V

Eighteenth  Year

«.MAKING A BETTER RUBBER
THAN THE BEST

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JUNE 5,  1901.

Number 924

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Volume XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE S,  190I.

it  on  the  statute  book,  or that I saved  by  his  corset  steel.

DESMAN

now  it  is  heard  in  some  quarters  that  i 
ought  to  be  repealed. 
In  our  rush  and 
phenomenal  development  as  a  trading 
nation,  with  our  rapidly  growing  mil 
lions  of  population  and  the  consequent 
ups  and  downs  of 
life,  we  shall  con­
stantly  have  more  and  more  need  of 
such  a  practical  and  humane  statute.

THE  NEW TWO  CENT  STAMP.

It  has  become  customary  for the  Gov 
ernment  to  lend  its  aid  and  influence  to 
great  expositions  in  the  United  States 
and  one  of  the  ways  is  to  have  a  series 
of  postage  stamps  specially  printed  for 
use  during  the  time  of  the  show.  The 
Pan-American 
is  no  exception  to  this 
rule.  The  stamps  are  on  sale  at  every 
postoffice  and  are 
in  general  use.  A 
critical  writer  in  the  New  York  Mail 
and  Express  takes  exception  especially 
to  the  two-cent  Pan-American  stamp, 
which  he  likens  to  a  portrait  of  a  June 
bug  on  the side  of  a  strawberry.  The 
is  striking  and  original  even  if 
simile 
inaccurate.  The  stamps 
in  this  series 
are  handsomely  engraved,  as,  indeed 
all  the  Government  work  is  in  that  de­
It  will  be  recalled  that  an 
partment. 
enterprising, 
unscrupulous, 
business  man  once  caused  advertise­
ments  to  be  put  in  all  the  papers,  say- 
ng  that  for $1  he  would  send  a  beauti­
ful  steel  engraved  portrait  of  George 
Washington,  and  to  those  who  sent  the 
dollar  there  was  returned  a  two-cent 
stamp  on  which  there  was 
indeed  a 
beautiful  steel  engraving  of  the  father 
of  his  country.

though 

it 

The  Mail  and  Express  critic  declares 
that  the  railroad  train  on  the  two-cent 
Pan-American  stamp  is  not  emblemat- 
cal  of  anything  in  particular,  least  of 
all  the  Buffalo  Exposition.  It is  pointed 
out  that  only  one  American  republic  is 
connected  by  rail  with 
the  United 
States.  A  railroad train belongs  to  every 
other  city 
in  the  country  as  well  as  to 
Buffalo,  and  even  if  it  is  conceded  that 
the  two-cent  stamp  bears  a  reproduction 
of  the  Empire  State  Express, 
is 
equally  applicable  to  New  York,  A l­
bany,  Syracuse  and  Rochester.  The 
postage  stamp  censor  believes  that  a 
icture  of  Niagara  Falls  would  have 
better  served  the  purpose  and  made  a 
more  attractive  picture.  The  designer 
of  the  much  maligned  two-cent  stamp 
in  the 
will  doubtless  find  consolation 
recollection  that  every  public 
serv­
ant  must  expect  about so much  criticism 
regarding  his  work  and  will fully realize 
the  impossibility  of pleasing everybody, 
is  too  late  now  to  change  the  stamp 
please  the  Mail  and  Express  man, 
even  although  his  fault-finding  is  not 
foundation.  The  very  black 
without 
railroad  train  on  the  very  red 
little 
square  will  have  to  do  duty  for  the  re­
its  market 
mainder of  the  season,  and 
value  and  its  utility  will  not  be 
inter­
fered  with  or  detracted  from  by  any­
thing  anybody  may  say for or against  it.

It  transpires  that  a  French  corset  firm 
turns  out  18,000 corsets  a  year  for  men. 
is  astonishing  that  we  have  never
heard  of  a  French  duellist  having  been

Number 924

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW.
There  are  some  conservative 

influ­
ences  in  the  trade  situation which would 
be  expected  to  affect  the  general  con­
ditions, but in  spite  of  these  the  strength 
which  has  so  long  underlain  the  market 
keeps  the  tide  moving  without  abate­
ment.  Perhaps  the  most  serious  hin­
drance  has  been  found  in  the  long  con­
tinued  cool  wet  weather  which  has 
tended  to  curtail  trade in summer goods. 
Then  the  strikes  of  machinists  all  over 
the  country necessarily  bring  misgiving 
and  uneasiness.  But 
in  spite  of  these 
the  trade  movement  is  in  the  right  di­
rection.

The  movement  of  stocks 

in  Wall 
Street  has  been  steadily  upward  ever 
since  the  panic  and  the  increase  in  ac­
tivity  has  been  in proportion.  The value 
of  railway  shares  has  nearly  reached  the 
high  record  made  just  before  the  panic 
and  the  prices  of  industrials  are  nearly 
keeping  pace.  Considering  that  the 
backward  spring  would  naturally  tell 
n  transportation  business,  it is  interest- 
ng  to  note  that  traffic  is  10  per  cent, 
above  that  of  the  corresponding  time 
ast  year.  Exports  of  gold  amounting 
to $15,000,000  for the  present  movement 
have  no  appreciable  effect  on the money 
market  as  dividend  disbursements alone 
exceed  this  amount  several  times  for 
the  same  period.

Although  the  production  of  pig 

iron 
probably  exceeds  all  records,  the  mar­
ket  has  lost  much  of  its  snap  and  there 
is  less  urgency  for  delivery,  while  Bes­
semer  is  offered  at  valley  furnaces  for 
$15.75.  This  comparative  dulness indi­
cates  that  manufacturers  have  raw  ma­
terial  in  sight  to  cover  the  bulk  of  con­
tracts  on  hand,  and  with  the  modera­
tion  of  buying  they  hope  to  secure  at 
better  terms  what  will  be  needed 
later. 
full  operation  during  the 
Instead  of 
summer,  it 
is  possible  that  mills  and 
furnaces  may  be  able  to  let  fires  go  out 
for a  short  period,  although  there  will 
not  be  the  customary  general  shutting 
down.  Exceptional  strength  and  activ­
ity  are  still  seen  in  billets,  sheets,  bars 
and  plates  at  Pittsburg.

The  cut 

in  print  cloth  prices  was 
heavier  than  was  expected,  but  did  not 
produce  the  desired  activity.  Staple 
prints  for  fall  have  also  been  reduced, 
although  business  had  previously  been 
done at the lower figures.  The tone of  the 
dry  goods  market  is  far  from  vigorous, 
but  large  sales  are  expected  when  the 
sun  resumes  shining. 
In  some  lines  of 
dress  goods  jobbers  are  beginning  to 
discount  the 
improvement.  Despite 
many  statements  that  Boston  woolen 
mills  are  fully  employed,  little 
interest 
is  shown  in  raw  wool  and  quotations 
are  distinctly  weaker.  Buyers  are  not 
taking  the  new  clip  readily,  expecting 
easier  terms  later  in  the  season.

A  Wisconsin  man  says  he  will  marry 
any  woman  who  can  cook.  There  is  a 
vulgar  wretch  who  prefers  stomach  to 
romance  and  carries  his  whole  mental­
ity  beneath  the  waistband  of  his  trou­
sers,  where 
it  is  safe  from  all  assaults 
save  a  bombardment  of  salad  and  welsh 
rarebit.

W holesale  Ready  Made  Clothing

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

Ew  attention to mall orders.

who  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  June  14 to 19,  and  you  win  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

A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker

And  Dealer In

Cigars and  Tobaccos,

157  E.  Fulton  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Knights of the  Loyal  Guard

A  Reserve  Fund  Order 

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

EDWIN  0 .  WOOD,  Flint,  Mich.

Supreme  Com m ander in  Chief.

13  ONLY

13  Genuine  Bargains

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

BARLOW  BROS.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

ASSOCIATE OFFICES  IN 
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ALL  PRINCIPAL

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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  M ercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R .  Q .  D U N   &   C O .

Wlddicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.

G etting the  People.
Card  Prices.
A round  the  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip. 
H ardw are.
E ditorial.
Editorial.
Clothing.
D ry  Goods.
Shoes  and  Rubbers.
Village Im provem ent.
Egg»-
R utter and  Eggs.
The  New  York  M arket. 
W oman’s  W orld.
W indow  Dressing.
A  Child’s Sacrifice.
Clerks’  Corner.
Comm ercial Travelers.
D rugs  and  Chemicals.
D rug Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Grocery  P rice  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current.
Riding  on  the  Cars.
Meeting of Hoard  of Directors.

OUR  LATEST  “ EMANCIPATION”  ACT,
The  record  of  the  workings  and  re 
suits,  up  to  date,  of  the  National  bank 
ruptcy  law,since  its  enactment,  contains 
some  extremely  interesting  figures  and 
gives  rise  to  very  instructive reflections 
We  are  told  by  excellent authority that 
under  the  operation  of  the  law,  within 
a  little  over  two  years,  upward  of  40,000 
persons  have  sought  relief  from  debts 
which  they  were  unable  to  pay,  but 
which  were  hanging over  them  in  a  way 
to  prevent  their getting  a  new  start 
ife.  The  aggregate  liabilities  of  these 
40,000  debtors  reached  the  stupendous 
It 
total  of $700,000,000! 
looks,  at  first 
glance,  like  a  gross 
injustice  to  the 
creditor  class  to  see  the  courts  with  a 
stroke  of  the  pen  cross  out  financial  obl­
igations  amounting  to  such  a  huge 
sum,  but  the  injustice  is  more  apparent 
than  real

The  applicant  for  relief  is  compelled 
to  pay  all  that  he  can  pay,  so  that  his 
discharge, 
in  nine  cases  out  of  ten, 
works  no  further  injury  to  his  creditors 
than  his  continued  legal  liability  would 
cause.  There  may  be  some  cases  of 
cleverly  concealed  fraud  and  rank  in­
justice,  but  upon  the  whole  the  bank­
ruptcy  law  has  undoubtedly  been  useful 
to  the  upbuilding  of  the  business  of  the 
It  has  enabled  thousands  of 
country. 
good  men  to  again  take  their  place 
in 
the  ranks  of  active  business  life,  with 
the  hope  and  encouragement  afforded by 
the  conviction  that  their  labors  could 
nd  would  redound  to  the  benefit  of 
themselves  and  their  families.

Nothing  is  more  depressing  than  a 
load  of  debt.  To  feel  that  this  indebt­
edness  can  neither  be  paid  nor  ever  es­
caped  from  puts  the  best  of  men  in  an 
utterly  hopeless  attitude  and  deprives 
them  of  all  incentive  to  "try  and  try 
again.’ ’  Debt  is  not  always— possibly 
not  in  the  majority  of  cases—an  evi­
dence  of  dishonesty,  or  even  of business 
recklessness  or  incompetency.  Oftener 
is  the result of unavoidable misfortune 
under  which  the  debtor  is  to  be  pitied 
rather than  condemned.

The  National  bankruptcy  act  was  a 
merciful  as  well  as  a  wise  act,  and  the 
surprise  is  that  Congress  was  so  long  in
putting 

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

P etting  the  People
Am erica  Leads  the  W orld  in Advertising. Üooswv^ev ôvos." S\voes

That  American  advertisement  writers 
are  far  in  advance  of  their  cousins 
across  the  water  is  abundantly  demon­
strated  by  a  comparison  of  the publicity 
periodicals  from  the  different  sides  of 
the  water.

The 

comparison 

is  suggestive 

in 
different  ways,  notably1  in  the  size  and 
businesslike  appearance  of  the  different 
journals. 
If  they  are  monthly,  they  are 
usually  magazines  of  considerable  size, 
with  elaborately  engraved  covers,  often 
changed  for each  issue. 
If  weekly,  like 
Printer’s  Ink,  there  is  more  volume  and 
business  in  a  single  issue,  apparently, 
than  in  half  a  dozen  issues  of  the  cor­
responding  English  publications.  The 
latter  shows careful elaboration  in  print­
ing,  with  type  set  covers,  often  printed 
in  colors  with  utmost  care,  but  with  a 
pinched,  hungry  look  that  makes  Amer­
ican  workmen weary.  The  inside  pages 
show  the  same  mechanical  hardness  of 
design.  American  methods  of  display 
have  influenced  the  English  compositor 
enough  to  demoralize  his  work  and  it 
will  be  a  long  time  before  the  new 
methods  will  develop 
free, 
strong  work  we  have  achieved  here.

into  the 

is  in  the 

Perhaps  the  most  suggestive  compar­
ison 
line  of  the  inspiration 
sought  by  the  different  publications. 
Occasionally,  in  turning  the  pages  of 
an  American  advertising  journal,  one 
finds  a  curious  or  striking  example  of 
English  work.  These  are  seldom  cited 
as  examples  to  be  commended— in  fact, 
they  are  more  frequently  introduced  as 
curiosities—but  take  up  an  English  ad­
vertising  magazine  and  the  most  of  its 
suggestions  come  from  this  side  of  the 
water. 
Its  pages  are  teeming  with  ex­
amples  of  American  work,  with  occas­
ionally  a  home  specimen  selected  be­
cause  it  is  thought  more  appropriate  to 
local 
everything 
spirited,  strong  or  snappy  they  frankly 
draw  upon  us  and  often  it  leaves  little 
to  be  filled  from  home  sources. 
is 
curious  to  note  that  they  are  finally 
coming  to  adopt  much  of  our  trade 
slang,  using  samples  of  our  work 
in 
which  it  abounds  with  approbation.

conditions. 

For 

It 

The  advertiser has  a  better chance  in 
this  country  than  in  England.  Period­
ical  reading 
is  much  more  universal 
among  our  people.  We  also  have  many 
more  periodicals  in  proportion  to  popu­
lation,  giving  a  wider  field,  with  sharp­
er competition.  This in recent  years  has 
developed  a  school  of  advertising  which 
is  unique  and  which 
it  will  take  the 
long  time  to 
Old  World  publicists  a 
emulate.  Naturally,  we  are  not 
so 
familiar  with  conditions 
in  the  other 
reading  countries  of  Europe,  but  from 
the  examples  current  here,  there 
is 
even  more  conservatism  there  than  in 
England.  German  methods  are  along 
quite  similar  lines, while in  France  they, 
are  peculiarly  French,and,  no  doubt,  in 
their  estimation  good,  but  it  is  fair  to 
presume  from  the  conditions  among  the 
masses  in  all  these  countries  there  are 
none  who  can  presume  to compete  with 
England.  So,  I  think,  we  may  hug  our­
selves  with  the  assurance  that,  in  the 
advertising  world,  we  are  the  people.

*  *  *

A  bright,  crisp  shoe  advertisement  is 
that  of  Boosinger  Bros.,  which  heads 
the  present  list.  The  engraver  has  been 
obliged  to  change  the  spacing,  so  as  to 
get  it  in  the  columns  and  so  the  proper 
effect  of  white  which  helps  out  the  dis­
is  not  shown  here.  The  printer
play 

Have an individuality about them.  Women’s Glazed  Kid, “Rugby” last, Handsome, Sen-1 
sible and comfortable. 
If fewer of them were sold dealers would sell more  rubbers,  $ 2.25 
to $3.50.

Men's Box Calf and Kangaroo Calf, Seamless foxed, heavy Welted  Soles,  weather  de­
fying, Solid and Substantial.  These Shoes are  constantly  becoming  better  appreciated. 
$3.00 to $4.00.

es^ed&VVa  beat 

\»ear

Theie is in our Children’s and Misses Shoes.  They must and do  appeal  to  parents  who 
h a g o t  weary buying the short lived kinds.

Our special things are the Genuine Oregon Calf, made from the  very  choicest  leathers, 
silken to the touch but tough in fibre.  They are wide and roomy, not too wide,  but  just 
right  a style that will stay.  You like them better every time 3-011  need  Shoes  because 
they are so true and reliable.  And the price—
svatWoia T a d  

3\vaVs 
$ 1.00, $ 1.25, $ 1.50 (to $ 2.00 for the large sizes).  Save  25c.  to  50c.  You  can  do  it. 
Will you?

\ W 5 W s ,

BOOSINGER  BROS.

1J. A. Richardson g

S P E C I A L S  For  this week!

One dozen  Man Tailored Stilts, new style* iusl in,  w onh  d » Q

from $10 to 112 each.  SALE  PRICE..........................  « p O .U U
$ 2.25, 3.50

3 Dozen  Walking Skirts, black and  oxfords, 
worth $3.50 to  *5.00.  SALE  P R IC E ...

i Old Trunks

and  Bags  1
A re good  after  they  have  been  t  
repaired. 
J
We make this a  special feature 
in our trunk department.and are 
in a position to  do  the  beat  re- 
-  pairing of trunks, traveling bags,
»  etc., a t very reasonable prices. 

Special  telescopes  and  cases 

made to  i r-ltr.

Our Line of ’
S U n r iE R  W À 5 H  GOODS

Is the largest we have ever shown.  __
We are showing  beautiful
patterns in  DIMITIES, ORGANDIES, PONGEE,  BATISTE, 
LAWNS, fete., at popular prices.
SILK  MAUSALINE 

In  black and colors, dotted and plain................. 50* per yd.

MERCERIZED SILK ZEPHYRS

Just the thing for Shirt Waists................« ... .30c per yd.

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!  T.  TAYLOR’S  I
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|  Harnett and Trunk  Store, 

208 B.  Main St. 

MERCERIZEb  CHAMBRA

36 inches wide, in stripes and  plain colors. , , | . 35c per yd.

About  word Carpets!

.  We carry the largest line in  Kalamazoo  county, outside of  the 

city, and our prices are from 5 to  10 cents below them.
We  want  100  cases  of  Eggs for  Cold 

Storage at 12c per dozen in  trade.

Beginning  June  4,  we  close  every  Tuesday, 

Thursday and Friday at 6 p. m.

_  J. A. RICHARDSON,
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Vicksburg, Mich.

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t  IRON BBD8I

2  A  large  assortment  always  J

on hand.  Many beautiful 

designs and the price 

is very reasonable.

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Paper ever sliown in Charlevoix  county.  All  th e  ^ || 
ia to t designs.  You  call and see  our  stock  before 
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«   O PPO SITE LO VEJiAY  O PERA  HOUSE  f
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I  CH. Whittington,

AVY  ADDRESS:

Bellevue Mich.

MY  BUSINESS:

H a ndling G roceries to  benefit my 

self an d  th e  Public'.

YOUR  BUSINESS:
T o  benefit yourself by  benefiting 

me.

Once  ^ cu sto m er,  alw a y s  a  cu s­

tom er.  *

RAY E. STEVENS

We  Are  Fishing,

FOI
YOUR
m on

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We  sell  to  sell  agajn. 
Therefore  we sc$1.fehe beat 
of everything  w*a handle. 
We have no old  -Stock  on 
v hand for the siipple.raifiOQ 
'th a t  We  sell  our* goods. 
Everything  is  'tie*  and 
that is why ii is d^io-date. 
Don’t take  onr»’fibril  fot 
it.  C o m p a n d s ^ .

I  Ctas.  H.  Kinsey.

has  done  well  to  adhere  to  one  style,  so 
far  as  possible,  in  his  display.  Good 
features  are  the  breaking  up  into  short 
paragraphs  and  short  sentences.  The 
prices  could  have  been  made  complete 
by  adding  some  for  children’s  and 
misses’—misses  should  have  the  posses­
sive.  The  advertisement,  as  a  whole, 
is  exceptionally  good  in  its  readable  in­
terest,  in  its  saying  just  enough  and  not 
too much.

criticism 

The  only 

A  well-written  and  fairly  well-com­
posed  advertisement  is  that  of  J.  A. 
Richardson. 
I 
would  make  on  the  writing  is  that  there 
is  too  much  for  the  space.  This  could 
have  been  helped  by  the  printer  by  us­
ing  more  small  type  and  so  getting 
white  space,  which  would have obviated 
the  crowded 
look  and  given  more  con­
trast. 
It  would  also  have  been  im­
proved  by  not  introducing  so  many 
styles  of type.  The price  feature is  good 
and  the  writing  is  businesslike  and  to 
the  point.

C.  H.  Whittington  writes  a  good 
furniture  advertisement and it is handled 
weil  by  his  printer.  The  value  of  white 
space  is  especially  well  preserved  and 
the  type  and  border  are  well  propor­
tioned  for  each  other.  The  ornament 
after  wall  paper  is  too  heavy,  and  the 
could  well  have  been 
exclamation 
omitted 
in  the  first  line.  Also  a  less 
number of  type  styles  would  have  been 
I  like  the  idea  of  confining  the 
better. 
subjects  to  so  few  articles. 
It  would 
not  have  been  a  bad  idea  to  introduce 
two or three  prices  for each.  The  word 
’ ’ you”   could  well  have  been  omitted  in 
the  last  sentence.

There  are  several  points  in  which  I 
think  T.  Taylor’s  advertisement  could 
be  improved,  although  the  general  idea 
is  a  good  one.  I  am  not  prepared  to en­
dorse  the  confining  the  display  to  the 
first  lines  and  signature,  as  it  gives  the 
impression  to  the  casual  eye  that  the 
business 
in  old  trunks  and 
bags. 
The  display  in  a  moderate  size 
type  of  the  word “ repaired”  would have 
corrected  this  defect.  The  “ s”   and 
sign  of the  possessive  should  have  been 
omitted  from  the  signature.

is  dealing 

Ray  E.  Stevens  makes  an  amusing, 
punny  announcement,  rather  strikingly 
introduced  by  the  animated  figuie  of  an 
orator.  The  printer  subordinates  his 
work  weil  to  the  sentiment. 
I  should 
have  omitted  the  points  in  the  display 
lines.  The  advertisement  is  not  a  bad 
one  for one  insertion,  but  should  not  be 
continued.

The  advertisement  of  Chas.  H.  K in­
sey  has  received  the  utmost  care  from 
the  printer  and  the  display 
is  good. 
The  writing  is  rather  labored  and  the 
reader is  not  sure  just  what  he 
is  driv­
ing  at  in  the  main  paragraph.  It  would 
be  an  improvement  to  add  the  address.

None  Left to Tell the Tale.

“ Our  m ilk,’ ’  urged  the  agent,  “ is 

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 GASOLINK SUNDRIES

sterilized.”

The  housewife  laughed  scornfully.
“ There  is  a  lot  of  foolishness  about 
sterilization  and  all  sorts  of  health  pre­
cautions  these  days,”   she  said. 
“ I 
don’t take  any  stock  in  it  myself.  Our 
ancestors  didn't  resort  to  any 
such 
methods. ’ ’

“ True,”   admitted  the  agent;  “ and 
look  at  the  result.  They  are  all  dead.” 1
Glover’s  Gem M antles

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

3

CARD  PRICES.

.  E lem ent of  W eakness  in  A ttem pting  to 

M aintain  Profits.

One  day  last  week  I  read  the  address 
of  one  of  the  officers  of  the  National 
Retail  Grocers’  Association,  which  pur­
ported  to  lay  down  the  aims  and objects 
of  the  organization.

As  near  as  I  could  gather,  the  main 
end  and  aim  of the National  Association 
—the  principle  which  is  its  pet— is  the 
establishment  of  card  prices.

If  this  is  the  case,  the  National  Asso­
is  gunning  around  after  a  will- 
ciation 
o’-the-wisp,  and  don’t  you  forget  it. 
I 
am  surprised  that  there  are  not  enough 
practical  men  in  the  organization  to  tell 
the  officers  so.

Card  prices—probably  a  whole  lot  of 
grocers  don’t  even  know  what  they  are. 
The  scheme  of  card  prices  sounds  all 
■ right;  it  is  real  alluring.  The  idea  is 
this:  Take  a 
little  town  where  there 
are  thi?teen  grocers.  Sugar,  we’ll  say, 
is  cut  to  death.  The  theory  of  card 
prices  is  that  all  the  thirteen  grocers  of 
the  town  shall  get  together and  agree  on 
some  price  to  sell  sugar  for that  will 
leave  a  profit.  This  is  the  card  price, 
and  every  one  of  the  thirteen  grocers  is 
supposed  to  sell  at  it.

Undoubtedly  there  are  places  where 
card  prices  have  worked;  personally,  I 
never  knew  of  any.  The  scheme’s  weak 
point  is  that  it  prevents  one  grocer from 
taking  competitive  advantage  of  an­
other,  and  lots  and  lots  of  grocers  only 
know  one  form  of  competition,  and  that 
is  cut  prices.  Card  prices  rob  grocers 
of  this  class  from  their  only  way  of stir­
ring  up competition,and without stirring 
it  up  they  can’t 
in  competition 
with  wiser  grocers  who  do know  other 
forms.

live 

In  a  small town card  prices  can  usual­
ly  be  made  to  go— for  a  time. 
In  a 
large  city,  like  Philadelphia,  or  New 
York,  or  Chicago,  they  can’t  be  made 
to  go  at  all,  not  even  for a  minute.  The 
thing  was  tried 
in  Philadelphia  about 
ten  years  ago;  I  know  what  I’m  talking 
about.  The  Retail  Grocers’  Associa­
tion  tried 
it  on  sugar.  They  got  a  lot 
of  grocers  to  go  in  the  scheme,  but  they 
couldn’t  begin  to  get  all  the  grocers  in 
Philadelphia 
in,  so  they  tried  it  with 
the  number  they  could  get.  Why,  the 
card  prices  literally  didn’t  last  an  hour, 
and  they  wouldn’t  have  lasted  an  hour 
even 
in  Philadelphia 
had  gone  in,  which  is  impossible.

if  every  grocer 

A  salesman  friend  of  mine  told  me  of 
an  experience  he  had  with  card  prices 
a  year  or  so  ago.  He  is  a  student  of 
trade  conditions,  this  salesman 
is,  and 
he  has  no  belief  in  card  prices,  because 
he  believes,  as  1  do,  that  their  use  is 
confined  to  very  small  towns,  and 
isn’t 
permanent  even  in  them.

A  year  or  two  ago  the  grocers  of  a 
small  town  where  this  salesman,and  an­
other  salesman  who  did  believe  in  card 
prices,  went  once  a  month,  established 
card  prices  on  sugar  and  one  or two 
other  things. 
There  were  seventeen 
grocers  in  the  town,  I  believe,  and  they 
ali  joined.

Well,  these  two  salesmen,  it  seems, 
had  quite  a  warm  argument  as 
to 
whether the  plan  was  going  to  succeed, 
and  they  made  a  wager  on  it.  My 
friend  bet  that  the  plan  would  not  suc­
ceed,  and  the  other  fellow  bet  it  would.
After  that  they  made  another  bet—my 
friend  bet  that  he personally could break 
up  the  card-price  plan.

Well,  to  make  a  long  story  short,  he 
did  break 
it,  and  very  quickly  and 
effectually,  simply  by  taking  shrewd 
advantage  of  the  inborn suspicion which

t%ery  retailer seems  to  hold  toward  his 
neighbor.  When  thçse  salesmen  went 
to  that  town,  they  stopped  at  a  private 
boarding  house,  not  a  hotel. 
The 
schemer  against  the  card  prices  pre­
vailed  on  his  landlady  to go  to  her  reg­
ular  grocer’s  and  buy  some  sugar,  mak­
ing  a  great  kick  when  charged  the  card 
price,  and  insinuating  that  she  had  that 
very  morning  been  offered sugar  for  less 
by  a  rival  grocer,  without  mentioning 
the  latter’s  name.  She  did  this  at  two 
places,  and 
in  both  the  grocer  vowed 
“ he  knowed  who  the  scalawag  was  that 
was  a-doin’  it,”   and  swore  he  ‘ ‘ wasn’t 
goin’  to  be  outdone  by  nobody!”   He’d 
sell  as  cheap,  he  said,  as  anybody,  and 
if  the  rest  of 
’em  was  going  to  break 
the  price,  he’d  do  it,  too !

in  both  cases. 
The  scheme  worked 
Both  grocers,  having 
in  their  minds 
some  special  grocer  as  the  object  of sus­
picion,  at  once  cut  prices,  and  by  that 
night  the  card  price  on  sugar  was  a 
dream  of  the  beautiful  past.

Now,  bear  in  mind  that  I  am  not  jus­
tifying  this  trick. 
It  was  a  nasty,  in­
excusable  thing  to  disturb  those  seven­
teen  little  grocers  in  the  possession  of 
their  profits;  but  the  illustration 
is a  
good  one  to  show  the  reason  why  card 
prices  are  always  bound  to  more  or  less 
fail.  They  are  based  on  mutual  confi­
dence  between  competitors,  and 
in 
very  many  towns  and  cities  there  is  no 
such  mutual  confidence.

No,  sir;  the  National  Association had 
better get  off  the  card-price  track  and 
get  on  to  something  practical.— Stroller 
in  Grocery  World.
Tim ely  H ints  on  the  H andling  of  Hides.
Tie  your  hides  so  they  will  not  arrive 

loose.

Always  use  new  rope  %  or y% inch, cut 

eight  feet  long,  ravel  in  three.

Never  use  binding  twine  or  hemp 

cord. 

It  will  break.

will  not  come  off.

Always  tie  the  tag  on  so  you  know 
it 
Always  write  your  name  and  address 
ink.  Pencil  writing  will  rub  out.
Always  put  a  tag  on  every  hide  you 

with 
ship.

Always  send  the  consignor  a  bill  of 

lading  when  you  ship.

Always  see  that  the  horns  and  tail 

bones  are  cut  out.
Always  make 

mud  and  meat.

liberal  allowance  for 

Always  persuade  the  party  who  sells 
you  horse  hides  to  never cut  off  the  tail 
or head.  They  are  part  of  the  hide  and 
should  be  left  on.

Always  make  it  a  point  to  ship  your 
stuff  as  early 
in  the  week  as  possible. 
If  it  reaches  the  consignor  by  Satur­
day,  you  will  get  his  quotations  for that 
week.

If  your  hides  are  well  cured,  clean  off 
all  salt  and  surplus  matter,  and  expect 
them  to  shrink  4  pounds  to  each  100 
pounds.

If  you  ship  hides  with  any  amount  of 
in  them,  do  not  expect  to  receive 

salt 
pay  for  the  salt.

If  you  buy  a  green  hide  and it  weighs 
50 pounds  before  salting,  do  not  expect 
it  to  weigh  over 40  pounds  when  it  is 
salt  cured.  Hides  will  shrink  20  per 
cent,  in  salt  curing,  but  they  are  worth 
more  per  pound  than  green.
Everybody  Happy.

A gentleman  who  had  been intrenched 
behind  a  newspaper  in  a  crowded  car 
happened  to  look  out  of  the  tail  of  his 
eye  and  see  a  lady  standing  whom  he 
knew.

He  arose  and  was  about  to offer the 
lady  his  seat  when  a  colored  man,  who 
thought  he  was 
seat, 
slipped  into  it.

vacating  his 

” Look  here,”   said  the  riser,  ” 1  was 

going  to  give  that  seat  to this  lady.”

The  colored  man  instantly  arose  with 

a  profound  bow.

_‘ Suttinly,  sah, ”   he  said,  “ I’m some­

thing  of  a  lady’s  man  myself,  sah.”

And  the  lady  was  bowed  into  her  seat 

amid  smiles  all  around.

Qas  Lamp

Thos.  E.  W ykes

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Our  genera­
tion  is  what 
pleases 
all 
our  patrons. 
Quick,  per­
fect  and  al- 
w a y s 
reli­
able.  Fount 
r u n s  
forty 
hours,  gives 
by  a c tu a l 
test  100  can­
dle illumina­
tion.
W r ite   fo r 
our new  cat­
alogue.
Pentone 
Gas
Lamp Co.,
240 S. Front 
Street,

Grand  Rapids, 
Mich.

Lime,  Hair,  Fire  Brick,  Sewer  Pipe,  Stucco, 
Brick,  Lath,  Cement,  Wood, Coal,  Drain  Tile, 
Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw.  Distributers of 
Sleepy Eye Flour.  Write for prices.
TO THE 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- 
nve years in the business.  Prices and goods right. 
Shipments made promptly on same day  order  is 
received.  Try us by inquiry.

AJAX  DYNAMITE  WORKS,

Bay  City, Mich.
THE  MOTOR  DOES  THE 

WORK

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 it 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,  Grand Rapids

T H E   IM P R O V E D

H y d r o -q v r b o n  

Ja m  r s

No  Odor. 
No  Smoke.

No  Dirt. 
No  Wicks.

GUARANTEED

to  BE

5   TIMES

CHEAPER  THAN  KEROSENE

AND TO GIVE

3   TIMES  MORE  LIGHT

Made  in  six  different  designs,  suitable  for 
home, store, hall and church.

OUR  GUARANTEE  MEANS  SATISFACTION  OR  MONEY  REFUNDED

Write for illustrated catalogue and  special  prices to

A.  T.  KNOWLSON,  233-235  Griswold  St.,  Detroit

Conducting Michigan  supply depot for Welsbach Company.

T  rusts

W e  are  not  in  the  Trusts. 
Can  save  you  a  little  money. 
Our  goods  we  guarantee  to  equal  any  on  the  market.  Mail 
us  an  order  for  our  Celebrated

Standard  Crackers  or 
Blue  Ribbon  Squares
Mail orders receive prompt attention.

_   E.  J.  KRUCE  &  CO.  DETROIT,  MICHIGAN
v m M m M W M w w m fm m

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Around  the State

M ovements of M erchants.

Manistee—J.  W.  Moreland has opened 

a  confectionery  store.

Shepherd— Robt.  M.  Harry,  furniture 

dealer,  has  removed  to  Mesick.

Grawn—Gannett  &  Pennington  have 

opened  a  drug  store  at  this  place.

Coldwater— B.  H.  Moore  &  Son  have 
9old  their  boot  and  shoe  stock  to  A.  E. 
Morrison.

Otsego—Winter  L.  Woodgate,  of  Ot­
sego,  has  opened  a  feed  store  at  909 
Portage  street.

South  Lake  Linden— Dr.  A.  F. 
Fischer  is  now  located  in  his  new  drug 
store  at  this  place.

Byron—Nissly  &  Co.  is  the  style  of 
the  new grocery  firm  organized  to  suc­
ceed  Nissly  &  Lutz.

Union  City— Local  capitalists  have 
subscribed  $4,500  an1  a  new  creamery 
will  be  constructed  here.

Pontiac—C.  E.  Bird  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner,  W.  A.  Peck, 
in  the  grocery  firm  of  Bird  &  Peck.

Fenton—S.  L.  Viel  has  engaged  in 
the  grocery  and  crockery  business,  pur­
chasing  his  stock  of  Chas.  J.  Mc­
Cracken.

Delhi  Mills— E.  E.  Whitney,  for  sev­
eral  years  engaged 
in  the  mercantile 
business  at  Highland,  has  opened  a 
general  store  at this  place.

Beaverton—Wm.  H.  Herenden  and 
Henry  Croll,  Jr.,  will  succeed  to  the 
business  of  the  Beaverton  Hardware 
Co.  June  15.  The  style  remains  the 
same.

Muskegon— The  plumbing  establish­
ments  of  Geo.  McCullom  &  Co.  and 
Sylvester  A.  Quinn  have  merged  their 
into  one  concern  under  the 
business 
style  of  the  Quinn  Plumbing  &  Heating 
Co.

South  Haven— The  Selkirk  &  Spencer 
Harness  Co.  has  been dissolved.  H.  B. 
Spencer  will  continue  the  business  in 
his  own  name.  M.  V.  Selkirk  will  as­
sist  Mr.  Spencer  in  the  management  of 
the  harness  department.

Menominee—Smith,  Thorndyke  & 
Brown,  wholesale  grocers,  have  closed  a 
deal  for the  purchase  of  valuable  dock­
age  facilities  on  Wells street,  Marinette, 
Wis.  The  purchase  was  made  of the
N.  Ludington  Co.  The  company  will 
erect  a  large  building  for  their  whole­
sale  house.

Flint—Mrs.  Marietta  Mansfield,  a 
milliner  of  this  city,  made  an  assign­
ment  April  16,  1900.  The  assignee  has 
filed  his  report  and  an  order  of  distri­
bution  has  been  made,  by  which  it  ap­
pears  that  there  remains  $12.17  to  be 
disbursed,  which  will  pay  each  creditor 
1 'A  cents  on  the  dollar.

Petoskey—L.  B.  Cole  has  purchased 
the  clothing  and  furnishing  goods  stock 
of J.  D.  Nichols  and  has  taken  posses­
sion  of  the  stock,  lease  and  fixtures. 
Mr.  Cole  will  place  his  brother, 
Herschel  Cole,  in  charge  of  the  business 
for  the  present  and  will  give  same  as 
much  attention  as  possible  outside  of 
his  official  hours  as  city  treasurer.

Stanton—O.  D.  VanDeboget,  for  sev­
eral  years  past 
in  charge  of  the  grain 
buying  business  of  Hale  &  Son,  of 
Lyons,  will  build  a  new  grain  elevator 
for himself on  the  site  of  the  old  Stan­
ton  Roller  Mills,  which  were  destroyed 
by  fire  several  years  ago.  The  main 
building  of  the  new  elevator  will  be  24 
X40  feet  and  of  the  usual  height  for stor­
ing  grain  of  all  kinds.  In addition there 
will  be  a  warehouse  about  100  feet  in 
length.

Rockford— Dockeray  &  Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  A.  G.  Wellbrook  bankrupt 
stock.  Besides  dealing 
in  groceries 
and  glassware,  they  expect  to  handle 
all  kinds  of  domestic  berries  and  fruits. 
The  firm 
is  composed  of  W.  P.  Dock­
eray,  who  has  been  with  E.  E.  Hewitt 
for  the  past  twelve  years,  and  D.  F. 
Beverly,  who  was 
associated  with 
Grand  Rapids  firms  for  seven  years  and 
for  nearly  seven  years  past  has  been 
employed 
in  the  dry  goods  store  of  Ct 
F.  Sears.

Detroit— In  August,  1898,  William 
and  Nicholas  E.  Stephens  were  engaged 
in  the  produce  business  at  Milford  and 
about  that  time  they  took  in  as  partners 
Charles  J.  and  Francis  G.  Ferrin  and 
F.  M.  Sheffield,  who  conducted  a  like 
business  in  Detroit.  By  an  agreement 
the  latter were  to  furnish  the  money  and 
the  former the  experience,  and the  busi­
ness  was  to  be  conducted  at  Milford. 
The  Stephens  now  claim  that  their part­
ners  have  not  fulfilled  their  agreement, 
and  they  have  commenced  suit  for an 
accounting.  A  writ  of  injunction  re­
straining the defendants from interfering 
with  the  business  and  from seizing  any 
of  the  property  until  an  accounting  is 
made  was  granted  June  4  by  Judge 
Rohnert.

Manufacturing: M atters.

Kalamazoo—The  National  Vaporizer 
Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
stock  of  $12,500.

Vanderbilt— Hixson  &  Olds  have 
added  a  broom  handle  factory  to  their 
stave  mill  plant.

Detroit— The  Harris  Novelty  Manu­
facturing  Co.  has  been  organized  with a 
capital  stock  of  $10,000.

Pontiac—The  Reason  Automatic  Air 
Pump  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorpo­
ration.  The  capital  stock  is $12,000.

Big  Rapids— The  Big  Rapids  Real 
Estate  Exchange  has  sold  the  cheese 
factory  plant  to  S.  G.  Mills,  the consid­
eration  being  $500.

Saginaw—The  style  of  the  Barrows 
Music  Co.,  manufacturers  of  guitars 
and  mandolins,  has  been changed  to  the 
Waldo  Manufacturing  Co.

Mackinaw  City— The  Northern  Mich­
igan  Turning  Works 
is  the  style  of  a 
new  concern  at  this  place,  organized 
with  a  capital  stock  of $30,000.

Battle  Creek—The  Self-Threading 
Needle  Co.,  Ltd.,  has  filed  articles  of 
copartnership  with 
the  Register  of 
Deeds.  The  capital  is  $50,000.

Sebewaing— Work  will  be  commenced 
on  the  sugar  factory  here  in  August. 
The 
is  expected  to  increase 
the  population  of  the  town  fully  one- 
third.

industry 

Trufant— The  Trufant  cheese  factory 
has  begun  operations  under the  direc­
tion  of  Fred  Steele.  Frank  Miller,  of 
Hopkins  Station,  has  been  engaged  as 
maker.

factories 

Bay  City—C.  N.  Smith,  of  Minneap­
olis,  who  represents  a  Pittsburg  com­
pany,  has  secured  contracts  with  a  suffi­
cient  number  of  sugar 
in 
Michigan  to  insure  the  success  of the 
proposed  chemical  plant  in  this  city. 
The  new  concern  will  use  the  refuse 
molasses  and  make  therefrom  alcohol 
for  commercial  purposes,  and  potash, 
to  be  used  in  the  manufacture  of  plate 
glass.  The  factory  will be  346  feet  long 
and  112  feet  wide.  The  desire  is  to get 
it  started  as  soon  as  one  of  three  sites 
may  be  selected,  so  that  the  plant  will 
be  ready  for  operation  the  coming  fall. 
The  factory  will  be 
located  near the 
Michigan  and  Bay  City  sugar  factories, 
from  which  it  will  take  the  molasses  in 
pipe 
lines.  The  molasses  from  other 
j actories 
in  the  State  will  be  brought 
here  in  tank  cars.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

List o f Creditors  In  the  E rnst Failure.«
L. 

M.  Hartwick,  assignee  of  P.  F. 

Ernst,  the  Ferry  general  dealer,  fur­
nishes  the  Tradesman  the  following  list 
of  creditors  and  the  amount  owing 
each:
*E.  L.  Yeomans,  Larich,  N.  Y. ..$800.00
Cohen  &  Co.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y .......   86.25
M.  Wile  &  Co.,  Buffalo,  N.  Y ...  483.63 
Buffalo  Glove  &  Whip  Mfg.  Co.,

Buffalo,  N.  Y .........................   37-oo

$6,574.90,  divided  among  the  following 
items:
Grocery  department..................$  500.97
997.54
Dry  goods  department.............. 
Shoe  department........................ 
901.20
Clothing  department................   2,044.86
7.91
Fishing  tackle........................... 
584.95
Fixtures...................................... 
Miscellaneous,  personal........... 
213.00
Equities  in  real  estate.............. 
712.00
404.50
Accounts..................................... 
Addition  as  per  bills................  
40.52
Clothing  stock  at  Copemish... 
167.45

43.40

Mason  Campbell  Co.,  Johnston,
N.  Y ...................................  
Lambertville  Rubber  Co.,  Lam-

bertville,  N.  Y.......................   115.00
Moore &  Beirs,  Rochester,  N.  Y.,  48.00
Ryan  Bros.,  Detroit,......... ..........  45-50
Burnham,  Stoepel&Co.,  Detroit,  836.46
Scotten  Tobacco  Co.,  Detroit__   24.47
Edson,  Moore  &  Co.,  Detroit_  54-32
Standard  Oil  Co.,  Detroit........... 
7.50
IO-35
Meir  &  Schuknecht,  Detroit__ 
*Elon  G.  Reynolds,  Hillsdale...  300.00 
Churchill  &  Webber,  Shelby....  225.00
Shelby  Milling  Co.,  Shelby.......   26.50
A.  R.  McKinnon,  Shelby...........  32.50
Sheboygan Knitting Co.,  Sheboy­

gan,  Wis.................................  100.00

Mishawaka  Woolen  Mfg.  Co.,

Mishawaka,  Ind......................  182.15

Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company,

Grand  Rapids........................  29.40

Geo.  H.  Reeder  &  Co.,  Grand

Rapids....................................   158.19

Ball-Bamhart-Putman Co.,Grand

Rapids....................................   60.39

Ideal  Clothing  Co.,  Grand

Rapids....................................   46.00

Worden  Grocer  Co.,  Grand  Rap­

ids............................................  126.00
Sears  Bakery,  Grand  Rapids__ 
8.41
Waldron  Shoe  Co.,  Saginaw.......   108.30
Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,

Grand  Rapids........................  58.77

Scofield,  Shurmer  &  Teagle,

Grand  Rapids........................  23.32

Valley  City  Milling  Co.,  Grand
Rapids....................................  
Tradesman  Company,  Grand

19-85

Rapids....................................   26.88

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,  Grand

 

 

Rapids....................................   43-50

Deering  Harvester  Co.,  Grand

kee................................ 

Rapids...................................  144.00
L.  A.  Shakman,  Milwaukee.......   393-01
Mayer  Shoe  Co.,  Milwaukee__   60.00
Armour  &  Co.,  Chicago...............  48.06
Rosenfieid Clothing Co.,  Milwau­
 
Draper,  Maynard  &  Co.,  Ply­
 

57-oo
Andrew  Decker,  Ferry,  M ich...  50.00
Letta  Ernst,  Ferry,  Mich............   114.00
Joseph  Blades,  Cobmoosa,  Mich. 
10.00 
Reed,  Murdock  &  Co.,  Chicago,  24.05 
W.  F.  McLaughlin  &  Co.,  Chi­
cago.........................................  
Guthmann,  Carpenter  &  Telling,

mouth,  N.  H.............. 

100.00

Chicago...................................  90.00
H.  C.  Fisher,  Chicago.... ........  137.50
Walsh,  Boyle  &  Co.,  Chicago...  132.89
W.  J.  Quan  &  Co.,  Chicago.......   38.60
Whitney,  Christenson &  Bullock,

Chicago..................................   680.50
Geo.  Hume  &  Co.,  Muskegon...  509.98 
Tower  Hardware Co.,  Muskegon, 
15.30 
Three  Rivers  Robe Tannery Co.,
Three  Rivers.........................   22.50

10.71

Ainsworth,  Wickenheiser  &  Co.,

Toledo....................................  261.00

Northrop,-  Robinson  &  Carrier,
Lansing..................................  
7.80
C.  W.  Slayton,  Hart.................  
8.00
L.  Perrigo  Co.,  Allegan..............   17-75
Michael  Kolb  &  Son,  Rochester,  178.00

* Real  estate  mortgages.
The  appraised  value  of the  assets 

is

The  Boys  Behind th e Counter.

Holland— L.  S.  Sprietsma  has  taken 
a position  with  John  Nies,  the  hardware 
dealer.

Owosso— H.  A.  Wickham  has 

re­
signed  his  position  with  W.  A.  Rich­
ardson,  grocer.  Charles  Rindge  suc­
ceeds  him.

Muskegon— Emil  O.  Ellifson  has 
taken  a  position  as  clerk 
in  Jas.  F. 
Balbirnie  &  Co.'s  furniture  store.  Mr. 
Ellifson  was  formerly  for twenty-three 
years  in  the  employ  of  Hetz  &  Co.,  the 
Truesdell  Furniture  Co.  and  C.  B. 
Mann  &  Co.,  and  later  with  N.  G.  Van- 
derlinde  in  their  furniture  business.

Dowagiac—Charles  Martin,  who  for 
the  past  few  months  has  been  meat  cut­
ter  at  the  G.  W.  Moore  market,  has 
gone  on  the  road  for  the  Armour  Pack­
ing  Company,  of  Chicago.  Mr.  Ever­
hart,  of  this  city,  has  succeeded  him.
M arried  a Wooden  Leg  Unawares. 

From the Chicago  Inter-Ocean.

The  fact  that  Leonard  Appelman  has 
a  wooden 
leg  has  caused  his  wife  to 
classify  him  as  a  gay  deceiver,  and  also 
to  ask  the  Superior  Court  to  grant  her 
a  divorce.

