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Eighteenth Year

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3,1901.

Number 928

There’s  room  for  argument  here,  but  there’s  none 
when  the  c h e a p e s t   i s   a l s o   t h e   b e s t .

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ASTORE DO YOU 

B E A C O N   F A L L S   are  the  best  first  quality 
rubbers  on  the  market  and  the  cheapest.

RUN  ONE?

Made  in  all  styles.  Write  for  catalogue.

THE  BEACON  FALLS  RUBBER  SHOE  CO.

BEACON  FALLS,  CONN.

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  the  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.

Contain  the  Heart of the  W heat

With the addition of sugar  and  milk  (or  cream)  or  sugar and  butter, they are  an 
ideal and complete  food.  No better Cereal  Food can  be  produced  and the price is 
less than that asked for other  and  less  desirable  cereals.  Easily cooked, delicious 
to eat,  easy to digest, easy to buy ($2.00 per case of 24 2-lb. packages).

Walsh-DeRoo  Milling  Co.,  Holland,  Mich.

tobacco.

NEW SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO.  (Against  the  Trust.)

u steh B   celebrated

SweetLoma

WHEAT  GRITS

DOUR’S

is  the  leader  because  it  sells  easier, 
slacks  quicker  and  does  more  work 
than  any  other  lime  on  the  market.
Better send  for prices  and  further  in­
formation.

BAY  SHORE  LIME CO., Bay Shore, Mich.

¡Bay  Shore  Standard  Lime

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C O F F E E S
MAKE  BUSINESS

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Baking 

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.

E G G

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

Home  Office, 80 West  street,  New York.

Western Office.
Branch Offices :

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

Detroit 
Fort Wayne
Columbus

Grand  Rapids  Fixtures  Co.

One  of  our 
Leaders 
in 
Cigar 
Cases

W rite  us 
for
Catalogue
and
Prices

Shipped

Knocked

Down

Takes 

First Class 

Freight 

Rate

Corner  Bartlett  and  South  Ionia Streets,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

No.  5%  Cigar Case

Capital  apd  Bfaips

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

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Stipipson  Copiputipg  Gfocefs’  Scale

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

It’s  to  your  advantage.

THE  W.  F.  STIMPSON  CO.
D ETRO IT. MICH.

Volume XVIII,

GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY, JULY 3,  1901

Wholesale Ready Made Clothing 

♦

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

who  will  be  at  Sweet’s  Hotel,  Grand 
Rapids,  July  8 to 15,  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 

a   attention to mall orders. 

»

A.  BOMERS,

..Commercial Broker.,

And  Dealer  In

Cigars and Tobaccos,

157 E. Fulton St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Business.

Cheap and Effective.

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

44  5 .  Clark  St.,  Chicago,  111.

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

CITIES

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

T he  Mercantile  Agency

Established 1841.

R.  Q.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

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

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

Prompt, Conservative, Safe.

> J.W.Champlin, Pres.  W. F r e d  McBain, Sec.

ELLIOT  O.  QROSVENOR

Late State  Food  Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
123a ilajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch.

Tradesman Coupons

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page. 
______
2.  G etting the  People.
4.  Around  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Village  Im provem ent.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  D ry Goods.
11.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Clerks’  Corner.
15.  W ant  L ist
16.  H ardw are.
17.  On  th e  Fence.
18.  The  Meat  M arket.
19.  P ertinent  Plea  for  P ure  English.
20.  W oman’s  W orld.
22.  B a tter and  Eggs.
23.  The  New  York  M arket.
24.  W indow  Dressing.
25.  Commercial  Travelers.
26.  D rags  and  Chemicals.
27.  D rag Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  D ealing  in  Firew orks.
32.  Grand Rapids Connell, U. C. T.

H ardw are  Price  Current.

FAR-REACHING  INFLUENCES.

in 

The  river  that  drains  the  Mississippi 
its  existence  to the  water 
Valley  owes 
drops  that  drip  unheeded 
far-off 
coverts  under  green  leaves.  Controlled 
by  a  common  law,  drop  joins  drop  and 
stream 
joins  stream  until  one  of  the 
mightiest  rivers  upon  the  earth  rolls  its 
tremendous  currents 
into  the  Gulf  of 
Mexico.  The  loss  of  a  streamlet  here 
and  there  or  even  a  system  of  streams 
would  make  no perceptible  difference  in 
the  grand  result.  A  creek  and  its  trib­
utaries 
in  Northern  Pennsylvania  or  a 
fork  and  its  branches  in  Montana  might 
be  diverted  from  the  Mississippi  delta 
and  the  loss  would  never  be  felt,  but 
there  would  still  be  a  loss  and  the  river 
system  would  not  be  complete'until  it 
had  been  restored.

Trade,  in 

its  expansion,  is  following 
the 
law  of  streams.  Drop  by  drop  it 
gathers  at  the  nearest  centers  and,  com­
bining  the  gathered  forces,  finds  its way 
through  natural  sources  to  the  commer­
cial  sea;  and  that  system  will  be  found 
completest  which  gathers 
in  one  the 
systems  of  the  earth  and  in  a  great  gulf 
stream 
in  the  ocean  of  traffic  effects 
those  exchanges  which  will  secure  the 
greatest  benefit  to  all.  So  the 
leading 
ndustries  combine.  The  ironmongers 
organize.  The  railroads  unite.  Ocean 
traffic  yields  to  a  single  guiding  hand; 
and  now,  at  a  single  stroke  of  business 
acumen,  a  master  mind  has  joined  these 
business  systems  of  the  earth,  so  that 
the  water  drops  of trade,  no  matter what 
continent  has  produced  them,  in  the 
shortest  possible  time  and  through  the 
most  direct  channels,  reach  the  markets 
in  the  best  possible 
calling  for  them 
condition. 
It  is  a  systematizing  of  sys­
tems  and  shows,  as  nothing  else  can, 
what  a  far-reaching 
influence  can  ac­
complish.

While  these  great  enterprises  call  for 
and 
insist  upon  superior  generalship, 
the  same  qualities  in  a  less  degree  are 
required  in  the  minor  centers  and 
loca­
tions  of  trade.  The  trader  in  the settle­
ment  who  sees  to 
it  that  every  home 
within  a  widening  radius  by  the  com­
mon  law  of  demand  and  supply  contrib­

utes 
its  trade  drops  to  his  commercial 
rivulet  is  doing  for  his  neighborhood 
what  the  commander-in-chief  is  doing 
for  the  world.  He  studies  its  wants  and 
wishes  until  he  knows  better  than  hi 
patrons  do  their  real  needs,  and  so  an 
them.  He 
ticipates  and 
watches  for  whims 
the  weather 
prophet  watches  the  weather  vane  and 
by  the  time  they  have  become  an  ex 
pressed  want  the  remotest  corner of  the 
globe  has  felt  and  supplied  it  and  the 
satisfied  consumer  rejoices  over  what 
only  the  far-off  isles  of  the  sea  can  fur 
nish.

supplies 
as 

This 

is  not  a ll:  The  trading  post  is 
made  the  place  and  the  scene  of  othe 
commercial  transactions.  Not  only  ii 
the  country  storekeeper  expected  to  en 
gage  in  his  regular  trade,  but the trades 
man  with  his  eyes open will  see  chances 
for  business  in  side  lines  which  mate 
riaily  affect  his  gains  and  which  he 
never  should  hesitate  to  improve.  Bar 
ter 
is  by  no  means  confined  to  an  ex 
change  of  store  goods  for  something 
else,  as  the  storehouse  of  the  country 
trader  can  testify;  and  whatever chance 
and  circumstance  bring  within  hailing 
distance  the  genius  of  traffic  hidden 
in 
him  recognizes  its  opportunity  and  im­
proves  it.

This  ability  to  see  a  chance  for gain 
in  unusual  lines  has  been  recently  dis­
played  by  a  New  York butcher,  who  has 
made  his  uptown  shop  an  agency for the 
highest-priced  servants  in  the  city. 
It 
is  patronized  by  the  wealthiest  citizens, 
who  engage  their cooks  there.  As  the 
cooks  have  salaries  ranging  all  the  way 
from  $2,000 to $3,000  the  engagement  of 
one  of  them  is  a  matter  of  importance 
There 
is  no  fee  from  employer  or  em 
ploye,  but  there  is  little  doubt  that  the 
butcher  makes  his  profit  out  of  the  ar­
rangement.  No cook  is so ungrateful  as 
to  forget  the  butcher  who  has  secured 
for  him  a  place  bringing  him  several 
thousands  of  dollars  a  year  or the  shop 
over  which  this  man  presides,  and  thus 
the  man  behind  the  cleaver  receives  as 
surance  of  profitable  custom.

It  is  often  a  long  distance  from  the 
source  of  a  river to  its  mouth,  but  the 
connection  between  them  is  sure;  and  a 
law  as  certain  exists  in  the  kingdom  of 
trade,  and  he  who  takes  note  of  that  law 
and  turns  it  to  his  material  advantage 
wili  find  the  influences  at  work  as  far- 
reaching  and  as  safely  to  be  depended 
upon  as  those which exist in the physical 
world.

although 

favoring, 

The  proposition  to  put  imbecile  chil­
dren  painlessly  to  death,  which  many 
people  have,  in  a  certain  way,  found 
themselves 
they 
would  not  dare  to  say  so,  was  made 
boldly  by  Dr.  Denison,  of  the  Colorado 
State  Medical  Association.  His  propo­
sition  was  that  death  should  be  inflicted 
by  the  state  on  the  application  of  the 
parents. 
It  is  thought  that  the  associa­
tion  will  adopt  the  suggestion  and  pre­
sent  a  bill  to  the  Legislature.  It  is  not, 
however,  likely  to  pass  that  body.

The  physician  is  a  man  who  recom­
mends  a  change—and  then  takes  all  you 
have.

Number 928

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW.

The  opening  of  the  second  half  of  the 
year  is  attended  with  the  payment  of 
dividends  and 
interest  exceeding  that 
of  any  midyear  settlements  on  record. 
The 
interest  on  bonds  payable  during 
July  amounts  to  $69,333,439,  as  com­
pared  with  $66,949,349 
last  year,  and 
the  dividends  on  railway  and  manufac­
turing  stocks  are  $53,816,044,  as  against 
$38,611,252  for  1900.

in 

the  average  of 

There  seemed  to  be  enough 

in  the 
Wall  Street  bank  failure,  in  the  threat­
ening  condition  of  the  labor  factor  in 
the  steel  trade  and 
in  the  increasing 
heated  term  to  warrant  a  decline  some 
days  ago 
leading 
stocks,  but  none  became  manifest  until 
within  the  last  day  or so.  Added to  the 
unfavorable  effect  of  the  factors  already 
named  came  the  failure  of  a  large  bank 
in  Buffalo  and  the  intense  heat,  with 
the  certainty  of  a 
labor  struggle  with 
the  United  States  Steel  Company, bring­
ing  a  reaction  at  the  last  which  is  low­
ering  the  average  considerably.

exchanges 

Despite  the  heat  the  time  of  summer 
dulness  comes  with  less  effect than ever. 
The  clearing  house 
for 
'une,  as  compared  with  the  same  month 
a  year  ago,  show  a  gain  of  60  per  cent., 
and,  what  is  still  more  remarkable,  the 
average  for  June  is  considerably  more 
than  for  the  earlier  months  of  the  year. 
The  railway  earnings  continue  to  show 
surprising  gains,  and  activity 
in  that 
is  promised  for  many  months  to 
field 
It  is  not  alone  that  heavy  crops 
come. 
and  the  great 
industrial  output  assure 
an 
increasing  business,  but  the  greater 
harmony  in  management  promises  to  be 
a  potent  factor  in  earnings.

The  reports  for  factories  in  all  lines 
ndicate  their  output  sold  for  some  time 
to  come. 
In  many  cases  contracts  are 
declined  on  account  of  the  requirement 
of  too  early  delivery.  Activity  in  real 
estate  has  been  exceptional  of  late  and 
n  all  parts  of  the  country  the  number 
of  buildings  under  consideration  and 
plans  filed 
indicate  a  heavy  demand 
for  lumber,  structural  material,  build­
ers’  hardware,  paints,  glass,  etc. 
In­
stead  of  the  serious  delay  to  manufac­
turing  through  wage  controversies  with 
which  the  fiscal  year  usually  opens,  the 
only  serious  disturbance  at  present  is 
among  the  sheet  steel  workers.  Foreign 
commerce  also  promises  satisfactory  re­
sults,  with 
large  contracts  also  already 
placed  for  the  export  of  manufactured 
goods,  while 
in  the  exchange  market 
commercial  bills  are  freely  offered  for 
future  delivery against  grain  shipments.
The  number  of  retail  liquor  dealers 
n  the  United  States  at  the  close  of  last 
year  was  206,000.  The  total  vote  of  the 
prohibition  party  in  the  election  of  the 
same  year  was  209,000.  New  York  has 
liquor  dealers, 
the 
Illinois 
third. 
Pennsylvania  has  the  largest  number of 
prohibitionists.  New York is  second and 
Illinois  third.

is  second  and  Ohio 

largest  number  of 

A  New  York  physician  has 

just 
grafted  a  new  eyelid  on  a  patient;  but, 
then,  New  York  always  was  famous  for 
its  grafters.

2

Petting the  People
Effect of M odern  Illu stra tio n   on  A dver­

tising.

One  of  the  most  remarkable  develop­
ments  of  journalism  in  the  last  two  or 
three  years  is  in  the  line  of  illustration. 
The  immediate  cause  of  this  increase 
in  the  use  of  the  graphic  art  lies  in  the 
discovery  that  halftones  can  be  used 
in 
the  commonest  print.

Prior  to  this  discovery  the  use  of  il­
lustration  was  confined  to  line  engrav­
ings  by  the  various  processes.  This  had 
developed  until  a  great  number  of  ar­
tists  were  employed  in  newspaper  work 
in  every  city  in  the  country. 
It  looked 
like  a  departure  in  art  work  which  was 
not  likely  to  meet  interruption,  yet  it  is 
now  almost  completely  revolutionized 
in  many  of  the  leading  cities  and  the 
change 
is  spreading  to  all  parts  of  the 
country.  One  of  the  lines  which  seemed 
most  promising  was  that  of  portrait 
drawing  for  reproduction  by  the  zinc 
process.  Now  the  portraits  are  made 
direct  from  photographs and  the portrait 
draughtsmen  have  been  obliged  to  turn 
to  other  lines.

When  it  was  found  that  the  halftone— 
when  suitably  made  for the  purpose— 
could  be  used 
in  any  paper,  attention 
was  turned  to  the  adaptation  of  all  the 
work  of  illustration  to  the  production  of 
suitable  plates  for the  lightning  perfect­
ing  presses  of  the  great  papers.  To  do 
this 
it  was  found  that  the  photographs 
must  be  on  a  suitably  broad  scale. 
Those  showing  minuteness  of  detail 
were  found  of  no  use,  so  for  this  work 
a  considerable  portion  of  the artists  who 
a  few  years  ago  were  doing 
line  draw­
ing  are  now  provided  with  large  photo­
graphic  cameras  and  outfits  and  are 
making  views  of  objects  and  matters 
of  interest  for direct  reproduction.

In  the  old  days  the  advertising  had 
led  the  news  columns 
in  illustration 
and  the  old  line  processes  were  easier 
to  compete  in  advertising  than  is  likely 
to  be  the  case  with  the  broadside  half­
In  the  great  papers  where  the 
tones. 
is  in  use  the  advertiser’s 
new  method 
outline  drawing 
is  overshadowed  and 
lost. 
In  such  papers  the  absence  of  il­
lustrations  in  the  advertising  is  already 
noticeable  and  that  which  is  in  use  is 
on  a 
larger  and  more  decided  scale. 
The  use  of  the  halftone  in  advertising 
is  still  effective  in  such  papers  as  have 
not  adopted  the  new  method  in  illustra­
tion.  These  may  be  obtained  cheaply 
and  when  made  from strong photographs 
of  anything  pertaining  to the  business 
have  an  attraction which  gives  good  ad­
vertising  results.  But  to  be  effective  it 
is  necessary  to  give  suitable  space, 
in  this  line  is  becoming 
minute  work 
more  and  more  ineffective  in  the 
local 
press.

*  *  *

The  first  I  notice 

in  glancing  over 
this  list of sample advertisements  is  that 
all  are  set  in  uniform  styles  of  type  in 
the  display.  A  few  months  ago  such  a 
coincidence  could  scarcely happen  with 
so  many  unless  they  were  especially 
selected.  The  change  in  this  direction 
is  doing  much  to  increase  the  artistic 
appearance  of  the  newspaper  press  and 
that  with  a  gain  in  strength  of  display 
and  clearness.

The  Carson  City  Mercantile  Co. 
shows  a  well-written  and  effectively- 
displayed  advertisement  which  will  sell 
children’s clothing and other goods.  The 
use  of  plenty  of  white  space  is  espe­
cially  to  be  commended.  The  writer 
has  the  faculty  of  using  simple,  strong

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A   S M A R T   B O Y
Will wear out his clothes much quicker than a 
dull  one. 
It’s  a  good  sign,  shows  there’s 
movement to him.  You never know what will 
happen to a boy.  Whatever it is,  it  generally 
happens to his clothes first.

The result is disaster to the clothes—boy all right.

MORAL:

When you buy boys’ clothes get 

the-kind that, things can happea to with the

least rum.  Maybe  there's  trouble with the clothes

better than most suits, even with hard usage.  The  pants  have  double seat 

though.  Not if you get them here.  Ours will wear longer  and 
and double knee, and dont cost any more  than  the  suits  made 

of  cotton  and  sold  for all  wool.  We  guarantee 

s a t i s f a c t i o n

Carson  City  Mercantile  Co.

C.  R.  CULVER,  Manager.

New
Fiction

Just laid in, a com* 
plete  new  stock of 
latest  and  np-to- 
date  10c  and  25c 
novels.  Take your 
choice.

Daily and  Weekly Newspapers,  Periodicals, 
Magazines.  All  the leading papers deliver* 
ed  to  order.  Subscription  rates and  com­
bination offers.
Groceries-—A  choice  stock  of  fancy  Gro­
ceries,  Candies,  Tobacco  and  Cigars.  Try 
our White Cross Baking Powder and receive 
a premium with each can.

JOHN  W.  QUANCE.

St. Iguce, Mich.

warm days

Will be much more enjoyable  if  you  only 
choose the proper wearing apparel, of which 
we are showing a very large line 
Our line of lfen’a, Boys’ and Youths’

Summer  Suits

is very complete and prices ate very reason­
able.  We have a number of  suits,  one  or 
two of a kind, on which we are giving extra 
special bargains.

In  Women’s Goods

our stock is  still  complete,  but  is  rapidly 
getting lower.  If you want n  Nobby  Shirt 
Waist, Jacket, Skirt, or in fact anything  in 
the ready-to-wear line, don’t  pot  it  -off  but 
come and see ns while the stock is complete.

Groceries

During  the  warm  weather  it is well to in­
vestigate  our  Grocery  Department,  where 
yon  will  find  the  most  complete  line  of 
Luncheon Goods  shown in the city.

THE
N EW
JEWELER

Have You
seen the 
handsome • 
sets of

Knives and Farits

we aie eel ling 
for

$3.00 per dozen?

Sypply yoor 
table now.

R. W. R astall,
Traversa City, 

Citizen's Phone S98

* Barnes
i f Candy

i f

Kitchen

NOW  OPEN  FOR

i f
i f
i f
i f .
BUSINESS.
i f
The  finest  place 
i f
in town.  Everything
i f < new.  Conducted  in
a  manner  pleasing
i f
to the  best  class  of
i f
trade.  Headquarters
i f
for
i f
Ice Cream Seda
i f
Hot Roasted Peanut»
i f
Salted Peanuts
i f

Home Made Candy
IceCream 
Pratts etc.

English  and  the  matter is made interest­
ing  enough  to  gain  the  attention  of 
every  mother at  least.

In 

the  advertisement  of  John  W. 
Qunace  there  is  a  division  of  the  sub­
ject  the  advisability  of  which  may  be 
questioned.  There 
is  excellent  mate­
rial  in  the  portion  relating  to  books  for 
an  advertisement  to  occupy  the  space 
and,  properly  displayed,  it  would  be  a 
good  one.  There 
is  another  good  one 
relating  to  groceries.  The  results  would 
have  been  greater  if the  half  had  been 
given  this  week  and  the  other  the  next. 
The  fewer  the  topics,  the  more  effective 
the  advertisement. 
The  printer  Las 
handled  the  work  well  for  having  so 
much  in  the  limited  space.

A.  F.  &  A.  Cameron  present  a  sea­
sonable  announcement  which 
is  well 
handled  by  the  printer.  The  writing 
is  well  adapted  to  the  space  and  the 
artistic  effect  is  preserved  by  the  use  of 
uniform  style  in  display.

A  striking  result  is  produced  by  the 
use  of  uniform  Bradley  Italic  type  in 
the  electricity  advertisement  of  the 
Boardman  Electric  Light  and  Power 
Co.  The  writing  is  to  the  point  and  is 
just  adapted  to  the  space.

R.  W.  Rastall  writes  a  strong  an­
nouncement  of  table  goods  which 
is 
treated  judiciously  and  with  dignity  by 
bis  printer.  The  treatment  is  original 
and  simple  and  the  use  of  the rules with 
the  letter  selected  for display produces a 
striking  result.
There  is  a 

little  too  much  of  the 
funereal  about  the  notice  of  Barnes 
Candy  Kitchen,  but  the  work  of  the 
printer  has  many  good  points. 
In  the 
limited  space  the  body 
letter  should 
have  been  much  smaller  and  the  space 
saved  devoted  to  getting  away  from  the' 
border.  The  writing 
is  too  scattering 
in  style  to  be  pleasing  and  attractive 
reading.
Understanding:  Between  Policem an  and 

U ndertaker.

There  was  a  much-mystified  clerk 

in 
a  local  hotel  not  long  ago.  On  the  re­
port  of one  of  the  hotel  servants  a  tele­
phone  message  was  sent  one  day  to 
police  headquarters,  saying  that  a  man 
had  killed  himself  in  one of the rooms of 
the  hotel.

Policemen  were  sent  to  the  place  at 
once,  and  they  speedily  found  that  the 
supposed  suicide  was  merely  stupefied 
with 
liquor  and  desirous  of  being  let 
alone  for  an 
indefinite  period.  They 
forced  him  to  go  to  bis  own  room  and 
went  away,  after  making  their  report 
to  the  clerk.

A  few  moments 

later  an  undertaker 
came  bustling  up  to  the  desk  in  the 
hotel  office  and  remarked  cheerily  that 
he  had  come  for  the  body.  The  clerk 
asked  him  what  body,  and  he  replied :
“ Why,  the  corpse.  Friends  of  the 
dead  man  sent  me  here  to  get  the 
body. ’ ’

He  was  unable  to give  the  name  of 
the  dead  man  or of  bis  friends,  and  the 
clerk  sent  him  about  bis  business,  but 
puzzled  bis  own  brain  for  a  consider­
able  time  to conjecture  how  the  under­
taker got  word  that  there  was  need  for 
his  services  at the  hotel.

Had  the  clerk  been  wise  in  all  the 
devious  ways  of  police  graft  he 
might  have  guessed  tne  true  explana­
tion  of  the  mystery.  The  particular 
sergeant  on  duty  when  the message from 
the  hotel  reached  headquarters  has  an 
undertaker  on  his  staff,  as  the  saying 
goes,  to  whom  hs  gives  early 
informa­
tion  of  opportunities  for  possible  busi­
ness,  collecting  therefor a  suitable  per­
centage  on  the  undertaker’s  profits.  He 
had  telephoned  the  undertaker  this  time 
from  police  headquarters.

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Around  the State

M ovements  of M erchants. 

Greenland—A  new  bank  has  been  or­

ganized  here.

Bedford—Jordan Bros,  succeed Eugene 

W.  Jordan  in  general  trade.

White  Pigeon— Ray  Colby  will  short 
ly  open  a  grocery  store  in  the  Leaders 
building.

Hancock— The  First  National  Bank 
proposes  to  have  its  quarters  extensive­
ly  remodeled.

Coldwater—A.  Perrin  has  purchased 
the  general  merchandise  stock  of  E. 
Nichols  &  Co.

Leroy— H.  G.  Flint,  cashier  of  the 
State  Bank  of  Scottville,  will  open  a 
bank  here  soon.

Watrousville— Mrs.  John  E.  Handy 
has  purchased  the  general  stock  of 
Cummins  Bros.

Detroit—Oliver  N.  Benson  has  retired 
from  the  dry  goods  and  notion  firm  of 
J.  Sparling  &  Co.

Elkton— Guppy  &  Heller  have  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise stock  of 
Myron  H.  Vaughan.

New  Haven— The  New  Haven  Lum­
ber  &  Coal  Co.  has  been  incorporated 
under  the  same  style.

Port Huron—The Aikman Bakery Co., 
incorporated,  succeeds Samuel  O.  Aiken 
in  the  bakery  business.

Detroit— The  Globe  Furnishing  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation  with 
a  capital  stock  of  $10,000.

Kalamazoo—Vanderbilt  &  Fairchild 
succeed  Vanderbilt  &  Gildea  in  the  tea 
and  confectionery  business.

Alma—The  directors  of  the  Union 
Telephone  Co.  declared  a quarterly  div­
idend  of  2  per  cent.  July  2.

Colon— Chas.  L.  Leland  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
hardware  firm  of  Lemons  &  Leland.

Pinconning—Hettie 

(Mrs.  H.  C. 
Mansfield  has  purchased  the grocery and 
feed  stock  of  C.  E.  Summerfieid  &  Co, 
State 
Bank  of  Carsonville,  formerly  a  private 
bank,  has  been  organized  with  a  capital 
of $20,000.

Carsonville—The 

Exchange 

Hancock—The  Hancock  Co-operative 
Finnish  Trading  Co. 
is  the  style  of  a 
new  corporation  at  this  place.  The 
capital  stock  is  $25,000.

St.  Joseph—Melsheimer  &  Co.  is  the 
style  of  the  firm  which  succeeds  Mel­
sheimer  &  Shear  in  the  dry  goods  and 
men's  furnishing  goods  business.

Alpena—John  A.  Templeton,  dealer 
in 
lumber,  hay,  grain  and  meat  here 
and  at  Forester,  has  sold  out  at  the  lat­
ter  place  to  Southworth  &  McIntyre.

Sparta—The  dry  goods  and  grocery 
firm  of  J.  O.  Shepard  &  Co.  has  been 
dissolved,  David  Gibson  retiring.  J. 
O.  Shepard  will  continue  the  business 
in  his  own  name.

Flint— Wm.  O.  Knowles,  of  the  meat 
firm  of  Ronald  &  Knowles,  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  bis  partner and 
will  conduct  the  meat  market  at  506 
Saginaw  street  in  his  own  name.

Dowagiac—Amsden  &  Morse  have 
disposed  of  their grocery  stock  to  C.  J. 
Hempstead,of  Chicago.  Mr.  Hempstead 
formerly  conducted  the  grocery  business 
at  South  Haven  for sixteen  years.

Portland— Royal  Peake,  of  this  place, 
and  S.  Doremus,  of  Lake  City,  have 
established  a  lumber  yard  near  the  de­
pot.  Mr.  Peake  will  manage  the  busi­
ness,  Mr.  Doremus  remaining  in  Lake 
City.

Detroit— The  Michigan  Produce  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of association.  The 
capital  stock  of  the  company  is  $5,000,

and  the  organizers  are  W.  E.  Babbitt 
and  Henry  J.  Lane,  of  Detroit,  and  D. 
M.  Williams,  of  Toledo.

Detroit—Aritcles  of  incorporation  of 
the  Detroit  Milling  Co.  have  been  filed 
with  the  county  clerk.  The  capital  is 
$100,000,  and  $15,000  is  paid 
in.  The 
shareholders  are:  David  Stott,  1,395 
shares;  David  E.  Stott,  100  shares; 
James  K.  Laird,  5  shares.

Traverse  City— Ed.  and  Harry  Mon­
roe  have  purchased  the  confectionery 
stock  of  Mat.  R.  Tatman.  Ed.  Mon­
roe  will  have  the  management  of  the 
business,  Harry  Monroe  retaining  his 
position  with  the  Hannah  &  Lay  Mer­
cantile  Co.  for the  present.

Hastings—The  dry  goods  and  cloth 
ing  firm  of  J.  S.  Goodyear  &  Son  has 
been  dissolved  by  mutual  consent,  J.  S. 
Goodyear,  who  has  been  identified  with 
the  enterprise  here  for  more  than  forty- 
five  years,  retiring  from  active  business 
life.  The  new 
is  composed  of 
Louis  and  Dwight  Goodyear,  who  will 
continue  the  business  under  the  style  of 
the  J.  S.  Goodyear  Co.  A  new  store 
front  will  be  put  in  of  plate  glass  and 
changes  also  made 
in  the  interior  fit 
tings.

firm 

Mason—A.  J.  Hall,  proprietor of  the 
Mason  cold  storage,  which  was  partial 
ly  destroyed  by  fire  Sunday  morning, 
figures  the  loss  at  about $11,000,  and 
states  that  the  building  and  contents 
were  insured  for $6,500.  The  butter  and 
eggs  have  been  stored  in  five  refrigera 
tor cars  until  after  the  adjusters  finish 
their  work.  Mr.  Hall  does  not  think 
that  he  will  be  able  to  rebuild  and  re 
sume  business.  This  will  mean  a  heavy 
blow  lor  Mason,  as  the  cold  storage  fur 
nished  an  excellent  market  for  farm 
produce  and  gave  employment  to  quite

number  of  people.

M anufacturing: M atters.

St.  Clare— The  Wonder  Plow  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$10,000.

St.  Johns—The  Clinton  Butter Co.  has 
begun  operations  at  its  factory.  Thirty 
nine  people  furnished  milk  the  first  day 
and  this  number  will  undoubtedly  rap­
idly  increase.

Albion— The  T.  C.  Prouty  Co.,  of 
Midland,  manufacturer  of  parlor  and 
barn  door  hangers,  will  move  its  plant 
to  Albion  about  Aug.  1.  This  company 
is  now  being  reincorporated  with 
capital  stock  of  $100,000,  $45,000  of 
which  will  be  raised  in  this  city.  Oper­
ations  will  be  begun  with  sixty  men, 
increasing  to  100  within  a  year.  The 
Prouty  Co.  was  started  six  years  ago 
with  a  capital  of  $600,  which  was  in­
to  $30,000  within  that  time. 
creased 
The 
leading  spirit  is  T.  C.  Prouty,  a 
graduate  of  Albion college.  He invented 
the  articles  manufactured  by  the  con­
cern,  and  much  special  machinery.

Hudson  Ladies Take  H old  of Village  Im ­

provem ent.

Hudson,  July  1— The  several 

ladies' 
clubs  of  this  city  have  taken  up  a  cru­
sade  against  dirty  streets  and  the  un­
kempt  condition  of  vacant 
lots,  etc., 
with  the  result that  Hudson  presents  as 
neat  an  appearance  as  any  city  in  the 
State.  The 
ladies  sent  a  communica­
tion  to  the  Common  Council  on  the 
street  cleaning  problem  a  few  weeks 
ago,  and  as  everyone  fell  in  with  the 
idea  and  thought  the  step  a  proper one, 
all  of  the  property  owners  and  renters 
went  to  work  at  the  “ slickin’ up"  busi­
ness,  and  now  there  are  no  rubbish 
piles,  no  weeds  nor  anything  else  to 
make  the  city  look  bad  and  unhealthy. 
Everything  in  Hudson  is  as  slick  as  a 
hound’s  tooth  and  the  ladies  are entitled 
to a  lot  of  credit  for  it.

K alam azoo  Grocers and  B atchers to Visit 

G rand  Rapids.

A  delegation  of  five  Kalamazoo  gro­
cers  and  butchers— including  President 
Cross  and  Secretary  Schaberg—visited 
Grand  Rapids  Sunday  for  the  purpose 
of  ascertaining  what 
inducements  the 
Valley  City  afforded  as  a  location  for 
the  third  annual  picnic  of  their  organi 
zation.  The  delegation  was  met  by  ; 
number  of  Grand  Rapids  grocers,  who 
escorted  their  Kalamazoo  guests  to  John 
Ball  Park,  North Park and Reed’s Lake, 
after  which  they  were  taken  in  charge 
by  a  representative  of the  Grand  Rap 
ids  Railway  Co.  They  expressed them 
selves  as  highly  pleased  with  their  re 
ception  here  and  frankly  stated  that 
they  would  return  to  Kalamazoo  and 
unanimously  recommend  the  acceptance 
of the  invitation  from  Grand  Rapids 
That  the  recommendation  was  well  re 
ceived  is  shown  by  the  following 
letter 
to  the  Tradesman  from  Secretary  Scha 
berg,  dated  July  2 :

At  a  special  meeting  of the  Kalama­
zoo  Grocers  and  Meat  Dealers'  Associa­
tion,  held 
last  evening,  it  was  unani­
mously  decided  to  run  our annual  ex­
cursion  this  year  to  Grand  Rapids  on 
July  25.

The  meeting  was  well  attended  and 
it  was  a  great  surprise  to  many  that 
there  was  no  division.

We  hope  that  the  Grand  Rapids  As­
sociation  will  be  surprised,  on  July  25, 
by  our  taking  along  with  us  the  greater 
part  of  the  people  of  Kalamazoo.

This  arrangement  will  necessitate  a 
change  in  the  date  of  the  annual  picnic 
of  the  Grand  Rapids  Retail  Grocers' 
Association  from  Aug.  8  to  July  25,  in 
order  that  the  Grand  Rapids  grocers 
may  be  in  shape  to receive and entertain 
their  guests  from  the  Celery  City,  and 
this  change  was  authorized  by  the  Com­
mittee  on  Arrangements  at  a  meeting 
held  Tuesday  evening.

Referring  to  the  event,  the  Kalama­

zoo  Gazette-News  remarks :

At  the  meeting  of the Kalamazoo Gro­
cers  and  Meat  Dealers’  Association,last 
night,  it  was  unanimously  decided  to 
run  the  annual  excursion  to Grand  Rap­
ids  on  July  25.  On  that  date  the  Grand 
Rapids  grocers  will  hold  their annual 
picnic,  and  there  will  be  excursions 
from  Holland,  Lansing,  Jackson  and 
other  places  where  the  tradesmen  have 
an  organization.  The  inducements  and 
attractions  offered  to  the  Kalamazoo 
people  by  Grand  Rapids  were  so  great 
that  they  could  not  be  passed  up.  One 
of  the  features  of  the  day  will  be  a  big 
parade,  in  which  the  Kalamazoo  gro­
cers  and  meat  dealers,  with  the  band 
they  will  take  with  them  and  two  others 
that  will  be  furnished  by Grand Rapids, 
will  have  the  place  of  honor.

The  Boys  Behind  the Counter.
Traverse  City—W.  D.  Turner, 

for 
several  years  clerk  in  the hardware store 
of  S.  K.  Northam,  has  taken  a  similar 
position  in  the  hardware  department  of 
the  Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.  Jack 
Perry  takes  a  position 
in  Northam’s 
store.

Belding  Jud  C .’Smith, 
for  several 
ears  book-keeper  and  assistant  cashier

of  the'  Belding  Savings  Bank,  has  re­
tired  from  that  position  to  accept  a 
good  one  with  L.  W.  Sprague,  hard­
ware, 
in  Greenville,  with  a  view,  if 
everything  proves  satisfactory  to  both 
parties,  of  becoming  a  partner  in  the 
business.

Hillsdale—Charles  Tyler  is  clerking 

at  Whitney’s  shoe  store.

Traverse  City— G.  A.  Johnson  has 
taken  a  position  in  the  drug department 
of  the  Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.

Ludington—Edward Harrison,of Sault 
Ste.  Marie,  has  taken  the  position  of 
prescription  clerk 
in  the  Snow  phar­
macy.

Hillsdale—Chase  Bishop 
for  C.  H.  &  E.  D.  Sayles.

is  clerking 

Traverse  City—Edwin  H.  Pierce,  for 
six  years  numbered  among  the  faithful 
and  well-liked  employes  of  the  Hannah 
&  Lay  Mercantile  Co.,  died  recently  of 
pleuro-pneumonia.  Mr.  Pierce  had  to 
give  up  work  in  the  drug  department  a 
little  over  a  week  before  he  died,  al­
though  be  bad  not  been  well  for  some 
time.  Deceased  was  40  years  of  age  and 
had  had  charge  of  the  drug  store  of  the 
Hannah  &  Lay  Mercantile  Co.  for  all 
of  six  years  and  during 
time 
had  gained  many  warm  friends  in  the 
city,  and  among  the  members  of  the 
First  M.  E.  church,  of  which  he  was 
an  active  member.
Case  W here  Protective  Tariff Is Justified. 
From the Lansing Republican.

that 

It 

The  wagon  merchants  who  come  from 
God-only-knows-where,  and  sell  in  our 
streets  goods  made  God-only-knows- 
where  should  be  charged  a  license  that 
would  be  practically prohibitive— or else 
denied  any 
is 
manifestly  unfair  to  our  home  mer­
chants,  who  sell  better  goods  than  are 
sold  by  these  venders  for prices as cheap 
as  they  can  afford.

license  whatever. 

The  wagon  vender  comes  and  goes 
ike  a  weaver’s  shuttle,  pays  no  taxes 
into our city  treasury,  and  is  permitted 
to  sell  his  wares  at  such  prices  as  he 
may  fix  for  a  paltry  license.  Then, 
like  the  Arab,  he  silently  shuts  up  his 
wagon  and  away  he  goes  to  pastures 
new.

Gentlemen  of  the  council,  this  is  an 
nstance 
in  which  a  protective  tariff 
might  be  brought  into  practical  appli­
cation.

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  firmness of  the  hide  market  holds 
with  slight  advance  and  higher asking 
prices.  The  country  kill  is  light.

Pelts  are  in  light  offering,  with  good 

demand  for sheerings  at  fair  prices.

Tallow  is  firm  and  in  good  demand, 

without  change.

is 

Wool 

in  more  demand,  but  at  no 
higher  values,  except  on  fine,  which  is 
scarce.  The  outlook  is  for  better  values 
on  fine.  The  clip  generally  is  marketed 
and  fairly  well  shipped  out.  Buyers  are 
attracted to invest,  believing it  is  at  bot­
tom  and  any  change  must  be  for the 
better. 

Wm.  T.  Hess.

For G illies’  N.  Y. tea,all kinds,grades 

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company,

Jobbers of

MILL  SUPPLIES

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

Hose  Packing,  etc.  Write  for prices.

ao  Pearl  Street_________  

M.  O.  BAKER  6u  CO.

Orand  Rapid«.  Michigan

TO LEDO .  OHIO

Have fancy  trade at  top  prices  for all  Northern  Michigan  cherries  cat 

get.  Let  us  have  your  shipments.

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Grand  Rapids  Oossip
J.  F.  Bender,  grocer  at  the  corner  of 
Oakes  and  Commerce  streets,has opened 
another  grocery  store  at  the  corner of 
Wenham  avenue  and  Lagrave  street. 
The  Lemon  &  Wheeler  Company  fur­
nished  the  stock.

factory 

library  table 

A  movement  which  has  been  incubat­
ing  for some  time  looking  to  the  estab­
large  and  strong  parlor 
lishment  of  a 
and 
in  Grand 
Rapids  has  received  new  impetus  since 
the  opening  of  the  present  season,  and 
it  is  understood  that  steps  will  soon  be 
taken  to  organize  the  company  and  be­
gin  the  construction  of  the  plant.  There 
are  many  reasons  why  a  big  factory 
manufacturing  this  class  of  goods  ex­
clusively  would  prove  successful  in  this 
city.  There 
is  none  of  the  kind  here 
now,  but  the  five  or  six larger ones  else­
where  have  proved  exceptionally  profit­
able  concerns.  The  establishment  of  a 
large  factory  of  this  character  here 
would  materially  strengthen  the  Grand 
Rapids  market.  Just  at  this  time,  also, 
important 
when  one  or  two  of  the  more 
concerns  manufacturing 
this 
line  of 
goods  are  talking  of  withdrawing  their 
exhibits  from  Grand  Rapids  to  the  new 
exposition  building 
in  Chicago,  it  is 
felt  that  it  would  be  a  most  advanta­
geous  move  to  step  into  the  breach  and 
launch  the  long-discussed  table  factory, 
preventing  any  weakening  of  the  local 
furniture  market 
in  even  any  of  the 
lines  not  now  manufactured  here,  and 
indeed  materially  strengthening  it.

John  G.  Eble,  L.  J.  Katz  and  S.  J. 
Hufford,  respectively  President,  Secre­
tary  and  Treasurer  of  the  Grand  Rap­
ids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association, 
went  to  Muskegon  Sunday  for  the  pur­
pose  of  making the preliminary arrange­
ments  for the  annual  picnic  jubilee  of 
their  organization  on  Aug.  8.  They 
were  met  at  the  train  by  Joseph  and 
Wm.  Castenholz,  Charles  Schoenberg 
and  Derk  A.  Boelkins,  who  escorted 
them  to  Lake  Michigan  Park  and  the 
Occidental  Hotel  for  dinner.  During 
the  afternoon  they  all  visited  Mona 
Lake,  where  the  annual  picnic  of  the 
Muskegon  grocers  and  butchers  will  be 
held  on  the  same  date  decided  upon  by 
the  Grand  Rapids  meat dealers for  their 
outing.  The  local  meat  men  were  en­
tirely  satisfied  with  the  plans  outlined 
by  their  Muskegon  fraters  and  so  ex­
pressed  themselves  to  their hosts  and  to 
their  associates  on  their  return  home. 
As  stated  last  week,  arrangements  have 
been  made  with  the  Pere  Marquette 
Railway  for  round  trip  tickets  at  $i. 
The  train  will  leave  the  Union  station 
at  7  o’clock  for  Ottawa  Beach,  where 
the  excursionists  will  board  one  or more 
of  the  Pere  Marquette  steamers,  reach­
ing  Muskegon  about  ii  o’clock.  Re­
turning,  the  party  will  leave  Muskegon 
at  7  o’clock,  arriving  at  Ottawa  Beach 
about 9 o’clock and  arriving  home  about 
io o’clock.

The  Produce  M arket.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25© 

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

Beets— 15c  per doz.
Butter—Creamery 

extras  command 
i8^c.  Dairy  grades  are  Jower  and 
weaker,  due  to  the  intense  heat  and  the 
inability  of  shippers  to  get  stock  to 
in  any  kind  of  shape  except 
market 
where  refrigerator  cars  are  utilized. 
Fancy  commands  13314c, choice  fetches 
12313c,  while  packing  stock  is  in  fair 
demand  at  n@i2c.

Cabbage— Home  grown  is  in 

large 
supply  and  active  demand  at  45355c 
per doz.

Celery—Receipts  continue to  increase 
in  quantity,  size  and  quality.  The price 
has  dropped  to  18c.

Cherries—Sour  command  $1.6031.85 
per  bu.  Sweet  fetch  $2.2532.50 per bu.
Cucumbers— Home  grown  command 
30335c  per  doz.

Currants—80390c  per  crate  of  16 qts.
Eggs— The  torrid  wave  which  has 
hovered  over  the  country  during  the 
past  ten  days  has  been  very  disastrous 
to  eggs.  Receipts  from  even  nearby 
points 
lose  from  two  to  four dozen  to 
the  case.  Sales are  practically  all  made 
at  loss  off,  although  the  Tradesman 
learns  of  some  purchases  at  mark  at  8c. 
Local  handlers  are  able  to  net  their 
shippers  about  10c,  except when  the  loss 
is  too  great.

Gooseberries—65375c  per  16  qt.  case.
Green  Onions— I2j£c  for  Silverskins.
Green  Peas— 70c  for  common;  90c  for 

marrowfats.

Honey—White stock is  in  light  supply 
at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at  13c  and 
dark  is  in  moderate  demand  at  11312c.
Lemons— Californias  command  $3.25 
for  300s  and  250s  per  box.  Messinas 
fetch  $4  for choice  and  $4.50  for  fancy.
Lettuce— Garden,  50c  per bu.  ;  head, 

60c  per  bu.

Maple  Sugar— io3 ioj^c  for  genuine 

and  9c  for  imitation.

Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Onions—Bermudas command $1.40 per 
crate.  Egyptians  fetch  $2.75  in  112  lb. 
sacks.

