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Eighteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  8,  1901.

rTRADESMAN  COMPANY, PUBLISHERS)

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Number 920

Make  the  Trust  ‘‘Whack  Up”

The Trust has had a  “ s p a s m ”   of  generosity  and 
allowed  the  Jobbers handling  its  product  to  rebate 
5  per cent,  on  February and  March  deliveries,  but 
did  you  get  a  rebate  of  18  per  cent,  on  your  Jan= 
If  not,  why  not?  Ask  them.
uary  purchase? 
They have  probably  forgotten  it.  We  rebated  to 
our customers 18 and 5 per cent, on January,
5 per cent,  on  February  and 5  per cent,  on  March.
M ORAL:  Buy  your  rubbers  where  they  treat 
you  right.

The Beacon Falls Rubber Shoe Co.

20 7  an d   209  M onroe  S t.,  C h icago,  III.

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Merit Wins

Once you try them, you’ll  always buy them.

Royal Tiger IOc 

a smoker s smoke 

Tigerettes 5c

They  please  your  customers  and 

increase  your  trade.

PH ELPS,  B R A C E  &   6 ©.,  Detroit,  Michigan

The Largest Cigar Dealers  in the  Middle West.

Carolina  Brights Cigarettes “ Not  Made by  a Trust."

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F.  E.  BUSHMAN,  Manager Cigar Department.

M IC A

A X L E
G R EA SE

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

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S T A N D A R D   OIL  C O .

BOURS

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Baking 

Powder’

Nearly  every  dealer  who  has 
corresponded  with  us  has  bought 
from  us  and  every  dealer  who 
has  bought  is  satisfied  and  so 
are  his customers.
EGG

BAKING  PO W D ER

Home  Office, 80 West  street,  New  York.

Western Office.
Branch Offices:

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

Detroit'
Fort Wayne
-Columbus

Ask us for quotations

On Street Car Feed,  No.  i  Feed,  Meal,  Corn,  Oats,  Gluten  Feed, 
Cotton Seed  Meal;  any quantity, large or small.  Prompt shipment.

Walsh-DeRoo  Milling  Co.,  Holland,  Mich.

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These attributes are essential  to  a  grocer  in  transacting  business, 
but  to  G ET  A L L   YOUR  PRO FIT and  economize your  time  it  is 
necessary to secure  a

Stipipson  Computing  Grocers’ Scale

They  are  better  than  an  extra  clerk  and  will  make  you  more 
money  than  most  salesmen.  The}7  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,  MAY  8,  1901.

Number  920

DESMAN

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R.  a .  DUN  &  CO.

Wlddlcomb  Bld’g,  Grind  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

C.  E.  McCRONE,  Hanager.

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Prompt, Conservative, Safe. 

Wholesale Ready Made Clothing

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

who  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  May  6  to 9,  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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A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer  in

Cigars and  Tobaccos,

157  E. Fulton St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Knights of the  Loyal  Guard

A Reserve Pnnd 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.

Suprem e Com m ander in  Chief.

13  ONLY

13  Genuine  Bargains

If you use a  Cost  Book  you  will  never 
get another such bargain as we  are offer­
ing—13  books  only  are  left.  When 
they are gone you will pay four times our 
present price If you  get  one.  Write  for 
sample leaf and  particulars.

BARLOW  BROS.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

CITIBS

'3xa

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

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

Page. 
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3.  G etting  the  People.
3.  Unprofitable  Customers.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W indow  Dressing.
7.  Changed  for  Life.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  D ry  Goods.
11.  Clothing.
13.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
14.  Village  Im provem ent.
16.  The  Meat  M arket.
17.  R u tte r  and  Eggs.
19.  The  New  York  M arket.
30.  W oman’s  W orld.
33.  H ardware.
34.  Brownie’s  Mission  in  Life.
35.  Commercial  Travelers.
36.  D rugs  and  Chemicals.
37.  D rug Price  Current.
38.  Grocery  Price  Cnrrent.
39.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Clerk’s  Corner.
H ardw are  Quotations.
33.  In   Bad  Shape.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

it 

The  sharp  reaction  which  occurred 
near  the  close  of  last  week  was  of  such 
a  character  that  under  ordinary  condi­
it  could  hardly  have  failed  to 
tions 
bring  a  disastrous  panic.  As 
is, 
while  the  reaction  was  considerable,  the 
recovery  is  prompt  and  the  course  of 
prices  is  again  upward.  Observers  are 
congratulating  the  dealers  that  the  set­
back  puts  off  the  probability  of  a  more 
serious  reaction  soon.  Indeed  it  is quite 
likely  that  the  decline  was  the  result, 
largely  at  least,  of the cautions  that  have 
been  given  by  financiers  and of  the cau­
tionary  measures  of  the  banks.

All  records  of  the  average of  transpor­
tation  stocks,  and  of  many  of  the  indus­
trials,  were  far exceeded  before  the  re­
action  Friday.  The  average  of  railway 
shares  went  up  to $102.56.  Since  thé 
reaction  the  recovery  is  rapid and prom­
ises  to  make  more  new  records  before 
stopping.  As  a  cautionary  measure  the 
banks  are  demanding  broader  margins 
in  securities,  arguing  that  stocks  which 
have  advanced  so  rapidly  must  be  con­
sidered  of  less  value  as  proportioned  to 
the  price.  Money  rates  have  advanced 
to  10  per cent,  as  a  resuit  of  the  pres­
sure  of  demand. 
It  is  evident  that  the 
banks  propose  to  put  on  brakes  as  far 
as  opportunity  is  given.  Money  seems 
to  be  plenty  for  all  needs.  Notwith­
standing  the  British  loan  gold  is  going 
out  in  less quantity  than  is  usual  at  this 
time  of  year and  the  amount  of  circula­
tion  for  each 
inhabitant  is  constantly 
increasing.

it  is 

There  has  never  been  a  time  in  the 
history  of  the  country  when  building 
operations  were  being  pushed  to  the  ex­
tent  now  seen  everywhere. 
In  some 
localities  there  is  serious embarrassment 
on  account  of  the  avalanche  of  orders, 
impossible  to  obtain 
for  which 
materials.  Dealers 
in  structural  steel, 
lumber,  builders’  hardware,  glass,  etc., 
are  doing  a  rushing  business.  As  an 
indication  of  the  confidence  in  the  situ­
ation,  the  wages  of  17,750  glass-workers 
have  been  voluntarily  advanced  15  per 
cent.  Prices  are  firmly  maintained  in 
the  iron  and  steel 
industries  and  the 
works  are  assured  activity  for  months  to

come  on  the  orders  already 

in  hand.
Shipments  of  boots  and  shoes  from 
Boston  show  a  good  gain  over  the  cor­
responding  week  of  last  year. 
In  some 
lines 
it  has  been  found  difficult  to get 
supplies  for  the  shops  fast  enough  to 
meet  the  demand.  Retail  dry  goods 
trading 
satisfactory,  but 
there  is  poor  feeling  among  jobbers and 
manufacturers.  Raw  wool 
is  5c  lower 
than  last  year at  this  time,  which  natur­
ally  discourages  the  growers.  Silks  are 
in  better  demand  and  prices  are  well 
maintained.

is  reported 

A  GREAT  NEGRO.

Self-educated,  handicapped  by  the 
heaviest  social  and  political  weights, 
Booker  T.  Washington  has  taken  the 
leadership  of  his  race  and  of 
race 
thought  by  sheer  force  of  intellectual 
and  moral  character.

His  school  at  Tuskegee,  Ala.,  is  the 
model  and  marvel  of 
its  kind.  His 
addresses,  essays  and  books  command 
the  attention  of  the  English-speaking 
world.

In  a  sense  he  is  a  theorist. 

That  is, 
he  is  treading  an  unknown  way.  But  in 
the  same  sense  all  pioneers  of  thought 
and  action  are  theorists.  So  far  Wash­
ington  has  kept  his  bearings.  So  far 
fruitful  and  flowering  fields  spring  up 
in  his  track.

There  may  be  other and  better  ways 
of  negro  advancement  than  the  Wash­
ington  way,  but  they  have  never  been 
pointed  out.  Certainly  his  way 
is 
plain—it  is  the  way  of  industrial  use­
fulness,  good  citizenship,  sound  morals 
and  pure  religion.  Unless  all  history 
is  at  fault  and  all  philosophy  is  false, 
this  way  will 
lead  to  higher  and  hap­
pier ground.

At  the  moment,  statistics  of  moral­
ity,  insanity,  health,  etc.,  according  to 
the  statisticians,  are  not  encouraging  to 
the  cause  of  negro  education,  but  we  are 
inclined  to  the  opinion  that the  negro 
education  of  the  past  was  not  the  best 
adapted  to  the  negro’s  case. 
It  was  a 
very  different  sort  fro m  the  Washington 
system.  Anyhow,  such  a  character,  such 
a  force,  such  a 
light  as  Booker  T. 
Washington  can  not  pass  in  a  genera­
tion.  Something  must  remain  to  better 
and  to  bless,  for  such  greatness  of  mind 
and  purpose  can  not  be  wholly  wrong.

Indian  Territory,  which  increased  in 
population  from  180,000 to  1890 to  391,- 
000  in  1900,  is  an  aspirant  for  the  same 
territorial  representation  in  Congress  as 
is  now  given  to  its neighbor,  Oklahoma, 
formerly  a  part  of  it.  The  white  popu­
lation  of  the  Indian  Territory  is  largely 
increasing.

in 

That  Pennsylvania  merchant  who  has 
remained 
jail  seven  yeais  for  con­
tempt  of  court  ought to  have  made  the 
court  feel  mighty  small  by  this  time  if 
it  is  as  sensitive  to  contempt  as 
it  ap­
pears  to  have  been.

NOT  ALL  ONE-SIDED.

The  outside 

indications  for a  couple 
of  years  have  been  that  all  Buffalo  and 
Buffalonians  are  stirred  from  center  to 
circumference  with  enthusiam  about  the 
Pan-American  and  have  with  difficulty 
contained  themselves  during  the  dreary 
months of waiting  One  reads  the  excel­
lent  papers  of  that  city  thoroughly with­
out  finding  a  line  indicative  of  discon­
tent  or even  suggesting  a  possibility  of 
local  uneasiness.  It  would appear,  how­
ever,  that  the  natives  talk  the  matter 
over  among  themselves  and  that  visit­
ing  reporters  for other papers have  heard 
some  of  this  gossip  and  have  set  it  in 
printed  circulation.  A  New  York  paper 
the  other  day  published  a  letter  from  a 
correspondent  who  had  been 
looking 
into  Pan-American  matters  and  quotes 
a  Buffalo  lady  as  saying: 
“ Two  years 
ago  all  Buffalo  was  teasing  for  an  ex­
position.  We  have  got  one  now,  and 
now  that  we  have  got  it,  we  wish  the 
Pan-American  was 
in  Borriboola- 
Gbaa.”   That  will  be  criticised  in  pub­
lic  by  the  Buffalo  papers  as  showing 
local  patriotism  and  public 
lack  of 
spirit,  but  perhaps 
in  many  homes  it 
will  strike  a  responsive  chord.

in 

in 

living 

Buffalo  is  a  big  city  and,  as  is  al­
ways  the  case  with  every  city,  its  popu­
lation 
is  made  up  of  people  who  have 
friends  and  relatives  distributed all over 
the  country.  That 
is  an  unusual  com­
munity  of  any  size  which  in  1893  had 
no  relatives  near or  remote  who  lived in 
Chicago,  and  who 
1901  will  have 
none 
in  Buffalo.  Already  the 
mails  from  all  sections  are bringing into 
Erie  county  friendly  letters,  expressing 
interest 
its  residents  and  hinting  at 
an 
intention  to  make  a  long  delayed 
visit  this  summer.  The  Buffalonians 
see  themeslves  playing  the  role  of  indi­
vidual  hosts  ten  thousand 
times  re­
peated.  The  prospect  is  not  altogether 
pleasing,  it  would  appear,  indeed  it 
is 
already  decidedly  appalling. 
Rents 
this  year  took  a  big  bound,  for,  the 
boarding  house  business  promising  to 
be  brisk,  everybody  wanted  to engage in 
it.  All  summer 
long  the  cars,  steam 
and  electric,  will  be  crowded  and  the 
citizens  of  Buffalo  must  stand  up  and be 
jostled 
in  the  jam  or walk  to  and  from 
their  business.  Then,  after  the  expo­
sition  is  over,  the  forced  and  artificial 
prosperity  will  fall  with  a  dull and sick­
ening  thud.  They  are  already beginning 
to  think  about  that  and  the  prospect 
is 
not  pleasing.  The  number  of  old  ac­
quaintances  and  friendships  which  will 
be  renewed  with  Buffalo  residents  this 
season  promises  to  be  something  pro­
digious,  and  far  off  relatives  are  com- 
ing  to  eat  a  good  people  out  of  house 
and  home.  This  is  a  phase  of  the  case 
which  Buffalonians  did  not  consider two 
years  ago  when  they  were  crying for  the 
exposition,  but  they  can  be  depended 
upon  to  meet  the  situation  bravely  and 
make  the  best  of  it.

China  has  been  charged  with  about 
$250,000,000.  AH  that  remains  to  be 
done  is  to  collect  it.

Some  men  have  a  gallon  of  words to 

every  spoonful  of  thoughts.

Now  a  fugitive  from  justice  has  been 
It  will  soon  be 
captured  in  Chicago. 
in  the  Windy  City  to ask 
the  fashion 
the  stranger within  the  gates “ What was 
your  name before you came to Chicago?”

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Petting the People

Some  M erchants  Should  W rite T heir Own 

Advertisem ents.

Probably  the  most  subtile  difficulty 
the  writer of advertisements  has  to  con­
tend  with 
is  that  of  putting  himself  in 
the  place  of  the  reader.

This 

is  a  difficulty  which  militates 
strongly  against the  success of those  best 
posted,  technically,  in  the  trade  con­
cerned.  This  fact  is  often  adduced  as 
a  strong  argument  in  favor of the claims 
of the  professional  advertisement  writer 
as  opposed  to  the  merchant's  doing  his 
own  work  in  that  line. 
I  am  not  pre­
pared  to yield to this argument,  although 
there  may  be  other  reasons  why  it is ad­
visable  to  employ  assistance.  One  fal­
lacy  as  to  this  proposition  lies  in  the 
fact  that  the  merchant—or some  one  as 
well  posted,  technically—must give  the 
writer  the  points  to  be  considered  and, 
in  doing  so,  as  strong  technicalities  are 
conveyed  unconsciously,  and  are  em­
ployed  by  the  writer,  as  the  merchant 
would  naturally  use  himself.  The  same 
care  to give  the  right  data  to  the  assist­
ant  would  eliminate  this  objection  from 
his  own  work.

I  do  not  mean  to  assert  that  the  pro­
fessional  advertisement-writer  may  not 
be  so  drilled 
in  the  principles  of  his 
work  as  to be able  to  obviate  this  objec­
tion. 
It  would  be  nonsensical  to  en­
trust  the  preparation  of  matter  for  the 
great  specialties  and proprietary articles 
to  any  who  is  not  competent  to  deal 
with  this  problem  in  the  most  effective 
manner.  But  this  sort  of  assistance  is 
not  at  the  disposal  of  every  country 
merchant;  and  the  mistake  that  is made 
is 
in  accepting  any  one  with  a  facility 
for  jingling  words  together and thinking 
that  the  quality  of  the  work  will  be  su­
perior  to  what  the  merchant  could  do 
himself.  As  I  said  before,  the  merchant 
is  apt  to  convey  to  his  writer all  the  ob- 
jectional  technicality  and  the  result  is 
not  as  successful  as  would  be  the  work 
from  first  hands.

The  merchant  knows  best  what  he 
wants  to  sell. 
If  he  has given  the  mat­
ter consideration,  as he  must  do  more  or 
less 
if  he  is  his  own  buyer—certainly 
more  than  any  outsider—he  knows  the 
salient  features  that  will  commend  the 
goods  to  his  trade.

There are  merchants—successful  deal­
ers,  too—who  can  not  write  advertise­
ments.  Of  course,  these  should  recog­
nize  that  fact  and  secure  the  best  assist­
ance  obtainable.  But  there  are  many 
others  who  could  write  successfully  but 
fail  to  discover that  fact.  These  intrust 
the  work  often  to  less  competent  hands 
which,  in  addition,  lack  his  complete 
knowledge  of  the  subject.

To  get  rid  of  technicalities  it  is  nec­
essary  to  put  oneself  in  the  customer’s 
place.  In  selling  the  goods  the salesman 
instinctively  does  this  to  a  considerable 
extent.  The  advertisement  writer  must 
do the  same  intelligently.  He  must  ask 
himself  what  there 
is  to  be  described 
that  will  interest the customer and create 
the  desire  to  know  more. 
It  may  be  a 
matter  of  quality  or  novelty  or  price, 
etc.,  or a  combination  of  these.

I  wish  to  emphasize  the  assertion  that 
many  merchants  make  a  mistake  in  not 
being  their own  advertisement-writers— 
no  doubt  some  make  the  opposite  mis­
take.  Do  not  trust  too  much  to  the 
lack  of 
amateur  word-jingler  whose 
knowledge  of  the  peculiar  needs 
is 
greater than  his  modesty  as  a  publicist. 
Some  merchants  make  the  mistake  of 
devoting  the  few  moments  they  may  be

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Department Store
Row are von? We  represent  the  GEM 

I 
GARflENT  COnPANY,
I  and »re going to  show  you  hereafter  regular  Gem  Gar- 
I  menu.  Knowing  my  customers  and  the  Gem Garment 
I  Company for  years  we  want  you  to  try  JU ST   ONE of 
their Ladies'  Shirt  Waists.  1  wont  take your time here 
telling you how  well  they  lit,  how  easy  they  feel, what 
nice patterns and how they wear, as you will find out and 
had ought to know by past experience, they hare come to 
Btay and we are the agents.  Everything  you get from  us 
will fit.  If it don't send it back.  Remember if you want 
something fine as to fit, wear, style, ease  and  comfort try 
a Gem Garment. 

Sold only by
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Phln Smith...

WARNE’S
PHARMACY
Filíe FisljiiTackle.

HEADQUARTERS  FOR

B A SK E T S,  BO XES,  ETC.

Erei viliiti^ you need tor your fishing trip-.

We  Should  Be  Pleased 
To  Preve  Our  Claims

F.  C. WARNE.

FOR  SATURDAY.

Fancy  Cucumbers,  Spinach,  Round 
Radishes.  Asparagus,  Green  Onions, 
Lettuce,  Wax  Beans  and  Tomatoes.

FRESH  STRAW BERRIES  FOR 

SUNDAY  SHORTCAKE.

TABLE  DELICACIES.

Royal  Salad  Dressing,  all  kinds  of 
Bottled  Olives.  Brandied  Figs,  Crosse 
&  Blackwell’s  Pickles, etc.

All  goods  warranted  strictly  first* 

class.

•£>  <*> 

6LENN  & VAU  DEUSEN,  Fiicy Grocers

(Successore  to C.  C.  Longstreet)

CARRIAGES.

I have the finest  lot  of  Carriages 
in  Kent  County,  also

V

FARM  WAGONS,  ROAD 
WAGONS,  ROAD  CARTS, 
AND  SU R R E Y S........
Call  and  inspect  them.  The  prices  will 
astonish  you,  they’re  so  cheap.

Fred  H ubbard,

. 

CEDAR  SPRINGS,  MICH.

Giltedge  furnaces! i

Wood  and  Coal.

....... Mil

A  Few  of the  users  in  Allegan  :

Judge  Philip  Patlgham, 
H. C.  Weeks, 
Dr. W.  H.  Bills, 
John  Granger. 
Leonard  Stein, 
First National Bank,

J . W.  Chad dock, 
H.  D.  Moore,
C.  R   Wilkes,
Walter Knapp-2
H. CoykendaJl,
M. DeWright.

Twenty-four la use in  different parts 
of Allegan  and  vicinity.

John  F. Drvden,

Furnacemon.

EVER.YJ» 
•T FAMILY

Believes  in  Ir.ving  the 
best the market affords 
when  it  can  lie  hud  as 
cheap and reasonable as 
otherwise.  We  aim  to 
please  and  seldom  fail 
doing so.  Our aim  is to 
keep a neat and thomly 
reliable grocery, always 
first in the market with 
new  vegetables,  fruits, 
etc., and  the  many oih 
er delicacies  desired  at 
this season of the year.

S. E . Hosmer &  Co.

Moie  Oram  Promptly  Attested  i.

ju k .

Automobiles !
T H E MOBILE

Manufactured  by 

the 

M obile Company  o f 

America.

KALAMAZOO  CYCLE  CO.,

Agenta.

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The
Spring and 
Summer 
Stock is 
all in. 
Styles are 
correct 
__  and fit 
js  perfect.
I James 
g Fleming,

«Jot D ow n  

T h is  P a c t,

That  when  you  want  clothes  that 
will give only the  best satisfaction  in 
wear, fit  and  finish;  clothes  that  will 
suit not only yourself,  but your wife, 
and your friends, clothes that will give 
the distinction of being a perfect* 
ly  dressed  man,  come  to  the  tailor 
who makes s   specialty  of suoh  cloth­
ing.  Upstairs  expenses.  Downstair 
satisfaction.

ÁRV1DS0N,  ™Tailor,

Orer ISA S.  Burdick 8 t

able  to  snatch  from  pressure  of other 
duties  to  this  important  work.  Each 
should  be  the  best  judge  as  to  whether 
be  should 
lessen  his  other  work  or en­
trust  the  writing  to  other hands,  if  rea­
sonably  competent  ones  are  available, 
Deliberation  and  study  are  essentials  to 
successful  work  in  this  line,  and  if  they 
can  be  given  by  the  one  most  interested 
the  better  for the  result.  But  each must 
know  his  own  qualifications  and  limita­
tions  best. 
It  is  necessary,  however,  to 
have  one’s  attention  called  to  the  sub­
ject  to  induce  a  consideration  of  his 
own  abilities.

*  *  *

Phin  Smith  writes  an  advertisement 
for  his  shirtwaist  trade  which  is  a  curi­
osity  for  smartness  of  expression,  but  it 
is  a  question  whether the  familiarity  of 
this  style  is  attractive  to  the  majority  of 
customers.  Much  of the  writing  is  with­
out  particular  meaning  as,  for  instance, 
the  first  half  of  the  third*  sentence. 
There  is  in  the  production  material  for 
a  good  advertisement,  but  it  needs  re­
writing  on  a  more  sensible  plan.  The 
compositor  would  have  done  better to 
use  smaller  and 
lighter  display  type 
with  the  light  border.  The  paragraph 
is  too  solid  looking  to  be  generally  read 
—less  words,  more  sense  and  more 
white  paper  would  have  made  a  good 
advertisement.

F.  C.  Warne  writes  a  good  advertise­
ment,  but  is  badly  seconded  by  his 
printer.  The  ragged  look  given  to the 
ornaments  and  the  selection  of  type  is 
very  unfortunate.  The proportioning  of 
the  display  and  the  white  space  is  bad. 
It 
is  one  of those  cases  where  the  best 
plan  is  to  begin  again.

improved 

Glenn  &  Van  Deusen  have  a carefully 
written  advertisement  which  could  be 
much 
in  the  printing.  For 
instance,  too  much  room  is  given  to the 
badly  spaced  display  lines  and  useless 
ornaments  at  the  left  and  not enough  to 
the  lists  of  articles.

Fred  Hubbard  writes  an  advertise­
ment  which 
is  to  the  point  and  is  well 
proportioned  to  the  space.  His  first 
assertion  is  a  little  too sweeping  to have 
force,  as  many  of  his  readers'* might 
think,  whether correctly  or not,  that  his 
collection  might  be  exceeded 
in  this 
statement  of  this  kind 
city.  Every 
weakens  the  assertion. 
The  display 
would  have  been  improved  by  making 
the  signature  a  little  smaller,  to  corres­
pond  with  the  address.

John  F.  Dryden  gives  a  carefully 
prepared  and  very  effective  furnace  ad­
vertisement.  The  wording  is  sufficient, 
although  about  as  simple  as  it  can  be, 
and  the  proportioning  to  the  space  is 
exceptionally  well  done.  The  use of  so 
much  fine  border  would  be  an  objection 
in  a  poorly-printed  paper,  but  as 
it 
works  here,  contrasted  with  moderately 
heavy  type,  the  result 
is  exceptionally 
good.

S.  E.  Hosmer  &  Co.  start  out  with 
an  axiom  which  may  interest  enough  to 
gain  a  reading  of  the  paragraph.  The 
printer has  done  bis  work judiciously.
The  Kalamazoo  Cycle  Co.  adheres  to 
the  use  of  the  astonisher  in  the  first  line 
with  no  excuse  except  to  make  it fill up. 
The  advertisement 
is  simple  and  the 
printer’s  work  would  have  been  good  if 
je  had  used  more  white  space  inside 
border.

James  Fleming  writes  a  simple  state­
ment  which  may  be  sufficient  if  his  lo­
cation  is  well  advertised. 
It  would  do 
no  harm  to  give  room  for an address.

Mr.  Arvidson  gives  the  most 

impor­
tant  display^  in  his  advertisement  a 
small  space  in  the  lower  right  hand cor­
ner. 
I  think  the  display  of  generalities 
like  the  first  lines  of  this advertisement, 
having  no  relation  to anything,  is a poor 
use  o f space.

W.  H.  Benedict  knows  how  to  write 
a  good  grass  seed  advertisement  and his 
printer  has  done  bis  work  well.  The 
iorder  is  adapted  only  to a  well-printed 
paper.

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u n p r o f it a b l e :  c u s t o m e r s.

Pen  P icture  of  One  Type  of  a  Large 

Class.

He 

is  a  thin  faced  little  man  with  a 
black  beard,  and  one  of  the  most  care­
ful 
in  his  business  methods  that  you 
ever  saw.  They  say  up  in  his  part  of 
the  country  that  he  stops  his  clock  Sat­
urday  night  and  starts 
it  going  again 
Monday  morning  to  save  the  machinery 
as  much  as  possible.  He  is  the  man 
who  carries  his  shoes  in  his  band  until 
he  gets  within  sight  of  the  village, 
wears  them while  in  town and goes home 
barefoot. 
It  may  be  inferred  from  the 
foregoing  that  Mr.  Smith  is  not a  profit­
able  customer.

Still  that  has  nothing  to  do  with  the. 
story 
in  hand.  He  came  in  one  bitter 
cold  day  last  winter,  and  after  warming 
himself  at  the  stove asked  if  we had any 
good  butter.  We  had.  Was  it  good? 
Of  course.  No  butter  ever  entered  or 
left  our  store  that  was  not  gilt  edged, 
rose  scented  and  touched  with 
the 
magic  wand  of  ever blooming  youth. 

“ How  do  you  sell  it?”
“ Twenty-five  cents.”
“ Twenty-five  cents?”
“ Y es.”
“ A  pound?”
“ Y es;  that’s  the  price.”
“ Gee!  Pretty  steep,  ain’t  you?”  
“ No,  not the  way  the  market  is  now. 
You  see,there  is  hardly  any  butter  com­
ing 
in,  and  we  have  trouble  to  get 
enough  to  supply  our trade  at  the  pres­
ent  price. ”

“ But  that’s  an  awful  pile  of  money— 
twenty-five  cents  for a  pound  of  butter. 
I ’ ve  sold 
lots  and  lots  of  it  for  a  shil­
lin’  and  fifteen  cents.”

“ I  don’t  doubt  that  a  bit,  but  it 
wasn’t  at  this  time  of  year. 
If  you'll 
wait  until  next  summer  I  suppose  I 
can  sell  you  butter cheaper than  that.”  
“ Mebbe  you  kin,  but  that’s  the  worst 
of  it.  Next  summer  I’ ll  have  enough 
of  my  own,  and  you  won’t  want  to  pay 
me  nothin’  for  it.”

“ I ’ll pay you  as much  as  I  would  any­
one,  providing  your  butter  is  all  right. 
In  order to get  the best prices for things, 
you  must  have  them  when  the  demand 
is  the  best  and  the supply the smallest.”  
“ Tell  you  what  I ’ll  do.  I ’ll  buy  some 
from  you  now,  and  pay  you  for  it  in 
butter  next  summer  when  we’re  making 
lots  of  it. ’ ’

“ All  right,  I ’ ll  do  that.  Anything  to 

be  accommodating.”

“ Well,  then  give  me  two  pounds,  and 
I ’ ll  bring  you  back  two  pounds  for  it 
about  the  first  of  June.”

“ No,  I  don’t  think  I ’d  like  to  play 
that  way. 
If  I  sell  you  fifty  cents' 
worth  of  butter now,  you’ll  have to bring 
fifty  cents’  worth  when  you  settle  for 
it.”

“ Well,  but  a  pound  of  butter’s  a 

pound  of  butter,  ain’t  it?”

“ I  suppose  it  is.  But  I  shouldn’t  like 
to  sell  you  fifty  cents’  worth  of  goods 
now  and  take  25 cents  for it next spring. 
How 
long  do  you  suppose  we  could 
keep  store  if  we  did  business  that  way? 
I ’d  rather get  paid  for  it  now,  and  then 
give  you  the  market  price  for  your  but­
ter  when  you  bring  it.”

“ But  I ’d  be  giving  you  two  for one 

that  w ay.”

“ Maybe  you  would.  But  how  would 
you  like  to  sell  me  butter  next  summer 
at  a  shilling  and  take  y6ur  pay in butter 
next  winter at  twenty-five?  You  see,the 
rule  works  both  ways.  All  we  want 
is 
the  market  price  for  the  goods,  and 
that’s  all 
first 
place. ’ ’

I  asked  you 

in  the 

“ Butter’s  too  high  for a  poor  man  to 

eat  now,  anyway.”

That  was  a  statement  that couldn't  be 

disputed.  After  a  while  he  said: 

“ Lemme  see  your butter.”
The 

inspection  was  made,  and  the 

comments  ran  thus:

Them 

“ That  ain’t  very  good  butter,  that 
there. 
It  tastes  kinder  mouldy,  like. 
Lemme  see  that  roll  over there.  There, 
that’s  better,  only,  whew!  it’s  full  of 
salt. 
folks  what  made  that 
wa’n’t  afeerd  of  their salt  none,  nor 
nothin’.  How’s  that 
in  the  little  jar? 
That’s  all  right,  I  guess.  Say,  couldn’t 
you  lemme  have  some of  that  for twenty 
cents? 
I  wouldn’t  never tell  no  one. ”  
“ I  don’t  see  how  I  could.  We  paid 

twenty-three  for  it.”

“ Ob,  you  can  do  it  all  right  enough 
if  you  want  to.  You  know  I ’ve  spent 
lots  of  money  in  your store.  You’d bet­
ter. 
I ’ve  got to  shoe  up  all  my  family 
when  it  comes  spring,  and  you’ ll  make 
twice  over what  you’d  lose  on  the  but­
ter. ’ ’

“ I  couldn’t  possibly  sell  it  less  than 
the  price.  We  have  trouble  now  in 
keeping  enough  good  butter  on  hand  to 
supply  our customers.”
■  “ Say,  twenty-five  cents  is  awful  steep 
for  butter. 
I  wouldn’t  buy  none,  only 
that  the  woman's  sick,  and  she’s  be’n 
hankerin’  fer some  fer about  two weeks.
I  told  her  if  she  wouldn’t  keep  her 
mind  on 
it  all  the  time  she’d  soon  get 
over  it,  and  we  could  save  the  money 
for  a  new  cultivator. 
I ’ve  got  to  have 
one  in  the  spring.  Meat  fryings  and 
flour gravy’s good enough fer a ’ most any­
body,  and  cultivators  cost a  ter’ble  lot 
now.  H ain’t  you  got  no  butter  fer  less 
than  twenty-five?”

We  had  some  cooking  butter 

that 
could  have  been  sold  for considerably 
less,  bnt  I  thought  of  the  poor  woman 
lying  there  all  those  days  without  the 
one  thing  that  she  craved  so  much,  and 
I  told  a 
lie  that  I  hope  the  recording 
angel  made  allowances  for in a marginal 
note.

“ No,  this is  all  we  have.”
“ Say,”   said  he  with  a  sudden  spasm 
of 
liberality,  “ if  I  was  to  buy  half  a 
pound  of  that  butter,  d’ye  think  you 
could  do 
it  up  so’s  ’twouldn’t  melt  on 
me  going  home?”

“ Then  wrap 

Here  was  a  question  of  magnitude. 
Butafter due  deliberation and,consider­
ing  the  fact  that  the  thermometer  stood 
at  about  zero,  I  risked  the  assertion  that 
the  deed  could  be  done.
it  up. 

I  hope  the  wo­
man’ll  be  satisfied  when  she  gets  this. 
She  may  holler  a 
little  because  ther’ 
hain’t  more  of  it,  but when  folks  is  poor 
they’ve  got  to  be  careful.  My  old  father 
always  had  that  fer his  motto,  and  he 
knowed  what  he  was  talking  about,  too. 
Let  me  have  three  plugs  of  chewin’  and 
I ’ll  get  along  toward  home. 
I  s’pose 
the  woman’ ll  be  ravin’  crazy 
if  she 
don’t  get  that  butter  pretty  soon.”

George  Crandall  Lee.

Did  Not  Pray  F or B utter.

is  a 

Olivia 

little  girl  who  was  on  a 
visit  to her grandparents.  She  was  well 
acquainted  with  the  Lord's  prayer,  but 
did  not  say  it  at  night.  The  other even­
ing  at  bedtime  she  repeated  her “ Now 
I 
lay  me”   as  grandma  sat  beside  her 
cot. 
Just  as  good-nights  were  about  to 
be  exchanged  she  remembered  about 
the  Lord’s  prayer and  said :

“ When  I ’m  home  I  sometimes  pray 

to  God  to  bring  us  bread.”

“ Do  you,  dear?”  said  grandma,  “ and 

butter,  too,  I  suppose?”

“ Nope, 

I  don’t  pray 

for  butter, 
’cause  the  butter  man  brings  it.  Goo’ 
night,  gramma.”

Values

When  placing  your  or­
der for  Fall  1901  the  ques­
tion of V A LU E  should en­
ter into consideration.

Our  salesmen  will  start 
in a  few days  to  show  you 
the  best  V A LU ES  ever 
placed  before you.

Our  CLOTHING 

la­
beled  with  the accompany­
ing  trade  mark  stands  to­
day  the  acknowledged  un­
excelled  clothing  for  tail­
oring,  designing,  style  and 
smartness.

Should our salesmen not 
call to  explain  the  impor­
tant facts about  our  cloth­
ing,  write for  sample  gar­
ments.

M.  Wile  &  Co.

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Sold only by the best house through the  best  salesmen 

to the best merchants.

Olney  & Judson  Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rapids,

Roasters.

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Around the State

M ovements of M erchants.

New  Buffalo—Fred  Schrader  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  F.  A.  Sieb.
Caro—Geo.  P.  James  succeeds  James 
&  Ayers  in  the  flour and  feed  business.
Frontier—Marion  Hadox  has  pur­
chased  the  meat market of Ralph Blount.
Albion—W.  H.  Rogers  has  opened
his  new  shoe  store  in  the  Perkins block.
St.  Clair—Geo.  Beyschlag  has  pur­
chased  the  meat  market  of  Wm.  Lind­
say.

Manistee—August  Holmes  succeeds 
in  the  meat  busi­

Holmes  &  Carlson 
ness.

Kalamazoo—N.  N.  Davison  succeeds 
Davison  &  Moore  in  the  bakery  busi­
ness.

Frankfort—F.  O.  Wickham  has  sold 
his  hardware  stock  to  C.  F.  &  B.  M. 
Collier.

Wyandotte—Martin  &  Craig  continue 
the  hardware  business  of  Mace,  Martin 
&  Craig.

Belleville—John  S.  Wright  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  Albert  A. 
Chesman.

Eureka—E li  Kirby  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  and  meat  market  to  Geo. 
Manning.

Willow—Chas.  H.  Mooney  has  sold 
his  general  merchandise  stock  to  Avery 
J.  Chi Ison.

Colfax—Jos.  F.  Fournier,  dealer  in 
general  merchandise,  has  removed  his 
stock  to  Bay  City.

Kalamazoo—Vanderbilt  &  Gildea suc­
ceed  the  Chicago  Coffee  Co.  in  the  tea 
and  coffee business.

Detroit—Harry  Bates  has  purchased 
the  grocery,  flour  and  feed  stock  of  F. 
Schumacher  &  Son.

Pontiac—J.  W.  Hart  &  Co.,  dealers 
in  flour,  feed,  coal  and  hay,  have  sold 
out to A.  J.  Johnson.

Lansing—L.  W.  Hull  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the grocery 
firm  of  Hull  &  Lewis.

Jasper—Deland  &  Burt,  general  deal­
I.  M. 

ers,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
Burt  continues  the  business.

Ann  Arbor—Wm.  E.  Pardon 

is  suc­
in  the  grocery  and  meat  busi­

ceeded 
ness  by  Overbeck  &  Klinger.

Quincy—C.  E.  Wise,  engaged  in  the 
department  store  business  here,  has  re­
moved  his  stock  to  Coldwater.

Moline—E.  C.  Nevins  is  erecting  a 
building  to  be  used  as  a  drug  store, 
postoffice  and  bicycle  repair  shop.

Port  Huron—Davy & Co.  continue  the 
formerly  conducted 

grocery  business 
under the  style  of  Spring  &  Davy.

Bellevue—H.  H.  Maatch  has  engaged 
in  the  meat  business.  He  purchased  the 
market  belonging  to  J.  W.  Madison.

South  Haven—The  East  Side  meat 
market  has  changed  hands,  H.  L.  Dag­
gett  having  sold  out  to  R.  Goodrode.

Eaton  Rapids—The  Eaton  Rapids 
Co-operative  Association  succeeds  Wm. 
Brahmer  &  Co.  in  the  grocery  business.
Mendon—Frank  Austin  continues  the 
lumber  and  builders’  material  business 
of  Beckley  &  Austin  in  his  own  name.
Nashville—T.  J.  Navue  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  to  H.  C.  Glasner,  of  Cen­
terville,  formerly  proprietor of  the busi­
ness.

Copemish—McGuire  &  Gleason,  agri­
cultural  implement  dealers,  have  added 
a  store  room  to their  building  ioo  feet 
deep.

Harbor  Springs—Benj. 

Segal  has 
added  a  line  of carpets  and  millinery  to 
his  stock  of  men’s  furnishings,  clothing 
and  dry  goods.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Deerfield—W.  F.  Weisinger  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  his  partner  in 
the  general  merchandise  firm  of Weisin­
ger  &  Salisbury.

St.  Joseph—Mrs.  S.  E .  Bradford  has 
purchased  the 
interest  of  Miss  Sophia 
Komitch  in  the  millinery  firm  of  Brad­
ford  &  Komitch.

Flint—Hewes &  Hopkins have merged 
their  drug  and  grocery  business  into a 
copartnership  under the  style  of  Hewes 
&  Hopkins,  Limited.

Horton—L.  W.  Delavan  has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  Clinton  Joseph,  formerly 
of  Quincy,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Saginaw—Chester A.  Record,  former­
ly  with  Hammond,  Standish  &  Co., 
has  entered  the  employ  of  the  Saginaw 
Cold  Storage  &  Produce  Co.

Sebewaing—F.  W.  Hubbard  and  John 
Ryan  have  sold  their  private  bank  at 
Sanilac  Center  to  B.  R.  Noble  &  Co., 
who  will  shortly  merge  it  into  a  State 
bank.

Kalamazoo—H.  H.  Boylan  &  Son 

is 
the  style  of  the  new  firm  formed  to  suc­
ceed  Thayer  &  Boylan  in  the  agricul­
tural 
implement,  wagon  and  harness 
business.

Muskegon—A.  E .  Diephuis,  for  the 
past  two  years  in  the  employ  of  Ole 
Peterson  &  Co.,  grocers,  has  engaged 
in  the  boot  and  shoe  business  on  his 
own  account.

Ann  Arbor—John  Goetz,  senior mem­
ber  of  the grocery,  flour and  feed  firm  of 
John  Goetz  &  Son,  has  retired  from  the 
business.  Wm.  Goetz  will  conduct  the 
business  hereafter.

Chelsea—Kempf  &  Co.,  dealers  in 
lumber,  lime,  produce  and  poultry,  are 
succeeded  in  the  lumber and grain busi­
ness  by  the  Wm.  Bacon-Holmes  Lum­
ber,  Grain  &  Coal  Co.

Fenwick—S.  H.  Rinker,  general  deal­
er,  was  nearly  suffocated  one  day  last 
week  while  endeavoring  to  assist  a 
neighbor  in  saving  his  household  effects 
from  destruction  by  fire.

Eastmanvi lie—S.  Lieffers  has  moved 
into  the  store  building  which  has  lately 
been  repaired  for him.  He  will carry  a 
general 
line  of  goods,  including  berry 
boxes  and  patent  medicines.

Leesburg—G.  M.  Hudson  has  sold 
his  stock  of  general  merchandise  to 
Bradford  Bros.  They will  also  have  the 
management  of  the  Thomas  warehouse 
and  engage  in  the  grain  business.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Rossa  Barr, 

for­
merly  with  the  Soo  Supply  Co.,  has 
purchased  the  interest  of John  Mosher 
in  the  grocery  firm  of  H.  J.  Ramsey  & 
Co.  The  style  remains  the  same.

Traverse  City—Frank  Meads,  for sev­
eral  years  employed  in  the  drug  store  of 
James  G.  Johnson,  has  decided  to  en­
gage 
in  business  for  himself  and  has 
purchased  the  drug stock of  P.  W.  Kane.
Newaygo—The  report  that  J.  H.  Ed­
wards  &  Son  had  sold  their  hardware 
stock  to  Alfred  Tyler,  of South  Haven, 
is  denied  by  the  former,  who announce 
their  intention  of indefinitely continuing 
the  business  at  the  old  stand.

Milan—Webb  Blackmer,  who  has 
been 
in  Dakota  for the  past  year,  has 
formed  a  copartnership  with  E .  A. 
Farrington  to  continue  the  grocery  and 
crockery  business  of  Hitchcock  &  Far­
rington.  M.  W.  Hitchcock  has  retired 
from  trade.

Saginaw—At  the  last  meeting  of the 
Saginaw  Butchers’  Association  resolu­
tions  were  adopted  authorizing 
the 
butchers  to  close  their  shops  at 6130 
every  evening,  excepting  Monday  and 
Saturday,  and  also  abolishing  the  open­
ing  of  the  stores  Sunday  morning.

About  ninety  butchers  were  present  and 
signified  their  intention  of  abiding  by 
the  resolutions.

Lansing—Anson  R.  Hardy,  adminis­
trator  of  the  estate  of  the  late  Geo.  O. 
Young,  has this  week  sent  checks  to  the 
creditors  of the  deceased  to the  amount 
of 6  per cent,  of their  claims.  The out­
standing  debts  were. $3,501.82  and  the 
net  assets  available 
for  the  creditors 
were $217.60.

Detroit—Wright,  Kay  &  Co.  have 
limited  partnership. 
filed  articles  of 
Those  composing  the  partnership  are 
Henry  M.  Wright  and  John  Kay as  gen­
eral  patrners,  and  Jacob  S.  Farrand, 
Jr.,  Albert  M.  Henry,  Harry  Milward 
and  Maria  A.  Milward  as  special  part­
ners. 
Jacob  S.  Farrand,  Jr.,  has  con­
tributed  $35,000;  Albert  M.  Henry, 
$25,000,  and  Harry  Milward  and  Maria 
A.  Milward  $12,500  each  to  the  part­
nership  funds.  The  partnership  began 
May  3  and  is  to  continue  until  May  3, 
1906.

M anufacturing  M atters.

Ashley—The  new  stave  mill  of  C.  E. 
Chittenden  has  been  completed  and  is 
running.

Onawav—R .  H.  Cates 

is  to  erect  a 
flooring  mill  here  which  will  employ 
twenty-five  men.

St.  Johns—Wm.  Tucker  is  succeeded 
by  Fred  D.  Parks  in  the  cigar  manu­
facturing  business.

Williamston—Young  &  Kinne  have 
purchased  the cigar manufacturing  busi­
ness  of  Ed.  Dakin.

Detroit—The  Frisbie  Manufacturing 
Co.,  manufacturer  of  bluing  and  ex­
its  business 
tracts,  has  merged 
into 
a  corporation  under the  same  style.

Adrian—The  Economy  stove  factory, 
located  at  Somerset  Center,  will  shortly 
be  removed  to  this  place.  It  is  expected 
that  operations  will  begin  by  July  1.

Vanderbilt—D.  B.  Lisk  is  building  a 
small  sawmill  two  miles  south  of  this 
place.  A  tram  road  two  miles  long will 
be  built  from  the  mill  into  a  tract  of 
timber.

Ypsilanti—Worden  &  Whitman,  ma­
chinists  and  manufacturers  of toys,  have 
dissolved  partnership. 
The  business 
will  be  continued  under the  style  of  A. 
Worden  &  Son.

Standish—The  Michigan  Manufactur­
ing  &  Mercantile  Co.,  general  dealer 
and  manufacturer  of  staves  and  head­
ing,  has  sold 
its  merchandise  stock 
to  Francis  &  Grow.

West  Haven—The  Callard  Bros.  Fur­
niture  Co.  has  received  propositions  to 
remove  its  plant  to Alma  and Mt.  Pleas­
ant.  The  reason  for  making  a  change 
is  to  secure  better shipping  facilities.

Gaylord—The  company  composed  of 
Charles  C.  Rogers,  of  Kane,  Pa.,  and 
other  Pennsylvania  men  is preparing  to 
build  a 
large  sawmill  plant  at  Logan 
Crossing,  between  this  place  and  Van­
derbilt.

Gagetown—The  Frutchey,  McGeorge 
&  Co.  elevator,  which  burned  down

here  last  winter,  will  be  rebuilt.  Ar­
ticles  of  agreement  have  been  signed  by 
the  company  and  five  of  our  business 
men,  the  latter  taking  a  half  interest  in 
the  erection  of  a  $5,000  building,  which 
is  to  be  an  up-to-date  grain  elevator 
with  gasoline  engine  and  50,000  bushel 
capacity.

Detroit—Wm.  T.  Livingston  has 
merged  his  yeast  manufacturing  busi­
ness  into  à  corporation  under  the  style 
of the  Silver  Yeast  Manufacturing  Co., 
with  a  capital  of $25,000,  fully  paid  in. 
The  stockholders  are : 
John  M.  Dwyer, 
David  D.  Cady,  Byron  E.  Hamlin, 
James  H.  Baldwin,  Wilbur  G.  Squier, 
William  T.  Livingston  and  Edward 
Telfer,  250  shares  each ;  LeRoy  T. 
Spencer, 
J. 
Campbell,  G u y .B .  Cady,  William  J. 
Vbay  and  D.  B.  Strickler,  125  shares 
each ;  Charles  N.  Brown,  50  shares.

shares ;  Sedgwick 

200 

Detroit—When  the  proposed  iron  fur­
nace  at  Delray  was  first  projected  it was 
expected  to  make  the  capital  stock 
$750,000,  but  it  is  now  given  out  that  so 
many  men  were  anxious  to invest money 
in  the  new  industry  that $1,000,000  has 
already  been  subscribed,  and  that  it 
is 
now  proposed  to  raise  the  capital  to 
$1,500,000.  Andrew Green,  of the  Solvay 
works,who  has  been  pushing  the  project 
along,  appears  to  be  filling  others  with 
his  faith  that  Detroit  would  be  one  of 
the  best  points  on  the  lakes  for the man­
ufacture  of  iron  and  steel  products,  and 
there  are  many  predictions  of big things 
in  store  for  the 
iron  plant  at  Delray. 
is  expected  that  with  the  establish­
It 
industry  a  train  of other 
ment  of  this 
plants  using 
iron  will  be  built  in  this 
vicinity.

Welcomes th e  Day  of Relief.

Hart,  May  4—The  wail  of  a  discour­
aged  shipper  which  appeared  in  your 
valued  paper  is  entitled  to  careful  con­
sideration.  The  poor devil  has  my  sym­
pathy  and 
1  think  every  shipper along 
this 
line  would  put  band  and  shoulder 
to any  project  that  would  give  us  relief 
in  the  shipping  business.  We  never 
before  experienced  the  annoyance  in se­
curing  cars  and  the  hold-up  that  we 
have  the  past  winter.  Then,  too,  the 
matter  of  over  freights  has  been  very 
I  now  have  over  $150  in 
annoying. 
claims  that 
it  will  take  a  year to  get. 
In  proof  of  this,  I  cite  this  case :  On 
March  9,  1900,  I  made  a  claim  for  over 
freights  and  March  15  of  this  year  re­
ceived  a  check  for the amount.  It makes 
a  pretty  good  thing  for  the  railroad 
company 
if  it  has  the  use  of $150 or 
more  of  every  shipper  who  is  doing 
business  along  the  line.  I sincerely hope 
that  Discouraged  Shipper  will  find  a 
way  out  of  the  trouble  that  we  can  all 
share  in. 

Sympathizer.

New  Schedule  for G ranulated.

The  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ 
Association  promulgated  a  new  granu­
lated  sugar card  on  May  6,  as  follows :

6 lA  cents  per  pound.
4  pounds  for  25  cents.
8  pounds  for  50 cents.
16  pounds  for  $1.
For  G illies’  N.  Y.  tea,all kinds,grades 

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company

Jobbers

MILL  SUPPLIES

I r o n   P ip e ,  F it t in g s ,  V a l v e s,  E n g in e   T r im m in g s,  E t c .,  E t c . 

ao  Pearl  Street 

PUMPS  AND  W E L L   SUPPLIES

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

M.  O.  BAKER  & CO.
Want  to  buy  Potatoes—Carlots.

TOLEDO,  OHIO 

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The G rain  M arket.