Two  years  ago  Mrs.  Appelman,  then 
Miss  Augusta  Wolff,  was  well  known  in 
Kenosha,  where  Appelman  lived.  Ap­
pelman  courted  her,  and  when he finally 
proposed  she  says  she  told  him  he 
would  first  have  to  explain  to  her why 
he 
limped.  Upon  his  declaring  that 
he  was  simply  suffering  from  a sprained 
ankle  she  accepted  him.

The  pair  were  married  in  Chicago  in 
May,  1899,  and  then  Mrs.  Appelman 
that  her  husband  had  a 
discovered 
wooden 
In  her  divorce  bill  Mrs. 
Appelman  says  that  when  she  reproved 
her  husband  for  bis  deception  he  be­
came  enraged  and  left  her.  The  pair 
lived  together  only  two  days.
P uncture  Cement.

leg. 

A  recent  patented  preparation  for  the 
automatic  repairing  of  punctures  in  bi­
cycle  tires  consists  of  glycerin  holding 
gelatinous  silica  or  aluminum  hydrate 
in  suspension.  Three  volumes  of  gly­
cerin  are  mixed  with  one  volume  of 
liquid  water  glass,  and  an  acid 
is 
stirred 
jelly  is  di­
luted  with  three  additional  volumes  of 
glycerin,  and  from  4  to  6 ozs.  of  this 
fluid  are  placed  in  each  tire. 
In  case 
of  puncture,  the  internal  pressure  of  the 
air forces  the  fluid  into  the  hole,  which 
it  closes.

in.  The  resulting 

An  Accommodating:  Farm er.

Fair  Painter— I  hope  you  don’t  mind 

my  sketching  in  your field?

Farmer— Lord,  no,  missie!  You  keep 
the  birds  off  the  peas  better'n  a’  ordi­
nary  scarecrow.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company

Jobbers  of

ENDLESS  CANVAS  THRESHER  BELTS 

Suction  Hose,  Tank  Pumps,

INJECTORS,  ENGINE  TRIMMING,  ETC.

ao  Pearl  Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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

T O L E D O ,  O HIO  

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossi

The  Produce  M arket.

Asparagus— Horae  grown  commands 

50c  per  doz.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $i.25@

1.75  per  buncb,  according  to  size.

Butter—Creamery  is  in  good  demand 
and  steady  at  18c. 
Fancy  dairy  in 
crocks  fetches  14c  and  choice  about 
13c.  Packing  stock  is  in  good  demand 
at  io@iic.

Cabbage—South Carolina fetches  $2.50 
per  crate  and  Mississippi  commands 
$3.50.  Local  dealers  make up half  crates 
of  the  latter.

Cucumbers— Home  grown  command 

50c  per doz.  Southern  fetch  35c.

Eggs—Dealers  pay  10c,  case  count, 
i i ^ c  for candled  stock,
on  track  and 
, loss  off.  Stock  continues  to  go  into  the 
coolers  at  a  rapid  pace  at  Chicago. 
It 
is  estimated  that  outside  of  Armour's 
holdings  there  are  to-day  550,000  cases 
in  Chicago  coolers.  Armour  has  50,000 
and  some  think  nearer  75,000.  This 
would  make  the  total  holdings 
in  Chi­
cago  above  600,000  cases.  Reports 
from  all  over the  country  show  that  the 
coolers  are  full  of  eggs  and  the  pack 
will  exceed  the  4,000,000  case  mark. 
This  shows  a  wonderfully 
increased 
production  of  eggs.

Green  Onions— 10c  for  Evergreens; 

I2>£c  for  Silverskins.
per  bu.

Green  Peas—Have  advanced  to Si. 75 

Honey—White  stock  is  in light supply 
at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at  13c  and 
dark  is  in  moderate  demand  at  i i @I2c
Lemons— Californias  command  $3  for 
300s  and  250s  per  box.  Messinas  fetch 
S3.75  for choice  and  $4.25  for  fancy.

Lettuce— Hothouse  stock 

is  in  good 

demand,  commanding  10c  for  leaf.
and  9c  for  imitation.

Maple  Sugar— io@ io^c  for  genuine 

Maple  Syrup—Si  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Onions— Bermudas  command  Si. 75 
in 

per  crate.  Egyptians  fetch  S3.25 
112  lb.  sacks.

Oranges— Mediterranean  sweets  fetch 

S3.  Seedlings  range  from  $2.7533.

Parsley—40c  per doz.
Pie  Plant—60c  for  50  lb.  box.
Pineapples---- Havana,  $1.5031.75.

Florida,  $2  per  doz.

$6.2536.75;  mammoth,  $6.5037;  al- 
syke,  $7.5o@8.

Spinach—35340c  per  bu. 
Strawberries— Fancy  Gandy 

stock 
from  Illinois  fetches $2.50  pe* case.  Il­
linois  Crescents  fetch  $2.25.  Benton 
Harbor  berries  have  begun  to  arrive, 
commanding  $1.5031.65  per 
16  qt. 
case.  The  season  thus  far has  been  a 
disappointment,  and  unless 
Indiana 
and  Michigan  show  up  in  better  condi­
tion  the  market  will  remain  high  all the 
season.

Summer  Squash—4c  per  lb. 
Tomatoes—$2.25  per  4  basket  crate. 
Water Cress—40c  per  doz.
Wax  Beans—Have  advanced  to  $2.25 

per bu.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  trade  remains  quiet,  with 
large  sales  that  practically  clean  up  the 
old  stock  being  offered.  The  fresh  take­
off  brings  more  money. 
It  is  a  healthy 
trade  all  around  and  gives  a  margin  to 
those  interested.

Pelts  are  slow  and  sluggish  on  a  low 
value.  All  trade  for  the  past  year has 
been  of  no  profit  to  either  buyer  or sell­
er,  and  now  at  present  prices  being 
offered  there  ¡3  a  tone  of  uncertainty  as 
to  the  outcome 
future. 
Stock  accumulates  slowly.

in  thé  near 

Tallow  is  draggy,  with  fair  offerings 
and  no  vim  to  trade.  Prices  hold  their 
own  for  prim  stock,  while soapers’  stock 
is  ample  for all  demands.

Wool  is being marketed slowly.  Prices 
do  not  tempt  growers  to 
leave  their 
planting  to  bring  it  in,  and  many  store 
it  away  for future  developments.  Buy­
ers  are  not  anxious,  as  they  have  no 
idea  what 
it  will  sell  for.  Values  are 
low,  but  it  may  not  be  cheap.  All  na­
tions  have  wool  for sale  and  at  almost 
any  price  offered.  The  price  at  South 
American  seaports  is  said  to  be  5  cents 
per  pound.  Freights  by  vessel  are 
low 
and  they  land  on  our  side  at  a  cost  of 
20 cents  per  pound,  for  a  skirted,  light 
shrinkage  wool.  This  breaks  our  mar­
ket  on  the  coarser  wools.  The  outlook 
is  not  bright. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Plants—Tomato  and  cabbage  com­
mand  75c  per  box  of  200.  Sweet  potato 
fetch  90c.

Potatoes—Sales  locally  are  made  on 
the  basis  of  60c  per  bu.  The  market  is 
feverish  and  unsettled. 
Some  think 
dollar  potatoes  will  be  seen  before  the 
demand  for  old  is  over.  A  number  of 
the  dealers  foresaw  the present condition 
and  went  into  the  country  and  bought 
all  the  stock  they  could.  Much  of  this 
cost  them  not  more  than  23c,  and  when 
sales  are  made 
in  Chicago  at  70372c 
there 
is  a  profit  of  from  $250  to $350 a 
car.  One  dealer  bad  50  cars  that  cost 
him  23c,  and  he  has  sold  35  not  below 
65c  and  some  at  70c,  and  thinks  be  will 
get  85c  to 95c  for the  other fifteen.  One 
reason  old  potatoes  are  so  high  and 
scarce  is  that  the  new  crop  all  through 
the  South  is  late,  and  there  is  less  acre­
age.  The yield  in  the  South  is  not  near­
ly  what  was  expected.  Word  reaches 
here  from  the  Kaw  Valley,  in  Kansas, 
that  about  8,000  acres  will  be  planted 
in  potatoes.  This  is  not  an  average 
crop  and  the  potatoes  will  not  move 
before  June  25  and  perhaps  not  until 
July  1.  The  bugs  are  very  bad  in  that 
section,  and  also 
the  American 
Bottoms  around  St.  Louis.

in 

Poultry—Conditions  are  the  same  as 
last  week.  Local  dealers  pay  as follows 
for  dressed:  Spring  turkeys,  n@ i2c; 
old,  8@9c ;  spring  chickens,  11312c; 
fowls,  io@i i c ;  spring  ducks,  n% @ i2c 
—old  not  wanted  at  any  price;  spring 
geese,  9310c—old  not  wanted.  For  live 
poultry  local  dealers  pay  as  follows: 
Chickens,  9310c;  medium  and  small 
hens,  8@9c ;  large  hens,  7@8c;  young 
turkeys,  9310c;  old  turkeys, 
7@8c; 
young  ducks, 
pigeons,  50©
60c  per  doz.;  squabs,  $131-25 per  doz.  ; 
broilers,  i8@25c  per  lb.

Radishes—8310c  per doz.  bunches. 
Seeds—Blue  grass,  $1.2531-50;  or­
chard  grass,  $1.4031-60;  red  top,  7$c@ 
$1.50;  timothy,  $2,10;  medium  clover,

Arthur  A.  Scott,  Treasurer  of  the 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,  will  be  married 
next  Monday  evening  to  Miss  Bessie  J. 
Snow,  of  Muskegon. 
The  ceremony 
will  occur  at  St.  Paul’s  Episcopal 
church  at  6  o’clock,  Rev.  Forsey  offi­
ciating.  After a  wedding  dinner  at  the 
home  of  the  bride’s  mother,  Mrs.  James 
Snow,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Scott  will  depart 
for the  East  on  a  wedding  trip  extend­
ing  over  a  space  of  three  weeks  and  in­
cluding  visits  to  the  Pan-American  E x­
position  and  New  York  City.  Mr.  Scott 
entered  the  employ  of  the  Clark-Jewell- 
Wells  Co.  twelve  years  ago and  has  won 
his  official  position  with  the  corporation 
and  the  esteem  of  his  associates  by  the 
exercise  of  tact and judgment and—what 
is  equally  important— hard  work.  The 
Tradesman  joins  in  extending congratu­
lations.

As  predicted  by  the  Tradesman  of 
last  week  and  the  week  before,  the  pro­
posed  furniture  combine  has  resulted 
in  a  fiasco,  humiliating  alike  to  Mr. 
Flint,  Mr.  Marston  and  the  furniture 
manufacturers  who  were 
inclined  to 
listen  to  the  siren  voice  of the promoter. 
Several  reasons  are  advanced  for the 
collapse  of  the  negotiations,  but  the 
primary  cause  was  the  inability  of  Mr. 
Flint  to  raise  enough  money  to  meet the 
requirements  of  the local manufacturers, 
as  agreed  to by  him  and  his  assistants 
during  all  the  stages  of  the  proceedings 
up  to the  final  wind  up.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

The Grocery  M arket.

is 
Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 
test 
practically  unchanged,  96  deg. 
centrifugals  being 
still  quoted  at 
4  9'32c.  Refiners  were  practically  out 
of  the  market,  owing  to  the  accumula­
tion  of  stocks,  and 
importers  did  not 
press  sales.  A 
little  excitement  was 
occasioned  during  the  week  by  the  ac­
tion  of  Arbuckle  Bros,  in  cutting  the 
price  of  all  grades  15  points.  The  other 
refiners, with  the  exception  of  McCahan, 
refused  to  meet  this  cut,  with  the  con­
sequence  that Arbuckle  soon sold a  large 
block  of  sugar  and  on  Monday advanced 
his  price  10  points  again.  This  price 
has  been  met  by  Howell,  but  the  other 
refiners  have  not  as  yet  reduced  their 
prices  to  this  basis.

it 

is, 

the 

factories 

inclemency  of 

feel  confident  that  the 

Canned Goods—The  general  market is 
quiet,  unusually  so  for this  time  of  the 
year.  The  feeling  is,  however,that  after 
the  packing  season 
is  well  on  there 
will  be  an  active  buying  of  all  lines.  It 
can  now  be  said  that  the  packing  sea­
son  of  1901  has  fairly  started  and,  if  it 
were  not  for  the  heavy  rains,  most  of 
the  canning 
in  and  around 
Baltimore  would  be  running  full  time. 
As 
the 
weather  has  retarded  the  picking  of 
peas  and  strawberries,  thus  delaying 
the  arrival  of  the  raw  material  to  a  con­
siderable  extent.  The  tomato market  is 
not  quite  so  active  as  it  was  during  the 
early  part  of  last  month,  but,  judging 
from  the  numerous  enquiries  from  all 
sections,there  is  no  doubt  but  that  there 
will  be  an  active  demand  during  the 
summer.  Some  packers  who  had  a  large 
stock  of  tomatoes  on  hand  and  were  a 
little  crowded  for  room  have  allowed 
some  concessions 
in  price  in  order  to 
move  the  goods  promptly  and  this  has 
given  the  impression  that  the  market  is 
weaker,  but  such  is  not  the  fact.  Those 
packers  who  do  not  have  to  move  their 
goods 
long- 
looked-for  advance  will  yet  take  place, 
but  when  is  a  question  they  are  unable 
to answer.  There  is  practically nothing 
to  say  about  com.  The  demand  for this 
article 
is  very  ilght.  Prices,  however, 
are  unchanged.  The  pea  crop  has  been 
getting  along  very  nicely,  but  advices 
just  received  state  that  the  pea  louse 
has  put  in  an  appearance 
in  Delaware 
and  Maryland  to  such  an  alarming  ex­
tent  that  some  packers  are  withdrawing 
prices  given  earlier  in  the  season,  be­
lieving  their  packing  must  be  sadly 
curtailed. 
is  to  be  anticipated  that 
the  pest  coming  so  early  in  the  South 
will  be  more  than 
likely  to  show  up 
among  the  New  York  State  packers 
later.  We  do  not  believe  that  under 
any  circumstances  we  will  have  any 
lower  prices  and,  should  the  louse  prove 
as  destructive  as  now  feared,  we  shall 
have  much  higher  prices.  Further  de­
velopments  are  awaited  with  much 
in­
terest.  There 
is-an  increased  demand 
for  gallon  apples  at  previous  prices. 
The  active  pineapple  season  has  com­
menced  and  a  numbei  of  packers  are 
now  working  on  this  article.  The fruit 
is  coming  in  quite  freely  now  and  is  of 
very  good  quality.  There  are  all  sorts 
of  rumors  in  circulation  relative  to  the 
growing  peach  crop.  Some  claim  that 
on  account  of  the  recent  heavy rains and 
the  “ June  drop,”   the  crop  will  be  a 
very  small  one.  We  believe,  however, 
that  there  will  be  enough  to go around 
and,  perhaps,  a  few  over.  Spot  peaches 
are  selling  slowly,  with  all  kinds  of 
prices  for  all  kinds  of  qualities.  Sal­
mon  shows  very  little  change.  The mar­
ket  for  Alaska  fish  seems  to  exhibit 
rather a  better tone,  but  there  is  only  ’a

It 

small  demand.  The  run  of  fish  on  the 
Columbia  River  is  reported  as  showing 
no  improvement.  One  of  the  largest 
packers  telegraphs  that  his  pack  to  date 
has  been  only  a  fourth  of  the  pack  to 
the  corresponding  date  of  1900.  There 
is  a  good  demand  for  sardines  at  pre­
vious  prices.

Dried  Fruits— There  is  no  change  of 
any  kind  in  the  spot  market  for  dried 
fruits,  and  trade  continues  dull  and  ab­
solutely  without  feature.  Orders  com­
ing  to  hand  are  for small  lots  in  prac­
tically  every  case.  Prunes  are  quiet  and 
steady  and  selling 
in  a  small  way. 
Raisins  of  all  kinds  are  dull.  Stocks 
are  light,  but  demand  is  also  light  and 
sales  are  very  few.  Apricots  are  the 
only  fruit  to  show  any  particular  life  at 
the  moment.  They  are  well  cleaned  up 
and,  as  the  crop  will  be  a  very  short 
one,  they  are  naturally  firm and  in  more 
or  less  demand.  Peaches  are  firm  and 
in  good  demand.  Stocks  are  well 
cleaned  up.  Currants  are  held  very 
firm  and  are  selling  more  freely  than  a 
large  lots 
week  ago.  Any  buying  of 
would  undoubtedly 
lead  to  an  advance 
in price.  Quotations  were not  advanced 
during  the  week,  but  holders’  ideas  are 
firmer,  stocks 
in  Greece  being  under­
stood  to  be  practically  exhausted  and 
reports  coming  from  the  Greek  govern­
that  peronosporos 
ment 
sources 
is 
again  putting 
in  an  appearance  in  the 
Patras  district.  There  is  some  business 
in  dates  at  unchanged  quotations.  Figs 
are  very  quiet.  There  is  some  demand 
for  evaporated  apples,  but the orders  are 
for  small  lots  for  immediate  use.

Rice— There  is  a  good  demand  for 
rice  at  full  prices.  With  the  statistical 
position  strong  and  with  the  small  sup­
ply  in  first  hands  and  rapidly  decreas­
ing  stocks  throughout  the  country,  in­
dications  point  to  a  full  maintenance  of 
prices  for  some  time  to  come.

Tea—During  the  past  week  the  im­
proved  trade,  noted  the  previous  week, 
was  lost  and  a  comparatively  small 
business  was  transacted.  Green  teas 
continue  scarce  on  the  spot  and  are 
firmly  held.  Black  teas,  on  the  other 
hand,  have  shown  no  improvement  and 
values  are  somewhat 
irregular  for the 
lower descriptions.

Molasses—The demand for  molasses  is 
slow  and  trade  conditions  in  general are 
more  or  less  depressed  by  the  unfavor­
able  weather.  Dealers,  however,  make 
no  concession 
in  price,  asking  full 
prices  for all  grades.  The  market  re­
mains  in  a  healthy  condition,  with  the 
statistical  position  favoring  sellers.

to  hand 

Nuts—Sicily  filberts  have  advanced 
about  y%c,  caused  by  cables  from  Sicily 
reporting  damage  to  the  growing  crop. 
The  demand  is  good  for  this  time of  the 
year.  Walnuts  and  almonds  are  also 
firm  and  in  good  demand.  Walnuts  are 
getting  very  scarce.  Coast  advices  say, 
“ Reports 
indicate  a  heavy 
shortage  in  the  almond  crop.  Estimates 
it  from  one-thi rd  to  one-half of 
place 
last  season’s  crop.  Walnuts  promise  a 
fi ne  crop,  somewhat 
last 
year. 
is  too  early  to  speak  as  to 
either  quantity  or quality  with  any  de­
gree  of certainty,  as  weather conditions 
between  now  and  harvest  time  must 
control  the  output.”   There  is  a  good 
request  for  peanuts  at  full  prices.

larger  than 

It 

None  W hich  Equal  the Tradesman.
Springfield,  Ohio,  May  31— Kindly 
accept  a  word  of  congratulation  upon 
the  high  grade  of  your editorial  work.
It  has  been  my  privilege  to  read  a large 
number  of  trade  papers,  but  I  have 
found  none  which  equal*  yours  in  the 
character  of  the  matter  presented  to 
your  readers. 
Sec’y  National  League  of  Improvement 

.  E.  G.  Routzahn, 

Associations.

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H ardw are

The  Busiest  M onth  F o r  the  H ardw are 

Dealer.

It 

What  is  there  to  do  but  keep  on  gath­
ering  the  results  of  your spring prepara­
tion? 
is  the  semi-midmonth  of  the 
year,  with  all  the  getting  ready  of  the 
months  in  front  of  it,  and  the  so-called 
dull  months  to  follow 
it.  Then  June 
should  be  the  summing  up  of  all  the 
half  year’s  work—the  bringing  in  at  the 
end  of 
it  the  welcome  knowledge  of 
money  made  or  the  disappointing  fact 
of  long  weeks  of  work  for  naught.

June  for  results  is  one  of  the  best 
months  of  the  year. 
It  is  the  season  of 
haymaking  and  of  harvest,  the  time  of 
year  in  which  perhaps  more  matters  of 
moment  are  brought  together  and  con­
summated  than  at  any  other.

It  is  the  time  for house  building,  for 
barn  finishing, 
for  sales  of  hay  rig­
gings,  mowers  and  reapers,  steel  hay 
rakes  and  tedders,  for the  all  important 
distribution  of  the  tons and  tons of bind­
er  twine,  for  cultivator  trade,  for  all 
that  goes  to  make  the  farmer and  the 
citizen  prosperous,  and  through  them 
the  hardware merchant.  Then  almost  as 
soon  as  sales  are  made  settlements  of 
some  sort  should  follow—the  sooner the 
better.  For all  this  class  of  goods  it 
would  seem  a  capital  plan  to  have  at 
hand  ready  a  short  form  of  due  bill  or 
acceptance,  closing  every  account  of 
moment  when  made  or  when  full  ac­
counts are decided on,  with  definite  time 
of  final  settlement  named,  thus  avoiding 
the  loss  of  time  and  expense  in  getting 
at  the  same  results 
in  the  weeks  and 
months  to  come.

June  for  planning  is  not  just  the  best 
month,  because  there  is  so  much  else  to 
occupy  it,  but  for  many  of us there must 
be  borne  in  mind  the  old-time  hoodoo 
of  dull  July  and  August  to  come. 
It  is 
the  writer’s  belief  that  with  properly 
selected  stocks,  with  the  right  prepara­
tion  and  looking  forward  to  it,  there 
is 
no excuse  for an actually dull month dur­
ing  the  entire  year.  Those  of  us  who 
are  content  to  go  along  in  the  old  ruts 
will,  of  course,  have  them.  There  are 
instances  where 
location  and  circum­
stance  may  account  for  them,  but  the 
fault  is  more  often  our own  than  that  of 
any  combination  of  place  or circum­
stance. 
If time can  be  found  at  all  it  is 
well  to  make  use  of  it  in  the  effort  at 
finding— if  for the  first  time,  then  in  a 
small  way—stocks  that  will  occupy  us 
during  July  and  August  and 
into  Sep­
tember.  Other  merchants  do  i t ;  it  has 
been  demonstrated  that  every  month can 
be  a  busy  one;  it  is  worth  the  trying.
In  the  height of the  busy  and  prosper­
ous  months  of  the  year  we  are  all  prone 
to  neglect  our  advertising. 
It  is  mis­
erable,  losing  neglect,  but  occurs  all 
along  the 
line,  unless  your  store  be 
large  enough  to  have  it  in  the  hands  of 
one  man  whose  entire  time 
largely 
given  to  it.

is 

At  the  season  of  the  year  when  people 
are  all  buying  they  watch  more  closely 
than  at  any  other  time.  They  want  to 
know  where  to  buy  the  goods  without 
hunting  for them.  They  largely  get  the 
prices  from  the  fireside  and  the  prices 
should  always  be  given.  There  has 
never  yet  been  found  a  medium  to  sat­
isfy  the  general  public  equaling  the 
daily  paper.  The  public  is  only  sat­
isfied  with  plain  facts  and  plain  prices 
well  placed  in  a  first-class  daily.

The  end  of  the  month  should  find 
everything 
in  readiness  for  extra  work 
at  collections.  * There  are  times  in  the

year  when  people  expect  to  pay,  that’s 
a  good  time  to  ask  for  money,  and  next 
to the  first  day  of  the year in importance 
is  the  middle  or  first  of  July,  and  of 
course  the  work  of  getting  ready  must 
be  June  work.  Perhaps  you  have  all 
noticed  the  fact  in  making  collections, 
particularly  those  called  seasonable,that 
the  merchant  who  is  able  to  get his bills 
and  statements  out  on  the  first  day  of 
the  month  receives  by  far  the  best  re­
sults  as  to  payments.  There  is  a  reason 
for  it.  Your  customers’  funds  will  often 
reach  just  so  far,  and  as  occasion  offers 
note  the  difference  where  your  state­
ments  reach  the  customer on  the  ist  and 
again  where  they  have  gone  in  on  the 
5th  or  6th.  First  bills  to  reach  him  are 
always  the  ones  paid,  while 
later  ones 
often  go  over. 
important  and 
sometimes  a  hard  matter to impress  this 
fact  on  a  book-keeper,  but  it  is  a  fact 
nevertheless.

It  is  an 

Until  of  late  years  very  few  hard- 
waremen  ever gave  themselves  the  time 
or  considered  the  benefits  of  a  vaca­
tion.  No  machine  can  go  on  forever 
without  resting,  overhauling  and  oiling. 
No  machine  but  will  last  longer  and  do 
better  work  for the  resting  and  recon­
struction. 
If  there  is  a  class  of  men  on 
earth  who  need  vacation  it  is  the  hard­
ware  merchant,  with  his  never-ending 
worry  over  detail,  discounts,  payments, 
purchases,  etc. 
It  is  gratifying  to  note 
that  some  of  us  are  coming  to our senses 
and  giving  ourselves  each  year  a  few 
weeks  of  the  oil  of  recreation.  We  will 
last  the  longer and  be  the  better  for  it 
Our  work  is  too  arduous  to  do  without 
it,  and  the  months  of  June  and  July 
should  see  our  work  done  as  nearly  as 
possible,  with  some sort  of  real  vacation 
in  view  later on.

letters  comes 

The  valued  country  trade—the  large 
buyers  for the  summer  months—are  as  a 
rule  not  quickly  or  always 
reached 
through  the  daily  papers,  and  it  is  here 
the  value  of  the  stenographer for  per­
sonal 
in.  The  farming 
community  as  no other  thoroughly  ap­
preciate  a  personal  plea  for  their  cus­
tom,  and  any  slack  time  of  the  type­
writer  can  not  be  used  to  better advan­
tage  than in  this  way.  The letters should 
go  in  2  cent  or  regular  postage  cover, 
not  under  any  circumstances  as  a  circu­
lar,  and  should  be  as  personal  as  it  is 
possible  to  make  them.

In  the  absence  of  a  stenographer near­
ly  every  good  printing  office  is  now 
outfitted  with  the  new  process  of  type­
writer  printing,showing  the  copy  effect, 
and  in  reality  answering  every  purpose 
at  very  small  cost.

A  month  for farmers  and  their  culti­
vation 
is  the  month  of June,  and  there 
is  not  another  like  it  in  the  calendar. 
Particular  attention  should  be  given 
them  on  every  hand.  Show  windows 
should  be  gotten  ready  for them  and  at­
tention  called  to  them  through the week­
ly  or country  newspaper.  They  are  the 
most  appreciative  class  in  the  world, 
because,  as  a  rule,  so,  little  attention  is 
given  them.

Again,when  you have  made  the  farm­
er  your  friend  he  can  do  you  untold 
service  among  his  neighbors,  and 
is 
more  than  likely  to  do  it  on  all  oc­
casions,  and  all  out  of  good  feeling  for 
you  or  your  firm.  The  best  investment, 
the  best  advertising  among 
country 
trade,  is  a  half  dozen  or  so  sterling 
friends  who are  always  at  hand  to  say a 
good  word  for  you.

A  satisfactory  month  in  every  sense 
of  the  word  is June,  both  in  the  looking 
backward  and  over  the  work  gone 
through  with,  and  in  the  looking  for-

To ruin your stock.

N O   M O R E   D U S T
NO  MORE  MICROBES
To inhalo at ovoiy breath while sweeping.
NO  MORE  WET  SAWDUST
To leave unsightly blotehes on your floor.

Your daily sweeping of its unpleasant features 

R O B
by the use of a
W I E N S *

Sanitary and  Dustless Floor  Brush

Pfojnpt-

pess

The things you overlooked when 
our  salesman  visited  you  can  be 
ordered from us by  telephone,  tel­
egraph or letter.

They  will  be  shipped  on  the 

first train.

We appreciate the fact that when 
you  want  something,  you  want  it 
right off.

Therefore, prompt shipments.

CHEAPEST—BECAUSE  BEST

Manufactured  by

W IENS  BRUSH  CO.

BROWN  &  SEHLER.

Grand Rapids,
Michigan.

■ aa-124  Sycamore St.,  Milwaukee,  Wis.

Your stock  is  not  complete  without  you 

have the

S ta r   Cream   Separators

Best  advertisement  you  can  use.  Each 
one sold, makes you a friend.  Great labor 
saver.  Complete  separation  of  cream 
from  milk.  Write to-day  for  prices  and 
territory.

Patented 

August 15,1899

Lawrence  Manufacturing  Co.

TOLEDO,  OHIO

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

Foster, Stevens &   Co.,

31. 33» 35» 37* 39  Louis St. 

10 &  13 Monroe St.

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Tradesman Company 

Grand  Rapids.

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ward  and  planning  for the  other half  of 
the  year,  which  begins  with  the  ending 
of  the  month.  As  it  is  the  month  of 
roses  socially  so  should  it  be  with  the 
merchant  in  his  business,  if  for no othe 
reason  than  that  it 
is  the  busiest  one 
in  the  whole  year,  and  busy  men  make 
happy  men.— Iron  Age.
The  Difficulties  in  Sale of B uilders’ H ard- 

ware.

line 

manufacturers  apparently 
think  thai 
they  must  make  their  system so complex 
that  only  they  can  understand  it.  This 
is  foolish  and  unnecessary  and  acts  as 
a  positive  hindrance  to  any  one  con 
templating  using  a  different 
goods  than  what  they  have  been  accus 
tomed  to.  An  example  is  a  dull  brass 
finish,  Yale,  A.  Y.  22;  R.  &  E.,  No.  9 
Corbin,  No.  20;  Sargent,  O.  B.  ;  Read 
ing,  No.  37,  and  Lockwood,  No.  13. 
It  is  often  necessary  to  match  hardware 
of  other  makers  with  outside  things,and 
the  present  system  is  confusing  and  an 
noying.  Anything  tending  to  diminish 
detail  will  prove  of  benefit  to  both man 
ufacturer and  dealer.— Merchant  in  Iron 
Age. 
Changes  W rought by  the  Electric  Trolly 

_

Lines.

As  one  rides  through  the  highways 
and  byways  of  the  country  to-day,  snug­
ly  seated  in  an  electric  car,  the  question 
comes  into  mind:  What  changes  are 
these  lines  about  to  make 
in  the  old 
ways  of  doing  business?

The  electric  lines  are  spreading  out 
from  every  business  center  like  a  cob­
web,  and  it  is  predicted,  and  with  good 
reason,  that  they  will  form  a  network 
over  the  country,  bringing  the  smallest 
places  into close  touch  with  the 
larger 
cities.

The  moment  a  line  is  operated  it  i_ 
adopted  by  the  public  as  a  new  means 
of  pleasure,  outdoing  for  the  time  all 
other  forms  of  recreation.  But  it  soon 
becomes  the  necessary  mode  of  travel 
both  for  business  and  pleasure.

When  such  a 

line  is  in  competition 
with  a  steam  road  it  draws  trade,  be 
cause  wherever  a  person  wants  to get  on 
or off, there  is  an  imaginary  station,  and 
the  cars  stop  for his  convenience.

They  accommodate  the  person  who  is 
a  few  seconds  behind  time,  not  pulling 
out  or  going  on  because  one  is  a  few 
feet  away  from  the  crossing  at  the  exact 
moment  the  car  is  scheduled to pass that 
point.

What  these  lines  will  accomplish  by 
way  of  giving  country  people  easy  and 
cheap  access  to  the  city,  and  city  peo­
ple  the  opportunity  to  find 
cheaper 
homes  in  the  country  and  yet  work  in 
the  city,  it  is  impossible  to guess.  That 
great  changes  will  grow  out  of  this 
quick  means  of  communication 
is  a 
foregone  conclusion,  and 
in  some  sec­
tions  the  evolution  is  now  going  on.

But  what  will  be  the  change  to  the 

business  man?

The  first  change  that  is  noticed  by 
traveling  men  is  that  retailers  living  in 
towns  on  electric  lines  are  buying  in 
smaller  quantities  than  heretofore,  and 
carrying  lighter stocks  of  all  such  goods 
as  they  buy  from  the  jobber. 
If  the 
jobber  is  not  more  than  an  hour’s  ride 
away,  the  retailer  can  proniise  a  cus­
tomer any  article  that  he  may  be  out  of 
within  a  very  short  time.  He  can  ride 
to  the city  and  return  laden  in  a  small 
part  of  the  day.

What  will  these  lines  do  for the retail­

er’s  customer?

They  are  fully  as  convenient  for  him, 
if  he  wishes  to  reach  the  larger  dealers 
in  the  city,  as  they  are  for  the  dealer. 
That  he  will  avail  himself of  this  goes 
without  saying,  but  to  what  extent  time 
alone  can  tell.

We  are  told  of  the  experience  of  a 
dealer  in  a  town  of  4,500  people,  situ­
ated  thirty  miles  from  a  city  of  100,000 
inhabitants.  An  electric  road  ran  from 
the  larger to  the  smaller  place,  but  all 
the  retailers  of the  smaller  town  united 
to  prevent  its  entrance,  and  it  was  com­

i.  One  of the  evils,  from  the  manu 
facturers’  point  of  view,  seemingly  is 
that  a  great  many  in  the  trade  call  for 
them  to  furnish  men  to  show  the  line, 
taking  off  the  schedule  from  the  plan, 
doing  all  the  necessary  detail  work  to 
secure  the  contract,  and  even  taking  the 
contract  themselves.  Now  perhaps  this 
can  not  be  stopped,  as  the  manufactur­
ers  put  a 
large  amount  of  money  into 
special  patterns,  and  can  not  afford  to 
jeopardize  their  interest  by  leaving  it 
to  incomplete  samples  and possible mis­
These  manufacturers 
representation. 
state  that  this  work 
is  actually  being 
forced  upon  them  by  the  trade.

Granting  this,  there  are  a  good  many 
in  the  trade  that  have  competent men  to 
handle  this  class  of  business  and  who 
have  samples  and  other necessary means 
of  securing  this  class  of  business,  but 
they  are  not  protected  by  having  any 
better  price  than  the  dealer  who  asks 
the  manufacturer to  do  all  this  work  for 
him.  Now  our  idea  is  that  if the  man 
ufacturer  does  this  work  he  should  be 
paid  for  it,  or at  least  partially  so,  and 
if  the  dealer  does  it  he  should  have  his 
pay.

2.  We  also  think  the  manufacturers 
are  altogether  too  jealous  of  each  other 
regarding  patterns.  They  get  out  too 
many  new  styles,  as  no sooner  does  one 
manufacturer  get  out  a  pattern,  which 
he  may  have  a  large  order  for,  than  the 
rest  all  follow  suit,  whether they  may 
have  a  demand  for  it  or not.  This  re 
suits  in  their  trying  to get  returns  by 
forcing  these  upon  the  market,  result­
ing  in  competition,  which  is  not  profit­
The  multiplicity  of  patterns, 
able. 
added  to  the  variety  of 
finishes,  so 
disturbs  the  factory  that  it  can  not  pos­
sibly  keep  in  stock  any of the essentials, 
so  that  serious  delay  is  brought  about, 
to the  dissatisfaction  or  loss  many times 
of  most  of  the  profit  and  good feeling.

3.  Another evil  which  should  be  cor­
rected,  in  our opinion,  is  the  manufac­
turers  taking  contracts,  covering  every­
thing  to  be  used  in  the  completion  of 
the  building,  at  a  lump  price.  This 
is  more  often  unprofitable  than  profit­
able,  and  is  the  cause  for dispute  and 
ill  feeling.

In  our  opinion,  some  of  these  evils 
might  be  corrected by these suggestions:
1.  That  the  manufacturers  allow  the 
dealer a  discount  of 10  per  cent,  beyond 
the  regular  price  where  he  secures  the 
business,  the  manufacturers  keeping 
this  extra  10  per cent,  where  they  fur­
nish  men  to  secure  it.

2.  Let  each  manufacturer  get  out 
only  such  styles  as  he  has  a  legitimate 
use  and  demand  for,  and  attend  more 
strictly  to getting  bis  business  into such 
shape  that  be  can  fill  orders  with  rea­
sonable  promptness.

3.  Estimates  should  be  made  by 
schedule,  covering  quantities  and  de­
scription,  unless architects  furnish plans 
and  specifications,  properly  signed  by 
both  parties,  so  that  all  extras  can  be 
accurately  adjusted.

4. 

'  Other things can  profitably engage 

the  attention  of  the  association  of  man­
ufacturers,  one  of  which  is  a  uniform 
«ystem  of  classifying 
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MODERN  METHODS.

It  is  a  lamentable  fact  that  the  young 
people  of  the  present  generation  are 
sadly  deficient 
in  spelling,  in  the  use 
of  Shaksperian  English  and  in  compo­
sition.  Despite  the  fact  that  they  are 
not  equal  to  former  generations in good, 
substantial  substrata  for an  education, 
it  is,  nevertheless,  the case  that  nervous 
disorders  are  on  the  increase.  Edward 
Bok,  in  the  Ladies’  Home  Journal,  hav­
ing  studied  upon  the  statistics,  gives 
the  percentage  of  children  who,  by  the 
age  of  14,  are  yearly  taken  from  school 
on  account  of  nervous  prostration.  The 
Tradesman  has  not  his  words  at  this 
writing,but the percentage  is  sufficiently 
large  to  create  terror and  dismay  in  the 
minds  of  careful  parents.  What  is  the 
cause  of  this  sad  showing? 
It  seems 
that  there  are  two  causes—one,  the over- 
long  confinement  in  the  schoolroom, 
combined  with the night study ;  another, 
the  too  many  books  to  be  studied 
in  a 
given  session.  Even  in  the  third  grades 
there  are  prescribed,  usually,  as  many 
as  seven  studies:  Writing,  reading, 
arithmetic,  geography,  spelling, 
lan­
guage,  physiology.  Four  studies  are 
quite  sufficient  for  much more  advanced 
grades.  Better teach  a  child  four  books 
thoroughly  than  give  him  a  confused 
idea  of  six  or  more.  An  up-to-date 
method  which may be considered  a  “ de­
lusion  and  a  snare”   is  the  written  ex­
amination  for  small  children. 
It  con­
fuses  them,  injures  the  hand-writing, 
frightens  them  and  thus  predisposes  to 
nervousness  and  all  its  attendant ills.  If 
the  teacher  has  heard  the  recitations  of 
any  one  child  all  the  session,  he  or  she 
knows  perfectly  whether  that  child  is 
competent  to  go 
into  another  grade. 
Hence  the  examination  papers  are  un­
necessary  and,  in  many  instances,  not 
a  true  test.  The  trainer of  horses  knows 
thoroughly  of  what  a  horse  is  capable. 
Surely  the  trainer  of  children  should 
have  as  much  tact  and  judgment,  and

should,  therefore,  know  when  a  child  is 
deserving  of  promotion. 
Instances  are 
too common  where  a  child  brings  home 
the  most  flattering  report  cards  during 
the  session  and  then  fails  to  get  an  av­
erage  on  his  examination.  What  is  one 
to  think  other than  that  the  written  ex­
amination  is  no true  test?

While  the  public  school  teachers,  in 
the  main,  do  most  consientious  work,  it 
is,  nevertheless,  true  that  the  profession 
of  teacher  would  be  more  ably  filled 
were  it  not,  in  the  case  of  young  men, 
often  a  stepping  stone  to  the 
law,  and, 
in  the  case  of  young  women,  to  mar­
riage.  Were  there  more  teachers  who 
taught  for  the 
love  of  it,  our  children 
would  be  handled  with  more  tact,  more 
judgment  and  more  love.

The  gravest  cause,  however,  of  ineffi­
cient  results  lies  in  the  selection  of 
books.  There  are  publishing  houses 
which  turn  out  arithmetics,geographies, 
spellers  and 
readers  ail  under  one 
name.  Who  makes  these books?  Many 
of  them  are,  doubtless,  compiled  by 
very 
inexperienced  teachers,  and  yet 
they  have  superseded  our old-time books 
of  undoubted  authority.  The  growing 
tendency  for  “ up-to-date”   methods,  if 
not  checked,  will  become  the  downfall 
of 
sane,  old-time  standards  of 
scholarship.

the 

This  up-to-date-ness  has  crept  even 
into  the  world  of  music,  and  a  teacher 
who  has  not  been  off,  within  the  past 
few  months,  to  learn  the  fancy  frills  can 
have  no  following  whatever.  Such  a 
pity,  is  it  not,  that  the  world's  greatest 
Beethoven, 
composers— Mendelssohn, 
Bach,  Wagner—are  not  living  to 
learn 
the  modern  methods 
in  up-to-date 
music?

“ Hasten  slowly”   is  a  Latin  proverb. 
In  our  desire  to  see  an  advance  move­
ment  all  along  educational  lines,  let  us 
not  be  over-hasty  to  reject  the  wisdom 
of the  ages.  Have  we  ever attained,  in 
all  the  ages  since  he 
lived,  any  excel­
lency  in  oratory  greater  than  the  elo­
quence  of  Demosthenes?  Have  not 
Homer  and  Virgil  stood,  ever  since 
their  day,  as  standards  in  the  art  of 
versemaking?  Who  has  ever  over­
reached  Michael  Angelo  in  painting?

Let  us  be  sober:  and  let  us  combine 
with  new  methods  which  have  proved 
effective  some  of  the  old  books  which 
have  stood  the  test  of  generations.  Let 
us  hasten  the  day  when,  however  much 
we  may  learn  to  read  by  sight,  spelling 
shaij  be  taught  by  sound;  when  good 
grammar  shall  be  taught  instead  of  a 
travesty  upon  the  name.

Seattle  has  secured  ownership  of a 
tract  of  100  acres,  with  a  view  to  con­
ducting  a municipal  cemetery,  in imita­
tion  of  a  project  successfully carried  out 
in  Cleveland.  There  a  level,  finely  sit­
uated  tract  of 
land  has  been  acquired 
by  the  municipality,  and  burial  plots 
are  sold  without  regard  to  location  at 
the  uniform  price  of  75  cents  per square 
foot.  This  price 
includes  the  actual 
maintenance  of  the  plot  at  the  expense 
of  the  city  in  perpetuity.  The  main­
tenance 
includes  grass  seed,  sowing, 
mowing 
caretaking. 
and  a  general 
Flowers  and  shrubs,  when  required,  are, 
of  course,  charged  additionally.  The 
purpose  is  to  defeat  speculation  in  land 
for  burial  places,  and  to  insure  perpet­
In  Cleveland 
ual  care  of  the  graves. 
the  enterprise 
is  self-supporting,  al­
though  the  charges  are  very  low.

Paris  still  preserves  the  mediaeval 
custom  of having  an  annual  ham  market 
at  the  end  of  March.  More  than  2,000 
dealers  take  part  in  the  exhibition.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N
KING ALFBED.

long 

incorporated 

The  present  year  is  the  millennial 
anniversary  of  the  death  of  King  Al­
fred,  to  whom,  even  more  than  to  his 
grandfather,  Egbert,  may  be  attributed 
the  establishment  of  the  nationality  of 
the  English  people. 
In  his  time  the 
Saxons  in  England  were  universally 
called  “ the  English.”   The  kingdom  of 
Mercia  was 
in  his  state 
and  was  governed  by  his  brother-in- 
law;  and,  although  the  Danes  in  East 
Anglia  and  Northumberland  were  for 
some  time 
immediately  ruled  by  their 
own  princes,  they  all  acknowledged  the 
supremacy  of  his  authority.  But  from 
whatever  point  of  view  it  may  be  con­
sidered,  Alfred’s  place  in  history  is  at 
the  head  of  the 
list  of  English 
kings.  No  calumny  clouds  his  record ; 
the  most  searching  criticism  finds  no 
fault  in  his  character,  no defect 
in  his 
public  policy. 
“ The  merit  of  this 
prince,”   says  Hume,  “ both  in  private 
and  in  public  life,  may  with  advantage 
be  set  in  opposition  to that  of  any  mon­
arch,  or citizen,  which  the  annals of any 
age,  or  any  nation,  can  present  to  us. 
He  seems,  indeed,  to  be  the  model  of 
that  perfect  character  which,  under the 
denomination  of  a  sage  or  wise  man, 
philosophers  have  been  fond  of  delin­
eating,  rather  as  a  fiction  of  their  im­
agination  than  in  hopes  of  ever  seeing 
it  really  existing,  so  happily  were  all 
his  virtues  tempered  together,  so  justly 
were  they  blended  and  so  powerfully 
did  each  prevent  the  other  from  exceed­
ing  its  proper  boundaries.  *  *  *  For­
tune  alone,  by  throwing  him  into  that 
barbarous  age,  deprived  him  of  histor­
ians  worthy  to  transmit  his  fame to  pos­
terity ;  and  we  wish  to  see  him  delin­
eated 
lively  colors,  and  with 
more  particular strokes,  that  we  may  at 
least  perceive  some  of  those  small 
specks  and  blemishes  from  which,  as  a 
man,  it  is  impossible  he  could  be  en­
tirely  exempted.”

in  more 

Alfred  was  a  democratic  King. 

In 
his  will  he  gave  expression  to the  mem­
orable  sentiment  that  the English should 
forever  remain  as 
free  as  their  own 
thoughts.  But  he 
looked  to  education 
as  the  best  means  of  elevating  and  ad­
vancing  his  whole  people,  the  nohility 
as  well  as  the commonalty.  He founded, 
or,  at  least,  repaired,  the  University  of 
Oxford,  invited  to  his  realm  the  most 
celebrated  scholars  of  Europe,  estab­
lished  schools  in  every  quarter,  and  en­
joined  by  law  “ all freeholders possessed 
of  two  hides  of  land  (a  hide  contained 
land  sufficient  to  employ  one  plow)  to 
send  their children  to  school  for  their 
instruction.”   He  was,  moreover,  so 
far  in  advance  of  his  own  age  as  to  set 
up  an  educational  standard  in  the  civil 
service  of  bis  kingdom,  giving  prefer­
ment  in  church  and  state  “ to  such  only 
as  had  made  some  proficiency  in knowl­
edge. ”  
Indeed,  the  crowning  distinc­
tion  of his  reign  consists  in  his recogni­
tion  of  the 
importance  of  culture  as  a 
source  of  national  greatness.  Born  amid 
the  conflict of arms,  fighting  [in  person 
fifty-six  battles  by  land  and  sea,  he  had 
somehow  learned  the  essential  superior­
ity  of  moral  and  intellectual  qualities. 
The  conclusion,  now,  may  seem  obvious 
enough;  but  Alfred 
in  a  time 
when  mere  physical force,  supplemented 
by  skill  in  the  use  of  arms,  was  almost 
invariably 
thousand 
years  ago  there  was  little  learning  and 
less  love  for learning.  A  certain  divina­
tion  was  then  necessary  to  appreciate 
the  full  force  of  the  maxim,  “ Knowl­
edge 
is  power.”   King  Alfred  could 
have  had  but  the  faintest  conception of

triumphant.  A 

lived 

the  bearing  of  practical  science  upon 
the  social  and  industrial  organization  of 
the  world.  There  was 
in  his  time 
scarcely  any  knowledge  that  would  now 
be  recognized  as  scientific.  But  there 
was  a  kind  of  knowledge  which  was 
very  clearly  available  as  a  means  of 
culture.  He  was  not  content  with  man 
in  the  rough;  but  he  saw  in  the  crude 
human  being  the  possibility  of  a  higher 
and  nobler development.  His  own Earli­
est  textbook  was  the  Bible  and  his  su­
preme  ideal  of  manhood  was  character. 
“ Sensible,”   remarks  Hume,  “ that  the 
people,  at  all  times,  especially  when 
their  understandings  are  obstructed  by 
ignorance  and  bad  education,  are  not 
much  susceptible  of  speculative  instruc- 
tino,  Alfred  endeavored  to convey  his 
morality 
parables, 
stories,  apothegms,  couched  in  poetry; 
and  besides  propagating  among  his 
subjects  former  compositions  of  that 
kind  which  he 
in  the  Saxon 
tongue,  he  exercised  his  genius  in  in­
venting  works  of  a  like  nature,  as  well 
as  in  translating  from  the  Greek  the 
elegant  fables  of  Aesop.  He  also  gave 
Saxon  translations  of  Orostus’  and 
Bede’s  histories;  and  of  Boethius  con­
cerning  the  consolation  of  philosophy. 
And  he  deemed 
it  no  wise  derogatory 
from  his  other great  characters  of  sover­
eign,  legislator,  warrior  and  politician 
thus  to  lead  the  way  for  bis  people  in 
the  pursuits  of  literature.”

apologues, 

found 

by 

it,  but  here 

The  unique  fact 

in  the  history  of 
is  that  be  was  a  literary  King. 
Alfred 
It  would  be  well  nigh 
impossible  to 
overestimate  the  value  of  his  service 
in  that  character.  Prof.  Bradner  Mat­
thews,  in  a  just  published  essay,  de­
clares  that,  after all  that  he  did  through 
others,  “ what  most  told  on  English  cul­
ture  was  done  not  by  them,  but  by  the 
King  himself.”   Green  asserts  that, 
“ simple  as  was  his  aim,  Alfred  created 
English 
literature” — “ the  English  lit­
erature,”   adds  Matthews,  “ which  is 
still  alive  and  sturdy  after  a  thousand 
years,  and  which  is  to-day  flourishing 
not  only  in  Great  Britain,  where  Alfred 
founded 
in  the  United 
States,  in  a  larger land,  the  existence  of 
which  the  good  King  had  no  reason 
even  to  surmise.”   Language  is  the  in­
strument  of  thought;  but  it  is  the  culti­
vation  of  literature  that  imparts  to  that 
instrument  at  once  its  strength  and 
its 
delicacy.  Moreover.it  is  literature  that 
preserves  and  transmits  the  highest  dis­
tinction  of  nationality— its  traditions 
and  its  ideals.  The sap  of  many  stocks 
flows  in  the  veins  of  the  English  race; 
the  confluence  of  many  tributary  lan­
guages  swells  the  broad,  deep  river of 
English speech,  and  all  these  sources  of 
power  and 
inspi ration  find  expression 
in  the  wealth  of  English  literature.  The 
world  of  mind  has  no  more  valuable 
possession.  How  incalculable,  then,  the 
service  of the  King  who  laid  the  foun­
dations  of that  literature  and  taught  his 
people  to  love  letters!

