Eighteenth  Year________________________GRAND RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  14,1901. 

Number 934

} The Best Is the Cheapest!

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There’s  room  for  argument  here,  but  there’s  none 
when  the  cheapest  is  also  the  best.

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

first  quality 

Made  in  all  styles.  Write  for  catalogue.

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

BEACON  FALLS,  CONN.

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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.

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Powder

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

E G G

B A K IN G   P O W D E R

Home Office, 80 West  street.  New  York. 

Western Office,
Branch Offices:

42 R'ver S t, Chicago.
Detroit
Fort Wayne

Indianapolis 
Cincinnati 
Grand Rapids  Columbus

ustbhb c e l e b r a  t e d

Sweet Loma
(Against  the  Trust.)____________

TOBACCO.

NEW   SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO. 

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
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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.

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I  BAY  SHORE  LIME CO.,  Bay Shore, Mich.

Fans for 
Warm Weather

Nothing  is  more  appre­
ciated on a  hot  day  than 
a substantial fan.  Espe­
cially is this true of coun­
try  customers  who  come 
to  town  without  provid­
ing  themselves  with  this 
necessary adjunct to com­
fort.  We  have  a  large 
line  of  these  goods  in 
fancy shapes  and  unique 
designs,  which  we  fur­
nish printed and handled 
as follows:

............... $  3  ° °
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200................
.................   4  5°
... 
. . .   5  75
300...............
.............  7  oo
400................
.............  8  oo
500................
1000........................  15  00

We  can  fill  orders  on  five  hours’ notice  if  necessary, but  don’t ask us 
to fill an order on such short notice if you can avoid it.

Tradesman  Company

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

U needa  Business 

is  Growing 
all  the  Tim e

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Uneeda 

Milk  Biscuit

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helps  the  growth 

along

N A T I O N A L   B I S C U I T   C O .

DESMAN

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST  14,  1901.

Number  934

IM P O R T A N T   F E A T U R E S .

Page. 
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2.  G etting the  People.
3.  Forty  Years Ago.
1.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
6.  Window  Di easing.
7.  Tillage  Im provem ent.
8.  Editorial.
9.  Food  A dulterations.
11.  A lm ighty  D ollar.
12.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
14.  Clothing.
15.  D ry Goods.
16.  The  Meat  M arket.
17.  Candy  and  H air  Oil.
18.  H ardw are.
20.  W oman’s  W orld.
22.  B a tter and  Eggs.
23.  The  New  York  M arket.
24.  Clerks’ Corner.
25.  Comm ercial Travelers.
26.  D rugs  and  Chemicals.
27.  D rug Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  P rice  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  Men  of M ark.
32.  The  Grocery  M arket.

H ardw are  Price  Current.

A N   IM P O R T A N T   R E G U L A T IO N .

A  good  deal  has  been  said  at one time 
or another about  the  proposed  organi 
zation 
into  a  union  of  those  rendering 
domestic  service  under  the  name  of 
cook,  second  girl,  waitress,  etc.  The 
comprehensive  name  of  Working  Worn 
en  of  America  has  been  chosen  for  this 
union  and  the  rules  it  has  determined 
on,  if  correctly  published,  do  not  differ 
very  materially,  either  as  to  price  or 
privileges,  from  the  practice  which  ob­
tains  where  the  union  is  not  in  exist­
ence.  There  have  been  five  rules  given 
out  as  governing  mistresses  as  well  as 
maids  and  No.  4  is  such  as  to  suggest 
either  that  some  clever  humorist  has 
been  at  work,  or  that  a  strictly  femi­
nine  characteristic  and  ambition  are  to 
be  crystalized  into  a  union  regulation. 
Rule  4  in  full  reads  like  this:

Domestics  shall  be  allowed  such hours 
off  on  Monday  as  will  permit  them  to 
visit  the  bargain  counters  of  the  stores 
and  enjoy  on  that  day  the  same  privil­
eges  enjoyed  by  the  mistress  and  her 
daughters.

The 

irresistible  temptations  of  the 
bargain  counter  were  never made  more 
emphatically  prominent  than 
in  this 
rule. 
It  is  quite  right  in  calling  it  a 
privilege  which  the  mistress  and  her 
daughters  enjoy  and,  of  course,  is  one 
to  which  every  other  female  member  of 
the  household  is  entitled.  But  in  view 
of  the  prayer,  “ Lead  us  not  into  temp­
tation,”   is  it  really  wise  to  put  before 
working  women  whose  wages  are  not 
large  the  special  temptation  to  buy what 
they  do  not  really  want  and  to  spend 
their  money  for  what  they  could  get 
along  without?  It  means  many  a  Tues­
day  morning  without  funds.  Presum­
ably  Monday  is  fixed  not  because  it  is 
wash  day,  but  because  in  Chicago  it 
is 
bargain  day,  but  that  is  a movable  feast 
nd 
in  cities  where  the  department 
stores  offer  their  bargains  on  Friday 
that  day  can  be  subsituted.  The  gen­
eral  adoption  of  that  rule  will  be  notice 
to  the  sneak  thieves  to  ply  their ne­
farious  trade  on  the  afternoons  when 
the  mistress  and  her  daughters  as  well 
as  all  the  help  have  flocked  to  the  bar­
gain  counters,  with  nobody to  watch  the

house. 
Illegal  entrance  and  safe  exit 
will be  easy  and  Monday  will  be  a  busy 
day  for  several  classes  of  people.

colleges, 

Some statistician  is  always  presenting 
himself  to tabulate  figures  showing what 
immense  amounts  of  money  are  spent in 
this  or  that  form  of  amusement  and 
then  pointing  out  how  much  of  this  or 
that  more  useful  commodity  could  have 
been  purchased  with  the  same  amount. 
One  of  these  prosy 
individuals  who 
fancies  himself  a  smart  Alec  estimates 
that  the  American  people  spend  a  hun­
dred  million  dollars  a  year  on  vaca­
tions,  and  then  he  wants  to  know  if  it 
is  worth  the  price.  He  figures  out  how 
many  public  libraries  might  have  been 
secured  with  this  amount,  bow  many 
schools, 
hospitals,  homes, 
asylums,  etc.  The truth  about  it  is  that 
the  American  people  get  better  value 
received  from  no  other  expenditure.  All 
work  and  no  play  makes  Jack  a  dull 
boy.  One  of  the  reasons  why  the  Yan­
kee 
leads  the  world  in  enterprise  and 
energy  is  that  he  takes  a  little  rest  now 
and  then.  The  American  works  twice 
as  hard  as  a  foreigner  while  he  is  at 
work  and  then  he  goes  to  take  a  rest, 
coming  back  reinvigorated,  rejuvenated 
and  refreshed.  Away  with  the  grad- 
grind  who  calculates  vacation  statistics!
No  one  ever  supposed  there  was  a 
dearth  of  doctors 
in  this  country,  hut 
probably  few  believed  the  over-produc­
tion 
is  as  great  as  the  Journal  of  the 
American  Medical  Association  declares 
it  to  be.  That  authority  says  that  al­
ready  there 
is  one  doctor  to  every  600 
of  the  population,  and  that  while  1,600 
physicians  die  annually,  the  colleges 
turn  out  nearly  6,000  to  take  their 
places.  The 
lesson  which  the  organ  of 
the  profession  draws  from this statement 
s  that  there  are  enough  medical  col­
leges  for  a  long  time  to  come  and  that 
no  more  should  be  licensed  and  opened 
for  business.  Even  a  smaller  number 
than  is  now  in  operation  will  be  quite 
sufficient.  With  these  statistics  in  mind 
it  would  be  appropriate'for  those  now 
holding  charters  to  raise  the  standards 
both  of  entrance  and  of  graduation. 
If 
there 
is  any  professional  man  in  the 
world  who  ought  to  know  everything 
possible  about  his  business  before  he  is 
permitted  to  practice 
it,  that  one  is  a 
physician.

The  Siberian  railroad  which  the  Rus­
sian  government  expects  to  have  in  full 
operation  soon  will  not  be  remarkable 
for the  speed  of  its  trains.  Under  the 
most  favorable  conditions,  it  is  stated, 
trains  will  consume  at  least  four  weeks 
journey  from  Moscow  to  Port 
n  the 
Arthur. 
That  will  be  the  summer 
schedule.  In  winter,  and  for  nearly  half 
the  year,  the  officers  of  the  road  will 
decline  to  guarantee  the  transit  in  less 
than  six  weeks.  The  explanation 
is 
that  over  a 
large  part  of  the  road  a 
peed  of  from  seven  to  nine  miles  an 
hour  is  the  best  that  can  be  made.

These  people  who  wish  to  stop  war 
because  it  has  become  too  deadly should 
turn  a  little  of  their  attention toward the 
boarding  house  biscuit.

G E N E R A L   T R A D E   R E V IE W .

The  only  disturbing  elements  in  the 
march  of  industrial  activity  are  those 
connected  with  labor.  The  greatest  dis­
turbance  naturally  is  the  steel  strike  on 
account  of  its  immediate  effect  on  the 
largest  industrial  property  ever  capital­
ized  in  this  country.  The  San  Fran­
cisco  trouble  is  of  importance  in  that  it 
puts  a  stop  to  export  movement  from 
the  principal  Pacific  port.  Then  comes 
the  notice  of  a  reduction  of  wages  in 
Fall  River  cotton  mills  which  promises 
to  produce  a  bitter contest  in  that  in­
dustry.  Aside  from  these  every  indica­
tion  is  favorable  to  a  continuance  of 
the  present  record-breaking activity  and 
volume  of  business.  Stock  prices  have 
followed  the  lead  of  the  steel  shares  and 
these  have  fluctuated 
in  accordance 
with 
indications  from  the  strike  field. 
The  movement  on  the  average  has  been 
a  decline  of  a  few  points  in  both  indus­
trial  and  transporation  shares,  but  the 
yielding  is  small  and  more  encouraging 
indications  this  week  are  turning  the 
movement  upward.

The  great  factor  in  the  present tide  of 
prosperity  in  this  country  is  the  power 
of the  people  to  buy—to  spend  money. 
Travel  to  the Pan-American Exposition, 
to  resorts,  and  the  buying  of  goods  per­
taining  to  amusements  and  luxury  are 
on  a  scale  that  argues  the  greatest 
abundance.  Of  course  there  must  be 
some  disturbance  caused  by  the  labor 
troubles  of  such  magnitude,  but  the 
effect  can  not  be  great  or  lasting  with 
such  tremendous  underlying  strength.

In  industrial  circles  the  general  con­
dition  of  activity 
is  hardly  disturbed 
by  the  steel  strike  except  as  enterprises 
are  held  back  which  depend  upon  fu­
ture  delivery  of  material.  Prices of  steel 
products  have  advanced  somewhat  in 
view  of  what  is  feared.  The  only  thing 
which  stands  in  the  way  of  the  greatest 
activity  at  the  highest  prices  ever  paid 
for  labor  is  the  suicidal  attitude  of  the 
strikers.

The  Fall  River  cotton  industry  has 
long  contended  against  a  scale  of  wages 
which  eliminated  profits  in  that  trade. 
An  organization  was  effected  some  three 
years  ago  to  see  if  some  remedy  could 
not  be  devised  in  the  way  of  curtailing 
output  to  bring  yrices  to  a  living  basis. 
This  has  been  found  impracticable  and 
the  organization  has  been  dissolved  and 
now  comes  the  action  of  the  proprietors 
cutting  wages  15  per  cent.,  which prom­
ises  to 
lead  to  a  bitter fight.  Reports 
from  most  New  England  woolen  mills 
and  shoe  shops  indicate  full  operation 
until  winter  on  the  orders  already  in 
hand.

A  news  item  just  received  says  that  a 
New  York  minister  who  has  just  wed 
has  refused  to  pay  more  than  25  cents 
for  a  wedding  fee.  This 
looks  rather 
niggardly  to  us,  but  we  must  remember 
that  he  knowns  the  woman  better than 
we  do.

King  Edward 

in  selecting  his  title 
may  be  whatever  he  wants  to  to Ireland, 
Australia  or  India,  but  the  fact  that  he 
can  not  be  anything  to  Africa  is  the  fly 
in  his  ointment.

Volume XVIII.

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^•W.Ch am pu k, Pres.  W. F bbd McBain, Sec..

ELLIOT  O.  QROSVENOR

Late State  Pood Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres 
pondence  invited.
1232 fla je stic   B u ilding,  D e tro it,  n ic h .

WILLIAM  CONNOR

W HOLESALE 

READYMADE CLOTHING

for all ages.

Removed to  William  Alden Smith 
block, 28 and  30 South Ionia street. 
Open  daily  from 8 a. m. to 6 p. m.

Saturday to  1  p.  m.

Mail  orders promptly  attended to.

S  Customers’ expenses allowed.
..Commercial Broker..

A.  BOMERS,

And  Dealer in

Cigars and Tobaccos,

157 E.  Fulton  St. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Aluminum Money

Will Increase Your Baslness.

Cheap and BHecUva.

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

44  S .  C lark  *?t..  Ctilcasro.  III.

(Util Cwnniflcuit

Grand Rapids Offices:  Widdicomb Building. 

Detroit Offices:  Detroit Opera Uouse Block.

L. J. Stevenson 

Manager

R.  J.  Cleland and Don  E. Minor 

Attorneys

Expert adjusters and attorneys on collec­
tions and  litigation throughout  Michigan.

T he  M ercantile  A gency

Established 1841.

R.  a.  DUN  &  CO.

Widdicomb  Bld’g,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich. 

C.  E.  McCRONE,  iTanager.

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

Tradesman Coupons

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Petting the  People

The  Sum m er - B argain  Season  — G etting 

Ready  F o r Fail.

Now  comes  the  time  to  plan  the  work 
for  fall  trade.  The  summer  season  has 
been  notable  for the  attention  given  to 
clearing  sales.  This 
is  coming  more 
and  more  to  be  a  feature  of  summer 
trade  and,  of  course,  it  must  pay  or  it 
would  not  gain  so  much  prominence. 
Taking  it  on  the  whole  I  am inclined  to 
the  belief  that  there  are  real  reductions 
in  the  prices  of  goods,  for the  public 
is  shrewd  enough  to  demand  the  carry­
ing  out  of the  terms  of  the  advertising. 
If  this  be  true  the * merchant  is  giving 
away  a  considerable  proportion  of  his 
profit,  which  would  not  seem  to  be  the 
best  business  policy.  At  the  best  it  is 
advertising  to  gain  the  attention  of  bar­
gain  hunters.  Each  dealer  must  be  his 
own  judge  as  to  the  degree  in  which  ¡he 
shall  encourage  this  element  of  trade. 
There 
feature  of  this  kind  of 
dealing  which  has  not  been  enough con­
sidered :  the  season  clearing  sales  are 
large  class  to  wait  for the 
educating  a 
reductions  and  so  losing  the  custom 
in 
the  regular  trade.

is  one 

I  apprehend  that  one  trouble  which 
tends  to  the  increase  of  bargain  sales  is 
the  difficulty  found  in  preparing  adver­
tising  to  gain  the  attention.  The  ad­
vertising  preachers  have  exhorted  the 
continuance  of  the  publicity through  the 
dull  seasons,  and  the  space  and  time 
must  be 
filled.  To  patiently  pound 
away  with  no  appreciable  immediate 
results 
is  too  much  for the  patience  of 
the  average  dealer.  Then  again  the 
competitors  are  gaining  attention  and 
trade  by  bargain  methods.  There  is  the 
choice  between 
less  sales  at  regular 
prices  with  many  distressingly  dull 
days  or  by 
incurring  the  evils  of the 
bargain  methods  keep  more  prominent­
ly  before  the  people  and  show  a  sem­
blance of business at least.  My prejudice 
would  be  in  favor  of  the  steady  pound­
ing,  recognizing  the  dull  season  as  far 
as  would  be 
inevitable  and  keeping 
prices  at  the  right  basis.

But  now  comes  the  time  for  regular 
business  again.  To an extent  never be­
fore  known  the  consuming  public in this 
country 
is  provided  with  money.  All 
have  work  at  high  wages;  all  products 
are  sold  at  good  prices.  The  merchant, 
then,  is  justified  in  making  his  prepa­
rations  for  an  abundant  trade  at  good 
profits.  Orders  for fall  goods  are  being 
placed  with  a  liberality  recognizing  the 
conditions,  and  the  work  of  the  adver­
tiser  must  be  on  a  corresponding  scale. 
Spaces  should  be  generous and the  prep­
aration  of  the  matter  should  have  the 
most  careful  attention. 
The  dealer 
should  bring  to the  task  the  best  of  his 
ability  and  experience,  either 
in  the 
actual  doing  of  the  work  or  in  obtain­
ing  the  assistance  of  the  best  advertis­
ing  experts  the  circumstances  will  war­
rant.

the  next 

The  advertising  portion  of  the  mer­
chant’s  work  during 
few 
weeks  is  important,  but  it  does  not  fol­
low  that  he  must  employ  the  sensational 
or  unusual.  The  adherence  to  ordinary 
methods  with  increased  care  to  secure 
thoroughness  and  to  make  the  most  of 
every  advertising  possibility  is  what  is 
necessary.  Do not  trust  the  work  to  in­
competent  pretension  or to  subordinates 
whose  abilities  and  experience  are 
less 
than  your  own.

*  *  *

The  selling  of  goods  at  wholesale 
from  samples  and  then  selling  the  sam­
ples  at  retail  has  come  to  be  a  decided

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

S a m p le   [
S K o e s

G .  C .   Y O N K E R .

9  At about 33A per cent 

Discount.

These are the greatest  bargains  ever  offered  in  fwits\:ear.  Sinnpte 
shoes are made frf>m select stock and aireathe  correct  styles.  Rend 
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$1.00  Shoes  for  $  .70 
$1.50  Shoes  for  $1.10 
$2.00  Shoes  for  $1.40 
$2.50  Shoes  for  $1.75 
$3.00  Shoes  for  $2.10

G . C . Y o n k e r, 43 W e ste rn  A v e .

$3.50  -Shoes-  for  $2.50 
$4.00  Shoes  for  $2.75 
$4.50  Shoes  for  $3.00 
$4.75  Shoes  for  $3.50 
$5.00  Shoes  for  $3.75

ThU lot of Sample Shoes which we have placed o s tale include  Men's.  Ladies',  Bovs,  apd 
.Misses* and Child's Shoes in all the latest sty lea.  8ee these bargains immediately

B u ggies

We show the greatest line  of  Baggies  ever  bitmght 
to town.  We can show you  good  Buggies  at  lower 
prices than firms that pay out immense sums of  mon­
ey for expensive salesmen.

Fruit  Ladders

Now is the time to make your purchases in this  line. 
We are headquarters for the best Ladders made.

Fly Nets

We are making a  specialty  of  Fly  Nets. 
yon think of buying one. 
the biggest line in town.

Perhaps 
Is so jnst drop in  and  see 

W. A.  Anderson  & Son.
ID. C. Horton &  Son,
Son,I

C a s h -   Q -x o ce rs.

We  have  been  in  busm en  Eve weeks 
and  in  that  time  our  trade  has  doubled. 
W hy/  Because  we  are  doing  a  Strictly 
Cash  business,  and  can  sett  for ten  prom 
than  those  who  do  a  credit  business. 
No  clerks  or  bookkeeper  to  pay  you  get 
the benelit of'th eir  wages..  Try us  and be 
conrioced by our prices that  we  do  as  we' 
advertise.

¡D, C. Horton &  Son, I

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Now believe us when  we tell vou that we  have 
ooe Of the fiicest and most up-to-date stocks of

GROCERIES  A N D

PROVISIONS 

CROCKERY  AND 
G L A S S W A R E

of anyone  in the city.  If you don’t believe  us 
just try us and we Convince you.  We also have 
a good  prompt  delivery 
in  connection.  We 
will call and take your order if  you  will  only 
say so.  We pay  the highest market  price 
for 
butter  and eggs.  Give us a call and  see  what 
we can do for you.  We deliver  goods  to  to y  
part of the city.

COLE  BROTHERS

KALKASKA.  MICHIGAN.

S M O K E   U P

SNOWFLAKE

THE BEST HV&CElfT CIGAR 

ON THE HAUET.

Good, Glean Smoke.

JUDE IN TEA VERSE CITT.

FOR  SALE  BY  ALL  DEALERS.
CARL  M.  PIERCE. 
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lines 

localities. 

is  being  utilized 

bargain  factor  in  many 
In 
this  city  the  sample  idea  is  coming  to 
great  prominence 
in  connection  with 
the  furniture  trade  and  great  numbers 
of  pieces  which  have  never  been  on  a 
sample  floor,  for every  one  that  has,  are 
sold  as  samples  over a  considerable  part 
of  the  country.  From  this  and  similar 
in  other 
conditions 
the  word 
is  coming  to  have  a  value 
“ sample" 
which 
for  all  it  is 
worth.  G.  C.  Yonker  has a  sample  sale 
of  shoes,  in  which  the  price  feature 
is 
I  should  criticise  it  in 
made  effective. 
that  there 
is  too  great  a  number  of 
prices.  Fewer  in  the  list  and  those  in 
round  numbers  and  for  popular  adver­
tised  prices  would  be  more  effective. 
Too  many  prices with no special distinc­
tions  only  serve  to  confuse  and  fail  to 
gain  attention.  The  advertisement  is 
well  composed  except  that  white  space 
would  be  more  valuable  than  the  acorn, 
the  border  is  poor and  the  type  crowds 
the  space.

W.  A.  Anderson  &  Son  have  a  well 
written  advertisement  of  three  special­
ties  in  which  they  argue  the  saving  of 
salesmen  as  a  reason  for  cheapness. 
This  may  have  a  weight  with  some,  but 
others  will  surmise  that  salesmen  gen­
erally  make  their  way  by 
increased 
sales  or  they  would  not  be  used.  The 
advertisement  is  crisply  written  and  the 
printer  has  given  it  consistent,  suitable 
treatment.

D.  C.  Horton  &  Son  have  another ar­
gumentative  advertisement  which seems 
to  me  a 
little  lame  in  logic.  For  in­
stance,  at  the  beginning  of  one’s  busi­
ness  the  volume  of  it  is  generally  rep­
resented  by  zero. 
If  in  five  weeks  they 
have  only  doubled  that  quantity  their 
business  is  not  yet very extensive.  Then 
an  army  of  hustling  clerks  is  suggestive 
of  cheap  distribution.  Arguments  of 
this  kind  are  not  generally  very  strong 
factors  in  trade.  The  printer  has  done 
his  work  well  and  consistently  except 
that  all  the  type  faces  are  too  large  for 
the  space.

A  well  written  and beautifully printed 
advertisement  for  a  grocery  is  that  of 
Cole  Brothers.  My  only  criticism  in  the 
writing  is that  there  is  a  little  too  much 
of  the  small  type  matter..  The  printer’s 
work  is  exceptionally  clear  and  sug­
gests  the  kind  of  business  the  adver­
tisers  claim.  An  exceptionally  good 
display.

Carl  M.  Pierce  writes  a  good  cigar 
advertisement  except  that  1  fail  to  ap­
preciate  the  “ up"  in  the  first line.  Per­
haps  its  unusualness  serves  to gain  no­
tice.  The  printer’s  display  is  not  bad 
for  a  hardware  store;  lighter treatment 
would  be  more  suitable  for a  cigar.

Van’s  Bakery  makes a  good  argument 
in  favor of  its  bread  production,  which 
is  bandied  well  by  the  printer  except 
that  bis  border  is  too  heavy.

T.  Taylor writes  a  very  pleasant  ad­
vertisement  suggested  by  the  fad  for 
hats  for  horses. 
The  printer  would 
have  done  better  to  keep  to  one  style  of 
type.

Dr.  Rickert  furnishes  an  advertise­
ment  which 
is  no  doubt  effective  to 
those  interested,  but  the  subject  is  not  a 
pleasant  one  and  so  does  not  conduce  to 
general  publicity.

Loren  J.  Barrett  has  a  well  written 
meat  advertisement  which  bas had  care­
ful  attention  from  the  printer.
W illing to  Oblige.

"What  nice  things  you  said  about 
that  man  in  bis  obituary  notice I_  Don’t 
suppose  you’d  say  such  nice  things  of 
me?"  said  the  citizen.

"O b,  yes,  I  would;  with  pleasure," 

replied the  polite  newspaper man.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

chanan, whose  gout  made  him a  terror  to 
all  about  him,  also  played 
in  the  old 
hall,  prior  to 
i860,  besides  a  host  of 
lesser  lights.  Many  a  “ merry  jibe  and 
jest  passed  from  lip  to  lip”   on  its  stage 
its  walls  frequently  rung  with  the 
and 
delighted 
laughter  of  thousands  who 
now  peacefully  slumber  in  their quiet 
The  days  of  usefulness  of 
graves. 
Luce’s  hall  as  a  theater  long 
since 
passed  away  and  Powers'  and the Grand 
took  its  place;  but  many  still  living  re­
member  it  as  the  place  where  many  a 
pleasant  hour  was  passed,  and  passed, 
too,  with  just  as  keen  a  sense  of  enjoy­
ment  and  appreciation  as  comes  to  the 
habitues  of  the  more  modern  houses  of 
amusement.

At  the  time  (1859)  the  above  picture 
was  taken,  the  ground  floor of  the  Luce 
block  was  occupied  by  R.  C.  Luce, 
groceries;  then  came  J.  W.  Winsor,  dry 
goods,  and  next,  Wm.  T.  Powers,  fur­
niture.  The  next  building  was  occupied 
by  L.  D.  Putnam  with  a  stock  of  drugs 
and  medicines. 
In  the  old  Abel  build­
ing  were  Mrs.  Pierson,  milliner,  and

eluding the buildings which occupied the 
site  of  the  present  Gunn  block.  The 
burned  buildings  were  immediately  re 
placed  by  more  substantial  structures, 
most  of  which  have,  however,  since 
been  replaced  by  business  blocks  which 
would  be  a  credit  to  any  city  in  the 
land.

To  one  acquainted  with 

“ Grand 

Rapids  as  it  is,”   the  accompanying  i 
lustration will  show  the  marvelous  prog 
ress  the  city  has  made  in  the  compara 
tively  short  period  of  forty-two  years, 
In  those  days  small  frame  buildings 
dwellings  and  stores— were  sandwiched 
between  the  small  brick  stores  which 
then  adorned  the  street.  Where  the 
Commercial  block  stood  'is  now 
the 
Tower  block.  W.  D.  Foster’s  building 
has  disappeared  and  the immense estah 
lishment  of  Foster,  Stevens  &  Co.  has 
its  place.  The  site  of  the  old 
taken 
Rathbun  House 
the 
stately  Widdicomb  building,  one  of  the 
finest  mercantile  structures  in  the  State 
Spring  &  Company’s  store,  the  Boston 
store,  and  other  large  establishments

is  occupied  by 

Lower  Monroe  Street  as  I t  Looked  in  1859.

and  Waterloo 

John  McConnell,  hardware  merchant. 
Wm.  H.  McConnell  owned and occupied 
the  next  building  and  kept  a  general 
store.  The  landlord  of  the  old  Rathbun 
House,  which  occupied  the  corner  of 
Monroe 
streets,  was 
Charles  Rathbun.  Next  to  the  Rathbun 
House  was  a  small  one-story 
frame 
building.  This  was  occupied  by  W.  S. 
Gunn  as  a  bakery  and  ‘  two-shilling 
eating  house.”   The  ground  floor of  the 
old  Irving  Hall  was  occupied  by  S.  R. 
Sanford  as  a  drug  store.  Next  came  the 
building  owned  and  occupied  by  W.  D. 
Foster  as  a  hardware  store.  The  firm, 
as  can  be  seen  by  the  picture,  was  Fos­
ter  &  Metcalf.  Facing  Monroe  street, 
on  what  is  now  Campau  Place,  and par­
tially  on  the  site  now  occupied  by  the 
Tower  block,  was 
the  Commercial 
block. 
It  was  occupied  by  Carlos 
Burchard,  clothing,  and  A.  Roberts  & 
Son,  dry  goods,  grain  dealers  and 
lum­
In  1857  a  fire  broke  out  in  a 
bermen. 
in  the  rear of  L.  D  Put­
livery  stable 
nam’s  drug  store. 
It  destroyed  every 
building  on  that  side  of  Monroe  street 
as 
far  down  as  the  McConnell  block. 
Crossing  the  street,  it  burned  from  the 
corner  of Ottawa  street  down  to  and  in-

have  replaced  the  small  pioneer  stores 
of  forty-two  years  ago.  The  unpaved, 
dirty  'street  of  those  early  days  has 
been  replaced  by  a  solid  brick  road­
way,  while  the  occasional  oil 
lamp 
which  dimly lighted  up a very small por­
tion  of  the  street  in  its  own  immediate 
vicinity  has been replaced by the  bright, 
all-pervading  glare  of  the  electric  light. 
A  steady  stream  of  humanity  now  flows 
along  the  street  where  then  the  meager 
population  of  the  village  trod ;  but 
walking 
for  ¿he 
“ swift”   people  of  to-day,  and  so  the 
lightning  has  been  harnessed  to  rapid 
transit  and  we  are  whirled  along  at  a 
speed  which  would  have  turned  the 
heads  of  the  sturdy  pioneers  who  laid 
the  foundations  of  the  city  on  a  sub­
stantial  and  enduring  basis.

is  not  fast  enough 

W illie’s  Idea.

Isn’t  it  awful  how  thin  Mr.  Hen- 
peck  is  now,”   remarked  Mrs.  Gabbie 
to  her  husband,  “ and  he  used  to  be  so 
stout. ’ ’

“ Perhaps, ”   chimed 

little  Willie, 
remembering  his  trouble  with  his  bi­
cycle  tires,  “ perhaps  his  wife  forgets  to 
blow  him up  regular,  like  you  said  she 
uster. ’ ’

in 

The  following  story  is  told  about  Dr. 
Bliss:  He  and  his  brother  joined  the 
Federal  army  as  surgeons  at  the  break­
ing  out  of  hostilities  in the beginning of 
the  Civil  War,  and  was  with  the  Union 
troops  at the  battle  of  Bull  Run.  Their 
friends 
in  this  city  awaited  news  con­
cerning  them  with  considerable  anxiety 
after  the  disastrous  result  of  the  con­
flict  was  known.  Ail  fears  for  their 
safety  were  allayed,  however,  when  a 
telegram  was  received  from  Dr.  Bliss, 
saying,  “ Zena  and  I  are  all  right.”  
They  had  run  with  the  rest  of  the  Fed­
erate.  Few  of  those  who  knew  Dr. 
Bliss  in “ the  days  before  the  war”   ever 
breamed  of  the  eminence  to  which  he 
was  later to  attain  in  his  profession.

In  Luce’s  did  hall,  Booth  tread  the 
boards  “ in  mimicry  of  life.”   Bu­

FORTY TEARS  AGO.

Reminiscences  of E arly  Days  on  Monroe 

Street.

It 

it  not  given  to  many  men  to  look 
back  over  a  continuous  residence  of 
sixty  years  in  Grand  Rapids.  There 
are  a  very  few  who  have  been  here 
longer  than  that ;  but  the  ranks  of the 
pioneers have  dwindled  until  only  a  few 
of  the  “ old  guard”   are  left  to tell  the 
story  of 
their  early  struggles  and 
triumphs.  Among  those  whose  names 
have  been  indentified  with  the  progress 
and  prosperity  of  the  city  that  of  Ran­
som  C.  Luce  holds  an  honored  place. 
As  merchant,  manufacturer and  banker 
he  has  always  taken  an  active  and  en 
ergetic  part  and  to  his  efforts  are  due 
in  no  small  degree,  the  rapid  strides 
the  city  has  made  as  a  banking,  manu 
facturing  and  mercantile  center.

“ The  vast  changes  which  have  taken 
place  in  this  city,  when  told,”  said  Mr, 
Luce,  “ sound  more  like  some  of  Baron 
Munchausen’s  tales  than  sober  reality 
Here  is  a  picture  of  Monroe  street  from 
in  front  of  the  old  Catholic 
about 
church  to  Campau  Place. 
It  does  not 
look  much  like  the  Monroe  street  of  to 
day,  does  it?  Well,  the  difference  be 
tween  the  Monroe  street  of  the  picture 
and  Monroe  street  when  I  first  made  its 
acquaintance  is  about  as  striking.  The 
changes  are  more  marked  in  the  busi 
ness  center  of  the  city,  of  course,  where 
the  buildings  were  of  all  shapes  and 
sizes.  The  stately  structures  of  to-day, 
elegant  and  magnificent  architecturally, 
as  most  of  them  are,  present  the  strong 
est  kind  of  contrast  to  the  buildings  of 
early  times.  They  were  severely  plain 
in  outline  and  were  finished  and  fur 
nished  in  a  style  to  suit  the  times.  The 
Luce  block  was  a  tremendous  departure 
from  the  style  which  bad  prevailed 
previous  to  its  erection. 
It  and  Martin 
L.  Sweet's  hotel  building  were  the  fin 
est  in  the  town  when  that  picture  was 
taken.”

When  Mr.  Luce  built  his  block  be 
was  laughed  at  by  Canal  street  people, 
who  asserted  that 
it  would  be  an  ele­
phant  on  his  bands,  because  the  city 
was  growing  north  and  Monroe  street 
would  never  amount  to  anything.  Now 
nearly  all  the  wholesale  houses  are south 
of  Pearl  street.  Mr.  Luce  sent  to  Buffalo 
for a  brick  machine  to  make  the  bricks 
for the  front  of  his  building.  The  ma­
chine  made  but  one  brick  at  a  time, 
but,  as  Mr.  Luce  remarked,  “ they  were 
bricks.”   The first  tenants  on  the  ground 
floor  were  James  Lyman,  dry  goods, 
Hodenpyl  &  Terhune,  variety  store, 
and  Wm.  T.  Powers,  furniture.  Among 
the  tenants  on  the  second  floor  was  the 
late  Dr.  Bliss,  who  afterward  became 
famous  as  the  physician  in  charge  of 
President  Garfield  from  the  time  the 
President  was  shot  until  his  death.

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How  tlie  Ic©  Cream  Sandwich is Made.
“ I  had  had,”   said  a  man  of  an  in­
vestigating  turn  of  mind,  “ some  little 
curiosity  concerning  the  ice cream sand­
wiches  which 
in  the  past  year or two 
have  become  so  popular  an  article  of 
sale  as  1  cent  per  in  the  city’s  streets, 
and  I  stopped  the  other  day  at  the  cart 
of  a  vender  and  bought  one. 
I  had  ob­
served 
in  a  general  way  that  this  odd 
sandwich  was  composed  of  two  thin 
cakes  or  crackers,  with  a  thin  layer  of 
ice  cream  between. 
I  now  discovered 
that  the  crackers  used  are  specially  de­
signed  and  made  for the  purpose;  and 
how  the  sandwich  is  made  up  without 
breaking  these  thin  crackers  all 
to 
pieces  was  also  revealed.

“ An  essential  part  of  the  vender’s 
outfit  is  a  cracker  holder  which  is  made 
of  tin  and  which  has  attached  to  its 
under  side  a  handle  by  which  the  ven­
der  holds  it  in  use.  The  holder  is  sim­
ply  a  little  flat  tin  plate,  the  size  of  one 
of  the  two  crackers  that  form the outside 
ice  cream  sandwich,  say  two 
of  an 
inches  by  one,and  having  a 
low  flange 
around  three  sides of it.  Flanged around 
on  three  sides  thus  it  holds  the  cracker 
securely  while  the  sandwich  is  being 
made ;  and,  projecting  as  they  do  just 
above  the  cracker,  these  three  flanged 
sides  make  it  possible  to  spread  over  it 
a  thin 
layer  of  cream  of  precisely  the 
cracker's  size;  while  the  absence  of  the 
flange  on  the  fourth  side  permits  the 
complete  sandwich  to  be  slid  out  read­
ily  there  without  the  slightest  danger  of 
breaking  it.
“  From  a  long  row  of  them  standing 
on  edge  on  the  top  of  the  cart  the  ven­
der took  a  cracker  which  he  laid  gently 
in  that  flanged  holder. 
1  found  the 
crackers  used  in  those  sandwiches  when 
I  came  to  get  mine  to  be  a  thin,  deli­
cate, 
altogether 
agreeable  sweet  cracker,  having  regu­
larly  placed  lots  of  little  indentations  in 
it,  like  those 
in  a  waffle  only  smaller 
and  many  more  of  them.

freshly-baked, 

“ Having  placed this  first  cracker  thus 
in  the  holder  the  vender  did  not,  as  I 
had  previously  supposed  he  did,  cut  off 
a  thin  slice  of  hard  cream  from  an  ice 
cream  brick  to  form  that  part  of  the 
sandwich,  but  with  a  suitable  scoop  he 
scooped  out  of  the  freezer  a  portion  of 
cream  which,  with  a  deftness  that  could 
have  come  from  long  practice  only,  he 
spread  over that  cracker  with  an  abso­
lutely  uniform  thickness  (perhaps  thin­
ness  would  express  that  part  of  it  better 
or  more  accurately),  doing  all  this  with 
just  two  sweeps  of  the  scoop.

and 

“ And  then  he  laid  another cracker  on 
top  of  the  cream,  which  settles  into  the 
indentations  in  the  crackers  and  is  thus 
prevented  from  slipping  away  from  be­
tween  them  and  slid 
the  completed 
sandwich  out  of  the  holder  and  handed 
it  over.

“ The  cream  was  not  as  good  in  its 
way  as  the  crackers  were  in  theirs,  but 
t  might  have  heen  worse,  and  what  I 
thought  of  the  ice  cream  sandwich  as 
whole  may  perhaps  be  gained  from 
the  fact  that,  having  bought  one  for 
investigation’s  sake  I  bought  another 
for  my  own.”

Cold  Storage  Eggs  the  Lever.

Chicago,  Aug.  8— Regarding  the  egg 
situation,  the  extreme  hot  weather made 
itself  felt 
in  the  egg  line,  not  in  any 
particular  section  but  over  the  entire 
producing  points.  Ten  days  ago 
it 
looked  as  if  high  prices  would  prevail, 
but  the  heavy  rainfall  revived the  crops, 
for  the 
making  way  for  new  hopes 
farmers  and  since  that 
cooler 
weather  has  been  more  general.  The 
market  has  been  crowded  with  heated 
stock  and  prices  advanced  materially, 
mostly  owing  to  the  heavy  losses  and 
not  from  scarcity  of  eggs.  We  do  not 
look  for  high  prices.  The  market  will 
possibly  rule  around 
in  our 
opinion,  for  some  time  at  least.  Cold 
storage  eggs  will  be  the  lever to  hold 
down  prices. 

I5@i6c, 

time 

Coyne  Brothers.
in  the  morning  for 
is  worth  two  at  the  back 

A  tramp  abroad 

your  health 
door  looking  for  something  to  eat.

To  meet  a  funeral  procession  is a sign 
that  there  has  been  death  in  the  neigh­
borhood.

4

Around the State

Movements of M erchants.

Midland— Eugene  Randolph  has  sold 

his  grocery  stock  to  Wismer  Bros.

Dollarville— Krempel  &  Taylor  suc­
ceed  Krempel  &  Stansbury  in  general 
trade.

Oxford—James  H.  Lee  has  retired 
from  the  produce  firm  of  the  C.  L. 
Randall  Co.

Mason— The  Mason  Cold  Storage  Co. 
incorporated  with  a  capital 

has  been 
stock  of  $14,000.

Beal  City—Anthony  Hanses  has  pur­
chased  the  general  merchandise stock  of 
J.  J.  Martin  &  Co.

Port  Huron— Doe  &  Cody  are opening 
a  new  grocery  store  at  the  corner of Erie 
and  Butler  streets.

Cheshire— Merle  Stowe  is preparing to 
build  a  wall  under  bis  store  and to make 
other  improvements.

Detroit—James  J.  Kennary  continues 
the  hardware  business  of  J.  J.  Kennary 
&  Co.  in  his  own  name.

Gaylord—The  Gaylord  Co-operative 
Association  has  been  incorporated  with 
a  capital  stock  of $5,000.

Aima— Fred  H.  Hammer  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
meat  firm  of  Miileman  &  Hammer.

Algonac— Folkerts  &  Linn,  dealers 
in  groceries  and  hardware,  have  dis­
solved  partnership.  The  business  will 
be  continued  by  Thos.  Linn.

St.  Joseph— Morrow  &  Stone  have 
sold  their grocery  stock  to  Charles  and 
Samuel  Miller,  who  will  continue  the 
business  under  the  style  of  Miller  & 
Son.

Adrian—The  drug  stock  owned  by 
Dr.  Treat  &  Co.  has  been  sold  to  A.  B. 
Thompson,  who  has  been  manager  of 
he  store  since  its  establishment  by  Dr. 
Treat  two  years  ago.

Grand  Ledge— Mrs.  Weaver,  of  Sun- 
field,  has  purchased  the  bazaar  stock  of 
Mrs.  J.  Halsted  and  will  add  a  stock  of 
dry  goods 
in  the  store  from  which  A.
O.  moved  bis  stock  of  drugs.

Owosso—The grocery stock  of  Stephen 
B.  Pitts  has  been  sold  to  E.  L.  Bunt­
ing  and  B.  A.  Fillinger,  who  will  in 
the  future  conduct  the  business  under 
the  firm  name  of  Bunting  &  Fillinger.
Ann  Arbor— Ex-Postmaster  E.  E. 
Beal,  who  has  been 
in  the  retail  shoe 
business  since  leaving  Uncle  Sam's em­
ploy,  has  sold  out  his  stock  to  Hugo 
Parcheski,  of  Detroit,  and  will  retire 
from  business. 

*

Kalamazoo— The  Swindell  Brothers 
Cold  Storage  Co.  has  filed  articles  of 
association  with  the  county  clerk,  with 
a  capital  stock  of $20,000,  one-quarter 
paid  in.  A  wholesale  and  retail  busi­
ness  will  be  done  in  produce,  etc.

Whittemore— Stoutenberg  &  Wismer 
will  dissolve  partnership  Aug.  15.  A. 
B.  Wismer  will  succeed  to the  grocery 
and  hardware  business  here  and  D.  A. 
Stoutenberg  will  succeed  to  the  general 
merchandise  business  at  Prescott  about 
Sept.  10.

Traverse  City—J.  L.  Keach,  of  In­
dianapolis, has  purchased  the  warehouse 
a  few  rods  east  of  the  G.  R.  &  I.  depot 
and  is  repairing  and  improving  it.  The 
building  will  be  used  as  a  cold  storage 
for  fruits 
and  vegetables.  Charles 
Jefiries  will  have  charge  of  the  business 
at  this  place.

Owosso—The  first  annual  convention 
of the  Michigan  Hay Shippers’ Associa­
tion  will  be  held  in  this  city  Thursday, 
August  15.  Albert  Todd,  of  Owosso, 
is  President,  and  H.  J.  Hankins,  of 
Elsie,  Secretary.  A  number of  promi­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

nent  hay  dealers  from  throughout  the 
State  are  expected,  and the  meeting will 
be  one  of  much  interest  and  value  to 
those  attending.

Lansing— Frank  L.  Young  has  pur­
chased  from  Smith  G.  Young,  of  the 
Michigan  Produce  Co.,  the  two  ware­
houses  on  Michigan  avenue  east.  He 
will  look  after  the  buying  from  farmers 
and  have  charge  of  the  retail  business 
in  Lansing.  Smith  G.  Young  will  de­
vote  his  time  entirely  to  buying  from 
shippers 
in  Michigan.  The  shipping 
business  wili  be  conducted  under the 
firm  name  of  Smith  Young  &  Co.

Holland—A  petition 

is  being  circu­
lated  among  the  merchants  to  have  the 
early  closing  movement  again  estab­
lished  September  1,  closing  the  stores 
at 6  o’clock  every  evening  except  Tues­
It  is  desired  to 
days  and  Saturdays. 
have  ail  the  merchants 
in  the 
movement, 
the  groceries, 
clothing,  shoe  and  dry  goods  stores. 
The  merchants  are  taking  more  kindly 
to  the  movement  than  previously  and  it 
is  expected  that  it  will  be adopted with­
out  any  trouble.

including 

join 

Detroit—Walter J.  Gould,  the  veteran 
wholesale  grocer,  died  at  his  residence 
in  this  city  Sunday,  and  was  buried 
Tuesday  afternoon.  He  bad  for a  long 
time  suffered  from  Bright’s  disease  and 
early  last  spring  was  compelled  to retire 
from  active  participation 
in  business. 
He  went  to  the  sanitarium  at  Flint, 
where  his  health  became  greatly  im­
proved,  so  that  he  was  able  to  come 
home 
in  June,  but  the  disease  was  not 
conquered  and  he  gradually  weakened. 
Last  Wednesday  he  lost  consciousness, 
and  did  not  regain  it  until  a  few  min­
utes  before  his  death.  Mrs.  Gould  and 
R.  S.  Gehlert,  his  partner  in  business, 
were  at  his  bedside  when  he  passed 
peacefully  away.

Saline—Two  strangers  claiming  to 
represent  the  Dr.  King's  Medicine  Co., 
of  Elkhart,  Ind.,  passed  through  the 
outskirts  of  this  village  recently,  taking 
in  the  farmers  as  they  went,  selling 
medicine  at $1  per bottle  with  a  written 
guarantee 
if  not  satisfactory  to  have 
money  returned  by  Weinmann  &  Math­
ews,  one  of  the 
leading  druggists  of 
this  place.  Charles  Graff,  one  of  the 
unlucky  farmers  visited,  thinking  that 
he  received  no  help  from  the  medicine, 
called  on  the  druggists  for  his  money. 
They  told  him 
that  they  had  never 
beard  of  such  a  medicine  and  could  not 
give  him  his  money  back.  Upon 
further  investigation  it  was  found  that 
the  strangers  had  sold  nearly  100  bottles 
and  bad  worked  other  places  with  the 
same  scheme.

M anufacturing  M atters.

Lansing—E.  Bement’s  Sons  has  in­
from  $500,000  to 

its  capital 

creased 
$1,250,000.

Three  Rivers— F.  A.  Rohrer succeeds 
Rohrer  Bros,  in  the  cigar  manufactur­
ing  business.

Caro—J.  D.  Wilsey  &  Co.  is  the  style 
of  the  new  company  which  succeeds 
Julian  D.  Wilsey  in  the  saw  and  grist 
mill  business.

Bay  City—The  Hecla  Cement  Co. 
has  closed  the  deal  for  its  site  on  the 
river  front 
in  West  Bay  City.  *  The 
property  comprises  175  acres.

Detroit— Zackarias  &  Mason  have 
merged  their  shirt  waist  factory  into a 
corporation  under the  style  of  the  Zack­
arias  &  Mason  Co.  The  capital  stock 
is $100,000.

Sebewaing—The  Sebewaing  Sugar 
Co.  offered  to  donate  sufficient  stone  for 
two  and  a  half  miles of  stone road if  the

township  would  open  up  a  certain  piece 
of  road  and  lay  the  stone.  The  propo­
sition  was  snapped  up  and  the  com­
pany’s  taxes  for the  next  ten  years  will 
be  devoted  wholly  to  stone  roads.

Lowell—The  firm  of  Avery  &  John­
son  has  been  changed  to  Avery  &  Hug­
gins,  John  Huggins  having  purchased 
the 
interest  of  Morris  Johnson  in  the 
planing  mill.

Jackson—W.  B.  Burris  has  merged 
the  Central  City  Cigar Co.  into  a  corpo­
ration  under  the  same style,  with  a  cap­
ital  stock  of  $5,000.  Mr.  Burris 
is 
President  and  A.  W.  Stitt  is  Secretary 
and  Treasurer.

Fostoria—Glinn's  shingle  mill,  one 
mile  west  of  this  place,  burned  last  Sat­
urday,  with  150,000  shingles  owned  by 
S.  F.  Farwell,  of  Genesee,  who  has  for 
the  past  two  years  been  cutting  and 
shipping  logs  and  shingles.  No  insur­
ance.

Battle  Creek— The  K om  Krisp  Co.  is 
latest  addition  to  the  already  large 
the 
number of  health food  companies  in  this 
city. 
It  was  organized  Aug.  12  with  an 
authorized  capital  stock  of  $200,000. 
The  food 
is  different  from  any  other 
manufactured  here.  Charles  D.  Fuller, 
of  Kalamazoo,  is  Chairman  of  the  com­
pany,  and  F.  A.  Fuller,  of  the  same 
city,  Secretary;  Joseph  W.  Bryce,  of 
this  city,  Treasurer.  The  other  direc­
tors  are  D.  L.  Merrill  and  Francis  A. 
Kulp,  of  this  city.

The  Boy*  Behind  th e Counter.

lronwood—Axel  Carlson  has  taken  a 
position  in  the  store  of  the  C.  E.  Erick­
son  Hardware  Co.

Kalamazoo— Harry  S.  Spindler,  who 
has  been  connected  with  the Edwards  & 
Chamberlin  Hardware  Co.  for the  past 
three  years,  has  resigned  to  take  a  sim­
ilar  position  with  Morley  Bros.,  of  Sag­
inaw.

Evart—H.  W.  Johnson,  manager  of 
the  E.  F.  Birdsall  Co.,  Ltd.,  who  has 
been  laid  up  with  rheumatism  for  a 
number  of  weeks,  has  gone  to  Mt. 
Clemens  for  treatment.  J.  B.  Shaugh- 
nessey.of  Saginaw,  is  here  in  bis place.
Nashville— Ralph  Shoup,  of Climax, 
has  taken  a  clerkship  in  the  clothing 
store  of  G.  W.  Gribbin.

