Eighteenth  Year_______________ 

GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY, JULY  31,1901. 

Number 932

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T H E   BEACON  F A L L S   R U B B E R   SH O E  CO.

Made  in  all  styles.  Write  for catalogue.

BEA C O N   FA LLS  are  the 
rubbers  on  the  market  and  the  c h e a p e s t .

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first  quality 

BEACON  F A L L S ,  CONN.

ASTORE

DO YOU 
RUN  ONE?

If so,  and you are endeavoring to get along  without  using our  improved  Coupon  Book  System, you are mak­
ing a most serious mistake.  W e were the originators of the Coupon  Book  plan and are the largest manufac­
turers  of  these  books  in  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.

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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.

EGG

BAK ING   PO W D ER

Home  Office, 80 West  street,  New  York.

Western Office,
Branch Offices:

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

Détroit 
Fort Wayne
Columbus

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Sweet Loma

FXtET tobacco.

N E W   SCO TTEN   TOBACCO  CO. 

(Against  the  Trust.)

W H E A T   G R IT S

Contain the  Heart of the  Wheat

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.

Bay  Shore  Standard  Lime

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.

Capital  apd  Byaips

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

Stipipson Copiputipg Gfoceps’ Scale

% m ¡ m

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 E T R O IT .  MICH.

SC O T TEN -D ILLO N   CO M PAN Y

IN D EPEN D EN T   F A C T O R Y  

D E T R O IT ,  MICHIGAN

TO BA C C O   M A N U F A C T U R E R S 

O UR  LEAD IN G   B R A N D S.  K E E P   T H E M   IN  MIND.

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F IN E   C U T

SM O K IN G

U N CLE  D AN IEL. 

OJIBW A.

FO R E ST  GIANT. 

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

S W E E T  SPRA Y.

See  quotations  in

HAND  PR E SSE D .  Flake Cut. 
DOUBLE  CROSS.  Long Cut. 
SW E E T  CORE.  Plug Cut. 
F L A T  CAR.  Granulated.

price current.

P L U G

C R EM E  D E  M EN TH E. 

STRONG  HOLD. 
F L A T   IRON. 

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Volume  XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  JULY  31,  1901.

ASSOCIATE  OFFICES  IN  ALL  PRINCIPAL 

cines

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page.

G etting the  People. 
Muskegon’s  Big  Day. 
A round  the  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip. 
Village  Im provem ent. 
Clouds  Rolled  Away. 
E ditorial.
E ditorial.
Clothing.
D ry Goods.
Shoes  and  Robbers. 
Gaining Ground. 
H ardw are.
“The  Best  Laid  Plans.” 
The  Meat  M arket. 
W indow  Dressing. 
W oman’s  W orld.
B u tter and  Eggs.
The  New  York  M arket. 
Clerks’ Corner. 
Commercial Travelers. 
D rugs and  Chemicals. 
D rng Price  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Grocery  Price  Current. 
Random  Reflections. 
H ardw are  Price  Current. 
W eaned  From   D irt.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

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

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R .  Q.  DUN  &   CO.

Wlddicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

R ooks arranged  w ith   trade cla ssifica tio n   o f  n am es 
C o llectio n s m ade ev ery w h ere.  W rite fo r p articulars

C.  E.  McCRONE,  flanager.

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Prompt, Conservative, Safe.

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W. F BSD McBain, Sec..

Late State  Food  Commissioner 

ELLIOT  O.  OROSVENOR
Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres 
pondence  invited.
«232 flajestic  Building,  Detroit,  filch

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W holesale  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,  until  Aug.  8,  and  yon  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. 
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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 BffecUva.

S en d  fo r sa m p les and  p rices.

C.  H.  HANSON,

44  S .  C lark  St..  GM caco.  III.

TradesmanCoupons

It  was  impossible  that  with  two  such 
adverse  factors  as  the  drouth  scare  in 
the  Southwest  and  the  steel  strike  there 
should  not  be  something  of  a  reaction 
in  stocks,  but  the  strength  of  the  sitúa 
tion  is  indicated  in  that  the  breaking  of 
the  former  and  the  more  favorable  out 
look  as  to  the  latter  should  be  sufficient 
to  cause  a  prompt  and  rapid  recovery 
Considering  that  the  reaction  was  from 
a  higher  level  than  had been  attained  in 
many  years  it  would  not  have  been  ac­
counted strange  if  the  reaction  had  been 
considerable  and 
tbe  recovery  to  a 
lower  point  only,  but  the  rapid  and 
steady  rise  seems  to  warrant  tbe  pre­
diction  that  the  new  records  will  soon 
be  broken  unless  some  new  cause  of  un 
easiness  sets  in  soon.

The  most  noticeable  feature  of  the 
genera]  situation  is  the  fact  of  unabated 
distributive  trade.  Retail  business  in 
general  is  reported  better  than  has  been 
known  through  the  summer  months  for 
many  years.  There is  no  prominent  line 
of  trade  which  is  not  enjoying  excep­
tional  activity  and  that  with  no  appar 
ent 
indication  of  reaction  in  the  near 
future.  A  favorable  indication  is  that 
there  is  greater  ease  in  tbe  money  mar­
ket  than  for  a  long  time  past  which  is 
the  more  remarkable  that 
it  accom­
panies  such  great  activity.

The 

in  all 

iron  and  steel  situation  shows 
undiminished  activity 
lines  in 
spite  of  the  strike  restrictions.  Diffi­
culties  at  the  mills  are  of  constantly  de­
creasing 
price 
changes  as  have  occurred  have  been  up­
ward,  but  these  have  not  been  enough  to 
cause  uneasiness.  No  sign  of  decrease 
visible  for  structural  shapes  or  for 

importance. 

Such 

railway  equipment.

The  effect  of  the  drouth  scare  was 
naturally  a  strong  speculative  advance 
in  corn,  and  by  sympathy  in  wheat,  and 
tbe  same  causes  led  to  a  strong  stimu­
lation 
in  the  live  stock  market,  as  the 
producers  did  not  like  the  idea  of  feed­
ing  so  high  priced  corn.  While  the  re­
action  attending  tbe  changed prospect is 
considerable  it  is  not  so  rapid  as  would

naturally  be  expected.  The  unexpected 
increase  in  the  supply  in  the  hide  mar 
ket  on  account  of  the  stimulation  in live 
stock  shipments  caused  a  decline,  but 
this  did  not  extend  to  leather  or the  fin 
ished  products.  The  midsummer  sea 
son 
lessens  the  ratio  of  shipments  of 
boots  and  shoes  from Eastern  shops,  but 
that  fact  does  not  argue  any  decrease  in 
activity.  As  a  fact,  work  is  assured for 
months  to  come.

When  they  are  preparing  for any great 
ceremony  in  England  it is customary for 
merchants  and  others  to  take  out  poli 
cies  insuring  them  against  loss  in  case 
anything  should  happen  to  stop 
the 
event.  So  they  are  figuring  on  the  pos 
sibility  that  King  Edward  may  die  be 
fore  his  coronation,  which  is  scheduled 
for  next  June.  The  insurance companies 
conclude  that  the  chances  are  ten  to  one 
that  Edward  will  be  able  to  don  the 
crown  at  the  appointed  time,  and  they 
are  offering  policies  at 
io  per  cent 
rates.  Putting  sentiment  on  a  business 
basis 
is  a  trifle  odd  to 
American  merchants,  but  the  English 
storekeepers  have  learned  by experience 
not  to  put  their  faith  in  kings  without 
some  precaution.

in  this  way 

A  St.  Louis  newspaper which kept  tab 
states  that  nearly  every  patient  taken  to 
the  city  hospital  during  the  hot  wave 
was  a 
steady  drinker—meaning,  of 
course,  a  steady  drinker  of  ardent 
spirits.  The  facts  may  not  involve 
temperance  lecture,  but  they  form  their 
own  comment  on  the  foolishness  of 
in­
dulging 
in  “ hot  stuff”   on  hot  days, 
even  when  disguised  as  a  cooling bever­
age. 

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A  few  years  ago  Phoenix,  Ariz.,  the 
center  of  the  Salt  River  valley,  was  a 
sagebrush  desert. 
It  now  has  25,000  in­
habitants,  with  an  assessed  property 
valuation  of $10,000,000.  All  this  is  due 
to  the 
introduction  of  water,  which, 
brought  in  canals  from  distant  streams, 
has  turned  the  desert  into  a  fertile  val­
ley,  covered  with  ranches  and  dotted 
with  small  towns.

American  cotton  seed 

is  responsible 
in  the  pro­
for a  tremendous  increase 
duction  of  cotton 
in  Russia,  Middle 
Asia,  Bokhara  and  Khiva.  The  year 
1900  shows  an  increase  of  44  per  cent, 
over  1899  in  the  Asiatic  lands,  and  the 
ncrease  in  the  Russian  district 
is  28 
per  cent.  Most  of  the  former  corn  fields 
are  now  being  planted  with  corn.

After  a  thorough  study  of  the  drink 
question  in  Russia,  Stanislas  Prosper,  a 
St.  Petersburg  editor,  has  published  a 
book 
in  which  be  seeks  to  prove  that 
tbe  government  monopoly  and  the  clos- 
ng  of  saloons  on  Sunday  have  led  to  a 
great  diminution  of  the  evil  of 
intem­
perance.  _________________

A  New  York couple committed suicide 
together  because  they  could  not 
live 
apart.  The  foolkiller  was  evidently 
fter them,  and  had  they  married  they 
would  probably  have  killed  themselves 
rather than  live  together.

Number  932

ALTOGETHER TOO  GREEDY.

Corporations  enjoying  valuable  fran­
chises  granted  by  municipalities usually 
deem  it  the  part  of  wisdom  to  avoid 
controversy  and  conflict  with  common 
councils  and  other  governing  bodies, 
but  the  recently-organized  gas  company 
at  Traverse  City  appears  to court trouble 
of  this  sort.  When  the  franchise  was 
granted,  several  months  ago,  the  Com­
mon  Council  reserved  the  right  to  de­
cide  where  the  mains  should  be  laid 
later  on.  The  franchise  was  accepted 
under  these  conditions,  and 
the 
meantime  several  of  the  aldermen  have 
undertaken  to  educate  themselves  on the 
subject.  They  find  that  in  a  city  like 
Traverse  City,  which  has  a  complete 
alley  system,  the  proper  place  for  the 
mains  is  in  the  alleys,  and  the  Council 
has  so  notified 
The 
officers  of  the  company,  who  have  acted 
all  along  as  though  they  were  spoiling 
for  a  fight,  insist  on  laying  their  mains 
in  the  streets and have actually gone into 
court  and  asked  for  a mandamus to com­
pel the Common Council  to  grant  the  use 
of  the  streets  for  that  purpose.

the  company. 

in 

In  the  interest  of  fair  play  and  good 
government,  it 
is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
municipality  will  be  able  to  maintain 
ts  position,  because 
it  would  'be  a 
menace  to  cities  everywhere  to  have  the 
corporation  sustained  in  the  contention 
that  it  is  greater than  the  body  which 
granted  a  concession  which  constitutes 
ts  chief  stock  in  trade.  The  franchise 
was  worth  $25,000  in  the  money markets 
of  the  world  the  moment  it  was  turned 
over  to  the  promoters  of  the  enterprise, 
and  it  would  seem  as  though  such  a  gift 
ought  to  satisfy  the  most  greedy  fran­
chise  grabber,  without  supplementing  it 
by  legal  proceedings  which  will natural­
ly  antagonize  every  thoughtful  property 
owner  in  the  city.

food  owes 

How  many  persons  who  daily  eat 
sandwiches  are  aware  that  it  is  to  an 
ancestor  of  the  Earl  of  Sandwich  that 
that  popular  form  of 
its 
name?  The  story  runs  that  the  Earl  in 
question  was  very  fond of playing cards, 
and  in  order  to  prevent  having  to  stop 
to  eat  he  used  to  have  a  slice  of  meat 
put  between  two  slices  of  bread  and  eat 
these  as  he  played.  This  got  to  be 
called  a  “ sandwich,”   but  gradually  the 
nverted  commas  were  dropped  as  the 
word  became  an  accepted  one  in  the 
language.  The  present  Earl  became 
Colonel  of  the  Grenadier  Guards 
in 
881.  He  was  once  military  Secretary  at 
Gibraltar,  and  has  been  attached  to  spe­
cial  embassies  to  various  capitals  of 
Europe.

Where  do  all  the  coilar  buttons  go?  A 
man  in  Lyons,  N.  Y .,  coughed  one  up 
the  other  day.  He  doesn't  remember 
having  swallowed  it  and  thinks  it  must 
have  got  into his  midst  when  he  was  an 
infant,  but  somehow  failed  to  find  re­
pose  in  his  vermiform appendix, whence 
it  might  have  been  rescued  by  enter­
prising  surgeons  years  ago.

We  should  not 
on  the  Boers ;  it 
Transvaal.

waste  all  of  our  pity 
is  winter  now  in  the

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M ICHIGAN  TR AD ESM AN

Petting the  People

A Few W ords on the Object of This Column.
I am  in  receipt  of  considerable corres­
pondence  relating  to  the  manner 
in 
which  I  treat  the  advertisements  which 
are  brought  to  my  attention  for  criti­
cism.  A  few  writers  seem  to  think  that 
I  am  actuated  by  a  spirit  of know-it-all, 
which  gives  my  utterances  an  offensive­
ly  dictatorial  quality,  as  though  my  ob­
ject  was  to  ill  naturedly  express  all  the 
fault  possible  and  to  assume  that  my 
way  is  necessarily  the  way.  Generally, 
however,  the  writers  appear  to  recog­
nize  correctly  that  the  object  is  to  ex­
press  as  much  as  possible  of  suggestion 
as  to  my  ideas  of how  the  work  might 
be improved,  with  a  view  to  serving  the 
interests  of  those  who  have  possibly  not 
had  as  much  experience  or are  not  able 
to  give  the  subject  much  thought.

One  writer expresses  the  situation  so 
aptly  and  with  such  a  spirit  of  appreci­
ation  I  am  constrained  to quote:

Marshall, 

July  22—The  Statesman 
seems  to offer  you  a  wide  field  for criti­
cism,  judging  from  the several mentions 
the  advertisement  compositions  have 
had  of  late.  We  are  not  finding  fault  at 
all,  in  fact,  are  glad  to  have  you  point 
out  where  we  err  in  your 
judgment,  al­
though  our  foreman  takes 
issue  with 
you  occasionally. 
It  is  the  writer's  be­
lief  that  you  have  been  generally correct 
in  your diagnosis  of  our advertisement 
malady,  but  what  is  especially  pleasing 
is  the  manner  in  which  you  have  crit­
icised,  being  careful  not  to  hurt  the 
feelings  of  our patrons.

Statesman  Printing  Co.

HOT
Weather
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Our  weather 
“Profit”  says 
slightly warm 
weather  con­
tinued  throu­
ghout  July.

We here made induction« oo  many  lines (or  this  month,  ao  you  «-an  hare 
moet ell the Profit, for inetsaee:

0 - W e  are selling many Straw Hate, hare about 100 left.  lOcte will buy 
you one, why pay  more.  Then  we are selling the 20c and  25e ones  at  a  re­
duction also.

,  t a r g e t you a pair of  our famous  6c  Socks,  plenty  warm  enough  (or 

now, and they will wear, and wear, I can't tell you how long.

fiSTTben you need a pair of  our  Good  Suspends».  We  have  a  big 

assortment  This sweaty «aether is sure death to suepeadeie.

ew O h . yea!  You will want a  pairof  our Brag  Cracker  Jack  Oeeralla 
to faateo your suspenders to.  Our Overalls—but no uee telling you again of 
their good qualities (or you hare tried them, and  declare  you  will  wear  no 
other kind.

MFWe oeanv  forgot.  How odd you would  look without a  shirt  The 
kind  we moommeod  and  sail  are  the  ones  that  are  made upon  honor and 
guaranteed to stand hard wear. 
Hade  br  the  asms  firm  that  makes  our 
Good Overalls.  Our Shirts era 36 inches long, do not rip. all  aeams  double 
stitched, buttons well sewed on  and then the doth ia all O  K.  Maybe you 
want some of  the above.

EF*Butler and  Eggs are as good  here aa any other kind  of  money.

A.  W.  M ORRIS,

Manager.

T H E   L I T T L E   C A SH   S T O R E

It  would  be  an  easy  matter to publish 
examples  of  good  work 
in  advertising 
as  suggestions  leaving  the  criticisms  to 
the  readers  as  is  done  by  many  trade 
journals.  There  may  be  some  benefit 
in  this,  but  I  can  see  but  little  more 
than  for  the  readers  to  select  samples 
from  the  host  constantly  urging  atten­
tion.

The  object  of  criticism  is  suggestion. 
Any  quantity  of  samples  of  good  work 
alone  will  do  but  little  in  this direction. 
The  student  of  publicity,  who  has  given 
the  subject  long  and  careful  attention, 
may  be  able  to  learn  from  such  sources, 
but  the  average  advertiser  will  gain 
more  by  having  the  points  of  excellence 
indicated,  the  faults  pointed  out  and 
suggestions  made  for  improvement.

The  manner  in  which  my  criticisms 
have  been  received 
indicates  that  my 
object  has  not  been  generally  misunder­
stood,  but,  of  course,  I  am  occasionally 
subjected  to an  ill-natured  response. 
It 
is  impossible  in  hastily  going  over  the 
subjects  for  criticism  to  prevent  some 
mistakes.  Then  my  judgment  is  subject 
I 
to  the  same  limitation  as  another's; 
can  only  express  my  opinion,  and  if 
in 
doing  so  there  seems  to  be  a  positive­
ness  which  strikes  the  reader  as  too ar­
bitrary,  I  trust  the  object  intended  will 
disarm  any  feelings  of  resentment.

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A.  W.  Morris  writes  a  catchy  adver­
tisement  which  is  readable  and  will  not 
leave  a  bad  impression.  He  has  done 
well  to  break  up  his  matter  into  short 
paragraphs,  especially  as  he  introduces 
so  many  subjects.  The  principal  criti­
cism  I  should  offer  is  that  there  is too 
many  kinds  of  suggestions  for  one  ad­
vertisement.  The  cartoon  in  the  “ drop 
in  prices’ ’ would afford an excellent topic 
for another week.  Then  if  the  display 
had  been  made  to  fill  the  space,  giving 
plenty  of  white  and  possibly  a  border 
the  result  would  be  fine.  The  writing  is 
good  and  the  printer  has  done  his  work 
well  considering  the 
intrusion  pf  the

O FFER S  TO  FA R M E R S

Free Storage of wheat and  rye.
Loans on grain stored with them.
Insurance on  grain at a low  rate,  if desired.
B ring  in your  grain   w henever convenient and  sell  w hen 
the m arket su its  you-

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SAVE  10  CENTS

You pay 4c a pound  for  first-class  Boiled  Oats in  bulk  j 
when you  buy  a  few  pounds  at  a time.  You pay for  \ 
time and  packtge to do  them  up.  Why uot buy  a  few  ; 
pounds more at a time and save  10c. 
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9 lbs. Nudavene  Flakes 25c

These are first-class oats.  We sell them eiieap but they 
are not cheap goods  We  sell  them  at  It small profit. 
Costs nothing to do them up and what we make is cleat 
gain  We have them  put up this way to save you money

HORR  BROTHERS

C s i s i x   G - r o c e r s

400  dollars

worth of

new, bright, summer dress 

goods

have  been  added  this  week  to  our  already 
large stock.  We  are bound to have  the  latest 
styles of  goods in  the  market 
There  1$  no 
excuse for sending  to  Chicago  or  New  York 
for  goods  W e have them  and  will  sell  them 
cheaper  tKait  you can get  them outside.  Come 
and  see for  yourself
Silk.  Foulards,  Batiste.  Silk  Tissue.  Swivel 
Silks,  Organdies.  .Dimities.  Toil  Dti  Nords. 
Pique.  Skirt  Linen,  and a  full lm cot  the latest 
Dress Trimmings now ready  tor  vour  inspec­
tion  at  onr store

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cut,  but the  work  would  be  better  with 
the  cut  put  into  next  week.

A  general  characteristic  of  the  adver­
tising  frork  of  the  Walsh-DeRoo  M ill­
ing  Co.  is  its  directness  and simplicity. 
The  example  before  us  is  a  good 
indi­
cation of their style.  The  printer’s  dis­
play  is  good  but  he  would  have  done 
better  to’  adhere  to the  use of  one  style 
of  type.  His  use  of  white  space  is  es­
pecially  commendable. 

Horr  Brothers  have  a convincing logic 
in  their statement  which  can  not  fail  to 
sell  goods.  The  subject  is  one  to  inter­
est  and  the  simplicity  of  statement  can 
not  be  excelled.  Had  the  printer  used 
a  type  one  or two  sizes  smaller  for  the 
paragraphs  so  as  to  gain  a  little  more 
white  space  inside  border  it  would  have 
been  an  .improvement.  Then  the  ex­
tended  French  Clarendon 
in  the  last 
line  is  out of  harmony  with  the  rest  of 
the  type.

Homer  &  Johnson  have  another  dis­
play  commendable  for  its  simplicity  of 
expression  and  the  printer  has  done  his 
work  well. 
I  am  a  little  too  old  fogyish 
to quite  endorse  the  entire  dropping  of 
capitals  in  tbe  display  lines,  but  I  sup­
pose 
it  is  done  with  a  purpose.  Tbe 
use  of  white  space  inside  the  border 
is 
exceptionally  good.

A  happy  idea  well  carried  out  is  that 
of  tbe  City  Drug  Store. 
It  is  a  valuable 
feature  especially  for  a  drug  store  to 
have  an  airy  and  pleasant  salesroom 
and  no  pains  should  be  spared  to  give 
an  appearance  of  this  character.  Then 
is  better  in  hot  weather than 
nothing 
tbe  taking  the  coolness  as  a  topic. 
1 
have  tbe  criticism  to  make that  as  cities
in  this  country  are  quite  common  there 
would  be  a  wider  benefit 
in  indicating 
some  particular city.

Tbe  J.  S.  Goodyear  Co.  write  a  con­
vincing  announcement  of  ladies’  under­
wear  in  terms  calculated  to gain  fem­
inine  attention.  Tbe  printer has  done 
well 
in  selections  of type  but  I  would 
lead  the  paragraphs  a  little  closer  so as 
to  give  more  room 
for  the  display 
lines.  Tbe  advertisement  is a  good  one.
George  B.  Selby  writes  a  good  sea­
sonable  grocery  advertisement,  the  best 
feature  of  which  is  the  price  table.  Tbe 
printer would  have  done  well  to  adhere 
to  one  style  of  display  if  possible,  and 
the  Italic complimentary  address  would 
be  better omitted  and  its  place taken  by 
a  dash  like  tbe  one  above  “ meat  mar­
ket. ’ ’

Cigars A re  B ights  and  Lefts.

“ It  is  not  always  because  a  cigar  is 
badly  made  that  tbe  wrapper curls  up 
and  works  off,”   remarked  a  tobacco 
dealer tbe  other day. 
“ It  is  often  be­
cause  a  right-handed  man  is  smok ing  a 
left-banded  cigar.  Sounds  strange,  bey? 
Well,  a  ‘ left-handed  cigar’  is  one  rolled 
by  the  maker's  left  band,  for all  cigar- 
makers  must  be  ambidextrous.  A  piece 
of  tobacco  for a  wrapper  is  cut  on  tbe 
bias  and  is  rolled  from  left  to  right  on 
tbe  filler.  The  other  piece,  for  reasons 
of  economy,  is  then  used  and  must  be 
rolled  the  opposite  way  by the  opera­
tor’s  other band.  Hence,  a  smoker who 
bolds  his  cigar  in  his  right  hand  some­
times,  in  twisting 
it  about,  rubs  the 
wrapper the  wrong  way  and  unloosens 
it.*'

Leading H im   On.

The  summer  girl  and  the  summer 
young  man  had  exhausted  all  other sub­
jects  of  conversation,  when  they  turned 
to the  crops.
“ I  guess  the  corn  fields  of tbe  West 
are  in  a  bad  way  on  account of  tbe  dry 
spell,”   said  he.

“ Yes,  tbat  seems  to  be  the  case, ”  she 
assented,  coyly;  “ but  I  don’t  think  the 
pop  com  crop  will  be  injured.”

After that,  wbat  could  be -do  but  pop?

True  Economy

OF  Muslin 
Underwear

does  noc  mean  that  you  should 
sew  and  drudge. 
It  raeios  raihei 
that  you  give  onrefnl  attention  to 
this  underwear  offering  with  its 
heaps of  well-made,  prettily  trim­
med  goods,  with  prices  reduced
just right for dhrewd  bargain  buy­
ers.

Women's Vests

for this  warm  weather  Our stock 
abounds  with  vests  of  evsry kind 
—light,  dainty,  and  easy-priced.
Ti? I. S. Goodyear Co*

Hastings. Mich.

MAKE  HAY

while

THE SUN
S H IN E S

and buy

G RO CERIES

AtSelby’s

LITTLE  BUSY  STORE.

A few prices  for  you  to con­

sider.

4  lbs  Fine  R ice............................. 26c
6 Cans  B ea n s.............................. .. 25c
'4  llw Sears Cracker*............. .  .25o
1  lb 60c Japan  T ea.......................40c
Granulated  Sugar per lb ........... fie
Light  C 
6c
You get right prices, prompt 
attention  and  good,  fresh 
goods at our store.

•* 

“ 

 

Meat Market.

Our  large  trade  in this line 
gives  our  market  a  special 
deal  every  day—nice  fresh 
stock at lowest prices.

Fresh Fish on Thursdays. 

Youth J ot Buiinem,

(George B. pelbjj

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3

MUSKEGON’S  BIO  DAT.

Program m e  Prepared  for  the Third  An­

Muskegon, 

nual  Picnic.
July  30—The  Executive 
Committee  for the  grocers  and  butchers’ 
picnic  to  be  held  in  this  city  August  8, 
to  be  attended  by  the  butchers  of  Grand 
Rapids  and  the  retail  merchants  of 
Grand  Haven,  met  yesterday  and  form­
ulated  the  official  programme  for  the 
dav. 
It  promises  to  be a  rousing event, 
with  no  flagging  of  interest  or excite­
ment  from  the  official  sunrise  at  5 :05 
a.  m.  until  the  display  of  fireworks 
in 
the  air  at  7:30.  The  Grand  Rapids 
butchers  have  promised  to  be  here  en 
masse  and  will  bring  with  them  the 
Grand  Rapids  Newsboys’  band,  a  mus­
ical  organization  which  is  a  warm  fa­
vorite  in  Muskegon.  The Grand Haven 
Business  Men’s  Association  has  not  yet 
taken  any  formal  action,  but  it  is  con­
sidered  a  certainty  that  all lines of  trade 
will  close  up  in  that  town  on  August  8 
and  the  dealers  will  migrate  to  Muske­
gon.  Altogether  1,500  visitors  are  ex­
pected.

life.

5 :i5  p.  m.  High  dive  and  silde  for 

5 :30  p.  m.  Balloon  race.
6 :oo  p.  m.  Picnic  supper.
7130  p.  m.  Balloon  ascension 

fireworks  display  in  the  clouds.

8 :oo  p.  ga.  Dancing.
The  following  will  be  the  prizes  for 

and 

3d  50c.

the  events:

Molasses  race—1st  $1,  2d  50c,  3d  25c. 

Each  contestant  will  receive  25  cents.

Men’s  swimming  race—1st  $2,  2d  $1, 

Tub  race—1st $2,  2d  $1,  3d  50c.
Greased  pole—1st $2,  2d  $1,  3d  50c.
Log  rolling—1st $5,  2d  $2.
The  prizes  for tne  ladies’  swimming 

race  have  not  been  determined.
Special  prizes  will  also be distributed, 
including  prizes  to  the  grocer  and 
butcher  longest  in  business.

Special  Features  of  th e  Grand  Rapids 

Morning:  M arket.

The  past  few  days  have  been  charac­
terized  by  more  of  a  break  in  volume, 
especially  in  fruits,than  has  been  usual, 
owing  to  the  heavy  rain  and  to  the  fact 
that 
it  is  between  seasons.  Red  and 
black  raspberries  have  nearly  disap­
peared.  Cherries  are  seen  but  seldom. 
Their  sucessors  have  been  somewhat
Jo in t Executive  Comm ittee  of the T hird  Picnic  of Muskegon  Grocers  and  Butchers

There  will  be  plenty  of  badges  for 
everybody.  These  are  contributed  by 
the  Muskegon  Milling  Co.,  L.  A.  Bud- 
long  Co.,  of  Chicago,  and  H.  J.  Heinz 
Co.,  Pittsburg. 
10,000
badges  have  been  provided.  Many firms

Altogether 1 

for  good  ones.  A  few  knearly  little 
pears  were  seen,  but this  fruit  can  hard­
ly  be  said  to  be  in  market.

Potatoes  are  still  holding  the  place  of 
interest  in  the  vegetable  market.  The 
quantity  offered  seems  to  be  large,  but 
the  price  keeps  up  around  $1 
for  good 
In  other  vegetables  prices  keep 
ones. 
up  well,  aided  doubtless  by  the 
inter­
ruptions  on  account  of  rain.  Taking 
it  all  together  the  week  has  had  less 
teams  than  for a  long  time  past.  Even 
the  Tuesday  market,  although  the 
weather  was  good,  was  smaller  than  for 
the  corresponding  day  in  many  weeks.

The  most  notable  feature  of  the  mar­
ket  continues  to  be  the  round  prices 
asked  and  taken.  A  few  years  ago  25 
cents  was  considered  good  for  many 
articles  which  are  now  sold  at  $1.  With 
money  going  into the  hands  of the farm­
ers  at  this  rate,  there  can  not  fail  to  re­
sult  a  tremendous  trade  in  every  line.

To  the  poor all  things  are  said  to  be 
pure;  but  don’t  think  for  a  minute  this 
includes  boarding-house  butter.

The  darkest  hour  is  always  when  you 

can’t  find  the  matches.

The Thomas Quadricycle

is fitted with  3  H.  P.  Gasoline  Motor.  The  seat  can  be  easily  and 
quickly substituted for the box or both  front  wheels  and  axle  can  be 
removed  and replaced by one  front  wheel,  making  a  Motor  Tricycle 
(3 wheels) price $350.

Thomas  Auto  Quad,  $450.

We  also  have  the  Thomas  Motor  Bicycle—a  2-wheeler  called  the 
Auto-Bi—at $200.  The cheapest line  of  satisfactory  Automobiles  on 
the market.

Chas. Schoenberg: 

A ugust  Riedel 

Jo h n   A.  Sm ith

D.  A.  Boelkins 

W ill  Castenholz 

C.  P .  Richards

will  distribute  fans,  puzzles  and  other 
souveni rs.
gramme  as  arranged :

is  the  official  pro­

The  following 

5 :o5  a.  m.  Sunrise—by  the  sun.
g :oo  a.  m.  Modern  Woodman  band 
will  board  street  cars  and  give  trolley 
circuit  to  end  of  Ottawa  street,  then  to 
Lake  Michigan  Park  and  finally  to 
Mona  Lake  Park.

9 :oo  a.  m.  to  12 m.  reception  up  town 
of  visitors  by  committees  and  Beer- 
man's  band.
Picnic  dinner  at  Mona 
12 :oo m. 
Lake  Park,  followed  by  the  following 
exercises :

1 :oo  p.  m.  Selection  by  Beerman's 

band.
Mayor  William  Moore.

1 :io  p.  m.  Address  of  welcome  by 

1115   p.  m.  Address,  “ Grocers  and 

Butchers,”   Attorney  J.  E .  Turner.

1130  p.  m.  Address, 

‘ ’ The  Pure 
Food  Law ,”   Lieut.  Col.  J.  R.  Bennett.
1 ¡45  p.  m.  Selection  by  Grand  Rap­

ids  Newsboys’  band.

2 :oo p.  m.  High  dive  and  slide  for

life.

boat.

2 :i5  p. 
2 :45  p.
3 :oo  p. 
3 :3°   P- 
3 -45  P-
4:15  P-
4 :45  P- 

m.  Molasses  race, 
m.  Men’s  swimming  race, 
m.  Tub  race.
m.  Ladies’  swimming  race, 
m.  Greased  pole  race, 
m.  Log  rolling  contest, 
m.  Exhibition  of  Mayo  life

slow  in  making  an  appearance,  but with 
settled  weather  they  will  soon  be  on 
hand  in  sufficient  quantities.

Blackberries  are  beginning  to  come 
freely  and  the  wet  weather makes  them 
look  fine,  but  they  are  generally  rather 
sour.  Prices  are  higher than  for  years 
past  and  everything  is  quickly  sold. 
Prices  of  all  small  fruits  have  been  too 
high  for general  household  canning  and 
the  demand  for  blackberries  will,  un­
doubtedly,  be 
large  throughout  the  sea­
son,  however great  the  quantity.

One  effect  of  the  heavy  rains  is  the 
rushing  of  the  early  peach  market.  The 
first  appeared  only  a  week  ago,  but  the 
offerings  on  the  Tuesday  market  were 
large.  Growers  report  that  Alexanders 
are  rotting  badly  and  that  they  will  be 
rushed  in  as  quickly  as  possible.  While 
offerings  were  unexpectedly  large prices 
kept  up  well,  although  many  dealers 
fought  shy,  preferring  to  handle  the 
Southern  Albertas.  As  to  the  general 
peach  crop  growers  report  good  pros­
pects  if  rain  does  not keep  up  and,  with 
the  empty  cans,  there 
is  sure  to  be 
enough  demand  to  keep  prices  at  a 
healthy  basis at  least.  Apples  are  ap­
pearing  freely  and  sell  promptly  at $1

Auto  Quad  Delivery,  $450.

If desired the delivery boxes can  be  made in different designs  to adver­
tise different lines of business.
Catalogue on application.  We want good  agents.

Adams & Hart,

Michigan  Sales Agents,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Around  the State

M ovements of M erchants.

Newaygo—Hartman  Bros,  have  leased 

the  White  Cloud  grist  mill.

Ovid—W.  B.  Cox  has  purchased  the 

hardware  stock  of  John  H.  Robson.

Adrian—Knox  &  Wheeler  succeed  A. 
L.  Knox  in  the  flour and  feed  business.
Adrian—John  Mulzer  has  disposed  of 
his  stock  of  groceries  to  Leonard  Beck.
Mulliken—W.  H.  Ranger  &  Co.  are 
closing  out  their  general  merchandise 
stock.

Evart—O.  C.  Bath  has  purchased  the 
jewelry  and  wallpaper  stock  of  Chas. 
E .  Bell.

Cement  City—A.  W.  Mason  succeeds 
Mason  &  Hungerford  in  the  hardware 
business.

Fairfax—S.  R.  Wagoner  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise stock  of 
Frank  Wright.

Grand  Ledge—T.  B.  fnkley  &  Son, 
boot  and  shoe  dealers,  will  remove  to 
Greenville  Sept.  i.

Kalamazoo—Jones  &  Gordon  succeed 
Richard  R.  Brenner  in  the  bakery  and 
confectionery  business.

Ludington—The  Pere Marquette Tele­
phone  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $30,000.

Harbor  Springs—W.  W.  Pearl  con­
tinues  the  meat  business  of  Pearl  & 
Ferguson  in  his  own  name.

Muskegon—D. 

Hancock—The  Hancock 

Finnish 
Trading  Co.  is  succeeded  by  the  Han­
cock  Co-operative  Finnish  Trading  Co.
Jones  has  re­
engaged  in  the  grocery  business  and has 
leased  his  old  stand  at  303  Clay  avenue.
Evart—Avery  A.  Smith  has purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the  firm  of 
Smith  &  Bath,  proprietors  of  the  E v a $ 
roller  mills.

B. 

Marshall—Fred  Zanger  has  sold  his 
dry  goods  stock  to  Chas.  A.  Cudworth, 
of  Armada,  who is  already  in  possession 
of  the  premises.

North  Adams—The  Morehouse  &  Co. 
drug stock,  which was sold  at bankruptcy 
sale,  was  bid 
in  by  E.  A.  Dibble,  of 
Hillsdale,  at  $780.

Lansing—The  R.  H.  Piper drug stock 
was  bid  in  at  chattel  mortgage  sale  July 
29  by  A.  C.  Bauer,  who  bid  $200  and 

f  assumed  the  first  mortgage  of $500.

Lake  Linden—Ernest  Thibault  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  J.  G.  T. 
Joyal.  He  was  formerly  connected with 
the  dry  goods  house  of  L.  Hennes & Co.
Menominee—Prof.  Cox  has  resigned 
his  position  as  principal  of  the high 
school  to  accept  a  more  lucrative  and 
promising  position  with  Penbertby, 
Cook  &  Co.

Copemish—A.  L.  Gleason  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  James  McGuire 
in  the  hardware*  firm  of  McGuire  & 
Gleason  and  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Blanchard—W.  H.  Myers  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
dry  goods  and  grocery  firm  of  Myers  & 
Houghton  and  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—C.  W.  Pickford  has 
sold  his  stock  of  dry  goods,  furnishings 
and  shoes  to  David  Rosenthal,  a  whole­
sale  auctioneer  of  New  York  City,  who 
will  ship  the  stock  to that  place.

Six  Lakes—Will  A.  Wood  has  con­
tracted  to  sell  his  drug  stock  at  this 
place  to  Collins  Bechtel,  formerly  clerk 
in  the  drug  store  of  Dr.  L.  D.  Mills,  at 
Coopersviiie.  The  transfer 
is  to  occur 
on  or  before  Sept.  10.

Lansing—Chas.  H.  Griffey  has  pur­
chased  an  interest  in  the  grocery  stock 
formerly  owned  by  Hull  &  Lewis,at  the

corner  of  Washington  avenue  and  Shia­
wassee  street.  The  business  will  be 
continued  under  the  style  of  Hull  & 
Griffey.

Sherman—G.  A.  Lake  &  Co.  have- 
purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  S.  W. 
Rose. 
It  is  understood  that  H.  B.  Stur- 
tevant  is  the  “ Co.”   member of the firm. 
Mr.  Rose  has  removed  his  drug  and 
book  stock  into the  store building across 
the  street.

interest  of  Wm.  Milleman 

Alma—Fred  Hammer  has  purchased 
the 
in  the 
meat  firm  of  Milleman  &  Hammer.  Mr. 
Milleman  has 
leased  the  furniture  and 
fixtures  of  the  market  of  E .  R.  Griffith 
and  will  continue  the  meat  business  at 
that  location.

Benton  Harbor—J.  W.  Johnston  and 
D.  H.  Patterson,  who  organized  the 
Lake  Shore  Coal  Co.  some  months  ago, 
have  purchased  the  coal  stock  of  E .  E. 
Godfrey.  They  will  put  on  a  line  of 
wagons  and  other  facilities  for  the  de­
livery  of  coal  and  wood.

South  Haven—The  South  Haven  drug 
store,  over  which  there  has  been consid­
erable  wrangling  the  past  few  days,  has 
passed 
into  the  ownership  of  Chas.  H. 
Rogers,  who  has  closed  bis  drug  store 
next  to  the  Clifton  Hotel  and  will  con­
solidate  it  with  the  new  store.

Port  Huron—Arrangements  are  being 
made  for a  matched  game  of  baseball 
between  the  grocers  and  butchers  of 
Port  Huron.  Alderman  O’Sullivan  has 
been 
invited  to  umpire  the  game  and 
has  promised  to  bring  with  him  the 
shillalah  brought  from  Ireland  by  Wm. 
Canham.

foreclosed 

Altona—Eli  Lyons 

his 
mortgage  on  the  general  stock  of  M.  B. 
Armstrong  July  25  and  will  continue 
in  his  own  name,  as  a 
the  business 
branch  of  his  Lakeview  store. 
The 
business  will  be  in  charge  of  J.  C.  Kel­
sey,  formerly  connected with  the general 
store  of  the  late  Nelson  Higbee.

Houghton—The 

I.  E.  Swift  Co., 
which  established  a  branch  wholesale 
and  retail  hardware  store  here  and 
erected  a  large  warehouse  about  a  year 
ago, will dispose  of  a portion  of the stock 
at  the  Ishpeming  store  and  bring  the 
balance  to  the  Copper  country,  making 
Houghton  the  home  of  the  firm.

Muskegon—The  celery  crop  is  said  to 
be  seriously  affected  by  the recent heavy 
rains. 
The larger  farms  all  report  that 
decay  and  blight  have  made  their  ap­
pearance.  Many  farmers  were 
in  the 
middle  of  the  first  crop  and 
in  conse­
quence  the  celery  was  not  boarded  up 
and  was  completely  unprotected  from 
the  elements. 
It  will  run  two and  one- 
half  or three  dozen  to  the  box,  however.
Three  Oaks—Benj.  Letgers,  who  con­
ducted  the  dry  goods  and  grocery  busi­
ness  at  this  place,  although  for the  past 
three  months  he has represented a whole­
sale  house  as  traveling  salesman,  has 
decided  to  retire  from  trade  and  has 
transferred  his  store  building  to  Mr. 
Hoopengamer,  of  Syracuse,  Ind.,  and 
sold  his  store  fixtures  and  a  portion  of 
his  stock  to  Mr.  Green,  who will  remove 
to the  new  location.

Howard  City—W.  H.  Campbell  & 
Son,  who  have  been  engaged  in  the  gro­
cery  business  here  for  several  years, 
have  uttered  a  trust  mortgage  on  their 
stock  of  goods.  Their  liabilities  amount 
to  $909.37  and  the  stock 
inventories 
$765.  Other  assets  consist  of  book  ac­
counts,  good, 
indifferent, 
amounting  to  perhaps  $800  or $1,000. 
Mr.Campbell  has  long  been  in  ill health 
and  has  been  struggling. hard  to  make 
his  business  a  success.

bad  and 

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

Manufacturing- M atters.

Detroit—The  Michigan  Soap  Works 
its  capital  stock,  it  now 

has  doubled 
being  $50,000.

Croswell—The  Croswell  Milling  Co. 
its  capital  stock  from 

increased 

has 
$5,400  to $11,000. 

%

Pontiac—The  capital 

stock  of  the 
Pontiac  Spring  Wagon  Works  has  been 
increased  from  $50,000 to $100,000.

Delray—W.  B.  Ewing  &  Son,  saw­
mill  operators  and  dealers  in  hardwood 
lumber,  have  sold  out  to  Wm.  R. 
Tompkins  &  Co.

Frederic—Henry  Ward 

is  planning 
to  boom  Fredric.  A  passenger  train  is 
to  run  from  here  to  East  Jordan,  South 
Arm  and  Charlevoix 
in  a  short time. 
Mr.  Ward  has  finished  one  of  the  finest 
mills  in  the  county. 
It  is  a  band  saw, 
head,  stave  and  hoop  mill  and  handle 
factory,  and  will  employ  200  men.  He 
is  going  to  have  excursions  run  to 
Frederic  and  have  auction  sales  of  lots. 
A  fine  hotel 
is  to  be  built,  costing 
$25,000,  and  they  want  a  bank  and  are 
building  houses  and  business  blocks. 
Mr.  Ward  says  they  expect  to  have  a 
town  of  5,000  in  a  few  years.

Battle  Creek—The  Malted  Food  Co. 
has  been organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $400,000,  of  which  $312,000 has  al­
ready  been  subscribed.  C.  C.  Beach, 
Treasurer  of  the  Nichols  &  Shepard 
Threshing  Machine  Co.,  is  Chairman; 
Guilford  Leslie,  a 
lumber  dealer  at 
Michigan  City,  is  Vice-Chairman;  H. 
P.  Moyer,  ex-President  of  the  Battle 
Creek  Pure  Food  Co.  and  formerly  of 
Des  Moines,  la.,  is  Secretary  and  Gen­
eral  Manager and  W.  J.  Smith  is  Treas­
urer.  A  factory  building  costing  $60,000 
will  be  erected  and  the company expects 
to  begin  operations  by  the  first  of  next 
year.  The  new  food  is  a  secret  prepa­
ration.

Albion—The  Albion  Wind  Mill  & 
Implement  Co.  is  an  appropriate  name 
for  the  concern  that  was  formerly  the 
Union  Wind  Mill  Co.  of  this  city. 
It 
will  not  be  broad  enough,  however,  if 
it  continues  to  take  on  new 
industries. 
Last  week  it  absorbed  a  manufacturing 
institution 
located  at  Homer  and  oper­
ated  by  James  H.  Cook.  Now  it  has 
under  consideration  the  plan  of taking 
on  the  Arndt  hay  tedder  and  Mr.  Au­
gust  Arndt,  of this  city,  is  the  inventor. 
The  machinery  of  the  Cook 
institution 
has  been  moved  over  from  Homer  and 
is  now  being  set  up  and  a  portion  of 
the  Albion  plant  overhauled  to  accom­
modate  it.

The  Boys  B ehind the  Counter.

Stanton—Alfred  Hansen,  who  for the 
past  two  years  has  been  employed  in 
Hawley’s  department  store,  has  taken  a 
similar  position  with  C.  H.  LaFlam- 
boy,  of  McBride.

Menominee—The Clerks’ Union of the 
twin  cities,  encouraged  by  some  of  the 
merchants  is  making  a  final  effort  to  se­
cure  the  signatures  of  the  merchants  to 
the  early  closing  movement.  The  agree­
ment  which  H.  B.  Simcox,  of  Marin­

ette,  is  circulating  on  both  sides  of  the 
river,  binds  the  signers  to  close  their 
stores,  commencing  August  1  at  6  p.  m. 
every  evening  except  Tuesdays  and 
Saturdays. 
To  make  the  agreement 
binding  it  is  necessary  that  the  signa­
tures  of  the  merchants  on  both  sides  of 
the  river  be  secured.

that 

should  be 

Iron wood—Jas.  Devoy,  of  the  Iron- 
wood  cash  grocery,  closed  his  store 
promptly  at  8  o’clock 
last  Tuesday 
evening,  being  the  first to  inaugurate  a 
movement 
general 
throughout  the  city.  Manager  Hough, 
of  the  Ironwood  Store Co.,  at once closed 
bis  three  stores  and  Davis  &  Fehr  fol­
lowed  suit.  Since  Tuesday,  these  three 
concerns  have  closed  their  places  of 
business  at  8  o'clock  each  evening,  and 
will  continue  to  do  so,  Saturday  and 
Monday  evenings  and  pay-days  ex­
cepted.

Battle  Creek—Spencer  Pomeroy  has 
resigned  bis  position  with  Stevens, 
Gordon  &  Co.,  clothiers,  to  accept  a 
more  responsible  one  with  the  Hall 
Truck  Co.  N.  L.  Comfort,  manager of 
the  truck  company,  has  resigned,  and 
will  be  succeeded  by  Mr.  Pomeroy.

Belding—Bert  Buch, 

formerly  with 
R.  R.  Edwards,  has  resigned  his  posi­
tion  to  accept  a  similar  one  with  O.  C. 
Miller  &  Son,  of  Greenville,  at  an  in­
crease  in  salary.

Program m e  P repared  F o r  th e  P harm a­

ceutical  Convention.

Detroit,  July  30—The  following  pro­
gramme  has  been  prepared  for  the nine­
teenth  annual  convention  of  the  M ichi­
gan  State  Pharmaceutical  Association, 
to  be  held  in  this  city  Aug.  13  and 
14:

Tuesday  Afternoon.

President's  address.
Secretary’s  report.
Treasurer’s  report.
Paper  by  Joseph  Helfman—The  Busi­
ness  Phase  of  the  Druggist’s  Relation 
to  the  Medical  Profession.

Report  of  Secretary  of  Board  of 

Pharmacy.

Report  of  delegates.

Tuesday  Evening.
on 

steamer 
'  Moonlight  excursion 
Sappho,  tendered  by  Nelson,  Baker 
&  Co.

Wednesday  Forenoon.

Report  of  Trade  Interests  Committee. 
Paper  by  B.  K.  Van  Naten,  M.  D .— 
in  Drug  Stores  and 

Emergency  Cases 
How  to  Treat  Them.

Report  of  Legislative  Committee. 
Report  of  Executive  Committee. 
General  business.

Wednesday  Afternoon.

Report  of  Pharmacy  and  Queries 

Committee.
Paper  by  J.  W.  T.  Knox—Advertising 
Retail  Business.

Report  of  Adulteration  Committee. 
Election  of  officers.
Selecting  place  of  next  meeting. 
Installation of officers.
Unfinished  business.
Adjournment.
Come  one,  come  all 1

James  W.  Seeley,  Sec’ y.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.
GRAN D   R A P ID S  S U P P L Y   CO. 
and  Well  Supplies.  W e want your business.

General  Mill  Supplies,  Iron  Pipe,  Pumps,  W ell  Points 

A S K   FO R   P R IC E S

2 0  P E A R L  S T R E E T .  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICH.

M.  O.  BAKER  &  CO.

TO LED O .  OHIO

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

get.  Let  us  have your  shipments.

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Grand  Rapids  Oossip
P.  DePotter has  erected  a  new  store 
building  at  Alpine  and  engaged  in  the 
grocery  business.  The  Lemon  &  Wheel­
er  Company  furnished  the  stock.

liberal 
and  the  local  demand  has  lessened  con­
siderably,  due  to  the  resort  season  and 
the  departure  of  the 
furniture  men. 
Live  hens  command  7@7J^c;  spring 
broilers, 
12 3 13 c ;  turkey  hens,  8 3 9 c ; 
gobblers,  8c;  spring  ducks, 
12314 c. 
Pigeons  are  in  moderate  demand  at  75c 
per  doz.  and  squabs  are  taken  readily 
at $1.2531-50.
for  Chartiers.

Poultrv—Receipts  are  more 

Emil  Rebentisch,  formerly  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  on  Straight 
in  business  at 
street,  has  re-engaged 
265  Straight  street. 
The  Musselman 
Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Mynard  E.  Butts,  formerly  prescrip­
tion  clerk  for  Frank  G.  Thiers,  the  Mt. 
Pleasant  druggist,  will  open  a  drug 
store  at  Elk  Rapids  about  Aug.  15. 
The  Hazeltine  &  Perkin's  Drug  Co.  has 
the  order  for the  stock.

