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GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  MAY  22,  1901.

Number 922

Little  People  Are  Hard  on  Rubbers

That’s why we  make our “School  Line”

Misses 2  buckle  School  Arctics 
Childs 2 buckle  School  Arctics 
Misses School  Sandals 
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33 cents
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A   similar shoe also  made in  Womens

The  above goods are made with  double thick  soles and  heels  and  corrugated  toe  cap  and

heel  reinforcement and are built for service.

They  Will  Outwear Any  Two  Pairs of Ordinary  Rubbers  Made.

Samples sent prepaid.

THE  BEACON  FALLS  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

207-209  MONROE  ST.,  CtllCAOO.  ILL.

Makers of “Trust-Proof”  rubbers, sold  direct to the  trade.

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Carolina  Brights Cigarettes “Not  Made by a Trust.”

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corresponded  with  us  has  bought 
from  us  and  every  dealer  who 
has  b o u g h t  is  satisfied  and  so 
are  his  customers.
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and  wafers  that  is  fully  protected  against  dampness,  dust 
It is the sign  of  the In-er-seal  Patent  Package.
and  disease. 
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Cotton Seed Meal;  any quantity, large or small.  Prompt shipment.

Walsh-DeRoo  Milling  Co., Holland,  Mich.

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Nearly  all  kinds,  for  all  seasons,  for 
Men, Boys and Children.  Meet  -

W ILLIAM   CONNOR

who  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  May  26  to 28,  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 mall orders. 

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..Commercial Broker.

And  Dealer In

Cigars and  Tobaccos,

157  E.  Fulton  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Knights of the  Loyal  Guard

A  Reserve  Fund Order

A  fraternal  beneficiary  society  founded 
upon  a  permanent  plan.  Permanency 
not cheapness  its  motto.  Reliable  dep­
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EDWIN 0 .  WOOD,  Flint, Mich.

Suprem e  Com m ander in  Chief.

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13  Genuine  Bargains

If you use a  Cost  Book  ydu  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

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

T he  Mercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R .  O .  D U N   &   C O .

Widdicomb  Bld'g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Rooks arra n ged  with trade classification  of  names. 
Collections made everywhere.  Write for particulars.

C.  E .  M cC R O N E,  fla n a g e r .

Tradesman Coudoiis

EIGHTY  MILLIONS  OF  PEOPLE.
Hon.  W.  A.  Merriam,  Director  of  the 
Census,  in  an  interesting  article  in  the 
Philadelphia  Record,  recalls  an 
inci­
dent  that  more  than  one  hundred  years 
ago  an  English  statistician  predicted 
that 
in  the  year  1900 the  population  of 
the  American  Republic  and  Canada 
would  be  80,000,000.

It  is  quite  a  remarkable  fulfilment  of 
the  prediction  that  the  census  gives  the 
Republic  in  round  numbers  76,000,000, 
while  Canada  has  about  4,000,000  peo­
ple.  Mr.  Merriam  ventures  the  predic­
tion  that  by  the  time  the  next  ten  dec­
ades  shall  have  passed  away,  even  up­
on  a  very  conservative  basis—say,  a 
much  smaller  per cent,  of  increase  than 
heretofore—there  should  be  something 
over  300,000,000  of  people  within  the 
domain  of  the  United  States  in  the  year
A.  D.,  2000.

it 

The  census  chief  holds  that  while  the 
rate  of  increase  in  countries  with  dense 
populations  constantly  grows  smaller,  it 
will  be  a  long  time  before  this  country 
will  reach  a  point  where 
is  over­
crowded  with  people.  For  example,  in 
France,  the  increase  of  the  population 
during  the 
last  decade  was  a  trifle  less 
than  2  per  cent.  ;  in  Germany  about  10 
per cent.,  and  in  England  about  11  per 
cent.  He  thinks  it  may  be  safely  stated 
that  as  long  as  we  have  unsettled 
lands 
in  the  South,  in  the  West  and  in  the 
Northwest  we  shall  continue  to  attract 
people  from  the  Old  World  who  desire 
to  better  their  condition,  thus  keeping 
up  the  immigration  which  has  had more 
or  less  to  do  with  our  rapid  increase 
during  the 
last  two  decades.  Perhaps 
for  the  next  two  or three  decades  the 
figures  will  not  vary  much  from  20  per 
cent,  every  ten  years,  but  what  it  will 
be  after that  no  one  can  safely  predict.
He  holds  that  it  is  in  the  industrial 
field  that  we  must  look  for  our  greatest 
advance.  This  form  of  our  national 
wealth  will 
increase  with  a  marvelous 
rapidity.  We  are  now  reaching  out  to 
the  four  parts  of  the  globe  for  markets, 
American 
ingenuity  and  ability  show­
ing  themselves  in  this  determination  to 
take  the  markets  from  our  competitors 
in  the  world’s  trade.  Doubtless  there 
will  ensue  retaliation 
from  other  na­
tions  of  the  earth  to  shut  us  out  of  their 
territory,  but  this  can  be  only  tempor­
ary,  as  people  will  in  the  long  run  buy 
where  they  can  get  their  goods  the 
cheapest.  Hence  our  future  in  this  re­
spect  seems  to  be  bright.

His  Lack  of Directness.

The  young  man  was  embarrassed,  but 

he  began  bravely.

“ It  can  not  be  a  surprise  to  you, 
is, 
Miss  Eupherbia, ”   be  said,  “ that 
from  the 
you  must  have  suspected, 
length  of  time  I  have  been  coming 
here,  that  I— I  say 
it  must  have  been 
apparent  to  you  for  some  time  that  I 
could  have  had  but  one  object  in  view 
in—although,  of  course,  I  can’t  claim 
that  you  have  given  me  any  cause  to 
be  confident.  Still,  you  may  have  asked 
yourself  what  other  motive,  if  any,  I 
could  have  had,  when  it  must  have  been 
obvious—and  yet— ”
“ Mr.  Billmore,”  

interrupted, 
“ please  be  more  direct  and  explicit,  if 
you  can.  You  wabble  painfully.”

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

Page. 
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3.  G etting  the  People.
4.  A ronnd  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Clerks’  Corner.
7.  W hite  Lead  Process.
8.  E d ito ria l.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  Clothing.
11.  Dry  Goods.
13.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Village  Im provem ent.
16.  W om an's  W orld.
18.  Hardw are.
30.  The  Meat  M arket.
31.  B u tter and  Eggs.
33.  F ru its  and  Produce.
33.  The  New  F ork  M arket.
34.  W indow  Dressing.
35.  Commercial Travelers.
36.  D rugs and  Chemicals.
37.  D rug Price  Current.
38.  Grocery  Price  Current.
39.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Men  of M ark.
33.  The  Produce  M arket.

THE  MACHINISTS’  STRIKE.

The  present  rate  of 

compensation 
for  the  work  of  the  machinists  of  this 
country 
is  the  natural  adjustment  of 
trade  conditions.  It  will  be remembered 
that  after the  Spanish  war our  mechan­
ical 
industries  became  unduly  stimu­
lated  by  the  prestige  gained  in that con­
flict. 
In  the  pressure  of  demand  prices 
went  far above  a  parity  with  the  rest  of 
the  world.  Combinations  took  advan­
tage  of  this  stimulation  and  prices  were 
advanced  right  and  left. 
looked  as 
though  the  millennium  of  the  mechan­
ical 
industries  was  finally  here.  Soon, 
however,  there  were  indications  of  a 
limit  in  the  power of  absorption  in  the 
world’s  markets  for  such  high  priced 
goods  and,more  rapidly than  in  the rise, 
the  prices  reacted  and  the  markets  be­
came  stagnant.  The  era  of  depression 
was  of  considerable  length  as  the  iron 
industries  are  slew  to  respond  to  im­
proving 
quick 
enough  in  declines.

conditions 

although 

It 

industry  employing  automatic  and  other 
machines  to  so  great  an  extent  a  less­
ening  of  hours  means  the  loss  of  a  large 
percentage  on  the  output  of  such  ma­
chines.  But  when 
in  addition  an  ad­
vance  in  wages  is  demanded  the  handi­
cap  put  on  the  industry  becomes  of  an 
alarming  character.

Coming  when  the  tide  of  activity 
makes  the  continuance  of  production  a 
necessity,the  demands  will  doubtless  be 
successful  in  many  works.  To  complete 
work  in  hand  and  orders  urging,  the in 
dustry  can  no  doubt  stand  a  short  ad­
vance  of  this  kind,  but  the  later  results 
will  not  be  long  in  manifesting  them­
selves.  What  the  employers  learned  by 
bitter  experience  would  result  from  un­
due  advancing  of  prices  is lost  upon  the 
workmen,  who  equally  suffered,  and  so 
they  must  repeat  it  for  themselves.

The  American  machinists  are  the best 
paid  workmen  in  the  world  consider­
ing  the  steadiness  and  ease  of  their 
work.  Their  wages  are  regulated  by 
local  and  temporary  conditions,  and 
it 
may  be  believed  that  care  is  used  to  se­
cure every advance  such  conditions  war­
rant.  Under  these  circumstances  an 
arbitrary  advance  of  over  n   percent., 
with  a  corresponding  reduction 
in  the 
percentage  of  output  of  machines  and 
plant  on  account  of  lessened  hours, must 
produce  disastrous  consequences to their 
industry  if  successful.  The recent  strike 
of  the  English  machinists  nearly  com­
pleted  the  wreck  of  the  iron  industry  in 
that  country,  and  the  consequences  will 
always  be  manifest.  In  the  light  of  this 
example 
it  is  to  be  hoped  that,  even  if 
temporary  victories  are  obtained  in  the 
struggle,there  will  not  be  such  a persist­
ence 
in  resisting  the  new  adjustments 
which  will  be  necessary  as  will  make 
the  victories  the  worst  of  defeats.

WORSE THAN  THE  OLD  LAW.

lesson 

When  the  upward  movement  began  to 
progress  again  manufacturers  had 
learned  a 
from  the  former ex­
perience.  Prices  were  started  on  a  level 
fair  returns,  but 
which  should  yield 
nearer  a  parity  with  competition 
in 
other countries.  Following  this  policy, 
trade  soon  began  to  expand  ogain  until 
the  activity  has  reached  a  degree  very 
satisfactory  to  both  employers  and  em­
ployes.  Wages  have  been  advanced  on 
the  strength  of  the  superiority  of  Amer­
ican  methods  and  mechanics  until  our 
workmen  are  by  far  the  best  paid  in the 
world.
But 

lesson  learned  by 
the  manufacturers  was 
lost  on  their
workmen.  While  the  former  have  re­
frained  from  taking  advantage  of  con­
ditions  which  would  yield  them  large 
present  profits  at  the  expense  of  future 
interests,  the  latter  see  no  reason  why 
they  should  not  take  all  they  can  get  re­
gardless  of  consequences.  Thus,  with 
as  powerful  a  combination  as  they  are 
able  to  make, they  have  undertaken  to 
put  their  work  as  far as  possible  above 
a  safe  parity  in  the  world.

it  seems  the 

It  would  have  been  bad  enough  to 
have 
lessenedjhe  hours  of  work  with  a 
corresponding  reduction  imprice.  In  an

The  amended  garnishment  bill  has 
passed  both  houses  of  the  Legislature 
and  is now  in  the  hands of the Governor, 
awaiting  his  approval  or  veto.  While 
the  Tradesman  will  make  no  effort  to 
influence  his  decision,  one  way  or  the 
other,  it  sincerely  hopes  he  w ill veto the 
measure,  because 
it  is  much  inferior to 
the  present  law.  There  are  very  few 
conditions  under  which  the  creditor  can 
obtain  more  money  in  case  of  garnish­
ment proceedings  than  under the present 
law  and  in  the  majority  of  cases  the  net 
amount  to  be  -recovered  is  much  less. 
Besides,  the  proposed 
law  creates  an 
exemption  for  a  man  who  is  not  the 
head  of  a  household,  which, 
in  the 
opinion  of the  Tradesman,  is  a  danger­
ous  precedent  to  establish. 
It  is  unfor­
tunate  that  the  measure  should  have 
been  loaded  down  with  so  many  unfa­
vorable  features,  but  the  antipathy  of 
leading  members  of  the  Legislature  to 
the  methods  of  the 
in  charge 
caused  them  to  treat  the  bill  as  a  foot­
ball  on  which  to  vent  their displeasure 
and  resentment,  and  the  mercantile  in­
terests  of  the  State  are  compelled  to 
suffer  because  of  the 
inexperience  and 
incapacity  of  their self-constituted  rep­
resentative.

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An  emphatic  protest  is  heard 

Getting the  People
Overdoing th e  Use  of  Signs  and  Posters.
in  the 
larger  cities  against  the  use  and  abuse 
of  every  imaginable  place  for  the  dis­
play  of  signs  and  posters.  As  yet  it  is 
an 
increasing  annoyance  in  this  coun­
try,  but  in  some  of  the  European  states 
it  has  already  passed  the  climax  and  is 
said  to  be  diminishing.  The  govern­
ments  of  French,  Italian  and  Belgian 
cities,  and  of  some  other countries,  have 
taken  the  matter  in  hand  and  regulate 
the  use  of  signs  by  licensing  the  space 
and  limiting  the  character  of  the  dis­
play  to  what  the  officials  consider  best 
for  the  public  eye.

In  England  the  use  of  advertising 
signs  is  still  on  the  increase.  All  sorts 
of  places  are  utilized,  with  little  regard 
to the  public taste  or  convenience. 
In 
many  of  the  omni busses  the  passenger 
can scarcely see out of the sign—obscured 
windows. 
is  being 
aroused  and 
it  will  not  be  long  before 
the  nuisance  will  begin  to  abate.

Public  opinion 

In  many  of  the  paternal  governments 
on  that  side  of  the  Ocean  the  signs  are 
placed  under  official  direction,  as  noted 
above.  Belgium  cities  have  helped  the 
situation  by  offering  prizes  for the  best 
and  most  suitable  signs,  and  the  result 
is  a  great  improvement. 
In  London 
the 
law  classes  the  bill  board  as  rent­
able  property  and  this  suggests  that 
taxation  could  properly  exert  a  potent 
influence  in  diminishing  the tide of sign 
extravagance.

In  this  country  the  sign  nuisance  is 
increasing  in  both  the  cities  and  coun­
try. 
I  do not  need  to  refer  again  to  the 
defacement  of  natural  objects— the  fre­
quent  protests  make  this  familiar to  all 
— but  the  object  of  sign  advertising  is 
largely  defeated  by  its  very  abundance. 
The  people  of  a  sign-ridden  town—or 
country— do  not  see  the  signs.  The 
wearied  eye  carries  no  impression  to 
the  brain  after  a  certain  amount 
is 
offered  for  attention.  Less  would  be 
much  more  effective.

In  some  localities  merchants  are  com­
ing  to  recognize  the  desirability of neat, 
artistic,  plain  designs  and  unity of  style 
for  all  their  outdoor  display  lettering 
and,  for that  matter,  for  the  indoor  as 
well. 
It  is  found  that  a  store  is  orna­
mented  by  its  signs  when  they  are  un­
in  style  and  colors,  and  when 
iform 
poster  or  other  display 
is  used  if the 
same  style  can  be  preserved  it  serves 
to  identify  the  business.  A  mixture  of 
styles  and  colors 
in  signs  is  about  as 
artistic  as though  the  different  sides  of 
the  building  had  each  its  own  color.

Above  all,  I  desire  to  urge  temper­
ance  in  the  use  of  outside  display.  Do 
not  cover  every  blank  space  you  can 
command  with  glaring  contrasts  of color 
and  ugly  forms  of  letters. 
In  a  town 
where  the  sign  nuisance  is  rampant, 
adding  even  moderately only  increases 
the  evil.

When  it  may  be  advisable to use signs 
let  them  be  as  neat  and  plain  in  design 
as  possible.  Do  not  make  the  letters 
too  large  for the  space  and  do  not  make 
the  space  such  as  will  disturb  the  artis­
tic  sense  by  its aggressiveness.  Whether 
the  fact  is  recognized  or  not  the  aver­
age  of  people  are  instinctively  artistic 
and  they  are  repelled  by  ugly  and  un­
suitable  combinations  of  inharmonious 
colors  or  by  the  obtrusion  of  unsightly 
daubs on  every  old  bam  and  shed in  the 
country  or  every  blank  wall  or  space  in 
towns  and  cities.

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Derby  &  Robinson  write an advertise­
ment  with valuable  features,  hut  I  think 
it could  be  improved  in  some  regards. 
The  main  display  line  would  be  more 
effective  if there  were in it some sugges­
tion  of  the  business  advertised.  The 
word  “ attention”   might  catch  more 
eyes  in  the  aggregate,  but  a  word  sug­
gesting  the  table  supply  trade  would 
catch  more  eyes  of  thos e  interested  in 
that  subject. 
It  is  not  enough  to  write 
an  advertisement  that  will  gain  the 
most  attention  regardless  of  the  propo­
sition  of  probable  buyers  that  may  be 
interested. 
I  have  a  prejudice  against 
the  everlasting  bargain  racket,  but  pos­
sibly  its  use  is  warranted  in  some  cases 
by  experience. 
it  sells  goods  at 
profitable  prices  I* have  nothing  to  say, 
but  I  greatly  fear  it  is  too often  em­
ployed  for  the  lack  of  something  better 
to  say.  The  panels  with  prices  make  a 
good  feature,  but  would  be  more  effec­
tive  if the  articles  were  set  in  uniform 
style  and  type  so  as  to  let  the  price 
stand  out  stronger.  Then  there 
is  too 
great  a  mixture  of  type  styles  in  the 
whole  advertisement.  The writer  is  not 
careful  enough  to  make  all  his  work 
count  and  to  preserve  agreement  in  his 
grammar. 
“ All  new,  fresh  goods”   is 
made  the  antecedent  of  “ every  one.”  
The  line  before  the  signature  should  be 
struck  out  and  the  location  would  add 
value.

If 

F.  N.  Kornhaus  writes  an  advertise­
ment  that  suggests  stir. 
I  think  a  dis­
play  of something  relative  to  the  busi­
ness  would  be  better.  The  period 
should  be  omitted  after  the  first  line.

Housewives  generally  do  not  like sug­
gestions  of  any  old  thing  to  hide  dirt. 
It  is  not  desirable  to bring  in  this  fea­
ture  as  an  explanation  of cheapness. 
Otherwise Rodenbaugh  Bros. ’  advertise­
ment  is  a good  one and  is handled  fairly 
well  by  the  printer.

McPhail  &   Richardson  tell  of  the 
change  in  their  way  of  handling  de­
positors’  accounts  in  a  businesslike 
way  which  has  been  well  treated  by 
the  printer. 
is  a 
value  in  the  display  of  the  first  line  as 
the  eye  quickly  associates  it  with  the 
business  indicated  by  the 
last  display 
line. 
In  the  first  two  advertisements 
in  this  series  there  is  no  display  any­
where  to  indicate  the  business.

In  this  case  there 

L.  G.  Ripley  &  Co.  write  a  good  an­
nouncement  circular  which  is  neatly 
and  harmoniously  handled  by  the  print- 
I  am  inclined  to  think  a  moderate 
line  to  indicate  the 

display  of  some 
business  would  add  value.

Mrs.  R.  N.  Middleton  writes  a  good 
glassware  announcement,  which  is  well 
composed  by  the  printer. 
I  do not  see 
the  benefit  of the  colon  in  the  first  line 
and  care  should  be  taken  to  keep  the 
letters  in  their  places,  as  the  “ M ”   in 
‘ Mrs.”
Wm.  S.  Forbes  makes  rather a  happy 
hit  in  his  “ large  reward”   for  rare  five 
cent  pieces.  As  displayed  by.  the 
printer  it  seems a  little doubtful whether 
he  intends  the  reward  to  be  for the  five 
cent  pieces  coined  by  any  first-class 
dealer,  but  I  do not  know  as  this  would 
injure  the  advertising  value. 
I  would 
not  use  a  different  style  of  type  for  the 
signature  and  would  make  the  location 
larger,  adding  the  town.

The  printer  has  evidently  taken  much
jains  with  the  advertisement  of  G.  C. 
Funk,  but 'I  think  less  work  on  the  bor­
der  would  improve jt ,  using  only  plain 
lines.  Less  styles  of  type  would  im­
prove  the  display.

C.  G.-  Sheffler  writes  an  effective 
laundry  announcement and  with  a  little 
lighter  display  the  printer would  pro­
duce  a  good  result.

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Royal  is  the  baking  powder  o f 
highest  character  and  reputa­
tion,  the  favorite  among  house­
keepers.  The  cheapest  to  con­
sumers,  the  most  profitable  for 
dealers  to  handle.

T hose  grocers  who  are most successful  in  business— who  have 
the  greatest  trade,  highest  reputation,  the  largest  bank  ac- 
counts-— are  those  who  sell  the  highest  quality,  purest,  best 
known  articles.

It  is  a  discredit  to  a  grocer  to  sell  impure,  adulterated 
and  unwholesome  goods;  nor  is  the  sale  o f such  goods,  even 
though  the  profits  on  a  single  lot  may  be  larger,  as  profitable 
in  the  long  run  as  the  sale  o f  pure,  wholesome,  high-class 
articles  at  a  less  percentage.

T rade  is won  and held  by  the  sale  o f the  best,  the  highest 

grade,  the  most  reliable  goods.

ROYAL  BAKING  POWDER  CO., 100  WILLIAM  ST.,  NEW  YORK.

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Around  the State

Movements  of M erchants.

Adrian— D.  C.  Hoag  succeeds  Hoag 

&  Raymond  in  the  meat  business.

Clare—S.  Bogardus  has  opened  a  gro­

cery  store  in  the  Bogardus  building.

Otsego—Frank  Ingraham  has  engaged 

in  the  grocery  and  crockery  business.

Detroit—J.  H.  Hastings  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery stock  of  Peter Faber.
Flint—Wm.  Somerville  has  purchased 
the  harness  stock  of  Wm.  A.  Sprague.
Milnes—Adelbert  Hancock  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  W.  G. 
Stone.

Detroit—James  W.  Orr,  grocer  and 
meat  dealer,  has  sold  out  to  Thos. 
Evans.

Manistee— Zielinski  &  Kretzer  will 
open  a  hardware  store at 407 River street 
June  1.

Detroit— Edwin  Lohr  succeeds  E. 
Lohr  &  Co.  in  the  grocery  and  meat 
business.

Cedar  Run—A.  C.  Wynkoop  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  I.  H. 
Newman.

Deerfield— Mr.  Hurstfield,  of Dundee, 
has  engaged  in  the  dry  goods  business 
at  this  place.

Coleman— Israel  B.  Weinberg  has  re­
moved  his  general  stock  from  Edenville 
to this  place.

Hillsdale—The  Hillsdale  Grocery  Co. 
its  capital  stock  from 

increased 

has 
$12,000 to  $25,000.

Bath— Dennis  McGrath,  dealer 

in 
drugs,  shoes,  tobacco  and  cigars,  has 
sold  out  to  F.  J.  Glass.

Bay  City—The  capital  stock  of  the 
in­

Jennison  Hardware  Co.  has  been 
creased to $100,000  from  $40,000.

St.  Joseph—B.  O.  Greening 

has 
opened  up  a  new  stock  of  groceries 
in 
his  new  brick  building  on  Main  street.
Kalkaska—A  large  acreage of potatoes 
is  being  planted  around  this  place,  in 
spite  of 
last  season's 
crop.

low  prices  for 

Deerfield— Benj.  Klotz,  of  Carleton, 
and  C.  A.  Mauer,  of  Monroe,  have  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of  W.  F.  Weis- 
inger.

Jackson—The  grocery stock of Chanter 
Bros,  was  sold  on  chattel  mortgage  to 
Charles  Vining,  of  Clark’s  Lake,  for 
$1,000.

St.  Joseph— Mrs.  S.  E.  Bradford  has 
purchased  the  interest  of  her  partner  in 
the  millinery 
firm  of  Bradford  & 
Komitch.

Carleton— Nevins  &  Simpson  is  the 
style  of  the  new  firm  which  succeeds 
Mrs.  Emma  Nevins  in  the  millinery 
business.

Belding— Phil.  Young  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  S.  Ward  in  the  meat  firm 
of  Ward  &  Fish.  The  style  of the  new 
firm  will  be  Fish  &  Young.

Harbor  Springs— Edgar  Phillips,  of 
Conway,  has  purchased  the 
grocery 
stock  of  G.  C.  Adams  and  will continue 
the  business  at  the  same  location.

Thompsonville-----Wm.  English  has
sold  his  store  building  and  bakery,  res­
taurant  and 
to 
Ima  H.  Burns,  formerly  of  Nashville.

confectionery  stock 

Sault  Ste.  Marie—W.  W.  Campbell 
has  sold  an  interest  in  his  grocery  stock 
in  the  Smith  block  to J.  C.  Manning. 
The  new  firm  is  Campbell  &  Manning.
Plainwell— H.  J.  Cushman  has  closed 
out  his  stock  of  school  books  and  sta­
tionery  and  will  hereafter deal  only  in 
musical  instruments  and  supplies.  Mr. 
Cushman  has  contracted  to  raise  an 
acre  of  cucumbers  this  year and  expects 
to attend  to one-half of  it  himself.

Adrian— Frank  McKinstry, 

for  the 
past  year  manager  of  the Cash dry goods 
store  of  H.  W.  Glover,  has  purchased 
the  stock  of the  C.  E.  Wise  department 
store  at  Quincy.

Marion—M.  Alvin  is  closing  out  his 
general  stock  and  will  devote  his  entire 
time  to  the  manufacture  of  neckwear, 
in  which  business  he  has  recently  em­
barked  in  Detroit.

West  Bay  City—The  stock  of the Ved- 
der  pharmacy  has  been  purchased  by 
John  P.  Dolan,  who  will  remove  same 
to  the  corner of  Washington  and  Eighth 
streets,  Bay  City.

Jackson— T.  M.  Smith  has  retired 
from  the  dry  goods  firm  of  Cook,  Smith 
&  Feldher.  The  remaining  partners 
will  continue  the  business  under  the 
style  of  Cook  &  Feldher.

Albion—Adam  Wagner  has  purchased 
the  D.  D.  Teeter  grocery  stock  and 
has  moved 
it  to  the  store  building  on 
East  Erie  street  lately  occupied  by 
Knickerbocker  &  Beman.

Kalamazoo—Bestervelt & Co.  have sold 
their  meat  market  at  723  South  Burdick 
street  to  Nicholas  Bushouse  and  will de­
vote  their entire  attention  to  their  mar­
ket  at 915  South  Burdick  street.

Adrian— E.  O.  Penny,  of  Cheboygan, 
has  taken  the  position  of  manager of 
the  Cash  dry  goods  store  of  H.  W. 
Glover,  to  succeed  Frank  McKinstry, 
who has  engaged  in  business  at  Quincy.
Mt.  Pleasant— Martin  Welsh,  who  for 
over  six  years  has  presided  behind  the 
counters  of  Sweeney  &  Co.’s  store,  has 
taken  possession of a  grocery of his own, 
having  purchased  the  stock  of  Morrison 
&  Da ins.

Manistee—Thomas  Kenny  has  sold 
his  coal,  lime  and  stone  business  to 
James  Duncan.  Mr.  Duncan  will  retain 
the  State  agency  of  the  W.  D.  Halsted 
Oil  Co.,  which  position  he  has  held  for 
many  years.

Detroit—Julius  Rothschild  has  re­
tired  from  the  Detroit  house  with  which 
he  has  been  identified  since  boyhood, 
and  will  have  charge  of  one  of  the  new 
branches  of  the  Waldorf-Astoria  Cigar 
Co.,  in  New  York.

Coldwater— G.  A.  &  J.  L.  Randolph 
have  purchased  the  dry  goods  store  of 
G.  D.  Wamsley  and  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  old  stand,  in  connection 
with  their flour and  feed  business  at  the 
corner of  Chicago  and  Clay  streets.

Zeeland— B.  Vander  Heide  has  pur­
chased  the  hardware  stock  of  P.  Osse- 
waarde  and  will  add  a  line  of groceries. 
Mr.  Vander  Heide 
is  principal  of the 
New  Groningen  schools  and,  after the 
present  semester  closes,  will  take  per­
sonal  charge  of the  business.

Port  Huron—August 

15,  16  and  17 
promise  to  be  gala  days  in  Port  Huron, 
as  it 
is  expected  that  the  Bay  City, 
Saginaw  and  Jackson  grocers  will  be 
here  on  those  days.  The  Committee  on 
Entertainment  will  hold  a  meeting  this 
week  and  arrangements  will  be  made  to 
have  a  street  fair at  that  time.  Horse 
racing  will  also  be  held  at  the  driving 
park,which  will  add  further amusement 
to  the  day.

Newaygo—Owing  to  continued 

ill 
health,  W.  W.  Pearson  has  consolidated 
his  general  stock  with  that  of  Pearson 
&  Reber,  of  Fremont,  and  the  two  es­
tablishments  will  be  conducted  under 
the  firm  name  of  Pearson  Bros.  &  Re­
bels.  By  this  deal  C.  E.  Pearson,  a 
brother of  W.  W.  Pearson,  will  assist  in 
the  management  of  the  Newaygo  store 
and  the  Fremont  store  will be conducted 
by  Reber  Bros.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—J.  Johnson,  pro­
prietor  of  the  Commonwealth  store,  is

Mi c h i g a n   t r a d e s m a n

absent  from  the  city  and,  as  his  absence 
gives  promise  of  being  permanent,  a 
number  of  bis  creditors  here  are  begin­
ning  to  mourn  his  loss.  For the  past 
two  months  Mr.  Johnson’s  business  has 
been  located  in  the  Keliher block,  Ash- 
mun  street,  and  previous to  that  time  in 
the  Martyn  &  Stuart  building,  Ashmun 
street  south.  Mr.  Johnson,  with  his 
partner,  L.  Ogden,  came  to  the  Soo, 
presumably  from  Toronto,  last  January 
and  started  in  business  in  a  small  way. 
Their  move  to the  more central  business 
district  was  considered  as  an  evidence 
of  prosperity,  but  Mr.  Johnson’s  move 
has  caused  a  reconsideration  of  this 
idea.  When  the  Commonwealth’s  clerks 
arrived  at  the  store  the  other  morning 
they  found  their occupations gone.  Mrs. 
M.  Gates,  who  occupied  a  portion  of 
the  store  with  a  millinery  department, 
was  found  to  be  in  sole  charge  of  the 
establishment. 
The  Commonwealth 
stock  had  been  packed  and  shipped  to 
parts  unknown  during  Sunday,  only  a 
small  portion  being  left  to  Mrs.  Gates, 
in  settlement  of  an  account.  Mr.  Og­
den,  Johnson’s  partner, 
last 
week  on  a  business  trip  to  Munising 
and  other  Upper  Peninsular  points  and 
on  his  return  the  mystery  of  the  Com­
monwealth’s  disappearance  may 
be 
cleared  up. 
the  meantime  the 
creditors  are  a  little  bit  uneasy.

left  here 

In 

Manufacturing;  M atters.

Flint—The  Flint  Specialty  Co.  suc­
ceeds  Wilford  P.  Cook  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  whip  sockets.

Monroe—The  Monroe  Canning  &
its  capital 

Packing  Co.  has 
increased 
stock  from  $8,000 to $10,000.

Farwell— L.  Weisman  has  just  com­
pleted  has  heading  mill and commenced 
manufacturing  stock  this  week.

Jasper—The  Lenawee  Hoop  Co.  has 
its  capital  stock  $40,000,  the 
stock  having  been 

increased 
orignal  capital 
$10,000.

Detroit—Ouellette,  Stevenson  &   Co., 
cigar  manufacturers,  have 
increased 
their  capital  stock,  and  John  Steven­
son  is  now  in  charge  of  the  office.

Detroit—James  J.  Roe,  formerly  fore­
man  for  John  C.  Sullivan,  and  at  one 
time  a  manufacturer  in  Toronto,  has 
started  a  cigar  factory  at  12  Atwater 
street.

Detroit—Articles  of  association  have 
been  filed  with the  Register of Deeds for 
the  organization  of  the  Valpey  Shoe 
Co.,  Ltd.,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $40,- 
000, 
the  principal  stockholder  being 
Joseph  H.  Valpey,  with  $28,95a  The 
other  stockholders  are :  Louis  N.  Val­
pey,  Henry  H.  Valpey  estate,  John  B. 
Howarth,  Darius  D.  Thorp,  Robert  S. 
Mason  and  Elliott  G.  Stevenson.

Farwell-----The 

Farwell  Portland
Cement  Co.,  with  a  capital  of  $350,000, 
has  been  organized  here, with the follow­
ing  officers:  President,  J.  L.  Little­
field ;  Vice-President,  Geo.  W.  Graham ; 
Secretary,  W.  C.  Fuller;  Treasurer,  T. 
F.  Bingham.  The  papers  go  to the  Sec­

retary  of  State  at  once  for filing  and 
work  will  be  actively  commenced  in  a 
short  time.  The  plant  will  be 
located 
in  the  village  and  the  marl  transported 
from  adjacent  deposits,  which  are  said 
to  he  equal  to  German  deposits.  The 
location  will  probably  be  between  the 
Ann  Arbor  and  Pere Marquette railroads 
so  as  to  be  able  to  reach  the  plant  from 
either  road.

The  Boys  B ehind  the Counter.
Kalamazoo— Frank  G.  Thatcher, 

for 
the  past  six  months  prescription  clerk 
with  Dotty  Bros.,  of  D  troit,  has  re­
sumed  his  position  with  E.  M.  Ken­
nedy.

Ionia—W.  C.  Peer  &  Co.  have  se­
cured  Miss  Mertie  Brooks  as  saleslady.
Cheboygan— Fred  W.  Rauhut,  mana­
ger  of  N.  Howard’s  grocery,  was  mar­
ried  recently  to  Miss  Mary  Gorepeel, 
of  Whittemore,  Iosco  county.

East  Jordan—Geo.  G.  Brown,  head 
book-keeper  for  the  East  Jordan  Lum­
ber  Co.,  has  begun  the  construction 
of  a  handsome  residence.

Ann  Arbor— W.  E.  Dougherty,  of De­
troit,  has  taken  the  position  of  mana­
ger of  Mack  &  Co. ’s  furniture  and  car­
pet  departments.

Calumet—Uriah  Pemberthy,  formerly 
with  the  Tamarack  Co-operative  store, 
has  taken  a  position  with  the Star cloth­
ing  house  of  this  city,  vice  John  Rowe, 
who  has  resigned  to  accept  a  position 
with  J.  P.  Petermann,  at  the  new  Wol­
verine  store.

Alma— Hiram  Brundge,  of  Crystal, 
has  taken  a  position  with  Thompson  & 
Sanderhoff  and  will  have  charge of their 
agricultural, 
implement  and  windmill 
department.  Mr.  Brundge  was  former­
ly  with  C.  DeYoung,  of  Crystal,  and 
has  a 
throughout 
Montcalm  and  Gratiot  counties.

large  acquaintance 

Pontiac—James  Bechard,  formerly  of 
Lewis  &  Crofoot,has  taken  a position  in 
Brown’s  pharmacy,  Detroit.

Calumet—Glen Obenhoff.of Houghton, 
has  taken  a  position  with  Holman  & 
Williams,  the  Fifth  street  grocery  firm.
Belding—Orlo  Morse,  who  has  been 
in  Grand  Rapids  and  the  West  for  sev­
eral  years,  has  decided  to  remain  in 
Belding  and  has  taken  a  position  in  A. 
Fuhrman’s  shoe  store.

E.  A.  Hill,  dealer  in  hardware,  fur­
niture  and  buggies,  Coloma: 
’ ’ Your 
unique  letter  received,  asking  for  pay­
ment  of  $2,  which  I  cheerfully  send 
you,  hoping  that  your  publication  will 
increase  in  value  to  the  merchant  in  the 
future  as  it  has  in  the  past.  I  could  not 
do  without  the  Tradesman  for  the paltry 
sum  of $1  per  year.”

Wm.  Adolph  Ansorge,  book-keeper 
for the  Newaygo  Portland  Cement  Co., 
will  be  married  June  5  to  Miss  Emma 
Lida  Root,  of  Chicago,  the  ceremony 
to  take  place  at  the  family  residence  at 
4023  Prairie  avenue.  The  Tradesman 
extends  congratulations.

For Gillies’  N.  Y. tea,all kinds,grades 

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company

Jobbers  of

W R O U G H T   IRON  P IP E

Fittings,  Valves,  Pumps,  Well  Points  and  Tubular  Well  Supplies

M IL L   S U P P L IE S

30  Pe,rl  Street_________________ __________________QrandRapids,  Michigan

M.  O.  BAKER  d,  CO. 
Want  to  buy  Potatoes—Carlots.

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Grand  Rapids  Gossip
£.  E.  Hewitt  has  removed  bis  family 
from  Rockford  to  this  city,  locating  at 
418  Lyon  street.

P.  G.  Bennett  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  near  Hastings.  The  Musselman 
Grocer Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Mill  feed  holds  firm,  as  oats  and  corn 
are  high  and  many  mills  are  running 
only  half time,  which  causes  more  en­
quiry  for  mill  feed.

Receipts  during  the  week  were  as  fol­
lows :  wheat,  49  cars;  com,  6  cars; 
oats,  14  cars;  hay,  1  car;  potatoes,  25 
cars.

Millers  are  paying  72c  for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

B. 

Vanderheide  has  opened  a  grocery 

store  at  Zeeland.  The  stock  was  fur­
nished  by  the  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Com­
pany.

Carl  E.  Charles  has  opened  a  drug 
store  at  St.  Louis.  The  stock  was  fur­
nished  by  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.  _____________

McElroy  &  Owen  have  engaged  in 
the  grocery  business  at  South  Haven. 
The  Lemon  &  Wheeler Company  fur­
nished  the  stock.

Heman  Parish,  grocer  at  43  Fountain 
street,  has  opened  a  meat  market  in  the 
store  adjoining  on  the  east.  Chas.  Sher­
wood  has  been  installed  as  meat  cutter.

The G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  shown  some  strength  dur­
ing  the  week,  while  the  prospect  for  an 
average  winter  wheat  harvest  is  good 
and  should,  to  a  certain  extent,  tend  to 
depress  prices.  The  cash  demand  has 
been  so  urgent  that  there  was  an  actual 
advance  of  ic  per  bushel  for  both  cash 
and  July  futures.  May  wheat  is strong­
er  by  fully  2c  a  bushel.  The  visible 
showed  an  enormous  decrease  of  3,266,- 
000  bushels,  against  1,225,000  bushels 
for the  corresponding  week 
last  year, 
which 
leaves  the  visible  at  42,500,000 
bushels  (not  very  burdensome).  E x­
ports  keep  up  well,  as  the  Argentine 
furnishes  only  about  half  of  what  they 
did  a  year  ago,  so  the  Continent  will 
have  to  purchase  wheat  in  the  United 
States;  and,  as  stated  before,  our  large 
visible  will  melt  away,  especially  if  a 
few  more  weeks  show  as large a decrease 
as  the  present  one.  Good  wheat  is  get­
ting scarce all  over— in  the  spring  wheat 
as  well  as  in  the  winter  wheat  states— 
especially  as the  spring  wheat  has  only 
just  been  put  in  the  ground.  The  acre­
age  will  hardly  be  as  large  as  in  pre­
vious  years 
in  the  spring  wheat  sec­
tions,  so  we  look  for  better  prices  from 
the  present  low  level.

Corn  has  dropped  to  48c  for  May, 
which  is  ioc  less  than  it  sold  at ten days 
ago.  The  corn  corner  has  come  to  an 
end,  as  George  Phillips  has  dis­
posed  of  ail  of  his  May  com  and left the 
corn  market  to  take  care-  of  itself.  As 
the  consumptive  demand  is  large,  pres­
ent  prices  will  probably  rule  until a new 
crop 
is  assured.  The  present  weather 
is  not  very  favorable  to  that  cereal,  be­
ing  too coid.  Still,  there  is  plenty  of 
time  to  make  a  good  crop  of  corn  yet.

Oats  are  creeping  up  right  along,  be­
ing  ic  higher,  with  not  much  for  sale. 
Where  oats  are  up,  the  insects are  work­
ing  in  them  quite  bad,  so  the  outlook  is 
not  rosy  for a  large  crop.

Rye  is  about  as  usual— not  much  do­
ing.  The  distillers  are  holding  off, 
which  makes  the  demand  slack.  As 
there  is  not  much  rye  held 
in  farmers’ 
hands,  prices  will  hang  around  present 
quotations— 50c  in  carlots.

Beans  held  their  own.  The  dealers 
do  not  care  to  hold  them,  and  sell  them 
as  fast as  they  can,  not  wanting  to  keep 
them  in  stock.
Flour  trade 

is  good,  owing  to  the 
stronger  wheat  prices,  and shows  an  im­
provement  in  demand,  both 
local  and 
domestic.

Proposed  F u rn itu re  Combine Fading Into 

T hin  A ir.

The  proposed  furniture  combine  is 
apparently  becoming  more  and  more 
remote,  due  to  the  disinclination  of 
some  of  the  stockholders  of  the  plants 
included  in  the  deal  to  accept  anything 
but  cash  for  their holdings,  which  con­
dition  the  chief  promoter  declines  to 
meet.  Besides  the  Grand  Rapids Chair 
Co.—which 
for  a  cash 
consideration—it  will  take  actual  cash 
to acquire  the  capital  stock  of  the  New 
England  Furniture  Co.  ;  and  nothing 
but  cold  cash  will  tempt  Julius  Berkey 
to  part  with  his  holding  in  the  Berkey 
&  Gay  Furniture  Co.—and  his  price 
is 
understood  to  be  140,  which  is  not  to  be 
sneezed  at,  all  things  considered.

can  be  had 

Promoter  Marston  has  lost  the  buoy­
ant  walk  and  nonchalant  manner  which j 
characterized him during the early stages 
of  the  negotiations,  and  he  spends  most 
of  his  time  wandering  around  town, 
looking  in  the  store  windows and watch­
ing  the  arrival  of  trains  at  the  union 
depot,  evidently  hoping  against  hope 
that  something  will  happen  to  turn  the 
tide  which  has  evidently  set  in  against 
him.

It 

With  the  possible  exception  of  Chas. 
R.  Sligh,  las.  G.  MacBride  and  Chas. 
Black,  the  abandonment  of the proposed 
combine  is  hailed  with  delight  by  those 
whose  plants  were  to  be  included  in  the 
is  also  considered  a  matter of 
deal. 
congratulation  by  all  interested 
in  the 
furniture  business,  because  the  outcome 
of  such  a  deal  could  not  fail  to  result 
disastrously—not  only  to  those  so  un­
fortunate  as  to  be  included  in  the  com­
bine,  but  also  to  the  factories  outside 
the  fold,  which  would  be  hampered  and 
discriminated  against  by  the  combina­
tion.

The  unfortunate  effect  of  the  combi­
nation  agitation  on  workmen  and  other 
employes  is  beginning  to wear  off.  It  is 
noted  that  no  employe  of  any  factory 
mentioned 
in  connection  with  the  deal 
has  purchased  any  real  estate  or  done 
anything  in  the  way  of  enlarging  or em­
bellishing  his  home  since  Mr.  Marston 
put  in  an  appearance.  The  anxiety  of 
the  workmen  approached  a  panic  in 
many  cases,  due  to  the  uneasiness  in­
cident  to  the  uncertainty  as  to  the  out­
come.  Book-keepers,  billing  clerks  and 
shipping  clerks  have  never  made  as 
many  mistakes  as  they  have  during  the 
past  four months  and  physicians  assert 
that  accidents  in  factories  have  been 
more  common  than  at  any  time  in  the 
past.

A  man 

in  a  Northern  Michigan  city 
recently  took  a  stiff  dose  of  chloral  to 
cure  a  cold.  Despite  all  the  doctors 
could  do,  the  cold  was  cured.  Interment 
will  take  place  at  bis  boyhood  home.

Canada  is  about  to  make  desperate 
efforts  to  wrest  the  manufacturing  su­
premacy  from  the  United  States.  The 
first  thing  the  Canucks  know  they  will 
find  themselves  annexed.

It  is  said  that  pride  goes  before  a 
in  diction­

fall,  but  the  reverse  is  true 
aries,

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  raw  sugar  market  contin­
ues  firm  but  quiet,  prices  remaining 
quotably  unchanged  on  the  basis  of 
4  9-32C  for  9 6   deg.  test  centrifugals. 
Refiners  were  ready  to  take  further  sup­
plies  at  full  prices,  but  holders,  as  a 
rule,  remain  confident,  in  anticipation 
in  prices  and 
of  a  probable  advance 
offerings  are  very 
light,  consequently 
few  sales  are  made.  The  refined  sugar 
market  is  quiet  and  unchanged.  Buy­
ers  apparently  have  fair  stocks on hand ; 
are  not  anxious  purchasers.  With  the 
approach  of  warmer  weather and a prob­
able  upward  tendency  of  prices 
for 
raws,  a  more  active  demand  and  higher 
prices  for  refined  will  probably  be  ex­
perienced.

interest 

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  is  fairly  active,  with  but  few 
in  the  price  of  any  article. 
changes 
General  consumptive  trade 
in  canned 
goods  continues  to  show  very  good  ac­
tivity  for  nearly  all  lines.  The  tomato 
market  during  the  past  two  days  has 
shown  signs  of  improving.  The  market 
is  just  in  that  shape  that  any  change 
must  certainly  be  for the  better  and,  if 
we  have  an  active  demand  during  the 
month,  we  would  not  be  surprised  to 
see  a  sharp  advance. 
If  all  the  en­
quiries  received  in  this  market  develop 
into  orders,  there  are 
lively  times  in 
store  for the  tomato.  There  is  practic­
ally  nothing  doing  in  future  tomatoes. 
Neither  the  buyer  nor the  seller  evinces 
in  the  market.  Any 
much 
concession,  however, 
from  the  asking 
price  is  quickly  taken  up.  There  is  a 
fair  trade 
in  corn  at  previous  prices. 
Reports  from  Maryland  are  that some  of 
the  packers  are  working  on  peas.  All 
reports  are  that  the  weather  for growing 
peas  is  fine  and  that  a  large  crop,  espe­
cially  of  the  early  peas,  is  expected. 
Owing  to  the  prospects  of  a  poor ap­
ple  crop 
in  New  York  State,  there  is 
some  speculative  interest  in  gallon  ap­
ples  and  prices  are  firmly  held.  Con­
siderable  interest  is  manifested  in  the 
growing  peach  crop,  and  enquiries  are 
made  from  all  over the  country as  to  the 
progress,  quality  and  size  of  the  fruit. 
All 
indications  now  are  for  a  good 
sized  crop  of  excellent  quality.  The 
sales  of spot  peaches  the  past  week have 
been  larger  than  they  were  the  preced­
ing  week  and  have  been  principally  for 
the  better  grades  of  pie  peaches  and 
seconds.  There  will  be  a  great  many 
peaches  used  between  now  and  the  time 
for the  new  packing,  but  we  do  not  an­
ticipate  much,  if  any,  change  in  prices. 
The  pineapple  packing  season  for  1901 
has  opened.  Several  large  cargoes  of 
excellent  fruit  arrived  during  the  past 
week  and  several  of  the  factories  are 
now  running  on  this  article.  There 
seems  to  be  an  understanding  among 
the  pineapple  packers  not  to  pay  high 
prices  this  year,  and  they  claim,  as 
they  have  not  sold  any  futures,  that they 
are  not  compelled  to  pay  the high prices 
asked  during  the  packing  season  of 
1900.  Advices  just  received  are  to  the 
effect  that  the  pineapple  crop  in  Cuba 
will  be  40  per  cent,  short  and  in  the 
Bahamas  25  per  cent,  short.  The growth 
of  the  fruit  has  been  greatly  retarded 
by  the  dry  weather,  it  is  reported.  The 
spot  market  on  red  Alaska  salmon  is  in 
a  more  healthful  condition.  Stocks  of 
Columbia  River  of  the  1900  pack  in 
jobbers'  hands  are  believed  to  be  liber­
al  and, with the present  exceedingly  dull 
and  unsatisfactory  spot  market  on  this 
grade  of  fish,  the  disposition  of  buyers 
is  to  wait.  Advices  from  the  Coast  state 
that  there  is  a  fight  on  the  Columbia

River  between  the  raw  fish  men  and  the 
canning  men  and  it  may  get  so  hot  at 
any  minute  that  the  cannery  men  will 
be  obliged  to  advance  prices.