The  Central  Lake  Torch  refers  to  the 
Tradesman  as  “ the  leading  trade  paper 
of  the  country.”   The  editor  of 
the 
Torch  is  a  gentleman  of  discriminating 
judgment  and,  having  been  a  regular 
subscriber  to  the  Tradesman  for  the 
past  eighteen  years,  his  opinion  is  en­
titled  to  consideration.

The  Connecticut  Board  of  Health 
argues  that  every  town  should  have  a 
hospital  where  contagious  disease  pa­
tients can  be  isolated and receive proper 
attention.  _____________

An  apt  quotation  is  sometimes  better 

than  an  original  remark.

EXPERIENCE NOT N E C E S S A R Y .

to  success 

The  coining  of  warm  weather  is  no 
surer than  the advertisement announcing 
that  the  business  advertised  opens  an 
in  a  calling  that 
avenue 
makes  experience  unnecessary. 
The 
enterpriser  may  be  engaged  in  at  home 
or  upon  the  road  if  the  party  interested 
prefers  to  travel.  Gentlemen and  ladies 
are  wanted  at  a  salary  of  $20  a  week 
and  commission,  with  expenses  paid. 
The  position  may  be  considered  per­
manent  and  parties  looking  upon  the 
proposal  with  favor  are  urged  to  call 
early  and  secure  the  opportunity  now 
offered  to. better their condition  without 
any  special  training.

There 

is  among  all  classes  and  con­
ditions  of  men,  especially  in  the  United 
States,  the  idea  that  the  American  can 
adapt  himself  at  once  to  any  require­
if  he  so  wills.  There  is  some­
ment 
thing 
in  the  atmosphere  and 
in  the 
pedigree  and 
in  the  bringing  up  that 
enables  him  to  turn  his  hand  to  any­
long  as  it  was  desirable  the 
thing.  So 
farm  boy 
left  his  plow  and  went  to 
preaching  as  Israel  Putnam  turned  from 
the  halfcplowed  field  and  became  a  dis­
tinguished  general  of  the  American 
Revolution.  During  that  same  period, 
in  too  many  instances,  the  man  behind 
an  M.  D.  was  an  untrained  boy  without 
knowledge  or experience  and  the lawyer 
— it  was  often  the  ground  of  boasting— 
never  saw  the 
inside  of  a  college  and 
precious 
law  office.  The 
hired  man  could  pick  stones  or  build  a 
wagon,  shoe  a  horse  or teach  the  winter 
school,  as  necessity  demanded;  at  all 
events,  experience 
in  every  case  was 
unnecessary  and  the  men,  led  by  in­
spiration  or  by 
impulse,  made  a  suc­
cess  of  it.

little  of  a 

Without  knowing  or  acknowledging 
their ancestry,  it  is  the  children  of such 
parentage  that  are  answering  these  ad­
vertisements  to-day.  Usually  from  the 
common  walks  of  life,  with  some  little 
inherited  energy  and 
less  evidence 
about  them  of  any  contact  with  the 
common  school,  they  come  boldly  to 
the  front,  ready  for  anything,  and  are 
more  or  less  nonplussed  to  find  the  na­
ture  of  the  work  to  be  what  anybody 
can  do  if  he  cares  to  undertake 
it. 
“ It’s  as  common  as  diggin’,  and  I  c’n 
do  that  at  home  in  my  own  gardin."  
They  want  to  know  where  the  $20 a 
week  comes  in  and  whether the  perma­
nency  begins  when  they  go  to  work. 
Then,  to  their  dismay,  they  find  that, 
while  the  work  can  be  undertaken  with­
out  experience,  the  $20  a  week  is  the 
result  of  their own  active  exertions  at 
a  certain  per  cent,  and  the  permanent 
position  is  given  only  after  experience 
has  shown  whether  they  are  worth  that 
to  their employers.  The  interview  not 
unusually  ends  with  the  denunciation  of 
the  whole  business  as  a  cheat  and  the 
office  often  is  left  in  anger.  They  have 
found  what  their common  sense  should 
have  told  them  was  the  fact  in  the  case, 
that  experience  is  the  only  item  in  the 
business  world  that  can  be  the  sound 
basis  of any  financial  transaction.

There  can  be  no field  of  effort without 
this  standard  of  discrimination.  The 
commonest  labor  has  its  grades  of ex­
cellence  and  the  man  that has  “ learned 
how”   easily  doubles  in  wages  the  man 
who  has  never  “  learned  how. ”   The 
Tradesman’s “ Men of Mark”  and “ Suc­
cessful  Traveling  men”   are 
instances 
of  this  principle.  They  all  began  on 
the ground  floor.  They  all  worked  their 
way  up  and  the  rounds  in  the  ladder 
that  have  lifted  them  above their fellows 
are  so  many  proofs of that acquired  ex­

perience  which  the  lyirg  advertisement 
asserts  is  unnecessary.  Professional life 
proclaims  the  same  fact  and  the  fat 
in­
come  or the  lean  one  is  merely  a  ques­
tion  of  differences  settled  wholly  by  ex­
perience  or the  lack  of  it.

The  world—especially  the  American 
world— is  fast  getting  over  its  willing­
ness  to accept  what  the  man—no  matter 
what  his  calling—has  to  offer. 
It  has 
no  longer  any  use  for the  “ Jack  of  all 
trades"  with  the  quality  of  workman­
ship  he  usually  furnishes.  Not  only 
his  best  but  the  best  anywhere  is  the 
only  workmanship  accepted  and  this 
makes  experience  a  prime  necessity. 
“ All  common  good  has  common  price, 
exceeding  good,  e x c e e d in g a n d  where 
the  “ exceeding  good”   alone  is  called 
is  to-day,  the  sooner  experi­
for,  as  it 
ence  awakens to  the  fact  the  sooner shall 
we  get  over the  idea  that  anything  done 
will  do  and  that  anything  worth  the  do­
ing  can  be  well  done  without  experi­
ence.

CLEB6THEN IN   SICK  BOOHS.

Discussion  has  been  going  on  in  the 
newspapers,  started  by  Rev.  Dr.  Har- 
court,  a  Methodist  minister  of  Balti­
more, as  to whether  ministers  can  safely 
be  permitted  in  sick  rooms.  He  made 
it-the  subject  of  a  sermon  preached 
in 
Reading,  Pa.,  declaring  that  the  pres­
ence  of  a  clerygman  “ tiptoeing  around 
the  sick  bed’ ’  is  of  itself  a  grave  cause 
for  alarm,  adding,  “ such  a  dose  of 
ministerial  ministration 
is  enough  to 
make  a  well  man  sick.”   He  went  at 
the  practice  without  gloves, arguing  that 
physicians  and  nurses  should  keep  pas­
tors  far  away  from  their  patients.  A 
Pennsylvania  editor  adds  his  tribute, 
saying:  “ I  firmly  believe  that  many 
are  hastened  to  the  grave  by  the  minis­
terial  habit  of  invading  the  bedroom  of 
the  sick  with  intensified  manifestations 
of  solemnity.”

TH E WORLD’S GREATEST  CITY. 
Those  who  predicted  that  the  city  of 
London,  the  world’s  greatest  city,  would 
show  a  relatively  small  growth  for  the 
past  decade  may  well  be  surprised  at 
the  showing  made  by  the  official  fig­
ures.  Some  people  insist  upon  includ­
ing  in  the  city  of  London  only  that  por­
tion  which  is  embiaced  in  the  inner cir­
cle,  instead  of  the  entire  area,  known 
as  the  Metropolitan  Police  District. 
It 
might  as  well  be  claimed that Brooklyn, 
the  Bronx  and  other  suburbs  of  New 
York  are  not  a  part  of  that  city.  The 
official  census  returns  show  that  London 
has  a  population  of 6,578,794  souls.  Of 
this  immense  number,  the  inner  circle, 
or older  London,  has  4,536,034  people, 
and  the  outer  ring,  or  the  newer  por­
tions  of  the  city,  has  2,042,750.

As 

in  all  great  cities,  the  main  in­
crease  has  been 
in  the  outer  ring  pr 
suburbs,  although  the  older city  has  also 
continued  to  grow.  The  older  portions 
of  all  great  cities  grow  but  slowly,  ow­
ing  to  the  fact  that  the  area  has 
long 
since  been  congested,  and  the  surplus 
population  gravitates  towards  the  less 
thickly  settled  suburbs.  Thus,  while  the 
old  city  limits  of  London have increased 
but  a  fraction  less  than  8  per  cent.,  the 
outer circle  or  suburbs  have 
increased 
43.6  per  cent,  during  the  decade.

Great  as  is  our own metropolis of New 
York,  it  has  barely  more  than  half  the 
population  of  London. 
It  is  doubtful  if 
any  city  of  ancient  times  approached  to 
anything  like  the  present  population  of 
London;  in  fact,  few  of  the  ancient  na­
tions  had  as  great  a  population  as  this 
is  true  that  there  are 
single  city. 
more  or  less  mythical  records  of 
im­
mense  populations  in 
some  ancient 
cities,  but  there  is  no  reason  to  believe 
that  any  one  of  them  ever had anything 
near  like  the  population  of modern Lon­
don.

It 

It 

The  wisdom  of  the  suggestion  de­
pends  entirely  upon  the  minister  in  the 
case. 
is  indeed  true  that  there  are 
some  preachers  whose  presence  in  the 
sick  room  would  be  calculated  to  turn 
an  ordinary  cold 
into  a  serious  attack 
of  pneumonia.  There  are  some  whose 
sepulchral  voice  and  manner might  well 
be  accepted  as  indicative  of  frightful 
possibilities.  But  when  you  come  to 
think  of  it,  all  the  suggestions  which 
apply  to  pastors  in  this  case  apply 
equally  well  to all  other  kinds  of  peo­
ple,  plain  sinners  as  well  as  ecclesiasti­
cal  dignitaries.  There  are  some  clergy­
men  whose  presence  in  a  sick  room 
is 
like  a  ray  of  sunshine,  bringing  joy and 
happiness  and  hope,  and 
there  are 
others  about  whom  the  most  doleful  pic­
Individual  cir­
tures  are  true  to  life. 
cumstances  must 
individual 
cases.  There  is a  lot  of  harm  as  well  as 
a 
lot  of  good  done  by  miscellaneous 
visits  to  the  sick.  Those  who  go  in 
with  a  long  face  and  a  hushed voice and 
maintain  that  demeanor,  are  depress­
ing.  Those  who  go  in  with  pleasant 
word  and  cheerful manner,  speaking  en­
couragingly  and  hopefully,  make  visits 
that  are  beneficial.  The  time  for  min­
isters  to  ply  their  professional  vocation 
with  the  people  is  when  the  latter are 
in  good  health,  and  it  is  certainly  true 
that  suggestions  about  the  lake  of fire 
and  brimstone  and  the  proximity  of  the 
next  world  are  out  of  place  in  the  pres­
ence  of  those  whose  ailments  may  by 
any  possible  chance  result 
in  carrying 
them  over  the  river.  But  it  is  well 
enough  always  to  remember that  clergy­
men  are  not  the  only  offenders  in  this 
respect.

govern 

Comparing 

it  with  modern  states,  it 
is  seen  to  be  more  populous  than  Bel­
gium  or  Morocco  or  Bavaria or Portugal 
or  European  Turkey  or the  associated 
kingdoms  of  Norway  and  Sweden  or 
Australia  or  Canada  or  any  political 
division  of  the  Western  Hemisphere 
save  the  United  States,  Mexico  and 
Brazil.

The  preservation  of  order  and  the 
protection  of  property  in  this 
immense 
city  require  a  force  of 16,000 policemen, 
an  army  in  itself.  The  fire  department 
seems  proportionally  small,  with  1,000 
firemen.  The  increase  in  the  popula­
tion  of  the  city  of  London  is  at  a  faster 
rate  than  for the  rest  of  England,  show­
ing  that  in  that  country,  as  well  as  in 
the  United  States,the drift  of  population 
is  towards  the  great  cities,  their  gain 
being  largely at the  expense  of  the  rural 
districts.

Some  of  our New York contemporaries 
who  were  boasting  that  our American 
metropolis  would  outstrip  the  world’s 
metropolis  in  another decade  or so  will 
have  to  revise  their  predictions.  They 
fixed  their  calculations  on  a  false  basis, 
comparing  Greater  New  York,  not  with 
Greater  London,  as  they  should  have 
done,  but  with  old  or  inner  London,  an 
entirely  false  and  unfair comparison.

INEBRIETY  AND  HEREDITY. 

According  to  the  conclusions  of  a 
committee  of  the  London  Medical  So­
ciety, which  devoted  eighteen  months  to 
investigation  of  the  subject,  the  theory 
that  the  tendency  to  inebriety  is heredi­
tary 
is  a  fallacious  one.  Nine  of  the 
fourteen  members  of  the  committee  de­
clare  there  is  no  such  tendency.  They 
assert that  “ no  instance  of  the  heredi­

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

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tary  transmission  of  an  acquired  char­
acteristic  has  ever  been  demonstrated 
either  in  the  animal  or the  vegetable 
kingdom.”   They  admit  that  drunken 
parents  may  have  degenerate  children 
who  are  weak 
in  mind  and  body,  but 
deny  that  specialized  tendencies  are 
handed  down  from  one  generation to an­
other.

These  conclusions  are at variance with 
a  belief  that  has  been  generally  enter­
tained  for  more  than  a  century.  Tem­
perance  advocates  have  employed  it  as 
one  of  their  strongest  arguments.  They 
have  demanded  that  it  be  taught  in  the 
schools.  They  have  urged  the  respon­
sibility  of  parents  for  the  tastes  of  their 
children.  If  the  report  of this committee 
is  “ the  last  word”   of  science  on  the 
subject  it  will  work  a  revolution  in pop­
ular opinion. 
It  will  relieve  the  ances­
tors  of  drunkards  of  the  imputation  un­
der  which  they  have  rested  and  will 
compel  dtunkards  themselves  to  bear 
the  entire  responsibility  for  their condi­
tion.  There  can  be  no  more  sympathy 
for  those  who  pose  as  victims  of  in­
herited  tendencies.

It  is 

likely,  however,  that  the  find­
ings  of  the  London  investigators  will 
be  contradicted  and  controverted. 
If 
the  children  of  drunken  parents  are  ad­
mitted  to  be  weak  in  mind  and  body, 
in  a  word,  degenerate,  are  they  not 
more  apt  to  become  inebriates  than  the 
children  of  sober  parents  who  are  sound 
in  mind  and  body  and  normal  in  their 
make-up?  It  is  rather a  fine  distinction 
that  the  London  scientists  have  made 
when  they  say  that  specialized  tenden­
cies  are  not  hereditary.  They 
leave 
everything  to  environment. 
If  a  young 
man  has  a  tendency  to  excess  in  any 
direction  he  will  not  be  long  in  finding 
the  environment  favorable  for  its  full 
development.

Nothing  that  the  scientists  may  say 
will  quite  convince  thinking people  that 
there  is  no  influence  in  heredity.  Men 
and  women  do  rise  above  such  influ­
ence,  but  they  are  generally  painfully 
aware  that 
it  is  a  heavy  handicap. 
Fathers  and  mothers  will  not  right away 
abandon  the  belief that  no  responsibil­
ity  rests  upon  them 
in  regard  to the 
happiness  of  their offspring.

in 

Its  manufacturing 

The  South  has  shared  to  a  large  ex­
tent  in  the  revival  of  prosperity  in  this 
country. 
interests 
have 
increased  to  a  wonderful  degree 
during  the  past  five  years.  Nothing, 
perhaps,  better  illustrates  the  industrial 
in­
development  of  the  South  than  the 
crease 
its  banking  facilities. 
In 
twelve  Southern  States  since  March, 
1900,  there  have  been  133  new  banks 
established,  representing  a  capital  of 
$7,248,000,  and  $1,834,900  deposited 
in 
United  States  bonds  to  secure  their  cir­
culation.  As  a  consequence  of 
the 
changes  that  have  been  in  progress  in 
its 
industrial  conditions  the  South  is 
more  in  accord  with  the  North,  for  its 
interests  are  now  seen to  be  in  the  same 
direction.  _____________

The  Roman  soldiers,  who  carried  a 
weight  of  armor  that  would  crush  the 
average  farm  hand, 
lived  on  coarse 
brown  bread  and  sour  wine.  They  were 
temperate  in  diet  and  regular  and  con­
stant  in  exercise.  The  Spanish peasant 
works  every  day  and  dances  half  the 
night,  yet  eats  only  his  black  bread, 
onion  and  watermelon.  The  Smyrna 
porter  eats  only  a  little  fruit  and  sour 
apples,  yet  he  walks  off  with  his  load 
of  100  pounds.  The  coolie,  fed  on  rice, 
is  more  active  and  can  endure  more 
than  the  negro  fed  on  fat  meat.

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C lothing

Necessity  of  K now ing  One’s  Customers 

T h o ro u g h ly .

Not  long  ago  we—there  were  two  of 

us,  although  one  did  the  observing 
were  in  a  restaurant,  and  while  waiting 
for  our  lunch  to  be  served,  we  watched 
the  way  in  which  different  people  gave 
their  orders.  One  old  man  came  in, 
dropped  into  his  seat  and  gave  an  or 
der to  which  the  waiter  hardly  listened 
so  evidently  familiar  was  he  with  it.  A 
party  of  gentlemen  and 
ladies,  after 
inspecting  the  bill,  ordered  a  variety  of 
fancy  dishes  at  fancy  prices.  Evidently 
they  were  after  novelty  and  willing  to 
pay  for  it.  A  neatly  dressed  clerk,  after 
glancing  sideways  at  the  cost  of the 
various  dishes,  ordered  a  substantial 
lunch.  Finally,  a  person  on  the  ragged 
edge  of  gentility,  read  every  item  care 
fully,  paying  special  attention  to  the 
prices,  and  at  last  ordered  the  plainest 
and  most  inexpensive  dishes,  making  a 
very  shabby  and  cheap  meal.

These  people  are  fair  types  of  the 
different  classes  of  trade  with  which  the 
merchant  has  to  reckon.  There  are  the 
old  people  who are conservative  in  thei 
tastes,  who  can  be  depended  upon  to 
order next  year  just  what they order this 
year.  Theit  trade  is  as  staple  and  as 
reliable  as  black  silk  neckwear.  Then 
there  are  the  people  who  are  after  fancy 
articles  and  ready  to  pay  for  them 
Then  there 
large  body  of  peo­
ple  who consider  price,  although  they 
order  substantially.  And 
last  of  all, 
there  are  the  people  who  consider  noth 
ing  but  the  cost  and  buy  only the cheap 
est  and  the  plainest  things  in  the  mar­
ket.

is  the 

A  merchant  should  analyze  his  trade 
and  classify  it according  to  its  likeness 
to  these  different  classes  of diners  in 
the  cafe.  He  should  go  over his  sales 
slips  and  find  out  just  which  of  these 
classes  he 
is  catering  to  with  profit, 
which  class  he  should  consider  the  most 
in  conducting  his business.  If he wishes 
to  develop  his  business  he  can  do  noth­
ing  intelligently  unless  he  knows  the 
character  of  his  trade,  and  also  from 
which  class  he  makes 
the  greatest 
profit.  He  should  determine  exactly 
which  class  he  is  catering  to  at  a  loss, 
and  exactly  which  class  he  must  depend 
on  to  make  up  his  losses  on  the  other 
trade.  He  can  not  buy  intelligently un­
less  he  knows  these  facts.  He  can  not 
know  what  style  of  window  dressing  to 
employ  unless  he  knows  them.  He  can 
not  advertise  in  the  papers  at  the  great­
est  advantage  unless  he  knows  them. 
In  short,  unless  he  has  an  intimate  and 
thorough  acquaintance  with  his  custom­
ers  in  this  way,  he  is  totally  unable  to 
direct  the  management  of  bis 
store 
properly.

In  a  race  a  man  must  know  how to 
handle  his  boat  and  the better he  knows 
the  peculiarities  of  his  own  craft  the 
greater  is  his  chance  of  winning.  The 
skipper  of  a  yacht  who  knows  to  a 
pound  exactly  how  much  ballast  his 
boat  can  dispense  with  and  still  be  safe 
in  a  rough  sea,  who  knows  exactly  how 
much  sail  she  can  carry  without  her 
masts  going  by  the  board,  who knows 
just  what  is  her  weakest  point  and when 
and  how  he  must  guard  against  danger 
in  that  quarter,  he 
is  the  winner  in  a 
close  race.  His  opponent  who  is  fool­
hardy  or  who  fears  to  take  a  chance  be­
cause  he 
is  not  sure  of  his  boat,  he  is 
the  man  who  is  left  behind  whenever  it 
comes  to  a  test  of  endurance  or  skill. 
Now,  business  is  a  test  of  knowledge  as

much  as  a  test of skill.  The  best  powers 
of 
calculation  are  worthless  unless 
guided  by  a  knowledge  of  fact,  and 
many  a  keen  merchant  has  gone  to  the 
wall  because  he  did  not  know  the  facts 
about  his  business  and  the  people  with 
whom  he  did  business.

last  bold  chance. 

Commercial  success,  like  success  in  j 
yacht  race,  is  often  determined  by  abil 
ity  to  take  a 
I f : 
man  knows  his  business 
thoroughly, 
knows  just how  far he  can  trust  the craft 
he  is  sailing,  he  can  take  chances  that 
his  more 
ignorant  competitor  is  afraid 
to  take,  or  that,  if  taken,  will  result 
in 
his  shipwreck.  The  ability  to  put  forth 
that  last  burst  of  energy  will  be  the  de 
termining  thing  in  the  contest,the fruits 
of  a  whole  lifetime  of  labor  will  depend 
upon  it.  No  man  who  is  not  master of 
his  business  will  dare  to  take  the  risk, 
apd  no  man 
is  master  of  his  business 
unless  he  understands  his  customers and 
their  methods  of  buying  as  thoroughly 
as  it  is  possible  for  him  to  understand 
them.

This  ability  to  classify  one’s  custom 
ers  has  an  important  bearing  upon  the 
question  of  extending  credit.  The  im 
portance  of  a  wise  extension  of credit 
in  determining  business  success  does 
not  need  emphasis.  But  no  man  can  ex­
tend  credit  intelligently  or  with  safety 
unless  he  knows  what  relation  and  char 
acter  the  credit  end  of  his  business 
bears  to  the  rest  of  it.  An  analysis  of 
credit  accounts  with  reference to a class 
fication  of trade,  as  suggested at the be­
ginning  of  this  article,  would  be  a  rev­
elation  to  many  merchants.  They  would 
discover  that  they  are  carrying  credit 
customers  whom  they  are  selling  with­
out  benefit  to  themselves.  And  they 
could  get  an  insight  into  their  business 
that  would  make  them  much  more  care­
ful  in  the  way  they  make  charges.

The  close  relation  between  buying 
and  the  tastes  and  importance  of  cus­
tomers  is  appaient.  No  man  can  buy  to 
the  best  advantage  unless  he  has  in  his 
mind’s  eye  when  he  buys  a  picture  of 
the  people  for  whom  he  is  buying.  The 
ability  to  shape  a  business,  to alter  the 
character of  the  trade  of  a  store,  or  to 
put  a business on a better  basis,  depends 
upon  a  discriminating  study  of  custom­
ers  as  customers.

invested 

A  merchant’s  stock 

in  trade  is  the 
capital 
in  his  business,  the 
time  invested  and  his  skill  in  catering 
to  his  customers.  He  may  work  well 
and  diligently  in  the  management  of 
the  first  two,  but  unless  he  knows  his 
customers  thoroughly  he  will  be  very 
likely  to  wake  up  some  fine  morning 
and  discover that  his  effort and toil have 
been  for  naught.— Apparel  Gazette.

Chas.  A. Coye

Manufacturer and Jobber of

Awnings,  Tents,
Flags,  Horse  and 
Wagon  Covers,
Lawn  Swings,
Iron  Hammock 
Chairs,
Seat Shades  and 
Wagon  Umbrellas

Twines of all  Kinds

ii  Pearl Street 

Grand  Rapids',  Michigan

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Prompt  Attention

Q.  H.  G A T E S   &   CO.,  Detroit,  Mich.

You are  all  right when 
you  buy right goods right.

S terlin g  O veralls

Are right.  The prices are right and  our 
shipments  are  right.  You  better write

Overalls,  Shirts, 
Coats,  Etc.

Morris  W :  Montgomery
Lansing,  Michigan

T f

V.  J  V

Below is a copy of a  letter  recently  sent  out 
by the firm of  M.  Wile & Co., Buffalo,  N. 
Y.,  to  the  Clothing  Trade.  Should  you 
not have  received  one,  a  special  invita­
tion  is extended  to you:

B uffalo,  N.  Y .,  May  x,  1901.

G en tlem en— H aving  received  a  great  many  requests 
from  our  friends  and  customers  to  procure  suitable  accom­
modations  for  them  during  their  stay  in  Buffalo,  while 
attending  the  Pan-American  Exposition,  we  deem  it  advis­
able  to  inform  you  that  the  number  of  strangers  coming  to 
Buffalo  during  the  Exposition  will  be  so  large  that  it  will 
be  almost  impossible  to  secure  proper  quarters  later  on.

In  order to  see you  properly  cared  for,  we  would  sug­
gest, 
if  you  contemplate  coming  to  Buffalo  during  the 
Exposition,  that you  write  to  us  immediately  so  we  will  be 
in  a  position  to  secure  suitable  quarters  for  you.

W e  would  ask  you  to  kindly  give  dates  as  nearly correct 
as  possible.  At  the  same  time  we  would  add  that  for  the 
convenience  of  our  friends  we  have  arranged  a  department 
where  all  mail  can  be  addressed  in  our care.

Awaiting  an  early reply,  and  assuring  you  that  we  will 
do  all  in  our  power  to  make  your  visit  a  pleasant  one,  we 
remain, 

V ery  truly yours,

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

i l

D ry  Goods

W eekly  M arket Review  of  th e  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—Fine  brown  sheetings 
are  unchanged  in  their quiet conditions. 
Ducks  and  brown  osnaburgs  are  quiet. 
Bleached  cottons  are  showing  a  little 
more  life,  and  jobbers  are  trading  in 
them  with  a  little  more  freedom.  The 
manufacturing  trades  are  also  taking 
more  goods.  Wide  sheetings  are 
inac­
tive,  and  prices  show  no  change  what­
ever.  Denims  show  a  tendency  to 
strengthen,  and  certain  lines  have  been 
advanced  a  quarter  of  a  cent.  Other 
coarse  colored  cottons  show  no  change.

Prints  and  Ginghams— Staples  for fall 
are  showing  some  business,  for  sellers 
up  to  the  present  writing  have  declined 
to  name  prices,  and  orders  are  being 
placed  subject  to  whatever  price  the 
market may  open  at.  This  condition  re­
stricts  the  freedom  of  the  buying,  yet 
proves  that  buyers  want  the goods.  Per­
cales  and  printed  flannel  effects  have 
been  irregular  in  all  departments.  Do- 
mets  and  ginghams  have  been  steady  in 
price,  and  have  secured  a  fair amount 
of  business.  Fine  ginghams  are  steady, 
and  are  getting  somewhat  under  order 
for  next  spring.

is 

Dress  Goods—The  developments  in 
the  initial  market  as  regards  the regular 
lines  of  dress  goods  have been practical­
ly  nil.  The  jobber,  cutter-up  and  the 
big  retail  establishments  have  generally 
placed  all  their  initial  orders  and,  con­
sequently,  the  market 
in  a  waiting 
position,  pending  the  development  of 
the  season  of  the  jobber  and  cutter-up. 
While  the  jobber  has  taken  some  heavy­
weight  orders,  enough  has  not  been  ac­
complished  as  yet  to  throw  any  particu­
lar  light  on  the  possibilities  of  the  sea­
son  and  the  temper  of  retailers  as  re­
gards  the  various  fabrics.  More  atten­
tion  appears  to  have  been  paid  by  the 
jobber  to  the  cleaning  out  of  spring 
goods  than  to  the  selling  of  heavy­
weights.  The  tone  of the  initial  market 
is  not  altogether  satisfactory,  for  while 
a  good  volume  of  business  has  been 
done  in  certain  directions,  and  several 
mills  are  in  a  well-fortified  position  as 
regards  orders,  the  demand  has  been 
confined  within  narrow  limits,  and  to a 
good  many  manufacturers  the  results 
achieved  have  been  considerably  short 
of  their  hopes  and  expectations.  The 
possibilities  as  regards  duplicate  busi­
ness  are  more  or  less  doubtful.

Skirting  Fabrics— Piece  dye  fabrics 
have  apparently  attracted  more  business 
than  anything  else.  Mixtures  in  cotton 
warp  and  all  wool  materials  have  also 
attracted  fair attention.  There  has  been 
no  development favoring the fancy back. 
The  cloaking  market  is  in  a  very  quiet 
condition. 
The  cloakmaker  has  not 
shown  any  great  confidence 
in  any 
fabric,  aside  from  light  kerseys.  He  is 
now  beset  with  doubts  as  regards  cut 
length  of  garments  for  fall.  The 
and 
general  opinion 
is  that  long  garments 
will  be  the.  most  popular,  but  whether 
they  should be loose  fitting  like  the auto­
mobile  or  tight  fitting  or betwixt  and 
between  is  a  question  which  puzzles  the 
cloakmaker,  and  causes  him  to go  slow 
in  preparing  his  fall  lines.  Judging  by 
the  sales  of  lightweight pedestrian skirts 
that  have  been  made  of  late,  the  con­
tinued  popularity  of  the  short,  rainy- 
day  skirt  is  assured  for the  present  at 
least,  and  it  should  extend 
in  a  full 
measure  into  the  fall  season,  and  bring 
joy  to the  manufacturer of skirting  fab­
rics.

in  no  way  affect 

Underwear—There  have  been  two  or 
three  new  lines  of  men’s  ribbed  goods 
placed  on .the  market  at  what  are  con­
sidered  rather  low  prices,  although  the 
makers  of  standard  goods  claim  that 
they 
their  prices. 
Ladies’  ribbed  vests  show  some  irregu­
larity,  but  reduced  prices  do not seem to 
have  the  effect  of  moving  them  any 
faster.  Both 
jobbers’  and  retailers’ 
stocks  are  in  fair condition,  so that  the 
necessity  of  duplicating has  not  yet  oc­
curred.  Other  summer  goods,  particu­
larly  balbriggans,  are  in  practically  the 
same  condition,  and  there  must  be  a- 
period  of  quietude  before  any  more  ac­
tive  buying  develops.

Hosiery—The  hosiery  business  is 

in 
a  very  dull  condition  at  the  present 
time,  and  very  little  trading  is  reported 
for the  past  week.  The  cotton  hosiery 
end 
is  practically  complete  now,  al­
though  manufacturers  would  be  glad  to 
see  some  business  in  sight.  Some  price 
cutting  is  being  indulged  in  in  order  to 
move  blocks  of  stock  that  are  on  hand, 
although  this  has  had  apparently  little 
It  will  need  a  decidedly 
effect  so  far. 
more  general  movement 
in  the  retail 
and  jobbing  trades  to affect  the  primary 
market.

Carpets— The  general  market  has  not 
fully  developed  on  carpets. 
It  is  true 
that  moderate  orders  have  already  been 
received  for  fall  delivery,  but  many  of 
the  manufacturers  have  hardly  had  time 
to  see  their customers,  especially  those 
representing 
ingrain  manufacturers, 
and  until  they  are  able  to  know  more 
about  the  demand,  it  is  a  little  early  to 
state  exactly  what  the  general  price  list 
will  be  for  the  coming  season.  At  a 
meeting  of  ingrain  manufacturers  of 
Philadelphia,  held  recently,  it  was  de­
cided  to continue the  same  rate of wages 
for  the  coming  year,  and  the  weavers 
are  apparently  satisfied  to  continue  at 
the  old  rate.

Rival  to  Silken  Fans.

A  man  without  sense  of  romance  has 
invented  and  patented  a  mechanical 
band  fan  and  sets  it  up as  a  rival  of  the 
toy  gauze  and 
lace  which  has  been  a 
feminine  weapon  through  untold  ages. 
His  fan  buzzes  and  is  not  beautiful,  but 
it  provides  a  steady  draft  of  cool  air.

In  appearance  it  is  a  cross  between 
an  egg  beater  and  a  glove  stretcher. 
It 
is  made  of  wood  and  brass,  and  be  as­
serts  that 
it  can  be 
made  to  reach  a  speed  of  8,000  revolu­
tions  a  minute  and  will  throw  a  current 
of  air  as  far  as  an  electric  fan  of  the 
same  size.

in  expert  hands 

It  works  by  compressing  in  the  hand 
two  wooden  handles  of  a glove stretcher­
like  arrangement.  A  ratchet  and  two 
small  cogwheels  at  the  end  of  the  arms 
transmit  this  force  to the  blades  of the 
fan,  which  are  miniature  electric  fan 
blades.  Both  of  these  are detachable  so 
that  the  fan  may  be  easily  carried  when 
not  in  use.

The  inventor  says  that  he  has  dis­
posed  of  4,000  of  his  hand  fans  in  a  few 
months.  He  isn't  sanguine  of  its  gen­
eral  adoption  by  the  gentler sex,  but  he 
thinks  that  lots  of  men  would  use  it  in 
hot  weather.  Sentiment  ought  not  to 
play  any  part  in  comfort  seeking,  he 
says,  but  he  has  to admit  that  it  gener­
ally  does.
Deadened th e  Noiae o f Safe Robbing W ith 

Flour.

Campbell  Bros.' bank at  Collison,  111., 
was  recently  robbed  in  the  night.  From 
a  store  in  the  rear of  the  bank  the  rob­
bers  secured  seventy  sacks  of  Hour, 
which  they  stacked  around  the  safe  to 
deaden  the  noise  of  the  explosion.  The 
Safe  was  blow  to  pieces  and  the  flour 
scattered  all  over  the  bank  and  store. 
The  burglars  secured  $1,600  in  cash,  a 
loss  against  which  Mr.  Campbell is fully 
insured.  This  is  the  third  successful 
safe  cracking  recently  in  the county.

Y Y Y i n r T T n m r n r

There is a reduction  in  some  of  the  lines  of 
Prints  and  Wash  Goods.  Be  sure  and  get 
our prices  before buying.

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

W h o l e s a l e   D r y   G o o d s  

G r a n d   R a p i d s ,  M i c h i g a n

G u u u u u u u u u i .

#  
X  

T H A T   W E A R S   W E L L  

is
s>  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.

Uj^^WHOLESALE  DRY  GOODS, 

GRAND  RAPIDS,

VOIGT,  HERPOLSHE1MER  &  CO., 

MICA

AXLE

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

IL L U M IN A T IN G   AND 
LU B R IC A TIN G   O ILS

PERFECTION  OIL  IS  THE  STANDARD 

THE  WORLD  OVER

H IG H E S T  PRIOE  PAID  FOR  EM PTY  OARBON  AND  GASO LINE  BARRELS

STANDARD  OIL  CO.

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Shoes  and  Rubbers
Selling Shoes  in  Clothing Stores.

“ Selling shoes  in  a  clothing  store  is  a 
very  different  proposition  from  running 
a  shoe  department 
in  a  dry  goods 
store,”   said  the  manager  of  a  success­
ful  department  in  New  York,  recently, 
in  a  dry  goods  house  has 
“ The  buyer 
any  number  of  wires  to  pull. 
If  he  has 
run  his  resources  dry  on  women’s shoes, 
he  can  have  a  lot  of  boys’,  or  misses’, 
or children’s,  or  infants’  shoes.  There 
are  various  novelties  and  knick-knacks 
that  he  can  run  in  and  various  ways 
in 
which  he  can  advertise  his  department 
and  bring  customers  to  it.

“ This  is  not  so  with  us. 

In  these 
men’s  clothing  stores  we  have  only  one 
subject,  and  one  only  upon  which  we 
can  treat,  and  that 
is  men's  shoes 
Furthermore,  it  is  difficult  for  us  to  at 
tract  customers  and  also  to  hold  our 
customers.

“ Take  the  matter  of  attracting  cus-. 
It  is  not  an  easy  thing  to  get 
tomers. 
a  man 
into  the  way  of  coming  into  a 
clothing  store  to  buy  his  shoes,  and  to 
buy  his  shoes  only.  Generally he  is  ac­
quainted  with 
the  shoe  department 
through  his  association  with  other  de 
partments,  either  the  clothing  or  the 
furnishing.  Of  course,  we  can  show  a 
few  shoes  at  intervals  in  the  furnishing 
department,  which  is  a  very  good  plan, 
but  it  takes  a  tremendous  amount of 
resource,  originality  and  perseverance 
to get  an  increasing  number of  custom­
ers  into the  department.

“ Furthermore,  we  are  handicapped 
by  the  competition of the manufacturer's 
single-price  stores.  It is  no  easy  matter 
to  so  plan  our  business  as  to  give  our 
customers  an  advantage  over  what  these 
stores  offer,  for their  system  is excellent 
and  our  methods  naturally  have  to  be 
of the  very  best.

“ Then  comes  the  problem  of  holding 
on  to  our  customers.  Here  is  a  busy 
business  man 
in  some  distant  part  of 
the  c ity ;  he  notices  that  his  shoes  are 
broken  or  getting  shabby.  He  says  to 
himself,  ‘ I  must  go  to  Blank’s  and  get 
a  new  pair. ’  But  on  consideration  he 
finds  he  is  two  miles from Blank’s.  ‘ Oh, 
well,’  he  says  to  himself,  ‘ I  will  just 
run  into  Brown’s  on the  next  comer  and 
get  a  pair  there  this  time,  for  I  have 
not time  to  go to  Blank's.’  Every  shoe 
buyer  in  a  clothing  house  will  tell  you 
that  it 
is  very  hard  to  hold  his  trade. 
He  must  be  constantly  making  new 
friends  and  customers  or  he  will  go 
down.

“ Then  comes  the  question  of  keeping 
up  with  the  other departments. 
It  will 
never  do  to  run  behind  or  make  unsat­
isfactory  progress. 
Every  manager 
wants  to  make  a  good  showing  for his 
department.  Furthermore,  he  is  obliged 
to  if  he  would  maintain  his  standard 
with  his  employers  and  with  the  trade,
He  must  constantly  be  devising  new 
plans  to  increase  his  business.  First  of 
all  he  must  be  a  thorough  and  practical 
shoe  man.  He  must  be  neat;  not  mere 
ly  a  clerk  who  'shovels  them  out,’  but 
he  must  know  shoes  and 
leather  thor­
oughly.  He  must  be  able  to  go  East, 
select  his  stock,  and  give  proper and 
explicit  directions  regarding  the  cut  of 
his  shoes.  He  must put  some  snap  into 
them. 
It  will  never  do  for him  to  take 
everything  as  it  comes.

‘ * I  sent  back  some  shoes  the  other 
day,  the  leather of  which  was  cut  away 
up  into  the  neck  of  the  skins.  We  have 
to  watch  our  stock  carefully.

“ This  is  all  the  more  necessary  be­

cause,  far  more  than 
in  a  dry  goods 
store,  a  misfit  or  a  blunder  in  serving  a 
customer  may  react  on  the  whole  store. 
I  never want  a  member  of  the  firm  to 
come  to  me  and  say,  * Here  is  a  man 
whose  trade  is  worth  $50 or $100 a  year 
to  us,  and  he  has  left  us;  he  says  we 
stuck  him  on  the  last  pair  of  shoes  he 
bought  and  he  is  done  with  the  whole 
place!’  Consequently,  we  have  to  be 
extra  careful  with  the  shoes  we  buy 
and  the  fitting  of  them.  It  is  not  so easy 
making  new  customers  that  we  can 
afford  to  displease  any  of  our  old 
ones. ’ ’

The  above  statement  is  not  a  wail  of 
woe  from  an  unsuccessful  man,  but  it 
is  a  statement  of  facts  from  one  of  the 
leaders 
in  his  line  of  business,  who  is 
keeping  in  front  of the  procession,  and 
he  runs  a  progressive  department  which 
makes  large  sales.  There  is  no  doubt 
but  that  he  and  his  fellow  buyers  of 
shoes  in  clothing  houses  have  no  easy 
road  to  travel.— Shoe  Retailer.
H igh-Legged  Boots.

A  leg  shoe,  or,  as  it  is  usually known,  , 
a  boot,  for  women’s  wear has  a  certain 
outline  which  does  not  vary  much  the j 
country  over.  Patternmakers  work  more 
closely  to  each  others’  ideas  than  for­
merly.

foxings, 

As  soon  as  an  outline 

is  determined 
for a  certain  last,  the  subdivision  of  the 
upper  into  quarters, 
vamp, 
facings,  fly  or  fancy  curves  and  designs , 
is  a  matter  of  eye 
judgment,  unless 
copying  another.  The  height  of  the  leg 
on  a  woman’s  4-C  will  average  very 
near six  inches  from  the  rand  to  the  top I 
at  the  back  seam,  excepting  those  made 
in  Cincinnati,  which  city  is  well  known 
as  the  high-leg  town.  The  same  style 
shoe,  if  made 
in  a  Cincinnati  factory, 
is  liable  to  measure  at  back  of leg seven 
inches  and  still  be sold  as  regular.

W hether to  B uy o r W att.

At  the  present  low  prices  for all kinds 
of  rubber  footwear,  it  would  not  seem  to 
be  a  risk  for  any  dealer to  place  rea- j 
sonably  large  orders  for the  coming  sea­
son.  As  near as  can  be  determined  re­
tail  shoe  dealers  have  sized  up  the  sit­
uation  practically  as  above  outlined. 
Speculative  dealers  have  ordered  more 
rubbers,  perhaps,  than  they  are 
likely 
to  require  for next  winter* 
It  can  not 
in  any  event,  should  they  lose,  result  in 
much  of  a  loss,  while  there  is  more  than 
a  chance  that  the  investors  can  make  a 
few  dollars. 
It  does  not  seem  probable 
that  the  present  prices  will  be  in  vogue 
by  the  commencement  of  another sea­
son.  The  producers  claim  that  there  is 
no  money  in  the  business  under the  ex- j 
isting  conditions.

P aten t Calf and  Enam el.

A  great  many  of  the  leading  retailers 
have  received  lately  large  consignments 
of  patent  calf  and  enamel  goods,  al­
though  receipts  of  enamels  are  not  as 
large  as  for the  corresponding  period  of 
last  year,  when  they  had  been  almost 
exclusively  worn.  Patent  kids  also  fig­
ured  in  the  market  and  dealers  are  well 
stocked  in  these  goods.  Kids  continue 
in  strong  demand,  although 
is  not 
now  so  great  as  it  bad  been  a  few weeks 
back.  ^  Patent-calf  oxfords,  made  over 
a  modified  form  of  last,  with  the  regula­
tion  i^g-inch  military  heel,  medium ex­
tension  edge,  are  excepionally  good 
sellers,  and  are  in stronger demand  than 
heretofore.  The  same  style  shoe 
in 
enamel  also  found  a  lucrative  market.

it 

The 

Shoestring; Shopping  Bag.
latest  thing  turned  out  by  the 
women  who  still  think  it  is  fun  to  do 
is  the  shoestring  shopping 
fancy  work 
bagg. 
It  is  made  of  five  or six  dozen) 
brown  shoestrings  woven  together  in I 
such  a  way  that  the  metal  ends  hang  to­
gether and  form  a  fringe.  •

Song o f th e  West.

The farmer gaily ploughs his land 
“ We’ll raise a first class harvest and 

And lifts Ms song anew:
We’ll raise the mortgage, too.”

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

M H N M t l U H H M f i U l M N I I H N N H N H m i N C I N

LEGGINGS

Over  Gaiters  and  Lamb’s  Wool  Soles. 
(Beware of the Imitation Waterproof Leg­
ging offered )  Our price  on
Men’s  Waterproof  Legging,  Tan
or  Black,  per  dozen..............
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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.

Shoes must

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to
Wear

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

Maker« of Shoes 
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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. 

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

1 3

Is There a Lack of Good Shoe  Men ?
While  conversing  with  the  superin 
tendent  of  a  large  department  store  not 
long  ago,  he  remarked  that  it  was  im 
possible  to  find  men  capable  of  filling 
executive  positions  in  their  shoe  de 
partment.  He  advanced  the  argument 
that  at  the  present  time  men  who  were 
capable  of  taking  hold  of  these  depart 
ments  were  well  suited  and  were  un 
willing  to  surrender their  present  posi 
tions,  even  with  the 
inducement  of 
liberal  increase  in  salary.  With  all due 
respect  to  the  worthy  gentleman,  we 
must  take  exception  to  his  view  on  this 
subject.  The  fault  at  the  present  time 
with  large  dealers  is  that  they  are  un 
willing  to  give  the  younger  element 
In  the  great  cities  of  New 
chance. 
York,  Boston,  Philadelphia  and  Chi 
cago,  the  position  of  buyer  in  the  lead 
ing  stores  is  being  continually parcelled 
out  among  the  same  set  of  men.
man’s  failure 
count,  if,  in  the  past,  he  has  been 
success  in  another.  The  old  men  alone 
receive  opportunities  of  proving  thei 
worth.

in  one  store  does'  not 

Once  in  a  while  you  will  find  one  of 
the  old  school  who has  taken  a  second 
lease  of  life,  adopting  improved  meth 
ods,  and  by  diligently  watching  the 
efforts  of  the  younger school  he  places 
himself  abreast  of  the times.  But  on  the 
average  they  will  not  compare favorably 
with  a  few  of  the  younger element  who 
have  had  an  opportunity  of  proving 
their  efficiency.

the 

We  are  not  without  first-class  shoe 
men.  There  are  numbers  of  them  in 
any  of 
large  cities,  ambitious, 
hustling  fellows,  ever  anxious  to  avai 
themselves  of  any  opportunity.  They 
are  the  sinews  and  backbone  which sup­
port  the  lacking  energies of the old men, 
who  might  be  compared  to  London  bar­
risters.  They  are  hired  not  for their 
ability,  but  for their  respectability.

