Eighteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  19,1901.

Number 926

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you  want  service,  so  be  wise  in  time  and  order  B e a c o n   F a l l s .

Your  trade  will  appreciate  them,  because  of  their  style,  fit  and  quality.

THE  BEACON  FALLS  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

207=209  Monroe  Street,  Chicago,  Illinois

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RUN  ONE?

If so,  and  you  are endeavoring to  get  along  without  using our  improved  Coupon  Book  System,  you  are  mak­
ing a most serious  mistake.  W e were the originators  of the  Coupon  Book  plan  and  are  the  largest  manufac­
turers  of  these  books  in  thé  country,  having special  machinery  for  every  branch  of the  business.  Samples 
free.  Correspondence solicited.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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Powder'

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

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B A K I N G   P O W D E R

Home  Office, SO West  street.  New  York.

Western Office,
Branch Offices :

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

Detroit 
Fort Wayne
Columbus

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PLAIN  TALK

We warrant Bay Shore Standard  Lime to  be  not  only  equal  to,  but  better 
than  any other lime on the maiket.  Better  for stone work, better for brick 
work and better for plastering.

We warrant  Bay Shore Standard Lime to be free from stone or other waste. 
We warrant  Bay Shore Standard  Lime to  make  more  mortar  (per  barrel) 

than can  be made with any other lime.

We warrant  Bay Shore  Standard Lime  to slack out as white as the whitest. 
We warrant Bay Shore Standard  Lime not to “pop" in the wall  if properly 

used. 

( Let  it stand a few days after slacking.)

This will be the dealer’s authority to settle  any  “kick”  (and  charge  to 

us) where Bay Shore Standard Lime does not fulfill all claims made by us.

Bay Shore,  Mich , June  i,  1901. 

HOMER SLY,  Secretary.

BAY  SHORE  LIME  COMPANY,

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On Street Car Feed,  No.  1  Feed,  Meal,  Com,  Oats,  Gluten  Feed, 
Cotton  Seed Meal;  any quantity, large or small.  Prompt shipment.

W alsh-D eR oo  M illin g   Co.,  H olland,  M ich.

CELEBRA TED

Sweet Lom a

F£Z  TOBACCO.

NEW   SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO. 

(Against  the  Trust.)

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

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

It’s  to  your  advantage.

THE  W.  F.  STIM PSO N  CO.
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STRONG  HOLD. 
FLA T   IRON. 

SO-LÓ.
The  above  brands  are  manufactured  from  the  finest  selected  Leaf  Tobacco  that  money  can  buy.

SW E E T  SPRAY.

See  quotations  in

F IN E   C U T

UNCLE  DANIEL. 

OJIBWA.

FOREST GIANT. 

HAND  PRESSED.  Flake Cut. 
DOUBLE CROSS.  Long Cut. 
SW E E T CORE.  Plug Cut. 
FLA T  CAR.  Granulated.

price  current.

Volume  XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JUNE  19,  1901.

Number 926

ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Food Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
1332 rtajestic  Building,  Detroit,  rtich.

Wholesale Ready Made Clothing 

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

who  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  June  14 to 19,  and  you  will  see 
a  large  line  of  samples  to  select  from. 
Customers’ expenses allowed.  Or  if you 
prefer,  write  him,  care  Sweet’s  Hotel, 
and he will call on you.  He pays prompt 
attention to mail orders.

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A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker..

And  Dealer In

Cigars and Tobaccos,

157 E. Fulton St. 
QRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.
Aluminum Money

Will Increase Vour Business.

Cheap and BffecUve. 

Send for samples and prices.
C.  H.  HANSON,

44  5 .  Clark  S t.,  Ckicago,  III.

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

CITIES

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

T h e  M e r c a n t il e  A g ency

Established 1841.

R.  G.  DUN  &   CO.

Wlddlcomb  Bld’g,  Orand  Rapids.  Mich. 

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

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

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IMPORTANT  FEATURES. 

Page. 
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2.  G etting the  People.
3.  Sad Tragedy  on  the  P rairie.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  W indow  Dressing.
7.  Nam ing the  Grocery  Store.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  D ry Goods.
11.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Clerks’  Corner.
16.  F ru its  and  Produce.
17.  B utter and  Eggs.
18.  The  New  York  M arket.
19.  The  Meat  M arket.
20.  W oman’s  W orld.
22.  Hardw are.
23.  Some  Im positions.
24.  Village  Im provem ent.
26.  Commercial Travelers.
26.  D rngs and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  E xperim ents  in  H ybridization. 
32.  V alidity of F u tu re Contracts.

H ardw are  Price  Current.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

The  general  condition  of  domestic 
and  foreign  trade  continues  nearly  all 
favorable  features.  The  approach  of  the 
heated  term,  while  bringing  the  usual 
talk  of  shutdowns  and  labor settlements, 
also  brings  more  seasonable  demand 
for goods  and  the  belated  spring  trade 
is  reaching  far  into  the  summer.  The 
strikes  of  machinists  and  other  labor 
organizations  are  cutting  less  figure  in 
the  general  output  of  work  than  their 
importance  would  seem  to  indicate  as 
the  manufacturers  are  changing  their 
methods 
largely  to  meet  the  trouble. 
Thus  work  is  being  changed  into  other 
hands  instead of  waiting  the  pleasure  of 
the  old  workmen.

The  course  of  values  in  Wall  Street, 
while  showing  considerable  fluctuation 
from  day  to  day,  shows  comparatively 
little  change  on  the  whole. 
Prices 
scored  a  substantial  gain  during  last 
is  a  reactive  tendency 
week,  but  there 
now  which  seems 
likely  to  restore  the 
average.  Talk  of  further  concentration 
interests  has  been  a  promi­
of  railway 
nent  factor  and  has  stimulated 
the 
systems.  Railway 
values  of  several 
large, 
earnings  continue  exceptionally 
some  lines  reporting  an  increase  of 
ioo 
per  cent,  over  the  corresponding  period 
of  last  year.  The  outlook  for  crops  and 
the  export  movement  are  such  as to war­
rant  a  continuance  of  the  activity.

it 

Finishing  mills  in  the  iron  and  steel 
industry  are  working  at  full  capacity  in 
the  endeavor  to  fill  contracts  due  July  i 
and 
is  difficult  to  find  a  maker  who 
will  attempt  prompt  delivery  on  new 
business.  Billets  are  in  great  demand 
from  concerns  that  require  small  lots  to 
close  up  work  on  hand  and  these  sales 
foot  up  a  considerable  total.  Structural 
material  moves 
in  plates 
and  beams  there is  no sign  of  weakness, 
but  wide  differences  of  opinion  are  ex­
pressed  as  to  the  amount  of  orders  on 
hand  beyond  the  end  of  the  month. 
If 
published  reports  of  pig 
iron  output 
and  furnace  stocks  can  be  considered 
any  accurate  criterion,  there  is  no  rea­
son j^toXexpectdulness  in  this  industry.

freely,  and 

With  the  improvement  in  furnaces  and 
consequent  cheapening  of  production 
the  number  in  blast  has  been  reduced 
from  296  to  252,  while  the  weekly  out­
increased  to  a  new  record  of 
put  has 
furnace 
314,505 
tons.  Nevertheless, 
stocks  have  steadily  decreased 
from 
670,531  to  407,723  tons  during  the  last 
eight  months.  Contracts 
for  200,000 
tons  of  Bessemer  pig  have  just  been 
placed  at  unchanged  prices,  and  $15.25 
is  quoted  at  valley  furnaces  on  new 
business.  Forge  and  foundry  iron  has 
also  shared 
in  the  increased  activity. 
Coke  is  naturally  in  brisk  demand  and 
prices  are  well  sustained,  despite  an 
output  close  to  the  top 
record  each 
week.  Anthracite  coal  sells  readily,  and 
higher  prices  are  expected  on  July  1.

in  the 

Textile 

improvement 

is  more  pro­
long  dor­
nounced,  especially 
mant  cotton  situation.  More 
liberal 
sales  are  reported  at  Fall  River  than 
for  many  months  past  and  stocks  are 
showing  a  healthy  depletion. 
It  is  es­
pecially  encouraging  that  the  China 
trade  continues  to  expand  and  promises 
soon  to  equal  that  enjoyed  before  the 
troubles.  The  change  is  not  so  marked 
in  the  woolen  goods  trade,  as  the  dul- 
ness  had  been  less  pronounced.  Orders 
are 
in  nearly  all  lines  and 
more  mills  are  beginning  to  make  up 
stock  in  anticipation  of  future  demand 
without  orders.

increasing 

Shipments  of  boots  and  shoes  from 
Boston  continue  heavy  and  shops  are 
reported  well  occupied 
in  all  parts  of 
the  country.

THE  AMERICAN  PERIL.

in  trade 

While  the  London  Chamber  of  Com­
merce  and  the  New  York  Chamber  of 
Commerce  representatives  are  wining 
and  dining  in  London  and  engaging  in 
good-humored  bantering  over  the  keen 
competition 
in  progress  be­
tween  the  merchants  of  the  two  coun­
tries,  statesmen  of  continental  Europe 
are  indulging  in  the  most  gloomy  fore­
bodings  as  to  the  damaging  effects  of 
American  competition  on  their  trade. 
The  German  press  is  openly  unfriend­
ly,  while  France  and  Austria  have  had 
the  subject  of  the  keen  American  com­
petition  under  consideration 
in  their 
Parliaments.

In  the  Austrian  upper  house  a  coali­
tion  of  European  countries  against  the 
United  States  was  openly  advocated,  a 
few  days  ago,  and  the  opinion  was  ex­
pressed  that  the  constantly  increasing 
competition  of  America  would eventual­
ly  make  Europe  a  mere  field  for  the 
exploitation  of  American  enterprise. 
The  idea  on  the  continent  appears  to  be 
that  the  various  countries  should  com­
bine  to  impose  a  prohibitive  tariff  on 
American  goods  and to  cheapen  the  cost 
of transportation  in Europe  by  means  of 
canals  and  other  methods  of  low-priced 
transportation,  which  would 
enable 
home  producers  to  compete  on  more  fa­
vorable  terms  with  American  products.
is  very  complimentary  to 
All  this 
American 
industry  and  push,  but 
it 
should  point  out  to  us  the  constantly 
growing  enmity  which 
is.feIt  towards 
us  on  the  continent  of  Europe.  That

Americans  are  cordially  disliked  on  the 
continent  has 
long  been  apparent,  but 
now  that  European  trade  is  being  in­
jured  by  our  competition,  this  dislike 
is'  ripening  into  open  enmity.

While  Americans  demand  free  oppor­
tunity  to  trade  with  the  whole  world  on 
equitable  terms,  they  have  no  desire  to 
quarrel  with  Europe.  At  the  same  time 
our  European  friends  would  do  well  to 
fully  understand  that  no  amount  of 
threats  will  have 
least  effect  in 
keeping  us  out  of  the  world’s  markets. 
It 
is  to  be  hoped  that  our  European 
friends  will  soon  realize  the  absurdity 
of  their  position  and  discover 
that 
friendly  rivalry  is  their  best  policy.
ECCLESIASTICAL  in g e n u it y .

the 

A  great  deal  of  ingenuity  is  exercised 
by  pastors,  deacons  and  trustees  to  in­
crease  the  attendance  at  church  and 
Sunday  school  exercises.  This  is  com­
mendable  enterprise  for  the  most  part 
and  deserves  to  be  encouraged.  There 
is  no  reason  why  ordinary  business 
methods  should  not  be  applied  in  the 
work  of  doing  good.  There  is  no  rea­
son  why  a  church  should  not  advertise 
its  services  in  the  hope  of  having  all 
the  pews  filled.  A  congregation 
in 
Reading,  Pa.,  had  the  opportunity  re­
cently  of  seeing  twenty-three  baby  boys 
and  girls  baptized. 
is  openly  con­
ceded  that  this  record  breaking  number 
was  secured  by  the  pastor’s  offer  to give 
each  infant  a  gold  dollar,  the  money  to 
be  placed  in  a  trust  company  to  gather 
compound 
interest  until  the  child  be­
came  of  age.  The  occasion  was  im­
proved  to  have  a  special  service,  spe­
cial  music  and  the  minister’s  best  ser­
mon.

It 

instance 

In  the  Reading 

the  only 
outright  promise  made  was  that  of  the 
gold  dollar,  but  the  plain  insinuation 
was  that  members  of  the  congregation 
would  make  financial  donations  and 
several  such  were  received.  This  sort 
of  thing  might  be  carried  so  far that 
the  rivalry  between  churches  would  be 
to  the  great  pecuniary  benefit  and  ad­
vantages  of  the  youngsters  baptized, 
just  as,  when  one  store  offers  ten  yards 
of  cotton  cloth  free  with  a  $5  purchase, 
another  makes 
it  fifteen;  so  when  one 
church  offers  a  gold  dollar,  another 
might  raise  it  to  a  $5  piece,  and  so  on 
and  on,  auctioneer  fashion,  until  the 
infant  would  be  assured  of  a  comfort­
able  capital  with  which  to  begin  life. 
Almost  every  Sunday  school  has  prizes 
for  good  behavior,  picnics  and  Christ­
mas  trees  to  swell  the  attendance  at 
least  semi-annually.  The  Reading  ex­
periment  worked  well,  and  twenty-three 
is  certainly  a  large  number  of  children 
to  be  baptized  at  a  single  service. 
Clearly  the  churches  are  becoming  very 
enterprising,  are  adopting 
business 
methods  and  propose  to  take  advantage 
of  such  procedures as have proved profit­
able  in  other  places.  Thus  a  great  field 
is  opened  up,  not  only  for  following  a 
good  example,  but  for originating  new 
ideas. 

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If  you  would  know  the  degree  of  a 
man’s  respect  for  you,  observe  bis  right 
hand  as  he  greets  you  in  the  street.

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Petting the  People

W hat th e  M erchant  Should  Expect o f His 

P ublisher.

in  most  other 

There  are  extremes  in  newspaper  ad­
vertising,  as 
lines  of 
work.  The  publisher  may  meet  his 
client  with  a  degree  of  deference  that 
will 
lose  his  respect,  as  attracting  no 
importance  to  his  advertising  manage­
ment,  or  he  may  come  with  an  amount 
of  red  tape  and  such  number  of  arbi­
trary  rules  as  will  render  the  service 
irksome  and  reduce  its quantity.

for  advertising 

The  merchant  who  wishes  to  run  the 
newspaper  should  become 
its  owner. 
The  fact  that  he  pays  the  publisher  a 
large  amount 
space 
should  not  entitle  him  to a  control  of 
its  policy.  The  publisher  is  foolish  who 
will  needlessly  antagonize  his  patron, 
but  it  is  for  the  interest  of  both  that  the 
paper  be  run  to  meet  the  rightful  needs 
of  its  constituency. 
It  is  a  mistake  for 
the  merchant  to  say  that  the  paper 
should  be  run  to  suit  his  ideas  in  pro­
portion  as  his  hundreds  of  dollars  may 
^ompare  with  the  dollar  or two  of  its 
^ B k ial  subscription.  To  be  most  effi- 
mmat  the  paper  must  be  run  to  serve 
patron  as  well  as  another,  regard- 

Hiss  of  the  extent  of  his  patronage, 
y 
It  is  natural  for the  wealthy  merchant 
in  a  town  to  expect  a  little  more  con­
sideration,  on  account  of  his  influence 
and  importance,  as  well  as  on  account 
of  the  amount  he  pays  for advertising 
service.  This  may  be  a  justifiable  ex­
pectation,  but  it  should  be  kept  inde­
pendent  of any  feeling  of  control  on  ac­
count  of  the  service  paid  for.  The  mer­
chant  is  as  much  entitled  to his  per­
sonal 
influence  as  the  physician  or the 
lawyer,  but  this  influence  should rest  on 
its  proper  basis.

lacking. 

The  publisher  is  entitled  to  an 

inde­
pendent  personality  and  the  merchant 
should  be  glad  to  recognize  this  and 
should  strive  to  contribute  to  such  in­
dependence, if  it  should  be  unfortunate­
Instead  of  following  the 
ly 
natural 
instinct  to  run  the  paper,  be­
cause  he  finds  it  in  his  power to  do  so, 
he  should  strive  to  recognize  all  the  in­
dependence  he  can  find  and  so  increase 
if  it  is  lacking.  Every  one’s  inde­
it 
pendence 
is  needed  for his  own  busi­
ness  and  it  is  not  desirable  to  take  over 
the  management  of  other  enterprises 
unnecessarily.

The  publisher should  be  independent. 
Independence 
is  not  a  quality  which 
can  be  simulated  if  it  be  lacking.  An 
arbitrary  manner  and  the  devising  of 
red  tape—these  will  deceive  no  one. 
The  cultivation  of  a  sense  of  respon­
sibility  for  what  the  paper  says  for  its 
influence  in  the  community  and the  rec­
ognizing  of  the  importance  of  its  busi­
ness  interests  will  give  a  newspaper  in­
dependence.

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A  somewhat  argumentative  advertise­
ment  is  that  of  G.  E.  Hain,  which 
heads  the  list  this  week.  Mr.  Hain  has 
a  strikingly-designed,  although  some­
what  complicated,  signature  which  the 
printer  brings  out  to  best  advantage  by 
giving  it  plenty  of  room. 
In  fact,  the 
recognition  of  white  space  is  one  of the 
best  features  of the  advertisement.  Tbe- 
is  well  balanced.  The  only 
display 
change  I  would  suggest 
is  that  the 
amount  of  matter 
in  the  paragraph 
should  be 
lessened  and  the  remainder 
divided  so  as  to  get  a  moderate  display 
of  the  word  “ buggies.”  
It  might  de­
tract  from  the  general  artistic  effect, 
but  it  would  be  read  by  more  of  those

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Two More  Cars

Just In  And Set Up.

We have  had  a  magnificent  trade  on  buggies  this 
spring,  have sold entirely out of our first lot,  but now  have 
a  complete stock again,  if  you need a buggy  of  any  kind- 
better come in while the  assortment  is  large.  Our  stock 
embraces everything,  Road Wagons,. Top Buggies, Surries, 
Two-Seats and Concords.  We can sell you a better grade 
buggy for an equal amount of money, than any other dealer 
in Newaygo  County  for the following reasons:  We buy in 
car-load lots and pay spot cash, thereby getting the  lowest 
prices.  We personally visit each factory we buy from,  and 
know  exactly what material is used,  do not depend on  the 
word of any traveling salesman  as  to  the  quality  we  are 
buying.  You get  a  guarantee from us as well as the manu­
facturer on every buggy  you  buy  here,  take  no  chances 
whatever.  Let us show yon our line.  Prices  from  *30.00 
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dealers are a u th o r­
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ised to refund price
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Sweet  Wrinkled  Feas

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Peas large, tender and delicious.

Cans larger.  As we endeavor to give onr 

customers the  best  quality that  can  be obtained 

for  the  mouey,  we  put  this  brand  in  stock.  Prise  12c-

.  HORR  PROS,  CASH  GROCERS

in the lead

We are always in the lead with  things good to eat.  Fresh 

groceries, fresh garden stuff every  day.  Lettuce,

Onions, Radishes, Strawberries, Cabbage, 

etc.  Choice hotter, fresh eggs,

will hod  that 

Canned Goods, etc.  Yon 
It pays to trade at

*

Trowbridge's grocery 

Store  TbOOTpsomaJlle.

HOLIDAY  DRESSES

if not, visit our

all your waists and skirts made? 

PAPE» PATTERN  DEPARTMENT

j   Ant you ready for the country  or  seashore?  Have you 
* 
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a  and see what dainty designs there are for Summer wear.
t  
5 

Butterick Patterns for the month
of July have just been received.

t  THF A. H. LYMAN COMPANY.

The

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can g e t an y trimmed  hat  a t 

will soon  be  here 
and you will  need 
a  new  b a t. *  Y o u  

a  reduced price i f  
you call on me.  I  
have  a   nice  lin e  
o f ’  S tre et  H ats 
a n d   Children’s 
Plain H ats which, 
we offer you

at cost.

Don’t   fa il  to  In­
spect  my  stock 
liefere  purchas­
ing.

MRS.  K.  ZERAN.

ONE
SWALLOW
DOESNT MAKE  A SUMMER,
but 
if  it’s  f r o in  our 
SODA  FOUNTAIN  it is 
sure to 1 e & d.  to others. 
Only the most wholsome 
and delicious  flavors are 
used  in   o u r   summer 
drinks.  T h e y   refresh 
one without, ill effects.

City  Drug 

Store

interested  in  the  subject  matter  and  so 
tend  to  sell  buggies.

Horr  Bros,  have  a  well-written  ad­
vertisement which is judiciously bandied 
by their  printer.  I  would  not use French 
Clarendon,as  in  the  main  line,  although 
it  does  as  well  here  as  it  can  be  made 
to  do  anywhere.  The  place  for  this 
type 
is  somewhere  else  than  in  adver­
tising— I  don’t  know  where.

Trowbridge’s  grocery  affects  the  ultra 
new  in  display  by  commencing  the  first 
line  with  lower  case  “ i .”   The  printer 
is  not  quite  consistent  in  discarding  all 
lines,  except 
capitals  in  the  display 
in 
proper  names,  and  still  using  them 
the  paragraph.  The  advertisement 
is 
artistically  displayed  and  the  heavy 
border  is  well  helped  out  by  white 
space. 
I  am  not  advanced  enough  to 
be  sure  that  it  would  not  have  been  bet­
ter  with  the  usual  use  of  capitals,  but 
I  am  sure  Thompsonville  should  be 
spelled  with  a  “ v. ”

The  A.  H.  Lyman  Company  writes a 
well-proportioned  announcement  of  re­
sort  goods,  which  is  handled  fairly  well 
by  the  printer. 
It  would  have  been 
helped  had  the  upper and  lower  lines 
been  spaced  a 
little  farther  from  the 
border.

Mrs.  K.  Zeran  would  have  had a more 
effective  advertisement  had  some  word 
pertaining  to  her  business  received  dis­
play.  At  first  glance  I  began  to  look 
for  fireworks. 
It  would  have  been  bet­
ter  if  the  dotted  border could  have  been 
carried  all  around. 
is 
rather  labored  and  the  display  should 
have  been  on  a  more  generous  scale. 
The  best  feature 
is  the  judicious  use 
of  white  space.

The  writing 

The  City  Drug  Store  makes  a  fairly 
good  pun,  which  may  do  for a  change. 
The  display 
large  for the 
space,  but  it  is  artistic  and  well  bal­
anced  and  gives  a  good  result.

little 

is  a 

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Sold  the  Check  for Twice  Its  Face.
It 

is  not  often  that  a  business  man 
gets  a  check  for  money  that  he  would 
rather  be  without,  but  that  is  what  hap­
pened  to  a  wholesale  lumber  dealer  of 
New  York  the  other day.

The  check  was  sent  to  him  by  the  re­
ceiver  of  a  defunct  Boston  hardware 
concern  and  he  was  entitled  to  the 
money  as  a  creditor.  Made  out  on  a 
Boston  bank,  it  called  for the  payment 
of  four  cents  as  the  first  “ and  final”  
dividend.

After  recovering  from  his  surprise  the 
recipient  sat  down  to  reckon  it  all  out. 
There  was  the  two-cent  revenue  stamp 
and  a  two-cent  postage  stamp  on  the 
letter.  That  meant  four  cents  to  send 
it  to  him,  not counting the  cost  of  paper 
and  envelope  and  printed  form  of  ac­
knowledgment. 
its 
receipt  and  cash  the  check  would  in­
volve  an  outlay  of  about  twelve  cents 
more,  as  banks  charge  for out  of  town 
collections.

To  acknowledge 

He  was  still  thinking  it  over when  a 
friend  entered  the  office  and  offered 
twice  the  face  value  of  the  check  to  se­
cure 
it  as  a  curio.  He  sold  it  in  a 
hurry.

V

It  is  claimed  that there  are  fewer gum 
chewers  in  Washington  than 
in  any 
other city  of  its  size  in  America.  Any 
person  who  walks  down  a  public  street 
masticating  a  wad  of  gum  immediately 
becomes  the  subject  of  remark.  On 
the  other  hand,  it-is  asserted  that  more 
cigarettes  are  smoked  each  day 
in 
in  any  other city  of 
Washington  than 
equal  population  except  those 
in  the 
extreme  southern  part  of  the  United 
States.

Thos.  E.  Wykes

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Brick,  Lath,  Cement,  Wood, Coal,  Brain  Tile. 
Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw.  Distributors of 
Sleepy Eye Flour.  Write for prices.

Sad  Tragedy  In  the Solitude of the D reary 
P rairie.
Written for the Tradesman.

The  sun’s  rays  were  burning  hot.  Not 
a  cloud  flecked  the  sky.  As  far  as  the 
eye  could  reach  through  the  quivering 
air  the  land  was  level. 
It  spread  away 
in  all  directions  to  the  horizon  with  that 
oppressive  flatness  that  wearies  both 
eye  and  soul.

In  this  prairie  solitude  a  flock  of 
sheep  were  grazing.  Near  by  a  boy  of 
15  was  lying  flat  upon  his  face,  sobbing 
as  if  his  heart  would  break.  Beside 
him  sat  a  shepherd  dog  with  lolling 
tongue  and  panting  breath.  A  mile  or 
so  to  the  north  squatted  a  small  one­
storied  frame  house,  with  a  cluster of 
rambling  sheds,  surrounded  by  a  rude 
barbed  wire  fence.  Towards  this  a  man 
was  riding  a  lean  grey  pony.

The  faithful  dog,  realizing  that  some­
thing  was  wrong,  whined  in  sympathy 
and  pressed  his  nose  against  his  young 
master’s  cheek.  With  a  final  convulsive 
sob  the  boy  rolled  over and  sat  up.  His 
handsome  sun-tanned  face  was  stained 
with  tears.  As his  eyes  fell  upon  the  re­
ceding  man  and  pony  his  expressive 
mouth  and  chin  again  began  to twitch 
and  quiver.  He  shook  his  clenched  fist 
after the  man,  then  told  the  dog  to  be 
quiet  as  he  wanted  to  talk  to  him.

“ I’m 

I  can 

“ Don,”   he  began, 

goin’ 
away,”   the  dog  'whihed  uneasily  as  if 
be  understood,  “ poor  old  fellow,  you 
love  me 
if  no  one  else  does;  but  you 
mustn’t  mind,  for  I  shall  come  back 
some  day,  when  I've  made  my  pile, 
and  get  you.  That  man  that  took  my 
pony  away  from  me  ain’t  nothin’  tome.
I  call  him  Dad;  but  he  isn’t  my  dad, 
an’  he’s  got  no  right  to  cuff  an’  lick 
me,  neither.  My  father  was  good  an’ 
kind. 
just  remember  him  an’ 
that’s  all.  Then  he  died  an’  after 
awhile  that  man  come  an’  took  his 
place.  Mother  said  1  must  call  him 
Father;  but  I  hated  him  an’  wouldn’t. 
You  don’t  remember  my  mother,  be­
cause  you  was  only  a  little  puppy  when 
she died  two  years  ago.  She  was  good 
to  me,  Don.  She  loved  me  even  more 
than  you  do.”   The  dog  wagged  his  tail 
and  placed  a  paw  lovingly  upon  the 
boy’s  knee. 
“ That  brute  of  a  man 
didn’t  dare  to  kick  me  when mother was 
alive.  You  scared  him,  though,  when 
he  struck  me  a  while  ago— I  only  wish 
you'd  tom  his  heart  out  instead  of  his 
trousers.”   He  patted  the  dog  fondly  on 
the  head  and,  rising  to  his  feet,  looked 
about  him.

If 

“ If  Dad  thinks  I’m  goin’  to  herd 
them  sheep  afoot,  while  he  gads  around 
the  country  on  my  pony,  he’s very much 
mistaken. 
'twasn’t  for  the  sheep, 
Don,  I’d  take  you  along;  but  you’ve 
got  to  stay  an’  look  after  them.”   The 
dog  whined  up  into  the  boy’s  face,  but 
bis  drooping  tail  showed  that  he  un­
derstood  his  sentence. 
“ Now  listen, 
Don,  to  what  I  tell  you:  You're  not  to 
follow  me.  You  must  stay  right  here 
the  sheep  together  until  it  is 
an’  keep 
It’s  fourteen 
time  to  drive  them  home. 
miles  to  the  railroad  an’ 
I’m  goin’ 
there  to  wait  until  I  get  a  chance  to 
board  a  freight  train.  Then  Dad  can 
go  hang 
if  he  ever  gets  a  chance  to 
thrash  me  again!”

Stooping  he  patted  the  forlorn  dog 
affectionately  and  with  tear-dimmed 
eyes  turned  his  face  towards  the  distant 
horizon  and  walked  slowly  away,  look­
ing  sadly back  many  times.

Don  did not offer to follow,but  with  an 
occasional  whine  stood  watching  the 
diminishing  figure  of  his  beloved  mas­
ter  until  it  faded  from  his  sight.  Then

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

3

Thirty  Miles  an  Hour

he,  too,  lay  down  and  moaned  and cried 
as -if  his  heart  was  broken.

It  was  quite  dark  when  the young run­
away,  hungry  and  footsore,  reached  the 
railroad. 
Impatiently  he  sat  down  to 
wait  for  a  train  to  pass.  During his long 
tiresome  tramp  over  the  dreary  prairie 
he  had  built  numerous  aircastles  about 
his  future  success.  He  bad  determined 
to  go  westward,  to  Colorado,  and 
in 
one  of  the  dreams  he  saw  himself  the 
owner of  a  great  gold  mine,  with  wealth 
and  power  at  his  command. 
It  was 
pleasant  to  imagine  that,  while  he  was 
surrounded  with  everything  that  wealth 
could  buy,  his  hated  stepfather  was still 
toiling  on  his 
lonely  Kansas  sheep- 
ranch.  As  he  sat  by  the  side  of  the 
railroad  hunger  and  blistered  feet  made 
him  realize  that  his  wealth  and  power 
were  only  in  dreams.

This  beautiful  auto,  which  was  designed  with  especial  reference 
to  its  adaptation  to  the  cigar  business,  has  started  out  on  a  tour  of  the 
State  under  the  supervision  of  Abe  Peck,  formerly  of  Lowell.  The 
motive  power  is  steam,  which  is  generated  by  gasoline,  only  5  gallons 
per day  being  required.  The  auto  can  easily  make  30  miles  an  hour 
and  can  climb  any  sand  hill  with  rapidity. 
It  will  visit  every  town  in 
Michigan— and  probably  other  states  later— carrying  the  name  and 
fame  of  the  justly  celebrated  S.  C.  W.

G.  J.  Johnson  Cigar  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

An  hour  went  by  and  then  an  east- 
bound  train  came  rushing  along.  It  was 
moving  too  rapidly  for  him  to  get  on, 
besides  he  didn't  wish  to  go  east.  An­
other  hour  passed  and  a  headlight  away 
to  the  eastward  hove  into  view.  The 
boy’s  heart  beat  violently  with  hope 
and  dread.  Perhaps  it  was  a  passenger 
train  running  thirty  miles  an  hour. 
What  if  it  were  a  freight  train  and  run­
ning  as  fast  as  the  one  that  had  passed? 
He  would  be  unable  to  get  on.  Then 
he  would  be  obliged  to  walk  to  the 
nearest town,  twenty  miles  away.  That 
he  would  be  unable  to  do  with  his  blis­
tered  feet  and  his  heart sank within him 
at  the  thought.  The  headlight  came 
nearer  and  nearer.  The  rumbling  of 
the  oncoming  train  confused  him.  His 
heart almost  stood  still  as  he  saw  that  it 
was  a  freight  train  and  moving  slowly. 
Could  he  get  on?

He  rose  as  soon  as  the  engine  passed 
and  stood  close  to  the  moving  train. 
The  sharp  click,  click,  clickety,  click 
of  the  wheels,  as  they  passed  over the 
joints  of  the  rails, 
filled  him  with  a 
strange  fear.  Half  the  train  passed and 
then,  seeing  dimly 
in  the  darkness  a 
handrail,  be  sprang  to  graspr it.  He 
missed  it,  was  caught  by  the  next  car 
and  thrown with  crushing force upon  the 
track,  his  feet  across  the  rail.  A  train- 
hand  thought  he  heard  a  shriek, but  was 
not  sure,  and  the  great  train  passed 
upon  its  western  way.

The  stars  looked  down  in  silent  pity 
upon  the  dying  boy.  The  moon  sailing 
in  the  eastern  sky  bid  her  face  behind 
a  cloud  as  if  she  could  not  bear  to  look 
upon  his  agony.  The night  wind  sweep­
ing  gently  over the  prairie  moaned  and 
sighed.  The  boy  lay  quite  still,  look­
ing  up  into  the  friendly  sky  and  think­
ing  of  his  mother.  His  dreams of wealth 
and  power were  soon  to  be realized ;  but 
in  a  much  different  way,  for  he  was  to 
dwell  within  the  “ pearly  gates”   and 
walk  the  “ golden  streets.”

The  sound  of  a  sharp,  joyful bark  was 
borne  to  him  on  the  wind  and  before  he 
could  recall  his  wandering  thoughts  his 
faithful  dog  came  bounding  out  of  the 
darkness,  yelping  and  barking  with  de­
light.  With  a  sob  of  joy  the  boy  put  his 
arms  around  the  dog,  while  his  soul 
sped  away  to  join  his  mother's.

A  heartrending  howl  pierced  the  si­
lence  of  the  night,  then  all  was  still,  for 
poor  Don’s  heart  was  broken.

Mac Allan.

Just  after a  girl  gets  engaged  she  de­
velops  a  sudden  and  most  enthusiastic 
interest  in  cutting  out  recipes  from  the 
newspapers  and  pasting  poetry 
in  a 
scrapbook.

A  woman  can  have  no  higher  ideal  in 

life  than  to be  good.

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

Around  the State

m ovem ents  o f m erchants.

Elsie—James  H.  Travis  has  sold  his 

drug  stock  to  R.  F.  Cameron.

Farmington— E.  F.  Holcomb  has sold 

his  drug  stock  to  R.  B.  Botsford.

Detroit—Alvin  S.  Johnson  has  pur 
chased  the  drug  stock  of  Jas.  H.  Joyce. 
8  Lapeer— Geo.  L.  Grey  has  purchased 
the  harness  stock  of  E.  J.  Crankshaw, 
¿.Bay  Mills—M.  Wile  &  Co.  have  pur 
chased  the  general  stock  of  B.  Baron  & 
Co.

Lansing— Sherman  &  Williams  have 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  Fred 
Schlegel.

Ann  Arbor—Chas.  M.  Cross  has  pur 
chased  the  bazaar stock oFMrs.  Amanda 
M.  Adams.

South  Haven— Nelson  Goodrode  has 
purchased  the  drug  stock  of  E.  E. 
Napier  &  Co.

Elkton— Lewis  Dondineau  succeeds 
Dondineau  &  Gregor  in  the  agricultural 
implement  business.

Jackson—C.  F.  Sanborn  has  pur 
chased  the  Benedict  grocery  stock  on 
North  Jackson  street.

Flint— Haskell  &  Stimpson  continue 
the  grocery  business  formerly conducted 
by  Frank  H.  Haskell.

Battle  Creek—John  Jackson  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
meat  firm  of Jackson  &  Orr.

Cheboygan— D.  C.  Horton  has  pur­
chased  the  W.  E.  Allair  grocery  stock 
and  has  added  largely  to  same.

Carr— Fisher  Bros.  &  Smart  is  the 
style  of  the  firm  organized  to  succeed 
R.  E.  Smart  in  the  grocery  business.

Hillsdale— Frank  Woodworth has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
jewelry  firm  of  Stevens  &  Woodworth.

Mt.  Clemens—E.  J.  Olde  &  Co..deal­
in  general  mechandise  and  wool, 

ers 
have  sold  out  to  Fred  R.  Krauseneck.

Detroit— E.  I.  Grove  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stocks  of  Chas.
F.  DeGrandchamp  and Edwin I.  Grove.
Boyne  Falls— Ira  Hilton  &  Co.  will 
open  a  furniture  and  house  furnishing 
goods  store 
in  the  new  Mears  block 
about July  i.

Charlevoix— Horace  Fowler  has  pur 
chased  the  meat  market  of  Garrett  Van 
Allsburg  at  the  corner  of  Bridge  and 
Clinton  streets.

Dansville— Field  &  North  have  en 
gaged  in  the  general  merchandise  busi­
ness.  Their  stock  was  purchased  of 
Joseph  C.  Seabolt.

Frederick  C.  Miller  has  gone  to Potts 
dam,  N.  Y.,  where  he  will 
locate  bis 
family  for  the  season.  He  will  return 
in  about  two  weeks.

Levering—Wm.  DeKruif  has  organ 
ized  a  stock  company  to  continue  the 
agricultural  implement  business  under 
the  style  of  Wm.  DeKruif  &  Co.

Sanilac  Center—The  State  Bank  -of 
Sanilac  Center  is  the  name  of  the  new 
banking  enterprise  established  at  this 
place. 

It  has  a  capital  of  $20,000.

Allegan—George  Williams  has  sold 
his  interest  in  the  meat  market of  Wiley 
&  Williams  to  Albert  Lockhart.  The 
style  of the  new  firm  is  Wiley  &  Lock­
hart.

Quincy—All  of  the  stock in the Pearce 
&  Lyon  Dry  Goods  Co.  has  been  pur­
chased  by  E.  K.  Pearce  and  Mrs.  Geo. 
Proper  and  Mr.  Pearce  has  resumed  the 
management  of the  business.

Port  Huron— L.  A.  Sherman  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  bis  partner,  Fred 
W.  Sherman,  in  the  stationery and  book 
stock  of the  Sherman  Co.,  and  will  con­
tinue  the  business  in  his  own  name.

The  Boys  Behind  th e Counter*

Hillsdale—C.  F.  VanAken,  who  was 
recently  elected  manager  of  the  Pearce 
&  Lyon  Dry  Goods  Co.,  of  Quincy,  has 
returned  to  Hillsdale,  the  stock  of  the 
company  having  all  been  purchased  by 
E.  K.  Pearce,  of  Quincy,  and  his 
mother-in-law,  Mrs.  George  Proper,  of 
Jonesville.

Traverse  City—Jas.  D.  Middleton,  for 
nine  years  with  Friedman,  of  Grand 
Rapids,  has  taken  a  place  in  the  silk 
and  dress  goods  department  of  the  Bos­
ton  store.

St.  Ignace—J.  N.  Monroe,  of  Cass 
City,  has  entered  upon  his  duties  as 
clerk  in  C.  H.  Wilber’s  drug  store.

Saginaw—Geo.  C.  Luz,  of  Port 
Huron,  has  become  a  stockholder  in  the 
newly-organized  Metropolitan  Dry 
Goods  Co.  and  will  have  charge  of  the 
drapery  department.

Ovid— Ed.  Williams,  who  has  been 
head  clerk  at  Jillson’s,  has  gone  to 
Lansing  to  take  a  position  as  clerk  in 
E.  Glickman’s  dry  goods  house.

Ishpeming—August  Saunders  has  re­
signed  his  position  with  S.  Johnson  & 
Co.  to  enter  the  employ  of  the  Great 
Atlantic  &  Pacific  Tea  Co.

St.  Ignace— Ed.  Gruber,  from  Shep­
herd,  will  manage  W.  M.  Laclare  & 
Co. ’s  jewelry  business  this  summer.

How  to  Secure the  Rebate on Tobacco. 
In  order to avail  themselves  of  the  to­
bacco  rebate,  for  which  provision  will 
undoubtedly  be  made  by  the  next  Con­
gress,  retail  dealers  must  take  a  correct 
'nventory  of  all  original  packages  in 
their  possession  on  July  1.  This  inven­
tory  must  be  verified  by  two  disinter­
ested  witnesses  and  the  work  of  taking 
inventory  must  not  stop  until  it  is 
the 
completed. 
In  order to  obtain  the  re­
bate,  retailers  must  have  enough  stock 
on  band  so that  the  rebate  will  amount 
to $10,  which  requires  about  417  pounds 
of  manufactured  tobacco.  The  report  of 
the  inventory  must  be  made  on  blanks 
furnished  by  the  revenue  collectors,  and 
merchants  must  make  applications  for 
these  blanks  direct  to  the  collector  and 
not  through  their  jobbers  or  traveling 
salesmen.  The  blanks  must  be  returned 
to  the  collectors  within  sixty  days  from 
uly  1.  The  rebate  on  cigars  and  cig­
arettes  is 60 cents  per thousand on goods 
weighing  three  pounds  and  over  per 
thousand  and  46 cents  per  thousand  on 
goods  weighing  less  than  three  pounds.

S.  A.  Sears,  manager  of  the  Wm. 
Sears  &  Co.  branch  of  the  National 
Biscuit  Co.,  and  erstwhile  manager of 
several  other  plants  operated  by  the 
same  corporation,  is  spending  a  fort­
night  in  the  East.

Daniel  C.  Steketee  and  Egbert  Kuy- 
ers,  accompanied  by  their  wives,  leave 
Saturday  for  Buffalo,  where  they  will 
spend  a  week  at  the  Pan-American. 
They  will  visit  New  York  City  before 
returning.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company,

Jobbers of

MILL  SUPPLIES

Iron  Pipe  Fittings,  Valves,  Boiler  and  Engine  Trimmings,  Belting, 

Hose  Packing,  etc.  Write  for  prices.

30 PMrl street 

M.  O.  BAKER  <&  CO.

TOLEDO,  OHIO

Or*nd  Rapids,  Michigan

N E W  

P O T A T O E S   wire  for prices.

Prepared  to  fill  orders  carlots  or  less.  Write  or

M ic h ig a n   t r a d e s m a n

Otsego— Our  merchants  are  firm  be­
lievers 
in  the  power of  music  to  draw 
crowds,  and  have  subscribed  liberally 
to  a  fund  to  pay  for two  band  concerts 
in  the  village  each  week  during  the 
summer.

Marshall—Dr.  Madden,  of  Toledo, 
representing  the  New  York  Racket  Co., 
has  made  arrangements  to  open  a  gen­
eral  store  in  the  building  recently  occu 
pied  by  the  grocery  stock  of  Charles  H. 
Hillabrant.

Ishpeming—Samuel  Blumenthal 

is 
closing  out  his  stock  of  dry  goods  and 
clothing  preparatory  to  engaging  in  the 
same  line  of  business  at  Lake  Linden. 
He  expects  to  be  established  in  his  new 
location  by  Aug.  1.

Detroit—The  Globe  Furniture  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  association.  The 
capital  stock 
is $10,000 and  the  orgah- 
izers  are  Harry  S.  Blumenthal,  - David 
J.  Marymont,  Louis  A.  Weinstein  and 
Alfred  J.  Meyers.

Port  Huron—The  Aikman  Bakery Co. 
has  been  organized  with  $15,000  capital 
and  will  at  once  begin  the  erection  of  a 
three-story  brick  factory  at  the  corner 
of  Tenth  and  Union  streets,  adjoining 
the  present  Aikman  bakery  establish­
ment.  The  company  proposes  to  enter 
extensively 
into  the  manufacture  of 
crackers,  bread  and  sweet  goods.  The 
stockholders  are  S.  O.  Aikman,  W.  F. 
Davidson,  A.  D.  Bennett,  F.  G.  Mc­
Nutt  and  Robert  A.  Haney.

Detroit—The  Merchants’  Salt  Block 

Co.,  recently  organized,  has  executed 
trust  mortgage  to  the  Detroit  Trust  Co 
for $25,000  to  secure  an  issue  of  bonds. 
The  proceeds  from  these  bonds  will  be 
used  to  construct  the  plant  on  the  com 
pany’s  property at  the  junction of  Roulo 
Creek  and  the  River  Rouge.  A  cbem 
ical  plant  will  also  be  erected,  and  the 
company  will  engage  in  the  manufac 
ture  of  soda  ash.  The  salt  plant  wil 
have  a  capacity  of  1,000 barrels  a  day.
Muskegon—The  capital  stock  of  the 
Grand  Rapids  Desk  Co.  has  been  in 
creased  from  $40,000  to $200,000—$80, 
000  preferred  and  $120,000  common 
stock.  Old  stockholders  receive $40,000 
preferred  and  $80,000  common  for thei 
holdings.  New  stockholders  receive  . 
bonus  of  common  equal  to  their sub 
scription  of  preferred.  Muskegon  cap 
italists subscribed  for $25,000 of  the new 
stock  and  all  but  $3,000  of  the  remain 
der  has  been  taken  by  Grand  Rapids 
investors.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  hide  market  is  strong,  with  a 
sharp  advance  and  with  stocks  held 
above  the  selling  price.  The  tannets 
trust  is in the market  for supplies  and  is 
about  closing  the  purchase  for a  large 
stock.  The  receipts  have  been  light  of 
late  and  the  demand  took  them  out  as 
received.  A  scarcity  is  reported.

Pelts  are  a  neglected  article.  They 
can  not  be  bought  to  pull  out  even,  and 
pullers  leave  them  to accumulate slowly.
Tallow  shows  a  slight  advance  and 
is  firm  with  light  offering.  There  is  a 
tendency  for a  further advance.

Wool  remains  slow  and sluggish,  with 
little  doing.  Local  buyers  are  not  sure 
they ^have  a  good  purchase  at  the  low 
value.  Few  Eastern  buyers  want  it  and 
the  few  throw  so  close  and  hit  so  low  a 
price  that  it  is questionable 
if  a  mar­
gin 
left  to  the  original  purchaser. 
Eastern  quotations  and  slow  sales  do 
not  induce  consignments.  The  general 
public  knows  as  much  about  the  future 
of  wool  as  an  old  dealer.  Each  can 
in  sight.
guess  at  it,  with  large  stocks 
Wm.  T.  Hess.

is 

»  maP  ^as  dropped  a  few  thou­
sand  dollars  in stocks, it is  useless  to  tell 
him  that  there  is  no  money  in  them.

Ann  Arbor— The  drug  firm  of  Schu­
macher  &  Miller,  which  has  been  in 
existence  for  the  past  five  years,  has 
been  dissolved  by  mutual  consent 
Herman  F.  Miller  retires  and  A.  C. 
Schumacher  will  continue  the  business.
Muskegon—The  Muskegon  Butchers’ 
Association 
is  holding  frequent  meet 
ngs  in  anticipation  of the annual butch 
ers  ’and  grocers’  picnic. 
It  will  prob 
ably  will  be  held  on  August  7  at  Mona 
Lake  and  will  be  one  of  the largest  ever 
held 
in  Muskegon.  The  grocers  and 
butchers  aim  to  make  a  big  day  of  it 
and,  without  doubt,  other  stores  will
join  in.

