  Government  Fast

MA ll1 Ticket  agents  seli  Uckets via fte 
Chicago,  Milwaukee  &  St.  Paul  Rail 
wav  or for  further  information  address
.Robert  C.  Jones,  Michigan  Passenger
lady  may  be  over  sensi- 1 strongest  and  most  efficient  agent  it  can | Agent,32 Campus Martius, Detroit, Mich, 

Low 
February  12,  and  on  each  Tues-
until  Aprii  30,  the  Chicagcj.Mil-

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North  pacific  Coast  points, 
- 

left  at  all,  has  a  short  lived | of  six  routes  and  eight  trains  via 

gaudily- 1 waukee  &  St.  Paul  tollw ay  w

coming  was  once  welcomed  and  wit  I 

in  me  so  long  as  1  am  con- 

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The  young 

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, 

Rubber  Stamp  Signature.

A  letter  dictated  by  a  person,  type­
written  at  his  direction  and  signed  with 
his  name  bv  means  of  a  rubber  stamp 
is  held  by  the  Supreme  Court  of  Con­
necticut  to be  a  writing  signed  by  such 
person,  in  the  sense  of  the  statute  pro­
viding  that  in  order  for  a  case  to  be 
taken  out  of  the  statute  of  limitations 
certain  actions,  by  an  acknowledg­
ment  or  promise,  the  latter  must  be  in 
some  writing  made  or  signed  by  the 
partv  to  be  charged  thereby.  The  court 
said'  that  since  typewriting  is  a  substi­
tute  for  and  the  equivalent  of  writing, 
letters  thus  written  are  to  be  considered 
as  having  been  done  by the party dictat­
ing  them,  and that  when  a  rubber stamp 
is  used  for  signing  they  are  to  be  held 
as  having  been  signed  by  him,  in  the 
absence  of  any  expressed  or  implied  re­
law  that  one  shall  sub­
quirement  of 
scribe  a  writing  with  his  own  hand.

The  Door  Opened  Towards  Him. 

Right  side  and wrong  side  lie so close 
together  that  the  ability  to  generalize 
from  a  single  example  Emerson  s  defi­
nition  of  genius— is  sometimes  mis­
lawyer who 
leading.  A  New  Orleans 
was  recently  ask^d to  talk  to  the  boys of 
a  business  school  prefaced  his  address 
by  a  few  extempore  remarks.
“ My  young  friends,”   he  said,  “ as  I 
approached  the  entrance  to this  room  1 
noticed  on  the  panel  of  the  door  a  word 
eminently  appropriate  to  an  institution 
of  this  kind. ’  It  expresses  the  one thing 
most  useful  to  the  average  man  when 
he  steps  into  the arena of life.  It was—’ 
“ Pull!”   shouted  the  boys  with  a  roar 
of  laughter,  while  the  horrified  politi­
cian  recognized  that  he  had  taken  his 
text  from  the  wrong  side  of  the  door.

The  T eller W ho  Could  Not Tell.

“ How  much  money  has  my  husband 

in  the  bank?”   demanded  the  woman.

“ I  can  not  tell  you,  madam,”   replied 

the  man  behind  the  grating.

“ Why,  they  told  me  you  were  the 

teller,”   snapped  the  woman._______

~ 

—  

lift  their  huge  heads,  and I contrary,  “ a  roaring  success. 

is  the  proprietor  of  the  village 
large  circle  of  store.  That  genial  circle  which  gathers 

tive  but  she  states  fairly  an  opinion  rely  on 
which  is  shared  by  a 
sympathizers  throughout  the country and L ightly  around  that  unfortunate  sto 
one  that  is by  no  means  confined  to  the  still  remains  the  only  gathering  of  the 
limited  enclosure  of  a  theater  and  its  democracy  and  there,  if  anywhere,  can 
drop  curtain. 
The  advertising  enor-  crush  the  opinion  that  a  man,  simply 
-L—   — ' because  he  wants  to,  has  a  right  to  dis­
mity  is  widespread.  Wherever there  is 
figure  the  village,  wholly  or  in  part,  to 
a 
line  of  travel,  along  that  line  near 
save  himself  the  cost  of  the  advertise­
and  afar the  fences,  the  trees,  the  ever­
ment  which  by  right  belongs  to  the 
lasting  rocks,  the  bams,  the  sheds—the 
proprietor of  the  village  paper. 
It  was 
everything  that  can  retain  paint  tells 
insisted  once,  when  the  attempt  was  to 
its  omnipresent  story  in  letters  so  large 
be  made,  that  the  storekeeper  thought 
that  all  who  run  and  ride  must  read. 
.too  much  of  his  trade  to antagonize  a
Not  a  river  bends  in  beauty  that  is  not
.
Not  a  river  Dcnua  m  ucauij 
marred  by  the  legend  of  the  all-healing [good  customer and  that  on  that  account 
It  was,  onthe 
drug.  High  into  the  clouds  the  moun-jthe  project  would  fail. 
tains  may 
lne 
their  huger 
shoulders  hooded  and I storekeeper,  however, had  nothing  to do 
mantled  in  snow,  but  the  sunset  playing I with  it  except to strengthen  the  lau8p- 
with  their  opal  splendors  plays  also I How  he  won  to the  Society  s  side  the 
with  the  gigantic  fact  that  somebody’s  village  joker’s  sarcasm  is  a  matter  ot 
“ Bitters”   is  the  world’s  cure-all.  N i- 1 private  history,  but  the  stingy  old  Jus- 
agara  in  mist  and  rainbow  chants berjtice  who  for  half  a  dollar had  disgraced 
everlasting  hymn  with  the  resounding I his  bam  door by  the  “ loudest’  adver- 
rocks  and  the  traveler,  with  the  grand-1 tisement that  the  village  had  ever  seen
est  idea  of  the  sublime  he  has  ever I could  not  stand  the  gibes  and  jeers  that
known,  patiently  tries  to  reconcile  the  greeted  the  “ village  patron  of  art 
sublimity  before  him  with  the  fa c t-   whenever  and  wherever  he  appeared, 
also  before  him -that  “ children  cry”   He  thought  that  “ a  man  has  a  right  to 
for  soothing  syrup  that  may  be  obtained  do  what  he  will  with  his  own  bam 
everywhere  for  25c.  The  trustees  of  door, ”   but  at  the  same  time  he  thought 
public  parks  and  gardens  are  every-1 it  unadvisable to  keep  up  the  astonish- 
where  trying  to  secure  the  passage  of  ing  display  and  removed  it.  There  are 
bills  by  legislature  to  limit  and  regulate  a  great  many  Sauls  of  Tarsus  in modern 
the  erection  of  advertising  billboards 
life  and  they  all  find  it  hard  to  kick 
within  a  specified  distance  of  parks  and I against  the  pricks.”   Many  of  them  are 
parkways,  but  without  success,  and I brave  men,  but  not  one  of  them  has  so 
much  of  the  effect  of  the  influence  of I far  been  found  who  can  endure  the 
the 
if  not I staggering  ridicule  that overwhelms  him 
wholly  lost,  by  tradesmen,  who  have  no I from  the  atmosphere  that  hovers  over 
right  to  force  their wares before  the  eyes  the  circle  centering  at  the  village  store 
of  the  public  at  every  turn.  The  parlor 
Improve- 
is  no  place  to  advertise  a  man’s  busi-Jment  Society  and  its  advertising  enemy 
ness  and  he  who  devotes  the  best  room I may  be  a  long  and  hotly-contested  one, 
in  the  house  to  that  purpose  belongs  to  but 
it  is  especially  true  here  that  “ he 
the  same  reprehensible  class  that  de-  that  endureth  to  the  end”   shall  suc- 
bases  the  landscape  for  the sake of gain.  Ceed.  Public opinion  in  city  and  coun 
The  only  appropriate  place  for  the  ad-  try  are  waking  up  to  the  importance  of 
vertisement 
is  the  newspaper,  and  the I the  matter.  The  city  billboard  is  often 
Improvement  Society  in  town  and coun-1 the  object  of  the  sharpest  criticism. 
It 
trv  will  find  in  the  periodical  world 
It  must  have  some 
strongest  ally  in  the  inculcating  of  that  merit. 
It  must  have  some  good  reason 
I for being  or  it  is  not tolerated.  Left  to
•dea 
Whether the  Village  Society  is  equal  itself the  city  thought  would  find its way 
to  a  crusade  against  its  strong  antag-  into the  country,  but  from  the  country 
onist  remains  to  be  seen.  At  a  time [ be  it distinctly  understood,  the  hayseed

The  contest  between  the 

trustees  is  counteracted, 

its  must  be  clean. 

D istin ctio n   o f W ealth.

“ Yes,  she’s a very nice g*rl-” tl
“ A h!  then she  has no money.
“ Why  do  you  infer that?”
1 
“ Because  rich  girls  are  always superb 
or stunning  or splendid.  They are  never 
I simply  nice.”  

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If  you  want  business  you  must  climb 
for  it—the  plum  seldom  drops  into an 
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open  mouth. 

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WITH THE SHRINERS ?

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GRAND  RAPIDS  TO  CHICAGO,  CHICAGO  TO  KANSAS  CITY, 
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MARICOPA,  MARICOPA  TO  PHOENIX,  PHOENIX  TO  LOS  AN­
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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of tho Grip

President,  Geo. F. Owen,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
John W. Schbam, Detroit.

Michigan  Commercial  Trarelera’  Association 
President,  A.  Marymont,  Detroit;  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hill, Detroit.
United  Commercial  Trawlers of Michigan 

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

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

Senior Counselor,  John  G.  Kolb;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

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

Looking  O ut for  the  O ther Fellow ’s  Boy. 
Written for the Tradesman.

The  man  with  the  grizzly  beard 
seemed  to  be  deeply  interested  in  the 
game  that  was  going  on  at  one  of  the 
corner  billiard  tables  of  the  Morton 
House.  As  it  turned  out  he  was  watch­
ing  the  players.  The  better  player,  a 
young  man  still  under 30,  with  that 
in 
his  face  and  manner  which  no  right- 
minded  man  likes  to  see,  had  every  in­
dication  of  coaxing  his  companion  to 
do  something  to  which  he  appeared  to 
be  decidedly  averse.  Satisfied  that  his 
idea  was  the  right  one,  Grizzly  Beard 
gave  his  undivided  attention  to 
the 
younger  of  the  two  players.  He  was  a 
boy  that  a  mother  had  every  reason  to 
be  proud  of.  He  might  have  been 
something  over  22,  with  a  broad-shoul­
dered, 
five 
feet  ten,  clad  in  neatly  fitting  garments 
made  by  a  tailor  who  knows  how  and 
was  anxious  to  make  a  good  job  of  it. 
The  face  had  not  yet  lost  its  boyish 
roundness.  Health  had  splashed  the 
cheeks  with  red.  A  decided  black  had 
colored  his  hair,  his  eyebrows,  his 
thick,  silky  moustache  and  his  eyes, 
that  had  so  far  seen  only  the  pleasant 
things  of 
life  and  thoroughly  enjoyed 
them.  His  mouth,  that  telltale  of char­
acter,  was  a  pleasant  one  to  look  at  and 
the  forehead,  not  too  high  nor too  full, 
indicated  a  mastery  over 
the  chin, 
strongly  inclined  though  it  was  to  firm­
ness.

full-breasted  physique  of 

“ Let’s  have  a  drink.  A  glass  of  wine 
is  nothing—you  can’t  expect  to  be  a 
molly-coddle  always.  Have  a  glass  and 
is  over  we’ ll  light  up 
after  the  game 
again  and  go  out  and 
look  the  town 
over. ’ ’

Old  Grizzly’s  eyes  began  to  glare.  He 
leaned  forward  to  see  the  outcome  of 
that  particular  shot  and  to  hear  the 
forthcoming, reply:

“ Where  do  you  want  to  go?”   the 
implying,  “ 1  don’t  know  but  I 

tone 
will. ”

“ Oh,  down  street  somewhere.”
“ All  right,  order your  wine.  I’ll  take 

a  drink  of  sherry.”

it! 

“ That  sounds  like 

I  tell  you 
what,”   slapping  the  boy  on  the  back, 
“ Berry,  a  man  has  only  one  life  to  live 
and  he  can’t  get  any  too  much  out  of  it 
at  best.”

“ Berry!”   Where  had  he  heard  the 
name?  “ Berry.”   Old  Grizzly  rubbed 
his  glasses  and  looked  long  and  hard. 
He  knew  Tom  Berry  back  there  in  the 
long  ago.  Could  it  be  twenty  years  ago 
—long  enough  anyway  for this  boy  to 
grow  up?  The 
longer  he  looked  the 
likelier  it  seemed.  He’d  make  be­
it  and, 
lieve  and  see  what  came  of 
watching  for  that  occasional 
glance 
which  a  player  is  sure  to  give  to  an  in­
terested 
looker-on,  he  motioned  the 
young  fellow  to come  to him.

“ I  noticed  your 

friend  called  you 
‘ Berry.’  You  look  near  enough  like  a 
friend  I  used  to  know  to  be  his  son. 
His  name  was  Tom,  and  we  used  to 
know  each  other  in  Riverdale 
in  Yan- 
keeland. ”

“ I  wouldn’t  wonder  if  it  were  my 
father.  He  used  to  live  at  Riverdale  or 
on  a  farm  near  there  when  he.was  a 
boy. 
I  often  go  there  now.  My  grand­
father  is  still  living  on  the  old  place.”
“ Then  your  mother’s  name  was  Jane 

Dudley.”

“ Yes,  it  was.”
The  wine  here  made  its  appearance.
“ Then,  my  boy,  for the  sake  of  Tom 
Berry  and  Jane  Dudley,  I’m  going  to 
ask  you  not  to  drink  that  wine.  Offer 
it  to  me.— Thank  you,  I  don’t  care  if  1 
do.— Now  I  want  you  to  come  to  my 
room  after  this  game  is  over. 
I want  to 
talk  to  you  about  your father and  moth­
er. 
I  happen  to  have  a  couple  of  tick­
ets  to  Nat  Goodwin’s  ‘ When  we  were 
twenty-one’  and  you  may  as  well  have 
the  benefit  of  one  of  them.  Say  Yes. 
To  be  out  and  out  with  you,  I  want  to 
get  you  away  from  that  fellow  over 
there  as  soon  as  possible. 
I  think  you 
understand.  My  name  is  Colby.  You 
may  have  heard  your  father speak  of 
me.”

They 

“ Indeed,  I  have!”  

shook 
hands. 
“ And  nothing  would  please  me 
more  than  to take  in  the  play.  Rager, 
I  have  just  met  this  gentleman—Mr. 
Colby,  Mr.  Rager;  this  is  a  friend  of 
my  father’s—and  we  shall  have  to  give 
up  our  walk  this  evening.  That  shot 
put  you  out?  All  right,  good  evening.— 
Now,  Mr.  Colby, 
I  am  at  your  dis­
posal. ”

When  Mr.  Rager  put  up  his  cue  the 
exclamation  he  used  began  with  the 
fourth  letter of  the  alphabet.

The  facts,  as  they  have  been  so  far 
stated,  were  related  the  next  day  to  a 
fellow  gripsacker  on  the 
train.  He 
went  on  with  the  story :

“ It  was  a  risky  thing  for  me  to  fix 
that  wine  as  I  did,  but  my  mind  was 
made  up,  for  I  could  easily  see  that 
scamp  of  a  Rager  was  bent  on  mis­
chief,  and  I  was  determined  to  head 
him  off. 
I found  the  boy  a  happy  com­
bination  of  father  and  mother and  just 
such  a  fellow  as  my  Jim.  There  isn’t  a 
bit  of  the 
‘ molly-coddle’  about  either 
of  them.  He,  this  boy,  has  started  out 
on  his  first  trip  and  chanced  to  run 
across  that  miserable  fellow  whom  he 
used  to  know  a 
little,  years  ago,  at 
school. 
I  asked  what  he  thought  would 
have  been  the  program  for the  evening 
and  he  thought  Rager  had  him  down 
for  an  evening  at poker.  He  didn’t  play 
cards  for  money;  so  that  had  no  terrors 
for  him,  but  he  was  glad,  all  the  same, 
that  I  put  in  my  oar  when  I  did,  for his 
father would  be  glad  to  know  that  he 
had  met  me,  the  play  was  what  he  had 
wanted  to  see  since  he  first  had heard  of 
it,  and 
it  would  please  his  father to 
learn  that  I  had  given  him  the  good 
turn  I  had  in  the  case  of  Rager.”