Calumet—The  members  of  the  Clerks* 
Social  Club  of  this  city  are  making 
great  preparations  for their third annual 
picnic  at  Section  16  park,  Thursday, 
Aug.  22.  Three  years  ago  the  Clerks’ 
Social  Club  was  organized  and  for  a 
time  bad  the  very  best  of  standing.  A l­
most  every  clerk  in  the  city  became  a 
member  and  many  an  enjoyable  time 
was  spent.  Calumet  people  will  well 
remember  the  preparations  that  were 
made  for  the  first  annual  picnic  in. 
August  of  1899.  Every  store  in  Calumet 
was  closed  and  the  clerks,  numbering 
several  hundred,  paraded  the  streets 
eariy 
in  the  morning,  after which  they 
repaired  to  the  grove  and  spent  the  day 
in  merrymaking.  For a  time  after  the 
picnic  and  also 
last  year  everything

its  organization. 

went  along  finely  in  the  Club  and  then 
some  of  the  members  commenced  drop­
ping  out*  This  led  to  others  doing  like­
wise  and  for  a  time  it  looked  as  if  the 
organization  was  on  the  verge  of  disin­
tegration.  However,  such  was  not  the 
case  and  to-day  the  Club  is  as strong,  if 
not  stronger,  than 
it  has  been  at  any 
time  since 
Some 
weeks  ago  a  meeting  was  held  and  the 
annual  picnic  was  discussed. 
It  was 
decided  that  August  22  should  be  the 
date  for  the  celebration  this  year  and 
accordingly  plans  and  preparations  are 
now  going  on  to  that  end.  Early  in 
the  morning  the  clerks  will  form  a  line 
of  march  at  their  hall  in  the  Gately- 
Wiggins  block  and,  headed  by  the  fa­
mous  Calumet  &  Hecla  band,  will  par- 
rade  the  principal  streets  of  the  city. 
After  the  parade,  which  will  end  near 
the  Yellow  Jacket  railroad  crossing,  rigs 
will  be 
in  waiting  and  the  picnickers 
will  go to  the  park.  Here  the  fun  of  the 
day  will  commence. 
The  afternoon’s 
program  will  consist  of  a  bowling  con­
test,  races  and  other  sports  open  only  to 
the  clerks.  The  fat  men’s  race  and  the 
merchants’  race  will  be  open  to  clerks 
and  their  employers.  Liberal prizes  will 
be  offered  and  the  races  are  certain  to 
prove  very  interesting.  Martha  Lodge, 
O.  D.  H.  S.,  will serve  the  meals.  Dur­
ing  the  afternoon  a  grand  open  air con 
cert  will  be  rendered  by  the  band,which 
will  also  furnish  music  both  afternoon 
and  evening  for those  wishing  to dance. 
This  year  George  Lewis,  prominently 
connected  with  the  Club,  will  act  as 
grand  marshal of  the  day,  and  bis  aides 
will  be  Angus  McDonald  and  Joseph 
Foster.  William  L.  Hagen,  of Laurium, 
has  kindly  consented  to  act  as  orator 
of  the  day.  Mr.  Hagen’s  ability  as  a 
speaker  is  well  known  in  Calumet  and 
the  entire  copper  country  and  his  ad­
dress  is  certain  to  be  well  delivered. 
The  clerks  will  leave  no  stone  unturned 
to  make  their  third  annual  picnic  a 
grand  success  and  will  have  the  help  of 
the  entire  section  in  this  undertaking. 
They  have  done  a  great  deal  of good 
since  their  Club  was  first  organized, 
donating  several 
large  sums  of  money 
to  various  good  causes,  and  they  ce r- 
tainly  deserve  the  help  and  attention  of 
the  public  at  large  in  return. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  a  number  of  the  Portage 
Lake  and  Lake  Linden  clerks  will 
take  in  the  picnic.

A te  Hia  Bonnet.

An  English  driver  for a  Market  street 
business  house  persuaded  his  employer 
to  buy  a  straw  hat  for  the  horse  during 
the  recent  hot  spell,  and  on  Tuesday  the 
horse  appeared  without  the  new  head- 
gear.

“ What  has  become  of  the  horse's 
bonnet,  Harry?’ ’  asked  one  of  the  firm.
is  hot  enough 

"D o n ’t  you  think 

it 

this  morning?''

“   ’Ot  enough.  That  it 

is,  sir,  but 
'oss  hate  the  'at  afore  1 

the  bloomin' 
could  put  it  on  'im  this  morning,’ ’ 
said  ’Arry.

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

Cotton  Rubber  Lined  Mill  Hose

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Write for prices.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company 

_____ ao  Pearl  Street 

____________Grand Rapids,  Mich.

P EA C H ES   W ANTED

Carlots or  Less.

M.  O.  B A K ER   &  CO .,  TO LED O ,  OHIO

W RITE OR W IRE  U S F O R  P R IC E S

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

H.  Toncray  has  opened  a  grocery 
The  Ball-Barnbart- 

store  at  Lilley. 
Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

G.  M.  Hartley  &  Co.  have  engaged 
in  the  grocery  business  at  Dighton. 
The  stock  was  furnished  by  the  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co.

The  annual  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’ Association  will 
be  held  next  Tuesday  evening,  at  which 
time  election  of  officers  for  the  ensuing 
year  will  occur.

its 

The  sixth  annual  picnic  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers'  Associa­
tion,  which  was  held  at  Mona  Lake  last 
Thursday,  was  a  complete  success  in 
every  respect.  The  itinerary 
included 
a  rail  trip  on  the  Pere  Marquette  from 
Grand  Rapids  to  Ottawa  Beach,  where 
one  of  the  steamers  of  that  system  was 
boarded  and  headed  northward  to  Mus­
kegon.  The  water  trip  was  a  very  en­
joyable  feature  and  appeared  to  be  ap­
preciated  by  every  one  present.  The 
boat  touched  the  dock  a 
little  after 
noon, where  a  special train  was  in  readi­
ness  to  convey  the  excursionists to Mona 
Lake,  under  the  auspices  and  guidance 
of  the  Reception  Committee  from  the 
Muskegon  Grocers  and  Butchers’  Asso­
ciation,  which  held 
third  annual 
picnic  at  the  same  place  and  acted  the 
part  of  host  to the  visiting  butchers  and 
their  friends.  After  dinner  had  been 
finished  a  welcoming  address  was  made 
from  the  speaker’s  stand  by  Mayor 
Moore,  of  Muskegon,  after  which  two 
excellent  addresses  were  made  by  Mus­
kegon  gentlemen,  both  of  which  appear 
verbatim 
in  this  week's 
paper.  Sports and contests of  an  exceed­
ingly  amusing  and  entertaining  char­
acter occupied  the attention of the  crowd 
from  2  o’clock  until  dark,  no  mishap 
occurring  to  mar  the  pleasure  of  those 
present.  The  Grand  Rapids  excursion­
ists  bad  the  option  of  returning*by  boat 
at  6:30 or by  train  at  8  o'clock  and  the 
crowd  was  about  equally  divided  be­
tween  the  two  methods  of  transporta­
tion.  All  spoke  in  the  highest  terms  of 
praise  regarding  the  manner  in  which 
they  were  received  and  entertained  by 
their  Muskegon  brethren.

elsewhere 

Hon.  Peter  Doran  enjoys  the  reputa­
tion  of  having  landed  the  first  bankrupt 
in  durance  vile—in  this  State,  at  least. 
The  person  thus  incarcerated  is  Henry 
Jaffe,  who  engaged 
in  general  trade  at 
Alba  during  the  summer  of  1889,  at 
which  time  he  purchased  a  stock  of 
merchandise  valued  at  about  $4,000 
from  a  man  named  Walsky  at  Bay  City. 
Jaffe  was  adjudicated  a  bankrupt  July 
18,  1900,  at  which  time  he  claimed  to 
have  a  stock  on  hand  worth  $4,000. 
Geo.  H.  Reeder  was  appointed  trustee 
and  had  an  inventory  taken,  disclosing 
goods  aggregating  $2,541.60  in  value. 
Sales  were  made  to  the  amount  of 
$189.83,  when  the  remainder  of  the 
stock  was  sold  at  $1,353.44,  which  was 
the  highest  price  which  could  be  ob­
tained  for the  goods,  because  they  were 
mostly  old  and  shop  worn.  Jaffe  kept 
no cash  book  or other  books  of  account, 
but  on  investigating  the  matter the trus­
tee  found  that  Jaffe  purchased  goods  to 
the  amount  of  $4,812.91 
from  Jan.  1, 
1890,  to  the  date-of  his  failure,  during 
which  time  he  paid  only  $720.96  to  bis 
merchandise  creditors.  Acting  on  this 
discovery  the  trustee  filed  a  petition 
Nov.  12,  1900,  asking  that  Jaffe  be com­
pelled  to  disgorge.  The  matter came

up  before  Referee  Blair,  who  made  an 
exhaustive  investigation  of  the  subject, 
concluding  that  Jaffe  failed  to  account 
for  property  to  the  amount  of  $4,325.21 
and  ordering  that  he  restore  to the  trus­
tee  goods  or  cash  to  the  amount  of 
$3,000.  The  order appears  to  have  been 
ignored  by  Jaffe,  and  last  week  Judge 
Wanty  took  the  matter  under  advise­
ment  and 
issued  a  peremptory  order, 
directing  Jaffe  to  hand  over$1,500 forth­
with  or  be  committed  to 
the  Kent 
county  jail  for  contempt  of  court.  Jaffe 
appears  to  have given  no  more attention 
to  Judge  Wanty’s  mandate  than  he  did 
the  referee’s  order,  in  consequence  of 
which  he  is  now  playing  checkers  with 
his  nose  in  the  Kent  county  jail,  where 
he 
is  likely  to  remain  as  a  guest  of 
Uncle  Sam  until  such  time  as  he 
is 
willing  to  disgorge  a  portion  of  the 
property  which  he  is  wrongfully  with­
holding  from  his  creditors.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Duchess  are  in  best  demand, 

commanding  about $1  per  bu.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25© 
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to 
size. 
Jumbos,  $2.25.  Bananas  are  doing  well, 
the  principal  demand  being  for  local 
and  nearby  distribution,  with  some  re­
quest  from  outside  parties  for  shipping 
qualities.  Country  dealers  are  not  anx­
ious  buyers,  but  some  are  sent  to  the 
country  every  day.  The  shortage  of 
berries  and  other  small  fruits  helps 
bananas  largely.  Receipts  are  heavy, 
but  demand  is  sufficient  to  clear  them 
out.

Beans— Handpicked  have  advanced 
to $2.75  per  bu.,  which  is  the  highest 
point  reached  in  this  country  since  the 
civil  war,  when  the  price  went  to  $3. 
Few  beans  remain  in  the  hands  of  the 
growers,although  local  dealers  occasion­
ally  pick  up  100 bushel  lots  which  have 
been  held  by  the  g rower  for  a  favorable 
market.  All  indications  point  to  a  large 
crop  of  good  quality,  although  reports 
from  New  York  growers  complain  that 
the  weevil,  which  ordinarily 
infests 
growing  wheat  only,  has  transferred  its 
activity  to  the  growing  bean  vines,  with 
serious  results.  The  same  complaint 
reaches  the  Tradesman  from  Belding, 
in  this  State.  In  the  vicinity  of  Howell 
the  fear  is  expressed  that  the  vines  and 
leaves  are  so heavy  that  the  beans  can 
not  ripen  readily.

Beets—45c  per  bu.
Blackberries—$1.75  per  16 qts.
Butter—Extra  creamery  is  strong  at j 

Cabbage—Advanced 

2ic.  Dairy  grades  are  without  particu­
lar  change,  ranging  in  price  from  12c 
for  packing  stock  to  14c  for choice  and 
16c  for  fancy.  The  market 
is  holding 
steady.  There  is  a  firm  feeling  and 
limited  offers  of  fancy  creamery  stock.
to  $2.25@2.4o 
per 3 bu.  bbl.  The early crop is as scarce 
as  potatoes.  From  everywhere  come 
orders  to  dealers 
for  cabbage.  The 
quality 
is  not  good  and  complaints  are 
constant.  The  late  crop  promises  to  be 
good 
in  most  sections.  A  good  ship­
ping  demand  from  the  South  and South­
west  still  exists  for  our  home  grown 
vegetables.  The  section  around  Grand 
Rapids  was  fortunate  in  securing  ••ains 
enough  to keep  vegetables  grow 
and 
this  season  has  been a harvest  h  .  jrand 
Rapids  vegetable  dealers.

Carrots—50c  per  bu.
Celery— 16c  per  doz.
Cheese—Dealings  in  cheese  on  the 
larger  last  week 
Chicago  Board  were 
than  ever  known.  For  two  days  the 
offerings  amounted  to  over  24,000  pack­
ages  each  day,  while  the  usual  quantity 
traded  in  amounts  to  about  5,000  pack­
ages.  Prices  are  rega rded  as  high,  but 
the  market  remains  steady.  Reports 
.from  factory  sales 
in  Wisconsin  say 
about  everything  offered 
taken. 
Twins  are  bringing 9^@ioc  and  other 
goods  in  proportion.

Corn—8@ioc  per doz.
Cucumbers—20c  per doz.  for hothouse; 
50c  per  bu.  for  garden  stock;  15c  per 
100  for  pickling.

Eggs—Local  dealers  pay  about  12c for 
receipts  and  hold  candled  stock  at  13c.

is 

interest­
The  market  is  becoming  more 
ing  to  the  dealers  as  the  situation  be­
comes  more  uncertain.  There  is  a  good, 
healthy  market  for  fresh,  choice  goods.
Frogs’  Legs— Large  bulls,  45@5oc; 
I5@ 

medium  bulls,  25c;  large  frogs, 
20c;  small  frogs,  5@ioc.

Green  Onions— 10c  for  Silverskins.
Green  Peas— $¡@1.25  for  telephones 

and  marrowfats.

Honey—White  stock  is  in 

light  sup­
ply  at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at  13c 
and  dark  is  in  moderate  demand  at  11
@I2C.

Lemons— Messinas  have  declined  to 
fancy. 

for  choice  and  $5.50  for 

$5 
Rhodis,  $6.50.

Lettuce— Garden,  50c  per  bu.  ;  head, 

60c  per  bu.

Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Musk  Melons—Gems  command  85c 
per  basket.  Cantaloupes  fetch  $1.35© 
1.50  per crate.  Osage,  $1.60  per  crate.
Onions—Advanced  to 85@90c  per  bu.
Oranges— Late  Valencias  from  Cali­
fornia  are  held  at $5  for 96s  and  112s. 
The  smaller sizes  command  $5.5o@5.75.

Parsley—30c  per doz.
Peaches— Early  Rivers  are  nearing 
the  end  and  move  off  freely  on the  basis 
of _ 60c.  Hale's  Early  are  now  in  their 
prime,  commanding  about  75c.  Yellow 
Triumphs  are  beginning  to  come  in 
freely  and  find  an  active  demand  at  $1 
@1.25.

is 

Pears—$1  per  bu.  for  small  sugar  va­
riety  and  $1.50  per  bu.  for Clapp’s  Fa­
vorites.

Poultry—The  market 

Peppers—$ 1  per  bu.
Plums---- Abundance,  $1.25;  Bur­
banks,  $1.40.  The  crop  is  not  going  to 
be  as  large  as  was  anticipated earlier  in 
the  season.
in  better 
shape  than  a  week  ago  and  some  varie­
ties  are  stronger  in  price.  Live  hens 
command  7@8c;  spring  chickens,  8@ 
io c;  turkey  hens,  8@9C;  gobblers,  9c; 
spring  ducks,  io@ iic .  Pigeons  are  in 
moderate  demand  at  60c  per  doz.  and 
squabs  are  taken  readily  at  $1.2031.50.
Radishes— 12c  for  China  Rose;  ioc 
for  Cbartiers.
String  Beans—$1  per  bu.
Summer  Squash—75c  per  %  bu.  box.
Tomatoes—$i.5o@i.75  per  bu.
Watermelons— i8@25c 

Indiana 

for 

Sweethearts  and  Missouris.
Grand  Rapids  Re-insured  in the National.
The  National  Fire  Insurance  Com­
pany,  of  Hartford,  Connecticut,  has 
purchased  the  business  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Company,  Mich­
igan’s  popular  company.  This  gives 
the  policy  holders  of  the  Grand  Rapids 
Insurance  Company  a  capital  of $1,000, - 
000  and  assets  of  $4,851,789.

No  change  whatever;  all  business 
transacted  as  heretofore;  all  losses  paid 
and  adjusted 
from  this  office;  no 
stranger  to  deal  with.  This  company 
will  act  the  same  as  the  home  company.
All  policies  guaranteed  by  the  Na­
tional.  Our  agency  remains  the  lead­
ing  and  largest  agency  in  the  city.

W.  Fred  McBain.

It  seems  incredible  that  the  sales  of 
stamped  paper  by  the  Postoffice  De­
partment  should  have  increased  close  to 
50  per  cent,  in  seven  years,  but  the  sta­
tistics  of  the  Department  show  this  to 
be  a  fact.  Population  has  not  increased 
more  than  15  per  cent,  in  that  time. 
The  average  expenditure  of  every  man, 
woman  and  child  in  the  United  States 
for  postage  stamps  was  not  quite  $1.04 
in  1894,  and  it  was  nearly  $1.35  in  the 
fiscal  year  just  closed.  This  does  not 
include  the  receipts  from  periodicals 
and  alleged  periodicals,  sent  from  the 
offices  of  publication.  Postage 
is  so 
cheap  that  it 
is  hard  to  believe  that 
seven  years  ago  people  were  economiz­
ing 
letter  writing,  but  it  is  easy  to 
believe  that  with  the  revival  of business 
there  has  been  a  great  increase  in  com­
mercial  correspondence.

in 

James  A.  Morrison,  of  the  Shields- 
Morley  Grocery  Co.,  at 
Colorado 
Springs,  is  spending  a  couple  of  weeks 
with  old friends  and acquaintances here.

5

The  G rain  M arket.

, There  was  only  one  side  to the  wheat 
market.  Cash  wheat  was  up  4c  per 
bushel  and  September  futures,  3^c. 
The  reason  for  it  was  the  large  export 
shipments,  being  nearly 
9,oco,ooo 
bushels,  which  was  the  largest  weekly 
shipment  we  ever  have  had.  The larg­
est  previous  weekly  shipment  was  in 
November,  1898,  when  there  was  one 
week  the  shipments  were  7,000,000 
bushels.  Monday’s shipment was  1,60c,- 
000  bushels,  which  makes  the  shipments 
this  season,  on  this  year's  crop,  over 
35,000,000  bushels.  The question  arises, 
How  long  will  these  enormous  ship­
ments 
last?  _ And  still  the  bear  clique 
says  there  is  no  export  demand.

The  Government 

crop  report  for 
August  1  was  issued  Saturday  and  was 
also  what  may  be  called  a  bullish  re­
port. 
It  showed  spring  wheat  15  points 
less  than  on  July  1,  and  it  was  80  per 
cent,  against  95  per  cent,  the  previous 
month.  Corn  showed  up  only  54  per 
cent.,  against  81  per  cent.  July  1. 
This 
large  decline  in  the  spring  wheat 
condition  caused  wheat  to  advance  2c. 
Of  course,  there  may  be  some  reaction, 
as  it  is  natuarl  after  such  an  advance. 
It  is  not  many  weeks  since  September 
sold  down  to64c,  while  to-day  it  sold  at 
74j£c.  Should  our  exports  keep  up, 
wheat  will  look  cheap  at  present  prices 
later  on.  Our  visible  decreased  2,150,- 
000  bushels,  which 
leaves  20,000,000 
bushels  less 
in  sight  than  the  corres­
ponding  time  one  year  ago.

Corn  was  60c  for  September  deliv­
ery,  while  the  crop  is  only  about  60  per 
cent.,  possibly  less,  or  about  what  was 
mentioned in last  week’s  article— 1,300,- 
000,000  bushels— will  be  all  that  will  be 
gathered,  against  2,100,000,000  bushels 
last  year.  Prices  are  high,  but  may  go 
a  little  higher.  We  think  it  dangerous 
to  go  short  on  it  and  would  prefer to  be 
on  the  long  side.  The  amount  in  sight 
is  very  small,  indeed,  taking  the  con­
dition  of  the  crop  into  consideration.

Oats  are  also  higher.  September oats 
have  sold  as  high  as  38c.  The  cause 
for  high  prices  is  the  same  as  on  corn— 
a  very  short  crop.  The  oatmeal  mills 
are  also  making  large  contracts  at  pres­
ent  prices.

Rye  moved  up  about  3c,  as  the 

large 
demand  for  export  is  from  this  section. 
Our  rye  will  mostly  be  exported,  as it  is 
hardly  good  enough  to  go  into  the  dis­
tillers’  bands,  on  account  of  its  uneven­
ness.  The distilleries want  only  the  very 
choicest  of  rye  and,  on  account  of  their 
not  being  able  to  get  what  they  want, 
they  have  advanced  the  price  of  whisky 
already.

Beans,  not 

to  be  outdone,  have 
climbed  up  to  $2  per  bushel  for  hand- 
picked  and  $1.95  is  asked  for  October, 
which  seems  to  us  extremely  high,  and 
the  short  sellers  we  think  will  make 
money.

Flour  is  steady,  with  an  advance  of 
fully  25@3oc  per  bbl.,  on  account  of  the 
upward  tendency  in  wheat.

Mill  feed 

is  as  strong  as  ever.  The 
demand  exceeds  the  production,  $17  for 
bran  and  $18  for  middlings  being  the 
going  prices  at  present.

The  trend  of  all  cereals  seems  up­
ward.  The bear element are taking a back 
seat,  being  very  much  demoralized,  at 
least  at  present,  while  they  have  been 
in  clover  a  long  time. 
It  is  the  bull’s 
time  now  to  do  a  little  crowing.  Re­
ceipts  have  been:  wheat,  50 cars;  oats,
5  cars;  malt,  ica r;  corn,  16cars;  flour, 
13  cars;  hay,  3  cars;  straw,  1  car.

Millers  are  paying  70c  for  No.  2  red 

wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

Window  Dressing

R ight  W ay  and  W rong  W ay of T rim m ing 

Windows.

idea 

In  all  the  work  of  the  world  there  is 
a  right  way  and  a  wrong  way  of  setting 
about  one’s  work.  Some  men  will  work 
twice  as  hard  as  others  and  devote twice 
as  much  time  to  doing  the  task  that 
they  have 
in  hand,  but  with  only  one- 
half  the  success  of  their  fellows  who 
work  deliberately,  quietly,  and  yet  with 
astonishing  rapidity. 
In  window  trim­
ming  these  characteristics  of  different 
men  stand  out  wtih  such  striking  prom­
inence that  some  men  are  altogether  im­
possible  as  trimmers 
in  stores  where 
work  has  to  be  done  with  a  minimum 
of  friction  and  time.  They  are  faith­
ful,  reliable  and  conscientious,  but  un­
systematic  and  slow.  A  trimmer  must 
work  with  method 
if  he  is  to  get  the 
best  results,  and  a  few  hints  on  method 
may  be  of  service  to  people  who  have 
not  a  system  of  their own. 
It  is  not  al­
ways  necessary  to  make  a  diagram  of  a 
trim  on  paper,  although  in  making  up 
a  window  such  a  diagram 
is  always 
helpful.  Gut  it  is  necessary  for the trim­
mer  to  have  a  perfectly  clear  and 
definite 
in  his  mind  of  what  he 
intends  to  accomplish.  First  of  all,  he 
should  know  what  article  or  line  of  ar­
ticles  he  proposes  to  make  the  star  fea­
ture  of  his  display.  He  should  know 
just  what  portion  of  the  window  is  to 
be  devoted  to  the  various  units  of  these 
articles.  He  should  decide  what  par­
ticular  units  of  display  are  the  central 
ones  for  each  portion  of  the window,and 
thus  having  arranged  for  the  central 
in  the  display  and  grouped  the 
figures 
minor  figures 
in  proper  relation  to  the 
central  figure,  all  that  he  has  to  do  is  to 
fill 
in  the  rest  of  the  window  in  such  a 
way  that  the  central  figure  and  the  rela­
tions  of  the  minor figures  to  it stand  out 
with  perfect  clearness.  The  window 
man  can  learn  a  lesson  from  the  meth­
ods  of the  advertising  man. 
In  writing 
an  advertisement,  the  advertising  man 
decides,  first  of  all,  what  he  is  going  to 
make  the  subject  of  his  advertisement. 
He  then  classifies  his  material  accord­
ing  to  the  different  lines.  He  next  puts 
each  line  in  shape,  so  that 
it  receives 
just  the  amount  of  attention  that  its  rel­
ative 
importance  deserves.  After  he 
has  put  each  section  of  his  advertise­
into  shape  he  chooses the  most 
ment 
striking  position 
in  the  advertisement 
for the  star  line.  After  having  put  this 
in  the  central  position,  all  that  is  neces­
sary  is  to  put  the  remaining  portions  of 
the  advertisement in positions  of  greater 
or  less  prominence,  according  to  their 
importance.  Some  window  men  have 
no  definite  idea  of  what  is  the most con­
spicuous  position  in  their window,  with 
relation  to  the  different  backgrounds 
that  they  employ.  Other trimmers  have 
no  definite  idea  of  how  to display differ­
ent  articles  in  units  of  display  of  more 
or  less  prominence.  When  a  subordi­
nate  line  is  displayed  with  the  greatest 
taste  and  the  star  line  is  shown  in  awk­
ward  or commonplace  units,  a  bad  win­
dow  is  the  result.

♦   *  *

One  of  the  best  arguments  for  plain 
and  simple  trimming,  the  display  of  a 
few  simple  articles  in  a  window  simply 
decorated,  is  that  it  keeps  the  merchant 
from  unduly  filling  his  windows  with 
articles  that  he  ought  to  bold  in reserve. 
As  one  looks  over  the  windows  of  the 
smaller  stores  he  is  impressed  with  the 
fact  that  in  the  majority  of  cases  a  bad 
and 
inartistic  effect  is  so  frequently  to

be  seen,  not  because  the  materials  were 
lacking,  but  because  they  were  used 
in 
quantity,  with  the  hope  that  quantity 
would  atone  for  lack  of quality  in  their 
arrangement.

*  *  *

Some  merchants  have  found  that  they 
could  attract  much  attention  to their 
windows  by  using  small  sheets  of  paper 
with  prices  and  short  phrases  type-writ­
ten  upon  them 
instead  of  the  regular 
written  window  card.  They have  found 
that  people  will  stop  to  read  a  type­
written  sheet  or  slip  of  paper when  they 
would  pass  by an ordinary  window  card, 
because  the  typewritten  sheet has  a  per­
sonal  quality  that  the  price  card 
lacks. 
As  a  change  from  the  stereotyped  meth­
od  of  using  window  cards  the  scheme 
is  worthy  of  trial.  Sometimes  a  tele­
graph  blank  or  letter  head  is  used  and 
the  matter given  either  in  a  dispatch  or 
letter  form.—Apparel  Gazette.

Poor  W ay  of Competing:  W ith th e Cotter.
Lots  of  people  think  they  know  how 
to  fight  the  cutter. 
I  don’t  know  how 
many  times  I've  beard  the  argument 
which  runs  something  like  this:

“ The  cutter  sells  nothing  but  trash, 
so  that  the  way  to  compete  with  him 
is 
not  on  price,  but  on  quality.  Point  out 
to  your  trade  that  your  goods  are  better 
— very  much  better—and  that  you  don’t 
sell  such  goods  as  the  cutter  sells  at 
all.”

some 

This  argument  is  all  right  and  it  will 
work,  but  only  with 
cutters. 
There  are  two  sorts  of  cut  rate  grocers 
and  I  know  what  I ’m  talking  about. 
There  is  the  sort  that  sells  good  goods 
and  there 
is  the  sort  that  sells  bad. 
There  isn’t  any  real  reason  why the man 
who  runs  a  chain  of  stores  should  sell 
trash.  He  buys  in  such quantities  that 
he  can  afford  to  sell  the  very  best  and 
sell 
it  below  the  usual  prices,  too;  but 
all  cutters  don’t  do  that,  nevertheless. 
Still,  some  do.

Don’t  you  see  how  foolish  the  argu­
ment  I  spoke  of 
is  when  you  get  up 
against  a  cutter  who  sells  good  goods? 
And  don’t  you  forget  it,  there  are  some 
who  do.  Suppose  you  try  to  meet  a  cut­
ter  like  that  with  the  plea  that  your 
goods  are  so  much  better than  his  that 
you  have  to  get  more  money  for  them— 
where  will  you  be  when  the  consumer 
tries  the  two,  side  by  side,  and  finds 
yours, 
if  anything,  poorer?  Will  you 
have  done  yourself  any  good?  Will  you 
have  met  the  cutter?

Not  much!
Listen  to  something  I  know  about  the 
quality  of  goods  one  big  cutter  sells. 
Before  I  begin,  let-nobody  imagine  that 
I’m  puffing  any  cutter  or  pleading  the 
cutter’s  cause. 
If  I  wanted  to  puff  cut­
ters  I’d  mention  names.  1  am  merely 
doing  what  I  can  to correct  the  wrong 
impression  that  all  cutters  sell  poor 
goods  and  that  the  way  to  compete  with 
them  is  therefore  on  quality.

Not 

information  about 

long  ago  a  certain  big  buyer 
wanted  some 
the 
quality  of  tea  his  competitors  were 
selling.  As  he 
is  a  thorough  fellow, 
in  the  open  market  and 
he  went. out 
bought  from  retail 
probably 
twenty-five  samples  of  different  priced 
teas—30  cent,  50  cent,  80 cent,  $1  tea, 
and  so  on.

stores 

These  samples  were  collected  from 
all  sorts  of  stores.  Some  were  bought 
of the  biggest  fancy  grocery  store  in  the 
city—a  store  that  has  a  reputation  for 
handling  only  the  best  and  deserves  it. 
Some  were  bought  at  one  of  the  big  cut 
rate  stores,  some  of  little  cut  rate stores, 
and  some  of  ordinary  single  stores.

These  samples  were  subjected  to  ex­
pert  tests  by  a  number  of  tea  people 
who  knew  nothing  about  where  they 
came  from  or what  they  cost.  The  re­
sult  was  that  the  big  fancy  store  and 
the  big  cutter  were  found  to  be  giving 
the  best  value  for  the  money.

It  is  an 

interesting  and  significant 
fact  that  one  of  these  samples  came 
from  the  store  of a  grocer  who  had  one 
of  the  big  cutter’s  stores  to  compete 
with.  Tests  proved  it  to  be  among  the 
poorest,  but  it  was  afterward  demon­
strated  that  his  jobber,  and  not  he,  was 
to  blame.

Another  instance  is  interesting.  The 
same  buyer  wished  to  lay  down  some 
standards  for  himself 
on  California 
canned  fruit.  To  do this  he  worked  the 
same  scheme  he  had  with  tea—he  sent 
out  and  bought  a  number of cans.  These 
cans  came  from  about  the  same  vari­
ety  of  stores  that  the  tea  had  come  from 
—some  from  the  same  big  fancy grocery 
store,  some  from  the  same  big  chain- 
store  man,  others  from  ordinary  single 
stores.

These  cans  of  fruit  were  examined 
just  as  carefully  as  the  tea.  The  result 
was  the  rather  surprising  disclosure 
that  the  big  cutter  was  selling  the  very 
best  canned  fruit  in  the  lot— better even 
than  the  big  fancy  store that has peaches 
packed  under  its  own  label  and  makes a 
big  time  about  them.

There  are  some  people  who  will doubt 
this,  but  I  assure  you  that  these  things 
are  absolutely  true.

The 

standards  which 

the  buyer 
adopted  were  the  qualities  which  the 
cutter  sold.

Now,  doesn’t  it  begin  to  develop  how 
foolish  it  would  be  to  work  the  quality 
racket  in  trying  to  compete  with  a  cut­
ter  who sells  even  better goods  than  one 
of  the  finest  grocery  stores  in  the  city?
No,  brethren,  I  am  not  booming  the 
cutter.  Rather  than  that,  I  am  trying 
to  save  some  grocer the  humiliation  of 
making  an  argument  that  he  can’t  jus­
tify.— Stroller  in  Grocery  World.
W ishes  Every M erchant W as a Subscriber.
The  Sherwood  Register  reproduces 
the  opinion  of  the  Tradesman  on  the 
display  advertisement  sent  in  for  crit­
icism  by  A.  W.  Morris,  of  that  place, 
adding  thereto  the  following  comment:
We  copy  the  above  from  the Michigan 
Tradesman,  which,  among  many  other 
good  things,  devotes  considerable  space 
to  criticising  “ other  people’s”   adver­
tisements,  and  we  unhesitatingly  say 
that  we  believe  it  is  all  right. 
It  will 
not  only  help  the  merchant  in  writing 
his advertisements, but  is  practically  the 
“ first 
in  advertising,  and  we 
wish  every  merchant  in  our village  was 
a  subscriber  to  the  Tradesman  and

lesson”  

would  make  a  study  of  this  subject. 
The  advertisement  referred  to  above 
appeared 
in  the  Register week  before 
last  and  was  re-produced  in  the  Trades­
man,  with  the  above  criticism. 
It  was 
not  “ set”   or  “ composed”   as  a  prize 
advertisement,  but  it happened  to  meet 
the  eye  of  the  Tradesman's  critic  with 
the  above  approval.  As  Mr.  Morris 
changes  his  advertisements  weekly there 
have no  doubt,  been others  which  would 
meet  the  Tradesman’s  idea much better.

Tobacco  D ealers  Frow n  [on  Prem ium  

Schemes.

At  the 

last  meeting  of  the  Retail 
Cigar  and  Tobacco  Dealers’  Associa­
tion  of  Greater  New  York  it  was  voted 
to  send  all  tobacco  manufacturers a copy 
of  the  resolution  adopted  advising  all 
retailers  against  displaying  notices  that 
announce  that  pipes  or smoking  articles 
will  be  given  away  by  manufacturers  of 
tobacco  with  their goods,  and  resolving 
that  members  of  the  Association  win 
not  redeem  or  forward  coupons,  tags  or 
wrappers  for that  purpose,  or  otherwise 
assist  in  the  promotion  of  such schemes. 
This  resolution was embodied in a  circu­
lar  stating  that  while  the  Association 
did  not  wish  to  antagonize  the  manu­
facturers,  it  was  deemed  advisable  to 
çall  their attention  in  this  manner to the 
injustice  of  the  premium.

Are you not in need of

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When you attend the  Pan-American  Ex­
position this fall  it  will  be  a  verv  good 
idea for you to see the exhibit of Thomas 
Motor Cycles and Tricycles and Quads 
in Transportation  Building.

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If you are at all  interested  and  thinking 
of taking up the  sale  of  Automobiles  or 
Motor  Cycles—or  contemplating  buying 
a machine for your own  use— we  extend 
a special  invitation  to  you  to  visit  the 
factory of the E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
while  at  Buffalo.  The  Thomas  is  the 
cheapest  practical  line  of  Automobiles 
on the market.
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Tons  and  tons  of  moisture  are  evap­
orated  from  wooded  areas.  This  is  an­
other  beneficial  act.  Water vapor  in  the 
atmosphere  is  essential  to  agriculture. 
Trees  transpire  through  cracks  and  fis­
in  the  bark,  where  the  lentices 
sures 
are  bidden  from  sight.  This 
is  espe­
cially  true  in  old  trees.  From  time  to 
time  scientists  have  computed  the  leaf 
area  of  trees  and  the  results  have  been 
astonishing.  An  ordinary linden leaf has 
a  surface  of  ten  square 
inches.  Multi­
ply  this  by  the  number of  leaves  on  a 
branch  and calculate  the  leafage  area  of 
the  tree.  This  entire  surface  is  liber­
ating  oxygen  and  water  vapor  day  and 
night.

In  the  arid  sections  of  the  West  the 
people  are  beginning  to  see  that forestry 
and  irrigation  are  the  factors  which will 
count  for  their  prosperity.  About  one 
million  square  miles,  or  more  than  one- 
third  of  the  United  States,  is  forest 
land.  The  destruction  of 
forests  has 
been  so  extravagant  that  the  Govern­
ment  bas  taken  the  matter  in  hand  and 
decided  on 
thirty-eight  reservations 
where  the  forests  will  be  under  intelli­
gent  supervision.  There  has  been  some 
misunderstanding  in  regard  to  these  re­
serves,  although  the  intention  is  to  pre­
serve  the  forest  and  encourage 
the 
growth  of  young  trees  at  the  same  time 
the  land  available  for settlement  will  be 
increased.  As 
forests  conserve  the 
influence  the  humidity  of 
rainfall  and 
the  atmosphere,  newly  planted  forests 
in  between  farms  on  the 
will  wedge 
reservations  and  farms  penetrate 
the 
clearings  in  old  forests.  Sheep  herders 
and  settlers  must  be  taught  intelligent 
forestry  and  tree  wisdom  spread  broad­
cast  over  the 
land  before  the  tree  re­
ceives  the  reverential  respect  due  to  it.
Scarcity  of F ru it and Produce in the E »st. 
From the New York Tribune.

New  England  have  still  a  good  many  to 
offer,  and  the  West  will  send  a  fair sup­
ply.  The  reports  of  the  potato  famine 
have  been  undoubtedly  exaggerated. 
The  Fruit  Trade  Journal,  after 
investi­
gating  the situation,  declares  that things 
are  not  so  bad  as  they  are  painted,  and 
that  this  winter  will  not  see  the  tower­
ing  prices  which  have  been  predicted. 
Several  prominent  merchants  maintain 
that  the  shortage  is  only  temporary. 
If 
the  potatoes  were  larger  the  crop  would 
be  satisfactory.  At  any  rate  those  nerv­
ous  persons  who  have  been  expecting  to 
see  potatoes  served  in  a  separate  course 
as  the 
luxury  of  the  dinner  table  may 
calm  their  fears.  The  humble  murphy 
takes  on  a  new  importance,  but  is  not 
going  to  be  too  exclusive.  As  to  the 
other  vegetables,  of  less  consequence  to 
the  welfare  of  the  State,  there 
is  no 
great  hope.  This  year  the  luscious  cu­
cumber  is  shorn  of  its  glory  on  every 
side;  those  who  can  not 
live  without 
plump  and 
juicy  tomatoes  must  seek 
diligently  for  them,  while  string  beans 
are  a  memory.

Reports  have  been  circulated  to  the 
effect  that  the  Maryland  and  Delaware 
peach  crops  are  failures.  This  is  more 
than  half  truth;  to  be  exact,  this  year 
will  see  about  4,000 carloads  of  peaches 
taken  from  those  two  States,  while 
12,000 came  last  year.  There  are  plenty 
of  peaches  in  Georgia,  however,  and 
Michigan  has  80  per cent,  of  the  usual 
crop.  The  fruit  is  good  in  spite  of  the 
drouth.  Apples  are  few  and  far  between 
this  year,  but  there  will  be  enough  for 
this  country.  Every  state  has  some  ap­
ples,  and  a  few  report  as  many  as  last 
year,  but  others  count  gloomily  on  only 
a  quarter of  what  were  picked  last  sea­
son.  The  enormous  apple 
industry 
affects  many  people  and  the  crop  is  al­
ways  watched  with  anxiety.  In  i8g6-’Q7, 
for  instance,  a  great  apple  year,  a  little 
under  3,000,000  barrels  of  apples  were 
exported  from  this  country,  putting  in 
circulation  something  over $6,000,000. 
It  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that  so  much 
space  should  be  given  to  the  considera­
tion  of  the  apple  crop.

Village  Improvement

blame,
proach.

The Tree  in  the  City.
Amid the fret and fever of the street.
Calm, peaceful, and serene this giant stands; 
Amid the strife, the worry of the town,
His mighty heart remains In deep repose; 
Among the seething multitudes of men,
Their restlessness can not dl-turb his rest.
I watch tne emerald ocean of his leaves,
And every heaving billow of joy—
The joy of living, joy of strength and health.
Of peace of mind, of duty well performed.
For he bas kept the law with God and man. 
Done well his part, nor sought to shun his lot; 
So, hearty, hale, and wholesome, he uprears 
In green old age a tower of hardihood.
Like some old  man  whose  youth was  free from 
Whose temperate  manhood  brought  him no  re­
He reaps the rich rewards of goodly years,
Erect and strong In gray magnificence.
I touch him, and I tread old scenes again,
A barefoot boy upon my father’s farm;
I hear the warble of a wheat-field quail,
I gather sprays of dewy wilding flowers,
I breathe soft odors of the apple blooms,
And hear the cow bells tinkling in the lane,
A schoolboy in the old schoolhouse again,
I hear the children droning at their books,
I see my little sweetheart’s soft brown eyes.
O patriarch of the multitudinous leaves,
Content and calm, amid this rush and roar,
Still uncontaminated in this strife,
Free from repining for the fields and woods— 
Teach me the grandeur of thy deep repose, 
Teach me the glory of thy goodly soul,
That I may walk with conscience undisturbed 
Amid the struggles in the marts of men!
Walter Malone.

Oxygen  and  M oisture Given O ut By Trees.
Utilitarians  consider  the  trunk  the 
important  part  of  the  tree.  The  trunk 
is  a  wise  makeshift  of  nature  which 
towers  aloft,  and  tries  to  lift  the  vital 
organs  of  the  tree—the  leaves—out  of 
harm’s  way  and 
into  purer  air  and 
brighter  sunshine.  Beneath  the  ground 
the  strong  roots  and  rootlets  have  hun­
dreds  of  eager,  thirsty  mouths  which 
take  nourishment  from  the  earth.  Water 
and  mineral  matter  are  carried  upward 
by  the  process  of  capillary  attraction  to 
the leaves in  the  crown  and  the  branches 
for  digestion  and 
assimilation.  A 
leafless  tree  stands  little  chance  of  liv­
ing.  Trees  denuded  of  their  leaves  by 
caterpillars  and  other  mischievous 
things  are  deprived  of their  stomachs 
and  lungs  at  once.

Every 

linden 

leaf,  or,  in  fact,  any 

leaf  on  a  tree  is  unceasingly 
industrious  day  and  night.  Examine 
the 
leaf 
will  do—the  truth  applies  to  all—and 
notice  how  its  surface  is  spread  to  catch 
the  sunshine.  The  under  side  of  the 
leaf  has  a  different  appearance.  The 
tissue 
is  tenderer  and  a  network  of 
breathing  pores.  A  section  placed  un­
der the  objective  of  the  microscope  re­
veals  tiny  cells  filled  with  a  greenish 
liquid  called  chlorophyl,  which  pays  an 
important  part  in  the  domestic  economy 
of  the  tree.  When  undigested food  from 
the  ground  has  been  carried  to  the 
leaves  the  chlorophyl  seizes  it,  and  un­
der  the  influence  of  sunlight  changes  it 
to  nourishment.  The  chlorophyl  also 
breaks  up  the  carbon  dioxide  with 
which 
it  comes  into  contact,  and,  lib­
erating  the  oxygen,  sends  it  out  into  the 
atmosphere.

Digested  food  materials  are  carried 
from  the  leaves  to  all  parts  of  the  tree 
in  its  growth.  Leaves  as  the 
and  aid 
lungs  are  necessary 
in  the  process  of 
breathing.  Like  animals,  the  tree  needs 
oxygen  and  breathes  much  after  the 
manner  of  a  human  being.  Not  only 
is  the  life  giving  air  taken  into the 
lungs,  or 
inhaled 
through  tiny  openings  in  the  bark,  just 
as  men  and  animals  transpire  through 
the  skin.  These  tiny  breathing  holes 
are  called 
lenticels,  and  may  be  seen 
plainly  on  the  bark  of  cherry  and  many 
other kinds  of trees.  As  the  tree  drinks 
water,  it  sweats  and  exhales  water  va­
por along  with  the  oxygen  cast  off  from 
the  carbon  dioxide.

leaves,  but 

is 

it 

7

Amid  these  tales  of  shortage  and  high 
prices  comes  the  cheering  news  that 
there  will  be  grapes  enough to go around 
without  stinting  anybody.  After  all,  the 
New  Yorker  will  not  fare  so  badly.  The 
best  of  everything  will  come  to  him, 
and  in  spite  of  the  disastrous  results  of 
the  recent  fight  a  fair  proportion  of 
every  part  of  the  farmer’s  army  has 
been  left  to  tell  the  tale.
Apples Thirty-Two  P er  Cent,  of an  Aver­

age  Crop.

Grand  Rapids,  Aug.  7—It  has  been 
our custom  for  five  or  six years to  gather 
statistics  for  our own  information  only 
regarding  the  apple  crop  of  the  State  of 
Michigan.  Our  correspondents  are  all 
evaporator  operators,  who  naturally  are 
in  the  condition  of  the  crop 
interested 
in  their  own 
locality,  as  upon  it  de­
pends 
their  business.  These  reports 
are,  therefore,  more  accurate  and  reli­
able  than  reports  from  individual  farm­
ers  or  storekeepers.  Thinking  it  might 
interest  you,  we  give  you  a  synopsis  of 
our  report:

It  embraces  replies  from  seventy  dif­
ferent  concerns  located 
in  sixty-four 
different  towns  in  twenty-nine  counties, 
which  takes  in  the  apple  district of  the 
State.  Of  these,  twenty-four  report  10 
to  20  per  cent.,  twenty-seven  25  to  35 
per  cent,  and  nineteen  50  per  cent,  of 
an  average  crop,  50  per  cent,  being  the 
highest  estimate  made.  One  very  sig­
nificant  fact 
is  noticed,  in  that  of  the 
seventy  reporting,  thirty-four  say  that 
they  will  not  run  this  season,  while 
eleven  are  undecided.

Reports  from  other  apple  growing 
states  and  our  own  personal  observation 
of  orchards  in Ohio  and  New York  State 
would 
indicate  that  the  above  is  about 
the  run  of  the  crop  in  the  country.

We  make  no  predictions,  but  give  you 
the  benefit  of  our  figures  and  you  can 
draw  your own  conclusions.

Hastings  &  Remington.

The  railroad  engineer  may  not  be  a 
leader,  but  wealth  and  fashion 

society 
frequently  follow  in  his  train.

The battle between  the  farmer  and  his 
arch  enemy,  drouth,  has  been  this  year 
sufficiently  prolonged  and  desperate  to 
attract  the  attention  of  even  the  city 
dweller  whose  thoughts  on  the  subject 
of  the  distribution  of  produce  generally 
go back  no  further  than  the  corner  gro­
cery. 
It  is  the  fact  that  he  is  suffering 
now  that  turns  his  mind  to the  conflict 
which  has  gone  on  for  weeks  all  over 
the  country.  The  price  of  potatoes  has 
risen  by leaps  and  bounds.  Lettuce  has 
no  longer  a  heart.  Tomatoes  are  full  of 
knots.  Cucumbers  are  a  snare  and  a 
delusion.  String  beans  won’t  string, 
despite  the  efforts  of  the  cook.  The 
bills  rise  as  the  quality  falls  off,  and 
somethingisevidently wrong somewhere. 
How  wrong  a  glance  at  prices  for this 
year  and  the  corresponding  week  last 
year will  show.

Of  all  the  farmer’s  army  it  was  the 
potato  battalion  which  suffered  most  in 
the  fight.  Report  would  have 
it  en­
tirely  routed,  but  things  are  not  so  bad 
as  that.  However,  potatoes  last  week 
brought  $4  and  $5  a  barrel,  while  at  a 
corresponding  time  a  year ago  the  same 
could  be  bought  for not  more than $1.75, 
an  increase  of  about  100  per  cent.  Cu­
cumbers,  and  poor  ones  at  that,  were 
worth  $1.50  and  $2,  while  a  similar 
quantity 
last  year  cost  only  75  cents. 
The  price  of  corn  has  risen  nearly  100 
per cent.;  tomatoes  more  than that.  For 
cantaloupes  one  pays  at  wholesale  just 
about  twice  as  much  as  last  year.  Ber­
ries,  almost  alone  of  all  that  the  market 
offers,  are  about  the  same  in  price  and 
quality.

New Jersey  bas  been  a  heavy  sufferer 
from  the  drouth,  and  that,  of  course,  se­
riously  affects  the  comfort  of  New 
Yorkers.  Jersey  fruit  of  almost  every 
kind  has  been  injured,  and  everything, 
practically,  yields  only  a  “ short  crop.’ ’ 
The  same  is  true  of  Long  Island.

The  outlook  for  the  future  is,  how­
ever,  less  disheartening  than  might  be 
supposed.  All  over the  country  potatoes 
are  small,  and  the  crops  not  equal  to 
the  average,  but  New  York  State  and

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STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN 1 

County  of  Kent 

( 8S*

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows :

I  am  pressman 

in  the  office  of the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
that  establishment. 
I  printed  and 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
igoi,  and  saw  the  edition 
August  7, 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

John  DeBoer. 

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for  said  county, 
this  tenth  day  of  August,  1901.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County,

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

T H E   Q U EST  F O B   T H E   PO LES.
After  several  years  of  apathy, 

the 
craze  for  discoveries  in  the  polgr  seas 
has  broken  out  afresh.  No  less  than 
three  expeditions  are  about  to  start,  or 
have  already  started,  for  the  North,  one 
being  American,  one  Russian  and  a 
third  Italian.  All  three  of  these  expe 
ditions  are  uncommonly  well  fitted  out 
and, 
equipment  and  money  can 
achieve  success,  they  are  better  fitted  to 
prove  successful  than  the  many previous 
attempts  which  have  failed.

if 

One  of  the  expeditions,  the  Russian, 
proposes to  simply crush its  way  through 
ice  packs  to  the  north  pole.  The 
the 
great 
ice-breaking  vessel  used  by  the 
Russian  government  to  keep  open  a 
channel  at  Kronstadt  is  to  be  used  for 
the  expedition.  This  mammoth  ship 
has  already  demonstrated  her ability  to 
crush  through  an  immense  ice  field,  and 
the  promoters  of  the  polar  adventure 
feel  confident  that  she  will  be  able  to 
crush  her way  through  the  Northern  ice 
packs  and  reach  the  pole.

One  of  the  other  expeditions  pro­
its  way  by  ship  as  far 
poses  to  push 
then  to 
northward  as  possible,  and 
make  the  rest  of  the  journey  over  the 
ice.  The  third  expedition  proposes to 
penetrate  as  far northward  as  possible, 
and  then  drift  with  the  ice,  hoping  that 
the  direction  of  the  currents  may  bring 
the  expedition  in  the  neighborhood  of 
the  pole.

interest 

While  the 

in  attempts  to 
reach  the  north  pole  absorbs  popular 
attention,  the  Antarctic  seas  are  not  lo 
be  neglected,  as  no  less  than  four  sepa 
rate  expeditions  will  sail  southward.  It 
is  not  expected  that  any  of  these  expe 
ditions  will  reach  the  south  pole,  but  it 
is  hoped  that  they  will  add  materially 
to  the  geographical and scientific knowl 
edge  of  the,  so  far,  unknown  regions 
within  the  Antarctic  circle.  The  most 
important  of  these  expeditions  is  the 
British  expedition,  to  be  sent  out  under

the  auspices of the British Geographical 
Society.  A  fine  vessel  has  been  built 
expressly  for  the  expedition,  and  no 
money  has  been  spared 
in  fitting  out 
the  ship  in  a  most  thorough  manner.