Oranges—St.  Michaels  and  Late  Val­

encias  range  from  $3.5034.

Parsley—40c  per  doz.
Pie  Plant— 60c  for  50  lb.  box.
Pineapples— Florida,  $1.5032 

doz.,  according  to  size.

per 

Potatoes—Old  stock  is  still  in  active 
demand  at  40c.  New  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  85395c.

Poultry—The  market  is  strong  and 
active.  Dealers  pay  as  follows  for live: 
Chickens,  8@gc;  medium  and  small 
hens,  7 3 8 c;  large  hens,  6@?c;  young 
turkeys,  9310c;  old  turkeys,  738c; 
young  ducks,  12313c;  pigeons,  60c  per 
doz.  ;  squabs,  $1.25  per  doz.  ;  broilers, 
16318c  per  lb.

Radishes— 12c  for  China  Rose ;  10c 

for  Chartiers.

for 

Raspberries—$1.25  per  16  qts. 

black ;  $1.25  per  12  qts.  for  red.

Seeds— Hungarian,  75385c;  common 
millet,  70375c;  German  millet,  803 
85c.

String  Beans—$1.25  per  bu.
Summer  Squash— 2c  per  lb.
Tomatoes—$1.50  per  4  basket  crate.
Watermelons—Alabama  Sweets  from 
Texas  are 
in  plentiful  supply  at  25c. 
Georgia  stock  will  begin  to  come  in 
next  week.

Wax  Beans—$1.50  per  bu.

Reflections  of a  Bachelor.

The  man  is  never old  who,  the  longer 

he  lives,  lives  the  more.

There 

Women  are  such  a  puzzle  to  men  be­
cause  they  are  so  much  of  a  puzzle  to 
themselves.

is  a  certain  way  a  girl  fixes  a 
lamp  when  a  man  is  coming  to  call  on 
her  which  she calls “ just enough light. ”
It  makes  a  girl  awfully  mad  to  catch 
her  yawning  and  realize  that  she  has 
caught  it  from  a  man  that she just bates.
When  a  man  hates  another  man  the 
worst  it  is  for the  least  reason;  when  a 
woman  loves  a  man  the  best  it  is  when 
he  is  the  least  worthy.

Eve  probably  made  the  snake  mighty 
mad,  only  he  didn’t  let  on,  by  telling 
him  she  knew  he  had  a  good heart,  even 
although  he  pretended  to  be  such  a 
cynic.

Chas.  S.  Withey  and  wife 

leave  this 
week  for the  Canadian  Soo,  whence they 
take  a  fish  tug  for  the  mouth  of  the 
Agawa  River,  opposite  Lizard  Island, 
on  the  north  shore  of  Lake  Superior. 
Here  they  will  ascend  the  River and 
camp  for  a  couple  of  weeks  under the 
guidance  and  protection  of  an  Indian 
scout  and  an  Indian  cook  who  have 
accompanied  Mr.  Withey  on similar ex­
peditions  in  previous  seasons.

Special  Features o f the  Morning:  Market.
The  intense  heat  of  the  past  few  days 
made  a  brief  season  for strawberries, 
the  offerings  having  been  few  and  at 
comparatively  high  prices  for the  week 
past.  Taking  the  season  as  a  whole  it 
has  been  decidedly  unfavorable  to  this 
usual  reliance  of  early  summer.  The 
cold  of  the  spring  months  was  not 
adapted  to the  fruit  and  the  result  has 
been  a  degree  of  acidity  very  disap­
pointing  to  consumers  generally.  Yet 
everything  has  sold  well and good prices 
are  realized  for the  later  offerings.

Cherries  are  now  the  fruit dependence 
and  are  realizing  good  prices.  The fruit 
is  relatively  of  better quality  than  the 
strawberries,  as  the  differences  in  de­
grees  of  sweetness  or  acidity  are  more 
definitely  fixed  by  varieties.  The  offer­
ings  of  this  fruit  Tuesday  were  heavy 
and  all  went  at  an  early  hour.

Tuesday  is  coming  to  be  more  and 
more  the  market  day  of  the  week.  The 
fact  that  Sunday 
is  not  used  for  fruit 
and  vegetable  gathering  as  much  as 
when  times  were  harder  has  its  effect  in 
losing  the  attention  of  buyers.  The few 
wandering  about  on  that  morning  say, 
“ There  is  nothing  here. 
It  doesn't pay 
to  bother  with  the  Monday  market  any 
more. ’ ’  The  crowd  of  hucksters  work 
very  day  and  their  wagons  are  the  pre­
dominating  feature  on  that  morning. 
Tuesday  brings  a  different  condition. 
Buyers  are  on  hand  in  force  and  the 
sellers  are  there  to  correspond.  The 
rest  of  the  week  shows  a  steady business 
until  the  interference  of  Saturday  with 
shipping.

stuff 

Their 

It  is  a  great  relief  to  take the huckster 
trade  away 
from  the  main  market. 
There  are  a  few  who  had  rented  their 
stands  before  the  action  of  the  council, 
and  such  are  making  the  most  of  their 
privileges. 
is  scattered 
about  the  walks  and  grounds  to  an  ex­
tent  that  would  be  very  serious  if  all 
were  there  during  the  height  of  the  sea­
son.  The  special  provision  of  a  nar­
row  walk  on  the  partially  filled  land 
in 
the  old  channel  is  not  the  most  ideal; 
the  rains  keep  it  muddy  and  the walk  is 
wholly 
inadequate  for  the  handling  of 
the  goods,  but  they  seem  to  make  the 
best  of  the  situation.

So  far the  eonditiqn  of  the  main  mar­
ket  as  to  dust  and  mud  has  been  very 
good. 
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  attention 
will  be  given  to  keeping  it  in  sanitary 
condition;  for  it  is  absurd  to  spare  the 
slight  cost  of  caring  for  dust  when  it  so 
seriously  affects  so  large  a  part  of  the 
city’s  food  supply.

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  raw  market  is  unchanged 
at  4  7-32C  for  96  deg.  centrifugal.  On 
the  26th  all  grades  were  advanced  5 
points.  Before  the  advance  a 
large 
business  was  done  and  deliveries  since 
have  been  very  good.

Canned  Goods—The  packing  of  new 
peas  is  now  on  in  Indiana and  the  qual­
ity  was  never  better.  All  indications 
point  to  a  good  pack.  Some  of  our 
Michigan  packers  are  meeting hard luck 
in  having  their  crops  come  on  all  at 
once,  on  account  of  the  hot  spell.  This 
will  undoubtedly  mean  a  curtailment  of 
their  pack,  as  the  season  will  be  so 
much  shorter.  There  is  a  good  demand 
for spot  corn  and  tomatoes  and  the  for­
mer  shows  some  advance.  A  number 
of  tomato  packers  have  withdrawn  on 
futures,  having  sold  all  that  they  felt 
safe  in  contracting  for.  The agents  for 
the  Columbia  River  Packers’  Associa­
tion  say  that  they  have  sold  out  all  that 
has  been  allotted  them.  The  new  com-

bination,  taking  about  forty  canneries 
on  the  Columbia  River,  Puget  Sound 
and  Alaska,  seems 
in  a  fair  way  to 
go  through,representatives  of  the  differ­
ent  canneries  now  being  in  New  York, 
conferring  with  the  financial  backers  of 
the  scheme.  Whether  the  combine  goes 
through  or  not  salmon  is  a  good  pur­
chase.  Michigan  gallon  and  3  lb.  ap­
ples  are  now  cleaned  up  from 
first 
bands  and  packers  are  turning  down 
orders  daily  for  lack  of  stock.  There 
has  been  no  run  of  sardine  fish  for  sev­
eral  weeks  and  prices  are  somewhat 
firmer  in  consequence.

Dried  Fruit—There  is  no  special  de­
mand  for  anything 
in  this  line  except 
seeded  raisins  and  evaporated  apples, 
and  the 
latter  are  practically  cleaned 
up.  From  present  indications  all  dried 
fruits  will  rule  higher  this  year than 
last.  California  reports  short  crops  of 
prunes,  apricots  and  peaches  and  Mich­
igan,  New  York  and  Missouri  report 
poor  apple  prospects.  Prices  on  new 
apricots  are  several  cents  higher  than 
last  year  and  prices  on  evaporated  ap­
ples  for  future  delivery  are  nearly  3c 
higher  than  goods  of  equal  grade  have 
ruled  within  60  days.

Spices—The  market 

remains  un­
changed,  with  continued  firmness  fot 
latter  still 
nutmegs  and  ginger.  The 
shows  an  upward 
tendency  and  the 
firmer grades  of  cassias  reflect  the  feel­
ing.  Holders  have  strong  views  and  as 
supplies  are  light  throughout  the  coun­
try  higher  prices  are  expected  in  the 
near 
remain 
steady,  reflecting  the  strength  of  above 
named  grades.

future.  Other 

spices 

Oatmeal— It  is  stated  by  an  official  of 
the  American  Cereal  Co.  that  the  com­
pany  would  be  reorganized  with  a  cap­
italization  of  $8,000,000  preferred  and 
$4,000,000 common  stock.  The  present 
capitalization 
is  $3,400,000,  all  of  one 
issue.  The  present  stockholders  will 
receive  180  in  cash  for their  stock  or 
two  shares  of  preferred  and  one  of  com­
mon  for  every  share  they  now  hold. 
It 
is  supposed  the  increase  in  the  capital 
stock  of  the  company  is  made  with  a 
view  to  buying  out  the  Great  Western 
Cereal  Co.,  but  an  official  of  the  latter 
stated  that  his  corporation  would  not 
sell;  that 
if  the  American  Cereal  Co. 
offered  180  for  stock  they  would  make  a 
counter  bid  of  190.
Pharm acy  Class  of  the  Ferris  Institute. 
From the Big Rapids Pioneer.

lady 

The  pharmacy  banquet,  which  was 
held  at  the  Northern  last  evening  was  a 
success  in  every  way.  Every  student 
in  the  department  was  present  and  each 
was  accompanied  by  a 
friend. 
While  the  pharmacy  boys  do  not  claim 
the  title  of  orators,  yet  the  toasts  were 
given  and  responded  to  with  so  much 
enthusiasm  that  every  one  present  was 
highly  pleased.  The  dining  room  was 
decorated  with  ferns  and  flowers  and the 
class  colors  were  handsomely  arranged. 
The  orchestra  furnished  the  music  and 
is  to  be  highly  complimented,  both  on 
the  selections  and  the  manner  in  which 
they  were  executed. 
Those  present 
will  long  remember  the farewell banquet 
of  the  class  of  1901.  D.  D.  Pattie  acted 
as  toastmaster  and  the  following  toasts 
were  given  and  responded  to:  “ Ac­
curacy  and  Knowledge  in  Our  Profes­
sion,”   J.  E.  McAllister;  “ A  Public 
Nuisance,”   J.  J.  Kelley;  “ Our  Depart­
ment,  Past,  Present  and  Future,”   J.  A. 
Hynes;  “ Our  Class,  Its  Future  Ca­
reer,”   Fred  Nevius;  “ In  a  Rut,”   W. 
N.  Ferris.  The  guests  then  repaired  to 
the  reception  room,  where  they were  en­
tertained  by  Mr.  Whitmore’s  whistling 
and  the  class  yell,  after  which  they  de­
parted 
in  the  wee  small  hours  of  the 
morning.

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Village  Improvemen
F ram ew ork  on  W hich  Science  o f Govern­

m en t Is Founded.

Another  good  work  for  improvement 
is  to  arouse 
associations  to  undertake 
the 
interest  of  the  school  children  in 
botany  and  a  general  love  of  flowers  by 
inducing  state  and  county  fair  boards  to 
offer  premiums  for  the  best  display  of 
potted  plants  and  cut  flowers  grown  by 
pupils  of  the  public  schools.  The prize 
should  go  to  the  school  and  the  moneys 
should  be  spent  for  something  all  the 
pupils  may  enjoy.  A  premium  for  the 
best  botanical  display  and  the  most 
comprehensive  collection  of  grasses  na­
tive  to  the  state  or  county  might  be 
given  to  the  individual  pupil.

One 

association  exhibited  at 

its 
county  fair  a  miniature  cottage  with 
vine-clad  porch  and  pretty  window 
boxes,  the  tiny 
lawn  and  flower beds 
were  as  neat  as  hands  could  make them, 
and  all  the  necessary  outbuildings  were 
designed  with  an  eye  to  adornment. 
When  what  the  ladies  intended  to do be­
came  known  offers  of  assistance  came 
from  every  direction.  The  carpenters, 
painters  and  other  workmen  had  a  good 
time  over  the  work.  A  colored  man  did 
the  sodding  free  of  charge  and  even  a 
cement  walk  was  laid  and  flower beds 
made.  Then  quite  as  good  a  house,  but 
unadorned,  was  built  beside 
it.  A 
weedy  yard,  no  vines,  no  flowers,  old 
unpainted  outbuildings,  untidy  fence 
and  old  board  walks  made  a  lesson  all 
could  read.  These  tiny  cottages  were 
the  great  attraction  of  the  fair. 
It  was 
difficult  to  get  near them,  and  finally  a 
wire  had  to  be  stretched  around  them  to 
prevent  their  utter destruction.  Not  a 
person  who saw them but carried  the  les­
son  home  and  viewed  his  or her own 
premises  with  critical  eyes.

The  following  occurrence  was  told  me 
by  one  of  the  principals  of  the  story : 
Two  teachers 
in  the  manual  training 
school  of  Toledo,  Ohio,  while  on  their 
way  to  school,  were  discussing  the  dan­
gers of  dirt.  They  found  a  chip  of  wood 
and  stooping  down  scraped  up  less  than 
a  teaspoonful  of  dirt  from  the  street, 
carried 
it  to  the  laboratory,  put  it  in  a 
culture  tube,  and  when  a  week  or two 
later  a  professor  from  Johns  Hopkins 
University  happened  along,  this  tube 
was  shown  him.  Among  many  other 
germs  the  tube  contained  the  well  de­
veloped  bacilli  of  typhoid,  of  scarlet 
fever,  of  diphtheria,  of  tuberculosis, 
and  two  other  bacilli  so  rare  that  per­
mission  was  asked  to  take  the  tube back 
to  the  University  in  order to see  if  they 
could  be  classified.  Toledo’s  dirt  is 
duplicated 
in  every  city  in  the  world 
and  it  is  not  agreeable  to think of carry­
ing  such  matter  into  the  house,  where, 
swept  up  in  dust,  it  fills  our  lungs  with 
deadly  germs.

The  only  comfort  science  gives  us  is 
that,  following  a  law  of  nature,  the  big 
bacilli  are  forever  destroying  the  little 
bacilli,  so  that  while  we  are  constantly 
breathing  these  deadly  germs  into  our 
systems,  yet  it  is  only  when  conditions 
are 
favorable  that  disease  develops. 
Let  each  city,  town  and  village  build 
to  the  god  Uncleanliness  altars  called 
crematories  and  sacrifice  to  him  therein 
all  that  is  his.  Let  the  firie  burn  per­
petually  so  that  his  servant  Disease, 
finding  no  more  work  to  do,  will  lay 
himself  on  the  altar  as  a  final  sacrifice;  . 
and  in  the  places  made  vacant  by  Un­
cleanliness  and  Disease 
flowers 
bloom,  that  their  fragrance  may  ascend 
as  a  sweet  incense  to  the  god  Health, 
and  as  an  acknowledgement  that  his 
servant  Cleanness  has  followed  the com­
mand  to  let  in  a  little  sunshine.

let 

education 

is  practical 

The  aim  of  all  improvement  associa­
in 
tion  work 
civics  and  the  cultivation  of  a 
love  of 
everything  beautiful  in  nature  and  art.
It  is  always  inspiring  as  well  as  sug­
gestive  to  know  what  is  being  accom­
plished  by  other  associations.  Woon­
socket,  South  Dakota,  was  a  town  typ­
ical  of  the  sparsely  watered  regions  of 
America,  with little  grass  and  few  trees. 
The  women  of  Woonsocket  asked  for a 
better  water  supply  in  order that  parks 
and  lawns  might  be  irrigated  and  made 
green  and  flowers  kept  alive.  The  men 
of  Woonsocket  expressed  regret  at  their 
inability  to  better the  conditions.  The 
women  then  organized  an  improvement 
association,  collected  money,  and  hired 
an  expert  to  drill  an  artesian  well.  The 
result  was  a  well  with  a  flow  of  water 
giving  a  pressure  of  one  hundred  and 
fifty  three  pounds  to  the  square  inch 
and  from  which  flow  six  thousand  gal­
lons  of  water  per  minute,  said  to  be  the 
largest  well  of  the  kind  in  the  world. 
The  town  authorities  gladly  availed 
themselves  of  the  use  of  this  well,  and 
mains  from  it  are  placed  all  through the 
town.  An  artificial 
lake,  containing 
eleven  acres,  is  being  constructed  in 
the  center  of  the  town,  which  will  be 
surrounded  with  drives,walks  and  trees.
The  work  of  the  Woonsocket  Associa­
tion 
is  full  of suggestions  for  Western 
towns  suffering  under  the  same  condi­
tions  that  formerly  troubled  that  place, 
which  has  a  population  of  less  than  one 
thousand.

Rev.  Carlos  Martyn  says,  “ There  is 
an  apotheosis  of  dirt  among  us,”   and 
while  he  probably  refers  to moral  untid­
iness,  he  may  well  be  understood  as  re­
ferring  to  our  backyards  and  alleys.

The  women  of  Bethany,  Missouri, 
called  a  meeting  at  the  courthouse  and 
organized  a  society  which  was  called 
the  Woman’s  Improvement  Association.
In  four  months  the  streets  had  been 
cleaned,  the  city  council  requested  to 
enforce  with  greater  rigor  the  various 
sanitary  ordinances,  and 
the  court­
house  square  has  been  made  more  at­
tractive  by  vases  of  growing  plants. 
The  ladies  solicited  the  necessary  funds 
and  in  conjunction  with  the  fraternity 
owning  the  cemetery  secured  the  serv­
ices  of  a permanent  sexton.  In  addition 
to  this  flower  beds  have  been  made 
in 
the  cemetery  and  the  church  yards. 
This  Association  also  opened  a  public 
waiting  room,  which  is  one  of  the  larg­
est  and  finest  rooms  in  the  city. 
It  is 
light  and  airy,well  furnished  and  pro­
vided  with  all  the  necessary  toilet  con­
veniences.  The  tables  contain  plenty 
of  good  reading  matter,  which,  with  the 
beautiful  plants  and  pictures,  makes  the 
place  seem  quite  home-like. 
The 
women  of  this  club  have  employed  a 
matron  whose  duties  are  the  general 
oversight  of  the  room  and  to  make 
comfortable  all  the  guests.  Bethany  has 
a  population  of  less than three thousand.
league  of  which  I 
am  a  member has,  through  the  generos­
ity  of one  of  its  members,  distributed  to 
the  school  children  of  the  city  twenty- 
five  thousand  packets  of flower seeds. 
Another  member has offered  fifty  dollars 
in  prizes  to  boys  and  girls  of fifteen 
years  of  age  for  the  best  kept  lawn  and 
premises  and  for  the  prettiest  flower 
beds.  These  flower  seeds  and  prizes 
have  aroused  a lively  interest  among the 
school  children,  and  can  not  fail  to 
help  the  appearance  of  the  town  to  a 
marked  degree.  We  have  also  induced

improvement 

The 

the  county  fair  commissioners  to  offer 
prizes  for the  best  cut  flowers  grown  by 
children.  We  are  trying  to  induce  the 
city  school  board  to  make  an  exhibition 
of  the  drawings  and  water  colors of  the 
school  children  at  the  county  fair. 
It 
is  only  a  very  few  years  until  the  ques­
tion  of  the  centralization  of  the  country 
schools  will  be  up before  the  people  and 
an  exhibition  of  some  of  their work  will 
give  the  country  people  an  idea  of  the 
advantages  of  the graded schools.  These 
are  a  few  of  the  things  we  are  doing, 
and  we  yet  hope  to  have  a  botanical 
school  garden  started  near  the  city.

The  Fairhaven  Improvement  Asso­
ciation,  Fairhaven,  .Massachusetts, 
is 
eighteen  years  of  age  and  has  done  a 
great  deal 
in  the  way  of  setting  out 
trees  (over  two  thousand),  establishing 
bath-houses  (over  one  hundred),  con­
verting  an  old  cemetery 
into  a  park,

instituting  work  toward  another  park, 
reclaiming  another  old  graveyard  and 
making 
is 
now  projecting  the  erection  of  a  fine 
drinking  fountain  at  the  entrance  of  a 
new  and  beautiful  bridge.

it  sightly;  the  association 

The  City  Improvement  League  of 
Greeley,  Colorado,  has  done  a  most 
commendable  work  under great  difficul­
ties.  As  a  result  of  its  efforts,  that  city, 
built  on  a  dry,  treeless,  alkali  plain, 
now  has  wide,  well  shaded  streets, 
beautiful  and  well  kept 
lawns  and 
parks,  with  comparative  freedom  from 
rubbish.

The 

ladies  of  Washington,  Pennsyl­
vania,  organized  an  improvement  asso­
ciation 
last  spring.  The  chairman  of 
the  Committee  on  Municipal  Civics  of 
one  of  the  leading  literary  clubs  in town 
took  up  the  matter and  the  result  was 
an  enthusiastic  meeting  and  an  effect-

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State  Agents

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Coal  Tar,  Tarred  Felt,

Roofing  Pitch,

Eave  Troughing, 

a  and  3  ply  and  Torpedo  Gravel 

Ready  Roofing,  S ky  Lights,

Galvanized  iron Cornice 

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ive  organization.  The  problem  of  old 
tin  cans  always  has  been  a  puzzling 
one.  The  Washington  associations  ad 
vise  their  members to  bury  them.  This 
is  a  good  idea  for  towns  where  the  a 
leys  are  not  paved,  and  we  pass 
along  to  our  friends.

Mrs.  W.  H.  Frey,  of  Stephenville. 
Texas,  after  several  attempts  of  herself 
and  a  few  friends,  effected  an  organiza 
last  spring.  She  writes 
tion  early 
“ You  will  probably  be 
interested  i 
what  we  are  doing.  We  have  a  popu 
lation  of  about  three  thousand;  level 
country,  fertile 
land,  but  oh!  the  con 
dition  of  the  town  is fearful.  The streets 
are  used  as  a  dumping  ground  for tin 
cans,  dead  cats,  chickens,  etc.  We 
have  no  park,  the  cemeteries  are  over 
grown  with  weeds,  and  there  are  very 
few  sidewalks.  After  several  attempts 
we  organized  with  an  enrollment  of 
twenty  members.  Very,  good,  but  not 
what  I  had  hoped  for.  Nevertheless 
the  influence  of  this  little  band  can  al 
ready  be  seen.  The  city  officials  are 
having  the  streets  cleaned  and the mem 
bers  are 
improving  their  places,  and 
others,  seeing  their good  works,  are  do 
ing  likewise. ”

stop 

I  think  we  all  know  these  deplorabl 
little  new  towns,  sensitive  at  being 
called  villages,  they  have  yet  grown  so 
fast  that  they  are  not  well  enough  or 
ganized  to  be  called  towns.  So  busy 
growing  and  making  money  that,  when 
the  time  comes  they  dare 
to 
breathe,  they  find  that  greed  has  left 
them  without  parks  or  public  squares 
and  the  same  greed  has  hampered  them 
with  streets  too  narrow  for  street  cars 
and  business  traffic  at  the  same  time. 
Then  the  expensive  business of  remedy 
ing  these  evils  begins.  This  is  an  old 
story  of  American  towns,  but  towns, 
like  babies,  must  all  have  the  same 
in 
fantile  disorders— the 
experience  of 
one  never  seems  to  help  another.

The  Des  Moines,  Iowa,  Improvement 
Association  is  doing  splendid  work.  A. 
B.  Chadwick  is  President.  Mrs.  S.  E. 
Bates recently  donated  ground  fora park 
to  the  city,  in  the  center of  a  thickly 
populated  district.  The  park  was dedi­
cated  under  the  auspices  of  the  associa­
tion,  which  will  look  after  its  improve­
ment.  This  reminds  me  that  as  these 
associations  are  not  formed  for  purposes 
of gain,  it  is  necessary  for  them  to  bear 
a  state  charter  before  they  can  legally 
become  beneficiary  by  will  of  land  or 
other  property. 
Several  associations, 
notably  those  of  Stockbridge,  Mass­
achusetts,  and  Bar  Harbor,  Maine,  bear 
state  charters.

The 

association  at  Roswell,  New 
Mexico,  composed  of  ladies,  is  putting 
the  cemetery  of  that  town  in  order. 
It 
has  hired  a  sexton  at $40  per  month  to 
look  after  the  work.  As  it  is  impossible 
to  have  satisfactory  results  in  certain 
parts  of >New  Mexico  without irrigation, 
these  ladies  had  a  well  dug  and  a  tank 
put  up,  which  holds  several  thousand 
gallons  of  water.  This  insures  a  suffi­
cient  supply  to  keep  the  sod  fresh  and 
green  and  keep  in  a  thriving  condition 
the  three  hundred  trees  planted.  Next 
year  the  thing  demanding  immediate 
attention  will  be  looked  after.  This  as­
sociation 
is  doing  one  thing  at  a  time 
and  doing  it  well.

Denver,  Colorado,  Oakland,  Califor­
nia,  St.  Paul,Minnesota,  and other large 
cities,  find 
it  a  good  plan  to  have  a 
number  of  associations,  with  a  central 
league  composed  of the  officers,  execu­
tive  committees  and  an  agreed  number 
of  delegates 
from  the  ward  associa­
tions.  The  ward  associations  not  only

work  better  for  objects  affecting  thei 
especial 
interests,  but  a  wholesome 
spirit  of emulation regarding cleanliness 
and beauty  is aroused.  The central  asso 
ciation  keeps  alive  a  spirit  of  unity, 
works  for  objects  affecting  the  entire 
city,  and sees  that  municipal  ordinances 
regarding  hygiene  are  enforced.

improvement 

The  article  in  the  Outlook,  of  March 
31,  1900,  entitled,  “ Village  Improve 
ment  Among  the  Negroes,"  is  one  of 
the  most  valuable  things  in social statis 
tics  I  know  of.  It  was  written  by  R.  L 
Smith,  a  member of the  Texas  LegiS' 
lature.  Mr.  Smith  is  probably  the  only 
colored  man 
in  the  United  States  who 
has  twice  been  elected  to  the  state-  leg 
islature  by  the  votes  of the whites.  (The 
county  which  he  represents  has  twenty 
nine  hundred  white  voters  to  fifteen 
hundred  colored  voters.)  Mr.  Smith’! 
work  for the  moral  and  material  uplift 
ing  of  his  race  began  ten  years ago after 
reading  an  article  in  the  Youth’s  Com 
panion  on  village 
in  a 
Northern  town.  The  first  year’s  work 
was  discouraging.  Owing  to  the  crop 
mortgage  system  the  black  people  were 
so  poor  they  had  no  money  with  which 
to  better  their  condition. 
But  Mr, 
Smith,  nothing  daunted,  reorganized 
the  association  and  pledged  the  mem 
bers  to  raise  all  possible  supplies  on 
their  own 
land  and  to  co-operate  in 
buying  their  supplies  for  cash.  The 
story,  graphically  and  tersely told,  cov 
ers  a  period  of  nine  years.  To-day 
there  are  eighty-six  branch  organiza­
tions,  with  a  membership  of  two  thou­
sand  three  hundred  and 
forty.  The 
branches  have  an  annual  meeting,  com 
posed  of  one  delegate  for  every  twenty- 
five  members.  They  hold  an  annual 
fair,  which  attracts  large  numbers  of 
white  people.  I  would  like  to quote  the 
article 
in  full,  but  space  forbids.  To 
be  brief,  the'people  who  ten  years  ago 
bad  scarcely  a  dollar’s  worth  of  taxable 
property  now  pay  taxes  on  almost  a 
million  dollars  in  land  and 
live  stock, 
and  the  organization has  not  furnished  a 
single  criminal  of  any  sort.  Such  eco­
nomic  results  are  almost  startling  when 
one  considers  the  small  beginning  and 
the  apparent  hopelessness  of this  begin- 
ing.  No  wonder the  French  govern­
ment  asked  our  Government  to  prepare 
statistics  of  the  village 
improvement 
work  in  America  for  their  exposition. 
This  report  was  placed 
in  the  social 
science  department  of  America’s  exhi­
bition.

Th e  old  saying  that  beauty  is  only 
skin  deep 
is  deeply  false.  Beauty  is 
deep  as  the  bones,  the  blood,  the  rosy 
flesh.  Don’t  you  remember  when  the 
emaciated  Trilby  lay  dying  that  one  of 
her  admirers  said  even  in  that  state  she 
was  beautiful,  “ her  bones  were 
so 
good.”   So  with  the  beauty  advocated 
by 
is 
founded  on  the  soundest  economic laws.
It  is  the  framework on which  is  founded 
the  science  of  government—the  only 
way  municipal  civics  may  be  taught  to 
children  in  a  lasting  way.

improvement  associations. 

It 

Jessie  M.  Good.

The  N ature  o f th e  Case.

“ I  am  not  expecting  any  package,”  

said  the  lady  of the  house.
“ This  is  the  number,”   persisted  the 
driver  of  the  delivery  wagon,  looking 
at  his  book  again. 
“ Name^s  Higgins, 
ain’t  it?”
“ Yes.”
“ No.  74.”
“ That’s  our number.”
‘•‘ Then  it’s  for  you.”
“  I  think  not. 

It  must  be  a  case  of 

mistaken  identity.”

“ No,  mum. 

It’s a  case  of  beer.”

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from  Union  Depot.

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a substantial fan.  Espe­
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necessary adjunct to com­
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line  of  these  goods  in 
fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
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300................. 
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STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN 1 

County  oi  Kent 

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poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
and 
that  establishment. 
folded  7,ooo  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
June  26, 
saw  the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

1901,  and 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
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this  twenty-ninth  day  of June,  1901.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

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THE  DECLINE  OF  D IX IE.

it 

in  which 

In  the  good  old  days,  when  budding 
orators  rendered  declamations  in  dram­
atic  style  every  Friday  afternoon  at  the 
public  exercises 
in  Whitestown  Semi­
nary,a  universal  favorite  was  one  which 
contained 
the  quotation,  "L e t  me 
make  the  songs  of  a  nation  and  I  care 
not  who  makes  her  laws.”   There  is  a 
good  deal  of  force  as  well  as  poetry  in 
the suggestion.  Every  section  and  every 
country  has  its  own particular and some­
times  peculiar  songs 
is 
interested  and  which  to  its  own  people 
are  especially  inspiring. 
In  war  times 
and 
long  afterward  “ Dixie”   was  the 
air  which  roused  the  Southern  spirit 
most,  set  Southern  blood  tingling  and 
won  the  most  applause. 
It  was  played 
on  all  occasions. 
It  is  customary  at  the 
close  of  theatrical  and  other  entertain­
ments  in  the  North  for  the  orchestra  to 
play  “ America.”  
In  the  South  the 
musicians  play  “ D ixie.”   One  of  the 
evidences  that  reconstruction has actual­
ly  reconstructed  and  that  factionalism 
and  sectionalism  are  losing  their  grip 
is  the  suggestion  that 
on  the  South 
“ D ixie”  
If 
this  statement  were  made on  the  author­
ity  of  some  Northern newspaper or  some 
Northern  writer  visiting  in  the  South  it 
might,  perhaps,  be  taken  with  a  grain 
of  allowance,  but  when  the  New  Orleans 
Times-Democrat  says  in  so  many  words 
that  the  popularity  of “ D ixie”  is on  the 
wane  in  the  South,  it  must  be  accepted 
as  the  plain  statement  of  an  established 
fact.  The  Times-Democrat  says  that 
none  can  have  failed  to  observe  the 
it  stirred  the 
change  and  that  while 
souls  of  men 
in  the  early  sixties  it  is 
its  power.  To  use  the  words  of 
losing 
that  newspaper:  “   ‘ D ixie’  is  passing; 
is  dying;  the  anthem  of  the 
‘ Dixie’ 
Old  South, 
‘ D ixie,’  whose  splendid 
strains  have  played  upon  the  passions 
of  men  for  now  nigh  on  to  half  a  cen­
tury— ‘ Dixie, ’  dear  old 
is

its  popularity. 

‘ D ixie,’ 

losing 

is 

It 

is  more 

rapidly  passing  from  the  popular  ai 
of  the  day.”  
likely  that 
“ D ixie”   as  melody  will  always  remain 
more  or  less  popular,  but  it  is  probably 
also  a  fact  that  its  influence  has  waned 
and  that  it  no  longer stirs Southern souls 
as  of  old. 
singing 
“ America”   nowadays  as  well  as  the 
North.  The  sentiment,  “ My  Country. 
'T is  of  Thee,”   strikes a  chord  there  as 
responsive  as  here. 
“ D ixie”   will  be 
retained 
in  the  South  just  as  “ March 
ing  Through  Georgia”   will  be  retained 
in  the  North,  but  what  they  stood  for  is 
being  forgotten.  And  it  is  well.

The  South 

is 

PAN-AMERICAN  ATTENDANCE. 
The  Buffalo  people  have  contributed 
out  of  their  own  pockets  a  very  large 
amount  of  money  to  make  the  Pan 
American  attractive.  Whether  it  shall 
be  a  contribution  or an  investment  de 
pends  entirely  upon  the attendance. 
In 
round  numbers  they  took  $2,500,000  of 
stock,  and  the  banks  and  financial  in 
stitutions  of  the  city  advanced  an  equal 
sum 
in  addition,  and,  of  course,  are  to 
be  first  paid  out  of  the  proceeds  and 
profits  of  the  show. 
It  appears,  then, 
that 
in  order  to  get  their  money  back 
there  must  be  10,000,000  paid  admis 
sions  at  50  cents  each. 
It  is  possible 
that  some  have  visions  of  dividends  or 
nterest  on  the  investment,  but  it  is  safe 
to  say  that  they  will  all  be  perfectly 
satisfied  to  get  back  the  sums  invested. 
Thus  far  the  attendance  has  not  been 
what  was  expected.  May  came  up  to 
anticipations  because  everything  was 
not  finished  and,  moreover,  the  weathe 
was  extremely 
inclement,  but  crowds 
greater  than  have  come  were  looked  for 
in  June.

Even  July  saw 

The  other  day  the  Chicago  Record 
Herald,  referring  to  these  facts  in  con 
nection  with  Buffalo,  recalled  a  chapte 
from  the  Windy  City’s  experience  with 
the  World’s  Fair  and  bid  the  Pan- 
American  managers  be  of  good  cheer. 
It  pointed  out  that  the  average  attend­
ance  in  May  at  Chicago was only 37,000, 
nd  that  for  June 
it  was  only  about 
80,000, 
and  the  aspect  thereof  was 
gloomy  and  some  of  the  managers  were 
disheartened. 
fewer 
people  than  Chicago  really  hoped  for, 
but  by  the  first  of  August  the  crowds 
kept  the  turnstiles  clicking  and  every­
body  was  satisfied.  Buffalo  does  not 
need  the  same  attendance  as the World’s 
Fair  to  make  as  good  a  showing.  The 
Pan-American  crowds  at  present  are  all 
that  can  rightfully  be  anticipated. 
July,  August  and  September will  be  the 
banner months.  Many  will improve  the 
time  when  the  schools  are  closed,  and 
many  others  will  wait  until  the  cool 
weather  of  the  fall.  Buffalo  has  no  rea­
son  to  be  discouraged.  Comparing 
its 
own  with  the  history  of  the  World’s 
Fair at  Chicago,  it  should  take  heart 
and  be  of  good  cheer.

obtainable, 

The  growing  use  of  oil  for  fuel  indi­
cates  an 
important  influence  in  indus­
trial  affairs.  According  to  the  most 
accurate  estimates 
the 
Southern  Pacific  and  the  smaller  rail­
roads  of  Southern  California  expect  to 
save  over  $5,000,000  annually  by  the 
substitution  of  oil  for  coal. 
It  is  said 
that  in  the  first  five  months  of  this  year 
forty-nine  of  the  largest  consumers  of 
coal  in  San  Francisco  have  changed  to 
the  use  of  oil,  making  large  savings.

The  French  government 

is  exploit­
ing  an  airship  which  will  remain  in  the 
air  three  months  at  a  time. 
It  is  said 
that  Depew  is  negotiating  for  its  pur­
chase.

TH E CITIES OF TH E FUTURE.

H.  G.  Wells,  an 

imaginative  writer 
who  entertains  many  readers  and  in 
creases  his  pecuniary  income  by  writ 
ing  for the  periodical  press  prophecies 
of  conditions  which  will  exist in  human 
society  centuries  off  in  the  future,  and 
in  describing  from  his  imagination  the 
methods  and  manners  of  human  life 
in 
the  prehistoric  ages,  has  recently  con 
tributed  to  the  London  Fortnightly  Re 
view  some  speculations  on  the  cities  of 
the  future.

The  wonderful  growth  of cities  in  the 
Nineteenth  Century  has  been  one  of  the 
most  striking  facts  in  the  social  condi 
tions of  the  present  time.  Many persons 
can  remember  when  cities  of  two  to  five 
millions  were  to  be 
in 
In  the  year  1801,  the  first  of 
China. 
the  Nineteenth  Century,  London  had 
about  864,000  people.  After  that  the 
growth of  the  city  was  rapid,  and  to-day 
there  are 
in  Europe  not  less  than  five 
cities  with  not  less  than  one  million 
population,  while  in  the  United  States 
there  are  three  such.

found  only 

Mr.  Wells,  basing  his  views  upon  the 
remarkable  desire  of  human  beings  to 
congregate  in  cities,  with  the  improved 
methods  of 
intra-urban  transportation 
holds  that  there  will  be  in  the  not  dis 
tant  future  cities  of  thirty  millions  or 
more  of  population.

Of  course,  population  must  depend  on 
the  cheapness  and  convenience of  a food 
supply  and  upon  employment  which 
will  enable  the  people  to  earn  a  liveli 
hood.  Manufacturing  is  done  in  cities, 
and  manufacturing,  ever  increasing 
in 
volume,  is  expected  to  furnish  the  em 
ployment.  Railroads will  bring  the  food 
products.

All  the  ancient  cities  were  built  on 
the  banks  of  such  navigable  streams  as 
the  Thames,  the  Seine,  the  Nile,  the 
Euphrates,  the  Tigris  aiid  the  great 
rivers  of  China.  Rome  was  near  the 
seacoast  and  depended  chiefly  for  bread 
on  the  wheat  brought 
in  ships  from 
Africa.

The  size  of  a  town  is  determined  by 
nterior  transportation. 
In  one  where 
the  people  must  walk  to  and from homes 
and  business,  the  town  would  not  be 
greater  than  two  miles  from  the  center 
to  the  circumference.  Where  horse  cars 
are  in  use,a  radius  of  six  to  eight  miles 
is  estimated;  but  with  steam  and  elec­
tric  cars  the  radius  can  be  extended  in­
definitely.  Mr.  Wells  thus  theorizes:

We  are  on  the  eve  of  a  great  develop­
ment of  centrifugal  possibilities.  And 
since 
it  has  been  shown  that  a  city  of 
pedestrians 
is  inexorably  limited  by  a 
radius  of  about  four  miles,  and  that  a 
horse-using  city  may grow  out  to seven 
or  eight,  it  follows  that  the  available 
area  of  a  city  which  can  offer a  cheap 
suburban  journey  of  thirty  miles  an 
hour  is  a  circle  with  a  radius of thirty 
miles.  And  is  it  too  much,  therefore, 
to  expect  thaL  the  available  area  for 
even  the  common  daily  toilers  of  the 
great  city  of the  year  2000,  or  earlier, 
will  have  a  radius  very  much  larger 
even  than  that?  Now,  a  circle  with  a 
radius  of  thirty  miles gives  an  area  of 
over 2,800 square miles,  which  is  almost 
a  quarter  that of  Belgium.  But  thirty 
miles  is  only  a  very  moderate  estimate 
of  speed,  and  the  available  area  for  the 
social  equivalent  of  the  favored  season- 
ticket  holders  of  to-day  will  have  a 
radius  of  over  100  miles  and  be  almost 
equal  to  the  area  of  Ireland.  The radius 
that  will  sweep  the  area  available  for 
such  as  now 
live  in  the  outer  suburbs 
will  include  a  still  vaster  area.  Indeed, 
it 
is  not  too  much  to  say  that  the  vast 
stretch  of  country  from  Washington  to 
Albany  will  he  all  of  it  “ available”   to 
the  active  citizens  of  New  York  and 
Philadelphia  before  that  date.

It does not follow that an  urban  dis­

trict  from  Washington  to  Albany,  a  dis­
tance  of  some  200 miles,  will  be  dense­
ly  built  up,  but  it  will  all  be  parts  of  a 
great  aggregation  of  habitations  which 
will  have  its  densely-built  regions  for 
business  purposes  and  others  less  close- 
ly  covered  with  buildings  and  devoted 
to  residences.

At  the  first  blush,  the  idea  of  a  city 
of  thirty  or  forty  millions  of  population 
seems  preposterous;  but  in  the  light  of 
conditions  which  already  exist,  and 
which  are  rapidly  on  the  increase,  the 
speculations  of  Mr.  Wells  are  not  so  ab- 
solutely  improbable.

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I

THE  HOUSEFLY AND  DISEASES. 
Without  accepting  the  theory,  in  all 
its  extreme  and  radical  features,  that 
certain  sorts  of  malignant  fevers  are 
originated  by  and  are  wholly  and  solely 
due  to  the  bites  of certain  insects  it 
is 
reasonable  to  suppose  that  a  fly  or  gnat 
that  has  been  feasting  on  the  blood  or 
excretions  of  diseased  persons  can  com­
municate  the  germs  of  those  diseases  to 
others  whom  they  may  bite.

observes 

In  regard  to  the  propagation  of  dis­
eases  by  the  common  housefly, 
the 
American  Medicine,  an  important  Phil- 
delphia  publication 
that 
while  the  mosquito  has  been  charged 
with  the  most  dangerous  ability  to  dis­
seminate  diseases,  because  of 
their 
great  numbers  and  active  habits,  flies 
are  no  doubt  the  most  dangerous  insects 
this  respect.  After  feeding  on  the 
expectoration  of  the  tuberculous,  on  the 
feces  of  typhoid  patients  or  other  irfec- 
tive  material,  they  carry  disease  germs 
into  innumerable  places  and  deposit 
them  not  only  by  direct  contact  with 
their  filthy 
little  bodies,  but  by  their 
excreta  and  the  dust  formed  by  the 
crumbling  of  their  dead  bodies.