I 

“ Well, 

taken  your 

think  you  were  a  trifle 
brassy,  Colby,”   answered  his  compan­
ion. 
“ It  isn’t  every  young  fellow  that 
would  have 
interference 
kindly.  I  wouldn’t have dared  to do it. ”
“ Then  there  is  where  you  would  have 
made  a  mistake.  I  think  we  old  fellows 
of  the  road  understand  pretty  well  that 
we  can’t  keep  too  closely  to  our own 
side  of  the  fence.  That’s  all  right,  but 
I  tell  you  when  two generations  of  trav­
eling  men  are  brought  together  we  old 
ones  want  to  look  after the  other old 
fellow’s  son.  The  tone  of  the  traveling 
man  is  improving  and  it  will  progress

faster and  go  farther  if  we'are willing  to 
do  this. 
I  have  a  great  deal  of  confi­
dence  in  my  Jim.  Still,  I  know  he  is 
human  and,  in  spite  of the  good  bring­
ing  up  I  know  he  has  bad,  there  are 
times  when  he’s  going  to  run up against 
such  scapegraces  as  that Rager,  and  it’s 
going  to  be  as  hard  for  him  as  it  used 
to  be  for  me. 
I  always  think  of  Jim 
when  I  meet  such  a  boy  as  this  Berry 
and  when  I  see  the  Old  Harry  trying  to 
get  in  his  work  it  always  set  me  agoing 
to  checkmate  him 
if  I  can.  With  a 
trained  brain  and  a  wholesome  body, 
with  moral  principle  enough  to  keep 
both  in  good  order,  traveling  is  the  best 
business  on  earth. 
It  used  to  be  the 
roughest  and  wickedest,  but  I  believe 
if  we  old  ones,  by  a  word  here  and 
another  there,  are  willing  to  help  the 
good  work  along  we,  in  our  way,  can 
do  more  and  do  it  better than  any  other 
class  of  men  on  earth.  Think  this  over 
and  you  see  if  you don’t  agree  with  me. 
The  traveling  man  has  shown  himself  a 
power  everywhere  else  and  it  would  be 
strange 
if  he  should  fail  right  in  his 
own  dooryard. ”

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

A nother  Lincoln  Story.

“ In  my  capacity  as  Secretary  and 
Treasurer of  the  Ohio  State  Republican 
Committee,”   said  John  J.  Janney,  of 
Columbus,  “ I  went  to  the  capitol  to  see 
the  President.  1  was  admitted  with 
about  one  hundred  and  fifty  others. 
It 
was  Lincoln’s  habit  occasionally  to  ad­
mit  a 
lot  of  people  at  the  same  time 
and  hear  each  individual's  case  with all 
the  others  listening. 
I  took  a  seat  at 
one  side,  as  I  wanted  to  see  him  and 
hear him  while  he  tried  those  cases. 
I 
shall  never  forget  the  simple  and  great 
man  as  he  sat  listening  to  the  troubles 
of  all  kinds  that  were  put  before  him. 
He  seemed  to  go  to  the  bottom  of  every 
case  at  once  and  to  give  simple 
justice 
all  the  time.  The  last  one  of  the  crowd 
was  a  girl  who  was  deaf and  dumb.  All 
she  wanted  was  to  see  the  President. 
Lincoln  sat  there  for almost  half an hour 
and  wrote  answers  on  the  girl’s  tablet 
and  talked  with  her  in  that  way.

“ Finally  my  time  came,  and  Lincoln 
turned  and  saw  me  sitting  at  one  side. 
I  had  never met  him  but  the  one  time 
some  years  before  in  Columbus,  but  he 
knew  me  at  once  and  said: 
‘ Have  you 
been  here  all  this  time?  Why  didn't 
you 
let  me  know  it?’  And  then  he 
went  on  to  talk  about  various  things. 
Finally  he  said: 
‘ You  are  going  to  de­
feat  Sammy  out  in  your  district  this 
time,  aren’t  you?’  referring  to  a  demo­
cratic  candidate  for  Congress  in  Ohio. 
I  told  him  I  thought  so.  Then  he  con­
tinued : 
‘ I  understand  that  Sammy  is  a 
great  friend  of  mine— just  as  warm  a 
Friend  as  I  have.  He  reminds  me  of  a 
hog  that  old  Sam  Brown  had. 
It  got 
out  and  was  gone  for  some  time.  Sam 
could  see  where  it  had  been  rooting 
along  the  creek,  and  he  said  one  morn­
ing  to  one  of  his  sons  that  the  boy  was 
to  go  along  one  side  of  the  creek  and 
Rrown  himself  would  go  along 
the 
other,  ‘ for  I  think,’  said  he,  ‘ that  the 
hog  is  on  both  sides  of  the  creek.’  ”

The  Traveling Man.

Could I pour out the nectar the gods only can,
And drink the success of the traveling man,
And could I but tincture the glorious draught 
And the jokes he has told and the laughs  he has 

I would All up my glass to the brim 
And the house represented by him;
With his smiles, as I drank to him then,

laughed,

I would fill up the goblet again—

friends

I would drink a  long  life  and  a  health  to  the 
Who have met him with smiles and with cheer; 
To the generous hand that the landlord  extends 
To the wayfarer journeying here:
And I pledge, when  he  turns  from  this  earthly 

And pays the last fare that he can,
Will welcome the traveling man!

Mine Host of the Inn at the End of the Road 
James Whitcomb Riley.

abode

A  woman  with  a  baby  and  a  woman 
with  a  dog  always  look  pityingly at each 
other.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Charlotte  Leader:  J.  J.  Richardson 
has  a  position  as  traveling  salesman 
with  the  J.  H.  Place  Glove  and  Mitten 
Co.  His  territory  includes  Wisconsin 
and  Michigan.

Lansing  Republican:  J.  C.  Brown, 
formerly  with  E.  Bement’s  Sons,  has 
accepted  a  position  with  the  Central 
Stamping  Co.,  of  New  York,  as  sales­
man  for  Michigan.

A.  W.  Annis,  formerly  engaged 

in 
the shoe  business  at  Eaton  Rapids,  has 
signed  to  represent  Studley  &  Barclay’s 
line  of  belting,  mill  supplies  and  sport­
ing  goods  in  Eastern  Michigan.

John  W.  Califf  and  Lester  D.  Califf 
have  transferred  their  allegiance  from 
the  Dayton  Computing  Scale  Co.  to  the 
Automatic Wringer  Co.,  of  Muskegon. 
John  will  cover  Ohio  and  Lester  will 
travel  in  Indiana.  Both  are  hard-work­
ing  salesmen.

Charlotte  Leader:  Ernest  Moross  was 
in  town  Tuesday,  selling  goods  for  a 
Detroit  shoe  house.  He  will  be remem­
bered  as  a  member of the famous Moross 
Bros, 
in 
many  contests  in  this  city  during  the 
time  that  Charlotte  was  on  the  bicycle 
circuit.

tandem 

team, 

rode 

that 

Bay  City  Tribune :  G.  E.  S.  Williams 
has  gone  to  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  to  take 
a  position  as  traveling  representative 
for  the  Eastman  Kodak  Co.  Saturday 
night  Mr.  Williams  was  tendered  a  sur­
prise  party  at  the  home  of  Mrs.  Sayers, 
Tenth  and  Adams  streets,  about  fifteen 
of  his  Masonic  friends  being  present 
and  presenting  Mr.  Williams  with a fine 
umbrella.

L.  E.  Phillips,  for the  past  four  years 
traveling  representative  for  Geo.  H. 
Reeder  &  Co.,  prior  to  which  time  he 
was  on  the  road  for  the  Amazon Hosiery 
Co.,  of  Muskegon,  has  engaged  to  cover 
Western  Michigan  for the  Western  Shoe 
Co.,  of  Toledo,  starting  out  on  his  in­
itial  trip  Feb.  18.  He  is  in  Toledo this 
week  getting  out  his  samples.  He  will 
continue  to  make  Grand  Rapids  head­
quarters.

A  Marquette  correspondent  writes: 
General  Passenger  Agent  G.  W.  Hib­
bard,  of  the  South  Shore  road,  has  just 
announced  the  details  of  an  interchang­
eable  mileage  agreement  by  which  one 
mileage  book  will  be  accepted  by  near­
ly  all  railroads  in  the  Upper  Peninsula. 
It  will  also  be  accepted  on  the  Northern 
Pacific  road  between  the  terminals  of 
Duluth  and  Stillwater  intermediate  sta­
tions,  also  St.  Paul,  Minneapolis  and 
intermediate  stations  and  on  the  Great 
Northern  between  Duluth  and  Minne­
apolis  and 
intermediate  stations.  All 
St.  Paul,  Northwestern  &  Wisconsin 
Central  mileage  books  will  hereafter be 
accepted  on  the  roads  of  the South Shore 
system.  This  agreement  will  be  of 
great  benefit  to  the  people  of  Northern 
Michigan  and  particularly  to  commer­
cial  men, who have  heretofore  been  com­
pelled  to  carry  mileage for  ail  numerous 
roads. 
Its  inauguration  will  be  a  very 
popular  agreement. 
It  becomes  effec­
tive  February  15.

The  San  Francisco  correspondent  of 
the  New  York  Tribune says:  The Coffee 
Club Association  was  incorporated  here 
this  week,  its  object  being  to  establish 
places  of  refreshment  and  amusement 
where  no  intoxicating  liquors  or tobacco 
will  be  sold.  The  profits  are  to  be  re­
invested  in  other  houses,  so as  to  spread 
this  movement  against 
liquot  saloons. 
Counting  corner groceries  where beer  is 
sold,  San  Francisco  has  over 
seven 
thousand  saloons,  and  the  number  is 
constantly  increasing.  The  directors  of 
the  new  Association  are  all  men of mod­
erate  means,  who  are  eager  to  establish 
resorts  that  will  appeal  to  sober  young 
men.

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Drugs—Chem icals

M ichigan  State  Board  of Pharm acy

Term expire«
,  „  „ 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  8t.  Joseph 
Hb n r y Hkih, Saginaw 
-  Deo. 31,1902
- 
-  Dec. 31.1903
Wi b t P.  Doty, Detroit - 
- 
A. O. Sr hum a p u r r . Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 81. ian« 
John D. Muir, Grand Rapids 
Dec. 31,1905 

President, A.  0.  Sch u m a c h er, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Henry  Heim. Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

■examination  Sessions.
Grand  Rapids, March 5 and 6.
Star Island. June 17 and 18.
Sault  Ste.  Marie.  August 28 and 29. 
iAnstng, Not. 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  P harm aceutical  Association 

President—Chas.  F.  Mann, Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  S k e i.ky,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Sc h m id t , Grand Rapids.

L ist o f Explosive  Substance 
th e  D rug Trail«

P eculiar  to

Substances  Which  Explode  When  Tritu 

rated  Singly.

Under  this  head  are  to  be  found  only 
limited  number,  among  which 

a  very 
a re:

1.  Potassium  chlorate  (commercial) 

under sharp  contusion

2.  Mercury  fulminate  explodes  with 

green  flame.

3.  Mercury  oxynitrate.
Copper  nitrate,  dry.
4-
Copper  fulminate.
Antimony  fulminate.
Gold  fulminate.
Silver  fulminate.
Nitroglycerin.
Nitrogen  iodide.

8.
y.
10.
It  may  he  well  to  state  that  sub 
stances  which  contain  carbon,  oxygen 
and  nitrogen,  the 
latter  in  a  more  or 
less  feeble  state  of  combination  with the 
whole  or  part  of  the  oxygen,  when  the 
explosion  takes  place  the  N  parts  with 
its  O,  which  combines  with the C,  form­
ing  CO2  and  CO  with  generation  of 
heat,  and  N  is  set  free.

If  H  be  present 

in  the  explosion 
(H2O)  is  formed,  in  the  form  of great­
ly  expanded  vapor.  When  Cl  is  present 
it  takes  the  part  of  the  N,  as  from  po­
tassium  chlorate.

We  find  that  nitro  substitution  for  H 
forms  very  dangerous  explosive  com­
pounds,  as  glonoin,  a  tri-nitro  product, 
also  xylodin,  a  bi-nitro,  and  last,  but 
not  least,  nitro  mannite,  a  product  from 
manna  sugar,  and  containing  six  mole­
cules  of  nitric  peroxid  (NO2),  associ­
ated  with  the  carbon  of  the  sugar. 
Substances  Which 

Explode  When 

Mixed  With  Other  Substances 

and  Triturated.

1.  Potassium  chlorate  with 

tannic

acid.

2.  Potassium  chlorate  with  sulphur.
3.  Potassium  chlorate  with  antimony 

sulphuret.

4.  Potassium  chlorate with potassium 

nitrate  and  ammonium  phosphate.

5. Potassium chlorate with picrate

of ammonium.

6. Potassium  chlorate with ammonta-
sulphlate  copper, and  $<xljium  hvposul-
phite
7. Potassium  chlorate  with pi<:rate  of

potassium  produci:'s  purple flame

8. Potassium chlorate with picric

acid. yeliow  flame

0. Potassi um chlorate with oxalic

acid detonates  vio'lentlv.

ia

Potassium chlorate with potas-

Siam  permanganate  detonates.

11.  Potassium  chlorate  with  sulphur 

and  iodine,  violeat  detonation.

12.  Potassium  chlorate  with  sulphur 
and  fulminate  of  mercury  ! verv  sensi - 
riv e).

13.  Potassium  chlorate  with 

sium  prussiate  and  sugar.

potas-

and 

and 

14.  Potassium  nitrate,  dry  carbonate 

of  potassium,  and  sulphur.

15.  Potassium  permanganate 

tannin  deflagrates.

16.  Potassium  permanganate 

picric  acid,  violent  detonation.

17.  Potassium  permanganate,  picric 
acid,  and  tannin,  violent  detonation 
with  yellow  flame.

18.  Potassium  permanganate  and  po 

tassium  picrate  (loud).

19.  Potassium  permanganate,  potas 

sium  picrate,  and  tannin,  very  loud.

20.  Potassium  permanganate  and  po 

tassium  oxalate.

21.  Potassium  permanganate,  potas 

sium  oxalate,  and  tannin,  violent.

Chloride  of  lime  and  iodine 

sublimed  (detonates).

23.  Dry  nitrate  of  copper and oxalate 
of  potassium  with  tannic  acid  explodes 
4.  Antimony  sulphuret,  picric  acid 
and  potassium  chlorate  detonates  with 
flash.

25.  Amorphous  phosphorus, 

tannic 
acid,  picric  acid,  potassium  chlorate 
potassium  permanganate  (very  sensi 
ive,  flashes  without  detonation).
26.  Manganese  black  oxide,  picri 
acid,  permanganate  of  potassium,  flash 
no  detonation  unless  confined.

27.  Potassium bichromate,  tannic and 

picric  acids  (orange  red  flash.)
28.  Potassium  bichromate, 

tannin 
licric  acid,  and  amorphous phosphorus 
red  flash.

sive  mixtures  with  combustible  sub 
stances.

The  chlorates,  however,  part with thei 
oxygen  more  easily  than  the  nitrates1 
and,  in  consequence  of  the  strong  affin 
ity  of  chlorine  for  the  metals,  chlorine 
mixtures  are  very  sensible  to  friction 
and  percussion.

In  explosive  compounds  the  elements 
are  all 
in  chemical  combination,  pre 
senting  a  definite  explosive  molecule 
(i.  e.,  containing  both  combustible  and 
supporter  of  combustion)  ;  hence  we 
can  readily  understand  how  an  explo 
sive  compound  is  more  sudden  and  vio 
lent  than  that  of  the  most  intimate  me 
chanical  mixture.

Potassium  chlorate  and  all other  chlo 
rates should  never be prescribed  in  pow 
der,  mixed  with  organic  or  inorgani 
combustible or oxidizable  bodies.  They 
should,  therefore,  when  combined,  be 
prescribed  only  in  solution.

The  following  prescriptions  have been 

known  to  explode  and  are  dangerous: 

Potassium  chlorate,  sodium,  or  cal 
cium  hypophosphite,  water.  The  tw< 
salts  should  be  dissolved  separately.

Potassium  chlorate,  tannic  acid,  gly 
cerin,  water.  This  should  be  prepared 
by  making  a  solution  of  the  tannin 
the  glycerin  and  potassium  chlorate 
the  water.

in 

Potassium  chlorate,  catechu  (should 
not  be  dispensed),  potassium  chlorate 
nut  gall,  or tannic  acid.
Substances Which Undergo or Are Liable 

O  in  contact  with  any  combustible  sub­
stance,especially  any  volatile  or  inflam­
mable  substance,  the  following  affords  a 
good  example :

Take  of  sulphuric  acid  1  fluidrachm, 
permanganate  of  potassium  15  grains. 
Mix 
in  a  small  mortar.  By  dipping  a 
glass  rod  in  this  solution  and  touching 
it  to  a  small  quantity  of cotton,  pre­
viously  saturated  with  alcohol,  the  latter 
will  immediately  take  fire.

Charles  D.  Lippincott.

The  BroK  M arket.

Opium—Advices  from  primary  mar­
kets  are  very  strong.  Cables  received 
report  recent  cold  destroyed  all  except 
the  early  sowing.  Higher  prices  are 
looked  for.

Morphine— Is  steady  at  recent  ad­

vance.

Quinine— Is  in  active  demand.  Re­
ports  from  London 
small 
stocks  and  advancing  market  there. 
Another advance  is  looked  for.

indicated 

Menthol— Is  scarce  and  higher  and 

has  been  advanced  25c  per  lb.

Cod  Liver  Oil— The  market  is  easy 
and  holders  are  anxious  to  dispose  of 
their  stocks.  On  this  account  prices 
are  lower.

Haarlem  Oil— Has  been  further ad­
vanced  5c  per  gross.  This  makes  an 
advance  of  12c  in  the  last  two  weeks.

Hypophosphites— Lime, 

potash  have  all  declined.

soda  and

29.  Ammonium  picrate,  potassium 
nitrate,  powdered  charcoal,  nitric  acid 
Of  this  combination  1  part,  with  am 
monium  picrate  2  parts  and  potassium
itrate  3  parts,  forms  what  is  known  as 
picric  powder.

The  following  are  a 

few  explosive 
mixtures  brought 
into  closer  or  more 
compact  union  by  the  solvent  power  of 
suitable menstruum,certain component 
in  suspen 

parts,  however,  remaining 
ion :
30. 