While  it  may  be  doubted  if  the results 
achieved  by  these  venturesome  attempts 
to  reach  the  earth’s  extremities  justify 
the  great  risks  which  are  run,  the  mak 
ing  of  such  attempts  can  not  be  pre­
vented,  love  of  adventure  and  a  restless 
seeking  after  new  discoveries  serving 
to  bring  forward  a  new set  of  explorers 
more  rapidly  than  the  older  set  disap­
pears.  As  long  as  the  poles  remain  un­
attained,  we  may  expect  to  find  people 
ready  and  anxious  to  make  the  attempt 
to  reach  the  goal,  no  matter  what  the 
danger. 
It  would,  therefore,  be  useless 
for  the  great  governments  to attempt  to 
prevent  these  expeditions ;  hence  the 
policy  of  actually  encouraging  them  has 
been  adopted,  as  such  encouragement, 
by  making  every  possible  provision  and 
adopting  every 
actually 
minimizes  the  danger  as  well  as  insures 
better  scientific  results.

safeguard, 

The  people  who  are  trying  to  kill  the 
mosquitoes  with  kerosene  oil  are  in  re­
lot  of gratuitous  advice,  a 
ceipt  of  a 
part  of  which 
is  to the  effect  that  the 
is  worse  than  the  disease.  All 
remedy 
that  of  course 
is  a  matter  of  opinion. 
Some  people  would  prefer  the  smell  of 
petroleum  to  the  bite  of  a  mosquito,  in 
fact,  the  majority  presumably  would 
bold  to  that  view  of  it.  Another sug­
gestion  is  that  mosquito killing  birds  be 
encouraged  and  that  therein 
lies  the 
clearest  avenue  to  the  extermination  of 
this  insect  pest.  There  are  not  very 
many  birds  fond  of  mosquito  diet.  The 
ornithologists  say  that  the  whippoorwill 
and  the  purple  martin  are  the two which 
could  be  best  depended  upon  for  such  a 
service. 
little  sparrows  which 
infest  this  region  could  only  be  edu 
cated  to  prey  upon  such  insects  as  prey 
upon  humanity 
it  would  be  a  great 
scheme. 
It  would  be  quite  a  difficult 
undertaking  to  multiply  the  whippoor­
wills  and  purple  martins  in  sufficient 
number  and  then  keep  them  equally 
distributed.  Perhaps  the  kerosene  oil 
test  will  prove  more  satisfactory  than 
was  anticipated,  but  until  something 
effectual  is  found  there  will  be  no 
lack 
of  amateur  suggestions.

If  the 

The  drouths  which  several  sections  of 
the  country  have  suffered  of  late  have 
naturally  given  rise  to  enquiries  as  to 
It  is  said  that  in  many  sec­
the  cause. 
tions  there 
is 
less  rain  than  formerly, 
and  in  such  cases  one  of  the  reasons  in­
variably  assigned  is  the  destruction  of 
the  forests.  An  abundant  and permanent 
water  supply 
is  one  of  the  most  im­
portant  things  to  any  community,  be  it 
urban,  suburban,  or  rural.  The  forests 
are  the  great  conservators  of  moisture. 
The  subject  is  receiving  more  attention 
nowadays  than  ever  before,and although 
it  savors  somewhat  of  locking  the  bam 
after  the  horse  has  been  stolen,  it  is 
never  too  late  to  mend.  Legislators  are 
heeding  the  appeals  of  scientists  and 
steps  are  being  taken  along  the  line  of 
practical  forestry.  There  is  little  dan­
ger that  this  subject  will  have  too  much 
attention.

The  strike  microbe  now  has  the  trust 
by  the  pocketbook  and  the  striker by the 
stomach.  Which  will  be  the  first  to 
capitulate?

Mrs.  Allien's  bank  account  looks  like 
$250,000,  and  her  reputation  like  30 
cents.

HOW  RICH  MEN  BECOME  RICH 
The  last  issue  of  the  Saturday  Even 
ng  Post  contains  a  contribution  from 
the  pen  of  James  J.  Hill,  President 
the  Great  Northern  Railway,  on  the 
subject  of  “ Young  Men  and  Specul 
tion. ”

Mr.  Hill  was one  of  the  leading  char 
acters  in  the  vast  speculative  movement 
railroad  stocks  last  spring,  a  move 
ment  which  came  dangerously  near 
wrecking  extensive  financial  interests^ 
and  did  cause  serious  losses  to  many 
operators.  After declaring  that  the  only 
road  to  wealth  is  by  hard  work,  he  thus 
discourses  on  speculation  as  follows: 

There  is  always  an  element of chance 
but  it  is  never  the  predominating  ele 
ment.  _ Chance  simply  presents  the  op 
portunity,  and  opportunity  is  merely  i 
vehicle  for human endeavor.  The  man 
young  or  old,  who  thinks  otherwise, 
who  believes  that  it  is  luck  alone  that 
makes  riches,  and  ill 
luck  that  keeps 
men  poor,  starts  out  with  a  false  notion 
It  is  inevitable  that  he  should  come  t< 
grief  in  the  scheme  of  life.  The  craze 
for  speculation  that  sweeps  over  the 
community  now  and  then  grows  largely 
out  of  the conviction that success is luck. 
Such  a  craze  is  more  injurious  to  the 
prospects  of  the  young  men  who  are 
carried  away  by  it  than  war or  pesti. 
ence. 
It  means'  not  alone  the  loss  of 
money,  but  the  ruination  of  character. 
It  leaves  its  victims  standing  on  a  false 
platform,  where  they  are  consumed  with 
a  desire  to  get  something  for nothing, 
and 
It 
unfits  them  for  sincere  effort,  and  al 
most  without  exception  produces a  de 
moralization  that  blights  their  entire 
existence.  Whether  the  young  man 
who  makes  his  first  speculative  venture 
wins  or  loses,  the  result  is  equally  bad 
If  there  is  any  difference  at  all,  it  is  iu 
favor  of  the  man  who comes  out a  loser 
in  his  first  venture.  With  him  at  least 
there  is  a  chance  that  he  will  wake  up 
to  the  hopelessness  of  speculation  as  a 
means of  acquiring  wealth,  and  that  the 
lesson  taught  will  result  in  leaving  him 
a  useful  working  member of  society,  in­
stead  of  a  drone  who thinks  that he  may 
get  along  by dipping into the honey-pots 
of  others.

lose  all  appetite  for hard  work. 

Doubtless  Mr.  Hill  has  done  some 
hard  work  in  his  day,  but  he  did  not 
acquire  his  millions  in  that  way.  The 
man  who,  from  the  first  day  of  his  em 
ployment for  wages,  should  hoard  like  a 
miser  every  cent  of  his  earnings,  save 
what  was  required  to  sustain  life,  could 
not  in  a  century  accumulate  any  great 
sum  of  money,  and,  as  for  hard  and 
faithful  work,  it  will  do  little  more  than 
support  and  bring  up  in  decency  an  av 
erage  family.

Mr.  Hill  has  no  very  high  opinion  of 
the  college  man  in  business,  although 
as  he  says:

So  far  as  my  experience  goes,  the 
young  men  whom  they  turn  out  for  us 
are  better workers  and  more  successful 
than  the  young  men  who  have  not  had 
the  benefit of  a  college  course.  A  col­
lege  education  certainly  has  a  broaden­
ing  and  refining  effect,  unless  it  goes  to 
the  other  extreme  and  makes a  prig  of 
a  man.  But  the  results  achieved  by 
college  graduates  in  competition  with 
non-graduates  are  not  sufficiently  pro­
nounced,  so  far as  we  have  gone,  to  set 
it  down  as  a  bard  and  fast  proposition 
that  a  higher education  is  required  by  a 
man  in  a  business  career,  and  that  with 
it  he gives better results to his employer. 
The  question  must  be  left  open  for some 
years  to  come,  until  we  have  had  an  op­
portunity  to  observe  more  closely  and 
scientifically. 
To-day  equally  good 
authorities  may  be  found  on  either  side 
of  the  proposition.

Of  course,  the  only  success  that  is 
esteemed  by  such  a  man  as  the  one 
quoted 
accumulates 
wealth,  a  career  which  is  given  to  but 
few. 
In  the  old  times,  when  an  estate 
of a  few   hundred  thousand  dollars  was

is (  that  which 

considered  a  fortune,  the  goal  of success 
was  attainable  by  hard  and 
faithful 
work,  and 
in  gaining  and  maintaining 
the  confidence  of  others  in  business. 
But  when  a  man  must  command  tens 
and  hundreds  of  millions  to  be  consid­
ered  rich,  it  is  certain  that  no  work, 
however  faithful  and  unremitting,  and 
no  honesty 
in  business,  however  con­
spicuous,  can  accomplish  any  such  re­
sults.  Other  means  must  be  found,  and 
often  enough  those  means  are  of  ques­
tionable  honesty,  if  not  actually  crimi­
nal.

The  world  has  not  seen,  and  is  not 
likely  to  see  until  the  millennium,  the 
last  of  the  universal 
language  crank. 
Every  now  and  then  he  bobs  up  like  a 
Jack-in-th’-box,  shoots  off  his  elaborate­
ly  formulated 
ideas,  and,  majhap,  se­
cures  a  few  adherents  who  are  “ tarred 
The  world 
with 
the  same  stick.”  
smiles  at  his  revolutionary 
ideas,  won­
ders  that  he  should  have  been  allowed 
to  stray  so  far from  the  maternal  apron 
strings,  and  then  quietly  relegates  both 
him  and  his  ideas  to  the  limbo  of  in­
nocuous  desuetude.  Few,  except  the 
crank  himself,  lose  any  gray  matter  in 
pondering  over  the  new  idea,  and  the 
world,  at  least,  is  no  better nor  worse 
off  than 
it  was  before.  The  volapuk 
crank  got  a  brief  hearing ;  the esperanto 
died  aborning,  but  still  there  are  others. 
The  newest  of  the  new  idea  or  project 
n  this  line  bails  from  Paris,  and  prom­
enades  under  the  name  of  “ Soi resol, ”  
and  is,  if  anything,  built  upon  a  much 
more  crazy  foundation  than  either  vola­
puk  or  esperanto.  Under  this  new 
scheme  ideas  are  to  conveyed  by  words 
built  up  from  the  seven  names  of the 
notes  in  the  musical  gamut,  which  are 
said  to  be  the  same  in  English,  French, 
German, 
Italian,  Spanish,  Portuguese, 
Dutch,  Russian,  Turkish,  Arabic,  Per­
sian  and  Chinese.  The  plan  is  very 
pretty  and  very  elaborate.  One  word 
for one  idea—that  is  the  scheme.  Here 
are  a  few  of  the  words  so  constructed : 
Domifado”   is  a  man,  “ Remifasi”   is 
bouse,  “ Redorefa” is  a  shirt,  “ Fado- 
is  the  country.  The  idea  was 
remi 
started  as  long  ago  as  1817,  but  is  only 
now  being  pushed  to  the  front  in  Paris. 
The  concert  of  the  nations  is  not far off!

The  San  Francisco  Argonaut  is  dis­
turbed  about  the  Belgian  hares,  which 
are  very  prolific. 
It  is  authority  for the 
statement  that  the  descendants  of  one 
pair of  healthy  hares  would  in  five years 
number  2,809,322. 
It  points  out  how  in 
Australia  these  hares  became  a  pest  and 
millions  of  money  were  expended  in ex­
terminating  them.  During  three  suc­
cessive  years  there  $730,000,  $1,250,000 
and  $2,500,000  were  paid  as  bonus  to 
persons  who  killed  them,  and  that  the 
catch  thus  paid  for  represented  35,000,- 
000 scalps,  and  still  the  hares  abound  in 
Australia.  The  Argonaut  warns  Califor­
nians against  the  possible  hardships  in 
that  State  which  have  cost  so  much 
money  and  done  so  much  damage on the 
other  side  of  the  globe.

Death  for  incurables  is  being  advo­
cated  by  some  medical  men,  who  think 
such  a  course  will  tend  to  strengthen 
the  human  race.  They  admit  that  it  is 
startling  proposition  and  may  be  slow 
realization,  but  they  are  confident  the 
time  will  come  when  it  will  be  done  by 
law.  The  necessity  will  need  to  be 
much  more  apparent  than  it  now  is  be­
fore  a 
law  of  that  kind  goes  on  the 
statute  books.
Prejudice 

in  the  mind  shuts  out 

proof,  however convincing.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

FOOD  ADULTERATIONS.

Good  Effect of the Enforcem ent of W hole­

sale  Laws. *

From  1871  to  1901 

in  1897,  giving  an 

laws  have  been 
passed  at  nearly  every  session  of  our 
Legislature,  regulating  the  manufac­
ture  and  sale  of  articles  of  food,  but 
not  until  1895  were  they  anything  but 
dead  letters.  An  act  passed 
in  1893 
provided  for  a  Dairy  and  Food  Com­
missioner  with  authority  to  enforce  the 
laws;  but  as  only  $1,000  was  appropri­
ated  for  carrying  on  the  work, 
the 
could  practically  do 
Commissioner 
nothing  except  draw  his  salary. 
In 
1895,  the  general  food 
law,  known  as 
the  “ Redfern  A ct,”   was passed  with  an 
annual  appropriation  of  $10,000.  Un­
der  this  act,  as  amended  by  the  Legis­
increase  of 
lature 
$8,000  annually, 
the  department  has 
been  working.  Of  all  the  states  in  the 
Union  sixteen  have  general  food 
laws, 
Illinois  being  the 
last  to  enact  such  a 
statute,  which  came  into  effect  in  1899. 
Nearly  all  the  countries  of  Europe  have 
for  years  been  living  under  very  strin­
gent  food  laws.  Under the  law  prevent­
ing  adulterations,the  English  are  living 
longer  and  better  than  we.  Dr.  Foster 
stated  before  the  English  Medical  So­
lately  that  a  man's  natural  life­
ciety 
is  100  years,  and  that  all  could 
time 
live  that  long 
if  they  met  with  no ac­
cident  and 
lived  properly.  From  Dr. 
Farr’s  observation  of  the  march  through 
life  of  1,000,000  children,  he  found  that 
the  English  were 
livin g. longer  than 
formerly,  as  there  bad  been  a  gain  of 
two  and  one-half  years  in  the  average 
life  of  the  people.  He  claims  that  the 
largest  amount  of  sickness  is  due  to  in­
sufficient  and  impure  food  and  that  the 
first  essential  to  life  is  pure  food.

There  is  great  need  for  intelligent 
public  conception  of  the  extent  to which 
the  adulterations  of  food  is  carried  on 
and  for a rational public demand that the 
evil  be  corrected,  so  far as  possible,  by 
national  and  state 
legislation,  properly 
constructed  and  vigorously  enforced. 
When  told  how  many  of  the  foods  upon 
which  they  depend  for  daily  nourish­
ment  are  adulterated,  counterfeited  and 
cheapened,  nine  persons  out  of  ten  are 
dumbfounded ;  and  it  is  because  of  this 
ignorance  on  the  part  of  the  public  in 
general  that  food  manufacturers  have 
been  enabled  to  go  to criminal  and  al­
most  unlimited  lengths  in  their  fraudu­
lent  and  often  harmful  practices. 
If 
consumers  would  once  realize  how  they 
are  robbed 
in  purse  and  damaged  in 
health  by  unscrupulous  manufacturers 
and  dealers,  a  powerful  correcting  force 
would  at  once  be  set  in  motion.  With­
out this  force—the  force  of  public  sen­
timent— no 
law  can  be  made  effective 
and  no  political,  social  or  industrial 
evil  corrected

I  do  not  wish  to  be  understood  in 
what  I  may  say  as  criticising  our  State 
Legislature,  for at  their  session  in  1897 
they  did  more  for the  Dairy  and  Food 
Department  than  couid  reasonably  be 
expected  from  what  little  knowledge 
they  had  of  the  two  previous  years’ 
work.  The  work  was  effective  for  just 
that  particular  time,  but  the  people 
knew  little  of  it.  Few  complaints  were 
made,  therefore  but  little newspaper  ad­
vertising.  Generally  speaking,  1  be­
lieve  the  legislators  mean  well,  but  not 
over  one  in  fifty  of  them  has  more  than 
a  vague  idea  of  the  construction  of  the 
food  laws  of  this  State,  nor can  he  have 
unless  be  devotes  special  study  to them. 
For this  reason,  some  special  acts  have
»Address by John B. Bennett at annual picnic of 
Muskegon grocers and batchers at Mona Lake.

been  killed  which  would  have  strength­
ened  the  powers  of  the  Dairy  and  Food 
Department.  This  was  true  of  both  our 
1897  and  1901  Legislatures,  and  to-day 
the  consumer  is  getting  the  worst  of  it.
I  especially  refer  to  the  killing  of  the 
act  regulating  the  manufacture  and  sale 
of  baking  powder  and  the  amendment 
bill  restricting  the  use  of  preservatives 
in  canned  and  other articles  of  food. 
I 
know  of  no  article  of  all  the  food  prod­
ucts  sold  upon  our  market  that  is  so 
much  of a  fraud  and  deception  as  bak­
ing  powders.  Had  the  baking  powder 
bill  been  passed,  thousands  of  dollars 
would  have  been  saved  to  the consumer, 
not  saying  anything  regarding  the 
in­
jurious  effects  I  believe  the  people  have 
received  through  the  use  of  many  of 
these  powders.

The  total  value  of  the  food  supply 
consumed 
in  the  United  States,  ac­
cording  to  the  United  States  Depart­
ment  of  Agriculture,  is,  at  a  low  esti­
mate,  $4,500,000,000,  of  which  2  per 
cent,  is  adulterated,  amounting  to  $90,- 
000,000,  of  which  90  per  cent,  is  of  a 
character  non-prejudicial 
to  health. 
Except  for  sake  of  argument,  this  state­
ment,  and  the  result  shows  that  there  is 
$9,000,000  worth  of  poisonous  food prod-

ucts  put  annually  on  the  country  and 
$81,000,000  of 
fraudulent  products. 
This  immense  sum  of  money  is  simply 
stolen  from  the  people  each  year by men 
who  coin  fortunes  by  cheating  consum­
ers. 
Information  acquired  by  our  De­
partment  during  the  last  few  years leads 
me  to  the  conclusion  that  the  estimate 
made  by  the  Government  was  too  low 
for  Michigan.  It was  not  long  ago  I  was 
informed  by  one  of  the  leading  whole­
sale  grocers  of this  State  that  before  the 
food  laws  came  into  effect  90  per  cent, 
of  all  the  goods  he  sold  were  adulter­
ated.  On  the  basis  that  the  food  sup­
ply  consumed 
in  the  United  States  is 
$4,500,000,000,  Michigan’s  proportion, 
according  to  her  population,  would  be 
one-thirtieth,  or  $150,000,000. 
about 
The  very 
lowest  estimate  possible  I 
would  dare  place  upon  this  as  being 
adulterated  prior  to  the  enactment  of 
our  food 
law  in  1895  would  be  15  per 
cent.,  or $22,500,000,  although  the  Gov­
ernment’s  estimate  is  only  $3,000,000.

As  an  illustration  of  what  the  cost  has 
to  the  consumer  in  just  one  sim­
been 
ple  article  of  food  found  adulterated 
upon  the  market  of  this  State,  let  me 
state  that  in  1895  there  were  19,937,422 
pounds  of  whole  pepper  imported 
into 
this  country.  Michigan’s  consumption, 
according  to  its  population,  would  be 
one-thirtieth,  or about  665,000  pounds. 
When  ground  and  put  upon  the  market,

the  average  price  is  about  30  cents  a 
pound  or a  total  cost  to  the  consumer  of 
about $200,000;  but  not  more  than three- 
fourths  is  ground  for  sale,  which  would 
reduce  the  cost  to  about  $150,000,  as 
whole  pepper  is  not  adulterated.  At  the 
time  our  State  food  law  came  into  effect 
(Sept.  1,  1895),  samples  of  pepper  were 
taken  quite  generally  without knowledge 
as  to  their  purity  and,  under  analysis, 
90  per  cent,  proved  to  be  adulterated. 
The  adulterated  samples  contained  from 
10  to  90  per  cent,  of  substances  other 
than  pepper,  showing  them  on  the  aver­
age  to  contain  about  50  per  cent,  of 
adulterants.  Thus  one-half of the  total 
amount,  less  than  10  per  cent.,  found 
pure,  would  leave  about $70,000 of  good 
bard  money  that  was  paid  out  each 
year  by  the  consumer  for  something 
supposed  to  be  pepper,  when 
it  was 
mostly  buckwheat  hulls,  wheat,  rice, 
corn,  ground  olive  stones,  and  such 
like,  touched  up  with  a  little  cayenne 
pepper to  give  it  snap.  To-day  3  per 
cent,  would  cover  all  the  adulterated 
pepper  being  sold  upon  the  market  in 
this  State.

Adulterations  are  of  two kinds— in­
jurious  and  non-injurious to health— and 
exist  to  an  extent that threatens every 
species  of  food  supply.  While  those 
adulterations  are  mainly 
commercial 
frauds  practiced  by  unscrupulous  man­
ufacturers,  manipulators  and  dealers  for 
the  purpose  of deceiving their customers 
and  adding  to  their gains,  yet  there  are 
also  to  an  alarming  extent  poisonous 
adulterations  that  have  in  many  cases 
not  only  impaired  the  health  of  the  con­
sumer,  but  frequently  caused  death. 
Under  our  statutes,  adulterations  may 
be  classified  into  three  distinct  groups:
1.  Those  that  are  considered  by  all 
concerned  simply  in  the  light  of  frauds.
2.  Where  an  article  consists  wholly 
or  in  part  of  a  diseased,  decomposed, 
putrid,  infected,  tainted  or  rotten  ani­
mal  or  vegetable  substance  or  article, 
whether  manufactured  or  not,  or,  in case 
of  milk,  if  it  is  the  product  of  a  dis­
eased  animal.  Those  that  compose  this 
group  cannot  under  the  present 
laws 
and  appropriation  be  successfully  regu­
lated  by  our  Department  and  must  be 
left  for  the  present  to  local 
legislation.
ingredients  which  are 
poisonous  or  injurious  to  health  have 
been  added.  This  group  has  been  sub­
ject  to  many  discussions  “ as  to  the 
effect  upon  the  public  health. ”   The 
relation  of  this  class  of  adulterations  to 
the  health  of  the  consumer  cannot  al­
ways  be  shown  in  a  very  clear  light.  In 
fact,  the  opinions  of  scientific  men  and 
other distinguished  persons  differ  wide­
ly  on  this  question.

3.  Where 

This  class  of  adulterations  may  in­
juriously  affect  the  public  health  in  two 
ways:  First,  when  the  actual  condition 
of  a  food  unfit  for consumption,  on  ac­
count  of  change  or  decomposition,  is 
obscured;  and  second,  when  the  sub­
stances  added  for  this  purpose  are  in 
themselves  injurious  to  health. 
I am  of 
the  firm  belief  that  any  article  of  food 
containing  any  substance,  that  is  ques­
tionable  as  to  its  being  deleterious  to 
health,  should  be  required  to  be  labeled 
in  a  manner so  conspicuous  that  the 
consumer  could  not  be  deceived  or 
urged 
into  the  purchase  of  a  doubtful 
or  injurious  article  without  knowledge. 
The  bill  that  was  killed  in  the  Public 
Health  Committee  of  the  House  at  the 
last  session  of  the  Legislature,  which  I 
have  heretofore  referred  to,  contained 
such  a  requirement. 
If  the  people  only 
knew  the  quantity  of  questionable,  in­
jurious  chemicals  they  are  compelled  to

corn,  wheat,  cocoanut 

into  their  systems  every  day  of 
take 
their  life  for  the  want  of  such a law,  and 
over  which  our  Department  now  has  no 
control,  they  would  rise  up  en  masse 
and  demand  that  the  Legislature  take 
immediate  action  to  stop  this  growing 
e v il;  and  until  such  action  has  been 
taken,  manufacturers  will  contiune  to 
use  such  chemicals,  and  the  consum­
ers  to  shorten  their  lives.  During  the 
work  of  this  Department  hundreds  of 
pounds—yes,  I  can  say  thousands  of 
pounds—of  adulterants  have  been  found 
in  articles  of  food  that  were  being  sold 
in  this  State,  a  few  of  which  I  shall 
here  make  special  mention,  and  which 
have been  gradually  improving,  until  at 
the  present  time,  with  few  exceptions, 
it 
is  more  difficult  to  find  the  adulter­
ated  than  it  was  to  find  the  pure.  An­
alysis  of  samples  taken  by  inspectors 
have  shown  as  high  as  70  per  cent, 
starch 
in  mustard;  pepper  that  con­
tained  nothing  of  that  article  except  the 
hulls,  the  balance  being  made  up  of 
rice, 
shells, 
ground  olive  stones and cayenne pepper; 
cream  tartar  made  principally  of  corn 
starch,  acid  phosphate  of 
lime,  alum 
and  plaster  Paris.  Six  years  ago  it was 
almost  impossible  to  find  a  p“ure  article 
of  cream  of  tartar on  the  market.  Gin­
ger  was  found  adulterated  with  an equal 
amount  of  plaster  Paris.  The  greater 
amount  of  ground  or broken  coffee  upon 
the  market  was  composed  of  from  15  to 
50  per  cent,  adulterants;  in  fact,  it  was 
quite  difficult  to  find  a  sample of any ar­
ticle  that  was  not  colored  to  improve 
its 
looks  or  something  added  to  it,  or 
taken  from  it,  to  cheapen,  not  excepting 
lard,  butter  or  milk.  The  selling  of  a 
distilled  vinegar  costing  the  manufac­
turer not  more  than  two  or three  cents  a 
gallon,  was  colored,  falsely  branded  and 
sold  all  over  the  country  for  pure  cider 
vinegar and  at  a  price utterly paralyzing 
the  sale  of  genuine  cider  vinegar.  The 
same  state  of  affairs  exists  with  ole­
omargarine,  which 
is  one  of  the  most 
vexed  questions  with  which  the  court  of 
public  opinion  has  to  deal  at  the  pres­
ent  time.  Each  kind  of  butter  has  its 
friends  and  its  enemies  and  they  are  by 
no  means  confined  to  the  producers  of 
and  dealers  in  the  respective  commodi­
ties.  It  is  sufficient  to  say  that  the  same 
arguments  used  to  defend  artificially 
colored  vinegar  are  advanced  in  sup­
port  of  artificially  colored  oleomarga­
rine.  Even  when  the  dealer displays 
the  cards  “ Oleomargarine  used  or  sold 
here”   and 
the 
fraud  is  but  partially  checked,, for  the 
greater  part  finds  its  way  to  hotel,  res­
taurant  and  boarding house  tables, where 
its  color  enables  the  proprietors  to  im­
pose  upon  their  guests,  who  generally 
believe  they  are  getting  butter  and 
would  not  eat  oleomargarine knowingly. 
The  natural  color  of  oleomargarine  is 
white  or  very  nearly  so. 
It  would  not 
in  its  natural  color  be  mistaken  for  but­
ter,  but  when  colored  yellow  it  is  very 
deceiving. 
I  have  always  been  taught 
that  white  is  an  emblem  of  purity,  but 
the  manufacturers  of  oleomargarine  do 
not  seem  to  think  it  the  proper  color  for 
their  product.  Manufacturers  and  deal­
ers  in  such  painted  wares  know  better 
than  anyone  else  that  the  principal  part 
of  their trade  is  owing  to  the  fact  that 
the  majority  of  those  who  consume 
such  articles  are  not  aware  of  what  they 
are  using.  Statistics  show  that  during 
the  year  1900,  87,800,000 pounds of  oleo­
margarine  were  marketed  and  sold  in 
the  United  States,  not  one  pound  of 
which  was  manufactured  in  this  State. 
This  product  costs  the  manufacturer

labels  the  packages, 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MICAAXLEGREASE

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

ILLUMINATING AND 
LUBRICATING OILS

P ER FEC TIO N   O IL  IS  TH E  STANDARD 

TH E  W ORLD  O V ER

H IC H U 8T  PRIOR  PAID  FO R   E M P T Y   C ARBO N   AND  OASO LINB  B A RR ELS

STAN DARD  OIL  CO.

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about  7  cents  a  pound  to  make,  iuclud- 
ing  the  2  cents  Government  tax  (when 
paid).  Michigan  consumes about 3,000,- 
000  pounds  annually  and  pays  from  16 
to  20  cents  per  pound  for  it,  the  price 
always  being  a  cent  or  two  below  but­
ter. 
I  would  ask,  Who  is  benefited? 
Not  the  farmer— not  the  grocer or  the 
butcher—not  the  rich  man  or the  poor 
man— but  alone  the  foreign  manufac­
turer.  Compel  the  sale  of  oleomargarine 
for  what  it  is,  in  its  natural  color,  and 
it  will  take  it  out  of  competition  with 
butter  and  soon  bring  the  price  within 
reach,  where  the  poor  man  who  can  not 
really  afford  to  buy  butter  will  be  able 
to  purchase  a  wholesome  substitute  for 
half  the  price  he  is  now  paying.  The 
rich  man  will  not  have  thrust  upon  him 
a  counterfeit  product  or  the  poor  man 
defrauded  and robbed  of his hard-earned 
money,  which  in  either case  should  call 
for  certain  and  effective  punishment. 
In  1897  the  anti-color  oleomargarine 
law  was  first  enacted  in  this  State  and, 
through  the  vigorous  enforcement of that 
law  by  the  Dairy  and Food Department, 
the  sale  of  oleomargarine  was  largely 
decreased  and  the  price  of  butter slight­
ly  increased.  There  are  about 52,000,000 
pounds  o f  butter  made  annually 
in 
Michigan. 
If  the  price  of  butter  was 
raised  only  2  cents,  we  had  a  gain  of 
$1,040,000  to  the  benefit  of  the  home 
producer.  At  the  time  the  anti-color 
law  came  into  effect—September,  1897— 
there  were  more  than  350  oleomargarine 
dealers  in  Michigan,  but  in  the  follow­
ing  year  there  were  less than forty.  This 
anti-color  law  was  declared  invalid  by 
the  Supreme  Court  in  December,  1898, 
on  the  grounds  of  a  technicality  in  its 
passage  by  the  Legislature.  This  same 
law  has  again  been  passed  by  our  Leg-1 
islature  and  will  go  into  effect  about 
September  1  of  this  year,  and  a  vigor­
ous  enforcement  of  the  same  may  be 
looked  for.

It 

is 

Glucose  is  probably  the  leading  adul­
largely 
terant  upon  the  market. 
used 
in  syrups,  molasses,  jellies  and 
cheap  confections  and  has  only  about 
one-third  the  sweetness  of  cane  sugar. 
It  is  wholesome  and  nutritious,  but  ow­
ing  to  its  cheapness  and  its  close  rela­
tion  to  cane  sugar,  the  sophisticator  is 
enabled  to  cheat  and  defraud  the  con­
sumer.  From 
its  cheapness,  immense 
quantities  are  used  in  the  manufacture 
of  ‘ ‘ Imitation  Fruit  Jelly,”   which  was 
formerly  known  and  sold  for  pure  fruit 
jelly.  This  jelly  was  made  by  mixing 
together  glucose  and  water,  with  a  very 
little  apple  juice  colored  with  red  ana- 
line.  Hundreds  of  tons  of  this  stuff 
were  sold  at  less  than  4  cents  a  pound 
for  pure  apple  jelly,  raspberry 
jelly, 
grape  jelly ;  in  fact,  any  kind  of  jelly  a 
person  desired.  Since  the  law  of  this 
State  has  compelled  the  labeling  of  it 
for  what  it  really  is  and  prohibited 
its 
being  artificially  colored,  the  demand 
is  now  virtually  nothing.

As  one  evidence  of  what  the  Depart­
ment  has  done  under the  present  law,  I 
will  state  that  in  May,  1899,  I  made  a 
thorough 
inspection  of  fifty-one  stores 
in  the  city  of  Muskegon  and found adul­
terated  goods  in  forty-one,  there  being 
only  ten  free  from  that  class  of goods. 
The  articles  found  consisted  mostly  of 
mustard,  flavoring  extracts,  spices,  jel­
lies, 
tartar,  vinegars  and 
syrups.  The  sum  total  amounted  to over 
$500. 
In  December  of  the  same  year  I 
again  made  an  inspection  of  the  same 
stores  and  found  adulterated  goods  in 
only  eighteen  out  of  the  fifty-one,  a 
gain  of  twenty-three  stores  or  45  per 
cent,  over the  May  inspection,  the  sum

cream  of 

total  amounting  to  less  than  $75. 
In 
March  of  the  present  year  I  again  made 
an 
inspection  of  the  same  stores  and 
found  only  three  out  of  the fifty-one  that 
bad  adulterated  goods,  amonting  to  less 
than  $5,  a  condition  of  which  the  gro­
cers  of  Muskegon  may  well  be  proud. 
In  fact,  all  throughout  my  Western  dis­
trict,  I  have  found  the  stores  in  the  last 
year  exceedingly  free  from  adulterated 
goods. 
In  several  of  the  smaller  towns 
I  have  been  unable  to  find  a  single  arti­
cle  wrong  in  any  store. 
I  also  find  the 
merchants  these  days  pleasant,  always 
ready  to  extend  the  glad  hand  of  wel­
come  to  an  inspector,  making  his  work 
much  more  agreeable  than 
in  1895  to 
1897,  when  the  law  was  new  and  every 
dealer  thought  his  business  was  going 
to  be  seriously 
injured  every  time  an 
inspector  made  his  appearance.  Now 
they  hold  up  both  hands  and  say,  ‘ * Let 
the  good  work  go  on.”   So  far no  retail 
grocer  has  been  prosecuted  for  a  viola­
tion  of  the 
law,  except  where  he  sold 
goods  that  had  been  condemned  upon 
his  shelves. 
In  my  opinion  there  are 
some  who  ought  to  be—not  from  will­
fulness,  but  more  from  a  careless  disre­
gard  of  the  law.  Monthly  bulletins  are 
issued  from  our  Department  to  nearly 
all  the  grocerymen  in  the  State,  giving 
information  regarding  goods  not  salable 
and  by  whom  manufactured  or  sold.  A 
little  time  spent 
in  comparing  these 
published  condemned  goods  with  their 
stock  and  then  removing  the  same,  if 
any,  would  be  of  great  assistance  to  the 
Food  Department  in  clearing  the  mar­
ket  of  unsalable  goods.  Merchants 
should  not  depend  wholly  upon  an 
in­
spector  doing  all  the  work  for  them,  for 
the  time  is  not  far distant  when  the  re- j 
tailer  will  have  to  assume  more  of  the 
responsibility  than  he  has  in the  past.

In  conclusion,  allow  me  to  say  that 
from  a  personal  knowledge  of the  work 
of  the  Dairy  and  Food  Department 
since  its  inception,  I  am  confident  that 
there  has  been  at  least  90  per  cent,  im­
provement  in  nearly  all  food  products 
subject  to  adulteration  being  sold  or 
offered  for  sale  in  this  State. 
If  that  is 
true,  the  consumers  of  Michigan  are 
being  saved  nearly  $3,000,000 a  year, 
based  upon  the  United  States  Govern­
ment’s  estimate  of  only  2  per  cent, 
adulteration;  but  I  am  of  the  firm  be­
lief,  as  I  have  before  stated,  that  it  is 
too  low  an  estimate  for  Michigan  and 
ought  not  to  be  less  than  15  per  cent., 
and 
if  15  per cent,  is  nearer the  mark, 
the  consumers  are being saved over $20,- 
000,000  a  year,  and  this  at  a  cost  to  the 
State  of  less than  $20,000.

There  is  no question  that  the  people 
of  this  State  have  not  realized  the  dan­
ger  they  have  been  in  or are  even  now 
standing  or they  would  give greater sup­
port  and  demand  greater  protection; 
and  for  the  people  to  demand  is  for 
them  to secure.

Clerical Sore T hroat  Explained.

Deacon  Scrimp-----Humph!  Think

you’ve  got to  have  a  vacation,  eh?

Struggling  Pastor—Yes, 

the  doctor 
says  I  must  go  off  until  this  cough  is 
cured.

I’d 

Deacon  Scrimp—Well, 

like  to 
know  why  preachers  are  always  getting 
bad  coughs.

Struggling  Pastor—Well,  you  see,  we 
have  to  visit  it  around  a  good  deal,  and 
we  are  always  asked 
to  hold  a  little 
service  before  leaving,  and  I  think  our 
throats  become  affected  from  breathing 
the  dust  that  flies from the family bibles.

When  a  man  visits  your  orchard  and 
meets  the  watch-dog,  it  is  a  sign  that 
his  errand  will  be  fruitless.

Sssssssssss

New

Summer  Sweet  Goods

Beechwood,  10 cents 
Richmond,  10 cents 
Spiced  Sugar Tops, 8 cents

All  have  the  crowning  flavor  found  only  in  goods  made 

by  Sears.

Commence  at  Once

Order  a box or  can  of  each.  Now  is  the  time  to  take  ad­
vantage  of summer requirements.  Your customers  are  look- 
ing  for  “ S ears  R eady  to  S erve  G ood s”   to  avoid  the  incon­
venience,  worry  and  heat of home  baking.

Frequent  Changes

in  the  varieties  of  cakes  you  handle  m ake  your  tra d e  in ­
crea se.  We  are  presenting  something  new  continually. 
Samples for asking.
SEARS BAKERY, Grand Rapids, Mich.

(Remember  «Rube  S ears” )

S
S
S

Sssssss

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ALMIGHTY  DOLLAR.

M ercantile  Associations  Constitute  Its 

Greatest  Antidote.*

A  characteristic  story  is  told  of  a  cer­
tain  American  lady  who  was  traveling 
in  one  of  the  countries  of  Europe  and 
was  present  at  a  certain  Catholic  gath­
ering  where  one  of  the  cardinals  of  the 
church  of  Rome  was  presiding.  The 
cardinal  spoke  and, 
in  a  voice  that 
sounded  throughout  the  vast  cathedral, 
said:  “ All  here  kneel  before  me  but 
monarchs. ”   She  locked  down  the  long 
aisles  and  seats  and  saw  all  kneel  be­
fore  the  prelate  save  herself.  She  alone 
remained  standing.  The  cardinal,  see­
ing  her  standing,  again  repeated  the 
sentence,  “ All here  kneel  before  me  but 
monarchs.”   Still  she  knelt  not.  He 
then  walked  down  the  long  aisle  to  the 
back  of  the  cathedral  where  she  stood 
and  said:  “ Madam,  did  you  not  hear 
what  I  said,  that  all  here  kneel  before 
me  but  monarchs,  and  «thy  did  you  not 
kneel?”   “ Because,”   she  said,  drawing 
herself  up  proudly,  “ I,  too,  am  a  mon­
arch.”   “ What,”   he  replied,  “ Are  you 
not  an  American 
“ Yes,”   said 
she,  “ but  we  are  all  monarchs  in Amer­
ica. ”   The  United  States  stands  without 
a  rival.  We  have  not  grown  through 
conquest  like  the  European  nations,  but 
by  the  paths  of  peace.  No  other  nation 
is  blessed  with  such  great  natural  ad­
vantages ;  no  other  country  except  Rus­
sia  borders  upon  two  great  oceans  and 
no country has  so  many harbors  and such 
a  sea  coast.

lady?”  

1  believe  that  this  nation  was  reared 
for  a  lofty  purpose,  but  1  am  afraid  the 
tendency  of  the  age  is  to  think  too little 
of  country  and  too  much  of  the Almighy 
Dollar.

A  man  would  be  more  than  human  if 
he  could  fitly  express  in  words the senti­
ments  which  crowd  upon  one  upon  such 
an  occasion  as  this.  The  poet  says, 
“ There  are  billows  far out  in  the  ocean 
that  will  never break  on  the  beach,there 
are  waves  of  human  emotion  that  can 
find  no  expression  in  speech.”   Haw­
thorne,  Mrs.  Stowe,  Aldrich  and  other 
great  masters  of  portrayal  of  subtile 
thought  and  feeling  which  elude  us  be­
fore  they  reach  our  lips  or  are  stranded 
upon  the  bar  of  our  personality  on  ac­
count  of  the  shallowness  of  our  vocabu­
lary,  would  feel  themselves  oppressed 
to-day  for  words  to  express  what  I  feel, 
and  at  the  threshold  of  this  very  pleas­
ing  occasion  I  can  but  remember that 
speech 
is  silver and  silence  is  golden. 
The  written  history  of  eloquence  dis­
closes  the  fact  that  silver speech,  like 
the  beautiful  in  painting,  scupture  and 
architecture,  is  but  an  attempt  on man’s 
part  to  express  a  lofty 
ideal,  while  the 
unwritten  history  of  the  human  heart 
teaches  us  that  its  deepest  emotion, 
whether  of  joy  or of  sorrow,  can  not  be 
expressed 
chat 
gaily  with  his  friends  while  journeying 
through  fields  of  lovely  flowers  and  var­
iegated  foliage,but  when  he  ascends  the 
mountain  height  and  witnesses  the glory 
of  the  rising  or the  setting  sun  in  the 
presence  of  this,the  grandest  of  nature's 
scenery,  he  can  but  stand  in  golden  si­
lence  with  uncovered  head.

in  words.  One  may 

I  am  thinking  what  a  beautiful  spot 
and  what  beautiful  surroundings  these 
are  for  a  gathering 
like  this,  the  oc­
casion  and  the  picnic  being  made  pos­
sible  through  the  efforts  and  foresight 
of  that  splendid  organization  of  men 
known  as  the  Grocers  and  Butchers’ As­
sociation  of  Muskegon. 
I  say  splendid
«Address by Hon.  Jerome  E.  Turner  at  annual
picnic  of  Muskegon  Grocers  and  Butchers’
Association at Mona Lake.

organization,  because  there  is  no  other 
word  that  I  can  use  that  will  better  de­
scribe  it.  This  organization  and  others 
of  like  nature  are  doing  more  to-day,  in 
my  opinion,  than  anything  else  to  has­
ten  the  time  when  all  business  men  will 
believe  that  “ all  work  and  no  play 
makes  Jack  a  dull  boy, ”   and  thereby 
enable  them  and  their  families  to  lead 
happier and  better  lives.

See  what  the  grocers  and  butchers  of 
Muskegon  have  done.  They inaugurated 
the  early  closing  movement  in  Muske­
gon,  now  participated 
in  by  nearly  all 
lines  of  business,  thus  giving  the  busi­
ness  man  more  time  to  devote  to  bis 
family  and  friends  and  their  pleasure 
and  comfort.  My  friends,  any  move­
ment  that  tends  to  teach  mankind  that 
there  is  something  else  in  this world be­
sides  the  mere  rush  and  scramble  after 
the  Almighty  Dollar  in  this  age  of  busy 
activity,  can  not  be  but  a  good  balance 
wheel  upon  the  tendency  of  the  age 
in 
which  we  live.  It  teaches  mankind  that 
it  is  not  necessary  to  be  rich  or  great  or 
in  high  position  to  be  happy  in  this 
world.
Not 

long  ago  I  was  reading  of  the 
grave  of  the  old  Napoleon,  a  great  tomb

in  Egypt 

in  my  mind’s  eye  at  Toulon. 

of  gilt  and  gold  fit  almost  for  a  dead 
diety—and  as  I 
looked  upon  the  sar­
cophagus  of  black  Egyptian  marble,  I 
thougth  of  the  career  of  the  greatest 
soldier  of  the  modern  world. 
I  saw 
him 
I 
saw  him  at  Ulm  and  Austerlitz;  I  saw 
him 
in  the  shadow  of  the 
pyramids  and  I  saw  him  in  Russia 
where  the  infantry  of  the  snow  and  the 
cavalry  of  the  wild  blast  scattered  his 
legions  like  winter’s  withered 
leaves, 
and  I  saw  him  at  Liepsic  in  defeat  and 
disaster,  driven  by  a  million  bayonets 
back  upon  Paris,  clutched  like  a  wild 
beast  and  banished  to  Elba. 
I  saw  him 
escape  and  retake  an  empire  by  the 
force  of  his  genius  and  I  saw  him  upon 
the  frightful  field  of  Waterloo,  where 
chance  and  fate  combined  to  wreck  the 
fortunes  of  their  former  king,  and  I saw 
him 
last  at  St.  Helena,  with  his  hands 
crossed  behind  him  gazing  out  upon 
that  sad  but  solemn  sea,  and  I  thought 
of  the  widows  and  the  orphans  he  bad 
made,  of  the  tears  that  had  been  shed 
for  his  glory  and  of  the  only woman who 
bad  ever 
loved  him  pushed  from  his 
heart  by  the  cold  hand  of  ambition  and 
I  said  to  myself,  as  far  as  I  am  con­
cerned,  I  would  rather  have  been  a 
French  peasant  and  in  times  of  peace 
worn  wooden  shoes;  I  would  rather 
have  lived  in  a  hut  with  a  vine  grow­
ing  over  the  door and  the  grapes  purple 
in  the  kisses  of  the  autumn  sun;  I

would  rather  have  been  that  French 
peasant  with  my  loving  wife  by my side 
knitting  as  the  day  died  out  of  the  sky, 
with  my  children  upon  my  knees  and 
their  arms  about  me;  I  would  rather 
have  been  that  French  peasant  and gone 
down  to  the  silence  of  the  grave  un­
known  than  to  have  been  that  imperial 
impersonation  of 
force  and  murder 
known  as  Napoleon  the  Great.

No,  my  friends,  it 

is  not  necessary 
to  be  rich  or  great  to  be  happy.  The 
happy  man 
is  the  contented  man ;  the 
contented  man  is  the  happy  man.

It  is  surely,  then,  such  organizations 
as  the  Grocers  and  Butchers'  Associa­
tion  that  help  to  make  the  world  happy. 
No  person  can  be  said  to  live  a  full  life 
or a  life  that  is  at  all  satisfactory  unless 
he  or  she  contributes  something  to  the 
value  of  life  for  others.  Hence  the  man 
who  lives  only  for  himself,  regardless 
of  the  welfare  of  his  fellow  men,  ought 
to  be  regarded  as  a  moral  nuisance, 
contaminating  the  air  of  heaven  and  a 
useless  member  of  the  community  in 
which  he  resides.  Such  a  man  usually 
has  a  small  mind  and  a  smaller  soul.
The  question  of  this  age  is  not,  Who 
were  your  ancestors,  but  who  are  you? 
As  the  poet  says:  “ We  live  in  deeds, 
not  in  years; 
in 
breaths;  in  feelings,  not  in  figures  on  a 
dial.”   We  should  count  time  by  heart- 
throbs.  He  most  lives  who  thinks  most, 
feels  deepest,  acts  the  best.

in  thoughts,  not 

A  young  man  once  asked  the  presi­
dent  of  a  college 
in  Michigan  if  he 
could  not  take  a  shorter course.  “ Yes,” 
said  the  president,  “ but  that  depends 
on  what  you 
intend  to  make  of  your­
self. ”   When  God  wants  to  make  an 
oak,  He  takes  a  hundred  years,  but 
when  He  oniy  wants  to  make  a  squash, 
He  only  takes  a  few  weeks.  Yankee  in­
genuity 
is  untiring  and  progressive. 
However,  we  hazard  our  reputation  as  a 
phophet  that  no  inventive  genius  will 
ever  patent  a  machine  bearing  the  in­
scription:  “ Drop  a  nickel  in  the  slot 
and  take  out  an  education.”

My  friends,  look  around  you  here  in 
this  star-begirt  vestibule  of  creation and 
contemplate  the  beauties  of  nature. 
This  beautiful  park,  so  beautifully 
studded  with  the  sturdy  oak,  the  droop­
ing  beech  and  the  whispering  pine  and 
many  others—these  grand  old  denizens 
of  the  forest,  arrayed  in  nature’s 
love­
liest  garments,  greet  you  and  invite  you 
to-day,  my  friends,  to  a  good  time  be­
neath  their  protecting  boughs.

look 

for  the 

Go  back  with  me  to  the  days  of  the 
Argonauts  and 
golden 
fleece ;  go  back  with  Vascoda Gama and 
look  for  the  Eldorado;  go  back  with 
Ponce  de  Leon  and  look  for the fountain 
of  youth ;  go  back  to  the  Light  of  Asia 
and  see  that  great  white  arch  spanning 
the  sky,  with  mist  for  its  masonry  and 
vapory  pillars.  Go  back,  if  you  please, 
to  the  days  of  your childhood  and  see 
the  bag  of  gold  that  hangs  upon  the 
shimmering 
iris  of  the  rainbow.  All 
these  things,  my  friends,  are  but  the 
stuff  that  dreams  are  made  of— intan­
gible, 
impossible— 
but the  condition  of  things  in  this world 
that,  in  my  opinion,  will  be  brought 
about  by  such  organizations  as  the  Gro­
cers  and  Butchers’  Association,  I  think 
is  no dream,  but  we  can  prophesy,  with 
a  good  deal  of  assurance,  that  they  will 
come  to  pass.

incomprehensible, 

As  a  recent  writer has  said,  “ I  see 
our  country  filled  with  happy  homes, 
with  firesides  of  content,  the  foremost 
of  all  the  earth.”  
I  see  a  world  where 
thrones  have  crumbled  and  where  kings 
are  dust.  The  aristocracy  of  idleness

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I  see  a 
has  perished  from  the  earth. 
world  without  a  slave,  man  at  last  is 
free.  Nature’s  forces  have  by  science 
been  enslaved.  Lightning  and 
light, 
wind  and  wave,  frost  and  flame  and  all 
the  secret  subtle  powers  of  earth  and 
air  are  the  tireless  toilers  of  the  human 
race. 
I  see  a  world  adorned  with  every 
form  of  art,  with  music's  myriad  voices 
thrilled,  while 
lips  are  rich  with  words 
of  love  and  truth;  a  world  in  which  no 
exile  sighs,  no  prisoner  mourns;  a 
world 
in  which  the  gibbit’s  shadow 
does  not  fall;  a  world  where  labor  reaps 
its  full  reward,  where  work  and  worth 
go  band 
in  hand ;  where  the  poor girl 
trying  to  win  bread  with  the  needle— 
the  needle  that  has  been  called  the  asp 
for the  breast  of  the  poor— is  not  driven 
to  the  desperate  choice  of  crime  or 
death,  of  suicide  or  shame;  I  see  a 
world  without  the  beggar’s  outstretched 
palm,  the  miser’s  heartless,  stony  stare, 
the  wail  of  want,  the  livid  lips  of  lies, 
the  cruel  eyes  of  scorn;  I  see  a  race 
without  disease  of  flesh  or brain,  shape­
ly  and  fair,  the  married  harmony  of 
form  and  function;  and,  as  I  look,  life 
lengthens,  joy  deepens, 
love  canopies 
the  earth  and  over all  in  the  great  dome 
shines  the  eternal  star  of  human  hope.