Restaurants  infested  with  flies  are 
special  abominations.  The  danger  from 
this  source 
is  not  small,  and,  as  the 
summer  is  now  in  full  blast,  bringing 
with 
it  great  hordes  .of  these  pests,  it 
seems  desirable  that  everything  pos­
sible  shall  be  done  to  limit  the  amount 
of  mischief done  by  them. 
In  this  con­
nection,  the  medical  journal  quoted  ad­
vises  the  extermination  of  flies,  and 
cites  the  war on  mosquitoes  waged  by 
the  army  medical authorities  in  Cuba.

it 

fly 

is.  The 

It  is  much  to  he  doubted  if  it  would 
be  wise  to  exterminate  the  housefly, 
troublesome  as 
is  a 
scavenger  of  considerable  importance. 
It  consumes  large  quantities  of  disease­
breeding  material.  The  proper solution 
of  the  problem  created  by  the  fly  is  that 
the  troublesome  creature  should  be  al­
lowed  to  carry  on  without  molestation 
his 
important  function  as  a  scavenger, 
and  at  the  same  time  should  be  kept out 
of  the  places  where  people  eat  sleep 
and  live.  When  he  invades  those  sanc­
tuaries  he  ought  to  be  exterminated,  but 
not  otherwise.  Flies  seldom 
invade 
houses  that  are  kept  clean.  They resort 
to  places  where  any  untidiness  or  filth 
abounds.  The 
is 
haunted  by  flies  proves  that  it  is  in  an 
unsanitary  condition.  Cleanliness  in  all 
private  premises  is  the  only  protection 
against  the  industrious  little  scavenger.

fact  that  a  place 

Among  those  employed  by  the  Maine 
Central  Railway  to  replace  its  striking 
trackmen  are  about  a  dozen  graduates of 
the  engineering  division  of  the  Mass­
achusetts  Institute  of  Technology,  who 
are  patrolling 
the  tracks  now.  The 
officials  say  that  they  make  excellent 
workmen,  and  seem  to  be  enjoying  the 
experience  and  turning  their  theory  to 
the  practical  use  of  keeping  switch 
lamps  burning.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

ENGLAND’S  DECADENCE.

in  the 

Andrew  Carnegie,  discussing  “ Brit­
in  the  Nineteenth 
ish  Pessimism," 
is 
Century,  argues  that  although  there 
much 
in  the  present  situation  of  “ the 
motherland”   calculated to depress,  there 
is  nothing  to  justify  despair.  The  de­
spondent  Briton  compares  his  country’s 
former  supremacy  with  her  present  po­
sition 
industrial  world,  and  il- 
jumps  to  the  conclusion  that 
logically 
she  is  on  the  road  to  ruin. 
“ What  a 
picture  he  gazes  upon  as  he  looks  back­
ward!”   exclaims  Mr.  Carnegie. 
“ He 
sees  his  country  not  only  the  greatest  of 
all,  but 
in  many  of  the  elements  of 
power—in  finance,  in  commerce,  man­
ufacturing,  mining,  weaving  and  ship­
ping— contending  successfully  with  all 
other  nations  combined,  Britain  in  the 
one  scale  and  the  world  in  the  other. ”  
Americans  congratulate  themselves  not 
without  reason  upon  the  skill  and  the 
inventive  genius  of  their  engineers  and 
machinists,  but  the  steam  engine,  which 
made  steamship  navigation  and  rail­
way  transportation  possible; 
the  hot 
blast  and  puddling  furnace,  the  roots  of 
modern 
ironmaking;  the  Bessemer, 
Siemens-Martin  and  Thomas  processes, 
the  foundations  of  steelmaking,  all  had 
their  origin 
in  Great  Britain.  Ark­
wright  and  Hargreaves,  the  founders 
of  machine  weaving,  were  Britons,  and 
for a  long  period  of  time  no  consider­
able  contribution  was  made  to  manu­
facturing  progress,  except  by  the 
in­
ventor  of  Britain—“ the  lonely  pioneer 
who  guided  the  world  and  led  her  to 
modern  industrialism.”   It is not strange 
if  some  sinking  of  the  heart  is  felt when 
this  picture  is  contrasted  with  present 
conditions:  “ No  longer  Britain  versus 
the  world  in  anything;  no  longer  even 
first  among  nations  in  wealth  or  credit, 
in  manufacturing,  mining,  weaving, 
commerce.  Primacy  lost  in all. 
In  sea­
going  vessels  still  foremost,  but  even 
there  our  percentage  of  the world’s ship­
ping  growing  less  every  year.”

The  change  thus  indicated  is  signifi­
cant  of  many  things,  but  it  should  have 
been  understood  all  along  that  the  pre­
ponderance  of  Great  Britain  over  all 
the  rest  of  the world  in  trade  was  due  to 
circumstances  that  were  not  likely to  re­
main  forever  unaltered. 
It  should  have 
been  evident  enough  to  intelligent  ob­
servers  that  Germany  would  become  a 
formidable 
industrial  power  whenever 
she  should  have  the  opportunity  and  the 
disposition  to  develop  her  resources, 
and  it  should  never  have  been  doubtful 
that  the  American  Union,  with  its  vast 
expanse  of  territory  and 
incalculable 
wealth  in  soil  and  minerals,  would  one 
day  outstrip  all  other nations  in the race 
for commercial  supremacy. 
“ It  is  out 
of  the  question,”   says  Mr.  Carnegie, 
“ to  compare  41,000,000 of  people  upon 
two  islands,  127,000  square  miles  in 
area,  with  over  500  people  per  square 
mile  (England  and  Wales),  with  77,- 
000,000  upon  three  and  a  half  million 
square  miles,  unequaled  in  natural  re­
sources,  with  only  thirty  people  per 
square  m ile.”   He  concludes,  therefore, 
that  the  only  reasonable  basis  of  com­
parison  to  proceed  upon  is  that  of  man 
for  man. 
comparison  actually 
made  on  this  basis  must  tend  to  reas­
sure  the  desponding  Briton  and  to  re­
vive  the  glow  of  his  patriotic  pride. 
It 
is  true  that  Great  Britain  has  lost  the 
primacy  of  the  world 
aggregate 
wealth,  since  the  American  Union  now 
surpasses  her  in  that  respect,  but  this 
country  does  not  approach  Great Britain 
in  wealth,  man  for  man—“ with  nearly 
double  the  population,  it  has  only  one-

The 

in 

in  the  aggregate. ’ ’ 
fifth  more  wealth 
in­
Again,  although  there  has  been  an 
evitable  decline  in  Great  Britain's  for­
mer  percentage  of  the  world’s  foreign 
shipping,  hers  still  exceeds  that  of  any 
other  nation  twice  over. 
Indeed,  Mr. 
Carnegie  thinks  that  Britain  will  have 
herself  to  blame if she loses  her  primacy 
in  ship-owning. 
“  In  ship-building,”  
he  adds,  however,  “ it  is  before  long  to 
be  another  matter.  She  must  not  fall 
asleep, 
for  America,  with  her  cheap 
steel  and  timber  and  surprising  work­
men,  is  finely  equipped.  As  the  popu­
is  rapidly  increas­
lation  of  Germany 
ing,  it  is  likely  that  before 
long  she 
may  equal  Great  Britain in ironmaking, 
but  this  does  not  mean  any  reduction  of 
Great  Britain's  output;  it  may  even 
somewhat 
increase.  Her  make,  man 
for  man, will remain greater  than  that  of 
any  country,  except  the  United  States. 
What  more  can  be  expected?  So  with 
steel. ”

The  question,  “ Is  British 

foreign 
trade  declining?”   has  been  much  dis­
cussed  of 
late.  Mr.  Carnegie  remarks 
that  disputants  usualy  overlook  the  fact 
that  foreign  trade  embraces  both  ex­
ports  and  impoits.  “ Studying  the  ques­
tion  carefully,  and  avoiding  the  tend­
ency  to generalize from temporary causes 
and  values  covering  only  this  year  or 
that,  the  writer  is  satisfied  that  the  true 
answer to  the  question,  ‘ Is  British  trade 
declining?’  is  that  it  can  not be affirmed 
to  be  either  declining  or  increasing, im­
ports  and  exports  combined.  It  has  ap­
parently  reached 
limit,  and  is  not 
expanding,  having  remained  practically 
stationary  for,  say,  ten  years.”

its 

It  is  pointed  out  that  too  much 

im­
portance  is  sometimes  attached  to  sta­
covering  brief 
tistical  trade  reports 
periods.  A  decrease 
in  exports  may 
prove  simply  an  increase  in  home  con­
sumption.  A  decrease  in  imports  may 
be  due  to  the  fact  that  the  nation  is  be­
coming  more  and  more  able  to  supply 
In  both  cases  the  result 
its  own  wants. 
is  fortunate.  Another  very 
important 
point  to  be  borne  in  mind  is  that  ex­
ports 
in  the  aggregate  are  not  to  be 
compared  with  the amounts consumed  at 
home.  Mr.  Carnegie  calls  attention  to 
the  estimate  that  only  one-eighth  of 
Britain’s  production 
is  exported,  and 
that 
in  cotton  goods  alone  does  the 
amount  exported  from that country reach 
the  amount  consumed  at  home.  Then 
follows  this  startling  statement,  “ The 
total  annual  exports  (from  Great  Brit­
ain)  average  ^235,000,000;  if  we  esti­
mate  12  per  cent,  profit  upon  these  the 
gain  is  ,¿28,000,000.  The 
in 
annual  expenditures  during  five  years, 
not  including  the  present  war  cost,  is 
just  this  figure ;  therefore,  should  such 
expenditure  become  permanent,  the 
gain  arising  from  all  the  exports  of 
Britain  has  been  absorbed  chiefly 
in 
supposed  empiremaking  and  its  inev­
‘ The  vast  interests 
itable  armaments. 
of  Britain  in  China’  are  much 
in  evi­
dence  at  present,  but  shrink  upon  ex­
amination.  The amount that  China takes 
of  British  products  is  only  ^5,000,000 
per annum.  Little  Holland  takes  one- 
half  more,  and  so  does  little  Belgium ; 
and  the  Brazilian  and  the  Venezuelan 
republics  each  take  more."  Mr.  Car­
negie  thinks  that  this  small  trade  is 
hardly  worth  the  risk  of  stirring  up  a 
big  war,  costing  thousands  of  lives  and 
one  or  two  hundred  millions  of  pounds. 
To  him  it  seems  pitiable  that  so  many 
lives  and  so  much  treasure  should  be 
“ squandered  in  pursuit  of  shadowy  do­
minion  over  barren  territory  in  far-off, 
sparsely-populated  lands,  ostensibly  to

increase 

uncivilized 

secure  new  markets  for British products. 
The  markets  of 
lands 
amount  to  so  little,  and  Britain  has  no 
advantage  from  her  nominal  sway  un­
der  the  policy  of  free  trade ;  for trade 
does  not  follow  the  flag— it  follows  the 
lowest  price  current.”

TH E  BEET SUGAR INDUSTRY.

Secretary  of  Agriculture  Wilson 

is 
credited  with  the  statement  that  “ with­
in  ten  years  the  United  States  will  pro­
duce  all 
its  own  sugar.”   As  at  the 
present  time  barely  more  than  one-tenth 
of  the  total  sugar  consumption  is  pro­
duced  at  home,  this  statement  of  Secre­
tary  Wilson  seems  to  be  decidedly  over 
sanguine,  yet  there  are  few  Americans 
who  will  not  heartily  wish  that  his  pre­
diction  may  come  true.

The Secretary of  Agriculture  bases  his 
opinion  as  to  the  expansion of  the  sugar 
industry  upon  the  present  growth  of  the 
beet  sugar  industry.  He  points  out 
that  many  new  beet  sugar  factories  are 
being  erected,  and  that  the  growing  of 
sugar  beets 
is  gradually  extending 
through  the  entire  northern  belt  of 
states  extending 
from  New  York  to 
California.  He  recites  the  claim  that 
sugar  beets  in  some  of  the  irrigated  re­
gions  show  a  strength  of  14  per  cent., 
when  in  Europe  growers  are  well  satis­
fied  with  12  per cent.  He  argues  from 
this  richness  of  American  beets  and  the 
results  so  far achieved  by  the  early  beet 
factories  that  the  industry  will  expand 
wonderfully  within  the  present  decade, 
so as  to  reach  the  proportions  that would 
warrant  the  production  of  the  enormous 
weight  of  sugar  now  consumed  in  the 
United  States.

Those 

immediately  concerned  with 
the  differences  between  employers  and 
employes,  especially  in  the  various  iron 
industries,  need  have  a  care  and  may 
well  think  twice  about  the  example  set 
in  Great  Britain. 
It  is  not  so  very long 
ago  that  England  was  looked  on  as  the 
workshop  of  the  world  and  was  entitled 
to  that  distinction.  Then  followed  a 
series  of  strikes  and  disturbances  of 
one sort  and  another,  quarrels  and  quib­
bles  over  wages  and  hours  of  work,  and 
before  they  were  settled,  people  who 
could  not  wait  for their  goods  were buy­
ing  them  in  the  United  States,  and  all 
these  industries  here  had  a  great  boom. 
It  is  very  generally  agreed  by  those 
familiar  with  the  facts  that  the  labor 
troubles  gave  British  manufactures  an 
exceeding  black  eye  and  have  put  great 
concerns  in  a  position  where  they  can 
not  give  their  men  as  much  work  and 
wages  as  formerly,  for  the  reason  that 
American  competition  has  come  into 
the  market  and  is  getting  orders.  Ma­
chinery  made 
the  United  States, 
from  locomotives  down,  is  having  ready 
sale  abroad.  One  of the  chief  contribu­
tors  to  its  popularity  is  the  ability  not 
only  to  make  high  grade  goods,  but  to 
deliver  them  within  reasonable  time 
and  promptly  according  to  contract. 
Widespread  troubles  between  employers 
and  employes 
in  this  country  may  re­
sult  in  the  same  sort  of  disaster  as  that 
from  which  England 
If 
the  goose  which 
lays  the  golden  eggs' 
can  be  induced  to  make  them  larger  or 
to  lay  them  oftener,  it  is  all  very  well, 
but  it  would  be  a  great  mistake  to  kill 
the  goose._____________

is  suffering. 

in 

Jules  Verne  has  just  finished  a  book 
in  which  he  endeavors  to  construct  a 
link  between  the  most  perfect  imp  and 
the  most  imperfect  man;  but  it  looks  to 
us  as  if  Herron  had  already  had  enough 
fun  poked  at  him.

CRUELTY  RATHER  THAN  CHARITY.
The  charitable  impulses  of  the  public 
are  always  to  be  commended  and  en­
couraged  so  long  as  charity  alone  is  ex­
ercised  toward  the  victim  of misfortune. 
Unfortunately,  however,  much  of  the 
is  of  the 
public’s 
ultra  reformatory  character  and 
looks 
too  exclusively  to  the  spiritual  welfare 
of  the  objects  of  interest.

intended  kindness 

A  conspicuous  case 

in  point  is  re­
ported  from  Philadelphia.  The  Ledger 
of  that  city  tells  us  that  “ those 
inter­
ested 
in  the  welfare  of  youth”   gained 
“ a  notable  victory”   in  the  council  in 
the  passage  of  an  ordinance “ to  prevent 
young  girls  from  selling  papers  or 
other articles  on  the  streets.”   We  are 
not  informed  that  the  council  has  made 
any  provision  for  finding  other  busi­
ness  for  these  girls  at  which  they  can 
make  an  honest  living.  Their  means 
of  livelihood  is  to  be  taken  from  them, 
however,  because  the  “ Childhood  Pro­
tective  League”   and  the  “ Congress  of 
Mothers”   made  a  “ gallant  fight”   for 
this  ordinance.

True  charity,  or  benevolence,  or  re­
form  is practical.  It will consider where­
withal  people  are  to  be  clothed  and  fed 
as  well  as  saved. 
It  will  not  deal  with 
sentimental  abstractions  or  resort  to  the 
denial  of  personal 
liberty  or the  God- 
given  right  to  pursue  any  vocation 
which 
is  not  in  itself  immoral.  True 
charity  will  not  take  away  opportunity 
without  supplying  other  means 
its 
place. 
It  is  all  very  fine  in  theory  to 
remove  young  girls  from  the  possibili­
ties  of  contamination,  because  one  here 
and  there  may  go  astray,  but  will  these 
“ mothers’  congresses”   and  “ protective 
leagues”  
furnish  the  bread  and  meat 
and  pay  the  rent  of  these  victims of  cir­
cumstances  who  have  been  denied  the 
poor,  and  in  itself  harmless,  privilege 
of  “ selling  papers  and  other  articles  on 
the  streets?”   Not  a  bit  of  it!

in 

in  the  cities 

The  simple  truth  is  that  such  regula­
tions  are  of  the  Puritanical  order,  the 
ultra reformatory and sentimental.  While 
these  societies 
for  the 
protection  of  the  young  are  doing  much 
good  in  many  directions,  it  is  also  true 
that 
instances  they  are 
guilty  of  the  hardest  kind  of  tyranny, 
or  at 
least  injustice—an  injustice  that 
is  often  cruelty  rather  than  charity. 
What  the  poor  want  and  need  most  is 
material  assistance  rather  than  “ soul 
comfort. ’ ’

in  numerous 

imprisonment,  and 

The  Dutch government  has  prohibited 
the  use  of  phosphorus  in  the  manufac­
ture  of  matches.  The  penalty  attached 
to  the manufacturing with  phosphorus  is 
six  months’ 
for 
other  offenses,  in  connection  with  stor­
age  and  importation,  three  months’  im­
prisonment,  or  a 
fine  of  $125.  The 
transport  of  the  stuff  through  the  coun­
try  will  be  permitted  under certain  re­
strictions.  The  danger  to  employes  in 
the  match  factories  is  well  known,  and 
the  agitation  against  the  use  of  phos­
phorus  has  been  noted  on  more  than 
one  occasion 
in  the  columns  of  the 
Tradesman.  This  agitation 
is  almost 
universal  in  Europe,  and  it  will  not  be 
long  before  all  the  countries  will  follow 
the  initiative  set  by  Holland.

Up  to  about  forty  years  ago  Cornwall, 
England,  supplied  nearly  all  the  tin 
used  in  the  world,  but  now  only  about  7 
per cent,  of the  total  supply  comes  from 
there.  The  Malay  peninsula  has  taken 
Cornwall’s  place,  furnishing  about  60 
per  cent,  of  the  world’s  production,  and 
the  Dutch  East  Indies  comes  next,  with 
19  per  cent.

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Staples.

Staple  Cottons—The  market  is  much 
stronger  all  along  the  line  and  sellers 
refuse  to  make  concessions.  The  de­
mand  is general  for  coarse,  medium  and 
light-weight  brown  sheetings,  largely, 
however,  for  the  medium  and 
light 
weights.  Several  makes  and  qualities 
have  been  withdrawn  temporarily  dur­
ing the  week  to  allow  manufacturers  to 
sum  up  the  sales,  and  know  the  real 
condition  of.  the  market.  Denims  are 
attracting  for  the  present  the  greatest 
share  of  attention  from  cutters  and  ex­
porters  and  such  jobbers  as  have  manu­
facturing  departments.  These  people 
placed  good  sized  orders  during  the 
week.  Colored shirtings  showed  a  good 
business.  Ticks,  cheviots,  plaids  and 
other coarse  colored cottons  showed  con­
siderable  improvement.

for 

fall. 

Prints  and  Ginghams— The  demand 
for  printed  calicoes  has  been  well main­
tained,  considering  the  good  business 
already  transacted 
Indigo 
blues,shirtings  and  turkey  reds  received 
the  largest  share  of  attention,  but  fan­
cies  also  sold  much  better than  during 
this  same  period  last  year.  The  prices 
for  full  standard  fancy  calicoes  have 
been  set  at  5c  per  yard  by  the  naming 
of  these  prices  on  “ WindsorEpatants,”  
and  the  “ Merrimacks.’ ’  The  tone  of 
the  print  market  is  firm  and,  as  higher 
prices  are  expected,  it  is  well  for  buy­
ers  to  place  as  large  orders  as  they  can 
now.  Staple  ginghams  are  firm  in  all 
the 
leading  varieties,  and  other  lines 
are  steadier.  Fine ginghams are  strong­
ly  placed  and  scarce  for  this  season, 
while  they  are  reported  as  well  sold  for 
next  season.

Dress  Goods— The  volume  of business 
coming  forward  continues  insignificant. 
Such  business  as  has  come  forward  has 
run  to  plain  cloths,  such  as  Venetians, 
broadcloths, 
ladies'  cloths,  with  oc­
casional  orders  for such  goods  as  rough 
faced  cheviots,  henriettas  and  home­
spuns.  The  principal  activity  is  found 
at  the  mills,  where  every  effort  is  being 
made  to  get  deliveries  out  promptly. 
In  jobbing  circles  the  past  week  or  two 
have  been  devoted  very  much  to  clear­
ing  sales,  in  which  a  good  volume  of 
wash  and  other  fabrics  has  been  dis­
posed  of  at  prices  that  were  satisfactory 
to  the  sellers.  The  jobbers’  salesmen 
are  out  on  the  road  showing  fall  dress 
goods,  and  have  sent  in  some  very  fair 
orders  for  such  fabrics .  as  Venetians, 
broadcloths,  whipcords,  waistings,  etc. 
The  effect  of  this  business  on  the initial 
market  has  been 
insignificant  aside 
from  helping  to  foster  a somewhat  hope­
ful  feeling 
in  certain  directions.  The 
sum  total  of  the  duplicate  business  is 
insignificant.  The  demand  for skirting 
fabrics  does  not  show  much  volume. 
There 
is  a  modest  volume  of  business 
doing  on  reversibles,  but  these  fabrics 
do  not  appear  to  have  as  strong  a  pull 
with  buyers  as  the  single  face  goods. 
The  position  of  the  plaid  back  appears 
as  doubtful  as  ever.  It  still  has  its  sup­
porters,  who  claim  that  the  fabric  will 
come  back 
into  a  popular  position  be­
fore  the  present  season  has  drawn  to  a 
close. 
It  looks,  however,  as  though  the 
wish  was  father  to  the  thought.  There 
is  too  large  a  stock  of  such  goods 
lying 
around  to  make  them  attractive  at  the 
present  time.

Underwear— For  several  months  there 
has  been  an  unprecedented  demand  for 
goods  of  the  balbriggan  type,  and  the

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mills 
that  have  been  making  these 
goods  have  been  very  busy,  many  of 
them  having  been  operated  overtime  on 
orders.  Large  shipments  of  these  goods, 
which  were  ordered  for June  and  July 
delivery,  are  being  made  from 
the 
warehouses  where  they have been stored. 
Some  of  the  mills  also  have  been  mak­
ing 
lightweight  wool  garments,  and  re­
port  excellent  business.  So  far  the  or­
ders  for  heavyweight  underwear  have 
not  been  specially  good,  and  the  mills 
are  inclined  to  be  pessimistic  in  regard 
to  the  winter  season.  There 
is  little 
talk  now  of  the  proposed  knit  goods 
combine.  From  the  present  outlook  it 
would  appear that  the  summer will  be  a 
quiet  one  in  this  industry.  Most  of  the 
mills  are  still  being  operated,  however, 
but  many  of  them  on  short time.  Some 
are  running  forty  hours  a  week,  others 
on  forty-five  and  fifty  hour  schedules.

is*  concerned. 

Hosiery—The  exports  of  hosiery  from 
Nottingham,  England,  have  been  stead­
ily  declining  for  some  years,  as  far  as 
the  United  States 
In 
spite  of  the  fact  of  “ good  times”  in  the 
United  States,  our knitting  mills  have 
been  able  to  supply  the  greatest  portion 
of  the  hosiery  used  here.  The  explana­
tion,  of  course,  is  that  both  the quantity 
and  the  quality  of  the  hosiery  manufac­
tured  here  have  been  greatly  improved. 
The  demand  for cotton  hosiery  has  dur­
ing  the  week  been  on  a  very  small 
scale,  as jobbers  are  taking  only  enough 
to  fill  orders  that  come  to  hand.  Prices 
are  rather  weak.

Carpets—The  orders  that  are  being 
taken  by  the  traveling  salesmen  of  the 
large  carpet  mills  continue  to 
show 
considerable  volume,  especially  on  in­
grains,  jutes  and  the  cheaper  grades. 
Velvets,  body  Brussels  and  the  finer 
grades  have  not  received  much  of  the 
buyers'  attention, but  it  is  expected  that 
some  good  orders  will  be  received  be­
fore  the  season  closes.  The  medium 
grades,  such  as  the  tapestries  and  the 
cheaper  Brussels,  are 
in  moderate  re­
quest,  but  more  business  in  the  tapestry 
line  is  looked  for  in  the  near  future. 
Rag  carpets  do  not  show  much  change 
from  week  to  week,  a  fair  business  be­
ing  done  in  this  line  since  the  opening 
of  the  season.  The  wholesale  cut-order 
trade  report  a  heavy  falling  off  in  busi­
ness,  due  to  the  closing  of their  season 
about  the 
look, 
however,  for a  good  business  in  the  fall 
if  prices  are  no  higher than  at  present.

first  of  July.  They 

Cause of H is Awkwardness.

He—At  last  we  are  alone,  and  we 
have  an  opportunity  to  speak. 
I  have 
been  seeking  this  moment  for days  and 
days,  for  I  have  something  to  say  to 
you.

She—Go  on,  Mr.  Harkins.
He— I  will.  Miss  Jones,  you  perhaps 
have  not  noticed  that  at  times  1  have 
been  constrained,  uneasy,  even  awk­
ward  in  your  presence,  that  I  have  had 
something  on  my  mind  that  I  felt  I 
must  say  to  you?

She (softly)— Yes.
He— That  constraint,  that  awkward­
ness,  Miss  Jones,  was  due  to—due  to—

She— Go on,  Mr.  Harkins.
He—Was  due  to  the  fact  that  I  feared 
you  were  not  aware  that  I  am  engaged 
to  your  mother.

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Clothing

Fads  and  Fashions  in  Suits  and  H ats.
The  change  from  winter  to  summer 
apparel  was  extremely  gradual,  almost 
imperceptible,  but  by  this  time,  every 
man 
is  wearing  his  summer clothing 
It  seems that  serges  are  even  more  pop 
ular than  ever,  if that  is  possible.  This 
is  a  suit  that  finds equal  favor  among 
the  upper  five  and  the  lower  ten,  as  well 
as  the  intervening  masses  of  people. 
It 
is  not  economical  to  purchase  a  cheap 
serge  suit.  Few  other  suits  show  good 
and  bad  qualities  in  such  a  true 
light. 
A  good  serge  will  wear  well,  keep  its 
lose  color,  while  the 
shape  and  not 
lose  their  shape  very 
cheaper  kinds 
shortly,  are  very 
liable  to  fade,  and 
will  be  almost  ruined  in  the  event  of 
the  wearer  being  caught 
in  'a  heavy 
shower.  The  one  great  drawback 
a  serge  suit  is  that 
it  is  very  easily 
soiled,  and  shows  every  little  spot  very 
clearly,  but  on  the  other hand,  it  can  be 
very  easily  cleaned,  and  made  to  look 
I  know  of  a  number  of  men 
like  new. 
who,  while 
circum­
stances, are  by  no  means  what  the  world 
would  call  rich  men,  and  who  never 
think  of  having  less  than  two serge suits 
for  the  summer.  Some  of  these  men 
only  have  one  or two  suits,  besides their 
serge  suits,  during  the  whole  summer, 
not  counting  Tuxedo  and  bicycle  suits, 
of  course.

in  comfortable 

single-breasted  and 

It  is  remarkable  in  how  many  differ­
ent  combinations  a  couple  of  serge suits 
one 
the  other 
double-breasted,  can  be  worn  with a  few 
little  extras;  and  every  combination  is 
natty  and  stylish.  They  can  be  worn 
with  the  three  pieces  of  the  same  ma­
terial  of  serge. 
It  looks  as  spick  and 
span  when  worn  with  a  white  or  light 
waistcoat,  with  duck,  light  flannel  or 
trousers  of  other  materials.  The  single- 
breasted  looks  exceedingly  well  with­
out  a  waistcoat  of any  kind. 
In  fact, 
a  couple  of  the  above-mentioned  suits 
will  often  give  a  man  better service 
than  three  suits  of  other styles.  This 
being  the  case,  it  is  not  surprising  that 
this  autocrat  among  men’s  suits  has 
held  such  undisputed  sway  in  the  hearts 
of  the  well-dressed  men 
for  a  large 
number  of  years.  There  is  a  diversity 
of  opinion  as  to  whether  the  flannel 
two-piece  suits  will  figure  as  promi­
nently 
in  the  wardrobe  of  the  good 
last  year.  So 
dressers  as  was  the  case 
far  the 
indications  are  that  they  will 
not.  Up  to  the  time  of  the  present 
writing  they  are  not  to  be  noticed  on 
the  persons  of  well-groomed  men  in  as 
many  cases,  and  the  men’s  outfitters, 
those  that  cater to a  good  class  of  trade, 
are  far  behind  their  last  year’s  record 
in  regard  to  their  sale.

In 

looking  over  the  stocks  of  the 
men’s  outfitters  and  custom  tailors,  the 
reason  for this  falling  off  in  the  sale  of 
the  flannel  suit  is  apparent. 
It  is  very 
seldom  that  one  sees  any  especially 
original  pattern,  the  designs  being those 
imitated  by  the  cheap  clothiers  and 
tailors,  black,  blue,  gray  and  green 
grounds,  with  hair  line  or  wider stripes 
of  white,  or  some  other  contrasting  col­
ors,  predominating.  This  is  only  one 
of  the  many  cases  when  overpopulariza­
tion  has  a  tendency  to  kill  it  in  the 
favor of the  exclusive  dressers.  By this 
I  do  not  mean  to  say  that  flannels  will 
not  retain  a  great  deal  of  their  popular­
ity,  but  I  do  mean  to  say  that  they  will 
be  seen  more  frequently  adorning  the 
persons  of  the  middle  classes  than  those 
of  the  "sw ells.”   The  latter  try  to keep

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away  from  the  popular  styles  as  much 
as  possible,  and  will  wear  rough  goods, 
with  stripes  so  faint  as  to  be  almost  in 
visible.  The  most  marked  difference  to 
be  noticed  in  men’s  suits  this  year,  in 
contrast  to  last  year’s  styles,  is  in  thei 
shades.  The  general  tone  this  year  is 
by  far  darker  in  every  variety  of  styles, 
fabrics  and  patterns.  A  salesman 
one  of  the  best  known  men’s  outfitting 
establishments  in  this  city  said  that  in 
all  their  spring  and  summer stock  of 
clothing  they  only  hacLfour  or  five  pat 
terns  that  could  be  called  light;  a  mod­
erate  number  were  of  a  fairly  dark  hue, 
while  the  majority  were  of  dark  tones. 
A  very  stylish  and  popular  suit  was  of 
unfinished  worsted,  in  black,  dark  blue 
or  mixtures,  with  a  very  faint  overplaid 
of  white,  blue,  green  or  red.

It  is 

It  is  an  odd  thing  that  the  hat  which 
is  supposed  to  be  worn  as  a  protection 
against  the  heat  is,  in  reality,  as  warm 
a  hat  as  any  manufactured. 
question 
if  it  is  any  cooler  than  the 
derby 
itself.  Of  course,  I  refer  to  the 
plain,  rough-braided,  narrow  brimmed 
straw  hat,  with  the  brim  of  two  or  more 
layers.  As  far as  weight  is  concerned, 
it  is  bulky  and  heavy,  and  the  brim  has 
been  getting  narrower and narrower year 
by  year,  so  that  this  year  it  was  im 
possible  to  make 
it  any  narrower,  or 
there  would  not  have  been  any  brim 
left  at  all.  A  great  protection  against 
the  rays  of  the  sun !  How  warm  a  hat 
this  really  is,  can  easily  be  proven  by 
noticing  a  number  of  men  wearing  it 
on  a  ‘ ‘ scorcher.’ ’  When  I  say  wearing 
it,  it  is  not  strictly  true,  as  a  large  per­
centage  of  men  will  be  seen  carrying  it 
their  hands,  and  the  inside  will  in 
all  cases  be  covered  with  perspiration. 
fact 
The 
that  the  above-mentioned 
straw 
is  such  an  uncomfortable  article 
of headwear  may  have  had  something 
to  do  with  the  successful  introduction of 
the  straw  alpine.  The  manufacturers, 
no  doubt,  saw  that  there  was  a  demand 
for  some  modification  of  the heavy straw 
hat.  Already  the  large  brimmed  Alpine 
is  beginning  to  gain  in  public  favor. 
The  Panama  was  the  lightest  and  best 
hat  of  the  kind,  but,  of  course,  it  was 
out  of  the  question  to try  to  make  that 
take  the  place  of  the  other;  the  high 
price  was  its  chief  obstacle.  So  the 
straw  Alpine  was  put  on  the  market  as 
It  was  not  the 
first  time  that  the  attempt  had  been 
made,  but 
last  year  was  the  first  time 
that  it  met  with  much  success.  At  first 
it  found  a  number of  admirers  among 
the  men  past  middle  age,  but  towards 
the  end  of  the  season  it  found  decided 
favor among  the  younger  men.  Unless 
every  authority  almost  is  incorrect,  it 
promises  to  break  its  last  year’s  record 
by  a  good  margin.

sort  of  go-between. 

course, 

It  is  said  that  the  straw  Alpine,  both 
wide  and  narrow  brim,  will  be  the  most 
popular hat  for the  summer  among  the 
well-dressed  men.  Of 
this 
does  not  refer  to  the  very  exclusive 
dressers,  who  pay  from  $15  to $50  for 
the  genuine  Panama.  Some  Broadway 
hatters  have  been  showing  flat-brimmed 
Panamas  that  cost $300. 
It  is  the  opin­
ion  of  the  experts  that  its” favor  in  the 
eyes  of  the  ultra-fashionable  dressers  is 
not  likely  to  be  diminished  by  over­
popularity ! 
I  have  not  seen  this  hat 
personally,  and  can  not  figure  how  the 
hat  can  be  worth  that  unless  it  has  a 
ribbon  of  pearls  or  diamonds  around 
the  crown  instead  of  the  ordinary  band. 
Many 
imitations  of  Panamas,  that  can 
be  had  at  from  $5  to $10,  while  not  as 
durable  as  the  genuine,  nor as  light 
in 
weight,  are  nevertheless  delightfully 
cool  and  light,  being  made  from  fine 
imported  materials.  The  pearl  and  slate 
colored  Alpine  must  not  be  forgotten, 
either.  The  large  brimmed  variety  will 
be  worn  very  extensively  by  all  sorts  of 
dressers.  Outside  of the  straw  hat  and 
the  Alpine,  there  will  be  no other hats 
worn  in  sufficient  quantities  to  call  for 
any  mention. 

Ajax.

You are  all  right when 
you buy right goods right.

Sterling  Overalls

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

Morris  W.  Montgomery
Lansing,  Michigan

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Fit
to
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Our own  make of shoes are  made to  fit, 
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Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

a  good  location,  a  nice  store  and a  good 
stock  and  it  is  another  thing  to get  cus­
tomers 
latter  problem  is 
much  the  harder  and  must  of  necessity, 
at  first  at  least,  come  entirely  under  the 
head  of  advertising.

inside.  The 

Now  in  what  way  can  we  best  make 
an  impression? 
I  would  not  open  hur­
riedly  nor  in  any  half-hearted,  afraid 
of  the  future  way. 
“  It’s  there, ”   and 
you  will get  i t ;  be  as  sure  and  confident 
of  it  as  if  you  stood  above  a  mine  with 
metal  all 
It’s  there,  and 
hustling 
energy,  right  methods,  and, 
above  all,  the  enthusiasm  of  certain 
success  will  quickly  reach  the  hidden 
sesame.

around. 

little 

Advertising  to  be  effective  must  be 
regular,  expected,  waited-for  talks  on 
what  you  are  offering,  what  you  have 
new,  what  you  are  selling  special,  and 
all  those 
interesting  things  you 
can  intersperse  about  your  store  doings. 
Dodgers  are  a  good  thing  twice  a  year 
—February  and  August. 
In  this  way 
they  do  not  cheapen  the  business,  but 
rather  by  their  infrequency  add  a  great 
force  to  your  clearing  sales.  Persistent 
or  regular  dodger  advertising,  except 
for 
‘ ‘ cheapness - recommends - it 
stores,”   is  not  productive  of good  re­
sults,  not  alone  in  itself,  but  it  belittles 
all  your  other  advertising.

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Shoes  and  Rubbers
How  a D ry  Goods  M erchant  Would R un a 

Shoe  Store.

This 

little  talk  will  undoubtedly  be 
criticised  by  shoe  store  merchants,  and 
it  is  this  same  criticism  that  will  bring 
out  the  good  points  if  any.

From  a  dry  goods  point  of  view  the 
shoe  store  of  to-day  has  not  kept  pace 
either  with  exclusive  or  department  dry 
goods.  While  it  is  true  that  the  facili­
ties  and  advantages  of  the  shoe  man  are 
limited,  it  is  equally  true  that  it  is  fully 
as  prolific  a  field  for  the  upbuilding  of 
a  successful  and  profitable  business.
Most  dry  goods  merchants  have  a  soft 
spot  for  shoes;  it  seems  t  o  them  like 
something  easy  compared  to  the  way­
wardness  of  frills  and  fabrics. 
It  is 
absolutely  certain  that  the  shoe  business 
is  devoid  of  most  of  the  petty  details, 
annoyances  and  hindrances  that  are  met 
with  in  retail  dry  goods  every  day.

In  starting a  shoe  store  my  foundation 
would  be  to  give  the  business  a  certain 
individuality,  a  certain  difference  or 
personality  that  would  in  some  way  dis­
tinguish  it.

In  selecting  a 

location  get  on  the 
right  side  of  the  street  and  as  near  to 
the  principal  dry  goods  store  as  pos­
sible—right  next  if  you  can.  Have  the 
show windows  lowered to eighteen inches 
above  the  walk,  and  the  entrance  made 
as 
inviting  as  improvements  will  per­
mit.  Paper  the  store  in  a  plain  paper, 
medium  shade  of  olive  green,  and  have 
the  shelving  perfectly  plain—cabinet 
style,  sections  not  too  large,  painted  in 
This  combination  of 
white  enamel. 
olive  green  and  white 
ideal  for a 
shoe  store.

is 

I  would  have  all  stock  boxes  white 
interior 

and  the  exterior as  well  as  the 
effect  white.
“  I  have  always  had  an  admiration  for 
white ;  it  seems  to  give  a  sense  of  pur­
ity  and  tone  to  surroundings. 
In  the 
matter  of  seating  and  fitting  accommo­
dations  something  new,  or  in  some  way 
different,  could  easily  be  had.

As  to  the  line  of  shoes  to  be  carried, 
which  is  in  reality  the  key  to  success,  I 
should  make  quite  a  departure  from  the 
In  the  medium-sized  or 
old  methods. 
larger  towns, 
I  should  handle  only 
women's  and children’s ;  in other words, 
a  specialty  shoe  house;  or,  if  room  per­
mitted  two  separate  departments,  an­
other  adjoining  room  or annex for men’s 
goods. 
I  believe  that  the  time  is  here 
when  success  is  better  assured  Tn  spe­
cialties  than  in  generalities,  especially 
in  the  shoe  business,  and  that  men’s 
goods  will  comprise  a  separate  and  dis­
tinct  line.

The  most 

important  part  of  a  shoe 
stock  seems  to  be  sadly  neglected  by 
merchants,  and  that 
is  the  keeping  in 
stock  of  a  line  of  good  quality  shoes  for 
infants  and  small  children.

As  a  matter  of  fact,  in  most  medium- 
sized  towns  it  is  necessary  to  send away 
to  some  large  city  to get  a  good  child’s 
shoe.  Women are  often  more  particular 
about  their children's  dress  than  their 
own,  and 
in  nothing  more  so  than  in 
shoes. 
In  no  line  of  trade  does  an  ar­
ticle  count  for  more  than  in  babies’  and 
children’s  footwear—the  custom  of  the 
balance  of  the  family  readily  follows. 
The  days 
for  high-priced  shoes  are 
passed. 
A  popular-priced,  common 
sense  shoe  is  the  shoe  of  the  day.

After  securing  a  location  and  stock, 
and  fitting  up  the  store  as  above  out­
lined,  the  question  would  arise  how  to 
get  customers. 
It  is  one  thing  to  have

Newspapers  will  be  your  principal 
magnet,  but  don’t  abuse  this  great  mer­
cantile  boom;  don't  make  dumb  your 
business  voice  nor deafen  the  ear  of the 
public  by  wantonly  stating  untruths and 
deliberately  magnifying  values  and 
comparisons.  The  confidence  of  the 
buying  puhlic  once  gained  is  forever at 
your  command,  but  when  once  lost  it 
can  never  be  regained.

For 

a  newspaper  advertisement  I 
should  contract  for  a  regular  space,  say 
six  inches  double,  each  issue,  if  weekly 
paper;  if  daily,  Monday,  Wednesday 
and  Friday,  or  Monday  and  Friday. 
I 
should  have  an  electrotype  made  bring­
ing  out  in  some  dignified,  striking  way 
the  firm  name.  And  here  let  me  advise 
using  the  firm  name  exclusively;  never 
an  adopted  figurehead.

I  should  also  have  electros in the same 
manner  (different  sizes)  of  the  names of 
different  famous  shoes  handled— if  they 
are  not  famous  in  your  territory,  make 
them  so.  Do  not  use  any  other  cuts 
unless  occasionally  one  striking  shoe 
cut  in  the  center of  a 
large  advertise­
ment.  Newspaper  advertising  pictures 
are  so  common  now  that  an  advertise­
ment  without  attracts  attenton.  Always 
do  a  little  different  from  the  horde,  and 
you  draw  attention  to  yourself.  Have 
plenty  of  margin  and  room  in  your  ad­
vertisements.  and  always remember that 
blank  space  is  not 
lost  space,  but  a 
simple,  inexpensive  introduction  to  the 
public  that  your covered  space  acknow­
ledges, and  then  sets  forth  in  its  story  a 
simple,  plain,  convincing  argument. 
Do  not  abuse  your  great  resource,  “ the 
special  sale,”   and  do  not  have  one  un­
less 
indeed  special.  One  each 
month  is  all  right,  but have  some  reason 
for  it,  and  in  your  running  advertise­
ments  do  not  quote  regular  prices  as 
special  prices.  Rather  refer  to  the 
in­
expensiveness  of  the  prices,  etc.,  and 
dwell  on  goodness  and  quality  more 
than  on  exceptional  reductions.  The 
sales  that  I  would  inaugurate  from  the 
start  are  as  follows:  Opening  sale, 
annual 
semi-annual 
reduction  sale, 
grand  sale,  anniversary  sale. 
These 
sales  should  occur every year,and  should 
be  headed,  “ First”   or  “ Second,”   as 
to  the  number  of  times  each  sale  had 
been  presented.

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I M N M t m N M t M U N M M U N N N N M M M

LEG G IN G S

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

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 FA C T U R ER S  

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M ICHIGAN

SE P— l - H M M M W M I

T r n r n r r r T Y T T T T T T "

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Wholesale

Boots  and  Shoes

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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I  would  engage  the  best  clerks  I could 
find,  would  rather  have  one  good  clerk 
than  three  "a s  is."  Would  also  have 
one  good  girl  clerk,  some  one  who  lived 
in  town  and  was universally acquainted. 
In  many  ways  her  presence  and  assist­
ance  would  be  of  great  benefit. 
I 
should  have  all  packages  wrapped  in 
pure  white  paper.  My  store  would  be 
a  shop  of  white  parcels,  it  would  be  so 
advertised,  and  every  white  package 
seen  in  the  vicinity  would  be a convinc­
ing  argument  for  my  goods  and  prices. 
Pure  white  paper  is  seldom  seen  out­
side,  possibly,  of  a  drug  store,  and  it 
always  attracts  attention,  and  when  you 
use  it  and  advertise  it  as  a  trade  design 
it 
is  a  winner.  To  make  a  sale  espe­
cially  effective,  twice  a  year  I  should 
close  my  store  all  day  to  remark,  re­
price and  rearrange for the annual  event. 
The  closing  of  the  store  one  day  insures 
the  greatest  possible  success  to  a  well- 
advertised  sale;  it  never  fails.

I  should  instruct  all  the  clerks to  treat 
all  customers  alike,  and  with  the  great­
est  courtesy  possible,  telling  them about 
the  good  and  poor  points  of  each  shoe, 
and  I  should  not  allow  any  argument 
or  differing  from  a  customer's  views. 
Nearly  every  customer  has  some  weak 
spot,  and  by  humoring  all  and  antag­
onizing  none  the  first  lasting  impres­
sions  are  made.—W.  B.  Olmsted 
in 
Shoe  Retailer.

P opularity  of  Men’s  Oxfords  Likely  to 

Increase.

Many  dealers  are  dipping  into  men’s 
oxfords  very  cautiously,  and  some  are 
large  de­
predicting  that  the  present 
mand  for  them  will  be  short 
lived. 
They  do  not  want  to  be  caught  this  fall 
with  a  stock  on  the  shelves,  to  sacrifice 
or carry  over.

Summer  is  now  far enough  advanced 
for any  dealer  to  have an  idea  as  to  how 
the  demand 
in  his  locality  is  going  to 
run  for  this  season’s  goods,  and  he  can 
govern  himself  accordingly,  can  give 
them  an  extra  push  off  the  shelves  or 
It  is  an 
order  more,  to  suit  his  trade. 
early  summer  seller,  and 
it 
is  some­
times  necessary  to  decide  quickly.