Wheat has had  rather a  hard  time  dur­
ing  the  week. 
It  has  been  raided  by 
the  bears  in  order  to  depress  prices, 
notwithstanding  conditions  seem  to  fa­
vor an  advance,  as  the  visible  showed  a 
good  decrease  of  1,680,000.  Exports  are 
heavy,  as  usual,  Argentine  only  ship­
ping  9 0 0 , 0 0 0   bushels,  against  2 , 8 0 0 , 0 0 0  
bushels 
last  year.  However,  the  fine 
growing  weather  seems  to count for more 
than  all  the  strong  features.  The market 
for  May  finally  was  2c  under  last  week. 
Another thing  that  is  against  the  price 
of  wheat  is  the  large  speculation in rail­
road  and 
industrial  stocks,  which  at 
present  absorbs  the  speculative  minds, 
but,  taking  ail  things 
into  considera­
tion,  we  fail  to  see  any  good reason  why 
wheat  should  be  so  low.  While  wheat 
from  farmers’  wagons  in  the  U.  K.  has 
advanced  fully  3c  a  bushel,  the  price  in 
the  United  States 
is  again  down  about 
that  much.

Corn  has  had  the  most  exciting  time 
the  past  week.  Prices  for  May  rose  to 
58c—in  the  fine  manipulating  hands  of 
Geo.  H.  Phillips—that  is,  higher  by  ic 
than  com  has  been  since  1894.  The ex­
treme  high  price  has  a  tendency  to 
bring  out  more  contract  grade,  which 
caused  a  drop  yesterday  to  51c,  being 
7c  under  pinnacle.

Oats  remained  as  strong  as  ever.  Not 
much  can  be  recorded  in  that  cereal,  as 
all  offerings  are  taken  at  going  prices.
Nothing  is  doing  in  rye.  The  season 
is  virtually  over.  Prices  are  about  the 
same  as  last—around  51c  for  choice 
in 
ca riots.

Beans  seem  to  be  sliding  down  in 
price.  While  $1.75  is  being  asked  for 
handpicked  beans 
lower 
prices  are  accepted.  October  beans  are 
quoted  at  $1.35,  which  seems  to  be  ab­
normally  high.

in  carlots, 

The  flour  trade 

is  better  than  it  has 
been,  both  local  and  domestic.  As  cash 
wheat  is  higher  than  option  wheat, 
prices  remain  steady.  In  mill feed  there 
is  virtually  no  change  as yet,  as  all 
is 
wanted  as  fast  as  made.

Receipts  of  grain  during  the  month 
of  April  were :  wheat,  217  cars;  corn, 
61  cars;  oats,  25  cars;  rye,  1  car;  flour, 
22  cars;  beans,  5  cars;  malt,  1  car; 
bran,  1  ca r;  hay,  16 cars;  straw,  4  cars; 
potatoes,  81  cars.

During  the  week  the  receipts  were  as 
follows:  wheat,  62  cars;  com,  4  cars; 
oats,  7  cars;  flour,  3  cars;  beans,  1  ca r; 
bran, 
1  ca r;  hay,  1  car;  straw,  2 cars; 
potatoes,  17  cars.

Millers  are  paying  72c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Produce M arket.

Apples—Ben  Davis  have  advanced  to 

Asparagus—Home  grown  commands 

$3.75  per bbl.

50c  per  doz.

Bananas—Prices  range  from  $ 1.2 5 ®  

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to size.

Beans—The  market  is  gradually seek­
ing  a 
lower  level.  Local  dealers  hold 
handpicked  at $1.75  in  carlots  and $1.80 
in  bag  lots.

Beets—$1  per  bbl.
Butter—Factory  creamery  is  steady  at 
18c.  Receipts  of  dairy  grades  have 
fallen  off,  due  to the  starting  of  cream­
eries  and  cheese  factories,  which  take 
the  milk  which  previously  went  into 
farm  butter. 
15c, 
choice  ranges  from  I2@I4C  and  packing 
stock  moves  readily  on  the  basis  of  io@ 
lie.
Cabbage—Southern  commands $2 .2 5® 
4  per  crate,  according  to  size.  Home 
grown  stock  is  entirely  out  of  market.-

Fancy  commands 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

*

mand  at  75c  per doz.  bunches. 
clined  to $1  per doz.

is  in  fair de­
Celery—Florida  stock 
Cucumbers—Home  grown  have  de­
Eggs—The  market  is  steady  at 
12c, 
receipts  being  moved  as  fast  as  they 
arrive.  Dealers  are  no  longer taking 
in  stock  on  the  basis  of  case  count,  but 
are  candling  all  offerings,  the  loss-off 
ranging  from 
j   to  6 eggs  to the  case. 
The  holdings  m  the  various  cold  stor­
age  houses  in  Chicago  on  May  1  aggre­
gated  382,000  cases,  which 
is  40  per 
cent,  greater  than  was  ever  known  at 
the  end  of  the  April  storage  season. 
The  average  cost  of  April  eggs  put  in 
the  coolers 
in  Chicago  is  13c,  which 
means  I4 ^ c  to  come  out  and  be  even, 
and  that  to  sell  at  any  profit  the  price 
must  be  15c  next  fall.
Green  Onions—10c  for  Evergreens; 
15c  for  Silverskins.
Honey—Choice  white  is  in  large  sup­
ply  at  I4@i5c.  Amber goes  at  I3@i4c 
and  dark  buckwheat  is  slow  sale  at  10 
@ I2C.

Lemons—Californias  command  $3 per 
box.  Messinas  fetch  $3.25  for choice 
and  $3.50  for  fancy.

Lettuce—Hothouse  stock 

is  in  good 

demand,  commanding  12c  for  leaf.

Maple  Sugar— io@ioj^c  for  genuine 

and  9c  for  imitation.

Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for fancy.
Onions—Bermudas 

command  $2.75 
per  crate.  Egyptians  fetch  $3.50  in 
112  lb.  sacks.

Oranges—Mediterranean  sweets  fetch 
$3.25.  Seedlings  range  from  $2.25@3. 
California  navels  are  getting  scarce.

Parsley—40c  per  doz.
Parsnips—$1.25  per  bbl.
Pieplant—$1.25  for  50 lb.  box.
Plants—75c  per box  of 200 tomatoes  or 

Potatoes—Local  dealers  hold  their 

price  firm  at  35c.

cabbage.

Ii@ i2 c;  fowls, 

Poultry—Receipts  are  not  sufficient 
for  local  requirements,  in  consequence 
of  which  local  dealers  are  compelled  to 
draw  on  Chicago  for  supplies.  Local 
dealers  pay  as  follows  for  dressed: 
Spring  turkeys,  n @ i2 c ;  old,  8 ®9 c ; 
spring  chickens, 
io@ 
11c ;  spring  ducks, 
i i ^ @ I2 c—old  not 
wanted  at  any  price;  spring  geese,  9 ®  
ioc—old  not  wanted.  For  live  poultry 
local  dealers  pay  as  follows:  Chick­
ens,  9@ ioc;  medium  and  small  hens, 
8@9C; 
large  hens,  7@8c;  young  tur­
keys,  9@ioc;  old  turkeys,  8@9c;  young 
ducks, 
9>^@ io^c;  pigeons,  5o@6oc 
per  doz.  ;  squabs,  $¡@ 1.25  per  doz.  ; 
broilers,  i 8 @ 2 5 c   per  lb.

Radishes—20®25c  per  doz.  bunches 

for  hothouse  stock.

Seeds—Blue  grass,  $ i .25@ i .5o;  or­
chard  grass,  $ i . 4 0 @ i . 6 o ;  red  top,  7 5 c ® 
$1.50;  timothy,  $2 .10;  medium  clover, 
$6.25@fi.75 ; mammoth, $6.5o@7; alsyke, 
$7. 5 o @ 8 .

Spinach—40@5oc  per  bu.
Strawberries—$1.75  per  case  of  24 
pints  for  Mississippi  stock;  $3.25  per 
case  of  24  quarts.

Tomatoes—$1.75  per  4  basket  crate.
Turnips—$1  per  bbl.
Vegetable  Oysters—20c  per  doz.
The  F u rn itu re  Combine  in  Statn  Qno.
The  proposed  furniture  combine  ap­
pears  to  be  in  statu  quo.  The  project 
is  now  up  to  Wall  Street  and  the  chief 
promotor and  his cohorts  are  anxiously 
awaiting  the  decision.

Rumor  has  it  that  the  Windsor  Fold­
ing  Bed  Co.,  of  Chicago,  the  Hastings 
Table  Co.,  of  Hastings,  and  the  Estey 
Furniture  Co.,  of  Owosso,  are  the  latest 
additions  to  the 
list  of  establishments 
on  which  Promotor  Marston  has  secured 
options.  Mr.  Moyer,  of the  first  named 
establishment,  was  in  town  last  week, 
and 
is  known  to  have  bad  a  conference 
with  Mr.  Marston,  which  gives  color  to 
the  report  that  his  institution  is  being 
considered  in  this  connection.

Report  has  it that the  stockholders  of 
the  New  England  Furniture  Co.  are  to 
receive  cash  for  their  holdings,  dollar 
for  dollar,  the  surplus  to  be  taken  in 
bonds.

The Grocery  Market.

Sugar—Raw  sugars  are  strong  and 
prices  show  an  advance  of  %c,  making 
the  present  price  of  96  deg.  test  cen­
trifugals  now  4  5-16c. 
Refiners  are 
ready  buyers  foi  what  stocks are offered, 
but  importers  are  holding  supplies  for 
still  higher  prices,  as  indications  now 
are  for a  further  advance  of  i - i 6c  with­
in  the  next  ten  days.  The  visible  sup­
ply  of  raw  sugar  is  2,600,000 tons,  show­
ing  an  increase  of  4 9 0 ,0 0 0   tons  over  the 
same  time  last  year.  The  stronger  and 
higher  market  for  raw  sugar  stimulated 
the  demand  for  refined  and  a  large  vol­
ume  of  business  was  done 
in  anticipa­
tion  of  the  advance  which  took  place  on 
the  3d.  This  advance  was  10  points  on 
all  grades,  with  the  market  very  firm  at 
the  advance  and  with  indications  of  a 
further advance  of  10 to 15 points during 
the  next  two  weeks,  as  soon  as  the 
heavy  spring demand  sets  in.

improve 

The  demand 

Canned  Goods—The  past  week  has 
been,  comparatively  speaking,  a  quiet 
one  in  the  canned  goods  market.  While 
the  general  feeling 
is  very  strong  and 
the  market  firm,  there  have  been  prac­
It 
tically  no  changes  in  general  values. 
is  reported  from  all  sections  of 
the 
country  that the  consumption  of  canned 
goods  is  very  large, yet  the  jobbers  seem 
to  be  allowing  their stocks  to  become 
In  view  of  the  fact  that  the 
exhausted. 
consumption 
is  so  large  and  stocks  so 
small,  the  fact  that  spot  canned  goods 
do  not 
in  value  is  a  problem 
difficult  to  solve.  Tomatoes  are  in  a  pe­
culiar  position.  Some  packers  are  hold­
ing  at  an  advance  of  2j^c  per  dozen, 
while  others  will  sell  at  previous  prices 
and 
in  some  cases  even  make  a  slight 
concession. 
for  these 
goods  at  any  price  is  very 
light.  Corn 
is  firmly  held,  but buyers  are  apparently 
unwilling  to  pay  the  prices  asked  and 
very  few  sales  are  made.  As  the  pea 
season  grows  nearer,  the  more  numerous 
are  the  enquiries  that come  from all sec­
tions  regarding  the  pea  crop.  Reports 
from  Maryland  are  that  not  for a  num­
ber of  years  have  the  weather conditions 
been  so  favorable  to  the  growing  of 
peas.  This  time  last  year there  was  a 
great  ado  about  the  pea  louse.  The 
vines  are  just  as  large  now  as  they  were 
at that  time,  and  there  is  not  the  slight­
est  sign  of  the  louse.  Everybody  con­
tends  that  there  is  going  to  be  a  good- 
sized  crop  of  the  early  pack  of  the  June 
peas,  and  if  nothing  unforeseen  occurs 
between  now  and  the  time  for  the  ma­
turity  of the  crop,  the  quality  is going to 
be  excellent—far  better than  it  has  been 
for a  number of  years  past.  There  is  a 
good  demand  for the  spot  goods  at  un­
changed  prices.  There  are  no  new  de­
velopments  in  the  pineapple  situation. 
All  reports  are  that  the  crop  is  in  excel­
lent  shape  and  the  best  grown  in  many 
years.  All 
indications  now  point  to  a 
very  good  crop  of  peaches,  not  so  much 
in  quantity  as  in  quality,  although  it  is 
expected  that  there  will  be  enough  for 
all  requirements.  The  spot  market  will 
not  be  affected  because  of  the  coming 
crop,  as 
is  well  known  that  at  to­
day’s quotations  first-class  peaches  can 
not  be  packed  or sold  at  a  profit. 
It  is 
another  matter of  record  that  the  peach 
market  has  not  declined,  although  ap­
pearances  would 
indicate  it.  The  ad­
vance 
in  the  price  of  empty  cans  will 
also  be  a  factor to be  calculated  on  in 
the  new  prices  for  peaches,  and  it  will 
not  be  a  small  one.  Gallon  apples  are 
slightly  easier.  Salmon  is  firm  for  all 
except  Columbia  River  fish,  which  is 
dull  and  easy.  The  demand,  however, 
is  comparatively 
light.  The  catch  of

it 

5

salmon  on  the  Columbia  River,  accord­
ing  to  a 
letter  from  Astoria,  is  only 
about  50  per  cent,  of  what  it  was  last 
year.

Dried  Fruits—Dealers  report  a  fair 
in  dried  fruits,  most  of  the 
movement 
lots 
orders,  however,  being  for  small 
for  immediate  requirements.  Stocks  of 
all  kinds  of dried  fruits  are  not  heavy 
and  are  being  gradually  reduced.  The 
larger sizes  of  prunes  are 
in  good  de­
mand  and  are  held  firmly  at  quotations, 
4 0 - 5 0 S   and  5 0 - 6 0 S   being  scarce  and  most 
wanted.  There  is  a  fair trade  on  6 0 - 7 0 S  
also,  but  trade 
in  the  other sizes  is  of 
small  proportions.  There  is  a  slight im­
provement  in  the  demand  for  three  and 
four  crown  raisins.  Stocks  in  dealers’ 
hands  are  light  and  in  the  event  of  any 
decided  increase in  the  consumptive  de­
mand,  some  heavy  purchases-  would 
have  to  be  made  to  supply  the  demand. 
The  reports  of  crop  damage  on  the coast 
have  caused  the  local  trade  to  wake  up 
a  bit  on  both  apricots  and  peaches. 
Trade  in  both  of  these  articles  has  been 
very  good,  there  being 
considerable 
speculative  huying.  The  cheap  grades 
of  apricots  are  well  cleaned  up  and 
stocks  of  the  fancy  grades  are  being 
gradually  reduced.  The  demand  for 
peaches  has  greatly 
improved  and  we 
look  for  higher  prices  soon.  Dates  are 
selling  moderately  well at a considerable 
shading  of  prices,holders  showing  pres­
sure  to  sell 
in  order to  carry  as  light 
stocks  as  possible  over  until  next  sea­
son.  Figs  continue  in  fair  demand  and 
stocks  are  considerably  smaller.  Prices 
have  been  advanced  %c  more  and  some 
further  increase  may  be  looked  for soon. 
Stocks  of  layers  to  be  carried  over  in 
cold  storage  will  be  the  lightest  ever 
known.  The  currant  market  is  consid­
erably  weaker  and  prices  have  declined

Rice—Owing  to  the  small  supplies  of 
rice  on  hand  in  the  South,  the  market 
has  advanced 
c,with prices  still  show­
ing  a  hardening  tendency.  The  statis­
tical  position  favors  sellers  and,  as  the 
prospects  are  good 
increased 
spring  demand,  holders  remain  confi­
dent.

for  an 

Molasses  and  Syrups—Owing  to  the 
approaching  warm  weather,  the  demand 
is  not  very  brisk.  Hold­
for  molasses 
ers,  however,  are  very  firm 
in  their 
views,  especially  on  mixed  molasses, 
which, 
in  sympathy  with  the  strong 
glucose  market,  is  very  firm.  Prices  on 
canned  molasses  show  an  advance of 5 ®  
ioc  on  the  different  size  cans.  The  com 
syrup  market,  too,  is  very  firm,  and 
owing  to the  strength  of  glucose  and  the 
increased  cost  of  tin  cans,  prices  on 
canned  syrup  have  been  advanced  2c.

Fish—The  stock  of  fish  in  the  curers’ 
hands  now  is  quite  a  little  smaller  than 
it  was  last  year at  this  time  and  it looks 
now  as  if  the  supply  from  now  on  will 
be  much 
lighter  than  it  was  last  year, 
as  owing  to  the  feeling  among  the  fish­
ermen  that 
it  will  be  a  good  mackerel 
year,  a  number of  the  vessels  that  were 
codfishing 
this  year  have 
changed  over  to  seining.  Prices  will 
probably  not  vary  much  from  what  they 
are  now.

last  year, 

Nuts—The  peanut  market  is  in  good 
shape  and  prices  show  an  advance  of 
Xc,  with  demand  good  at  the  advance.
Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
is  very  strong  and  prices are advancing, 
having  gone  up  20c  per  barrel  and  5c 
per case  during  the  past  week.

Pickles—Pickles  are  in  good  demand 
at  previous  prices.  Purchases  are,  how­
ever,  mostly  for small  lots  for  immedi­
ate  consumption.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

Window Dressing

Rainy  Day  Trim s—M aking Boxes A ttract­

ive  to  the  P urchaser.

Human  nature is such that some things 
are  never  bought  except  when  people 
are  compelled  to  purchase  them,  and 
this 
is  particularly  true  of  articles  that 
serve  a  merely  temporary  purpose.  Um­
brellas  are  not  beautiful  or constantly 
useful  and  many  people  never  buy  one 
until  the  downpour of rain compels them 
to  do  so.  Make  it  a  constant  rule  that 
just  as  soon  as  rain  begins  falling  um­
brellas  shall  go  into  your  windows  and 
into  your  outdoor showcases.  Clear  out 
your  windows  and  fill  them up  with  um­
brellas  and  appropriate  price  cards,  so 
that  umbrellas  and  rain  attract  the  at­
tention  of  your  customers  simultaneous­
ly.  Prepare  price  cards  for  you  um­
brella  trims  ahead  of  time,  so that  you 
always  have  a  sufficient  number  of fresh 
cards 
in  stock.  Then  make  umbrella 
stands,  which  you  can  get  at  in  an 
in­
stant  of  time.  A  block  of  wood  with 
auger  holes  bored  in  it  can  be  made  at 
any  time  and  can  be  finished  in  any 
style  you  desire. 
It  will  make  the  best 
kind  of  a  stand 
for  a  display  of  um­
brellas.  A  rack  can  be  made  of  boards 
with  auger  holes  bored  in  them,  which 
can  be  put  together  with  screws  and  put 
in  the  window  back  on  short  notice.  It 
is  a  good  thing  to  have  the  rack  cover 
the  whole  window  back  and  to  arrange 
the  umbrellas  parallel  and  close  to  each 
other  with  their  handles  downward,  so 
that  the  umbrellas  are  arranged  like  the 
row  of  shingles  on  a  house.  This  ar­
rangement  is  particularly  good  when  it 
is  desired  to  bring  fancy  bandies  to  the 
attention 
of  customers  prominently. 
Half  circles  of  wood  attached  to the 
sides  of  the  windows  with lines  of  auger 
holes  bored  in  them  at  different  angles 
will  enable  the  trimmer  to  make  um­
brellas  project  from  the  sides of the win­
dow  at  different  angles  in  a  more  or less 
irregular  fashion.  By  using  different! 
shaped  strips  of  wood  with  the  auger 
holes  bored  at  different  angles  the  um­
brellas  may  be  made  to  assume  any  fig­
ure  that  is  desired.

Rainy  day  coats  and  mackintoshes 
should  also  be  put  in  the  window  when 
they  are  carried  in  stock,  and  it  is  well 
to  keep  on  hand  cards  descriptive  of 
their  good  qualities.  A  wise  trimmer 
will  make  a  point  of  always  having 
price  cards  ready  for  use  in  emergency 
trims.  The  general  design  of  a  fancy 
card  can  be  prepared  and  a  space  left 
for  the 
insertion  of  the  price  in  plain 
lettering.  Appropriate  cards 
for  an 
emergency  trim  are  particularly  effec­
tive.

*  

*  

*

As  the  object  of  a  window  trim  is  to 
sell  goods,  all  considerations  of  an  aes­
thetic  nature  are  subordinate  to  that 
end,  and  the  trimmer has  consequently 
to  take  account  of  details  that are  ap­
parently  trivial.  One  of these  is  the  use 
of  boxes  in  window trims. 
It  is  a  mis­
fortune  that  wholesalers  do  not pay more 
attention  to  boxing  their  products  in 
such  an  artistic  fashion  that  the  boxes 
themselves  shall  be  attractive  to  the 
purchaser.  Too  often  goods  are  sent  out 
in  boxes  that  have  nothing  to  commend 
them  from  the  artistic  point  of  view, 
and 
is  absolutely  necessary  that  the 
boxes  shall  not  appear  in  the  window 
when  an  artistic  and  agreeable  effect  is 
to  be  produced.  But  so  many  trims 
would  be 
improved  by  ’.he  display  of 
part  of  the  goods  in  bulk  in  the original 
packages  that  whenever  the  trimmer 
comes  across  goods  packed  in boxes that

it 

it 

is  displayed 

are  pretty  and  pleasing  in  themselves 
he  will  do  well  to  make  as  much  use  of 
them  as  is  possible  in  the trim.  A  point 
that 
is  often  forgotten  in  putting  in  a 
window  trim  is  the  effect  that  the  boxes 
shown  will  have  on  the  general  color 
scheme  of  the  window.  For  example,  if 
hosiery 
in  bulk  in  boxes 
covered  with  black  or  dark  brown  col­
ored  paper care  should  be  taken  to  in­
troduce  enough  color  into  the  window 
to  offset  any  somberness  of tone  that the 
boxes  give  the  general  scheme.  This 
consideration  has  weight when  a  trim  of 
goods 
is  made  where  many  boxes  are 
used.  Ordinarily  where  few  boxes  are 
used 
is  of  little  consequence,  but 
when  the  trimmer  comes  across  a  line 
of  goods  packed  in  boxes  that are pretty 
in  themselves  he  should  try  to  show  the 
goods 
in  bulk  in  the  window.  A  dis­
play  of  a  single  article  suggests  to  the 
mind  of  a  spectator  the  purchase  of  a 
single  article.  A  dislpay  of  several  ar­
ticles  already  put  up  in  an  attractive, 
convenient  package  suggests  a  purchase 
of  a  number  of  articles.  Hosiery  and 
shirts 
can  both  be  advantageously 
shown  in  the  window,  ready  packed  for 
delivery.  Suspenders  put  up  in  boxes, 
three  pairs  to  a  box,  hosiery  six pairs  to 
a  box,  shirts  three  or  six  to  a  box, 
neckwear  six  or three  to  a  box,  all  are 
novel  and  profitable  ways  of  making 
displays  of  these  goods.  Cards  should 
be  introduced  into  the  window  pointing 
out  in  short,  terse  phrases  the  advan­
tage  of  having  three  pairs  of  suspend­
ers,  so  that  the  necessity  of  continual 
changes  is  done  away  with  and  that  ex­
tra  pairs  are  at  hand  in  case  of  emer­
gencies.  Make  a  special  price  as  an  in­
ducement  for  the  purchase  of  half  a 
dozen  shirts  at  a  time  and  suggest  that 
every  man  needs  at  least  two  white,  two 
negligee  and  two  stiff  bosom shirts,  and 
that  by  buying  them  together  he  secures 
a  handsome  box  in  which  to  keep them. 
Do  the  same  thing  with  your  white  and 
colored  handkerchiefs.  See  that  they 
^re  packed 
in  tasteful  and  attractive 
boxes  that  customers  will  wish  to  pre­
serve.  The  boxes  are  a  continual  adver­
tisement 
in  the  home.  A  busy  man 
glancing  into  a  window  where  be  sees  a 
number of articles  already  boxed  attrac­
tively  and  conveniently  will  be  twice  as 
apt  to  buy  them  as  if the  suggestion  of 
quick  delivery  had  not  been  made  to 
him  in  that  manner.  Most  men  are  as 
ready  to  buy  two  or three  articles,  if 
they  strike  their  fancy,  as  they  are  to 
buy  a  single  article.  Take  advantage 
of  the  fact  and  remember that  such  a 
method  of  displaying  goods  may  often 
help  you  to  introduce  new  styles  of 
goods  to  customers.  For  example,  sup­
pose  that  you  wish  to  induce  some of 
your  patrons  to  buy  a  style  of  scarf  that 
they  have  not  bought  before.  Make  up 
a  bunch  of  half  a  dozen  scarfs,  a  bat­
wing,  a  butterfly,  an  ascot,  and  so on, 
in  staple  styles  and  colorings,  and  in 
fancy  styles  and  colorings,  and  make  a 
special  price  for  their  purchase  in  half- 
ddzen 
lots,  allowing  the  selection  of 
other  patterns  that  shall  be  more  pleas­
ing,  if  necessary.  Very  often  by  such 
a  device  half  a  dozen  scarfs  will  be 
bought  where  otherwise  only  one  would 
be  bought,  and  customers  will  be  led  to 
try  new  styles  of  neckwear,  which  will 
broaden  their tastes,  to  the  ultimate  ad- 
advantage  of  the  retailer.  Because  peo­
ple  are  accustomed  to  buying  only  one 
article  at  a  time  some  merchants  think 
that  it  is  impossible  to  educate  them in­
to  buying  several  at  a  time.  But  a 
great  saving 
in  time  and 
if  people  get  into  the  habit  of
money 

is  effected 

large  purchases.  Take  account  of this 
fact 
in  your  window  displays.—Ap­
parel  Gazette.

Invariably  So.

“ Gracious, ”  exclaimed the great  mer­
is 
chant’s  friend,  “ your  establishment 
simply stupendous.  That  tall,  imposing- 
looking  man  in  that  group yonder  is  the 
general  manager,  or 
I 
suppose. ’ ’

something, 

“ No,  that’s  a  new  $6 a  week  clerk. 
The  short,  quiet  little  man  is  the  gen­
eral  manager.”

Brooklyn  has  a  minister  who  believes 
a  church  should  run  on  business  prin­
ciples.  He  refused  to accept  an  addi­
tion  of $500 to  his  salary  until  the  mort­
gage  on  the  church  is  paid  off.

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The  Nineteenth Century has witnessed 
wonderful  development 
in  mechanical 
sciences—the  railroad,  telegraph,  tele­
phone,  electric  car,  all  of  which  are  so 
necessary  to  mankind  that  we  wonder 
how  the  world  thrived  previous  to  their 
invention.

The  Twentieth  Century  will  witness 
greater  progress,  and  the  world  is  alive 
with  expectation.

The  THOMAS  AUTO-BI 

The  THOMAS  AUTO-BI  is  a  motor 
bicycle  brought  to  a  high  state  of  per­
fection,  and  it  will  rank  as  one  of  the 
Twentieth  Century  wonders  as  its  many 
charming  possibilities  become  known, 
for  it 
invites  economy,  pleasure  and 
utility  to  an  extent  not  hitherto  accom­
plished.
entirely 
dissipates  the  popular  conception  that  a 
motor  bicycle 
is  a  heavy,  dangerous 
locomotive,  to  be  ridden  only  on  the 
track  by  dare-devils,  who  invite  death 
every  time  they  mount  the  “ infernal”  
machine.  As  a  matter  of  fact  it  is  just 
the  opposite. 
is  nothing  but  an  or­
dinary  bicycle  made  stronger to  meet 
the  new  conditions,  with  a  little  motor 
weighing  about  23  pounds,  the  complete 
bicycle  weighing  about  80  pounds.

It 

IT  DOES  NOT  SID E -SL IP —The 
weight  of  the  motor  is  near the head,  on 
the  lower tube,  and  rests  principally  on 
the  front  wheel.  Experience  has proved 
this  to  be  the  proper  place. 
If  the 
weight  were  too  high  it  would  be  top 
heavy. 
If  too  low,  gravitation  will  in­
terfere  with  turning  corners. 
If  too  far 
back,  the  front  wheels  would  be  too 
light  for  steadiness  or  vibration,  and 
cause  skidding.  As  a  matter of  fact, 
the  AUTO-BI 
is  much  steadier  and  is 
equally  as  safe  in  snow,  ice,  or  slippery 
streets  as  any  bicycle.

SP E E D   is  easily  controlled  by  the 
is  variable  from  three  to 

rider,  and 
twenty-five  miles  per hour.
IN V EST M EN T —It  will  take  you  at 
least  as  far,  as  fast,  as  safely  and  pleas­
antly  as  the  most  costly  automobile 
made.  The  first  cost  ranges  from  1-3 
to  1-10.  The  cost of  care  and  operation 
1-20  to  1-90.  One  gallon  of  gasoline 
will  run  it  100  miles.

P R IC E —Anticipating  a  large  trade, 
the  retail  price  has  been  fixed at  $200, 
allowing  a  discount  to  dealers,  who will 
give  their  patrons  the  same  careful  at­
tention  as 
in  the  bicycle  trade.  We 
have  already  placed  agencies  in  several 
larger  cities  of  Michigan,  and 
of  the 
would 
like  to  hear  from  responsible 
dealers  who  want  to  put  new  life  into 
their  business,  and  keep  up  with  the 
procession.

There  is  nothing  a  good  dealer can do 
which  will  make  himself  more  talked 
about  and  help  him  to  bring  new  busi­
ness  than  to  secure  the  agency  for  the 
THOMAS  MOTOR  C YC LES.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

CHANGED  FOR  LIFE.

H air W hich T urned W hite W ithin Twelve 

H ours.

invitation 

Every  day, at  a  certain  hour,  at  a  cer­
tain  street  corner  in  this  city,  a  young 
woman  stops  the  street  car  and  slips 
shyly  into  an  inconspicuous  seat.  She 
does  her best  to  avoid  attracting  atten­
tion,  but  there  is  never  a  time  when  the 
other  passengers  do  hot  look  at  her with 
open  and  undisguised  curiosity.  She is 
a  refined  looking  little  woman  who  has 
a  position 
in  a  business  office  down 
town.  There  is  nothing  in  her  appear­
ance  to  attract  attention  except  the  fact 
that  the  hair  coiled 
in  heavy  masses 
above  her  youthful  face  is  snowy  white. 
That  white  hair, 
like  the  hero’s  in 
Byron’s  poem,  “ grew  white  in  a  single 
is  the  way  she  tells  how 
night.”   This 
“ Several  years  ago  I  ac­
it  happened: 
cepted  an 
from  a  school 
friend  to  visit  her  in  the  country.  She 
lived  in  a  rather  lonely  place,  and  with 
the  exception  of  the  members  of  the 
family,  there  was  no  one  nearer than  a 
mile  in any direction.  It  happened  that, 
appreciating  the  isolation  of  the  house, 
several other visitors had  been  invited to 
meet  me.  They  had  all  arrived  before 
me,  and  been  duly  assigned  to  their 
rooms. 
I  drove  up  after  nightfall,  and 
was  received  with  rather an  apologetic 
air. 
It  seemed  that  all  the  bedrooms  in 
the  main  building  had  been  assigned, 
and  it  would  be  necessary  for  me  to  oc­
cupy,  for  one  night  at 
least,  an  apart­
ment  on  the  second  floor of  one  of  the 
outbuildings. 
I  was  then  of  anything 
but a  nervous  disposition,  and  out  there 
in  the  peaceful  country  it  seemed  more 
than  ever  unlikely  that  anybody  or  any­
thing  could  disturb  me.  So  I  willing­
ly  consented  and  was  shown  to  my 
room. 
It  was  a  large  and  comfortable 
one,  with  several  windows,  and  was  ap­
proached  by  a  staircase  from  the 
lower 
floor,  so  built  that  it  could  be  closed  by 
a  door and  a  spring  lock.

left  me. 

“ My  hostess  and  1  sat  and  chatted  a 
while,  and  then  she  bade  me  a  cheerful 
good-night  and 
I  heard  her 
shut  the  door after  her,  and  the  snap  of 
the  spring  lock,  followed  by  the  grat­
ing  of  the  key  as  she  turned  it  in  the 
lock,  told  me  that  I  was  a  prisoner. 
I 
leaned  out  of  the  window  and  asked  her 
why  she  locked  me  in. 
‘ Because,’  she 
answered,  ‘ this  lock  turns  only  from  the 
outside,  and  either  you  must  be  a  pris­
oner  for  to-night  or leave  the  door open. 
Shall  I  throw  you  the  key?’  But  I  had 
no  thought  of  evil  and  told  her  that 
it 
was  a  matter of  no  importance,  merely 
adding  jestingly  that  she  must  be  sure 
to 
in  the  morning. 
Then  I  went  to  bed.

let  me  out  early 

“ I  must  have  slept  some  hours,  when 
I  suddenly  experienced  a  feeling  of  ex­
treme  terror,  and  woke  up.  A  broad 
flood  of  moonlight  poured 
in  at  the 
open  windows. 
In  the  midst  of  the 
white  brilliancy  I  saw  the  silhouette  of 
a  man  sharply  defined. 
It  was  a  most 
awful  apparition.  The  man  was  fright­
fully  disheveled.  His  matted  hair  stood 
up  from  his  head 
in  every  direction. 
His  clothing  was  in  rags.  He  made  a 
strange  and  sinister outline  against  the 
brightly-illumined  window.  Fortunate­
ly,  as  I  know  now,  the  moonlight  did 
not  shine  upon the bed.  It was concealed 
in  the  shadow,  so  that  the 
intruder 
could  not  see  more  of  it  than  the  vague 
outline,and  certainly  saw  nothing  of  its 
very  much alarmed  occupant.  Finally 
the  man—or ghost,  as  I  thought  him  at 
the  time—began  to  advance  in a furtive, 
uncertain  sort  of way.  He was approach­
ing  me. 
I  slipped  from  the  bed  on  the

side  farthest  from  him,  and  cowered 
against  the  wall.  Still  he  approached. 
I  crept  towards  a  corner  and,  as  luck 
would  have  it,  put my  hand  on  the  half- 
drawn  drapery  which  covered  a  sort  of 
alcove,  where  clothing  was  hanging. 
1 
slipped  behind  this  scanty  protection, 
but  kept  my  eyes  fastened  upon  the 
stranger.  He  evidently  neither heard 
nor  saw  me,  for,  arriving  at  the  bed,  be 
slowly  allowed  himself  to  sink  across 
the  foot  of  it,  and  apparently  fell  into  a 
deep  sleep.  But 
in  what  a 
state  of  nervous  dread  I  w as!  I  dared 
not  call,  for  fear of  waking  the  sleeper. 
I  could  not  get  out,  for  the  staircase 
door was  locked. 
I  could  not climb  out 
of  the  windows,  for  they  were  too  high 
from  the  ground. 
I  can  not  describe  to 
you  what  I  endured  during  that night.

imagine 

“ For hours  I  stood  there,  motionless, 
not daring  to  move,  every  moment  ex­
pecting  something  terrible  to  happen. 
At  last  the  day  began  to  dawn.  Still  the 
stranger slept. 
I  cautiously  and  noise­
lessly  issued  from  my  place  of  conceal­
ment  and  took  a  position  at  a  window 
which  overlooked  the yard  of  the  house, 
hoping  to  attract  the  attention  of  the 
first  person  who  should  be  astir  in  the 
household. 
I  do  not  know  how  long 
it  was  before  one  of  the  hired  men 
strolled  leisurely  into  sight.  I  beckoned 
to  him  and  he  saw  me.  But  imagine 
my  consternation,  when, 
instead  of 
coming  to  my  assistance,  he  showed 
every  sign  of  alarm,  and  hastily  ran  in­
to  the house.  A moment later he returned 
with  several  others  and  pointed  to  me.
I  renewed  my  gestures  and  the  whole 
group  was  visibly  disconcerted.  And 
then—thank  heaven—my  hostess  came 
out. 
I  managed  to  convey to  her,  by  an 
imploring  glance  and outstretched arms, 
that  I  wished  to get  out.  She  hastily 
opened  the  door  and  I  fell  into  her 
arms,  stammering  out  an  account  of 
what  had  happened.  Then  the  men 
rushed  upstairs  and  found  my  midnight 
visitor  sleeping  peacfully.  Afterwards 
it  was  ascertained  that  he  was  an  es­
lunatic,  who  had  been  at  large 
caped 
some  days.  He  was  made 
fast,  and 
some  hours  later delivered  to the author­
ities  at  the  asylum  where  he  had  been 
detained. 
I  was  utterly  prostrated  by 
the  experience  through  which  I  had 
passed.  But  the  singular  thing  is  that 
within  twelve  hours  my  hair  turned 
white—as  white  as  you  see  it  now.”

And  that 

is  why,  no  matter  how  un­
obtrusively  she  makes  her way  about, 
her appearance  attracts  the  attention  of 
strangers.

Bob Yeal  Good  Enough For New Yorkers.
Bingbampton,  N.  Y .,  May  3—A  Nor­
wich,  N.  Y .,  jury  refused  to  mulct  a 
farmer,  who  was  accused  of  shipping 
“ bob”   veal  to  New  York,  because  they 
thought  the  meat  good  enough  for  New 
Yorkers.  The  action  was  brought  by 
the  Attorney-General  against  a  farmer 
residing  in  South  Edmeston,  who  was 
charged  with  sending  seventeen  “ bob”  
veals,  or calves  under  four  weeks  old, 
from  South  Edmeston  to  New  York  on 
May  5 ,  1899. 
It  was  a  test  case and  the 
court  house  was  crowded  with  grangers, 
who  watched  the  trial with interest.  The 
State  endeavored  to  collect  the  penalty 
of  $ 1 , 7 0 0   against  the  farmer,  but  the 
jury  returned  a  verdict  of  $ 1 . 5 0 .   One 
of  the 
jurymen  subsequently  said  that 
they  canvassed  the  matter  thoroughly 
and  concluded  that  the  veal,  although 
under  legal  age,  was  not  unhealtbful, 
and  that  it  was  sold  at  a  price  that 
placed  it  within  reach  of  the poor of  the 
metropolis,  thus  making  the  defendant 
a  benefactor.

is 

Man 

incorrigible.  He  swears  he 
will  give  up  a  .bad  habit—and  then 
keeps  on  swearing.

Hold  th e  W orld’s  Record.

From the Springfield Republican.

A 

local  man  claims  that  he  has  some 
white  Leghorn  hens  that  now  hold  the 
world’s  record 
line  of  laying. 
These  seventeen  hens  laid  311  eggs  dur­
ing  March  and  337  last  month,  making 
a  total  of  648.  They  have  not  been

in  the 

7

in  any  manner,  and  are 
urged  to  lay 
tame,  gentle  hens,  whose  only  idea  is  to 
be  useful.

When  a  man 

should  never  place  much  confidence 
his  companion.

is  beside  himself,  he 
in 

Fans for 
Warm Weather

Nothing  is  more  appre­
ciated on a  hot  day  than 
a substantial fan.  Espe­
cially is this true of coun­
try  customers  who  come 
to  town  without  provid­
ing  themselves  with  this 
necessary adjunct to com­
fort.  We  have  a  large 
line  of  these  goods 
in
fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
nish printed and handled 
as follows:
100.........................$  3  00
200.........................  4  50
300....................  
  5  75
400.........................  7  00
500.........................  8  00
1000.........................  15  00

We  can  fill  orders  on  five  hours’ notice  if  necessary, but  don’t ask us 
to fill an order on  such short notice if you can avoid  it.

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County  of  Kent 

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in  the  office  of the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
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and 
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folded  7,ooo  copies  of  the 
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Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
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STRENGTHENING  OUR  NAVY.

Although  Congress  at  its  last  session 
failed  to  make  any  provisions  for  addi­
tions to  our fleet  of warships, it  must not 
be  assumed  that  a  halt  is  to  be  called 
in 
the  process  of  strengthening  the 
navy. 
Just  what  were  the  motives  un­
derlying  the  failure  of  Congress  to  act 
it  would  be  difficult  to  analyze,  but  that 
there  was  no  intention  of  permanently 
altering  our  fixed  policy  of  annually 
adding  to  the  fighting  fleet  was  made 
clear  by  the  fact  that  Congress  directed 
that  plans  be  prepared  by  the  Navy  De­
partment,  with  detailed  estimates  of 
cost,  for  the  construction  of  two  first- 
class  battleships  and  two armored cruis­
ers  of  the  largest  type,  so  that  the  next 
Congress  can  take 
intelligent  action 
when  it  meets  in  December  next.

That  the  shipbuilding 

interests  are 
convinced  that  there  will  be  no  halt  in 
the  matter  of  building  warships  is  at­
tested  by  the  recently  announced  com­
bination  of several prominent shipyards, 
avowedly  for the  purpose  of  controlling 
naval  shipbuilding  to  a  great  extent. 
is  intimated  that  Chief  Naval  Con­
It 
structor  Bowles  will  resign 
from  the 
navy,  to  take  charge  of  the  new  combi­
nation  as  manager.

That  the  promoters  of this  trust  know 
full  well  that  the  policy  of  adding  con­
stantly  to  the  strength  of  the  navy  is 
to  be  continued  may  well  be  believed, 
and  that  the  object  of  the  trust  is  to 
shut  out  competition  in  bidding  for  the 
contracts  there  can  be  no  doubt  at  all. 
If  it  is  true  that  Naval  Constructor 
Bowles  is  to take  charge  of  such  an  en­
terprise,  whose  evident  object  is  to 
gouge  the  Government,  then  the circum­
stance 
It  is 
probable,  however,  that  the  use  of  Chief 
Constructor  Bowles’  name  has  been  un­
authorized.  Trust  or no  trust,  however, 
it  still  remains  necessary  to  steadily  in­
crease  the  naval  establishment.  Fortu-

is  much  to  be  regretted. 

nately,  it  will  be  less  difficult  for the 
Government  to  fight  the  shipbuilding 
trust  than 
it  was  to  combat the  armor- 
plate  combine.  The  Government  has 
several  navy  yards 
fully  capable  of 
building  the 
largest  class  of  warships. 
Of  recent  years  the  work  at  the  navy 
yards  has  been  confined  to the  repair  of 
vessels;  but  such  yards  as  the  Brooklyn 
and  the  Norfolk  navy  yards  are  fully 
capable  of  building  the  largest  ships, 
while  several  of  the  other  yards  could 
easily  construct  cruisers  and  the  smaller 
class  of  war  vessels.  The  last  vessels 
built  at  Government  yards  were  the 
Maine,  Texas,  Cincinnati  and  Raleigh. 
Two  of  these  ships  were  built  at  Nor­
folk,  and  the  other two  at  the  Brooklyn 
yard.  While  it  is  true  that  it  took longer 
at the  navy  yards  to build  ships  than 
it 
took  contractors  to  build  them,  that  was 
due  entirely  to the  easy-going  ways  of 
the  Government  service.

Every  other  important  maritime  pow­
er  builds  at  least  a  good  percentage  of 
its  ships 
in  Government  dockyards. 
There  is  no  good  reason  why  we  should 
not  do  likewise.  The  idea  that  the  con­
struction  of  ships  by  private  firms  en­
courages  American  industry  and  com­
petition  will  not bold  now  in  the  face 
of the  organization  of  the  shipbuilding 
trust.

Whether there  is  anything  in  the  mat­
ter or  not,  the  impression  seems  to  be 
general  that  Germany  is  more  likely  to 
be  a  future  naval  antagonist  than  any 
other  power. 
It  is  Germany’s  strength 
at  sea,  therefore,  with  which  we  must 
compare.  At  the  present  time  we  are 
as  strong,  and  possibly  a  trifle  stronger, 
than  Germany 
in  the  matter of  naval 
force.  When  Germany  has  completed 
the  programme  she  now  has  in  hand, 
however,  this  country  will  be  far  in  the 
rear,  unless  steps  are  promptly  taken  to 
meet  the  German 
If  this  is 
to  be  done,  many  new  ships  will  have 
to  be  authorized  in  the  near future.

increase. 

It 

is  not  merely  the  material  of  the 
fleet  that  needs  addition,  but  the  per­
sonnel  as  well.  There  are  not  nearly 
enough  men  to  properly  man the  fleet, 
while  there  is  a  woeful  lack  of  officers.
in 
case  of  war  must  also  be  provided  if 
every  requisite  is  to be  properly  met.

An  adequate  reserve  force  for  use 

The  Pan-American  Exposition  at 
Buffalo  has  been  opened  to the  public. 
Not  everything 
is  in  place  and  condi­
tion. 
It  never  is  when  an  exposition 
opens,  but  all  reports  indicate  that  in  a 
very  few  days  the  exhibits  will  all  be 
in  order. 
Pictures  and  descriptions 
make  it  evident  that in  external  appear­
ance  and  in  the  variety  and  excellence 
of  the  exhibit  of  all  things  American— 
of  all  things  belonging  to  the  Western 
hemisphere—the  fair will  be  very  great 
indeed.  Doubtless  in  many  respects— 
as  in  the  display  of  electrical  devices— 
it  will  outstrip  the  great fair at Chicago. 
So  far  comparatively  little  interest  has 
been  expressed  in  the  country  at 
large. 
This  is  due,  doubtless,  to the  fact  that 
people  are  somewhat  sated  with  great 
expositions.  However, in  all  probability 
interest  will  grow  as  the  season  ad­
vances.  Buffalo  is  a  good  city  to  visit.
is  the  center  of a  beautiful  region, 
It 
and 
in  all  probability  it  will  have  no 
cause  to  regret  the  efforts 
it  has  put 
forth  to  make  the  Pan-American  E x ­
position  great  and  attractive.

You  can’t  say  anything  against the 

young  “ corn  king”   to the  farmers.

Some  men  are  so dignified  that  they 

never unbend  until  they  are  broke.

SPECULATION AS TO POPULATION. 
In  an  article  published  in  the Novem­
ber,  1900,  Popular Science  Monthly,  Dr. 
H.  S.  Pritchett  found  an  equation  from 
which  he  deduced  as  a  result  based  on 
the  past  rates  of  increase  of  the  popula­
tion  of  the  Republic  forecasts  for the fu­
ture.  He finds  that the  rate  of  increase, 
which  was  32  per  cent,  per decade  in 
1790,  and  24  in  1880,  will  be  13  in  1990, 
but  will  not  have  sunk  to  less  than  3  for 
another thousand  years,  and  will  not  be 
zero  for an  indefinite  time.

Major'  Charles  E.  Woodruff,  of  the 
United  States  Army,  in  the  April  Pop­
ular  Monthly  of  1901,  takes  the  position 
that  population 
is  limited  by  the  food 
supply.  A  country  is  said  to  be  satura­
ted  with  population  when  it  reaches  the 
point  where  it  has  all  the  population 
it 
can  feed.

Of  course,  under  this  notion  every­
thing  depends  on  the  degree  of  civiliza­
tion.  The  wild  tribes  that  live  wholly 
upon  the  products  of  the  chase  can 
never  increase  in  large  numbers.  The 
difficulties  of  life  and  precariousness  of 
their  means  of  subsistence  necessarily 
in 
keep  the  population  down. 
countries 
is  the 
chief  dependence  a  much  denser  popu- j 
lation can  be  maintained.

in  which  agriculture 

But 

According  to  Major  Woodruff’s  calcu­
lations,  a  square  mile  of  cultivated  land 
can  produce  1,600 times  as  much  food 
as could  an  equal  area  occupied  by wild 
animals.  Barbarous  nations  do  not  de­
pend  on  hunting,but  rely  on  their flocks 
and  herds,  which  graze  on  the  open 
plains. 
It  is  held  that  in  a  grazing  age 
each  family  requires  2,000  acres,  and 
France  could  not  support  50,000 of  such 
people.  For centuries  after the  Norman 
Conquest  the  whole  of  Europe  could not 
support  100,000,000,  or  about  25  per 
square  mile,  while  now  there  are  81. 
Says  the  writer quoted :

America  was  saturated  by  savages  in 
pre-Columbian  times,  and  they  were 
constantly  at  war  for  more  room;  but 
the  land  has  always  been  far  from  satu­
ration  for  civilized  whites.  Although 
we  now  export  enough  food  for a  large 
population,  we  can  not  produce  very 
much  more,  for  all  the  useful  land  is 
now taken  up.  Fully  60  per cent,  of  the 
desert  lands  west  of  the  100th  degree  of 
longitude  will  never  have  water  on  it, 
and  that  alone  will  forever  prevent  us 
being  as  densely  populated  as  Europe. 
Perhaps  we  can  now  support  fully  125,- 
000,000,  or 34  per  mile,  a  point' which 
Dr.  Pritchett  calculates  we  shall  reach 
in  1925,  at  our  present  rate.

The  writer  quoted  holds  that  it  is  a 
law  of  population  that  its  increase  is 
limited  by  the  food  supply,  and  when 
a  country  contains  all  the  people  it  can 
support,  the  death  rate  must  equal  the 
birth  rate,  so as  to  maintain  a  balance, 
and  that  if this  be  not  done  by  natural 
causes  it  will  be  accomplished  by  spe­
cial  means.

Under  such  conditions  human 

life 
will  not  be  considered  precious  as  it  is 
now,  and  there  will  be  no  such  thing  as 
acquitting  or  pardoning criminals guilty 
of  capital  offenses.  The 
living  will 
only  be  too  glad  to  shuffle  off  such 
offenders  who  are  not  worth  the  bread 
they  would  eat,  and  as  for  wars,  they 
would  be  welcomed  in  order to thin  out 
the  excessive  population.

This  is  in  accordance  with  the  theory 
proposed  by  Thomas  Malthus,  promul­
gated  about 
100  years  ago,  and  so  it 
would  come  about  that  every  human  be­
ing  would 
look  upon  every  other as  a 
menace  to  his  welfare,  a  creature  ready 
to eat  up  the  food  that  each  one  would 
desire  should  be  reserved  for himself. 
With  what  wolfish  eyes  we  would  then

regard  every  individual  gathered around 
a  banquet  board  if  there  could  be  such 
a  thing  as  a  banquet  under such circum­
stances,  when  men  would  be  reduced  to 
the  condition  of  ravenous  beasts.