In  one  of  the  large  city  department 
stores  some  time  ago  they  were  con 
fronted  with  this  very  problem.  A  mis­
take  had  been  made  and  the  owner of 
the  store,desirous  of  having  it  rectified, 
sent  for  the  buyer  of  the  department. 
He  was  unable  to  answer  any  of  the 
technical  questions  concerning  the  busi­
ness  with  any  degree  of  assurance.  The 
result  was  that  he  broke  down  and  ad­
mitted  that  he  was  unable  through 
lack 
of  knowledge  to  furnish  the 
informa­
tion  the  bead  of  the  house  desired. 
After  looking  into  the  matter  thorough­
ly,  this  dealer  found  that  the  head  of 
stock  had  been  doing  the  buying,  man­
aging  the  floor,  taking  care  of  all  the 
details,  and  in  every  way  assuming  the 
position  of  buyer  with  the  exception  of 
drawing  the  salary.  This  knowledge, so 
incensed  the  merchant  that  both  the 
buyer  and  head  of  stock  were  dis­
charged.  Left  to  their own  resources, 
the  head  of  stock  secured  a  position 
second  to  none 
in  the  country,  while 
the  last  heard  of  the  buyer  was  that  he 
was  eking  out  a  miserable  existence  as 
a  floorwalker  in  one  of  the  smaller 
stores.

Offhand,  it  would  be  a  simple  matter 
to  go  into  any  of the  large  cities  and 
find  from  ten  to  fifteen  young  men  who 
could  not  only  conduct  the  business  of 
our  large  department  and  retail  stores 
as  successfully  as  they  are  being  con­
ducted  at  present,  but  would  make  a 
substantial 
the 
younger  element  in  the  market  with  the 
old-timers.  The  young  men  are  doing 
the  business  and  the  old-timers are  sim­
ply  falling  in 
line  and  watching  their 
every  move  and  taking  pattern  from

Compare 

increase. 

them  continually,  and  yet  our merchants 
complain  that  they  are  unable  to  do 
justice  to  their departments  from  lack 
of  timber.— Shoe  Retailer.

Use  of  Cocaine  Has  Become  Alarm ingl;

Common.
From the New York Herald.

In  a 

lecture  before  the  New  York 
School  of  Clinical  Medicine  at  328 West 
Forty-second  street  recently Dr.  Thomas 
D.  Crothers,  of  Hartford,  Ct.,  charac 
terized  cocainism  as  one  of  the  three 
great  scourges  of  the  world,  alcoholism 
and  morphinism  being  the  other two.

the 

reports, 

Custom-house 

lecturer 
said,  show  an  enormous  increase  recent 
ly  in  the  importation  of  this  drug  and 
not  more  than  the  one-sixtieth  part  of 
what  is  now  sold  is  used  for  legitimate 
purposes.  The  vice  of  cocainism 
is 
spreading alarmingly  among  the  poor as 
well  as  the  rich,  as  the  drug  is  becom 
ing  cheaper  all  the  time.  A  one-ounce 
package,  which  less  than  five  years  ago 
cost  about  $6,  can  now  be  purchased  for 
75  cents.
One  result  of  this  cheapening  is  that 
the  cocaine  habit  is  becoming  common 
among  tramps  and  paupers  as  well  as 
business  ana  professional  men. 
It  i 
no  longer an  aristocratic  vice,  if  it  ever 
was. 
In  New  Orleans  and  other  parts 
of  the  South  and  West  the  drug  is freely 
bought  in  5-cent  packages.

Dr.  Crothers  regards  the  use  of  the 
drug,  even  as  a 
local  anaesthetic  for 
surgical  purposes,  as  exceedingly  dan 
gerous,  especially  in  cases  where  the 
subsequent  reaction  is  characterized  by 
headache, 
lassitude  and  depression. 
Yet  its, use  in  surgery  is  becoming  very 
common.  The  lecturer also  deprecate.d 
the  fact  that  many  popular  proprietary 
remedies  contain 
large 
quantities. 
It  is  almost  a  specific  for 
catarrhal  troubles,  and  through  using  i 
unconsciously 
many  persons,  charmed  with  its  speedy 
and  delightful  results,  become  addicted 
to  it  habitually,  and  finally  become 
slaves  to  its  use.

remedial  agent 

cocaine 

in 

The  first  effects  in  small  doses  are  to 
create  a  feeling  of  elation,  of  greatly 
'ncreased  mental  and  physical  superior­
ity  and  of  freedom  from  care  and  anx- 
'ety.  The  morphinist  finds  in  it  a  sub 
stitute  to  relieve  the  sense  of  depression 
following  the  use  of that  narcotic.  The 
hard  drinker  is  charmed  with its effects, 
as  his  depression  yields  to  a  sense  of 
elation  and  abnormal  exaltation.  But  in 
the  use  of  cocaine  there  follows  a  sure 
reaction. 
In  a  short time  there  are  de­
veloped  characteristic  symptoms of  the 
babitul  cocainist. 
If  he  be  a  lawyer,  a 
writer  or  a  clergyman  he  shows  mar­
velous fluency  and  prolixity  of  speech. 
He  has  a  rare  fecundity  of  words,  but 
they  betray  a  tendency  towards  circum 
locution  and 
letter 
writing  he  betrays  his  secret  vice  by 
his  diffuseness  without  directness.

irrelevancy. 

In 

the 

“ There  are  novels,  which  are  highly 
popular  to-day,”   said 
lecturer, 
"which  show  almost  conclusive  evi­
dence  of  having  been  written  under  the 
'nfluence  of  cocaine,  and  several  poems 
characterized  by  marvelous  rhythm  and 
smoothness  have  had  their  inspiration 
in  this  drug.

“ Habitual  use  of  it  impairs  the  judg­
ment  and  results  in  the  gradiose  ideas 
often  associated  with  paretic  diseases. 
One’s  sense  of  right  and  wrong becomes 
'mpaired.  A  man  formerly  open  and 
frank  becomes  secretive,  selfish  and dis­
honest.  A  Wall Street  authority  told  me 
that  he  knew  of  three  of  the  most  reck­
less  operators  of  recent  years  whose 
losses  of  fortunes  were  directly  due  to 
'mpairment  of  their  judgment  through 
the  use  of  cocaine.

“ After the  abnormal  sense  of  elation 
and  power come  delusions. 
The  vic­
tim  fears  sudden  attack.  He  sits  up  at 
night  watching  for  burglars.  He 
is 
fearful  of  accident  and  abnormally  sus­
picious  of  imaginary  persecutors.  Most 
victims  in  this  stage  carry  revolvers.

“ One  of  them  once  came  to  me  in 
this  condition.  He  was  a  physician, 
who had  lost  his  wife  and  family in  the 
Johnstown  flood  and  had  taken  to  co­
caine* to  soothe  him  in  his great  afflic­
tion.  He  had  two  revolvers  when  he

told  me  of  his  secret.  He  wasj-ational 
enough  in  most  matters,  but  thought  he 
had  hidden  enemies.  I finally persuaded 
him  to  surrender  bis  firearms,  and  the 
first  night  he  compromised  on  a  stout 
baseball  bat  under  his  pillow.  He  final­
ly  conquered  the appetite,but it required 
years  of  hard  struggling. ”

Dr.  Crothers  narrated  many  similar 
instances,  especially  among  brain work­
ers.  He  recommended  as  the  best cura­
tive  methods  complete  abstinence  from 
the  drug,  combined  with  Turkish  and 
electric  baths,  mineral  waters  and 
tonics,  judicious  restraint,  careful  and 
abstemious  diet  and  a  long  rest.  He 
knows  of  no  specific  for the  cure  of  the 
habit. 

#

If  you  look  at  all  the  records  you  will 
discover that  most  men  who  die  young 
were  hustlers.

If you want  to  buy 
Shoes  direct from 
an  exclusive  man­
ufacturer  -  -  -  -

W rite  for  Particulars  to

C.  M. Henderson & Co.

“  W estern  Shoe 

Builders”

Chicago,  Illinois

A S u m m erT rip  

For  a  Nam e

The G. R. &  I.  Passenger  Department 
will give a  round  trip   ticket from any 
point on  its  line  to  Petoskey ¡or  Harbor 
Springs, for the best name for Its

TRAIN No.  7.

This  train 

leaves  Richmond,  Ind., 
every day except  Sunday  at  5:40  a.  m , 
Fort Wayne, Ind., 8:50 a. m., Kalamazoo, 
Mich., 12:20 noon, and  commencing June 
30th will leave Grand Rapids at 2:00 p.m., 
making the  run  to  Petoskey  In  a  little 
over five hours, arriving at Traverse City 
at about 7:00 p.  m.,  Petoskey  about  7:20 
p. m., Bay View about 7:30, Wequetonsing 
7:40 and Harbor Springs about  7:45 p. m 
It is  a daylight  train  with  parlor  car 
from Fort Wayne  to  Grand  Rapids, and 
buffet parlor car from  Grand  Rapids  to 
Harbor Springs.  North of Grand Rapids 
it makes as fast time as the famous  early 
morning flyer, the ’‘Northland  Express.” 
Think up an appropriate,  catchy  name 
for this  train, suggesting its  speed,  com­
fort  and  points  reached  and  get  the 
ticket.  Any one can try.
H more than  one person  suggests  the 
name that is selected, the  ticket  goes  to 
the one whose letter is received first.
All names must be In before  June  22d. 
Address

C.  Lt.  LOCKWOOD, G.  P.  A. 

Grand Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

■ 

Men’s  English  Welt  Shoes

No.  152

Stock  No. 

Bai.  English  W elt 

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

(wine 
W elt 

.

.

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The  above  are  carried  in  stock 

on  D.  E .  E E .  widths.

W e  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.

r
The  Best Value 

of  the  Season

Our  “ I  W ill”   Line  of

Women’s  Genuine  Goodyear  Welts  at  $1.75

Brazilian  Kid  or  Milwaukee  Velour  Calf  stock. 
Genuine  Goodyear  W elt  or  Turned  Soles.
Boston or British Toe Lasts,  C to  EE.

. Edwards=Stanwood  Shoe  Co.

Monroe and  Franklin  Sts.,  CHICAGO,  ILL.

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Village  Improvement
How  to  Proceed  In  O rganizing  an  Im ­

provem ent Association.

The  National  League  of  Improve­
ment  Associations  stands  for the promo­
tion  of  beauty  and  cleanly  living  in  all 
parts  of our  land. 
It  is  ready  to  aid  in 
the  promotion  of  good roads and forestry 
laws,  and  in  the  preservation  of  natural 
beauty  and  historic  landmarks  from  de­
struction  by  vandals. 
It  will  work  to 
save  from  pollution  our streams  and  to 
aid  in  bringing  to  the  attention  of  tour­
ists  a  wider  knowledge  of  the  great 
beauty  of  our  rivers, streams,  brooks  and 
springs. 
It  will  endeavor  to  create  a 
public  sentiment  in  favor of  public  rec­
reation  grounds,  such  as  the  system  of 
parks  in  Essex  county.  New  Jersey. 
It 
will  seek  tojjromote the establishment of 
traveling  libraries and art  galleries,  and 
to  bring  to  the  public  mind  a  higher 
knowledge  of  the  moral  and  educational 
value  of  municipal  beauty  and  health­
ful 
living,  and  to  bring  into  the  hum­
blest  home  in  our  broad  land  the  joy  of 
blooming  flowers. 
“ How,”   you  ask, 
“ may  all  these  good  things  be  brought 
to  pass,  and  bow  may  a  public  senti­
ment  in  their  favor  be  created?”

We  answer  by  the  formation  of an im­
provement  association 
in  every  city, 
town  and  village  in  America,  the  local 
body  to  work  not  alone  for  its  own 
town's  improvement,  but  by  the  aid 
and  the  influence  of  its  numbers  to  help 
the  National  League  of  Improvement 
Associations  to  become  a  power for good 
that  will  make  of America  such  a  gar­
den  spot  as  the  world  has  never  yet 
seen  or  dreamed  of.

To  get  people 

interested  enough  to 
first 
form  an  association  you  must 
arouse 
local  sentiment.  Talk  to  your 
friends,  loan  them  copies  of  the  Michi­
gan  Tradesman  containing  the  contri­
butions  of  R.  M.  Streeter  and  myself. 
This  will  tell  what  has  been  done  in 
other  towns. 
Invite  the  people  of  your 
neighborhood,  regardless  of  social  con­
dition,  to  your  home  some  evening  to 
talk  over  the  work. 
If  your  town  is 
large  enough  to  support  a  newspaper, 
invite  the  editor  and  his  force  to the 
meeting.  To  a  man  they  will  aid  and 
support  you.

If  there  is  one  family  in  your  neigh­
borhood  that 
is  particularly  obnoxious 
by  reason  of  its  untidy  premises,  by  all 
means  invite  all  its  members,  and  treat 
them  with  all  the  courtesy  and  tact  you 
possess.  You  may  find  to  your  amaze­
ment  that  this  family  will  take  a  heart­
ier  interest  and  do  more  work  than 
many  whom  you  rightfully  expected 
would  aid  you. 
If  you  are  successful 
in  winning  such  people to  your  side  you 
have  accomplished  at  the  start  one  of 
the  objects  of  improvement  association 
work.  It  is  a  singular  fact, but  one  often 
proven  in  our  work,  that  a  tactful  wom­
an  who  will show  a  little  human  interest 
in  such  families,  and  will  share  flower 
seeds  and  cuttings  of  plants  with  them, 
will  do  more  to  develop  in  them a spirit 
of  right  living  than many generations  of 
slum  workers  who proffer an impertinent 
patronage.  There 
is  an  instinct  in  the 
human  heart  that  resents the feeling  that 
any  one 
is  better  than  we.  This  is a 
divine  instinct,  to  be  encouraged  rather 
than  repressed ;  for  when  self-respect  is 
dead  beyond  repair,  hope  is  dead.
the 

im­
portance  of  winning  the  members  of 
such  families  to your side,  because with­
out  their  co-operation  your  work  will 
fall  short  of  its  full  usefulness,  Their

1  dwell  particularly  upon 

I  have 

premises  will  be  a continual eyesore and 
they  can  do  much  to  hamper you.  Their 
children  may  destroy  your  shrubs  and 
floweis  and  trample  a  path  across  your 
lawns. 
learned  to  know  that 
envy  more  than  maliciousness  is  at  the 
bottom  of  nearly  all.  this  cutting  of 
shade  trees  and  pulling  up  of  flowers. 
If  their  own 
love  of  beauty  is 
gratified  and  their civic  pride  aroused, 
vandalism  of  this  sort  will  be  almost 
unknown. 
If  you  can  not  get  the  par­
ents  to  come,  get  the  children,  one  after 
the  other. 
If they  will  not come  to you, 
go  to  them  and  give  them  flower  seeds 
and  show  tbeift  how  to  care  for  them. 
You  will  win  them  in  time.

innate 

Above  all,  do  not  be discouraged if  in 
point  of  numbers  your  first  meeting 
should  be  a  failure.  The  secretary  of 
an  association 
in  Texas  wrote  me  that 
twenty-six  times  she  set  a  date  for a 
meeting  to  organize  an  association  be­
fore  she  got  people  enough  together  to 
elect  the  proper number  of officers.  But, 
once  organized,  and  the  objects  and 
plans  set  forth  in  the  local  newspaper, 
there  was  no 
lack  of  members,  nor of 
means  to  carry  on  the  work.  This  as­
sociation,  largely  composed  of  women, 
in  a  town  of  twenty-five  hundred  inhab­
itants,  has  aroused  public  sentiment  in 
such  a  way  that  the  go-as-you-please 
manner  of  putting  down  sidewalks  of 
whatever  material  and  width  the  owner 
pleased  has  been  stopped,  and  side­
walks  of  a  uniform  width  and  material 
are  used.  The  cemetery  has  been  put 
in  order.  Flowers  blossom  now 
in  al­
most  every  window  and  yard  in  town. 
Thet  school yards were planted in flowers 
and  shrubs,  and  the  secretary  writes  me 
that  the  children  of  association  mem­
bers,  with  the  peculiarly  frank  manners 
of  childhood,  remind  the  children  of 
non-association  members 
their 
backyards  and  alleys  need  attention.

that 

When  it  comes  the  turn  of  these  chil­
dren  to govern  their town,  this  prelim­
inary  training  in  civics  will  put  them 
beyond  the  reach  of  the  politician  seek­
ing  the  job  of  removing  the  city  waste 
at  a  cost  higher than  the  pile  of  rubbish 
to be  removed.  These  boys  will  know 
from  experience  what  the  exact  cost 
should  be.

Let  us  suppose,  however,  that  one 
dozen  people  have  answered  your  call— 
enough  to  start  with  are  there.  Try  to 
have  both  sexes  represented,  but  if  only 
women  are  present  ask  one  who  has 
proved  the  most  active  and  fearless  in 
public work  to  act  as  chairman. 
Then 
appoint  or  elect  a  secretary  pro tern, who 
will  proceed  to  keep  a  record  of  the 
meeting.  The  chairman  may  state  the 
object  of  the  meeting  or  may  invite 
some  one  who  has  heard  and  read  much 
about  the  march  of  civic  improvement 
to  do  so.  An  open  discussion  may  fol­
low  on  the  desirability  of  forming  an 
association 
in  your  town,  and  if  it  is 
agreed  to  be  feasible,  then  proceed  to 
the  election  of the  regular  officers.

resolutions 

Be  exceedingly  cautious  in  the  selec­
tion  of  your  officers  for  this  first  year.
It  will  depend  upon  them  whether  the 
association  fulfills the purposes for which 
it  was  organized,  or  adds  another to  the 
long  list  of  societies  that simply meet  to 
pass 
condemning  public 
officials  for  remissness,  for  which  you 
are  quite  as  responsible  as  they.  Do 
not  choose  those  wily  old  taxpayers  who 
cheerfully  join  every  public  organiza­
tion  in  town  in  order to control 
it  and 
keep  their taxes  down,  and  after killing 
all  efforts  at  reform  proceed  with  the 
usual  routine  of  having  the  tax  levy  ad­
justed  to  suit themselves.  Nor should

you  choose  women  who  have  run  all 
church  and  social  organizations  until 
there  is  a  feeling  of  rebellion  against 
their  further  rule.  Rather  choose  the 
most successful,go-ahead young  business 
men  and  popular,  progressive  women 
for  your  officers— people  who  make  suc­
cesses  of  their  undertakings.  Above 
all,  do  not 
in  your  public  meetings 
abuse  your city  officials.  Rather  work 
in  harmony  with  them.  You  will  find 
it  the  wiser  plan. 
If  interest  enough 
has  been  aroused  to  call  a  meeting  in 
some  public  building  there  will  be 
plenty  of  people present  who  are  able  to 
conduct  the  meeting  and  its  election  in 
an  orderly  manner.

At  this  point  the  best  aid  I  can  give 
you  is  to  reprint  in  full the constitutions 
and  by-laws  of  the  Town  Improvement 
Associations  of  Montclair,  New  Jersey, 
and  Wichita,  Kansas.  The  latter  is  the 
most  simple  and  easily  understood  of 
any  I  have  seen,  and  is  very  suitable 
for  small  associations,  while  that  of 
Montclair  is  the  constitution  of  a  large 
and  successful  society.  These  consti­
tutions  I will  ask  the Tradesman  to pub­
lish  in  the  near  future.

These  constitutions  are,  of  course,  to 
be  modified  to  suit  your  especial  asso­
ciation.  The  dues  also  will  be  what­
ever the  majority  decide upon.  Twenty- 
five  cents  is  the  lowest  annual  due  of 
which  I  know.  Fifty  cents  to  one  dollar 
is  the  average.  Children  under  fourteen 
are  admitted  for a  small  fee.  Twenty- 
five  cents  or  the  planting  of  a  tree  is 
considered  sufficient.  By  all  means 
interested  if  you 
get  all  the  children 
can.  Eleven  hundred 
in 
Montclair are  pledged  to “  work together 
in  making  Montclair a  happier  place  in 
which  to  live  by  doing  everything  we 
can  to  make  the  town  more  healthful 
and  beautiful.”   This  army  of  children 
is  an  auxiliary  of  the  Montclair  asso­
ciation  and  they  wear a  pretty  badge  of 
membership. 

Jessie  M.  Good.

children 

The  D rum m er in  H istory  and  in  Every­

day  Life.

In  the  beginning  God  made 

the 
heaven  and  the  earth  and  all  that is con­
tained  therein.  Then  after  resting  many 
days  He  created  the  drummer.  Then 
He  rested  again.

The  drummer  was  not  always  as  you 
see him  to-day.  Once  he  was  very  small 
potatoes  and  few  in  a  hill— not  much 
larger  than  a  book  agent  or  a  clock 
peddler—but  that  was  in  the  pioneer 
days of the  profession. 
is  different 
now.

It 

The  career of  the  drummer  has  been 
swift  and  strong  and  startling.  He  has 
covered  more  ground  and  conquered 
more  fields  than  all  other  pioneers  in 
all  other  fields  combined.

Formerly  Mahomet  was  forced  to go 
to  the  mountain,  but  now 
it 
is  the 
mountain  that  does  the  going. 
The 
drummer did  this.  It  was  the  big  man­
ufacturers  and  wholesalers  that  first  dis­
covered  his  utility;  at  first  they  sent 
him  out  slowly  and  in  small  quantities. 
He  was  looked  at  as  the  advance  agent 
of  an  innovation,  and  innovations  are 
generally  regarded  with  distrust.  So 
was the  drummer and  peradventurer not 
wholly  without  reason  in  that  day.  But 
the  retailer  discovered presently that  the 
drummer was  a  very  handy  man  to have 
about  the  premises and  began  to 'culti­
vate  him.  Thus  encouraged,  he  began 
rapidly  to  increase  and  multiply.  Com­
petition  became  keener  with  the  in­
crease,  and  so  did  the  drummer.  Then 
came  the  time  when  every  concern  that 
bad  anything  to  sell  was  represented  in

the  trade  by  the  drummer  until  he came 
to  be  recognized  as  a  permanent  and 
valuable  institution  of  an  eminently 
respectable  character.  To-day there  are 
some  hundreds  of  thousands  of  them 
in 
the  United  States,  and  through  him 
trade  has  been  revolutionized.  That 
same  keen  competition  has  resulted 
in 
bringing  to  the  rank  of  the  drummer 
some  of  the  shrewdest  intellects  known 
to the  commercial  world. 
in­
stances  members  of firms  are on the road 
in  the  interest  of their  own  house  and 
frequently  for others.

In  many 

is 

The  drummer  is  a  power  in  many 
fields.  His  name 
legion  and  he  is 
always  on  the  spot.  He  is  organized 
into  protective  associations,  such  as  the 
Travelers’  Protective  Association,  and 
has  thousands  of  members,  and  various 
other  societies.  He  may,  when 
so 
minded,  wield  a  ballot  power  that  will 
decide  who  shall  be  the  rulers  of  the 
land,  and 
likely  that  he  did 
this  in  the  last  presidential  election,  for 
he  is  strong  enough  to carry  the  doubt­
ful  states.

it  is 

He  goes  everywhere;  he  meets  every­
body ;  he  talks  to  everybody,  and  by'the 
force  of  his  eloquence,  the  power of  his 
magnetism  and  the  potency  of  his stick- 
to-it-iveness  makes  and  unmakes  poli­
ticians,  policies  and  powers.  He 
is 
lightning,  cyclones  go 
proof  against 
around  him  when  he 
is  in  their  path 
and  earthquakes  tremble  if  he  is  about.
He  is  armed  and  equipped  for  every 
emergency.  For  the  cold  weather he 
has  snow  shoes  and  sleighs  in  abund­
ance.  For  high  water  he  has  boats  of 
every  kind,  and  he  makes  his  way  over 
obstacles  that  baffle  all  others. 
It  is 
his  business  to  reach  his  customers 
ahead  of all  others,  and  he  does  this  by 
hook  or crook ;  in  fact,  he  is  a  wonder, 
a  marvel,  a  revelation  of the  Nineteenth 
Century.

Keenwitted  he  is  and  philosophical, 
with  a 
judicial  mind  that  believes  in 
fair  play.  He  is  an  ideal  of  reciprocity 
and  helps  those  who  help  him. 
If  he  is 
pleased  with  his  hotel,  its  business  is 
made,  but  God  help  the  person  who 
offends  him  by  ill  treatment.

He  is  clever  and  jolly,  with  a  good 
humor  that  is  infectious,  shrewd  and 
affable,  quick,  bright,  intelligent,  gen­
erous,  always  ready  for a  good  story,  a 
square  meal  or a  flirtation,  and  will  do 
a  good  turn  by  his  fellow-man  sooner 
than  another.  You  can  tie  to  him,  for 
he 
is  sincere.  He-will  divide  his  last 
dollar with  a  friend  or  a  stranger  if  in 
need. 
If he  is  silent  you  can  bet  your 
last  dime  he  is  studying  where  he  can 
sell  a  bill  of goods.  He  is  nearly  al­
ways  worth  listening  to,  for he  has  op­
portunities  for  accumulating  stores  of 
useful  information  that  never  comes 
your  way,  and  this  he  dispenses  with  a 
liberal  hand.  He  is  up  to  date  and  fa­
miliar  with  the  latest  styles. 
In  short, 
the  drummer  is  a  man  of  many  accom­
plishments  and  many  inventions.  The 
earth  is  his  heritage  and  his  home  is  on 
whatever  part  of  God’s  footstool  he hap­
pens to  be,and  none  disputes  his  claim. 
But  if,  happily,  he  have  a  home  with 
wife  and  little  ones,  who  is  so happy  as 
he  to  return  to them ;  who  so tender and 
affectionate,and  who  so  welcome?  And 
it  is  about  such  a  hearth,  humble  al­
though  it  may  be  at  times,  that  the  ten­
der  pure 
love  finds  its  sweetest  ex­
pression.

God  bless  the  drummers 1

Jake  Haas.

The  man  with  the  handsome  silk 
handkerchief  is  the  one  who  is  most 
afraid of a  sore throat,

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E g g s

Different Methods of Preserving and Ship­

ping  Kggs.

The  shells  of  new-laid  eggs  should  be 
wiped  clean,  if  necessary,  and  the  eggs 
graded  as  regards  size. 
In  some  mar­
kets  brown  eggs  are  preferred  to  white. 
It  is  stated  that  in  the  Boston  market 
brown-shelled  eggs,  such  as  are  laid  by 
Partridge  Cochins,  Dark  Brahmas, 
Barred  Plymouth  Rocks,  etc.,  sell  at 
2@5  cents  per  dozen  more  than  white- 
shelled  eggs,  such  as  are  laid  by  Brown 
Leghorns,  Buff  Leghorns,  and  White 
and  Black  Minorcas. 
In  the  New  York 
market,  on  the  other hand,  white-shelled 
eggs  bring  the  higher  price.  The  color 
of  the  shell  has  no  relation  to  the  food 
value.

Eggs  which  are to be shipped,  whether 
with  or  without  a  special  attempt  at 
preservation,  should  be  perfectly  fresh, 
and  should  never  be  packed  in  any  ma­
terial  which  has  a  disagreeable  odor. 
Musty  straw  or  bran  will 
injure  the 
flavor  and  keeping  qualities  of  eggs 
packed in it.  When shipped,  eggs should 
not  be  placed  near  anything  which  has 
a  disagreeable  or  strong  odor.  Keeping 
eggs  near a cargo  of apples during trans­
portation  has  been  known to injure  their 
their  market  value. 
flavor  and  also 
Micro-organisms  may 
enter  the  egg 
through  the  minute  pores  in  the  shell 
and  set  up  fermentation  which  ruins  the 
egg. 
In  other  words,  it  becomes  rotten. 
The  normal  egg  shell  has  a  natural  sur­
face  coating  of  mucilaginous  matter, 
which  hinders  the  entrance  of 
these 
harmful  organisms  for  a  considerable 
time.  If this  coating is  removed  or  soft­
ened  by  washing  or  otherwise,  the 
keeping  quality  of  the  egg 
is  much 
If  the  process  of  hatching 
diminished. 
has  begun  the  flavor of  the  egg 
is  also 
injured.

“ Candling,”   as 

There  are  many  ways  of testing  the 
freshness  of  eggs  which  are  more  or less 
satisfactory. 
it  is 
called,  is  one  of  the  methods  most  com­
monly  followed.  The  eggs  are  held  up 
in  a  suitable  device  against  a  light. 
The  fresh  egg  appears  unclouded  and 
almost  translucent;  if  incubation  has 
begun,  a  dark  spot  is  visible,  which  in­
creases  in  size  according  to  the  length 
of  time 
incubation  has  continued.  A 
rotten  egg  appears  dark  colored.  Egg 
dealers  become  very  expert  in 
judging 
eggs  by  testing  them  by  this  and  other 
methods.

The  age  of  eggs  may  be approximate­
ly  judged  by  taking  advantage  of  the 
fact  that  as  they  grow  old  their  density 
decreases  through  evaporation  of  mois­
ture.  According  to  Siebel  a  new-laid 
egg  placed  in  a  vessel  of  brine  made  in 
the  proportion  of  2  ounces  of  salt  to  1 
pint  of  water  will  at  once  sink  to  the 
bottom.  An  egg  one  day  old  will  sink 
below  the  surface,  but  not  to the  bot­
tom,  while  one  three  days  old  will 
swim  just  immersed  in  the  liquid. 
If 
more  than  three  days  old,  the  egg  will 
float  on  the  surface,  the  amount  of  shell 
exposed  increasing with age ;  and  if two 
weeks  old,  only  a  little  of  the  shell  will 
dip  in  the  liquid.

The  New  York  State  Experiment  Sta­
tion  studied  the  changes  in  the  specific 
gravity  of  the  eggs  on  keeping  and 
found  that  on  an  average  fresh  eggs had 
a  specific  gravity  of  1.090;  after they 
were  ten  days  old,  of 1.072;  after twenty 
days,  of  1.053,  and  after thirty  days,  of 
1.035. 
test  was  not  continued 
fqrther.  The  changes  in  specific  grav­
ity  correspond  to the  changes  in  water

The 

content.  When  eggs  are  kept  they  con­
tinually 
lose  water  by  evaporation 
through  the  pores 
in  the  shell.  After 
ten  days  the  average  loss  was  found  to 
be  1.60  per  cent, of  the  total  water  pres­
ent 
in  the  egg  when  perfectly  fresh; 
after  twenty  days,  3.16  per  cent.,  and 
after thirty  days,  5  per  cent.  The  av­
erage  temperature  of  the  room where the 
eggs  were  kept  was  63.8  deg.  Fahren­
heit.  The evaporation  was  found  to  in­
crease  somewhat  with 
increased  tem­
perature.  None  of  the  eggs  used  in  the 
thirty-day  test  spoiled.

immersing 

Fresh  eggs  are  preserved  in  a  number 
of  ways,  which  may,  for convenience, 
be  grouped  under  two  general  classes: 
(1)  Use  of  low  temperature,  i.  e.,  cold 
storage ;  and  (2)  excluding  the  air by 
coating,  covering  or 
the 
eggs,  some  material  or  solution  being 
used  which  may  or  may  not  be  a  germ­
icide.  The  two  methods  are  often  com­
bined.  The  first  method  owes  its  value 
to  the  fact  that  micro-organisms,  like 
larger  forms  of  plant  life,  will  not  grow 
below  certain  temperature,  the  neces­
sary  degree  of  cold  varying  with  the 
species.  So  far as  experiment  shows, 
it 
impossible  to  kill  these  minute 
plants,  popularly  called  “ bacteria”   or 
“ germs,”   by  any  degree  of  cold;  and 
so,  very  low  temperature  is  unnecessary 
for  preserving  eggs,  even  if  it  were  not 
desirable  for  other  reasons,  such  as  in­
jury  by  freezing  and 
increased  cost. 
According  to  a recent  report  of  the  Can­
adian  commission  of  agriculture  and 
dairying:

is 

When  fresh-laid  eggs  are  put 

into 
cold  storage  with  a  sweet,  pure  atmos­
phere  at  a  temperature  of  34  deg.  Fah­
renheit,  very  little,  if any,  change  takes 
place  in  their quality.  The  egg  cases 
should  be  fairly  close  to  prevent  circu­
lation  of  air through  them,  which would 
cause  evaporation  of the  egg contents.

Eggs  should  be  carried  on  the  cars 
and  on  the  steamships  at  a  temperature 
of  42  to  38  deg.  When  cases  containing 
eggs  are  removed  from  the  cold  storage 
chamber,  they  should  not  be  opened  at 
once  in  an  atmosphere  where  the  tem­
perature  is  warm.  They  should  be  left 
tor two  days  unopened,  so that  the  eggs 
may  become  gradually  warmed  to the 
temperature  of  the  air 
in  the  room 
where  they  have  been  deposited,  other­
wise  a  condensation  of  moisture  from 
the  atmosphere  will  appear on  the  shell 
and  give  it  the  appearance  of  sweat­
ing.  This  so-called  “ sweating”   is  not 
an  exudation  through  the  shell  of  the 
egg  and  can  be  entirely  prevented  in 
the  manner  indicated.

It 

is  stated  by  Siebel  that  in  prac­
tice  in  this  country  32  to  33  deg.  Fahr­
enheit  is  regarded  as  the  best  tempera­
ture  for  storing  eggs,  although  some 
American  packers  prefer  31  to  34  deg., 
while  English  writers  recommend  a 
temperature  of  40  to  45  deg.  as  being 
equally  satisfactory. 
The  amount  of 
in  the  air  in  the  cold  storage 
moisture 
chamber  has,  without  doubt,  an 
im­
portant  bearing  on  this  point.  Eggs 
in 
are  generally  placed  in  cold  storage 
April  and  the  early  part  of  May. 
If 
placed 
later  than  this  time 
they  do  not  keep  well.  They are  seldom 
kept 
longer  than  a  year. 
Eggs  which  have  been  stored  at  a  tem­
perature  of  30  deg.  must  be  used  soon 
after  removal  from  storage,  while  those 
stored  at  35  to  40 deg.  will  keep  for  a 
considerable  time  after  removal  from 
storage,  and  are  said  to  have  the  flavor 
of  fresh  eggs.  The  author cited  states 
that  eggs  for  market,  especially  those 
designed  for  cold  storage,  should  not 
be  washed.  Stored  eggs 
should  be 
turned  at  least  twice  a  week,  to  prevent 
the  yolk  from  adhering  to  the  shell.

in  storage 

in  storage 

Eggs  are  sometimes  removed  from

the  shells  and  stored  in  bulk,  usually 
on  a  commercial  scale,  in  cans  contain­
ing  about  fifty  pounds  each.  The  tem­
perature  recommended  is  about  30 deg. 
Fahrenheit,  or  a 
little  below  freezing, 
and  it  is  said  they will  keep any desired 
length  of time.  They  must  be  used  soon 
after  they  have  been  removed  from  stor­
age  and  have  been  thawed.

The  substances  suggested  and  the 
methods  tried  for  excluding  air  convey­
ing  micro-organisms to  the  egg  and  for 
killing  those  already  present  are  very 
numerous.  An  old  domestic  method 
is  to  pack  the  eggs  in  oats  or  bran.  An­
other,  which  has  always  had  many  ad­
vocates,  consists 
in  covering  the  eggs 
with 
limewater,  which  may  or  may  not 
contain  salt.  The  results  obtained  by 
such  methods  are  not  by  any means uni­
form.  Sometimes  the  eggs  remain  fresh 
and  of  good  flavor,  and  at  other  times 
they  spoil.  Recently, 
in  Germany, 
twenty  methods  of  preserving  eggs  were 
tested.  The  eggs  were  kept  for  eight 
months  with  the  following iesult :  Those 
preserved 
i.  e.,  brine, 
were  ail  bad,  not  rotten,  but  unpalat­
able,  the  salt  having  penetrated  the

in  salt  water, 

Grand  Rapids 

Cold  Storage  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan. 

Citizens Phone 3600.

We  do  a  general  storage,  and  solicit 

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R.  H ir t,  J r.,

34  and  36  Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

References:  City Savings Bank and Commercial Agencies.

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and  Poultry.  Will buy or handle for shippers’  account  Cold  Storage and  (  
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eggs.  Of the  eggs  preserved  by  wrap 
ping 
in  paper  80  per  cent,  were  bad , 
the  same  proportion  of  those  preserved 
in  a  solution  of  salicylic  acid  and  gly 
cerin  were  unfit  for  use.  Seventy  per 
cent,  of the  eggs  rubbed  with  salt  were 
bad,  and  the  same  proportion  of  those 
preserved  by  packing  in  bran or covered 
with  paraffin  or  varnished  with  a  solu 
tion  of  glycerin  and  salicylic  acid.  Of 
the  eggs  sterilized  by  placing  in boiling 
water  for  twelve  to  fifteen  seconds,  50 
per  cent,  were  bad.  One-half of those 
treated  with  a  solution  of  alum or  put i_ 
a  solution  of  salicylic  acid  were  also 
bad.  Forty  per  cent,  of the  eggs  va_ 
nished  with  water  glass,  collodion  or 
shellac  were  spoiled.  Twenty  per  cent 
of  the  eggs  packed 
in  peat  dust  were 
unfit  for  use,  the  same  percentage  of 
those  preserved  in  wood ashes  or treated 
with  a  solution  of  boric  acid  and  water 
glass  or  with  a  solution of permanganate 
of  potash  were  also  bad.  Some  of  the 
eggs  were  varnished  with  vaseline 
these  were  all  good,  as  were  those  pre 
served  in  limevvater or  in  a  solution  of 
water  glass.  Of the  last  three  methods, 
preservation  in  a  solution  of  water glass 
is  especially  recommended,  since  va 
nishing  the  eggs  with  vaseline 
is  time 
consuming,  and  treatment  with  lime 
water  sometimes  communicates  to  the 
eggs  a  disagreeable  odor and  taste.

Many  of  these  methods  have  been 
tested  at  the  agricultural  experiment 
stations 
in  this  and  other  countries. 
The  Canada  Station  found  that  infertile 
eggs  kept  much  better than  fertile  eggs 
when  packed  in  bran. 
In  view  of  the 
fact  that  preservation  in  brine  has  been 
said  to  injure  the  eggs  by  giving  them 
an  unpleasant,  salty  taste,  experiments 
were  recently  made  at  Berlin  Univer 
sity  to  learn  the  proportion  of salt which 
entered  the  eggs  when  placed 
in  brine 
of  varying  strength. 
It  was  found  by 
the 
investigator  that  with  a  saturated 
or  half-saturated  solution  the  salt  en 
tered  the  eggs  at  first  very quickly  and 
later  much  more  slowly.  After  remain­
ing  four  days  in  the  saturated  solution, 
an  egg  contained  as  much  salt  as  one 
which  remained  four to  six  weeks  in  a 
1  to  3  per  cent,  solution. 
If  kept  in 
the  saturated  solution  four  weeks,  1.1 
per cent,  salt  was  found  in  the  yolk  and 
1.5  per cent,  in  the  white  of  the  eggs. 
None  of  the  eggs  tested  were  spoiled. 
When  a  1  to  s  per  cent,  solution  was 
used,  the  eggs  kept  well  for  four  weeks 
and  did  not  have  a  salty  flavor.  These 
instances  are  sufficient  to  show  that  any 
given  method  will  give  different  results 
in  different  bands,  and  this  is  not  sur­
prising,  since  the  eggs  used  are  not  al­
ways  uniformly  fresh,  nor  is  it  at  all 
certain  that  other experimental  condi­
tions  are  uniform.

In  the 

last  two  or  three  years  the 
method  of  preserving  eggs  with  a  solu­
tion  of  water  glass  has  been  often  tested 
both 
in  a  practical  way  and  in  iabora»- 
tories.  The  North  Dakota  Experiment 
Station  has  been  especially  interested 
in  the  problem. 
In  these  experiments 
a  10  per  cent,  solution  of  water glass 
preserved  eggs  so  effectually  that  “ at 
the  end  of  3%  months  eggs  that  were 
preserved  the  first  part  of August  still 
appeared  to  be  perfectly  fresh. 
In most 
little  time,  the 
packed  eggs,  after  a 
yolk  settles  to  one  side,  and  the  egg 
is 
then  inferior  in  quality. 
In  eggs  pre­
served  for  3#  months  in  water glass, 
the  yolk  retained  its  normal  position  in 
the  egg,  and  in  taste  they  were  not  to 
be  distinguished  from  fresh  store  eggs. 
Again,  most  packed  eggs  will  not beat 
up  well  for  cakemaking  or  frosting,

while  eggs  from  a  water glass  solution 
seemed  quite  equal  to  the  average  fresh 
eggs  of  the  market.”

Water  glass  or  soluble  glass  is  the 

popular  name  for potassium  silicate 
for  sodium  silicate,  the  commercial  ar 
tide  often  being  a  mixture  of  the  two 
The  commercial  water glass  is  used  for 
preserving  eggs,  as  it  is  much  cheape 
than  the  chemically  pure  article  which 
is  required  for  many  scientific  pur 
poses.  Water glass  is  commonly  sold 
in  two  forms,  a  sirup-thick  liquid,  of 
about  the  consistency  of  molasses,  and 
a  powder.  The  thick  syrup,  the  form 
perhaps  most  usually  seen,  is  sometimes 
sold  wholesale  as  low  as  1%  cents  per 
pound 
in  carboy  lots.  The  retail  price 
varies,  although  10 cents  per pound,  ac 
cording  to  the  North  Dakota  Experi 
ment  Station,  seems  to  be  the  price 
commonly  asked.  According  to  the  re 
suits  obtained  at  this  station  a  solution 
of  the  desired  strength  for  preserving 
eggs  may  be  made  by  dissolving  one 
part  of  the  syrup-thick  water  glass  i 
ten  parts,  by  measure,  of  water. 
If  the 
water  glass  powder  is  used  less  is  re 
quired  for  a  given  quantity  of  water. 
Much  of the  water glass  offered  for  sale 
is  very  alkaline.  Such  material  should 
not  be  used,  as  the  eggs  preserved  in  i 
will  not  keep  well.  Only  pure  water 
should  be  used  in  making  the  solution 
and  it  is  best  to  boil  it  and  cool 
it  be 
fore  mixing  with  the  water  glass.  The 
solution  should  be  carefully  poured over 
the  eggs,  packed 
in  a  suitable  vessel 
which  must  be  clean  and  sweet,  and  i 
wooden  kegs  or  barrels  are  used  they 
should  be  thoroughly  scalded  before 
packing  the  eggs  in  them.  The  packed 
eggs  should  be  stored  in  a  cool  place. 
If  they  are  placed  where  it  is  too  warm 
silicate  deposits  on  the  shell  and  the 
eggs  do  not  keep  well.  The  North  Da 
kota  Experiment  Station  found 
it  best 
not  to  wash  the  eggs  before  packing,  as 
this  removes  the  natural  mucilaginous 
coating  on  the  outside  of  the  shell.  The 
Station  states  that  one  gallon  of  the  so­
lution 
is  entirely  is  sufficient  for  fifty 
dozen  eggs  if  they  are  properly  packed.
is,  perhaps,  too  much  to  expect 
that  eggs  packed 
in  any  way  will  be 
just  as  satisfactory  for  table  use  as  the 
fresh  article.  The  opinion  seems  to  be, 
however,  that  those  preserved  with 
water glass  are  superior to  most  of those 
preserved  otherwise.  The  shells  of  eggs 
preserved  in  water glass  are  apt to crack 
in  boiling. 
It  is  stated  that  this  may 
be  prevented  by  puncturing  the  blunt 
end  of  the  egg  with  a  pin  before  put­
ting  it  into  the  water.

It 

It 

In  the  East  Indian Archipelago  salted 
ducks’  eggs  are  an  article  of  diet.  The 
new-laid  eggs  are  packed  for  two or 
three  weeks  in  a  mixture  of  clay,  brick 
dust  and  salt.  They  are  eaten  hard- 
boiled. 
is  said  that  in  this  region 
in  India  turtle  eggs  are  also  pre­
and 
served 
in  salt.  These  products,  while 
unusual,  do  not  necessarily  suggest  an 
unpleasant  article  of  diet.  The  same 
can  hardly  be  said  of  a  Chinese  product 
which  has  often  been described.  Ducks’ 
in  the  ground  for ten 
eggs  are  buried 
twelve  months  and undergo a peculiar 
fermentation. 
The  hydrogen  sulphid 
formed  breaks  the  shell  and  escapes, 
while  the  egg  becomes  hard  in  texture.
It  is  said  that  the  final  product does  not 
possess  a  disagreeable  odor  or  tasted. 
Eggs  treated 
in  this  or  some  similar 
way  are  on  sale  in  the  Chinese  quarter 
of  San  Francisco,  and  very  likely  in 
other  American  cities.  A  sample  re­
cently  examined  had  the  appearance  of 
an  egg  covered  with  dark-colored  clay 
or mud. 

C.  F.  Langworthy, 

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Chicago. 

Kansas  City. 

St.  Paul. 

So.  Haven,  Mich.

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▼e  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.

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Butter  and  Eggs

H um orous  Side  of  th e  Process  B u tter 

Question.

Upon  close  investigation  of  the  reno­
vated  butter  subject it will be  found  that 
it  is  a  very  serious  matter,  and  in using 
the  word  serious  we  do  not attach  to  it 
the  ignorant  general  acceptation  of  the 
word  as  portending  evil,  but 
its  true 
meaning— serious,  weighty,  important, 
as  associated  with  its  great  weight  and 
importance  as  an article promising great 
benefit  to the  world,  instead  of  evils  or 
injuries.

As  we  have  stated  before,  the  renova­
tion  of  butter  is  in  its  infancy,  and  we 
are  sure  that  it  will  continue  as  a  liv­
ing  issue  long  after the  present  genera­
tion  of  butter  men  have  passed  away 
and  the  coming  generation  will  point  to 
it  with  pride  as  one  of  the  boons  be­
queathed  to  them  by their  practical  and 
scientific  fathers  of  this  generation.  We 
have  told  our  readers  bow  this gifted 
youth  came  into  being  as  a  bastard,  or, 
as  the  rich  and  the  nobility  term  it  in 
polite  language—an  accident  of  love— 
so  let  us  follow  his  advancing  career 
and 
judge  him  by  that,  if  he  is  not 
worthy  to  be  considered,  admitted  and 
entertained  by  the  highest  butter  clubs 
of this  land,  especially  as  he  is  now  ad­
mitted 
into  the  best  “ Lonnon”   and 
“ Hinglish”   butter clubs,  and  you know 
he  went  over  to  “ Lonnon”   with  his 
trousers  turned  up  at  the  bottom  to 
show  that  he  had  sense  enough  to ‘ * keep 
out  of  the  water,"  and  so  got  into  good 
society  and  the  butter  clubs.  The  ren­
ovated  bastard  had  a  hard  time 
in 
America,  where  he  was  born,  and  had 
to  keep  company  with  the  lowest  order 
of  butterdom  and  was  only  admitted  in­
to  such  clubs  as  the  following  named, 
the 
“ Ship-slush  Club,”   “ La  Circle 
Ranee”   and  the  “ Association  of  Glu­
cose  and  Water.”