As  to  the  1902  season,  every  indica­
tion  p  ints  to  a  growth  rather  than  a 
diminishing  of  the  call  for  men’s  ox­
fords. 
They  will  continue  popular, 
chiefly  because  they  are  a  cool,  com­
fortable  shoe.  Particularly  in  the  South 
they  will  be  called  for  in  quantity,  and 
the  large  cities,  both  North  and  South, 
will  use  them  freely.  The  clothiers  are 
helping  the  oxford  along  by  supplying 
stockings  of  neat  and  handsome  designs 
and  patterns,  too  fine  to  be  covered  up 
with  the  plain  leather of  a  high  topped 
shoe.

little 

Men  are  proud  of  having  but  a  small 
share  of  vanity,  but  a  man  with  a  neat 
pair  of  summer  hose  covered  under a 
high  shoe  top  feels  a 
like  the 
tramp,  who  invested  his  last  ten  cents 
in  a  raffle  and  by  a  lucky  fluke  won  a 
$30  suit  of  pink  silk  underwear. 
It 
preyed  on  his  mind  because  no  one 
gave  him  credit  for  having 
the  fine 
harness.  As  he  said,  "N o   one  dreams, 
gentlemen,  that  beneath  this  rough  ex­
terior  there  beats  the  noblest  pair  of 
drawers  in  Baltimore.”

But,  independent  of  this,  the  shoe  has 
its  uses  and 
its  claims.  Some  years 
ago,  every  farmer  in  the  country  wore 
heavy,  cowhide 
top  boots  the  year 
around.  He  tramped  up  and  down  the 
furrows  and  around  the  harvest  field 
with  his  calves  and  ankles  encased  in  a 
hot,  heavy 
leather  tube.  Now,  sales 
have  fallen  almost  to  zero  in  many  sec­
tions,  except  for  strictly  winter  wear. 
The  farmer  wears  a  medium  shoe  that 
weighs  about  one-third  as  much  as  the 
boots  did.  The  same  sort  of  a  change 
may  take  place 
in  men’s  better grade 
shoes,in  the  way  of  abbreviation  during 
the  heated  season.

There  will  be  no  disadvantage  to  the 
dealer  in  this,  for  the  reason  that  no 
wearer  ever  "holds  over”   an  oxford. 
He  buys  a  pair  for  summer,  and  when 
summer  fades  away  the  shoes  fade away 
too.  They  go  to  the  dump  forthwith, 
so  that  while  they  are  a  cheaper  shoe, 
only  cheaper  service 
is  expected  of 
them.  The  sale  of  higher  priced  dress 
shoes  and  of  winter  shoes  will  go  on 
nevertheless  and  notwithstanding.

But  intelligent  adaptation  of  styles  is 
becoming  more  common.  There  is  on 
the  whole  less  apishness  every  year, 
and  more 
individual  discrimination. 
This  is  a  good  thing,  and  the  man  who 
cultivates 
it  will  demand  oxfords  for 
summer,  just  as  he  insists  on  having  a 
good  storm  coat  to  wear  in  January, 
when  the  abject  follower  of  other  peo­
ple’s  styles  shivers  along 
in  a  short 
"top  coat”   that  hits him  at  about  the 
lower  edge  of  his 
liver.—Shoe  and 
Leather  Gazette.

How  to  B utton  a Shoe.

Contrary  to  the  belief  of  many  shoe 
men,  it  is  necessary  to  give  the  wrist  a 
slight  turn  in  buttoning  a  shoe.  Some 
time  ago,  an  article  appeared  in  one 
of  our  papers,  and  was  copied  by  sev­
eral  others,  to  the  effect  that  the  proper 
way  to  button  a  shoe  was  by  drawing 
the  hook  clear  through  without  the 
slightest  turn.  Try  it  yourself,  and  you 
will  realize  that  a  shoe  that  can  be  but­
toned  by  this  method  is  never as  snug 
over  the  instep  as  it  ought  to  be.  The 
great  mistake  in  buttoning  a  shoe  was

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  mistake  of  shoe  men  in  turning  the 
buttonhook  clear  around  after  catching 
hold  of  the  shank  of  the  button.  This 
not  only  strains  the  buttonhole,  and 
even  breaks  the  button,  but  it  is  also 
liable  to  pinch  the  flesh  of  the  instep  so 
that  a  customer  will  not  care  to  have 
you  fit  her  again.  When  you  button  a 
shoe  take  the  hook  firmly  in  your  right 
hand,  catch  the  fly  close  to  the  hole 
with  the  forefinger  and  thumb.  With 
the  full 
leverage  on  the  hook  turn  the 
wrist  slightly  outward,  and  the  button 
will  be  drawn  through  on  even  the 
highest  arch.

The  O rthopedic  Last.

There  is  something  fascinating  evi­
in 
dently  about  the  orthopedic  title 
lasts.  The  name 
is  an  expressive  one 
to  the  man  with  a  pocket  dictionary, 
although  be  must  get  badly  mixed  when 
he  observes  his 
ideal  presented  in  so

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many  different  forms.  Nevertheless, 
the  "orthopedic”   bolds^  the  board  in 
many  stores  and  the  shoes  sell.  Even 
in  infants’ 
footwear this  style  in  some 
manner  is  presented  and,  for the  most 
part,  looks  to  be  a  sensible  kind  of  a 
shoe.

The Greatest 
Seller

in  Women’s  $1.50  shoes  is 
our “American  Beauty.” 
Write for samples.

C. M. Henderson & Co.,

“Western  Shoe Builders,” 

Chicago,  III.

Q.  Who made GRAND RAPIDS famous for shoes?
A.  RINDGE,  KALMBACH,  LOGIE  &  CO.
Q.  What are some of the lines made by them that others imitate?
A.  The Hard Pan,  Oregon Calf,  Keystone and Star Lines.
Q.  How may their goods be distinguished from all others?
A.  B y having the name  Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.  stamped  on 

the sole and  lining of every shoe they  make.

If interested drop a postal  to the house  and  one  of  our  traveling  men 

will be pleased to call on you.

Grand  Rapids  lark and  Lumber Co.

Dealers  in

HEM LOCK BARK, LUM BER, 

SH IN GLES,  RAILROAD  T IE S , 

P O ST S,  WOOD

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

price.  Bark measured and paid for at loading  point. 

W AN TED— 75,000 Ties on  Pere  Marquette Railroad.  Write  for prices.

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CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG  HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

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manufactured  from  the  finest  selected  Leaf  Tobacco  that  money  can  buy.

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

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

" I   do  not,"  I  replied. 

" A t  the pres­
ent  time  I’ve  been  eating  just  eleven 
minutes.  Don’t  you  expect  your men 
to eat  any  lunch?"

"T h at’s  all  right,”   he  retorted,  " I  
want  you  to  be  through  your  lunch  by 
the  time  I  get  in  here,  and  be  ready  to | 
attend  to  what  I  have  to  say!"

"Suppose  I  don’t  get  a  chance  to  sit 
down  until  five  minutes  of  1?"  I  asked, 
quietly.

" I ’ve  got  nothin’  to  do  with  that!”  
he  said;  "don’t  you  be  eatin'  when  I 
come  here  again. 
I  ain’t  used  to  it. 
Jim  never  did 
it  and  neither  has  any 
other  man."

That  made  me  a  little  warm  in  the 

collar.

‘ Man!’  ’ ’  I  said. 

"Y o u ’ve  never| 
had  a  man  here  before— you  merely  had 
jumped  every  time  you 
things  that 
pushed  the  button! 
I’m  not  that  sort!
I  propose  to  eat  my  lunch  in  the middle j 
of  the  day  and  I  propose  to  take  time 
enough  to  eat  it  decently  like  any  other 
workingman! 
like  that i 
you  needn’t  stand  it  one  minute.  Say 
the  word  and  I’m  out!”

If  you  don’t 

The  old  man  growled  and  grumbled 
about  for  a  minute  or two,  and  then  he 
blurted  out,  “ Get  on  to  work  now  and 
don’t  bother  m e!"

I  had  won.  The old  man  and  I  never | 

had  any  more  controversy  about  lunch.
sat  down  when  I  got  a  chance  and 
stayed  down  until  I  had  finished, 
whether  he  was  about  or  not.  And  I 
know  by  the  way  he  treated  me  from 
that  time  on  that  he  had  a  thousand  perl 
cent,  more  respect  for  me  than  he  ever | 
had  before.—Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

The  Successful  Man.

A
Summer
Lamp

A

Cottage
Lamp

Just  the  thing 
for these warm 
nights.  Always 
re lia b le ;  no 
co m p licated  
valves and gen­
erators to clog. 
Every part sim­
ple and  practi­
cal.  Guaran­
teed  one  year 
from  date  of 
sale.  Exclusive 
territories  as­
signed to  relia­
ble  a g e n t s . 
Write for  cata­
lo g u e s   a n d  
prices.  Manu­
factured by
Pentone
Gas
Lamp Co.,
141 Canal  St.
Qraad  Rapids, 
Mich.

Are you not in need of

New Shelf Boxes

We  make  them
KALAMAZOO PAPER  BOX CO. 

Kalamazoo,  Michigan

PARIS

GREEN

LABELS

The  Paris Green  season  is  at 
hand  and  those  dealers  who 
break  bulk  must  label  their 
packages  according  to  law.
We  are  prepared  to  furnish 
labels which meet the  require­
ments of the  law,  as  follows:

100 labels, 25 cents 
200 labels, 40 cents 
500 labels, 75 cents 
IOOO labels, $1.00

Labels  with  merchant’s  name 
printed  thereon,  $2  per  1000. 
Orders  can  be  sent  through 
any jobbing house at the Grand 
Rapids market.

TRADESMAN 
COMPANY,  

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GR AN D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .  |

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Clerks’  Corner.

E m ployer  Has  No  Respect  for  th e  Eye- 

Service  Clerk.

I  have  very  little  respect  for  the  em 
ploye  who  will  allow  any  employer  to 
browbeat  him 
into  that  form  of  de 
pendence  usually  called  eye-service.  By 
that  I  mean  the  sort  of  service  which 
constrains  an  employe,  through  fear,  to 
jump  and  hustle  while  the  master's  eye 
is  on  him,  only  to  loaf  like  thunder 
soon  as  he  can  do  so  safely.

I’ll  never  forget  how  I  asserted  my 
independence  once  with  an  employer of 
this  sort.

This  old  fellow  was  a  wholesale 

dealer  in  meats  and  provisions,  and 
was  his  book-keeper.  He  was  an  old 
school  merchant  and  an  autocrat— 
relic  of  the  age  when  a merchant  bought 
his 
clerks  as  apprentices  and  thus 
owned  their  bodies  as  well  as  thei 
time.

The  old  man  believed  that  everybody 
should  stand  at  attention  when  he  was 
about.  He  believed  his  men  should  be 
there  promptly  on  the  minute  of 
o'clock  and  not  leave  until  6,  working 
every  minute  of  the  interval.

He  used  to  have  a  fellow  as  down 
stairs  store  salesman  who  was  afraid  as 
death  of  the  old  man.  Never  dared  to 
call  bis  soul  his  own  or  to assert himself 
in  any  way  whatever when  the  old  fel 
low  was  about.  Gad!  I’ve  seen  him 
get 
laying-outs  that  no  self-respecting 
man  could  take,  yet  Jim  would  stand 
through  it  all,  weakly  grinning.

I  said  a  few  things  to  him  one  day 
about  his  cowardice  in  taking  what  no 
body  could  expect  him  to  take,  but  his 
excuse  was  characteristic:  "W hy,  the 
old  man  would  fire  me  if  I  said  any 
thing. ”

The  old  man  used  to  go  to his  lunch 
precisely  at  12  o'clock,  and  get  back 
precisely  at  1. 
I  never  knew  him  to 
miss  a  minute.  Jim  used  to  bring  his 
lunch  with  him.  He  kept  it  in  a  sort 
of  little  low  closet  like  a washstand,  and 
when  the  time  came  to  eat  he  would 
open  the  doors  and  draw  up  a  chair,

He  believes  that  strict 

the  foundation  of  all 
ness  success.

integrity  is 
legitimate  busi-| 

He  places  no  limit  to  his  ambition, 
since  the  field  is  free  to all  and  work  is I 
the  price  of  progress.

He  pushes  for  more  business  in  busy 
seasons  and,  if  customers  are  scarce, 
still  pursues.

He  depends  on  his  own  exertions | 
and  abilities  and  they  reward  his  con­
fidence.

He  practices  strict  business  economy I 

and  does  not  condescend  to  penurious­
ness.

He  is  not  utterly  defeated  by  defeat, 

nor careless  from  success.

He 

is  fullest,  not  only  from  policy, 
but  from  principle;  he  considers  suc­
cess,  lacking  self-approbation,  as failure I 
:n  disguise.

He  pays  promptly  and  collects  as  he | 

pays;  rather than  pay  as  he  collects.

He  is  courteous  in  manner  and  ap-| 
preciates  the  commercial  value  of  cor-1 
diality.

speaks  last  and  concisely.

He 
thinks  first  and  deeply;  and 
He  possesses  executive ability to  a de-1 
gree  which  renders  him  appreciative  of | 
the  valuable  points  in  employes.

He  is  careful  in  details,  knowing  that I 
they  are  the  mortar  which  binds  his | 
operations.

He  realizes  that  the  prime  object  of I 
business  is  to  make  money,  and  he 
therefore  refrains  from  extreme  compe­
tition  in  prices.

In tricate  Financiering.

Juddy and  I got  into a terrible  tangle 

shopping  to-day. ”

"H ow ?”
" I   owed  her  10  cents,  and  borrowed 
cents  and  then  50 cents.”
“ Well?”
"Then  I  paid  30 cents  for  something! 
“ Yes?”
“ And  she  paid  40  cents  for  some­
thing  I  bought,  and  then  we  treated 
each  other to  ice  cream  soda. ”

she  bought— ”

"W ell?”
"She  says  I  still  owe  her a  nickel.'

establishment, 

We  didn’t  get  lunch  very  regularly  in 
because  people 
that 
would  be  coming 
in  all  the  time,  and 
they  had  to  he  waited  on.  Jim  used  to 
sit  down  about  quarter of  1,  as  a  rule. 
He  would  eat  away  until  he  heard  the 
old  man’s  step  and  then  he  would  fran­
tically  shove  the  doors  of  the  closet  to, 
give  bis  mouth  a  hasty  wipe,  and 
whether  be  was  through  or not, jump  up, 
so  that  when  the  boss  got  in  he  would 
find  Jim  standing  in  the  middle  of  the 
floor  with  an  air  of  expectancy,  as  if 
he  was  hoping  somebody  would  come 
in  and  give  him  a  nice  hard  job  to  do.
The  fellow  did  this  through  actual 
fear  of  the  old  man.  He  was  entitled 
to  a  whole  hour  if  he  wanted  it.

One  day  Jim  took  sick  and  I  went 
downstairs  to  take  his  place.  The  first 
day  I  got  down  at  my  lunch  a  few  min­
utes  before  1. 
I  was  working  on  a 
piece  of  my  mother’s  cake,  if  I  remem­
ber  rightly,  when  the  old  man  came  in, 
and,  of  course,  I  didn’t  move. 
It  was 
too  good  cake.  He  was  very  pleasant 
and  went  on  about  his  business  as  if 
there  was  nothing  unusual  about  it.

The  second  day  the  same  thing  hap­
pened.  1  was  eating  again  when  the old 
man  came  in,  but  he  said  nothing.

The  third  day  I  was  eating,  too.  As 
he  came 
in  he  looked  at  me  with  a 
queer  look,  and  I  knew  that  things 
would  be  doing  in  a  minute.

"E a t  all  the  time?"  he  snapped.

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in

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R.  R.  BEAN,  Secretary

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especially about crackers  knows  that
Standard  Crackers

and

Blue  Ribbon  Squares

are  superior in quality and  flavor  to  any  other 
goods  manufactured.  See  quotations in  price 
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15

WANT  LIST.

Few  R etailers  Recognize  the  Necessity  of 

K eeping One.

Do  you  keep  a  want  list,  and  if  you 
do,  how  do  you  keep  it?  Any  old  way, 
or do  you  employ  system?  Retail  mer­
chandising  is  expandig  so  rapidly,  and 
the  head  of  a  retail  establishment  has 
so  many  things  to  look  after,  that  he 
must  resort  to  system  if  he  desires to 
win  the  greatest  success  in  bis  busi­
ness.  System  should  be  resorted  to  in 
replenishing  wants,  if  it 
is  to  be  em­
ployed  at  all.  More  sales  are  often  lost 
through  the  fact  that  the  merchant  does 
not  keep  bis  stock  properly  replenished 
than  through  the  fact  that  prices  are 
kept  too  high.

latter 

Having  established  the  necessity  of 
keeping  a  want 
list,  there  are  several 
other  considerations :  Do  you  put  your 
wants  down  in  the  want  book  or on  the 
want  list,  when  the  goods  have  all  been 
sold,  or  do  you  note  down  goods  you 
require  as  soon  as  stocks  are  depleted, 
and  in  plenty  of  time,  so  that  they  may­
be  ordered  and  will  be  on  hand  when 
the  present  stock  is  entirely  exhausted? 
is  eminently  the  proper 
The 
course  and  should  be  followed. 
If  your 
line  of  prints  is  running  low  and  you 
are  having  a  remarkable  demand  for 
indigo  blues,  or  a  certain  line  of  per­
cales,  be  sure  that  you  make  a  notation 
on  your  want  book  in  plenty  of  time  to 
allow  for  delay 
in  the  arrival  of  the 
traveler,  and  delay  in  shipping,  but  at 
the  same  time  so  that  you  may  have 
the  goods  in  the  store  when  they  are  re­
quired.  You  handle  a  certain  line  of 
coffee  which 
in  demand'  in  your 
neighborhood ;  you  can  obtain  it  from 
only  one  jobbing  firm  and  there  are  the 
usual  delays  in  getting  orders  filled  and 
forwarded.  Gauge  your  requirements 
so  that  you  will  have  plenty  of  this  line 
of  coffee  on  hand  at  all  times  and  so 
that  your customers  can  always  get what 
they  require,  when  they  want 
it.  The 
merchant  should  be  forehanded  and 
thoughtful  enough 
in  his  business  to 
order  slightly  in  advance of  his  require­
ments  and 
in  such  quantities that  he 
will  always  have  sufficient  stock,  but 
need  not  necessarily  have  a  large  sum 
of  money  tied  up  in  stock.

is 

Now  as  to  the  want  list,  how  is  the 
investigation 
best  way  to  keep  it?  An 
of  the  subject 
in  this  city  led  to  the 
conclusion  that  few  retailers  recognize 
the  necessity  of  any  such  list.  They 
keep  store  with  the  idea  in  view  that 
the  traveling  man  or the  salesman  will 
call  upon  them  about  so  often  anyway, 
and  be  will  be  so  anxious  to  sell  his 
goods  that  he  will  see  that  their  stocks 
are  kept  up  to  due  proportion.  This  is 
not the  best  merchandising.  The  mer­
chant should  always  know  what he wants 
and  how  much  of  it  and  should  be  pre­
pared  to  place  his  order  without  the 
assistance  of  the  salesman  or traveler.

A  good  plan  to  follow  is  to  have  a 
want  list  for  each  department  of  the 
business.  Secure  oblong  cards  of  fairly 
thick  board,  plain  white 
if  possible, 
and  tack  them  up  near  the  counter or 
in  some  out-of-the-way  place  where they 
will  not  be  too  prominent,  and  where 
they  can  be  easily  reached. 
If  you  are 
conducting  a  grocery  store,  place  a want 
card 
in  the  canned  goods  department, 
another  in  the  dried  fruit  department, 
have  another  for  staple  articles  such  as 
coffees,  sugars,  provisions,  vinegar, 
molasses,  starch,  etc.  ;  have  one  for the 
cigar and  toba cco  department  and  an­
other for the  candy  department,  another 
for the  notion  department,  and  another 
for  the  specialty  department,  and  so

on  through  the  various  lines you handle. 
See  to  it that  as  soon  as  your  stock  on 
any  line  runs  low  the  want  is  promptly 
put  on  this  card  and  in  such  a  way  that 
you  can  ascertain  what  you  need  in  that 
department.

If  you  are  conducting  a  general  store, 
the  number  of  want  cards  can  be  re­
duced  by  having  one  for  each  depart­
ment;  for  instance,  a  general  want  card 
for  groceries,  another  for  dry  goods,  a 
third  for  hardware,  a  fourth  for  bats 
and  caps,  a  fifth  for  underwear  and 
woolen  goods,  cotton  blankets,  etc.,  a 
sixth  for  gents’  furnishing  goods,  and 
so on  through  the  list.

When  you  are  ordering  goods,  consult 
these  want  cards  frequently,  and  if  the 
want has  been  noted  by  one  of the clerks 
investigate  the  extent  of  the  stock  on 
hand,  etc.,  and  give  your order  accord­
ingly.

Have 

it  thoroughly  understood  that 
the  clerk  who  has  knowledge  of  an  ap­
parent  shortage  in  any 
line  and  who 
does  not  make  a  note  of  the  want  on
these  cards  shall  earn  your  disapproval 
and  then  see  to  it  that  you  are  as  care­
ful  as  the  clerk 
in  putting  down 
things  required  to  keep  your  stock up  to 
its  full  quota.

is 

By  employing  system  you  will  find 
that  it  will  result  in  many  advantages. 
Through  having  your  wants  carefully 
tabulated  in  the  various  departments, 
you  will  be  able  to  place  your orders  for 
goods  in 
less  time,  and  time  is  money 
with  you;  your  stock  will  be  kept  up  in 
better  shape  and  customers  will  adver­
tise  you  by  saying  that  they  always  like 
to  trade  with  Smith,  he  is  never out  of 
anything  and  always  has  everything 
in 
stock ;  and,  you  will  find  that  after  you 
have  placed  your order  and  the  travel­
ing  man  has  taken  the  next  freight 
train,  you  have  not  overlooked  the  most 
important  item  on  the  list.  System 
in 
keeping  the  stock  up  to  substantial 
limits  is  absolutely  necessary  and  one 
of  the  important  requirements  is  that  it 
should  be  fully  employed.—Commercial 
Bulletin.
Not T aking Any  Chances  on  Shirt  W aist 

D rum m ers.
From the Detroit Free Press.

“ It  was  exciting  while 

it  lasted,”  
said  the  commercial  traveler  who  is 
home  for  a  few  days.  “ Now,  what  peo­
ple  may  say  never causes  me  any  un­
easiness ;  so,  when  I  saw  a  good  thing 
in  the  new  shirt  waist  that is  all  the  go, 
I  immediately  fitted  myself  out  with  a 
yellow  affair  that  rivaled  the  famous 
sunsets  that  we  had  a  number of  years 
ago.  As  I 
look  back  at  it  now  I  am 
satisfied  that  I  must  have  left  a  yellow 
streak  through  all  the  towns  I  visited, 
and  I  doubt  if  the  excitement  created 
has  subsided  yet.  The  candid  and  open 
comments  I  beard  would  have  caused  a 
man  with  less  nerve  than I have  to blush 
and  give  way  to  public  opinion.  But  I 
am  made  of  sterner stuff  and  the  frank 
comments  that  I  heard  only  made  me 
the  more  determined  to  see  the  thing 
out.

“ It  remained  for  a  botel-keeper  in  a 
little  town  that  I  visited  to  take  a  fall 
out  of  me. 
I  sailed  up  to  the  desk  in 
all  the  glory  of  my  shirt  waist,  seized 
the  register,  dashed  down  my  name, 
and  demanded  the  best  room  in  the 
house.

“   ‘ Two  dollars  down,’  said  the  old 
man  calmly,  looking  at  me  without  a 
quiver of  bis  eye.

“   ‘ What’s  that?’  I  shouted.
“   ‘ Two  dollars  down,”   he  answered 

as  he  rescued  a  fly  out  of  the  ink.

“   ‘ See  here!’  I  stormed, 

‘ what  do 
you  mean  by  demanding  money  in  ad­
vance  of  a  man  who  has  two  trunks  and 
a  grip?  Haven’t  I  been  here  a  dozen 
times  and  always  paid  my  bills?’

“   ‘Can't  help  that,'  he  answered, 

‘ It's $2  down  or g it!’

“ He  runs  the  only  hotel  that  the  town 
affords  or  1  wouldn’t  have  argued  with 
him  as  long  as  I  did.  There  was  no 
train  out  that  night  and  I  had  to  stay 
where  I  was;  so  I  returned  to the  attack 
once  more.

“   ‘ Perhaps  you  think  I  am  a  dead 

beat?'  mad  as  a  wet  hen.

‘ Perhaps  ye  are,  an’  perhaps  ye 
ain’t,’  he  answered  with  exasperating 
slowness. 
‘ But,  if  a  man  is  so  all-fired 
hard  up  that  he  has  to  wear  his  wife’s 
shirt  waist,  it  is  jes’  es  well  not  to take 
any  chances.  Two dollars down,  please.’ 
“ I  came  down;  so  did  the  shirt  waist 

as  soon  as  I  could  open  my  trunk.”

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Hardware

Interesting  E volution  of 
K itchen  Stove.

Written for the Tradesman.

the  O rdinary 

In  order  to  give  the  readers  of  the 
Tradesman  a  clear  understanding  of  the 
great  changes  that  three-quarters  of  a 
century  has  developed  in  the  style  and 
convenience  of  the  implements  used  in 
the  ordinary  preparation  of  food  for 
man  and  the  change  from the broad  fire­
place,  with 
its  massive  andirons  and 
swinging  iron  crane  and  the  crude  and 
clumsy  pots  and  kettles  suspended  from 
it,  to  the  nickeled  trimming  ranges  that 
beautify  the  kitchens  throughout  the 
country  at  the  present  day,  a  few  words 
descriptive  of  an  old-fashioned  kitchen 
and  its  surroundings  are  necessary.

In  doing  this  a  few  lines  devoted  to 
the  prevailing  architecture  of  those  old- 
time  bouses,  both  in  town  and  country, 
are  in  order:  Within the  memory  of  the 
writer  all  chimneys  were  built  from  the 
cellar.  Their  foundations  were  laid  in 
the  most  substantial  manner. 
Solid 
stone  walls  upon  three  sides  of  a  hollow 
square  were  built  from  the  ground  to 
the  necessary  height,  across  which  were 
placed  solid  oak  timbers  covered  with 
masonry,  upon  which  were 
laid  the 
brick  that 
formed  the  broad  hearth 
above.  The  bin  formed  by  the  hollow 
square  foundation 
in  the  cellar  was 
for  the  storage  of  the  family 
utilized 
stock  of  vegetables  for  the  winter.  The 
chimney  of  all 
farm  houses  extended 
from  the  cellar  to  the  roof  and furnished 
openings  for  fireplaces  in  all  the  rooms 
in  the  house.  The  spacious  brick  oven 
was  located  on  the  right  side  of  the fire­
place,  with 
its  Hue  extending  into  the 
chimney.  Finely  split  white  ash  or 
basswood  was  used  for  fuel  because  it 
burned  quickly  and  blazed brightly,giv­
ing  the  oven  an even temperature.  After 
being  sufficiently  heated  the  coals  and 
ashes  were  raked  out,  the  bread  or 
whatever  else  was  to  be  baked  was  put 
in,  the  door  was  tightly  closed  and  the 
heated  bricks  did  the  rest.  Once  a 
week,  usually  on  Friday  or  Saturday, 
this  laborious  process  was  gone through. 
Any  other  baking  or  cooking  required 
in  small  utensils  placed  be­
was  done 
tween  the  andirons  before  the  fire. 
If 
baked  potatoes  were  needed  they  were 
placed  in  a  broad  shallow  cast  iron  ket­
tle  with  a  cover constructed  for  holding 
live  coals  on  the  top;  or  if  biscuits  or 
the  toothsome  shortcake  were  required 
the  barrel-shaped  tin  oven  with  open 
front  was  brought  into  requisition  and 
seldom  failed  to  do  its  work  well.  This 
iron  skewer  run­
tin  oven  had  a 
ning  through  the 
it,  upon 
which  fowls  or  roasts  of  meat  were  se­
cured  and  turned  while  cooking  until 
nicely  browned and the drippings caught 
in  the  dripping  pan  below.

length  of 

long 

little 

fresh 

incident 

These  odd  old  primitive  utensils,  in 
their quaint  shapes  and  quainter  usage, 
loom  up  before  me  in  the  dim  distance 
as  I  attempt  to  describe  them,  fruitful 
of  many  recollections  of  boyish  days. 
is  very 
One 
in 
memory,  with  all 
its  painful  conse­
quences :  One  frosty  morning  when  a 
barefooted  boy  I  had  just  brought  in  a 
pail  of  milk  and  was  standing  on  one 
foot  with  my  back  to  the  fire,  bolding 
the  other  foot  up  for  warmth,  when,  los­
ing  my  balance,  I  set  my  foot down into 
a  kettle  of  boiling 
lard  in  which  my 
grandmother had  been  frying  doughnuts 
and  which  she  had 
just  taken  off  the 
crane.

The  first  cook  stove  I  remember  was

a  square  upright  concern  with  an  oven 
in  front  over  the  firebox  and  flues  at 
each  side.  Two  eight-inch  holes  were 
over  the  flues  for  teakettle  and  spider. 
When  the  tin  wash  boiler  was  used  it 
covered  the  entire  top  of the  stove  and 
no  cooking  could  be  done  while  it  was 
in  use.  The  castings  were 4  full  half 
inch  thick. 
It  was  manufactured  by 
Rathbone  &  Co.,  at  Albany,  New  York, 
and  was  sold  at  retail 
in  Canandaigua 
for  $22.  This  awkward  apology  for a 
cook  stove  held  its  place  in  the farmers’ 
kitchens  for  many  years,  with  but  very 
slight  improvements.  The  entire  fur­
niture  consisted  of  a  tin  wash  boiler,  a 
tin  teakettle,  a  spider and  an  iron  ket­
tle  for  boiling  vegetables.  Boiled  din­
ners  were  the  rule  seventy-five  years 
ago  and  a  kettle  had  to  be  of  extra  size 
to  contain  the  meat  and  vegetables,  all 
boiled  together,  that  go  to  make  up  a 
genuine  old-fashioned  boiled  dinner. 
I 
wish  I  could  set  the  old  cook  stove  I 
have 
in  my  memory  down  among  the 
glittering  beauties  that  adorn  the  sales­
rooms  of  the  modern  hardware  store  and 
listen  to  the  comments  upon  the  ridicu­
lous  figure 
it  would  cut.  There  is  a 
story  told  of  a  boy  genius  who,  after 
attempting  to  produce  the  picture  of  a 
horse,  felt  compelled  to  write  under 
it, 
“ This  is an  orse,’ ’  for  fear  it  would  not 
otherwise  be  recognized.  In  comparison 
with  the  beauty  and  utility  of  the  up- 
to-date  cook  stove,  my  poor  old  stove 
would  require  to  be  labeled,  “ This  is 
a  stove.”  

W.  S.  H.  Welton.

Specialization  One  Secret  of  Am erican 

Success.

The  goal  toward  which  all  successful 
manufacturers  work  is  the  maximum  of 
units  of  product  at  the  minimum  of 
cost  per  unit.  This  is  attained,  in  part, 
by  large  plants  and  improved  machin­
ery,  and, 
in  part,  by  specialization— 
concentration  upon  a  single  specialty.

lightest 

For  example,  in  a  great  shop  at  Mul- 
house, 
in  Alsace,  employing  5,000 
men,  I  saw  water  works  and  blowing 
engines,  locomotives  and  other  heavy 
machinery,  along  with  cotton  spinning 
'machinery  and  the 
articles 
made  in  iron.  The  same  range  of  man­
ufacturing  would,  in  the  United  States, 
call  for  half  a  dozen  separate  plants, 
each  concentrating  effort  on  a  single 
product,  and  selling 
it  at  figures  for 
which  the  Alsatian  works  could  not 
dream  of  making  it. 
In  Great  Britain, 
to  use  another  illustration,  an  agricul­
tural  implement  works  makes  road  en­
gines,  threshers,  mowers  and  reapers, 
cultivators,  and  a  variety  of  small  farm 
tools.  But  when  they  put  any  one  of 
their  machines  into the  field,  they  meet 
a  Chicago  made  article  which  is  laid 
down  on  the  spot  at  a  less  price  than 
that  for  which  the  British  firm  can  hope 
to  simply  produce 
The  Chicago 
manufacturer  builds  a  vast  works  to 
make  nothing  but  mowers  and  binders. 
One  concern  employs  thousands  of  men 
on  threshing  machines  and road  engines 
to  haul  them,  while  still  other 
large 
factories  make  the  cultivators,  -drills, 
etc.  Machines  turned  out  by  tens  of 
thousands,  instead  of  thousands,  can  be 
made  in  greater  perfection  and  at  ma­
terially  lower cost,  even  if all  other  fac­
tors  are  uniform.  But  if  cheaper  raw 
materials,  more  efficient 
labor,  better 
management, 
and  more  up-to-date 
works  be  added,  the  transatlantic  com­
petitor  of  America  is,  indeed,  facing  a 
difficult  proposition.

it. 

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When  a  man  pays  a  doctor’s  bill,  he 

often  wonders  If  life  is  worth  living.

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17

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4

ON THE  FENCE.

Heady  to  Q uit  the  Use  of  Tobacco  Any 

Time.
Written for the Tradesman.

They  sat  on  the  top  rail  of  a  snake 
fence  and  stared,  first  at  the  waving 
timothy  at  their  feet  and  then 
into  the 
blue  June 
sky  where  the  swallows 
wheeled  their  dizzy  flight  away  up 
among  the  sunbeams.

The  day  was  warm,  and  the  air  filled 
with  that  drowsy  something  that touches 
the  heartstrings  of  our  youth  and  takes 
us  back  to  those  days  so  long  ago  when 
we  were  boys  and  rolled  around  in  the 
clover  in  the  big  meadow  back  of  fath­
er’s  barn.

There  was  a  dreamy  look  in  the  eyes 

of  each  and  they  spoke  in  monotones. 

though, 

I 
He  c’d  chaw  or  he  c ’d  let  it  alone. 
that  he  allers 
took  notice, 
chawed. 
’Twa’n’t  no  trouble  fer  him 
to  quit,  sez’ee.  He  was  ter’ble  brave, 
he  was— ’bout  quittin’.  He  was  like 
some  fellers  ’bout  fightin’— fellers  what 
never  fit  none.  Never  tried,  so  he 
knowed  he  could.  He  did,  too.”

“ Quit  chawin’ ?”
" Y e p .”
“ Chawin’  tobacker?”
“ Y ep.”
“ N-a-w!”   (incredulously.)
“ Did,  too.”
“ Honest?”
“  Yep. ”
Then  followed  a 

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long  pause  while 
number  one  turned  the  matter  carefully 
over  in  his  mind.  At  length:

“ He  must  ’a’  be’n  kinder  brave  arter 

all.”

“ Mebbe.”
“ How  d’e  work  it?”
“ Run  a  rusty  nail  through  his  foot 

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“ Gottany  chew’n?”
“ Uhhuh. ”
“ Plug?”
“ Nope. ”
“ Fine  cut?”
“ Nope.”
“ What  then?”
“  Homestid. ”
Homestead 

is  the  colloquial  term  for 
home  grown  tobacco—the  kind  raised 
on  Northern  Michigan  farms—and  it 
is 
proverbial  for  its  robust  strength  and 
far-reaching  odor.

“ Hain’t  got  no  store  tobacker?”  
“ Nope.”
“ Gimme  a  chaw.”
Number  two  produced  a  dirty,  green­
ish  brown  twist  of  the  Northern  grown 
weed,  and  number  one  gnawed  at 
it 
leisurely  until  he  had  acquired  the  re­
quired  quantity.  There  was  silence  for 
a  time.  The  swallows  circled and darted 
through  the  warm  air  and 
in  the  far 
distance  a  tinkling  sbeepbell  soothed 
the  ear.

After  a  while  number  two  asked : 
“ Don’t  you  never  buy  no  tobacker?”  
“ S-u-r-e!”
“ Hain’t  got  any  with  you?”
“ Jist  out.”
“ When  you  goin’  to  git  some?”
“  Dunno. ”
“ To-morrer?”
“ Dunno.”
“ Day  arter?”
“ Dunno.  Hain’t  got  no  money.”  
“ Didn’t  have  none  yist’d ’y?”
“ No.”
“ Ner  day  before?”
“ No.”
“ Ner  day  before?”
“ N o.”
“ Ner  day  before  that?”
" N o .”
“ Be’n  abeggin’  purty  nigh 

every 

sence  las’  town  meetin’,  hain’t  you?”  

"W all,  I  d ’no.  Not  on’y  when  I 
hain’t  had  none  o’  my  own. 
I  cal’late 
it’s  a  mean  whelp  what  won’t  give  a 
feller a  chaw  tobacker. ”

“ Yep—kinder.  How  jou  like  that  air 

ye’r  a  chawin’ ?”

“ ’Tain’t  such  awful  bad  tobacker. 

I’ve  seed  wuss—some.”

“ Much  wuss?”
“ No,  not’s  I  mind  on  now.”
“ You  hain’t  chawed  much  tobacker 

this  while  back,  mebbe?”

“ Not  so  ter’ble  much.  Hain’t  had 

much  to  chaw. ”

“ Tobacker  taste  kinder  leavin’  you, 

mebbe?”

“ Mebbe.”
“ Good  time  to quit,  I  reckon.”
“ O,  I  kin  quit  any  time  I  wanter. ”  
“ Never took  no  notion  that  way,  per­

an’  got  the  lockjaw.”
’ N  then  he  quit?”

“ Yep.”
“ Wall,  by  Gum !”
Another silence.  The  sun  sank  be­
hind  the  not  far  distant  tree  tops,  and 
the  air  began  to  chill.

“ Never  chawed  no  more,  hay?”
“ No.  No  more.  He  died. ”
“ Died?  Too  bad.  Lockjaw?”
“ No,  quittin’. ”
“ Quittin’  tobacker?”
“ Yep.”

Wall,  by  Gum !  Gimme  another 

chaw.”  

George  Crandall  Lee.

The  Philosophy of Simon  Frost.

Ye  can’t  jedge  a  man  by  the  size  o’ 

his  bat.

There’s  many  a  slip  ’twixt  the  cup 
an’  the  lip,  but  most  people  I  know  uv 
does  the  slippin’  after  what’s in  the  cup 
gits  past  their  lips.

Don’t  never  trust  a  feller  that’s  al­

ways  suspectin’  somebody  else.

Don’t  borrow  money,  an’  you  won’t 

hev  to  cross  the  street  so  often.

Some  o’  the  worst  cigars  I  know  of 

has  the  purtiest  picture  on  the  box.

A  stingin’  bee’s  like  a  sarcastic man : 
he  can’t  use  his  weap’n  without  hurtin’ 
hisself.

Most  everybody  stands  a  chance  o’ 
look 

leavin’  his  name  fer  the  world  to 
at—on  his  gravestone.

When  the  axles  begin  to  squeak  it’s 

time  to grease  the  wheels.

Even  a  hoss  knows  it’s easier to climb 

a  steep  hill  by  takin’  a  zig-zag  path.

One  balky  mule’ll  block  up  the  hull 
road ;  he  won’t  neither  go  forwards,  nor 
backwards,  nor git  to  one  side  an’ 
let 
the  willin’  ones  pass,  nor  lay  down  an’ 
let  ’em  walk  over him.
Meetin’  death’s  an 
ye 
They  that  sows  the  seed  won’t  reap 
the  harvest,  without  they  hoe  the  corn 
while  it’s  growin’.

can’t  git  out  o’  acceptin’.

invitation 

A  feller  can’t  cut  much  wood  with  a 

dull  saw.

Shaller  water’s  always  the  roughest; 
it’s  the  deep  spots  that  are  most  always 
smooth.

Men  ain’t  never  satisfied.  When  they 
climb  to  the  top  o’  a  mountain  they 
build  a  tower  so’s  to  git  the  view  from 
the  roof.

A  team  o’  hosses  is  only  as  fast  as the 

slowest  one  o’  the  pair.

I’d  ruther  own  an  acre  lot,  that  won’t 
grow  nothin’  but  weeds  and  taxes  an’  a 
mortgage,  than  the  han’somest  grave­
yard  in  the  world  ef  I  had  to  live  in  it.
loudest 
crowin’s  most  always  the  one  first 
caught  by  the  hawk.

The  rooster  that  does  the 

Lightnin’ gen’rally strikes  the  highest 

haps.”

“ No.”
“ Don’t  know  nothin’  about  it  then 
till  you  try. 
I  see  a  feller  oncet  what 
c ’d  quit.  He  was  smart  like  you  be.

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The  criminal  judge  may  be  a  man  of 
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men  will  be  able  to  ship  beef to  the 
United  States  and  undersell  the  home 
article.  The  reason  for  this  state  of 
affairs  is  very  apparent:  Land  in  the 
United  States  is growing too  valuable  to 
be  used  for  grazing  purposes.  It  is  only 
a  few  years  ago  that  the  Western  coun­
try  was  one  vast  pasture  land,  and  the 
only  cost  of  raising  cattle  was  for  men 
to  watch  them.  Now  the  demands  of 
agriculture  are  eating  up  this  wild  pas­
turage,  and  the  territory  for  cattle-rais­
ing  on  a  large  scale  is  growing  smaller 
and  smaller.  Where  cattlemen  once 
had  pasturage  free,they  are  now  renting 
the  privilege  from  the  Indians  and  in 
other  ways  the  cost  of  raising  cattle 
is 
increasing.  The  country  will  continue 
to  grow  more  thickly  populated,  and 
we  will  come  to  have  no cattle  in  time 
except  those raised by farmers.  It stands 
to  reason  that  when  that  time  comes  the 
price  of  beef  must  be  high  enough  to 
it  profitable  to  graze  cattle  on 
make 
farming 
lands,  else  no  cattle  will  be 
raised. 

M.  B.  Barnicutt.

Develop  the  Sm all  Concern.

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When  business  men  are  looking  for 
lines  upon  which  to  build  a  city,  let 
them  look  carefully  after the  small  con­
cern  that  has  gained  a  footing  on  some 
back  street. 
It  may  be  that  only  three 
men  are  employed,  but  this  may  be  the 
beginning  of  large results when adequate 
capital 
introduced.  The  Western 
cities  learned  the  folly  of the  bonus  sys­
tem  years  ago.  They  found  that  it  is 
not  wise  to  invest  in  the  assets  of  a 
company  so  insecurely  grounded  that  it 
is  ready  to  move  to  a  new  location. 
This  lesson  has  been  learned.

There  is  now  a  lesson  of  another  sort 
to  learn. 
In  every  city  there  are  small 
manufacturing  concerns  that  have  the

root  of  growth 
in  them;  they  need  a 
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from  an 

It  is  to these  small  concerns  that  the 
cities  need  to  turn.  There  are,  of 
course,  many 
in  every  city  that  are 
without  merit 
investment 
standpoint,  but  there  are  many  that 
have  merit.  The  people  of  a  city  do  not 
always  know  their own  resources.  Ask 
the  business  men  of  a  city  to  tell  you 
about  the  small  manufacturing  that  is 
being  carried  on  where  they  live  and 
in  many  cases  they  cannot  reply.  There 
are  little  concerns  in  the  cities  that  are 
shipping  their  product  to  Europe  and 
few  know  the  fact.

The  president  of  the  railroad  com­
pany  was  working 
for  small  wages 
twenty-five  years  ago;  he  grew  into  his 
present  position  a  step  at  a  time.  The 
concern  that  occupies  a  block  to-day 
was  small  and  struggling  twenty  years 
ago,  but  it  grew.  And  so  it  will  be 
with  many  of  the  small  manufacturing 
concerns  in  the  Western  cities— they 
will  grow,  but  they  will  grow  faster  if 
the  men  in  these  cities  who have  money 
to  invest  will 
look  them  up  and  give 
them  a  start.

Cheese 

Am ericans  Should  E at  More  Cheese. 
Mary Graham in Women's Home Companion.
is  not  made  as  much  of 

in 
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if  should  be.  Families 
would  find  their  tables greatly  improved 
by  its  judicious  use,  and  the  question 
of  expense  need  not  be  raised. 
If  in­
stead  of  a  succession  of  puddings  and 
pies  there 
is  substituted  a  dessert  of 
ripe,  seasonable  fruit  with  a  small  por­
tion  of  cheese  and  crackers  the  health 
bulletin  would  be  more  satisfactory  and 
the  weekly  or  monthly  bills  less,  while 
the  time  spent  for  dessertmaking  would 
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The  Meat  Market
Secretary  W ilson  on  B eef Prices.