The 

Dried  Fruits—Conditions in  the  dried 
fruit  trade  are  very  quiet,  business  be­
ing  almost  entirely  of  a  hand-to-mouth 
character. 
regular  consumptive 
trade 
in  dried  fruits  continues  good, 
hut  in  a  large  way  the  market  is  quiet. 
Prunes  are 
in  comparatively  light  de­
mand,  but  the  market  is  steady.  The 
very  small  sizes,  from  100s  up,  are  in 
good  request  at  full  quotations.  These 
small  sizes  are  also  in 
light  supply. 
Loose  raisins  are  quiet.  There  is  some 
demand  for  three  and  four  crowns,  but 
orders  are  for  small  lots  only.  Seeded 
are  in  fair demand  from  the  consump­
tive  trade.  Currants  continue  very  firm, 
but  actual  business  at  the  moment  is 
rather  light,  sales  being  chiefly  of  small 
lots.  Cheap  peaches  continue  to  be 
wanted  and  there  is  a  moderate  request 
for apricots.  Dates  are  dull  and  pressed 
for  sale,  wln'le  figs  are in steady demand 
in  a  small  way.  The 
low  grades  are 
most  wanted  at  present.  Something  of 
a  feature  of  the consumptive trade in the 
dried  fruit  line  is  a  considerably  more 
active  demand  for  evaporated  apples, 
due  unquestionably  to  the  late  season 
for  fresh  fruits.

Rice— Prices show  more strength,  par­
ticularly  for  fancy  sorts,  and  an  upward 
movement  is  expected.  The  light  sup­
plies  held  throughout the country are ap­
parently  felt  and  indications  point  to  a 
general  renewed  active  demand  soon. 
A  better  feeling  prevails  and  prospects 
look  very  bright.  Dealers  remain  firm 
and  quoted  prices  are  being  named  as 
lowest.  Unfavorable  weather  condi­
tions,  causing  a  backward  crop,  and 
large  purchases  intended  for  cultivation 
by  oid  interests  in  the  Southwest,  have 
more  or  less  upset  the  large  rice  crop 
estimates  previously  made. 
It  is  re­
ported  that  the  crop  will  not  only  not 
come  up  to  the 
last  one,  but  that  the 
receipts  will  be  much  less  than  in  1900.
Teas—The  feature  of  the  market  was 
the  continued  strong  tendency  of  prices 
for green  teas  and  the  improved  dispo­
sition  on  the  part  of  buyers  to  purchase 
with  more  freedom.  This  is  attributed 
to  the  small  supply  of  the  above  grades, 
and  it  is  intimated  that  prices  are  like­
ly  to advance  in  the  immediate  future. 
Indications  are  more  promising  and 
dealers  are 
in  their  views  on 
prices.

firmer 

Molasses—Market conditions are  quiet 
and  the  movement  is  slow,  but  sales  in 
the  aggregate  are  satisfactory,  consider­
ing  the  approach  of  warmer  weather. 
Spot  supplies  are  gradually  decreasing 
and  the  statistical position grows strong­
er  as  the  season  advances.  A  stronger 
tone  developed  in  prices  for  mixtures 
and  blends,  reflecting  the  advanced  and 
unsettled  market  for glucose  during  the 
past  week.  Most  dealers  raised  prices 
from  1  to  2c  per  gallon  and  the  better 
grades  showed  decided  strength.

Nuts—Stocks  of  Jordan  almonds  are 
reported  very  light  and  prices  are some­
what  higher.  Valencias  are  unchanged. 
Tarragonas  are 
in  light  demand  and 
somewhat  easier.  There  is  a  good  de­
mand  for  peanuts  at  unchanged  prices.
Rolled  Oats— Rolled  oats  are  in  good 

demand  at  previous  prices.

Reports  come  to  the  Tradesman  to 
the  effect  that  the  endless  chain  buggy 
scheme  is being  worked  in  several  parts 
of  the  State.  Merchants  wishing authen­
tic  information  regarding  the  personnel 
of  these  gentlemen  are  invited  to  com­
municate  with  the  Tradesman.

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M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

Clerks’  Corner.

W hat  H elped  Jo h n  H arm on In H is Choice 

of Clerks.
Written for  the Tradesman.

The  wave  of  prosperity  which  was 
everywhere  flooding  the  country  showed 
no  tendency  to  approach  John Harmon’s 
establishment  on  Elm  street.  Whether 
the  department  store  which  had  lately 
been  opened  two  blocks  away  was  the 
reason  or whether the  rise  of  rent  in  the 
neighborhood  had  driven  away  his  best 
customers  he  could  not  determ inebut 
of  one  thing  he  was  sure :  his expenses 
must  come  down  if  the  custom  did  not 
increase,  and  he  had  done  all  he  could 
to  increase 
it  without  avail,  and  the 
question  finally  came  down  to  this: 
Which  of  his  two  clerks  should  he  let 
go?

It  was  almost  the  old  story  repeated 
of  the  mother  whom  poverty  forced  to 
“ put  out”   one  of  her  children:  He 
didn’t  want  to  spare  either*  of  them. 
There  was  Jack  Kincaid  who  had  been 
with  him  for almost  six  years.  He  had 
taken  him  as  a  boy  and they had worked 
together 
like  father  and  son until  both 
felt  almost  that  relationship  for each 
other.  How  sturdy  and  handsome  he 
was!  How  he  looked you  full in  the  face 
when  he  spoke  to  you  and  how  his  Yes 
and  No,  hearty  and  honest,  with  never 
a  hint  of  impatience  in  the  tone,  made 
it  almost  a  matter of  indifference  which 
answer  he  gave. 
The  customers  all 
liked  him  and  wherever be  should  go 
some  would  follow  him,  and  Harmon 
was  willing  to  believe  that,  as  a  mere 
matter  of  business,  it  would  be  a  mis­
take  to  let  him  go,  much  less  discharge 
him.  Still,  there  it  was.  There  must 
be  a  retrenchment  somewhere  and  it 
looked  as  if  the  sacrifice  must  be  made 
and  Jack  must  be  the  victim.

As  to  his  book-keeper  he  had  not a 
complaining  word.  She  was  always  at 
her  post.  She  was  a  trifle  neater than  a 
pin,  without  making  herself or anybody 
else  uncomfortable  about  it.  Her  books 
were  marvels  of  beauty  and 
it  was  a 
look  at  the  long  even  col­
pleasure  to 
umns  of  figures  on  the  finely "written 
pages.  Then,  if  Jack  was  manly  and 
handsome,  Mary  was  womanly  and  a 
great  deal  more  than  pretty.  She  was  a 
“ Gibson  girl"  without  that  something 
that  always  suggests  heartlessness.  Her 
hands  were  white  and 
shapely—so 
white,  indeed,  that  the  white  linen  cuffs 
she  always  wore  when  on  duty  were  no 
whiter;  and  the  best  thing  to  be  said 
about  those  white  hands  was  that  they 
never hesitated  to  perform  the  common­
est  duty  for  the  commonest  customer. 
Part  with  Mary  Gray? 
It  was  like  ask­
ing  him  to  part  with  his  right  hand. 
Ah,  but  he  was  left  handed  and  the  less 
useful  of  the  two  would  have  to  give 
way.

itself.  At  midwinter,  when 

So  the  question  was  left  unsettled, 
with  the  hope  that  in  some  way it would 
settle 
it 
first came  up,  the  storekeeper concluded 
to  let  the  thing  run  on  until  spring.  By 
that  time  things  might  pick  up  and  no 
change  be  needed;  but March  came  and 
went,  April  brought  no  change—not 
enough,  anyway,  to  make  any  differ­
ence—and  now  June  had  come  without 
bringing  an  increase  of  customers,  and 
John  Harmon  went  home  night  after 
night  with  his  head  down,  knowing  that 
the  worst  must  come  and  one  or the 
other  of  the  best  clerks  in  the  world 
must  be  dropped.

Like  many  another  man,  he  shrank 
from  assuming  the  responsibility.  The

last  Saturday  night  in  May  a  happy 
thought  came  to him.  He  would  make 
his  wife  settle  the  matter  for  him  and 
throw  the responsibility  upon  luck.  He 
would  go  back  to  a  game  of  his  boy­
hood  to  help  him  out  of  his  dilemma. 
He  would  have  two  straws,  a  long  and  a 
short  one,  with  Jack  for  the  first,  and 
Susie— Mrs.  Harmon—should  pull  one 
and  so  end  it.

Mrs.  Harmon,  however,  wouldn’t play 
without  knowing  what  she  was  doing  it 
for,  and  when  she  learned  from  the  hes­
itating  John  what  it  was  all  about  she 
was  “ mighty  sure  she wouldn’t.  Luck! 
Pulling  straws  in  business!  She’d have 
none  of  it,  at  all  events  she  wouldn't 
pull  the  straw  and  a  business  man” — 
how  she  bore  down  on  the  adjective!— 
“ who  would  run  his  business  in  that 
way  would  be  sure  to  make  a  mistake, 
and  ought  to.  As  usual,  it  would  only 
show  which  way  the  wind  was  blowing, 
and 
that  fact  was  plain  enough  al­
ready.”
■ Foiled 
in  that,  the  storekeeper  de­
cided  to  watch  the  two  for a  week  and 
let the  record  of  each  decide  the matter, 
and  for  six  mortal  days  John  Harmon 
did  more  watching  than  he  had  ever 
done  before  in his life.  Nothing escaped 
his  vigilance  and  into  a  little memoran­
jotted  down  whatever 
dum  book  he 
seemed  to  him 
in  the  slightest  degree 
amiss.  Had  he  followed  his  impulse 
that  Saturday  night  he  would  have 
thrown  the  book 
in  the  river  as  he 
crossed  the  bridge  on  his  way home,  but 
it  was  a  matter  of  must  and  the  next 
morning  after  breakfast—“  the better the 
day  the  better  the  deed” — instead  of 
going  to  church  he  sat  down  to  sum  up 
his  week’s  observations  and strike a bal­
ance  to  decide  which  employe  should 
be  the  one  to  stay.

He  hadn’t  got  half through  his  work 
before  he  could  see  that  the  result  was 
to  be  decidedly  against  his  wishes. 
From  first  to  last  three  wasn’t  a  check 
against  Mary  Gray’s  name  and  the  one 
thing  which  he  could  not  forget  was  her 
record  for  Thursday. 
It  had  been  a 
trying  day  for  them  all.  One  misfor­
tune  stepped  on  the  heels  of another  all 
day  long  and  by  shutting-up time every­
body  was  as cross  as  a  bear.  As  it  was, 
Harmon  and  Jack  had  to  be  excessively 
polite  to  each  other to  keep  from  “ say­
ing  things,”   and  Mary  Gray  had  done 
more  work  at  the  counter than  she  had 
at  her desk  and  was  too ti red to  do more 
than  go  home.  Just  then  who  should 
come 
in  hut  that  Mrs.  Higby  and  her 
detestable  twin  daughters.  Proprietor 
and  clerk  cordially  hated  all  three  of 
’em and  both  swore inwardly  that they’d 
go  somewhere  (!)  before  they’d  wait  on 
the  three  biggest  nuisances  in  the State. 
What  did  that  Mary  Gray  do  but  take 
off  the  hat  she  had  just  put  on  and  go 
around  on  the  rough  side  of the  store 
to  wait  on  the  torments!  She  didn’t 
“ get  mad”   once  and  the  hateful  trio 
went  out  as  happy  and  contented  as 
could  be.  What  if  Mary  Gray hadn’t 
been  there !  That  settled  it—Jack  must 
g°-

From  that  point  on,  in  the  record, 
Jack’s  account  was  squarely  against 
him.  For some  reason  or other,  all  the 
week  the  fellow  had  not  been quite him­
self.  He  was  uneasy  and  showed  it. 
He  was  irritable  and,  seeming  to  feel 
that  he  was  watched,  had  all  the  symp­
toms  of  resenting  it— indeed,  more  than 
once  when  the  storekeeper’s  eyes  were 
on  him  a  frown  would  creep  into  his 
face  and  stay  there.  He  acted  like  a 
man  with  something  on  his  mind  and 
as 
if  waiting  for a  good  chance  to  say

it,  and  as  John  Hannon  ran  his  eye 
along  the 
list of checks  he  said,  as  he 
reached  the  end,  “ Well,  I’m  mighty 
sorry,  but  Jack’s the  one. 
I’ll  tell  him 
the  first  thing  in  the  morning.”

For  the  first  time  in  his  life  Jobn 
Harmon  learned  the  meaning  of  “ Blue 
Monday.”   He  didn’t want to get  up  in 
the  morning.  He  wasn’t  in  a  hurry  to 
have  his  breakfast and  he  spent so much 
time  looking into his coffee that “ Susie”  
asked  him 
if  there  was  anything  the 
matter with  it.  He  was  slow  about  put­
ting  on  his  hat  and  when  he  kissed  his 
wife  good-bye  she  told  him  if  he  didn’t 
look  sweeter  than  that  he  would  scare 
away  what  few  customers  he  had. 
In­
stead  of  taking  a  car he  walked  and  it 
was  at  least  half past  eight o'clock when 
he  reached  the  store.  He  found  the 
clerk  talking  with  Mary  at  her desk. 
The  minute  the  storekeeper entered Jack 
turned  and  said:  “ I  don’t  know  what 
you’ ll  think  about  it,  Mr.  Harmon,  but 
Mary  and  I  have  been  talking  things 
over  and  have  concluded  that  you’ll 
have  to  get  another  book-keeper  the 
first  of  next  month.  We  are  going  to  be 
married  on  the  tenth  and  she  wants  to 
quit at  the  end  of two  weeks.  Perhaps 
you’re  surprised,  but  1  hope  you’re 
glad,  too.”

“ Indeed,  I  am  both— I  can  not  tell 
you  bow  much  (!)  and  I’m  wise  enough 
not  to try. ’ ’

He  didn’t.  They  never  knew  the 
real  cause  of  his  surprise  and  delight. 
When  the  wedding  trip  was  over and the 
couple  had  settled  down  in  a  little home 
of  their  own  Mary  would  come  over 
often  enough  to  see  that  the  books 
didn’t get  tangled  up  and  a  few  months 
later the  business  tide  turned  and  Har­
mon’s  ship,  with  the  rest  of the  mer­
cantile  world,  rode  on  the  high  waves 
of  prosperity;  but  to this  day  the  store­
keeper  is  unable  to  state  what  it  was 
that  settled  the  question  of  clerks.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Now  It's  Shovels.

A  New  York  paper  says:  Plans  are 
under  discussion  for  a  consolidation  of 
the 
leading  manufacturers  of  shovels 
and  spades.  There  has  been  a  very 
compact  association  in  that  trade  for a 
long  time,but  now  an  actual merging  of 
interests  is  proposed.  The  new  com­
pany,  if  one  is  formed,  may  be  known 
as  the  Ames  Shovel  and  Tool Company. 
It  is  reported  that  options  have  been 
secured  on  plants  representing  over  90 
per  cent,  of  the  business.

Chas.  A. Coye

Manufacturer and Jobber of

A w n i n g s ,   T e n t s ,

F l a g s ,   H o r s e   a n d  
W a g o n   C o v e r s , 
L a w n   S w i n g s ,  
I r o n   H a m m o c k  
C h a ir s ,
S e a t   S h a d e s   a n d
W a g o n   U m b r e lla s

Twines of all  Kinds

11  Pearl Street 

Grand Rapids,  Michigan
TO TH E TRADE:
We are the only manufacturers of Dynamite In 
Lower Michigan suitable for general Bock  work 
and  Stump  Blasting;,  also  Caps,  Safety  Fuse, 
Electric  Fuse, Batteries, Dirt Augers,  etc.  Our 
goods are strictly high grade and reliable, twenty- 
five years in thebusiness.  Prices and goods right. 
Shipments made promptly on same day  order  is 
received.  Try us by inquiry.

A JA X   DYNAMITE WORKS,

Bay  City, Mich.
Glover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or Gasoline.

Glover’s  W holesale  M erchandise  Co.

G rand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers  and Jobbers of 

GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Pood Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
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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 
torlal suggestions for the asking
The T. J. Mosher Electric Co
Mfrs.  Fixtures,  Belts,  Insoles 
Batteries,  General  Contractors
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STATIONERY  &CATALOCUE PRINTING

GRAND RAPIDS,MICHIGAN.

100,000  Pounds  of  Butter  Wanted

for  which  I  will  pay  the  highest  market  price.
1  am  also in  the  market  for  eggs  and  poultry.
Write for  quotations  or telephone either  Bell  or 
New State phone  at  warehouse  or  residence.

J.  W.  FLEMING,  Belding,  Michigan.

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State Agents

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Insulating Papers and  Paints.

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7

W HITE  LEAD  PROCESS.

Does the  W ork  of Three  M onths  In  Five 

Days.

lead 

White 

lead  and 

It  seems  that  the  problem  of  how  to 
save  time 
in  the  manufacture  of  white 
lead  has at  last  been  solved.  Upon  this 
problem  a  vast  amount  of  labor  has 
been  spent,  and  many  chemical  proc­
and  mechanical  devices  have 
esses 
evolved  out  of  a 
long  line  of  experi­
ments  only  to  have  the  results  rejected 
by  the  trade  as  unsatisfactory.
linseed  oil  make 
paint  and  for this  purpose  150,000  tons 
of  white 
is  annually  consumed. 
The  Lead  Trust,  or the  National  Lead 
Company,  which  is  its  corporate  name, 
owning  fully  60  per cent,  of  the  Ameri­
can  white 
lead  factories,  and  two  or 
three  other  companies  outside  of  the 
trust  at  the  present  time  produce  al­
most  the  entire  supply  or  white  lead 
and  make  it  according  to  the  old-fash­
ioned  “ Dutch  process.”   Every  new 
effort  to find  a  substitute  for the  product 
of  the  Dutch  process  has  shown  that 
there  is  no  other  way  than  by  corrosion 
to  make  a  white  lead  which  the  paint­
ers  will  accept.  But  it  seems  to  have 
been  too  readily  assumed  that  a  thor­
ough  corrosion  could  be  effected  only by 
the  slow  process.

It  is  a  process  of  corrosion. 

At  all  events,  a  new  process  has  been 
found. 
It 
acts  upon  the  blue  lead  in  precisely  the 
same  way  as  the  old  Dutch process  acts, 
but  it  does  in  five  days  what  by  the 
Dutch  process  requires from three to four 
months.

It 

White  lead  is  carbonate  of  lead.  That 
is,  it  is  ordinary  blue  lead  corroded  by 
carbonic  acid  gas.  The  blue 
lead  is 
found  sometimes  pure,  as  in  the  Mis­
souri  lead  fields,  and  often  in  combina­
tion  with  silver  and  copper. 
is 
into  small  blocks,  which  are 
smelted 
known  as  pig  lead,  and  which 
in  that 
form  are  the  raw  material  of  the  white 
lead  factories.  By  the  primitive  process 
which  still  obtains  in  the  production  of 
almost  the  entire  supply  of  white  lead 
now  being  marketed,  the  pig 
lead  is 
first  melted  and 
is  ejected  from  the 
melting  pot  through  a  tube  and  spigot 
at  the  bottom  of  the  pot  about  an  inch 
in  diameter  onto  an  endless  chain,  each 
link  of  which 
is  a  mould  having  the 
general  appearance  of  a  waffle-iron. 
In 
the  shape  thus  assumed  by  the  melted 
lead,  it 
is  called  a  “ buckle,”   the  pur­
pose  of  giving  it  this  waffle-like  shape 
being  to  provide  as  much  surface  as 
possible  for  the  carbonic  acid  gas  to 
attack.

The  buckles, 

laid  one  by  one, 

in 
earthern  pots,  are  “ stacked” 'in   a  room 
of  convenient  size  and  under each  pot' 
is  a  small  basin  containing  acetic  acid. 
The  acetic  acid  basins  are  surrounded 
by  wet  tan  bark  and  the  heat  thereby 
generated,  acting  upon  the  fumes  of the 
acetic  acid,  creates  the  carbonic  acid 
gas  which,  eating  through  the  blue 
lead,  produces  the  white 
corrosion 
known  as  white  lead.  The  process  of 
corrosion  occupies  from  90 to  100  days, 
and  even  then  the  blue 
lead  has  not 
been  completely  corroded. 
It  is  not 
safe  to  continue  the process  much longer 
than  ninety  days,  however,  because 
after corrosion  a  deleterious  change  oc­
curs  and  that  portion  of the  lead  which 
has  first  corroded  becomes  crystallized, 
and  all  this  hard  and  gritty  material 
must  be  removed.

It  is  to  be  seen,  therefore,  that  while 
this  primitive  method  of manufacture  is 
thus  far the  only  one  that  has  produced 
a  white  lead  entirely  adapted  to the  re­
quirements of commerce, there are  never­
theless  in  the  method  serious  drawbacks 
and  defects.  Most  serious  of  all.is  the 
amount  of time  consumed.  Another  is 
the  labor and  expense  involved  in  sepa­
rating the  crystallized  material from that 
which 
is  simply  corroded.  The  third 
is  the  considerable  residuum,  usually as 
much  as  30 per cent., of blue  lead which 
even  at  the  end  of the ninety-day period 
has  been  unaffected  by  the  carbonic 
acid.  Each  of  these  defects  has  been 
reached  and  overcome  by  the  new  proc­
ess.

This  new  process  is  the  invention  of 
W.  Bailey,  a  practical  mechanic  of 
great experience  in  white lead manufac­

and 

ture. 
Its  product,  as  in  the  case  of  the 
old  Dutch  process,  is  carbonate  of  lead. 
The  only  difference 
is  that  when  the 
carbonic  acid  treatment  is  ended,  the 
blue  lead 
is  completely  corroded,  five 
days  only  have  been  consumed  and  no 
crystallization  whatever  has  occurred. 
The  pig  lead  is  melted  precisely  as  by 
the  older  process. 
It  is  driven  from the 
melting  pot  by  the  force  of  its  own 
gravity  through  a  short  horizontal  noz­
zle,  as  in  the  former  case,  but  instead 
into  the  waffle-shaped 
of  running  out 
buckles  it  is  forced  through  a  thin  steel 
plate,  in  which  the  horizontal  nozzle 
is 
made  to  terminate,  the  steel  plate  being 
perforated  with  about  two  hundred  mi­
nute  holes  not  more  than  one  one-hun­
dredth  of  an  inch  in  diameter.
There  thus  fall  into  the  air,  cooling 
immediately,  fine  metallic  fibres  which, 
dropping  upon  trays  each  holding  about 
fifty  pounds  of  fibre  and  permitting  free 
circulation  through  the  entire  mass,  are 
passed  swiftly  through  an  8  per cent, 
solution  of  acetic  acid 
then 
stacked.  This  entire  process  is  mechan­
ical  and  automatic,  and  a  great amount 
of  hand  labor  is  saved.  The  carbon 
dioxide  has  to  operate  upon  a  minute 
lead  fibre  instead  of  upon  a  large,  thick 
buckle.  Practically,  therefore,  the  ex­
posed  lead  is  all  surface.  Every  par­
ticle  is  reached  by  the  gas  immediately 
and  in  four or five  days  it  has  been  en­
tirely  corroded.  There  is  no  blue 
lead 
remaining  and  the  further  process  or 
separation  by  which  under  the  old 
method  the  crystallized  particles  must 
be  removed  is  unnecessary.  Under  the 
most  careful  microscopical  examination 
nothing  is  disclosed  in  the  Bailey  prod­
uct  except  pure white  lead  and  that  2  or 
2 } i   per cent,  of water  which  is  a  neces­
sary  ingredient  of  the  best  white 
lead 
product.  The  economies  thus  accom­
plished  are  enormous.  The  total  cost  of 
manufacture  by  the  Dutch  process  aver­
ages  from  $13  to  $18  per  ton  of  dry 
product.  When  it  is  said  that  the  total 
cost  per ton  by  the  new process averages 
something  less  than  $5  the  effect  of  Mr. 
Bailey’s  invention 
is  seen  to  be  far 
reaching.  Even  at  the  heavy  and  fluc­
tuating  cost  of  between  $13  and  $18, 
however,  white 
lead  manufacture  has 
immensely  profitable  and  the  an­
been 
nual  market 
increases  in  huge  propor­
tions.

The  owners  of  the  Bailey  process 
into  its  development  with 
have  gone 
confidence  and  energy. 
They  have 
bought  a  large  tract  of  land  in  the  well- 
known  Missouri 
lead  fields  on  which 
several  mines  of  known  value  have been 
located.  They  have  made  themselves 
much  the  largest  owners  of  lead-bear­
ing  ores  in  this  famous  lead  territory. 
Their  property  adjoins  that  of  the  St. 
Joe  mine,  which  is  one  of  the  heaviest 
I lead  producers  in  the  world. 
In  this 
immediate  neighborhood  are  the  min­
ing  properties  of  the  Lead  Trust  and 
also  the  areas  recently  purchased  by 
the  Messrs.  Guggenheim,  whose  associ­
ation  with  the  Smelting  Trust  has  been 
announced.

With  the new  process  and  these exten­
sive  mines  as  a  portion  of  their  assets 
and  sustained  by large capital, these men 
have  recently  organized  the  Union  Lead 
and  Oil  Company. 
It  is  the  purpose  to 
take  out  their own  ores,  reduce  them  on 
the  spot  by  concentrating  plants,  four 
of  which,  each  of  2,000 tons  capacity, 
are  presently  to  be  constructed, and  con­
railroad  to  St. 
vey  the  product  by 
Louis. 
lead 
works  are  to  be  located  in  Brooklyn. 
The  operation  of  capital  that  by  the 
new  process  can  be  turned  over  four 
times  a  month,as  against  that  which,  to' 
produce  similar  results,  must  be  locked 
up  for  nearly  four  months,  foretells  a 
revolution  in "the  white  lead  business.

company’s  white 

The 

No  Cause  for W orry.

Mrs.  Housekeep— By the  way, Jane,  I 
left 

never thought  to ask  you  why  you 
your  last  place.

New  Maid—The  mistress  caught  the 
master kissing  me,  but  you  needn’t  be 
afraid  of  that,  ma’am.
not!

Mrs.  Housekeep—Well,  I  should  say 

New_Maid— No,  ma’am.  Your  hus­

band  ain’t  my  style  at  all.

Rules  W hich  Do  Not  Regulate. 

From the Druggist’s Circular.

Did  you  ever  put  up  a  sign :  “ Keep 
from  behind  this  counter,”   or  anvthin£r 
like  that?

ern  themselves  accordingly?

You  have,  without  a  doubt.
Did  people  take  due  notice  and  gov­
Perhaps.
And  perhaps  they  didn’t.
Old  friends  who  had  been  coming  be­
hind  the  counter  for  months  and  years, 
and  who  were  the  very  ones  for  whose 
benefit  the  sign  was  placed  in  position, 
saw 
that  doesn’t 
mean  me.”

it  and  said,  ‘  ‘ Oh, 

a  postscript, 
“ This 
You  added 
means  you,”   and  those  old  friends  saw 
“ Some of these fellows 
it  and  laughed. 
must  have  been  getting 
in  your way 
back  here,”   they  said  with  familiar 
squeeze  of  your  vaccinated  arm.

And  then  what  did  you  do?  Write 
another  sign?  Throw  the  whole  sign 
business  in  the  fire?  Kick  your  old 
friend  out  of  the  store?

I 

have  spoken  about  this  disregard  of 

rules  before.  The  people  of  this  free 
country  think  that  clocks  are  something 
to  be  regulated;  but  men—never!

The  Removal  of W arts.

The  removal  of  warts  by  caustic  ap­
plications  occasionally  results  in  the 
formation  of  ulcerous  sores  and disfigur­
ing  scars.  Salicylic  acid  may  be  used 
for  that  purpose  without  the  slightest 
harmful  effect.  The following  is  an  ex­
cellent  combination  which  any  one  can 
use:

Mercuric  chloride,  5  grains.
Salicylic  acid,  1  drachm.
Collodion,  1  ounce.
Apply  once  a  day,  the  upper  crust  of 
the  previous  application  being  removed 
before  a  fresh  one  is  made.

After a  few  applications  the  wart  may 
be  painlessly  removed  by  gentle  trac­
tion.

A  man  may  be  both  a  success  and  a 
failure;  he may  be a  success  as  a  failure 
and  a  failure  as  a  success.

D e liv e r y   W a g o n s

C hocolate  C oolers 

Ice  C ream   and

S to r e   R e fr ig er a to r s 

Write for  prices.

FRITZ &  QOBLDEL  MFO.  CO., 

Alabama Street 

Qrand  Rapid«,  Mich.

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

V A LLEY   C IT Y   MILLING  C O ..

G R A N D   R A P ID 8 .  M IC H .

Talk  No.  8

If you are suffering  from  any  of  the  following 

symptoms write Dr. Rankin for 

free consultation.

CATARRH  OF  THE  BRONCHIAL 

TUBES.

Have you a cough?
Are you losing flesh?
Do you cough at night?
Have you pain in side?
Do you take cold easily?
Is your appetite variable?
Have you stitches in side?
Are you low spirited at times?
Do you cough on going to bed?
Do you cough in the morning?
Is your cough short and hacking?
Have you a disgust for fatty foods?
Is there a tickling behind the palate?
Do you feel you are growing weaker?
Is there a burning pain In the throat?
Do you cough worse night and morning?
Do you have to sit up  at night to get breath?

Go or write to 

D R .  C.  E .  RANKIN 

P o w e r s ’  O pera  H o u se   B lock  

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

Graduate of University  of  Michigan  and Hlinois 

School  of  Electro-Therapeutics 

Mall  T reatm ent

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

symptom  blank.

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
3oo........................  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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STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN >

County  of  Kent 

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John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
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saw  the  edition 
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GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

It  is  unique  in  the  history  of  trade  in 
this  country  to  be  able  to say  that  the 
tide  of activity  in  all  industries  has  not 
experienced  the  least  abatement as  a  re­
sult  of the  Wall  Street  panic. 
In  all 
lines the  changes  are  toward  greater  in­
tensity  of  movement,  with 
improving 
values.  That  this  condition  should  fol­
low on  so  severe  a  flurry  is  a  most  con­
clusive  demonstration  of  the  general 
strength  of  the  situation.

It 

in  the  price  of 

The  rally  from  the  effects  of the panic 
was  prompt  as  to  stock  values,  but  nat­
urally there  was  conservatism 
in  the 
volume  of  trade.  Still  there  was  not 
the  dulness  that  would  be  expected  at 
such  a  time.  This  week  shows  a  see­
sawing 
some  most 
affected  by  the  panic  and  by  continued 
rumors  of  further  consolidations. 
is 
expected,  and  is  to  be  hoped,  that  a  re­
turn  to  the  abnormal  activity  preceding 
the  panic  will  be  delayed for some time.
It  is  becoming  monotonous  to  report 
simply  a  continuation  of  activity  in  all 
domestic  industries.  As  yet  the  effects 
of  labor agitation  are  not  apparent  and 
the  pressure  of  demand  is  keeping  the 
wheels  bumming  at  their highest  speed. 
Building  operations  in  the  cities  and 
country,  bridges  and  structural  work, 
and  transportation  enterprises,  includ­
ing  cars  and  ships,  are  being  pushed  to 
the  utmost.  Of  course,  it  must  be  at 
such  a  time  that  the  work  of  strikers 
becomes  most  active;  but  the  results  of 
their  disturbances  can  have  but  little 
effect  outside  the  immediate  trades con­
cerned.  Foreign  trade  continues  satis­
factory,  notwithstanding  threats  of  re­
taliation  and  heavy  cuts  in  prices  by 
European manufacturers.  April exports 
exceeded  those  of  the  corresponding 
month  of  any  previous  year,  while  im­
ports  were  only  larger  in  one  month  of 
the  preceding  forty-five.  The  trade  bal­
ance 
in  our  favor of  $44,029,608  indi­
cates  that  gold  is  not  sent  abroad  to pay

bills,  but  to  help  less  fortunate  nations.
In  the  steel  industry  the  most  notice­
able  feature  has  been  the  unparalleled 
movement  of harvesting  machinery  and 
all  lines  of  agricultural  implements,  in­
dicating 
the  general  expectation  of 
large  crops  and  the  prosperous  condi­
tion  of  farmers, who  are  better able  than 
ever  before  to  purchase  all  the  latest 
improvements  in  tools.  Despite  unusu­
ally  good  prospects  in  grain  growing 
states,  there  is  little  sign  of weakness  in 
prices,  and  figures  of  movement  show 
that  foreign  purchases  are  heavy  not­
withstanding  the  remarkable  advance 
in  quotations.  April  exports  of  bread- 
stuffs  were  valued  at  $24,406,712,  ex­
ceeding  every  month  since  September, 
1899,  and  free  shipments  in  May  thus 
far  promise  another  satisfactory  ex­
hibit.  Speculation  has  continued  phe­
in  the  Chicago  market,  where 
nomenal 
the  short 
interest  was  forced  to  pay  60 
cents  for  May  options  of  corn.  Subse­
quently  there  were  some  private  settle­
ments  between  the  large  operators  and 
the  price  broke  sharply.  Wide  fluctua­
tions  also  occurred  in  wheat,  caused  by 
reports  of  insufficient  rain  and  other 
threatening  aspects.  After  each  ad­
vance  the  decline  was  even  more  pro­
nounced.

NEW GRAIN  FROM  RUSSIA.

In  Manitoba  they  are  growing  to  a 
limited  extent  a  kind  of  grain  new  to 
this  continent. 
It  is  called  spelt  and  is 
a  Russian  grain. 
It  also grows  in some 
parts  of  Germany.  The  seed  was  ob­
tained  from  a  Russian  settlement  in 
Dakota.  The  peasants  fleeing  from  the 
rule  of  the  Great  White  Czar  had 
brought  this  little  remembrance of  home 
with  them.  As  for  unnumbered  cen­
turies  their  ancestors  had  been  obliged 
to  hoard  up  the  seed  against  the  time  of 
sowing  and  to  tend  its  growth  against 
the  time  of  harvest  or  to  suffer death  by 
starvation,  so  these  peasants  qualified 
their  faith 
in  the  possibilities  of  the 
new  world  to  which  they  came  by  cov­
ertly  bringing  over  with  them  some 
spelt.  They  hoped  and  believed  and 
prayed  that  the  new  world  would  be  a 
land  beyond  Jordan  for  them;  that 
its 
plains  would  flow  with  milk  and  honey, 
but  it  was  well  to take  along  some  spelt 
seed.  The  spelt seed  was sown  as  a mat­
ter  of  sentiment  finally,  and  when  it 
was  reaped  there  came  the  American 
farmer  and  the  representatives  of the 
Department  of  Agriculture  to  see  what 
this  spelt  really  was.

in 

Some  of  it  was  sold  in  Winnipeg  and 
several  farmers 
in  Manitoba  agreed  to 
try  it  and  find  out  “ if there  was  any­
thing 
it.”   The  United  States  com­
mercial  agent  in  Manitoba  thinks  that 
there  is.  He  says  that  all  the  farmers 
speak  favorably  of  spelt  and  that,  al­
though  the  season  was  trying,  as  much 
as  fifty  bushels  of  grain  were  produced 
from  one  bushel  of  seed. 
It  is  a  grain 
easily  grown,  stands  drought  better than 
most  grains,  ripens  early  and  makes  a 
superior  feed  for animals.  The  straw  is 
also said to  be  better  feed  than  the straw 
of  other  grains  in  grown  Manitoba. 
Spelt,  when  sheltered,  looks like  a  cross 
between  rye  and  wheat.

The  Supreme  Court  of  New  York  has 
decided  that  a  woman’s  earnings belong 
to  her  husband.  The  Michigan  Cen­
tral 
is  talking  of  putting  on  a  married 
man’s  special  to  run  throiigh  to  the 
Knickerbocker  State  without  change.

Some  people  are  like  antique  eggs— 
the  better  you  get  acquainted  the  more 
you  don’t  like  them,

OBEDIENCE TH E  PRICE  OP  SUCCESS.
Henry  Ward  Beecher  used  to  lecture 
very  entertainingly  on  “ The  Reign  of 
the  Common  People.”   The  world  had 
grown  old  before  men  generally  began 
to  dream  that  a  time  might  come  when 
a  career  would  be  possible 
for  any 
man’s  son  who  should  enter the  lists  on 
the  strength  simply  of  personal  force— 
that 
is  to  say,  character  and  talent. 
The  prevalence  of  “ the  democratic 
idea”   in  the  Nineteenth  Century  gave 
to  mankind  a  new  conception  of  the 
possibility  of  success  and  imparted  a 
formerly  unknown  impetus  to  high  en­
deavor  in  every  rank  of  life  and  every 
labor.  Hereditary  titles  and 
field  of 
lofty 
lineage  were  still  awarded  a  cer­
tain  distinction;  but  the  great  prizes  of 
life— fame,  power,  wealth  and 
intellec­
tual  leadership—were  to  be  won  by  the 
stoutest  hearts  and  the  clearest  heads. 
To  do  something,  to  make  something, 
to  say  something,  might  then  be  any 
man’s  ambition,  and  the  reward  was 
abundant.

Assuredly  this  was  “ The  Reign  of 
the  Common  People.”   For centuries  it 
bad  hardly  been  suspected  how  uncom­
mon,  how  great,  the  son  of  a  poor  and 
obscure  man  might  prove  to  be 
if  only 
he  had  the  chance  to  show  his  strength. 
It  was  held  that  people  should  be  con­
tent  in  the  stations  in  which  they  were 
bom.  A  man  took  his  father's  trade  as 
he  took  bis  name;  and,  indeed,  it  was 
the  trade  which  gave  the  whole  family 
its  name.  Smith  or  Miller.  With  the 
opening  of  the  floodgates  of  opportu­
nity  to  the  masses,  however,  all  the 
wheels  of  progress  were  set  in  motion. 
Old  men  and  young  men  and  men  of 
every  degree  rushed  in  one  headlong 
tumult  of  emulation  to the  front.  That 
era  of  democracy  was  pre-eminently  the 
era  of  individualism,  and  never before 
had  the  world  been  so  rapidly  enriched 
by  the  force  of  human  industry  and  by 
the  magic  of  personal  genius.  Science, 
literature  and  all  the  arts  made  prodig­
ious  onward  strides  and  there  were  few 
who  doubted  that  “ The  Reign  of  the 
Common  People”   was  a  grand  and  per­
manent  success.  Here 
in  the  United 
States  especially,  who  could  suspect 
that  any  limit  might  be  set  to  the  polit­
ical  power and  freedom  of  the  people. 
For  here  the  people  made  the 
laws, 
elected  their  own  public  servants  and 
rejoiced 
in  the  possession  of  a  written 
constitution  which  guaranteed  to them 
the  enjoyment  of civil  and religious lib­
erty.  What  more  could  they  ask,  and 
what  was  there  to  fear?  Who,  then, 
should  gainsay  the  confident  assertion 
that  the  gieat  experiment of  self-gov­
ernment,  the  cause  of  personal  freedom 
and  individual 
independence,  was  a 
complete  success?

No  present,  however,  can  surely  cal­
culate  the  direction  of  its  own  develop­
ment,  and  just  now 
it  seems  obvious 
enough  that  individualism,  whether or 
not  it  may  ever  return,  has  had  its  day. 
A  great  deal  is  still  said  about  an  open 
career for talent  and  the  possibilities  of 
success  for the  poorest  of  the  poor.  Men 
in  high  places—that  is  to  say,  men  con­
trolling  very  important  material  inter­
ests—are  constantly  coming  forward  to 
prove  by  the  evidence  of their own  per­
sonal  histories  that  power and  wealth 
can  still  be  achieved  by  industry,  fidel­
ity  and  a  fair degree  of  intelligence. 
Every  effort  is  made  to  impress  it  upon 
the  mind  of the  poor  boy  that power and 
wealth  are  within  his  reach  because  the 
wealthy  and  the  powerful  will  always be 
prompted  by  their  own  interest  to  re­
ward  and  promote  him  to  the  extent

that  he  demonstrates  his  readiness  and 
ability  to  serve  them.  As  the  young 
French  soldier  enlisted  under  Napoleon 
with  a  marshal’s  baton 
in  his  knap­
sack,  so  the  young  American  of  to-day 
may  join  the  great  industrial  army  with 
the  brightest  anticipation  of  advance­
ment.  On  the  other  hand,  he  must  un­
derstand  that  it  is  an  army  with  recog­
nized  commanders  and  rigid  discipline, 
and  not  by  any  means  a  free  commun­
ity,  that  he  is  entering. 
It  is  true  that 
beginners  in  business  have  always  been 
taught  to  obey  orders  and  to  observe 
certain  well-established  rules;  but  the 
present  system  has  set  up  new  incen­
tives  to obedience.  The  young  soldier 
is  given  to  understand  that  he  has  en­
listed  for  life  and  that  he  must  make 
the  best  of  his  place  under  penalty  of 
getting  “ out  of the  swim.”   Well it  may 
be  asked  why  anyone  should  object  to 
success  on  those  terms.  Certainly,  it 
may  be  forcibly  contended,  it  is  not  a 
misfortune  to  find  one’s  self  in  a  place 
that  he  may  be  sure  of keeping  as  long 
as  he  shows  himself  capable  and  faith­
it  remains  true,  nevertheless, 
ful.  But 
that  the  old  system  of  individualism 
is 
gone. 
If  the  time  has  not  actually 
come,  it  is  fast  approaching,  when  in 
every  branch  of  trade  and 
industry 
less  than  ruin  will  follow  dis­
nothing 
obedience  to  orders 
from  the 
headquarters 
of  multi-millionaires. 
Men  of extraordinary  energy  and ability 
may  achieve,  perhaps,  a  greater  finan­
cial  success 
could  have 
achieved  at  any  former time  or  under 
any  other  system  of  business  organiza­
tion;  but  “ The  Reign  of  the  Common 
People”   meant  something  more  than 
the  rapid  promotion  of  a  few  exception­
ally  able  men. 
formerly  the 
case  that  men  of  moderate  means  and 
average  ability  could  do  business  on 
their  own  account,  build  up  a  more  or 
less 
trade,  preserving 
meanwhile  that  consciousness  of  inde­
pendence  which  they  regard  as  an  in­
alienable  right.

remunerative 

It  was 

issued 

than 

they 

Success  in  business,  therefore,  means 
something  very  different  from  what  it 
formerly  meant 
in  this  country.  But 
success  in  business does  not  necessarily 
imply  success  in  life,  and  one  wonders 
sometimes  why  millionaires  aijd  multi­
millionaires are  so  generally  neglected 
by  those  who  deal  out  advice  so  un­
stintedly to  poor young  men  just  begin­
ning  to  work  for a  living.  People  seem 
to forget or to ignore the  fact that  the  life 
of  a  great  capitalist  may  prove  a  sad 
failure  after  all.  Such  a  man  is,  per­
haps,  more  or  less 
indirectly  admon­
ished  now  and  then  that  he  should  de­
vote  a  good  part  of  his  wealth  to  the 
relief  of  suffering,  to  the  diffusion  of 
education  and  to  the  encouragement  of 
artistic  culture;  but  why  should  he  not 
be  plainly  told  that  he  ought  to  learn  t® 
look  habitually  upon  the  world  at  large 
from  an  uncommercial  point  of  view? 
A  great  deal  depends  upon  the  charac­
ter,  the  accomplishments  and  the  tastes 
of the  governing  class,  and  there  is  only 
too  much  reason  to apprehend  that  the 
American  millionaire  is  left  too  much 
to  his  own  guidance  in  the  realm  of the 
higher culture.

The  report  that  the  Shah  of  Persia 

is 
dying  would  lead  one  to  suggest  that  he 
try  the  heroic  prescription  of the  Sultan 
of  Turkey and  kill  his  physician.  Self- 
preservation  is the  first  law  of  nature.

“ Live  and  let  live”   is  a  good  motto 
for all  men— with  the  exception  of  un­
dertakers  and  butchers,

A  NEW  ORGANIZATION.