It  must  be  a  long  time  before  the  civ­
ilized  nations  can  arrive  at  such  a  state 
of  affairs.  Chemistry  is  constantly mak­
ing  new  discoveries  by  which  the  fertil­
ity  of  the  soil 
is  maintained  and  in­
creased. 
It  discovers  the  means  of 
making  food  out of  refuse  matters  and 
of  making  edible  and  nourishing  sub­
stances  that  had  not  been  previously  so 
considered ;  and  this  science  is  only 
in 
its  infancy.  It  will  sooner or  later  mas­
ter  the  art  of  so  combining  elementary 
matters 
that  food  products  may  be 
evolved  out  of  mineral  substances  and 
gases.

With  such  bright  prospects  before  us, 
it  is  entirely  premature  to  trouble  our­
selves  with  the  gloomy  anticipations  of 
the  Malthusians.  The  Great  Republic 
will  contain  many  millions  of  people 
before  the  point  of  ability  to  support 
them  shall  fail.

THE  CENTER OF  POPULATION.

As  a  matter of  some  interest,  to  show 
in  what  direction  there  has  been  the 
greatest  growth  of  the  Republic’s  pop­
ulation,  a  bulletin 
from  the  Census 
Bureau  shows  that  the  center of  popula­
tion  to-day 
Indiana, 
about  six  miles  from  Columbus,  in  Bar­
tholomew  county.  This 
is  a  long  way 
from  the  center of  area,  which,  leaving 
out  Alaska  and  the  recently  acquired 
possessions,  is  in  Northern  Kansas.

in  Southern 

is 

In  100  years  the  center of  population 
has  moved  westward  464  miles. 
In  the 
same  100  years  there  has  been  little var­
iation  from  the  line  of  latitude on which 
the  center  of  population  has  moved 
westward. 
In  1830,  after  the  develop­
ment  of Alabama,  Arkansas,  Mississippi 
and  Louisiana,  and  after the  annexation 
of  Florida,  the  center of  population  de­
the  thirty-ninth 
flected  southward  of 
parallel  of  north  latitude;  but 
in  the 
years  after  that  the  center  of  population 
drifted  northward  again,  and  is  now 
farther  north  than 
it  was  before  i860. 
The  greatest  change 
in  the  center of 
population was  in  the  decade  ending  in 
i860;  the  slightest  change,  the  decade 
ending  with  1900.

Fortunes  big  and  little  are  made  and 
lost  in  Wall  Street  these  days.  The 
in  each  day’s  tourney  congre­
winners 
gate 
in  an  uptown  hotel  at  night  and 
nothing  is  too  good  for them.  The  bar 
receipts  at  the  Waldorf-Astoria 
last 
Wednesday  are  said  to have been $5,000, 
although  the  statement  of  course  is  a 
guess.  The  freest  buyers  at  cafe  and 
bar  are  the  winners  of $10,000 to $25,- 
000  during  the  day. 
The  hundred 
thousand  and  quarter  million  classes are 
less  in  evidence.  They  are  more  retir­
ing  as  a  rule._____________

The 

largest  and  most  important  in­
dustry  in  the  State  of  Maryland  is  can­
ning. 
It  employs  more  hands  and  rep­
resents  a  greater  invested  capital  than 
any  other  industrial  enterprise.  The 
State  Bureau  of  Statistics  reports  that 
during  the  year  1900 there  were  packed 
in  the  State  33,600,000 cans  of tomatoes,
11,400,000  cans  of  corn,  11,200,000  cans 
of  peas  and  19,000,000 cans  of  peaches.

The  Boston  Herald  says  that  “ the 
offer of  large  rewards  for stolen  children 
and  ‘ no questions  asked’  is  not  the  sort 
of treatment  that  will  put  a  stop  to kid­
napping. ”   That  sort  of  talk  is  very 
easy  for a  man  whose children  are  safe 
and  snug  at  home.

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AMERICAN  AND  BRITISH TRADE.
Much  attention  has  been  attracted 

in 
recent  months  to the  apparent  compara­
tive  shrinkage  in  British  trade.  Statis­
tics  have  been  widely  circulated,  show­
ing  how  the  foreign  trade  of  Great Brit­
ain  has  gradually  fallen  from  first  to 
,  second  place.  These  figures  have  at­
tracted  widespread  interest  not  only  in 
this  country  and  Great  Britain,  but  on 
the  continent  of  Europe. 
In  England 
the  showing  has  caused  anxiety  and 
some  alarm,  while  on  the  continent, 
where  everything  American 
is  mildly 
detested,  there  has  been  much  chagrin, 
and  even  some  suggestion  of  combined 
action  on  the  part  of  Europe  to  check 
American  ascendency.

British  merchants  and  manufacturers 
have  taken  the  matter  so  seriously  that 
they  are  studying  the  best  means  of  en­
abling  British  goods  to  compete  with 
those  of  other  countries,  and  particu­
larly  American  products.  The  contem­
plation  of  the  strides  made  by  the 
United  States  in  the  world’s markets has 
made  our  British  friends  rather  pessi­
mistic,  and  the  tendency among  them  is 
rather  to  make  the  matter worse  than 
it  is  than  to  belittle  it.

This  pessimistic  feeling,  although 
indulged  in  even  by  so  important a per­
sonage  as  the  British  Premier,  Lord 
Salisbury,  is  not  shared  by  every  one  in 
England,  however.  An 
interesting 
contribution  to  the  discussion  of  this 
matter of  trade  supremacy  is  furnished 
by  Mr.  George  J.  Broomhall,  the  well- 
known  statistician,  who  compares  the 
annual  exports  of  the  United  Kingdom 
per head  of  the  population  with  those  of 
Germany  and the United States reckoned 
on  the  same  basis.

The 

To  illustrate, 

comparison,  which  covers  a 
period  of twenty-one  years,  yields  some 
interesting  results.  For example,  it  is 
shown  that  the  people  of  the  United 
Kingdom  are  still  doing  as  much  trade, 
man  for  man,  as  the  Germans  and 
Americans  combined,  and  that 
if  the 
seven  years  at  the  beginning  of  the 
period  be  compared  with  those  at  its 
close,  the  chief  two  competitors  of 
Great  Britain  did  not  do  so  well  in  the 
last  seven  years  as  they  did  in  the  first 
seven. 
for  the  whole 
period  the  United  Kingdom  had  an 
average  annual  export  per  capita  of 
£ 7   7s.  1 id,  while  the  combined  exports 
of 
the  United*  States  and  Germany 
amounted  to  only  £ 7   4s.  4d.  Again, 
while  the  value  of  the  exports  of the 
United  Kingdom  fell  from^8  4s  id.  per 
capita  for  the  seven  years  sending  in 
1885 to  £ 7   gs.  in  the  seven  years  ending 
in  1899,  a  decrease  of  15s.  id.,  the value 
of  the  combined  exports  of  the  United 
States  and  Germany  declined  from  ^8 
per  capita  in  the  first  mentioned  period 
to  £6 gs.,  a  decrease  of £ 1   n s.

if  their  increase 

Here  is  certainly  a  crumb  of  comfort, 
even  if  furnished  by an interested party. 
It  does  not  alter the  fact  that the United 
States  and  Germany  are  forging  ahead, 
even 
in  population 
more  than  keeps  pace  with  the  growth 
of  trade,  while  Great  Britain  merely 
holds  her own  and  increases  her  popu­
lation  at  a  very  moderate  rate.  The 
same  writer  already  quoted  has  called 
attention  to  the  fact  that  imports  into 
the  United  Kingdom exceed the exports, 
but  he  points  out  that  this  discrepancy 
is  more  than  made  good  by  the  enor­
mous  returns  from  the  freight  earned  by 
British  shipping  engaged 
in  carrying 
the  world’s  commerce,  the  premiums  on 
insurance  controlled  by  British  com­
panies  and  the  vast  sums  in  the  shape 
of  interest  which  find  their way  to Great

Britain  as  returns  on  British 
ments  in  foreign  countries.

invest­

There 

is  more  truth  than  poetry  in 
this.  Take,  for  instance,  the  enormous 
price  which  American  products  have  to 
pay  annually  to  British  ship  owners  for 
carrying  their  products  to  foreign  coun­
tries.  Scarcely  a  single  American  ship 
is  engaged  in  the  transatlantic  freight 
trade.  Until  we  are  able  to  carry  Amer­
ican  goods  to  foreign  markets  in  Amer­
ican  ships  our  supremacy  in  the  foreign 
trade 
is  only  partial  and  temporary. 
To  be  well  grounded,  it  must  be  ac­
companied  by  control  of  the  shipping, 
which  is  essential  to  the  distribution  of 
American  products  as  well  as  properly 
to  keep  American  manufacturers  before 
the  eyes  of  foreign  consumers.

PROPORTION  OF THE SEXES.

Some  weeks  ago  the  Tradesman  com­
menting  on  the  fact  that  there  are  more 
men than  women  in  the  United  States, 
deplored  the  lack  of  distribution  of  the 
sexes,  since  there  are  states  in  which 
the  women  preponderate 
in  numbers, 
and  other states 
in  which  the  men  are 
in  a  majority,  so  that  in  some states  the 
fair sex  are  a  drug  on  the  market,  while 
in  others  they  are  at  a  premium,  the 
men  finding  it  difficult  to  get  wives.

The  census  of  1900  is  not  sufficiently 
completed  to  show  the  distribution  of 
the  sexes,  but in  1890  it  stood  much as it 
must  stand  to-day.  The  states  which 
in  1890  showed  an  overplus  of  women 
were  New  Hampshire,  Massachusetts, 
Rhode  Island,  Connecticut,  New  York, 
New  Jersey,  Maryland,  District  of  Col­
umbia,  Virginia,  North  Carolina  and 
South  Carolina. 
is  barely 
saved  from  this  list  by  having  only 
thirteen  more  males  than  females.  The 
figures  for the  sexes  in  1890  were :
Males............................................32,067,880
Fem ales.......................................30,554,370

Louisiana 

Excess  of  males. . . ____  1,513,510
From this  it  is  seen  that  every  woman 
could  have  a  husband,  with  a  million 
and  a  half  to  spare,  if  only  the  men 
were  properly  distributed. 
It  is  doubt­
less  a 
law  of  nature  that  there  should 
be  an  excess  of  men  in  order to  provide 
for  the  contingencies  of  war  in  which 
men  are  slaughtered,  but  in  Europe, 
probably  because  of  the  frequent  wars 
and  the  emigration  of  men,  the  women 
are  largely  in  excess.  By  the  census  of 
1891  the  males  in  the  United  Kingdom 
18,608,337  to  19,496,638  fe­
numbered 
males. 
in  1895  the  num­
bers  were  25,661,250  males  to  26,618,651 
in  1891  there 
females,  and 
were  18,932,354  males  to  19,201,031 
fe­
males. 
In  the  entire  Russian  Empire, 
with  its  population  of  129,000,000,  the 
proportion  of  women 
is  99.8  for  100 
men.

In  Germany 

in  France 

In  Asia  the  men  are  largely  in  ex­
cess.  Women  are  held  cheap  in  most 
of  the  Asiatic  countries,  and  in  many 
of  them,  the  murder  of  girl  babies  is 
almost  a  rule.  Estimates  made  in  the 
Gotha  Almanac  gave  for  India  944  fe­
males  to  1,000 males,  and  for Japan  973 
females  to  1,000 males.  No  statistics  of 
China  are  at  hand,  but  the  excess  of 
men  exists  there  without  doubt,  and 
probably  the  rule  is  the  same for Africa. 
Europe  is,  therefore,  the  only  country 
in  which  the  excess  in  the  proportion  of 
women  would  seem  to  excuse polygamy, 
so  that  all  the  women  might  be  sup­
ported  by  men.

It 

looks  as 

if  the  only  way  to  per­
manently  repress  a  Boxer  is  to cut  his 
queue  off  just  beneath  his  chin.

AN UNLEARNED  LESSON.

Notwithstanding  the  proverbial  thrift 
of  our  New  England  ancestry  there  has 
been  developed 
in  the  midst  of  it  a 
prodigality  and  a  proneness  to  waste 
which-is  getting  to  be  a  National  char­
acteristic. 
Its  appearance  began  to  de­
velop  a  century  ago  in  the  management 
of  the  New  England  farm.  While  the 
original  fertility  of  the  soil  lasted  farm­
ing  was  profitable.  The  fields  gave  as 
long  as  they  could  without  enrichment 
and  when  the  soil  became  exhausted 
the  ruse  of  the  farmer  was  to  break  up 
more  wild 
land.  When  the  farm  gave 
out  there  was  a  going  West  to  continue 
the  same  exhausting  process,  and  to-day 
New  England  is  full  of  deserted  farms, 
every  one  of  them  driving  home  the 
axiom  that constant  giving  with  no  re­
plenishing  produces  annihilation.

The  result seems to come  down to this : 
The  theory  is  all  right  and  the  prac­
tice  may  be,  but  in  this  country  where 
the  original  supply  is  exhaustless  why 
not  make  the  most  of  that condition  and 
let the  future  take  care  of  itself?  “ Suffi­
cient  unto  the  day  is  the  evil  thereof.”  
With  science  and  invention  at  work  for 
the  amelioration  of  mankind,there  is  no 
need  of  the  petty  economies  which ham­
pered  our  forefathers.  The  tallow  dip 
gave  way  to  whale  oil  and  when  the 
whales  were  almost  exterminated  kero­
sene  and  gas  came  to  the  front,  and 
these  are  now  giving  place  to  electric­
ity. 
“ Old  things  have  passed  away 
and  all  things  have  become  new”   is  the 
watchword  of  the  time  and  the  only 
thing  this  day  and  generation  have  to 
do  is  to  “ let  the  dead  past  bury  its 
dead. ”

It  is  not  the 

That  is  the  song  of  the  prodigal,  but 
strenuously  as  ever  prudence  and  thrift 
utter their  protest. 
lesson 
of  experience.  The  old  New  England 
farm,  taken in  hand  by  intelligent  man­
agement,  refutes  the  idea  by  giving fair 
returns  for  equally  fair treatment;  and 
the  same  fact  must  be  considered from a 
more  extensive  point  of  view 
if  the 
is  to  be  benefited  by  this  still 
Nation 
unlearned 
lesson,  that  constant  outgo 
with  no  income 
leads  to  annihilation. 
Fifty  years  ago  the  woods  of  Michigan 
were  her chief  source  of  wealth.  They 
were 
inexhaustible. 
With  a  recklessness  as  wasteful  'as  it 
was  ruinous  the  woods  were  cut  down 
without  a  thought  of  restoration  and  un­
less  vigorous  measures  are  taken  to  re­
pair the  damage  the  pineries  of the lake 
region  will  die  out.

looked  upon  as 

The  oil  regions  of  Pennsylvania stand 
as  witnesses  testifying  to  the  same  fact. 
The  sinking  of  the  Drake  well  was  the 
beginning  of  a  waste  of  oil  and  gas  that 
only  a  Coal  Oil  Johnny  could  fittingly 
typify.  They  literally  had  gas  to  burn, 
and  they  burned 
it.  Day  and  night 
throughout  the  oil  regions  for  years  the 
oil  fields  were  ablaze  with  gas  fires  that 
were  constantly  fed  by  gas  that  was  al­
lowed  to  escape  and  burn.wherever  it 
reached  the  surface. 
It  was  supposed 
that  the  gas  and  oil  were  limitless;  but 
the  exhausted  well  and  the  rotting  der­
rick  to-day  tell  a  different  story.  Fifty 
years ago  the  buffalo  in  countless  num­
bers  roamed  over  the  Western  prairie. 
Where 
is  he  now?  A  quarter of  a  cen­
tury  ago  the  waters  of  California,  Ore­
gon  and  Washington were full of Salmon. 
They  are  all  gone.  Year  in  and  year 
out the  streams  have  been fished—a con­
stant  giving  out  and  no  replenishing. 
There  can  be  but  one  result,  and  that 
has  come.  Now  the  salmon  canners  are 
spending  a 
large  amount  of  money  in 
establishing  plants  along  the  Alaskan

coast.  The  fish  are  plentiful  there,  and 
there  was  every  promise  that  the  old 
story  would  have  another  telling.  But 
there  must  something  go  in  if  anything 
is  to  come  out,  and  the  Government  has 
uttered  the  needful  “ Hold  on!”   and 
the  canners,  because  they  can  not com­
ply  with  the  requirement  without  ruin­
ous  expense,  are  making  a  vigorous 
protest  against  being  required  to  return 
to  the  waters every year fry to the amount 
of  four times  the  number  of  mature  fish 
taken  in  nets  and  put  upon  the  market. 
It  will  be  interesting  to  see  the  outcome 
of the  contest.  If  their  statement  is  cor­
rect  prudence  will  suggest  that  they 
drop  the  business.  The  regulations  ap­
ply  to  everybody  in  the  trade  and  there 
will  be  no  discrimination.  The  Alaskan 
waters  contain  a  vast  amount  of  wealth 
and  the  Government  is  right  in  seeing 
to 
is  not  destroyed.  When 
American  selfishness  shows  its intention 
to scoop  into  its  own  coffers 
in  a  few 
years  the  wealth  that  should  reward  the 
exertions  of  generations  it  is the  duty  of 
the  Government to  call  a  halt.  Had  the 
alarm  been  sounded  earier some,  if  not 
all,  of  the  exhausted  resources  might  be 
still  developing,  to  the  advantage  of 
people  and  Government  alike.  It  is bet­
ter  late  than  never,  however,  and  if  the 
lesson  be  now  duly  studied 
unlearned 
and  put 
into  practice 
it  may  still  be 
possible  to  make  good  the  loss  which 
indifference  have  oc­
carelessness  and 
casioned  during  the 
last  one  hundred 
years. 

_________________

it  that 

it 

the 

The  old  question  once  asked  by  a 
clergyman,  “ Shall  aged  ministers  be 
shot?”   is  suggested  by  the  action  taken 
by  a  New  York  church  the  other  day 
which  insisted  upon  a  change  of  pastors 
because 
congregation  wanted  a 
younger  man.  The preacher whom  they 
took  this  way  of  ousting  was  only  55 
years  of  age,  and 
in  other  professions 
as  well  as 
in  business  there  are  men 
even  ten  or fifteen  years  older  actively 
engaged 
in  good  work.  The  average 
salary  paid  to  ministers  is  not  enough 
to  enable  them  to  live  as  well  as  their 
congregations  would  like  to  have  them, 
and  at  the  same  time  lay  up  money. 
If 
they  are  to  be  pushed out of employment 
at  the  comparatively  early  age  of  55, 
young  men  will  think  twice  before  en­
tering  upon  that  vocation.  Of  course, 
it 
is  to  be  expected  that  all  the  minis­
laid  up  treasures  in  heaven, 
ters  have 
and  that 
is  very  well  in  its  way,  but 
treasures  on  earth  are  of  more  practical 
value  so  long  as  they  live.  The  ravens 
feeding  modem 
are  not  nowadays 
prophets,  as 
is  related  they  did  of 
old,  and  even  a  minister  must  have  an 
income  with  which  to  provide  three 
meals  a  day  and  the  roof  over  his  head. 
Some  men  are  more  useful  and  their 
services  more  valuable  at  60  than  at  30 
or 400,  and 
it  would  be  a  hardship  to 
levy  a  time 
limit  on  preachers.  The 
good  service  they  have  rendered in their 
prime  should  be  taken 
into  account, 
even  when  the  infirmities  of age prevent 
them  from  working  as  hard  or  even  as 
efficiently  as  was  their custom  years  be­
fore.

it 

A  new law  in  Tennessee  provides  that 
when  an 
insurance  company  refuses  to 
pay  losses  within  a  certain  time,  a  pen­
alty  of  25  per  cent,  shall  be  added  to 
the  face  of  the  policy,  and  the  company 
shall  be  prohibited  from  doing  further 
business 
in  the  State  until  the  whole 
amount  has  been  paid.

A  Georgia  jury  recently  brought in the 
“ We,  the  jury,  find 

following  verdict: 
the  prisoner almost  guilty.”

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Dry Goods

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Staples.

interest 

Staple  Cottons—Brown  cottons,  where 
the 
is  greatest  just  at  present, 
are  still  irregular  although  slightly  on 
the  advance.  Wide 
sheetings  have 
shown  an 
improvement,  although  they 
are  not  yet  in  a  very  good condition.  In 
coarse  colored  cottons  buyers  are  mov­
ing  slowly,  and  the  amount  of  business 
transacted  is  apparently  small.

Prints  and  Ginghams—Narrow  prints 
for  fall  are  at  a  standstill  and  there  is 
very 
little  request  for  the  carried-over 
dark  patterns,  which  are  usually  in  evi­
dence  at  this  season.  Narrow  prints  are 
irregular  and  rather  favor the  buyers. 
Fine  printed  fabrics  are  steady,  for  the 
odds  and  ends  which  have  been  carried 
for  some  time  are  pretty  well  cleaned 
up.

Dress  Goods—Quiet  conditions  con­
tinue  to  prevail  in  the  dress  goods  mar­
ket.  Developments  are  few  and  unim­
portant.  The  weather  has  been  a  de­
pressing  factor,  for  it  has  restricted  the 
movement  of  goods 
in  retail  and  job­
bing  circles,  and  has  therefore  rein­
forced  the  buyers’  conservative  inclina­
tions  as  regards  heavyweight  fabrics. 
The  buyer  finds 
it  no  easy  matter to 
measure  his  probable  needs  for the com­
ing  season,  and  as  he  is  not certain  that 
prices  in  the  initial  market  have  struck 
bottom,  he  refrains  from  making 
lib­
eral  purchases.  Occasional  instances  of 
weakness  have  developed  in  the market, 
but  even  price  inducements  have  failed 
to  stimulate  the  buying.  Until  the  re­
tail  end  of  the  market  shows  unmistak­
able  improvement,  business  at  first  and 
second  hands  will  not  reflect  much  life. 
The  majority  of  dress  goods  lines  are 
held  at  firm  values,  for agents  realize 
that  under  present  conditions  an  evi­
dence  of  weakness  is  likely  to do  more 
harm  than  good. 
The  plain  fabrics 
previously  indicated  continue  to  attract 
the  bulk  of  the  attention,  and  there  is 
nothing  in  sight  which  threatens  to  con­
test  their  position. 
There  are  those 
who  profess  to  believe  that  camel's  hair 
fabrics  or-  the  zibeline  order and  also 
plaids  are  going  to  make  a  place  for 
themselves.  There  are  those  also  who 
are  beginning  to  champion  the  crepon, 
predicting  good  business  thereon  before 
the  end  of  the  season. 
It  must  be  ad­
mitted,  however,  that  the  buyers’  in­
terest  in  such  fabrics  at  this  time  is  not 
of  a  consuming  order.  The  cashmere 
situation  remains  dull  and  unchanged, 
existing  stocks  being  an  unpleasant 
feature.  There 
is  nothing  very  new  in 
regard  to  waistings.  The  contest  for 
business  goes  on.  The cheap  mercerized 
cotton  fabrics  are  making  their presence 
felt,  and  jobbers  have  given  consider­
able  attention  thereto  with  the  result 
that  finer  goods  have  suffered,  and  the 
situation  is  not  as  satisfactory  as  agents 
and  manufacturers  could  wish. 
The 
waist  market  is  in  a  clogged  condition, 
due  to  production  being  out  of  propor­
tion  to  the  present  consumption.

Knit  Goods—The  best  conditioned 
goods  at  present  are  the  ribbed  lines. 
Mills  making  these  goods  are  running 
full  time,  and  even  for  fall  weights  this 
class  of  goods  is  showing  a  fair amount 
of  orders.  Salesmen  who  are  now on 
the  road  report  that  for the  month  their 
orders  for sweaters  and  golf  goods  have 
been  good,  and  that  retailers  believe 
there 
is  to  be  a  big  demand  for  both 
men’s  and  women's  goods  of  this  class. 
Knit  bathing  suits  have  passed  their 
initial  season,  and  results  are  reported

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

so 

far 

as  fully  up  to  the  average.  There  will 
be  a  little  more  added  in  the  way  of  re­
orders  when  the  bathing  season  fairly 
opens.  At  present  writing  there  is  little 
more  information  to  report  than  a  week 
ago.  We  can  say  this  much,  however, 
that 
from  the  matter  being 
dropped,  those  interested  are  still  work­
ing  away  with  every  confidence -  of  ac­
complishing  their  end.  There  are  vast 
interests 
involved  so  that  the  matter 
takes  time.  . The  attorneys  report  that 
while  they  have  nothing  definite  to 
say,  things  are  moving  along  as smooth­
ly  as  could  be  expected.

Hosiery—The  fall  business  has  not 
developed  enough  to  show  decidedly 
how  the  styles  will  run,  but  there  is  no 
doubt  that  fancies  will  be  strong.  Will 
white  goods  take  the  place  of  fancies  in 
the  near  future?  is a  question  that  many 
are  asking  to-day.  Some  predict  that 
white 
is  a  coming  feature  of  the  trade 
for  men,  women  and  children.  This, 
however,  remains  to  be  proven.

You  Are  Cheating Yourself W hen Yon Do 

Poor W ork.

A  young 

lady  working  on  a  paper 
once  said  she  did  not  try  to do  very 
good  work 
for  her  employers,  because 
they  “ did  not  pay  much.”   This  doing 
poor work  because  it  does  not.pay  much 
is  just  what  keeps  thousands  and  thous­
ands  of  young  people  from getting  on  in 
the  world.  Small  pay  is  no  excuse  for 
doing  half  or  slovenly  work. 
Indeed, 
the  pay  which  one  receives  should  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  quality  of  his 
work.  The  work  should  be  a  matter of 
conscience. 
is  a  question  of  charac­
ter,  not  of  remuneration.  A  person  has 
no  right  to  demoralize  his  own character 
by  doing  slovenly  or  half-finished  work 
simply  because 
it  doesn’t  pay  much. 
A  conscientious  person  will  do  his  work 
just  as  well  as  if  he  receives  nothing 
more  than  his  board  for  it.  A  large  part 
of the  best  work  that  has  ever been done 
in  the  world  has  been  only  half  paid 
for.

It 

An  employe  has  something  at  stake 
besides  bis  salary.  He  has  character. 
There  are  manhood  and  womanhood  in­
volved,  compared  with  which  salary  is 
nothing.  The  way  one  does  his  work 
enters  into  the  very  fiber of  his  charac­
ter.  It  is  a  matter  of  conscience,  and  no 
one  can  afford  to  sell  himself  because 
his  salary  is  meager.

Besides,  if  one  puts  his  very  best  self 
into  every  little  thing  he  does—puts  his 
heart  and  conscience  into 
it,  and  tries 
to  see  how  much,  and  not  how  little, 
he  can  give  his  employer—he  will  not 
be  likely  to  be  underpaid  very  long,  for 
he  will  be  advanced.  Good  work  cuts 
its  own  channel  and  does  its  own  talk­
ing.  What  matter 
if  you  do  twenty- 
five  dollars'  worth  for five  dollars?  It  is 
the  best  advertisement  of  your  worth 
you  can  possibly  give.  Bad  work,  half- 
done  work,  slipshod  work,  even  with  a 
good  salary,  would  soon  ruin  you.  No, 
the  way  to get  on  in  the  world  is  not  to 
see  how  little  you  can  give  for  your sal­
ary,  but  how  much.  Make  your  em­
ployer ashamed  of  the  meager  salary  he 
gives  by  the great disproportion between 
what  you  do  and  what  you  get.  Char­
acter  is  a  very  great  factor  in  success, 
and  the  personal  impression  you  make 
on  your  employer  will  tell. 
If  not  it 
will  attract  the  attention  of others.

A  millionaire 

in  New  York  told  the 
writer  that,  ytben  he  was  a  boy,  he  let 
himself  out  by  verbal  contract  for five 
years,  at  seven  dollars  and  fifty cents  a 
week,  in  a  large  dry  goods  store in  New 
York.  At  the  end  of  three  years  this 
young  man  had  developed  such  skill  in 
concern
judging  goods  that  another 

It 

offered  him  three  thousand  a  year to  go 
abroad  as 
its  buyer.  He  said  that  he 
did  not  mention  this  offer to  his  em­
ployers,  nor  even  suggest  the  breaking 
of  his  agreement  to  work  for seven  and 
a  half  dollars  a  week,  although  verbal, 
until  his  time  was  up.  Many  people 
would  say  he  was  very  foolish  not to 
accept  the  offer  mentioned,  but  the  fact 
was  that  this  firm,  in  which  he  ulti­
mately  became  a  partner,  paid  him  ten 
thousand  dollars  a  year  at the expiration 
of  bis  seven-and-a-half-dollar  contract. 
They  saw  that  he  was  giving them many 
times  the  amount  of  his  salary,  and 
in 
the  end  he  was  the  gainer.  Supposing 
he  bad  said  to  himself,  “ They  give 
only  seven  and  a  half  dollars  a  week, 
and  I  will  earn  only  seven  and  a  half 
dollars  a  week ;  I  am  not going  to  earn 
fifty  dollars  a  week  when  I  am  getting 
only  seven  and  a  h alf!”   This  is  what 
many  boys  would  have  said,  and  then 
they  would  have  wondered  why  they 
were  not advanced.

loss  of  a 

is  not  a  question  of  cheating  an 
employer ;  it  is  a  question  of  cheating 
yourself  when  you  do  poor  work.  The 
employer  is  not  injured  half  as  much  as 
you  are  by  half-done  work. 
It  may  be 
few  dollars to  him,  but  to 
à 
you 
it  is  loss  of  character  and  self- 
respect, loss  of  manhood  or womanhood.
I  have  seldom  known  of  a  young  per­
son  who  persistently  and  determinedly 
filled  his  position 
in  the  best  manner 
possible  who  was  not  eventually  the 
gainer,  even  from  a  financial  stand­
point,  to  say  nothing  of  the 
infinite 
gain  in  character and  self-respect.
Young  people  should  start  out  with 
the  conviction  that there  is only  one way 
to  do  anything,  and  that  is  the  best  that 
it  can  be  done,  regardless  of  remunera­
tion.

They  should  be  greater than  the  petty 
means  of  getting  a  living.  They  are 
making  character-fiber every day.  Their 
manhood  and  womanhood  are  woven 
from  the  warp  and  woof  of  their daily 
work  and  thought.  They  can  not  afford 
to  weave  rotten  or  sleazy  threads  into 
the  life  fabric.—Success.

Don’t
you
buy
an
Awning
until
get
our
prices

Send distance l to 2 or height
2 to 3 or projection,
3 to 4 or width.

( S E E   C U T )

and  we  will  send  samples  and  bottom  prices.

CHAS.  A.  COYE,

■I  Pearl  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

G A S  R E A D IN G   L A M P S

No  wick,  no  oil,  no  trouble—always 
ready.  A  Gas  Reading  Lamp  is  the 
most satisfactory kind to  use.

A complete lamp  including tubing and 
genuine  Welsbach  Mantles  and  Wels- 
bach lamps as low as $3.

Suitable for offices and  stores  as  well.
GRAND RAPIDS GAS  LIGHT  CO„ 

P earl  and  O ttaw a Sts.

W RAPPERS

Pretty patterns,  excellent  quality  and  per­
fect fit are combined  in  our  beautiful  line  of 
wrappers  this  season.  By  the  way  we  are 
receiving orders daily we  are  convinced  that 
we have secured  the very best.  The prettiest 
patterns will soon  be  gone,  so  send  us  your 
order quick.  They  range  in  price  from  $9 
per dozen  and up.

P.  S T E K E T E E   &   S O N S

W H O LE S A LE   D R Y   G O O D S  

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

W E  SHOW

.LflCEr CURTAINS'some  very  pretty  designs  in  lace  cur- 
1  ' 
‘  '   tains and  curtain  Swiss  for  the  spring
trade.  Lace curtains range  at 55c,  75c, 
$1.25 and $1.50 per pair.  Curtain Swiss 
and  Mulls  at  8,  9,  10,  12  and  15c  per 
yard.  W e  also  carry  a  good  line  of 
ready made window shades to  retail  at 
10,  15, 25 and 50c.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Clothing

Favored  Fashions  in  Furnishings  a t  Chi­

cago.

Why  is  it that  neckwear  makers  can 
not  profit  by  one  blunder  and  avoid 
sticking  their fingers  into the  fire almost 
before  the  burns  from  the  first  contact 
have  healed? 
Just  two  years  ago  this 
month  the  border  craze  was  fully  on 
and  neckwear  makers  were  deploring 
the  demand  for shapes  that  plastered  a 
wearer's  shirt  front  full  of  silk  and 
left 
only  a  small  knot  and  a  fraction  of  the 
imperial  tie  to  show  in  the 
enormous 
four-and-a-half-inch  opening 
in  the 
high-cut  vest—neither border nor  elabo­
rately  embroidered  ends  ever  being seen 
except  when  the  man  dressed  or dis­
robed  in  the  privacy  of  his  own room.

Neckwear  manufacturers  hailed  the 
passing  of  this  purely  crazy  fad with ex­
treme  delight  and  behaved  themselves 
for  a  season.  Now  they  are  at  it  again 
in  a  different direction—making derbies 
fifty  inches  long.  Why  such  abnormal 
length?  Vests  have  not  changed,  the 
openings  are  still  the  same  and  no  more 
expanse  of  tie  can  be  made  to show than 
it  did  two  years  ago.

As 

it  is  now  the  wearer  of  a  50-inch 
derby,  if  he  is  an  average  man  and  ties 
it  as  an  average  man  does,  has from  two 
to  three  inches  of  tie  to  tuck  into  his 
trousers—and  pin  it  under  the  trouser’s 
band—to  keep  it  from  showing  beneath 
the  vest.  What  benefit  is  a  tie  after  it 
passes  below  the  opeinng  in  the  vest  at 
the  neck?  No  benefit  or  use  at  all  un­
less  it  be  to  furnish  man  some  tangible 
excuse  for extending  his  profane  vocab­
ulary.

The  wants  of  the  dressy  man  have not 
prompted  this  extreme  extension  of  the 
derby. 
It  seems  that  as  the  derby  was 
gradually  made  narrower the  saving  of 
material  in  that  direction  was  added  to 
the 
length.  More  narrowing,  more 
lengthening!  Where  is  it  to  stop?

It  will  be  noticed,  too,  that  the  same 
methods  pursued  to  advertise  the  big, 
broad-ended,  wide-bordered 
imperials 
have  been  adopted  for  the  50-inch, 
stringy  derbies  to-day  They  are 
illus­
trated on  busts  of  men not wearing vests. 
The 
is  not  being 
put  out  for negligee  wear but  for spring 
and  early  summer and  should  be  shown 
on  figures  with  vests  at  least.

long,  stringy  derby 

“ Who  started  this  shoe-string  craze?”  
I  asked  one  of  the  most  practical  com­
mon  sense  neckwear  manufacturers  in 
this  country. 
“ Don't  know,”   was  his 
“ Why  are  you  making  them?”  
reply. 
was  my  next  question. 
“ Don’t  know 
reply. 
that  either,”   was  his  honest 
“ We  are  making  them  because 
the 
other  fellow  is.”

That's  the  whole  thing  in  a  nutshell. 
All  neckwear  manufacturers  are  making 
a  shape  that nobody  wants—only  buy 
it 
because  they  have  no  alternative—and 
are  not  making  them  from  choice  but 
simply  “ because  the  other fellow  is .”

Why  don’t  some  wide-awake  manu­
facturer  bring  out  a  narrow  derby  only 
long  enough  to  go  an  inch  or two  below 
the  opening  in  the  vest  and  publish  the 
fact  that  the  wearer  is  not obliged  to 
lowei  ends  to  his  trouser’s 
fasten  the 
band?  Such  ties  will  outsell  the 
long, 
stringy  one  two  to  one.

increasing  popularity  of  black 
necwkear  is  so  great  that  it  is  now  re­
marked  by 
laymen  who  make  no  pre­
tense  to  keep-  up  on  style  and  dress 
tendency.

Black  derbies,  black  unlined  imper­
ials  and  black  ascots  are  to  be seen  at

The 

any  time  and  in  almost  any  place.  A 
walk  down  State  street  will  show  an  un­
usually 
large  number  of  black  ties  on 
well  dressed  fellows.  Often  a  small 
figure  will  relieve  the  solid  black,  but 
this 
is  more  generally  the  exception 
than  the  rule.  Black  neckwear  is  al­
ways  dressy,  but  in  this  instance  I  am 
inclined  to  think  it  indicates  the  retire­
ment  of  oxford  suiting  for  more  lively 
tones.

The  unsuccessful  try  last  spring  and 
summer to  affect  the  pique  stock—with­
out  linen  collars—for outing  or golfing 
has  resulted  in completely abandoning  it 
this  season.

Dropping  it  is  certainly  sensible from 
a  genteel  as  well  as  from  a  comfortable 
standpoint.  There 
is  no  outdoor  sport 
a  gentleman  indulges  in  that  is  so  vig­
orous that  some  sort  of  a  collar  can  not 
be  worn  comfortably.  He  has  every­
thing  to  select  from  from  a  Cornell  roll 
to  a  2-inch  highband  turndown  and  will 
not  find  any  of  the  intermediate  heights 
uncomfortable  for wear  in  the  sun.

The  pique  stock  must  be  folded  flat 
to the  neck  and  is  instantly  uncomfort­
able,  becoming  unbearable  when  the 
wearer  is 
in  action.  Clinging  to  the 
neck,  it  prevents  any  circulation  of  air 
and  wilts  down  in  a  few  minutes.  The 
pique  stock  was  never  intended 
for 
men’ s  wear  without  a  collar—it  is  con­
trary  to  the  likes  of  even  the extremists.
From  present  indications  this  is  to  be 
It  is 
a  summer  of  low  shoes  for  men. 
time  they  returned  to  favor.  A  careful 
inspection  of  leading  shoe  stocks  shows 
that  the  shoe  dealers  are  banking  on  a 
summer  of 
low  shoes—and  black  ones 
at  that.  The  shapes  are  stocky  and  sub­
stantial 
in  appearance  and  make-up, 
extension  soles  and  well  rounded  toe. 
The  bulk  of  the  stocks  are  made  up  of 
black  enamel 
leathers,  many  patent 
leathers,  calf  and  some  kid.  Very  few 
tans  are  shown  as  compared  with  the 
blacks.—Apparel  Gazette.

The True  Collecting Agent.

From the St. Paul Trade Journal.

Personally,  I  am 

E .A .  Stowe,  the  able  editor  of  the 
lays  down  this 

Michigan  Tradesman, 
proposition:
in  favor of the  re­
peal  of all  laws  for the  collection  of  all 
debts,because  I  believe  the  world  would 
be  better and  the  people  would  be  hap­
pier  if  all  commercial  transactions  were 
based  solely  on  honor.
That  is quite  a broad statement,  some­
what 
in  advance  of  public  or commer­
cial  sentiment,  at  this  time,  no  doubt, 
still 
it-  reflects  the  trend  of  public 
thought.
Honor  is,  or  should  be,  the  basis  of 
credit—the  two  terms  should  be  syn­
in  the  anxiety  to  do 
onymous—but 
much  business  the  principle  of  honor 
is  not taken  into  account  as  it  ought  to 
be.

is  prominent  now, 

The  agitation  of  credit  and  credit 
systems  which 
is 
leading 
in  the  direction  indicated  by 
Mr.  Stowe. 
It  may  never come  that  all 
laws  for  the  collection  of  debts  will  be 
abolished,  but  unless  public  sentiment 
is  greatly  misunderstood  the  necessities 
for granting  credit  are  largely  disap­
pearing.
is  seen  on  every  hand  a  grow­
There 
ing  disposition  to  dispense  with  credit, 
to  do  business  for  cash  or  its  equiva­
lent,  and  presently 
it  will  come  about 
that  business  systems  will  be  placed up­
on  a  more  sound  basis.  When  this  is 
fully  accomplished,  honor  will  be  the 
collecting  agent  and  an  hitherto  un­
known  peace  and  happiness  suffuse  the 
business  world.

Quite  the  Reverse.

Pater—I  don’t  see  why  they  call  Sun­

day  a  day  of  rest.

home?

Askam—Why,  don’t  you  spend  it  at 

Pater—Certainly.  But  so do the twins.

T hought I t  W ent W ithout Saying.

The  man  with  the  subscription  paper 
into  the  office  of  the  leading 

stepped 
professional  man  of  the  place.

“ Mr.  Hunks,”   he  said,  “ some  of  our 
young  men  are  trying  to  organize  a 
brass  band.  How  much  are  you  will­
ing  to  subscribe?”

“ I ’ll  give  $20,”   replied  old  Mr. 

“ That  will  please  the  boys,  I  know,”  
rejoined  the  caller. 
“ If  everybody  else 
does  as  well  they’ll  soon  have  their  in­
struments  and  be  ready  to  begin—”
old 
“ You  don’t  get  a  cent  out  of 
Hunks. 
me  for any  such  purpose  as  that ! 
I 
thought  you  were  raising  money  to  buy 
them  off. ’ ’

“ Great  Scott!”  

interrupted 

Hunks.

M ight Not  Agree.

Hewitt—Why  don’t  you  sign  the  ar­
ticles  you  write  for the  magazines  and 
newspapers?

Jewett—I  don’t  care  to  have  my  wife 

know  my  views.

Cheap and effective.

Send for samples and prices.

C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S.  Clark  St..  Chicago,  III.

LaDue-Tate Manufacturing Co.

70-76  Exchange  Street,  Buffalo,  N.  Y.

Manufacturers of

Buffalo  Brand 

Pants,  Shirts  and 

Overalls

and  jobbers  of

Men’s

Furnishing  Goods

We  are  pleased  to  send  samples  on  approval, charges prepaid.  Correspondence 
solicited.  Drop  us a card and our Michigan man will call on you.

The  best,  after  all 
Is  the  “Sterling”  Overall.

Write for prices and samples.

MORRIS  W.  MONTGOMERY,

Lansing,  Mich.

Q.  H.  GATES  &  CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

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Shoes  and  Rubbers
How  P roperly  to  Conduct a  Shoe  D epart­

m ent.

look  for 

individuality 

The  buyer  of  a  shoe  department 
should 
in  the 
samples  which  are  shown  him,  and  buy 
only  those  which  show that  trait.  Upon 
the  care  in  buying  depends  very  largely 
the  success  of  the  department  and  how 
much  business  you  can  do.  Have  your 
shoes  made  by  a  manufacturer expressly 
to  your order,  so  that  they  may-have  ex­
clusiveness  of  design.  For this  reason 
it  is  better to  make  some  changes  from 
the  samples the  agents  show  you,  espe­
cially  if  the  manufacturer sells  to  some 
competitor  in  the  same  city.

If  you  sell  medium  priced  shoes  get 
into  them  that  you  can. 
all  the  style 
Make  them 
imitate  as  closely  as  pos­
sible  the  higher  priced  shoes, for  people 
who  want  cheap  or  medium priced shoes 
want  all  the  style  they  can  get  for  their 
money.
3 Have plenty of  styles  to  select  from  in 
those  grades  of  shoes  you  sell  the  most 
of.
j^Your  shoes  must  fit  well,  as  the  fit  of 
the  shoe 
is  the  best  advertisement  one 
can  get.  Women  will  tell  their  friends, 
and  this  is  as  good  as  an  advertisement 
in  a  newspaper.

The  department  store  is  looked  upon 
to  sell  shoes  cheaper than  regular  shoe 
stores  and  for  this  reason  you  must  give 
your customers  better  value  for the same 
price,  or  a 
lower  price  for  the  same 
grade  of  goods.

A  department  buyer can  sell  cheaper 
than  a  shoe  dealer  in  several  ways. 
If 
you  need  small  sizes  buy  up  samples 
which  can  be  purchased  at  35  to  50  per 
cent,  less  than  regular goods.

If  you  can  not get  hold  of  a  good  job 
of  regular sizes  put  the  broken  sizes  out 
on  a  table  where  they  will  be  seen  by 
the  many  people  who  throng  the  depart­
ment  store.

Arrange  your  broken  sizes  on tables so 
the  odds  and  ends  can  be  easily handled 
in  a  rush.  Never  put  jobs  or  samples 
in  your  regular  stock,  as  they  are  goods 
that  have  been  handled  a  good  deal  and 
can  not  be  sold  at  the  same  prices  as 
good,  fresh  new  goods.

A  buyer  should  know  his  stock  thor­
oughly  and  must  keep  it  right  up.  He 
must  size  up  often  and 
it  over 
three  or  four  times  a  week,  so  as  to 
know  just  what  he  has  on  hand.

look 

Every buyer  has  a  limit  placed  on  his 
buying,  and it  is  best  to  keep  well  with­
in  that  limit.  Buy  less  if  possible,  and 
turn  your  stock  over  as  often  as  you 
can.

Keep  away  from  freak  shoes,  and 
don't  buy  too  many  faddish  lines.  E x ­
treme  styles  never  sell  well  in  depart­
ment  stores,  and  they  go  out of  style too 
quickly  to  pay.

Keep  sizes  up.  Buy  less  kinds  and 
more  of  each  kind.  Have  plenty  of sizes 
and  widths.

Place  your  orders  far  enough  in  ad­
vance  so  you  will  not  be  disappointed 
if  the  manufacturer  does  not  deliver 
your  goods  when  promised.

Mark  shoes  in  French  sizes.  You  will 
It  is  best  that  customers 

fit  more  feet. 
should  not  know  what  size  they  wear.

Always  give  your customers  good  fit. 

Take  time  to do  so.

To  satisfy  a  customer  means  to  gain 
others.  Should  you  sell  a  pair of  shoes 
that  have  not  worn  well,  make  it  satis­
factory  to  your customer. 
It  is  a  good 
advertisement.

Never  warrant  patent  leather.  Tell

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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I  Our  Chrome  Kid  Line  !

Are  Winners

Ko.  2275

Stock No. 2275—Women’s Chrome Kid  Lace................................................$1 20
Stock No. 2282—Women’s Chrome Kid  Lace................................................  1  10
Stock No. 2276—Misses’ Chrome Kid Lace, low heel 12H to 2......................  1  00
Stock No. 2277—Childs’ Chrome Kid Lace, low heel 8J4 to  12......................  90

This line has solid sole-leather insole and counter.  Always  in  stock  on 

widths E ,  N and  E E .  Send for our spring  catalogue.

GEO.  H.  R E ED E R   &  CO.,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Jobbers  of  Shoes  and  Rubbers.

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•   New prices on  Bostons 35-10 and 5 per cent. 
5  Bay State 35-10-10 and 5 per cent. 
2  All  orders taken for fall will  be  billed  at  above  5 
■   prices.  Prices guaranteed  until  December  1st. 
•  
If you have not already placed your  order  wait  2 
2 
2 
for our salesman and  ask  to  see  the  new kinds  2
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for this season. 
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Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co. 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

your customers  the  nature  of  this  kind 
of  leather,  and  that  the  manufacturer 
does  not  warrant 
it  after  leaving  the 
factory;  so  the  customers  can  under­
stand  the  situation  if the  shoes  do  not 
wear  well.

Arrange  your  shoes  so  that  clerks 
can  find  them  easily.  A  good  system 
is  to  keep  the  narrow  sizes  to  the  left, 
the  wider  ones  to  the  right  on  the 
shelves;  the  low  shoes  on  one  part  of 
the  shelves  and  the  high  shoes  on  the 
other; 
themselves; 
misses’,  children’s  and  some  boys’  and 
youths’  also  by  themselves.

the  slippers  by 

The  boys’  and  youths’  shoes  bring 
other trade  to  the  department,  so  it  will 
pay  you  to  carry  a  moderate  stock,  not 
too  large.

Have  the  firm  name  on  all  goods  and 
have  all  cartons  alike.  Have  your  own 
labels  and  send  them  to  the manufactur­
ers, so they  can  put  them  on  the cartons.
Never  advertise  the  manufacturer's 
name  on  your  shoes.  Have  your  own 
firm  name  put  on  the 
inside  of  every 
shoe.

Managers  of  department  stores  who 
are  making  a  success  of  the  shoe  busi­
ness  are  the  ones  who wait  on  the  trade 
personally. 
In  that  way  they  come  in 
touch  with  the  wants  of  the  customers 
and  know  what  to  buy.

It  pays  to  advertise  specialties  in  the 

best  newspapers.

Never  advertise  anything  you  have 
not  got  on  sale. 
If  samples,  mention 
sizes  and  widths  you  have  for  sale.  Do 
the  same  with  the  jobs.

Always  treat  your  clerks  right. 

It 
keeps  them  in  good  humor  to  wait  on 
the  trade.

Keep  your stock  up  as  you  go  along. 
When  waiting  on  customers  put  the  car­
tons  hack 
in  the  same  places  where 
they  belong  before  taking  out  another 
shoe.

Have  your  windows  trimmed  nicely. 
Change  the  display  at  least once a week. 
Have  neat  price  cards  on  each  shoe  and 
change  the  cards often.  Have shoe forms 
for  the  shoes 
in  your  window  or  stuff 
them-  with  tissue  paper  to  display  the 
shape. 

It  helps  to  sell  them.

Do  not  leave  shoes  in  the  window  too 
long. 
If  you  do they  are  apt  to  become 
dry  and  get  burned  by  the  sun.  They 
will  never  look  so  fresh  afterwards.

If  you  have  no  findings  department, 
put  one  in.  Buy  only  the  best  shoe lac­
ings  and  sell  them.  The  fad  now  is  a 
call  for  such  things  as  red,  gold  and 
mixed  colors  in  lacings  and you  can  get 
good  prices  for them  just  as well  as  not.
Have  a  nice  assortment  of  polishes, 
etc.,  in  the  findings  department.  They 
will  sell  for  enough  to  more  than  pay 
for the  lacings  which  you  are  obliged  to 
give  away  free.

It  is  sometimes  a  good  advertisement 
to  give  away  a  small  box  of  paste  pol­
ish  or a  good  pair  of  lacings.