The  Girls  of H olland.  *

From the Humanitarian.

In  Holland,  the  mass  of  every  class 
go  to  public  schools  and  all  mix  to­
gether.  Education  begins  at  6  years  of 
age 
in  the  public  schools,  and  at  12  a 
girl  is  examined  and  passes  on  for  a 
five  years’  course  in  the  higher  burgher 
schools,  of  which  Holland  possesses 
seventy-two.  The  coeducation  of  the 
sexes  is  an  admitted  principle. 
In  the 
primary  schools  boys  and  girls  are 
brought  up  together,  they  learn  side  by 
side,  and  are  on  familiar  terms  from 
early  childhood  without  the  smallest  ill 
resulting.  A  great  point 
is  made  of 
languages,  and  no  Dutch  girl  of  the 
upper  or  middle  classes  is  considered 
educated  who  can  not  speak  English, 
French  and  German  more  or  less  flu­
ently.

Probably  owing  to  the  system  of  ed­
ucation  in  force,  the  women  folk  are 
inclined  to  grow up somewhat independ­
ent ;  we  are  told  that  the  prejudice 
against  women  working  for a  livelihood 
has  almost  disappeared,  and  even  rich 
women  sometimes  choose  a  profession. 
They  include  doctors,  dentists,  many 
of  them  first-rate,  photographers,  and 
gardeners.  About  i.ooo girls  hold  posts 
as  assistant  chemists,  some  3,000  as 
nurses, 
the  White  Club 
Homes,  and  on  a  par  with  the  very  best 
of  their  profession.  A woman is  curator 
of  the  Natural  History  Museum 
in 
Haarlem,  and  another  holds  the  same 
post  at  Utrecht,  while  a  third  is  head 
dispenser at  a  hospital 
in  Amsterdam. 
The  railway,  post  and  telegraph  offices 
are 
largely  served  by  female  clerks, 
who  altogether  outnumber the  male.

trained 

Girls  in  Holland  have  a  great  deal  of 
liberty.  They  pay  calls,  shop  and  go 
to  parties  at  the  houses  of  friends  with­
out  a  chaperon,  walk  and  travel  alone, 
cycle,  and  have  tennis  and  wheeling 
clubs 
in  company  with  young  men. 
They  enjoy  their  fun  and  freedom,  and 
are  in  no  hurry  to  find  husbands.  Mar­
riages  are  not  arranged,  and  the  par­
ents’  consent  is  only  asked  after  a 
proposal  is  made  and  accepted.

in 

A  woman  in  Kalamazoo  has  resolved 
to  indulge 
in  no  more  “ baby”   talk. 
She  dislocated  her  jaw  in  saying  “ goo, 
goo, ”   to  her  infant  prodigy.  When  a 
physician  had  adjusted  her 
jaw  the 
woman  turned  to  the  baby  and  said: 
“ When  I  talk  to  you  again  I  will  speak 
United  States.  No  more  baby  talk  for 
me.”  
It  is  probably  too  much  to  hope 
that  other  mothers  will  profit  by  her  ex­
perience.

Any  man  can  write  for a  newspaper— 
but  to  insure  getting  it  he  should  en­
close  the  subscription  price.

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Shoes and  Rubbers

H ealpful  H ints  in  Starting: and  Conduct­

ing  a  Store.

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We  have  noticed  that one great trouble 
with  the  average  young  man  who  has 
worked  as  a  clerk  for  some  one  else 
for  a  number  of  years,  and  who  starts 
in  for  himself,  is  that  he  knows  too 
many  nice  fellows,  who  represent  “ So- 
and-so,  who  make  a  dandy 
line  of 
goods;  used  to  sell  stacks  of  ’em  in  the 
old  place.  Must  have  some  of  'em  in 
my  stock.”   So  he  buys  a  small  lot
here,  another  small  lot  there,  u n t il_
is  dangerously  near  the 
limit  of  his 
capital.  The  goods  arrive,  he  has  _ 
week  or two  of  selling  from  them  and 
every  one  of  his  lines  has  a  size  or  tw 
missing.  Result,  his capital  is  tied  up 
he  has  a  store  full  of  goods,  not  a  com 
plete 
in  the  lot.  We  believe  that 
just  this  foolish  clinging  to  an  old  love, 
losing  sight  of  changed  conditions,  has 
been  the  rock  on  which  many  a  prom 
ising  small  shoe  business  has  been 
wrecked  and  sent  to  the  bottom, 
stands  to  reason  that  the  fellow  whose 
money 
limited  must  buy  light  and 
buy  often.  He  can’t  afford  to  buy 
ahead  for  four to  six  months.  Neithe 
can  he,  for  the  same  reason,  afford 
wait  a  month  or  six  weeks  for  a  manu 
facturer  to  put  through  a  size-up  order. 
He  wants  his  goods  from  the  man  who 
can  supply  them  on  short  notice  and 
give  him  promptly  the  sizes  he  needs 
So  we  would  advise  the  man  of  sma__ 
means  to  buy 
largely  of  the  jobber or 
the  manufacturer  who  carries  a  stock  on 
the  floor.

is 

valuable,  whereas, 

Now,  we  believe  this  is  the  right  and 
safe  course  for  several  reasons.  First, 
the 
jobber  is  willing  and  expects  to 
book  small  orders.  You  need  not  feel 
under  obligations  to  make  your orde 
count  even  cases.  You  order  in  only 
what  you  feel  you  actually  need  for  one 
week  or two  weeks’  business,  secure  i_ 
the  knowledge  that  at  the  end  of  that 
time  you  can  duplicate  the  goods  i 
any  needed  sizes.  Again,  you  can  get 
from  two  or  three  good  jobbers  the vari 
ety  of  styles  and 
leathers  that  would 
probably  compel  you  to  open  a  dozen 
accounts  were  you  buying  direct  from 
the  maker.  Then,  again,  throwing  all 
your  trade  to  a  few  houses  makes  you 
trade 
scattered 
among  too  many  it  is not worth anything 
to  any  of  them.  Here  is  another con 
sidération:  You  can't  afford  to  keep 
the  variety  of  widths that  the  big  fel 
lows  do.  But  you’ll  find 
if  you  can 
promise  a  customer that  you  will  have 
the  needed  size  in  a  couple  of  days  he 
will  wait  for  it  nine  times  in  ten.  Your 
jobber  will  be  glad  to  supply  you  the 
needed  size.  But above  all  other consid­
erations 
is  the  fact  that  you  can,  by 
buvmg 
in  this  way,  keep  your  stock 
fresh  and  well  sized-up.  Of  course,  it 
is  nice  to  have  your  goods  made  up 
expressly  for  you,  with  your  name  on 
the  lining,  your  own  style  carton,  and 
so  on.  But  this  paper  is  not  dealing  in 
sentimentalities. 
It  is  just  simply  a 
question  of  making  money.  We  like 
the  idea  of  the  dealer’s  name  in  a  shoe. 
But  that  is a matter easily accomplished, 
even 
if  you  do  buy  from  the  jobber. 
Have  a  neat  circular  stamp  made  with 
movable  date  in  the  center  if  you 
like. 
Stamp  each  pair of  shoes  as  you  sell  it. 
You  kill  two  birds  with  one  stone. 
You  get  your  name  in  the  shoe  and  at 
the  same  time  head  off  the  lying  hog 
who  comes  into  your  store  to  kick  about 
the  wear  of  a  shoe  he  says  he  has  had

only  four  weeks,  while  the  stamped  date 
says  fifteen.  You  can  make  your  cartons 
uniform  by  having  printed  two  sizes  of 
labels  of  uniform  color,  with  narrow 
blank  strips  to  match,  and  pasting 
these  on  the  front  of  your cartons  and 
the  cover.

But  we  must  pass  on  to  the  question 

of  what  to  buy,

It  seems  to  us,  the  best  motto  any 
shoe  dealer  could  hang  up  in  his  store 
would  read  something  like  this:

LEATHER SHOES.

WE  SELL  NO OTHER  KIND.

Make  this  your  motto  and  stick  to  it, 
no  matter  how  tempting  may  be  the 
chance  of  a 
little  extra  profit  with  the 
shoddy  kind.  Don’t make  up  your  mind 
in  advance  that  because  your  place  is 
small  your  prices  must  be  so,  too.  Peo­
ple  expect  to  pay  a  fair  price  and  will 
do  so  without  question,  once  you  get 
their  confidence.  And  you  never  will 
get  their  confidence  with  shoddy  goods. 
Don’t  buy  any  shoe  you  can  not  trust. 
If the  fellow  down  the  street  is  selling  a 
boy’s  shoe  for 90  cents  and  you  can’t 
buy  a  shoe  to  compete  with  him  that  is 
made  of  leather,  tell  your  customers  so 
frankly. 
If  they  want  to  try  the  other 
man,  let  them.  They’ll  come  back  to 
you,  never  fear,  and  think  the  better  of 
you  in  the  end.

Don’t  try  to  show  all  the  novelties  the 
big  fellows  are  showing.  Your  trade 
will  not  expect  it  of  you,  and,  besides 
you  wiil 
lose  money  on  them.  Just  so 
far as  you  can,  stick  to  staple  lines, 
you  feel  you  must  put 
in  novelties, 
touch  them  very  lightly  and  try  to  get 
them  of  some  one  who  carries  them  in 
stock.  You  can  buy  pretty  much  any 
thing  that  way  to-day  if  you  just  look 
around  you  and  keep  posted.

Generally 

it  does  not  pay  the  small 
dealer  to  advertise  in  the  regular  daily 
papers.  He  is  not  big  enough  or  strong 
enough  to  draw  trade  from  places  re 
mote  from  his  place  of  business,  and the 
rates  in  the  big  dailies  are  too  expen 
sive  for him. 
In  most  large  cities there 
re  small  papers  devoted  to  a  particula 
section  of  the  city.  Here  is  your  field. 
This  paper  reaches  just  the  people  you 
want  to  reach.  Get  a  good  space  in  it. 
Buy  a  few  cuts.  They  are  cheap  and 
add  immensely  to  your  advertisement 
Occupy  your  space  every  week.  Ad 
vertising,  to  yield  best  results,  must  be 
continuous.  Put  nothing  into them  but 
facts  that  can  be  backed  up  with  the 
goods.  Nine  times 
in  ten  you’ll  get 
better  results 
if  you  let  the  newspaper 
man  write  your  advertisement.  He  is 
used  to  writing;  you  are  not.

reading  matter, 

If  there  is  no  small  paper such  as  we 
have  mentioned  publish  one  yourself. 
There  are  several  very  good  little  books 
published,  some  weekly,  some  monthly, 
with  attractive 
for 
which  vou  would  have  to  furnish  only 
title  and  advertising.  Get  some  of  your 
neighbors 
interested  and  contract  for 
one  of  them  and  distribute  it  gratis. 
Wm.  Hahn & Co.,  of Washington,  D.  C., 
who  have  had  a  phenomenal  growth 
from  a  ^ small  beginning,  give  away  a 
ticket  with  each  pair of  shoes costing  $1 
or  more, 
twenty  tickets  entitling  the 
holder to  a  $1.50  pair of  shoes,  or  $1.50 
allowance  on  a  better  pair.  Try  some­
thing 
in 
Shoe  Retailer.

like  that.— H.  T.  Dougherty 

One  of those  Kansas  editors  has  been 
attending  a  church  fair and  here  are  his 
views  concerning  i t :  “ A church  fair  is 
a  function  where  a  man  spends  more 
money  than  he  can  afford,  for  things  he 
does  not  want,  to  please  people  he  does 
not  like,  for the  benefit  of  the  heathen 
who are  better  off  left  alone. ”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

M f l l M N « I M N M H M U M M U M M M H N N « I M N U M

LEGGINGS

Over  Gaiters  and  Lamb’s  Wool  Soles. 
(Beware  of the Imitation Waterproof Leg­
ging offered.)  Our price  on

Men’s  Waterproof  Legging,  Tan
or  Black,  per  dozen..............
Same  in  Boys’,  above knee..........

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

HIRTH,  KRAUSE & CO.

M AN UFACTURERS 

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN

T T Y Y T n Q

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Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Wholesale

Boots  and  Shoes

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Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

There is  no disappointment in 

RINDGE,  K ALM BACH ,  LO G IE   &  CO .’ S 

Grand  Rapids  made  shoes.

WHY?

Because  neither  money,  pains  nor  brains 

are  spared  to give 

f it ,  w e a r   and  c o m fo r t.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

Jobbers  W ho  Are  Price  Cotters  and Im i­

tators  M ast  Go.

The  question  as  to  the  position  of  the 
jobber  in  the  shoe  trade  has  been  much 
discussed,  and  the 
ideas  are  varied 
enough  to  suit  all  interested.  A  pretty 
fair  summing  up  would  be  that  the  job­
ber’s  position 
is  just  about  what  he 
makes  of  it  f jr himself.  The  jobber can 
be  a  decided  advantage  to  the  manu­
facturers  and  retailers,  or  he  can  work 
injury  for  both.

The  province  of  the  jobber,  of  course, 
is  to  distribute  the  product  of  a  certain 
number  of  factories  to  the  retailers  who 
want  the  goods.  This  work  of  distribu­
tion  involves  an  expense.  There  must 
be  salesmen  to take  the  orders,  clerical 
force  to  keep  the  accounts,  shipping 
department  for  forwarding,  and  per­
haps  more  important  than  all  adequate 
provision 
for  collecting  the  accounts. 
The  expense  can  not  vary  materially, 
and 
if  the  manufacturer  undertakes  to 
do  the  work  he  must  figure  the  cost 
in 
his  selling  price.  The  jobber  who com­
bines  the  work  for  several  factories  can 
easily  make  a  decided  saving in  the  ex­
pense  total  and  give  a  better  result  in 
the  prices  to  the  dealers.  This  is  par­
ticularly  true  in  the  lower  priced 
lines 
that  have  to  be  sold  on  close  margins, 
and  which  are  therefore  handled  almost 
entirely  by  the  jobbers. 
In  the  higher 
grades  the  manufacturers  by  selecting 
customers  among  the  larger  buyers  and 
decreasing  the  risk  of  collecting  can  do 
their own  distributing  to  good  advan­
tage.

The 

jobbers 

jobber  can  be  an  injury  to  the 
trade  on  the  other  hand,  when  he  un­
dertakes  reckless  competition. 
Some 
men  have  an  idea  that  the  only  way  to 
get  business  is  to  cut  prices  or give 
longer  time.  Some 
in  their 
efforts  to  force  sales  at  all  hazards  drop 
the  prices  and  depend  on  getting  the 
goods  somehow  in  some  shape  from  the 
manufacturers.  They  are  able  in  some 
cases  to  get 
imitations  of  good  lines, 
poorly  made,  and  of  a  quality  that  can 
not  prove  satisfactory.  The  prices  of 
such  goods  are 
in  turn  quoted  to  the 
salesmen  selling  the  good  lines  and  at 
once  there  is  trouble.  Other  jobbers  de­
mand 
lower  prices  from  the  manufac­
turers  or  a  cheapening  of  the  work  in 
some  way  in  order to  meet  the  terms  of 
the  price  cutters.  Often good  lines  giv­
ing  good  value  have  to  be  abandoned 
because  of  the  prices  at  which  the  in­
ferior  imitations  are  offered.

Some  jobbers,  when  they  find  a dealer 
has  already  bought,  will  quote  very  low 
prices  for  the  sole  purpose  of  making 
the  dealer  feel  bad.  Of  course,  orders 
would  not  be  filled  at  prices quoted,  but 
it  is  considered  smart  business  by  some 
to  make  the  dealer  feel  dissatisfied  with 
the  house  from  which  he  has  ordered.
It  often  succeeds  in  leading  the  dealer 
to  think  that  he  has  paid  too  much,  so 
that  he  makes  claims  for  rebates  or  de­
lays  his  payments,  while  the  reports  of 
lower  prices  offering  in  the  meantime 
are  working  trouble  all  along  the  line.
It is  needless  to  say  that  such  a policy 
is  demoralizing  and  an 
injury  to  the 
business.  A  few  experiences  of  this 
kind  make  manufacturers  determine  to 
market  their  own  goods  and  make  re­
tailers  decide  to  buy  direct  from  the 
factories  so  that  they  can  be  sure  of 
in  quality.  Unless 
something- reliable 
the  jobber  can  do  his  work  properly 
in 
distributing  he  has  no  legitimate  place 
in  the  business and  if the  price  cutting 
and  substituting  tactics  were  general 
with  the  jobbers there  could  be no doubt 
that  the  latter would  have  to  go.

The 

jobbers  who  have  won  success 
and  are  holding their  own  are  not  of  the 
class  described.  They  appreciate  the 
evils  of  price  cutting  and  also  the 
im­
portance  of  keeping  up  the  standards  of 
quality.  The  jobbers’  associations  aim 
directly  at  suppressing  the  evils  as  far 
as  possible  by  agreements  for  uniform­
in  terms  and  some  understanding 
ity 
lines  at  least. 
about  prices  on  staple 
The  leading  jobbers  are  also  making 
it 
a  point  to  handle  more  specialties  and 
lines  from  factories  that  are  sure  to 
prove  of  good  value  to  theit  retail  cus­
tomers.  This  renders  them  in  a  great 
measure  free  from  the  raids  of  the  price 
cutters,  and  their service  is  a  benefit  to 
the  trade.  They  will  remain  and  pros­
per  while  the  other class  must  gradually 
but  surely  disappear.— Boot  and  Shoe 
Recorder.
More  Opinions  on  the  Nashville  Balloon 

Ascension.

Kocher  Bros,  (dry  goods  and  shoes): 
We  think  the  balloon  ascension  on  Sat­
urday  afternoon  was  a  damage  to trade. 
On 
last  Saturday  we  did  not  have  our 
usual  trade  until  after  the  ascension, 
and  as  it  did  not  occur  up  until  after  5 
o’clock,  it  was  too  late  to  expect  much.
P.  H.  Brumm  (grocer):  Yes,  we 
merchants  here  raised  a  fund  and  had  a 
balloon  ascension  Saturday  afternoon. 
As  there  was  a  very  light  breeze,  the 
balloon  went  straight  up,  making  as 
pretty  an  ascension  and  parachute  drop 
as  was  ever  witnessed  by  tie  people  of 
Nashville.  As  to  the  benefit,  I  do  not 
consider  that  I  received  direct  results 
in­
sufficient  to  compensate  me  for  my 
vestment. 
I  think,  however,  had 
it 
been  advertised  more  extensively  and  a 
little  further  ahead,  the  results  would 
have  been  better.  You  see,  I  am  a  be­
liever  in  advertising. 
I  think  some  at­
traction  of  this  nature  or  something 
else  given  every  week,  every  two  weeks 
or  monthly,  would  prove  a  benefit to  the 
merchants  and  the  town  in  general,  as 
it  would  have  a  tendency  to  draw  the 
people  here  who  would  naturally  go 
elsewhere—as,  for  instance,  the  people 
who  live  midway  between  this  town  and 
the  neighboring  towns  or, 
in  fact,  a 
little  nearer  or  very  near  the  neighbor­
If  they  can  come  here  and 
ing  towns. 
witness  some  attraction, 
they  would 
come  here  to  do  their trading,  inasmuch 
as  they  can  buy  just  as  cheap  here  as  at 
the  neighboring  towns  and  at  the  same 
time  see  the  attraction,  whatever 
it 
may  be. 
I  do  not  believe,  however, 
that  an  attraction  of  this  nature  given 
only  once  or  twice  during  a  season  will 
prove  of  any  material  benefit  whatever 
unless  it  is  advertised  so that  the  people 
living  at  a  distance  can  have  a  chance 
to  hear of  it  and  come.

think 

Thomas  A.  Welsh  (general  merchan­
dise) :  From  a  business  standpoint  I  do 
not 
the  ascension  made  any 
money  for  me.  However, 
it  drew  a 
large  crowd  of  people  to  the  town,  but 
the  most  of  them  came  to  see  the  as­
cension  and  stood  around  where  the 
balloon  was  going  to  go  up. 
think  such  things  help  trade  for  that 
particular  day,  but  I  believe  that  they 
help  to keep  the  town  before  the public.

I  do  not  * 

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It 

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riety. 
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times  extends  to  the  knee. 
In  some 
cases  the  victim  has  been  crippled  for 
a  week  or  more.  The  local  scientists 
have  not  yet  discovered  the  insect  that 
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Clothing

A ssortm ent  o f  G arm ents  Necessary  to 

Man’s  Happiness.]

How  many  suits  of  clothes  does  a 
man  need  for  wear  during  business 
hours  if  he 
is  to  have  a  thoroughly 
well-groomed  appearance?  I  should  say 
three  suits  at 
least,  with  four  extra 
pairs  of  trousers.  He  will  wish  to  wear 
three  suits,  both 
in  order  not  to  wear 
any  one  suit  more  than  one  day  at  a 
time,  and  also  for the  pleasure  of  more 
variety 
in  his  dress  than  he  can  have 
with  two.  He  will  also  need  extra  pairs 
of  trousers  so  that  he  need  not  wear  one 
pair  more  than  one  day  in  the  week.

If 

it  is  a  man’s  ambition  to  be  thor­
oughly  well  dressed  he  must  either  de­
vote  much  attention  himself  to  the  care 
of  his  garments  or get  a  man  who  will 
do  so  for  him.  He  must  not  wear  any 
one  article  of  clothing  for any  length  of 
time 
if  he  expects  it  to  preserve  its 
shape  and  freshness.  The  presser  can 
do  much  to  renew  the  youth  of  a  gar­
ment,  but  he  can  not  give  to  it  a  shape 
and  set  that  has  been  strained  out  of 
it 
by  long  and  unremitting  wear.

After  all, 

the  most  pleasing  thing 
about  a  well-dressed  man  is  the  look  of 
perfect  order  and  freshness  that  comes 
from  having  his  clothes  perfectly  cared 
for. 
In  our  large  cities  there  are  now 
many  concerns  which  will  for a  modest 
sum  keep  one’s  clothes  in  perfect  order, 
pressing  them  and  repairing  them  as 
frequently  as  one  wishes.  With  such 
aids  the  man  of  modest  means  is  able 
to  present  an  appearance  superior  to 
that  of  his  wealthier  associates, 
the 
initial  cost  of  whose  clothing  may  be 
much  greater,  but  who  give  little  atten­
tion  to  its  proper care.

In  the  middle  of  the  summer  one  does 
not  expect  ordinarily  to  see  any  sudden 
changes  in  the  matter of neckwear worn. 
The  summer tie  this  year  has  been  the 
batwing,  with  either  square  or  pointed 
ends.  The  tie  with  square  ends  has 
been  worn  pretty  generally. 
I  suppose, 
therefore,that  it  is  about  time to say that 
the  bat  with  pointed  ends  is  now  the 
thing. 
proper 
ties  have 
dropped 
into  the  background,  but  I 
should  not  be  surprised  to see them worn 
again  soon.  I  see  that  some  of  the  lead­
ing  haberdashers  are  showing  De  Join- 
villes  and  narrow  derbies  made of  a silk 
of  basket  weave.  The  ground  color  is 
white  and  the  pattern  consists  of  fine 
vertical  woven  stripes  of  black,  pink, 
blue  or  lavender.  The  material  is  very 
soft  and  light  and  is quite  pretty.

Butterfly 

These  hot  and  muggy nights serve  one 
good  purpose  at  least.  They  remind 
me  to  put 
in  a  special  and  extended 
plea  for  pajamas  as against the old-fash­
ioned  night  shirt. 
I  am  sure  that  every 
one  will  agree  with  me  when  I  say  that 
a  night  shirt  is  so  beautiful  and  grace­
ful  a  garment  that  it  is  fit  to  be  seen  in 
the  bed  chamber exclusively. 
It  is  not 
strikingly  well  fitted  for  street  wear, 
nor is  it  even  apt to  be  considered  per­
fectly  proper  for a  hurried  exit  from  a 
burning  building.  There  are  striking 
and  obivous  reasons  for appearing  in  it 
in  public  as  little  as  possible.  Pajamas, 
on  the  conttary,  have,  both 
in  mate­
rial  and  in  fashion,  a  full  dress  appear­
ance  in  comparison  with  the  night  shirt 
that  makes  them  especially  pleasant  to 
their wearer.  Their  wearer never  looks 
quite  like  a  fright.  He  is  always  pre­
pared  for  emergencies,  and,  most  im­
portant  of  all,  his  entire  body  is  kept 
constantly  covered  through  the  hours  of 
the  night.  Physicians will  bear  me out

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in  the  statement  that  some  of  the  worst 
of  summer  colds  are  due  to  the  expos­
ure  of  the  uncovered  body  during  these 
hot  nights.  We  toss  and  tumble  in  the 
in  the  morning  wake  to  find 
heat  and 
ourselves  with  heavy 
But 
pajamas  will  keep  us  thoroughly  cov­
ered  at  night.  We  can’t  get 
them 
twisted  about  our  necks,  and  they  give 
up  just  that  measure  of  body  covering 
that  makes  the  difference  between  sick­
ness  and  health.  All  this  is  rather  of  a 
medical  nature,  but  I  like  occasionally 
to  call  attention  to  some  utilitarian  rea­
sons  for  adopting  a  particular  form  of 
apparel.

jacket.  The 

high-collared 

I  have  seen  some  very  well-made  pa­
jamas  of  Pongee  silk  trimmed  with 
loops  of  pink  silk  cord.  Another  fine 
material 
is  a  plain  white-corded  linen 
fabric,  very  light  and  thin.  The  jacket 
of  the  pajamas  made  of  this  material 
has  a  low-cut  standing  collar and  is  fin-
ished  in  some  cases  with  a  delicate  line 
of  color  along  the  edges  of  the  collar 
and 
lightness  of  the  suit 
and  the  character  of  the  material  make 
it  a  most  comfortable  thing  for  summer 
nights.  However,  I  suppose  that  force 
of  habit  will  lead  many  people  to  cling 
to  night  shirts,  and  I  would  hint  to  such 
persons  that  they  will  be  more  comfort­
able 
if  they  will  wear  the  night  shirt 
with  standing  collar,  which  is  cut  away 
in  front,  or  with  no  collar  at  a’l.  The 
old-fashioned, 
article 
should  be  reserved  for  winter  unless one 
is  an  invalid.—Apparel  Gazette.
Simple  M ethod  of A voiding Car Sickness.
“ In  spite  of  modern  improvements  in 
transportation  methods,’ ’  remarked  a 
gentleman  who 
travels  considerably, 
“ there 
is  a  great  deal  of  suffering  on 
trains  and  ordinary  steamboats  from 
what  may  be  called  seasickness,  a  sick­
ness  caused  by  the  motion  of  the  train 
or  the  boat,  or  sometimes  a  street  car 
will  produce  he  same  nauseated  condi­
tion. 
I  have  known  many  persons  who 
even  shunned  elevators  for this  reason, 
and  they  would  not  think  of  taking  a 
long  ride  on  a  street  car.  Train  sick­
ness  is  very  common,  particularly  with 
women,  and  many  of  these  dear crea­
tures  look  upon  a  railroad  voyage  as  an 
abomination 
in  the  sight  of  men.  Of 
course,  where  sickness  results  under 
conditions  of  this  sort,  permanent  in­
jury  might  result  from  persisent  travel­
ing unless  some  method  were  devised  to 
check  the  tendency.  Women  are  fond  of 
traveling  generally  and  if  there 
is  any 
way  of  removing  an  obstacle  in  their 
path  they  will  find  the  way.

imaginable.  A 

“ It  has  remained  for  a  woman,  of 
course,  to  solve  the  problem. 
I  was 
talking  to  a  bright  young  woman  yes­
terday  and  she  gave  me  the most solemn 
assurance  that  she  had  found  a  remedy 
and,  having  tried 
it  herself,  she  knew 
that  it  was  the  proper  thing.  She  said 
she  used  to  suffer a  great  deal from train 
sickness  and  had  the  most  violent  head­
aches 
lady  friend  told 
her  to  slip  a  piece  of  paper over  her 
breast  and  she  would  not  suffer.  She 
tried 
it,  and  with  the  best  of  results. 
She  never  travels  now  without  it,  and 
she  said  she  knew  a  great  many women, 
and  even  men,  who  had  resorted  to  the 
same  remedy  with  the  same  satisfac­
tory  results. 
I  have  been  suffering  a 
little  myself  from  train  sickness,  and 
the  next  time  I  make  a  long  trip  I  will 
slip  a  plain  piece  of  white  paper  down 
on  my  breast  between  my  shirt  and  the 
naked  hide,  just to  see  what  virtue  there 
is  in  the  remedy,  and  I  am  credulous 
enough  to  believe  that  the  results  will 
be  good.”

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15

Dry Goods

W eekly  M arket Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.
Staple  Cottons—The 

is  very 

cotton  goods 
market  shows  a  continuation  of  the 
quiet  aspect  which  we  reported 
last 
week.  There 
little  change  in 
the  character  of  the  demand  and  spot 
business  has  been  very  limited  on  ac­
count  of  the  small  number of  buyers 
in 
the  market.  The  business  coming  to 
hand  through  other  channels  has  failed 
increase  to  have  any 
to  show  enough 
appreciable  effect.  This  means 
that 
every  division 
is  quiet  except  where 
business  is  being  taken  in  the  way  of 
advance  orders  for  next  spring. 
In  this 
direction  there  has  been  considerable 
doing. 
In  spite  of  the  quietude  of  the 
business  for  this  season,  however,  sell­
ers  are  not  disposed  to  make  conces­
sions ;  neither  has  the  easy  tendency  of 
raw  material  given  them  any anxiety 
apparently.  There  is  nothing  at  all  un­
it 
usual  about  the  present  dulness,  and 
is  not  even  more  marked  than 
is  usual 
at  this  time  of  the  year  in  spite  of what 
many  are  saying.  For next  spring  fine 
grades  of  white  goods  and  cotton  goods 
have  been  bought  up 
in  many  cases 
with  considerable  eagerness,  and  prices 
are  said  to  be  extremely  good.

firm.  The  increasing  business  is  an in­
dex  to the  shortness  of  stocks  and prices 
no  longer  frighten  any  one,  as  they  are 
supported  by  natural  conditions  and 
maintained  by  a  liberal  buying  public. 
The  best  demand  is  still  for  the  better 
class  of  goods,  and  despite  the  condi­
tions  under  which  the  market  has  been, 
and  is,  laboring  the  fall  retail  business 
promises  to  be  more  than  usually  good.
Woolen  Goods—The  statistics  of  im­
ports  and  exports  of  wool  and  woolens 
for  the  fiscal  year ending  June  30,  com­
pared  with  those  for the  year  just  pre­
vious,  establish  some  important  facts. 
The  total 
imports  of  wool  were  only
104.000. 000  pounds,  against  156,000,000 
pounds  last  year. 
Imports  of  clothing 
wools  decreased  from  37,000,000  pounds 
to  31,000,000.  Only  5,000,000  pounds 
of  combing  wool  was 
imported  as 
against  1,3000,000  pounds  for  the  year 
just  before.  Carpet  wool  imports  shrunk 
from  106,000,000  to 67,000,000  pounds, 
and  while  31,000,000  pounds  were  im­
ported  from  China 
in  1899-1900 only
8.000.  000  pounds  were  brought  in  last 
year. 
Imports  of  manufactures  of  wool 
decreased  from  $16,000,000 to  $14,500,- 
000,  while  our  exports  of  wool  goods 
were  50  per cent,  larger  than  during  the 
last  year of  the  Wilson  bill. 
Imports  of 
wool  substitutes  during  the  latter  period 
aggregate<f  44.ooo,ooo  pounds,  against 
200,000  pounds  last  year.

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  break 

in 
certain  lines  of  printed  goods  which  we 
announced  last  week  has  had  no  effect 
on  the  rest  of  the  market,  and  this 
change  in  price  was simply because they 
were  held  at  a  higher  price  relatively 
than  the  rest  of  the  market.

is 

just  at  this  time. 

Dress  Goods— There  is  very  little  be­
It  is true 
ing  done 
that  the  duplicate  business 
improv­
ing  slowly,  but  jobbers  are  not  yet  do­
ing a  very  large business,and until  busi­
ness  in  second  hands  improves  there 
is 
going to  be  a  very  dull  market.  Every­
thing  points  to  a  very  late  opening  for 
the  spring  season.  There  is  nothing  in 
the  present  condition  of  the  market  to 
encourage  an  early  opening,  and  there 
are  many  good  reasons  why  spring 
showings  should  be  held back  as long  as 
possible.  There  has  been  a  little  feel­
ing  of the  market  by  the  foreign  dress 
goods  men,  and  the  result  has  not  been 
at  all  satisfactory.  As  a  result  even  the 
foreigners  are  not  making  much  effort 
at  this  time.  There 
is  no  doubt  but 
that  styles  are  having  a  depressing 
It  has  been  held 
effect  on  the  market. 
within  such  a  narrow  range  for  so 
long 
that  the  life  has  been  taken  out  of  it.  It 
needs  some  new  vogue  to  liven  things 
up,  and  yet  the  future  does  not  hold  out 
much  hope  in  this  direction,  and  in 
venturing  on  fancies  no  one 
is  willing 
to  go  further  than  the  most  modest 
effects.  There 
is  every  indication  that 
tailor-made  garments  are  going  to  be 
even  more  popular than  they  have  been 
and  as  a  result  buyers  are  paying  par­
ticular  attention  to  broadcloths,  Vene­
tians,  and  other goods  of  this  class.

Linens— The 

linen  market  has  been 
improving  steadily  for some time,  and 
during  the  past  week  the 
improvement 
has  been  very  noticeable.  There  are  a 
number  of  representatives  of  foreign 
manufacturers  now  in  New  York,  and 
more  of  an  effort  is  being  made  to  look 
for  business.  The  manufacturers  are 
beginning  to  realize  that  there  is  a  to­
morrow  as  well  as  a  to-day,  and  are  be­
ginning  to  show  more  consideration  for 
their  customers.  There 
is  a  certain 
amount  of  business  to  be  done  before 
the  product  of  the  new  crop  can  come 
from  the  mills,  and  it  is  a  nice  business 
to  handle;  for  buyers  are  more  than

Knit  Goods—The  decision  of  the Am­
erican  Knit  Goods  Association  not  to 
raise  the  pirces  of  fleeced  goods  came 
somewhat  as  a  surprise,  as  it  was  freely 
in  some  quarters  that  there 
predicted 
i2%c  advance.  Business 
would  be  a 
of  the  fall  duplicate  order has  picked 
up  considerably  since  the  meeting,  not 
only  in  fleeces, but  in  other  heavyweight 
lines  as  well.  The  preliminary  buying 
was  of  such  a  limited  character that  it 
seems  plausible  that  the  jobber  still 
needs  a 
lot  of  fall  goods.  The  action 
of  determining  not  to  show  fail  samples 
for  1902  until  after  October  5,  is  a  thor­
oughly  commendable  one,  and  one  that 
will  have  a  very  potent 
influence  in 
strengthening  the  condition  of  fleeces, 
providing,  of  course,  that  that  agree­
ment  is  rigorously  upheld.

Carpets—Velvets  continue  to  head  the 
list,  as  far as  the  demand  is  concerned, 
and  many  mills  are  doing  their utmost 
to  fill  all  their  initial  orders for Septem­
ber  delivery.  Some  very  striking  pat­
terns  in  rich  reds,  browns  and  greens  in 
velvets  are  shown  this  season,  and  it  is 
no  wonder that  a  good  part  of  the  buy­
er’s  attention  has  been  given  to  these 
goods.  The  designs  are  much  smaller 
this  season  than 
last,  and  the  colors 
more  pleasing  to  people  of  good  taste, 
and  the  life  of the  carpet  may  be  de­
scribed  as  being 
in  the  background. 
The  call  for  a  good  body  Brussels  is 
very  large,  and  the  orders  received  so 
far  fall  but 
little  short  of  exceeding 
those  for velvets.  A  good  body  Brussels 
is  as  serviceable  as  any  carpet  made  in 
this  country,  and  the  public  has  be­
come  aware  of  this  fact,  if  our  opinions 
are  correct.  The  cheaper  Brussels  does 
not  receive  much  attention.

The  H andicap  of a Name.

Poppers— Now,  we  haven’t  christened 
the  baby  yet.  My  wife  wants  to  give 
him  a  fancy  name.out  of  a  book,  but  I 
won’t  have  it.

Ascum— Why  not?
Poppers— Because, 

then,  he’d  grow 
up  to  be  homely  as  blue  mud  and  tough 
as  nails. 

I  never  knew  it  to  fail.

Never  be  a  clam. 

If  you  must  be 
anything  of  the  kind,;be  a  turtle;  then 
you  will  have  a  little  snap  about  you. 

J

An
Assortment

of  handkerchiefs  w ay  beyond 
any  we  have  ever offered (and 
that  is  saying  a  great  deal)  is 
w hat we call your attention  to. 
W e   have 
the  em broidered 
goods  both  hem stitched  and

B rought  Along  H is  Proof.

A  man  walked  into  the  water  works 
office  the  other  day  and  said  he  wanted 
to  make  a  complaint.  He  was  an  ex­
cited  man,  who  breathed  hard,  and 
seemed  to  be  anxious  to  have  his  case 
attended  to at  once.

“ Say,”   he  remarked,  as  he  passed  a 
large  colored  handkerchief  around  his 
generous  expanse  of  neck,  “ I  want  to 
complain  of  a  woman  who  wastes  the 
city  water,  and  I  want  you  to  go  right 
up  there  and  shut  it  off. ”

The  clerk  at  once  scented  a  neigh­
borhood  quarrel,  with  an  incidental  de­
sire  for  a  petty  revenge.
water?”   he  asked.

How  do  you  know  she  wastes  the 

The  complainant’s  face  grew  dark. 

( i” How  do  I  know 
it?”   he  cried. 
“ Why,she threw  a  bucket  of  it  on  m e!”

The  clerk  kept  a  straight  face.
“ Have  you  any  proof  of the  charge?”  

he  asked,  with  a  serious  air. 
tt 
‘ Proof!”   echoed  the  complainant. 
‘ You  bet  I’ve  proof! 
I  ran  all  the  way 
down  here  so’s  you  could  see  how  wet  I 
am ."

Then  he  departed,  highly  satisfied 
with  the  promise  that  the  case  would 
be  investigated.

The  cheapest  watch  made  will  not 
in  a  year— if  you  don’t 

vary  a  second 
wind  it  up.

“ Little  Red 
School  House”
Shoes

W ill  build up  your 
business.

C   M.  Henderson  &  Co.
Chicago,  III.

“ Western Shoe Builders ”
Cor. Market and Quincy  Sts.

with  scalloped  edge  from  45 
cents 
to  $4.50  per  dozen; 
plain  w hite  hem stitched  from 
25  cents  per  dozen  up;  col­
ored  borders  12  cents  up,  and 
silks  90  cents  to  $4.50.  Our 
salesm en  w ill  “ show  y o u .”

Voigt,  Herpolshcimer  &  Co.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W A N T E D

Buyers to  inspect our lines of

Rubber Lined and  Unlined

DUCK COATS
KERSEY PANTS 
MACKINAW COATS

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WHOLESALE  DRY GOODS.  GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH. s

Our line this year is the best and largest we ever carried.  We have them at
all prices and assorted colors and patterns.

P.  S T E K E T E E   &  SON S,

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1,000,000  Pounds 
Standard  Binder Twine

Nice  and  new,  which  averages  500 feet  to  the 
pound,  put  up  in  50-pound  flat  bales,  on 
hand  for  quick  orders.  We  handle  no  twine 
that  has  been  wet,  at  any price.
Binder  Covers  and  Thresher  Covers  for  sale. 
Tents  for sale  and  rent.

THE  M.  I.  WILCOX  CO.,

210-216  WATER STREET,  TOLEDO,  OHIO.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

culated  upon.  There  are  always  one  or 
two  butchers  in  a  company,  and  these 
men  are  provided  with  the  necessary 
money  to  go  out  and purchase good beef. 
Often  they  can  make  a  good  bargain  at 
5  cents  per  pound.  The  remaining  2 
cents  per  pound  is  then  used  in  the pur­
chase  of  vegetables  and  fish,  etc.,  and 
the  benefits  resulting  are  very  good 
in­
deed.  The  butchers  of  the  company  also 
kill  the  beef,  for  it  has  been  found  that 
the  native  method  of slaughtering makes 
the  meat  tough.

Instructed  as  to  His  Duties.

A  young  clerk 

in  a  wholesale  house 
has  been  spending a  large  portion  of his 
salary  for  the 
last  few  days  buying 
cigars  for  friends  who  are  “ on’ ’toa 
joke  that  was  perpetrated  on  him.  His 
employer  engaged  a  new  boy  and  as 
soon  as  the  boy  came  to  the  establish­
ment  he  was  instructed  in  his  duties  by 
our  friend,  who  had  been  promoted  to 
the  position  of  assistant  bookkeeper 
and  given  a  small  office  by  himself. 
About  an  hour  after the  boy  started 
in, 
the  “ boss“   came  around  and  seeing 
him  working,  asked :

“ Has  the  assistant  bookkeeper  told 

you  what  to  do?”

“ Yes,  sir,”   was  the  prompt  reply; 
“ be  told  me  to wake him  up  when  I saw j 
you  coming  around.”
B atchers Not im m une From  Tuberculosis. 
From the Butchers Advocate.

About  once  a  year  a  story  goes  the 
rounds  of  the  daily  press  to  the  effect 
that  butchers  are  Immune  from  con­
sumption.  These  stories  have  been  per­
mitted  to  go  uncontradicted  for  so 
long 
that  they have  gotten  to be  generally  be­
lieved.

Now,  the  truth  is  that  the  percentage 
of  butchers  who  die  of  consumption 
is 
quite  as  large  as  the percentage  of  those 
engaged 
in  any  other ordinary  line  of 
business.  My  reason  for  giving  space 
to  this  is  that  some  butchers  might  be 
led  to  believe  that  they  really  are  im­
mune  from  consumption  and  therefore 
become  careless  of  their  health.

S u m m e r

R e s o r t s

G.  R. &  I.

"T h e   Fishing  Line"

The  Passenger  Department  of  the  Grand 
Baplds &  Indiana  Railway  has  Issued  a  36- 
page  booklet,  entitled  “ Michigan  in  Sum­
mer,’’ that contains 250 pictures of  resorts in 
Northern Michigan.  Interesting information 
is given about these popular resorts:
Petoskey 
M ackinac  Island 
Bay  View 
Traverse  City 
H arbor  Springs 
N eahtaw anta 
H arbor P oint 
Omena 
W equetonsing 
N orthport 
R oaring  Brook 
N orthport  Point 
Em m et Beach 
Edgewood 
W alloon  Labe
and  o ther  points
It  contains  a  list  of  hotels  mid  boarding 
houses in Northern Michigan, with their rates 
by the day  and  week,  and  passenger  fares 
from the principal points in the Middle West.

This booklet w ill be  sent free

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

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

1 6

The Meat Market

W ould  K ill  the  Beef Business.

I  predict  that  you  will  find  that  where 
cattle  tuberculosis  is  plenty,  human  tu­
berculosis  is  so  rare  as  to  hoid  nc  rela­
tion  to  i t ;  that  while you are in the thick 
of  bovine  tuberculosis  you are practical­
ly  outside  the  consumptive  belt.  The 
greatest  importance that bovine tubercu­
losis  has  attained  has  been  due  to  the 
it  has  caused  much  of  our 
belief  that 
human  consumption. 
If  you  find  a  per­
son  suffering  from  tuberculosis you  must 
not  jump  to  the  conclusion  that  it is due 
to  infection  from  meat,  milk  or  cream, 
or  from  the  inhalation  of  bovine bacilli. 
I  opine  that  within  a  few  years  it  will 
be  difficult  to  find  professional  men  who 
hold  that  cattle  tuberculosis  is  much  of 
a  menace  to  the  human  race.

E.  Moore.

In 

justice  to  Dr.  Moore 

it  must  be 
said  that  since  the  time  he  made  his 
opinion  public  some  men 
learned  in 
the  science  of  disease  have  announced 
that  they  agree  with  him.  Prof.  Koch 
is  the 
latest.  However,  while  it  may 
be  true  that  tuberculosis  can  not  be 
communicated  to  a  person  eating  meat 
cut  from  an  animal  infected  with  the 
disease,  it  would  be  an  impossible  task 
to convince  the  consuming  public  of  it. 
There  are  some  who  do  not  eat  meat, 
and 
if  these  can  be  made  certain  that 
there  is  no  danger  of  contracting  dis­
ease  from  eating  meat  they  may  join 
the  army  of  meat  eaters.  But  they 
would  not  eat  it  if  they  did  not  know  it 
first  and  the  diseased 
was 
meat  condemned. 
If  all  the  scientists 
in  the  world  were  of  the  same  opinion 
as  Dr.  Moore  and  Prof.  Koch,  their 
opinions  would  make  but  little  differ­
ence  to  the  public.  The  millions  of 
consumers  would  soon  become  vegetar­
ians  were  the  Government  inspection 
service  as  applied  to  beef  discontinued. 
Common  sense 
impresses  one  strongly 
that  meat  from  a  steer  having  tubercu­
losis  is  not  desirable  food.  Science  may 
be  right,  but 
if  this  Government  ac­
cepted  the  statement  of  Dr.  Koch  as 
fact,  and  permitted  the  slaughter  for 
food  of  tuberculous  cattle,  the  beef busi­
ness  would  be  knocked  in  the  head.— 
Butchers'  Gazette.

inspected 

The  Des  Moines  Belgian  Hate  Asso­
ciation  expects  to  establish  a market  for 
rabbits  in  Des  Moines  this  fall.  An es­
tablished  butcher  will  be  secured  to 
handle  the  market  if  possible. 
If  this 
course 
is  not  feasible,  the  Association 
will  establish  a  market  of  its  own  in 
charge  of  one  of  its  members.  Belgian 
hares  sell  now  at  the  butchers  for 20 
cents  a  pound,  dressed.  Nice,  juicy 
young  ones,  weighing  from  three 
to 
four  and  one-half  pounds  are  eagerly 
bought  by  people  who  relish  the  meat, 
that 
is  much  like  spring  chicken,  only 
sweeter  and  nicer.  A  pound  of  Belgian 
hare  meat  goes  further,  it  has  been  dis­
covered  by  connoisseurs,  than  any  other 
meat,  on  account  of the  few  and  very 
small  bones.

We  have  heard  the  same  thing  about 
the  demand  for  Belgian  bare  meat  be­
fore.  We  read  in  a  Western  paper  that 
people  in  New  York  City  were  blocking 
the  sidewalks  in  front  of  the  butchers’ 
shops  crying  for the  meat;  and  when  we 
investigated  the  report,  we  failed  to 
find  a  butcher  who  was  handling  the 
meat,  or  who  had  any  customer ask  for 
it,  or  who  would  know  where  to get  it  if 
he  did  have  an  order  for  it.  We  were 
told  that  poultry  would  be  put  out  of 
business  by  the  hares,  that  Belgian 
hares  were  a  better  investment  than nat­
ural  oil  stock,  but  our  horoscope  editor 
said  the  Belgian  hare  was  a  new  style 
of  gold  brick.  We  are  inclined  to  be­
lieve  the  Belgian  hare  has  seen his most 
prosperous  times.  We  think  be  is  a 
“ has been, ”  and that no amount of boom­
ing  will  bring  him  back  to  active 
life. 
Fresh  Beef in  the  Philippines.

  •  ♦

♦

it 

To  suppiy  our  soldiers  in  the  Philip­
pines  with  fresh  beef 
is  not  an  easy 
problem.  The  distance  from  this  coun­
try  to  the  islands  is  great,  and  the  cost 
of  transportation  enormous.  There  is a 
large  refrigerating  plant  there,  and  for 
the  forces  on  duty  within  a  reasonable 
distance  of  the  plant 
is  an  easy 
enough  matter  to  secure  good  beef;  but 
for  those  who  are  stationed  many  miles 
from  the  cold  storage  house  it  is  differ­
ent.  There  have  been  suggestions  in 
regard  to  the  method  of obtaining  fresh 
beef  for our  troops  without  the  Govern­
ment  being  excessively  taxed  for the 
that 
supplies.  General  Kobbe  found 
the  favorite  proposition  was 
for  the 
commanding  officer  to  fix  a  price  per 
head  on  cattle  found  on  the  islands,  and 
then  seize  the  quantity  necessary for the 
troops.  The  authorities  do  not  regard 
such  an  action  as  a  just  one.  They  be­
lieve,  moreover,  that 
it  would  operate 
to  the  prejudice  of  the  idea  which  army 
officers  are  trying  to  implant 
in  the 
minds  of  the  Filipinos,  for  instance, 
that  the  latter  have  rights  which  are  to 
be  scrupulously  guarded  and  respected.
Another  plan  that  has  been  tried,  and 
found  to  work  satisfactorily,  is  a  fresh 
beef  fund  allowed  for  the  soldiers.  The 
fund  amounts  to  about  $50  per  month 
for  a  company  of  seventy-five  men,  for 
something  like  7  cents  per  pound  is cal­

tsSStea

¡gjfSsai

baissa

The 

is  still  some 

Trying  to  Revive  a  Dying  Boom.

impression  has  become  general 
that  the  Belgium  hare  boom has sneaked 
away  into  some  dark  corner  to  breathe 
its 
last,  but  the  following,  from  a  Des 
Moines,  la.,  correspondent,  shows  that 
there 
life  in  it  and  that 
means  are  to  be  employed  calculated  to 
put  vigor  into  the  sadly  crippled  boom:

COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS
SCOTTEN-DILLON  COMPANY
DETROIT. MICHIGAN

TOBACCO  MANUFACTURERS 

INDEPENDENT FACTORY 

OUR  LEADIN G  BRAN DS.  K E E P  THEM   IN  MIND.