A  very  aged  saying  is  that  misery 
oves  company.  A  fellow  feeling  makes 
all  men  kin. 
It  is  a  common  practice 
for  those  who  have  dared  and  suffered 
together to  organize  and  perpetuate  the 
memories  and  the  associations.  A  good 
example  of  that  sort  of  thing 
is  the 
Grand  Army  of  the  Republic,  whose 
membership 
is  made  up  of  those  who 
bore  arms 
in  defense  of  their country. 
A  similar sample  is  the  Hay  Fever  As­
sociation,  joined  by  men  and  women 
who  have  or  think  they  have  this  ail­
ment.  They  are  accustomed  to  meet 
every  summer  in  some  high  and  dry 
place  where  they  can  sneeze  in  concert 
and  console  each  other.  Now  an  ap­
pendicitis  club  is  being  started,  and  it 
is  proposed  to  have  a  national  organiza­
tion,  with  state  and  local  branches. 
Its 
founder 
is  W.  F.  Fernauld,  of  Old 
Orchard,  Me.,  who  parted company with 
his  appendix  vermiformis  at  the  Mass­
achusetts  General  Hospital  in  1898. 
If 
he  succeeds  in  his  undertaking  his  as­
sociation  will  have  a  large membership.
Appendicitis  by  that  name  is  a  new 
disease.  A  good  deal  of  it  used  to  pass 
under  the  general  head  of  peritonitis, 
and  before  that  was  known  as  plain 
in­
flammation  of  the  bowels,  but  under any 
appellation 
it  got  there  just  the  same. 
If  the  gold  cure  graduates  have  re­
unions,  why  not  those  who  have  known 
the  surgeon’s  knife  and  lived  to  tell  the 
tale?  Should  the  organization  grow  as 
its  originator  expects  and  hopes,  there 
are  a  great  many  things  it  might  ac­
complish.  One  of  them  would  be  the 
establishment  of  another  memorial  or 
decoration  day. 
It  would  then  become 
incumbent  upon  the  survivors  to  put 
flowers  on  the  graves  of  those  whose 
eligibility  for  membership  was  spanned 
only  by  the  few hours  or  few  days  inter­
vening  between  parting  with 
their 
vermiform  appendix  and  parting  with 
their  lives.  Great  experience  meetings 
the  members  could  hold  and  delicious 
discussions 
in, 
thrilling  tales  told  and  hour after  hour 
devoted  to  the  narration  of  surgical 
sufferings.  Then 
in  time  there  would 
spring  up  associations  of  the  sons  and 
the  daughters  of  those  who  had  suffered 
from  appendicitis, just  as  there  are  Sons 
of  Veterans  and Daughters  of  the  Amer­
ican  Revolution.  There 
is  no  end  to 
the  organizing  business.

could  be 

indulged 

FOLLOWING a!"GOOD EXAMPLE.
That  advertising  pays  is  axiomatic  in 
the  United  States.  There  are  thousands 
who owe  their wealth  to their  judicious 
and  liberal  employment of printer’s ink. 
In  fact  the  enterprising,  energetic  busi­
ness  man  would  as  soon  think  of getting 
along  without  book-keepers  or  clerks  or 
insurance  as  to  try  to  dispense  with 
paid  newspaper  announcements.  What 
is  said  of  individual  business  enter­
prises  has  wide  application  and  is  as 
true  of  villages  and  cities.  Hitherto  it 
has  been  entirely  an  American  custom 
for enterprising  places  to advertise  their 
attractions 
inducing 
others  to  invest  money there.  Cities  and 
villages  that  have  made  the  experiment 
have  found 
it  a  profitable  way  of  in­
creasing  industries  and  prosperity.
is  much  slower  than 

the 
United  States, and  more  conservative. 
For  a 
long  time  the  British  were  dis­
posed  to  ridicule  the  booming  of  Amer­
ican  towns  and  characterized 
it  as  a 
foolish  expenditure  of  energy  and 
money.  As  iu  other  instances  Great 
Britain  at  length  consents 
to  adopt 
ideas  and  follow  American
American 

in  the  hope  of 

England 

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

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examples.  Some  of  the  English  cities 
have  recently  issued  attractive  pamph­
lets  for  gratuitous  distribution  setting 
forth natural or artificial advantages, with 
the  hope  of  inducing  outsiders  to  come 
and  leave  a  little  money.  Town  boom­
ing  has  as  yet  gained  no  such  propor­
tions  abroad  as  it  enjoys  in  this  coun­
if  the  first  experiments  prove 
try,  but 
in  England  the  scheme  will 
profitable 
be  contagious  and  other 
towns  will 
catch 
it.  The  fault-finding  writers  of 
pungent  paragraphs  for  the  London  and 
other  British  papers  will  no  longer be 
poking  fun  at  their American  cousins 
on  this  account.  They  are  coming  to 
appreciate  more  than  ever  before  that 
advertising  pays  and  that  the  applica­
tion  of  the  axiom  is  not  limited  to the 
retail  stores.  Just  now,  unfortunately, 
the  British  have  great  difficulty  to  keep 
their  industries  running  on  anything 
like  full  time.  What  they  need 
is  not 
so  much  new  factories  as  it  is  work  for 
the  old  ones,  but  all  the  same  they  are 
coming  to  the  right  idea  in  advertising 
theories  and  practice  by  still  further 
adopting  American  methods.

Competition  with  the  general  Govern­
ment  in  mail  carrying  has  been  sup­
posed 
impossible,  for  various  reasons. 
Cost  is  one.  Another,  and  sufficient  as 
commonly  understood,  is  the  Govern­
ment’s  assertion  of  exclusive  rights  in 
the  premises.  But  this  understanding 
is  subject  to  exception,  it  appears.  A 
company  having  its  headquarters 
in 
Omaha  bas  opened  an  opposition  mail 
carrying  service,  to  whose  operations 
the  legal  bureau  of  the  Postoffice  De­
partment  says  exceptions  can  not  be 
taken.  The  company  confines  its  busi­
ness to  first-class  matter.  It  collects  and 
forwards  letters  for  one  cent  postage. 
It  serves  only  the  business  portion  of 
cities,  which  districts  have  large  quan­
tities  of  first-class  mail  matter.  The 
saving  of  a  cent  on  every  letter  makes a 
considerable  item  in  a  given  time.  The 
letters  are _forwarded  to  their  destina­
tion  by  express,  the  cost  of the  opera­
tion  being  figured  down  to six-tenths  of 
a  cent.  Receipts  at  the  Omaha  post 
office  are  said  to  have  fallen  off  appre­
ciably  since  this  competition  set  in. 
The  cut  can  not  be  met  by  the  postal 
authorities,because  the  law  fixes postage 
rates.  Besides,  the  profits  of  first-class 
postage  are  necessary  to  overcome  in 
part  the  deficit  resulting  from  carrying 
second-class  matter  at  losing  rates.  The 
competition  does  not touch  second-class 
matter.  This  rivalry,  if  it  is  what  it  is 
represented  to  be,  may  have  beneficial 
effect  in  the  long  run. 
It  may  induce 
Congress  to  listen  to  reason  and  reform 
the  Service,  which  does  an  immense 
losing  business  for  a  few  firms,  at  the 
expense  of  the  people  at  large. 
It  will 
be  urged,  of  course,  by  the  second-class 
law  so  as  to 
freighters,  to  amend  the 
shut  out  absolutely  competition 
instead 
of  closing  the  door to  abuse  of  the  sec­
ond-class  rates.  It  will  serve  the  public 
best  by  reforming  said  abuses,  as  one 
cent  letter  postage  can  then  be extended 
to  everybody.

Every  merchant  who  has  not  already 
done  so  should  write  his  Representative 
at  once,  urging  him  to  work  and  vote 
for  the  High  peddling  bill,  which  has 
passed  the  Senate  and  is  now  before  the 
House.  The  time 
is  short  and  action 
must  be  prompt.

A  man  never  becomes  thoroughly  de­
praved  and  beyond  the  hope  of  redemp­
tion  until  he  begins to  make  excuses  for 
attending  a  circus.

in 

IM PERIALISM   AND  CONSCRIPTION.
One  of the  greatest  evils  of  imperial­
ism  is  the  militarism  which  is its neces­
sary  concomitant. 
Imperialism,  in  the 
modern  acceptance  of  the  term,  means 
the  absorption  of  the  territory  of weaker 
peoples  by  the  stronger  nations.  To 
keep  these  alien  races 
in  subjection, 
the  application  and  constant presence  of 
military  force  is  necessary.  Those  na­
tions,  therefore,  which  engage 
im­
perialistic  enterprises  must  perforce  in­
crease  their  military  establishments. 
Such  has  been  our  experience,  and 
such  is  at  the  present  moment  the  ex­
perience  of  Great  Britain.  Germany 
also  realizes  that  the  proper  protection 
of  her  colonial  empire  and  the  prosecu­
tion  of  her  ulterior and secret  ambitions 
require  a  greatly  increased  naval  force.
Military  expansion  presents  compara­
tively  few  difficulties  to  monarchical 
and  despotic  governments,  where  uni­
versal  military  service  is  the  law ;  but 
in  such  countries  as  Great  Britain  and 
the  United  States,  where  all  military 
service 
is  purely  voluntary,  except 
where  the  national  defense is concerned, 
the  military  expansion  necessitated  by 
imperialistic  ambitions  involves  serious 
problems. 
In  countries  where  individ­
ual  liberty  is  great  and  where  wages  are 
in  time  of 
good,  the  military  service 
peace  presents  few  attractions  to 
likely 
young  men.  During  the  excitement  of 
wartimes  little  difficulty  is  experienced 
in  recruiting;  but  when  the  excitement 
disappears  recruits  are  difficult  to  find.
This  country  has  found  how  difficult 
it 
is  to  secure  recruits  sufficient 
to 
maintain  the  strength  of  our compara­
tively  small  standing  army,  and  how 
even  more  difficult  it  is  to  recruit  the 
naval  service.  Great  Britain  is  at  the 
present  time  engaged  in  remodeling her 
military  system.  The  War  Office  has 
prepared  a  plan  for the  future  organiza­
tion  of the  army,  which  includes  regu­
lars,  militia  and  volunteers.  While  the 
plan  seems  comprehensive  enough,  the 
War  Office  officials  are  finding  great 
difficulty  in  securing  sufficient  recruits 
to  fill  up  the  strength  of  the  different 
regiments.  Men  were  willing enough  to 
go  to  South  Africa  during  the  height  of 
the  campaign  there,  but  army 
life  has 
lost  all  charms  since  that  conflict  bas 
become  merely  a  guerrilla  warfare.

So  great  has  been  the  difficulty  ex­
perienced  in  recruiting  that  the  stand­
ards  of  height  and  weight  have  already 
been  several  times  modified,  until  now 
it  is  even  proposed  to  permit  the  enlist­
ment  of  men  as  small  as  five  feet,  pro­
vided  they  are  physically  strong.  The 
British  journals,  and  even  public  men, 
have  been  hinting 
in  a  veiled  sort  of 
way  at  the  ultimate  necessity  of  some 
sort  of  modified  conscription.  The mil­
itary  branch  must  be  kept  up 
if  Great 
Britain  is  to  maintain  her  empire; 
hence,  if  men  for  service  in  the  army 
can  be  had  in  no  other  way,  some  form 
of  conscription  or  universal  military 
service  will  be  necessary.

THE  LESSON  OF THE PANIC.

Now  that  the  excitement  attendant  on 
the  recent  wild  flurry  in  Wall  Street  has 
had  time  to  abate,  and  cool-headed 
people  have  had  an  opportunity  to  fully 
study  the  features  of  the  affair,  some­
thing  like  a  correct  idea  of  the  whole 
matter  is  being  formed. 
It  seems  to  be 
a  mere  repetition  of  the  same  old  story 
of  the  big  fish  swallowing  the  little  fish. 
The  managers  of  the  “ corner”   and  the 
speculators  with  unlimited  resources 
who  were  able  to  margin  their trades  to 
any  amount  made  money,  while  the

great  army  of  small  speculators who had 
been  swelling  the  daily  transactions 
in 
Wall  Street to figures never before known 
saw  their winnings  and  their  money put 
up  on  margins  swallowed  up 
in  a 
twinkling.

There  will  probably  never  be  an  ac­
curate  estimate  of  the  vast 
sum  of 
money  lost  by  the  masses  in  the  excite­
ment  of  two  weeks  ago.  The  few  men 
who  made  all  that  money  probably  care 
little  for the  heartburnings  and  misery 
that  have  resulted  in  a  large  number  of 
cases. 
The  thing  has  happened  so 
many times  before  that  it  seems  marvel­
ous  that  it  could  have  been  worked  so 
cleverly  this  time. 
It  is  evident,  how­
ever,  that  one  crop  of  foolish  people, 
eager  to  get  rich  quickly,  succeeds  the 
other  with  monotonous  regularity,  and 
the  only  new  thing  about  the  whole 
affair  is  that  it  is  a  fresh  set  of  lambs 
that 
is  shorn  each  time.  The  experi­
ence  of  one  set  does  not  appear to  have 
the  least 
influence  upon  those  that  fol­
low.

The  collapse  of  the  tremendous specu­
lation  which  prevailed 
in  Wall  Street 
for  several  weeks,  while  it  resulted  en­
tirely  from  causes  having  no  relation  to 
general  business,  can  not  but  have  a 
bad  effect  by  withdrawing  from 
the 
pockets  of  the  people  vast  amounts  of 
money  for  the enrichment  of  a  few  lead­
ing  speculators.

Now  that  the  collapse  has  come,  it 
may  well  be  marveled  how  even  the 
wildest  speculators  could have been mis­
led  into  following  the  stock  market with 
prices  of  all  values  inflated  away  above 
their  intrinsic  worth.  That  a  collapse 
was 
inevitable  was  apparent  to  every­
body  not  blinded  by  direct  contact  with 
the  excitement  in  Wall  Street.  The  way 
in  which  the  crisis  came  was a surprise, 
it 
is  true;  but  the  expected  collapse 
was  none  the  less  thorough  and  sensa­
tional.

The  natural  result  of  the  heavy  losses 
by  the  great  mass  of  speculators  will 
be  a  great  shrinkage  in  speculative  ac­
tivity  for some  time  to  come!  Having 
been  burned,  the  mass of  the  people  can 
not  be  expected  to  again  tempt  the  fire 
until  the  recollection  of  the  experience 
has  been  blunted  by  time:-  In  the  mean­
time,  stocks  and  other  values  will  grad­
ually  find  their  proper  level  and  ad­
vance  or  decline  in  accordance  with  the 
shrinkage  or  expansion  of  their  real 
worth,  until  a  new  crop  of  speculators 
take  hold.  For  the  present,  however, 
the  excitement  is  over.

The  next  session  of  Congress  is pretty 
sure  to  find  the  territories  of  New  Mex­
ico,  Arizona  and  Oklahoma  seeking  ad­
mission  as  states.  Their  population  at 
favorably 
present  will  compare  very 
with  that  of  Nevada  or Wyoming. 
It  is 
not  counted  a  very  big  city  which  has 
more  population  than  either of  the 
last 
named  States.  Statehood  carries  with 
it  two  United  States  senators  and  at 
least  one  member of  the  popular  branch 
of  Congress.  Nevada  has  as  many  votes 
in  the  «Upper  House  at  Washington  as 
New  York  or  Pennsylvania. 
It  must  be 
admitted  that  there  are  already  states 
in  the  Union  no  better  entitled  to  that 
distinction  than  the  territories  which 
seek  admission. 
It  is  practically  cer­
tain  that  the  three  mentioned will knock 
at  the  door of  Congress  at  its  next  ses­
sion  and  will  plead  earnestly  for  what 
they  seek.

The  man  who  believes  only  half  that 
be  hears  generally  gets  along  all  right 
if  he  happens  to  select  the  right  half.

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inspiration  for  his  holy  words,  but  we 
shall  hardly  advance  as  far  as  that  in 
New  York  and  Chicago.  At 
least  not 
this  season. 

».
*  *  *

My  friend  the  cultivated  tailor  is  not 
going  into  the  doldrums,  because  he  re­
ports  no  falling  off  in  his  orders  as a re­
sult  of  the  demand  for  inexpensive  out­
ing  apparel.  This  means,  I  suppose, 
that  we  shall  wear  light  tweeds  and 
cheviots  of  the  usual  expensive  variety 
n  the  morning  during  the  summer,  no 
matter  to  what  lengths  of  negligee  we 
may  permit  ourselves  to go  in  the  after 
noon.  My  tailor  indorses  the  view 
expressed  in  my  last  article,that  the  ex 
aggerated  shoulders  and  so-called  “ mi 
itary”   flare  at  the  seams  of  a  sack  coat 
were  nightmares,  and  he  assures  me  to 
day  that  both  will  be  discontinued. 
There 
is  nothing  very  startlingly  new 
'n  English  tweeds,  except,  perhaps,  ; 
deliciously  delicate  steel-gray  with  ; 
smooth  surface  faintly  dotted  with  in 
finitesimal  pink  or  blue  spots  of  the 
palest  possible  tint.  This  should  make 
l  dream  of  a  suit.  The  same  author 
ty  tells  me  that  the  sack  coat  will  be 
cut  with  three  or  four  buttons  and 
straight,  although  with  men  of  good 
figure  there  will,  of  course,  be  accom 
plisbed  a  nice  waist  effect.  My  tailor 
does  not  attempt  to  exert  this  waist 
effect  on  humpy  or gross  figures,  which 
to  my  mind  is  very  just;  a  man  with an 
indifferent  figure  may  have  the  right  to 
wear  a  coat,  but  it  is  not  fair to  ask  the 
tailor to  attempt  the  impossible  with  it. 
On  the  same  principle  it  is  foolish  in 
some  men  that  I  know  to  blame  their 
tailor  for  their trousers.  The  trousers 
constitute  the  simplest  problem  in  suit 
making,  and  any  cutter can  put  a  pair 
of  artistic  trousers  on decent legs.  When 
the  legs  are  bowed  or spavined the tailor 
is  not  to  blame. 
In  any  case,  a  man 
with  bow  legs  can  scarcely  be  said  to be 
well  bom,  and 
in  that  event  no  one 
need  be  interested  in  the  way  his  trous­
ers  fit.  As  to trousers,  too,  there  is,  I 
am  glad  to  sa y,  to  be  a  sharp  reduction 
'n  the  wealth  of  material  from  the  hip 
to  the  knee.  The  peg-top  effect  at  the 
ankle  will  remain,which  is  verv  proper, 
for  a  nice  effect  is always  gained  by  a 
difference  of  one  and  a  half  to  two 
inches 
in  the  width  between  the  knee 
and  the  ankle.  A  baggy  thigh,  how­
ever,  no  matter  if  it  may  have  been 
deemed  ultra-smart  for  a  season,  will 
work  havoc  with  the  best  built  pair  of 
legs  in  the  world,  and  that  is  very  dis­
tressing.— Percy  Shafton 
in  Apparel 
Gazette.

Wooden  Legs  to  F all  Back  On.

Kokomo,  Ind.,  May  18— Isaac  Stev­
ens,  employed  at the  Greentown  pump­
ing  station,  who  wears  an  artificial  leg, 
took  in  the  town  last  night,  winding  up 
in  jail,  minus  his  wooden  appendage, 
having  pledged  the 
leg  at  one  of  the 
saloons,  he  could  not  recall  where,  for 
drinks. 
Investigation  disclosed  that 
Stevens  brought  five  legs  to town  with 
him  and 
in  different  drink 
shops  in  exchange  for  liquor.  In  police 
court  Stevens  offered  the  Mayor  another 
,-§  ior  security  on  his  fine,  which  that 

left  them 

ficial  declined  to  accept.

10

C lothing

London  Styles  W hich  W ill  Not  Be  Popu 

la r  Here.

The  newest  fashion  plate from London 
gives  me  a  thrill  of  annoyance. 
It  pur 
ports  to be,  and  of  course  is,  an  accurate 
view  of  the  fashions  in  vogue  among 
Englishmen  of  breeding,  and  as  the 
plate  comes  from  a  good  house  it  must 
be  regarded  as  authentic  from  the  Eng 
lish  standpoint. 
I  find  in  it,  however, 
one  figure  staring  at  me  and  presenting 
that  nerve-shattering  discord,  the  white 
cravat  worn  with  a  dinner  coat.  There 
has  been  much  controversy  on 
this 
point,  although  the  arguing  has  been 
done  principally  by  the 
ignorant  and 
foolish.  The  only  logical  view  to  take 
is  that  a  man  who  wears  a  white  cravat 
with  a  dinner  coat  would  be  guilty  of 
going 
into  the  society  of  ladies  in  the 
evening  in  a  coat  without  tails  upon  it 
I  can  think  of  few  crimes  more  worthy 
of  the  attention  of  the  hangman.  The 
white  cravat  is  the  tribute  that  we  pay 
to the  sex,  and  to  wear  it  with  a  dinner 
coat  means  that  the  wearer considers 
the  society  of  men—to  which  the  dinner 
coat  should  be  exclusively  confined—as 
deserving  of  deference  as  the  society  of 
ladies.  I  need  say  no  more  on  this  very 
painful  subject  except  to  pronounce  the 
final 
judgment  that  a  man  of  our class 
who does  not  know  the  correct  occasions 
on  which  to  appear  in  a  dinner  coat, 
and  the  style  of  cravat  that  should  be 
worn  with 
it,  is  past  all  saving.  H 
really  does  not  deserve  to  possess  the 
price  of  any  coat. 
I  am  not  one  of 
those  who  believe  that  all  the  desirable 
fashions  are  set  in  England.  We  are  a 
young  people,  but  we  have  very  good 
ideas  of  our  own,  now,  on  the  subject 
of  what  is  genteel  and  becoming  in 
dress,  and  there  are  some  points  that 
our  English  brethren  could  copy  from 
us  with  advantage  to  themselves. 
If  a 
titled  Englishman  visits  me  this  year 
and  shocks  me  with  any  such  outrage 
upon  good  form  as  a  dinner  coat  and  a 
white  cravat,  I  shall  cut  his  acquaint­
ance.  You  will  observe  that  in  this 
paragraph  I  have  not employed  the term 
“ Tuxedo”   coat. 
is  only 
used  by  persons  indifferently  bred.

That  term 

*  *  *

I  am  advised  of  another  London  fash­
ion  that  is  scarcely  likely  to  be  adopted 
by  our  own  people  of  elegance.  We 
consented  to  follow  the  custom  estab­
lished  by  our  English  brothers  and  sis­
ters  of  dining  out  at  popular restaurants 
on  Sunday  nights,  partly  because  we 
thought 
it  a  good  idea  and  partly  be­
cause  it  gave  Bridget and James Yellow- 
plush  a  chance  to  attend  to  their  love 
affairs.  We  stopped 
there,  however, 
and  most  of  us  came  to  the  conclusion 
that  strict  evening  dress  was  not  alto­
gether  good  form  on  Sunday  nights. 
Perhaps  this  was  because  we  wished  to 
vary  the  monotony  of  evening  clothes— 
dress  suits,”   some  benighted  people 
insist  on  saying—seven  nights  in 
still 
the  week.  The  English,  however,  have 
re-established  the  evening  costume  de 
rigeur  for Sunday  nights  and  have  gone 
a  step  farther  besides. 
It  is  correct  in 
London  now  to  dine  on  Sunday  night  at 
a  fashionable  restaurant  and  go  from  it 
to  church.  The  rector,  therefore,  has 
the  agreeable  experience  of  preaching 
his  Sunday  night  sermon  to  an  assem­
blage  attired  precisely  as  it  would  be  if 
he  were  conducting  a  theater  instead 
of  a  house  of  worship:  The  men  are  in 
claw-hammers,  the 
ladies  decolletees. 
The  sight  must,  of  course,  afford  him

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may  have  been  a  time  when  he  rode 
in 
his  own  carriage— while  his  mother 
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Dry Poods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  th e  p rin cip al 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Have  shown  but  little 
change 
in  the  general  character  oi  the 
business  this  week.  The  demand  for 
home  consumption  of  all  kinds  has been 
moderate,  the  buying  being  merely  for 
near-by  consumption.  Brown  sheetings 
and  drills  show  considerable 
irregular­
ity  except  for  export  business,  and  ex­
port  lines  are  firm.  Ducks  and  brown 
osnaburgs  are  quiet  at  previously  re­
ported  prices.  Bleached  cottons  show 
no  marked 
improvement,  and  prices 
are  irregular,although  without  any  open 
change  in  quotations.  Wide  sheetings 
are  quiet;  cotton  flannels  and  blankets 
show  a  moderate  business,  but  rather  in 
favor  of  buyers,  as  far  as  prices  are 
concerned.  Denims  have  been  rather 
slow,  and  prices  remain  nominally  the 
same.  Other  coarse  colored 
cottons 
show  a  very  light  business,  and  prices 
favor the  buyer.

Prints  and  Ginghams—There 

is  a 
quiet  general  tone  to  the  whole  section 
of  printed  cottons. 
Trade  has  been 
limited  and  there  is  but  little  of interest 
to  note.  Spot  business  and  mail  orders 
continue 
just  about  the  same  as  last 
week.  Both  fancies  and  staples  are  easy 
for  the  buyers,  as  far as  stock  on  hand 
is  concerned.  Buyers  display  little  in­
terest  for  stocks  coming  to  hand.  Prices 
are 
irregular  for  all  narrow  prints,  al­
though  fine  white  specialties  are  steady 
with  moderate  sales.  Percales  remain 
unsteady,  both 
in  demand  and  prices. 
Staple  ginghams  and  fine  dress  ging­
hams  in  leading  makes  are  steady,  but 
low-grade  dress  ginghams  are  very  un­
steady.

the  goods  manufacturer  has  run  upon 
pretty  bare  times.  Manufacturers  will 
heave  a  sigh  of  relief  as  soon  as  they 
can  assure  themselves  that  the  period 
of  lean  business  is  over.

Underwear—Thirty-five  manufactur­
ers  of  fleece 
lined  underwear  recently 
met  and  agreed  to  advance  prices  on 
fleeced  goods  and  to  shut  down  their 
mills  at  night,  the  mills  not  to  run  more 
than  50  hours  per  week.  This  move 
ought  to  put  the  market  in  this  line  on 
a  firmer  footing,  providing  this  agree­
ment  is  adhered  to.  It  is  hoped,  for the 
interests  of  the  manufacturers 
tbem- 
sevles,  that  such  will  be  the  case,  but  if 
the  past  be  taken  as  a  criterion,  it  will 
not  be  long  before  some  of  those  thirty- 
five  manufacturers  will  try  to  undersell 
their competitors.

It  is  not  so  very  long  ago,  less  than  a 
year  and  a  half,  that  a  number  of  men 
banded  together,  under the  name  of  the 
Fleeced  Goods  Manufacturers’  Associa­
tion,  for the  very  purpose  for  which  the 
manufacturers  met  last  week,  to  keep 
prices  firm.  The  trade  smiled  in  a  su­
perior  way  and  predictions  were  rife 
that  it  would  not  be  long  before the very 
gentlemen  who  met  would  be  cutting 
each  others’  throats,  figuratively  speak­
ing.  There  was  no  incentive  to  cut 
then,  so  prices  held,  but  nothing  has 
been  heard  of  the  association  this  year, 
to the  writer’s  knowledge,  and  so  their 
labors  were  fruitless,  as  prices  have 
been  cut  so  ruthlessly  of  late  that  one 
result  was  the  meeting  above  men­
tioned.  Whether  it  can  do  any  good 
is,  of  course,  a  matter  of  conjecture, 
and  most  of  the  trade,  remembering 
past  meetings  of the  same  order,  are  in­
clined  to  be  skeptical.  To  use  a  rather 
slang  phrase,  “ it  is  up  to  the  manu­
facturers”   to  prove  that  they,  the  skep­
tics,  are  mistaken.

Dress  Goods—Aside  from  a  modest 
filling  in  demand,  the  dress  goods  mar­
ket  is  almost  devoid  of  business.  Of 
course,  the  initial  business  is  practical­
ly  all  in  now,  and  it  is  not  surprising 
that  the  primary  market  should  reflect 
dull  conditions.  The  scene  of  activity 
has  been  shifted  to  the  mills,  where  the 
work  of  weaving  out  the  sample  pieces 
goes  on.  The  volume  of  business  is 
not  likely  to show any growth  from  pres­
ent  standards  until  the  jobbers,  cutters- 
up,  etc.,  have  been  able  to  test  their 
trade,  and  secure  orders  on  heavy­
weight  lines.  The  manner  in  which 
plain  goods  have  dominated  the  situa­
tion 
is  a  distinct  disappointment  to  a 
good  many  manufacturers.  They would 
hail  with  delight  any 
indication  of  a 
return  to  fancy  or  semi-fancy  effects. 
As  yet  the  fancy  seems  as  far  from  tak­
ing  a  place 
in  the  market  as  early  in 
the  season.  Some  very  fair  business  has 
been  reported  on  cheviots  and  pebble 
cheviots 
in  the  lower grades.  Home­
spuns  have  not  been  a  success,  buyers 
being  afraid  of  them.  Venetians,  broad­
cloths,  tricots,  sackings,  etc.,  have 
led 
the  van,  most  other  fabrics  being  no­
where  in  comparison  with  them.

Woolens—The 

late  wet  spring  did 
much  to  restrict  the  retailers’  sales  of 
lightweight  suits  and  overcoats,  conse­
quently  the  wholesale  clothier did  not 
get  the  volume  of  repeat  business  that 
he  expected  he  would  have  received 
before  this,  and  consequently  the  cloth­
ier  has  refrained  from  making  further 
purchases  of  lightweight  piece  goods, 
except  where  it  was  absolutely  neces­
sary.  What  with  the  bad  spring  weath­
er  interfering  with  the  return  spring 
business  and  the  conservative  manner 
in  which  the  clothier  has  purchased 
heavyweight  overcoatings  and  suitings,

Carpets— The  opening  of  the  new  fall 
last 
season  was  practically  inaugurated 
week,  when  Alexander  Smith  &  Sons, 
through W.  &  J.  Sloan  & Co.,  their sell­
ing  agents,  opened  their  new  lines  for 
the  inspection  of  buyers  at  3}4@ 5c   per 
yard  below  last  season’s  prices  on  cer­
tain  grades  of  %   goods.  While  one 
large  Eastern  mill 
is  also  reported  to 
have  met  the  concession  there  are  other 
manufacturers  of  ^   goods  who  claim 
that  this  is  not  necessary,  and  that  the 
active  business  last  season demonstrated 
this  fact,  and  the 
latter  feel  confident 
that  the  latter  prices  will  at  least  be 
obtained.  Even  those  who  have  already 
taken  orders  at  the  concession  are  giv­
ing  their customers  to  understand  that 
tapestries  and  velvets  are  subject  to 
higher  prices  that  will  prevail  later. 
While  some  ingrain  carpets  have  been 
shown  to  early  buyers  who  have  come 
to  market,  the  salesmen  will  not  start 
out  very  generally  until  the 
latter  part 
of  this  or the  first  of next  week.

Good Taste  in  Carpets.

Velvet  carpets  are  now  cut  into  rugs 
and  used  without  borders,  a  plan  which 
makes  possible  utilizing  partly  worn 
carpets  of  large  rooms  for small  rooms. 
Few  new  carpets  are  now  fitted  to  the 
corners  of  the  room,  a  bare  space  being 
left  if  only  of  a  few  inches.  The greater 
ease  with  which  moths  and  carpet  bugs 
can  be  looked  after  is  a  paramount  rea­
son  for this  arrangement.  Fur  rugs,  it 
may  be  added,  should  not  be  spread 
in 
the  middle  of  a  room  or  across  an  en­
trance  door.  Put  them  rather  where 
they  will  add  comfort,  as  before  a  chair 
or  sofa.

Man’s  failure  in  this  world  may  often 
be  attributed  to  the  fact  that  he  uses 
blank  cartridges  when  firing  at  the  tar­
get  of  success.

The  K aiser to  Settle  the  Corset  Question.
In  Germany  the  physicians’  appeal 
against  corsets  has  met  with  a  response 
from  the  authorities,  as  well  as  the  peo­
ple.

The  wearing  of  corsets  by  pupils  of 
the  public  schools  has  been  prohibited 
and  the  press  has unanimously approved 
the  prohibition.

But  the  demands  of  trade are the same 
in  all 
lands,  and  the  alarmed  corset- 
makers  have  appealed  to  the  govern­
ment  to  rescind  its  order,  which,  they 
say,  will  ruin  their  business.

if  the  German  girls  are  forced  to  dis­
card  corsets 
in  their school  days,  they 
may  never  resume  them,  and  a  great 
industry  will  perish.  The  anti-corset 
edict,  it  is  claimed,  is  contrary  to  the 
principles  of  good  government  and 
sound  political  economy.  The  govern­
ment’s  reply  to  this  ingenious  plea  has 
not  yet  been  made  public.

The  doctors  and  the  corsetmakers may 
be  allowed  to  fight  it  out,  with Emperor 
William  to  act  as  umpire and final judge 
in  the  corset  problem.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.

Cash  Capital,  9400,000. 

Organized  1881.

Detroit, Michigan.

Alot Surplup,  $200,000.

Cash  Assets,  $800,000.

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

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

F . H.  W h it n e y , Secretary.
M .  W .  O ’B r ie n , T reas.

E. J. B o oth, A sst Sec’y. 

D ir e c t o r s.

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

Lights T hat  Fatigue  the  Eye.

The  question  of  fatigue  caused  to  the 
eyes  by  various  kinds  of  artificial  lights 
has  recently  been  taken  up  and  studied 
at  some  length  by  a  Russian  govern­
ment  expert,  says  Electricity.  He  says 
that  the* involuntary  closing  of  the  eye 
(winking)  is  a  sign  of weariness.  Using 
surfaces  illuminated  by  various  lights, 
he  counted  the  involuntary  movements 
of  the  eyelid,  his  results  being  that 
when  candlelight  was  used  the  eyes 
were  closed  6.8  times  a  minute;  with 
gaslight,  winking  occurred  2.8  times  a 
minute ;  with  sunlight,  the  eyes  closed 
2.2  times,  and  with  electric 
light  1.8 
times.  From  these  facts  he  draws  the 
conclusion,  which  seems  to  be  corrobo­
rated  by  other  observations,  that  the 
electric 
light  is  the  least  injurious  to 
the  eyesight  of  all  varieties  of  artificial 
illuminants.

As  we  grow  older,  we  learn  to  pity 

where  once  we  blamed.

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GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH. 

riemorial  Day  Decorations

Just arrived, a big line  of  Memorial 

Day decorations.

Wool  Bunting Flags 

Cotton  Bunting  Flags 

Cotton  Flags on Sticks 

and  Silk  Flags

Ranging  in size from 2  inches  to  36 
feet  long.  Also  Red,  White  and 
Blue  Bunting by the yard.

P.  STEKETEE  &  SONS,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICHIGAN 

W h o le s a le   D ry  G oods

T H A T   W E A R S   W E L L  
is 
more profitable to the merchant 
in  the  long  run  than  the  kind 
that 
looks  big  in  value  and 
falls short  otherwise.  W e aim 
to  carry  lines  that  prove  good 
by  actual  test. 
It  is  possible 
you may have to  pay  a  trifle  more  for  such 
but  it’s the  only way to  secure  a  good  hosiery 
business.  Look  us over if your  stock  is  low.

VOIGT,  H E R PO L SH E IM E R   &  CO.,

WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

There 

is  one  thing  certain. 

Shoes  and  Rubbers
Politeness  Always  Pays  in  the Shoe Store.
Your 
employer  may  advertise  “ no  trouble  to 
show  goods”   until  the  crack  of  doom, 
but  the  opinion  of  the man who  goes  out 
of  the  store  under  the  circumstances 
cited  above 
is  fixed.  That  man  has 
nothing  good  to  say  of  you  or  the  store, 
but  something  bad.  When  he  wishes 
to  buy  shoes  he  will  go  elsewhere. 
In 
any  case,  he  becomes  one  of  the  factors 
that  go  to  make  up  an  unfavorable  or 
hostile  influence  in  the  community.

I  have  seen 

*  *  *
it  happen  more  than 
once.  A  man  has  gone  into  a  store  to 
get  a  pair of  shoes.  He  has  looked  at 
several  pairs  and  not  been  entirely  sat­
isfied  that  they  were  just  the  kind  he 
wanted.  He  has  looked  at  other and 
more  ornate  styles.  He  has  asked  the 
clerk  politely  to  show  him  all  there 
were 
in  stock.  He  has  noted  with  ap­
proval  the  extreme  urbanity  with  which 
the  clerk  treated  him  when  he  first came 
in,  and  the  clerk’s  extreme  alacrity  of 
movement.  But  he  has  likewise  not 
failed  to  note  with  disapproval 
the 
changed  appearance  of  the  clerk’s coun­
tenance,  of  his  tone  of  voice,  and  the 
lack  of  agility  and  the  steeled  hardness 
of  the  clerk’s  eyes—he  hasn’t  failed  to 
notice  these  as  he  has  intimated  to  the 
clerk  his  belief  that  he  couldn’t  be 
suited 
in  the  store,  and  would  have  to 
go  elsewhere.  When  you  observe  fire 
and  ginger and  fun  die  out  of  the  sales­
man’s  eyes,  the  agility  pass  out  of  his 
movements,  the  smiling  expression  of 
his  features  give  way  to  a  mingled  ex­
pression  of  disgust  and  indifference, 
then  neither  you  nor anybody  else needs 
to  be  told  that  you’re  not  welcome  in 
his  store.  And  do  you  wonder at  a cus­
tomer’s  disapproval  of  such  things  or at 
the  failure  of  the  clerk  to  ever  be  any­
thing  else  than  a  mere  clerk?

*  *  *

It’s  what  I  call  antagonism.  And  a 
clerk  who  will  antagonize  a  customer  in 
such  a  manner  is  manifestly  not  a  valu­
able  man  to  his  employer.  He  should 
be  gotten  rid  of  speedily. 
I  know  a 
man  who  at  one  time  was  a salesman for 
a  fruit  and  vegetable  concern  in  Phila­
delphia.  A  part  of  his  duties  was  to 
travel  on  the  trolley  to  Germantown 
every  Thursday  to  sell  fruit  and  vege­
tables  to  retail  grocers.  He  was  a  man 
past  40  then,  yet  he  had  never,  so  it 
seemed  to  me,  learned  the  art  of  study­
ing  his  customer.  As  a  matter  of  fact,  I 
never  thought  he  cared  much  to  culti­
vate  a  customer.  He  would  rather  be 
antagonistic  than  condescending.  One 
Thursday,  so  he  told  me  afterward,  he 
was  walking  out  of  a grocer’s place after 
an  unsuccessful  attempt  to  secure  an  or­
der  from  the  proprietor.  And  the  grocer 
called  to  him :

“ John!  You  can  send  me  a  dozen 
I 

baskets  of  potatoes 
want  to  do  something  for you!”

if  you  want  to. 

I 

if 

“ No,  you needn’t want  to  do anything 
for  me;  do  it  for the  firm !”   That  was 
John’s  indiscreet  response.  And  I  think 
the  grocer, 
remember  aright, 
changed  his  mind  on  the  spot  and 
didn’t  give  John  the  order  after  all. 
Which  served  John  right.  At  any  rate, 
John’s 
lack  of  diplomacy  was  clearly 
demonstrated  after  this  from  time  to 
time,  so that  his  firm  finally  saw  it  and 
got  rid  of  him.  His  $17  position  was 
suddenly  changed  to  a  petty $7 cashier’s 
position  in  a  downtown  restaurant,  with 
Sunday  work.  And  he  was  glad  to  get ]

the  $7  position,  with  its  Sunday  work. 

*  *  *
In  this  connection 

in  a  moment. 

it  is  well  for the 
young  clerk  to  remember  that  he  can 
not  make  a  habit  in  a  moment  or  break 
it 
It  is  a  matter of de­
velopment,  of  growth,  the  habit  of  sav­
ing.  But  at  any  moment  he  may  begin 
to  make  or  break  any  habit.  This  view 
of  the  growth  of character should  be  a 
mighty  stimulus  to  the  clerk  who  sin­
cerely  desires  and  determines  to  live 
nearer to the  limit  of  his  salary. 
If  we 
be  conscious  of  any  weakness  and  de­
sire  to  conquer  it,  we  can  force  our­
selves  into  positions  where  we  must  act 
in  a  way  to  strengthen ourselves through 
that  weakness,  cut  off  our  retreat,  burn 
our  bridges  behind  us  and  fight  like 
Spartans  until  the  victory  be  ours. 
Small  salary  or  large  salary,  we  can  al­
ways  save  a 
little  for  the  proverbial 
rainy  day.— Shoe  and  Leather  Facts.

Railw ay Tickets  in  the  Slot.

Recent  experiments  carried  on  by 
railway  officials  at  Berne  with  an  auto­
matic  ticket  machine,  invented  by  a 
Swiss,  have  given  entire  satisfaction. 
The  machine  is  similar to the*  ordinary 
automatic  machines,  but  the  glass  cases 
contain  the  tickets, on  which  are printed 
the  names  of  stations  and  the  price  of 
the  ticket.  By  dropping 
in  the  right 
amount  and  pulling  a  handle  the  ticket 
is  set  free.  The  machinery 
is  so  well 
constructed  that  an  insufficient  sum  or 
any  base  coins  will  not  work  the spring, 
and  there  is  no  danger of  the  purchaser 
losing  the  whole  amount.  The  Swiss 
railway  companies  will  adopt  this  new 
system  during  the  summer  months, when 
the  invention  will  be  given  a  fair  trial. 
As  the  machine  does  the  work  of  three 
men,  the  experiment  will  be  watched 
with  great  interest.  A  somewhat  simi­
lar  system  exists  in  the  south  of  Ger­
many  for  train  tickets  only,  and  it  has 
proved  a  great  success.

How  to  Lie  W hen  Sleeping.

The  correct  posture  for sleep  is  to  lie 
on  the  right side with the limbs stretched 
out  to  their  full  length,  and  the  arms 
either  straight  down  by  the  body  or  in 
any  comfortable  position,  provided  they 
are  not  raised  above  the  head;  the 
mouth  should  be  closed  and  all  the mus­
cles  of the  body  should  be  relaxed.

The  lungs  work  with  greater delibera­
tion  during  the  hours  of  sleep,  and  if 
the  arms  are  raised  above  the  head  at 
this  time  and  for  any  period  the  action 
of  the  heart  drives  the  blood  away  from 
the  arms  and  sends  it  to  the  head,  fre­
quently  making  one  very  restless  when 
it  does  not  prevent  sleep  entirely.

There 

Saving Old  Rubbers.
is  value  in  the  discarded  rub­
ber  boots  and  shoes.  They  are  “ worked 
over”   into  what  is  known  as  reclaimed 
rubber,  for  which there  is  always  a  good 
demand.  Charitable  organizations  are 
making  a  business  of  collecting  these 
old  rubbers  for the  junk  man,  and  the 
money  is  being  wisely  expended.  Re­
tailers  can  obtain  considerable  free  ad­
vertising,  and  be  charitable  at  the same 
time,  by  having  a  barrel 
i,n  front  of 
their  store,  and  another  barrel  inside 
the  store,  each  containing  a  placard 
stating  for whom  the  old  rubbers are  be­
ing  collected  and  for  what  purpose.
Fads  Live  Only  in  D ull Times.

In  conversation  with  a  shoe  manufac­
turer  who  is  always  abreast  of the  times 
the  subject  turned  to  the  many 
innova­
tions  during  the  past  few  years  in  the 
matter  of  styles. 
The  manufacturer 
said:  “ You  can  put  it  down  as  a  fact 
that  such  styles  as  shoes  with  soles 
stitched  aloft  and  rope  stitching,  ex­
stitched 
tremely  perforated 
heels,  etc.,  were  created  because 
in 
general  lines  the  trade  was  quiet.  The 
same  applies  to  the  abomination  known 
as  needle  toes,  but  as  soon  as  business 
regained 
its  normal  condition  all  these 
faas  were  done  away  with. ’ ’

vamps, 

Our own  make of shoes  are  made to  fit, 
will  therefore  give  the  longest  wear.

M a k e rs o f S h o e s  
G rand  R ap id s,  M ich igan

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

Rise  and  Shine

You can  do  both  by  handling  our 
line  of  shoes.  They  are  winners. 
Workmanship on  every  pair  guar­
anteed.

Bradley  &  Metcalf  Co.,

Milwaukee, Wis.

Shoe

Dressings

If you want a first class article buy 

IDEAL—The finest 10c Ladles’ Shoe Dressing made, per gross, $7.00

For  Gentlemen buy

ELK—Combination (Tan or Black), per gross, $6.00 

ELK  PASTE (Tan or Black), large size, per gross, $4.80 

SUNSHINE  Dressing.!Extra Large), retails at 20c 

FOR  SHOE  STRINQS always go to headquarters.

Hirth,  Krause 

&  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

It  is  a  self-evident  fact, well  established  by  thirty 
years’  experience,  by  the  wearers  of  shoes  in 
this state  and others, that the goods manufactured 
by the firm of
Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie & Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

for fit, hard usage  and  appearance, give  the  great­
est possible  amount of service at the  lowest prices 
consistent with  the use of good  materials  and  the 
employment  of  the  best  class  of  workmanship.

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long  end,  which  has  to  be  evened  up 
before  you  can  lace  up  the  shoe.

Children’s  Shoes.

It  is  a  noteworthy  fact  that  merchants 
are  beginning  to  pay  more  attention  to 
children’s 
shoes.  Manufacturers  of 
specialty  lines  have  started  the  ball roll­
ing  and  the  merchants  have  not  been 
slow  in  taking  hold. 
It  is  now  possible 
to  buy  children’s  shoes  from infants’  up 
made  with  as  much  regard  to  proper 
measurements  and  style  as  in  the  best 
lines  of  men's  and  women’s shoes.  This 
is  certainly  appreciated  by  a  large  class 
of  people  and  the  dealers  who  are  first 
in  line  are  the  ones  who  will  reap  the 
benefit.

A  man  always  puts  his  best  foot  for­

ward ;  a  mule  puts  his  backward.

C.  M.  Henderson 
&  Co.

Western  Shoe  Builders

Corner Quincy 

and Market Sts.

Chicago,

III.

Write  us  for 

“ Helpful  Hints.”

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The  Specialty  Shoe a  Necessity  W ith  the 

M anufacturer.

No  phase  of  shoe  production  is  inter 
the 
esting  manufacturers  more  than 
specialty  shoe 
idea.  The  tremendous 
strides  that  have  been made in  the  man 
ufacture  of  specialty  shoes  is  simply as 
tonishing  and  there  is  no  one  topic  in 
the  trade  that  would  be  of  more  interest 
to  the  shoe  manufacturer  in  general  to 
touch  upon  than  a  few  remarks  about 
specialty  shoes.

As  we  all  observe,  more  or  less,  there 

is  no  disputing  the  fact  that  this  is 
period  of  specialties.  The 
idea  not 
only  dominates  the  shoe  trade,  but  also 
in  the  manufacture  of  upper  stock,  sole 
leather,  counters,  supplies  of  various 
kind,  as  well  as  in  other  industries  en 
tirely 
foreign  to  the  shoe  business 
Specialties  are  the  rage  and  the  manu 
facturer  who  has  not  got  something  in 
the  nature  of  a  specialty  to  offer  to  hi 
trade 
is  to-day  looked  upon  as  being  ; 
little  behind  the  times.

The  specialty  shoe  for  men  and  wo 
men  is  a  distinct  success.  There  is  no 
denying  that  fact.  Evidence  is  at  hand 
upon  all  sides  to  back  up  this  assertion 
While 
it  has  been  predicted  that  the 
field  would  be  overworked, 
that  the 
specialty  would  soon  die  out,  it  is  cer 
tainly  a  fact  that  the  specialty  shoe  was 
never  a  greater  success  than  at 
the 
present  time.

advantage.  This  is  the  case  time  and 
time  again,  as  salesmen  will  tell  you 
and  only  goes  to  show  the  important 
factor  the  trade  paper  is  in  pushing  the 
sale  of  a  specialty  shoe.

Catalogues  are  an  important  feature 
of  the  specialty  shoe  business.  They 
convey  to  the  dealer  the  lines  that  are 
carried 
in  stock,  and  when  distributed 
by  retailers,  as  they  very  often  are,  to 
customers,aid  in  pushing  the  sale  of  the 
goods  and  result  in  material  benefit 
increased  sales.

While  the  window  display  card  is  not 
an  actual  necessity  in  the 
introduction 
of  a  specialty  shoe,  still  there  are  deal 
ers  who  are  of  the  opinion  that  it  helps 
the  sale  of  a  shoe  to  have  display  cards 
in  their  windows  advertising  the  spe 
cialty  which  they  handle.