“ The  present  high  price  of  beef  is  no 
doubt  due,  in  a  measure,  to  the  pros­
perous  condition  of  the  country,  be­
cause,  of  course,  every 
can 
afford  to  eat  more  meat,  but  it  is  also 
due  to  range  conditions,”  said Secretary 
of  Agriculture  Wilson  the  other  day. 
“ The  West  can  not  produce  as  much 
meat  as  it  once  could,  and  it  will  pro­
duce  less  and  less  every  year.”

family 

“ What  is  the  outlook,  then,  for  the 
country  to  secure  sufficient  beef  and 
mutton,  Mr.  Secretary?”   I  asked.

“ This  condition 

in  the  Far  West 
means  that  the  farmer  must  supply  the 
deficit.  Wyoming  and  Nevada  do  not, 
I  should  say,  produce  over  half  of  the 
meat  they  did  ten  years  ago,  and  the 
same  thing  can  be  said  with  regard  to 
the  arid  region  in  general.  It  is  getting 
worse  and  worse,  and  consequently 
meats  for the  country  and  for  our export 
trade  will  have  to  come  from  the  farm­
ers  of  the  Mississippi  Valley,  where 
they  can  grow  corn  and  oats  for  feed­
ing.

“ At  present  the 

‘ good  times,’  as  I 
have  said,  affect  the  ability  of  families 
to  buy  meat,  and  this  affects  its  price; 
but  this  iatter  is  also  affected  by  the 
ability  of  the  region  west  of  the  Mis­
souri  River to  produce,  and this ability, 
or  rather  disability,  is  becoming  more 
and  more  prominent,  while  there  seems 
no  way  of  stopping 
it,  so  that  the 
Mississippi  Valley  farmer  is  the  man 
who  must  produce  the  meat.”

“ Our  export 

then  will  be 
affected  by  the  overgrazing  of  the  West­
ern  lands?”

trade 

shipping 

feed  and 

“ Yes,  but  right  here  is  another  point 
in  connection  with  the  above.  People 
may  not  like  to  have  it  said  to  them, 
but  perhaps  it  is  just  as  well  for  some­
body  to  speak  out  plainly. 
It  is  time 
that  the  people  of  this  country  who  are 
selling  stock 
it 
abroad  should  keep  it  at  home  and  feed 
it.  It  is  the  course  of  wisdom.  There  is 
great  profit 
in  feeding  meats  for the 
market 
just  now.  But  we  are  selling 
abroad  enormous  amounts  of  oats  and 
corn  and  mill  feed,  whereas  the  present 
prices  for  meats  justify  the  feeding  of 
this  at  home.  This  would  keep  the 
fertility  on  the  farm.  Keep  the  products 
of the  ground  on  the  farm  and  ship  the 
meat.  That  is  the  thing  to  do.

“ The  Department  of  Agriculture  at 
this  time,”   continued  the  Secretary, 
“ is  making  strenuous  efforts—that  is  a 
good  word  for  it— by  sending  agents  to 
countries  around  the  China  seas  and  to 
the  Carribean  sea  to  enlarge the markets 
for American  products,  dairy  products 
especially.  Why,  in  the  matter of  dairy 
products  one  class  of  Americans  furnish 
the  very  weapons  to  enable  foreigners 
to  defeat  other  Americans.  Our  men 
find  the  foreign  markets  completely  oc­
cupied  by  Danish  butters  and  cheese, 
yet,  as  I  have  often  said,  the  Danes  can 
not  export  a  pound  of  butter or a  pound 
of  cheese 
if  the  Mississippi  Valley 
farmers  do  not  sell  them  the  feed.”

Guy  E.  Mitchell.

Then  Beef W ill  Be  H igh.

The  time  is  coming  when  the  United 
States  must  look  elsewhere  for its meats. 
Of course,  it  will  be  a  great  many  years 
before  we  are  unable  to  raise  enough 
cattle  to  feed  ourselves,  but  the  price  of 
beef  is  . steadily  advancing,  and  in  the 
nature  of  things  it  will  continue  to  ad­
In  time  South  American  cattle­
vance. 

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do.  Then  the  shells  are  assembled  into 
large  bundles  of  about  ioo,  set  side  to 
side,  and  the  whole  bunch  held  together 
by  a  string.  Fine  powdered  clay  is  put 
at  the  bottom  of  each  shell,  moistened 
with  saliva,  and  then  packed  down. 
The  fuse,  which  has  been 
carefully 
rolled  by  hand 
is  then  placed  inside 
the  unfinished  cracker,  after  which  the 
powder  is  sprinkled  carelessly  over  the 
top.  Some  more  clay  packed  on  the 
top  of  the  powder finishes  the  work.

The  Chinese  firecracker  maker  earns 
3  cents  a  day.  The  crackers  as  they 
come  to  the  United  States  are  in  boxes 
of  forty  packs,  each  pack  containing 
sixty-four  crackers.  The  price  of  the 
box 
in  China  is  35  cents,  which  repre­
sents  the  wages  of  about  twelve  people, 
plus  some  profit.  Each  workman,  then, 
makes  about  20Q crackers  a  day.

By  the  machinery 

in  use  in  the  ad­
vanced  factories  in  the  United  States 
two  people  can  make  about  4,000 crack­
ers  a  day.  For  rolling  the  shells  there 
is  a  rapidly  revolving  mandrel,  upon 
which  is  fed  the  rice  paper,  cut  to  the 
exact  size.  These  shells  are  stiffened 
by_starch.  The  fuse  is  made  on  a  ma­
chine  which  feeds  fine  tissue  paper  and 
powdered  gunpowder  in  a  hopper  and 
it  out  on  a  drying  rack,  as  fuse, 
brings 
cut 
lengths.  The  shells  made  by 
the  machine  are  arranged  in  rows  and 
the  pieces  of  fuse  are  automatically  put 
in  them.  Then  the  shells  are  filled 
with  powder  by  accurately  gauged  little 
scoops,  after  which  the  end  is  crimped, 
and  the  manufactured  cracker  is  fin­
ished.

into 

There  are  now 

The  cannon-cracker,  owing  to  the  op­
position  to  it  by  city  councils,  has  had 
a  hard  time. 
laws 
against  all  kinds  of  so-called  cannon- 
crackers 
in  nearly  every  state.  The 
cannon-crackers  weie  made  with  chlor­
ate  of  potash  and  sulphur,  and  some­
times  with  dynamite. 
It  was  not  nec­
essary  to  have  so  thick  a  paper  shell, 
to  make  the  noise,  so  the  manufacture 
of  that  kind  of  cracker was rather cheap, 
and  the  Yankees  could  compete  on  the 
larger  styles  with  the  cheap  labor of  the 
Chinese. 
law  against  such 
crackers  the  Chinaman  had  the  field 
again  for  his  product  for  sometime,  but 
now  Yankees  have  beaten  him  out again 
with  their  machinery.

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Northern Michigan.  Interesting information 
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Petoskey 
Bay  View 
H arbor  Springs 
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W equetonsing 
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it. 
If  parents  would  insist  upon  their 
children’s  reading  aloud  the  practice 
would  not  only  make  them  better  read­
ers  and  give  them  broader  ideas,  but 
would  have  a  tendency  to  make  them 
use  correct  language,  so  that,  even  al­
though  they  did  not  know  why  certain 
words  and  expressions  were  correct,they 
still  would  use  them  from  being  famil­
iar  with  them.  Within  the  last  week  I 
have  heard  the  following  expressions— 
from  people,  too,  who  do  not  call  them­
selves,  by  any  means,  ignorant:  “ Be­
“ Have  you  ever  did 
tween  you  and  I
that?”  
“ I 
have  only  went  there  three  times;”  
“ He  wasn’t,  to  home;”   “ I  have  been 
down  at  Detroit  a  few  days;”   a promi­
literary  club 
nent  club  member  of  a 
said 
for 
tremendous, 
for  column,  “ drownded”  
“ colyumn”  
for  pro­
for  drowned; 
“ progrum”  
gramme.  This  last  mistake 
is  exceed­
ingly  common—giving  short  a  in  the 
word  programme  the  sound  of  short  u. 
It  seems  to  be  as  persistent  an  error 
as  that  of  calling  mattress  “ mattrass, ’ 
changing  the  sound  of  e 
in  the  last 
syllable  to  the  sound  of  a,  and  putting 
the  accent  on  the  last  syllable  instead 
of  on  the  first,  where  it  belongs.

“ Those  kind  of  people;”  

“ tremenjous”  

To  sum  the  whole  matter  up,  while 
we  prefer  ideas  to  words,  and  would  far 
rather a  man’s  grammar  shquld  be  bad 
than  that  he  should  be  a  villain  with  a 
smooth  tongue,  yet  we  do  all  of  us  pre­
fer to  hear  good  English.

H.  A.  Randolph.

Yankee  M achinery  Beats Jo h n   Chinam an 

in  Firecracker  M anufacture.

Until  a 

few  years  ago  every  fire­
im­
cracker  bought  in  this  country  was 
ported  from  China.  The  odd'  gold 
let­
tered  labels  were  not  fakes.  Thev  were 
the  real  Celestial  thing.  The  Chinese 
firecracker was  imported  into the United 
States  for the  simple  reason  that  the  in­
genious  Yankee  had  not  been  able  to 
it  more  cheaply  than  he 
manufacture 
it 
could  purchase 
in  the  Orient,  even 
after  paying  the 
ioo  per  cent,  duty 
Three  years  ago,  however, 
thereon. 
the 
inventive  brain  of  a  New  Yorker 
produced  a  machine  which  could  make 
the  small  firecracker  cheaply,  and  now 
the  Chinaman 
is  pushed  out  of  the 
pop-cracker market.  The  contrast  be­
tween  the  methods  of  manufacture  used 
by  the  Chinese  and  by  the  Yankee  is 
both  interesting  and  instructive.

The  Chinese  firecracker  is  manufac­
tured  by  what  in  this  part  of  the  world 
we  would  call  the  sweatshop  system.  A 
whole  citjr,  men,  women  and  children, 
are  occupied  in  making  the  article  and 
one  and  all  turn  their  product 
into  the 
hands  of  the  man  at  the  head  of  the 
Hong.  The  Chinese  cracker  is  made 
out  of  a  shell,  a  few  grains  of  powder, 
a  fuse,  and  some  clay.  The  shell  is 
made  from  rice  paper  of  the  coarser 
sort.  Each  cracker  is  patiently  rolled 
on  a  little tapered  stick  as  a  core,taking 
about  fifty  turns  of  the  paper  to  each 
shell.  Children  are  given  this  work  to

P ertin en t P lea F or P a re   English 

Written for the Tradesman.

I  once  beard  a  gentleman  say  that  be 
did  not  care  bow  poor the  spelling  was 
in  a 
letter  if  he  could  only  get  the 
meaning  of  the  writer.  And  a  superi 
tendent  of our city  schools  once  said 
me,  “ There  is  altogether too  much  fuss 
in  our 
made  about  teaching  reading 
schools.  The 
important  thing 
for 
pupil 
is  to  learn  to  read  fast  and  get 
over the  ground  rapidly  and  absorb  the 
ideas.' ’

To  the  first  person  I  would  reply. 
Give  me  correct  spelling  if the  writing 
be  as  poor and  hard  to decipher as  was 
Horace  Greeley’s.  Besides, 
it  is  not 
half so difficult to  read  writing when the 
spelling  is  correct.  And,  as  to  reading 
and  speaking  rapidly,  while  it  is  most 
desirable,  so  that  the  listener  will  not 
have  to think  on  ahead  and  then  wait 
for  the  reader  or  speaker  to catch  up 
with  him,  yet  I  do  not  agree  with  the 
quondam  superintendent  who  put  read 
ness  in  getting  over  the  ground  as  the 
first  and  last  essential.  The  reader  must 
be  able  to  put  some  meaning 
into  the 
words,  through  tones,  inflection,  etc.

But  even  worse  than  poor spelling and 
bad  reading  is  a slipshod,  careless  man 
ner  of  conversation,  which  confronts  us 
everywhere  and  at  all  times.  What  is 
surer mark  of  culture—or  the  lack  of 
—than  the 
language  one-employs  and 
the  tone  of the  voice?  The  habit  of  half 
pronouncing  words 
is,  indeed,  a  most 
common  way  of  mutilating  our English 
We  have  little  respect  for a poor speller, 
but  we  scarcely  notice 
it  when  one 
leaves  out  about  half  the syllables  of  hi 
words.  He  says  “ tol’rate”   for  tolerate, 
for  suppose,  “ int'rest”   for 
“ s’pose" 
interest,  “ perscribe”  
for  prescribe 
“ pernounce”   for  pronounce,  “ d'rec 
tion”   for  direction.  He  also  makes  l, 
wrong  use  of  words,  as,  “ further"  for 
“ farther,”   the  first  relating  to  quantity 
and  the  second  to  distance.  He  says 
“ expect”   when  he  means  “ suspect.’ 
We  smile  at  the  Southerner  when  he 
says,  “ I  feel  powerful  weak  to-day;’ 
but  we  say,  “ She  is  awfully  pretty.”   A 
discriminating  use  of  words  and  a  cor 
rect  pronunciation  are two  essential  fac 
tors  in  good  conversation,  and  should 
be  taught  the  child  in  his  earliest  edu 
cation. 
is  much  easier  to  learn  the 
right  way  at  first  than  to  learn  and  then 
unlearn.

It 

I  once  heard  one  of  the  Psalms  of 

David  read  by  an  elocutionist,  and 
said,  while 
listening  to  it,  “ How  was 
it  that  I  never  happened  to  read  this 
beautiful  Psalm?”  
It  sounded  new  to 
me  because  it  was  so  well  read. 
In  our 
reading,  as  in  our conversation,  there  is 
too  much  clipping  of  syllables, 
the 
vowel  sounds  not  being  clearly  uttered.
A  distinct  enunciation  of  their  sounds 
is  absolutely  essential  to  good  reading 
and  speaking.  We  can  speak  rapidly 
and  stiP  enunciate  distinctly.  Much 
attention  is  given  to  music,  for even 
the  very  young  child.  She  is  taught  to 
play  when  she  can  not  read  a  page  of 
English  intelligibly,  nor  knows  the  first 
principles  of  correct  language.  Teach­
ers  of  vocal  and 
instrumental  music 
abound,  also  teachers  of  elocution  and 
teachers  of  expression,  teachers  of  voice 
culture,  etc.,  etc.  ;  but  alas  for the  chil­
dren  who  neither  read  understandingly 
nor speak  with  any  correctness.  Gen­
erally  speaking,  a  child  will  use  such 
language  as  he  hears  at  home.  All  the 
the  use  of 
instruction  at  school 
in 
language  does  not  count 
for  half  so 
much  with  him as  the  language  he hears 
among  bis  own  people. 
If  his  mother

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W oman.

You  have  just  graduated,  my  dear  lit­
tle  girl,  in  all  the  ologies  and  isms  and 
a 
love  of  a  white  organdie  frock,  and 
your  doting  mother is  going  around  tell­
ing  everybody  that  Sadie  has  “ finished 
her  education."  That 
is  a  mistake. 
You  have  only  passed  from  the  kinder­
garten 
into  the  great  school  of  life, 
where  you  will  have  to  unlearn  most  of 
the  things  you  have 
learned  before, 
where  the stern headmaster,  Experience, 
will  set  you  problems  you  have  no  rule 
to  solve  by and  where  your  slate  will  be 
wet  many  and  many  a  time  with  your 
tears.

learned 

I  know  that  you  have  been  weighted 
down  with  sage  counsel.  Your teachers 
have  urged  you  to  keep  up  the  study  of 
higher  mathematics  as  a  pastime  and  to 
read  the  classics 
instead  of  the  daily 
papers.  The 
divine  who 
preached  your  baccalaureate  sermon  has 
warned  you  against  breaking  out  of 
woman’s  sacred  sphere  and  held  up  be­
fore  your  eyes  for  imitation  the  lovely 
picture  of  self-sacrificing  womanhood. 
In  the  slang  of the  street,  you  have  ad­
vice  to  burn,  and  yet  it  is  in  my  heart 
to-day  to add  one  more  word  to  it.

That  word  is  study  yourself.  To  know 
books  is  much.  To know  people  is  bet­
ter;  but  to  know  one's  self  is  the  most 
important  piece  of  information  that  any 
human  being  can  acquire.

You 

spent  years  studying 

foreign 
languages;  but  do  you  know  the  words 
your  own  tongue  speaks  when  you  get 
angry?  You  burn  the  midnight  oil  solv­
ing  the  problems  of  mathematics;  but 
do  you  understand  the 
intricacies  of 
your own  mind?  You  explored  the  mys­
tery  of  the  stars;  but  do  you really know 
how  your  own  face  and  figure  look? 
If 
we  were  going  to take  a  shabby ‘ cottage 
and  convert  it 
into  a  spacious  and 
beautiful  abode,  we  would  go  over  it 
carefully,  seeing  where  the  foundations 
needed  strengthening,  what  rooms  were 
contracted  and  best be enlarged  and  how 
we  could  most  effectively  adorn  it  with­
in  and  without;  but  we  never  think  of 
going  over  ourselves  that  way  and  try­
ing  to  see  how  we  may  take  a plain face 
and  a 
character  and 
change  them  into  something  that  makes 
the  world  a  better  place  to  live  in,  sim­
ply  because  we  are  there.

commonplace 

It  takes  courage  to  do 

it.  For  a 
woman  to  sit  down  before  her  mirror 
and  honestly  face  the  truth  and  say,  “ I 
am  dull  about  this,”   or  “ I  am fractious 
and  cross,”   or  “ I  am  selfish,”   or  “  I 
have  a  bad  complexion  and  a  miser­
able  figure,"  requires  something  akin 
to  heroism,  but  for  the  woman  who  has 
the  bravery  to  face  the  enemy  within 
her  and  fight  her own  defects,  whether 
they  are  of  body  or soul,  there  is  a  cer­
tain  and  glorious  victory.

I  do  not  say  that  the  homely  girl  can 
into  a  Venus  de  Milo, 
convert  herself 
but  I  do  say  that  unless  a  woman  is  a 
monstrosity  of  hideousness  there  is  no 
use  in  giving  up  the  fight  and succumb­
ing  to  ugliness.  Hygienic  living  will 
ameliorate,  if  it  does  not  cure,  a  bad 
complexion.  A  good  figure  is  in  the 
reach  of  every  girl  with  enough  energy 
to  practice  physical  culture.  Grace  of 
movement  and  of  carriage  can  be  ac­
quired  as  certainly as  the  multiplication 
table,  and  for  the  rest,  what  we  call 
beauty 
is  after  all  mostly  a  matter of 
dress.  When  we  say  such  and  such  a 
girl 
is  pretty,  we  do  not  necessarily

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mean  that  her  features  are  classic  and 
her  coloring  perfect.  We  merely  refer 
to  a  charming  impression  of  prettiness 
and  daintiness  that has  pleased  the  eye, 
and  it  is  quite  as  likely  to  he  her  gown 
we  are  admiring  as  her  face.

The  most  beautiful  woman  that  ever 
lived  would  be  ugly  in  a  Mother  Hub­
bard  wrapper  and  surrounded  by  a  halo 
of  curl  papers,  and  so,  my  dear  little 
girl,  I  would  urge  upon  you  the  neces­
sity  of  not  only  studying  the  fine  art  of 
dress,  but  studying 
in  reference  to 
yourself.  Find  out  what  is  your  best 
feature  and  emphasize that.  The woman 
who  knows  how  to  dress  herself  need 
never  waste  one  pang  of  envy  on  the 
woman  who  has  merely  a  pretty  face. 
Style  is  better  than  beauty  any  day 
in 
the  week.

it 

When  a  boy  finishes  his  college course 
he  decides  upon  what  profession  or 
business  he  is  to  follQw,  and,  if  he  is  to 
succeed,  he  puts  in  the  best  work  of  his 
life  for  the  next  two  or  three  years  in 
mastering  its  details.  This  is  precisely 
what  I  would  have  you  do,  little  sister, 
only 
instead  of  studying  law  or  medi­
cine  or the  grocery  trade,  I  would  have

you  study  yourself  and learn  to make the 
very  most  of  what  God  has given  you.

Did  you  ever  think  what  a  great  pro­
fession 
it  is  to  be  a  woman—not  just  a 
wishy-washy,  makeshift  kind  of  a  crea­
ture— but  a  great,  noble  woman,  or  how 
big  are  the  dividends  it  pays? 
I  think 
that 
in  all  the  world  there  is  no  more 
pitiful  mistake  than  the  contempt  in 
which  women  hold  the  destiny  to  which 
they  are  called.

If  to-day  I  were  a  prophet  and  could 
say  with  certainty  to you,  who  have  just 
won  the  composition  medal 
in  your 
school,  that  after  years  and  years  of 
heartbreaking  striving  you  would  suc­
ceed  as  a  writer,  you  would  be  willing 
to  undergo all  the  long-drawn-out  agony 
of  work  and  waiting. 
If  I  could  say  to 
that  other  girl  that  she  would  be  a  suc­
cessful  concert  singer  or  artist,  she 
would  feel  that 
it  would  repay  her  for 
all  the  labor  and  self-sacrifice  and  hard­
ship  that  every  woman 
lays  upon  the 
altar  of  her  career.  But  among  all  the 
girls  of  my  acquaintance  I  do  not  know 
a  single  one  who  thinks  that  the  great 
profession  of  being  a  daughter  and  wife 
and  mother  and  friend  is  worth  study­
ing  or  preparing  for.

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E L E C T R IC IT Y
and costs less than 
Kerosene Oil.  The 
wonder of the age!
A  100  Candle  Power 

Light for one week 

for 2 cents.

Each Lamp flakes and 
Burns Its Own Oast
NO  ODOR!

NO  SMOKE! 

NO  DIRT!
Perfectly safe.  Over 100 
styles  for  indoor  anil 
outdoor  use.  E v e ry  
la m p   w a rra n te d .

Agents  coining money. 

Sells at Sight.
Write at once.

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To 

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H E N R Y   K O C H ,   your  o l O T h . « i f   attorneys,  agerLS, 
s a l e s m e n   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or 
bolding  through  or  tinder  you,

t   it  has  been  represented  to  us  in  our  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District  of

New  Jersey,  In  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
it  has  lately  exhibited  its  said  Bill  of  Complaint  in  our  said  Circuit  Court  of  the  United  States  for  the  District 
of  New  Jersey,  against  you,  the  said  HENRY  KOCH,  Defendant,  to  be  relieved  touching  the  matters  therein 
complained  of,  and  that  the  said

ENOCH  MORGAN’S   SONS  COMPANY,

Complainant,  is  entitled  to  the  exclusive  use  of  the  designation  “  SAPOLIO”  as  a  trade-mark  for  scouring

Horn,

we  do  strictly  command  and perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY
KOCH,  yonr  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
¡^ d er^ h^ ^ ain ^ an t^ jen alties^ jyhici^ jn aj^ al^ igonjroi^ jind^ acl^ of^ ^   in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

By  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

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

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

f   The  hooorable  Me lville  W .  F u ller,  Chief  Justice  of 
United  Stares  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this  i6th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

[aONBD]

[seal]

ROWLAND  COX.

C a tfM iM fr  Solicitft

the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 
our  Lord,  one  thousand,

&   &   ©LIPHANT,

O M

Yet  this  is  what  the  world is wearying 
for.  There  is  no  dearth  of  women  writ­
ers,  artists  and  musicians  are  turned 
out  from  the  schools  far  in  excess  of  the 
demand:  there 
is  even  no  lack—God 
help  us—of silly,  selfish  females,  but  the 
supply  of  women  who  realize  the  high 
est  ideal  of  womanhood,  who  are  broad 
of  sympathy,  tender  of  heart,  wise 
brain,  is  so  scarce  that  when  we  do  find 
one  we  want  to  fall  down  at  her  feet 
and  burn  incense.

It  does 

look  to  me,  little  sister,  that 
just  from  a  cold,  business  standpoint 
no  other  profession  offers  such  re 
wards  to  a  girl  as  being  a  charming 
woman  or  is  so  well  worth  studying, 
you  want  admiration  you  have found the 
secret  that  wins  it. 
If  you  want  affec 
.  tion,  you  have  the  key  that  unlocks 
every  hearf. 
If  you  want  pleasure,  you 
have  made  yourself  the  kind  of  person 
everyone 
likes  to  have  about,  and  you 
are  never  left  out  of any  invitation, 
you  want  to  marry,  cast  your  line  where 
you  will.  You  have  the  bait  at  which 
every  fish  will  bite.

The  trouble  has  been  that  women 
seem  to  think  that  all  the  charms  and 
virtues  come  by  nature,  as  Dogberry 
thought  a  knowledge  of  reading  and 
writing  did,  and  that  if  they  were  not 
born  with  them  they  were  no  more  to 
be  blamed  than  for  not  possessing  soul 
ful  eyes  or golden  hair  or a  Greek  pro 
file.  We  have  all  heard  women  offer the 
excuse  that  they  were  high-tempered 
for  getting 
into  a  disgraceful  tantrum 
or  making  a  cruel  speech;  we  have 
heard  them  apologize  for slovenly houses 
by  saying  they  had  no  turn  for  domes 
tic  affairs,  and 
in  the  same  way  they 
feel  that  they  ought  not  to  be blamed for 
brusqueness  and  stiffness  of  manner  be 
cause  they  were  not  born  with  a  ready 
grace  of  speech  and  deed. 
It  is  a  com 
fortable  theory,  but 
in  reality  it  is  as 
cowardly  an  excuse  as  anyone  ever 
offered  for their own  incompetence  and 
general  worthlessness.

The  real  explanation  lies  in  women’s 
laziness.  Not  one  woman 
in  a  thou 
sand  will  do  a  thing  if  it  is  hard,  if 
there  is  any  possible  way  of  getting  out 
of  it.  They  would  all  be  agreeable, 
they  would  like  to charm  and  to  be  ad­
mired  and  sought  after,  if  the  reward 
came  without  any  effort. 
It  is  because 
being  amiable  means  to  curb  one’s tem­
per, 
invariably 
means  unselfishness,  because  to  diffuse 
always  that  subtle  charm  that  enchants 
one’s  family  and  friends  means  a  thou­
sand 
little  self-denials,  that  women  so 
seldom  practice  these  graces.  They are 
simply  too  selfish  and  too  indolent.

sympathy 

because 

We  make  a  mystery  about  what  we 
call  the  popularity  of  a  girl.  There 
is 
no  secret  about  what  we  like.  It  lies  in 
the  power  of  every  woman  to  fill  her 
life  with sweetness  and  grace and beauty 
so  that  every  one  who comes  near to  her 
turns  to  her  as  instinctively  as  a  flower 
turns  to  the  light.  Such  a woman blesses 
the  world  as  she  passes  through 
it  and 
fills  a  career so  noble,  and  so  helpful  to 
her kind,  the  greatest  in  the  land  might 
well  envy  her,  although  her  name  may 
never  be  known  outside  of  her  own 
community.

That 

life  may  be  yours,  little  sister, 
if  you  will,  and  believe  me  when  I  say 
there 
is  no  other  profession  so  well 
worth  studying  as  the  profession  of  be­
ing  a  charming  woman.

Dorothy  Dix.

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It’s  cruel  to  catch  a  fly— unless  you 
are  on  a  ball  team,  then  it  is  brutal  to 
miss  one.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W hy the Co-operative Delivery P lan Failed 

at  Hastings.

The  co-operative  delivery  plan  has 
in 

been  given  a  trial  at  several  cities 
Michigan,  but  so  far as the  Tradesman 
information  goes, 
it  has  never  been 
permanently  successful.  This method  of 
delivering  goods  was  tried  in  Hastings 
several  years  ago.  The  reason 
for  its 
abandonment  is  thus  described  by  three 
of  the  leading  grocers  of  that  city :

Hams  &  VanArman :  We  would  say 
that  our  experience  in  the  co-operative 
delivery  was  not  satisfactory,  for  divers 
reasons,  and  would  say  that,  in  our 
opinion, 
the  getting  everything  and 
everybody  ready  for  same  is  too  big  ; 
job  for  the  returns  received.  First, 
every  dealer  must  be  on  his  taps  with 
his  goods  ready  at  a  certain time,  which 
is  very  doubtful.  Then,  a  delivery 
man  must  be  had  with  a  three-decker 
brain  as  well  as  wagon.  We  recall  one 
day  when  our  man  returned  for  the  sec 
ond  trip  at  ii  or  n  130 o’clock.  He  had 
been  going  back  and  forth  all  the  fore 
noon  with  a  load.  This  and  other  un 
avoidable  delays  make  the  clerks angry. 
People  wish  to  be  accommodated  and 
need  a  favor  in  delivery  occasionally 
that  can  not  be  granted  in  a  co-opera 
tive  way.  So  far  as  we  are  concerned, 
we  prefer  to  look  after  our customers 
ourselves  and  give them  the  best  serivce 
we  may  be  able  to  do.  The  satisfaction 
we  derive  from 
it  is  worth  more  than 
the  difference  in  cost.

Cook  &  Sentz:  We  would  say  that 
since  this  firm  has  been  in  business  we 
have  had  no  spch  system  in  vogue,  but 
some  four or  five  years  ago  we  all  went 
'nto  it,  and  we  think,  so  far  as  the  sys­
tem  is  concerned,  it  is  all  o.  k.  and  the 
cheapest  way  merchants  can  get  their 
delivering  done.  The  trouble  which 
gave  the  system  here  a  black  eye  was 
jealousy  between  some  of the merchants.
If  such  a  feeling  could  be  overcome, 
we  think it  would  be  an  A i system.  Our 
experience  was  so short  that  we  hardly 
like  expressing  ourselves  on  the 
feel 
object,  but  still  insist  that 
it  is  the 
proper  way  of  delivery.

Frank  Horton: 

lam   afraid  I  can  not 
enlighten  you  much  on  the  subject  ex­
cept  to  say  that  we  bad  co-operative 
delivery  here  about  six  weeks.  As  the 
man  who  started  the  system  had  had  no 
experience  in  the  matter and  the  mer­
chants  had  had  none,  they  made  a  botch 
of  it,  as  they  all  kept  their  wagons  just 
the  same,  and 
if  a  customer  wished 
goods  at  once,  they  would  deliver  them 
with  their  own  wagons,  and  hence  made 
I  have  been  trying  to 
bad  job  of  it. 
re-established. 
The 
get  the  system 
proper thing  to  do  is  to  get  some  one  to 
furnish  enough  wagons  to  handle  the 
business  and  then  put  up  a  bond  to 
do  the  work  all  right.  The  dealers 
should  also  put  up  a  bond  or forfeit  that 
they  will  stay  by  the  system and  I  think 
;t  will  work  all  right.  At  present  it  is 
'ifficuit  to  get  them  all  interested.

W atch  Newspaper  Advertisem ents. 
Ke£p  your  eye  out  for  the  little things 
that  kill  an  advertisement.  Remember 
that

good  cuts, 
good  type, 
good  display, 
white  space, 
prices  quoted, 
and  convincing  talk, 

will  win  for  you.  Avoid  always 

bluster,  brag, 
blow,  generalities, 
flowery  language.
Worn  out  cuts, 
type,  and  badly 
formed  advertisements  are 
not  good  for 
business.

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business end  up in a chair has been known 
to  bring- about  surprising results.

By the  way,  do you  handle  B.  B.  B. 
Coffee?  Mistake 
if  you  don’t.  Pays 
good  margin— pleases your  trade.  Band 
wagon’s waiting— climb  in.

O L N E Y   &   J U D S O N   G R O C E R   e©..  G ra n d   R a p id s.  M ich .

Cheese  Announcement 

to  the  Retailers

If  y o u   w a n t  a   r ic h ,  m il d ,  s o f t  c u t t in g ,  F u ll  C r ea m  
C h e e s e ,  p le a s e   a s k   y o u r  jo b b e r   fo r  o u r

RIVERSIDE  BRAND

If  h e   d o e s   n o t  h a n d le   it  le t  u s   s e n d   y o u   a  s a m p le   s h i p ­
m e n t  d ir e c t,  w h ic h   w ill  te ll  th e   s to r y   a s   to   q u a lity   a n d  
p ric e . 
A sk   u s  a n y  q u e s tio n s   y o u   w ish ,  b u t  d o   n o t  f o r ­
g e t  to   tr y   th e   g o o d s.

Riverside  Company

65-79 West Maumee St. 

Adrian, Michigan

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Butter  and  Eggs
Observation« by  a  Gotham  Egg  H an.
Egg  grading  at  shipping  stations 

in 
the  West  is  spreading  somewhat  every 
year,  but  there  are  all  sorts  of  methods 
adopted  and  with  various  results.

In  this  country  the  general  system  of 
egg  handling 
is  carried  on  in  a  back- 
handed  sort  of  fashion  that  is  not  stim­
ulating  to  rapid  progress.  As  a  rule 
eggs  are  bought  of  the  producers  at  a 
stated  price  at  mark  and,  while  the  col­
lector  is  able  to  do  this  by  making  his 
price 
in  accordance  with  the  general 
average  of  quality  received,  it  happens 
that  the  man  who  produces  eggs  of  su­
perior  quality  gets  no  more  for them 
than  his  neighbor  who  markets  less  de­
sirable  goods,  and  there  is  nothing  to 
stimulate 
improvement,  either  in  the 
breeds  of  poultry  or  in  the  care  and 
prompt  marketing  of  the  product.  Then 
these  goods  are  generally  put  into  cases 
about  as  they  run—good,  bad  and  in­
different—and  sent  to  distant  markets, 
freight  and  expenses  being  paid  on  the 
during  the 
worthless  eggs,  which, 
heated  term,  amounts  to  nearly 
io  per 
cent,  of  all  the  freight  paid  for  moving 
the  total  current  production  to distribut­
ing  markets.

Under  this  system  of  marketing  it 
was  natural  that  the  “ loss  off"  system 
of  selling  in  distributing markets should 
have  prevailed  for  so  many  years,  and 
an  unfortunate  feature  of  that  method  of 
selling  was  that  it  became  difficult  to 
secure  among  buyers  the  real  value  of 
eggs  that  were  put  up  at  primary  points 
in  such  manner  as  to  avoid  the  losses 
occasioned  by  shipping  worthless  eggs 
mixed  among  the  better  ones.

But  of  late  years  there  has  been  a 
drift  toward  case  count  selling  in  dis­
tributing  markets  that  is becoming more 
and  more  positive  and  rapid  with  each 
season. 
In  this  market  many  dealers 
who  were  formerly  bitterly  opposed  to 
irregular  qualities  of  eggs  case 
selling 
count  are  now 
in  favor of  the  system 
and  at  present  there  is  very  little  stock 
sold 
in  New  York  or  Boston  on  a  full 
“ buyers’  loss  off”   basis.

The  objections  urged  against  case 
count  buying  of  eggs  from  producers  by 
egg  collectors  do  not  prevail  against 
case  count  selling  to  dealers  in  a  large 
distributing  market;  in  the 
latter  case 
the 
irregularity  of  quality  affects  the 
price  paid  and  it  becomes  possible  to 
obtain 
full  value  for  superior quality ; 
only  in  this  way  can  proper grading  be 
encouraged 
in  the  interior,  and  I  have 
observed  that  as  case  count  selling  has 
grown 
in  the  big  cities,  candling  and 
grading  have  increased  among  the  more 
progressive  egg  shippers.  As  candling 
by  shippers  becomes  more  common  loss 
off  buying  or  discriminating  prices  will 
become  more  general  among  country 
buyers  and  the  system  will  work  back 
to  a  form  that  will  eliminate  much  of 
the  waste  and  encourage  greater  care  in 
raising  and  caring for eggs on the farms.
But  at  the  present  time  the  spread  of 
egg  grading 
in  the  country  has  de­
veloped  various  methods  and,  as  I  re­
marked  in  the  first  place,  various results 
in  point  of  quality.

Some  packers  first  candle  their  re­

ceipts  to throw  out  the  rots  and  badly 
heated  eggs;  then  the  sound  goods  are 
graded  according  to  size  and  cleanness. 
Some  merely  candle  their  stock  and 
(possibly  throwing  out  some  of  the 
smallest  and  dirtiest)  pack  the  sound 
eggs  up  about  as  they  run.  Others again 
merely  separate  the 
large  and  clean 
from 
small  and  dirty  without 
candling  and  produce  naturally  a  lower 
grade.

the 

As  to  which  of  these  methods  is more 
profitable  probably  depends  on the char­
acter  of  the  eggs  received  at  the  ship­
ping  station  and  the  point  of  outlet. 
Dirty  eggs  mixed  with  top  grade  are,  1 
am  informed,  less  objected  to  in  Chi­
cago  than  in  the  Eastern  cities.  Here 
cleanness  and  size  are  very  important 
elements  of  quality.

interested 

Shippers  who  care  to  look  into  the 
matter  of  egg  grading  more  closely  may 
perhaps  be 
in  a  somewhat 
detailed  consideration  of  selling  values 
of  eggs  graded  in  different  ways.  With 
ordinary  receipts of  Western  ungraded 
and  uncandled  eggs  selling  here  in  hot 
weather  on  a  basis  of  14c  loss  off  stock 
packed 
in  Northern  sections  and  not 
seriously  affected  by  beat  would,  ordi­
narily, bring  about  13c  net if well graded 
as  to  size  and  cleanness but not candled. 
They  would  bring  about  the  same  price 
if  candled  closely  but  not  otherwise 
graded. 
If  they  were  both  candled  and 
graded  as  to  size  and  cleanness  they 
would  bring  I3>£c  and  if  the  grading 
and  candling  were  close  they  would 
command  at  mark  as  much  as  the  un­
graded  eggs  would  bring  loss  off. 
If 
graded  and  candled  so  closely  as  to  be 
offerable  as  extras  under  the  rule  they 
likely  bring  fully  }&c  and 
would  very 
possibly  ic  premium  above  that.

It  must  be  considered  that  the  closer 
the  grading  the  higher the  value  of  all 
the  grades  and  it  is  probable  that  in  a 
section  where  egg  receipts  are  gathered 
very  frequently  and  run  of  good  gen­
eral  quality  candling  and  grading  pays 
better  the  closer  the  work  is  done,  at 
least  for  marketing  in  seaboard  mar­
kets.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

If  you  never  buy  any  better goods 
than  your  customers  call  for  you  will 
never  get  the  best  and  most  valuable 
trade  of  your  town.

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  mail  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  raspberries,  goose- 
b-rries, blackberries, currants,  cherries,  plums 
and red, white and blue grapes—by the thousand 
baskets, ton or car load.  Peaches  and  pears  1 
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,

P ro p rieto r Tine Croft,

G rand  Kapids, Mich.

A L L   G R O C E R S

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

TH E  LEROUX  CIDER  &  VIN EG AR   CO.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

: Cherries  and  Gooseberries

are in good supply and  now is the time to place your orders  W e have 
some fine Apples in boxes.  Home-grown Cabbage is fine  now  and  in 
good supply; prices reasonable.  Home-grown Wax  Beans  now  ready.

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t   1-4-16 OTTAWA  STREET, 

TH E  VINKEM ULDER  COM PANY,

GRAND  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.  Rapp  &  Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Butter  and  Eggs  Wanted

Write  for  Cash  Prices  to

R.  Hirt,  Jr.,

34  and  36  Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

References:  City Savings Bank and Commercial Agencies.

WANTED 

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all grades of butter, including packing stock.

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South Division Street 
Grand  Rapids, Mich.

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Prices as low as any house in the trade consistent w ith quality.  O rders filled prom ptly.

ALFRED J. BROWN SEED CO.,  SS .ÎS ^ .’mÆ Î “ “-

W e  solicit  your shipm ents 

of  Fresh  E g gs  and  D airy 

Butter.

Reference,  Home Savings Bank, Detroit.

THE  LEADING  PRODUCE  HOUSE  ON  THB  EASTERN  MARKET.

W e  m ake  a   specialty  of 
poultry ayid dressed calves. 
W rite for our w eekly price 
list.

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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   Your  Sh ipm e n t s

BUSH  &  tVAITE

Commission Merchants,  353  Russell  Street 

Detroit,  Mich.

References, Home Savings Bank, Com ! Agencies

Grand  Rapids 

Cold  Storage  Co.,

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan.

Citizens Phone  a6oo.

We  do  a  general  storage,  and  solicit 

your patronage.

Season  Rate on Eggs to Jan.  1,  1901:
400 case lots, per doz.........................1 j^c
600 case lots, per doz.........................1
1000 case lots  and  over,  special  rate  on 
application. 

Thos  D.  Bradfleld, Sec.

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Method of  Keeping  |  
Petit Accounts 
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File and  1,000 printed blank 

bill heads.......................  $2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.........   3  00

Printed blank bill heads,

per thousand.................. 
Specially printed bill heads,
per thousand................. 
Tradesman Company,

1  25 

1  5o

Grand Rapids. 

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The New York Market
Special  Features  of the Grocery and P rod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  June  29—Half  the  year 
gone  and  the  end  is  not  bringing  very 
much  happiness  to  some  financiers  in 
this  town.  Someway,  when  some  young 
men  try  to  carry  on  a  big  business  that 
their  fathers  builded  with  years  of  work 
they  ^seem  to go down  with  a  sickening 
thud.  These  fellows,  having  been  born 
to  millions,  seem  to  have  no  realizing 
value  of  the  individual  dollar.  They  go 
like  the  child  who  skips  the 
to  work 
alphabet  and  gathers 
in  a  whole  sen­
tence  at  once.  They  could  not  get their 
minds  to  think  in  less  chunks  of  money 
than  $50,000.  “ We’ll  show  the  old  gen­
tleman  how  to  do  business  by  modern 
methods!”   So,  having  shown  the  old 
gentleman,  they also  show  him  the  walls 
of the  State  prison  not  very  far  in  the 
background,  and 
if  they  keep  out,  it 
will  be  possibly,  because  the  “ old  gen­
tleman”   has  come  down  with  his  old- 
fashioned  dollars  and  stopped  the  gap.
For  a  time  the  situation  seemed  a  lit­
tle  shaky  all  around ;  but  it  is altogether 
likely  that  we  shall  see  no  great  trouble 
and  that,  with  some  few  failures,  the 
atmosphere  will  be  clear again.

Meantime,  business 

is  good.  The 
weather  is  so  hot  that 
it  hinders  in 
some  degree  and  buyers  are  taking  a 
few  days  off at  the  seashore.  The  coffee 
market  has  lost  what  little  huoyancy  it 
gained  and  at  the  close  is  about  as  dull 
as  it  has  been  at  any  time.  Cables  from 
Europe showed weakness and,altogether, 
the  situation  favored  the  buyer.  At  the 
close  Rio  No.  7  could  not  be  sold  at 
invoice  way  and  trade 
over  6c 
was  anything  but  active. 
In  store  and 
afloat  the  amount  aggregated  1,198,414 
bags,  against  731,525  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  sorts  are  in  quite 
free  offering,  stocks  being  generally 
anaple.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth  8#c.

in  an 

The 

tea  market  seems  to  be  “ get­
ting  no  better  fast.”   Dealers  complain 
is  almost  nothing  and  that 
that  trade 
prices  are  nominal.  New  crop  Congos 
are  looked  for  in  about  a  fortnight  and 
it  may  be  that  the  situation  then  will 
show  some  improvement.  For the  pres­
ent,  nothing  is  doing.

light  volume  of  business 

Refiners,  as  well  as  brokers,  report  a 
rather 
in 
sugars,  but  all  hands  are  looking  for  a 
turn  very  soon  and  meantime  prices 
seem  to  be  well  sustained.  Raws  are 
without  change.

Rice  orders  have  been  mostly of  small 
lots  for  replenishing  broken  supplies 
and  the  situation  generally 
is  one  of 
quietude.  Jobbers  seem  to  have  rather 
light  stocks  on  hand  and,  with  a  little 
better  demand,  the  market  would  be 
pretty  well  cleaned  up.  Foreign  sorts 
have  small  sale  and  yet  they  are  steady, 
with  Japan  worth  4#c.

Aside  from  a  fair trade  in  ginger,  the 
spice  situation  is quiet— no  duller  than 
usual,  perhaps,  at  this  season  of  the 
year.  Singapore  pepper,  in  an  invoice 
way,  is  worth  12% c.

Not  a  single  sign  of  business  can  be 
found  in  the  molasses  market.  To  roll  a 
barrel  of  molasses  out  this  weather  is 
to  court  disaster.  Stocks  are  light  and 
prices  unchanged.  Good  to  prime  cen­
trifugal,  i7@3oc.  For  syrups  the  de­
is  slow  and  prices  rather  lower 
mand 
than  last  week.
The  movement  of  California  canned 
goods  to  this  country from England con­
tinues  and  the  supply 
is  now  almost 
large  enough  to  meet  the  demand  from 
South  Africa.  What  queer  freaks  com­
merce  cuts  u p !  A 
lot  of Alaska  and 
other  salmon  packers  are  here  and  more 
are  coming  and  they  will  all  have a love 
feast  next  week,  and  then  a  joyful  com­
bine  is  in  view.