A.  Vidro  has  sold  his  grocery  stock  at 
184  Stocking  street  to  Jos.  F.  Vidro,  a 
nephew, who  has  clerked  in  the  store  for 
the  past  nine  years.  Mr.  Vidro  will 
continue  the  dry  goods  and  shoe  busi­
ness  at the  same  location.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples—Duchess  and  Red  Astricans 
command  $¡@ 1.25  per  bu.  Receipts 
are  small  and  the  quality ' is  not first 
class.

Bananas—Prices  range  from  $ 1.2 5 ®
1.75  per  bunch,  accordfng  to  size. 
Jumbos,  $2,25.

Beets—15c  per  doz.
Blackberries—$1.75  per  16 qts.
Butter—Extra  creamery 

is  strong  at 
20c.  Dairy  grades  are  in  adequate 
supply  to  meet  both  consumptive  and 
shipping  requirements  and  find  an  out­
let  on  the  basis  of  11c  for  packing  stock 
to  13c  for choice  and  15c  for  fancy.

Cahbage—$2.25  per 3  bu.  bbl.
Carrots—12c  per doz.  bunches.
Celery—16c  per doz.
Com—io@i2c  per  doz.  ears.
Cucumbers—2o@25c  per  doz.
Currants—Cherry,  $1.20  per  16 qts. 

Common  $1  per  16 qts.

Eggs—Receipts  show  fearful  shrink­
age,  on  account  of  the  hot  weaher.  The 
loss  off  ranges  from  one  to  five  dozen  to 
the  case.  Local  dealers  pay  10c  on track 
to  those  shippers  whose  stock  and meth­
ods  of  handling  can  be  depended  upon.
Frogs’  Legs—Large  bulls,  45@50c; 
medium  bulls,  25c;  large frogs,  15320 c; 
small  frogs,  5@ioc.

Honey—White  stock  is  in 

light  sup­
13c 
is  in  moderate  demand  at  n

Green  Onions—10c  for Silverskins. 
'Green  Peas—$ i @ i. 25  for  telephones 
and  marrowfats.
ply  at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at 
and  dark 
@ I2C.
$6 
Rhodis,  $7.
60c  per  bu.

Lemons—Messinas  have  advanced  to 
fancy. 
L ettuce—G arden,  50c  per  bu.  ;  head, 

for  choice  and  $6.50  for 

Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for fancy.
Musk  Melons—Gems  command  75c 
per  basket.  Cantaloupes  fetch  $1.50©
1.75  per crate.

Onions—Home  grown  command  75c 

per bu.
Oranges—Supplies  are  light  and  very 
few  are  coming  from  the  coast.  Five 
dollars  is  asked  for 96s  and 
112s.  The 
smaller sizes  command  $5.5035.75.

Parsley—30c  per doz.
Peaches—Home  grown  Alexanders are 
in  plentiful  supply  at  6o@qoc  per  bu. 
As  usual,  this  variety  is  so  short  lived 
that  it  will  not  stand  shipping  for  any 
distance.  Elbertas  from  Georgia  and 
Alabama,  carefully  sorted,  are  held  at 
$1.75  per 6  basket’ crate.  A  car of  E l­
bertas  which  came  in  on  consignment 
to a  local  dealer Tuesday  is  in  such bad 
condition  that  fully  half  of  the  fruit had 
to be  consigned  to  the  dump.

Pie  Plant—60c  per  50  lb.  box.
P ineapples—F lorida.  $1.7532.25  per 
Plums—California  command $1.75 per 

doz.,  according  to  size. 

4  basket  crate.
Potatoes—The  market  has  sustained  a 
decline,  in  consequence  of  liberal  re­
ceipts  from  local  growers and  the  price 
has  receded  to  70380c  per bu.  and  will 
probably  go  lower before  the  end  of  the 
week.

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Radishes—12c  for  China  Rose ;  10c 
String  Beans—$1  per  bu.
Summer  Squash—3c  per  lb.
Tomatoes—$1.25  per  y   bu.  basket 
for  home  grown.  The  price  will  prob­
ably  decline  gradually  from  now  on.
Watermelons—20325c 
for  Georgias.
Whortleberries—$3.75  per  bu.  R e­

ceipts  are  small.

The  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  again  dropped  back 

in 
price.  The  large  precipitation  of  rain 
in  the  drought  districts  was  the  main 
cause.  While  future  wheat  sold  on  July 
22  at  73^0,  it  sold  on  July  29  at  67c  or 
a 
loss  of  6}ic.  Cash  wheat,  however, 
did  not  follow  in  the  same  ratio  of  de­
cline,  simply  because  farmers  and  deal­
ers  would  not  sell.  The  visible 
in­
creased 
million  bushels  where  a  de­
crease  was  expected,  as  the exports  from 
both  coasts  were  7,000,000  bushels,  and 
the  receipts  as  per  daily  reports  were 
less  than  they  were  last  year. 
looks 
as  though  some  one  had  made  an  error 
in  computing  the  figures.  The  situa­
tion  is  not changed.  The  United  States 
has  a 
large  crop  of  wheat,  while  the 
continent 
is  short.  The  cry  from  the 
bears  is  no  export  demand,  still  w i "ex- 
port  more  than  we  did  and  will  prob­
ably  export  more  than  any  year  in  the 
history  of  the  country,  but 
it  is  ever 
thus.  We  give  the  continent  wheat  for 
a  song, while  we  really are in  position  to 
dictate  our own  prices  to  them,  as  other 
exporting  countries  have  depleted  their 
stocks. 
It  shows  that  out  of  9,500,000 
bushels  in  transit,  the  United  States 
furnishes  7,000,000 bushels.

It 

Corn,  on  account  of  the  rains,  has 
dropped  from  the  pinnacle  cf  5gfic  to 
52^jc,  or  a  decline  of  7c  per  bushel 
in 
one  week;  while  the  general  belief  is 
that  where  the  hot  wheater  in  the  corn 
district  existed  that  no  amount  of  rain 
could  make  corn.  Of  course,  this  will 
show  up  later.  Those  expecting  to  see 
corn  up 
in  the  70s  will  have  to  wait. 
The  Kansas  farmer,  however,  is  inde­
pendent,  as  he  can  use  wheat  for ani­
mal  food  if  he  has  no  corn.  Oats,  not  to 
be  outdone,  have  also  settled  back  in 
price  from  38^0  to  32^c.  The  visible 
in  this  cereal  decreased  740,000,  but 
the  slump  in  corn  took oats along.  Oats, 
at  present  prices,  are very  cheap  as  well 
as  the  other cereals.

Rye  was  also on  the  down  grade  and 

declined  4c  a  bushel.

Beans,  that  is  cash  beans,  are  up  20c. 
This  is  owing  to  the  dry  weather,  as 
beans  have  suffered in the bean districts. 
While  rain  may  help  them  some,  we 
will  have  a  very  short  crop,  the  same  as 
in  corn.

Flour  has  held  up  in  price.  Demand 

is  good.  The  mills  are  sold  ahead.

feed  remains  very  firm,  as  pas­
Mill 
turage 
is  very  poor  in  most  localities 
excepting  Michigan ;  demand keeps  up.
Receipts  were  of  the  usual  amount, 
being :  wheat,  63  cars ;  corn,  6  cars; 
oats,  12  cars;  Hour,  5  cars;  potatoes,  1 
car.

Mills  are  paying  64c  for wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Sumner  M.  Wells,  Secretary 

and 
Treasurer of the  Clark-Jewell-Wells Co., 
is  spending  a  fortnight  with  bis  mother 
at  Penn  Yan,  N.  Y.  He  is accompanied 
by  his  family.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
somewhat  stronger  this  week,  showing 
a  slight  advance,  which  makes the  pres­
ent  price  of  96  deg.  test  centrifugals 
4  3-l(>c-  The  demand  is  good,  but  offer­
ings  are 
light.  The  visible  supply  is 
1,168,000  tons,  against  1,170,000 tons last 
year.  The  refined  market  shows  no 
change.  The  demand 
is  good  at  pre­
vious  prices.

Canned  Goods—The  excitement in the 
canned  goods  market  during  the  past 
week  has  been  intense.  There  has  been 
a  very  unusual  boom  in  prices  and  also 
an  unusual  demand  for  all  kinds  of 
canned  goods.  The  entire  market  is  on 
the  upward  move  and  values  will  in­
crease  from  now  on.  The  tremendous 
strength  developed  by  tomatoes,  corn 
and  apples  was  the  feature  of  the  mar­
ket  during  the  past  week,  and  while 
nearly  all  other  lines  shared  the  im­
provement  to  more  or  less  extent,  prac­
tically  the  entire  attention  of  the  trade 
in  all  parts  of  the  country  was  centered 
on  these  three  articles.  Tomatoes  were 
exceedingly  strong  and  active,  buyers 
taking  large  lots  at constantly advancing 
prices  when  they  once  began  to  realize 
the  true  situation  in  the  article  and  the 
general  expectation 
is  that  prices  will 
soon  go  still  higher.  So  great  has  been 
the  buying  of  corn  that  the  best  grades 
are  almost  entirely  sold  out.  The  mar­
ket  is  much  stronger and  shows  an  ad­
vance  of  5c  per  dozen,  with  the  prob­
ability  of  prices  going  still  higher.  R e­
ports  from  some  of  the  corn  packing 
sections  are  that  it  is  being  severely  in­
jured  by  the  excessive  heat.  The  posi­
tion  of  peas  seems  to  be  strengthening 
daily,  latest  reports  from  the  West  be­
ing  that  the  crop  has  been  very  in­
juriously  affected  by  the  weather and 
that  the  yield  will  be  much  less  tha 
last  year.  There 
is  an  advance  of  5c 
per  dozen  on  some  of  the  best  grades 
and  the  market  is  stronger on  all  grades 
on  account  of  these  discouraging  re­
ports.  Gallon  apples  are  exceedingly 
strong,  with  continued  enquiry.  Stocks 
are  almost  entirely  cleaned  up  and 
prices  are  very  high.  There  is  a  good 
demand  for  peaches  and  prices  on  fu­
ture  goods  have  advanced 
10c  per 
dozen.  Consumptive  demand  for  sal­
mon  is  active  and  the  hot  weather  is  re­
ported 
very  good  trade 
throughout the country generally.  Alaska 
salmon  is  well  cleaned up and prices  are 
very  firm.  From  present  indications  it 
will  all  be  exhausted  before  the  arrival 
of  new  packing  from  Alaska.  Advices 
from  many  of  the  largest  canneries  in 
Alaska  show  that  the  pack  to  date  is  far 
below  that  of  last  season;  in  fact,  the 
packers  are  at  a  loss  to  understand  why 
there  should  be  such  a  dearth  of  salmon 
in  the  North  this  year,  as  everyone  ex­
pected  a  good  pack  and  made  prepara­
tions  accordingly. 
for 
light.  The 
Columbia  River  salmon  is 
run  of  fish  on  the  Columbia  River 
is 
now  reported  larger.

The  demand 

causing  a 

Dried  Fruits—The  scarcity  of  small 
fruits  has  resulted  in  more  activity  for 
fruits  on  the  spot.  Both  prunes 
dried 
and  peaches  are  in  good  demand 
from 
jobbers  and  some  enquiry  is  noted  for 
lots.  Prunes  are  firm,  especially 
large 
on  the 
larger  sizes,  such  as  40-50S  and 
50-60S,  which  are  very  scarce  and  in 
good  demand.  Some  holders  are  even 
asking  %c  more  for  these  sizes.  The 
1900  crop  of  California  prunes  was 
about  5,000  cars  and  from  other sources, 
such  as  Washington,  Idaho,  and Oregon, 
700  to  800  cars.  This  year’s  crop  of 
is  estimated  to  be
California  prunes 

The  consumptive  demand 

3.000 cars  and  other  sources  about  1,000 
cars.  Raisins  are  quiet.  No  large  lots 
is  a  fair  de­
are  purchased,  but  there 
mand  for  small 
lots,  which  constantly 
decrease  the  stocks.  A  short  time  ago 
the  California  Loose  Raisin  Associa­
tion  had  about  1,600  cars  of  loose  rais­
ins  on  hand;  to-day  their  entire  stock 
less  than  500  cars  and  seeders  will 
is 
want  every  pound  of  them.  There 
is 
no  question  but  that  owing  to  the  crop 
conditions 
in  California,  the  price  of 
new  raisins  will  be  high.  Advices  from 
the  various  raisin  districts  are  to  the 
effect  that  this  year’s  crop  will  only  be 
about  one-half  of 
last  year’s  output. 
Weather conditions  have  not  been et  all 
favorable  to  the  growing  grape  crop. 
It  would  seem  as  though  the  damage  to 
growing  crops  all  over  the  world  during 
the  past  thirty  days  had  been  very  se­
vere. 
for 
peaches  has  picked  up considerably,ow­
ing  both  to  the  scarcity  of  small  fruits 
and  the  higher  market  for  evaporated 
apples,  and  good  quality  is  scarce  and 
firm.  The  California  crop  of  peaches 
is  not  a 
large  one.  The  quality  this 
year  is  excellent  and,  in  view  of  the 
scarcity  and  high  prices  of  other  lines 
of  dried  fruit,  all  the  peaches  dried  this 
year  will  be  badly  needed.  There  is 
only  a  fair  demand  for  apricots  at  pres­
ent,  but  we  think  this  will  gradually  in­
crease.  The  crop  last  year  was  between 
800  and 900 cars.  This  season  the  out­
side  estimate 
is  450  cars  and  high 
prices  are  looked  for.  It is  reported  that 
the  previous  estimate  of  a  fig  crop  of
80.000  camel  loads  probably  will  be  cut 
down,  as  the  result  of  the  appearance  of 
the  disease  known  as  bassara,  which 
is 
said  to  be  very  destructive  to  the  qual­
ity  of  the  fruit.  The  effect  on  the  figs, 
it 
is  stated,  is  to  turn  many  of  them 
black  and  to  cause  them  to  sour.

is 

Rice—The  demand  for  rice  is  very 
good;  in  fact,  it  shows  a  marked  in­
crease  over  the  movement  for  the  cor­
responding  fime 
last  year.  Stocks  are 
very  scarce  and  prices  have  an  upward 
tendency.  The  new  crop 
late  and 
more  or  less  affected  by  the  prevailing 
drought.  Showers  have  fallen  in  many 
sections,  with  beneficial  results  but 
opinions  differ  as  to  the  general  situa­
tion.  Some  regard  the  outlook  as  more 
encouraging,  while  others  do  not  con­
sider  there  has  been any material change 
in  the  situation  since  the  early  part  of 
the  month  and  that  to  cause  any  real 
improvement  a  much  heavier  rainfall 
is  required.

Teas—Teas  are  dull  and  only  small 
sales  are  reported,  most  orders  being 
for small  lots  for  immediate  use.  Near­
ly  all  buyers  are  well supplied and  there 
is  not  enough  trade  to  warrant  a  change 
in  prices.

Molasses  and  Syrups—There 

is  no 
change 
in  the  market  and  business  is 
rather  dull.  Buyers  are  well  supplied 
and  do  not  care  to  make  very  heavy 
purchases  this  time  of  year.  The  corn 
syrup  market 
is  very  firm  and  prices 
show  an  advance  of  yzc  per  gallon  and 
3c  per  case,  with  the  probability  of  a 
further  advance  soon.

Fish—The  total  catch  of  codfish 

last 
week  at  Gloucester  is  reported  at 1,542,- 
000  pounds,  against  2,140,000  pounds 
for  the  corresponding  week  last  year. 
The  market  is  reported  very  firm,  with 
good  demand.

Nuts—Filberts  are slightly lower.  The 
Sicily  market  is  still  declining,  owing 
to  the  favorable  outlook  for new  crop. 
Brazil  nuts  are  very  firm  at  unchanged 
quotations.  Peanuts  are 
in  good  de­
mand  at  unchanged  prices.

Rolled  Oats—In  sympathy  with  the 
declining  grain  markets  rolled  oats 
have  declined  25c  per  barrel  and  15c 
per  case  on  all  except  Banner  oats, 
which  show  a  decline  of  20c  per  case.
Pickles—Prices  for  pickles  are  very 
firm  at  50c  per  barrel  advance.

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MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

Village  Improvement
D evelopm ent  of  the  M etropolitan  P ark  

System  of Boston.

All  correct  thinking 

is  grounded 

correct  definitions.  The  American  park 
is  a  recent  recreation  when  compared 
with  the  parks  of  Europe. 
It  was  nat 
ural  for  our  ancestors,  especially  the 
' New  England  people,  to  think  little 
art.  They  came  from  the  Old  World  to 
make  homes  in  the  new. 
Impelled  by 
a  strong  desire  for  religious  liberty 
puritanic  in  action  and  in  feeling,  the 
prevailing  motive  was  the  church, 
moral  government  of  the  communities 
which  they  planted.  Most  of  them  had 
few  worldly  goods.  To  build  a  home 
a  house  that  would  shelter  them 
storm,  a  church  plain  and  simple  in 
which  they  could  worship  according  to 
the  dictates  of  their  consciences,  were 
The  first  necessity 
the  primal  ideas. 
it  may  be  said 
in  the  planting  of a 
colonies,  is  protection  against  the  in 
clemency  of  the  weather  and  provision 
for  food  and  raiment.  These  necessities 
filled  the  mind  and  took  up  the  activi 
ties  of  the  pioneers.

Boston  with  its  colleges,  schools  and 
universities  has  justly  been  considered 
the  Athens  of  America.  She  has  gen 
erally  been  foremost 
in  suggestion  on 
public  affairs,  schools,  reformations  of 
prisons,  improvements  in  highways,  in 
general  progress,  in  literature,  science 
and  art.  Her  leading  men from  observa 
tion  in  travel  and  from  their natural im 
pulses  saw  that  there  was  a  great  need 
of  parks  and  boulevards  for  Boston  and 
her environment. 
In  press,  pulpit,  and 
on  the  rostrum,  in  clubs  and  at  home, 
public  opinion  began  to  form  itself  into 
purpose 
in  regard  to  public  parks  and 
in  1869  that  matter  was  brought  formal 
ly  before  the  city  government and  in 
1874  a  park  commission  was  appointed 
consisting  of  the  mayor,  two  aldermen, 
three  councilmen,  and  tbtee  citizens  at 
large.  This  commission  made  a  report 
the  following  November. 
This  first 
commission  and  other  commissioners 
appointed  succeeded  finally  in  securing 
legislation  and  means  by  which the park 
system  of  Boston  was  begun.  The  Back 
Bay  was 
improved  and  the  waste  mud 
flats  converted  into  most  charming  re­
sorts. 
it 
would  be great  pleasure,  to  trace  out the 
history  of  the  magnificent  work  under 
which  the  grand  park  system  of  Boston 
has  been  so  far completed. 
I  refer to 
this  work of  the  Bostonians  because they 
set  the  example,  they  originated  the 
American  park 
idea,  they  have  per­
fected  the  building  of  roadways  and 
boulevards;  they  have  held  closely  to 
the  natural 
features  and  conditions, 
never  permitting  nature  to  be  marred  if 
possible.

I  have  not  time,  although 

When  completed, 

the  Metropolitan 
Park  System  of  Boston  will  be,  in  my 
judgment,  the  grandest 
in  the  world. 
No finer scenery  can  be  found,  no  better 
roads  can  be  made.  One  of  the  great 
credits  due  to  the  people  of  Boston  is 
that  they  never  forget  the  service  of a 
great  man  or  woman. 
In  some  form, 
either a  statue  or some fitting monument 
rises  to do  honor to  the  men  or the  work 
done.  The  American  park  is  to  a  very 
great  extent,  or  will  be,  the  Boston 
ideal  Of  parks  carried  out  in  other  sec­
tions  of  the  country  as  near as  possible, 
fully  and  completely  adapted  to  the nat­
ural  conditions.  Much  we  owe  to  old 
Athens,  all  the  world  of  beauty  and 
adornment  goes  back  there  to  borrow  a 
column,  an  architrave,  a  pedestal,  a

Just  so  all  of  the  West 

piece  of  sculpture,  anything  and  every 
thing  that  goes  into the  highest  form 
decorative  art. 
goes  back  to  Boston,  the  Athens 
America,  for  ideas  on  schools,  colleges, 
institutions  and  methods  of government, 
for  institutions  for  charity  and  educa 
tion. 
Just  so  we  take  her suggestions 
in  architecture, 
literature,  in science  and  in  art. 
If  you 
ask  me  then  what  is  the  American park 
I  shall  tell  you  that  the  American  park 
of to-day  is  the  Metropolitan  Park  Sys 
tern  of  Boston  applied  in  its  best  form 
to  the  natural  conditions  of  the  land,  its 
contour,  its  water,  brooks,  ponds,  trees, 
hills  and  dales  of the  locality  where 
park  is  to  be  built. 
L.  E .  Holden.

in  park  building, 

How  to  H andle  Cakes  a t a Profit  in Sum 

m er.

The  cake  department  of  most city  re 
tail  stores  is  a  source  of  constant  worry 
during  the  summer  months.  Cakes 
wilt.  There  is  a  good  demand  for them 
one  day,  and 
little  demand  the  next 
day,  flies  hover about  the  case  in  which 
they  are  kept  and  invade  it  every  time 
the  door  is  left  open,  lighting  on  the 
cake  and  making  it  unpresentable,  and 
n  many  instances  unsalable.
No  certain  rules  can  be  laid  down 
governing  the  sale  of  cake  and  bread  ii 
hot  weather,  but  some  few  facts  ob 
tained  by  practical  experience  may  be 
noted  that  will help  retail  dealers of  less 
experience  than  others.

To  keep  flies  away  from  the  interior 
of cake  showcases,  it  has  been  discov 
ered  that  cloves  sprinkled  on  the  bottom 
of  the  case,  in  the  neighborhood  of the 
door,  and  wherever  the  flies  are  to  be 
found,  acts  as  a  preventative.  A  num 
ber of grocers  have  used  whole  cloves 
n  this  connection  and  have  found  they 
were  of  great  benefit  in  keeping  flies 
out  of  the  case.  The  odor of  the  cloves 
it  may  be  pungent  at  times,  is 
while 
not 
likely  to  seriously  hurt the  selling 
qualities  of  the  cake,  and  cloves  are 
much  preferable  to sticky  or  liquid  fly 
paper  in  the  case.  Customers  haVe  a 
natural  aversion  to  purchasing  cakes 
which  have  a  sheet of  sticky  fly  paper 
on  top  of  it  or alongside  of  it.

In  all  probability  cloves  will  be found 
to  be  valuable  in  ridding  other  show­
cases  habited  by  flies.  For  instance, 
they  might  be  used  in  the  candy  case, 
the  bread  case,  and  around  fruit 
It 
which  attracts  these  summer  pests. 
will  cost  very 
little  to try  the  experi­
ment,  and  if  it  proves  a  success  it  will 
prove  of  great  benefit  to  most  retail 
dealers.  Local  grocers  who have  tried 
cloves  to  rid  showcases  of  flies  pro­
nounce  this  plan  successful.

In  taking 

is  always  well  to  remember that  it 

in  stocks  of cakes  for the 
day  retailers  should 
invariably  gauge 
their  requirements  by  the  weather,  and 
is 
better  to  have  too 
little  stock  of  this 
ine,  than  to  have  goods  which  will  be 
carried  over  until  the  next  day.  During 
cool  weather,  usually  the  requirements 
of  the  retail  trade  in  the  way  of  cakes 
are 
less  than  during  very  hot  weather. 
Women  forego  baking  operations during 
the  very  hottest  days,  and  send  to  the 
retailer for their supplies.

The  nature  of  the  weather  is  usually 
indicated 
in  the  morning  by  the  time 
the  bakery  wagon  arrives  at  the  retail 
store,  and  the  careful  retailer can  very 
closely  gauge  his  requirements  by  mak­
ing  a  study  of the  situation  for  several 
days  during  varying  weather.

Many  retail  dealers  permit  the  sales­
men  for  the  cake  wagons  to  put  in  as 
much stock  as  they  want  to.  As a  con­

sequence,  the  latter  frequently  consult 
their own  judgment  in  this  matter,  and 
load  the  retailer  up  too  heavily  with 
stock.  The  dqpler  should  be  on  bis 
guard 
in  this  matter as  well  as  in  the 
purchase  of  other  lines  of  goods.  He 
should  indicate  the  character of the cake 
to  be  handled,  and  the  quantity  to  be 
put  in  stock.  He  knows  the  demand  in 
his  locality  and  can  judge  to  far  bette 
advantage  than  can  the  transient  sales 
man  who  often  has  ideas  about  what the 
dealer should  sell  but  not  what  he  can 
sell.—Commercial  Bulletin.

The  Voices of the  Trees.

If 

it.  But  there 

It  may  not  be  that  every  tree  speaks 
with  an  individual  tone  when  the  wind 
breathes  through 
is  a 
difference 
in  the  voices  of  the  trees 
which  even  the least experienced dweller 
beneath  them  must  observe. 
the 
pines  utter a  deep  contralto  tone,  full  of 
pathos  and  suggestions  of  the  undying 
solemnities  of  the  world,  surely  the 
voice  of  the  maples 
stirring 
is  the 
tenor,  breathing  the 
lively  song  of ac­
tion,  the  chant  of  good  cheer,  and  the 
prophecy  of  weal.  The  note  of  the 
pines  is  the murmur of the  sea  repeating 
itself  in  the  depths  of  the  forest.  The 
note  of  the  maple  comes  nearer  to  the 
blending  sounds  of a  great  city,  where 
human  life  surges  and  breaks  upon  the 
pavements. 
It  seems  as  if the  maples 
had 
imbibed  something  of  the  life  and 
spirit  of  that  race  by  whose  homes  they 
have  grown 
lo,  these  many  ages,  and 
if  they  wafted  back  to  the  heart  of 
the  listener  who stands  beneath them the 
chorused  voices  of  his  own  deep 
thoughts,  his  strong  impulses  his  vigor­
ous ambitions. 

John Coleman Adams.

A  Case o f Absentmindedness.

The  other day  a  young  lady,  daughter 
of  a  well-known  business  man,  drove 
up  to  the  door of a  jeweler’s  shop,  went 
"n  and  selected  a  turquoise and diamond

ring  valued  at  $150.  She  quietly  made 
out  ber check  for that  sum  and  passed 
it  on  to the  assistant.  The  alert  young 
man  glanced  at  it,  and  then  looked  en­
quiringly  up  at  the  young  lady.

”  There 

is  some  mistake  here, 

I 
think,”   said  he,  with  an  apologetic 
smile.

The  young  lady  flushed and demanded 
to  know 
if  the  check  was  not  for the 
right  amount.  She  was  told it was,  but—
“ But  what?”   she  exclaimed,  haught­
“ Do  you  mean  that  my  check  is 

ily. 
not  acceptable?”

The  assistant  mildly  acknowledged 
that  he  knew  quite  well  who  the  young 
lady  was,  but  explained  that  the  check 
was  not  made  out  just  as  it  should  be, 
and  he  handed  it  back.

then  turned  a  deep  crimson.

The  girl  ran  her  eyes  over  it,  and 
“ Oh,”  she exclaimed:  ” 1  see.”   And 
then  she  proceeded  to  make  out  another 
check.

She  had  signed  Ihe  first  one,  “ Your 

own  sweetheart,  Jessie.”

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Same old band; 
Same old sawdust, 
Same old stand; 
Same old bears and 
Same parade; 
Same old peanuts, 
Same lemonade ; 
Same old clown and 
Same old jest; 
.Same old crowd with 
Brand-new zest.

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And Grocers H ad Good W eather F o r T heir 

Picnic.

The  retail  grocers  of  Grand  Rapids 
met  with  their  usual  good  luck,  so far 
as  weather  is  concerned,  on the  occasion 
of  their  fifteenth  annual  picnic.  Only 
once  have  the  grocers been treated  shab­
bily  by  the  weather clerk.  For twelve 
successive  seasons  the  picnics  were 
greeted  with  glorious  weather. 
Two 
years  ago  the  spell  was  broken  by 
copious  showers  early 
in  the  day.  A 
year  ago the  weather  was  perfect  and 
this  year  the  weather clerk  kept  faith 
with  his  friends  of the  scoop  and scales, 
although  threatening  clouds  gave  the 
horizon  an  ominous  appearance  early  in 
the  day  and  caused  many  faces  to as­
sume  an  anxious  appearance  until  the 
clouds  disappeared,  about  9 o’clock  in 
the  forenoon.

The  delegates 

from  Battle  Creek, 
Kalamazoo and  Lansing  were  met at  the 
train  by  the  Reception  Committee  and 
given  to  understand  that  they  held  the 
key- to  the  city  and  a  passport  to  all  the 
enjoyment  they  could  absorb  and  carry 
around  with  them.  As  the  visitors 
stepped  from  their  trains  they  were 
greeted  with  salutes  by  the  Fox  battery, 
after  which  a  procession  was  formed, 
with  the Kalamazoo grocers as  the  guests 
of  honor.  Next  came  the  Lansing  news­
boy’s  band  and  the  contingent  from  the 
Capital  City.  Hon.  William  Alden 
Smith,  orator of the  day,  President Dyk 
and  other  officers  of the  Grocers’  Asso­
ciation  came  next in  carriages,  and were 
followed  by  Newell’s  band  and  a  line 
of  gaily-decorated  grocers'  delivery 
wagons.

William  Andree  was  awarded 

first 
prize  for the  most  artistic  wagon.-  Bert 
Petters  and  Fred  Fuller  secured  second 
nd  third  prizes.
Dinner  was  next  in  order,  after  which 
all  repaired  to  Reed's  Lake,  where  the 
real  sport  of  the  day  was  inaugurated 
about  1  o’clock, 
lasting  until  after  5 
o’clock.

The  ball  game  between  the  Kalama­
zoo  and  Grand  Rapids  grocers  was  won 
by  the  former team  on  a  score  of 8  to  o. 
Only  five  innings  were  played,  but  that 
number  was  sufficient  to  demonstrate 
the  superiority  of  the  Celery  City  play­
ers.

The  winners  in  the  other contests were 

as  follows:

Fat  Man’s  Race—Edward  Conway, 
first;  Louis  Lemstra,  second ;  Charles 
Hoeckljr,  third.

Smoking  Contest—Robert 

Jaeger,
first;  George  Bond,  second;  C.  D. 
Haas,  third.
Ladies’  Egg  Baking Powder Contest— 
Jennie  Glutker,  first;  Annie McGingan, 
second;  Mrs.  Charles  Anderson,  third; 
Hattie  Hamilton,  fourth.

Three-Legged  Race—S.  E.  Koster 
and  J.  H.  Schnabel,  first;  Earl  Irwin 
and  Louis  Ganzel,  second;  Jacob  Med- 
ema  and  Henry  Kooy,  third.

Boys’  Uneeda  Biscuit  Race—Francis 
first;  Thomas  Walsh,  second ; 

Nelson, 
Frank  Johnson  third.

Nine  O’clock  Washing  Tea  Contest— 
Anna  Blaas,  first;  Pearl  Farrister,  sec­
ond ;  Mattie  Ferwee,  third.

Tub  Race—Clarence  Boynton,  first; 
Fred  Schneider,  second;  Charles Drum­
mond,  third.

Guessing  Contest—Miss  May  Bolton, 
first;  Miss  Rose  Boone,  second;  Mrs. 
E.  M.  Robinson,  third;  Miss  Morgan, 
fourth.

At  the  conclusion  of  the  sports  the 
crowd  congregated  at  Ramona  pavilion 
to  listen  to the  address  of  Hon.  William 
Alden  Smith  on  the  topic,  “ How  to 
Run  a  Twentieth  Century  Grocery.”  
Mr.  Smith  spoke  in  part'as  follows:

No one  could  be  more  appreciative  of

the  high  compliment  conferred  upon 
me  by  the  Committee  on  Arrangements 
than  myself.  To  be  thus  honoied  upon 
an  occasion  so full  of  entertainment  and 
instruction  and  marked  by  such genuine 
holiday  festivities,  participated 
in  by 
hundreds  of  grocers  and  their  families 
in  our  city  and  scores 
from  other 
places,  touches  me  deeply  and  I  thank 
you  for  it  -and  will  endeavor as  best  I 
can  to  discharge  the  duty  devolving 
upon  me.  This  annual  holiday  occasion 
is  both  praiseworthy  and  creditable. 
The  grocer and  his  assistant  need  a  day 
for  recreation  and  the  public  with whom 
you  are  so  intimately  associated  readily 
yields  to  you  this  concession.

The  grocer  in  the conduct  of  his busi­
ness  becomes  intimately  associated with 
the  family  and  the  home,  most sacred  of 
all  spots  on  earth,  whether rich  and  pre­
tentious  or humble  and  lowly,  and  were 
all  who  wish  you  well  to  be  gathered 
together this  afternoon  nothing  less than 
nature’s  vast  tabernacle  could  contain 
all  who  would  mingle  with  you. 
1  am 
a  firm  believer  in  vacation  and  rest  for 
the  busy  man,  woman  and  child.  Na­
ture  has  appointed  these  beautiful  lakes 
and  rivers  and  decorated  her  forests and 
hillsides  for our  edification.  Are  we  not 
unappreciative,  indeed,  if  we  do  not 
occasionally  appropriate  them  for our 
use  and  make  them  a  part  of  our  lives? 
is  an  occasion  of  genuine 
Surety  this 
rejoicing,  and  to-morrow,  although 
it 
be  busier than  yesterday,  will  be  a  bet­
ter day  for  us  all  than  though  the  tread­
mill  had  ground  its  daily  grist  and  we 
had  retired  to-night  weary  with  the 
la­
bor  rather than  surfeited  with  the  pleas­
ures  and  recreations  of  the  day.  Rest 
and recreation make men  better citizens, 
better  husbands,  better  fathers  than  un­
remitting  toil. 
Rest  strengthens  the 
sinews  often  so  sorely  tried  and  gives 
the  heart  a  better action  and  the  mind 
clearer thought.

feature  of 

A  century  ago  mercantile  business 

in 
our country  was  centered 
in  cities,  no 
country  stores  having  made  their ap­
pearance,  while  New  York,  Boston  and 
Philadelphia supplied  most  of the  needs 
of  the  smaller  stores  and  the  visits  of 
the  tradesmen  to  these  markets  were 
the  distinguishing 
that 
period.  Their  only  competitor  was  the 
itinerent  peddler  who,  while  suspected 
by  the  thrifty  New  England  housewife, 
was  often  patifinized.  These  great stores 
in the cities mentioned resembling some­
what  the  great  wholesale  warehouses  to­
day,  of  which  every  enterprising  com­
munity  can  boast, were  free  to  go  on  un­
hampered.  Under the  old  order an  an­
nual  trade  of $1,500,000  was  considered 
phenomenal  and  when  the  annual  trade 
ran  above  $750,000  the  firm  was  con­
sidered  to  have  a  good  sales  account. 
To-day  these  figures  are  far  from  being 
out of  the  ordinary.

The  century just  passed  has seen  won­
derful  changes  in  the  store.  The  gen-, 
eral  store  of the  country  town  has  given 
place  to  the  great  modern  department 
store  with 
its  thousand  conveniences. 
To-day  millions  of  capital  are  invested 
where  a  century  ago  hundreds  would 
have  been  hard  to  find.  The  poor  man 
to-day  has  what  the  rich  man  of  one 
hundred  years  ago  could  not  possess 
with  all  his  wealth,  and  what  once  were 
luxuries  to-dav  are  the  commonest  ar­
ticles  of  daily  use. 
In  the  triumphal 
march  of  the  most  progressive  century 
the  world  has  ever  known  the  store  has 
held  a  place  in  the  van  and  all the signs 
of  the  new  century  point  toward  great­
er  progress  and  higher  development 
with  yet  greater advantages  for  the  peo­
ple  whose  need  gave  it  a  place  in  the 
industrial  system.

The  Kalamazoo  contingent  evidently 
enjoyed  the  events  of  the  day,  judging 
by  the  following  reference  to  the  affair 
by  the  Kalamazoo  Telegraph :

The  Kalamazoo  grocers  and  meat 
dealers  are  doing  business  at  their old 
stands  to-day  after  a  season  of  festivity 
spent in  Grand  Rapids  Thursday.
Their outing  to  the  Valley  City  was 
a  success  in  every  sense  of  the  word. 
The  attendance  was large  and every  fea­
ture  of  the  day  went off  smoothly  and 
was  much  enjoyed.  That  the  Grand

Rapids  brothers  are  past  masters  in  the 
art  of  entertaining 
is  the  unanimous 
verdict.

The  Kalamazoo  contingent  was joined 
here  by  the  delegation 
from  Battle 
Creek  and  altogether  made  up  1,500 to
2,000  people  who  were  conveyed  to  the 
Valley  City  on  two  special  trains.  The 
excursion from  Lansing  and  the  visitors 
from  .other  places  brought  up  the  total 
attendance  of  visitors  to  some  3,000. 
And  they  were  all  out  for  a  good  time.
According  to  programme  the  Kala­
mazoo  visitors  led  the  parade,  which 
was  an  imposing  affair. 
It  moved  at  11 
o’clock  and  it  was  somewhat  after  noon 
when  Reed’s  Lake,the  scene of the main 
“ doings,”   was  reached.  There  was 
“ music  by  the  band.”   Boating  on  the 
lake  furnished  a  pleasant  diversion  and 
the  programme  of  sports  was  a  source 
of  interest  and  amusement.

is 

The  Tradesman 

in  receipt  of  the 
following  communication  from  ex-Pres- 
ident  White,  of  the  Grand  Rapids  Re­
tail  Grocers’  Association protesting over 
the  manner  in  which  the  prizes  for  the 
best  displayed  grocery  delivery  wagons 
were  awarded  on  the  occasion  of  the 
picnic:

Grand  Rapids,  July  29—On  Monday 
last  I  received  a  postal  card,  informing 
me  that  there  would  be  a  contest of  gro­
cery  display  wagons,  which  would 
im­
ply  the  best display  of  goods  incidental 
to  the  grocery  business.  With  that  un­
derstanding  we  trimmed  our wagon  ac­
cording  to  text.  We  showed  a  line  of 
vegetables,  fruits,  canned  goods, 
flour, 
sweet  goods,  pickles—in  fact,  a  pure 
and  simple  grocery  display—which  no 
one  else  did.  We  do not  wish  to  be  per­
sonal  about  the  competition,  neither are 
we  acquainted  with  any  of  the 
judges, 
nor  would  we  have  referred  to  the  sub­
ject at  all  had  we  not  been  spoken  to  in 
regard  to  the  matter  by  a  large  number 
of  dealers  and  merchants  who are  not 
interested  in  us  in  any  sense,  who  each 
and  all  told  us  that  we  had  the only typ­
ical  grocery  wagon  on  the  street.  When 
our wagon  arrived  at  the  starting  point, 
the  boy  was  ordered  to  take  the  trim­
ming  from  the  side  of  the  wagon  to 
show  the  name,  which  disarranged  the 
trim  and  placed  us  somewhat  at  a  dis­
advantage.  We  did  not  send  our name 
to  be  judged,  but  our display.  To  say 
least,  the  competition  was  unfair 
the 
and  unbusinesslike.  The 
judges  must 
either  have  had  wrong  instructions  or 
did  not  understand  the  principles  at  is­
sue.  If  there  were  a  competition  of  ar­
tists  for the  best  picture  and  one  had  a 
picture  true  to  nature,  hung  with  a com­
mon  cord  on  a  plain  frame,  and  another 
had  an  elaborate  frame  and a gold string 
and  was  not true  to  nature,  would  you 
award  the  prize  to  the  gold  string? 
String  was  an 
incidental  with  us,  as 
groceries  was  the  text.

Edwin  White.

Not the  Honey  He  Meant.

Frank  Anderson  was  for  years  a  well- 
known  commercial  traveler  who regular­
ly  visited  Galena,  Kan.  He  was  pas­
sionately  fond  of  honey,  and  the  pro­
prietor  of  the  Galena  hotel  at  which  he 
always  stopped  always  had  some  on 
hand  for  him.  On  one  trip  Anderson 
took  his  wife  along,  and  as  he  ap­
proached  Galena  he  mentioned  to  her 
that  he  was  getting  to  a  place  where  he 
could  have  honey.  When  the  pair were 
sitting  at  the  supper  table  that  night  no 
honey  appeared,  and  Anderson  said 
sharply to  the  head  waiter: 
“ Where  is 
my  honey?”
“ You 
mean  the  little  black-haired  one?  Oh, 
she  doesn’t  work  here  now!”

The  waiter  smiled  and  said: 

And  Anderson  never did  get  it  fixed 

up  satisfactorily  with  bis  wife.
H ad  H eld  H is  Own.

“ I ’ve  saved  a  heap  o’  time,”   said 

Meandering  Mike,  complacently.

apprehensively.

“ By  hurryin’ ?”   asked Plodding  Pete, 
“ No;  jes’  by  takin’  it  easy. 
Instead 
o’  pilin’  up  wealt’  an’  havin’  to  git 
poor  by  givin* 
it  away,  I  started  out 
poor  in  de  fust  place  an’  have  helt  me 
own  manfully  ever  since.”

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You ought to sell

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person who shall sell  and  de­
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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
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be punished by a fine  not  ex­
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County  of  Kent 

I ss.
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in  the  office  of the 
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Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
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CHRISTIANITY  AND  CHRISTIANITY.
Rev.  W.  B.  Leach,  of  Wicker  Park 
Methodist  Episcopal  church,  Chicago, 
and  Prof.  John  W.  Wetzel,  of  Yale  Uni­
versity,  are  not  at  all  satisfied  with  the 
way  things  are  going  here  on  earth  and 
have  been  making  some  rough  talks 
about  it.

Parson  Leach recently pictured heaven 
to  his  congregation  as  an  Adamless 
Eden,  while  Prof.  Wetzel 
is  giving  it 
out to  New  Haven  church  folks  that  the 
nation 
losing  faith  in  God  and  that 
our great  cities  are  but  a  vast  collection 
of  sin  and  corruption.

is 

The  drift  of  Parson  Leach’s  remarks 
indicates  that  according  to  his  notion 
the  men  are  heading  for the penitentiary 
and  a  warm  hereafter,  while  the  women 
are  going  to  church  and pre-empting the 
choice  locations  in  heaven.  He  regrets 
this,  he  says,  because  be  likes  men  and 
will  feel  lonesome  without them  on  the 
other side.  Satisfied  with  the  clearness 
of  his  own  title  to  admission  to  the  Im­
mortal  Presence,he  desires no  monopoly 
of  the  delights  of  the  elect.  His  gener­
ous  soul  is  sad  because  of  the 
impend­
ing  fate  of  his  fellow  males  and  sorrows 
in  advance  over  the  sight  of Eden in the 
clutches  of  a  female  trust.  Disquieted 
by  the  prospect  of  fearful 
isolation  the 
in  mind  presents,  and 
heaven  he  has 
not 
liking  the 
idea  of  being  elbowed 
and  pushed  aside  by  crowds  of  dia­
phanous  female  creatures  as  he  wanders 
disconsolate  along  the  golden  streets,  it 
is  natural  for  him  to  feel  bad  about  it.
But  seriously,  does  the  reverend  gen­
tleman  know  what  he  is  talking  about? 
Has  he  ever  studied  church  life  with 
sufficient  care  and  intelligence  to  war­
rant  him 
into  essaying  the  subject  he 
has  broached?  Apparently  not,  unless 
we  are  to  conclude  that  he  is  striving 
after  notoriety  rather  than  seeking  to 
bring  humanity  to  an  appreciation  of 
the  beauties of  Christianity.  The  testi­
mony  of  earnest  and  faithful  pastors

throughout  the  United  States 
is  that 
while  they  are  not  as  devout  or  as 
as  women,  men  are 
demonstrative 
holding  up  their  end  everywhere 
in 
church  work.  Men  must  be  judged  by 
their  deeds,  and 
it  is  certain  that  as 
many  men  are  swayed  by  Christian  sen­
timents  and  beliefs  to  dp  good  as 
women,  and  there  are  enough  men  de­
serving  heaven  to  make  that  state  any­
thing  but  lonesome.

Men  have  more  to  occupy  their  time 
than  women.  They  have  their  families 
to  provide  for  and  their  business  to 
attend  to,  and  often 
lend  countenance 
and  support  to  the  religious  work  of 
wives  and  children  without  ever person­
ally  appearing  therein.  Would  Parson 
Leach  have 
it  that  the  contribution  of 
means,  encouragement  and  faith  are 
not to  be  noted  with  favor  by  the  Great 
Judge  of  all?

Dr.  Frank  M.  Mason,  another  Chi­
cago  pastor,  does  not  agree  with  Dr. 
Leach  at  all. 
“ It  may  be,”   he  says, 
“ that  men  do  not attend  church services 
as  regularly  or  as  zealously  as  women, 
but  I  believe  that  in  their own  way they 
are  doing  their  share  to attain salvation. 
Look  at  the  vast  membership  of  the 
Young  Men’s  Christian  Association  in 
America. 
I  do  not know  the  figures  as 
supplied  by  statisticians,  but  I  am  con­
vinced  that the  men  of  this  country  are 
as  eager  for  salvation  and  have  as  good 
a  chance  as  the  women.”

is 

As  to  Prof.  Wetzel,  his  lamentations 
bear  the old,  familiar  brand.  He  is  one 
of  a  class  of  mortals,  peculiar to  no sin­
gle epoch,  whose perpetual  mission  is  to 
discover a  predilection  on  the  part  of 
humanity  to take  to the figurative tobog­
gan  slide  that  leads  to  destruction.  He 
has  mistaken  the  direction  of  the  cur­
rent  of  American  thought.  Loss  of  faith 
in  theological  dogma 
is  to  him  the 
equivalent  of  loss  of  faith  in  God.  To 
quote 
from  the  Chicago  Inter Ocean : 
“ There 
theological 
dogma  than  formerly,  but the  undercur­
rent  of  American  thought  is flowing  to­
ward 
fundamental  principles  of 
Christianity.  The  religious  unrest  of 
to-day,  which  many  preachers  are  prone 
to  regard  as  an  evidence  of  rebellion 
against  the  church,  is  only  symptomatic 
of  the  popular  yearning  for a  larger and 
clearer  knowledge  of  religion  and  a 
simpler  means  of  living  religiously.’ ’

less  faith 

the 

in 

looking  more 

There  is  no  evidence  of  loss  of  faith 
in  God 
in  this.  American  people  are 
simply  looking  for  a  nearer  cut  to  the 
Creator.  They  are 
to 
essence  than  to  form  of  worship,  earn­
estly  seeking  the  way  to  an  ideal  Chris­
tianity  which  shall  know  but one church 
—a  universal  church  based  upon  a  hope 
of  salvation  for all  instead  of  upon  the 
doctrine  of  damnation for those  refusing 
to  accept  any  particular 
interpretation 
of  the  sacred  word.

With  regard  to  the  great  cities,  Prof. 
Wetzel  has  fallen  into an  error  peculiar 
to  superficial  observers  when  he  alleges 
that  they  are  given  over  to  sin  and  cor­
ruption.  Virtue,  unobtrusive,  prevails 
in  them  to  a  much  greater  extent  than 
vice.  The  latter,  rising  to  the  surface 
as  the  scum  on  the  ocean,  is  apt  to hide 
the  clear  depths  below  it  from  the  view 
of  careless  pessimists  who  would  rather 
find  the  bad  than  the  good.  No  great 
city  must  be 
judged  by  its  slums,  for 
there 
in  common  between 
those  who 
inhabit  them  and  the  great 
masses  of  their  population  whose  homes 
are  zealously  protected  from  contamina­
tion  and  who  are  as  law-abiding  and 
God-fearing  as  the  people  of  the  aver­
age  country  community.

is  nothing 

THE  POW ER  BEH IN D   TH E  THRONE.
Although  a  country  without  kings, the 
United  States  is  the  most king-ridden 
land  on  the  footstool.  Yesterda'y  Iron 
was  proclaimed  a  monarch  and  the  loy­
alty  of  the  Republic was conceded.  Cot­
ton  and  Coal  receive  the  plaudits  of  the 
people  and  now  “ Com 
is  K in g !”   is 
the  exultant  cry  as  his  imperial  majesty 
sits  enthroned  in  the  royal  chambers  of 
the  limitless  West. 
“ Corn  is  King !”  
The  golden  grain bends its tasseled head 
in  stately  acknowledgments  and  the 
hungry  world  near  and  afar  rejoices and 
makes  ready  its  bams  and  bins  for  the 
coming  harvest. 
In  spite  of  sun-baked 
soil  and  burning  hot  winds,  blistering 
as they  blow,  and  the  lack  of  rain,  from 
horizon  to  horizon  the  serried  columns 
of  the  corn  fields  stand.  A  few  weeks 
more  and  the  sun  will  have  done 
its 
work  and  then  from  lands  and  to  land's 
end the  yellow  of  corn  will  be  ready  for 
the  power behind  the  throne—the  hired 
man.

between 

Look  at 

relationship 

it  as  we  may,  the  head  that 
wears  the  crown 
is  powerless  without 
the  hand  that  holds  the  hoe;  and  what­
ever there  is  of  American  royalty 
lies 
in  the  fact  that here  is  recognized  the 
close 
them. 
Chance  and  circumstance  decide  who 
shall  wear the  one  and  wield  the  other 
and  here,  as  nowhere  else,  is  it  insisted 
upon  that  wearer and  wielder shall alike 
be kings  and  alike  willing  and  worthy 
for  the  work  that  falls  to them. 
In  the 
United  States  the  position  of  the  hired 
man  has  always  been  supreme.  Never 
a  prince  and  never  a  pauper,  he  has 
“ looked  upon  his  world  but  as 
the 
world’ ’  and  played  the  part  with  credit 
to  himself  and  to  the  satisfaction  of  his 
audience.  Royal  and  proud  of  it,  he  is 
the  father of  a  long  line  of  kings—every 
one  of  them  the  builder  of  his  own 
throne,  the  wearer of  his  own  velvet  and 
the  maker  of  his  own 
scepter  and 
crown.  There 
is  no  realm  where  his 
children  do  not  reign,  so»that  wherever 
be  the  kingdom  he  still  remains  the 
power  behind  the  throne.

it 

That  is  the  condition  of things to-day.j 
Com  is  King.  By  the  square  mile  bis 
domain  is  measured  and  every  foot  of 
it 
is  covered  by  the  ripening  grain. 
The  hungry  world  is  waiting  for it  to be 
harvested,  but 
is  the  man  with  the 
corn  cutter,  not  the  king  on  the  throne, 
whose  word  is  the  law  and whose ‘ ‘ Thou 
shalt’ ’  is  the  dictum  waited  for. 
The 
times  have  changed  since  the  world  first 
knew  the  hired  man.  In  the  early  days, 
when  the  Western  world  was  young,  he 
stood  in  his  manly  strength,  ready  with 
bis  bare  right  arm  on  the  edge  of  the 
com 
field  to  begin  his  day’s  work. 
Dewy  morning  was  in  the  sky  and  the 
sun  was  hardly  above  the  horizon  when 
the  day’s  toil  began.  “ Dewy  eve’ ’  saw 
the  end  of  it,  and  all  through  the  toil­
some  hours  his  back  bent  to  his  work 
with  brief  intervals  for  food.  He  had 
but  one  thought—to  furnish  a  day’s 
work  for  the  man  who  hired  him  and  to 
be  known  as  a  workman  who  gave  full 
measure  for value  received.  The  king 
on  the  thome  owned  the  farm  and  the 
harvest  and  their  relationship  ended 
when  the  job was done.  A single thought 
cheered  him—by  unremitting  industry 
and  persistent  saving  to  earn  a  farm  of 
his  own  and  so  in  time  to  lay  down  the 
implements  of the  hired  man  and,  don­
ning  the  robes  of  royalty  and  the  scep­
ter,  to  take  his  acknowledged  place 
among  the  kings  of  the  earth—by  right 
his very  own.