Indigo, 

tannic  acid,  potassium 
chlorate,  and  amorphous  phosphorus,
i luted  alcohol  q.  s. 
to  form  paste, 
hen  dry  is  violently  explosive,  giving 

off  a  volume  of  white  smoke.

31.  Sodium  chlorate  with  golden  sul­
phuret  of  antimony,  very  sensitive, 
emits  crackling  sound.

Lampblack, 

amorphous  phos­
phorus,  strontium  nitrate,  tannic  acid,
¡1  of  turpentine,  to  form  paste,  deto- 
ates  with  red  flash  and  white  smoke.
33.  Substitute dry ammonia—sulphate 
of  copper,  or  dry  cupric  oxide  forstron- 
a,  a  beautiful  blue  flash  with  loud  re­

port  results.

4.  Starch  or  dextrin,  parts  10. 

Potassium  chlorate,  parts  20. 
Amorphous  phosphorus,  parts  5. 
Water,  parts  8.

x.  When  dry  produces  loud  detona- 
on,  if confined,  evolving copious white 

smoke.

35.  Sulphuric  acid,  parts  75.

Nitric  acid,  parts  3a 
Simple  syrup,  parts  20.

This  mixture  is  known  by  the  name  of 
“ vigorite. ”

36.  Another  composed  of  vigorite, 
nitrate  of  potassium  and  cellulose  is 
known  by  the  name  of  “ nitroline.”

These  two  compounds  are dangerously 

explosive.

3~.  Lac  sulphur,  golden  sulphuret  of 
antimony,  valerianate  of  zinc,  chlorate 
of  potassium.  This  combination  has 
been  prescribed  and  has  exploded.

38. 

Iodine  fulminates  with  oil  of tur­
pentine  and  most  of  the  hydrocarbon 
volatile  oils.

Any  of  the  nitrates  will  form  explo-

to  Spontaneous  Combustion.

Under  this  head  we  find  that  all  com 
pounds  that  contain  oxygen  and  chlo 
rine,  feebly  combined  with  carbon,  are 
iable  to  undergo  spontaneous  combus 
tion  by  the  elimination  of  O,  or  O  and 
Cl,  causing  the  generation  of  sufficient 
heat  to  inflame  the  C.

The  following  comprise  those  which  I 
have  found  by  experiment  and  research 
to  undergo  this  change :

1.  Silver oxide  and  creosote.
2.  Potassium  permanganate  and  gly 

cerin. 

(Spontaneous  deflagrates.)

(Fuses and  deflagartes)

3.  Potassium  permanganate  and  ox- 
ic  acid. 
The 

following  prescriptions  under
this  head  are  dangerous,  all  of  which 
have  exploded 
spontaneously;  hence 
ihould  not  be  handled by empyrical  ma­
nipulators :

4.  Potassium  permanganate,  tincture 
ferric  chloride,  glycerin  (if  warm  will 
explode.)

5.  Potassium  permanganate,  alcohol, 
ater.  This  may  be  dispensed  by  add-
ng  the  potassium  slowly  to  the  alcohol 
and  water  previously mixed,  and by  dis­
pensing  in  a  loosely  stoppered  vial.

6.  Oil  of  amber,  nitric  acid,  ex­

plodes  with  odor  resembling  musk.

Oxide  of  silver,  muriate  of  mor­

phine,  extract  of  gentian.

Oil  of turpentine,  sulphuric  acid. 
Should  be  mixed  gradually  in  an  open 
•essel,  as  this  has  caused  violent  explo­
sions  and  serious  accidents.

9.  Chromic  acid,  glycerin.  May  be 
combined  by  adding  the  acid  by  de­
grees,  rubbing  slowly.

10. 

Iodine,  spirit  of  camphor,  cam­
phorated  soap  liniment.  This generates
litrogen  iodide.
11.  Nitric  acid,  muriatic  acid,  tinc­
ture  of  nux  vomica.  Explodes  in  two 
hours.

12.  Sodium  borate,  sodium  bicarbon­
ate,glycerin,  water.  Evolves CO2,  there­
fore  explodes  when  corked  too  tightly.
In  general,  those  mixtures  that  give 
off  gas  should  not  be  corked  until  the 
evolution  of  gas  is  over. 
In  evidence 
of  the  action  of the  rapid  evolution  of

Balsam  Copaiba— Is  in active demand 
and  has  advanced,  on  account  of  small 
stocks.

American  Saffron—Is  very  scarce  and 

has  further advanced.

Display  o f Castile  Soap.

George  W.  Hague  tells  of  a  casti le 
soap  window  which  he  recently  dis­
played  with  success.  He  used  large bars 
of  castile  soap,  piling  them  up  in  the 
shape  of  a 
log  cabin,  the  white  and 
green  in  one  window  and  the  red  in  the 
other. 
In  the  window  containing  the 
white  castile  soap he  used  a  black back­
the  window  containing  the 
ground 
red  a  blue  background  was  placed. 
Il 
is  well  to  use  a  background  opposite  in 
color  to  the  goods  to  be  displayed,  as 
this  makes  the  goods  showy.  He  also 
used  signs:  “ Pure  White  Castile  Soap, 
50c  per  lb.  ;  also  in  5c  and  10c  cakes.”  
In  the  other  window  he  placed  a  sign: 
Castile  Soap  for  horses,  35c  per 
lb.  ;  also  5c  and  10  cakes.”

in 

Thymol  Containing  Borax.

A 

large  firm  was  recently  compelled 
to  return  to  a  prominent  chemical  house 
thirty  pounds  of  supposedly  pure thymol 
because  it  was  found  to  contain  a  con­
siderable  proportion  of borax. 
It  seems 
is  quite  frequently 
found  in  thymol,  particularly  that  made 
•n  Germany.

this  impurity 

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WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Balsam Copaiba, Menthal, Saffron. 
Declined—

Acidnm

Acetlcum  ............... $  6@$  8
Benz oleum, German.  70®  75
Boracic....................  @  17
Carbolicum.............   30®  42
45®  48
Citricum..................  
Hydrochlor............  
6
3® 
8®  10
Nttrocum................  
Oxalicum.................  12®  14
®  15
Pbosphorium,  dll... 
Sallcyllcum............  
50®  56
Sulphurlcum...........  IX® 
5
Tannlcum................  l  10® 
l 20
38®  40
Tartarlcum............. 
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas................. 
Chlorldum...............  
A niline

4® 
6
6® 
8
13®  15
12®  14

2 26

3 00

6@ 

g   1

Black.......................  2  00® 
Brown......................  80® l 00
Red..........................  45®  50
Yellow......................  2  50® 

Race*
Cubeb*..........po, 25  22g  24
Juniperus................  
5
Xantnoxylum.........   l  26@ 1  30
B akam am
Copaiba................... 
60
Peru  ....................... 
Terabln,  Canad.a—   55®  60
Tolutan....................  40®  46

18
12
18
30
20
12
J2
w
16

Cortex
Abies, Canadian......  
Cassl*...................... 
Cinchona  Flava......  
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrica Cerlfera, po. 
Prunus Vlrglnl........ 
Quillala, g r a .......... 
Sassafras....... po. 20 
Clmus... po.  15, gr’d 
E xtractum
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
24®  26
Glycyrrhiza,  po......  28®  30
Haematox, 15 lb. box  11®  12
Haematox, is ........... 
13®  14
Haematox, *4s.........  
14®
Haematox, 14s.........  
16®  17
15
Carbonate  Preclp... 
Citrate and  Qulnla.. 
2  26
Citrate Soluble...... 
75
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 
40
Solut. Chloride........ 
16
2
Sulphate,  com’l......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bDl, per  cwt.........  
so
Sulphate,  pure........ 
7

F erru

F lora

Folia

Arnica..................... 
l®@
Anthemls................   22®  26
Matricaria...............  
30®  35

Barosma..................   30®  33
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
20®  25
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis,  J4s
and 54s................. 
12®  20
UvaUrsi..................  
8®  10
G om m l
®  66
Acacia, 1st picked... 
@  45
Acacia,2d  picked... 
Acacia,3d  picked... 
@  36
®  28
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po................  46®  65
Aloe, Barb. po.i8®20 
12®  14
Aloe, Cape__po. 16. 
®  12
Aloe,  Socotrl.. po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac...............   65®  60
Assafcetlda.. ..po. 46  45®  60
Benzoinum.............. 
50®  56
Catechu, is ..............  @  13
Catechu, *4s............. 
Catechu, M,s............. 
“
Camphor*..............  69®  73
Eupnorbium...po. 35  @  40
Galbanum...............   @  1  29
Gamboge............ po  65®  70
Guaiacum......po. 25  @ 3 0
Kino...........po. $0.75  @  75
Mastic  ....................   @  60
Myrrh............po. 46  @ .  40
Opll__po.  5.10@5.30 3 70®  3 75
Shellac....................   25®  35
Shellac, bleached....  40®  45
Tragacanth.............   60®  90

®
<8 

H erba

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Ma jorum __oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V .. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia

26
20
25
28
23
26
39
22
26

Calcined, F at...........  66®  60
Carbonate, F at........  18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings  18®  20

Oleum

7 00

2 20
3 00

Absinthium.............  6  50® 
Amygdal*,  Dulc__   38®  65
Amygdal*,  Amar*.  8 00® 8 25
Anisi......................... 2  10® 
Aurantl Cortex........  2  25® 2 30
Bergamli...................2  90® 
Cajlputi...................  80®  85
CaryophylU.............  
80®  85
Cedar......................  66®  90
Chenopadll..............  @ 2 75
Cinnamonll...............1  30® 
C l t r o n e l ] » . . 35®  40

1 40

Conium Mac........... 
50®  60
Copaiba..................   1  15®  1 25
Cubeb*...................  1  20®  1 25
Exechthitos............  1 00®  1 10
Erigeron.................  1  io@  1 20
Gaultherla..............  1  86®  l 90
Geranium, ounce.... 
@  75
Gossippit, Sem. gal.. 
50®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 40®  1 60
Junlpera.................  1 50®  2 00
Lavendula  .............. 
90® 2 00
Llmonls.................   1  50®  1 60
Mentha Piper.........   1 40®  2 00
Mentha Verid.........   1  50®  1 60
Morrhu*, ¡gal.........   1  20®  1 25
Myrcia....................  4 00®  4 50
Olive.......................  75® 3 00
Fids Llquida.........  
10®  12
Picls Liquida,  gal...  @  35
Rlcina.....................   1 00®  1 08
Rosmarini...............   @ 1  00
Rosae, ounce............   6 00® 6 50
Sucdnl....................  40®  45
Sabina....................  90®  l  00
Santal....................... 2 75®  7 00
Sassafras................. 
so®  55
Sinapis,  ess., ounce.  @  65
Tiglii.......................  1 50®  l 60
Thyme.....................   40®  50
Thyme, opt..............  @160
Theobromas  ........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
15®  18
Bichromate............  
13®  15
Bromide.................  52®  67
C arb....................... 
12® 
16
Chlorate., .po. 17@19  16®  18
Cyanide..................  
34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 GO®  2 65
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
16
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7®  10
Potass  Nitras.........  
6® 
8
Prusslate.................  23®  26
Sulphate  po............  
15®  18

Radix

Aconitum.................  20®  25
30®  33
A lth*...................... 
Anchusa................. 
10® 
12
Arum  po................. 
®  25
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentlana........ po.  15  12®  15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  16  16®  18
Hydrastis  Canaden.  @  75
Hydrastis Can., po..  @ 8 0
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po................. 
15®  20
Ipecac, po...............   3 40® 3 60
Iris  plOX.. .po. 3S®38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Xs........... 
®  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Rhei.........................  76® 1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  26
Rhei, pv..................   75®  1  35
Spigelia..................   35®  38
Sangulnaria.. .po.  15  @  18
Serpentaria............  
40®  45
Senega....................  60®  65
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smilax, M...............   @  25
Scill*............. po.  35  10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25
16®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber].................  25®  27
Semen

Anlsum.......... po.  15  @  12
Apium (graveleons).  13@  15
Bird, is.................... 
4® 
6
Carul...............po.  18 
12®  13
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1 75
Coriandrum............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Sativa......   4 bi@  5
Cydonium...............   75®  1 00
Cnenopodium.........  
10®  12
Dipterlx Odorate....  1  00@  1  10
Foeniculum..............  @  10
9
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
L lni......................... 
4® 
5
Lini, grd......bbl. 4 
4*4@ 
5
Lobelia...................   36®  40
Pharlaris Canarian..  4*4@ 
6
5
R apa.......................  414® 
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spiritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 00®  2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
1 25®  1  50 
Frumenti.............
.  1 65® 2 00 
Junlperis Co. O. T
.  1  75® 3 50 
Juniperis  Co.......
Saacnarum  N. E 
.  1  90® 2  10 
.  1  75® 6 50 
Spt. Vini Gall!..
Spi 
Ini Oporto__
.  1  25® 2 00 
Vli
.  1  25® 2 00
Lib
Vini Alba
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 50® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
1  50
wool, carriage......
Extra yellow sheeps’
1  25
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage...............
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  Re ef,  for
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Scill*..........

@
@50®
a

@  1  40

Scill* Co.................   @ 5 0
Tolutan....................  @  50
Prunus  virg............   @  50

Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes............. 
 
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
Arnica....................  
Assafcetlda.............. 
A trope Belladonna.. 
Auranti Cortex.......  
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Cantharides............  
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co..........  
Castor.....................  
Catechu1................... 
Cinchona................. 
Cinchona Co............  
Columba................. 
Cubeb*....................  
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis..................  
Ergot.......................  
Ferri  Chlorldum.... 
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
Gulaca...................... 
Gulaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............ 
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless...... 
K ino.......................  
Lobelia.................... 
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica............  
Opil.......................... 
Opli, comphorated.. 
Opll, deodorized...... 
Q uassia................ 
Rhatany................... 
Rhei......................... 
Sangulnaria...........  
Serpentaria............  
Stramonium............  
Tolutan................... 
Valerian................. 
Veratrum  Veride... 
Zingiber..................  

 

60
50
60
60
50
50
60
50
60
50
60
75
50
75
75
1 0o
50
So
60
so
60
So
So
So
Bo
3s
So
60
So
60
So
7s
7s
So
So
So
Bo
7s
5o
1  So
So
So
So
So
So
60
60
5o
5o
2o

Miscellaneous 

.Ether, Spts. Nit.? F  30®  35
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2*4® 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto...................   40®  50
Antimonl, po........... 
4® 
5
Antimon! et Potass T  40®  SO
Antipyrin................  @  25
Antlrebrin..............  @  20
Argent! Nitras, oz...  @  51
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®  40
Bismuth S. N...........  1  90® 2 00
9
Cklclum Chlor., is...  @ 
Calcium Chlor., bis..  @  10
Calcium Chlor.,  14s..  @ 
12
Cantharides, Rus.po  @  80
Capsid Fructus, a t..  @ 
16
Capsid  Fructus, po.  @ 1 5  
Capsid Fructus B, po  @ 
IS 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15  12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba...............   SO®  SS
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  35
Centraria.................  @  10
Cetaceum.................  @  45
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform, squlbbs  @ 1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40©  1  65
Chondrus................  
20®  25
Cinchonidine.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidlne, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   5 80® 6 00
70
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
Creosotum...............   @  35
Creta........... bbl. 7B  @ 
2
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
Creta, preclp........... 
9®  11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
8
Crocus....................  25®  30
Cudbear..................   @  24
Cupri  Sulph............   6*4® 
8
7®  10
Dextrine................. 
Ether Sulph............   76@  90
Emery, all numbers.  @ 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
E rgota........ po. 90  85®  90
Flake  White...........  12®  15
Galla.......................  @  23
Gambler................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
Gelatin, French......  
35®  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
11®  13
Glue,  white............  
15®  25
Glycerina.................  17*4®  25
Grana Paradis!........  @  25
Humulus.................  25®  55
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite  @ 1  00 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  90
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.  @ 1  10 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl  @ 1  20 
HydrargU nguentum  50®  60
Hydrargyrum.........  @  85
IchthyoDolla,  Am...  65®  70
Indigo.....................   75®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubi........  3 85® 4 00
Iodoform.................  3 86® 4 00
Lupulin....................  @  50
Lycopodium............   80®  85
M ads......................  66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @  25
LlquorPotassArslnlt  10®  12
3
Magnesia,  Sulph__  
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph,bbl  @  114 
Mannla, S.  F ........... 
so®  60

Menthol..................
@ 6 00
Morphia, S., P.&W. 2 35® 2 60
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q. 
& C. Co................. 2  25® 2 60
Moschus  Canton__
@ 40
Myristlca, No. 1......
65® 80
Nüx Vomica...po. 16 @ 10
Os Sepia..................
35® 37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. 
D  Co....................
@ 1 00
Plcis Liq. N.N.V4 gal. 
doz.......................
@ 2 00
Picls Liq., quarts__
@ 1 00
Picis Liq.,  pints......
@ 85
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80 @ 50
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 @ 18
Piper  Alba__po. 35
© 30
Pifx Burgun............
@ 7
Plumbi Acet............
10© 12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opll 
1  30® 1 60
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 
& P. D. Co., doz...
@ 75
Pyrethrum,  pv........
25@ 30
Quassi*..................
8® 10
32® 42
Qulnla, S. P. &  W...
Qulnla, S.  German..
30® 40
Qulnla, N. Y............
30® 40
Rubla Tinctorum....
12® 14
18® 20
Saccharum Lactls pv
Salacln.................... 4  50® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...
40® 50
Sapo, W..................
12® 14
Sapo M....................
10® 12
Sapo  G....................
@ 15

Seldlltz Mixture......
20® 22
Sinapis....................
@ 18
Sinapis,  opt............
@ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................
@ 41
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
@ 41
Soda, Boras............
9® 11
Soda,  Boras, po......
9® 11
Soda et Potass Tart.
23® 25
Soda,  Carb..............
2
1*4®
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
3®
5
Soda,  Ash...............
4
3*4®
Soda, Sulphas.........
@ 2
Spts. Cologne..........
@ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........
50® 55
Spts. Myrcia Dom...
@ 2  00
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.
©
Spts. Vini Rect. *4bbl
©
Spts. Vlnl Rect. lOgal
@
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
©
Strychnia, Crystal... 
1  26
1  05® 
Sulphur,  Sub!.........
4
2*4®
Sulphur, Roll...........
2X@ 3*4
Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Terebenth  Venice...
28® 30
Theobrom*.............
60® 65
Vanilla.................... 9  00® 16  00
Zlnci Sulph............
7®
8
Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard, extra..............
Lard, No. l ..............