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Esjasa

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P L U G

CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

F IN E   C U T

UNCLE  DANIEL. 

OJIBWA.

FOREST GIANT. 

SW E E T  SPRAY.

SM O K IN G

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

price current.

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

See  quotations  in

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17

the  best  candy  yo’  got. 
kinds  an’  mix  it  up  like.”

I  want  all 

“ F-i-v-e  p-o-u-n-d-s-!  Johnny,  you’ ll 

bust  yourself!”   exclaimed  Alviry.

“ That’s  all  right,”   he  replied,  as  he 
settled  the  bill. 
“  I  won’t  bust  nothin’ 
but  my  pocket  book.  The’s  allers  re­
joicin’  among  nations  when  a  declara­
tion  of  peace  is  fixed  up  an’  it’ll  be  the 
same  with  us.  We’ll  be  good  as  long 
as  this  candy  holds  out. 
If  yer  ready 
now,  let’s  go. ”

“ I’m ready  if  you  be,  but  I  think  you 

forgot  something. ”
“ No,  I  hain’t.”
“ I  bet  you  did,  though.”
“ What  was  it?”
“ Your  hair oil. ”
“ O,  blame  the  hair o il! 
I  don’t  want 
none.  I’ll  use  meat  fryin’s  or  mutton 
taller  or  wagon  grease,  and  yo’ r  hair 
dope’ll  be  my  hair  dope  to  the  end  of 
time.”  

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

V A LLEY   C IT Y   MILLING  C O .,

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

5 ouvenirA ct^
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f s   H O W   O U T  A N D   R T A D Y  

T O R   D I S T R I B U T I O N ^

A l l   w h o  c o n t e m p l a t e   t a k i n g  
a   Co m m e r c i a l   ( o u r s e   w i l l
FIND  THIS  OF GREAT VALUE. 0 P I E S  
MAILED  FREE  UPON  APPLICATION.

(OflMERUAL (ÔLLEGE,

‘ You  think  you’re  a  dood,  don

youi

“ Perhaps  I  hain’t  no  reg’lar  out  an 
outer,  but  I  hain't  no  Rube  neither, 
not  by  a  blamed  sight!”

“ I’d  like  to  know  how  much  you  lack 

of  it.”

“ About  what 

Intermediate  River 

lacks  of  bein’  a  crick.  Haw,  haw.”  

“ O,  you’re  smart,  hain’t  you.  You 
can  jest  take  me  home  right  now,  an 
you  bet  I  won’t  come  to  the  street  fa 
with  you  neither.”

“ All  right,  I’ll  take  yo’  home.  An 
nex  time  you  come  to  town,  an’  wanter 
know  jest  how  good  the  walkin’  is,  yo 
better come with  Stingy  Green  Peter 
son.’ ’

“ He’s  get  a  better  team  ’n  yourn.”  
“ Yes,  ’n’  he  wouldn’t  hitch  ’em  u 
to  take  the  Queen  of  Europe  to  a  ti 
weddin’.  He  says  it’s  hard  enough  on 
em  to  log  up  foller  an’  plow  pitater 
ground  without  haulin'  a  passel 
young  wimmen  around  the  country  to 
doin’s. ”

“  He’s  better off’n  you  be.  He’s  got 
in  the  bank.  He  kin  buy  you 

money 
an’  sell  you  ag’ in  if  he  wants  to.”

“ He  otter  have  money,  that  feller 
He  never  spends  none.  Yes,  yo’  bette 
go  to  the  street  fair  with  Stingy.  He’ll 
buy  yo’  a  hul  slab  o’  bacon  fer  yer  hai 
dope— if 
it  don’t  cost  nothin’.  An 
say,  yo*  better  take  some  vittles  along 
in  yer  pocket.  He  might  fergit  to  ask 
yo’  to  dinner. ’

They  are  Staple  A rticles  W ith  Central 

Written for the Tradesman.

Cake  Swains.

He  was  quite  tall  and  wore  at  least 

ten  and  a  half  shoe.  He  bad  well 
greased  sorrel  hair,  parted  in  the  mid 
die,  rows  of  warts  across  his  knuckL. 
and  a  colored  glass  pin  with  three  balls 
fastened  to  his  necktie 

The 

lady  with  him  was  attired  i_. 
white,  but  her dress  bore  slight  traces 
of  travel,  and  the  bunch  of  pink  rib 
bons  on  her  breast  was  rumpled  and 
disordered.

“ I  wanter  git  five  cents’  worth  of 

candy,”   said  he  to  the  clerk 

“ O,  Johnny,”   said  she,  “ get  ten 
You  know  we  both  like  candy,  and  five 
cents’  worth  won’t  last  no  time.”

‘ ‘ All  right,  A lviry,”   he  answered 
with  a  sweet  smile,  ‘ ‘ I’ll  pay  fer all  the 
candy  yo’  kin  eat.  What  kind'll 
i 
be?”

‘ ‘ Let’s  take  cream  candy. 

awful  good.”

That’ 

‘ ‘ Yo’  bet  we’ll  get  some  o’  that,  an 
some  readin'  candy,  too.  That’s  the 
best  kind  to  have  fun  with.

‘ ‘ 0,  do. 

I  forgot  all  about  the  read 
ing  candy.  Them  motto hearts  is  love 
ly.  Let’s  not  get  no  cream  candy.”  

“ Yes,  we  will,  too.  We’ll  have  both 
If  the’s  anything  elst  yo’  want 

kinds. 
jest  holler  out  an’  we’ll  have  it.”

“ Le’s  not  buy  any  more  candy. 

I’d 
rather have  a  bottle  of  scent  'n  so  much 
sweet  stuff.”

“ What  kind  of  scent  do  yo’  like 

best?”

“ What  kind  do  you?”
“ I  like  any  kind  you  like.”
“ Well,  you  pick  it  out.”
“ No,  you.”
“ I  won’t,  so  now 1”
“ All  right  then. 

v ’ilets. ”

“ Don’t  worry  about  me. 

tremor  in  her  voice,  and  she 

I  can  get 
along  all  right,”   she  replied,  bravely, 
but  there  was  a  trace— just  a  trace—of 
looked 
away  from  the  young  man  and  out  of 
the window  upon  the  street as she spoke 
“ Tbe’s  goin’  to  be  a  balloon  assump 
tion  ag’ in  this  year,”   suggested  her 
escort  after  a  short  silence.  Do  you 
mind  how  good 
I 
thought that  little  woman’d  git  broke  in 
two  when  it  yanked  so  on  the  start.”  

last  time? 

it  was 

Alviry  nodded.
“ An’  then,  the  best  of  all  was  when 
she  lit  on  the  telegraph  wires  an’  fell 
into  the  barb  wire  fence.  Gee! 
I 
thought  there  one  spell  she’d get chawed 
II  to  thunder on  the  barb  wire.  That 
was  the  best  of  all.  Yo’  hain’t  forgot 
that,  have  yo’,  Alviry?”

The  lady  shuddered  a  little.  She  re­

membered.
“ I  bet 

if  they  have  another  balloon 
this  fall,  the  feller’ll  git  killed.  Mebbe 
be  a  woman,  too.  Jest  think!  As 
long  as  I’ve  lived,  I  hain’t  never  see  no 
one  killed  failin’  out  of  a  balloon.  Say, 
yo’  hain’t  forgot  about  that  ice  cream 
they  had  to  the  little  stand  around  the 
corner?  That  same 
cornin’ 
again  this  fall.”

feller’s 

Alviry  looked  around  timidly.
“ I  hain't  agoing.”   said  she,  gently. 
“ Yes,  yo’  be,  too,”   retorted  her  es­

cort  warmly.

She  shook  her  head,  and  looked  out 

on  the  street  again.

“ Why  hain’t  yo’  goin’ ?”   he  queried, 

anxiously.

“ O,  nothin’, ”   said  she,  sadly.

’Tis,  somethin’,  too,”   he  insisted. 

Tell  me  what  it  is.”
“ Nothin’  much,  only  I  hain’t  goin’ 

alone. ’ ’

‘ I 

forgot,”  

said  he,  penitently. 
There  was  a  large  looking  glass  in  front 
’  him,  though,  and  he  winked  at  him­

self  blandly,  as  he  added :

“ I  s’pose  y ’  wouldn’t go  with  me?”  
“ Mebbe  I  would  if  I  was  asked.”  
“ Well,  will  yo’,  then?”

*  *  *

“ Say,  mister,  gimme  five  pounds  of

Le’s  take  sweet 

lay lock 

“ White 

’s  nice,  an’  so  _ 
Jockey  club.  Why  don’t  you  git  some 
o’  them?”
“ I  got 

lots  o ’  that  to  home,  but 

don’t  care;  git  what  yo’  want.  Tell 
yo’  what  I  be  goin’  to  get,  though.”  

“ What?”
“ Some  hair oil.”
“ O,  don’t  get  no  hair  oil. 

I  tell  you 
lots  better’n  hair  oil—meat 

wbat’s 
fryin's. ”

“ Meat  fryin's!”
“ Yes,  sure.”
“ Aw  gawn.”
“ No,  no  foolin’.  Don’t  you  know 

about  that?  It’s  the  best  thing  out.”  

“ Meat  fryin’s  is  no  good.”
“   ’Tis,  too.”
" Y o ’r  jest  a  foolin’. ”
“ No,  I  hain’t.  Jest  let  me  tell— . ”  
“ Wall, 

I  don’t  want  none  on  my 
plate.  Say,  mister,  have  yo’  got  any 
hair oil  by  the  bulk?”

“ Wait  till  I  tell  you  about  the  meat 
fryin’s  Johnny.  Meat  fryin’s  is  handy 
cus  you  always  got  ’em  in  the  house, 
an’  the’  hain’t  nothin’  so  good, to  take 
the  goominess  out  o’  the  hair.  Then 
they  don’t  cost  nothin’  neither,  an’ 
hair oil  does.  You  jest  try  it  once  an’ 
see  if  I  hain’t  right.”

“ I  don't  care 

if  it 

is  cheap  and 

I  don’t  want  no  meat  fryin’

handy. 
when  a  quarter’s  worth  o’  hair oil’ll 
last  me  three  months. 
I’m  sot  on  some 
things,  I  be.  Mebbe  I’ve  got  the  hair 
oil  habit.  But  I  don’t  care  if  I  have. 
I've  alters  had  hair  oil  an’  the  Lord 
willin’,  I  allers  will. 
If  yo’  wanter sop 
yer head  in  the  gravy  bowl  yo’  kin  fer 
all  of  me,  but  I’ll  eat  marsh  hay  with 
the cows afore  I’ll quit  my hair o il.”

A Trade Maker

Fanny Davenport

5c  Cigar

Trade  Supplied  By:

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

Putnam  Candy  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Established  1865.

E X P E R IE N C E   has  taught us  how to  make  the 

finest candies.

Call and inspect our line and establishment when  in the city.

B.  W.  PUTNAM,  President.

R.  R.  BEAN,  Secretary.

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Hardware

D rastic  M easures  To  C urtail  Catalogue 
Written for the Tradesman.

Com petition.

that  point 

In  taking  up  the  consideration  of  this 
subject  with  a  view  to  recommending 
a  remedy,  it  is  desired  to examine 
its 
bearings  upon  the 
interests  involved, 
without  prejudice,  and  to  suggest a  rem­
edy  that  shall  be  both 
justified  and 
practical. 
If  a  brief  philosophical  ob­
servation  may  be  permitted  by  way  of 
introduction,  it  may  be  remarked  that 
it  is  a  principle  in  natural  philosophy, 
that  every  atom  in  nature  seeks  rest  or 
equilibrium;  consequently agitation  and 
struggle  proceed  until 
is 
In  the  realm  of  matter  it  is 
reached. 
the center of  attraction,  interpreted  by
the  law  of  gravitation ;  in  the  province 
of  mind  it  is  justice,  interpreted  by  the 
law  of  truth,  and  in  the  commercial  do­
main 
it  is  equity,  interpreted  by  the 
law  of  compensation.  Agitation,  there­
fore,  in  ail  cases  is  the  direct  result  of 
an  unsatisfied  condition  and  is  in  per­
fect  accord  with  natural  law  which,  be­
ing  absolute  and  immutable,  it  is  wise 
to  avoid  conflict  therewith so  far  as  pos­
sible.  Our economic  condition,  not  yet 
its  equitable  center, 
having  reached 
must  necessarily  continue 
to  bump 
toward  that  goal,  occasioning 
along 
more  or 
inconvenience,  resting 
briefly  now  and  then  upon  some  pro­
jecting  natural  artificial  ledge  of  fan­
cied  stability  only  to  be  jolted  off  again 
toward  its  ultimate  destination.  .Every 
concussion  occasions more or less bruises 
and  futile  murmurings  and  dollars  are 
inadvertanly  but  oftener  intentionally 
jostled  out  of  some  pockets  into  others 
whose  owners  by  natural  instinct  and 
skillful  practice  have  become  expert  in 
adjusting  these  handy  receptacles  to the 
best  advantage ;  this  peculiar  dexterity 
having  been  attained  by but  few  has  the 
effect  of  concentrating  these  handsome 
and  useful 
little  souvenirs  of  the  jour­
ney  into  very  limited  ownership.

less 

The  present  agitation 

in  which  we 
are  invited to  participate  is precipitated 
by  a  conflict  between  two  opposing 
systems  of  merchandising;  it 
is  the 
province  of  this  article  to  deal  mainly 
with  that  side  of  the  controversy  near­
est  to  us.  What  the  local  merchant 
is 
pleased  to  regard  as  his  rightful domain 
is  being  encroached  upon  to  his  hurt 
and  damage;  his  rights  to  honorable 
subsistance  by  means  of  a  system  which 
has  heretofore  enjoyed  the  undisputed 
sanction  of  custom,  are  being  grievious- 
ly  infringed;  he  owns  to  being  without 
adequate  means  of  defense;  as  a  matter 
of  justice  he  is  entitled  to  a  fair  and 
impartial  hearing  and  should  his  inter­
ests  not  prove  to  be  in  conflict  with  the 
principle  of  public  policy—which  in the 
absence  of  specific  enactment  is  the  su­
preme  law—then  his  claims  will  be  en­
titled  to  equitable  adjustment. 
In  ad­
dition  to  whatever  rights  and  privil­
eges  he  may  be  seized  of  under  the  law 
of  self-preservation,  there  are  his  joint 
interests  with  the  members  of  the  com­
munity  in  which  he  does  business  and 
his  involuntary  partners  in  this  connec­
tion  are  truant  to their own  best  inter­
ests  to  permit  an  injury  to  be 
inflicted 
upon  him,  much 
less  to  be  the  volun­
tary  instruments in  the  hands  of an alien 
interest  to  inflict  such  injury.  For  if 
there  were  no  local  merchants  there 
would  be  no  town;  there  being  no  town 
there  would  be  no  market;  being  no 
town  or  market,  there  would  be  no com­
mercial  activity,  no  transportation  fa­
cilities ;  production  in  the  absence  of  a

convenient  market  would  be  less remun­
erative,  real  property  would  decline  in 
value,  labor  would  be 
less  in  demand 
and  the  false  economy  inspired  by  cat­
alogue  inducements  would  meet  its  just 
deserts  in  self-inflicted  and  desolate  is­
olation  and  pecuniary  damage.  The 
very  people  who  think  it  shrewd  policy 
to  send  away  this  cash  to  build  up  an 
alien  enterprise,  and  to  work  off  their 
old  produce  and  long-winded  accommo­
dations  on  the  local  merchant  are  com­
mitting  financial  suicide 
if  they  have 
any  substantial 
investment  or  interest 
in  the  vicinity.  The  very  facilities  they 
enjoy  and  which  enables  them  to  eco­
nomically  patronize  a  foreign  market 
are  made  possible  by the presence  of  the 
local  merchant  and  should  he  be  com­
pelled  to  go  out of business or to quit 
the  locality,  they  may  depend  upon  it 
that  these  facilities  will  not  long  re­
main  at  their  command.  So  that  on the 
grounds  of  public  policy,  of  priority  of 
tenancy  and  of  the  right  of  self  preser­
vation,  the  local  merchant  is  entitled  to 
relief.  The  success  of  either system  in 
controversy  depends  upon  popular  pub­
lic  favor  and  that  is  influenced 
largely 
by  economic  inducements.  The  cata­
logue  system  was,  no  doubt,  at  first  in­
troduced  for  convenience  and  afterward 
continued  for  economical  reasons  and 
finally  relied  upon  to  increase  business; 
how  well  it  has  met  these  requirements 
is  evidenced  by  the  injury  done  to the 
local  trade.  The  fact  that  it  requires  a 
considerable  outlay  of  money  at  first  to 
inaugurate  a  catalogue  system  deters 
any  but  the  stronger  concerns  who  are 
in  a  position  to  handle  a  large  trade 
from  attempting  it,  so  that  it  would  be 
impractical  for the  smaller  retail  estab­
lishments  to  meet  the  competition  by 
the  same  means. 
If  all  the  retailers 
who  are  affected  by  the  encroachments 
of  the  catalogue  system,  handled  sub­
stantially  the  same  lines  of  goods  they 
might  club  together  on  a  co-operative 
plan  and 
issue  a  catalogue  between 
them,  each  taking  as  many  copies  as  be 
could  use  to  advantage,  with  his  busi­
ness  card  on  the  title  page  as  if  it  had 
been 
issued  by  him  exclusively,  and 
then  let  each  mail  them  according  to  a 
If  this  suggestion 
pre-arranged  plan. 
could  be 
followed 
sytematically, 
it 
might  at  least  have  the  effect  of  divid­
ing  and  demoralizing 
catalogue 
business  to  such  an  extent  that  it  would 
become  unprofitable  to  the  concerns  de­
pending  exclusively  upon  it  for trade.

the 

The  popular  appetite  must  be  either 

satisfied  or  diverted.

is 

felt 

No  doubt  the  encroachments  of  the 
catalogue  competition 
in  all 
branches  of  the  retail  trade,  more  per­
haps  in  the  smaller country  places  than 
in  the  larger  cities,  although  the  aggre­
gate  of  trade  diverted  by  this  means 
must  be  very  much  greater,  even  in  the 
cities,  than  is  generally  realized,  owing 
to  the  proportionately  larger  amount  of 
general  business  transacted.  The  ex-, 
tensive  advertising  and  fierce  competi­
tion  among  the  city  merchants  would 
naturally  have  a  tendency  to  divide  the 
attention  of  the  bargain-hunter  and 
in­
duce  him  to  partially  distribute  his  fa­
vors  locally.  If,  as  is confidently  stated, 
the  catalogue  trade 
in  some  localities 
exceeds  in  tonnage  the  receipts  of  mer­
chandise  by  the  local  merchants,  it  is 
certainly  a  condition  demanding  imme­
diate  attention  on  their  part  as  well  as 
a  matter  for surprise  that  they  have per­
mitted  the  development  of  this  menace 
to  their  business  and  have  not instituted 
a  vigorous  agitation  sooner.  The  cata­
logue  system,  having  acquired  the  sub­

in 
localities,  will  be  exceedingly 

stantial  confidence  and  patronage 
those 
difficult  to  reclaim  the  favor.

It  has  been  suggested  that  recourse 
be  had  to  legislation.  The  time  honored 
association  of  the  “ law  and  the  profits’ ’ 
is  no  doubt  responsible  for this  sugges­
tion. 
It  is  one  of  the  most  peculiar 
characteristics  of  human  nature  that, 
having  determined  what  it  supposes  to 
be  its  interests  and  the  means  by  which 
interests  may  be  advanced,  its 
those 
is  to  clamor  for a  law  to 
first  impulse 
compel  everybody  to  conform  to 
its 
idea.

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Pipe, Stucco, Brick', Lath. Cement.  Wood,  Coal, 
Drain Tile, Flour, Feed, Grain, Hay, Straw.  Dis­
tributors of Sleepy Eye Flour.  Write for prices.
Thos.  E.  W ykes,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The  Imperial  Gas  Lamp

Is an absolutely safe lamp.  It  bums 
without  odor  or  smoke.  Common 
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everywhere for Homes. Stores. Streets. Churches, 
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The  complaint  for  which  relief 

is 
in  this  case  seems  to  emanate 
sought 
from  the  weaker side  in the controversy. 
Now  law,  as  practically  applied,  is  for 
the  use  and  benefit  of  the  stronger, 
otherwise  it  could  not  be  enforced.  The 
complainant  must 
therefore  develop 
strength  before  appealing  to  the  law 
if 
he  may  hope  to  obtan  any  satisfaction 
thereby.

In  any  case 

it  is  very  doubtful  if  a 
law  could  be  framed  that  would  cover 
the  points  at  issue,  whose  meshes  would 
intercept  pumkins  after  the  Supreme 
Court  should  get  through  with  it.  Pub­
lic  policy  is  charry  of  any  law  enacted 
in  restraint  of  trade  and  so  long  as  the 
catalogue  houses  shall  conduct  a  fairly 
honorable business to the satisfaction 
their  patrons  it may well  be  imagined
that  the  law  would  be  appealed  to  ii 
vain.  Probably  the  most  that  legal  re 
straint  could  be  presumed  toaccomplisL 
in  this  application  would  be  to  provide 
a  rigid  system  of  inspection  to  prevent 
deleterious  or  adulterated  goods  being 
delivered  in  the  jurisdiction  covered  by 
the  enactment,  fixing  a  percentage  fee 
to  be  charged  for  the  service,  based  on 
the 
invoice  price  and  the  same  to  b< 
paid  by  the  shipper.  This,  at  best, 
would  be  but  a  subterfuge  and  would 
no  doubt,  prove  a  cumbersome  and  fre 
quently  evaded  undertaking  and 
questionable  satisfaction  withal.

In  the  opinion  of  the  writer,  the  com 
piainants  have  the  easiest,  quickest  and 
most  effective  remedy 
in  their  own 
hands  and  it  is  simply  to  combine  and 
withhold  their  patronage  from  any  man 
ufacturer  or  jobber  who  will  not  agree 
to  refrain  from  selling  to  the  catalogue 
houses.

It  will,  perhaps,  be  remembered  that 
some  years  ago  the  manufacturing  and 
wholesale  jewelers  and  watchmakers  be­
gan  selling  to  dry  goods and department 
stores.  The  retail  jewelers  all  over  the 
country  combined  and  gave  them  no 
tice  to  stop  it  or  forfeit  their  patronage. 
The  leading  manufacturers  and  jobbers 
very  promptly  complied  and  the  few 
who  showed  a  disposition  to  deny  the 
demand  were  soon  glad  to  get  into  line, 
and  while  more  or  less  cheap  jewelry 
has  continued  to  find  its  way  into  the 
show  cases  of  the  dry  goods  and  depart 
ment  stores,  it  ceased  to  interfere  seri 
ously  with  the  legitimate  jewelry  busi­
ness.

If  a  combination  to  boycott  should 
conflict  with  existing  law  or  subsequent 
enactments,  such legislation  or any  like­
ly  to  be  enacted,  would  not  prevent  the 
members  of  the  combination  procuring 
their  supplies  through  a  central  pur­
chasing  agency,  or  from  the  travelers  of 
houses  bearing 
its  endorsement,  the 
agency  to  be  amenable  to  the  combina­
tion  under general  instructions  to  place 
all  orders  and  conduct  all  business  for 
the  best  interests  of  the  combination, 
in  which  the  principle  of  discrimina­
tion  for the  sake  of  protection  could  fig­
ure  as  a  silent  feature  and  no  charge  of 
complicity  to  boycott  could  be  proven. 
The  central  purchasing  agency  would 
be  the  safest  check  to  prevent  the  sale 
of  goods  to  catalogue  house  through  the 
complicity  of  third  parties.  This  per­
haps  could  not  be  absolutely  prevented 
unless  it  could  be  arranged  to  prevent 
the  sale  of  any  goods  whatever  by  the 
houses  patronized  by  the  combine  ex­
cept  to  such  as  were  members  of  it. 
In. 
the  present  crisis  both  the  city  and  the 
country  retailers  may,  if  they  will,  rec­
ognize  the  opportunity  of  their  lives. 
The  country  trade 
is  perhaps  effected 
more  seriously  by  the  catalogue  busi­

in  a  mutual  compact,  in 

ness,  while  the  city  merchant  has  the 
department  store  to  contend  with;  let 
both  unite 
common  cause,  to  refuse  patronage  to 
every  jobber or  manufacturer  who  per­
mits  his 
line  to  be  handled  either  by 
the  catalogue  houses  or  the  department 
stores,  and  they  may  confidently  rely 
upon  such  a  strong  combination  as  this 
would  make,  to  bring  the  leading  job­
bers  and  manufacturers  to  comply  with 
their wishes.  Success  in  this  undertak­
ing  would  give  them  absolute  control 
of  these  goods,  and  under 
judicious 
management  the  consumer  will  soon 
learn  that  satisfaction 
inseparable 
from  fair  prices.

is 

This  advantage  emphasized  by  each 
retailer to impress  upon  his  wavering 
patrons  the  fact  that the catalogue  and 
department  houses  can  not  buy  the  best 
goods  and  therefore  can  not  sell  the best 
to  their  trade,  carry  a  few  samples  of 
the  cheaper  lines  of  goods  for  compar­
ison  to  clinch  the  argument;  and  keep­
ing  up  a  hot  crusade  against  the  obnox­
ious  opposition  all  along  the  line  can 
not  fail  to  curtail  its  influence  if  it  does 
not  render  it  unprofitable  to  continue.

The  extended  radia  covered  by  the 
catalogue  houses  may  render  it  neces­
sary  to  embrace  several  states  in  the 
combination  under  one  management. 
There  ought  not  to  be  any  difficulty  in 
securing  the  loyal  and  active  co-opera­
tion  of  every  merchant  who  has  suffered 
from  either of  these  encroachments  and 
this  would  have  the  effect  of covering 
the  entire  range  of  their  influence.

No  doubt  that  a  majority  of  the  job­
bers  could  be  depended  upon  to  favor 
the  combination  and  to  lend  their  aid 
in  bringing  the  manufacturers  to  com­
ply.  The  manufacturer  will  naturally 
ncline  toward  the side which commands 
the  preponderance  of  trade  if  obliged 
to  choose  between  the  contestants  and 
the  assistance  of  the  jobber  may  be  a 
fortunate  resource  to  secure  quicker  re­
sults.

A  combination  of  the  character  indi­
cated,  once  formed,  would  be 
in  an 
advantagous  position  to  effect  other  re­
forms  and  to  secure  concessions in many 
respects,  not  now  possible.

It  might  be  advisable  to  issue  a  gen 
eral  call  for  a  State  convention  to  be 
composed  of  representatives  chosen  by 
popular  selection  by  and  from  among 
the  merchants 
in  every  city  and  town, 
at  which  convention  plans  and  details 
may  be  fully  discussed  and  formulated 
and  the  organization  perfected.  Where 
mercantile  organization  already  exists 
the  combination  might  be  effected 
through  such.

In 

for 

this 

The  motive 

combination 
might  be  further  utilized  to  interest 
every  retailer  or other  business  man  to 
unite  with  an  existing  local  organiza­
tion  which 
in  the  absence  of  inspira­
tional  zeal  may  have 
lost  some  of  its 
persuasive  influence  in  the  acquisition 
of  membership. 
the  meantime 
developments  would  probably  indicate 
the  proper  course  to  pursue  when  the 
combination  should  get  down  to  active 
work,  for  it  may  be  deppended  upon 
that  the  opposition  would  not  quietly 
submit  to  anything  that  promised  to  de­
prive  it  of  any  business.  But  this  ar­
ticle  is  intended  to  suggest  measures  to 
help  the  invaded  as  against  the invader, 
it  would  be  out  of  place  perhaps  to 
prognosticate  as  to  what  the  “ other  fel­
low”   might  be  doing  all  this  time.

J.  M.  Banker.

Never  argue  the  point  with  the  man 
who  tells  you  that  he  is  one  in  a  thous­
and—he  may  be  one  of  the  ciphers.

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Woman’s World

Is Venus to  Be  Supplanted  by  M inerva?
A  famous  French  philosopher  and 
student  of  sociology  has  just  made  the 
startling  announcement  that  the  reign of 
beauty  is  over  for  women—that  it  is 
gray  matter  in  the  brains  and  not  roses 
on  the  cheeks  that  count  now,  and  that 
in  these  times  it  is  the  plain-faced  Mrs. 
Krugers  and  Mrs.  Gladstones  that  in­
fluence  men,  not  the  Cleopatras  and 
Ninon  de  l’ Enclos.

Inasmuch  as  the  supply  of  feminine 
pulchritude  has  never  been  enough to go 
around,  and  in  the  hand-out  most  of  us 
got  short  measure  of  that  supply  of good 
looks  that  is  popularly  supposed  to  be  a 
woman's  birthright,  this  is  a  comforting 
theory,  but  is 
it  true?  Have  men  for­
saken  the  shrine  of  Venus  to  worship  at 
that  of  Minerva? 
Is  it  really  better  for 
the  girl  who  wants  partners  at the  dance 
to  know  how  to  do  problems 
in  higher 
mathematics  than  to  know  how  to  do 
her  hair? 
If  you  yearn  for the  admira­
tion  of  your  brothers  is  it  more  advan­
tageous  to  have  a  wide  knowledge  of 
philosophy  than  it  is  to  have  wide  open 
blue  eyes?  Has  the  millenium  of  the 
ugly  woman  really  come,  when  men 
yearn  to  embrace  a 
large  and  nobby 
forehead,  instead  of  an  18-inch  waist?
This  was  the  question  that  was  put  to 
a  number of  women who had forgathered 
the  other  day  for a  cup  of afternoon  tea. 
After  the  conundrum  had  been  pro­
pounded  there  was  silence for a  bit,  and 
then  the  woman  in  the  blue  linen  gown 
said:

“ Well,  I'm  not  putting  my  experi­
ence  up  against  the  French  philos­
opher’s  theory,  but  so  far  a  I  can  see, 
beauty  is  still  the  winning  number  in 
the  feminine 
lottery,  and  brains,  at 
best,  are  only  a  sort  of  a  consolation 
prize.”

“ Y es,”   put  in  the  woman  in  the  pic­
ture  hat,  “ when  you  tell  a  man  about  a 
new  woman,  the  first  question  he  asks 
‘ Is  she  pretty?’  not,  ‘ Is  she  intelli­
is: 
gent?’  and 
if  you  can  answer the  first 
question 
in  the  affirmative,  it  does  not 
matter  whether  you  can  answer the  sec­
ond  at  all  or not.  Any  little  gump  who 
has  a  flower-like  face  can  marry  the 
wisest  college  professor  in  the  commun­
ity,  any  day  she  wants  to.  Let  a  girl 
have  golden  tresses  on  the  outside  of 
her  head  and  the  inside  may  be  as 
empty  as  a  cocoanut  shell,  yet  she  will 
be  besieged  with  suitors.”

“ That’s so,”  agreed  the  woman  in  the 
blue  linen.  “ I  have  seen  a  girl  wreck 
her  whole  season  by  going  around  with 
a  copy  of  Ibsen 
in  her  hand,  because 
she  thought  it  looked  literary,  and  she 
didn’t  have  enough  sense  to  know  that 
you  could  not  have  dragged  a  man  up 
to  talk  to  her  with  a  block  and  tackle 
for  fear  she  would  ask  him  about  trans­
cendental  philosophy. 
young 
woman  who  aspires  to  write  ’ Ph.  D .,’ 
after  her  name  had  as  well  abandon  all 
hope  of  writing  ‘ Mrs.’  before  it.”

“ Well,  you  see,”   I  suggested,  “ men 
have  had  a  monopoly  of  knowing  it  all 
so  long,  they  still  think  a  woman  who 
knows  anything 
is  poaching  on  their 
preserves,  and  to  my  mind  the  clever­
est thing  a  clever  woman  ever  does is  to 
conceal  from  men  how  clever she  is.”

Any 

“ The  very  idea  that  brains  will  carry 
a  woman  as  far as  beauty  is  arrant  non­
sense, ’ ’  went  on  the  woman  in  the  pic­
ture  hat. 
“ Why,  you  just  have  to  look 
about  you  every  day  to  see  how  untrue 
that 
is.  Did  you  ever  see  a  pretty 
woman  stand  up  on  the  streetcar?J Did

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

you  ever  see  a  swell  and  fashionably 
dressed  one  ever  have  to  open  a window 
for  herself  on  the train?  On  the  con­
trary,  wherever she goes men  are  falling 
all  over  each  other to  do  things  for  her. 
She  can  not  enter  any  sort  of  a  place 
without  every  masculine  creature 
in 
sight  remembering  that  she  wants  the 
shady  side  of  the  car  or the  end  seat  or 
the  best  view.  Would  any  man  do that 
for  the  homely  woman,  although  she 
was  Minerva  and  Aspasia  rolled  into 
one?  Not  much.  He  would  say  to  him­
self  that  she  was  strong-minded  and was 
just  as  able  to  stand  up  and  cling  to  a 
strap  as  he  was.”

is  a  man 

inconsistent  attitude  on 

“ One  of  the  things  that  makes  me 
tired,”   said  she  of  the  blue  linen,  “ is 
man’s 
the 
I  don’t 
women’s  clothes  proposition. 
suppose  there 
living,  who, 
when  he  wants  to  show  up  the  superior­
ity  of  his  sex  over  ours,  does  not  jump 
on  the  way  we  dress.  And  I  agree  with 
him.  1  know  that  it  is  nothing  but  rank 
idiocy  that  makes  us  go  around  sweep­
ing  up  bacteria  with  our  skirts  and 
cramped  up 
in  stays  until  we  can  not 
draw  a  breath  halfway  down  our  lungs 
and  perched  up  on  heels  that  make 
walking  an  agony.  Moreover, 
is 
surely  enough  to  make  the  angels  weep 
when  they  see  that  one-half  of  the  pop­
ulation  of  the  earth  spend  whatever 
brains  God  gave  them,  and  all  their 
strength  and  energy  and  time  in  think­
ing  about  clothes,  but  what  are  you  go­
ing  to  do  about 
it?  Men  say,  Why 
don't  you  break  away  and  do  as  we  do? 
Get  somebody  to  make  you  a  sensible 
dress,  with  plenty  of  pockets  in 
it  and 
defy  fashion.

it 

“ Now  and  then  you find a woman  who 
is  silly  enough  to  take  them  at  their 
word.  She  abandons  stays.  She  wears 
bobby  skirts  and  short  hair  and  man­
nish  hats  and  flat-heeled  shoes,  and 
every  man  she  meets  flees  from  her  as 
if  she  was  the  plague.  You  could  not 
hire  one  to  escort  her  to  the  theater  and 
he  would  drop  dead  with  heart  failure 
at  the  very  thought  of  taking  her out  to 
dinner.  She 
is  the  living  exemplifica­
tion  of  his  theory,  but  when  he  appears 
in  public  it  is  with  a  woman  who 
looks  as  if  she  had  stepped  out  of  one 
of  the  kangaroo  pictures  in  the  fashion 
magazines.”

“ It  ought  not  to  count  in  business,”  
said  the  woman  in  the  white  duck,  “ but

it  does.  Everybody  thinks  the  pretty 
typewriter  is  a  joke,  but  she  is  not. 
It 
is  almost  absolutely  impossible  for  an 
elderly  and  homely  woman  to  get  a 
place,  no  matter  if  she  can  write  a 
million  words  a  minute,  and  it  is  not 
because  the  men  employing  them  are 
flirtatious,  either. 
is  just  because 
they 
like  to  see  a  pretty,  fresh  young 
girl,  sitting  around,  and  I  do  not  know 
that  I  blame  them. 
like  to  see  her 
myself. ”

It 

I 

line,”   I  said. 

“ A  woman  who  is  at  the  head  of  a 
department  in  a  big  and 
successful 
business  in  New  York  told  me  a curious 
story  along  this 
“ She 
was  always  exquisitely  and  fashionably 
dressed,her  hair  was modishly arranged, 
and  in  the  color  of  her  cheeks  and  the 
deepening  of  her  eyebrows  there  are 
just  the  faintest  suggestion  of  a  help 
out  to  nature.  We  got  quite  well  ac­
quainted  and  at 
last  she  said  to  me 
frankly  that  no  woman  in business could 
afford  to  be  old  and  ugly,  no  matter 
how  clever  she  was,  unless  she  was  an 
out  and  out  genius. 
“ I  had  dingy  hair 
and  pallid  cheeks  and  used  to  wear any 
sort  of  hand-me-down  clothes,’  she 
said,  ‘ and  thought  that  hard  work  and 
ability  were  all  that  counted.  Finally 
it  dawned  on  me  one  day  that  I  was  be­
ing  continually  passed  by 
for  some 
smart-looking  creature  who  would sweep 
in  with  a  rattle  of  silk-lined  skirts  and 
a  flash  of  diamonds.  There  were 
little 
favors  to  be  extended,  little  advantages 
to  be  given,  little  business  courtesies 
to  be  shown,  and  the  pretty,  fashionably 
dressed  women  got  them  every  time. 
Whatever else  I  am,  I  am  not  a  fool. 
I 
did  not  need  to  have  a  hint  given  me 
more  than  once. 
I  went  out  and  per- 
oxided  my  hair  and  bought  me  some 
good  clothes,  and— ’  she  waved her hand 
airily— ‘ and  I  am  here.  Of  course,  I 
do  not  say  i  could  have  gotten  here  on 
the  strength  of  my  altered  appearance 
alone,  but  I  am  dead  sure 1  would  never 
have  gotten  here  without  it.”

“ I  don't  really  think  that  men  are 
such  beauty  worshipers  or  that  they 
know  how  much  distinction  they  make 
between  a  smart  woman  and  a  dowdy 
one. 
is  just  unconscious  celebra­
tion  that  makes  them  always  extend  the 
best  courtesies  that  are  on  tap  to  the 
best 
looking  and  best  dressed  woman 
present,”   put  in  the  blue  linen.

It 

“ And  her  brains?”   1  enquired.

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Bah, ”  cried  the  woman  in  the  white 
duck. 
‘ He  does  not  consider  them  at 
all  in  making  up  his  estimate  of her.  A 
man  ¿Iways  thinks  of  a  woman's  brains 
as  he  does  of  a  pocket  medicine case—a 
thing  to  be  kept  out  of  sight  and  only 
useful  in  household  emergencies.”

At  any  rate,”   I  said,  “ if a  woman 
has  brains,  whether she  is  good  looking 
or  not,  she  can  make  her  way  in  the 
world,  and— ”

If  she  is  pretty, ’  murmured  the only 
girl  in  the  party,  twirling  a  ring  around 
her  finger,  “ she  won’t  have  to  make  it. 
Some  man  personally  escorts  her.”  

W ell,”   I  added  comfortably,  “ most 
of  us  are  married  and  none  of  us  would 
take  a  prize  at  the Pan-American beauty 
show  contest,  and— ”

“ There’s  no  accounting 

tastes,”   said  the  woman  in  blue 
raising  her cup. 

for  men’s 
linen, 

“ God  bless  them.”  
Dorothy  Dix.

Advantages  and  Disadvantages  of  Using 

Face  Powder.

Out  of  every  hundred  women,  in  all 
save  the  poorer  classes,  probably  eight- 
five  use  face  powder,  and  the  number of 
boxes  of  powder  sold  in  the  course  of 
each  year  mounts  far  into  the  millions. 
One  New  York  firm  alone  sold  last  year 
over  300,000  boxes  of  a  well-known  face 
powder.  Evidently  women  endorse  the 
powder  habit;  and  the  woman  who  is 
blessed  with  a  fair allowance  of  com­
mon  sense  does  no  harm to  her complex­
ion  by  the  habit,  and  confers  a  boon 
upon  humanity  by  making  herself better 
to  look  at  than  she  would  be  without the 
powder.

Fresh  air,  diet,  rational  bathing  and 
exercise  will  do  wonders  toward  giving 
a  woman  a  good  complexion,  but  they 
will  not  always  keep  the  shine  from 
her  nose  and  the  high  polish  from  her 
chin.  A  “ shining  morning  face”   may 
be  all  right 
in  the  proverbial  school 
boy,  but 
it  is  a  lamentable  thing  in  a 
young  woman.  Then,  too,  where  there 
is  one  fine  complexion  there  are  a 
thousand  poor  ones,  and  powder,  used 
judiciously,  will  do  them  no  bqrm  and 
hides  many  of  their defects.

looks. 

A  well-known  New  York  complexion 
specialist,  whose 
clientele  embraces 
nearly  all  the  famous  beauties  of  stage 
and  society,  is  a 
living  refutation  of 
the  theory  (evolved  by  the  masculine 
mind)  that  women  have  no  sense  of 
humor.  For  more  years  than  she  would 
care  to  count  she  has  made  a  practice 
of  preserving  the  orders  and  personal 
letters  of  her  most  important  patrons. 
She  has  also  formed  a  most 
interesting 
collection  of  newspaper  clippings,  giv 
ing  interviews  with  public  women noted 
for  their  good 
In  these  inter­
views,  the  reporter  inevitably  asks  the 
prima  donna  or  actress  or  writer or  lec­
turer  on  physical  culture,  or  whomso­
ever she  may  be,  to  explain  the  secret 
of  her  radiant  complexion and perennial 
youth.  The  celebrity  explains.  With 
slight  variations  the  secrets  all  look 
alike  to  the  casual  reader.  Exercise 
figures  largely.  Hot  baths,  cold  baths, 
electric  baths,  massage  are  discussed 
exhaustively.  Brown  bread  is  a  magic 
name.  Milk  is  the  elixir  of  life.  Ten 
hour’s  sleep,  each  day,  is  responsible 
for  the  clear color  in  soft  cheeks. 
It  all 
sounds  like  a  page  from  a  “ Ladies’ 
Home  Companion, ”   or  Rules  for  Ra­
tional  Living.  Almost  one  is  tempted 
to  be  good  in  order to  be  beautiful.

Now  the  aforesaid  complexion  spe­
cialist  has  pasted  these  interviews  in  a 
big  book.  Opposite  each  one  she  has 
pasted  the  telegrams  and  autograph  let­

ters  which  she herself  has  received  from 
the  subject  of  the  interview.  The  re­
sult  is  delightful  reading  for any  one 
with  a  sense  of  humor.  Madame  A., 
on  one  page,  tells  the  reporter of  the 
diet,  etc.,  by  which  she  has  retained 
her  youth  and  beauty.  On  the  opposite 
page  is  a  letter  from  Madame  A.

“ Kindly  send  me  six  jars  of  the  Per­
fection  Retiring  Cream,  two  pots  of  the 
Supreme  Lotion, 
three  bottles  of  the 
two  boxes  of  Rose  Powder, 
Bleach, 
three  of  white,  one  of  yellow.  The  last 
rouge  suited  me  better  than  any  you 
have  ever  made  me.  Let  me  have  an­
other  jar  of  it  and  send  me a tube  of  the 
lip  salve. ”

Those  who  insist  that  women  of  intel 
ligence  do  not  use  powder  would  have 
sustained  a  severe  shock  had  they,  by 
chance,  attended  a  lecture  given  in  an 
Eastern  city,  some  years  ago,  by  an 
eminent  authority  upon  chemistry,  be­
fore  a  scientific  women’s  club.  The 
mental  elite  of  the  city  were  out  in  full 
force  and  all  went  merrily  or at  least 
intellectually,  until  the  lecturer  paused, 
in  his  illustrative  experiments,  and 
said:

“ I’m  very  sorry;  but  I  must  ask  any 
of  the  ladies  who  use  face  powder  con­
taining  bismuth  to  leave  the  room,  dur 
ing  this  experiment,  as  the  gases  I  am 
about  to  set  free  have  a  peculiar affinity
for  bismuth  and  turn  it  purple.”

Whereupon,  with  three exceptions,  the 
assembled  feminine  seekers  after  truth 
rose  and  fled  from  the  room.  They  were 
not  positive  about  the  bismuth,  but  they 
were  taking  no  chances 

The  number of  kinds  of  face  powder 
upon  the  market  is  legion  and  the  price 
is  no  criterion  of  merit.  Many  of  the 
cheap  powders,  while  not  fine  and  deli­
cate,  are  harmless.  Some  of  the  most 
expensive  powders  contain  elements 
which  render  them  disastrous  to  the 
skin.  A  good  rice  powder,  made  by  a 
trustworthy  firm,  is  generally  liked,  and 
innumerable  women  will  use  no  other 
powder,  but 
is  more  likely  to  show 
upon  the  skin  than  other  finer  and softer 
powders,  and, 
for  that  reason,  many 
women  object  to  it.  With  powder,  as 
with  soap,  perfume  is  in  many  cases 
danger  signal;  and,  although  certain 
perfumed  powders  are  a  luxury,  they 
are  usually  to  be  avoided.  The  tinted 
powders,  too,  are,  as  a  rule,  more  to  be 
feared  than  the  white.

it 

As 

for  the  manner 

in  which  the 
powder  must  be  applied—that,  is  a  sub­
ject 
in  regard  to  which  feminine  pre 
judice  runs  high.  The  woman  who  uses 
chamois  skin  powder  rag  scorns  the 
advocate  of  a  soft 
linen  cloth.  The 
woman  who  powders  with  a  piece  of  a 
white  silk  stocking  would  despise 
powder  puff,  and  the  woman  who  by 
long  use  has  reduced a red flannel square 
to  the  ideal  condition  for a  powder  rag, 
would  retire  from  society  if  the  red flan­
nel  were  lost.  Save  only  her  hairpins, 
there  is  really  nothing  to which a woman 
becomes  so  attached  as  to  her  powder 
ra8-  Taking  them  all  into  review  the 
powder  puff 
is  probably  best  of  the 
class,  but  it  must  be  used  warily.  One 
can  not  rub  the  powder  into  one’s  face 
it.  That  is  its  fault  and  its  chief 
with 
merit. 
It  is  harder to  remove.oiliness 
and  shine  with  a  puff  than  with  a  rag, 
but  the  pores  of  the  skin are less clogged 
by  its  use.  Of  course,  the  pores  ought 
not  to  be  filled  with  anything,  but  at 
least in  the  city  that delightful condition 
of  things  is  an  impossibility,  and  the 
dermatologists  insists  that  since  one  is 
bound  to  have  her  facial  pores  clogged 
with  dust  and  dirt  by  the  time  she  has

been  on  the  street  an  hour,  it  is  infinite­
ly  better  for  the  skin  to  dust  a  pure 
clean  powder  into  the  pores before start 
ing  out.

The  great  fault  with  nine-tenths  of 
the  women  who  powder  is  that  they  do 
not  cleanse  the  skin  thoroughly after  the 
use  of  powder.  The  carelessness  with 
which  many  women  wash  their  faces  is 
held  to  be  little  short  of  criminal. 
“ A 
casual  dash  of  cold  or  warm  water  will 
not  wash  either  dirt  or  powder  from 
facial  pores.  The  face  should  be washed 
carefully  in  moderately  warm  water, 
with  a  pure  olive  oil  or castile  soap  or 
with  almond  meal. 
If  a  woman  uses  a 
soft  wash  cloth  she  should,  at  least  oc­
casionally,  wash  her  face  with  a  com­
plexion  brush,  in  order  to  cleanse  the 
pores  thoroughly.

After  rinsing  the  face  in  cool  water, 
it  is  a  good  plan  to  rub  a  very  small

it  will  help  along. 

amount  of  cold  cream  well  into  the  skin 
until  it  is  quite  absorbed  and  leaves  no 
trace  of  oiliness.  Then  take  a  powder 
puff  and  dust  a  pure  powder over  the 
face,  and  one  is  in  condition  to  defy 
inspection  and  weather.  Of  course, 
powder  will  not  make  a  complexion 
good,  but 
It  has 
given  to  women  a  solace  which  religion 
or  love  could  not  afford,  and  even  were 
the  doctrines  which  Mrs.  Hunt  has  for­
mulated  to  be  taken  up  as  the  war  cry 
by  other  stern  critics,  women  innumer­
able  will  serenely  powder their  faces, 
and  set  those  smiling  monuments  to  the 
virtues  of  powder,  steadily  against  re- 
*orm* 

Cora  Stowell.

Never  judge  a  woman’s  cooking  by 
the  cake  she  sends  to  the  church  social.

Man  is  caught  by  his  tongue  and  an 

ox  by  his  horns.

Some think but do not,

Some do but think not. 

Neither succeed.

One must both think and do,

Or think another into doing. 

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Batter  and  Eggs

Observations  by  a Gotham   Egg H an.
The  egg  receipts  last  week  continued 
to  show  very  serious  effects  of  heat  and 
many  marks  that  lost  but  three  or  four 
dozen  eggs  to the  case the week previous 
made  a  loss  last  week  of  from  ten  to
fifteen  dozen.  In  fact,  nearly  all  receiv­
ers  reported  their  receipts  to  have 
lost 
heavier  than  the  week  before.  Much 
Illinois,  Indiana  and  Michigan  stock 
was  so  poor  as  to  be  worth  only  5@6c 
per  dozen,  some  even  lower.  Marks  that 
sold  at  12c  week  before  last  were  of  a 
quality  that  commanded  but  7@8c  last 
week.  The  generally  poor  quality  of 
the  eggs  caused  dealers  to  sell  freely  at 
almost  any  price they could  get  to  afford 
a  clearance.  One  receiver  stated  he  had 
more  poor  stock  than  at  any  time  this 
season  and  he  sold  as  fast  as  he  could, 
as  he  considered 
it  unwise  to  refuse 
any  reasonable  bid.  The  egg  shippers 
may  be  having  a  hard  time  of  it  this 
summer,  but  the  egg  receivers'  position 
is-none  the  less  enviable.