That  is  not  the  hired  man  of  this  day 
and  feneration.  Com  is  indeed  king,

is 

capital—everything 

but  he 
is  only  a  figurehead.  These 
lands  are  his,  the  crop  is  his.  Machine 
and  motor  belong  to  him,  but  all  else 
save  the  disposal  of  the  corn  is  in  the 
hands  of  the  power  behind  the  throne. 
The  hours  of 
labor,  the  wages  of  the 
workman,  what  he  shall eat and  what  he 
shall  drink  and  whom  he  shall  employ 
are  not  matters  of  kingship  now.  The 
hired  man  takes  care  of  them.  No  team 
is  now  a-field  a  minute 
or  workman 
earlier  than  7  o’clock.  There 
is  an 
hour's  nooning,  no  matter how threaten­
ing  the  clouds  are,  and  at  6  o’clock 
sharp  the  men go to  supper.  There 
is 
no  “ dickering”   about  wages.  Three 
dollars  a  day,  more  or less,  is the  sched­
ule  price  the  “ king”   is  forced  to  pay 
and  that  means  for  every  man—the 
poorest  as  well  as  the  best—with  the un­
derstanding  that  no  man  is  to  be  dis­
charged,  whatever  the  provocation  un­
less  the  hired  man  says  so.  There  is 
no  need  now  of  working  for a  farm  of 
his  own.  -  Here  is  the  farm,  here  is  the 
farmer’s 
the 
hired  man's  and  be  uses  them  for his 
own  profit 
in  his  own  way.  Truly, 
things  have  changed  and  the  world  is 
upside  down  with  the  hired  man on top!
From  the  hired  man's  point  of  view 
it  is  much  to  be  doubted  if  the  modern 
way  is  the best,  even  for the  hired  man. 
It  may  seem  for the  time  a  delightful 
thing  to dictate  to another  what  he shall 
do  with  what  is  strictly  his  own,  but 
it 
is  a  dangerous  thing. 
It  is  an  abuse  of 
power;  and if  history  teaches  one  lesson 
more  strenuously  than  another  it  is,  that 
he  who  so abuses  that  power  is  hoisted 
sooner  or 
later  by  his  own  petard. 
Monarchy  has  tried  it,  time  and  again, 
and  failed  and  the  hired  man  will  find 
no  better  food  for  thought  after his  day 
of  eight  hours’  toil 
is  done  than  the 
Bourbon  kings  whose  abuse  of  power 
prepared  the  way  of  the  French  revolu­
tion ;  and  Robespierre,  the  abuser  of 
that  same  power  which  the  French  mob 
put  into  his  hands,  met  the  same  fate. 
The  hired  man  of  sixty  years  ago  un­
derstood  this. 
It  remains  to  be  seen 
whether  bis  descendants  are  as  wise  as 
he.  Certain 
is  that  the  abuse  must 
come  to an  end  and  just  as  certain  it  is 
that  the  author of  it  will  reap  the  har­
vest  that  he  himself  has  sown  and  culti­
vated.

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A  small  hubbub  has  been  created 

in 
California  on  account  of  the  determina­
tion  of  the  Yosemite  commissioners  to 
establish  an  electric  plant in that famous 
valley.  There  are  people  rushing 
into 
print  and  flourishing  their  hands  as 
they  exercise  their  lungs,  declaring  that 
it  is  a  great  piece  of  vandalism,  a  sin 
and  a  shame.  There  are,  of  course,  ad­
mirable  facilities  -for a  moderate  sized 
electric  plant  in  the  Yosemite,  and  the 
undertaking  does  not smack  of  unseem­
ly  commercialism.  The  principal  pur­
pose  of  the  plant  will  be  to  furnish 
light.  One  critic  especially 
is  very 
much  disturbed  lest  the  commissioners 
shall  turn  an  electric  flashlight  upon  El 
Capitan  or  Yosemite  Falls.  The  ob­
jector  neglects  to  mention  how  moun­
tain  or  water  can  be  injured  thereby.

Some  of  the  Vermont  papers  are  sur­
prised  at  the  apathetic  way  in  which 
many  towns 
in  the  Green  Mountain 
State  have  received  the  suggestion of  an 
in  which  to  welcome 
old  home  week 
back  the  absent  sons. 
It  is  intimated 
that  it  is  due  to  a  lack  of  a  progressive 
spirit  and  a  willingness  that  somebody 
else  shall  do  the  work  needed  to carry 
out  the  project. 

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ft'K,

MICHIGAN  TR AD ESM AN

9

SUN  SPOTS  AND  HEAT.

It 

tradition. 

For  intensity,  extent  and  duration  the 
recent  heated  term  surpasses  any  on 
recprd,by  which  is meant any mentioned 
in  the  official  records  of  the  weather 
bureau.  These  are  the  only  reliable 
weather  records  wc  have  and  whatever 
antedates  them  must  rest  on  the  mem­
ory  of  “ the  oldest  inhabitant’ ’  or  other 
equally  unreliable 
is 
enough  that  there 
is  no  evidence  that 
this  part  of  the  world  has  ever  experi­
enced  a  term  of  equally  intense  heat 
throughout as  wide  an  area  and 
lasting 
as  long  as  the  present  one.  Amid a  va­
riety  of  other comments  it  has  probably 
raised  some  conjecture  as  to what causes 
it.  One  does  not  have  to  be  a  scientist 
to  know  that  the  sun  is  the  source  of 
heat,  but  science  fails  to 
inform  us 
with  any  degree  of  certainty  whether 
solar  heat  is  the  result  of  chemical  com­
bination or  mechanical  force,and why  it 
should  vary  so greatly  at  different  times 
under  seemingly  identical  conditions. 
It 
is  the  opinion  of  some  that  the  sun 
spots  have  much  to  do  with  variations 
of  heat  and  scientists  are  keeping  close 
watch  on  the  changes  connected  with 
them,  with  a  view,  if  possible,  of  dis­
covering  a  series  of  coincidences  and 
perhaps  establishing  a  theory.  About  a 
year ago  the  French  astronomer  Flam- 
marion  stated  that  the  earth  was  about 
to  enter a  period  of  five  years  the  sum­
mers  of  which  would  be  the  hottest  in 
history.  He  based  his  prediction  on 
sun  spots.  But  one  summer  does  not 
prove  a  theory  any  more  than  one  swal­
low  makes  summer.  Most  scientists  re­
gard  Flammarion  as  a  sensationalist. 
Nevertheless  Sir  Norman  Lockyer,  who 
is  not  a  sensationalist,  recently  stated 
that  “ the  seasonal  rainfall  and  great 
beats  in  India  follow  certain  changes  in 
the  sun,  and  that  of  the  famines  so de­
vastating  there  can  be  a  forecast  made 
from  known  solar  changes,  and  that  as 
the  weather of  India  is  interlocked  with 
that  of  Africa,  and  that  again  with  the 
Western  Hemisphere,  the  understanding 
of  the  causes  in  one  place  will  naturally 
give  a  clew  to  those  in  other parts  of 
the  world.  This  suggests  a  connection 
between  sun  spots  and  great  heat,  but 
does  not advance  a  theory. 
It  is  gener­
ally  conceded  by  scientists  that the  sun 
spots  are  controlled  by  periodicity  and 
reach  their  greatest  maximum  about 
every  eleven  years. 
It  is  also  well  es­
tablished  that the  periods  of  maximum 
sun  spots  are  also  periods  of  maximum 
disturbance 
in  the  earth’s  magnetism. 
It  is quite  within  the  limits  of  possibil­
ity  that  science  may  yet  establish  a  re­
lation  between  sun  spots  and  beat  suffi­
cient  to  predict  years  of  excessive  heat 
and  drought  with  as  much  certainty  as 
the  weather 
is  now  predicted  a  day  or 
two  in  advance.

IN   THE  MATTER  OF LEADERS.

It  is  customary  to  find  a  great  deal  of 
fault  with  political  leaders  and  they  are 
referred  to  as  bosses,  that  being 
in­
tended  as  an  opprob/ious  epithet.  -Un­
fortunately.  a  good  deal  that  is  said 
about  the  political  boss 
is  true  and 
much  of ',  the  criticism  richly  deserved. 
The  business  of 
leadership,  however, 
is  by  no  means  confined  to  the  field  of 
politics. 
influence  felt 
everywhere. 
In  all  vocations,  associa­
tions  and  organization's  there  are  those 
who  seem  to  do  the  thinking  and  the 
talking  for the  others,  and  although  it is 
often  said  that  the  tail  can  never  wag 
the  dog,  the  fact  remains  that  in  prac­
tical  operations  the  minority  often  rules 
the  majority.  Those  who  are  active,

It  makes 

its 

it 

aggressive  and  energetic  take  the 
lead 
and  the  others  meekly  follow.  Those 
who  have  the  power are  fond  of  using 
it,  fond  Qf  the  publicity and prominence 
thus  accorded.

A  very  excellent  example  of  that  sort 
of  thing  outside  of  politics  is  furnished 
by  the  labor troubles  which  are just  now 
attracting  so  much  attention.  A  few 
men  by  their  ability  and energy  acquire 
prominence  in  their  local  organizations 
and  climb  from  these 
into  places  of 
power  in  the  larger  aggregations.  When 
they  think 
is  a  favorable  time  to 
strike  it  seems  an  easy  matter  for  these 
im­
leaders  to  influence  the  others  and 
press  them  with  the  same 
idea.  Once 
the  tide  sets  in  that  direction,  the  rank 
and  tile  seem  helpless  and, whether they 
want  to  work  or  not,  are  compelled  to 
quit  and  would  be  ostracized  and  sub­
jected  to  all  sorts  of  indignities  should 
they  venture  to  assert  their  independ­
ence.  Practical  unanimity 
is  secured 
in  the  vote,  because  objection  would  be 
sure  to  bring  down  a  storm  upon  their 
heads. 
It  sometimes  happens  in  this 
way  that  strikes  are  ordered  which 
might  better  have  been  avoided.  An 
example 
is  furnished  in  the  case  of  the 
stationary  firemen,  who  were advised  by 
the  executive  officers  of the United Mine 
Workers  that  their  quitting  work  was 
not  opportune  and  that  they  must  return 
to  their  places.

for 

example,  where 

lead.  Sometimes 

The  same  operation  of  leadership  is 
exhibited  in  a  variety  of ways  in  all  the 
affairs  of.  every  day  life.  Take  the 
churches, 
the 
is,  of  course,  the  authorized 
preacher 
head  of  the  organization. 
In  every 
church  there  are  a  few  men  recognized 
as  its  moving  spirits.  When  they  think 
it 
is  best  to  make  repairs,  the  money 
will  be  raised  and  the  repairs  made. 
When 
it  occurs  to  them  that this,  that 
or  the  other  thing  should  be  done  it  is 
promptly  inaugurated.  When  they  think 
the  minister  better  look  elsewhere  for  a 
field  of  usefulness  the  wise  pastor  will 
go  flock  hunting.  The  rest  of  the church 
members  and  congregation  follow  where 
the  few 
it  happens 
that the  leaders  have a falling out among 
themselves,  set  up  rival  factions  and 
then  there  is  a  church  row. 
In  the  fra­
ternal  organizations  there  is  a  handful 
out  of  every  hundred  ready  and  willing 
to  do  the  thinking  and  the  acting  for 
the  remainder  and  this course  is  usually 
acquiesced  in  without  serious objection. 
So  on  through  all  the  various  relations 
of 
life  there  are  some  who  naturally 
lead  and  others  who  as  naturally  follow. 
Upon  the  character and  the  wisdom  of 
the 
leaders,  therefore,  much  depends. 
They  set  the  pace.  They  are  the  leaven 
which  leavens  the  whole 
lump.  There 
is  a  great  deal  of  talk  about  minority 
representation  and  yet  in  every  organi­
zation  it  is  actually  the  minority  which 
does  the  business,  a fact  due  to  the  will­
ingness  of  the  majority  to  have  it  so.

Mrs.  Hetty  Green  has  been  talking 
about  money.  Being  the  richest  woman 
in  America,  she  may  be  regarded  as  an 
authority. 
“ People  should  have  more 
sense  than  to  listen  to  wild  talk  of  get­
ting  rich  in  a  night,’ ’  says  Hetty,  and 
then  she  goes  on  at  length  to  warn  folks 
against  investing  in  hazardous  schemes 
which  promise  quick  returns.  Hetty 
never  was 
foolish  with  any  of  her 
money.  She  knows  how  to  bang  on  to 
it  about  as  well  as  Russell  Sage.  The 
example  of  Andrew  Carnegie  is  entirely 
lost  on  them.

The  man  who  is  satisfied with himself 

is  very  easily  satisfied.

A  NATION  OF GADDERS.

the 

The  intense  heat  did  not  come  early 
enough  to  prevent  the  perennial  fault­
finder  from  making  his  annual  protest 
against  the  exodus  of 
summer. 
“ Millions  upon  millions  are  spent  in 
gadding  about  by  the  American  people 
who  can’t  afford 
it  and  who  would  be 
far  better  off  at  home.  Our  cities  are 
full  of  large,  cool,  well-appointed houses 
whose  owners,  with  a  mistaken  idea  of 
comioit,  have  deserted  them 
for  the 
summer  and,  for  the  sake  of 
indulging 
a  fad  as  foolish  as  it  is  expensive,  have 
packed  themselves  for  the  summer  in 
the  sweatboxes  of  the  various  resorts  at 
four  dollars  a  day.  The  steamers  are 
packed  with  passengers  for  Europe  and 
that  continent  is carrying on a thrifty in­
dustry  in  its  extortionate  entertainment 
of  Yankee  guys  and  gulls.  By  Septem­
ber  the  tide  of  travelers  will  return, 
with  nothing  to  show  for  their outing 
but  tan  and  depleted  pocketbooks  and, 
more  tired  than  when the vacation came, 
they  will  be  ill  prepared for the exhaust­
ing  work  of the  coming  year;  but  so 
it 
is.  The  American  masses  will  never 
grow  w ise.’ ’  The  old,  well-worn  wail 
has  been  heard  and  answered  time  out 
of  mind,  but  the  gadding  still  goes  on. 
The  city  flits  to  the  country  and  the 
country  flits  anywhere  to  get  away  from 
home.  Maine  takes  a  trip  to  California 
and  the  broad  West  hies  with  her  chil­
dren  to  New  England  and  the  East  to 
visit  once  more  the  old  homestead  and 
press  once  more  the  hands  that  blessed 
her  when  she  struck  out  for  herself. 
New  Orleans  is  no  hotter than  St.  Paul 
and  the  citizens,  for  a  change,  exchange 
residences  for  the  summer.  The  coun­
try  to  a  man  when  summer comes  is  de­
termined  to  go  somewhere,  goes,  comes 
home  all  tired  out  and  goes  cheerfully 
to  work  for  another  ten  months  to  get 
ready  for  another  gadding;  and  so  it 
goes  on  until  the  people  of  the  United 
States  have  come  to  be  looked  upon  as 
the  biggest  gadders  on  the  face  of  the 
earth.
Let 

it  be  granted  without  argument 
look  at  the  other  extreme.  The 
and 
In 
“ masses”   in  Europe  do  not  travel. 
England,  for 
instance,  men  are  born 
and  live  to  a  good  old  age  without  ever 
going  out  of  sight  of  the home chimney. 
They  are  stay-at-homes  and  carefully 
hoard  the  money  their  American cousins 
so  lavishly  spend 
in  travel.  Behind 
their  hedges  and  their  home  walls  they 
shut  themselves,  as  their ancestors  did, 
within  the  feudal  castle,  knowing  noth­
ing  and  caring  nothing  for  the  world 
outside.  Tradition controls  them.  The 
old  has  stood  the  test  of  time  and  is 
good  enough  for  them.  They  are  a  law 
unto  themselves  in  manners  and 
in 
speech  and  the  countryman  from  Lan­
caster,  should  he  wander  into  the  neigh­
boring  country  of  York,  would  be  more 
of  a  stranger to  his  fellow  farmers  there 
than  the  orange  grower of  Florida would 
be  to  the  lumberman  of  Oregon.  There 
distance  and  time  have  ended  in 
isola­
tion;  here  they  have  been  annihilated. 
The  condition  tersely  stated  is,  “ Gad­
ders  versus  stay  at  homes,”   with  the 
advantage  ten  to nothing  in  favor of  the 
gadders.

The  fact  is,  the  national  characteris­
seeing 
tic  of  going  somewhere  and 
somebody 
is  the  fundamental  reason  of 
our  being  ahead  in  matters  national and 
otherwise. 
Extremes  are  constantly 
meeting  and  comparing  ideas.  On  the 
principle-  that  knowledge  is  a  recogni­
tion  of  differences,  this  constant  run­
ning  about  is the  surest  way  of increas­
ing  it.  From  the  Atlantic  to  the  Pa­

cific  the  only  hayseed  found  is  the  man 
who  separates  himself  from  his  kind 
and  tongue,  manner  and  raiment  de­
clare  the  separation.  The  result  is  that 
a  people  numbering  75,000,000  souls 
are  to  all  intents  and  purposes  a  unit, 
while  Lancaster  and  York  that  a  rivulet 
divides  are  remote  and  strangers  to each 
other.

it  takes  out  the  conceit. 

Gadding,  then,  is  a  virtue.  It  is  your 
It  rubs  off  the  corners 
genuine  leveler. 
It  na­
and 
tionalizes  the  masses  and  uplifts  them 
and,  while  the  home-comers  in  Septem­
ber  have  only  empty  pocketbooks,  they 
have  brought  with  them  the  value  of 
what  they  have  spent  more  than  a  hun­
dred  fold.  We  are,  indeed,  a  nation  of 
gadders,  but  we  are,  too,  the 
leader  of 
the  world  and  we  have  won  the  place 
by  that  very  gadding  which  the  fault­
finder so  heartily  condemns.

AN  EVOLUTION  IN  BANKING.

The  announcement  that  a  third  New 
York  bank  will  shortly  increase  its  cap­
ital  stock  to $1,000,000  serves to  call  at­
tention  to  a  very  noteworthy  change 
is  taking  place  in  the  banking 
which 
business  of  the  United  States. 
It  is  not 
long  since  there  were  important 
very 
bank  consolidations 
in  Boston,  with  a 
view  to  securing  larger capital,  and  at 
the  same  time  reducing  the  cost  of 
operating  a  number  of  small  banks  by 
replacing  them  with  a  few  banks  of 
large  capital.  The  increase  in  capital 
by  New  York  banks 
is  not  merely  to 
cheapen  the  cost  of  administration  so 
much  as  to  provide  the 
institutions 
with  the  means  of  meeting the increased 
demands  of  the  country’s  trade.

Not  many  years  ago  there  was  a  tend­
ency  shown  to  diminish  the  share  capi­
tal  of  banks,  owing  to  the  difficulty* of 
so  increasing  the  earnings  as  to  pay 
the  dividends  required  by  shareholders.
As  a  result  of  this  policy  there  are  a 
number  of  banks  with  small  capital 
stock  which  carry  large  surplus  funds. 
The  banks  have  now  discovered  that 
more  capital 
is  needed  to  do  business 
offering,  and  that  small  banks  are 
handicapped  in  competing  with  the  big 
institutions.

Another  reason  for  a  considerable  in­
crease 
in  their  capital  by  some  of  the 
important  banks  of  the  country  is  the 
great  expansion  of  our  foreign  trade.
In  competing  for  foreign  business,  our 
merchants  must  be 
in  a  position  to 
compete  in  all  lines  and in all countries. 
Heretofore  European  business  men have 
had  some  advantage  in  the  better  finan­
cial  arrangements  they  were  able  to 
make.  The  European  banks,  with  their 
enormous  capital,  were  in  a  better  po­
sition  to  discount  long-time  paper and 
finance  the  foreign  trade.  Our business 
men  have  discovered  that  to  compete 
with  Europe 
South 
America  they  will  have  to  furnish  the 
same  financial  facilities  which  are  fur­
nished  by  Europe. 
average 
American  bank,  with  its  comparatively 
small  capital, has  not  been  in  a  position 
to  discount 
long-time  foreign  bills,  or 
to  loan  importers  money  on  long  credit.
It  is  largely  with  a  view  to  remedying 
this  drawback  that  the  capital  of a num­
ber  of  New  York  banks  either  has  al­
ready  been 
increased  or  will  be  in  the 
very  near  future.

in  Central  and 

The 

China 

is  to  pay  $17,000,000  per  year 
1940  lor the  trouble  to which  the 
until 
powers  were  put 
in  suppressing  the 
Boxers.  The  Chinese  must  conclude 
that  at  these  rates  they  can  not again 
afford  to  make  the  “ foreign  devils”  
dance.

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Clothing

Chicago  Credited  W ith  H aving  Corset 

Men.

Chicago  has  the  name,  if  she  hasn’t 
the  game,  of  having  corset  men—that 
is,  the  “ shirtwaist  corset  man.”   Cor­
sets  are  not  uncommon  among  the  army 
officers  in  Europe.  They  are  known  to 
be  worn  by  the  snappily  dressed  officers 
in  England,  France  and  Germany,  and 
it  is  not  an  unusual  thing  to  see  adver­
tisements  for  men’s  corsets in the papers 
and  magazines  of  these  countries.  The 
masculine  corsets  of  Europe  are  very 
different  articles  from  those  which  some 
Chicago  men  are  accused  of  wearing 
and  which  several  leading  haberdashers 
are  said  to  carry.

The  writer,  in  enquiring  into  the  fact 
or  falsity  of  the  allegation,  unearthed 
several 
items  which  are, 
however,  foreign  to the  subject  of  cor­
sets  for  the  shirtwaist  man.

interesting 

The  shirtwaist  man  is  now  so  plenti­
ful  on  the  streets  that  pedestrians  have 
ceased  to  turn  and  look  at  him.  Close 
observation  of  these  men  does  not dis­
cover  any  signs  of  a  taper  waist  and  a 
chesty  upper  effect. 
In  fact,  the  hot 
weather  makes  the  reverse  the  rule. 
Men  are  wilted  and  droop  from  the 
shoulders 
in  a  manner  that  could  not 
possibly  be  done  if  any  of  them  wore  a 
corset.  The  majority  wear  their  belts 
so 
loose  that  they  prove  the  fact  that 
the  trousers  are  being  supported  by 
in­
visible  suspenders.

Next  came  a  visit  to  the  leading  hab­
erdashers.  With  one  exception  none 
could  give  the 
least  information  con­
cerning  them.  They  did  not  carry  them 
and  would  not  know  what  to  order  to 
filF a  masculine  want  of  this  kind.  The 
one  haberdasher  referred  the  writer  to 
a  prominent  corset  manufacturer,  who 
gave  out  some 
interesting  facts  con­
cerning  corsets  for  men,  but  these  were 
not  for  shirtwaists.  The  manager  of 
this 
large  corset  concern  gave  out the 
following  information:
“ Since  the  coming  in  of  the  athletic 
or  military  style  of  coats  for  men  we 
have  had  calls  from  tailors  for  men’s 
corsets  and  made  probably  twenty  last 
fall  and  winter.”

“ No,”   continued  he,  “ we  have  not 
had  a  single  call  for  a  man’s  corset  to 
be  worn  with  a  shirtwaist.  There  is 
really  no  need  of  us  making  them  espe­
cially. 
If  the  man  who  wants  a  corset 
for  this  purpose  is  shrewd  he  can  find 
any  number  of  open-mesh,  very  low, 
women’s  summer corsets  that  will  meet 
his  demands  at  about one-tenth the price 
of  the  same  thing  made  to  a  special  or­
der.  He  could  ostensibly  buy  it  for bis 
wife  and  no  one  would  be  any  the 
wiser. ”

in  answer  to  the  question  as to  what 
kind  of  special  men's  corsets  he  had 
made  he  replied: 
“ The  corset  made  to 
special  order  for  wear  under  the  m ili­
tary  or  athletic  style  of clothing  is short, 
just  enclosing  the  short  ribs  and  resting 
full  on  the  hips,  very  short  and  stubby 
below  the  waist  line.  The  ribs  in  front 
are  soft  and easy 4o  wear,  while  the  stiff 
steels  are  used  at  the  side  and  back. 
When  tightly  drawn  at  the  waist  a  38 
measurement  is  reduced  to  32  and  31 
inches. 
It  is  much  heavier  than  the 
women’s  corsets  and  is  in  consequence, 
a  warm  and  very  uncomfortable  article 
to  wear,  even  in  winter.  Our  price  for 
these  especially  made  corsets 
is  $20 
each.

“ In  the  twenty  corsets  made  for  men 
during  the  fall  and  winter  season  three 
were  ordered  by  Chicago  tailors  and 
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don't  know  whether or  not  those  corsets 
stayed  in  Chicago.  The  bulk  of  orders 
came  from  rather  small  cities,  princi­
pally  south  of Chicago.' ’

is  one  who  will  be 

These  facts  and  conversation  readily 
discourage  the  belief  that  any  man 
wears  a  corset  under a  shirtwaist.  The 
idea  is  exactly  opposed  to  the  province 
of  the  shirtwaist.  The  man  who  affects 
one 
found  to be 
stripped  down  to  the  fewest  possible 
garments,  and  they  of  the  coolest  pos­
sible  nature.—Apparel  Gazette.
L ittle  Change  in  the  Style o f Men’s Belts.
Men's  belts  follow  the  trend  of  their 
in 
other  articles  of  wearing  apparel 
changing  very 
little  from  year to  year, 
unlike  belts  for the  fair  sex,  which show 
a  variety  of  changes  from  year to  year. 
This  year  is  no  exception.  Men's  belts 
show  a  little  more  change  this  summer 
than  is  usually  the  case,but  the  changes 
are  not  very  marked  nor  manifold.  The 
changes  are  chiefly  in  the  width  of  the 
in  the  prevalence  of  certain 
belt,  and 
leathers  over  others. 
It  is  a  little  too 
early  as  yet  to  judge  which  styles  and 
leathers  will  meet  with  the  most  ap­
proval 
in  the  eyes  of  the  better  class  of 
dressers,  but  the  following  are  likely  to 
be  all  the  go,  according  to  a  number  of 
unquestionable  authorities: 
the  best 
dressed  men  will  wear  belts  that  are 
extremely  narrow,  roughly  speaking, 
from  y%  of  an 
inch  to  \%  inches  in 
width.  The  cheaper  grades  are  about 
X  of  an  inch  narrower.  The  principal 
colors  in  the  finer  grades  are  either 
very  light  tan,  cream  or  black.  There 
will  be  fewer  browns,  while  gray  will 
attain  a  fair  degree  of  popularity.  The 
leather  chiefly  used  on  the  fine  belts 
consists  of  grain  leather  in  the 
lighter 
colors,  and  black  seal.  Ooze  or suede 
is  in  fair  demand.  Patent  leather belts 
are  not  worn  by  many  stylish  dressers. 
A  very  great  variety  of  buckles  are  to 
be  noticed.  The  buckles  on  the finer 
belts  are  nearly  all  made  of  brass,  those 
on  the  more 
inferior  belts  of  nickel. 
They  are  of  good  size,  but  it  will  be 
seen  that  those  of  brass  are  somewhat 
more  flat  than  the  nickel  affairs.  Most 
belts  have  a  neat  stitching  along  the 
edges,  which  gives  them  a  very  neat 
appearance.  Both  ring  belts  and  those 
without  rings  are  in  good  taste.  The 
ring  belts  in  the  good  grades  have  a 
distinct  improvement. 
In  fact they  can 
hardly  be  called  ring  belts,  as  the  neat­
est 
in  appearance  have  the  different 
pieces  of  leather  connected  by  two  lit­
tle  brass  affairs  that are  ovular in shape, 
and  that  have  a  brass  bar between them.
I  notice  quite  a  few  braided  belts in  the 
shop  windows.  So  far  they  have  met 
with  a  very  flattering  reception.  The 
line  are  quite  varied. 
styles 
They  are  to  be  seen  in  all  the 
leathers; 
some of  them  are  entirely braided,  while 
others  only  in  parts.  The  finest  belts 
have  the 
is,  the 
leather  is  made  about  twice  the  size  of 
the  belt  width;  the  ends  are  pared  and 
are  turned  to  meet  in  the  inside  of  the 
belt.  On  some  of  the  high-priced  belts 
is  sO  fine  that  it  is 
the  workmanship 
i impossible  to  see  where 
the  pared 
leather meets.  The  leather  fobs  attached 
to  the  belts  are  meeting  with  fair  suc­
cess.  They 
look  very  neat  and  nobby, 
but  are  not  particularly  practical.  A 
fob,  when  worn  detached,  is  used  as  a 
means  of  pulling  out  the  watch  when 
the  owner wants  to  see  the  time,  a  sort 
of  handle,  as  it  were,  while  in  the  at­
tached  fob  this  is manifestly impossible 
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Staple  Cottons—Heavy  brown  sheet­
ings  and  drills  continue  steady,  with  a 
limited  business,  and  the  same  may  be 
lightweight  sheetings.  Ducks 
said  of 
change. 
and 
in  moder­
Bleached  cottons  are  selling 
is 
ate  quantities,  and  the  market 
in 
good  shape.  Wide  sheetings  are 
inac­
tive ;  cotton  flannels  and  blankets  are 
without  feature.  All  stocks  of  coarse 
colored  cottons  are  well  under control, 
and  prices  are  well  maintained  in  spite 
of  quiet  buying.

Prints—There  has  been  a  moderate 
business  under  way  for  printed calicoes, 
but  with  no  new  features  since  our  last 
report.  In  both  staple  lines  and  fancies, 
a moderate  business  only has been  under 
way.  Fine  grades  of  printed  fabrics 
are 
in  steady  request  for  next  season, 
and  a  good  business  has  already  been 
accomplished.

Dress  Goods—In  the  dress  goods 
houses  business 
is  reported  as  very 
light,  with  nothing  doing,  either  in  the 
present  lines  or as  regards  enquiry  con­
cerning  the  spring  season.  There  are 
hopes  of  a  good  business  soon,but  about 
the  only  thing  to  base  these  hopes  on  is 
the  fact  that  as  yet  not  much  has  been 
sold.  The  jobbers  are  prepared  to  at­
tend  to  all  the  business  that  will  come 
their  way,  and  although  the  buyers  with 
large  orders  have  not  as  yet  put  in  their 
appearance  in  any  large  numbers,  it 
is 
felt  that  as  soon  as  the  garment  manu­
facturer finds  out  what  is  wanted  he will 
not  be  slow  in  making  his  presence felt, 
and  aid 
in  starting  the  market  at  a 
good,  stiff  pace.  The  cloths  that  are 
bought  are  the  same  things  that  have 
been  the  only  moving  features  of  the 
market;  that 
is,  the  plain  goods,  al­
though  there  is  a  feeling  in  some  quar­
ters  that a  change  from  these  “ Quaker­
ish”   cloths  would  meet  with  success.

Underwear—The  manufacturers  of 
underwear  have  had  their  samples  be­
fore  the  buyers  long  enough  to  form  a 
pretty  good  idea  of  what  the  wholesale 
end  of  the  business  will  want  for  light 
weights.  One  of  the  chief  features  that 
will 
later  be  presented  to  the  retailers 
will  be  an  enormous  range  of  fancies. 
Especially  is this true of women’s goods, 
and 
in  these  will  be  seen  a  great  va­
riety  of  embroidered  effects  on  the 
vests.  This  has  been  growing  more 
pronounced  for  several  seasons,  and  no 
longer  will  a  simple  crocheted  edge 
suffice.  Some  of  the  latest  creations are 
handsome  enough,  as  one  buyer  re­
marked  (a 
lady,  too),  to  wear  as  an 
evening  waist.  They  are  handsome  and 
no  mistake,  many  of  them,  and  consid­
ering  the 
immense  amount of  work  on 
them,  very  reasonable  in  price. 
If the 
many  lines  of  handsomely  embroidered 
undervests  do  not  have  a  tremendous 
sale  next  spring  and  summer.it  will  not 
be  the  fault  of  the  artistic  goods  or  the 
prices.  Of  course,  the  style  of  the  shirt 
waist  this  season  has  much  to  do  with 
this,  for  it  is  so  delicate  and dainty  that 
whatever 
is  easily  dis­
cerned.  All  the  manufacturers  making 
ladies’  knit  vests  are  striving  to  outdo 
each  other and  the results are marvelous. 
Some  of  the  importers  have  found  lines 
that  go  to  the  limit,  in  fact,  run  over 
limit  and  have  produced  almost 
the 
monstrosities 
in  the  way  of  garish 
effects.

is  underneath 

Hosiery—The  hosiery  market  has 
been  somewhat  quieter  during  the  past 
week,  partially  because  the 
retailers

long,  because  there 

have  been  looking  among  the 
jobbers 
for certain  fancy  patterns  and  have been 
unable  to  find  them.  The  demand  for 
plain  goods  has  decreased  somewhat  of 
late,  but  the  retailers’  fancy  stock  has 
been  lowered  very  materially,  and  they 
have  had  to  replenish.  The  retail  trade 
has  kept  up  to  the  top  notch,  and  the 
wholesale  end  of  it  will  not  be a particle 
behind.  Stocks  of  both  are  quite  low, 
and,  in  fact,  fancies  have  passed  al­
most  directly  from  the  manufacturer  to 
the  retailer  through  the  hands  of  the 
jobbers,  delayed  but  a  very  short  time 
with  the  latter.  Fall  hosiery  is  selling 
in  moderate  quantities,  but  the  demand 
at  the  present  time  is  somewhat  lighter 
than 
is  usual  at  this  time  of  the  year, 
probably  owing  to  the  fact  that  summer 
lines  are  so  very  lively. 
It  is  a  mistake 
for  retailers  to  delay  on  the  fall  goods 
too 
is  no  overpro­
duction,  and  at  the  time  the  goods  are 
wanted 
in  a  hurry,  the  buyer  may  not 
be  able  to  find  them.  Almost every  day 
a  visitor  to  the  market  sees  new  ideas 
brought  out by  enterprising  manufactur­
ers,  both  in  men’s  and  women’s 
lines, 
and  the  array  for  this  fall  is  something 
marvelous.  For  early  fall  there  will  be 
good  sales  of  certain  open  work  lines  in 
all  parts  of  the  country,  but  these  are 
expected  to  be  good  also all  winter  in 
the  Southern  States.  Look  out  for the 
cheap  lines  of  these  goods,  for the  cus­
tomers  after  the  first  washing  will  find 
more  open  work  than  they  bargain  for, 
and  this  will  do  you  no good  whatever. 
Better  urge  them  to  buy  nothing  less 
than  25c  qualities. 
These  are  about as 
low  as  anything  worthy  can  be  retailed.
Carpets—The  situation  in  the  carpet 
trade  continues  to  show  improvement. 
Orders  are  beginning  to  show  more  vol­
ume,  both  in  size  and  numbers,  and  a 
very  good  season  is  looked  for  when  the 
usual 
fall  buying  commences.  Manu­
facturers  are  feeling  more  confident  as 
to  the  near  future.  Taking  everything 
into  consideration,  the  present  market 
conditions  are  such  that they  can  not  he 
complained  of.  While  it  is  true  that  we 
have  from  time  to  time  stated  that 
actual  business  was  not  as  favorable  as 
it  was  made  out to  be,  yet  we  can  con­
servatively  state  that  for this  season  of 
the  year,  general  business  is  as  good  as 
could  be  expected,  if  not  better.  The 
fact  that  the  sales  of  carpet  wools  the 
past  week 
in  the  Philadelphia  market 
have  shown  an  increase  of  from  one  to 
two  hundred  thousand  pounds  over  the 
amount  that  has  been  usually  purchased 
of 
late,  is  evidence  enough  that  the 
manufacturing  end  of  the  business 
is 
beginning  to  show  more  life  and  that 
mill  men 
in  general  are  placing  more 
confidence  in  the  future  of  the  market. 
The  mills  in  the  vicinity  of  Philadel­
phia,  broadly  speaking,  are  fairly  well 
employed.  Those  that  run  on  the  finer 
carpets,  such  as  the  wiltons,  body  Brus­
sels,  and  especially,  the  velvets,  are 
actually  busy,  and  the  same  can  be 
stated  of  those  that  turn  out the  better 
grade  of  tapestries. 
In  fact,  the  bulk 
of  the  present  business  has  been  done in 
the  %  goods.  The  ingrain  mills,  how­
ever,  are  fairly  busy,  but  the  future  de­
mand  does  not  look  as  promising  as  it 
might.  The 
large  New  England  mills 
are  reported  to  be  working  on  good- 
sized  orders  that  will  keep  them  well 
employed  for  some  months.  These  or­
ders  were  mostly 
for  their  standard 
grades,  so  widely  known  to  the  buying 
public.

Smyrna  Rugs—Continue  to  sell  well, 
and  mills  have  been  receiving  orders 
that  will  keep  them  busy 
for  some

months.  The 
large  sized  rugs  are  re­
ceived  with  much  favor  by  the  public, 
and  more  of  these  sizes  are  being turned 
out  by  the  mills.  Prices,  however,  are 
considered  to  be  on  a  low  basis,  and 
the  anticipations are  that  they  will  show 
some  advance  before  long.  Wilton  rugs 
are  in  fairly  good  request.  Prices  are 
very  firm.

Defeats  Its  Object.

It  seems  that  the  shirtwaist  is  bound 
to  he_  ridiculed 
in  some  direction  or 
other  in  a  manner  which  only  fans 
into 
flame  the  dormant  prejudices  that  may 
have  quieted  down  after  last  season’s 
chaffing.
Now 

is  a  ridiculous  girdle  corset 

it 

brought  out  by  a  woman.

This  corset  girdle  is  intended  to give 
a  sufficiently  firm  foundation  to 
insure 
the  snug  fitting  of  the  shirtwaist  and 
maintain  the  waist  connection  without 
wrinkles.  It  is  fashioned  after  feminine 
ideals  and 
is  composed  of  broad  tapes 
which  cross  and  recross.  They  take 
their  stiffness  from  whalebones  and  nat­
urally  are  as  uncomfortable,  warm  and 
distressing  as  the  skeleton  corset  worn 
by  women.

The  patentee  has  wholly  misunder­
stood the  masculine shirtwaist. 
Its  par­
amount  object  is  to  impart  all  possible 
coolness  to  the  wearer.  The  addition 
of  a  corset  or any  contrivancee  under­
neath  adds  warmth  to  the  garment  and 
attains  no  desirable  end.  The  shirt­
waist  or  negligee  shirt  has  a  blouse 
effect  at  the  waist  and  there  is no reason 
or desire  to  rid  this  portion  of wrinkles. 
In  bringing  out  this novelty the cardinal 
virtues  of the  shirtwaist  are  eliminated.

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good  reasons 
why you 
ought  to  look 
over our 
Fall line  of 
Dry  Goods 
and 
Men’s
F urnishings. 
Our  salesmen 
will  tell 
you.

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Shoes  and  Rubbers
Dame  Fashion  Sets th e  Styles  and  Others 

P ervert Them.

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1  have  been  simply  spending  my time 
lately  trying  to  understand  the  problem 
of  the  human  understanding,  and  it  is 
the  most  vexing  thing  that  anyone  ever 
struggled  with. 
If  you  had  ever  given 
the  matter  special  attention  you  would 
have  been  surprised  to  find  out  how 
small  a  proportion  of  your  understand­
ing 
in  you:  head.  Now  I  have  the 
greatest  reverence  for  people  that  make 
shoes—I  do  not  think  there  is  anything 
so  pretty  as  a  pretty  shoe,  nor so  neces­
I  am  not  even  objecting  to  the 
sary. 
shoe  itself. 
I  thought  I  was  quarreling 
with  Dame  Fashion  until  she  convinced 
me  that  1  was  not.  Really  we  had  the 
most  hopeless  falling  out  the  other  day 
that  we  have  ever  had. 
If  it  hadn't 
been  that  she  observes  such  unruffled 
politeness,  and  that  I  never 
lose  my 
temper,  something  dreadful  would  have 
happened.

This 

is  the  way 

it  began:  Dame 
Fashion  was sitting  by a diamond-paned 
window  in  her  boudoir  when I happened 
to  run  in.  At  the  time  I  was  wearing  a 
pair  of  my  prettiest  shoes  and 
limping 
as  gracefully  as  I  knew  how.  She slow­
ly  turned  her  head  from  the  contempla­
tion  of  the  landscape  through  the  win­
dow,  and  said : 
jour,  mademoi­
I  replied  in  the  same  language 
selle.'' 
and 
in  precisely  the  same  words  with 
the  exception  of  the  last  one.

“ Bon 

After  this  slight  formality  she  re­
“ I  see  you  have  a  little  pe­

marked: 
culiarity  in  your gait  this  morning.''

“ Which  gate,  madam?”   I  replied. 
“ I  didn’t  know  you  could  see  our gar­
den  fence  from  your  window.”   Of 
course  1  knew  what  she  was  talki ng 
about,  but  who  likes  to  have his  infirmi­
ties  made  light  of?

“ Oh,  well,”   she  said,  “ if  there 

is 
any  uncertainty  about  it  we  had  better 
drop  the  subject;  1  am sure you will find 
it  more  pleasant under the circumstances 
to  take  a  seat  on  the  divan  and  rest 
your  weary  feet.”

One  can  never  accuse  her of  a  rude 
manner,  but  this  provoked  me  to  a  few 
little  remarks  at  her  expense. 
‘  Well, 
madam,”   I  said,  “ I  thought  you  bad  a 
way  of  setting  the  styles.”

“ No  doubt  of  it,”   she  replied,  “ and 
1  notice  you  have  a  way  of  perverting 
them. ”

“ Oh,  I  suppose  you  are  referring  to 

my  new  shoes?”
“ Precisely. ”
Then  I  began  a  long  monologue. 

“ I 
have  been  squandering  more  cash  on 
shoes  lately  than  it  takes  to keep  most 
girls  in  candy  for  six  months. 
I  have a 
row  of  shoes  standing  against  the  wall 
in  my  closet  more  than  a  yard  long— 
and  they  are  such  pretty  shoes!  The 
fact  is  I  have  been  thinking  of  origin­
ating  some  style  of  dress  decoration  (to 
be  used  after the  manner of the Indians’ 
strings  of  beads,  porcupine  quills,  etc.) 
made  of  strings  of  pretty  shoes  hung  in 
festoons  on  silk  cords. 
I  would  like  to 
do  this  so that  people  might  know  that 
the  reason  I  wear  the  old  ones  most  of 
the  time 
is  not  because  I  do  not own 
any  others.”

With  this  I  relapsed  into  silence  and 
leaned  back  among  the  cushions  to  ob­
serve  the  effect  my  remarks  would  have 
upon  Dame  Fashion.

Presently  she  turned  around  and  did 
last. 
me  the  honor to  look  my  way.  At 
she  said : 
“ Let’s  investigate  the  sub­
ject.  What  is  the  greatest  difficulty  you

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have  been  meeting  lately  in  regard  to 
your  footwear?”

"Pointed  toes.”
“ Well,”   she  said,  “ aren’t  there  any 
but  pointed  toes  to  be  had  in  stylish 
shoes?”
“ Yes, 

shoes  that  weigh  some­
thing  less  than  a  ton.”   Of  course  I ex­
aggerated,  but  1  was  in  an  exaggerating 
mood.

in 

“ Well,”   she  said,  ” for  what  purpose 

do  you  buy  pointed  toe  shoes?"

“ Why,  for  the  purpose  of  making  a 
am 

respectable  appearance  when 
walking,”   1  replied.

“ So  you  believe  in walking in pointed 

1 

shoes?”

“ Oh,  no;  but 

‘ one  may  as  well  be 
out of  the  world  as  out  of  fashion, ’  and 
when  I  am  dressed  for an  evening  and 
have  occasion  to  do  a  little  walking  be­
tween  times  I  am  obliged  to  suffer the 
consequences. ”

Then  she  began  a  monologue  on  her 
side. 
“ Now,”   she  said,  “ we  will  con­
sider  the  subject  of  walking  shoes.  The 
greater  number  are  heavy,  at  least  in 
appearance,  but  the  cork  sole  is  the  re­
deeming  feature  of  the  heavy  shoe,  for 
the  woman  who  does  not  care 
for 
weight.  For  the  one  who  has  developed 
a  great  deal  of  muscle  and  is  a  sort  of 
feminine  Hercules  there 
is  the  heavy 
shoe  cut  exactly  after  the  pattern  of  the 
man's  shoe.  There 
is  also  the  plain 
broad  toe,  band  turned,  that  can  be  se­
cured  at  almost  any  time,  past,  present 
or  future.  You  will  observe  that  the 
great  difficulty 
is  that  you  mortals  do 
not  do  any  close  observing.  Somebody 
wears  something  effectively,  and  imme­
diately  you  all  go  and  do  likewise—and 
then  the  trouble  begins.  We  will  say, 
for  instance,  that  the  heavy  men’s  shoe 
introduced  by  a  woman  who 
has  been 
indulged  in  out-of-door  recreation, 
has 
golf,  tennis,  mountain  climbing, 
for 
many  years  past;  and  whose  training  in 
physical  culture  has  been  thorough 
in 
is  popular,  however, 
every  way.  She 
and  beautiful,  and 
in  this 
heavy  shoe;  and  any  number  of  you 
poor  little  humans  who  have  never  had 
such  advantages  as  these 
immediately 
burden  yourselves  with  men’s  shoes and 
in  abject  prostration  beside 
then  sink 
my 
footstool  and  weep  because  I  lead 
you  such  a  pace.  1  do  lead you,  indeed, 
as  far  as  your  sense  will  allow—beyond 
that  you  lead  yourselves.

looks  well 

“ Now,”   she  continued,  “ we  will  dis­
cuss  the  variety  of  shoes  in  their  differ­
ent  uses.  When  you  are  dancing,  for 
instance,  you  are  standing  very  little  of 
the  time  except  when  engaged  in  the 
dance.  You  naturally  rest  on  your  toes 
anyway  in  taking  the  dance  steps,  and 
the  high  heels  of  your  slippers  are  very 
suitable.  The  pointed  toe  and  high 
heel  should  be  donned  only  when  one 
intends  to spend  the  evening  at home  or 
to take  a  carriage  to the  theater or other 
entertainment;  and  in  purchasing  these 
shoes great  care  should  be  taken  to have 
them  sufficiently  long  so that  the  wid­
est  part  of  the  foot  shall  fall  at exactly 
the  right  place  in  the  widest  part  of  the 
shoe.  The  point  of  the  shoe,  you  see,  is 
then  merely  a  decorative  effect  entirely 
outside  of  the  general  contour  of  the 
foot. 
If  one  has  not  many  cents  in  his 
pockets  he  must  make  up  the  deficiency 
by  having  a  great  deal  of  sense  in  his 
head;  and  if  you  can  not  afford  enough 
shoes  so  that  you  can  change  for the 
different  occasions  the  only 
sensible 
way  to  do  is  to  purchase  about two pairs 
which  are  reasonably  suited  to the needs 
of  the  case,  even  at  the  sacrifice  of  a> 
little  daintiness.”

In  the  Stores!
In  the  Factories!
On  the  Farm s!

In the highways and byways of this part of  our 

country you will  find  that

Progressive  Busy  People

Who are neither  footsore  nor weary  are wear­

ers of the
RINDGE,  KALMBACH,  LOGIE  &  CO.’S

GRAND  RAPIDS flAD E  SHOES

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

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

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Over  Gaiters  and  Lamb’ s  Wool  Soles. 
(Beware  of  the Imitation Waterproof Leg­
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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.

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The  great  fad  for the  coming  season 
will  be  the  half-top  shoe. 
It  presents 
an  effect  that  reminds  one  of  the  foot 
wear of  the  Puritan  maiden.  The  ex 
tremes  in  walking  shoes are,  as  I  have 
imitation  of  the  men’i 
suggested,  an 
footwear,  but  in  somewhat 
lighter  ma 
terials.  Tanned  shoes  have  gone  out 
completely,  dress  shoes are  of  the  usual 
materials—soft  kid,  patent 
leather, 
cloth  tops,  etc.  A  very  pretty  little  tie, 
not  necessarily  an  oxford, 
is  a  low, 
pointed  shoe  laced  with  variegated  rib 
bons. 
How  Are  You  Going  to  Conduct  Your 

Mollie  Morris.

A ugust Sale?

What  arrangements  are  you  making 
in  order to  insure  a  success  of  the  sale 
that  you  are  going  to  carry  on  during 
this  dull  season?  You  know  that  hav 
ing  the  goods  on  the  shelves  is  not  all 
that 
is  necessary  to  make  this  sale  a 
winner;  therefore,  it  would  be  well  to 
look  around  and  figure  the  best  possible 
methods  to  bring  it  to  the  notice  of  the 
buying  public.  Those  who really needed 
shoes  have  bought  them,  and  the  great 
bulk  of  humanity  will  shun  the  shoe 
store  from  now  until  September—unless 
Special 
inducements  draw  them  to  it. 
If  we  would'  shake  off  this  stupor  we 
must  bring  forth  a  circus  or a  bargain 
sale.  As  we  do  not  deal  in  the  former, 
we  must  have  recourse  to  the  latter.