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
50

70
60
45

Linseed, pure raw...  68 
Linseed, Dolled.......   69 
Neatsfoot, winter str  64 
Spirits  Turpentine..  46 

71
72
60
25
P aints  BBL.  LB.
IX  2  @8 
IX  2  @4 
IX  2  @3 
2X  2V4@3 
214  2X@3
13®  15
70®  75
14®  18
13®  16
6X@  614 
6*4®  614 
@  85
@  90
@ 1  25
@  1  40 
1  10® 1  20

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

cliff..............

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp..............  1  60®  1  70
Coach Body............  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn......  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  76

D r u g s

We  are  Importers  and  Jobbers  of 

Drugs,  Chemicals  and  Patent  Medicines.

W e  are  dealers  in  Paints,  Oils  and 

Varnishes.

<***Vr»>

We  have  a  full  line  of  Staple  Drug­

gists’  Sundries.

We  are  the  sole  proprietors  of  Weath­

erly’s  Michigan  Catarrh  Remedy.

We  always  have  in  stock  a  full  line 
of  Whiskies,  Brandies,  Gins,  Wines  and 
Rums  for  medicinal  purposes  only.

We  give  our  personal  attention  to 

mail  orders  and  guarantee  satisfaction.

All  orders  shipped  and  invoiced  the 

same  day  received.  Send  a  trial  order.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

These quotations are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  hours  of  mailing 
and  are intended to be correct at time of going to  press.  Prices,  however,  are  lia 
b  e to change at any  time,  and  country  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market  prices at  date of purchase.

ADVANCED
Rolled  Oats 
Monh  M ackerel 
Sinai  Rope 
P earl  Barley

Index to  Markets

By Columns

DECLINED

No.  2  Norway  M ackerel 
W lilsk  Brooms

A LAB ASTI NIC 

BRUSHES

White In drums................... 
Colors In drums..................  
White In packages..............  10  Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Colors In packages..............  n  j Solid Back. 11 In .................  9»
1 Pointed Ends.......................  85
I 

Less 40 per cent discount. 

AMMONIA 

„ 
.
scrub

Shoe

9 
jo 

Per Doz.
Arctic Pi oz. ovals...............   86
j  Arctic pints, round..............1  jo

A Xl.K  GREASE
.....................56 

doz.  gross I

*urors 
Castor  Oil....................en  7C0  No.3
Diamond..................... 60  * 25  No. 2.
Frazer's.......................75  wool
IXL Golden, tin boxes75 
9 00 1

6 00

No. 8.......
No. 7.......
No  4........
No. 3........

Strawberries

Columbia River....... 2 00@2  16
Red Alaska.............
1  4C
Pink Alaska............
110
Shrim ps
Standard.................
1  50
Sardines
Domestic, * s ..........
4*
Domestic, 3ks.........
8
Domestic,  Mustard.
8
California. * s .
I
French. Ms..............
22
French, * s..............
28
Standard.................
85 
Fancy......................
1  25
Succotash
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Tomatoes
Fair 
................ 
Good... 
...............  
Fancy.. 
.............................   1 15
Gallons.
......... 
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints....................... 2 00
Columbia. *  pints.................... 1 25

90
96
2 50

CARBON  OILS 

Barrels

Eocene.......................  @11
Perfection..................   @in
W. W.  Michigan  ...
@ 9* 
Diamond White.........
@ 9 
D. S. Gasoline............
811 
Deodorized Naphtha..
@10@34
Cylinder.....................29
Engine........................19
@22@1054
Black, winter..............
CHEESE
Acme.......................
@12*
Amboy....................
@12*
Elsie.........................
@13
Emblem..................
@13
Gem.........................
@13
Gold Medal..............
@ 11*
Ideal......................
@12
Jersey......................
@12
Riverside.................
@12
14@15
Brick.......................  
090
Edam....................... 
Leiden....................  
©17
Limburger...............  
13@14
Pineapple...............  
50@75
Sap  Sago................ 
19@20

CHEWING  GUM 
American Flag Spruce...
Beeman's Pepsin...........
Black Jack.....................
I-argest Gum  Made........
Sen S en ..........................
Sen Sen Breath Perfume.
Sugar  Loaf.....................
Yucatan..........................

CHICORY

50 
60 
60 
55 
55 
1  00

Santos

Common............................1 1
F air.....................................14
Choice.................................15
Fancy.................................17
Peaberry.............................13

Maracaibo

F air....................................12
Choice.................................16

Mexican

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

G uatem ala

Ja v a

Choice.................................16
African................................12*
90  Fancy African..................17
1  00  O. G...................................25
1  20  P. G....................................29
Arabian..............................21

Mocha
Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle.................................12 oo
Dllworth.................................12 00
Jersey..................................... 12 00
Lion........................................ 11 00
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *   gross............   75
Felix *  gross........................1  16
Hummers foil *  gross........  85
Hummel’s tin *  gross........ 1  43

E xtract

Substitutes

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, *  case.............1  75
24 packages,  1 case 
3 so

 

CONDENSED  MILK

4 doz In case.
Gall Borden Eagle.............. 6 75
Crown.................................. 6 25
Daisy....................................5 75
Champion............................4 50
Magnolia............................. 4 25
Challenge............................4 00
Dime....................................3 35

COUPON  BOOKS 

50 books, any  denom...  1 50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  11  50 
.000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books areordered at a time 
customer receives  specially 
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass  Books

Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................  1  50
100  books.......................  2  50
500  books.......................  11  50
1.000  books.........................20 00

Credit  Checks

500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch.....................  
75

CRACKERS

The National Biscuit Co. quotes 

as follows:

B utter

6*

g
g
g
g
g^

10
7u
g’’
gu
g

Seymour...........................  
New York......................... 
Family............................. 
Salted...............................  
Wolverine......................... 
Soda
Soda  XXX..............
Soda, City...............
Long island  Wafers.
Zephyrette...............
Oyster
F au st......................... 
Farina........................ 
Extra Farina.................... 
Saltine Oyster..................... 
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
io
Animals.............................. 
in
Assorted  Cake................... 
Belle Bose........................... 
8
Bent’s Water...................... 
ig
Cinnamon Bar.....................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced........ 
10
Coffee Cake. Java............  10
Cocoanut Macaroons.......  
is
Cocoanut Taffy...................  10
Cracknells..........................  
]g
g
Creams. Iced........... 
Cream Crisp.................  "  10
Cubans............................ 
.«w
Currant  Fruit....................   12
Frosted Honey...................  12
Frosted Cream...................   9
Ginger Gems, l'rgeorsm’U  8 
Ginger  Snaps. N.  B. C.  ..  8
ig
Gladiator......................... 
Grandma Cakes.............. 
9
Graham Crackers............  
g
Graham  Wafers.__ 
i->
Grand Rapids  Tea.........! 
is
Honey Fingers.................  1»
Iced Honey Crumpets......  16
imperials.......................... 
g
Jumbles. Honey.............. 
j«
Lady Fingers....................  12
12 
Lemon Snaps.. 
Lemon  Wafers.
16 
Marshmallow................
16 
Marshmallow Creams. 
16 
Marshmallow  Walnuts.
16
Mary Ann  .................
Milk  Biscuit.................. D*
Mixed  Picnic............
7*

6

a

Molasses  Cake................. 
g
Molasses Bar...............  
9
Moss Jelly Bar.............."   1014
Newton.............................
g
Oatmeal Crackers......... 
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp.................... 
g
g
Orange Gem...................... 
Penny Cake...................' 
Pilot Bread, XXX...... 
714
Pretzelettes, hand made. 
8
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
s
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch.................. 
714
Sugar Cake....................  
g
Sugar Cream, XXX........ 
g
g
Sugar Squares..................  
Sultanas............................  13
Tutti Fruttl....................... 
jg
Vanilla Wafers................. 
ig
Vienna Crimn................... 
g
CREAM  TARTAR 

5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes..  30
Bulkin sacks......................... .‘29

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

Sundried.......................   @4^
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @5* 

714

California F ru its

..................  8@10

California Prunes

Apricots 
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................  g  @n
Pitted Cherries..!!."."" 
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  (&
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4*
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5*
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @6
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  @654
40 - so 25 lb. boxes........  a  7
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
¿*
*  cent less in 50 lb. cases 
Leghorn.............................. 
jj
Corsican............................. .’ "12

Citron

C urrants

Peel

Beans

Raisins

7*8

2  16
6K

California, 1 lb.  package__113k
Imported, 1 lb package........12
Imported, bulk.....................1114
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 10*  
Orange American 10 lb. bx. 
.10*
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........
9*
L. M.. Seeded. 3k  lb__ 
t  „
Sultanas, b u lk .................... 103k
Sultanas, package.............. 12
FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................   7
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland....................
Cream of Cereal........... 
go
Graln-O, sm all...................! 1  35
Grain-O, large......................2 26
Grape Nuts...........................1  35
Posfum Cereal, small..........1  35
Postum Cereal, large.......   2 25.
241 lb. packages..................1  50
Bulk, per 100 lbs...................3 00
36  2 lb. packages..................3 00
Flake, 60 lb. sack...... 
80
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl.............!.  2 40
Pearl, 100 lb. sack................ 1  17
Maccaroni  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box...........  60
Imported. 28 lb. box...........2 80
P earl  B arley
Common.............................
Chester........................  
  2 75
Empire................................. 3  10

H askell’s W heat Flakes

H om iny

Cereals

F arina

”  2 10

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

24 2 lb. packages...........
100 1>.  kegs.........
200 *>. barrels...............
100 lb. bags.....................

...2 00 
...3 00 
...5 70 
...2 90

Peas

Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1  30
Green. Scotch, bu........... ...1  40
Split, bu........................... ...  3

Rolled  Oats

Rolled Arena, bbl........... ...3 70
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  1  90
...3 40
Monarch, bbl.........
...1  95
Monarch, *  bbl...........
Monarch. 96 lb. sacks.... ...1  60
Quaker, cases................. ...3 20

Sago

German, sacks...............
German, broken package1.  4

.  33k

Akron  Stoneware.
Alabastlne............
Ammonia..............
Axle i>rea$e.........
B

ng n

c

Hath  Brick  .
Hint UR...........
Brooms........
Brushes ......
Butter Color.
Candles...................
Candles..................
Canned Hoods........
Catsup.....................
Carbon O ils............
Cheese.....................
Chewing Hum.........
Chloory....................
Chocolate.................
Clothes lines...........
Cocoa.......................
Cocoa Shells............
Coffee.....................
Condensed  Milk.  .
Coupon Books.......
Crackers.................
Cream Tartar.........

l'rled  Fruits...........

Farinaceous  Goods
Fish and Oysters__
Flavoring  Extracts.
Fly  Paper...............
Fresh Meats............
Fruits......................

Grains and  Flour  .  .

Herbs......................
Hides and  Belts......

Indigo......................

D
F

G

H

1
j
L

J elly........................
Lamp  Burners.........
Lamp Chimneys.......
Lanterns..................
Lantern  Globes......
licorice...................
Lye..........................

M

• Matches....................
Meat  Extracts.........
Molasses...................
Mustard....................

Oil Cans. 
Olives
Oyster  Fails.

Paper  Bags.... 
Faris  Green
Pickles............
Pipes
Potash...........
Provisions......

R ice............

Saieratus........
Sal Soda.........
Salt.................
Salt  Fish 
Sauerkraut—
Seeds..............
Shoe Blacking
Snuff  ............
Soap............
S od a..............
Spices 
........
Starch
Stove Polish...
Sugar..............
Syrups.........

Table  Sauce. 
Tea
Tobacco........
Twine...........
Vinegar 

......
W
Washing Powder. 
WVkiag 
Wooden ware 
Wrapping  Paper 
Y
Yeast Cake

:  Mira, tin boxes......... 75 
;  Paragon.................... 55 

BAKING  POW DER 

9 00
600

V» lb. cans 3  doz.................  45
;  *  lb. cans 3 doz.................   75
lb. cans 1  doz.................1  00
!  1 
!  Bulk.....................................   10
6 oz. Eng. Tumblers............   90

Acme

Arctic
Egg
-er*".

.1  to
Vo. i ......................................  71

BUTTER  COLOR
R. & Co.'s, 15c size__  1  a
K  & Co.'s, 25c size.
2 00
CANDLES

Electric Light, 8s................  1
Electric Light, 16s...............12*4
1  Paraffine. 6s ........................ 10*4
!  Paraffine  12s ...................  ” 11
Wlsklng 
............'. '. . n

CANNED  GOODS 

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
G.illons. standards.. 

$o
2 30

B lackberries 

Standards  ..............
Baked .........
Red  Kidney
string........
W a x .........

Blueberries
Standard...................  
Brook  Trout

1  on@i  so 
75@  85 
80 
85
$5

j 2 lb. cans. Spiced..............  1 90

Clams.
i  Little Neck, 1 lb  .... 
j Little Neck. 2 lb___ 

Clam  Bouillon

! Burnham's, *  p in t.........   1

.3 75  Burnham's, pints.............   3 60
.3  75 1  Burnham's, quarts...........  7  20
.3 75 ' 
8  00

*4 lb. cans.  4 doz. case 
S lb. cans.  2 doz. case 
1 lb. cans.  1 doz. case. 
5 lb. cans, s  doz. ease.

JAXON

Queen  Flake

!  Y lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
!  *  lb. cans. 4 doz. case.  __   85
Î  t 
lb. cans. 2 doz. ease........1  go
5 oz., 6 doz. case................... 2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. ease....................3 30
9 oz.. 4 doz. case  ..................4  so
1 lb.. 2 doz. case....................4 00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case....................9 00

Royal

10c size.  ..  90
V, lb.  cans  1  36 
6 oz. cans  1  90 
S  lb.  cans  2  50 
it lb.  cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 so 
3 lb. cans  is 00 
51b. cans.21  50

BATH  BRICK

American.............................   7®
English............................... !  «so
c o s e s H D

RLCING

f e l i c i

Saudi 3 doz  .......................   49
Large. 2 doc 
75 
Arctic. 4 oz. per grass.
4 «  
Arctic, s oz. per grass..
6 99 
Arctic, pints, per  grass
9 00

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet.......................
j  59
No. 2 Carpet..... .........”  
No. S Carpet............... 
;  ¿5
t if
s*«c*rp«:;;;:;;::;;:: 
Parlor  Gem  ................. 
359
Common Whisk 
.........   90
Fancy Wh.sk.................  " l   39
Warehouse.......................... 3  49

 

Corn

Cherries
Red  Standards.........
White........................
Fair....................... ..
Good.................
Fancy............
Freuch  Pej
Sur Extra Fine  .........
Extra  Fine.................
Fine............................
Moyen  .......................
Gooseberries
Standard
Hominy
Standard
Lobster
Star. *  lb................
Star. 1  lb  ................
Picnic Tans...........„
Mackerel
Mustard. 1 lb  .........
Mustard. 21b ...........
Soused, lib ..............
Soused. 2 lb............
Tomato. 1 lb............
Tomato. 2 lb............
Mushroomi
Hotels.......................
Buttons....................
Ovsters
Cove. 1 lb.................
..............
Cove. 2 lb 
Cove. 1 lb Oval.......
Peaches
Pie...........................
Yellow....................
Pears
Standard...........
Fancy  ................... ..
Peas
Marrowfat..............
Early June 
____
Early June  Sifted
Pineapple
Grated..........777T.
Sliced.......................
Pum pkin
F air................ 
....
Good.......................
Fancy......................

Raspberries
Russian  Cavier
*  lb. cans.........................
*  lb.cans......__....___
1 lb. can.....................

1  85 
3 402 »
1  75
2 80
1  75
2 80
1 75
2  90
ia©30
231825
9581 00 
1  90 
1  10

I  6581  95
70 j
90 i
1  00 i 
1  00  i 
1 so i
1  25Q2 75 
1  3602  55

t  00
t  50

85 
1  15
75
85
96

Bulk...............................
Bed.................................
Eagle...............................
Franck's.........................
6*
Schener's.............................  g
CHOCOLATE

Ambrosia

Runkel Bros.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Ambrosia Sweet..................  21
Household Sweet................  19
Ambrosia Premium............   32
Yankee  Premium...............   31
German Sweet....................  22
Premium............................"  34
Breakfast Cocoa....... ....... .]  45
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla............................. ...  28
Premium.............................   31
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz.......... 1  00
Cotton. 50 ft.  per doz...........1  20
Cotton. 60 ft.  per doz.........   1  40
"'otton, 70 ft.  per doz...........1  60
'otton. 80 ft.  per doz.......... 1  80
Jnte, 60 ft. per doz..............  so
Jute. 72 ft. per doz............   95

CLOTHES  LINES

COCOA 

Ambrosia. *  lb. tin cans 
42 
Ambrosia. *  lb. tin cans.  .  44
Cleveland............................  41
olonial. * s  ..................!.'  35
Colonial. * s .................  
33
gpp?........................................42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten. *s
Van Houten, * s ..................   jo
Van Houten. * s ..................  38
Van Houten.  is ..............  m
Webb.............................  
£
WUbur. * s .................... "  
41
Wilbur. * s ........................  
”
42
COCOA  SHELLS
30 lb. bags......................
Less quantity.................
Pound packages............