At  that  early  time  young  Renovated 
was  called  by  the  name  of  “  Process,"  
and  the  attention  of  the  Governor and 
Legislature  of  New  York  was  called  to 
his  name  and  immediately  they  held  a 
secret  council 
in  the  interest  of  some 
unknown  “ known”  other interest,  which 
of  course  did  not  put  up  any  boodle, 
and  they decided  quickly  that  the  name 
“ Process”   was  an  infringement  upon 
their  rights,  as  a  “ process”  
in  their 
State  can  only  be  an  issue  of their body 
and  their  descendants,  and  this  youth 
must  be  a  bastard,  so  they  changed  his 
name  to  “ Renovated,”   a  good  new 
name,  and  stuck 
it  on  his  back  and 
loose  for  the  inspection  of 
turned  him 
the  world,  and  when  the  people  saw 
it 
stopped  him,  saying,  “ Hello, 
they 
young  man,  come 
into our  club.  You 
have  been  decorated  with  the  badge  of 
honor  of  New  York  State;  now,  don’t 
deny  it,  young  man—there  it  is  on  your 
coat,  ’ Renovated,’  and  when  New  York 
stamps  you  as  being  made  better than 
new  that  is  good  enough  for  us, so come 
right  in  and  we  will  put  your  name 
down  for  membership 
‘ Top 
Score  Butter  Club.’  ”

in  the 

Now  it  turns  out,  as  it  always does 
with  lucky  and  handsome  bastards,  that 
“ Renovated”   was  no  bastard  at  all, 
and  he  has  found  his  daddy. 
In  fact, 
it  is  insinuated  that  he  has  always  had

more  than  one  daddy,  but  they  thought 
it  best  to  keep  dark,  as  there  was  some 
doubt  about  him,  and  his  parentage  has 
been  a  matter  a  little  mixed  as  to  its 
real  identity.

Now  we  are  going  to tell  you  a  great 
secret  about  young  “ Renovated”   if  you 
will  promise  not  to  say  a  word  about  it. 
You  promise?  Well,  all  right,  here 
it 
i s :  We  have  heard 
it  intimated—just 
you  know—that  * ‘ Reno­
suggested, 
vated”   has  been  introduced  lately 
into 
some  of  the  highest  toned  creamery 
clubs  of  the  West,  and  he  is  so  refined 
and  cultivated  that  he  mixes  cordially 
with  the  best  and  most  attractive  ma­
terial  of  the  clubs  and  it  is  considered 
an  honor  to  the  cream-de-la-cream  of 
the  butter clubs  to  entertain him in their 
midst  under  the  regulations  of  social 
I  can  not  vouch  for  this  re­
equality. 
port.  but  you  know  that  “ Ren”  
is  an 
intimate  friend  of  mine  and  he  is  very 
ambitious  and  I  would  not  be  surprised 
to  see  him  cut  the  acquaintance  of  some 
of  those  Western  club  men  and  stop 
mixing  with  them,  and go  it  on  his  own 
merits,  for as  I  said  before  he  is  an am­
bitious  and  rising  fellow.  So  go  it, 
“ Ren,”   and  don't  disappoint  us,  and 
we 
intend  to  stand  by  you,  but  if  you 
get  to  practicing  your  youthful  tricks 
again  and  get  to  visiting  the  “ Grease 
Club,”   the  “ Rancid  Butter Club”   and 
the  “ Water  and  Glucose  Club”   again 
just  look  out,  for  I  promise  you  now, 
and  don’t  forget  it,  “ Ren,”   I  will  be 
bound  to  squeal  on  you,  so  be  a  good 
and  respectable  fellow,  “ Ren.” — Prod­
uce  Commission  Merchant.

When  a  man  finds  bis  clothes  are  too 
loose,  he  should  either  change  tailor  or 
boarding  house.

Established 1876 

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Charles 

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Richardson 

Wholesale 

Fruits

Carlots  a  Specialty

58-60  W .  Market  St.  and 

121-123 Michigan  St. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

References—City  National  Bank. 

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Manirs. & Traders  Bank,  Buffalo, N.  mr 
Y.  Any 
responsible  Commercial  S u  
Agency,  or  make  enquiry  at  your  | P  
nearest bankers.
Long  Hist.  ’Phone  158  A,  158  D  W

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

The Im perial Gas la m p  Co. 

138 and 134 Lake St. E., Chicago

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$

W rite  us  for prices  for

Butter 
and  Eggs

is  worth 

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

PETER  SMITH  &  SONS

DETROIT, MICH.

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.

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Pineapples,  New  Garden  Truck  and  fancy  long-keeping 
Messina  Lemons at the most favorable prices.
EGGS  W ANTED.

14 OTTAWA STREET, 

QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY,

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 .  H E W IT T ,
Successor  to  C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Yon  can  pay  more  bat 

can  not find  better S E E D S The  best  and  only  tb e 

best  are  sold  by ns

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

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

Seed Growers and flerchants 

Grand  Rapids, nichigan

A L L   G R O CER 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.

THE  LEROUX  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

100,000  Pounds  of  Butter  Wanted

for  which  I  will  pay  the  highest  market  price.
I  am  also  in  the  market  .for  eggs  and  poultry.
W rite  for  quotations  or  telephone  either  B ell  or 
New  State phone  at  warehouse  or  residence.

J.  W.  FLEMING,  Belding,  Michigan.

M K   I   PRICE  K ill Tradesman Company 

Grand  Rapids.

We solicit your shipments 
of  Fresh  Eggs  and  Dairy 
Butter.

Reference,  Home Savings Bank, Detroit

H W  LEADING  PRODUCE  HOUSTON THE.EASTERN MARKBT

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

ing  early  strawberries  is  two  cents  <> 
quart,  but  as  the  season  advances  and 
the  pickers  can  fill  the  boxes  more 
quickly  the  price  goes  down  to  a  cent 
and  a  half  and  often  to  a  cent  a  quart.
But  the  country  grower  is  practically 
at  the  mercy  of  the pickers.  His  crops 
can  t  wait  and  the  demand  for  field 
la 
bor  is  great.  He  is  always  fearful  of 
strike,  For to  see  his  pickers  march  in 
body  to  a  competitor’s  fields  would 
often  mean  ruin.

The  pickers  are  paid  by 

tickets 
which  are  usually  redeemed  at  the  end 
of  the  week.  Frequently  as  much  as 
$1,000  is then  paid  out  to the  pickers  in 
a  single  field.  An  overseer  superintends 
their  work,  rejecting  berries  that  are 
dirty  or  under  or over-ripe,  and  seeing 
that  the  pickers  do  not  handle  the  ber­
ries,  but  pick  them  by  pinching  off  the 
stem.  As  fast  as  the  boxes are filled they 
are  packed 
in  crates,  holding  twenty- 
four  boxes,  nailed  down,  and  late  in  the 
afternoon  the  crates  are  hustled  by 
wagon  to the  nearest  freight  depot  to  be 
sent  away  in  refrigerator express  cars 
in  time  for the  next  morning’s  market.
Boxing  and  crating the  fruit  after  it is 
picked  costs  the  grower about  one  cent 
a  quart,  and  he  must  have  a  full  supply 
of  boxes  and  crates  ready  by  the  time 
the  picking  begins  or he  will  have  to 
pay  much  more  for  them.  Next  in  im 
portance  in  his  expense  bill  are  the  ex 
press  charges. 
In  the  larger  strawberry 
growing  districts  these  are  usually  fixed 
m  advance  by  agreement  between  the 
railway  companies  and  the  fruit  grow 
ers’  associations.

Finally,  the  grower  has  to  pay  the 
market  salesman’s  commission  which  is 
usually  10  per cent,  of the  selling price. 
Picking,  crating,  express  charges  and 
commissions  will  usually  bring  his 
handling  expenses  up  to  five  cents  a 
quart;  consequently  when  strawberries 
retail  in  the  cities  at  ten  cents a quart or 
less  there 
is  little  profit  left  for  the 
grower.

It 

despite 

is  the  growers  of  the  very  early 
berries  who, 
long-distance 
freight  charges,  make  the  most  money. 
The  strawberry  season 
in  New  York 
practically  stretches  from  the  end  of 
January  to late  in  July  for those  who  can 
afford  to  pay  well,  but  the  rush  time 
lasts  only  for  a  very  few  weeks.

is  on  now  and  the  markets  on  the 
lower West  Side  are  the  scenes  of  wild 
stampedes  in  the  early  morning,  when 
the  wholesale  merchants  are  hustling  to 
supply  customers  in  distant  parts  of  the 
town  or  the  suburbs,  reached  by  early 
trains  and  steamboats.

It 

If  it  is  true  that  the  clothes  make  the 
man,  some  men  ought  to  change  their 
clothes.

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Grocers  will  find  them  In 
the long run the most profit­
able  to  handle,  as  they  are 
absolutely pure  and  of  uni­
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"T h e  Fishing  Line’ ’

The  Passenger  Department  of  the  Grand 
Rapids &  Indiana  Railway  has  issued  a  36- 
page  booklet,  entitled  “ Michigan  in  Sum­
mer.” that contains 260 pictures  of resorts In 
Northern Michigan.  Interesting information 
Is given about these popular resorts:
Petoskey 
Mackinac  Island 
Bay  View 
Traverse  City 
H arbor  Springs 
Neahtaw anta 
H arbor Point 
Omena 
W equetonslng 
N orthport 
R oaring  Brook 
N orthport  Point 
E m m et  Beach 
Edgewood 
W alloon  Lake
and  o ther  points
It  contains  a  list  of  hotels  and  hoarding 
houses in Northern Michigan, with their rates 
by the day  and  week,  and  passenger  fares 
from the principal points in the Middle West.

This  booklet  w ill he  sent  free

upon request  to  C.  L.  Lockwood,  General 
Passenger and Ticket Agent,  Grand  Kapids, 
Michigan.

The summer train schedule goes Into effect 
June 30.  Time  cards  and  full  information 
regarding connections,  the  “ Northland  Ex­
press ” with  cafe  car  service,  will  be  sent, 
and  assistance  given  to  plan  a  comfortable 
trip via the
Grand  Rapids  &.  Indiana  Railway

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

uce Trades.

The  grocery 

New  York,  June  i—May  went  out  as 
the  wettest  month  of  May  on  record 
here,  over  seven  inches  of  rain  having 
fallen, 
It  knocked  business  of  all  sorts 
into  a  dilapidated  condition,  and  more 
than  one  dealer will  be  on  the  verge  of 
bankruptcy. 
trade,  of 
course,  has  not  suffered  as  has  the  drv 
goods,  but  the  general  condition  is  not 
especially  active,  and  travelers  from 
New  England  report  that  over  that  en­
tire  area  there  is  a  decided  lack  of  an­
imation.
Coffee 

is  offered  with  more  freedom 
than  was  the  case  last  week  and,  with 
rower cables  from  Europe,  tbe  general 
tone  is  weak.  Arrivals at primary points 
continue  large  for the  time  of  year and, 
is  for a 
altogether,  the  coffee  outlook 
continuation  of  low  figures.  At 
the 
close  not  over  6.31  can  be  named  for 
Rio  No.  7  and  the  volume  of  trade  is 
light. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  amount 
aggregates  1,224,961  bags. 
In  mild 
grades  the  volume  of  business  is  fairly 
satisfactory,  all  things  considered.  The 
best  grades  of Cucuta  are worth 8#c and 
some  fair sales  have  been  made.  Little 
has  been  done  in  East  Indias  and  quo­
tations  are  practically  the  same.

Prices 

Sugar  is  firm and,  with better weather, 
will  enter  upon  a  most  active  spring 
campaign. 
remain  without 
change.  Raw  sugars  are  in  good  supply 
and  refiners  do  not  seem  to  care  an  iota 
whether they  purchase  or not.  Sellers 
are  equally  firm  and,  if  their  figure  can 
not  be  obtained,  they  store  the  goods.

The  volume  of  business 

in  rice  is 
about  of  an  average  character and  there 
is  no  special  activity  anywhere,  nor,  in 
fact,  is  any  to  be  looked  for at  this time 
of  year.  Quotations  are  almost  iden­
tical  with  those  prevailing  for  the  past 
month,  prime  to  choice  Southern  rang­
ing  at  5@5#c.

At the  auction  sale  some  lines  of  teas 
showed  an  advance,  but  on  the  Street 
recent  prices  prevail.  Demand  is  light 
and  orders  coming  in  are  for  small  lots.
In  spices  it  is  the  same  old  story— 
“ nothing  doing.”   Jobbers  are  selling 
a 
f°  be  sure,  but  numerous  calls
fail  to  elicit  any information  that  would 
indicate  real  activity.  Prices  are  about 
steady,  and  this  is  the  best  that  can  be 
said.  Singapore  pepper,  i3@i3Xc 
in 
an  invoice  way.

Butter  is  quiet  and  the  weather has 
been  unfavorable  for a  large  volume  of 
business.  Prices  are  well  held,  how­
ever,  and  19c  is  still  about  the  prevail- 
lng  figure  for  best  Western  creamery; 
seconds  to  firsts, 
i6j£@i8c;  imitation 
creamery,  I4@i6j£c;  Western  factory, 
i3Hc  for best  grades;  rolls,  Ii@i3c.

The  cheese  market  remains  in  about 
the  same  condition  as  previously  re­
ported.  Arrivals  are  rather  freer and 
the  quality  is 
improving  right  along. 
Exporters  are  doing  nothing  as  yet.

the  market 

Arrivals  of  eggs  are  not  so  large  and, 
with  a  good  demand  for  the  time  of 
year, 
in  pretty  good 
shape.  Best  Michigan  stock,  regular 
packings,  14c;  storage goods,  13@I3J£c.
Beans  are  quiet.  Marrows,  $2.50© 
2.52^;  choice  medium,  $2. io@2.12j£ ; 
choice  pea,  $2@2.o2)4.

is 

Bad  Season  F op Straw berries  In  Gotham. 
From the New York  Sun.

Rain  and  cold  have  played  hob  with 
the  strawberry  crop  this  season,  and 
this  week,  when  tbe  market  for the  fruit 
should  be  at  its  best,  growers  and  deal­
ers  are  bemoaning  the  fact  that  not  in 
years  has  there  been  so  unprofitable  a 
crop.  The  strawberry  season  is  not  only 
late  this  year,  but  the  supply  is  short 
and  the  season  will  be  brief.

Jersey  berries  should  be in  the  market 
now,  but  none  to  speak  of  have  ap­
peared.  Most  of  the  fruit  now  on  sale 
has  come  from  Delaware  and Maryland. 
Florida  and  far  Southern  berries,  which 
have  been  small  and  none  too  sweet this 
year,  were  exhausted  some  time  ago, 
and  there 
is  practically  only  the  New 
York,  New  Jersey  and  New  England 
crops  to  look  to and  the  growers  report 
that  unless  there  are  many  long  sun­
shiny  days  immediately 
in  store  the 
supply  will  be  very  disappointing.  It  is 
not  a  good  year  for  strawberry  growers.
Raising  strawberries  for distant  mar­
kets  has  Become  so  extensive  an 
indus­
try  that  thousands  of  folks,  rich  and 
poor,  from  Miami,  Fla.,  as  far  north  as 
Vermont  depend  on 
living. 
Besides  the  many  growers  and  the  field 
hands  they  permanently  employ,  there 
are  thousands  of  families  in  addition 
who  when  the  berries  are  ripe  turn  out, 
men,  women  and  children  together,  to 
pick  them  and  make  a  profitable  bar 
vest.

it  for  a 

to 

What  is  the  matter with canned goods? 
They  seem  to  be  in  a  fair way  of  being 
relegated 
the  rear,  as  have  been 
many  other  food  products.  There  are  so 
many food products,so many delicatessen 
stores,  and  fresh  fruit  is  obtainable  so 
many  months  in  the  year  that  the  can- 
ner  seems  in  a  fair  way  of  becoming 
forgotten.  At  any  rate  the  year so  far 
is  much  behind  the  usual  record  and, 
altogether,  the  outlook  is  not  especially 
encouraging  for  futures.  Prices  of  spot 
goods  are  pretty  well  sustained  and  this 
is  encouraging  for  the  present.  Sales 
are  not  large  and  yet  something is being 
done,  of  course.  Reports  from  Balti­
more  have  not  said  anything  about  the 
destructive  pea  louse  and  it  may be  that 
the  wet  weather has  kept  this  ' ‘ critter”  
in  abeyance. 
Tomatoes  are  without 
change  in  quotations,  No.  3  New  Jersey 
spot  goods  being  worth  70c  here.

Lemons  and  oranges  have  both  been 
quiet,  but  values  are  well  sustained 
and,  with  better  weather,  the  market 
will  resume 
its  old-time  businesslike 
aspect.

with  no change  in  quotations.

Bananas  are  selling  about  as  usual, 
The  dried  fruit  market  is  firmer and 
every  day  seems  to add  strength.  Cur­
rants  have  been  called  for  from  quite  a 
good  many  points,  but there  is  room  for 
improvement.

It  is  a  bit  of  a  gamble  for the  grower,
If  strawberries  are  verv  abundant  il 
doesn’t  pay  to  pick,  crate  and  ship 
them  far;  local  markets  become  glutted 
and  then  often  the  fruit  is  left  to  rot 
in 
the  fields. 
In  bad  years  the  cost  of 
picking  goes  up  and  consumers  don’t 
care  to  pay  big  prices  for  unripe  and 
inferior  fruit,  so  then  the  grower  is 
squeezed  between  the  upper  and  the 
nether  millstones.  But  he  manages  to 
make  a  good  thing  out  of  strawberry 
growing  for all  that. 
In  fact  in  many 
localities  strawberries  usually  prove  to 
be  the  most  profitable  crops  raised.

Before  reckoning  the  profits  of  his 
farm  the  strawberry grower has  four  im­
portant  items  of  expense  to  consider 
arising  out  of  the  handling  of  the  crop: 
First  there  is  the  cost  of  picking,  then 
boxing  and  crating,  express  and  deliv­
ery  charges  and  finally  the  wholesale 
salesman’s  commission.  When  these 
have  been  taken  off  his  receipts  he  can 
count  the  cost  of  growing  ana  estimate 
the  profits  from  his  crop.
The  cost  of  picking  is the  principal 
item  and  where  strawberries  are  grown 
extensively 
is  a  problem  to secure 
pickers,  for the  fruit  ripens  rapidly  and 
the  season  is  short.  That  is  the  chance 
of the  year  for the  boys  and  girls  in  the 
neighboring 
families 
travel  miles  from  home  and  live  for  a 
few  weeks  in  barns  and  tents  provided 
by  the  growers,  working  early  and  late 
to  make  a  harvest  while  the  opportun­
ity  lasts.  The  average  price  for  pick­

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W o m a n ’ s   W o r l d
Educated  W oman th e  P referred  R isk  in 

M atrim ony.
A  Chicago  professor,  in 

lecturing  to 
bis  class  the  other day,  is  reported  to 
have  warned  his  students  against falling 
in  love  with  ladies  of literary tendencies 
and  to  have  wound  up  his  fervent  ad­
monitions  by  saying,  “ Heaven  help  the 
man  who  marries  a 
college-bred 
woman!”   Whether the  professor spoke 
from  theory  or  experience  is  not  stated. 
He  may  suffer  from  dyspesia  as  the  re­
sult  of  marrying  a  wife  who  is  long  on 
the  classics  but  short  on  cookery  or  he 
may  merely  be  one  of  those  benighted 
and  prejudiced  individuals  whose 
im­
aginations  conjure  up  bogys  whenever 
you  mention  woman  and  education  in 
the  same  day.

In  any  event  the  subject  is  one  of 
great  interest  to  everyone.  Many  of 
us  have  daughters  for whom we are mak- j 
ing  sacrifices  to  educate,  under  the  be­
lief  that  we  are  thereby  adding  to  the 
sweetness  and  light  of  life. 
If,  instead j 
of this,  we  are  disqualifying  the  girl  as 
a  matrimonial  partner  and  laying  up 
misery  for  the  man  who  marries  her, 
we  want  to  know  it  in  time  to snatch 
her  away  from  school  and  prevent the 
catastrophe.  No  one  can  deny  that  there 
is  altogether  too  much  domestic  discord 
in  the  world,  but  it  is  a  brand  new  idea 
that  it 
is  the  result  of  the  wife  having 
too  much  sense.  Most  of  us  had  thought 
that  it  was  the  lack  of  sense  and  not  the 
preponderance  of  it  that  led  silly  wom­
en 
into  ways  that  end  in  the  divorce 
court.

Nothing  has  died  a  harder or  more 
lingering  death  than  the  old  theory  that 
ignorance  is  bliss,  so  far as  women  are 
concerned.  We  feel  that  it  is  our  duty 
to  prepare  a  boy  for the  battle  of  exist­
ence  by  arming  him  with  knowledge  of 
all  the  temptations  of  life.  We  think 
the  best  way  to safeguard  a  girl’s  inno­
cence  is  by  keeping  her  in  absolute 
ig­
norance  of  the  dangeis  she  is  to  meet. 
We  teach  our  boys  how  to  earn  money 
and  protect  their property,  but  our  idea 
of kindness  to  a  woman  is  to  keep  her 
in  such 
ignorance  of  all  the  practical 
affairs of  life  that  she  is  the  victim  of 
anybody  unscrupulous  enough  to  take 
advantage  of  her  lack  of  knowledge  of 
business. 
It  is  woman’s  ignorance  that 
spells continual  disaster  for beiself  and 
other  people,  but  we  continue  to  hold  to 
the  cherished  belief  that  it  is  for her 
happiness  and  good  not  to  know  things. 
Yet  it  was  woman  who  earliest  craved 
knowledge,  and  risked  all  to  gain  it.  It 
was  Eve  and  not  Adam  who  took  the 
first  bite  of the  apple.

So  far as  a  college  education  for girls 
is  concerned,  it  seems  to  me  that  it  ad­
mits  of  precisely  the  same  arguments, 
pro  and  con,  that  the question  of a  col­
lege  education  for  boys  does. 
If  I  had 
a  son  I  should  be  guided  in  the  matter 
entirely  by  the  boy’s  talents,  and  what 
h^ proposed  to  make  of  himself. 
If  he 
was  naturally  studious  and  desired  to 
be  a  doctor or a  preacher or a  lawyer or 
follow  a  profession,  I  should  certainly 
send  him  to  the  very  best  university  I 
could  afford. 
If  he  was  going  to  be  a 
business  man,  just  as  soon  as  he  was 
through  the  high  school  I  should  put 
him 
in  a  store  or  office  where  in  the 
next  four or five  precious  years he would 
be  grounded  in  commercial  knowledge, 
instead  of  football,  and  learn  the  vital 
details  of  business  instead  of a  college 
yell.  The  college-bred  man  who begins 
business  life  at  25  does  not  overtake  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

boy  who  began  it at  15  once  in  a  mil­
lion  times  in  the  commercial  race  for 
dollars  and  success.

If  I  had  a  daughter  I  should  let  her 
looks  decide  the  college  question  for 
her. 
If  she  was  ugly and  unattractive  I 
would  move  heaven  and  earth  to give 
her  something  to  offset  her  lack  of 
beauty,  and  at  least  provide  her  with  a 
way  of  making  a  living  for  herself. 
If 
she  was  a  dimpled  darling,  with  rose- 
leaf  skin  and  melting  blue  eyes, I  would 
know  that  matrimony  and  not  higher 
mathematics  was  her predestined career.
In  considering  this  question,  it  is 
well  to  bear  in  mind  that  to  be  highly 
educated—and  for  the  dreadful  fact to 
be  known— is  about  the  heaviest  handi­
cap  a  girl  can  have 
if  she  wants  to 
marry.  There  are  several  reasons  for 
this.  One 
is  that  in  this  country  our 
young  men  are  seldom  highly  educated. 
They  go  to  work  and  not to school,  and 
that  produces  a  curious  condition  of 
affairs  that  the  college-bred  woman  has 
to  face.  The  man  who  can  support  her 
can  not  entertain  her,  and  the  man  who 
can  entertain  her  can  not  support  her. 
Nor  does  the  average  business  man  de­

sire  to  marry  the  college-bred  girl.  He 
wants  a 
jolly  girl,  whose  tastes  are  in 
the  same  key  as  his  own,  whose  gram­
mar  does  not  put  his  own  to  reproach 
and  who  prefers  “ Floradora”   and  the 
“ Runaway  Girl’ ’ to  “ Tannhauser”   and 
symphony  concerts.

Nor  is  the  college-bred  girl  a  red-hot 
favorite  as  a  wife  with  the  college-bred 
man.  Half  the  extremely  clever  men 
you  know  are  married  to  women  who 
have  hardly  enough  sense  to  come  in 
out  of  the  rain,  and  so generally  is  this 
the  case  that  it  is  almost  an  axiom  that 
the  more  intellectual  the  man,  the sillier 
the  wife  he  picks  out.  There  are  excep­
tions  to  all  rules,  but  if  mothers  and 
fathers  are  bent  on  keeping 
their 
daughters  banging  on  the  parent  stem 
they  can  come  pretty  near guaranteeing 
the  result  by  having  the  girls  take  a 
college  course. 
reputation  for 
being  learned  is  still  a  reproach  a wom­
an  has  to  live  down,  and  so  far  as 
blighting  her  matrimonial  prospects  is 
concerned,  it  is  worse  than  a  scandal.

The 

There  is  also another,  and  a  pathetic 
phase,  to the  question  of  a  college  ed­
ucation  for  girls. 
If  the  college-bred

woman  marries  a  man  who  has spent  all 
his  life 
in  business  and  who  has  not 
had  the  opportunity  for the  wide  culture 
she  has,  she  must  always  be  to  a  large 
extent  lonely.  She  has  thoughts  he  can 
not  follow, her  mind browses  in  pastures 
he  can  not  enter,  life  means  things  to 
her  it  can  never mean  to  him.  No  mat­
ter  how  good  and  kind  he  is,  or  how 
just 
fond  she  is  of  him,  there  is  always 
that  lack.  She  goes  through  life 
intel­
lectually  starved,  and  she  knows  that  it 
would  be  better  and  happier  for them 
both  if they  werd  on  the  same  plane.

it. 

Do  not  think,  though,  that  I  am  op­
posed  to  college  education  for  women. 
Far  from 
It  may  be  a  good  thing 
for a  pretty  girl.  For an  ugly  one  it  is 
an  absolute  necessity. 
It  undoubtedly 
lessens  a  girl’s  chances  of  getting  mar­
ried,  but 
if  she  does  find  a  man  with 
sense  and  courage  enough  to  escort  her 
to the  altar,  I  am  convinced  that  she  is 
better  fitted  to  make  him  a  good  wife 
than  the  girl  whose  mind  and  character 
have  not  been  disciplined  by  thought 
and  study.  If  I  were  a  girl— and  heaven 
had  blessed  me  with  a  passable  nose 
and  a  good  complexion and a knowledge

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of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  H E N R Y   KO CH ,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN'S  SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “ S A P O L IO "  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring  soap.

R o m ,   © j e r e f o r e , we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY

K O CH ,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  vou 
under  the  pams  and  penalties  which  may   fall  upon  you  and  each  of  you  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  dc 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  S A P O L IO ,”  or  any  word  or  word« 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scourins 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indireedy,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

f t

SAPOLIO,”  or  when  “ SAPOLIO”  is  asked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from  in  any  way  using  the  word  “ SAPOLIO"  In  anv 
J
false  or  misleading  manner. 

_ 
CSKAX.1 

The  honorable  M e l v i l l e   W.  F u l l e r ,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton,  in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  l6th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand, 
eight  bandied  and  ninety-two.

[SIGNED]

ROWLAND  COX, 

Complainants  StHdktg,

8»  IX  OUPHANT.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

of  how  to  dance  the  two-step— I  should 
not  go to  college,  because  I  would  pre 
fer  a  husband  to  a  diploma,  but  if 
were  a  man  I  should  choosfe  the  colleg. 
bred  woman  for  a  wife  every 
time. 
That  sounds  contradictory,  but  it  is  the 
two  points  of  view  of  the  question.

Other  things  being  equal,  I  should 
take  the  chances  on  the educated woman 
being  a  better housekeeper  and  mana 
ger. 
If  the  lack  of  knowledge  of  books 
predicated  a  knowledge  of  domestic 
affairs  there  would  be  some  reason  to 
make  a  mad  rush  for  addle-pated  girls 
who  have  never  read,  anything  but  the 
Duchess,  and  who  think  Marie  Corelli 
just  too  sweet,  but  it  does  not.  Some 
of  the  worst  housekeepers  I  have  ever 
known  were  women  who  were  just 
ignorant  of  cooking  as  they  were 
Sanskrit,  and  could  no  more  add  up  the 
butcher’s  bill  than  they  could  do a prob 
lem 
It  is  ignorance  i 
every  line  that  is  at  the  bottom  of  fai 
The  woman  who  understands 
ure. 
is  not  going  to  accept  the 
chemistry 
luck 
theory  about  bread-turning  out 
light  or  heavy.  The  woman  who  has 
mastered  the  science  of  mathematics  is 
going  to  know  enough  to grapple  with 
the  household  expense  account, 
and 
after  she  has  studied  the  germ  theory 
she 
is  not  going  to  let  her  family  be 
poisoned  by  defective  drainage  and 
bad  water.

in  geometry. 

Clothes F or O ur Thoughts*

One  of  the  problems  which  every 
mother  who  aspires  to  do  her  duty  by 
her  children  must  face  is  the  matter of 
providing  them  with  a  suitable  vocab­
ulary.  We  do  not  give  the  subject  the 
importance 
it  demands,  but  it  is  eter­
nally  true  that  now,  as  well  as  in  the 
scriptural  days,  we  may  say  of  a  man 
or  a  woman,  “ Thy  speech  betrayeth 
thee.’ ’  By  their  language  we 
judge 
strangers.

If they  choose  their words  with  an  in­
tuitive  appropriateness  and  a  nice  dis­
crimination,  and  have  a  wide  use  of 
flexible  English,  we  set  them  down  at 
once  as  cultured  and  refined. 
If they 
halt  and  stumble  and  are  poverty strick 
en 
in  expression,  so  that  they  use  the 
same  word  over  and  over  again,  we 
come  to the  conclusion  that  they  are  ig 
norant. 
If  they  use  coarse  and  vulgar 
expressions, we  know  that  they  are  hold 
ing  up  a  mirror  in  which  we  see  the 
reflection  of  their  sordid  soul.  Many  a 
one  of  us  Who  have  been  admiring  a 
finely  garbed  person,  whom  we  sup­
posed  to  he  a  lady  or a  gentleman  re­
ceived  the 
intimation  of  our  mistake 
when  they  first  spoke.  The  eye  could 
be  deceived,  the  ear could  not.  We 
recognized  the  jackdaw’s  voice  even 
although  he  had  borrowed  the  plumage 
of  the  nightingale.

Another  great  advantage  of  the  edu 
cated  woman  as  a  wife  is  that she would 
be  apt  to  be  reasonable.  To  me  the 
only  absolutely  hopeless  people  are 
those  who  are  so  narrow  and  so  pre­
judiced  they  can  never  see  any  other 
side  of  a  question  but  their  own.  This 
is  the  peculiar  province  of  ignorance 
That  sort  of a  woman’s  town,  although 
i t .  is  only  Squeedunk  Corners,  is  the 
biggest  place  on  earth.  Her  religion  L 
the  only  true  faith.  Her  political  party 
is  the  only  one  that  can  save  the  coun 
try.  Her  ways  are  the  only  proper ways, 
and  to  try  to  change  her js  like  beating 
yourself  up  against  a  stone  wall.  The 
only  way  to  keep  believing  Squeedunk 
the  metropolis  of the  world  is  never  to 
leave 
it.  The  educated  woman  ha 
broken  down  the  barriers  that  shut  he. 
up 
in  Squeedunk  and  has  found  how 
big  and  wide  and  beautiful  this  great 
world  is,  and  all  her  views  are  as 
lib­
eral  and  broad  as  the  horizon  her  eye 
scans.

In marrying a highly educated woman,
I  should  also  feel  that  I  had  thrown  out 
an  anchor  to  the  windward,  and  had 
come  as  near  as  a  man  may  to  taking 
out  an  accident  policy  against  those 
evil  days  of  matrimony  that  are  sure  to 
come  when  the  pink  flush  of  youth  and 
beauty 
is  dead  on  a  woman’s  cheek, 
and  the  gold  in  her  hair has turned  to 
ashes.  Too  many  women  then  degen­
erate  into  shabby  and  slovenly  house­
wives,  with  no  care  for their  persons, 
no  resource  but  gossip  with  their  neigh­
bors,  no  interest  . in  life  but  gadding 
about  the  shops  hunting  bargains and 
quarreling  with  their  servants. 
The 
educated  woman  who  keeps  in  touch 
with  the  thought  of the  day  can  never 
really  grow  old  and  can  never  be  less 
interesting. 
If  it  was  the  beauty  of her 
mind  and  soul  that  charmed  a  man  in 
the  first  place,  he  may  count  on  all  suc­
ceeding  years  but  adding  to  the  riches 
and  delights  of  her  companionship.

In  spite  of  the  professor’s  warning, 
is  the  preferred 
the  educated  woman 
is  to  be 
risk 
commended  to  the  young  man  about to 
invest  in  a  wife. 

in  matrimony,  and  she 

Dorothy  Dix.

In  the  acquiring  of  a  vocabulary  we 
need  both  quantity  and  quality. 
It  is 
astonishing  how  few  words  the  average 
person  possesses,  and  still more amazing 
that  any  of  us  should.be  contend to  be 
continually  hard  up  for the proper words 
in  which  to  convey  our  thoughts  to 
others.  No  man  would  undertake  to  be 
carpenter  with  only  one  saw  and  a 
hammer.  No  merchant  would  try  to 
run  a  store  with  half a  dozen  pieces  of 
goods.  He  wants  variety.  He  must 
have  the  proper tools  with  which  to  do 
his  work,  yet  he  will  make  one  or  two 
words  pack-horses  on  which  he  saddles 
all  sorts  of  meanings  they were never in­
tended  to  convey.

Women  are  just  as  great  offenders, 
and  make  up  in  frequency  of  repetition 
what  they  lack  in  variety. 
It  is  a  com­
mon  thing  to  hear  one  say  that  Niagara 
i  “ perfectly  grand,”   and  she  had § 
perfectly  grand  tim e"  at  the  ball,  and 
the  pie  at  dinner  was  “ just  grand,’ 
and  her  new  dress  fits  just  “ something 
grand,”   and  really  what  she 
thinks 
grand  means  is  a  grand  mystery  to  the 
listener.  Longfellow  once  advised  Mary 
Anderson  to  memorize  a  verse  of  poetry 
every  day 
in  order  to  add  beautiful 
words  to  her  vocabulary, and  the  sugges 
tion  could  be  carried  out  with  profit  by 
every  young  woman  in  the  land.

It  is  »he 

the  use  of  slang. 

Perhaps  the  greatest  drawback  to  the 
use  of  beauty  and  elegance  of  language 
insidious 
temptation  by  which  we  are  beset  on 
every  side. 
It  creeps  on  us  unawares, 
and  most  of  us  not  only  wage  a  losing 
warfare  on  it  in  our  own  speech,  but 
that  of  our  children.  The  writer of 
this,  a  few days  ago,  was  privileged  to 
meet  a  most  charming  and  elegant  gen­
tlewoman,  wht>se  own  English  was  sb 
it  was  a  delight  to  the  ear,  and 
pure 
who  had  successfully  combatted 
the 
slang  habit  in  her  children.  Asked  how 
she  had  done 
it,  she  replied  that  she 
had  always  taught  her  children  to  re­
gard  their  language  as  the  clothes  of 
their »thoughts.

‘ Do  we  expect  a  sweet,  refined  per­
son  to  be  clad 
in  coarse,  filthy  rai­
ment?”   she  said  she  would  ask  them. 
Certainly  not.  We  naturally  expect  a 
real 
lady  to  choose  pure,  clean,  dainty.

attire.  Delicate, 
fine  fabrics  are  the 
choice  of  cultured  minds.  Then  the 
daintiest,  choicest  words  in  all  the  vo­
cabulary  should  naturally  be  chosen  to 
clothe  the  thoughts  of  a  pure,  God- 
given  soul. 
Is  it  not  beneath  the  taste, 
the  principle,  the  judgment,  the  desire 
of  a  refined  lady  or gentleman  to  clothe 
their  thoughts  in  the  same  garb  that 
would  be  chosen  by  vulgar street ruffians 
or  uneducated  people?

“ Choose  ye  this  day  whom  ye  will 
follow,  the  God  of  purity,  wisdom,  re­
finement,  or  the  heathen  gods  of  coarse­
ness  and  vulgarity  and  ignorance.”

Cora  Stowell.
ELLIO T  O.  G RO SVENOR

Late State Pood Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1333 flajestic  Building,  Detroit,  nicli.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Michigan.

Organized  1881.

, 
Cash  Capital, 9400,000. 

Cash  Aetata, 9800,000.

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

D.  M.  F e r r y ,  V ice Pres.

Net Surplue,  9200,000.

F . H . W h it n e y , Secretary.
M. W . O’Br ien, Treas.

E . J. B o oth, A s s t   Sec’y. 

D ir e c t o r s.

D.  W hitney, Jr., D.  M. Ferry, F .J . Hecker, 
M . W . O ’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
A llan Sheldon, Simon J.  M urphy,  W m .  L . 
Smith, A .  H .  W ilkinson, James  Edgar.  H . 
K irke  W hite,  H.  P .  Baldwin,  H ugo 
Scherer,  F .  A .  Schulte,  W m .  V .  Brace, 
James  M cM illan,  F .  E .  D rlggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standlsh, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  M ills, 
A lex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palms,  W in.  C.  Y aw k ey,  David  C.  W hit- 
ney, Dr.J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

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Wholesale

William Reid

Importer  and  Jobber  of  Polished 
Plate,  Window  and  Ornamental

Petoskey Lime 
Sheboygan  Lime 

Akron and Louisville Cement 

Atlas Portland Cement 

Michigan  Portland Cement 

Sewer Pipe 
Fire Brick 
Flue Lining

Granite Wall Plaster, Plasticon,

Hard Wall  Plaster 
Gypsum Wall Plaster
Stucco,  Hair, etc.
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Paint, Oil, White Lead, Var­

nishes and  Brushes

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

W.  FRENCH,
Resident  Manager.

S E A L

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

2 2

W indow   D ressing
P a ttin g   One  Price  Only  on  the  A rticle 

Displayed.

A  very  successful  merchant,  whose 
modern,  up-to-date  methods  have  revo­
lutionized  the  business  methods  of  other 
merchants  in  his  town,  said  recently: 
“ i  never  make  comparisons,  either  in 
my  advertisements  or  on  my  window 
cards. 
I  put  one  price  (the  selling 
price)  on  the  article  and  depend  upon 
the  intelligence  of  my  customers  to  dis­
cover that  the  values  I  offer are  the  best 
offered 
in  town.  People  have  been 
fooled, so  often  by  comparisons  of  val­
ues,  and  the  comparisons  have  so  little 
meaning,  that  such  methods  have  be­
come  too  cheap  for  a  really  modern 
house.”   There  is  a  suggestion  in  this 
for  the  card  writer.  Drawing  a  red 
line  through  a  price  on  a  card  and plac­
ing  a  new  price  beneath  it attracts  little 
attention  unless  the  house  has  a  reputa­
tion  for  doing  exactly  what  it  says,  and 
even  then  the  confidence  felt  by  people 
in  the  statements  of  the  house  makes 
any  such  style  of  window  card  unneces­
sary.  This  style  of  window  card  has  be­
come  characteristic  of  cheap  houses  and 
is  well  for the 
cheap  methods,  and  it 
high-class  house  to  avoid  it. 
If  it  is 
desired  to  introduce  a  comparison  of 
values,  put  plain  price  tickets  on  every 
article  in  the  window  and  a  single large 
card 
in  the  window  which  says  some­
thing  like  this:

‘ ‘ Yesterday  these  cost  you— ;  to-day 
they  cost  you—.  Why  the  reduction? 
Our  clerks  will  tell  you  ”   Or  another: 
‘ ‘ These  cost— .  You  can  examine,  com­
pare  with  offerings  elsewhere  and  draw 
upon  your  own  conclusions. ’ ’

Such  cards  appeal  to the 

intelligence 
of  sensible  people  and  are  far  more con­
vincing  than  elaborate  statements  of  the 
kind  that  fakirs  find  necessary.  The 
card  with  the  red 
line  drawn  through 
the  old  figures  should  be  retired  as a 
chestnut  when  it  has  become  customary 
in  a  town. 
It  is  as  useless  as  a  fly- 
specked  card  announcing  that  a  certain 
line  of  goods  has  just  been  opened  up. 
The  card  tells  one  story  and  the  fly- 
specks  tell  another, and  between the  two 
a  reputation  for veracity is hard to main­
tain.

A  wise  man,  in erecting  a  store  build­
ing,  is  always  careful  to  get  the  opin­
ions  and  ideas of  experts on  the  differ­
ent  parts  of  it,  so  that  it  may be  erected 
in  the  manner best  suited  to  the  needs 
and  conveniences of those  occupying  it. 
Nevertheless,  many  merchants,  in  de­
signing  a  store,  never think  of  getting 
the  ideas  of their trimmers  on  the  con­
struction  of  the  windows.  This  is a seri­
ous  mistake  if  the  trimmer  is  a  man  of 
intelligence  and  experience.  His  opin­
ion  on  the  desirable  and  proper con­
struction  of  the  windows 
should  be 
asked  and  should  be  submitted  to the 
architects of the  building.  Much  future 
trouble  and  expense  will  be  saved  if 
this  is  done.

*  *  *

It  may  seem  to  some  of  our  readers 
that  many  of our explanations  and  sug­
gestions  partake  rather of  the  elements 
of  the  art of  window  trimming  than  of 
the  more  advanced  branches,  and  that 
we  might  spare  them  some  of  the  sug­
gestions  that  are  so obvious and familiar 
to  the  trimmer  of  experience. 
It  must 
be  borne  in  mind,  however,  that  we  are 
aiming  to  help  the  beginner or  the 
in­
experienced  trimmer  rather  than  the 
man of  long  experience.  The  experi­
enced  trimmer has  his own  ways  of  do­

isp

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

ing  his  work  and  be  is  familiar with 
many  methods  too  intricate  and  elabor­
ate  for  the  ordinary  clerk  in  the  small 
town  who  has  not  the  appliances  or 
the  occasion  to  put  in  elaborate  effects, 
and  therefore  we  try to  suggest  effects 
that  will  be  easy  of  execution  and  that 
will  commend  themselves  by  their  sim­
plicity  and  their  ready  adaptability  to 
many  purposes.  The  chief  value  of 
window  designs  and  helps  are  their 
suggestiveness,  and  undoubtedly  many 
of  our  readers,  by  reading  these  sug­
gestions,  are  reminded  of  many  things 
that  they  can  do that  otherwise  would 
not  have  occurred  to  them.  That is wbat 
we  desire—to  stimulate the  minds of  our 
readers  rather  than  to give  them  tasks 
to  copy.—Apparel  Gazette.

Sell th e  Goods  You  Display.

While  no  reputable  merchant  will  be 
guilty  of  displaying  one  class  of  goods 
with  a  price  mark  attached,  and  selling 
another  grade  of  goods  to  customers 
when  they  make  their  purchase,  there 
are  some  merchants  who  occasionally 
resort  to  this  practice,  and 
it  is  one 
which  can  not  be  condemned  too severe­
ly.  It  means  a  loss  of  trade and  prestige 
that  advertising  and  other  methods  of 
building  up  a  retail  business  can  not 
overcome. 
It  is  on  a  par  with  the  plan 
adopted  by  some  department  store  man­
agers  of  advertising goods they have not, 
to  attract  a  crowd  to  the  store,  and 
then  telling  those  who  call  that  they 
have  just  sold  the  last  of  the  advertised 
article. 
It  belongs  to  that  department 
of  business  management  which  for  want 
of  a  better  name  can  be  classed a s‘ ‘ fak­
ing”   the  public.

the 

lot. 

Recently  one  of  the  large  department 
stores  in  Minneapolis  advertised  collars 
at  i  cent  each.  This  advertisement  was 
inserted 
in  the  daily  papers,  and  one 
large  window  was  given  over to the  dis­
play  of  a  nice  line  of  collars  marked  ‘ ‘ I 
cent  each  for this  day  only.”   Upon  go­
ing  to  the  collar counter,  however,  the 
customer  was  shown  a  pile  of  soiled 
remnants,  evidently  the  left  over stock 
of  some  laundry.  These  collars  were 
badly  frayed 
in  many  cases,  and  those 
that  were  not  frayed  were  stamped  in 
indelible  ink  with  ¿he  name  of the  per­
son  who  had  left  them  at  the  laundry 
and  had  neglected  to  call  for  them. 
They  should  never  have  been  offered 
for sale  in  any  reputable  store,  but  the 
department 
the 
“ gall”   to  advertise  them  and  had  at­
tracted  crowds  by  the  window  display 
and  otherwise.  There  was  not  a  new 
collar  .in 
This  “ scheme”  
probably  injured  the  department  store 
to  a  greater  extent than  it  did  anyone 
else,  for  those  who were  so  foolish  as  to 
call  at the  counter  were  disgusted,  and 
left  the  store  without  making  purchases 
in  any  line.

store  manager  had 

Sometimes one of these “ smart”  retail­
ers  who does  not  run  a  department  store 
comes to the  conclusion  he  can  defraud 
the  public  in  the  same  way.  He  places 
a  good  line  of  goods  in  the  window  and 
marks  a  price  on  them.  The  consumer 
comes  in  and  asks  if  the  goods  are  all 
right,  and  is  told  they  are.  While  the 
consumer  is  busily  engaged  in  conver­
sation  or otherwise  an  entirely  different 
brand  of goods  is  wrapped  up and given 
to  him.  The  indignation  of the  custom­
er  upon  his  return  home  is  at  a  white 
heat,  and  involuntarily  he  vows  he  will 
never  purchase  another  thing  at  that 
store.  This  is  the  way  it  works  in  nine 
cases  out  of  ten,  and  it  proves  a  posi­
tive  detriment  to  the  letailer. 
If  you 
can  not  advertise  genuine  bargains  in 
your  window  displays,  Mr.  Retailer, 
do  not  attempt  any  of  this  fraudulent 
advertising,  no  matter  if  you  are  in­
clined  to  be  dishonest  in  other  things. 
It  will  be  a  boomerang  that  will  reduce 
your custom  and  cause  you  more  loss  in 
the  end  than  it  will  the  gullible  person 
who  is  taken  in  by  your  lack  of  honest 
business  methods.— Commercial  Bulle­
tin.

A M E R I C A N   C I G A R   F A C T O R Y

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A  CHILD’S  SACRIFICE.

Its  Rew ard  By  a  K ind  H earted  Store­
keeper.
Written for tbe Tradesman.