Let  us  do  a  little  circus  advertising ; 
the  people  like  it.  Put  out  posters—say, 
the  summer girl  or the  shirstwaist  man 
upon  them,  examining  a canvas  or a  tan 
shoe—with  the  printed  matter  on  them 
containing  little  more  than  the  date  and 
details  of  the  sale.  Let  the  circulars 
in  advertising  the  sale  be  short, 
used 
snappy  and  convincing 
in  argument. 
Let  them  be  interspersed  with shoe cuts. 
The  summer  girl  and  the  shirtwaist 
man  should  be  in  evidence  in  the  news­
paper  advertisement  space,  along  with 
the  facts  and  figures  of  the  sale.

If  you  are not able  to  reach  your trade 
through  the  medium  of  the daily papers, 
large  cities, 
which  is  often  the  case  in 
it  would  he  well  to  make  a 
local  can­
vass  by  getting  out  a  neat  circular.  By 
this 
is  not  meant  an  ordinary  dodger, 
such  as  you  have  printed  for  $i  per 
thousand,  but  a  circular neatly  printed, 
in  an  envelope  and  addressed 
enclosed 
to  the 
lady  of  the  house  and  delivered 
by  a  boy,  or one  or  two  of  the  clerks  in 
the  store,  if  you  are  not  rushed  prepar­
ing  the  goods  for  the  event,  so  that  the 
sale  may  be  brought  primarily  to the 
notice  of  those  who  are  most  likely  to 
purchase.  Do  not  forget  that  if  you  use 
a  special  style  of  poster,  or a  special 
cut  in  your  window,  to  have  the  same 
displayed  on  the  circular  you  distribute 
from  door to  door.

It  might  also  be  well,  if  there  are 
factories  in  the  locality,  to  have  those 
circulars  distributed  to  the  employes  as 
they 
leave  the  building.  This  means 
of  advertising,  properly  conducted,  is 
productive  of  much  good,  and  it  should 
not  be  forgotten  that this  class  of  trade 
are  not  particular as  to  which  store  they 
patronize  so  long  as  they  secure  a  bar­
gain  when  they  want  shoes.

If  no  electric  fans  hum  their  breezes 
in the  store  let  them  be  added,  and  give 
them,  mention 
in  the  advertisements. 
People  patronize  cool  places  in summer. 
A  free  use  of  the  hose  on  the  paving  in 
front  of  the  store' will  add  to  the  cool 
effect.

As  shoe  stocks  are  greatly  reduced  at 
this  time  they  should  be  lowered  so  that 
all 
shoes  may  be  reached  from  the 
floor.  The  less effort  on  the  part of  the

clerk  the  cooler  he  can  keep,  and  the 
cooler he  is  the  better  he  can  sell.

Let  us  diverge  from  the  beaten  path 
of  precedent  and  eschew  the  jumble  of 
the  bargain  rack  and  table  during  thi 
sale.  Samples  of  the 
lots  to  be  sold 
should  be  put  on  shoe  forms  and  each 
given  a  separate  and  conspicuous  place 
in  the  store.  Shoe  forms  bring  out  the 
lines  of  a  shoe  in  a  manner to  make 
it 
more  salable.

The  windows  should  be  trimmed  in 
light  summer  colors. 
If  means  for  an 
artificial  fountain  are  at  hand  they  may 
be  utilized  with  profit.  The  play  of 
water  in  a  window  is  bound  to attract 
attention.

If  the  sale  that  you  are  going  to  carry 
on  is  of  shoes  all  of  one  price,  it  would 
be  well  to  arrange  one  large  price  card 
in  the  window,  stating  the  price  of  the 
shoes and  the  character  of  the  sale. 
If 
you  intend  running  a  sale  for  women’s,, 
misses’  and  children’s,  or  two  or three 
various  departments,  it  will  be  neces 
sary  to  use  more  price  cards  than  one.
If  you  have  two  windows  do  not  let 
one  window  be  dressed  with  your  regu 
lar  stock  goods  and  the  other window 
with  sale  goods.  Wipe  out  all  appear­
ance  of  your  regular  manner of conduct­
ing  business  and  by  your general  dis­
play  and  outward  appearance  give  your 
customers  to  understand  that  your  store 
has  been  thrown  open  to  this  specia 
sale  which  you  are  now  conducting 
This  will  infuse  prospective  customers 
with  an  amount  of  confidence  which 
they  would  not  have  if  you  went  at  it  in 
a  half-hearted  way.

The  shoes  we  wish  to  sell  at  this  sale 
are,  of  course,  the  odds  and  ends  of  the 
season’s  business—patent  leather  boots 
and  oxfords  and  those  tans  which  have 
been  sticking,  along  with  the  special 
shoes ordered  for  the  sale.  A  few  can­
vas  shoes  may  be  used  as  a  drawing 
card. 
If  not  in  stock  they  may  be  had, 
on  short  notice,  from  the  jobber.  Sam­
ples  of  all  shoes  to  be  sold  must  be  well 
displayed.—Shoe  Retailer.

Black  Shoes  Have  Had  the  Call.

Lynn Correspondence Shoe and Leather Gazette.
One  of  the  fads  that  has  taken  hold  of 
the  feminine  class 
is  the  wearing  of 
colored  laces  in  their  shoes.  Among  the 
strings  noticed  are  blue,  red,  old  gold, 
yellow,  and  the 
is  bottle 
It  is really  amusing  to  note  how 
green. 
a  fad  will  take. 
In  years  past  such  in­
novations  would  not  be  thought  of,  but 
to-day  they  are  looked  upon as common­
place  affairs.

latest  shade 

The  colored  shoe  has  not  bad  much  of 
a  demand  this  season.  One  manufac­
turer  stated  to  the  writer  that  he  had 
prepared 
for  a  good  demand  on  this 
class  of  shoe,  but  finds  that  he  was  mis­
taken,  and  is  anxious  to  get  the  colors 
that  be  has  made  up  off  bis  hands. 
“ I 
have  one  hundred  and  fifty  cases  of  col­
ors  upon  the  floor that  I  am  particularly 
anxious  to  move,  but  I  fail  to  see  the 
demand  that  was  predicted  as  soon  as 
the  hot  weather arrived.

“ If  other  sections  of  the  country  have 
turned  on  colored  shoes, as  has  been  the 
case  here  in  the  East,  the  manufactur­
ers,  as  well  as  dealers  who  stocked  up 
on  colored  shoes,  in  anticipation  of  a 
demand  for  them,  will  be  out  a  good 
many  dollars,  from  not  being  more  cau­
tious  in  the  matter.  Black  shoes  have 
had  the  call  and  they  certainly  will  be 
in  demand during  this fall  and  winter.”

Our

“Black Cat”

Plow  Shoe  will  stand 
all sorts  of  hard  wear.

C.  M.  Henderson  &   Co.

“ Western Shoe Builders ” 

Chicago, 111.

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Wholesale

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It is becoming a  common  saying  that  “Only  one-half  as  much  Mica  is 
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GAINING GROUND.

A nnasi  R eport of Citizens  Telephone  Co. 

of Grand  Rapids.

in 

Your company  has  completed  five  full 
years  of  active  paid  service 
its 
Grand  Rapids  plant,  and  you  are  as­
sembled  to  consider  the  results  of  the 
past  and  take  such  action  as  you  deem 
wise  for  the  future  control  of  your  prop­
erty.  During  the  fiscal  year  iust  ended 
with  June  30th  last,  there  has  been  such 
progress,  your  directors  and  officers 
believe,  as  will  prove  gratifying  to  you 
and  to our patrons.  The report of Mana­
ger Tarte  made  to  the  directors  at  their 
July  meeting  contains,  among  other 
things,  the  Following  statistics:  Your 
system,  exclusive  of  your  interest  in  the 
Muskegon  Exchange,  on  the  1st  day  of 
July  included  6,967  telephones, of  which 
3,588  were 
in  the  Grand  Rapids  city 
plant.  These  were  distributed  as  fol­
lows—the  statistics  of  the  plant  a  year 
ago are  given  in  the  former  figures,  the 
present  condition 
in  the  latter,  in  the 
sub-joined  table:
Grand  R apids..
B aldw in.............
Big  Rapids........
Cannonsburg.... 
Cedar  Springs..
Coral...................
F  remont.............
Hastings.............
H olland.............
Lowell.................
Manton...............
Nashville...........
Portland.............
Traverse  C ity...
Trufant.............
Zeeland...............
Athens.................
Bellevue.............
Caledonia...........
Casnovia............
Copemisb...........
Fellows................
Grattan...............
Hersey.................
Kalamo...............
Lansing..  ___
M iddlevilie........
Newaygo  ...........
Rockford.............
Leelanau  County 
Vermontville  ... 
Toll  Stations___

3.588
6
8
8
79
9
84
325
396
102
37
81
2
459
6
63
21
63
19
12
8
47
2
8
10
971
109
27
122
67
136
88

3.314
6
62
10
67
287
315
54
52

6
40
10
53
12
33

782
68
27
54
90
84

Total___

6,967
It  will  be  seen  that  your  plant  has 
in 
made  a  net gain  of  1,541  telephones 
the  entire  system,  of  which  274  are  in 
Grand  Rapids,  during  the  year. 
In  the 
Grand  Rapids  plant  this  growth  of  274 
phones  was  distributed  as  follows : 
121 
in  the  first  six  months  of  the  fiscal  year 
and  153  in  the  last  half  of  the  year.  Of 
course  you  will  remember that  our  pur­
chase  and  control  of  the  Traverse  City 
system  was  subsequent  to  our meeting  a 
year  ago;  that  part  of  your  plant  has 
been  rebuilt,  very  greatly  enlarged  and 
directly  connected  by  copper  circuits 
with  the  balance  of  your system  since 
that  purchase,  which  was  paid  for  in 
stock  of  your  company.

That  service 
like  so  good  as  metallic. 

Mr.  Tarte’s  report  states  that  you now 
own  1,616  miles  of  toll circuits,  of which 
709  miles  are  copper  metallic,  849  are 
iron  metallic  ana  58  miles  only  are 
“ grounded.”   This  word  “ grounded”  
means  that  the  line  consists  of  but  one 
iron  wire,  not  a  pair of  wires  which 
is 
included  in  the  statement  that  circuits 
are  “ metallic;”   formerly  pretty  much 
lines  were 
all  telegraph  and  telephone 
is 
grounded  circuits. 
nothing 
In 
your system,  as  you  will  notice,  over 96 
per  cent, 
is  full  metallic.  There  have 
been added to our toll  system  during  the 
past  year  by  purchase  or construction, 
chiefly  the  latter,  273  miles  of  copper 
metallic  and  217  miles  of  iron  metallic 
circuit—the  copper circuits  are  far  bet­
ter than  iron,  and  in  new  work  much 
the  iarger  portion  of  that  now  con- 
structea  is  made  of  copper.  During  tb<: 
year there  were  added  to the  toll  system 
194  miles  of  poles;  many  more  mil^s  jf 
poles  were  added  to  the  exchanges,  es-

f>ecially  in  the  construction  of  farmers’ 

ines,  but these  are  not  included  in  the 
toll  circuits.  There  are  now  774  miles 
of  poles  in  use  in  vour toll  line  system,

system 

in­
which  mileage  will  be  considerably 
creased  when  the  work  now  in  progress 
is  completed.

In this  same  connection,  as  one of the 
elements 
in  the  growth  or  progress  of 
your  system  during  the  year,  it  should 
be  stated  that  89  per  cent,  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Exchange 
is  now 
equipped  with  metallic  circuits,  where­
as  but  60  per cent,  of  the  smaller ex­
change  of  a  year  ago  was  then  so 
equipped.  This  means  a  very  consider­
able  betterment  of  service  in all respects 
both 
local  communications  and  toll 
line  connections. 
It  also  means  a  con­
siderable  diminution  of  “ troubles”   in 
the  system,  and  of the  expense  of  car­
ing  for them;  but of  that  phase  of  prog­
ress,  more  later.

in 

Your company  is  now  building  addi­
tions  to  its  system  which  include  small 
exchanges  at  Freeport,  Clarksville,  Alto 
and  Elmdale  and  considerable  enlarge­
ment  of  pretty  much  everyone  of the 
exchanges  in  the  southern  portion  of  its 
territory;  it  is  building  a  new  toll 
line 
from  Hastings  to  Lowell  and  additional 
copper  circuits  from  Grand  Rapids  to 
Lowell,  from  Grand Rapids  to  Newaygo 
and  from  Cedar  Springs  to  Harvard; 
work  on  these  is  well  advanced  and, 
when  completed  and  present  orders  for 
service  are  carried  out,  will  add  over 
300 telephones  to  our system  outside  of 
this  city.  Additional  orders  for  service 
in  all  our exchanges  are  received  con­
stantly.  The  growth  of  the  plant  at  the 
present  time  is  almost  or  quite  as  rapid 
as  during  the  year  just  ended.

In  another direction  the  progress  of 
the  year  is  manifest.  During  the  month 
of  June  15,987  conversations  between 
people  in  Grand  Rapids  and  people  in 
other towns—such  connections  we  call 
switches—passed  over our  toll  system, 
an 
increase  over  June,  1900,  of  1,157 
switches.  During  the  fiscal  year,  there 
were  176,665  Grand  Rapids switches,  an 
increase  of  business  as  against  the  pre­
ceding  year  of  27,454,  or  almost  pre­
cisely 
19  per cent.  The  larger  portion 
of  this  increase  was  during  the  latter 
half  of  the  year and  the  ratio  of  growth 
in  this  department  of  your  business 
is 
greater  this  month  than  was  ever  before 
enjoyed  by  your company.  Previous  to 
this  month, the  largest number of  Grand 
Rapids  switches  ever cared  for  in  any 
one  day  was  753,  and  when  that  figure 
was  reached,  it  was  considered a notable 
advancement  in  the  business  of 
the 
company;  but  on  five  days  of  this 
month,  that  figure  has  been  exceeded 
with  871  on  the  1st,  833  on  the  2d,  900 
on  the  3d,  775  on  the  5th,  and  829 on 
the  8th.  The  largest  week  in  the  history 
of  the  company’s  toll 
line  business 
previous  to  this  month  was  the  last 
week 
in  June,  when  there  were  4,115 
completed  Grand  Rapids  switches.  The 
first  week  of July  raised  this  figure  to 
last  week  reached  the  very 
4,424,  and 
gratifying  total  of  4,340. 
I  do  not  wish 
to  weary  you  with  figures,  but  such 
statements  become  important  for  com­
parison,  and  are  especially  suggestive 
as  indicating  conditions and tendencies. 
When  we 
of  Grand  Rapids 
switches,  the  statistics  given  have  no 
reference  to  the  business  between  any 
other stations  or connecting  lines  of  our 
system  outside  of  Grand  Rapids,  nor 
have  they  any  reference  to  the  toll  line 
messages  passing  through  Grand  Rap­
ids,  as  from  Muskegon  to  Lansing,  or 
from  Holland  to  Lowell. 
In  these  ele­
ments  of your company’s business,  quite 
as  large  and  gratifying  growth  has  been 
enjoyed.

speak 

In  the  financial  statement,  it  is  be­
lieved  that  the  figures  given  will  be 
quite  as  gratifying  as  those  relating  to 
the  growth  of  your  system. 
Including 
the  dividend  declared  at  the  last  meet­
ing  of  the  Board  of  Directors,  on  the 
nth 
inst.,  checks  for  which  will  be 
mailed  on  the  20th  to  each  and  all  of 
vou,  there  has  been  and  will  be  paid 
jut  for  the  year $39,243.12  on  that  ac­
count  alone.  All  the  expenses  of  oper­
ation,  insurance,  taxes,  etc.,  have  been 
met  from  income  and your lines,  switch­
boards  and  instruments  have  been  kept 
in  such  good  condition,  your manager 
says,  in  his  report  to  the  directors,  that 
in  the  unusual  condition  of 
“ we  are 
having  a  plant  that  is appreciating 
in

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in 

repair  material 

value  instead  of  depreciating. ”   This 
is  because  of  the  large  expenditures  for 
reconstruction, 
and 
maintenance;  these  three 
items  alone 
aggregate  almost  $40,000  for  the  year. 
After  paying  all  dividends,  8  per  cent, 
for  the  year,  every  expense  of opera­
tion,  maintenance  as  above  indicated, 
etc.,  there  was  an  undivided  profit  in 
the  year’s  business  of $14,405.99.  Your 
directors  decided  to  carry  $10,000  of 
this  to  your surplus  fund  and  to  charge 
the  balance  to  depreciation.
The  growth  of  the  company’s  busi­
ness  in  revenue  during  the  year  is  also 
indicated  by  the  changes  during  that 
period 
exchange  rentals.  These 
rentals  from  the  different  exchanges  of 
the  system,  Grand  Rapids  and  others, 
were:  For  the  first  quarter,  $25,804.40; 
second  quarter,  $29,031.92;  third  quar­
ter,  $29,816.99;  fourth  quarter,  $31,- 
109.13. 
It  will  be* seen  that  in  the  ex­
change  rentals  alone  the  earnings  of 
the  company  are  at  the  rate of more than 
$20,000  per  year  larger at  the  end  of  the 
fiscal  year than  at  the  beginning  of  the 
year.  The  changes  in  the  toll  line  rev­
enue,  when  analyzed,  are  quite  as  grat­
ifying ;  and  when  the  work  now  in 
progress,  as  heretofore  suggested, 
is 
completed  there  will  result  an  addition 
in  excess  of $4,000 a  year  in  exchange 
rentals,  and  more  than  a  corresponding 
growth  of  toll  line  income.  Could  your 
system  stand  still  in  its  present  condi­
tions,  your  gross  annual  revenue  would 
be  slightly  in  excess  of  $160,000,  a  fig­
ure  which  probably  will  surprise  most 
of  you.  Of  course,  it  is  true  that,  with 
increased  business,  a  larger number of 
phones,  and  greater  mileage  of  toll 
lines,  there 
is  also  an  increase  of  ex­
penses,  but  it  is  certain  that  during  the 
coming  year  at  least,  without  extraor­
dinary  and  very  unusual  conditions,  ex­
penses  will  not  increase  proportionately 
with  income.  On  the  basis  now  reached 
the  net  earnings  for  the  year  we  have 
just  entered  upon  will  be  larger,  after 
paying  dividends,  than  the  year  which 
has  reached  so  fortunate  a  close.

During  the  year,  as  you  know,  you

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June 30.  Time  cards  and  full  information 
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directed  that  the  authorized  capital  of 
your company  be  increased  to  one  mil­
lion  dollars.  Since  that  was  done  your 
directors  have  formally  decided  to  sell 
$100,000  of  new  stock  to take  care  of 
growth  which  has  been  made,  is 
progress,  and  is  expected  and  intended 
to  occur  during  the  next  six  months. 
There has  been  sold  and  issued  $580,380 
of  stock,  as  against  $396,100  issued  a 
year  ago,  so almost  precisely  $70,000  of 
the  stock  recently  authorized  to  be  sold 
In  the  sales 
is  yet  to  be  disposed  of. 
already  accomplished  since  the  increase 
of  capital  stock,  quite  a 
large  number 
of  new  stockholders  have  been  secured, 
and  numbers  of  those  who  have  held 
stock  heretofore  have 
increased  thei 
investments  with  us.  Of course,  as  you 
are  aware,  the  entire  authorized  capital 
is  all  common  stock—every  dollar  in 
the  company’s  investment 
is  precisely 
as  good  as  every  other dollar—and  is 
being  placed 
in  the  pool  as  it  is  sold. 
More  than  $500,000 of the  stock 
issued 
is  included  m  that  agreement.

It  will  gratify  you  in  this  connection 
to  hear that  your neighbors  of the Union 
Co.,  on  the  east  and  north  of  us,  have 
copied  your  pooling  agreement,  and 
that  other telephone  companies,  several 
of  them 
in  this  and  other states,  have 
done  the  same  thing,  or  are  preparing 
to  do  so.  In  a  sense,  your company  has 
set  an  example  in  telephone investment, 
in  this  direction,  which  has  been  gen 
erally  heard  of  among  the 
independent 
companies  and  very  heartily  approved. 
The  wisdom  of  your  action  in providing 
this  agreement  has  been  amply  justified 
by  experience,  and  undoubtedly  is  an 
element  of great  strength  to  your  com 
pany.

independent  telephones  outside 

encouragement  of 

While  our own  immediate  conditions 
inde 
are  pleasing,  the  situation  of the 
the 
pendent  telephone  movement  of 
State 
is  far  more  satisfactory  than  it 
was  a  year  ago.  Very  important  and 
beneficial  changes  have 
taken  place 
during  the  past  twelve  months.  At  the 
time  of  our annual  meeting  in  1900,  we 
were  compelled  to  make  report  to  you 
that  the  Michigan  Telephone  Co.  (Bell) 
but  a  short  time  before  had  bought  in­
dependent  plants,  including  the  Detroit 
exchange,  the  New  State  system  and 
the  Kalamazoo  system.  At  that  time 
there  were  in  the  entire  State  but  about
18,000 
of  the  Detroit  and  Kalamazoo  systems, 
which  were  really  then  Bell  property, 
although  operated 
as 
independent 
in  the  Lower 
plants.  Now  there  are 
Peninsula  of  the  State  somewhat  more 
than  25,000 telephones  in  the  independ­
in  operation,  and  new  in­
ent  systems 
dependent  plants  are  building 
in  De­
troit  and  Jackson.  As  all  of  you  know, 
Mr.  Ware,  who  has  been  identified  with 
this  company  since  its organization,  in 
March  resigned  his  position  of  Secre­
tary  of  your company  to  accept  the  gen­
eral  managership  of  the  Peoples  Tele­
It  was  believed 
phone  Co.  in  Detroit. 
that  enter­
that 
prise  and  assisting  to  make 
it  first 
class  in  all  respects  would  prove  most 
beneficial  to  all  the  independent 
inter­
ests  of the  State, 
including  our  own, 
and  country.  That  corporation,  with an 
authorized  capital  stock  of  two  and  one- 
half  million  dollars,  has  entered  with 
great  energy  upon  the  building  of  a 
plant  intended  to  include  an  ultimate  of 
more  than 
12,000  phones  in  that  city, 
which  is  to  be  one  of  the  finest  systems 
in  the  world,  full  copper  metallic,  with 
all  the  lines  converging  to  one  central 
station  or switchboard.  Mr.  Ware,  who 
is  with  us,  doubtless  will  be  able  to 
give  you  some  idea  of the  progress he  is 
making.  The  same 
interests—70  per 
cent,  of  the  capital  is  provided  by  our 
Ohio  friends  connected  with  the  United 
States  Telephone  Co.  of  that  State—are 
also  building  the  Peoples  Telephone 
Co. 's  plant  in  Jackson  and  now  have 
more  than  900  contracts  for  service  in 
that city,  and  a  large  force  of  men  put­
ting 
in  conduits  and  raising  poles. 
These  interests  propose  building  with­
out  delay  a  connection  from  Detroit 
with  the  U.  S.  Co.  toll  lines  which  now 
reach  Jackson  and  Owosso,  and  will 
cause  the  erection  of  first-class  inde­
pendent  exchanges 
in  all  towns  large 
in  Southeastern  Michigan.
and  small 

Within  the  past  forty  days,  quite  a num 
ber  of  franchises  have  been  granted  for 
exchanges,  at  Romeo,  at  Mt.  Clemens, 
at  Monroe  and  other  points,  and  appli­
cations for  franchises  are  pending 
in 
Ann  Arbor,  Ypsilanti  and  other  towns. 
A  franchise  was  granted  in  Toledo  on 
the  I2tb.  A  year  ago,  the  Bell  Co. 
seemed  to  have  the  impression  that  it 
had  effectually  squelched  the  independ­
ent  movement  in  Southeastern  Michi­
gan  and  very  seriously  damaged  it  in 
Southern  Michigan;  but  to-day  the 
in­
dependents  in  Michigan  have  brighter 
prospects  and  more 
encouragement 
than  before  the  Detroit,  the  New  State 
and  the  Kalamazoo  plants  were  sold. 
It 
will  be  apparent  to  all  of  you  that  the 
building  of  such  plants,  the  re-occupy­
ing  of  the  territory  indicated,  will  very 
greatly  increase  the  toll  line  business  of 
your  system  and  your  net  income,  and 
will  greatly  strengthen  your  system ; 
fewer  of  your  patrons  will  feel  com­
pelled  to  use  Bell  telephones  to  reach 
their  business  connections  in  other  por­
tions of  the  State,  and  at  the  same  time, 
while  your  competitor  is  busy  meeting 
this  new  competition,  your system  will 
not  be  subject  to  such  serious  on­
slaught,  such  strenuous  efforts  to  share 
patronage  with  you  or  to  divert  busi­
ness  from  you.

Junction, 

You  were  informed  at  your  last  meet­
ing  that  contracts  had  recently  been 
made  with  the  U.  S.  Telephone  Co.,  of 
Ohio,  and  with  other  telephone  com­
panies  of  this  State,  running  twenty-five 
years,  for a  considerable  increase  of toll 
line  facilities  and  for an  interchange  of 
business. _  Since  then  the  U.  S.  Co.  has 
built  a  first-class  copper  metallic  toll 
line  from  Saginaw  through  St.  Charles, 
Chesaning,  Oakley,  Henderson,  Owosso, 
Bennington  and  Laingsburg  to  a  con­
nection  with  your  exchange  at  Lansing, 
where  your toll  line  system 
is  reached ; 
thence  through  Mason,  Eden,  Leslie, 
Rives 
Jackson,  Napoleon, 
Norvell, Manchester, Clinton and Tecum- 
seh  to  a  connection  with  the  Adrian  ex­
change,  which  was  reached 
last  week. 
This  line  will  be  finished  within  a  very 
few  days  to  Toledo  and  to  connections 
there  with  the  great  Ohio  and  Indiana 
systems. 
In  Ohio  there  are  now  70,000 
independent  telephones,  a  number  con­
siderably 
larger  than  the  Bell  Co. ’s 
licensees  have  in  the  Buckeye  State. 
This  connection  at  Toledo  means  also  a 
connection  through  to  Pittsburg,  Pa., 
over  lines  now completed,  and  includes, 
in  a  comparatively  short  time,  toll 
line 
facilities  to  reach  the  Atlantic  coast  at 
Philadelphia,  Baltimore  and  other  im­
portant  points. 
It  goes  without  saying 
that,  with 
increased  opportunities  for 
service  to  many  thousands  of téléphonés 
at  hundreds  of  points  not  now  access­
ible,  the  toll  line*business  of  your  own 
system  will  be  very  largely  increased.

The 

than 

independents 

While  mentioning  the  fact that,  in  the 
very near  future,  through  the  completion 
of  the  United  States  Co.  system,  you 
will  be  able  to  reach  the Atlantic  coast, 
it  should  further  be  mentioned  that  the 
ndependent  movement  has  begun  to 
develop  in  the  Middle  and  New  Eng­
land  States  in  the  past  few  months  with 
a  vigor  and  enthusiasm  that  promise 
much. 
in  Balti­
they  already  have 
more  report  that 
more  phones 
in 
service 
the 
Bell  Co.  has  had 
in  fbe  entire  State 
of  Maryland  heretofore,  and  their  plant 
there  is  growing  fast.  The Keystone Co. 
expects  to  begin  to  give  service in Phil­
adelphia  by  the  1st  of  October.  Bank­
ers  and  capitalists  in  that  city  are  pro­
viding  millions  of  dollars  for  a  larger 
and  finer  plant  than  the  Bell  now  has 
there. 
Judge  Thomas,  President  of  the 
National  Independent  Telephone  Asso­
ciation  for  the  past  five  years,  recently 
General  Manager  of  the  U.  S.  Co. ’s 
lines  in  Ohio,  has  accepted  the  Presi­
dency  of  the  Telephone,  Telegraph  & 
Cable  Co.  of  America,  and  has  entered 
upon  his  duties  in  New  York  City.  He 
is  one  of  the  most  able,  aggressive  and 
earnest  independent  telephone  men 
in 
America.  When  invited  to  the  Presi­
dency  of  this  great  corporation,  which 
had  begun  building  Greater  New  York 
and  Greater  Boston,  and  toll 
lines  to 
connect  those  great  cities,  he  consented 
upon  these  conditions ;  That  ample

means  shall  be  provided  for  building 
first-class  plants;  that  the  stock  shall  be 
pooled  so  that  adverse 
interests  cannot 
buy it  and  thus  secure a control,  and that 
first-class  plants  shall  be  built  and oper­
ated  upon  an  absolutely 
independent 
basis,  with  perfect  good  faith  as  toward 
patrons  and  other  independent interests. 
That  he  has  entered  upon  his  duties  is 
proof  conclusive  to  all  who  know  him 
intimately  (of  whom  your Secretary  is 
one)  that  these  conditions  have  been 
conceded,  and that,  as fast as money and 
men  can  provide  them,  New  York  and 
Boston  are  to  have  genuine independent 
telephone  systems. 
It  means  much  to
the  independent interests throughout  the 
country,  and  not  a  little  to  ourselves.
When  your  company  was  first  organ­
ized  many  of  you  were  more  or  less 
in 
doubt  about  the  patent  situation.  The 
Bell  Co.  claimed  to  own  pretty much all 
'of  the  important  patents  upon  the  art  of 
telephony,  and  its  representatives  fre­
quently  announced  that,  because of such 
control  of  patents, 
independent  com­
panies  could  not  possibly  give  satisfac­
tory  service;  indeed,  coula  not  continue 
in  service  because  their  plants  could  be 
closed  for  infringement.  As  you  have 
known,  heretofore, this company has had 
ample  experience  in  that  direction,  in­
variably  successful  and  without  expense 
to  its  treasury.  You  have  been  informed 
from  time  to  time  by  your  officers  that 
it  did  not  seem  probable  that  any  real 
hindrance  to  your business  would  arise 
from  patent  litigation  or decisions.  The 
most  important  patent  of  all  undoubt­
edly,  in  the  opinion  of  the  Bell  Co., 
was  that  which  has  been  so  noted,  the 
Berliner  patent.  The  Bell  Co.  claimed 
that  under  this  patent  no  practicable 
telephone  could  be  operated  except  by 
itself  or  its  licensees ; that  all independ­
ent  telephones  using  carbon  transmit­
ters  with  batteries  were 
infringements. 
In  February 
last  Judge  Brown,  of  the 
United  States  Court  in  Boston,  handed 
down  a  decision  which  declared  that 
the  Berliner  patent  was  invalid  upon 
important  grounds,  one  of  which 
four 
was  that  Berliner  did  not  make  the 
in­

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vention  claimed  in  his  patent.  No  one 
conversant  with  the  facts  has  any 
idea 
that,  in case of an appeal,  Judge Brown’s 
decision  will  be  reversed  or  radically 
changed.  This  decision  has  had  a  pro­
found 
influence  for  good  upon  the  in­
dependent  telephone  situation.

E.  B.  Fisher,  Sec’y.

Prom ised  Not  to  m ention  It.

A well-known  clergyman  tells  of  driv­
ing  along  a  country  road  one  winter’s 
just  ahead  of  him  he  no­
night,  when 
ticed  a  woman  walking.
Drawing  up  his  horse,  he  asked  the 
woman  if  he  could  give  her a  lift.  The 
woman  got  in  an  they  drove  along  for 
some  distance.

When  he  had  set  her  down  at  her  own 
gate  she  thanked  him,  and  he  politely 
answered: 

“ Don’t  mention  it.

“ No,  I  won’t,’ ’ said  the  matter of- 

fact  woman  in  an  obliging  tone.

It’s  a  wise  father  that  knows  as  much 

as  his  own  son.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance  Co.

Organized  1881.

Detroit, Michigan.

Cash  Capital,  $400,000. 

Net Surplus,  $200,000.

Caeh  Assets,  $ 800,000.

D.  W h i t n e y , J r., Pres.

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

F . H.  W h i t n e y , Secretary.
M. W . O 'B r ien , Treas.

E. 

J .  B o o t h , A sst  Sec'y. 

D i r e c t o r s .

D. Whitney, Jr., D.  M. Ferry, F .J . Hecker, 
M. W . O'Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Murphy,  Wm.  L . 
Smith, A .  H. Wilkinson, James  Edgar«  H. 
Kirke  White,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F .  A .  Schulte,  Wm.  V .  Brace, 
2   James  McMillan,  F .  E .  Driggs,  Henry 
^   Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palms, Wm. C.  Yawkey,  David  C.  Whit­
ney, Dr. J . B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F. 

"Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

New  Coffee  Roasting  Plant

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It puts them  before  the  public  in  a 
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It  warms  only  such  quantity 
well  finished  glass  case. 
as  you  wish; 
100 
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It costs  1  cent per  day  to  run  it  and 
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it is perfectly safe. 
It is warranted not to smell or smoke. 
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Hardware

Steps  Necessary  To  Achieve  Success  in 

H ardw are Trade.

Keep  your own  counsel. 

I  think  that 
is  one  of  the  first  things  a  successful 
man  learns.  Don’t  relate  your  ups  and 
downs  to  your  neighbor.  The  world 
is 
apt  to  magnify  and  give  you  credit  for 
more  success  than  you  are entitled to.  If 
you  make  known  your  failures  they  are 
likely  to  make  it  worse  than it  really  is.
Be  pleasant  and  courteous to travelers, 
and  when  they  call  make  them  feel  that 
they  are  welcome  visitors.  Don’t  give 
them  what 
is  termed  the  “ marble 
heart.’ ’  A  merchant  makes  a  mistake 
by  mistreating  the  traveling  man.  They 
are  among  our  best  friends.  Try  and 
find  time  to  see  and  hear  what they have 
to  offer.  Draw  them  out  on  their differ­
ent 
lines,  and  they  will  tell  you  some 
things  you  do  not  know.

We  are  apt  to  make  a  mistake  by pat­
If  you  see  a  good 
terning  after others. 
thing,  look 
into  it  carefully  to  see  if  it 
will  be  any  addition  to  your  business 
before  adopting  it. 
I  have  seen  meth­
ods  used  successfully  by  their orginator, 
and  yet  these  same  methods  seem  to  be 
failures  in  the  hands  of  others;  or  suc­
cessful  methods  in  one  town  may  fail  in 
another. 
If  we  all  think  and  work  out 
our  own  methods  of  conducting  our 
business  by  adding  this  or that  man’s 
ideas  that  seem  adapted  to  our trade 
and  condition,  after  examining 
into 
them  closely,  the  effort  it  requires  to  do 
this  makes  us  stropg  in  executing  our 
plans.  We  should  study  closely  and  try 
to  understand  what  is  necessary  to reach 
our own  trade.

Again,  I  think 

it  bad  policy  to  have 
an  iron-dad  price.  Require  your  clerks 
to  maintain  as  nearly  as  possible  a  uni­
form  price.  But  certain  customers  and 
conditions  require  a  different  price from 
others;  and  the  argument  commonly 
in  favor  of  one  price,  “ Every 
used 
man’s  money 
is  the  same,’ ’  does  not 
cover  the  case.

Allow  clerks  as  much  latitude  in mak­
ing  sales  and  arranging  stock  as  you 
find  their  judgment  is entitled to.  Every 
man  has  some  originality.  Make  them 
suggestions,  but  force  them  to  use  their 
own  heads;  and  they  are  likely  to  make 
sales  that  you  would  have  lost,  or  make 
some  nice  displays  that  you  would  not 
have  thought  of.  And  when  they  have 
made  nice  sales,  or  arranged  certain 
displays,  speak  nicely  of 
it.  Don’t 
wait  until  they  have  made  a  mistake 
and  then  “ Jack  them  up.’ ’  There  is 
more 
impression  made  on  your 
customer's  mind  by  having  your stock 
properly  kept  and  displayed,  followed 
up  by  the  efforts  and  brands  of  goods 
you  carry.

in  the 

long 

introduce  more  system 

I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  as  be­
ing  greatly  opposed  to  system.  On  the 
contrary,  the  more  system,  the  more 
success.  But  a 
list  of  iron-clad 
rules  and 
lots  of  red  tape  are  by  no 
means  system.  System makes  rules  and 
red  tape,  but  they  do  not  always  make 
It 
system.  Get  a  good  cash  register. 
will 
into  your 
business  to  the  square  inch  than  any­
thing  I  know  of. 
It  tells  when  your 
in  the  morning;  it  shows 
store  opened 
your  daily,  monthly  and  yearly  sales; 
how  many  customers  you  had  and  how 
much  each  bought  and  how  much  each 
clerk  sold,  and  many  other  things  of 
interest  and  value.  Your clerks  have  to 
be  careful  with 
it,  which  makes  them 
more  careful  and  accurate 
in  other 
things.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

I  am  friendly  to  special  brands  that 
contain  merit,  when  they  can  be  con­
trolled  by  the  retailer  in  his  town;  but 
not  those  that you  only  speak  of as being 
as  good  as  some  factory  brand  alteady 
introduced. 
I  think,  although  handling 
a  special  brand  that  has  merit,and  talk­
ing  points  over  the  factory  brand,  that 
it  is  best  to  have  a  factory  brand,  too. 
Not  to have  it  often  creates the  impres­
sion  on  your customer’s  mind  that  you 
urge  the  special  brand  because  you 
haven’t  the  other,  and  that  you  buy  it 
because 
is  cheaper  than  the  factory 
brand.  Show the  brand  you  control  and 
talk  up 
If  your customer 
urges  the  factory  brand  on  you,  get  it 
out  and  make  a  comparison.  The  mo­
ment  you  convince  him  that  the  reason 
you  push  it  is  because 
it  has  advan­
tages  over the  factory  brand,  your  sale 
is  made,  ten  to  one.

its  merits. 

it 

Establish  a reputation  of  handling  the 
best  goods  and  you  will get  the  best line 
of customers.  When  you  have  a  call  for 
an  article  do  not  show  the  cheapest 
thing,  but  something  good,  and  name 
the  price  in  a  manner that gives the cus­
tomer to  understand  you  think  it  cheap 
for the  article  you  are  showing  him. 
If 
he  objects  to  the  price  or speaks  of hav­
ing  been  offered  something  cheaper, 
etc.,  then  if is  time  enough  to  get  out 
the  cheaper article.  When  he  sees  the 
two together  and  you  show  him  the  ad­
vantages  of  the  good  article,  and  the 
disadvantages  of  the  cheaper article,  he 
is  apt  to  take  the  better,  which  is  better 
for  the  merchant,  even  at  the  same 
profit;  for the  customer  is  likely  to  for­
get  the  price  he  paid.  But  if  the  article 
he  buys  is  worthless  he  never  forgets  it, 
although  you  may  have  sold  it  for 
less 
than  cost.

While  I  do  not  think  it  wise  to  drop 
something  you  have  a  good  trade  on 
simply  to  take  up  a  new  article  in  its 
stead,  yet  we  should  keep  our  eyes  open 
and  when  new  and  attractive  articles 
are  offered  take  them  and  run  them 
while  they  are  new.  Aside  from  the 
profit  you make, it  shows  your customers 
you  are  in  the  lead  and  not  following; 
that  they  do  not  have  to  send  off  for the 
latest  and  best  things;  that  they  can  al­
ways  see  something new  at  your store.

Catalogue  houses  are  one  of  the  grow­
ing  evils  that  we have  to  meet;  and just 
how  to  meet  them  is  a  great  question. 
I  believe  the  best  policy  is  to  say  as 
little  about  them  to  our customers  as 
possible. 
I  think  I  should  examine 
closely  the  latest  and  largest  catalogues 
of  those  operating 
territory, 
studying  their  plan  of  doing  business 
and 
The 
dealer  himself  should  not  patronize 
them  as  that  is  an  acknowledgment  he 
can  not afford  to  make.

locate  their  weak  points. 

in  my 

Success  or  failure  depends  upon  self. 
I  read  some  remarks  from  E .  C.  Sim ­
mons,  one  of the  greatest  hardwaremen 
in  the  world,  that  struck  me  very  forc­
ibly.  The  language  I  do  not  remember, 
idea  was  this,  as  I  remember 
but  the 
i t : 
“ If  your  business  is  not  moving  as 
you  thought  it  should, examine  yourself, 
see  if  you  are  doing  everything  in  your 
own  power  to  make  it  a  success;  and  if 
you  should  find  at  any  time  it  is  neces­
sary  to  cut  expenses  by  reducing  sal­
aries  begin  with  your own. 
I  have  yet 
to  see  the  first  man  who  failed  in  busi­
ness  to  acknowledge  that  he  was  wholly 
to  blame.  He  may  have  been  drunk 
three-fourths  of  his  time,  played  poker 
seven  nights  in  the  week,  spent half  bis 
time  around  a  bucket  shop,  played  the 
races,  slot  machines  or any  old  thing, 
yet  when  he  goes  to  tell  you  why  he

failed  in  business,he  Seems to  have  for­
gotten  all  these  things,  and  will  tell 
you  of  things  that  went  wrong  over 
which  he  had  no  control.  However,  we 
think  if  there  is  any  drinking  or  gamb­
ling  to  be  done,  the  head  of  the  bouse 
should  do  it  all  and  then  get  out of 
business as quickly  as  he  can  after these 
conditions  arise,  because  drinking  or 
gambling  will  wreck 
business 
whether  done  by  boss  or boys. ’ ’

any 

E.  E .  Mitchell.

Consequences.

A  woman  threw  a  paper out  on  the 
roadside,  and  the  consequences  were  a 
buggy  ruined,  a  young  horse  spoiled,  a 
child  crippled  for  life.

A man  lighted  a  match  in  a  barn,  and 
the  consequences  were  the  barn  was 
burned,  the  stock  roasted,  the  grain  a 
total  loss.

A  boy  drank  a  glass  of  whisky,  and 
the  consequences  were  a  spoiled  career, 
a  depraved  character  and  a  ruined  life 
forever.

A  girl  said  “ Yes’ ’  to  a  fast  young 
man,  and  the  consequences  were  a  pov­
erty-stricken  home, 
ignorant,  vicsous 
children  and  a  broken  heart.

All  barriers  fall  before  work. 

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be  possessed  by  a  passion  for  work, 
and  circumstances  will 
inevitably  be 
too  weak  to  keep  him  down.  Nothing 
is  denied  to  industry.

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“®1r*  Best Laid  Plans  of Mice  and” Sm art 

Alecks.
Written for  the Tradesman.

When  Uncle  Josiah  Martin  over  in 
letter  from 
North  Bellingham  read  the 
his  brother  asking 
if  Rodney  could 
come  over  and  work  a  little  on  the  farm 
.  during  the  summer  vacation,  there  were 

two  in  the  family  who  thought  ‘ ‘ yes 
with  all  their  might—the  reader  of the 
letter  and  that  oldest  boy  of  his—John 
Thomas.  The  reason  given  for  making 
the  request  was  that  the  boy  had  “ been 
overdoing  and  while  there  was  nothing 
the  matter  with  him,  he  looked  so  sort 
o’  peaked  and  done  up  that  his  mother 
wanted  to 
see  what  the  Bellingham 
meadows  would  do  to  tan  the  boy  up 
good  and  brown  and  blister  his  hands 
and  set  his. back  to aching  as  yours  and 
mine  use  to  ache,  Josiah,  away  back 
there  in  the  fifties.  Don’t  expect  much 
work  out of  him  anyway.  Let  him  put 
ter around  all  he  wants  to.  Take  him 
over to that  trout  stream  that  you and 
have  whipped  time  and  again.  Send 
him  back  tough  and  stout  in  Septembe 
and  I ’ll  make 
it  all  right  with  you 
He’ ll  be  poking  along  about  the  end  of 
the  week. ”

“ I ’m  glad  he’s  coming, 

“ I ’m  mighty  glad  he’s coming, ”  sail 
Uncle  Josiah,  looking  over  his  steel 
bowed  spectacles  at  the  big  hulking 
young  man  of  twenty-three  whose  size 
and  build  indicated  an  accumulation  of 
strength  which  the  owner did  not  pos 
sess. 
John 
Thomas.  1  want  you  to  see  what  a 
young  man  can  do  for  himself  when  he 
sets  about  it  in  good  earnest.  Rodney 
hasn’t  a  bit  brighter  brain  than  you 
have  but  he’s  all  push  and  energy  and 
they  tell  me  he’s  leading  his  class.  I ’m 
glad  he’s  coming  and  I  hope  his  being 
right  here 
in  the  house  with  you  will 
stir  you  up  and  make  you  want  to  be 
something. ’ ’

laughed. 

John  Thomas 

From  his 
childhood  up  this  Rod  Higley  had  been 
forced  down  his  throat  three  times a day 
as  a  reminder of  what  he  might  be  and 
he  was  glad  to  put  eyes  on  the  paragon 
at  last.  How  he  would  take  the  starch 
out  of  the  conceited  simpleton.  He 
knew  books,  no  doubt  about  that,  but 
when  you  come  down  to  men's  work 
in 
the  hay  field  or on  the  farm  anywhere— 
shucks!  he’d  show  him!  He  bad  al­
ways  had  his  opinion  of  these  college 
fellows,  half  dude  and  the  other  half 
impudence;  and  once  this  one  got there 
he’d  show  him,  the 
little  spindling, 
lily-livered,  hollow-chested  what  you- 
may-call  him.  Him  for  a  model!  He’d 
show  him  which  the  model  was,  and  so 
stop  this  endless  nagging  to  “ be  some­
body.”   One  thing  he’d  get  shut  up  on 
—books.  Let  him  undertake  to  play 
professor  if  be  wanted  to  and  he’d  see!
letter  came  Monday  and  as  he 
would  “ be  poking  along  at  the  end  of 
the  week”   so nobody  expected  on  Tues­
day  morning  that the  young  fellow com­
ing  to  the  hay  field  a  little  after  ten 
could  be  the  much  wanted 
cousin. 
John  Thomas  woudln’t  be  expected  to 
recognize  him  anyway  and  the  appear­
ance  of  the  stranger  did  not  tally  at  all 
with  the  idea  be  had  been  entertaining. 
The  Higleys  are  all  big  fellows  and 
Rodney  had  the  family  characteristic.
If  there  was  any  advantage  he  had  it  in 
comparison  with  John  Thomas  and  the 
“ peaked”  
the  anxious 
mother  looked  upon  as  incipient disease 
was  simply  the  desirable  result  follow­
ing  a  vigorous  course  of training  at  the 
college  gymnasium. 
In  other  respects 
he  was  a  fair representative  of the  up 
to  date,  all 
’round,  first  class  college

look  which 

The 

boy  ready  to  meet  men  and  matters  as 
he  found  them  without  any  doubt  of 
holding  his  own  and  getting  along  fai 
ly  well.

If  John  Thomas  hadn't  been  pre 
judiced  he  would  have  taken  to  bis 
cousin  on  the  spot.  He  had  the  Higley 
way  of  holding  up  his  bead  and  looking 
in  the  eye.  The  white 
you  squarely 
straw  hat  with 
its  broad  black  band 
looked  well  on  the  head  of that  well 
proportioned  and  well-developed  si 
footer and  while  the  blue  serge  coat  and 
the  negligee  shirt  with  the  carelessly 
knotted  tie  at  the  throat and  the  white 
duck  trousers  and  the  well-fitting  tan 
shoeg  were  “ natty”  
they  were  very 
handsome  and  made  John  Thomas  de 
cide  to  have  some  like  them  before  the 
week  was  out.

’em  and 

When  he  had  got  through  shaking 
hands  with  Uncle  Josiah  and his cousins 
that  ought  to  be  enough,  but  it  wasn’t 
introduce  me  to  the  rest  of  the 
“ Just 
men,  Uncle  Josh. 
I ’m  going  to  be  out 
here  with 
I  want  to  know 
them,”  and he  took  each  by  the  hand  as 
if  he  meant  what  he  said.  Then he went 
back  to  the  house  and  hauled  off hi 
‘ toggery”   so  that  when  they  came  to 
like  the  same 
dinner  he  didn’t 
man.  Hat  and 
jeans  and  shirt  and 
shoes  all  made  for  service,  was  his 
make-up  and  after  a  hearty  dinner  with 
the  rest  of  them  he  put  on  bis  hat  and 
started  for  the  hay  field  with  the  rest.

look 

“ Where  you  going  to  put  me  Uncle 
I’m  not an  orphan  and  my  mother  isn’ . 
a  widow  so  you  can  give  me  the  hot end 
of  the  poker at  the  word  go.”

“ Let  him  take  a  rake  and  start  in 
ahead  o’  me,’ ’ .said  John Thomas.  “ I ’ll 
make  his  heels  jin gle!”