The  grade  of  shoes  to  sell  depends  on 
the  kind  of  trade  your  house  has.  My 
experience  teaches  me  that  the  manager 
can  work  up  his  customers  to  higher 
grades. 
If these  better grades  are  to  be 
in  stock  it  is  not necessary  to  buy  heav­
just  a  few  lines  and 
ily  at  first.  Buy 
work  at  it. 
It  will  come  after a  while.
Always  please  your  customers.  If  you 
do  not  have  what  they  want,  order a 
special  pair. 
It  pays,  if  you  take  the 
measure  carefully.

Some  goods  should  be  bought  of 

job­
If  you  want  anything  quick  get  it 

bers. 
at  the  jobbers.
,  Be  faithful  to  your employers.  Con­
sult  them  often,  ask  advice  of  them,  for 
is  “ Two  heads  are 
as  the  old  saying 
is  a 
better than  one,  especially  if  one 
sheep’s  head.” —Leon  Rosenfield 
in 
Boot and  Shoe Recorder.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18

Thieving  in  Shoe  Store»  and  Its  hasting 

Punishm ent.

With  much  regret  I  intend  to speak  to 
the  retail  clerk  this  week  on  one  of  the 
most delicate  subjects  I  have  ever  been 
called  upon  to  talk  about.  Within  the 
past  three  years,  again  and  again,  I 
have  been  importuned  to  speak  a  guid­
ing  word 
to  the  retail  clerks  who 
through  their  sporting  proclivities  have 
allowed  themselves  to  drift  away  from 
the  narrow  path. 
In  a  diary  of  events 
which  I  have  kept  I  have  a  record  of 
eighteen  shoe  clerks 
in  the  last  seven 
months  who  have  been  summarily  dis­
missed  from  their  positions  for theft.

I  do  not  mean  to 

imply  that  any 
young  man  reading  this  article  comes 
under  that  head,  but  that  it  might  be 
a  warning  to  some  one,  no  matter  how 
far  distant  or  how  near.  Any  young 
man  who  starts  out  in  life  blasting  all 
his  future  hopes  by  such  a  crime  as  this 
is,  to  say  the  least,  foolish.  For the  sake 
of  a  few  extra  moments’  pleasure  and 
the  thought  of  spending  a  few  dollars 
other than  he  is  able  to  make  honestly, 
he  conceives  and  carries  into  effect 
plans  for  getting  his  employer’ s  money.
Very  often  this  condition  of  affairs 
continues  from  six  to  eight  months  and 
even  a  year,  but  in  the  end,  no  matter 
how  smooth  he might b e;  no  matter how 
carefully  his  plans  are 
laid,  he  finds 
himself in an unguarded moment  caught 
and  his  whole  past  laid  bare.

The  result  of  this  is  more  serious than 
he  originally  anticipates.  Large  mer­
chants  have  formed  themselves 
into 
an  association  for their  own  protection, 
and  as  soon  as  a  young  man  has  been 
found  stealing,  or  doing  anything  else 
dishonest,  instead  of  prosecuting  him, 
which  is the  proper  way,he is  dismissed 
instantly,and  a  circular  is  sent  out  from 
the  store  to  all  members  in  this  com­
bine,  with  a  full  description  of  the 
clerk,  his  occupation,  etc.,  with  the 
result  that  travel  where  he  may,  from 
the  Atlantic  to  the  Pacific,  he  is  unable 
again  to  secure  a  job  at  his  chosen  call­
ing.

While  no  existing  condition  will  ex­
cuse  a  joung  man  or  young  woman  for 
being  dishonest,  nevertheless,  many  of 
these  present  abuses  can  be  attributed 
to  owners  of  stores  and  superintendents 
of  department  houses.  There  is  hardly 
a  department  house 
in  the  country  at 
the  present  time  paying  the  clerks  in 
their  shoe  departments  sufficient  money 
for their  maintenance.  Year  after  year 
the  salary  has  been  reduced  until  at  the 
present time  you  will  find  on  the  floors 
of  our  department  stores  clerks,  mar­
ried  men,  who  are  getting  $10,  $12  and 
very  rarely  $15  a  week.

This  is  not a ll:  many  of  the  depart­
ment  stores  during  the  dull  season  will 
lay  off  these  cleks  for  two  or three  days 
a  week,  and  some  superintendents  are 
so  narrow-minded  that  clerks  have  been 
laid  off  for one  day  in  order  to  reduce 
expenses.  More  than  this,  should  a 
holiday come  in  the  middle  of  the week, 
these  clerks  are  laid  off the  night  before 
the  holiday  for  the  day  following  the 
holiday,  thus  saving  the  house  the  ne­
cessity  of  paying  for  the  holiday  the 
clerk  would  not  have  worked.  When 
you  consider the  fact  that  shoe  clerks, 
owing  to  not  being  behind  a  counter, 
must  dress  better than  any  other  men  in 
the  store,  it  is  hardly  surprising  that 
they  become  desperate.

It  would  be  well  for young  men  who 
find  their  salary  so  reduced,  and  their 
expenses  becoming  so high,  to branch 
out  and  get  away  from  the  business  en­
tirely,  as often  less  active  and  far  in­

ferior  men  are  paid  much larger salaries 
in  almost  any  other  vocation.—Shoe 
Retailer.

Repairing: Shoes  Over O riginal Lasts.
A  card,  which  a  prominent  retailer 
has  sent  to  all  his  customers,  reads  as 
follows :

Shoes  need  the  utmost attention,  not 
only  in  the  fitting,  but 
in  the  care  of 
same.  We  do  all  kinds  of  repairing  at 
reasonable  prices,  and  as  our  shoes are 
repaired  from  our own  lasts  and  by  our 
own  workmen,  we  can  guarantee  to give 
entire  satisfaction.

This  card  is  about  the  most  mislead­
ing  announcement  that  has  come  into 
our  hands  for  some  time. 
In  the  first 
place,  no  last  is  made  that  fits  the  hu­
man  foot  exactly,  and  when  dealers 
claim  that  shoes  should  be  repaired  on 
the  original 
lasts,  they  are  mistaken. 
There  is  bound  to  be  the  imprint  of  the 
foot  left  in  every  shoe.  These  imprints 
make  the  shoe  comfortable,  and  are  one 
of  the  results  of  “ breaking  in .”   After 
the  foot 
is  settled  in  the  shoe  and  the 
various  parts of the insole are conformed 
to  the  shape  of  the  foot,  the  wearer  feels 
more  comfortable  than at any other time. 
Therefore,  repairing  shoes  upon  the 
original  lasts  is  entirely  wrong,  as  they 
do  not  fit  the  sole  of  the  shoe  when  you 
return  it  to  be  half-soled.

We  do  not  mean  that  the  large  lumps 
in  many  shoes  are  the  result  of  the  nat­
ural  form  of  a  comfortable  shoe.  These 
large 
lumps  are  the  result  of  bad  shoe­
making,  and  come  solely  from  the  filler 
which  manufacturers  put  into the  shoes 
in  order  to  cheapen  them.  When  shoes 
are  returned  with  large  lumps  on  the in­
sole,  cut  out that  manufacturer  entirely, 
as  sooner  or  later  he  will  be  the cause 
of  your  losing  many  customers.

To  return  to  the  subject :  we  can  not 
call  to  mind  any  manufacturer  or dealer 
who  advertises  repairing  shoes on  his 
own  lasts  and  by  his  own  workmen  who 
really  does  what  he  says.  Some 
local 
shoemaker  who  does  the  repairing  for 
the  rest  of  the  stores  in  his  immediate 
neighborhood  takes  care  of  his work just 
the  same,  and  this  subterfuge  is  a  very 
small  way  of  endeavoring  to  get  busi­
ness.—Shoe  Retailer.

Insist on  Good  Buttons.

It  would  be  well 

if  retailers  insisted 
on  having  the  best  shoe buttons attached 
to  all  shoes  made  for them.

A  customer  returned  a  pair of  shoes 
to  a  retailer  not  long  since,  because  the 
buttons,  which  were  machine  made, 
were  broken  off  at  the  shank.

A  thin  button  never  has  sufficient 
strength,  and  it  is  always  a  sure  sign  of 
a  cheap  production.  A  flat  back  is  an­
other  style  of  inferior button which man­
ufacturers  very  often foist upon retailers.
is  not  always 
enough  to  cause  the  maker to  mend  his 
ways. 
If  he  finds that the  merchant  is 
willing  to  accept  one  lot of  shoes  with 
this  stvle  of  button,  making  only  a 
slight  objection,  he  is  liable  to  have an­
other supply  worked  off  upon  him.

A  word  of  warning 

As  soon  as  a  line  of  shoes  is  received 
with  machine-made  or thin  top  buttons, 
return  them  without  delay,  as  this  is 
just  as  much  of  an  imperfection  as  a 
raised  channel  or a  cracked  heel.
When  ordering  goods  from  the  manu­
facturer  insist  on  having  a  heavy  but­
ton  with  a  short  shank.  By  doing  this 
you  will  save  yourself  many  inconven­
iences  and  also assist  your clerk  in  his 
work  on  the  floor for nothing  retards  a 
sale  more  than  buttons  falling  off.

Customers  are  sufficiently  mortified 
when  they  perceive  that buttons  are  not 
sewed  on  strongly  enough  to  stay,  but 
when  they  find that  buttons  are  so  poor 
that  they  break 
from  the  shank,  they 
will  often  refuse  to  buy  the  shoes to 
which  they  are  attached

Samples  F or  Next  Season.

The  manufacturers  are  now  thinking 
of  samples  for  next  season  and  what 
they  shall  offer to  the  trade  in  general. 
So  many  new  things  present  themselves 
that 
is  difficult  to  make  up  one’s 
mind  just  what  to  do.

it 

Extension  edge  and  heels  no  doubt 
will  find  favor,  and  more  button  shoes 
will  be  seen  in  all  styles. 
It  is  doubt­
ful  whether  the  button  boot  will  be  as 
much  the  rage 
in  the  future  as  in  the 
past, when  as  high  as  eighteen  or twenty 
buttons  were  seen  on  a  shoe.  The  six 
large  buttons  are  a  prominent  feature  in 
men’s  and  also  women’s,  as  this  latter 
is  very  mannish.

Vestings  still  hold  their  own  on  wo­
men’s  shoes  in  handsome  patterns  and 
variety  of  figures.  Gored  low  cuts  will 
also  be  seen 
in  many  styles,  and  this 
shoe  is  bound  to  be  popular  on  account 
of  its  comfort  and  ease  in  wearing  and

putting  on.  Double-deck  welts  may  be 
seen,  also  heavy-rope  stitch,  this 
latter 
on  women’s  in  colors.

Children’s  shoes  are  in  shiny  leather, 
very  few  colors,  in  fact  colors  are  al­
lost  art,  and  a  revival  is  not 
most  a 
soon 
looked  for,  although  more  likely 
in  child’s  and  misses’  than  other  lines.
On  the  cheaper  grades  everything 
will  be  about  the  same  except  a  few 
changes  in  lasts  and  patterns,  but  not  of 
enough  consequence  to  speak  of.  Many 
manufacturers  on  these  latter  lines  con­
fine  themselves  to as  few  kinds  as  pos­
sible,  although  in  one  factory,  making 
goods  for  Southern  and  Western  trade, 
more  especially  Southern,  as  many  as 
one  hundred  and  twenty  different  pat­
terns  were  called  for.  This,  of  course, 
was  a  full 
line  of  women’s,  misses’, 
children’s  and  infants’.  In  consequence 
of  competition,  which  was  never  so 
severe  among  manufacturers 
in  New 
England  as  at  the  present  time,  better 
lines are to be  presented  the  coming sea­
son  than  ever  before.

SHOE  DRESSINGS

If you want a first class article buy 

The finest  10c  Ladies’ Shoe  Dressing made,  per gross, $7.50

For Gentlemen  buy 

Combination (Tan or Black), per gross,  $6 00 

Paste  (Tan or Black), large size, per gross, $4 50

SUNSHINE

Dressing (extra large)  retails at 20c 

FOR  SHOE  STRINGS 

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Hirth,  Krause  &  j

Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

T'fif
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IF  YOU  W AIT

Bradley  &  Metcalf a salesman will send 
With shoes that will wear to the very end. 
If you don’t think they are the best,
Buy a few cases and give them a test;
For the only way to get and hold  trade 
Is to handle the shoes that by us are made.

BRADLEY  &  METCALF CO. 

Milwaukee,  Wis.

Give  the  Boy  a  Chance

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to wear shoes  of  style  and  finish.  He 
will appreciate  it,  and if  you  sell  him  a 
pair  of  the  Edwards-Stanwood  Shoe 
Co.’s shoes he will be  proud  of  his  ap­
pearance.

Boys’  Yicl  Bal—Crown  toe  and  tip, 

stylish last and guaranteed.

Boys’ 2*4 to 5*4, $1.50.
Youths’ 13 to 2, *1.35.
E d w a rd s-S tan w o o d   S h o e   Co.

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CHICAGO,  IL L .

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Village  Improvement
W hat the  Seaboard  A ir  Line  System  Ac­

com plished.

We  have  noted  the  awakening  inter­
est 
in  the  work  on  the  Pacific  coast. 
Now 
let  us  cross  the  continent  and  see 
if  the  people  on  the  Atlantic  shore  are 
sleeping.  Far  from  i t !

The  Seaboard  A ir  Line,  one  of  the 
great  railway  systems  of  the  Atlantic 
coast,  the  main  line  of  which  runs  from 
Portsmouth,  Virginia,  to  Atlanta,  Geor­
gia,  is  using  the  village  improvement 
idea  to  uplift  the  people  and  beautify 
the  towns  along  the  entire  thousand 
miles  of  its  length. 
I  do  not  mean  by 
this  that the  managers  of  the  road  send 
men 
into  each  town  to  do  this  work. 
Not  much !  They  are  of  the  wise  folk 
who  have  learned  that the  true  way  to 
help  people  is  to  teach  them  to  help 
themselves. 
large 
sums  on  good 
teachers,  on  books, 
pamphlets  and  papers—money  which 
they  have  banked  on  the  future.  Much 
of  it  is  spent  most  unselfishly,  for the 
only  return  is  the  personal  satisfaction 
of  each  officer  in  knowing  that  in  a 
year  or  two  his  road  will  run  through 
the  most beautiful  towns  on  the  Atlantic 
coast.

They  have  spent 

A  few  years  ago  this  railway  changed 
hands  and  the  new  management,  know­
ing  the  tide  of  emigration  had  turned 
from  the  West to the  South,  wisely  de­
sired  to  attract  the  highest  grade of peo­
ple  to  the  territory  along  the  road.  An 
intelligent  people  are  always  the  easiest 
with  which  to  deal.  The  great  cotton 
manufacturers  of  New  England  are  go­
ing  southward  to  be  near  the  base  of 
supplies.  The  pine  regions  of  Georgia 
and  the  two  Carolinas  are  attracting  at­
tention  as  health  resorts,  as  well  as  be­
cause  of  their  timber.  The  cheapness 
of 
its  enormous  possibilities 
for  growing  fruits,  vegetables  and  hops, 
the  nearness  of  the  great  markets  of 
Washington,  Philadelphia  and  New 
York,  the  great  variety  and  richness  of 
the  mineral  deposits,  ail  combined  to 
set  the  management  of the  road  to  de­
vising  means  to open  up this  most  de­
sirable  country  to  the  right  sort of  peo­
ple.

land  and 

A  most  original  plan  was  adopted, 
which  E.  St.  John,  the  Vice-President- 
of  the  road,  has  brought  to  a  high  state 
of  efficiency.  A  new  office  was  created, 
industrial  agent,  and  a 
that  of  chief 
Southern  man, 
John  T.  Patrick,  was 
elected  to  the  position.  The  plans  these 
active  brains  have  devised  and 
the 
pluck  and  patience  with  which  they 
have  carried  them  out  are  truly  Ameri­
can.

I  remember  telling  you  in  a  former 
article  that  these  improvement  associa­
tions  would  undertake  anything  from 
the  digging  of  a  sewer to  a  flower bed; 
but these  gentlemen  are  even  broader  in 
their  views,  and  nothing  seems 
too 
small  to  escape  their notice,  nor great 
enough  to  appall  them. 
Fortunately, 
the  new  generation 
in  the  South  were 
weary  to nausea  of  being  told  they  were 
a  hundred  years  behind  the times,  and  a 
majority  of  the  towns  were  then only 
waiting  for  a 
It  was  planned 
to organize  a  village  improvement  asso­
ciation 
in  each  city,  town  and  hamlet 
along  the  road.  To this  end  sub-agents 
were  appointed 
in  each  town,  to  co­
operate  with  Mr.  Patrick  in  advancing 
the  interests  of  their own  town  in  every 
possible  way.

leader. 

The  railway  corporation  made 

its 
station  grounds  an  object  lesson  that has

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

caused  the  purchase  of  many a large and 
small  park.  As  usual,  the  Southern 
women  adopted  the village improvement 
work  with  enthusiasm,  but 
lacked  a 
leader  to  organize,  some  one  familiar 
with  the  workings  of  such  societies.  To 
this  end,  Mrs.  Eugene  Ji.  Heard,  an 
enthusiastic  worker 
for  her  beloved 
Southland,  was  invited  by  the  officers 
of the  company  to  go to  all  towns  along 
the  road  and  organize  an  association 
wherever a  desire  was  expressed  by  the 
people  for such  an  organization.

Mrs.  Heard  is  a  woman  of  wealth and 
social  prominence,  a  hard  worker of  the 
federated  clubs,  whose  beautiful  home, 
“ Rose  Hill,  ”   at  Middletown,  Georgia, 
is  also the  headquarters  for  the  travel­
ing 
libraries  which  this  company  send 
to  any  town  along  its  road  that  desires 
one;  yet  Mrs.  Heard  graciously  ac­
cepted  the  new  duties  and  has  organ­
ized  many  of  these  societies.  To  make 
easy  the  work  of  improvement  the  rail­
way  managers  send  out  daily  reading 
matter  to  interest  and arouse public  sen­
timent. 
Loads  of  whitewash  circulars 
are  sent  out  asking  the  people  to  white­
wash  fences,  trees  and  outbuildings. 
They  are  given  the  recipe  for the  hot 
whitewash  used  by  the  United  States 
Government  on  the  White  House,  and 
on  the  lighthouses  along  our coasts.

This  reminds  me  of a  story. 

In  1872 
an  eminent  Washingtonian  visited  us, 
after  a  tour  in  the  South.  He  was  asked 
regarding  trade  prospects  in  the  South, 
and  answered  my  mother  thus:  “ Mad­
am,  the  South  may  never  hope  to  com­
pete  with  the  North  until  she  uses  more 
paint  and  whitewash.”   The  meaning 
underlying  this  pithy  sentence  was  that 
people  who  cared  so  little for their prop­
erty  as  to  allow  it  to  decay  for  lack  of 
paint  and  whitewash  were  hardly  enter­
prising  enough  to  raise  a  ripple  of  dis­
in  Northern  trade  conditions.
turbance 
Poetry  and  sentiment  cause  one to  in­
voluntarily  associate  the  word  South 
with  sunshine,  flowers  and  perfumes, 
and  the  Northerner  feels  defrauded  if 
he  finds  any  of  these  things  lacking; 
but  science  has  taught  us  that  only 
hygienic  cleanliness,  pure  water  and 
good  cooking  can  make  living  in  a  hot 
climate  safe  for  Northern-bred  people. 
The  South 
is  realizing  that  she  must 
supply  these  fundamental  necessities  if 
she  would  hold  Northern  capital.  To 
this  end  the  Sea  Board  A ir  Line  has 
started  over  one  hundred  experimental 
farms  along  their  road,  and  have  put 
men  from  the  agricultural  colleges  in 
charge.  These  farms  are  entirely  for 
the  benefit  of  the  farmers,  as  they  bring 
no  return  to  the  company.  Here  the 
farmer  can 
learn  the  needs  of  his  soil. 
He  sees  the  various  grasses  growing 
which  can  best  stand  the  climate.  He 
finds  out  what  fruits  and  vegetables  best 
suit  the  soil.  He  is  shown  how  to  grow 
hops  and  prepare  them  for  market.  He 
is  taught  that  rotation  of crops  is  the 
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along  with 
improved  dairy  apparatus. 
A  trained  cook  shows  how  to  can  and 
dry  fruits,  make  bread  and  even  fancy 
dishes.  Lessons  are  given  on  the  need 
and  use  of  disinfectants,  and  it  would 
seem  that  nothing  to  help  the  people 
has  been  forgotten  or  overlooked.

very  busy  making  money;  there  are 
many  thousands  of  very  rich  people 
among  us,  and  as  a  nation  we  are  now 
demanding  luxury  and  beauty  to  an  ex­
tent  heretofore  unknown  to  the  modern 
world.  Artist  and  artisan  alike  are 
awakening  to  their  opportunities.

These  hundred  experimental  farms, 
this  school  on  wheels,  the 
traveling 
libraries,  what  untold  good  they  are  do­
ing  for these  states  the  men  who  organ­
ized  them  may  never  fully  know.  But 
their  work  will  reach  more  quickly  and 
directly  the  people  who  need  the  h elp 
than  had  the  company  decided  to  spend 
several  million  dollars  in  founding  a 
great  university  for  the  few.

This  road  carries  a  large  part  of  the 
travelers  to  and  from  the  pleasure  re­
sorts  in  the  South.  These  travelers  will 
soon  see  a  continuous  grass  plot a thous­
and  miles  long,  interspersed with  pretty 
stations  whose  yards  are 
filled  with 
flowers  and  shrubs;  through villages and 
towns  whose  yards  are  full  of  flowers, 
whose  streets  are  free  from  weeds,  past 
farms  whose  fences  and  outbuildings 
show  thrift—and  plenty  of  whitewash. 
This  travel  of  which  I  speak  is  largely 
composed  of  monied  people,  many  of 
them  persons  with  money  to  invest. 
Think  you a  prosperous  country  will not 
appeal  more  quickly  to  such  people 
than  if  the  old  order  had  remained?

I  know  a  road  in  Indiana  which  is 
its  roadside,  but  is 
not  only  grassing 
planting  trees  also. 
I  thought  it  a  pity 
they  had  planted  only  one  sort  of  tree. 
We  have  a  vast  assortment  of  orna­
mental  trees  of  which  we  make  too  lit­
tle  use.  Supposing  the  Seaboard  Air 
Line  would  plant  some  of  every  tree 
our  country  knows  along  its  roadside. 
Our  redbuds,  dogwoods,  crab-apples, 
white-thorns, 
catalpas, 
lindens,  tulip-trees,  magnolias,  service, 
all  the  fruit  and  nut-bearing  trees,  all 
our  forest  trees,  plentifully  interspersed 
with  fruit  trees  for their  bloom  as  well 
as  fruit.  Can  one 
imagine  anything 
more  beautiful  than  a  ride  northward 
over  such  a  road 
in  the  springtime? 
These  trees  can  nearly  all  of  them  be 
had  for  the  labor  of bringing  from  the 
woods.  Get  the  children  along  the  road 
interested  and  offer a  prize  for the  best 
trees  grown  in  a  section.

smoke-trees, 

If  Southern  people  knew  what  their 
Cherokee  roses  and  jasmine  (the  yellow 
princess  of  the  South)  meant  to  North­
ern  eyes,  I  am  sure  every  section  boss 
along  the  road  would  be  instructed  to 
spare  them.  Ugly fences  would  be  cov­
ered  with  Virginia  creeper,  American 
ivy  and  other vines.

As  a  people,  we  Americans  have been

It  is  only  a  few  years  since  we  first 
realized  our  architecture  was  so  bad  as 
to  be  depressing.  We  are  building  now 
some  of  the  most  beautiful  public build­
ings  in  the  world.

Mr.  Higginson  said the Old World had 
its  era  of  cathedral  building,  but  that 
We  are  now  passing  through  the  age  of 
library  building.

The  higher the  culture  the  more  har­
mony  and  beauty  demanded  by  all  the 
senses,  and  we  are  well  into  the  century 
which  will  see  the  beautifying  of  homes 
and  villages  with  flowers  brought  to 
marvelous  perfection.  Flowers,  thank 
God,  are  within  the  reach  of  the  poor­
est.  A  rich  person  may  buy  beautiful 
objects  of  art  and  hide  them  away  in 
his  house,  but  his  flowers  must  grow 
in 
the  sunshine  where  all  can  see  them. 
They  grow  as  finely  for the  cottage  as 
the  mansion.  Nothing  tells  more  quick­
ly  of  refinement  within  the  home  than 
flowers  outside  it.

This  village  improvement  work  is one 
of  the  most  beautiful  thoughts  of  the 
day,  and  there  is  no  end  to  the  work 
it 
opens  up. 
In  small  towns  it  may  well 
take  the  place  of the  board  of  trade  of 
the  cities.

All  honor  to  the  men  of  the  Seaboard 
Air  Line,  who  have  shown  us  that a 
corporation  has  a  soul.  Let  us  hope 
they  will  reap  richly  where  they  have 
sown.

They have  done  their  work  on so large 
a  scale  that  nothing  less  than  a rich cor­
poration  would  have  dared  undertake it 
Let  us  hope  the  people  along  the  road 
are  alive  to their  peculiar advantages 
For,  after all,  it  lies  with  the  people 
themselves  to  say  to  what  extent  this 
improvement  work  shall  go. 
In  the 
midst  of  all  this  beauty  a  few  towns 
a  few  farmers  may  decline  to  join  the 
work,  and  thus  become  an  eyesore  to 
the  company  that  has  done  so much  for 
them. 
It  will  also  cause  thousands  of 
travelers  to  wonder  what  makes  those 
towns  and  farms 
less  prosperous  than 
others.

The  go-ahead,  progressive  part  of  the 
population  of  such  towns  will  withdraw 
one  by  one,  leaving  the  lazy  ones  to 
their  weedy  streets  and  tumble-down 
fences.  Will 
it  pay  you  to  allow  your 
property  to  deteriorate  for the  lack  of  a 
little  exertion  on  your  part?  Not  in  this 
age. 

Jessie  M.  Good.

U ndertaking  Establishm ents  No  Longer 

Gloomy.

“ There  was  a  time,”   said  a  man  old 
enough  to  remember  it,  “ when  all  the 
ways  of  the  undertaker  were  of  a  deeply 
sombre  cast.  The  old-time  coffin  itself 
was  the  very  symbol  of  death,  so  ter­
rifying  that it  was  hidden  away  in  the 
back  shop,  to  be  brought  out  only  when 
put  to  its  dreadful  use.

“ There  was  in  those  days  about  the 
whole  undertaking  establishment  an  air 
of  mystery  and 
gloom,  which  was 
heightened  by  the  severity  of  its  fur­
nishing.  The  only  thing  visible  here 
besides  the  actual  fittings  and  furniture 
was,  perhaps,  a  solemn,  black-framed 
picture,  displayed 
in  a  window  lined 
with  dark  woods  showing  a  group  of 
mourners,  attired 
in  deep  black  and 
with  sorrowful  mien  placing a mourning 
wreath  upon  a  funeral  urn.

“ But  now  that  old-time  aspect  of 
gloominess  has  given  way  to  one  of 
some  cheer. 
In  the  undertaking  busi­
ness  nowadays,  as  in  every  other,  mod­
ern  methods  prevail.

is  seen, 

“ In  the  window  where  once  stood  the 
picture  of  the  funeral  urn  there  may 
now  be  seen  a  modern  burial  casket,  of 
small  size,  perhaps,  its  lid thrown  back, 
to  show  its  beautifully  fitted  and  fur­
interior,  while  standing  in  the 
nished 
casket  there 
it  may  be,  a 
printed  card  containing  the  announce­
ment  of  the  midsummer night's  festival 
of  some  pleasure  coterie.

“ If  there  was  room  for  it  there  you 
might  find  in  the  undertaker’s  window 
to-day  a  burial  casket  of  the  full  size; 
you  would  be  pretty  sure  to  find  such 
inside  displayed  there  in  show  cases, 
to  protect  them  from  the  dust.  And 
things  of  beauty  you  would  find  these 
to  be,  and  some  of  them  costly,  too.

“ But  coming  back  to  the  window 
again  you’ ll  find  there  nowadays  the 
businesslike  sign ‘ Pinking  Done  Here,’ 
and  samples  cf  the  work  turned  out  by 
the  pinking  irons,done  in  gayly  colored 
silks,  nothing  sombre  or  death-remind­
ing  about  them.  And  here  you’ll  find 
nowadays  the  sign, 
‘ Camp  Chairs  to 
H ire,’  and  it  maybe,  ‘ Chairs Delivered 
in  Ordinary  Delivery  Wagons.’  Mani­
festly  these  chairs  are  to  hire  for  other 
than  funeral  occasions; 
they  might  for 
that  matter  be  hired  for  weddings.

“ And  here  now 

in  the  window,  in 
the  picture  way,  I  see 
instead  of  the 
old-time  mourners  bending  over  a 
grave,  a  picture  of  a  railroad  and ceme­
tery  office,  situated  near some  cemetery 
is  reached  in  the  modern  fashion 
that 
Isn’t  that  businesslike?  And 
by  rail. 
here 
in  another  window  is  a  picture, 
not  of  the  hallowed  urn  or  the  weeping 
willow,  or of  two or three  single  graves, 
but broad,  sweeping,beautiful landscape 
of  a  modern  cemetery,  a  lovely,  restful, 
rural  spot,  in  which,  when  his  time  had 
come,  one  might  be  glad  to  lie  down 
and  sleep.
“ Truly  have  the  ways  of  the  under­
taker changed  m ightily.”

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The Meat Market

A ll T hat G litters Is Not the Precious Metal. 
Written for  the Tradesman.

It  was  worth  one’s  while  to  watch 
him.  He  was  a  rarity  in  the  first 
place,  because  nowadays  an  American 
born,  for  some  reason  or  other fights 
shy  of  the  butcher’s  shop,  even  as  a  be­
ginning  place. 
It  may  be  because 
Europe  has  so trained  her boys  inclined 
to the  meat  business  that the  American 
who  hates  dainty  details  in  an  undainty 
business  finds  it  impossible  to  compete 
with  his  foreign  brother and  has  con­
sequently  left  the  field  to  him.  Be  that 
as  it  may,  this  young  Yankee  butcher’s 
boy—he  didn't  want to be  called  clerk 
—was  as  full  of  business  as  be  could  be 
and  no  chance  for talk  was  offered  for a 
good  half  hour.  The  last  customer  was 
a  beautiful  specimen  of  young  woman­
hood,  physically,  and  as  she  went  out 
and  up  the  street  it  seemed  the  proper 
thing  to  say,  as  a  beginner,  “ M y!  but 
isn’t  she  pretty! 
I  should  think  you’d 
want  to  cut  off  the  slice  of  steak  next  to 
the  one  she  ordered  and  have  it  for your 
dinner—I  would.”

“ You  may  have  it—of  course  you  are 
ready  to  pay  something  extra  a  pound 
for  it  and  I ’ ll  pocket the  extra!  That 
sort  of  girl  comes  in  here  too  often  for 
me to  care  anything  for her.  This  last 
is  a  pretty  fair  sample,  only  a  little 
better than  the  general  run. 
I  like  this 
girl  a  little  better than  the  rest  because 
on  a  pinch  she  will  take  home  the  meat 
herself.  She  shrinks  a  little  from  the 
blood  and  always  wants  an  extra  paper, 
but  she’s  the  only  one  whose  nose 
wouldn’t  go  up  several  inches  if  that  is 
suggested  to  her.

indeed. 

“ I  tried  it  when  I  first  came  in  here. 
There  was  a  family  that  lived  on  Over- 
here  street—you  may  not  know  it,  but 
that  kind  of  folks  are  always  on  the 
move—and  the  young  lady  of  the  fam­
ily  was  very  fine 
I  think  if 
she  could  she  would  have  put  on  a 
pair  of  new  gloves  every  time 
she 
stepped  out  of  doors.  I  had  seen  her go 
tiptoeing  by  as  if  the  ground was entire­
ly  too  mean  for  her  to  step  on  and  I 
hoped  the  time  would  come  when  I 
could  poke  a  little  fun  at  her.  You  see, 
that  kind  always  overdo  it.  They  are 
never  sure  of  themselves  and  they  are 
so  afraid  of doing  something  improper 
and  they  know  so  little  about  what  they 
want  to  know  that  they  get  their  feet 
into 
it  every  time.  The  family  lived 
just  around  the  corner  in  a  house  they 
couldn’t  afford  to  live  in.  The  man  is 
a  good  enough  fellow  if they'd  let  him 
alone,  but  they  are  constantly 
living 
beyond  their  means and  that  keeps  him 
always  with  his  nose  to  the  grindstone.
“ Well,  Her  Royal Highness,  in  white 
from  head  to  foot,  came  in  here  one  day 
about  five  o’clock  looking  more  like  an 
Easter  lily  than  anything  else  you could 
think  of.  She  had  plainly  enough come 
under  protest  and  her  face  was  ugly 
enough  to  kill  ducks. 
I  was  alone  and 
I  more  than  knew  that  she’d  try  to 
freeze  me  because  she was  mad  with her 
mother—that’s  one of their tricks.  She’ d 
got  all  rigged  up  to  go  somewhere  else, 
you  see,  and  the  idea  of  coming  over to 
the  butcher  shop  in  her  royal  robes  and 
ordering  vulgar  meat  for  dinner  was 
simply  too  humiliating  for anything !

“ In  she  came  with  just  enough  of  the 
breath  of  the  lilies  about  her to  make  a 
fellow  forget  her  frowns  and  ordered 
‘ a 
pound  of  meat  for dinner  at  once!'  Of 
course  she  meant  steak;  but  I  wasn’t 
supposed  to  know  that,  so as  she  was

turning  away  with  her nose  in  the  air  I 
asked,  ‘ What  kind  of meat?’

“   ‘ Oh,  anything  that’s  meat.’
“   ‘ Well,  that’s  exactly  what  we  have 
—anything;  but,  unless  your  order  is 
more  definite  than  that,  you  might  not 
get  what  you  were  sent  for.  Will  you 
have  pork,  or veal,  or beef  or  mutton? 
Then  here  are  chickens  and  ducks,  and 
here  is  a  nice  fat  turkey  that  came 
in 
to-day  from  a  farmer.  But  perhaps  it's 
pigs’ 
feet  or  tripe'—I  wish  you  could 
have  seen  her.  face  when  I  said  that— 
‘ your  mother  wants.  You  see,  “ any­
thing"  means  a  good many  things.  Are 
you  sure  it  wasn’t  tripe?’

“   ‘ Yes,  I  am. 

It  must  have  been 
some  sort of  beef;  but  I  don’t  know. 
I 
don’t  know  anything about such things !’ 
And,  do  you  know,  that  young  woman, 
all  of  20  years  old,  said  that  as  if  she 
was  proud  of  i t !

“   ‘ Well,’  I  said, 

‘ now  about  beef. 
There’s  the  cervical  vertebrae.  A  good 
many  people  order that.  H °w  would  a 
pound  and  a  half of that  do?’  I  thought, 
as  long  as  she  was  so  high  and  mighty, 
I’ d  work  off  onto  her  a  piece  of  the 
neck  and  get  her  laughed  at. 
It  didn’t 
work.  She 
‘ didn’t  think  that  sounded 
familiar—what  other kinds  were  there?’ 
So  I  mentioned  tee-bone  at  60  cents, 
and  porterhouse  at  50,  and  sirloin  and 
a  lot of  other names  that  I ’ve  seen 
in 
the  books  and,  true  to  her  instincts,  she 
ordered  the  60  cent  meat. 
I  knew  her 
mother  would  bring  the  meat  back,  so 
when  she  was  turning  to  go  1  started  to 
cut  the  rump  steak  that  family  always 
bought—I  don’t  know  as  you  know  it, 
but  rump  folks  always  eat  rump  beef, 
with  the  neck  pieces  for a  change!— 
and  I  said,  ‘ You just  wait  a  minute  and 
I’ll  have  the  meat  done  up  and  you  can 
take  it  right  back  with  you. ’

“ Then  was  the  time  you  should  have 
seen  her  Offended  Majesty.  Whew! 
Victoria 
in  the  summit  of  her  glory 
couldn’t  have  done  it  better;  but the 
good  Queen  never  would  have  said,  as 
this  very  common  young  woman  did, 
‘ Well!  I ’ll  bet  I  won’t ! ’  as she marched 
off  like  a  drum  major  in  full uniform.

“ Did  she  come  again?  Sure—such 
folks  are  never  the  genuine  article,  so  I 
don’t  like  'em ;  and  when  you  think  a 
steak  sliced  off  next  to  hers  would  be 
just  the  thing  I  don’t  deny  it,  but  I ’ll 
sell  my  chance  at  a  premium  every 
time. ”

Bits  of  Business  Wisdom.

To  stand  still  in  business  is  to  be  lost 

among  the  “   has  beens. ”

Talk  is  not the  whole  thing  in  trade, 
but,  counting  advertising  as  conversa­
tion,  it  represents  the  lion's  share.

Do  not  whine  about  your  business 
troubles.  Or  if  you  must  whine  go  into 
a  sound-proof  room  and  shut  the  door.
There  is  a  social  side  to  business  that 
will  well  repay  the  merchant  who  culti­
vates  it  in  the  right  way.
If you 
have 
find  out  why. 
lost  a  customer, 
Maybe  your  eyes  will  be  opened  to a 
needed  reform.

Learn  your  business  faults. 

Schemes  whereby  something  is offered 
for  nothing  are  always  distrusted.  Rep­
utable  dealers  will  do  well  to  cut  them 
out of  their  plans  for booming  business.
Some  merchants  bank  heavily  in their 
business  methods  on  “ what father did. ”  
Father  was,  undoubtedly  a  good  man 
and  perhaps  a  successful  one.  But  is 
he  doing  business  in  1901?

The  difference  between  success  and 
failure  may  be  only  the  difference  be­
tween  a  sanguine  or  a  despondent  feel­
ing.  Therefore,  keep 
jolly  and  jolly 
your neighbor.  Your  weak  and  strug­
gling  neighbor  may  be  wrecked  because 
of that  dish  of  green  cucumbers you  ate 
for dinner.

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for descriptive circulars.  This machine is specially de­
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compare  - the  records 
in  this  respect  I 
have  compiled  the  following  compara­
tive  table,  the  range  of  prices  during 
April  being  given  for  the  finest  grades 
only:
1 9 0 1 ..........................................................1 3 K @ U K
iqoo............................................. 11M @ 13
I899.............................................
18 9 8 ..........................................................10   @ 1 1 %
9 H @ i ° X
18 9 7 ...................................... 
18 9 6 ..........................................................  9 ^ @ 1 2 ^
. . 1 2 % @ 1 3 U
18 9 5 ................................  
18 9 4 ..........................................................lO % @ 12%
18 9 3 .........................................................
18 9 2 ..........................................................13l i @ i 5
1 8 9 1 .........................................................14   @ 2 1 ^

 

In 

1899  the  report  of  receipts  here 
during  April  was  perhaps  more  serious­
ly  falsified  by  the  failure  of  certain 
railroads  to  give  accurate  statistics  (un­
der  the 
insistence  of  certain  Western 
shippers)  than  before  or  since,  but  the 
actual  arrivals  at  that  time  were  rela­
tively  light  because  the  West  was  the 
greatest  accumulator of  eggs  at  the high 
prices  then  ruling.  That  was  the  only 
year  when  our  May  receipts  were  ma­
terially  greater  than  those  of  April  ex­
cept  the  year  of  1893.  The  average 
price  of  best  Western  eggs  was  a  little 
lower  in  May  than  in  April  in  1896  and 
slightly  lower  in  1893.  The  high  price 
noted 
in  April,  1891,  was  only  for  a 
few  days  at  the  beginning  of  the  month 
(result  of  a 
late  opening  of  free  pro­
duction)  and  in  spite  of  it  the  May  av­
erage  was  higher  than  the  April  aver­
age. 
I  am  very  much  inclined  to  the 
belief  that  the  peculiar  conditions  pre­
vailing  this  spring  may  result  in  a  re­
versal  of  the  general  rule  of  the  past. 
April  prices  have  averaged  higher  than 
in  any  year  since  1893,  in  spite  of  the 
largest  April  receipts  on  record,  and 
unusually  heavy  storage  accumulations 
It  will  indeed  be  strange 
have resulted. 
if 
continues 
through  May  on  a  relatively  extreme 
basis. 
is  to  be  any  salvation 
for  the  speculative  element  at  all  it 
would  seem  to 
lie  solely  in  operating 
on  a  lower  basis  hereafter—N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.
Special Rules  for the  Observance of Mer­

speculative 

If  there 

fever 

the 

chants.

talking  against  them.

Do  not  advertise  your competitors  by 
The  secret  of  success  is  constancy  of 

purpose.

yourself.

Employ nobody to do  what  you  can  do 

Be  honest  from  principle  as  well  as 
A  pound  of  pluck  is  worth  a  ton  of 

from  policy.
luck.

Maintain  your  integrity  as  a  sacred 
thing.  Be  clean  in  your  speech,  dress, 
manners  and  surroundings.

Be  truthful  in  your representations.
Be  politic,  but  not  in  politics.
Memoranda  are  surer  than  memory.
Truth  should  be  the  corner  stone  of 

business.

Care  of  health 

is  indispensable  to 

good  business  management.

System  is  the  basis  of  good  business.
Results  can  not  be  obtained  without 
Be  punctual,  dignified  and  decisive 
Politeness  pays.  Be  prompt  in  every­

work.
in  all  your  dealings.

thing.

ments.

after  it.

Always  perform  what  you  promise.
Shun  strong  drink.
Be  strict  in  keeping  business  engage­

Do  nothing  carelessly  or  in  a  hurry.
Do  not  wait  for  trade.  Hustle!  Go 

Butter  and  Eggs
Observations by a Gotham Egg: Han.
I  called  attention  last  week  to  the  un­
fortunate  and  unhealthy  conditions  aris­
ing 
from  a  maintenance  of  country 
prices  on  a 
large  quantity  of  current 
egg  collections,  the  quality  of  which 
was  becoming  unsatisfactory  to  dealers 
and  altogether  unfit  to  store,  and  ac­
cumulations  of  which 
in  the  hands  of 
receivers  here  were  becoming  burden­
some.  The  difficulty  has  since  steadily 
increased. 
Our  receipts  of  regular 
packed  eggs  have  been  running  very 
heavy  and  buyers  have  become  more 
and  more  particular  as  to quality,throw­
ing  an 
increased  proportion  of  the  re­
ceipts  upon  the  cheaper class  of  trade 
and  overstocking  the  outlets.  The  faults 
complained  of  chiefly  have  been  serious 
mixture  with  dirty  eggs  and  among  the 
Southwestern  receipts  weak  whites  and 
some  less  in  rots  have  made  these goods 
especially  undesirable..  Marks  that  for­
merly  gave  satisfaction  in  a  good  class 
of  trade  have  been  refused  by  their  reg­
ular  buyers  and  the  market  has  been 
burdened  with  eggs  which  could  only 
be  forced  to  sale  by  cutting  prices  ma­
terially—often  to  a  point  below  a  par­
ity  with  their  first  cost. 
It  is  evident 
that  this  losing  game  can  not  go  on  for 
any  length  of  time. 
If the  competition 
in  the  country  remains  so  strong  as  to 
support  prices  on  the  recent  basis,  a 
larger  quantity  of  the  collections  will 
have  to  be  stored than heretofore ;  other­
wise  collectors  will  have  to  get  their 
prices  down  low  enough  to  force  a  larg­
er  consumption;

★   *  *

There  are  recent  indications  that  the 
speculative  furor  has  been  weakening 
of  late.  Many  collectors  who  have  for­
merly  been  looking  upon  the  New  York 
market  with  disdain,  owing  to  the  ex­
treme  prices  obtainable  in  other  direc­
tions,  have 
lately  been  offering  more 
goods  this  way  and  our  market  has  been 
weakened  thereby.  The  rates  previous­
ly  ruling  for storage  packed  eggs  here— 
say  I4 # @ i4 ^ c—were  dragged  up  only 
by  the  high  outlets  in  other  directions; 
they  were  obtainable  at  all  only  because 
so  few  of  the  superlative  qualities  were 
offered  here  and  were  above  a  point  at 
which  any 
large  quantity  could  have 
been  moved.  The  first  sign  of  larger 
offerings  therefore  caused  a  reduction. 
There  is  now  reason  to  hope  that  col­
lectors  will  be  able  to  force  country 
prices  down to  a  point  that  will  permit 
a  more  prompt  sale  of the  surplus  pro­
duction 
in  consumptive channels.  The 
storage  situation  is  already  considered 
a  very  risky  one  by  all  experienced 
operators;  it  would  be  fatal  to  go  on 
accumulating  all  the  surplus  of  good, 
poor  and 
indifferent  eggs  that  would 
be  necessary  during  May  if  prices  are 
held  up  to  the  April  standard,  and  the 
only  way  that  these  goods  can  be  forced 
into  consumption  more  largely  without 
loss  is  to  make  a  material  reduction 
in 
country  paying  prices.
*  *  *

During  the  past  ten  years there  have 
been  only  one  or  two occasions  when 
the  average  price  of  prime Western eggs 
in  May  than  in  April.  For 
was 
the  benefit  of  those  who  would 
like  to

lower 

We solicit your shipments
of  Fresh  Eggs  and  Dairy
Butter.

push.

in  busy  seasons;  in  dull,  still 
Push 
Have  a  place  for  everything,  and 

everything  in  its  place.

put  everything  in  writing.
it  to  be  done.

Be  careful  and  explicit  in  bargains; 
Never  misrepresent  goods  nor  allow 
Let the  other  man  sell  at  a  loss.  You 

sell  at  a  profit.

Be  industrious;  know  your  business; 

spend  less  than  you  earn;  succeed.

Under  a  rule  recently  adopted  by  the 
board  of  education  of  New  York  City, 
school  children  will  no 
longer  be  al­
lowed  to  give  presents  to  their  teachers 
unless  the  gifts  shall be sent anonymous­
ly  to  the  teachers’  homes.  The  object  of 
the  new  regulation  is  to  put an  end  to 
favoritism  in  the  public  schools,charges 
having  been  made  that  certain  teachers 
were  partial  to  the  children  of  well-to- 
do  parents  because  of the presents which 
such  youngsters  brought  them.

1 7

J. W.  Keys

General Produce and Commission 

Merchant,

Detroit,  Mich.

I  want your consignments of

Butter,  Eggs, 

Poultry.

Correspondence silicited. 
vestigate.  Send for weekly  quotations.

Please inves- 

References:  City Savings Bank,

Commercial Agencies.

Butter  and  Eggs  Wanted

Write  for  Cash  Prices  to

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,

34  and  36  Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

References:  City Savings Bank and Commercial Agencies.

EGGS  WANTED

We pay highest cash market price f.  o.  b.  your station.  Write or wire us for prices. 

Butter consignments solicited.

Oranges,  Lemons, Bananas and Early Vegetables always on hand.
RETTING  &  EVANS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Mention Michigan Tradesman.

Reference—Peoples Savings Bank. 

F I E L D   S E E D S
F I E L D   P E A S

All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds.

We buy and sell  Eggs,  Beans, Clover Seed,  Potatoes, Apples.

MOSELEY  BROS.

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes

28,28,30,32 Ottawa Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

S------------ W ANTED

1,000 Live Pigeons.  Will pay  ioc each delivered Detroit;  also Butter,  Eggs 
and  Poultry.  Will buy or handle for shippers’  account.  Cold  Storage and 
Coolers in building.

G EO.  N.  HUFF  &  C O .,

5 5   C A D ILL A C   S Q U A R E ,  D E T R O IT .  M IC H .

Highest Market  Prices  Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98  South  Division  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Reference,  Home Savings Bank, Detroit.

1 HE LEADING PRODUCE  HOUSEON.THE  EASTERN MARKET.

We  make  a  specialty  of
poultry and dressed calves.
Write for our weekly price
list.

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Desiccated  Eggs,  Egg  Pow ders  and  Egg 

Substitutes.

Different  methods  of  evaporating  or 
desiccating  eggs  have  been  proposed 
and  several  products  which  claim  to  be 
prepared  in  this  way  are  now on  the 
market. 
It  is  said  that  the  egg  is  dried 
in  or  out  of  a  vacuum,  usually  by  a 
gentle  heat  or by  currents  of air.  When 
placed  on  the  market  the  dried  egg  is 
usually  ground.  Sometimes  salt,  sugar, 
or  both  have  been  used as  preservatives. 
Such  material  is  merely  egg  from which 
the  bulk  of  the water has  been  removed. 
If  the  process  of  manufacture  is  such 
that  the  resulting  product  is  palatable 
and  keeps  well,  the  value  of  evaporated 
eggs  under  many  cicumstances  is  evi­
dent.

This  material 

is  used  by  bakers  to 
some  extent  as  being cheaper when fresh 
eggs  are  high  in  price. 
It  is  also  used 
in  provisioning  camps  and  expeditions, 
since  desiccated  foods  have  the  advan­
tage  of  a  higher nutritive  value  in  pro­
portion  to their bulk  than  the  same  ma­
terials  when  fresh.  Fresh  eggs  contain 
about  25  per cent,  of  dry  matter. 
If  all 
the  water  is  removed in  preparing evap­
orated  eggs,  one  pound  will  furnish  nu­
tritive  material  equivalent to  about  four 
pounds  of  fresh  eggs.  One  of the  com­
mercial  egg  products  recently  tested  ap­
peared  to be  dried  egg  coarsely  ground. 
For  use  it  was  thoroughly  mixed  with  a 
small  quantity  of  water.  The  mixture 
could  then  be  fried  or  made  into  an 
omelet,  etc.,  and  was  found  to  be  very 
palatable,  closely  resembling 
in  taste 
the  same  dishes  made  from  fresh  egg's.
An  egg  substitute  has  been  manufac­
It  is  said  to 
tured  from  skim  milk. 
contain  the  casein  and  albumen  of  the 
milk  mixed  with  a  little  flour,  and  is 
put  up  in  the  form  of  a  paste or powder.
Such  material  is evidently rich in  pro­
tein  and,  according  to  reports  apparent­
ly 
in  considerable 
quantities  by  bakers  and  confectioners 
in  place  of  fresh  eggs.

reliable, 

is  used 

Egg  substitutes  have  been  devised 
which  consist  of  mixtures  of  animal  or 
vegetable  fats,  albumen,  starch  or flour, 
coloring  matter,  and  some 
leavening 
powder  in  addition  to the  mineral  mat­
ters  similar  to those  found  in  the  egg. 
Such  products  are  designed  to  resemble 
egg  in  composition.

