Eighteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 28, 1901.

Number 936

A  GOOD  INDICATION 

OF  SUCCESS

To  take  care  of  our  rapidly  increasing  business,  and  to  better 
facilitate  the  distribution  of  our  product,  we  have  opened
T W O   N E W   S T O R E S .*

*No.  177=181  Congress  St.,  Boston 
*No.  106  Duane  St.,  New  York 

No.  207=209  Monroe  St.,  Chicago

Complete  stocks  are  carried  at  all  our  stores  and  prompt  ship­
ments  guaranteed.  Beacon  Falls  goods  a r e   s o l d   d ir e c t   t o   t h e
RETAIL  TRADE  THROUGH  OUR  OWN  STORES  ONLY.

B E A C O N   F A L L S   R U B B E R   S H O E   CO.

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B E A C O N   F A L L S ,   C O N N .

ASTORE DO YOU 

RUN  ONE?

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

TRAD ESM AN   COMPANY

GRAND  RAPIDS.  MICH.

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Bay  Shore  Standard  Lime

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

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

Sears  Bakery

Grand  Rapids,  M ichigan

Please  send  sample  of your  Grand  Combination  of

New  Cakes

H azelnut— Round  with  scalloped  edge, 

fine flavor,  mellow and  exquisite......................  ioc

Spiced  Sugar  Tops— Round,  very  rich, 

attractive  appearance,  spiced just  right...........  8c

Richmond— Nearly  square,  Richmond 

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Dealer............

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Cut  this  out  and  mail  to  above  and  sample  will  be  sent 

without charge.

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Jamrs

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home, store, hall and church

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Write for illustrated catalogue and special prices to

A.  T .  KN O W LSON ,  233-235  Griswold  S t.,  Detroit

Conducting  Michigan supply depot for Welsbach Company.

WHEAT  GRITS

Contain  the  Heart of the  W heat

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

W alsh-D eRoo  M illing  Co.,  Holland,  Mich.

COUPON
B O O K S •

Are  the  simplest,  safest,  cheapest 
and  best  method  of  putting  your 
business on  a cash  basis.  *   *   *  
Four  kinds  of  coupon  are  manu­
factured  by us  and  all  sold  on  the 
same  basis, 
irrespective  of  size, 
shape or denomination.  Free sam­
ples on  application. *   *   *   *   *   w

T R A D E S M A N
C O M P A N Y
G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M I C H .

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DESMAN

Volume XVIII.

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  AUGUST 28, 1901.

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Aluminum Money

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Detroit Offices:  Detroit Opera House Block,

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Attorneys

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

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National  Fire  Ins.  Co.

of  Hartford

Successor to

The Grand Rapids Fire Ins.  Co. 

c a p i t a l ,  $1,000,000

ELL IO T  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Pood Commissioner 

Advisory  Counsel  to  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
the  Food  Laws  of  any  state.  Corres­
pondence  invited.
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Tradesnan Coupons

IMPORTANT FEATURES.

Page.

G etting the  People.
P etty  Pilfering.
A round  the  State.
Grand  Rapids  Gossip.
W hat  M ight  Have  Been.
E arly  Closing.
E ditorial.
E ditorial.
Clothing.
D ry Goods.
Shoes  and  Rubbers.
The  Meat  M arket.
Clerks’ Corner.
Tam arack  City.
H ardw are.
Village  Im provem ent.
W om an’s W orld.
B utter and  Eggs.
The  New  York  M arket.
W indow  Dressing.
Commercial  Travelers.
Drugs  and  Chemicals.
D rag  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Grocery  Price  Current.
Thanks  D orothy  Dix.
H ardw are  Price  Current. 
Commercial  Domination.

THE  FORCE  OF  EXAMPLE.

In  spite  of  the  lowering  looks  of  “ the 
kingdoms  over  the  sea,”   the  people  of 
this  country  can  but  note  that,  while 
there  is  an  occasional  clinching  of  the 
fists  and  a  gnashing  of  the  teeth  at  the 
trade  inroads  this  land  of  ours  has  been 
making 
in  the  foreign  markets,  they 
are  still  not  above  the  appreciating  of  a 
good  thing  wh.en  they  see 
it  nor  the 
awarding  of  that  highest  praise,  imita­
tion,  when  it  serves  their  purpose.  Our 
engines  are  found  to  be  ahead  of  the 
product  of  the  English  shops  and  en­
gineers  are  sent  to  find  out  where  the 
superiority  lies.  The  German  merchant 
sends  his  agents  to 
‘ ‘get  on  to”   the 
American  twist 
in  the  base  ball  of 
finance  and  France  more  than  once  has 
shown  her  readiness  to  follow  a  worthy 
American  example.

For  some  fairly  weil-understood  rea­
son,  the  “ sick  man  of  Europe,”   while 
enjoying  a  game  of  bluff,has  not  always 
conformed  to one  of  the  essential  rules 
of  the  game—a  squaring  up  of  his  ac­
counts.  Trusting  to  the  peculiar cir­
cumstances  of  his  surroundings,  he  has 
not  only  delayed  but  refused to  meet  his 
it  was  not  until 
responsibilities  and 
Uncle  Sam  took  a  hand  that  he 
learned 
that  “ must”   has  a  meaning  which  even 
the  Suitan 
is  bound  to  respect.  It  is  a 
matter  of  recent  history  that  he  has  set­
tled  his  accounts  with  the United States. 
France,  it  seems,  was  a  much  interested 
observer  and,  concluding  that  what  a 
Yankee  can  do  she  can,  has  sent  home 
the  Turkish  ambassador  to  report  that 
his  master  will  straighten  out  his  ac­
counts  or  she  will  know  the  reason  why. 
At  the  present  writing  there  is  every 
reason  to  believe  that  the  money  will 
be  paid  without  the  needless  burning 
of  gunpowder—a  result  due  to  the  fol­
lowing  of  the Great Republic’s example.
The  instance  is  a  reminder  of  another 
matter of  the  same  nature  in  the  early 
part  of  the 
last  century.  The  United 
States,  a  hundred  years  ago,  following 
the  example  of  the  European  nations, 
was  accustomed  to  pay  annual tribute  to 
the  pirates  of  the  Barbary  States  to  se­
cure  exemption 
their  attacks.