He  didn’t  though.  All  through  that 
hot  July  day  the  “ spindling,  hollow­
chested”   student  raked  as  wide  a  swath 
as  the  rest  and  without  a  sign  of  weari 
ness  he  kept  out of  the  way  of  his  cous 
n’s   aggressive  rake.  Sunset  saw  no 
blisters  on  his  hands  and  he  declined  a 
ride  home  on  the 
load  because  “ the 
walk  would  do him  good!’ ’  He  met  the 
test  of  companionship  between  supper 
and bedtim.e  by  being  just  a  young  man 
with  the  rest  only  he  did  everything  as 
f  he  had  done  it  at  least  a  thousand 
mes.  John  Thomas  had  evidently  been 
the  “ head  man”   among  them  without 
turning  over  his  hand  and  their  aston- 
shment  was  no  less  than  his  when  he 
found  that  the  “ peaked”   cousin  was 
head  every  time.  He  beat  at  check­
ers.  He  never  turned  up  his  nose  at 
their greasy  cards and  “ Old  Sledged”  
them  out  of  all  patience.  His  quoit  was 
lways  nearest  the  stake.  His  jump 
was  away  ahead  of John  Thomas’  and 
“ be  jest  grabbed  a  crossbar  in  the  barn 
ith  one  hand  and  lifted  hisself  three 
times  so that  his  chin  touched  it  and  ail 
the  time  his  foot  didn’t  tech  ground.”  
All  these  things  should  have  taught, 
John  Thomas 
but  they 
didn't  and  it  began  to  be  a  query  with 
the  men  how  long  it  would  take  to make 
him  take  a  back  seat.  His  one  accom­
plishment  was  loading  hay.  His  fork, 
he  contended,  took  the  biggest  load  and 
no  man 
in  the  hay  field  was  so  swift  a 
loader.  No  college  boy  this  side-o’  the 
kingdom  with  all 
gymnasiums 
thrown  in  could  beat  him  at  that  and  he 
could  not  see  that  his  cousin  was  not 
envious  and  had  no  wish  to  rob  him  of 
his  honors.  Finally  when  it  was  easy  to 
understand  that  nothing  but  a  trial 
would  satisfy,  Rod  good  naturedly  ac­
cepted  and  just  as  good  naturedly deter­
mined  to  do his  best..  With  a  fair field 
and  no  favor the  two  “ wept ip ,”   It  was

something, 

the 

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

Greek  meeting  Greek,  but John  Thomas 
depended  too  much  upon  his  reputation 
and  size  and  his  cousin  whose  muscles 
were  all  sinews  depended  upon  nothing 
but  skill  and  endurance  and  his  load  of 
hay  was  out  of  the  meadow  before  John 
Thomas  had  touched  his  last  hay  cock. 
The  defeat  would  have been humiliating 
enough  if  Rodney  had  not  made  things 
easy.

“ It  couldn’t  have  been  otherwise, 
Cousin  John. 
I ’ve  been  training  ever 
since  I  was  in  college—and  that’s  three 
years—and  there  isn’t  an  ounce  of  spare 
muscle  on  me.  What  you  want  to  do  is 
to  come  down  there  and  take  a  gymnas­
ium  course. 
It  would  make  a  man  of 
you  in  just  the  way  you  want  to  excel. 
So  far as  beating  is  concerned  it  wasn't 
worth  trying  for and  if  you  had  had  my 
training  I  couldn’t  have  done  it.  Shake 
hands  on  it .”

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It  was  so  kindly  said  that  the  beaten 
cousin  “ had  to,”   and  having  gone  so 
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18

The  Meat  Market

Horse  Meat as  Food  F or Man*

Why  do  we  prize  the  meat  of  the  hog 

and  despise  the  meat  of  the  horse?

If  one  would  be  asked  a  question  like 
the  above,  or  one  similar,  the  answer 
likely  would  be,  “ Why,  simply  because 
the  people  at 
large  object  to  eating 
meat  from  the  horse.”

That  this,  of  course,  does  not  answer 
the  question  at  all,  or  at  least  is  only 
begging  the  question,  is  plain  enough ; 
logically  one  would  ask,  “ Why  is  this?
It  would  seem  as  if  this  objection  to 
horse  meat  was  but  a  sentimental  one, 
but  just  the  same,  if  it  is  a  sentimental 
one.it  is  a  very  strong  one  and  one  very 
fairly  established  and  fixed.  Like  all 
such  fixed  and  seemingly  unalterable 
opinions,  they  have  come  down  to  us  by 
tradition,simply  because  our  forefathers 
held  the  same  opinion.  Possibly  the 
Mosaic  law  may  have  something  to  do 
with  it,  which  says:
(Extract  from  Third  Book  of  Moses, 

Leviticus,  Chapter  xi.)

'  And  the  Lord  spake  unto  Moses  and 
to  Aaron,  saying  unto  them:  Speak 
unto  the  children  of Israel saying,  These 
are  the  beasts  which  ye  shall  eat  among 
all  the  beasts that  are  on  the  earth.
cloven-footed  and 
among  the  beasts  that  shall  ye  eat.

Whatsoever  parteth  the  hoof  and  is 
cheweth  the  cud 

Nevertheless  these  shall  ye  not eat  of 
them  that  chew  the  cud,  or of  them  that 
divide  the  hoof,  as the  camel,  because 
he  cheweth  the cud,  but  divideth  not the 
hoof,  he  is  unclean  unto  you.
And  the  swine,  though  he  divideth 
the  hoof  and 
is  cloven-footed,  yet  he 
cheweth  not the  cud,  he  is  unclean  unto 
you.
Of  their  flesh  shall  ye  not  eat  and 
their carcass  shall  ye  not  touch, they  are 
unclean  unto  you.
.
To  make  a  difference  between  the  un­
clean  and  the  clean  and  between  the 
beast  that  may  be  eaten  and  the  beast 
that  may  not  be  eaten.

is  the  law  of the  beasts.  . 

This 

law 

Clearly,  according  to  this 

laid 
down  by  Moses,  the  horse  would  have 
been  an  unclean  beast,  because 
if  a 
specified  reference  had  been  made  as  to 
the  horse 
it  would  have  had  to  read  as 
follows:

And  the  horse  he  divideth  not the 
cloven-footed,  and 
is  unclean 

hoof  and  be  not 
cheweth  not  the  cud,  he 
unto  you.

. 

But  Moses  made  no  reference  in  rela­
tion  to  the  horse. 
I  have  consulted  va­
rious  authorities  and  students  of  the 
Talmud,  and  have  received  various 
answers.  They  claim,  for  instance,  that 
the  horse  at  that  time  was  not  a  do­
mestic  anim al;  in  fact was a  wild  beast, 
and  therefore  not  included  among  the 
animals  likely  to  be  used  for  food  any 
more  than  the  lion,  wolf  or  tiger.  An­
other  view  was  not quite  as  complimen­
tary  to  Moses  as  we  generally  find  it.  It 
is  claimed,  namely :  That  when the laws 
were  made  or  promulgated  to  the  Israel­
ites  through  Moses  there  seemed  to  be 
an  anxiety  to  make  them  as unEgyptian 
as  possible;  that 
the  Egyptians 
were 
in  the  habit  of  eating  meat  from 
the  swine  and  certain  other animals pro­
claimed  unclean,  and  it  may be possible 
that  the  meat  of  the  horse  may  have 
been  included  among  other  unclean ani­
mals.

is, 

A possible  explanation  might be found 
in  the  fact  that  the  horse,having  always 
been  considered  a  noble  animal,  having 
higher  qualities  and 
greater  animal 
sense  than  other  beasts,  doing  or  per­
forming  higher  duties,  such  as  carry­
ing  its  master to  war and  conquest,  be­
ing  fleet  of  foot,  and  therefore  used  for 
sport,  in  races,  etc.,  greater  care  being

paid  to  its  breeding  and  raising,  there­
fore  bringing  higher  prices  than  other 
domestic  animals  and  considered  too 
good  for  the  purpose  of  slaughtering  for 
food.  A  potentate’s  rating  of  old  in 
riches  was  not  so  much  the  amount  or 
quantity  of  gold  and  silver he  possessed 
as  the  amount  of  fine  and  serviceable 
horses  he  could  muster.  Arabs  frequent­
ly  paying  for  additional  wives  with  a 
number  of  horses,  rating  their qualities 
against  the  beauty  of  the  women.  The 
custom,  therefore,  which  exists  in  most 
countries  of  the  Old  World  to  place 
knackers'  yards  far  from  human  habita­
tion  may  be  accounted  for  by  a  feeling 
of  repugnance  to  see  or  have  horses 
killed. 
It  is  a  fact,  however,  that  the 
business  of  the  knacker  is  somewhat  a 
despised  one,  and  his  place  of  business 
a  shunned  one ;  how  much  of  this  may 
be  due  to  superstition  is  hard  to say.

In  France  and  Belgium,  of  course, 
conditions  are  different ;  in  Paris  more 
especially  so,  where  the  sale  of  horse 
meat  is  legalized  and  carried  on  open­
ly,  under  certain  restrictions  dictated 
by  the  authorities.  But  even  there  it 
has  not  that  higher  trade  bearing  and 
standing  which  is  accorded  the  dealers 
in  beef  and  pork.

Those  who  have  read  “ The  Mysteries 
Of  Paris”   will  remember that the author, 
in  order to  account  for  the  great  cruelty 
and  bloodthirstiness  of the principal vil­
lain,  attributes  these  qualities,  or  rather 
the  engendering  of  these  qualities,  to 
the  circumstance  that  the  villain was,  in 
his  earlier  days,  a  knacker’s  assistant, 
where  his  principal  occupation  was  that 
of  bleeding  horses.

The  value  of  a  horse  is  a  potent factor 
when  considered  as  an  animal 
for 
slaughter.  Under  ordinary  conditions  a 
good  horse  brings  a  much  higher  price 
for  business  purposes  than 
for  beef, 
weight  for  weight,  from  the  standpoint 
of  the  slaughterer.  Even  when  nearly 
broken  in  health,  and  unsound  in  more 
than  one  vital  part,  a  horse  is  still  sal­
able  at  the  horse  market ;  a  huckster  or 
small  farmer  is  always  able  to  get  some 
work  out  of  a  horse  so  long  as  it  is  able 
to  stand  on  its  legs,  and  it  is  only  when 
its  usefulness  is  forever ended,  so that 
its 
life  in  days  may  be  counted,  that  a 
horse  is  sold  to the  knacker.

supervision, 

It  has  been  claimed  by  parties  who 
have  repeatedly  tried  to  get  authorities 
to  allow  horse  meat  to  be  sold  in  East­
ern  cities  that  in  Montana and other Far 
Western  States  there  were  many  herds 
of  thousands  of  horses  each,  none  of 
which  ever  had  a  shoe  on  its  feet,  run­
ning  wild  over  large  tracts  of  land,  per­
fectly  healthy,  living  on  clean,  grassy 
food,  and  in  a  perfectly  fit  condition for 
human  food;  it  is  also  claimed  that 
these  horses  could  be  raised and brought 
to  market  cheap  enough  to compete very 
actively  with  cattle  and,  if  slaughtered 
under  Government 
in­
sure  perfect  safety  as  to  sanitary  condi­
tions  and  inpection  as to fitness for food ; 
quarters  of  horse  meat  transported  in 
refrigerator  cars  could  be  delivered  in 
the  City  of  New  York  in  such  a  condi­
tion  and  at  such  a  price  as  to  enable 
the  poorest  person  to  obtain  a  good 
steak  for a  price  in  his  power.  How­
ever,  at  the  present  time,  there  seems 
to  be  no  crying  demand  for horse  meat ; 
beef,  although  somewhat  higher  than 
formerly,  is  still  quite  cheap  when  com­
pared  with  prices  which  rule in Europe. 
Thè  supply  of  the  ordinary  animals  fcr 
food  is  so  well  systematized  and  regu­
lated  as  to  make  it  possible  to supply 
animal  food  of  that  kind  for  some  time 
to  come  at  a  fairly  reasonable  price,and

the  chance  to  force  the  use  of  horse 
meat  upon  the  public,  on  account  of 
difference  in  price,  seems  to  be  some­
what  slight  and  far  distant.

The  traffic  in  horse  meat is,  therefore, 
a  proper  subject  for  health  authorities 
for  regulation  and  control. 
In  New 
York  City  the  Board  of  Health  strictly 
enforces  section  84  of  the Sanitary Code, 
which  reads  as  follows:

And  the  slaughtering  of  horses  for 
food  is  prohibited,  and  no  horses  shall 
be  slaughtered  in  the  City  of  New  York 
without  a  permit,  in  writing,  from  the 
Department  of  Health;  and  no  meat  of 
slaughtered  horses  shall  be  brought into, 
or  held,  kept  or  offered  for sale  at  any 
place  in  saia  city.

Should  the time  ever arrive  when  the 
public,  or  a  portion  at  least,  would  de­
mand  horse  meat,  it  could  only  be  sup­
plied  under the  following  sanitary  con­
ditions :

1.  All  horses  brought  to  slaughter 
houses  with  a  view  of  using  same  for 
food  should  be  examined by a veterinar­
ian  or competent  meat  inspector.

.  Before  slaughter  as  to  possible 

defect  of  body  or diseases  of  the skin.

.  After  slaughter,  in  order  to  de­

(a) 

(b) 

termine  from  the  condtiion  of  the  vari­
ous  organs,  whether the animal  was  dis­
eased or showed  any  signs of having had 
any  disease,  such  as  consumption,  can­
cer  (actinomycosis),  etc.,  which  might 
make  the  meat  unfit  for  human  con­
sumption.
2.  Horse  slaughter houses  should  be 
entirely distinct from slaughter houses of 
other  animals,  and  supplied  with  all 
modern  equipments  and  appliances  for 
the  disposal  of  blood,offal,  etc.,  without 
removing  same  from  the  premises.  All 
plans  for  such  a  slaughter  house  should 
be  first submitted  to  the  local  Board  of 
Health  for  approval.

3.  The  sale  of  horse  meat  should 
only  be  allowed 
in  markets  or shops 
distinctive in their character  in  so  much 
that  no  meat  of  other  food  animals  or

parts  of  such  animals  would  be  for  sale 
on  the  premises, and  the  market  or  shi p 
should  bear  a  distinctive  outward  sign 
or  emblem 
indicative  of  the  business 
carried  on  inside.

if  it 

In  bulk,  horse  meat  is  detected  com­
paratively  without  difficulty;  the  meat 
itself  is  remarkable  on  account  of  a  pe­
culiar  dark  purple-brown,  from  age,  es­
pecially 
is  exposed  to  the  air, 
sometimes  even  changing  to  a  black- 
purple.  The  interstitial  fibers  are  very 
fine,  much  more  elastic  than  in  beef;  a 
horse  steak,  therefore,  seems  quite  soft. 
The  muscular  layers  part  easily  and 
the  meat  on  that  account  seems  softer 
notwithstanding  the  coarse  grain.  The 
odor 
is  peculiar,  unpleasantly  sweet. 
The  taste  of  raw  horse  meat  is  so decid­
edly  sweet  that  even  an  unsuspecting 
person  would  at  once  remark  this  pe­
culiarity.  This  sweetness  is  caused  by 
large  percentage  of  a  peculiar  sugar 
a 
called  glycogen,  which 
is  present  in 
horse  meat  in  very  much  larger  propor­
tion  than  in  the  meat  of  any  other  ani­
mal  used  for  food,  and  it  is  upon  this 
sugar that  the  chemical  identification  of 
horse  meat  depends.

The  fat  of  horses 

is  soft  and  oily, 
from  a  light  to  a  dark  yellow color.  The 
poorer the  horse  the  more  yellow the fat. 
This  fat,  when  a  quarter of  horse  meat 
is  hung  out  in  the  open  air,  on  account 
of  its  soft  character,  will,  by 
its  own 
specific  gravity,  form  small  bag-like 
forms,  and  thus  gives  a  quarter  of  horse 
meat  a  quite  peculiar  appearance.

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Window  Dressing

Clothing,  D rapery,  Ribbon  and  Scarf Dis­

plays.

In  window  trimming,as in  everything 
else,  there  are  times  when  very  little 
effort 
is  required  to  set  things  moving 
or to  keep  them  moving,  and  there  are 
other times  when  the  amount  of  effort 
expended  is  altogether  disproportionate 
to  results.  As  the  hot  weather  grows  in 
intensity  it  may  help  or  hurt  business 
in  your  town. 
If  tilings  won’t  move, 
do  not  blame  the  window  man. 
If  they 
do  move,  do  not  give  all  the  credit  to 
the  windows.  Try  to  determine  how 
much 
is  due  to  the  heat  and  how  much 
to  personal  effort.

*  *  *
A  pretty  background 

for  a  clothing 
window  can  be  made  in  the  following 
manner:  The  entire  background  is  cov­
ered  with  dark  green  cloth,  plaited  in 
simple  folds.  Against  this  background 
a  framework  of 
light  rods  is  erected 
which  divides  the  window  back  into 
three  panels,  arched  top  and  bottom. 
The  tops  of  the  arches  and  the  spaces 
between  both  top  and  bottom  are  fin­
ished  with  a  puffing  of  white  cloth. 
Along  the 
inner  edge  of  the  arches  a 
thin  line  of  puffing  of  rose-colored  cloth 
or  tissue  paper  is  run. 
Tissue  paper 
of  a  rose  color  is  then  cut  into  narrow 
strips,which  are  twisted  corkscrew  fash­
ion  and  fastened 
in  parallel  vertical 
lines  against  the  background 
in  the 
panels.  Two  scantlings  are  then  taken 
and  bound  together  at  the  ends,  after 
which  they  are  separated  by  placing  a 
stick  endwise  between  them to  make the 
sides  curve  out.  The  whole  is  then  cov­
ered  with  white  crepe  tissue  paper 
wound  about  it  and  the  center  filled 
in 
by  strips * of  twisted  tissue  paper,  rose- 
colored, 
A 
number  of  these  figures  are  made  and 
stood  up  on  end,  at acute  angles  to  each 
other  and  touching  each  other  at  the 
sides,  through  the  middle  of  the  win­
dow  lengthwise.  The  floor  of  the  win­
dow  is  covered  with  white  and  green 
cloth  puffed 
loosely.  From  the  center 
of  the  window  roof  to  the  sides  of the 
window 
long,  twisted  strips  of  rose- 
colored  and  white  tissue  paper are  run 
in  graceful  festoons.  On  high  stands in 
the  rear  of  the  window  and  on 
low 
stands  in  front  various  articles  of  cloth­
ing  are  arranged.

interlacing  diagonally. 

*  *  *

As  pretty  a drapery  as  can  be  used for 
the  back  of  a  window  during  the  sum­
mertime  is  the  bamboo  portiere  mate­
rial.  This 
is  made  of  slender strips  of 
bamboo  strung  on 
long  strings  with 
beads  of  various  colors.  These  portieres 
are  now  used  universally  for  hangings 
during  the  hot  months,  and  many  mer­
chants  find  them convenient  and  attract­
ive  draperies  for the  backs  of  their win­
dows.  Some  merchants  also  use  muslin 
curtains  as  dradery 
for  the  backs  of 
their  windows  during  the  summertime.
A  curtain  of  silk  or velvet  is  run  across 
the  lower  part  of  the  window  on  a  brass 
rod  and  the  remainder  of  the  window 
back  is  draped  with  plain  white  muslin 
curtains  hung 
in  the  usual  manner. 
When  the  window  is  small  and  care  is 
taken  to  keep  the  curtains  perfectly 
fresh  and  clean  the  effect  is  a  very 
pleasant  one.  Some  merchants  who  use 
mosquito  netting  for enclosing  the  win­
dow  find  that 
is  im­
proved 
if  bands  of  ribbon  are  stitched 
upon  it  singly  or  in  broken  stripe  de­
signs. 
It  would  seem  better,  however, 
to  make  use  of  some  material  of a semi­
transparent character,  with  a  woven  de­

its  appearance 

sign.  Any semi-transparent  material  of 
a  plain  white  has  its  beauty  enhanced 
when  it  is  draped  over a  background  of 
solid  color of  some  brilliancy.  Cheap 
lace  curtains 
look  much  better  when 
backed N with  some  such  colored  cloth 
than  when  used  alone.  A  purple  cloth 
makes  a  very  rich  backing  for  them.

*  *  *

A  very  attractive  use  of  ribbon 

is  to 
take  narrow  strips  of  ribbon  and  draw 
them  across  the  window  pane  close  to 
the  glass  on  the  inner  side.  Large  dia­
mond-shaped  spaces  are  made  by  the 
interlacing  strips,  or they  can  be  drawn 
across 
in  squares  or other figures.  A 
pretty  design  is  formed  by  using  ribbon 
of  a  number  of  different  colors  stretched 
across  the  window  pane  or  the  window 
back  to  form  a  kind  of a  plaid  design. 
For  example,  a  red,  a  yellow,  and  a 
blue  strip  are  stretched  close  together 
across  the  window,  and  crossing  them 
at  right  angles  and 
interlacing  with 
them  two  bands  of  red  and  yellow  rib­
bon.  Close  together,  at  some  distance 
from  them,  two  other  bands  interlace  in 
the  same  way.  The  window  front  is 
thus  covered  with  a  number  of  interlac­
ing  bands.

*  *  *

The 

importance 

idea  of  using  electric  fans  as 
window  attractions 
is  so  old  that  it  is 
here  mentioned  merely  to  call  attention 
to  it.  A  window  with  an  electric  fan 
in  it  is  well  ventilated,  and  this 
is  of 
in  some  stores. 
no  small 
It 
is  quite  common  to  attach  a  flag  to 
the  wire  screen  about  the  fan.  Very 
long  strips  of  tissue  paper  of  different 
colors  attached  to  the  wire  screen  and 
waving  gracefully 
in  the  air are  some­
times  used.  Another  plan 
is  to  hang 
stuffed  sparrows  or  swallows  from  the 
ceiling  of  the  window  by  black  threads. 
The  breeze  from  the  fan  makes  them 
sway  to  and 
fro  in  the  air,  and  the 
moving  birds  naturally  attract  the  par­
ticular  attention  of  the  passers-by.

*  *  *

_ The  possibilities  of  oiled  paper and 
silk  for  window  work  are  not  appreci­
ated  by  many  window  dressers.  Some­
times 
in  a  very  high  window  it  is  de­
sired  to  fill  the  upper  part  of the  pane 
with  a  large  card  advertising  the  busi­
ness  or  some  feature  of  it.  The  oiled 
paper 
is  excellent  for  the  purpose,  as 
its  semi-translucent  quality does  not  en­
tirely  shut  the  light  out  of  the  window 
and  its  dull  color  is  a  welcome  change 
from  the  dead  white  of  pasteboard. 
Oiled  paper and  silk  are  also  very  use­
ful  for  show  cards  that  are  to  be  ex­
posed  to  the  weather.  As  oiled  paper 
was  used  for  windows  before  window 
glass  became 
inexpensive  enough  for 
general  use  its  possibilities  in  window 
work  are  apparent.  The  mention  of 
oiled  paper  would  not  be complete with­
out  a  passing  mention  of it when colored 
in  various  designs  and  prepared  to  be 
fixed  upon  glass,  making  an  imitation 
of  stained  glass.  The  utility  of these 
colored  designs  has  been  spoken  of  be­
fore  in  this  department.  They  are  very 
useful  for  covering  the  tops  of  windows, 
skylights,  rear windows  having  an  un­
pleasant  outlook  and  glass  doors  open­
ing 
into  side  streets  or  back  yards  of 
stores.

*  *  *

For  a  small  window  or  for  single 
units  of  a  large  window  a  very  taking 
way  of  displaying  scarfs 
is  to  make 
them  up  and  then  mount  them singly  on 
special  tie  stands.  These  stands  are 
made  of  a  single  heavy  wire  (about  the 
diameter  of  the  wire  usually  used  in  a 
letter file)  with  a  pointed  end,  which  is 
mounted  on  a  base  of  wood  or  metal. 
The  back  of  the  tie  is  caught  on  the 
pointed  end  and  the  tie  is  thus  shown 
upright  in  the  window  in  the  same  rela­
tive  position 
it  would  occupy  when 
worn.  A  very  pretty  window  display 
can  be  made  without  any  other  units 
than  ties  so  mounted.—Apparel Gazette,

—  *   B e s t .

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Dust  simply  cannot  rise 
when  sweeping  with  “The 
World’s  Only”—D is e a s e  
germs  and  insects  cannot 
live—Floors  improve—Carpets  brighten.  Write  for 
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prosecute  any  person  found  using  our  packages for cider  or  vinegar  without  first 
removing all  traces  of  our  brands  therefrom.

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a substantial fan.  Espe­
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fort.  We  have  a  large 
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fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
nish printed and handled 
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W om an’s W orld

Effect of M irrors on  M anners  and Morals.
The  Legisature  of  a  neighboring  state 
recently  appropriated  a  sum of  money 
with  which  to  buy  looking  glasses  for 
the  women  inmates  of  the  penitentiary. 
Heretofore  part  of  the  punishment  of  a 
woman  criminal  has  been  to  deprive her 
of  all  means  of 
she 
looked”   and  whether  her  stripes  were 
on  straight.  A  wise  and  humane  man, 
however,  finally  suggested  that  this  was 
cruelty  that  went  beyond  the  purposes 
of  correction  and  became  persecution, 
and  henceforward  the  erring  sisters  in 
the  "p e n ”   are  to  be cheered  on  by  such 
comfort  as they  can  extract  from  a  con 
templation  of their own  images.

"seeing  how 

to  one’s 

Let  not the  untutored  sneer  at  this  as 
a  final  example  of  woman’s vanity.  The 
smallest  purpose  of  the  mirror  is  to 
minister 
self-admiration 
Rightly  used,  it  is  an  instrument  that 
makes  for  righteousness.  As  long  as  a 
woman  cares  how  she  looks  and  how she 
appears to  other  people,  there 
is  hope 
of  reforming  her. 
is  when  she  no 
longer cares,  when  she  has  no  shame  in 
being  seen  dirty,  dishevelled,  drunk, 
that  she  is utterly  abandoned.  Personal 
vanity 
last  memory  of  better 
things  that  vibrates  in  the  human  heart 
When  that  string  snaps  nothing  else 
i 
left to  appeal  to.

is  the 

It 

immemorial 

It  has  always  seemed  to  me  that  there 
is  no  other  article  of  our  possessions 
that  we  understand  so  little  and  use  to 
such  poor  purpose  as  the  mirror  any 
way.  From  time 
it  has 
been  the  custom  to  sneer  at  it  as  an  ar 
tide  sacred  to  feminine  vanity,  and 
i 
a  way  men  have  excused  it  to  us,  on 
the  ground  that  it  was  hereditary  weak­
ness  we  couldn’t  help.  The 
insatiable 
desire  to  gaze  upon  her own  charms
a  sin  attributed  to our first mother, whom 
Milton  represents  as  bending  over 
glassy  brook  enraptured  with  the  reflec 
tion  of  her  own  beauty,  and  it  is  popu 
larly  supposed  that  from  that  day 
this  every  daughter  of  Eve  has  put 
most  of  her  spare  time  studying  her 
mirror.

Would  heaven  they  had !  We  should 

be  the  better and  the  seemlier  for  it.

n. 

isn’t 

That  seems  a 

little  contradictory,  but j 
from  a  woman’s  standpoint. 
What  makes  women  continually buy new 
clothes 
is  dissatisfaction  with  the  old, 
and  nine  times  out  of ten  the  fault  isn’t 
much  with  the  garment  as  the  way  it 
put  on.  There  are  women  who  ap-1 
parently  always  pitchfork  their  clothes 
on  and  who  would  look  like  a  marked- 
down  bargain  remnant  in  a  Paris  con­
fection.  There  are  others  who  can  look 
like  a  fashion  plate  in  a  ten  cent  mus- 
I  know  a  young  girl  whose  simple 
look  that 
the  despair  and  envy  of  half  the 
women  who  know  her and  who  pay  ten 
times 
tailor-made-to-order 
waists  that  she  does  for the  material  of | 
which  she  makes  her  own.  Once 
I 
asked  her the  secret.  " I t ’s  seven  safety | 
pins  in  the  back,”   she  answered  lacon­
ically.  She has  a  looking  glass  and  she 
like  an  artist,  with  the  invari­
uses  it 
able  result of  always being  well  dressed 
and  stylish,  no  matter how  inexpensive I 
her  frock  may  be.

shirtwaists  have  that  smart 

their 

for 

If  I  were  making  the  laws  I  would 
make  it  a  penal  offense  for any  woman I 
to  live  in  a  house  that  wasn’t plentifully | 
provided  with  good,  long  pier  glasses, 
in  which  she  could  not  help  seeing  her­
self  from  head  to  foot  whichever way j 
she  turned,  so  there  would  be  no  possi­
ble  excuse  for  her  going  out to  outrage | 
her  neighbors’  aethetic  sensibilities  by 
looking 
It  would  also  do | 
more  than  all  the  sermons  ever preached 
on  slovenliness  and  untidiness.  Nol 
woman  living  would  have  the  nerve  to 
go  about  the  house  in  a  dirty  wrapper 
and  with  a  halo  of  curl  papers about  her 
brow  if  she  had to  see  the hideous reflec­
tion  of  heiself  on  every  hand. 
It  is 
simply  because  she  doesn’t  know  how 
she  looks  that  she  inflicts  this  dread ap- 
parition  on  her  husband  and  family.

like  a  guy. 

A  house  plentfully  suppleid  with  big, 

unescapable  mirrors  would  also  be 
silent,  courteous  reproof  to  our  manners 
that  we  could  not  gainsay  nor  argue 
down.  No  persuasion  may  be  able  to 
nduce  a  gum-chewing  school  girl  to| 
stop  the  pernicious  habit,  but 
if  she 
was  forced  to  gaze  upon  her  wagging 
jaws  and  cow-like  expression  as  she 
masticated  her cud,  you  may  depend 
upon  it  that  she  would  at  least seek soli­
tude  in  which  to  indulge in her pastime.
insensibly 
takes  on  a  pleasanter  expression  as 
it 
catches  a  glimpse  of  itself  in  a  mirror. 
The  most  sprawling  figure  that  observes 
its  own  lack  of  grace  emphasized 
looking-glass  unconsciously  draws  up 
into  a  more  dignified  pose.  Our  faults! 
as  well  as  our  virtues  have  been 
fleeted.  We  have  seen  ourselves 
others  see  us  and  the  picture  has  hurt I 
our  vanity.

The  most  scowling 

face 

in 

What  a  pity  it  is,  too,  that  there  are 
no  mental  mirrors 
in  which  we  might 
now  and  then  catch  a  view  of  those 
faults  and  weaknesses  that  render  us  so 
trying  to  our  friends  and  neighbors! 
Suppose  those  loving  couples  who  art­
lessly  conduct their courtship  in  public 
could  see  what  figures  of  fun  they  are? 
Wouldn’t  they  go  home  and  pull  down 
the  blinds  and  barricade  the  doors  be­
fore  they  goo-goo-eyed  at  each  other 
any  more? 
If  only  the  self-important 
who  weary  us  to death  with  long  narra­
tives  about  themselves and their families 
could  see what  bores  they  are,  wouldn't 
the  stock  of  war  reminiscences  and 
smart  child  stories  be  cut  short? 
If 
those  who are  forever boasting  of  their 
own  achievements,  of  the  splendors they 
have  at  home  and  the 
lucrative  posi­
tions  they  have  declined  to  fill,  could

The  most  emphatic contradiction  pos 
sible  however,  is  offered  this  theory  by 
the  spectacle  of  the  women  one  sees  on 
the  street  and 
in  every  public  place 
Observe  the  w ay  they  are  dressed 
Gowns  that  hang  seven  ways  for Sun 
day:  shirtwaists  that  hike  up 
in  the 
back  and  make  their  wearers 
look 
hunchbacked;  belts  that  have  parted 
company  with  the  bands  they  are  sup 
posed  to  cover;  skinny  women  who 
give unwarranted anatomical exhibitions 
of  their  bones;  fat  women  who  deck 
themselves  out  in  flaming  garments  that 
look  like  the  jim-jam  banners  in  front 
of  a  side  show;  hats  that  empbasie 
every  defect  of  their  wearers— !  1  !

Can  any  sane  person  believe  that 
women  who  commit  such  crimes  on 
good  taste  and  neatness  and  appro­
priateness  spend  any  time  before  their 
mirrors?  Never.  Any 
jury  on  earth 
would  acquit  them,  on  overwhelming 
circumstantial  evidence,  of even  owning 
a  hand-glass,  to  say  nothing  of  the  ut­
ter  impossibility  of  a  woman  appearing 
in  public  like that  if  she  had  ever taken 
one  fleeting  glance  at  herself  in  a  good 
triple  dressing  mirror.

If  I  were  called  on  to  suggest  the  best 
possible  remedy  for  feminine  extrava­
gance,  I  should  say  that  it  lay  in  the 
possession  and  use  of  a  good  mirror.

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

21

“ Lord,  I  thank  Thee  that  I  can’t  re­
member some  things  that  are  past.”

There  are  two  good  things  to  forget, 
namely:  The  great  things  you  have 
done  and  the  mean  things  others  have 
done  to  you.  The  man  who  often  sits 
down  to  run  up  the  list  of  smart  things 
he  has  said  or the  good  deeds  he  has 
done  or the  great  bargains  he has driven 
will  tire  the  rest of  the  world  and 
lose 
time  he  might  well  employ  adding  to 
the  sum  of  his  greatness.

The  man  who  remembers  his  misfor­
tunes,  to  keep  an  accurate  account  of 
them,  comes  to  be  one  of  the  most  dis­
agreeable  snags  on  the  earth’s  surface. 
Better a  man  who  praises  himself  than 
one  who  pities  himself.  Neither one  is 
worth  counting  in  the  census.

leaky 

Suppose  Abraham  Lincoln  bad  squat­
ted  around  on  a  soapbox  in  the  Spring- 
field  grocery  and  whined  about  going 
barefoot  winters,  when  a  boy;  about  the 
short  meals  of  corn  bread  and  bacon, 
the 
log  cabin  and  the  general 
poverty  of  his  youth,  do  you  suppose 
the  Lord  Almighty  and  the  American 
people  would  have  called  on  him  to 
save  the  country?  Not  much!  People 
who  save  countries  are  not  absorbed 
in 
saving  their own  bacon,  nor  in  whining 
over their  spoiled  bacon.  They  are  so 
busy  saving  other folks  that  they  forget 
all  the  forgetworthy  things  that  are 
past.  They  throw  them  off  as  the  life­
saving  crew  throw  off  their  overcoats, 
and  “ press  forward.”

I  knew  a  woman  once,  a  farmer’s 
wife,  who  had  about  as  good  reason  for 
pitying  herself  as  had  any  woman  with 
nine  children,  on  a  four-hundred  acre 
farm  ten  miles  from  town.  But  I  know 
from  personal  observation  that  when 
any  neighbor or  her  baby  took  sick 
in 
the  middle  of  the  night,  or at  any  other

hour,  there  was  a  shout  to  Reuben  to 
hitch  up  and  drive  for Aunt  Sarah—this 
farmer’s  wife.  Why  should  a  whole 
neighborhood’s  thoughts 
fly  to  Aunt 
Sarah  in  an  emergency?  Because  she 
was  wont  to  harp  on  her  hardships  and 
pity  herself?

No, 

indeed! 

If  she  hadn’t  pitied 
other  people  more  than  herself,  she 
wouldn’t  have  died  for  other  people 
eight  years  ago.  She  would  have  lived 
to  a  green  old  age  like  the  people  who 
spare  themselves  for  the  love  and  pity 
of  themselves.

If  somebody  in  this  world  hadn’ t  for­
gotten  things,  even  unto  themselves, 
you  and  I  wouldn’t  have  such  a  soft, 
easy  snap  of  life  as  we  are  now  having. 
—Deacon  in  Furniture  Journal.

Use  of Cold  W ater In  Cooking  Corn. 

From the New York  Sun.

Green  corn  is  one  of  the  luxuries  now 
in  market.  As  a  general  thing  it  is 
cooked  atrociously.  For  years,  Ameri­
can  housekeepers  have  been  cooking 
com  after the  recipes  to  be  found  in  the 
standard  cook  books,  which 
invariably 
direct  that  the  ears  be  dropped  into 
boiling  water  and  cooked  for  a  time, 
varying  according 
to  the  different 
authorities.
According  to  people  who  have  tried 
the  method  of  an  old  Indian  guide 
named  Krum,  corn  should  be  cooked  in 
cold  water.  Krum  some  years  ago 
opened  a  mountain  resort near Saratoga, 
and  his  way  of  cooking  corn  is  espe­
cially  famous.

journeyed 

One  evening,  two  or  three  summers 
ago,  a  party  of  guests  from  the  big 
hotels  of  the  Springs 
to 
Krum’s  for  supper.  Every  one  knew 
of  Krum's  delicious  corn,  but  people 
thought  there  was  some  virtue  in  the 
mountain  corn  itself  and  did  not  know 
the  secret 
in  the  cooking.  This 
night  he  served  a  dish  of  wonderful 
trout  from  that  day’s  fishing  basket,  as 
a  course  to  follow cold cantaloupe.  Then

lay 

came  broiled  chickens  small as pigeons, 
with  great  tomatoes,  sliced,  and  then, 
in  a  large  dish  alone,  with  butter,  pep­
per  and  salt  as 
its  sauce,  the  famous 
It  came  on  wrapped  in  its  still 
corn. 
smoking  husks.

Then  one  very  beautiful  woman  of the 
party  announced that  she  would  demand 
the  secret  of  the  Indian.  She  was  told 
that  he  would  probably  snub  her  for  her 
pains,  but  she  persevered,  and  finally 
Krum  stolidly  lea  the  way  to  his  gru t 
charcoal  range 
in  the  kitchen,  with  its 
refrigerator  built  in most modern perfec­
tion  outside  the  open  doorway.

He  explained 

in  a  most  picturesque 
cooking  lecture  that  corn  could  not  be 
cooked  haphazard. 
It  had  to  be  timed 
as  closely  as  an  egg  in  boiling;  it  must 
never  vary,  and  a  minute  too  much  or 
too  little  spoiled  it for the table.  Krum’s 
method  he  illustrated  to  his  impromptu 
class.

and 

irregularly 

He  selected 

four  good  ears  of  small, 
closely  set 
striped 
grains.  Then  turning  back  the  outer 
husks  he  removed  the  silk  adhering  f® 
each  ear  and  assured  himself that  each 
was  perfect.  He  removed  the  outer 
husks  and  carefully  folded  a  good 
layer 
of  the  inner ones  about  the  ear,  fasten­
ing  them  in  a  sort of  twist  at  the  top.

These  he  placed  side  by  side  in  a 
large  pot  and  covered  them  over  with 
additional  husks,  then  with  cold  water 
in  plenty.  He  placed  the  pot  and  its 
contents  over  a  quick  fire,  watched  it 
faithfully  until  the  water  bubbled  and 
then  timed 
four  minutes. 
Then  the  corn  was  taken  up,  drained 
and  was  ready  for  service.

it  exactly 

This  method  is  simple  enough  to  try 
in  any  kitchen,  but  it 
is  difficult  to 
reconcile  most  housekeepers  to  the  cold 
water and  the  lack  of  salt,  which  is  not 
added  until  the  vegetable  is  eaten.  But 
once  tried,  the  directions  faithfully  fol­
lowed,  and  it  will  never  be  prepared  in 
the  old  way.

Most  of  the  mountain  guides  cook 
corn  in  this  way  and  some  old  Southern 
cooks  know  the  virtues  of  cold  water 
cooking.

We  Arc  Advertised  by  Our  Loving  Friends

HAMILTON  ÇLOTHING  CO,

t r a v e r s e   c it y,  m ich.  June 18,1001,

Michigan Brick & Tile Machine Co,,
Morenci,  Mich*,

Gentlemen— Regarding the Gas Plant you installed in cy store 

building last January,  I will say that we are getting very excellent 
results from it, and have no cause to regret the purchase whatever-. 

We have about 65 lights in our building, running on an average, 

say 45,  We are lighting our rooms with much less expense t.hA.w we 
could by eleotricity; besides having a very much larger volume of 
light*

The machine I put in my house in February ^geets every requirement 

so fat, for cooking, grates as well as lighting.

1 have been well satisfied with both plants.

D io ,

Yours  tru ly ,

see  what  empty  braggarts  they  look  to 
us,  what  peace  should  fill  the 
If 
young  girls  could  know  how  shocking  it 
is  to  older and  world-wise  people  when 
they  are 
in  public 
places,  what  demure  maids  we  should 
have  at  home!

loud  and  noisy 

land! 

What  a  a  sovereign  balm  it  would  be, 

too,  for all  domestic troubles.

We  do  so  many 

little  disagreeable 
things  that  grate  other  people's  nerves 
and  offend  their tastes,  just  because  we 
are  careless  of  everybody’s  comfort  be­
side  our own.  Then we  are  so clever at 
giving  our 
faults  aliases  that  almost 
make  them  seem  virtues.

There  is  the  man,  for  instance,  who 
says  he  is  determined  to  be  “ master  of 
his  own  house”   and  who  makes  that 
perfectly  proper 
theory—although  for 
my part  I  do  not  see  why  it  is  necessary 
for  a  woman  to  have  a master—the cloak 
for  the  most  grinding  tyranny.  His 
wife  always  sits  up  in shivering silence,
like  a  whipped  dog,  waiting  for  his 
sneer  on  her  opinion,  and  his  children 
drop  tbeir  laughter  and  sneak  away 
when  his  key  grates  in  the  front  door. 
Do  you  suppose  that  he  would 
indulge 
himself  in  such  conduct  if  be  could  see 
himself  for  the  coward  and  brute  and 
bully  he 
is?  Not  once  in  a  thousand 
times.

On  the  other hand,  there is  the  woman 
who  is  always  bragging  about  being 
“ high-spirited“   and 
“ speaking  her 
m ind."  There’s  never  any  use  in  tell­
ing  her  her  faults,  for  she  will  not  lis­
ten,  and  so  her  husband  learns  to  find 
his  pleasure  in  his  club and her children 
play  on  the  streets  to  get  out  of  reach  of 
her  eternal  fault-finding  and  nagging.  I 
have  often  thought,  “ Oh,  if  you  could 
only  see  yourself  for  the  common  scold 
you  are;  if  you  could  see  how  unlovely, 
unwomanly,  ungentle  you  are,  surely 
nothing  on  earth  could  ever  induce  you 
to give  away  to  your tongue  and  temper 
again. ”

learning  poses 

To  see  as  others  see  us  physically  is 
the  mission  of  the  mirror. 
It  is  a  mis­
sionary  to teach  us  the  gospel  of  mak­
ing  the  most  of  ourselves  bodily  by  get­
ting  clothes  that flatter  us  instead  of de­
riding  us,  by 
full  of 
grace 
instead  of  loutish  awkwardness, 
and  by  trying,  as  the  photographers 
say,  to  look  pleasant. 
Is  it too  much  to 
hope  that  we  may  carry  the  lesson  a  lit­
tle  farther  and  try  to  see  ourselves 
spiritually  and  mentally  as  others  see 
us?  Be  sure  we  should  be  humble  and 
chastened  creatures  if  we  did,  and  far, 
far  more  agreeable  to  live  with.

Dorothy  Dix.

Things to Forget and Things to Remember.
The  things  we  ought  to  forget  are  the 
things  we  should  remember,  as  a  thous­
and  to one.  Think  what  a  great  waste 
basket  your  head  would  be  if  you  re­
membered  everything  that  had  hap­
pened  to  you  or that.you  had  said  or the 
rest  of  the  world  had  said  to  you! 
I 
know  a  man  with  a  phenomenal  mem­
ory—so  phenomenal  that  he  can  dupii- 
cate  a  two  hours'  conversation  carried 
on  at  Elijah  Wyman's  general  store  at 
Pocassetf  Corners,  Me.,  forty-three years 
ago  the  seventeenth  day  of  last  Feb­
ruary.  Worse  than  that,  he  remembers 
the  family  history,  in  its  divers  ramifi­
cations,  of  the  seven  men  who  did  the 
conversing.  And,  worse,  of  all,  he  in­
sists  on  telling  the  whole  thing  to  me 
just  as I  am  rushing  in  copy  for the  last 
form  at  5  p.  m.  of  publication  day.

When  I  have  shaken  off  my  good 
friend  of  the  good  memory,  and  have 
time  to  stop to breathe  and  pray,  I  sa y :

M ICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

obtainable—generally  about  8@ioc  per 
dozen,  with  some  lots  of very  poor qual­
ity  offering  down  to  $1.50 ^ 2 .10   per 
case.—N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

feet 

The 

Cheese W eighing Eleven H undred Pounds. 
From the Buffalo Commercial.

largest  cheese  in  the  world  was 
placed  on  exhibition  in  the  dairy  build­
ing  at  the  Exposition  this  morning. 
It 
occupies  a  proud  position  in  the  center 
of  a  magnificent  collection  of  cheese, 
representative  of  all  parts  of  New  York 
State,  Canada,  Wisconsin,  Ohio  and 
Michigan.

is  three 

This  big  cheese  weighs  1,100  pounds. 
in  diameter  and  26 
It 
inches  in  height.  A  better  idea  of 
its 
size  can  be  gained  when  it  is  said  that 
it  is  almost  as  big  around  as  the  boiler 
on  the  average  locomotive.
The  cheese  was  made  under  what  is 
known  as  the  English  Cheddar  process, 
and  while  the  texture  is  silky  the cheese 
is  as  firm  as  butter. 
It  is  the  product 
of  11,000  pounds,  or  5,500  quarts  of 
milk.  When 
is  understood  that  the 
ordinary  farmer’s  cow  gives  an  average 
yield  of  5,000  pounds  of  milk  a  year,'  it 
will  be  seen  that  it  would  take  an  or­
dinary  cow  two  years  and  over  to  pro­
duce  sufficient  milk  to  make  a  counter­
part  of  the  cheese  now  on  exhibition.

The  cheese  has  been  placed  at  the 
Exposition  by  W.  C.  Dunham,  of  Cuba, 
N.  Y.  It  was  made  by  Otto  &  Co.,  Cat­
taraugus  county,  and  will  remain  at  the 
fair  during  the  entire  season.

The  cheese 

large  enough  to  give 
every  man,  woman  and  child  employed 
at  the  Pan-American  Exposition  a piece 
weighing  an  ounce  and  a  half.  Supt. 
Hall  is  spending  his  time  figuring  how 
many  cheese  sandwiches  it  would make.

is 

it 

F our Crops o f Potatoes  in  One  Tear.
The  possibilities  of  Hawaii  as  a  fruit 
and  vegetable  growing  country  will  be 
understood  when  it  becomes  known  that 
four  crops  of  potatoes  have  been  pro­
duced  in  succession  on  the  same  piece 
of  land  within  twelve months.  Radishes 
become  edible  ten  days  after  sowing. 
Strawberry  vines  bear  fruit all  the  year. 
The  berries  are  of  the  finest  flavor.
Cabbage  grows  all  the  year  and  it  ap­
parently  makes  no  difference  whether  it 
is  planted 
in  the  spring,  summer, 
autumn  or  winter.  Parsley  once  sown 
grows 
Lima 
beans  continue  to  grow  and  bear  for 
over a  year,  and  they  have  to  be  gath­
ered  every  week  after  starting  to  bear. 
Cucumbers  bear  the  entire  year,  and  so 
do  tomatoes,  which,  with  proper  atten­
tion,  bear  for  years.  Raspberries  bear 
for  six  months.
Pineapples come into bearing when the 
plants  are  four  months  old  and  bear  in 
abundance  for  years.  Lettuce  can  be 
planted  at  any  time,  and 
it  develops 
quickly.  The  same  is  true  of  celery.

apparently. 

forever, 

HU  Idea of a Sinecure.

“ Well,  my  boy,  and  what  are  you  go­

ing  to  do now?”
“ Well,  dad,  I  don’t  know.  What  I 
want  is  one  of  those  fancy 
jobs  where 
you  do  the  least  possible  work  for the 
very  largest  possible  fee.”

“ Guess  you  are  cut  out  for  a  corpora­

tion  lawyer,  my  boy.”

“ No,  dad,  I  was  thinking  of  being  a 

medical  specialist.”

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22

Butter  and  Eggs

Observations by a  G otham   Egg Man. 
The  long  continuance  of  extreme  heat 
in  a  large  part  of  the  egg  producing 
territory  and  the  enormous  waste  in cur­
rent  production  is  a  factor  favorable  to 
the  prospect  of  spring  storage  accumu­
lations  that  must  now  be  recognized  as 
sufficient  in  extent  to  encourage  a  more 
hopeful  view  of  the  future.  The  posi­
tion  of  high  cost  early  accumulations 
has  not  yet  been  sufficiently  fortified  to 
make  it  safe,  but  every  week  that  pres­
ent  conditions  continue  will  make  it 
better.  Prior  to 
last  week  it  is  prob­
able  that  for  every  case  of  fine  eggs 
taken  out  of  storage  another of  less  de­
sirable  stock  was  put  away.  But  the 
use  of  the  good  stored  eggs  in  current 
consumptive  channels  has 
lately  ex­
tended  considerably  and  our  local  stor­
age  houses  are  now  putting  out  more 
eggs  than  they  are  taking 
is 
of  course  a  favorable  feature  so  far  as  it 
goes,  but  the  reduction  will  have  to 
continue  for  a  considerable  period  in 
order  to  reduce  accumulations  to a  safe 
point  by  the  opening  of  the  fall  season.

in.  This 

*  *  *

it 

The  waste 

in  current  production  is 
very  great.  On  uncandled  eggs  arriving 
here  from  general  Western  points 
is 
common  to  find  a  shrinkage  of  8@io 
dozen  to  the  case  and  there  are  many 
instances  where  still  greater  losses  are 
sustained.

interior. 

The  waste  may  be  and  probably  is in­
creased  during  transit,  but  it  is  evident 
that  it  is  almost equally serious at points 
of  collection  in  the 
In  proof 
of  this  may be  mentioned  the  small  pro­
portion  of  first quality  eggs  obtained  by 
shippers  who  candle  their  goods  closely 
before  packing.  The  receipts  of  West­
ern  candled  eggs 
lately  arriving  have 
very  rarely  shown  more  than  50  per 
cen\  No.  1  grade  and  when  the  propor­
tion  has  been  as  great  as  this  the  stock 
has  usually  contained  so many  heated 
eggs  that  top  prices  could  not  be  ob­
tained  for them.  A  recent  invoice  from 
a  shipper  who  candles  closely  contained 
only 
163  cases  of  No.  1  eggs,  with  268 
cases  of  No.  2,  and  even  with  so  close 
an  assortment  the  high  grade  was  not 
salable  for  as  much  as  buyers  have  paid 
for the  finest  refrigerator goods.

*  *  *

In  a  market  such  as  we  have  recently 
experienced  very  little  dependence  can 
be  placed  upon  egg  quotations  unless 
one  has  a  very  close  idea  of  the  quality 
of  the  goods'in  question.  There 
is  no 
regularity  whatever  in  the  quality  of 
eggs  arriving  from  different  shippers  in 
the  same  section,  and  even  in  a  single 
shipment  the  losses  range  widely  from 
one  case  to  another,  so that  it  is  diffi­
cult  to  get  at  a  fair  average  by  examin­
ing  a  sample  of  the  usual  size.  Oh 
eggs  candled  before 
shipment  and 
packed  in  Northerly  sections  case  count 
values  have  shown  a  range  of  fully  2c 
per dozen  and  on  uncandled  stock,  even 
taking  the  better qualities  from  which 
regular  buyers  could  get  enough  decent 
eggs  to  warrant  them  in  taking  out,  the 
range  has  been  fully  3c  or more.  Goods 
which  have  shown  so  much heat and loss 
as  to  throw  them  out of  a  good  class  of 
trade  have  had  to  go  at  the  best  offer

Geo.  H.  Reif snider  &  Co.