A  bitter  wind  blew  across  the  level 
prairie  with  a  steady  onward  sweep, 
while  the  tall,  dead  blue-joint  grass 
bent  submissively  before  it.  The  bar­
ren  corn  fields,  shop)  of  their  meager 
crops,  rustled and  wriggled  in  its  grasp, 
Great  tumbleweeds  loosened  their  hold 
upon  Mother  Earth and with undignified 
it  as  if  in  a  vai 
haste  bowled  before 
attempt  to  escape  the  chilly  breath 
Cattle  grazing 
in  the  open  stood  with 
lowered  and  tails  to  the  wind 
heads 
The  great 
level  expanse  had  assumed 
the  dead  brown  of  winter.  Look 
whatever  direction  one  might,  the  eye 
met  only  the  dreary  earth,  with  here 
and  there  a  house  and 
its  attendant 
windmill.  Further  vision  saw  only  the 
rim  of the  distant  horizon,  while  neither 
tree  nor  hill  relieved  the  monotony  of 
the  prospect.  The  houses  were  poor 
affairs  and  bespoke  the  condition 
their owners.  Poverty  was  evident  upon 
every  hand.

Along  a  road  stretching  with  straight 

directness  before  her,  a  child,  with 
basket  of  eggs  on her  arm,  was patiently 
struggling  against  the  wind.  She  was 
having  a  sorry  time  of  it,  for the  wind 
whisked  her  short  and  scanty  skirts  and 
every  few  steps  she  had  to  turn  and 
stand  with  her  back  to  it  to  rest  and 
catch  her  breath.  Her  thoughts  were 
evidently  pleasant,  despite  the  fierce 
and  biting  wind, 
for  a  bright  smile 
lighted  up  her  little  face.

The  road  which lay  before her ended 

mile  or  more  away  in  a  little  group  of 
low  frame  houses.  This  settlement  was 
known  as  the  town  of  Goram 

The  proprietor  of  Goram's  one  mer 
cantile  emporium  sat  at  his  desk  nea 
the  window 
looking  out.  His  eyes 
absently  followed  the  speeding  tumble 
weeds  which,  being  no  respecters  of  lo 
cality,  coursed  gaily  down  the  village 
street.  The  store  was  empty  of  custom 
ers,  not  even  the  usual  loafers  having 
ventured  to face  the  piercing  wind.  His 
clerk,  a  tall,  rawboned  young  fellow, 
whose 
loud  plaid  summer  suit  and  sky 
blue  necktie  seemed  grievously  out  of 
season,  was  busily  engaged  in  making 
the  grocery  shelves  look  full  by  moving 
the  canned  goods  to  the  front  edges. 
He  whistled  discordantly  as  he  worked, 
until  his  employer  turned  impatiently 
in  his  direction  and  commanded  him  to 
stop.  Not  being  allowed  to whistle,  the 
clerk  worked  off  his  superfluous  wind 
by  talking:

M

‘  1

t<r  V

" I   reckon  we  ain’t  a-goin*  to  have 
snow  for  Christmas?"  he  began,  mak­
ing  an  interrogative  of  his  statement.
.  His  employer,  not  fully 
recovered 
from  the  aggravating  whistle  and  no 
doubt  feeling  blue  from  the 
lack  of 
business,  replied  sharply:

“ How  in  blazes  should  I  know,  you 
jackass!  Between  your  infernal  whistle 
and  your everlasting  jaw  you are enough 
to  drive  a  man  w ild !"

Seeing  that  his  employer  was  thor­
oughly  out  of  patience,  the  lanky  clerk 
made  no  retort,  but  proceeded  indus­
triously  to  complete  his  task,  until  he 
was  interrupted  by  the  entrance of a  lit­
tle  girl.  The  storekeeper,  telling  him  to 
go  on  with  his  work, went  forward  to  at­
tend  to  the  wants  of  the  child.  Taking 
the  basket  from  her  arm  he  placed  it 
upon  the  counter,  exclaiming:

"W hy,  Maggie,  have  you  walked  all 
the  way  to  town  in  this  piercing  wind? 
You  poor  child!  You  must  be  almostj

frozen.  Come  back  to the  s(ove  and  get 
warm. ”

tone 

The  child,  who  was  not  more  than 
years  of  age,  was  not  only  numb  wi 
the  cold,  but  almost  exhausted  from  her 
long waik against  the wind, and the kind 
ly 
in  the  storekeeper’s  voice 
brought  the  tears  to  her eyes.  Seeing 
this  he  took  her  by  the  hand  and  gently 
led  her to  a  chair near the  stove,  where 
a  great  fire  was  roaring.  Leaving  her  in 
its  cheerful  radiation  he  directed  his 
clerk  to  hitch  a  horse  to  the  light wagon 
and  be  ready  to  take  the  child  home 
He  then  took  her  basket  ayd  counted 
out  the  four  dozen  eggs  which  it  con 
tained.

The  sturdy 

little  damsel  who  could 

undertake  a  two  mile  walk  on  such 
day  was  not  one  to  be  easily  overcome 
and  the  grateful  warmth  of  the  blazing 
fire  soon  brought  her back  to her natural 
self,  and  she  asked  the  storekeeper,  i 
a  most  businesslike  nay,  how  much  he 
was  paying  for  fresh  eggs.

"Twelve  and  a  half  cents  to-day 
M aggie,"  he  replied.  “ The cold weath 
er has  stopped  the  hens  from laying  and 
eggs  are  not  so  plentiful.”

“ I’m  so  glad,”   the  girl  replied,

just  make  that.  Mother  said 

I  did  want  fifty  cents,  an’  the four dozen 
will 
could  buy  some  Christmas  things  with 
the  money  I  got  for the  eggs.  She  said 
I  was  to  buy  three  presents—one  for 
each  of  my  little  brothers  an’  one  for 
m'self. 
I’m  not  going  to  do  that, 
though, " s h e   continued ;  “ it  wouldn 
be  much  fun  to  buy  my  own  present,  so 
I’m  goin’  to  spend  it  all  on  Wfll  and 
Theo. 
I  heard  them  a-talkin’  about 
Santa  Claus  the  other  day  an’  tellin 
each  other  what  they  wanted  him  to 
bring  them.  Will,  he’s  the  youngest 
you  know,  he  said  that  a  mouth-harp 
with  nickel  sides  on  it,  like  he’d  seen 
in  your  store,  was  just  what  he  hoped 
he’d  get,  an’  Theo  said  what  he  wanted 
was  a  knife.  Do  you  think  the  fifty 
cents  will  buy  all  that?"

The  storekeeper  smiled  at  the  little 
maid’s  interpretation  of  "a ll 
that,’ 
while  the  note  of  anxiety  which  it  con 
veyed  went  straight  to  nis  heart.  The 
beautiful  spirit  of  self-sacrifice  which 
the  child  innocently  showed carried  him 
hack  to the  time  when  he  was  a  boy and 
his  own  sister  had  made  sacrifices  for 
him.  He  remembered  how  poorly  he 
had  oftentimes  repaid  her ana  he  won 
dered 
if  the  brothers of  this  poor  little 
country  girl  would  realize  the  nobility 
of  her act.  The  love  which  prompted 
her to  face  the  raging  wind  so  that  her 
brothers  might  not be  disappointed  on 
the  following  morning  appealed  to  him 
strongly.  The  Child  left  her seat  by the 
stove  and  from  the  tray  of  25  cents 
goods  in  the  show  case  selected  a  knife 
and  a  mouth-harp  after  much  careful 
deliberation.  With  a  pleased  and  happy 
face  she  received  the  package  contain­
ing  her  purchases  and  tucked  it  care 
fully  into  the  pocket  of  her  coarse  plaid 
frock.  She  then  spent  some  time  in 
looking  over  the  cheap  trinkets  in  the 
show  cases,  which  to  her  uncultured 
fancy  were  veritable  treasure  houses,

The  storekeeper took  this  opportunity 
to  put  a  child’s  set  of  pretty  china 
dishes  into  the  basket  in  which  the eggs 
had  been  brought.  The  clerk  now  ap­
peared  with  the  wagon  and in his charge 
the  little  girl  and  her  basket  were 
placed,  the  clerk  being  instructed  to 
deliver the  basket  into the  child's moth­
er’s  hands.
When  the  glad  Christmas  Day dawned 
upon  that  lonely,  wind-swept  Nebraska 
farm  it  saw  three  very  happy  children. 
The  costliest  treasures  would  not  have 
been  more  precious  to  them  than the 
simple  trifles  which  they  received.  The 
little  girl's  delight  over  her  dishes  was 
I  think, 
too,  that  a  certain  storekeeper,  simple 
although  his  good  deed  had  been,awoke 
that  morning  with  a  lighter heart  than 
he  had  had  for  many  a  day.

thing  that  was  good  to  see. 

Mac Allan.

it 

YO U   O R D E R   a  case  and  it  is  unsatis­
factory  in  A N Y   R E S P E C T  
is  OUrS. 
You take absolutely no chances (neither 
do  we,  as  it  never  comes  back). 
It  is 
a  pleasure,  too,  to  sell  it  because  it 
makes  you  money. 
It’ s  pleasant  to 
drink  it  because  it  is  good.

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W o r d e n  ( G r o c e r   C o m p a n y

for the 

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Fourth 
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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clerks’  Corner.

H en's  Best-Laid  Plana  Oft  F ail  to  Mate­
rialize.
Written for  the Tradesman.

It 

is  hard  to  tell  who  thought  of  it 
first.  Ringely  was  known  to  be  long­
headed  and  “ sot"  as  a  mule  when  his 
mind  was  made  up,  but  even  a  mind- 
reader  couldn’t  tell  what  he  was  think­
ing  about.  The  only  outward  sign  he 
ever  made  was  some  months  before 
when  John  Brackett  did  an  unusual  bit 
of  smartness  that  tickled  the  old  man 
mightily,  but to  all  intents  and  purposes 
that  was  the  last  of  it. 
From  time  to 
time  he  had  spells  of  gazing  intently  at 
his  clerk,  but  that  was  a  way  of  his 
with  everybody  and  on  that  account  it 
didn’t  amount  to  anything.

So  far as  John  himself  was concerned, 
a 
look  or  a  word  never  betrayed  him 
and  the  two  went  on  with  their  work 
day  after  day  with  the  same  thought 
in 
their  minds  and  wondering  what  the 
other  would  say  about  it.  He  had  been 
clerking  for  Ringely  almost  three  years 
and  each  knew  pretty  well  the 
ins  and 
the  outs  of  the other.  At  first  the  grocer 
was  inclined  to consider the  boy  as  one 
of  many—to  receive  orders  and  execute 
them—but  after  awhile  he  found  more 
in  the  fellow  than  he  supposed  was 
there.  About  the  same  time  John  began 
to  believe  that  he  didn’t  want  to  work 
for  a  better  man  and  when  once  that 
state  of  things  exists  in  two  men’s 
minds  in  regard  to  each  other they  can 
not  help  showing  it,  and,  what  is  bet­
ter,  they  do  not  want  to  help  it.  So 
John  got  used  to  having  Ringely  give 
him  occasionally  an  extra fine  cigar and 
the  storekeeper  every  once  in  a  while 
was  pleasantly  surprised  with  a  kind 
remembrance  from  his  appreciative 
clerk.  This led  to  a  still  closer  intimacy 
and  after the  new  buggy  was  bought  it 
was  no  unusual  sight  to  see  employer 
and  clerk  on  a  Sunday  afternoon  riding 
about  the  country  and  having  as  good  a 
time—better  they  both  thought—as  it 
the  one  had  been  a  good  many  years 
younger or the  other  just  as  many  years 
older.

for  an  unusually 

It  was  on  one  of  these  buggy  rides 
that  soul  seemed  to trust  to  soul  a  sug­
gestion  of  what  it  was  thinking  about. 
The  day  had  been  an  unusually  fine 
one 
fine  October. 
There  bad  been  a  plentiful  supply  of 
rain  the  preceding  summer and  when 
the  work  for the  year  in  the  plant  world 
was  done  the leaves  took  advantage of  it 
and  gave  to  the  autumn  landscape  a 
glory  not  often  seen.  The  road  down 
the  valley  to  Mill  River  was  a  favorite 
one  with  Ringely  and  that Sunday after­
noon  the  horse  of  his  own  accord  turned 
into  it  as  the  pleasure-seekers  left the 
village.  A  short  stretch  of  woods  lay 
beween  the  edge  of  the  town  and  the 
hill  top  and  when  they  emerged  from 
the  trees  there  lay  the  valley  spread  out 
like  a  panorama  before  them. 
It  was 
the  ordinary  New  England  landscape 
and  therefore  beautiful.

.  “Always and always, night and morn,
Woods upon woods, with fields of corn
Lying between them.”

and  the  river  winding  away—not  hur­
riedly—to  the  south.

John  was  driving,  and  he,  knowing 
how  Ringely  liked  the  view,  stopped 
the  horse  to  let  the  storekeeper  admire 
it.  There  was  a  long  silence  and  then 
it  by  saying,  as  he 
Ringely  broke 
knocked  the  ashes 
from  bis  cigar: 
“ There’snothing finer.  Helen  and  I  are 
never  weary  of  looking  at  it  and  when 
she  is at  home  hardly  a  day,  and  never

look  at 

a  week,  passes  that  we  do  not  come  and 
admire  it. 
I  wish  she  were  here  now. 
She  remembers  it,  though,  and 
in  her 
last  letter  she  told  me  to  come  without 
fail  to 
it  and  tell  her  if  it  is 
finer than  it  was  a  certain  day  that  both 
of  us  like  to  remember. 
I  shall be  glad 
when  her course  is  finished— I  want  her 
at  home  with  us.  College  is  all  right, 
but  it  will  be  better  when  it’s  over with 
and  the  girl  is  at  home  where  she  be­
longs. ’ ’

“ That’s  what I  say!”
“ Well,  two  years  are  over  and  the 
other  two  will  soon  follow  them  and 
then  my  wife  and  I  will  begin  to  live 
once  more.  Then  we’ll  see."  -

The  reins  tightened  and  the  carriage 
followed  the windings of the  river  under 
a  canopy  of  autumn  colored  leaves  and 
the  young  man  kept 
thinking  and 
whistling.  “ Then  we’ll  see !’ ’  Ringely 
smoked  and  looked  aslant  at  the  young 
fellow  beside  him,  wondering  if  there 
could  be  anything 
in  that  explosive 
“ That’s  what  I  say!”

Well,  the  days  went  by  and  the  only 
things  noticeable  were  a  greater  reserve 
between  the  two  and  the  almost  tender­
ness  with  which  the  clerk  handled  a 
letter  which  always  came  to  his  em­
ployer  on  Tuesday  mornings  with  the 
Wellesley  postmark  on  it.  At  the  holi­
days  there  was  a  photograph  and  John 
wanted  to  see  it,  and,  looking  at 
it,  he 
“ wished  he  could  have  one  like  it  and 
wondered 
if  he  c o u ld n 'ta n d   when 
New  Year’s  found  him  with  one  in  his 
hand— Ringely  gave  it  to  him—he  was 
the  happiest  boy  on  the  continent.  He 
came  around 
in  the  evening  to  talk 
about  it  and  Wellesley, and to  look at the 
photographs  of  the  buildings  and  hear 
about  the  young  woman  student 
life 
that  was 
lived  there;  and  the  talk 
ended  with  a  New  Year’s  smoke  in  the 
den.

When  the  cigars  were 

lighted  John 
took  from  his  pocket  a  ring  set  with  an 
opal.  “ I’ve  an  idea  of  having  the  stone 
taken  out  and  put  into  a  scarf  pin.  Do 
it  would  pay?"  He  passed 
you  think 
jewel  over  to the  storekeeper,  who 
the 
took 
it  and  with  a  “ My,  yes!"  looked 
admiringly  at  the  playing  colors.
“ Where  did  you  get  it,  John?"
“ Lucy  Williams  has  been  wearing  it; 
but  I  told  her  I  wanted  it.  The  ring 
isn’t  any  good  now  and  I'll  have  a  pin 
made  out  of the  opal.’ ’

That  was  a ll;  but  there  was  a  long 
silence  until  the  cigars  were  gone,  and 
then  the  young  fellow  went  away  tak­
ing  with  him  as  a  New Year’s  present  a 
box  of  the  storekeeper’s  choicest  Hav­
anas.  A  fortnight 
later  this  was  the 
Tuesday  morning  letter  from  Wellesley: 

Wellesley,  Mass.

Tot. ’ ’

“ Dear  Daddy— What 

in  the  world 
does  John  Brackett  want  to write  to  me 
for?  Who 
is  he  anyway?  For  more 
than  six  months  I  have  had  him  for 
breakfast,  luncheon  and  dinner. 
If  you 
want  him  to  write  to  me  I  am  willing 
on  your  account,  of  course,  but  I  am 
afraid  he  will  not  find  me  an interesting 
correspondent. 

Sunday  afternoon.
Ringely  read  the  note  with  a  broad 
grin  and  put 
into  his  pocket.  He 
locked  so  happy  that  John  couldn’t  re­
frain  from  asking 
if  he  had  had  good 
news.  For  reply  his  employer tossed 
him  the  letter.  For the  next  five  min­
utes there  were  two  men  in  the  Blakely 
store  that  walked  on  air.  That  night 
they  walked  home  together  and  when 
the  Ringely  gate  was  reached  the  clerk 
was  induced  to go  in  to  dinner.  After 
dinner  they  had  business  at  the  store 
it  there,  smoking,  each
and  they  did 

it 

hugging  his  own  knees  and  both,  with 
tongues  at  fast  unloosed,  talking  extrav­
agantly,  as  men  will  when  under  ex­
“ Helen"  and 
citement,  the  names 
“ Tot”   falling  without  reserve 
from 
earnest  lips. 
It  was  late  when  the busi­
ness  was  satisfactorily  transacted,  and 
it  was  noticed  that  the  old  hand  rested 
contentedly  on  the  young  arm  and  that 
a  young  hand  was  placed  above  the  old 
one  as  they  walked  away.

Winter  lingered  in  the  lap  of  spring. 
June  came  at  last  and  with  it the college 
commencements,  chief  among  them  be­
ing  Wellesley.  For some  reason  Ringe­
ly  was  eager to go  and  greatly  to  Mrs. 
Ringely’s  wonderment  John  Brackett 
wanted  to  go  too  and  nothing  but  her 
emphatic  “ No!” could  put  a  stop  to  the 
foolishness.  "What  under  the  shining 
sun,  Josh  Ringely,  are  you  thinking  of, 
wanting  to  take  that  fellow  with  you  to 
Wellesley,  of  all  times  in  the  world, 
if 
when  Helen  couldn’t  entertain  him 
she  wanted  to?  Ob,  don’t  tell  m e! 
I 
know  all  about  it.  He's  a  nice  young 
man  and  he’s  smart  and  he’s  clean  and 
wholesome;  but  he’s  conceited  enough 
for any  ten  men,  young  or old,  and  he’s 
selfish  enough  for  any  twenty  you  can 
pick  out,  and  he’s  so  stingy—you  call 
lose  a  leg  rather 
it  ‘ saving’—that  he’d 
than  pay  a  doctor  for curing 
it.  No,  I 
ain't  going  to commencement,  nor  you 
either,  and,  as  far as  John  Brackett  and 
Helen  are  concerned, if he  knows  what’s 
good  for  himself  he’ll  keep his distance. 
You  keep  still  and let her manage that. ”
The  “ boys”   didn’t  go  to  commence­
ment.  A  week 
later  the  “ girl"  came 
home,  “ lookingas  bright  as  the  dawn," 
and  filling  the  old  home  with  a  sweet­
ness  that  neither  father  nor  mother 
dreamed  she  possessed.  John  was  on 
hand  early,  and  was  early  taken 
in

band,  and so  early  saw  that  there  wasn’t 
any  hope  for  him,  and  he  had  the  good 
sense  to  know  why.  He  came  to  dinner 
and  he  played  tennis  and  he  went  to 
church  with  them ;  but  there he stopped. 
There  was  a  great  gulf  between  them 
and  he  didn’t  try  to  pass  it. 
In  August 
he  understood.  A  young  doctor  found 
Boston  too  hot  for comfort  and  came  to 
enjoy  the  green  fields  of Blakely.  Helen 
“ happened"  to  hear  of  his  coming  and 
thought  it  would  be  pleasant to entertain 
him,  so  he  went  there.  He had a lengthy 
interview  with  the  girl’s  father and  that 
fixed  matters  so  that  be  spent  his  vaca­
tion  there.  The  next  morning storekeep­
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say:

" I t ’s  no  use,  John.  You  and  I  were 
all  right,  but  somehow  we  didn’t  take 
the girl  into  account,  and  there's  where 
we  fell  down. 
It  only  shows  that  Bob­
bie  knew  what  he  was  talking  about 
when  he  said :

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Michigan bickti of the Drip

President,  Geo. F. Owen,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St it t,  Jackson;  Treasurer 
John W. Sc h bam , Detroit.

United Commercial Tnnlen of Michigu 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba k tle tt,  Flint 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K e n d a ll,  Hillsdale 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Ed elm an, Saginaw.

Grui Rapids Coucil No. Ill, D. C. T.

Senior Counselor,  W  B.  Com pton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

lickina Conoreial Trawlers’  litial  Accident  Association 
President, J. Boyd  Pa n tlin d,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow e n, 
Grand Rapids.

M em bership  Now  Reaches a H undred and 

a Q uarter.

Grand  Rapids,  June  3—At  the regular 
meeting  of  Grand  Rapids  Council,  No, 
131,  U.  C.  T .,  last  Saturday  evening, 
some  more  interesting  work  was  done 
— interesting  to  the  members  who  were 
in  attendance—and  there  are  a  larj 
number  of  them,  too—boys,  you  shou 
all  come,  as  you  will  miss  a  great  deal 
by  not  attending  the  meetings—and  in 
teresting  to the  officers  and  members  to 
see  the  Council  growing  so  rapidly,  as 
it  bids  fair to  be  the  largest in  the  State 
by  the  close  of  the  present  year.  H 
Fred  DeGraff,  representing  Foote  & 
Jenks,  Jackson,  and  John  D.  Martin 
representing  Hirth,  Krause  &  Co.. 
Grand  Rapids,  were  taken  within  the 
folds,  and  M.  G.  Bowen,  representing 
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,  Grand  Rapids, 
who  resides  in  Traverse  City,  was given 
the  obligation  during  the  week,  as  it  is 
not  possible  for  him  to  be  in  Grand 
Rapids  Saturday  night.  H.  C.  Hatch, 
having  removed  from  the  city,  has  been 
given  a  transfer  card  to  Kansas  City 
Council,  No.  10,  thus  making  the  mem­
bership  of  Grand  Rapids  Council  at  the 
close  of  the  meeting  Saturday  even 
ing  125.

A  committee,  consisting  of  Franklin 
Pierce,  W.  S.  Burns  and  C.  P.  Rey 
nolds,  was  appointed  to  make  arrange 
ments  for  a  fraternity  picnic  at  Reed’; 
Lake  Saturday,  June  29.  L.  F.  Bake 
and  F.  H.  Simmons  were  appointed 
captains  to  organize  two  base  ball teams 
to  play  a  matched  game  at  the  picnic 
In  the  future,  when 
inviting  either 
brothers  Baker  or Simmons,  please  do 
not  forget  to  address  them  by  tbei 
rank— Captain. 
intention  to 
have  ball  games  and  picnics  during  the 
summer months.  It  is  requested  that  all 
interested 
in  the  ball  games  will  meet 
Saturday  afternoon  at  2 130  for  practice 
out  on  South  Division  street  at  the  end 
of  the  street  car tracks.

It  is  the 

All  members  having  hats  which  they 
were  to  wear to  Kalamazoo  in  their  pos 
session  that  are  not  paid  for  will  please 
report  for  them  to  Secretary  L.  F 
Baker;  and  those  who  have  badges  not 
returned,  report  to  Past  Counsellor J 
G.  Kolb,  as  the  Committee  having them 
in  charge  want  them  all  reported  on  by 
July  1.

In  sympathy  with  our  brother,  Henry
J.  Heystek,  for  the  loss  by  death  of  his 
beloved  wife,  the  following  resolutions 
were  adopted:

Whereas— In  view  of  the 

loss  our 
brother  and  associate,  Henry  J.  Hey­
stek,  has  sustained  by  the  death  of  his 
beloved  wife  and  of  the  still  heavier 
loss  sustained  by the motherless children 
who  were  nearest  and  dearest  to  her; 
therefore  be  it

Resolved— That  it  is  but  a just tribute 
to  the  memory  of  the  departed  to  say 
that,  in  regretting  her  removal  from  our 
midst,  we  mourn  for  one  who  was  in 
every  way  worthy  of  our  respect  and  re­
gard.

Resolved—That  we  sincerely  condole 
with  the  family  of  the  deceased  on  the 
dispensation  with  which  it  has  pleased 
Divine  Providence  to  afflict  them  and 
we  commend  them  for  consolation  to 
Him  who  orders  all  things  for  the  best 
and  whose  chastisements  are  meant  in 
mercy.

Resolved—That  this  heartfelt  testi­
monial  of  our sympathy  and  sorrow  be 
forwarded  to  the  family  of our  brother, 
published  in  the  Michigan  Tradesman 
and  spread  upon  our  records.

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Some  little  errors  were  made  in  mak­
ing  out  the  list of those  who  attended 
the  Grand  Council  meeting  in  Kalama­
zoo.  We  mean  those  who  were  accom­
panied  by  their  wives  and  those  who 
were  not.  Ye  scribe  tried  to  get  it  as 
near  right  as  possible  and  had  to  make 
the  list  out  almost  entirely  by  memory, 
so  please  overlook  the  mistakes  and  we 
will  try  not  to have  them  occur again.
Ja  Dee.

Gripsack  Brigade.

M.  H.  Van  Horn,  who  for  some  time 
has  represented  the Clark-Rutka-Weaver 
Co.,  will  hereafter  devote  his  energies 
to  the 
interests  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Supply  Co.

Samuel  T.  Goldberg,  traveling  repre 

sentative  for  the  Lilies  Cigar  Co., 
Kalamazoo,  was  married  Monday 
Miss  Sylvia  H.  Goodman,  of  Chicago, 
After an  extended  Eastern  trip  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Goldberg  will  reside 
in  Kalama 
zoo,  at  512  South  Park  street.

Alfred  D.  Otis,  Jr.,  who  has  made  an 
excellent  record  as  Southern  Michigan 
representative  for the  Cappon  &  Bertsch 
Leather  Co.,  will  be  married  June  19 to 
Miss  Jennie  Belle  Gitchell.  The  cere 
mony  will  be  held  at  the  home  of  the 
bride’s  parents,  171  Clinton  street.

Pewamo  News:  G.  F.  Faude,  the 
Ionia  cigar  manufacturer,  went  down  to 
Muir  the  other day,  and  when  he  went 
back  home  he  took  with  him  two  nice 
grass  pike,  which  he  swears  by  the 
‘ long  horned  spoon”   he  caught  him 
self.  But  Frank  Tilden,  the  traveling 
man,  says  that  Faude  bought  them  of 
kid,  and  that  when  the  deal  was  made, 
the  kid  tossed  them  to  Faude,  and  that 
was  how  the  catch  was  made.

than 

Coopersville  Observer:  Coopersville 
s  without  a  hotel  and  has  been  without 
one  for  nearly two  years,  yet  there  is  no 
in  the  State  where 
town  of  its  size 
hotel  would  pay  better 
here 
Everybody  concedes  that  the  town needs 
a  hotel  and  the  traveling  men  especial 
ly  are  struck  with  amazement  upon 
learning  that  there  are  no  hotel  conven 
iences  here.  Coopersville 
is  patiently 
waiting  for  some  good  hotel  man  to 
take  advantage  of  the  situation.  Where 
is  he?

L.  E.  Phillips,  who  was  recently  as 
signed  Eastern  Michigan  territory  by 
the  Western  Shoe  Co.,  has  been  com 
pelled  to  spread  himself  all  over the 
State  on  account  of  the  serious  illness 
of  Mr.  Hittle,  who  was  given  the  west 
em  half  of  the  State  when  Mr.  Phillips 
was  transferred  to  the  eastern  portion 
This  explains  why  Mr.  Phillips’  calls 
on  some  of  bis  trade  have  been  so  fa 
part.  Large  as  he  is,  and  obliging  as 
he  would  like  to  be  at  all  times  and  un 
der  all  circumstances,  he  can  not  be  it 
two  places  at  the  same  time.

B id Tou  E ver?

Did you ever go  to luncheon  with  a  quarter  In 
Ana then And that you were  seated  by  a  friend 
Did you note he ordered  sparingly,  as  you were 
Then developed  generosity  and  paid  the  check 

your jeans.
of ample means?
forced to do,
for two?

Did you feel an obligation  then  this  kindness  to 
By inviting him to luncheon on the next succeed­
Did he go with you  most  gladly on your  turn  to 
Did your heart sink  down within you when you 

repay
ing day?
“ pay the freight?”
noted what he ate?

Did he start with soup and oysters  and conclude 
Did he take in game  in  season?  Did  he let  no 
Well, If ever  this  has  happened,  why,  I  beg  of 
You’ve no reason to feel lonely—there are others 

with demi-tasse?
entree pass?
you to note
In that boat.

A  school  boy  says  it  is the  rule  in  the 
hands  of  his  teacher  that  works  both 
ways.

SUCCESSFUL SALESMEN.

Jo h n   Cummins,  Representing  the  Olney 

&  Jndson  Grocer Co.

John  Cummins  was  born  in  Tyrone 
county,  Ireland,  Sept.  29,  1855,  being 
the  third  in  a  family  of  three  boys  and 
three  girls.  His  father  and  mother were 
both  bom  in  Scotland,  so  that  while  hi 
antecedents  were  Scotch,  he  is  Irish  by 
nativity.  He  attended  the  excellent 
schools  of  his  native  place  until  13 years 
of  age,  when  he  was  apprenticed 
Henry  Witherington,  at  Carrick  Me 
Cross,  with  whom  he  remained 
fou 
years,  acquiring  a  thorough  knowledge 
of  the  hardware  and  grocery  business. 
At  the  conclusion  of  this  apprentice 
ship,  he  sought  and  obtained  a  position 
in  the  wholesale  tobacconist  establish 
ment  of  W.  M.  Taylor  &  Co.,  of  Dub 
lin,  with  whom  he  remained  one  year 
as  clerk 
in  the  office.  Believing, that 
he  was  better adapted  to  the  career of 
traveling  salesman,  he  obtained  a  posi 
tion  in  the  wholesale  stationery house  of

crative  position  as  manager of  the  gro­
cery  store  of  Hevenor  Bros.,  at  Brad­
ford,  Pa.,  where  he  remained  eight 
years. 
It  so  happened  that  the  Olney 
&  Judson  Grocer Co.  were  looking  for 
a  traveling  salesman  at  this  time  and, 
in  some  way,  the  matter  was  brought  to 
the  attention  of  Gowans  &  Stover,  soap 
manufacturers  of  Buffalo,  who 
lost  no 
time  in  recommending  Mr.  Cummins  to 
the  consideration  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
house,  in  consequence  of  which  an  en­
gagement  was  made  and  relations began 
which  have  never 
terminated.  Mr. 
Cummins  started  out  for  the  Olney  & 
Judson  Grocer  Co.  Jan.  1,  1890,  and  for 
three  years  covered  the  Northern  terri­
tory.  For the  past  eight  years,  he  has 
covered  Central  and Southern Michigan, 
seeing  his  trade  every  two  weeks.

Mr.  Cummins 

is  a  member  of  the 
Emanuel  Presbyterian  church, 
is  a 
Mason  as  far  as  the  Seventh  degree,  an 
Odd  Fellow,  both  subordinate  and  can­
ton,  and  is  affiliated  with  the  Michigan 
Knight  of the  Grip.

Mr.  Cummins 

is  the  father of  three 
boys  and  two girls,  and  the  family  re­
side 
in  their own  home  at  628  Madison 
avenue.

Mr.  Cummins  attributes  his  success 
solely  to  haid  work,  but  his  associates 
n  the  house  and  on  the  road  insist  that 
persistence  and  tact  have  had  quite  as 
much  to  do  with 
it  as  the  proverbial 
hard  work  which  invariably  stands  for 
success.  He 
is  a  man  of  strong  likes 
and  dislikes,  but  the  former  so  far  out­
number  the  latter  that  his  list  of  friends 
is  legion.  His  word  has  always  been 
regarded  good  and  his  opinion  on  any 
subject  pertaining  to  the  grocery  busi­
ness  can  always  be  taken  as  standard,  - 
due  to  the  fact  that  he  never  expresses 
himself  unless  he 
considers  himself 
sufficiently  well  posted  to  talk  under­
standing^.

&  M.  Wood,  of  Dublin,  for whom 
in  Southern  and  Western 
traveled 
Ireland  for two  years.  Liking  the  road 
and  believing  that  he  was  better  fitted 
for  the  grocery  business  than  the  sta 
tionery  trade,  he  obtained  employment 
with  the  wholesale  grocery  house  of 
John  Smithson  &  Son,  of  Dublin,  with 
which  house  he  was  identified  for  five 
years,  covering  the  same  territory  as 
before.  At  this  point 
in  his  career, 
something  occurred  which  changed  the 
whole  course  of  his  life.  About  a  year 
previous  to  the  conclusion  of  his  en 
gagement  with  Smithson  &  Son,  he  met 
Miss  Rachel  Frances  Coe,  a  Limerick 
lady,  and  the  acquaintance soon ripened 
nto  friendship  and  from  that into some­
thing  more  enduring.  The  young  lady 
came  to  this  country  with  her  brother in 
the  early  part  of  1881  and  four  weeks 
later  Mr.  Cummins  sailed  on  the  same 
ship  which  she  had taken on its previous 
voyage.  He  landed  in  New  York  City 
une  1,  proceeding  immediately  to  Sal- 
amanaca,  N.  Y.,  where  the  marriage 
ceremony  was  performed  on  June  7.  He 
had  no  intention  at  that  time  of remain­
ing  in  this  country,  but  the  $500  he  had 
saved  in  Ireland  soon disappeared  while 
he  was  seeking  employment  as  a  travel- 
ng  salesman.  As  he  expressed  it,  he 
soon  spent  ail  the  money  he  had  and 
was  compelled  to  stay 
in  America, 
whether he  wished  to do  so  or not.  Be­
ing  unable  to  obtain  a  position  as  trav­
eling  salesman,  he  took  a  clerkship 
in 
the  retail  grocery  store  of  Jackson  & 
Fletcher,  on  Sixth  avenue,  New  York 
City,  with  whom  he  remained 
six 
ipopths,  He  then  obtained  a  more  lu-

It 

this 

less  than 

idea  to  be 

is  again  demonstrated  that  cheap 
labor  is  not  the  most  profitable.  When 
syndicate  of  capitalists  established  a 
number  of  cotton  mills  in  China  it  was 
expected  that  they  would  yield  hand­
some  returns  because  Chinese  labor  was 
cheap  and  the  cost  jf  operation  would 
in  the  United 
be  so  much 
Experience  has 
States  or  England. 
proved 
fallacious. 
Chinese  labor  is  cheap.  Chinese  women 
employed 
in  the  mills  are  contented 
with  15  cents  per  pay,  but  after  months 
of  training  they  are  unable  to  do  one- 
quarter  as  much  work  as  operatives  in 
this  country. 
It  will  take,  it  is  said, 
fully  twenty-five  years  to  establish  the 
cotton 
industry  on  a  satisfactory  basis 
"n  China,  and  by  the  end  of  that  period 
t  is  feared  that  the  American  manufac­
turers  would  still  control  the  situation. 
Despite  Chinese  and  other competition, 
to-day  practically  control 
Americans 
the  cotton  market 
is 
charged  that  American  manufacturers 
sometimes  sell  at  cost  in  China  to  re­
duce  surplus  stock  at  home  and  this 
practice  demoralizes  conditions  there, 
hut 
it  is  confessed  that  even  legitimate 
American  competition,  can  not  be  suc­
cessfully  combated.

in  China. 

It 

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Term expires
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L. E.  Reyn old s,  St. Joseph 
He n k y  He im , Saginaw 
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Wir t   p .  Do t y, Detroit - 
A. C. Sch um ach er, Ann Arbor  •  Deo. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mu ir , Grand Rapids 
Dec. 81,1906 

President, A.  C.  Sch um ach er,  Ann Arbor 
Secretary, He n r y  He im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit

E xam ination  Sessions.

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

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association 

President—Ch a s.  F.  Ma n n , Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Sch m id t, Grand Rapids

M anipulating  th e  D raught  A rm   o f  the 

Fountain.

It  is  astonishing  how  many soda water 
dispensers  believe  that  it  is  impossible 
to  shut  off  the  flow  of  soda  water  with 
out  screwing  down  the  wheel  with  a 
the  force  they  can  muster.  They 
im 
agine  that  by  this  means  they  prevent 
the  dripping  of  the  soda  water,  but  no 
mistake  could  be  greater,  for the  valve 
seat,  unable  to  stand  such  rough  usage 
becomes  injured,and  an  annoying  drip 
ordinary 
ping  soon  begins  that  no 
measures  will  suffice  to  check. 
For 
this  reason  the  soda  fountain  boy should 
be  especially  cautioned  never  to  use 
much  force 
in  shutting  off  the  soda 
water  draught  arm. 
in  proper  condition  a  moderate  force 
will  suffice  to  close  it  completely  with 
out  any  injury  to  the  seat.

If  everything 

While  on  the  subject  of  draught  arms 
there 
is  another  question  that  must  be 
touched  upon,  and  which  is  often  per 
plexing  to  druggists,  namely,  the proper 
way  of  using  a  double-stream  draught 
arm.  All  soda  water  apparatus  manu 
facturers  nowadays provide  their  marble 
fountains  with  such  draught  arms,  and 
yet,  curiously  enough,  one  finds  a  great 
variety  of  opinion  as  to  the  best  means 
of  using  the  two streams.  In fact,  a great 
many  druggists  are  not  even  aware  as 
to  the  manner  in  which  the  fine  stream 
and  the  coarse  stream  are  produced,  al 
though  this  is  simplicity  itself.  There 
are  merely  two  different  passages  in  the 
draught  arm,  one  of  much  smaller di 
ameter than  the  other.  The laws  of hy 
draulic  pressure  do  the  rest.  When  the 
large  passage  is  opened,  the soda water, 
having  an  ample  outlet,  comes  out  in  a 
wide  and  slow  stream.  When,  however, 
the  wide  passage  is  closed  and  the  nar­
row  one  opened,  the  internal  pressure 
being  the  same,  the  soda  water  issues 
in  a  narrow  and  very  rapid  stream  that 
chums  up  the  syrup  and  soda  water  in 
the  tumbler.

These  facts  being  premised,  we  are 
prepared  to  consider  the  question  as  to 
the  best  means  of  utilizing  the  two 
streams.  By  far  the  commonest  prac 
tice  is  to  turn  on  the  large  stream  first 
in  order to  rapidly  fill  the  tumbler,  and 
end  up  by  a  jet  from  the  fine  stream  to 
mix  the  soda  and  syrup  together and 
produce  a  fine  head  of  foam.  This  plan 
is  of  course  the  most  rapid,  but  it  has 
the  disadvantage  that  it does  not  in  all 
cases  produce  a  thorough  admixture  of 
the  syrup  and  the  carbonated  water. 
The  syrup  being  at  the  bottom  of the 
tumbler and  being  protected  by  several 
inches  of  soda  water,  the  fine  stream, 
in  spite  of  its  velocity,  can  not  pene­
trate  to  the  bottom  of  the  tumbler with 
sufficient  force  to  stir up  the  contents 
properly.

To  obviate  this  disadvantage, 

the 
more  careful  dispensers  resort  to  an 
expedient  which,  while  requiring  a 
trifle  more  time, yields  excellent  results.

little  before  the  coarse  stream 

It  is to  draw  the  syrup  into the  tumbler 
first,  and  then  turn  on  the  fine  stream 
for an  instant  to  stir  it  up  and  dilute 
a 
turned  on.  The  coarse  stream  is  then 
better  able  to  continue  the  dilution 
while  the  fine  stream  is  turned  on  aga 
at  the  end  to accomplish  the  final  mix 
ture  and  produce  the  foam.

in  drawing  a  tumbler 

With  the  wheels  that  are  commonly 
used  on  the  draught  arms,  these  changes 
naturally  mean  quite  an  appreciable 
loss  of  time 
soda  water,  and  as  a  consequence  in 
ventors  have  for  many  years  been trying 
to  devise  a  double  stream  draught  arm 
that  could  be  worked  by  a  single  valve. 
Many 
ingenious  devices  of  the  kind 
have  been  patented,  but  the  only  one 
that  has  come  into  practical  use  is  con 
structed  on  much  the  same  principle 
the  valve  used  on  siphon  filling  ma 
chines.  These  draught  arms,  instead 
of  being  opened  by  wheels,  are  worked 
by  a 
one  side  a  fine  stream  is  produced,  and 
when  bent  to  the  other,  a  coarser one.

lever.  When  the  lever  is  bent 

On  some  makes  of  apparatus  the 

draught  arms  are  provided  with  what 
known  as  an  expansion  chamber,to  pre 
vent  sputtering.  Sputtering 
is  one  of 
the  great  evils  at  the soda water counter, 
for  the  customer  who  is  bespattered 
with  syrup  and  soda  water  will  be  dis 
pleased  at  the 
least.  The  expansion 
chamber obviates this  in  great  measure 
The  cause  of  sputtering  is  the  presence 
of a  certain  amount  of  free  gas  in  the 
soda  water—that  is  to  say,  of a  certain 
amount  of  gas  not  held  in  solution  by 
the  water.  This  gas,  naturally,  tends 
to  rise,  and  when  the  draught  arm  is 
provided  with  a  glass  dome,the.free  gas 
finds  a  ready  exit  into  this  reservoir 
and  the  sputtering  of the  soda  water  L 
thus  diminished  to  an  appreciable  ex 
tent.

While  such  devices  are  very  useful  in 
their  way,  it  is  far  more  satisfactory  to 
attack  the  trouble  in  its  source,  and  en 
deavor,  as  far  as  possible,  to  prevent 
the  sputtering  by  seeing  to  it  that  there 
shall  be  no  free  gas  in  the  soda  water. 
The  best  way  to  secure  this  result  is  to 
have  the  soda  water  thoroughly  cold 
when  drawn,  for  the  colder  the  water 
the  more  gas  it  will  hold  in  solution, 
and  hence  the  smaller  will  be 
the 
amount  of  free  gas  left  to  cause  sputter 
*ng-

An  obstruction  in  the  draught  arm 
is 
frequent  cause  of  sputtering,  for  any 
undue  agitation  tends  to  separate  the 
gas  from  the  water.  A  misplaced  wash­
er,  a  sharp  bend 
in  the  pipes,  or the 
presence  of  some  foreign  matter  in  the 
cooler  or  leader  pipe,  will  all  tend  to 
agitate  the  water  in 
its  passage  and 
hence  to  increase  the  amount  of  free 
gas.

Sputtering  is  likewise  induced  if  the 
leader  pipe  and  the  pipes  and  coolers 
of  the  apparatus  have  not  the  same 
diameter  of  bore.  Whether  the  stream 
of  liquid  flows  from  a  large  pipe  to a 
smaller  one,  or  from  a  small  pipe  to a 
larger one,  a  certain  amount  of agitation 
results,  ending  in  the  throwing  off  of  a 
certain  amount of  free  gas.

A  not  infrequent  cause  of  sputtering 
the  presence  of a  pin  hole  in the pipe 
attached  to  the  cock  of  the  portable 
fountain.  So  long  as  the  water  in  the 
fountain  covers  this  pin  hole,  no  effect 
is  seen.  As  soon,  however,  as  the  water 
sinks  below  the 
level  of the  pin  hole, 
the  free  gas  which  has  accumulated  at 
the  top  of  the  fountain  finds  a  ready 
passage  into  the  tube,  and  is  thus  car­
ried  up  to  the  draught  arm.

Finally,  sputtering  will  occur  when­
ever  a  new  fountain 
is  attached,  and 
again  when  the  soda  water  is  nearly 
exhausted.  These  last  cases  may,  how­
ever,  be  easily  guarded  against.  When 
a  fountain  gives  its  first  premonitory 
gurgle to show  that  it  is  almost  empty, 
it  should  at  once  be  disconnected,  and 
no trouble  will  arise.  Moreover,  when 
a  new  fountain  is  turned  on,  the  relief 
valve  on  the  cooler  should  be  opened 
for  an  instant  or two,  to  allow  the  es­
cape  both  of  the  free  gas  at  the  top  of 
the  fountain  tube,  and  also of any  air 
that  may  have  found  its  way  into  the 
coolers.  The  careful  following  of  these 
simple  precautions  will  do away  with 
most  of  the  sputtering  at  the  soda  water 
counter.—Thomas  Warwick 
in  Drug 
gists  Circular.

The  D rug M arket.

Opium—Continues  to  decline  under 
favorable  reports  from  the growing crop.
Morphine— Has  been  reduced  10c  per 

ounce.

Quinine— German manufacturers  have 
reduced  their  price  to  a  parity  with 
American.

Chloral  Hydrate— Prices 

in  foreign 
markets  have  advanced,  and  the  article 
is  very  firm  here.

Cocoa  Butter— Has  advanced  and 

tending  higher.

Haarlem  Oil— Owing  to  competition 
has  declined.  Prices  will  be  lower  after 
July  1.

Menthol— Is  in  better  supply  and  has 

declined.

Solution of Irish   Moss.

Take  of  Irish  moss  1  ounce,  and 
water  enough  to  make  1  pint.  Wash 
the  Irish  moss  in  water,  to  free  from 
impurities;  add  one  pint  of  water  and 
boil  for  five  minutes,  or heat  in  a  water 
bath  for filteen  minutes,  or  macerate  in 
cold  water  for  twenty-four  hours,  with 
occasional  stirring;  filter through  puri­
fied  cotton  on  a  muslin  strainer,  in  a 
hot  water funnel.  This  mucilage,  it 
is 
claimed,  has  no  more  taste  than  mucil­
age  of  gum  arabic,  and  is  said  to  keep 
better. 
It  can  be  used  with  soda  syrup, 
in  the  proportion  of  from  2  to  4  ounces 
to  1  gallon  of  the  sytup.

Are  You Short 
on Wall  Paper

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

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
The Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers.

Salol— Higher  prices  are  probable  on 
the  Government  having 
tariff, 

account  of 
changed 
Higher  prices  are  looked  for.

its  ruling  on 

the 

Cubeb  Berries—As  reported  the. Java 
corp  has  been  destroyed.  Holders  have 
advanced  their  price  about  20  per  cent 
in  very 
small  stocks.  There  is  little  to  be  had 
7ery  high  prices  rule.
Oil  Cubebs—Has  advanced  in  sym 

Prickly-Ash  Berries—Are 

patby  with  the  berries.

Oil  Lemon— Has  declined.
Oil  Peppermint— Is scarce and higher. 
Buchu  Leaves—Stocks  are  very  light. 
For  prime  green  goods  higher  prices 
are  asked.

Cocoa  Leaves— Are  in 

light  supply 

and  advancing.

Elecampane  Root— Is  very  scarce  and 

American  Worm  Seed— Is  very  scarce 

higher.

and  higher.

Cocaine— On  account  of  scarcity  and 
higher  prices  for  raw  material,  is  ad 
vancing.

Spruce  Chewing Gum.