The  manufacturer  is  obliged  to  carry 

a  sufficiently  large  amount  of  shoes 
stock  to  fill  orders  the  day  they  are  re 
ceived.  Most  manufacturers  who  deal 
in  specialties have  so  systematized  thei 
business  that  they  are  enabled  to  carry 
but  a  very  small  amount  of  goods  i 
stock, and  in  this  way  do  not  have  to  tie 
up  much  money  in  this  direction.

The  specialty  shoe  is  a  fixture  in  the 
business. 
It  has  come  to  stay,  and  will 
increase  in  popularity  as  time  goes  on 
It  has  reached  a  wide  popularity  at  the 
present  time,  but  its  development  will 
continue 
indefinitely.— Boot  and  Shoe 
Recorder.

The  Casting Tack.

in  that 

The  greatest  grievance  the  shoe  man 
has  against  the  manufacturer  is  em­
bodied 
innocent-looking  little 
article  known  as  the  "shoe  tack.”   This 
little  villain  is  forever  prodding the  un­
protected  sole  of  some  unsuspecting 
purchaser.  The  truth  is,  this  tack,  with 
the  head  between  the  inner and  outer 
soles,  has  no  business  there,  and  any 
manufacturer  who  sends  out  shoes  with 
these  tacks  left  in  deserves  to have them 
returned 
to  him,  so  dealers  should 
request  their  mannufacturers to examine 
all  their  shoes  before  shipping  to  see 
that  no  tacks  remain 
in  them.  The 
nipper  to  remove  these  tacks  costs $3, 
and  not  every  shoe  man  can  afford  to 
pay  that  to  overcome  the  manufactur­
er’s  neglect.

The Shoe  Lace.

Is  there  a  shoe  man  in  the  country 
who  does  not  waste  a  great  deal  of  time 
every  day  getting  the  lace  straight  be­
fore  he  laces  up  a  shoe  on  a  customer’s 
foot?  We  know  it  would  be  much  easier 
and  quicker  for  the  retailer  to  wait  on 
a  customer  were  the  shoe 
laces  started 
right  in  the  shoes  before  they  leave  the 
factory.  Why  would  not 
it  be  just  as 
easy  for the  manufacturer  to  put  in  the 
laces  properly  with  the  ends  even? 
This  could  be  accomplished  if  every  re­
tailer would  mention  the  fact  when buy­
ing  shoes  that  the  laces  be  put  in  in  the 
old-fashioned  crisscross  way.  Not  over 
and  over  with  one  short  end  and  one

While  it  has  been  the opinion of many 
men  in  the  trade  that  all  a  person  had 
to  do  was  to  place  a  name  on  a  shoe 
and 
it  would  sell,  such  an  impression 
has  been  a  wrong  one.  The  manufac 
turer  who  is  considering  placing  a  spe 
cialty  shoe  upon  the  market  should  do 
so  with  the  intention  that  it  will  repre 
in  shoemaking  at  the 
sent  his  ideal 
price  for  which 
it  sells.  That  is,  it 
should  be  the  endeavor to  make  a  reli 
able  line  of  goods,  so  that  when  a  trade 
is  once  built  up  thereon  it  will  not  be 
an  easy  matter  for a  competitor to  step 
in  and  take  the  business  away.

Every  manufacturer  should  have  a 
In 
specialty  shoe  to  offer to  his  trade. 
fact,  it  is  looked  upon  as  one  of  the ele­
ments  of  successful  manufacturing  to 
day.  When  a  specialty  is  made  a  man­
ufacturer  is  enabled  to figure  on  a  cer­
tain  profit  on  every  pair of  shoes  that 
he  puts  out.  He  does  not  have  to  meet 
the  competition  encountered  in  selling 
regular  lines  of  goods.

To  successfully  introduce  a  specialty 
line  before  the  retail  and  jobbing  trade 
of  the  country  the  manufacturer  should 
lay  aside  a  certain  amount  of  money 
for advertising  in  the  trade  papers,  for 
the  getting  out  of  a  catalogue  and  win­
dow  display  cards.

The  trade  paper  is  a  very  important 
point  for the  shoe  manufacturer to  con­
sider  when  launching  a  specialty  shoe.
It  is  the  daily  newspaper  of  the retailer, 
inasmuch  as  it conveys information each 
week  to  the  thousands  of  retailers  lo­
cated 
in  all  parts  of  the  country.  Ad­
vertising  a  line  of specialty shoes makes 
them  known  to  the  trade,  and  when 
salesmen  call  upon  dealers  and  state 
that  they  wish  to  show  up  the  Know-Me 
specialty  shoe,  which  has  been  so  well 
advertised 
journals,  the 
dealers  consent  to  give  a  hearing,  and 
as  a  result  the  salesman  establishes  an 
agency  for the  line.  - 

in  the  trade 

On  the  other hand  let  the  salesman  go 
into  the  dealer's  with  a  specialty  shoe 
that  has  not  been  heard  of  and  see  what 
an 
impression  he  can  make.  Unless 
the  salesman  is  a  personal  friend  of  the 
dealer,  he  will  undoubtedly  be  met with 
the  remark  that  it  would  not  be  of  any

T arn  Soles  Not W aterproof.

How  often  do  you  have  a  customer 
complain  that  the  shoes  sold  him  or 
her were  not  waterproof.  Very  recently 
the  assistant  buyer  in  a  large  store  had 
pair  of  shoes  returned,  the  customer 
claiming  that  they 
leaked.  Upon  in 
spection  they  were  found  to  be  a  pair of 
turn-sole  shoes.  The  assistant,  instead 
of  informing  the  customer that  it  was 
mpossible  to  prevent  the  water from 
going  through  a  turn-sole  shoe  and 
that  they  should  not  be  used  at  all  in 
wet  weather,  made  up  his  mind  to  have 
the  soles  oiled  and  returned  to  the  cus­
tomer  without  any  word  of  explanation. 
This,  in  itself,  would  have  been  suffi­
cient  ground  for  the  customer to  have 
insisted  upon  more  redress,  as  no  mat 
ter  what  the  clerk  might  have  done,  the 
shoes  would  never  be  impenetrable  to 
water.  Fortunately  for  the  business of 
the  store,  the  buyer  stood  close  by  and 
'nstructed  the  assistant  to  return  the 
shoes  as  they  were  to the  customer,  with 
the  information  that  they  did  not  guar­
antee  any  turn-sole  soles  to  keep  out the 
water.

W ill  Congress Shoes  Come  in  A gain? 
Said  a  manufacturer of fine  shoes  re­
cently^  “ I  believe  the  use  of  elastic 
gore  will  again  become  as  universal  as 
it  has  been  in  the  past. 
If the  congress 
shoe  was  once  the  most  popular style, 
as  it  assuredly  was,  because  of  the  ease 
with  which  it  could  be  put  on  or  off, 
then  why  should  it  not  be again restored 
to  its  former  prestige?  Several  manu­
facturers  in  Haverhill  are  making  shoes 
with  gore,  and  one  firm  received  an  or­
der  recently  for  500  cases.  A  Lynn 
manufacturer  cuts  up  fifty  pieces  every 
week,  or  several  hundred  yards.  The 
lace  has,  of  late  years,  supplanted  every 
other  method  of  fastening,  and  even  the 
once-popular  button  boot,  for  both  men 
and  women,  was  as  effectually  relegated 
to  the  rear as  the  congress  shoe. 
It  is 
my  firm  belief  that  the  congress  shoe 
is  again  to  become  popular,  and  espe­
cially  so  for export  trade.”

Inventor of Sugar-Coated  Fills. 

William  R.  Warner,  the  Philadelphia 
chemist,  who  died  recently,  was  a  rela­
tive  of  George  Washington.  But  his 
surest  title  to  fame  is  the  fact  that  he 
was  the  first  man  to  manufacture  sugar- 
coated  pills,  for which  almost  everybody 
can  say  "thanks.”   He  also  has  an­
other claim  to  notoriety  in  that  he  was 
the  first  to  introduce  licorice  tablets.

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Mens  English  Welt  Shoes

No.  152

Bai.  English  Welt 

Stock  No.  152— Velours  Calf, 
-  $2.00
Stock  No.  153— Russia  Calf, 
color)  Bai.  English 
$2.00

(wine 
Welt 

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The  above  are  carried  in  stock 

on  D.  E.  E E .  widths.

We  take  pleasure  in  calling 
your  attention  to  this  line  as  we 
consider 
them  honest,  well 
made,  good  fitters  and  splendid 
values.

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

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W e  are  having  a large  trade  on  our  tennis 
shoes  with  the  famous

Maynard Sole

They  have  black  canvas  uppers,  sewed 
rubber  soles  and  the  prices  make  them 
very popular:

Men’s Bats, 6 to l l ........................40c.
Men’s Oxfords, 6 to 11..................37Vic.
Youths’ Bals, 13 to 2..................... 35c.
Youths’ Oxfords, 13 to 2............... 32V4c.
Boys’ Bals, 3 to 5.......................... 37%c.
Boys’ Oxfords, 3 to 5.................. 35c.
Child’s Oxfords, 8 to 12.................30c.

Edwards-Stanwood  Shoe  Co.,

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Village  Improvement
M oral  and  Economic  Influence  of  Civic 

Im provem ent.

From  the  second  paper sent  me on the 
Montclair  association,  I  quote  as  fol­
lows :

The  time  has  passed  when  this  line 
of  work  (civics)  can  be  spoken  of  as  a 
new  departure  for  women,  for  we  have 
before  us  the  statement  that 
in  New 
York  nearly  two  hundred  years  ago a 
woman  had  sole  charge  of  the  street 
cleaning.  According  to  a  record  dated 
June, i7ii,the city government  continued 
the  widow  of  Andreas  Donn,  deceased, 
in  the  office  of  scavenger of Broad street 
for  one  year,at  a  salary of eleven pounds 
sterling ;  but  Chicago  has  the  honor of 
being  the  first  city  in  the  world  to  ap­
point  women  as  sanitary  inspectors.

This  paper also  speaks  of  the  beauty 
of  the  flower  beds  and  the  smoothly 
shaven  grass  plats  to  be  found  in  the 
circles  and  triangles  at  the 
junction  of 
streets.  Montclair  boasts  of  the  most 
humanely  equipped  jail 
in  the  State, 
with  its  separate  apartment  for  women, 
and  its  sanitary  and  padded  cell  for 
the  insane.

It  is  the  committee  on  the  prevention 
of  cruelty  to  animals  that  has  placed 
the  sign  posts,  “ Please  uncheck  your 
horses  going  up  this  hill,”   at  the  top 
and  bottom  of  the  mountain  road.  A 
wealthy  woman  who  visits  the  town  in 
summer  has  given  a  beautiful  drinking 
fountain  for  horses,  and  placed  it  at  the 
top  of  the  mountain.  This  fountain 
had  been  offered  the  town  council,  but 
through  carelessness 
it  was  about  to 
lapse,  when  the  association  heard  of  the 
generous  offer,  accepted  it,  and  had 
it 
placed  in  position.

The  paving  of  the  plaza  in  front  of 
the  railway  station  is  due  to  the  efforts 
of  the  railway  committee,  which  visited 
the  officials  at 
least  once  a  month  for 
three  years  before  the  work  was  under­
taken.  Now  the  officials  co-operate 
heartily,  and  do  all 
in  their  power to 
keep  the  different  stations  around Mont­
clair  neat  and  attractive.

AH  the  work  is  done  so  tactfully  and 
quietly  that  many  people  who  live  in 
Montclair  do  not  know  of the  existence 
of  these  departments;  but  should  the 
sanitary  committee  drop 
its  work  for 
even  one  month,  the  change  would  be 
quickly  felt.  All  this  proves  that  it  is 
not  so  much  enthusiasm  that  is  needed 
in  these  associations  as  determined 
patience,  push  and  persistency 
that 
says,  “ This  one  thing  we  do.”

A  recent  number of  a  florists’  maga­
zine  contained  a  statement  to  the  effect 
that  the  florists  in  Montclair  and  East 
and  West  Orange  had  donated 
five 
thousand  chysanthemums  and one thous-

and  salvias  to  the  school  children  of 
these  three  towns.  A  pamphlet  con­
taining  instructons  on  the  care  of  chry­
santhemums  and  suggestions  for 
the 
beautifying  of  city  dooryards  was  given 
out  with  the  plants. 
It  is  to be  hoped 
that  the  children  will  have  a  chrysan­
themum  show  of  their own  this  fall  to 
give  people  an 
idea  of  the  good  work 
already  accomplished,  and  as  an  illus­
tration  of  what  a  little  interest  may  do. j
Are  not  the  claims  of  the  living  chil­
dren  above  those  of  dead  authors?  Or 
do  you  think  these  women  have  not  a 
higher appreciation of a fine sonnet when 
they  can  read 
in  the  serene  con­
sciousness  of  beautiful  and  wholesome 
surroundings?  The  slow  process  of  ed­
ucating  public  opinion 
less  wide­
awake  communities  than  Montclair  is 
one  of  the  most  exasperating  things  an 
association  has  to  contend  with,  but 
once  won  and  not  abused  we  may  move 
mountains—at 
least  mountains  of  rub­
bish.  I  have  faith,  too,  in  the  educated 
club  woman,  «and 
improvement 
work  is  hers by divine right.  The broom 
was  put in  her  hands  ages ago;  why  she 
has  never  swept  the  dirt  further than her 
own  back  door  is  more  than  I  can  tell 
you.  Time  alone  can  tell  what  the 
outcome  of  the  present  agitation  will 
be.

this 

in 

it 

It  is  the  moral  duty  of  the women who 
are  helping  to  put  away  the  Nineteenth 
Century  that  we 
it  cleaner and 
wholesomer than  we  found  it.

leave 

Students  of  the  Twentieth  Century 
will  ask  why  all  towns  were  built  so 
monotonously  alike,  and  why 
in  all 
ages  so  little  consideration  has  been 
shown  the  health,  comfort,  or  pleasures 
in  villages.  Without 
of  the  dwellers 
any  hesitation  historians  answer 
the 
question  with  the  same  old  tiresome 
answer, 
“ Heredity.”   When  human 
beings  first  developed  the  idea  of  prop­
erty  rights  and  of  parental  obligations, 
family  life 
its  rudest  state  began. 
Families  and  those  related  to  them  by 
ties  of  blood  next formed clans or tribes; 
and  as  these  tribes  were  continually 
warring  with  each  other, 
it  became 
vitally  necessary  to  their existence  that 
they  should  live  close  together  in  order 
that  the  clans  might  more  easily  protect 
their  homes  and  property.  As  a  further 
protection  and  as  an  aid  against  sur­
prise,  these  villages  of  huts  were  next 
surrounded  with  stockades  made  of  the 
trunks  of  trees.

in 

These  villages,  too,  were  usually  laid 
out  along  the  paths  made  by  the  cattle 
in  going  to  and  from  their drinking 
place 
in  order  that  when  set  upon  by 
marauding  parties 
instinct  would  start 
the  cattle  home  over  the  familiar  path,

at  the  end  of  which  the 
lookout  would 
have  the  stockade  gates  open  ready  to 
hurry  them  in.

It  can  be  truthfully  said  that  every 
town 
in  Europe  which  antedates  the 
Middle  Ages or  which  was  built  during 
that  period,  was  laid  out  by  the  cows. 
It 
is  no  jest  that  Boston  owes  her 
crooked  streets  to the  cows  of  Governor 
Winthrop  and  the  few  other colonists 
who  were  able  to  import  cattle.

Walled  cities,  with 

their  narrow, 
crooked  streets,  fit  places  for ambuscade 
or assault,  were  the  natural  sequence  of 
the  stockaded  village.  To-day  we  do 
not  wall  our cities,  but  we  have  the  re­
mains  of  the  old  barbaric  stockades  in 
the  fences  around  our  yards  and  farms. 
Let  us  get  rid  of  them.  They are  ugly, 
expensive  things  at  the  best.  If  we  feel 
we  can  not  dispense  with  them,  let  us 
cover  them  with  vines  and  make  them 
things  of  beauty  some  months  of  each 
year.

The  most  unique  modern  example  of 
departure  from  the  old  manner of laying 
out  a  town  is  that  of  Wyoming,' Ohio. 
It  is  one  of  the many beautiful  residence 
suburbs  of  Cincinnati.  The  streets  are 
laid  out  in  curves  instead  of  the  usual 
straight 
lines.  These  curves  are  not  a 
complete  circle,  but  are  left  open  at  op­
posite  sides  of the  circle  for  pretty 
lit­
tle  wedge-shaped  parks,  beautifully 
cared  for.  The  larger  part of  the  village 
is  so  embowered  in  trees  that  it  was  ex­
ceedingly  difficult  for  my  kind  friends 
to  get  photographs  in  the  newer  part, 
where  the  fences  are  down  and  where 
flower  beds  flourish ;  but  the  beauty  of 
these  pictures  will  account  to  you  for 
the  extravagant  praise  bestowed  upon 
Wyoming  by  her  visitors.

The  citizens  organized  an 

improve- 
league  some  years  ago,  and  the

ment 

T h e  A l a b a st in e  Com­
pa n y,  in  addition  to  their 
world-renow ned  w all  coat-

through  their  Plaster  Sales 
Department,  now  manufac­
ture and  sell at lowest prices 
in paper or wood,  in  carlots 
or less,  the  following  prod- 

■  
■  mg,  A L A B A S T I N E  
M   W   ucts:B PIasticon
■ 
S N .  P .  B r a n d  o f  S t u c c o  
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The  long  established wall 
plaster  formerly  manufac-
tured and  marketed  by  the 
American  Mortar Company 
(Sold with or without  sand.)

The  effective  Potato  Bug 
Exterminator.

by the Commissioners for all
the World’s Fair statuary.

The  brand  specified  after 
competitive  tests  and  used 

B u g   F i n is h

L a n d   P l a s t e r

Finely ground and  of  supe­
rior quality.

For lowest  prices address

A l a b a s t in e   C o m p a n y ,
Piaster Sales Department 

G rand R a p id s,  M ich .

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P R B N O H ’ S   A B S O L U T E L Y   P U R E

full weight, in quarter  pound  cartons,  for  a  trifling 
difference in cost?  No more down weight;  you buy 
a  pound  and  sell  a  pound.  Quality  and  weight 
guaranteed.
Try  a  sample  order  of  French’s  Quick  Cooking 
Granulated  Tapioca.  One  pound  packages,  full 
weight.

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SCOTTEN-DILLON  COMPANY

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IN DEPEN DEN T  FA C TO R Y  

D ETRO IT,  MICHIGAN

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SW E E T  CORE.  Plug Cut 
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15

Cement  sidewalks 

next  morning  after  the  organization  was 
effected  over  four  hundred  trees  were 
planted. 
followed 
next.  The  annual  dues  of this  associa- 
tion  were  placed  at  five  dollars,  the 
highest  fee  of  any  association  of  which 
I  have  any  knowledge.  But  many  of 
the  members  were  people  who,  if  not 
rich,  were  willing  to  spend  freely  for a 
short  time  in  order to  put  the  village  in 
good  condition  as  quickly  as possible.

These  curving  streets  make  an  ex­
ceedingly  attractive  town  and,  in  lay­
ing  out  new  suburbs,  it  would  be  well 
for  real  estate men  to  note  the  fact.  To 
lay  out  a  new  residence  suburb  in  this 
manner,  leaving  a  large  oval  for  a  park 
with  small  park  places  at 
intervals 
through  the  streets,  might  attract  many 
people  for  the  novelty  who  would  re­
main  for  love  of  the  pretty  place.

its 

The  enterprising  people  of  Wyoming, 
urged  on  by  the  improvement  associa- 
ton,  now  have  all  conveniences  of  the 
city,  with  none  of  its  discomforts. 
It 
is  near  Cincinnati,  and  one  of  our 
great  railway  systems  runs 
lines 
through  a  tract  of  country  covered  by 
beautiful  farms  on  which  for  several 
miles  not  a  fence  can  be  seen.  The 
Miami  Valley is  famous among travelers 
for  its  beauty;  with  the  fence  blemish 
removed  it  is  idyllic.  People  are  slowly 
realizing  that  it  is  time  to  fence  cattle 
in  and  let  people  out.  The  millions  of 
dollars  spent  annually  upon  fences  is 
frightful  to  contemplate.

closet 

conveniences, 

These  improvement  leagues  are  tak­
ing  hold  of  cities  also.  One  of  the 
things  being  tried  in  my  own  city  is yet 
an  experiment,  but  promises  to  be  such 
a  success  that  the  merchants  and  busi­
ness  men  of  the  city  are  willing  to  take 
it  off  the  league’s  hands. 
It  is  a  Com­
fort  or  Country  Club.  During  a  street 
fair  held  in  the  city  in  very  hot  weather 
it  was  suggested  that  we  try  the  experi­
ment  of  opening  some  rooms  where 
families,  but  more  especially 
ladies 
and  children,  could  come  to  rest.  We 
chose  rooms  already  provided with toilet 
and 
thoroughly 
cleaned  and  papered  them,  and  fur­
nished  them  with  chairs,  couches,  and 
tables  where  visitors  could  eat 
the 
lunches  brought  with  them.  A  matron 
was  put  in  charge,  who  made  fresh 
coffee  and  tea  if  desired,  or  heated  that 
brought  by  the  visitors.  Parcels  were 
checked,  and  the  toilet  rooms  kept  sup­
plied  with  stacks  of  fresh  towels.  Un­
fortunately,  we  failed  to  keep  a  record 
of  the  number  of  visitors,  but  we  never 
had  room  at  any  one  time  for all  the 
people.  The  rooms  were  furnished  with 
spare  furniture  from  the  league  mem­
bers’  homes.  The  rooms  were  given 
free,  and  the 
ice  man  kept  the  cooler 
constantly  supplied  with  ice  water  free 
of  charge,  so  that  our  entire  expenses 
were 
for  cleaning  and  papering  the 
rooms,  and  fqr a  matron.

Deep  and  fervent  were  the  thanks  for 
use  of  the  Comfort  Club;  many  the 
stories  told  by  ladies  of  discomfort  and 
even  suffering  caused  by  a  day’s  shop­
ping 
in  town.  The  business  men  of 
our city  now  propose  to  build  a  suitable 
building  for  this  club.  Airy,  clean, 
sunny  rooms,  where  people  can  have 
large,  clean  toilet  rooms,  a  lunch  room, 
where  simple  refreshments  may  be 
bought  or  tables  provided  upon  which 
to  spread  food  brought  from  home, 
check  rooms,  sitting  rooms  and  a  smok­
ing  room  for the  men  will  be  provided. 
There  will  be  a  matron  to  care  for 
drowsy,tired  children  while  the  mothers 
shop.  Time,  no  doubt,  will  suggest 
many  other things  to  us.  For this  it  is

proposed  to  make  the  annual  dues  sim­
ply  cover  the  expenses.  We  hope  to 
have  family  tickets  as  low  as  two  dol­
lars,  and 
individual  membership  fifty 
cents.  We  will  make  it less  if possible.
Such  work  as  this  is  legitimate  work 
for  improvement  associations,  and  has 
its  moral 
It  brings 
about  what  is  sadly  needed,  better  rela­
tions  between  city  and  country  people. 
It  brings  money  to  your  city  or town  in 
that many  people  will  come  to  shop  who 
cannot  stand  the  fatigue  of  a  day  in 
town  without  some  such  convenience.
Jessie  M.  Good.

influence  as  well. 

The  M arket  Day  Scheme  In  Sntall  Towns.
To  hold  a  market  day  under  favorable 
conditions  the  merchants  of  the  town 
should  hold  an  informal  meeting  and 
should  agree  to  work  in  complete  har­
mony  for the  benefit  of  their  commun­
ity.  A  small  sum  of  money  should  be 
Contributed  by  each  merchant 
into  a 
general  fund  for the  purpose  of  paying 
the  expenses  of  advertising  these  mar­
ket  days  and,  in  addition,  each  mer­
chant  may  offer  merchandise  or  money 
as  prizes  each  market  day.  After the 
necessary  funds  have  been  raised,  any­
where  from  $50 to $200  for  the  season, 
the  merchants  should  agree  upon  the 
dates  for  the  market  days. 
In  some 
communities  they  can  be  held  twice  a 
month  with  profit,  while  in  others  it 
is 
better  not  to  hold  them  oftener  than 
once  a  month,  much  depending  upon 
the  size  of  the  town  and  the  extent  of 
territory  tributary.

idea 

In  advertising  the  market  day,  the 
merchants  should  make 
free  use  of 
their  county  papers,  and  in  addition,  if 
they  have  the  funds  available  for the 
purpose, they  should  get out large posters 
and  have  them  posted  throughout  the 
county.
The 

in  holding  the  market  day 
is  to  attract  the  farmer trade  from  as 
wide  a  range  of country as  possible  with 
a  view  to  advertising  the  advantages 
of  trading  in  the  town  or city  where  the 
market  day 
is  held.  For  this  reason 
farmers  should  be  provided  with  every 
convenience  possible  to the  easy  trans­
action  of  their business.  A  baby  show 
may  be  held  in  one  of  the  halls  in  con­
nection  and  cash  or  merchandise  prizes 
may  be  offered.

The  stock  show  may  be  made  an 

im­
portant  feature  and  an auctioneer should 
be  provided  for  the  farmers  who  have 
stock  or  produce  which  they  desire  to 
sell  at  auction,  that  an  auction  may  be 
held  during  the  day. 
If  merchants  de­
sire  to  attract  trade  they  may  offer a 
leader  in  the  bargain  line  for  market 
day  only,  and  in  doing  this  there  should 
be  a  concert  of  action,  each  merchant 
offering  a  bargain  on  a  different 
line 
of  goods.  These  bargains  should  be  on 
special  lines,  and  care  should  be  taken 
that  there  is a  little  profit  left  to  the  re­
tailer  for  handling  the  goods  so  adver­
tised,  that  he  may  come  out  whole  on 
the  deal.

An 

important  feature  of  market  day 
might  be  a  public  dinner  in  some  hall 
to  all  the  farmers  and  their families 
who  visit  the  town  on  this  occasion. 
This  dinner could  be  contributed  by the 
different  residents  of  the  village  or 
town  and  could  be  arranged  by  the 
ladies  with  slight  expense.  Anything 
that  appeals  to  the  stomach  of  the  aver­
age  farmer  is  pretty  sure  to open  the 
way  to  his  heart,  and  this  dinner  free 
of  charge  would  be  a  great  attraction.
If  it 
is  decided  upon  it  should  be  well 
advertised  in  the  farming  communities.
Market  days  may  be  started  now  and

continued  up  to  harvest  time,  when  they 
should  be  omitted  for  a  couple  of 
months,  or  they  may  be  abandoned  al­
together  then  if  the  farmer trade  has  be­
come  accustomed  to  trading  in  your city 
or town.  They  will  serve  to  attract  im­
mense  crowds of farmers,  and  with  some 
communities  they  are  general  holidays, 
during  which  the  farmer  brings  his 
whole  family  to  town,  buys  goods  and 
has  a  good  time.  The  number of  people 
attracted  by  these  market  days  will  de­
pend  upon  the  population  of  adjacent 
territory,  but  it  is  assured  there  will  be 
a  large  crowd,  the  merchants  will  do  an 
immense  business,  and  the  town  or  vil­
lage  will  be  advertised  as  a  market  for 
farmers to buy  and  sell  their  goods  in  in 
a  most  effective  manner.— Commercial 
Bulletin.

W hat  the  Public  Concludes.

John  Wanamaker  or  some  equally 
good  authority  has  said  that  the  cessa­
tion  of  an  advertisement  in  a  popular 
and  well  circulated  journal  indicates  to 
the  public:

1.  Either that  the  firm  has  quit  busi­

ness  or  is  closing  it  up.

2.  Or have  found  their goods  unsal­
able 
in  competition  with  better  adver­
tised  and  better  pushed  goods and there­
fore  withdrawn  from the general market.
3.  Or the  firm  has  lost  enterprise  or 
got 
into  a  rut,  any  of  which  causes 
diminishes  public  confidence and makes 
buyers,  distrustful  of  liberal  or  prompt 
treatment.

Modernized.

“ The  pen 

is  mightier  than  the 
sword,’ ’  quoted  the  man  who  clings  to 
proverbs.

“ My  dear sir,”   rejoined  the  modern­
ist,  “ it  is  no  longer  a  question  of  pens 
and  swords.  The  debate  now  is  as  to 
whether  the  typesetting  machine 
is 
mightier  than  the  Maxim  gun.”

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everybody  is looking  for  t h e m — Policeman  and  all. 

A  “ repeater”  in  Politix  is  a  bad  proposition,  a Knoosence, 
and  a  Kriminal  and  there’s  no  room  for  him  on  Irth.  The
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in  conformity  to  the  PateFood 
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Under the  decisions of the  U. 
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Established 1780.

life. 

falls  of  married 
I  have  often 
thought that  if  the  average  wife  would 
give  as  much  thought  and  study  to  try­
ing  to  understand  her husband’s  peculi­
arities  as  she  does  to  attempting  to  find 
out  what  Browning  thought  he  thought, 
the  world  would  be  a  lot  more  cheerful 
to  live  in.

liberties  with 

In  the  first  place  I  think  somebody 
ought  to  endow  in  the  school  for  wives 
a  chair  of  “ perennial 
fascination.”  
is  always  painted  with  wings. 
Cupid 
This 
is  to  show  that  he  can  fly  away 
from  us.  Women  seldom  understand 
this.  They  think  that  because  a  man 
loves  thepi  once  he  will  go  on  doing  it 
from  the  cradle  to  the  grave. 
It  is  a 
cheering  and  comfortable faith  and  they 
take 
it.  Many  a  man 
who  falls  in  love  with  a  girl  because  of 
her  daintiness  and  charm  and  wit  and 
amiability  never  sees  that  side  of  her 
character  again  after  they  are  married. 
She  wears  her  dowdy  clothes  for  him, 
she  saves  her amiability  for strangers, 
and  her brightness  for  chance  visitors.
I  humbly  maintain  that  the  man  who 
pays  a  woman’s  bills  has  a  right  to  the 
best  she  can  give,  and  I  have  never  yet 
known  a  single  wife  who  persisted  in

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“It’s as good as  Sapolio,” when  they try to sell you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell ^ 2  
you  that they are only  trying to get you  to aid  their - 5  
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W ho  urges you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

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M ICH IG AN   TRADESMAN

son  alive  must  know  which  ship  will  go 
to  pieces  on  the  rocks.  Yet  this  is  what 
millions of  mothers  are  doing  all  over 
the  country. 
It  is  almost  unbelievable 
that  any  woman  can  be  reckless  enough 
to take  such  chances  with her daughter's 
happiness.

little, 

I  heard  a  woman  say  once:  “ I  never 
intend  to  teach  my  daughters  anything 
about  cooking.  They  will  learn  when 
they  have  to. 
I  wasn’t  taught  and  I 
learned.”  
“ Yes,”   replied  her  hus­
band,  ‘ ‘ but  you  gave  me  dyspepsia  for 
life  while  you  were  learning.”   We have 
all 
listened  hundreds  of  times  while 
women  related  funny  stories  of  their ex­
periences  with  servants  and  marketmen 
in  the  early  days  of  their  housekeeping 
—stories  that  are  amusing  enough  in 
retrospect,  but  that  were  tragedies  to 
the  poor, 
ignorant  brides—but 
these  very  women  are  not  trying  to  pro 
tect  their  daughters  from  similar dis 
asters.  The  first  disillusion  many—nay, 
most—husbands  get 
is  from  the  bad 
housekeeping  of  their  wives. 
It  is  un­
romantic,  but  it  is  a  fact,  that  you  can 
drown  love  in  muddy  coffee  and  choke 
t  to  death  on  tough  steak  and  kill  it 
beyond  the  power  of  resurrection  with 
soggy  biscuit.  Be  sure  that  it  is  at  a 
bad  breakfast  table  that  the  young  hus­
band  begins  to  suspect  he  has  made  a 
mistake 
in  marrying  and  missed  his 
affinity,  and  that  if  there  were  po  bad 
breakfast  tables  he  would  go  through 
ife  without  finding  it  out.
There's  no  use  in  saying  this  is  put­
ting  things  on  a  low  plane.  It  is  simply 
taking  human  nature  as  it  is.  Plain 
living  and  high  thinking may be enough 
for  a  philosopher.  People  in  novels  can 
even  exist  on  sentiment  alone,  but  in 
real  life  we  can  not  rise  much above our 
surroundings.  We  are  never critical  of 
those  who  make  us  comfortable,  but 
there’s  precious  little  affection  that  will 
stand  the  wear  and  tear  of  bad  meals 
and  slovenly  housekeeping.  The  woman 
who  understands  the  fine  art  of  making 
comfortable  home  does  not  have  to 
sue  for our  love.  She  can  command  it.
This  is  the  practical  side  of the school 
institution  will  fall 
for  wives,  but  the 
far short  of  its  duty  i f  it  stops  at  that.
A  clean  hearth  and  a  good  dinner  are  a 
great  deal,  but  they  are  not  all,  and  in­
asmuch  as  most  women  are  fairly  intel­
ligent  it  does  seem  as  if  they  might  be 
taught  to  avoid  some  of the  other  pit-

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W om an’s W orld

P reparatory  School  F o r  M atrim ony  and 

M otherhood.

The  cheering  news  comes  from  Eng 
land  that  an  institution  is  to  be  started 
there  for  the  manufacture  of  domestic 
angels.  An  enterprising  gentleman 
going  to  open  a  school  for  wives  in 
Chelesa,  in  which  he  proposes  to  teach 
girls  all  those  things  about  making 
happy  home  that  their  mothers  ought  to 
teach  them  and  don’t.  Nothing  could 
come  nearer to  meeting  a  long-felt  want 
than  such  an  institution,  and  the  very 
suggestion  that  it 
is  in  contemplation 
is  a  happy  prophecy  of  a  domestic  mi 
lennium.

It  is  a  recognition,  for  one  thing 
that  being  a  wife  and  mother  is  a  pro 
fession  that 
is  important  enough  to  be 
worth  preparing  for,  instead  of  being 
merely  an  accident,  like  being  struck 
by  lightning,  and  which  nobody  could 
be  blamed  for  not  being  ready  for. 
In 
all  good  truth  there  is  no other  thing  in 
the  world  that  is  stranger than  the  way 
in  which  we  all,  men  and  women  alike! 
look  at  this  subject.  In  the  hands  of the 
woman  who  makes  the  home 
lie  the 
physical  well-being,  the  mental  peace 
and  the  happiness  of  the  universe,  yet 
women  have  never  regarded  it  as  an  oc 
cupation  of  sufficient  dignity  to  require 
that  a  novice  study  it  before  she  under 
takes to  practice  it.  Men  do  not  think 
it  a  calling 
important  enough  to  be 
worth  more  than  a  woman’s  board  and 
clothes  in  wages.  It  is  not  even  classed 
officially  among  the gainful occupations
No  woman  would  be  allowed  to  prac 
tice  medicine  unless  she  was  qualified 
for  it  by  years  of  study of the  art  of 
healing.  No  woman  expects  to teach 
without 
long  preparation  and  study. 
She  would  not  dream  of  becoming  an 
artist  or  a  writer  or  a  stenographer 
without  serving  an  apprenticeship  and 
learning  her trade,  but  we  all  go  upon 
the  assumption  that  any  sort  of  a  tyro 
can  jump  out  of the  ball-room  into  mat­
rimony  and  make  a  happy  home,as  if  a 
knowledge  of  the  most  exacting  busi­
ness  on  earth  came  by  nature,  as  Dog­
berry  thought  a  knowledge  of  reading 
and  writing  did.  On  the  contrary, 
through  our  mistaken  system  of  rushing 
a  girl  into a  career  for which  she  is  not 
prepared,  a  knowledge 
of  it  comes 
through  blunders  and  mistakes and tears 
and  tribulations  and  often  and  often 
broken  hearts  and  wrecked  homes,  and 
many  a  time  by  the  day  a  woman  has 
learned  her  profession  it  is  forever  too 
late  to  practice  it.

One  of  the 

incomprehensible  things 
of  life 
is  that  the  mothers,  who  them­
selves  have  been  along  this  rough  path­
way,  do  not  try  to  protect  their daugh­
ters  from 
its  thorns,  but  they  do  not. 
You  would  think,  from  the  way  the  av­
erage  girl 
is  raised,  that  her  mother 
never expected  her to  marry  or  have  a 
home  of  her  own,  yet  matrimony  and 
housekeeping  are  the  natural  destiny 
for ninety-nine  women  out of a hundred, 
and  what  we  would  choose  for the  hun­
dredth 
if  we  could.  To  send  a  young 
woman  into  it,  fully equipped  with  an 
expert  knowledge  of  how  to  run  a 
house,  is  to  insure  her  success  and  hap­
piness.  To  plunge  her  into  it  without 
one  idea,  of  how to  manage  it  is  just  as 
certain  to  doom  her  to  failure  and  mis­
ery. 
If  you  start  two  ships  out  to  sail 
the  seas,  and  one  is  piloted  by  a  skill­
ful  navigator and  the  other  is  run  by  an 
ignorant  land  lubber  who  has  never 
seen  salt  water  before,  the  dullest  per­

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mane  for them  to  remember  that  there 
are  others, and  that  upon  occasions  even 
the  baby  could  he  required  to take  a 
back  seat  with  profit  to  all  concerned.
Cora  Stowell.

Sum m er  Homes.

The  effect  of  summer cottages  can  be 
brought  into  the  stuffiest  of  city  homes 
with  a  small  outlay  of  cash  and  in­
genuity.

A  few changes of  curtains  and  draper­
ies  will  effect  an  almost  magic  transfor­
mation.

Take  down  the  heavy  lace  winter cur­
tains  and  substitute  light  fish-net  drap­
eries.

Lay  matting  when  it  is  practicable.
Substitute  a  cover  of  denim  for  the 
heavy  and  expensive  Bagdad couch rug.
Save  a  summer’s  wear  on  your  ex­
pensive  sofa  pillows  by  encasing  them 
m  slips  of  light  flowered  cretonne.

Take  down  all  heavy  pictures  and 
light­

tack  up  summer  posters  and 
framed  photographs  in  their stead.

Banish ^ all  superfluous  knick-knacks 
and  furniture.  A  room  looks  better  a 
little  empty  in  summer time  than  when 
filled  to  overflowing.

Send distance 1 to 2 or height
2 to 3 or projection,
3 to 4 or width.

and  we  will  send  samples  and  bottom  prices.

( S E E   C U T )

C H A S.  A .  COYE,

Pearl  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
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medical  records,  was  born  in  this  city 
last  Saturday.  The  mother  gave  birth 
to twins,  and  one  weighs  four  pounds, 
while  the  other  weighs  only  fourteen 
and  three-quarter  ounces. 
It  is  per­
fectly  formed,  and  seems  to  be  entirely 
well.  However,  the  physicians  say  that 
it  will  not  be  possible  to  raise  such  a 
child.  The  little  youngster is  about  the 
size  of  an  ordinary  cigar.  The  parents 
are  respected  citizens 
the 
suburbs.

living 

in 

It  is  rather discouraging  to  a  man  to 
be  forced  to  wait  until  he  is  dead  in 
order  to  discover  what  a  good  fellow  he 
was.

No  wick,  no  oil,  no  trouble—always 
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regarding  her husband  as  company  who 
was  worth  fixing  up  for and entertaining 
and  pleasing  who  had  to  complain  of 
his  defection  from  his  own  hearth  and 
home.  The  arts  that  caught  a  husband 
will  hold  him,  but  a  woman  ceases  to 
exercise  them  at  her  peril.

I  would  also  suggest  a  thorough  and 
exhaustive  course  in  the  science  of  tact 
There  are  some  women  who  enjoy 
bumping  against  things  they  might  just 
as  well  walk  around.  They  are  hope 
less.  But  surely  it  is  merely  ignorance 
that  makes  so  many  wives  run  up 
against  all  the  angles  in  their husband’s 
characters.  Could  not  women  be  taught 
not  to  bring  up  disagreeable  subjects 
and  subjects  on  which  they  know  be­
forehand  they  are  going 
to  differ? 
Could  not  a  wife  make  a  cast-iron  reso­
lution  and  stick  to  it  not  to  argue? 
Could  not  she  be  instructed 
in  the  art 
of  rubbing  the  fur  the  right  way,  in­
stead  of the  wrong?  Could  not  she  learn 
to  praise  him  for  the  things  he  does 
well,  instead  of  forever  harping  on  the 
things  he  does  wrong?  Every  one  of  us 
knows  we • can  be  led,  where  no  power 
on  earth  would  drive  us.  We know  that 
half  the  time,  whether  we  agree  to  a 
proposition  or  disagree  depends  alto­
gether on  the  way  it  is  presented to us 
the  very  words  in  which  it  is  couched 
I  have  never  heard  a  domestic  spat 

and  it  has  been  my  ill-fortune  to  hear  a 
good  many— where  I  did  not  feel  like 
going  up  and  giving  the  wife  a  good 
shaking  for  being  such  a  chump  as  to 
spring  that  particular  subject  at  that 
particular time  in  that  particular  way.
I  do  not  say  the  woman 
is  always  to 
it.  Men  are  often 
blame.  Far  from 
very  pig-headed  and  unreasonable,  but 
if  you  have  a  pig-headed  person  to 
deal  with  the  art  of the  thing consists  in 
treating  him  as 
reason 
able,  and  when  you 
find  you  have 
stirred  him  up  in  an  ugly  temper,  to 
give  away  without  a  fight,  for the  time 
being.  The  secret  of  great  generalship 
is  knowing  when  to attack  and  when 
to  withdraw.

if  he  were 

makes  him  feel  that  she  wants  to  mere­
ly add  to  his  pleasures,not  curtail them. 
Having  liberty  to  do  as  he  pleases,  he 
generally  pleases  to  be  bound  to  her, 
hand  and  foot. 
is  worth  while  for 
women  to  remember that  we seldom love 
our  jailors.

It 

Of course,  these are  merely  a  few  sug­
gestions.  The  subject  is  as  boundless  as 
the  need  for  a  school  for  wives.  There 
is  one  important  point,  though,  that  the 
philanthropist  who  is  going  to  start  it 
should  not  overlook :  It  should  be made 
a  coeducational  institution.  There  are 
just  as  many  men  who  need  instruction 
in  the  art  of  being  good  husbands  as 
there  are  women  who  need  to  be  taught 
how  to  be  ideal  wives.  Dorothy  Dix

The  Domestic Tyrant.

You  may  talk  about  the  despotism  of 
czars,  the  iron  rule  of  emperors  and  the 
divine  right  of  kings,  but  every  poten­
tate  under  the  sun  must  bow  his  head 
before  the  all-conquering  sway  of one 
small 
infant  who  rules  with  the  most 
relentless  tyranny  the  household  it  has 
come  to  bless,  and  who  will  not  allow 
even  visitors  the  privilege  of  monopo­
lizing  attention  for  more  than  a  few 
minutes  at  a  time.

This  is  the  baby  of  the  moderately 
well-to-do  couple,  who  can  sometimes 
afford  a  nurse,  but,  whether they  can  or 
not,  always  have  the  baby  strictly  in 
evidence.  When  the  mother and  father 
give  out  entertaining  him,  the  task  is 
passed  on  to  the  grandmother,  who  feels 
honored,  despite  her' rheumatism  and 
gray  hairs,  in  being  permitted  to  make 
horse  or  bear or  bow-wow  of  herself, 
whichever  the  juvenile  tyrant  prefers. 
Visitors  are  also  expected  to  look  upon 
sacrificing  themselves  on  the  altar  of 
the  baby  as  a  sacred  privilege,  and  if 
you  draw  away  your  best  frock  from  the 
sticky 
little  fingers  or show  a  disposi­
tion  to  protect  a  new  coat  from  being 
plastered  over  with  molasses  candy,  it 
is  a  deathly  offense  to  the  doting  par 
ents.  They  can  not  understand how any­
one  could  object  to  the  print  of  dear 
little  Johnny’s  fingers  on  their new  lav­
ender trousers.

To  my  mind,  though,  the  most  im 
portant  thing  that  the  school  for  wives 
can  teach 
is  to  imbue  women  with  a 
respect  for  personal  liberty.  The  rock 
on  which  more  domestic  happiness  is 
wrecked  than  any  other  is  the  idea  that 
there  has  to  be  a  boss  in  every  family.
It  is  what  makes  the  marriage  tie  the 
tie  that  binds  and chafes and  the heme a 
jail  that  everybody  wants  to  escape. 
The  desire  for  freedom  is  the  one  un­
quenchable  passion  of  the  human  heart, 
and  I  think  a  woman  never  makes  so 
fatal  a  mistake  as  when  she  tries  to  in 
terfere  with  all  her  husband’s  outside 
interests  and  amusements.  There  are 
wives  who  wage  an  unceasing  war 
against  their  husband's  clubs  and  lodge 
meetings  and  who  make  a  scene  every 
time  a  latch  key  is  mentioned.  Whether 
the  club  is  the  enemy  to the  home  it 
is 
represented,  I  do  not  know,  but  1  do 
know  there 
is  no  other  way  so  fatally 
sure  to  drive  a  man  into one  as  to  op 
pose  it.

There  are  too  many  women  who, 
when  they  marry  a  man,  want  to  hence 
forth  pick  out  his  clothes  and  his 
friends  and  dictate  to  him what  he  shall 
eat  and  what  ticket  he  shall  vote. 
It 
never occurs  to  them  that  by  the  time 
we  have  reached  25  or  30  years  of  age 
we  have  all  hit  upon  the  plan  of  life 
we 
like  best  and  that  the  person  who 
tries  to  upset  that  runs  a  tremendous 
risk.  The  wisest  woman  is  she  who 
recognizes  her  husband’s  right  to  his 
own  tastes  and  prejudices  and  who

relatives 

To  the  worshipping 

this 
kind  of  thing 
is  all  very  well,  but  it 
does  look  as  if  even  parents  might  re­
call,  now  and  then,  that  baby  reminis­
cences  are  not  very  exciting  to outsiders 
and  that,  angelic  as  baby’s  presence  is, 
it  might  be  dispensed  with  temporarily 
now  and  then. 
It  is  rather hard  on  the 
man  or  woman  who  consider  themselves 
good  conversationalists  to  have  their 
narrative  interrupted  just  at  the  laugh­
ing  point  by  the  adoring  father  attract­
ing  attention  to  the  cunning  way 
which  baby  is  watching  your  gestures 
But  to object  to  it  is  lese-majeste.  Un­
less  you  rave  over  the  cause  of interrup 
tion,  as  if  that  were  the  point  of  your 
story,  you  are  voted  a  tiresome  old 
creature,  with  no  appreciation  of 
good  thing  when  you  see  it.