Other egg  substitutes  have  been  mar­
keted  which  contain 
little  or  no albu­
men,  but  apparently consist  quite  large­
ly  of  starch,  colored  more  or  less  with 
some  yellow  substance.  These  goods 
are  specially  recommended  for  making 
custards  and  puddings  similar 
in  ap­
pearance  to  those  in  which  fresh  eggs 
are  used.  There  is  no reason to suppose 
that  such  products  can  not  be  made  so 
that  they  will  be  perfectly  wholesome. 
The  fact  must  not be  overlooked  that  in 
the  diet they  can not  replace  fresh  eggs, 
since  they  do not  contain  much  nitro­
genous  matter  or  fat. 
recently 
pointed  out  in  one  of the  medical  jour­
nals,  this  may  be  an  important  matter 
if  such  an egg  substitute  is  used  in  the 
diet of invalids,  especially if the  compo­
sition  of  the  egg  substitute 
is  not 
known,  and  it  is  employed  with  the  be­
lief that,  like  eggs,  it  contains  an  abun­
dance  of  protein.  C.  F .  Langworthy.

As 

Possible  D anger From  E ating Eggs.  □
Occasionally  a  person  is  found  who is 
habitually  made  ill  by  eating  eggs,  just 
as  there  are  those  who can  not eat straw­
berries  or  other  foods  without  distress. 
Such  cases  are  due  to  some  personal 
idiosyncrasy,  showing  that  in  reality 
“ one  man's  meat 
is  another  man’s

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

poison."  A  satisfactory  explanation 
of  such  idiosyncrasy  seems  to  be 
lack­
ing.

it 

It 

Over  indulgence 

in  eggs,  as  is  the 
case  with  other  foods,  may  induce  in­
digestion  or other bad  effects.  Further­
more,  under  certain  conditions  eggs 
may  be  the  cause  of  illness  by  commun­
icating  some  bacterial  disease  or  some 
parasite. 
is  possible  for  an  egg  to 
become  infected  with  micro-organisms, 
either  before 
is  laid  or  after.  The 
shell  is  porous,  and  offers  no  greater  re­
to  micro-organisms  which 
sistance 
cause  disease  than 
it  does  to  those 
which  cause  the  egg  to  spoil  or  rot. 
When  the  infected  egg  is  eaten  raw  the 
micro-organisms,  if  present,  are  com­
municated  to  man  and  may  cause  dis­
ease. 
If  an  egg  remains  in  a  dirty 
nest,  defiled  with  the  micro-organisms 
which  cause  typhoid  fever,  carried there 
on  the  hen’s  feet  or  feathers,  it  is  not 
strange 
if  some  of  these  bacteria  oc­
casionally  penetrate  the  shell  and  the 
egg  thus  becomes  a  possible  source  of 
infection. 
Perhaps  one  of  the  most 
common  troubles  due  to  bacterial  infec­
tion  of  eggs  is the  more  or  less  serious 
illness 
sometimes  caused  by  eating 
those  which  are  “ stale.”   This  often 
resembles  ptomaine  poisoning,  which 
is  caused,  not  by  micro-organisms 
themselves,  but  by  the  poisonous  prod­
ucts  which  they  elaborate from materials 
on  which  they  grow.

Occasionally  the  eggs  of  worms,  etc., 
have  been  found  inside  hens’  eggs,  as 
indeed  have  grains,  seeds,  etc.  Such 
bodies  were  doubtless  accidentally  oc­
cluded  while  the  white  and  shell  were 
being  added  to  the  yolk in  the egg gland 
of the  fowl.

Judged  by  the  comparatively  small 
number of  cases  of  infection  or  poison­
ing  due  to  eggs  reported  in  medical  lit­
erature,  the  danger  of disease  from  this 
source 
is  not  very  great.  However,  in 
view  of  its  possibility,  it is  best  to  keep 
eggs  as  clean  as  possible  and  thus  en­
deavor  to  prevent 
Clean 
poultry  houses,  poultry  runs,  and  nests 
are  important,  and  eggs  should  always 
be  stored  and  marketed  under  sanitary 
conditions.  The  subject  of  handling 
food  in  a  cleanly  manner  is  too  seldom 
thought  of,  and  what  is  said  of  eggs  in 
this  connection  applies  to  many  other 
foods  with  even  more  force.

infection. 

C.  F.  Langworthy.

An  Odd  Occupation  T hat  Pays.

invested. 

The  cultivation  of  cocoa  in  Trinidad 
is  one  of  the  few  industries  that  can  be 
relied  upon  to  make  a  handsome  return 
for the  time  and  capital 
I 
would  advise  any  young  man  who  pos­
sesses  a  good  constitution,  a  few  hun­
dred  dollars,  and  a  capacity  for hard 
work,  to  investigate  the  possibilities  of 
the  island  in  regard  to the  cocoa  indus­
try.  Already  there  are  among  us  scores 
of  young  Americans  who  own  cocoa 
plantations,  and  I  have  yet  to  learn  of 
an  instance  in  which  one  has  failed  to 
make  money.—E.  Nelson  Dade  in  Suc­
cess. 

_________

Doesn’t  W ant to  Be:B lacklisted.

B.  W.  Padley,  grocer at  2801  Jackson 
street,  Seattle,  Wash.,  last  week  entered 
suit  against  the  officers  of the  Seattle 
Retail  Grocers’  Association  to  restrain 
them  from  placing  him  on  their  black­
list,  by  which  under agreement  with the 
jobbers  as  a  non-member  he 
is  not 
maintaining  the  card  prices,and  alleges 
that  he  is  required  to  pay  5  to  15  per 
cent,  more  for his  goods than  is charged 
to  members  of  the  Association.  Mr. 
Padly  asks  the  Superior Court  to  issue 
a  restrainer,  as  he  fears  his  trade  will 
otherwise  be  ruined.  The  Association 
has  aimed  only  to  prevent  price  cutting 
on  staples.

Bed  Bananas  D isappearing.

Not  so  many  years  ago  red  bananas 
were  plentiful,  more  so than  the  yellow­
skinned  bananas,  but  they  have  been 
gradually  disappearing  and  now  very 
few  fruit  stands  handle  them,  and  those 
that  do,  charge  as  much  as  25  cents  for 
two of them.

They  require  great  care  in  cultiva­
tion,  and  the  planters  began  to  find  that 
it  did  not  pay  them  to  give  so  much 
time  to the  red  skinned  fruit  when  the 
other  kind  would  grow  without  any  at­
tention  whatever.  Some  people  think 
the  red  banana  is  the  best.  The  flavor 
is  very  different  from  that  of  the  yellow 
variety.  Some  red  bananas cost  as  much 
as  a  quarter  apiece,  but  in  a  few  years 
they  will  be  as  scaice  as  peaches  in 
winter.  There  are  only  a  few  planta­
tions  now  that  cultivate  them.

Worry  has  driven  more  people  to  in­
sanity  or  suicide  than  work  ever  did. 
Physical 
is  more  healthful  than 
too  much  brain  work.

labor 

Write  us for prices for

Butter 
and  Eggs

We  pay  prompt  cash.  Our 
guarantee 
is  worth  some­
thing.  We  have  been 
in 
business  in  Detroit  for  over 
forty years.

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DETROIT,  MICH.

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wire for quotations.

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Successor  to   C.  N.  Rapp  A  Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

S E L L   POTATOES

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BUTTER,  EGOS  and 

POULTRY

to us and we promise fair  treatment and prompt 
returns.  Write for Weekly quotations.  Will buy 
outright, or sell on your  account  (In  which  case 
goods are yours until sold).  Write us.
Bush &  Waite,

Commission  Merchants,

35 3  Russell Street, 

Detroit,  Mich. 

References:  Home Savings Bank 
and  Commercial Agencies.

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Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
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goods are strictly high grade and reliable, twenty- 
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Shipments made promptly on same day  order  Is 
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The New York Market
Special  Features  of the Grocery and P rod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  May  4—Interest  in  legiti­
mate  trading  has  been  absorbed  by  the 
rush  in  the  stock  market  and the  excite­
ment  in  Wall  Street  must  be  something 
like  the  rush  to  newly-discovered  gold 
fields  in  Alaska.  Merchants  and  clerks, 
rich  and  poor,  high  and  low,  are  taking 
one  flyer  or  a  hundred  and  the  scene 
has  been  one  of  confusion  worse  con­
founded.  Business  has  not  been  alto­
gether given  up,  however,  and  the  gen­
eral  tone 
is  healthy.  Prices  are  well 
sustained  and,  altogether,  the  seller 
is 
in  a  happy  frame  of  mind.

bags, 

The  coffee  market  is  slightly  stronger 
than  a  week  ago,  owing  to  lighter  re­
ceipts  at  primary  points.  Rio  No.  7 
closed  strong  at 6&c.  There  is  no  oc­
casion,  however,  for  the  retailer  to  feel 
at  all  worried  over the  situation,  for the 
supply  of  coffee  is  abundant  and  what­
ever  may  be  the  feeling  for a  day  or  so 
here  it  is  certain  that  there  is  an  abun­
dance  for  the  coming  twelve  months. 
is  a 
Speculation 
is  small,  but  there 
In 
slight  advance—say  about  5  points. 
store  and  afloat  the  amount  of  coffee 
aggregates 
against 
1,020,483  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
year.  Mild  coffees  are  steady  and  the 
demand  has  been 
fairly  satisfactory. 
Good  Cucuta 
is  worth  easily  8c.  East 
Indias  are  quiet.

1,239,831, 

The  sugar  market  during  the  week 
has  been  strong  and  the  chances  are 
good  for  an  advance  within  a  short 
time,  as  the  season  calls  for  larger and 
larger  supplies.  Wholesalers  seem  to 
have  only  moderate  stocks  and,  when 
the  spring  demand  does  come,  it  will 
come  with  a  rush.

There  has  been  a  better call  for  teas, 
and,  altogether,  the  situation  shows  a 
degree  of  improvement  over  last  week. 
It  is  hoped  the  improvement  may 
last, 
but the  country  seems  to  lack  apprecia- 
ton  of  tea  and,  notwithstanding 
the 
amount  of  money  spent  in  advertising 
during  the  past  five  years,  it  is  not a 
national  beverage  like—Milwaukee.

Rice  buyers  are  taking  only the small­
est  possible  lots  and,  taking  the  situa­
tion  as  a  whole,  it  is  certainly  not  im­
proved  over  last  week.  The  one  thing 
that  keeps  quotations  Arm is  small  offer­
ings.  Even  although  the  demand 
is 
light  it  is  likely  that  the  new  crop  will 
find  the  market  pretty  closely  sold  up. 
Foreign  sorts are  firmly  held  at previous 
rates.

Sellers  of  spices  are  not  disposed  to 
make  concessions  and  buyers  are  not 
disposed  to  make  purchases  at  any 
price.  The  whole  market  is  devoid  of 
interest,  although  some  jobbers  report  a 
fair  trade.  Prices  are  without  change.

A 

little 

light  trade  has  been  done  in  gro­
cery  grades  of  New  Orleans  molasses 
and  the  situation 
is  decidedly  quiet. 
Prices  are  generally  firm,  however,  and, 
with  a 
light  yield  of  open-kettle,  the 
later  on  will,  it  is 
situation  a 
thought,  show  considerable 
improve­
ment.

The  canned  goods  situation 

Syrups  move  slowly.  Neither export­
ers  nor  home  traders  are  doing  anything 
and  the  general  situation 
is  one  of 
quietude.  Prices  are  without  change.
lack­
ing  life.  Neither  in  spot  goods  nor  in 
is  any  animation  displayed  and 
futures 
if  one  article 
is  seemingly  firmer an­
other  is  a  little  shaky  and  the  situation 
generally 
is  devoid  of  interest.  Prices 
are 
likely  to  be  higher,  as  a  rule,  than 
last  year,  but  as  yet  little  business  has 
been  done,  and  the  future 
is  perhaps 
able  to take  care  of  itself.
is  a  fair  trade 

in  the  better 
qualities  of  butter,  but  rates  are  no 
higher,  19c  being  top  for the  best  West-

There 

is 

I4@ i7c; 

ern  creamery;  firsts,  i 8@ i 8 ^ c ;  Western 
imitation  creamery, 
factory, 
I2#@I3C.

New  cheese 

is  arriving  quite  freely 
and  the  market  is  in  pretty  good  condi­
tion,  although  quotations  have  made  no 
advancement.  Old  stock  is  moving  out 
at  about  i i ^ c  for the  better grades.

lighter  arrivals  and  a  fair  de­
mand 
the  egg  market  has  gained 
strength  and  best  Western  stock  is  quot­
able  at  14c,  although  this 
is  top.  A 
good  many stored eggs are  being  worked 
off  at  low  rates.

With 

Time  and Telephone  W ork  W onders.
“ I  was  startled  the  other day,  and  in 
an  entirely  new  way,”   said  a  promi­
nent  merchant. 
“ The  use  of  the  tele­
phone  has  become  so  much  a  part of  my 
life  that  in  talking  with  my  friends  and 
acquaintances  every  few  days,  I  appar­
ently  kept  up  the  acquaintance as  of  old 
when  l  used  to  see  them  more regularly. 
A  few  days  ago  I  had  occasion  to  visit 
an  old-time  friend  of  mine  with  whom 
I  had  talked  probably  once  a  week  or 
oftener  for the  past  three  or  four  years, 
but  whom  I  had  not  seen  during  that 
period.  When  I  met  him  I  was  startled. 
His  black  beard  had  turned  gray,  al­
most  white,  and  he  had  changed 
in 
other respects  as  was  natural  during  the 
three  or  four  years  of  that  period,  yet 
through  the  use  of  the  telephone  I  had 
in  my  mind’s  eye  seen  him  as  of  old 
every  time  I  had  talked  with  him  and 
you  may 
imagine  how  surprised,  even 
shocked,  I  was  to  see  this  change  in 
him.  Did  you  ever have  a  similar  ex­
perience? 
increasing 
use  of  the  telephone  causes  many  of 
them.  You  hear the  usual  voice  on  the 
telephone  and  mentally  picture 
the 
friend  as  he  looked  when  you  saw  him 
last—which  m ay,  have  been  a  year  or 
several  years  in  the  past.”

imagine  the 

I 

The  E state o f a  Fowl  Picker.

From the Bichmond Times.

An  old  negro  died  suddenly  on  Clay 
street  yesterday  morning.  It was thought 
he  was 
in  poverty  little  short  of  what 
might  be  termed  abject.  He  had  for 
years  been  subsisting  in  the  barest  way 
on  an  income  derived  from  picking  the 
feathers  off  fowls  for  market.  For  pick­
ing  a  chicken  he  would  receive  two 
cents;  for  a  duck  or  turkey,  five  cents.
After  the  negro  was  dead  the  people 
with  whom  he 
lived  went  through  his 
possessions  to  learn  the  value  of  bis 
property.  There  were  found  in  his  old 
trunk  $300  in  money  and  certificates  of 
bank  deposits  aggregating  $1,000.  The 
negro  left  a  fortune  of  $1,300  in  money, 
and  as  far  as  is  known  all  of  it  was 
made  by  plucking  feathers  from  fowls 
for the  table  of  the  white  man.

How  They  Shoe  Geese  in  Poland.

from 

Three  million  geese  are  brought  reg­
ularly  to  the  October  market in Warsaw, 
Poland.  Often  coming 
remote 
provinces,  many  of  these  geese  have  to 
travel  over  long  distances  upon  roads 
which  would  wear  out  their  feet  if  they 
were  not  “ shod.”   For this  purpose  they 
are  driven  through  tar  poured  over  the 
ground,  and  then  through  sand.  After 
the  operation  has  been  repeated  several 
times  the  feet  of  the  geese  become  cov­
ered  with  a  bard  crust.

Never  Left the  Road.

in  prayer  meeting  and 

An  old  negro  in  a  neighborhood  town 
said : 
arose 
“ Bredderin  and  sisterin. 
I  been  a 
I 
mighty  mean  nigger  in  my  time. 
had  a  heap  er  ups  and  downs—’special­
I 
ly  downs—since  I  jined  de  church. 
I 
stoled  chickens  and  watermillins. 
cussed. 
I  shot  craps. 
I 
slashed  udder  coons  wid  my  razor,  an’ 
I  done  er  sight  or  udder thing's,  but, 
thank  the  good  Lawd,  bredderin  and 
sisterin,  I  never  yet  lost  my  religion.”

I  got  drunk. 

Grand  Rapids 

Cold  Storage  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Citizens Phone 2600.

your patronage.

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The Imperial  Gas  Lamp
Is an absolutely safe lamp.  It  burns 
without  odor  or  smoke.  Common 
stove gasoline is  used.  It  is  an  eco­
nomical light.  Attractive  prices  are 
offered.  Write  at once  for  Agency.

The Im perial Gas Lamp Co. 

132 and 134 Lake St. E„  Chicago

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Bay  City,  Mich.
Electric & Gas Fixtures
As we design and  manufacture 
our  own  fixtures, and  selling  to 
users only, we save  you jobbers’ 
and  retailers*  profits.  Our  pic­
torial suggestions for the asking. 
The T. J. Mosher Electric Co. 
Mfrs.  Fixtures,  Belts,  Insoles, 
Batteries,  General  Contractors, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  U.  S.  A-

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.

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Our Vinegar to be an A B SO L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU IC E  V IN ­
EG A R *  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find any deleterious 
adds, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit

W e  also  guarantee  it  to  be  of  full  strength  as  required  b y  la w .  W e  w ill 
prosecute  an y  person  found  using  our  packages  for  cider  or  vinegar  without  first 
removing  all  traces  of  our  brands  therefrom.

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V I N E G A R

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L A W   P R O O F .

C I D E R

The Standard of Excellence for 24 years.  For prices see price current.

Chicago. 

-Kansas City. 

St.  Paul. 

So.  Haven, Mich.

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

L.O.SNEDECOR  Egg Receiver

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Fresh  Eggs

Wanted 
Special trade 
for Seconds

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done  for us  that  we  should  sacrifice  our 
selves  for  it?  Let’s  look  at  the  matter 
practically, 
instead  of  sentimentally, 
for after all  the  time  comes  when  every 
romance  gets  down  to  hard, indisputable 
facts,  and  see  if 
long  run  it 
wouldn’t make for the  present  happiness 
the  ones  concerned  as  well  as  for  the 

in  the 

good  of  the  race.

If  Algernon  were  refused  permission 
marry  Maud  because  he  was a drunk- 
rd,  or the  state  refused  to  grant  Gusta- 
vus  a 
license  to  wed  Evelina  because 
she  was  physically  unsound,  no  doubt 
these  young  people  would  consider 
themselves  hardly  used,  and  think  of 
_  ighted 
lives  and  broken  hearts,  and 
all  the  rest  of  us  would  drop  a  few  sym­
pathetic tears  and  join  with  them in  be­
wailing  their hard  fate.

In  reality,  we  should  save  our  pity 
for  the  girls  whom  nothing  stops  from 
marrying  drunkards  and  the  men  who 
find  themselves  tied  for  life  to  sickly 
wives.  That’s  the  place  where  our tears 
are  due.  You  see,  things  have  such  a 
habit  of  working  out  differently  in  real 
life  from  the  way  one  expects  it  to  be 
beforehand.  When  Maud  falls  in 
love 
with  a  dissipated  man  and  looks  at  the 
future,  she  doesn’t  see  herself  dragged 
down  to  poverty,  a  drunkard’s  wife, 
getting  up 
in  the  night  to  let  in  a  dis­
gusting,  reeling,  maudlin  man.  She 
sees  herself,  by  that  beautiful wifely  in­
fluence  of  which  we  hear so  much,  and 
see  so  little, 
leading  him  up  to  the 
higher  life,and  it  is  this  picture  of  her­
self  as  a  guardian  angel  that  makes  her 
rush 
into  taking  a  step  she  spends  the 
balance  of  her  life  repenting.  We  can 
all  count  up  on  one  finger  of  one  hand, 
and  have  a  finger  to  spare,  all  the 
women  we  personally  know  who  have 
reformed  men,  but 
it  would  take  a 
patent  adding  machine  to  enumerate 
all  the  ones  we  know  who  have  wrecked 
their  lives  trying  to  do  it. 
If  there’ 
any  way  by  which  the  Government  can 
prevent  girls  making  fool  matches,  for 
heaven’s  sake  let  us  have  it.

It 

is  the  same  way,  too,  with  men 
who  marry  sickly  girls.  When  a  young 
fellow 
is  in  love  with  an  ethereal-look 
ing  young  creature,  her  very  delicacy 
gives  her  an  added  charm.  He  pictures 
himself  cherishing  and  guarding  her, 
into  her 
and  winning  the  roses  back 
cheeks,  just  like  heroes  always  do 
in 
if  he  had
novels.  Do  you  suppose 

a  vision,  for  one  moment,  of  what  the 
reality  of  having  an 
invalid  wife  is, 
that  he  would  marry  her?  Not  on  your 
life. 
If  be  is  a  poor  man,  it  means that 
he  spends  his  days  toiling  to  pay  doc­
tors’  bills  and  druggists’  bills.  It means 
that  he  goes  home  to  an  ill-kept  house, 
to  humor  a  sick  person’s  whims,  to 
querulous  complaints  and  temper and 
nerves.  There 
is  no  martyr  in  all  the 
calendar who  is  more  deserving  of  rev­
erence  and  adoration  than  the  husband 
who  bears  patiently  with  an 
invalid 
wife,  but  any  man  who  is  prevented, 
forcibly  if  necessary,  from  getting  him­
self  into  such  a  scrape  should  erect  a 
monument  in  gratitude 
to  whoever 
stopped  him  in  time.

If  the  state  once  begins  to  regulate 
who  shall  marry,  however,  there  is  no 
reason  it  should  stop  at  a health quaran­
tine.  There  are  so  many  other things. 
There  is  the  financial  side,  for instance.
am  not  one  of  those  who  believe  that 
wealth 
is  necessary  to happiness,  but  a 
sufficiency  is.  You  can  not  love  proper­
ly  on  an  empty  stomach,  and  it  is  just 
a  plain,  simple  business  proposition 
that no  man  has  a  right to  marry  until 
he  has  some  settled  occupation  that  will 
enable  him  to  support  a  family.

We  Americans  are  the  most  senti­
mental  people  on  earth,  and  when  we 
hear  of  an  impecunious  youth  who  has 
never supported  himself  marrying  a girl 
who  has  not  a  penny  to  bless  herself 
with,  we  don’t 
look  on  them  as  a  pair 
of  young  criminals,  as  they  deserve. 
We  back  them  up  in  it,  as  if  marriage 
was  a kind  of supernatural state in which 
people  were  never  hungry  nor  did  not 
have  to  have  clothes,  and  we  entirely 
overlook  the  fact  that  nine  times  out  of 
ten  they  go  and  settle  themselves  down 
on 
some  hard-worked  old  father  or 
mother,  who  has  to  take  care  of  them 
because  they  can  not  see  them  starve. 
“ Love  is  enough,”   says  the  old  poem. 
So  it  would  be  if  we  were  all  heart,  but 
as  long  as  a  very 
infinitesimal  portion 
of  our  anatomy  is  heart,  and  all  the  rest 
is  body,  that  has  to  be  fed  and  clothed 
and  housed,  love 
is  not  enough  by  a 
long  shot.  So  far  as  my  opinion  goes, 
laws  are 
whenever 
the  marriage 
amended,  I  am  in  favor of 
inserting  a 
good,  strong,  financial  plank  into them, 
and  making  every  man  stand  on  it  be­
fore  he 
is  given  a  right  to  starve  a 
woman.

You ought to sell

LILY  W HITE

“The flour the best cooks use” 

VALLEY  C IT Y   M ILLING   C O ..

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

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PAPER HANGING AND PAINTING 
PAPER HANGING AND PAINTING 

large line of unframed pictures. 

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Walter Baker & Go.“ ■

PURE,  HIGH-GRADE

COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES
Their  preparations  are  pot up 
in  conformity  to  the  Pur^Food 
Laws  of all  the  States.
Under the  decisions of  the  U. 
S.  Courts  no  other  chocolate  or 
cocoa  is  entitled  to  be  labelled 
or  sold  as  “  Baker’s Chocolate”  
or  “  Baker’s Cocoa.”

Grocers  will  find  them   in 
th e long run th e  most profit­
able to   handle, as  they  are 
absolutely pare  and  of  nni- 

TRADE-MARK

'  form  quality.

In writing  yonr  order  specify W alter 
Baker &  Co.’s goods. 
II other gooda 
are  substituted please  let  us  know.

WALTER BAKER & CO. United,

OORCHESTER, MASS.

Established 1780.

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W o m a n ’s  W o r l d
F u tility   of U ndertaking to  Prevent  Misfit 

M arriages..

There  are  a  good  many  signs  that 
seem  to  indicate  that  we  are  slowly,  but 
surely,  drifting  towards  a  paternal  form 
of  government.  One  of  the  most  signifi­
cant  proofs  of  this  is  furnished  by  the 
fact  that  several  of  the  states  are  seri­
ously  contemplating  setting  up  in  the 
matrimonial  agency  business  and decid­
ing  the  important  question  of  who  shall 
marry,  and  when  they  shall  do  it.

So  far  there  seems  to  be  as  much 
in 
difference  of  opinion  on  the  subject 
states  as  there  is  in 
individuals.  Wis­
consin  is  all  for  booming  connubial 
bliss  and  protecting  her  infant  indus­
tries,  and  at  the  present  session  of  her 
Legislature  two  bills  were  introduced 
with  that  end 
in  view.  One  of these 
provided  that  the  assessors  of  towns 
should  take  a  list  of  the  unmarried  men 
of  36  or over and  levy  a  special  tax  of 
$10 a  year on  each,  while  the  other  bill 
offered  a  substantial  premium  to  the 
mothers  of  large  families.

The  state  regulation  of  marriage  is 

In  Minnesota,  on  the  other hand,  mar 
riage 
is  at  a  discount,  and  it  is  pro­
posed  to  allow  only  the  physically  fit  to 
marry.  All  candidates  for matrimony 
must  be  examined  by  competent  physi 
cians  and  must  present  a  clean  bill  of 
health,  showing  they  have  no  mental  or 
bodily  disorders  and  are  cursed  with  no 
hereditary  taint  before  they  can  obtain 
the  State’s  blessing  upon  their  union 
; 
matter  in  which  all  women  are  vitally 
interested, 
for  between  death  and  di 
vorce  there 
is  no  telling  when  even 
married  woman  may  need  another  hus 
band,  and  the  Minnesota  view  of  the 
subject  is  distinctly  discouraging. 
In 
these  days  of  overproduction  of  women 
and  underproduction  of  men,  it  is  no 
easy  matter  to  catch  a  husband,  even 
under  the  most  favorable  auspices,  and 
if  all  the  masculine  drunkards  and 
cranks  and  dyspeptics  are  to  be  barred 
out,  it  plainly  reduces  a  girl’s  matri 
monial  chances  to  zero.  Of  course 
she’s  a  million  times  better off  singl 
than  she  is  as  the  wife  of  such  a  man, 
and  it’s  a  wise  and  beneficent  provi 
sion  of  the  state  to try  to  protect  her 
from  the  effects  of  her  own 
folly 
Oceans  of  arguments  will  never con 
vince  a  girl  who  is  in  love  of  it,  how 
ever,  and  in  case  of  both  the  Wisconsi 
and  the  Minnesota  bill  becoming  ac 
tively  enforced 
look  to  see 
wholesale  emigration  of  Minnesota 
spinster  population  to  her sister state, 
Pathologically,  there  can  be  no  argu 
ment  against  the  wisdom  of  preventing 
Insanity 
diseased  people  marrying. 
could  be  stamped  out. 
Idiocy  would 
be  prevented.  Consumption  and  epi 
lepsy  would  disappear,  and  we  should 
be  well  on  the  way  to that  millennium 
when  everybody  bom 
in  the  world 
would  have  a  sound  mind  in  a  sound 
body.  There  is  no  other thought  in  the 
world  so appalling  and  so  fraught  with 
pathos  as  that of the  millions  of  sickly 
and  deformed  and  feeble-minded  chil 
dren  whose  sole  heritage  in  life  is  the 
diseases  and  sins  of  their  parents 
Nothing  can  atone  for  such  a  crime 
against  the 
individual  and  against  so 
ciety,  and  anything  that  even  tends 
lessen  it  is  a  blessing  to humanity.

laws, 

I 

Probably  no  one  will  deny  the  advan 
tage  to  posterity  of  permitting  only  the 
fit' to  marry,  but  some  will  say  that  the 
price  is too high  to  pay,  and  ask,  with 
Artemus  Ward,  What has  posterity

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“Its as good as  Sapolio,”  when  they tiy to sell you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell —g  
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to  aid  their 
l  1  S
new  article. 

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W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

Is  it not  the Z^ 

public?  The  manufacturers,  by constant and judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose —g  
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Then  there 

is  the  question  of  suit­
ability. 
I  have  often  thought  that  a 
good  matrimonial  advisory  committee, 
with  power to  enforce  their advice,  was 
one  of  the  crying  needs  of  every  com­
munity.  They  might  do  a  world  of 
good,  and  at  any  rate  they  could  not 
make  worse  selections  than  many people 
make  for themselves.  One of  the  heart­
breaking  things  of  life  is  the  fatal  per­
sistency  with  which  men  marry  a 
woman  for  one  quality  and  expect  her 
to  possess  the  opposite  the  minute  the 
ceremony 
is  over. ■  I  have  a  friend,  a 
doctor,  a  charming  man,  whose  wife 
died,  leaving  him  with  four  little  chil­
dren.  Within  a  year  he  married  again 
giving  as  his  apology  for  haste  that  his 
children  needed  a  mother.  There  was 
no  doubt  they  did,  but  what  kind  of  a 
mother  do  you  think  he  provided  them 
with?  He  picked  out  a  beautiful,  gay, 
high-sprited  young  girl  of 
19  years, 
who  was 
just  as  fit and  competent  to 
form  and  guide  those  little  souls  as  she 
is  to  pilot  an  ocean  liner  across  the  sea. 
Is  it  any  wonder  that  such  a  marriage 
is  a  failure,  that  the  husband  is dis­
satisfied,  and  the  wife  rebellious  and 
the  children  growing  up  without  con­
trol?  The  stupidest  advisory committee 
in  the  world  could  see  how  it  was bound 
to  end,  and  would  have  warned  a  man 
against  committing  such  a  folly.  Nor 
is  this  an 
isolated  case.  There  are 
plenty  of  similar  ones  all  about  us— 
wrecks  of  happiness  that  might so easily 
have  been  prevented 
if  only  the  fool­
hardy  mariners  would  have  heeded  the 
danger  ssgnals  that  marked  the  course.

After  all, * though,  any  talk 

in  this 
country,  of  the  state  regulating  mar­
riage  is  idle.  Cupid  laughs  at  difficul­
ties.  The affections  are  amenable  to no 
laws,  and  just  as  long  as  there  are  men 
and  women  they  will  marry  when  and 
whom  they  please.

And  the  divorce  courts  will  be  kept 

busy  sorting  out the  misfits.

Dorothy  Dix.

Giving  Advice to  the  Public.

In  giving  gratuitous  advice  to  his 
customers  the  retailer  should  pursue  a 
middle  course.  He  should  not  be  arbi­
trary  in  requiring  that  his  trade  should 
look  at  everything  in  the  same  light 
in 
which  he  views 
it,  and  on  the  other 
hand  he  should  see  to  it  that  the  con­
sumer  is  thoroughly  posted  in  the  mat­
ter  of  results  and  cause  and  effect  in 
his  purchases.  Any  tangible 
informa­
tion  which  the  retailer  has,  and  of 
which  the  consumer 
is  not  possessed, 
should  be  offered  the  customer,  and  if 
the  retailer  is  in  a  position  to  make  ac­
curate  deductions  from  such  informa­
tion,  he  should  offer  advice.  On  the 
other hand,  the  retailer should  be  care­
ful  not  to  advise  the  customer 
in  mat­
ters  of  which  he  has  little  knowledge  of 
circumstances.

I  was  in  a  retail  store  recently,  and  a 
lady  customer,  whom  one  would  take  to 
be  in  average  circumstances,  came 
in­
to  the  store  and  enquired  for  a  pair  of 
shoes  at  $1.50.  The  clerk  brought  out 
a  pair,  which  the 
lady  tried  on  and 
seemed  to  like.

“ How  much  are  those  shoes?”   she 

asked.

“ Two  dollars,”   was  the  reply.
“ Well,  I  can  not  afford  to  purchase 
them;  let  me  see  something  at  a  dollar 
and  a  half.”

“ You  can  not get  shoes  at  that  price 
that  will  wear,”   was  the  advice  given 
in  a  brusque  manner.

“ Perhaps  not,”   was  the  reply,  “ but 
that  is  all  the  money  I  have  with  me,

and  1  will  have  to  get  them  at that price 
or  not  at  all, ’ ’  and  the  woman  flushed 
up 
in  embarrassment  at  being  obliged 
to  make  this  explanation.

The  clerk  brought  forward  several 
pairs  at  the  figure  mentioned,  but  he 
treated  the  customer as  if  she  were  un­
der obligations  to  him  and  as  if  it  was 
beneath  his  dignity  to  sell  shoes at  that 
figure. 
It  was  a  relief  to  me  when  the 
woman  asserted  her  prerogative  and  got 
up  and  left  the  store,  for  I  felt  that  she 
was  being  imposed  upon.

Gratuitous  advice  which  is  likely  to 
embarrass  a  customer  by  implying  that 
his  or  her  buying  powers  are  not  what 
they  ought  to  be  in  the  opinion  of  the 
retailer  or  the  clerk  should  never  be 
offered.  All  advice  should  be  educa­
tional  in  its  way. 
It  would  have  been 
well  enough  for  that  clerk  to  have  said 
to  his  customer:  “ We  can  not  give  you 
as  good  quality  at the  price you mention 
as  we  can  at  $2,  and  I  would  like  to 
show  you  our $2  shoe. ’ ’  She  coud  have 
explained  that  she  did  not  care  to  look 
at 
it,  but  preferred  to  purchase  the 
other  value,  and  she  should  have  been 
treated  with  as  much  consideration  as 
though  she  were  buying  the  higher 
priced  article.  Explanations  in  a  dip­
lomatic  manner; 
suggestions  made 
without  embarrassing  the  customer,  are 
necessary  in  business,  but  arbitrary  dic­
tation  as to  what  a  customer should  and 
should  not  buy  will not  prove  a  drawing 
card 
in  this  country,  where  most  cus­
tomers  have  a  mind  of  their own,  and 
where  they  have  a  feeling  of  indepen­
dence,  and  should  be  treated  as  cour­
teously  as  though  they  wore  diamonds 
and  satin  dresses.—Commercial  Bul­
letin.

He W as  a M ighty  Rich  Man.

A  gentleman  recently  took a  ride  with 
an  old  New  England  farmer through 
one  of  the  pretty  little  villages  that  are 
common 
in  that  region,  during  which 
some  of  the  men  in  the  neighborhood 
came  under  criticism.  Speaking  of  a 
prominent  man  in  the  village,  the  trav­
eler  asked :  “ Is  he  a  man  of  means?”

“ Well,  sir,”   the  farmer  replied,  “ he 
hasn't  got  much  money,  but he’s  mighty 
rich. ”

“ He  has  a  great  deal  of  land,  then?”  

was  asked.

land, 

“ No,  sir,  he  hasn’t  got  much 

either,  but  he  is  mighty  rich.”

The  old  farmer,  with  a  pleased  smile, 
look 
observed  his  companion’s  puzzled 
for  a  moment,  and  then  explained: 
“ You  see,  he  hasn't  got  much  money 
and  he  hasn't  got  much  land,  but  still 
is  rich,  because  he  never  went  to 
he 
bed  owing  a  man  a  cent  in  all  his 
life. 
He  lives  as  well  as  he  wants  to  live,and 
he  pays  as  he  goes.  He  doesn't  owe 
anything,  and  he 
isn’t  afraid  of  any­
body.  He  tells  every  man the  truth and 
does  his  duty  by  himself,  his  family 
and  his  neighbors.  His  word 
is  as 
good  as  his  bond,  and  every  man, 
woman  and  child  in  the  town  looks  up 
to  him  and  respects  him.  No,  sir,  he 
hasn’t  got  much  land,  but  he’s  a  mighty 
rich  man,because he’s got  all he wants.”

You will see this seal  on the  ends of  each  package of  biscuit 
and  wafers  that  is  fully  protected  against  dampness,  dust 
It is the sign  of  the  In-er-seal  Patent  Package.
and  disease. 
NATIONAL  BISCUIT  COMPANY

A  MODERN  WONDER

Approved by the National  Board  of  Fire  Underwriters;  can  therefore 
be used in any insured building without  additional  cost  for  insurance.

F.  W.  Mills,  as  a  “ peanut king,”  has 
had  an 
interesting  career.  He  began 
life  as  a  peanut  vender  on  a  train. 
When  only 
12  years  old  he  had  con­
tracts  with  several  railroads  running  out 
of  Chicago  for the  exclusive  right  to sell 
peanuts  on  the  trains.  This  lad  of  12 
had  grown  men  in  his  employ.  Mills, 
the  peanut  vender,  is  now  the  employer 
of  more  than  600  men.  He  is  manager 
of  a  company  that  makes  slot machines, 
which  supply  salted  peanuts.  Mr.  Mills 
will  put  15,000  machines  on  the  market. 
When  all  are  out  it  will  require  30,000 
pounds  of  peanuts  to  supply  them  for 
one  day.  Mr.  Mills  has  expended  be­
tween  $300,000  and  $400,000  in  laying 
in  the  supply  he  thinks  he  will  need.

The finest artificial light in the world.  Hang or stand them anywhere. 
One lamp lights ordinary store;  twoample for room  25x100  feet.  No 
smoke,  no  odor;  very  simple  to  operate.  Burns  ordinary  gasoline. 
Absolutely non-explosive.  Eight hundred candle-power light  at a cost 
of 5 cents for  10 hours.

Brass Manufacturing  &  Supply  Co.

Ask for Catalogue. 

192-194  Michigan  Street, Chicago,  1U

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Hardware

Some Secondhand H ardw are Stores in New 

York  City.
is  an  age  of 

This 

specialization. 
Even  in  such  a  subordinate  department 
as  the  secondhand  hardware  business 
may  be  considered  at  first  thought,  the 
same  conditions  hold  good.  Down  in 
the 
lower  part  of  New  York  City,  and 
particularly  upon  the  eastern  water 
front,  on  South  street  and  nearby,  there 
are  several  considerable  establishments 
doing  a  very  good  trade  along  special 
lines.  The  neighborhood  is,  as  a  gen­
eral  rule,  devoted  to  shipping,  lighter­
ing,  tug-boating,  and  kindred  occupa­
tions,  and  this  will  give  some  idea  of 
the  class  of  clients  catered  to.  But aside 
from  these,  and 
in  spite  of  the  out-of- 
the-way  stands,  a  considerable  business 
is  done 
in  what  can  be  called  curios, 
brought  by  sailors  from  foreign  lands.

small 

At  196 South  street,  near the  corner of 
Oliver,  is  the  shop  of  John  P.  Hurley, 
the 
show-window  completely 
filled  up  with  everything  imaginable  in 
the  secondhand  hardware 
line.  More­
over,  the  store  itself  is  so crowded  that 
the  genial  proprietor  has  to  occupy  a 
seat  in  the  very  doorway,  and  it  is  real­
ly  remarkable  how  he  can  burrow  his 
way  around  among  the  conglomeration 
of  merchandise  in  order  to  find  what 
is 
wanted  by  a  customer.

“ Y es,”   said  Mr.  Hurley,  “ I ’ ve  got 
pretty  nearly  anything  you  choose  to 
call  for, from  a paper of  tacks  to  a  wood­
en  leg.  Sailors  and  travelers  and  all 
kinds  of  people  bring  things  to  me,  and 
if they  are  at  all  in  my  line, I buy them. 
And  then  the  auctioneers  notify  me  of 
their  sales  and  I  pick  up  things  that 
way.  But  perhaps  the  best  comes  from 
pawnbrokers’  and  administrators'  sales.
I  have  been  established  here  over 
twenty  years  now  and I guess  I'm   pretty 
well  known.”

All  of  one  side  of the  store  was  occu­
pied  with  shelving,piled  full  of  second­
hand 
such  as  chisels,  saws, 
planes,  and  such.

tools, 

“ I  do  a  good  business  in  ihat 

line,”  
said  Mr.  Hurley,  in  reply  to a question; 
“ and  people  come  from  all  over  for 
them. 
I  have  regular customers  in  Jer­
sey  and  Long  Island  and  some  even 
farther  away. 
They  are  principally 
house  and  ship  carpenters  and seafaring 
men.  At  one  time  this  was  a  great place 
for  the  ship  carpenters,  before  the  dry 
docks  and  marine  railways  were  moved 
away,  but  I  keep  most  of  the  connec­
tions  I  had  then  and  the  men  come  to 
me  from  wherever  they  are  when  they 
want  anything.  Why  shouldn’t  they?  I 
can  give  them 
just  as  good  goods  for 
• less  than  they  would  have  to  pay  else­
where.  A  tool  that  has  been  properly 
taken  care  of  is  practically  as  good  as 
new,  if not  better,  for  it  has been  tested, 
as  you  might  say.  And  then  lots  of  my 
things  are  only  secondhand  in  having 
laid  for  years  on  shelves  or  in  ware­
houses.  Never  been  used.  Only  a  lit­
tle  rusty  or  handles  scorched  by  fire,  or 
something  like  that.  Nothing  to  really 
hurt  so  far  as  actual  use  is  concerned. 
And  then  I  have  many  other kinds of 
customers,  such  as  artists  and 
ladies 
after  odd  things  for decoration  and  or­
nament.  You  might  hardly  think  it, 
but  I'm 
liable  to  have  a  customer  for 
the  most  unlikely  thing  you  see  here,  at 
any  minute.  New  York  is  an  awful big 
place  and  there  are  all  kinds  of  people 
in  it.  There  are  hundreds  who come 
here  looking  for something,  they  hardly 
know  what.  And 
like  as  not they  see 
something  that  takes  their  eye  here  and 
they  buy  it.  Such things  as  old  candle­
sticks,  and  kettles,  and  warming  pans, 
and  like  that,go off  pretty  near  as quick 
as  I  can  get  them ;  but  then  there  are 
lots  of other articles,  many  of  them  that 
I  don’t  know  the  names  of or  use  of, 
only  that they  are  of  old  brass  or  cop­
per or  leather,  that  people  go  wild  over 
and  buy. 
In  the  curio  line  I  handle 
pretty  nearly  anything,  old  guns,  pis­
tols,  swords,  cannon,  lanterns,  clocks, 
musical 
I  get 
documents  with  some  giving  their  his­
tory  or who  they  belonged  to,  and  those 
sort  of  things  get  snapped  right  up. 
it  would  be  pretty  hard  to tell  you
But 

instruments,  and  so on. 

about  the  many  kinds  of  custom  I  have. 
I  do  a  good  trade  in  supplying  theatri­
cal  companies  with  stage  property. 
I 
rigged  out  one  company  a  couple  of 
weeks  ago. 
They  go  principally  on 
swords  and  guns  and  that  sort  of  thing, 
but  they  are 
liable  to  want  most  any­
thing.  Lots  of  the  property  men  come 
around  to  see  what  l 've  got,  and  I  buy 
things  from  them  as  well.  So  you  see 
It  may 
it  is  good  trade  all  around. 
seem  an  out  of  the  way  neighborhood 
down  here,  but 
it  has  its  advantages. 
Most  of  the  sailors  from  foreign  parts 
come  around  here  and  I  pick  up  lots  of 
things  from  them.  Couldn’t  begin  to 
tell  you  all,  but  Malay  creeses,  carved 
idols,  queer shells,  and  such  like.  And 
they  buy  considerable,  too. 
I  have  re­
volvers,  jack  knives,  and  all  kinds  of 
nautical  instruments,  such  as  quadrants 
and  sextants  and  compasses. 
I  have 
captains  that  come  to  me  year  after 
year.  I  can  usually  give  them  what they 
want.”

A 

looking  as 

“ The  business  was  established 

little  further  down  South  street, 
No.  167,  is  the  establishment  of  the  es­
tate  of  John  Harrison,  or  rather thè  two 
establishments,  for  the  business  com­
prises  a  couple  of buildings,one  devoted 
to  new  goods  and  the  other to  second­
hand.  The  executor  of  the  estate  and, 
the  manager  of  the  business,  William 
H.  Harrison,  welcomed  the  reporter and 
gave  him  a  cordial  permission  to  in­
spect  the  premises.  The  secondhand 
department 
is  almost  wholly  marine 
goods,  and  is  housed  in  a  building  of 
four stories.  As  one  enters  the  old-fash­
ioned  arched  doorway  the  air  is redolent 
of  tar,  hemp,  and  the  forecastle  of  an 
old  sailing  ship. 
Inside  are  great  piles 
and  coils  of  ropes  and  chains,  weather­
worn  and  rusty,  but  still  fit  for  certain 
uses and  so  marketable.  Here  also  are 
old  anchors,  dead  eyes,  blocks,  and  all 
manner of  ship  hardware. 
In  among  a 
pile  of  tarred  canvas  one  comer  of  an 
ancient  rusty  iron  safe,  all  bolt-studded 
and  battered,  could  be  seen.  Fiom  the 
rafters  overhead  dangle 
lanterns,  oar­
locks,  marlinspikes,  deck  cleats,  and 
many  other articles,all  old  and  weather­
worn, 
if  they  had  served 
their  time  in  many  a  breeze  and  blow.
in 
1830,”   said  Mr.  Harrison,  in  reply  to  a 
query,  “ so  you  can  see  that  we  should 
know  something  about it.  These second­
hand  goods  we  buy  from  ships,  auction 
sales,  and  from  wreckers.  We  have 
various  kinds  and  classes  of customers 
for them,  and  it  would  scarcely  be  pos­
sible  to  go  into detail  about  it.  Lots  of 
our stuff  is  practically  as  good  as  new, 
from  off  wrecks,  for  instance,  and  so  is 
bought  to  be  used  on  other  ships.  Old 
rope  and  canvas  and  metal  have  all 
kind  of  uses  and  we  handle  a  good  deal 
of them.  We  also  have  a  few  odds  and 
ends  in  the  curio  line,  principally  arras 
and  that  sort  of  thing.  Our  house  is 
well  known,  and  we  have  calls  for  all 
manner  of  queer things.  We  supplied 
the  bags  with  which  Lieutenant  Hobson 
tried  to  save  some of  the  Spanish  war­
ships  that  were  run  ashore  down  in 
Cuba.  Here  are  pictures  of  them  in 
acutal  operation.  We  made  250  of 
them.  They  were  eight  by twenty  feet, 
with  a_  lifting  capacity  of  twenty-nine 
tons  apiece.  They were  made of  canvas.
It  leaked  a  trifle,  but  air  was  constantly 
being  pumped  into  them.  The  leaking 
just  acted  like  a  safety  valve  for  them 
and  prevented  them  from  bursting.”  
sistant,  coming 
moment  with  a  Japanese  sword 
hand. 

“ How  much  for  this?”   cried  an  as­
into  the  office  at  this 
in  his 

“ A  party  wants  to  buy  it.”

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“ It  is  not  for sale,”   replied Mr.  Har­
“ That  was  actually 
rison  promptly. 
used  in  the  Cbino-Japanese  war,”   Mr. 
Harrison went on to explain to the report­
er,  “ and  killed  a  good  many,  it  is said.
It  belongs  to  my  private  collection.”  

Among  many  other things,  too  numer­
ous to  mention  here  in  detail,  we  were 
shown  an  old  boat  howitzer  that  did 
good  service  in  the  Civil  War.  Squeez­
ing  through  great  heaps  of  old  rope  and 
chain,  one  enters  a  small  sanctum  con­
taining  many  curious  things.  Here  are 
Mausers  from  San  Juan  Hill,  flint-lock 
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muskets  óf  the  Revolution,  and  arms  of  I 
various  sorts  from  many  battlefields  and  I 
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transition 
is  abrupt  and  well  planned. 
Mr.  Abbey  seems  to  thoroughly  enjoy 
the  burst  of  enthusiastic  admiration 
which  the  newcomer  can 
in  no  wise 
restrain.

“ This  is my picture gallery,.”  he said, 
as  he  proceeded  to  show  and  tell  of  the 
various paintings;  “ and I scarcely think 
you  can  find  another  like  it  in  this  part 
of  the  city. ”

The  collection  is  most  extensive,  in­
cluding  canvases  framed  and unframed, 
and  specimens of  both  ancient and mod­
ern  French,  English,  Dutch,  and  Flem­
ish  schools.  Some  of  the  pictures  are 
valued  at  $2,000  and  over.  Among  them 
is  a  portrait  by  Van  Dyke,  and  others 
bearing  the  signatures  of  such  famous 
names  as  Rembrandt,  Carolus  Duran, 
Innes,  Andrea  del  Sarto,  Detaille, 
Cazin,  and  Bonnat.

“ My  most  valuable  painting  is  too 
large  to  exhibit  here,”   concluded  this 
modern  wonderworker. 
“ It  originally 
cost $20,000.  It is 400  feet  long  by  forty- 
five 
in  width,  representing  the  Falls  of 
Niagara,  and  the  work  of  the  celebrated 
French  artist,  Paul  Philippoteaux. 
Hardware  Dealers'  Magazine.-
O ntario  Legislates  A gainst  the  Trading 

Stamp.