Commission  Merchants

and Wholesale Dealers in

Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs,  Cheese

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331 Greenwich Street, New York 
and Michigan Tradesman.

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however,  and  stocks  are  not  overabun 
dant,  Sicily  fruit  ranging  from  $4.50® 
6.25  per  box.  Trade  is  fair  in  oranges, 
with  California  selling  from  $4@6  per 
box.  Bananas  are  quiet  and  unchanged 
Aspinwalls,  per  bunch,  i.$ io ;  extra  Lo 
mons,  $1.65.

Strength 

is  being  added  to  the  dried 
fruit  market  dally  although,  as  yet,  thi 
is  evidenced  only  by  a  stronger  feeling. 
Prices  are  not  perceptibly  higher,  but 
several  articles  tend  that  way,  especial­
ly  currants,  which  are  worth 
for 
uncleaned  in barrels,and  10c for cleaned.
After  weeks  and  weeks  at  19^0  for 
best  Western  creamery  the butter market 
has  advanced  ic  and  the  market  is  very 
firm.  Arrivals  are  only  moderate  and 
desirable  stock 
is  snapped  up  at  once. 
Further  advances  may  occur,  but above 
a  certain  point  there  will  be  less  de 
mand.  Western 
imitation  creamery 
IS ^ @ , 7c ;  Western  factory,  I4K@I5C.
in  cheese 
and,  as  the  quality  improves,  the  tend­
ency  to  advance  quotations  becomes 
more  apparent.  Best  State  stock  * 
worth,  lor  colored,  g%c.
Stocks  of  eggs  are  pretty  well  cleaned 
up  and  desirable  Western  goods  will 
fetch 
stock 

A  better  feeling  prevails 

17c,  with  refrigerator 

i6^c.

How the Peach Crop Looks T hrough East 
From the New York Sun.

ern  Eyes.

getting 
orchard 
into  rectangular  blocks.

the  benefit  of  the 
sun  the 
is  divided  by  straight  avenues 

After the  peaches  are  picked  they  are 
sorted 
into  three  grades,  according  to 
quality.  This  is  expert  work.  Outside 
of  the  three  grades  all  peaches over-ripe 
for shipment  are  put  aside  for the evap­
orator  and  the  grower  makes  his  profit 
on  them  dried.

Scientific  gardeners  are  trying  to  in­
troduce 
into  this  country  some  of  the 
peach-growing  methods of  France  and 
England,  which 
produce  wonderful 
few.  Over  there 
peaches,  although 
peach  trees  are  usually 
flat 
against  a  wall  with  a  southern  exposure 
or  on  a  trellis  a  foot  or so away  from 
such  a  wall,  and  only  a  few  branches  of 
each  tree  are  allowed  to  grow.

trained 

Then  most  of  the  peaches  on  these  as 
soon  as  the  fruit  develops  from  the flow­
er are  cut off,  only a  dozen or two,  some­
times  a  score  at  most,  being  allowed  to 
develop.  Such  a  peach  tree  as  this  does 
not  look  much  like  a  tree.  But  the  few 
peaches  that  are  allowed  to  mature  on 
it  are  marvels  of  beauty  and 
juiciness 
and  half  a  dozen  of  them  in  a  cotton- 
ined  basket  cost  from  $3  to $8  in  the 
markets.

Economy 

is  a  good  thing,  but  it  is 
poor  policy  to  set  a  hen  on  one  egg,  to 
save  eggs.

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Fruits

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Special Features  of the Grocery and P rod 
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York, 

change,  with  much 

July  27—July  goes  out 
without  much  regret.  It  has  been  a  hor­
rible  month,  so  far  as  personal  comfort 
goes,  and  a  good  deal  of  it  has  been 
detrimental  to  trade.  Friday  came  a 
cooler 
grateful 
weather  and  rain. 
from 
now  on will  take  a  new  lease  of  life  and 
the  fall  season  open  with vim and vigor. 
The  recent  action  of  the  wool  trust  in 
cutting  the  prices of manufactured goods 
has  been  the  chief  topic  in  the  dry 
goods  district  and  there  is  going  to  be 
fun  ahead  in  the  woolen  industry  of  the 
country.

The  trade 

Coffee  is  said  to  be  “ firmer.”   This, 
we  are  told,  is by  reason  of  less  pressure 
from  Brazil  to  se ll;  but  nobody 
is 
alarmed.  In  store  and  afloat  the  amount 
of  coffee  aggregates 
1,193,291  bags, 
against  656,235  bags  at  the  same  time 
last  year—almost  double. 
Receipts 
Thursday  at  Rio  and  Santos  aggregated 
66,000  bags.  With  these  figures  in  sight 
it  will  be  seen  there  is  precious  little 
excuse  for  claiming  a  firmer  market. 
Both 
jobbers  and  roasters  say  that the 
trade  is  purchasing  in  a  very  conserva­
tive  manner.  Rio  No.  7  closes  at  5f^c. 
West  India  coffees  seem  to  show  a  little 
more  strength  and  the  quotations  are 
slightly  higher.  East  Indias  are  neg­
lected.

The  volume  of  sugar  business  is  of 
an  average  character  only.  New  busi­
ness  is  of  a  hand-to-mouth  character 
and  dealers  show  little  if  any  desire  to 
buy  ahead  of  current  needs.  The  sugar 
question  is  one  of  a  good  deal  of  inter­
est  and 
if  Mr.  Havemyer’s  hope  of 
“ three  cent  sugar”   is  realized  it  will 
mark  an  epoch.

Little 

interest  seems  to  be  shown  in 
the  new  crop  of  teas  and  the  volume  of 
actual  business 
is  limited.  New  crop 
Formosas  are  from  i2>£c  up,  but  some 
lots  are 
J£c  lower.  New  Japans,  17c 
up.  Congous  to  arrive,  9c  up,  and 
spot,  12c  up.
Every  indication  is  favorable  for  the 
seller of  rice.  Stocks  are  not  large  and 
there 
is  a  very  respectable  demand. 
Quotations  are  strongly  adhered  to  and 
both  foreign  and  domestic  seem  to  be 
good  property  to  deal 
in.  Choice  to 
head, 
Japan,

5^@ 6j^c; 

Southern, 

The  spice  trade  shows  some  improve­
ment  and  pepper especially  is well held, 
although  not advanced,  Singapore  black 
selling  at  I2%c.  Amboyna  cloves,  n l4  
@ I2C.

Molasses  stocks  are  light  and  no  one 
is  disposed  to  make  them  heavier.  The 
hot  spell  has  been  entirely  too  much  for 
this  article  and  hardly  anything  has 
been  done.  Good  to  prime,  i7@3oc  for 
round  lots.

in  his 

Every  day  sees  additional  strength 
given  to  the  canned  goods  market  and 
sales  are  going  forward  at  a  lively  rate. 
Last  Tuesday  a  jam  manufacturer came 
over  from  Boston  and,  on  the  strength 
of a  probable  advance  in  glucose  owing 
to  a  short  corn  crop  ana  a  consequent 
advance 
jams,  he  took  home at 
night  $6,000  worth  of  orders—a  fair 
day’s work,showing that  if  hot  winds  do 
blow 
in  Iowa  it  is  an  ill  wind,  indeed, 
that  blows  nobody  any  good.  Com, 
tomatoes,  peas,  apples—everything,  in 
fact—is strong.  The  apple  crop  in  New 
York  will  not  be  over a  quarter crop. 
There  is  certain  to  be  a  very  short  pack 
of  peas  and,  in  fact,  the  situation seems 
to  warrant  the  retailer  in  taking  on 
pretty  good  supplies  of  canned  goods 
generally.

Lemons  have  lost  some  of  their  glory, 
as  we  are  having  cooler days  and  prices 
are 
lower.  The  demand  is  still  good,

This  will be  a banner year for peaches. 
The  crop  throughout  the  whole  country 
is  estimated  to  be about 75,000,000 bush­
els,  and  rather  over  than  under  that 
amount.  The  prolonged  drought in some 
parts  of  the  country  has  affected 
it 
somewhat,  but  not  to  any  great  extent 
and  the  hot  weather of July  has  helped 
to  atone  for  the  backward  summer  i 
developing  the  fruit.

Finer  peaches  and  a  larger quantity of 
them  to  the  acre  are  being  produced 
every  year,  due  not only  to  careful  till 
age  and  cultivation,  but  also  to  a  ruth 
less  thinning  of  the  fruit  when  it  first 
appears  on  the  trees.  The  old-fashioned 
peach  grower  would  have  thought 
it 
sheer  lunacy  to  cut  off  three-fourths  of 
the  peaches 
just  as  they  were  begin­
ning  to  develop.  Yet  it  is  by  just  that 
method  that  more  bushels  of  peaches 
are  now  being  produced  from  the  trees 
than  they  would  bear  if  they  were  not 
interfered  with  and  the  fruit  is 
im 
proved  and  brings  a  higher  price.
Another  important  point  about  thin 
ning  out the  fruit  is  that as  a  result  of 
the  operation  only  one-fourth  of  the 
usual  number  of  peach  stones  is  pro­
duced  and  as  the  development  of  these 
is  the  greatest  drain  upon  the vitality of 
the trees  a  profitable  economy is effected 
and  regularity  of  yield  from  season  to 
season  is  promoted.

The  peach  came  from  China  original­
ly  and  reached  Europe  by  way  of  Per­
sia,  and  America  by  way  of  England 
and  Holland.  The  peach  season  now 
has  been  greatly  lengthened  by the ship­
ment  to  our markets  in refrigerator cars, 
sent  at  express  speed,  of  Southern  and 
California  peaches. 
Immense  tracts  in 
Georgia  are  now  solely  occupied  by 
peach  orchards,  a  single  one  of  which 
will  pack  and  ship  more  than  3,000 
peaches  a  day  m 
is 
the  height  of  the  peach  season  down 
there.

July,  which 

longer, 

It  is  not  necessary  any 

in 
these  days  of  refrigerator cars,  to  pick 
the  fruit  before  it  has  come  to  its  full 
maturity  and  trust  to  its ripening  on  the 
way  to  market  after  it  is  packed.  The 
peaches  are  allowed  to  ripen on the trees 
and  are  picked  so far  as  possible 
just 
before  they  begin  to  soften.
The  pickers  are  trained  to  know  the 
right  stage  at  a  glance.  Every  peach, 
as  everybody  knows,  has  its  sunny  and 
its  shady  side. 
It  is  by  the  hue  of  the 
shady  side  that  the  degree  of  ripeness 
is  judged.  To  ensure  all'of  the peaches

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Clerks’  Corner.

“They  Do  Not  Speak  As  They  Pass  By." 
Written for the Tradesman.

The  general  opinion  of  the  neighbor­
hood  was  that  Nick  Thomas  was  not 
only  “ near”   but  dishonest.  Not  that  it 
was  ever  so  stated  in  just so many words 
but  whenever  the  Thomases  were  dis­
cussed  and  their  “ failures”   considered 
that  was  the  conclusion.  That  fact  set­
tled, the fault  was  usually fastened on old 
Nick  and  much  sympathy  bestowed  on 
Nancy,  his  wife,  who  “ if  the  truth  was 
known  had  a  good  deal  to  put  up  with 
and  had  had  ever  sense  she  was  mer- 
ried. ”

Clarence  Stevens,  the  clerk  at  Arm­
strong’s  at  the  village,  heard and heeded 
and  kept  his  opinion  to  himself,  but  all 
the  same  there  sprung  up  an  acquaint­
ance  and  then  a  queer  sort  of  friendship 
between  the  two—queer,  for  one  was 
fifty-something  and  the  other  poled  his 
first  vote  at  the  last  election.  Armstrong 
at  first  didn't  pay  any  attention  to  the 
growing 
intimacy—'twasn’t  any  of  his 
business—but  finally  he  thought  it  best 
to  put  his  clerk  on  bis  guard.  A  chance 
came  one  day  for  him  to  put  in  his  oar 
and  he  at  once  improved  it.

“  Don't  want  to  interfere  with  your 
affairs,- Clen,  but  you’d  better be  a leetle 
on  your  guard 
'f  your  going  to  have 
much  to  do  with  Nick.  Oh,  he  won't 
steal,  but  folks  do  say  that  you  never 
know  what  you’re  buying  of  'im  unless 
you  take  time  to  look  the  goods  all 
over.  You  never’ll  find  any  big  eggs 
in  the  Thomas  market  basket. 
You 
always  want  to  lift  up  a  strawberry  or 
two  an’ 
in.  You’d  better 
give  the  basket  of  new  p'laters  an  all- 
fired  shaking  before  you  take  ’em  out 
his  wagon  and,  generally,  make  up 
your  mind  not  to  be  in  a  hurry  when 
you’ re  trading  with  the  Thomases.”

look  down 

“ You  don't  think—”
“ No,  nor  say  nothing.  Just  take  folks 
as  you  find 
’em  and  never  ask  any 
questions.  Everybody’s  honest  till  you 
ketch  ’em  cheatin’,  and  then  you  want 
to  be  careful  and  not  say  anything 
about  it.  All 
is  queer and 
the  best  way  is  to  let  ’em  be  so and  not 
mind. ”

’tis,  folks 

“ And  just  let  things  go  right  on  and 
believe,  because  somebody  says  so,  that 
’tis  so?  Not  for  me. 
I. haven’t  been 
here  so  very  long  and  I ’m  not  quite  so 
old  as  Methuselah  was  when  he  died, 
but  when  folks  say  that  Nick  Thomas 
is  near  and  dishonest  they  don't  know 
what  they're  talking  about.”

“ Oh,  well,  Clen,  we  won’t  argue. 
Maybe,  you’ re  right. 
I  hope  so.  There 
have  been  times  when  things didn't look 
that  way. 
I  never  took  the  trouble  to 
see—didn’t  care,  you  know.  Don’t now. 
All  I  want  is  for  you  to  keep  your  eyes 
wide  open  and  your  tongue  still. 
I ’ve 
been  dealing  with  them  for some  ten  or 
fifteen  years  and  I ’ve  managed  not  to 
lose  anything  by  them.  The  p’taters 
have  to  be  measured  after  them  and 
their  steelyards  sometimes  gits  out of 
order  and  their  dressed  chickens  are 
not  always  well  dressed  nor  sweet,  but 
in  a  business  way  these  are  trifles  and 
it’s  the  best  way  to  let  'em  go  without 
noticing  ’em .”

“ Y es;  but,  Great  Scott!  don’t  you 
see  what  you’re  doing?  You’ re  putting 
down  Mr.  Thomas  for  a  scamp  when  he 
isn’t  one.  You  say  he’s  stingy  and  I 
know  he 
isn't  and  you  say  he’ll  cheat 
when  I  know  he  won’ t.”

“ Have  it  so,  have  it  so.  I  don’t  care. 
I  make.him  pay Tor  ft, .so there ain’t  no 
need  of  your  turning  yourself  quite

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wrong  side out. 
I  spoke  to  you  because 
I  thought,  just  starting  in  so,  he  might 
sort  o’  get  the  best  of  you  and  I ’d  put 
you  on  your guard;  but  if  you  think you 
can  hold  your own  with  the  old  skee- 
zucks  do  for heaven’s  sake  go  ahead. 
I 
I ’ll  say  this,  though,  the 
don’t  care. 
old  chap  is  down  on  everybody’s  black 
’round  here  and  where  there’s  so 
list 
much  smoke there's  apt  to  be  a 
little 
fire.  You're  the  first  I  ever  knew  that 
Old  Nick  ever  had  to  stand  up  for 
him I”

“ Oh,  I  don’t  doubt  about  there  being 
fire  enough.  The  smoke  has  been  thick 
enough  to  convince  me  of  that  since 
I ’ve  been 
in  here;  but  what  I  want  to 
say  is.  that  Mr.  Thomas  isn’t  the  one  to 
blame. ”

“ You  don’t  mean—?”
“ Yes  I  do.  I  mean  just  that. 

I  heard 
every  one  of  the  stories  pretty  soon after 
I  came  in  here  and  I  believed  them  and 
when  be  seemed  to  take  a  notion  to  me 
I  thought,  as  you  did,  that  he was work­
ing  me.  Well,  I  found  I  was  mistaken 
in  that  and  that  set  me  to working  on 
him  and  I  find  that  he  isn't  stingy  and 
I  find,  too,  that  the  ‘ shenanagin’  you 
have  marked  down  against  him  is  she­
nanagin  all  right,  but  that  he  isn’t  at 
the  bottom  of 
it  and  that  he  knows  it 
and  fathers  it  because  he  believes  that's 
the  easiest  way  to  get  along  and  not 
have  any  fuss.  I ’ve  seen  lots  of  it  since 
I ’ve  been 
in  here—little  mean,  dirty, 
contemptible  tricks  that  a  respectable 
human  being  never  would  think of.  The 
first one  I  caught  on  to  I  saw  in  a  min­
ute  he  wasn't  guilty  of—1  mean  he 
didn’t  do  the  dirty  work—and  let  him 
know  that  I  knew.  He  never  said  any­
thing  nor  I,  either  but  he  bad  my  sym­
pathy  from  that  tim e;  and  what  I'm  
puzzled  about  is, how  to  manage  to  have 
the  thing  stopped  without  making  him 
suffer. 
I ’m  laying  for  her,  though,  I ’ll 
tell  you  that.  She got  pay  for six  quarts 
of  currants  last  month  when  she  brought 
five  and  she’s  getting  ready  for  another 
scoop  the  next  time  she  comes. 
I  wish 
she’d  come  alone  next  time.  Let  me 
catch  her  at  her  tricks  with  a  storeful 
and  if  I  don't  make  the  old 
‘ sannup’s’ 
heels  jingle  it’s  because  I  can't!  Darn 
’er!  They’ve  begun  haying  and  I  hope 
Mr.  Thomas'll  be  too  busy  and  she'll 
come  alone.  She  has  ’ shied’  on  every­
thing  so  far except  butter  and  I'm 
lay­
ing 
for  her  on  that.  O,  she's  a 
skinner and  no  mistake,  but  I'll  fix  ’er. 
To-day’s  Thursday.  Saturday  is  their 
day  and  she’ll  come  primed.  You watch 
out  and  you'll  hear  some  music;  for  I 
feel  in  my  bones  that  she's  in  for  it !”
As  Stevens  had  predicted,  the  haying 
kept  the  “ men  folks”   at  home  and  by 
half-past  nine  the  store  was 
full  of 
women  and  girls  from  the  neighboring 
farms.  At  the  busiest  time  in  came 
Mrs.  Thomas  with  baskets  of  butter and 
of  eggs  and  forcing  her  way  to  the 
counter  insisted  that  Clen  should  drop 
the  customer  he  was  waiting  on  and  at­
tend  to  her.  That  set  the  other  women 
and  the  girls  to  looking  first  at  one  an­
other  and  then  at  the  woman  herself—a 
woman  somewhat  above 
the  average, 
with  black  eyes,  a  firm  chin  and  square 
shoulders  and  with  a  most  determined 
manner.

low 

Clen,  in  spite  of  protest  from  the  lat­
est  comer,  went  on  with  his customer 
and,  the order  filled,  asked  Mrs.  Wain- 
right  what  he  could  do  for  her.

“ Come,  now,  Clen  Stevens,  you  wait 

on  me,  I ’m  in  a  hurry."

“ Yes,  but  you  didn’t  come  next  and 
we  have  to  take you  as  you come. 
If 
Mrs.  Wainright  gives  way  to  you,  I

don’t care.  Shall  I,  Mrs.  Wainright?”

“ Oh,  land!  yes.”
At  this  there  was  a  dissenting  mur­
mur,  but  “ the  next”  had  given  her con­
sent  and  Clen  proceeded  accordingly.

ladies. 

looking  butter, 

“ All  right.  What  is  it  to-day,  Mrs. 
Thomas?  Butter  and  eggs,  I  see.  Two- 
pound  balls,  aren't  they?  Six  of  ’em. 
Nice 
Funny 
what  makes  these  two  balls  bulge  out  so 
in  the  m iddle;”   and,  quick  as  a  flash, 
out came  his  pocket-knife  and  the  balls 
of  butter  were  cut  open  lengthwise,  dis­
closing  a 
in  each! 
“ Gosh!  Look  at  that!”   he  went  on. 
“ Must  have  queer  breed  o'  cows  over 
at  your  place,  Mrs.  Thomas!  Didn’t 
the  bottom  of  the  milk  pail  get  all 
dented  up  when  the  p’tatoes  were 
milked  into  it?  Those  two  balls  go  into 
the  show  case  and  if the thing’s possible 
I'll  keep  ’em  to  show  at  the county fa ir!

fair-sized  potato 

Six  times  twelve—seventy-two  cents  for 
the  butter—the  p ’tatoes  don’t  weigh 
enough  to  count—and  five  dozen  of  eggs 
at  nine—forty-five  n’  seventy-two—
seven—eleven—dollar  seventeen.  What 
shall—” ,

“ Just  give  me  credit  and  I ’ ll  come  in 

some  other tim e.”

“ A-l-1  right!—What  do  you  say,  Mr. 
Armstrong?  Do  you  think  Nick Thomas 
had  a  hand  in  that?—Now,  Mrs.  Wain­
right.”

The  regular  routine  of  the  store  went 
on,  but  Mrs.  Thomas  never  would  trade 
again  with  Clen  Stevens  and  when 
chance  brings  them  together  “ they  do 
not  speak  as  they  pass  by..”

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

The  man  who  is  afraid  to  look  fairly 
and  squarely  at  his  own  life  and charac­
ter  is  the  man  for  others  to  avoid.

A Trade Maker

Fanny  Davenport

5c  Cigar

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Michigu  Kniehts  of the  Grip

Prr«ld™nt’*GkS; f ^0wI!N.  Grand  Rapids;  Sec- 
8 t i t t .  Jackson;  Treasurer 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

United  Commercial  Travelers  of Michigan
Grand  Counselor,  H.  E .  B a b t l e t t ,  Flint
T§?cretary' „ A.-  K e n d a l l ,  Hillsdale 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. E d e l m a n , Saginaw

Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  U.  C.  T.

Treasurer, L. F. Baker. 

8ejdor Counselor,  W  R.  Co m pt o n;  Secretary 
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Michigan Commercial  Trarelen’  Mutual  Accident  Association
President, J.  B o yd  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids 
secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o .  F .  Ow e n  
Grand Rapids.

Second  Picnic  of  Grand  Rapids  Council,

Isn’t there anything going?
We are out just for fun—
Grand  Kaplds Council,
One Hundred thirty-one.
At  North  Park  Saturday, 

July  27, 
Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  u.  C. 
T .t  held  the 
second  picnic  for  the 
members,  their  families  and  friends, 
crowd  of  about  125  went out  intheafte. 
noon  and  all,  both  grown  people  and 
children,  had  a  thoroughly  good  time. 
In  the  three-legged  race  the  following 
teams  entered :  Simmons  and  Rysdale 
Goodwin  and  Ballard ;  Kolb  and  Ten 
hopen.  At  the  start  Goodwin  and  Bal 
lard  took  a  tumble  and  were  unable  to 
regain  their  feet  in  time  to  do  anything 
more  in  the  race,  leaving  the  finish  be­
tween  Simmons  and  Rysdale  and  Kolb 
and  Tenhopen. 
The  former  proved 
easy  winners,  receiving  as  a  prize  a 
barrel  of  crackers.  The  latter  team  was
firesented  with  a  can  of  coffee. 
In  the 
at  men’s  race,  Reynolds,  Pierce,  Snits 
eler  and  Miller  entered  for  the  honors, 
the  first  and  second  prizes—a  barrel  of 
pork—being  awarded  to  Reynolds  and 
Pierce.  The  next  event  was  the  lea 
men’s  race  and  the  following  "shanks' 
lined  up  for  the  starting  word:  Sim 
mons,  Kolb,  Rysdale,  Spurrier,  Korten 
hof  and  Tenhopen. 
Rysdale  proved 
the  fleetest  of  foot  and  was  awarded  ai 
first  prize,  a  barrel  of  molasses.  Sim 
mons,  being  the  next  swiftest  man,  re 
ceived  a  case  of  baby  shoes.  Sam  wants 
to  borrow  a  baby  now  and  any  person 
having  one  to  loan,  please  send  him 
word.  The next interesting event  was the 
ladies  race—Mesdames  Emery,  Keyes, 
Compton,  Dodwell,Tenhopen,  Simmons 
and  Misses  Hattie  Keyes  and  Walker. 
From  the  start  Mrs.  Emery  took  the 
lead  and  won  the  race,  followed  closely 
by  Miss  Walker.  The  first  prize  was  a 
barrel  of  gum  drops  and  the  second 
prize  a  can  of  assafoetida. 
It  was  the 
opinion  of  those  present  that  Mrs, 
Emery  became  proficient  in  the  art  of 
running  from  watching  John  make home 
runs  in  baseball  games.  Mrs.  Compton 
started  in  well  but, to  use her own words, 
her  "w ind  gave  out.”   The  smoking 
contest  was  a  very  amusing  one  to  Doc. 
Goodwin,especially,  as  for  fully  half  an 
hour after the  game  was  over,  he  laid on 
the  grass  experiencing  all  the  peculiar 
sensations  produced  by  the  first  cigar, 
and  every  few  minutes  would  exclaim, 
"O h,  what  a  headache!"—and  he  only 
received  second  prize—one  can of smok- 
ng  tobacco.  When  you  see  him  smoking 
a  pipe  you  will  know  the  reason.  Bal­
lard  won  first  prize—one  box  of  cigars. 
The  six  to  enter  were  seated 
in  a  row 
and  each  lighted  his  cigar  at  the  same 
time,  the  cigars  being  the  very  finest 
that  could  be  procured  by  the  Com­
mittee.  Each  cigar  was  marked  and 
the  one  reaching  the  mark  first  was  de­
clared  the  winner.  There  was  smoke 
enough  from  those  six  cigars  to  drive 
mosquitoes 
from  a  trout  stream.  A 
five-inning  game  of  ball  was  played  by 
two  teams—Slippery  Eels  and  Raw 
Onions.  The  former  was  captained  by 
the  great,  only  and  original  Franklin 
Pierce.  They  slipped  through  so  many 
good  chances  of  doing  things  that  they 
proved  that  the  sobriquet  was  aptly 
given,  although  the  star  play  of  the 
game  was  done  when  Brother  Pierce, 
on 
1st,  unaided,  made  the  double  play 
of  putting  out  two  men,  catching  one 
man  out  and  getting  back  to  his  base 
and  putting  out the  other  man.  Charlie 
Reynolds  was captain  of  the  R .  O.s,  a

strength. 

term  denoting  great 
Roy 
Baker  was  one  of  this  team  and  was 
very  happy  to  be  for  once  on  the  win­
ning  side.  The  following  is  the  score :
Raw Onions.........   0  0  7  8  x
Slippery Eels........  1  3  0  2  0

Innings..............  1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9

in  the  dining  room  and 

Very  many  amusing  things  occurred 
during  the  games,  which  were  entered 
into  with  much  zest.  At  6130 supper 
was  served 
great  abundance  of good  things  was 
hand,  served  under  the  supervision  „ 
the  manager of  the  pavilion.  After  sup 
per  dancing 
in  the  upper  hall  was  in 
dulged  in  by  many  and  the  day  and 
evening  came  to  a  close  with  many 
wishes  from  all  sides that another picnic 
will  be  given  next  month.  The 
judges 
for  the  different  contests  were  W.  R 
Compton,  B. 
J.  Launier  and  W.  B. 
Holden.  The  Committee  having  the 
prizes 
in  charge  was  composed  of  D 
M.  Bodwell,  H.  E.  Skillman  and  F.  J. 
Davenport,  and  their efforts  were  fully 
up  to  high-standard  mark.  Thanks  were 
extended  to  the  following  firms  for  con 
tributions:  Studley  &  Barclay,  B. 
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Reynolds.  Olney  &  Judson  Grocer  Co., 
Worden  Grocer  Co.,  Musselman  Grocer 
Co.,  Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.,  Rindge, 
Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,  Putnam Candy 
Co.,  Hazeltine  &  Perkins  Drug  Co. 
Sears’  Bakery,  A.  Casabianaca,  Vinke 
mulder  Co.  and  Maynard  &  Reed.

Ja  Dee.

Real  or Im aginary  New  W holesale  Gro 

eery  Rouse.

The  newspapers  of  Northern  Michi 
item 

gan  are  publishing  the  following 
with  variations

Charley  Brooks,  the  grocery  traveling 
man  so  well  known  in  Cadillac,  has  de­
cided  to quit  the  road  and  go  into  the 
wholesale  grocery  business  for  himself. 
He  thinks  of  locating 
in  Cadillac,  but 
has  been  offered  inducements  to  go  to 
Traverse  City,  and  may  eventually  go 
there.

The  Tradesman  has  made  diligent 
effort  to  ascertain  the  exact  facts  in  re 
gard  to  the  projected  wholesale  grocery 
house,  without  result,  as  yet.  Mr. 
Brooks,  who 
is  making  Traverse  City 
his  headquarters  for  the  summer,  has 
been  appealed  to  for  information,  but 
is  as  mum  as  an  oyster.  From  outside 
sources,  the  Tradesman  learns  that  Mr 
Brooks  claims  to  have  secured  the  co 
operation  of  two  gentlemen  who  will 
contribute  $75,000  to  the  capital  stock 
of  the  proposed  undertaking  and that  he 
will  furnish  $25,000  himself,  so  that  the 
'nstitution  will  start  out  with  a  paid-up 
capital  stock  of  $100,000.  The  Trades 
man  regrets  that  it  is  not  in  a  position 
to  verify  these  reports  or  contradict 
them  on  the  authority  of  Mr.  Brooks

W hen  F ather  Rode  the  Goat.
The house Is full of arnica 
And mystery profound;
We do not dare to run about 
Or make the slightest sound;
We leave the big piano shut 
And do not strike a note:
The doctor’s been here seven times 
Since father rode the goat.

He joined the lodge a week ago—
Got in at 4 a. m.
And sixteen brethren brought him home, 
Though he says he brought them.
His wrist was sprained, and one big rip 
Had rent his Sunday coat—
There must have been a lively time 
When father rode the goat.

He’s resting on the couch to-day 
The hailing signal, working grip,
He mutters passwords ’neath his breath. 
They surely had an evening’s work 

And practicing his signs—
And other monkey shines;
And other things he’ll quote—
When father rode the goat.
He had a gorgeous uniform.
All gold and red and b'ue,
A hat with plumes and yellow braid,
And golden badges, too,
But, somehow, when we mention it,
He wears a look so grim 
We wonder if he rode the goat 
Or If the goat rode him.

The  most  superstitious,  as  well  as  the 
greatest  thinkers  of  the  present  century, 
admit  that  hens  lay  eggs  because  they 
can’t  stand  them  on  end.

PREMIUM  SOAPS.

W hy  Grocers  Should  Refuse  to  H andle 

Them.

Which  is  the  bigger  fool,  the  retailer 
who  sells  his  own  goods  without  a  cent 
of  profit,  or  the  one  who  distributes 
manufacturer’s  premiums  without a cent 
of  profit?

The  conduct  of a  soap  department 

in 
the  retail  store 
is  a  bard  proposition. 
At  present  there  are  many  entangling 
alliances  attached  to  the  soap  depart­
ment.  A  considerable  number  of  soap 
manufacturers  have  conceived  the 
idea 
that  they  must  engage 
in  the  general 
merchandise  business  to  sell  their  prod­
uct.  In  other words,  soap  manufacturers 
are  far  deeper  than  almost  any  other 
manufacturers 
in  the  premium  mire 
and  most  of  them  are  offering  books, 
magazines,  crockery  and  anything  else 
to  those  who  will  purchase  their soap. 
This  does  not  apply  to  all  soap  manu­
facturers, but  it  does  apply  to  a  few  that 
ought  to  know  better.

reason  why  be  should  cut  into  the  profit 
of the  bookseller  by  distributing  yearly 
subscriptions  to  magazines,  with  soap, 
free  of  charge.  The  distribution  of 
these  premiums  usually  entails  extra 
work  upon  the  retailer,  the  display  of 
them  takes  up  room 
in  his  windows 
which  could  be  more  profitably  used  for 
goods  which  he  was  selling  and  making 
a  profit  on,  and  there  is  no  very  great 
reason  why  the  retailer  should  indulge 
in  these  things.

The  best  way  to  conduct  the  soap  de­
partment  is  to  sell  only  those  brands  on 
which  there 
is  a  profit.  Cheap,  snide 
soaps,  sold at  cut prices  should  not  have 
any  place 
in  the  stock  of  the  intelli­
gent,  ambitious  groce.r.  Premium  goods 
do  not  sell  themselves  any  quicker  than 
goods  on  which  there  is  a  fair  margin 
of  profit,  and  which  are  sold  because 
they  are  soap,  and  not  because  they  are 
an  imitation  of  it,  and  something  must 
be  given  away  to  sell  them.—Commer­
cial  Bulletin.

The  retail  grocer  is  justified  in  refus 
ing  to  handle  any  soap  or any  other line 
in  which  there  is  a  premium  attached 
It 
is  common  sense  to  suppose  that 
the  manufacturer  of  soaps  who  offers 
premius,  in  addition  to  selling  his  soap 
must  do  one  of  several  things.  He  is 
obliged  to  pay  for bis  premiums,  conse 
quently  he  must  either deprive  the  re 
tail  dealer  of  a  portion  of  the  legi 
timate  profit  which  belongs  to  him  to 
cover the  additional  cost  of  these  prem 
iums;  if  he  does  not  do this  he  must 
make  an 
inferior  quality  of  soap  or  a 
'ightweight  bar,  and  sell  it  at  the  same 
price  as  the  good  quality  of  soap,  to 
covet the  increase  cost  of the  premium , 
or  he  must  sell  the  soap  at  a  higher 
price  than  soap  of  the  same  quality 
without  premiums 
attached  can  be 
bought  for.
In  most 

instances,  it  will  be  found 
that  the  soap  premium  manufacturer 
takes  the  cost  of the  premium  out  of the 
retailer,  charging  him  more 
for  the 
soap  on  the  ground  that  the  premium 
will  sell  it  more  readily.  And  every  re­
tailer  who  knows  much  about  business 
is  aware  that  it  is  about  as  difficult  to 
sell  soap  with  a  premium  attached,other 
things  being  equal,  as 
is  to  sell 
straight  soap  without  premiums.  Re­
tailers  will  undoubtedly  find  it  to  their 
advantage  to  carefully  study  the  pur­
chase  price  of  soap 
ascertain 
hether  or not  they  are  paying  for  the 
premiums  offered  by  the  manufacturer 
through .lessened  profits.

and 

it 

The  cost  of  soap  involves  consider­
able  mathematical  calculation.  Manu­
facturers  have  a  habit  of  occasionally 
charging  more  for  the  soap  and  then 
offering  one  box  free  with  a  certain 
quantity.  No  matter  what  kind  of a 
deal"  is  sprung  upon  the  retailer  he 
should  figure  out to a  certainty  just what 
bar  of  soap  will  cost him  and  how 
much  he  is  going  to  get  for  it.  This  is 
the  only  way  he  can  arrive  at  any  dear 
idea  of  his  profit.

Aside  from  the  fact  that  the  retail 
dealer  often  pays  for  premiums  offered 
with  soap,  if  he  has  a  strict  regard  for 
the  rights  of  others  he  should  refuse  to 
ndle  premium  soap  on  general  prin- 
ples.  Premium  soap  usually  does  the 
retailer an  injustice  by  preventing  him 
from  selling  other goods  in  stock,  or by 
preventing  his  neighbor  from  making  a 
sale  of  goods  he  carries  in  stock.  There 
no  reason  why  the  retailer should  cut 
into  the  profits of  his  crockery  depart­
ment  or  the  crockery  department  of  bis 
neighbor  by  distributing  crockery  soap 
1 
| premiums  free  of  expense;  there  is  no

Gripsack  Brigade.

D.  D.  Mitchell  has  retired  as 

land­
lord  of  Hotel  Drew,  at  Otsego,  and  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  Ole  Summer  have  rented  the 
hotel  and  taken  possession.  Will  Drew 
has  been  installed  as  clerk.

John  W.  Schram, 

for  the  past  ten 
years  Eastern  Michigan  representative 
for  the  C.  E.  Smith  Shoe  Co.,  has 
signed  a  contract  with  the  Western Shoe 
Co.,  of  Toledo,  to  cover  Detroit,  Bay 
intermediate 
City,  Saginaw  and  ail 
towns.  Mr.  Schram 
is  a  salesman  of 
discretion  and  experience  and  believes 
that  the  change  he  has  made  will  be  to 
the  mutual  advantage  of  himself  and 
customers.

Georgt  B.  Caldwell,  until  recently 
Assistant  Cashier  of  the  Merchants’ 
National  Bank,  of  Indianapolis,  has  ac­
cepted  a  position  as  traveling  represen­
tative  of  the  banking  and  bond  broker­
age  house  of  E.  H.  Rollins  &  Sons, 
Boston.  Rollins  &  Sons  have  branch 
houses 
in  Denver  and  San  Francisco 
and  a  new  house  will  be  opened  in  Chi­
cago  January  next,  of  which  Mr.  Cald­
well  will  be  placed  in  charge.  Until 
then  he  will  reside 
in  Indianapolis. 
Mr.  Caldwell  will  travel  through  Ithe 
States  of  Illinois,  Ohio,  Michigan,  Min­
nesota,  Wisconsin,  Indiana  and  Iowa.

The  only  thing  a  man  wants  after  he 

gets  all  the  money  he  needs  is  more.

Reserved for the Boys

In view  of  the  congested  condi­
tion of the Petoskey hotels during 
the summer season, I have added 
thirty-five rooms to the

imperial  Hotel

which  I  have  set  apart  for  the 
use of the commercial trade  at $2 
per  day.  although  my  regular 
transient rate Is $2.50 to $4.  I  be­
lieve  this  arrangement will  meet 
the approval  and  hearty  patron­
age of the boys.

W.  E.  H.  MARSH,  Petoskey,  Mich. 

Proprietor  Imperial  Hotel.

The  W arw ick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

Whiskey,  Morphine  and 

Tobacco  Habits

Positively  Cured

Full  particulars  and  prices  for  the asking.

I Patterson  Home Sanitarium, 316  E.  Bridge St. 

Phone  1391 

Grand Rapids, Mich.

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26

Drugs—Chem icals

M ichigan  State  Board  of Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  R e y n o l d s ,  St.  Joseph 
H e n r y   H u m , Saginaw 
•  Dec. 31,1903
• 
Deo. 31,1903
Wi r t   P.  D orr, Detroit - 
A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,190« 
J ohn D. Mu i r , Grand Rapids 
Dec. 31,1906 

President, A.  C.  Sc h u m a c h e r ,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, H e n r y   H stM, Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Doty,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions.

Sault  Ste.  Marie, August 28 and 29. 
Lansing, Not. 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  P harm aceutical  Association. 

President—C h a s.  F*.  M a n n , Detroit. 
Secretary—J .   W.  S e e l e y ,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Sc h m id t , Grand Rapids.

F orm ula  for  Label  Paste  for Tin.

T ry’one  of  the  following;

I.

Rye  flour,  8  ozs.
P.  acacia,  i oz.
Glycerine,  2  ozs.
Oil  cloves,  40 dps.
Water,  q.  s.
Rub  rye  flour and  acacia  to  a  smooth 
paste  with  8  ozs.  water.  Strain  through 
cheese  cloth  and  pour  into  one  pint  of 
boiling  water  and  continue  to heat  until 
thick  as  desired.  When  nearly  cold  add 
glycerin  and  oil  of  cloves.  The  addi­
tion  of  acetic  acid  r  oz.,  powd.  alum  2 
drs.,  may  improve  it,
II.
Dextrin,  20  parts.
Acetic  acid,  10  parts.
Water,  50  parts.
Glycerin,  5  parts.
Alcohol,  15  parts.

III.

Elastic  Mucilage.

Glycerin,  4X  parts.
Soft  soap,  4y2  parts.
Dissolve  1%   parts  salicylic  acid in  30 
parts  alcohol.  Shake  thoroughly  and 
add  to  a  mucilage  made  of  139X  parts 
acacia  and  about  270  paits  water.  R e­
mains  elastic  when  dry,  does  not  have 
a  tendency  to  crack.
IV.

Make  a  paste  by  dissolving  rye  flour 
in  a  solution  of  caustic  soda,  dilute with 
water  stirring  all  the  time.  Add to  this 
paste  a  few  drops  Venice  turpentine  for 
each  half  pound  of  flour.

An 

important  quality  in  a  paste  in­
tended  to  affix  paper  to  metal  is  that  of 
not  becoming  absolutely  dry. 
It  should 
contain  glycerin  or  some  other  hydro­
scopic  substance.  As  the  surface  of  tin 
is  always  greasy  the  paste  should  con­
tain  some  substance  which  will  sapon­
ify  or  cut  the  grease,  or  else  sponge 
with  dilute  hydrochloric  acid  before 
attaching  the  label. 
Odd  and  Hum orous  E nquiries  Received 

Joseph  Lingley.

by  a  Druggist.

In  the  drug  business  many  curious 
orders  are  received,  sometimes  through 
thoughtlessness,  often  however,  due  to 
lack  of  knowledge  on  the  part  of  the 
customer.  The  writer  kept  a  record  for 
several  years,  among  them  were 
the 
following:

1  oz.  of  Oil  of  Bitter Almonds  free 

from  Hydriodic  Acid.

X   lb.  of  Odorous  Iodoform.
X   lb.  of  Carbon  Di-oxide.
1  oz.  Napbtalene  for international use.
1  oz.  Iron  by  Santonin.
1  oz.  Colossal  Caffeine.
X   lb.  Fluid  Extract  Hemorrhoids.
X   lb.  Fluid  Extract  Castoria.
1  oz.  Turpentine  Hydrate.
1  oz.  Discoverine  “ K eith.”
4  ozs.  Red  Oxide  of  Hydrogen.
X   lb.  Menthol  from  Toluol.
1  lb.  Palapatable  Boracic  Acid.
X   oz.  Phenol-Scullion.
I  oz.  Crystal  Oxide  of  Hydrogen  (we 
suggested  the  ice  man).
1  oz.  Dislocated  Thyroids.
1  oz.  Calcutta  Iodide.
1  oz.  Banjo  Ergotine.
1  gallon  Asphaltum  Vermifuge.

1  dozen  Morphia  Suppositories,  sugar 

coated.

1  box  Tanglefood  Fly  Paper.
1-6 dozen  Jayne’s  Alternative.
Glacial  Acetic  Acid  in  thin  sticks.
1  oz.  Formyl  Tri-Chloride  was  asked 
for  by  a  man  who  buys  3  lbs.  of  chloro­
form  at  a  time.

Methazine  and  Phenazone  the  syn­
onyms  of Antipyrin,  aire  often  used  by 
physicans,  that  the  patients  may  not 
know  what  remedy  is  being  used.  Then 
there  are  enquiries  caused by the Pirates 
and  Vultures 
in  medicine—“ the  phil­
anthropic  retired  missionary  or  the  sea 
just  returned  from  a  voyage,  i 
captain 
will  send  any  one  absolutely  free,  a  val­
uable  secret 
in  medical  treatment  for 
peculiar  ailments.”

They  certainly  do  that  and  more,  for’ 
with  the  formula  is  supplied  the 
infor­
mation  that  the  remedies  being  new, 
may  not  be  found  at  the  nearby  drug 
store, 
therefore,  the  aforesaid  philan­
thropic,  etc.,  etc.,  will  send  enough  of 
the  remedy  for three  months'  treatment 
for  one  dollar.  This  class  of  people 
cause  numerous  enquires  for  articles 
not  to  be  found  in  any  Pharmacopoeia 
or  in  fact  anywhere  on  the  face  of  the 
earth  or the  waters  beneath.  There  are 
coined  words  or  familiar  names  with' 
additions  to  them,  fake  medical  terms, 
as follows:

Extract  of  Asiatic  Cannabis  Sativa.
Extract  of  Halish  Sativa.
. Extract  of  Verbena  Hastata,  etc.,  etc.
Hexanitrate  of  Manitol.
Tri-Bromide  of  Salol.
The  remedies  actually  supplied  are 
very  ordinary  articles,  that  if  truthfully 
named,could  be  bought  for a  small frac-' 
tional  part  of the  money  expendeck

G.  R.  Pancoast,  M.  D.

N ineteenth  A nnnsI  Meeting  of  Michigan 

Druggists.

Detroit,  July  20—The  nineteenth  an­
nual  meeting  of  the  Michigan  State 
Pharmaceutical  Association  will be  held 
in  this  city  Aug.  13  and 
14.  Every 
druggist  of  the  State  is cordially invited 
to attend  this  meeting.  Detroit  affords 
an  endless  number of attractions  at  this 
season  of  the  year.  Every  one  likes  to 
come  to  Detroit  occasionally.  Why  not 
arrange  to  come  when  you  can  combine 
something  of 
interest  to  your  business 
with  pleasure?  A  number of  papers  on 
subjects  of general  interest  will be read. 
The  sessions  afford  good  opportunity 
for  discussing  both  the  commercial  and 
scientific  phases  of  your  business.
The  Detroit  druggists  have  arranged 
for  a  moonlight  excursion  on  the  even­
ing  of  August  13  for  the  members  and 
visiting  friends.  Everything  that  goes 
to  make  up  a  good  time  will  be  on 
board.  Maybe  you  have  not  been  inter­
ested  nor  attended  one  of  the  annual 
meetings  for  years;  if  not,  begin  now. 
The  Association  is  yours,  you  should  be 
identified  with  its  wel­
interested  and 
fare.
information 

Programme  and  detailed 

will  be  mailed  on  application.

James  W.  Seeley,  Sec’y.

How  Mosquitoes  Can  Be  Prevented.
Prof.  L.  O.  Howard,  of  the  Govern­
ment  entomological  division,  recom­
mends  the  use  of  crude  kerosene  oil  on 
ponds  or  pools  where  the  mosquitoes 
breed.  A  very 
little  oil  would  go  a 
long  way,  and  the  experiment  wherever 
tried  had  proved  successful  in  destroy­
ing  all  aquatic  larvae,  including  those 
of  the  mosquito.  The  kerosene  seemed 
to  exercise  no  deterrent  effect  upon  the 
adult 
female  mosquitoes.  They  still 
continued  to  attempt  to  deposit  eggs, 
but  in  this  attempt  were  defeated.  One 
gallon  of  crude  kerosene  oil  will,  it  is 
said,  amply  protect  a  pond  of  100  feet 
square  for  ten  days,  under  ordinary 
conditions. 

Martin  Neuss.

The  Drug; M arket.

Opium—Is  unchanged.  Primary  mar- 
ets  are  quiet,  with  downward  tendency.
Morphine—Is  firm  at  the  reduction  of 
ioc  made  by  manufacturers  last  week, 
which  makes  a  decline  of  20c  in  mor­
phine,  which 
is  not  warranted  by  the 
price  of  opium,  but  is  entirely  due  to 
competition  among  manufacturers.

Quinine—Notwithstanding  the  lower 
price  for  bark  at  the  recent  auction  in 
Amsterdam,  manufacturers  have  not  re­
duced  their  price  and  the  article  is  very 
steady.

Alcohol—On  account  of  higher  price 
for corn,  has advanced 4c  per gallon  and 
is  very  firm.

Sulphuric  Ether  and  Spirit  Nitre— 
Have  both  advanced,  on  account  of i 
higher  price  for  alcohol.

Menthol—Is  scarce  and  in  active  de­
mand.  This  has  caused  an  advance  of 
15c  per  lb.

Balsam  Peru—Is  in  small  supply  and 

has  advanced  5c  per  lb.

Tonka  Beans—Stocks  are  small  and 

holders  have  advanced  the  price.

Oil  Peppermint—Is  very  firm  and 
tending  higher,  on  account  of  antici­
pated  small  crops.

Golden  Seal  Root—Stocks  are  low and 

higher  prices  are  asked  by  holders.

Colchicum  Seed—Is  in  better supply 

and  has  declined.

Linseed  Oil—Continues  firm.  Prices 
are  high  and  they  are  warranted  by  the 
high  price  for  seed.

Idiosyncrasy  to Quinine.

Dr.  H.  A.  Hare  reports  a  case  of  ex­
traordinary  idiosycrasy  to quinine in the 
case  of  a  man  fifty-three  years old.  Pills 
containing  about  one-sixtieth  of  a  grain 
of  arsenious  acid  and  two  grains  of qui­
nine  were  given  three  times  a  day  as  a 
tonic.  Within  twelve  hours  after taking 
the  first  pill  he  developed  an erythemat­
ous  rash  all  over his  body,  with  intense 
itching  and  puffiness  of  the  skin  about 
the  face.  At  the  end  of  five  days  with 
the  subsidence  of  the  acute  injection  of 
the 
skin  marked  desquamation  took 
place  all  over  his  body  with  the  same 
freedom  as  is  frequently  seen  in  severe 
scarlet  fever.

No  sooner bad  the symptoms appeared 
than  the  patient  asked 
if  be  were  re­
ceiving  quinine,  and said  that  it  always 
affected  him  the  same  way  even  in  the 
smallest  doses.  On  one  occasion  he 
took  a  calisaya  cecktail  before  starting 
on  a  journey,  and  even  this  small  quan­
tity  affected him  so that  he  had  to  aban­
don  his  trip  for a  time.  His  daughter, 
a  woman  of  twenty,  was  affected  in  the 
same  way.

B acteria o a r Friends.