When  you  visit  a  house  in  which  a 
baby  dwells  you  must be prepared to put 
all  of  your own  interests  in  the  back­
ground  and  forego  all  rational  conversa­
tion.  The  brightest  witticism  falls  flat 
before 
infantile  volapuk,  and  if  you 
could  announce  that  the  allies  had  be­
gun  war  in  China  or communication had 
really  been  established  between 
the 
earth  and  Mars,  it  would  not  create  half 
the  sensation  that  the  thrilling news that 
baby  had  cut  a  tooth  would  produce 

It  is  all  very  well  for  parents  to  sac­
rifice  themselves  to  their  children  if 
they  want  to.  That  is  their  affair,  but 
it  does  look  as  if  it  would  only  be  hu

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H ardw are

D epartm ent  Store  as  B elated  to  M anu­

facturing,  W holesaling  and D etailing.
Round  about  the  citadel  of 

retail 
trading,  creeping  nearer  and  nearer, 
ever comes  the  threatening  monster that 
must  be  driven  back  by  the  united front 
of  the  retail  dealers  before  they  are 
swept  from  the  sea  of  action  into  the 
gulf  of 
involuntary  bankruptcy,  and 
while  they  plead  for  a  four  dollar  a 
week  situation,  their  little  ones  cry  of 
is  no  fairy  tale,  but  can 
hunger.  This 
be  verified 
large  city  where 
dwells  the  department  store.  Thousands 
of  small  prosperous  firms  have  been 
wiped  out  of  existence and business men 
and  their  families  brought  to  penury. 
There 
is  no  fancy  about  these  things, 
nothing  but  the  cold,  naked  facts,  and 
as  you  press  them  home  to  yourselves, 
your  business,  and  think  of  those  de­
pendent  upon  you,  wife, 
children, 
mother or  father,  it  is  like  cold  steel  to 
the  heart.

in  every 

superior  people 

This  country  is  the  fairest and bright­
est  on  earth.  Our cosmopolitan  people 
acknowledge  no 
in 
the  world. 
In  wealth,  natural  advan­
tages,  endless  resources,  we  are  peer  of 
peers.  Give  our  people,  our tradesmen, 
equal  advantages  under  the 
law,  and 
there 
is  no  country  on  God’s  footstool 
where  man  can  work  out  his  own  salva­
tion  and  carve  his  way  to  an  honest 
livelihood  with  better  results  than  in 
this  our America.

There  is  hardly  an  American  school 
boy  who  is  not  conversant  with  the facts 
that  caused  the  thirteen  colonies  to  or­
ganize  and  fight  to  death. 
It  was  trade 
oppression,  oppression  of  the  mother 
country.  Trade  oppression  forced  by 
the  concentrated  wealth  of 
the  Old 
World  that  led  to  Lexington,  Yorktown 
and  a  thousand  battle  fields  where  the 
rich,  warm  blood  was  drunk  up  by  the 
virgin  soil. 
It  is  not that  sort  of  trade 
oppression  that  confronts  us  now,  or we 
would  up  and  at  them  with  shotted 
guns.

For the  last  ten  years  in  this  country 
we  have  seen  the  rapid  centralization 
of  wealth. 
In  that  time  combines,  con­
solidations  and  trusts  have  grown  to  an 
enormous  extent.  Through  them,  large 
businesses  have  been  developed  and 
smaller  ones  have  been  wiped  out  of 
existence,  and  the  small  business  con­
cerns  no 
longer  hold  a  tenure  of  life 
warranting  an  honest  livelihood.

These  are  the  things  we  must  contend 
with.  These  are  the  things  that  retail 
business  men  should  seek  to  correct— 
seek  to  correct  by  the  establishment  of 
better  business  methods.  The  work 
is  almost  wholly  an  educational  one. 
You  do  not  seek  by  force  to  compel  the 
doing  of  certain  things,  or the  undoing 
of  certain  things;  you  are not arbitrarily 
trying  to  enforce  certain  edicts,  but  by 
education,  by  the  argument  of  numbers, 
by  numerical  strength  of argument  you 
seek  to  reform  the  abuses  without  en­
croaching  upon  the  rights  of  anyone.

In  considering  the  questions  of  trade 
reform  we  must  first  consider the  prime 
factors 
in  trade  as  three,  Manufactur­
ing,  Wholesaling  and  Retailing.  No 
one  of  these  factors  is  to  blame  for  all 
the 
ills,  upon  no  single  one  can  you 
lodge  all  the  responsibility,  neither 
can  it  be  expected  any  one  of  the  fac­
tors  can  do  or  should  do  ail  the  reform­
ing.  Each  one  has  a  part  to do,  each 
one  has  a  duty  to  perform,  and  only  by 
a  united co-operative work can the  prob­
lem  be  solved  and  trade  methods  cor­

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rected.  Somehow  fate  has  decreed  that 
the  retailer should  begin  the 
initiatory 
work,  not  that  he  is  the  greatest  offend­
er,  or  that 
it  is  his  province  to  do  so, 
but  because  he  is  the  greatest  sufferer, 
feels  more  keenly  the  burden  which 
falls  heavier and  heavier  year  by  year 
upon  his legitimate  earnings,  making  it 
less  and 
less  inviting  to  stand  at  the 
consumers’  doorway  holding  stocks  for 
his  inspection  and  possible  purchase.

So  much  for  the  several  factors  in 
trade.  What  of  the  offenses,  what  of 
the  remedies,  what  of  correction?  Fifty 
years  is  not  such  a  long  period  of  tim e; 
many  of  you  can  perhaps  span  it  with 
your  memories  and  to those  whose  years 
will  not  permit,  our  history  is  so  fresh 
they,  even,  can  comprehend the changes 
in  the  commercial  life  of  this  country 
within  the  last  half  century.  Fifty years 
ago,  at  peace  with  all  the  world,  under 
normal  conditions  we  were  steadily  but 
solidly  building  the  greatest  country  of 
all  the  earth. 
In  an  evil  hour  came  in­
ternecine  strife  and  war,  war  begat 
want,  want  begat  inventive  genius  and 
all  begat  expansion. 
In  the  midst  of 
calamities  and  trouble  we  began  and 
prosecuted  the  most  rapid  development 
the  world  has  ever known.

We  have,  I  believe,  however,  passed 
our greatest  years  of  expansion  and  de­
velopment.  Never  again,  in  our  lives 
or  the 
lives  of  generations  to  follow 
us,  will  be  seen  such  rapid  strides  in 
development,  probably,  as  were  made 
from  1880 to about  1890. 
It  was  then  a 
mad,  eager,  breathless  race  of  expan­
sion  and  development. 
In  that  time 
more  than  a  million  emigrants  sought 
our shores,  quite  two  millions  of  people 
emigrated  from  the  East  to  the  West, 
building  new  homes,  villages,  towns 
and  cities  and  with  such  development 
and  expansion  came  constantly 
in­
creasing  values.

The  primary  cause  of  our  great  com­
mercial  prosperity  then  was  the  rapid 
peopling  of  the  West.  There  was  then 
such  an  active  demand  for  raw  material 
and  manufactured  products  as  to give 
our entire  commercial  being  a  buoyant, 
enterprising,  speculative  tone.  Money­
making  was  then  an  easy  matter  to 
those  engaged 
in  mercantile  pursuits. 
The  agriculturist,  also,  accumulated 
wealth. 
It  was  not  necessary  then,  as 
now,  that  he  who  engaged  in  commer­
cial  trading  should  be  an  expert;  nor 
was  it  then  necessary  to  throw  safe­
guards  around  business  transactions,  as 
under the  then  expanding  and  growing 
conditions  he who  was  fairly  active  and 
attentive  to  business  was  usually  suc­
cessful,  because  market  prices  were  in 
the  ascendency.  Reparation  for  the 
wasteful  war  of  the  sixties  went  on  to 
its  completion,  and  with  its  completion 
came  a  reaction  from  our too  rapid  de­
velopment  of  expansion. 
The  great 
army  necessary  for  the  exigencies  of 
war and  of  development  became  an  idle 
horde.  Our  home  productions  were 
many  times  greater  than  our consump­
tion.  Foreign  demand  for our  products 
greatly  lessened  development  and  home 
productions  abroad  closed  their  markets 
against  us,  and  we  awoke  from  a period 
of  the  greatest  prosperity  and  industrial 
development  the  world  ever  knew  to 
face  one  of  depression  and  a more  mod­
erate  pace  for  future  business  advance­
ment.

From  a  period  of  land  labor  and hand 
production,  we,  before  the  thought  of 
time,  emerged 
into  a  period  of  large 
and  cheapened  machinery  productions, 
where  a  single  little  machine  produces 
in  less  time  the  represented labor of fifty

or a  hundred  men.  This  changed  con­
dition  of  affairs  necessitated  retrench­
ment,  reforms,  lessened  prices  for  our 
products  because  of  lessened  demands, 
lessened  productions  because of  already 
overcrowded  markets,  hence 
lessened 
marginal  profits  because  of  enforced 
economy  in  living.  Even  mother  earth 
has  not  at  all  times  been  called  upon 
for  her  most  bounteous  yields.

No  matter  what  the  product,  expan­
sion  demanded  the  goods.  The  limit 
reached,  the  demand  lessened,  and  then 
came  a  crash,  followed  by  several  years 
of  depression  from  which  we  are slowly 
recovering.  With 
increased  output 
came 
increased  strife  among  manufac­
turers  to  disposed  of  products,  then  also 
came  renewed  vigor to  minimize  cost  of 
production.  Not  only  was  a  few  cents 
figured  upon,  but  even  fractions  of  1 
per cent,  have  been  counted  in  the  cost

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avarice  and  greed  have largely governed 
trading.

column.  Every  new  device,  every  new 
machine  possible  has  been  brought  to 
the  aid  of a  lessening  of  cost  and  when 
those  measures  offered  nothing  more, 
then  adulterants  came  into  use ;  every 
one  of  these  things  has  been  a  robbery 
upon 
less  so 
did 
it  expand  less.  Again,  as  condi­
tions  cut  off  demands  you  have  seen  the 
larger  manufacturers  and  capitalists  or­
ganizing  combines  and  trusts  to  control 
output  and  manipulate  prices,  and 
again  the  competitive  power  is  forced 
harder and  harder  upon  the  retailer.

labor  earned 

labor.  As 

Fifty  years  ago  the  wealth  of  this 
country  was  more  evenly  distributed. 
There  were  then  few  millionaires  and 
multi-millionaires.  To-day  the  wealth 
is  largely  concentrated,  there  are  many 
millionaires  and  not  a  few  multi-mil­
lionaires.  One of our  United  States  Sen 
ators  is  authority  for the  statement  that 
fifty  men  can  block  every industry,  stop 
every  wheel,  paralyze  all  business.  An­
other  ex-Senator  is  authority  for  the 
statement  that  sixteen  million  men  own 
and  control  three-quarters  of  all  the 
wealth.  Such,  seemingly,  are  condi­
tions  to-day.

is 

Then  what 

the  manufacturer’s 
offense?  That  of forcing  competition  to 
a  ruinous  point.  Again,  you  may  safe­
ly  charge  many  manufacturers  with  un­
loading  surplus  stocks  upon  the  cata­
logue,  jobbing  and  department  stores  at 
cost  or  nearly  absolute  cost  prices,  thus 
greatly  intensifying competition.  What 
of  the 
jobber  or  wholesaler?  He  had 
trailed  along  after  the  manufacturer, 
yielding up  to  his  influences  and  aiding 
in  the  bearing  processes.  What  of  your­
selves,  the  retailers?  You  have  caught 
the  infective  spirit  and beaten down still 
further  the  marginal  scale  until  many 
of  your  co-traders  have  yielded  up 
their  last  quarter,  if  the hateful  assignee 
has  left  as  much  as  a  quarter out  of  the 
assets.

The  manufacturer  and  wholesaler  is 
to-day  engaged 
in  building  trusts  and 
rearing  a  hydra-headed  monster  tenfold 
more  threatening  to  our  people,  their 
cause  and  their Americanism  than  any 
specious  political  monstrosity  ever  yet 
conceived  or dreamed  of.  You  retail 
ers  stand  agape,  unmoved, 
inactive, 
because  no  one  points  the  way.  Your 
mission  is  neither  an  idle  nor a  curious 
one.  It  is  not  your  province  to act alone 
for your salvation  as  business  men,  but 
to act  for all  the  people,  for our country, 
her  highest  aims  and  greatest  ambi­
tions.  These  are  the  conditions  that 
now  confront  you,  the  retail  business 
men  of  to-day,  and 
it  is  your  mission 
to  so  shape  the  commercial  affairs  as  to 
continue  a  forward  movement.  To  no 
class  of  people  are  delegated  greater or 
more 
important  functions  of  meeting 
these  conditions  and  guiding  the • com­
mercial  craft  through  troubled  waters  to 
a  safe  mooring  than  to  the  retail  mer­
chants.

During  the  years  of  our too  rapid  de­
velopment,  large  industries  were  built 
up,  and  smaller  ones  begun.  Under 
various  forms  of  improved  machinery 
and  man’s  cunning,  our  manufactured 
products  multiplied  beyond  our require­
ments,  until  we  have  to-day  largely  a 
congested  market,  crowded  to  a  limit 
beyond  our consumption.  This  state  of 
affairs  has  led  to scheming and all forms 
of  cunning  to  keep  our  factories  and 
their  enormous  product  disseminated. 
Adulteration  of  food products,  deceptive 
and false  advertising,  false  schemes  of 
all  sorts  have  been  brought  to bear  in 
the  pull 
Selfishness,

for  business. 

The  manufacturer finds  it  hard  to  dis­
pose  of  his  large  products,  he  has  fig­
ured  down  and  down  minimized  costs, 
he  has  taken  from  labor the last possible 
farthing,  he  does  not  want  his  plant  to 
remain  in 
idleness  and  disuse,  he  has 
a  most  kindly  feeling  towards labor—la­
bor  created  his  wealth,  labor encouraged 
by  demand  builded  his  great  factories 
and  he  can  not  turn  it  adrift  upon  the 
world  empty  handed  and  alone;  he pon­
ders,  hesitates  and  makes  another  des­
perate  effort.  His  surplus  stock  goes  to 
Mr.  Department,  at  a 
large  sacrifice, 
often  bare  costs.

Again  the  mill  grinds  and  labor  finds 
employment  at  scarcely  living  wages, 
and  prosperity’s  sun  apparently  shines 
for the  manufacturer,but nay,  his  job  lot 
sales  have  cut  the  gordian  knot  of  your 
prosperity  by  building  round  about  you 
a  competitive  dealing  that  reads  ruin  to 
him  who  follows  it.  Again  comes  hes­
itation,  reflections,  followed  by  combi­
nation  of  capital,organized  trusts,  every 
one  a  threatening  monster.  The  raw 
product  is  controlled,  labor is controlled, 
output  controlled,  prices  controlled  and 
again  prosperity’s  sun apparently shines 
for the  Trust. 

C.  W.  Aldrich.

W e  Need  M acaroni  Factories.

the  product.  Macaroni, 

After  a  successful  endeavor to  intro 
duce  macaroni  wheat  into this  country 
the  Department  of Agriculture  is  con­
fronted  with  the  discouraging  sequel 
is  no  factory  at  which  to 
that  there 
market 
it 
should  be  explained,  requires  a  certain 
species  of  hard  wheat  for  its  manufac­
ture.  Efforts  have  been  made  to  use 
the  ordinary  American  wheat  for  this 
purpose,  but  they  have  not  been  en­
tirely  successful,  and  at  present  nearly 
all  the  macaroni  used  is  imported.  The 
Department  sent  abroad  and  secured 
from  Algiers  and  Russia  the  particular 
kind  of  wheat  used  in  the  Italian  and 
French  macaroni  mills,  and  has  suc­
ceeded 
it  grow  in  several 
parts  of  the  West.  Now  the  authorities 
say  that  there 
is  an  opening  for  some 
bright  young  macaroni-maker  and  an 
accommodating  capitalist.— New  York 
Post.

in  making 

H appened  R ight in  the  Fam ily.

The  cross  examiner  was  a  smart  man 
whose  object  was  to  disconcert  the  wit 
ness  and  discredit  his  testimony.
“ What  did  you  say  your name  was?’ 
was  the  first  question.
“ Michael  Doherty.”
“ Michael  Doherty,  eh?  Now,  Doh­
erty,  answer this question  carefully.  Are 
you  a  married  man?”

“ Oi  think  so,  Oi  was  married.”
. “ So  you  think  because  vou  got  mar­
ried  that  you  are  a  married  man,  do 
you?  Now,  tell  me  whom  you  mar­
ried.”

“ Who  Oi  married?  Oi  married  a 

woman. ’ ’

“ Now,  don’t  you  know  better than  to 
trifle  with  the  court?  Of  course  you 
married  a  woman;  did  you  ever  hear  of 
any  one  marrying  a  man?”

“ Yes,  moi  sister d id.”

Economy  In Tobacco.

A  man  who chewed  20 cents’  worth  of 
toabcco  each  week  concluded  to  take the 
tobacco  cure. 
In  two  weeks  he  ate  up 
if. 20 of  cure  and  for the  next  two weeks 
he  used 10 cents’  worth  of  candy,5 cents’ 
worth  of cough  drops,  5  cents’  worth  of 
peanuts  and  5  cents’  worth  of  chewing 
gum.  During  these  two  weeks  he  also 
consumed  two  large  rubber  erasures  and 
ate  the  rubber tips  from  14  lead pencils, 
chewed  up  a  dozen  penholders  and 
browsed  off his  mustache  as  high  as  he 
could  reach.  He  now  chews tobacco for 
the  sake  of  economy.

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The  Meat  Market
Lean  M eat  E ssential  in  M utton.

for  mutton 

I  have  been  looking  back  fifty  years 
or  so  to  the  old  times  when  I  was  rais­
ing  sheep  for the  market  in  England, 
and  have  been  making  comparisons  be­
tween  conditions  then  and  now,  as  to 
relative  demand 
sheep. 
Forty-five  years  ago  I  trudged  on  foot 
to  the  Exeter  market 
in  Devonshire, 
England,  driving  fifty  head  of  two  and 
three-year-old  Devon long-wool wethers, 
weighing  over  300  pounds,  live  weight, 
each. 
I  sold  them  to  go to  the  market 
of  Dublin,  Ireland,  and  often'  wonder 
what  a  man  could  get  for  the  same 
class  of  sheep  at  the  Portland  stock- 
yards,  regardless  of  the  demand 
for 
shipment  to  the  Klondike  and  Nome 
City.  Where  would  the  profit  come  in, 
to  raise  the  300  pounds  of  heavy  mut­
ton,  compared  with  300  pounds  of  early 
lamb?

In  Western  Oregon,  where  I  live,  the 
profit  would  be  a  minus  quantity,  for 
the  lambs  would  show  the  greater  mar­
In  Western 
gin  of  profit  every  time. 
Oregon,  to  raise  early 
lambs  for  the 
market,  we  breed  the  ewes  in  January 
or  February,  and  feed  them  well,  or 
put  them  on  good  grass  before  putting 
the  rams  with  the  ewes.  This  insures 
more  lambs  and  stronger ones.  I  do  not 
feed  much  grain  to  ewes  before lambing 
or  for  a  few  days  afterwards.  Later  I 
give  a  liberal  grain  ration.  The  com­
mon  range  ewe  of  Eastern  Oregon,  be­
ing  bred  to  a  Dorset,  Shropshire,  Lin­
coln,  Oxford  or  Cotswold  ram,  and  only 
one  lamb  being  produced,  the 
lamb 
should  gain  five  pounds  per  week  from 
birth,  provided  the  ewe  has  plenty  of 
green  feed.  At two  months  old  the  lamb 
should  be  fit  for  market,  and  at  present 
prices  should  bring  $3.50  each  in  Port­
land.  The  same  sized  lamb  would real­
ize  in  New  York  $5  to  $6.

There 

is  more  money  to  be  made 
lambs  than  from  any  other 
from  these 
class  of  lambs, 
in  early  mutton,  if  fat, 
there  is  always  plenty  of  lean  meat,  for 
the  reason  that,  in  a  growing  sheep,  if 
fed  well,  the  muscle 
is  rapidly  de­
veloped.  The  presence  of  plenty  of  lean 
meat  in  mutton  sheep  is  essential.

The  trouble  with  most  sheep  sent  to 
is  that  there  is  not  sufficisnt  of 
market 
lean  meat,  and,  when  ready  for  the 
table.it  takes  half  a  dozen  chops  to 
make  one  meal  for  a  hungry  man. 
It 
is  early  mutton  lambs  that  are  winning 
the  market,  and  teaching  the  American 
people  what  is  good  mutton,  arid  this  is 
brought  about  by  using 
the  mutton 
breeds  of  sheep  on  our common  stock  of 
ewes. 
Let  us  always  bear  in  mind 
that  it  costs  three-fourths  less  to  raise  a 
lamb  to  weigh  40  pounds  at  ten  weeks 
old  than 
it  does  to  raise  a  40-pound 
It  is  the  early 
lamb  at  six  months  old. 
maturing  sheep  that  pays  the  breeder. 
In  conclusion,  I  favor  thé  Dorset  as  the 
best  early  lamb  producer,  although  I  am 
not  prejudiced  against  the  other  mutton 
breeds,  for  the  reason  that  they  are  all 
good. 

Richard  Scott.

Interests of Feeder and  Packer  Not  H ar­

m onious.

I  am  inclined  to think  the  Angus  sur­
passes  all  other  beef  breeds  as  a  perfect 
model  of  the  butcher’s  type,  and  that 
the  Hereford  in  some  respects  surpasses 
the  Short-horn  in  the  estimation  of  the 
packers.  As  a  breed  the  Angus  and the 
Hereford  are  considerably  smaller  and 
finer  boned  than  the  Short-horn  when 
kept  to full  maturity.  But  the  interests

of  the  practical  feeder  and  producer  of 
beef  are  not  altogether  in  harmony  with 
the  interests  of  the  packer.  The  pack­
er’s  profits  are  very  largely  commercial 
matters  of  cold  calculation. 
I  appre­
hend  that  they  have  little  relation  to  the 
cost  of  the  beef  to  the  producer.  The 
sum  the  producer  realizes  from  his  la­
bors  depends  as  a  rule  upon  the  cost, 
weight,  quality and  price  of  his  finished 
product.  The  packer  may  be  realizing 
his  largest  returns  when  the  producer’s 
losses  are  greatest.

in 

The  producer  and  feeder  naturally 
prefer  the  steer  that will  make the great­
est gain  in  the  shortest time  and  bring 
the 
largest  return  for  the  feed  con­
sumed.  Nor  is  the  breeder  so  much 
concerned  in  developing  a  breed  of  cat­
tle  that  will  increase  the  profits  of  the 
packer as  he  is  concerned 
in  develop­
ing  a  breed  of  cattle  of  such  general 
its  widest 
usefulness  that  it  will 
scope  bring  the 
largest  returns  to the 
producer.  This  might  be  further  illus­
trated  by  the  packer’s  advice  to the  hog 
breeder  to  breed  Tamworths,  while  the 
hog  breeder,  consulting  the  interests  of 
his  own  pocket,  continues  to breed  Po- 
land-Chinas  and 
The 
premium  on  bacon  hogs  has  never  been 
large  enough  to  justify  the  American 
farmer  in  making  a  specialty  of  them. 
And  notwithstanding  the  superior  size 
of  the  Short-horn,  he  continues  to  sell 
in  competition  with  the  other  beef 
breeds  quite  satisfactorily  to  the  feeder 
who  is  fortunate  enough  to have  him. 
They  must  certainly,  combine  quality 
with  size  in  a  wonderful  degree,or there 
would  by  this  time  have  been  a  percep­
tible  premium  on  the  other  breeds.

Berkshires. 

S.  C.  Hanna.

Is  Profit  Sharing:  A pplicable  In  M arkets?
Can  the  retail  butcher  make  more 
money  by  sharing  profits  with  em­
ployes  than  by  paying  them  a  regular 
salary?  The  profit  sharing  system  is 
gaining  ground. 
It  is  in  force  in  some 
of  the  largest  mercantile  establishments 
and  has  been  found  a  success,  both  for 
the  concerns  and  their  employes. 
It 
has  been  tried  in  the  grocery  business, 
and  proved  satisfactory.  Why,  then, 
can  it  not  be  made  to  pay  in the butcher 
business?  Would  not  the  system  make 
cutters  more  careful,  more  watchful  to 
their  employers'  interests,when  the  cut­
ters  knew  that  the  more  profit  was 
made  from  a  quarter of  beef,  the  more 
money  would  be  due  the  cutter? 
It  is 
an  experiment  which  we  would  like  to 
see  tried.

We  have  evidence  that  as  applied  to 
conducting  a  grocery  store  the  plan 
worked  admirably. 
In  one  establish­
ment  the  proprietor  was  doing  a  busi­
ness  of  $15,000 a  year,  and  was  under  a 
salary  expense  of  $780  a  year.  After 
paying  all  expenses  he  had  $1,500 a 
year  left.  Then  he  tried  the  profit  shar­
ing  plan.  The  first  year the  clerks  re­
ceived  an  increase  of 20 per cent,  salary, 
and  the  proprietor’s  gain  was $300.— 
Butchers’  Advotate.

Methods  for  preserving  eggs  for  any 
length  of  time 
in  such  a  manner that 
they  “ can’t  be  told  from  fresh  laid”  
keep  cropping  up  every  little  while.  A 
new  one  is  now exploited by the “ Amer­
ican  Egg  Company, ”   an  Illinois  cor­
poration  formed  to  make  unlimited  for­
tunes  for  its  proprietors.  The  eggs  are 
to  be  treated  in  two  chemical  processes 
and  kept  in  barrels  until  wanted  for 
market.  This  is  perhaps  the  nine  hun­
dred  and  forty-fourth  company  built  on 
the  possibility  of  perfect  egg  preserva­
tion— and  still  there  is  room  in  the  field 
for more.

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Butter  and  Eggs
Observations  by  a Gotham  Egg  Stan.
The  advancing  season  is  putting  its 
stigma  upon  the  egg  receipts from many 
sections  and  receivers  have  been having 
the  devil’s  own  time  to  sell  much  of  the 
supply  at  any  satisfactory  price.  From 
Northern  sections  the  eggs  seem  to  be 
holding  their  quality  fairly  well,  but 
from  Southern  Ohio,  Indiana  and  Illi­
nois  and  from  Missouri,  Kansas  and  the 
Southwest  in  general  the  goods  are  run- 
ning  down  rapidly,  showing  weak  and 
watery  and  generally  containing  many 
rots  and  spots.  A  receiver told  me  the 
other day  of  a  lot  of  Missouri  eggs  that 
he  was  showing  to a  customer;  when  he 
lifted  a 
layer or  two  out  to  exhibit  the 
middle  of  the  case  a  number  of  the eggs 
popped  off with disastrous results—to the 
transaction.

Buyers  are  getting  more  and  more 
particular  every  year,  especially  when 
buying  eggs  at  the  mark.  More  packers 
in  Northern  sections  are  putting  up  se 
lected  eggs  and  the  preference  for  such 
is 
more  general  grading  of  goods  before 
shipment  and  I  am 
inclined  to  think 
it  is  only  a question  of time  when it wi„ 
be  unprofitable  to  ship  ungraded  eggs 
at  all  after the  warm  weather  sets  in.

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is  a  vast  difference  in  the  way 
shippers  grade  their  eggs—when  they 
grade  them  at  all.  The  only  right  way 
is  to  candle  them  and  keep  the  rots, 
spots  and  badly  broken  eggs  out  of even 
the  lowest  grade  sent to the market.  The 
first  grade  should  contain  only  the  good 
sized,  clean,  strong-meated  eggs—the 
second  grade  should  include  clean  eggs 
of  weak  character,  but  no  very  small 
eggs  should  be  put  in.  The  third  grade 
should  comprise  sound  dirty  eggs  of 
good  size;  very  small  eggs  (clean  or 
dirty)  and  very  weak 
large  dirties 
should  go  into  the  fourth  grade  with  the 
checks.  Very  small  eggs  are  seriously 
objected  to ;  they  injure  the  sale  of  No. 
i  dirty  eggs  materially,  as  well  as  of all 
better  grades.  Never  pack  any  badly 
broken  eggs  in  any  of  the  grades.  Eggs 
that 
leak  damage  the  other  eggs  far 
more  than  the  value  of the  leakers.  For 
checked  eggs  medium  fillers  should  be 
used; 
are  not  strong 
enough  to  carry  them  safely  and  often 
cause  the  stock  to  arrive  in  bad  order; 
the  slight  additional  cost  is  more  than 
regained 
in  the  improved  value  of  the 
goods.  In  warm  weather  there  is  always 
a  wide  range  in  the  value  of  low  grade 
eggs--checks  and  dirties—and  a  little 
more  care  in  packing  these  qualities  so 
as  to  make  the  best  possible  of  them 
will  be  found  profitable. 
I  have  fre­
quently  seen  checked  eggs  sold  at  a 
price  that  could  have  been  beaten  fully 
a  cent  a  dozen  if  a few  leakers  had  been 
thrown  out  to  begin  with  and  the  goods 
packed  in  better fillers—a  difference 
in 
original  cost  of only  a  few  cents  a  case.

lighter 

fillers 

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My  attention  was  called  to  a  lot  of 
Northern  Indiana  eggs  that  had  been 
sent  forward  on  an  order  for  a  car  of 
storage  packed  selections.  The  eggs 
were  not  at  all  what  they  should  have 
been.  The size  was  not  good  and  many 
of them—if not  all—had  evidently  been 
subjected  to  some  process  for  cleaning.
It  is  hardly  a  square  deal  to  ship  such 
goods  as  “ storage  packed  selections,”  
and  I  have  heard  of  a  number  of  in­
stances  where  goods  purchased  in  the 
West  by  local  buyers  had  turned  out  of

very  unsatisfactory  quality  and  were 
justly  refused "of  acceptance.

*  *  *

“ Loss  off"  is  now  the  nominal  rule 

egg sales  in  this  market  and  some  stock 
is  going  out  on  that  basis.  But  a  good 
many  of  our  receivers  prefer  to  sell 
mark  and  propose  to  stick  to  the  case 
count  method  as  far  as  possible, 
course  where  mark  sales  are  insisted 
upon  differences  in  quality  have  to 
compensated  by  differences  in price and 
sales  show  wide  range.  About  the  on 
eggsselling loss off are those mixed qual 
ties  of  eggs  that  contain  enough  fine 
stock  to warrant  a  good  class  of  trade 
candling  them  out;  naturally, 
there 
fore,  the  loss  off  price  shows  little  vari 
ation,  the  difference 
fine  eggs  contained  and  the  irregularity 
in  net  value  being  compensated  by 
difference  in  loss  returns.— N.  Y.  Prod 
uce  Review.

in  proportion 

Evolution  in  W rapping  P aper  Used  by 

Meat  Dealers.

From the New  York  Sun.

A  man  who  a  few  years  ago  carried 
home  from  the  butcher’s  once  in a whil 
a  brown  paper covered  parcel  as  care­
fully  concealed  as  a  broad  overcoat 
sleeve  or a  convenient  newspaper  made 
it  possible  went  into  a  butcher’s  the 
other day  and  asked  what  had  become 
of  the  brown  paper  which  was  formerly 
used  for wrapping  up  meat.

“ Why  is  it  we  never  see  that  kind 
of  paper  at  our  butcher’s  now?”   he 
asked.

‘ You  mean  what  they  call  straw 
paper,  of  course,”   said  the  butcher 
“ Oh,  yes,  that’s a  back  number,  almost. 
You’ll  find 
it  sometimes  in  a  country 
butcher  shop,  but  hardly  ever  nowadays 
in  a  city  store.  Why  is  it?  Oh,  the 
white  paper  is  cheaper and  more  con 
venient.

“ You  might  not  think  so,  but  that  is 
true.  Ten  years  ago  we  had  nothing 
but  the  brown  paper.  It  came  in  sheets 
and  reams  and 
lot  of 
handling  and  it  was  always  in  the  way. 
Now  almost  every  meat  store  has  rolls 
of  white  paper,  from  which  the  clerks 
can  tear  off  a  piece  of  exactly  the  right 
size.

it  required  a 

“ The  brown  paper was  more  porous 
than  the  white.  As  a  matter  of  fact  the 
white  paper 
is  almost  waterproof, 
whereas  the  old  brown  paper  used  to  be 
soaked  through  in  almost  no  time.

“ It  was  partly  on  that  account  that 
like  the  brown  paper. 
people  didn’t 
Men  didn’t 
like  to  carry  home  their 
purchases  in  such  hideous  wrappings. 
Nowadays  we  can  put  up  a  piece  of 
meat 
in  a  neat,  compact  bundle  of 
white  paper  and  slip  that  into a  fresh 
clean  paper  bag  and  it’s  a  pleasure  to 
carry  it  home.  That  helps  us,  of course.
“ There  are  a  few  places  in  the  city 
where  you  will  still  find  the  brown 
paper.  Those  places  are  the  big  whole­
sale  houses  and  the  only  reason  they 
keep  it  is  that  the  drivers  use  the  paper 
as  a  sort  of  carpet  for their  wagons 
The  white  paper,  however,  is  some 
times  used  for that  purpose.

“ It  might  surprise  you  to  know  it, 
but  we  have  calls  for the  brown  paper 
once  in  a  while  now.  The  calls  come 
for the  most  part  from  persons who have 
young  children 
in  the  family.  Some­
body  discovered  a  while  ago  that  you 
could  make  excellent  bandages  or  poul­
tices  out  of  this  brown  paper  soaked 
with  vinegar.  We  have  to  refer  all  ap­
plicants  for  the  brown  paper to  some 
wholesale  paper house.  Yes,  the  times 
are  changing,  and  not  always  for the 
worst,  by  a  long  shot.”

Best  Egg  .Story  of the  Season.

'rom the Florida Tlmes-Union.
Some  workmen 

raising  a  sunken 
dredge  boat  on  the  Matanzas  River  had 
finished  their  mid-day  meal  and  left  for 
work  when  a 
large  water  Moccasin 
snake  near six feet long crawled on board 
the 
lighter  and  crawled  up  the 
leg  of  the  dining  table  where  he  found 
some  wild  turkey  eggs,  and  with  a

living 

snake  s  fondness  for  eggs  he  went  in 
for a  feast.

One  of  the  turkey  eggs  lay  alone  bv 
a  plate  and  the  rest  were  in  a  dish  on 
the  other  side  of  the  table. 
In  the  cen­
ter  stood  a  large  whisky  jug,  and  here 
the  wily  serpent  slipped  up.  After swal­
lowing  the  lonesome  egg,  snake  fashion 
m  his  artless  manner  of  travel  he 
crawled  through  the  handle  of  the  jug 
to  get  to the  other eggs.  It  was  a  tight 
fit,  and  he  had  to  halt  halfway  on  ac- 
count  of  the  first  egg,  then  stretching 
forward  he  bolted another egg and there­
by  he  fastened  himself,  as  on  each  side 
of  the  jug  handle  there  was  a  wild  tur­
key  egg 
inside  of  him,  and  he  could 
move  neither  backward  nor  forward. 
He  was  soon  found  in  this  situation  by 
the  cook,  who  speedily  killed  him. 
The  reporter was  shown  the  skin  of  the 
snake.  He  was  also  permitted  to  gaze 
on  the  jug  whose  handle  proved  so  fatal 
and  he  went  away  sad  at  heart  at seeing 
the  poor  dead  snake’s  skin  and  after 
gazing  with  an  empty  longing  at’that 
empty  jug  he  went  out,  cast  down,  in 
search  of  one  of  those  full  jugs  which 
are  always  so  cheering  and  inspiring  to 
the  Southern  editor,  that  like  us,  he  can 
see  the  real  live  snakes  and  a  plenty  of 
them,  and  only  has  use  for a  snake  skin 
to  wrap  around  his  leg  when  he  has  a 
touch  of  rheumatism.

The  D ruggist’s  Prescription  W orked.
A  sad-looking  man  went  into  a  drug 
store. 
“ Can  you  give  me,”   he  asked, 
‘ something  that  will  drive  from  my 
mind  the  thought  of  sorrow  and  bitter 
recollection?”

And  the  druggist  nodded  and  put  up 
a  little  dose  of quinine  and  wormwood 
and  rhubarb  and  Epsom  salts,  and  a 
dash  of  castor oil,  and  gave  it  to  him, 
and  for  six  months  the  man  could  not 
think  of  anything  in  the  world  except 
new  schemes  for getting  the  taste  out  of 
his  mouth.

If  you  give  a  bald-headed  man  a  fair 
show,  be  will  always  be  found  well  up 
:n  the  front.

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Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Citizens Phone a6oo.

your patronage.

application

4   400 case lots, per doz........................ij¿c
♦   600 case lots, per doz.................lMc

St 000 case lots  and  over,  special  rate  on 

Thos  D.  Bradfield, Sec. 

Ship  your

f

BUTTER,  EGGS  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,

C o m m is s io n   M e r c h a n t s ,

3 5 3   R u sse ll  S tr e e t, 

D e tr o it,  M ich . 

References:  Home Savings  Bank 
and  Commercial Agencies.

C r u s h e d   C e r e a l  C o ffe e   C a k e .

;  Better than  coffee, 
i  Cheaper than  coffee.

More healthful  than coffee.

|  Costs the consumer less.

Affords the retailer larger profit.

I  Send for sample case.

See quotations in price current.

C ru sh ed   C ereal  C offee  C ake  Co.

Marshall,  Mich.

V I N E G A R

Use our goods and avoid  prosecution by Food  Inspectors

LAW  PROOF.

C I D E R

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

C h ic a g o . 

K a n s a s   C it y . 

S t .  P a u l. 

S o .  H a v e n ,  M ic h .

WE  GUARANTEE

O ur Vinegar to be  an A B S O L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU ICE V I N ­
E G A R .  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find  an y deleterious 
acids, or  anything  that is not produced from the  apple, we  will forfeit

We  also  guarantee  it  to  be  of  full  strength  as  required  by  law.  We  will 
prosecute  any  person  found  using  our  packages  for  cider  or  vinegar  without  first 
removing  all  traces  of  our  brands therefrom.

¿ypt*  &

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Benton  Harbor,A\ichigan,

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M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

Fruits  and  Produce.
Possibilities  in  Sweet  Potato  Growing.
A  bulletin  on  the  sweet  potato  just is­
sued  from  the  United States Department 
of  Agriculture  discusses  most  intelli­
gently  and 
interestingly  the  numerous 
varieties  of  this  tuber,  the  manner of 
their  cultivation,  the  climates  and  soils 
best  adapted  to  each,  the  effort  and 
present  prospects  of  profitably exporting 
sweet  potatoes, 
the  various  ways  of 
cooking  them  and,  lastly,  the  canning 
of  the  product  and  its  desiccation,  or 
the  making  of  sweet  potato  “ flour.”

The  canning  of  sweet  potatoes,  al­
though  a  comparatively  new  industry, 
has  attained  considerable  commercial 
importance  already,  the  market  for  the 
goods  being  found in  sections  where  the 
vegetable  is  not  grown—the  Northwest­
ern  States,  Canada,  Alaska  and  some 
parts  of  the  Orient.  The  potatoes  are 
sliced  thin  and  then  put  up  in  three 
pound  tins,  keep  well  and  are  in  fairly 
good  demand.  The  War  Department 
has  sent  a  good  many  of  them  to the 
Philippines  for our soldiers  there.

Several  patents  have  been  issued  cov­
ering  the  process  and  machinery  neces­
sary  for desiccating  the sweet potato and 
for  making  sweet  potato  flour,  and  the 
owners  of  these  patents  are  confident 
that  they will  soon  be  able  to  put  an  ex­
tensive  finished  product  on  the  market. 
The  press  has  already  chronicled  the 
incorporation  of  a  company over in New 
Jersey,  with  ample  capital,  for the  man­
ufacture  and  sale  of  this  new  flour,  and 
the 
important  bearing  that  its  success 
would  have  on  the  general  industry,  es­
pecially  in  the  South. 
In  view  of  this 
importance  the  Department’s  investiga­
tion  becomes  particularly  interesting.
The  results  of  analysis  of  samples  re­
cently examined show that the desiccated 
sweet  potato  contained  forty-six parts  of 
starch,  and  an  analysis  of  sweet  potato 
flour  showed  that  over  half  of  it  was 
made  up  of  starch.  The  inventors  assert 
that  their  products  are  highly  nutritious 
and  palatable,  that  they  can  be  manu­
factured  cheaply,  transported  long  dis­
tances  at  small  cost  and  kept  in any  cli­
mate.  The  Department  officials  are  of 
the  opinion  that  the  success  of  this 
in­
dustry  would  benefit  directly  the  agri­
cultural 
interests  of  a  large  section  of 
the  country,  put  a  new  and  valuable 
staple  food  on  the  market  at'  prices 
within  the  reach  of  all  and  open  the 
way  for a  large  export  trade.

Exports  of  sweet  potatoes  to  Europe 
in  their natural  state  have  not  been  en­
tirely  successful.  Only  certain  varieties 
stand  the  voyage  well,  and  the  time  and 
manner  of  shipment  have  much  to  do 
with  it.  But  it  is  argued  that  the  50,000 
Americans  permanently  resident in Lon­
don  alone  ought  to  make  a  profitable 
market  for  sweet  potatoes  there—espe­
cially  as  the  British  have  latterly  taken 
a  fancy  to  numerous  American  food 
products  and  American  dishes that here­
tofore  had  no  status  with  them  what­
ever.— N.  Y.  Commercial.

Selling  Eggs  by  W eight—V ariations  in 

Size.

Since  eggs  vary  more  or  less  in  size 
it  has  been  proposed  that  they  should 
be  sold  by  weight  rather  than  by  the

We solicit your shipments 
of  Fresh  Eggs  and  Dairy 
Butter.

in 

dozen,  which  is  the  usual  custom in  this 
country.  The  North  Carolina  Experi­
ment  Station, 
investigating  this 
point,  recorded  the  weight  of  eggs  per 
dozen  and  the  number  produced  during 
six  months  by  pullets  and  old  hens  of 
a  number  of  well-known  breeds  and  by 
ducks.  Generally  speaking,  larger eggs 
were  laid  by  hens than  by  pullets  of the 
same  breed.  The  eggs  laid  by  Pekin 
ducks  (old  and  young)  averaged  35.6 
ounces  per  dozen,  and  were  heavier 
than  those 
laid  by  any  breed  of hens. 
Of  the  different  breeds  of  hens  tested 
the 
largest  eggs  weighed  28  ounces  per 
dozen  and  were  laid  by  Light  Brahmas. 
The  Black  Langshan  and  Barred  Ply­
mouth  Rock  hens’  eggs  weighed  a  little 
over  26  ounces  per  dozen,  while  those 
laid  by  Single  Comb  Brown  Leghorns, 
late  hatched  Plymouth  Rock,  White 
Wyandotte,  and  Buff  Cochin  hens  range 
from  21.7  to  23.7  ounces  per  dozen.

Of  the  pullets, 

the  heaviest  eggs, 
weighing  26.5  ounces  per  dozen,  were 
laid  by  the  Black  Minorcas,  the 
light­
est  by  the  Single  Comb  Brown Leghorns 
and  Silver-Laced  Wyandottes. 
These 
weighed  17.5  and  22.1  ounces  per  doz­
en,  respectively.  The  Barred  Plymouth 
Rock,  White  Plymouth  Rock,  White 
Wyandotte,  Black  Langshan,  and  Buff 
Cochin  pullets’  eggs  all  weighed  not  far 
from  24  ounces  per  dozen.  As  will  be 
in  the  weight  of  the 
seen,  the  variation 
In  tests  carried 
eggs  was  considerable. 
on  at  the  Maine  Experiment  Station 
it 
was  noticed  that  eggs  from  hens  that 
laid  the  greatest  number  were  on  an 
average  smaller  in  size  than  those  from 
hens  producing  fewer  eggs.  The  per­
centage  of  fertility  was  also  less  in  the 
former than  in  the  latter.

In  the  North  Carolina  test  all  of  the 
eggs,  regardless  of  size,  had  a 
local 
market  value  of  13^  cents  per  dozen  at 
the  time  of  the  investigation.  If a dozen 
Single  Comb  Brown  Leghorn  pullets’ 
eggs  weighing  17^  ounces  were  worth 
13^  cents  per  dozen,  or  12  cents  per 
pound,  the  eggs  of  the  other  breeds 
would  be  actually  worth  from  16.3  cents 
for  the  Single  Comb  Brown  Leghorn 
hens  to  21.6  cents  per  dozen  for  the 
Light  Brahma  hens,  or  from  20.7  to  60 
per  cent, 
in  excess  of  their  market 
value.  The  eggs  of  the  Pekin  ducks 
would  be  worth  26.7  cents,  or  97.8  per 
cent,  above  their  market  value.  On 
the  basis  of  the  results  obtained,  the 
station  advocates  selling  eggs  by  the 
pound 
It  is 
said  that  the  egg  packers  and  dealers 
maintain  that  this  method  would  in­
crease  the  cost  of  the  eggs,  owing  to  the 
extra  handling  necessary  and  the  con­
sequent  breakage.  An  apparent  objec­
tion  to  selling  eggs  by  weight  is  that 
they  are  not  generally  used in the house­
hold  in  this  way.  Most  recipes  call  for 
eggs  by  number  and  not  by  weight. 
There  is  no  question  that  weighing  the 
eggs  would  be  more  accurate,  and  re­
cipes  are  occasionally  met  with 
in 
which  this  method  is  followed.

instead  of  by  the  dozen. 

C.  F.  Langworthy.

A  Narrow  Escape.

Wife—Did  you  know  the  cook  was  in 
the  next  room  when  you  were  swearing 
and  complaining over the breakfast?
Husband— Good  heavens,  no! 

I 

thought  it  was  you. .

Some  Phases  o f W om ankind.

All  the  reasoning  of  man  is  not  worth 

the  instinct  of woman.

A  nagging  woman  is  bad,  but  a  nag­

ging  man  is  worse  than  a  gadfly.

love 

is  full  of  words;  real  love 

Ideal 

of  silence.

Never trust  the  woman  who  calls  you 
you 

“ dear”   twenty-four  hours  after 
meet.

When  a  woman  has  nothing  about  her 
house  or  toilet  to  change  she  changes 
her  mind.

The  woman  who  throws  herself  at  a 
man’s  head  will  soon  find  herself at  his 
feet.

A  brainy  woman 
loves  deeply  and 
long,equally  she  hates  deeply  and  wide.
Even  a shrewd  woman  may err and  be 
deceived—once,  whereupon  she  becomes 
a  subtle  one,  and  dangerous.

A  girl’s  way  of flattering  a  new  man 
is  to  insinuate  that  she  has  heard  the 
other women  talking  a  lot  about  him.

Write  us  for prices  for

Butter 
and Eggs

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

PETER  SMITH  &  SONS

DETROIT,  MICH.

Retting  &  Evans

Fruits,  Produce  and  Commission

Wholesale

O r a n g e s,  B a n an as,  L em o n s,  B e r r ie s,  C abbage,  W a x   B ea n s 

33  Ottawa Street,  Plenty Home Vegetables Cheap  Qrand  Rapids,  Mich. 

Ask for prices. 

Citizens Phone 2039.

Long Distance Phone 226 

All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds.

We buy Eggs and Butter on Commission.

F I E L D   S E E D S
F I E L D   P E A S
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M O SELEY  BROS.
W ANTED

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes 

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

\
i  1.000 Live  Pigeons.  Will pay  10c each delivered Detroit;  also Butter,  Eggs  ^ 
and  Poultry.  Will buy or handle for shippers’  account.  Cold Storage and  1 
ft  Coolers in building. 
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G EO .  N.  H U FF &, C O .. 