COFFEE 
Roasted

A f C v
NKMOMOC
C a rra ra

Special  Combination........  15
I French  Breakfast......  
171.,
70  Lenox. Mocha & Java 
...  si 
*5  Old Govt Java and  Mocha. 24 
®  Private Estate. Java & Moe 36 
{ Supreme. Java and Mocha .27 
90
I 

Rio

Common..............................10*
u
3 75 j F air...............................  
'  O# I Choice...............................   13
12 99 j Fancy...............................  15

8

PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific
Bottom 
Square 
28 
50 
34
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
Red................................... 
4H
Gray.................................  45^

20....................2 52
25....................
Sngar

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS. 
Barreled  P ork

D ry  Salt Meats

Smoked  Meats 

@14  50 
@15 00 
@14 50 
@15 75 
@@14 75
8H 
»X 
7H
@ 10H 
@  10H 
@  10H 
@   10 

@  UH @  7 @  11 
@  7a 
@  11 
@  14H 
@  10H 
@  8H @  9
<
Lards—In Tierces

Mess....................
Back...................
Clear back...........
Short cut............
Pig......................
Bean....................
Family Mess........
Bellies......................
Briskets..................
Extra shorts............
Hams, 12 lb. average.
Hams, 14 lb. average.
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear............   9
California hams......
Boneless  hams........
Boiled Hams..........
Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Hams.........
Mince Hams.........  
Compound...............
Kettle......................
Vegetole...............
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Pails, .advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
5 lb. Palls.. advance 
3 lb. Palls., advance 
Sansages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood......... .............
Tongue....................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump...... ..............
H bbls., 40 lbs.........
H bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
H bbls., 40 lbs.........  
H bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk .......................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utterine
Solid, dairy..............  11  @13
Rolls, dairy..............  UH@13H
Rolls, creamery......
14M
Solid, creamery......
!4
Corned beef, 2 lb__
2 75
Corned beef, 14 lb...
17 50
Roast beef, 2 lb........
2 75
Potted ham,  Ms......
50
Potted ham,  Ms......
90
Deviled ham,  Ms__
50
Deviled ham, Ms__
90
Potted tongue,  Ms..
50
Potted tongue,  Ms..
90
RICE 

10 75
11  00
11  75
1  60 
3 75
7Q
1  25
225

Canned Meats

Pigs’  Feet

20
3
10
go

•ti

*

Tapioca

Flake,  no lb. sacks............   4ii
Pearl, 130 lb. sack«..............  3%
Pearl, 2411b.  packages......  6
Cracked, bulk......................  314
24 2 1b. packages.................2 60
F IA V O M N 6 EXTRACTS

¥« p  o r

FOOTE  & JE N E S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla
Lemon

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

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

Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  Ms....................  4 50
Wlngold  Hs....................  4  40
Wingold  Ms....................  4  30

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Ceresota Ms......................  4  65
Ceresota 14 s.............. 
4  55
Ceresota Ms.....................   4  45
Washbum-Crosby  Co.’s  Brand.

w/sbbubk owsBrara.

COLO MUSI.

£

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

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Meal

Feed and  MillstuHh

Laurel  Hs.........................  4  40
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  30
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  20
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4 20 
Bolted...............................  2  00
Granulated.......................  2  10
St. Car Feed, screened__  16 50
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........  16 00
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  16 50
Winter Wheat Bran.........  15 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  16 00 
Screenings.......................  15 00
Corn, car  lots..................   40
Car  lots............................   28H
Car lots, clipped...............   30H
Less than car lots............
No. 1 Timothy car lots__  11  00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots__ 12 00

Corn
Oats

Hay

HERBS

Sage.........................................15
Hops.......................................15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves..........................25

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

INDIGO

JELLY

6 lb. palls. per doz...........  1  85
151b. palls............................  35
301b. pails............................  62

LICORICE

Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily...................................   14
Root.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz......................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz......................2 25

LYE

MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

No.  9 sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor Parlor......................... 1 50
No. 2 Home..............................1 30
Export Parlor.......................... 4 00
Wolverine.................................1 50

MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
Liebig’s, 2  oz.................... 

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle.......... 
Choice..............................  
F air.................................. 
Good................................. 

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

45
75

40
35
26
22

Vanilla

2 oz panel..1  20
3 oz taper..2 00

Lemon

2 oz panel.  75 
4 oz taper.. 1  50

Jennings’

A rctic

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

Big Value

^f-AVORiNG EXTRACT

Reg. 2 oz. D. C. Lemon.......  75
No. 4 Taper D. C. Lemon.. .1  62
Reg. 2 oz. D. C.  Vanilla.......1  24
No. 3 Taper D. C. Vanilla.. .2 08 
2 oz. Vanilla Tonka.............   70
2 oz. flat Pure Lemon...........  70

Standard

Perrigo’s

N orthrop  Brand
Lem.  Van. 
1  20
2 oz. Taper Panel 
  75 
2 oz. Oval.................  75 
1  20
3 oz. Taper Panel__1  35 
2 00
2 25
4 oz. Taper Panel.... 1  60 
Van.  Lem. 
doz. 
doz. 
XXX, 2oz. obert....l  25 
75
XXX, 4 oz. taper__2 25 
1  25
XX, 2oz. obert........1 00
No. 2,2 oz. obert__  75
XXX D D ptchr, 6 oz 
XXX D D ptchr, 4 oz 
K. P. pitcher. 6 oz... 

2 25
1  75
2 25

FLY  PA PER

Tanglefoot, per doz.............   35
Tanglefoot, per case.......... 3 20

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

P ork

Carcass.................... 
6  @ 8
Forequarters.........  
sy,@ 6
Iquarl 
7  @ 9
Hindquarters.........  
Loins No. 3.
@14
Ribs.........................  9 __
@12
Rounds....................  6%@  7
5M@ 6
Chucks....................  
Plates......................  4  @5
Dressed................... 
Loins....................... 
Boston  Butts........... 
Shoulders................ 
Leaf Lard................ 
M utton
Carcass...................  
7  @ 7M
Spring Lambs.........  
8%@ 9
Carcass....................  8  @ 9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

@614
@ 9
@ 8
@ 7M
@ 8

Veal

W heat

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

W inter W heat  F lour 

75

Local Brands

Patents.............................  4 50
Second Patent...................  3 85
Straight.............................  3  65
Clear................................   3  25
Graham............................  3  30
Buckwheat.......................   4 50
Rye....................................  3  26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms......................  3 76
Diamond 14s.....................   3 75
Diamond 14s......................  3  75

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Quaker Ms.........................  3  90
Quaker Ms........................   3  90
Quaker Ms........................   3  90

Spring W heat F lour 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 60
Pjllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4  50
PJlUbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 40
Pillsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 40 
PUlsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 40 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  20

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz............ 1 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, l doz........... 1  76
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............  1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............  1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2 36
Queen, 19  o z ....................  4 50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Carolina head.
Stuffed, 5 oz.....................  
90
Stuffed, 8  oz.
1  45 1 Carolina  No. 1 .................... 5H
Carolina  No. 2 ......................43li
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
Broken..................................414
Victor, pints......................10  00
Japan,  No.  l ................5H@6
Victor, quarts....................15  00
Japan,  No. 2................4H@5
Victor, 2 quarts.................20  00
Java, fancy head..........5  @5H
Java, No. 1................... 5  @
Bulk....................................14
Table...............................  @
Packages, X lb., each.........18
Packages, H lb., each.........17
Packages,  lib.,each.........16

Packed 60 lbs. in box. 

OYSTER  PAILS

PARIS GREEN

SALERATUS 

Im ported.

Domestic 

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count............4 so
Half bbls, 600 count............2 75
Barrels, 2,400 count........... 5 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count.........3 30
Clay, No. 216........................ 1 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........  65
Cob, No. 3............................  85

PIPES

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s................................... 3 00
Dwight’s Cow.......................... 3 15
Emblem....................................2 10
L.  P ..........................................3 00
Sodio.......................................3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms.................. 3 00
Granulated, bbls.................  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__  90
Lump, bbls.........................  75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   80

SAL  SODA

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

IO

29

II

SALT
Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diamond Crystal 

100  3 lb. bags......................3 00
50  61b. bags......................3 00
22 14 lb. bags......................2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count and one case 24 31b. boxes 
free.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. burn.2 66 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............  27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  67
100 31b. sacks.......................2 25
60 51b. sacks.......................2  15
2810 lb. sacks..................... 2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................  
40
28 lb. sacks.......................   22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags......  30
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   16
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60
56 lb. sacks..........................   30
Granulated  Fine................. 1  20
Medium Fine....................... 1  26

Solar  Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

A. B. Wrisley brands—

Gowans & Sons brands—

Beaver Soap Co. brands— 

Johnson Soap Co. brands—

Queen Anne....................   3 15
Big  Bargain..............••••  1  75
Umpire............................   2 15
German Family...............  2 45
Good Cheer....................  3 so
Old Country....................  3 20
Silver King 
..................   3 60
Calumet Family..............  2 70
Scotch Family.................  2 50
Cuba................................  2 40
Oak Leaf.........................  3 25
Oak Leaf, big 5................  4 00
Grandpa Wonder,  large.  3 25 
Grandpa Wonder, small.  3 85 
Grandpa Wonder,  small,
50 cakes....................  1  95
Ricker’s Magnetic......... 3 90
Dingman........................   3 85
Star.................................3 00
Babbit’s Best..................  4 00
Naptha...........................   4 00
Sapolio, kitchen, 3  doz.......2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes...................................  5 Yi
Kegs, English........................4M

Dingman Soap Co. brand—
Schultz & Co. brand—
B. T. Babbit brand—
Fels brand—

Scouring

SODA

Coarse Granulated...........  5 60
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 60
Conf.  Granulated...............  5 75
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  5 65
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 65
Mould A.............................   g as
Diamond  A.........................  5 so
Confectioner’s A...............   5 30
No.  1, Columbia A...........  6  15
No.  2, Windsor A............  5  10
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  5  10
No.  4, Phoenix  A............   505
No.  5, Empire A..............  500
N°-  ®................................  4 95
No.  7................................  4 85
No.  8.................  
475
No.  9.............................::  476
No. 10................................  4  65
No. 11................................   4 60
NO. 12................................   4 55
No. 13................................   4  55
NO. 14................................   4  50
No. 15................................   4  50
No. 16................................   4 50

 

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels................................  is
Half bbls.............................[20
1 doz. 1 gallon cans...................3 00
1 doz. % gallon cans............. 1  70
2 doz. X gallon cans.............  90
F air..................................... 
is
Good...................................   20
Choice................................   25

P ure  Cane

SALT  FISH 

Cod

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @  6
Georges genuine........  @  6H
Georges selected........  @  7
Grand Bank...............   @  5
Strips or  bricks.........   6  @ 9
Pollock.......................   @ 3H
Strips...... ................................10
Chunks.................................... 12
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  00 
Holland white hoops Hbbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
80
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3  50
Round 40 lbs.....................   1  70
Scaled
........ ...
Ovaiou 
ID
Bloaters.....................
1  60
M ackerel
Mess 100 lbs...............
12 25
Mess  40 lbs...............
5 20
Mess  10 lbs...............
1  3«
Mess  8 lbs...............
1  13
10 60
No. 1100 lbs...............
No. 1  40 lbs..............
4  50
No. l  10 lbs...............
1  20
1  00
No. 1  8 lbs...............
No. 2 100 lbs...............
8 25
No. 2  40 lbs...............
3 60
No. 2  10 lbs................
98
No. 2  8 lbs...............
81
No. 1100 lbs................
5 50
No. 1  40 lbs................
2  60
No. 1  10 lbs................
70
No. 1  8 lbs................
60
W hiteflsh
No. 1  No. 2 Fam
2 75
1  40
43
37
4 50
2 75
..  9
.  4
.  8
.60
.12

100  lbs...........  7 25  7  00
40 lbs...........  3 20  3 10
10 lbs........... 
88
85
8 lbs...........  73
71
SAUERKRAUT 
Barrels.............................
Half barrels...............
Anise.........................
Canary, Smyrna.........
Caraway....................
Cardamon, Malabar...
Celery.........................
Hemp, Russian.................   4 y,
Mixed Bird...........................   4 y,
Mustard, white.....................  9
Poppy......................... ........10
Rape..............................   4 h
Cuttle Bone..........................15

SEEDS

T rout

S H O E   B L A C K IN G

Handy Box,  large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............   1  25
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish___  
85
Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In jars......   43

S N U F F

S O A P

JAXON

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

10012 oz bars.......................3 00
Bell & Bogart brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Coal Oil Johnny.................  3 90
Peekin.................................  4 00
Big Acme........................  4  00
Acme 5c..........................  3 25
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master............................  3 70
Lenox.............................  3 00
Ivory, 6oz.........................4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
N. K. Fairbanks brands—
Santa Claus....................  3  20
Brown........ ......................2 40
Fairy..............................   3 95

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................  
Cassia, China In mats...... 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls.... 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 115-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
P u re Ground in B ulk
Allspice............................. 
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger,  African...............  
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne.............
Sage..................................

STARCH

12
12
28
38
55
17
14
55
50
40
36
18
28
20

16
28
48
17
16
18
25
65

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............   6M
20 l-lb. packages............... 
6X
6 lb. packages...............  
7 yt
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
7
6 lb. boxes.......................  
7%

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages..............  4X
40 l-lb.  packages.............. 
4%

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  4%
3-lb. packages................... 
4%
6-lb. packages..................  
5
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............  
3%
barrels.............................  
3 a
STOVE POLISH

TABLE  SAUCES

LEA & 
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

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

TEA
Japan

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

Gunpowder

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

Young  Hyson

Oolong

English B reakfast

Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium.................... 25
Amoy, choice.......................32
Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy.................................. ..
Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy.................................. ..

In dia

TOBACCO

Cigars

A. Bomers’ brand.

H .ftP . Drug Co.’s brands.

Plalndealer............................ 35 00
Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager....................  35 00
Quintette..........................   3500
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross 

4 50 
7 20
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New York  to your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  In  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the weight  of the 
barrel.
Domino.............................  6  00
Cut Loaf...........................   6  00
Crushed............................  6  00
Cubes................................  5 75
Powdered.........................  5 60
Coarse  Powdered.  .........   5 60
XXXX Powdered............   6 65
Standard  Granulated......   5 50
Fine Granulated................  5 50

8. C. W..............................  35 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B L - v .............................$33 00
Gold Star..........................  35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers.............55@ 80 00
Royal Tigerettes..............  35 00
Book Filled Tigerettes__  35 00
Female Tigerettes...........  35 00
Night Hawk, concha........  35 00
Night Hawk,  navel.........  35 00
Vincente Portuondo ,.35@ 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co............25@ 70 00
Hllson  Co...................35@110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35@ 70 00
McCoy & Co...............35@ 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co..l0@ 35 00
Brown  Bros...............15@ 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@llO 00

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 4

1 5

AKRON  STONEWARE 

B utters

k  gal., per doz...................................
2 to 6 gal., per gal.............................
8 gal. each.........................................
10 gal. each.........................................
12 gal. each.........................................
16 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
25 gal  meat-tubs, each.......................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................

bbls.  palls
© 7k
© 7 k
© 8
@ 9
cases
@ 7k
©10k
©10
9  ~

8

2 to 6 gal., per gal..............................
’’hum Dashers, per doz.....................

Churns

M ilkpans

Clothes  Pins

Tubs

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Round head, 5 gross box__  45
Round head, cartons...........  62
Trojan spring......................  85
Eclipse patent spring.........   88
No 1 common.......................  75
No. 2 patent bntsh holder..  80
12 1b. ootton mop heads..... 1  26
Palls
hoop Standard.1  40
2- 
3- 
hoop Standard.1  60
2- 
wire,  Cable.....1  sc
3- wlre,  Cable............... ,......1  70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka................... 2 25
Fibre................................... 2 40
Hardwood...........................2
Softwood.............................2
Banquet.............................1  40
Ideal..................................1  40
20-lnch, Standard, No. 1....6 no
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2....5 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3.... 4 01
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1..........7 00
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2..........6 00
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3..........8 00
No. 1 Fibre........................ 9 45
No. 2 Fibre........................ 7 95
No. 3 Fibre.........................7 20
Bronze Globe..................... 2 80
Dewey...............................1 75
Double Acme..................... 2 78
Single Acme.......................2 28
Double  Peerless.................3 20
Single Peerless.................. 2 80
Northern Queen............... 2 80
Double Duplex.................. 3 00
Good Luck.........................2 78
Universal........................... 2 28
11 In. Butter.........................  76
13 In. Butter........................ 1  00
18 In. Butter........................ 1  78
17 In. Butter........................ 2 60
19 In. Butter........................ 3 00
Assorted 13-18-17................ 1  75
Assorted 16-17-19  ............... 2 80
W RAPPING  PA PER
'ommon Straw................. 
14
'olored  Filter  Manilla
No.  1  Manilla................... 
3 \
ream  Manilla................. 
2S
Butcher's Manilla.............  2s
Wax  Butter......................  13
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz....................... 1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz....................1  00
Sunlight. 16»  doz...................  80
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.............1  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz.............1  00
Yeast Foam, m   dor__ 
bo

YEAST  CAKE

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

FISH  AND  OYSTERS 

Fresh  Fish

Per lb.
White fish....................   ®  9
Trout............................   @
Black Bass...................11®
Halibut.........................  a
’tseoes or Herring__  ®
Bluefish........................  ©
Live  Lobster................  ®
Boiled  Lobster.............  ®
Cod................................  A
Haddock......................   ©
No. 1 Pickerel...............  @
Pike..............................  5
Perch............................  ©
Smoked  White.............  @
Red  Snapper................   ©
Col River  Salmon........   ©
Mackerel......................   ©

16
Per gal.
\m nts..............................   1  78
Ext.  Selects......................  1  60
Selects.............................   1  35
Standards............................1  10
Anchor Standards...........  1  15

Oysters  in  Bulk.