Saginaw— The  Metropolitan 

Dry
Goods  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $50,000,  with  the  fol 
lowing  officers :  President  and  General 
Manager,  E.  E.  Stone,  of  Cadillac;
ice-President,  W.  J.  Bartow,  of  Sagi­
naw,  and  Secretary  and  Treasurer,  J. 
H.  Sleeth,  of  Saginaw.  The  new  com 
pany  will  occupy  the  Bearinger  build 
ng  at  116,  118  and  120  Franklin  street.
iS  a  modern  structure,  four stories 
in  dimen 
It  expects  to  begin  business  the 

igh,  each  floor 60x120  feet 

sions. 
latter  part  of  September.

M anufacturing M atters.

Flint— The  Flint  Vehicle  Club  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000.

Midland—The  Dow  Chemical Co.  has 
increased  its  capital  stock  from $850,000
tO $1,200,000.

Flint— The  capital  stock  of  the  Flint 
increased  from 

Lumber  Co.  has  been 
$10,000  to $15,000.

Hillsdale—The  Hillsdale  Screen  Co. 
is  now  capitalized  at $30,000,  having 
recently  doubled  its  capital  stock.
Detroit— The  capital  stock  of 

the 
Quebradilla  Mining  Co.  has  been  in­
creased  from  $1,000,000 to $2,500,000.

Northville— The  condensed  milk  fac 
tory  at  this  place  is  to  be  converted into 
a  cheese  factory.  Fred  M.  Warner,  of 
Farmington,  has  purchased  the  prop­
erty.

Kalamazoo—The  Dunkley  Co.  is  the 
style  of  the  new  corporation  which  has 
been  organized  to  succeed  the  Dunkley 
Celery  &  Preserving  Co.  at  this  place 
and  at  South  Haven.

Portland—Manager  McKee,  of  the 
Portland  Creamery  Co.,  reports  that 
May  was  the  banner  month  in  the  his 
tory  of  the  company,  $1,200  having 
been  paid  to  its  customers  for  milk.

Pokagon— Last  week  the  Pokagon 
Butter  &  Creamery  Co.,  composed  of 
farmers 
in  the  vicinity  of  this  place, 
sold  its  building  and land  in  the  village 
for $223.  This 
is  the  closing  up  of  a 
venture  which  cost  those  who  entered 
nto  it,  first  and  last,  about  $5,600. 
In 
one  year  the  creamery,  in 
its  palmiest 
days,  ran  behind  over $700.

Grand  Rapids  flossip

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugars—The 

raw  sugar  market 

is 
steady,  but  unchanged,  96  deg.  test 
centrifugals  being  still  quoted  at  4#c. 
Sales  are  few,  as  refiners  are  indifferent 
buyers,  being  well  supplied  with  raw 
sugar. 
Importers,  however,  are  still 
very  confident  and  are  storing  sugars 
in  anticipation  of  a  better  market,influ­
enced  by  an  increased  demand  for  re­
fined  sugar.  The  receipts  of  raw  sugar 
the  past  few  weeks  have  been  very 
heavy.  The  visible  supply  of  raw  sugar 
is  2,190,000  tons,  against  1,500,000  tons 
in  1900.  Despite  the  favorable  weather, 
the  anticipated  heavy  demand in refined 
did  not  materialize  and  buyers  seem  to 
have  adopted  a  waiting  attitude.  Prices 
remain  unchanged.  Some  buyers  ap­
pear to  think  that  prices  will  go  lower, 
but  the  majority  think  there  is  no  prob­
ability  of  there  being  a  decline  for 
some  time.  With  the  continued  favor­
able  weather  a  better  movement 
is  ex­
pected  and,  if  this  materializes,  in  all 
probability  an  advance 
in  prices  will 
soon  follow.

is 

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  is  quiet,  with  the  exception  of 
one  or two  articles  which  display  some 
activity.  There 
is  the  usual  run  of 
small  orders  which,  although  quite 
small,  aggregate  a  fair  business.  There 
has  been  quite  a  fair demand  for  3  lb. 
tomatoes  during  the  past  week  at  pre­
vious  prices.  Values  do  not seem to  im­
prove  at  all,  but  rather to the  contrary. 
Corn  is  quiet.  Prospects  for  the  pack 
are  stated  to  be  quite  poor  in  some  of 
the  packing  districts.  The  situation  on 
new  peas  shows  increased  strength  and 
the  trade  is  taking  hold  in  better shape. 
Most  of  the  business  done  in  the  Balti­
more  pack  was  on  the  cheaper  grades— 
standards,  off  standards  and  seconds. 
The  fancy  grades  continue  to  go  very 
slowly  at  the  high  prices  named,  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  the  pack  of  these 
grades  undoubtedly 
lighter  than  in 
years.  The  quality  of  the  Baltimore 
pea  pack,  it  is quite  generally  agreed, 
will  be  especially  good.  There  will  be 
few  marrowfats,  not  many  having  been 
planted.  Reports  from  Wisconsin  are 
that  the  crop  has  been  favored  with 
ideal  pea  growing  weather  and  from 
Indiana  also  come  good  reports.  There 
has  been  an  unusually  good  demand  for 
gallon  apples  during  the  past  week,  our 
local  packer  having  cleaned  up  his  en­
tire  pack,  aggregating  something  over 
3,000  cases.  He  is  also  cleaned  up  on 
gallon  peaches,  some  grades  of  3  lb. 
peaches,  and  plums;  in  fact,  by  the 
end  of  this  week  he  will  be  entirely 
cleaned  up  on  everything.  Receipts  of 
pineapples  at  Baltimore  during  the  past 
week  have  been  the  largest  of  the  sea­
son,  but  unfortunately  the 
is 
small.  The  packers  are  securing  very 
few  of  the  finest  sliced  eyeless  and core­
less,  as  well  as  the  grated,  and  if  the 
cargoes  now  afloat  do  not  contain  any 
larger  pineapples  than those  which  have 
just  arrived  there  will  be  a  shortage  of 
the  extra  goods.  The  spot  Red  Alaska 
salmon  market  continues  very  strong, 
with  holders  asking  advanced  prices. 
There  is  a  good  enquiry  from all points, 
showing  that  all  markets  are  becoming 
well  cleaned  up.  The  total  pack  of 
salmon  on  the  Columbia  River  up  to 
June  1,  according  to  recent  advices, 
was  15,201  cases,  against  52,100  cases 
reported  for  a  corresponding  period  last 
year.  The  run,  however,  is  stated to be 
improving.  Sardines  are  stronger.  The

fruit 

firmer  market  is  due  to  the  report  that 
the  fish  have  stopped  running  off the 
Maine  coast.,  The  Seacoast  Packing 
Co.-  has  withdrawn 
its  price  of  $3 
f.  o.  b.  Eastport  and  all  orders  are  be­
ing  taken  subject  to  confirmation  of 
price.

Dried  Fruits—Trade  on  the  spot  con­
tinues  very  dull,  the  warm  weather and 
increased  supplies  of  green  fruits 
the 
now  coming 
into  the  markets  having 
cut  down  the  consumptive  demand  for 
all  dried  fruits  to  very  small  propor­
tions.  Prunes  are  selling 
in  a  small 
way,  70-80  and  80-90  prunes  being  in 
light  supply.  The  new  California  crop 
may  be  all  the  way  from  50,000,000  to 
75,000,000  pounds  and  that  of  Oregon 
and  Washington  30,000,000 or  40,000,-
000.  The  foreign  crops,  it  is  now  said, 
will  be  scarcely  equal  to  last  year's. 
There 
is  some  enquiry  for three  and 
four  crown  loose  muscatel  raisins  at  un­
changed  prices.  Stocks  are  light  and 
we  believe  will  all  be  cleaned  up  be­
fore  new  crop  comes  in.  There  is  a 
very  good  demand  for seeded  raisins,  a 
large  number  of  orders  having  been 
placed  within  the  last  few  days.  Both 
peaches  and  apricots  are  very  quiet. 
Future  apricots,  however,  attract  little 
attention.  Most  buyers  consider  prices 
asked  as  being  too  high  and  the  present 
outlook  is  for  very  little  future  buying 
of  this  article.  Currants  continue  very 
strong,  but  the  trade  is  still  buying  in  a 
limited  way  only  to  meet  immediate  re­
quirements.  Holders  of  actual  spot 
goods  are  not  disposed  to  sell  any round 
quantity  at  present  quotations,  however.
Rice—The  business  transacted  was 
not  up  to  general  expectations,  but 
prices  continue  to  be  firmly  maintained 
for all  styles  of  rice.  The  bulk  of  sales 
were  of  domestic  sorts, with  Japan  styles 
still  attracting  the  most attention.  For­
eign  sorts  sold  rather  slowly,  owing  to 
relative  higher  prices.  Buyers,  appar­
ently,  are  purchasing  freely  for  imme­
diate  wants,  without  anticipating  fu­
ture  wants.  Holders  remain  confident 
and 
it  is  generally  anticipated  that  a 
good  demand  will  eventually  develop, 
owing  to  the  short  supply  throughout 
the  country.

Importers 

Tea— The  market  was  rather  dull  and 
trading  was  small,  buyers  showing  no 
desire  to  add  further  supplies  to  their 
present  holdings. 
remain 
sanguine  and  prices are  steady,  particu­
larly  for  green  teas.  Black  sorts  and 
lower  descriptions  are  more  or  less  neg­
lected.  Jobbers  continue  to  report  the 
distributing  business  slow,  buyers  still 
remaining  conservative.  Prospects  are 
improvement 
not  encouraging  and  no 
is  expected  in  the 
future. 
Advices  from  Colombo  report  that,  ow­
increased  output,  heavier 
ing  to  the 
shipments  are  expected  during 
the 
month  of  June.  The  quality  of  tea  is 
hardly  up  to  previous  offerings,  despite 
the  careful  plucking,  which  has  been 
the  general  rule. 
is  due,  no 
doubt,  to  planters  having  difficulty  in 
coping  with  the  heavy  rush  of  leaf  in 
most  districts.

immediate 

This 

Molasses— Owing  to  the 

continued 
warm  weather,  a  material  decrease  was 
noted 
in  the  demand  for  molasses  and 
only  a  small  business  was  done.  Spot 
stocks  continue  light  and dealers remain 
firm,  prices  being  fully  maintained  for 
all  grades.

Nuts— In  nuts  there  were  some  rather 
interesting  developments,the  market  for 
Brazils  being  exceedingly  strong  and 
showing  some  advance. 
The  higher 
market  is  due  to  the  poor  prospects  of J

the  new  crop,  or,  rather,  to  the  prob­
ability  that  the  supplies  that  will  be 
gathered  in  the  South  American  forests 
will  be  small.  Comparatively  few  Bra­
zils  have  come  forward  up  to  date,  and 
the  few  holders  on  the  spot  are  exceed­
ingly  firm. 
It  is  unlikely  that  any  con­
siderable  quantity  could  be  purchased 
at  quotations.  Sicily  filberts  are  quiet 
and  easy  on  the  spot,  with  very  little 
buying.  Advices  from  Tarragona  state 
that  the prospects for Tarragona almonds 
are  good,  but  that  the  corp  will  be  late. 
Jordan  shelled  almonds  are  slightly  eas­
ier.  Peanuts  <ye 
in  good  demand  at 
unchanged  prices.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—While  there  is  a  good  deal  of 
complaint  regarding  the  apple  situation 
in  New  York  State,  any  deficiency 
which  occurs  there  is  likely  to  be  made 
good  by  the  Middle  West,  some  sec­
tions  of  which  never  had  a  better  yield 
in  prospect.  Not  all  the  orchards  in 
Western  New  York  are  going  to  fail, 
hut  a  majority  will  not  yield  as  heavily 
as  last  year.  The  effect  upon  dealers 
and  consumers  will  scarcely  be  noticed. 
It  will  affect  canners  and  driers  more 
than  dealers  in  fresh  fruit.  The  former 
are  dependent  upon  good  local  crops  for 
their  raw  material.  Handlers  of  fresh 
fruits  can  ship  to  greater  distances  at  a 
profit.

Asparagus—35@4oc  per  doz.
Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25© 

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

Beans— While  the  price  for  pea  beans 
is  advancing,the  price  named  for  future 
delivery  is  draping.  The  present  price 
of  Michigan  pea  beans  in  a 
large  way 
is  $i.90@2  a  bushel.  Large  operators 
in  Michigan  have  named  the  price  for 
future  delivery  about  30c  a  bushel  lower 
than  this,  which  will  make  next  fall’s 
price  for  October  delivery  from  $1.60 
@1.70.  The  present  price  is  claimed 
to  be  based  upon 
legitimate  demands. 
Stocks are  getting  into  few  hands.  The 
acreage 
in  Michigan  this  year  is  esti­
mated  as  30  per  cent,  larger  than  last 
year;  in  Wisconsin,  10  per  cent,  larger 
than 
last  year,  and  50  per cent,  larger 
than  1899.  Farmers  are  beginning  to 
think  that  there  is  more  money  in  rais­
ing  beans  than  wheat.
Beets—25c  per  doz.
Butter—Creamery  is  in  ample  supply 
and  small  demand  at  18c.  Dairy  grades 
range  from  io@iic  for  packing  stock  to 
13c  for choice  and  14c  for  fancy.

Cabbage—South Carolina fetches $2.50 
per  crate  and  Mississippi  commands 
$3.25.  Local dealers make  up  half  crates 
of  the  latter.  Home  grown,  $1  per  doz.
Celery—25c  per  bunch.  Receipts  are 

small  in  size  and  limited  in  amount.

Cherries—Sweet,  $1.75  per  16  qt. 

case;  sour,  $1.25  per  16 qt.  case.
30@35c  per  doz.

Cucumbers— Home  grown  command 
Eggs— The  supply  is  heavy,  but  deal­
ers  are  doing  their  level  best  to  move 
receipts  as  fast  as  they  arrive,  paying 
io@io>£c  on  track.

Green  Onions— I2^c  for  Silverskins. 
Green  Peas—goc@$i per  bu.  for home 

grown.

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—Califomias  command  $3  for 
300s  and  250s  per  box.  Messinas  fetch 
$4  for choice  and  $4.50  for  fancy.
bu.

Lettuce—Garden,  6c;  head,  60c  per 

Maple  Sugar— io@ioj^c  for  genuine 

and  qc  for  imitation.

Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy,  j 
Onions— Bermudas 
command  $1.50 
Der crate.  Egyptians  fetch  $2.75  in  112 
b.  sacks.
Oranges— Mediterranean  sweets  fetch 
$3.25.  Seedlings  range  from  $2.75@3. 
Late  Valencias,  $3.5o@3.75.

Parsley—40c  per  doz.
Pie  Plant—60c  for  50  lb.  box.
Pineapples---- Havana,  $i.5o@i.75.

Florida,  $i.75@2  per  doz.

Plants—Cabbage,  75c ;  sweet  potato, 

Potatoes—Old  stock  has  sustained  a 
decline,  selling  down  to  50c  per  bu.

90c.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

5

New  stock  has  declined  to $1.10.  Every 
indication  from  the  early  potato  fields 
shows  that  the  crop  is  very  short.  Let­
ters  received from  potato dealers through 
the  Kaw  Valley,  around  Kansas  City, 
show  that  the  crop  there  will  hardly  be 
half.  One  heavy  grower  says  his  crop 
of  180 acres  will  not  be  half  of  what 
it 
was  last  year,  and  his  neighbors  are 
in 
the  same  condition.  The  crop  of  the 
American  Bottoms,  around  St.  Louis, 
is  not  only  short  but  late.  All  these 
conditions  are  sure  to make  a  firm  tone.
Poultry— The  market  is  strong  and 
active.  Dealers  pay  as  follows  for  liv e : 
Chickens,  9@ioc;  medium  and  small 
hens,  8@9C;  large  hens,  7@8c;  young 
turkeys,  9@ioc;  old  turkeys,  7@8c; 
young  ducks,  I2j^@i5c;  pigeons,  $1 
per  doz.  ;  squabs,  $1.75  per  doz.  ;  broil­
ers,  i8@25c  per  lb.

Radishes— 12c  for  China  Rose;  10c 

for  Chartiers.

Seeds—Hungarian,  75@85c ;  common 
millet,  70@75c ;  German millet,  8o@85c. 
Spinach—35c  per  bu.
Strawberries— Tuesday  was  the  “ big 
day”   for the  home  grown  crop  and from 
now  on  receipts  will  gradually decrease. 
Good  shipping  stock  is  in  good  demand 
at  75@85c,  while  soft  is  plentiful  at  50c 
@650.  The  Kent  county  crop  will  be 
substantially  marketed  by  the  end  of 
next  week.

String  Beans—$2.25  per  bu.
Summer  Squash—3c  per  lb.
Tomatoes—gi.65  per 4  basket  crate. 
Water  Cress—40c  per  doz.
Wax  Beans—$2.25  per  bu.

teacher 

Miss  Grace  VanHoesen  sails Saturday 
from  New  York  for  a three  month’s  tour 
of  Europe,  accompanied  by  Miss Chris­
tine  Keck,  a 
in  the  public 
schools.  Miss  VanHoesen  has  served 
Nelson  Morris  &  Co.  as  book-keeper 
ever  since  they  established  their  branch 
here,  thirteen  years  ago,  and  enjoys  the 
reputation of being the  best  book-keeper 
on  the  payrolls  of  the  company.  A l­
though 
it  is  customary  to  inspect  the 
books  of  each  branch  at  irregular  in­
tervals,  the  Grand  Rapids  house  has 
been  visited  by 
an  auditor  hut 
once  during  the  time  Miss  VanHoesen 
has  been  in  charge  of the  books.

The  Fred  Macey  Co.,  Ltd.,  has  dis 
continued  negotiations  for the Luce Fur­
niture  Co.  plant  and  has  obtained  a  new 
option  on  the  Smith  tract,  running  from 
South  Division 
Jefferson 
avenue,  south  of  the  Pere  Marquette 
Railway. 
It  is  announced  that  build­
ing  material  has  been  ordered  and  that 
the  work  of  construction  will  be  begun 
as  soon  as  Mr.  Macey  returns  from  the 
East,  which  will  be  about  July  1.

street 

to 

Hon.  Peter  Doran  has  filed  a  petition 
in  the  United  States  Court,  praying 
that  Philip  F.  Ernst,  the  Ferry  general 
dealer,  be  declared  a  bankrupt.  Mr. 
Ernst  made  a  common  law  assignment 
on  May  21  to  L.  M.  Hartwick,  the Hart 
attorney. 
It  is  alleged  in  the  petition 
filed  by  Mr.  Doran  that  the  assignment 
was  proof  of  insolvency  and  constituted 
an  act  of  bankruptcy.  The case  will  be 
heard  June  27.

The  Grand  Rapids  Refrigerator  Co. 
has  begun  the  construction  of  a  new 
building  at  the  corner  of  Market  and 
Ferry  streets,  100x110  feet  in  dimen­
sions. 
It  will  be  seven  stories  and 
basement  and  built  of  steel  and  brick, 
slow  burning  construction  and  equipped 
with  automatic  sprinklers.

Alexander  Quinin,  formerly  engaged 
in  general  trade  at Harrietta,  has  re-en­
gaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  that 
place.  The  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co. 
furnished  the  stock.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

It 

dow  with  goods  that  are  markedly  out 
of  style. 
is  far  better to anticipate 
the  course  of  events  and  trim  windows 
with them  while  they  still  enjoy  consid 
erable  . favor.  A  reduced  price 
goods  before  they  are  out  of  favor  with 
the  public  is  a  fine  advertisement  and 
it  will  enable  a  dealer to  clear  up  hi 
stock  before  great  efforts  are  required 
for  the  disposal  of  the  goods.  High 
turndown  collars  will  probably  be  out 
of  it  this  fall. 
Therefore  see  that  they 
receive  proper  attention  in  your  trims 
before  they  fall  far  behind. 
If  fancy 
vests  are  going  out  of  favor do  not  wai 
until  they  are  disused  by  the  good 
dressers of  your  town,  but  put  them  for 
ward  while  they  are  still  being  worn 
Watch  the  styles  on  the  streets  of  your 
town.  You  will  get  many  valuable  hints 
‘n  this  way.  You  will 
show  and  what  not  to  show.—Apparel 
Gazette.

learn  what 

above  this  figure  should  be  made  spar 
ingly  and  carefully. 
In  a  fairly  well 
to-do  community,  undoubtedly  the  two 
dollar  and  the  two  dollar  and  a  half 
hammock  can  be  sold,  but  in  the  aver 
age  rural  community  buyers  are  usually 
quite  willing  to  limit  their expenditures 
for  this 
luxury  to  a  dollar  or  a  dollar 
and  a  half,  and  a  very  good  hammock 
can  be  sold  at  these  figures.

During  May  and  June  the  retailer 
should  advertise  his  hammocks.  He 
should  call  attention  in  bis  advertising 
matter  to  the  pleasures  derived  from  a 
hammock  and  should  quote  prices,  with 
a  description of  the article  he  is  selling. 
A  small  illustration  in  a  hammock  ad­
vertisement  helps 
it  out  and  makes  it 
more  attractive,  ordinarily.

Dealers  should  not  sell  hammocks  on
less  profit  than  25  per cent.,  and  if 
they  buy  judiciously  they  ought to make 
a  profit  of  30 or 33^  per  cent.—Com­
mercial  Bulletin.

How  to  D etect  A dulterated  Extracts.
Dealers  sometimes  adulterate  their 
fruit  extracts  and  essences  with  fixed 
oils,  alcohol  or turpentine.  Adulteration 
by  fixed  oils  is  detected  by  pouring  a 
few  drops  of  the  essence  on  a  sheet  of 
paper and  heating  it.  Upon  the  evapo­
ration  of  the  essence  a  greasy  spot  will 
remain.  Alcohol  is  detected  by  pouring 
a  few  drops  of  the  essence  into  a  glass 
tube  in  which  a  small  quantity  of chlor­
ide  of  lime  has  been  dissolved.  The 
tube  is then  heated  and  well  shaken, and 
upon  its  being  allowed  to  settle,  the  es­
sence  will  float  on  the  denser liquid. 
To  detect  turpentine,  pour a  few  drops 
of  the  essence  on  writing  paper,  and  a 
strong  smell  of  turpentine  will  remain 
after  the  essence  has  evaporated.  The 
essence  of  sour orange,  mixed  with  the 
essence  of  lemon,  produces  an  aroma 
similar to that  of  the  essence  of  berga­
mot ;  the  latter  is  much  used  by  confec­
tioners.

T h e  A la b a st in e  Com­
pa n y,  in  addition  to  their 
world-renowned  wall  coat­
ing,  A L A B A S T I N E  
through  their  Plaster  Sales 
Department,  now  manufac­
ture and  sell at lowest prices 
in paper or wood,  in  carlots 
or less,  the  following  prod­
ucts:

Plasticon

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

N.  P.  Brand of Stucco

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

Bus Finish

The  effective  Potato  Bug 
Exterminator.

Land  Plaster

Finely ground and  of  supe­
rior quality.

For lowest prices address

Alabastine Company,
Plaster Sales Department 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

6

Window  Dressing
Barge  W indows—Prism atic  Glass—A ntici 

pating  Events.

Some  merchants  are  the  unfortunate 

possessors  of  high,  broad  and  deep  wi 
dows  that  have  a  capacity  almost  equal 
to  that  of  their  store,  and  that  require 
large  quantity  of  goods  to  make 
very 
them  presentable. 
It  therefore  becomes 
very  much  of  a  conundrum  with  them 
to  know  how  to  trim  their windows  wi 
a  small  quantity  of goods. 
In  such 
case  the  best  plan  is  to  divide  the  win 
dow  into  one  or  two  smaller  ones  by 
partition. 
This  can  be  made  of 
screen  of  wood  of  the  depth  of  the  wi 
dow,  which  can  be  screwed  to  the  floor 
of  the  window  at  right  angles  to  the 
i 
glass.  Smooth  boards  sawed  out 
some  ornamental  scroll  design  wi 
make  a  pretty  division,  especially  L 
the  screen  is  polished,  stained and  oiled 
or  gilded. 
If  this  is  not done  the  rough 
boards  can  be  puffed  over  with  some 
colored  cloth  which  will  generally  ha 
monize  with  goods  displayed.  Perhaps 
a  better  plan  is  to  fasten  uprights  at  the 
front  and  rear  of  the  window,  and  on 
curtain  pole  supported  thereon  hang 
some  curtain  of  suitable  material.  For 
decreasing  the  depth  of  the  window  the 
following  plan  has  been  tried:  Two 
rods  are  fastened  parallel  to  each  othe 
on  the  ceiling  of  the  window,  and  the 
ends  of  a  third  rod  pass  over  them  at 
right  angles,  so  that  it  moves  freely  on 
them  either  forward  or  backward.  To 
this  third  rod  curtains  the  depth  of  the 
window  are  fastened  or  hung  on  rings. 
If  it  is  desired  to  decrease  the  depth  of 
the  window  this  rear curtain-  is  moved 
If  it  is  desired  to  increase the 
forward. 
depth  it  is  moved  backward. 
In  case 
it 
is  desired  to  permit  the  entrance  of 
the  window,  a  screen  of  wood  from  one 
to  two  feet  wide 
is  attached  to  the 
movable  rod  and  the  curtains  hung 
from  a  rod  running  along  its lower side 
Through  the  apertures  of  this  screen, 
which  can  be  made  very  open,  the  light 
enters.  Such  an  arrangement  is  cum 
bersome  and  awkward,  and  what  really 
should  be  done  with  such  windows  is  to 
have  them  boxed  in  with  a  window  box 
of  the  proper  height.  But  as  this  is  ex 
pensive,  the  other  plan  has  its  advan 
tages  in  some  cases.

A  merchant  who  is  on  a  dark  street 
or  who  has  a  store  of  such  great  depth 
that  he  needs  all  possible  light  from  his 
front  windows  finds  that  boxed-in  win­
dows  deprive  him  of  much  light  that 
he  can  not  spare.  The  light  coming  in 
above  the  window  box  is  not  sufficient 
for his  purposes.  The  writer  lately  saw 
a  window  where  this  difficulty  existed 
and  where  it  had  been  corrected  by  the 
use  of  prismatic  glass  in  the  portion  of 
the  window  above  the  window  boxes. 
The  quantity  of  light  entering  the  store 
above  the  window  box  was  more  than 
doubled  and  the  appearance  of  the  win­
dows  as  well  as  their  usefulness  was 
greatly  increased.

*  *  *

Information  on  all  kinds  of  subjects 
is  of  advantage  to  the  trimmer  and 
among  the  most  important  subjects  for 
him  to  be  informed  upon,  if  he  has  the 
selection  of  the  goods  for  window  dis­
plays,  is  the  subject  of  styles. 
If he 
knows  what  styles  are  wanting  as  well 
as  what  styles  are  coming  into  favor he 
will  be  able  to  save  bis  house  many 
dollars  by  pushing  in  his displays goods 
that  should  be  sold  before  the  decline in 
popular  favor  is  too -  apparent. 
It  is 
not good business policy  to  fill  up  a win­

B uilding Up  the  H am m ock  Trade.
It  is  the  line  of  goods  not  carried  by 
every  one  which  often  proves  the  most 
profitable  for the  retail  merchant.  On 
such 
less  competition, 
with  the  result  that  higher  profits  can 
be  obtained,  money  can  be  turned  more 
frequently, and  the  dealer  does  not  stand 
the  same  chance  of  sustaining  loss.

lines  there 

is 

A 

It 
in  general  mercantile 

line  to  which  general  merchants 
should  devote  attention  is  that  of  ham 
is  true  that  many  retailers 
mocks. 
engaged 
lines 
carry  this  class  of  goods,  but  there  are 
many  who  do  not,  although  the  latter 
would 
if  they  were  aware  that  a  fair 
profit  could  be  made  and  that  the  in 
vestment 
in  stock  was  a  small  item 
The  hammock  display  need  not  be  an 
ilaborate  one 
It 
may  be  confined  to  one-twelfth  of 
dozen  in  each  of  several  different  styles 
nd  sizes,  or  it  may 
include  a  larger 
stock.  The  retailer  must  judge  of  the 
requirements  of  the  trade  in  his  local 
‘ty. 
If  a  fair demand  for  hammocks  i 
Iready  established,  no  difficulty  would 
probably  be  encountered 
in  disposing 
of  them,  if  a  dozen  were  purchased  at  a 
me,  in  each  of  several  different  vari 

in  the  general  store. 

eties.

In  a  store  where  display  room  is  at  a 
premium,  a  good 
location  as  near the 
front  of  the  store  as  possible  should  he 
secured,  although  not  much  space  will 
be  required.  A  sample  of  each  of  the 
'¡fferent  hammocks  carried 
in  stock 
should  be  shown  in  the  display.

Hammocks  may  be  displayed  in  the 
in  two  ways,  according  to 
retail  store 
the  space  available 
for  the  purpose. 
Probably  the  best  method  of  displaying 
them  is  by  attaching  each  sample  ham­
mock  to  a  hook  in  the  ceiling,  so  that  it 
ill  hang  three  or  four  feet  from  the 
floor,  but  not  so  high  but  what  the  cus­
tomer  can  examine  it thoroughly.  These 
hooks  should  be  a  least  a  foot  apart  and 
is  available  they  can  be 
placed  a  foot  and  a  half apart.  A  place 
the  center  of  the  store  between  the 
two  counters  where  the  hammocks  will 
out  of  the  way,  but  nevertheless  can 
seen  and  examined  at  the pleasure  of 

the  space 

the  customers  is  a  good  location.

If  space  for such  display  is  not  avail­
able,  all  of  the  hammocks  can  be  fas­
tened  to one  hook  in  the  ceiling,  as  be­
fore  described,  in  as  a  prominent  place 

possible.
The 

stock  of  the  average  general 
merchant  should 
include  a  fair supply 
'  durable  hammocks  that  will  retail  at 
cents  to  a  dollar.  A  fair supply  that 
will  sell  at $1.50 should  also  be  kept  in 
stock,  but  purchases  which  must  be  sold

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Nam ing the Grocery  Store.

Modern  merchants  no longer designate 
their grocery  store  by  this commonplace 
idea  that  the  grocery  de­
name.  The 
partment  needed  special  attention 
in 
nomenclature  probably  originated  with 
the  department  stores.  At  least  some  of 
the 
larger  Eastern  department  stores 
idea  of  designating  the 
conceived  the 
grocery  department  as  their 
“ Pure 
Food  Department.”   In the  case  of  some 
of  the  Eastern  department  store  mana­
gers  this  was  undoubtedly  a  wise  move. 
They  frequently  sold  anything  but  pure 
foods,  and  the  use  of  this  name  threw 
suspicion  away  from 
the  adulterated 
products  which  they  kept  in  stock  and 
to  some  extent  undoubtedly  created  a 
feeling  of  confidence  with  the  consum­
ers.

Now  that  the  idea  of  giving  the  gro- 
•  eery  store  a  distinctive descriptive name 
has  been  originated  and  put  in  effect, 
it  might  be  well  for the  retailers  if  they 
resorted  to  such  nomenclature  to  some 
extent.  In  selecting  a  name  for the  gro­
cery  store  be  careful  to  select  one  that 
is  not  conventional,  and  which  will  at­
tract  attention  through  the  description 
which  the  wording  conveys  to  the  pub­
lic.  One  modern  grocer  in this  city  ad­
vertises  himself  as  “ A  Purveyor  of 
What  to  E at.”   This  description  con­
veys  the  idea,by  inference  at  least,  that 
he  purveys  what  is  good  to  eat,  and  fol­
lowing  the  idea  to  its  logical  conclusion 
you  judge  that  his  stock  is selected  with 
rare  judgment  and  care,  and  in  such  a 
manner  that  it  will  meet  your  require­
ments  for  foods.

Another  merchant  advertises  his  gro­
the  “ Pure  Food 
cery  business  as 
is  also  somewhat 
Store.”   This  name 
appropriate,  although  it  has  been  used 
to such  an  extent  that it  has  lost  some  of

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

“ Delicacy  Store,”  

its  force. ■  Other  names  that  might  be 
suggested  for  a  grocery  business  would 
include: 
“ The 
Economy  Grocery,”  “ The  Home  Trade 
Purveyors  of  What  to  E at,”   “ Home  of 
Pure  Foods,”   “ Home  of  Food  Delica­
cies, ” “  Purveyors  to  the  Table,’ ’ etc. 
While  this  list  of  names  for the  retail 
grocery  business  is  not  a  comprehensive 
one,  it  may  result 
in  suggestions  that 
will  help  the  man  in  choosing  a  better 
name  for his  business. 
In  the  East  the 
Delicatessen  store  is  a  name  frequently 
appied  to  those  retailers  who  deal  in 
fish,  cheese,  butter,  eggs,  canned  fish, 
and  such  delicacies  as  home  made 
canned  fruit,  jellies  and  bakery  goods. 
The  Northwest  has  comparatively  few 
such  establishments and  the  name  is  not 
commonly  in  use.

It 

One  thing  should  be  avoided  in  nam­
ing  the  grocery  department,  and  that  is 
an  appellation  which  make  the  busi­
ness  ridiculous.  For  instance  “ Coffee 
and  Tea  Emporium”   or  “ Granulated 
Sugar  Bazaar”   would  scarcely  be  ap­
propriate. 
is  far  better to  designate 
the  store  as  a  common,  ordinary  grocery 
than  to  give  it  a  name  that  will  result 
in  a 
laugh  every  time  it  is  seen  and 
will  put  the  business  in  the  light  of  a 
huge  joke. 
If  you  are  going  to  special­
ize  the  name  of  your  business  be  sure 
and  give  it  a  dignified  name  that  will 
convey  some  meaning  to  those  who  see 
it,  and  that  will  attract  attention—in 
other words  choose  a  name  that  will  ad­
vertise  you.— Commercial  Bulletin.

F am iliar  Illustration.

“ Papa,  what  is  a  king?”
“ A  king,  my  child,  is  a  person whose 
practically  unlimited, 
is  law,  and  whom  every­

is 
authority 
whose  word 
body  must  obey.”

“ Papa,  is  mamma  a  king?”

Desks  W ith  H iding  Places.

A  desk  manufacturer  says  that  in  the 
last  year  he  has  received  more  orders 
for desks  with  hidden  springs  and secret 
compartments  than 
in  ten  preceding 
years  put  together.  Some-of  them  have 
intricate  mechanism,  and  by  pushing 
secret  buttons  the  walls  are  made  to  fly 
open  and  narrow  crevices  revealed.

As  to  the  cause  for this  new  demand 
for  hidden  nooks  and  crannies  in  desks 
is  able  to  give  no  satisfactory  ex­
he 
planation. 
It  would  seem,  however, 
that  the  man  of affairs  finds  himself  the 
possessor  of  secrets  so  grave  that  not 
even  the  stenographer 
is  allowed  to 
share  them  and  that  the  common  roll­
top  desk 
is  forced  to  give  way  to  the 
intrictate,  many-panelled  contrivance 
which  alone 
is  able  to  hide  important 
papers  from  the  prying  eyes  of  clerks 
and  office  boys.

“ Accepting  this  theory  as plausible, ”  
said  the-manufacturer,  “ it  would  logic­
ally  follow  that  women  are  burdened 
with  more  than  their share  of  secrets, 
for  fully  two-thirds  of these combination 
desks  are  intended  for  female  custom­
ers.  Why  they  are  going  to  take  the 
pains  of  locking  up  incriminating  doc­
uments  while  their  tongues  are  still  at 
liberty  is  another  puzzle,  but  then  the 
fad  savors  of  the  mysterious  all  the  way 
through,  and  the  feminine  phase  of  the 
situation  is  in  keeping  with  the  rest  of 
the  circumstances.”

W hat  H u rt  Him .

“ I  shall  sue  him  for  libel,”   said  the 
man  who  is  making large sums of money 
out  of  the  credulity  of  the  masses.

“ For what?”
“ He  called  me  a  common  swindler. 
It’s  pretty  hard  for  a  man  who  has 
worked  as  I  have  to  be  original  to  be 
referred  to  as  ‘ common.’  "

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it 

is 

intemperance 

is  to  promote 

TH E  BEST TEMPERANCE  ADVOCATE 
A  great  deal  has  been  said  and  writ 
ten  in  favor  of  temperance.  There  a., 
many  and  strong  organizations  whose 
prime  motive 
it 
Speeches  and  sermons  without  numbe. 
have  been  delivered  in  support  of  the 
cause,  pamphlets,  books  and  newspap 
ers  have  been  circulated  for the  same 
purpose,  and  yet 
widespread  vice.  Pretty  much  every 
body  will  agree  as  to  the  truth  of the 
bulk  of  the  arguments  indulged 
in  by 
the  temperance  workers.  Unquestion 
ably  they  do  a  great  deal  of  good,  and 
yet  they  fall  far  short  of  establishing 
valuable  ally 
thorough 
which  has  recently  entered  the  field 
is 
a  reliable  life  insurance  company which 
has  devised  and  which  offers  a  policy 
whereby  those  who  are  total  abstainers 
from  alcoholic  beverages  can  be insured 
for  an  equal  sum  for  considerably 
less 
than  the  most  moderate  drinkers.  The 
indication 
is  that  total  abstainers  are 
looked  upon  by  the  insurance  men  as 
the  best  possible  risk  and  one  they  can 
afford  to  take  more  cheaply  than  any 
other.

reform.  A 

While  the  temperance  talks,  sermons 
lectures,  appeals  and 
interesting  arti 
cles  are  all  very  well  in  every  way,  the 
it  is  that  plain,  ordinary, 
truth  about 
every-day  business 
is  one  of  the  most 
influential  and  effectual  workers.  * No 
one  wishes  to  employ  a  man  addicted 
to  drink.  The  great  corporations  watch 
their  men  very  closely  in  this  respect. 
The  railroads  are  particularly  careful. 
Their  engineers, 
firemen,  dispatchers 
and  conductors— indeed  all  in a position 
of any  responsibility—are  subjected  to 
closer  surveillance  than  most  people 
appreciate.  The  same  regulations  apply 
in  a  variety  of  other  employments,  and 
the  young  man  who  has  the  habit  of 
drinking 
is  liable  to  lose  his  job,  and 
he  knows  it.  This  is  the  most  effective! 
sort  of temperance  work  in  which  any­

body  can 
indulge.  A  young  man  is 
made  to  understand  that  if his  habits 
are  not  correct  he  need look  for  no  pre­
ferment,  nor  indeed  for  any  perman­
ency.  Those  who  win  the  high  places 
in  business 
life  are  those  who  have 
shown  ability  to  govern  themselves, 
their appetites  and  their  habits.  The 
day  when  even  occasional  drunkenness 
is  overlooked 
is  passing.  The  enact­
ment  of  prohibitory  laws  naturally  ex­
cites  rebellion  and  raises  the  question 
of  interference  with  personal  liberty, 
but  the  rule  of  the  employer  which  says 
a  man  must  not  drink  comes  down  to  a 
very  simple  business  matter,  and  the 
employe  has  the  alternative  of  obeying 
it  and  keeping  his  job  or disobeying 
and  losing  it.  After  all  that 
is  said 
and  done,  business  is  the  most  effective 
temperance  agent  in  this  country.

K ILLING  HANDICRAFTS.

Within  the  memory  of  those  whose 
heads  begin  to  show  the  frosts  of  ad­
vancing  years  the  greater  portion  of the 
industries  of  the  country  were  either 
carried  on  by  hand labor  or the  memory 
was  still  fresh  of  the  changes  from  the 
introduction  of  machinery.  The  tex­
tile  trades  were  among  the  first  to  be 
emancipated  from  manual  limitations 
in  the  invention  of  the  spinning 
jenny 
and  the  power  loom.  Gradually  the 
hands  of  steel  have  been  reaching  out 
into  other  lines  from  that  day  to this, 
until  to-day  the  great  mass  of  all  in­
dustrial  operations  are  either carried  on 
by  automatic  machines  or  by  those  re­
quiring  comparatively 
in 
manual  guidance.  The  story  is  famil- 
I iar to all.

little  skill 

CHICAGO A  SEAPORT.

One  of  the  all-consuming  ambitions 
of  every  inland  city  situated  at  or  near 
a  waterway,  be  that  waterway  ever so 
small,  a  canal  or  bayou,  is  to  become  a 
seaport.  Memphis,  St.  Louis,  Chicago 
and  other  lake  cities  have  nursed  that 
ambition,  and  some  of  them  have  by 
no  means  been  disillusioned.  Chicago 
now  believes  that  she  has  solved  the 
problem,  and  may  henceforth  consider 
herself  a  seaport.  Recently  a  steam­
ship,  called  the  Northman,  arrived  in 
Hamburg  direct  from  Chicago,  having 
passed  through  the  lakes,  the connecting 
canals  and  down  the  St.  Lawrence  to 
the  sea.

The  fact  that  the  Northman is  a  small 
vessel,  and  was  compelled  to  unload  a 
portion  of  her cargo  to get  through  the 
canals,  and the  further  fact  that  the  trip 
consumed  thirty-five  days,  are  only 
in­
cidental,  the  main  thing,  from  a  Chi­
cago  standpoint,  being  that  a  vessel  has 
actually  made  the  voyage  from Chicago 
to  a  European  port  with  a  cargo.

it 

While 

is  more  than  probable  that 
Chicago  will  not  rest  satisfied  with  one 
experiment,  and  will  send  other  steam­
ers,  still  the  result  of  the  first  effort 
clearly  shows  that,  as  a  paying  move, 
the  all-water  route  to  Europe  from  Chi­
cago  is  hardly  likely  to  prove  a success, 
and,  consequently,  the  seacoast  ports, 
like  New  York,  Philadelphia  and  Bos­
ton,  are  in  no serious  danger of  losing 
trade.

inland  city 
investment.  Even 

The  success  of  a  port  depends  upon 
ts  comparative  proximity  to  the  desti­
nations  of  vessels  calling  for cargoes, 
nd  the  dispatch  with  which  cargoes 
can  be  carried  to  those  destinations. 
The  fact  that  the  trip  from  Chicago  oc­
cupied  thirty-five  days  makes  the  route 
to  the 
impiacticable  as  a 
paying 
if  the  time 
could  be reduced  by  some  days  it  would 
still  be  an  uncommonly  slow  route. 
Moreover,  the  size  of the  canals  which 
must  be  traversed  makes 
it  impossible 
for any  but  small  vessels  to get through. 
Small  vessels  do  not  pay,  and  the  trans­
ferring  of  a  portion  of  the  cargo,  which 
will  be  always  necessary  to get  through 
the  canals,  would  make  the  cost  of 
freight  room  prohibitive.

While  the  trip  of  the  Northman  to 
Europe  demonstrates  that Chicago can 
be  reached  from  the  sea,  a  fact  which 
was  well  known  already, 
it  has  not 
demostrated  that  Chicago can  be  made 

practicable  seaport.

America  now  figures  as  an  exporter of 
golf  sticks.  Willie  Walledoff  Astor, 
however,  still  holds  the  record  as  being 
the  greatest  stick  America  has  exported 
up  to date.

It  took  a 

It  was  natural  that  there  should  be  an 
opposition  to  this  encroachment  upon 
the  province  of  the  handworkers,  and 
it  will  be  recalled  that  in  many  cases 
the  introduction  of  machines  was  re­
sisted  by  mobs  and  violence. 
It  was 
apprehended,  and  very  plausibly,  that 
the  workmen  were  to  be  robbed  of  their 
avocations,  being  forced  to  starve  or 
seek  others. 
long  time  to 
demonstrate  to the  ignorant  mind  that, 
while  there  might  be 
individual  hard­
ship 
in  the  adjustment  to  new  condi­
tions,  the  introduction  of  machinery 
does  not  reduce  the  aggregate  demand 
for  human 
labor.  Such  opposition  as 
was  stubbornly  interposed  in  the  march 
of  natural  improvement  in methods only 
served  often  to  work  more  injury  to  the 
craft  concerned  than  was brought  by  the 
change 
in  the  manner  of  doing  the 
work.

industrial  world 

The  greatest  enemy  to  the  crafts  in 
is  the  organized 
the 
interference  with 
its  natural  evolution 
on  the  part  of  their  membership.  This 
1 interference  operates  in  various  ways. 
is  the  driving  of  the  in­
One  of  these 
dustries  away  from  different 
localities. 
For example,  in  Grand  Rapids  the  ma­
chinists  have  for many years maintained 
very  thorough  organizations.  This  fact 
has  always  stood  in  the  way  of  the  es­
tablishment  of  metal  working  enter­
prises  here,  although  on  the  other  hand 
it  has  operated  to  the  advantage of other 
towns  making  a  specialty  of  such  work, 
like  Dayton,  where  the 
industries  are 
too  strong  to  be  domineered  by  organi­
zation.  Probably  we  have  our compen­
sation  in  the  fact  that  wood-working  is 
likely  so  controlled  there  as  to 
very 
send 
it  here  where  it  is  too  great  and 
varied  for  union  domination.  But  it 
works  a  double  injury  to  the  disciple  of 
union  methods  in  that  it  does  injure the 
crafts  to  thus  arbitrarily  drive  them 
from  pillar  to  post  and  it  also  drives 
the  trades  eventually  into the  hands  of 
non-union  workers.