* •  *  v

in  Nebraska  is  pretty 
The  situation 
in  the  following  state­
clearly  defined 
ment  made  in  a  letter  written  by an  egg 
shipper  of  that  State  to  a  firm  here: 
"In   regard  to  current  stock  there  is 
simply  none  coming 
in,  or,  in  other 
words,  99  per  cent,  of  them  are  rotten 
and  it  is  not  safe  to  ship  what  are  good 
across  he  street  because  they  would  be 
rotten  before  they  got  there.”

*  *  *

There  have  been  several  complaints 
recently  by  merchants  against  a  sort  of 
bunco  game  that  has  been  worked  on 
them  by  a  slick  gang  of  egg  buyers. 
These  buyers,  it  is  said,  examine  a  lot 
of  eggs,  say  of a  quality  that  will  com­
mand  9@ioc,  and  accept  them,  giving 
in  payment their  checks.  When  these 
checks  are  presented  for  collection  the 
banks  say  payment  is  refused,  and  the 
buyers  explain  that  they  found  the  eggs 
mostly  rotten  when  they  got  them  to 
their  places  of  business  and  stopped 
payment  on  the  checks.  They  state, 
however,  that  they  will  give  $1.50 or 
thereabout  for  the  stock.  Their  offers. 
have  generally  been  accepted  by  the 
merchants,  for  they  knew 
if  the  eggs 
were  returned  to  them  they  would  be 
rotten,  as  the  members  of  the  gang 
would  have  them  fixed  up.  One  dealer 
who  was  a  victim  of  these  buyers said  it 
was  not  a  very  slick  scheme,  yet  one 
that  had  worked  very  well  for  the  rea­
son  that  some  of  the  merchants,  being 
anxious  to  keep  their  floors  clean  of 
this  poor  stock,  took  some  chances  with 
the  buyers  as  they  were 
the  only 
ones  who  would  purchase  this  grade  of 
eggs,  and  he  thought  it  would  be  well 
for  receivers  to  look  out  for  members  of 
the  gang.

*  *  *

The  continued  poor  quality  of  the 
current  receipts  of  eggs  is  giving  hold­
ers  of  storage  stock  a  chance  to  work 
out  some  of  their  goods  at  very  good 
prices. 
In  fact,  it  has  been  so  difficult 
for  some  dealers  to  get  a  sufficient  sup­
ply  of  current  packed  eggs of good  qual­
ity  to  meet  the  demands  of  their trade 
that  they  were  obliged  to  draw  on  the 
refrigerators.  A  letter  received  Mon-

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day  by  one  of  our  large egg dealers from 
Illinois  states  that  the  weather there was 
very  hot  on  Saturday  last  and  that  the 
eggs  were  so  poor as  to  make  it  hardly 
worth  while  to  ship.  Other  sections, 
however,  are  having  cooler  weather  and 
present  collections  of  eggs  should  be  of 
somewhat  better quality.
*  *  *

" I   don’t  know  what  we  would  do 
without  the  Jewish  egg  buyers,”   re­
marked  a  receiver  recently.  "W e  would 
very  likely  have  had  to  throw  a  very 
large  portion  of  our  egg  receipts  in  the 
river,  for  they  were  so  poor  in  quality 
no  other  class  of  buyers  would  take 
them. ”

*  *  *

With  eggs  at  2@3c  per  dozen  at  coun­
try  points,  farmers  are  not  bothering 
their  heads  much  about  taking  them  to 
market,  and 
it  would  have  paid  many 
collectors  better  if  they  bad  kept  some 
of  their  shipments  at  home  instead  of 
paying  freight  on  a  lot  of  worthless stuff 
that 
in  some  cases  was  condemned  by 
the  Board  of  Health  officers  when  it  ar­
rived  here.  The  price  on  rotten  eggs 
here 
in  producing 
sections.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

is  no  higher  than 

The  Am erican  Hen.

The  American  hen  has  to  a  certain 
degree  come 
into  her  own.  By  the 
poultry  press  and  the  hen  men  of  the 
agricultural  press  she  has  been  crowned 
the  "queen  of  moneymakers."  Statis­
tics  of  the  most  imposing  kind  have 
been  piled  up  in  great'array  to  demon­
strate  her  earning  capacity.  While  the 
census  bureau  has  not  attempted  to  col­
lect  poultry  statistics  as  thoroughly  as 
it  might,  and  while  the  statistics  bureau 
of  the  National  Agricultural  Depart­
ment  has  not  attached  the 
importance 
to  the  industry  which  those  most 
inter­
ested  in  it  think  it  deserves,  still,  there 
is  sufficient  reliable  data  at  hand  to 
show  that  the  poultry  products  of  the 
United  States  reach  very  nearly  the 
$3,000,000 mark  annually.  Every  year 
the  setting  hen  and  the  busy 
incubator 
between  them,  turn  out  3,500,000,000 
chicks  which  live  long  enough  to  reach 
the  market 
in  one  form  or  another, 
while  the  annual  egg  crop  is  fully  13,- 
000,000,000,000  dozen.

Great  is  the  hen.  She  adds  more  to 
the  wealth  of  the  nation  by  $90,000,000 
than  do  all  the  coal  mines  in  the  coun­
try.  Cotton,  corn  and  wheat  are  the 
only  farm  staples  which  exceed  in value 
her output.

She  deserves  to  strut  a  little  if  she 

likes.
W ill  Mangosteen  Supersede  the  O range? 
From the Southern Clinic.

There  is  every  reason  to  suppose  that 
before  long  a  most  delicious  fruit,  new 
to  America,  will  dominate  our  markets; 
already  a  few  specimens  have  found 
their way  to  seaboard  cities.

This  is  the  mangosteen—native  to  the 
Moluccas  and  extensively  cultivated 
in 
Ceylon  and  Java,  and latterly  introduced 
to  Jamaica  and  other  portions  of  British 
It  is  about  the  size  of  a 
West  Indies. 
small  orange,  spherical 
in  form,  and 
when  the  rind  is  removed  a  juicy  pulp, 
"white  and  soluble  as  snow,"  is  re­
vealed  possessing  a most delicious flavor 
—something 
like  a  nectarine,  with  a 
dash  of  strawberry  and  pineapple  com­
bined. 
It  promises,  in  a  few  years,  to 
supersede  the  orange  in  popular  favor, 
and  attempts  are  already  being  made  to 
introduce 
into  the  Southern  United 
States.

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Special Correspondence.

ace Trades.

New  York,  Aug.  io—Witli the  return 
of  cooler  weather  the buyers are coming, 
they  come  singly  and - in  droves  and 
t  n  8f0cery  district  is  beginning  to  be 
tull  of  rush  and  roar  from  one  end  to 
the  other.
,,  This  time  the  report  is  that  Brazil  io 
no*.,a  ^ree  se^er  of  coffee  at  recent 
rates  and,  as  a  consequence,  we  are 
supposed  to  have  a  firmer  market  here 
The  only  reason  for  Brazil’s “ firmness’ 
that  could  be  discovered  was  that  re­
ceipts  at  primary  points  aggregated 
°oly  45>°°9  bags,  against  61,000 bags  at 
the  same  time  last  year.  But  no  matter 
It 
is  certain  that  retailers  are  not  in­
dulging 
in  the  coffee-buying  habit  to 
any  great  extent  and  neither jobbers  nor 
roasters  were  purchasing  more  than 
usual  quantities.  At  the  close  Rio  No.
7  is quotable  in  an  invoice  way  at  5^ 
@5&c. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  amount 
aggregates  1,405,031  bags,  against  687,- 
348  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
There 
is  a  business  in  the  market  for 
mild  sorts  that  can  be  called  active  by 
comparison  with  what  it  has  been,  and 
is  worth  7@7%c.  East 
good  Cucuta 
Indias  are  quiet.

At  the  auction  sajes  of  tea  about  the 
same  level  of  values  has  been  main­
tained,  hut  on  the  street there  is  no  ani­
mation  whatever.  When  one  considers 
that  the  70,000,000  people  of  this  coun­
try  drink  only  90,000,000  pounds  of  tea 
during  a  whole  year,  there  is  not  apt  to 
be  a  very  exciting  market.  Matters 
move  along  in  an  even  sort  of  way  and, 
while  dealers  are  not  making  the  profits 
of  former  years,  there  is  still  a  “ good 
living”   for some  of  them.  Sales  made 
to  the  grocery  trade  are,  as  a  rule,  of 
small  lots.

Very 

little  new  business 

is  being 
done  in  sugars.  Brokers  report  quiet­
ude  and,  with a  lower  basis for raws,  the 
market  is  featureless.  The  sales  going 
forward  are  of  small  lots  as  buyers  evi­
dently  think  a  decline  may  set  in  at any 
time.  The  building  of  new  refineries 
goes  on  apace  and  the  battle  for  free 
sugar  is  already  began.  Three  cent 
sugar  may  yet  be  ours.  There  is  bound 
to  be  a  battle  royal 
in  Congress  this 
winter.

A  good  many  small  orders  for  rice are 
coming  in  and  dealers  generally  report 
an 
improving  market.  With  'supplies 
light  and  enquiries  becoming  more  nu­
merous  the 
is  for 
well  sustained  prices.  Prime  to  choice 
Southern,  5#@6c. 
Foreign  sorts,  as 
well  as  the  domestic,  are  meeting  with 
improved  demand.  Japan,  4%@$c.

immediate  outlook 

is  hardly  as 

Spices  are  quiet  and  altogether the 
outlook 
favorable  as  a 
month  ago,  and  that  was  bad  enough. 
Still,  matters  might  be  worse,  and  with 
the  advancing  season  dealers  are  in­
clined  to  think  improvement  will  soon 
be  noticed.  Singapore  pepper,  I2^@ 
I 2# c ;   Amboyna  cloves,  i i >£c@ I2.

Monotony  prevails  day  after day  in 
the  molasses  market.  Stocks  are  light 
and  quotations  are  decidedly  firm.  No 
changes  in  quotations  have  been  made 
for  some  time.  Syrups  are 
in  moder­
ately  active  demand  and  prices  are  well 
held.  Round 
lots  of  prime  to  fancy, 
20@ 27C.

The  canned  goods  situation 

is  about 
as  active  as  last  week  and  a  large  quan­
tity  of  goods  has  changed  hands.  New 
York  peas  are  worth  from  $131.50  and 
the  supply  is  not  overabundant.  Balti­
more  advices  are  in  the  direction  of 
higher  prices  and  nobody 
seems  to 
know  when  the  end  will  be  reached. 
Gallon  apples  are  worth  $3  a  doz.  and 
some  packers  are  refusing  even  this. 
Salmon  is  an  interesting  article  and,  as

prices  are  irregular,  it  is  taken  to  mean 
that  the  trust  has  not  yet  got  all  the 
wheels  oiled.  There  is  less  demand  for 
tomatoes,  but  the  market 
is  neverthe­
less 
in  good  shape,  with  New  Jersey 
brands  strong  at  85387^0  for  No.  3s.
In  dried  fruits  the  firmness  noted  re­
cently  continues  and  dealers  seem  fairly 
well  satisfied  with  conditions. 
The 
range  of  quotations  is  well  sustained 
and  in  nothing  is  there  any  decline.

Lemons  have  advanced  about 15325c, 
owing,  perhaps,  to  the  warmer  weather 
prevailing  again.  Sicilies  are  worth 
from  $3-75@4-25.

Oranges  are  decidedly  firm  for  the 
better grades and prices range from $ 4 3 ' 
per  box  for  California  fruit,  which  ii 
all  there 
is.  Bananas  keep  their ad­
vance  and  Aspinwall  firsts  are  worth 
$1.20;  Limons,  $1.8031.85.

Aside  from  the  best  grades,  the  butter 
market 
is  rather  weaker  than  a  week 
ago.  Sellers  are  willing  to  make  slight 
concession 
if  they  find  it  necessary  to 
effect  sales  and  fancy  Western  imitation 
creamery  will  not  bring  over  I7J£c. 
Best  Western  creamery,  2oJ^c,  with  sec­
onds  to  firsts  i7^@2oc;  finest  Western 
factory, 15315^0;  renovated,  I7@i7j£c.
Cheese  is  dull  and  possibly  somewhat 
lower  than  a  week  ago. 
full 
cream,  large  size,  will  not  fetch  over 
9^c.  Quite  a  good  deal  of  stock  will 
have  to  go  into  cold  storage,  as  the 
quality  is  not  of the  keeping  kind.

State 

Best  grades  of  Western  eggs are  worth 
17c  and  the  supply  is  not  very  ample. 
Most  of  the  stock  is  selling  at 
I3@ i6c. 
The  quantity  of  stock  which  is  a  little 
“ off”   and  showing  the  effect  of  heat 
is  large.

Medium  beans  are  scarce  and  worth 
$2.45  for  choice;  marrows,  $3;  pea, 
$2.55,  and  the  same  for  red  kidney.

Raising  W aterm elons  W ithout Seeds. 

From the Denver Post.

Former  State  Senator  Swink  has  been 
working  on  the  seedless  melon  proposi­
tion  many  years.  During  the  long  win­
ter  nights  he  sat  up  and  wrestled  with 
the  great  problem,  “ How  can 
it  be 
done?”   Often  daylight  found  him  ex­
amining  minutely  and  microscopically 
the  seeds  he  had  cut  and  hacked  and 
desiccated,  in  his  efforts  to  determine 
how  to  get  along  without  them.  And 
early  one  morning  about  five  months 
ago,  so 
it  is  related,  Mr.  Swink  came 
bounding  into  breakfast  after one  of  his 
all-night  sessions  and  startled  his  wife 
and  children  by  shouting  in  a  perfect 
spasm  of  glee:  “ I’ve  got  it! 
lean  
do  it !”

Then,  it  is  said,  he rushed  away  with­
out  explaining  to  his  astonished  family 
what  on  earth  he  meant.

But  Mrs.  Swink 

is  reputed  to  have 
said:  “ Never  mind;  father  knows.”  
And  as  “ father”   stands  quite  well  in 
the  estimation  of  his  family,  the  mere 
knowledge  that  he  knew  was  quite  suffi­
cient  for  all.  Swink  selected  certain 
kinds  of  seeds,  planted  them  at  certain 
unusual  distances  apart  and  began  to 
watch  for  the  first  signs  of  their  germi­
nation.  After  spying  on  the  plants  as 
they  grew,  it  became  known  that  he had 
really  put  some  momentous  enterprise 
on  foot.

Later  Mr.  Swink  brought  and  laid 
before  his  family  and  friends  a  huge, 
long  green  melon  and,  dividing it  clear­
ly  at  one  stroke  of  his  big  knife,  dis­
played  to  them  the  pink  interior  of  a 
splendid  emerald  sphere  without  a  sin­
gle  seed.  This  was  but  the  small  begin­
ning  of  a  great  end.  Of  course,  Mr. 
Swink  will  not  reveal  the  secret  process 
by  which  he  tcut  off  a  melon’s  hope  of 
posterity  and  at  the  same  time  renders 
its  fleeting  presence here most beneficent 
and  beloved.

The  seeds  in  the  melons  have  always 
been  considered  a  great  drawback  and 
while  they  do not  act  as  complete  neu­
tralizers  of  the 
joys  of  such  luscious

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Phones  504.

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gormandizing,  they  have  by  many  been 
recorded  as  a  serious  menace to the lives 
of  the  eaters.

N o t  B r o u g h t  B p   T h a t  W a y .

When  on  one  of  the  recent  hot  days 
the  lady  of  the  house  sent  her  maid  out 
to  do  the  marketing,  she  admonished 
her to  get  everything  fresh,  and  said :

“ Now,  Mary,  get  some  string  beans. 
Break  one  of  them  to  see  if they  are 
fresh,  and  get  two  pounds  of  tripe,  and 
pinch  the  tripe. ”
looked 

indignant,  and  then 

Mary 

blurted  out:

‘ ‘ Sure,  I  wasn’t  brought  up  that  way, 
ma  am, 
if  you  want  anything 
pinched  you’ll  have  to  go  out  and  do  it 
yourself.”

and 

When  a  dog  howls  under  a  man’s 
window  at  night  and  there 
is  a  gun 
handy,  it  is  a  sure  sign  of  an  early 
death—to  the  dog.

Qeo.  H.  Reif snider  &   Co.

Commission  Merchants

and Wholesale Dealers in

Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs,  Cheese

i n  Greenwich Street, New York 

References :  Irving National Bank of New York 

and Michigan Tradesman.

Established 1876

Charles

Richardson

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

Wholesale

Fruits

Carlots  a  Specialty

58-60  W.  Market  St.  and 

121-123 Michigan St. 

Buffalo,  N. Y.

References—City  National  Bank, 
Manfrs. & Traders  Bank,  Buffalo, N. 
Y.  Any 
responsible  Commercial 
Agency,  or  make  enquiry  at  your 
nearest bankers.
Bong  Diet.  ’Phone  158  A,  158  D

A  U U U V   i

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prompt  returns.

Start in with  us  now.

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

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like 

ries!  1  bet  a  dollar  they  ain’t  ripe 
it  took  five  or  six  of  the  biggest 
and 
“ They  do  pretty 
ones  to  find  out. 
well,  but  Tom  don't 
’em  and 
you’re  so  all-fired  steep  in  your  prices 
1  can’t  afford  to  buy 
’em ;”   and  an­
other  generous  scoop  of  a  second  box 
followed  the  fate  of  the  first.  * ‘ Peaches! 
Goody  grievous!  Oh!  They  are  harder 
than  bullets.”   That  quality  alone  pre­
vented  a  very  dirty  thumb  and  forefin­
fuzzy-cheeked j 
ger  from  entering 
the 
crimson  of  the  peaches. 
“ Pears,  too!
I  guess  I’ll  take  this  one  along  home 
with  me.  Gimme  dozen  eggs  ’n’  pound 
o’  butter 
’n’  don’t  try  to  harness  on  to 
me  the  wagon  grease  ye  did  last  week; 
'f  you  do  I’ll  bring  it  back  and 
land  it 
into  your  face,  I  vow  I  w ill! 
plump 
Wal,  if  I  bain't  come  off  ’n’  forgot  my 
book.  Nev’  mind,  I’ ll  fetch 
it  next 
time. ”

She  went  out  and  the  two  men  looked 
at  each  other;  the  storekeeper  laughing 
good  naturedly  and  the  other  looking 
“ Every  day?”  
like  a  fiend  incarnate. 
asked  the  fiend. 
“ Every  day”   was  the 
answer.

“ What’s  your  busiest  day?”
* ‘ Saturday. ’ ’
“ Have  any  help  then?”
“ Usually,  but  last  week  and  this  my 
clerk’s  having  his  vacation.  Want  to 
come  in  and  take  a  hand?”

“ Yes,  and  I’ll  help  from  now  until 
It's  lone­

Saturday  to get  my  hand  in. 
some  as  the  devil  over  at  the  house.”  

That  was  Thursday  and  it  didn’t  take 
the  clerk  long  to  “ get  onto”   the  ways 
of  the  country  store  so  that  by  Saturday 
morning  he  was  ready  for  business.

“ Looks  pretty  nice,  doesn’t  . it?”  
asked  the  young  fellow  as  he  finished 
his  arrangement  of  fruits  and  vege­
tables.

“ Y-e-s,”   hesitated  the  storekeeper, 
only  you’ve  put  the  nicest  samples 
where  Mrs.  Holden  will  scoop  every 
one  of  ’em.  Don’t  you  see  you  have?”  
I ’m  just  go­
“ I  did  that  purposely. 
ing  to  ask  her  not  to  take 
’em  because 
they  are  the  best  and  I  guess  she 
won’t.”

“ Wal,  you  can  try it,  but  she  w ill.”  
And  she  did.  Long  and  continued 
trial  had  taught  her that  Saturday  was 
the  day  for  the  display  of  the  best goods 
and  that  she  must  be  on  hand  early  to 
get  in  what  sampling  she  wanted.  The 
other  women  in  the  village  had 
learned 
lesson  and  they  had  learned, 
the  same 
too,  that  they  must  be  on  hand 
if  they 
did  not  want  their Sunday dinner pawed 
over  by  the  dirty  fingers  of  Mis.  Hol­
den,  so  that  the  store  was  full  when  the. 
terror of  the  neighborhood came  in.  She 
went  straight  for  the  Bartlett  pears  and 
had  put  out  that  dirty  right  band  of 
hers  for the  yellow  pear that cap-sheafed 
the  pyramid.  Lufton’s  hand  intercepted 
it.  “ Don’t  take  that  one,  Mrs.  Holden. 
It's  the  best  in  the  lot  and  I  put  it  up 
there  for an  advertisement. 
If  you  say 
so  I’ll  keep  it  for  you  and  send  it  home 
with  the  rest  that  you  order.  Shall  it 
be  a  half  peck  or  a  peck?”

“ Good  gracious!  what  would  I  do 
with  a  even  a  half  peck  of  pears,  I 
should  like  to  know? 
I  don’t  want any. 
I  was  only  going  to  take  that  one  to  see 
how  it  tasted.  Lemme  have  it.”

“ Why,  you  can  take  it,  if  you  must, 
but  I  wish  you  wouldn't  and  I  don’t 
think  you’d  better.”

“ I’d 

like  to  know  why?  Git  away 
with  ye;”   and  an  instant  later  what  few 
teeth  the  woman  had  were  sunk  deep  in 
the  mellow  pear.  Disgust  looked  from 
every  other  woman's  face  and  calm con­
tentment 
the  eyes  of  the'  drug

from 

from  capturing  the 

clerk.  The  pear,  half  eaten,  was  thrown 
upon  the  floor  and  again  the  hand  of 
the  transient  clerk  tried  to  prevent  the 
woman 
luscious 
plum  that  crowned  its  purple  pyramid, 
with  the  same  result.  The  raspberries 
were  covered  with  some  mosquito  net­
ting,  but  the  ruthless  hand  of  the  in­
vader  had  thrown 
it  aside  and  was 
about  to  pounce  down  upon  the  berries 
when  that  same  hand 
instead  with  a 
convulsive  twitch  struck  with  palm  and 
extended  fingers  the  woman’s  ample 
breast  while  a  groan  of  agony  issued 
from  her  fat-adorned  throat.
“ Oh!  O h!”   she  gasped. 

“ Gim  me 
a  pail  or 
something,  quick!  Oof! 
Ough!  Mercy!  Shut  that  door!  and 
you  men  get  out  o'  here  quick!  Q uick! 
Ough! 
I  know  I  am! 
Quick !  Get  out!”  a  warning  which  the 
“ men”   heeded  without  asking  the  rea­
son  why.

I'm  dying, 

Fifteen  minutes 

later  a  fat  but  very 
limp  woman  supported  on  either  hand 
by  two  stout  but  disgusted  neighbors 
helped  the 
invalid  home,  when  the 
tradesmen,  seeing  the  coast  was  clear, 
went  back  to  business.  There  was  much 
wondering  as  to  the  cause  of  the  sudden 
ailment,  but 
the  storekeeper  didn’t 
know,  Lufton  being  a  stranger  and  a 
young  fellow  nobody  asked,  and  public 
opinion  finally  settled  down  into  the  be­
lief  that  the  woman’s  filthy  habits  had 
at  last  sickened  herself  and  the  matter 
was  dropped.  The  next  Monday  when 
Mrs.  Holden  came  to  see  about  it,  the 
clerk  was  gone  and  the  storekeeper  was 
“ so  used  up  about  it”   she  didn’t  say 
anything  to.  him ;  but  to  that  trades­
man’s  delight,  the  woman's  experience 
and  the  freely  expressed  opinion  of  her 
neighbors  put  a  stop  to  her  sampling.

just  before  going 

“ It's  just  as  I  said,”   Ludwig  re­
marked 
sleep, 
“ every  country  store  should have  a  drug 
department  with  a  clerk  who  knows 
how  to  run  i t !”

to 

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

We  Arc  Advertised  by  Our  Loving  Friends

HAMILTON  CLOTHING  CO,

TRAVERSE  CITY,  MICH.  June  18) 1901«

M ic h ig a n   B r i c k   &  T i l e   M achine  C o«,

M o re n c i,  M ich « ,

G en tlem en— R e g a rd in g   t h e   Gas  P la n t   y o u   i n s t a l l e d   i n   r y   s t o r e  

b u i ld i n g   l a s t   J a n u a ry ,  I   w i l l   s a y   t h a t   we  a r e   g e t t i n g   v e r y   e x c e l l e n t  

r e s u l t s   fro m   i t ,   and  h a v e  no  c a u s e   t o   r e g r e t   t h e   p u rc h a s e   w h a tever«

We  h a ve  a b o u t  65  l i g h t s   i n   o u r  b u i l d i n g ,  r u n n in g   on  a n   a v e r a g e , 

s a y   45 ,   We  a r e   l i g h t i n g   o u r  room s  w it h   much  l e s s   e x p e n s e   +-h«.n  w e

c o u ld   b y   e l e c t r i c i t y ;   b e s id e s   h a v in g   a   v e r y   much  l a r g e r   vo lu m e  o f  
l i g h t *

The  m achin e  I   p u t  i n   my  h o u se   i n   F e b r u a r y   m e e ts  e v e r y   re q u ire m e n t 

s o   f a r ,   f o r   c o o k in g ,  g r a t e s   a s   w e l l   a s   l ig h t in g «

1   h a v e   b e e n   w e l l   s a t i s f i e d   w it h   b o t h   p la n t s «

24
Clerks’  Corner.

An  Unusual  b u t a  Much-Needed  P artn er 

In  a Country  Store.

Written for  the Tradesman.

Ludwig  Lufton,  a  Denver  druggist 
in­
clerk,  took  advantage  of  a  standing 
vitation  with  his  uncle,  the  thrifty  resi­
dent  of  a  thrifty  village  in  Nebraska, 
and  proceeded  to  take  things  easy  in 
that  quiet  agricultural  center.  The  first 
day  he  gave  up  to  uninterrupted  rest  in 
the  carefully  darkened  parlor and  the 
sofa  and  easy  chair  he  found  therein. 
One  day  of  that  was  enough  and  the 
second  found  him  stretched  out 
in  the 
hammock  under  the  dense  shade  of  two 
maples  that  fought  a  daily  successful 
battle  with  the  Nebraska  sunshine.  The 
third  day  found  him  longing for  a  drink 
at  the  soda  fountain  and  a  little  of  the 
busy 
life  that  centers  there  and  the 
fourth  day  saw  him  in  bis  shirtsleeves 
going  down  to  the  only  store  there  was 
or  could  be  in  the  busy  village.

He  found  what  is  always  found  at  the 
establishment  of  the  man  who  under­
stands  his  business:  neatness,  order,  a 
well-selected  stock  and  a  keen-eyed, 
good-natured,  open-hearted  storekeeper 
who  took  the  world  as  he  found it,  made 
the  most  of  it  and  was  thankful  that-it 
was  no  worse.  Finding  the  stranger 
druggist  had  not  come  to 
trade  he 
offered  him  the  softest  end  of  a  soap 
box,  gave  him  a  pretty  fair  cigar  and 
visited  with  him  during  such 
intervals 
of  business  as  the  busy  morning offered.
lengthy  transaction 
after  the  customer had  gone,  the  drug­
gist,  with  eyes  looking  like  a  snake’s, 
exclaimed: 
“ You  ought  to  have  a 
drug  department 
in  this  store  and  I’d 
like  to  run  it  for  you  for  live  days.  Any 
more  customers  like  that?’ ’

At  the  close  of  a 

“ How  do  you  mean?”
“ Mean?  Man  alive,  didn’t  you  see 
her?  She  began  with  one  end  of the 
store  and  circled  around  to  the  other 
end  and  fumbled  every  blessed thing 
she  could  touch  and  sampled  everything 
she  could  get 
into  her  mouth.  How 
long  have  you  been  standing  it?”

“ Close  on  to  ten  years,  I  should 
think.  That 
is  something  we  have  to 
get  used  to.  The  only  way  to  manage  is 
to  keep  the  best  goods  where  they  can’t 
get  at  ’em,  and  when  they  get  too  bad 
just  charge 
it  up  to  ’em.  They  don’t 
mean  to  be  nuisances.  They  are  sim­
ply  impulsive.  They  come  in  with  the 
idea  of  getting  something  always.  They 
see  the  things  they  like  and  of  course 
they  want  to  sample  the  goods  and  do. 
One  or two  things  here  and  there,  they 
think,  can’t  matter  much  only 
they 
don’t  always  stop  at  one  or two.  Still  I 
manage  to  get  even  with 
’em  in  the 
course  of  a  year.”

“ You  keep  saying  ‘ they.’  Is  that  the 

regular  thing  here?”

“ Well,  I  guess  most  of 

’em  do  it. 
Take  it  all  in  all,  though,  Mrs.  Holden 
is  the  worst.  She’ll  stand  and  eat  a 
whole  box  of  berries  if  I  didn’t  move 
’em  out  of  reach ;  but  thunder and guns! 
you  can’t  stop  it  and  so  rather than have 
fuss  I  make  ’em  even  up  and  that’s 
a 
all  there 
it.  Mother  Holden  is 
the  worst  one  for  she’s  dirty  and  she’s 
always  sticking  her  hands  in  and  what 
she  leaves  is  as  unsalable  as  what  she 
eats.  Here  she  comes  now.  Watch 
her.  Morning,  Mrs.  Holden,  you’re 
always  well  at  your  house  so  I  won’t 
ask  you  that.  What  are  you  going  to 
order  first to-day?”

is  to 

“ Land  alive!  Bill  Wilkins,  don’t 
undertake  to  hurry  me.  Besides  I  can’t 
tell 
'til  I  see  whatchy’  got.  Rawsber-

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Michigan Knighti of tin Grip

Pre^leni.  GEo. F .° wen,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec- 
ivyS^vAj, 
Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

United Coamtrci&l Trawler« of Michigan
GS £ L C2UMeJ?r*  H-  B-  Bartlett,  Flint;
S®cretary.  a   Kendall,  Hillsdale; 
»rand Treasurer, C. M. Edelman, Saginaw.

flrud Rapids Council No. 131,  0. C. T.

Senior  Counselor, w   R.  Compton;  Secretary- 
J

Treasurer, L. F. Baker, 

Kdlini Comntrcial Trankn’  Mutual  Accident  Association
President. J.  Bo y d Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Owen 
Grand Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

W.  F.  Gallinger  (Sherwin-Williams 
Co.)  has  returned  to  Grand  Rapids 
after  a  six  weeks’  summer  vacation, 
which  was  spent  on  a  farm  near  North 
Branch.  He  has  taken  apartments 
the  Plaza.

Daniel  Cleland  (Ideal  Clothing  Co  , 
is  taking  a  fortnight’s  vacation  from 
business  cares  and  improving  the  op 
portunity  to  visit  the  Pan-American 
and  New  York  City.  He 
is  accom 
panied  by  his  wife.

L.  W.  Wolcott,  Northern  Indiana  rep 
resentative  for  the  Sherwin-Williams 
Co.,  who  has  been 
ill  at  the  home  of 
his  brother-in-law,  R.  V.  Goodremont. 
for  the  past  two  weeks,  has  recovered 
sufficiently  to  return  to  his  home  at  In 
diana polis.

Geo.  Pierce,  Michigan  representative 
for  Burroughs  Bros.,  of  Baltimore,  was 
somewhat  disconcerted  at  Manistee  one 
day 
last  week  by  being  mistaken  for 
member  of  the  State  Pardon  Board  by 
hackman. 
It  is  claimed  that  George 
turned  green  and  pink  and  several other 
colors  during  the  interview.

Arthur  H.  Fowle  (W.  F.  McLaughli 
&  Co.)  sustained  several  bad  cuts  on 
his 
left  hand  while  traveling  on  a  Pere 
Marquette  freight  train  a  few  days  ago 
He  was  about  alighting  from  the  train 
at  Jennisonviile  to  take  the  interurban 
into  the  city  when  the  train  stopped  so 
suddenly  that  he  was  thrown  against  a 
window,  breaking  the  glass  and  cutting 
deep  gashes  in  several  fingers.

throughout 

The  D anish  Method  o f  H andling  Eggs
The  benefits  of  co-operation  applied 
to  the  egg  trade  appear  in  a  striking 
manner  in  the  results  obtained  in  Den 
mark. 
The  Danish  producers  have 
founded  everywhere 
the 
country  co-operative  associations  that 
propose  to  furnish  fresh  eggs,  of  good 
quality,  for  exportation.  The  majority 
of  the  producers  are  enrolled  therein 
Regulations  of  remarkable ingenuity  as 
sure  the  regularity  of  the  operation  of 
such  associations.  For  example, in order 
to  ascertain  by  what  member a  bad  egg 
has  been  delivered,  it  is  required  that 
the  shell  of  every  egg  shall  bear the 
name  of  the  producer  marked  with  a 
rubber  stamp.  Large  numbers  of  depots 
are  established  near  the  railways,  and 
to  these  every  producer  is  obliged  to 
bring  his  eggs  at  least  three  times  a 
week.  The  deliveries  at  each  depot  are 
controlled  by  a  special  employe,  who 
has  the  right  to  refuse  eggs  that  are 
several  days  old.  The  others  are  class­
ified  according  to  their  size. 
This 
double  operation  of  examination  and 
classification 
is  effected  automatically 
by  means  of  a  very ingenious apparatus, 
which  consists  of  a  dark  chamber  for 
the  examination  by  transparency,  and 
a  long  table  provided  with  bars  for  the 
classification.

An  endless, 

carries  the  eggs  in  the  first  place 

jointed,  metallic  belt 
into

the  dark  chamber,  where  they  are  ex­
amined  by  means  of a  lamp,  and  thence 
to  the  table,  where  they  are  classified. 
With-this  apparatus  five  girls  can  class­
ify  and  pack  twelve  cases  of  loo  eggs 
in  thirteen  minutes.  The  English  have 
improved  this  machine  by  separating 
the  examination  from  the  classification. 
The  eggs,  placed  in  a  slightly 
inclined 
jointed  to  the 
receptacle,  enter  cups 
endless  belt.  This 
latter,  in  carrying 
them  into  the  boxes,  gives  them  a  ro 
tary  motion.  The  belt  is  actuated  by 
small  hand  wheel  placed  to  the  right 
the  examiner.  To  the  left  of  the 
latter 
there  is  a  drawer  designed  for  the  re 
ception  of  the  defective  eggs.  Owing 
to  such  an  arrangement,  the  eggs  are 
examined  very  rapidly

The  operator,  instead  of  examining 
the  eggs  one  by  one  through  the  light, 
has  merely  to  cast  a  glance  at  the  rows 
that  are  passing  over  a 
lamp,  in  orde 
to  eliminate  the  bad  ones  and  leave  the 
others.  The  belt,  continuing 
its  mo 
tion,  leaves  the  box  with  the  examined 
eggs,  and  discharges  the  latter on  thè 
other  side  of  a  long  inclined  table.

The  classifying  apparatus  isverysim 
It  consists  of  an  inclined  table 

pie. 
one  of  the  extremities  of  which  has 
certain  length  of  its  surface  covered 
with  felt. 
It  is  here  that  the  eggs  are 
deposited,  to  be  afterward  slid  over  the 
glass  surface  of  the  table.  The  latter 
provided  here  and  there  with  parallel 
bars  that  arrest  the  different  sized  eggs 
upon  their  passage.  The  girls  who  slide 
the  eggs  over  the  table  remove  those 
that  lodge  between  the  bars  and  place 
them  in  special  receptacles  that  flank 
each  of  the  spaces.  The  manufacturers 
of  the  new  apparatus  claim  that  fou 
girls can  classify  and  pack  with  it  1,440 
eggs  in  ten  minutes.

The  Danish  depositories  provided 
with  such  apparatus  are  capable  of  rap 
idly  and  surely  inspecting  the  eggs  that 
are  brought  to  them  by  producers  and of 
¡hipping  only  fresh and  perfect ones  to 
London.  They  are,  moreover,  held 
responsible  to  the  consumer  and  are 
heavily  fined  in  case  of  shipment  of  de 
fective  eggs.  The  English  highly  ap 
preciate  the  results  of  a  so  well-ap 
pointed  organization.  The  Danish  ship 
ments  to  London  are  daily 
increasing, 
especially  to • the  Aerated  Bread  Com 
pany,  which  has  more  than  four  hun­
dred  creamery  establishments 
in  the 
English  capital.

Apple  Crop  46  P er  Cent,  of  an  Average 

Crop.

At  the  annual  convention  of  the  Na 
tional  Apple  Shippers’  Association,held 
at  Toronto  last  week,  the  compiled  ap 
pie  crop  report  for America  and  Canada 
bowed  an  average  of  46  per  cent.,  as 
follows:

Ontario,  35,  good;  Nova  Scotia,  75, 
fair;  Pennsyl­
good;  New  Jersey,  40, 
fair;  New  York,  20,  poor; 
vania,  40, 
Maryland,  50, 
inferior:  Virginia,  65, 
fair;  West  Virginia,  65,  good;  Ken­
tucky,  35,  poor;  Tennessee,  35,  poor to 
fair;  Ohio,  40,  poor;  Indiana,-40,  poor; 
Illinois,  40,  fair;  Missouri,  45,  good; 
Arkansas,  50,  good;  Kansas,  45,  fair; 
Nebraska,  45,  good;  Colorado,  85, 
good;  Iowa,  25,  poor;  Wisconsin,  15, 
fair;  California,  go, 
fine;  Oregon,  80, 
good:  Washington,  85,  good;  New 
England,  25,  fair.

These  figures  are  based  on  the  aver­
age  crops  of  the  past  five  years.  Re­
ports  also  show  there  will  be  but  few 
cider  apples  and  that  the  evaporators 
will  get 
little  or  nothing.  There  are 
yet  in  the  freezers  of  the  country  500 
cars  of  evaporated  apples  to  be  carried 
over.

PREMIUM  SCHEMES.

Excess  to  W hich  They  Are  Sometimes 

Carried.

The  big  tobacco  manufacturers  who 
work  premium  schemes  with  their plug 
tobacco  have  brought  an  awful  ocean  of 
undesired  tobacco  juice  into the  world.
The  P.  Lori Hard  Co.,  of  Jersey  City, 
one  of  the  biggest  concerns  in  the  busi­
ness,  are  using  whole  quarter pages  in 
the  city  dailies  to  push  their  premium 
schemes.  Here  are  a  few  of  the  legions 
of  things  you  can  get 
if  you  chew 
enough:

A  razor,  if  you  consume  60  plugs.
A_  fountain  pen,  if  you  consume  150.
Six  teaspoons,  if  you  consume  200.
A  pair  of  stylish  corduroy  trousers 

after  you  chew  450  plugs.

A  mantel  clock,  if  you  consume  goo.
A  counter scale  for chewing  1,800.
A  sewing  machine,  for chewing  2,500.
To  those  of  my  readers  who  are 
mathematically  inclined,  I  should  be 
interested  in  knowing  how  many  times 
a  man  must  expectorate  while  chewing 
for  a  pair of  corduroy  pants. 
I  should 
think  if  he  lived  in  a  city,  and  stayed 
around  home  much,  there  would  be 
water  in  his  cellar all  the  time.

I  knew  of  an  old  lady  once  who  be­
came  greatly  exercised  over  a  premium 
scheme  that  a  big  tea 
firm  started. 
They  offered  a  new  set  of  dinner  dishes 
after  you  had  bought  so  many  quarter 
pounds  of  tea.  The  old  lady  needed  a 
new  set  of  dishes,  so  she  started  in  to 
drink  tea  for  one.  She  drank  tea  for 
breakfast,  dinner,  supper  and  before 
she  went  to  bed,  and  between  meals 
whenever  she  could  crowd  it  down.  By 
the  time  the  poor  old  soul  had  con­
sumed  enough  tea  to  get  the  dishes,  she 
had  drunk  herself to death,  and  couldn’t 
use  !em.

clocks;  in  fact,  I  wouldn't  give  him  a 
thing  to  eat  but  Lorillard’s  Best.

I  wonder  if  all  of  my  readers  realize 
what  an  easy  way  of  getting  the  neces­
saries  of  life  this  tobacco  premium 
scheme  offers.  You  want  a  new counter 
scale,  say.  To  get  that  you’ve  got  to 
chew  only  1,800  plugs.  Say  you  have 
five members in your family :  Grandpap, 
mother,  little  Willie,  yourself  and  Brid­
get.  That  means  a  mere  bagatelle  to 
each  one—only  360  plugs—a  few  nights’ 
pleasant  work !  You  want  to  go  about 
the  thing  in  a  business-like  way. 
It  is 
best  to  buy  the  whole  1,800  plugs  at 
once,  then  you’ll  have  ’em  in the house, 
and  can  bite  a  hunk  off  whenever  you 
like.  Give  each  one  his  360,  and  make 
a  rule  that  each  must  chew  twelve  plugs 
a  day.  Make  that  rule  apply  to  Grand­
pap,  too—don't  let  him  off  to  bed  until 
he’s  got  rid  of  his  dozen,  no  matter how 
he  begs.— Stroller  in  Grocery World.

Big Crop  of Arizona  Olives.

The  annual  harvest  of  olives  has  just 
begun 
in  Arizona,  and  the  ranchers 
who  planted  the  olives  only  ten  or 
twelve  years  ago  are  now  being  re­
warded  by  the  biggest  crop  they  ever 
gathered.  The  trees  began 
to  bear 
about  six  years  ago,  and  the  orchards 
have  been  constantly  enlarging.  The 
nne  flavor  of  the  fruit  and  the  quality  of 
the  oil  have  established  the  reputation 
of  the  Arizona  olive,  and there  is  a  good 
demand  for  it.  The  California 
indus­
try  is  considerably  older  than  the  Ari­
zona 
industry,  the  olive  orchards  there 
being  now  worth  nearly  $1,000,000. 
is  hardly  a  part  of  the  State 
There 
without 
its  olive  orchard;  fifteen  or 
twenty  mills  are  producing  olive oil,  us­
ing  eight  and  a  half  pounds  of  fruit  to 
make  a  quart  of  oil.  There  are  now 
about  25,000  acres  of  olive  trees  in  Cal­
ifornia  and  over  r,000,000 trees,  many 
of  which  have  not  yet  come 
into  bear­
ing. 

_

That’s  the  way  1  should  think  it 
would  be  with  the  man  who  started 
in 
to  win  a  pair of  those  stylish  corduroy 
pants.  By  the  time  I  had  chewed  up 
450  plugs  of  Lorillard’s  Best,  I  don’ t 
believe  I  would be  interested in whether 
the  pants  bagged 
in  the  seat  or not. 
Still,  it  is  comforting  to  think  that  you 
could  be  buried  in  ’em.

should. 

Women  are  the  worst  premium  fiends 
n  the  world,  premium  men  tell  me. 
Wouldn  t  you  like  to  belong  to  a  family 
where  the  mother of  it  believed  in  get­
ting  things  for her  house  by  premiums? 
Imagine  us  all  sitting  comfortably  at 
the  supper  table  some  night  as  happy 
families 
After  the  dessert 
mother  says:  “ I  need  a  new  sewing 
machine,  and  I  want  you  all  to  help  me 
get  it.  The  P.  Lorillard  Co.  offer  to 
ive  a  splendid  machine  to  all  who 
chew  only  2,500  plugs  of  their  Loril- 
It  seems  to  me  that  every 
member  of  this  family  ought  to  do 
something  to help me get that machine. ”  
Only  2,500  plugs—what  a  series  of 
long,  happy  chews  stretch  before  us! 
I 
can  see  Grandpap  and  little  Willie  star­
ing  hopelessly  at  each  other.  Neither 
one  chews  tobacco,  but  mother  needs 
the  machine.

rd’s  Best. 

I  have  no  doubt  that 

lots  of  little 
Willies  have  learned  the  tobacco-chew- 
ng  habit  on  account  of  their  mothers’ 
itch  for  premiums.  Mamma  yearns  for 
little  Wilie 
new  parlor curtains,  and 
isn’t  doing  anything  just  now,  so  he 
is 
started  in  to  help  chew  out  the  curtains.
In  some  paper the  other day  I  saw  a 
story  about  a  dog  that  chewed  tobacco. 
What  a  cinch  an  animal  like  that  would 
for  one  of  these  economical  ladies 
who  like  to  get  premiums!  Why,  I 
would  keep  old  Rover  working  all  the 
time,  if  I  owned  him.  I  should  see  that 
kept  me  in  sleeve  buttons  and  alarm

From Gunton’s  Magazine.

A  New  Industry.

The  road  engineer  has 

gradually 
created  a  new  industry  in  this  country 
in the  past ten  years.  His  profession  is 
one  that  offers  extensive  inducements  in 
many  directions,  and  bright  minds  find 
employment  therein  for talents  that  are 
of  the  highest  order.  Communities  all 
over  the  country  are  awakening  to  the 
fact  that  road  building  is  a  science  just 
as_  much  as  railroad  engineering  or 
bridge  construction,  and  that  roads  can 
not  be  built  by  those  not  thoroughly 
familiar  with  the  question.  The  mere 
placing  of  broken  stones  on  a  roadbed 
and  rolling  them  in  does  not  produce  a 
good  road  any  more  than  the  piling  up 
of  dirt  in  a  continuous  bank  produces  a 
good  roadbed  for  the  steam  engines  and 
cars.  There  is  workmanship  of  a  high­
ly  technical  character  that  counts,  and 
scientifically  trained  minds  must  meet 
new  conditions  and  adapt  the  road  to 
different  needs  and  circumstances.

Reserved for the Boys

In view  of  the  congested  condi­
tion of the Petoskey hotels during 
the summer season, I have added 
thirty-live 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 * .'.SO 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 arwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

2 6
Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State  Board of Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L. E.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
Henry E i i k , Saginaw 
Dec. 31,1902
• 
Deo. 31,1903
Wir t  p.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. C. 8chumacher, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Mu ir, Grand Rapids 
Dec. 31,1906
President, A. 0.  Schumacher, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Henry He im , 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.  Ma n n , Detroit. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit 
Treasurer—W.  K.  Sc h m id t , Grand Rapids.

Is  an  Interchange  of  Board  Certificates 

D esirable ?

That  a  man  competent  to  practice 
pharmacy 
in  Massachusetts  is  likewise 
competent  to  practice  it  in  Michigan  or 
California,  is  a  statement  which  can 
scarcely  be  refuted.  Recognizing 
its 
truth  many  people  have  been  urging  for 
years  that  there  should  be  a  universal 
reciprocity  between  the  state  boards  of 
pharmacy—that  one  board  should  ac- 
cept  the  certificate  of  any  other  in 
lieu 
of  an  examination,  thus  doing  away 
with  the  hardships  entailed  upon  the 
licensee  of  having  to  pass  another  ex­
amination  in  case  he  should  move  to 
another  state.  But  between  these  two 
propositions  there  is  a  distinction  with 
a  very  great  difference.  A  man  who  is 
truly  competent  should  of  course  be  al­
lowed  to  practice  anywhere:  but  the 
mere  fact  of  registration  is  by  no means 
always  an  evidence  of  competency. 
in  the 
There 
standards  and 
the 
different  boards  of  pharmacy ;  some  are 
lower  than  others;  some  boards 
much 
are 
less  capable  than  others  of  really 
discovering  whether applicants  come  up 
to  their  requirements  or  not;  before  a 
number  of  the  boards  it  is  comparative­
ly  easy  for the  quiz-compend  crammer 
to  sail  by  with  colors  flying;  and  until 
from  out  this  chaos 
like 
definiteness  and  uniformity  has  been 
realized  it  is  folly  to  talk  about  the  uni­
versal 
It 
would  be  unfair to  the  competent  men 
in  the  calling;  it  would  lower  a  general 
standard  which  now  is  not  sufficiently 
high;  and 
it  would  afford  the  public 
health  and  safety  an  insufficient  degree 
of  protection.

interchange  of  certificates. 

is  a  great  discrepancy 

requirements  of 

something 

the 

This  seems  about  the  position  held by 
most  of  the  speakers  in  a  discussion  of 
the  subject  which  developed  at 
last 
year’s  meeting  of  the  Ohio  State  Phar­
maceutical  Association. 
It  was  sug­
gested  by  one  member  that  the  supply 
of  good  registered  men 
in  Ohio  was 
inadequate,  that this  was  due  to  the  fact 
that  the  necessity  of  passing  the  board 
examination  prevented  men  in  near-by 
states  from  coming  into  Ohio,  and  that 
consequently 
law  should  be  so 
amended  that  the  Board  of  Pharmacy 
would  be  allowed  to  accept  the  certifi­
cates  of  other state  boards  regardless  of 
whether those  boards  accepted  the  Ohio 
certificate  in  return  or not.  This  prop­
osition  was  opposed  by  every  one  of the 
six  or  seven  speakers  in  the  resulting 
discussion.  Professor  Beal  pointed  out 
that  it  would  result  in  “ encouraging 
pharmacists  of  other  states  to  come  into 
Ohio and  discouraging  any  from  going 
out.”  
Professor  Arny  declared  that 
“ any  man  outside  of  this  State  who  is 
afraid  to  come  up  before  the  Ohio board 
is  not 
the  kind  of  pharmacist  we 
want!”   Mr.  Ogier,  the  Secretary  of  the 
Board  of  Pharmacy,  asked 
if  it  were 
fair to  the  young  men  who  bad  passed

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

the  rigid  examination  of  the  Board  to 
put  into  competition  with  them  men 
who  had  been  subjected  to  an 
inferior 
test  in  another  state. 
“ I  hope,”   he 
declared,  “ that  this  Association  will 
have  more  good,  sound  sense  than  to 
entertain  any  such  proposition!”

We  are  gratified  that  the  Ohio  Asso­
ciation  had  the  “ good,  sound  sense”  
which  Secretary  Ogier  called  upon  so 
vigorously. 
It  is  entirely  probable  that 
in  a  few  instances  hardship  is  worked 
upon  deserving  men 
in  compelling 
them  to  submit  to  a  new  examination 
when  they  desire  to  enter  another  state. 
But  this  hardship  is  insignificant  when 
compared  with  the  harm  that  would  be 
worked  were  interchange  of  certificates 
made  general.  Moreover,  as  Professor 
Amy  and  one  or two  other speakers  in 
the  Ohio  discussion  declared,  a  man 
who 
is  really  competent  ought  to  have 
no  trouble  in  passing  a  board  examina­
tion  at any time.— Bulletin of Pharmacy.

Sterilizing Sponges.