In  the  closing  hours  of  the  session, 
the  Ontario Legislature passed,by  a very 
large  majority,  an  amendment  to  the 
Municipal  Act,  empowering  the  coun­
cils  of  cities, 
towns  and  villages 
throughout  the  Province  to  prohibit  by 
by-law  the  giving,  selling  or  receiving 
of  trading  stamps,coupons  or other sim­
ilar  devices,  and  for  prohibiting  the 
giving,  selling  or dealing  therewith  by 
any  person,  firm  or corporation  engaged 
in  trade  or  business;  and  for  imposing 
fines  on  persons,  firms  and  corporations 
infringing  such  by-laws;  and  for  levy­
ing  the  same  by  distress  and  sale  of  the 
goods  and  chattels  of  the  offender;  and 
for the  imprisonment  of  such  offenders 
for  any  term  not  exceeding  one  month.

As  we  grow  older,  we  learn  to  pity 

where'once  we  blamed.

ous  mixtures  as  dozens  of  old  army 
trumpets  without  mouthpieces  and  a 
second-hand  electric  motor. 
Perhaps 
the  strangest  thing  of  all  is  to  come  out 
of  the  warehouse,  redolent  of  old  times 
and  ancient  shipping,  and  find  that  the 
establishment  lies  directly  underneath 
a  shore  span  of the  Brooklyn  Bridge. 
Modern  progress  casts  a  very  realistic 
shadow  upon  the  relics  of 
the  old. 
Here  again,  as  at  Mr.  Hurley’s,  the  in­
vestigations  of  the  reporter  were 
inter­
rupted  by  customers.  This  time  it  was 
a  lady  and  gentleman,  both  brimming 
over  with  happiness, 
and  wearing 
rather  suspicious  gala  attire.

“ Bride  and  groom  after  some  odds 
and  ends  to  decorate  their  new  home, 
I’ ll  bet  a  nickel,”   said  one  of  Mr.  Har­
rison’s  assistants  in  an  undertone  to 
our  reporter.  Downtown  a  little  further, 
on  Front  street  between  Old  Slip  and 
Cuyler’s  Alley,  in  a  row  of  timeworn, 
but  what  were  once  quite  aristocratic 
buildings,  is  an  establishment  bearing 
the sign * ‘ Westminster Abbey. ’ ’  In front 
of  the  store  are  exhibited  all  manner  of 
things,  running  from  cannon  to  rusty 
chains,  and 
inside  the  variety  is  still 
more  promiscuous  and curiosity-provok­
ing.  The  business  occupies  the  whole 
building,  four  stories  and  cellar.

“ Named  after  the  historic  place  in 
London?”   replied  the  proprietor. 
“ I 
am.  Not  the  store.  Westminster Abbey 
is  my  own  name  and so  was  my  father's 
before  me.  My  grandfather  was  a  dis­
tinguished  lawyer of  Albany,  and  when 
my  father  was  born,  the  old  gentleman 
at  once  booked  him  for  the  bar  and 
gave  him  the  majestic  name  of  West­
minster.  He felt  sure  that he  could  rise 
to  any  height  with  such  a  name.  But 
things  went different.  My father, instead 
of  soaring  aloft  by  means  of  Coke  and 
Blackstone,  found  that  he  had  not  the 
slightest taste  for  the law.  And  so,  final­
ly,  he  founded  this  business  right  here 
seventy  years  ago,  when  E.  D.  Morgan 
was  his  next-door  neighbor on the right. 
He  left  me  both  his  name  and  the  busi­
ness. 
I  don’t  know  that  1  am  exactly 
what  you  call  a  secondhand  hardware 
dealer,  although  the  best  part  of  my 
stock  could  come  under that category.
I  handle  curios  of  all  kinds,  as  well, 
and  in  fact,  as  you  see  by  the  samples 
around  you,  anything  and  everything. 
A  good  deal  of  my  stuff  comes  from 
auction  sales  over  at  the  Navy  Yard 
and  from  the  various  sales  at  the  Gov­
ernment  arsenals  and  stations  of  what 
they  call  condemned  goods. 
These 
things  are  scarcely  ever  in  bad  order; 
merely  out  of  date,  superseded  by  new 
ideas  and  inventions.  Sometimes  I  buy 
things  that  I  would  seem  to  have  little 
prospect  of  selling,  but  nevertheless  a 
customer comes along sometime or other. 
About  the  only  thing  that  I  can  think  of 
at  the  moment  that  seems  to  be  a  slow 
seller  is  a 
lot  of  big  ship-carpenters’ 
planes,  about  five  feet long,  that I bought 
from  the  Government.  However,  I ’ve 
sold  a  few  of  them.  Got  any  use  for 
these?”   Mr.  Abbey  exhibited  a  brand 
new  cavalry  sabre  as  he  spoke. 
“ I ’ve 
got  sixty  thousand  of  them.  Made  for 
I  bought them  over  at 
the  Civil  War. 
Governor’s  Island.  Here 
is  a  rather 
unique  piece  of hardware, ”   he  went  on, 
conducting  the  reporter about  the  prem­
ises. 
“ It  is  one  of  the  very  earliest 
cannon  cast,  and  a  fine  specimen,  too. 
The  metal  is  harder  than  flint. 
It  was 
made  before  the  art  of  tempering bronze 
was  numbered  among  the  arts  we  have 
lost. 
Its  pedigree  shows  that  this  can­
non  was  made  in  Holland  while the Low 
Countries  were  still  subject  to  Spanish 
rule,  and the  weapon  has  served  through 
all  the  Colonial  wars  with  Mexico,  and 
formed  part  of  the  fortifications  of  San 
Juan,  Puerto  Rico,  that  Admiral  Samp­
son  was  unsuccessful 
in  bombarding. 
You  may  find  plenty  of older cannon  in 
New  Y ork;  in  fact,  I  have  some  here, 
but  they  are  of  iron  or  brass. 
I  have 
made  a  study  of  this  subject  and  1  can 
find  no  record  of  any  bronze  cannon 
more  venerable  than  this  in  the  muse­
ums  of  Berlin  or  Nuremburg.  Nothing 
dating  back  of  1640.  This  specimen  be­
fore  you  weighs  500  pounds,  is  five  feet 
long,  with  a  six 
It  is  a 
muzzle-loader,  as  were  all  of  these  an­
cient  cannon. ”

inch  bore. 

in 

This  gun 

is  certainly  worthy  of  ad 
miration.  Cast  in  relief  at  the  breech 
are  the  words: 
“ Kylianus  Weaewart 
me  fecti  Campis  1631,”   which  may  be 
freely translated,‘ ‘ Klian Weaewart made 
me  at  Campen,  Holland, 
1631. ’ 
The  Spanish  coat  of  arms  is  carved  be 
tween  the  breech  and  the  trunnions, 
and  between  the  trunnions  and  the  muz 
zle  appears  “ El 
scroll 
work. 
In  the  center  is  an  artistic  pair 
of  dolphin  handles  by  which  it  was 
moved,  and  the carving throughout  is  in 
a  splendid  fashion.  When  this gun  was 
fashioned  Spain  was  at  the  zenith of  her 
power. 
little  over two  centuries 
and  a  half  it  has  seen  the  fall  of  an  em 
pire,  and  now  lies  a  spoil  of  war to  the 
nation  upon  which  the  haughty  Dons 
fastened  their expiring  quarrel.

Infante”  

In  a 

in 

iron. 

Each 

It  is 

smoothbore  flintlock. 

“ If  I  was  to  attempt  to  touch  upon 
the  various  historical 
features  of  my 
stock  we  might  spend  a  whole  day  and 
then  not  finish,”   went  on  Mr.  Abbey. 
“ But  perhaps  a  few  samples will suffice. 
Here  are  some  Revolutionary  flintlocks 
stamped  1762.  Here  is  another  marked 
1776.  And  to  come  down  to  a  later 
date, here  is  a  musket  stamped  Harper’s 
Ferry,  1848.  And  I  have  specimens  of 
many  dates  and  various  countries  as 
is  the  greatest  curiosity  in 
well.  Here 
the  gun  line  that  I  possess. 
It  is  said 
to  be  the  only  gun  of  its  kind  in  exist­
ence,  ancient  or  modern. 
It  is  a  sport­
ing 
four 
and  a  half  feet  long  and  weighs  only 
four and  a  half  pounds. 
It  is  the  light­
est  gun  for  practical  use  ever  known. 
In  just  as  good  condition  now  as  it  ever 
was,  capable  of  being  put  to good  use 
by  a  hunter.  One  of  the  greatest  finds 
I  have  ever  made  I  have  recently  dis­
posed  of.  Your  readers  should  be  spe­
cially interested in it,  fora variety of rea­
sons. 
It  was  a  piece  of chain,  a  few 
links  of  the  historic  chain  which  was 
stretched  from  West  Point  across  the 
Hudson  to  Constitution  Island,  to  pre­
vent  the  British  war  vessels  from  forc­
ing  a  passage  up  the  river.  Some  years 
ago  I  was  prowling  around  the Brooklyn 
Navy  Yard  when  I  saw  a  pile  of  this 
chain  on  sale  as  old 
link 
was  three  feet 
long  and  weighed  300 
pounds.  Without 
imagining  for  a  mo­
ment  that  it  bad any particular  history  I 
bought  the  lot,  and  only  learned  several 
years  later  from  Mr.  Gunther,  an  expert 
on  such  matters  and  a  collector  for  the 
Libby  Prison  Museum,  that 
it  was  a 
part  of  the  West  Point  chain.  He  had 
carefully  traced 
it  down  to  the  time  it 
reached  the  junk  pile  in  Brooklyn  and 
It  had  lain, 
there  he  got  on  my  trail. 
unnoticed  and  uncared  for, 
fifty 
years 
in  that  navy  yard.  This  chain 
was  never  successfully  passed  by  the 
British,  as  was  the  one  stretched  across 
between  Fort  Montgomery  and  An­
in  1776.  This  last  was 
thony’s  nose 
swept  away  twice  by  the  river  currents 
and  a  third  one  was  destroyed  by  the 
British 
1777,  who  then  went  up  the 
river  as  far  as  Kingston.  This  West 
Point  chain  was  much  heavier than  the 
ones  which  proved  so  futile  at  Fort 
Montgomery.  Several  lots  of  this  chain 
were  purchased  from  me  by  various his­
torical  societies  and  private  parties. 
Among  others  who  were  specially  inter­
ested 
it  was  ex-Mayor  Hewitt.  He 
owned  the  iron  mines  at  Sterling,  from 
which  came  the  ore  from  which  the 
chain  was  made.  At  Tuxedo  is  the  old 
forge,  then  owned  by  Robert Townsend, 
where  the  chain  was  manufactured.  His 
great-grandson  purchased  some  of  the 
links  from  me.  But  now  I ’m  going  to 
give  you  a  change  from  all  this  dry 
I ’m  going  to  surprise  you. ”
business. 
While  Mr.  Abbey  had  been  speaking 
he  had  conducted  the  writer  up  a  flight 
of  narrow,  dusty,  cob-webbed  stairs  to 
the  second  story  of  this  veritable  old 
curiosity  shop.  Everything  was  dark 
and  one  had  to  proceed  by  sense  of 
touch  alone.  Dodging  all  manner  of 
obstacles,  such  as  projecting  anchor 
flukes  and  piled  up  junk  of all  kinds, 
the  conductor  suddenly  threw  open  a 
door.  Stepping  inside  one  finds  com­
plete  contrast  to  the  regions  of  gloom 
lighted,  large 
without. 
room,  carpeted  with  rich 
rugs,  and 
flanked  on  ail  sides  with  paintings  of 
The
considerable  rarity  and  value. 

It  is  a  well 

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Brow nie’s  Mission  in  Life.

Written for tbe Tradesman.

It  was  April.  A  cold  fine  rain  which 
a  high  wind  drove  in  sheets  filled  the 
air. 
Brownie  stood  shivering,  with 
her tail  to  the  wind  and  her  head  down, 
wondering  what  it  all  meant.  She  had 
light  oi  day  twenty-four 
first  seen  the 
hours  before,  and 
it  hadn’t  been  like 
this.  The  sun  shone  then  and  it  was 
warm  and  bright.  Her  mother  had 
fondled  and  kissed  her, 
licking  her 
with  her great  tongue  until  her  brown 
coat  was  glossy  and  dry.  She had talked 
to  her,  calling her  lovingly if she strayed 
the 
least  distance.  When  the  other 
cattle  had  come  up  to  welcome  the  new­
comer  she  had  driven  them 
fiercely 
away.  Now  this  fond  mother  was  lying 
prone  upon  the  cold  wet  ground.  Her 
eyes  were  wide  open,  but there  was  no 
answering  gleam 
in  them.  Brownie’s 
plaintive  call  which  the  day  before  had 
met  with  such  anxious  response  was 
unnoticed.  What  did  it  all  mean?  Why 
did  her  mother lie  so still,  always  look­
ing 
in  one  direction?  Had  she  grown 
tired  of  her  baby  so soon?  Poor  little 
Brownie  didn't  know  that  during  the 
long  dark  night  when  the  coyotes  had 
howled  and  she  had  crept  nearer  her 
mother  death  had  come. 
It  was  more 
than  her short  experience  of 
life  could 
comprehend  and  so,  hungry  and  chilled 
to  the  bone,  she  stood  waiting  with  the 
dumb  patience  of  her  kind.

The  wind  veered  from  the  east  to  the 
north,  changing  tbe  rain  to  sleet  and 
snow  and  driving  it  into  a stinging bliz­
zard.  The  motherless  calf,  unable  to 
withstand  the  piercing  cold  and  fierce 
wind,  wandered  reluctantly  step  by  step 
away  from  the  side  of  its  dead  mother. 
Helplessly 
it  drifted  before  the  storm 
until a barbed wire fence  stopped  further 
progress.

Then  a  dreadful  thing  happened ;  but 
Brownie  was  too  numb  for either  fear or 
resistance.  The  pasture  rider  on  the 
Two-bar  had  a  heart  and  when,  upon 
his  homeward  way,  he  discovered  the 
helpless,  half-dead  calf  he  placed  it 
across  his  saddle  and  carried  it  home 
with  him.  At  the  ranch-house  a  big 
fire  blazed 
in  the  kitchen  stove  and 
warmth  and  comfort  held  full  sway. 
Brownie  came  back  to  a  state  of con­
sciousness  and  again  wondered  what  it 
could  mean.  Several  children  crowded 
around  her,  petting  and  stroking  her. 
She  wasn't  afraid  of them,  although  she 
had  never  seen  anything  like  them  be­
fore.  The  big  man  who  had  carried 
her on  his  saddle  frightened  her  dread­
fully,  because  he  put  his  fingers  in  her 
mouth  and  then  held  her nose  down into 
a  pail  of  warm  milk.  Her nose  got  full 
it  and  she  spluttered  a  great  deal, 
of 
making  the  children 
laugh  and  dance 
around her.  Hunger and cold were things 
of  the  past  and  in  blissful  contentment 
the 
lay  down  on  the 
soft  warm  bed  they  made  for her and 
spent  its  second  night  of  life  in  tbe  big 
kitchen  of  the  pasture  rider’s  house.
The  next  day  Brownie  was  placed 

in 
a  warm  dry  shed  along  with  several 
other calves,  where  she  soon  learned  to 
be  happy  and  contented.  Then  came 
the  hot  summer days,  which  sped  swift­
ly,  and 
in  the  early  autumn  Brownie 
passed  through  the  agonizing  ordeal  of 
being  branded.  Oh,  the  horror  of  i t ! 
She  never would  forget  it  as  long  as  she 
lived.  How  cruel  and  rough  those  men 
were!  Even  the  pasture  rider,  who  had 
been  so kind  to  her before,  swore  at  her 
when  she  struggled  fiercely  under  the 
sizzling  branding 
it  was 
all  over  and  he  turned  her  loose  he

little  brown  calf 

iron.  When 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

long, 

“ gritty 

called  her  a 
little  devil.”  
Henceforth  she  was  to  go  with  the herd. 
The  next  day,  among  the  company  of 
several  hundred  cows  and  calves,  she 
walked  a 
long  way  until  they 
came 
to  the  pasture  where  Brownie’s 
mother  had  died.  There  the  horrid 
men  on  horseback,  who  swung  ropes 
and 
Yo-he-ho! 
Yo-he-ho!”   so  loudly  whenever  a  cow 
or  calf  lagged  behind,  left  them. 
It 
was  all  very  new  and  strange  to  the 
petted  calf  as,  with  the  instinct  of  her 
kind,  she  patiently  plodded  after  the 
herd.  Their  tormentors  gone,  the  tired 
into  single  file,  making 
cattle  strung 
slowly  for  the 
flowed 
through  the  pasture.

stream  which 

“ Y ip-hi! 

yelled, 

Brownie  quickly  became  accustomed 
to  her  new  surroundings,  where  she 
roamed  at  will,  with  nothing  to  do  but 
grow.  This  she  began  to do  in  a  most 
astonishing  way,  despite  the  fact  of  her 
misfortunes  upon 
first  entering  the 
world.  She  developed  a  length  and  girt 
of  body  wonderful  to  see  and  before 
cold  weather  came  was  larger than  any 
yearling  in  the  herd. 

Two  years  of  ease  and  plenty  sped 
quickly  away.  Then  cattle  men  from 
all  parts  of  the  country  gathered  in  a 
populous  Western  city  to  hold  a  con­
vention.  The local  cattle  raisers  had  ex­
erted  themselves  to  make  the  conven­
tion  a  success.  Fine  specimens  of  thor­
oughbred  stock  were  shipped  to  the 
city’s  stock  yards 
the  nearby 
ranches.  The  visiting  stockmen  were  to 
be  shown  the  kind  of  cattle  this  part  of 
the  Great  West  could  produce.

from 

V

Brownie  wondered,  as  usual,  what 

it 
meant  when  a  rider  came  galloping 
across the  pasture  and,  singling her out, 
drove  her  away  from  the  herd.  For 
three  days  this  rider urged  her  slowly 
forward.  He  was  very  kind  to  her, 
permitting  her  to  stop  and  rest  or  graze 
whenever she  wanted  to,  when  he  would 
pat  her  smooth  neck.  When  they  came 
into  the  city  everybody  looked  at  them 
in wonder.  Troops  of  chidren  followed 
them.  Brownie  heard  them  exclaim, 
“ Isn’t  she  a  monster!”   but  was  not 
aware  that  they  referred  to  her.  She 
thought 
it  must  be  the  man  on  horse­
back  who  was  driving  her  that  caused 
the  people  to  stare.

When  they  finally  reached  the  stock- 
yards  Brownie  was  given  a  roomy  pen 
all  to  herself and  hundreds  of  men  and 
women  came  and  stood  around  the  pen 
looking  at  her.  The  man  who  brought 
her to  town  was  almost  six  feet  tall and 
he  often  came  into the  pen  and  stood up 
beside  her to  show  the  spectators  how 
high  she  was.  She  heard  the  people 
talk  about  the  “ big  cow ;”   and  if  she 
could  have  read  the  newspapers  she 
would  have 
learned  that  tickets  for a 
chance  to  draw  the  “ big  cow”   were  be­
ing  sold  among  the  stockmen  at  fifty 
cents  apiece.

On  the 

last  day  of  the  convention 
Brownie  was  led  away  from  the  stock- 
yards 
into  the  city.  Here  they  put  a 
wide  blue  ribbon  around  her  body  and, 
preceded  by  a  brass  band,  walked  her 
up  and  down  several  great  long  streets. 
Finally  they  stopped  at  a  place  where 
an  immense  crown  had  gathered.  The 
band  played  several  pieces  and  then  a 
man  stood  up 
in  a  carriage  and  an­
nounced  that  a  Mr.  Somebody,  who held 
ticket  number  1,155,  bad  won  the  “ big 
cow. ’ ’

Mr.  Somebody  was  a  wealthy  cattle­
man  from  Texas  and he gave Brownie  to 
a  charitable  institution  in  the  city  that 
needed  funds. 
In  the  meantime  she 
was  taken  to  the  city  park  and  placed

in  the  field  with  the  buffaloes, where  she 
proved  a  great  attraction.  For  more 
than  a  month  it  was  quite  the  thing  for 
the  fashionable  city  dames  who  were 
charitably 
inclined  to  go  about  from 
store to  store  selling  tickets  fora chance 
on  the  “  big  cow. ”   Brownie  was  to  be 
raffled  again,  this  time  by  the  charit­
able  institution  to  which  the  Texas  cat­
tleman  had  given  her.

After this  she  was  purchased  from  the 
lucky  winner by  an  insurance  company 
and  given  by  them  to  another  charity. 
Several  times  she  changed  owners  in 
this  way,  until  the  public  ceased  to  be 
interested  in  her and  at  last  she  fell  in­
to hands  that  brought  her to the 
inevit­
able  goal.

life  had 

Brownie’s 

indeed  been  a 
notable  one,  for  she  was  the  means  of 
raising  several  thousand  dollars  for  the 
benefit  of the  needy. 

MacAllan.

Good  A lum inum   a t  Last.

it 

“ Magnalium”  

is  stronger  than  brass. 

It  is  possible  that  a  new  era  has 
opened  in  tbe  use  of  aluminum—at  all 
events  for  fittings. 
is 
tbe  name  given  to  an  alloy  of aluminum 
and  magnesium  invented  by  a continen­
tal  scientist,  and  tbe  reports  upon  it  are 
of  the  most  encouraging  nature. 
It  is 
lighter  than  pure  aluminum,  it  can  be 
worked  and  turned  like  brass  or  copper 
and 
It  is 
stated  that 
it  does  not  oxidize  at  all, 
fumes  of  ammonia  and  sulphuric  acid 
not  damaging 
It  can  be  turned, 
bored,  drilled,  milled,  filed,  ground and 
polished  easily.  Tubes  working  one 
within  the  other slide without the slight­
est  fretting.  Screws  made  of 
it  are 
very  strong,  with  clean-cut  threads  and 
durable.  The  metal 
is  patented  and 
manufactured  by  the  Magnalium  Com­
pany  of  Berlin.

it. 

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T h e   A l a b a s t in e   C o m - 
p a n y ,  in  addition  to  their 
m   world-renowned  wall  coat-
mg,  A L A B A S T I N E
through  their  Plaster  Sales 
Department,  now  manufac­
ture and  sell at lowest prices 
in paper or wood,  in  carlots 
or less,  the  following  prod-

U  

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

^   nets:B PIasticon
■  
8 N.  P.  Brand of Stucco
■  
I 
N  Finely ground and  of  supe­

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

The  effective  Potato  Bug
Exterminator.

•Land Plaster

Bug Finish

rior quality.

For lowest prices address

Alabastine Company,
Plaster Sales Department

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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TH E  PUTNAM  CANDY  C©.,

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

BOYS  W ILL  BE  BOYS!

Don’t forget this when you send  us an  order for

FIR EW O R K S

Call and inspect our line and establishment when in the city.

5  
I   B -  w -  P U T N A M ,  P r e s i d e n t  

r .   r .  S C A N .  S e c r e t a r y

A Trade Maker

Fanny  Davenport

5c Cigar

Trade  Supplied  B y:

B. J.  Reynolds,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 
Phipps,  Penoyer  &   Co.,  Saginaw,  Michigan. 
Moreland  Bros.  &   Crane,  Adrian,  Michigan.

CommercialTravelers
President,  G e o . F . Ow e n ,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St i t t ,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J o h n W. Sc h k a m , Detroit.

Michiru  Kniehti  of the Grip

Michigan Commercial Traielen’ Association 
President,  A.  Marymont,  Detroit:  Secretary 
and Treasurer, Geo.  W. Hil l, Detroit.
United  Commercial  Trawlers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  M.  J.  Mo o r e,  Jackson; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K e n d a l l ,  Hillsdale 
Grand Treasurer, W.  S.  Mest, Jackson.

Grand Rapids  Council  So.  131,  D.  C.  T.

Senior  Counselor,  W  K.  Co m pt o n ;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan Commercial Travelers  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  B o yd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Baplds; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o .  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Baplds.

the 

Presented  W ith  a  B anner  By  the  Ladies.
Grand  Rapids,  May  6—Saturday 
evening,  May  4,  being 
regular 
meeting  of  Grand  Rapids  Council,  No. 
131,  a  large-sized  council  was  again 
in 
attendance.  These  meetings  are  grow­
ing  very  popular  with  the  traveling men 
of  Grand  Rapids,  for at  every  meeting 
there  are  some  initiations,  smokers  and 
social  times.  At  this  meeting  nearly 
all  the  preliminary  arrangements for  the 
trip  to  the  Grand  Council  meeting  in 
Kalamazoo  were  made—including  a 
special  train  on  the  G.  R.  &  I.  and 
arrangements  with  the  railroad  com­
pany  for  one  fare  for the  round  trip, 
tickets  good  going  on  special  or  regular 
train  Friday,  May 
14,  and  good  to  re­
turn  up  to  and  including  May  20.  A 
is  called  for Saturday 
special  meeting 
evening,  May 
11,  at  8  o’clock,  at  the 
Morton  House  to  make  final  reports  on 
everything. 
is  the  intention  to  take 
a  band  along,  if  such  arrangements,  can 
he  brought  about, 
it  being  simply  a 
matter of  having  money  enough.  If any­
one  can  suggest  a  way  out,  please  re­
port  to  D.  E.  Keyes,  who can  be  found 
at  the  wholesale  house  of  Clark-Jewell- 
Wells  Co.

It 

The  meeting  and 

its  surprises  will 
long  be  remembered  by  everyone  pres­
ent.  About  9 130  an  alarm  was  sounded 
on  the  outer  door,  which,  upon  investi­
gation  by  the  sentinel—and,  by 
the 
way,  nothing  passes  Sentinel  Ôriggs 
when  he  is  on  duty—was  found  to  be  a 
party  of  ladies—wives,  sweethearts  and 
daughters  of  the  members—and,  Mr. 
Editor,  you  will  pardon  me  for  making 
the  statement  that  I  do  not  think  a 
sweeter  lot of girls  can  be  found  any­
where  than  “ our  girls.”   The  Sentinel 
reported  that  they  demanded  immediate 
admittance.  They  got  it—our  girls  al­
ways  get  what  they  ask  for—and  in  they 
marched,  beautiful,  proud  and  happy— 
beautiful  as  Nature  adorned  them  in 
their  true  womanhood ;  happy,  well, 
happy  because  they  all  love  their  hus­
bands  and  know  their husbands just dote 
on  them  and  proud  of the  very  elegant 
and  beautiful  U.  C.  T.  banner they  had 
to  present  to  Grand  Rapids  Council, 
No.  131.  Won’t  the  Grand  Rapids  boys 
feel  their  importance  in  the  parade  at 
Kalamazoo,  walking behind  such  a  ban­
ner!  Well,  I  guess  yes.  Mrs.  Comp­
ton,  in  behalf  of  thé  ladies,  in  a  very 
neat  speech,  presented  to  our  Senior 
Counselor  and  the  Council  the  banner 
they  have  been  working  for  the  past 
year  to  procure.  Senior Counselor W. 
R.  Compton  said  some  very  nice  things 
to  the  ladies  in  accepting  the  beautiful 
gift.  Past  Senior  Counselor  John  D. 
Martin  asked  for  recognition  from  the 
It  being  granted  to  him,  in  a 
chair. 
few 
impromptu  remarks  be  stated  how 
the  Committee  appointed  to  purchase 
badges  had  overstepped  their  money 
limit  to  some  extent,  and  then  turned 
over  to the  Senior Counselor the Council 
badges,  gotten  up 
in  a  very  beautiful 
combination  of  blue,  gold  and  white, 
and  to  the 
ladies  he  presented  badges 
which  were  an  exact  reproduction  of the 
Council  badge,  except  being  .all 
in 
white—an  emblem  of  purity.

joyous,  happy 

Everyone  then  went  into the  dining 
room—a 
family—and 
partook  of the  good  things  already  pre­
pared,  and  such  good  things,  but  alas ! 
they  did  not  last  long.  Many  of  the 
viands  became  exhausted,  but not  some

of  the  boys’  appetites.  Some  of  them 
took  the  cake;  in  fact,  it  was  generally 
conceded  that  many  of  them  would  take 
cake  and sandwiches  had  they a  chance. 
Will  not  mention  any  names  this  time, 
but  don’t  let  it  occur again.

The  evening  came  to a  close,  just  as 
all  such  evenings  do 
in  connection 
with  anything  gotten  up  by  the  order of 
the  U.  C.  T .,  with  entire  satisfaction  to 
those  who  were  instrumental  in  prepar­
ing 
it  and  with  the  utmost  pleasure  to 
those  entertained.

Many  of  the  U.  C.  T.  brothers  were 
happy  at  their  social  Saturday  evening 
to  again  see  the  ever-pleasant  face  of 
Mrs.  C.  P.  Reynolds  among  the  ladies. 
She  has  been  missed  for many  socials 
and  we  hope,  with  the  continuance  of 
improving health,  she  will  be  among  us 
for all  social  gatherings  to come.

A  special  meeting  of  Grand  Rapids 
131,  will  be  held  at  the 
Council,  No. 
Morton  House,  Saturday  evening,  May 
11. 
Important  business  pertaining  to 
the  trip  to  Kalamazoo  to  the  Grand 
Council  meeting,  May  17  and  18,  wiil 
be  transacted. 

JaDee.

Gripsack  Brigade.

The  Western  Michigan  trade  hereto­
fore  covered  by  L.  E.  Phillips  for  the 
Western  Shoe  Co.  (Toledo)  will  here­
after  be  seen  by  Mr.  Hittle.

Coopersville  wants  a  hotel  and  will 
make  it  an  object  to a  good  hotel  man 
who  is  looking  for a  location  in  a  grow­
ing  town  on  the  line  of  both  steam  and 
trolley  lines.

Sault  Ste.  Marie  News: 

John  S. 
Curry,  formerly  manager  of  the  Mud 
Lake  Lumber Co. 's  store  at  Raber,  has 
taken  a  position  as  traveling  salesman 
for  P.  C.  Keliher.

H.  T.  Morgan,  Michigan  representa­
tive  for  Limbach,  Sons  &  Co.,  of  De­
troit,  who  has  made  Grand  Rapids 
headquarters  for the  past  year,  removes 
this  week  to  Detroit.  He  will  make  no 
change 
in  his  territory  or  method  of 
covering it.

Theo.  F.  Vander  Veen,  who  repre­
sents  D.  C.  Vander  Veen  in  this  State 
with  a  line  of  Quick  Meal  stoves,  is  re­
covering  from  a  severe  attack  of appen­
ill  at  the  St. 
dicitis.  He  was  taken 
Clair  House,  Port  Huron,  but 
is  now 
at  his  home.

Wm.  Reeder,  Northern  Indiana  repre­
sentative  for  Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co., 
has  resigned  to  take  a  position  with  a 
New  York  lumber concern.  He  is  suc­
ceeded  by  Frank  Coates,  who  has  until 
recently  represented  the  Lambertville 
Rubber  Co.  in  Michigan.

J.  J.  Mahoney,  of  Lansing,  who  has 
been  traveling  in  Michigan  the  past five 
years  for  the  Patterson-Sargent  Paint 
Co.,  of  Cleveland,  has  severed  his  con­
nection  with  that  house and  will  engage 
in  the  hardware  business  at  Collinwood, 
Ohio,  to  which  place  he  will  shortly  re­
move  his  family.

Battle  Creek  Journal:  W.  W.  Bishop, 
traveling  salesman  for the  L.  A.  Dud­
ley  Rubber  Co.,  of  this  city,  has  pur­
chased  Floyd  B.  Coates’  residence  at  32 
Frelinghuysen  ave.,  and  will  with  his 
family  occupy  the  same  as  a  home. 
Mr.  Bishop 
is  a  former  resident  of 
Coldwater,  and  was  considered  one  of 
that  city’s  most  enterprising  and  honor­
able  business  men.  His  advent  into 
Battle  Creek  is  very  welcome.

Thomas  Whittingham,  who  has  cov­
ered  Eastern  Michigan  for  the  past  sev­
enteen  years  for the  Rogers  Shoe  Co., 
Toledo,  has  signed  with  Ainsworth, 
Wickenhiser  &  Co.,  Toledo,  to  cover 
the  same  territory.  The  vacancy  thus 
created  in  the  ranks  of  the  Rogers  Shoe 
Co.  has  been  filled  by  the  engagement 
of Joseph  Straughn,  of  Flint,  who  has 
visited  the  trade  of  Eastern  Michigan 
for  the  past  fourteen  years  for the  West­
ern  Shoe  Co.  and  its  predecessor,

act—he  entered 
into  partnership  with 
W.  T.  Lewis  and  engaged  in  the  boot 
and  shoe  and  men’s  furnishing  goods 
business  at  Mayville,  under the  style  of 
W.  T.  Lewis  &  Co.  The  stock  was  re­
moved  to  Vassar  May  1,  1894,  where the 
business  was  continued  under the  style 
of  Hill  &  Lewis. 
Jan.  1,  1894,  he  pur­
interest  of  his  partner and 
chased  the 
retired  from  the  road,  continuing  the 
business  under  the  style  of  C.  C.  Hill 
until  Feb.  1,  1898,  when  he  sold  an  in­
terest  to  F.  C.  Hogle,  who  was  then 
covering  Michigan,  Wisconsin and  Min­
nesota  for  Lawrence,  Webster  &  Co.,  of 
Malone,  N.  Y.  The  copartnership  ex­
pired  by  limitation  Feb.  1,  1901,  when 
the  stock  was  closed  out and  the  busi­
ness  discontinued.

Mr.  Hill  then  engaged  to  cover  East­
ern  Michigan  for  Geo.  H.  Reeder  & 
Co.,  of  Grand  Rapids.  He  makes  his 
headquarters  at  Vassar and  undertakes 
to  see  his  trade  every  sixty  days.  L iv­
ing  in  the  heart  of  his  territory  makes 
it  convenient  for  his  customers  to  com­
municate  with  him  as  often  as  once  a 
week.

Mr.  Hill 

Mr.  Hill  was  married  Jan.  29,  1885, 
to  Miss  Alice  Hough,  of  Alma.  They 
have  one  child,  a  boy,  now  15  years  old.
is  a  member  of  Vassar 
Lodge,  F.  and  A.  M.,  the  K.  P.  Lodge 
at  Millington,  the  Maccabee  Lodge  at 
Vassar and  the  Michigan  Knights  of the 
Grip.

Mr.  Hill attributes  bis  success  to  hard 
work  and  hustling  and  to  the  fact  that 
he  has  always  made  it  a  cardinal  rule 
never to  deceive  himself  or  destroy  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

Chas.  C. H ill, Representing; Geo. H. Reeder 

&  Co.

Chas.  C.  Hill  was  born  at  Birming­
ham,  Mich.,  Aug.  20,  1863,  his  father 
being  Rev.  S.  M.  H ill,  a  Presbyterian 
clergyman  who  enjoyed  a  wide  reputa­
tion  as  a  theologian  and  a  pulpit orator. 
Mr.  H ill’s  mother  died  when  he  was  5 
years  old,  when  the  family  removed  to 
Vassar,  where  Mr.  Hill  attended  school, 
completing  his  education  with  a  high 
school  course.  At  the age  of  12  years, 
he  became  a  member of  the  family  of 
Dr.  Wm. 
Johnson,  of  Vassar,  with 
whom  he  remained  until  he  was 18 years 
old.  May  1,  1881,  he  entered  the  em­
ploy  of  the  Vassar Woolen  Co.,  working 
first  in  the  office  and  afterwards  going 
on  the  road  as  traveling  salesman  until 
1892.  The  next  two  seasons  he  covered 
the  Appleton,  Wis., 
Michigan 
for 
Woolen  Mills. 
In  1894,  he  returned  to 
his  first  love,  covering  his  old  trade  in 
Michigan  for  the  next  two  years. 
In 
the  meantime—Sept.  17,  1892,  to  be ex­

25

confidence  of  his  friends  and  custom­
ers.  He  enjoys  the  respect  and  friend­
ship  of  the  trade  to  an  unusual  degree 
and,  judging  by  his  past  experience, 
he  is  destined  to  achieve  a  large  meas­
ure  of  success  in  his  chosen  calling.

in 

Hidef*. Pelts,  Furs, Tallow  and  Wool.
Hides  are 

light  offering,  with  a 
slight  advance  in  price.  The  late  take­
off  is  of  better quality  and  the  demand 
equals  the  supply.  A  strong  market  is 
the  outlook,  with  no  material  advance.
Pelts  are  gradually  moving  out  at  low 
rates.  Pullers  are  not  anxious  except 
at  low.prices,  as  their  pulled  wool  piles 
up  on  them  and  they  are  not  certain 
that  bottom  has  been  reached,  but  are 
sure  that  the  demand  for their  product 
is  light.

The  fur season  is  at  its  close  at  much 
lower  values.  The  trade  has  not  been 
profitable  and  dealers  are  not  anxious 
buyers.  Offerings  will  be  large  at  June 
sales.

is 

Tallow 

in  good  demand  for  all 
grades,  with  but  fair  offerings.  The 
advance 
in  price  holds  firm  and  con­
siderable  trading  is  done.

Wool  remains 

low,  with  no  Eastern 
buyers  in  the  State.  What  little  has 
been  marketed  is  to  home  buyers  at  low 
prices.  Trade 
in  this  commodity  has 
changed  so  materially  that  old  buyers 
are  at  their  wits’  end  to  know  what  is 
best  and  safe. 
So  many  paid  for a  les­
son  last  year that  they  go  to  the extreme 
the  other way.  Prices  do  not  tempt  the 
grower  and  the  sale  of  the clip  drags. 
Present  purchases  at  prevailing  prices 
should  not  keep  the dealer awake nights, 
as  they  are  far  below  an  importing 
point. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

R.  P.  Bigelow  has  given  up  the  State 
agency  of  the  Stimpson  Computing 
Scale  Co.  to  take  the  position  of  Cen­
tral  Michigan  salesman  for C.  W.  Inslee 
&  Co.,  of  Detroit,  covering  the  territory 
traveled  by  the  late  Samuel  B.  Taylor, 
of  Lansing.  Mr.  Bigelow  relinquished 
this  territory  to  Mr.  Taylor  about  a 
dozen  years  ago,  since  which  time  Mr. 
Bigelow  has  represented  Berdan  &  Co. 
in  the  same  territory  and  the  Stimpson 
Computing  Scale  Co.  in the entire State.

A  man’s  curiosity  never  reaches  the 
feminine  standpoint  until  some  one tells 
him  that  his  name  was  in  yesterday’s 
paper.

}

A  Hotel  Man 
Wanted 

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•  
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O 
ins  in  the  State.  A  paying  invest-  2  
O  ment for the right  man.  A  fine  site, 
•  
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Do you want it  cured?  Your  case  of  Nervous 
Prostration or Nerve Exhaustion from overwork, 
do you want it cured?  In either case  investigate 
the special plan of nerve treatment used at
Patterson  Home  Sanitarium

316 E.  Bridge St., Grand  Rapids, flich.

Special price to all liquor cases to May 15.

Phone  1291.

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Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State  Board o f P harm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L. E.  R e y n o l d s,  St. Joseph 
Henry H eim, Saginaw 
•  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Deo. 81,1903
Wis t  P.  Do t y, Detroit - 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mu i r , Grand Rapids 
Dec. 81,1906 

President, A. 0 .  Sc h u m a c h e r ,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hknby  H e i m , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions.

Star Island, June 17 and 18.
Sault  Ste.  Marie, August 28 and 29. 
Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

Mich.  8tat*  Pharm aceutical  Association. 

President—Ch a s .  F.  M a n n , Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Skblky,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Schmidt, Grand Rapids.

Form ulas  F or  Ten  K inds  of  Condition 

Powders.

diuretics, 

This  class  of  remedies  is  usually com­
posed  of  numerous  substances,  giving 
them  the  character of  “ shot-gun”   pre­
scriptions.  Among  the  more  prominent 
ingredients  making  up  the  composition 
of  these  powders  are:  Black  antimony, 
sulphate  of sodium,  nitrate of potassium, 
sulphur,  fenugreek,  gentian,  asafoetida 
and  ginger.  We  have,  in  the  above, 
alteratives, 
diaphoretics, 
tonics,  laxatives,  sedatives  and  correct­
ives.  A  fact  well  established  is  that 
the  commercial  black  antimony  of  the 
market  contains  no  antimony,  but  con­
sists  principally  of  coal  dust  mixed 
with  chalk  and  other inert  substances; 
therefore,  if  the  medicinal  properties  of 
antimony  are  desirable,  why  not  use the 
sulphurated  antimony  (Kermes mineral) 
mixed  with  powdered  charcoal  to  pro­
duce  the  necessary  bulk  and  proper 
color?

When  sulphate  of  sodium  is  an  in­
gredient,  it  should  be  desiccated  by  ex­
posure  to  the  air,when  it  will  effloresce, 
its  water of  crystallization,  and 
losing 
into  a  fine  powder.  The  dose  of 
fall 
condition  powders 
is  usually  a  table­
spoonful  to  a  horse,  cow  or hog;  two 
tablespoonfuls  for  an  ox  or  mule;  a 
teaspoonful  for a  good-sized  calf,  sheep 
or  dog;  mixed  with  their  food  night 
and  morning  for  a  week  or two,  after­
wards  the  same  dose  every  other day. 
For  fowls,  a  small  quantity  of the  pow­
der  is  added  to  com,  grain  or  other 
provender that  has  been  moistened,  and 
fed  to  them  for a  short time.  While  the 
stock  is  being  dosed,  it  should  be  kept 
under  shelter  and  not  exposed  to  wet 
and  cold  weather.  The  following  table 
of  the  normal  number  of  pulsations  in 
a  minute 
in  various  animals  is  here 
added,  which  may  be  useful  to  those 
administering  medicines to anim als:

Horse,  34  to  40;  ox  or cow,  38  to  45; 
mule,  48  to  54;  sheep,  70  to 80;  goat, 
72  to  76;  dog,  90  to  100;  cat,  n o  to
120;  hen  or duck,  136 to  140.
1.  Sodium  sulphate,..............................8 parts
Sulphur.............................................  4 pans
Fenugreek.......................................   4 parts
Gentian.............................................  2 parts
Black  antimony..............................  2 parts

Reduce  all  to  powder and  mix  well. 

Known  as  Darby’s  Condition  Powder.
2.  Potassium nitrate............................  2 parts
Sulphur............................................... 4 parts
Iron  carbonate.......................  1  part
Ginger...............................................  2 parts
Black  antimony...................   1  part
Linseed  meal.......................   10  parts
. Reduce  to  powder  and  mix  with  the 
linseed  meal.  Known  as  Youatt’s  Pow­
der.
3.  Sulphur.............................................   8 parts

Potassium  bitartrate..............2  parts
Potassium  nitrate.................  1  part
Gentian............................................   2 parts
Fenugreek.......................................   4 parts
A n ise ed ................................  1  part
Black  antimony..............................  2 parts

Reduce  to  powder and  mix.  Known 

as  Taplin’s  Powder.

4.  Gentian..................................   6  parts

Asafoetida  .............................  1 part
Ginger....................................   1 part
Licorice.................................   1 part
Sodium chloride...................   4  parts
Fenugreek............................   6 parts
R esin......................................   1  part
Reduce  to  powder  and  mix ;  to  pro­
mote  appetite.  Known  as  Lebla’s Pow­
der.
5.  Gentian..................................   8  parts
Bayberiy................................  4  parts
Turm eric...............................  4  parts
M yrrh ....................................   2  parts
Bone-black...............................2  parts
Reduce  to  powder and  mix.  Known 

as  “ Diapente”   Powder.
6.  Sulphur................................... 12  parts
Black  sulphuret  mercury...  1  part
Rhubarb................................   2  parts
Asafoetida.............................  1  part
A loes......................................   2  parts
Wormseed  levant...............  2  parts
Reduce  to  powder and  mix.  Known 

as  Lebla’s  Worm  Powder.
7.  A lo es.................................................  5 parts

Senna......................................  5  parts
Ginger....................................  5  parts
Potassium  bitartrate............  5  parts
in  powder  and  well  mixed ;  for 

All 

gripes.  Known  as  ‘ ‘ Pulvis Santus. ’ ’
8.  Magnesium  sulphate...........   8  parts

Aloes..................................................10 parts
Aniseed.............................................  2 parts

Reduce  to  powder and  mix.  Known 

as  Lebla’s  Purgative  Powder.
9.  Potassium  nitrate...............  16  parts

Camphor...........................................  2 parts
Tartar emetic..................................  2 parts

All  in  powder;  mix  well.  Known  as 

White’s  Fever  Powder.
10.  White  arsenic......................  1  part
Cream  tartar........................ 19  parts
Charcoal........................................... 20 parts

Mix  carefully;  give  half a  teaspoon­
ful  once  a  day.  Known  as  White’s 
Compound  Arsenical  Powder.
The  D rag  M arket.

Opium—On  account  of  reported  rains 
in  the  growing  district,  prices  are  lower 
in  primary  market  and  less  firm  here.

Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—Is  steady.  The  manufac­

turers’  price  remains  unchanged.

Alcohol—Advanced  again  4c on Satur­
day,  making  6c advance  in  two  weeks. 
The  advance 
is  on  account  of  higher 
price  for com.

Citric  Acid—Manufacturers  have  re­

duced  their  price  2c  per  lb.

Bismuth  Preparations—Have  all  de­
ioc  per  lb.,  on  account of  lower 

clined 
price  for  metal.

Cocaine—Advanced 

$1  per  oz.  on 
May  4  and 
is  tending  higher,  on  ac­
count  of  high  price  and  scarcity  of 
cocoa  leaves.

Iodine  Preparations—On  account  of 
in  iodine  noted  two  weeks 

the  decline 
ago,  its  preparations  are  all  lower.

Iodoform—Iodide  potash,  etc.,  have 

all  declined.

Balsam  Peru—Has  advanced  on  ac­
count  of  higher  prices  in  the  primary 
market.

Oil  Cedar  Leaf—Is  very  scarce  and 
has  again  advanced.  There  is  very  lit­
tle  to  be  had.

Oils  of  Lemon  and  Orange—Have 

both  declined.

Oil  Peppermint—Is  very 

firm  and 

Elecampane  Root—Is 

scarce  and 

advancing.

higher.

Sulphuric Ether—Has  been  advanced, 
on  account  of  higher  price  for alcohol.
Linseed  Oil—Is  firm  at  the  last  ad­
vance.

The  Cough  Syrup  Season.

A  West  Side  druggist 

in  New  York 
recently  had  a  window  full  of cough 
syrup  over  which  he  placed,  as  if  to 
watch 
it,  a  papier-mache  head  of the 
well-known  “ Peck’s  Bad  Boy.”   Pro­
truding  from  the  grinning  youngster’s 
mouth  was  a  long  piece  of white  paper 
on  which  was  printed,  “ We  can  recom­
mend  this.”   The  remedy  is  prepared 
by  the  druggist.

Cereal Tooth  Powder.

Df.  Fletcher,  in  an  article  on  inter­
stitial  gingivitis,supports the theory that 
the  exciting  cause  of  this  disease  is 
generally 
local,  due  to  the  failure  to 
clean  the  teeth,  the  use  of  soft  brushes 
and  inefficient  dentifrices  and  the omis­
sion  of  toothpicks. 
In  cleaning  the 
teeth  the  approximal  surfaces,  and  es­
pecially  the  necks,  should  have  special 
care,  since  these 
localities  are  usually 
first attacked.  A  dentifrice  should  not 
be  used  as  an  abrasive;  the  enamel  re­
quires  no  polishing.  It  should  be  coarse 
enough  to  remove  foreign  matter.  The 
author  therefore  condemns  the  use  of 
chalk,  sea-shell  or  pumice  stone  and 
recommends  a  powdered  cereal  made 
from  the  hard  parts  of  rice  or  Indian 
corn  as  the  base  of  his  dentifrice.  The 
grit  in  this  powder  does  the  work  most 
thoroughly,  without  the  least  injury  or 
wear,  as  must  be  self  evident.  Pulver­
ized  cereal  has  been  objected  to  on  the 
ground  that  it  ferments  in  the  mouth. 
This 
is  wrong,  however,  for  only  hy­
drated  starches  ferment,  and  to  hydrate 
it  requires  boiling,  the  action  of  caustic 
alkalies,  or  long  continued  action  of 
bacteria.

is  incor­
With  this  pulverized  cereal 
porated  25  per cent,  of  soluble 
ingredi­
ents  for sterilizing  the  mouth  and  neu­
tralizing 
its  acids.  These  ingredients 
are  sodium  borate,  potassium  chlorate, 
and  potassium  nitrate 
in  some  cases. 
The  formula  mostly  used  is  as  follows: 
P.  pulverized  cereal,  75 parts;  sodium 
borate,  18  parts;  potassium  chlorate,  7 
parts. 
Sweeten  with  saccharin  and 
flavor to  taste.

As  a  dentifrice  this  cereal  powder 
injury,  even  by  ex­
does  no  possible 
cessive  use. 
It  may  be  used  freely  and 
often  enough  to  prevent  any  accumula­
tions  whatever on  any  surface accessible 
to  a  good  brush.  By  the  use  of this pow­
der  the  accumulations  are  not  only  kept 
away,  but  the  surface  of  saw-toothed 
abrasions  at  the  necks  of  the  teeth  be­
come  dark  and  lose  their  sensitiveness, 
showing  that  the  abrasion  has  ceased.

Advantage  of  Serving  Brom o  Properly,
There  are  so  few  drug  clerks  who 
know  how  to  serve a  dose of  effervescing 
bromo  properly  or,  knowing,  care.  Go 
into  ten  stores  and  call  for a  glass  of 
bromo  and  the  chances  are.that  it  will 
be  served  to  you  wrong  in  ten  of  them. 
This  is  about  the  way  they  do  i t :  They 
draw  a  mineral  water glass  nearly  full 
of  carbonated  water  at  nearly  the  freez­
ing  point,  put  in  a spoonful  of  the  effer­
vescing  salt,  stir  it  with  the  spoon  and 
pass  it  over the  counter.