Handicrafts  are  killed  by  arbitrary 
interference  with  the  production  of  the 
work.  The 
introduction  of  machines, 
if  it  does  not  facilitate  the  work,  of 
course  proves  a  failure. 
If  it  is  a  suc­
cess  it  increases  the  production,  which 
in  turn  creates  its  demand,  and,  aside 
from  temporary  inconvenience  to  some 
who  may  not  be  able  to  meet  the 
changes,the  results  are  beneficial  to  all.
There  is  probably  nothing  in  the  or­
dinary  course  of  human  industry  that 
can  work  greater  injury  to a  trade  than 
a  prolonged  and  bitter  strike.  Not  only 
does  the  interference  cut  off  the  aggre­
gate  of  the  work  done, but  it  puts  a  spur 
upon  the  movements  to  do  away  with 
the  particular  kind  of  labor greater than 
can  result  from  any  other cause.  While 
even  under  these  circumstances there

may  be  no  diminution  in  the  total  de­
mand  for  human  effort,  there  is  often 
such  a  violence  to  the  particular  trade 
as  to  work  lasting  harm.

in 

A  writer  in  a  recent  magazine  notes 
the  great  development  of  the  automatic 
processes  of  steel  working  of  which 
Pittsburg  is  the  center.  He  makes  the 
statement  that  the  deathblow  to 
the 
high  priced  skilled  ironworker  was  the 
Homestead  strike  of  ten  years  ago. 
While  that  was  in progress the engineers 
took  up  the  work  of designing apparatus 
which  should  do  away  with  the  great 
labor  by  pro­
mass  of high  priced 
ducing  greater  results 
the  hands 
of  comparatively  few  skilled attendants. 
The  wonder now,  in  going  over  a  great 
sted  plant,  is  to  see  the  vast  rooms  al- 
[ most  tenantless  and  the  great  machines 
doing  their  work  apparently  of  their 
own  volition.  Many  millions  were spent 
in  the 
improvement  of  methods  and 
theie  was  probably  no  lessening  of  the 
demand  for  human  skill  and  work,  but 
of  the  high  priced 
ironworkers  who 
walked  out  on  strike  many  at  least  were 
I forced  to  seek  other  employment;  their 
I craft  was  killed.  Miners’  strikes  have 
filled  the  mines  with  machinery  and  in 
many  other trades  the  influence  in  this 
direction  has  been  potent;  but  no  other 
has  equaled  the  iron  strike  in  its  influ­
ence  on  the  trade,  unless  it  may  find  a 
rival 
in  the  present  contest  with  ma­
chinists.

instructed 

This  bids  fair to  have  even  a  greater 
influence  on  account  of  the  wide  area 
involved  and  the  greater  variety  of  the 
work.  Nothing  can  be  conceived  of 
likely  to  work  more  serious  harm  to  a 
handicraft  as  to  its  relation  to  its  pres­
ent  Workmen  than  the  insane  struggle 
now  going  on.  This  injury  is  working 
out  in  many  ways.  All  over  the  country 
operators  are  devising  automatic  ap­
paratus  for doing  their  work.  Boys  are 
being 
in  the  care  of these 
devices  as  rapidly  as  possible.  In  many 
cases  the  manufacture 
is  modified  by 
dispensing  with  much  of that  requiring 
experienced  skill.  Then  in  many  cases 
the  schools  are  being  drawn  upon  for 
their  undergraduates 
in  engineering 
courses  and  members  of  manual  train­
ing  classes.  Even  were  the  strike  to 
influence  will  be  wide­
cease  now,  the 
spread—continue  it  a  few  weeks 
longer 
and  the  handicraft,  as  far  as  the  old 
workers  are  concerned,  will  be  killed.

The  world  and 

its  industries  do  not 
stop  for  strikes. 
If  we  cease  our  tasks 
others  take  them  up—the  world  will 
move  right  on;  but  our  handicraft  will 
suffer  or  be  destroyed  by  the  injury  it 
may  receive  at  our hands.

in 

Enterprising  game  dealers 

the 
West  are  said  to  be  arranging  a  storage 
I trust  of  quail. 
Several  states  have 
! adopted  laws  forbidding  the  slaughter 
of  Bob  White  for two  years,  and  these 
forehanded  and  sharpsighted  men  of 
affairs are  preparing  to  accumulate  big 
stocks  of  these  delicate  birds  before  the 
protective  laws  go  into  effect.  They  ex­
pect  to  control  the  prices  of quail  in  the 
principal cities of  the  country  for  a  con­
siderable  period.  This 
is  a  shrewd 
plan,  and  it  seems  likely  to  be  gainful 
to the  promoters.  The  laws  were  prob­
ably  made  for their benefit.

In  Brittany  fairs  are  held  annually  at 
which  the  peasant  girls  assemble  to  sell 
their  hair.  The  married  women  prob­
ably  assemble  to  sell  their husbands' 
hair.

It  is  a  peculiar fact  that  almost  every 

automobilist  is a  cyclist  as  well.

Y  f ;   *

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The 

THE  PATRONAGE  OP EDUCATION.
Mr.  Carnegie’s  donation  of  $10,000,- 
000  to  the  four  universities  of  Scotland 
is  said  to  have  astounded  the  British 
learned  foundations  of 
public. 
the  United  Kingdom  are 
largely  the 
creations  of individual munificence ;  but 
the  bestowal  of  a  sum  so  immense  by  a 
private person is altogether  exceptional. 
Mr.  Carnegie’s  generosity  has, 
of 
course,  elicited  only  words  of  praise  so 
far  as  he 
is  concerned;  but  grounds 
have  been  found  for  a  difference  of 
opinion  as  to  its  possible  consequences. 
It  was  Mr.  Carnegie’s intention  to  make 
education  free  for all  in  the  Scotch  uni 
it  has  been  questioned 
versities,  but 
whether  it 
is  not  a  mistake  to  relieve 
the  rich  of  the  necessity  of  paying  thei 
own  way. 
It  has  often  been  contended 
that  the  most  helpful  benevolence 
that  which  enables  the  poor to  support 
themselves  and  thus  confer  upon  them 
the  inestimable  boon  of  independence 
But  if  it  is  wrong  to  pauperize  the poor 
why,  it  is  asked,  should  unneeded  ben 
efactions  be  bestowed  upon  the  wealthy 
or  well-to-do  classes? 
Is  not  that  the 
best  policy  which  compels  men  of every 
class  to  depend  as  far  as  possible  upon 
their  own  resources?  But  while  the 
general  principle,  thus  defined,  may  be 
sound  enough,  Mr.  Carnegie  has  prob 
ably  taken  the  wiser  course  in  provid 
ing  for the  payment  of  the  tuition  fees 
of  all  students  in  the  Scotch universities 
without  the  slightest  discrimination  on 
any  ground  whatever.  He  has  in  th._ 
way  established  a  basis  of  fundamental 
equality  between  the  students,  and made 
each  of  the  universities  an  impartial 
alma  mater.

in  the 

struggling 

A  stronger  objection,  perhaps,  is  that 
Mr.  Carnegie’s  donation  to  the  univer 
sities  may  prove  injurious  to  other 
stitutions  competing  with  them  in  the 
work  of  education  in  Scotland.  Rich 
men,  as  a  rule,  are  inclined  to  help col 
leges  already  well  endowed  rather  than 
poor  and 
institutions  of 
learning.  This  may  be  because  the  ed 
ucational  service  of  the  smaller  college 
is  underrated  by  wealthy  patrons  of 
learning  who  have  not  carefully  consid 
ered  the  question  of their comparative 
merit.  H.  W.  Horwill  refers, 
in  the 
Jnne  Atlantic  Monthly,  to  the  growing 
impression  that  the  small  college  is 
doomed  as  a  misfortune.  Notwithstand 
ing  the  greater  variety  of  studies  pur 
sued 
larger  colleges,  he  holds 
that  the  small  college  contributes  more 
to  the  promotion  of  true  culture.  The 
larger  colleges  have  more professors  and 
are  better  provided  with  the  mere  ap 
paratus  of  learning;  but  Mr.  Horwill 
thinks  that  the  small  college  makes 
more  of  the  study  of  “ the  humanities,’ 
and  does  more  to  emphasize  the  value 
of  intellectual  discipline.  A  wealthy 
college,provided  with  all  the  equipment 
necessary  to  impart  instruction  in  every 
branch  of  learning,and  giving  diplomas 
to graduates  in  elective courses of study, 
might  be  supposed  to  be  better  adapted 
to  meet  the  demands  of  an  age  in which 
the  boundaries  of  knowledge  have  been 
so  greatly  extended  and  which  offers  so 
many  golden  opportunities  for  the  spe­
cialist  and  the  expert;  but  there  are 
thoughtful  men  of  the  old  school  who 
insist  that  this  claim  is  based  upon  a 
totally  false  conception  of  the  true  pur­
pose  of  education. 
It  would  hardly  be 
worth  while  to  attempt  the review  of  the
whole  argument  here.  The  pressure  of 
competition  tends  to  promote  technical 
education.  Time  counts  in  the  race  for 
what 
is  called  success  in  life,  and  the 
youth  who  devotes  three  or  four  years  at

college  to  the  study  of the  humanities 
must  begin  his  career  behind  one  whose 
entire  schooling  has  been  a  preparation 
for  trade  or some  particular  profession. 
The  advantage  gained  by  an  earlier 
start  may  be  offset  by  the  superior  men­
tal  power and  greater  breadth  of  view 
acquired  by  a  more  general  culture  and 
a  more  symmetrical  development.

its  teachers. 

Mr.  Horwill  thinks  that the  small  col 
lege 
is  preferred  to  more  numerously 
attended  institutions,  because  it  brings 
the  student  into  intimate  contact  with  a 
more  perfect  social  organism and affords 
a  better opportunity  for the  exercise  of 
personal  influence  by 
In 
the  larger  colleges  and  universities  it  is 
impossible  to  give  to  students  much  in 
dividual  attention 
in  the  classroom  or 
anywhere  else.  But,  if  Mr.  Horwill’s 
conclusions  be  admitted,  it  follows  that 
a  small  college  might  lose  a  good  part 
of  its  efficiency  through  the  excessive 
generosity  of  a  wealthy  and sympathetic 
friend, 
in  reality,  most  small  colleges 
need  help.  Their  professors  should  be 
better paid,  and they should be furnished 
with 
larger  libraries  and  a  more  thor­
ough  scientific  equipment.

BOOKS VS.  BEER.

It  has  been  asserted,  with  all  the  as­
surance  of  fact,  that  a  community  can 
not  thrive  without  the  saloon.  Among 
the  stimulants  of  trade  this  is  always  to 
be  put  down  firgt.  Men  will  gooftenest 
where  this  want  can  be  gratified;  the 
trade  thus  brought  to  a  town  will  be  a 
permanent  one  and,  with  this  for  a 
leading 
idea,  many  a  town  naturally 
“ dry"  has  been  changed  into  a  “ wet”  
one.

that 

incentive 

commodity; 

With  the  same  assurance  it  has  been 
asserted  that  the  thrift  coming  from 
such  business  is  limited  to  that  particu 
lar 
any  business 
directly  or  indirectly  having  a  tendency 
to  demoralize  both  dealer  and  customer 
is  not  a  legitimate  one;  that  far  better 
off  without  such  an 
is  any 
if  the  absence  of  the 
community,  even 
saloon  should 
lead  to  the  desertion  of 
the  streets  of  the  town  discouraging  it.
Without  presenting  the  claims  of 
either  side  of  this  question,  the  idea  is 
growing  that  as  a  trade  getter  the  pub- 
“ c  library,  when  compared  with  the 
saloon,  has  the  better  of  it  at 
least  ten 
It  is  no  longer a  matter of  ex 
to  one. 
periment. 
In  the  Northwest  the  matter 
has  been  tested  and  it  has  been  found 
that  the  extension  of  library  privileges 
to  farmers  has  proved  a  means  of  draw 
'ng  trade.  A  farmer  who  can  buy  or 
sell  at  either  of  two  towns  will  often 
prefer  the  one  at  which  he  or  his  fam- 
'ly  can  obtain  a  book,  and  the  book 
must  be  returned  to  the 
library,  which 
brings  him  again.

A  question  which  always  comes  to  the 
irface  when  treating  such  matters  is 
that  of  .expense  and 
it  will  not  be  a 
strange  statement  that  the  farmer  will 
:  sure  to  “ kick”   if  he  is  charged  any- 
ing 
for  book-borrowing.  Without 
dwelling  on  this  phase  of  the  subject 
longer than  to  say  that  therein  the farm­
er  is  like  his  urban  brother,  it  is  pleas­
ant  to  state  that  this  feature  of  the  vil­
lage  library  has  also  been  settled  satis­
It  has  been  found  that  when 
factorily. 
ibrary  in  a  small  city  has  been estab­
lished  its  running  expenses— rent,  light, 
increased 
fuel,  printing,  etc.— are  not 
the  opening  of  it  to  farmers;  that, 
a  rule,  the  only  increased  expense  is 
the  wear  and  tear of  the  books,  so 
that  the  additional  cost  is  slight—a  cost 
that  is  many times  overbalanced  to  the 
town  by  the  trade  which  the  library

It 

itself. 

brings.  As  a matter of  expense,  then,  it 
seems  to  come  down  to  a  question  of 
book  vs.  beer,  with  the  book  on  one 
side  at  nothing  and  the  beer  on  the 
other  at  five  cents  a  glass  or,  in  times 
of  lively  competition,  “ two  for five !”  
With  the  commercial  side  thus  satis­
factorily  disposed  of,  the  moral  side  at 
once  presents 
is  not  neces 
sary  to take  up  space  for  that.  A  good 
book 
'and  that  is  what  the  good  library 
is  certain  to  have— is  the  source of ever- 
increasing  good  and  the  beer,  with  its 
demoralizing  fellow-drinks,  is  just  as 
certain  the  source  of  ever-increasing 
evil.  The  one 
is  the  radiating  center 
of  well-kept  farms,  of  well-built  roads 
and  of  self-respecting  communities;  the 
other  of  demoralized  neighborhoods, 
where  the  produce  of  the  fields,  be  it 
much  or  little,  is  spent  at the bar,  at  the 
expense  of  home  and  comfort  and  thrift 
and  all  that  pertains  to  them.

In  Wisconsin  there  are  100  libraries. 
Of these thirty-eight are open to farmers, 
without  charge. 
In  some  instances  this 
noteworthy 
liberality  has  yielded  a  di­
rect  return  in  increased  trade  and,  what 
is  better  still,  the  farmers  have  willing­
ly  voted  upon  themselves  a  small  town­
ship  tax  to  assist 
in  supporting  the 
library.  During  the  last  two  years  the 
State  law  has  been  amended to authorize 
school  districts  and  townships  to  vote 
money  to  support  neighboring 
libraries 
on  condition  that  the  people  of  the  dis 
trict  furnishing  such  help  may  have  the 
privilege  of  the  library  without  cost.

It  would  be  easy  to  go  farther  intode 
tails,  but  there  is  no need  of  it.  Instead 
of  discussing  the  saloon  pro  and  con  as 
a  trade  getter,  the 
library,  as  a  com­
petitor,  steps  forward  and  claims  the 
decision  at  the  rate  of  5  to  o. 
Instead 
of  reasoning,  it  states  facts,  the  results 
of tests,  and  there  they  are.  Finances 
aside,  which  really  settles  the  question, 
it  is  submitted  that  the  library  building 
is  a  better  feature  in  the  landscape  than 
the  saloon,  its  patrons  are  never of the 
objectionable  class  and  the rosy-cheeked 
country  girl  driving  home  from  the 
li­
brary  with  her  book  is  far  more  comely 
as  a  type  than  the  bleary-eyed,  bloated­
faced  sot  that  staggers  home,  a  disgrace 
to  himself  and  the  community  that  tol­
erates  him.

Reports  of  gold  deposits  in  the  Aleu­
Islands  of  great  richness  are 
tian 
brought  by  experts  returning.  These 
are  of  the  opinion  that  both  placer  and 
quartz  mining  will  at  an  early  day  be 
under  high  development  in  many  of  the 
Aleutian  Islands  and  some  of  the  ex­
perts  stake  their  professional  reputation 
upon  their  report  that  the  ores  of  these 
islands  are  richer  in  gold  deposits  than 
the  ores  of  any  mine  within  the  bound­
aries  of  the  United  States,  using  the 
word  as  distinguishing  the  states  from 
the  outlying  territories.

lines 

FIKLD FOR TRADE  EXPANSION. 
While  there  is  ample  ground  for  self- 
complacency  over  the 
fact  that  the 
United  States  now  holds  first  place  as 
the  great  commercial  nation,  enjoying 
a  greater  foreign  trade  than  any  other 
country,  there  are  yet  some 
in 
which  we  make  anything  but  a  credit­
able  showing,  and  this,  too, 
in  cases 
where  we  clearly  ought  to  lead  all  oth­
ers.  Take  the  cotton  goods  trade,  for 
instance.  Although  we  grow  the  bulk 
of  the  world’s  supply of  raw  cotton,  and 
should  be  able  to  manufacture  it  into 
cloth  more  cheaply  than  any  other  na­
tion,  yet  the  fact  remains  that  Great 
Britain  does  the  lion's  share  of the busi­
ness  in  manufactured  cotton  goods.

While  there  may  be  some  excuse  for 
British  supremacy 
in  the  cotton  goods 
trade  of  the  Far  East,  because  of  her 
position  with  respect  to  India  and  her 
facilities  for  pushing  trade  Jn  China, 
there 
is  no  possible  excuse  for  British 
supremacy  in  the  cotton  goods  trade  of 
Latin-American  countries.  Yet  it  is  a 
fact  that  Great  Britain  controls  the  vast 
bulk  of  this  trade.  According  to  the 
American  Consul  at  Manchester,  Great 
Britain  sold  to  Latin-American  coun­
tries  during  1900  1,784,547,000  yards  of 
cotton  cloth,  while,  during  the  same 
time,  the  United  States  to  the  same 
Latin-American 
sold  only 
198,814,000  yards.  Consul  Grinnel  also 
says  that  the  British  average  price  was 
about  4}£  cents,  while  the  American 
average  was  5  cents.

countries 

The  Latin-American  countries  are  al­
most  at  the  very  edge  of  our  great  cot­
ton  fields,  and  this  country  ought  cer­
tainly  to  be  able  to  sell  to  these  coun­
tries  more  cheaply  than 
cjuld  any 
other,  as  the  cost  of  manufacturing  here 
should be lower,and  all  the  carriage  and 
commission  charges  which  cotton  ex­
ported  to  England  in  the  raw  state must 
pay  are  saved  by  domestic  manufactur­
ers,  particularly  Southern  manufactur­
ers.

Why  we  fail  to  secure  control  of  the 
for  cotton 
Latin-American  markets 
goods 
is  a  question  which  might  be 
profitably  considered  at  the  forthcom- 
ng  industrial  convention  at  Philadel­
phia. 
Is  it  because  we  do  not  properly 
canvass  the  trade,  or  do  not  manufac­
ture  the  class  of  goods  that  the  Latin- 
American  people  desire?  The  back­
wardness  of  American  business  houses 
in  exploiting  the  trade  possibilities  of 
I-atin-America  has  often  been  com­
mented  on,  but the  results  have  not  been 
great  as  an  outcome  of  the  discussion. 
We  not  only  do  not  cater  to  the  Latin- 
American  tastes,  but  we  have  not  yet 
learned  to  put  up  merchandise  in  pack­
ages  of the  proper size.  Transportation 
in  most  Central  and  South  American 
countries  is  on  mule  back,and  packages 
must  be  prepared  with  that  fact in view.

New  England  people  say  that the rage 
for  antique  furniture  which  has  been 
rampant  during  the  past  ten years seems 
now  to  be  dying  out  and  people  are 
beginning  to  be  willing  to  look  at  fur 
niture  of  modern,  convenient style.  The 
supply  of  genuine  old  furniture  possible 
to  be  obtained  by  purchase  from  de­
scendants  of the  early  settlers must  have 
been  pretty  well  exhausted.

A  new  corporation  in  San  Jose,  Cal., 
proposes  to  manufacture  a  beverage 
known  as  prune  coffee,  and  composed 
of  70  per  cent,  of  prunes  and  the  re­
mainder  cereals.  The  goods  contain 
no  coffee,  chicory  or  chemicals.  The 
taste  is  said  to  be  something like coffee.

Angora  goats  are  used  as  land clearers 
in  Illinois.  A  herd  of  130  has  just 
I cleared  1,800  acres  near  Decatur.  The 
I goats  eat  anything  in  the  way  of  leaves, 
buds  and  small  shoots,  and  when  a  goat 
| comes  to  a  sapling  which  he  can  not 
break  down  alone  four  or  five  others 
join  him,  throw  their  weights  on  the 
| trunk  and  bend 
it  over,  while  others 
climb  on  the  branches.

It  is  said  that  there were  at  least  200,- 
000  mustangs  scattered  over  the  plains 
of  Arizona,  New  Mexico  and  Texas  ten 
years  ago,  and  that  now  nearly  all  of 
them  are  gone.  Three  causes  are  as­
signed  for  their  disappearance,  one  of 
which  will  suffice  for  mention :  “ They 
were shot and made into * canned beef.

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W eekly  M arket Review o f  the  P rincipal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Bleached cottons show 
a  fair  improvement  in  the  way  of  more 
numerous  orders  for  small  quantities. 
Wide  sheetings  are  quiet,  as  are  also 
cotton  flannels  and  blankets.  There  is 
a  moderate  demand  for denims  that  is 
readily  met  by  sellers.  Other coarse  col­
ored  cottons  are  quiet,  and 
in  some 
cases  in  the  buyers’  favor.
• ^Prints  and  Ginghams— Prices  on 
printed  calicoes  for  the  new  season  are 
practically  all  made  and  buyers  now 
have  a  solid  basis  upon  which  to  oper­
ate,  and  an  improvement  in  all  sections 
of  this  market  has  been  noted.  At  the 
prices  at  which  the  best  lines  of  staple 
prints  are  quoted,  buyers  feel  that  they 
are  running  no  risk,  consequently  their 
more  liberal action.  Fancies have shown 
no  change  as  yet.

in 

in  aggregate  to  call 

Dress  Goods—The  initial  dress  goods 
market 
is  a  scene  of  quiet  conditions. 
Developments  have  been  of  an  unim­
portant  character  and  the  market  is 
merely  marking  time.  As  the  days  pass 
orders  of  modest  volume  filter  in  on 
certain 
lines  of  goods;  but  they  are 
insufficient 
for 
more  than  passing  mention,  furnishing, 
as  they  do,  no  clear  indications  of  the 
promises  of the  duplicate  season.  The 
business  that  is  coming 
is  almost 
jobbing  trade,  being 
wholly  from  the 
simply  sufficient  to  indicate  that  the 
jobbers’  salesmen  have  secured  some 
modest  orders.  The  cutting-up  trade  is 
not  yet  ready  to  place  further orders, 
and  will  not  be  until  the  salesmen  have 
taken  to  the  road;  their  lines  are  not 
yet  ready  and  it  looks  as  though  it  will 
be  two  or  three  weeks  before  the  gar- 
mentmakers’  salesmen  will  be  able  to 
get  out  on  the  road  with  the  new 
lines. 
It  seems  that  the  sample  pieces  are  not 
being  delivered  as  promptly,  in  many 
instances,  as  garment  manufacturers 
is 
could  wish,  and  some  complaint 
heard 
is  but  an­
other  instance  of-the  buyer  paying  the 
penalty  of  his  dilatory  attitude  earlier 
in  the  season.  The  jobber’s  business 
in  heavyweight  fabrics  should  not  be 
long 
in  developing  now,  although  the 
retailer  may  pursue  a  very  careful  atti­
tude  owing  to  the  backward  character 
of  his  spring season.  In  skirting  fabrics 
considerable  business  has  been  done  on 
plain  goods  and  mixtures.  The  plaid 
back,  while  a  dormant  fabric,  is  not 
without 
In  fact,  there  ap­
pears  to  be  a  growing  opinion  that  the 
popularity  of  this  fabric  will  be  revived 
in  a  considerable  measure  during  the 
course  of  the  present  season.

in  consequence. 

its  friends. 

It 

interesting 

feature  of 

Underwear— Fleeced  goods have again 
been  the 
the 
heavyweight  underwear  market.  The 
johbing  market  was  considerably  upset 
by 
information  received  that  a  number 
of  the  manufacturers  were  to  reduce the 
price  of  fleeced  goods  so  as  to  bring 
them  back  to  the  old  rate  before  the  25 
cent  advance.  This,  however,  was  un­
founded.  On  the  contrary,  another  ad­
vance  of  I2j£c  is  contemplated  June  22. 
This  will  make  a  total  advance  of  37J^c 
since  May  7.  At  present  writing  we 
can  find  only  that  the  manufacturers 
have  stood  by  their  agreement  of  ad­
vance  prices  and  shorter  hours  very 
well.  No  specific  charges  of  broken 
faith  have  been  heard,  although  rumor 
is,  of  course,  somewhat  active,  as  is  al­
ways  the  case.  Considering these  facts, 
we  believe  that  it  is  a  safe  policy  to or­

der  these  goods  as  soon  as  possible. 
Salesmen  on  the  road  report  that  it  is 
almost 
impossible  to  get  orders  to-day 
on  these  goods,  owing  to  the  fact  that 
prices  are  so  very  stiff,  and  buyers  are 
not  yet  educated  up  to that  point.  They 
feel  that  breaks  are  likely  to  occur,  as 
they  have  in  the  past.

Hosiery— There  has  been  a  moderate 
demand  for  staples,  but  it  is  far  from 
vigorous.  This  is  due 
largely  to  the 
weather  without  doubt,  which  has  been 
hard  on  the  retailers,  but  since  the  ad­
vent  of  good  weather,  this  part  of  the 
business  has  picked  up  very  decidedly.
Bathing  Suits—The  business  is  start­
ing  along  well  in  the  bathing  suit  d iv i­
sion  of  the  retail  market,  and  in  the 
Southern  Coast  States  it  has  been boom­
ing  for  some  time.  This  promises  to 
be  an  especially  good  business  this  sea­
son.

interested 

Carpets— The  daily  press of New York 
have  recently  started  rumors  of  a  re­
newed  effort  to  form  a  carpet  trust.  We 
understand  that 
invitations  were  sent 
out,  but  the  promoter did  not succeed  in 
attracting  any  one  to  hear  his  honeyed 
words.  Two  years  previous  the  same 
effort  was  made  by  promoters  who  were 
selfishly 
in  what  they  could 
get  out  of  the scheme.  Carpet  manufac­
turers  generally  understand  their  busi­
ness  far  better than  outsiders  and,  while 
it  is  true  that  instances  have  occurred 
within  two  years  where  the  Lowell  and 
Bigelow  carpet  mills  were  consolidated, 
and  recently  the  Hartford  and  Higgins 
carpet  mills,  this  was  not  done  by  pro­
moters  but  by  the  concerns  directly 
in­
terested.  When  a 
larger  combination 
is  formed,  it  will  be  done,  if  at  all,  by 
the  manufacturers  themselves.  But  we 
are  confident  that,  even 
latter 
case,  it  will  be  in  the  far distant future, 
as  there  have  been  so  many  disastrous 
failures  among  the  various  industrial 
trusts  that  the  average  manufacturer  of 
textile  goods 
looks  with  suspicion  on 
such  promotions as  schemes  of  the  pro­
moters  to  make  money  for themselves 
at  the  expense  of other  people  who  are 
gullible  enough  to  help  them  float  a 
scheme  which  will  ultimately  collapse 
for  lack  of  funds  to  pay  dividends  on 
excessively  watered  stock.  The  trust 
craze  will  pass  away,  as  other wild-cat 
schemes  have  in  the  past.

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C lothing

The  Shirtw aist  a  Practical  G arm ent  F or 

Business  Men.

Now  that  shirt  manufacturers  and  de 

likelihood 

signers  have  had  an  entire  season 
study  the  shirtwaist  problem  and  to  see 
the  possibilities  of  it  if  it  is  handled 
in  a  sensible,  practical, 
and  solved 
manly  way,  the 
is  that  we 
will  see  the  shirtwaist  worn  to  a  greater 
extent  than  fashion  students  now  iraag 
ine  or  predict  for  the  coming  summer
Last  season  the  shirtwaist  sprang  into 
prominence  before  the  sbirtmaker  had 
time  to  grapple  with  the  demand  and 
supply  something  practical  and  a  gar 
ment  that  should  be  constructed  on  sen 
sible  lines.  The  result  was  that  all  sorts 
of garments  were  brought  out  and  all  of 
them  were  built  on  a  wrong  idea.  The 
shirtmakers  studied  to  copy  the  ladies 
shirtwaists 
the 
problem  from  a  manly standpoint.  Uni 
versal  ridicule  was  the  result  and  the 
shirtwaist  was  branded  as  effeminate

instead  of 

studying 

After a  season’s  deliberation the shirt 
makers  now  bring  out  more  practical 
sensible  garments  from  which  tucks 
box  plaits,  full  sleeves  and  other  effem 
inate  frills  are  eliminated,  and  the  gar 
ment  loses  its  former objectionable  fea 
tures  with  the  exception  of  the  name.

The  same  garment  under any  name 
than  shirtwaist  would  be  adopted  by 
more  men.

The  most  practical 

styles  are  the 
blouse  and  the  Norfolk.  These  styles 
differ  at  the  waist—the  former  has  a 
fulness  that  drops  over  the  upper  edge 
of  the  trouser  band,  and  the  latter fits 
into  about  the  same  snugness  as  the 
negligee  shirt  at  the  waist  line.

buttoned  to  the  waist.  This  style 
shirtwaist  supports  the  trousers.

The  selection  of  fabrics  will  have 
much  to  do  with  the  popularity  of  the 
shirtwaist 
the  coming  summer,  and 
manufacturers  whose  stocks  will  be 
greatest  demand  are  the  ones  who'hre 
showing  modest  colors  and  very  modest 
patterns.

Fabrics  that  will 

look  well  and  sell 
well  in  the  negligee  shirt  will  not  all  be 
appropriate  for the  shirtwaist. 
It  must 
be  considered  that  the  shirtwaist  does 
not  have  a  coat  to  hide  the  greater  part 
of  it,  hence  combinations  of  colors  are 
not  so  desirable  as  solid  colors,  or s 
delicate  color  tempered  with  white. 
Two-toned  effects (not considering white 
as  one)  will  soon  tire  the  eye  and  the 
wearer.

One  of  the  most  desirable,  practical 
shirtwaists  for  business  wear  would  be 
the  black  silk. 
itself  it 
many  ways  and  would  undoubtedly  out 
sell  the  fancy  ones 
if  placed  side  by 
side  on  the  counter.

It  suggests 

Several  years  ago  some  very  prom 
inent  Chicago  newspaper  men  inaugu 
rated  a  style  of  their own  which  wasde 
cidedly  becoming  and  practical.  It  was 
the  wearing  of  soft  black  shirts  (silk) 
without  coats  or  vests  and  also  without 
suspenders.  Why  the  style  was  not  more 
generally  adopted  at  that  time  is  not 
known.  Black  is  not  so  easily  soiled 
as  the  light  colors  and  will consequently 
look  fresher  under  the  most  trying  con 
ditions  natural  in  large  cities.

The  shirtwaist  for men  is  a  common- 
sense 
idea  and  becomes  more  favored 
now  that  the  ridiculous  newspaper  noto 
riety  has  spent  itself.  As  long  as  this 
coatless  style  of  dress  makes  a  man 
look neat  and clean  there  is  no  reason  to 
advance  why  it  should  not  be  worn  dur 
ing  hot  weather.

The  success  of  the  shirtwaist  will  de 
pend  to a  very  great  extent  on  the  man 
ner  in  which  the  summer trousers  are 
made.  The  old  conventional  methods  of 
making trousers  must  give  way  to some­
thing  more  modem  in  the  waist  treat­
ment  which  will  eliminate  the  useless 
amplitude  over  the  hips.

The  blouse  shirtwaist 

is  being  put 
upon  the  market  by  the  leading  firms 
in  two  distinct  styles.  The  one  has  sus 
pender  attachments  and  the  other has 
the  drawstring  through  the  hem  at  the 
bottom  to  enable the  wearer to  adjust  it 
to the  waist. 
The  shirtwaist  with  the 
invisible  suspenders  will  be  most  suited 
to  the  many  men  who  can  not  bear  the 
pressure  of a  belt  on  the  stomach  nec­
essary  to hold  up  the  trousers. 
In  this 
class  of  shirtwaists  the  construction  is 
of  such  a  nature  that  the  suspenders 
are  supported^on  the  shoulders  by  tape- 
loops  sewed  to  the  shirtwaist.  The  ends 
are  attached  to  buttons  sewed  on  the  in­
side  of  the  waist.  Opposite  these  but­
tons,  on  the  outside  of the  waist,  are at­
tachments  for  the  trousers.  This  takes 
all  strain  from  the  waist or  belt  and  sus­
pends  the  trousers  from  the shoulders  by 
means  of  the  invisible  suspenders.

This  arrangement  also  serves  to  keep 
the  waist  in  place  and  prevent  the  short 
lower  end  from  coming  outside 
the 
trousers.  A  belt  is  worn  merely  to  give 
finish  to  the  coatless  costume.

In  the  blouse  style  where  the  draw­
is  used,  the  suspenders  can  also 
string 
be  worn. 
In  this  case  the  suspenders 
are  put  on  first  and  attached  directly  to 
the  trousers.  The shirtwaist  is  then  put 
on  and  the  bottom  adjusted  to the  waist 
by  the  drawstring. 
The  fullness  then 
bags,  giving  the  blouse  effect. 
In  this 
style  there 
is  no  short  end  to  come  out 
from  beneath  the  trouser  band.  This 
latter  style  is  best  suited  for  men  who 
prefer  to  leave  off  the  suspenders—add­
ing  to the  coolness  and  comfort  of  the 
costume.

The  Norfolk  styie 

is  made  form  fit­
ting—about  the  same  as  a  shirt  but  has 
a  band  at  the  waist  line.  Buttonholes 
are  worked  in  this  band  and the trousers 
(with  waistband  buttons  inside)  are

The  needs  to  make  a  pair of  trousers 
the 
which  shall  best  associate  with 
shirtwaist  are:  A  shorter  waist,  espe­
cially  behind—a  waist  that will not show 
to any  extent  a  belt  worn  on  the  waist 
band  of  the  trousers.  Another  need  is 
snugger  fit  over  the  hips—a  fit  that 
will  put  the  weight  of  the  trousers  on 
the  back  and  hips  without  undue  pres­
sure  on  the  abdomen.  The  buckle  and 
old-fashioned  strap-adjustment  at  the 
back  must  be  done  away  with,  as  it 
spoils  the  neatness  of  the  trousers  at 
that  point  and  is  conspicuous  when  the 
coat  is  left  off.  A  careful  study  of  the 
belt  loops  is  necessary.  In  this  some  at­
tention  should  be  paid  to the  prevail­
ing  belt  width.  In  many  lines  of outing 
trousers  the  belt  loops  are  large  enough 
to  allow  a  three-inch  business  card  to 
slip  through  when  the  prevailing  belt 
only  measures  \% 
inches  wide  (the 
widest)  and  down  to  %  of  an  inch  in 
swell  goods.  A  valuable  pointer  as  to 
the  neatest  method  of  putting  on  the 
belt  loops  was  given  by  a  leading  Chi­
cago  tailor,  who  says :  Sew  each  loop 
inside  of  the  top  part  of  the 
on  the 
trousers’  waistband,  then  turn 
it  for­
ward  so as  to allow  a  quarter of  an  inch 
it  to  project  or be  above  the  top 
line 
the  waistband.  "Sew  the  bottom  of 
the  loop  to  the  front  of  the  waistband  in 
such  a  width  as  to  neatly  take  the  pre­
vailing  belt—about  \% 
inches  or  2 
inches  at  most  for this  season.  By  so 
constructing  the 
loops  the  upper  edge 
of  the  waiftband  is  covered  and  the  re­
sult  is  a  clean,  neat  finish  between  the 
trousers  and  the  shirtwaist.

Negligee  trousers  made  with the needs 
just  stated  will  fit  snugly,  carry  the 
weight  on  the  hips  and  will  not  bag  or 
sag 
in  the  crotch.  Everything  for  the 
success  of  the  shirtwaist  depends  upon 
the  neatness  of  the  rest  of  the  costume, 
and  dealers  who  are  out  to  make  a  suc­
cess  of  the  shirtwaist  should  not  be  un­
mindful  of  this  very  important  fact— 
that  the  trousers  will  play  an  equally 
important  part  in  the  midsummer  cos­
tume.—Apparel  Gazette.

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  X T '  We will furnish (to clothing dealers only), our hand- 
^   somely illustrated Fall and Winter sample book.show-
ing a big assortment of cloth samples representing our

Boy’s and  Children’s  Ready-to-Wear  Clothing,

enabling you to select your season’s order and  and  present  requirements as 
thoroughly  as though  selected  from our enormous wholesale stock.  Sample 
Book ready for distribution July 15th.  Limited issue.  Order the book  now  to 
prevent disappointment.  You can do a large profitable business with it.
DAVID  M.  PFAELZER  &  CO.,

Largest  Manufacturer

of  Boy’s   Clothing

C H I C A G O ,   X X i X iX M O I S ,

Prompt  Attention

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G.  H.  GATES  &  CO:,  Detroit,  Mich.

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 u ffa l o ,  N.  Y.,  May  1,  1901.

G e n t l e m e n — Having  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

We  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, 

Very  truly  yours,

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

Requirem ents  of  a  Good  Custom  Made 

Shoe.

When  a  man  has  his  shoes  made 
measure  he  naturally  expects  to  obtai 
an  article  that 
is  superior  to  ready 
made  work,  and  he  also  expects  to  ob 
tain  footgear  that  fits  perfectly.  H 
presumption  is  that  the  stock which wi 
enter  into  their  composition  will  be 
carefully  selected  from  among  the  very 
choicest  material;  that  the 
only  be 
intrusted  to  the  most  skilled 
mechanics,  and  that  the  one  who  meas 
ures  his  foot  will  be  so  absolutely  per 
feet 
in  his  calling  that  it  would  be 
physical impossibility  for  him  to  fail  i 
fitting  that  foot.

labor  wi 

In  order  to  receive  a  better  fitting 
shoe  made  from  a  better quality of stock 
and  of  superior  workmanship he  is  will 
ing  to  pay  the  extra  dollar  or  more 
which  they  will  cost  him.

As  a  matter of  fact,  however,  a  cus 
tom-made  shoe,  cut  to  measure  and 
made  on 
lasts  that  have  been  fitted  up 
expressly  for the  purpose,  often  fails  to 
give  the  perfect  satisfaction  that  was 
expected  of  it.  Every  one  who  has  had 
any  great  amount  of  experience  in  cus 
tom  work  will  agree  with  us 
in  the 
above  proposition. 
In  work  made  to 
measure  the  maker  may  strictly  adhere 
to  the  given  measurements  of  ball,  in 
step  and  heel,  and  yet  the  shoe  may  not 
feel  right  on  being  worn,  may  fail  to 
conform 
in  all  parts  to  the  shape  of the 
foot  and  may  wrinkle  and  crease  in 
stead  of  preserving 
that  smoothness 
which  is  of  so  much  importance  as  fa 
as  looks  are  concerned.

In  order to  attain as  nearly  as  pos 
sible  to  perfection  in  the  production  of 
custom  work  the  following  points  must 
be  strictly  observed:  The  lateral  forma­
tion  of the  bottom  of  the  last  must  con 
form 
in  every  particular  to  the  con­
tour  of the  sole  of  the  foot.  Any  varia­
tion  of  the  sole  of  the  shoe  from  that 
of  the  bottom  of the  foot,  laterally,  will 
result 
in  the  shoe  being  forced  out  of 
shape  by  the  pressure  of  the  foot,  for as 
the  foot  will  not  yield  and  conform   to 
the  shape  of  the  shoe  in  those  points 
where  they  differ  in  form,  the  shoe must 
yield  and  give  way  until  it  assumes  the 
shape  of  the  foot.

This  is  the  breaking-in  process which 
a  new  shoe  not conforming  to  the  shape 
of  the  foot  must  necessarily  undergo 
before  it  can  be  worn  with  comfort,  and 
by  that  time  the  original  form  of  the 
shoe  has  been  altered  greatly  for the 
worse  as far as  appearance  is concerned.

For  measured  work,  a  last  as  nearly | 
correct  in  the  various  measurements  as 
can  be  procured  should  be  selected.  A 
diagram  of  the  bottom  of the  foot  to  be 
fitted  should  be  obtained  by  placing  the 
foot  on  a  sheet  of  paper and  tracing 
around  it  with  a  pencil  held  vertically. 
The  profile  of  the  sole  of  the  last  se­
lected  must  conform  to  the diagram thus 
obtained.  Then  the  last  must  be  fitted 
by  means  of  leathers  to  the  exact  meas­
urements  of  the  various  parts  of the 
foot. 
If  there  are  prominent  or  abnor­
mal  points  to  be  considered,  such  as 
large  joints,  it 
is  best  to  begin  with 
these.  At  the  great  toe  joint  where  the 
foot  is  often  enlarged  the  added  leather 
should  extend  to the  bottom  of  the  last, 
thus  increasing  the  width  of the  sole  at 
this  point.

In 

increasing  the  size  of a  last  over 
the  instep  it  must  be  observed  that  the 
instep  is  not  in  the  center  of  the 
last, 
but  about  one-third  of the  distance from

the 
inside  of  the  foot.  The  increase 
should  be  made  accordingly  at  this 
point,so as  to  preserve  the  original  form 
of the  last  although  adding to the height 
of  the 
instep.  To  enlarge  the  ball  of 
the  foot  to  any  considerable  degree  the 
extra  fullness  should mostly  be  added  to 
the  inner  side  of  the  front  of  the last,  or | 
joint 
just  above  and  at  the  side  of  the 
of the  great  toe.  By observing  the  above 
rules  any  portion  of  a 
last  may  be  in­
creased  several  sizes  without  changing 
its  original  form.

Some  cutters  of custom  work,  having 
taken  a  measure,  proceed  to  cut  a  pat­
tern  from  it,  using  for this  purpose  one 
of  the  regular  patterns  which  approxi­
mates  in  size  and  form  to  it,  adding  to 
or reducing  it  in those  parts  that  require 
't   Others  prefer to  fit  up  the  last  first 
and  cut  the  pattern  from  it  in  the  same 
manner as  used  for  regular  shop  work. 
The  former  plan  is  correct theoretically, 
but  it  can  not  be  successfully  used  ex­
cept  by  those  who  are  practical  drafts­
men,  while  the  latter  plan,  being  more 
simple,  can be  used  by  any  one  who  un­
derstands  the  ordinary  rules  while  ig­
norant  of  the  more  theoretical  branches 
of the  craft.

In  the  production  of  custom  work 
many  curiously  shaped  feet  will  be  en­
countered.  Sometimes  they  are  abnor­
mally  mis-shapen  as  the  effect  of  rheu­
matic  complaints. 
In  some  cases  the 
toes  overlap  each  other,  and  very  fre­
quently  the  great  toe 
is  so  dis­
tended  as  to  require  much  extra  room 
at  this  point.  The  custom  cutter  is  sup­
posed  to  clothe  these  feet  comfortably 
nd  at  the  same  time  in  such  a  manner!
that  they  may  present  a  proper  appear- j 
ance.

joint 

The  two  feet  are  seldom  exactly  of  a I 
size,  the  left  foot  being  generally  larger 
than  the  right  one.  The  reason  of  this | 
that  the  left  foot  sustains  the pressure I 
of
any  exertion  put  forth  by  the  right 
arm. 
In  striking  a  blow,  in  pulling  or 
in  pushing  with  the  right  hand,  the  re­
sisting  pressure  is  always  borne  by  the I 
left  foot,  and the weight  thus  continually 
brought  to  bear  on 
it  causes  a  conse-1 
quent  distention  of  its  muscles  and 
teries,  thus 
its  dimensions. 
For  this  reason  the  left  foot  should  al­
ways  be  measured  except  in  the  case 
left  handed,  when  the 
principles  are  reversed.  The  more  pre­
cise  mechanics  prefer  to  measure  both 
feet,  and  to  make  outline  diagrams of 
the  soles  of  each,  which  is  always  the 
best  plan-  and 
involves  but  a  slight 
amount  more  of  time  or trouble.

one  who  is 

increasing 

That  portion  of  the  foot  between  the j 
ball  and  the  instep,  generally  called  the 
waist,  is  an 
important  point  to  be  ob­
served  in  fitting  up  the 
last,  as  much 
depends  on  the  shoe  fitting  accurately 
here,  both  as  to  its  wearing  qualities 
and  the  comfort  of the  wearer.  In a shoe 
that  is  loose  or  baggy  here  the  upper 
leather  will  crack  long  before  the  sole j 
is  worn  out,  and  as  it  allows  the  foot  to 
press  forward  the  great  toe  is  forced j 
against  the  upper at  every  step  taken  in 
walking.

The  heel  measurement  should  also  be 
closely  observed,  as  when  there  is  too | 
much  room  at  this  point  the  heel  will 
be  apt  to  slip  up  and  down  when  walk- 
*ng,  creating  an  unpleasant  sensation 
and  being  very  destuctive  to  the  stock­
ings.--O.  W.  Boyden  in  Boot  and  Shoe 
Recorder.

The  Unlucky  B urglar.

“ Talk  about  hard  luck,”   said Jimmy 
Uores. 
* I  broke  into  a  lawyer's  house 
last  night,  an'  the  lawyer got  the  drop 
on  me  an’  advised  me  to git  out.”
4<  “ Huh !”   exclaimed  the  other crook 

you  got  off dead  easy. ’ ’

Dat  ain  t all  of  it.  Den  he  charged 

me  $10  for his  advice. ”

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

Shoes  must

Fit
to
Wear

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

Makers of Shoes 
Grand  Rapids, Michigan

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

OUR  MARGUERITE

Our Woman’s famous  “ Marguerite ” 
Iusures great comfort to the feet.
She is very popular, very swell,
As those, who see her, can  easily tell.
If you have not met her 'tis a mistake 
Which no one can  afford  to make.
Invest in our " Marguerite;”  you’ll  make 

a  hit

For every pair is a perfect fit,
And the price of  this  fine  Dongola  Shoe 
Will be just One and  a  Half  to you.

Bradley  &  Metcalf Co.

Milwaukee,  Wis.

■ M M M M M N M N M M H M N S M I N M N

Over  Gaiters  and  Lamb’s  Wool  Soles. 
(Beware  of  the Imitation ^Vate^proof Leg- 
• 6*nfr offered  )  Our  price  on

l e g g i n g s
Same  in  Boys’,  above knee......... $6.00

Men’s  Waterproof  Legging,  Tan
or  Black,  per  dozen.............

Send  us  your  advance  order  early  before 
the  rush  is  on.  Send  for  Catalogue.

H IR T H ,  K R A U S E   &  CO.

M A N U F A C T U R E R S  

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

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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

j Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie & Co.,

)  

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

13

The  V ital Teat—An  Advertisem ent  W hich 

Paid.