Spruce  gum,  20 parts.
Chicle,  20  parts.
Sugar,  powdered,  60  parts.
Melt  the  gums  separately,  mix  while 
hot,  and  immediately  add  the  sugar,  a 
small  portion  at  a  time,  kneading  it 
thoroughly  on  a  hot  slab.  When  com­
pletely  incorporated  remove  to  a  cold 
slab,  previously  dusted  with  powdered 
sugar,  roll  out  at  once  into  sheets  and 
cut  into  sticks.  Any  desired  flavor  or 
color may  be  added  to  or  incorporated 
with  the  sugar.

D eath  From  Acetic A dd.

A  Long  Island  druggist  is  reported  to 
have  killed  a  woman  by  putting  strong 
acetic  acid 
in  citrate  o f magnesia,  in­
stead  of  citric  acid  syrup.  The  two 
bottles  were  kept  “ side  by  side”   and 
looked  alike.

Cough  Syrup  Directions.

The  Virginia  Medical  Semi-Monthly 
recommends that  a  person when tempted 
i? 
should  draw  a  long  breath  and
hold  it  until  it  warms and  soothes  every 
air cell.  The  benefit  will  soon  be  ap­
parent.

Talk  No.  10

HAY  FEVER

The time to treat Hay Fever is  now,  before  the 
season begins.  Almost all  cases  are  dependent 
upon  some  diseased  condition  of  the  nose  or 
throat.  Sometimes it is a  polypus,  sometimes a 
spur  or  growth  on  the  septum  or  turbinate 
bones.  It is often due to a diseased  condition of 
the tissues lining the nose and throat, and if these 
conditions are removed  there  is  no  Hay  Fever. 
Sometimes it is due to a peculiar neurotic condi­
tion of the system that can be  removed  by  elec, 
trical  treatments.  During  the  attacks  of  Hay 
Fever Asthma there  is  nothing  works  so  nicely 
as  static  treatments.  Let  us  Investigate  your 
case and find the cause.

Go or write to

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN

Powers'  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Graduate of University  of  Michigan  and Illinois 

School  of  Electro-Therapeutics

M ail  T reatm ent

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

symptom blank.

Fred  Brundage
Wholesale  Druggist

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

Fireworks
Fishing

Tackle

Sporting

Goods
Stationery
School

Supplies

Cigars

1

Order
them  with
your
DRUGS
to save
separate
freight
charges

Prompt shipment and right prices.

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Acidum
Acetlcum................$
8
6@$
$ 
Benzoicum, German
70® 71
Boraclc....................
17
®
Carbollcum.............
30® 42
47®
Citrlcum................... 
47® 60
Hydrochlor__
3®
5
Nltrocum.......
8® XO
Oxalicum................. 
12®
X2@ 14
Pbosphorium,  dll...
15
®
Salicyllcum...............   52®
52® 56
Sulphurlcum...........  1K@
XK@ 5
Tannicum...............   t  10®
X  X0®  X  20
Tartarlcum  ............... 
38®
38®
40
A m m onia 
A

4®
6
6®
8
13®
X3@ 15
12®
X2@ 14

Aqua, 16 deg...
Aqua, 20 deg...
Garbonas...................  
Chloridum...............  
A niline
Black.......................
Brown......................
Red..........................
Yellow.....................   2 50®
Baccee
*  Cubeb®...........po, 25
Junlperus................
Xantnoxylum.........

2  00®  2  25
80®  X  00
45® 50
2  50®  3  00

22® 24
6@ 8
75

1  70@  1
Balsanm m
A
Copaiba...................  65®
56® 60
Peru  .......................  
6
Terabln,  Canada__  
66®
Tolutan.................. 
15®
Cortez
Abies, Canadian......
Casslae......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Primus Virglni........
Qulllala, grrd ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus.. .po.  15, gr’d
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza,  po...... 
H®matox, 15 lb. box 
H®matox, is ........... 
H®matox, Ms.........  
H®matox, Ms.........  
Carbonate  Predp... 
Citrate and  Quinta.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanldum Sol.. 
Solut. Chloride........ 
Sulphate,  com’l.....
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........  
Sulphate,  pure........
F lora

24@ 
as©
“  
l i e
13®
14®
16@

E xtractum  

l
2  2
7
4
l

F e r r u

26
30

8

10® 

Conium Mac............   go®  60
Cppajba...................   l  is® l  26
Cubeb® 
...............   l  50®  l  60
Exechthltos.............   i  oo@ 1  10
Erfgeron..................   1  10® l  20
Gaultheria...............  1  85®  1  90
Geranium, ounce....  @  75 
Gosslppil, Sem. gal..  GO®  60
Hedeoma..................  l 60®  1  60
Junipera.................  l  50® 2 00
Lavendula............... 
go® 2 00
Llmonls ..................   l 35®  1  40
Mentha Piper.........   1 60® 2 00
Mentha Verid.........   1  60® 1  60
Morrhu®, ¡gal.........   1  10®  1  20
“ yrcla....................  4 00® 4 60
Cuve.......................   76® 3 00
PicisLlqulda.........  
12
Picls Llqulda,  gal...  @ 3 6
Ricina.....................  1 00® 1  06
Rosmarlnl................  @ 1 00
Rosae, ounce............  6 00® 6 60
gucclnl....................  40®  46
fab ln a....................  go®  1  00
fan tal.....................2 78®  7 00
Sassafras.................  48®  53
slnapls,  ess., ounce.  @  66
TJglli.......................  l 60®  1  60
Thyme... 
..............  40®  go
Thyme, opt.............. 
© 160
Tneobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bj-Carb.. 
i8@ 
is
.............. 
Bichromate............  
13® 
15
Bromide........;..... 
52®  57
Carb  .......................  
12® 
16
Chlorate... po. 17®19  16®  18
Cya^de...................  34®  38
Iodide.. 
...........  2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30 
rotas sa, Bitart, com.  @ 
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7®
Potass  Nltras.........  
e@
Prusslate.................  23®
Sulphate  po............  
ib@

Radix
Aconltum.................  20®  26
30®  33
Althae...................... 
Anchusa................. 
10® 
12
Anun  po.................  @  26
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentlana........po. 15 
15
Glychrrhiza... pv.  15 
18
Hydrastis  Canaden.  @  75 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @  80
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12® 
15
Inula,  po................. 
is®  22
Ipecac, po............... 3 60® 3 75
IrlS  plOX...po. 35@38  35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............  
25®  30
Maranta.  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25

12® 
16® 

15®  1
Arnica..................... 
Anthemls.................  22®  2
Matricaria...............  
30®  3

Folia
Barosma..................   40®  4:
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tln-
nevelly................. 
20®  21
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25®  31
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and Ms........-........ 
12®  2(
UvaUrsl................... 
8®  1(
Gummi
6i
Acacia, 1st picked...  ® 
4£
Acacia,2d  picked...  ® 
Acacia,3d  picked...  ® 
3f
Acacia, sifted  sorts.  ® 
28
Acacia, po................  45®  66
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape__po. 15.  ® 
12
Aloe,  Socotrl.. po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac...............   66®  60
Assafoetlda__po. 46  46® 
so
Benzoinum..............  GO®  66
Catechu, is.............. 
®  13
Catechu, Ms............  
®  14
®  16
Catechu, Ms............  
Campnor®..............  69®  73
Eupnorbium...po. 36 
®  40
Galbanum...............  
®  l  00
Gamboge............ po  66®  70
Gualacum.......po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. $0.76 
®  75
Mastic  ....................   @  60
Myrrh.............po. 45  @ 4 0
Opll....pO. 4.90@5.00 3 40®  3 50
Shellac....................  26®  36
Shellac, bleached....  40®  46
Tragacanth.............   60®  90

H erba

26
20
26
28
23
26
39
22
25

Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatortum. .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__ oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V...oz.pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, Fat...........  65®  60
18®  20
Carbonate, Pat........ 
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings 
18®  20

Olenm

Absinthium.............  6 60®  7  00
Amygdalae, Dulc....  38®  66
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
Anisf.......................   1 85® 2  00
Aurantl Cortex........2  10® 2  20
Bergamll...........*....  2 70® 2 90
Cajiputi...................  80®  85
Caiyophylll.............  
75®  80
Cedar......................  80@ri  10
Chenopadll..............  @ 2 75
Clnnamonll.............l  so® l  40
Cltronella................  36®  40

Rbei, pv..................   76® 1  36
Spigella. 
..............  35®  38
Sanguinaria... po.  15  @ 
is
Serpentaria............   40®  46
Senega....................  60©  65
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smilax, M................  @  25
Sclllae..............po.  35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  25 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
ie
14® 
Zingiber ].................  26®  27

Semen

4® 

Anisum........... po.  16  @  12
Apium (graveleons).  13®  16
Bfrd.xs.................... 
6
Carui................ po.  18  12®  13
Cardamon...............   1  26®  1  76
Coriandrum............. 
8® 
10
Cannabis Sativa......   4M@  5
Cydonium...............  
75®  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
is
ie® 
Dipterlx Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum.............. 
® 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7®
L inl......................... 
4®
Llnl, grd...... bbl. 4 
4M@
Lobelia....................  35®  40
Pharlans Canarian..  4M@
Rapa-......................  4M@
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9®
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
n@
Spiritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................   1  26® 1  GO
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1 66® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........  1  75® 3 50
Saacharum  N. E  ...  1 go® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galll..........  1 75® 6 50
Vmi Oporto.............   1 25® 2 00
Vlnl Alba.................   1 26® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
Nassau sheeps’ wool
Velvet extra sheeps’
Extra yellow sheeps’
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
Syrups

carriage...............  2  60® 2  76
carriage................   2  50® 2 75
wool, carriage......   @  1  50
wool, carriage......   @  l  26
carriage................  @  1  00
@ 7 5
slate use...............   @  l  40

Acacia....................  @  go
Aurantl Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..................   @  go
Ipecac......................  @  60
Ferri Iod......... . 
@  go
Rhel Aram..............  @  go
Smilax  Officinalis...  GO®  60
Senega....................   @  go
Sdllm...  ......  
  a   go

 

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Miscellaneous 

Sclllae  Co.................  
Tolutan.................... 
Prunus  vlrg............  
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls R 
Aconltum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
A rnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.....................
Catechu]...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chloridum....
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh......................
Nux Vomica............
Opii..........................
Opii, comphorated..
Opil, deodorized......
Quassia...................
Nhatiuiy......................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stramonium............
Tolutan..................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Veride...
Zingiber..................
dither, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
-Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2M@
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto...................   40®
Antimoni, po........... 
4®
Antimoni et Potass T  40®
Antipyrin. 
........
Antifebrin...........
@
„
Argent! Nltras, oz. 
io@
Arsenicum.............. 
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N...........  1  80®
Calcium Chlor., is...  @
Calcium Chlor., Ms..  @
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..  @
Cantharides, Rus.po 
®
Capsid Fructus, air..
„   „  
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
Capsid Fructus B,po  @ 
16 
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12® 
14
Carmine, No. 40......  
® 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
go®  55
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  35
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum.................  @  45
Chloroform............   65®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1  66
Chondrus................   20®  26
Clnchonidlne.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonldine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   6  65® 6 75
Corks, list, dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............   @
C reta............bbl. 75 
@
Creta, prep.............. 
®
Creta, predp........... 
g®
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus....................   25®
Cudbear..................   @
Cuprl Sulph............   6M@
Dextrine................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............   78®
Emery, all numbers.  @
Emery, po................  @
E rgota......... po. 80  86®
Flake  White........... 
12®
Galla.......................
Gambler................. 
8®
®
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
Gelatin, French......   35®
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
n@
Glue, brown............  
Glue,  white............  
15®
Glycerina............ 
17M®
Grana Paradlsl........  @
Humulus................. 
25®
® 1 00 
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor.. 
@  90@  1  10 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
@ 1 20 
Hydrarg Ammonlatl 
HydrargU nguentum
50®  60
Hydrargyrum.
@  86
Icht hyobolla, Am...
66®  70
Indigo.....................  
76®  1  00
Iodine,  Resubl........3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................3 60® 3 85
Lupulln....................  @ 6 0
Lycopodium............   80®  86
¡is...................... 
euBh  vs
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drargIod..............
@
LlquorPotassArslnlt
10®
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
__
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl  @ 
Mannia. 8.  F ...........   GO®

. 

 

 

Menthol..................   @ 4 60
Morphia, S., P.& w. 2 28® 2 60 
Morphia, S..N. Y. Q.  2  15® 2 40
Morphia, Mai...........2  16® 2 40
Moschus  Canton__ 
®  40
Myristlca, No. 1......   65®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 16  @ 
10
gs Sepia..................  
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co...........*....... 
(Si  1  00
Picis Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz 
....................  @2 00
Picis Llq., quarts....  @  1  00
SftoLlq.,  pints......   @  85
Pli Hydrarg...p°. so  @  go 
is
Piper  N gra...po. 22  @ 
PjP®r  A1ba....p ° .35  @  30
PlIxBurgun............  
® 
7
Plumbl Acet............ 
io@ 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30®  1  60 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
*  P -D- Co., doz...  @  75
Pyrethrum, pv........  25®  30
Qhassiae..................  
8® 
10
Quinla, S. P.& w...  36®  46
38®  46
Quinla, S.  German.. 
Quinia,N. Y............   36®  46
Rubia Tinctorum.... 
12® 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv 
18®  20
Sa18*51? . 
...........  4 50® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...  40®   go
la®  14
Sapo, W................... 
SapoM.................... 
10®  42
Sapo G....................  @ 
15

Seldlitz Mixture......  20®
Slnapls..............
Slnapis,  opt__ .’
@
Snuff, Maccaboy,
V oes.................... 
®  4,
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s  @ 
41
9®  n
Soda, Boras............. 
9© 
Soda,  Boras, po......  
11
Soda et Potass Tart. 
23®  25
Soda,  Carb.............. 
iu®  
o
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
SP{s. Cologne..........   @ 2  60
| pts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  55
Spts. Myrcla Dorn...  @  2  00
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.  @
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal... 
80®  1  06
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@ 
4
Sulphur, Roll...........  2M@  3M
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth  Venice... 
28®  30
Theobroms.............   60®  66
Vanfito...  ..............9 oo@i6 00
Zinci Sulph............. 
g

7® 

O ils

.  

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

BBL.  OAL.
70
70
go

Linseed, pure raw...
Linseed,  Dolled.......
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits  Turpentine..
Paints
Red  Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris...........
Green, Peninsular...

63
66
64
67
64
60
39
46
BBL. LB.
IK  2 @8
IK  2 @4
IK  2 a s
2M  2M@3
2M  2K@3
13® 16
70® 75
14® 18
13® 16
6M@ 7
6M@ 7
Whiting, white Span 
® 90
Whiting, gilders’....
@ 95
White, Paris, Amer. 
_____
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @  1  40
Universal Prepared.  x  io@ 1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  x  xo®  1  20
Extra Turp..............  x 60®  1  70
Coach  Body............2 75® 3 00
No. x Turp Furn......  1 00® 1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  x 56® x  eo 
Jap.Dryer,No.XTurp  70®  76

Stationery  |

Our stationery  department  is  now  com­

plete with  new fall  styles of

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  Holiday 

Goods ever shown in  Michigan.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

& & & & &

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M 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,  however,  are  lia­
ble to change at any  time,  and  country  merchants  will  have  their  orders  filled  at 
market prices at date of purchase.

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ADVANCED
Je lly   Tum blers
Navy  Beans
Lemons
Oranges

Index to  Markets

B y Columns

B

A

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

 

 

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Baking Powder...................... 
l
Bath  Brick............................  
l
1
Bluing.................. 
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes................................. 
l
Butter Color..........................   2
Candles..................................  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...................................-  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................  4
Crackers...............................   4
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................  5

D

 

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

p

X

N
o

I
J
X.

Grains and Flour.................  6
H erbs....................................  6
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo.....................................   6
Je lly .......................................   6
Lamp Burners.......................  l
Lamp Chimneys.....................  15
Lanterns.................................  15
Lantern  Globes.....................   15
Licorice..................................   7
Lye..........................................   7
Matches................................
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard..................................   7
Nuts.......................................  14
Oil Cans................................   15
Olives......................................  7
Oyster Pails............................   7
Paper Bags.............................   7
Paris Green............................  7
Pickles.....................................  7
Pipes.......................................  7
Potash.....................................  7
Provisions...............................   7
Bice........................................   8
Saleratus.................................  8
Sal Soda......................... 
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.................................  ii
Twine..................... 
  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder...................  12
Wicking.................................  13
Wooden ware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast Cake............................  13

V
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B
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Y

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ALABASTINE

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

Less 40 per cent discount.

AALE GREASE
Anrora 
.....................55 
Castor  Oil....................60 
Diamond..................... 50 
Frazer’s .............. 
  75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

doz.  gross
6 00
7 co
4 25
9 00
9 00

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

9 00
6 00

34 lb. cans,  4 doz. case.......3 75
34 lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
1 lb. cans, 
l doz. case...... 3 75
5 lb. cans, 34 doz. case.........8 00

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

Queen  F lake

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

R oyal

10c size__  
90
34 lb. cans  1  35
6oz. cans.  1  90
34  lb. cans  2 50
M lb. cans  3 75
1 lb.  cans.  4  80
31b. 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 gross 6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

BLUING

8

Small size, per doz..............  40
Large size, per doz..............  76

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...................  85
Fancy Whisk............................ 1 10
Warehouse............................... 3 25

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 I n .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  85

Straw berries

Standard.................  
85
l  25
Fancy...................... 
Succotash
Fair.......................... 
90
Good.......................  
1  00
l  20
Fancy...................... 
Tomatoes
F air......................... 
85
Good....................... 
90
Fancy...................... 
1  00
Gallons....................  
2 40
CATSUP
Columbia, pints................... 2 00
Columbia, Vi pints................l  25

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

@  9
1»  934
@9
@10
-  @934
@  934
@  9
@9
@9
@  9
14@15
@90
@17
13@14
50@75
19@20

Eocene.......................   @1034
Perfection...................  @9*4
Diamond White.........   @  834
D.  S. Gasoline........   @12
Deodorized Naphtha..  @1034
Cylinder.......................29  @34
Engine..........................19  @22
Black, winter..............  @1034
CHEESE
Acme.......................  
Amboy.................... 
Carson City.............. 
Elsie........................ 
Emblem..................  
Gem......................... 
Gold Medal.............. 
Ideal...................... 
Jersey...................... 
Riverside................. 
Brick.......................  
Edam....................... 
Leiden....................  
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago................. 
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce__ 
56
60
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
Black Jack....................... 
55
Largest Gum  Made.........  
60
56
Sen S en ............................ 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf....................... 
55
Yucatan............................ 
55
Bulk....................................  5
Bed......................................  7
Eagle...................................   4
Franck's.............................   634
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................   46
Vienna Sweet.................... 
21
Vanilla................................   28
Premium.............................   31
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz........... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz.-......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz........... 1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............     95
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, 34s  .......................   35
Colonial, 34s.........................  33
Epps.....................................  42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, 34s..................   12
Van Houten, 34s..................   20
Van Houten, Vis..................
Van Houten,  Is.........  .  ...  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Vis...... ...................   41
Wilbur. 34s ..........................   42
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags...................... 
2Vi
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............  
4

COCOA

COFFEE 
Roasted

_ _   HIGH GRADE
Cm tees

Special Combination..........15
French Breakfast...............1734
Lenox, Mocha & Java........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwtnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls............ 29
White House, 30-2S............. 28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls.. 
. .2134
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 2034
Royal Java..........................2634
Royal Java & Mocha..........2634
Arabian  Mocha  ..................2834
AdenMoch......................... 2234
Mocha & Java Blend..........23
Fancy Marlcaibo................ 1834
Javo Blend..........................1734
Golden Santos.....................17
Ja-Mo-Ka........................... 1534
Excelsior Blend...................1434
No. 65 Blend........................ 14
Common.............................. 1034
F a ir.....................................11
Choice..................................13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common.............................. 11
F a ir..................................... 14
Choice.................................. 15
Fancy.................................. 17
Peaberry-............................13
F air..................................... 12
C h o ic e ......,,,,,,................ is

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

Mexican

G uatem ala

Choice...................................16
Fancy....................................17
Choice...................................16
African................................ 1234
Fancy African.....................17
O. G......................................25
P. G...................................... 29
Arabian................................21

Ja v a

Mocha
Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle............................ 113%
Dllworth.............................1134
Jersey.................................1134
Lion.................................... 1134
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 3i  gross............   75
Felix 34 gross............................ l 15
Hummers foil 3i gross........  86
Hummel’s tin vi gross........l  43

E xtract

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, vi case..................1 75
24 packages,  1 case  ..  .......3 50

CONDENSED  M ILK 

Substitutes

4 doz In case.

 

COUPON  BOOKS 

Gall Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown....................................... 6 25
Daisy.........................................5 75
Champion................................ 4 50
Magnolia..................................4 25
Challenge.................................3 75
Dime........................  
Leader..................................... 3 80
50books,any  denom...  150 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,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

B utter

Oyster

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................   1  50
100  books.......................   2  50
500  books.......................  ll  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
634
Wolverine......................... 
Soda  XXX.......................  
634
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette........................  13
F a u st............................... 
734
Farina..............................  
6
Extra Farina.................... 
634
Saltine 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......................  1034
Cubans.............................   1134
Currant Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
Ginger Gems.l’rgeorsm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C....  6
Gladiator............................  1034
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......................  1134
Milk Biscuit........................  
734
Molasses  Cake....................  8
Molasses Bar.......................  9
Moss Jelly Bar........: .......  1234
Newton...............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............  
8
Oatmeal Wafers.................   12
Orange Crisp.......................  9
Orange Gem........................   9
Penny Cake........................   8
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
734
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8
Scotch Cookies....................  9
Sears’ Lunch....................... 
734
8
Sugar Cake.......................... 
Sugar Cream, XXX.........  

8

DECLINED

Domestic  Cheese
Oregon  Prunes
No.  2  M ackerel

Shoe

Stove

No. 8....................................1  00
No. 7....................................1  3o
No. 4....................................1  70
No. 3....................................1  90
No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2.................................... 1  10
No. 1....................................1 75
W., B. & Co.’s, 15c size__  1  25
W., B. A Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s...............12%
Paraffine, 6s........................ 1034
Paraffine, 12s .......................11
Wicking 
................29

BUTTER  COLOR

CANDLES

. 

CANNED  GOODS 

70
2 00
75

B lackberries 

Clam  Bouillon

Apples
3 lb. Standards........
Gallons, standards..
standards...............
Baked........1  oo@i  30
75@  85
Bed  Kidney............  
String...................... 
80
85
Wax......................... 
Blueberries
85
Standard.................... 
Brook  T rout
l  90
2 lb. cans, Spiced.............. 
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
1 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
Corn
Fair..........................
65
Good.......................
80
Fancy......................
95
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine............
22
Extra  Fine...................
19
Fine...............................
15
Moyen..........................
11
Gooseberries
Standard................
90
H om iny
Standard..................
85
Lobster
Star, 34 lb.................
1  85 
Star, 1  lb.................
3 40
Picnic Tails.............
2 35
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
1  75
Mustard, 2lb...........
2 80
Soused, l lb..............
1  75
Soused, 2 lb............
2 80 
Tomato, 1 lb.............
175 
Tomato, 2 lb.............
2 80
Hotels.......................
18@20
Buttons....................
22@25
Oysters
Cove, lib ................
Cove, 2lb................
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie..........................
Yellow....................   1  65@i  85
Pears
Standard.................  
70
80
Fancy....................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
1  00
Early June.............. 
1  00
Early June  Sifted.. 
1 60
Pineapple
Grated....................   1  25@2 75
Sliced.......................   1  35@2  55
P um pkin
F a ir.........................  
70
Good.......................  
75
Fancy...................... 
85
Raspberries
Standard..................  
90
Russian  Cavier
X lb. cans..........................  3 75
X lb, cans..........................   7 00
1 lb. can............................  12 00
Columbia River, tails 
@1 85
Columbia Biver, flats 
@1 95
Bed Alaska.............   1  20@1 40
Pink Alaska............  1  oo@i  10
Shrim ps
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, 34s...........
Domestic, K s.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, 34s.........
California 34s..........
French, 34s..............
French, 34s..............

7
11@14
17@24
7@14
18@28

1  508

M ushrooms

Salmon

Peas

85

95

Sugar Squares...................  8
Sultanas............................  13
Tutti Fruttl......................  
i6
Vanilla Wafers.................   16
Vienna Crime...................  8
E.Tl. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods 

Standard Crackers.
Blue Ribbon Squares.
Write for  complete  price  list 

with interesting discounts. 
CREAM  TARTAR

8@10

5 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes.......30
Bulk In sacks....................     ..29

Apples

D RIED   FRUITS 
Sundried.........................
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @534
California F ru its
Apricots..................... 
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  @11
Pears..........................
Pitted Cherries........... 
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries.............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @334
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........  @434
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  (ffi 5W
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @5%
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  @634
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @ 7 v
30 - 40 26 lb. boxes........ 
834

California Prunes

734

'  

Peel

34 cent less In 50 lb. cases 

Citron
Leghorn...................................u
Corsican................  
u
C urrants
California, 1 lb.  package__ 1134
3 35
Imported, 1 lb package.......12
Imported, bulk.................... 1134
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.  1034 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1034 
London Layers 2 Crown.
1  75
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
634
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........ 
s
L. M., Seeded, 3l£  lb__  7  @
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

1 go

Beans

Cereals

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

P earl  B arley

H om iny

F arin a

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

24 2 lb. packages...........
. . . 2   00
100 lb.  kegs....................
...3 00
200 lb. barrels...............
...5 70
100 lb. bags....................
...2 90
Green, Wisconsin, b u...
...1  30
Green, Scotch, bu.........
...1  40
Split,  lb...... ..................
... 
3
Rolled  Oats
Rolled Avena, bbl.........
...4 20
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks.. .  2 25
Monarch, bbl.................
...3 90
Monarch, 34 bbl............
. ..2 05
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...
...1  90
Quaker, cases................
...3 20
East India...........................   234
German, sacks    ..............3%
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks............   434
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   6
Cracked, bulk......................  334
24 2 lb. packages.................2 so
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE & JE N E S'

JAXO N

^ U g h e stG ra d ^ E x tra c ts
Lemon

Vanilla 

oz full m .i  2011 oz full m.  80
oz full m.2ai01 2 oz full m .l  25 
No.3fan’y.3  15_No.3fan’y.l  75

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W hiteflsh

SEEDS

100 lbs........... 7 00 
40 lbs...........3  10 
10 lbs.........   85 
8 lbs......... .7 1  

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 50
1  30
40
36
Anise....................................   9
Canary, Smyrna.................... 4
Caraway.............................   s
Cardamon, Malabar.............60
Celery....................................
Hemp,Russian...................... 414
Mixed Bird..........................   4%
Mustard, white....................   9
Poppy....................................
Rape...................................   414
Cuttle Bone.......................   . 15
Handy Box,  large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............   1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish........ 
86
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Scotch, In bladders................  37
Maccaboy, 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

P ure  Cane

Good...................................   20
Choice...............................  26

STARCH

K in g * fo r d 's   C o r n
401-lb. packages...............   6M
20 l-lb. packages..............  
6M
6 lb. packages...............  
7M
K i n g s f o r d ’s S ilv e r  G lo ss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
7
6 lb. boxes.......................  7M

C o m m o n  G lo ss

l-lb. packages............... ;. 
4%
3-lb. packages................... 
4%
6-lb. packages................... 
tya
40 ana 60-lb. boxes............ 
3M
Barrels.............................   3M

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

TEA
Japan

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

 

Gunpowder

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

Vanilla 

2ozpanel..l  20 
3 oz taper..2 00

Lemon

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

D. C.  Lemon
2 oz......... 
75
3 oz.........  1  00
6 OZ...........  2  00
No. 4 T 
.  1  52
O ur Tropical.

L>. C. Vanilla
2 OZ...........  1  24
3 0Z..........  1  60
4 OZ...........  2  00
No. 3 T ...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  l  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

Standard.

FLY  PA PER

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

FRESH  HEATS 

Beef

7%@ 8%
Carcass....................... 
Forequarters.........  
6*@  7
9M@io
Hindquarters.........  
Loins NO. 3................  12M@16
Ribs 
@14 
Rounds 
@  9 
Chucks 
@ 6M 
Plates.
@ 5
P ork
Dressed..................
@  7 
Loins.......................
@  9 
Boston Butts...........
@ 8* 
Shoulders...............
Leaf  Lard...............
@  8
M utton
8M© 9
Carcass.................... 
Lambs...................... 
9M@10
Carcass....................  7*4® 8
GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

@  8 

Veal

W heat

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

W inter  W heat  F lour 

73

Local Brands

Patents.............................  4 25
Second Patent..................   3 75
Straight............................   3 66
Clear................................   3  15
Graham............................  3  26
Buckwheat.......................   4 00
Rye...................................   3  26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms......................  3  75
Diamond Ms.....................   3 78
Diamond Ms......................  3  75
Quaker Ms.........................  3  90
Quaker Ms........................   3 90
Quaker Ms........................   3 90

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Spring  W heat  F loor 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
PUlsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4  bo
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 30
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 30 
Pillsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 30 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ms.......
4 30
Duluth  Imperial Ms.......
4 20
Duluth  Imperial Ms.......
4  10
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  Ms....................
4 40
Wlngold  Ms....................
4 30
Wingold  Ms....................
4  20
Ceresota Ms...................... 4 50
Ceresota Ms...................... 4 40
Ceresota Ms...................... 4 30
Laurel  Ms......................... 4 50
Laurel  Ms......................... 4 40
Laurel  Ms......................... 4  30
Laurel Ms and Ms paper.. 4 30
Bolted............................... 2 00
Granulated.......................
2  10
Car  lots............................. 58
Car lots, clipped...............
Less than car lots............
Feed and  M lllstnA

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Meal

Oats

34M

St. Car Feed, screened__ 18  00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........17  60
Unbolted Corn Meal........  17  00
Winter Wheat Bran.........  13 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  17 00
Screenings.......................   16  00
Corn, car  lots...................  44M

C o ra

H ay

No. 1 Timothy car lots....  ll  so 
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  12 60 
8age.........................................16
H o p s..................... 
15
Laurel Leaves..........................15
Senna L ea v e s..,......................... 25

HERBS

 

INDIGO

JELLY

LICORICE

Madras, 5 lb. boxes............... ,y>
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.......50
5 lb. palls.per doz...........  1  85
151b. palls............................  38
301b. pails............................  62
Pure....................................   30
Calabria......................... 
93
Sicily..........................  
¡4
Root.........................................10
Condensed. 2 doz................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz................ 2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.....................1 65
Anchor Parlor...................1  50
No. 2 Home...............  
1  sc
Export Parlor..................... 4 00
Wolverine........................... 1  eo
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  

MATC HES

LYE

45
75

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle..........  
Choice...........................  

40
35

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz......... !i  75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............  1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  00
Manzanilla, 7 1
Queen, pints.......................   2 35
Queen, 19  oz.......................  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.

_  PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.
Glory  Mayflower 
H
Satchel 
Bottom
Square
.........   28
M..........
60
M......... .........   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 60
12.........
........1  60
3  15
14.........
........2 24
4  15
16.........
........2 34
4 50
20.........
........2 52
5 00
25.........
5 50
Sugar
Red......
Gray__

4M

... 

PARIS  GREEN

Bulk.......................................
Packages, M lb., each........ 18
Packages, M lb., each........ 17
Packages,  lib.,each........ 16

PICKLES
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count............4 60
Half bbls, 600 count............2 75

Barrels, 2,400 count........... 5 so
Half bbls, 1,200 count.........3 30

Small

PIPE S

Clay, No. 216........................1  70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   65
Cob,No.3........................  
  go

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
B arreled  P ork

Mess......................... 
@16 80
Back.......................  >  @iB bo
Clear back...............  
@16 00
Short cut................. 
@16 00
Pig..........................   @19 00
Bean......................... 
@12 26
Family Mess......... 
@15 60
Rump Butts Beef....  @11 50

D ry  Salt  Meats

9M
9M
8M

Bellies...................... 
Briskets..................  
Extra shorts............  

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 121b. average.  @  11M
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @  11
Hams, 161b. average.  @  10&
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @  104
Ham dried beef......   @  12M
Shoulders(N.Y.cut)  @  7M
Bacon,clear............   10K®  11 m
California hams
Ä  8*  @  11 
Boneless  hams......
Boiled Hams...........
@  16 
Picnic Boiled Hams
@  12M 
Berlin  Hams.........
@  8M 
Mince Hams.........
@  9

Lards—In Tierces

Compound...............
Kettle......................
Vegetole................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs..advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls.. advance 
51b. Palls.. advance 
81b. Falls., advance

Sausages

5M
6
7M
7M
6M
9 
6

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

Bologna
Liver...........
Frankfort...
P o rk ...........
Blood...........
Tongue........
Headcheese..
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’ Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs.........
M bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
Mbbls.,40 lb s.......
M bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk ......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........
Sheep.......................
B ntterlne
Solid, dairy.;...........  11
@13
Rolls, dairy..............  11M@13M
Rous, creamery......  
14 yt
Solid,  creamery......  
14
2 78
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
17 so
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
2 76
Potted ham,  Ms......  
60
Potted ham,  Ms......  
90
Deviled ham, Ms.... 
50
Deviled ham, Ms__ 
90
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
50
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
90
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

80  Carolina head...................... 7
Carolina No. 1 .................”   6M
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 4M
Broken..................................4M
Japan,  No.  1.................5M@6
Japan,  No. 2.................4M@5
Java, fancy head...........5  @5M
Java, No. 1.................... b  @
Table.................................  @

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  16
Deland’s....................................3 00
Dwight’s Cow...........................3 15
Emblem....................................2 10
L.  P .......................................... 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms...................3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................  go
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__  90
Lump, bbls...........................  
it
Lump, 146 lb. kegs.................   so

SAL  SODA

SALT 
Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diamond* Crystal 

100  3 lb. bags.......................... 3 00
80  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, 66 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks.......................2 25
60 51b. sacks.......................2  15
2810 lb. sacks..................... 2 05
561b. sacks.......................   40
28 lb. sacks.......................   22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags......   30
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   15
66 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
Solar Rock
66 lb. sacks.................. 
30
Common
Granulated  Fine.................  95
Medium Fine....................... 1  00

Ashton
H iggins

Warsaw

 

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured................  @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6M
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...............   @6
Strips or  bricks.........   6W@iOM
Pollock.......................   @ 3M
Strips.......................................10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1100 lbs...........................  5 75
No. 1  40 lbs...........................  2 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
76
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
61
Holland white hoops, bbl.  ll  26 
Holland white hoops Mbbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
82 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs.........................  3 00
Round 40 lbs.......................   1 so
Scaled.............................  
19
Bloaters.............................    1 60
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  12 26
Mess  40 lbs......................  5 20
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  38
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  13
No. 1100 lbs......................  10  60
No. 1  40 lbs......................   4  50
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1  20
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  00
No. 2 100 lbs......................  7  00
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3  10
No. 2  10 lbs......................  
85
71
No. 2  8 lbs......................  

Mackerel

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

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

50 cakes, large size...........3 25
100 cakes, large size........... 6 50
50 cakes, small size...........1  95
100 cakes, small size...........3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny............   3 90
Peekln............................   4 00
Queen Anne...................   3  15
Big Bargain..............• • • •  1 75
Umpire...........................  2  15
German Family..............  2 45
Dingman........................   3 85
Santa Claus....................  3 26
Brown.............................  2 40
Fairy...............................  4 00
Fels brand—
Naptha............................  4 00
Gowans & Sous brands—
Oak Leaf.................. '....  3 25
Oak Leaf, big 6...............   400
JA X O N
Single box.................................3 00
6 box lots, delivered........... 2 96
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands
Silver King.....................   3  60
Calumet Family.............   2  70
Scotch Family................   2  50
Cuba................................  2  40
60 cakes....................  1  95
Ricker’s Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme........................  4  00
Acme 5c..........................  3  25
[  Marseilles.......................  4 00
[  Master.............................. 3  70
Proctor & Gamble brands—
Lenox.............................  3 00
Ivory, 6oz......................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
Star...................................3 00
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............ 2 40
Boxes....................................  5M
Kegs, English........................4K

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

Lautz Bros, brands—

Scouring

SODA

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......  3
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  1 lb......
W orks:  Venice, 111.
Geneva, 111.

Common Corn

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

4%
4%

SPICES 

W hole Spices
 

Allspice...............  
 
Cassia, China In mats...... 
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__ 
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls__ 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
Mace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  75-80....................  
Nutmegs,  105-10................... 
Nutmegs, 116-20.................... 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepjjer, shot
ture G round 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

Barrels.................................20
Half bbls............................. 22
1 doz. 1 gallon cans..............3 20
1 doz. M gallon cans............ 1 80
2 doz. M gallon cans.............  92

12
12
28
38
55
17

14
66
50
40
36

SUGAR

No. 4, 3 doz In case, gross..  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross  .  7  20 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the local 
freight from New York  to your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  Invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer pays  from  the 
market  In  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping  point,  including 
20 pounds for the  weight of the 
barrel.
Domino.............................  6 05
Cut Loaf...........................   6 05
Crushed............................  6 06
Cubes................................  5 80
Powdered.........................  5 65
Coarse  Powdered............   5 66
XXXX Powdered............   6 70
Standard  Granulated......   5 55
Fine Granulated................  5 55
Coarse Granulated...........  5 65
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 66
Coni.  Granulated.............  5 so
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
Mould A............................  5 90
Diamond  A ......................  5 56
Confectioner’s A..............  536
No.  1, Columbia A..........  6 20
No.  2, Windsor A...........   6 15
No.  3, Ridgewood A.......  5 .5
No.  4, Phoenix  A...........   5 10
No.  6, Empire A.............  5 05
No.  6...............................   5 00
No.  7...............................   4 90

Best Corn Starch.................
Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. 
Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. 
Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boil. 
Best Laundry in  bbl.,  thin  boll. 
Chas. Pope Glucose Co.,
Chicago, III.

Oolong

Young  Hyson
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 Breakfast

In dia

TOBACCO

Cigars

American Cigar Factory brands

A. Burners’ brand.

Elk’s Heart......................65(5,70
W. S.  W.............................. 35 00
Bald Head.......................... 35 00
Plalndealer........................35 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands.
Little Columbian................ 36 00
Columbian...........................35 00
Columbian Extra................ 56 00
Columbian Special..............65 00
Columbian Invincible........ 90 00
Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager....................  35  00
Quintette..........................  36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

8. C. W..............................  35 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

1 2

1 3

1 4

1 5

F lug

Tabs

Baskets

Fine  Cat

W ICKING

Egg Crates

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Clothes  Pins

W ash  Boards

B a tte r P lates

WOODENWARE

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

Pearline.............................. 2 90
Scourlne..............................3 50
No. 0, per gross................... 20
No. i, per gross...................25
No. 7, per gross................... 35
No. 8. Der gross...................56

B. L...................................$36 00
Gold Star..........................  35 00
Phelps, Brace & Co.’s Brands.
Royal  Tigers...........55® 80 00
Royal Tigerettes..............  35 00
Book Filled Tigerettes....  35 00
Female Tigerettes...........  35 00
Night Hawk, concha........  35 00
Night Hawk,  navel.........  35 00
Bushels................................  95
Vincente Portuondo .. 35® 70 00
Bushels, wide  band............l  15
Ruhe Bros. Co............ 25® 70 00
M arket................................   30
Hilson  Co...................35®lio oo
Splint, large........................4 00
T. J. Dunn & Co.........35® 70  00
Splint, medium..................3 GO
McCoy & Co............... 35® 70  00
Splint, small........................3 00
The Collins Cigar Co.. 10® 35 00
Willow Clothes, large.........6 26
Brown  Bros............... 16® 70  00
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 75
Bernard Stahl Co....... 35® 90  00
Willow Clothes, small........ 5 25
Banner Cigar  Co........10® 35  00
Seldenberg  & Co........S5®125  30
No. l Oval, 250 In crate........  45
Fulton  Cigar Co........10® 35  00
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
A. B. Ballard & Co....35@175 00 
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........  56
E. M. Schwarz & Co...35®no 00
No. 5 Oval, 250 In crate........  65
San Telmo..................35® 70  00
Havana Cigar Co....... 18® 35  00
Humpty Dumpty...............2 25
C. Costello & Co.........35® 70  00
No. 1, complete...................  30
LaGora-Fee Co...........36® 70  00
No. 2, complete...................  25
S. I. Davis & CO......... 35®185 00
Hene & Co..................35® 90 00
Round head, 5 gross box__  45
Benedict & Co.........7.50® 70 oo
Round head, cartons...........  62
Hemmeter Cigar Co...35® 70 00 
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.35® 70 00
Trojan spring......................  90
Maurice Sanborn__ 50@175 00
Eclipse patent spring........   85
Bock & CO...................65@300 00
No 1 common.......................  76
Manuel  Garcia...........800375 00
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
Neuva Mundo.............85®175 00
i*> in. cotton mop heads___ l  zs
Henry Clay................. 85®560 00
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
La Carolina.................96®200 oo
Pails
Standard T. & C. Co.. .35© 70 00
hoop Standard.1 40
2- 
3- hoop Standard...................l 60
Star G reen....................35  OO
2- wire,  Cable....................... l so
3- wlre,  Cable....................... l 70
Dncle Daniel........................58
Cedar, all red, brass  bound.l 25
Ojibwa.................................38
Paper,  Eureka......................... 2 25
Forest  Giant........................38
Fibre.........................................2 40
Sweet Spray..,.....................35
Cadillac................................ 57
Hardwood................................ 2 50
Sweet  Lo ma.........................38
Softwood.... ........................2  75
Golden Top.......................... 28
Banquet...... .7...........................l 50
Hiawatha..............................58
Id eal....................................... l 60
Telegram..............................28
Pay C ar................................34
20-lnch, Standard, No.  l .....6 00
Prairie Rose......................... 50
18-inch, Standard, No.  2......... 5 00
Protection............................ 38
16-lnch, Standard, No.  3......... 4 00
Sweet Burley........................40
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l.................6 60
Sweet Loma......................... 38
18-inch, Cable, No. 2.................6 oo
Tiger....................................39
16-lnch, Cable, No. 3.................5 00
No. l Fibre............................... 9 45
Flat Iron..............................36
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
Creme de Menthe................60
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20
Stronghold........................... 40
Solo.......................................35
Sweet Chunk........................37
Bronze Globe............................2 50
Forge....................................33
Dewey......................................l 75
Red Cross............................. 24
Double Acme............................ 2 75
Palo......................................36
Single Acme....................   2 25
Kylo...................................36
Double Peerless...............   3 25
Hiawatha............................. 41
Single Peerless.........................2 60
Battle A xe.........................  37
Northern Queen......................2 50
American Eagle................... 54
Double Duplex........................ 3 00
Standard Navy.....................38
Good Luck...........................2  75
Spear Head, 16 oz................43
Universal.................................. 2 26
Spear Head,  8oz................45
Nobby Twist........................49
11 In. Butter.........................  75
JollyYar..............................39
13 In. Butter..............................1 00
Old Honesty......................... 45
15 In. Butter.............................. l 75
Toddy.,.................................35
17 in. Butter..............................2 50
J. T .......................................38
19 In. Butter..............................3 00
Piper Heidsiek.................... 64
Assorted 13-15-17.......................l 75
Boot Jack............................. 81
Assorted 15-17-19  ................2 50
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob....................... ..32
Common Straw............
134
Fiber Manila, white__
3X
Hand Pressed...................
.46
Fiber Manila, colored..
434
Double  Cross...................
.37
No.  1  Manila...............
4
Sweet Core............... .......
.40
Cream  Manila..............
3
Flat Car............................
.37
Butcher’s Manila.........
2H
Great Navy.......................
.37 Wax  Butter, short  count. 13
W arpath..........................
.27 Wax Butter, full count.
20
Bamboo,  8 oz...................
.29 Wax Butter,  rolls........
15
Bamboo, 16 oz...................
.27
YEAST  CAKE
XXL,  6 lb ................
.28 Magic, 3 doz.................
.1 00
I XL, 301b.......................
.32
Sunlight, 3 doz..............
.1 00
Honey Dew......................
.37
Sunlight, 134  doz.........
.  50
Gold  Block.......................
.37
Yeast Cream, 3 doz......
.1 00
.40
Flagman..........................
Yeast Foam, 3  doz......
.1 00
Chips................................
.35
Yeast Foam. iu   doz...
.  60
Klin Dried.......................
.24
FRESH  FISH
Duke’s Mixture...............
.40
Per lb.
.40 White fish................... © 8
Duke’s Cameo...................
Honey Dip Twist..............
.39
Trout..........................
a
7
Myrtle Navy....................
.40
Black Bass.................10® 11
Yum Yum, IK oz..............
.39
Halibut...................... © 15
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls.......
.37
Ciscoes or Herring__ © 4
Cream...............................
.37
Bluefish...................... ® 1234
Corn Cake, 2)4 oz..............
.25
Live  Lobster.............. © 18
Corn Cake, lib .................
.23
Boiled Lobster........... © 18
Plow Boy, 1*4 oz...............
.39
Cod............................. © 10
Plow Boy, 3H oz...............
.37
Haddock.................... © 7
Peerless, 334 oz.................
.34
No. 1 Pickerel............ © 7
Peerless, l?i oz.................
.36
Pike............................ © 6
Indicator, 234 oz...............
.28
Perch.......................... @ 4
Indicator, 1 lb. palls........
.31
Smoked  White........... © 10
Col. Choice, 234 oz............
.21
Red  Snapper.............. © n
Col. Choice. 8 oz...............
.21
Col River  Salmon...... © 12
Mackerel.................... ® 16
TABLE SAUCES
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s,  small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  3 75
Halford, small...................  2 25
Salad Dressing, large......   4 56
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75
Cotton, 3 ply........................16
Cotton, 4 ply....................... 16
Jute, 2 ply...........................12
Hemp, 6 ply........................12
Flax, medium.....................20
Wool, l lb. balls...................  7bi
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain.. 11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Red Star..........12
Pure Cider, Robinson.........10
Pure Cider.  Silver.............. li
WASHING  POW DER
Gold Dust, regular.............4 50
Gold Dust, 5c......................4 00

The Cappon & Berts c h Leather 
Co., 100 Canal Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Hides
Green No. l .............
Green No. 2.............
Cured  No. l ............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins,green No. l 
Calf skins .green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No: l 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 
Pelts
Pelts,  each..............
Lamb........................
Tallow
No. 1.........................
No. 2.........................
Wool
15® 16
Washed, fine........... 
18®20
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
11®12
Unwashed, medium.  14®16

® 6 © s 
® 7%
e  6k® 9 
® 734 
@10 
® 8*
50© 1  10

HIDES  AND  PELTS 

W RAPPING  PA PER

Wood  Bowls

VINEGAR

Smoking

TW INE

®
® 354

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

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

bbls. palls
@ 7%
@ 734
@ 8
@9
cases
@ 7%
©1034
@io
@8

Mixed Candy

Fancy—In  B a lk  

@ e
@ 7
@ 7yA
& 6%
@ 834
@ 9
@ 8*
@ 9
@ 9
® 9
@ 9
©10
@10
©1534
©13

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.. 
San Bias Goodies.... 
@12
Lozenges, plain......  
@ 9*4
Lozenges, printed... 
@10
Choc. Drops............. 
@114
Eclipse Chocolates...  ©1334
Choc. Monumentais. 
©14
Victoria Chocolate.. 
@15
Gum Drops.............. 
@ 5
@ 934
Moss  Drops............. 
Lemon Sours........... 
@10
Imperials................. 
@10
Ital. Cream Opera... 
@12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls............  
@12
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls.................  
@14
Pine Apple Ice........ 
©1234
Maroons..................  
@12
Golden Waffles........ 
@12

Fancy—In  S lb. Boxes

Lemon  Sours.........  
©55
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
©65
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
@86
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............  
@1  00
Gum Drops.............. 
©30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
Lozenges,  plain......  
@56
©so
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials.................  
©oo
Mottoes................... 
©60
Cream  Bar..............  
©55
Molasses Bar........... 
©56
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
©66
String Rock............. 
©65
Wintergreen Berries  ©60
Caramels 
No. 1 wrapped,  8  lb.
boxes....................  
Pennv Goods...........  
FRUITS
Oranges
Florida Russett.......  
Florida  Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.......... 
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.......................... ©2 50
Medt. Sweets..........   3 00@3  60
Jamal cas................. 
Rodi...................... 
Lemons

©50
56©60

©
@
©
©
©

Messina, 300s..........   3 50®4 00
Messina, 360s...........  3 26@3 76
California 360s.........  3  2S@3 50
California 300s.........  3 25©3 50
Bananas
Medium bunches.... 
l 50©i 75
Large bunches........