How  should  it  be  done?  So:  Take  a 
dry  glass,  put  in  the  granular  powder, 
draw  another  glass  half  full  of  plain 
water  from  the  tap,  and  while  the  cus­
tomer holds  the  first glass  in  his  hand 
pour the  contents  of  the  second glass  in­
to  it.  Rationale:  The  bromo dissolves 
better  in  the  tap  water,  the effervescence 
is  more  regular and  steady,  the  custom­
er  can  drink 
it  down  at  once  and  the 
latter  process  of  manipulation  looks bet­
ter,  and  hence  does  the  patient  more 
good.  As  10  cents  is  usually  charged, 
a  half glass  of  vichy  might  be  thrown 
in  gratis  for  the  customer to  rinse  his 
mouth  with.  Very little  things  influence 
trade,  and  a  man  would  walk  a  block  or 
two  out  of  his  way  to  get  even  so ap­
parently  small  a  thing  as  a  dose  of 
bromo  served  properly.

A  New  A nti-Fat.

Dr.  Brodnax  says :  Last  summer  I 
was  up  in  the  mountains  and  met  a  rev­
erend  gentleman,  and  noted  that  be  was

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

getting  very  fat  and  so short-winded 
that  he  panted  on  the  least  exertion. 
I 
told  him  what  I  knew  about Epsom salts 
and  directed  that  he  sponge  his  whole 
body  night  and  morning  with  Epsom 
salts  one  part,  and  water  sixteen  parts. 
I  also  told  him  to take  a  teaspoonful  of 
the  same  three  times  a  day.  His  weight 
then  was  238  pounds. 
I  saw  him  about 
the  middle  of  the  following  May,  and 
his  weight  was 
178  (60  pounds  reduc­
in  nine  months),  his  normal 
tion 
weight.  He  is  strong  and  active,  feel­
ing  well  every  way.  He said he followed 
the  directions  very  carefully  and  felt 
very  much  better  and  healthier  in  every 
way  from  the  start.

Are  You Short 
on Wall  Paper

If so send to us  for  samples.
A  large  stock  on  hand  of 
good  sellers.  Ship  orders 
same  day  received.  Prices 
as  low as  you  can  imagine. 
Write us.

H E Y S T E K   &   C A N F IE L D   C O .

Grand  Rapids,  M ich.
The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

Talk  No.  6

Machine  for  X  Ray  Work  and 

Static  Treatments

You are hearing a  great deal  about  the  won­
derful cures made by electricity now  days.  The 
cut above will give you some idea of Static Elec­
tricity, one of the  most valuable  forms.  It  can 
be controlled so nicely  that  the  smallest  infant 
can take it.  What is  it  good  for?  A  multitude 
of  diseases.  Among  them  are  Rheumatism, 
Neuralgia,  Epilepsy,  St.  Vitus  Dance,  Bright’s 
Disease, Diabetes, Paralysis.  Locomotor Ataxia, 
Torpidity  of  Liver,  Stomach  and  Bowels,  dis­
eases  peculiar  to  Women,  Skin  and  Scalp  dis­
eases, Nervousness, Insomnia,  Weakness follow­
ing Grip or any Wasting disease,  etc.,  etc.  It is 
the great regulator of the  Nutritive  processes of 
the JJ°dy.  Dr-  Rankin  will  gladly  exhibit  its 
workings to any one who will call at the office.

Go or write to 

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN 

Powers’  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

Graduate of University  of  Michigan  and Illinois 

School  of  Electro-Therapeutics 

Mall  Treatm ent

Dr. Rankin’s  system  of  “Home  Treatment”  is 
well known and  highly efficient.  Send  for  free 

symptom  blank.

Drug  Clerk  Wanted
All round man for  Wholesale  and  Laboratory 
work, and Betail when necessary.  Fair pay and 
steady place to good man.  Must be  sober  and a 
worker.  Give  full  particulars  and  send  photo.

Fred  Brundage,  ftuskegon,  filch.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

27

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Aalsam Peru, Oil Cedar, Cocaine, Sulph. Ether. 
Declined—Opium, Oil Orange, Iodide Potassium, Iodoform.

Menthol..................   @500
Morphia, S., P.& W.  2 35® 2 60 
Morphia, S., N. Y. Q.
& C. Co.................  2  25® 2 60
©  40
Moschus  Canton.... 
Myristlca, No. 1 ......  
65®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................  
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................  @  1 00
Picis Liq. N.N.54 gal.
doz.......................  @ 2 00
Picis Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Liq., pints......  @  85
Pil Hydrarg. ..po.  80  @  50
Piper  Nigra.,  po. 22  @ 
18
Piper  A lba....po.35  @  30
Pifx Burgun............  
® 
7
Plumbi Acet............  
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30®  1  50 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  75
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
25®  30
Quassi*..................  
8®  10
36®  46
Quinla, S. P. &  W... 
34®  44
Quinla, S.  German.. 
Quinla, N. Y............  
34®  44
Rubla Tinctorum.... 
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv 
is®  20
Salacln....................  4 50® 4 75
40®  50
Sanguis  Draconls... 
Sapo, W..................  
12© 
14
SapoM.................... 
10© 
12
Sapo  G.................... 
© 
is

20®  22
Seldlitz Mixture...... 
is
Sinapis....................  @ 
Sinapis,  opt............  
©  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.................... 
©  41
©  41
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s 
Soda, Boras............. 
9© 
11
Soda,  Boras, po...... 
9® 
11
23®  25
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb............   154® 
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   354® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
© 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50©  55
© 2 00
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
© 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect. 54bbl 
© 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal 
© 
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
© 
Strychnia, Crystal...  80® 1 06
Sulphur,  Subl.........   254© 
4
Sulphur, Roll...........  254©  354
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth  Venice... 
28®  30
Theobrom*............. 
60®  65
Vanilla....................  9 00@16 00
Zinci Sulph............. 
7® 
8

Oils

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

B B L .  G A L .
70
70
50

Linseed, pure raw...  63 
Linseed, boiled.......   64 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine..  39 

65
67
60
45
P aints  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian.........   154  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  134  2  @4 
Ochre,yellowBer...  154  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  254  254@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  254  254@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............ 
13®  15
75
Vermilion, English..  70® 
Green,  Paris........... 
14®  18
Green, Peninsular...  13® 
16
Lead, red................   654®  7
Lead,  white............   654®  7
Whiting, white Span 
©  90
Whiting, gilders’__  
®  95
White, Paris, Amer.  @ 1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff....................... 
© 140
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10©  1  20
Extra Turp..............  1 60©  1  70
Coach Body............  2 75© 3 00
No. l Turp Furn...... l  00©  l  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  56© 1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70©  75

Cigars

W e are agents for the 

celebrated

Brunswick Brands

Wolverine
-  $55
Victorias
-  65
J uniors
35
Crane’s Cadets -
-  35
Rainbow  -
35
Hawthorn,  25  in tin  35

- 

- 

W e also  have

o   r 

nager,  Quintette

O  

/V

And  a  complete  line  of  G.  J.  Johnson 

Cigar Co.’s brands  including 

the celebrated

S.  C.  W.,  Exemplar,  etc.

Hazeltine &   Perkins 

Drug 60.

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

Acldnm

Acetlcum  ............... $  6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70©  75
Boracic....................  @  17
Carbollcum..............  30®  42
47®  50
Cltricum..................  
Hydrochlor............  
3® 
5
8®  10
Nltrocum................  
12®  14
Oxallcum................. 
®  15
Pbosphorium,  dii... 
SaUcylicum............  
5?@  55
Sulphuricum...........  1%® 
5
Tannicum................  l  10®  1  20
Tartaricum............  
38®  40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
6
4® 
6® 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
8
Carbonas.................  13®  15
Chloridum...............  
12®  14
Aniline
Black.......................  2 
Brown......................  80® l  oo
Red..........................  45®  50
Yellow.....................   2 

6© 

55©  60
©  1  85 
55©  60
«©

Bacca»
Cubebae...........po,25  22©  24
Junlperus................  
8
Xanthoxylum.........   1  26©  1  30
Balsam  am
Copaiba...................
P e ru .......................
Terabin,  Canada....
Tolutan.................... 
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassi*......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Qulllaia, g rd ...........
Sassafras....... po. 20
ülmus.. .po.  16, gr’d 
E xtractum  

00® 2 26

50® 3 00

24©
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
28©
Glycyrrhiza,  po.
Hæmatox, 16 lb. box 
11©
Hæmatox, is ........... 
13©
H*matox, 54s.........   M©
H*matox, 14s.........  
16©
F erru
Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Quinla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lora

IB®
Arnica..................... 
Anthemls.................  22©
Matricaria...............  
30©

15 
2 25
75
40
16 
2
80
7

18
25
35

Folia
Barosma..................  38©
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
20©
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  25©
Salvia officinalis,  its
and 54s................. 
12©
8©
UvaUrsi................... 
Gummi
65 
Acacia, 1st picked... 
©
45 
©
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
35 
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
28 
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
@
65 
Acacia, po............ .
©  14
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20 
i   1230
Aloe, Cape.... po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotri..po.40
60
Ammoniac...............   56©
50
45©
Assafoetlda__po. 46 
55
Benzolnum..............  50©
13
Catechu, is .............. 
g
14 
Catechu, His............  
g
16 
Catechu, 14s............  
8
73 
Camphor*..............  6!
40
Euphorbium...po. 35 
®
1 00 
Galbanum................ 
®
70 
Gamboge..............po  65®
30 
Guaiacum.........po. 25  ®
75 
Kino...........po. $0.76 
®
60 
Mastic  ....................  
®
40
Myrrh..............po. 46  @
Opii__po.  5.00®6.20 3 60®  3 65
Shellac....................  25®
Shellac, bleached....  40®
Tragacanth............
H erba 
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum ....oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V.. .oz. pkg
Magnesia
Calcined, P at...........  55®
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®
'arbonate, Jennings  18® 

60®  90
25 
2026 
28 
23 
25 
39

Oleum

Absinthium............   6  50® 7 00
Amygdal*,  Dulc__   38®  65
Amygdal*,  Amar*.  8 00® 8  25
Anisf.......................   l  85® 2 00
Aurantl Cortex........2 
10® 2 20
Bergamli.................  2  70® 2 90
Cajlputl...................  80®  85
CaryophyUL............ 
75®  80
Cedar......................  80@ri  10
Chenopadll.............. 
® 2 75
r.InnajnnnU...............1  30® 1  40
36®   40
Cltronella................ 

io@ 

60ftSo

Radix

»  50
l  50 
\  50

Miscellaneous

Scill*  Co.................
Tolutan...................
Prunus  virg............

60 
50 
60 
60 
50 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
75 
75 
1 00 50 
50 
60 50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
50 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
60 
50 
50 
75 
50 
1  5o 
B0 
»0 
BO 
So 
Bo 
«0 

Conium Mac............   50®  60
Copaiba...................  l  is® 1  25
Cubeb*...................  i  40®  1  50
Exechthitos.............  1  00®  1  10
Erigeron.................   l  10®  1  20
Gaultheria..............   l  86®  1  90
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  75
Gosslppii, Sem. gal..  50® 
60
Hedeoma.................   1  40®  1  60
Junlpera..................  1  50® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2  00
Limonis..................   1 40®  1 50
Mentha Piper.........   1 40®  2 00
Mentha Verid.........   1 60®  1 60
Morrhu*, £al.........   1 io@  1 20
Myrcla....................  4 00®  4 50
Ouve.......................  75® 3 00
Picis Liquida........... 
12
®  35
Picis Liquida,  gal... 
Ricina.....................   1 00®  1 08
Rosmarinl...............  
®  1  00
Bos*, ounce............  6 00® 6 50
Succlnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................   90®  1  00
Santal...................... 2 75® 7 00
Sassafras.................  48®  63
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  65
Tiglll........................  1  60®  1  60
Thyme.....................   40®  50
Thyme, opt..............  @  1  60
Theobromas  ........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb....................  
is® 
18
13® 
Bichromate............  
16
52®  67
Bromide................. 
12®  16
C arb....................... 
Chlorate., .po. 17@19 
16® 
18
Cyanide..................  
34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
® 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
15
7® 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nitras.........  
6® 
8
Prussiate................. 
23®  26
Sulphate  po............  
15®  18

Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh__
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co...#........
Barosma..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co..........
Castor.....................
Catechu]...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubeb*....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chloridum....
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia....................
Myrrh.. ..................
Nux Vomica............
Opii..........................
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized......
Quassia...................
Rhatany...................
Rhei.........................
20®  25
Aconitum................. 
Sanguinaria...........
A lth*.....................  
30® 
33
Serpentaria............
io@ 
Anchusa................. 
12
Stromonium............
Arum  po.................  @  25
Tolutan...................
20®  40
Calamus..................  
Valerian.................
12®  16
Gentiana........po. 15 
Veratrum  Veride... 
16® 
Glychrrhiza...pv.  15 
18
Zingiber..................
20
Hydrastis  Canaden 
70
<0
Hydrastis Can., po.
80
30© 35
15 Æther, Spts.Nit.? F
Hellebore, Alba, po
1fVrh
34© 38
20 Æther, Spts. Nit. 4 F
Inula,  po................. 
11
60© 3 75 Alumen..................
Ipecac, po...............   3
254® 3
3® 4
35© 40 Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7
_
Iris  plox.. .po. 36®38 
25© 30 Annatto...................
Jalapa, p r...............  
25®
40® 50
@ 35 Antimoni, po...........
4® 5
Maranta,  14s ......
22© 25 Antimoni et Potass T 40® 50
Podophyllum,  po
75©  1  00 Antipyrin...............
Rhei....................
@ 25
®  1  25 Antlfëbrin  ..............
Rhei,  cut............
@ 20
75©  1  35 Argent! Nitras, oz...
Rhei, pv..............
@ 51
35© 38 Arsenicum..............
10® 12
35®
Spigella................... 
® 18 Balm Gilead  Buds..
38® 40
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15 
®
40© 45 Bismuth S. N........... 1  80® 1  86
40®
Serpentaria............  
60© 65 Calcium Chlor., is...
Senega ....................
@ 9
® 40 Calcium Chlor., 54s..
® 10
Smilax, officinalis H.
@ 25 Calcium Chlor.,  Ks..
Smilax, M...............
@ 12
10© 12 Cantharides, Rus.po
@ 80
Scill*............. po. 36
Capsici Fructus, af..
@ i5
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
® 25 Capsici  Fructus, po.
® 15
dus,  po.................
® 25 Capsici Fructus B, po
@ 15
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
15© 20 Caiyophyllus. .po. 15
12© 14
Valeriana,  German.
14© 16 Carmine, No. 40......
Zingiber a ...............  
14®
@ 3 00
25© 27 Cera  Alba..............
50© 55
Zingiber j.................  25®
40© 42
Cera  Flava..............
Coccus  ....................
© 40
® 12 Cassia Fructus........
© 35
13© 15 Centraria.................
@ 10
4® 
Cetaceum................. 
®
Chloroform............   55®
Chloroform,  squibbs 
® 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1  65
Chondrus................  
20®  25
Cinchonidine,P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidlne, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   6 55® 6 75
Corks, list. dis. pr.ct.
70 
Creosotum...............   @
35 
Creta..........bbl. 75 
@
2
Creta, prep..............  @
5 
Creta, precip........... 
9®
11
Creta, Rubra........... 
©
8
Crocus.................... 
25®
30
Cudbear..................  
©
24 
Cupri  Sulph............   654®
8
7®
Dextrine................. 
10 
Ether Sulph............   78®
92 
Emery, all numbers. 
®
8
Emery, po................ 
©
6 90 
E rgota........r.po. 90  85®
Flake  White........... 
12©
15 
Galla.......................  
©
23
8®
Gambler................. 
9 
©
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
60 
Gelatin, French......  
35®
60 
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
5 
Less than box......
70 
ii@
Glue, brown............  
13
Glue,  white............  
is®
25 
Glycerina.................  1754®
25 
®
Grana Paradis!........ 
25
Humulus................. 
25®
25®  56
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
®  1 00 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
®  90
@ 1  10 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.
@ 1 20 
Hydrarg  Ammonlatl 
HydrargUnguentum
50®  60
Hydrargyrum.........
@  85
_
Ichthyobolla,  Am... 
65®  70
Indigo.....................   75®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubi........3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................  3
3 85 
Lupulln....................
50 
Lycopodium............
85 
Macls......................
75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............
25
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
123
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
114
Mwnte. 8» F...........
60

Semen
Anisum...........po. 15
Apium (graveleons).
Bird, is..................... 
6
Carul...............po.  18 
12® 13
Cardamon...............   1  25®  1  75
Coriandrum.............
8© 10
Cannabis Sativa......
454® 5
Cydonium...............
75®  1  00
fhenopodlum.........
10® 12
Dipterix Odorate__ 1  00® 1  10
Fœniculum..............
@ 10
Fœnugreek, po........
7® 9
Lini.........................
4@ 5
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4
454® 5
Lobelia...................
35© 40
Pharlaris Canarian.. 454® 5
Etapa.......................
454® 6
Sinapis  Alba...........
9® 10
Sinapis  Nigra.........
11® 12
Spirltus
Frumenti, W. D. Co. 2 oo®  2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1 65® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N. E __  X  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  76® 6 so
Vini  Oporto............   1  26® 2 00
Vini Alba................   1  25®  2  00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 50® 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
®   1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
@  75
Yellow  R e e f,  for
®  1 40
slate use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhei Arom..............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Scill*.......................

@80®
65®
®
10®
2®
©
500

®
@50®
©

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

OROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

Their quotation! are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  hours  of  mailing, 
(Mid  are  intended  to be correct at time of going to  press.  Prices,  however,  are  lia­
ble to change at  any  time,  and  country  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at
m arket  prices at  d ate of  purchase.

ADVANCED
Sugars
Ito II«’ll  On I n
Corn  Nyrup

DECLINED
Toothpick*
CIlMM
Cordage

Index  to  Markets

lly Columns

Akron  Slone ware.
Allibimi! no 
.........
A ni moula............
AxIftliroaNO
11
Baking  Powder....
Hath  brink...........
Hltilns..................
Ilroom*.................
Ilruihn«................
Butter Color.........
O
(ami In»................
Caini Ion...............
faulted Good«
Calmi|>..................
Cariant (MU
CtlOONO.
Chewing Hum......
Chloory.................
( 'bocciate.
Clothe* 1.11 ion 
CtH’oa
Cecca shoiu  . 
ColTee
Coi iti oils.’i|  Milk
Coupon Itooki
Cracker»..............
Cream Tartar
I»
I»ihn!  Knill«

r

Karlnaoeou«  Comi» 
KUh amt Ov»ler*.. 
Klavortng Extract».
Fly  l'ape!-...............
Fresh  Meat«...........
Krutt».....................

......
N
O

a
drain« and  Ktour .
II
Her l«« 
............
tilde« and  Kelt*
I
Indigo
j
Je lly ................ .......
1.
lamp  Humors 
l amp Chinino’s  . 
lantern* 
lantern  dIota's 
IJeorlee ...
L y e...........
M
Malohe«
Meat Kxtraots  .
Midas »os 
Mustard
Nuts
(Ml Cans 
Olive*
Oyster l'ail»
Kaper  Hags 
Karts  Croon 
Kick le*
I’ll’M
IX'taxh  __ ...
Kiovkhun
Kh'O
Saleratus 
Sal Svsla
Sail 
Salt  Kish 
Saoorkraui 
Seed«
Shoe Blacking
Snwfl
SnapS’».!.»
Sptees 
Starvi!
Stove IXiltsh 
Sugar
Syrup* 
Va No  Sauve 
tw*
TVdWvW
Tarltte
Vinegar
Washing lVwder. 
WVht«g 
Weeden ware 
Wrapping  Kaper 
X
Yaast l'aio

..........  ..
,  . 
.......
T

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

V
a

K
$

, 

CAT8CP

Columbia,  pints..................2 00
Columbia, *  pints...............1  75

CARBON  OILS 

Barrels

@10
@1014
@11
@11
B
@10
@10*
@11
@1014
14@15
@90
@17
13@14
50@75
19@20

Eocene.......................   @11
Perfection..................   win
Diamond  White.........   @ 9
I). S. Gasoline............  @11
Deodorized Naphtha..  @10
Cylinder................. . 29  @34
Engine........................ 19  @22
Black, winter..............  @10*
CHEKSB
Acme.......................  
Amboy.................... 
Elsie........................  
Emblem..................  
Gem......................... 
Gold Medal.............. 
Ideal...................... 
Jersey...................... 
Riverside................. 
Brick....................... 
Edam......................  
Leiden.................... 
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple...............  
Sap  Sago................ 
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce_______  56
Reeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Jack....................... 
55
largest Gum  Made...................  60
Sen Sen 
......................... 
66
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar  Ixtaf....................... 
55
Yucatan............................ 
56
Bulk....................................  5
Bed........................................7
Eagle...................................   4
Franck's.............................  6*
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE

Ambrosia

Walter Baker & Co.'s.

Ambrosia Sweet..................   21
Household Sweet.................  19
Ambrosia Premium............   37
Yankee  Premium...............   31
German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................  46
Vienna Sweet
Vanilla................................   28
Premium.............................   31

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz...........1  00
Cutton, 60 ft.  per doz...........1  70
C-otton, 60 ft.  per doz.........   1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz..........1  80
Jute. 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz............   96

COCOA

Ambrosia, '» lb. tin cans__  42
Ambrosia, 4 lb. tin cans__  44
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, 14s  .......................   36
Colonial. * s .........................  33
Epps....................................   42
Huyler................................   45
Van Houten, 4 s .................. 
12
Van Houten. 4 s ..................   20
Van Houten, * s ..................  38
Van Houten,  is..................  70
Webb................................ 
so
WUbur, Hs..........................  41
Wilbur. 4 s ..........................   42
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags...................... 
2*
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............ 
4

COFFEE
Roasted

H f C ’*
HIGH GRADE.
COFFEES

Special Combination__'.... 15
French Breakfast................174
Lenox. Mocha A Java 
......21
Old Gov't Java and Mocha-24 
Private Estate. Java & Moo 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwinell-Wright  Co-'s Brands.
White House. 60-ts  ............ 29
White House. 30-2s............2S
Excelsior M. A J„  60-ls.. 
. .2D»
Excelsior M. & J„ 30-3$....... 20'»
Royal Java...........................26'»
Royal Javak Mocha........... 26S
Arabian  Mocha
28’,
Aden Moch...............
: Mocha & Java Blend.
I Fancy Mark-aibo......
Ja w  Blend...............
I Golden Santos..........
i Ja-Mo-Ka.................
j Excelsior Blend.......
i So. S3 Blend.............

IT'S

G uatem ala

Ja v a

Choice...................................16
African................................12*
Fancy African.....................17
O. G...................................... 26
P. G...................................... 29
Arabian................................ 21

Mocha
Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuokle............................ lilt
DUworth............................ 11*
Jersey.................................11*
Lion....................................11*
M cLaughlin's XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City *   gross............   76
Felix *  gross............................ 1 16
Hummers foil *  gross........  85
Hummel’s tin *  gross........ 1  43

E xtract

Substitutes

4 doz in case.

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, *  case..................1 76
24 packages,  1 c a s e ........... 3 50

CONDENSED  MILK 

Gall Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown.......................................6 26
Daisy........................................ 5 76
Champion................................ 4 eo
Magnolia..................................4 25
Challenge.................................3 76
Dime........................................ 3 36
Leader..................................... 3 80

COUPON  BOOKS 

60books,any  denom...  1  60 
100 books, any  denom...  2 60 
500 books, any  denom...  11  80
1.000 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  sp e cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
60  books.......................  1  60
100  books.......................  2 50
600  books.......................  H  60
1.000  books.........................20 00
600, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch.....................  
75
The National Biscuit Co. quotes 

Credit Checks 

CRACKERS 

as follows:

B utter

•• 

Soda

Seymour.......................
6
New York....................
6
Family.........................
6
Salted...........................
6
Wolverine....................
6*
Soda  XXX...................
6*
Soda, City....................
8
Long Island  Wafers__ ..  13
Zephyrette...................
..  13
Oyster
7*
F au st.................................  
Farina... 
6
.......................... 
Extra Farina......................  
6*
Saltlne Oyster.....................  6
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals. 1..........................  
10
Assorted  Cake................... 
10
8
Belle Rose........................... 
Bent's Water......................  16
Cinnamon Bar.....................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............  
10
Coffee Cake, Java............ 
10
is
Cocoanut Macaroons.......  
Cocoanut Taffy................... 
10
Cracknells..........................  
16
Creams, Iced......................  
8
Cream Crisp.......................  
10*
Cubans...............................  u *
Currant  Fruit....................  
12
Frosted Honey................... 
12
Frosted Cream...................   9
Ginger Gems. 1'rge or sin’ll  8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. G__  6
Gladiator............................ 
10*
Grandma Cakes..................  9
Graham Crackers............  
g
Graham  Wafers.................  
12
Grand Rapids  Tea..........   16
Honey Fingers................... 
12
Iced Honey Cruin|iets...... 
to
Imperials............................  
$
Jumbles, Uoney................  
12
Ijtdy Fingers...................... 
12
Lemon Snaps...................... 
12
Lemon  Wafers................... 
is
Marshmallow.....................  
ie
Marshmallow Creams. 
u>
Marshmallow  Walnuts.  .. 
16
Mary Ann........................... 
8
Mixed  Plonh)...................... 
11*
Milk  Biscuit........................ 
7*
¡t
Molasses  Cake...................  
Molasses Bar......................   9
12*
Moms Jelly  Bar................  
Newton............................. 
13
Oatmeal 1 'ranker«............... 
s
Oatmeal Wafers.............. 
1«
Orange Crisp......................  9
Orange Gem........................  9
Kenny cake  .
............    «
KllolBread, XXX............ 
74
Kret/etette*. hand made 
8
I'reUel», blind  made 
s
, 
Scotch Cookie* 
9
Sears' Liineli.................... 
74
Sugar Cuke 
«
Sugar Cream, XXX  ...... 
g

Rio

lV&it j Common  .
!7#2t I F a ir........
T©u 1 Choice—
iS-.Sà»  Faaev----
S3  Common..
t  S3  F air........
[ Choice—
;  Peaberry-
1
ManxraU bo
1 F a ir.......
55 * Choice —
à»

ja : Fancy

! 
1  Si l 

1  a» i Choke
3 «  j Fancy-----

ALAHAHTINK

White In drum«..................  w
Color« In drum«..................  
to
White In package*..............  10
Colors In jiaekage*..............  n

I .oh* 40 | tor cent discount. 

AMMONIA

Per Dor..
A ratio lit or., oval«...............   75
Aruttu pint«, round..............1  to

A X l.K  d  UK ASK
do/.,  gron
Aurora 
..SB 
boo
Caitor  Oil....................on  7 oo
diamond..................... BO  *itB
Frazer's.......................7B  9 00
IX I. dolden, tin boxoi 7B  V 00

.......... 

M lea, tlu boxe«.........78 
t*aragon.....................BB 

MAKING  IDW IIKK 

9 00
800

A rm e

1  u  lb. cans 3 dor,.................   4B
4 lb. oan« 3 do/..................  75
, 
lb. oan* l  dr«................ too
t 
Hulk.....................................  
io
S o*. Kng. Tumbler«............   36

A retie
Kg«

V»  lb. can«.  4 do/, case 
4  It*, oan«,  ä do/, case 
I lb. cans.  1 dot. case. 
B lb. cans. 4 dot. case
JA X O N
43
;  4  lb. cans, 4 dot. case. 
 
j  4 lb. cans. 4 dot. case........  S3
1  I 
lb. cans, ! dot. case 
l  so
Queen  Flake
i 3 ot.. S dot. case  ................s 70
: è ot.. 4 dot. case  ................s SO
à ot., 4 dot. case  ................4  so
;  I lb.. ï dot. case.................. 4 oo
i 3 lb.,  i dot. c a s e .................a oo

HATH  BRICK

i  American............................   70
!  Kngltsb  .............................     SO

HAVING

CONDENffn

S S S î

Smalt 3 dot 
.......................   40
Large, s dot  .......................   73.
4 tV
Arvuc. 4 os. per gross. 
Arctic. S ot. per gross. 
3 tv
Arctic, pints. per  gross 
a iV

BROOMS

No. t v'arpeC............................ j so
No. 3 Carpet. 
.................... ?  is
No J Carpet.......  ...............1  $$
No 4 Carpet.............................. 1 gt
Parie*  dem  .......................3  to
IVrukv«  Whksk 
Fancy  Whisk....................
Wsrehoc.se 

......

.,
Sem h

Shoe

SKI SH IS 
Solid Kack.  ih * .........
Solid Sack, u  i n ..............
IVinied Ends  .
No # 
.................
N o t ................................
S o 4
No S----- ------
No t  
No 4 ..................................
S o  t ................................ .

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

...... 

HtTTTKK  COLOR
W..  It. Hi Co.’s, 15c «lze__ 
I  75
W., K. Hi Co.’«, 75c size__  7 00
Bleotrto Light, 8s..................12
Kleotrto Light, 16«................ 12*
Paraffine, 6«........, .............. 10*
Paraffine, 12«....................... 11
Wloklng 
................. 20

CANDLES

CANNKI)  0 0 0 0 8  

Corn

Beans

Cherries

French  Pea*

Blackberries

Gooseberries

Clam  Bouillon

Apple*
8 Hi. Standard«........ 
70
2 00
Gallon«, standards  . 
standard*...............  
75
Raked......................  1  oo@i  so
Ksd  Kidney............  
76®  85
string...................... 
so
86
Wax......................... 
H lueberrtes
Standard.................... 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans. Spiced.............. 
t ao
Clam«.
1  00
Little Neok, 1 lb...... 
Little Neok. 2 lb___ 
1  so
Burnham's, 4  pint........... 
I  87
Kurnham'«, pints..............  3 tio
lliirnhani's, quarts...........  7  70
Red  Standard«........... 
85
White.........................  
1  15
65
Fair.......................... 
Good........................ 
so
Fancy.................  
ao
Sur Kxtra Fine................. 
22
Kxtra  Fine....................... 
ia
Fine................................... 
15
Mityen............................... 
11
ao
Standard................. 
Hominy
Standard.................. 
as
Lobster
Star, *  lb................. 
1 as
Star, 1  lb.................  
3 40
2 35
Ktcuto Tall*.............  
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
175
Mustard. 7 lb........... 
a so
Soused. 1 lb.............. 
1 75
2 so
Soused. 2 lb............  
Tomato, 1 lb............  
i 75
Tomato, s lb............  
2 so
Mushrooms
Hotels....................... 
18Q20
Buttons....................
Oyster*
Core, t lb.................  
Cove, a l b ................ 
Cove. 1 lb  Oval.......  
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................  
Pears
Standard 
Fancy....
Marrowfat
Early June..............
Early June  Sifted
Pineapple
Grated 
Sliced  .
Pum pkin
Fair
Good  ...................... 
75
Fancy  .................... 
so
Raspberries
Standard................  
ao
Russian  Cavier
V« lb. cans..........................  s 73
à  lb, cans..........................  7 00
I lb. can..........................  ta  on
Columbia River. tails 
# i  S3
4si S3
Columbia Sì ver. Sals 
Red Alaska  ______  1  20 ft  40
Ftnk Alaska  — __  
i tvvii  to
S h rim p s
i p
Standard 
..............  
Sordines
Domestic,  * s ........... 
Iku N tlr. \ s ....... 
IVaMstk.  Mustard
California, 4 s .........
California 4$....... ..
French. 4 $............
French. 4$.............
Standard.
Fancy .....................
Succotash
Fair-  .  ____  ___
....................
GvKd 
Fancy 
...............
Tamaro as
Fair
Good
Fancy
GaiAas 

1  3502  73 
1  3507  S3

Straw ber rie*

1  6S®i  85

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

Salm on

1  56
95

1'eas

85

3
a

 

Sugar Squares..................  
Sultanas......................... 
Tutti Fruttl............ 
Vanilla Wafers............ . 
Vienna Crimp................... 
CREAM TARTAR 
5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes....  30
Bulk in sacks......................... .’29

g
i»
ï«
Je
8

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

g@io

California  F ruits

Sundrled.........................  @4*
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @5*  
Apricots 
........... .. 
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  @11
Pitted Cherries..!’.."."" 
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 26 lb. boxes........  @ 34
90-100 26 lb. boxes........  @4
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........  @ 4W
70 - 80 28 lb. boxes........  @ 54
60 - 70 26 lb. boxes........  @ gjr
80 - 60 26 lb. boxes........  @ 6W
40 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  @ 7k
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
8*

California Prunes

*  cent less in 50 lb. cases 

74

Citron

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn.....................................
Corsican............................. .'"12
California, 1 lb.  package__ 10*
Imported, l lb package........10k
Imported, bulk.....................10*
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.  10* 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10*  
London Layers 2 Crown.
1  75
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
6*
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........ 
8
L. M., Seeded, k   lb....  7  @
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

FARINACEOUS GOODS 

Beans

1  fO

Dried Lima.........................7
Medium Hand Picked
Brown Holland..........
Cereals

F arina

.  90 
.1  35 
.2 25 
.1 35
1  35
2 25
.1  50 
.3 00
80 
2 40 
1  17
Maccaroni  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 25 lb. box...........2 60
Common...................................2 40
Chester......................................2 90
Empire...................................... 3 40

H om iny 
Flake, 60 lb. sack......

P earl  B arley

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats 

24 2 lb. packages............. ...2 00
too g>.  Regs...................... ...3  00
200 t>. barrels................. . ..5 70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2  90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1   30
Green, Scotch, bu........... ...1   40
Split,  lb........................... ...  3
Rolled A vena, bbl........... ...4  10
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  2  16
Monarch, bbl.................. ...3   80
Monarch, *  bbl.............. ...2 00
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks__ ...1  88
Quaker, cases................. ...3   20
East Indta...........................   2k
erman. sacks....................   3k
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  U0 lb. sacks............   4*
Varl. 130 lb. sacks..............  3k
Pearl, 24 1 lb.  packages......  6
'racked, bulk......................3*
24 8 8*. packages.................2 50
FLAVORING  EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE  SS JKNKS*

JAXO N

Il Igheot  G  n u le  E x tra c ts
Vanilla 
Lemon

ox full tu  1  20  1 oz full  m.  80 
ox full tu  3  10  3 ox full m. 125 
No, 3 fan‘y  3  16  No.Sfan*yl TO

-rn-  OmL

1

A S A

I

I
P  1
X

t

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

29

W hitoflsh

100  lbs...........7 00 
40 lbs...........3  10 
10 lbs...........  86 
8 lbs...........  71 
SEEDS

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 00
1  50
45
39

Anise....................................9
Canary, Smyrna..................   4
Caraway.............................   8
Cardamon, Malabar............60
Celery....................................
Hemp, Russian......................4H
Mixed Bird............................ 4H
Mustard, white....................  9
Poppy.................................. 10
Rape...................................   4H
Cuttle Bone..........................15
SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............  
1  26
Blxby’s Royal Polish.......  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, in jars.......  43
B. T. Babbit brand—

Babbit’s Best..................  4 00

SNUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

1 0

P u re   Cane

F a ir..................................... 
is
Good...................................   20
Choice................................   26

STARCH

K in g sfo rd ’s  C orn
40 l-lb. packages...............   6H
20 l-lb. packages............... 
6K
61b. packages...............  
7H
K in g sfo rd ’s S ilver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
7
6 lb. boxes.......................   7H

C om m on Gloss

l-lb. packages................... 
4%
3-lb. packages...................  4%
6-lb. packages..................  
6%
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............  
3H
Barrels.............................  
3H

 

M_______
No.  8...................... 
4 80
No.  9................................   4  75
No. 10................................   4  70
No. 11................................   4
No. 12................................   4
No. 13................................   4
No. 14................................   4
No. 15................................   4
No. 16................................  4 55

S
S
S
S
8
Í

TEA
J a p a n

Sundrled, medium.............. 28
Sundrled, choice................. 30
Sundrled, 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
Siftlng8...........................19@21
Fannings........................20@22

 

Gunpowder

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

LICO R IC E

Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily...................................   14
Boot..................................... 
io
Condensed, 2 doz................ i  20
Condensed, 4 doz.................2 26

LYE

M ATCHES

No. 200 Lookout, 144  bx.......1  25
No. 500 Select Society, 144...4 00 
No. 200 Williams Perfect, 144.1  35
No.  2 Lily, 144 boxes..........1  15
No. 100 Park, 432 boxes........2  86
No.  80 Poetry, 720 boxes... .4 00 
Diamond Match Co.’s  brands.
No.  9 sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor ra rlo r......................... 1 50
No. 2 Home.............................. 1 3c
Export Parlor...........................4 00
Wolverine.................................1 50
MEAT  EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
Liebig’s, 2  oz.................... 

45
75

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle....................  40
Choice..............................  
F air..................................  
Good................................  

35
26
22

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER   BAGS

Horse Radish, 1 doz............ 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............ 3 so
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........... 1  75
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 35
Queen, 19 o z .........................  4 50
Queen, 28  oz...........................  7 off
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz...................... 
145
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
OYSTER  PAILS
Victor, pints............................10 00
Victor, quarts......................... 15 00
Victor, 2 quarts......................20 00
Continental Paper Bag  Co.
Ask your Jobber for them..
Glory  Mayflower
Satchel  & Pacific
Squi
Bottom 
50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2 00
2  40
2 60
3  15
4  15
4 50
5 00
5 50
41
4K

H......... ..........   28
H......... .........   34
1......... .........   44
2......... ..........   54
3......... .........   66
4......... .........   76
5......... .........   90
6......... ......... 1  06
8......... .........1  28
10......... ......... 1  38
12......... ......... 1  60
14......... .........2 24
16......... ......... 2 34
20......... ......... 2 52
25.........
Sugar
Red......
Gray.
Bulk............................... ....14
Packages, H lb., each... .... 18
Packages, H lb., each... ....17
Packages,  1 lb., each... ...1 6

P A R IS   G R EEN

.... 

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count...... ....4 60
Half bbls, 600 count...... ....2 75
Barrels, 2,400 count...... ....5 50
Half bbls, 1.200 count...
...3 30
Clay, No. 216.................. ....1  70
Clay, T. D., full count...
...  65
Cob, No. 3......................
...  85

PIPES

POTASH

48 cans In case.

Babbitt’s .......................
...4 00
Penna Salt Co.’s............ ....3 00
PROVISIONS
B arreled  Pork

Smoked  Meats

D ry  Salt  Meats

Mess.........................
@16 50
Back.......................
@15 50
Clear back...............
@16 50
Short cut.................
@16 00
@19 00
P ig ..........................
Bean__: ..................
@12 25
Family Mess............
@15 00
Rump Butts Beef__
@11  50
Bellies......................
9H
Briskets..................
9H
Extra shorts............
8H
Hams, 121b. average. 
@  HH 
Hams, 14 lb. average. 
@  11 
Hams, 16 lb. average. 
@  10H 
Hams, 20 lb. average.
@10 4 
Ham dried  beef......
@  12H 
Shoulders (N.Y.cut)
@  7H
Bacon, clear............   10H@  11H
California hams
7=  8H 
Boneless  hams......
@  11 @  16 
Boiled Hams..........
Picnic Boiled Hams
@  12H 
Berlin  Hams.........
@  8H 9
Mince Hams.........  
1
Compound............ .
6%
Kettle................... .
8%
Vegetole................
6%
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
H
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
H
50 lb. Tins... advance 
H
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
*
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
X1
51b. Palls.. advance

L ard s—In Tierces

8

6

6H
6
7H
7H
6H9
10 75
11  50 
11  50
1  50 
3 50
70
1  25
2 25
21
3
10
60

3 lb. Palls.. advance 
Sansages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort...............
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’  Feet
H bbls., 40 lbs.........
H bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
H bbls., 40 lbs.........
H bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk ........... rrrrTT..
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........
Sheep.......................
B utte rine
Solid, dairy.............. 
@13
Rolls, dairy..............  11H@13H
Rolls, creamery......  
uy.
Solid, creamery......  
14
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Hs......  
Potted ham,  Hs......  
Deviled ham, Hs__ 
Deviled ham, Hs__ 
Potted tongue,  Hs.. 
Potted tongue,  Hs.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

Carolina head.......................7
Carolina  No. l ...................... sh
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 45$
Broken..................................414
Japan,  No.  1 ................ 5H@6
Japan,  No. 2................4H@5
Java, fancy head..........6  @5H
Java, No. 1 ................... 5  a
Table...............................  @

Im ported.

11

2 75
17 50
2  75
50
90
50
90
50
90

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s.............................3 00
Dwight’s Cow................... 3  15
Emblem.............................2  10
L.  P ...................................3 00
Sodlo................................. 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Hs............3 00
Granulated, bbls.................  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases....  90
Lump, bbls...........................   7E
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  go

SAL  SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diamond Crystal 

100  31b. bags....................3 00
50  61b. bags....................300
22 14 lb. bags....................2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5 per  cent,  dis­
count and one case 2431b. 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. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 3 lb. sacks..................... 2 25
60 5 lb. sacks..................... 2  15
2810 lb. sacks....................2 05
561b. sacks.......................   40
28 lb. sacks.......................  
22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags......   30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......  
15
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. dairy in lmen  sacks...  60 
56 lb. sacks..........................   so
Granulated  Fine.................  95
Medium Fine......................i  00

Solar  Rock
Common

Ashton
Higgins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges  genuine........  @ 6H
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...............   @6
Strips or  bricks.........   6  @ 9
Pollock.......................   @ 3H
Strips.....................................10
Chunks................................... 12
No. 1100 lbs......................   6 75
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
76
No. I  8 lbs......................  
61
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  26 
Holland white hoops Hbbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
82 
Holland white hoop mens. 
87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 00
1  so
Round 40 lbs.....................  
Scaled.............................. 
19
Bloaters............................  
1 60
Mess 100 lbs........ .............  12 26
Me88  40 lb8....................  520
Mess  10 lbs....................  1 38
Mess 
1 13
No. 1 100 lbs......................   10 50
No. 1  40 lbs....................  4 60
No. 1  10 lbs....................  1 20
No. 1 
1 00
No. 2 100 lbs......................   8 25
NO. 2  40 lbs....................  3 60
NO. 2  10 lbs......................  
98
No. 2  8 lbs......................  
81

8 lbs.................... 

8 lbs.................... 

Mackerel

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 ozpanel..1  20  2 ozpanel.  75 
3 oz taper.. 2  00  4 oz taper.. l  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. oral Pure Lemon........  75

Big Value

r t "*VOR | n g  "e x t r a c t

Beg. 2 oz. D. G. 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
Tanglefoot, per box.............   35
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20

F IT   PA PER

Standard

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

P ork

Carcass.................... 
6%@ 8
Forequarters.........  
6  &  6H
Hindquarters......... 
8  @ 9
Loins No. 3..............  11  @14
Ribs.........................  11  @13
Rounds.................... 
7H@  8
Chucks.................... 
5H@ 6
Plates...................... 
4  @5
Dressed................... 
@7
Loins....................... 
@  9H
Boston Butts........... 
@  8!4
Shoulders................ 
@8
@ 8
Leaf  Lard................ 
M utton
Carcass...................  
8w@ 9
Lambs...................... 
9H@10
Carcass...................  
8  @9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 
W heat

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

Veal

W inter W heat  F lour 

72

Local Brands

 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

Patents................... 
  4  25
Second Patent..................   3 75
Straight.............................  3 55
Clear................................   3  15
Graham............................  3 25
Buckwheat.......................  4  40
Rye...................................   3 26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Hs......................  3  76
Diamond las.....................   3  75
Diamond Hs.....................   3  75
Quaker Hs........................   3 80
Quaker 14s........................  3  80
Quaker Hs........................   3  80
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4  40
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 30
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  30 
PUlsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 30 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4 40
Wlngold  Hs.................... 
Wlngold  h s.................... 
4 30
Wlngold  Hs.................... 
4  20
Ceresota Hs......................  4 60
Ceresota Hs......................  4  so
Ceresota Hs......................  4 40
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
Car  lots.............................  31
Car lots, clipped...............   32H
Less than car lots.............
St. Car Feed, screened....  18 00
No. l Com and  Oats........17 bo
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  17 00
Winter Wheat Bran.........  17 00
Winter Wheat Middlings.  17 50
Screenings.......................  16 00
Com, car  lots...................  45H
No. l Timothy car lots__  li  so
No. 1 Timothy ton lots__  12 60
Sage........... .............................15
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves..........................25
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 50
5 lb. palls.per doz........... 
l  85
151b. palls............................   35
80 lb. palls............................  62

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Feed and Millstuffk 

Corn
Hay

INDIGO

HERBS

JE L L Y

Meal

Oats

■jyONDtL1

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Pels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

Dingman Soap Co. brand—
N. K. Fairbanks brands—

50 cakes, large size................. 3 26
100 cakes, large size..................6 50
50 cakes, small size.............1  95
100 cakes, small size............ 3 86
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal  Oil Johnny............   3 90
Peekin............................   4 00
Queen Anne...................   3  16
Big Bargain..............—   1  75
Umpire...........................  2  15
German Family..............  2  45
Dmgman........................   3 85
Santa  Claus....................  3 25
Brown............................... 2 40
Fairy...............................  4  00
Naptha...................... „  4 00
Oak Leaf................... 
  3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs...............   4 00
JA X O N
Single box........................... 3 00
5 box lots, delivered.......... 2 96
10 box lots, delivered.......... 2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.....................   3 60
Calumet Family.............   2 70
Scotch Family................ 2 50
Cuba................................  2 40
60 cakes...........*.......  1  96
Ricker’s Magnetic.........  3 90
Big Acme........................  4 00
Acme 5c..........................  3 25
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master............................ 3 70
Lenox.............................  3 00
Ivory, 6 oz.......................4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Star.................................3 00
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes...................................  5H
Kegs, English...................... 4K

Schultz & Co. brand-
A. B.  Wrisley brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Scouring

SODA

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb...... 3
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  1 lb......
W o rk s :  V enice, I1L 
G eneva, 111.

C om m on Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
40 l-lb.  packages.............. 
STOVE  PO L ISH

4%
4%

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,  10510...............
Nutmegs, 11520................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot.
u re  G ro u n d  in  B u lk
Allspice............................. 
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African...............  
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage.........   ...................... 

SYRUPS

C orn

Barrels.....................'...........2PH
Half bbls.............................22 h
1 doz. 1 gallon cans..............3 20
1 doz. H gallon cans............ 1 80
2 doz. H  gallon cans.............  92

12 
12 
28 
38 
56
17 
14 
65 
50 
40 
36
18 
28 
20
16
28
48
17
15
18
25
65
18
20 
28
20
20

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross  .  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 05
Cut Loaf...........................   6 05
Crushed............................  6 05
Cubes................................  5 80
Powdered.........................  5 65
Coarse  Powdered............   5 65
XXXX Powdered............   5 70
Standard  Granulated......   5 55
Fine Granulated................  5 55
Coarse Granulated...........  5 65
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 65
Conf.  Granulated.............  5 80
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
Mould A................... .........  5 90
Diamond  A .......................  556
Confectioner’s A..............  535
No.  l, Columbia A..........   5 20
No.  2, Windsor A............  6 15
No.  3, Ridgewood A.......  5 .6
No.  4, Phoenix  A...........   5 10
No.  5, Empire A.............  5 05
No.  6...............................   5 00
NO.  7...............................   4 90

Best Corn Starch.................
Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. 
Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. 
Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boll. 
Best Laundry In  bbl.,  thin boll. 
Chas. P o p e G lucose Co.,
C hicago, 111.

Young  Hyson

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................36

Oolong

Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium.................... 25
Amoy, choice.......................32

English B reakfast

Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy...................................42
Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy...................................42

In dia

TOBACCO

Cigars

A. Bomers’ brand. 

Plalndealer............................36 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands.
Little Columbian.....................36 00
Columbian...............................35 00
Columbian Extra.....................55 00
Columbian Special..................65 00
Columbian Invincible........90 00
Fortune Teller.................  36 00
Our Manager....................  36  00
Quintette..........................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co ’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

26

8. C. W..................................   35 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B. L........................................$35 00
Gold Star..............................   36 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 ..36® 70 00

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

A K RO N   STONEW ARE 

bbls.  palls
@ 7% 
@ 7* 
® 8 
® 9 
cases 
® 7 * 
@ 10*  
@10 
@ 8

B a tte rs

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

30

12

P ing

Fine  Cat

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

Ruhe Bros. Co............25® 70 00
Hilson  Co..................35® 110 00
T. J. Dunn & Co........ 36® 70 00
McCoy & Co...............36® 70 00
The Collins Cigar Co..io® 36 oo
Brown  Bros...............15® 70 00
Bernard Stahl Co.......36® 90 00
Banner Cigar  Co.......10® 35 00
Seidenberg  & Co.......56®125 30
Fulton  Cigar Co.......10® 35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co... .35@175 00 
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35®no oo
San Telmo..................36® 70 00
Havana Cigar Co....... 18® 35 00
C. Costello & Co.........35®  70 00
LaGora-Fee Co..........36® 70 00
a  I. Davis & Co......... 35®185 00
Hene & Co................ .35® 90 00
Benedict & Co......... 7.50®  70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co. ..35® 70 00 
G.J. Johnson Cigar Co.35@ 70 00
Maurice Sanborn__ 50@175 00
Bock & Co...................65®300 00
Manuel  Garcia...........80®375 00
Neuva Mundo.............85®175 00
Henry Clay................. 85@550 00
La Carolina.................96@200 oo
Standard T. & C. Co.. .35® 70 00 
Star G reen....................35  OO
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojlbwa............................... 38
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray........................ 35
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top.......................... 27
Hiawatha............................. 58
Telegram..............................28
Pay C ar..............................33
Prairie Rose......................... 50
Protection............................ 38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger.................................... 39
Flat Iron..............................36
Creme de Menthe................60
Stronghold........................... 40
Solo..................................... 35
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Red Cross............................. 24
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...... ..................  37
American Eagle..................34
Standard Navy.....................38
Spear Head, 16 oz...............43
Spear Head,  8 oz...............45
Nobby Twist...................... 49
Jolly T ar............................ 39
Old Honesty........................45
Toddy..................................34
J. T ................................. ....38
Piper Heidsick...................64
Boot Jack............................81
Jelly Cake...........................36
Plumb Bob.................  ...... 32
Hand Pressed.....................46
Double  Cross.....................37
Sweet Core......................... 40
Flat Car..............................37
Great Navy......................... 37
W arpath............................ 27
Bamboo,  8oz.....................29
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 27
I XL,  61b...........................28
I XL, 301b...........................32
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman.............................40
Chips...................................35
Kiln Dried..........................23
Duke’s Mixture.................. 40
Duke’s Cameo.....................40
Honey Dip Twist...... , ........ 39
Myrtle Navy.......................40
Yum Yum, 1\  oz................ 39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. pails..........37
Cream..................................37
Corn Cake, 2* oz................ 25
Com Cake, l lb....................23
Plow Boy, lJi oz..................37
Plow Boy, 3* oz.................. 35
Peerless, 3*oz....................34
Peerless, i% oz................... 36
Indicator, 2* oz.................. 28
Indicator, l lb. pails...........31
CoL Choice, 2% oz............... 21
Col. Choice. 8 oz..................21

Smoking

TABLE SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE

Th e Original and 
Genuine 
W  orcest ershlre.