55 CADILLAC 8QUARE. DETROIT. MICH. 

26,28,30,32  Ottawa  Street________________________________________   Grand  Baplds,  Mining« .

Butter  and  Eggs  Wanted

Write  for  Cash  Prices  to

R.  H irt,  Jr.,

34  and  36  Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

References:  City Savings Bank and Commercial Agencies.

Highest Market Prices  Paid 

98  S o u th   D iv isio n   S t r e e t,

Regular Shipments Solicited.

Qrand Rapids,  M ich .

Reference,  Home Savings Bank, Detroit.

1 HE  LEADING  PRODUCE  HOUSE  ON THE  EASTERN  MARKET

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

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New  Egg  Rales  Prom ulgated  at  Boston.
The  Boston Fruit  &  Produce exchange 
has  adopted  a  new  set  of  rules  for  the 
grading  of  eggs.  They  are  classified  as 
fresh,  storage  and 
limed.  Fresh  eggs 
include  the  grades  of  extra,  firsts,  sec­
onds,  dirties  and  checks.  The  principal 
changes  are  the  doing  away with “  fancy 
fresh 
and  having  all  sales  made  at 
mark.  Fresh-gathered  extras  shall  be 
free  from  small,  dirty,  cracked,  heated 
or  frozen  eggs,  and  shall  contain  per- 
fectly  fresh,  full,  strong,  sweet  eggs,  as 
follows:  From  February  15  to  May  15, 
90  per  cent.;  from  May  15  to  October 
31,  80  per  cent.;  from  November  1  to 
December  31,  70  per  cent.;  and  from 
January  x  to  February  15,  80  per  cent. 
The  balance,  other  than  the  loss,  may 
be  defective  in  strength  or fullness,  but 
must  be  sweet.  There  may  be  an  aver­
age 
loss  of  one  dozen  per  case,  but  if 
the  loss  exceeds  this  by  not  more  than 
50  per  cent,  the  eggs  shall  be  a  good 
delivery  upon  the  allowance  of  the  ex­
cess.

Fresh-gathered  firsts  shall  be  reason­
ably  clean,  of  average  size,  free  from 
frost,  and  shall  contain  fresh,  reason­
ably  full,  strong,  sweet  eggs,  85  per 
cent,  from  February  15  to  May  15,  and 
65,  50  and  65  per  cent,  during  other 
periods  named  above. 
The  balance 
will  be  subject  to  same  rule  as  for  ex­
tras.  All  specifications  as  to  the  case 
mentioned 
in  the  rules  refer to  thirty- 
dozen  cases.  For  larger  cases  the  re­
quirements  shall  be  calculated  in  pro­
portion.  Extras  and  firsts  must  be  in 
new  cases  of  standard  size  and  good 
quality,  smooth  and  clean.

Men  are 

like  chickens;  they  always 

want  to  get  on  the  highest  roost.

2 3
J.  W.  Keys

General Produce and Commission 

Merchant,

Detroit,  Mich.

I  want your  consignments  of

Butter,  Eggs,

Poultry.

Correspondence silicited.  Please inves- 
vestigate.  Send for weekly  quotations.

References:  City Savings Bank,

Commercial Agencies.

A lum inum  Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

Send for samples and prices.
C .  H .  H A N S O N ,

44  S .  C lark  S t .,  C h icago,  III.

A L L   G R O C E R S

Who desire to give their customers the best vinegar on the market  will 
give them RED STAR  BRAND  Cider Vinegar.  These  goods  stand 
for PU RITY and are the best on the  market.  We  give  a  Guarantee 
Bond to every customer.  Your order solicited.

T H E   L E R O U X   C ID E R   &   V IN E G A R   C O .,

TO LED O ,  OHIO.

: STRAWBERRIES

J>j ne^PP^®s>  New  Garden  Truck  and  fancy 
Messma  Lemons at the most favorable prices 
EGGS  W ANTED. 

long-keeping  X 
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T

14 OTTAWA  STREET,

T H E   V IN K E M U L D E R   C O M P A N Y ,

We are making a specialty at present on fancy

Messina  Lemons

Stock  is fine,  in sound condition  and  good  keepers.  Price  very  low.  Write  or

wire for quotations.

E.  E.  HEWITT,
Successor  to  C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co.

9  N orth   Ionia  S t r e e t,  G rand  R apid s,  M ich.

Yon can  pay  more  but 

can not find  better SEEDS The best  and  only  the 

best are sold  by us

Our stocks are still complete.  All orders filled promptly and  properly.  We carry 
the largest stocks and best grades of seeds for the garden, farm and  flower  garden.

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

uce Trades.

New  York,  May  18— The  accustomed 
dulness 
in  the  coffee  market  continues 
and  we  seem  to  be  “ in  for  it”   for a 
long  time  to  come.  Prices are  called 
steady  and  they  ought  to  be 
if  lowness 
has  anything  to  do  with  it.  No.  7  is  not 
to  be  touched  at  less  than  6 # c ;  but  it 
sells  freely  at  that  and  no  surprise  will 
be  occasioned 
if  a  drop  of  % c   takes 
place  at  any  time.  The  Havemeyer- 
Arbuckle  war  is  “ settled”   again  and 
now  Arbuckle  is  to  name  the  price  of 
package  coffee  and  both  are  to  sell  for 
the  same  and  Havemeyer  is  to jog along 
in  sugar  without  any  interference  from 
Arbuckle. 
the 
amount  of  Brazil 
coffee  aggregates 
1,201,781  bags,  against 962,440  bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  In  mild  grades 
there  has  been  some  improvement  and 
the  rate  for  Good  Cucuta  is  now  about 
8@8^c.  Nothing  has  been done  in  East 
India  grades.
is  bringing  more 
trade  and  the  market  is  in  good  shape. 
Wholesalers  seem  to  be  well  supplied 
for  current  demands  and  no  delay  has 
as  yet  been  experienced 
in  filling  or­
ders.

store  and  afloat 

Warmer  weather 

In 

Some  very  fair  orders  have  come  to 
hand  for greens  and  upon  the  whole  the 
tea  market  is  in  rather  better shape than 
for a  month.  Some  fairly 
large  sales 
of  Congous  have  been  made  and  sellers 
seem  to  be  quite  confident  as  to  the  fu­
ture.  A  special  sale  of  Formosas  was 
held  on  Wednesday  at  prices  ranging 
from  i i @2o^ c  in  bond.

Rice  prices  are  firm.  A  good  many 
orders  have  come  to  hand  and  sellers 
are  very  firm  in  their  views,  the  situa 
tion  South  as  well  as  here  being  strong 
Prime  to  choice  Southern,  $ @ 5H c -  
Twenty-five  tons  of  Singapore  black 
pepper  have  changed  bands  at  i2|^c. 
Aside  from  this,  business  in  spices  has 
been  of  small  moment  and  quotations 
are  unchanged.

Grocery  grades  of  molasses  are 

in 
fair  request  for  this  time  of  year,  al­
though  sales  are  mostly— altogether,  in 
fact—of  small 
lots.  Open  kettle,  35© 
42c;  centrifugal,  prime,  22@3oc.

The  demand  for  syrups  has  been  fair 
and  prices  are  well  sustained.  In  round 
lots,  good to  prime,  i9@22c.

As  the  season  advances  it  becomes 
evident  that  liberal  supplies  of  canned 
goods  have  been  carried  over  in  many 
lines  and,  as  it  is  desirable  to  work 
these  off,  the  market  is  rather more  than 
well  supplied  with  certain 
lines.  The 
is  better  than  it  has  been  for 
demand 
some  time,  and  yet  there 
is  room  for 
improvement.  Peas  are  about  as  dull 
as  anything  on  the  list,  as  new  goods 
are  about  due.  Maryland and  Delaware 
goods  are  worth  from  85@goc.  Corn  is 
dragging  at  57)£@6oc 
for  spot  New 
York,  and  65@7oc  for 1901  pack.  Some 
new  can  factories  have  been  organized 
to  “ fight”   the  trust  and  the  merry  war 
jogs  on  apace.

Dried  fruit  jobbers  report  rather  more 
activity  on  certain  lines  and,  upon  the 
whole,  the  market  is  in  a  fairly  satis­
factory  condition.  Enquiries  for cur­
rants  elicit  the  fact  that  prices  are  very 
firmly  held  and  buyers  have  no  alterna­
tive  but  to  pay  the  price  or  leave  the 
goods.  Raisins  and  prunes  are  also 
meeting  with  better  request  and  quota­
tions  are  well  held.  Evaporated  apples 
are  selling  well  and  prices  are  firm.

Lemons  and  oranges  are  both  meet­
ing  with  good  call  and,  while  prices 
are about as last week,  the  feeling is  firm 
and  warmer  weather  will  see  an  ad­
vance  almost  immediately. 
It  is  cold 
and  wet  here,  making  conditions  rather 
gloomy  for the  fruit  trade.  Good  sup­
plies  of  lemons  are  on  the  way.

For  the  very  best  grades  of  butter 
there 
is  a  fairly  firm  feeling,  with  best 
Western  creamery  worth,  as  last  week, 
19c.  Grades  that  are  not  up  to  the  test 
fall  off  rapidly  in  value  and  it  is  diffi 
cult  to  quote  more  than  13c  for  West 
ern  factory. 
Imitation  creamery,  I4@ 
17c,  the  latter  for  fancy  stock;  rolls 
common  to  prime,  u@ i3c.

The  cheese  market  shows  improve­
ment  for  large  new  colored  stock  and 
quotations  have  advanced  about  #c, 
being  now  rated  as  worth  8Xc.  Old 
is  pretty  well  closed  out,  what 
cheese 
stock 
left  going  at  ioX@ioj£c  for 
full  cream  small  size  State.

is 

Eggs  are  dull.  The  supply  is  fully 
equal  to  all  demands  and,  while  desir­
is  working  out  at 
able  near-by  stock 
about  15c,  Western  will  not  bring  over 
I3@i4c  and  goods  must  be  very  desir­
able  to  bring  the  latter.

The  demand  for  beans 

is  of  a  job­
bing  character  and  there  is  no  change 
in  any  respect  from  last  week.

Selection  of Eggs  for Storage.

Eggs  put  up  for storage  should  be 

in 
well  seasoned,  dry,  cottonwood  cases 
and 
in  either  medium  or  No.  1  fillers. 
If  packed  in  No.  2  fillers  there  are more 
broken  eggs 
in  transit,  which  make 
trouble 
in  storage,  and  if  the  eggs  are 
shipped  by  rail  from  the  storage  bouse 
to the  receiver,  No.  2  fillers  are  not  firm 
enough  after having  been  in  storage  to 
carry  the  eggs.  Another  point  in  favor 
of  a  heavy  filler  is  that  when  eggs  are 
held  in  any  house  where  the  humidity 
is  likely to  run  high  fungus  will  not  ap­
pear on  them  as quickly  in  heavy  as  in 
light  fillers.  The  reason 
is  that  the 
heavy  filler  has  a  larger  capacity  to  ab­
sorb  the  egg  vapor  than  has  the  light 
filler.  Fungus  can  not  grow  on  a  dry 
filler  nor on  the  eggs  as  long  as the filler 
is  a  ready  absorbent  of  the  vapor  that 
comes  from  the  egg.  In  addition  to  till­
ers  being  of  proper  weight,  they  should 
be  well  seasoned  before  they  go  into 
storage.  The 
less  odor  there  is  to  the 
filler the  better  will  be  the  result  on 
the  eggs.

Selection  of  eggs  for  storage  is  an 
other thing  of  prime 
importance.  All 
small  eggs,  checks,  dirties,  heated 
blood-veined  and  spots  should  be  re 
jected.  The  requirements  for  storage 
packed  extras  are  very  strict  on  the 
produce  exchanges.  Eggs  must  be 
fresh,  full,  sweet  and  clean  to  pass  in 
spection.

Many  eggs  are  sold  as  storage-packed 
that  do  not  come  up  to  the  require 
ments.  We  have  seen  instances  where 
the  shipper  apparently  thought  if  eggs 
were  put 
into  a  cottonwood  case  they 
were  storage-packed ;  but  it  requires  a 
grading  that  rejects  from  20 to  40  per 
cent,  of  current  receipts  from  store­
keepers  to  make  good  storage-packed 
stock.  Eggs  coming  from  the  larger 
country  towns  are  not  as  desirable  as 
those  from  small  towns,  because  the 
home  demand  gets  the  brightest  and 
best  stock.  Some  storekeepers  pick  out 
the  best  eggs  and  put  them  in  what they 
call  the  “ retail  box”  
for  their  home 
trade.  After the  best  have  been  selected 
the  balance  go  into  cases  for  the  pack­
ers  to  make  first-class  storage  stock 
from.  Such  eggs  necessitate  making  a 
large  percentage  of 
rejections.— Egg 
Reporter.

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Said  Patrick  Dooley:  A  patient  man 
is  one  who  has  patience  when  he  is  out 
of  patience.

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

S e e d  Q r o w er s an d  fle r c h a n ts  

G rand  R ap id s, flic h ig a n

L. O. SNEDECOR  Egg  Receiver

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York

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S ta rt  in  with  us  now.

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Identifying  A rticles  by  L etter—P opular 

Tastes and  Distastes.

It 

With  many  merchants  window  trade 
is  an  important  part  of  their  business 
By  window  trade 
is  meant  the  sale  of 
goods  from  the  window  to  people  who 
will  not  bother to  enter  the  store  to  ex 
amine  the  goods.  Very  often  a  man  in 
a  hurry  will  buy  out of a window  a piece 
of  goods  that  strikes  his  fancy  and  will 
stop  at  the  door  until  it  is  delivered  to 
him. 
is  often  a  matter of  difficulty 
for the  trimmer  to  get  the  precise article 
from  the  window  unless  there  is  some 
way  of  identifying  it  other than  the cus 
tomer’s  description  of  the  article.  We 
suggest  that  an  excellent  scheme  for  use 
in  a  solid  window  where  many  articles 
of the  same  kind  are  displayed  is  to use 
on  each  article  a  letter  or a  number  as 
a  means  of  identifying  it.  Letters  are 
better than  numbers;  as  the  letter  is  not 
confused  with  the  price  figures.  Have 
a  number  of  handsome  illuminated 
let* 
ters  in  various  styles  of type  and  script 
painted  in  colors  on  cardboard  and  at* 
tach  each  one  to  the  articles  shown. 
They  will  make  an  attractive  feature  in 
the  trim  and  will  greatly  aid  the  clerk 
in  taking  from  the  window  the  particu­
lar  article  wanted. 
from 
which  goods  are  constantly  being  sold 
important  that  the  articles  be 
it  is 
placed 
in  the  window  in  such  a  way 
that  they  can  be  readily  separated  from 
each  other  without  disarranging  the  en­
tire  trim.

In  a  trim 

their  educational  value 

One  variety  of  window  trim  made  up 
of  something  besides  the  ordinary  dis­
play  of  goods 
is  always  sensible  and 
valuable,  whatever  method  of  trimming 
is  employed  in  the  store.  The  window 
trim  we  have  in  mind  is  one  that  shows 
the  process  of  manufacture  of  the  goods 
displayed.  Window  trims  are  always 
educators,  for  they  show  what  is  being 
produced  by  the  world’s  workers  and 
what  values  are  attached  to  their serv­
ices,  but 
is 
never  higher  than  when  they  contain 
some  example  of  the  way in which prod­
ucts  are  prepared  for  the  market.  Peo­
ple  are  always  interested  in  inspecting 
such  window  features.  Nine  men  and 
women  out  of  ten  have  a  curiosity  to 
see  “ how  the  things  is  done,”   and  the 
merchant  who  shows  in  his  window  the 
process  of  manufacturing  any  article 
that  he  has  on  sale  can  always  depend 
upon  drawing  appreciative  spectators. 
As  it  is  rarely  possible  to set  up a work­
shop  in  the  window,  where  artisans  can 
be  seen  manufacturing  goods  for the 
market,  the  next  best  thing  is  to  show 
the  different  stages  of  manufacture  by 
displaying  before  the  public  the  article 
in  its  various  stages  of  completion. 
In 
a  hat  window  there  are arranged the rab­
bit  fur 
the 
rough  shape  out  of  which  the  hat  is 
finally  made,  and  all  the  parts  of  the 
hat,  with  the  tools  used  by the  work­
men,  when  possible.  In a shirt  display a 
bolt  of  cloth  is  shown  with  the  patterns 
and  knives  with  which  the  shirt  is  cut. 
The  various  parts  of  the  shirt  are  ar­
ranged  in  order and  explanatory  cards 
are placed conveniently, so that  everyone 
can  understand  the  different  stages  of 
the  finishing  and  making.  The  same 
plan  can  be 
followed  with  gloves  and 
clothing. 
People  believe  what  they 
see,  and  no  amount  of  declamation 
about  the  superiority  of  one 
line  of 
clothing  over  another  will  have  half the 
effect  of  a  suit  of  clothes  displayed  in 
its  several  parts,  so that
a  window 

its  natural  condition, 

in 

in 

lining  and  trim 
every  portion  of  its 
ming  is  visible. 
If  a  merchant  is  sell 
ing  clothing  that  he  knows  is  better 
than  a  rival’s  line  (although  to the  eye 
there  is  no  difference)  he  can  make  the 
public  appreciate  the  difference  by  tak 
ing  a  suit  to  pieces  and  showing  the 
lining  and  process  of  manufacture  to 
the  public.  Clothing  makers  know  that 
the  make  and  finish  of  a  suit  are  two 'of 
the  most  important  elements  in  its  gen 
eral  worth  and  that  the  public  is  usual 
ly  unable  to  appreciate  the  fact.  For 
this  reason  a  display  of  the  various 
parts  of  a  garment  educates  the  public 
to  an 
intelligent  appreciation  of  the 
goods  on  sale.  When  such  a  display  is 
made  it  is  always  a  good  thing  to  ex­
plain  on  window  cards  the  purpose  of 
each "part  of  the  article  when  it  is  not 
easily  understood  at  a  glance.  In a  win­
dow  display  a  merchant  can  venture 
into  technical  details  regarding 
the 
manufacture  of  his  wares  in  a  way  that 
he  could  not  hope  to  if .he  were  writing 
an  advertisement  for  the  newspapers

Unless  the  window  trimmer  comes  in 
contact  with  the  patrons  of  his  house  as 
a  salesman,  he 
is  apt  to  conclude  in 
some  cases  that  it  is  a  matter of  little 
moment  to  him  whether  he  studies  hu­
man  nature  or  not.  But  such  a  view  is 
a  mistake.  No  window  trim  is  a  suc­
cess,  no  matter  how  beautiful  it  is  in 
it  appeals  to  the  patrons 
itself,  unless 
of  the  store  and  thereby  sells  goods. 
If 
the  people  of  a  community  have  any 
preference  for  one  kind  of  window 
effects,  the  fact  should  be  noted  and  the 
windows  trimmed  in  that  way,  whether 
it  is  the  most  artistic  way  or  not.  The 
window  man  can  not  know  whether  his 
windows  are  a  success  unless  he  knows 
how  the  color tones  employed 
in  them 
appeal  to  the  public.  He  should  also 
consider  the  appropriateness  of displays 
with  reference  to  the  purchasing  habits 
of  patrons. 
If  the  men  of  a  city  are  for 
the  most  part 
in  the  habit  of  making 
their  purchases  on  a  Monday,  the  Mon­
day  trims  of  clothing  and  furnishing 
goods  stores  should  be  the  brightest  and 
best  of  the  week.  The  best  goods should 
be  reserved  for  them  and  the  latest  pro­
ductions  find  place 
If  the 
trims  for  any  day  must  be  put  in  hur­
riedly  the  Monday  trim  should  receive 
full  attention  in  any  case.  This  is  in­
stanced  as  an  illustration.  Trims  should 
always  be cheerful  in  their character, for 
people  do  not  feel  inclined  to  purchase 
when  in  a  sorrowful  mood.  Therefore, 
melancholy,  sombre  color  effects  and 
window  settings  should  be  avoided.  A ! 
representation  of  a  funeral  procession 
with  window  cards  announcing  that  you 
have  a  full  and  complete  stock  of  neck­
wear and  gloves  for  funerals  may attract 
the  attention  of  undertakers  and  fore- 
sighted  invalids,  but  it  is  not  apt  to  at­
tract  the  custom  of  the  general  public, 
unless  the  community  is  in  the  throes 
of  a  pestilence.  Find  out  what  the  pub­
lic  likes  and  how  the  public  likes  to  see 
goods  displayed.  Whatever  you  may 
think  cf the  popular  taste,  give  people 
what  they  want.  That  is the  first  prin­
ciple  of  successful  storekeeping, and  the 
window  man  is  a  merchant  before  he 
is  an  artist.—Apparel  Gazette.

in  them. 

Grant  H.  Otis,  general dealer,  Shultz : 
Your  paper  is  all  right.  While I  do  not 
agree  with  all  its  editorial  expressions, 
I  make  allowance  for  your  youth  and 
other  privileges  and  trust  that  you  will 
learn  as you  get  older.  Taking all things 
into  consideration,  the  Tradesman  is 
the  best  and  brightest  trade  paper  that 
comes  to  my  desk.  The  merchants  of 
Michigan  wish  you  to  retain  your  full 
measure of  usefulness  for years to come.

T h e  Putnam  C andy  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Filipino S pankers 
Chinese  Firecrackers

And  everything  in  Fireworks  for  the

Fourth  of  July

Call  and  inspect  our line  and  establish­

ment  when  in the city.

B.  W. Putnam,  Prest.

R. R. Bean,  Sec’y.

M M N N M M U M H M a i H a i N U M M N N N a i M M U N

Grand  Rapids  Bark and  Lumber Co.

Dealers  in

HEM LOCK BARK. LUM BER, 

SH IN G LES.  RAILROAD  T IE S . 

P O S T S .  WOOD

W AN TED— 50,000  cords  of  Hemlock  Bark.  Will  pay  highest  market 

price.  Bark measured and paid for at loading  point. 

W AN TED —75,000 Ties on  Pere Marquette  Railroad.  Write  for prices.
419-421  MICH.  T R U S T   BUILDIN G.  GRAND  RA PID S

W.  A.  Phelps,  Pres.  D.  C.  Oakes, Vlce-Pres.  C.  A.  Phelps, Sec’y and Treas.

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F; Owen,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary , A .   W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
John W. Schbam, Detroit. 
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DniW  Commercial  Trawlers  of Michigan

Grand ^Counselor,  H.  B.  Bartlett,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edelman, Saginaw

Grand Rapids Coueil He. 131, D. G. T.

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Mick i n s   Commercial  Trareien’ 
lataal  Accident  Association
President, J. Boyd Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids: 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Owen 
Grand Rapids.

>  |   « 

Salient  Features  of  the  G rand Connell 

Convention.

Grand  Rapids,  May  21— The  eighth 
annual  convention  of  the  Grand  Coun- 
C*1  Michigan  of  the  United  Commer­
cial  Travelers  of America  is a  thing  of 
the  memory—and  a  bright  memory  it 
has  left  in  the  minds  of the  many  who 
attended  the  meeting  at  Kalamazoo  last 
Friday  and  Saturday.  Promptly  at  9 
o’clock  Friday  morning,  the  special 
train  on  the  G.  R.  &  I.,  in  charge  of 
Conductor  Murphy,  and  with  Engineer 
Lopshire’s  hand  on  the  throttle  of  en­
gine  No.  11,  pulled  out  of  the  union 
depot,  having  on  board  a  merry  party 
from  Grand  Rapids  Council,  No.  131, 
United  Commercial  Travelers, 
com- 
posed  of  the  following  gentlemen  and 
their  wives:  G.  R.  Alexander,  I.  F.
Baker,  W.  S.  Burns,  W.  R.  Compton,
A.  T.  Driggs,  J.  C.  Emery,  H.  Free- 
man,  H.  L.  Gregory,  N.  A.  Godwin, 
C.  C.  Herrick,  W.  B.  Holden,  D.  E. 
Keyes,  F.  E.  Morley,  C.  W.  Mills,  J. 
H.  Miller,  John  D.  Martin,  Franklin 
Pierce,  G.  A.  Pierce,  H.  Snitzler,  S, 
H.  Simmons,  G.  G.  Watson.

The  following  gentlemen  left  their 
wives  behind:  J.  C.  Ballard,  J.  G. 
Beniamin,  W.  J .   Carlyle,  Geo.  Gane, 
J.  Handorp,  J.  G.  Kolb,  E.  C.  Kosterr- 
hoff,  F.  L.  Loomis,  B.  J.  Launier,  [.
B.  Mclnnes,  W.  H.  Sigel,  G.  T.  Smith,
G.  A.  Sage,  W.  H.  Bunn  (Billy,  weight 
345),  B.  E.  Strattan,  F.  C.  Taylor,  D. 
M.  Bodwell,  W.  H.  Canfield,  N.  C.
Lyons,  H.  H.  Stephenson.

of 

lead. 

entertainment  given  by  them.  Every 
effort  put  forth  by  them  proved  a  suc­
cess.  The  parade  Saturday  morning 
was  as  fine  as  ever  marched  at  a  U.  C. 
T.  gathering,  the  head  of  the  line  being 
given  Grand  Rapids  Council,  with  the 
in  the 
Newsboys’  band 
Two 
members 
Kalamazoo  Council, 
mounted  on  snow  white horses,  preceded 
the  band. 
Following  Grand  Rapids 
Council  _ came _  Jackson  Council, 
all 
dressed 
in  white  and  carrying  white 
parasols.  The  Grand  Rapids  Council 
carried  thunder canes and made a “  thun­
dering”   noise  with  them  all  tbe  time. 
Next  came  Detroit  Council,  No.  9,  and 
the  Kalamazoo  band,  Flint,  Saginaw, 
Bay  City  and  Hillsdale  Councils,  each 
m  the  order  named,  and  then  came 
Cadillac  Council 
from  Detroit,  all  in 
Rube  costumes  with  a  Rube  band,  who 
made  a  very  decided  hit. 
Immediately 
back  of  Cadillac  Council  were 
the 
Daughters  of  Cadillac  in  a  tally-ho. 
Then  came  Kalamazoo  Council  and 
back  of  them  all  visiting  ladies  in  car­
riages.

It  was  a  fine  parade,  a  good  conven­
tion,  an  elegant  banquet  and  ball,  and 
many  thanks  are  tendered  the  Kalama­
zoo  people  for  their  generous  hospital­
ity.  Everybody  seemed  bent  on  doing 
something  for somebody  to  enable  them 
to  have  a  good  time.  A  vote  of  thanks 
is  extended  the  G.  R.  &.  I.  for  the  ele­
gant  special  train,  consisting  of  two 
coaches  and  combination  baggage  and 
smoker.  Thanks  are  due  the  people  of 
Kalamazoo  for-their fine  entertainment, 
to  the  Kalamazoo  police  force  for  not 
running  anybody  in,  and  Grand  Rapids 
Council  wishes  to extend  thanks  to  our 
good  friend  Billy  Bunn  for  marching 
all  through  the  parade,  carrying  his  345 
pounds  of  U.  C.  T.  flesh, and  also to  our 
Sentinel,  A.  T.  Driggs,  for  the  very 
efficient  manner  in  which  he  handled 
the  parade  and  made  everybody  turn 
square  corners.  Grand  Rapids  took  the 
largest  number of  people  to  the  conven­
tion;  was the only  Council  accompanied 
by  a  band ;_tbe  only  one  to  have  its own 
special  train,  and  had  the  largest 
in­
dividual  member  at  the  conveution 
W.  H.  Bunn  (Billy,  weight  345).

Ja  Dee.

FIGURING  COST.

| F atal  Defect  in  the  Make-up  of  Some 

Jacob A. Riis In Outlook.

Men.

It  came  about 

in  this  w ay:  some 
countrymen  of  mine  had  started  a  co 
operative  furniture  factory 
in  James­
town,  where  there  were  water-power 
and  cheap  lumber.  They  had  no  cap 
ital,  but  just  below  was  the  oil  country, 
where  everybody  had  money,  slathers  of 
it.  New  wells  gushed  every  day  and 
boom  towns  were  springing  up  along 
the  Alleghany 
valley.  Men  were 
into  it  from  all  over,  and 
streaming 
needed  furniture. 
If  once  they  got  the 
grip  in  that  country,  reasoned  the  furni­
ture-makers,  they  would get rich quickly 
with  the  rest.  The  thing  was  to get  it. 
To do  that  they  needed  a man who could 
talk. 
Perhaps  they  remembered  the 
creation  of  the  world  the  year  before. 
At  all  events,  they  sent  up  to  Buffalo 
and  asked  me  if I  would  try.

I 

slammed  my 

tool-box  shut  and 
started  for Jamestown  on  the  next  train. 
Twenty-four  hours  later  saw  me  headed 
for  the  oil  country,  equipped  with  a 
mighty  album  and  a  price-list.  The 
album  contained  pictures  of  the  furni­
ture  I  had  for sale.  All  the  way  down  I 
studied 
the  price-list,  and  when  I 
reached  Titusville  I  knew  to  a  cent 
it  cost  my  employers  per  foot  to 
what 
make  ash  extension  tables. 
I  only  wish 
they  had  known  half as  well.

My  first  customer  was  a  grumpy  old 
shopkeeper  who  needed  neither tables 
nor  bedsteads,  so  he  said.  But  1  had 
thought 
it  all  over  and  made  up  my 
mind  that  the  first  blow  was  half  the 
battle. 
pushed  my  album  under his  nose,  and  . 
fell  open  at the extension tables.  Cheap 
I  said,  and  rattled  off  the  price. 
I  saw 
him  prick  up  his  ears,  but  he  only 
growled  that  probably  they  were  no 
good.

Therefore  I  knew  better, 

What!  my  extension  tables  no  good.
I  dared  him  to  try  them,  and  he  gave 
me  an  order for a  dozen,  but  made  me 
sign  an  agreement  that  they  were  to  be 
every  way  as  represented. 
I  would 
have  backed  my  tables  with  an  order 
for  the  whole  shop,  so  sure  was  I  that 
they  could  not  be  beaten.  The  idea ! 
With  the  fit  of  righteous  indignation 
upon  me,  1  went  out  and  sold  every 
other  furniture  dealer  in  Titusville 
bill  of  tables;  not  one  of  them  escaped.
At  night,  when  I  had  sent  the  order 
home,  I  set  out  for  Oil  City,  so  as  to 
lose  no  valuable  time.

It  was  just  the  same  there.  For  some 
reason  they  were  suspicious  of  the  ex­
tension  tables,  yet  they  wanted  nothing 
else. 
I  had  to  give  ironclad  guarantees 
that  they  were  as  represented,  which  I 
did 
impatiently  enough.  There  was  a 
thunderstorm  raging  at  the  time.  The 
lightning  had  struck  a  tank,  and  the 
burning  oil  ran  down  a  bill  and  set  the 
town  on  fire.  One  end  of  it  was  burn­
ing  while  I  was  canvassing  the  other, 
mentally  calculating  how  many  exten­
sion  tables  would  be  needed  to  replace 
those  that  were 
lost.  People  did  not 
seem  to  have  heard  of  any  other  kind 
of  furniture  in  that  country.  Walnut 
bedsteads,  marble-top  bureaus,  turned 
washstands—they  passed  them  ail  by  to 
fall  upon  the  tables  with  shrill  demand.
I  made  out their case  to  suit  the  facts, 
as  I  swept  down  through  that  region, 
scattering  extension  tables  right  and 
It  was  the  excitement,  I  reasoned, 
left. 
the 
inrush  of  population  from  every­
where ;  probably  everybody  kept  board­
ers,  more  every  day;  had  to  extend 
their  tables  to  seat  them.  I  saw  a  great 
opportunity  and  resolutely  grasped  it.
If  it  was  tables  they  wanted,  tables  it 
should  be.  I  let  all  the  rest  of  the  stock 
go  and  threw  myself on  the  tables  ex­
clusively.  Town  after  town  I  filled  with 
them.  Night  after  night  the  mails 
groaned  under the  heavy  orders  for  ex­
tension  tables  I  sent  North.  From  A l­
legheny  City  alone  an  order of  a  thous­
and  dollars’  worth  from  a  single  rep­
utable  dealer  went  home,  and  I  figured 
in  my  note  book  that  night  a  commis­
sion  of $50  for  myself  plus  my  salary.

I  could  know nothing of the dispatches 
that  were  hot  on  my  trail  ever since  my 
first  order came  from  Titusville,  telling

me  to  stop,^  let  up  on  the  tables,  come 
home,  anything ;  there  was  a  mistake in 
the  price.  They  never  overtook  me. 
My  pace  was  too  hot  for  that.  Anyhow, 
I_ doubt  if  I  would  have  paid  any  atten­
tion  to  them.  I  had  my  instructions  and 
was  selling  according  to  orders.  Busi­
ness  was  good,  getting  better  every 
day.  The  firm  wrote  to  my  customers, 
but  they  merely  sent  back  copies  of  the 
ironclad  contract.  They  had  seen  my 
instructions  and  they  knew  it  was  all 
It  was  not  until  I  brought  up, 
right. 
my 
in  Rochester, 
near the  Ohio  line,  that  the  firm  estab­
lished  communication  with  me  at  last. 
Their  instructions  were  brief;  to  come 
home  and  sell  no  more  tables.  They 
sent  ten  dollars,  but gave  me  no  clue  to 
their  curious  decision,  with 
things 
booming  as  they  were.

last  penny  gone, 

in  such  demand. 

Being  in  the  field,  I  considered  that, 
whatever  was  up,  I  had  a  better com­
mand  of  the  situation. 
I decided  that  I 
would  not  go  home,  at  least  not  until  I 
had  sold  a  few  more  extension  tables 
while  they  were 
I 
made  those  ten  dollars  go  farther than 
ten  dollars  ever  went  before.  They  took 
me  a 
little  way  into  Ohio,  to  Youngs­
town,  and  then  back  to  Pennsylvania, 
to  Warren  and  Meadville  and  Corry. 
My  previous  training  in  going  hungry 
for  days  came  in  handy  at  last. 
In  the 
interests  of  commerce,  I  let  my  dinners 
go.  So  I  was  enabled  to  make  a  final 
dash  to  Erie,  where  I  planted  my  last 
batch  of  tables  before  I  went  home 
happy.

I  got  home 

in  time  to assist  in  the 
winding  up  of  the  concern.  The 
iron­
clad  contracts-  had  done  the  business. 
My  customers  would  not  listen  to  ex­
planations.  When  told  that  the  price 
of  those  tables  was  lower than  the  cost 
of  working  up  the  wood,  they  replied 
that  it  was  none  of  their business.  They 
had  their contracts.  The  Allegheny man 
threatened  suit,  if  I  remember  rightly, 
and  the  firm  gave  up.  Nobody  blamed 
me,  for  I  had  sold  according  to  orders; * 
but,  instead  of  $450  which  I  had figured 
out  as  my  commission,  I  got  seventy- 
five  cents. 
It  was  half  of  what  my  em­
ployer had.  He  divided  squarely,  and 
I  could  not  in  reason  complain.

Ionia  Sentinel:  The  citizens  of  Ionia 
and  traveling  public  will  be  pleased  to 
learn  that  V.  K.  Brown,  landlord  of the 
New  Bailey,  has  decided  to  remain 
in 
the  city  and  will  continue 
in  his  old 
capacity.  He  has  associated  with  his 
son,  S.  C.  L.  Brown,  in  the  manage­
ment  of  the  hotel,  and  the  firm  will  be • 
known  as  V.  K.  Brown  &   Son.

A  man  expects  rounds  of  applause 
when  he  beigns  to  climb  the  ladder of 
fame.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $ 2  per day.  Central  location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A .  B .  G A R D N E R ,  M an ager.

Whiskey,  Morphine  and 

Tobacco  Habits

P o s itiv e ly   C ured

Full  particulars  and  prices  for  the asking. 

Patterson  Home  Sanitarium, 316  E.  Bridge St. 

Phone  1291 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

A  Hotel  Man .m. 
Wanted

with some capital,  to build  and  con­
duct a first-class hotel In the  thriving 
village of Coopersville, Mich., located 
'on  the  line  of  the  finest  tnterurban 
railway in America.  No better open­
ing  in  the  State.  A  paying  Invest­
ment for the right man.  A  fine site, 
with plenty of foundation  stone,  can 
be bought cheap  if taken  soon.  For 
particulars address C.  DeVos,  Secre-
tary  Business  Men’s 
Association,
Coopersville, Mich.'

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A  number of  the  boys  went  from  their
work  on  the  road  direct  to  Kalamazoo 
and  were  at  the  depot  when  the  train
pulled  in.  However,  there  was  a  large 
enough  party  to  make  a  good  showing
on  their  way  to  the  depot,  headed  by 
the  Newsboys’  band.  As  soon  as  the
train  began  to  enter the  city  of  Kala­
mazoo,  the  engineer opened  the  whistle 
valve  and  that,  together  with  the  hand 
playing  on  the  train,  notified  the  inhab-
itants  that  something  was  coming  and, 
in  a  very  short  time,  every  one  in  town 
knew  that  it  was  the  Grand  Rapids 
boys  and  their  best  girls,  all  dressed  in 
their good  clothes—because,  you  know,
Kalamazoo  people  have  the  reputation 
for  wearing  fine  clothes  and  the  Grand 
Rapids  people  wished  to  show  them 
that  they  had  purchased  some  new  ap 
parel  since  the 
last  convention.  A
committee  with  a  band  met  the  special 
from  Grand  Rapids  and  escorted  the
party  to the  U.  C.  T.  headquarters,  the 
walking  behind  the  band  and  the
ladies  riding  In  carriages,  everybody 
having  been  provided  with  badges  and 
banquet  tickets.  They  were  then  taken 
to  the  different  hotels  for  dinner. 
Im- 
mediately  after  dinner, 
the  business 
meeting  was  called  to  order at  the  U.
C.  T.  headquarters  and,  while 
the 
officers,  delegates  and  members  were 
wrangling  with  the  knotty  problems
which came  up  for discussion, the  ladies 
were  entertained  with  a  trolley  ride
over  the  city,  winding  up  at  the  Kala-
mazoo  Club,  where  a  very  fine  luncheon 
was  served.  At 9 o’clock  in  the  even­
ing,  tbe  ball  was  opened  at  the  Audi- 
tonum,  and 
it  was  about  3  o’clock  in 
the  morning  when  the  last  carriage  took 
to  tbe  hotels  some  of  the  weary  but 
happy  dancers.  The  banquet  and  ball 
reflected  great  credit  on  those  having 
matters  in  charge,  as  well  as  did  the 
entertainment  given  the 
ladies  in  the 
afternoon;  in  fact,  everything  was  just 
right;  and  well  may  the  Kalamazoo 
boys and  their ladies  feel  proud  of  the

Gripsack  Brigade.

Caro  Advertiser:  George  Shadley  has 
taken  a  position  with  the  wholesale 
grocery  firm  of  Gustin,  Cook  &  Co.,  of 
Bay  City,  and  started  on  bis  first  trip 
on  Monday.

Jerry  Woltman  (Olney  &  Judson  Gro­
cer  Co.)  is  spending  a  fortnight  at  Mt. 
Clemens,  seeking  relief  from  rheuma­
tism.  His  trade  is  being  visited  in  the 
meantime  by  Geo.  Williams.

Evart  Review :  E.  V.  Boughton  was 
here  Tuesday  representing  the  Smart  & 
Fox  Co.,  of  Saginaw.  He  has  a  small 
field  which  he  covers  for  that  company 
during  quiet  times  at  the  Custer  store.
A.  W.  Peck  (Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co.)  has  resumed  his  regular 
duties  on  the  road  after a  three  weeks’ 
respite  at  the  St.  Louis Sanitarium.  His 
territory  was  covered  in  the  meantime 
by  R.  T.  Bower,  the  Petoskey  drug 
gist.

J.  B.  Tucker,  who  covers  Northeast 
em  Michigan  and  the  Upper  Peninsula 
for  D.  M.  Amberg  &  Bro.,  was  in  town 
last  Saturday.  Mr.  Tucker  resides  at 
Alma  and  visits  his  house  only  two  or 
three  times  a  year.

inflammatory  rheumatism 

Stephen  T.  Bowen  has  been  confined 
to  his  bed  at  Sweet’s  Hotel  several  days 
with 
in  his 
right  arm.  He  is  on  the  mend  to  that 
extent  that  he  expects  to  resume  bis 
visits  to  his  trade  in  the  course  of  two 
or three  days.

W,  A.  Drury,  formerly  traveling  rep 
resentative  for  L.  F.  Swift  &   Co.,  died 
at  the  family  residence,  142  Fairbanks 
street,  last  Saturday  evening,  from  in­
ternal  hemorrhages.  The  remains  were 
taken  to  Reading  Monday  to  be  buried 
near the  boyhood  home  of  the  deceased,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

26
D rugs—Chem icals

M ichigan  State  Board  o f Pharm acy

Term expires
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
-  Dec. 31,1901 
Henry  Heim, Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Wirt  p .  Doty, Detroit - 
Dec. 31,1903
A. 0. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  •  Dec. 31,1904 
John D. Mu ir, Grand Rapids 
Dec. 31,1905 

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

E xam ination  Sessions.

Star Island, June 17 and 18.
Sault  Ste.  Marie, August 28 and 29. 
Lansing, Not. 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  P harm aceutical  Association, 

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

lemon 

is  cut 

How  Lemon  Oil  Is  Made.
The  lemons  are  taken  to  the 

labora­
tory  and  each 
lengthwise  into 
■ three  slices.  The  pulp  is  first  removed 
and  put  into  a  press  where it is squeezed 
in  order  to  obtain  the 
juice, 
which 
is  sold  in  its  natural  or  concen­
trated  state  to the manufacturers of citric 
acid.  The  residue  of  the  pulp  is  used 
for  animal  food.  The  peel  is  put  into 
large  baskets,which  are  stored  in  a  cool 
place  for  some  hours,when it  is  ready  to 
be  pressed.  Each  workman  holds  in 
his  left  hand  a  medium-sized  sponge  of 
superfine  quality,  which  has  been  pre­
viously  washed  most  carefully  and  thor­
oughly.  Between  the fingers  of  the  same 
hand  he  has  also  small  sponges  to  pre­
vent  the  loss  of  any  of  the  oil,  which  is 
very  volatile.  With  the  right  hand  the 
workman  takes  a  piece  of  peel  from  the 
basket,which  is  kept  within  easy  reach, 
and  squeezes 
it  against  the  sponge, 
thus  forcing  the  oil  through  the  pores of 
the  rind 
into  the  sponge  or sponges. 
When  the  sponge  is  full  of  essence  it  is 
squeezed 
into  a  tin-lined  copper  bowl 
having  a  lip,  which  every  workman  has 
before  him. 
In  order  to  make  sure  that 
the  peel  has  yielded  all  the  essence  that 
can  be  pressed  by  hand,  the  overseer 
from  time  to  time  tests  the  rejected peel 
If 
by  squeezing 
there 
it  is  forced 
through  the  flame  and  produces  a  flash­
light. 
(We  have  seen  children  try  the 
same  experiment  with  the  peel  after 
having  eaten  their  orange.)  This  hand- 
pressed  peel  is  then  put  into  brine  and 
sold  to  manufacturers  of  candied lemon. 
When  the  tin-lined  copper  bowl  is  full 
it  is  set  aside  for a  short  time  to  permit 
the  impurities  to  settle,  after which  the 
bowl 
is  slowly  and  carefully  decanted 
and  the  clear  essence  emptied  into large 
tin-lined  copper  vessels.  Before  this  is 
put 
into  the  various  sized  coppers  for 
shipment,  it  is  passed  through  filtering 
paper.  This  not  only  perfectly  purifies 
it,  but  also  gives 
limpidity.  The 
quantity  and  quality  of  essence  yielded 
by  the 
lemon  varies  according  to  the 
season.  During  November,  December, 
and  January  most  of  the  essence  is man­
ufactured,  about 
lemons  being 
then  required  to  make  one  and  a  half 
pounds  of  essence.  Lemons  not  fully 
ripe  are  preferred,  as  they  yield a larger 
quantity  and  more  fragrant  quality  of 
essence  than  those  fully  matured.  While 
a  small  quantity  of  essence 
is  made 
during  spring  and  summer,  the  product 
lacks  the  delicate  fragrance of that made 
in  winter.— Midland  Druggist.

it  close  to  a  flame. 

is  any  essence 

i,ooo 

left 

it 

D anger of P asting  Labels  One  Over  A n­

other.

W.  J.  Kirkland  calls  attention  to  the 
danger  of  pasting 
labels  over one  an­
other  on  bottles.  He  received  a  bottle 
recently  with  a  poison  label  pasted  over 
a  syrup  of  squills  label,  and  under  that 
label,  all  of  which  were
a  prescription 

ready  to  drop  off;  and  this  is  but  one 
case  out  of  many.  There  are  far too 
many  accidents  from  people  mistaking 
bottles  without  adding  to  the  danger 
from  this  reprehensible  practice,  says 
Mr.  Kirkland. 
It  takes  only  a  moment 
longer  to  remove  the  old  label  and  by 
so doing  to  eliminate  a  possible  cause 
of  error.  What  is  a  minor  considera 
tion  in  point  of  danger,  but  a  major 
consideration  for the  druggist, is  that  by 
always  removing  the  old  label  before 
attaching  a  new  one  a  neat  package  i 
turned  out  which  leaves  a  favorable  im 
pression  on  the  mind  of  the  customer, 
From that standpoint  alone  it  more  than 
repays  for the  few  moments'  extra  time 
required.  Mr.  Kirkland  thinks  the  im 
portance  of  this  matter  can  not  be  too 
strongly  emphasized  or too  often  men 
tioned  in  drug  journals.

The  D rag  M arket.

Opium—Continues  to  decline,  on  ac 
count  of  easy  primary  markets.  There 
are  conflicting  reports  regarding  the 
growing  crop,  but  there  will  be  plenty 
for the  comirig  year.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  in  fair demand.  German 
brands  have  not  yet  advanced  to  a  par 
ity  with  domestic  brands.

Castor  Oil—Has  declined  4c  per gal 

Ion.

Chloral  Hydrate— Is  very  firm and  has 
advanced  abroad.  There  has  been  no 
change  as  yet  in  this  market.

Salol— Has  declined,  on  account  of 

lower  prices  in  foreign  markets.

Menthol—On  account  of  better stocks 

is  lower.

Oil  Pennyroyal— Has  advanced,  on 
account  of  small  stocks  and  large  de 
mand.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  very  firm  and  ad­

vancing.

Oil  Lemon  Grass— Is  in  small  supply 

and  has  advanced.

Necessity  of  E xtrem e  Caution  in  Using 

Benzine.