Some  few  days  ago,  while  looking 
over  the  columns  of  the  Tradesman,  I 
ran  across  an  article  touching  on  adver­
tising  and,  as  we  believe  in  letting  our 
light  shine,  that  it  may  be  as  a  beacon 
light  to  our  store,  we  thought  to try  the 
experiment  along  the  lines  suggested  in 
the  article  named— Individuality  in Ad­
vertising—and  took  for  our  example  a 
line  of 
ladies’  shoes  of special  make 
and  at  a  price  within  the  reach  of  all 
and  calling  attention  to  them  in  an 
original 
little  local,  which  explains  it­
self  as  follows:
I  am  only  a 

little  thing,  cast  down 
and  trodden  under  feet  by  both  the  rich 
and  the  poor  alike,  but  the  people  all 
like  me  because  I  am  so  neat  and 
sweet.  My  name  is  “ Try  Me,”   and  I 
was  born  in  a  small  New  England  city 
called  Lynn,  in  the  State of  Massachu­
setts,  in the workshop of G. A.  Creighton 
& Son,  who make  thousands like me,  be­
cause  the  good  ladies  all  over  America 
are  calling  for  me  whenever they  need 
a  good  and  comforting  friend to accom 
pany  them  on  their  travels,  be 
it  at 
home  or  aboard,  because  I  have 
“ sole”   as  women  have  souls  and  know 
how  to  comfort  them. 
I  am  a  hard 
worked  subject,  but  as  I  am  made  to 
“ last”   I  do  not  grumble,  but  fulfill  my 
mission  on  earth,  doing  my  duty  where 
that  duty  calls,  be  it  in  a  mansion  o 
in  a  hovel. 
I  am  everywhere  the  same, 
treating  all  alike,  and  this  is  why  the 
ladies 
like  me  so,  as  I  can  only  give 
my  service  to the  ladies; being  by  na 
ture  neat,  trim  and  of  a  perfect  form 
our nature’s  blend  together.  Well  now, 
my  dear  lady  readers,  if  you  have  not 
as  yet  met  me  I  will  say  that  I  have 
taken  up  my  home  for the  present  with 
F.  M.  Witbeck,  proprietor of  the  Wit 
beck  Hardware  Co.’s  store  at  Millburg 
where  I  can  be  seen  and  my  service 
engaged  for  life  for  the  small  sum  of $2 
to  the  rich  and  poor  alike,  and,  dear 
lady,  don’t  cast  me  aside  with contempt 
because  I  give  my  service  so  cheap,  as 
many  others  no  better  than  I  would 
charge  you  from  $3  to $5  for the  same 
service.  Call  and  I  know  my  acquaint­
ance  will  be  agreeable  to  you,  for  I  am 
onlv  a  poor  little 
ladies’  shoe  called 
“ Try  Me,”   made  to  wear and  fit  and 
beautify  the  feet,  and  for  sale  at  $2  at 
Witbeck  Hardware  Co.'s  store,  M ill­
burg,  Mich.

Allow  us  to  say  that  we  have  met with 
more  than  remunerative  returns  for  the 
experiment  and  increased  the  sales  of 
our  shoe  department  more  than  any  ad­
vertisement  we  ever  put  out,  except, 
perhaps,  the  matrimonial  advertisement 
we  ran  two  years  ago,  which  increased 
our  trade  $700.  The  little  “ Try  Me”  
does  the  business  and  can  be changed  to 
fit  any 
line  of  shoes  sold.  We  do  not 
care  to  set  ourselves  up  as  an  expert, 
but,  if  you  can  make  use  of this  in  your 
valuable  paper,  you  are  at  liberty  to  do 
so.  Perhaps  it  may  do  some  one  some 
good,  as  it  is  not  copyrighted,  and  it  is 
original,  so  far as  we  know.

We  received  a  request  from  the  Boot 
and  Shoe  Recorder  for  permission  to 
publish  same.

I  wish  the  Tradesman  the  success  it 

deserves  as  a  trade  paper.

Millburg,  Mich.

'  F.  M.  Witbeck.

How  to  Get  On  W ith  Customers.

There 

is  an  old  adage  that  you  can 
catch  more  flies with  molasses  than  with 
vinegar. 
If  some  clerks  would  just  jot 
this  down  it  would  materially  assist 
them  in  many  sales.

Too often  a  clerk will allow  himself to 
be  drawn  into  an  argument  in  regard  to 
the  respective  merits  or styles  of  shoes 
be 
is  showing,  when  by  feeling  out  the 
customer and  falling  in  with  his  or  her 
ideas,  01  in  other  words,  “ getting 
into 
the  band  wagon,”   he  could  very  often 
make  a  sale  that  by  the  other  method 
he  would  be  apt  to  lose;  not  only  that,

but  he  would  also  make  a  customer  for 
the  store,  and  one  that  was  perfectly 
satisfied.

Instead  of  stubbornly  trying  to  force 
your  ideas  upon  a  customer,  keep  the 
main  fact 
in  mind  that  what  you  are 
there  for  is  to  sell  the  goods,  and  like  a 
skillful  general,  advance,  retreat,  coun­
termarch,  etc.,  until  the  desired  end 
is 
attained.

Politic  coercing  goes  a  long  way  with 
the  average  customer,  for  instance,  with 
the  woman  who  knows  more  about  the 
shoes  than  the  clerk,  and 
leaves  no 
opening  for  an  attack  until  she  makes 
the  remark  that  he  need  not  tell  her 
anything  about  leather,  as  her  father 
was  a  shoemaker  in  the  old  country.

The  astute  clerk  immediately remarks 
that  nothing  pleases  him  better  than  to 
hear  that,  as  he  feels  convinced  that 
she  will  certainly  see  the  merits  of  this 
(banding  her  a  shoe  to  inspect  which 
she  had  examined  before,  but  bad  for­
gotten  about),  and  will  estimate  the 
value  of  it  much  better than  he  could 
explain  it,  that  she  is  the  kind  of  cus­
tomer  he  always  prefers  to  serve,  as 
she  knows what  she  is  looking  at.  The 
flattered  woman  or  man  will  catch  at 
this  bait  and  buy  nine  times  out  of  ten. 
The  writer  has  seen  this  case  exem­
plified  many  times,  and  knows  from 
actual  experience  “ which  way  the  wind 
blows.”  

-

Q uality  in  Rubbers.

In  selecting  their  rubber  boots  and 
shoes  for  the  coming  season  dealers will 
do  well  to  remember  that  the  question 
of  quality  was  never  a  more  interesting 
one  than  right  now.  The  fitting  quali­
ties  and  the  general  appearance  of  the 
goods  are,  as  ever,  important  factors, 
but  under  the  circumstances  not  to  be 
mentioned 
in  the  same  breath  with 
quality.  •

The  temptation  to  “ skin  the  goods,’ 
or  to  adulterate  them  more  than  good 
judgment  would  permit  of,  is  a  natural 
consequence  of  the 
little  war  between 
the  rival  companies  as  to  the  matter of 
price.  Some  of  the  producers  are  firm 
in  their  position,  that  under  any  cir 
cumstances  the  quality  of  their  produc 
tion  will  not  be  impaired,  and  the  deal 
era  will  buy  goods  on  these  promises. 
If  they  are  deceived,  they  are  likely  to 
discover  it  sooner or  later,  and  in  that 
event  there 
is  trouble  ahead  for  some 
body.

Prices  will  change  by  and  by,  for  it 
is  said  to  be  a  fact  that  they  must,  and 
then  there  will  be  no  incentive  strong 
enough  to  induce  a  dealer  to do  busi­
ness  with  a  manufacturer  who  has  de­
ceived  him.  Let  there  be  no  decep­
tion.

Care of P atent  Leather.

loss 

The  amount  of  patent  leather  goods 
being  sold  this  year  is  greater  than  ever 
before,  and  it  necessarily  follows  that 
retail  merchants  should  be  guarded 
against  the 
in  this  line  as  far as 
possible.  How  many  merchants  take 
the  necessary  care  of  patent  leather 
shoes?  While 
in  a  store  the  other  day 
it  was  very  noticeable  the  condition  in 
which  these  shoes  were  put  back  in 
stock.  After showing  several  pairs  to
customer,  they  were  thrown  along  the 
ledges  and  other  shoes  were  thrown  on 
top  of  them.  They  were  left 
in  this 
condition  until  the  rush  of  the  day  was 
over,  when  they  were  hurriedly  put  into 
the  cartons  without  anything  between 
them,  so  that  the  surface  of  one  shoe 
rested  directly  against  the  surface  of 
the  other.

{Robbers  For Service.

Extension  heel 

(so-called)  ruhbers 
may  cost  more  than  the  ordinary  rubber 
to  produce  and  may  cost  the  retailer  a 
little  more  money. 
In  either  or both 
cases  they  are  well  worth  the  difference. 
They give  the  dealer  something  to  talk 
about,  and  the  something  will 
interest 
at  least 90  per  cent,  of  the  rubber  foot­
wear  buying  public.  For  the  coming 
season  dealers  should  make  it  a  point to 
investigate  these  extension  heels.

Care in  Attaching:  Heels.

The  nails 

in  the  heel  of  a  shoe  pro­
truding  at  about  the  time  the  heel  com­
mences  to  wear away  is  a  serious  point. 
It  may  be  that  the  operative  is  careless 
and  does  not  use  the  right  length  nail, 
or  it  may  be  that  the  correct  size  is  not 
at  hand  and  another  is  substituted,  with 
results  mentioned.  Substitution  is  very 
apt  to  creep 
in  and  many  a  case  of 
shoes  damaged  by  so  doing.  Too  much 
care  can  not  be  used  in  attaching  heels, 
for the  reputation  of  a  manufacturer  is 
often  at  stake  on  this  account.

Praise  a  man  and  he’ll  not  call  you  a 

liar.

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and  buy  direct  from  the 
manufacturer.

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Clerks’  Corner.

“ There 

Told  to  K eep  a  Still Tongue  in  H is Head.
is  one  serious  trouble  with 
you,  Mr.  Barker,”   said the  junior  part­
ner  of  the  bouse  of  Biglow,  Payson  & 
Wardner. 
“ You  don’t  know  when  to 
keep  your  mouth  shut,  if  you’ll  excuse 
the  remark.”

Barker  colored,  hesitated  a  moment, 

then  he  said:

“ Why,  the  mistake 

involved  only  a 
small  amount,  and  it  was  my  mistake, 
and  I  thought 
it  would  be  the  square 
thing  to tell  the  man  about  it.

“ I  thought,”   he  added,  after  a  mo­
ment's  pause,  “ that  it  wouldn’t  do  the 
house  any  particular  harm  to  have  the 
confidence  of  the  man—as  a mere matter 
of  policy—even  if  it  did  cost  $4.38.”

thing 

lucky 

“ I  think,”   said  Mr.  Wardner,  coldly, 
“ that  I  am  the  best  judge  of  the  busi­
ness  policy  of  the  house.  We  had  his 
confidence  already,  so  far  as  that  goes. 
It’s  a 
for  you  that  the 
amount  was  a  small  one  or  I  think  that 
you  would  have  found  yourself  without 
a 
job  within  five  minutes.  As  it  is, 
please  try  and  remember that  the  man 
who  keeps  a  still  tongue  in  his  head 
stands the  best  show  of  getting  on  here. 
The  mistake  was 
in  our  favor,  and, 
while  $4.38  may  not  seem  much  to  you, 
there 
is  a  principle  involved.  That’s 
all.”

“ I’ ll  try  and  keep  the  principle  in 

mind,  sir,”   said  Barker humbly.

“ As  he  went  out  he  said :  “ I  should 
lack  of  principle,  but  he’s  the 

call 
it 
doctor. ’ ’

The  morning  after  this  conversation 
took  place  a  well-dressed  man  came  in­
to the  office  and  asked  for Mr.  Wardner. 
Barker  happened  to  catch  his  eye  and 
walked  up  to  the  railing  that  barred  out 
the  public.  The  other  men  were  too 
busy  to  notice  him.'

“ Mr.  Wardner  isn’t  in. 

I  think  that 
he  has  gone  out  of  town,”   said  Barker.
The  stranger  looked  very  much  an­
“ Doyou  know  when  he  will  be 

noyed. 
back?”   he  asked.

“ Rather  uncertain,  but  he  may  be 
Is  there  any  message 

back  to-morrow. 
that  you  would  care  to  leave?”

“ I  ought  to  have  made  an  appoint­
ment,”   muttered  the  stranger,  looking 
at  his  watch.  “ It’s  rather an  important 
matter that  I  wanted  to  see  him  about, 
but  I  expect  that  there’s  no  help  for  it. 
I  might ’telegraph,  I  suppose,  and  get 
him  in  here.  Has  Mr.  Pollock,  of  Pol­
lock  &  Sims,  been  in  here  yet?"

“ I  haven’t  seen  him.”
“ Well,  I  guess  he  will  call  me  here. 

Where  is  your  telephone?

“ Will  you  allow  me  to  use  it?”
“ Certainly,”   said  Barker,  opening 
the  gate  and  indicating  the  boxed  tele­
phone. 
“ I’m  sorry  that  Mr.  Wardner 
isn’t  in .”

The  stranger  bowed  politely  in  ac­
knowledgment and  walked  into  the  box, 
closing  the  door  behind  him.  In  a  min­
ute  or two  he  came  out  and  took  a  seat 
close  by  it,  pulling  out  a  handsome 
morocco  notebook  and  making  some 
memoranda  with  an  ait  of  intense  ab­
sorption.

Presently 

the  telephone  bell  rang 
h arply  and  the  stranger  got  up  and 
went  into  the  box  again.

“ Hello!”   he  said.
“ Hello!”   said  the  other  end. 
this  Biglow,  Payson  &  Wardner?”

“ Is 

“ Yes,  sir.”
‘ ‘ I  want  to talk  to  one  of the  firm. ’ ’
“ Well,  I’ m  Mr.  Wardner;  who 

is 

this?”

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

“ This  is  the  Probity  and  Integrity 
bank,  Mr.  Wardner.  There’s a  man  in 
here  who  has  just  presented  a  check  for 
$3,000  from  Pelham  &  Sykes,  of  Pitts­
burg. 
‘ Identification 
waived,’  but  we  thought  it  was  just  as 
well  to  take  no  chances,  and  he  says 
that  your  people  know  him.”

endorsed 

It’s 

“ What’ s  his  name?”
“ J.  P.  Donahue.  He  says  he 

is  a 

stock  man.”

“ Undersized  man,  with  blue  eyes and 

a  long,  red  mustache?”

“ Yes,  sir.  You  know  him,  do  you?" 
“ Ob,  he’s all  right.  Wait a  moment; 
hold  the  wire.  Mr.  Biglow  has  just 
I’ll  speak  to  him  about  it.”  
come 
The  stranger  covered  the  transmitter 
with  his  band  for  a  minute  and  then 
taking it away,  said :  “ Hello,  Probity!”  

in. 

“ Yes,  sir.”
“ Yes,  Donahue  is  ail  right—a  little 

twist  to  his  nose,  isn’t  there?”

“ Yes,  sir. 

I’m  very  much  obliged. 
We  thought  that  he  was  all  right,  but 
we  thought  that  we  would  make  sure. 
Good-by. ”

“ Good-by."
The  stranger  hung  up  the  receiver 
and  walked  out  of  the box.  As he passed 
Barker  he  said: 
“ I’m  very  much 
obliged. 
I  wish  that  you’d  tell  Mr. 
Wardner  when  he  returns  that  Mr.  Hol­
lis  called  and  is  staying  at  the  Auditor­
ium.”

“ I  will,  certainly,”   said  Barker. 
“ Thank  you,”   said  the  stranger,  and 
with  another  polite  bow  he  walked  out.
But  it  happened  that  Barker was  very 
busy  and  forgot  all  about  the  matter 
until  a  day  or  two  after,  and  then  there 
was  a  stir  in  the  office.  Mr.  Fabin, 
the  Vice-President  of  the  Probity,  came 
in  to  see  Mr.  Biglow,  and  Mr.  Biglow 
came  out  of  his  office  after a  few  min­
utes’  conversation  with  the  banker and 
called  Mr.  Wardner  in.  Then  voices 
raised  in  anger were  heard  through  the 
partition.

Barker  was  not  particularly  curious, 
but  be  liked  to  know  things,  and  he 
found  business  at  the  copying  press 
close  to  the  door.

" I t  doesn't  make  any  difference,”   he 
heard  the  banker  say,  angrily. 
“ We 
applied  to  you  for  information,  as  we 
had  a  perfect  right  to  do  under the  cir­
cumstances,  and  on  your  assurance  we 
paid  out  $3,000.  Now  you seem to want 
to  disclaim  responsibility  entirely.”  

“ See  here,”   Wardner  broke  in,  " I ’ve 
already  told  you  that  I  did  not  give  any 
assurance. 
I  was  out of town  that  day, 
and  1  could  hardly  have  answered  your 
call  at  the  telephone  here.”

“ Our  teller  is  positive  that  you  did— 
that  you  described  the  man  and  said, 
after  consultation  with  Mr.  Biglow here, 
that  he  was  all  right.”

“ Mr.  Wardner never  held any  consul­
tation  with  me  on  the  subject. 
I  don’t 
know  any  stockman  of  the  name  of 
Donahue— or any  other name.  Further­
more,  I  know  that  Mr.  Wardner  was  out 
of town  on  Tuesday.”

“ I’ve  no  doubt  that  'you  will  make 
your story  good, ”   sneered  the  banker. 
“ At  the  same  time  we  shall  sue  you. 
Frankly,  I  don’t  expect  that  we  shall 
win  the  case,  but  several  little  stories 
of  the  little  cheats  that  you  people  have 
practiced  have  come  to  us,  and  I  think 
that  there  has  been  some  dirty  work 
here,and  if  there  is  a  chance  to ferret  it 
out  we  don’t  mind  spending  a  little 
money  to  do  it.  There  isn’t  much  dis­
tinction 
in  my  mind  between  a  small 
swindle  and  a  big  one. 
You  may 
withdraw  your account  from  our  hank 
at  once.”

‘ * I  warn  you  not  to  make  any  charges 
against  us  unless  you  have  pretty  solid 
foundation  for  them,”   said  Wardner. 
“ You  come  in  here  and  say  that  a  man 
presented  a  check  for $3,000,  which  you 
find  to  be  a  forgery.  You  say  that  on 
Tuesday  morning  at  10  o’clock  you 
called  us  up  by  telephone  and  asked 
if 
the  man  was  all  right— ”

Barker  walked  quietly  back  to  his 
desk  and  began  writing  industriously. 
In  a  minute  or two the  two  members  of 
the  firm  and  the  banker  came  out  of the 
private  office  and  confronted  the  office 
force.

“ Was  Mr.  Wardner  here  at  any  time 
on  Tuesday,  gentlemen?”   asked  Big­
low.

The  clerks 

looked  at  each  other  in 
wonder,  and  said  that  they  thought  not. 
Barker  said  that  he  was  sure  that he was 
not.

“ Do  any  of  you  remember  what  time 

it  was  when  I  arrived  at  the  office?”

The  stenographer  said  she  remem­
bered  that  it  was  12  o’clock,  because she 
was  waiting  for him  to go through  the 
correspondence  that  Mr.  Wardner  usual­
ly  attended  to.

“ Thank  you,”   said  Mr.  Biglow. 
“  Now  one  question  more.  Did  any  of 
you  answer  a  telephone  call  from  the 
Probity  and  Integrity  Bank?”
A  general  chorus  of  denial.
“ You  had  better  investigate  a  little 
more,”   said  Mr.  Biglow,  turning  to the 
banker. 

“ Good  day!”

“ It  doesn't  satisfy  me,  however,”  
“ You  don’t  bear a 

said  the  banker. 
very  good— ”  

•

Here  he  checked  himself  and  went 

out.

Barker  drew  a  deep  breath  and  then 
bent  over  his  work.  “ The  policy  of the 
house  doesn’t  seem to be working well, ”  
he  said  to  himself,  “ but  I  can  be  de­
pended  upon  to keep  my  mouth  shut.”

The  Financial Influence of  the  Diplom a. 
Written for the Tradesman.

With  the  coming  of  the  summer  high 
school,  college  and  university  swing 
open  their  doors  and  send  out  into  ac­
tive  life  a  host  of  young  men  and young 
women  armed  with  the  diploma,  as  a 
testimonial  of  what  they  have  done  to 
prepare  themselves  for  the  work  they 
are  to  enter  upon.  What  the  commer­
cial  value  of  the  diploma 
is  there  is 
little  need  to discuss.  Prized  or laughed 
at,  the  fact  is  patent  that  the  number of 
in  these  higher  institutions  of 
students 
learning 
is  rapidly  increasing  and  the 
holder and  the  defender  of  the  ' 1 sheep­
skin”   are  insisting  that  it  stands  for a 
higher order of  American  citizenship, 
that  trade,  comprising  a  part  of  that 
citizenship,  is  made  better  by  what  the 
diploma  stands  for  and  that  the  di­
ploma, 
incentive  to 
greater  trade  activity.

in  itself, 

is  an 

At this  late  day  there  is  little  inclina­
tion  to  challenge  the  first  two  asser­
tions ;  but  there 
is  a  strong  sentiment 
outside  of  the  cities  to  the  effect  that 
there 
is  a  tendency to overproduction 
in  the  educational,  as  in  the  other,  mar­
kets  of  the  world.  The  ubiquitous tax­
payer  in  the  country,  as  elsewhere,  is 
loudly  insisting  that the common school, 
with  the  time-honored  Three  R ’s,  is 
all  that  healthy  childhood  needs  to  get 
ready  for this  workaday  world  and  that 
anything  more  than  these  “ cometh  of 
evil.”   Country 
living  have 
nothing  to  do  with  the  “ dead  languages 
and  the  higher  mathematics  and  the 
folderol  of the  sciences. ”   Muscle  and 
backbone  are  the  essentials  for  farm  in­
dustry  and  anything  beyond 
plain

life  and 

’ritin’  an' 

’tithmetic”  

is 
“ readin’, 
about  sure  to  lift  the boy  and  girl  above 
their  position  and  unfit  them  for their 
destined  work.  One  store is all the farm­
ers  of  a  neighborhood  or district  want 
and  the  essentials  of  the  country  store­
keeper  are  wit  enough  to  buy  and  sell 
to  advantage  and  sense  enough  to  make 
change.  Everybody  knows  that  what­
ever  creates  excitement  paralyzes  trade 
and  that  is  just  what  follows  every  high 
school  graduation  in  the  country.

itself,  an 

Without  waiting 

for  the  inevitable 
“ therefore,”   and  with  no  desire  to  en­
ter  into  extensive  argument,  it  may  be 
well  to  say  that  here,  as  elsewhere,  fact 
is  better than  theory  and  that  more  than 
one  country  merchant  can  be  found  who 
has  learned  from  experience  that  the 
reverse 
is  true—that  the  occasion  of 
which  the  presentation  of  the  diploma 
is  the  culmination  is,  in 
in­
centive  to  trade  and  has  a  tendency  to 
lead  to  trade  of  the  better sort.  There 
are  excitements  and  excitements.  Polit­
ical  excitement  attendant  upon  a  presi­
dential  election  is  detrimental  to  trade 
until  the  future  policy  of  the  country 
has  been  determined  upon,'  but  that  is 
where  the  financial  welfare  of  the  coun­
try  centers  the  business  attention  of  the 
country  upon  a  single  event  which  has 
gained  possession  of  men’s  minds  by  a 
general  anxiety,  and 
is  hardly  to  be 
classed  with  the  little  flurry  centering 
in  the  graduating  exercises  of a  high 
school  in  city  or country.

teacher, 

Here  is  a  case  in  band:  The  little 
village  of  Rexleigh,  under  the  manage­
ment  of  an  intelligent  school  board  and 
an  up-to-date 
introduced  a 
course  of  study  four years  ago,  and 
last 
year the  first  class,  five  in  number,  was 
graduated.  There  was  considerable  so­
licitude  about  it.  The  graduation  took 
place  in  June  and  for six  weeks  before 
nothing  else  was  thought  of  or talked of. 
The  “ event”   was  advertised  far and 
wide,  and  for  a  circuit  of  miles,  when 
the  day  came,  the  interested‘populace— 
and  that  in  the  country  means  every­
body—came 
in  from  all  points  of  the 
compass.  After  the  graduation  there 
was  a  general  reception,  which  was  fol­
lowed  in  the  evening  by  a  “ graduation 
ball”   under  the  management  of  the 
alumni—or  those  who  would  have  been 
the  alumni  had  the  course  of  study  been 
determined  upon  years  before.  When  it 
was  over and  the  storekeeper  at  Rex­
leigh  was  asked  what  be  thought  of 
“ graduations  as  such”  he  answered  that 
he  did  not  quite  grasp  the  “ as  such”  
idea,  but  that  financially  he  was  better 
off  by  several  hundred  dollars  all  told 
and  he  hoped  that  “ graduations  as 
such”   would  be  a  permanency—an  ex­
perience  which  has  not  been  confined to 
Rexleigh.

It  is  to  he  hoped  that  the  diploma, 
financially,  will  no longet  be  considered 
the  sign  of  calamity. 
is  far  from 
that. 
It  may  not  stand  for all  the  vir­
tues that  its  strongest  supporters  claim, 
nor  yet  for all  the  evils  its  enemies  as­
sert,  but  from  the  trade  point  of  view  it 
is  not  an  evil,  as  the  returns of-many  a 
country  trader abundantly  testify.

It 

R.  M.  Streeter.

The  Cleveland  rivals of  the  Standard 
O il' Company  have  given  up  the  battle 
against  that  concern  and  are  combining 
to  sell  out  their  interests  to their  foe. 
The  Standard  Oil 
is  to  pay  about 
$1,000,000  for  the  whole  of  the  proper­
ties.  There  are  three  of  the  concerns 
— Scofield,  Shurmer  &  T eagle; 
the 
Cleveland  Refining  Company,  and  the 
Scio  Refining  Company.  R.  T.  Wil­
son,  of  New  York,  is  credited  with  en­
gineering  the  deal,  which  extinguishes 
the  last  spark  of competition  with  the 
Standard Oil  Company  in  Ohio,

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The  top  of our  line for  1901  is  a  $13.50  Suit  and 

a  $15.00  Overcoat.

The  other  end  is  a  $3.75  SUIT  and  a  $3.75  OVERCOAT!

W e are not pushing hard  on the  lower  end  in good times  like  these,  and  facing  a  prosperity  market. 
Everybody  wants to wear a  better  Suit or Overcoat.  W e have bonded our examiners  same as  Bank  Clerks. 
W e know— every garment  now leaving  our house— must  be  made  well.

For the asking, you can have by Express prepaid, samples of

S O M E   O F   O U R   L E A D E R S !
$6.50  Raglan  Overcoats!

$5.50  S U I T S

A  FEW   ONLY  OF  WHICH  W E  MENTION.

Regular  Terms. 

To  Retail  at  $12.50.

Regular  Terms. 

To  Retail  at  $10.00.

A   true  Raglan  Shape.  All  Wool  Oxfords— in  all  the 
new  and  useful  shades.  Finished  with 
the  care  and 
skill  of  a  coat  twice  the  price.  Swell  trimmings,  best 
value  in  sight.

$7.50  S U I T S

All  Wool  Cassimeres  and  Cheviots,  without  a  shred 
French  faced,  Satin  Piped,  Lined  with 

of  shoddy. 
fine  Italian.

$5.50  Kersey  O vercoats

Regular  Terms. 

To  Retail  at  $12  50*

Regular Terms. 

To  Retail  at  $10.00.

Pure  all-wool  Fancy  Worsted,  extra  heavy  weight 
— Patterned  by  artists.  Built  in  all  colors  on  the  best 
hair  cloth,  which  gives  it  a  tailor-made  look.

Black,  Blue  and  Olive— Raw  edge.  Made  with  con­
science,  trimmed  with  conscience,  sold  with  conscience. 
Better  coat  than  last  season.  No  better  value  in  the 
market.

WRITE  FOR  SAMPLES— EXPRESS  PREPAID 

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Fruits and  Produce

Made  a Specialty  o f H orseradish.

A  very  interesting  story  about  Augus 
tus  Cliff,  a  Chicago  dealer  in  produce 
and  fancy  groceries,  is  told  in  Printers’ 
Ink.  Cliff  has  built  up  a  considerable 
business 
in  a  small  basement  store  by 
novel  advertising  methods.  A  few  years 
ago,  when  he  made  up  his  mind  to  do 
some  advertising,  he  also  decided  that 
a  single  staple  from  his  stock  must  bear 
the  expense  of  the  campaign.  Horse­
radish  having  never  been  advertised 
much,  Cliff  decided  to  feature  it.  He 
also  sank  his  own 
identity  under the 
business  name  of  “ Horseradish  Jack,'' 
by  which  name  thousands  of  peopl 
know  him.

Cliff’s  first  advertisement  was  a  gro 
jackass- 
tesque  wagon,  drawn  by  a 
This  wagon  at 
Cliff’s  trade-mark. 
tracted  much  attention. 
It  was  covered 
with  cleverly  worded  signs.  Cliff  now 
uses  from  twenty  to  fifty  lines  of  want 
advertisements 
in  the  daily  papers. 
Here  is  how  some  of  his  advertisements 
read:

Wanted— Forty  married  women,  not 
over  40  years  old,  to  call  for  samples  of 
horseradish.  Horseradish 
Jack,  68 
Randolph  street.

Wanted— Furnished 

room  within 

mile  of  business 
Landlady 
must  eat  horseradish.  Get  sample  at 
Horseradish  Jack’s.

center. 

Personal—No  Pain,  No  Gas—Just 
plain  horseradish  at  10 cents  a  bottle 
Horseradish  Jack.

Personal— If  young  lady  who  tode  on 
Madison  street  cable  last  night  will  try 
horseradish  she  will  improve  her  com 
plexion.  Horseradish  Jack  for  sampl 
bottle.
.  Cliff’s  advertising  was  heard  from 
right  from  the  start.  People  who  came 
in  to  try  horseradish  out  of  curiosity 
learned  that  he  sold  good butter,  cheese 
eggs,  condiments,  etc.  His  horserad 
ish  business  has  gradually  grown  to 
enormous  proportions.  A  while  ago 
he  bought  a  forty  acre  farm  and  planted 
it  to  the  much  wanted  root.  Even  this 
large  crop  is  not  enough  for  present 
needs  and  he  has  contracted  with  j 
number of  farmers  for  further  acreage. 
All  bis  advertising  is  of  the  funny  or 
grotesque  order.

During  the  past  five  years  nearly 
every  cent  of  profit  on  the  staple  has 
been  spent  in  exploiting  it,  while  bar 
rels  have  been  given  away  in  samples. 
The  appropriation  has  crept  up  to  $25 
per  day,  but  this  sum 
is  laid  out  in 
small  mediums—want  advertisements, 
programmes,  circulars  and  novelties.  A 
glass  fruit  dish 
is  given  in  return  for 
each  empty  bottle  brought  back  to  the 
store,  and  in  nearly  every  case  the  cus­
tomer  who  claims  this  premium  makes 
purchases  of  other articles  sufficient  to 
compensate  for  the  gift.  An  enviable 
trade  has  been  built  up  with  hotels,  res­
taurants,  clubs  and  wholesalers,  and  the 
entire  business  of  the  little  basement 
store  is  made  to  hinge  upon  the  one  ar­
ticle  that advertises  it.

Uncle  Sam’s  New  Vegetables.

Have  you  ever  eaten  a  crosne,  a 

stachys  or a  vegetable  marrow?

These  are  some  of  the  new  fruits  and 
vegetables  which  the  agricultural  de­
partment  is  about  to  introduce  into  the 
United  States.

Some  time  ago Congress  appropriated 
$20,000  to  collect  valuable  fruits  and 
vegetables  in  foreign  countries.  An  ex­
pedition  was  sent  to  Italy  and  other 
Mediterranean  countries 
in  search  of 
new  foods.  The  vegetable  marrow  is 
It  is  a 
the  most  familiar  of  the  lot. 
sort  of  summer  squash,  and 
like 
looks 
a 
large  green  cucumber. 
It  is  eaten 
before  it  is  fully  ripe,  and  is digestible. 
The  department  suggests  that  it  should 
be  served  with  meat.  The  finest  mar­
rows  come  from  Algeria.  One  of  the 
most  important  finds  was  the  crosne,  a 
little  known  French  vegetable.  It comes 
originally  from  Japan  and  looks  like  a

Snappy  Retailing.

A  merchant  can  do  a  good  deal  in  the 
way  of 
increasing  his  business  by 
thinking  for the  people  about  him.  We 
are  creatures  of  habit  to  a  large  extent 
and  we  fall 
into  ruts  and  ways  of  liv 
ng.  The  people  of  a  community  get 
into  the  habit  of buying  certain  things 
They  do  not  branch  out  much,  not  be 
cause  they  would  not  be  willing  to,  but 
it  has  never  occurred  to them  to  do 
and  they  do  not  know  how.

The  merchant  steps  in  at  this  point, 
and  makes  some  suggestions  to  those  of 
his  patrons  to  whom  this  would  apply 
The  patron  is  pleased  with  the  interest 
manifested  by  the  merchant  and  the 
suggestions  are  adopted  without  injury 
to  the  buyer  and  to  the  benefit  of the 
seller.  By judicious  practice  along  this 
'ine  a  merchant  can  increase  his  busi 
ness 
in  a  year  sufficiently  perhaps  to 
pay  a  piofit  and  thus  make  the  differ 
ence  between  no  profit  and  a  favorable 
result.  The idea  is  worth  trying.—Com 
mercial  Bulletin.

The  T ypew riter W ho  Was  Too Observing 

“ Mr.  Smoothly?’ ’
“ Yes.”
^“ That  Mrs.  Gunhild,  the  charming 
widow,  who  is  such  a  great  friend  of 
our typewriter,  called  again  to-day  and 
guess  what  she  said  about  you.”

to 

get 

“ Oh,  I  can’t,”   said  the  old  gentle­
interested. 

man,  beginning 
What  was  it?’ r
“ I  heard  her say  to  Miss  Brown  that 
she  thought  you  were  such  a  handsome 
looking  man  and held your age so well. ”  
“ She  did,  eh?”   he  replied,  pushing 
out  his  chest  and  pretending  that  it 
didn’t  make  any  particular difference  to 
him  what  she  bad  said.
“ But,”   the  young 
lad  continued, 
Miss  Brown  told  her  she  ought  to  see 
you  preparing  to  go out  for  lunch.  She 
said  it  took  you  five  minutes  whitening 
the  enamel  on  your  false  teeth  and  ten 
minutes  more  to  get the side hair slicked 
"p  over  your  bald  spot.”

Thirty  minutes  later.
“ Gordon,”  

said  Mr. 

Smoothly, 
speaking  to  his  confidential  office  man, 
“ the  dull  season  is  upon us and we must 
retrench,cut  down  expenses  for  a  while. 
To-night  pay  Miss  Brown,  the  type­
writer,  and  let  her go.”

A  Chicago  man  having  paid  $1,200 
for  a  whistling  canary,  a  New  York 
authority  on  caged  song  birds  says  that 
whistling  canaries  are  not  rare,  and  that 
$1,200  is  much  too great  a  price.  He 
says  whistling  canaries  could  be  had 
from  $100  to  $150. 
In  order to teach 
canaries  to  whistle,  they  are 
taken 
from  the  nest  when  but  a  few  days  old 
and  placed 
in  a  cage,  near  which  a 
music  box  that  plays  hut  one  or  some­
times  two  tunes  is  kept constantly  in 
action.  The  authority  mentioned  also 
says  he  once  knew  of  a  canary  that 
could  whistle  My 
“ Country,  ’Tis  of 
Thee. ’ ’

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

string  of  large  beads.  These  beads  or 
tubers  are  two  or  four  inches  long  and 
about  as  large  as  one’s  finger.  The 
plant  is  boiled  or  fried  and  served  with 
meat. 
It  is  extremely  hardy  and  will 
grow  in  any  ground.

A  new  variety  of strawberry  was  also 
found. 
It  is  known  as  the  “ large 
fruited,  ever  bearing  strawberry."  Or­
dinary  berries  will  yield  only  a  few 
weeks,  while  the  new  variety  will  pro­
duce  for  months  from  the  same  stem.  A 
new  muskmelon  has  been  brought  from 
Smyrna,  which  is  said  to be  superior  in 
sweetness  and  flavor  to  anything  in  this 
country.

An  attempt  is  also to  be  made  to  in 
troduce  the  pistache  nut  into  general 
use. 
In  Italy  this  nut  is  more  popula 
than  the  walnut.  Several  superior  vari 
eties  of  asparagus,  lettuce  and  onions 
were  also  brought  back  from  Europe

V I N E G A R

L A W   P R O O F .

Use our goods and avoid prosecution by Food  Inspectors.

C I D E R

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

Chicago. 

Kansas  City. 

St.  Paul. 

So.  Haven,  Mich.

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

ONE

▼ e also  guarantee  it  to  be  of  full  strength  as  required  by  law.  We  wffl 
prosecute  any  person  found  using  our  packages  for  eider  or  vinegar  without  fa** 
removing all traces  of  our  brands therefrom.

«1. Ro b in s o n , Manager._______ Benton  Harbor,Michigan.

Awnings, Tents,  Finn

Order your Awnings before  it gets hot.

T E N T S   T O   R E N T

Stack  binder and thresher  cov­
ers,  horse  and  wagon  covers.
We  make  everything  made  of 
canvas.

T H E   M .  I.

W IL C O X   C O .

2 1 0   T O   2 1 6   W A T E R   S T E E T ,   T O L E D O .  O H IO

BOURS
COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

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Butter  and  Eggs

Observations  by  a  Gotham   Egg  H an

'  Talking  about  washed  eggs,  a  re 
ceiver told  me  a  tale  the  other day  that 
will  bear  repeating. 
It  is  in  confirma 
tion  of  what  I  have  always  claimed 
left  dry  and 
that  eggs  had  better  be 
dirty  than  washed,  when 
intended  for 
distant  shipment.  To  begin  at  the  be 
ginning,  I  saw  this  lot  of  eggs  in  the 
receiver’s  store  the  day  they  arrived 
was  perhaps  two  weeks  or  more  ago. 
The  consignment  contained firsts,dirties 
and  checks,  and  the  eggs  in  question 
constituted 
a  grade  by  themselves 
There  was  a  question  as  to  what  they 
were.  They  were  clean  and  handsome 
but  weak  before  the  candle,  and  there 
was  some  discussion  as  to  their  selling 
value.  Passing  the  store  one  day  last 
week  the  receiver  recalled  the  matter  to 
my  memory  and  told  me  his  experience 
with  the  eggs.  “ I  sold  them,”   he  said 
“ to  a  cheap  buyer  at  io^c  at  mark. 
Shortly  afterwards  he  came  back  and 
said  he  found  he  could  not  use  them  at 
a ll;  he  urged  me  to  take  them  back  and 
do  the  best  I  could  with  them  for  his 
account.  Well,  I  did  so  and  found  an 
other  buyer  at  lie,  the  market  for  under 
grade  eggs  having  improved  a little 
in 
the  meantime.  But  the  second  buye 
found  all  sorts  of  trouble with the goods 
every  man  he  sold  to  made a  great kick, 
many  of  the  eggs  were  returned,  and 
the  bulk  of  the  lot  finally  came  back  to 
me  for the  second  time.  They  had  gone 
rapidly  to  the  bad,  become  ‘ stinkers, 
and 
in  spite  of  their nice  looks  were 
finally  closed  out  at  $1.50  a  case.’ 
These  eggs  were  evidently  washed  and 
it  only  goes  to  show  how  keeping  qual 
ity  is  ruined  by  the  process.  Of  course 
egg  packers  who  have  a 
local  trade 
where  eggs  can  be  put  out  at  once  and 
very  promptly  consumed 
can-  wash 
dirties  to  advantage  to  the  extent  of 
such  outlets,  but  to  wash  them  for  dis 
is  foolish  if  not  dishon 
tant  shipment 
orable.
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The  circumstances 

leading  to  con­
tinued  very  free  storage  of  eggs  seem  to 
be  about  as  anticipated  when  the  Apri 
speculators  set  the  pace  so  high.  When 
everybody  was grabbing  for  April  eggs 
at  prices  equivalent  to  a  range  of  14^ 
15c  delivered  at  the  seaboard—general 
ly 
I4@i4^c—Western  egg  collectors 
were  very  free  sellers.  They  were  mak­
ing  pretty  good  profits  as  a  rule  and  let 
everything  go.  Few  of  them  had  any 
confidence 
in  storing  eggs  at  the  prices 
ruling  and  those  who 
loaded  up  with 
April  packings  were  chiefly  the  storage 
bouses  and  egg  jobbers  in  various  parts 
of  the  country.  But  this  demand  slack­
ened  after  April  and  the  lessened  outlet 
from  high  priced  buyers  served  to  re­
duce  first  cost  considerably  at  country 
points.  Then  Eastern  freight  rates  took 
a  tumble  and  between  the  lower  first 
cost  and  the  reduction  in  transportation 
charges,  storage  goods  could  be  put  in 
Eastern  houses  on  a  considerably 
lower 
basis  than  during  April.  The  May 
weather  was  bad  for  quality  only  for 
about  a  week;  as  a  rule  the  month  was 
cooler  than  usual  and  much  of  the  sup­
ply  was  very  good  for  storing.  The 
lower  cost  of  May  eggs  at  Eastern  stor­
age  points 
led  to  steady  large  inward 
movement,  in  which  Western  packers 
themselves  took  part  to a  very  consider­
able  extent.  Probably  the  actual  cost 
to May  storers  in  Eastern  houses  was 
fully  2c  per  dozen  less  than  the  prices 
paid  for the  April  accumulations,  con­

sidering  both  the  reduced  cost  of  the 
eggs  and  the  reduced  freight  rates.  And 
still  production  is  keeping  up  well  and 
accumulations  of  fine  eggs  have  been 
added  to  by  the  storage  of  cheap  stock 
obtained  already  in  considerable  quan 
tity  during  depressed  market  cond. 
tions.  There is  likely  to  be  further free 
storing  of  under  grades;  whenever  lines 
of  goods  can  be  bought at  i o @ i i c — even 
if  they  show  heat  pretty  badly—there 
are  likely  to  be 
speculative  buyers 
among  the  cheap  trade  and  as  the  sea 
son  advances  the  prediction  that  stor 
age  accumulations  would  not  reach  the 
maximum  until  early  fall  seems  more 
and  more  probable.— N.  Y.  Produce 
Review.

Bogus  Commission  M erchants.

There  are  plenty  of  these  the  year 
around,  but  they  usually  become  more 
numerous  and  more  active  in  the  fall, 
when  farmers  have  more  produce  to 
ship,  and  are  especially  active  in  seek 
‘ng  consignments  of  poultry.  Thei 
methods  of  securing  shipments  are  nu 
merous,  and  their  schemes  for  evading 
payment  for  goods  received  are  even 
more  numerous.  They  manage  to  se 
cure 
lists  of  names  of  shippers,  often 
by  sneaking  around  the  stores  of  rep 
utable  receivers  and  stealing  the  names 
from  their consignments.  They  secure 
ists  of  names  of  producers  in  certarii 
localities  by  cunningly  devised  adver 
tisements,  and  in  other  ways.  Then  the 
usual  way  is  to  send  out  a  letter  in  im 
tation  of  typewriting,  often  on  a  letter 
head  adorned  with  a  cut  of  an  immense 
building,  showing  the  place  of  busi 
ness.  This  letter sets  forth  the  peculiar 
advantages  enjoyed  by  the  writer for 
getting  higher  prices  for  consignments 
than  any  one  else 
in  the  trade,  and 
often  promises  absolutely  several  cents 
per  pound  more  than  the  ruling  market 
price.  This  one  thing  alone  is  enough 
to  stamp  any  such  promiser  as  a  fraud 
But  it  usually  brings  heavy  shipments 
It  may  be  that,  with  some  products,  and 
in  some  cases,  remittances  are  made 
for  first  shipments  at  promised  prices^ 
with  the  expectation  that  this will  bring 
other and  larger  shipments—and  it  usu 
ally  does.  But  sooner or  later,  there 
ii 
trouble.  In  some  cases  no  remittance  ii 
made,  and  a  visit  shows  that  the  bird 
has  flown.  Some  firms  or  individuals 
have  scooped  in  thousands  of  dollars  in 
this  way  in  a  few  weeks’  time,  and then 
perhaps  got  around  the  comer  and 
opened  up  under another name,  only  to 
go  through  the  same  game.  Or  the 
shipper  may  receive  word  that  the  mar 
ket  went  all  to  pieces,  and his  shipment 
had  to  be  sold  for  what  it  would  bring, 
often  not  enough  to  pay  freight.  Or  it 
rrived 
in  bad  order.  Or—dozens  of 
other  excuses.  These  frauds  are  famil­
iar  in  all 
large  markets.  A  remedy? 
Yes!  Don’t  ship  to  them.  They  can 
not  do  business  without  shippers.— 
Poultry  Monthly.

‘ There  are,”   says  The  Buffalo  E x­
press,  "some businesslike  young  women 
employed  as  demonstrators  at  the  food 
exhibits  on  the  Pan-American  grounds. 
One  of  them  dishes  out  apple  butter  (or 
some  such  dope)  on  a  cracker,  to whom­
soever  will  eat.  A  young  man  took  his 
dose  the  other day  and  then,  wishing  to 
be  jocular,  remarked  with  an  ingratiat­
ing  air: 
‘ That’s  good  apple  butter. 
Just  like  mother  used  to  make.’  The 
young  woman  struggled  with  her  desire 
to  be  polite  for  a  moment;  then  her 
business 
instinct  triumphed,  and  she 
replied: 
‘ Much  better.  Your  mother 
had  neither the  knowledge  nor the facil­
ities to  make sbch  apple  butter. ’  ’ '

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Write  us  for  prices  for

Butter 
and  Eggs

We  pay  prompt  cash.  Our 
is  worth  some­
guarantee 
thing.  We  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.

S u m m e r

R e s o r t s

G.  R.  &  I

“ The  Fishing Line”

The  Passenger  Department  of  the  Grand 
Baplds &  Indiana  Railway  has  issued  a  86- 
page  booklet,  entitled  “ Michigan  in  Sum­
m er.’ that contains 250 pictures  of resorts in 
Northern Michigan.  Interesting information 
is given about these popular resorts:
Petoskey 
Bay  View 
H arbor  Springs 
H arbor P oint 
W eqnetonsing 
Roaring  Brook 
Em m et Beach 
W alloon  Lake
It  contains a  list  of  hotels  and  boarding 
houses In Northern Michigan, with their rates 
by the day  and  week,  and  passenger  fares 
from the principal points In the Middle West.