from 

Tired  at  last  of  the  humiliation,  Presi 
dent  Jefferson  sent  a  fleet  which  block 
aded  the  port  and  repeatedly bombarded 
the  city  of  Tripoli,and  that  was  the  last 
of  the  tribute  paying.  Europe,  aston 
ished  at  the  courage  displayed  by  thi: 
Government  and  the  equally  astonish 
ing  result,  concluded  to  follow  Amer­
ica’s  example  and 
to 
pirates  was  known  no more.  The  young 
Republic  had  furnished  an 
exampli 
well  worth  the  following.

tribute-money 

The  earliest  instance  of  exampie-fol 
lowing,  and  the  one  which  lead  by  fa 
to  the  most  stupendous  results, 
took 
place  a  few years  earlier:  The  king  and 
the  peasant  on  this  side  of  the  sea  had 
wrestled  and  the  peasant  came  out  on 
top. 
It  was  the  “ third  estate”   against 
kingship,  and  the  “ third  estate”   had 
conquered;  but  tea  tax  and  paper  tax 
representation  were 
and  tax  without 
nothing  to  what  the  third  estate 
in 
France  had  to  suffer. 
is  needless  to 
follow  up  the  thought.  Bourbonism  had 
reached 
last  ditch.  The  American 
patriot  of  the  Revolution  had  fought  hi 
last  battle  and  the  French  patriot,  fired 
by  his  example,  leveled  the  walls  of  the 
Bastille,  beheaded  Louis  XVI.  and  hi 
beautiful  queen  and  started  the  French 
kingdom  on  the  way  towards  the French 
Republic.  Can  history  furnish  a  bette 
illustration  of  the  force  of  example?

its 

It 

There  are,  and  always  will  be,  “ wars 
“ Envy,  hatred 

and  rumors  of  wars.”  
and  malice  and  ail  uncharitableness 
still  assail  national 
life  and,  alone  or 
united,  will  try  to  tear  it  down;  but that 
nation  which  does  the right as it sees the 
right,  and  goes  forward  with  that  pur­
pose  only  in  view,  need  have  no  fear. 
Its  strongest  opposers  will  in  time  be 
found  to  be 
its  closest  imitators,  and 
there  is  rarely  war  between  followers 
and  their  model.

its  cultivation. 
that  a  rush 

The  use  of  Japanese  and  Chinese 
mattings  as  an  article  of  bouse furniture 
is  almost  universal  in  this  country;  in 
fact,  we  are  the  best  foreign  customers 
the  extreme  Fast  has  for  the  product. 
It  has 
long  been  contended  that  these 
mattings  could  not  be  manufactured 
here  for  the  simple  reason  that  the  pe­
culiar  rush  out  of  which  they  are  made 
is  not 
indigenous  to  this  country,  and 
no  one  seems  to  have  thought  of  intro­
ducing 
It  appears, 
however, 
is  to  be  found 
growing  in  the  greatest  profusion  in  the 
waters  of  the  Trent  and  Neuse  Rivers, 
above  Newbem,  N_.  C.,  which  experts 
have  found  to  be  identical  with  the Jap­
anese  and  Chinese  plant.  The  plant  is 
said  to  be  hardy  and  of  rapid  growth, 
and  in  order  to  turn  it  into  the  manu­
factured  article  no  great  degree  of 
skilled  labor  is  required.  This  discov­
ery  may  add  one  more  to  the  already 
numerous  resources  of  the  South.  First 
tea  and  then  matting,  North  Carolina 
seems  to  be  destined  to  give  the  Celes­
tial  quite  as  bard  knocks  as  the  allies 
did  at  Pekin  a  few  months  ago.  The 
annual 
imports  of  matting  from  China 
are  estimated at about 300,000,000  yards, 
so  that  there 
is  ample  room  for  home 
competition.

Number 936

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

Aside  from  the  two  storm  centers  of 
the  labor  disturbances—the  steel  dis­
trict 
in  the  East  and  the  California 
coast—the  general  movement of business 
is  upward.  It  is  notable  that, while bank 
exchange  business  at  Pittsburg  and  at 
San  Francisco  is  less  than  for  preced­
ing  weeks,  they  are  both  in  excess  of 
last  year  by  4  or  5  per  cent.  Through­
out  the  country  elsewhere  business  and 
financial  conditions  are  exceptionally 
good,  with  prospects  for  fall  trade  bet­
ter  than  in  any  preceding  year.

The  movement  of  the  stock  market 
has  been  quiet,  with  values  moving 
slowly  upward,  increasing 
in  activity 
improvement  at  the  latest. 
and  price 
The  steel 
issues  seem  to  be  the  center 
of  interest,  taking  the  lead  upward  as 
the  prospects  for  success  of  the  strikers 
diminish.

An  unfortunate  effect  of  the  undue 
advance  in  the  price  of  corn  on  account 
of  the  Southwestern  drouths  is  the  cut­
ting  off  of  export  trade.  During  the 
weeks  when  the  price  ruled  the  highest 
the 
export  movement  became  but  a 
small  fraction  of  that  of  the  preceding 
weeks  or of  the  same  period 
last  year. 
Thus  the  present  break  in  the  prices, 
while  not  pleasant  for  those  on  the 
wrong  side  of  the  market,  will  tend  to 
restore  a  healthier  tone  in  demand.  The 
high  movement 
in  the  price  of  grain 
was  the  opportunity  of  Russia  and  to 
regain  the  parity  prices  must 
come 
down  again.

Gradually  the  steel difficulties  seem  to 
be  working  out,  with  little  prospect  of 
more  than  local  disturbances  on  account 
of  difficulty  in  obtaining  materials. 
In 
some  instances  considerable  premiums 
are  offered  for  moderate  quantities  of 
the  affected  products,  as for instance,  $7 
being  refused  for  tinplates  that  sold  for 
$4  a  month  ago.  But  these  conditions 
appear  to  be  only  temporary,  the  rapid 
resumption  of  work  in  all  lines  promis- 
ng  early  relief  from  the  cutting  off  of 
supplies.

The  textile  situation 

in  Fall  River, 
where  too  heavy  stocks  were  likely  to 
cause  a  reduction  of  wages  and  conse­
quent  strikes,  was  relieved,  at 
least 
temporarily,  by  heavy  buying  of  print­
ers  for  the  purpose  of  preventing  the 
threatened  trouble.  While  this  relief 
would  seem  to  be  but  temporary,  on  ac­
count  of  the  undue  number  of  spindles 
n  operation,  it  is  hoped  that  the  gen­
eral  conditions  of  the  market  will  im­
prove  so  as  to  help  the  situation.  The 
price  of  cotton  was  stimulated  by  the 
unfavorable  distribution  of  rain.