French 

A  bacteria-infested  age  may  breathe 
freely  again. 
investigators 
have  put  guinea  pigs through a thorough 
course  of  sterilization  with  fatal  results, 
and  the  inference  is  that  an  unsterilized 
world  somehow  has  in  it  elements  of 
vitality  which  can  not  be  put  away  with 
impunity.  M.  M.  Charpin  and  Guil- 
lemonat  have  reported  their experiments 
to  the  Academie  des  Sciences  of  Paris. 
They  took  twenty-seven  guinea  pigs, 
put  them  in  disinfected  cages,  fed  them 
with  sterilized  food  and  allowed  them 
to  breathe  only  sterilized  air,  and  nine­
teen  of  the 
twenty-seven  died.  Of 
twenty-nine  other  guinea  pigs,  treated 
as  nearly  as  possible  like  the others save 
that  no  attempt  at  sterilization  was 
made,  only  ten  died.  The  first  lot  also 
lost  much  more  weight  than  the  second.
The  experiments  seem  to  show  that 
the  vitality  of  an  organism  and  its

power  of  resisting  disease  are  dimin­
ished  when  its  surroundings,  the  air  it 
breathes  and  its  food  are  sterilized.

A  Useful  Point.

With  the  view  of  facilitating  the work 
of  the  prescription  counter  most  phar­
macists  keep  a  line  of  ready-made  solu­
tions of  salts  and  alkaloids  of  definite 
strength.  Many  of  these,  notably  potas­
sium  iodide,  have  a  tendency  to  de­
posit  a  crystalline  growth  around the  lip 
and  stopper  of  the  bottle,  and  the  ra­
pidity  of  the  growth  increases  with  the 
outpouring  of  the  liquid  from  increased 
capillary  attractive  surface.  This  diffi­
culty  can 
in  a  great  measure  be  pre­
vented  by  coating  the  lip  and  adjoining 
part  of  stopper  with  a  thin  film  of  para­
ffin.  This  is  easily  done  by  warming 
the  top  of  the  bottle  and  stopper  (which 
should  be  dry  and  clean)  sufficiently  to 
fuse  a  thin  film  from  a  piece  of  paraffin 
rubbed  around  the  parts  to be protected. 
Solutions  poured  from  bottles  so treated 
leave 
little  or  no drip  behind,  and  the 
unsightly  and  wasteful  creeping  growth 
is  thus  prevented.  Alex.  K.  Finlay.

A  boil  in  the  pot  is  worth  two  on  the 

neck.

Window  Shade
Headquarters

Send us your  orders.  Large  stock  on 
hand.  Special  sized  shades  our  spec­
ialty.  Orders filled same  day received. 
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Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Fred  Brundage

W holesale  D ruggist

32 and  34  Western  Avenue 

Muskegon,  Mich.

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and

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travelers.  Ton will not he disappointed.

“ Charity  Covers  a  Multitude  of  S in s”
So  does  “ Catarrh.”  The  time  has  gone  by 
when  “ Catarrh ”  Is  passed  by  by  physicians 
with a joking  remark  and  a  suggestion  to  use 
salt and  water.  Up-to-date  physicians  realize 
the complications that  follow  and  prescribe  ac­
cordingly.  If they are not1 prepared  to treat the 
case  themselves—and  few  of  them  are—they 
recommend a specialist.  We gave you the symp­
toms of  Nasal  Catarrh;  now  append  the  most 
common symptoms of

Catarrh of the Bronchial Tabes.

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

Go or write to 

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN,

Powers’  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan 

Graduate of University of Michigan and  Illinois 

School of Electro-Therapeutics 

M all T reatm ent

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

symptom blank.

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

Advanced— 
Declined—Morphia

3

Acidnm
Acettcum  ............... $
Benzolcum, German.
Boraclc....................
Carbollcum.............
Cltrtcum..................   47i
Hvdrochlor.............. 
3®
8®
Nltrocum................  
12®
Oxallcum:................ 
Phosphorium,  dll... 
®
Sallcyllcum............  
52®
Sulphurlcum...........  IX®
Tannlcum................  1 10®  l  20
Tartarlcum............  
38®  40
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
4®
6®
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas.................  13®
Chlortdum...............  
12®
A niline
Black.......................   2 00® 2
Brown...................... 
80®  1 1
Red..........................  45®
Yellow...................  2 50® 3 1

Baccse
Cubebae...........po,25  22®
Juniperus................  
6®
Xantnoxylum.........   1 70®  1  '
Balsamum
Copaiba...................  50® 
l
Peru  ....................... 
® i l
Terabln,  Canada....  65® 
l
Tolutan.................... 
I
45® 
Cortex
Abies, Canadian...... 
Casslae.....................  
Cinchona Flava......  
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrlca  Cerlfera, po. 
Primus Virgini........ 
Qulllala, gr’d ........... 
Sassafras........po. 20 
Ulmus.. .po.  15, gr’d 
Extractum

l
1
1
!
1
1
1
1
1

Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  24®  2
Glycyrrhlza,  po......  28®  3
Haematox, 15 lb. box  11®  1
Haematox, is........... 
13®  1
Haematox, Ms.........  
14®  1
Haematox, Ms.........  
16®  1

F errn
Preclp... 
Carbonate  Precl 
Quinta.. 
Citrate and 
ible........
Citrate Solubl 
Ferrocyanldum Sol.
Solut. Chloride........ 
Sulphate,  com’l......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........  
Sulphate,  pure........ 

Flora

Arnica..................... 
15®  18
Anthemls.................  22®  25
Matricaria...............   30®  35

Folia
Barosma..................  45®  48
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
20®  25
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  25®  30
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and Ms......... ....... 
12®  20
Ova Ural..................  
8®  10
Gnmml
6   65
Acacia, 1st picked... 
®  45
Acacia,2d  picked... 
Acacia,3d  picked... 
6   35 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
®  28
Acacia, po...............   45®  65
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®  14
i
Aloe, Cape— po. 15. 
Aloe,  Socotrt..po.40 
1
Ammoniac...............   551
Assafoptlda....po. 40  40i
Benzolnum.............. 
501
Catechu, is .............. 
I
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, 14s............
Campnorae..............
Eupnorbium... po. 35
Gaibanum...............
Gamboge............ po
Guaiacum...... po. 25
Kino...........po. $0.75
Mastic  ....................
Myrrh............ po. 45
Opil__po. 4.90@5.00 3 40® 3 50
Shellac....................  26®  35
Shellac, bleached....  40®  45
Tragacanth.............   60®  90

69Ì

H erba

Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum..oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg
Bue..............oz. pkg
Tanacetum Y oz. pkg 
Thymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, P a t..........
Carbonate,* Pat........
Carbonate, K. & M..
'arbonate, Jennings 
Oleum
Absinthium.............. 6
Amygdalae,  Dulc—
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8
Anlsf.......................  1
Aurantl Cortex........2 H
Bergamll...................2
Cajlputl...................
Cary ophy 111.............
Cedar  ......................
Chenopadll..............
Clnnamonll.............. 1
Citronella................

3

Conlum Mac...........
Copaiba.................
Cubebae.................
Exechthltos...........
Erlgeron................
Gaultherla............
Geranium, ounce...
Gossippii, Sem. gal.
Hedeoma...............
Junipera................
1 50® 2 00 
___
Lavendula  .............. 
90® 2 00
Llmonls...................  i  30®  1  40
Mentha Piper.........   l  60® 2 oo
Mentha Verld........
l  60 
Morrhuae, |gal........
l   20 
Myrcla..................
4 50 
Olive......................
3 00 
Plcis Liquida.........
12 35 
Picis Liquida,  gal..
Ricina.................
1  02 
Rosmarini
@ 1 00
Bosae, ounce...... 
6 50
6 oo® 
Succlnl....................   40®
Sabina....................  90®
Santal....................... 2 75®
Sassafras................. 
55®
Slnapls,  ess., ounce. 
®
TigUi......... .............  1  60®
Thyme......................  40®
Thyme, opt.............. 
®
Theobromas  ........... 
15®
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
15®
Bichromate............  
is®
Bromide.................  
52®
Carb  _______Ml...
12®
Chlorate.. .po. i7@i9
16®
Cyanide........ ..........
Iodide.....................   2 30®
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28® 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
®
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7®
Potass  Nltras.........  
6®
Prusslate.................  23®
Sulphate  po............  
15®

4
4
|

1 Bo

Scillse  Co.................  
Tolutan.................... 
Prunus  virg............  
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls B 
Aconltum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
A rnica....................
Assafoetida..............
A trope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex......
Benzoin..................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.....................
Catechu]...................
Cinchona.................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acutifol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis...................
Ergot.......................
Ferri  Chlorldum....
Gentian...................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Gulaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrb.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opll..........................
Opil, comphorated..
Opll, deodorized......
Quassia...... •...........
Rhafatny...................
Bhel.........................
Sangulnarla........... .
Serpentarla............
Stromonlum............
Tolutan...............
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber..................

10
2
80
7

11

Radix
Aconltum.................
Althae......................
Anchusa.................
Arum  po.................
Calamus..................
Gentiana........po. 15
Glychrrhlza.. .pv.  15 
Hydrastis  Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po................. 
Ipecac, po...............   3
Iris plox.. .po. 35®38
jalapa, p r...............
Maranta,  14s ...........
Podophyllum,  po...
Bhel................  
75®
 
Bhel,  cut................. 
®
76®
Rhei, pv..................  
Splgella................... 
35®
®
Sanguinarla...po.  15 
Serpentarla............   40®
Senega....................   oo®
®
Smllax, officinalis H. 
Smllax, M................  @
Scillae.............po.  35 
10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @
®
Valeriana, Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German. 
15®
Zingiber a ...............  
u®
Zingiber j.................  25®

Semen

Anisum..........po.  15  ®
Aplum (graveleons).  13®
Bird, is...... . ........... 
4®
Carul.............. po.  16  10®
Cardamon................  1  25® ]
Corlandrum.............  
8®
Cannabis Satlva......   4M@
Cydonium...............   75®  1
Chenopodium.........  
is®
Dipterix Odorate....  1  00®  1
Foenlculum..............  @
Foenugreek, po........ 
7®
Linl............I ..........
Llnl, grd..... bbl. 4
Lobelia....................
Pharlarls Canarian..
B apa.......................
Slnapls  Alba...........
Slnapls  Nigra.........  
111
Spirltns
Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 0 
2 50
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 01
2 25
Frumenti................   1  2
1  50
Juniperls Co. O. T...  16
2 00
Juniperls  Co...........  1 71
3 50 
Saacnarum  N. E  ...  1  91
2  10 
6 60
Spt. Vlni Galll.........   1 7
Vlni Oporto. ..........   1  25® 2 00
Vlni Alba.................  1  25® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..............;  2 50® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  50 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  25
Grass  sheeps" wool,
carriage................  @100
Hard, for slate use..  @  75 
Yellow  B e e f,  for
slate use...............   @ 140
Syrups
Acacia....................   @  50
Aurantl Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..............
Ipecac..................
Ferri Iod..............
Bhel Arom.........
Smllax  Officinalis
Senega................
Scillse...  ..............

26
20
25
28
23

M iscellaneous 

Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
.Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen...................  2)4®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto....................  40®
Antimonl, po........... 
4®
Antimonl et Potass T  40®
Antipyrln................  @
Antiiebrin  ..............  @
Argent! Nltras, oz...  @
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N...........  1
Calcium Cblor.,  is...
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms.. 
Cantharides, Bus.po 
Capsicl Fructus, at...
Capsid  Fructus, po.
Capsicl Fructus B, po 
Caryophyllus. .pa. 15
Carmine, No. 40......
Cera Alba.............. ............
Cera Flava..............  40®
Coccus  ....................
Cassia Fructus........
Centrarla.................
Cetaceum.................
Chloroform............
1 Chloroform, squlbbs @ 1  10
Chloral Hyd Crst.... 1 40® 1  65
Chondrus................   20®  25
Cinchonidlne.P. & W 
38®  48
Cinchonldlne, Germ. 
38®  48
Cocaine...................  6 56® 6 75
Corks, list, dl8. pr. ct.
Creosotum...............   @
Creta............ bbl. 75  @
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, preclp........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus............. 
  25®
Cudbear...................  @
Cuprl  Sulph............   6M@
Dextrine.................  
7®
Ether Sulph............   78®
Emery, all numbers.  @
Emery, po................  @
E rgota..........po. 90  86®
Flake  White......... 
12®
Galla.......................   @
Gambler.................  
8®
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @
Gelatin, French......   35®
75 & 
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box . ; . . . •
Glue, brown............  
n@
15®
Glue,  white............  
Glycerina.................  17M®
Grana Paradlsl........  @
I
Humulus................. 
25® 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @ 1 1 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @ 
1 
Hydrarg Ox Bub’m.  @  1 : 
Hydrarg Ammoniatl  @ 1  i 
(
HydrargUnguentum  50® 
Hydrargyrum.........  @ 
1
Icnthyobolla,  Am...  65® 
’
Indigo.....................   75®  11
Iodine,  Besubl........3 40® 3 (
Iodoform.................3 60® 3 i
Lupulln....................  @ 
1
i
Lycopodium............   80® 
a d s ......................  66® 
l
Liquor Arsen et Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @ 
i
LlquorPotassArslnlt 
10® 
1 
2® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Bulph,bbl  @  l) 
soa  
Manilla, 8, 
(

 

Menthol..................  
® 4 25
Morphia, 8., P.& w .  2 05® 2 30 
Morphia, S..N. V. Q.  1  95®  2 20 
Morphia, Mai...........1  95® 2 20
Moschus  Canton....
40 
Myrlstlca, No. l ......
65®
80 
Nux Vomica...po. 15
@ 
10 
Os Sepia..................
35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................
@ 1 00
Fids LIq. N.N.M gal.
doz....................... 
@200
Plds Llq., quarts 
 
@ 100
Plcis Llq.,  pints......   @  85
PllHydrarg...po. 80  @  so
'   ®  18
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22 
Piper  Alba.. ..po. 35  @  30
PiixBurgun............   @ 
7
Plumbl Acet............  
10® 
12
Pul vis Ipecac et Opll  1  30®  1  50 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  75
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
26® 
30
Quassias..................  
8® 
10
Quinta, 8. P. &  W... 
36®  46
Quinta, S.  German..  36®  46
Quinia^N. Y............   36®  46
Bubla Tinctorum__ 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv  18®  20
Salacln....................  4 bo® 4 75
Sanguis  Draconis...  40®  50 
Sapo, W ..
SapoM...
Sapo G ...

12® 

10i

© 

Seldlltz Mixture...... 
20®  22
Slnapls.................... 
18
Slnapls,  opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes.................... 
®  41
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s  @  41
Soda, Boras............. 
9®  n
Soda,  Boras, po......  
9®  n
23®  25
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb.............. 
lM<a 
2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda, Ash................  3M®  4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
so®  55
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
@ 2 00
Spts. Vlni Beet.  bbl.  @
Spts. Vlni Beet. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vlni Beet, logal  @
Spts. Vlni Beet. 5 gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  80®  1  06
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2M@ 
4
Sulphur, Boll...........  2M@  3M
Tamarinds.............. 
s® 
10
Terebenth  Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromae...;........  60®  66
Vanilla....................9 oo@i6 00
Zlnci Sulph.............  
8

  7® 

Oils

__  . 
Whale, winter......... 
70 
Lard, extra..............  60 
Lard, No. l ..............  45 

b b l.  gal.
70
70
go

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

82
83
66
46
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red  Venetian.........   1J£  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  IX  2  @4 
Ochre,yellowBer... 
IX  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2X  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13® 
15
Vermilion, English..  70®  75
Green,  Paris........... 
14® 
18
Green, Peninsular...  13® 
ig
Lead, red................   6M@  7
Lead,  white............   6M®  7
Whiting, white Span  @  go 
Whiting, gilders’....  @  95 
White, Paris, Amer.  @  1  25 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  io@  1  20

Varnishes
No. l-Turp  Coach...  _
10®  1  20
Extra Turp..............  1 1
60®  1  70
Coach Body............2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fum......1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  56®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

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.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

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

28

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

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.

5

Mexican

Straw berries

G uatem ala

85
1  25
90

Choice.................................16
Fancy..................................17

Standard.................  
Fancy............................ 
Sneeotash
Fair.......................... 
Good.............................. 
Fancy............................  
Tomatoes
African................................ 12Vi
F air......................... 
Fancy African................ .'..17
Good.......................  
O. G ................................... 25
Fancy............................  
l 10
P. G ................................... 29
Gallons........................... 
2 75
Arabian.............................  81
Columbia,  pints....................... 2 00
Colombia, % pints.................... 1 25

Choice...................................16

CATSUP

Mocha

Ja v a

1 00
1 20

Package 

90
96

8
Sugar Squares................... 
Sultanas............................  
13
Tuttl Fruttl....................... 
16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. 

J. Kruce & Co. ’s baked goods 

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

with Interesting discounts. 
CREAM TARTAR

6 and 10 lb. wooden  boxes......30
Balk In sacks..........................29

D RIED   FRUITS 

ADVANCED
Canned Apples
Sundried  Apple
Canned  Tematoes
Corn  Syrup
Scaled  Herring

Index to  Markets!

By Columns

B

A

CoL
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabastine........................... 
l
Ammonia...............................  1
Axle Urease........................... 
l

C

Baking Powder...................... 
l
l
Bath  Brick............................ 
Bluing....................................  1
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes................................. 
l
Butter Color..........................   2
Candies.................................   14
Candles..................................  2
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................   3
Carbon O ils..........................   3
Cheese....................................  3
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory..................................   3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................  4
Crackers...............................  4
Cream T artar.......................  »
Dried  Fruits.........................  5
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Flavoring Extracts...............   5
Fly  Paper..............................  6
Fresh Meats..........................  6
Fruits....................................  14

D
F

G

ALABASTINE

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

Less 40 per cent discount.

.......... 

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

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

l
(
BAKING  POWDER 

Egg

DECLINED

Boiled  Oats
Common  Salt

.

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

Eocene.......................   @l0Vi
Perfection..................   © 9Vi
Diamond White.........   @ 8Vi
D. 
8. Gasoline........   @12 W
Deodorized Naphtha..  @i0Vi
Cylinder.....................29  @34
Engine....................... 19  @22
Black, winter..............  @UH4
CHEESE
Acme............................ 
@10
Amboy....................  
3iovi
Carson City..................  
@10
@D  .
Elsie.............:.......... 
Emblem..................  
@i0Vi
@11
Gem.............................. 
Gold Medal................... 
@10
310
Ideal............................ 
Jersey...................... 
@i0Vi
Riverside................. 
slOVi
Brick.......................   M@15
Edam...........................  
@90
Leiden.........................  
@17
Llmburger...............  
pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago................. 
CHEWING GUM 
65
American Flag Spruce—  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Jack.......................  
56
Largest Gum  Made...................  60
55
Sen Sen  ,........................... 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar Loaf....................... 
55
Yucatan............................ 
55
Bulk....................................  6
Bad........................................7
Eagle....................*.............   4
Franck’s .............................   6V4
Schener’s .............................  6

13314
50375
19@20

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Bunkel Bros.

CLOTHE8  LINES

German  Sweet....................   23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................  46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................   28
Premium.............................   31
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...........l  00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz.......... l 20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz...........1 40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz...........l 60
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz.......... 1 80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  96
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, V4s  .......................   36
Colonial, Vis.........................  33
Epps............................  
  42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Hooten, Vis..................   12
Van Houten, 14s..................  20
Van Honten, Vis..................
Van Houten,  is..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Vis..........................   41
Wilbur. Mb..........................   42
COCOA SHELLS
201b. bags...................... 
2vi
Less quantity................. 
3
Pound packages............  
4

COCOA

 

COFFEE
Boasted

Coffees

Special Combination........... 15
French Breakfast................17 *4
Lenox, Mocha & Java......... 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwlnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls..............29
White House, 30-2s.............. 28
Excelsior M. & J„ 60-ls.. 
. ,21Vi
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s.......20vj
Royal Java............................. 26 Vi
Royal Java & Mocha............26 Vi
Arabian  Mocha  ................. 28 vi
AdenMoch.......................... 22Vi
Mocha & Java Blend........... 23
Fancy Maricaibo................. 18Vi
Javo Blend...........................i7Vi
Golden Santos...................... 17
Ja-Mo-Ka............................ l5Vi
Excelsior Blend.................... i4Vi
No. 55 Blend......................... 14
Common............................. .10V4
F air......................................11
Choice.................................. 13
Fancy...................................15
Common...............................11
F air......................................14
Choice.................................. 15
Fancy.................................. 17
Peaberry...............................13
F air......................................12
Choice................................id

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

4 25

New York Basis.

Arbuckle............................ilvt
DU w orth...........................ilVi
Jersey................................ UVi
Lion................................... 11 Vi
M cLaughlin's XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  m i   sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  aU  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City Vi  gross............   75
Felix Vi gross........................1  15
Hummers foU Vi gross........  85
Hummel’s tin vi gross.........I 43

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz in case.

 

Gall Borden Eagle.............. 6 40
Crown...................................6 25
Daisy....................................5 75
Champion............................4 50
Magnolia.......................  
Challenge............................ 3 75
Dime 
..............................3 36
Leader.................................3 80

COUPON  BOOKS 
60books,any  denom... 
l 50 
100books,any  denom...  2 50 
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 are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

Oyster

B a tter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................   1  50
100  books.......................   2 50
500  books.......................   u   50
1.000  books......................... 20 00
500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
6
Seymour..........................
6
New York.......................
6
Family............................
6
Salted..............................
Wolverine.......................
6 Vi
6V4
Soda  XXX......................
8
Soda, City.......................
13
Long Island Wafers........
Zephy rette.......... ...........
13
7 vi
F au st............................... 
Farina..............................  
6
Extra Farina.................... 
6Vi
Sal tine Oyster...................  6
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent’s Water....................  16
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............  
10
Coffee Cake. Java............  
10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced....................  
8
Cream Crisp.......................  
lOVi
Cabans...............................   UVi
Currant  Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
Ginger Gems, l’reeorsm’U  8
Ginger  Snaps
C ....  6
Gladiator..........................  
lOVi
Grandma Cakes..................  9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers.................  
12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  
10
Imperials............................  
8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps......................  12
Lemon Wafers...................  16
MarshmaUow.....................   16
Marshmallow Creams.__   16
Marshmallow Walnuts.  ..  16
Mary Ann...........................  
8
Mixed Picnic....................   UVi
Milk Biscuit........................  7 Vi
Molasses Cake...................  
8
Molasses Bar.......................  9
Moss Jelly Bar................... 
12 Vi
Newton...............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers.................   12
Orange Crisp.......................  9
Orange Gem........................  9
Penny Cake........................  
8
Pnot Bread, XXX............  
7Vi
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8 
Pretzels,hand  made...... 
8
Scotch Cookies....................  9
Sears* Lunch....................  7Vi
Sugar Cake..................... 
 
Sugar Cream, XXX..........  8

 

Shoe

 

 

Stove

No. 8.................................... 1 00
No. 7................................... 1  30
No. 4.................................... 1  70
No. 3.................................... 1 90
No. 3............. 
75
NO. 2.................................... 1  10
No. 1.................................... 1 75
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size---   125
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s........ .......i2Vi
Paraffine, 6s........................ lOVi
Paraffine  12s .......................11
Wlcklng 
................29

BUTTER  COLOR

CANDLES

. 

 

 

CANNED  GOODS 

Beans

Cherries

French  Peas

Gooseberries

B lackberries

Clam  Bouillon

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
90
3 oo
Gallons, standards.. 
Standards................ 
75
Baked......................  l  0031  30
Red Kidney............  
75®  85
String...................... 
80
Wax......................... 
85
B laeberries
Standard.................... 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced...............   1 90
Clams.
Little Neck, l lb...... 
too
Little Neck. 2 Ib...... 
1 50
Burnham’s, Vi pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20
Red  Standards...........  
85
115
White..................  
Corn
Fair........................ 
65
Good.......................  
80
Fancy...................... 
96
Sur Extra Fine................. 
22
19
Extra  Fine.......................  
Fine.................................. 
15
11
Moyen............................... 
Standard................. 
90
H om iny
Standard.................. 
86
Lobster
Star, Vi n>................. 
I 85
Star, l  lb.................  
3 40
Picnic Tails...........-  
2 35
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
1 75
Mustard, 2 lb........... 
2 80
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
1 75
Soused, 2 lb............  
2 80
Tomato, l lb............  
l 75
Tomato, 21b............  
2 80
M ushrooms
18®20
Hotels.......................  
Buttons....................  
22325
Oysters
Cove, l lb.................  
Cove, 21b................. 
Cove, 1 ib  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie..............................
Yellow....................   1  66®1  86
Pears
Standard.................  
70
80
Fancy..................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
l 00
Early June.............. 
1 00
Early June  Sifted.. 
1 60
Pineapple
Grated....................   1  2532 75
Sliced.......................   l  35@2  55
Pum pkin
F air.........................  
70
Good........................ 
75
Fancy...................... 
85
Raspberries
Standard..................  
90
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..............................   3 75
Vi lb, cans..............................   7 00
1 Ib. can...........................   1200
Salmon 
@1 85
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
31 95
Red  Alaska.............  
1  2031 40
Pink Alaska............  4  0031  10
Shrim ps
Standard................. 
1  50
Sardines
Domestic, 14s...........
Domestic, X s.........  
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, V4>.........  
California Vis..........  
French, V4s.............. 
French, Vis............ 

.8
7
11314
17324
7314
18328

156
96

Peas

86

 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundried.........................  @6
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @8 
Apricots.....................  93 9 ¡4
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................   7
Peaches......................6  320
Pears.......................... 7Vi
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  3  3 Vi
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4
80-9025lb. boxes........  @  44
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  @  454
60-7025lb. boxes........  @ 5s
50-6025lb. boxes........  @  5Vi
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  3  6
30-40 26 lb. boxes........ 
7Vi
V4 cent less In 50 lb. cases 

California Prunes

Citron

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn.............................. ...11
Corsican..................................12
California, l lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package.......12
Imported, bulk...................11 vi
Citron American 19 lb. bx...i3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. lOVi 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. lOVi 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
5Vi
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
6
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
7
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........ 
7
L. M., Seeded, X  lb__   5X3
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  7
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland..............
Cream of Cereal............
...  90
Grain-O, sm all..............
...1  35
Graln-O, large...............
. .. 2   25
Grape Nuts....................
...1  35
Postum Cereal, smaU...
...1  35
Postum Cereal, large....
.  2 25
241 lb. packages...........
...1 50 
Bulk, per 100 Tbs............
...3 00
Flake, 501b. sack..........
80
Pearl, 200 lb. bbl...........
...2 40
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.........
...1  17
Maccaront  and Vermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 2B Ib. box...............2 50
Common.............................. 2 40
Chester..................................2 90
Empire..................................8 40

Pearl  Barley

Hom iny

F arin a

2  10

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages...................... 2 00
100 !>. kegs............................... 3 00
200 *>. barrels...........................6 70
100 lb. bags............................... 2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........l  30
Green, Scotch, bu.....................l 40
Split,  lb...............................   3
Rolled Avena, bbl.................... 5 30
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks—   2 60
Monarch, bbl............................5 00
Monarch, Vi bbl....................... 2 65
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2 40
Quaker, cases...........................3 20
East India...........................   2X
German, sacks......................3X
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  no lb. sacks............
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages......  6
Cracked, bulk......................  3V4
24 2 11>. packages......................2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

w heat

Sago

, 

FOOTE A JENKS’

JAXON

Highest  Grade  Extracts^
Vanilla 

Lemon

1 oz full m  l  20  lozfullm .  80 
2ozfullm .2l0  2 oz full m  l 25 
s
No.3fanY.8  15  No.Sfany.l 70

H lb. cans,  4 doz. case....... 3 75
Vi lb. cans,  2 doz. case....... 3 75
lib. cans, 
l doz. case........3 75
5 
lb. cans, Vi doz. case........8 00

 

 

7

P

H

M

N
O

Royal

I
J
I.

Queen  Flake

BATH  BRICK

JAXON

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
Vi ib. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
l 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........l 60

lOcsize__  90
M lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
%  lb. cans  2  50 
% lb. cans  3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21 50

American.............................  to
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 oo

Grains and Flour.................  6
Herbs....................... 
*
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo....................................  6
3 oz., 6 doz. case.................. 2 70
Jelly......................................  6
6  oz., 4 doz. case...............3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case..................4 80
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Jbamp Bumer»....................... 
1 lb  2
doz. case..................4 00
Lamp Chimneys....... . 
15  J ¿ ; ; ldoz> case...................9 oo
15
____  
Lanterns
Lantern  Globes....................  15
Licorice..................................   7
Lye.............................. 
 
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts........................   7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard..................................   7
Nuts.......................................  14
OU Cans................................   15 I
Olives.....................................   7 1
Oyster Pails............................  7
Paper Bags............................ 
  7
Paris Green............................  7
Pickles.....................................  7
Pipes .......................................  7
Potash.....................................  7
Provisions...............................   7
Bice.......................................  8
Saleratus.................................  8
Sal Soda.................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut............................  9
CopHc 
......  9
Shoe Blacking................  
9
Snuff.....................................   #
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices...............   
9
Starch.....................................  10
Stove Polish...........................  10
»yrups..............-...................   »  T_a.iv« size  n«r
Table  Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   11
Tobacco................................   li
Twine...................................   12
Vinegar................................   12
Washing Powder...................  12
Wlcklng.................................  13
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast Cake............................  13

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

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

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

BRUSHES 

BLUING

BROOMS

........... 

R
.8

Scrub

V
w

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MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

9
No. 1  No. 2

White floh 

100 lbs........... 7 so
40 lbs...........3 30
10 lbs...  __   90
8 lbs...........  75

SEEDS

 

Anise....................................  9
Canary, Smyrna".."..!.’." ! " "   4
Caraway.............................   g
Cardamon, Malabar.. 
60
Celery..............................  " '1 2
Hemp,Russian....’" ...........  414
Mixed Bird................ 
414
Mustard, white......... ............9
goppy..........................!!!!!: 10
Cuttle Bone......   ................ IIS’*
__  SHOE  b l a c k in g
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............  
1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish.......  
35
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
35
_ 
Scotch, In bladders... 
37
Maccabov, in jars........35
French Rappee, In jars......   43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SNUFF

SOAP

Babbit’s Best.......................  4 00

Beaver Soap Co. brands

IO

Fam 
2 75 
1  40 
43 
37

Pare  Cane

_  
F air.....................................  16
Good....................  
20
choice.......................!!!!!!  25

STARCH

Kinggford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............   6H
20 l-lb. packages......... . 
6M
6 lb. packages...............  
7%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss
7

40 l-lb. packages...............  

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages................... 
5
3-lb. packages...................  4 u
6-lb. packages..................  
5x4
40 and 60-lb. boxes............ 
3H
Barrels.............................  
314

2 9

II

go.  8...................................  4 65
No.  9...................................  4 60
No. 10...................................   4 65
No. 11...................................   4 50
No. 12...................................   4 50
No. 13...................................   4 40
No. 14...................................    4 40
No. 15...................................   4 40
No. 16......................  440

TEA
Japan

Sundrled, medium............... 28
Sundrled, choice.................. 30
Sundrled, fancy.................. 40
Regular, medium.................28
Regular, choice...................so
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.....................so
Plngsuey,  medium................25
Plngsuey,  choice...................30
Plngsuey, fancy.....................40

6

Vanilla 

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

Lemon

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

L

i

r 

t

A

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

1). C. Vanilla
2 OZ...........  1  24
3 OZ...........  1  60
4 OZ...........  2  00
No. 3T ...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

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

Standard.

FLY  PAPER

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

FRESH  HEATS 

Beef

Carcass....................  6  © 8
Forequarters.........   6  @6
Hindquarters.........  8y,<a  9H
Loins No. 3................ 
10 @11
@11
Ribs.........................
9  ©12H 
Rounds....................
8H@  9
Chucks....................  6
@ 5H 
Plates
©  5 H
Pork
Dressed..................
© 7
Loins.......................
©  m  
Boston  Butts...........
© 8 
Shoulders...............
© 8* 
Leaf  Lard................
© 8
H atto n
Carcass...................  
714© 9H
Lambs......................  9H@10
Veal
Carcass.................
9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

W heat

W heat...:.......................  

W inter  W heat  F lour 

64

Local Brands

Spring W heat  F loor 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4  10
Second Patent..................   3 60
Straight.............................  3 40
Clear................................   3 on
Graham...........................  3 00
Buckwheat.......................  4 00
-  Bye.................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Its.....................   3 75
Diamond 14s.....................  3 78
Diamond its.....................   3 75
Quaker Ms........................   3 70
Quaker Ms........................  3  70
Quaker Hs........................  3 70
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4  40
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 30
Pillsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4  20
Pillsbury’s Best Its paper.  4 *0 
Pillsbury’s Best 14s paper.  4  20 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand|
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  25
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  15
.  Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  05
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Hs....................  4 40
Wlngold  h s....................  4 30
Wlngold  Hs.................... 
4  20
Ceresota Hs......................  4 50
Ceresota Ms......................  4  40
Ceresota Hs......................  4 30
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  30
Laurel  14s.........................  4  20
Laurel  Hs.........................  4  10
Laurel Hs and Ms paper..  4  10
Bolted...................................   2 65
Granulated.......................  2 75
Car  lots............................. 
ion
Car lots, clipped...............   42H
Less than car lots............
Feed and HUlstnilh

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

H eal

Oats

St. Car Feed, screened__   23 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats........22  60
Unbolted Com  Meal........22 00
Winter Wheat Bran.........  16 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  17 00
Screenings.........................16 00
Com, car  lots..................   54

Corn
Hay

No. 1 Timothy car lots....  10 00 
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  ll 00 
Sage................  
15
Hops.......................................15
Laurel Leaves...................15
Soma Leaves....»................ 26

HERBS

 

JELLY

INDIGO

. 
Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.........50
61b. palls, per doz........... 
1  85
151b. palls...................... 
a®
301b. palls...... .....................  67
„  
Pure..............  
an
sioiiy...................................
Boot.................................I,’  io
Condensed, 2 doz.......  
1  20
Condensed, 4 doz............. ..'2 25

LICORICE

EsYB

MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur.................  
1  65
Anchor Parlor................ 
1 so
No. 2 Home........ 
"  i sc
Export Parlor........ 
'***"4 00
Wolverine...........................'1  so

45
75

40
ok
£

MOLASSES 
New Orleans

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 4 oz........ 
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  
_ 
Fancy Open Kettle..........  
Choice.............. 
F air.............. . . 
............  
Good...................
_  
Horse Radish, l doz...........  i  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............ 3 so
Bayle’8 Celery, 1 doz..........!i 75
_  „ 
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs.................... 
1 95
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs............ :: 
i  15
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs.................... 
1 00
Manzanilla. 7 oz............  
go
Queen, pints.....................   235
4  50
Queen, 19  o z ........ 
Queen, 28  oz......;....!..!!  700
Stuffed, 5 oz.........  
an
Stuffed, 8 oz............ i «
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
PA PER  BAGS

OLIVES

Ask your Jobber for them.

Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.
Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
Bottom
Square
....  28
60
....  34
60
....  44
80
....  54
1  00
....  66
1  25
....  76
1  45
....  90
1  70
....1  06
2 00
....1  28
2 40
....1  38
2 60
....1  60
3 15
....2 24
4  15
....2 34
4 50
....2 52
5 00
5 50
Sugar

Bed.. 
Gray.

PARIS  GREEN

......   4M
4M
Bulk.
Packages, M lb., each..........î|
Packages, H lb., each..........17
Packages,  lib.,each..........ia

PICKLES
M edium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count....... ....5 00
Half bbls, 600 count.............3 00

Barrels, 2,400 count............ 6 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count..........3 76
Clay, No. 216............................  1 70
Clay, T. D., full count........*  65
Cob, No. 3............................  go

PIPES

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS. 
B arreled P ork

©15 50 
@15 75 
@16 00 
©IE 50 
@18 50 
@13 00 
@16 60
ou
91*

Mess....................
Back...................
Clear hack...........
Short cut.............
Pi*....................
Bean....................
Family Mess........

D ry Salt Meats

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

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 121b. average.  @ 12
Hams, Mlb.average.  @  1134
Hams, I61b.average.  @  1134
Hams. 201b. average.  @  uw
Ham dried beef......  
©  13
©  7H
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
Bacon, clear.............  10M©  ilk
©  9h
California hams......  
Boiled Hams.......... 
@  171*
Picnic Boiled Hams 
© 12M
Berlin  Ham pr’s’d. 
©  su
Mince Ham s. ........ 
©  9”

Lards—In Tierces

Compound...............  
Pure.........................  
Vegetole................ 
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs..advance 
501b. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
101b. Palls., advance 
51b. Palis..advance  - 
81b. Falla., advance 

7%
914
7M
m
h
34
K
\

1
1

8

»  75
11  50 
11  50
1  55 
3 50
71
1 2
2 21

«
g)

Canned Meats 

Sausages
Bologna.................
Liver.......................
Frankfort..............
P o rk .......................
Blood....................
Tongue...................|
Headcheese, .........
„   , 
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Bump......................
Pigs’  Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs.........
H bbls., 80 lbs.........
_ 
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs........ 
M bbls., 40 lbs.........  
H bbls., 80 lbs.........  
_  
Casings
P o rk ........2
Beef rounds............
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utte rlne
Solid, dairy.............. 
ti  ©
Bolls, dairy..............  i i * g
Bolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Ms......  
Potted ham, Hs......  
Deviled ham, Ms__ 
Deviled ham, H s.... 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
Potted tongue,  Hs.. 
BICE 
Domestic
Carolina head............. 
eu.
Carolina No. l ........ 
.......g
Carolina No. 2 .............  
sit
Broken................. !!!!"!!!!.
Japan,  No.  1 ..................534©
Japan.  No.  2................. 4M@
Java, fancy head... 
©
Java, No. 1 ......................... ©
Table...............................  ©
_  
Packed 60 lbs. In box. 
Church’s Arm and Hammer 3  15
Deland’s................. 
3 m
Dwight’s Cow........! ! ! ! ! ”  3  15
Emblem.................... !.!!!!!!2 }S
mj,  Jr.......................  
300
Wyandotte, 100 M s ..." " " Is  00 
SAL  SODA
go
Granulated,  bbls.... 
Granulated, 100 lb. cases."!! "i  10
Lump, bbls................ 
go
Lump, 146 lb. kegs............ 
g5

ny.
14
2 7i
17 sc
2 71
sc
90
so
90
50
90

8ALERATUS 

Im ported.

SALT
Buckeye

Diam ond Crystal 

100  31b. bags.....................3 00
50  61b. bags........................ 00
2214 lb. bags........................ 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, 1003 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs...... 
27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............  37
Common  Grades
100 31b. sacks.......................     25
60 5 lb. sacks.......................     15
28101b. sacks.................... '2 05
561b. sacks....................  
40
281b. sacks.......................  
22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   20
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks... 
561b. sacks..........................   26
Granulated  Fine................  85
Medium F ine....../.............  go

Ashton
Higgins 
' In Unen sa
Solar Rock
Common

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

 

H erring 

Georges cured............   © 3
Georges genuine........  @ 6H
Georges selected........  © 7
Grand Bank...............   © 3
Strips or  bricks......... 6H©iOH
Pollock.................... !.  © in
H alibut.
Strips.......................................
Chunks.................. 
.....12
T rout
No. 1100 lbs......................   6  90
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 70
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
75
1 No. 1  8 lbs......................  
63
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  20 
Holland white hoopsHbbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
82 
Holland white hoop mens. 
87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................   3 00
Round 40 lbs.....................  
1  50
Scaled.............................  
22
Bloaters.............................  1 60
Mess 100 lbs........ .............   12 25
Mess  40 lbs......................   5 20
Mess  10 lbs......................  
1 38
Mess  8 lbs......................  1 1 3
No. 1 100 lbs......................  10 00
No. 1  40 lbs......................   4 so
No. l  10 lbs......................  
1 20
No. 1  8 lbs......................   1  00
No. 2 100 lbs......................  700
No. 2  40 lbs......................   8 10
No. 2  10 IbS......................   '  85
No. 2  8 lbs..................... 
n

M ackerel

W

50 cakes, large size............3
100 cakes, large size..
50 cakes, small size..
100 cakes, small size..
Bell & Bogart brands-

6  50 
1  95 
3  85
Coal  Oil Johnny...........  3 90
Peekln.............................  4 on
Detroit Soap Co. brands—
Queen Anne.............  
315
Big Bargain..............1  75
Umpire............................  2  15
German Family..........."  2 45
Dlngman Soap Co. brand—
Dfogman 
............  385
N. K. Fairbanks brands—
Santa Claus.................  
3 ¡¿k
Fairy............................  4 00
Naptha...........................   4 00
Oak Leaf...... .................   3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs...............   4 qq

Fete brand-
Cowans & Sons brands—

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single box . ............................
5 box lots, delivered...!.".! .2 95
10 box lots, delivered......   2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands^
Silver King.................  
3 go
Calumet Family..........  
2 70
Scotch Family................  2 50
Cuba...............................   2 40
60 cakes..................!  1  95
Ricker’s Magnetic.........  3 90
Big Acme........................  4 00
3 25
Acme 5c.......................  
Marseilles................... 
4 no
Master...................... . 
3 ™
Lenox......................... 
3 00
Ivory, 6 oz.....................  4 00
_ Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Schultz & Co. brand—
Star.................................... 00
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good Cheer....................  3 so
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes...........................  
514
Kegs, English.............." " !   4^

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

8ODA

CHAS. POPE GLUCOSE CO.

CH ICAG O .

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  eib......
Best Gloss Starch,  3ib......
Best Gloss Starch,  1 lb......
W orks:  Ven Ice, I1L 
Geneva, 111.

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

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages..............  6M
40 l-lb.  packages..............  4

STOVE  POLISH

Young-  Hyson

Oolong

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

English Breakfast

India

TOBACCO

Cigars

American Cigar Factory brands

SPICES 

w bole Spices

Allspice............................
Cassia, China In mats.!."!!
Cassia, Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In roUs__  
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace............................  ; 
Nutmegs,  75-80............. 
 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 11520................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
— er, shot.....................
'ore Ground In B ulk
Allspice,
ipio____ | ....................
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.................................23
Half bbls.............................25
' doz. 1 gallon cans..............8  40
doz. H gallon cans...........1  90
doz. M gallon cans.............  90

„
17
14
3g
50
40
35

28
48
17
15
is
25
65
is
20
28
20
20

8UGAR

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross 
No. 6,3 doz in case, gross 

4 60 
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  tne  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.............................  s 96
Cut Loaf...........................   5 95
Crushed............................  5  95
Cubes................................  5 70
Powdered.........................  5 65
Coarse  Powdered.............  6 55
XXXX Powdered............   5 60
Standard  Granulated......   5 45
Fine Granulated................  5 45
Coarse Granulated...........  5 65
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 55
Coni.  Granulated.............  5 70
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 60
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 60
Mould A............................  6 80
Diamond  A.......................  5 46
Confectioner’8  A..............  6  25
No.  1, Columbia A...........  5  10
No.  2, Windsor A............   5 05
No.  3, Ridgewood  A.......   5 05
No.  4, Phoenix  A............   5 00
No.  5. Empire A..............  4  95
No.  6................................  4 85
NO.  7................................   4  75

A. Bomers’ brand.

Elk’s Heart.....................:65@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.....................55 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 .0. W..............................  85 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26

MICHIGAN  TRAD ESM AN

13

14

30

1 2

P ing

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

Fine  Cut

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

B. L..................................$35 00
Gold Star.........................   36 00
Star G reen....................35  OO
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojibwa................................. 38
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray..,.....................35
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top.......................... 28
Hiawatha..............................58
Telegram..............................28
Pay C ar................................34
Prairie Bose......................... 50
Protection............................ 38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger.................................... 3»
Flat Iron.................... '........36
Creme de Menthe................60
Stronghold........................... 40
Solo.......................................%
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross............................. 24
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe.........................  37
American Eagle................... 34
Standard Navy.....................38
Spear Head, 16 oz................ 43
Spear Head,  8 oz................45
Hobby Twist........................49
Jolly T ar..............................39
Old Honesty......................... 46
Toddy....................................36
J. T.......................................38
Piper Heidslck.....................64
Bootjack............................. 81
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32
Hand Pressed...................... 46
Double  Cross...................... 37
Sweet Core...........................40
Flat Car................................37
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz......................27
I XL,  61b...........................28
I X L, 30 lb...........................32
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................40
Chips....................................36
Kiln Dried...........................24
Duke’s Mixture................... 40
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Turn, 1JS oz..................39
Yum Yum, l lb. palls...........37
Cream.................................. 37
Corn Cake, 2 *4 oz.................25
Corn fake, lib .................... 23
Plow Boy, lJi oz...................39
Plow Boy, 3*4 oz...................37
Peerless, 3)6 oz.................... 34
Peerless, 1% oz....................36
Indicator, 2*4 oz...................28
Indicator, l lb. palls........... 31
Col. Choice, 2*4 oz................21
Col. Choloe. 8 oz...................21

Smoking

TABLE SAUCES

■  LEA & 

PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

S5B__

T W IN E

The Original and 
Genuine 
»
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s, small......   2 60
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, small...................  2 26
Salad Dressing, large......   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..11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand. 
.11
Pure Cider, Bed Star............ 12
Pure Cider, Robinson........... 10
Pure Cider, Silver................. 11
Gold Dust, regular........Z_4 60
Gold Dust, 5c..........................4 00

W A S H IN G   P O W D E R

v in ic q a b

Bub-No-More............................ 3 50
Pear line...................................... 2 90
Scourine......................................3 60
No. 0, per gross......................20
No. i, per gross......................25
No. 9, per gross..................... 86
No. 8. per gross.................... 66

W IC K IN G

WOODENWARE

B askets

Bushels..................................  96
Bushels, wide  band............. l  15
M arket..................................  80
Splint, large............................... 4 00
Splint, medium......................... 3 60
Splint, sm all..............................3 00
Willow Clothes, large..........6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 76 
Willow Clothes, small......... 6 28

B u tter Plates

No. l Oval, 260 In crate........  46
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate........  60
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate........  66
No. 6 Oval, 260 In crate.....   66

Egg Crates

 

Tubs

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Clothes Pins 

Humpty Dumpty................2  26
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  26
Bound head, 5 gross box....  46
Round head, cartons.........  62
Tro’an spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No lcommon...............  
76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
12 1b. cotton mop heads.......1  26
Ideal No. 7 ........................   90
Pails
2- hoop Standard...................l  40
3- 
hoop Standard.1  60
2- wire,  Cable........................l  80
3- wire,  Cable....................... l  70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound.l 25
Paper,  Eureka................... 2 25
Fibre...................................2 40
Hardwood.......................... 2 60
Softwood............................ 2 75
Banquet.............................. 1  60
Ideal................................... 1  60
20-inch, Standard, No. 1...... 6 00
18-lnoh, Standard, No. 2...... 6 00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3...... 4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. 1........... 6 60
18-inch, Cable, No. 2........... 6 00
16-lnch, Cable,  No. 3........... 6 00
No. 1 Fibre..........................9 45
No. 2 Fibre..........................7 96
No. 3 Fibre..........................7 20
Bronze Globe...................... 2 60
Dewey.................................1  75
Double Acme...................... 2 76
Single Acme....................   2 26
Double Peerless...............   3 26
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  00
16 In. Butter........................ l  76
17 In. Butter........................ 2 60
19 In. Butter........................ 3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.................1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ................2 50
Common Straw.................   1*4
Fiber Manila, white 
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4*4
No.  l  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher's Manila..............  2)4
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   2 >
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

W RAPPING PA rtSR
......  

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

YEAST  CAKE

Hides

FRESH  FISH

Magic, 3 doz........................ l  00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................l  00
Sunlight, 1*4  doz.................  60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............l 00
Yeast Foam. 1*4  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish...................  O  9
Trout..........................   Q   9 '
Black Bass..................io@ 
ii
Halibut.......................  @  16
Ciscoes or Herring....  @  5
Bluefish......................  @  12
Live Lobster..............  a   20
Boiled Lobster...........  a   20
Cod.............................   a   10
Haddock....................   a   7
No. l Pickerel.............  a   0
Pike............................  a   7
Perch..........................  a   5
Smoked White...........  a   10*4
Bed Snapper..............  a   n
Mackerel....................   a  15
ColBlver  Salmon......   a  
’ 2
HIDES AND  PELTS 
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
a 6fc
a 6*4
Green No. 1.................. 
Green No. 2.................  
a  8X
Cured  No. 1.................  
a 9
a  7H
Cured  No.2 ................ 
a 7*4
Calfskins,green No. l 
Caifsklns,greenNo.2 
a 8*4
Calfskins,cured No. l  @io
Calfsklns,curedNo.2 
Pelts,  each.................  
50@i 00
Lamb..............................
a 4*4
a 3*4
No. 1.............................. 
No. 2. ............................  
Washed, fin e........ 
15@16
Washed,  medium... 
18@20
Unwashed,  fine......   H@i3
Unwashed, medium. 
14@16 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy
Standard...................... 
Standard H. H ........ 
Standard  Twist......  
Cut Loaf.......................  
Jumbo, 32 lb............ 
Extra H. H .............. 
Boston Cream.........  
Beet Boot.....................  

bbls. palls
a  7*4
a  7*4
a 
a  8
CiftfiOfl
a  7*4
@10*4
@io
a  

Tallow

Wool

Pelts

Mixed Candy

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

a  6
a 7)4
@ 7
a  8*4
a  8*4
a  9
a  8*4
a  9
a  9
a  9
@8
@10
@10
@15*4
@13

Fancy—In  Pails 

8[j
Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
15
12
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
12
Peanut Squares...... 
9
12
Fruit Tab., as., wrap 
Sugared Peanuts.... 
10*4
Salted Peanuts........ 
12
Starlight Kisses...... 
10
San Bias Goodies.... 
@12
Lozenges, plain____ 
@9*4
Lozenges, printed... 
@10
Choc. Drops............. 
@n*4
Eclipse Chocolates...  @13*4
Choc. Monumentals.  @14
Victoria Chocolate.. 
@15
Gum Drops.............. 
@ 5
@ 9*4
Moss  Drops............. 
@io
Lemon Sours........... 
Imperials................. 
@io
Ital. Cream Opera... 
@12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............  
@12
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls................. 
@14
Golden Waffles........ 
@12

Dk. No. 12......... @i oo

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
@66
@60
@65
@86

Lemon  Sours.........  
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Gum Drops.............. 
@30
@75
Licorice Drops........ 
Lozenges,  plain......  
@66
@69
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials.................  
@60
Mottoes................... 
@60
Cream  Bar.............. 
@66
Molasses Bar........... 
@66
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
@66
String Rock............. 
@65
Wlntergreen Berries  @60
Caramels
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
@9
@10
Standard, 20 lb. pails 
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis  @12*4
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
.  @15 
Kosker 2 for lc pr bx  @66
Big 3,3 for lc pr ox.. 
@55
Dukes, 2 for ic pr bx 
@60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
@60
AA Cream Car’ls 31b  @50
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett.......  
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navus.......... 
Extra Choloe........... 
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.................  
Medt. sweets........... 
Jamaicas................. 
Bodl...................... 
Lemons

@
@
@
@
@6 00
@
@
@
@

Messina, 300s..........   6 00@6  60
Messina, 360s.'.........   6 50@6  00
California 3608 .........  4 76@5 60
California 300s.........  4 76@5 60
Medium bunches__   1 60@2 00
Large bunches........