Mackinac  Island 
Traverse  City 
Neahtaw anta 
Omena 
N orthport 
N orthport  P oint 
Edge wood 
and  other  points

This booklet w ill  be  sent  free

upon request  to  C .  L.  L o c k w o o d ,  General 
Passenger and Ticket Agent,  Grand  Rapids. 
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  St  Indiana  Railway

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

The Im perial Gas Lamp Co. 

132 and 134 Lake St. E„  Chicago

Butter  and  Eggs  Wanted

Write  for  Cash  Prices  to
R.  Hirt,  JrM

34  and  36  Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

References:  Lity Savings Bank and  Commercial Agencies.

W ANTED

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

G E O .  N .  H U FF  &   C O ..

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

Retting  &  Evans
Fruits,  Produce  and  Commission

Wholesale

Michigan  Berries  now 

in.  Wax  Beans,  Peas,  Cabbage,  Home 

Vegetables  of  All  Kinds.

33  O ttaw a  Street, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

F I E L D   S E E D S

All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds.  Field  Peas.

H U N G A R IA N   A N D   M IL L E T   S E E D S

MOSELEY  BROS.

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes

28, 90,92 Ottawa  street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

The New York Market

Special  F eatures of the Grocery and P rod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

is  mighty  slack. 

New  York,  June  15—There  is  some 
in  the 
speculative  business  going  on 
coffee  market  and  perhaps  this  sustains 
the  whole  situation,  for  prices are  fairly 
firm.  The  demand  for  actual  coffee, 
however, 
Importers 
and  roasters  seem  to  have  fairly  large 
stocks  on  band  and  for  the  time  being 
are  showing  no  interest  beyond  daily 
transactions.  At  the  close  Rio  No.  7 
is  worth  only  6c  in  an  invoice  way  and 
this  is 
In 
store  and  afloat  the  amount  aggregates 
1,220,653  bags.  The  receipts  at  Rio 
and  Santos  from  July  1  last  year  to  June 
12,  1901,  have  aggregated 
10,558,000 
bags—almost  2,000,000  more  than 
last 
year and  more  than  2,000,000  more  than 
two  years  ago.  There  is  a  fairly  active 
trade  in  the  mild  coffees  and  Good  Cu- 
cuta  is  firmly  held  at  8#c.

lower  than  for some  time. 

Notwithstanding  the  time  of  year, 
there  seems  to  be  no great  amount  of 
activity  in  sugar.  Of  course,  in  the  ag­
gregate  a  good  deal  of  sugar  is  moving, 
but  orders  for  large  lots  are  not frequent 
and  would-be  purchasers  seem  to  think 
that  the 
less  they  carry  the  better off 
they  will  be.  Arbuckles  seem  to  be  the 
busier  of  the  two  big  concerns,  if  one 
may  judge  from  the  fact  of  their  being 
five  days  behind  in  deliveries.

Teas  are  dull  and  easy  for greens; 
Indifference 
easy  and  dull  for  blacks. 
all  around 
is  the  wiy  one  man  reports 
the  situation.  Prices  are  steady,  how­
ever,  and 
it  is  difficult  to  find  sellers 
who  are  willing  to  make  any  conces­
sions.  They  seem  confident  as  to the 
future.

Canned  Goods—Business 

In  the  better grades  of  rice  there  is  a 
fair  trade  going  on,  but,  as  a  rule,  the 
same  old  story  is  told  of  quietude.  Or­
ders  are  for  small  quantities  and  the 
is  that  prices 
only  redeeming  feature 
little 
are  firm.  Exporters  are  doing 
and  seem  to be  content  with  that.
is 
fairly 
good,  although  with  the  supply  of  fresh 
Fruits  now  on  hand  there  is,  of  course, 
less  call  for  the  canned  article.  From 
all  parts  of  the  country  come  reports  of 
active  canneries  and  the  chances  seem 
to  be  favorable  for a  good  big  pack  of 
everything  under  the  sun.  Apples  in 
New  York  State  are  pretty  sure  to  be 
short  crop  and,  so  far  as  Baldwins  are 
concerned,  the  output  will  be  very  light 
indeed.  Prices  are  about  as  last  noted. 
Best  brands  of  tomatoes,  75@77J4c.

There  has  been  some  call for currants, 
but,  aside  from  this,  the  dried  fruit 
market  lacks  animation. 
They  are 
worth,  in  barrels  from  9@9>£c;  cases, 
9j£@ioj£c.  Prunes  seem  to  be  doing  a 
little  better,  but  there  is  room  for  im­
provement.  Peaches  are  quiet;  Califor­
nia  unpeeled  bags,  5^@ ioj£c;  peeled, 
i i @ i 8c.

is 

Holders  of  spices are  not  making  any 
great  effort  to  dispose  of  stocks,  but,  as 
the  situation  now  stands,  it  is  a  good 
time  to  buy.  The  demand 
light, 
however,  and,  while  matters  might  be 
worse,  they will probably  have  that  tired 
feeling  until  cooler  weather.

There  is  no  demand  for  any  grade  of 
molasses—good,  better  or  best.  The 
weather  is  not  adapted  to  the  use of this 
article  just  at  present  and  neither buyer 
interested  in 
nor  seller  is  apparently 
the  molasses 
situation. 
Syrups  are 
quiet,  as  buyers  and  sellers  “ can  not 
agree. ’ ’

Best  Western 

creamery  butter 

is 
marked  up  a  peg  this  week  and  closes 
fairly  firm  at  19KC;  firsts,  i8j£@i9c; 
I7@ i 8c ;  imitation  creamery, 
seconds, 
I4#@ i7c;  factory,  I3@i4^c— latter  for 
fancy;  renovated,  i6@i7c.

For  the  best  full  cream  cheese  9c  is 
is  the  top,  however,  and

paid.  This 

With 

some  very  good  stock  has  moved  for 
less;  colored,  8^@8^c.  Above  are 
for  large  sizes,  which  seem  to  be  the 
only  kind  taken,  and  the  result  is  an 
accumulation  of  small  sizes.  The  sup­
ply  of  white  cheese  is  not  excessive;  in 
fact,  is  rather  limited.

lighter  arrivals  and  a  reduction 
of  previous  accumulations  the  egg  mar­
ket  is  in  a  fairly  satisfactory  condition. 
Quotations  are  about  13c  for  Michigan, 
Indiana  and  Northern  Ohio  stock  of 
regular  packing.  The  general  run  of 
stock  is  about  12c  for  Western.

little  better 

feeling  in 
beans,  with  prices  practically  without 
change  from 
last  week.  Choice  mar­
rows,  $2.50;  medium,  $2@2.o2^ ;  pea, 
$2.05.

Some  red  Alaska  salmon,  it  is  said, 
has  been  offered  for $1.27^  spot.  The 
general  rate  is  2^@5c  more.

The  acreage  of  tomatoes  in  New  Jer­
sey  is  said  to  be  smaller  than  usual  and 
canners  are  offering  $6 a  ton.  A  tomato 
famine  is  not  anticipated.

Lemons  at  the 

yesterday 
showed  a  tendency  to  higher  rates  and 
an  advance  of  about  25c  was  made.

auction 

There 

is  a 

A  woman  would  never be  successful 
in  running  for  an  office;  she  would 
have  to  stop  too  often  to  see  if  her  hat 
was  on  straight.

For a number of years we have  shipped  fruit 
to  grocerymen  on  orders  by  mail  and  it  has 
proved satisfactory to the buyer  and  to  myself. 
The fruit is raised on the  high  ground  just out­
side the  city  limits.  I  have  a  large  and  con­
venient packing house and good  shipping  facili­
ties, long distance  telephone  and  mall  delivery 
at 8:30 o'clock every week day morning by  rural 
route  No.  4.  My  orders  are  always  shipped 
complete  in the afternoon of  the  day  received, 
which will forward  the  fruit  twenty-four  hours 
quicker than if  bought on  the  city  market  the 
next morning.  I can  give  prompt  service  and 
good  stock  put  in  full  sized  packages.  I  can 
furnish of  my  own  raising  strawberries,  rasp­
berries. gooseberries, currants,  cherries,  plums 
and red, white and blue grapes—by the thousand 
baskets, ton or car load.  Peaches  and  pears  I 
can obtain of nearby neighbors.
Give me a trial or standing order and  we  will 
try to please you.
Give plain shipping directions.
No fruit shipped on commission.
WM.  K.  MUNSON,

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P ro p rieto r Vine  Croft,

G rand  Kapids,  Mich.

Grand  Rapids 
Cold  Storage  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Citizens Phone a600.

We  do  a  general  storage,  and  solicit 

your patronage.

Season  Rate on Eggs to Jan. 1, 1901:
400 case lots, per doz.........................ljic
600 case lots, per doz.........................lMc
1000 case lots  and  over,  special  rate  on 

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Thos  D. Bradfield, Sec.

For  a  Quick  Sale  and  Money 
Promptly  ship  us  your

Butter,  Eggs,  Poultry

and  all  Farm  Products.  We 
are in a  position  to  take  care 
of  your  goods  on  arrival  and 
get you top prices.

M a r k   Y o u r  Sh ip m e n t s

BUSH  &  WAITE

Commission Merchants,  353  Russell Street 

References, Home Savings Bank, Com’l Agencies

Detroit,  Mich.

J.  B.  HAM M ER  dt CO.

W H O LE S A LE

F R U IT   A N D   P R O D U C E   D E A L E R S

Specialties:  Potatoes,  Apples,  Onions,  Cabbage,

Melons, Oranges in car lots  Write or wire for prices.

119  E .  F R O N T   S T . ,  

C I N C I N N A T I .  O H IO

You  can  pay  more  but 
can  not find  better

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The  best  and  only  th e
best  are  sold  by us

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

ALFRED  J.  BROWN  SEED  CO.

Seed Growers and flerchants 

Grand  Rapids, flichigan

ALL  GROCERS

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.

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

long-keeping 

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY,

♦   14  OTTAWA  STREET, 
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OR AND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Established 1876

Charles

Richardson

Commission  Merchant

|  Wholesale 
5   Fruits

Carlots  a  Specialty

58-60  W .  Market  St.  and 

121-123  Michigan  St. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

References—City  National  Hank,  agZ 
Manfrs. & Traders  Bank,  Buffalo,  N.  mCj 
responsible  Commercial  Mu 
Y.  Any 
Agency,  or  make  enquiry  at  your  WCZ 
nearest bankers. 
Mg
Long  Dlst. ’Phone  158  A,  158  D  £

Highest  Market  Prices Paid  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98  South  Division  Street, 

Orand  Rapids,  Mich.

We are making a specialty at present on fancy

Messina  Lemons

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

wire for quotations.

E.  E.  HEWITT,
Successor  to  C.  N.  Rupp  *   Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Orand  Rapids,  Mich.

L. O.SNEDECOR  Egg  Receiver

........  •  = RE1'ERENCK»—MRW  YORK  NATIONAL  KXCBANGK  RANK-  NEW  TORN 

■

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York

Start  in  with  us  now.
You  will  find a friend you can stick to 
during  hot  weather.

All sales case count.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

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The  Meat Market
Consumes a Ton  of Frogs’  Legs  Dally* 

From the New York Sun.

One  ton  of  frogs’  legs  a  day!  That 
is  the  size  of  the  June  supply  for  New 
York  City.  As  the  season 
lasts  from 
April 
i  to  October  i,  the  frog  eaters 
ought  to  be  able  to  jump  well  enough  to 
liven  things  up  when  the  melancholy 
autumn  days  set  in.

Frogs’ 

legs  come  to  town  in  various 
ways.  Some  of  them  arrive  attached  to 
the  frogs  to  which  they  belong.  Other 
come  independently;  simple  frogs’  legs 
unadorned.  They  do  not  even  have  any 
skin  to  conceal  the  pale  beauty of  their 
complexion.  The  only  unnecessary  or­
naments  they  wear are  two  rather splay 
feet  and  half  a  spinal  column,  which 
same  nest  of  bones,  by  the  way,  is  a 
monument  to  the  thrift  of  the  canny 
Canadian.

But  let  us  begin  with  Master  Froggie 
while  he 
is  still  on  his  native  swamp. 
He’s  not  a  particular  beast  when  it 
comes  to  a  place  to  live.  Almost  any 
old  mud  hole  will  do  for a  frog.  Lati­
tude  is  nothing  to  hjm,  and  he  does 
not  care  a  croak  about  questions  of 
longitude  either.  East,  West,  North  or 
South,  he  flourishes  everywhere.

little 

Fulton  Market 

Froggie  does  not  care where  he  comes 
from,  but  the  persons  who  eat  his  legs 
do.  At  any  rate,  they  would  if  they 
knew  anything  about  it.  Early  in  the 
spring  the  supply  comes from the South ; 
a 
later  the  Jersey  home  product 
comes  in ;  then  the  Canadians  and  the 
Northern  New  Yorkers  get  to  work. 
They  are  last of  all,  but  also  best  of  all.
is  the  place  to go  if 
one  wants  to study the  fascinating  sub­
ject  of  frogs’ 
legs— in  the  uncooked 
state,  of  course.  There  are  several  men 
there  who know  a  little  about  frogs  and 
a  great  deal  about  their  legs—the  frogs’ 
legs.  Two of these  men  backed  each 
other  up  in  the  following  statements: 
“ Canadian  frogs  are  the  best.  Frogs 
from  the  South  come  early  in  the  sea­
It  is  like 
son,  but  the  meat  is  too  soft. 
everything  else  from  the  South,  it  is 
hard  to  keep.  The  Southerners  are  lazy, 
too,  or  not  up  to  date.  They  ship  the 
whole  frog  instead  of  just  the  hind legs, 
the  only  part  worth  anything.

“ Lots  of  these  frogs  come  from  the 
lower  Chesapeake  and  around  Balti­
more.  They  are  packed  in  grass  and 
shipped 
in  crates.  A  good  many  die 
on  the  way  and  anyhow  they  might  just 
as  well  be  killed  when  they  are  caught 
so  that  only  the  legs  need  be  shipped.

“ The  French-Canadians,  who  corral 
most  of  the  frogs  which  come  to  us from 
Canada, 
are  more  accommodating. 
They  ship  only  the  legs  as  you  see them 
here.  But  they  are  too  hasty  them­
selves.  They  pack  the  legs  too soon 
after killing  the  frog  and  while  the flesh 
is  still  warm.  That  causes  it  to  spoil, 
and  we  lose  a  good  deal  that  way.  They 
ought  to  let  it  cool  naturally  before  they 
begin  packing.

“ But  why  do they  leave  this  piece  of 
the  back  sticking  onto the  legs? 
It  is 
quite  ornamental,  but  does  not  look  as 
if  it  would  be  good  picking  for a  hun­
gry  man.

They 

“ Good  picking?  You  could  not  get 
enough  meat  off  that  piece  of  back  to 
All  a  hole  in  a  baby’s  tooth. 
It  is  pure 
leave 
waste. 
it  bn  to  make 
weight.  Frogs’ 
legs  are  bought  and 
sold  by  the  pound  and  that  spinal  sam­
ple  makes  a  good  deal  of  difference 
when  you  have  several  hundred  dozen 
pairs  of 
legs.  Sometimes  they  put  in 
whole  frogs;  that  is  both  pairs  of  legs 
and  the  back;  that’s  all  there  is  to  a 
frog  and  there’s  nothing  but  bones  to 
the  back  and  the  front  pair  of  legs. 
There  are  tricks  even  in  the  frog  leg 
trade.”

Most  of  the  frogs  from  this part  of  the

country  are  natives  of Jersey,  but  they 
are  a  picayune  product  of  the  effete 
E ast;  mere  babies  alongside  of  the 
whoppers  sent  in  from  the  West.  The 
legs  that  come  from  the  Missouri 
frogs 
look  like  chicken  drumsticks.  Some  of 
the  frogs  from  the  banks  of  the  Big 
Muddy  weigh  two  pounds  and  half  of 
that  goes  to  a  pair of  hind  legs,  which 
would  make  a  pretty  fair  meal  for a 
man  with  not  too  hearty  an  appetite.

But  the  Missouri  frogs  are  true  sons 
of  the  West;  hardy  products  of  the 
wild,  free  life  of the  frontier. 
In  other 
words  they  are  as  tough  as  a  bronco,  or 
a  cowboy,  or  certain luck,  or anything 
else  of  a  purely  Western  breed.

But  for  all these frogs’ legs,  attenuated 
ones  from  Hackensack, 
lazy 
ones  from  Dixie,  brawny  busters  from 
out  West,  and  fine-fettled  ones  from 
along  the  St.  Lawrence,  there  is  a  de­
mand  which 
jumps  at  the  supply  as  a 
frog  himself  would  jump  at  a  fly.

flabby, 

Look  at  that,”   said  one  dealer, 
picking  up  a  pair  of  legs  on  each  of 
which  was  just  about  one  mouthful  of 
the  mouth  wasn't  too  big.
meat— if 
They  send  us  those  because  they know 
we’ll  take  all  we  can  get  and  still  want 
more.  The  demand  is  always  ahead  of 
the  supply. ”

Anybody  who  was  ever  a  small  boy 
knows  that  there  are  several  ways  of 
catching  a  frog.  Probably  a  good  many 
of  those  sent  here  are  netted.  A  few 
are  shot,  but  that 
is  a  rank  waste  of 
material,  as  all  small  boys  know.  A 
piece  of  red  flannel,  a  common  fish­
hook,  an  old  pole,  a  club,  a  tin  p a il- 
why,  if a  Jefferson  county  boy  can’t  glut 
the^  home  market  with  that  outfit  he 
isn't  worth  bis  salt.

“ Frogs’ 

legs?”   said  a  man  who  was 
once  a  Jefferson  county  boy. 
“ I’ve 
caught  thousands  of  frogs.  Just  tied  a 
piece  of  red  flannel  on  a  hook  and 
dangled  it  in  among  the  lily  pads. 
In 
a  minute  I’d  see  a  big  fellow  coming 
| out  of  the  shadows to investigate  and  all 
his  friends  and  neighbors  were  right 
behind  him  just  waiting  to  be  caught.
. Oh,  it  was  too  easy! 
I  had  another  boy 
in  the  boat  to  hit  ’em  on  the  head  with 
a  club  and  then  we’d  skin  ’em  and  toss 
the  hind quarters  into  the  pail.  They’d 
kick  an und 
in  there  sometimes  for an 
hour or  more.
I’ve  known 
’em  to  hop  out  of  the  boat  after  they’d 
had  their  heads  clubbed.  They  never 
intelligent 
hopped 
animal,  a  frog. 
I  used  to  catch  ’em 
and  keep  ’em  in  a  tub  of  water.  Then 
I'd  catch  a  bumblebee  by  the wings and 
throw  him  down  hard  onto  the  water 
and  while  he  was  buzzing  around  try- 
ing  to  get  off,  the  frog  would  jump  for 
him  and  get  him.

“ It’s  hard  to  kill  a  frog. 

though.  Very 

in, 

“ But  the  bumblebee  had  his  revenge 
all  ready  and  you  couldn’t  count  one- 
two  before  a  look  of  pained  surprise 
would  come  into  that  frog’s  eyes.  The 
bumblebee  had  stung  him.  With  that 
rare  intelligence,  however,  for which  1 
give  the  species  credit,  the  frog  would 
then  take  his  fore  foot,  reach  down  and 
pull the  bumblebee  out.  That  is  a  fact.
“ They  work those  forefeet  very  clev­
erly,  anyway.  When  hooked,  a  frog 
will  often  take  hold  of  the  fisbline  and 
try  to  get  the  hook  out.  Failing  that, 
he  will  hold  the  line  so  as  to  ease  up 
on  the  hook.  As  for  what  they  eat,  I 
once  found  a  big  frog  which  had choked 
to  death  on  a  swallow. 
I  suppose  the 
bird  had  come  down  to  the  river  bank 
to  get  mud  for  his  nest.  At  any  rate, 
there  it  was,  with  its  tail  sticking  out 
of  the  frog's  mouth. 
I've  caught  frogs 
that  had  eaten  little  catfish  about  four 
inches  long.

“ I’ve  gone  home  with  a  two-quart 
pail full of  frogs’  legs  as  the  result  of  an 
afternoon's  work.  The  trouble  then  was 
to  dispose  of  them.  Ship  them?  We 
never  thought  of  that. 
1  don’t  believe 
there  was  much  of  a  market  anywhere

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then.  Nobody  would  buy  them  there  in 
the  village  except  an  old  Frenchman 
who  ran  a 
little  hotel  and  he  gave  us 
only  io cents  a  dozen  for them.  Ah,  but 
when  the  circus  came  around  then  we 
were  in  clover.  They  were  the  old  over­
land  circuses  and  they  seemed  to  ap­
preciate  the  sterling  qualities  of  Indian 
River  frogs’  legs,  for they  paid  us  25 
cents  a  dozen  for them.”

Frogs’ 

legs  don’t  sell  by  the  dozen 
nowadays ;  at  least,  not in the  New  York 
market.  Only  the  best  hotels  and  res­
taurants  buy  them,  but  one  of the 
larg­
est  of  these  establishments  will  order 
fifty  pounds  at  a  time.  At this  season 
the  average 
is  about  four  pairs  of  legs 
to  the  pound.  But  the  extremes  are  the 
little  Jersey  frogs,  which  run  about 
twenty  pairs  to  the  pound,  and  the  big 
Missourians  at  a  pound  a  pair.

The  Fulton  Market  dealers  also  keep 
some  live  frogs  in  stock  to  supply  spe­
cial  orders.

It’s  a  mistake,  though, 

“ We  occasionally  have  a  customer 
who  wants  live  frogs,  or  wants  them 
killed  and  skinned  while  he  waits,  so 
we  have  a  small  supply  on hand  for that 
purpose. 
to 
cook  frogs’  legs  too  fresh.  They’re  not 
like  fish,  that  should  be  lifted  from  the 
water  to  the  coals,  if  possible.  Here’s 
our  live  stock,”   showing  a  tank  con­
taining  thirty  or  more  frogs,  half  of 
them  camped  on  a  shingle  which  was 
floating  around.  They  were  of  all  sizes 
and  shades.

“ There’s  a  good  deal  of  difference 
between  them 
in  color  and  markings, 
but  they  may  all  come  from  the  same 
locality,”   said  the  dealer. 
“ It’s  hard 
to  tell  by  looking  at  him  where  a  frog 
comes  from.  The  difference  is  more  in 
quality  of  the  meat.”

“ Are  frogs  like  chickens?  More  ten­

der  in  the  spring?”

“ No.  They  seem  to  be  just  about  the 
same  all  through the season.  Six  months 
of  jumping  on  and  off  a  bank  doesn't 
seem  to  toughen  them  up  any.”
“ Are  there  frog  farms  where  they  are 

raised  for the  market?”
“ I  don’t  know.  I’ve  heard  that  there 
are,but I don’t  know.  A  few  years  ago  I 
read  of  a  young  woman  who  had  fenced 
in  a  Jersey  swamp  with  wire  netting 
and  was  going  to  make  her  everlasting 
fortune  in  frogs.  She  had  practiced 
with  a  revolver  and  would  stand  on  the 
edge  of  her  farm  and  shoot  frogs  as 
fast  as  she  could  load  and  fire.  But  I 
guess  some  people  think  a  frog  is  a  fish 
when  it  comes  to  stories.”

“ People  seem  to  be  getting  over their 
objection  to  frogs’ 
legs  because  they 
didn't  think  a  frog  was  an  appetizing 
animal,  don’t  they?”

“ Judging  by  the  demand  for  frogs' 
legs  they  do.  Folks  will  eat  most every­
thing  nowadays.  They’re  beginning  to 
eat  snails,  but  we  have  to  import  those.

Over  here  there  is  nothing  but  the  little 
snail 
like  a  periwinkle.  Crabs  are  the 
great  thing  just  now.  Soft  shell,  of 
course.  There  must  be  at  least  7,000 
dozen  of  them  eaten  every  day.”

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“ Wouldn’t  a  boneless  shad  be 
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“ I  suppose  so,  but  there  is  no  such 
thing.'  At  any  rate,I’ve  never  seen  one, 
and  I’ve  seen  a  few  fish  in  my  day.”

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Girl.

in  New  York 

One  of  the  most  interesting  person­
ages 
is  the  studio  girl. 
You  do  not  hear  much  about  her,  and 
her  name  does  not  figure  in  the  columns 
of  the  society  journals,  but,  neverthe­
less,  she 
in  great  numbers, 
and,  in  a  way,  has  established  a  quiet, 
demure,  perfectly  proper feminine Latin 
Quartier that  is  as  peculiar to New York 
as  the  naughty  quarter  is  to  Paris.

is  present 

The  studio  girl  is  the  true  cosmopoli­
tan.  She  comes  from  everywhere— from 
seedy 
little  Southern  towns  and  the 
prairies  of  the  Far West  and  little  New 
England  farmhouses,  and  she  is  study­
ing  everything  under the  sun.  Some­
times  it 
is  art,  sometimes  music,  or  it 
may  be  acting  or  singing  or  physical 
culture  or  dancing  or dressmaking  or 
millinery;  but  it 
is  always  something 
by  which  she  hopes  to  not  only  make  a 
living,  but,  perhaps,  earn  fame and  for­
tune,  since  nowadays  the  extra  com­
petent  and  progressive  woman  worker 
has  not  only  a  chance  to  earn  her  bread 
and  butter,  but  Bar  le  Due  preserves  to 
go  on  it.

and 

“ Is  New  York  really  the  center of 
culture 
on  every 
point?”   I  asked  one  of  the  students.
“ Do  you  find  the  advantages  here  so 
much  better than  in  other cities?”

information 

“ Not  at  all,”   she  replied ;  “ we mere­
ly  come  to  get  the  trade  mark 
‘ Studied 
in  New  York’  branded  on  us.  It  is  like 
the  flim-flam  waving  of  hands  with 
which  conjurors  do  their tricks.  The 
public  would  not  believe 
in  us  if  we 
did  not  do  it.  The  superior  prestige  of 
having  studied  in  New  York  or  Europe 
is  worth  just  so  much  cold  cash  in  your 
salary.’ ’

When  a  girl  comes  on  to  study  any­
thing  she  begins by going to  a boarding­
if  anything  on  earth  can 
house,  and 
reconcile  one  to  the  shortness  of  life 
it 
is  a  New  York  boarding-house.  She  is 
given  a  dark  and  dingy  cubby-hole  of  a 
room,  reeking  with  a  smell  of  perennial 
boiled  beef  and  cabbage,  which  floats 
up  through  the  register,  and  with  an 
adamantine  bed  and  prehistoric  chair 
that  make  a 
lump  come  in  her  throat 
every  time  she  thinks  of  home  and 
mother.  After  a  few  weeks  of  this  she 
meets  up  with  one  or two  other  home­
sick  girls  similarly  located,and they  de­
cide  to  club  together and  start  to  house­
keeping.

This 

name 

fascinating 

is  easily  done  in  New  York. 
There  are  innumerable  buildings,  con­
sisting  of  small  flats, furnished  or  partly 
furnished,  that  are  dignified  with  the 
entrancingly 
of 
“ studios,”   and  which  may  be  bad  fora 
moderate  rental,  as  rents  go  in  New 
York.  Here  the  girls  install themselves 
with  a  small  gas  stove,  and  with  the  aid 
of  the  delicatessen  shop  around  the  cor­
ner,  where  they  may  buy  all  sorts  of 
cooked  food,  even  to  so  little  as  one 
slice  of  roast  fowl,  they  enjoy  all  the 
comforts  of  a  home  at  less  price  than 
even  the  most  second-rate  of  boarding­
houses.

Of  course,  their  housekeeping  is  full 
of  makeshifts  that  would  probably cause 
their  orderly  and  particular  mothers to 
faint  with  horror.  Every  inch  of  room 
is  at  a .premium  in  a  studio,  and  every 
article  of  furniture  is  made  to  do double 
duty.  The  Turkish  couches,  bereft  of 
their  spreads,  are  beds  at  night.  The 
fancy  cushions  have  their embroidered 
covers  whipped  off  and  cotton  ones  put

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on  and  become  merely  pillows.  A  cur­
tained  alcove  is  an  armoir  in  disguise, 
it  is  a  point  of  honor  not  to  try  to 
and 
penetrate 
into  the  secrets  that  a  screen 
may  conceal.  Generally  one  of  the  lit­
tle  household 
is  studying  music  and  a 
rented  piano  will  form  part  of  the  fur­
nishing,  and  another  will  be  attending 
the  art  classes,  so  that  the  rooms  will 
be  plastered  over  with  sketches  and 
studies.  There  are  sure  to  be  books 
and  the  pretty  things  girls  collect  with­
out  knowing  how,  and  the 
little  rooms 
will  be  filled  with  that  sense  of  comfort 
and  culture  that  the  art  student  calls  an 
“ atmosphere  of  home.”

Sometimes  the  girls  cook  their  own 
meals,  taking  turn  and  turn  about,  or 
they  may  prepare  only  breakfast  in  the 
studio  and  go  out  to  a  restaurant  for 
dinner;  but  in-any  event  they  are  sure 
to  be  hospitable,  and the  most  thorough­
ly  delightful  entertainment  I  have  en­
joyed 
in  many  a  day  was  a  dinner  I 
was  invited  to  in  one  of  these  little  es­
tablishments  recently.

In  this  particular  case  the  studio  is 
inhabited  by  three  young  women,  one 
of  whom  is  studying  physical  culture 
and  a  new  system  of  elocution and voice 
is  a  charming 
culture,  another  who 
musician,  and  the  third 
is  an  artist 
whose  friends  believe,  at  any  rate,  that 
she 
is  a  second  Rosa  Bonheur.  The 
studio  had  only  two  rooms,  a  big  par­
lor,  with  the  piano,  taking  up  all  one 
end,  and  with  the  walls  adorned  with 
hundreds  of  animal  sketches and studies 
in  various  poses  of  the 
friends  and 
guests  of  the  establishment.  Back  of 
this  apartment  was  a  room  with  a  big 
couch  on  either  side;  one  wall  was  al­
most  covered  by  portieres,  a  big  table 
piled  with  books  was  in  the  center,  and 
an  artistic  screen  was  set  across  the 
corner.

“ This  room 

looks  just  like  any  or­
dinary'  pretty sitting-room,  does it not?”  
enquired  one  of  my  hostesses.

I  assented.
“ Well,”   she  went  on,  “ in  reality 

it 
is  a  regular  architectural  Jekyll  and 
Hyde  affair.  Those  couches  are  our 
beds.  In  addition,they  are  box  couches, 
and  in  the  bottom  we  keep  our  clothes. 
That 
innocent  appearing  portiere  that 
looks  as  if  it  might  be  hanging  before 
into  another suite  of 
a  door  that 
led 
apartments,  really 
leads  only 
into  the 
bath  tub,  which  is  set  in  a 
little  angle 
of  the  wall. 
I  will  take  the  fancy  cover 
off  of  this  table  and  put  a  white  cloth 
on,  and,  behold,  from having  been a  sit­
ting-room,  and  a  dressing-room,  and  a 
bath-room,  the  apartment  becomes  a 
pretty  dining-room. 
I  will  .also  now 
fold  up  the  screen,  which  hides  the 
stove,  and  set  it  aside,  and  thus  add  the 
kitchen  annex.”

Then  we  all  got  dinner  together, 
thereby  forever  disproving  the old adage 
that  too  many  cooks  spoil  the  broth. 
The  artist  and  the  physical  culturist 
made  a  trip  down  to  the  delicatessen 
shop,coming  back  laden  with  packages. 
The  musician  composed  a  salad  that 
was  a  spring  poem 
in  itself,  and  I 
brewed  a  pot  of coffee,  and  what  a  feast 
we  had,  although  no  two  dishes  on  the 
table  were  alike  and  we  had  to serve 
the  olives  in  the  musician’s  silver  pin 
tray.

We  lingered,  and 

lingered  over  it, 
each  talking  shop.  There  were  funny 
little  tales  of  the  studio,  and  the  life 
class,  and  bits  of  anecdotes  about  the 
famous  people  each  had  met,  and  just 
to  show  what  a  new  theory  of  voice  cul­
ture  she  was  studying  would  do,  the 
girl  who  was  studying  elocution  got

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the  skill  to  carry  them  out.  Sickly 
women  will  be  beguiled 
into  health 
through  the  medium  of  up-to-date  phys 
ical  culture,  children  will  be  taught  the 
proper  way  to  breathe  and  speak,  and 
even  the  lost  art  of knowing  how  to  read 
will  be  revived  in  many  communities. 
There  will  be  more  pictures  and  better 
pictures,  and  a  higher  understanding 
good  music,  because  the  studio  girl 
elevating  and  setting  up  a  new  standard 
wherever she  is.

She 

is  among  the  brightest  and  the 
bravest  of  the  world’s  workers,  and 
here’s  to  the  studio  girl— God  bless  her 
— wherever she may go,  but whatever 1  _ 
may  bring  her,  I  doubt  there  will  ever 
be  anything  better than  the  memories of 
these  happy,  gay,  busy  days,  full  of  fun 
and  frolic  and  work  and  glorified  with 
the  long,  long  dreams  of  youth.

Dorothy  Dix.

stances  can  give  you  some  faint  idea  of 
what  the  text  was.

She  can  walk  half  the  night  with  a 
colicky  baby  in  her arms  without  once 
expressing  the  desire  of  murdering  the 
infant.

She  can— but  what’s  the  use?  A 
woman  can  do  anything  and everything 
and  do  it  well.

She  can  drive  a  man crazy  for  twenty- 
four  hours  and  then  bring  him  to  para­
dise  in  two  seconds  by  simply  tickling 
him  under  the  chin,  and  there  does  not 
live  that  mortal  son  of  Adam’s  misery 
that  can  do  it.

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

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

F . H. W h it n e y, Secretary.
M . W .  O ’B r ie n , Treas.

E . J.  B ooth, A s s t   Sec’y. 

D ir e cto 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.  Murphy,  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 riggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbara,  James  D. 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  M ills, 
A lex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stlnchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palms,  W in. C.  Y aw key,  David  C.  W h it­
ney, Dr. J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

up  and  gave  a  wonderful  monologue 
where  she  ran  the  whole  scale,  from 
the  shrill  scream  of  a  scolding  fishwife 
to  the  deep,  guttural  of  an  old  beer 
drinking  German.  That  suggested 
recitation  with  music  and  the  musician 
went  over  to  the  piano and  the  elocu 
tionist  recited  “ They  Are  Hanging 
Danny  Deever  in  the  Morning”   to a 
low,  sobbing  accompaniment  of  the 
“ Dead  March  in Saul”  that was weirdly 
thrilling,  while  the  artist  got out  paper 
and  charcoal  and  caricatured  us  all

After  dinner  some of the  other girls in 
other  studios  dropped  in,  and  then  they 
told  me  about  a  queer kind  of  a  wom­
an’s  work  exchange  they  had  instituted 
among  themselves.

“ All  of  us  are  taking  special 

lessons 
that  are  terribly  expensive,”   said  the 
physical  culture  girl,  “ and  we  trade  off 
our  information  to  each  other.  Now. 
for  instance,  I  am  studying  a  new  kind 
of  facial  massage  that  any  woman  can 
give  herself  and  that  is  warranted  to 
remove  the  wrinkles  and  make  her 
perfect  Venus.  I  am  also studying fancy 
dancing,  as  I  propose  to  teach  that  in 
connection  with  my  other  work.  Millie 
here, 
is  studying  millinery  and  can 
make  you  a  genuine  imported  French 
hat  while  you  wait.  At  night  I  give 
Millie 
in  massage,  and  have 
taught  her  to  dance,  while  she  has  con 
structed  me  a  hat  in  which  I  expect  to 
paralyze  my  native  town  when  I  return 
home.  Sallie  has  exchanged  a  lot  of 
original  drawings  for a course of instruc 
tion 
in  manicuring,  and  Sarah  traded 
' off  a  costly  theory  in  harmony  for 
tucked  taffeta 
jacket  that  a  girl  who  is 
a  good  amateur  musician,  but  whose 
business  is dressmaking,  desired  to  pos 
sess. 
It  is  a  fair  exchange  of ideas  and 
information,  you  know,and I  think  there 
is  hardly one  of  us  who  has  not  picked 
up  something  besides  the  thing  she 
came  to  study. ’ ’

lessons 

The  studio  girl  seldom  has  much 
money.  Often  she 
is  paying  for he 
lessons  and  her  stay  in  New  York  with 
the  little  savings  she  accumulated  while 
teaching  the  district  school  or  clerking 
in a  store,  or else  the people at  home are 
making  sacrifices  to  send  her the  small 
monthly  remittance,  and  she  must  make 
it  go  as  far  as  she  can.  Still,  she  is  a 
practical  young  woman  and  she  knows 
that  the  culture  that  comes  from  seeing 
the  best  plays  and  hearing  the  best 
is  as  much  a  part  of  her  educa­
music 
tion  as  the 
for. 
Theater  and  opera  tickets  in  New  York 
are  cruelly  high,  if  one  sits  in  the  seats 
of the  mighty,  but  the  studio girl has no 
pride  of  place.  She  climbs  up  to the 
gallery,  and  from  that  vantage  ground 
she  listens,  with  her  soul  on  fire,  to  the 
great  music,  that  serves  only as  an  ac­
companiment  to  the  chatter of  society's 
voice  in  the  boxes  below  or  she  follows 
a  play  with  a  comprehension that misses 
no  shade  of  fine  meaning  or touch  of 
humor  or  pathos.  No  wonder that  New 
York  actors  are  accused  of  playing  to 
the  galleries!

lessons  she 

came 

The  studio  girl  is  beginning  to  pack 
up  and  go  back  home  now,  and  it  is 
like  the.  going  of  a  little  army  of  mis­
sionaries,  who  are  destined  to  spread 
sweetness  and  light,  higher culture,  and 
a  better  way  of  doing  things  all  over 
the  country.  Next  fall  the  women  in 
some  little  Oklahoma  village  are  going 
to  have  their  frocks  better made  by  a 
dressmaker  who  has 
learned  honest 
craftsmanship  and  who  will  not  give 
bad  work  for good  money.  City  women 
will  arise  and  bless  the  name  of  a  mil­
liner who  has  inspirations  in  hats  and

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A  man  can  take  his  life  in  his  hand 
and  go  boldly  into the  trackless  prairie 
to  meet  a  herd  of  savage  buffaloes  or he 
can  traverse  the  horrors  of  an  African 
jungle  without  a  shudder  in  his  body , 
but  he  can  not  enter  a  fancy  wool  shop 
to  match  a  special  hue  without  break­
ing 
into  a  violent  perspiration  and 
finally  rushing  away  without  fulfilling 
his  task.

A  man  can  suffer  amputation  of 
¡mb 
in  heroic  silence,  but  he  can  not 
endure  a  mustard  plaster  on  his  chest 
without  shrieking  aloud  for mercy.

A  man  can  bear  the  deprivation  of 
his  health  with  the  calmness  of  a  stoic, 
but  he  can  not  lose  his  collar  stud  on 
the  bedroom  floor  without  a  violent 
outburst  of  temper.

A  man  can  endure  the  pangs  of  hun 
island  with  a  brave 
ger  on  a  desert 
spirit,  but  he  can  not  eat  his  bride’i 
first  pudding  without  a  smothered  ejac 
ulation.

A  man  can  smile  grimly  under the 
tortures  of  the  rack,  but he can  not  tread 
on  a  tin  tack  with  his  bare  feet  without 

bitter howl.
A  man  can  walk  forty  miles  a  day 
nd  arrive  fresh  and  bright  at  the  end 
of  his  journey,  but  he  can  not  nurse  a 
baby  half  an  hour  without  complaining 
that  he  is  utterly  worn  out.

A  man  can  calculate  to the  uttermost 
farthing  the  cost  of  the  Suez  canal,  but 
he  can  not  estimate  the  price  of  a  wom­
an’s  bonnet  without  egregious  errors.

A  man  can  possess  the  physical 
strength  of  a  Samson,  but  he  can  not 
help  take  down  the  pictures  for the  an­
nual  spring  cleaning  without  feeling 
completely  exhausted  with  his  labors.

A  man  can  beard  the  savage  tiger  in 
his  lair  without a  quiver of  his  muscles, 
but  he  can  not  bring  an  unexpected 
friend  to  dinner  on  a  wash  day  without 
trembling  in  every  limb.

She  can  come  to  a  conclusion  without 
it, 

the  slightest  trouble  of  reasoning  on 
and  no  sane  man  can  do  that.

Six  of  them  can  talk  at  once  and  get 
along  first  rate,  and  no two  men  can  do 
that.

She  can  safely  stick  fifty  pins into  her 
dress  while  he  is  getting  one  under  his 
thumb  nail.
She  is  as  cool  as  a  cucumber  in  half 
dozen  tight  dresses  and  skirts,  while 
man  will  sweat  and  fume  and  growl 

in  one  loose  shirt.

She  can  talk  as  sweet  as  peaches  and 
cream  to  the  woman  she  hates,  while 
two  men  would  be  punching  each 
other’s  head  before  they  had  exchanged 
ten  words.
She  can  throw  a  stone  with  a  curve 
that  would  be  a  fortune  to  a  base  ball 
pitcher.

She  can  say  “ no”   in  such  a low voice 

that  it  means  “ yes.”

She  can  dance  all  night  in  a  pair  of 
shoes  two  sizes  too  small  for  her and 
enjoy  every  minute of the  time.

She  can  appreciate  a  kiss  from  her 
the 

husband  seventy-five  years  after 
marriage  ceremony  is  performed.

She  can  go  to  church  and  afterwards 
tell  you  what  every  woman  in  the  con­
gregation  had  on,  and  in  some  rare  in ­

Jersey Cheese

Michigan  Full  Cream

Tickles the palate and  gives  gentle 

nature  a  boost.

One of our specialties.

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

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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

Benton  Harbor,  Michigan 

At.  A.  PRICE  &   CO.,  Proprietors

Oh!  where  have  I  seen  that  face  before? 
In  Nearly  All  the  Leading  Stores.

A  Trade  Maker

Fanny  Davenport

5c Cigar

Trade  Supplied  By:

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

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Hardware

W indow  Display  A dapted  to  the  H ard­

w are  Business.

Almost  any  kind  of advertising  effort 
will  show  results.  Window  advertising 
is  the 
least  expensive,  and  the  results 
are  most  immediate.  Two  per  cent,  of 
gross  sales  would  be  a  conservative  es­
timate  for  newspaper  and  circular ad 
vertising ;  which  means $500  yearly  on 
a  $25,000  business.  The window  adver­
tising  will  cost  practically  nothing,  as 
at  least  cost  can  be  realized  out  of  any 
of  the  goods  which  might  become  shop­
worn,  and  no  goods  at  all  should  be 
damaged 
if  windows  are  properly  se­
cured  against  flies  and  the  trimming 
changed  every  week.

Newspaper,  circular and  window  ad­
vertising  should  be  worked  in  conjunc­
tion.  The  combined  result 
is  best. 
We  are  unconsciously  directed  by  im­
pressions.  The  saying  that  “ We  are 
creatures  of  habit,”   is  simply  in  line 
with  the  psychological  fact  that  impres­
sions  once  formed  in  our  minds are con­
stantly  recurring  when  anything kindred 
is  under  consideration.  What  we  wish 
to  do  is  to  place  psychological  sign-i 
boards of  our  business  in  the  minds  of 
the  public.  The  newspaper  may  make 
a  faint  impression,  and the  window  dis­
play  clinch  it,  or  vice  versa.  They  help 
each  other.

If  you  will  write  a  newspaper  adver­
tisement  each  week  and  trim  your  win­
dows  each  week,  and  never  fail,  doing 
the  one  will  make  the  other easier.  The 
advertisement  suggests the  window  trim 
and  the  window  trim  the  advertisement. 
This  may  be  hard  work  for the  first  six 
months,  but  it  will  gradually  become 
easier,  and  soon  your material  for  ad­
vertising,  both  newspaper and  window, 
will  exceed  your  space.  The  passing 
public  will  come  to  recognize  the  regu­
lar  changes  and  look  for them.

As  far as  possible  make  “ good  win­
dows.”   Freak  windows  may  be  all 
right  occasionally,  as  during  carnival  or 
fair time,  but  they  take  a  great  deal  of 
time,  destroy  goods  and  bring  no  im­
mediate  results.

Use  neat  display  cards.  They  help 
rivet  the 
impressions  you  are  striving 
to  make.  Do  not  put  prices  on  trade­
mark  goods,  or  standard  brands,  which 
are  carried  elsewhere 
in  your  city. 
Your  competitors  will  study  your  win­
dows,  and  if  your  prices  are  high  they 
will  use  them  against  yob.  If the  prices 
are  low,  they  may go  still lower,  and  the 
tendency  will  be  to  reduce  the  profits on 
good  staple 
lines  that  you  all  carry. 
Prices  are,  of  course,  always  attrac­
tive,  and  may  be  put  on  lines  of  which 
you  control  the  sale  or  on  any  line 
where  qualities  vary  and  the  make  is 
not  known.  Besides  prices,  display 
cards might  describe new goods  or  make 
pointed  suggestions. 
In  a  builders’ 
hardware  window  a  card  might  read, 
“ Let  us  figure  on  your  building  bill.”
As  to  the  windows  themselves  the 
window  seat  should  he  quite  deep,  and 
not  more  than  15  or  18  inches  high 
in­
side ;  the  glass  not  being  over  two  feet 
from  the  sidewalk.  The  entire  window 
should  be  enclosed  with  wire  cloth 
screens,  made  in  sections,  and  held 
in 
place  by  buttons,  one  section  being  a 
door  on 
loose  pin  hinges.  This  will 
keep 
in  summer,  and  pre­
vent  pilfering  of small articles.  Sections 
can  be  removed  at  any  time  to  admit 
articles  too  large  to  be  taken  through 
the  door. 
If  the  frames  are  made  light 
and  oil  finished,  they  will  obstruct  the

insects  out 

light  very  little,  are  easily  cleaned,  and 
will  serve  as  a  background  for the  trim­
m ing;  although  background  trimming 
shuts  off the  light,  and  the  effect  of  the 
window  from  the  customer  who  has  en­
tered  the  store.

in 

For 

sections, 

the  bottom  of  the  window  a 
frame,  made 
for  easy 
handling  raised  about  six  inches  at  the 
back  and  slanting  to the  front,  covered 
with  black  cloth,  is  very  serviceable 
in 
displaying  tools,builders’  hardware  and 
small  articles.