The  German  newspapers  keep on boy­
cotting  American  goods  and  American 
exports  to  the  German  empire  keep  on 
ncreasing.  From  1870  to  1901  the  in­
crease  is  from  $42,000,000 to  $191,000,-
000. 
If  the  newspaper  boycott  only 
keeps  up  we  ought  to  do  a 
little  busi­
ness  with  the  kaiser's  subjects  before 
many  years  have  passed.

An  Ohio  man  has  shot  his  wife  for 
gossiping  too  much.  This  is  a  rather 
vicarious  way  of  putting  himself  out  of 
his  misery.

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Getting the  People

P ractical  M ethods of  Study  for  Those  of 

L im ited Time.

While  to  the  casual  observer  there  is 
little  change  in  the  appearance  of.  ad­
vertising  from  year to  year,  it  does  not 
follow  that  the  science  is  standing  still. 
Change  is  gradual  and  so  slow  as  to  re­
quire  careful  comparison  to  show  the 
result.

is  found 

Perhaps  the  most  perceptible  differ­
ence 
in  the  progress  toward 
greater simplicity  and  candor  of  state­
ment.  The  ideal  in  this  direction  is  so 
high  and  so  difficult  of  attainment  that 
it  seems  to be  the  last  in  the  achieve­
ments  of  the  science.

In 

the 

science  of  advertisement 
writing  there  are  two  great  hindrances 
to  simplicity.  In  the  first  place,  redun­
dant  and  labored  verbiage  is  the charac­
teristic  of  all  unpracticed  writing. 
Words  are  cheap  and  ready. 
Ideas  that 
count  are  scarce  and  the  novice  thinks 
they  must  be  abundantly  clothed 
to 
make  a  proper  appearance.  Of  course 
they  must  be  suitably  embodied  and 
clothed,  but  not  buried  under  heaps  of 
even  the  finest  raiment.

The  study  of  simplicity  is  the  prin­
cipal  aim  of  the  most  successful  work­
ers  in  the  advertising  line.  Some  may 
be 
inclined  to  deny  this  and  to assert 
that  the  great  successes  have  been  made 
by  original  and  catchy  phraseology. 
That  which  has  given  life  and  force  to 
such  work  is  the  direct  simplicity.

I  say  there  is  progress  in  this  direc­
tion  but  in  general  advertising  work 
there  is  yet  much  to  be  attained. 
In 
the  natural,  and  commendable,  ambition 
for  originality  there  is  reluctance  to  use 
the  examples  of  simplicity  which  tends 
to  increase  the  verbiage  difficulty.

Many of the most pronounced successes 
have  been  manifested  by  the  simplest 
phrase  or  word.  There  are  many  who 
have  tried  to  imitate  these,  but  who 
have  found  failure  in  that  such 
imita­
tion  either  fell  fiat  or simply  added  to 
the  competitor’s  success.  There  is  a 
commendable 
imitation—of  the  most 
progressive  methods  in advertising—but 
limited  to 
the 
methods  in  cases  where  there 
is  some­
thing  unique  or  original 
in  the  work 
imitated.

should  be 

imitation 

Progress  in  the  way  of  better work 

is 
being  gained  by  the  country  advertiser 
making  and  using  a  collection  of  sam­
ples  of  the  best  work  he  can obtain from 
any  source.  These  are  not  made  with  a 
view  to  bodily  use  but  as  samples  for 
suggestion.  There  is  the  drawback  of 
course  that  current  work  is  quickly  out 
of  date  as  the  seasons 
so  quickly 
change,  but  many  are  meeting  the  situ­
ation  by  working  a  year ahead.  To  this 
the  objection  will  be  urged  that  a  year 
behind is  away out  of  date.  The  adver­
tiser will  not  be  a  year  behind. 
In  his 
study  and  in  making  his  scrap  book  of 
collections  he 
is  studying  the  latest  of 
current  work,  and  he  does  not  use  the 
work  of  a  year  ago  bodily. 
It  only 
serves  to  suggest  what  he  wishes to do 
and  he  does  it  in  the  spirit  of  the  pres­
ent.  There  should  be  no  hesitation  in 
employing  this  method,for  it  is  by  sim­
ilar  ones  that  all  the  successful  adver­
tisement  workers  have  attained  their 
position.  Originality  is  a  fine  quality, 
but  when  abstractly  considered  it 
is 
mighty  scarce.  The  advertising  writer 
frankly  recognizes  this  and  proceeds  to 
learn  the  best  methods  he  can  command 
by  imitation  more  than  by  theoretical 
study.  When  one  is thoroughly  imbued

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

H arvestin g is  Over.

Now every farmer will again turn  hia  plow,  harrow,  land roller and disc  harrow  lo  prepare  the  «oil  for  a 
teed-bed.  which  shoold  be  done  well  to  inrare  a  good  harvest  and  for inch  purpose good  implements and 
machinery are necessary,  which  can  be bought right near yonr door,  where  you  can  see  the  goods  and  know 
that  you  will  have  value  for every dollar invested.  We carry a line of goods  made  by the best manufacturers 
in America, which gives protection  to the buyer,  because we are able to famish repairs for any tool or machine 
bought of os.  therefore we request every farmer who intends to hay may article lo be used on the farm to give 
pa a call before buying elsewhere.

A  FEW  OF  OUR  SPECIALTIES.

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Groceries,  Crockery, 
Flour, Feed, Hay, Etc.

We  buy in  ltuve  lots,  direct  from 
first  hands, consequently we can  give 
you  the  very  best  prices.  Our  stock 
of crockery  and  glassware  is  of  new 
and  neat patterns  in fancy and staple 
goods  at bargain  prices.

Our stock of seeds, both field and 
garden, are  the  very best  that money 
can buy and our prices  are very  low. 
If  prices  and  quality  are  what  you 
want we can surely give you completò 
satisfaction.

•   •   •

A.  McArthur  Co.,  L i

THE  ATTENTION  OF

...Large  Consumers...

Is  iavited  to  the  following  Autumn 
Bargains  in  Fine  Groceries  at

...Andrews  Brothers...

TOMATO  KETCHUP, in gallon  jugs,  with  DEBATE  for 
return  of jug; PURE TUSCAN  OLIVE OIL in bulk; IMPORT­
ED  (French)  GELATINE;  a  highly  recommended  preparation 
in one-pound  packages;  Also, a  full  list  of  FINE  CHEESES, 
imported,.-domestic  and 
local  articles,  with  'specialties  in 
BRICK  CHEESE  for  SANDWICHES,  IMPORTED .SWISS, 
CAMEMBERT  (in  wood,  glass  or  tin),  ROQUEFORT  and 
ORATED  PARMESAN.