The  Prune  Association  seems  to  be 
meeting  with  a  good  deal  of  censure 
from  some  of  its  own  members,  who 
intimate  that  they  have  been  forced  to 
join,  and  say  they  wish  the  Association 
could  be  knocked 
into  a  cocked  hat. 
Tomatoes  are  now  “ promising  a  fair 
crop”   in  Maryland  and  peas  are  doing 
splendidly.  Prices  are  firmly  held  at 
about  last  week's  rate.

Dried  fruits  are  without  change.  Not 
an  item  of  interest  can  be  gleaned.  For 
currants  there 
is  some  demand  and 
prices  are  well  held.  Barrels,  9@9^c. 
Raisins  are  possibly  a 
little  freer  of 
movement,  but  there  is  room  for  im­
provement.

Lemons  are  the  victors  this  week  and 
everybody 
is  after  them.  Pineapples 
also.  Lemons  advance  so  rapidly  that 
hourly  quotations  would  be  the  only  sat­
isfactory  means  of  keeping  one  posted. 
Fancy  Sicily  fruit  is  worth $4  a  box  and 
it  is  hard  to  get  anything  desirable  un­
der $3.  Oranges  are  rather  submerged 
under  the  immense  supply  of  other  stuff 
and  from  any  one  stand  one  can  buy  a 
score  of  different  fruits.

The  demand  for  butter  is  somewhat 
affected  by  the  hot  weather  and,  as  the 
supply  becomes  less,  the  rate  strength­
ens,  so  that  best  Western  creamery  is 
rather  more  than  iq }£c  in  many  cases, 
but  it  would  hardly  be  safe  to  say  that 
20c  prevailed.  Seconds  to  firsts,  17© 
19c;  imitation  creamery,  15@ 170;  fac­
tory,  i4@ i5c.
Hardly  any  business  has  been done  in 
cheese  for a  day  or  so,  as  the  thermom­
eter has  been  up  to 95398.  Full  cream 
is  worth  9^@ioc.

Best  Michigan  eggs  are  bringing 
I4^c.  For  desirable  goods  the  demand 
is  sufficient  to  keep  the  market  closely 
sold  up, but  the  supply  is  limited  and  a 
large  part  of  arrivals  show  the  effect  of 
heat.

How  They  Move.

“ When  I  first  settled  here,”   said  the 
Kansas  man,  “ iny  nearest  neighbor  was 
twenty-five  miles  away,  but  now  he’s 
just  across  the  road.”

“ The  way  you  put  it,’ ’remarked  the 
show  any­

Easterner,  “ that  doesn't 
thing.  That  may  mean— ”

“ it  shows,  my  friend, 

that  cyclones 

are  mighty  powerful,  that’s  a ll."

Base  ball  pitchers,  letter  carriers  and 
preachers  are  all  judged  by  their  deliv­
ery.

Established 1876

Wholesale 

Charles 
Richardson
Commission  Merchant

Fruits
Carlots  a  Specialty

58-60  W .  M arket  St.  and 

121-123  M ichigan  S t. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

References—City  National  Bank. 
Manfrs. & Traders  Bank,  Buffalo, N.
responsible  Commercial 
Y.  Any 
Agency,  or  make  enquiry  at  your 
nearest bankers.

.  Long D lst  ’Phone  158  A,  158  D  mm~

D.  O.  WILEY  &  CO.

20  Wood bridge  St.  W est,  Corner  Griswold,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Commission  Merchants

EAND-

W holesale  Dealers  in  Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits  and  Country  Produce 

We  solicit  consignments  of  Fruits,  Butter,  Eggs and all Country  Produce. 
_____________References:  Preston’s National Bank, Mercantile Agencies.

F.  P.  REYNOLDS  &  CO.

Dealers in  Foreign and  Domestic

•  

F R U I T S

Berries,  Early Vegetables, Cranberries, Sweet  Potatoes  etc.  Send  for  quotations. 

12-14-16-18  Woodbridge  Street  W est,  40-42  Griswold  Street, 

DETROIT,  MICH.

Established  1876.

H.  F.  RÓSE  &  CO.,

Phones  504.

Fruits  and  Produce  on  Commission

24  Woodbridge  Street  W est,  Detroit,  Mich.

Members  Detroit Produce  Exchange and  National  League Commission  Merchants.

Correspondence  solicited.  Reliable  quotations  furnished.  Quick  sales  and

F I E L D   S E E D S

prompt  returns.

All kinds Clover and Grass Seeds.  Field  Peas.

HUNGARIAN  AND  M ILLE T   S E E D S

26,28,30,32 Ottawa  Street 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

M O S E L iŸ   BROS.

Jobbers  of  Fruits,  Seeds,  Beans  and  Potatoes

J.  B.  HAMMER  & CO.

W H O LES A LE

FR U IT  AND  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.

L.O.SNEDECOR Egg Receiver

119  E.  FRONT  S T ., 

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York

r B i m t l N O K  1—N EW   Y O R K   N ATIO N A L  EXCH AN GE  B A N K .  NEW   Y O R K ;

CINCINNATI,  OHIO
Start  in  with  us  now.

You  w ill  find  a  friend  you can stick to 
during  hot  weather. 

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All sales case count.

dow  trimmer  to  put  in  a  trim  that  will 
be  remembered.  A  man's  memory  of  an 
article  displayed  may 
lead  to  a  sale 
later  on.  The  windowful  of  heterogen­
eous  articles 
is  not  remembered  long, 
and  so  it  is  not  a  profitable  window.  In 
a  very  small  place,  where  people  have 
leisure  to  examine  the  shop  windows, 
there  may  be  reason  for  mixed  trims. 
But  in  a  large  city,  where  everyone 
is 
hurrying  about  his  own  business,  the 
window  that  sells  goods  is  the  forceful 
window  that  impresses  itself  on  the  at­
tention,  that  may  be  understood  at  a 
glance,  that  can  not  be  mistaken  and 
that  is  as  bold  and  blunt  and  forceful  as 
the  man  who  has  the  utmost  work  to 
accomplish 
in  the  shortest  space  of 
time.

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in 

If  you  are  debating  whether or not you 
will  spend  money 
improving  your 
windows,  remember this fact,  for  it  is  a 
fact,  tried  and  tested  by  experience: 
Your  windows  can  do  a  work  for  you 
that  nothing  else  can  do.  Your  adver­
tisements  in  the  papers,by circulars and 
by  billboards  can  tell  about  prices  and 
qualities,  but  they  can  never  put  the 
goods  before  people  as  they  really  are 
to  the  eye.  Advertisements  are 
inval­
uable  for  keeping  your  name  before  the 
public  and  for  bringing  people  to  your 
store,  but  they  are  not  sufficient  to  get 
them  into  the  store.  Your  windows  ap­
peal  to  the  eye.  Your  advertisements 
appeal  to  the  mind.  Therefore,  don’t 
neglect  people’s  eyes  while 
feeding 
their  minds.  When  you  have  induced 
people  to  come  as  far  as  the  entrance  to 
your store  make  it  worth  their  while  to 
come 
inside.  You  do  this  by  making 
your  windows  attractive,by  putting  into 
them  your  most  attractive  goods,  most 
artistically  displayed.  Many  men  ca% 
write  a  letter  that  makes  a  fine 
impres­
sion, but the  men  themselves  destroy  the 
good  impression  by  their  personal  bear­
ing  and  appearance  when  they  are seen. 
It  is  the  same way  with a store.  See  that 
its  appearance 
is  all  right.  Make  its 
exterior  inviting  and  don't  make  the 
mistake  of  spending  everything  on  your 
advertisements  and  nothing  on  your 
windows.  Newspapers  and  windows 
should  work  together,  like  husband  and 
wife.  And  sometimes  when  you  can  not 
afford  to  rival  your  competitors 
in  the 
amount  of  newspaper space that  you  use 
you  will  be  able  to  make  up  the  differ­
ence  by  the  attractiveness  of  your  store. 
Let  your  rivals  get  the  people 
into  the 
it  your  business 
neighborhood.  Make 
to  get  them 
into  your  store  after  they 
have  been  drawn  into the  business  quar­
ter  where  you  are. 
It’s  one  thii g  to  get 
people  to  come  as  far  as  your  store.  It’s 
another  to  get  them  within  the  doors. 
And  both  are  necessary  to  success.— 
Apparel  Gazette.

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Window  Dressing

Don’t  Neglect  People’s  Eyes  W hile  Feed­

ing  Their  Minds.

Every  merchant  who  has  straw  hats 
in  stock  now  endeavors  to  make  as  at­
tractive  a  showing  of  them  as  is  pos­
sible, and  as  hats  do  not  lend themselves 
to  much  manipulation,  the  novel  and 
ornamental 
in  straw  hat  windows  must 
be  obtained  by  the  use  of  attractive  ac­
cessories.  Chief  among  these  is  straw 
braid. 
It  is  neater and  more  attractive 
than  the 
loose  straw  with  which  some 
merchants  fill  their  windows,  and  has 
the  advantage  of  being  useful  in  many 
ways.  Bunches  of  straw  braid  can  be 
procured  from  the  large  city wholesalers 
and  the  braid  can  be  used  as  follows : 
The  bunches  of  braid  can  be  inter­
spersed  among  the  hats  in  the  window 
or the  braid  can  be  stretched  across  the 
window  pane  and  background 
in  va­
rious  directions.  The  back  of  the  win­
dow  can  be  covered  with  a  light  Orien­
tal  matting  and  the  braid  tacked  across 
it,  cutting 
into  various  shaped 
spaces.  Against  these  spaces  straw  hats 
are  hung.  The  strips  of  braid  can  also 
be  twisted  about  the  metal  window 
stands  on  which  the  bats  are  displayed, 
or,  if  very  heavy,  tacked  from  the  ceil­
ing  to  the  floor  of  the  window.  The hats 
can  then  be  fastened  to the  braid  at 
ir­
regular  intervals,  making  an  attractive 
showing. 
If  arches  are  erected  in  the 
window  they  can  be  finished  with  the 
braid  by  twisting  it  around  them  or  by 
tacking  it  to their  flat  surfaces  in  vari­
ous  ornamental  designs.
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it  up 

What 

is  the  reason  the  solid  trim  is 
better  than  the  mixed  trim  or the  trim 
in  which  a  small  quantity  of  goods  is 
shown  is  better  than  the  trim  in  which 
a  whole  shopful  of  goods 
is  used  to 
produce  an  effect?  In  the  first  place,  no 
man 
is  able  to  attend  successfully  to 
more  than  one  thing  at  a  time.  He  may 
work  quickly  or think  quickly,  but  only 
one  thing  at  a time makes an impression 
on  his  mind.  Now,  when  you  arc trim­
ming  a  window  you  want  that  window 
to  make  an 
impression  on  the  specta­
tor.  You  want  to  bring  home  to  that 
spectator's  mind  and  impress  on  it  in­
delibly  one  particular  thing,  and,  to 
rivet  the  attention  of  the  hurrying  man 
whose  mind  is  busy  with  many  things, 
you  make  every  article  in  the  window 
tell  the  same  story.  You  don’t  put  fifty 
shirts  of  the  same  kind  in  the  one  win­
dow  merely  to  produce  an 
impression 
of  quantity,  but  to  strengthen  and  for­
tify  the  shirt  story  that  the  window  is 
telling.  A  window  showing  fifty  differ­
ent  kinds  of  goods  is  like  fifty  people 
talking  at  the  same  time. 
If  you  have 
leisure  you  can  at  last  make  out  what 
each  one  is  saying.  But if  you  are  busy 
and  preoccupied  the  sound  that  catches 
your  attention  and  the  message  that  you 
hear  is  the  message  conveyed  in  one 
unanimous  cry.  So  when  every  article 
in  a  window  tells  the  same  story  goods 
are  sold  because  the  message  is  so plain 
that  it  impresses  itself  upon  the  mind 
as  a  sledge  hammer  blow  impresses  it­
self  on 
the  body.  Exactly  the  same 
effect  is  secured  by  a  window  in  which 
very few  articles appear.  The  very  mea- 
gerness  of  the  trim  arrests  attention. 
The  eye  is  not  wearied  by  the  necessity 
of  separating  between  the  different  ob­
jects  presented.  One  thing  stands  out 
prominently  in  its  loneliness.  A  vivid 
impression 
is  therefore  made,  and,  at­
tention  once  gained,  the  sale  is  easy. 
Then,  too,  it  is  the  object  of  the  win-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

AMERICAN  CIGAR  FACTORY

Benton  Harbor,  Michigan 

M.  A.  PRICE  &  CO.,  Proprietors

Fanny Davenport

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

A  Trade  Maker

5c  Cigar

Trade  Supplied  By:

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

Thirty  Miles  an  Hour

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.

Turkeys  iu  Canada.

in 

In  a  pamphlet  just  issued  by  the  De­
partment  of  Agriculture  of  Canada,  giv­
ing  the  food  products  of  Canada,  it  is 
stated  that  turkeys  thrive  well  in  the 
Dominion,  grow  to  a  fine size,  and  have 
flesh  of  tender  quality.  Chickens  are 
raised 
large  numbers,  and  of  late 
years  farmers  are  adopting  the  method 
of  fattening  them  a  few  weeks  before 
they  are  killed. 
increases  the 
quantity  and  proportion  of  edible  ma­
terial  in  each  bird.  Quantities  of  tur­
keys  and  chickens  fattened  are  now 
available  there  for  export 
to  other 
countries,  and  there 
is  room  for  very 
great  extension.

That 

A  dog  may  not  be  a  star  performer, 
but  when  he  travels  with  a  blind  man 
he  is  always  given  a  leading  part.

CommercialTravelers

Michinn birkti of the Grip

President,  Geo. F. Owen,  Grand  Baplds;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

UiiM Commercial Trarelers of Michigan 

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

Grand Rapids Cosncil No. 131, D. G. T.

Senior  Counselor, W  B.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michirai Comnorcial Trarelers  lutnal  Accident  Association 
President, J. Bond  Pa ntlin d,  Grand  Baplds; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Baplds.

A nother Method  of Preventing Men From  

D ying Rich.

Written for the Tradesman.

Gripman  and  grip  were  on  the  way 
like  the  modern 
to  the  train.  Both, 
full,  the  one  with  a 
street  car,  were 
“ bang-up”  
good  breakfast  and  the 
other  with  such  things  as  its  owner 
found  needful.  A 
lively  whistle  of  a 
popular  ragtime  furnished  the  music 
with  which  the  gripman  was  keeping 
step.  The  sun  was  shining  bright  and 
the  air,  washed  by  the  night's  rain,  was 
clean  and  fresh  and  sweet.  The  route 
to  be  taken  was  a  favorite  one,  with 
lots  of  orders  just  waiting  to  be  taken 
down,  and  the  gripman  was  thinking 
what  a  nice  thing  it  is  to  be  alive  with 
plenty  of  pleasant  work  to  do  and  no 
end  of  health  and  vigor  to  do  it  with.

He  was  within  a  couple  of  blocks  of 
the  station  when  his  eye  fell upon a man 
somewhere  near bis  own  age  and  as  he 
came  nearer there  seemed  to  be  some­
thing  familiar  about  him.  There  was 
the  undoubted  stalwart  shoulder,  only  it 
wasn’t  up  where 
The 
head  wasn’t  up  in  the  air  either.  The 
hands  were  in  the  trousers  pockets  and 
something  more  than  suspiciously  like 
fringe  was  hanging  at  the  bottom  of  his 
trousers  legs.

it  belonged. 

The  gripman’s  first 

impulse  was  to 
salute  him  with  a 
lusty  slap  on  the 
shoulder;  but  he  had  slapped  the  wrong 
man  once  and  hadn’t  tried  it  since.  So, 
studying  the  figure  and  the  gait,  as  he 
was  passing  the  man  he  looked  him  full 
in  the  face  arid,  surely  enough,  there 
was  Tom  Taylor,  the  friend  of  years 
ago,  evidently  sorry  to  be  recognized. 
He  wouldn’t  have  taken  the  gripman's 
extended hand if there  hadn't  been  some 
compulsion  about  it.  As  it  was,  there 
was  only  a  lump  of  nerveless  flesh  and 
bones  in  the  vimful  grasp  of  the  ex­
tended  hand  and  the  hearty  greeting 
was  met  by  a  discouraged,  “ Oh,  so— 
so. ”

That  wasn’t  going  to  do.  This  man, 
Tom,  hadn’t  been  seen  or  heard  of  for 
over a  year.  Then he  was the  best  man 
on  the  road,  with  a  good  place  of  course 
is  the  first  thing  “ best  man”  
—that 
meank—and 
in  full  possession  of  all 
that  “ best”   implies.  Now  here  he  was 
in  this  condition,  down  at  the heel  men­
tally  and  physically  and  financially  and 
shunning  his  friends  on  account  of  it. 
Oh,  no,  that  wouldn’t  do  at  all.  He 
looked  at  his  watch  and  found  it  was 
fully  fifteen  minutes  before  train  time. 
A  good  deal  can  be  done  in  fifteen min­
utes  when  the  need 
is  pressing  and, 
passing  bis  grip  to  his  left  hand,  he 
hooked  his  right  into  Tom’s  left  arm 
and  hurried  with  him  to  the  station  res­
taurant.  “ Breakfast  for one,”   he  called 
and  by  the  time  they  were  seated  at  the 
table  Tom  Taylor was  “ filling  up.”

By  a  series  of  questions  which  could 
be  answered  by  Yes  and  No  Gripman 
found  out  what  he  wanted  to  know  and 
the  progress  of the-breakfast  was not  in­

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terfered  with,  so  that  at  the  end  of  ten 
minutes  there  were  five  minutes to  spare 
and  Tom  Taylor  answered  questions  a 
jump’s  distance  from  the  steps  of  the 
smoker.

It  was  not  a  new  story  and  need  not 
be  repeated  here.  The  failure  of  the 
house  for  which  he  traveled  had  thrown 
him  out  of  work  and  for  months  he  had 
been  looking  for  a  job.  At  first  he  had 
refused  several  good  offers  because  be 
expected  to  do  better;  but  the  expecta­
tions  had  not  been  realized  and  since 
then  everything  had  been  going  wrong 
with  him.  His  wife  had  been  seriously 
ill,  a  long  siege  of  typhoid  fever  had 
almost  taken  away  that  20-year-old  boy 
of  his  and  he— well,  there  he  was,  dis­
couraged  and  shabby,  with  things  gone 
to  the  devil  generally  and  not  a  ray  of 
hope  of  their ever  being  any  better.

“ All  aboard!”   shouted  the  conductor 
and  Gripman  had  to  break  in  on  Tay­
lor’s  story:  “ It’s  hard  lines,Tom,  and 
I’m  going  to  make  you  borrow  this, ”  
and,  thrusting  a  twenty-dollar  bill  into 
Taylor’s  hand,  he  boarded  the  train. 
“ Keep  a  stiff  upper  lip  and  we  fel­
lows’ll  see  what  can  be  done,”  he called 
as  the  train  moved  off.  Then,  lighting 
a  cigar,  be  went  into  the  smoker  full  of 
schemes  for  the  man  he  had  left  at  the 
station. 
“ The  meal  was  all  right,”   he 
said  to  himself,  “ and  the  money  was 
all  right,  but  I  know  as  well  as  Tom 
does  that  that  isn't  what  he  wants.  A 
man  in  his  prime,  both  in  strength  and 
experience,  doesn’t  want  victuals  and 
money  given  him  and  lent  him; 
It’s 
in  the  world  to  take 
the  hardest  thing 
them  from  anybody. 
It  makes  him  an 
object  of  charity  no  matter  from  what 
point  of  view 
it  is  looked  at  and  I’m 
glad  the  train 
left  when  it  did.  The 
man  wants  a  place  and  he’s  going  to 
have  it.  It  doesn’t  make  any  difference 
what  it  is  or  how  much  he  gets,  it 
places  him  among the workers ;  it makes 
him  a  part  of  the  business  machinery 
and,  if  be  is  only a  cog  there,  it’s  a  cog 
and  the  wheel  will  have  a  hitch  without 
it. 
I  know,  for  I’ve  been  there.  Five 
years  ago  when—

“ Hello,  Jackson,  where’d  you  come 
from?  Sit  down  here.  You  know  Tay­
lor,  don't  you—Tom  Taylor,  who  trav­
eled  for  Reams &  Baxter,  of Blankton?”
“ Taylor—Taylor?  Tall,  well-built, 
thoroughbred  man, 
I 
know  him—good  fellow— what  of  him?”
“ He’s  having  a  turn  of  hard  luck. 
Got 
it  bad.  Lost  his  position,  wife 
sick,  boy—bright  fellow—almost  swept 
off  by  typhohd  fever  and  Tom’s  way 
down  at  the  heel. 
I  just  left  him  and 
we’ve  got to do  something  for  him.”

isn’t  he?  Yes, 

“ All  right,  I’ll  cough  up  a  ten  for 

him— ”

“ Darn  your  money!  He 

isn’t  that 
kind.  He  wants  what  the  rest  of  us 
want—a  place  to  earn  his  living  and  a 
good  word  passed  along  the  line.  These 
don’t  cost  anything.  Weren’t  you  tell­
ing  me  of  a  Detroit  house  that  was  a 
man  short?”

“ Yes,  but  the  place  was  taken  long 
ago.  There’s  going  to  be  a  change  in 
a  Grand  Rapids  house  before  a  great 
while.  One  of  their  men  is  going  to 
Cleveland—dry  goods.  What’s  Taylor’s 
line?”

“ Dry  goods,  and  I’m  on  my  way  to 
Grand  Rapids  now.  Give  me  the  firm’s 
name.  There— I’ll  bullet  that  bull’s- 
eye  the  minute  I  strike  the  town.”

He  d id ;  and  when  the  man  left  for 
Cleveland  Taylor stepped into his place, 
fitted  it  and  will  probably  spend  an 
in­
definite  number  of  his  days  in  it.

The  other day,  when  GripottP  turned

from  registering  at  the  Morton  House, 
he  ran  bump  into  Taylor,who  was  wait­
ing  for  him  to  put  down  the  pen.  Then 
Taylor corralled  him  into  a  corner  long 
enough  to  fix  a  date  with  him—that 
evening  at  eight  o’clock.  At  that  hour 
they  found  a  quiet  spot  in  the  lounging 
room  and  Taylor  began  the  conversa­
tion  by  taking  out  his  pocketbook  and 
putting  a  new  twenty  dollar  bill  into 
Gripman's  hands.

“ There,  Gripman,  the  cash  account  is 
balanced,  but  I  don’t  ever  expect  to 
even  up  the  rest— I  hope  not  anyway. 
The  only  chance  to  do  that  will  be 
when  you  are  out  of  a  job  and  sickness 
has  about  killed  your family and cleaned 
you  out  of  every  atom  of  courage  you 
have 
in  your  make-up.  Rather  than 
have  that  happen  to  you  I  prefer  to  be 
I  was  pretty  well  used  up 
your  debtor. 
the  morning  you  overtook  me. 
I  had 
spent  my  last  nickel  the  day  before  and 
you  can 
judge  by  that  how  much  the 
breakfast  was  needed  and  when  you 
lent  me  that  twenty  dollars  I  began  to 
feel  again  that  I  was  somebody. 
If 
it  to  me  I  would  have 
you’d  given 
thrown 
lending 
showed  that  you  trusted  me  and  ex­
pected  that  I’d  get  a  place  soon  and 
repay  you.

it  at  you,  but 

the 

“ I  tell  you  what,  Gripman,  a  man 
without  a  job  is  a  mighty  poor  piece  of 
human  furniture.  He's  damaged  in  the 
legs  and  his  hinges  are  rusty  and full  of 
squeaks  and  pretty  soon,  if  he  doesn’t 
get  anything  to  do,  he  knows  he  isn't  fit 
for  the  second  hand  store  and  creeps 
away 
into  the  dust  of  the  garret  or  the 
dirt  of  the  back  alley.  I  bad  started  for 
the  back  alley the  morning  you  saw  me. 
I  hoped  you  wouldn’t  notice  me  and 
if 
I  had  seen  you  a  minute  before  I should 
have  got  out  of  your  way.  Your  speak­
ing  to  me 
in  the  old  hearty  manner 
gave  me  courage  and  the  breakfast  I  put 
inside  went  straight  to  my  backbone; 
and  when  I  looked  at  the  bill  you  thrust 
into  my  hand—the  biggest  one  I  had 
in  a  year— my  head  snapped  back 
seen 
into  its  old  place 
like  a  bone  out  of 
joint  reset. 
‘ Keep  a  stiff  upper  lip !’ 
you  sang  out  as  the  train  moved  off  and 
that  part  of  my  anatomy  has  been  my 
most  noticeable  feature  ever  since.

“ I  went  home  with  some  beefsteak 
and  other good  things  for  breakfast  and 
the  folks  had  their  first  full  meal  for 
months.  You  never can  imagine  what 
we  made  that  twenty-dollar  bill  do  nor 
how  long  it  lasted.  I  kept  the  last dollar 
of  it  long  after  I  got a  position and  then 
I  exchanged  it  for a  couple  of  new  half 
dollars  dated  the  year  I  got  the  place 
and  Joe  has  one  for  a  pocketpiece.  He 
says  he  doesn’t  want  anything  better 
for  luck  than  that,and  I'm  sure  I  don't.
“ The  great  day,  though,  was  when 
the  letter  came  with  the  offered  job. 
We  were  on  our  last  five  and  I’d  be­
gun  to  have  that  old  discouraged feeling 
creeping  back.  Then  when  the  post­
man  came  with  the  letter  bearing  the 
Grand  Rapids  stamp  and  I  finally  saw 
what  it  was,  you'd  have  thought  a  mad­
man  had  broken 
loose.  Joe  grabbed 
the  letter  and  after  a  glance  began  to 
dance  and  my  wife  gave one long-drawn 
sigh  of  relief,  for  she  knew  that  the 
long-prayed-for  turn 
in  the  road  had 
come.  But  I’m  not  going  to  say  a  word 
about  your  getting  the  place  for  me— I 
promised  my  wife  and  Joe  I  wouldn’t 
when  I  was  leaving  the  bouse.  They 
I  know  that  you  were 
want  to  fix  that. 
at  the  bottom  of 
it  and  I  can’t  thank 
you  too  much.

“ Well,  I  must  go  home  now.  You’ll 
be  here  over  Sunday  and  I  have  come

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to  ask  you  over to dinner  and  I was  ‘ not 
to  take  no  for an  answer.’  We  dine  at 
two  and  you  can  come  as  much  earlier 
as  you  please.  Goodnight,  Gripman.”
The  invitation  was  accepted  and  the 
guest  went  early  and  stayed  late.  When 
he  returned  to  the  hotel  he  thoughtfully 
smoked  a  cigar before  he  went  to  bed. 
When  the  last  pull  at  it  had  been  taken 
and  he  put  down  the  stub  he  said: 
“ The  Rockefellers  may  found  univer­
sities  and  the  Carnegies  build  libraries 
—every  man  to  his  taste— but 
it  seems 
to  me  that  the  surest  way  to  hit  the 
masses  and  hit  ’em  hard  is  to  hunt  up 
the  people  out  of  a  job,  give 
it  to 
’em  and  then  let ’em  work  out  their own 
salvation. ”

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.
Gripsack  Brigade.

Geo.  F.  Owen  is  getting  out  plans for 
a  four-family  apartment  house,  50x70 
feet  in  dimensions,  two  stories  high,  to 
be  erected  on  bis  lot  at  145  Lyon  street.
Lansing  Republican:  F.  F.  Nichols 
has  severed  bis  connection  with  E. 
Bement’s  Sons  and  accepted  a  position 
with  R.  D.  Scott  Carriage  Co.  His  ter­
ritory  will  be  New  York  State.

Geo.  W.  Stowitts,  Michigan  represen- 
ative  for  Cbas.  N.  Stevenson  &  Co., 
suspender  manufacturers  of 
Indian­
apolis,  will  make  bis  headquarters  at 
Petoskey  during  July  and  August.  Mrs. 
Stowitts  will  be 
located  at  the  Hotel 
Perry.

Battle  Cr6ek  Journal:  F.  W.  Reming­
ton,  of  Jackson,  one  of  the  most  pop­
ular  traveling  men 
in  the  State,  has 
been  secured  by  the  Malta-V’ ita  Co.,  of 
this  city,  to  represent  them  in  several 
states, 
including  Michigan,  Indiana, 
Ohio  and  Illinois.

Thompsonville  News: 

Fred  C.
Richter,  the  urbane  Grand  Rapids trav­
eling  hardware 
salesman,  was  here 
Monday  and  Tuesday,  assisting  in  the 
inventory  of  the  Western  Hardware  Co. 
stock  prior  to 
its  transfer  to  the  new 
proprietor,  S.  A.  Hathaway.

James  B.  Mclnnis,  who  recently  re­
moved  to  Flint  in  the  expectation  of 
engaging  in  the  tobacco  business  there, 
has  returned  to  Grand  Rapids and taken 
up  his  residence 
in  this  city.  He  is 
now  Western  Michigan  representative 
for  the  H.  J.  Heinz  Co.,  of  Pittsburg.
Hillsdale  Standard :  The  members  of 
Hillsdale  Council,  U.  C.  T.,  are  mak­
ing  preparations  for  a  splendid  time  at 
their  annual  picnic  at  Baw  Beese  Park 
next  Friday.  Conn’s  Apollo  Orchestra, 
of  Elkhart,  will  furnish  the  music  for 
the  occasion.  Their  music 
last  year 
was  very  fine,  as  our  people  will  re­
member.

Geo. H. Reifsnider & Co.

Commission  Merchants

and Wholesale  Dealers in 

Fancy  Creamery  Butter,  Eggs  &  Cheese. 

321  GREENWICH  ST.,  NEW  YORK.

Whiskey,  Morphine  and 

Tobacco  Habits

Positively  Cured

Full  particulars  and  prices  for  the asking. 

Patterson  Home  Sanitarium, 316  E.  Bridge  St. 

Phone  1291 

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,  Manager.

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Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State Board o f Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
Hen r y  Heim, Saginaw 
•  Dec. 31,1902
• 
  Dec. 31,1903 
Wik t P.  Doty, Detroit.
.
.
A. c. Schumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mtjtr, Grand Rapids 
Dec. 31,1905 

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

E xam ination  Sessions.

Sault  Ste.  Marie, August 28 and 29. 
Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association. 

President—Ch as.  F.  Ma n n , Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Seeley,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Schm idt, Grand Rapids.

it 

trade, 

some  dealers, 

Nefarious  Practice  of  Loading  Sponges.
The  practice  of  “ loading"  sponges  is 
said  again  to  be  growing  in  the  Florida 
sponge 
is 
charged,  adding  sand  to  the  unheard  of 
extent  of  50  per  cent.  While  many deal­
ers  honestly  strive  to  stamp  out  this  ne­
farious  practice,  it  is  claimed,  on  the 
other  hand,  that  the  intermediate  job­
bers,  or even  the  large  sponge  houses, 
are  forced  thereto  by  the  refusal  of  their 
customers  to  pay  legitimate  prices.

If  this  be true,  the dealers are only cut­
ting  their own  noses.  For,  in  the  first 
place,  the  jobber  who  can  undersell  his 
competitor,  by  virtue  of  this  fraudulent 
practice,  also  can  afford  to  pay  higher 
prices  for  good  gods  to  the  fisheries; 
second,  the 
labor  of  loading  up  with 
sand  adds  from  5  to  8  per  cent,  to  the 
cost,  which  is  still  further  increased  by 
higher 
an 
adulterator almost  inevitably  expects  to 
earn  a  greater  percentage  of  profit  than 
when  dealing  honestly; 
the 
retail  pharmacist  either  suffers  direct 
loss  from  the  sifting  out  of  the  sand,  or 
he  has  the  added  labor of  removing  the 
encumbrance.

charges;  third, 

freight 

fourth, 

Many  retailers,  not  fully 

informed, 
may,  of  course,  be  under  the  impression 
that  the  sponge,  being  fished  up  from 
the  sandy  bottom  of  the  sea  and  thrown 
on  the  sand  beach  to  dry,  necessarily 
must  be  full  of  sand.  A  little  reflection 
on  the  construction  of  the  living  sponge 
and 
its  subsequent  preparation  must, 
however,  quickly  dispel  such  illusion.

guarantee  sand 

Pharmacists,  who  are  the  great dis­
tributors  of  sponges  for  household  pur­
poses,  will  serve  themselves  and  their 
patrons  best  by  dealing  only  -with  such 
firms  as  will 
free 
sponges.  The  sand  may  do  no  harm, 
but  neither  does  it  benefit  anyone  but 
the  adulterator. 
It  stands  to  reason 
that,  fictitious  prices  being  abolished, 
a  clean  one-pound  sponge,  as  large  as 
and  more  serviceable  than  a  two-pound 
one  of  the  same  kind  but  loaded,  could 
lower  price.  Of 
be  purchased  at  a 
in­
course,  a  small  percentage  of  sand 
evitably  will  be  present 
in  the  com­
moner grades  of  sponges.

Some  twenty-five  years  ago,  some may 
remember,  the  same  bad  practice  ob­
tained  with  respect  to  Mediterranean 
sponges,  but  it  became  so  outrageous 
that  in  self-defense  the  importers  and 
wholesalers  united 
in  protest  until  it 
disappeared,  and  has  remained  in  abey­
ance.—Western  Druggist.
Poisonous  N ature  of  Absolutely  P u re 

W ater.

By  chemically  pure  water  we  usually 
fresh,  distilled 
understand  perfectly 
water,  whose  behavior  and  properties 
are  well  understood. 
It  withdraws  the 
salts  from  the  animal  tissues and  causes 
the 
Isolated 
living  organic  elements,  cells  and  all 
unicellular organisms  are  destroyed 
in 
distilled  water—they  die,  since  they  be­

latter  to  swell  or  inflate. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

come  engorged  therein.  They  lose  the 
faculty,  upon  which  life  depends,  of  re­
taining  their  salts  and  other  soluble  cell 
constituents,  and  consequently  these  are 
allowed  to  diffuse  throughout the  water.
Distilled  water  is,  therefore,  a  dan­
gerous  protoplasmic  poison.  The  same 
poisonous  effects  must  occur  whenever 
distilled  water  is  drank.  The  sense  of 
taste 
is  the  first  to  protest  against  the 
use  of  this  substance.  A  mouthful  of 
distilled  water,  taken  by 
inadvertence, 
will  be  spit  out  regularly.  The  water 
once 
in  the  stomach,  the  superficial 
stratum  of  epihtelium  experiences  a 
powerful  distension, 
are 
leached  by  their  salts,  die,  and  are  cast 
off.  This  local  poisonous  effect  of  dis­
tilled  water  makes 
itself  known  by  a 
sensation  of  uneasiness,  belching,  etc., 
furnishing  all  the  symptoms  of  catarrh 
of  the  stomach  on  a  small  scale.

the  cells 

long  ago,  were 

The  harmfulness  of  the  process,  so 
much  resorted  to  to-day,  of  washing  out 
the  stomach  with  distilled  water  is  ac­
knowledged,  and  we  find  the  physicians 
who  formerly  used  that  agent  are  now 
turning  to  the  “ physiological  solution 
of  cooking  salt,"  or  “ water with  a  lit­
tle  salt,"  or  the  mineral  water  recom­
mended  for  the  purpose.  The  poison­
ous  nature  of  absolutely  pure  water 
would  surely  have  been  recognized  and 
felt 
its 
effects  in  their  most  marked  form  can 
seldom  occur, 
for  through  a  train  of 
circumstances,  “ absolutely  pure" water 
can  rarely  be  found.  The ordinary  dis­
tilled  water,even  when  freshly  distilled, 
is  not  really  absolutely  pure,  while  that 
used 
in  the  laboratories  and  clinics  is 
generally  stale,  has  been  kept  standing 
in  open  vessels,  generally 
fn  rooms 
where  chemicals  of  every  sort  abound 
and  whose  gases  and  effluvia  are  taken 
up  by  the  water. 

Johan  Koppe.

it  not  that 

Make Your  Fountain  A ttractive.

If  you  made 

it  attractive  last  year, 
make  it  more  so  this  year.  Get  some­
thing  new.  One  of  the  best  attractions 
at  the  fountain 
is  a  decorated  cake  of 
ice.  Take  a  large  tin  candy  tray  and 
set  it 
in  a  convenient  place  on  the 
counter  near  the  front  door.  With  an 
in  one  comer  to 
awl  punch  a  hole 
carry  off  the  water,  which  can  drip 
in 
the  sink  or  a  pail  back  of  the  counter. 
Place  in  the  pan  a  large  cake  of  clear 
ice,  100  to  200  pounds.  With  an  ice 
shaver  or  pick  chip  out  a 
large  round 
hole  in  the  top  of  the  cake  and  set  in  a 
large  crushed  fruit  or  punch  bowl.  Now 
dig  out  little  holes  around  in  the  ice 
and  put  in  pieces  of  lemons  or  oranges 
cut  fancy,  get  one  or two  pineapples  to 
set  on  top,  or  cut  one  in  two  and  place 
half  on  each  side.  Now  cover  up  the 
pan  around  the  edges  with  roses  and 
leaves  and  chipped  ice or any  flowers in 
season.  Make  a  crushed  fruit  syrup  for 
the  bowl,  dipping  it  out  with  a  ladle. 
Take  one  or  two  boxes  of  fresh  straw­
berries,  hull  them  and  place  in  a  flat 
bottom  kettle  and  cover over with sugar. 
Mash  them  up  and  add  about  an  equal 
quantity  of  syrup.  Put  this  syrup  in 
the  bowl  and  then  place  on  top  a  few 
pieces  of  orange  or  pineapple  slices. 
This  will  make  a  most  delicious  flavor 
for an  ice  cream  soda,  a  tempting  dis­
play  and  a  trade  winner—a  good  adver­
tisement,  one  that  the  ladies  will  talk 
about.  Crushed  pineapple  can  be  made 
the  same  way,  and  the  pieces  of  fruit 
on  top  look  delicious.  Richard  Foy.

The  heart  always  pays  the  highest 
price  for the  happiness  it has never  pur­
chased.

Catastrophe  in  a  D rug Store.

A  big  gray  cat  of  unknown  pedigree 
recently  played  the  role  of  the  bull  in  a 
china  shop  at  the  drug  store  of  Fred­
erick  Poliard,  Jersey  City.

This  happened 

Entering  by  a  rear  window,  it jumped 
to  a  shelf,  knocking  down  two  bottles. 
One  contained  sulphuric  acid  and  the 
other  liquid  ammonia.  The  cat  fell 
with  them.  As  they  smashed  on  the  tile 
floor  it  received  a  bath  of  acid  and  am­
monia.  The  effect  was  galvanic.  The 
cat  fairly  sailed about the room,  lighting 
for a  second  on a  shelf,  then  sailing  to 
the  top  of  a  case,  only  to  dart  through 
the  air to  some  other  place.  In  its  wake 
it 
left  a  wreckage  of  smashed  bottles, 
of  cologne,  acids,  sweet  smelling  and 
otherwise;  raspberry,  and  other  syrups.
in  the  prescription 
room,  at  the  rear  of  the  store.  When 
Mr.  Pollard  ran  in  to  learn  the  cause  of 
the  disturbance  the  cat  was  jumping 
about  with  no  apparent  object and emit­
ting  cries  of  mingled  pain  and  terror. 
There  was  no  way  to  help  it,  and  the 
mingled  fumes  of  smashed  bottles  com­
pelled  him  to  beat  a  hasty  retreat.  As 
he 
left  the  room  the  cat  succeeded  in 
finding  the  window,  and  ran  down 
Jewett  avenue 
like  a  miniature  steam 
engine.  The  cat’s  visit  cost  him  about 
$2 5-
Advantage  of K eeping a Nurses’ Registry.
idea  which  druggists  in 
the  larger  towns  and  cities  should  be 
able  to  use  to  good  advantage. 
It  is 
not  altogether  new, but we  believe  it will 
aid  in  adding  to  the  effectiveness  of  a 
Nurses’  Registry.  Send  a  card  to  all 
the  nurses  whose  names  you  can  secure 
with  the  following  matter attractively 
printed  thereon:

is  an 

Here 

Nurses  are 

invited  to  register  their 
names  with  us.  VVe  are  constantly  re­
ceiving  calls  for nurses,  and  if  we  can 
have  your  co-operation  we  should  be 
able  to  render  both  you  and  our  patrons 
a  service.  To  ali  those  nurses  who  will 
register  their names  with  us  and  inform 
us  of  their  engagements  we  will  be 
pleased  to  make  a  10  per  cent,  discount 
on  the  following  goods:

Hot  water  bag.
Irrigating  bag.
Rectal  tube.
Ice  cap.
Oil  muslin.
Hypodermic  syringe.
Syringe  for saline  injection.
Thermometer  for  baths.
Fever thermometer.
Hypodermic  tablets.
Nitroglycerine  1-100.
Morphine  sulphate
Morphine  %  and  atropine  1-50.
Strychnine  sulph.  1-60*
Digitalin  1-100.

Cement  for  Porcelain.

An  almost 

join  may  be 
made,  with  careful  handling,  with  the 
following:

invisible 

Chloroform,  60  parts.
India  rubber,  25  parts.
Mastic,  15  parts.
Cut  the  rubber  into  shreds,  put  into a 
suitable  vial  and  pour  on  the  chloro­
form.  Stopper  tightly  and  set  aside  un­
til  the  rubber  is  dissolved,  then  add  the 
mastic  and 
let  stand  until  the  same  is 
dissolved.  Apply  the  cement  to  each 
surface  to  be  united  and  let  the  pieces 
stand  until  the  greater  part  of  the  chlo­
roform  is  evaporated,  then  unite,  press 
firmly  to  place,  and  if  possible,  tie  in 
position.  When  the  cement  is  apparent­
ly  thoroughly  dry  on  the  surface  scrape 
off  the  superfluity,  and  dust  over  the 
little  zinc  oxide, 
line  of  junction  a 
chalk,  powdered 
infusorial  earth,  or 
some  such  material,  and  with  a  clean 
pencil  brush  it  over  the  joint.  After  the 
cement  has  become  perfectly  dry,  re­

move  the  cords  and  rub  off the  super­
fluous  powder.  The  joint  can  scarcely 
be  discovered  if  the  work  has  been  well 
done. 

____ ____ ____

O ld-Fashioned B lackberry  Cordial.
Blackberries  2  gals.
Pimento,  bruised,  2  ozs.
Cinnamon,  bruised,  1 Yz  ozs.
Cloves,  bruised,  1  oz.
Brandy,  32  ozs.
Sugar,  q.  s.
Crush  the  fresh  cleaned  fruit,  transfer 
the  pulp  to  a  kettle,  add  the  spices,  and 
gradually  raise  the  temperature  to  the 
boiling  point,  allowing  to  ebullesce for 
a  few  moments.  Then  strain  through 
flannel,  and  add  sugar  in  the  proportion 
of  one  pound  for  each  pint  of  the  juice. 
Dissolve  the  sugar  by  the  aid  of  heat, 
and  again  raise  to  the  boiling  point, 
removing  the  scum  with a  ladle,  or  clar­
ify  by  straining.  When  cold  add  the 
brandy.  The  dose  is  given  at  from  y2 to 
2  fluidounces. 

H.  W.  Sparker.

The  D rug M arket.

Opium—Cable  advices  from  the  pri­
mary  markets  report  a  firmer  market, 
on  account  of  which  there  is  an advance 
here  of  5c  per  pound.

Morphine— Has  been  reduced  on  ac­
count  of  competition,  notwithstanding 
the  higher  price  for opium.

Cocaine— Is  very  firm,  on  account  of 

higher  price  for  leaves.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  scarce  and  has 

advanced  again  5c  per  pound.

Linseed  Oil—Advanced  7c  per  gallon 
is  tending  higher,  on 

on  June  29  and 
account  of  the  higher  price  for seed.

A thletic  and Sporting Goods.

These  are  carried  by  nearly  all  coun­
try  druggists  and  by  many  town  drug­
gists.  They  are  convenient 
lines  to 
handle,  as  they hold sway only for a short 
season,  and  the  demand  for  them 
is 
usually  brisk.  A  limited  space  display 
in  one  of  your  windows  is  generally  all 
is  needed  in  the  way  of  advertis­
that 
ing,  using  a 
liberal  supply  of  price 
cards  if  the  competition  be  sharp.