One  line  of  goods  at  a  time  in  a  Win­
dow  is  generally  better unless  the  win­
dows  are  very  large.  Large  quantities 
of  one  article  always  attract  attention. 
Few  people  would  notice  one  only  of  a 
common,  everyday  article 
like  a  ten- 
gallon  carrying  can  or  milk  cooler,  but 
a  window  full  of  either  of  them  in  a 
graduated  pile  extending  to the  ceiling 
would  cause  any  number  of  people  to 
stop.  My  neighbor,  the  grocer,  tells 
me that  when  be  puts  on  the  walk one or 
two  watermelons, very  few  ask  for them, 
but  when  he  stacks  up  half  a  carload, 
every  other  man  buys  one.  Thus  a 
great  many  attractive  window  displays 
can  be  made  by  using quantities of com­
mon  articles.

in  every  way. 

A  study  and  faithful  practice  of  win­
dow  trimming  will  lead  to  better  store 
service 
You  become 
more  critical  of  each  individual  line  as 
you  take 
it  up  for  display.  You  ask 
yourself  if  you  are  carrying  the  right 
quality,  in  proper quant  ty,  at  the  right 
price?  In  establishing  your  sign-boards 
in  the  public  mind  you  will  see  the 
more  clearly  how  necessary  also  is  in­
telligent,  courteous  and  prompt service. 
This  study  will  shake  you  out  of  the  rut 
in  which  you  may  be  working,  you  will  i 
read  the  trade  journals,  scan  them  more 
eagerly  for  ideas,  and  come  to  realize 
that  the  prosperous  merchant  has  no 
time  for  kicking  against  the  inevitable; 
that  the  retailer can  not  look  to  legisla­
tion  for  success,  and  if  he  is  making  a 
is  in  his  own 
failure,  the  cause  of  it 
methods.—W.  M.  Woodward 
in  Iron 
Age.

The  W oman  and  a  B it of H ud.

She  was  a  most  gorgeous  personage. 
She  rode  in  a  glittering  victoria  of  the 
latest  build,  the  chain  attached  to  the 
horses’  outfit  clanged  beautifully,  the 
coachman 
couldn’t  have  sat  up  any 
straigbter  without  having  a  disaster  to 
his  backbone,  and  not a  woman  she  met 
could  come  within  a  thousand  miles  of 
her  white  tulle  hat,  with  the  pink  roses 
under the  brim.

Her  gown  was  a  mass  of  delicate 
chiffon  frills  and 
lace.  Altogether  a 
large  pair  of  gold  bonbon  tongs  should 
have  gone  with  the  outfit  to  lift  her  out 
and  into the  carriage,  because  she  could 
not  have  been  touched  any  other  way 
without  spoiling  her appearance.

Considering  all  this,  she  might  have 
bestowed  a  sweet  and  gracious  smile  on 
lesser  atoms  of  humanity,  but  instead 
of  that  she  wore  her  haughtiest,  most 
disdainful  frown. 
It  evidently  came 
straight  from  Paris,  packed 
in  violet 
sachets,  it  was  so  perfect  in  its  way.

Women  wearing  their 

last  year’s 
frocks  simply  withered  up  under  it  and 
tried  to  hide  behind 
lamp-posts  and 
trees  until  she  got  by.  The  queen  of 
Sheba  could  not  have  appeared  more 
arrogant,more  imperious  and  disregard­
ful  of  the  rest  of  the  world.

Just  then  a  high  tandem  cart  spun  by 
her  carriage, 
leader  kicked  his 
heels  in  equine  playfulness and  a  large, 
landed 
fat,  whole-souled  chunk  of  mud 
squarely  on 
the  untouchable 
regal 
lady's  nose.

After  that  the  women 

in  the  last 
year’s  gowns  felt  lots  better and  more 
resigned.

the 

“Summer  Light”

Light  your  Hotels,  Cottages  and 
Camps with the

" IN U L IT E ”

Incandescent  Vapor  Gas  Lamps.  Superior  to 
electricity or carbon gas.  Cheaper than  coal  oil 
lamps.  No smoke, no odor,  no  wicks,  no  trou­
ble.  Absolutely  safe.  A  20th  century  revolu­
tion in the art of lighting.  Arc  Lamps,  750  can­
dle  power,  for  indoor  or  outdoor  use.  Table 
Lamps,  100  candle  power.  Chandeliers,  Pen­
dants. Street  Lamps, etc.  Average  cost  l  cent 
for  7  hours.  Nothing  like  them.  They  sell  at 
sight.  GOOD  AGENTS  WANTED.  Send  for 
catalogue and prices.

C H IC A G O   SOLAR  L IG H T   C O .. 

Chicago, 111.

Dept.  L. 

Weins’  Sanitary 
Dustless  Floor  Brush

A  floor  brush  that  will  lay  the  dust 
while you  sweep. 
It  is  made  with 
a  resevoir  in  the  brush  which  con­
tains  kerosene  oil;  the  oil  feeds  to 
one  row  of  special  fiber  which  ab­
sorbs  and  holds  it.  Kerosene  will 
improve  and  harden  a  floor  and 
will  clean  and  brighten  a  carpet. 
For  further  information  write  to 
the  manufacturers.

WIENS  BRUSH  CO.,  Milwaukee,  Wis.

FREIGHT TRACERS

One  copy  for  R.  R.  Co.,  one  for  your  customer,  one
for  yourself,  all  written  at  one  time— 50  c e n t s  p e r   bo ok
of  100  full  triplicate  leaves.

B A R L O W   B R O S .. 

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

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

Foster, Stevens &  Co.,

3 ** 33«  35»  37* 39  Louis St. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

10 &  12 Monroe St.

HOUSEHOLD
counter 
mar k t  t
C A N D Y  
P O S TA. l_
s c a l e s

Tradesman Company 

Grand  Rapids.

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SOME  IMPOSITIONS

W hich  M ast  Be  Endured  in  O rder to  Re­

tain   Trade.

The  sermon  this  week  is  going  to  be 
the  recital  of  an  incident  which  seems 
to  prove  that  a  man  who  refuses  to  be 
imposed  on  cannot  succeed  in  the  gro­
cery  business.  Now,  don’t  get  hot  and 
howl  and  hiss  until  you’ve  heard  what 
I  have  to  say.

in  the  grocery  business 

A  man  whom  I  have  known  for  years 
failed 
last 
month.  He  was  formerly  a high-salaried 
master  mechanic,  but  had  an  accident 
to one  of  his  hands  and  had  to  get  into 
other  fields.

This  man 

is  one  of  the  most  intelli­
gent  men  I  ever  met.  He  is,  without 
exception,  the  most  scrupulously 
just 
man  I  have  known.  He  insists  that  his 
fellow-creatures  render  to  him  his  due 
to  the 
last  fraction  of  a  grain  and  he 
renders their due  to them  with  the  same 
scrupulous  exactness.

I  knew  him  to go  three  squares  out  of 
his  way  one  night  to  pay  a  cent  to  a 
newsdealer  who  hadn’t  been  able  to 
make  the  right change  one  night  before.
Well,  tbis  man  cast  about  for  some 
business  to  go  into and  he  hit  upon  the 
grocery  business.  He figured  it  all  out, 
he  told  me,  reaching  at  last  the  conclu­
sion  that  a  man  that  dealt  in  the  neces­
sities  of  life  was  safer  than  the  one  who 
dealt  ?*i  the  luxuries.

So  he  became  a  grocer  and  stayed  a 
grocer  just  one  year.  Then  he  gave  up 
the  fight  and  is  now  doing  nothing.

This  man  told  me  only  the  other  day 
that  no  man  who 
insisted  on  being 
granted  the  same  rights  that  he  re­
spected 
in  others  could  succeed  in  the 
grocery  business.

“ The  grocer,”   he  said,  “ is  at  the 
mercy  of 
addle-pated  or  dishonest 
women  who  try  to  work  him  all  they 
can.  Every  day  they  make  unjust 
claims  upon  him,  and  if  he  refuses  to 
be  imposed  on,  they  leave  him  for some 
weaker  brother  who  does  not  refuse  to 
be 
in  and 
truckles  and 
allows  himself  to  be 
cheated  with  bis  eyes  wide  open,  he 
may  get along,  but I  would  rather starve 
than  be  a  creature like  that!”

imposed  on. 

If  he  gives 

“ Tut!  tut!  man,”   I  said,  “ you’re 
excited.  Cool  down  a  bit  and  explain 
yourself. ”

“ It’s  jus.  here,”   he  went  on,  “ as  you 
know,  I  have  never  believed  in  being 
trod  on. 
I  don’t  go about  with  a  chip 
on  my  shoulder,  but  1  do  insist  that  I 
get  what’s  coming  to  me,  and  I  always 
try to  give  other  men  what’s  coming  to 
them.  I  made  a  big  mistake  to go in the 
grocery  business  on  that  account,  for 
you  can’t  preserve  that  sort  of  indepen­
dence  there.”

I  said  nothing  and  in  a  minute  he 

went  on.

"One  of  the  best  customers  I  bad," 
he  continued,  “ was  a  Mrs.  Reynolds, 
wife  of  a  Congressman,  and  well-fixed. 
Her  bills  with  me  used  to  run  up  to 
$20  and  $25  every  week  and  she  was  a 
good  customer.  Because  she  was,  she 
thought  she  could 
I 
thought  she  couldn’t  and  we  had  a 
clash.  That  was  the  first  eye-opener  I 
had. ”

impose  on  me. 

“ How  did  she  impose  on  you?”   1 

asked.

“ She  never  imposed  on  me  at  all,”  
he  answered,  “ although  she  tried  hard 
enough.  For  instance,  one  evening  she 
sent  a  servant  for five  pounds  of  French 
chops. 
It  was  a  hot,  muggy  day,  and 
I’d  had  a  good  deal  of trouble  with  my 
meat,  although 
it  was  all  right  when  1 
I  cut  the  chops
sent those  chops  out. 

off  and  sent  them  down.  An  hour after, 
the  servant  came  back  with  ’em,  saying 
that  Mrs.  Richards  had  decided  to  have 
something  else  for supper  and  to  please 
take  them  back.  Well,  I  didn’t  have 
anybody  in  sight  to  buy  that  many 
chops,  and  I  knew  they  wouldn’t  keep 
very  well  anyhow,  so  I  explained 
it  to 
the  servant  and  told  her  I  couldn’t  take 
them  back. 
impudent  and 
finally  went  out  after  leaving  the  meat 
on  the  counter. 
I  sent  ’em  to  the  house 
again  with  a  note,  and  the  upshot  of  it 
was  that  the  next  day  Mrs.  Richards 
called  and  paid  her  bill  and  never 
bought  of  me  again.  I  couldn’t  explain 
it  to  her at  all. ”

She  got 

“ The  businesslike  way  to  have  done 
in  that  case,”   1  observed,  “ was  to 
have  remembered  that  the  woman  was 
a  good  customer  and  stood  the loss your­
self. ”

“ Yes,”   was  the  ex-grocer’s  reply.  “ 1 
agree  that  that  would  have  been  the 
usual  way,but  I’d  starve  to  death  before 
I’d  be  kicked  about  like  that.

“ And  every  day  I  had  things  of that 
sort,”   he  continued. 
“ Women  would 
find  out  that  they  didn't  want  a  roast 
after  they  had  ordered  it  and  to  throw 
it  on  my  hands  they  would  swear  it 
was  tainted. 
I  knew  it  wasn’t ;  so did 
they,  but  they  refused  to  pay  for  it. 
I 
told  two  parties  who  did  this  to  either 
pay  for  the  meat  or never come  in  my 
store  again.  They  stayed  away  after 
that.

“ Well,this  is  a  sample  of  the  imposi­
tions  that  I  had  to  contend  with  the 
whole  time  I  was  in  business.  I lost  one 
very  good  customer  by  refusing  to make 
an  unwarranted  deduction  in  her  bill. 
She  said  she  hadn’t  gotten  a  certain 
bag  of  flour. 
I  knew  she  had  received 
it, for  I  had  personally  put up  her order. 
It  was  on  the  slip,  too,  but  she  just  got 
it 
she 
wouldn’t  pay  for  it.  The  amount  was 
only  something  like  50 cents,  but  I  re­
fused  to  submit  and  told  the  lady  she 
would  have  to  pay.  She  refused  and 
took  her  trade  away.”

into  her  stubborn  bead  that 

“ How  much  stuff  did  that  woman 

buy  of  you  in  a  week?”   1  asked.

“ Oh,  I  suppose  about $18  or $20,”   he 

replied.

“ And  what  profit did you make on it?” 
“ Well,  she  bought  good  stuff,”   be  re­

plied;  “ Isu pp oseiop ercen t.n et.”  

“ In  other  words,”   I  said,  “ for  a  pal­
try  50  cents  you  sacrificed  a  weekly 
profit  of $1.80 to $2  the  year  around. ”

“ It  wasn’t  that,”   he  retorted,  “ it  was 

the  principle  of  the  thing.”

And  that  reply,  I  think,  sizes  up  the 
man’s undiplomatic temperament  pretty 
well.

Still,  there  is  an awful  lot  of  truckling 
in  every  grocery  store—even  the  big­
gest,  that  you’d  think  would  be  more 
independent.  For  instance,  I  sat  one 
day  beside  the  manager’s  desk  in  one 
of  the 
largest  retail  grocery  stores  in 
Philadelphia.  A  clerk  came  to  him 
with  an  empty  olive-oil  bottle.  A  cus­
tomer—a  woman—had  brought  it  back 
with  the  complaint  that  it  was  cracked 
when  she  got  it,  and  most  of  the  oil had 
been  spilled.  She  wanted  a  new  bottle.
The  clerk  and  the  manager  talked  the 
thing  over  while  I  sat there.  The clerk’s 
opinion  was  that  the  woman  was  slick 
and  had  only  lost  a  little  oil,  if  any. 
The  bottle,  he  said,  had  ashes  on 
it 
when  it  was  brought  in,  which 
looked 
as  if  it  bad  been  emptied  in  the  regular 
way  and  thrown  out.

The  first  question  the  manager  asked 
was,  “ Is  she  a  good  customer?”   The 
clerk  said  she  was.  After that the  man­
ager  enquired  very  little  into the  merits 
of  the  case—the  keynote  had been struck 
by  that  enquiry,  “ Is  she  a  good  cus­
tomer?"  The  complaint  was  allowed, 
and  the  woman  got  her extra  bottle  of 
oil—the  all-sufficient  reason  being  that 
“ she  was  a  good  customer.”

The  “ principle  of  the  thing”   usually 
walks  the  plank  wherp 
it’s  a  case  of 
holding  trade.  Is  absolute independence 
possible  in such  cases?—Stroller in  Gro­
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improvement. 
It  is  not  sufficient  to 
know  only  one’s  own  community.  The 
cities  and  towns  of  every  section  have 
their special  features.  In  the  East  there 
is  the  beauty  that  comes  with  age,  dig 
nity  and  steady  improvement. 
In  the 
West  there  are  unusually  liberal  laws 
for general  beautifying.  By  some means 
these  efforts  ought  to  be  understood.

large  enough. 

2.  To  encourage  the  organization  of 
improvement  societies  in  the  city,  hav 
ing  one  for  each  neighborhood  if  the 
city  be 
It  is  necessary 
that  some  one  take  the  initiative  and 
give  the  movement  the  benefit  of  well 
organized  beginnings. 
It  is  important, 
too,  that  there  be  a  body easily reached, 
to  which  definite  information  may  go 
until  the  improvement  society has found 
'ts  place.  What  more  natural  than  that 
representative  organizations of the  city’s 
'nterests  should  foster  a  definite  move­
ment  of  this  kind?

To assist by influence,  counsel and 
in  practical  organization  of  im­
funds 
provement 
societies  among  property 
holders.  A  society  of  this  kind  will  do 
better  if  given  sufficient  means  from 
the  beginning  to  follow  up  its  work  of 
encouragement,  prizes  for  good  work, 
examination  into conditions,  dissemina­
tion  of  information  and  the  score  or 
more  of  directions 
into  which  it  may 
extend  its  efforts.

4.  To  bring  proper  pressure  to  bear 
upon  factory  owners  to  assist 
in  the 
beautifying  of  their  neighborhoods,  thus 
emphasizing  the  attractiveness  to  the 
sturdy  laboring  classes  of the  city  itself. 
It  may  be  difficult  to  attain  this  direct­
ly,  either  by 
law  or  by  effort  of  com­
mercial  organizations,  but  neighbor­
hood  organizations—which  interest  em- 
ployer and  employe—will  often  attain

interest 

it.  There 
is  no  longer  any  reason  for 
the  existence  in  most  cities of  the  ugly, 
unsightly  and  disgraceful  appearance  of 
many  factories  and  their neighborhoods. 
Unite  the  people  of  the  neighborhood 
for  a  common  purpose, 
the 
factory  owner  at 
least  to  the  extent  of 
cleaning  and  beautifying  his  own prem­
ises,  and  the  results  are  soon  attained.
5.  Encourage  the  union  of  local  so­
cieties  with  other  societies  through  the 
league,  for  mutual  information  and  as­
sistance.  Nothing  will  bring  better  re­
turns  than  this  work  and  contributions 
for club  funds for the purpose.  The  diffi­
culty  in  the  past  has  been  the  isolation 
of  the  organizations  and  the  waste  of 
lack  of  knowledge  of 
energy  through 
what  others  attempted. 
is  the  aim 
of  the  National  League,  with  the  en­
couragement  of  commercial  organiza­
tions  and  local  societies,  to  unite  their  ‘ 
efforts  and  to  disseminate 

information.
With  such  a  union of  effort of  all  local 
bodies  organized  for  the  city’s  good, 
there  must  come  most  excellent  results, 
with 
city’s  good  name  greatly 
magnified.  Numerous  are  the  illustra­
tions  of  its  excellent  advantages,  prov­
ing  that  the  reasons  here  given  are  not 
theory  but  practice. 

E.  L.  Shuey.

the 

It 

A   L i t t le - K n o w n   P o s t a l  R u le .

law,  which 

'rom the Kansas City Journal.
D.  C.  Whitman  complained  to  the 
postoffice  authorities  that  his  mail  was 
delayed  by  reason  of  going  to^nother 
D.  C.  Whitman  in  the  city  and  he 
in­
voked  a  curious 
is  to  the 
effect  that  where  two  persons  of  the 
same  name  and  initials  reside  in  a  city 
the  n;ail  carriers  must  give  the  oldest 
resident  first  pick  of  the  mail. 
In  this 
"nstance  one  Mr.  Whitman  has  resided 
n  Kansas  City  fifteen  years,  but  the 
other  Mr.  Whitman  has  been  here  twice 
as  long  so  that  hereafter  he  will  get first 
call  on  the  correspondence.

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Village  Improvemen

The  day 

Influence  of Comm ercial  Bodies  on  Civic 

Im provem ent.
is  past  when  improvement 
of  home  surroundings  is  wholly  a matter 
of  private  choice;  when  only  an  oc 
casional  “ sweet  w ill"  decides  whether 
weeds  or  flowers  shall  grow  over the 
premises  and  sidewalks,  and  whether 
the  principal ornaments  of  the  rear  yard 
shall  be  tin  cans.

Neatly  kept  yards,  well 

trimmed 
sidewalks  and  clean  streets  are  now  re 
garded  as  high  evidence  of the  city 
prosperity  as  much  as 
large  factories 
and  are  one  of  its  best  means  of  attract 
ing  desirable  citizens.  The  city  must 
advertise  as  well  as  the  business  man 
to-day 
if  it  would  attract  capital,  good 
men  and  women  and  law-abiding  citi 
zens.

health  of  the  community.  With  good 
laws,  \\ell  enforced,  backed  by  the  in 
terest  of  active 
improvement  associa 
tions,  a  town  may  be  revolutionized  in 
a  short  time.  Without  the  active  assist 
ance  of  well-organized,  interested  citi 
zens,  it  is  difficult  to  accomplish  prope 
enforcement  of  even  good 
laws.  An 
improvement  association  is  an  excellent 
director of  public  opinion  and  educator 
of  personal  interests.

3.  To  make  reasonable  but  exact 
for  good  sidewalks,  roadways 

rules 
planting  of  trees,  etc.

4.  To  provide  for  parks.
5. 

In  short,  to  put  into  form  of ordi 
nances,  and  to  provide  for their enforce 
ment,  proper  laws  for municipal  care  of 
public  health  and  improvement  and  to 
enlist  members  of improvement  associa 
tions  or  similar  organizations  in  thei 
best  development.

It 

is 

important  that  the  work  be  in 
harmony,  remembering  that members  of 
other  societies  often  are  willing  to  give 
freely  of  their time  and  effort  to encour­
age  this  feature.

In  almost  every  city  the  boards  of 
trade,  the  commercial  clubs,  and  simi­
lar  organizations  are  the  representative 
organizations 
for  business  purposes. 
Their  object 
is  the  proper advertising 
of  the  city’s  interests.  No  better means 
can  be  used  to  accomplish  this  purpose 
than  that  suggested  by  the  encourage­
ment  of  the  organization  of  improve­
ment  associations  within  the  limits  of 
the  city.  This  is  as  legitimate  a  pur­
pose  as  any  scheme  for  public  welfare 
can  be. 
It  is,  therefore,  suggested  that 
members  of  this  organization  ought 

1.  To become familiar with  the  plans 
for home  and  neighborhood  beautifying 
of ■ other  cities  through  a  committee  on

Efforts  are  made  by  many  cities 

in 

labor 

is  essential 

draw  factories  and  business  enterprises 
to  settle  within  their  limits.  The  ad 
vantages  of  railroad  and  steamer  com 
munication,  the  nearness  of  markets  for 
raw  material,  the  excellence  of 
all  are  arguments  frequently  used  with 
manufacturers  and  investors  to  prove 
recent 
city’s  opportunities.  But 
days it  has  been  recognized  that  another 
element  must  be  named :  attractiveness 
of  the  home  life,  the  beauty  and  health 
fulness  of  the  city,  the  excellence  of  its 
schools—all  these  are  now  seen  to be  es 
sential  to  the  growing town. 
In  view  of 
this,  the 
improvement  and  beautifying 
of  the  city  streets,  parks,  boulevards 
and  even  of  its  yards and  houses,  be 
come  matters  not  simply  of  individual 
preference  but  of  public  concern.  The 
investment  in  attractiveness  is no longer 
municipal  extravagance  but  prudent  ex 
penditure— hence 
the  organization  of 
improvement  associations,  usually  com 
posed  of  the  people  of a  neighborhood 
or  in  smaller  cities  of an  entire  com 
munity,  has  come  to  be  a  recognized 
method  of  encouraging  an  esprit  de 
corps  which 
to  the  best 
growth.  Such  societies  have  as  thei 
purpose  not  only  the  beautifying  of  ex 
ternal  conditions  but  also  general 
im 
provement  and  instruction.  The  Neigh 
borhood  Improvement  Association 
ii 
not,  it  is  true,  a  recent  form  of  organi 
zation,  but  its  extension  and  importance 
are  more  fully  recognized  at  this  time.
The improvement association seeks the 
general  good  and  asks  assistance  from 
every  class  of  kindred  social,  educa­
tional  and  civic  organizations. 
In  the 
list  of the  possible  helpers  are  the  com­
mercial  and  municipal  bodies  of  many 
cities.  While  these  are  formed  volun­
tarily  or  by 
law  for  the  promotion-ol 
business  enterprises  or  for  legislation 
for  the  city’s  government  and the moral, 
physical  and  financial  safety  of  the  cor­
poration,  yet  the  application  of  these 
functions  is  wide  and  varied.  Local 
municipal  bodies—city,  town  and  vil­
lage  councils,  etc.—have  it  within  their 
power  very  materially  to  assist  these 
organizations  by  encouraging  and  pass­
ing  well-planned  ordinances  for  secur­
ing  the  general  purposes  for  which  they 
are  formed  so  far  as  they  pertain  to 
common  interests.

It 

is  within  the  power of these  civic 

bodies

1.  To  see  that  streets  and  alleys  are 

cleaned  and  kept  neat  and  attractive.

2.  To  provide  for  the  collection  of 

garbage,  ashes,  refuse,  etc.

Both  of  these  are  important  not  only 
for  the  sake  of  appearance,  but  more 
especially  for  the  sake  of  the  general

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J ohn w . Schbam, Detroit.

Doited CoooMtial Travelers tf Michino 

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Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edelman, Saginaw.

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Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

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A  New  Side  Line  for the  D rum m er 

Written for the Tradesman.

For a  number  of  years  the  America_ 
people  have  been  dissatisfied  with  the 
teaching  of  English  in  the  schools.  Be 
the  school  public  or  private  there  is  the 
same  complaint—the  English  taught 
a  disgrace  to  the  school  management 
and  the  public  who  support  and  tolerate 
the  instruction  or,  rather,  the  lack 
it.  From  six  years  old  until  eighteen 
the  children  are  under the  instruction 
of  teachers  acceptable  to  the 
school 
boards  and  the  city  or  county  examin 
ers,  and  yet,  when  the  pupils  pass  from 
the  schoolroom  to  active  life,  their  Eng 
is  reprehensible  from  every  point 
lish 
of  view.  The  sentence  is  long  and 
in 
it  fails  to  convey  the  in 
volved  and 
tended  idea. 
Its  words  are  pronounced 
without  regard  to  any  standard  author 
ity.  Spelling  ha,s  become  one  of  the 
lost  arts  and  from  Cape  Cod  to  the 
Golden  Gate  the  people  of  the  Ameri 
can  Nation  are  noted  for the .part  the 
nose  takes 
in  the  daily  expression  of 
ideas.  Take 
it  all  in  all,  the  English 
in  the  mouths  of  the  Ameri 
language 
is  degenerating  and  the  question 
cans 
is  asked  oftener  than 
it  is  answered 
“ What  is  to  be  done  about  it?”

“ Large  bodies  move  slowly”   and  the 

thus 

inaugurated  at 

largest  body  on  the  face  of  the  earth 
the  average  school  board.  Behind  that 
board  are  the  taxpayers  whom the  board 
members  faithfully  represent  and  it  is 
the  opinion  of  board  and  taxpayer  that 
the  last  high  school  graduate is the  most 
fitting  person  to  engage  as  teacher  in 
the  common  school  grades,  irrespective 
of  the  fact  that  often the poorest scholars 
of  the  graduating  class  are  the  most 
clamorous  for  positions.  The  unsound 
scholarship 
the 
teacher's  desk  accounts  alike  for  the 
poor  teaching  and  the  poor  instruction 
it  follows,  naturally,  that  at  poor 
and 
in  whatever  form  it  appears  is 
English 
the 
inevitable  result.  The  other  and 
usually  brighter  graduates  engage 
in 
other  and  more  remunerative  callings, 
the  young  men  especially  turning  their 
talents  towards  business  in  some  form. 
Bright-minded  and  eager  to  get  on,they 
readily  adapt  themselves  to  whatever  is 
required  of  them ;  and to-day there  is  no 
class  of  men  better trained,  mentally, 
morally  and  physically  for the  demands 
made  upon  them 
than  the  average 
graduate  of  high  school  and  college.

From  these  educated  young  men  the 
business  houses  choose  their  workmen— 
not  with  the  old-time  indifference,  but 
with  the 
idea  of selecting  a  man  who 
can  fitly  represent  them.  A  firm  to-day 
that  thinks  well  of  itself  engages  no 
traveling  man  who  looks,  dresses  and 
talks  like  a  guy  from  the  backwoods. 
Intelligence  and  culture  among  travel­
ing  men  are  now  at  a  premium—a 
change  due  to  the  fact  that  business 
houses  are  employing  only  such  men. 
True,  these  men  are  the  classmates  of 
the  undesirable  teacher so heartily com­

plained  of,  but  they  are  out in  the  world 
rubbing  against  men  with  wit  enough 
and  force  enough  in them to correct what 
they  find  amiss  in  manner  and  speech 
and  dress,  so  that  they  soon  are  able  to 
stand  unabashed 
in  the  presence  of  a 
king.

Now,  then,  public  opinion  to the  con 
trary,  this  army  of  trained  traveling 
men  are  the  country’s  real  schoolmas­
ters.  From  the  earliest  period  of  re­
corded  time  trade  has  been  the  world’s 
leading  civilizer,  and  the  Roman  drum 
mer  in  barbarian  Gaul  accomplished 
his  mission  as  a  civilizer sooner and 
more  effectively  than  Caesar  with  his 
much-vaunted 
legions,  although  civ­
ilization  with  the  trader  was  only  a  side 
line.  The  writer of  this  can  not  agree 
with  the  pessimist  that  the  modern  bar­
is  as  great  as  that  that  con­
barism 
fronted  the  Roman  general,  but 
it  is 
willing  to  submit  that  the  degenerate 
English  in  the  United  States  can  be  re­
stored  to 
its  pristine  purity  in  no  bet­
ter  way  than  by  calling  upon  the  Amer­
ican  drummer to  take  up  the  matter  as 
a  side 
line.  He  will  not,  indeed,  dis 
cuss  upon  his  rounds  the  parts  of  En 
glish  speech  and  syntax.  There  will 
be  no  talks  between  bargains  of  faulty 
constructions  and  the  advantage  of  a 
plain,  straightforward  letter  in  a  plain, 
easily-read  handwriting;  but 
it  is  his 
own  simple,  correct  language  that  will 
accomplish  the  purpose,  exactly  as  it  is 
his  necktie  and  the  cut  of  his  garments 
that  make  him  the  model  to  be  copied 
by  every  dealer  and  clerk  he  comes  in 
contact  with.  Of  his  qualifications  there 
can  be  no doubt.  Chance  has  brought 
letter  from  a  school 
teacher  and  another  from  a  traveling 
man.  The  drummer’s 
letter  is  better 
ten  to  one.  The  penmanship  is  neat 
and  attractive;  the  stationery  indicates 
the  gentleman.  The  mechanical  parts  of 
the  letter  are 
The  writer 
shows  his  knowledge  of punctuation and 
of  the  paragraph  and  the  composition 
would  make  the  writer of the  other  let­
ter  envious 
if  he  could  appreciate  its 
superiority  to  his  own—this  one  fact 
proving  what  this  article  insists  on,that 
the  American  drummer to-day  uses  bet­
ter  English  than  the  school teacher,  that 
is  doing  more  for the  purity  of  the 
language  than  the  school  teacher,  and 
that,  if  he  could  be  induced  to  “ take 
hold  of 
it  as  a  side  line,”   the  degen 
eration  would  cease,  the  slipshod  hab­
its  of  speech  would  disappear and  the 
American  people  as  a  whole  would  be 
quaffers,  as  their  fathers  were,  of  “ the 
pure  well  of  English  undefiled. ”

this  desk  a 

faultless. 

R.  M.  Streeter.

Second Game of Ball Between Bocal Nines. 
Grand  Rapids,  June  17—Two  picked 
nes  from  the  Grand  Rapids  traveling 
men  met  in  a  friendly  but  very  hotly- 
contested  game  on  the  grounds  at  the 
end  of  the  Division  street  car  line 
last 
Saturday  afternoon.  Captain  L.  F. 
Baker not  being  physically  able to play, 
account  of  rheumatism,  and  Captain 
H.  Simmons  being  unable  to  get 
home  from  his  work  on  the  road,  the 
two  teams  were  in  a  very  able  manner 
ptained  by  Messrs.  Bodwell  and  Bal­
lard.  Very  noticeable  improvement  in 
the  players  from  the  game  of  the  pre­
vious  week  was  discernible,  even  with 
the  naked  eye.  Bodwell’s  team  out 
played  Ballard’s  very  considerably,  but 
that  does  not  signify  that  ail  of  the  best 
timber  was  on  that  side,for at  times  the 
best  players  meet  with  disastrous  re­
sults.  Whitwam  proved  himself  a 
player  with  a  brilliant  future,  playing 
through  the  entire  game  without  a  sin- 
error.  D.  E.  Keyes, in  center field, 
covered  himself  all  over  with  honors. 
MacEachron,  on  second,  and Colleshaw, 
third,  both  played  good  ball.  Mar-

in 

lame  in  the  first  innings  and 
tin  went 
his  place  was  very  ably  filled  by  W.  B. 
Holden.  By  the  way,  Will sizes up  great 
in  his  base  bal1  toggery.  Rysdale  made 
a  catcher’s  record  and,  as  pitchers 
Brothers  Bodwell  and  Charley  Reynolds 
put  balls  through  that  were  very  hard  to 
find.  Ballard  did  excellent  work  catch­
ing  and  Snitzler again  proved  himself 
a  winner on  third,  catching  everything 
that  came  within  fifty  feet  of  him.  Bur­
leson  played  ball  at  this  game,  and 
Barker  officiated  as  the  umpire,  and 
everything  he  called  had  to  go,  as  he 
said  he  was  armed  for  protection  if  it 
were  necessary.  Watson, 
center 
field,  and  Sledright.on  left,  put  up  good 
work  for their team.  Van  had  his  smile 
with  him,  as  he  thinks  that  is  as  nec­
essary  in  playing  ball  as  in  selling  sta 
tionery. ^  Harper, 
and 
Brown,  in  their  respective  places,  all 
did  good  work.  Another game  will  be 
played  next  Saturday  at  the same  place, 
and  it  is  hoped  all  the  players  will  re­
port  not  later than  2 :3o.  A  much  larger 
audience  was  present  than  last  Satur­
day  and  the  increase  of  ladies  was  very 
pleasing,  and  we  hope  more  will  come 
next  Saturday,  which  will  be  the  last 
practice  game  prior to  the  big  game  at 
Reed’s  Lake  on Saturday,  June 29,  when 
the  annual 
take 
place.  A.  T.  Driggs  again  had  to  do 
something  for the  boys  and  brought  out 
with  him  line  markers  for  the  bases. 
Thanks,  Brother  Driggs.  They  were 
appreciated.

family  picnic  will 

Stephenson 

The  following  is  the  score :

1 Bodwell’s Team
I W. Harper, s s
BodweU, 1 b & p
MacEachron, 2 b
Colleshaw, 3 b
Rysdale, c
Stephenson, r f
Watson, c f
R- Harper, p &  1 b
Sledrlght, 1 f
Totals,

Ia b R j  H  I  O 1 A 1  E
2  J  2 1  0 !  XT
I  7
1  «1 2 ! 2 !  6 1  0 1
1 0
1  5 I 2 1 2 1  2 j  X!  ° 1
1  4 I 3 1 3 1  2 1  2 1  2
1  6 I 4 1  4 |X5 1  2 1  0
1  6  1 2 1  * 1  0 1
1  0T 9
1  4 I 3 1  1 1 0 1  0 1 9
1  6 I 2 1 3 1 4 1  6 1 2
1  4 I X1 3 1 0 1 0 1 9
1  47  121 121 ! 27 1 "
4
Ballard’s Team |a  b | R l H 1 0 I a 1 E
Ballard, c
1 6 I X 1  2 1 9 1 2 1 9
Snltsler, 3 b
1 5 1 I 1 0 1 2
• 1 3
Reynolds, p
• 1 X1 3 1 0 1 6
2
Burleson, 1 f
1 5 I 0 1  9 1  c 1
1 0
Brown, s s
Í 3 ! 2 1  2 1 2
I
Whitwam, 2 b
!  *1 2
5
A. Harper, X b
’ 1 2 X 9
Martin, r f
1  I 0
0
Holden, r f
3 I 0
0
4  1 0
39  I 9

13
Innings.................   1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9
Bodwell’s .............   1 0 2 2 5 2 4 4   1—21
Ballard’s...............   2 0 0 4 0 0 0 3 0 —9
Earned  runs—Bodwell’s,  7.  Two  base  hits—R. 
Harper.  Three base  hits—W.  Harper.  Double 
play—Whitwam and A.  Harper.  Stolen  bases— 
MacEachron,  Stephenson,  Watson,  R.  Harper, 
Ballard,  Whitwam,  Keyes.  Struck  out—by  R. 
Harper, 9;  by BodweU, 6;  by A. Harper. 7.  Left 
on  bases—Bodwell’s,  8;  Ballard’s,  3.  Base  on 
balls  by R. Harper, 1:  by A. Harper, 6.  Hit by 
pitched  ball—Bodwell,  MacEachron,  Ballard. 
Passed  balls—Rysdale,  4;  Ballard,  4.  Time 
2:15.  Umpire—i l  F. Baker.

Keyes, c f

4
0
0
0
0

Totals,

8 »

0
»
1

0
7

0
0

°
X

0

2

2

X

_ 

JaDee

J.  Geo.  Heinzelman  (Rindge,  Kalm- 
bach,  Logie  &  Co.)  is  moving  his  fam­
ily  to  his  cottage  at  Ottawa  Beach  this 
week,  where  they  will  remain  during 
the  season.

The  man  who  looks  continuously  past 
his  work  to  his  pay  misses  the  largest 
part  of  his  compensation.  Work  well 
done  brings  a  satisfaction  more  solid 
than  that  of the  dollar earned.

The  Grain  M arket.

Owing  to  the  action  of  the  Chicago 
Board  of  Trade  “ farmers”   in  selling 
scenery,  wheat  has  been  crowded  down 
for  future  deliveries  fully  3c  per  bushel 
during  the  week,  while  cash  wheat  re­
mains  at  a  premium.  As  harvest  is 
fully  ten  days  to  two  weeks  late,  no  new 
wheat  will  be  in  condition  to  use  until 
the  fore  part  of  August  and  the  millers 
will  have  to  scramble  for  wheat  until 
then.  The  growing  crop  around  here 
is  about  of an  average,  but  the  acreage 
is 
less  than  usual,  while  in  the  South­
ern  tiers  of  counties  the  report  is  very 
discouraging 
in  regard  to  yield,  as 
many  fields  are  being  plowed  up  and 
the  ground  prepared  to  plant  beans. 
One  dealer  at  Charlotte  claims  that  he 
has  sold  a  carload  of  beans  to  be 
planted  on  ground  originally  sown  with 
wheat.  The  Northwest,  on  the  other 
hand,  gives  a  glowing  account  of  a 
promising  harvest.  Our  exports  keep 
up  well,  as  we  have  exported  since  the 
first  of  July  last  204,000,000  bushels,  or 
about  13,000,000  more  than  at  the  cor­
responding  time 
last  year.  However, 
all  of  our  surplus  will  be  wanted,  as 
Germany  and  France  will  need  to  im­
port  some  60,000,000  bushels  more  than 
they  did 
last  year,  and  at  present  it 
looks  as  though  this  amount  would  have 
to  be  furnished  by  the  United  States,  as 
other  export  countries  have  not  been 
blessed  with  the  large  harvest  that  we 
expect  to  be.

Corn  has  slumped,  all  caused  by  the 
growing  corn  weather,  as  the  plant  has 
made  good  progress  the  last  few  warm 
days.  Prices  are  somewhat  easier.

Oats  is  the  only  cereal  which  is  back­
ward  and  promises  a  small  crop,  which 
naturally  keeps  prices  up.

Rye  is  slow,  but,  owing  to  the  poor 
crop  in  Germany,  prices  are  sustained.
Beans  have  advanced  5c  a  bushel  and 

more  are  wanted.

No  change 

is  noted  in  flour or  mill 
stuff  and the demand  keeps  up.  Eastern 
dairies  are  calling  for  it.

Receipts  of  grain  have  been  rather 
follows: 
small,  except 
wheat,  56  cars;  corn,  4  cars;  oats,  6 
cars;  beans,  2  cars; 
flour,  2  cars; 
hay,  1  car;  potatoes,  1  car.

in  wheat,  as 

Millers  are  paying  69c  for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

A  Clayton  correspondent  writes:  A 
I traveling  man,  representing  a  Lansing 
I wholesale  house,  has  become  quite  fa­
mous 
in  his  town  as  a  fortune-teller, 
and  on  his  trip  here  is  visited  by  some 
of  the  young  society  belles,  who  are 
anxious  to  know  what  the  future  has 
in 
store  for them.

The  powers  are  prompt  enough  to get 
out  of  China,  now  that  there  is  a  pros­
pect  of  their  having  to  pay  their own 
freight.  One  of  the  chief  features  of 
our higher civilization  is  the  art of pull­
ing  in  expenses  when  we  are  unable  to 
live  longer  off  of  others.

Whiskey,  Morphine  and 

Tobacco  Habits

P o sitively  Cured

Full  particulars  and  prices  for  the asking. 

Patterson  Home  Sanitarium, 316  E.  Bridge St. 

Phone  1391 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central  location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A .  B .  GARDNER,  M anager.

M IC H IG A N   TRADESM AN

2 6

Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State Board o f Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1801 
L. E.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
Henry  Hu m , Saginaw 
•  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Deo. 31,1903
Wib t p.  doty, Detroit - 
A. C. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Deo. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mu ir, Grand Baplds 
Dec. 81,1906
President, A.  c.  Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hen ry  He im ,S aginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions.

Sault  Ste.  Marie, August 28 and 29. 
Lansing, Not. 6 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association. 

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

Some of the  Uses of Form aldehyde.
On  its  first  introduction  into the  Unit­
ed  States,  formaldehyde  was  reckless­
ly  recommended  as  a  harmless  preser­
vative  of  all  sorts  of  readily  decompos­
able  food  products.  Thorough 
inves­
tigation  and  careful  observation  since 
have  confined  it  within  certain 
limits 
as  to  the  strength  that  can  be  used  with 
perfect  impunity.  Used 
in  excess,  it 
impairs  digestion  and  may  have  a  de­
structive  action  on  the  mucous  lining 
of  the  digestive  tract;  but  when  used 
in  foods  and  medicines  only  in  the  pro­
portion  which  extensive  experience  has 
proved  sufficient  for  preservative  pur­
poses, the  writer  considers  it  as  entirely 
harmless,  and  this  opinion  is  shared  by 
a  host  of  competent  and  careful  observ­
ers.

The  experiments  here  to  be  reported 
relate  wholly  to  pharmaceutical 

on 
preparations.

The  official  waters,  even  when  dis­
tilled,  become  turbid  and  inhabited  by 
growths  of  some  sort,  which 
render 
them  unsightly.  The  official  syrup  of 
hypophosphites,  syrup  of  tar,  the  dis­
tilled  extract  of  witch-hazel,  the  solu­
tions  of  the  scale  salts  of  iron,  and  the 
haloid  salts  of  the  alkaloids,  kept  on 
hand  to  facilitate  rapid  dispensing, 
are  all  more  or  less  prone  to  become 
moldy  or  to change  in  some  way.  One 
half  of  i  per  cent,  of  the  solution  of 
formaldehyde  marketed  by  various  rep­
utable  manufacturers  has  been  found 
sufficient  to  act  as  a  perfect  preserva­
tive  of  all  the  fluids  mentioned;  and 
certainly  no  harm  can  result  from  using 
less  than  2%  minims  to  the  fluidounce 
of any  of them.

The  odor  of  formaldehyde 

is  sharp 
and  dominating. 
In  rose,  peppermint, 
anise,  and  spearmint  waters  it  is  not 
perceptible,  While  the  addition  of  the 
preservative  will  guard  them  against 
change 
in  the  dispensing  bottle  for as 
long  as  three  months.  The  50-per-cent, 
solution  of  magnesium  sulphate  is  very 
apt 
to  develop  a  copious,  stringy 
growth.  This  may  be  entirely  pre­
vented  by  adding 
per cent,  of  the 
formaldehyde  solution;  the  odor  of  the 
latter  will  be  scarcely  noticeable. 
In 
syrup  of  hypophosphites  the  spirit  of 
lemon  quite  disguises  the  presence  of 
the  formaldehyde,  and  the  syrup  pre­
served  with 
it  remains  perfectly  clear 
for  about  three  weeks.  As  a  matter  of 
experiment,  a  gallon  of  mucilage  of 
quince  seed  has  been  preserved  by 
means  of  formaldehyde  for nearly  seven 
months,  being  as  sweet  at  the  end  of 
this  time  as  when  made.  Mucilages, 
on  keeping,  as  a  rule,  become  thin,  but 
this  quince  mucilage,  at  the  present 
time  of writing,  is  still  unchanged 
in 
every  way.

Of  course,  the  consent  of  the  doctors 
to  the  addition  has  always  been  ob­
tained.  Formaldehyde  has  been  in  use 
for more  than a  year and  no  ill  effects

whatever  have  been  reported.  Powdered 
orris  root  is  readily  attacked  by  an 
in­
sect.  A  package of  it,  however,  being 
left 
in  the  paper  and  placed  in  a  tin 
box,  has  been  preserved  by  occasional­
ly  dropping  on  the  bottom  of  the  box  a 
dram  or  so  of  the  regularly  marketed 
solution  (about  40  percent,  strength).

From  his  experience  thus  far,  the 
writer  believes  formaldehyde  may  be 
safely  used  to  preserve  many  things 
from  change;  that 
it  should  not  be 
used 
in  more  than  the  proportion  of  1 
per  cent,  of  the  solution,  nor without 
the  knowledge 
and  consent  of  the 
physicians  concerned  in  the  use  of  the 
preparations  so  preserved.

Some  attention  should  be  given  also 
to  its  reducing  power.  While  it  reduces 
silver  nitrate,  and  would  under extra­
ordinary  conditions  of  exposure reduce 
many  other  substances,  in  the  diluted 
state  in  which  it  is  used,  it  appears  to 
its  odor  re­
effect  no  change.  That 
mains  unaltered  after  a 
long  time  is 
fair  although  not  scientific  evidence  of 
its  stability  in  the  presence of  reducible 
substances.

In  this  connection  the  writer  wishes 
to  add,  for the  benefit  of  those  who  use 
large  quantities  of  mucilage  of  acacia, 
that 
in  a  bottle  uncorked  the 
product  will  keep  for  months  without 
change. 

John  E.  Groff.

if  kept 

Ke Sure  and  Specify the  Brand.

The  retail  druggist  who  does  not 
“ specify  the  brand”   when  ordering 
drugs,  chemicals,  pharmaceuticals,  etc., 
but  leaves  the  .selection  of their  make 
and  character  to  his  wholesaler,  does 
not  do  his  full  duty  towards  himself 
and  his  customers.  Failure  to  specify, 
on  his  part,  is  virtually  to  give  the 
wholesaler  carte  blanche  in the  matter, 
and  the  latter  will  naturally  fill  the  or­
der  with  those  brands  upon  which  he 
realizes  the  greatest  profit;  nor  is  he  to 
be  blamed  for  so  doing. 
It  is  not  his 
business,  and  be  should  not  be  ex­
pected  to  look  out  for  the  interests  of  a 
customer too  careless,  or too indifferent, 
to  look  out  for them  himself.