As  is  well  known,  it  is  a  rather  diffi­
cult  matter  to  completely 
sterilize 
sponges;  in  fact,  when  boiled,  whether 
in  pure  water  or  in  alkaline  or  carbol- 
ized  water,  the  sponges  lose  their  elas­
ticity and absorbent power.  Elsberg has, 
however,  found  a  method  of  perfectly 
sterilizing  them  without  in  any  way  im­
pairing  their  properties.  The  sponges 
ate  first  immersed  for  two  days  in  di­
luted  hydrochloric  acid  to  remove  all 
calcareous  matter,  then carefully  washed 
with  cold  water,  and  boiled  for  fifteen 
minutes 
in  a  solution  of  the  following 
composition:

Potassa,  i  part.
Tannic  acid,  3  parts.
Water,  100  parts.
It  only  remains  to  rinse  the  sponges 
in  a  suitable  antiseptic solution,  and  to 
preserve  them  in  a  5  per  cent,  carbolic 
acid  solution.

Cement  for Porcelain  Letters.

lime 

The  failure  of  some  cements  to  hold 
is  due  to  the  difference  in  the  rate  of 
expansion  of  the  glass  and  porcelain.  A 
cement  which  is  likely  to  overcome  the 
difficulty 
is  made  as  follows:  Slake 
fifteen  parts  of  fresh  quick 
in 
ftfrelt  fifty  parts 
twenty  parts  of  water, 
of  caoutchouc  and  fifty  parts  of 
linseed 
oil  varnish  together,  and  bring  the  mix­
ture  to  a  boil.  While  boiling,  pour  the 
liquid  on  the  slaked  lime,  little  by 
lit­
tle,  under  constant  stirring.  Pass  the 
mixture,  while  still  hot,  through  mus­
lin,  to  remove  any  possible 
lumps,  and 
It  takes  this  cement  two  days 
let  cool. 
to  set  completely  but  when  dry, 
it 
makes  a 
joint  that  will  resist  a  great 
deal  of  pulling,  whether  from  expansion 
or  contraction,  or  force  acting  directly 
(as  a  wedge)  to  pull  apart  the  pieces 
united  with  it.  By  thinning  the  mix­
ture  down  with  oil  of  turpentine,  a  bril­
liant,  powerfully  adhesive  varnish 
is 
obtained.

F orm ula  for  B arbers’  H air Tonic.
(A)  Tincture  cantharides,  3  drs. 

Tincture  capsicum,  1  dr. 
Ammonia,  2  drs.
Glycerine,  2  drs.
Cologne  water,  to  make 16 drs.

(B)  Tincture  cantharides,  4  drs. 

Ammonia  water,  4  drs.
.  Rose  water,  2  ozs.
Glycerine,  4  ozs.
Bay  rum,  g ozs.

(C)  Tincture  capsicum,  3 drs. 

ozs.

Tincture  cantharides,  3  drs. 
Aromatic  spirits  ammonia,  1yi
Oil  lavender,  1  dr.
Tincture  cinchona,  2  ozs. 
Alcohol,  to  make  16 ozs.

H.  W.  Sparker.

Don’t  think  for a  minute  that  because 
a  man  has  done  you  a  favor  he  is  un­
der  everlasting  obligations to you,

How  to Mix  Paints.

The  following  table  will  be  found 
serviceable  as  showing  how  simple  pig­
ments  are  to  be  mixed  for  producing 
compound  colors:

Buff— Mix  white,  yellow  ochre  and 

Chestnut— Red,  black,  and  yellow.
Chocolate— Raw  umber, 

red 

and 

Claret—Red,  umber and  black.
Copper— Red,yellow  and  black.
Dove—White,  vermilion,  blue  and 

red.

black.

yellow.

black.

Drab—White,  yellow  ochre,  red  and 

Fawn—White,  yellow  and  red.
Flesh—White,  yellow  ochre  and  ver­

milion.

and  white.

and lake.

Freestone— Red,  black,  yellow  ochre 

French  Gray— White,  Prussian  blue 

Gray—White  lead  and  black.
Gold—White,  stone  ochre  and  red.
Green  Bronze—Chrome  green,  black 

and  yellow.

Green  Pea—White  and  chrome  green.
Lemon—White  and  chrome  yellow.
Limestone—White, 

yellow 

ochre, 

black  and  red.

Olive— Yellow,  blue,  black  and  white.
Orange— Yellow  and  red.
Peach—White  and  vermilion.
Pearl-White,  black  and  blue.
Pink—White,  vermilion  and  lake.
Purple— Violet,  with  more  red  and 

Rose—White  and  madder  lake.
Sandstone— White,  yellow ochre,  black 

white.

and  red.

Snuff—Yellow  and  Vandyke  brown.
Violet—Red,  blue  and  white.
In  the  combinations  of  colors required 
to  produce  a  desired  tint,the first-named 
color  is  always  the  principal ingredient, 
and  the  others  follow 
in  the  order of 
their  importance.  Thus,  in  mixing  a 
limestone  tint,  white 
is  the  principal 
ingredient,  and  red  the  color  of  which 
the  least  is  needed.  The  exact  propor­
tions  of  each  color  must  be  determined
by  experiment  with  a  small  quantity. 
It  is  best  to  have  the  principal 
ingred­
ient  thick,and  add  to  it  the  other  paints 
thinner.

The  D rug M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  and  slightly  lower.
Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  firm  at  the  decline.
Alcohol— Has  again  advanced  2c,  on 
account  of  higher  price  for  corn.  An­
other advance  is  expected.  Very  high 
prices  will  probably  rule  during  the 
next  year.

Whiskies— For  the  same  reason,  are 

firm  and  advancing.

Cocoa  Butter— Has  declined,  as  usual 
at  this  time  of  the  year.  Higher  prices 
are  looked  for  later  on.
Menthol—Stocks  are 

light  and  there 
have  been  two  advances  since  our  last 
report.  Prices  are  very  firm.

Nitrate  Silver— Is  lower on  account  of 

reduced  price  for metal.

Essential  Oils— Peppermint  is  stead­
ily  advancing  on  account  of  light  crop. 
is  very  firm  at  the  recent 
Pennyroyal 
advance.  Sassafras 
is  scarce  and  has 
advanced.  Cedar  leaf  is  in  better  sup­
ply  and  has  declined.

Insect  Flowers—Have  advanced 

in 
the  primary  markets.  Higher  prices 
will  rule  for  powder  during  the  coming 
season.

Gum  Camphor— Has  declined 

ic 

Linseed  O il— Has  declined  10c  per 

per  lb.

gallon.

Saccharin  for Sugar.

From  a  German  government  report  it 
appears  that  the  German  sugarmakers 
have  become  much  worried over the pos­
sibility  of saccharin  taking  the  place  of 
sugar  for  commercial  purposes. 
It 
seems  that  there  is  in  Germany  an*  im­

perial  law  regulating  the  trade  in  artifi­
cial  sweet  stuffs,  which  was  enacted  for 
the  very  purpose  of  restricting  the  sale 
of saccharin.  Now,  it  appears,  this  law 
not  only  does  nbt  restrict,  but 
it  has 
really  increased  the  sale  of  the  artificial 
sweet.

According  to  the  report  the  saccharin 
manufactured  in  Germany  last  year  was 
the  equivalent 
in  sweetness  of  over 
50,000  metric  tons  of  sugar.  The  Ger­
man  sugar  makers  have  figured  that  the 
sale  of  this  quantity  of  saccharin  pre­
vented  the  sale  of  50,000 metric  tons  of 
sugar,  and,  therefore,  caused  a 
loss  to 
the  Imperial  Treasury  of  $2,370,000. 
The  sugar  manufacturers  of  Germany 
are  evidently  not  so  much  interested 
in 
how  much  they  were  out  of  pocket  by 
the  sale  of  saccharin,  and  now  propose 
that  the  sugar  manufacturers  of  Ger­
law 
many  demand  the  enactment  of  a 
which  should  require  that 
saccharin 
should  be  sold  only  as  a  drug,  and  that 
a  tax  be 
imposed  upon  it  sufficiently 
heavy  to  discourage  Germans  from  buy­
ing  the  stuff  for  anything  but  medicinal 
purposes.

Dying  in  poverty  is  easy  enough.  It’s 
living  in  poverty  that  comes  hard  on  a 
fellow.

Some  old-fashioned  folks,  like  ballet 
girls,  keep  their  fortunes  in  their  stock­
ings.

Fred  Brundage 
W holesale  D ruggist

32 and  34  Western  Avenue 

Muskegon,  Mich.

School  Supplies

and

Stationery

I 
{   Complete lines now ready.  Wait  for our 
A  travelers.  You will not  be disappointed.

Consultation,  Examination

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

Catarrh,  Head  and  Throat

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

Go or write to 

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN,

Powers'  Opera  House  Block 

Grand  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.

Window  Shade
Headquarters

Send us your  orders.  Large  stock  on 
hand.  Special  sized  shades  our  spec­
ialty.  Orders filled same day received. 
Write for Price List and Samples.

Heystek  &  Canfield  Co. 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Declined—Gum Camphor, Oil Cedar Leaf, Linseed Oil, Nitrate Silver.

Peppermint, Menthol, Alcohol.

Menthol..................   @ 4 60
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 05® 2 30 
Morphia, 8..N.Y. Q.  1  96®  2 20
Morphia, Mai...........1  96® 2  20
®  40
Moschus  Canton__  
Myrlstlca, No. 1......   35®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................  
36®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
_D   Co....................  @  i  00
Picls Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz....................... 
@200
Picls Llq., quarts__  @  1  00
Plds Llq.,  pints......   @  86
PilHydrarg...po. 80  @  60
is
Piper  Nigra...po. 22  @ 
Piper  Alba— po. 36  @  30
Pllx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumbl Acet............ 
io® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30®  1  60 
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 
fit P. D. Co., doz...  @  76
Pyrethrum, pv........ 
26®  30
Quassias..................  
8® 
10
Qulnia, S. P. &  W... 
31®  44
Quinta, S.  German..  34®  44
Quinla, N. Y............   34®  44
Rubia Tlnctorum__ 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv  18®  20
Saladn....................4 60® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...  40®  60
Sapo, W................... 
12® 
14
SapoM.................... 
10® 
12
Sapo G....................  @ 
io

12® 

1

Seldlltz Mixture......  20®
Sinapls.................... 
®
Sinapls,  opt............
@
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Snuff,Scotch,DeVo’s
Soda, Boras.............
Soda,  Boras, po..
_
Soda et Potass Tart. 
23®
im®
Soda,  Carb.............. 
3®
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........  
Soda, Ash...............   3M®
Soda, Sulphas.........  
®
Spts. Cologne........... 
®
@ 2 60 
Spts. Ether  Co........  me*
I®  56 
@ 2 00
Spts. Myrcla Dom...
Spts. Vlni Beet.  bbl. 
_
Spts. Vini Beet. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vlni Rect. logal  @
Spts. Vlni Rect. 6 gal  @
Strychnia, Crystal...  80®  1  06
Sulphur,  Subl.........   2M@ 
4
Sulphur, Roll...........  2M@  314
Tamarinds.............. 
8® 
10
Terebenth  Venice...  28® 
30
Theobromap.............  §0®  66
Vanilla....................9 oo@i6 00
Zlncl Sulph............  
8

7® 

Oils

__ 
Whale, winter......... 
70 
Lard, extra.............. 
so 
Lard, No. l ..............  46 

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
60

Linseed, pure raw... 
Linseed,  Dolled.......  
Neatsfoot, winter str  64 
Spirits Turpentine..  41 

72
73
eo 
46
Paints  BBL.  LB.
Red Venetian.........   IX  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  IX  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  1x 2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
15
Vermilion, English..  70®  75
Green,  Paris........... 
18
Green, Peninsular... 
13
Lead, red................   6M®  7
Lead,  white............   6M@  7
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’__ 
®  96
White, Paris, Amer.  @  1  26 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @  1 40
Universal Prepared,  x  io® 1  20

13® 
14® 
13® 

Varnishes

No. i Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp..............  1 so® 1  70
Coach  Body............2 76® 3  00
No. 1 Turp Fum...... 1 00®  1  ie
Extra Turk Damar.,  l 66®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  76

HOLIDAY

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

Acidom
Ace tl cum ...............$
Benzoicum, German.
Boraclc....................
Garbollcum.............  _
Cttricum.................'. 
47i
Hydrochlor...
Nltrocum......
Oxallcum................. 
I;
Phosphorium,  dll
Sallcylicum............   5:
Sulphurlcum...........  IX'
Tannlcum................  1  ir
Tartaricum  ..

A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
6
4® 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
6® 
8
Carbonas.................  19®  .  16
Chlorldum...............  
12®  14
A niline

Black.......................  2 00® 2 26
Brown......................  80® 1  00
Bed..........................  46®  60
Yellow.....................   2 60® 3 00

Baccse
Cubebse...........po, 25
Junlperus.....'
Xanthoxylum

Balsamum

“I1  70@  1

l 18
26
l
36
I

Copaiba...................
P e ru .......................
Terabln,  Canada....
Tolutan....................
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Casslae......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgin!........
QulUala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus...po.  16, gr’d
E xtractum
Glycyrrhlza Glabra.
Glycyrrhlza,  po......
Hæmatox, 15 lb. box U®
13®
Hæmatox, 18...........
14®
Hæmatox, Ms.........
16®
Hæmatox, Ms.........
Ferru
Precip... 
Jarbonate  Predp 
Quinl&.. 
Citrate and 
iible........
Citrate Solublt 
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora
Arnica.....................
Anthemls................
Matricaria...............
Folia
46® 48
Barosma............... .
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx. SÌ 26
nevelly.................
30
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
20
and Ms.................
10
UvaUrsl..................
O nm m l 
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia, 2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acada, po................
Aloe, Barb. po.i8©20 
Aloe, Cape__po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40
Ammoniac...............
Assafoetlda__po. 40
Benzolnum..............
Catechu, is..............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, 14s............
Campnorae..............
Eupnorblum... po. 36
Gamboge............ po
Gnalacum......po. 26
Kino...........po. 10.76
Mastic  ....................
Myrrh............po. 46
Opii__po. 4.90@5.00 3 40® 3 60
Shellac....................
Shellac, bleached....
Tragacanth.............   60®
Herba 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorium. .oz. phg
Lobelia........oz. P.hg
Majorum ,...oz. pkg 
Mentha Plp..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr.oz. pkg
Bue.............. oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. P.hg 
rhymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, P at........... 
66®
Carbonate, Pat........ 
18®
18®
Carbonate, K. & M.. 
'arbonate, Jennings  18® 

121

Oleum

Absinthium.............. 6  6
Amygdalae, Dulc....  3 
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8  0
Anlsl.......................  1  81
Aurantl Cortex........2  11
Bergamli...................2  61
Cajiputl...................  8i
Caryopbylll............ 
71
Cedar......................  61
.....
ChenopadU............ . 
Clnnamonll.............1  16®  l  26
Cltronalla.................  
860  40

Conlum Mac............
Copaiba...................  i
Cubebse...................  i
Exechthltos............   l
Erlgeron.................   i
Gaultherla..............  i
Geranium, ounce.,..
Gossippli, Sem. gal..
Hedeoma.................   1 _
Junipers................i  ¿0® 2 ¿6
Lavendula..............  go® 2 00
Llmonls...................  i  ,jo@  i  40
Mentha Piper.........   i  76®  l  80
Mentha Verid.........   i  eo® l  60
Morrhuae, &ai.........   l  10®  l  20
M yrda....................4 oo® 4 eo
76® 3 oo
Olive....................... 
Plds Liquids.........  
io® 
12
Picls Liquids,  gal...  ® 
36
Rlclna.....................   90®  1  02
Bosmarinl...............  
®  1  00
Bosae, ounce............  6 00® 6 60
Sucdnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90®  1  00
Santal 
...................  2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  66®  60
Sinapls,  ess., ounce.  ® 
66
Tltfin......... .............   1 80® 1  M
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
@ 160
15®
Theobromas.......... 
“  
20
Potassium
Bl-Carb.................... 
i6@
13®
Bichromate............  
Bromide.................  62®
C arb.......................  
12®
Chlorate.. .po. 17@19 
16®
Cyanide...................  34®
Iodide.....................   2 30®
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28® 
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @ 
7®
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass  Nitras.........  
6®
Prussiate.................   23®
Sulphate po............  
ie@

“ *] 

Radix
Aconltum..............
Althae......................
Anchusa.................
Arum  po.................
Calamus..................
Gentiana........po. 16
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  16 
Hydrastis  Canaden.
Hydrastis Can., po..
Hellebore, Alba, po.
Inula,  po.................
Ipecac, po...............   3
„
Iris plox...po.  35®38  36® 
Jalapa. p r.......  
26® 
30
Maranta,  Ms........  
@  35
26
Podophyllum,  po...  22® 
5&°i----i .................   76O100
Bhei,  cut.........  @ 
1  26
Bbel. PV...........  78® 
1  36
Spigella...........  36® 
38
Sangulnarla... po.  16  @  18
Serpentarla............   40®  46
Senega....................  30®  35
Smilax, officinalis H.  @  40
Smllax, M................ 
®  26
Scillae............po.  36 
12
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  PO................. 
®  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30  @  26 
Valeriana,  German. 
16®  20
Zingiber a ...............  
14® 
13
Zingiber j .................  28®  27
Semen

io® 

Anlsum.........po.  16  @ 
12
Apium (graveleons).  13® 
15
io@ 
Carui...7.777po.  is 
11
Cardamon................  i  25®  l  75
Corlandrum.............  
8® 
10
Cannabis Sativa......  
iy,@  5
Cydonium................ 
75®  1  00
Cnenopodium.........  
ts
ie® 
DiptenxOdorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum..............  @ 
10
7®
Foenugreek, po........ 
L lni......................... 
4®
Llnl, grd...... bbl. 4 
4M@
Lobelia....................  45®
Pharlaris Canarian..  4M@
R apa.......................  414®
Sinapls  Alba........... 
9®
Sinapls  Nigra...... 11®
Splrltus

Frumentl, W. D. Co. 2 oo®  2 60 
Frumentl,  I). F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumentl.................  1  26®  1  60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1  36® 2 00
Juniperls  Co...........  1 75® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E __  1  90® 2  10
Spt. VJnl Gall!.........  1 76® 6 60
Vp} Oporto............   1  28® 2 00
Vlni Alba.................  1  26® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 eo® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
.......  2 60® 2 76
carriage^ 
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, (»rrlage......  
®  l  50
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......   @  l  26
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
carriage................ 
@ 100
Hard, for slate use..  @ 7 6
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use................ 
@ 140
Syrups
Acacia...............
Aurantl Cortex......
Zingiber.................
Ipecac................. .
Ferrl Iod................
Bhei Arom.............
Smilax  Officinalis..
Senega ...................
Scillae.....................

®
Scillae  Co................. 
Tolutan...................   @
Prunus  vlrg............  
®
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellls B 
Aconltum Napellls F
Aloes.......................
Aloes and Myrrh....
A rnica....................
Assafoetlda..............
Atrope Belladonna..
Aurantl Cortex.......
Benzoin...................
Benzoin Co..............
Barosma..................
Cantharides............
Capsicum................
Cardamon...............
Cardamon Co..........
Castor.....................  
Catechu]...................
Cinchona................
Cinchona Co............
Columba.................
Cubebae....................
Cassia Acuttfol........
Cassia Acutifol Co...
Digitalis..................
Ergot...... ................
Ferrl  Chlorldum....
Gentian..................
Gentian Co..............
Gulaca.....................
Guiaca ammon........
Hyoscyamus............
Iodine  ....................
Iodine, colorless......
K ino.......................
Lobelia...................
Myrrh.....................
Nux Vomica............
Opil..........................
Opii, comphorated..
Opii, deodorized...... 
Quassia...... ...........
Rhatany..................
Rhei.........................
Sanguinaria............
Serpentarla............
Stramonium............
Tolutan...................
Valerian.................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber..................

Miscellaneous 

1  5n

¿Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®
Alumen..................   2M@
3®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto....................  40®
Antlmoni, pb........... 
4®
An tl mon 1 et Potass T  40®
Antipyrin................  @
Antifebrin.............. 
®
Argenti Nitras, oz...  @
Arsenicum.............. 
10®
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N...........  1  80®
Calcium Chlor., is...  @
Calcium Chlor., Ms..  @
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..  @
Cantharides, Rus.po  @
Capsid Fructus, af..  @
Capsid  Fructus, po.  @
Capsid Fructus B, po  @
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12®
Carmine, No. 40......  
® ;
60®
Cera Alba..............  
Cera  Flava..............  40®
Coccus.................... 
‘  @
Cassia Fructus........  @
Centrarla.................  
®
Cetaceum.................  @
Chloroform............   56®
©  1  10 
Chloroform,  squibbs 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1  65
Chondrus................  
20®  25
Clnchonldlne.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   6 65®  6 76
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............   @
Creta........... bbl. 75 
@
Creta, prep............ 
@
Creta, precip........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus  ....................  26®
Cudbear..................  @
Cupri  Sulph............   6M@
Dextrine................. 
7®
Ether Sulph............   78®
Emery, all numbers.  @
Emery, po................  @
E rgota.........po. 90  86®
12®
Flake  W hite..:..... 
Galla.......................  
®
Gambler................. 
8®
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @
Gelatin, French...... 
35®
75 j
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......
n@
Glue, brown............  
Glue,  white............  
ie@
Glycerina.................  17*4
Grana Paradisl........
Humulus.................
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
HydrargU nguentum
Hydrargyrum.........
Icnthyobolla,  Am...

@ 86
66® 70
76® 1  00
3 40® 3 60
3 60® 3 86

® 60SI 86

76
@ 26
10® 12
3
a
1M
so® <»

Lupulin....................
Lycopodium............
M a d s ........................
Liquor Arsen et  Hy-
arargIod..............
LiquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
MUofe.g, F ,.___

28

GROCERY  P R IC E   C U R R EN T

These quotations are  carefully  corrected  weekly,  within  six  hoars  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.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN
1  001  25

Straw berries

A D V A N C E D

Some  Canned  Goods 
(Seeded  Raisins 
Boiled  OaU

F loor 

Pickle* 

Hand  Picked  Bean*

.Jelly 

D E C L I N E D

Standard.................
Fancy .....................
S u cco tash
90 
Fair».......................
Good.......................
1  00 
Fancy......................
1  20
Tomatoes
90 
F air.........................
96 
Good.......................
Fancy......................
1  10
2 75
Gallons....................
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints..................2 00
Columbia, *  pints...............1  25

CARBON OILS 

Barrels

@10* 
Eocene .......................
@  9 V- 
Perfection..................
©  8 *  @12* 
Diamond White.........
D. 8. Gasoline............
@10 *
Deodorized Naphtha..
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
ImgSna-.........................19  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @ioh
CHRESE
Acme.......................
@10*
fill
Amboy....................
@10*
Carson City..............
Elsie........................
@11
Emblem..................
@11
Gem.........................
@11M
Gold Medal..............
@10M
Ideal......................
@10M
Jersey......................
@1L
Riverside.................
@ 1 1
14@15
Brick.......................
@90
Edam......................
@17
Leiden....................
13@14
Llmburger...............
Pineapple...............
50@75
19@20
Sap  sago.................
CHEWING GUM 
American Flag Spruce....
56 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............
60 
55 
Black Jack.......................
60 
Largest Gum  Made.........
Sen Sen  ...........................
55 
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..
1  0055
Sugar  Loaf.......................
Yucatan...........................
56
Bulk..................................
5 
Red...................................
7 
4
Ragle................................
Franck’s .............................  6*
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

Bunkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German  Sweet....................  23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................  46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................  28
Premium.............................   31
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz...........1 00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz...........1  20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz......... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz............   95
Cleveland.............................  41
Colonial, 34s  .......................   36
Colonial, Ms.........................  33
Epps.....................................  42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, Ms..................  12
Van Houten, Ms..................  20
Van Houten, Ms..................  38
Van Houten,  is..................  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Ms.  .......................   41
Wilbur. Ms..........................   42
20 lb. bags
Less quantity. 
Pound packages

COCOA SHELLS 

COCOA

COFFEE
Roasted
0 »
a h *
HIGH GRADE
Coffees

Special Combination..........15
French Breakfast.............. 17M
Lenox, Mocha & Java........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwlnell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls............ 29
White House, 30-2s.............28
Excelsior M. & J., 68-ls.. 
.. 21M
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20M
Royal Java..........................26M
Royal Java & Mocha..........26*
Arabian  Mocha...................28*
Aden Moch......................... 22M
Mocha & Java Blend..........23
Fancy Maricaibo................ 18M
Javo Blend..........................17M
Golden Santos.....................17
Ja-Mo-Ka........................... 15M
Excelsior Blend...................14M
No. 55 Blend........................ 14
Common.............................. 10*
F a ir.....................................11
Choice..................................13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common.............................. 11
F air......................................14
Choice..................................15
Fancy..................................17
Peaberry.............................. 13
F air..................................... 12
Choice........................: ........10

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

4
Mexican

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

Guatem ala

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

Ja v a

African............................ •  12*
Fancy African................ ...17
O. G................................. ...25
P. G................................. ...29

Mocha

Package 

Arabian........................... .  21

New York Basis.

Arbuckle......................... -.10)4
Dll worth......................... • 10*
Jersey............................. ..10*
• 10*
Lion................................
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin ft 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City M  gross............   75
Felix M gross...................... 115
Hummel’s foil M gross........  85
Hummel’s tin *  gross....... 1  43

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle............. 6 40
Crown................................. 6 25
Daisy...................................5 75
Champion...........................4 50
Magnolia............................ 4 25
Challenge........................... 3 90
Dime...................................3 35
Leader................................3 80

COUPON  BOOKS 

50books,any  denom...  1  50
100 books, any  denom...  2 50
500books,any  denom...  11 60 
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 utter

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.......................  11  so
1.000  books.......................   20 00
600, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........   5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Seymour............................  6M
New York.........................  6M
Family.............................  
6M
Salted................................ 
6M
Wolverine.........................  6M
Soda  XXX....................... 
6k
Soda, City........................  
8
Long Island Wafers.........  13
...................  13
Zephyrette... 
F au st............................... 
7m
Farina.............................. 
6V
Extra Farina.................... 
6M
Saltine Oyster..................  
e*
Sweet  Good» —Boxes
Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Bose........................... 
8
Bent’s Water.'..................  
is
Cinnamon Bar.....................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons.......  
is
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced.................... 
8
Cream Crisp.....................  
iom
Cubans.............................   u u
Currant  Fruit..................   12
Frosted Honey.................  12
Frosted Cream.................  9
Ginger Gems, l’rge orsm’ll  8 
Ginger  Snaps, N .B .C .... 
6M
Gladiator..........................  
jom
Grandma Cakes...............   9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers...............   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers.................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey...............   12
Lady Fingers....................  12
Lemon Snaps....................   12
Lemon Wafers.................  16
Marshmallow...................  
ie
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
Mixed Picnic....................  1114
Milk Biscuit...................  
  714
Molasses  Cake.................  8
Molasses Bar....................  9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12M
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers...... . 
8
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp....................   9
Orange Gem...,................  9
Penny Cake.................. 
  8
7M
Pilot Bread, X X X ......... 
Pretzelettes, hand made..  8M
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8*
Scotch Cookies.................   9
7*
’ Lunch....................  
Sugar Cake.......................   g
Sugar Cream, XXX.........  
8

8

Sugar Squares..................... 
Sultanas............................  
13
Tuttl Fruttl....................... 
i6
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 

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

.

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California  F ruits

Snndried.........................  @6
Evaporated. 50 lb. boxes.  @8 
Apricots  ...................  9@ 9*
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches...................... 8  @20
Pears...........................714
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4M
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes........  @
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes........  @
00 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @ 6M
50 - 60 26 lb. boxes........  @ 714
40 • 60 25 lb. 1)0X68........  @  8M
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes........

California Prunes

M cent less in 50 lb. cases 

Citron

Feel

C urrants

Leghorn.................................. u
Corsican..................................12
California, 1 lb.  package....
Imported, l lb package.......12
Imported, bulk.................... n *
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx..l0M 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10H 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........
L. M., Seeded, M  lb 
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

6*
6
7
8
  6M@

Raisins

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  7
Medium Hand Picked 
2 75
Brown Holland.........................2 to
Cream of Cereal..................   90
Graln-O, small......................... 1 36
Graln-O, large.....................2  25
Grape Nuts...............................1 35
Postum Cereal, small..........1 35
Postum Cereal, large....... .  2 25
241 lb. packages...................... l 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................... 2 25
Flake, so lb. sack...............  90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl......................3 80
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................1 »0
Maccaroni  and V ermicelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box........
..  60
Imported. 26 lb. box........
.  2 60
Common.........................
..2 40
Chester............................
..2 90
Empire............................
..3 40

P earl  B arley

H om iny

F arin a

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages............
...2 00 
100 ft. kegs......................
...3 00
200 ft. barrels................ ...5 70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1 30
Green, Scotch, bu........... ...1  60
Split,  lb........................... ...  2*
Soiled A vena, bbl........... ...5 50
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   2 75
Monarch, bbl.......................5 25
Monarch, *  bbl.................. 2 75
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks......... 2 55
Quaker, cases......................3 20
East India...........................   2%
German, sacks.................... 3X
German, broken package..  4
Flake,  no lb. sacks............ 434
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3X
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages...... 6
Cracked,bulk................. 
314
24 2 lb. packages................. 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

TmyiIaaa

Wheat

Sago

FOOTE ft JEN K S’

JAXON

^O ghes^G rad^K xtract*
Lemon

Vanilla 

oz full m  l  20  1 oz full m.  80 
oz full m 2  10  2 oz full m  l 25 
No.sfan’y.3  15  No.Sfan’y .f 75

Index  to  Markets

B y C o lum ns

B

C

A

CoL
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabastlne............................ 
l
Ammonia..............................   1
Axle Grease..........................   1  j
Baking Powder......................  1  j
Bath  Brick...........................  
II
Bluing...................................   1
Brooms..................................   1
Brushes.................................  1
Butter Color..........................   2
Candles.................................   14
Candles..................................  2
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................  3
Carbon Oils..........................   3
Cheese....................................  3
Cheering Gum.......................   3
Chlconr..................................  3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa.....................................  3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed  Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................  4
Crackers...............................  4 1
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................  5

D
F

P

H

G

M

BT
O

I
J
X.

Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Flavoring Extracts...............   6
Fly  Paper.............................   6
Fresh Heats..........................  6
Fruits....................................  14
Grains and Flour.................   6
H erbs....................................  6
Hides and Pelts.....................   13
Indigo....................................  6
Je lly .......................................   6
Lamp Burners........................  is
Lamp Chimneys.....................  15
Lanterns.................................  15
Lantern  Globes.....................   15
Licorice..................................   7
Lye..........................................   7
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts........................   7
Molasse».................................   7
Mustard..................................   7
Nuts........................................  14
Oil Cans................................   is
Olives.....................................   7
Oyster Palls............................  7
Paper Bags.............................   7
Paiis Green............................  7
Pickles.....................................  7
Pipes.......................................  7
Potash.........:........................  7
Provisions...............................  7
Rice........................................   8
Baleratus.................................  8
Sal Soda.................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut............................  8
Seeds........................ 
9
Shoe Blacking.......................  9
Snuff.....................................   9
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices....................................   9
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  10
Syrups...................................  9
Table Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   11
Tobacco................................   11
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar................................   12
Washing Powder..................   12
Wlcklng................................   is
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast Cake............................ 'is

V
w

V

R

T

8

 

 

A XLK GBEASE 
doz.
Aurora................... se
Castor  Oil................... on
Diamond.....................50
Frazer’s ......................75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

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

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

JAXON

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

Queen  Flake

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

Royal

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

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  70
English.................................  so

BLUING 

Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per grosss 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

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

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet........................ 2 60
No. 2 Carpet........................ 2 15
No. 3 Carpet........................ 1  85
No. 4 Carpet........................ 1  60
Parlor  Gem.........................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk.......................1  10
Warehouse.......................... 8 25

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In..................   45
Solid Back, 11 In .................   95
Pointed Ends.......................  85
No. 8.....................................1  00
go. 7.....................................1  30
No. 8.....................................1  90

Shoe

SSOT«

BUTTER  COLOR

No. 3.....................................  75
NO. 2....................................1  10
NO. 1....................................1 75
W„ B. & Co.’s,  15c size_  125
W., R. & Co.’s,  25c size_  2 00
Electric Light, 8s................ 12
Electric Light, 16s...............12*
Paraffine, 6s........................10*
Paraffine  12s .......................ll
......29
Wlcklng 

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

Apple*
3 lb. Standard i " __
90
3 00
Gallons, standards  .
80
Standards ...............
Beans
Baked......................  1  oo@i  se
75@  8Í
Bed  Sidney............
80
String......................
85
Wax.........................
Blueberries
Standard...........  ......
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced.........
..  1  90
Clams.
1  00
Little Neck, 1 lb......
1  50
Little Neck. 2 lb......
Burnham’s. *  pint........ ..  1  92
Burnham’s, pints........... ..  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts........ ..  7 20
Cberrle*
Bed  Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy ......................
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine..............
Extra  Fine....................
Fine................................
Moyen......................„*...
Gooseberries
Standard................
H om iny
Standard..................
Lobster
Star, *  lb.................
Star, l  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 21b...........
Soused, l lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 21b............
Mushroom*
Hotels....................... .
Buttons....................
Oyster*
Cove, lib .................  
Cove, 21b.................
Cove, 1 lb Oval........
Peaches
P ie...........................
Yellow....................   1  65@l  85
Pears
l 00
Standard.................
I  25
Fancy.......................
1  00 
Marrowfat..............
Early June..............
1  00 
1  60
Early June  Sifted..
Pineapple
Grated....................   1  26@2 75
Sliced.......................   1  35@2  56
Pum pkin
70
F a ir.......................
75
Good.......................
85
Fancy......................
Standard.................
1  15
Id lb. cans..........................  3 75
*  lb, cans..........................  700
1 lb. can............................  12 00
@1 85
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia Blver, flats 
<02 01
Bed Alaska.............. 
l 80@i  40
Pink Alaska............  1  io@i  25
Shrim ps
Standard...................... 
1  50
Sardine*
Domestic, Ms.......... 
4
8
Domestic, Ms.......... 
Domestic,  Mustard. 
7
California, 14s.......... 
ii@ u
California Ms........... 
17@24
French, ids..............  
7@i4
French, *■.............. 
18&28

1  86 
8 40 
2 35
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18@20
22@25

Raspberries
Russian  Cavier

Salmon

Peas

85

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

White fish

9
No. 1  No. 2  Fax
3 2
1  6
4
4
Anise..................................   9
Canary, Smyrna.....™™"*  4

___ 
WO lbs...........7 60 
f»JbS...........3 30 
10 lbs...........  90 
8  lbs...........  76 
SEEDS

IO

Pure Cane

F air.....................................  46
Good...................................   20
Choice................................   26

STARCH

2 26

21
3
40

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

Kap<
Rape
riutt 
SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box. small........... 
426
Bixby’s Koyal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish..... 
85
Scotch, in bladders.........  
37
Maccaboy, in jars..............   35
French Rappee, In jars....!  43
B. T. Babbit brand—

Babbit’s Best..................  4 00

SNUIfF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

K lngsford’s Stiver Gloss 
7

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

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages..................  
5
3-lb. packages................       4%
6-lb. packages................... 
sh
40 ana 504b. boxes............  
3H
Barrels.............................   3Ú

29

II

No.  8................................   4  66
No.  9................................  4  60
No. 10.......................... 
4  45
go. 11............................  
  4 40
No. 12...........................  
4 40
go. 13....................................¡¿o
No. 14................................  4 30
NO. 15................................  4 30
NO. 16................................  4 30

TEA
Jap an

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

Gunpowder

Moyune, medium................26
Moyune, choice................... 36
Moyune, fancy.................... 60
Plngsuey,  medium...............26
Plngsuey, choice................. so
Plngsuey, fancy................... 40

6

[Foote &JENKSU

2 oz panel..1 20  2 oz panel.  75 
3 oz taper..2 00  4 oz taper..l  60

Lemon 
— P — ¡panel.
'

Vanilla
: t?----- “   • 

GRAND PAPIQS. Mica V

2 OZ............. 
75
3 OZ............. 1 00
6 OZ..........2 00

O.  C. Lemon

No. 4 T 

Li. G. Vanilla
2 oz.........  i  24
3 oz.........  1  60
4 oz.........  2  00
No  3 T...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 76c. 

.  1  52
O ur Tropical.

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

Standard.

FLY  PA PER

Tanglefoot, per box.............   36
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20

Beef

© 8 
@  6 
@ 9
to. 3..............  10  @14

FRESH  HEATS 
Carcass....................   6
Forequarters..........  5
Hindquarters.........  
8
Loins No.
9
Bibs...........................   9 
Rounds......................   8 
Chucks.......................  6 
4 
Plates........................ 
Dressed................... 
@ 7
Loins....................... 
@  i
@  8
Boston Butts........... 
Shoulders................ 
@ 8!*
Leaf  Lard...............  
@  8
M utton
Carcass.................  
Lambs......................  9/,@10
Veal
Carcass...................  
8  @9
GRAINS AND  FLOUR 

P ork

9V4

 

W heat

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

W inter W heat  F lour 

70

Local Brands

Patents.............................  4 35
Second Patent..................   3 85
Straight.............................  3 65
Clear................................   3 20
Graham............................  3 30
Buckwheat.......................  4 00
Bye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 26c per bbl. ad 
dltlonal.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Hs......................  3 75
Diamond Its.....................   3 75
Diamond Hs.....................   3 76
Quaker Hs.. .*....................   3 70
Quaker Its........................   3 70
Quaker Hs........................   3 70

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Spring; W heat F lo u r 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
PUlsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 60
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........  4 00
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4  40
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 40 
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 40 
Ball-Barn hart-Putman's Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Hs.................... 
4 40
Wlngold  h s....................  4 30
Wlngold  Hs.................... 
4 20
Ceresota Hs......................  4 60
Ceresota Hs......................  4  40
Ceresota Hs......................  4 30
Laurel  Hs......................... 4 30
Laurel  Ho......................... 4 10
Laurel  Hs......................... 4  10
Laurel Hs and Hs paper.. 4  10
Bolted............................... 2 75
Granulated.......................
2 86
Oar  lots............................. 39
Car lots, dipped...............
42
Less than car lots............
Feed and M lllstuA

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Meal

Oats

St. Car Feed, screened__ 23 00
No. 1 Corn and  Oats........ 22  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........ 2 / 00
Winter Wheat Bran......... 17 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings. 18 00
Screenings....................... X6 00
Com, car  lots..................
No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 11  00
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12 00
...16
Sage..................................
Hop«................................
...16
...15
Laurel Leaves...................
Senna Leaves................
...36 I

Corn
Hay

HERBS

58

INDIGO

JELLY

Madras, 6 lb. boxes................66
8. F., 2,3 and 6 lb. boxes....... 50
6 lb. palls.per doz...........  1  80
161b. palls............................  a«
30 lb. palls............................  72
LICORICE
Pure....................................   an
Calabria.......................  
93
Sicily........................... 
14
Root................................ *.*  10
Condensed. 2 doz.................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz............. ...2  25

LYE

 

Hf  r'f'/Hvm

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur...................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor.....................1  50
No. 2 Home...........  
4 30
Export Parlor............ ".". ” 4 00
Wolverine............................ 4 so

MEAT EXTRACTS

Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4  45
Liebig’s, 2  oz....................  2 76

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle..........  
40
Choice..........................  
or
F air........................ 
 
26
Good........................................55
„  
Horse Radish, l doz.............i 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............ 3 so
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz..........[j  75
g “}£» 1 *»}• kegs....................  1 25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs....................  1 10
Bulk, 6 gal. kegs....................   1 00
so
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
Queen, pints.....................   2 35
4 50
Queen, 19  o z ................. 
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7 00
Stuffed, 6 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz..........................   1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz...................    230

@12H
@  8K
@  5H
@ 5H

OLIVES

PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.
Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
Bottom
Square
H......... .........   28
50
H......... .........   34  ,
60
1.........
2......... .........   44
80
.........   64
1 00
3......... .........   66
1  25
4.........
........  76
1  45
5.........
........  90
1 70
6.........
........1  06
2 00
8.......... ......... 1  28
2 40
10.........
....... 1  38
2 60
12.........
........1  60
3  15
14.........
........2 24
4  15
16.........
........2 34
4 50
20.........
........2 52
5 00
26.........
5 60
Sugar
Red......
Gray....

4H
Bulk..................................  44
Packages, H lb., each......... 18
Packages, H lb„ each........ 17
Packages,  lib.,each........ 16

PARIS GREEN

......  

PICKLES
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count............6 50
Half bbls, 600 count............3 75

Barrels, 2,400 count........... 8 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count.........4 so

Small

PIPES

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

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS, 
B arreled P ork

@15 00
Mess......................... 
.............. 
©15  76
Clear back.......... 
@ie 00
Short out.................  @ic  so
FI*.......................... ‘ 
©18 00
Bean........................   @43 00
Family Mess............   @45 so
git
Bellies................. •„ 
Briskets................... 
gu
Extra shorts............  
8H

D ry Salt Meats

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 121b. average.  @ 42
Hams, Mlb.average.  @ n v
Hams, I61h.average. 
© h h
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @ nw
Ham dried beef......   @  13H
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
©  9H
Bacon, clear.............  10K©  liH
California hams......   @  9*4
Boiled Hams.......... 
@  17%
@ 13
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham pr’s’d. 
@  sh
Mince Hams.........  
@  9

Lards—In Tierces

7%
9 u

Compound...............  
Pure......................... 
Vegetole.
60%. Tubs..advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
501b. Tina... advance 
20 lb. Palla, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advanoe 
6 lb. Pails., advanoe 
> lb. Palls., advanoe

6H

10 75
11  60 
11  60
1  55
360
70
1  26

8
Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort..............
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese.......  ..
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’  Feet
H bbls., 40 lbs.........  
H bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs........... 
H bbls., 40 lbs.........  
H bbls., 80 lbs.,............. 
Casings *
P o rk ..................... 
 
Beef rounds............. 
Beef  middles........... 
Sheep.......................
B uttertne
Solid, dairy..............  u   @
Rolls, dairy..............  UH©
Rolls, creamery......  
1
Solid, creamery......  
1
Corned beef, 2 lb.... 
2
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
17
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
2
Potted ham,  Hs......
Potted ham,  Hs......
Deviled ham, H s....
Deviled ham, H s....
Potted tongue,  Hs..
Potted tongue,  Hs..
RICE 
Domestic
Carolina head...........
6H
Carolina No. l ........1........... «
Carolina No. 2 .........  
...... su
Broken.................................  *
Im ported.
Japan, No.  l ..................sh©
Japan, No. 2..................4H@
Java, fancy head................... @
Java, No. 1................... 
<a
Table...............................  @
SALEKATUS 

Canned  Meats 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3 15
Deland’s................. 
3 00
Dwight’s cow......................... 45
Emblem...............................    10
L.  P .............. 
3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ks..!." ” ."!3 00 
Granulated, bbls.................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases...  1  10
Lump, bbls...................... 
gi)
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   85

SAL SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Diam ond Crystal 

100  3 lb. bags........................ 3 00
50  61b. bags......... ........... 3  00
2214 lb. bags......................   75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 20141b.bags,2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs......: 
27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
Common  Grades
10031b. sacks..........................2 26
60 5 lb. sacks..........................2 15
2810 lb. sacks......................   05
561b. sacks.......................   40
28 lb. sacks.......................   22
lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   20
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60
561b. dairy In ifmm sacks...  60 
661b. sacks..........................   25
Granulated  Fine...................  85
Medium Fine.........................  90

Solar Bock
Common

Ashton

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H alibut.

H erring 

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6H
Georges selected........  © 7
Grand Bank...................  @ 
Strips or  bricks......... 6H©i0H
Pollock..........................   © 3H
Strips...................................... 10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1100 lbs...........................  6 00
No. 1  40 lbs...........................  2 70
No. 1  10 lbs.......................... 
75
i No. 1  8 lbs.........................  
63
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  ll 26 
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.................................  
Bloaters............................   1  60
Mess 100 lbs........ ..............   12 26
Mess  40 lbs......................  6 20
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  38
Mess 
8 lbs....................  113
No. 1 100 lhs......................  10 60
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 60
No. 1  10 lbs......................  1 20
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  00
No. 2100 lbfl......................  7  00
No. 2  40 lba......................  8  10
NO. 2 
NO. 8 

10 lbs....................... 
8 lbs...................... 

Mackerel

86
  71

M50 cakes, large size............3 26

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Fels brand—
Gowans & Sous brands—

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

100 cakes, large size.............6 50
50 cakes, small size............ 1  95
lpo cakes, small size............ 3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal  Oil Johnny.............. 3 go
Peekin..............................  4 00
Queen Anne.....................  3 45
Big Bargain...................... 4  76
Umpire............................   2 15
German Familv...............  2 45
Dingman..........................  3 85
Santa Claus.....................  3 26
grown............................. ... 40
Fairy................................  4 oo
Naptha.............................  4 oo
Oak Leaf......... .*.............   3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs................   4 00
J A X O N
Single i>ox...... .....................3 uo
6 box lots, delivered........... 2 95
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.......................  3 eo
Calumet Family.............   2 70
Scotch Family................ 2 50
Cuba................................... 40
50 cakes....................  1  95
Ricker’s Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme........................  4 00
Acme 5c..........................   3 25
Marseilles....................  4 00
Master........................ 
3 tT
Lenox.............................   3 00
Ivory, 6 oz....................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6 75
Star.................................... 00
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 20
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz.......2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............2 40
Boxes...................................  6H
Kegs, English.................... [  4£

Schultz & Co. b rand-
A. B. Wrlsley brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Scouring

SODA

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......

Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  31b......
Best Gloss Starch,  1 lb......
Works:  Venice, I1L 
Geneva, 111.

CHAS. POPE  GLUCOSE CO.

CHICAGO.

Best Corn Starch.................  D
Neutral Pearl Starch in hhi.—“ 
Neutral Powdered Starch In bbL 
Best Confect’rs in bbl.,thin boll. 
Best Laundry In bbl.,  thin boll. 
Chas. Pope Glucose Co.t
Chicago, 111.

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages...... ....... 
40 l-lb.  packages..............  4
STOVE  POLISH

534

Young Hyson

Oolong

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

English Breakfast

India

TOBACCO

Cigarc

American Cigar Factory brands

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice.............................
6
la, China in mats......
Cassia, Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna..............
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Mace...............................  
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 115-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot.
re Ground in Bulk
Allspice........................... 
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar........ 
Ginger, African...........45
Ginger, Cochin...... ..........  
22
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage............   ................... 

...
50
40
35
18
28

46
28
48
47
48
25
65
48
20 
28
20
20

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels................................. 23
Half bbls.................; ..........26
l gallon cans, per doz........8 60
H gallon cans, per doz........1 95
34 gallon cans, per doz........1 00

SUGAR

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

» Ing point, giving you credit 

4 50 
7 20
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the local 
freight from New York  to your
e  invoice lor  the  amount 
of freight  buyer pays from  the 
market  In  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping point,  Including 
20 pounds for the weight of the 
barrel.
Domino.............................  6 85
Cut Loaf...........................   5 85
Crushed............................  5 85
Cubes................................  5 60
Powdered.........................  6 45
Coarse  Powdered............  5 45
XXXX Powdered............   6  50
Standard  Granulated......   5 35
Fine Granulated...............  5 35
Coarse Granulated...........  5 45
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 45
Conf.  Granulated.............   5 60
lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 50
lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 50
Mould A............................  5 70
Diamond A.......................  5 35
Confectioner’s A..............  5  15
No.  1, Columbia A..........  5 00
No.  2, Windsor A...........   4 95
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  4 95
No.  4, Phoenix  A...........   4 90
No.  5, Empire A.............  4 85
No.  8...............................  4 75
No.  7...............................  4 66

A. Bomers’ brand.

Elk’s Heart......................66@70
W. S.  W......... ................... 36 00
Bald Head...............................35 00
Plalndealer............................ 86 00
Columbian Cigar Co. ’s brands.
Little Columbian.................... 36 00
Columbian...............................35 00
Columbian Extra.....................66 00
Columbian Special______ 65 00
Columbian invincible........ 90 00
Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager...................  35 00
Quintette..........................  36 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

8 .0. W..............................  86 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......   20

@12
@12
@14
@ 12
Fancy—In  6 lb. Boxes

Fancy—In  Pails 

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..
Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony  Hearts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares......
Fruit Tab., as., wrap 
Sugared Peanuts....
Salted Peanuts........
Starlight Kisses......
San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain.......
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops.............
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Choc. Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials 
Itaf. Cream Opera... 
I tal. Cream Bonbons
20 lb. palls............
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls.................
Golden Waffles........