Oysters in Cans.

© 6 
© 7 
©7fc 
@ 8k 
® 8k 
© 9 
@ 8k 
© 9 
© 9 
© 9 
® 9 
@ 9k 
©10
@15k©13
©12 
® 8k 
© 10 
©Uk 
©14 
©14 
©16 
© 6 
© 9k 

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

Mixed Candy

Standard................. 
Standard H. H ........ 
Standard  Twist......  
Cut Loaf..................  
Jumbo, 32 lb............  
Extra fi. H .............. 
Boston Cream.........  
Beet Root................  
Grocers....................
Competition.............
Special.....................
Conserve..................
Royal......................
Ribbon...................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf...................
English Rock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton  Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed.................
Crystal Cream mix..

Fancy—In  B ulk

Fancy-

© 10tlO 

San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops............
Eclipse Chocolates..'. 
Choc.  Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials.................
Ital. Cream Opera... 
ltal. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls................
Pine Apple Ice........
Maroons..................
Golden Waffles.......

12
© 12
©14
gl2k
©12
In  5 lb. Boxes 
©55 
©60 
©65 
©85
©1 00 
©30 
©75 
©58 
©60 
@60 ©eo 
@88 
@88 
©90
©68
©65
@60

Lemon  Sours........
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate  Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
D k.N o.l2............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice  Drops..... !
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials................
Mottoes................. .
Cream  Bar............j
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Rock.............
Wintergreen Berries 
Caramels 
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes....................  
Penny Goods........... 
FRUITS 
Orange*
Florida Russett....... 
Florida  Bright........ 
Fancy  Navels.........   2  75®3 26
Extra Choice...........  2  so®3 oo
Late Valencias........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets...........
Jamaicas.................
Rodi......................
Lemons
Messina. 300s..........
3  50®3  76 
_
Messina. 360s........... 
3 00(a3  26
alifornia 360s..........   3 oo©3 25
California 300s..........   3 2S©3 80
Bananas
1  50® 1  75
Medium bunches 
 
Large  bunches........

©50
68©60

@
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@
®

Plug

Fine  Cut

H. Van Tongeren's  Brand.

San Telmo..................3B@ 70 00
Havana Cigar Co.......18® 38 oo
C. Costello & Co.........38® 70 00
LaGora-Fee Co..........36® 70 00
8. 1. Davis & Co......... 38®185 00
Hene & Co.................. 38® 90 00
Benedict & Co......... 7.60® 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..38®  70 00 
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.3S® 70 00
Maurice Sanborn  ___B0®176 00
Bock & Co................... 6866300 00
Manuel  Garcia.......... 80®375 oo
Neuva Mundo.  ......... 86® 175 oo
Henry Clay..................8B@860 00
La Carolina................. 96@200 oo
Standard T. & C. Co.  .38® 70 00 
Star G reen....................35  OO
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojlblua.................................38
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray......................... 38
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  I,oma.........................38
Goldeu Top.......................... 27
Hiawatha............................. 88
Telegram.............................. 28
Pay C ar................................33
Prairie Uose......................... so
Protection.............................38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Lorna..........................38
Tiger.................................. 39
Flat  Iron............................ 36
Creme do Menthe..............60
Stronghold..........................  40
SOlo.....................................35
Sweet Chuuk......................37
Forge.................................. 33
Red Cross............................24
PalO.................................... 36
Kylo.................................... 36
Hiawatha............................41
Battle A xe.............................
American Eagle..................34
Standard Navy...................ss
Spear Head. 16 oz...............43
Spear  Head,  8oz...............45
Nobby Twist...................... 49
Jolly T ar.............................39
Old  Honesty........................48
Toddv.,................................34
J  . T .................................... 38
Piper Heidsick................... 64
Boot .lack............................81
Jelly Cake...........................36
Plumb  Bob..........................32
Hand  Pressed.....................46
Double  Cross..................... 37
Sweet Core..........................40
Flat Car.............................. 37
Great Navy..........................37
Warpath ..............................27
Bamboo.  8 oz..................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz.....................27
IX  L.  6 lb..........................28
I X L. 301b..........................32
Houev  Dew....................... 37
Gold  Block............
...37
Flagman...............
...40
Chips......................
...35
Kllu Dried............
Duke's Mixture............ ....40
Duke's Cameo..............
...40
Honey Dip Twist........... ...39
Myrtle Navy................. ....40
Yum  \  um. i s  oz........... __39
Yum Yum.  1 lb. pails__
... 37
Cream............................
Coru Cake. 2k oz........... ....*25
Corn Cake. 1 lb..............
*23
Plow Bov. is   oz............
37
Plow Bov, SS oz............ ...3 5
Peerless. 3S oz.............. .  -.34
Peerless, IS oz............. __36
Indicator, 2S oz............
Indicator,  1 lb. pails__ ....31
Col. Choice, 2S oz......... .... *21
Col. Choice. 8 oz............. — 21
Cotton. 3 ply.................. ....17
Cotton. 4 ply................... ....18
Jute. 2 ply....................
....12
Hemp. 3 ply.................. __12
Flax, medium............... .... 17
Wool. 1 lb. balls..................   8
Malt White Wine, 40 grain,.  8 
Malt White Wine. 80 grain.. 11
Pure Older. Red Star...........12
Pure Older, Robinson......... 11
Pure Older.  Silver................11
WASHING  POWDER

VINEGAR

Smoking

TWINE

 

Figs

Date*

WICKING

Shell Goods, 

HIDES  AND  PELTS 

California«,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes.....................  
'ancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, in bags.,.. 
Fanis in 10 lb. boxes 
Fani* in 60 lb. cases. 
iiiowi.................... 
lb.  cases, new......  

Hub-No-More. 100 12 o z...... 3 80
Gold  Dust, regular.............. 4 50
Gold  Dust. 5c......... 
4  00
Peaxllne  ..............................-2 90
Scourine............................... s BO
No. c, per gross.................... 20
No, «, per gross....................28
No. ?, per gross....................36
No. 3- n«r ero««.........  
g
Baskets

H.  Counts...........
F. J. D. Selects........
Selects....................
J. D. Standards..
Anchors...................
Standards...............
Favorite...................
1 00 
lams, per 100............
lffta n   m»r if«i
1 00
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
’o.. 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Hide*
Green  No. 1............
Green No. 2............
Cured  No. l ............
ured  No. 2............
alf skins.green No. 1 
Calfskins .green No. 2 
Calfskins.cured No. 1 
Calf skins.cured No. 2 
Pelts
Pelts,  each..............
Lamb.  .....................
Tallow
Bushels................................ 1  10
No. 1.........................
Bushels, wide  band............. 1  20
No. 2........................Wool
Market  ...............................  so
Splint, large........................4 0 0 ............................
Washed, fine
Splint, medium...................S 75 | Washed,  medium
Splint, small........................3 501 Unwashed,  fine
Willow Clothes, la n e ..........T 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6  28
Willow Clothes, small..........8 80
No. 1 Oval. 280 In crate........  45
No. 2 Oval. 280 In crate........  so
No. 3 Oval. 280 In crate........  86
No. 6 Oval. 280 In crate.......   68
Humpty Dumpty................2 28
No. 1. complete..................   30
No. 2, complete...................  281 Skunk.....................  

Foreign D ried F rnita 
@
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@13
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A
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5 m si*
m
S&lrs,601b.cases....  4k  ©  6 
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
818
Almonds, Ivloa.......
Ylmonas, California,
soft saelled...........
Brazils......................
Kiibarts  .................
Walnuts  Grenobles.
Walnut»., soft shelled 
California No. 1...
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Table  Nats,  choice..
Peons.  Med...........
Pecans. Ex. large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Unwashed, medium.
F urs 
---------
Beaver....................  1  00 <13 oo  locoanuts, full sacks
Wild C at................ 
10©  50 ! Chestnuts, per b u . „
House Cat
Peanuts
Bed Fox........
25®i  SO  Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Grey Fox___
10 A  75  Fancy,  H.  P„  Flags
Lynx............
10Ü3 00 
2©  8 
Muskrat......
Choice. H. P., Extras 
25@2 00 
Mink..........
Choice, H. P., Extras
10©  80
Raccoon
u© i  00
Span. Shlld No.  1 n'w

50©1  10
© 4k 
© 3k
18©20
22©24
12@14
16@1S

© 6 
© 5 
® 7k © 6k 
e  9* © 8 
©MB* 
© 9

------|H
Roasted................  6k©  7

WOODEN WARE 

B a tter  Plates

Roasted.......

Egg Crates

Ohio, new

MIO
@ 11
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A
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28 

17

, 

: 75

6k®  "k

62

84 
1  20 
1  60 
2 25 
2 70

7
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52
6k

60
6

88 
1  10

60

487X

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pess

Tha things you overlooked when 
our  salesman  visited  you  can  be 
ordered  from  us by  telephone,  tel­
egraph or letter.

They  will  be  shipped  on  the 

first train.

We appreciate the fact that when 
you  want  something,  you  want  it 
right off.

Therefore, prompt shipments.

BROWN  &  SEHLER.

Grand Rapids,
Michigan.

t h e  N U L IT E

750  Candle  Power  A R C   IL L U M IN A T O R 6  
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, bang or stand them anywhere.
We  also  mrnufacture  Table  Lamps,  W all 
Lamps,  Pendants,  Chandeliers,  Street 
Lamps, etc.  The best and only really  success­
ful Incandescent Vapor Gas Lamps made.  They 
sell at sight'  Good  agents  wanted.  Write  for 
catalogue and prices.

C H IC A G O   SOLAR  L IG H T   C O ..

81  L.  Fifth Ave. 

Chicago, 111.

~ Simple 
Account  File
Simplest and 
Most  Economical 
Method of  Keeping 
Petit Accounts
File and  1,000 printed blank

bill heads...........................  $2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.........   3  00

Printed blank  bill heads,

per thousand.................. 
Specially printed bill heads,
per thousand.................  
Tradesman Company,

1  25

1  5o  |

♦  

dread
G ruf Rapids.

36 
46 
68 
1  10 
45 50
Per box of 6 doz.
1  so
1 66
2 36

k  ga.  i.fci or rd. hot., per doz............
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ each................
Fine Glazed  M ilkpans
k  gal  flat or rd. hot., per doz...........
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each.................

Stewpans

Ju g s

k  gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............
T gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............

k  gal. per doz.....................................
54 gal. per doz.....................................
1 to 5 gal., per gal...............................

Sealing  Wax

5 lbs. in package, ,>er lb.....................

LAMP  BURNERS

No. OSun............................................
No. l Sun............................................
No. 2 Sun............................................
No. 3 Sun............................................
Tubular...............................................
Nutmeg...............................................

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

F irst  Quality

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

XXX  F lint

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

P earl  Top

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

La  Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz..........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz..........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 1 Lime (66c  doz)..........................
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)— ....................

Rochester

Electric

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

OIL  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.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. Tilting cans................................
5 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas....................
8 gal. Rapid steady stream.................
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow..............
3 gal. Home Rule................................
6 gal. Home Rule.........................
5 gal. Pirate King............................. '

Pom p  Cans

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift.....................
No.  1 B 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 1 doz. each

2  002  15
3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00
5 00
6  10
80

90 
1  15 
1  35 
1  60
3 60
3 75
4 70

3 76
4  40

1  40
1  58
2 78
3 75
4 86 
4 28 
4 96 
7 28 
9 00
8 60 
10 60 
9 96 
11  28 
9 60

4 86 
7  40 
7  60 
7 80 
13 80 
3 60

48 
48 
2  00 
1  25

Earthenware Meat Tubs

15,20,25,30 gal.  All sizes in stock.  We can ship 
promptly.  Prices are right.  Send us your order.

W. S. & j. E. Graham

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

G A S  A N D  G A S O LIN E

Glovers'  Gems.  Satisfaction,  and  Perfection 

M A N T L E S
GLOVER’S WHOLESALE  MDSE. CO., 

Manufacturers. Importers,  and  Jobbers  of  Gas 

are the best.

and Gasoline Sundries.

Grand Rapids, Mich.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bryan Show Cases

Always please.  Write for 
handsome  new  catalogue.

Bryan  Show Case Works,

Brian, Ohio.

CHOCOLATE  AND  COCOA

Guaranteed  Absolutely  Pure. 

Direct from Manufacturer to Retailers.

In localities where jobbers do  not  handle  our 
line, we will sell direct  to  retailers  in  order  to 
introduce our goods more thoroughly.  Will you 
write today for descriptive circulars  and  special 
prices for trial orders?

AMBROSIA  CHOCOLATE  CO.,

Milwaukee, Wls.

NO  MORE  DUST!

31

Let  us  send  you  a  sample 
of  our  Beautiful E aster 
Greeting Candy  Box.
KALAMAZOO  PAPER  BOX  CO., 

KALAMAZOO,  MICH.

Mot or   T r i c y c l e

Last week we showed  a  Motor  Bicycle  at  $200. 
Here is a Motor Tricycle at $350.  It is fitted with 
a 3 horse power Thomas Gasoline Motor.  It Is a 
perfectly  practical  and  reliable  machine—built 
for  business.  We  have  other  motor  vehicles 
which we shall speak of from time to time. 
ADAMS  &   HART,  ta W. Bridge, Grand Rapids.

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

BREAKING  DOWN.

The  Symptoms  and  Effect  of  a  Swelled 

Head.

There  are  any  amount  of  men  in busi­
ness  who  feel  that  there  is  something 
jf  the  matter  with  them.  They  don’t  know 
I 
just  what  it  is  and,  like  the  fellow  with 
1   “ symptoms,”   they  begin  taking  all  the 
F  nostrums  that  are  suggested  by  every 
quack 
in  the  country.  The  result  is 
distraction,  hypochondria  and  eventual­
ly  decay  and  commercial disintegration. 
The  trouble  with  these  people  is  they 
think  too  much  of  their  own  symptoms 
and  brood  over  the  situation  until  the 
little  energy  they  may  possess  dwindles 
away  and  the  men  sink  hopelessly  and 
inertly 
into  the  sea  of  their troubles, 
which are largely a  creation  of  their own 
sickly  imaginations.

I  

• 

I 

It 

Symptoms  of  decay 

in  a  business 
appear  long  before  the  disease  itself  has 
fastened  upon  its  vitals. 
is  at  this 
initial  stage  that  the  proper  remedy  can 
be  administered  effectually  and  the  cure 
certainly  effected.  It  is  essential,  there­
fore,  that  the  symptoms,  in  a  general 
way,  be  recognized  early.

It  would  be  utterly  impossible  to  de­
scribe  or  classify  all  of  these,  but  there 
are  some  which  are  always  present  and 
easily  definable from  which  the presence 
of  all  concomitant  symptoms  may be  in­
ferred.

The  first  sign  of  a  general  breaking 
down  is  the  lassitude  of  the  help  about 
the  store.  There  are  unmistakable  indi­
cations  of  the  presence  of  that  “ tired 
feeling”   which  almost 
immediately 
creates  an  atmosphere  peculiar  to  it­
self. 
It  is  oppressive  to  every  customer 
who  comes  through the door and it settles 
down  over  the  stock  like  the  pall of dust 
which  surely  follows  it.

Instead  of  the  bright  welcome  and 
pleasant  deference  which  made  custom­
ers  glad  to  trade  at  this  store,  there  is 
sleepy  shambling  about  and  yawning 
indifference.  Customers  are 
treated 
rather as  intruders  who  have  disturbed 
an  afternoon  nap  or  an  exciting  chapter 
in  a  novel,  than  as  the  most  welcome 
things  that  can  possibly  float  through  a 
store  door.

The  arrangement  and  keeping  of  the 
stock  becomes  careless.  The  window 
trims  are  not  kept  up,  and  dust  settles 
down  on  the  articles  which  constitute 
the  display.  Dead  flies,  which  fell  with 
the  first  autumnal  frosts,  drift  to  the 
corners  and  are  sepulchered  there  for 
the  winter.  The  advertisements  in  the 
local  papers  partake  of the same languid 
air  that  pervades  the  rest  of  the  busi­
ness.  They  are  not  changed  for  so  long 
that  the  “ make-up”   in  the  front  shop 
picks 
them  up  by  one  corner,  and 
shuffles  them  about  as  if  they  were  solid 
electrotypes  instead  of  separate  types 
and  spaces.