TO-DAY, in the FISH  MARKETS,  specialties  will  he  of­
fered  in  CALIFORNIA  SALMON,  SCOLLOPS,  LOBSTERS 
and FROGS’ LEGS.

...Andrews Brothers’ Markets.
"ThejClintoa"  •

- "The  Jam es"  _  

..Thejhow rv” 

and  for  that  reason  are  more  econ­
omical  than  any other k in d .n  W h ile 
requiring  the  expenditure  o f  a  lit­
tle  more  money  in  the  start,  theii 
durability  makes  them   cheaper  in 
the end.*  T h e   same  can  truthfully 
be said o f—

Cement Basement 
and Cellar  Floors.

W e   w ill  gladly  furnish  estimates 
on cement  w ork  o f  any  kind  free o f 
charge.  O u r  material  and  w ork­
manship  are  positively  guaranteed.

Louis  H.  Kanitz,
Peeler fai Urne,  ) 
Brick« St eue 
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and all Mason's 
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Citisene Ptee* ■ !• 
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that runs on  wlwels 

S .M   Ev.r,w ti#ra.

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BITHER’SÇSW 

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Souvenirs

W«  have  "The  Hackle*  Public 
Libran.**  “ loterina  tba  Harbor 
at  Huaaaeoo **  **Maaonlo  Tem­
plo,” la rod and opal.

QLASS from  15c  to 50c

Tbla la tbo Um« of year  wboo  wa 
t o lla   oar  now  imported  China, 
and It la t omiog  ovary  day.  Call 
at  oaea  at 

; 

:

J.  J.  BITHER,

Arctic  Baking  Powder

Has been sold too  long in glass tqmblers 
gnd is  too  well  known  here  for  yon  to 
peed  onr  assurance  that  it is  a  good, 
powder.  We have It in.

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Iced  Tea Glasses 

15c

Common  Size Glasses  orated,  filll‘ Arctic  1
^S S S S B S S S S S S S S S S S S B S S S S S m S S S S fm m   Baking Pow der... 

■

There’s  not •   week  pose  by  bat 
you  need  eometeing  that  a  drag 
atore  sells.  Do  you  come to ns at 
sQoh times?

We  hate  been  trying  to  make 
known  the  points  of  advantage 
that we have to offer you: ■

Perfect goods, fair prioee, a dean 
atore,  dean  utensils,  drug knowl­
edge,  drug-experience,  oareful  at 
tendon,  honest  measure, accuracy 
etrtet  attention  to business* and s 
conscientious  deaire  to give  satis 
faotioo.in every department.

A e r  THESE  AKI  INDUCEMENT?

Yon  can  see  them  on  display  in  onr 
west  window.

Cart  g----- r 

— 

Horr Brothers MfMlWNU SMITIM!

Omni DurcgiaU.

with  the  spirit  of  the  best  methods,  by 
imitation,  study  if  you  will,  he  can  do 
the  most  effective  and  telling  work. 
Once  in  a  while—a 
long  while,  per­
haps— he  can  do  something  striking  or 
original,  and  none  the 
less  that  his 
study  has  been  so  largely  imitation.

But  many  merchants  are  under  the 
necessity  of  preparing  their  advertising 
matter  who  can  not  afford  to  give  even 
this  imitation  study.  But  all  can  afford 
the  use  of  the  scrap  book.  Keeping 
in 
this  the  best  examples  of our own  work 
is  the  most  helpful. 
Then  to  these 
should  be  added  the  most  available 
samples  to  be  obtained 
from  other 
sources.  Don’t  keep  too  many  such 
samples.  Keep  everything  under dates. 
In  selecting  these  study  current  work  as 
much  as  time  will  permit.  Then  in 
preparing  work  suggestions  and  help 
can  be  found  in  other  seasons  and  yet 
the  work  will  be  original  and  up  to 
date.

*  

*  

*

I  have  always  been  prejudiced 
against  the  French  Clarendon  letters,
such  as  those  used  in  Wm.  De  Kruif  & 
Co. 's  display,  because  they  are  indis­
tinct  and  unattractive.  The  writer  of 
this  advertisement  makes  the  mistake of 
too  much  verbiage.  The  paragraph 
is 
too  long  and  too  elaborate— it  contains 
the  matter  which  might  perhaps  be  val­
in  talking  to  the  customer,  but 
uable 
even 
if  the  farmer  reads  it  through  it 
has  little  or  no  effect.  There  is  the  ob­
jection  to  the 
list  of  articles  that  it  is 
too  long.  The  same  number of  articles 
could  be  listed,  but  the  display  should 
be  broken  up  and  the  different  classes 
grouped  together.  The  shading  of  the 
display  lines  and  the  border  is  so  near 
alike  that  it  gives  a  blur to  the  whole.
The  W.  &  A.  McArthur  Co.,  Ltd.,  is 
also  unfortunate  in  the  selection  of  the 
French  Clarendon.  Otherwise  the  dis­
play  is  pretty  fair,  except  that  the  up­
per  and 
lower  lines  are  crowded  too 
closely  into the  corners  and  there  is  too 
much  space  between  the  words  in  the 
line.

Andrews  Brothers  make  the  mistake 
of  burying  the  important  items  of  their 
list  of  articles  under  a  jumble  of  big 
words,  run  all  together.  The  different 
classes  should  have  had  a  separate 
strong  display  of  the  salad  dressings, 
cheese  and  fish.

A  fairly  good  advertisement  is  that 
furnished  by  Horr  Brothers  making  a 
specialty  of  baking  powder.  The  writer 
has  said  just  enough  and  to  the  point, 
and  the  printer  has  seconded  him  well 
in  the  display. 
It  is  a model  advertise­
ment  and  will  serve  to  sell  other  goods 
than  baking  powder.

Louis  H.  Kanitz  writes  a good cement 
advertisement,  which is  well  displayed 
by  his  printer.  The  display  would  have 
been  better  in  a  uniform  style  of  type 
and  the  writer  should  have  cut  out  a 
number of  bis  biggest  words.

The  Mica  axle  grease  advertisement, 
by  the  Standard  Oil  Co.,  is  a  sample  of 
ideal  simplicity  and  strong display, with 
a  curious  use  of  the  initials  in  the  short 
expressive 
sentences—a  specimen  of 
good  work.