©
©

Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
©
Califomlas,  Fancy.. 
©
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,................... 
@934
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
@12
©
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
©
Naturals, In bags.... 
8
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
©
FaHs In eo lb. cases. 
5 m 5)4
Hillowi.................... 
lb.  cases, new......  
A
Salrs,601b.cases....  4)4  © 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  ©17
©
Almonds,  Ivlca..... 
Almonas, California,
soft ■ celled........... 
16©18
Brazils,....................  
©11
Ftiberts  ................. 
©1234
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
©1334
Walnut«., soft shelled 
©13)4
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
©14
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
»13
Pecais,  Med........... 
©10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@11
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
©
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
©3 50
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
©
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P„ Suns..  5V4©
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted................ 
Span.ShlldNo. in ’w  7  © 8

Roasted................  6)4© 7

©
©

48 
6 
52 
65 
84 
1  20 
1  60 
2 25 
2 70

6)4
84

85 
1  10

60
45
7)4

AKRON STONEWARE 

B atters

% gal., per doz....................................
2 to 6 gal., per gal.............................
8 gal. each..........................................
10 gal. each..........................................
12 gal. each..........................................
16 gal. meat-tubs, eac h .......................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................

2 to 6 gal., per gal......... .
'’burn Dasners, per doz.

Churns

M ilkpans

34 ge,,  fiat or rd. bot, per doz.. 
l gal. nat or rd. boi,, tach......

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

% gal. fireproof, ball, p«>r doz............
1 gal. fireproof, ball, p><r doz............

Stewpans

Ju g s

)4 gal. per doz......
14 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.............................................

35 
45 
65 
1  10 
45 
50
Per box of 6 doz.
1  56
1 78
2 48

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

First  Quality

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

XXX  Flint

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

Pearl  Top

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

La  Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz...........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 1 Lime (66c doz)..........................
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................
No. 2 Flint (80c d o z )" "....................

Rochester

Electric

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

OIL  CANS

1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz__
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz..
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. Tilting cans................................
5 gal. galv. Iron Nacefas....................
5 gal. Rapid steady stream.................
5 gal. Eureka, non-overflow...............
3 gal. Home Rule................................
5 gal. Home Rule...... .........................
5 gal. Pirate King...............................

P um p  Cans

LANTERNS

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

2 002 15
3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00r
5 00 
5 10

1  00 
1  25 
1  35 
1 60
3 50
4 00 
4 70

4 00 
4 70

1  40
1  58
2 78
3 75
4 85 
4 25 
4 95
7  26 
9 00
8 50
10 50
9 96
11  28 
9 60

4 86 
7 40 
7 60 
7 50 
13 50 
3 60

45
45 
2 00 
1  25

BUCKEYE  AND SUM M IT 
S E W E R   PIPE  CO.
W.  S.  & J.  E. Graham,  Agts.

Akron,  Ohio

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

W rite us for Discounts
20o
A  MONTH
Is all it costs far the 
VERY  BEST
GAS  LIGHT

equal to  10 or 13  coal oil lamps 
anywhere if you will get the
Brilliant Gat Lamp.
Brilliant Gas Lam p Ca, 42 State, Ohieag«

ORDER  ONE  TO  COMPLETE  YOUR 

LINE  FOR  SPRING  TRADE.

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

N O .  IO.

2  Dozen  FANCY  HANDLED  TEAS 
Yi  Dozen  1-PINT  PITCHERS 
J f  Dozen  COMPORTIERS 
Yi  Dozen  LARGE  PLATTERS 
1  Dozen  BREAD  PLATES
1  Dozen  OAT  MEAL  BOWLS
2  Dozen  DINNER  PLATES
3  Dozen  TEA  PLATES
1  Dozen  BONE  DISHES 
Y   Dozen  1^-P1NT  BOWLS 
X   Dozen  CAKE  PLATES

12  Dozen

Price,  including  package,

$ 1 0 - 8 0 .

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

Manufaoturnr»* and Jobber a’ Agents  in

M ery, Glassware. M o  end lamps

112  MONROE  S T ., 

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

¡ T i n n n r r a T n n n n r » r a ^

Labels
G a s o l i n e  
D e a l e r s

for

T h e   L a w   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.

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

e

•  M..................75c
5  M......................50c per M
>0  *1......................40c per M
M  M......................35c per M
50  M...................... 30c per M

o m p

T r a d e s m a n  
C
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Hardware  Price  Current

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

Levels

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

Mattocks

Metals—Zinc

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

7H
8

Miscellaneous
Bird Cages...................................
Pumps, Cistern......................... .
Screws, New List.
85
_ 
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................     mftioftio
Dampers, American......................
50

....................................... 40
....................................... 75&10

........... , ................... 

Molasses Gates

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

60&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................  60&10&10
Common,  polished.................. ;......... 
70&5
Patent Planished Iron 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
“B” Wood’s patent planished. Nos. 25 to 27  9 75

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Planes
Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy...........
Sciota Bench.........................
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy.. 
Bench, first quality...............
Nails
Steel nails, base....................
Wire nails, base....................
20 to 60 advance....................
10 to 16 advance.....................
8 ad van ce___ ...........................
6 advance.............................
4 advance.............................
3 advance.............................
2 advance.............................
Fine 3 advance......................
Casing 10 advance.................
Casing 8 advance...................
Casing 6 advance...................
Finish 10 advance.................
Finish 8 advance...................
Finish 6 advance..................
Barrel  % advance.................
R iv e ts
Iron and  Tinned...................
Copper Rivets and  Burs......

6  00 
9  00 
6 50 
10 50
12  00 
28 00

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...

Sisal, H Inch and larger.....................
M anilla........................ .  ............................

Ropes

$4 00

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

Sand  Paper 

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

Sash  Weights

31

70

2 65 
2  66
Base
5
10
20
30
46
70
5015
25
35
25
35
45
85

6 50
7 60 
13 00
5 50
6 60 
11  00 
13 00

8H
12

3 20 
8 00

7  50

2 50
3 00
4 85
5 80

1  20 
1  20

Per 
100 
$2 80 
2 80 
2 90 
2 90
2 95
3 00 
2 50 
2 50 
2 65 
2 70 
2 70

4 00 
2 25 
1  25

Loaded  Shells 
oz.of
Size
Shot
Shot
10
1H
9
1H
8
1H
6
1H
5
1H
4
1H
1
10
1
8
6
1H
5
1H
4
1H

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

Am m unition

Caps

G. D., full count, per m......................
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m............
Musket, per m.....................................
Ely’s Waterproof, per n .......“
_  
Cartridges
No. 22 short, per m ......   ....................
No. 22 long, per m ........................ .  .
No. 32 short, per m...................
No. 32 long, per m........................... . ’

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Black edge, Nos. 11 and 12 U. M. C.  .
Black edge, Nos. 8 and 10. per m........
Black edge, No. 7, per m....................

New Klval—For Shotguns 

Drs. of 
Powder 

4 
4

4)4
4H3
3
3 >4 
3* 
3H
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

Gunpowder

Kegs, 25 lbs., per keg.................
H kegs, 12H lbs., per  %  keg......... ..]
H kegs, 6)4 lbs., per )4  keg...............

Shot

A ugurs  and  Bits

In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop,-all sizes smaller than  B...........
Snell’s .......................................
Jennings  genuine...........
Jennings’ imitation...................*' "**
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel.........  
'
First Quality,  D. B. Steel...................
_   _ 
Railroad......................
Garden............................” " "  " net
Bolts
Stove ...............................
......... 
Carriage, new 11«» 
Plow ........... 
......................
_ 
Buckets
Well, plain..........................................

Barrow s

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

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

BIDING ON THE  CABS.

Family  Controversy  Heard  in  a  Central 

Written for the Tradesman.

Lake Store.

“ You  hain’t  got no candy,  have you?”  
asked  the  larger of  the  two  young  men 
as  they  entered  the  store.

“ Yes,  plenty  of  ft.  This  way.”  
“ You  hain’t  got  no  mixed  candy 

have  you?”

“ Oh,  yes,  we  have  several  kinds.”  
“ You  have?”   incredulously.
An 

inspection  was  made,  and  after  a 
while,  when  the  boys  were  eating 
it 
near the  big  heating  stove,  one  of  them 
said:

“ Mixed  candy’s  about  the  best  candy 

to  eat  the’  is.”

“ Yep,”   answered the other,“   'ceptin 

“ Huh,  you  don’t  call  honey  'candy,' 

honey. ’ ’

do  ye?”

“ Like  to  know  what  yo’d  call  it  les­

sen  it’s  merlasses. ”

“ More  like  to  be  merlasses  ’n  candy. 
It’s  good  anyway,  an’  so’s  candy,  an’  I 
don’t  see’s  it  makes  an  offal  sight  of 
difference  what  you  name  it  if  it  tastes 
sweet.  Say,  will  we  hoof  it  to  Bellaire 
or  go  on  the  cars?”

“ I’d  kinder  like  to  ride.”
“ So’d  I,  but  it  costs.”
“ Don’t  only  cost  a  quarter.”

Costs  fifty  cents. ’ ’

“ How  d’ye  make  that  out?”  
“ Twenty-five  cents  an’ 

twenty-five 
cents  jess  comes  to  half  a  dollar  if  I 
hain't  mistook.”

“ Wall,  but  the  two  of  us  kin  go  fer  a 

quarter. ”

“ No,  we  can’t.  It  takes  half a  dollar 

fer  the  both  of  us. ’ ’

“ I  know  better.  Jack  Smith  said  it 
only  cost a  quarter an’  I  guess  he  orter 
know.  You  hain’t  never  rode  on  the 
cars. ’ ’

“ I  know  that  I  hain’t,  but  I  know 

it 
costs  money 
jess  the  same,  an’  if  you 
try  to  get  us  two  to  Bellaire  fer  twenty- 
five  cents,  one  or 
'tother  of  us’ll  git 
histed. ”

“ Say,  mister,”   said  the  younger,  ap­
pealing  to  me,  “ It  don’t  cost  more’n  a 
quarter  fer  two to  go  to  Bellaire  on  the 
cars,  does  it?”
“ I’m  afraid 

it  does. 
cents  apiece  is  the  price.”

Twenty-five 

“ We  could  both  set  in the same seat. ”  
“ That  wouldn't  make  any  difference, 
though.  You’d  have  to  pay  for  both 
just  the  same.”

“ Would,  hay?  They  wouldn’t  throw 

off  nothin’  fer two,  hay?”

“ I’m  afraid  not.  They  never  did  for 

me,  anyway.”

“ Wouldn’t  make  no  difference  then  if 
the’  was  six?  It’s  allers  ratable  to  throw 
off  some  when  the’s  six,  you  know.”

it 

“ I  suppose 

is,  but  the  railroad 
company  doesn't  do business that way. ”  
“ Say,  Bill,  s’posin*  we  go  anyway. 
Half  a  dollar  hain’t  goin  ’to  break  us 
nohow. ’ ’

“ I  know  it  won’t;  but  half  a  dollar 
now  and  half a  dollar ag’in  soon mounts 
up. 

It's  cheaper  to  walk. ”

“ Well,  we  hain’t  never  had  a  ride  on 

the  cars.' ’

“ No,  you  won’t  do no  such  a  thing 
You  hain’t  goin’  to  spend  no  mon^y 
ridin’  on  the  cars this trip.”

“ It’s  my  own  money,  I  guess  an 
I’ll  spend  the  hull  business  fer  all  o 
you.’ ’

“ You  will  hay?  You’ll  spend  your 
I  won 
money  jess  es  you  please,  hay? 
der  if  you  will.  Mebbe  you  don’t  know 
what’s  a  goin’  to  happen  about  the time 
you  commence  to  begin  to  git  funny 
Fust  I’ll  git  a  divorst  from  ye,  an’  then 
you  won’t  have  no  place  to  go  home 
Then  I’ll  git  app’ inted  administer  of 
your  estate  an’  you  won’t  never  have 
five  cents  in  yer  pocket  only  jess  what 
take  a  notion  to  give  ye,  an’  more’ 
that,  I’ll  be  yer guardeen  an’  you  won 
never  dast  to  do  nothin’  only  jess  what 
I  take  a  notion  to  let  ye.  That’s  what’ 
happen  if  ye  keep  on  tryin’  to  be a dum 
fool,  an’  if  you’ve  got  enough  brains 
left  to  tell  a  birch  f ’m  an  ellum  you’ll 
come  along  to  Bellaire  afoot  afore I take 
ye  down  an’  set  on  ye  an’  jam  yer head 
into  the  mud.  Come  on!”

And the  last  seen  of  the  two  they  were 
“ counting  ties”   around  the  last  turn 
of  the  railroad  track  south  of town.

George  Crandall  Lee.

Soap  Mine in  Wyoming. 

form,  containing 

Wyoming  has  a  soap  mine.  A  de 
posit  of  a  whiteish  material,  in  com 
posite 
just  enough 
sulphates,  potash  and  pumice  to  give 
gritty  essential, has  been  discovered live 
miles  west  of  Newcastle  in  the  north 
eastern  part  of  Wyoming.

The  deposit  lies  in  a  fissure  and  dips 
into  the  ground  like  a  vein  of  mineral 
The  vein,  so-called,  is  fifteen  to  eigh 
teen  feet  wide  and  runs  the  length  of  a 
quarter  section  which  for twenty  years 
up  to  date  was  used  as  a  stock  pasture 
Next  week  probably  a  building  of  com­
modious  dimensions 
fitted  with  ma 
chinery  that  will  cut  the  slabs  of  min 
eral  soap  into sizes  for  commercial  use, 
will  cover a  portion  of  the  ground.

The  cleanest  town 

in  the  United 
States,  it  is  possible,  will  be  located  in 
this  section. 
It  will  be  free  from  soot 
and  smoke.  For  the 
factory  boilers 
will  be  heated  by  petroleum,  found  near 
by,  and  the  soap to keep  the  place  clean 
is  found  in  such  large  quantities  in  the 
ground  and  consequently  so  dirt  cheap 
that  men  can  be  kept  on  the  pay  roll  to 
do  nothing  else  but 
look  out  for  dirt 
spots  and  quickly  remove  them.

C.  W.  Betts,  a  Denver  mining  en­
gineer,  had  occasion  last  week  to  visit 
Northeastern  Wyoming  with  E.  P. 
Snow,  of  Cheyenne,  to  look  up  some  oil 
prospects.  They  came  by  this  deposit. 
What  attracted  Mr.  Betts' attention  was 
the  appearance  of  a  mass that  looked 
like  soapsuds.  He  investigated  and  to 
all  appearances  it  was  soapsuds.  There 
had  been  a  good  rain  the  night  before. 
This had  beat  on  the  exposed  deposit  in 
such  a  manner as  to  produce  the  suds. 
A  trial  of  a  chunk  of  the  stuff  on  the 
hands  resulted  in  determining  that  na­
ture  had  there  left  as  good  an  article  of 
soap  to  be  used  for washing  paint,  pol­
ishing  culinary  articles,  removing grime 
and  grease  from  the  hands  as  could  be 
manufactured  by  the  hand  of  man.

Mr.  Betts  has  plans  for  developing 
this  unique  find  and  it  may  be  expected 
that  in  a  short  time  the  markets  of  the 
world  will  be  supplied  with  another 
wonderful  product  from  another of  the 
states  of  boundless  resources 
in  the 
Rocky  Mountain  region.

“ S ’posin'  we  hain’t.  Lots  o’  folks 
hain't.  Lots  o’  folks  hain’t  never see 
a  train  o’  cars.  The’s  plenty,  too,  what 
hain’t  never heerd  on’em.  We  kin  go 
down  to the  deepo  an’  watq^i  ’em  go by. 
That’ll  be  fun  enough  fer  us. 
If  we’re 
ever goin’  to  git  the  mortgage  on  dad’s 
farm  raised  we  can’t  spend  no  money 
ridin’  around  the  country  on  no  bull- 
jines. ”

“ Guess  I'll  go  on  the  cars  anyway. 

You  kin  leg  it  if you  wanter. ’.’

The First Vanderbilt.

The  first  of  the  Vanderbilts  in  this 
country  was  Jan  Aertsen  Van  der  Bilt, 
a  Holland  farmer,  who  came  to the  New 
World  in  the  first  half of the seventeenth 
century,  and  who  settled  in  the  neigh­
borhood  of  Brooklyn  about  1650.  As  the 
name 
family  belonged 
originally  to  either  the  village  of  But, 
a _ suburb  of  Utrecht,  or  the  parish  of 
Bilt,  in  Frisia..

indicates  the 

An  expressman  says  that  old  maids 

are  uncalled  for  packages.

6-16 in.

Com.
BB...
BBB.

. ..  7M 
. ..  7SÍ 
Crowbars

Hin.
K In.
7  C.  ...  6  c ... . 5 c . .
.
8H 
.  6)4 
8* 
.. .  614
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer  .. 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket Slicks__

Cblsels

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz............  net
Corrugated, per doz.................
Adjustable................................ .7.7.. dls
Expansive  Bits
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.......
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30.............." "
Files—New  List
New American.......................
Nicholson’s..........................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................

Galvanized' Iro n  

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  25 and 26;  27.
List  12  13 
16.

15 

14 

Discount,  65

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

Ganges

Glass

Hin.
..'4*0.
...  6
..  6H

65 
1  25 
40&10

70&10
70
70

6O&10

Hinges

H am m ers

Single Strength, by box...................  dls
dls
Double Strength, by box.............. 
By the fight........................ ..'.'.dls

85ft85ft
80&20
33*
40&10
70
60&10
50&10
50&10
50&10
40&10
70
20&10
.Iron.............................................. 2 25 crates
Light Band...........................................  3 c rates

Maydole & Co.’s, new list....................dls
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................... dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............soc list
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3............................. dls
Hollow  W are
Pots............................................ 
.
Kettles.............................................. ‘
Spiders................................................
Au Sable....................... ; ................... dls
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................
Japanned Tinware............................ j

Horse  Nails

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

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

Lanterns

75
86
sop
6 00

Sheet Iron

com. smooth.

com. 
$3 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 50 
___
3 60
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  ..............
Nos. 15 to 17................
Nos. 18 to 21..................................
NOS. 22 to 24 ..................................  8 60
NOS. 25 to 26 ..................................  3 70
No. 27.............................................  3 80 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

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

Shovels and  Spades

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

............................ 
Solder

H@H............................................  
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Steel and Iron.

Squares

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. 8 Boilers,)
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, J P®r P01“ 4.. 
Traps
Steel,  Game........................................
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
Oneida  Community ,  Hawley  ft  Nor­
ton’s.................*................................
Mouse, choker  per doz.................
Mouse, delusion, pe.- doz...........  ......
Bright Market.....................................
Annealed  Market...........................
Coppered Market.........................
Tinned  Market...................................
Coppered Spring Steel.......................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized.................
Barbed Fence, Painted.......................
Bright.................................................
Screw Eyes.........................................
Hooks..................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes.........................

W ire  Goods

W ire

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine.....................................
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, [Wrought.. 70&10

70

8 50 
8 60
9 75

7 00
7 00
8 50 
8 50

10

75
40&10
65
15
1  25
60 
60 
50&10 
50&10 
40 
3 25
2 96
80
80
80

3 2

Quarterly  Meeting of the Board of Birect­

ors.

Jackson,  June  4— The  regular  meeting 
of  the  Board  of  Directors  of  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip  was  held at  the 
Bryant  Hotel,  Flint,  Saturday,  June  1. 
The  members  of  the  Board  were  all 
present.  The  minutes  of  the  previous 
meeting  were  read  and  approved.  The 
Secretary’s  report  was  read  and  ap­
proved,  as  follows:

I  wish  to  call  your attention  to  the 
fact  that  we  have  accepted,  since  our 
last  Board  meeting,  ninety-six  new 
members,  the  largest  proportion  of  these 
coming  ftom  Saginaw  and  Lansing.

I  also  wish  to  recommend  for  your 
commendation 
the  Vice-President  of 
the  Fifth  district,  A.  A.  Weeks,  of 
Grand  Rapids. 
This  gentleman  has 
done  more  for  our  organization  than  all 
our other  Vice-Presidents  combined  up 
to  the  present  time.  He  has  sent  us 
some  twenty-eight  or  thirty  honorary 
members.  Some  of  these  are  Michigan 
men,  but  others  are  from  Texas,  Flor­
ida,  Washington,  Arkansas  and  Okla­
homa.

Six  deaths  have occurred since our last 
Board  meeting  on  March  2:  D.  E. 
Glass,  Ann  Arbor;  George  W.  Alex­
ander,  Detroit;  S.  B.  Taylor,  Lansing ; 
E.  M.  Wheeler,  Hillsdale;  David  E. 
McVean,  Grand  Rapids;  W.  O.  Hub­
bard,  Columbus,  Ohio.

The  receipts  since  our  last  meeting 
have  been  $3,164,  divided  as  follows:
Death  fund................................. $2,766.00
General  fund.............................. 
206.00
Deposit  fund....... .....................  
192.00
all  of  which  has  been  remitted  to  the 
Treasurer.

The  Treasurer  reported  the  following 

balances  on  hand:
Death  fund.....................................$283.79
General  fund................................   3°5-83
Deposit  fund.................................  241.00
Tennant  fund.................................  82.24
The  following  resolution  was  pre­

sented  by  L.  J.  Koster and  adopted:

Resolved— That  the  $5  received  from 
John  C.  Mann,  of  Houghton,  as  his dues 
for  honorary  membership  for one  year, 
be  accepted  as  his  dues  for  five  years 
and  that  the  action  of  Mr.  Stitt  in send­
ing  him  a  receipt  for  five  years  be  ap­
proved  and  the  money  placed  in  the 
general  fund.

On  motion  of  Mr.  Koster  it  was  de­
cided  to  call  an  assessment  June  10,  to 
close  July  10.

The  following  death  claims  were  al­
lowed :  D.  E.  Glass,  Ann  Arbor;  S.  B. 
Taylor,  Lansing;  E.  M.  Wheeler,  Hills­
dale ;  David  E.  McVean,  Grand  Rap­
ids;  W.  O.  Hubbard,  Columbus,  Ohio.
On  motion  of  Mr.  Randall,  an  order 
was  ordered  drawn  on  Treasurer Schram 
for $50  for  stamps  in  favor  of  the  Secre­
tary.

The  following  bills  were  allowed:

6.44

3.68

4.96

3.88

Hunt  Printing  Co......................... $  25.50
A.  W.  Stitt,  stamps...................... 
10.00
2.45
A.  W.  Stitt,  office  supplies......... 
J.  W.  Schram,  postage  stamps.. 
1.75
A.  W.  Stitt,  salary........................  189.80
J.  W.  Schram,  salary....................  66.15
G.  F.  Owen,  for  attending Board
m eeting...................................... 
G.  H.  Randall,  for  attending
Board  meeting........................... 
J.  W.  Schram,  for  attending
Board  meeting...........................  
Chas.  H.  Smith,  for  attending
Board  meeting........................... 
M.  Howarn,  for  attending  Board
meeting......................................  
L.  J.  Koster,  for attending Board
m eeting...................................... 
J.  A.  Weston,  for  attending
Board  meeting........................... 
A.  W.  Stitt,  for  attending  Board 
m eeting...................................... 
6.68
Mr.  Howarn  moved  that  the  members 
of  the  Board  extend  their  thanks  to  the 
Flint  traveling  men  and  their wives  for 
the  excellent  entertainment  extended  to 
the  Board  of  Directors  and  their  wives. 
Adopted.

4.46
4.62

Mr.  Howarn  moved  that  we  extend 
our  thanks  to  the  proprietor of  Hotel 
Bryant  for the  many  courtesies extended 
to  us  as members of the Board.  Adopted.
Mr.  Smith  moved  that  we  return  to 
the  general  fund  the  $400 borrowed from 
that  fund  in  January  for  the  death  fund. 
Adopted.

4.00

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Secretary  Stitt  invited  the  Board  to 
hold  their  September  meeting  in  Jack- 
son.

On  motion  of  Mr.  Smith  the 

invita­
tion  was  accepted.  The  date  of  the 
meeting  will  be  Sept.  7.

A.  W.  Stitt,  Sec'y.

The Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  taken  on  a  very  strong 
tone,  having  advanced  fully  4c  for  July 
and  3c  for  cash.  The  visible  showed  a 
decrease  of  3,192,000  bushels,  which 
leaves 
the  visible  below  37,000,000 
bushels,  against  44,700,000  bushels  a 
year  ago.  Exports  were  large and initial 
receipts  were  about  two-thirds  of  what 
they  were  at  the  corresponding  time  a 
year  ago.  Dry  weather  in  the  North­
west,  as  well  as  bad  reports  from  win­
ter  wheat  sections,  also  caused  strength 
in  wheat.  The Hessian  fly  is  very  busy 
just  now:  while  hardly  as  bad  as  last 
year,  it 
industrious  as  to  make 
farmers  feel  blue  over  the  outlook  for 
the  harvest,  not  only  in  this  State,  but 
in  Ohio  and  Indiana.  As  the  granaries 
are  being  swept  clean,the  new  crop  will 
go  into  consumption  at  once.  As  the 
season  is  late,  it  will  be  two  months  be­
fore  new  wheat  will  be  fit  to  use,  when 
the  visible  supply  will  reach  as  low  a 
point  as  it  has  in  the  last  few  years— 
probably  lower.

is  so 

Corn 

is  quiet.  May  went  out  with 
corn  16c  below  what  it  was  the  fore  part 
of  the  month.  The  weather  for  the 
growing  crop  has  not  been  what  it  gen­
erally 
is,  being  cold,  while  com  re­
quires  warm  weather.  The  amount 
in 
16,413,000  bushels,  against
sight 
12,378,000  bushels 
last  year,  but  the 
amount  of  corn  being  fed,  owing  to  the 
high  price  of  pork  and  beef,  is  enor­
mous,  so  prices  will  remain  around 
present  values.

is 

Oats  are  very  steady;  while  no  ad­
vance  can  be  noted, the  undertone  seems 
to  be  strong  and  there  are  no  signs  of 
yielding  to  a  decline.

Rye  also  remains  firm.  While  there 
is  not  much  doing  in  this  cereal,  there 
is  not  enough  offered  to  reduce 
the 
price.

Beans made an advance of 5c  a  bushel.
Flour  is  very  strong,  owing  to  the  ad­
vance  in  wheat.  The  demand  has  been 
good  and  prices  are  not  only  sustained, 
but  have  advanced  fully  10  to  15c  per 
barrel.  Mill  feed  is  offered  more  freely. 
Eastern  demand 
is  fair,  while  locally 
the  demand  has  fallen  off.

Receipts  for  the  month  have  been: 
wheat,  226 cars ;  corn,  36 cars ;  oats,  49 
cars; 
17  cars;  bran,  2  cars; 
beans,  1  car;  hay,  11  cars;  straw,  16 
cars;  potatoes,  113  cars.

flour, 

During  the  week:  wheat,  53  cars; 
com,  13  cars;  oats,  11  cars;  flour,  5 
cars;  beans,  1  car;  hay,  2  cars;  straw,
2  cars;  potatoes,  19 cars.

Millers  are  paying  73c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Judging  from  the way the independent 
companies  organized  to  combat  combi­
nations  are  making  the  fur fly  in  a  good 
many  lines,  there  is  not much likelihood 
that  any  trust  which.  hopes  to  make 
money  by  permanently advancing prices 
will  be  very  successful.  The  profits,  if 
they  are  to  be  secured,  must  emanate 
from  some  other  source,  such  as  the 
saving  of  waste  and  economy  of  man-, 
agement,  and  experience  seems  to  in­
dicate  that  not  all  trusts,  by  any  means, 
have  been  able  to  realize  this  result. 
There  is  going  to  be  plenty  of  room 
in 
this  country  for some  time  to  come  for 
brains  and  independent  capital.

The  following  letter  was  forwarded  to 
a  school  teacher  by  the  parent  of  one 
of  his  pupils:  “ Please  excuse  Frank 
staying  home.  He  had  the  meesles  to 
oblige  his  father.”

Grand Rapids,  Oar Home.
Grand Rapids, our home.
Her fame has gone forth 
For her artisans here 
And their wares sell wherever 

Lying here on the Grand—
Through all our broad land;
Are the best in the world 
“ Old Glory’s ” unfurled.

Her up-to-date methods 
And goods of high grade 
Have commanded attention 
And won her the trade;
Toward her have competitors 
Their thunderbolts hurled,
Yet demand for her products 
Is broad as the world.

We are proud of her factories;
’Long the valley they stand,
With tneir towering chimneys,
Each side of the Grand,
And their thousands of spindles 
Have carved her a name 
On the scrolls of the nations,
Bringing honor and fame.
For our “ Furniture City ”
Is known far and wide.
And to us who reside here 
’Tis a matter of pride;
We are proud of her record 
And the progress she’s made,
Also proua of the press 
Which has guarded her trade.

Her parks are our pride,
Also courthouse and hall.
And her churches and schools—
We’re proud of them all.
Now, to tell you the truth,
We have taken this stand—
We are proud of Grand Rapids,
Our home on the Grand.

G. W.  A.

Story  Told  By  the  Bones.

"H e   was  probably  a  man  of  means, 
with  a  large  family  of  daughters,”   the 
irreverent  bystander  commented,  as  the 
skeleton  was  brought  to  view,  after  hav­
ing  reposed  for  ages  in  the  vault.

“ Why  do  you  think  so?”   asked one of 

the  scientific  persons  present.

“ Observe  the  skeleton,”   he  replied. 
legs 

“ See  how  much  longer  one  of  his 
was  than  the  other.”

Perhaps  the  best  housekeeping  plan 

is  not  to  mortgage  the  house.

885

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

1  tan rant;  established  twenty-five  years;  in 
one of the most thriving Michigan  towns;  popu­
lation, 4,000;  going into other business.  Address 
W. L , care Michigan Tradesman. 

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

IpOR  SALE—GROCERY,  BAKERY,  RES- 
$850  BUYS  ONE  OF  THE  BEST  PAYING 
■ SMALL  SHOE,  HARNESS  AND  BICY- 
I ('OR SALE—$3,000  DRUG  AND  GROCERY 

meat markets in  Grand  Rapids;  doing  busi­
ness of $1,600 to $2,0'0  per  month  Owner  lost 
his wife and desires to  leave  city.  Address  or 
call on  Decker  &  Jean,  74  Monroe  St.,  Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
883
Mo n e y  in   c e m e n t sto ck—t h e  t w e n -
tieth Century Portland Cement Co.,  of Fen­
ton, Mich., incorporated under the  State  law  of 
Michigan,  for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing 
Portland  cement  and  Its  accessories,  offer  in­
ducements to investors in  cement  stocks.  Only 
capital stock of the company is  offered  for sale. 
Full information will be furnish«! by  addressing 
C. L. Corrigan, Sec’y, Fenton, Mich. 

de stock for sale;  excellent location.  Write 
Lock Box 6, Mesick, Mich. 
881
in   e m m et
Ch o ic e  so  a c r e  fa r m  
county to trade for merchandise.  Lock  Box 
280, Cedar Springs, Mich. 
880

rent:  sickness  cause  for  selling.  Berridge  & 
Berridge, Orion, Mich. 
879
Fo r  sa l e—o n e  o f t h e   b e st  p a y in g
steam laundries in  Michigan.  Address  No. 
876
876, care Michigan Tradesman. 
PARTNER  WANTED—WHOLESALE  AND 
retail drug business, established 20 years,  in 
prosperous manufacturing city  of  25,000,  wants 
active partner with  $10,000  to  $20,000  capital  to 
enlarge  business;  controls  good  share  of  city 
trade  and  can  get  more;  doing  good  outside 
trade, especially In sundries;  two travelers;  fine 
opening for the right party,  who  must  have  the 
best of references and  be a  worker,  capable  of 
managing some branch;  owner can do any part. 
For particulars address Chicago,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman 
WANTED  FOR  CASH—$5,000  GENERAL 
stock.  State  lowest  price.  Address  No. 
873, care Michigan Tradesman.__________ 873
1?OR  SALE—MY  STOCK  OF  GOODS  AND 
’  fixtures.  Doing a tip-top business;  good  lo­
cation;  no old goods on hand,  everything  fresh, 
neat,  clean  and  saleable—up-to-date  in  every 
way.  Stock  consists  of  confections,  fruit,  sta­
tionery,  cigars, 
tobaccos  and  fishing  tackle. 
Good reasons for selling.  Will lump  or  Invoice. 
M.  R.  Tatman,  406  Union  St.,  Traverse  City, 
Mich. 

stock;  can  be  reduced;  store  for  sale  or 

872

882

875

861

'  stock,  Inventorying  about  $1,800,  in  good 
farming community.  Reason  for  selling,  other 
business.  Address  No.  860,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
860
WA N TED —SECOND  HAND  PEANUT 
roaster, steam  or  spring  power;  must  be 
in first class condition and cheap for cash.  E. A. 
850
Lyon, Riverside, Mich. 

.  sale.  Enquire of Hazeltine & Perkins  Drug 
Co. 
863
Fo r sa l e—a  b l a c k s m it h  a n d  w a g o n 
shop and tools in  a  village  ten  mites  from 
Jackson, Michigan;  or  will  sell  the  tools alone. 
A capable man can  do  a  good  business  at  this 
point.  Address  R.  T.  McNaughton,  Jackson, 
Mich. 

Fo r  sa l e—w h o l e  o r  p a r t  in t e r e s t
in  a  general  hardware,  tinsmlthing  and 
plumbing stock, invoicing about $3,500, in a  good 
factory  town  in  Southern  Michigan.  Address 
824
No. 824. care Michigan Tradesman. 
A   SPLENDID  OPPORTUNITY  FOR  ANY 
person who has a grocery or  general  stock 
of merchandise  to  be  brought  into  a  business 
that will make  him  large  profits.  Any  person 
or firm who is interested in  the  sale  of  grocery 
or general  store  will  please  communicate  with 
the Nicaragua Company, Dayton, Ohio. 
870
Fo r  SALE—n a t io n a l  c a sh  r e g is t e r .
No. 95, cash $350.  Will sell for $200.  I  have 
866
no use for it.  J   H. Travis, Elsie, Mich. 
FOR SALE—SMALL  STOCK  DRY  GOODS;
brick store to rent;  good location,  Hastings, 
864
Mich.  O. D. Spaulding. 

I7HNE  DRUG  STOCK  AND  FIXTURES FOR 
IpORo  SALE—A  NICE,  CLEAN  GENERAL 
I7K)R  SALE—THE  BEST  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
ir*OR  SALE  OR  EXCHANGE  FOR  MER- 
IjMJR  SALE-STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
I  WILL  SELL  HALF  INTEREST  IN  MY 

1  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.  856,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
856
Ha r d w a r e  sto ck  f o r   sa l e  in   a  
thriving village in Southern Michigan.  Write 
for particulars.  Address No. 854, care  Michigan 
854
Tradesman. 

1  chandise  and  fixtures,  invoicing  $3,000  to 
$3,500;  cash  discount;  best  farming  district  in 
Northern  Indiana;  good  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 810, care Michigan Tradesman.  810
furniture  business.  The  goods  are  all  new 
and up-to-date;  located in  a  town  of  7,000;  has 
been a furniture store for thirty years;  only two 
furniture stores in  the  town.  Address  all  cor­
respondence to No.  813,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
813
Fo r  sa l e—a   g o o d  c l e a n   sto ck  o f 
groceries,  crockery,  glassware,  lamps  and 
china,  inventorying  about  $3,300.  Will  accept 
$3,000 cash if taken soon:  location, the  best  and 
central in a hustling business town of 1,500 popu­
lation, fifty miles from Grand  Rapids;  this  is  a 
bargain for some one;  best of reasons for selling. 
Address B, care Michigan Tradesman 
777
IF GOING  OUT  OF  BUSINESS  OR  IF  YOU 
have a bankrupt stock of clothing,  dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York 
728
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 
ARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF  GOODS  OF 
any kind,  farm  or  city  property  or  manu­
facturing  plants  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change  correspond  with  the  Derby  &  Choate 
Real Estate Co., Flint,  Mich. 
709
WANTED -  MERCHANTS  TO  CORRE- 
spond with us who wish to sell  their entire 
stocks  for  spot  cash.  Enterprise  Purchasing 
585
Co., 153 Market St., Chicago, HL 
FOR  SALE—DRUG  STOCK 
INVOICING 
$2,000, in good corner store in the  best  town 
in Western Michigan.  The  best of  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 583, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

'  chandise—120 acres of land  with good  build­
ings.  Address  840,  care  Michigan  Tradesman.
|7»OR  SALE—SECOND  HAND  SODA  FOUN- 
r   tain;  easy terms.  Charles A.  Jackson, Ben­
ton Harbor, Mich. 

843

583

MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED—SITUATION  BY  YOUNG  MAN 
in general  store;  has  had  several  years’ 
experience.  Can furnish  good  references.  Ad­
884
dress No. 884, care Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED—A  YOUNG  OR MIDDLE  AGED 
doctor to locate in  a  good  town  of  10,000 
inhabitants.  Address  W.  B.  Minthorn,  Han­
886
cock, Mich. 
SITUATION  WANTED AT  ONCE  BY  REG- 
istered  pharmacist  Write  Druggist,  care 
Kent Hotel, Grand Rapids, Mich. 
878
TXT ANTED—POSITION AS BOOK-KEEPER; 
Yv  experienced in  general  merchandise,  lum­
ber and  cedar  business.  Young  man  of  good 
habits;  Al  references.  A.  A.  Clark,  Gulliver, 
Mich. 
877
WANTED—AN  EXPERIENCED  SALES- 
man for Ohio.  The  Computing  Scale  Co., 
Dayton, Ohio.________________________ 871
WANTED—POSITION IN GENERAL STORE 
by  young  married  man,  Swedish  Ameri­
can;  ten  years’  experience  in  groceries,  shoes 
and clothing;  country  preferred;  best  of  refer­
ences.  Address  O.  Hansen,  383  Second  St., 
Grand Rapids, Mich. 
p h a r m a c is t,  m id d l e 
aged, experienced and capable  desires  situ­
ation.  References.  Address  “ Toke,”  120  E.

Re g is t e r e d  

Mlrre St., Alpena, Mich.________________ 867
\X7ANTED—SITUATION  BY  YOUNG MAN 
tv  as traveling salesman  or  In  general  mer­
cantile  store.  Good  references.  Address  Box 
401, Elk Rapids, Mich.__________________ 852
WANTED—REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
at once.  State  salary and  age.  Address 
838
No. 838, care Michigan Tradesman. 

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

GRAND  RAPIDS. M IC H IG A N .

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Travelers*  Time  Tables.

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. Stow e, Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F 
Tatm an, Clare.  ______

Grand  Sapidi  Retail Grown’  Association 

President, Fr a n k  J. Dt k ;  Secretary,  Homer 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Georoe Lehman

Detroit  Retail  Grown’  Protettile  Association 

President,  E.  Ma r k s;  Secretaries,  N.  L, 
K oenig  and  F.  H.  Cozzens;  Treasurer,  C, 
H.  Fr in k .

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Auociatioi 

President,  E.  L.  Ha r r is;  Secretary,  Chas. 

Hym a n.

Baj  Cities  Retail Grown’  Allocution 

President,  C.  E.  Wa l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Lit t l e. 

_____

Hnskegon  Retail  Grown’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  Sm ith ;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

Bo e l k in s;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Cask a don.

President,  J. F ra n k  Helm er ;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Grown’  Association 
H. Po r t e r;  Treasurer, L.  Pelton.

Adrian  Retail  Grown’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k :  Secretary,  E.  F. 

Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  w m. C. K oehn

Saginaw  Retail Herchanti’  Association 

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

P h erson;  Treasurer, R. A. Horr.

Traterse  Citj  Business  Ken’s  Association 

President,  th os  T.  Ba t e s:  Secretary,  m .  B. 

Ho l l y;  Treasurer,  C. A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Business  Hen’s Association 

•resident,  A.  D.  Wh ip p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 
Ca m p b e l l;  Treasurer,  W.  E.  Co llin s.

PL  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Mannfactnren’  Association 
’resident, Ch a s.  We l lm a n ;  Secretary,  J. 
Pe r c iv a l.

Alpena  Bnsineu  Men’s  Association

Pa r tr id g e.

Calnmet  Bnsinns  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y;  Secretary  W.  H 

Ho skin g.

SL  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

President, Thos. Br o m l e y;  Secretary,  Fran k 

A.  Pe r c y; Treasurer, Cl a r k A. Putt.

Perry  Bnsineu  Men’s  Auociatioi 

President,  H.  W.  Wa l la c k;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

Hed d le. 

_____

Grand  Hann  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W  Ver- 

Hoeks.

Tale  Bosinus  Men’s  Association 

President,  Ch as.  Rounds;  Secretary,  F ran k 

Pu tn e y.

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Auociation 

President,  John  G.  Eb l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J. 
Ka t z ;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hu ffo rd.

IÜMNULITE

750  Candle  Power  A R C   IL L U M IN A T O R S  
Produce the finest  artificial  light  in  the  world.

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

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

No smoke,  no  odor,  no  noise,  absolutely  safe. 
They are portable, hang or stand them anywhere.
We  also  mrnufacture  Table  Lamps,  W all 
Lamps,  Pendants,  Chandeliers,  Street 
Lamps, etc.  The best and only  really  success­
ful Incandescent Vapor Gas Lamps made.  They 
sell at sight*  Good  agents  wanted.  Write  for 
catalogue and prices.
81  L.  Fifth Ave. 

C H IC A Q O IS O L A R   L IG H T  C O .

Chicago, 111.

P e r e   m a RQe e t t e
Railroad and  Steamship  Lines.

Fast trains  are  operated from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City,  Alma,  LanslDg, Belding, Benton  Har­
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points,  making 
close connections at Chicago with trains  for  the 
south  and  west,  at  Detroit  and  Toledo  with 
trains east and southbound.  Try  the  “Mid-Day 
Flyers,” leaving Grand Rapids  12:06  noon, each 
week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:05  p.  m.  and 
Chicago 5:00 p. m.

H,  F.  Moeller,  G.  P.  A.,

W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

HPAlMfi  ^ap,d* &  In d ia n   Railway

March  io,  1901.

Going North.

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Going South.

ex Su  ex Su  ex Su  ex Su
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Lv Gd Rapids...........  7 45a  2 lOp 
10 45p  5 20p
5 40p  210a  9 00p
Ar.  Cadillac..............1120a 
415a  .....
Ar.  Traverse City....  I30p  7 50p 
Ar. Petoskey............  2 50p  9 I5p 
5 36a
......
Ar. Mackinaw City...  4 15p  10 35p  6 56a 
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m,  11:30 
a m, 5:15 p m and 10:15 p m.
ex Su  ex Su  Daily  ex Su  Daily
,  
Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10a  1 50p  6 50p  12 30p l l 30p 
Ar. Kalamazoo  8 50a  3 22p  8 35p 
I 45p  100* 
Ar. Ft. Wayne..12 lOp  6 50p  11 45p  To Cnfcago
Ar.Cincinnati.  6 25p 
•Trains arrive from the  south  at  6:45 am   and 
9:10am dally, 2:00pm, 9:45pm and 10:15pm except 
Sunday.
Except  Except 
Sunday  Sunday
2 05pm  5 40pm
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3 20pm  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  dally, 
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  „ 

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G.  R.  &  i  and  Michigan  Central.
TO  CHICAGO 

Daily
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.
ll:30pm train has through coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.
Dally
Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  ft  15pm  11  30pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  10  15pm  6 55am 
5:15pm train runs solid to  Grand  Rapids  with 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping 
car
Take  G.  R.  &  I.  to Chicago

FROM  CHICAGO 

50 cents  to  Muskegon 

and  Return  Every  Sunday

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

VALLEY  CITY  MILLING  CO..

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M ICH.

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Price  list  Staple  Crockery,  Glassware,  Notions  and  House  Fur­
“ The  Commercial  T raveler”  

nishing  Goods.  Send  for  Catalogue. 
sent  to  Merchants  only on  request— 175  pages  at

M A IL   O R D E R   P R IC E S

Base Bans..................................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 76
Chimneys, No. 1, box.............................  1  78
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...........................................  
35
Ink. Thomas’. 3 doz.  case...................... 
82
Ice Cream Freezers, each.....................   1 25
Jellies, per bbl., doz............................... 
19

Lead Pencils,  gro..................................
Lemon Squeezers, glass,  doz................
Lawn Mowers, 14 in., each....................
Milk Jars, Paper Cap, gro....................
Mantles, Gasoline, doz..........................
Playing Cards........................................
Plates.. Breakfast..................................
Stone Butter Jars, 1 gal. each..............
Stone Milk Pans, l gal.,  each...............
Shelf Paper, gro. sheets.........................
Silver Plated  Knives  and  Forks,  Rog­
ers’,  doz...........................................
Silver Plated Teaspoons, Rogers’, doz..
Silver Plated Teaspoons, Coin, doz......
Telescope Valises, each.........................
Tumblers, 4 pint, by bbl., doz..............
Tea Cups and Saucers, doz....................
Tanglefoot Fly Paper, 60 sheets...........
Thread, Clark’s M. E., doz....................
Thread, Merrick’s, doz..........................
Thread, Cromwell’s, doz.......................

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Sanitary.  Used the world over.  Good profit to sellers. 

Order from Jobbers.

N E W   S H A P E

Michigan’s  Famous  Cigars

COLUMBIAN  CIGAR  COMPANY,  Benton  Harbor  Mich.

Manufactured  by

Grand  Rapids  Bark  and  Lumber  Cn.

Dealers  in

H E M LO C K  BARK, LU M B ER , 

S H IN G L E S ,  R A ILR O A D   T IE S , 

P O S T S ,  WOOD

W AN TED — 50,coo  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.
419-4-21  MICH.  TRUST  BUILDING,  GRAND  RAPIDS

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

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DOWN A  RAT HOLE

Don’t dump all  of your  profits  down 
a rat  hole;  it  is  careless  business  manage­
ment if you  do  not  get  every  cent  belong­
ing  to  you  in  the  retail  business.  Get  a 
System that will  watch your sales like a cat 
watches  for a rat.  You could have had Our 
System  in  your  store  and  had  it  paid  for 
long ago  if you  had  only  taken  our  advice. 
The  saving  itself  would  have  paid  for  it 
many times  over.  W e sell  all  of  our  scales 
on  easy  monthly  payments.  Drop  us  a 
postal  and  get results.

THE  CO M PUTING   SCALE  CO.

DAYTON.  OHIO