It 

is  contrary  to  ail  experience  that 
one  and  the  same  man,  or  firm,  shouid 
attain  to  the  same  degree  of  excellence 
in  all  of  the  products  turned  out  by  him 
or them,  as every  druggist  would  realize 
on  a 
little  reflection.  He  knows,  for 
instance, 
that  one  concern  may  have 
achieved  a  deservedly  high  reputation 
for  its  chloroform  or  its  ether;  another 
for  its  chloral,  while  another  may  stand 
first  as  makers  of  the  alkaloids  of  cin­
chona,  and  others  still 
for  those  of 
opium.  And  so  we  might  go  down  the 
entire  list,  not  merely  of  chemicals,  but 
of  drugs and pharmaceuticals, and every­
thing,  in  fact,  that  enters  into  stocking 
a  drug  store.

The  druggist  who  desires  to  have  and 
to  keep  bis  stock  up  to  the  highest  at­
tainable  point  of  excellence  must  study 
the  claims  which  the  various  manufac­
turers  make  for  their  wares;  he  must 
call  his  own  experience,  and  that  of 
others,  into  play  and  decide  whether  or 
not  these  claims  are 
justified,  and, 
having  thus  determined  which  are  the 
best  and  most  desirable- for his  trade, 
let  him  specify  these  makes  and  brands 
in  his  orders,  and 
insist  on  having 
them.

It  is  not  enough  that  you  count  one  in 
the  world’s  population.  The  world 
does  not  greatly  need  a  larger  popula­
tion.  What  this  old  sphere  is  crying 
for  is  not  for  more  people  to  roost  on 
it,  but  for  more  people  to  boost  on  it.

The  D rug  M arket.

Opium— Is  reported  more  active  in 
the  primary  markets 
and  tending 
higher.  No  change  has  been  made 
here.

Morphine— Is  steady  at  unchanged 

prices.

Quinine—At 

the  Amsterdam  bark 
sale  last  Thursday  nearly  all  the  bark 
offered  was  sold  at  an  advance  of  5  per 
cent,  over  last  sales.  The  article  is 
therefore  very  firm  and  a  further ad­
vance  is  expected.

Cocaine— Is 

in  good  demand  at  firm 

prices.

Harlem  Oil—Will  be  lower  July  1,  on 
account  of  the  removal  of  the  revenue 
stamps.

Menthol— Is  weak  and  continues  to 

decline.

Naphthaline  Balls—As  the  season 

is 

about  over,  prices  have  declined.

Oil  Bergamot  and  Lemon—Both  have 

declined  5c  per  lb.

Oil  Cedar  Leaves— Is  very  scarce  and 
extreme  prices  are  asked  for  stocks  in 
band.

Oil  Pennyroyal— Is  very  firm  at  the 

advanced  price.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  scarce  and  ad­

Gum  Asafoetida— Is  easier  and  has 

vancing.

declined.

Buchu  Leaves—The  war  in  South  A f­
rica  has  interfered  with  the  gathering 
of  the  leaves,  stocks  are  small  and 
prices  rule  high.

Caraway  Seed—The  new  crop  is  re­

ported  large  and  prices  are  lower.

Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced  2c,  on 

account  cf  higher  prices  for seed.

Turpentine— Has  advanced.

Preservation of Chloroform.

Prof.  Ramsey  reports  an  examination 
of  a  number  of  samples  of  chloroform 
obtained  from  the  stock  of  hospitals 
where  deaths  had  occurred  during  its 
use,  and  found  carbonyl  chloride  pres­
ent 
in  all  cases.  He  was  inclined  to 
believe  that  this  chloride  caused  spas­
modic  contraction  of  the  glottis  after 
the 
lungs  had  become  thoroughly 
charged  with the  chloroform  vapor.

The  effects  of  freshly  purified  chlor­
oform  and  of  chloroform  taken  from 
ordinary  stock  were  contrasted,  the  re­
sults  being  much 
in  favor  of  the  fer- 
mer.  He  suggested  that  by  simply 
shaking 
the  chloroform  with  slaked 
lime  and-filtering  carbonyl 
chloride 
would  be  removed,  having  been  de­
composed 
into  carbonate  and  chloride 
of  calcium.

Dr.  David  Brown,  however,  shows 
the  fallacy  .of  this  treatment  and  says 
that distillation is  the  proper  procedure. 
We  must  not  lose  sight,  however,  of the 
statement  of  Ramsay  that  he  did  find 
decomposed  chloroform  in  the  stock  of 
certain  hospitals;  and  it  is  the  duty  of 
the  pharmacist  to  see  that  each  lot  of 
chloroform,  when  ready  to 
leave  bis 
hands, is of the  quality  demanded  by  the 
Pharmacopoeia.  There  can  be  no  rea­
sonable  doubt,  we  think,  that  chloro­
form is  a  highly  dangerous drug in itself 
—that  is to  say,  even  if of  absolute  pur­
ity,  it  will  still  often  act  in  what  we 
may  call  a  treacherous  manner;  but, 
of  course,  its  nature  will  not  be  im­
proved  by  the  presence  of  other  poison­
ous  agents.

Oxygenated  W ater in  Surgery.

Employed  to  prevent the  infection  of 
wounds,  this  agent  has  disadvantages, 
according  to  Camille  Moreau,  namely, 
explosiveness,  alteration  of  caoutchouc 
and  leather appliances,  provoking  pain 
in  the  wound,  and  inducing  secondary 
hemorrhage  by  destroying  catgut 
liga­
ture?  apd  dissolving  the  blood-clots,  ps.

Cured  by  Dr.  Rankin.

S.  Postm a,  242  H am ilton  St.

To Whom  It  May Concern:

This Is to certify that Dr. Rankin cured  me  of 
a had case  of  Catarrh,  which  had  attacked  my 
nose, throat, ears, bronchial tubes,  stomach  and 
bowels.  I  had  tried  many  physicians  without 
success before going to Dr.  Rankin.  I now  con­
sider myself cured. 

8.  POSTMA.

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

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WHOLESALE  DRUQ  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Linseed Oil, Turpentine.
Declined—Assafretida, Oil Bergamot, Oil Lemon, Menthol.

Acidum

Acetlcum  ............... $  6@$
Benzolcum, German.  70®
Boraci c ....................  
u
Carbollcum..............  30®
Cltricum...................  47®
Hydrochlor.............. 
3®
Nltrocum................. 
8®
Oxallcum.................  12®
Phosphorium,  dll...  @
Salicylicum.............  52®
Sulpnurlcum........... 
ill®
Tannlcum................  1  10®  1  20
Tartarlcum
40

4®
6®
is®
12®

Am m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............. 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas.................... 
Chlorldum.................. 
Aniline 
Black....................... 2 00® 2 26
80®  1  00
Brown......................
45®  50
Bed..........................
Yellow..................... 2 50® 3 00
Baccse
22®  24
Cubebae...........po, 25
6® 
8
Juníperas................
1  70@  1  75
Xantnoxylum.........

Bai sam um
Copaiba...................
Peru  .......................
Terabln,  Canada....
Tolutan....................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassiae.....................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Qulllala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus...po.  15, gr’d
E xtractnm
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra.
Glycyrrhlza,  po......
Haematox, 16 lb. box
Haematox, is ...........
Haematox, Ms.........
Haematox, Ms.........
F erro

Carbonate  Preclp... 
Citrate and  Quinla.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanldum Sol.. 
Solut. Chloride........ 
Sulphate,  comT......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........  
Sulphate,  pure........  

F lora

56®  60
®  1  85
65®  60
15®  GO

18
12
18
30
20
12
12
15
15

24®  25 
28®  30
11®  12
13®  14
14®  15
16®  17

II
2 21
71
41
ll
i
8<
\

Arnica..................... 
15® 
i<
Anthemis.................  22«  21
Matricaria...............  
30@  31

Folia
Barosma..................  45®  41
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tin-
uevelly................. 
20®  2t
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25®  3fl 
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and Ms................. 
12®  20
OvaUrsi................... 
8® 
10
Gummi
Acacia, ist picked... 
®  66
Acacia, 2d  picked...  @  46
Acacia,3d  picked...  @  36
@  28
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
Acacia, po................  46®  66
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20 
12®  14
Aloe, Cape__po. 16.  @  12
Aloe,  Socotrl.. po. 40  @  30
Ammoniac...............   55®  60
Assafoptlda__po. 40  40®  45
Benzolnum.............. 
60®  55
Catechu, is ..............  @  13
Catechu, V4s............   @  14
Catechu, Ms............   @  16
Campnorae..............  69®  73
Euphorbium... po. 35 
®  40
Galbanum................ 
®  1  00
Gamboge............ po  66®  70
Gualacum....... po. 25 
®  30
Kino...........po. 60.75  @  75
M astic....................   @  60
Myrrh.............po. 46  @ 4 0
Opli__po.  4.90®6.00  3 40®  3  50
Shellac....................  25®  35
Shellac, bleached—   40®  46
-  Tragacanth.............   60®  90

H erba

25
20
26
28
23
25
39
22
26

Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorium..oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum ....oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vur. .oz. pkg 
Bue.............. oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
rhymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, P at...........  56®  60
Carbonate, P at........ 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
'arbonate, Jennings  18®  20

Oleum

Absinthium.............  6  50® 7 00
Amygdalae, Dulc__   38®  65
Amygdalae, Amarse.  8 00® 8 26
Anisf.......................   l  85® 2 00
Aurantl Cortex........2  10® 2 20
Bergamll.................  2  65® 2 85
Cajlputt...................  80®  85
CaryophylU.............  
75®  80
Cedar......................  80®  1  10
Chenopadll.............. 
© 2 75
Clnnamonll  . . . . . . . . . 1  20® l 30
Cltranella................  36®  40

Conlum Mac............  go®  60
Copaiba...................  l  ig@  i  26
Cubebae...................  l  so®  1  60
Exechthltos............   l  oo®  l  10
Erlgeron.................  i  io@  l  20
Gaultheria..............  i  «5®  l  90
Geranium, ounce...' 
®  76
Gosslppll, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
Hedeoma.................  l 60®  l  75
Junlpera.................  l 60® 2 00
Lavendula.............. 
90® 2 oo
Llmonls...................  i  do®  l  io
Mentha Piper.........   l  60® 2 00
Mentha Verid.........   l  GO® 1  60
Morrhuae, £ al.........   l  io@  l  20
Myrcla....................  4 00® 4 60
76®  3 00
Olive....................... 
Picis Liquida........... 
10® 
12
®  36
Plcis Liquida,  gal... 
Klclna.....................   1 00® 1  06
Rosmarinl................ 
®  1 00
Bosse, ounce............   6 00® 6 60
Sucdnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90®  1 00
Santal......... ........... 2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  48®  53
Sinapls,  ess., ounce. 
®  66
Tiglll.......................  1  60®  1  60
Thyme.....................   40®  GO
Thyme, opt.............. 
®  1 60
Theobromas........... 
ig@  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
i6@ 
is
Bichromate............  
13® 
16
Bromide.................  62®  67
C arb.......................  
i2@ 
16
Chlorate... po. 17® 19 
16®  18
Cyanide...................  34® 38
Iodide.....................   2 30® 2  40
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
Potass Nttras, opt... 
7®
Potass  Nitras.........  
6®
Prusslate.................  23®
Sulphate po...... . 
16®
Radix

Aconltum.................  20®
Althae...................... 
30®
Anchusa................. 
io@
Arum  po.................   @
Calamus...................  20®
Gentlana........po. 15  —
12®
Glychrrhiza...pv.  15 
16®
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
___
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®
Inula,  po................. 
18®
Ipecac, po...............   3 60®
Iris plox.. .po. 35@38  36®
Jalapa. pr................  26®
Maranta,  14s ...........  @
Podophyllum,  po...  22®
Bhel.........................  76®  1  00
Bhei, cut.................  @ 1  26
76®  1  35
Bhel, pv..................  
Spigella..................    36®  38
Sanguinarla., .po.  15  @ 
1»
Serpentaria............   40®
Senega....................  60®
Smilax, officinalis H.  @
Smilax, M ..............  
<a
Sclllae........... po.  35
10®
Symplocarpus, Fretl-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
@15®
Valeriana,  German. 
___
Zingiber a ...............  
14®
Zingiber j .................  28®

Semen
Anisum.........po.  16 
@  12
Apium (graveleons).  13® 
15
Bird, is.................... 
4® 
6
12®  13
Canil............. po.  18 
Cardamon...............   1  26®  1  76
Coriandrum............. 
g® 
10
Cannabis Sativa......   4M®  6
Cydonium...............   78®  1  00
Chenopodium.........  
ie@ 
16
Diptera Odorate....  1  oo®  1  10
Foeniculum..............  @ 
10
Foenugreek, po........ 
7®
4®
L ini........... ............. 
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
4M®
Lobelia.................... 
36®
Pharlaris Canarian..  4M®
B apa.......................  4M®
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9®
Sinapls  Nigra.........  
11® 
Spiritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 GO 
Frumenti,  D. F. B..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................   1  28® 1  60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1  66® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........  1  76® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E  ...  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  76® 6 60
Vini Oporto............   1  28® 2 00
Vini Alba................   1  26® 2 00

12

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 2 76
.Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60® 2  76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  GO 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
@ 1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
©  75
Yellow  B e e f,  for
slate use...............
1 40
Syrups

Acacia....................   @
Aurantl Cortex........  @
Zingiber..................   @
Ipecac......................  @
Ferri Iod.................  @
Bhel Arom........... 
@
50®
Smilax  Officinalis... 
Senega....................  
®
Sell!»...  .................  
A

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Scillae  Co.................  @ 
Tolutan...................  
® 
Prunus  vlrg............   @ 
Tinctures
Aconitum Napelli8 B 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
Arnica....................  
A ssaf retida.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl 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  Chlorldum.... 
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
Gulaca............. 
Guiaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............  
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless......  
K ino..............  
Lobelia........... 
Myrrh............. 
Nux Vomica............  
Opli.................  
Opil, comphorated.. 
Opli, deodorized...... 
Quassia.......... 
Klmfamy.......... 
Bhel................ 
Sanguinaria............. 
Serpentaria............. 
Stromonium............. 
Tolutan..........  
Valerian........  
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber.......... 

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JEther, Spts.Nit.? F  30®  3C 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  31
Alumen  ...................  2)4® 
1
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Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
<1
Annatto...................   40®  5(
Antlmonl, po........... 
4® 
t
Antimon! et Potass T  40® 
sc
Antipyrin................  @  2S
Antlfebrin..............  @  2«
®  51
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
10® 
Arsenicum.............. 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth S. N...........  1  80®  1  86
9
Calcium Chlor., is...  @ 
Calcium Chlor., Ms..  @ 
10
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..  @ 
12
Cantharides, Bus.po  @ 
80
is
Capsid Fructus, a i..  @ 
Capsid  Fructus, po.  @ 1 5
Capsid Fructus B,po  @ 
15
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
50®  55
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
®  40
Coccus.................... 
Cassia Fructus........  @  35
Centrarla.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum................. 
®  45
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40@  1  65
Chondrus................  
20®  25
Clnchonidlne.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   6 65® 6 76
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct. 
70
Creosotum...............   @  35
Creta............ bbl. 75 
® 
2
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
Creta, precip........... 
9® 
11
Creta, Bubra...........  @  %
25@-  30
Crocus.................... 
Cudbear..................   @  24
Cupri Sulph............   6M@ 
8
Dextrine................. 
7®  10
Ether Sulph............  78®  92
Emery, alt numbers.  @ 
8
® 
Emery, po...............  
e
E rgota..........po. 90  86®  90
Flake  White........... 
12® 
15
Galla.......................  
®  23
8® 
Gambler................. 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
36®  60
Gelatin, French......  
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
ll®  13
Glue,  white............  
is®  25
Glycerina.................  17M®  25
Grana Paradisl........  @  25
Hum ulus.................  25®  66
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
® 1  00 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  90
Hydrarg Ox Bub’m.  @  1  10 
Hydrarg Ammonlati  @ 1  20 
HydrargU nguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum....:..  @  86 
Icnthyobolla,  Am...  65®  70
Indigo.................         75®  ltw
Iodine,  Besubi........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60®  3 85
Lupulln,
Lycopodium............
a d s ......................
Liquor Arsen et Hy-
drarg Iod..............
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manilla, 8. F ..„ ....

®
10®
2®
®
»®

80®

Menthol..................  
@ 425
Morphia, S., P.&W.  2 25® 2 so 
Morphia, S.,N. Y. Q.  2  is®  2 40 
Morphia, Mai........ 2  16© 2 40
Moschus  Canton__   @  40
Myristlca, No. 1......  
68©  80
Nux Vomica...po. 16  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................  
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................  @  1  00
Pids Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz....................... 
@200
Picis Llq.,quarts....  @  1  00
Picis Llq.,  pints......  @  86
PllHydrarg...po. 80  @  GO
Piper  Nigra...po. 22  @ 
18
Piper  Alba....po.36  @  30
Pilx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumb! Acet............ 
io@ 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opil  1  30®  1  60 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  75
Pyrethrum, pv........  26®  30
8® 
Quassias..................  
10
36®  46
Qulnla, S. P. &  W... 
36®  46
Quinta, S.  German.. 
Quinia, N. Y............ 
36®  46
Bubla Tlnctorum__ 
12® 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv 
18®  20
Salacln....................  4 50® 4 76
40®  60
Sanguis  Draconls... 
Sapo.W................... 
ia@ 
14
SapoM.................... 
io@ 
12
Sapo G....................  @ 
15

............   @ 

¿o@  22
Seldlitz Mixture...... 
Sinapls... 
is
Sinapls,  opt............  
®  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................  @  41
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s  @  41
9® 
Soda, Boras............. 
11
Soda,  Boras, po...... 
9® 
11
23®  25
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
im@ 
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash...............   3)4® 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @  2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
50®  56
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
@ 2 00
Spts. Vini Beet.  bbl.  @
Spts. Vini Beet. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vini Beet. lOgal  @
Spts. Vini Beet. 5 gal  @
Strychnia, Crvstal... 
80® 1 06
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2V4@ 
4
Sulphur, Boll...........  2M@ 3%
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth Venice...  28®  30
Theobromae.............   60®  66
Vanilla....................  9 oo@i6 00
Zinc! Sulph............. 
8

7® 

Oils

___ 
Whale, winter......... 
70 
eo 
Lard, extra.............. 
Lard, No. 1..............  45 

B B l, .  G A L .
70
70
50

2 7

Linseed, pure raw...  65 
Linseed, boiled.......   66 
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine..  41 

68
69
60
46
P aints  B B L .  L B .
Bed Venetian.........  
ix   2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  IX  2  04 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
IX  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2M 2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13® 
15
Vermilion, English..  70®  75
Green,  Paris........... 
14®  18
Green, Peninsular... 
ie
13® 
Lead, red................   6V&@  7
Lead,  white............   6M@  7
Whiting, white Span  @  90 
Whiting, gilders’....  @  95 
White, Paris, Amer.  @125
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  io@  1  20

Varnishes

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

§  Stationery

Our stationery  department  is  now  com­

plete with  new  fall  styles of

Tablets  and 

Box  Papers

Selected  from the  leading1 manufacturers.

We also  have a  full  line  of

Blank  Books,  Memorandums, 

Pocket  Books,

Crepe  Papers,  Tissue  Papers, 

Pen-holders,  Pencils, 

Inks,  Etc.

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

G o o d s   ever shown  in  Michigan.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins  §| 

Drug  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED
Dom estic  Cheese 
C attle  Bone

DECLINED
D ried  Apples 
Rock  Salt

Straw berries

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

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

@10M 
@ »V 
@  8M 
@12 
@10M @34 
@22 
@10M
0   9M 
•a 9M
0  9 
010 
0   9M 
010 
0  9M 
0  9 
0  9M 
0  9M 
14015 
ON 
017 
13014 
50075 
19020

Eocene .......................
Perfection..................
Diamond White.........
D. S. Gasoline............
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder..................... 29
Engine........................ 19
Black, winter..............
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.............
55 
Black Jack.......................
60
Largest Gum  Made.........
Sen Sen  ,...........................
56 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..
1  0055
Sugar Loaf.......................
56
Yucatan............................
5
Bulk..................................
Bed...................................
7
4
Eagle.................................
Franck’s .............................   6M
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Runkel Bros.

German  Sweet......................  23
Premium...............................  31
Breakfast Cocoa....................   46
Vienna Sweet......................   21
Vanilla..................................   28
Premium..........................
CLOTHES  LINES
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz...........l  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz................  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz...............  96
Cleveland...............................  41
Colonial, Ms  .........................  36
Colonial, Ms..........................   33
Epps......................................   42
Huyler..................................   46
Van Houten, Ms....................  12
Van Houten, Ms....................  20
Van Houten, Ms....................  38
Van Houten,  is....................  70
Webb...................................  
30
Wilbur, Ms............................   41
Wilbur. Ms............................  42
COCOA SHELLS 
20 lb. bags
Less quantity.................
Pound packages............

COCOA

COFFEE 
Roasted

J^THIGH GRADE.
Cornea

Special Combination..........15
French Breakfast.............. 17M
Lenox, Mocha & Java........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27
Dwlnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls.........
..29
White House, 30-2s.  ...... ...28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls..
..21M
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s... ...20M
Royal Java......................
..26M
Royal Java & Mocha......
..26M
Arabian  Mocha  ............
..28M
Aden Moch......................
• 22M
Mocha & Java Blend......
..23
Fancy Maricaibo............
-18M
Javo Blend...................... • •17M
Golden Santos.................
..17
Ja-Mo-Ka.......................
..15M
Excelsior Blend............... •  14M
No. 55 Blend....................
-.14
Common.......................... •10M
F a ir.................................
..11
Choice..............................
..13
Fancy..............................
..15
Common..........................
..11
F a ir.................................
..14
Choice..............................
..15
Fancy..............................
..17
Peaberry..........................
..13
F air.................................
..12
Choice..............................
..16

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

Mexican

Guatem ala

Choice...................................16
Fancy................................... 17
Choice...................................16
African................................ 12M
Fancy African.....................17
O. G...................................... 25
P. G.......- ............................29
Arabian................................ 21

Ja v a

Mocha
Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle............................ Um
Dllworth.............................UM
Jersey...................:............UM
Lion....................................UM
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City M  gross............   75
Felix M gross....................    1 15
Hummers foil M gross........  85
Hummel’s tin hi gross........1  43

E xtract

Substitutes

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, hi case............ l  75
24 packages,  1 c a s e ...........3  50

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

 

COUPON  BOOKS 

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

Soda

Oyster

B utter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books...........: ..........  1 50
too  books............................  2 50
500  books........................   11 50
1.000  books........................   20 00
500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch.....................  
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Seymour..............................   6
New York...........................  
6
6
Family................................ 
Salted............................... 
 
  6
6M
Wolverine......................... 
Soda  XXX.......................  
6M
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........  13
Zephyrette..........................  13
F a u st.................................  
7M
Farina..... ........................... 
6
Extra Farina....................... 
6M
Sal tine Oyster..................... 
6
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals............................     10
Assorted  Cake...................  10
Belle Rose...........................  
8
Bent’s Water......................  16
Cinnamon Bar.................. *  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons.......’  18
Cocoanut Taffy...................  10
Crac knells...........................  16
Creams, Iced....................... 
8
Cream Crisp.......................   10M
Cubans...............................   um
Currant Fruit....................   12
Frosted Honey...................  12
Frosted Cream....................  9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C.... 
6
Gladiator............................ 
iom
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................... 
ie
Marshmallow.....................  
is
Marshmallow Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts.  ..  16
Mary Ann...........................  
8
Mixed Picnic....................   um
MCk Biscuit........................  
7M
Molasses  Cake.................... 
8
Molasses Bar.......................  9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12M
Newton...............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers.................   12
Orange Crisp.......................  9
Orange Gem........................  9
Penny Cake........................   8
7M
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8
Scotch Cookies....................  9
Sears’ Lunch....................... 
7M
Sugar Cake.......................... 
8
Sugar Cream, x x x .......... 

8

Sugar Squares..................   8
Sultanas............................  13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crime................... 
g
E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods 

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

with interesting discounts.
CREAM TARTAR 

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundried.........................  @4
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  05 
Apricots..................... 
80io
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......... ........... 8  011
Pitted Cherries.....*."" 
Prunnelles................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  0  3M
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  0  4
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  0  4M
70 - 80 25lb. boxes........  0  5m
60 - 70 25lb. boxes........  @554
50-60 25lb. boxes........  0  6M
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  0  7k
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
8M

California Prunes

M cent less In 50 lb. cases 

7m

Citron

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn...................................u
Corsican..................................12
California, 1 lb.  package__ 11M
3 35
Imported, 1 lb package........12
Imported, bulk.................... um
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 10M 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. iom 
London Layers 2 Crown.
1  75
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
6M
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, l  lb........ 
8
L. M., Seeded, ii  lb....  7  0
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

1 80

Beans

Cereals

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

P earl  B arley

Hom iny

F arin a

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages............. ...2 00
100 lb. kegs...................... ...3 00
200 lb. barrels................. . ..6 70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ . . . 1 30
Green, Scotch, bu........... . . . 1 40
Split,  lb...... ....................
3
Boiled Avena, bbl........... ...4 20
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  2 26
Monarch, bbl.................. ...3 90
Monarch, hi bbl....................2 05
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks...........l 90
Quaker, cases.......................3 20
East India...........................   2S£
German, sacks....................   3X
German, broken package..  4
Flake,  110 lb. sacks............   4hi
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   6
Cracked, bulk......................  814
24 2 lb. packages.................. 2 60
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

W heat

Sago

FOOTE A JE N E S ’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

oz full m .i 20  X oz full ro.  80 
oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m  l  25 
No.sfan’y.S 15  No.Sfan’y .l 57

D
F

G

Index to  Markets

By Columns

B

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................   15
Alabastlne............................  
l
Ammonia................ 
l
 
Axle Grease........................... 
l

 

C

Baking Powder......................  1
Bath  Brick............................   1
Bluing.................................... 
l
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes.................................  1
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

xysters.. 
Extracts.

Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Flavoring
Fly Paper...............................   6
Fresh Meats............................  6
F ru its...:..............................  14

P

H

M

N
O

I
j
I.

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

v
w

K
8

Y

T

ALABASTINE

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

Less 40 per cent discount.

AXLE  GREASE
doz.  gross
Aurora 
6 00
..55 
Castor  Oil....................60 
7 CO
4 25
Diamond......................50 
Frazer’s .................... ..76 
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9 00

.......... 

Mica, tin boxes......... 75
Paragon.................  ..56

M lb. cans,  4 doz. case...... 3 75
M lb. cans,  2 doz. case...... 3 75
1 lb. cans, 
l doz. case...... 3 75
5 lb. cans,  hi doz. case....... 8 00
JAXON
hi lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
M lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1 60

Queen  Flake

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

Royal

10c size__  90
hi lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans,  l  90 
M'lb. cans 2 so 
M lb. cans  3 75 
1 lb.  cans.  4 80 
s,  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 grosse 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

BLUING

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

BROOMS

2 50

No. 1 Carpet.................. 
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, H In .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  85

Shoe

No. 8....................................1  00
No. 7........................:.......... 1  3o
No. 4....................................1  70
No. 3....................................1  90
Stove
No. 3........................
No. 2....................................1  10
No. 1....................................1  75
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size....  125
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s........   ....12)4
Paraffine, 6s........................ iom
Paraffine, 12s.......................11
Wtcklng 
................29

BUTTER  COLOR 

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Beans

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

Apples
3 lb. Standards........
70
Gallons, standards..
2 00
Standards................
75
Baked......................  1  00© 1  30
75©  85
Red Kidney............  
String...................... 
80
Wax.........................  
85
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Chuns.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
1  00
Little Neck. 2 lb...... 
1 50
Burnham’s, hi pint...........  1 92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 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.
86
Lobster
Star, hi lb.
1  85 
Star, 1  lb.................
3 40
Picnic Tails.............
2 35
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
1  75
Mustard, 21b...........
2 80
Soused, 1 lb..............
1 75
Soused, 2 lb............
2 80
Tomato, 1 lb............
1 75
Tomato, 2 lb.............
2 80
Hotels.......................
18020
Buttons.
22025
Oysters
Cove, lib .................  
Cove, 2 lb................. 
Cove,lib  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie...........................
Yellow....................  
l  6501  85
Pears
Standard.................
70
Fancy.......................
80
Marrowfat..............
1  00 
Early June..............
1  00 
Early June  Sifted..
1  60
Pineapple
Grated....................   1 2502 75
Sliced.......................   1  3502 56
Pum pkin
F a ir.........................  
70
Good.......................  
75
Fancy...................... 
85
Raspberries
Standard..................
90
Russian  Cavier
hi lb. cans..........................  3 75
hi lb, cans..........................  7 00
1 lb. can...........................   12 00
@1  85
Columbia Blver, tails 
Columbia Elver, flats 
©1 95
Bed Alaska..............  1  20©i  40
Pink Alaska............  1 00©i  10
Shrim ps
Standard................. 
1  50
Sardines
4
Domestic, )4s........... 
8
Domestic, M s.........  
Domestic,  Mustard. 
7
California, x s .........  
11©14
California his........... 
17@24
French, Ms.............. 
7014
French, Ms.............. 
18028

M ushrooms

Salmon

1 56
95

Peas

85

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 9

W hite fish

100 lbs...........7 00 
«  lbs...........310 
10  lbs...........  86 
8 lbs...........  71 
SEEDS

9
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 60
130
40
36
Anise.............................   
9
Canary, Smyrna......4
Caraway.............................   3
Cardamon, Malabar........... !60
Celery................................ ...
Hemp,Russian..........414
Mixed Bird................ 
Mustard, white......................9
Poppy.....................................
Rape......................................   4 Vi
Cuttle Bone....................... ..
SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large............   2 60
Handy Box, small............   1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
»-5
Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In  jars......   43
B. T. Babbit brand—

Babbit’s Best..................  4 00

SNUFF

SOAP

"  4%

Beaver Soap Co. brands

IO

P u re  Cane

F air..................................... 
je
Good...................................   20
Choice................................   26

STARCH

Klngsford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............   6Vi
20 l-lb. packages...............  6K
6 lb. packages...............  
7%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............  
7
7V4
6 lb. boxes....................... 

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  43^
3-lb. packages...................  4Vi
6-lb. packages....................  
514
40 ana 80-lb. boxes............  334
Barrels................................  314

II

No.  8.....................................  4 80
No.  9.....................................  4 76
No. 10................................   4  70
No. 11................................  4 66
No. 12................................  4  60
No. 13................................  4 ro
No. 14................................  4  56
No. 15................................  4  66
No. 16................................  4  56

TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium.............. 28
Sundrled, choice..................30
Sundried, fancy...................40
Regular, medium.................28
Regular, choice...................30
Regular, fancy.................... 40
Basket-fired, medium..........28
Basket-fired, choice.............35
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs.................... . ............... 27
Siftings...........................i9@2i
Fannings........................20@22

Gunpowder

Moyune, medium................26
Moyune, choice................... 35
Moyune, fancy.................... 60
Pingsuey,  medium...............26
Ptngsuey, choice................. 30
Pingsuey, fancy...................40

8

Tripe

10 75
11  50
11  60
i 60
3 60
70
1  28
2  26
21
3
10
60

Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese.............
Beef
Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless..................  
Bump...................... 
Pigs’ Feet
Vi bbls., 40 lbs.........  
Vi bbls., 80 lb8.........  
Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
Vi bbls., 40 lbs.........  
Vi bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk .........TlTTrrr.. 
Beef rounds............. 
Beef  middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utterine
SoUd, dairy..............  11  @13
Rolls, dairy..............  llVi@l3Vi
Rolls, creamery......  
1414
Solid, creamery......  
14
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Vis......  
Potted ham,  Vis......  
Deviled ham, Vis.... 
Deviled ham, Vis__  
Potted tongue,  Vis.. 
Potted tongue,  vis.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

Carolina head................. 
7
Carolina No. 1 .............. 
6V4
Carolina  No. 2 ...............’  “ 4V
Broken...........................
Japan,  No.  1.................6V4@6
Japan,  No. 2.................4Vi@5
Java, fancy head...........5  @5Vi
Java, No. 1....................6  @
Table...............................  @

Im ported.

2 75
17 60
2 76
60
90
60
90
60
90

Vanilla 

2 oz panel., l  20 
3oz taper..2 oo

Lemon 

2 oz panel.  76 
4 oz taper. .!  so

GRAND DAPIDS, I

75

D. C. Lemon
D. C. Vanilla
2 oz........
2 OZ.........  1  24
3 oz........ .  100 3 0Z.........   1  60
6 oz........ .  2  00 4 OZ.........  2  00
No. 4T .  1  52 No. 3T ...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

O ur Tropical.

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  60 
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.............   36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3  20

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

P ork

Carcass....................  7Vi@ 8vi
Forequarters..........  6
6 Vi
Hindquarters 
9  @10 
Loins rfo.
.3 ..............  12 Vi @16
Ribs 
_______■
@14 
Rounds....................
@  9 
6
Chucas.................... 
@  6 Vi 
Plates......................  4
@ 6
Dressed...................
@  7 
Loins.......................
@  9 Vi 
Boston Butts...........
@ 8 Vi 
Shoulders...............
@ SM 
Leaf  Lard................
@   8
M utton
8Vi@ 9
Carcass...................  
Lambs...................... 
9Vi@l0
Carcass....................  7Vi@  8
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

Veal

W heat

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

W inter  W heat F lour 

69

Local Brands

Patents.............................  4  26
Second Patent..................   3  75
Straight.............................  3 66
Clear................................   3  15
Graham............................  3 26
Buckwheat.......................  4  oo
Rye.................................    3 26
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 26c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barn hart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Vis......................  3  76
Diamond Vts.....................  3  76
Diamond Vis......................  3  76
Quaker Vis.........................  3  76
Quaker 
........................   3 76
Quaker Vis........................   3 76

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Spring W heat F lour 

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4  40
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4  30
Plllsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4  20
Plllsbury’s Best Vis paper.  4 20 
Plllsbury’s Best Vis paper.  4 20 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4  20
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4  10
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4 36
Wlngold  Vis....................... 
Wingold  Vis....................... 
4 26
Wlngold  vis....................... 
4 16
Olney & Judson’s Brand
Ceresota Vis......................  4 35
Ceresota Vis......................  4 25
Ceresota Vis......................  4  16
Laurel  Vis.........................  4 35
Laurel  Vis...................... 
4 26
Laurel  Via..........a ............  4  is
Laurel Vis and Vis paper..  4 16 
Bolted...............................  2 00
Granulated.......................   2  10
Car  lots.............................  si Vi
Car lots, clipped...............   34Vi
Less than car lots.............
Feed and  MUlstuffls

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Meal

Oats

St. Car Feed, screened__ 18 oo
No. l Corn and  Oats........17 60
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  17 oo
Winter Wheat Bran.........   16 50
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  16 60 
Screenings.......................   ie oo
Corn, car  lots...................  43Vi

Corn
H a y

No. l Timothy car lots__ li  oo
No. l Timothy ton lots....  12 00 
Sage.......................................16
Hops....................................... 16
Laurel Leaves..........................15
Senna Leaves..........................26

HERBS

INDIGO

JELLY

LICORICE

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................56
S. F., 2,3 and 6  lb. boxes.......50
61b. palls.per doz........... 
i  86
151b. palls............................  36
301b. palls............................  62
Pure....................................   3o
Calabria......................... 
23
Sicily.................................... 
i4
Root.........................................io
Condensed. 2 doz................. i  20
Condensed, 4 doz................. 2 26
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur...................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor...................  1  50
No. 2 Home.................  
1  30
Export Parlor....................  4 00
Wmvertne............................ 1  50
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz.................. 45
Liebig’s, 2  oz.................... 

MATCHES

LYE

75

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

^

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Radish, 1 doz....... . ..ir e
Horse Radish, 2 doz.......... 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz...........1  75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............   1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............  1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
so
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.
Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
Bottom
Square
34..........
.........   28
60
V4......... .........   34
60
1.........
2.......... .........   44
80
.........   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 60
20.........
........2 52
5 00
25.........
5 60
Red......
Gray__

......  

4*

PARIS  GREEN

Bulk.
.14
Packages, Vi lb., each........ 18
Packages, Vi lb., each.........17
Packages,  1 lb., each.........16

PICKLES
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count............4 50
Half bbls, 600 count............2 75

Small

PIPES

Barrels, 2,400 count........... 5 50
Half bbls, 1.200 count  __ 3 30

Ciay, No. 216........................ 1  70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   65
Cob, No. 3............................  85

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS. 
B arreled P ork

Mess....................
Back..................
Clear back...........
Short cut............
P ig......................
Bean....................
Family Mess.......
Rump Butts Beef

@15 50 
@16 50 
@15 50 
@15 00 
@18 50 
@12 25 
@16 60 
@11  50

Dry  Salt Meats

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

Smoked  Meats 

@ 

Hams, 121b. average.
Hams, 14 lb. average.
Hams, 161b. average.  @ 10%
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @ 104
Ham dried  beef......   @  i2Vi
Shoulders(N.Y.cut)  @  7Vi
Bacon, clear............   10V4@  11
California hams
@  8 
Boneless  hams......
@  11 
Boiled Hams..........
@  16 
Picnic Boiled Hams
@  12 
Berlin  Hams.........
@  8 Vi
Mince Hams.........  
1
Lards—In Tierces

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

a  J

<*

T

'  [  - 
A- i '■

r~

T-rt'

50 cakes, large size............3  26
100 cakes, large size.............6 50
50 cakes, smalt size................. 1 95
100 cakes, small size.................3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—

,?ri 8taJ 

SAL  SODA

SALT 
Buckeye

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box.

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Fels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

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

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s...............................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow...........  .......3  i6
Emblem...............................     10
L-  P ................................ " .3  00
Wyandotte, 100 Vis..............3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__  90
Lump, bbls...................... 
7f
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   so

Coal Oil Johnny............   3 90
Peekin.................................   4 00
Queen Anne...................   3  15
Big Bargain..............—   1  75
Umpire...........................  2  15
German Family..............  2  45
Dfngman........................   3  85
Santa Claus....................  3  26
Brown...............................2 40
Fairy...............................  4 00
Naptha............................  4  00
Oak Leaf.........................  3  25
Oak Leaf, big 5...............   4 00
100  31b. bags...................... 300
50  61b. bags......................3 00
JAX O N
2214 lb. bags......................2 75
In 5 bbL lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count and one case 24 3 lb. boxes  Single box.. ......................... 3 99
5 box lots,delivered. . " . ’."2  95
free. 
10 box lots, delivered...........2 90
m  .. 
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. l  40  Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.3 00 
Stiver King.....................   3 60
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 re 
Calumet Family..............  2 70
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
Scotch Family.................  2 50
Butter, barrels, 20 I41b.bags.2 85
Cuba................................  2 40
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
60 cakes....................   1  96
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............  67
Ricker’s Magnetic..........  3 90
100 31b. sacks....................... 2 26
Big Acme........................  4 00
60 51b. sacks....................... 2  15
Acme 5c..........................   3 25
2810 lb. sacks......................2 06
Marseilles.......................  4 00
56 lb. sacks.......................   40
Master............................   3 70
28 lb. sacks.......................   22
Lenox.............................  3 00
56 lb. dairy In drill bags......   30
Ivory, 6oz....................... 4 00
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   16
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
66 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60
Star.................................3 00
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 20
56 lb. sacks..........................   25
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Granulated  Fine.................  95
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Medium Fine....................... 1  00
Boxes...................................   6 Vi
Kegs, English......................4Si

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

Solar  Rock
.  Common

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Common  Grades

SALT  FISH 

Scouring

Warsaw

Ashton

SODA

Cod

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

Common Corn

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

5
4 \

1134 1 No. 1  8 lbs...............  

Georges cured..........   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6 Vi
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...............   @6
Strips or  bricks......... 6H@10V4
Pollock.......................   @ 3V4
Strips.......................................10
Chunks...........:......................12
No. 1100 lbs........................  5 75
No. 1  40 lbs........................  2 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
76
61

H alibut.

T rout

H erring

19

Holland white hoops, bbl.  ll  26
Holland white hoops Vi bbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg..  82
Holland white hoop mens.  87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs......................  3 00
Round 40 lbs.......................  1 50
Scaled.......................  
Bloaters..............................   1 60
Mackerel
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  12 25
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 20
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  38
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  13
No. 1100 lbs......................  10 60
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 60
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................ 
No. 2  8 lbs................ 

86
71

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................
Cassia, China in mats......
Cassia, Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls....
Cloves, Amooyna..............
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Mace................................
Nutmegs,  75-80.................
Nutmegs,  106-10...............
Nutmegs, 115-20................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot.
Allspice.............................
Cassia, Batavia.................
Cassia, Saigon..................
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African....................
Ginger, Cochin.................
Ginger,  Jamaica..............
Mace.................................
Mustard..........................;
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne..............
Sage.........   ......................
'

ure Ground In Bulk

SYRUPS 

 

Corn

Barrels.................................26
Half bbls.............................22
l doz. 1 gallon cans....... ......3 20
1 doz. vi gallon cans............1  80
2 doz. 14 gallon cans......----   92

 

 

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 06
Crushed.............  
  6 06
Cubes................................  5 80
Powdered.........................  5 65
Coarse  Powdered...........   6 66
XXXX Powdered............   5  70
Standard  Granulated......   5 56
Fine Granulated................  5 55
Coarse Granulated...........  5 65
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 65
Conf.  Granulated.............  5 so
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  6 70
6 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 70
Mould A............................  6 90
Diamond A.......................  5 56
Confectioner’s  A..............  5  35
No.  1, Columbia A...........  5 20
No.  2, Windsor A............   5  15
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  5  ;6
No.  4, Phoenix  A............  5  10
No.  5, Empire A..............  6 06
No.  6................................  6 00
NO.  7................................  4 90

Best Cornstarch.................
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, 111.

Young  Hyson

Oolong

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................35
Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium....................26
Amoy, choice....................... 32
Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy.................................. ..
Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy.................................. ..

English B reakfast

India

TOBACCO

Cigars

American Cigar Factory brands

A. Homers’ brand.

Elk’s Heart......................66@70
W. S.  W.................................. 35 00
Bald Head...............................35 00
Plaindealer............................ 36 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.................  36 00
Our Manager....................  36 00
Quintette..........................  36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

8 .C .W ...................................  » o o
Cigar Clippings, per lb...... 
20

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

6*
84

60
46
7*

36
46
1 10
66
45
60

2 00
2  15
3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 001
500
6  10
80

1  00
1  25
i  35
1 60

3 80
4 00
4 70

4 00
4 70

How’s
Your
Stock?

How is your  lap  robe  and  fly  net 
stock? 
If  you  want  some  more 
robes— nice ones, which  it  pays  to 
handle— or  some  fly  nets,  at  all 
kinds of prices, write  or  telephone 
us and they  will  be  off  to  you  on 
the first train.
They say our stock  in  these goods 
is  the  best  selected  in  Michigan. 
A  descriptive  price  list  will  be 
mailed you  if you want  it.

Brown  &  Sehler

Grand  Rapids,  M ich.

GOLD  MEDAL, PARIS,  1900
Walter Baker & Co. m
COCOAS AND CHOCOLATES

PURE,  HIGH-GRADE

Their  preparations  are  pot op 
in  conformity  to  the  Pore-Food 
Laws  o f all  the  States.

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

Grocers  will  find  them  In 
the long ran the  most profit­
able  to  handle,  ae  they  are 
absolutely pare  and  of  uni­
form  quality.

T R AD C- M AR K .

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

WALTER BAKER & CO. United,

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

Established 1780.

THE  MOTOR  DOES  THE 

WORK

15

A K R O N   STONEW ARE

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

2 to 6 gal., per gal....... ..
"’burn Dashers, per doz.

Milkpans
*  g&i  £&t or rd. bot, per doz.. 
1 gal. hat or rd. bot„ tach......

Fine  Glazed  Milkpans
*  gal  flat or rd. bot., p9r doz............
l gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

Stewpans

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

Ju g s

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

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

Sealing  Wax

5 lbs. In package, per lb  .................
LAM P  BURNERS

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

LAM P  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

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

First  Quality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

P earl Top

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

La  Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz........... 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz........... 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 1 Lime (66c doz)...............................  
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)...............................  
No. 2 Flint (80c doz) — .........................  

Rochester

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

E lectric

Per box of 6 doz.
1  56
1  78
2 48

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.. 
6 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................................ 
6 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas.................... 

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  1 B Tubular...............................  
No. 15 Tubular, dash...................... 7 bo
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 6 doz. each, per bbl..
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 doz. each
MASON  FRUIT JARS.
Pints................................... ...............
Quarts..............T.................................
Half  Gallons................................... .
Caps and  Rubbers.............................
Rubbers........................................ 

1  40
1  58
2  78
, 3 75
4  85
4 26
4 95
7 26
9 00

4 86
740
7 50
13 50
3 60

45
45 
2  00 
1  25

6 25 
6 50 
9 00 
2 tO
26 ft  36

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

14

3 0

1 2

 

P lug

F ine  Cut

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B. L ...................................$35
Gold Star..........................   35
H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.
Star G reen............ .....3 5   00
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojibwa................................. 38
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray..,.....................35
Cadillac....^......................... 57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top...........................28
Hiawatha............... 
58
Telegram.............................. 28
Pay C ar................................34
Prairie Bose..........................50
Protection.............................38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma..........................38
Tiger.................................... 39
Flat Iron.............................. 36
Creme de Mentbe................60
Stronghold............................40
Solo.......................................%
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross............................. 24
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...........................37
American Eagle................... 54
Standard Navy.....................38
Spear Head, 16 oz................43
Spear Head,  8oz................45
Nobby Twist........................49
Jolly T ar..............................39
Old Honesty......................... 45
Toddy................................... 35
J. T.......................................38
Piper Heldsick.....................64
Boot Jack........................... 81
Jelly Cake.......................... 36
Plumb Bob................  
  32
Hand Pressed.................... 46
Double  Cross....................37
Sweet Core...........................40
Flat Car............................... 37
GreatNavy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz......................27
I XL,  61b...........................28
I XL, 301b...........................32
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................40
Chips....................................35
Kiln Dried......................... 24
Duke’s Mixture................... 40
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist..................39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Turn, l% oz..................39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls......... 37
Cream................................. 37
Corn Cake, 2% oz................25
Corn Cake, lib ................... 23
Plow Boy, IX oz................39
Plow Boy, 3* oz................37
Peerless, 3* oz................... 34
Peerless, IK oz...................36
Indicator, 2% oz..................28
Indicator, 1 lb. pails........ 31
Col. Choice, 2% oz.............21
Col. Choice. 8 oz..................21
1  LEA & 
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TABLE  SAUCES

Smoking

TW INE

The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
C  B  
Lea ft Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s,  small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, smalL.................   2 25
Salad Dressing, large......   4 66
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76
Cotton, 3 ply.........................16
Cotton, 4 ply........................ 16
Jute, 2ply............................ 12
Hemp, 6 ply......................... 12
Flax, medium.................... 20
Wool, 1 lb. balls...................  7*
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star......... 12
Pure Cider, Robinson........10
Pure Cider,  Silver..............11
WASHING  POW DER
Gold Dust, regular.............4 60
Gold Dust. 5c......................4 00

VINEGAR

Bub-No-More.................... 3 50
Pear line..............................2 90
Scourine..............................3 60
No. 0, per gross...................20
No. 1, per gross...................25
No. 2, per gross...................35
No. 3  oer gross...................50

W ICKING

WOODENWARE

Baskets

Bushels................................  go
Bushels, wide  band............1  15
M arket................................  30
Splint, large........................4 00
Splint, medium..................3 60
Splint, small.......................3 00
Willow Clothes, large........ 6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 76 
Willow Clothes, «mall-.......5 26

B u tter P lates

No. 1 Oval, 260 In crate........
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........
No. 5 Oval, 260 In crate........