J.  J.  Bither has  a  good  display  of  his 
souvenir  specialties,  which  is  expressed 
simply  and  concisely  and  is  well  com­
posed. 
I  would  have  put  the  name  in 
the  same  display  type  as  the  rest.

Swartwout  &  Swartwout  write  a  good 
general  drug  advertisement  which  may 
be  criticised  as  being  a  little  too  long, 
perhaps.

Love  is  like  arsenic ;  if  you  take  a 
little  it  is  deadly  poison,  but if you  take 
a 
lot  you  will  get  over  it and  it  will 
only  clean  out  your system.

PETTY  PILFERIN G .

H ost  Effective  Method of  C urtailing  the 

Abuse.

customers,  who 

At  this  season  of  the  year,  when 
peaches,  pears,  apples,  and  other  small 
fruits  are  being  displayed  in  open  bas­
kets  or  boxes  in  the  retail  store,  the 
merchant  is  caused  a  very  considerable 
loss  through  the  small  piiferings  of  cus­
tomers.  Such 
take 
what  they  do  not  pay  for,  are  in  fact, 
as  much  thieves  as  though  they  bad 
stolen  goods  of  larger  value,  but  it  is 
not  the  part  of  tact  or  good  judgment 
to  call  their  attention  to  the  fact  that 
they  are  pilfering  from  the  merchant. 
The  fact  of  the  matter  is,  in  a  great 
many  cases,  the  consumer  never  stops 
to  think  that  he  is  doing  both  the  mer­
chant  and  himself  an  injustice  by  tak­
ing  a  peach  from  the  box,  or  a  pear 
from  the  case,  and  eating  it  then  and 
there  without  paying  for  it.  Neverthe­
less  he 
is  doing  an  injustice  to  both. 
He  is  doing  the  merchant  an 
injustice 
because  he  is  taking  that  which  belongs 
to  the  merchant  and  not  paying  for  i t ; 
he  is  doing  himself  an  injustice because 
he  is  committing  a  petty  theft  of  which 
he  is  unworthy  but  which  if  persisted in 
may  blunt  his  conscience  and  lead  to 
larger  thefts  later  on. 
In  all  probabil­
ity  no  thief  began  by  stealing  half a 
million  dollars,  but  many  thieves  have 
been  made  by  at  first  taking  small  ar­
ticles  of  little 
intrinsic  value,  and  in­
creasing  the  value  of  the  goods  until 
they  began  to  reason  that  what  came 
into  their  possession  was  theirs,no  mat­
ter  how  it  came  there.

The  question  how  to  stop  this  petty 
pilfering 
is  one  that  should,  and  does, 
concern  the  retail  dealer.  The  matter 
is  one  that  must  be  handled  tactfully, 
so  as  not  to  alienate  otherwise  good 
customers  and  keep  them  from  visiting 
the  store.  Here 
It  may 
or  may  not  be  a  practical  one.  At  any 
rate  it  will  not  cost  much  to  give 
it  a 
trial.

is  an 

idea. 

At  the 

last  meeting  of  the  Minneap­
olis  Retail  Grocers’  Association,  John 
Powell  called  attention  to  the  following 
article  which  was  printed  in  the  Minne­
apolis  Times,  and  the  article  was  read 
in  the  meeting  by  Secretary  Taylor:

An  article  published  recently 

in  the 
Benton  Harbor  News  will  appeal  with 
force  to  many  grocers  who  handle  fruit 
in  season. 

It  reads  as  follows:

“ Look  at  those  boxes  now,”   said  a 
leading  grocer  this  morning,  pointing 
to  a  dozen  boxes  of  plums,  some  half 
empty  and  others  only  minus  the  top 
layer. 
“ Yesterday  morning  they  were 
all  full  to  the  top.  Where’ve  they  gone 
to?  They  have  been  taken  by  women 
thieves.  They  are  the  best  women 
in 
the  town,  intend  to  be  honest  and  prob­
ably  think  they  are,  but  nevertheless 
they  are  thieves.  The  trouble  is,  they 
have  divorced  themselves  from  the  idea 
that  it  is  as  dishonest, to  steal  a  pin  as 
a  ring.  Here  comes  a  lady.  She  takes 
one  plum  and  passes  on  without  even 
thinking  that  she  committed  a  theft. 
One  plum  isn't  very  much,  but  suppose 
one  hundred  women  do likewise. 
It’s  a 
bad  habit  and  an  expensive  one  to  gro­
cers. ’ ’
few  days  afterwards  the  News 
printed  an  interview  with  the  grocer  re­
ferred  to  in  the  above  article,  in  which 
he  said  that  the  nuisance  had  been 
much  abated  since  the  matter  had  been 
brought  to the  attention  of  his  custom­
ers  by  the  newspapers.  Twenty-three 
of  his  lady  customers  bad mentioned  the 
matter to  him  and  acknowledged  that 
they  had  been  guilty  of  the  offense 
without giving  the  matter a  thought.
At  the  present  price  of  fruit,  this
firactice  is  certainly  an  expensive  one 
or the  grocer,  and  one  which  he  would 
be  glad  to  see  discontinued  without 
having to  speak  of the  matter himself.

A 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3

Merchants  everywhere  can  make  this 
article  valuable  to  them.  Go  to  the 
publisher  of  the  paper  in  your city  or 
town,  or,  if  there 
is  more  than  one 
paper,  go  to  the  publishers  of  all  of 
them  and  respectfully  request  them  to 
print  this  clipping,  giving 
it  an  ap­
propriate  heading.  They  will  do  it, 
especially 
if  you  are  an  advertiser;  if 
you  are  not,  they  will  probably  do  it 
anyway.  Then  get  the  editor  to  write 
a  word  of  comment  on  the  article. 
If 
customers  who  you  are 
you  have 
afraid  will  not  see  this  article,  purchase 
enough  papers  to  go  around  to  all  of 
them,  have  the  editor  mark 
it  with  a 
blue  pencil,  and  mail  it  to  all  of  them. 
Be  sure  that  they  see  it.  Clip  it  out 
and  paste  it  up  in  an  appropriate  place 
in  your  store  where  it  will  be  seen  and 
be  read.  You  will  find  that  very  few 
people  will  be  affronted  by  the  use  of  it 
in  this  way,  and  that  it  will  have  a 
much  desired  effect.