There 

is  no  snap,  no  life  about  the 
whole  business,  and  things  drift  from 
bad  to  worse  until  it  becomes  pretty 
generally  understood  in  the  community 
is  a  “ dead  one”   and  the 
that  Smith 
trade 
inevitably  goes  down  street  a  bit 
further  to  Jones  who  is  alive.

Now  all  this  comes  about  by  Smith 
himself  losing  interest  and  enthusiasm 
in  his own  business.  He  possibly didn’t 
analyze  his  own  feelings  at  once  and the 
first  awakening  may  have  been  a  rude 
shock  at  stock  taking  when  he found  the 
profits  for  the  half or quarter  year  rep­
resented  by  a  string  of  figures  with  a 
minus  mark  preceding  them.

Now  Smith’s  troubles  have  all  come 
about  through  his  own  fault.  The 
in­
difference  of  his  clerks  has  been  but the 
reflex  of  his  own.  His  condition  may

have  come  about  through  inertia,  which 
attacks  many  men  at  certain  critical 
periods  in  their career,  or,  and  what  is 
more  likely,  if  he  has  ever  been  a  really 
successful  merchant,  it  started  with  an 
attack  of  swelled  head.

Swelled  head  is  about  the  worst  thing 
that  can  happen  to  a  man  in  business. 
It  perverts  his  vision  and  totally  disor­
ganizes  his  judgment.  He  begins  to 
think  that  he 
is  conferring  a  distinct 
benefit  on  the  community  by  living  in 
it  and  that  people  trade  with  him,  not 
because  of  his  goods,  prices  and  busi­
ness  methods,  but  because  they  are irre­
sistibly  attracted  by  his  personality.  In 
this  attitude  his business announcements 
are  continued,  not  to  attract  trade,  but 
merely  to  afford  him  the  gratification  of 
seeing  his  name  in  print.  He  doesn't 
really  need  the  newspaper;  he  doesn’t 
have  to  entice  trade  to  his  store  by  the 
ordinary  methods  as  Jones  does  because 
he’s  Smith.

It  is  a  dangerous  error,  fatal  if  per­
sisted  in,  and  what  is  worse  it  is  insid­
ious  in  its  approach  and  development. 
Few  men  escape  an  attack  at  one  time 
or  another  and  only  the  strong  or  watch­
ful  survive  it.

For  that  reason every  man  in  business 
should  frequently,  daily,  in  fact,  take 
stock  of  himself  and  watch  narrowly  for 
indications  of  his  own  attitude  toward 
his  business  as  reflected  in  the  conduct 
of  those  about  him  and  the  condition  of 
his  affairs. 
It  is  a  startling  fact  that 95 
per cent,  of  the  men  who  go  into  trade 
make  a  failure  at  one  time  or  another, 
and  if the  truth  were  known  a  big  per 
cent,  of  these  failures  might  be  at­
tributed  to  that  false  notion  about  our 
personal 
importance  which  is  vulgarly 
known  as  “ swelled  bead.”

Remember  that  the  prime  symptom 
of  this  disorder  is  the  notion  that  you 
can’t  get  it.  Be  honest  with  yourself— 
know  yourself,  and  instead  of  jumping 
on  those  about  you  for what  goes  wrong 
look  at  once  for  the  fault  in  yourself. 
You  will  generally  find  it  there.— Shoe 
and  Leather  Gazette.

Staining  Lumber in the  Log.

staining  materials  are 

A  man  in  Chattanooga  has  secured  a 
patent  on  an  invention  for staining  lum­
ber  in  the  log,  which  promises  to  create 
in  wood-working  circles. 
a  sensation 
The 
forced 
through  logs  by  hydraulic  pressure,  and 
the  result 
is  that  the  log  comes  out  of 
the  process  evenly  stained  all  the  way 
through.  The  value  of  this  is  enhanced 
by  the  gradual  decimation  of  fine  tim­
ber,  and  the  prevailing  fashion  of  mak­
ing  “ imitation”   furniture.

Under this  process  a  piece  of  maple 
can  be  converted  into  mahogany  all  the 
way  through,  and  at  very little  expense. 
In  one  case,  with  200  pounds  of  pres­
inventor completely  stained  a 
sure,  the 
ten-foo* 
log,  forcing  the  staining  ma­
terial  into  the  grains  of  the  wood,  from 
which  the  sap  had  been  forced  by  the 
same  hydraulic  pressure.

Might  Have  Been  Worse.

“ My  ragged  friend,”   said  the  elderly 
gentleman  with  nothing  else  to  do,  “ I 
read  a  story  in  one  of  the  daily  papers 
about  a  man  that  dropped  dead  after 
drinking  a  glass  of  beer.  Was  not  that 
horrible?”

“ Might  have  been  worse,"   said  the 

object  of  charity.

“ How?”
“ He  might  have  dropped  dead  before 

drinking  it.”

Special  Notice  to  Michigan  and  Indiana 

Merchants.

Where  do  you 

live  when  you  go  to 
Chicago?  At  The  Hotel  Grace  because 
it  is  the  most  convenient  hotel  for  mer­
chants  in  the  city ;  convenient  to  every­
thing  and  every  place.  The  next  time 
you  go there  try  The  Grace.

W IE N S   8 A N IT A R Y  A N D  D U S T L E S S  

FLO O R  B R U S H ,

PRACTICAL,  ECONOMICAL,  DURABLE.

WRITE  FOR  PRICES.

W IE N S   B R U SH   C O ..
 

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MILWAUKEE, 

Cheap and Effective. 

Send for samples and prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

4 4 S.  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  III.

WIS.

William  Reid

Importer  and  Jobber  of  Polished 
Plate,  Window  and  Ornamental

Glass

Paint, Oil, W hite Lead, Var­

nishes and  Brushes

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

L  BUTLER,
Resident Manager.
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No  Long  Story  Here,

Steel  Mills,  Steel  Towers, 
Steel  Tanks,  Wood  Tanks,

Galvanized  Pipe  and  Tubular Well  Supplies.

Üü Phelps &
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H. M.  Reynolds & Son

Grand  Rapids and  Detroit,  Michigan

Manufacturers  of

Tarred  Felt,  Asphalt  Paints,  Roofing  Pitch,  Torpedo Gravel  Ready Roofing, 
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The  Grain  Market.

The  wheat  market  is  very  slow  to  re­
spond  to  either  bull  or  bear  news.  The 
trade  is  in  a  waiting  mood. 
The  vis­
ible  showed  a  good-sized  decrease 
1,273,000 bushels,  against  558»000  bush­
els  at  the  corresponding  date  last  year, 
which 
leaves  the  visible  at  58,494.000 
bushels.  The  bears’  strong  point  is  the 
still  large  visible  and  that  the  mills 
in 
the Northwest  are  still  running  only  half 
of  their  full  capacity.  Other  news  fa­
vored  better  prices,  as  the  receipts  are 
falling  off  daily.  Unless  all  signs  fail, 
our  wheat  will  all  be  wanted  before long 
at  an  advance  from  the  present  low  fig­
ures.  The  price  for  May  wheat  is  a 
trifle  better  than  last  report,  or  75/¿c for 
No.  1  Northern.  Winter  wheat  is  hard 
to  get  for  the  reason  that  stocks  are 
about  exhausted.

Corn  had  another  fair 

increase  of 
1,250,000  bushels,  which  did  not  affect 
the  prices,  as  there  seems  to be  a  de­
mand  for  all  of  the  offerings.  To  us  it 
begins  to  look  top-heavy.  This  increase 
can  not  go  on  without depressing prices. 
The  only  reason  for  its  being  held  up 
is  the  small  amount  of  contract  corn 
coming  on  the  market. 
If  this  cold 
weather  continues,  it  will  put  corn  in 
better  shape  to  grade.  The  receipts  of 
grade  corn  will  be  largely  augmented 
and  will  depress  prices  to  a  lower  level.
Oats  remain  very  steady.  The  visible 
made  a  small  decrease,  but  did  not 
change  the  price  any.  The  demand 
keeps  pace  with  the  receipts.

Rye 

is  a  trifle 

lower  and  we  would 
not  wonder  to  see  prices  still  lower  be­
fore  long,  as  the  export  demand  is  very 
sluggish.
|   Winter  wheat  flours  are  up,  owing  to 
the  scarcity  of  good  milling  wheat,  and 
it  would  not  be  surprising  to  see  flour 
sell  at  better  prices.

Mill  feed  is  in  better  demand.  Prices 
have  advanced  $1  per  ton  on  bran  and 
50c  per  ton  on  middlings.

Receipts  were  as  follows:  wheat,  46 
cars;  corn,  16  cars;  oats,  none ;  rye,  4 
cars;  flour,  2  cars;  beans,  5  cars ;  hay, 
4  cars ;  potatoes,  6 cars.

Millers  are  paying  75c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter 

Tekonsha— Daniel  Dorsey,  of  Homer, 
formerly  with Bosley  & Son,of Marshall, 
has  resigned  his  position  to  accept  one 
the  with  H.  N.  Randall  Hardware  Co.
Charlotte—Randolph  Frace,  for  some 
time  past  clerk  at  Selkirk  &  Norton's, 
has  gone  to  Albion  to  take  a  position 
with  C.  E.  Ashdown.

Saginaw— J.  Lesperance,  for the  past 
four  years  manager  of  the carpet depart­
ment  for  Gately  &  Donovan,  has  been 
given  the  management  of  their  Alpena 
store,  where  for  the 
last  month  he  has 
been  doing  relief  work.

Bellaire—George  Albee  has  been 
transferred  from  Bellaire,  where  he  has 
had  charge  of  the  mercantile  interests 
of  Medalie,  and  will  enter  his  employ 
at  Mancelona.  The 
change  was  the 
result  of  the  sale  of  an  interest  in  the 
Bellarie  store  to  Abraham  Frank,  a 
brother-in-law  of  Mr.  Medalie,  and  who 
becomes  a  resident  of  this  place.

Hides.  Pelt*.  Furs, Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  have  again  declined  and  any 
stop 
in  the  demand  would  put  them 
lower.  Receipts  have  been  ample  for 
the  trade,  although  the  quality  deterio 
rates. 
looks  like  a  steady  market  at 
present  values,  as  tanners  do  not  care 
to  see  prices  slump,  fearing its  effect  on 
the  leather  market.

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lOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GROCERIES,  DRV 
x-  goods and shoes  inventorying  about  $2,500, 
enjoying lucrative  trade  In  good  country  town 
about  thirty  miles  from  Grand  Rapids.  Mill 
rent or sell store building.  Buyer can  purchase 
team  and  peddling  wagon,  if  desired.  Tern s, 
half  cash,  balance  on  time.  Address  No.  592,
care Michigan Tradesman.___________ 592
-XOR  SALE — GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
A*  stock.  Invoicing  about  $7,000;  stock  in  Ai 
shape;  selling about  $25,000  a  year,  with  good 
profits;  trade established over  twenty  years;  a 
fortune  here for a hustler;  terms, one-half  cash 
down, balance one and two  years,  well  secured 
by  real  estate  mortgage;  also  store  building 
and fixtures for sale or exchange for good Grand 
Rapids residence property  on  East  Side;  must
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be tree  from  debt  and  title  perfect.  Address 
No. 520, care Michigan  Tradesman. 
INVOKING 
1  $2,000, in good corner store in the  best  town 
in Western Michigan.  The  best  of  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 583, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

I>OR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK 
I_ ?iOR  RENT—a   GOOD  BRICK  STORE  IN 

1  good  business  town  on  Michigan  Central 
Railroad; good living rooms above; good storage 
below;  city  water  and  electric  light.  Address 
Box 298, Decatur, Mich.____________

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\ \ i  ANTED—TRAVELING  SALESMAN  FA 
* *  111 llCwl  ™  
W   m liar with grocery or specialty line.  One
who  has  established  trade  tributary  to  Grand 
Rapids  market  preferred.  Address  No.  703 
care Michigan Tradesman.

WANTED-BY STEADY SOBER M A N  WHO 

has had experience in hardware  store  sit­
uation as  tinner.  Address  Tinner,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman.
\ I T a n t e d  — POSITION  AS  APPRENTICE 
VV  in  drug  business.  Have  had  experience. 
701
Box 1 *7, Saranac. Mich. 

35

n

IS  NOT  a  high  price 
to pay for a large trial 
bottle  of  this  grand 
old  specific for

Rheumatism, 

Neuralgia,

Lame  Back, <  -f

G o u t  and  all 

Kidn ey  Disorders.

It has effected more CURES  than  any other 
known remedy. 
It has  cured  thousands of 
cases which defied the skill of our  most emi­
nent  physicians.  It  acts  QUICKLY.  SAFELY 
and  SURELY.  Goes direct  to  the  seat of the 
disease, cleansing and purifying the  system, 
th row in g off all blood  im purities.  Puts every 
organ of  the  body  in  their  natural  health} 
condition.  For constipation alone it is aboti- 
given boon.  A bottle of A bbott 
jt
matic  Cure kept  in  your  home  w 
cost one hundred times over.
Largest Bottles $1.25;  Six for $6.00
trial bottle will surely do you a world 
of  good—mav  cure  you.  bent  postpaid 
any address for only  35 cents.
A gents  W anted. 

Write for  Terms.

Abbott  Brothers Company,

134  E. Van  Buren St. 
CHICACO.  ILL.
Headquarters  for  Merchants 

HOTEL  G R A C E
European.  In the heart of the city •
Location  opposite  Post  Office  and  Board  o 

Trade  in  exact  center  of  business  district.

Two  hundred  rooms  at  $1  Per  day  and  OP" 

ward.  Every room has  hot  and  cold  wate 
is  heated  by  steam.

C. C. COLLINS,  Proprietor, 

Jackson  Boulevard and  Clark St. 

CHICAGO.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Pelts  have  sold  rather  freely  at the de­
cline,  while  receipts  have  fallen  off. 
The  demand  seems  stronger  on 
fine 
grades.

Furs  remain  firm  and 

in  good  de­
mand,  with  a  small  catch  and  no  ac­
cumulations.

Tallow 

is  weak,  with  large  offerings 
of  soapers’  stocks.  The  foreign  markets 
are  well  supplied  with  large  shipments 
on  the  water  for  Australasia,  thus  cut­
ting  the  demand  from  our  ports.

is 

Wool 

low  and  is  selling  slowly  at 
the  decline,  with  a  demand  for  all  that 
is  offering  at  the  low  prices.  Consigned 
wools  have  been  sold  freely,  although 
but  little  moves  out of  the  States.  Hold­
ers  are  firm 
in  their  views  for  higher 
prices,  which  do  not  as  yet  materialize. 
The  foreign  markets  have  lost  a  little  of 
the  advance  gained  at  sales,  but  prices 
are  not  yet  low  enough  to  make  import­
ing  profitable.  Mills  are  busy  on  good 
orders  and 
in  getting  supplies  to  keep 
running. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Wyandotte—This  city  will  soon  be 
asked  for  a  gas  franchise  by  Supervisor 
Theo.  Megges  and  his  backers.  The 
cheapness  with  which  gas  can  be  pur­
chased  from  the  Solvay  Process  Co., 
when 
its  coke  oven  plant  will  be  in 
operation  after  May  1,  will make  it  pos­
sible  for  Megges  to  buy  gas  at  a  very 
low  figure.  Manager  Green,  of  the 
Solvay,  states  that  his  plant  of  thirty 
ovens  would  make  more  gas,  after  they 
had  started,  than  is  now  made  daily  by 
the  Detroit  Gas  Co. 
It  is  probable  that 
part  of  the  output  of  the  Solvay  will  be 
supplied  to  Detroit. 
It  is  said  that  the 
unrefined  product  can  be  sold  by  the 
low  as  13  cents  a 
Solvay  company  as 
thousand  feet,  and  that 
it  can  he  re­
fined  for  2  cents  a  thousand.

Graafschap—The Daisy  Creamery  Co. 
has  declared  a  dividend  of  20  per  cent., 
payable  from  the  profits  of  1900.  After 
paying  the  dividend,  there  is  money 
enough  left  to  purchase  another  separa­
to r ,  which  will  be  done.  The  output 
during 
for 
which 
received 
$19,512.96.

1900  was  95.898  pounds, 
the  Creamery  Co. 

Port  Huron—The  Port  Huron  Auto­
matic  Carpet  Sweeper  Co.  has  been  or­
ganized  in  this  city.  The  company  for­
merly  did  business  at  Marine  City  un­
der  a  different  name,  but  local  capital­
ists  have  become  interested  in the enter­
prise  and  the  manufacture  of  sweepers 
will  be  pushed.

SALF-DRUG  STOCK,  INVOICING 
F ° $ l 600  doing good business;  expenses  light 
win piy to Investigate;  best  «t  reasons  forseff- 
ing.  Address  No.  «94.  care  Michigan  Trades 
man.
m u rsT R K S '  TRUSTEES!  WE  PAY  CASH 
X Kfor stocks of merchandise.  If  you  want an 
offer  write  The  Romeyn-Farsons  Co.,  Grand 
I.edge. Mich
« m i Cai  ir  BUSINESS  PROPERTY  IN  PE 
Jh  toskey. lialf block from postoflice.  Address 
700
Chas. Neff, Petoskey, Mich.