Lemon  Sours.........
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice Drops.
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar.............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams. 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Bock.............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caramels 
Clipper, 201b. pails.. 
Standard, 20 lb. pails 
Perfection, ¿0 lb.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Kosker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3 for ic prbx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for ic, bx 
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Russett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels.........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings.................
Medt. Sweets.......
Jamalcas................
Rodl......................
Lemons

s o

1 2

13

 

38

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

P ing

Fine  Cat

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

B. L........................................$35 00
Gold Star...............................  35 00
Star G reen....................35  00
Uncle Daniel........................58
Ojlbwa.............................  
Forest  Giant........................38
Sweet Spray..,.....................35
Cadillac.................................57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top.......................... 28
Hiawatha..............................58
Telegram.............................. 28
Pay C ar................................34
Prairie Bose..........................50
Protection.............................38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger.................................... 39
Flat Iron.............................. 36
Creme de Men the................ 60
Stronghold............................40
Solo.......................................35
Sweet Chunk......... ............. 37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross..............................24
Palo......................................36
Kylo......................................36
Hiawatha..............................41
Battle A xe.................... 
American Eagle....................34
Standard Navy..................... 38
Spear Head, 16 oz.................43
Spear Head,  8 oz.................45
Hobby Twist........................ 49
JollyT ar...............................39
Old Honesty..........................45
Toddy.,..................................35
J. T ....................................... 38
Piper Heldsick..................... 64
Boot Jack...........................81
Jelly Cake..........................36
Plumb Bob......................  
Hand Pressed....................46
Double  Cross....................37
Sweet Core............................40
Flat Car................................ 37
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8 oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz................. 
27
I X L,  6 lb...........................28
I XL, 301b...........................32
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................40
Chips.................................... 35-
Kiln Dried...........................24
Duke’s Mixture................... 40
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Yum, IX oz...... ..........39
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........37
Cream.................................. 37
Corn Cake, 2X oz................. 25
Com Cake, lib .....................23
Plow Boy, IX oz...................39
Plow Boy, 3% oz...................37
Peerless, 3X oz.................... 34
Peerless, IX oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2% oz...................28
Indicator, l lb. palls..........31
CoL Choice, 2% oz..............21
Col. Choice. 8 oz...................21

Smoking

32

TABLE SAUCES
LEA  &  
PERRINS’ 
SAUCE

TW INE

The Original and 
Genuine 
Worcestershire.
Lea ft Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea ft 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..................   7X
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..li 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star__ ....12
Pure Cider, Bobinson.........10
Pure cider. Sliver...............u
w a s h i n g   P o w d e r
Gold Dust, regular..............4 50
Gold Dust, 5c.......................4 00

VINEGAR

Bub-No-More.................... 3 50
Pearline..............................2 90
Scourine..............................3 50
No. 0, per gross................... 20
No. i, per gross...................26
No. 7, per gross..................35
No. 8. per gross..................56

WICKING

WOODENWABE

Baskets

Bushels..................... ..........  95
Bushels, wide  band............l  is
M arket................................  30
Splint, huge........................4 00
Splint, medium..................3 60
Splint, small.......................3 00
Willow Clothes, large.........6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 76 
Willow Clothes, small........ 6 26

B u tter Plates

No. 1 Oval, 260 In orate... ..  46
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate...
..  50
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate... ..  55
No. 5 Oval, 260 In crate...
..  65

Egg Crates

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Clothes  Pins

Humpty Dumpty...........
..2 25
No. 1, complete..............
..  30
No. 2, complete..............
..  25
Bound head, 6 gross box....  45
Bound head, cartons...........  62
Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........'  86
No l common.......................  78
No. 2 patent brash holder..  85
iv ih. cotton mop heads......i  2s
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90
Pails
2- 
hoop Standard.l  40
3- 
hoop Standard.l  60
2- wire,  Cable.......................l 50
3- wire,  Cable.......................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka....................2 25
Fibre................................... 2 40
Hardwood................................2 50
Softwood..................................2 75
Banquet.................................... 1 60
37
Ideal......................................... l 60
20-inch, Standard, No. 1........... 6 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2...........5 oo
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3........... 4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l............ 6 60
18-lnch, Cable, No. 2.................6 00
16-lnch, Cable, No. 3.................5 oo
No. 1 Fibre............................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 95
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20
Bronze Globe............................ 2 60
Dewey......................................l 76
Double Acme............................ 2 75
Single Acme....................   2  26
Double Peerless....................  3 25
Single Peerless......................... 2 60
Northern Queen...................... 2 60
Double Duplex................... 300
Good Luck............................... 2 76
Universal..................................2 25
li In. Butter.........................  76
13 In. Butter.............................. l oo
16 In. Butter.....................  ..! 76
17 In. Butter..............................2 60
19 In. Butter..............................3 oo
Assorted 13-16-17.......................1 75
Assorted 15-17-19...................... 2 50

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

Tubs

FRESH  FISH

YEAST  CAKE

W RAPPING PA PER
Common Straw.................  
ix
Fiber Manila, white.........   3X
Fiber Manila, colored......   4X
No.  l  Manila.................. 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila.............   2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  2u
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15
Magic, 3 doz.........................l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................l 00
Sunlight, IX  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............i 00
Yeast Foam, 8  doz.............. 1 00
Yeast Foam. IX  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish...................  @
@ 9
@ 9
Trout..........................   2
Black Bass..................io@
10@ 11
Halibut.......................  2
@ 16@ 5
Ciscoes or Herring__   A
Bluefish......................  @
@ 12
Live Lobster..............  A
@ 22
Boiled  Lobster...........  A
@ 20
Cod..............................  @
@ 10
@ 7
Haddock....................   @
No. l Pickerel.............  A
@ 9
@ 8
Pike..................
Perch................
@ 5
Smoked  White..
a 10X
_
Bed Snapper__  
@ 11
Col River  Salmon.......  @
@ 12@ 15
Mackerel....................   @
SLTS
HIDES AND  PELTS 
h Lea iher
Co., 100 Canal Street,  quotes as 
follows:
Hides
Green No. l .............
Green No. 2.............
Cured  No. l .............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calf skins,green No. l 
Calfskins .green No. 2 
Calf skins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 
Pelts,  each.............. 
Lamb..............................
Tallow
No. 1. 
No. 2.
............  
Wool
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy

@ 6* 
@ 6X 
@  8* 
@ 7X 
@ 9
@ 7X 
@10 
@ 8X
50@i oo

15@17
18@21
ll@i3
14@16

TheCappon&l

@ 4X

Pelts

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

bbls. palls
ÌB
@7X 
@ 7X 
@  8 @ 9
@ 7X
@UH4
@iox 
@10 

@ 8

@ 3X

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Mixed Candy

15

AKRON STONEWARE

© 6
@ 7@ m@ 8X 

@ 8X 
@ 9 
@ 8X 
@  9 
@ 9 
@ 9 
@ 9 @10 
@10
@138
@15X

15
12
129
12
lox
12
10
@12 
© 9X 
@10 
@UX 
@13X @14 
@16 @ 5 
@ 9X @10 @10 

@55
@60
@65
@ 86
@1  00 
@30 
@76 
@55 
@60 
@60 
@60 
@55 
@55 
@90

@ 9 
@10 
@12X @15 
@65 
@65 
@60 
@60 
@60

@6 00 @

@@
@
@

@
@

X gal. 
2 to 6 
8 gal. 
10 gal. 
12 gal. 
legal. 
20 gal. 
25 gal 
30 gal.

, per doz.............
gal., per gal. 
..
each...................
each...................
each..................
meat-tubs, each. 
meat-tubs, each. 
meat-tubs, each, 
meat-tubs, eacn.

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

Milkpans
X gtu  f.at or rd. bot, per doz.. 
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ each......

Fine Glazed Milkpans
X gal  flat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

Stewpans

X gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............
1 gal. fireproof, bail, pur doz............

Jugs

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

Sealing Wax

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

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

6X84

85 
1  10

60
45
7X

35 
46 
60 
1  10 
50 
50

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz
1 38
1  54
2 24

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

First Quality

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

XXX  Flint

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft  lab.
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped s  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.................
Rochester
No. 1 Lime (66c  doz).................
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz).................
No. 2 Flint (80c  d o z )" "...........

E lectric

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. 15 Tubular, dash..........................
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp...................
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................
LANTERN GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases X 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...............................................

1  85
2  00 
2 90

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00
5 00 
5  10

1 00 
1  25 
1  35

3 60
4 00 
4 60

4 00 
4  60

1  35
1  65
2 87
3 80 
5  004 60
5 40 
7 ro 
9 00
4 76 
7 26 
7 26 
7 50 
13 50 
3 60

45 
45 
2 00 
1  25

6 26 
6 50 
9 25 
2 40 
26 ft 35

(Hover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or i>asoline.

Glover’s  W holesale  M erchandise  Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers  of 

GAS and  GASOLINE SUNDRIES

Office Statuner Q
1>eTTE*»V|0TÇ 
HEADS
ì ; ì ? lopeIs;T radesm an
COMPANY,
COUNTER  BILLS. 
---JL  G R A N D   R A P I D S G R A N D   R A P I D i

“Summer  Light”

Light  your  Hotels,  Cottages and 
Camps with the

'* IMULITE**

Incandescent  Vapor  Gas  Lamps,  huperlor  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  Lan ps, etc.  Average  cost  l  cent 
for  7  hours.  Nothing  like  them.  They  sell  at 
sight.  GOOD  AGENTS  WANTED.  Send  for 
catalogue and prices.

CH ICAGO SOLAR LIGH T CO .. 

Chicago, HI.

Dept.  L. 
n m r n m n m r
E  The 
£  Prompt 
People

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 lt, he wants it at once.
So we do our best to get It to him 
at once.  Do you want this service?

Brown  &   Sehler

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

JUUUUUUUUUUl^

PA R IS 

G R EEN  

LA B EL 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 cents 
200 labels, 40 cents 
500 labels, 7 5 cents 
lOOO 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.

TRADESM AN 
C O M P A N Y ,

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

Messina, 300s..........   5  or @5 50
Messina, 360s...........  5 oo@5 50
California 360s......... 
California 300s......... 
Bananas
Medium bunches 
 
Large bunches........

1  50@2 00

@
@

Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
@
California«,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes  @
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
@
boxes..................... 
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
@12
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
a
2
Naturals, In bags.... 
a
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In a  lb. oases. 
a
Hallow!.................... 
5 a  5X
lb.  cases, new......  
@
Sairs, a  lb. cases....  4X  @ 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  @17
Almonds, Ivlca......  
§
Almonas, California,
soft tnelled........... 
16918
@n
Brazils,....................  
@12V
Filberts  .................  
Walnuts.  Grenobles.  @13*1
Walnut«., soft shelled 
@13M
California No. l . .. 
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
@14
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
@13
Pecans,  Med........... 
@10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@11
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@w
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
@
Cocoanuts, full sacks  @s 61
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @
P eanuts
Fancy, H. P„8uns.. 
6X@ 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Boasted................  6X@ 7
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P„ Extras
Boaste d ................ 
Span.ShiidNo.m’w  7  @8

g
a

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«

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3 1

c .  H.  Libby,  Wholesale  Batter  and  Be* 

Dealer.

Charles  H.  Libby,  was  born  at  Caoti- 
cook,  Quebec,  Dec.  20,  1864.  His father 
was  a  native  of  New  Hampshire,  while 
his  mother  was  of  English  descent.  The 
latter  died  when  he  was  three  weeks  old 
and  for  the  next  ten  years  he  was  a 
member  of the  housebjld  of  his  grand­
father  at  YVbitefield,  N.  H.  On  the 
second  marriage  of  his  father,  he  went 
to  live  with  him  at  Burke,  Vt.,  where 
he  remained  until  be  was  16  years 
age,  when  he  removed  to  Woodvilie
Mich.,  and  made  his  home  w it h __
uncle,  the  late  Lyman  T.  Kinney,  who 
placed  him  in  charge  of  his sawmill and 
store,  which  necessitated  his 
looking 
after  the  shipment  of  the  lumber and 
the  keeping  of  the  time  of  the  men 
the  mill.  He  remained  there  until  1882 
when  he  removed  to  Grand  Rapids. 
His  uncle  having  been  elected  county 
sheriff,  he  assisted  him  in  the  manage 
ment  of  the  county  jail.  Dec.  20,  1885

of  life  on  the  following  Monday.  This 
was  on  Friday,  giving  him  but  one  full 
week  day  in  which  to assemble  suffi­
cient  food  to  supply  the  camp. 
Instead 
of  3,000  men,  about  5*000  men  put  in 
an  appearance,  but  Mr.  Libby  was 
equal  to  the  emergency  and  succeeded 
in  handling  the  commissary  department 
so  satisfactorily  that  he  elicited  the 
commendation  of  nearly  everyone  inter­
ested.  He  remained  at  Island  Lake  five 
months  and  during  that  time  no  deduc­
tions  were  made  from  the  bills  he  ren­
dered  either  the  State  or  the  National 
Government.  He  did  all  his  own  book­
keeping,  having  to  keep  accounts  with 
forty  companies,  five  regimental  head 
quarters  and  one  brigade  headquarters, 
He  undertook  to  turn  the  detail  work 
over to  a  book-keeper,  but  the  experi 
ment  was  not  a  success.  His  military 
education  as  quartermaster  for his  old 
company  and  as  sutler  for the  encamp 
ment  of  1897  gave  him  the  requisite  ex 
perience  to  enable  him  to  handle  the 
undertaking  in  such  a  way  as  to  satisfy 
himself  and  the  Sate.

Large  Offerings and  High  Prices  on  the 

Horning Market.

Already  the  dominating  feature  of  the 
market  is  the  offering  of  peaches.  A 1 
exanders  are  about  numbered  with  the 
past  and  Hale’s  Early  may  be  said  to 
be  their  successors  as  to  quantity,  al 
though  there  is  a  considerable  abund 
ance  of  other  varieties.  A  noticeable 
feature,  and  one  to  be  appreciated  by 
consumers, 
is  the  unusual  freedom  of 
the  peach  stones,  many  of  the  usual 
cling  varieties  appearing  as  freestone, 
owing  to  some  peculiarity  of  the  season 
no  doubt— probably  the  abundance  of 
moisture. 
It  is  a  promising  indication 
of  what  the  regular  harvest  will  be  that 
the  early  varieties  are  in  such  quanti­
ties,  and  the  fact  that  everything  is  sold 
at  good  prices  is  promise  for the  main­
tenance  of  the  regular  harvest  in  that 
regard.  A  few  yellow  peaches  are  being 
offered  and  sell  at  about  double  the 
prices  of  the  other  fruit.

*   < 

t

.*>■  

t  A

. which  was  his  21st  birthday,  he  was 
sworn 
in  as  a  deputy  sheriff,  being 
probably  the  youngest  deputy  sheriff 
the  United  States.  On  the  retirement  of 
his  uncle  from  the  position  of  sheriff 
four  years  later,  he  entered  the  employ 
of  Cornel »us  Fox,  grocer  at  95  South 
Division  street,  and 
in  1891,  he  pur 
chased  the  stock and continued  the  busi 
ness  until  1898,  when  he  sold  the  stock 
to  Fox  &  Son  and  established  himself 
in  the  butter  and  egg  business  at  98 
South  Division  street.  He  has  been  ex 
ceptionally  successful 
in  this  business 
and  has  come  to  be  regarded  as  a  fair 
dealer  and  one  who  makes  prompt  set­
tlement  for all  shipments.

Mr.  Libby  was  married  Feb.  x,  1887, 
to  Miss  Rebecca  J.  Fox.  They  have  no 
children  and  reside  at  95 South Division 
street.

Mr.  Libby  is  by  no  means  a “ jiner,”  
being  a  member  of  no  secret  order 
whatever.  On  the  same  day  that  Cleve 
land  first  took  the  oath  of  office  as  Pres­
ident— March  4,  1885—he  was  sworn 
in 
as  a  member of  the  old  Grand  Rapids 
Guard  and  for  the  next  dozen  years  he 
was  identified  in  some  capacity with the 
State  militia.  As  long  ago  as  1886,  he 
was  elected  quartermaster  under  Cap­
tain  McGurrin. 
In  1897  he  went  to  Is­
land  Lake  and  assumed  charge  of  the 
supply  store  of  the  entire  camp.  On 
the  breaking  out  of  the  Spanish  war,  in 
the  spring  of  1898,  he  received  a  tele­
gram  from  the  State  Military  Board, 
then  in  session  at  Detroit,  asking  him 
to  proceed  to  Island  Lake  and  get ready 
to supply  3,000  men  with  the necessities

Offerings  of  other of  the  large  fruits 
are  scanty,  except  apples.  These  are 
n  considerable  abundance  and  sell  at 
exceptionally  good  prices. 
Indeed  the 
feature  that  makes  the  farmer  happy 
nd  independent  this  season  is  the  fact 
that  he  can  always  get  good  money 
from  the  sale  of  almost  anything  he may 
offer.  A  few  small  loads  of  pears  and 
less  of  the  early  varieties  of  plums  are 
'n  evidence,but  not  enough  to  cut  much 
figure.  Tomatoes  are 
in  considerable 
quantities  and  sell  for  prices  above any 
’  'ng  ever  known  at  this  market.  The 
is  not  over,  by  any 
blackberry  season 
means,  and  the 
fruit  commands  the 
usual  good  prices  and  quick  sales. 
Huckleberries  are  conspicuous  by  their 
bsence,  very  few  being  seen.
The  profusion  in  varieties  of  vege 
tables 
is  something  wonderful,  as  the 
later kinds  begin  to  make  their  appear­
ance.  Cucumbers  are  in  wagon  loads, 
and  it  is  to  be  noted  that  there  is  an  in­
crease  in  the  number  of  wagons  devoted 
a  single  product,  instead of the  mixed 
loads  formerly  offered.  This  is  partly 
in 
the  increase  of output  from  the  individ­
ual  farms  additional  teams  are  being 
put  into  the  work  and  so  each  devoted 
is 
made  up  of  that  most  available  and  the 
rest  is  taken  at  another time.

be  accounted  for  by  the  fact  that 

particular  variety;  the  load 

It  is  not  often  that  the  market  has 
presented  such  pleasant  features  as  to 
temperature  and 
from  dust 
when  the  business  was  so  heavy.  The

freedom 

heat  of  the  earlier  season,  with  the 
abundant  moisture,  appears  to  have 
given  the  productions  the  greatest  per­
fection  and  the  cooler  weather of  recent 
weeks  has  not  been  such  as  to  injure the 
quality  or  quantity. 
Then  the  days 
have  been  ideal  for  the  gatherers’  work. 
Altogether the  situation,  from the  stand­
point  of  the  fruit  and  vegetable  farmer, 
is  about  as  pleasant  as  it  could  be 
made.

Hardware Price Current

Horse  Nalls

Hollow  W are

_  . 
Pots..................................
50610
Kettles............................7 .7 ...........
603(10
77.77
Spiders............................. 
SO&10
.  „  . . 
Au Sable............................................ ¿is
40&10
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................
70
Japanned Tinware.......................
20610
„   _ 
......................................... .. .  o rates
Light Band.........................................   3 c rates

Iron

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
_ 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz......................  
Warren, Galvanized  Fount...............  
Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s............. dls 

Lanterns

Levels

75
86
B 00
g 00

70

714
g

Mattocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages.................................................  
Pumps, Cistern......................................... 
 
Screws, New L ist............................. ] 
85
Casters, Bed and Plate................ .. 7  50&10&10
Dampers, American................................... 

40
75

bo

Molasses Gates

Pans

Stebbins’ Pattern..............................
Enterprise, self-measuring.....'. ’..**’]

6061030
Fry, Acme...........................................  60610610
Common,  polished.............................  
70&6
P atent  Planished  Iron 

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

Broken packages V4c per pound extra.

Planes

Ohio Tool Co.’s, fancy.................  
Sclota Bench................................   ’  ’ 
Sandusky Tool  Co.’s, fancy......... 7 7  
Bench, first quality.............................  

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Nalls

m
go
M
gg

2  66 
2 66 
Base

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

Steel nails, base
Wire nails, base.................................
20 to 60 advance......... 7.7.77.77.777.7
10 to 16 advance..........................
8 advance.............................. .'7 '.* "
6 advance.... 
 
.7 .7 /
4 advance...............................
3 advance.........................." 7 /7 7 7 7
2 advance......................... 
7 7 7
Flne3 advance..................'77.7.777'.
Casing 10 advance.......................
Casing 8 advance......................... 7 !!'
Casing 6 advance...................... ..771
Finish 10 advance...............................
Finish 8 advance........................7 7 7
Finish 6 advance..........................  .*
Barrel  % advance...................... 77.7

2 60 
3 00 
6  00 
6 75

1  20 
1  20

Per 
100 
$2 90 
2 90 
2 90 
2 90
2 96
3 0U 
2 60 
2 60 
2  66 
2 70 
2 70

4 00 
2 25 
1  25

Rivet»

Iron and  Tinned................................
Copper Rivets and  Burs...........7 7 7

Hoofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean................... ’
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean...............
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade. 7 
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
20x28IX, Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

6  00 
9  00 
6 60 
10 60
12  00 
29 00

Sisal, Vi inch and larger.................
M a n illa ...................... .....................................

Ropes

$4 00

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

Sand  P aper 

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

Sash  W eights

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

Sheet Iron

com. smooth.

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

Nos. 10 to 14..............
Nos. 16 to 17................
Nos. 18 to 21.......................
Nos. 22 to 24............................. 
3 go
Nos. 25 to 26..................................3 70
No. 27............................................ 3 80 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz.................
8  00 
Second Grade, Doz..............
7  60
Solder
K@V4................................................... 
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—Melyn  Grade

Squares

70

 

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—A llaw ay Grade

10X14-IC, Charcoal............................... 
14x20 IC, Charcoal............................... 
10x14 IX, Charcoal............................... 
14x20 IX, Charcoal............................... 
Boiler Size  Tin  Plate 

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60 

S 8&0
8 60
975

7 no
7 m
g go
8 go

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, )
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers) J P®r P®un0.. 
Traps
Steel,  Game................  
 
75
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......  
40610
Oneida Community,  Hawley  6   Nor­
ton’s.................................................  
6Q
Mouse, choker  per doz......................................15
Mouse, delusion, per doz.................... 
1  25

10

 

net

66 
1  26 
40610

70610
70
70

60610
80620
80620
80620

A m m a n i tlo n  

Caps

6. D., full count, perm.
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m ..................
Musket, per m......... . ........  
..........
Ely’s Waterproof, per m .'!!"*" 
7
v.  no  . 
No. 22 short, per m...........
No. 22 long, per m..............................
No. 32 short, per m ............ . '. 7 ........
No. 32 long, per m...... 7 7 7 .7 7 7 7 ."

Cartridges

. 

Primers

Gun Wads

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

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

Loaded  Shells 
oz. of 
Drs. of 
Powder  Shot 
1% 

New Rival—For Shotguns 
Gai

Size
Shot 
10

4 

_  
fto. 

5
4

IH 
1% 

* 
* 
Discount 40 per cent.

3* 
3H 
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
Kegs. 26 lbs., per keg.................
H kegs, 12H lbs., per  %  keg......
M kegs, 6}4 lbs., per H  keg  .........

Gunpowder

Shot

In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than B ..........
Snell’s ............AUf UM. an d .Blte
Jennings  genuine......
Jennings’ imitation........
?irst Quality, S. B.Bronze*...
birst Quality, D. B. Bronze..  . 
......
......
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel.... 
hirst Quality,  D.B. Steel.............. "
_ 
Railroad.........
Garden............... . 7 7 7 7  
Bolts
„. 
Stove ................
.**......................
Carriage, new list 
Plow ....................... ........  
..............
Well, plain.........

Backets
B atts,  Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured.........
Wrought Narrow.................7 7 7 7

Barrow s

_ 

"  **" " ni

Chain

% In. 

6-16 in.  % in. 
§®m..............   7  c.  ...  6  0.  ...  6  0.  .
bbb.........8* 
:::  jjjg  ;
Cast Steel, per I b . . . ! ^ ! * ! ^ . ..........
„ 
Chisels
Socket Firm er.......................
Socket Framing..................................
Socket Corner......... .  ......................
Socket Slicks.................

.  , _  

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz........... 
Corrugated, per doz........
Adjustable.......................... V.V.'dls
Expansive  Bits 
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26...  .
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30..............7 7
„  
Files—New List
New American......................
Nicholson’s....................... . . . ’*..........
Heller’s Horse Rasps...'.

. 

Galvanized  Iro n  

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

14 

16 

Discount,  60

Gauges

Stanley Rule and Level Co.’s..............
Single Strength, by box......................dls
Double Strength, 6y b o x /7 '7 ..........dls
By the Light.............................dls

Glass

Hammers

hi« 
Maydole 6  Co.’s, new list.............  
m u
Yerkes 6  Plumb’s................. 7 7dlS  40&10
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c list 
70
„ 
Gate, Clark’s 1, 2,3............................ .dls 
snfjio

Hinges

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

gest  since  1897.  Advices  from  Eastport 
note  little  change  in  the  sardine  situa- 
ion.  The  run  of  fish  is  about  the  same 
previously  reported,  but  packers  are 
n  a  bad  position  because  of  the  uncer- 
inty  regarding  tin.  The  prospect  of 
1  unsettled  condition  prevents  active 

business  in  any  line.

Dried  Fruits— In  most  descriptions  of 
dried  fruit a moderate interest is needed, 
larger  proportion  of  the  purchases  be- 
ng  limited  to  small  lots,  apparently  for 
mmediate  consumption.  For  most  va- 
list  there  is  a  continued 
eties  in  the 
steady  feeling  which  holds  prices  firm 
and  causes  holders  to demand full prices 
on  everything  now  in hand.  Prunes  are 
firm  and  are  selling  very  well.  Stocks 
seem  to  be  very  light  all  over the  coun­
try  and  many  orders  are  turned  down 
through  lack  of  stock  to  fill  them  with.
A  short  time  ago  there  was  apparently 
large  lot  of  prunes  that  would  have  to 
be  carried  over  into  the  next  season, 
but  they  have all  gone  into  consumption 
and  there  is  practically  nothing 
left  to 
be  carried  over.  The  raisin  situation 
stronger,  both  for  loose  muscatels 
and  seeded.  Apricots  and  peaches  are 
very  firm  for  both  spot  and  future  de- 
very.  Bales  of  future  goods  have  been 
heavy,  but  spot  stocks  are  small  and 
is  rather  light  at  this  season. 
demand 
Currants  are 
in  good  demand  at  un­
changed  prices.  Other  lines  show  no 
change.

Nuts— It 

looks  now  as  if  the  almond 
crop  for  1901  would  be  the  largest  in 
ears.  The  estimated  production  for 
1901  is  placed  at  41,000 tons.  The  out­
look  is  excellent  for the  Malaga  crops 
particular.  Brazils show  a  slight  ad­
vance.  Peanuts  are  in  good  demand  at 
previous  prices.

Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
again  on  the  upward  grade and prices 
have  advanced  30c  for  barrels,  15c  for 
competitive  cases  and  15c  for  Banner 
oats.  The  grain  markets  are  very  firm 
_nd  we  do  not  look  for any  lower  prices 
for  rolled  oats  in  the  immediate  future.

T w o   T yp es  o f Stay-at-H om es.

,

, 

ward droop, 
soup!
way,
say.

7e see a man  with  underlip  that  has  a  down­
Upon  his  face  a  scowl  as  if  he’d fallen  in  the 
He roams  about  the  busy  streets  in  an  uneasy 
And  puts  a  surly  accent on the things he has to 
He goes into a restaurant and  drops  into  a  seat
And wonders why  they’ve  not  a  thing  fit  for  a 
And if  you care  to  seek  the  cause  that  makes 
ou'll  not  have very far to look;  his wife  is  out 

dog to eat. 
him feel so brown
of town.

.

bouquet;
topped schooners sail.
cross his trail,

vVe see another man  dressed  up  unusually  gay.
He  wears  a smile  of gladness  and a buttonhole 
He joins  the  cruising  parties  where  the  white- 
And goo-goos all  the  pretty  girls who chance to 
At striking of the midnight hour he yet is  on the
Is stienuous in his efforts to control his wabbling 
He wears  his  hat  tipped  sideways  on  his  beer 
The mousey  knows  the  cat’s  away;  his  wife  is 

feet; 
befuddled crown;
out of town.

,,

32

T h e   G ro c e ry   M a rk e t.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 

is 
weaker,  prices  showing  a  decline  of 
1-32C,  which  makes  the  present  price  of 
96  deg.  test  centrifugals  i% c,  with  the 
tendency  still  downward. 
It  is  reported 
that  refiners  are  fairly  well  supplied 
with  raw  sugar  and  receipts of  raws  will 
hereafter  increase. 
In  sympathy  with 
the  lower  raw  sugar  market  the  refined 
market  was  dull  and  featureless.  The 
demand  is  very  light,  buyers  maintain­
ing  an  indifferent  attitude,  and  general 
expectations  are  that  prices  may  be  re­
duced  at  any  moment.  The  course  of 
the  market,  however,  will  be  regulated 
by  the  prices  of  raw  sugar.

in 

Canned  Goods—The  canned  goods 
market  has 
just  passed  through  one  of 
the  most  active  periods  in  its  existence, 
and  the  changes  wrought 
in  a  short 
time  were  rather  surprising.  Most buy­
ers  have  made  their  heaviest  purchases 
by  this  time,  however,  and  the  market 
will  probably  now  gradually  settle  down 
to  a  steady  basis.  The  outlook  for  the 
canned  goods  market 
is  very  bright. 
The  crop  prospects for almost everything 
in  sight  are  all  that  can  be  expected, 
and  we  think  that  there  will  be  a  good, 
active,  steady  market  on  most  all  lines 
for the  remainder  of  the  year.  The  to­
mato  market  is  very  firm.  Spot  stocks 
are  almost  entirely  cleaned  up  and  most 
packers  have  entirely  withdrawn  on  fu 
tures.  Holders  are  not  anxious  sellers 
as  they  believe  prices  will  soon  go  still 
higher.  There  is  considerable  enquiry 
for  corn,  which  is  very  firm.  The  out­
look  for  corn  is  very  unsatisfactory  and 
unless  there  is  a  change  which  will 
in 
crease  the  crop 
localities  least  in 
jured  by  drouth  the  pack  promises  to 
be  much  below  the  average.  The  pros 
pects  for  even  a  fair  pack  are  so  poor 
that  some  packers  have  withdrawn  from 
the  market.  Gallon  apples  are  a  trifle 
firmer  with  supplies  mostly  cleaned  up 
Holders  are  not  disposed  to  let  stocks 
go  and  are  holding  everything  very 
firmly.  Peas  are  unchanged,  but  every 
thing  is  firmly  held  and  business  is  be 
ing  done  in  a  quiet  way  around  quota 
tions.  The  situation  is  so  unsatisfactory 
that  business  is  transacted  only  in small 
lots,  neither  buyers  nor  sellers  caring  to 
undertake  any 
large  operations.  The 
peach  market  is  in  very  good  condition 
and  prices  are  firmly  held.  The  sea 
son 
late  this  year,  but  the 
crop  will  be  large  enough  and  the  qual 
ity  will  be  excellent.  There  will,  how 
ever,  be  very  few  of  the  pie  and  “ sec 
ond”   grades.  The  present  crop  is 
that  could  be  desired  and  we  will  prob 
ably  see  a  healthy  market,  from  which 
all  hands  will  reap  fair  returns.  String 
beans,  which  have  been  so 
long  neg 
lected,  have  been  quite  active  and  have 
advanced  about  20c  per  doz.,  with 
Pineapples  have  not 
large  demand. 
shared 
in  the  buying  movement,  but 
they  have  been  selling  in  a  quiet  way 
and  the  stocks  have  diminished  without 
creating  any  stir  in  the  market.  There 
are,  however,  at  present  sufficient  stocks 
on  hand  to  prevent  any  worry  of  getting 
supplies  and  there  have  been no changes 
in  price.  There  is  a  continuance of  the 
large  run  of  salmon 
in  the  Columbia 
River and  on  the  Puget Sound,  although 
it  is  not  quite  so  large  as  it  was  last 
week.  Canners  have  been  running 
full  capacity,  where  they  had  plenty 
' 
help,  but  in  some  canneries there  was 
scarcity  of  help,  which  has  been  a  great 
drawback  this  season.  The  pack  shows 
a  most  decided 
increase  over  that of 
1900.  Press  accounts  of  the  run  have 
been  highly  colored,  yet  it  is  the  big­

little 

is  a 

trade.  Box 33. Epsib n. Mich. 

S O M ET H IN G   TO  INVESTIGATE—HOW 
pure air and good health can be secured  and 
maintained by  the  use  of  The  Miller  Window 
aud  Wall Ventilator.  For use  in  school  rooms, 
offices and sleeping apartments.  Recummended 
■ y  |.hy>lci >ns  and  school  officials.  Agents 
'anted.  Descriptive  circulars  free.  Address 
j  c. Sherrick & Co., General Agents,  Westfield, 
ind. 
991
A  BARGAIN—DESIRE  TO  SELL  DRUG 
stock and fixtures, and store building  if  de­
sired, iu small  inland  town;  rai road  building; 
only  drug  store  within  ten  miles:  reason  lor 
sale, change of bus in. ss;  must  be  sold  by  Sep­
tember 1.  Address  C.  W.  Merkel,  Brookfield, 
Mich. 
990
A N  OPENING—Al  MEAT  MARKET  Bl SI- 
ness;  established trade of $2,0u0 per month; 
practically cash  business;  owner  lost  his  wife: 
> ound 10 leave.  Address Decker & Jean, Grand 
975
Rapids.  Mich. 
UK  SALE-GOOD  ESTABLISHED  GKO- 
cery business in town of 6.0UU;  a  bargain  for 
the right person.  Will not sell  except  to  good, 
reliable party.  For particulars address Grocery, 
car« Michigan Tradesman. 
983
WANTED—DRUG  .STOf. K,  ONE  THAT 
Invoices  from  $1,000  to  $1,500.  Address
Edgar E. Tice, Blooming dale, Mich._______980
jTOR  SALE—IF  SOLD  BEFORE  SK1*T.  1, 
one  of the  best  drug  stores  in  the  State. 
Average  daily  sales  for  July.  $39.29.  No  cut 
rates.  Do not  care  to  sell  after  Sept.  1.  Ad­
dress No. 986, care Michigan Tradesman.  986
Ch o i c e   so  a c r e   f a r m   f o r   s a l e   o r
985
1. OK  SALE-A  HARDWARE  STOCK,  iN- 
F   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 
lor  a  person  wishing  to  commence  business. 
Apply to Peter Doran, Rooms 19-20 Tower Block, 
rand Rapids,  Mich. 
972
A   SPLENDID  GENERAL  STOKE.  HOTEL 
and livery, a great stand for business; good 
transient  trade;  number  of  steady  boarders, 
--ell or exchange  for  Al  farm.  Address  R  A. 
Butwell, Wixom, Mich.______  
976
INOR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  SHINGLE 
F   and tie mill in very best repair; center crank 
nglne, 12xi6;  plenty boiler room;  Perkins shin­
gle mill;  bolter cut off, drag and knot  saws;  ele­
vator;  endless  log  chains;  gummer;  belting  all 
ih first-class shape;  mill now turning out 40 to 60 
M. shingles per day.  Any  one  wanting  such  a 
mill will do wdl  to  investigate.  Will  trade for 
«took of groceries.  Address  A.  R.  Morehouse, 
Big Rapids, Mich. 
INOR  SALE-COUNTRY  STORE  DOING 
F   good  bu-iness.  For  particulars  address  J. 
H. Adams, Frost, Mich. 
iVOR  SALE—IN   T H R IV IN G   CITY  OF  4,000, 
J   confectionery,  ice  cream  soda,  cigars  and 
tobacco;  business good;  cash trade.  Enquire at 
.182 Canal St.. Grand Kapi-ls. 
965
F'OK SALE—SMALL CAPACITY  SAWMILL 
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_
F~OR_SALE=DRUG  STORE  IN  A  THRIV- 
ing Northern  Michigan  resort  town.  Stock 
invoices auout $1,560.  Best of reasons for selling. 
Bright new stock, good trade.  Address  Bower s 
‘)ruR More, Indian River, Mich._________  947
h'UK  SALE,  (HEAP—#1,600  STOCK  GEN- 
eral  merchandise.  Address  No.  945,  care 
________ 945
Michigan T radesman. 
INOR SALE—BEST MONEY-MAKING  GRO- 
F   eery in the State, all sales spot  cash:  old es­
tablished  stand,  40x80;  low  rent;  stock  about 
£5,060;  can reduce  to  suit;  no  unsalable  gooos; 
making  over  $3,000 net i<er annum.  .The  Phlla- 
lelphla Chemical < o  is building a plant near my 
tore.  It appropriated  nlue  million  dollars  for 
this;  our shin yards  built  the  famous  Erie and 
fashmo,  ana  are  building  two  vessels  to  co-t 
over  half  a  million  each:  have  two  large soda 
ind n any other plants:  this is the second largest 
-hipping point iu the State;  our  postoffice  rates 
-econd;  reason  for selling,  wish  to  take an in­
terest iu  a  wholesale  grocery  in  Detroit.  Carl 
Dice, Wyandotte, Mich. 
939
(NOR SALE OR RENT—TWO BRICK STORES 
connected  with  arch.  2.*x80  each;  suitable 
for department  or  general  store,  of  which  we 
h<ve need here;  will  rent  one  or  both.  Write 
936
P. O. Box 556. Mendon, Mich. 
OTOCK  OF  GENERAL  MERCHANDISE 
O   for sale.  Box 108, Kathbone, Mich. 
922

966

9.0

ROM EYN-PARSONS  PAY’S  CASH  FOR 
stocks  of  merchandise  (not  a  trader  or 
broker).  Grand Ledge, Mich.___________ 920
I NOR SALE—AN UP-TO-DATE HARDWARE 
’  and  implement  stock.  Invoicing  $3.000;  lo­
cated In Northern Michigan;  doing a  good  busi­
ness,  Address No. 913,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
9i3
■ NOR  SALE—THE  BEST  STOCK  OF  GRO- 
F   ceries, having the best  trade  In  one  of  the 
best towns and In one of  the  best  fruit and  po­
tato sections of  Michigan;  doing  a  prosperous 
business;  also have a  fine  shipping  business  In 
fruit and  potatoes;  also  a  warehouse  which  I 
will dispose  of.  Object  of  selling,  have  other 
business elsewhere  that  will  require  all  of  my 
attention.  Address  No.  856,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
______ 856
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._____________ 798

M IS C E L L A N E O U S

W ANTED—SITUATION BY  YOUNG  MAN 
In general  store:  has  had  several  years 
experience.  Can furnish  good  references.  Ad­
dress  No  997. care  Mlehluan Tradesman.  997
PAN-AMERICAN  ACCOMMODATIONS  AT 
private  house,  conveniently  located,  look- 
Ing, one  dollar  each  Address  LeRoy  8.  oat- 
917
man, Sec^, Buffalo Produce Exchange. 

Rice—Owing  to  the continued scarcity 
of  stocks  and  unusually  active  demand, 
there 
is  increased  strength  in  the  rice 
market.  Sales  were  of good  volume,  be- 
ng  far  in  excess  of  the  corresponding 
period  last  year.  The  incoming  season 
has  a  bright  beginning  and,  according 
to  reports,  the  situation  never  was  freer 
from  adverse  features. 
It  is  believed 
that  even 
if  the  production  should  ex 
ceed  present  estimates,  it  will  be  fa 
short  of  requirements,  which  have  been 
greatly  increased  by  the  good  demand 
from  Puerto  Rico,  and  it  is  expected  ; 
further  increase  in  demand  will  set  in 
due  to  the  short  crop  in  potatoes.

Tea—The  tea  market 

is  very  quiet 
and  general  conditions  continue  unsat 
sfactory.  Prices,  however,  are  steady 
and  holders,  as  a  rule,  are  not  disposed 
to  make  any  concessions  of  importance. 
The  statistical  position  is  daily  grow 
ing  stronger.

Molasses  and  Syrups— No  new  de 
velopments  occurred  and  the  usual  slow 
movement  was  experienced  throughout 
the  past  week.  Sales  were  confined  to 
small 
lots  of  grocery  grades  of  New 
Orleans, 
for  which  dealers  realized 
steady  values.  Supplies  continue  mod 
erate  and  will  hardly  be  sufficient  to 
meet  requirements  when  the fall demand 
sets  in.  The  corn  syrup  market  is  very 
firm  and,  on  account  of  the  expected 
difficulty 
in  getting  cans,  prices  for 
in  cans  have  advanced  6c 
corn  syrup 
per  case.  There  is  no  change 
in  bar 
rels.

Fish—While  the  Pacific  coast  salmon 
packers  are  in  the  midst  of  a  very  larg 
run  of  salmon  on  that  coast,  the  fishing 
interests  on  the  Atlantic  coast  are  high 
ly  pleased  with  the  outlook 
for  the 
mackerel  catch  for  the  season.  For  sev 
eral  years  past  the  bulk  of the American 
mackerel  catch  has been marketed fresh 
This  year,  however,  over  40,000  barrels 
of  this  fish  have  been  put  under  salt 
Most  of  the  schooners  now  have  salted 
mackerel  aboard  and  there  are  signs  of 
a  grand  revival  of  the  packing  industry 
ashore. 
In  any  event,  the  conditions 
augur  well  for the  most  successful  fall 
catch  in  many  years.

R e fle c tio n s   o f a   B a c h e lo r.
ideal  husband 
hasn’t  got  married  yet.

The 

is  the  man  whe 

Marrying  a  drunkard  to  reform  him is
ke  frying  fish  to  make  beefsteak  out 

of  it.
When  a  woman  is  dead  sure  that  she 
has  a  man  she  is  never  dead  sure  thai 
she  wants  him.
A  woman  is  never  so  much  afraid  she 
love  as  she  is  that 
may 
some  other  woman  may  gain  it.
No  matter  how  much  of  a  past  a  man 
has  had,  there  are  always  some  women 
who can  teach  him  more  than  he  knew 
before.

lose  a  man’s 

One  of  the  surest  keys  to  success 

lies 
.n  thoroughness.  No  matter  how  great 
the  enterprise,  small  things  must  be  re­
garded.

A d v e rtis e m e n ts   w ill  b e   in s e rte d   n n d e i 
th is   h e a d   fo r  tw o   c e n ts   a   w o rd   th e   first 
in s e rtio n   a n d   o n e   c e n t  a   w o rd   fo r  ea ch  
s u b s e q u e n t  in s e rtio n .  N o  a d v e rtis e m e n t*  
ta k e n   fo r  
le ss  th a n   2 5   c e n ts .  A dvanc* 
p a y m e n ts .

B U SIN E SS  C H A N C E S.

FOR  SALE  CHEAP—GOOD  BAKERY  AND 

restaurant, building and  lot.  Fine  oven  in 
very finest  town  lu  Nortle rn  Michigan.  Sick 
ness reason for selJng.  Addiess  Box  75,  Cen­
tral Lake, Mich._______________________ 96
'OR  SALE-A  FIRST-CLASS  LAUNDRY 
plant in Southern Michigan.  Fully equipped 
and doing good bicdness.  » ill be sold  cheap  ii 
taken  soon.  Address  No.  998,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
998
L’OK  RENT—A  «.OUD  BRICK  STORE  O 
F   the best corner  in  the  city;  a  good  enter- 
pr.siug  town;  splendid  chance  for  a  good  dry 
goods  and  shoe  business.  Address  Box  in 
Clare, Mich. 
9-9
tNOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  SHOES,  CLOTH 
ing and  men’s  furnishing  goods;  stock  in 
voices  abo it  $4.009;  town  iu  Northwest  rn In 
dlaua.  Address No. 988, care  Michigan  Trad' 
man. 
981
F>OR SALE—MEAL MARKET;  BEST STAN 
in Alpena;  must be sold  quickly—1250  cash. 
Apply Sciiven.  518  Baker  St.,  Detroit,  or  Box 
405, Alpena. Mich.____________________ 987
INOR  SALE-WELL-ESTABLISHED  MEDI 
F   cal practice, averaging $500 per month.  Fine 
office and  equipments.  Address  Box  2320,  Bat­
tle Creek, Mich. 
994
FOR sa l e—BOOT AND  SHOE  STORE  IN 
good live ( entrai Michigan  city  of  6,500  in­
habitants.  Stock invoices  $6.000;  doing  a  busi­
ness of $12,000 a year;  will sell for  85c.  Address 
No. 993, care Michigan Tradesman._______993
INOR  SALE-A  STOCK  OF  GROCERIES, 
F   shoes and dry goods in one of the best f  rm 
ing districts in  Michigan;  stock  invoices  about 
$700.  H. P. Hansen, Amsden, Mich. 
992

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but  one dozen  per day of

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MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, F r a n k   J. D y k ;  Secretary,  Ho m er 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Ge o r g e  Le h m a n

Detroit  Retail  Grocers’  Protective  Association 

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

Kalamazoo  Grocers’  and Meat Dealers’ Association 

President, E.  P.  Cr o s s;  Secretary.  He n r y   J  
Sc h a b e r g ;  Treasurer, H. R. V a n  B o c h o v e.

Bay  Citios  Retail Grocers’  Association 

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

Li t t l e .

Muskegon  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

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

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

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

Adrian  Retail  Grocers’  Association 

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

Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  w m . C.  K o e h n

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

President, M.  W. T a n n e r ;  Secretary, E.  H. Mc­

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

President,  t h o s  T.  Ba t e s ;  Secretary,  jm.  B. 

Traverse  City  Business  Men’s  Association 
Ho l l y ;  Treasurer,  C.  A.  Ham m o n d.

President,  A .  D.  W h ip p l e  ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m p b e l l ;  Treasurer,  W.  E.  Co l l in s .

Pt.  Harms  Merchants’  and  Manufacturers’  Association 

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

P b r c iv a l .

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W. G il c h r is t ;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Pa r t r id g e .

Calumet  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d i h y ;  Secretary  W  H 

H o s k i n g .

S i  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

President, 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.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W .  W a l l a c e ;  Secretary,  T.  E 

H k d d l e.

Grand  Haven  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D.  V o s;  Secretary,  J.  w   V e r  

Ho e k s . 

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Travelers’  Time  Tables.
P e r e   M a r q u e t t e
Railroad and Steamship Lines.

Fast trains  are  operated  from  Grand  Rapids 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo,  Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City.  Alma,  Lansing, Belding, Benton  Har­
bor, St Joseph, and intermediate points,  making 
close connections at Chicago with trains  for  the 
south  and  west,  at  Detroit  and  Toledo  with 
trains east and southbound.  Try  the  “ Mid-Day 
Flyers,” leaving  Grand  Rapids  12:06  and  12:10 
noon, each  week  day,  arriving  at  Detroit  4:06 
p. m. and  Chicago 5:00 p. m.

_______  

H.  F.  Mo e l l e r ,  G.  P.  A., 

W. E. WOLFENDEN, D. P. A.

Q R A N D  

*   ln<Bana  Railway

Going North.

Jaily
ex Su  ex Su  ex Su 
Lv Gd Rapids...........  4 05p
7 45a  2 00p  to 45p
Ar.  Cadillac.............   6 45a
11 25a  4 40p  2 10a
Ar. Traverse City....  8 30a
1 30p  6 80p 
.......
Ar. Petoskey............  9 30a
7 35p  5  35a
2 50p 
Ar. Mackinaw City... li 20a 
DOOi
. 
4 15p 
.......  6 56a
Train leaves for Cadillac 5:20pm, ar’g at 9:00pm.
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a  m,  11-30 
a m, 12:20 p m,5:15 p m and 9:20 p m.
Going South.
ex 8u  ex Su Daily  ex Su Daily
r 
1 50p 6 00p  12 30p  9 35p
Lv. G’d Rapids .  7 10a 
3 22p 7 45p 
1 45p 10 55p
Ar. Kalamazoo.  8 50a 
6 50p To Cnlcago  1 45a
Ar. Ft. Wayne..12 lOp 
.............................  6 55a
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
Trains arrive from the  south  at  3:55 a m  and 
7:20am daily, 1:50pm, 9:35pm and 10:05pm exceDt 
Sunday.* 
v
Pullman sleeping or parlor  cars  on  all  through 
trains  4:05am “Northland Express” has dining 
car  Grand  Rapids  to  Mackinaw  City.  2:00pm 
train  going  north  has  buffet  car  to  Harbor 
Springs.  9:35pm train going south  has  through 
sleeping cars to Cincinnati,  St.  Louis,  Indianap­
olis and Louisville daily.
Except  Except  Except 
t 
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
l  53pm  5 40pm
-Lv. Grand Rapids —   7 35am 
Ar. Muskegon..........   9 00am  3  10pm  7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:00pm. 
Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm.
Trains arrive from Muskegon at  9:30am  dally, 
:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  8:00pm 
Sunday only.

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C H I C A G O   T R A I N S  

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G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO  CHICAOO 

Except
Daily
T 
Sunday
Lv. G d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm  9 35pm 
6 56am 
Ar. Chicago  f 12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
man buffet parlor car attached.
9:30pm  train has through coach  and  Pullman 
sleeping car.

FROM  CHICAOO 

f ^ y   »ally

Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  5  15pm  11  30pm 
Ar. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  10  05pm  7  23am 
5:15pm train runs solid to  Grand  Rapids  wit»* 
Pullman buffet parlor car attached.
H :30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping
Take  G.  R.  &   I.  to  Chicago

Tale  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  Ch a s.  R o u n d s;  Secretary,  F r a n k  

P u t n e y .

Grand  Rapids  Retail  Meat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  J o h n  G.  E b l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J 
K a t z ;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hu f f o r d .

President,  Ma r t i n   B i r c h ;  Secretary,  O.  D 

Muikcgon Retail  Botchers’  Association 
R ic h a r d s ;  Treasurer.  Wm.  Sm it h .

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A  100  Candle  Power 

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Each Lamp flakes and 

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NO  DIRT!

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Sells at Sight.

Agents  coining money. 

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82  E. 5th S t., Canton, O.

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TRADESMAN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

Grand  Rapids  Fixtures  Co.

One of  our 
Leaders 
in 
Cigar 
Cases

Write  us 
for
Catalogue
and
Prices

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Takes 
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Freight 

Rate

Corner  Bartlett  and  South  Ionia Streets, Grand Rapids, Michigan

No.  52  Cigar Case

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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.

your

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  white  the 
stock lasts.  Our special bargains:
“Leader," medium fine, 3 colored  sew-
lng, per  doz....................... ...................   1  05
“Belle,” choice  quality,  23  lbs.,  4  col­
ored sewings, fancy lock  finish,  a  fine
carpet broom, per  doz..........................  1  95

Brooms

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  600, 
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  Butter Dishes 
Wire  Ends, 250 In  Crate.

1 lb. size, per crate................................. 
2 lb. size, per crate............................ ... 
3 lb. size, per crate................................  
5 lb. size, per crate................................  
Fine White Glaze, “Macomb” Brand.
H gaL (5 lbs.). per do».......................... 
48
1  gal. (10 lbs.), per  doz......................... 
72
2  gal.  (20 lbs.), per doz.........................   144

Stone  Butter Crocks 

42
47
37
66

Clothes  Pins 

Best Quality,  Full  Count.

“ Star,” per case, 5 gross........................ 
“Carton,” per case, 12 cartons of 5 doz.
each........................................................ 
Made of best splint, 2 in.  wide,  size  of 
basket 20x19 In. wide,  12  in.  deep,  per 
doz__ .-...................................................

Splint  Clothes  Baskets 

45
67

2  20

&   1

Sanitary.

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