A  man  in  a  bicycle  repair  shop  was 
engaged 
in  cleaning  a  wheel  with  that 
liquid,  when  it  ignited,  and  an  explos- 
on  followed  which  threw  the  blazing 
fluid  over  his  clothing.  The  unfortu­
nate  man  ran  out  of  doors,  where  the 
flames,  fanned  by  the  wind,  of  course 
burned  more  fiercely.  He  was  followed 
by  the  owner  of  the  shop,  who  also 
called  a  policeman  to  help,  and  these 
two  managed  to  extinguish  the  fire, 
Their  hands  were  burned,  and 
the 
workman  received  injuries which  it  was 
feared  would  prove  fatal.  The  work­
man  was  smoking  a cigarette at the  time 
he  was  cleaning  the  wheel,  and  it  is 
supposed  that  a  spark  from  this  ignited 
the  benzine.  Possibly  the  cause  of  igni­
tion  may  have  been  electricity,  de­
veloped  by  friction.  That  ignition  may 
be  so  produced  in  certain  operations 
is 
highly  probable,  to  say  the  least,  and 
so  we  have  another  risk 
in  handling 
benzine.

To  Stop  Nosebleedim?.

Perhaps  the  most  effective  method 
of stopping  nosebleed,”   says  a  medical 
contemporary,  in  answer  to  a  subscrib­
er’s  enquiry,  “ is  to  use  some  prepara­
tion  of  the  suprarenal  gland,  which  is 
the  most  powerful  and  least  irritating 
astrigent  in  the  materia  medica.  As 
for the  particular  preparation to use,  the 
so-called 
‘ suprarenal  liquid  with  cblor- 
etone, ’  or  the  solution  of  the  newly- 
discovered'  active  principle  of the  sup­
rarenal  gland,  adrenalin,  will  be  found 
suited  to  the  purpose.”

Every  man 

is  supposed  to  know  his 
own  business,  but  it  is hard  to convince 
some  of  his  friends  that  he  does.

Cleaning  Oil  Measures  W hich  Have  Be­

come  Gummed.

Get  a  container that  will  hold  at  least 
three  to  five  gallons  of  water and  be 
large  enough  for  a  one-gallon  measure 
to  be  covered  when  put  in  the  contain­
er. 
If a  five-gallon  measure  and  extra 
large  funnels  are  to  be  cleaned  it  is 
necessary  to  get  a 
large  container.  A 
five  or  ten-gallon  keg  with  one  end 
taken  out  can  be  used  for this  purpose, 
or  a  barrel  can  be  cut  through  in  the 
middle  and  the  end  used,  or  a  wash-tub 
can  be  used,  or a  tin  box  or  can  may  be 
made  to  serve  the  same  purpose.  Ti 
will  resist  the  action  of  lye  better  than 
wood  and  has,  therefore,  some  advan 
tage,  but  the  vessel  should  be  water 
tight  and  should  not  leak.  Having  se 
cured  the  container,  get  a  cover  for  it 
Then  put  the  container outside  of  the 
building,  in  the  back  yard,  cellar,  or 
in  some  other  place  where  it  will  be  out 
of  the  way,  and  where  there  will  be  no 
danger  of  the  solution  of  lye  leaking 
through  and  spoiling  something.  When 
this  has  been  done  put  into  the  contain 
er enough  water  to  make  it  one-half  or 
two-thirds  full,  so  that  the  solution  will 
cover  the  measures  or  funnels  that  are 
to  be  put  in ;  then  put  in  a  can  of  lye 
and  cover  the  containers;  then  get 
suitable  stick  and  stir  the solution about 
every  fifteen  minutes  or  so  until  the  lye 
is  dissolved.  Be  sure  to  keep  the  con 
tainer covered  when you  are  not stirring 
the  solution.  After this  has  been  done 
put 
in  the  measures  and  funnels,  as 
many  of them  as  can  be  covered  by  the 
solution,  and  allow  them  to  remain  in 
the  solution  from  two  days  to  a  week 
Then  take  them  out  with  a  hook or stick 
of  some  kind ;  get  an  old  knife  (a  sharp 
one  is  preferable 
if  the  work  is  to  be 
done  in  a  hurry)  or a  large  spatula  and 
scrape  off the  sides  and 
insides  of  the 
measures  and  funnels  if  necessary.  Do 
not  put  the  scrapings  into  the  solution 
but  put  them  in  an  old  bucket,  box,  or 
other  suitable  container. 
If  the  meas 
ures  and  funnels,  are  now  clean  they 
should  be  rinsed  with  clean  water  and 
allowed  to  drain.

Theories  A nent  Rheum atism .

The  cause  of  rheumatism still remains 
more  or  less  of  a  mystery  in  spite of  the 
frequent  attempts  to  unravel  it.  The 
uric  acid  theory,although  often assailed, 
still  holds  the  premier  position  in  the 
minds  of  most  investigators.  The tend 
ency  to-day,  however,  is  to  classify  the 
different  forms  of  rheumatism  and  to 
seek  a  specific  cause  for  each  variety 
rather  than  to  attribute  all  to  various 
forms  of  uric  acidemia.  Muscular  rheu­
matism 
is  attributed  by  Sir  James 
Grant,  an  English  physician,  to  stor 
age  of  electricity 
in  the  muscular tis 
sues.  For  many  years  he  says that  he 
has  treated  such  cases  by  inserting  fine 
steel  needles 
and 
‘ grounding”   them.  He  claims to have 
given  the  patients  instant  relief  owing 
to the  discharge  of  electricity  through 
the  needles.

into  the  muscles 

Poor L ight P oor Economy.

“ Yes,  I  have  big  gas  bills,”   said 
Mr.  Progress, 
in  the  Pharmaceutical 
E ra;  “ but  it  pays  me  to have  ’em.  Did 
you  ever  pass  by  a  poorly-lighted  drug 
store  without  thinking  the  owner was 
either  doing  too  poor a  business  to  pay 
lights  or  else  was  too  mean  or 
for  his 
didn’t  want  people  to  see  what  was  in­
side?  That’s  the  way  it  strikes  me,  and 
'  dare  say  lots of  people  think  the  same 
way.  A  well-lighted,  clean,  bright,  and 
well-kept store  is  a  standing  advertise­
ment  that  the  owner  is  a  bright,  up-to-

date  man  and  a  hustler,  too;  these  dim, 
musty  stores  are  generally  run  by  old 
fogies  that  are  too  slow  to  keep  up  with 
the  times,  and  people  pass  by  them  to 
go  to  a  store  where  everything  looks 
bright  and  fresh.”

Defective  W indow  Display.

J.  P.  McConnell,  writing  in  the  Can­
adian  Druggist,  says that  he  saw  a  win­
dow  recently  that  would  have  been  a 
good  one,  but  it  fell  short  in  one partic­
ular. 
“ It  was  a  display  of  toilet soaps, 
the  name  of  which  is  well  known,  but 
not  easily  read  on  the  cartons,  because 
the  lettering  is  too  small  and  too  much 
involved.  Now  all  that  one  could  see 
in  that  window  were  those  cartons  and 
a  card  saying  ‘ 3  for  25  cents.’  The  card 
was  not  neat.  But  the  point  was: 
I 
know  that  this  soap  sells  for  three  cakes 
for a  quarter,  whereas  the  plain  mean­
ing  of  the  card  to  one  who  did  not 
know,  was  three  boxes  for  a  quarter.”

Novel Idea  in  W indow  Dressing.

A  new  idea  in  window  dressing  was 
seen  the  other  day 
in  a  Philadelphia 
store.  There  was  a  pair  of  scales  in  the 
window  with  a  big  piece  of  lead  cov­
ered  with  gold  foil 
in  one  pan  and  a 
ten-cent  box  of  the  owner’s  headache 
powders 
in  the  other,  the  pan  with  tht 
powders  being  tied  so  as  to  look  as  if 
the  box  weighed  it  down,  and  over  it 
was  a  big  card  with  the  words  “ B .’s 
Headache  Powders  are  Worth  Their 
Weight 
in  G old."  Around  the  scales 
were  heaped  a  pile  of  packages  of  the 
powders,  twenty-five  cent  boxes,  etc., 
with  a  heap  of  the  powder,  small scales, 
papers,  spatula,  etc., 
fore­
ground.

the 

in 

Some  men  remind  one  of  a  toy  bal­
loon;  if  they  were  pricked  with  a  pin 
there  would  be  nothing  left  of  them.

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 .

G rand  R apids,  M ich.
The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

Fred  Brundage
Wholesale  Druggist

3* and 34 Western av., Muskegon, Mich*

j  F ir e w o r k s

F ish in g

T ack le

S p o rtin g

G ood s
S ta tio n e r y
S c h o o l

S u p p lie s

C igars

O rder
th e m   w ith  
y o u r
D R U G S
to   s a v e
se p a r a te
fr e ig h t
c h a r g e s

Prompt shipment and right prices.

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

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& C. Co 

®  4 75
Menthol..................  
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 35® 2 60 
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q.
........  2 26® 2 60
©  40
Moschus  Canton.... 
Myrlstlca, No. 1...... 
66®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................   38®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................
1  00
Plcis Llq. N.N.*4 gal.
doz.......................  @200
Plcis Llq., quarts.... 
@ 1  00
Plcis Llq.,  pints......  
®  86
PllHydrarg...po. so  @  50
@  18
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35  @  30
Plix Burgun............  
© 
7
Plumbi Acet............  
io® 
12
Pul vis Ipecac et Opll  1  30®  1  50 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  76
Pyrethrum,  pv........  25©  30
Quassia..................  
8@ 
10
Quinta, S. P. &  W... 
36®  46
Quinta, S.  German..  34®  44
Qulnla, N. Y............   34®  44
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
14
Saccharum Lactis pv  18®  20
Salacln....................  4 50® 4 75
40®  60
Sanguis  Draconls... 
12® 
Sapo, W................... 
14
Sapo M.................... 
10® 
12
Sapo  G.................... 
© 
15

12® 

Seldlltz Mixture......  20®  22
Slnapis.................... 
is
<a 
@  30
Slnapis,  opt.........I! 
Snufl, Maccaboy, De
„ Voes.................... 
®  41
®  41
Snufl, Scotch, DeVo’s 
9®  n
Soda, Boras............. 
Soda,  Boras, po......  
9® 
11
Soda et Potass Tart. 
23®  25
Soda,  Carb.............. 
iu ®  
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   314® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........  
® 
2
Spts. Cologne........... 
® 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........  go®  55
Spts. Myrcia Dorn...  @ 2  00
Spts. Vlni Rect.  bbl.  ®
Spts. Vinl Rect. *4bbl  @
Spts. Vinl Rect. lOgal  @
Spts. Vlni Rect. 5 gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal... 
80®  1  06
Sulphur,  Subl.........  2*4® 
4
Sulphur, Roll...........  2W©  314
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth  Venice...  28®  30
Theobromae.............   60®  66
Vaniila 
..............  9 00@16 00
Zinci Sulph............. 
8

7® 

Oils

. 

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

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
50

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

66
67
(0
45
P aints  b b l .  l b .
Red Venetian.........   1%  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  12£  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  1%.  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2*4 2H@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2*4  2fc@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13® 
15
70®  75
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris........... 
14® 
18
Green, Peninsular... 
13® 
16
Lead, red.................  6*4®  7
Lead,  white............   6*4®  7
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’....  @  96
__ 
White, Paris, Amer.
@  1  25
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  io®  1  20

ag, glide

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  io@  1  20
Extra Turp..............  1 60© 1  70
Coach Body............  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fura......  1  00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp  70®  76

Stationery

Our stationery  department  is  now 

plete  with  new fall  styles of

com-

Tablets  and 

Box  Papers

Selected  from the leading- manufacturers.

We also  have  a  full  line  of

Blank  Books,  Memorandums, 

Pocket  Books,

Crepe  Papers,  Tissue  Papers, 

Pen-holders,  Pencils, 

Inks,  Etc.

We  shall  have  the  best  line  of  H o l i d a y  

G o o d s   ever shown  in  Michigan.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Advanced—Oil Pennyroyal.
Declined—Opium, Castor  OU, Menthol i

*  ^

i l   *

Acldnm
Acetlcum  ................$ 
6@S
Benzolcum, German.  70®
Boracic....................  @
Carbolicum.............   30®
47®
Cltrlcum..................  
3®
Hydrochlor............. 
8®
Nltrocum................. 
Oxallcum................. 
12®
Phosphorlum,  dll... 
©
SaUcyllcum.............  52®
Sulphuricum...........  134®
Tannicum................  l  10®
Tartaricum.............  38®

A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
4®
6®
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas.................  13®
Chlorldum...............  
12®
A niline

Black......
Brown___
Red..........
Yellow......

> 2 25
i  1  00
GO 
3 00

60®

Conlum Mac............  
„
Copaiba...................  1 1 ,
Cubebae............  
1
Exechthitos......1
Erlgeron.................  i n
Gaultherta..............
Geranium, ounce....
Gosslppii, Sem. gal.! 
Hedeoma.................  l 60® 1  60
Junlpera.................  1 60® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
so®  2 00
Limonls.................  1 40®  1 60
Mentha Piper...........  1  60® 2 00
Mentha Verld...........  1  60®  1  60
Morrhuae, &al.........   1 io@  1  20
M yrda....................  4 00© 4  50
76<a  3 no
OUve...................... 
Plcis Liquida.........  
10® 
12
®  36
PicisLiquida,  gal... 
R ic in a „ ...............   1 00®  1  06
Rosmarlnl................ 
®  1 00
Rosae, ounce............ e 00® 6 60
gacolni....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90a   1 00
Santa!.....................   2 780 7 00
Sassafras................. 
48®  63
Slnapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  65

Baccse 
...... po, 25
Cubebae...
Juniperus..
Xanthoxylum.........

, 3 ,

Balsam um
Copaiba.............. . 
65®
®
Peru  ......................... 
Terabln,  Canada....  66®
Tolu tan.....................  
45®
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassias.......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
V  Myrica Cerifera, po.
Prunus  virgini........
Qulllala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus...po.  16, gr’d 
E xtractnm
Glycyrrhiza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhlza,  po...... 
Haematox, 15 lb. box 
Haematox, is........... 
Haematox,  Vis.........  
Haematox, 14s.......... 

24®
28®
11®
13®
14®
16®

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. 

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V 

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F errn
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Qulnla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l...... '
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora

1 

• 
”  *  " 
Wk. 

Arnica..................... 
15®
Anthemls.................  22®
*  A  *  Matricaria................. 
30®

.M 

' 
f  
*  %. 
S. tyj1 

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I 

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v  V 

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W- -4

Folia
Barosma....................  38®
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
neveUy*.................  
20®
25®
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx. 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and 14s................. 
12®
Uva Ursl................... 
8®
Gnmmi
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia,2d  picked...
Acacia, 3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po................
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20
Aloe, Cape__po. 15.
Aloe,  Socotrl.. po. 40
Ammoniac...............
Assafoetlda__po. 45
Benzolnum..............
Catechu, is..............
Catechu, *4s............
Catechu, !4s............
Campnorae..............
Eupnorbium... po. 36
Galbanum................
Gamboge............ po
Guaiacum...... po. 25
Kino...........po. $0.76
Mastic  ....................
Myrrh............po. 46
Opll__ po.  4.90®5.00 3
Shellac....................
Shellac, bleached__
Tragacanth.............
H erba

2t
2C
21
28
23
26
39
22
26

Absinthium..oz. pkg 
orium..oz. pkg 
a ........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg 
Bue.............. oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V ...oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, P at...........  56®  60
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
is®  20 
'arbonate, Jennings  18®  20

Oleum

Absinthium.............  6  60® 7 00
Amygdalae,  Dulc....  38®  66
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
Anisl.......................   1  85® 2 00
Aurantl Cortex........2  10® 2 20
Bergamll...................2
Cajlputi...................
CaryophyUl.............
Cedar ......................
Chanopadii..............
Clnnamonll  ...............1
Cl tronella...........

;

Thyme, opt..............  @  1 60
Theobromas  ........... 
i6<a  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................
Bichromate............
Bromide.................
C arb.......................
Chlorate., .po. 17®19
Cyanide.................
Iodide....................!  2
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com.
Potass Nltras, opt...
Potass  Nitras........
Prussiate................. 
Sulphate  po............
Radix
Aconitum...........
Althae......................
Anchusa.................
Arum  po.................
Calamus..................
Gentlana........po. 15
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
Hydrastis  Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po................. 
Ipecac, po............... 3
Iris  plox...po. 35@38
Jalapa, p r..............
Maranta,  Hs...........
Podophylliun,  po...
7e
Rhei...:...... !.._ ... 
<a  1  25
Rhel, cut...............  
»•»ei.-Py..................  
78®  1  36
..............  35®  38
Spigella. 
is
Sangulnaria.. .po.  15 
Serpen tarla............   40@  45
Senega.................... 
60®  66
Smilax, officinalis H. 
®  40
Smllax, M................  @
Scillae............ po.  36 
io@
Symplocarpus.Foeti-
®
dus,  po................. 
Valeriana.Eng.po.30 
® 
Valeriana,  German. 
16®
Zingiber a ...............  
14®
Zingiber j .................  26®

® 

je

Semen
Anisum........ po.  15
Apium (graveleons).
13®
Bird, is....................
4®
Cam!.............po.  18
12®
Cardamon...................
s®  *  io
Conundrum............. 
Cannabis Satlva......   4*4®  5
Cydonium...............  
75®  1 00
Chenopodium.........  
io® 
12
Dipterix Odorate....  1  00® 1  10
Foeniculum..............  @
7®
Fcenugreek, po........ 
L lnl......................... 
4®
Linl, grd...... bbl. 4 
4*4®
Lobelia....................  35®
Pharlaris Canarian..  4*4®
R apa......... .............  4V4®
Slnapis  Alba........... 
9®
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11®
Spirit us

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumentl,  D. F. B..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................   1 28®  1  60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1  66® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........  1 75® 3 50
Saacharum  N. E __  1  90® 2  10
SPtVini Gam.........  1  76® 6 60
¿ P i  Oporto............   1  26® 2 00
Vinl Alba.................  1  26® 2 00

«1  1

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 50® 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
Grass  sheeps" wool,
carriage................
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate-use...............
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
Ferrl loci....
Rhei Arom...... ..
Smilax  Officinalis...
8enega....................
Sc ill as.......................

1  26
®  1  00 
®  75
1  40

Scillae  Co................. 
Tolutan.................... 
Primus  vlrg............  
Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellis B 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes .......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
A rnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharldes............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co..........
Castor.....................
Catechu]...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae............... -...
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferrl  Chlorldum....
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca.....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless....
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opll..........................
Opll, comphorated..
Opll, deodorized......
Quassia...................  *
Bhatany...................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonlum............
Tolutan..................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................

Miscellaneous 

.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   214®
Ajumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
»»
Annatto...................
Antimonl, po...........
Antimoni et Potass T
Antipyrin.
Antiiebrin 
Argent! Nitras, oz...
Arsenicum..............
Balm Gilead  Buds..
Bismuth S. N...........  1
Calcium Chlor., is...
Calcium Chlor., *4s..
Calcium Chlor., >48.. 
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
Capsici Fructus, air..
Capsid  Fructus, po.
Capsici Fructus B, po 
12®
Caryophyllus.. po. 15 
Carmine, No. 40......   @
Cera  Alba.............. 
50®
Cera  Flava..............  40®
Coccus....................  @
Cassia Fructus........  @
®
Centraria................. 
Cetaceum................. 
®
Chloroform............  
56®
Chloroform, squlbbs  @ 
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1  40®  1  65
Chondrus................   20®  25
Clnchonidine.P. & W 
38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ. 
38®  48
Cocaine..................   6 66® 6
Corks, list,dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............   @
®
Creta............bbl. 75 
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, precip........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra........... 
©
Crocus....................  26®
Cudbear..................   @
Cupri Sulph...... . 
614®
Dextrine................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............   78©
Emery, all numbfc.s. 
®
Emery, po................ 
©
E rgota......... po. 90  86®
Flake  White........... 
12©
©
Galla.......................  
Gambler................. 
8®
®
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......   35®
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
11®
Glue, brown............  
Glue,  white............  
15®
Glycerina................   17*4®
Grana Paradisi........  @
Humulus.................  26® 
I
® 11 
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite 
® 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
1
® 1  : 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
® 1  ! 
Hydrarg Ammonlati 
HydrargUnguentum  60® 
1
Hydrargyrum.........   @ 
1
Ichthyobolla,  Am...  66® 
1
Indigo.....................   76® 1  I
Iodine,  Resubi........3 40® 3 (
Iodoform................. 3 60®  3 l
Lupulln.................... 
© 
i a r “ ~ ...........  g |
liquor Arsen et Hy­
© 
drarg Iod............ 
s
LlquorPotassArsinlt 
10® 
1 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2®
©  Ij 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Mannla , g. 
-----  
  go®  <

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M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

G R O C E R Y   P R IC E   C U R R E N T

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

A D V A N C E D
Rolled  Oats
C urrants

D E C L IN E D

Splint Clothes  Baskets
Jam aica  Ginger
Domestic  Cheese

1 20

Straw berries

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

Mexican

85 
1  25
90
1  00

Standard.................
Fancy......................
Succotash
Fair..........................
Good.......................
...............  
Fancy......................
Tomatoes
..................................  85
F air.... 
..................................  90
Good... 
...............  
Fancy.. 
2 40
...................... 
Gallons.
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints..................2 oo
Columbia, *  pints............ 1  25

1  00

Guatem ala

Choice..............................
Fancy..............................
Choice..............................
African............................
Fancy African................
O. G.................................
P. G.................................
Arabian...........................

Ja v a

Mocha
Package

..16
..17
..16
.12*
..17
..25
..29
.  21

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

@1014
@  9* 
® 9* 
(ft  9 
@10* 
@ 9* 
@
@ 9 
@ 9 
@  9* 
@  9 
14@15 
@90 
@17 
13@14 
50@75 
19@20

Eocene.......................   @10*
Perfection..................   @  9*
Diamond White.........   @ 8*
D. S. Gasoline...............   @12
Deodorized Naphtha..  @10*
Cylinder..................... 29  @34
Engine........................19  @22
Black, winter.
CHEESE
Acme.......................
Amboy....................
Carson City..............
Elsie.........................
Emblem..................
Gem.........................
Child Medal..............
Ideal......................
Jersey......................
Riverside.................
B rick..,...................
Edam......................
Leiden....................
Limburger...............
Pineapple................
Sago.................
Sap  Sago.
CHEWING GUM 
55
American Flag Spruce —  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Jack.......................  
55
Largest Gum  Made.........  
60
56
Sen S en ............................ 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
55
Yucatan.........................".. 
55
Bulk............ ......................  5
Red......................................  7
Eagle...................................   4
Franck’s .............................   6*
Schener’8.............................  6

CHICORY

Runkel Bros.

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

CHOCOLATE 
..  23
German Sweet................
..  31
Premium.........................
..  46
Breakfast Cocoa..............
21
Vienna Sweet.................
..  28
Vanilla............................
Premium.........................
..  31
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz...........l  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz...........l  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute, 72 ft. per doz.............  96
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, 14s  .......................   35
Colonial, * s .........................  33
Epps........................... 
  42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, Ms..................   12
VanHouten, Ms..................   20
Van Houten, *8..................   38
Van Houten,  is..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Ms..........................   41
Wilbur. Ms...........................  42
COCOA SHELLS
20 1b. bags...................... 
2*
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............  
4

COCOA

 

COFFEE
Roasted
A f O »
high grade
Coffees

Special Combination.......... 15
French Breakfast............... 17*4
Lenox, Mocha & Java.........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwlnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls.............29
White House, 30-2s.............28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls.'. 
. .21*
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s........20*
Royal Java..........................26*
Royal Java & Mocha.......... 26*
Arabian  Mocha  .................28*
AdenMoch..........................22*
Mocha & Java Blend.......... 23
Fancy Maricalbo................ 18*
Javo Blend..........................17*
Golden Santos..................... 17
Ja-Mo-Ka........................... 15*
Excelsior Blend................... 14*
No. 55 Blend........................ 14
Common.............................. 10*
F a ir.....................................U
Choice...............................13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common.............................. ll
F air.....................................14
Choice..................................16
Fancy..................................17
Peaberry....,.......................13
F air.....................................12
Pfioice................................16

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

New York Basis.
Arbuckle.........................
.11*
Dll worth......................... • 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............   75
Felix *  gross............................ 1 15
Hummel's foil *  gross........  85
Hummel’s tin *  gross........ 1  43

E xtract

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, *  case..................l 75
24 packages,  l c a s e ........... 3 50

CONDENSED  M ILK 

Substitutes

4 doz in case.

COUPON  BOOKS 

Gall Borden Eagle-----------6 40
Crown....................................... 6 25
Daisy.........................................6 75
Champion................................ 4 50
Magnolia..................................4 25
Challenge.................................3 76
Dime.........................................3 35
Leader..................................... 3 80
50books,any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11 50
1.000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

 

Soda

Oyster

B utter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................  
l  50
100  books.......................   2  50
500  books.......................   11  50
1.000  books.......................   20 00
500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................ 
6
New York......................... 
6
Family.............................  
6
Salted................................ 
6
Wolverine......................... 
6*
Soda  XXX.......................  
6*
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island  Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette... 
.................   13
7*
F a u st................. 
 
Farina..............................  
6
Extra Farina.................... 
6*
Sal tine Oyster................... 
6
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent’s Water....................  16
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced....................  
8
Cream Crisp......................  10*
Cubans..............................  11*
Currant Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C.
, N .r  ~
Gladiator..........................   10*
Grandma Cakes...............   9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers.................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea..-.........   16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials.......................... 
8
Jumbles, Honey...............   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps....................  12
Lemon Wafers.................  16
Marshmallow...................   16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts.  ..  16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic....................  11*
Milk Biscuit......................  7*
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar....................  9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12*
Newton...............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers.............  8
Oatmeal Wafers.................   12
Orange Crisp....................   9
Orange Gem.....................   9
Penny Cake......................  8
7*
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch.......................7*
Sugar Cake.......................  
8
Sugar Cream, XXX..........  8

Shoe

Stove

No. 8.................................... 1 00
No. 7.................................... 1  30
No. 4.................................... 1  70
No. 3.................................... 1  90
NO. 3.....................................  75
No. 2.................................... 1  10
No. 1.................................... 1 75
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size__  1  25
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s............    12*
Paraffine, 6s........................ 10*
Paraffine, 12s ..  ...................11
Kicking 
................20

BUTTER  COLOR

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Corn

22
19
15
11

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

Apples
3 lb. Standards........
70 
Gallons, standards..
2  00
Standards...............
75
Beans
Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
Red  Kidney............  
75®  85
String...................... 
80
Wax......................... 
85
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
Little Neck, l lb...... 
l 00
Little Neck. 2 lb...... 
1 50
Burnham’s, *  pint...........  1 92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts 
20
Cherries
Bed  Standards...........
85 
White.........................
1  15
Fair..........................
65
80
G ood..........................
Fancy......................
95
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine............
Extra  Fine...................
Fine...............................
Moyen..........................
Gooseberries 
Standard................
Hominy
Standard..................
Lobster
Star, *  lb.................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, 1 lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Hotels.......................
Buttons.
Oysters
Cove, lib .................  
Cove, 2 lb................. 
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................   1 
Pears
Standard.................  
Fancy....................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
Early June.............. 
Early June Sifted.. 
Pineapple
Grated....................   1 
Sliced.......................   1 
Pum pkin
F a ir.........................  
Good........................ 
Fancy...................... 
Raspberries
Standard..................  
Russian  Cavier
M lb. cans.................. ......   3
*  lb,cans.................. ......   7
l lb. can.................... ......   12
Salmon
Columbia River, tails
@1
Columbia River, flats
@1
Red Alaska.............. 1  20© 1
Pink Alaska............
1  00@1
Shrim ps
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, 148...........
Domestic, 14s..:__
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, 14s.........
California 14s...........
French, * s..............
French, Ms..............

1  86 
3 40 
2 35
1  75
2 80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18@20
22@25

1  so
5
87
11@14
17@24
7<ai4

M ush rooms

70
75
85
90

1  55
96

Peas

85

65@1 85

70
80
1  00
1  00
160
25@2 75
35@2 56

Sugar Squares..................   8
Sultanas............................  13
Tutti Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
g
CREAM  TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

8@io

California F ru its

Sundried.........................  @4*
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @5* 
Apricots..................... 
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................  8  @11
Pitted Cherries.....".*.! 
7*
Prunnelies.................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @ 3*
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........  @ 4*
70 - 80 26 lb. boxes........  @ 5M
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @ 6M
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  @ 6*
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @ 7M
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
8*

California Prunes

M cent less in 50 lb. cases 

Citron

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn...................................u
Corsican..................................12
California, 1 lb.  package.... 11*
Imported, 1 lb package.......12
Imported, bulk.....................hm
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 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........ 
8
L. M., Seeded. M  lb....  7  @
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

1  f 0

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  7
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland....................
Cream of Cereal...................  90
Grain-O, small..........................1 35
Grain-O, large.............. 
2  25
Grape Nuts...............................i 36
Posfum Cereal, small..........i  35
Postum Cereal, large.......   2 25
241 lb. packages.......................1 so
Bulk, per 100 Tbs........................3 00
Flake, 60 lb. sack...............  80
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl...................... 2 40
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................1 17
Maccaroni  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box...’........  60
Imported. 26 lb. box...........2 50

H om iny

F arin a

P earl  B arley

Common.................................. 2 40
Chester......................................2 90
Empire......................................3 40

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages............. ...2  00
100 lb.  kegs...................... ...3  00
200 lb. barrels................. ...6 70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1  30
Green, Scotch, bu........... ...1  40
Split,  lb...... .................... ... 
3
Rolled Avena, bbl........... ...4 20
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  2 25
Monarch, bbl.................. ...3 90
Monarch, *  bbl.............. ...2 05
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks__ . ..1  90
Quaker, cases................. ...3  20
East India....................... ...  2*
German, sacks....................  3*
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks............   4*
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3*
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......  6
Cracked, bulk......................  3M
24 2 lb. packages.................2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE & JE N E S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

1 oz full m .120  1 oz full m .  80 
2ozfullm.2  10  2 oz full m l  25 
No. 3fan’y.3  15 _ No.3fan’y.l  75

Index to  Markets

B y  C o lu m n s

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................   15
Alabastine..............................  1
Ammonia................................   1
Axle Grease............................   1

B

C

Baking Powder........................  1
Bath  Brick.............................. 
l
Bluing......................................  1
Brooms....................................  1
Brushes.................................  1
Butter Color............................   2
Candies..................................  14
Candles....................................  2
Canned Goods.........................  2
Catsup.....................................   3
Carbon Oils............................   3
Cheese.....................................     3
Chewing Gum.........................  3
Chicory....................................  3
Chocolate.................................  3
Clothes Lines...........................  3
Cocoa.......................................  3
Cocoa Shells............................  3
Coffee.................................  
Condensed Milk......................  4
Coupon Books.........................  4
Crackers...... ..........................   4
Cream T artar.........................  5
Dried  Fruits......................  

 

 

  3

  5

D
F

G

Farinaceous  Goods................  5
Fish and Oysters....................  13
Flavoring Extracts.................  5
Fly  Paper...............................   6
Fresh Meats...........................   6
Fruits....................................  14

 

P

H

M

N
o

I
J
L

Grains and Flour...................  6
Herbs................................ 
 
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo......................................  6
Jelly .......................................   6
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................................  15
Lantern  Globes....................  15
Licorice..................................   7
Lye..'.......................................  7
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts........................   7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard..................................   7
Nuts.......................................  14
Oil Cans................................   15
Olives.....................................   7
Oyster Pails............................  7
Paper Bags.............................   7
Paris  Green............................  7
Pickles............................. 
 
Pipes.......................................  7
Potash...................................  7
Provisions...............................   7
Bice.
Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda........... ....................   8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut............................  9
Seeds...................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   9
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices..............- ..................-   9
Starch...... ............................   10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  10
Syrups...................................  9
Table Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   11
Tobacco................................   ll
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder..................   12
Wlcking................................   13
Woodenware........................   13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Feast Cake............................  13

V
W

V

B

T

ALABASTINE

White in drums................... 
9
Colors In drums...................  10
White in packages..............  10
Colors in packages..............  11

Less 40 per cent discount.

A ALE GREASE
.....................55 

doz.  gross
Aurora 
6 oo
Castor  Oil....................60  7 00
Diamond....................50  425
Frazer’s ...................... 75  9 00
I XL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9 00

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

9 00
6 00

X lb. cans,  4 doz. case........3 75
*  lb. cans,  2 doz. case........3 75
1 lb, cans, 
1 doz. case........3 75
5 lb. cans, *  doz.  case........ 8 00

JAXON

6
14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
*  lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........1  60

Queen  Flake

3 oz., 6 doz. case.................. 2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case.................. 3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case.................. 4 80
l lb., 2 doz. case.................. 4 00
5 lb., 1 doz. case..................9 00

Royal

10c size__  90
X lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
*   lb. cans  2 50 
X lb.  cans 3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  70
English.................................  80
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per grosso 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

BLUING

7

Small size, per doz..............  40
Large size, per doz..............  75

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet..............................2 50
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 15
No. 3 Carpet.............................. 1 85
No. 4 Carpet..............................1 60
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  86
Fancy Whisk............................ 1 10
Warehouse............................... 3 25

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, ll In .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  85

M ICH IGAN   TRA D ESM A N

2 9

6

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

JELLY

LICORICE

5 lb. palls .per doz...........  1  85
15 lb. palls............................  36
30 lb. pails............................  62
Pure....................................   30
Calabria............ ..................  23
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz................ 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz.................2 25

LYE

MATCHES

GRAND OftPtDS. MICH.

1». C  Lemon 
2 oz......... 
3 oz......
6 oz......
No. 4 T

D. C. Vanilla 
75  2o t .........  1  24
1  00  3 OZ.........  1  60
2 00  4 oz.........  2 00
1  52  No. 3 T...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

O ur Tropical.

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure., Vanilla..  1  80 
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60
Tanglefoot, per box.............   35
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20

FLY  PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters.........
Loins No. 3..............
Ribs.........................
Rounds....................
C h u cK S..........................
Plates......................
P ork
Dressed...................
Loins.......................
Boston  Butts...........
Shoulders...............
Leaf  Lard................
Mutton
Carcass...................  
Lambs...................... 
Carcass.................... 
W heat

7  @ 8
6  @  6 Vi
8V4@  9Vi
12  @14
11  @13
8V4@  9
59m  6V4
4  @  5
@   7
@ 9 Vi
@  8K
@ 8
@ 8
8^@ 9
9Vi@lO
8  @9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

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 56
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 Vis......................  3 75
Diamond & .....................   3 75
Diamond Vis.....................   3 75
Quaker Ms.........................  3 80
Quaker Ms.....................   .  3 80
Quaker Ms........................  3 80
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Pillsbury’s  Best bis.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s  Best 34s.........   4 30
Pillsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4 20
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 20
Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4 20
Ball-Barahart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial 14s.........  4 30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Hs................ 
j0
4 
Wlngold  148.................—   4 30
Wlngold  Hs................ 
4  20
Ceresota Hs......................  4 50
Ceresota 14s......................  4 40
Ceresota Hs......................  4 30
4 40 
Laurel  Vis.........................
4 30 
Laurel  Vis.........................
4  20 
Laurel  Vis.........................
4 20
Laurel Vis and Ms paper..
2 00 
Bolted...............................
2  10
Granulated.......................
31
Car  lots.............................
Car lots, clipped...............
32 Vi
Less than car lots............
St. Car Feed, screened....  18 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats........17 50
Unbolted Com  Meal........  17 00
Winter Wheat Bran.........  17 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  17 50
Screenings.......................   16 00
Corn, car  lots...................  45H
No. 1 Timothy car lots__ 11  so
No. 1 Timothy ton lots—   12 50 
Sage.........................................15
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves........... ............. 25
Madras, 5 lb.boxes ................ 56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes........50

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Feed and  Millstnflk 

Corn
Hay

INDIGO

HERBS

Meal

Oats

Í  »V
In

h  I**

f

t   Í 
j»I

A  ft *

V

40
36
26
22

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...........l 15
No. 100 Park, 432 boxes........ 2 85
No.  80 Poetry, 720 boxes...  .4 00
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur....................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor......................1 so
No. 2 Home...........................1 30
Export Parlor.......................4 00
1 60
Wolverine... 
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
45
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  
75

 

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Bayle’8 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 00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz......................  1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
Continental Paper Bag  Co.
Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
Bottom
Square
M................ ...  28
60
Vi................ ...  34
60
1................ ...  44
80
2................ ...  54
1  00
3................ ...  66
1  25
4................ ...  76
1  45
5............... ...  90
1  70
6............... ...1  06
2 00
8................ ...1  28
2 40
10............... ...1  38
2 GO
12................ ...1  60
3  15
14................ ...2 24
4  15
4 50
16................ ...2 34
20................ ...2 52
5 00-
25................
5 50
Sngar
Red.
Gray.
.14
Bulk.
Packages, >4 lb.,  each.........18
Packages, Vi lb.,  each.........17
Packages,  l lb.,  each.........16

PARIS  GREEN

PICKLES
M edium

Smalt

Barrels, 1,200 c o u n t ........4 50
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

48 cans In case.

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

POTASH 

PROVISIONS 
B arreled  P ork

D ry  Salt Meats

@16 50 
@16 50 
@16 50 
@16 00 
@19 00 
@12 26 
(&15 60 
@11  50

Mess........'...............
Back.......................
Clear back...............
Short cut.................
P ig..........................
Bean........................
Family Mess............
Rump Butts Beef....
Bellies......................
Briskets..................
Extra shorts... ........
Hams, 12 lb. average.
Hams, 141b. average.
Hams, 161b. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average.
Ham dried  beef......
Shoulders (N. Y. cut)
Bacon, clear............
California hams......
Boneless hams........
Boiled Hams..........
Picnic Boiled Hams
Berlin  Hams.........
Mince Hams.........
Compound...............
Kettle......................
Vegetóle................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs. .advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
5 lb. Palls., advance

Smoked  Meats 

@ 1Ü4
@ 11
I 10K
@ 104
@ 12 Vi.
@ 7VÍ
10K@ 11V4
@ 8M
@ 11
@ 16
@ 12V4
8
8 Vi
@ 9
Lards—In Tierces

8

0

10 75
11  59
11  50
1  50
3 50
70
1  25
2 25
21
3
10
60

3 lb. Palls.. advance 
Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood......... .............
Tongue....................
Tongui
Headc
................................
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’  Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs.........
Vi bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
M bbls., 40 lbs.........
Vi bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........
Sheep.......................
B ntterlne
Solid, dairy..............  11  @13
Rolls, dairy..............  11 Vi@l3vi
Rolls, creamery......
14V4
Solid, creamery......
14
Corned beef, 2 lb__
2 75
Corned beef, 14 lb...
17 50
Roast beef, 2 lb........
2 75
Potted ham,  Ms......
50
Potted ham,  Vis......
90
Deviled ham,  Ms__
50
Deviled ham, vis__
90
Potted tongue.  Ms..
50
Potted tongue.  Vis..
90
RICE
Domestic

Canned  Meats

Carolina head.............. ........7
Carolina No. 1 ............ ........6Vi
Carolina No. 2 ............ ........4M
Broken ........................ .*....4M
Japan,  No. 1................ 5H@6
Japan,  No. 2................ 4H@5
Java, fancy head..........5  @5H
Java, No. 1................... 5  @
Table...............................  @

Im ported.

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
Wyandotte, 100 Ks...................3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__  90
Lump, bbls.........................  75
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   80

SAL  SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  3 lb .b ag s..,..................300
50  61b. bags...........................3 00
2214 lb. bags...........................2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count and one case 24 3 lb. 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 66 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks........................2 25
60 51b. sacks........................2 15
2810 lb. sacks...................... 2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................  
40
281b. sacks.......................   22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags......   30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   15
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. sacks..........................   30
Granulated  Fine.................  95
Medium Fine........................ 1 00

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

Georges cured............
@ 6 
@ 654 
Georges genuine........
Georges selected........
@ 7 @ 654 
Grand Bank...............
@ 9 
Strips or  bricks...... .  6
Pollock.......................
@ 3V4
H alibut.
Strips.......................................10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1100 lbs......................  5 75
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
75
NO. 1  8 lbs......................  
61
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  26
Holland white hoopsV&bbl.  6 00
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
82
Holland white hoop mens. 
87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 00
Round 40 lbs.....................   1  so
Scaled.............................  
19
Bloaters.............................  1  60
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  12  25
Mess  40 lbs......................   5 20
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  38
Mess  8 lbs......................   1  13
No. 1 100 lbs......................  10 50
No. 1  40 lbs......................   4 50
No. 1  10 lbs......................   1  20
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  00
No. 2 100 lbs......................   8  25
No. 2  40 lbs......................   3  60
No. 2  10 lbS......................  
98
NO. 2  8 lbs......................  
81

M ackerel

W h ite  fish

9
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 75
1  10
43
37

100  lb8........... 7 00 
40  lbS...........3  10 
10 lbS...........  85 
8 lbs...........  71 
SEEDS

Anise....................................9
Canary, Smyrna..................   4
Caraway.............................   8
Cardamon, Malabar............so
Celery...................................12
Hemp, Russian....................  4V4
Mixed Bird..........................   4 Vi
Mustard, white....................  9
Poppy...................................10
Rape...................................   4 vi
Cuttle Bone..........................15
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............  1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish.......  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
t5
Scotch, in bladders..............  37
Maccabcy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, in jars..........43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SHOE  BLACKING

Babbit’s Best..................  4 00

SNUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

IQ

P ure  Cane

F air.....................................  16
Good...................................   20
Choice................................   25

STARCH

Kingsford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............   6Vi
20 l-lb. packages...............  6K
61b. packages...............  
7Vi
Kinggford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
7
6 lb. boxes....................... 
7Vi

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages..................   4%
3-lb. packages...................  4%
6-lb. packages..................  
5Vi
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............  
3M
Barrels.............................  
3Vi

J&dndSL

_____ II_____
No.  8................................   4 80
No.  9................................   4 75
No. 10................................   4 70
NO. 11................................  4 65
NO. 12................................  4 60
No. 13................................  4 60
No. 14................................  4 55
No. 15................................   4  55
No. 16................................  4 55

TEA
Japan

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-flred, fancy..............40
Nibs............... 
27
Siftings...........................19@21
Fannings........................20@22

 

Gunpowder

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

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

50 cakes, large size............3 26
100 cakes, large size............ 6 50
50 cates, small size............1  95
100 cakes, small size............3 85
Bell 61 Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny............ 3  90
Peekln............................   4 00
Queen Anne...................   3 15
Big Bargain..............—   1  76
Umpire...........................  2 15
German Family..............  2 45
Dfngman.........................  3 85
Santa Claus....................  3 25
Brown............................. 2  40
Fairy...............................  4 00
Naptha............................  4 00
Oak Leaf.........................  3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs................  400

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

Pels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single box...........................3  uo
5 box lots, delivered......... 2  95
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
so 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, 6oz.......................  4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Star.................................3  00
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapolio, hand, 3 doz........... 2  40
Boxes...................................  5Vi
Kegs, English......................  4K

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

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

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,  106-10................ 
Nutmegs, 115-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
P u re Ground In B ulk
Allspice............................. 
Cassia, Batavia.............  
 
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African...............  
Ginger, Cochin................. 
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage...  ............................ 

SYRUPS

Corn

12
12
28
38
56
17
14
56
50
40
35
18 
28
20
16
28
48
17
15
18
25
66
18
20 
28
20
20

Barrels................................ .20*4
Half bbls............................ 22 V4
l doz. 1 gallon cans............. 3  20
1 doz. Vi gallon cans............l  80
2 doz. M gallon cans.............  92

ïr mW'
f M w m

CHAS. POPE 6UJC0SE CO.

CHICAGO.

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......  3
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
W orks:  Venice, III.
Geneva, 111.

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. Pope Glucose Co.,
Chicago, 111.

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
40l-lb.  packages.............. 
STOVE  POLISH

i)
49

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross  .  4 so 
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...........   6 66
XXXX Powdered............   5 70
Standard  Granulated......   5 55
Fine Granulated................  5 55
Coarse Granulated...........  5 65
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 65
Conf.  Granulated.............   5 so
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
Mould A............................  5 90
Diamond A.......................  555
Confectioner’8  A..............  5 35
No. 
l, Columbia A..........  5 20
No.  2, Windsor A...........   5  15
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  5  .5
No.  4, Phoenix  A...........   5 10
No.  5, Empire A.............  5 05
No.  6...............................   5 00
NO.  7...............................   4 90

Young  Hyson

Oolong

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................36
Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium....................25
Amoy, choice....................... 32
Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy...................................42
Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy...................................42

English B reakfast

In dia

TOBACCO

Cigars

American Cigar Factory brands

 
A. Bomers’ brand.

Elk’s Heart..................... BE®70
W. S.  W................  
35 00
Bald Head.......................... 35 00
Plalndealer........................35 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands.
Little Columbian................36
Columbian.......................... 35
Columbian Extra................55
Co’umbiau Special............. 65
Columbian Invincible........90
H. <4 P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller.................  35
Our Manager....................  35
Quintette..........................   35
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co’s brand.