W ICKING

Pear line.................................... 2 90
Scourine.................................... 3 50
No. 0, per gross.....................20
No. », per gross.............. ....26
No. ?, per gross.....................35
No. 3. per gross.....................66

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Tabs

Egg Crates

Toothpicks

Mop  Sticks

Clothes Pins

B a tte r Plates

Bushels..................................... 1 10
Bushels, wide  band..................1 20
M arket................................   30
Splint, large............................. 4 00
Splint, medium........................3 75
Splint, small.............................3 50
Willow Clothes, large..........7 00
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 25
Willow Clothed, small..........5 50
No. 1 Oval, 260 in crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 260 in crate........  50
No. 3 Oval, 250 in crate........  56
No. 5 Oval, 260 in crate........  65
Humpty Dumpty.....................2 26
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  25
Round head, 5 gross box__  45
Round head, cartons...........  62
Trojan spring......................  85
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No I common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder ..  80
12 ft>. cotton mop heads...... 1  25
Fall»
2- 
hoop Standard.1  40
3- 
hoop Standard.1 60
2- wire,  Cable....................... 1  60
3- wlre,  Cable.......................1  70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka....................2 26
Fiore...................... ............2 40
Hardwood......................
.  2 75
Softwood........................
..2 75
Banquet..........................
..1  40
Ideal...............................
..1  40
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.. ...6 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.. ...5 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3.. ...4 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. 1.......
..7  00
18-lnch, Cable, No. 2.......
..6 00
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3.......
..6 00
No. 1 Fibre......................
..9 46
No. 2 Fibre......................
..7 95
No. 3 Fibre......................
..7 20
W ash  Boards
Bronze Globe..................
..2 GO
Dewey............................
.  1  75
Double Acme...................
..2 76
Single Acme....................
2 26
Double  Peerless..............
0
Single Peerless...............
..2 GO
Northern Queen............
..2 50
Double Duplex...............
..3 00
Good Luck......................
.  2 76
Universal.........................
..2 26
wood  Bowls
11 In. Butter....................
..  75
13 In. Butter........................1 00
16 In. Butter........................1 76
17 In. Butter........................2 60
19 In. Butter........................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.................1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ............... 2 60
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw................. 
1 *
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4%
No.  l  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila.............. 
2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  2J
Wax Butter,  rolls............  
15
Magic, 3 doz........................l 00
Sunlight, 3doz.....................1 00
Sunlight, 1*  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............1 00
Yeast Foam. 114  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish........ .
@ 8
Trout..........................   ®
@ 7
Black Bass..................10®
10® h
Halibut.................
@ 14
Ciscoes or Herring
@ 4
Blueflsh......................  @
@ 12*
_
Live Lobster__ 
@ 20
Boiled  Lobster...........  ®
@ 20
Cod....................
@ 11
Haddock...........
@ 7
No. 1 Pickerel...
@ 7
Pike..................
@ 6
Perch................
1
4
Smoked White..
_
Red Snapper__  
® 11
Col River  Salmon......   ®
@ 12
Mackerel...................   ®
@ 16

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

HIDES AND  PELTS 

TW INE

Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s, small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, small..................   2 26
Salad Dressing, lu g e......   4 56
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76
Cotton, 3 ply........................ 20
Cotton, 4 ply........................20
Jute, 2 ply........................... 12
Hemp, 6 ply........................ 12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, 1 lb. balls..................   8
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  . 11
Pure Cider, Red Star...........12
Pure Cider, Robinson......... 11
Pure Cider,  Silver................11
WASHING POW DER
Gold Dust, regular.............. 4 60
Gold Dust, 5c...................  

VINEGAR

4 00

® 6 
®   6 
@  7* 
@ 6* 
@ 9 
@  7% 
@10 
®   8*
50@i  10

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

® *H 
® 3H
15® 16
18®20
11®12
14®16

Pelts

CA ND IES 
S tick C andy

Mixed Candy

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

Grocers....................
Competition.............
Spécial.....................
Conserve..................
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf...................
English Rock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton  Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed...................
Crystal Cream mix..
San Bias Goodie*....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Choc. Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops.,...........
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours...........
Ital. Cream Opera...
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls.............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails.................
Pine Apple Ice........
Maroons..................
Golden Waffles........

Fancy—In  B alk  

® 6 
@ 7 
® 7X 
®   8*  
®   8* 
® 9 
® 8* 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@10 
@10
@15*
@13

@12 
@ 9* 
@10 
@11* 
@13* 
@14 
@16 
@ 5 
® 9* 
@ 1 0  
@ 1 0  
@12
@12
@14 
@12*  
@12 
@12

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

Lemon  Sours.........  
@55
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
Chocolate Drops.... 
@66
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@86
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............  
@100
Gum Drops.............. 
@30
Licorice  Drops........ 
@75
Lozenges,  plain......  
@56
Lozenges, printed... 
@60
@eo
Imperials.................  
Mottoes................... 
@60
Cream  Bar.............. 
qkk
Molasses Bar........... 
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
@66
String Bock............. 
@66
Wintergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels 
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes....................  
Penny Goods........... 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Russett.......  
®
@
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.........   3 00@3  60
@
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........ 
@
@2 50
Seedlings.................  
Medt. Sweets..........   3  0033  60
Jamaicas................  
@
Rod!...................... 
®
Lemons

@eo
66@60

Messina, 300s..........  3 eo@4  00
Messina, 360s...........  3 2W13  76
California 360s.........  3 25@3  50
California 300s.........  3 26@3 60
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1  eo@i  75
Large bunches........

Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
@
Califoraias,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes.....................  
@ 9*
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes „  
@12
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
S
Naturals, in bags.... 
Fards In 10 lb. boxes  @
Fards in 00 lb. oases.  @
Hallowi....................  
5 «  5*
@
lb.  cases, new....... 
Salrs,601b.cases....  4*  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona 
@17
Almonds, Ivloa......  
@
Almonas, California,
soft shelled........... 
«c $18
Brazils,....................  
@n
Ft ¡harts  .................  
@12*
@13*
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
Walnut*,, soft shelled 
@13*
California No. 1 ... 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
@14
Table  Nuts,  choice.. 
@13
Peca is,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@11
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
@
Ohio, new............  
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
@3 76
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
@
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns..  6*@
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H. P., Extras 
m
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted................ 
@
Span.ShlldNo. 1 n*w  7  @8

Roasted................  6*@ 7

48
6
52
66
84
1  20
1  60
2 25
2 70

6*
84

48
6

60
6

85
l  10

60
46
7*

2

35
45
65
1  10
45
50

Churns

M ilkpans

2 to 6 gal., per gal............................... 
''burn Dashers, per doz..................... 

*  ga.  f.at or rd. bot, per doz............ 
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ each................. 
Fine  Glazed M ilkpans
*  gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............ 
l gal. flat or rd. bot., each................. 

Stewpans

Ju g s

*  gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............ 
l gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............  

*  gal. per doz.....................................  
M gal. per doz.....................................  
1 to 5 gal., per gal............................... 

Sealing Wax

6 lbs. in package, per lb...................... 

LAMP  BURNERS

No. 0 Sun............................................. 
No. 1 Sun............................................. 
No. 2 Sun............................................. 
No. 3 Sim............................................. 
Tubular................................................ 
Nutmeg...............................................  

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

1 56
1 78
2 48

Per box of 6 doz.

F ir s t  Q u ality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

P 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

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

Electric

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

Pum p  Cans

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  1B Tabular................................  
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., BuU’s eye, cases 1 doz. each 

2 00
2  15
3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00 n
5 00
5  10
80

1  00
1  25
1  35
1  60

3 50
4 00

470

4 00
4 70

1  40
1  68
2  78
3  75
4  85
4  25
4  95
7 26
9 00
8 50
10 60
9 95
11  28
9 50

4 85
740
7 go
7 50
13 50
3 60

45
45
2 00
1  25

SHAW’S  LIGHTNING  ACCOUNT 

KEEPER

A ledger file book  for filing in perfect ac­
count order  sales  slips  made  by  Carter 
CrumeCo.  and other makers.  Hundreds 
of five year customers attest to the saving 
of 400 per cent, of time keeping  accounts 
by the Shaw  Lightning Account method. 
We have room for  only  a  few  names .in 
this  space:  C.  L.  Weinmann,  G.  W. 
Johnson,  Ann  Arbor,  Mich.;  Daane  & 
Witters, James  Hughes, Braun  &  Hesse, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Prices reasonable.  Address
Shaw’s  Lightning  Account  Co.,  Mears,  Mich.

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world, combining
HARDNESS,  TOUGHNESS  and  DURABILITY. 
Ready for immediate use by adding water. 

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Bug  Compound,  etc.

Mill  and  Warehouse:  200  South  Front  Street. 
Office:  Room  20,  Powers’  Opera  House  Block.

An  enterprising  agent  wanted  In  every  town. 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.
Send for circular with references.

ORDER  ONE  TO  COMPLETE  YOUR 

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D E C O R A T E D   A S S O R T M E N T  

N O .  IO .

2 Dozen  FANCY HANDLED TEAS 
Vi  Dozen  1-PINT  PITCHERS 

Dozen  C0MP0RTIERS 

K  Dozen  LARGE  PLATTERS 
1  Dozen  BREAD  PLATES
1 Dozen  OAT  MEAL  BOWLS
2 Dozen  DINNER  PLATES
3  Dozen  TEA  PLATES
1  Dozen  BONE  DISHES 
y i  Dozen  1^-PINT  BOWLS 
14  Dozen  CAKE  PLATES
12  Dozen

Price,  including package,

$ 10.8 0 .

Handsome decoration on  each  piece. 
Hand painted, traced and  edge  lined in 
coin  gold.  Strictly  high  grade  ware, 
thoroughly guaranteed.  Every piece in 
this  assortment  can  be  sold  for  10 
cents,  and  all  the large pieces from  15 
to 25 cents each.

Manufacturara* and Jobbara* Aganta in

firocKery, «teure, Clio id Lumps

112  MONROE  S T ., 

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

We are furnishing

Paper Boxes

for some of the  largest  manufacturers  In Michi­
gan.  Why can not we sell to you?

KALAMAZOO  PAPER  BOX  CO.

Kalamazoo, Michigan

Clerks’  Corner.

w  Here  I   M ixed  In to   O th er  P eo p le’s B u si­

ness.

I  hate  to  be  dragged  into  other  peo­
I  have  enough  of  my 
if  I  couldn't 

ple’s  squabbles. 
own.  Still,  it  seems  as 
avoid  it  sometimes.

Several  days  ago  I  walked  into  a  gro 
eery  store  in a  town out near Harrisburg, 
It  was  Saturday  afternoon,  raining  at 
that,  and  nothing  was  doing.

As  I  entered,  the store  boy  lounged  on 
an  upturned  basket  in  the  front  of the 
store.  The proprietor has  a  little  sort  of 
corner  or  enclosure  that  he  calls  a  pri 
vate  office  about  halfway  back, and  from 
this  excited  voices  issued.

I  know  both  this  grocer and  his  clerk 
very  well.  Every  few  weeks I get  in that 
neighborhood  and  usually  go  in  for  a 
few  minutes.

The  participants 

in  the  debate  were 
the  grocer  and  his  clerk.  Both  were 
angry  and  both  were  letting  talk  loose 
in  great  shape.  My  coming 
in  the 
store  made  no  difference—the discussion 
went  right  on.

“ I ’ve  given  you  all  you’re worth !”  

heard  the  grocer  ejaculate.

“ I  say  you  have  not!”   the  clerk  said 
with  equal  heat. 
“ If  you  got  another 
man  to  do the  work  1  do,  you’d  have  to 
pay  him  a  mighty  sight  more  than  you 
pay  me  and  you  know  it !”

I  could  see  the  clerk  from  where  I 
stood,  and  he  turned  just  then  and  saw 
me.

“ See  here,  Mr.  Smith,”   he  said, 
it  to  your 

meaning  me;  “ I ’ll 
judgment.  Come  in  here,  please.”

leave 

I  didn't  care  to  get  in  that  debate, 
and  shook  my  head,  but the  clerk  per­
sisted  in  calling  me,  so  I  walked  to  the 
door of  the  office,  and  simply  said  that 
I  didn’t  desire  to  intrude 
into  what 
didn't  concern  me.  Then  the  grocer got 
me  in  it  by  turning  to  me  and  saying 
“ This  fellow  seems  to  think  I ’m  not 
I  could  get  a 

paying  him  good  wages. 
better  man  for  less;  I  know  that. ’ ’

“ Tell  Mr.  Smith  what  you  pay  me; 
go  on,”   said  the  clerk,  maliciously. 
“ I ’m  w illing;  go ahead. 
Just  tell  him 
what  I  get. ’ ’

The  grocer got  red  and  said  nothing. 
“ I ’ll  tell  you  what  I  get,  Mr.  Smith,”  
said  the  clerk.  “ I  don't  get  anything 
but  my  board,  except  sometimes  I  can 
squeeze  50 cents  or a  dollar out  of  him. 
And  not  only  that,  but  this  man  even 
makes  me  do  my  own  washing!  What 
d’ye  think  of  that?”

The  clerk  was  desperately  angry.  He 
lost  his 
didn’t  seem  to  care  whether  he 
job  or  not. 
I  looked  for  the  grocer to 
deny  the  washing  part,  for  it  seemed 
almost  incredible,  but  he  didn’t.  Ever 
hear  anything  like  it?

some 

arrangement 

“  I  was  a  —  fool  to  ever come  here 
without 
about 
wages!”   the  clerk  went  on.  “ I  was  out 
of  a  job  and  glad  to  get  anything.  I was 
a  stranger  in  town,  so he  proposed  that 
I  come  here  and  board,  and  be'd  fix  up 
some  amount  of  money  to  give  me 
It’s  been  six  months  now, 
every  week. 
and  he  hasn't  done 
It’s  like 
pulling  teeth  to  get  a  dollar  out of  him 
every  two  weeks.  Having  to  do  my  own 
washing,  though,  is the  worst  thing  I 
ever struck!”

it  yet. 

I  agreed  with  him  about  that.  The 
grocer  is  a  bachelor and  lives  over  the 
store,  and  that 
is  how,  I  suppose,  the 
washing  business  came  about.

“ That’s  all  right,”   the  grocer  said. 
“ I ’m  paying  you  all  you’re  worth,  and 
if  you  don’t  like it  you  can get out!  You

It  was  an  embarrassing  position  for 
me.  As  say, 
I  have  troubles  of  my 
own,  and  I  don’t  like  to  get  up  against 
other  people’s. 
I  tried  to  smooth  the 
matter  over  the  best  I  could,  without 
actually  mixing 
in,  and  I  got  away  as 
soon  as  I  could.

The  clerk 

left  that  night;  I  have  a 
letter  in  my  pocket  now  asking  me  to 
get  him  something  to  do.  What  a  lot  of 
bother and  bickering  would  be  saved  i 
a  merchant  and  a  clerk, when  they  came 
together,  would  draw  up  some  written 
arrangement  about  wages.  One  of the 
loosest  things 
in  business  is  that.  A 
young  fellow  will  enter a  grocer’s  em 
ploy  as  clerk.  He  starts  on  $7  a  week 
we’ll  say.  Well,  beyond  that  fact  there 
won’t  be  the  slightest  definite  arrange 
ment  about  advances,  to  which  in  time 
he  will  clearly  be  entitled.  Few  clerks 
like  to  dicker about  raises  in  salary  be 
fore  they  actually  begin  work,  but  i 
they  do,  the  grocer  will  probably  say 
“ Oh,  well,  let  that  rest. 
I ’ll  pay  you 
more  when  you’re  worth  more.”

That  sort  of  a  vague,  shilly-shally 
deal 
is  productive  of  more  bickering 
more  covert  dissatisfaction,  more  se 
cret  accusations  of  stinginess  against 
the  employer,  than anything  else  I  know 
of,  all  because  of  a  lack  of the  same 
business  definiteness  that  characterizes 
the  making  of  other contracts.

Suppose  the  arrangement  would  be 
that  in  six  months’  time  the clerk would 
get  $8  a  week,  in  a  year’s  time  $9,  in 
eighteen  months’  time  $10,  and  in  two 
years $12,  where  he  should  stop.  The 
whole  matter  would  then be settled.  The 
just  what  he had  to 
clerk  would  know 
expect;  he  entered 
into  the  contract 
with  his  eyes  open;  hence  he  would 
have  no  kick  against  anybody.

The  employer,  too,  would  be  freer  in 
mind.  He  would  have  the  satisfaction 
of  knowing  that  he  was  handling  the 
matter  in  a  businesslike  way,  and  there 
would  be  no  worry  on  his  mind  as to 
how  long  he  could  succeed  in  staving 
off  an  advance  in  his  clerk’s  salary.

The  advances,  of  course,  would  al­
ways  be  conditional  on  the  expectation 
that the  clerk  should  be  worth  keeping.
Think  about  this,  grocers,  when  you 
hire  a  clerk.—Stroller in Grocery World.

B lasts  fro m   R am ’s  H o rn .

Fast  living  is  really  but  slow  dying. 
The  only  true  divine  service  is  the 

service  of  humanity.

The  heaviest  cross  of  many Christians 

is  the  church  collection.

A  diamond  must  remain  dirt  if  it  be 

not  willing  to  lose  half  itself.

Spasms  of  spiritual 

produced  by  swallowing  isms.

indigestion  are 

He  who  would  win 

in  a  race  must 
reckon  only with  the  road yet to  be  run.
A  balloon  rises  when  you  throw  out 
You  can  tell  a  man’s  price  when  you 

ballast,  but  a  man  will  sink  that way.

know  what  he  will  do  for a  principle.

Grit  is  a  good  thing  to  have  so  long 
as  you  don’t  fire  it  m  your  neighbors’ 
faces.

The  man  who  seeks  to  pillow  on 
popular  applause  finds  it  hard  to  sleep 
for  fear the  bubble  will  burst.

The  trouble  with  some  scientists  is 
that  they  live  in  the  coal  mine  of  their 
nvestigations  and  call  their  candle  the 
sun.

The  preacher  who  prides  himself  on 
the  use  of  the  whip  usually  slashes  the 
outside  sinners  while  he  truckles  to  the 
traders  in  the  temple.

H e r  O bject  In  Staying;.

until  I  get  another gin.

The  Mistress—Bridget,  you  must stay 
Bridget—That  was  my 
intenshun, 
I  want her to  know  the  koind 

anyway. 
ov  a  woman  ye  are! 

.

Ammunition

Caps

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

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 260,  per m.......
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, 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, per m....................

Loaded  Shells 

New Rival—For Shotguns

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

oz.of
Shot
1X
1X
IX
IX
IX
IX
1
1
IX
IX
IX
Discount 40 per cent."

Drs. of
Drs 
Powder
4
4
4
4
4«
4X
3
3
3X
3)4
3)4
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, 26 lbs., per keg.........................
X kegs, 12¡4 lbs., per  %  keg..............
X kegs, 6X lbs., per x   keg...............

Shot

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B ...........
Snell’s .................................................
Jennings  genuine............... .
Jennings’ Imitation.............................

Augurs and  Bits

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.................
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...... .
First Quality, 8. B. S.  Steel..............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel...................
Railroad..............................................
Garden...................................... ..net

Barrows

Stove.............................................
Carriage, new 11«*  .................
Plow..................................................’

Bolts

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

Buckets

Batts,  Cast

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

2 60
3 00
4 95
5 80

1  20 
1  20

Per 
100 
$2 90 
2 90 
2 90 
2 90
2 96
3 00 
2 60 
2 60 
2 66 
2 70 
2 70

4 00 
2 25 
1  25

1 40

6  00 
9 00 
6 60 
10 60
12  00 
29 00

$4 00

Com.
BB...
BBB.

6-16 in.

X In.
X In
7  c.  . .  6 c . . . •  5 C . . ..  4lie
8X 
...  6
8* 
-   ex

X in.
.. -  ex 
.. .  6*

. ..  7X 
. ..  7 ii 
C row bars

Cast Steel, per lb.

C hisels

Socket Firmer...
Socket Framing.......................... ’
Socket Corner................................. 
Socket SUcks.................................. .

‘

Elbows

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

Expansive  Bits
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........ 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................  
Files—New List
New American.................................... 
Nicholson’s.......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................* 

Galvanized  Iron 

NOS. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27. 
List  12 
16. 

16 

14 

13 

Discount,  66

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

Ganges

Glass

- 

66
1  26
40&10

40
26

70&10
70
70

28
17

6O&10

Single Strength, by box....................... dls  85&
Double Strength, by box......................dls  86&

By the Light............... 
Hammers

dls  80&20

Hinges

Hollow  Ware

Maydole & Co.’s, new Ust..................dls 
33«
Yerkes & Plumb’s..............................dls 
40&10
Mason’s SoUd Cast Steel............... 30c Ust 
70
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3 ............................... dls  6O&10
Pots...........................................•......... 
Kettles................................................  
Spiders..................  
Au Sable............................................dls 
House  Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new Ust................. 
Japanned Tinware............................... 
Bju; Iron............................................ 2 26  o rates
Light Band.......................................... 
3 c rates

50&10
50&10
60&10
40&10
70
20&10

Horse  Nalls

Iron

 

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz................ . 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount................ 

Lanterna

75
86
1 0 0
ng

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ain’t  the  only  man  on  earth  who  can 
wrap  up  goods!”

Hardware  Price Current

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

Levels

3 1

70

Mattocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous
Bird Cages.........................................  
Pumps, Cistern...........................  
Screws, New List.......................  
Casters, Bed and Plate...............  
Dampers, American...........................  

76&10
86
50&10&10

7*4
g

40

80

Molasses  Gates

Stebblns’ Pattern...............................  
Enterprise, self-measuring................. 
•  
Fry, Acme........................................... 
Common,  poUshed...................... 

Pans

60&10
30

60&10&10
70&5

Patent Planished Iron 

“ A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 76 

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Planes

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

60
eo
60

so

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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... 
20x28IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 

Ropes

Sisal, X inch and larger............... 
Manilla...............................................  

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

Sand  Paper 

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

Sash  Weights

Sheet Iron

70

2 66
2 66
Base
5
10
20
30
45  '
60
15
26
36
26
36
46
86

eo
46

6 60
7 80
13 00
5 50
6 60
ll 00 
13 00

8)4

12

60

26 00

«om. smooth,  com.

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

3  40
3 60
3  60
AI1 Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

 

Shovels  and  Spades

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

8 oo
7 60

$3 20
3 20
8 30

Solder

Squares

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

20

Steel and Iron.

T in—M elyn  G rade

10x14 IC, Charcoal............................... 
14x20 IC, Charcoal.....................................  
20x14 IX, Charcoal..................................... 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaw ay Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal.....................................  
14x20 IC, Charcoal..................................... 
10x14 IX, Charcoal..................................... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal.....................................  

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

Boiler Size  Tin  Plate 

_

Traps

14x66 IX, for No.8Boilers,) _
_
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, \  P®r pound” 
Steel,  Game......... ..............................  
Oneida Community,  Newhouse’s.......  
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s.................................................  
Mouse,  choker  per doz...................... 
Mouse, delusion, per 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......................... 

Wire Goods

Wire

Wrenches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine.....................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, IWrought.. 70A10

70

$ 8 6 0

8 60
9 75

7 00
7 00
8 eo
8 60

•

 
10
76
40&10
66
15
1  26
60
60
eo&io
50&10
40
325
2 96

80
80
so
80

80
SO

i  ^

X

\ 

-

u  I  X

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3 2

IN   B A D   SH A PE .

G arn ish m en t  B ill  M ore U nfavorable T h an  

P rese n t  L aw .

The  Grand  Rapids  Herald  of  this 

morning  contains  the following :

Lansing,  May  7—The  Senate  Judici­
ary  Committee  to-day  reported  out the 
Nevins  garnishee  bill  with  amendments 
and  it  was  placed  on  the  general  order. 
The  bill  was  amended  so  that  single 
men  will  have  one-half  the exemption of 
householders.  This  would  allow  single 
men  an  exemption  of  $4  and  40  per 
cent,  of  the  remainder,  but  no  exemp­
tion 
in  their  case. 
There  is  considerable  opposition  to  the 
bill  in  the  Senate  and  it  may  have  diffi­
culty  in  getting  through  in  the  form 
it 
has  been  reported  by  the  Committee.

is  to  exceed  $15 

The  present  garnishment  law provides 

no  exemption  for  unmarried  men.

The  garnishment  bill  now  before  the 
Senate  includes  such  a  provision,  which 
would  deprive  the  merchant  of  the  pro­
tection  now  afforded  him  under  the 
present  law.

As  between  the  present  law  and  the 
Nevins  bill,  there  can  be  but  one  choice 
—the  old  law,  poor as  it  is,  is  greatly  to 
be  preferred.

The  merchants  of  Michigan  who  have 
read  and  digested  the  Nevins  bill  are  a 
unit 
in  asserting  that  it  should  be  de­
feated.

On  the  other band,  the  constables  and 
justices  who  think  they  would  reap  a 
rich  reward  from  the  fees  which  would 
ensue  as  the  result  of the  enactment  of 
the  Nevins  bill  are  clamoring  for  its 
passage.

The  merchants  of  Marquette  and  sev­
eral  other  cities  and  towns  have  held 
meetings,  adopted 
strong  resolutions 
against the  amended  Nevins  bill and are 
leaving  no  stone  unturned  to  secure  the 
defeat  of  the  measure.

The  matter  is  now  up  to  the  mer­
chants  of  the  State  and  it  is  in  their 
power to  put  the  bill  at  rest  by  request­
ing  their  Senators  to  bury  it  with  their 
votes  or,  by  taking  no  action,  to  submit 
to  the  enactment  of  a  measure  which 
in  a  much  worse 
places  the  merchant 
position  than  he 
is  under the  present 
unjust  and  obsolete  law.
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Representative  Totten,  of  Kalkaska, 
is  entitled  to  the  thanks  of  the  business 
public  for the  effort  he  is  making  to  se­
cure  an  amendment  to the  garnishment 
law.

Two  years  ago  an  amendment  was 
tacked  on  to  the  law  placing  municipal 
employes within  its provisions.  Mr.  Tot­
ten  now  seeks  to  have  the  provision  ex­
panded  so  as  to include county  and State 
employes  as  well.  There  was  no  objec­
tion  to  the  measure  in  the  House,  the 
universal  sentiment  being  that  men  who 
are  drawing  good  salaries 
from  the 
State  and  counties  ought  to  pay  their 
debts,  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  it  will 
meet  a  similar  reception  at  the  hands 
of  the  Senate.

*  *  *

The  Tradesman  urges  every  mer­
chant  in  Michigan  to  write  his  Repre­
sentative,  requesting  him  to  work  and 
vote  for the  High  Peddling  bill,  trans­
ferring  the  licensing  of country peddlers 
from  the  State  to the  township.  This 
bill  was  introduced  at  the  request of  the 
Michigan  Retail  Grocers'  Association, 
which  has  fathered  a  similar  measure 
for  the  past  six  years,  and 
is  the 
earnest  belief of  the  Tradesman  that  the 
proposed 
law  can  be  enforced  and  that 
its  enforcement  will  result  in  a  consid­
erable  curtailment  of  the  horde  of  ped­
dlers  which^now  infest  the  country  dis­
tricts.  Merchants,  it  is  for  you  to  say 
whether  this  bill  will  become  a  law  or

it 

whether you  will  continue  to  suffer  from 
unfortunate  conditions  which  grow  out 
of  the  non-enforcement  of  the  present 
law.

T he  B oys  B eh in d   th e   C ounter.

Calumet—A.  A.  Miller,  who  has  been 
manager  of  the  interests  of  L.  Hennes 
&  Co.  here  for  a  number of  years  and is 
one  of  the  best  known  business  men  in 
the  city,  will  conduct  the  meat  market 
in  the  Hennes  building,  which  has  been 
in  charge  of  Louis  Lobby  up  to  the 
present  time.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Wm.  Barrem  has 
taken  a  position  as  salesman  with  A. 
M.  Matthews  &  Sons.

Petoskey—Morris  Lewis  has  gone  to 
Sault  Ste.  Marie  to  take  charge  of  the 
men's  furnishing  goods  department  of 
D.  K.  Moses  &  Co.

Lake  Linden—Jacob  Weis,  who  has 
held  a  position  as  clerk  in  the  grocery 
department  of  L.  Hennes  &  Co.’s  store 
here,  has  resigned.

Saginaw—The 

local  clerks’  union  at 
its 
last  meeting  took  a  step  which  is 
likely  to  cause  a  considerable  stir  in 
retail  mercantile  circles.  A  committee 
appointed  for  the  purpose  has  had 
printed  a  large  number of  placards  for 
posting  in  stores  where  union  men  are 
employed.  A  co-operative  effort  will 
then  be  asked  from  all  union  men,  of 
whatever  trade, 
for  patronage  of  the 
authorized  establishments.  The  employ­
ers  will  all  be  informed  of  the  action  of 
the  union  and  a  decision  be  asked 
as  to  the  intention  of  each  on  the  adop­
tion  of  the  union  regulations.  The  com­
mittee  has  also  taken  another and  more 
radical  step 
in  the  printing  of  blanks 
which  each  employer  will  be  asked  to 
sign.  In  this  the  employer  is  compelled 
to  promise  that  none  of  his  clerks  will 
be  asked  to  work  on  Sunday,  holidays, 
or after  regular  hours.  The  union 
is 
strong  and  its  members,  while  not  ex­
pecting  trouble,  will  strongly  urge  the 
agreement  asked.

Lake  Linden—Frank  Roy  has  again 
entered  the  employ  of  L.  Hennes  & 
Co.,  taking  the  place  of  head  clerk 
in 
the  grocery  department,  which  was  va­
cated  by  E.  F .  Prince,  who  retires  to 
engage  in  the  insurance  business.

Saginaw—The  Executive  Board  of 
the  Michigan  Protective  Association  of 
Retail  Clerks  recently  held  a  meeting 
in  this  city,  L.  P.  Butenschoen  and  F. 
L.  Dardas,  of  this  city,  E.  C.  Thomas, 
of  Ishpeming,  Issie  Nathan,  of  Alpena, 
and  Albert  A.  Heine,  of  Bay  City,  be­
ing  present.  The  main  purpose  of  the 
meeting  was  to  decide  on  the advisabil­
ity  of  holding  a  State  convention  this 
year  and  the  members  of  the  Board 
unanimously  decided  to  defer calling  a 
convention  until  another year.

Cleaning: T im e.

Beneath the burnished chandelier 
The weary housewife stands,
With scrubbing brushes, dampened cloths 
And such things in her hands.
And in a rasping tone she gives 
The hired girl commands.

A rag is wound around her head 
She has the bedclothes wildly piled 
Her nose Is skinned and there are broad 

To keep her hair in place:
Upon the dressing case—
Brown streaks across her face.

From room to room she makes her way,
Her husband helps throughout the day 
And sadly wanders home at night 

And madly rips and tears;
To run the world’s affairs,
To sleep upon the stairs.

Dr.  W.  E.  Dockery  has  opened  a 
drug  store  at  Upper  Big  Rapids.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by the  Hazeltine  & 
Perkins  Drug  Co.

S.  Bogardus  has embarked  in  the  gro­
cery  business  at  Clare.  The  Lemon  & 
Wheeler Company  furnished  the  stock.

sssssss

A d v ertisem en ts  w ill  be  in serte d   u n d e r 
th is   h ead   fo r  tw o   cents  a   w o rd   th e   first 
in sertio n   an d   one  cen t  a   w ord  fo r each 
su b seq u en t  in sertio n .  No  ad v ertisem en ts 
ta h e n   fo r  less  th a n   ¡85  cents.  A dvance 
pay m en ts.________________________________

BUSINESS  CHANCER.

chandise—120 acres of land  with good  build­
ings.  Address  840,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
840

Fo b   s a l e   o b   e x c h a n g e   f o b   m e b -
17«OB  SA L E -B E ST   FAYING  GENEBAL 
'  merchandise  store  in  Michigan;  stock  in­
ventories $7,000.  Address No. 839, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
839
I pOB  SALE-CLEAN  GBOCEBY  STOCK, 
'  invoicing  $500.  One  of  the  best  towns  in 
Northern  Michigan.  Address  No.  848,  care 
848
Michigan Tradesman. 
HEAP  FOB  CASH—A  BAKEBY  AND 
restaurant,  doing  a  $2,000  cash  business 
yearly;  in the best  town in  Southern  Michigan; 
building in lirst-class repair and in good location. 
For  particulars  address  L.  K.  Gay  &  Son, 
Morencl, Mich. 
847
BAKEBY AND  BESTAUBANT  FOB SALE;
neat, profitable;  county seat;  good territory, 
full stock tools and  utensils;  soda  fountain  and 
ice  cream  apparatus;  good  reasons.  Box  28, 
846
Mason, Mich. 

Grand Bapids, Mich. 

case,  5  to  8  feet long.  B.  ,1.  Reynolds, 

and  bazaar  stock  in  town  of  $1,500;  doing 
good business;  best opening in  Southern  Michi­
gan.  C. E. Wise, Quincy,  Mich. 

WANTED — DOUBLE  DECKEB  SHOW- 
FOB  SALE  AT  ONCE—ONLY  CBOCKEBY 
Fo b   s a l e —s e c o n d   h a n d   s o d a   f o u n -
taln;  easy terms.  Charles A.  Jackson, Ben­
ton Harbor, Mich. 
843
I7«OB  SALE—ESTABLISHED  DBUG STOBE, 
’  about $1,800 in  stock.  Fixtures  and  furni­
ture only $200;  manufacturing  town  with  good 
farm trade; population 4,000;  two  new  factories 
this  spring;  new  railroad  building  this  year. 
Beason for selling, other  interests.  Address  L. 
G. Ripley, Three Rivers,  Mich. 

W HY  PAY ALL  YOUB  MONEY  OUT FOB 

rent of building and high wages  when  you 
can get a 2-story building  with  capacity  for  100 
men  and  fitted  with  power,  steam  heat  and 
electric lights, for a  small  price,  at  Reed  City, 
Mich.? For sale—Forty  acres  garden  land  near 
Port Huron and the beaches;  8 lots opposite tun­
nel station, and three houses,  corner  Sixth  and 
Pine Sts., Port Huron.  Address E.  King,  Beed
City, Mich. 

844

846

828

842

824

plumbing stock, Invoicing about $3,600, in a good 

In  a  general  hardware,  tinsmlthlng  and 
factory  town  in  Southern  Michigan.  Address 
No. 824. care Michigan Tradesman. 

Fo b   s a l e —w h o l e   o b   p a b t   i n t e r e s t  
Fo b   s a l e —s t o r e   a n d   d w e l l in g  

combined and small stock of  dry goods, gro­
ceries and shoes.  Two miles northeast of  Roch­
ester.  Address  E.  C.  Albertson,  Rochester, 
Mich. 
835
■  FIRST-CLASS  MARKET  FOR  RENT IN 
a fine location; fully equipped with all kinds 
of tools, to rent or for  sale:  for  terms  write  to 
Mrs. Ella Coney, 326 State St., Ionia, Mich.  833
I 7«OR SALE-UP-TO-DATE DBUG STOBE IN 
'  one  of  the  best  towns in  Michigan.  Good 
reasons for selling.  Address No. 826, care Michi­
826
gan Tradesman. 
$300 LOT, BALANCE  CASH,  FOB  HOME  IN 
v  village or stock merchandise.  401  Bates  St., 
Grand Rapids.__   _____ _ _  

Fo b   s a l e — s m a l l   s o d a   f o u n t a in , 

also steam  peanut  roaster,  cheap.  Joseph 
Hoare, Elk Rapids, Mich. 
TYBUG STOCK AND FIXTURES FOR SALE; 
U   good business in city  of  6,000.  Address  W. 
H. Thorp, Dowaglac, Mich._____________ 776

826

822

Fo b   s a l e   o r   e x c h a n g e —a n   e x c e l -

lent flour mill and elevator, located in city of
26,000  population, situated  on  asphalt  street, six 
blocks from business  district.  Capacity of  mill, 
80 barrels  daily;  excellent  wheat  country  sur­
rounding; mill running night and  day.  Will sell 
cheap  or exchange  for  stock  of  merchandise. 
Owner leaving for the South and must dispose of 
all business Interests here immediately.  Address 
P. O. Box 86, Marion, Ind. 

827

816

dress Mrs. Thos. Johnston, Caro, Mich. 

for sale:  about  $1,800;  thriving  town.  Ad­

STOCK OF  CBOCKEBY  AND  GROCERIES 
Fo b  s a l e - t h e   o n l y e x c l u s iv e  sh o e 
stock in  a  hustling  manufacturing  town  of
3,000 
inhabitants:  best  reasons  for  selling;  a 
profitable business.  Address D.,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
8i7
I pOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
'  chandise  and  fixtures,  invoicing  $3,000  to 
$3,500;  cash  discount;  best  farming  district  in 
Northern  Indiana;  good  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 810, care Michigan Tradesman.  810
I   WILL  SELL  HALF  INTEREST  IN  MY 
furniture  business.  The  goods  are  all  new 
and up-to-date;  located in  a  town  of  7,000;  has 
been a furniture store for thirty years;  only  two 
furniture stores in  the  town.  Address  all  cor­
respondence to No.  813,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

813

836

799

785

Fo b  s a l e —a   g e n e r a l   s t o r e,  f i n e  

clean stock of groceries, flour, feed  and  dry 
goods, boots and shoes, clothing  and  hardware, 
in  a  new  lumbering  town.  An  exceptionally 
good opportunity for a man  to step right  into an 
established business, showing a good  profit.  For 
Information  address  No.  799,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

Fo r   s a l e —b r ic k   h o t e l   b u i l d in g ,

three stories, forty rooms, steam  heat,  elec­
tric  lights,  bar  and  livery;  rates,  $2  per  day: 
town of  2,000  population.  Address  Mrs.  Fred 
Kohl, Quincy, Mich. 

Address 836, care Michigan Tradesman. 

and news agency in  hustling  Michigan  city 
of  4,500  inhabitants;  price  right;  terms  easy. 

Fo r   s a l e —a  f i r s t  c l a s s  b o o k   s t o r e  
Fo r  s a l e —a  good  c l e a n   st o c k  o f 

groceries,  crockery,  glassware,  lamps  and 
china,  inventorying  about  $3,300.  Will  accept 
$3,000 cash if taken soon;  location, the  best  and 
central in a hustling business town of 1,500 popu­
lation, fifty miles from Grand  Bapids;  this  Is  a 
bargain for some one;  best of reasons for selling. 
Address B, care Michigan Tradesman 
777
I7*OB SALE OB RENT—TWO-STORY FRAME 
‘  store building, with living rooms attached, in 
the village of Harrietts;  possession  given May l. 
For  particulars  address  J   C.  Benbow,  Yuma, 
770
Mich. 
■ HE  ROMEYN  PARSONS  CO.  PAYS CASH 
for  stocks  of  merchandise,  Grand  Ledge, 
Mich._______________________________ 735
I F  GOING  OUT  OF  BUSINESS  OB  IF   YOU 
have a bankrupt stock of clothing, dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York 
728
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 
PARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF  GOODS  OF 
any kind,  farm  or  city  property  or  manu­
facturing  plants  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change  correspond  with  the  Derby  &  Choate 
709
Real Estate Co., Flint,  Mich. 
W ANTED — MERCHANTS  TO  CORBE- 
spond with us who wish to sell  their entire 
stocks  for  spot  cash.  Enterprise  Purchasing 
686
Co.. 153 Market St., Chicago. III. 
FOB  SALE—DBUG  STOCK 
in v o ic in g  
$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. 
583
W ANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
at once.  State  salary and  age.  Address 
838
No. 838, care Mlchigan.Tradesman. 
W ANTED—POSITION AS CLERK IN GEN- 

eral store or manager of  one  or  more  de­
partments;  long  experience;  good  references. 
Address Box 71, Station 7, Grand Rapids.  841

M ISCELLANEOUS

Testimonial  That  Tells

The  Advertisement

Fo b   s a l e —a   s o d a   f o u n t a in   a l m o s t

new.  Can be bought at a bargain.  Address 

132 East Front St., Traverse City, Mich. 

832

The  Result

Traverse City,  May 6—Enclosed find 84 cents 
for advertisement and  please  do  not  print  it 
any longer as the fountain  is  sold  and  I  have 
baa three  other  enquiries,  all  saying  they  had 
seen  the  advertisement 
the  Michigan 
Tradesman.  There is nothing like the Trades­
man' if you have anything to sell.

in 

L.  C.  K IR K .

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* NEW

SWEET 
GOODS

. 
Maple  Cake 
Dainty  Sweets 
Chocolate  Dainties  16  cents  - 
Orange  Slices 

.  10  cents
15  cents

16  cents

. 

. 

The  very  finest  our  skill  and  good  material 

Others are enjoying a fine  sale on  the  above. 

can produce.

W hy  not you?

Sample  for the asking.

S E A R S   BAKERY,

GRAND  RAPIDS.

W

Are you going 

to the

Pan=American 

Exposition?

The

Michigan Central

is the short and direct route.

For particulars see  M. C. Agents or 

write  to

O. w . Ruggles, Q. P. &T. A„ Chicago 

J . S. Hall. D. P. A.,

Detroit

EhCPAVERS BY ALL THE 

PORTRAITS,  BUILDINGS,

S X «  
E g ®  STATIONERY  HEADINGS,|gg@S 

M A C H IN E R Y , 

LEADING PROCESSES
HALF-TONE 
ZINC-ETCHING 
WOOD ENGRAVING

EVERYTHING.

TRADESM AN  CO M PANY -

GRAND  RAPIDS. M IC H IG A N .

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

T ravelers*  T im e   T a b le s.

P e r e   M a r q u e t t e
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  12:05  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 . W o l f e n d e n , D. P. A.

f i D A N f i   Rapids  &  Indiana Railway
v J I v / s T l D  

March  io,  1901.

Going North.

Going South.

ex Su  ex Su  ex Su  ex Su
Lv Gd Rapids...........  7 45a 
2 lOp  i0 45p  5 20p
210a  9 oop
Ar.  Cadillac............. 1120a  5 40p 
......
Ar. Traverse City 
4 15a 
1 30p  7 50p 
....
9 15p  6 35a 
Ar. Petoskey............   2 50p 
Ar. Mackinaw City...  4 15p  10 35p  6 55a 
......
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a  m,  11:30 
a m, 5:15 p m and 10:15 p m.

 

ex Su  ex Su  Daily  ex Su  Daily 
Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10a  1 50p  6 50p  12 30pll30p 
1 45p  1 00a
Ar. Kalamazoo.  8 50a  3 22p  8 35p 
Ar. Ft.  Wayne..12 lOp  6 50p  11 45p  To Cnfcagc
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
......  7 15a 
..................
Trains arrive from the  south  at  6:46 a m  and 
9:10am daily, 2:00pm. 9:45pm and 10:15pm except 
Sunday.
Except  Except  Except
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.

MUSKFnoN 
muAKEUUN 

C H IC A G O   T R A IN S  

G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO CHICAGO 

Sunday  Dal‘y

Lv. G’d  Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  1130pm 
Ar. Chicago  (12th St. Station)  5 25pm  6 55am 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
li: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 56am 
5:15pm train runs solid to Grand  Rapids  with 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping 
car.
Take G.  R.  &  I.  to Chicago

50 cents  to  Muskegon 

and  Return  Every  Sunday
2 0 c A MONTH
G A S  L IG H T
equal  to   10 o r 12  coal  oil  lam ps 
anyw here If you  w ill get the
for’Ayencyce  Brilliant Gas Lamp.
Brilliant Gas Lamp Co., 42 Stat», Chicago

Is all It costs for the 
VERY  BEST

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, C.  E.  Wa l k e r ,  Bay C ity;’ Vice-Pres­
ident,  J .   H.  Ho p k i n s ,  Ypsilanti;  Secretary, 
E. A. St o w e, Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J .   F . 
T a t m a n , Clare.  _

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. O y k ;  Secretary,  H o m e r 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J . G e o r g e   Le h m a n

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  Association 

President,  E.  Ma r k s ;  Secretaries.  N.  L.
K o e n ig   and  F .  H.  Co z z e n s;  Treasurer,  C. 
H.  F r i n k .

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  E.  L.  Ha r r i s ;  Secretary,  Ch a s. 

H y m a n . 

_______

Bay  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  Wa l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C 

L i t t l e . 

________

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  S m it h ;  Secretary,  1).  A. 

B o e l k in s ;  Treasurer,  J .   W.  Ca s k a d o n .

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H. P o r t e r ;  Treasurer, L.  P e l t o n .

President,  J .  F r a n k   He l m e r ;  Secretary,  W 

Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k ;  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer, W m . C. K o eh n

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M. W. T a n n e r ;  Secretary,E. H. Mc­

P h e r s o n ;  Treasurer, R. A. H o r r .

Traverse  Citj  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  t h o s  T.  Ba t e s ;  Secretary,  M.  B. 

H o l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ha m m o n d.

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A .  D.  W h i p p l e ;  Secretary,  G .  T. 

Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer,  W.  E. Co l l in s .

Ft.  Barons Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 

President, Chas.  W e l l m a n ;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

P e r c i v a l .

Alpena  Business Men’s  Association 

President, F . W. G i l c h r i s t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e .

Calnmet  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y ;  Secretary  W.  H. 

H o s k in g . 

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St.  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

President, T h o s. B r o m l e y ;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

A.  P e r c y ; Treasurer, Cl a r k  A. P u t t.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wa l l a c e ;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

H e d d l k . 

_______

Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F .  D.  V o s;  Secretary,  J .   W  V e r - 

H o e k s . 

________

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  Ch a s.  R o u n d s;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

Pu t n e y . 

________

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President, 
K a t z ;  Treasurer,  S. J .   Hu f f o r d .

J o h n  G.  E b l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J .  

Propipt-
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  &  S E H L E R .

Grand Rapids,
Michigan.

A.  B.  KNOWLSON,

—Wholesale—

Portland  Cement,  Lime,  Land  Plaster,  Stucco,  Fire  Brick,

AND  A L L   KIN D S  OF  BU ILD IN G   M A TER IA L.

W rite   fo r  d eliv ered   prices.

O F F IC E :  C O R .  PE A R L   AND  M O N R O E, 

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

CATCHES  THE  GERM  AS  WELL  AS  THE  FLY. 

Sanitary.  Used the world over.  Good profit to sellers. 

Order from Jobbers.

IMPORTANT

Our  Lowest  and  Latest  Special  Bargains

money by buying from us.  Send for our Catalogue.  It does the work  of  twenty  high  priced sales­
men and saves you their hotel bills, salaries, etc.

Bushel  Baskets 

Extra  Strong

Two  Hoop

Common  Wood  Pails 
Per  dozen.................. $1.30
Saginaw  Double  Globe 

Washboard

Per  dozen..................$3.25

Wire  End

Wood  Butter  Dishes 

250 in a crate

1 lb., per crate..............$0.42
2 lb., per  crate................... 47
3 lb., per crate....................57
5 lb., per  crate................... 66

R elief Iron  Wringer 
High  grade,  rubber rolls 
Warranted,  each......... $1.58

Mrs.  Pott’s  Sad  Irons 

Full  Nickel  Plated 

Per set (in case  lots)......$0.62

High  grade,  nickel plated 

Avon  Alarm  Clock 
Warranted one year 

Each................................. $0.54

Diamond  Reflector 
Kitchen  Side  Lamp 

With  No.  2  Sun  Burner  and 
Per dozen, complete....... $1.80

Chimney

If you hare mislaid our Catalogue,  send  for  another.  We  guarantee  satisfaction  and  prompt 

shipments.  Send us your mail orders.  Don't wait for an agent,

H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Grand  Rapids Fixtures 60.

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This is the finest Cigar Case that we have ever made.  It is an elegant piece of  store furniture and 

would add greatly to the appearance of any store.

C o rn er B a rtle tt  and  So u th   Ion ia  S tre e ts .  G ran d   R a p id s,  M ich.

No.  37  C ig ar  Case.

Michigan's  Famous  Cigars

Manufactured by

COLUMBIAN  CIGAR  COMPANY,  Benton  Harbor  Mich.

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«1«  ness?  Money lost in the mercantile  business can  never  be  recovered. 
•§•  Once wasted  and  given  away  on  unreliable  scales,  it  is  lost  forever. 
*f*  There are divers reasons why you should use the

Money  Weight  System

1.  Because it is a system.
2.  Because it saves over-weight.
3.  Because it pays  for itself.
4.  Because it avoids errors in  calculations.
5.  Because it is sold  on  such easy terms.
Nearly One  Hundred Thousand  in use.

The  Computing  Scale  Company

Dayton,  Ohio

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