Bananas  .

@12

Figs

Dates

NUTS

  @ 9*4

Foreign D ried F ru its 
California«,  Fancy..  @
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes..............  
 
Fancy, 121b. boxes.. 
Pulled, 61b. boxes...  @
Naturals, In bags....  @
Fardi In 10 lb. boxes  @
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
A
Hallowi.................... 
5 A 614
lb.  cases, new......  
@
Salrs,601b.cases....  4*4  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  @17
Almonds, Ivloa......  
@
Almonas, California,
soft aaelled........... 
16@18
Brazils,....................  
@11
Filberts  ................. 
@12*4
Walnuts.  Grenobles.  @13*4
WalnuU, soft shelled 
@13*4
California No. l . .. 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
@14
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
»13
Pecaas,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@11
Pecans, Jumbos......  
@12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
@
Ohio, new............  
Coooanuts, full sacks  @8 60
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @
Peanuts
5*4@ 
Fancy, H. P„ Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  p„  Suns
Boasted..............  
6*4@ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras  @
Choloe, H. P., Extras
Boasted................ 
@
Span. Bhlld No. l n’w  7  @8

8

9

16

AKRON  STONEWARE 

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

Churns
2 to 6 gal., per gal....... ............
'’burn Dashers, per doz..........
Milkpans
*4 gai  t i t  or rd. bot., per doz.. 
l gal. nat or rd. bot„ each......

Fine Glazed  Milkpans

*4 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz.. 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each......
Stewpans
*4 gal. fireproof, ball, per doz.. 
1 gal. fireproof, ball, per doz..

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

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

6*4
84

85
1  10

60
45
7*4

35 
45 
65 
1  10 
45 
50

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

No. 0 Sun.
No. l Sun.
No. 2 Sun..........*................................

Per box of 6 doz.
l  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 Sun, crimp top, wrapped &  lab. 
No. 2 Sim, hinge, wrapped & lab........

Pearl Top

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

La  Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 1 Lime (65c doz)
No. 2 Lime 1 
No. 2 Flint l

i (65c doz)......
I 170C doz)......
; (80c doz)— .

Rochester 

Electric

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

OIL CANS

LANTERNS

1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz...
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.
2 gal. galv. iron with, spout, per doz.
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.
5 gal. Tilting cans...............................
5 gal. galv. iron  Nacefas...................
No.  0 Tubular, side lift......................
No.  IB  Tubular.................................
No. 16 Tubular, dash...........................
No.  l Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp...................
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................
LANTERN GLOBES 
No. 6 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye,cases 1 doz. each
MASON  FRUIT JARS.
Pints...................................................
Quarts,................................................
Half  Gallons......................................
Caps and  Rubbers..............................
Rubbers...........................................

2 002  15
3  15

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00 r
5 00
6  10

1 00 
1  26 
1  35 
1  60
8 60 
4 00 
4 70

4 00 
4 70

-1 40 
1 68
2 78
3 76
4 86 
4 26 
4 96 
7 26 
9 00
4 86 
7 40 
7 60 
7 60 
13 50 
3 60

45 
45 
2  00 
1  25

6 25 
6 50 
9 00 
2 tO 
25 &  36

Qlover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or Gasoline.

Glover’s  Wholesale  Merchandise  Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers of 

GAS and  GASOLINE SUNDRIES

Office StJllJIK'rII

^ T T E R ^ g   , h»b — h E A D S
¡I C ¡ lope¡ s-T r a d e sm a k
COMPANY.
COMPANY,
COUNTER  BILLS. 
JL  grand  rapids
---------  ■ .......... 
G R A N D   RAPIDS

“Summer  Light”

Light  your  Hotels,  Cottages and 
Camps with the

" N U L I T E ”

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

C H IC A G O  SO LA R   LIG H T  C O .. 

Chicago, 111.

Dept.  L. 

nrrnrrrinrrnr}
3 
0  The 
Prompt  a 
People  3

Our  customers  call  us  the 
“ prompt  people”  because  they 
can  order almost  anything  of  us 
by telephone,  telegraph  or  letter 
and get it  at  once.  We  appreci­
ate a man does not want anything 
until  he  orders  lt  and  when  he 
does order It, he wants lt  at once.
So we do our best to get lt to him 
at once.  Do you want this service?

Brown  &  Sehler 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

ol

ju u u u u u u u u U

PARIS

G R EEN

L A B E L S

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:

IOO labels, 25 cento 
200 labels, 40 cento 
500 labels, 75 cento 
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
C O M P A N Y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

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TV  1  3

*   1   «

r a n d o m   r e f l e c t io n s .

Two  months  ago,  with  every  pros­
pect  of  the  largest  crop  of  small  fruits 
in  the  history  of  the  country,”   re­
marked  a  well-posted  groceryman,  “ we 
were  wondering  how  we  could  move  our 
stock  of  canned  goods  with  the  least 
loss.  Now  the  situation  is  reversed.  In­
stead  of  moving  our stock  on  hand  at  a 
loss,we  are  confronted  with  the  problem 
of  a  short  pack  and are wondering where 
we  are  going  to  obtain  sufficient  sup- 
.plies  to  meet  the  requirements  of our 
customers. ”

*  *  *

She  was  a  traveling 

salesman 

saleswoman.  She  boarded  a  northbound 
Pere  Marquette  train  at  the  union  depot 
and  found  the  best  coach  well  filled 
Two  seats  facing  each  other were  occu 
pied  by  two  young  women  who  had 
spread  themselves  out  in  a  manner  pe 
culiar  to  the  female  hog.  The  sales 
woman  requested  one  of  the  girls 
move  along  so  as  to  make  room  for  her, 
but  the  request  was  ignored. 
It  was  re 
peated  somewhat  peremptorily,  without 
result.  A  third  request,  which  was 
couched  in  terse  language and uttered in 
a  tone  which  resembled  the  rumbling  of 
distant 
thunder,  caused  one  of  the 
young  women  to  move  along  and  make 
room  for  the  saleswoman,  but  the  ex 
pression  on  her  face  showed  that  the ac 
tion  was  not  done  gracefully.  At  the 
West  Side  depot  two  portly  women, 
with  babies  in  arms  and  other  children 
hardly  old  enough  to  be  out  of  arms 
boarded  the  train.  This  was  the  golden 
opportunity  for the  saleswoman.  Beck 
oning  to  the  women,  she  quietly  relin 
quished  her  seat  to  one  of them  and 
directed  the  other  to  the  opposite  seat, 
which  directions  were  followed  to  the 
letter,  including  the  assembling  of  four 
or five  children  who squeezed in between 
their  mothers  and  the  original  occu 
pants  of  the  seats.  The  saleswoman 
stood  in  the  aisle  until  she  reached  her 
destination  at  Sparta,  when  she  leaned 
over the  seat  and  quietly  addressed  the 
girls  reminding  them  that  selfishness  is 
not  a  virtue  and  that  it  always  meets  its 
reward.  The  remarks  appeared  to  add 
to  the  discomfiture  of  the young  women 
whose  faces  were  already  black  with 
rage  and  disappointment.

and 

“ Do  you  know,”   remarked  a  leading 
Grand  Rapids  grocer  and  a 
long-time 
officer of  the  local  organization,  ‘ ‘ that  I 
hunger  for  a  return  to  the  early  days  of 
the  Association,  when  a  grocers’  picnic 
meant  what  its  name  implies and  not  a 
crowd  of  people  who  have  little  or noth­
ing  in  common  with  the  grocery  trade? 
In  the  halcyon  days  of the  ’80s  we  used 
to get  together as  grocers  and  clerks and 
have  a  good  time  without  the  aid—and 
expense—of  brass  bands 
street 
parades  and  the  numerous  spectacular 
features  which  have  been  added  to  the 
celebration  from  year  to  year. 
In  those 
days  I  used  to  improve  the  opportunity 
to  get  acquainted  with  my  brother  gro­
cers,  but  now  I  would  as  soon  think  of 
looking  for  a  needle  in  a  haystack  as  to 
find  a  grocer  in  such  a  crowd. 
I  at­
tended  this  year’s  picnic  as  a  matter  of 
habit,but  there  was  no  particular enjoy­
in  the  event  for  me,  because  the 
ment 
original 
idea  of  a  reunion  of  grocers 
and  clerks  has  been  superseded  by  the 
plan  of  making  the  event  a money-mak­
ing  scheme  for the  street  railway  com­
pany  and  the  caterers  and  saloon  keep-j 
ers  at  Reed’s  Lake.

*  *  *

The  writer  has  had  his  first  experi­
ence  in  settling  a  loss  covered  by  fire

40
se
7560
2 60
3 00
4 96
5 80

1  20 
1  20

Per
$2 9C
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 96
3 00
2 60
2 60
2 66
2 70
2 70

6
» 00 
6 60 
10 50
12  00 
29 00

$4 00

MICHIGAN  T R A D E S M A N

Hardware  Price Current

.

.

 

.

I 

,  

’ 

4

• •  

•  Caps

Primers

Cartridges

Drs. of 
Powder 

No.
120129
136
164
200

New Rival—For Shotguns 

in  the  Friedman  conflagra-  Black edge, Nos. u Z Z T . M   c 

Ammunition 
6. D., full count, per m.............
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m......
Musket, per m............................
Ely’s Waterproof, per m .III"" I
„   _ 
No. 22 short, per m..................

insurance  and  candor  compels  him  to 
admit  that  some  opinions  he  had  pre­
viously  entertained  regarding  the  harsh­
ness  and  cunning  of  all  insurance  ad­
justers  were  erroneous.  The  writer  has 
met adjusters  in  the  past  who  boasted  of 
the  manner  in  which  they  “ skinned”  
policy  holders  who  had  met  losses  by 
fire,  but  this  type  of adjusters  appear  No. 22 long, permT 
to  be  in  the  m inority-if,  indeed,  they I ®
f 0hn0grt' ^ rmm• 
have  not  been  altogether superseded  by 
men  of  broader  ideas  and  better busi-  No. 2 U. M. c., boxes 280, per m... 
ness methods.  The  loss sustained  by  the  No‘ 2 Winchester, boxes 260, per in."
Tradesman 
tion  was  wholly  by  water and  the  inter-  Black edge, Nos. 9 and 10. per m 
ruption  to  its  business  by  reason  of  one |Black ed*e’ No‘ 7;P ®r®  
Loaded  Shells 
side  of  the  Blodgett  building  being 
flooded  from  basement  to  attic  and  tem 
oz.of
Size
Shot
Shot Gauge
porarily  deprived  of  elevator  service 
ie
10
1%
and  electric  light.  The  damage  covered 
1 K
9
10
8
IK
by  insurance  consisted  in  the  wetting  of | 
10
6
IK
10
4*4*3
a  small  portion  of the  paper  stock  car­
6
IK
10
4
IK
•  10
ried  by  the  company  on  shelves  ad-1 
1
10
12
3
1
8
jacent  to  the  partition  wall  between  the 
12
3*
IK
6
12
two  sections  of  the  building.  The  loss  265 
3H
5
IK
12
3K
IKcent.
4
12
was  carefully  compiled  by  the  writer  264 
« U »  1A
and  assistants  and  reduced  to typewriter
r 
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
, 
" I  
torm,  giving 
in  detail  the  actual  cost (JJ0,10* Pasteboard boxes loo, per 
-----¿eboard boxes 100, per 100..
.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
price  of  each  article,  including  freight.  '  * ”  
E
Gunpowder 
Opposite  each  item  was noted  the  page
Kegs, 25 lbs., per keg
in  thè  cost  book  in  which  the  purchase I ^ kegs, 1 2 % lbs., per  %  keg
H kegs, 6J4 lbs., per ¡4  keg 
price  covering  the  article  was  to  be
Shot
found.  Where  lower  quotations  had. 
been  secured  since  purchases  had  been  Dr°P'a118lzes smaller than B......
made,  the  letters  containing quotations j Snell’s 
were  made  part  of  the  exhibit.  The  Jennings  genuine" 
loss  footed  up $ 1 , 1 7 0 . 9 4   and,  when  the IJennln*^’ ™ ltatl011- 
adjusters  called,  they  were  informed  First Quality, S.B.B ro™  
that  the  fraction  would  be  waived,  leav-1 Ej18! Quality. I>. B. Bronze, 
ng  the  damage at an  even $ 1 , 1 7 0 .  The I First (jjuailtyl  D.^B.^Stee? 6 1 
adjusters  took  the  schedule  of  loss,  I j. 
Barrows
checked  it over  item  by  item  with  the I G a r d e n . " I I " " " " ...............net
stock-keeper,  bantered  a  few  minutes 
for  a  larger  allowance  for salvage  and  carrta*¿' 
then  announced  that  the  loss  was  ad-  Plow 
’ 
justed  at the  figure  claimed.  Proofs  of j w 
loss  were  made  out  promptly and within  WeU’ pl8ln 
three  days  checks  were  received  from  cast Loose Pin, 
the  various companies  interested  for the  Wrought Narrow 
entire amount,  thus closing the  account I 
to the  satisfaction  of all  concerned.  Al-1 
though  the  adjusters  did  not  say  so,  the I bSl .7 .7 ." II"  1 % ' 
promptness  with  which  the  settlement  BBB......8*  
•••  7X
was  effected  was  probably  due,  in  no  r„ t 
small  degree,  to  the  care  with  which 
every detail  connected  with  the  loss  was I Socket Firmer .. 
set  forth  and  the  facility  afforded  the  I |£ket S r “*’ 
adjusters  to  verify  every  price and  sub- I Socket Slicks, 
Elbows
stantiate every  statement made  as to the 
Per doz...............net
actual  cost of  the  goods  damaged  Of IS0 “ 1 , 4 
course,  the  ordinary  fire  insurance  pol-1 Adjustable............................ .V.V.dls
icy  does  not  cover the  loss  incident to | 
the  interruption  to business—it  requires [ 1 ^ * 1! 1“ ^ ’ $2 4- V & o  ** 

_  _  Crowbars
........
**

In sacks containing 25 lbs.

K In. 
5  c.  , 
6M 
6X

Expansive Bits

*  to-  *-M In.

An*ur* “ »<* 

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

Backets

Chain

° “ t

6 

L

special  form  for that  purpose—but  it 

’ 

’  ’  FUe¿-New List

ppeared  to be  the  intention  of  the  ad-  S £ i4 merlcan
justers  to  nx  the  damage  at  a  figure I Heller’s Horse Rasps, 
which  would  enable  the  insurance  to  re-1  _ 
place  the  goods  actually 
destroyed.

injured  or] 

Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26:  27. 
List  12 
is
Discount,  66

Galvanized iron

15 

14 

13 

Gauges

Business Before Pleasure.

The  old  man  was  smoking  bis  pipe 

on  the  porch as  the  young  man  left  tl 
house.

“ Things  have  changed  since  I  was  a 
“ How  so?”   demanded 

lad, ’ ’  suggested  the  old  man.
man.

young

the 

Glass

[ Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s__ .....
I Single Strength, by box....... 
dis
Double Strength, by box................. dls
By the Light.....................'.".’.'.dls
.  dls
""dls

Hammers
Maydole & Co.’s, new list___ 
Yerkes & Plumb’s.................. 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel.......30c list

we  didn’t  burn  one 
two. ’ *

w<L went  .courting I Gate, Clark’s 1 , 2, 3 ..Hinf e8............dls
gas 

jet,  let  alone

Hollow Ware

Pots.

7 Possibly, ”   suggested  the young  man I SSffij*...................................H ill 
............................................  

pointedly;  “ if  you  had  fallen  heir  to  p 
some gas stock  about that time  it  might | au sable 
have  made  a  difference.”
house  and  told  his daughter that  when  Japanned Tinware...............I.IIIIII
good  business  man  in  the  family  she  ^ h tito L d """'...........................
could  have  his consent at  any  time. 
K u ^ N e w  "¿¿t" "

thereupon  the  old  man  went  into  the  Stamped Tinware, new list
came  to a  question  of getting a  real I 
Iron

Hor*® li*iu 

XT 
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...
Never buy  a  thermometer in  the  sum-1 Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings.

T„ _  

~~ 

, 

. 

mer—they  are  always much  lower  in  the I „  
winter, 

, 

_  

Lanterns
| Regular OTubular, Doz.,
I Warren, Galvanized Fount I

60& 10
50&10
60&10
60*10
• dis  403(10 
70
20&10

800600

3 1

70

70—10

a

40
763(10
86
.  60&10&10 
60
603)10
30

Levels

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s.....
..dls 
Adze Eye............................ $ 17 00. .dls 
600 pound casks..............
Per pound....... 

Metals—Zinc 

Mattocks

Miscellaneous

Bird Gages.............
Pumps, Cistern.........
Screws, New List...
Casters, Bed and Plate........
Dampers, American............
Stebblns’ Pattern...
Enterprise, self-measuring.....
Fry, Acme................
Common,  polished....

Pans

Molasses Gates 

703(6
“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10 75 
B  Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27 
9 76
Broken packages Kc per pound extra.

Patent  Planished  Iron 

Planes

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

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Nails
Steel nails, base.................
Wire nails, base.................
20 to 60 advance..................
10 to 16 advance.................
8 advance........................
6 advance.......................
4 advance.........................
3 advance........................ .
2 advance......................
Fine 3 advance................
Casing 10 advance...............
Casing 8 advance................
Casing 6 advance................
Finish 10 advance...............
Finish 8 advance................
Finish 6 advance................
Barrel  \  advance...............
Rivets
Iron and Tinned................
Copper Rivets and Burs......

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean............I.. I
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. II 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

Ropes

Sisal, K Inch and larger...................
Manilla.............................."..".I.
List acct. 19, ’86..............................dls

Sand Paper 
Sash Weights

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

Sheet Iron

so
m
50
m

2  66 
2  66 Base 
6 
10  20 
30
45 
70 
60 
16 
26 
36 
26 
38
46 
86

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

Kin 
4* 0, 
.  6 
■  6K

66 
1 26 
403)10

ro& io
70
70

60&10

80&20
80&20
80&20

33K40&10
70

com. smooth.

com. 
$3  20 
3 20 
8 30 
3 40 
3 60 
„
3 60
All Sheets No. 18 and  lighter,  over  30  inches 

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

Shovels and  Spades

8  00 7 60

Solder

First Grade, Doz.......
Second Grade, Doz.....
K@K........................................... 
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
Steel and Iron....
Tin

Squares 

-Melyn  Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal...........................
14x20 IC, Charcoal......................
20x14 IX, Charcoal.;.....................,..
Each additional X on this grade, $1 .28. 
Tin—Allaway Grade
10x14 IC, Charcoal....................
14x20 IC, Charcoal.................... I "II
10x14 IX, Charcoal...........................
14x20 IX, Charcoal.................... .
Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

Boiler Size Tin Plate 

Wire

Traps

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, 1 ___
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WEANED  FROM  DIRT.

Influence  of a  Fastidious  Customer  on  a 

Slovenly  Grocer.

The  grocet  whom  I  take  as  a  text  this 
week  was a mighty slovenly boy.  He was 
slovenly  about  himself  and  about  all  his 
belongings. 
I  went  to  school  with  him 
—his  copy  books  were  worse  than mine, 
and  I  was  no  bar  of  soap  at  that  time 
myself.  This  boy’s  name  was  James, 
but  we  called  him  Jim  for  short.

Jim   grew  up  from  a  slovenly  boy  to 
is  worse—a  slovenly  man.  His 
what 
father  was  a  grocer  and  Jim  started  in 
to  learn  the  business,  probably  because 
it  is  easier to  be  sloppy  in  the  grocery 
if  you  want  to  be,  than  in 
business, 
other  business.  He  had  been 
in  the 
store  or three  or  four years, when the  old 
man  died  and  left  it  to  him.

A  few  months  after  that,  when  Jim 
bad  had  a  chance  to  impress  his  indi­
viduality  upon  the  store,  I  went  in  it 
one  day.  Ye  gods!  Of  all  the  filthy 
places  I  was  ever  in  that  was  the  worst! 
It  was  Jim ’s  store  and  it  looked  like 
Jim. 
It  was  so dirty  and  disgusted  me 
so that  I  said  to  Jim :

“ Great  Scott,  man,  why  don’t  you 
clean  this  place  up?  You’ve  got  a  reg­
ular  pig  pen  here!  How  do  you  expect 
clean  people  to  come  into  it?’ ’

swept  every  morning!”   Jim 
answered  with  perfect  good  nature.  As 
a  matter  of  fact,  it  ought  to  have  had 
the  fire  hose  every  morning.

“ It’s 

I  didn’t  see  Jim 's  place  again  for 
about  two  years,  and  when  I  went  back 
there  and  looked  around,  I  thought  Jim 
must  have  died. 
It  was  so clean l  Be­
fore  I  could  ask  Jim  came  in,  but  it 
wasn't  the  same  man  I  had  known  at 
all.  His  finger  nails  were  actually  clean 
—a  thing  I  had  never seen  before  since 
I  had  known  him.  He  bad  a  clean 
shirt  on,  too.

When  I  got  my  breath,  I  observed  to 

Jim :

“ Old  man,  I  want  to  congratulate  you 
on  the  appearance  of  your  store.  It’s  as 
different  from  the  way  it  used  to  be  as 
day  is  different  from  night.”

Jim  laughed  appreciatively,  and  said :
“ I  don’t  think  I ’m  sloppy  myself  as 

I  used  to  be,  am  I?”

I  made  some  polite  observation  with 
the  grace  which  is  characteristic  of  me.
it  all  came 

“ Do  you  wonder  how 

about?”   he  asked.

Now,  those  who  know  me  will  ques­
tion  my  truthfulness  when  I  say  that  I 
was  embarrassed  just  here,  but  I  really 
was.  To  express  surprise  that  a  sloppy 
man  could  reform  is  scarcely  a  delicate 
thing  to  do,  but  I  wanted  to  hear the 
story  so managed  to  express  some  curi­
osity.

“ Come  back,”   said  Jim,  “ and  I ’ ll 

tell  you.”

The  story  was  too  long  to  be  told 

in 
Jim ’s  own  words,  so  I'll  condense  it. 
When  Jim  was  in  his  prime  as  a  sloppy 
grocer a  rich  maiden  lady  moved 
into 
his  neighborhood.  She  rarely  went out, 
but  had  a  craze to do her own marketing, 
and  Jim ’s  store  was  the  only  one  con­
venient  to  her  house. 
Jim   said  that  the 
first  time  she  came  to  his  store  she  ob­
served,  without  circumlocution,  that  it 
was  the  filthiest  store  she  had  ever seen. 
She  found  fault  with  everything and told 
him  she’d  try  him  for  a  month,  and  if 
he  didn’t  do  better  in  that  time  she'd 
go  to  another  store,  much  as  she  dis­
liked  to  walk  any  farther  than  she  had 
to.

Jim  wanted  her  trade,  for  she  bought 
lots  of  the  best  and  paid  every  week. 
So  he  simply  went to  work  to keep  his 
place  clean. 
It  was  hard  work—Jim

MICHIGAN  TRADESM AN

wasn’t  clean  by  nature.  Once  the  old 
lady  asked  him  whether there  was  any 
law  compelling  grocers  to  wear  black 
nails.  Another  time  she  asked  him 
whether  he  couldn’t  afford  to  wear  clean 
If  he  couldn't,  she  said,  she 
linen. 
would  take  pleasure 
in  giving  him 
some.  That  roused  him,  Jim  said,  as 
nothing  she  had  ever  bad  said  to  him 
had  done,  and  he  spent  the  most  of  that 
night  taking  a  tumble  to  himself.

Well,  to  make  a  long  story  short  Jim 
gradually  reached  the  point  where  he 
and  his  store  were  actually  clean. 
It 
was  hard  work,  he  told  me—nobody 
knew,  he  said,  how  hard  it  was.  After 
it  all,  when  he  bad  gotten  the  store  in 
fairly  passable  condition,  and  was  able 
to  see  himself  as  he  had  been  formerly, 
he  went  to  the  to  lady  and  thanked  her 
fervently  and  heartfully  for  making  him 
over.  After  the  standard  was  once 
raised.it  was  easy  to  maintain  it  toward 
everybody.

“ Can  the 

Ever  since  Jim  told  me  this  story, 
in  the  thunders  of 
when  my  pastor 
the  well- 
sacred  oratory,  propounds 
known  question, 
leopard 
change  his  spots  or  the  Ethiopian  his 
skin?”   I  answer  mentally,  “ He  can.”
It’s  a  pity  that  every  grocer  whose 
methods,  store  or  person 
is  sloppy, 
can’t  have  a  rich  and  fastidious  maiden 
lady  move 
into  his  neighborhood.— 
Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Growing Importance  of  the  Apple  Crop.
We  may  well  pause  in  the  discussion 
of  steel  and  other  manufactured  exports 
to  contemplate  for  a  brief  moment  the 
meek  and 
lowly  apple  and  its  import­
ance  in  these  United  States.

According  to  the  Independent,  the 
American  apple  crop  of  1900 aggregated
215.000.  000  barrels,  of  which  we  ex­
ported  only  4,000,000  barrels.  On  an 
average  yield  of $2  per barrel—the price 
in  London  runs  from  $2  to $4—this  crop 
should  have  had  an  aggregate  value  of 
at  least  $430,000,000,  which is  $130,000,- 
000  in  excess  of  the  total  value  of  our 
cotton crop  in  recent  years.  This  money 
is,  of  course,  distributed  over  a  vastly 
greater  area  than  the  returns  from  the 
cotton  crop  are,  and  through  a  larger 
number  of  states  and  more  diversified 
classes  of  people.  Still  the  apple  crop, 
as  it  grows  and  is  handled,  excites  not 
a  hundredth  part  of  the  popular  interest 
that  attaches  to  cotton,although its  yield 
is  about  44  per  cent,  in  excess of  cot­
ton’s.

“ Our  home  fam ilies,”   says  the  In­
dependent,  “ do  not  spend  a  great  deal 
of  money  for  apples,  but  we  are  grow­
ing  frugivorous  instead of carnivorous. ”  
We  are 
inclined  to  believe  that  more 
money  is  spent  for  apples  than  the  In­
dependent  imagines. 
If  we  export  only
4.000. 
raised,  the  producers  themselves,  al­
though  numerous,  could  not  make  much 
of  an  inroad  on  the  remaining  211,000, 
000  barrels.  We  spend  hundreds  of 
thousand  of  dollars  annually  for apples, 
unconsciously  for the  most  part,  as  they 
appear  in  cider,  jellies,  vinegar  and 
the  hundreds  of  condiments  and  other 
food  products  in  which  vinegar  is  one 
of  the  chief  preservatives. 
If  the  apple 
is  not quoted  in  the  form  of  futures,  its 
importance  is  none  the 
less  significant 
among  American  farm  crops.

Heman  G.  Barlow,  Secretary  of the 
Olney  &  Judson  Grocer Co.,  left  early 
in  the  week 
Island, 
whence  he  starts  on  a  trip  through  the 
Georgian  Bay.  He  is  accompanied  by 
his  wife.

for  Mackinac 

000  out  of  215,000,000  barrels 

Ought To  Be  Happy.

From the Cincinnati Furniture Worker.

Grand  Rapids  ought  to  be  happy. 
Her  furniture  is  now  prominently  men­
tioned  in  Bradstreet’s  Weekly  Business 
Review,  sent  out  by  the  Associated 
Press,  right  along  with  Chicago  cattle, 
Kansas  City  hogs,  North  Carolina  tur­
pentine,  New  Orleans cotton, Cincinnati 
and  Louisville  tobacco,  whisky,  etc. 
There 
is  more  of  a  prominence  in  this 
than  people  think  there  is.

Sebewaing—The  Sebewaing Sugar Co. 
has  asked  of  the  township  of  Sebewaing 
the  privilege  of  having  its  taxes  for the 
next  ten  years  used  for  the  constuction 
of  stone  roads.  The  company  also  offers 
to  donate  the  stone  to  make  two  and  a 
half  miles  of  road  if  the  township  will 
lay  it.

S.  A.  Sears,  manager  of  the  local 
branch  of  the  National  Biscuit  Co.,  is 
spending  a  month  at  Buffalo.

Advertisements  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  85  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

A N  OPENING—Al  MEAT  MARKET B usi­
ness;  established trade of $2,000 per month; 
practically cash  business;  owner lost  his  wife: 
bound to leave.  Address Decker & Jean, Grand 
Rapids, Mich. 
975
ly | EAT MARKET STOCK FOR SALE.  SHOP 
lv l  and fixtures  to  rent  Does  a  business  of 
$24,000 to $25,000  annually.  Good  chance  for  a 
good butcher.  Address No. 974,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
974
D r u g   sto ck  f o r   sa l e—t h e   stock
of drugs of the late  William  McDonald, 115 
South Burdick St., Kalamazoo, is for  sale by the 
executors to close the estate.  John  L.  Wallace, 
David McDonald. Executors. 
9<*3
l/O R   SALE—A  HARDWARE  STOCK.  IN- 
L   eluding  furniture,  fixtures  and 
tinners’ 
tools, at 62 W. Bridge St.,  in  this  city.  Having 
bid in the same at chattel mortgage  sale,  it  will 
be sold at a bargain.  Everything in it necessary 
(or  a  person  wishing  to  commence  business. 
Apply to Peter Doran, Rooms 19-20 Tower Block, 
Grand Rapids,  Mich. 
972
A   SPLENDID  GENERAL  STORE.  HOTEL 
and livery, a great stand for business; good 
transient  trade;  number  of  steady  boarders. 
Sell or exchange  for  Al  farm.  Address  R.  A. 
Butwell, Wixom, Mich. 
976
STOCK OF GOODS.  SPLENDID  OPENING 
to put In stock general merchandise in  town 
in Northern Washington.  Agricultural and min­
ing  center.  Splendid inducement offered to the 
right  party.  Inquire  of  Meachem-Cameron  & 
Co., 40 Wall street. New York City. 

Ij'OR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  SHINGLE 

'  and tie mill in very best repair; center crank 
engine, 12x16;  plenty boiler room;  Perkins shin­
gle mill;  bolter cut off, drag and knot  saws;  ele­
vator;  endless  log  chains;  gummer;  belting  all 
in first-class shape;  mill now turning out 40 to 60 
M. shingles per day.  Any  one  wanting  such  a 
mill will do well to  investigate.  Will  trade for 
stock of groceries.  Address  A.  R.  Morehouse, 
Big Rapids, Mich. 
Ij'OR SALE—AN  OLD-ESTABLISHED  GEN- 
P   eral store business located In a town of  1,200 
people In central part  of  Michigan.  Stock  con­
sists of clothing, hats, dry goods, shoes and  gro­
ceries.  Sells over $40,000  a  year  for  spot  cash. 
Rent,  $600  a  year.  Good  reasons  for  selling. 
Stock invoices now $18,000.  Can be considerably 
reduced In thirty days.  Will sell for 70  cents  on 
the  dollar  cost  price—no  less,  and  must  be  a 
nearly cash deal.  Write M. J. Rogan, care Wile 
Bros. & Weill, Buffalo, N. Y. 
Ij'OR  SALE—DEPARTMENT  STORE  IS  
J?  town of  1,200;  stock  about  $20,000;  annual 
cash  sales  $45,000;  good  reasons  for  selling;  a 
bargain for cash;  no  trades.  Address  Lucius, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

968

977

9:0

967

966

965

t iH)R  SALE—COUNTRY  STORE  DOING 

good  business.  For  particulars  address  J. 
B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 
IDOR  SALE—IN  THRIVING  CITY  OF  4,000, 
J-  confectionery,  Ice  cream  soda,  cigars  and 
tobacco;  business good;  cash trade.  Enquire at 
382 Canal St., Grand Rapids. 
m/fANCELONA. J.  L.  FARNHAM  WISHES 
i l l   a buyer for  his  stock  of  goods,  consisting 
principally of groceries and shoes.  He  will  sell 
his store building or rent same. 
975
Ij'OR  RENT—BOOT  AND  SHOE  STORE, 
established trade of  five  years,  will  be  for 
rent Sept. 1,1901;  only one shoe  stock  In city of 
2.200—one  of  the  best  towns  for  trade  In  the 
State:  a growing town with  lots  of  factories;  a 
grand  opportunity  for  a  boot  and  shoe  firm.
Geo. H. Sheets. Grand Ledge,  Mich._____ 964
I j'OR-SALE—SMALL CAPACITY  SAWMILL 
P   in good repair;  one-halt million feet  of  logs 
ready  to  be  manufactured  and  more  in  sight. 
Reason for selling, owner  has  no  knowledge  of 
manufacturing.  Address  Box  64,  Boon,  P.  O , 
Wexford Co.,  Mich. 

950

945

929

960

94-s

FOR RENT OR SALE—HOTEL,  WITH Liv­

ery barns—the only hotel in  town  of  800  In­
habitants;  unite a number of  furnished  rooms; 
could  give  immediate  possession  of  hotel;  the 
barns are rented at good price and  doiDg  profit­
able business;  location  central;  rent  very  rea­
sonable.  For further  particulars  address M. A. 
Hance, Agent, Olivet, Mich. 

Ij'OR  SALE—DRUG  STORE  IN  A  THRIV- 

1  ing Northern  Michigan  resort  town.  Slock 
invoices about $1,500.  Best of reasons for selling. 
Bright new stock, good trade.  Address  Bower’s
Drug store, Indian River. Mich._________ 947
I j'OR SALK-STOCK  GENERAL MERC HAN* 
P   dise, invoicing from $9,500 to  $2,800,  in  good 
farming district at one of the best  trading points 
between Grand Rapids and Cadillac.  Good  rea­
sons for selling.  Address No. 916, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
Ij'OR  SALE,  CHEAP—$1,500  STOCK  GEN- 
r   eral  merchandise.  Address  No.  945,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
Ij'OR  SALE OR  EXCHANGE—A  STOCK  OF 
P   dry goods, boots and shoes, etc., in  the  best 
town iu Central Michigan.  Address No. 943, care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
913
Bargain,  drug  stock,  building
and lot, invoicing  $1,750.  Must  be  sold  be­
fore  Sept.  1,  1901.  Write  for  particulars.  Ad­
dress No. 952. care Michigan Tradesman.  9.i2 
I j'OR  SALE—STgCK  OF  DRY  GOODS, 
P   shoes  and  groceries:  invoice  $4,000;  goods 
bought new last year;  will sell part  or  whole  of 
stock;  located in small town in Michigan:  splen­
did country trade and town is growing.  Address
M , care Michigan  Tradesman.__________ 934
Ij'OR  SALE OR  EXCHANGE—A  GENERAL 
F   stock of merchandise in  Southern Michigan, 
inventorying about $6,000.  Will sell  or  traue  all 
or part for good limbered land or summer  resort 
property.  Address  No.  929,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
l-'OR  SALE—AN  Al  STOCK  OF  GENERAL 
F   merchandise,  invoicing$20,000, doing a good 
healthy,  strictly  cash  business.  Best  store  in 
town  of  800;  have  ldg  farmers’  trade  and  get 
good  piofits.  Double  store  room,  brick,  good 
basement, solid plate glass front,  gas and  steam 
heat.  Will sell  or  rent  building.  Am  retiring 
from mercantile  business,  have  other  interests 
that require  my  attention.  No  trades  consid­
ered. and don’t write unless you  mean  business. 
W. W. Mitchell, Wood River, Neb. 
928
Ij'OR  SALE—BEST  MONEY-MAKING  GRO- 
X1  eery in the State, all sales spot  cash;  old es­
tablished  stand,  40x80;  low  rent;  stock  about 
$5,000;  can reduce  to  suit;  no  unsalable  goods; 
making  over  $3,000 net per annum.  The  Phila­
delphia Chemical Co. is building a plant near my 
store.  It appropriated  nine  million  dollars  for 
this;  our ship yards  built  the  famous  Erie and 
Tashmo,  and  are  building  two  vessels  to  cost 
over  half  a  million  each:  have  two large soda 
and many other plants:  this is the second largest 
shipping point in the State;  our  postottice  rates 
second;  reason  for  selling,  wish  to  take an in­
terest in  a  wholesale  grocery  in  Detroit.  Carl 
Dice, Wyandotte, Mich. 
s a l e —t w o  g o o d  b u sin e s s
chances; best small stock groceries in South­
ern Michigan,  and  one-half  interest  in  general 
stock.  Oceana  county;  best  location  in  the 
towns: ill health only cause for selling.  Address 
Lock Box 418, Hudson, Mich. 

F o r  

broker).  Grand Ledge, Mich. 

for sale.  Box 108, Rathbone, Mich. 
stocks  of  merchandise  (not  a  trader  or 

connected  with  arch,  22x80  each;  suitable 
for department  or  general  store,  of  which  we 
have need here:  will  rent  one  or  both.  Write 
P. O. Box 556, Mendon, Mich. 

Ij'OR SALE OR RENT—TWO BRICK STORES 
sTOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
ROMEYN-PARSONS  PAYS  CASH  FOR 
Fo r  sa l e—a n   u p-to-d a t e h a r d w a r e
Fo r  sa l e—t h e   b e s t  sto ck  o f  g r o-

and  implement  stock,  invoicing  $3,000;  lo­
cated In Northern Michigan;  doing a  good  busi­
ness.  Address No.  913,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

ceries, having the best  trade  in  one  of  the 
best towns and in one of  the  best  fruit  and  po­
tato sections  of  Michigan;  doing  a  prosperous 
business;  also have a fine  shipping  business  in 
fruit and  potatoes:  also  a  warehouse  which  I 
will dispose  of.  Object  of  selling,  have  other 
business elsewhere that  will  require  all  of  my 
attention.  Address  No.  856,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

Ij'OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 
chandise  and  fixtures,  invoicing  $3,000  to 
$3,500;  cash  discount;  best  farming  district  in 
Northern  Indiana;  good  reasons  for  selling. 
Address No. 810, care Michigan Tradesman.  810
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. 
728
PARTIES HAVING STOCKS OF  GOODS OF 
any kind,  farm  or  city  property  or  manu­
facturing  plants  that  they  wish  to  sell  or  ex­
change  correspond  with  the  Derby  &  Choate 
709
Real Estate Co., Flint,  Mich. 

936
922

856

939

913

938

920

MISCELLANEOUS

AN-AMERICAN  ACCOMMODATIONS  AT 
private house,  conveniently  located.  Lodg­
ing, one  dollar  each  Address  LeRoy  S.  Oat- 
man, Sec’y, Buffalo Produce Exchange. 
917
WANTED-BY A YOUNG MARRIED MAN 
a position in  a  grocery  or  general  store. 
References.  Address  L.  R.  May,  Star  City. 
Mich.___________________________ 
978
■ N  EXPERIENCED  SALESLADY WISHES 

position in dry goods  store.  Best  of  refer­
ences and recommendations.  Address  Miss  V.
B.. care Michigan  Tradesman.___________971
ANTED—MEN  To  WORK  IN  LUMBER 
yard, saw mill and woods;  also blacksmith 
and  carpenters.  Address  Haak  Lumber  Co., 
Wolverine. Mich. 
ANTED—WOMAN  COOK,  GiRLS  AND 
chore  boy  for  boarding  house.  Address 

Haak Lumber Co., Wolverine, Mich. 

962

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when a customer comes in to pay an account  and  you  are  busy wait 
ing on a prospective buyer.

TRADESM AN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association

I  PiS8,d.enV C .E .W a l k e r ,  Bay City;  Vlce-Pres- 
yent.  J .   H.  H o p k i n s ,  Ypsilanti;  Secretary, 
E. A . St o w e, Grand Rapids;  Treasurer.  J .   F  
Ta t m a n , Clare.

Grand  Rapidi Retail Grocers’  Association 
K l a p ;  Treasurer, J .  G e o r g e   L e h m a n

President, F r a n k   J .  Dy k ;  Secretary,  H o m e s 

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  Association 

President,  E.  Ma r k s ;  Secretaries,  N.  L. 
K o e n ïg   and  F .  H. Co z z e n s;  Treasurer,  C.
n .  r RINK.

Kalamazoo  Grocers’  and  Heat  Dealers’ Association

E-„T-  Ck° 98;  Secretary,  H e n r y   J.
Sc h a b e r g ;  Treasurer, H. R. V a n  B o c h o v e.

I 

Baj  Cities  Retail Grocers’  Association 

f’rosldeiR,  c.  E.  Wa l k e r ;  Secretary,  E.  C

T ra v e le r s ’  T im e   T ab le s.
P e r e   M a r q u e t t e
Railroad and Steamship  Lines.

Fast trains  are  operated  from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City,  Alma,  Lansing, Belding, Benton  Har­
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points,  making 
close connections at Chicago with trains  for  the 
south  and  west,  at  Detroit  and  Toledo  with 
trains east and southbound.  Try  the  “Mid-Day 
Flyers,” leaving  Grand  Rapids  12:05  and  12:10 
noon, each  week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:05 
p. m. and Chicago 5:00 p. m.

H.  F .  Mo e l l e r ,  g .  P.  a .,

W. E. WOLPENDEN, D. P. A.

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GRAND 

4   Indiana Railway

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

President,  H.  B.  S m it h ;  Secretary,  D.  A. 

B o e l k in s ;  Treasurer, J.  W. Ca s k a d o n .

Jackson  Retail  Grocers’  Association 
I 
'  H. P o r t e r ;  Treasurer, L .  P e l t o n .
Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

F r a n k   Hb l m e r ;  Secretary,  W

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k :  Secretary,  E.  F 
1  Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  w m . C. E o eh n

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M. W. Ta n n e r ;  Secretary,E.  H. Mo 
I  P h e r s o n ;  Treasurer, R. A. H o r r .

Trarene Citj  Business  Hen’s  Association 
Ho l l y  ;  Treasurer,  C.  A. H a m m o n d.

President,  t h o s  T.  B a t e s :  Secretary,  at.  B. 

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President, A.  D.  W h i p p l e ;  Secretary,  G  T 
l  Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer,  W.  E .  Co l l in s .

Ft.  Unrons  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 
rERCIVAL.

j  President, Ch a s .  We l l m a n ;  Secretary,  J .   T.
I 

Alpena Bnsineii  Men’s  Association 

President, F . W. G i l c h r i s t ;  Secretary,  C.  L.
I  i ARTRIDGE.

Calumet  Bnsinosi  Men’s Association

! President,  J.  D.  Ch d d ih y ;  Secretary  W  H 

H o s k in g .

Si.  Johns Business  Men’s Association 

Fresldent, T h o s. B r o m l e y  ;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

A.  P e r c y  ; Treasurer, Cl a r k  a . P u t t.

forrj  Business  Men’s  Association 

^H eddle ^  

Wa l l a c e ;  Secretary, T.  E.

Grand  Hsren  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  w   Ver

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association

I F w ddonti  Ch a s .  R o u n d s;  Secretary,  F r a n k

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President, 
K a t z ;  Treasurer,  S. J. H u f f o r d .

J o h n  G.  E b l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J 

Muskegon Retail Butchers’  Association 
R ic h a r d s ;  Treasurer, Wit.  S m it h .

President,  Ma r t i n   B i r c h ;  Secretary  c  D 

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Going South.

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Lv Gd Rapids...........4 05p
7 45a  2 00p  10 45p
Ar.  Cadillac..............  6 45a
11 25a  4 40p  2 10a
Ar.  Traverse City....  8 30a 
1 30p  6 50p  ......
Ar. Petoskey............  9 30a
2 50p  7 35p  5 35a
Ar. Mackinaw City... li 20a 
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415p 
.......  6 55a
Train leaves for Cadillac 5:20pm. ar’g at 9‘OOom 
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.
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1 50p 6 00p  12 30p  9 35p
Lv.Gd Rapids.  7 1°a 
1 45p lo 55p
3 22p 7 45p 
Ar. Kalamazoo  8 50a 
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68°p ToCnicago  145a
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
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6 55a
_  Trains arrive from the  south  at  3:55 am   and 
Sunda* dal y’ 1:5°Pm- 9:35pm and 10:05pm except
Pullman sleeping or parlor  cars  on  all  through 
trains  4:06am “Northland Express” has dining 
car  Grand  Rapids  to  Mackinaw  City.  2-oopm 
train  going  north  has  buffet  car  to  Harbor 
9;36pin train going south  has  through
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Except  Except  Except 
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Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
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aZ' Srravd Eapids —   7 35am  1 53pm  5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon. 
......   9 00am  3  10pm  7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Sunday  train  ieaves  Grand  Rapids  7:00pm. 
Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm.
Trains arrive from Muskegon at  9:30am  dally. 
SimSa* ^>nl 6:2°^>ln  except  Sunday  and  8:00pm

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C H IC A G O   TR A IN S 

G.  R.  &  1  and  Michigan  Central.
TO CHICAGO 

Sunday  Dally
Lv. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  9 35pm 
Ar. Chicago  f 12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
6 Stem 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
9:30pm  train has through coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.
Dally
Lv. Chicago (i2th St.  Station)  5  15pm  1130pm 
Ar. G d Rapids (Union depot)  10 05pm  7 
5:15pm train runs solid to  Grand  Rapids  wit»* 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping
Take G.  R.  &  I.  to Chicago

FROM  CHICAGO 

50 cents to Muskegon 

and  Return  Every Sunday

THE BE SI I M

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and costs less than 
Kerosene Oil.  The 
wonder of the a g e !
A  100  Candle  Power 
Light for one week 

for 2 cents.

Each Lamp flakes and 
Burns Its Own Oast
NO  ODOR !

NO  SMOKE ! 

NO  DIRTI

Perfectly safe.  Over 100 | 
styles  lor  indoor  and 
outdoor  use.  E v e r y  
t a m p   w a r r a n t e d .

Sells at Sight.

Agents  coining money. 

Write at once.

The  Best Light Co. I
82 E. 5th St., Canton, O. j

BEST BY TEST.

Combination  Show  Cases

$  
Are our specialty.  We  have  been  manufacturing  them  for  ten  years. 
A  Our  cases  are  made  by  skilled  workmen  in  a  factory  which is fully 
equipped with modem machinery and as  we  are  making  our  cases  in 
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large quantities we are able to  offer

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AT  REASONABLE  PRICES

a line of goods the design, finish and construction  of  which  can  not  be 
excelled  Our  catalogue  shows  a  very  complete  line  and  we  have 
cases  suitable  for  the  display of  any  line of goods.  Write us for cata­
logue and discounts.

Grand Rapids Fixtures Co.

South  Ionia  and  Bartlett Sts. 

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

We  Have a  Plan

that  will  establish  any  retail 
business  on  a  cash  basis  and 
draw  a  large  increase  of  cash 
business  in  a  wonderfully  short 
s u c c e s s .  The 
time. 
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cost  is  small. 
It’s  free  for  the 
asking,  Don’t  delay.  Write 
us at once.

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Trio  Silver  Co.,

133  Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago,  111.

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CATCHES  THE  GERM  AS  WELL  AS  THE  PLY. 

Sanitary.  Used the world over.  Good profit to sellers. 

Order fromjobbers.

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H.  LEONARD  &  SONS,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
Write  for  our  Catalogue,  “  The  Commercial Traveler,” if you are thinking of 
adding to your business or of going into a new business.  We solicit a share of your 
patronage and aim to retain your trade  by  giving  full  value  at  the  lowest  prices. 
Catalogue sent to merchants on request.  Don’t wait—mail us your  order.

Diamond  Fly  Paper 

In  double  sheets  9x16  Inches.  Patent 
wax border edges which  prevents  run­
ning or dripping.  25 double  sheets  (50
single) in fancy box, per box................  $  30
Per case of 10 fancy boxes....................   2  76
In  spite  of  strong  advance  in  broom 
corn  we  quote  as  follows  while  tbe 
stock lasts.  Our special bargains:
“Leader,” medium fine,  3 colored  sew­
ing, per  doz...........................................   155
“Belle,” choice  quality,  23  lbs.,  4  col­
ored sewings, fancy lock  finish,  a  fine
carpet broom, per  doz.......................... 

Brooms

1  95

Wash  Boards 

The best 25c or 30c board. 

“Concave” washboard saves  splashing, 
has more rubbing service,  keeps  water 
in  center  and  has  ventilated  back.
Warranted a quick seller, per doz........  2 '15
Three grades,  all  sizes,  see  catalogue 
for complete list.  1  lb.  bags,  per  500, 
Cream Manila,  square..........................  

Paper  Bags

32

Galvanized  Iron Tubs

No.  1,  best grade, per doz..................   5 45
No. 2,  best grade, per doz...................   6 00
No. 3.  best grade, per doz..................   6 90

Wood  Batter  Dishes 
Wire  Ends,  250 In  Crate.

1 lb. stze. per crate................................. 
2 lb. size, per crate................................. 
3 lb. stze, per crate................................  
5 lb. size, per crate................................  
Fine White Glaze, “Macomb” Brand.
H gal. (5lbs.), per doz.......................... 
1  gal. (10lbs.), per  doz......................... 
2  gal. (20 lbs.), per doz.........................  

Stone  Butter  Crocks 

Clothes  Pins 

Best (Quality,  Full  Count.

"Star,” per case, 5 gross.......................  
“Carton,” per case, 12 cartons of 5 doz.

42
47
57
66

48
72
144

45

Spiint  iciothes  Baskets 

Made of best splint, 2 in.  wide,  size  of 
basket 20x19 In. wide,  12  in.  deep,  per 
doz.........................................................   2 20

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