Only  that  which  is  best  succeeds.

Fred  Brundage
Wholesale  Druggist

3a and 34 Western av., Muskegon, Mich-

Fishing

Tackle

Sporting

Goods
Stationery
School

Supplies

Cigars

Order
them  with
your
DRUGS
to save
separate
freight
charges

Prompt shipment and right prices.

Do You Sell 
Window Shades?

If  so  try  us  on  special  sized 
shades.  Prompt  shipment  and 
satisfaction  guaranteed. 
Sam­
ples and  price  list  on  applica­
tion.  Send us a trial order.

Heystek & Canfield Co.

Grand  Rapids, Midi.

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Acldum
Acetlcum................)
Benzolcum, German.
Boraclc....................
Carbollcum.............
Cltricum..................
Hydrochlor..............
Nltrocum................
Oxallcum.................
Pbosphorlum,  dll...
Sallcyllcum.............  5‘
Snlpburicum...........  1%
Tannlcum................  r  "
Tartaricum.............
A m m onia

Aqua, 16 deg............
Aqua, 20 deg............
Carbonas.................  
Chloridum...............  
A niline

13®
12®

Black.......................   2 00®
Brown......................  80®
Red..........................  48®
Yellow.................. .  2 60®

Baccw
Cubebae...........po, 25  22®
J uni penis................  
6®
Xantboxylum .......  1  70®
BaUamum
Copaiba...................  66®
®
P e ru .......................  
Terabln,  Canada__  
66®
Tolutan.................... 
45®
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Casslae......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerifera, po.
Primus Virgini........
Qulllala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus.. .po.  16, gr’d 
K xtractum

Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  24®
Glycyrrhlza,  po......  28®
Hsematox, 16 lb. box  11®
Hsematox, is ........... 
13®
Hsematox, Ms.........  
14®
Hsematox, Ms.........  
16®

F erru
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Qulnia..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lora

8®

Arnica........................ 
Anthemls.................  22®
Matricaria...............   30®

16®

Folia

Barosma..................   46®
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tin-
nevelly................. 
20®
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  26® 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and Ms................. 
12®
CvaUrsl......... ............ 
G am  m i
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia, 2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po................
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20
Aloe, Cape__po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40
Ammoniac...............
Assafuetida.. ..po. 40
Benzolnum..............
Catechu, is..............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, Ms............
Campnorse..............
Buphorbium... po. 36
Gamboge............ po  66
Guaiacum......po. 26
Kino...........po. $0.76
Mastic  ....................
Myrrh............po. 46
Opll....po. 4.90©fi.00 3 45
Shellac.................... 
26
Shellac, bleached....  40
Tragacanth.............   60

H erba 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium. .oz. P.kg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum__oz. pkg
Mentha Plp..oz. Pkg 
Mentha Yir..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. Pkg
Tanacetum V oz. Pkg 
Thymus, V...oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined. P at...........  66<
Carbonate, Pat........ 
18<
Carbonate, K. & M..  18(
'arbonate, Jennings  18( 

Oleum
Absinthium.............61
Amygdalae,  Dulc.... 
Amygdalae, Amarse.  8 i
Auranti C o r t e x . 2

2 26 
1  00 
60 
3  00

Conlum Mac............
Copaiba..................   i  ii
Cubebae.................
Exechthitos...........
Erlgeron...........
Gaultheria............
Geranium, ounce...
Gosslppli, Sem. gal.
Hedeoma...............  
|_
Junipera.................  i so® 2  ¿0
Lavendula.............. 
so® 2 oo
Llmonis..................   l  30®  i  40
Mentha Piper.........   l 60® 2 00
Mentha Yerld 
l  60®  1  60 
Morrhuae, |gal
1  10®  1  20
Myrcla....................  4
Olive.......................
Plcis Liquida...........
Plcis Liquida,  gal...
Ricina 
......   1
Rosmarini...............
Rosae, ounce............ 6
Sucdnl....................
Sabina....................
Santal......................2
Sassafras
Sinapis,  ess., ounce.
®
Tigli!.
Thym e...........!.'.'.  40®
Thyme, opt..............  @
Theobromas  ........... 
16®
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
ie@
la®
Bichromate............  
Bromide.................  62®
C arb.......................  
i2@
Chlorate... po. 17®19 
16®
Cyanide................... 
34®
Iodide.....................   2 30®
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28® 
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
7®
Potass  Nitras.........  
6®
Prussiate.................  23®
Sulphate po............  
ie@

Radix

Aconitum.................  20®
Althae...................... 
ao®
Anchusa................. 
io@
®
Arum  po................. 
Calamus...................  20®
Gentiana........po. 16 
12®
16® 
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  16 
® 
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®
Inula,  po................. 
is®
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® i
Iris plox.. .po. 36®38  36®
Jalapa. pr................ 
26®
Maranta,  Ms........... 
®
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  „
Bbei......................... 
78®  1 00
Rhel,  cut.................
Rhel, »v..................
Spigella...................
Sanguinarla...po.  16
Serpentarla............
Senega....................
Smilax, officinalis H.
Smilax, M...............
Scillse..................po. 36
Symplocarpus.Foetl-
dus,  po.................
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.
Zingiber a ...............
Zingiber j.................
Semen
Anlsum..........po.  16
Apium (graveleons).
¡frd, is....................
Carol................... po. 15
Cardamon..............  ]
Corlandrum.............
Cannabis Sativa......
cya
Cydonlum...............
Chenopodium.........
Diptenx Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum.............. 
® 
10
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
9
L ini......................... 
4® 
5
4M® 
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
6
Lobelia....................  46®  50
Pharlarls Canarian..  4M® 
6
R apa.......................  4M® 
5
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9® 
10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
n@ 
12
Splritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti.  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumenti................   1  26®  1  60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1  66® 2 00
Junlperls  Co...........  1  76® 3 60
Saacharum  N. E  ...  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  76® 6 60
Vini Oporto............   1  26® 2 00
Vini Alba.................  i  26® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60® 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
®  1  60
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @  1  26
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
carriage................ 
®  1  00
Hard, for slate use.. 
®  76
Yellow  R e e f,  for

Scillae  Co.................   @
Tolutan....................  @
Prunus  virg............   @
Tinctures 
Aconitum NapeUis R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
Arnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma./...............
Cantharldes............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.....................
Catechu]...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acutlfol........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chloridum__
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Guiaca.....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica.....................
Opll..........................
Opll,  comphorated..
Opll, deodorized......
Quassia...................
Rhatany........... .......
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria...........
Serpentaria............
Stromonium............
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber..................

Miscellaneous 

dither, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2M®
3®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto....................  40®
Antlmonl, po........... 
4®
Antlmoni et Potass T  40®
®
Antlpyrin................ 
Antifebrin.............. 
®
®
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N...........  1  80®
Calcium Chlor., is...
Calcium Chlor., Ms..
Calcium Chlor., Ms.. 
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
Capsicl Froctus, af..
Capsid  Froctus, po.
Capsicl Froctus B, po 
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba..............
Cera Flava..............
Coccus  ....................
Cassia Froctus........
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum.................
Chloroform............
Chloroform, squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  :
Chondrus................
Cinchonidlne.P. & \V 
Cinchonidine, Germ. 
Cocaine..................   6 66® 6 75
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
70
Creosotum...............  
®
35
®
Creta............ bbl. 75 
25
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, preclp........... 
9®
115 
Creta, Rubra........... 
®
Crocus....................  28®
30
Cudbear..................  
®
24 
Cupri  Sulph............   6M®
8
Dextrine
Ether Sulph............
Emery, all numbers.
Emery, po................
E rgota...........po. 90
Flake  White...........
Galla.......................
Gambler.................
Gelatin,  Cooper......
Gelatin, French......   36®
75 &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
Glue, brown............  
111
Glue,  white............  
11
Glycerina.................  17M'
Grana Paradlsl........
Humulus.................
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg Ammonlatl 
HydrargU nguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Ichthyobolla.  A m ...

6 90 
15 
23
9
60
60
5
70
13
25 
25 

90 
1  10 
1  20 
60 

25 661 00 

10928

_

86 70 1 00 

3 60 
3 85 
60 
86 
76

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

27

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Opium, Oil Peppermint, Linseed Oil. 
Declined—Morphine.

Seldlltz Mixture......
Sinapis....................
Sinapis,  opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s
Soda, Boras.............
Soda,  Boras, po......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
Soda,  Ash...............
Soda, Sulphas.........
Spts. Cologne...........
Spts. Ether  Co........
Spts. Myrcia Dorn... 
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl 
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
Strychnia, Crys' 
Sulphur,  Subí.
Sulphur, Roll
Tamarinds............
Terebenth Venice..
Theobromae...........
Vanilla...................
Zincl Sulph...........
Oils

i0|

22 18 
®  30
®  41
®  41
9®  11
9®  11
25 
1M€
2 5 
4
3M®
®
2 60 
0®  55 
® 2 00 
®
®

80®  1  06 
2M@2M@ 3M 
10 30 
28®
66
9 00®16 00 
8

7® 

Lard, extra.

® 

Menthol..................   @  4 25
Morphia, S., P. & W. 2  18® 2 40 
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.  2 05®  2 30
Morphia, Mai...........2 06® 2 30
Moschus  Canton__  @  40
Myristica, No. l ......   66®  80
Nux Vomica.. .po. 16 
10
Os Sepia..................   36®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................  @  1  00
Plcis Liq. N.N.M gal.
doz.......................  @  2  00
Fids Liq., quarts__  @  1  00
Plcis Liq.,  pints......  
®  86
®  60
Pil Hydrarg. ..po. 80 
Piper  Nigra...po. 22 
® 
18
®  30
Piper  Alba.. ..po.36 
Plix Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumb! Acet............ 
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opll  1  30®  l  60 
Pyrethrom, boxes H.
®  76
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrom,  pv........  26®  30
Quassias..................  
8®  10
36®  46
Qulnia, S. P. &  W... 
Qulnia, S.  German..  36®  46
Qulnia, N. Y............  
36®  46
Rubla Tinctorum.... 
12® 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv  18®  20
Saladn....................4 60® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...  40®  60
Sapo, W................... 
14
SapoM.................... 
12
Sapo  G.................... 
15

12® 
io@ 
® 

50
60
50
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 
60 60 
60 
76 
60 
75 
75 1 00 
60 
60 
60 
60 
B0 
60 
60 
60 
60 35 
60 
60 
60

Linseed, pure raw...
Linseed,  Dolled.......
Neatsfoot, winter str 
Spirits  Turpentine..

1M 2 

P aints  BBL.  LB.

1M  2 
IK  2 
2M  2V 
2M  * i®3

Red  Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
Putty,  commercial.. 
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris...........
Green, Peninsular...
Lead, red.................
Lead,  white............
Whiting, white Span 
Whiting, gilders’.... 
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng. 
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

cliff.

Varnishes
No. 1 Turp  Coach...
Extra Turp..............
Coach  Body............

1  20 
2 £3
1  70 
3 00
70 No. 1 Turp T'uni...... 1 00® 1  10
70 Extra Turk Damar.. 1 56® 1  60
60 Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp
70® 76

75®

1
1

BBL. OAL.
70
. 
.  60
45

H O L ID A Y

GOODS

W e wish  to  assure  our  customers  that 

we shall  this  season  show  an  even  more 

complete  line  of  Holiday  Goods  than  last 

year.  Our  Mr.  Dudley  will  call  and  dis­

play samples  as  soon  as  the  new  lines  are 

complete.  Our  customers  can  place  their 

entire  orders  with  us  this  season  at  one 

time 

if  they  wish,  saving  the  time  and 

trouble  of  looking  over  several  smaller

lines.

H azeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

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

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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

Spruce  Butter Tubs 
Evaporated  Apples 
Iinporated  Currants

DECLINED

Jute  Clothes  Line« 
Extra Straw  Paper

Index to  Markets

By Columns

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

 

B

 

 

C

Baking Powder......................  1
Bath  Brick............................ 
l
Bluing....................................  1
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.................. r..........   3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................  4
Crackers...............................   4
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................  5

D
F

G

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

P

K

J
la

N
o

Grains and Flour.................  6
H erbs....................................  6
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo.....................................   6
Jelly .......................................   6
Lamp Burners.......................  l
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 Palls............................  7
Paper Bags.............................   7
Parts  Green............................  7
Pickles.....................................  7
Pipes .....................................   7
Potash.....................................  7
Provisions...............................  7
Bice.
Saleratus.....................'.........  8
Sal Soda.................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut............................   9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   9
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices...................................   9
Starch...................................   10
Stove Polish..........................  io
Sugar.....................................  10
Syrups.....................................  9
Table  Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   11
Tobacco................................   li
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar................................   12
Washing Powder..................   12
Wicklng.........................  
  13
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast Cake............................  13

v
w

R

 

ALABASTINE

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

Less 40 per cent discount.

AXLE GREASE
.....................56 

doz.  gross
*urora 
6 00
Castor  Oil....................60  7 oo
Diamond..................... so  «25
Frazer’s ...............  
9 00
75 
9 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

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

9 00
6 00

BAKING POWDER

Egg

54 lb. cans,  4 doz. case......3 75
14 lb. cans,  2 doz. case......3 75
1 lb. cans, 
l doz. case......3 75
5 lb. cans,  54 doz. case......8 00

JAXON

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
l 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........l  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
34 lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
54 lb. cans 2 50 
% lb. cans  3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
3 lb.  cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  70
English.................................  80
Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross 6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9  00

BLUING

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

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet..............................2 50
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 16
No. 3 Carpet.............................. 1 85
No. 4 Carpet..............................1 60
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk............................ 1 10
Warehouse............................... 3 26

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8ln..................   45
Solid Back, H I n .................  96
Pointed Ends.......................  85

Shoe

Stove

No. 8.................................... 1 00
No. 7.................................... 1  3o
No. 4.................................... 1  70
No. 3.................................... 1 90
No.3................................ . 
75
No. 2.................................... 1  10
No. 1.................................... 1  75
W., R. & Co.’8,15c size__  1  25
W.,R. & Co.’s, 25c size 
  2 00
CANDLES
Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s............... 1214
Paraffine, 6s.........................10V4
Paraffine  12s....................... 11
Wicklng 
................n

BUTTER  COLOR

CANNED  GOODS 

B lackberries

Clam  Bouillon

90
85
1  86 
3 40 
2 35
1  75
2 80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18@20
22@25

Apples
3 lb. Standards........
70 
Gallons, standards..
2  00
standards...............
76
Beans
Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
75@  85
Red  Kidney............  
String......................
Wax......................... 
85
Blueberries
85
Standard.................... 
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced.............. 
l  90
Clam s
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
1  00
Little Neck. 2 lb...... 
1  50
Burnham’s, 34 pint...........  192
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 2Q
Cherries
Red  Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy ......................
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine............
Extra  Fine...................
Fine...............................
Moyen...........................
Goose berries
Standard................
H om iny
Standard..................
Lobster
Star, 34 lb.................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, 1 lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Hotels.......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb................
Cove, 21b.................  
Cove,lib  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie...........................
Yellow....................   1  65@l  85
Pears
Standard.................  
70
so
Fancy....................... 
Marrowfat..............
1  00 
Early June..............
1 00 
Early June  Sifted..
1  60
Pineapple
Grated....................   1  25@2  75
Sliced.......................   1  35@2  56
Pum pkin
F a ir.........................  
70
Good........................ 
75
Fancy...................... 
85
Raspberries
Standard..................  
90
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..............................   3 75
14 lb, cans..............................   7 00
1 lb. can................................  12 00
@1  85
Columbia River, tails 
@1  95
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska..............  1  20@i  40
Pink Alaska............  1 00@1  10
Shrim ps
Standard.................
l  50
Sardines
Domestic, 14s...........
48
Domestic, ifis.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
7
California, 14s.........
u@i4
California 14s..........
17@247<au
French, 14s..............
French, 34s..............
18@28

M ush rooms

Salmon

1  65
95

Peas

85

r  4

•  4

-

* 

? 

•

3

Strawberries

85
Standard.................
1  25
Fancy.....................
Succotash
90
Fair..........................
1 00
Good.......................
1  20
Fancy......................
Tomatoes
85
F air.........................
90
Good.......................
1  00
Fancy......................
2 40
Gallons....................
CATSUP
..2 00
Columbia,  pints..............
Columbia, 54 pints........... ...1  25
CARBON OILS 

Barrels

@1014
@  a*
a  914 
@ 9 
@10 
@ 914 
@10 
@ 914 
@ 9 
@ 914 
@ 914 
14@15 
@90 
@17 
13@14 
50@75 
19@20

Eocene ....................... @1054
Perfection.................. @  95Í
Diamond White.........
@  854
D. S. Gasoline............ @12*
Deodorized Naphtha.. @1054
Cylinder..................... 29  @34
Engine........................19  @22
Black, winter.
CHEESE
Acme.......................
Amboy....................
Carson City..............
Elsie.................... .
Emblem..................
Gem.........................
Gold Medal..............
Ideal......................
Jersey......................
Riverside.................
Brick.......................
Edam...................
Leiden....................
Limburger...............
Pineapple. 
Sap  Sago.
Sago..
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce__
Beeman’s Pepsin.............
Black Jack.......................
Largest Gum  Made.........
Sen Sen  ,.
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf
Yucatan.....................
CHICORY
Bulk...........................
Red............................
Eagle..........................
Franck’s .............................  614
Schener’s ............................  6

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

COCOA

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................  46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................   28
Premium.............................   31
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz...........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz...........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz...........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... l  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz............   95
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, 14s  .......................   35
Colonial. 14s .........................  33
Epps.....................................  42
Huyler.................................  46
Van Houten, Hs..................  12
Van Houten, 14s ..................   20
Van Houten, 14s..................   38
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, 148..........................   41
Wilbur. 14s..........................   42
20 lb. bags
Less quantity 
Pound packages........
id packas
COFFEE 
Roasted

COCOA  SHELLS 

__  HIGH GRADE
Co fres

Special Combination..........15
rench Breakfast...............1714
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.. 
. .2114
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 204
Royal Java..........................2614
Royal Java & Mocha.......... 2614
Arabian  Mocha  ..................2814
Aden Moch..........................2214
Mocha & Java Bldhd.......... 23
Fancy Maricalbo................ 1814
Javo Blend..........................1714
Golden Santos.....................17
Ja-Mo-Ka........................... 1614
Excelsior Blend...................1414
No. 56 Blend........................ 14
Common.............................. 1014
F a ir.....................................11
Choice..................................13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common.............................. 11
F air.....................................14
Choice..................................15
Fancy..................................17
Peaberry..............................13
F air..................................... 12
Choice............................„.10

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

Mexican

Guatemala

Choice.................................. 16
Fancy................................... 17
Choice.................................. 16
African"................................1214
Fancy African.....................17
O. G...................................... 26
P. G...................................... 29
Arabian.....................- 
...  21

Mocha

Java

Package

New York Baals.
Arbuckle............................ U14
1114
Dllworth...................... 
Jersey.................................1114
Lion...............................  
1114
McLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City 54  gross........ ...  76
Felix 54 gross.................. ...1  15
Hummers foil 54 gross... ...  85
Hummel’s tin 54 gross ... ...1  43

E xtract

Substitutes

4 doz In case.

Crushed Cereal Coffee Cake

12 packages, 14 case..................l 75
24packages,  lease 

.......3 50

CONDENSED  M ILK 

 

COUPON  BOOKS 

Gail Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown.......................................6 25
Daisy........................................ 5 76
Champion................................ 4 50
Magnolia..................................4 25
Challenge.................................3 75
Dime........................ 
Leader..................................... 3 80
50 books, any  denom...  1  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 so 
500books,any  denom...  11 50 
1,000books,any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books areordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

Oyster

B utter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Sweet  Goods —Boxes

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
so  books.......................  1  50
100  books.......................  2 50
500  books.......................   11  50
1.000  books......................... 20 00
600, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s tfrands 
Seymour............................ 
6
New York......................... 
6
Family.............................   6
Salted................................ 
6
Wolverine.........................  654
Soda  XXX....................... 
654
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........  13
Zephyrette........................  13
F au st............................... 
7J4
Farina....  ....................... 
6
Extra Farina....................  654
Saltlne Oyster...................  6
Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent's Water.................... 
ie
Cinnamon Bar..................   9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
C'racknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced.................... 
8
Cream Crisp......................  1054
Cubans.............................   1154
Currant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................  9
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C.... 
6
Gladiator..........................   1054
Grandma Cakes...............   9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers.................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers.................  12
*  "Ho
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials.......................... 
8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps....................   12
Lemon Wafers.................  16
Marshmallow...................   16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic....................   1154
Milk Biscuit......................  754
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar....................  9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  1254
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp...................  9
Orange Gem......................  9
Penny Cake......................  8
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
754
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8
Pretzels, hand  made.......  
8
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch....................  
754
Sugar Cake..............:.......  8
Sugar ere#», x x x .........   8

iei

Sugar Squares................... 
g
Sultanas............................   13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
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...  so
Bulk In sacks.........................'.29

D R IED   FRUITS 

Apples

Citron

California  F ruits

Sundried.........................  @4
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @5 
Apricots............. .. 
9@ 954
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................  7
Peaches......................6  @20
Pears....................... 754
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @354
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @4
80-9025lb. boxes........  @454
70-80 25 lb. boxes........  @ 43»
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @ 5^
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes........  @554
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........ 
8
54 cent less in 50 lb. cases 

California Prunes

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn.................................  11
Corsican................................. 12
California, l lb.  package__
3 36
Imported, 1 lb package.......1254
Imported, bulk.................... 11k
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 1054 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 1054 
London Layers 2 Crown.
1  75
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
654 
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, l  lb........ 
8
L. M., Seeded, 314  lb__   7  @
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lim a........................  7
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland....................
Cream of Cereal..................   90
Graln-O, sm all......................1 36
Graln-O, large.......................2 26
Grape Nuts........................... 1 36
Postum Cereal, small...........l 36
Postum Cereal, large......  2 26
241 lb. packages...................l so
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................3 00
Flake, 60 lb. sack...............  80
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl.................. 2 40
Pearl, 100 lb. sack................. 1 17
M accaroni and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 28 lb. box..............2 60
Common...............................2 40
Chester.............................f.2  90
Empire........................  
  3 40

P earl  B arley

H om iny

F arin a

2 00

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

R oiled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages............. ...2 00
100 1b. kegs...................... ...3 00
200 ft. barrels................. ...5 70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1 30
Green, Scotch, bu........... ...1 40
Split,  lb...........................
3
Rolled Avena, bbl........... ...4 20
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks... .  2 26
Monarch, bbl.................. ...3 90
Monarch, 54 bbl.............. ...2 05
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks__ ...J 90
Quaker, cases................. ...3 20
East India...........................   2X
German, sacks....................   334
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks.............  454
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......   6
Cracked, bulk......................  354
24 2 ft. packages.................2 60
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

Wheat

• Sago

FOOTE Sc JENES’

JAXON

Highest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

1 oz full m . 1  20  1 oz full m.  80
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m . 1 66 
No.sfan’y.3  15  No.Sfan’y.l 57

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P ure  Cane

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

STARCH

No.  8. 
No.  9. 
No. 10. 
No. 11. 
No. 12. 
No. 13. 
No. 14. 
No. 15. 
No. 16.

TEA
Japan

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

Gunpowder

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

6M
6M
7M

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages..............
20 l-lb. packages...............
6 lb. packages...............
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss
40 l-lb. packages...............
7
6 lb. boxes.......................
7M
Common Gloss
l-lb. packages.................
3-lb. packages...................
6-lb. packages..................
40 and 50-lbi boxes............
Barrels.............................

4M
4M
SM
3M
3M

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

8

W hite fish

too  lbs...........7 50 
40  lbs........... 3 30 
10 lbs...........  90 
8 lbs...........  75 
SEEDS

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
2 50
1  30
40
35
Anise...................................   9
Canary, Smyrna..................   4
Caraway.............................   8
Cardamon, Malabar............60
Celery.................................. 12
Hemp, Russian...................  4 y.
Mixed Bird..........................   4M
Mustard, white....................  9
Poppy...................................10
Rape...................................   414
Cuttle Bone..........................15
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............  1  25
21
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
60
Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In jars......   43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SHOE  BLACKING

Babbit’s Best..................  4 00

8NUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

50 cakes, large size............. 3 26
100 cakes, large size............. 6 50
50 cakes, small size............. 1 95
100 cakes, small size.............3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny.............  3 90
Peekin............................   4  00
Queen Anne...................   3  15
Big Bargain..............—   1  75
Umpire...........................  2  15
German Family..............  2  45
Dingman........................   3  85
Santa Claus....................  3 25
Brown.................. 
2  40
Fairy..................................  4  00
Naptha............................  4  00
Oak Leaf........................   3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs...............   * 00

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

Pels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

 

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single pox.................................3 uu
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 95
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Stiver King.....................   3  60
Calumet Family.............   2 70
Scotch Family................   2  50
Cuba................................  2  40
so cakes....................  1  95
Bicker’s Magnetic.........  3 90
Big Acme........................  4 00
Acme 5C......... ................   3 25
Marseilles.......................  4 00
Master............................   3 70
Lenox.............................  3 00
Ivory, 6oz......................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
star...................................3 00
Good Cheer....................  3  80
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapolio, kitchen, 3 doz........ 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz................. 2 40
Boxes.............................. 
5M
Kegs, English......................  4M

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

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 ozpanel..1  20  2 ozpanel.  75 
3 oz taper..2 00  4 oz taper. .1  60

D. C  Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 OZ......... 
75  2 OZ.........   1  24
3 OZ.........  1  00  3 OZ.........   1  60
6 OZ.........   2 00  4 OZ.........   2  00
No. 4T 
.1 5 2   No. 3 T...  2 08
O ur Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60

Standard.

PLY PA PER

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

FRESH  HEATS 

6M@ 8 
5M@  6 
9  @10 
12M@16 
12  @14 
8H@  9 
5  @ 5M 
4  @ 5
@ 7 
@ 9M 
@ 8M @ 8 
@ 8

Beef
Carcass....................
Forequarters.........
Hindquarters.........
Loins No. 3.............
Bibs.......................
Rounds....................
Chucks....................
Plates......................
Pork
Dressed.................
Loins.....................
Boston  Butts...........
Shoulders..............
Leaf  Lard..............
H utton
Carcass...................
Lambs....................
Veal
Carcass...................
W heat 
W heat...................

8U@ 9 
9M@10
7M@  8
GRAINS  AND FLOUR

........ 
W inter  W heat  F lour

66

Local Brands

Patents.............................  4  10
Second Patent...................  3 6»
Straight..................  ........  3 40
Clear................................   3 oo
Graham...........................  3 00
Buckwheat.......................   4 oo
Bye...................................   3 25
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Floor In bbls., 26c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms......................  3 75
Diamond its.....................   3 75
Diamond Ms......................  3 75
Quaker Its.........................  3  70
Quaker Its..................... .  3 70
Quaker Ms........................   3 70

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Spring W heat F lour 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Clark-JeweU-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s  Best Its.........   4 30
PUlsbury’s  Best Its.........   4 20
Plllsbury’s Best Its paper.  4 20 
Plllsbury’s Best Its paper.  4  20 
Ball-Barn ha rt-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 30
Daluth  Imperial Its.........  4 20
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  to
Lemon & wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  Hs.................... 
4 30
Wlngold  its.................... 
4 20
Wingold  Hs.................... 
4  10
Ceresota Hs......................  4 20
Ceresota Hs......................  4  10
Ceresota Hs......................  4 oo
Laurel  Hs.........................  4 25
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  15
Laurel  Hs.........................  4 05
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4 05 
Bolted...............................  2 OO
Granulated.......................   2  10
Car  lots.............................  81H
Car lots, clipped...............   34H
Less than car lots.............

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

H eal

Oats

Feed and  Mlllstufih 

St. Car Feed,screened....  18 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats........17 60
Unbolted Corn  Meal........  17 oo
Winter Wheat Bran.........  15 50
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  16 50
Screenings.................'__   16 oo
Corn,oar  lots.................   45

C o r n
Hay

No. l Timothy car lots....  10 oo 
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  U 00 
Sage.........................................15
Hops.......................................15
Laurel Leaves..........................15
Senna Leaves..........................25

HERBS

INDIGO

JELLY

LICORICE

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.......so
6 lb. palls. per doz........... 
i  86
151b. palls............................  36
301b. palls...........................  62
Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily....................................  H
Boot..................................... 
io
Condensed. 2 doz..................i 20
Condensed. 4 doz..................2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor ra rlo r......................1 50
No. 2 Home.......................... 1 3c
Export Parlor.......................4 00
Wolverine..........................  1  50
HEAT  EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
46
Liebig’s, 2  oz.................... 
75

HATCHES

LYE

40
36
26
22

HOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Badlsh, 1 doz..............1 75
Horse Badlsh, 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 o z ....................  4 50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz__ .-............... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz......................  145
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
Continental  Paper Bag  Co.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific 
Square
Bottom 
50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2 00
2  40
2 60
3 15
4  15
4 50
5 00
5 50
4i
44

M......... .........   28
........  34
M.........
1.........
........  44
2......... .........  54
3.........
........  66
4.........
........  76
5.........
........  90
6.........
........1  06
8.........
........1  28
10.........
........1  38
12.........
........1 60
14.........
........2 24
16.........
........2 34
20.........
........2 52
26.........
Sugar
Red......
Gray__

.... 
.... 

PARIS  GREEN

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

PICKLES
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count............4 60
Half bbls, 600 count............2 75
Barrels, 2,400 count........... 5 50
Half bbls, 1.200 count.........3 30

Small

PIPES

Clay, 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............
Mg...................
Bean....................
Family Mess.......
Bump Butts Beef

@15 50 
@15 75 
@16 00 
@1E  50 
@18 50 
@12 25 
@15 50 
@11 50

D ry Salt H eats

Smoked  H eats 

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

9H 
»H 
8H
Hams, 121b. average.
@  llH i
Hams, 14 lb. average.
@ 11s
Hams, 161b. average.
@  llH 
Hams, 20 lb. average.
@  11 
Ham ¿rled beef. 
@  12M 
Shoulden (N. Y. cut)
@  7H
Bacon, clear............   10H@  U
California hams
@  8K 
Boneless hams.......
@  11 
Boiled Hams..........
@  16 
Picnic Boiled Hams
@  12 
Berlin  Hams..........
@  8*
Mince Ham s.........  
1
Lards—In Tierces

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

3
10

Beef

Tripe

70
126
225

5H
e
7M
754
6%
9
6

10 75
11  50
11  50
ieo
350

Sausages
Bologna................... 
Liver.......................  
Frankfort................ 
P o rk .......................  
Blood.......................  
Tongue.................... 
Headcheese.............  
Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless..................  
Bump...................... 
Pigs’  Feet
54 bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
K bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk ...............................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef  middles........... 
Sheep............................... 
B utterlne
Solid, dairy..............  11  @13
Bolls, dairy..............  UM@i3M
Bolls, creamery......  
1454
Solid, creamery......  
u
2 75
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
17 50
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Boast beef, 2 lb........ 
2 75
Potted ham,  Ms......  
50
Potted ham,  Ms......  
90
50
Deviled ham, Ms.... 
Deviled ham, Ms__  
90
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
50
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
90
RICE 
Domestic

Canned H eats 

Carolina head....................... 7
Carolina  No. 1 ...................... sm
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 454
Broken..................................4M
Japan,  No.  1.................5M@6
Japan,  No.  2.................4M@6
Java, fancy head.......... 5  @5M
Java, No. l ....................5  @
Table...............................  @

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer . 3  15
Deland’s................................3 00
Dwight’s Cow.......................3 15
Emblem................................2 10
L.  P ...................................... 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms............... 3 00
Granulated,  bbls...................  80
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__  90
Lump, bbls...........................  
71
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  80

SAL  SODA

SALT 
Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diamond Crystal 

100  31b. bags.......................3 00
50  6 lb. bags....................... 3 00
2214 lb. bags....................... 2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count and one case 24 3 lb. boxes 
free.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bum.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 20 uib.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks............................2 25
60 5 lb. sacks............................ 2 15
2810 lb. sacks.......................... 2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................   40
28 lb. sacks.......................   22
66 lb. dairy La drill bags......   30
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   16
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. sacks..........................   26
Granulated  Fine.................  95
Medium Fine............................ 1 00

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
Higgins

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............  @ 6
Georges genuine........  @ 6M
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...............   @ 6
Strips or  bricks......... 6M@10M
Pollock.......................   @ 3M
Strips.......................................10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1100 lbs......................
6  30
No. 1  40 lbs......................
2 70 
No. 1  10 lbs......................
75 
No. 1  8 lbs......................
63
Holland white hoops, bbl. 
11 25 
Holland white hoops Mbbl. 
6  00
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
82
Holland white hoop mens.
87
Norwegian.......................
Bound 100 lbs....................
3 00 
Bound 40 lbs.....................
1 50
Scaled.............................
19 
Bloaters.............................
1  60
M a c k e r e l
Mess 100 lbs................
12 25 
Mess  40 lbs................
Mess  10 lbs................
1 38 
Mess  8 lbs................
1  13
No. 1 100 lbs................
4 50 
No. 1  40 lbs...........
No. 1  10 lbs................
1  20 
No. 1  8 lbs................
1 00
No. 2100 lbs................
7 00
NO. 2  40 lbs................
8  10 
No. 2  10 lbs................
86 
No. 2  SUM................
71

5 20 
10  50

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

Common Coni

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

5
4M

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice............................
Cassia, China In mats......
Cassia, Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna..............
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Mace.................................
Nutmegs,  75-80.................
Nutmegs,  105-10...............
Nutmegs, 115-20................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
ure G round In B ulk

a er, 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.........   ......................

SYRUPS 

Corn

Barrels..........................
....20
Half bbls......................
....22
1 doz. l gallon cans......
...3  20
1 doz. M gallon cans__ ....1  80
2 doz. M 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 00
Cut Loaf...........................   6 00
Crushed............................  6 00
Cubes................................  6 75
Powdered.........................  5 60
Coarse  Powdered............   5 60
XXXX Powdered............   6 65
Standard  Granulated......   5 60
Fine Granulated................  5 50
Coarse Granulated...........  6 60
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 60
Conf.  Granulated.............  5 75
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  5 65
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 65
Mould A............................  5 85
Diamond  A ......................  560
Confectioner’s  A..............  530
NO.  1, Columbia A..........  5 15
NO.  2, Windsor A...........   5 10
no.  3, Ridgewood A......   5 10
NO.  4, Phoenix  A...........   5 05
,0.  5. Empire A.............  5 00
o.  6...............................  4 95
" 0.  7...............................  4 85

I Best Corn Starch.................  u
Neutral Pearl Starch in bbl. 
Neutral Powdered Starch In bbl. 
Best Confect’rs In bbl.,thin boll. 
Best Laundry In  bbl.,  thin  boll. 
Chas. Pope Glucose Co.,
Chicago, 111.

Young Hyson

Oolong

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

English B reakfast

In dia

TOBACCO

Cigars

American Cigar Factory brands

A. Homers’ brand.

Elk’s Heart......................55@70
W. S. W.................................. 35 00
Bald Head...............................35 00
Plalndealer............................ 35 00
Columbian Cigar Co.’s brands.
Little Columbian.................... 36 00
Columbian...............................35 00
Columbian Extra.....  ........ 56 00
Columbian Special..................65 00
Columbian Invincible........ 90 00
Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager....................  35 00
Quintette..........................  35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug co.’s brands.

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

14

Mixed Candy

16

AKRON STONEWARE 

Butters

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

C h u r n s

2 to 6 gal., per gal....................
'’burn Dashers, per doz..........
M ilkp an g

*4 ga.  f.ht or rd. hot, per doz.. 
1 gal. nat or rd. hot,, tach......

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

6*4
84

Fine Glazed Milkpang

*4 gal  flat or rd. hot., per doz..........
1 gal. flat or rd. hot., each...............

Stewpang

*4 gal. fireproof, bail, p»>r doz..........
1 gal. fireproof, bail, p*>r doz..........

85 
1  10

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

Right now, write us tor Catalogue and Agency.

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Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

P ing

Fine  Cut

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

B. L...................................$35 00
Gold Star..........................  35 00
Star G reen....................35  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.................................... 30
Flat Iron..............................36
Creme de Men the................60
Stronghold........................... 40
Solo.......................................35
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross............................. 24
Palo......................................36
Kylo.........................................36 ,
Hiawatha..............................4i
Battle A xe.........................  37
American Eagle................... 54
Standard Navy.....................38
Spear Head, 16 oz................43
Spear Head,  8 oz................45
Nobby Twist........................49
Jolly T ar..............................39
Old nonesty......................... 45
Toddy.,.................................35
J. T .......................................38
Piper Heldsick.....................64
BcotJack............................. 81
.Jelly Cake.............................36
Plumb Bob...........................32
Hand Pressed...................... 46
Double  Cross...................... 37
Sweet Core...........................40
Flat Car............................... 37
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 29
Bamboo, i6oz...................... 27
I XL,  61b...........................28
IX  L, 30 lb.........................32
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................40
Chips....................................35
Klin Dried...........................24
Duke’s Mixture...................40
Duke's Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Yum, i% oz..................39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........37
Cream...................................37
Corn Cake, 2*4 oz................. 25
Corn Cake, lib .....................23
Plow Boy, 1% oz................. 39
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz................. 37
Peerless, 3*4 oz.................... 34
Peerless, i$i oz....................36
Indicator, 2% oz...................28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls..........31
CoL Choice, 2*4 oz.............. 21
Col. Choice. 8 oz........,.........21

Smoking

BLEA& 

PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

TABLE 8AUCKS

TW INE

The Original and
jsSjg: 
Genuine
b t t e  
Worcestershire.
l^_JP 
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s, small......   2 60
Halford, large...................  8 76
Halford, small...................  2 26
Salad Dressing, lu g e......   4 66
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76
Cotton, 3 ply......................... 16
Cotton, 4 ply.........................16
Jute, 2 ply............................ 12
Hemp, 6 ply......................... 12
Flax, medium.....................20
Wool, l lb. balls...................  7*4
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..H 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star..........12
Pure Cider, Boblnson........ 10
Pure Cider, Silver.............. ll
WASHING POW DER
Gold Dust, regular.............4 50
Gold Dust, 5c..................... 4 00

VINEGAR

Bub-No-More.................... 3  50
Pear line..............................2 90
Scourlne..............................3 50
No. 0, per gross...................20
No. i, per gross...................25
No. 9, per gross...................SB
No. 8. oer gross...................66

WICKING

WOODENWABE

Baskets

B a tte r Plates

Egg Crates

Toothpicks

Mop  Sticks

Clothes Pins

No. 1 Oval, 250 In crate... ..  45
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate... ..  50
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate...
..  56
No. 6 Oval, 250 in crate...
..  65
Humpty Dumpty...........
..2 25
No. 1, complete..............
..  30
No. 2, complete..............
..  25
Bound head, 5 gross box__  45
Bound head, cartons...........  62
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No l common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
19 9«. cotton mop heads__   l  •>*
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Palis
2- 
hoop Standard......l 40
3- 
hoop Standard......l 60
2- wlre,  Cable.............................l 60
3- wlre,  Cable............................ l 70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka......................... 2 25
Fibre.........................................2 40
Hardwood................................2 50
Softwood..................................2 75
Banquet.................................... i 60
Ideal......................................... l 50
20-inch, Standard, No. l ...... 6 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2...... 5 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.......4 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. 1.................6 60
18-lnch, Cable,  No. 2.................6 00
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3.................6 00
No. 1 fib re............................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20
Bronze Globe............................ 2 60
Dewey................. 
.1  76
Double Acme............................ 2 75
Single Acme....................   n i
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.............................. l oo
16 In. Butter.....................  —1 75
17 In. Butter..............................2 60
19 In. Butter..............................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.......................l 75
Assorted 15-17-19  ................2 50

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

Tubs

W RAPPING  PA PER

Common Straw.................   1*4
Fiber Manila, white.........
Fiber Manila, colored......   4*4
No.  l  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

YEAST  CAKE

Magic, 3 doz.........................l 00
Sunlight, 3 doz..................... l 00
Sunlight, 1*4  doz.................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............1 00
Yeast Foam, 8  doz..............l 00
Yeast Foam. 1*4  doz...........  80

FRESH  FISH
White fish...................
Trout..........................
Black B a n .................
Halibut.......................
Ciscoes or Herring....
Blueflsh......................
Live  Lobster..............
Boiled Lobster...........
Cod..............................
Haddock....................
No. l Pickerel.............
Pike............................
Perch..........................
Smoked White...........
Bed  Snapper..............
ColBlver  Salmon......
Mackerel....'..............

HIDES AND  PELTS 

Hides

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
@  6*4
Green No. l ............. 
Green No. 2............. 
@ 5*4
Cured  No. 1............  
@  8*4
Cured  No. 2............  
@  7*4
Calfskins,green No. 1 
@ 9
Calfsklns,greenNo.2  @ 7*4
Calfskins,cured No. 1  @10*4
Calfskins,cured No. 2  @ 9
Pelts,  each.............. 
Lamb..............................
Tallow
No. 1......................... 
No. 2......................... 
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy

@4*4
@3*4
15@16
18@20
il@i3
I4@i 6

50@i  00

Wool

Pelts

1
1
Fancy—In  Pails 

Grocers....................
Competition.............
Special.....................
Conserve..................
Boyal......................
R ib b o n ............................
Broken....................
Cut Loaf...................
English Bock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton  Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed................... 
Crystal Cream mix.. 

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
201b. pails__  
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls................. 
Golden Waffles........ 

@66

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
Lemon  Sours.........  
@55
Peppermint Drops.. 
@60
@65
Chocolate Drops.... 
@86
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............. 
@10
Gum Drops.............. 
@30
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
@65
Lozenges,  plain......  
@60
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials.................  
@60
@60
Mottoes................... 
Cream  Bar.............. 
@55
Molasses Bar........... 
@55
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
@65
String Bock.................. 
Wlntergreen Berries 
@60
Caram els
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
@9
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 lc pr bx.. 
@66
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
@60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx  @60
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
@50
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus sett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels.........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets..........
Jamaicas.................
Rod!......................
Lemons
Messina, 300s..........
Messina, 360s...........
California 360s.........
California 300s.........
Bananas 
Medium bunches....
Large bunches

@
@

4 00@4 50 
@4 00 
3 50@4 00

3 50@4 00 
3 25@3 50
I  50@2 00

Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign Dried Fruits 
@
Callfornlas,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes.....................  
@9*4
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
@12
A
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
@
Fards In 10 lb. boxes  @
Fards in oo lb. oases.  @
Hallowi....................  
5 @ 5*4
@
lb.  cases, new......  
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....  4*4  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona 
@17
Almonds, Ivloa....... 
@
Almonas, California,
soft s celled........... 
16 @18
Brazils,....................  
@11
Fiiberts 
................. 
@12*4
Walnuts  Grenobles.  @13*4
Walnut»., soft shelled 
@13*4
California No. l ... 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
@14
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
@13
Pecan,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex.Large... 
@11
Pecans, Jumbos......  
@12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
@
Cocoanuts, full sacks  @8 60
Chestnuts, per b n ...  @
Peanuts
5*4@ 
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Boasted................ 
e*4@ 7
Choioe, H.P., Extras  @
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted................ 
at
Span.ShlldNo- 1 n*w  7  @8

Bushels..................................  95
Bushels, wide  band........... l  is
M arket..................................  30
Splint, large....................... 4 00
Splint, medium..................3 50
Splint, small...................... 3 00
willow Clothes, large........ 6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 76 
WlllOW Clothes, small........6 26

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

bbls. palls
@7*4
@ 7*4
@8
@ 9
cases
@7*4
@10*4
@10
@8

Jugs

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

Sealing  Wax

5 lbs. in package, per lb  ..................
LAMP  BURNERS
No. 0 Sun......................................... .
No. 1 Sun...........................................
No. 2 Sun...........................................
No. 3 Sun...........................................
Tubular.............................................
Nutmeg.............................................

@12
@14
@12

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

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

First  Quality

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

XXX  Flint

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

Pearl  Top

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

La  Bastle

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

Rochester

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

Electric

OIL CANS

lgal. tin cans with spout, per doz...
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.
2 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz. 
5 gal. Tilting cans.
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas..............