1
8
S
3
S
8

8
8
8

 

8. C. W..............................  85 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26

3 0

M ICH IG A N   TRA D ESM A N

1 2

13

14

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

Plug

Fine  Cut

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

B. L..................................$35  00
Gold Star.........................   35  00
Phelps, Brace ft Co.’s Brands.
Koyal  Tigers...........55© 80 00
Royal Tigerettes.............  35  00
Book Filled Tigerettes__  35 00
Female Tigerettes..........  35 00
Night Hawk, concha.......  35 00
Night Hawk,  navel.........  35 00
Vincente Portuondo ..35© 70 00
Ruhe Bros. Co........... 25©  70 oo
Hllson  Co..................35®  lio 00
T. J. Dunn ft Co........ 35©  70 00
McCoy ft Co...............35©  70 00
The Collins Cigar C0..10© 35 00
Brown  Bros...............is©  70 00
Bernard Stahl Co.......36©  90 00
Banner Cigar  Co.......10©  35 00
Seidenberg  ft Co.......66@125  30
Fulton  Cigar Co.......10©  35 00
A. B. Ballard & Co....35©l75 00 
£. M. Schwarz & Co...36©ll0 00
San Telmo..................36©  70 00
Havana Cigar Co.......18©  35 00
C. Costello ft Co........ 35©  70 00
LaGora-Fee Co..........36©  70 00
S. I. Davis & Co.....35@185 00
Hene ft Co.................. 36© 90 00
Benedict & Co......... 7.50© 70 00
Hemmeter Cigar Co...35© 70 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.36© 70 00
Maurice Sanborn_50@175 00
Bock & Co.................65@300  00
Manuel Garcia...... 80©375 00
Neuva Muudo.......... 86©175  00
Henry Clay...............86@560  00
La Carolina...............96@200  00
Standard T. ft C. Co. ..35® 70 00
Star G reen....................35  OO
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojibwa.................................38
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray..,.................... 35
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top.......................... 28
Hiawatha............................. 58
Telegram..............................28
Pay C ar................................34
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
P a lo ..................... *............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................................... 35
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
GreatNavy...........................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..........................24
Duke’s Mixture..................40
Duke’s Cameo.....................40
Honey Dip Twist................ 39
Myrtle Navy.......................40
Yum Yum, 1% oz................ 39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls..........37
Cream................................. 37
Corn Cake, 2)4 oz................25
Com Cake, lib ................... 23
Plow Boy, 1% oz..................39
Plow Boy, 3)4 oz..................37
Peerless, 3)4 oz................... 34
Peerless, 1J4 oz...................36
Indicator, 2*4 oz..................28
Indicator, 1 lb. pails.......... 31
Col. Choice, 2*4 oz...............21
Col. Choice. 8 oz................. 21
Lea ft Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea ft Perrin’s, small......   2 60
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, smalL.................   2 28
Salad Dressing, huge......   4 66
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76
Cotton, 3 ply........................16
Cotton, 4 ply........................16
Jute, 2 ply........................... 12
Hemp, 6 ply........................ 12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, 1 lb. balls..................   7)4
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand.  . 11
Pure Cider, Red Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson.........10
Pure Cider, Silver...............11
WASHING POW DER
Child Dust, regular............. 4 50
Gold Dust, 5c...................... 4 00 i

TABLE SAUCES

VINEGAR

Smoking

TW INE

W ICKING

Pearline.............................. 2 90
Scourine.............................. 3 50
No.o, per gross.....................20
No. », per gross.....................26
No. 2, per gross.................... 86
No. 8. per gross.................... 66

WOODEN W ARE 

Baskets

Tubs

Pails

Egg Crates

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Clothes  Pins

B u tter  Plates

Bushels................................  95
Bushels, wide  band............1  15
M arket................................   30
Splint, large........................ 4 00
Splint, medium.................. 3 60
Splint, small....................... 3 00
Willow Clothes, large.........6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 76
Willow Clothes,  small.........5 25
No. 1 Oval, 260 in crate........  46
No. 2 Oval, 260 in crate........  60
No. 3 Oval, 260 in crate........  56
No. 6 Oval, 260 in crate........  65
Humpty Dumpty................2 25
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  25
Round head, 5 gross box__  45
Round head, cartons...........  62
Tro’an spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No 1 common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
iv t .  cotton mop heads...... l  26
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
2-hoop Standard.............. ...1 40
3-hoop Standard.............. ...1  60
2-wiré,  Cable................... ...1  60
3-wire,  Cable................... ...l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1  25
Paper,  Eureka............... ...2 25
Fibre...............................
..2 40
Hardwood......................
.2 50
Softwood........................
..2 75
Banquet..........................
..1 60
Ideal...............................
..1  50
20-inch, Standard, No. 1.. ...6   00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.. ...5 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3.. ...4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l.......
..6 50
18-inch, Cable, No. 2.......
..6 00
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3.......
..5 00
No. 1 Fibre......................
..9 45
No. 2 Fibre......................
..7 95
No. 3 Fibre......................
..7 20
W ash  Boards
Bronze Globe..................
..2 60
Dewey............................
.  1  76
Double Acme...................
..2 76
Single Acme....................
2  26
Double Peerless..............
3 25
Single Peerless...............
..2 60
Northern Queen............
..2 50
Double Duplex...............
..3 00
Good Luck......................
.  2 75
Universal.........................
..2 25
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 16-17-19  ................2 50
W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................  
154
Fiber Manila, white.........   3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   44
No.  1  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2 yA
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, s doz........................1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz.................... 1 00
Sunlight, l %  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz............. 1 00
Yeast Foam. 1U  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish...................  ©  7v2
Trout..........................   ©  7
Black Bass...................10© 11
H alibut......................  © 14
Ciscoes or Herring__   @  4
Blueflsh.......................  © 1244
Live  Lobster...............  © 18
Boiled  Lobster............  © 18
Cod..............................   © 10
Haddock....................   ©  7
No. 1 Pickerel.............  ©  7
Pike............................  ©  6
Perch..........................  ©  4
Smoked White............  © 10
Red Snapper...............  © 11
Col River  Salmon.......   © 12
Mackerel.....................   © ie
H IDES AND  PELTS 

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Hidee

© 
© 
© 7%
© 6k
© 9
© 7%
©10

The Cappon ft Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. l .................  
Green  No. 2.................  
Cured  No. l .................  
Cured  No. 2.................  
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,greenNo.2 
Calf skins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins,cured N0.2 
Pelts, each.................  
Lamb..............................
Tallow
No. 1.............................. 
No. 2........................  
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 

15©16
is©20
11©12
14©15

50©i 10

Wool

© 3<4

Pelts

© 4)4

© 8)4

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

Mixed Candy

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

Grocers....................
Competition.............
Special.....................
Conserve..................
Royal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf...................
English Rock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed...................
Crystal Cream mix..

bbls. pails
© 7)4 
© 7)4 
© 8 
© 9 
cases 
© 7)4 
©10)4 
©10 
© 8
© 6 
© 7 
© 7K 
© 8)4 
© 8)4 
© 9 
© 8)4 
© 9 
© 9 
© 9 
© 9 
©10 
©10
©15)4
©13

Fancy—In  B alk  

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

©12
© 9)4
©10
©11)4
©13)4
©14
©15
© 5
©   9)4
©10
©10
©12
©12
©14
©12)4
©12
©12
Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

©65

80  ©90©66

©56
©60
©65
©85
©1  00 
©30 
©75 
©65 
©60 
©ao 
@60 
©55 
©66 

Lemon  Sours.........
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice Drops........
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar.............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Rock.............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caram els 
No. 1 wrapped,  3  lb.
boxes....................  
Pennv (foods........... 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Russett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels.........
©
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias
Seedlings.................
©2 50
Medt. Sweets........... 3 00® 3  60
Jamaicas................
©
Rodi......................
©
Lemons
Messina, 300s..........
3 5b©4 00
Messina, 360s........... 3 26@3 76
California 360s......... 3 25@3 50
California 300s......... 3 25®3 50
Bananas
Medium bunches...,
1 50@1  75
Large bunches........

....
©50
65©60

Figs

Dates

Foreign D ried F ru its 
©
Californias,  Fancy.. 
©
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
@
boxes,................... 
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
@1
@
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
A
Naturals, in bags.... 
A
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
m
Hsllowi....................  
5 @
A
lb.  cases, new....... 
Salrs,60lb.cases....  4)4© 
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
17
Almonds, Ivtca.......
Almonas, California,
soft snelled...........
Brazils,....................
.................
Filberts 
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnut«., soft shelled 
6
California No. 1...
6
Table Nuts,  fancy...
Table  Nuts, choice..
Pecaos,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
Faney,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Span. Shlld No. 1 n’w

Roasted................  6)4© 7

Bottstod •

5)4©

161

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

6)484

15

B utters

AKRON STONEWARE 

)4 gal., per doz....................................
2 to 6 gal., per gal.............................
8 gal. each..........................................
10 gal. each..........................................
12 gal. each..........................................
16 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................

2 to 6 gal., per gal..........
’’hum Dashers, per doz.

Churns

M ilkpans

Vi ga.  fAt or rd. bot, per doz.. 
1 gal. nat or rd. boi,, each......

Fine Glazed  M ilkpans
)4 gal  fiat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

Stewpans '

)4 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz.........

Ju g s

)4 gal. per doz..................................
'4 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 Sun...........................................
Tubular..................... •.......................
Nutmeg...... .....................................

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

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

F irst Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled......
No. 2 Sim, “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

E lectric

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

OIL  CANS

1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz__
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz..
2 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz..
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz..
6 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................................
6 gal. Home Rule................................
6 gal. Pirate King...............................

Pum p  Cans 

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift......................
No.  1 B Tubular................................
No. 16 Tubular, da6h..........................
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp...................
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................
LANTERN  GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye,cases 1 doz. each

6  10

4  OOr
5 00

1  00 
1  25 
1  36 
1 60

1  40
1  58
2 78

3 76 « 864 26 

4 96 
7 26 
9 00

4 86 
7 40 
7 60 
7 60 
13 60 
3 60

Are you satisfied

with  your  Paper Boxes? 
If not, 
write  us.  You  will not regret it.

Kalamazoo,‘Mich.

Kalamazoo  Paper Box Co.

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 Lam p Co. 

132 and 134 Lake St. E., Chicago

pumvH\y
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UDSON.Mich.
THE  MOTOR  DOES  THE 

WORK

T h e   T h o m a s  A u to -B i 

Has become an important factor  In  the  sales  of 
many Bicycle Dealers, and especially  those deal­
ers who are wide-awake and  progressive.  It has 
now reached a stage where lt is  an  object  of  in­
terest to every dealer who gives  any  thought  to 
his business.

Right now, write us tor Catalogue and Agency.

ADAMS  &  HART, G rand R apids

L ab els
G a s o l i n e  
D e a l e r s

for

The  Law  of  1889.

Every druggist, grocer or other 
person who shall sell  and  de­
liver  at  retail  any  gasoline, 
benzine  or  naphtha  without 
having the true  name  thereof 
and the words "explosive when 
mixed with air" plainly printed 
upon a label securely attached 
to the can,  bottle or other ves­
sel containing  the  same  shall 
be punished by a fine  not  ex­
ceeding one  hundred  dollars.

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.

We are prepared to furnish labels  which 
enable dealers to comply with this law, on 
the following basis:

*  5!..................75c
5  M.................. 50c per M
10  M.................. 40c per M
ao  M..................35c per M
50  M.................. 30c per M

T r a d e s  m a n  j 
C o m p a n y ,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.  ;
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M ICH IG AN   TR A D ESM A N

W illiam  F. Jew ell, P resident D etroit B usi­

ness University.

William  F.  Jewell,  President  of  the 
Detroit Business University,whose name 
is  inseparably  linked  with  the  progress 
of  business  education  in  Michigan,  was 
born  March  7,  1837,  at  Oneida  Lake, 
New  York,  and  is  of  New  England  an­
cestry.  He  passed  his  boyhood  in  New 
York  State,  where  his  father  was en­
gaged  in  lumbering,  then  a  most 
im­
portant 
in  New  York,  but  as 
the  comparatively  untouched  forests  of 
Michigan  and  Wisconsin were attracting 
more  and  more  settlers  to  those  States, 
he  moved  his  family  hither,  hoping  to 
profit  by  the unrivaled facilities afforded 
by  the  new  country  for  his  calling.

industry 

Mr.  Jewell  attended 

common 
schools  in  his  boyhood  and  youth  and, 
after acquiring  a  thorough  knowledge of

the 

In  1882,  he  purchased 

of  one  of  their colleges  Mr.  Jewell  was 
immediately  engaged.  For  a  short  time 
he  taught  in  the  Chicago  College and  in 
1865  he  was  assigned  to  their branch  in 
Detroit,  where  he  has  ever  since  re­
mained. 
the 
University  outright,  carrying it  on  alone 
until  July,  1885,  when 
it  was  consoli­
dated  with  the  Spencerian  Business 
College  (originally  the  Mayhew  Busi­
ness  College),  purchased  a  few  years 
previously  by  Mr.  Spencer,  the  combi­
nation  of  the  schools  proving  advan­
tageous  to all  concerned.

Mr.  Jewell  was  married  to  Miss  Mar 
garet  Brownlee,  of  Detroit,  in  1874,  and 
has  three  sons  and  one  daughter, 
is  a  director  in  the  Citizens  Savings 
Bank,  and  a  member  of  the  church 
Our  Father.

Mr.  Jewell  is  renowned  among  educa 
tors  throughout  the  country  as one  of  the

m i

/ / / / ,

h r

most  painstaking  men  in  his  line.  His 
experience  alone  would  justify  bis repu­
tation,  but  it 
is  substantiated  by  bis 
success  and  the  encouragement  which 
his  school  has  always  received  from  the 
citizens  of  Detroit  and  Michigan.

Reflections  of a Bachelor.

The  average  woman  is  funniest  to  a 
man  when  she  thinks  she  is  most  sar­
castic.

One  year  of  married 

life  brings  a 
man  to  his  senses;  two  generally  makes 
him  crazy  again.

Very  often  it  is  the  women  who  look 
most  like  cold  apple  pie  who  are  really 
like  curried  peppers.

A  smart  woman  can  fool  a  man  all his 
life,  but  a  smart  man  can  only  fool  a 
woman  until  she  finds  it  out.

Many  a  man  who claims  to  be  look­
ing  for  work  wouldn’t  recognize  a  job 
if  it  stepped  up  and  tapped  him  on  the 
shoulder.

the  fundamental  branches,  entered  the 
college  at  Wheaton,  Illinois,  where  he 
took  the  scientific  and  classical  course. 
During  the  next  seven  years  he  taught 
school,  doing  farm  work 
in  the  sum­
mer  vacations,  and  at  the  end  of  that 
period  he  became  a  student in  Bryant & 
Stratton’s  Business  College, 
in  Chi­
cago, in  order to  acquire  a  knowledge  of 
practical  business  work.  After  com­
pleting  the  full  course  he  accepted  the 
position  of  book-keeper  with  an  exten­
sive  lumber  firm  operating  around 
Green  Bay,  Wisconsin,  but  about  one 
year  later,  in  the  season  of  financial  de­
pression  which  visited  the  country,  the 
firm  was  forced  to  the  wall  and  he  was 
thrown  out  of  employment.  While  with 
Bryant  &  Stratton,  however,  he  had 
made  a  more  than  favorable  impres­
sion,  and  as  they  were  at  the  time  in 
need  of another assistant  to  take  charge

Hardware  Price  Current

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

Caps

A m m unition
6 . D., full count, per m..............
Hicks ’ Waterproof, per m........
Musket, per m.............................
Ely’s Waterproof, per 
„  
No. 22 short, per m.....................
No. 22 long, per m..............
No. 32 short, per m .................
No. 32 long, per m............’.'.*. 1111.' 11

Cartridges

“

No. 2 U.M. C„ boxes 260,  per m........
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per m ...

Primers

Gun Wads

Drs. of
Powder

New Rival—For Shotguns

No.
120
129
128
126
136
164
200
208
236
265
264

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 
oz.of
Shot
IK
IK
IK
IK
IK
IK
1
1
IK
IK
IK 
unt 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
4*
4K
•  3
3
3X
3K
*K 
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg......................
X kegs, 12*4 lbs., per  %  keg............
H kegs, 6)< lbs., per x   keg...............

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

Gunpowder

Shot

In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B...........
Augur» and  Bits
Snell’s ...........................................
Jennings  genuine......II.....................
Jennings’ imitation............ ....” 11.'."“
Axes
First Quality, S. B. Bronze......
First Quality, D. B. Bronze. 
.
First Quality, 8. B. S.  Steel.... 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel..............
„  
Railroad...........
Garden.....................'..'.I!HHI!..." "net
Bolt»
Stove ..........................
.......................
Carriage, new 11«» 
Plow ............  
nillllllllH IIIIII!
Buckets
_  .. 
Well, plain..........................................

Barrows

......

_ 

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

Chain

Com.
BB..

6-16 In.
X In.
6  0. .. . 5 0 . .
.. •  6X 
.. .  6X 

Kin.
7  0.  .
. ..  7K 
8K 
. ..  7X 
8X 
Crowbars
Cast Steel, per lb.
_  ■ 
Chisels
Socket Firm er.......................
Socket Framing.............. HI .1111.......
Socket Corner...................
Socket Slicks..................1.11.1111111!

Expansive  Bits 

Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz........... 
net
Corrugated, per doz...........
Adjustable...............................’.".’.".’.".’.'dls
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26..
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30..............HI!
_  
Piles—New  List
New American............................
Nicholson’s.............................
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........."".*.*.1111
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 28-  27 
List  12 
16

Galvanized  Iro n  

14 

16 

13 

Discount,  66

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

Gauges

Glass

Kin.
..  4XC.
...  6
. ..  6K

66 
1  25 
40&10

70fiU0
70
70

60&10

Hinges

H am m ers

Single  Strength, by box......................dls
Double Strength, by box.............. 
dls
By the Light......................... I'.I.dli
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............  
dls
Yerkes fit Plumb’s.......................... I I.’dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.....................sob" list
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3............................. dls
Hollow  W are
Pots............................................
Kettles........................................
Spiders......................................... , ’’H
Horse  Nalls
Au Sable............................................. dls
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.............
Japanned Tinware...........................HI

86fit
85&
80&20
33 ¡4 
40&10 
70
eofitio
50&10
50&10
eofitio
40&10
70
20&10
..........................................  25  orate«
j  c rates

Light Band.........................................  

Iron

K nobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz....................... 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount............... 

Lanterns

76
86
g oo
iq

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  26

6  00 
9 00 
6 60 
10 60

12  00 
29 00

31

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

Levels

Adze Eye................................$17 00..dls

M attocks

Metals—Zinc
600 pound casks.........................
Per pound............................" " "
M iscellaneous
Bird Cages................................
40 
ou
Screws, New List..................  "II" 
Pumps, Cistern..................I ll..........
75&10 
86
Casters, Bed and Plate....... ....I  III!  50&10&10
Dampers, American........................... 
go

Molasses  Gates

Stebblns’ Pattern........*.....................
Enterprise, self-measuring..".".".".’.".....

60&10
30
.............................  60&10&10
?0&6

Pans

Fry, Acme. 
Common,  polished.......................

 

 

P atent  Planished  Iron

A  S 00? 8 Patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 76 
B  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 76 
Broken packages He per pound extra.

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy................... 
Sclota Bench................................  
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy! IIIIH 
Bench, first quality......................... 

" 
 

 

 

no
«
go
gg

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire

Planes

Nalls

 

 

Steel nails, base................................ 
Wire nails, base............................ 
20 to 60 advance......................... 
10 to 16 advance............................. 
8 advance........................................  
6 advance............................ 
 
4 advance............................. ",........... 
3 advance......................... I.I.III T’1* 
2 advance...............................’.HI"!" 
Fine3 advance...................".’.I’.’.I ’.’.I" 
Casing 10 advance..............................." 
Casing 8 advance.................................I 
Casing 6 advance..........................  
Finish 10 advance.......................... 
Finish 8 advance........................... 
Finish 6 advance....................... HI!!!! 
Barrel  % advance............................... 

Rivets

Iron and  Tinned............................... 
Copper Rivets and  Burs......... I .HI II 

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, H Inch and larger.................... 
Manilla..................... 

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

Sand  P aper

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

2 66
o 65
Base
g
10
«0
-¿n
45
70
eo
ig
26
35
«6
35
48
gg

go
46

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

gu
12

60

26 00

com. smooth. com. 
$3 20 
3 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 60 
w 1r1r
3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  ..............
Nos. 15 to 17................
Nos. 18 to 21...................
NOS. 22 to 24.........................1."""  3 60
Nos. 26 to 26..................................3 70
No. 27...................................... 1.H  3 go 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

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

8  qq
7  60

Solder

K@H................................................... 
20
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

70

$ 8 50 
8 60 
9 75

7 00
7 00
8 60 
8 60

76
40&10

60
60
&0&10 
eofitio 
40 
3 25 
2 96

Squares

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

Tin—Melyn  Grade
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, $1.50

B oiler Size  Tin  Plate 
.

14x66 IX, for No.8Boilers,) 
14X66IX, for No. 9 Boilers, f P°r Pound..
Traps
Steel,  Game........................................
Oneida Community,  Newhouse’s..!.. ’
Oneida Community .  Hawley  fit  Nor­
ton’s.................................................
Mouse, Choker  per doz..................HI
Mouse, delusion, pe.- doz...............
Bright Market...................................
Annealed  Market...........................1.1
Coppered Market...........................
Tinned  Market...................................
Coppered Spring Steel........  ........ I. I
Barbed Fence, Galvanized...............
Barbed Fence, Painted......................I
Bright..........................................
Screw Eyes...................................
Hooks..................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes.........................

W ire  Goods

W ire

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........   *
Coe’s Genuine.....................................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, |Wrought..7MU0

M ICH IG AN   TRA D ESM A N

8a

'I'll«  I'hmIh««  Murimi.

.\I• I• 11-a  Uni  |invia  have  advuiued  to 

i  l  |*pi  1*1*1,  Aliti  Mit>  acuirti  mi  Mint.
|Ot  |te|  dor.

Ani«.»Myna  Home  grown  cummand«
Italiana*  1'ricea  range  (lout  $i, 2547 

c'M  |»er  luoit I»,  according  to  aite.

Her la 
Hutter 

il  pei  litri.
l ’rea me ry 

I He,  V ancy  dairy 

ia  in  good  demand 
in 
and  steady  at 
frock«  ietenea  mccmc,  Hacking  stock 
I*  in  giux)  demand  at  IO0 HC,
I  Ìli  giaid  den 
t  ahoage 
I  « 
per  nate

'«'■   LnuUlana  l oinuidiul#  $2. 25

tlV 

t ’ticundier*  Home  grown  command 

ilU the  to*. 

;mc  I*er  doi.  Southern  (etch  65c.
1-gga  Receipt«  are  iiheral  and 

local 
dealera  meet  with  no difficulty  in  oh* 
taming  13c 
lor  landletl,  ite  tor  caae 
count  and  uh 
tor  dirties  and  amati 
egga, 
A   marked  peculiarity  of  the  re* 
vclpl*  during  the  paat  two  week«  ia  the 
absence  t»t  laige  egga.  which  have  evi’ 
iarmera 
de oily  heen  ahatracted  hy  the 
lot  aetttug  purposes,  A 
long  aeimon 
could  he  pleached  on  the  auhject  ot 
latamg  amali  hena  and  «mall  egga,  hut 
all  that  can  he  «aid  on  the  subject  ap­
peal«  to  tall  on 
l*auen  giorno),  The 
egg«  raiteil  m  ihe  Holland  colony  have 
aiwava  heen  discriminated  again«!  he-
1(1  (It (v  when
tu ttt  id he f hx'alitiv*
«IV  ù•q  loto-  b*u
Fv 1  tuatanev,  an  t't
taaa VkUIBlV N y ci  hiiHitht
it)  «vvvtal
Va«v* «it  vvj;*  1
Jay la*t  w vi W  ani) left
them with  a Kh al  v ■ nun is* iion  it valer,
ahi» ha*  bwfi UUdBU* U«  1‘htai u  an  idler
i'hv «aine  day
U.  S. Hiaiv.  «» w tKsI ami,  awld  «cvvtaì
-v  v.<ns at  tikjc
L  ik 
tu the  last twi'  wars
tkv  V«
tbv  1 fittisi  S4.4U4s h.isi W vb  'uk fva*v«i  at
wbv«  the  great  calamity 
in  eggs  oe- 
v fitted,  the  tvfiai  «torage  ot  eggs  in  the 
United  State«  was  a tittle over  t, a \ \ iw  
Vases-  Even  with  these  Urge  àguee* *U 
the  vwie»  m e t  waa  exs  ailed.  It  is  tea­
se. maMe  tv  tv he ve  that  with  rvoui  tor  a  | 
mrUiiva  motv  eases  these  wiU  he over[ 
t.avSAV1  case»  ot  eggs  siwed  betöre J 
wevt  Se premavi 
t'haïe  ss  isre  thing I
prova iHng  in  the  storage  egg  situati is#  < 
th*s  year,  which  was  wot  dominant  twos 
year*  agw  Seveta;  paokecs  have  caused ( 
to  be  packed  cars ot  arge  brown,  eggs I 
hu  a  puïctcmut  trade,  and  these  briugj 
Uv^avnt  v  sc  a  skveu  above  the  white I 
egg 
there  i* one  cinse 1*4  trade  which  j 
large  white  egg.  bet  the I 
demands  a 
I
biewas  are  vW d eie d   better 
yUeen  v'fiicaa-  toe  t«  bMecgf-eens ; !

ivf  Bail V  v
fk  Wiksfl Atui
*p4 i'ÌG  tlMi  »1

* v?4 - \\  tv*  Sì : \ V i 

1 "Uà*

turkey«,  ufi uh: ;  old  turkeys,  Sffgc, 
young  duck«,  yj£0to>£c;  pigeon«,  50H 
taic  per  do*,  ;  ariuab«,  #1 ^91.25  per  do* 
broilers,  iX045c  per  lb. 
i   Radishes 
for  hot house  stock,

14014c  per  do*,  bunchi 

Seeds 

illue  grass,  $1.4501.50;  or 
chard  grass,  $i,4o0t.6o;  red  top,  750ft 
g i.5n;  timothy,  gj.to ;  medium  clover, 
gfi,4506,75 ;  mammoth,  $6.5007;  ai 
syke,  $7.5008,

Spinach—400toe  ner  bu.
Strawberries  Berries from Tennessee, 
Mississippi  and  Southern  Illinois  are 
coming  freely  and  the  price  is  off.  The 
choicest  berries  coinè  from  Southern 
Illinois.  This  week  the  Illinois  supply 
will  be  sufficient  and  they  will  be  the 
best  berries  that  come,  except  those 
from  Indiana,  The  crop 
is  light  al' 
through  the  Southern  sections,  and  In 
diana  berries  are  expected  to  bring 
fancy  prices  because  fancy  berries come 
from  that  section, 
l.ocai  dealers  are 
asking  g4.4504.50  per  44  qt.  case. 
Tomatoes  g4  per  4  basket  crate. 
Turnip«  gi  per  bbl.
Vegetable  Oysters  40c  per  do*.
Water  C ress —yoc  per  do*.

V S *   K.  H vu iru C »   Som»  tu   He  K * 'lu r u r -  

........■ *** « ♦

|H ir« l« l.

Lansing,  May  41  -The  K. 

lìement'«, 
Si«\s  has  arranged  tv*  merge  its  business 
mto  a  corporation  with  a  capital  stock 
ot  $ t,i\i\iw ,  composed  of  $500,000  6 
per  cent,  cumulative  preferred  stivk 
and  #751x00© common  stock,  The  pres­
ent  owners  of  the  business  take  $645,ocx> 
id  the  iwumton  stock  for  their  holdings 
the  remaining  common  suvk  being 
given  to the  purchasers  of  the  preferred 
in  the  shape  id  a  45  per cent,  honus. 
Ihe  preferred  stock  may  be  retired  at 
the  end  ©I  ten  vears  at  105  and  is to  he 
fully  paid  and  camelled  at  the  end  of 
twenty'hve  years.  The company is  now 
diving  a  business ot gbcv\ixv per annum 
is»  which  the  net  ptidit  is  about  guv, 
vVV, 
i>o  the  basis  of  $i.OkX\o«oo sales 
pet  annum  the  ertkets  estimate  the  net 
pivots  id  P '.’ .M '.  which  will  ent 
the  comcuea  stivk  to a  dividend  of 
pet
It  the  vofome  can  be  in
creased  to  ; 
estimated 
profits  wisi d  be gtüs 
equivalent  u 
a  du ideod  id  ttv
vfo  ter  cent.  ,«   the 
. __
cvmuxm  stock 
^ s c r i s t k n   papers
will  be  oj.vned  here  and at  Chicag., 
IVtrv»;  and.  Grami  Kaotds,  with  every 
indicatrv«  id  the  stock  >e»ng  largely 
s-versohsert bed.

ÎIYAV,

ceet. 

»  arge  su ir­
li ai  khflf M*i 
a**  saie  ag

pr>  at  14461 W 
a mi  da 1 k  bu- 
111461 A

V irbif.  g iv

ikwhvat,

v. c jM i»  v a it**» mas 

1.1S  ano  ’v-1«  pfir 
*> >v  for  choice  and  $> 

.vuiuram* gjt  tdv 
Meemnas  »ttch 
o  tor  !attc>; 

i citeoe
demand,
and  Us  V i  'Xm tativtt.

vtap.e  bygai-  r o g k f M  

htowoase  stock 
lamrandurg  ' ic  to.  eat.

is  m  gwvd 

itw  getraare 

iL to.e  Syrup-  #ì  per  gai.  tw  Saoiîju 
chaioim  S i : *r. , otta 
sofirarafid  g i, ’s  
pci  s.'ate-  hgsuisaas  etch  g,i is  a*
I I  Ò-.  iwtsCx

s  lange«-  *4id ite>'*ancaa  sweeps  "etefi 
'-‘oiö  gi. v,v

g>.  A'yt i   Scodi iirgs  'auge 

fhirSaey  ^OC  p«fi  dpi.

ae  gi. A.  per  3fi».

d*op,;oHr  ?sc  tot  04  ty.  yen. 
ibtnjapp»e%- 

iSaiaua, 

h tot *d*t,  g4  por  dm.

g;.  euwt; 

.'s  ; 

.voi 

r^iyKü 

rrxaioo«- 

pt*cos at: aiusHÌft  bo>ii»g 

maud  's c   no*  box  ut 
swoot  Mniv  e»c-y  ,xìC-

t cHrrarv  uto  caooagc  5v®- 
'/efrpoe  and 
i ho  -na. not  1% stsougoi  ufrf 
higfior,  u  iXHrsiquoriìe  or  wiheh  scuro 
strippo»«  c o   c».xnp»ito>y  out  uh stuck.
joitKs 
îjocar  àoa,- 

>»10  wvaaved  ;u  v^rysc- 
.cxaiU  «oc  -fi  «mall  uns. 
r*Mitf.i-  1 pudUrotiw  aro  dio  satno  fig) 
iw»  woo*s.  wacn*  4na*«tfin t»*j*  assttxiowis' 
id»  dioseod 
tddko»^,  tei4|^2e-;j
ditti  "sgbiv  siK»ög  rhiriiinnii 
t'MjNsig:! 
«m isi  ’»a «-*  -c ■  siriiag   dkc«k  ? ;
-did  sui  waoioo-at  au*  ¡tcMioi  ^('»ivy 
4<gÈ£uc'-'-dìtt  SX  wa>Kod. 
ÿdc ; 

,vo  -*iAi»ti>  uca»  aoa>eas  aa.**  afikxliaws 
dhtvkonn»  a*g|ï»4c-:-  «ndtuut  « d   sum,i 
xege  hoo^  >9jgsc .  o«x«ag,

btgsuv 

te»*»»  MW1W*., tFwww, Twlkww  «MMt  Wx»l 
l'ho hide  aearket  shows a  weakness  on 
i  ght  sciv*.  while-  «o  sales  aie  tejwcted
- at a  -Oss per.ee.  hleav-y  and  side  leather 
j sfifcks sed  tteeiy  at  a d   parces.  There 
f  t* nu  cha-age  as yet  tevwn grevions saies, 
j while asking  pekes are  eersier.

ts?  cw  i»  piece  and  are  selling 
ït  ¿a  h i d  ?o sswe  them  at  any
I be 

i stowiV, 
-  a* nee  -ho  pc.  ev  is  w »  ..1 ng  to  pay, 
i wndo  ns  ‘ibbesg.

h'aos  « e   s*.e  eficugh 

in  volume  to 
,  «•de  a  axaffket.  Vi.is£  skippots  have 
: cosed  sto  dda»%,  and  all  recruits  must 
ho cam-od  ocec.

Th-icw 

s  tent  and  in f- id   demand, 

c'ffte'-agjg.  while  aatp.v,.  are  n s   large. 

m

"gswag--- -------------------

Woe*  ntfifcfcijfc*  as  the  lane  isubi.  with 
ac  ovitsido  bwyons  m  the  Stale.  Some 
-ucifcn ape  huiytiag  m   :cw  vaiueg.  but  are 
aruch  - a   dcubt  if ihre 1  are  purchasing 
ft 
cw  eficugh >4- aided  them a  margin, 
ap  h»-.;  week  sc  induce  an  Tastern 
<  ro enter  the  mar- 

huxoc  at  m
« k  
t »   T.  Hess.
_ 
WwwwWw*  w  vwmw<M  s ,« h   ttuuda
’ 'out rfio  •AliW  Nth twialft
ti.iciuig 
.coua  4£ M  
cwMMy  with  rheit  ilfu*-
i^»aìd.  pesco 
}to»*ule 
hide  afi  too  ap^nnHMlv  templing  ban. 
but  wfion  the  g-,xià»  ate  received  it  is 
wasdsi  aiaïcaîiy  k-cmd  that  our  home 
•stuiöchiwwÄ  cvujsd  S«ie  duplicated  the 
pesco* wish, a  sotte-i  etnas df goods.  Vint 
Saxo  so  sake  what  rhs  catah^ne  msn 
ssW5  icu, 
wnon  isiu  buy  over  the 
ccuaôic  *vu.:  jo n xi  is ni ways  wtiUug  |a 
cdcwca  -«usnasew

«ho  OiMacg-i*;  hAusos  are 

isss%,  and  many. 

860

FOR”  SALE—A  NICK,  CLEAN  GENERAL 
stock,  inventorying  about  $1,800,  In  good 
rarmlng community.  Season  for  selling,  other 
business.  Address  No.  860,  care  Minhiean 
Tradesman. 
W A N T ED —SECOND  HAND  PEANUT 
roaster, steam  or  spring  power;  must  be 
m nrst class condition and cheap for cash.  E  A. 
Lyon, Riverside, Mich. 
$80
Fo e s a l e—t h e   b e s t  sto ck  o f  g ro- 
ceries, having the best  trade  in  one  of  the 
best towns and in one of  the  best  fruit and  po­
tato sections of  Michigan;  doing  a  prosperous 
business;  also have a fine  shipping  business  In 
fruit and  potatoes:  also  a  warehouse  which  I 
will dispose  of.  Object  of  selling,  have  other 
business elsewhere  that  will  require  all  of  my 
attention.  Address  No.  866,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman.___________  

sgg

3  846

Ha r d w a r e  sto ck  f o e   sat.p.  in   a  
thriving village In Southern Michigan.  Write 
for particulars.  Address No. 864, care  m w % « 
Tradesman. 
gg}
Fo e  s a l e—t h e   g e n e r a l  s t o r e  o f 
the  Squire  ft  Sterling  Mercantile  Co.,  at 
Omer, Mich.;  doing a nice  business;  with  It  go
our good will, trade  mid  cashing  of  oar  orders 
for timber and labor.  Here  ia a  chance for  the 
right parties.  Will be sold at once.  For  partic­
ulars address W. C. Sterling, Monroe, Mich  863
ÏM4B  SALE  OB  EXCHANGE  FOR  Mint: 
chandise—120 acres of land  with rood build­
ings.  Address  840,  c u e   Michigan  Tradesman.
840
IfiQR  SALE-BEST  FAYING  GKNgR at, 
merchandise  store  in  Michigan;  stock  in­
ventories *7,000.  Address N a 830, care Michigan 
rat
Tradesman. 
WANTED -  DOUBLE  DECKER  SHOW- 
case,  6  to 8  feet long.  B.  J.  Reynolds. 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
IT biïT S A Ïl^E œ N D H A N D  SODA  FÖUN- 
toln:  easy terms.  Charles A.  Jacks«», Ben- 
ton Hudot, Mich. 
943
DR SALE-WHOLE OR  PAST INTEREST 
, 
In  a  general  hardware,  tinsmithing  and 
plumbing stock, invtficing about S3JW, in a good 
factory  town  in  Southern  Mtehtgmn  Address 
N a 824. care Mictiig«n Tradesman. 
OR SALK—UP-TO-DATE DRUG STORE IN 
one  of  the  best  towns In  MkAtgsn  Good 
reasons for selling.  Address N a 836, care Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
>B  SALE-STOCK  OF  G E N E R A I.  Mint. 
chandise  and  fixtures,  invoicing  S3JM  to 
$3A»0;  cash  discount;  best  rarmlng  district  in 
Northern  Indiana;  rood  reasons  for  «rfiing 
Address N a 810, c u e  Michigan Tradesman 
sfo
I  WILL  SELL  HALF  INTEREST  IN  MY 
furniture  business.  The  goods  are  all  new 
and up-to-date;  located in  a  town  a t  7ABO;  has 
been a furniture store few thirty years:  only two 
furniture stores in  the  town.  Address  aQ  cor­
respondence to N a  813,  care  MicMg»   Trades-
019
ill AD. 
i |K>B SALE—A FIRST CLASS BOOK  STOHK 
and news agency in  hustling  WrXtgM   city 
of  4A0S  inhabitants;  price  right:  terms  easy. 
Address 836. care Michigan Tr^«— n
)B  SALE—A  GOOD  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
groceries,  crockery,  glassware,  tamps  and 
Mina,  Inventorying  about  S3J 00.  Wffl  accept 
$3,000 cash If taken soon:  tnc«««»  the  best  and 
central Ina hustling business t o n  of 1AWpopu­
lation. fifty miles from Grand  Rapids;  this  I s a  
bargain for some one;  Inst nf ria iuw fis o n tn . 
Address B, care Michigan T radm un 

926

777

824

7«

u>e village of Harrietta.- pweesesk* c b m  May 1. 

1jM?B  SALE OE RENT—TWtLSTORY ERA ME 

store building, with arts* rrxms attached, In 
For  partkiulars  address  J   C.  Benbow,  Yuma, 
Midi. 
rl''B E   ROÄEYN  PARSONS CO.  PAYS CASH 
JL  for  stocks  of  merchandise.  Grand  Ledge,
Mioh. 
IF GOING OUT OF BUSINESS  OR  IF   YOU 
have a bankrupt stock of tiotiting. drygoods, 
or  sh«>cs.  oomrE unione  with  The  New  York 
Store, Traverse CMy. Mfeh. 
HA RTIKS HAYING STOCKS o f  GOODS OF 
mmj l i a i   fa rm   «r  ctsy  pror^rty  or  bado- 
n^urtng  plants  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex- 
gmug*  ixwrespooa  w sSkhe  Derby  ft  Choate 
Real Estate c a . Fiter  sw >  

735

7»

'

tYx, tw  Marten S t. CMeaccx J

à Â l- r ik U G   STOCK  INVOICING 
tt^ ta jm o iiiM ro e r stare ta the  best  town 
^«Ä****^3™ **ll1*’  I k r t i a t R  a m   fer 
wARug  Address No, 3W. care MteMgaa Trades­
man 

(an

X 18CXUAXXOC8

U -  ANTRIv-IXkS'ff?®lN6ESrK*ALSTORE 
"   *?  J * » f   w n M   a a t   Swedish  Ameri- 
vau;  tw   m t t   experma«.'«  hi  groceries,  shoes 
am* etotham.  evuatry  erefwwd;  best  of  reler- 
YX  Hamms.  4 »   Second  8t ,  
Gram*  Ma^khx Mkrh. 
TViURMACIST' WiSW'litUATIOX:  FA- 
L 
gwawcat «sore;  refaresees.  write
^  m w  Mkrhkpa Ttmtosmaa. 
868
~Xi^iIipK*KD  F S A lS O v i^ ;  MIDDLE 
*•*»*• MFUtsi.'a t and capable desires  sttu- 
|to*x 
Address  **Thtav”  120  K.
867
***t  1 
rANt*^^^W FtEBFnFSDuiiACi8T 
at am» ww aboot stt ae  «ght weeks;  good 
AFFO  at  ONibx  Address  AristoL  care

fi ISrsSdL Mil 16 

see

Off and On.

We’ve put away the overcoat 
A dozen times or to,
Illumining that chilling winds 
At last had ceased to blow.
We’ve placed it In the cedar chest, 
Where moths ne’er cause dismay, 
And felt relieved because we thought 
For months It there would stay.
Hut just as often from the chest 
Kemoved the wrinkles from its folds 
For suddenly a change had come 
Aud there was comfort when one had 

The overcoat we’ve drawn,
Aud gladly put it on.
From mild to frosty air,
A heavy coat to wear.

Twas In the month of March this game 
Of hide and seek commenced,
For then we didn’t realize 
What we were up against.
We never dreamed when first we put
The overcoat away 
That gentle spring had up her sleeve 
80 many tricks to play.

But later on we learned just how 
There’d be a day or two of spring,
One day we’d shed the overcoat,
And thus kept changing back and forth 

The weather joked with men;
Then winter came again.
The next day put It dn,
Tilt peace of mind was gone.

So now at last we’ve ceased to think 
Quite reconciled to wearing it,
But even if before that time 
The overcoat Is bound to make 

Of hiding It away.
Perhaps till late in May.
Its usefulness is done 
A record-breaking run.
Some New  Hands at the  Helm.

At  the  Grand  Council  of  Michigan 
•  C.  T .,  held  at  Kaimazoo  last  week 

the  following  officers  were  elected: 

Grand  Senior Counselor—H.  E.  Bart 

lett,  Flint.

lackson.

Hillsdale.

Grand  Past  Counselor—M.  J.  Moore 

Grand  Secretary-----Amos  Kendall

Grand  Treasurer—C.  M.  Edelman 

Saginaw.
^ Grand  Conductor---- J.  C.  Emory
»rand  Rapids.
Grand  Page— L.  Williams,  Detroit. 
Grand  Sentinel—W.  E.  Watkins,  Kal 

Grand  Executive  Committee—H.  E 
assold,  Saginaw*;  F.  W.  Thompson 

am a too.

Hillsdale.

The  next  annual  meeting  will  beheld 
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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
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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

T ra v elers*   T im e   T a b le s .

Michigan  Retail  Grocers’ Association 

President, C. E. Wa l k e r ,  Bay City;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  J.  H.  Ho p k in s ,  Ypsilanti;  Secretary, 
E. A . St o w e , Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Ta t m a n , Clare.  ______

flraud  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. Dy k ;  Secretary,  Ho m e r 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Ge o r o e   L e 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. 

Hy m a n . 

______

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  W a l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Lit t l e . 

______

Maskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President.  H.  B.  Sm it h ;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

Bo ELKINS;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Ca s k a d o n .

President,  J.  F r a n k   H e l m e r ;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H. Po r t e r ;  Treasurer, L.  Pe l t o n .

Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k ;  Secretary,  E. 

Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  W m, C. K o eh n

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M. W. Ta n n e r ;  Secretary. E.  11. Mc­

P h e r s o n ;  Treasurer, R. A. Ho r r .

Traierse  Citj  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  ih o s  T.  Ba t e s :  Secretary,  m .  B. 

Ho l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A. H a 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 .

Pt.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Mannfacturers’  Association 

President, Ch a s .  W e l l m a n ;  Secretary.  J.  T. 

P e r c iv a l .

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. Gil c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

P a r t r id g e . 

______

Calumet  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d i h y ;  Secretary  W.  H. 

H o s k in g . 

______

St.  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

President, T h o s. Br o m l e y ;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

A.  P e r c y ; Treasurer, Cl a r k  A. Pu t t.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wallace;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

H e d d le . 

______

Grand  Hnren  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W  V e r - 

Ho e k s .

Tale  Business  Men’i  Association 

President,  Ch a s.  R o u n d s;  Secretary,  Fb a n k  

P u t n e y . 

______

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  J ohn  G.  Eb le;  Secretary,  L.  J. 
Katz;  Treasurer,  S. J. Huffobd.

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C H I C A G O   S O L A R   L I G H T   C O .

P e r e   M a r q u e t t e
R ailroad and S tea m sh ip   L in es.

Fast trains  are  operated  from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw. Bay  City, 
Petoskpy, Ludtngton. 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. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

GRAND Rapids  ft  Indiana  Railway

March  io,  1901.

Going North.

ex Su  ex Su  ex Su  ex Su 
2 lOp  10 45p  5 20p 
5 40p  2 10a  9 00p
7 50p  4 15a 
.......
9 15p  5 36a 
....
10 35p  6 56a
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m,  11:30 

Lv Gd Rapids...........  7 45a
Ar.  Cadillac..............1120a
Ar.  Traverse City__  130p
Ar. Petoskey............  2 50p
Ar. Mackinaw City...  4 I5p
a m, 5:15 p m and  10:15 p m.

Going South.
ex Su  ex Su  Daily  ex Su  Daily 
Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10a  1 50p  6 50p  12 30p 11 30p
Ar. Kalamazoo.  8 50a  3 22p  8 
3*>p 1 45p 100a
Ar.  Ft. Wayne..12 lOp  6 50p  11 45p  To Cnicago
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 26p 
..................
Trains arrive from the  south  at  6:45 am   and 
9:10am daily, 2:00pm. 9:45pm and 10:15pm except 
Sunday.
Except 
Sunday 
5 40pm 
_
7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:00pm. 
Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm.
Trains arrive from Muskegon at  9:30am  daily, 
1:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  6:50pm 
Sunday only.

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Lv. Grand  Rapids__  7 35am
Ar. Muskegon..........   9 00am 

Except
Sunday
2 05pm
JP 
3 20pm

MUSKEGON 

......  7 15a 

C H I C A G O   T R A I N S  

G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO  CHICAGO 

fjjgg*  Dally
Lv. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  11 30pm 
6 55am 
Ar. Chicago  (12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train has through coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.
Dally
Sunday
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  bas through coach and  sleeping 
car.
Take G.  R.  &  I. to Chicago

FROM  CHICAGO 

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50 cents to Muskegon 

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A MONTH
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Benton  Harbor,  Michigan 
M .  A .  PR IC E   &  C O .,  P ro p rieto rs

Oh!  where have  I  seen  that  face  before? 
In  Nearly  AH  the  Leading  Stores.

H.  L eon ard   &   S o n s,  Q ran d   R apids

Price  list  Staple  Crockery,  Glassware,  Notions  and  House  Fur­
“ The  Commercial  Traveler” 

nishing  Goods.  Send  for  Catalogue. 
sent  to  Merchants  only on  request— 175  pages  at

MAIL  ORDER  PRICES

Base  Balls..................................38c and  $  68
Butter Plates, wire end......................... 
42
Baskets,  bushel..................................  
90
Baskets,  handled................................... 
30
Bags, paper, see  Catalogue..................
Brooms..........................$2 26,  $2  00 and  1  76
Burners. No.  1........................................  
40
Candy Jars, 2 quart...............................  2 00
Clothes Baskets, 30 in...........................  3 75
Chimneys, No. 1, box.............................   1  73
Dressing Combs,  rubber.......................  
39
Envelopes, 260 in box.............................  
19
Grocer’s Pa«s  Book............................... 
05
Galvanized Iron Tubs, No.  1.................  495
Galvanized Iron Pails. 10 quart............   1  66
Hammocks,  Palmer,” each................. 
48
Hair Brushes, per doz...........................  
78
Harmonicas...........................................  
36
Ink, Thomas’. 3 doz.  case...................... 
82
Ice Cream Freezers,  each.....................   1  26
Jellies, per b bl, doz............................... 
19

Lead Pencils,  gro..................................  
go
Lemon Squeezers, glass,  doz................  
40
Lawn Mowers, 14 in., each....................  2  15
Milk Jars, Paper Cap,  gro....................  6 00
Mantles, Gasoline, doz.......................... 
80
Playing Cards........................................  
90
Plates.  Breakfast..................................  
71
06
Stone Butter Jars, l g al. each.............. 
Stone Milk Pans, 1 gal.,  each...............  
06
Shelf Paper, gro. sheets......................... 
09
Silver Plated  Knives  and  Forks,  Rog­
ers’.  doz...........................................   2 60
Silver Plated Teaspoons, Rogers’,doz.. 
92
Silver Plated Teaspoons, Com, doz...... 
35
Telescope Valises, each......................... 
23
Tumblers, % pint, by bbl., doz.............. 
19
* Tea Cups and Saucers, doz.................... 
67
36
Tanglefoot Fly Paper, 50 sheets........... 
Thread, Clark’s M. E., doz.................... 
50
Thread, Merrick’s, doz..........................  
46
Thread, Cromwell’s,  doz......................  
17

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Manufactured by

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