Egg Crates

Toothpicks

Mop  Sticks

Clothes  Pins 

Humpty Dumpty...............
No. 1, complete...................
No. 2, complete...................
Bound head, 5 gross box....
Bound head, cartons...........
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring......  86
No 1 common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 1b. cotton mop heads....... l 26
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Palls
2- hoop Standard................... 1 40
hoop Standard..1 60
3- 
2- wire,  Cable........................ 1 60
3- wire,  Cable........................ 1 70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka.....................2 26
Fibre.................................... 2 40
Hardwood............................2 60
Softwood..............................2 76
Banquet................................ 1 60
Ideal.....................................1 60
20-inch, Standard, No. 1........6 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2....... 5 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3....... 4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1.............6 60
18-inch, Cable,  No. 2............. 6 00
16-lnch, Cable, No. 3.............5 00
No. l Fibre............................9 45
No. 2 Fibre............................7 95
No. 3 Fibre............................7 20
Bronze Globe........................ 2 60
Dewey .................  
1  75
Double Acme.........................2 76
Single Acme.........................  2 26
Double Peerless....................  3 25
Single Peerless......................... 2 60
Northern Queen...................... 2 60
Double Duplex.........................3 00
Good Luck............................... 2 76
Universal..................................2 26
11 In. Butter.........................  76
13 in. Butter.............................. 1 00
16In.Butter..........................s..i 75
17 In. Butter........................2 60
19 In. Butter.............*.......... 3 00
Assorted 13-15-17................ 1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ............... 2 60

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

Tubs

W RAPPING PA PER
Common Straw.................  
1%
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4%
No.  1  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila.............. 
2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  2J
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Magic, 3 doz........................ 1 00
Sunlight, 3doz.....................1 00
Sunlight, lVi  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. l 00
YeastFoam, 3  doz..............1  00
Yeast Foam, 1H  doz...........  60
Per lb
White fish...................  © 8
Trout...........................  a   8
Black Bass.................. 10©  11
Halibut.......................   a   15
Ciscoes or Herring__   a   4
Bluefish......................  a   12*
Live  Lobster...............  a   18
Boiled  Lobster............  a   18
Cod..............................   ©  10
Haddock......... ..........  a   7
No. 1 Pickerel.............   a   8
Pike.............................  a   8
Perch...........................  a   4
Smoked White...........  a   1054
Bed  Snapper...............  a   11
Col River  Salmon.......   a   12
Mackerel.....................   a   16

H]£)ES AND  PELTS 

Hides

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

a  6
a  5
a  7K
a  6*
© 8
a  7*
@10
a  8*
50@i  10
a 4vt
a an
is@i6
18@20
n© i2
14©)5

Pelts

Dbls.  path

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

a 7Ha  7Ha 8 a »cases

a  7*
©10*
©10
a  8

Mixed Candy

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

a e
©  7 &7X 
©   8H © 8K 
a 9 a sy, 

a 9 a 9 a 9 a 9aioaio

a » *
©13

Fancy—In  Pails 

15
12
12
9 
12 
10* 
12

Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes

10 ai2a ohaioamt©13* 

Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony  Hearts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares......
Fruit Tab., as., wrap 
Sugared Peanuts....
Salted Peanuts........
Starlight Kisses......
San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates.., 
Choc. Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials.................
Ital. Cream Opera...
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. palls.................
Golden Waffles........

©14 
©16 
© 5a 9* 
aio 
©io 
©12
©12
@14
ai2
Lemon  Sours.........  
©55
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
f i g
Chocolate Drops.... 
f i g
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............  
©i 00
©95
Gum Drops.............. 
Licorice Drops........ 
©75
Lozenges,  plain......  
©55
Lozenges, printed... 
©60
Imperials................. 
©60
Mottoes................... 
©go
Cream  Bar.............. 
©55
Molasses Bar........... 
©55
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
©66
String Bock............. 
©55
Wlntergreen Berries 
@60
Caram els 
© 9
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
Standard, 20 lb. pails 
@10
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
©12*
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
@15
Kosker 2 for lc pr bx  @65
Big 3,3 for ic pr bx.. 
@65
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
@60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
@60
AA Cream Car’Is 31b 
@60
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus sett.......  
©
©
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.........  
©
Extra Choice........... 
©
@4  00
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.................  
©3 50
Medt. Sweets...........  3 60@4 00
Jamaicas.....................  
©
Rod!...................... 
Lemons

©

Messina, 300s............  3 50©4 60
Messina, 360s............   3 60@4 00
California 360s...........  3 25©3 50
California 300s...........  3 z6©3 50
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1 50@2 00
Large bunches........

Foreign D ried F ru its 

© 9*

Figs

©
©

Dates

NUTS

@12
©
2
© 
©
©

Callfornlas,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, to lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,........................ 
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
5  © 5*
HsllowL................... 
lb.  cases, new......  
Salrs,601b.cases....  4*   © 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  ©17
©
Almonds, Ivloa....... 
.Visional, California,
soft 8 celled........... 
16ftl8
Brazils,.................... 
©ii
Filberts  ................. 
@12u
Walnuts  Grenobles.  @13*
Walnut«., softshelled 
@13*
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
©14
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
©13
Pecais,  Med........... 
f ig
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
©11
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
©12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
©
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
©3 60
©
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
Peanuts
5*  © 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  p„  Suns
Boasted................ 
e*@ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P.,Extras
Boasted................ 
8pan. Shlld No. 1 n’w  7  © 8

©
©

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E xperim ents in H ybridization for a  H ardy 

Orange.

The  tree 

A  large  crop  of  paper  bags  seems  to 
be the  yield  of  a  little  tree  which  stands 
in  the  grounds  of  the  Department  of 
Agriculture  at  Washington.  There  are 
about  fifty  of  these  bags,  each  with  the 
neck  tied  firmly,  as  close 
inspection 
discloses,  about  one  of  the  terminal 
twigs.  The  effect  is  rather  grostesque 
is  the  particular  charge  of 
Prof.  Herbeit  J.  Webber,  who,  with  hi: 
assistant,  is  responsible  for  its  bagging 
It  is  a  species  of  orange  tree,  the  vari 
ety  having  been  brought  to  the  United 
States  from  China  about  ten  years  ago 
with  the 
idea  of  using  it  for  hedges 
It  is  evergreen,  grows  about  thirty  feet 
high,  and  has  sharp  thorns.  The  frui 
is  small  and  runty,  and  quite  unfit  for 
food.  But  the  fact  that  it  flourishes  as 
far  north  as  Maryland,  Kentucky,  Indi 
ana  and  Missouri  gives  it  a  great  value 
to the  scientists  who are  experimenting 
with  a  view  to  securing  a  more  hardy 
breed  of  orange 

And  this  is  the  explanation  of  the 
crop  of  paper  bags.  The  blossoms  of 
the  tree  have  just  been  crossed  with  the 
St.  Micheals  and  Sanguina  oranges, 
which  are  the  standard  varieties  of 
sweet  Florida  fruit.  Prof.  Webber  is 
trying  to  secure  a  hybrid  which  will  re­
tain  the  edible  qualities  of  the  sweet 
Florida  orange,  and  at  the  same  time 
preserve  the  hardiness  of the  Chinese 
mother tree.

One  plant  with  these  characteristics 
would  be  worth  more  than  a  bonanza 
gold  mine. 
It  would  serve  as  the  par­
ent  stock  for thousands  of  plants  which 
would  be  grown  throughout  the  Gulf 
States,  revolutionizing  the  agricultural 
industries  there,  and  yielding  millions 
to  the  growers.

Experiments  with  this  end  in  view 
began  several  years  ago.  At  the  pres­
ent time  the  Department  has  about  300 
hybrid  seedlings. 
It  is  expected  that 
some  of  these  will  bear  their first  fruit 
this  fall,  although  the  majority  of  them 
will  not  bear  much  before  next  year.

The  300  hybrid  seedlings  which  Prof. 
Webber  has  secured  represent  a  deal  of 
patient labor.  To  cross  varieties  which 
are  closely  related 
is  a  comparatively 
simple  matter;  but  the  Chinese  orange 
and  the  Florida  variety  have  been  so 
long  separated,  and  have  grown  in  such 
different  environments,  that  they  have 
almost  forgotten  that they  belong  to  the 
same  genus, and  they  do  not  take  kindly 
to  each  other.  Consequently  not  more 
than  one  blossom  out  of  a  hundred  fer­
tilized  with  the  foreign  pollen  bears 
fruit;  and  then  not  more  than  seven  out 
of  fifteen  seeds  in  that  fruit  will  germi­
nate  and  produce  a  plant.

is  the 

The  paper  bags  are  used  to  protect 
the  flower  which  has  been  fertilized 
with  the  pollen  of  the  sweet  orange. 
The  first  step  in  the  operation  of  cross­
fertilization 
removal  of  the 
pollen-bearing  stamen  from  the  blos­
som.  This  is  done  with  small  scissors 
and  pincers.  The  petals  are  also  re­
moved, 
leaving  the  stigma  exposed. 
This  is  all  done  before  the  blossoms  are 
fully  opened;  for  by  that time  there  is 
danger that  bees  or other  insects  might 
have  carried  the  pollen  from  some  open 
blossom  and  deposited  it  on  the stigma.
When  the  stamen  has  been  complete­
ly  removed  pollen  is gathered  from  the 
blossoms  of  the  trees  in  the  Govern­
ment  greenhouses  and  shaken  lightly 
upon  the  prepared  flower.  Then  the  bag 
is  tied  tightly 
in  place  to  make  sure 
that  no  pollen  from  the  same  tree  be­
comes  mingled  with  that  already  used.

After  the  fruit  has  had  time  to begin 
forming  the  bags  are  removed  and  the 
twig 
is  marked  with  a  tag  giving  the 
name  of  the  other  parent.

As  soon  as the  seedlings  bud  they  are 
sent  to  different  parts  of  the  country  to 
be  grafted  on  plants  which  have  already 
been  started.  Thus  it  is  soon discovered 
whether  the  plant  is  sufficiently  hardy, 
and  the  only remaining question  is  as  to 
the  quality  of  the  fruit.

The Cost of Doing  Business.

The  following  communication  from 
successful  New  England  house  is  de 
serving  of  the  careful  attention  of  every 
retail  hardware,  merchant,  emphasizing 
as  it  does  the  importance of knowing the 
cost  of  doing  business  as  a  condition  of 
success:

It  is  surprising  that  many  good  busi 
ness  men  deceive  themselves  in  regard 
to  the  cost  of  doing  business—that  is, 
the  total  cost  as  compared  with  the  total 
sales. 
If  they  are  making  a  good  profit 
such  a  mistake  may  do  little  harm,  but 
if  the  profit  is  small  the  error  may  be 
disastrous.  We  occasionaly  hear  of  a 
retail  business  being  done  at  about  a 
if  the  matter 
cost  of  10  per  cent.,  but 
was  investigated 
it  would  probably  be 
found  that  several  items  of  expense  had 
been  omitted  and  that  the  actual  cost 
was  nearer 25  per  cent.

lighting, 

Interest  on 

the  capital  should  be 
charged  at  a  fair  rate,  say  5  per cent, 
The  salary  of  each partner  should be fig 
ured  as  part  of  the  expense.  All  clerk 
hire,  commissions,  rent,  taxes, 
insur 
ance,  heating, 
advertising, 
traveling,  postage  and  office  expense, 
breakage  and  repairs,  freight  and  cart 
age,  as  well  as  all  material  used  in  the 
store,  such  as  paper,  twine,  etc.,  should 
be  included;  in  tact,  the  expense  of  do­
ing  business  covers  every  cent  paid  out 
except  the 
invoice  cost  of  the  goods, 
and  no concern  can  live  unless  they  add 
to  the 
invoice  cost  enough  profit  to 
cover  all  expense  of every  description. 
If  the 
invoice  cost  of  an  article  is $1 
and  it  is  sold  for $1.2;,  it  is  easy  to  say 
we  are  making  25  per  cent.,  but  if  the 
cost  of  doing  business  is  25  per cent,  of 
the  sales,  w;  are  selling  at  a  loss  of 
about  6  per cent.,  instead  of  a  profit  of 
25  per cent. 
It  should  be  remembered 
that  33^  per  cent,  should  be  added  to 
the  cost  to  cover the  expense  of  25  per 
cent,  on  the  sales. 
It  often  happens 
that  a 
line  of  goods  must  be  sold  at  an 
advance  of  5  per cent,  or  10  per cent, 
over  invoice*  cost,  but  if $100 are  sold 
at  5  or  10  per  cent,  advance,  another 
$100  must  be  sold  at  40 to  45  per cent, 
over  invoice  cost  to  keep  the  sales  on  a 
paying  basis.  Jobbers  sometimes  make 
a  failure  by  selling goods  on  a  margin 
of  2%   to  10  per  cent.,  when  their  ex­
penses  average  10  per cent,  on  the  total 
sales.

After  inventory 

is  taken  ii  is  a  good 
])Ian  to  look  the  thing  squarely  in  the 
iace  and  ascertain  the total  cost of doing 
the  year’s  business. 
If  the  result  is  un­
satisfactory  it  may  lead  to  greater  care 
in  the  future.

A  business  which  only  pays  expenses 
can  not  be  called  profitable ;  especially 
as  bad  debts  are  not  figured  in  tne  reg­
ular expenses,  and  no  allowance  is made 
for goods  which  prove  to  be  unsalable.

Trying a  Lawsuit  by Telephone.

An  Indianapolis  correspondent  calls 
our attention  to the  part  played  by  the 
telephone 
in  a  recent  divorce  case  at 
Noblesville,  Ind.  A  Mrs.  Nagle  brought 
suit  for divorce.  On  the  day  appointed 
for  the  trial  her attoreny,  Mr.  Fippen, 
could  not  attend  and  called  up 
the 
Noblesville  judge  and  explained  the 
circumstances,  suggesting  that  the  case 
be  tried  by  telephone.  The  judge  con­
sented,  the  witnesses  were  sworn,  and 
in*  answer  to questions  asked  them  by 
Mr.  Fippen,  thirty  miles  away,  submit­
ted  their  testimony  to  the  judge,  after 
which  Mr.  Fippen  delivered  his  argu­
ment,  talking 
judge’s  ear  by 
telephone.  The  divorce’  was  granted.
Give  a  man  an  inch  and  he  wants  a 

into  the 

tumbler  full.

Hardware  Price Current

A m m unition

Caps

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

Cartridges

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 280,  per m .......
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per  m ...

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells 

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

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

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

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

oz.of
Shot
1*4
1*4
1*4
1*4
1*4
1*4
1
1
1*4
1*4
1*4
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
4*4
4*4
3
3
3*4
3*4
3*4
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg...................
*4 kegs, 12*4 lbs., per  *4  keg............
54 kegs, 6)4 lbs., per a   keg...............

Gunpowder

Shot

Axes

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B...........
Snell’s ................................................
Jennings  genuine............... ...............
Jennings’ Imitation........................

A ugurs  and  Bits

Barrow s

First Quality, S. B. Bronze...........
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...........
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel...............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel...................
Railroad.............................................
Garden............................................... n
Stove....................
Carriage, new 11«* 
Plow .............
Well, plain.........

Buckets

Bolts

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

Chain

40
SO
75
60
2 60
3 00
4 95
5 80

1  20 
1  20

Per 
100 
$2 90 
2 90 
2 90 
2 90
2 96
3 00 
2 60 
2 60 
2  66 
2 70 
2 70

4 00 
2 25 
1  26

6  00 
i  00 
6 50 
10  60

66

12  00 
29 00
60
60
$4  00

66
60

34  In.

6-16 In.

. ..  7*4 
. ..  7*4 
Crowbars

i t  In.
*4  in
Com.
7  C.  . . .   6  0.  .. .  6  C.  . ..  4*4c
BB...
8*4 
. . .   6
BBB.
8 «  
..  6*4
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer 
Socket Framing.
Socket Corner.
Socket Slicks.

.. .  6*4 
.. .  6*4

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz............   net
Corrugated, per doz.................... .
Adjustable...................................  
..’dls
Expansive  Bits

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26..........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................
Piles—New  List
New American....................................
Nicholson’s................................. , . . . ’
Heller’s Horse Rasps....................
Galvanized  Iron 
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27. 
List  12 
16*

14 

13 

16 

Discount,  66

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

Ganges

Glass

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

66 
1  26 
40&10

70&10
70
70

60&10

80&20
80&20
80&20

Hammers

Hinges

Horse  Nails

Hollow  Ware

33*4
40&10
70
6O&10
60&10
6O&10
50&10

Maydole ft Co.’s, new list...................dls 
Terkes & Plumb’s............................. dls 
Mason's Solid Cast Steel...............30c list 
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3............................dls 
Pots...........................................•........  
Kettles................................................ 
Spiders................................................ 
Au Sable............................................dls 
House  Furnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................  
70
japanned Tinware..............................  
20&10
Bar Iron............................................. 226  orates
Light Band.........................................   3 crates
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings..........’ 
76
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
86
Lanterns
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz...........
600 
Warren, Galvanized Fount....
6 00

Knobs—New  List

40&10

Iron

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

Levels

Mattocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages......................................
Pumps, Cistern................................
Screws, New List............................
Casters, Bed and Plate...................
Dampers, American.......................

Molasses  Gates

8 '

40
. 
75&10 
86
.  SO&lOftlO 
60

Pans

Stebblns’ Pattern............................
60&10
Enterprise, self-measuring..............
30
Fry, Acme........................................
Common,  polished............................ .  60&10&10 
70&6
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27 

P atent Planished  Iron 

Broken packages *4c per pound extra.

10 76 
9 76

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

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

Hails

Steel nails, base................................ 
Wire nails, base................................
20 to 60 advance..................................
10 to 16 advance..................................
8 advance.......... .............................. .
6 advance.... 
................................
4 advance..........................................
3 advance..........................................
2 advance..........................................
Fine 3 advance...................................
Casing 10 advance..............................
Casing 8 advance................................
Casing 6 advance................................
Finish 10 advance..............................
Finish 8 advance................................
Finish 6 advance................................
Barrel  % advance..............................

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean....................
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
14x20IX,Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

Sisal, *4 Inch and larger.
Manilla.

Ropes

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

Sand  P aper

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

Sash  W eights

60

25 00

Sheet Iron

00m. smooth.

com. 
$3 20 
8  20 
3 30 
8 40 
3 60 
___
3 60
All Sheets No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  .................................
Nos. 16 to 17..................................
Nos. 18 to 21..................................
Nos. 22 to 24 ..................................  3 60
Nos. 26 to 26..................................  3 70
No. 27.............................................  3 80 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

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

Solder 

*4@*4................................................... 
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

8 00
7 so

*

70

$ 8 60 
8 80 
9 76

7 00
7 008 so
8 80

76
40ftl0

60
60
60&10 
50ft 10 
40 
3 26 
2 96

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

Squares

Tin—Melyn  Grade

10x14 IG, Charcoal.................. ............
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
20x14 IX, Charcoal...............................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—Allaw ay Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
10x14 IX, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IX, Charcoal...............................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

Boiler  Size Tin  P late 

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, 5per pouna"
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 Patent Agricultural) ¡Wrought.. 70ftl0

32

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

V A L ID IT Y   OF FUTURE CONTRACTS.
The  Supreme  Court  of  the  United 
States  recently  rendered  an 
interesting 
and  important  decision  in  a  case direct­
ly 
involving  the  validity  of  contracts 
for  future  delivery.  The  suit,  which  is 
known  as  the  case  of  Clews  et  al.  vs. 
Jamison  et  al.,  was to recover  the  differ­
ence  between  the  price  at  which  the 
defendants,  stock  brokers 
in  Chicago, 
agreed  to  purchase  a  certain  number  of 
shares  of  stock  and  the  price  at  which 
it  sold  at  auction  after the  defendants 
had  declined  to  receive  it.

The  action  was  dismissed  by  the 
Circuit  Court  and  the  Circuit  Court  of 
Appeals,  both  United  States  courts,  on 
the  ground  that  the  contract  was  a 
gambling  one.  The  Supreme  Court  re­
versed  the  decisions  of  the  lower courts, 
holding  that  there  was  nothing  in  the 
contracts  involved 
in  the  case,  nor  in 
the  evidence  adduced,  from  which  it 
could  be  inferred  that  the  laws  against 
gambling  in  Illinois  had  been  violated.
It  was  admitted  by  all  the  parties  to 
the  suit  that  the  transaction  was  accord­
ing  to  the  rules  of  the  Chicago  Stock 
Exchange,  which  prohibited,  under 
penalty  of  suspension,  sales  for  mere 
colection  of  differences,  and  also  pro­
vided  that  every  sale  must  be  one  in 
good  faith  for  the  delivery,  either  pres­
ent  or  future,  of  the  article  sold,  and 
that  sales  “ for the  account”   should  be 
made  upon  the  basis  of  an  intended 
actual  delivery  of  the  stock  at  the  time 
when  due.  The  court  declared  that 
it 
would  not  say  that  these  rules  prevented 
gambling  on  the 
if 
gambling  were  carried  on  it  must  be  in 
violation  of  and  not  pursuant  to  the 
rules.

exchange,  but 

This  decision  affirms  in  very  clear 
terms  the  validity  of  contracts  for the 
future  delivery  of  any  commodity. 
Such  contracts  are,  on  their  face,  per­
fectly 
legal  and  valid  contracts,  and  it 
must  be  proved  beyond  dispute  that  no 
delivery  was  ever  intended  on  the  part 
of  both  parties  in  order to  establish that 
any  particular 
transaction  was  mere 
gambling,  and  not  a  bona  fide  contract 
for  future  delivery.

This  decision  appears  to  be  of  great 

value  from  a  commercial  standpoint.

Danger  in  Colored  Hosiery.

The  London  Lancet  printed  an  inter­
esting  article  a  fortnight  ago 
in  which 
it  was  shown  that  arsenic sometimes oc­
curs  in  dyed  stockings  of  bright  colors.
Indeed,  dermatitis,  or  inflammation 
of the  skin,  has  been traced  to  the  wear­
ing  of  stockings  containing  arsenic. 
The  arsenic  appeared  to  be  present 
partly  in  a  soluble  and  partly  in  an 
in­
In  another article  in  the 
soluble  form. 
list  of  mineral 
Lancet  was  a  curious 
substances  that  were 
found 
in  dress 
materials.  No  arsenic  was  found  in  any 
one  specimen  of  the  material  submitted 
to  examination,  although  there  were 
present  salts  of  zinc,  aluminum,  chrom­
ium,  tin,  magnesium  and  iron.

In  one  case,  that  of  pink  flannel,  the 
material  was  loaded  with  Epsom  salts. 
The  materials  examined  were  all  more 
or  less  brilliantly  colored  with  aniline 
dyes. 
In  recording  the  results  of  this 
enquiry  it  was  stated  that from  time  to 
time  dermatitis  had  been  referred  to the 
use  of  highly  dyed  fabrics,and  although 
dyes  may  not  be  injurious  per  se,  yet 
certain  poisonous 
as 
mordants,  may  be  used  in  their  prepa­
ration.

agents,  such 

Talking  of  Taxing  American  Canned 

Goods.

The  customs  authorities 

in  Great 
Britain  are  still  wrestling  with  the  sub­
ject  of  duties  on  such  articles  into  the 
manufacture  of  which  sugar enters.  But 
the  ramifications  of  the  tariff  are  so 
great  that  the  process  of  fixing duties  on

the  different  articles  affected  is  a  slow 
and  perplexing  one;  and  we  are  told 
that  for  the  time  being  the  customs  offi­
cials  are  accepting  the  statements  of  the 
importers  as  to  the  proportion  of  sugar, 
glucose  or  molasses  certain  articles  con­
tain 
in  order  that  the  passing  of  the 
goods  through  the  customs  might  be  fa­
cilitated.  Although  a  rate  of duty  has 
been  fixed  on  California  canned  apri­
cots,  an  announcement  has  yet  to  be 
made  on  other  kinds  of  canned  fruit. 
The  rate  on  canned  apricots  is  7s.,  or 
about  $1.75  per  112  pounds. 
If  this  is 
any  criterion  of  what the  rate  will  be  on 
the  other  lines  of  canned  fruits,  it  is 
evidently  going  to  be  rather high.

A t  Graduating  Time.

The graduates are going forth—
To run this hard and stubborn world 
But much I fear they’ll find that facts 
And running this old earth is not 

Goa bless them, every one—
Just as it should be run;
Don’t always track with dreams; 
As easy as it seems.

As seniors we are prone to think 
We’ve but to ask—the world  will lay 
But schooldays done and work begun, 
The College of Experience 

Our wisdom is complete 
Its trophies at our feet 
We learn to our regret 
We have not mastered yet.
Ambition beckons on to us 
Toward a distant, gleaming goal,
It seems a pleasant journey at 
But as we stumble on it grows 

And eagerly we press 
The Temple of Success.
The dawning of life’s day;
A long and weary way.

The world has garlands and applause 
At graduation time;
And then forgets us the next day, 
When we attempt to climb.
Life is a battle, where each one 
Must seek and hold his own.
He who would rise above the crowd 
Must scale the heights alone.

This is the rule of life to-day 
As it has ever been;
The world bestows its smiles on those 
Who have the strength to win. 
Beneath all outward semblances 
It looks for merit true.
It little cares how much you know, 
But asks, what can you do?

When you have left your college halls 
You're barely at the start,
For Wisdom’s height is infinite 
And long the ways of Art.
You’ll find that in the school of life 
Acts count for more than dreams 
And running this old earth is not 
As easy as it seems.

A   New  Fake  For  Adulterating  Lard.
The  State  Boaid  of  Health  of  Indiana 
has  received  a  sample  of  a  powder  that 
possesses  more  than  ordinary  interest. 
Itinerant  vendors 
are  going  about 
through  small  towns  and  rural  districts 
of  the  State  selling  this  powder to  farm­
ers  and  dealers  in  lard.  When  some  of 
the  powder  is  added  to  lard  the  effect  is 
to  harden  it  so  that  it  will  remain  firm 
even  during  the  hottest  weather.  The 
only  name  given  for  the  substance  is 
“ lard  hardener.”   Dr.  Hurty,  the  State 
considerable 
chemist,  has  been  at 
trouble  and  expense  in  making  an  an­
alysis  of  the  powder  in  his  private 
lab­
oratory.  He  has  found  that  the  powder 
contains  10  per  cent,  of  alum  and 90 per 
cent,  of  hydrate  of  alumina.  He  says 
these  ingredients  add  weight  and  other 
properties  that  are  not  natural  to  lard. 
He  says  also  that 
lard  which  contains 
the  “ hardener”   will  carry  a  larger  per­
centage  of  water  than  usual  without  be­
traying  its  presence.

New  Manufacturing  Corporation  on  tlie 

Straits.

Mackinaw  City,  June  17— The  North­
ern  Michigan  Turning  Works  has  filed 
articles  of  incorporation,  with  a  capital 
of  $30,000,  fully  paid  in.  The  follow­
ing  officers  have  been  elected  for  the 
ensuing  year:

—Geo.  W.  Alden.

President— P.  E.  Hackett.
Vice-President  and  General  Manager 
Secretary  and  Treasurer—J.  M.  Mor- 
Director—Geo.  B.  Morley.
The  two  newly-acquired  members  of 
the  company  are  the  Morley  brothers, 
of  Saginaw.  George  B.  Morley 
is 
President  of  the  Second  National  Bank 
of  Saginaw  and  J.  M.  Morley  is  a  cap­
italist  and  real  estate  dealer of Saginaw.

ley.

The  Government  on  the  Pea Louse.
The  Department  of  Agriculture  has 
issued  a  report  on  the  ravages  of  the 
louse,  giving  warning  that 
green-pea 
this  insect,  one  of  the  most 
important 
of  those  which  ravaged  the  crops  of  the 
country  during  the  past  two  seasons, 
will  widen  its  range  geographically  and 
increase  the  amount  of  destruction. 
Since  its  first  appearance  in  May,» 1899, 
its  devastation  has 
at  Bridges,  Va., 
steadily 
it  has  now  be­
come  the  cause  of  great  loss  in the prin­
cipal  pea-growing  regions  of  the United 
States.  The  estimated 
it  caused 
along  the  Atlantic  Coast  States  in  1899 
is  estimated  at  $3,000,000;  and  in  1900 
this  had  reached  $4,000,000  by  the  mid­
dle  of  June.  In  some  farms  in Maryland 
80  per  cent,  or  more  of  the  crop  was de­
stroyed.  Vigorous  efforts  are  making 
to  control 
its  spread,  and  the  official 
bulletin gives  a detailed  description  and 
means  of  fighting  it.

increased,  and 

loss 

Tfae  Two  Thousand  Pill  Game.

The  postoffice  authorities  of  Wash­
ington  are  now  investigating  the  case 
of  a  doctor  who  advertised 
to  cure 
deafness,  without  fail,  for $18.50.  Per­
sons  sending this amount were forwarded 
2,000  pills,  with  instructions  to  take  one 
each  day,  and  on  no  account  to  miss  a 
day  or the  charm  would  be  broken,  and 
it  would  be  necessary  to  start  all  over 
again.  As  the  truth  of the doctor’s claim 
can  not  be  proved  until  the  end  of  five 
and  a  half  years,  the  authorities  are 
puzzled  what  course  to  take.

Merchants  who  expect  to  take  advan­
tage  of  the  rebate  on  manufactured  to­
baccos  July  1  should  bear  in  mind  that 
they  must  make  application  to  the  rev­
enue  collector  of  their  district  for the 
proper  blanks  on  which  to  make  their 
report.

its  origin  in 

The  summer  hotel  fire  at  West Baden, 
the 
Ind.,  having  had 
kitchen, 
to  have  been 
caused  by  one  of  the  cooks  having 
spilled  a  dish  of  chile  con  came  on  the 
floor.

is  supposed 

As  a  general  proposition  it  is  safe  to 
assume  exceptional  virtues for the celeb­
rity  of  whom  the  world  speaks  evil.

The  man  who  has  succeeded  in living 
on  $1.15  per  week  isn’t  in  it  with  the 
man  who  lives  on  his  wife.

Advertisements  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

F'OR  SALE  OK  RENT—DESIRABLE  RES 
Fin e   sto ck  o f  b a za a r  a n d   m ilLii 

dence and barn at 24 Kellogg  street,  Gran 
Rapids.  Large lot.  All modern  Improvement 
E. A. Stowe, New Blodgett Building. 
907
ery;  also  fine  corner  brick  store,  new 
painted and papered;  new  sidewalks;  goods ai 
all new  and  up-to-date.  Store—stock  and  fi 
tures $3,000 If taken in thirty days.  Address N 
899, care Michigan Tradesman. 
809
OR  SALE—RETIRING  FROM  MERCA1 
tile  business,  “ The  Busy  Big  Store,”  ge 
eral stock about $ 12,000;  sales last year, $33,391.5 
sales last month,  $2,600;  in very  best  conditioi 
healthy  and  growing.  Located  at  Bellevu 
Mich.;  elegant  farming  trade.  We  enjoy  tl 
trade of the town in  groceries,  dry  goods,  boo 
and shoes, crockery, carpets  and  working dot 
mg.  Good discount  to  cash  buyer.  Reterenc 
Belleme Bank.  Address C.  D.  Kimberly, Bell 
qoj.
vue, Mich. 
tain;  easy  terms.  Also  two  dear  and  1 
bacco store  signs—Scotch  girl  and  Uncle  Sai 
one ten-ball parlor pool table.  Charles  A. Jat 
son, Benton Harbor. Mich.
ERCHANT  TAILORING  STOCK  F< 
Sale.  Stock consists of a fine line  of  ca< 
meres for suits and  pants  patterns.  Enquire 
go
L. C. Cronkhlte, Edmore. Mich. 
crockery stock, invoicing about $1,200;  in c 
gan  Address  A.  P.,  care  Michigan  Trad 
man. 
qa
1(H)R  SALK  CHEAP  EOR  CASH  ONL’ 
A   Bazaar stock in one  of  the  best  villages 
the State;  goods clean and  up-to-date.  Addr 
W. M., care Michigan Tradesman. 
90

I ¡'OR  SALE—SECOND  HAND  SODA  FOU 

I ^OR  SA LE—CLEA N   GROCERY  Al 

01 the best  growing  towns  in  Northern  Mic 

I ¡'OR SALE OR RENT—TWO-STORY FRAME 

’  building—living rooms attached—good  horse 
barn;  also small stock of agricultural  tools, with 
building for tools;  also set hay and  stock scales; 
situated on railroad,  about  eighteen  miles from 
Grand Rapids, in best  farming and fruit district 
in Michigan.  Address all correspondence  to R., 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
891
HARMACIST  WANTED  AT  ONCE.  TEL- 
ephone Guy Lockwood, Jones, Mich.  888 
ONEY IN  CEMENT  STOCK—THE TWEN- 
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 furnished by  addressing 
C. L. Corrigan, Sec’y, Fenton, Mich. 
IT’OR  SALE—WHOLE  OR  PART INTEREST 
X1 
in  a  general  hardware,  tlnsmlthing  and 
plumbing stock, invoicing about $3,600, in a good 
factory  town  in  Southern  Michigan.  Address 
No. 824, care Michigan Tradesman. 

I7H)Rd  SALE-A  NICE,  CLEAN  GENERAL 

stock,  inventorying  about  $1,800,  in  good 
farming community.  Reason  for  selling,  other 
business.  Address  No.  860,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

860

882

824

I ¡»OR  SA LE —MY  ENTIRE  STOCK  OF 

hardware,  paints,  stoves,  etc.,  including 
tion best in  town.  M.  A.  Randall,  Cheboygan. 
Mich. 

good will of business and lease of  building;  loca­

896

893

I ¡'OR  SALE-JOB  PRINTING  OUTFIT:  7x11 

press;  26fonts  type;  complete  line  of  fix­
tures, etc.:  invoices $200;  just the thing for mer­
chant to do his own printing.  Will take $100 spot 
cash.  Address No  893,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

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
1  cost $475.  W. G  Ruple, Shelby. Mich.  901

IiHIR SALE—SODA  FOUNTAIN,  $35  CASH;
t ftOR SALE—THE  BEST  STOCK  OF  GRO- 

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 line  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

Fo r  sa l e—sto ck  o f  g e n e r a l  m e r- 
I  WILL  SELL  HALF  INTEREST  IN  MY 

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

777

I ¡»OR  SALE—A  GOOD  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 

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 

have a bankrupt stock of clothing,  dry goods, 

IF GOING  OUT OF  BUSINESS  OR  IF  YOU 
PARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF  GOODS  OF 

or  shoes,  communicate  with  The New  York
728
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 

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, 111. 
Fo r  sa l e—d r u g   sto ck 

in v o ic in g
$2,000, in good corner store in the  best  town 
in Western Michigan.  The  best  of  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 583, care Michigan Trades- 
man. 

583

~ 

MISCELLANEOUS

WANTED—SALESMEN  TO  VISIT  GRO- 
cery  trade  and  introduce  our  Account 
System.  Liberal  proposition.  F.  E.  Barr  & 
Co., Battle Creek, Mich. 
908
WANTED—POSITION  AS  REGISTERED 
pharmacist.  Address No  905, care  Michi­
905
gan Tradesman. 
ffA R M A C IST,  SITUATION  WANTED. 
Box 99, Grattan, Mich. 
900
Write Druggist, FennvUie, Mich._____ 897

P H A RM A CIST.  SITUATION  WANTED.

895

YL7ANTED—SITUATION BY  YOUNG  MAR- 
v v  ried man in some  retail  dry  goods  store; 
eight  years’  experience;  Al  references.  A.  C. 
McElhenle, Butler, Ind. 
T \T ANTED-BY  EXPERIENCED  MAN,  PO­
TT  sition as clerk and  stock-keeper  or  mana­
ger of dry goods, clothing, shoe or general store; 
eight  years’  experience;  best  of  references. 
Clerk, Gulliver, Mich. 
887
WANTED — REGISTERED  P HARMACIST 
to take charge.  Give  age  and  salary  ex- 
ppcted.  Address O. J   Reyberg, Alto, Mich.  890
W ANTED—A BLACKSMITH:  good location 
for right  man;  good  references  required. 
Address Nelson Toland, Stanley, Mich. 
WANTED—TRAVELING  SALESMAN  TO 
handle our Air Rifle as a side line on  com­
mission.  Rapid  Rifle  Co.,  Limited,  Grand 
Re g is t e r e d  

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. 

Rapids, Mich. 

889

892

Mir re S t, Alpena, Mich. 

867

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Travelers’ T im e  Tables.

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.

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

P E R F E C T IO N   O IL  

IS   T H E   S T A N D A R D  

T H E   W O R L D   O V E R

H IQ H B 8 T   P R IC E   P A ID   F O R   E M P T Y   C A R B O N   A N D   G A S O L IN E   B A R R E L S

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

Are you going 

to the

Pan - American 

Exposition?

The

Michigan  Central

is the short and direct route.

For particulars see  M. C. Agents or 

write  to

O. W .Ruggles, Q. P. &T. A., Chicag t 

J. S. Hall. O. P .A .,

Detroit

FNGPMPS BY ALL THE 

LEADING PROCESSES

Efl P0PTPAIT5,  BUILDINGS,

MACHINERY, 

S t
STATIONERY  HEADINGS.^' 
'k\

EVERYTHING. 

* HALF-TONE 

ZINC*ETChlNG 
WOOD ENGRAVING

TPADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  PAPIDS.  M ICHIGAN.

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, C. E. Wa l k e r ,  Bay City;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  J.  H.  H o p k in s,  Ypsllanti;  Secretary. 
E. A. Sto w e. Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F, 
Tatm an, Clare.  ______

Grand  Sapidi  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F ra n k  J. Dy k ;  Secretary,  H om er 

K l a p;  Treasurer, J. Geo rge  Lehm an
Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Proteetiie  Association 

President,  E.  Ma r k s;  Secretaries,  N.  L 
Ko e n ig  and  F.  H.  Cozzens;  Treasurer,  C 
H.  F r in k .

Kalamazoo  Retail  Grocers’  Associatioi 

President,  E.  L.  Ha r r is ;  Secretary,  Chas 

H ym an.

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President,  C.  E.  Wa l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Lit t l e.

Muskegon  Retail  Grocere’  Association 

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

Bo elk in s;  Treasurer, J.  W.  Cask a don.

President,  J.  F rank  H k lm er;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
H. Po r t e r;  Treasurer, L.  Pelto n.
Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

Cl ev e la n d; Treasurer,  w m . C.  Koehn

Gaginas  Retail Merchants’  Association 

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

P h e r so n;  Treasurer, R. A. Ho r r.
Traverse  Git}  Easiness  Men’s  Association 

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

H o lly;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

Owos80  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  Wh ip p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m pb e l l;  Treasurer.  W.  E. Co l lin s.
Pt.  Hurras  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
P e r c iv a l.

President, Ch a s.  We ll m a n;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. Gil c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Pa r t r id g e.

Calumet  Basinoss  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y ;  Secretary  W  H 

H o sk in g.

St.  Johns  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, Thos. Br o m ley;  Secretary,  F rank 

A.  Percy; Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Porrj  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Walla c e;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

H ed d le.

Grand  flaien  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President.  F.  D.  Vos;  Secretary.  J.  W  Ybb- 

Hokks.

Yale  Business  Men’s  Association 

P re sid e n t,  Chas.  Rounds;  S e cre ta ry ,  Frank 

Putney.

P e r e   M a r q u e t t e
Railroad and Steamship Lines.

Fast trains  are  operated  from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago, Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City,  Alma,  Lansing, Belding, Benton  Har­
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points,  making 
close connections at Chicago with trains  for  the
south  and  west,  at  Detroit  and  Toledo  with 
trains east and southbound.  Try  the  “Mid-Day 
Flyers,” leaving Grand Rapids  12:05  noon, each 
week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:05  p.  m.  and 
Chicago 5:00 p. m.

H,  F.  Mo e ll er,  G.  P.  A.,

W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.
flPAMn ^“pldB * Indiana Railway

U l y n l l i /  

March  io,  1901.

Going North.

Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m,  ii:30 

exSu  exS uexS u  exSu
. 
Lv Gd Rapids...........  7 45a  2 lOp  10 45p  5 20p
A t.  CadiUac..............1120a 
6 40p  2 10a  9 00p
Ar.  Traverse City.... 
130p 7 50p  416a  .  ..
Ar. Petoskey............  2 50p  9i5p  5 36a 
...
Ar. Mackinaw City...  4 15p  10 35p  6 56a
a m, 5:15 p m and 10:15 p m.
exSu  exSu Daily  exSu  Daily
r 
Lv. G’d Rapids.  710a 
1 50p 6 50p 12 aop ll sop
1 45p  1 00a
3 22p 8 35p 
Ar. Kalamazoo.  8 50a 
Ar. Ft. Wayne.. 12 lOp  6 50p  11 45p  To Cnlcago
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
......  7 15a 
...............
Trains arrive from the  south  at  6:46 am   and 
9:10am daily, 2:00pm, 9:45pm and 10:15pm except 
Sunday.

Going South.

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MUSKEGON 
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r 
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
Lv. Grand Rapids....  7 35am  2 05pm  5 40pm
Ar. Muskpgon...........  9 00am  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 arriye from Muskpgon at  9:30am  dally, 
:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  6:50pm 
Sunday only.

C H IC A G O   TR A IN S  

G.  R.  &  1  and  Michigan  Central.
TO  CHICAGO

Except 
Dally
Sunday
- v-, - — ~ Vw„.™ "vurvt)  12 30pm 
6 55am 
Ar. Chicago  i 12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
li:30pm train has through  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.
Dally
Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  5  15pm  11  30pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  10  15pm  6  55am 
6:15pm train runs solid to  Grand  Rapids  with 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
II :30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping
Take Q.  R.  &  I.  to Chicago

FROM CHICAGO 

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Associatien 

President,  J ohn  G.  Eb l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J  
Ka t z;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hu ffo r d.

50 cents  to  Muskegon 

and  Return  Every  Sunday

You ought  to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

V A L L E Y   C IT Y   M IL L IN G   C O .,

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

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For a  Name

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

TR AIN   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 -Tun» 
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.
If more than  one person  suggests  the 
name that is selected, the  ticket  goes  to 
the one whose letter is received first.
A11 names must be in before  June  22d. 
Address

C.  L.  LOCKWOOD,  G.  P.  A.

Grand Rapids  &   Indiana  Railway

■ 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

GRAND R A P ID S , fit ICH.

I It Costs Less 

!

to handle high grade premiums than any  form  of  advertising 
you can adopt

Our  Silverware  Premiums  Are  Standard

for Quality,  Durability and  Beauty.  That’s  why  they  attract 
new cash  trade, and  that's  why they hold  it. 
It’s  less  expen­
sive than other plans, and  results are better.  We have a new 
idea for running  it  We furnish all  printed matter,  etc.,  free 
with the goods. 
It’s a winner.  You  keep  your  trade  inter­
ested.  You get them  talking.  You don’t have to  cut  prices. 
You get cash returns  before  you  give  the  article.  You  in­
crease  your  trade  and  hold  all  you  now  have.  Write  for 
particulars.

#

3 TRIO SILVER CO.,  135  Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago,  g

Michigan’s  Famous  Cigars

Manufactured by

COLUMBIAN  CIGAR  COMPANY,  Benton  Harbor  Mich.

H.  Leonard  &  Sons,  Grand  Rapids

Price  list  Staple  Crockery,  Glassware,  Notions  and  House  Fur­
“ The  Commercial  Traveler” 

nishing Goods.  Send  for  Catalogue. 
sent  to  Merchants  only on  request— 175  pages  at

MAIL  ORDER  PRICES

Base  Balls..................................38c and $  68
Butter Plates, wire end......................... 
42
Baskets,  bushel..................................... 
90
Baskets,  handled................................... 
30
Bags, papec, see  Catalogue..................
Brooms..........................$2 25, $2 oo and  1  76
Burners, No. X........................................ 
40
Candy Jars. 2 quart...............................  2 00
•Clothes Baskets, 30 In...........................   3 75
Chimneys. No. 1, box.............................  x  78
Dressing Combs, rubbei....................... 
39
Envelopes, 260 In box............................. 
19
Grocer’s Pass  Book............................... 
06
Galvanized Iron Tubs, No. X.................  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  26
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 g al. each.......
Stone Milk Pans, 1  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, % 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.......................

50 
40 
2  15 
5 60

2 50 
92
35 
23 
19 
67
36 
50 
46 
17

How  Much 
Did  You  Say?

Well,  we  didn’t  say,  but  we  know  every  butcher 
would  be  better  off  if  he  would  quit  guessing  at 
weights.  He  may  think  his  long  experience  in 
weighing meats  has  made  him  infallible,  but  the 
end  of the  year will  tell  him  better  than  we  can 
that  every  penny  must  be  taken  care  of.  The 
M O N E Y   W E IG H T   S Y S T E M   of  our  Auto­
matic  Boston  Computing Scales  will  take  care  of 
your  business  and  save  you .money.  Our  scales 
are sold on  easy monthly payments.

The  Computing Scale Co.

Dayton,  Ohio