If  the  publishers  of  the  paper  refuse 
to  print  the  article,  which  is  not  a  long 
one,  I  do  not  know  but  what  it  would 
pay  you  to  join  with the other merchants 
in  your town,  have  it  put  in  type,  and 
have  several  hundred  or  several  thous­
and  slips  printed,  and  then  distributed 
by  a  boy  at  all  the  houses 
in  the  city 
or town.  Do  not  make  any  exceptions. 
Give  every  woman  and  every  man  in 
your  town  or  city  one  of  these  slips 
without  fear  or  favor.  We  believe  this 
will  abate  the  pilfering  nuisance,except 
in  rare  instances,  and  that  in  the  course 
of  a  few  weeks’  time  you  will  save 
enough  money  through  the  abatement  of 
this  nuisance  to  more  than  pay  you  for 
the  work  in  connection  with  getting  the 
article  printed.— Commercial  Bulletin.

Grindstones  Strictly  Up  To  Date.

“  If, ”   said  a  dealer  in  such  things, 
“ anybody  had  told  our grandfathers that 
the  time  would  come  when  we  should 
have  ball-bearing  grindstones  I  suppose 
they  would  have  thought  he  was  crazy ; 
but  we  have  them  now  and  they  are  not 
very  costly  either.

is  one  that 

“ If  the  grindstone 

is 
worked  with  a  treadle  there  are  ball 
bearings  on  the  crank, where  the  treadle 
rod  is  connected,  as  well  as  on  the  shaft 
on  which  the  grindstone  turns.  Really, 
it  is  a  pleasure  to  see  that  homely  old 
tool,  the  grindstone,  mounted  on  ball 
bearings,  and  it  is  a  positive  delight  to 
see  how  easily  such  a  grindstone  turns.
“ But  the  ball  bearings  are  not  the 
only  modern  improvement  in grindstone 
equipment.  There  are  nowadays grind­
stone  frames and  attachments  that  are 
patented.  The  old,  old  way  of  turning 
a  grindstone  was  with  a  crank,  or a  sin­
gle  treadle;  but  nowadays  we  have 
double  treadles,  one  for  each  foot,  and 
the  frame  that  supports  the  grindstone 
has  upon  one  end  of  it  a  seat  like  the 
seat  you  see  on  a  mowing  machine  or 
anything  of  that  sort,  this  being  by  no 
means  a  device  for a  lazy  man,  but  a 
convenient  means  of  enabling  the  man 
using  the  grindstone  to get  at  it  to  the 
best  advantage.

“ If  you,  knowing  the  grindstone  of 
ancient  times,  will  picture  to  yourself  a 
man  sitting 
in  a  comfortable  seat  so 
placed  on  the  end  of  the  frame  that  he 
can  get  square  at  the  face  of  the  stone, 
which he turns by means of  two  treadles, 
one  under  each  foot,  the  stone 
itself 
turning  on  ball  bearings  throughout,  a 
grindstone  yet  to be  sure,but  with  every 
working  part  distinctly  modernized, 
you  will  get  some  idea  of  the  difference 
between  the  old  grindstone  and  the 
new. ’ ’

Transform ation.

Special  Features  of  the  Grand  Rapids 

H orning’ M arket.

The  weather  conditions  have  been 
more  of  a  factor  in  the  market  this  sea­
son  than  ever  before  since  its  establish­
ment  on  the  island.  The  unusual  num­
ber  of  rainy  days  and  nights  have inter­
fered  with  the  work  of  fruit  growers 
especially  and  the  most  careful  calcu­
lation  has  been  necessary  to  get  their 
products  into  the  buyers’  hands  in  good 
condition.  Not  only  has the rain delayed 
the  work,  but  it  has  delayed  the  ripen­
ing ;  and  when  the  fruit  does  come  to 
maturity,  it  must  be  utilized  quickly  or 
it  goes  to pieces.  On  this  account  firm­
ness  is  a  great  essential.  But  while  the 
cool  dampness  has  delayed  the  harvest 
and  caused  a  great  deal  of  loss  from  de­
cay  it  has  made  the  fruit  which 
left 
fine  and  large  in  appearance.

is 

Peaches  are  easily  the  leading  feature 
on  the  market.  The  offerings  are  very 
abundant  and,  while  prices  are  reason­
ably  moderate,  sales  are  good  and  the 
grower  has  no  reason  to  complain.  A 
common  remark  by  the  buyer is “ Pretty 
hard.”   The  seller  replies,  “ You  know 
they  have  to  be  hard  to  holdup. ’ ’  They 
are  large,  clean  and  fresh 
in  appear­
ance,  but  not  so  highly  colored  as  when 
there  is  more  hot  weather and  sunshine. 
If  we  should  have  a  few  days  of  more 
seasonable  weather  now—which  seems 
probable—there  will  be  a  tremendous 
rush  of  the  yellow  fruit  which  may  tax 
the  absorptive  powers  of  even  this  phe­
nomenal  market.

Other  fruits  of  all  kinds  are  coming 
in  freely,  but  none  in  especial  abund­
ance.  The  most  plentiful  are  plums— 
outside  of  apples,  of  course.  These  are 
fine  and  large  in  appearance.  Growers 
report  much  rotting  of  the  unripened 
fruit  on  the  trees,  on  account  of  the

dampness.  Early  pears  are  offered 
considerably,but  less  freely  than  plums. 
Grapes  have  been  slow  in  maturing,but 
are  now  offered  in  some  quantity.  The 
price  rules  rather  high  as  yet.  Notice­
able  features  are  the  size  of  the  berry 
and  the  perfection  of  the  bunches.  A 
wagon  covered  with  systematically  ar­
ranged  baskets—such  as  shown  by  W. 
K.  Munson, 
for  instance— presents  an 
exceedingly  attractive  appearance.

In  the  vegetable  market  the  most 
prominent 
features  are  the  melons. 
These  are  large  and  fíne  in  appearance 
and  many  loads  are  offered.  Tomatoes 
are  plentiful,  but  offerings  are  pretty 
well  taken.  Potatoes  are  not  so  abun­
dant  since  the  break  in  prjce  and  un­
certainty  in  selling.  There  is  an  ocean 
of  abundance 
in  other vegetables,  but 
some  way  nearly  everything  seems  to 
find  buyers.

On  account  of  the 

interference  of 
rain,  the  variation  of  attendance  has 
been  great,  some  mornings  very  small 
and  others  correspondingly  large.