LANTERNS

No.  0 Tubular, side lift......................
No.  IB  Tubular.................................
No. 15 Tubular, dash...........................
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp...................
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................
LANTERN GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases l doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye.cases 1 doz. each
MASON  FRUIT JA RS.
Pints...................................................
Quarts..................................................
Half  Gallons......................................
Caps and  Rubbers..............................
Rubbers.

IDS

7*4 •
k

$
I

1
«
w

2

35
45
65
1  10
45
50

2  00

2  15
3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00 n
5 00
6  10

1  00 
1  25 
1  36 
1  60
3 50
4 00 
4 70

4 00 
4 70

1 40 
1  68
2 78
3 75
4 85 
4 25 
4 96 
7  26 
9 00

4 85 
7 40 
7 60 
7 50 
13 60 
3 60

45 
45 
2 00 
1  25

6 25 
6 50 
9 00 
2  tO 
25 & 35

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Michlgu.

Organized  1881.

Caah Capital, 9400,000.  Nat Surplus, $200,000.

Cash Asttts, 9800,000.

D. W h it n e y, Jr.,  Pres.

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

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

E. J.  B oo th, AssL Sec’y. 

D ir e c t o r s.

D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker, 
M. W . O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Murphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A . H.  Wilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Klrke  White,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A .  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F.  E.  Drings,  Henry 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stlnchfield,  Francis  F. 
Palms, Wm. C.  Yawkey,  David  C.  W hit­
Lugen
ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F. Peltier, Richard P.
~  
T .F e  ‘  ~ 
• Joy. Chas.  C. Jenks.

“  

-  

‘ 

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for

L ab els
Gasoline 
D e a l e r s

The  Law of  1889.

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

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

•  M ..................75c
5   M ........................ 50c per M
■ o  M ......................40c per M
3 0   M .....   ........... 35c per M
50  M ........................30c per M

Glover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or Gasoline.

Glover’s Wholesale  Merchandise Co.

G rand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers  of 

GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES

Office Statinen*

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COMPANY,
c o u n t e r   bI u s .  COMPANY,
JL  GRAND  RAPIDS
GRAND  RAPIDS

—   .... 

T r a d e s m a n  
C o m p a n y ,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich,

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Hardware  Price  Current

Ammunition

Caps

G. 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 260,  per m.......
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per  m ...

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells 

New Rival—For Shotguns

4
4
4
4

Drs. Of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
136
154
200
208
236
265
264

oz.of
Shot
IX
IX
IX
i x
i x
IX
1
1
ix
ix
IX
Discount 40 per cent.

4X
3
3
3 *
«X
m
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

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

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per keg.........................
X kegs, 12X lbs., per  X  keg..............
H kegs, 6)4 lbs., per h   keg...............

Shot

Axes

A ugurs  and  Bits

In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B...........
Snell’s .................................................
Jennings  genuine...............................
Jennings’ Imitation.............................
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze.................
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...............
First Quality, 8. B. S.  Steel...............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel..................
Railroad..............................................
Garden................................................net
Bolts
Stove..................................................
............................
Carriage, new U«* 
Plow...................................................
Backets
Well, plain..........................................

Barrows

B atts,  Cast

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

Chain

2  60
3  00
4  95
5 80

1  20 
1  20

Per
100
$2 90 
2 90 
2 90 
2 90
2 96
3 00 
2 60 
2 60 
2  66 
2 70 
2 70

4  00 
2 25 
1  25

.

6  00 
9  00 
6  50 
10  50

12  00 
29 00

DEALING  IN  FIREWORKS.

No  Great  Risk  in  That  Easiness  Nowa­

From the New York Tribune.

days.

takes 

“ Firecracker  Lane,”   as  some  people 
have  called  Park  Place  between  Broad­
way  and  Church street,  is one of the most 
populous  thoroughfares  in  Lower  New 
York.  Since  the  explosion 
in  a  fire­
works  establishment  in  Paterson  many 
people  whose  business 
them 
through  that  street  and  others  who go 
that  way  to  and  from  the  elevated  rail­
way  station  have  gone  by  other  streets, 
or  if  they  went  their  usual  way  have 
walked  more 
tapidly  and  were  not 
ashamed  to  say  that  they  feared  they 
might  be  there  when  a  similar  accident 
took  place  in  one  of  the  four  establish­
ments  from  which  the  block  takes  its 
nickname.  There  are  two 
fireworks 
stores  on  each  side  of  the  street,  and  at 
this  time  of  year,  when  people  all  over 
the  country  are  making  arrangements  to 
supply  the  coming  man  and  bis  father 
with  material  for celebrating  the  Fourth 
of  July,  these  stores  are  usually  filled 
with  merchandise,  and  the  sidewalks 
in  front  of  them  are  often  blocked  with 
cases  and  boxes.

The  fireworks  establishments  are  as 
likely  to  take  fire  as  any  other stores  in 
the  neighborhood,  but  the  proprietors 
laugh  at  the  idea  of  avoiding  them  for 
fear  of  an  explosion.

“ Fireworks  are not  made  now  as  they 
were  years  ago,”   one  dealer  said,  "and 
for  that  reason  there 
is  little  danger. 
They  are  manufactured  to-day  on  scien­
tific  principles  which  preclude  sponta 
neous  combustion.  Formerly,  sulphur 
entered  largely  into  the  manufacture  of 
the  goods,  and  then  there  was  danger, 
not  only 
in  making,  hut  in  storing  the 
stock.  The  sulphur  that  is  used  now 
has  been  made  harmless  by the elimina­
tion  of  acids.  A  fire  in  a  fireworks  store 
when  once  started  will  make  good head­
way  in  short  order,  but  there  will  be  no 
great  explosion,  no  blowing  down  of 
walls,  nor  wiping  out  of  buildings,  un­
less,  besides  fireworks,  the  people  have 
powder or  dynamite  in  the  place.  The 
fire  would  set  the  goods  off,  there  would 
be  lots  of  sizzling  and  sputtering  and 
volumes  of  smoke  and  sparks,  but  all 
this  would  take  place  only  after  the 
fiames  had  reached  the  fireworks  them­
selves. 
If  the  stock  can  be  ‘ wet  down’ 
in  time  there  will  be  no  fire,  and  that 
is  more  than  you  can  say  of  a  stock  of 
furniture,  or  lots  of  other  goods  looked 
upon  by  the  public  as  harmless,  inno­
cent  stuff  in  comparison  with  fireworks. 
There  are  certain  kinds  of  torpedoes, 
which  are  not generally  carried  in  stock 
by  the  large  concerns,  that  are  danger­
ous  because  they  will  ignite  from  con­
cussion. 
the  rockets,  candles, 
crackers,  wheels  and  all  the  other  popu­
lar  ornamental  fireworks  require  live 
flame  to  set  them  off. ”

But 

It  was  explained  by  another  concern 
that  the 
insurance  companies  do  not 
take  a  dismal  view  of  “ Firecracker 
Lane”   as  a  risk.  They  write  policies 
on  the  combustible  stocks  at  from 
to 
3  per  cent.  ;  according  to  the  time  of 
the  year;  but  they  insist  on the concerns 
taking  certain  precautionary  measures.
“ We  do  nothing,”   said  one  dealer, 
“ beyond  being  exceedingly 
careful. 
We  allow  no  smoking  on  the  premises, 
keep  a  fireman  at  the  door,  who  is  a 
member  of  the  department  but  paid  by 
us,  whose  business  it  is  to  see  that  the 
smoking  regulation 
is  not  overlooked 
and  that  nothing  of  a  dangerous charac­
ter  is  brought  into the  place.”

It  was  suggested  that  somebody might 
come  in  and,  while  looking  at  the  mer­
chandise, take  a  match  out  of  his  pocket 
and  light  some  of  the  samples displayed 
on  the  long  counter. 
“ That  would  do 
no  harm,”   said  the  fireworks  merchant, 
“ because  the  samples  on  the  counter 
from  which  we  sell are  all dummies,  and 
the  stock  proper  is  kept  far  away  from 
the  reach  of  any  crank  customer  who 
might come  in  for  the  purpose  of  doing 
damage.  To  illustrate  the  theory  that 
fireworks  will  not  burn  until  a  flame 
reaches  them,  we have  the  experience  of 
a  customer  in  Savannah.  He  kept  a 
large  general  store 
in  which  he  had  a 
case  of  fireworks  from  our house  on  the

i

night  when  a fire  broke  out  in  his  estab­
lishment.  The  case  stood  in  the  back 
part  of  the  store,  and  was thoroughly 
drenched  by  water.  The  fire  destroyed 
nearly  everything  on  the  ground  floor 
large  establishment  except  the 
of  the 
fireworks,  and  nobody  knew  that  there 
were  any  such 
in  the  place  until  the 
water  soaked  case  was  opened  on  the 
rubbish  heap.  We  feel  perfectly  safe, 
and  deem  our  business  not  an  extra 
hazardous  one,  because  we  carry  no  ex 
plosives. ”

Paid  in  Advance  for  His  Funeral.
“ A  man  entered  my  salesroom  some 
time  ago,”   recalled  an 
undertaker, 
“ and  said  that  he  wanted  to  select  a 
casket  and  shroud. 
I  asked  what  sized 
casket  he  wanted  and  he  answered 
‘ Well,  you  can  measure  me  if you want 
I  want  the  casket  for  myself. ’ 
I  was 
taken  by  surprise,  and  he  noticed 
it, 
but  he  appeared  to  think  that  there  was 
nothing  unusual  in  his  request. 
‘ I  am 
six  feet  tall,’  he  said.

“ Without  further  delay  I  began  to 
show  him  our different  caskets.  He  was 
very  particular  about  it—they  all  are— 
and  it  took  him  about  an  hour to  choose 
what  he  wanted.  He  then  selected  a 
shroud  and  other  necessities  and  gave 
an  order  for  four  carriages.  When  we 
were  through  be  asked  the  price  and  1 
told  him  $150.  He  paid  over the  cash 
and  I  gave  him  a  receipt  for  his  own 
funeral. 
That  man  was  apparently 
strong  and  robust at the time.  Six weeks 
later  I  received  a  telephone  message 
from  one  of  the  hospitals  in  this  city 
announcing  that  my  customer  had  died 
and  that  he  had  given  instructions  to 
have  me  called.  The  funeral  was  car­
ried  out  just  as  he  had  planned  it.”

There 

is 
spiritualism, 
wealthy.

evidently  something 
in 
Some  mediums  are  quite

for 

the 

Trade 

| To Our Country i 
| 
•
S   Last year we had a splendid sue- S  
Z cess in offering our country trade a Z
•  package whiteware, which was just  •  
2  the thing for  Harvest  trade.  That $ 
Z is  what  the  farmer  wants,  good  9
•  solid  whiteware 
least •  
2   money.  Goods which can  stand  a  f  
Z tumble and prices  can’t be beaten.  •
a   W e Offer for This Month O nly §
•   Shipped director any time in July,  Z
8
•  from factory: 
2
S   10 doz. Alpine  shape  handled 
Teas...............................$  64  6 40  S
2  
S   10 doz. 7  Inch  Alpine  shaped 
2
S  
Plates............................. 
62  6 20  2
96 2
2   l doz. 8 inch Round Nappies . 9 6  
l 44 I  44 2
2   l doz. 9 inch Round Nappies, 
2 X doz. Covered  Chambers.... 
3 84 l  92 2
2  1 doz. IX pint Bowls.............  
64 2
64 
2  t doz. 8 inch Platters................  80  80 2
1 44  72 8
2   X doz. 10 inch (1114) Platters. 
£
2   Price for above first-class goods 
2  
$18.08  2
Z   We can  furnish  the  same  package  in  •
•   second selection for  $14.89,  making  12 i
•   cups and 12 saucers 53 cents and  the din-  %
2  ner plates 42 cents a dozen, etc. 
•
m
2  
2  We  have  50  packages.  Order X 
8 now  before  they  are  all  gone.  •  
2   Every  piece  is  embossed  and  is 2  
2  not  the  cheap  looking  old  style  2  
8
8 cable shape. 
2   Write for special whiteware  cat- 2  
Z
Z  alogue. 
8  
§
i
•  
2 
$
2  Crockery,  Glassware,  Lamps,  2
2
2  
2  
2
2 
2
2   Order  your  jelly  tumblers  and  8 
2  common  tumblers  now.  All  the  2  
8 glassware 
factories  shut  down 8 
I j u i y i .  
f
8 m m w H w w m i w $ i *

DeYoung  &   Schaafsma, 

Corner Canal and Lyon Streets, 

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

without package 

General Agents In 

(Second Floor) 

' 

31

70

tx
s

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

Levels

Mattocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Birdcages................ 
40
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
75&10
86
Screws, New List............................... 
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................  50&10&10
Dampers, American........................... 
60

 

 

Molasses  Gates

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

60300
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................  60&10&10
Common,  polished.............................  
70&5
P atent  Planished  Iron 

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 78 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 76

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

Nails

Steel nails, base................................ 
Wire nails, base.................................. 
20 to 60 advance.................................. 
10 to 16 advance..................................  
8 advance........................................... 
6 advance........................................... 
4 advance........................................... 
3 advance........................................... 
2 advance........................................... 
Fine 3 advance...................................  
Casing 10 advance............................... 
Casing 8 advance................................  
Casing 6 advance................................  
Finish 10 advance............................... 
Finish 8 advance................................  
Finish 6 advance................................  
Barrel  % advance............................... 

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

14x20 IC 
14X20IX  
20x28 IC 
14x20 IC  
14X20IX  
20x28 IC  
20x28 IX

Charcoal, Dean..........................  
, Charcoal, Dean..........................  
Charcoal, Dean.......................... 
Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
.Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 

Ropes

inch and larger...................... 

Sisal, X 
Manilla

50
60
60
so

2 66
2 66
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
60
15
25
36
26
36
46
88

60
46

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

6 50

8X

60

26 00

$4  00

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

Sand  Paper

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

Sash  Weights

6-16 in.

Com.
BB...
BBB.

. ..  7* 
. ..  7JÍ 

x  in.
% in.
7  C.  . ..  6 c . . . . 5 0 . .
.. .  6X 
8* 
8X 
.. .  6X 
Cast Steel, per lb................................  
Socket F irm er.................................... 
Socket Framing.................................. 
Socket Corner.....................................  
Socket Slicks....................................... 

Chisels

Hin.
..  4X0.
...  6
. ..  6X

e

65
65
65
66

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz.................net 
66
1  26
Corrugated, per doz............................ 
Adjustable........................................... dls  40&10

Expansive  Bits

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26.............. 
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................  
New American.................................... 
Nicholson’s.......................................... 
Heller’s Horse Rasps..:...................... 

Files—New  List

Galvanized  Iro n

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27, 
List  12  13 
16. 

14 

16 

Discount,  66

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

Ganges

Glass

40
28
70&10
70
70

28
17

eo&io

Single Strength, by box.......................dls  80&20
Double Strength, by box.....................dls  8O&20
  dls  80&20

By the Light..................... 

H am m ers

Hinges

Hollow  W are

33X
Maydole & Co.’s, new list....................dis 
Y erkes & Plumb’s ................................dls  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel............... 30c list 
70
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3.............................. dls  60&10
60300
Pots...........................................•........  
Kettles................................................ 
50&10
Spiders................................................  
50&10
Au Sable..............................................dls  40300
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
70
Japanned Tinware..............................  
20&10
Bar Iron..............................................2 26  c rates
Light Band.........................................   3 c rates

Horse  Nalls

Iron

Knobs—New  List

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

Lanterns

76
86
6 00
6 00

Sheet Iron

com. smooth.

com. 
$3  20 
8 20 
3 30 
3 40 
3 50 
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............................. 

8 00
7 60

Solder

X@X................................................... 
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

70

$ 8 50 
8 60 
9 76

7 00
7 00
8 80 
8 60

10
76
40&10

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

Steel and Iron.

Squares

Tin—Melyn  Grade

10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
20x14 IX, Charcoal...............................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaw ay  Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IC, Charcoal...............................
10x14 IX, Charcoal...............................
14x20 IX, Charcoal...............................

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

B oiler  Size  Tin  Plate 

Traps

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers,) _ __
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, J P®r pound" 
Steel,  Game........................................
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
ton’s.................................................
Mouse, choker  per doz.....................
Mouse, delusion, pe.- doz....................
Bright Market.....................................
Annealed  Market...............................
Coppered Market................................
Tinned  Market...................................
Coppered Spring Steel.......................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized.................
Barbed Fence, Painted.......................
Bright................................................
Screw Eyes.........................................
Hooks..................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes.........................

W ire  Goods

W ire

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........
Coe's Genuine. •••
Coe’s Patent Agricultural', ¡Wrought. . 70300

3 2

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Annual  Picnic  of Grand  Rapids  Council, 

ü.  C.  T.
i— The  great 
Grand  Rapids,  July 
event—the  game  that 
and 
ior  days 
weeks  the  boys  and  their  friends  have 
been  looking  forward  to—has  come  and 
gone;  has  now  become  part  of  the  his­
tory  of  the  past  and is  chronicled  as  one 
of  the  great  events  of  the  city.  That 
it 
was  a  great  event  is  attested  by  many of 
the  ciowd  that  witnessed  the  game  of 
ball  played Saturday afternoon at Reed’s 
Lake  ball  park.  Less  than  one  thousand 
persons  witnessed  the  game,  but  their 
enthusiasm  was  sufficient  to  fire  the 
teams—one  captained  by  L.  F.  Baker 
and  the  other  by  Sam  Simmons.  The 
great  care  used  in  the  selection  of  the 
men  for  the  position  each was best  qual­
ified  to  fill  clearly  showed  on  the  start 
that  the  game  was  to  he  a  royal  battle 
hard  fought;  but,  alas,  some  of  the boys 
fell  down  hard  on  the  first 
inning.  At 
the  start  of  the  game,the  Simmons  team 
was  dubbed  “ Butter  Fingers”   by  the 
crowd  and  the  Baker team styled  “ Long 
Hitters.”   Before  the  game  had  gone 
beyond  the  second 
inning,  however, 
Butter  Fingers  proved  that  there  was 
no  butter  on  their  fingers,  so  far  as  ball 
for  the  way  they  went 
playing  goes, 
after  everything  was  a  corker.  Emery 
was  in  the  box  for  the  Simmons  men 
and  some  of  his  out  curves  were  as 
wide  as  a  hogshead  hoop.  Even  Frank 
Pierce,  who,like  the  octupus— he  travels 
for  the  Standard  Oil  Co.— reaches  out 
for  everything  and  generally  brings  it 
within  his  fold,  found  he  had  a  “ hole 
in  his  hat”   many times,  and yet Frank’s 
double  play  was  one  of  the  star  features 
of  the  game  and  also  his  work  on  first 
was  of  a  high  order.  Captain  Simmons 
caught  the  twirlers  sent  out  by  Emery 
in  a  manner  to  bring  forth  so  much  ad­
miration  from  the  spectators as to almost 
cause  jealousy  among  some  of the ladies 
in  the  grand  stand.  Bodwell  furnished 
his  usual  amount  of  amusement  for  the 
spectators,  and  yet  did  good  work  in 
playing. 
Burns,  on  second,  showed 
great  agility 
in  side  stopping  the  hot 
ones  that  came  his  way  and,  at  bat,  he 
hit—nit.  Benjamin  furnished  one  of 
the  star comedies  of  the  game  by  over­
running  second  by  about  ten  feet  and 
then  standing  still  and  waiting  to  be 
touched,  being  under  the 
impression 
that  he  was  safe,  just  because  the  um­
pire  was  on  his  side.  Davenport  did 
almost  the  same  thing  on  third.  Some 
of  the  situations  were  funny  enough  to 
make  a 
temperance  advocate  smile. 
Spurrier  as  pitcher  and  Rysdale  as 
catcher  proved  as  losers  for  the  Long 
Hitters,  and 
it  was  plainly  to  be  seen 
that  something  must  be  done.  A  change 
was  made  and,  with  Rysdale  pitching 
and  Kolb  catching,  Butter  Fingers  had 
to  wince  a 
little.  They,  however,  had 
then  too  much  of  a  start  to  be  caught, 
and 
it  was  plainly  to  be  seen  that  the 
game  was  theirs.  After the  game  was 
over,  the  steamer  Major  Watson  was 
taken  possession  of  and,  under 
the 
Ladies'  Committee,  composed  of  Mrs. 
Franklin  Pierce,  Mrs.  Will  Holden, 
Mrs.  Will  Compton,  supper  was  spread 
in  the  dining  apartment  of  the  boat. 
It 
was  a  supper  fit  for  kings  and  queens 
and  was  pronounced  “ ace  high”   by 
everyone.  The  teams 
lined  up  as  fol­
lows :

Butter  Fingers 
(.'apt.  Simmons 

Long  Hitters 

Capt. L. F. Baker 

The score:

Long Hitters...........
Butter Fingers  ......

Emery, p.
Simmons, c. 
Launiere, i b. 
Bodwell, s. s. 
Burleson, 3 b. 
Benjamin, c. f. 
Carlisle, 2 b. 
Davenport. 1. f.
Van Ness, r. f. 
Reynolds, 3 b.

Rysdale, c. & p.
Pierce, l b.
Baker, s. s.
Kobe. 2 b. & c.
Dooge, 3 b.
Goodwin, 1. f.
Burns, c. f.
Dykema, r  f.
Spurrin,  p. & 2 b. & c. f. 
Martin, 1  f.
Stevenson, 1. f.
0 0 1 0 5 0 0 0  5—11  14  18 
.5 7 0 0 3 0 4 1   5—25 30  9
After supper  music  and  dancing  were 
indulged  in  until  all  were  ready  to  take 
their tired  but  happy  selves  to  their  re­
spective  homes,  with  the  hope  that  the 
day  would  not  be  far  distant  when  an­
other  happy  time  could  be  enjoyed  for 
the  grown  people  and  children  together.
Any  good  amateur team  in  some  near­
by  town  that  wishes  to  be  wiped  out  of 
existence  would  be  pretty  safe  in  send­
ing  word  to  Captain  Sam  Simmons  to 
come  and  do  it.  Should  this  news  reach

bis 

the  ear  of  any  brother  U.  C.  T.  in  Kal­
amazoo  and 
is 
warm,  please  send  word.

fighting  blood 

Another  picnic  is  promised  for  July, 
but  just  when  it  will  be  can  not  at  this 
writing  be  made  known.

Special  thanks  are  extended  to  the 
Ball-Barnbart-Putman  Co. 
for  cigars, 
to  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
for  a  ball  and  to  G^rdella  Bros,  for 
bananas.  They  were  all  appreciated 
very  much. 

JaDee.

The  Grain  Market.

is 

last  year  of  over 

Wheat  has  followed 

its  usual  trend, 
is,  worked  for  lower  levels.  The 
that 
cause 
ideal  harvest  weather and  the 
overestimate  of  the  crop,  which  some 
put  at  500,000,000 bushels  winter  wheat 
(where  is  it?)  and  300,000,000  bushels 
spring  (which  is  not  made  yet).  A l­
though  the  visible  made  a 
large  de­
crease  of  2,110,000  bushels,  against  an 
increase 
1,000,000 
bushels,  it  leaves  the  visible  at  30,700,- 
000  bushels,  against  46,400,000  bushels 
a  year ago,  which  is  quite  a  difference. 
Our  large  decrease,  in  ordinary  times, 
would  have  had  the  effect  of  advancing 
prices,  while  now 
it  has  a  depressing 
effect.  Wheat,  however,  will  be  wanted, 
as  the  United  States  certainly  will  be 
called  upon  to  furnish  the  continent 
with  bread,  unless  reports  are  false,  as 
the  only  place  on  the  continent  that  has 
a  full  crop  is  Spain,  and  her  exportable 
In  Michigan  the  crop 
surplus  is  small. 
is  better  than 
last  year,  but  by  no 
means  what  we  would  wish  to  see  it.

Corn  is  on  the  boom,  owing to  the  ex­
tremely  hot  weather  in  Kansas and other 
corn  raising  states.  The  report  comes 
that  corn  is very  materially hurt  and  the 
estimate  yield  reduced  some  20  per 
cent.  Some  go  so  far  as  to  say  that, 
unless  cooler  weather  exists  in some  lo­
calities,  farmers  will  have  to  sell  their 
stock.  Prices  will  advance  later  unless 
conditions  change.

Oats  are  very  stiff 

in  price,  owing 

to  the  small  crop.

Rye  is  at  a  standstill,  no  trading 

in 
that  cereal,  as  all  are  waiting  for  the 
new  rye  to  make  its  appearance.

Beans  are  hardly  as  strong  as  they 

have  been.

Flour  trade  has  been  somewhat  slack, 
owing  to  wheat  going  off  some,  and  it 
is  hardly  up  to  average.  The  mills  are 
filling  old  orders  and,  as  cash  wheat 
is 
hard  to  get  unless  a  large  premium  is 
paid,  they  can  not  see  their  way  clear 
to  make  concessions  in  price.

Mill 

feed  has  gone  off  in  price,  as 
was  expected,  but,  as  the  price  of  corn 
and  oats  keeps  high,  we  do  not  look  for 
much 
lower  prices  in  mill  feed  in  the 
near  future.

Receipts  during  the  month  were  as 
follows :  wheat,  248  cars ;  corn,  22  cars; 
oats,  30  cars;  flour,  14  cars;  bran,  1 
car;  beans,  7  cars;  castor  beans,  5 cars; 
hay,  6 cars;  straw,  3  cars;  potatoes,  16 
cars.

During  the  week:  wheat,  50  cars; 
corn,  5  cars ;  oats,  6 cars ;  flour,  3  cars ; 
beans,  2  cars;  potatoes,  3  cars.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Possess  the  Elements  of a  Trust. 

“ Ethel,”   he  said,  in  that  soft,  coo­
ing  tone  which  sounds  so  foolish  to  the 
disinterested  bystander,  “ I  think  that 
there 
is  no  treasure  to  equal  a  true 
woman’s  affection.”

“ And  I,”   she  answered,  “ believe 
love 

that  no  riches  can  compare  to  the 
of an  honest  man.”

With  all  his  sentiment  he  was  a  man 
of  business,  and  without  hesitation  he 
rejoined:

“ Miss  Smithers,  does  it  not  occur  to 
you  that  we  have  enough  capital  at  our 
disposal  to organize  a  trust?”

Successful  Farming  by  a  Kansas  Woman. 
From the Kansas City Journal.

Nine  years  ago  the  husband  of  Mrs. 
Amelia  Bruning  died  on  the  family 
farm  near  Ellsworth.  Mrs.  Bruning  had 
led  the  simple  life  of  a  country  woman, 
with  no  more  business  experience  than 
taking a  jar  of  butter or a  basket of eggs 
into  town  to  trade  for  calico,  and  her 
friends  expected  hard  lines  for  her  and 
large  family  of  small  children.  But 
a 
Mrs.  Bruning  bad  within  her 
the 
capacity  for  great  deeds.  She  took  up 
the  management  of  the  farm  and  made 
such  a  success  of 
it  that  hers  is  now 
one  of  the  wealthiest  agricultural  fami­
lies  in  Ellsworth  county.  She  has  near­
ly  160  acres  under  cultivation,  owns  a 
large  herd  of  fine  cattle, 
and  has 
equipped  her  farm  with the  finest  build­
ings  in  the  vicinity.  And  she  is  out  of 
debt  with  money 
in  the  bank  and  a 
wheat  crop  coming  on  worth  many thou­
sand  dollars.

M.  Sven  Hedin  has  discovered  a  sec­
ond  Dead  Sea 
in  the  highlands  of 
Thibet,  a  vast  lake  so  impregnated with 
salt  that 
life  is  out  of  the 
indigenous 
question. 
It  was  impossible  to  get  the 
boat  close  to the  shore,  so  that  be  and 
bis  companions  had  to  wade  out  two 
boats’  lengths  before  she  would  float, 
and  this  was  sufficient  to  bring  a  thick 
coating  of salt  on  their  legs  and  clothes. 
The  entire  bed  of  the  lake  appeared  to 
consist  of  salt,  and  the  density  of  the 
lifeless  water  was,  of  course,  very  high.
lies  the  head  that  wears  a 
crown.”   Edward  is  hereby  advised  to 
get  all  the  sleep  he  can  before  his  coro­
nation  next  June.

“ Uneasy 

When  a  man  has  greatness 

thrust 
upon  him.it  doesn’t  take  him  very  long 
to  get  rid  of  it.

Advertisements  will  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for  each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

924

927

Ij'OR SALE OK EXCHANGE—STORE  FKOP- 
X1  erty in Central Michigan city.  Address Box 
632, Grand Ledge, Mich. 
U /  ANT E  D-DRY  GOODS.  CLOTHING, 
t v  shoes  or  general  merchandise  stocks 
bought for spot cash  on  liberal  plan.  Clean  up 
your shoe stock  by  selling  us  your  undesirable 
numbers on commission or  cash  basis.  Best  of 
reierences  Ries & Guettel, 126-128  Market  St., 
Chicago. 111. 

■ O TRADE—ONE OF  THE  FINfcST  FRUIT 

farms in  Western  Mich gan  for  a  stock  of 
drugs  Three thousand bushels  peaches  now in 
sight;  near  fine  market.  Address  Box  556, 
Shelby,  Mich. 
U TO tK   OF  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
O   for sale.  Box 108, Rathbone. Mich. 

923
922

in  Central  Michigan;  business  established  20 

ROMEYN-FAKSONS  PAYS  CASH  FOR 
b'OR  SALE-STOCK  CF  GENERAL  MER- 

stocks  of  merchandise  (not  a  trader  or 
broker).  Grand Ledge, Mich 
920
chandise, invoicing about $7,500;  live village 
years;  has  made  money  from  the  start;  fine 
farming section;  will rent  store  building:  ret'r- 
ing from  business  on  account  of  poor  health. 
Address No. 9 9. care Michigan Tradesman.  919
D r u g   st o r e  f o r   s a l e  c h e a p :  lo w
rent;  city of  3.500.  Address  No.  918,  care 
918
Michigan Tradesman. 
PAN-AMERICAN  ACCOMMODATIONS  AT 
private  house,  conveniently  located.  Lodg­
ing, one  dollar  each  Address  LeRoy  S.  Oat- 
man. Sec’y, Buffalo Produce Exchange. 
Ij'OR SALE OR KENT—'TWO-8 TORY FRAME 
ID  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
FOR  SALE—sto ck  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
chandhe  situated  twelve  miles  from  Lake 
Michigan  in  best  fruit  section  of  the  State 
Stock will inventory  about  $4,200;  doing a busi­
ness  of  $15,000  per  annum;  good  location  for 
hustler;  satisfactory reason for selling.  Address 
Q. T., care Michigan Tradesman. 
909
IJ'OR SALE—AN  UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE 
'  and  implement  stock,  invoicing  $3,000;  lo­
cated in Northern Michigan;  doing a  good  busi­
ness.  Address No.  913,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
Jr'OR  SALE—A  STOCK  OF  SHOES  OF 

about  $2,200;  doing  a  good  retail  business; 
opening for  a  man  to  go  into  shoe  business; 
stock  located  in  Dowagiac,  Mich.  Reason for 
selling, too much other business.  Address J. F. 
Muffley, Kalamazoo, Mich. 

sales, $7,500 per year;  rent,  $20  per  month; Ai 

917

912

913

898

824

Fo r  sa l e  o r  r e n t—d e s ir a b l e  r e s i-
dence and barn at 24 Kellogg  street.  Grand 
Rapids.  Large lot.  All modern  improvements. 
E. A. Stowe, New Blodgett Building. 
907
Fo r  sa l e—r e t ir in g   fr o m   m e r c a n -
tile  business,  “ The  Busy  Big  Store,”  gen­
eral stock about $ 12,coo;  sales last year, $33.391.68; 
sales last month,  $2,600;  in  very  best  condition; 
healthy  and  growing.  Located  at  Bellevue, 
Mich.;  elegant  farming  trade.  We  enjoy  the 
trade of the town in  groceries,  dry  goods,  boots 
and shoes, crockery, carpets  and  working cloth­
ing.  Good discount  to  cash  buyer.  Reference, 
Bellevue Bank.  Address C.  D.  Kimberly, Belle- 
vue, Mich.______________________ 
Ij'OR  SALE—SECOND  HAND  SODA  FOUN- 
X1  tain;  easy  terms.  Also  two  cigar  and  to­
bacco store  signs—Scotch  girl  and  Uncle  Sam; 
one ten-ball parlor pool table.  Charles  A. Jack- 
son. Benton Harbor, Mich. 
906
Ij'O R   S A L E -C L E A N   GROCERY  AND 
’  crockery stock, invoicing about $1,200;  in one 
of the best  growing  towns  in  Northern  Michi­
gan  Address  A.  P ,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
903
Ij'OR  SALE-WHOLE  OR  PART  INTEREST 
IT 
in  a  general  hardware,  tlnsmithing  and 
plumbing stock, Invoicing about $3,500, in a good 
factory  town  in  Southern  Michigan.  Address 
No: 824. care Michigan Tradesman. 

farming community.  Reason  for  selling,  other 

IpORn  SALE—A  NICE,  CLEAN  GENERAL 

stock,  Inventorying  about  $1,800,  in  good 
business.  Address  No.  860,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Ij'OR SALE-THE  BEST  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
r   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. 
OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAlTIWBR. 
chandlse  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 
T  WILL  SELL  HALF  INTEREST  IN  MY 
A  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
IF GOING OUT OF  BUSINESS  OR  IF  YOU 
have a bankrupt stock of clothing, dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York 
Store. Traverse City, Mich.__________ 
PARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF  GOODS  OF 
any kind,  farm  or  city  property  or  manu­
facturing  plants  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change  correspond  with  the  Derby  &  Choate 
Real Estate Co.. Flint.  Mich. 

856

860

709

728

MISCELLANEOUS

LKRK  WANTED—FOR GENERAL STORE. 
Must be young,  active  and  of  good  habits. 
Give experience and  references.  Address Haak
Lumber Co , Wolverine, Mich,_____  
925
A R P E N T E E S   W A N T E D—ADDRESS 
926
Hank Lumber Co., Wolverine, Mich. 
Sit u a t io n   a s  r e g is t e r e d   p h a r m a -
cist in drug or  general  store.  Address  No. 
921, care Michigan Tradesman_____._____ 921
WANTED—SITUATION  BY  YOUNG  MAN 
in general  store:  has  had  several  years’ 
experience.  Can furnish  good  references.  Ad- 
dress No. 916. care Michigan Tradesman.  916
PHARMACIST—WANTED IMMEDIATELY. 
Apply to R. W, Harrold, FennvlUe, Mich. 911
PHARMACI ST,   SITUATION  WANTED. 
900
Box 99. Grattan. Mich. 
W ANTED-TRAVELING  SALESMAN  TO 
handle our Air Rifle as a side line on  com­
mission.  Rapid  Rifle  Co.,  Limited,  Grand 
Rapids,  Mich. 
______________ 892

CO N SULTATION
EXAMINATION

You are under no  obligation  to  continue  treat­
ment.  Dr. Rankin  has  been  established  in  the 
same office ten years and his practice is sufficient 
evidence of his  skill.

Catarrh,  Head and  Throat

Is the voice husky?
Do you ache all over?
Is the nose stopped up?
Do  you  snore  at  night?
Does the nose bleed easily?
Is  this  worse  toward  night?
Does  the  nose  itch  and  burn?
Is  there  pain  in  front  of  head?
Is  there  pain  across  the  eyes?
Is  your  sense  of  smell  leaving?
Is the throat  dry  in  the morning?
Are yon  losing your  sense of  taste?
Do  you  sleep  with  the  mouth  open?
Have you a  pain  behind  breast  bone?
Does  the  nose  stop  up  toward  night?

Go or write to

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN,

Powers’  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Repins,  Michigan 

Graduate of University of  Michigan  and  Illinois 

School of Electro-Therapeutics 

Mail  Treatm ent

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

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Mica because their customers want the best  axle grease they can get for 
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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 
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J . 5. Hall, D. P. A..

Detroit

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, C. E. Wa l k e r,  Bay City;  Vice-Pres­
ident,  J.  H.  Hopkin s,  Ypsilanti;  Secretary, 
E. A. Stow s, Grand Bapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F. 
Tatm an, Clare.  ______

President, Fran k  J. Dy k;  Secretary,  Homer 

Grind Ripidi  Retail Grocers’  Allocution 
Kl a p ;  Treasurer, J. Grorob  Lbhman
Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  lu ociatiu  

President,  E.  Ma r k s;  Secretaries,  N.  L.
Koenig  and  F.  H.  Cozzens;  Treasurer,  C. 
H.  Fr in k .

KalaaaiM  Retail  Grown’  Auociatioi 

President, E.  P  Cross;  Secretary.  Hen r y  J. 
Schoberg;  Treasurer, H.  R. Van Bochove.

Bay  Cities  Retail Grown’  iiu ciatiH  

President,  C.  E. Wa l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C 

Lit t l e. 

_______

Muskegon  Retail  Srocen’  issociatiou 

President,  H.  B.  Sm ith;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

Bo elk in s;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Cask a don.

President,  J.  F rank  Hklm br;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Srocen’  Association 
H. Po r ter;  Treasurer, L.  Pelton.
Adrian  Retail  Srocen’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Clark ¡Secretory,  E.  F. 

Cl ev ela n d; Treasurer,  Wm. C. Koehn

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M.  W. Ta n n e r ;  Secretory,E.  H. Mc­

Pherson;  Treasurer, R. A. Hour.

Traierse  City  Bnsinois  Men’s  Association 

President,  thos  T.  Ba te s;  Secretory,  m .  B. 

Ho l ly;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Hammond.

Owosso  Basinosi  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  Wh ip p l e;  Secretory,  G.  T. 

Ca m pb ell;  Treasurer,  W.  E.  Collins.

Pt.  Unrvns  Merchants’  and  Mannfaetnren’  Association 

President, Chas.  Wellm an;  Secretory,  J.  T. 

Pe r civ a l.

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. Gilch r ist;  Secretory,  C.  L. 

Partr idg e. 

_____

Calumet  Basiness  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y;  Secretory  W.  H. 

Hosking. 

_____

St.  Johns Bnsinoss  Men's  Association 

President, Thos. Br om ley;  Secretory,  Frank 

A.  Pe r cy; Treasurer, Clark A. Putt.

Forry  Basiness  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W.  Wa lla c e;  Secretory, T.  E. 

Heddle. 

_____

Brand  Baren  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretory,  J.  W  Veb- 

Hoeks. 

_____

Tale  Basiness  Men's  Association 

President,  Chas.  Rounds;  Secretory,  Fran k 

Pu tn ey. 

_____

Grand  Bapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  John  G.  Eb l e;  Secretory,  L.  J. 
Ka tz;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hufford.

You ought to sell

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“The flour the best cooks  use”

V A L L E Y   C I T Y   M I L L I N G   C O . .

G R A N D   R A P I D S .   M I C H .

Travelers* Time  Tables.
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  12:06  noon, each 
week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:05  p.  m.  and 
Chicago 5:00 p. m.

H.  F.  Moeller,  G.  P.  A.,

W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

f l D A M n   ^*pldB  4  Indiana  Railway
V JIV A A ’I I /  

July  i,  1901.

Going North.

daily  ex Su  ex Su  ex Su
Lv Gd Rapids...........  4 05p 
7 45a  2 OOp 10 45p
Ar.  Cadillac.............   6 45a  1125a  4 40p  2 10a
Ar.  Traverse City—   8 30a 
1 30p  6 50p 
..
Ar. Petoskey............  9 30a 
2 50p  7 nap  6 35a
Ar. Mackinaw City. - - u  20a  4 15p 
......   6 60a
Train leaves for Cadillac 5:20pm, ar’g at 9:00pm.
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m,  11:30 
a m, 12:20 p m,5:15 p m and 9:20 p m.

Going South.
ex Su  ex Su  Dally  ex Su  Daily 
Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10a  1 50p  6 OOp  12 30p  9 35p 
Ar. Kalamazoo.  8 50a  3 22p  7 45p  145p  10 55p 
Ar. Ft. Wayne..12 lOp  6 OOp  To Cnicago  145a
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
.............................  6 55a
Trains arrive from the  south  at  3:55 am   and 
7:20am daily, 1:50pm, 9:35pm and 10:05pm except 
Sunday.
Pullman sleeping or parlor  cars  on  all  through 
trains  4:05am “Northland Express” has dining 
car  Grand  Rapids  to  Mackinaw  City.  2:nopm 
train  going  north  has  buffet  car  to  Harbor 
Springs.  9:35pm train going south  has  through 
sleeping cars to Cincinnati,  St.  Louis, Indianap­
olis and Louisville daily.
Except  Except  Except
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
Lv. Grand Rapids__   7 35am  1  53pm  5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon..........   9 00am  3  10pm  7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:00pm. 
Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm.
Trains arrive from Muskegon at  9:80am  daily, 
1:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  8:00pm 
Sunday only.

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C H I C A G O   T R A I N S  

G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO  CHICAGO 

Sunday  D*U7

Lv. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  9 85pm 
Ar. Chicago  (12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
6 55am 
12:30pm tram runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
9:30pm  train has through  coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.

FROM  CHICAGO 

Sunday  D*u*

Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  5  15pm  11  80pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  10 05pm  7  23am 
5:15pm train runs solid to  Grand  Rapldn  with 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping 
car.
Take G.  R. &  I. to Chicago

50 cents to Muskegon 

and  Return  Every Sunday

A  HEAVY  LOAD

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Is’carried  by  the merchant when  he 
undertakes to handle the credit trans­
actions of his establishment by means 
of pass  books  or  other  equally  anti­
quated methods.  The strain is imme­
diately  lessened,  however,  when  he 
adopts the Coupon Book System  and 
places  bis  credit  transactions  on  a 
cash basis.  We  make  four  kinds  of 
Coupon  Books  and  cheerfully  send 
samples free on application.

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Owing  to  the  increase  in  the 
demand 
for  our  D u s t l e s s  
B r u s h e s ,  we  have  been  com­
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ganize  our  business.  Our 
new  corporation,  the  M ILW A U K E E   D U ST L E SS  BRU SH  
CO.,  has  acquired  all  the  rights  of  the  W i e n s   B r u s h   Co.  in 
their  .patents  covering  “ Dustless  Brushes.”  We  desire  to 
thank  all  our friends  and  patrons  in  this  section  of  the  country 
for  all  their  favors  in  the  past,  and  respectfully  solicit  a  con­
tinuance  of  the  same  in  the  future.  Address  all  correspondence 

MILWAUKEE  DUSTLESS  BRUSH  CO.,

122-124  Sycamore  Street,  Milwaukee,  WIs.

H.  Leonard & Sons, Grand  Rapids
Price  list  Staple  Crockery,  Glassware,  Notions  and  House  Fur­
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Base Bans....................... , ........ 38c and
Butter Plates, wire end.........................
Baskets,  bushel..................................
Baskets,  handled...................................
Bags, paper, see  Catalogue..................
Brooms................... — $2 26, S2 00 and
Burners, No. 1........................................
Candy Jars, 2 quart...............................
Clothes Baskets, 30 in............................
Chimneys, No. 1, box.............................
Dressing Combs, rubber.......................
Envelopes, 260 in box.............................
Grocer’s Pass  Book.
Galvanized Iron Tubs, No. 1__
Galvanized Iron Pails, 10 quart. 
Hammocks, “ Palmer,” each....
Hair Brushes, per doz...............
Harmonicas...............................
Ink, Thomas’, 3 doz.  case.........
Ice Cream Freezers, each.........
Jellies, per bbl., doz..................

$  68 42 
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1  76 
40
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3 76 
1  78
39
1906
4 95 
1  66
48 
78 
36 
82 
1 26 
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, l g a l. each............
Stone Milk Pans, l gal.,  each...............
Shelf Paper, gro. sheets.........................
Silver Plated  Knives  and  Forks,  Rog­
ers’.  doz...........................................
Silver Plated Teaspoons, Rogers’, doz..
Silver Plated Teaspoons, Coin,  doz......
Telescope Valises, each.........................
Tumblers,  % pint, by bbl., doz..............
Tea Cups and Saucers, doz....................
Tanglefoot Fly Paper, 60  sheets...........
Thread, Clark’s M. E., doz....................
Thread, Merrick’s, doz..........................
Thread, Cromwell’s,  doz.......................

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90 
71 
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92 
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