Real Estate Exchange. Grand Rapids
rPOR SA K E— MEDICAL PRACTICE,  A GOOD 
r   ehance for  some  enterprising  doctor,  $5.(HK> 
ner  re a r  cash  business;  strictly  office
A  
to $0.000  per  y ear  ca 
reasons for
L ^ ^ f f i S W l d s ,  Mjch^gg
ir p i  r y   BUSINESS  FOR  SALE  — . 
TEWELRY
Suthern Michigan  town;  small stock;  good 
eJ  sc
bench  trade;  good  location:  cheap  rent.  Ad
Sre®i No  696  care Michigan Tradesman.__ 696_
aress x>o. 
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B—1<;  RETURNS  FOR  SMALL  — ---- 
We have just succeeded iu  securing  the  ex- 
elusive  control  and  manufacture  of  the  cele- 
brated  Doran  Hydro-Carbon  Lighting  System, 
which is thebest system  light  yet  invented  for 
interior  and  street  lighting;  each  lamp
1,200 candle power light. ca“^ ri ‘l[“fdXo?utely 
inctuntlv 
the  same  as  electricity,  a o so iu ieiy  
safe  simple  and  satisfactory.  Correspondence 
solicited from all interested parties  and  muiucl- 
ial officers, and  those  who  would  like  a   goou 
pavffig  business  in  their  own  city  or  town 
K f   Brass  Works.  ‘JO  South  Jefferson^. 
Chicago.
TY,)K  SALE—HARDWARE  STOCK;  DOINC
E   fine  business;  good  profits VTwio^rownof 
lUhed*  stock  invoices  about  $4,000, 
town  oi 
1 •>0o-  bnlv  tin  shop.  Reason  for  selling,  poor 
health  Address No. 692. care Michigan T ru e  ­
man.
4  Bu sin e ss c h a n c e an u r e a l es t â t!
A  investment in the_prosperous  and  growing
city of HoiiamL Michigan.  ,> s a^™inTist3 ‘rr foi 
the estate of  Jeauette  Kiekintveld,  I  oner  tor 
sale a twos-tory and  basement  brick  and  stone 
store building, located at 28  East  Eighth  street 
(in the  center of the best  business  block  ot  tne 
city on the right side of the street) together with 
the stock  of books, stationers’  fancy  goods  and 
soda fountain—for  eighteen  p a rs  surcessfuUy 
conducted at this stand.  1 arties mterested  call 
on  or address H. W. Kiekintveld, administrator, 
Holland.  Michigan
■ NOR SALE—DRU< t FIXTURES AND ACETY- 
r   lene  plant.  Send  for  list.  Safe  wanted.
H. P. French. Woodland. Mich.__________68' _
TEb—TO KXCh a n g E REAL ESTATE 
VY  in the village  of  Middleton,  Mich-,  for  a 
stock of  merchandise.  Address  Box  150,  Mid­
dleton. Mich.
rpOK  SALE—A  GENERAL  STOCK  OF 
T   clothing, dry goods,  shoes  and  groceries  in 
town of  1.2U0  people;  old-established  business; 
selling for spot cash, $45,uuo  a  year;  rent,  $500; 
stock w ill invoice about  $18.000;  good reasons for 
selling.  Address M. J- Rogan, 14  Kanter  Bldg., 
Detroit. 
»NOR  SALE—A  GOOD  PAYING  DRUG 
r   store  in live  Northern  Michigan  town.  Ill 
health  the  reason  for  selling.  A bargain.  Ad­
dress E. S-. care Michigan Tradesman. 
682
Fo r  s a l e~ stock  o f  g e n e r a l  m e r-
chandise  in  good  lumbering  and  farming 
country;  stock  invoices  about  $5,000;  will  sell 
store, stock and  fixtures  or  sell  stock  and  fix­
tures and rent building;  half  down,  balance  in 
approved  bankable  paper;  no  trader  or  fakir 
need apply-  Address Box 222. Elmira. Mich.  68o
HAVE  A  FIRST-CLASS  160  ACRE  IM- 
proved grain and hay farm  In  Mason  county 
which I will exchange for timber  land.  Address
George Engel, Mendon, Mich._________   672^
TOT ANTED—IN  THE  BIGGEST  LITTLE 
W  
town in Michigan  flour  mill,  planing  mill, 
canning factory,  agricultural implement  dealer, 
novelty works and home  seekers;  abundance  or 
timber;  immense  water  power;  two  railroads 
and cheap  stump  lands.  Write  for  descriptive 
booklet.  Wm. Hogg.  Secretary  of  Association, 
Thompsonville, Mich- 

677

680

Edward  Frick  and  A.  B.  Klise  have 
reached  New  Orleans  on  their way home 
from  Cuba.  They  expect  to  reach Grand 
Rapids  in  about  ten  days.

Advertisements  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.___________________

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

F

M AND M. AND U. S. ARC LAMPS

JpiN E  DRUGSTORE^INVOICING$2,500, FOR
A   $2,000.  Three stocks  dry  goods,  cheap; 
.  all 
rand 
good towns.  Clark's Business Exchange,  Gn 
704
Rapids
•  live  agent  wanted  in  every  town.  Sell
A l A f   1 U V   u g u u n   M u u a v u   «u   V/ » 
goods  with  a  record. 
It  doesn’t  cost  you  as 
much.  Two years’ commercial service has proven 
that we manufacture the only  practical  gasoline 
lamp made.  Ask the man who has them.  Write 
for our new  propositions.  Martin  &  Morehead, 
51 to 57 W. Washington St., Chicago. 
rpiMBER AND  FARM  LANDS—HEMLOCK. 
I
  hardwood and cedar timber for sale in  large 
or small tracts, cheap farm lands, hardwood and 
pine stump lands.  Don’t ask  what  1  have,  but 
tell  me  what  you  want.  E.  T.  Merrill,  Reed 
City. 

705

695

666

S., Lansing- 

mint” popcorn and peanut roaster combined ; 

in use one year.  Address 201  Washington  Ave., 

FMJK  SALE—A  BARTHOLOMEW -NICHOL- 
(NOR  SALE—GENERAL  STOCK  OF GOODS, 
'  store building, fixtures and horses,  in  thriv­
ing  mining  town  of  Northern  Michigan.  Ad- 
dress No. 642. care Michigan Tradesman. 
642
Lo catio n  w a n t ed  fo r  s a w m il l;
will saw on contract or will buy timber.  Ad­
dress George Engel, Mendon, Mich. 
673
TJARTIES  HAVING  STOCKS  OF  GOODS 
L  of any kind,farm or city  property  or  manu­
facturing plants,  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change, write us for our free 24-page catalogue of 
real estate and business chances.  The Derby  & 
Choate Real Estate Co., Flint, Mich. 

¡ORFOR  SALE  CHEAP —$2,000  GENERAL 

259
stock and  building.  Address  No.  240,  care
Michigan Tradesman_________________ 240
A  SMALL DRUG STORE FOR SALE CHEAP 
A   with fixtures.  Address  John  I.  Crissman 
Utica, Mich. 

652

ONEYMo n ey  on  t h e   spo t  f o r   c le a n
stock of  merchandise,  $5,000  or  over.  Ad 
dress Box 113, Grand Ledge, Mich. 
660
wTANTED—E N E R G E T IC   COU NTR Y 
»  »  printer who has  saved  some  money  from 
his wages to embark in the publication of a local 
newspaper.  Will furnish a portion of  the  mate­
rial. take half interest in the  business  and  give 
partner  benefit  of  long  business  experience 
without  giving  business  personal  attention 
None need apply who  does  not  conform  to  re 
quirements,  which  are  ironclad.  Zenla,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
AVTANTED — MERCHANTS  TO  CORRE- 
VV  spond with us who wish to sell  their entire 
stocks  for  spot  cash.  Enterprise  Purchasing 
Co., 153 Market St., Chicago, 111. 

“ ANTED — MERCHANTS  TO

585

631

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COFFEES
MAKE  B U SIN ESS

G R A N D   R A P ID S   F IX T U R E S   CO.

Shipped
knocked
down.
First
class
freight.

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

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

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

S im p le  
Account  F ile

A  quick  and  easy  method  of 
E s­
keeping  your  accounts. 
pecially  handy  for  keeping  ac­
count  of  goods  let  out  on  ap­
proval,  and  for  petty  accounts 
with  which  one  does  not  like  to 
encumber  the  regular 
ledger. 
By  using  this  file  or  ledger  for 
charging  accounts,  it  will  save

£

one-half  the  time  and  cost  of keeping  a  set  of  books. 
Charge  goods,  when
purchased, 
directly 
on  file,  then your cus­
tomer’s bill  is  always 
ready  for  him,  and 
can be  found  quickly, 
on  account  of 
the 
index.  This 
special 
saves  you looking  over  several  leaves  of  a  day  book  if  not  posted 
when  a customer  comes  in  to  pay  an  account  and  you  are  busy wait 
ing  on  a  prospective  buyer.

TRADESM AN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Travelers’ Time  Tables.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, C. E. Walker,  Bay City;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  J.  H.  Hopkins,  Ypsilanti;  Secretai?, 
E. A. Stowe, Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatman, Clare.  ______

Grand  Rapida  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, Frank  J. Dy k;  Secretary,  Homer 

Klap;  Treasurer, J. George  Lehman
Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  Association 

President,  E.  Marks;  Secretaries,  N.  L.
Koenig  and  F.  H.  Cozzens;  Treasurer,  C. 
H.  Frink.

Kalamazoo  Retail Grocers’ Association 

President,  E.  L.  Ha r r i s ;  Secretary,  Ch a s. 

Hyman. 

_____

Baj Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  Walker;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Little. 

_____

Muskegon  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  Smith;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

Boelkins;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Caskadon.

President,  J. Frank  Helmer ;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail Grocers’  Association 
H. Porter;  Treasurer, L.  Pelton.
Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Clark;  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cleveland; Treasurer,  Wm. C. Koehn

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M. W. Tanner;  Secretary,E.  H. Mc­

Pherson;  Treasurer, R. A. Horr.
Tra?erse  City  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  thos  T.  Bates;  Secretary,  aa.  B. 

Holly;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  Whipple;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Campbell;  Treasurer, W.  E. Collins.
Pt.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
Percival.

President, Chas.  Wellman;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

Alpena  Bosiness Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. Gilchrist;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Partridge. 

_____

Calumet  Bosiness  Mon’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cuddihy;  Secretary  W.  H. 

Hosking. 

_____

St.  Johns Bosiness  Men's Association 

President, Thos. Bromley;  Secretary,  Frank 

A.  Percy; Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Perry  Bosiness  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wallace;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

Heddlb. 

_____

Grand  Haien  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W  Ver- 

Hoeks. 

_____

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  Chas.  Rounds;  Secretary,  Frank 

Putney. 

_____

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat Dealers’  Associatien 

President,  J ohn  G.  Eble;  Secretary,  L.  J. 
Katz;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hufford.

P ERE  M ARQUETTE
Railroad and Steamship Lines.

Fast trains  are  operated  from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City,  Alma,  Lansing, Belding, Benton  Har­
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points,  making 
close connections at Chicago with trains  for  the 
south  and  west,  at  Detroit  and  Toledo  with 
trains east and southbound.  Try  the  “Mid-Day 
Flyers,” leaving Grand Rapids  12:06  noon, each 
week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:05  p.  m.  and 
Chicago 5:00 p. m.

H.  F.  Mo e l l e r ,  G.  P.  A.,

W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

GRAND lUpids  &  Indiana Railway

Dec.  a,  1900.

luno-TM 
muKi n 

Except  Except  Except
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
Lv. Grand Rapids.......  7 45am  2  10pm  10 45pm
Ar.  Cadillac.................ll 20am  5  40pm 
2 10am
Ar. Traverse City......  1 30pm  7 50pm 
...........
Ar. Petoskey...............  2 50pm  9  15pm  5 35am
Ar. Mackinaw City  ...  4 15pm  10  35pm  6 55am
Local train for  Cadillac  leaves  Grand  Rapids 
at 5:20 p m daily except Sunday.
Pullman sleeping or parlor cars on all through 
trains.
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m,  10:45 
a m, 5:15 p m and 10:15 p m daily except Sunday

SOUTH

......  6 50p  1145a 
.................   7 15a 

Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10al2 30p  1 50p  6 50pU30p 
Ar.  Kalamazoo  8 50a  145p  3 22p  8 35p  100a
Ar. Ft. Wayne.  12 lOp 
......
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
......
6:50pm train carries  Pullman  sleeping  car  to 
Cincinnati.  11:30pm train carries through coach 
and Pullman sleeping car to Chicago.
Pullman parlor cars on other trains.
Trains arrive from the  south  at  6:45 a m  and 
9:10am daily, 2:00pm. 9:45pm and 10:15pm except 
Sunday.
MiicYRnoNn  Except  Except  Except
MUSKEUOiNn 
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
Lv.  Grand Rapids.... 7 35am  2 05pm  5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon...........  9 00am  3 20pm  7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Trains  arrive  from  Muskegon  at  9:30am, 
1:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  6:50pm 
Sunday only.

C H IC A G O   T R A IN S  

G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO CHICAOO 

Sunday  Da,ly

Lv. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  11 30pm 
Ar. Chicago  (12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
6 55am 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
U:30pm train has through coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.

FROM CHICAGO 

Sunday  Dally

Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  5  15pm  11  30pm 
Ar. G'd Rapids (Union depot)  10  15pm  6 45am 
5:15pm train rims solid to Grand  Rapids  with 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping 
car.  Phone 606 for Information.

Write for Samples and Prices on

Street  Car  and  Pine 

Feed  Stuffs

DARRAH  BROS.  C0„  Big  Rapids,  Mich.

H i  Fire  and  Marine 

surance Co.
Organized  1SS1.

Detroit, Michigan.

(8)  Cash  C apital,  1400.000. 

Net Surplus, $200,000.

Cash  Asssts,  $800,000.

D.  Wh itn ey, J r., Pres.

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

F . H . W h itn ey, Secretary.
M. W . O’Br ie n, Treas.

E. J. B ooth, A ss t Sec’y. 

D irectors.

D. W hitney, Jr., D.  M. Ferry, F .J. Hecker, 
M. W . O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  M urphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A.  H. W ilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Klrke  W hite,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A.  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F .  E.  Driggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Francis  F. 
Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey,  David  C.  W hit­
ney, Dr. J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F. "Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

Gold Belts and Buckles

This  line  is  selling  immensely  and  we  find  it 
difficult  to  keep  up  with  orders.  Try  a  sam­
ple  dozen  of  the  Newest  Style  Buckles

L’Aiglon  and  Maude  Adams  Styles

to  retail  at  25c,  35c,  50c,  75c and up.  Write us 
to-day.

American Jew elry Co.,

Jew elry Jobbers,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

PRESSED  TA B LE  TU ilB LE R S

are largely used in every family and are therefore one of the lead­
ing staples in the glassware line.  There is always a demand for 
them.  For the next 30 days we offer

SHIPPED  DIRECT  FROH  FACTORY

a very attractive assortment containing 21 dozen tumblers of three 
assorted styles, all with neat pressed bands and  of  good  heavy 
crystal glass for the  extremely low price of

15  CENTS  PER  DOZEN.

Don’t miss the opportunity.  We  are  preparing  our  complete 
catalogue showing a large number of the  latest  productions  in 
glassware and crockery and our prices on these goods are  won­
derfully low—all figured  on a commission basis.
H.  LEONARD & SONS,

Buckwheat  Flour

Made by

J.*H.  Prout &  Co.,

Howard City, Mich.

Has that  genuine  old-fash­

ioned  taste and  is 

A B S O L U T E L Y   P U R E  

Write them  for prices.

Glass  &  Crockery Co.
Earthenware, China & Glassware 

WHOLESALE

Daudt

TOLEDO,  OHIO

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.

Kinney  &  Levan

Importers and Jobbers of 

Crockery,  Glass,  Lamps,  House 

Furnishing  Goods
CLEVELAN D,  OHIO

The  Grand  Rapids  Paper  Box  Co.

Manufacture

Solid  Boxes for Shoes, Gloves,  Shirts and Caps,  Pigeon  Hole  Files  for 
Desks, plain and fancy  Candy  Boxes,  and  Shelf  Boxes  of  every  de­
scription.  We  also  make  Folding  Boxes  for  Patent  Medicine,  Cigar 
Clippings,  Powders, etc., etc.  Gold and  Silver Leaf work  and  Special 
Die Cutting done  to suit  Write for prices.  Work guaranteed.

GRAND RAPIDS PAPER BOX CO., Grand  Rapids, Mich.

RUB-NO-MORE

Handled by all Jobbers.
Sold by all Retailers.

SUMMIT  CITY  SOAP  WORKS,  Fort  W ayne,  Ind.

T H E   BIG  B R I D G E  
O V E R   N I A G A R A

Have  you  ever been  at  “ Niagara”  and  noticed  the  provision 
the  mechanical  engineers  have  made  in  the  construction  of  this 
great  bridge  to  mechanically  take  up  the  slack  in  the  span  in  the 
hot  weather  when  the  metals  expand  over  four  feet;  and  to  pro­
vide  for the  opposite  effect  in  cold  weather  when  the  metals  con­
tract?  This  is  engineering.

There  is  another  great  piece  of  mechanical  engineering  em­
bodied  in  something  considerably  smaller  than  the  “ Niagara” 
It  is  the  Thermostat  which  takes  up  the  slack  and  pro­
bridge. 
vides  for the  contraction  of  the  Springs  on 
‘ ‘The  Boston”  Scales 
made  by  our company.  This  is  of  more  importance  than  “ Niag­
ara”  bridge  because  it  automatically  avoids  loss  to  the  butcher  by 
its  absolute  accuracy  in  all  seasons.

À  Spring  Balance  Scale  without  the  “ Thermostat”  is 

worthless.

THE  COMPUTING  SCALE  CO.,

DAYTON.  OHIO

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