Probably  the  greatest  number of teams 
in  the  market  at  one  time  was  on  Sat­
urday,  as  the  volume  of  offerings  made 
the  market  slow,  and  teams  remained in 
their  places  longer  than  usual.  The 
greatest  quantity  of  peaches  offered  was 
on  Tuesday  of  this  week  and,  of  course, 
the  volume  of  market  business  was 
greater  than  on  Saturday,  as  teams 
came  and  went  more  quickly.  Saturday 
filled  the  grounds  to  the  limit,  teams 
occupying  the  available  space  on  the 
main  street.

Has  A ll  the  B arber’s Traits.

“ He  says  he  has  no  use fora barber.”
“ 1  guess  that  is  true.  He  shaves  him­
self  and  cuts  his  own  hair,  and  I  am 
told  has  even  gotten  into  the  habit  of 
talking  to  himself.”

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3  The reason  it  “goes”  is  the  consumer  who  drank 
3  cheap coffee  because  he could  not afford to pay 25 
3  or  30 cents buys  B.  B.  B.f  and the one who  drank 
3  25 and 30 cent coffee says  B.  B.  B. is good enough 
3  for him  and  costs  him  20.  Works  both  ways.

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QUALITY

Is  a  silent  salesman  and 
makes  permanent  patrons 
— that’s  F.  M.  C.  Coffee.

FREEMAN  MERCANTILE  CO .

Nell— I  suppose  she’s  long  and  lanky, 

just  the  same  as  ever?

Belle— Not  at  all.  You  know  she  re­
She’s 

fortune. 

cently  came 
into  a 
“ divinely  tali’ ’  now.

4

Around  the State

Movements of M erchants.

Vanderbilt—Glazer  Bros,  have  added 

25  feet  to  their  new  general  store.

Benton  Harbor— Morrow  & Stone have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Wm.  F. 
Seel.

Springwater— G.  W.  Rawson  &  Co. 
in  general  trade  at  this 

have  engaged 
place.

Bellevue— E.  E.  Mason has purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the grocery 
firin  of  Mason  Brcs.

Sunfield— Geo.  Peabody, 

of  Lake 
Odessa,  has  purchased  the  lumber  yard 
of  Wolcott  &  Ramsey.

Fennville— W.  W.  Hutchins  has  sold 
his  furniture  stock  and  undertaking 
business  to  C.  H.  Adams,  o f.  Hartford.
Iron  Mountain— M.  A.  Mortenson 
succeeds  the  clothing  and  men’s  fur­
nishing  goods  firm  of  Mortenson  &  Ax- 
berg.

Hart— Fisher  &  Lyon  is  the  style  of 
the  new  firm  organized  to  succeed  Roy 
C.  Fisher  in  the  furniture  and  under­
taking  business.

Coral—J.  S.  Newell,  senior  member 
of  the  firm  of  J.  S.  Newell  &  Co.,  has 
just  completed  a  new  home,  equipped 
with  all  the  modern  conveniences.

Mancelona—J.  M.  Hoffman has  closed 
out  his  meat  business  and  is  as  yet  un­
decided  as  to  whether  he  will  re-engage 
in  the  same  line  of  trade  at  this  place.
Manton— Hartley  &  Taylor  have  pur­
chased  the  Wm.  Wilson  stock  of  grocer­
ies  and  building,  adjoining  their  re­
cently  acquired  implement  warehouse.
Coral— Dr.  E.  Wm.  Boleo  has  com­
pleted  the  construction  of  a  two-story 
frame  drug  store,  24x70  feet  in  dimen­
sions,  equipped  with  plate  glass  and 
steel  ceilings.

Kalkaska— W.  H.  Kenny has disposed 
of  his  cigar  factory  to  Fred  Frisk  and 
removed  to  Portland,  where  he  will  em­
bark  in  the  same  line  of  business  with 
his  brother,  John  Kenny.

St.  Ignace— F.  Kruger  &  Son  have 
purchased  the  stock  of  groceries  and 
crockery  of  J.  F.  Jamieson  and  will  re­
sume  business  at  the  old  stand  after  an 
absence  of  a  few  years  from  its manage­
ment.

Omer—The  business  men  of this place 
have  raised  $1,050  to  clay  a  piece  of 
plains  road  between  the  village  and  a 
good  farming  country  tributary to them. 
They  believe  that  this  investment  will 
eventually  come  back  to  them a hundred 
fold.

Ellsworth— E.  R.  Harris  has  taken 
possession  of  his  new  store  building,  48 
feet  square,  two  stories  and  basement, 
equipped  with  steel  ceilings  and  plate 
glass  front.  A-peculiarity  of  the  store 
is  that  the  entrances  are  on  the  sides, 
which  prevents  the accumulation of store 
loafers 
in  the  passageway  to  the  post 
office  in  country  stores.

Kalamazoo—Aaron  Stuffing,  who  has 
been  employed  by  Cramer  &  Co.  for the 
past  twenty-two  years,  and  Mr.  Vroe- 
gindeweij,  who  has  been  behind  the 
counter  for  Sam.  Folz  for  several  years, 
have  formed  a  copartnership  under  the 
style  of  Stuffing  &  Vroegindeweij  and 
will  engage  in  the  clothing  business  at 
122  North  Burdick  street.

Menominee—Carpenter,  Cook  &  Co. 
is  the  name  of  the  wholesale grocery 
firm  which  succeeds  Penherthy,  Cook 
&  Co.  The  papers  changing  the  name 
have  been  filed  and  the  capital  stock 
increased  to  $1,000,000.  W.  O.  Car­
penter,  the  financial  head  of  the  firm, 
and  C.  I.  Cook,  the  manager,  have  pur­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

chased  the 
interest  of  the  late  Frank 
Penberthy,  and  are  now  sole  owners  of 
the  business.

Hancock—The  confectionery  firm  of 
Lee  Bros,  has  embarked  in  the  manu­
facture  of  candies  on  a  large  scale  and 
expects  to  furnish  employment  to  forty 
or  fifty  people. 
It  has secured  the  serv­
ices  of  Fred  Baker,  an  expert  candy- 
maker  of  Chicago.  The  present  loca­
tion  of  the  firm  will  be  retained  for  the 
retail  department,  while  the  factory  will 
be  located 
in  a  new  building  recently 
purchased  by  it

Menominee—The  wholesale  grocery 
house  of  Carpenter,  Cook  &  Co.  has  de­
cided  to  enter  the  manufacturing  field 
and 
is  equipping  a  factory  building 
with  coffee  roasting,  spice  grinding, 
bottling  and  canning  machinery  at  a 
cost  of  over $25,000. 
It  will  also  manu­
facture  candy  and  confectionery.  Coffee 
will  be  purchased  in  Brazil  and  cleaned 
and  roasted  here.  The  steamer contain­
its  first  shipment  of  eight  calroads 
ing 
of  coffee  reached  New  York 
last  week.
Detroit— Fred  W.  Schwartz,  grocer 
and  meat  dealer  at  1007  Michigan  ave­
nue,  sold  his  business  Aug.  19 to  A.  L. 
Livingston  and  wife,  who  gave  him  a 
note  for $1,800  as  payment.  To  secure 
the  note  he  took  a  warranty  deed  of  ten 
acres  of 
land  at  Howard  City,  repre­
sented  to  be  worth  $3,000.  Schwartz 
went  to  Howard  City,  where  he  learned 
that  the  property 
in  question  was  as­
sessed  at  only  $250.  Schwartz now  wants 
his  bill  of  sale  set  aside,  and  Judge 
Donovan  has 
issued  an  injunction  re­
straining  the  Livingstons  from  dispos­
ing  of  any  of  the  property.

Lowell—Judge  Wolcott  issued  an  or­
der  Monday,  directing  the  assignee  of 
N.  B.  Blain  to  offer  the  dry  goods  stock 
at  private  sale  for thirty  days  and  then 
advertise  that 
it  will  be  sold  at  public 
sale  at  the  expiration  of  fifteen  days. 
The  assets  are  appraised  at  $7,257  and 
the  liabilities aggregate $11,500,  includ­
ing  $3,129 claimed  to  be  due  the  Lowell 
Building  &  Loan  Association,  which 
amount  Mr.  Blain  and  his  bondsmen 
claim  to  be  incorrect.  The  real  estate, 
comprising  twenty-nine  acres  of  land, 
which  Mr.  Blain  values  at  $3,000  and 
is  mortgaged  for $1,500,  is appraised  at 
$2,000.

M anufacturing M atters.

Mendon— The  Morgan  Glove  Co.  has 
discontinued  business,  having  sold  out 
to John  Wuerst.

Pontiac—The  Standard  Vehicle  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation,  with 
a capital  stock  of $35,000.

Caro— The  Hub  Clothing  Co.  has  en­
in  the  manufacturing  business 

gaged 
with  a  capital  stock  of $10,000.

Manistique— The  Hiawatha  Lumber 
Co.,  Limited,  has  been  formed  at  this 
place.  The  capital  stock  is $12,000.

Bay  City—The  capital  stock  of  the 
Walworth  &  Neville  Manufacturing  Co. 
has  been 
increased  from  $100,000  to 
$200,000.

Ganges—The  Ganges  Canning  & 
Packing  Co.  is the  style  of  a  new  en­
terprise  at  this  place.  The  capital  stock 
is  $7,150.

Onaway—A  new  manufacturing  enter­
prise  has  been  established  here  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $150,000, under the  style 
of  the  Lobdell  &  Bailey  Manufactur­
ing  Co.

Saginaw—James  A.  Noland  has  pur­
chased  the  plant  of  the  Saginaw  Rug 
Co.  and  will  develop  the  business  as 
rapidly  as  possible.  There 
is  no other 
factory  of  the  kind  in  this  part  of  the 
State.

Lapeer—At  a  mass  meeting,  held 
Monday  night,  citizens  subscribed  $50,- 
000  of  the  remaining  $100,000  stock 
needed  to  erect  the  beet  sugar  factory 
here,  which  is  capitalized  at  $600,000. 
Outside  capital  to  a 
large  extent  has 
been  engaged.

Battle  Creek—The  American  Pure 
Food  Co.  is the  newest  aspirant for pop­
ular  favor.  The  capital  stock  is  $ioo,- 
000,  of  which  $5,000  is  actually  paid  in. 
Scott  Field,  Frederick  E.  S.  Tucker, 
Herbert  A.  Rowles  and  Henry  J.  Shat- 
tuck  are  the  stockholders.

Detroit— Articles  of  association  have 
been  filed  by  the  Superia  Cigar  Manu­
facturing  Co.  The  capital  stock  of  the 
company  is $6,000 and  the  stockholders 
are  Grant  R.  Rause,  Albert  E.  Bunting 
and  Abram  E.  Davis,  of  Detroit,  and 
Nelson  D.  Baird,  of  Azalia.

Flint—The  Holmes  Cigar  Co.,  which 
is  involved  in  the  recent  strike  of  union 
cigarmakers—a  strike  as  foolish  as  it 
was  useless—has  decided  to  close  its 
factory  and  transfer  its  business  to  De­
troit,  where  operations  will  be  resumed 
with  non-union  men  who  would  rather 
work  than  strike.

Detroit—Articles  of  association  of  the 
Dunbar,  Hartnell  Co.  have  heen  filed 
with  the  county  clerk. 
Its  capital  stock 
is  $150,000,  of  which  $15,000  is  paid  in. 
The  stockholders  are:  Clement  A. 
Dunbar,  7,750 shares;  Stephen  E.  Hart­
nell,  6,950  shares,  and  Robert  P.  Hart­
nell,  300  shares.  The  company  will 
manufacture,  buy  and  sell  automatic 
machinery.

Adrian—The  Century Box Co.  reached 
a  point  where,on  account  of  its  increas­
ing  business,  they  found  that  it  was 
necessary  to  have  more  operating  capi­
tal.  Local  capitalists  were  not  willing 
to  increase  their  holdings,  and  an  op­
tion  on  the  stock  held  in  this  city  has 
been  secured,  and  the  company  will  be 
reorganized  with increased capital stock, 
which  has  been 
largely  subscribed  by 
Terumseh  parties.  This  will  result  in 
the  removal  of  the  plant  to  the  latter 
city.

Niles— E.  R.  Rowe,  representing  the 
Harper  Buggy  Co.,  of  Columbia  City, 
lnd.,  proposes  to  the  city  of  Niles  that 
if  a  suitable  factory  building  is  fur­
nished  the  Harpers  will  locate  a  branch 
of  their  plant  here,  which  will  give  em­
ployment  to  500  men.  Mr.  Rowe,  who 
is  a  stockholder  in  the  company,  has 
taken  up  his  residence  here,  being  fa­
vorably  impressed  with  the  town.  The 
Business  Men’s  Association  has  the 
proposition  under  consideration  and 
there  is  little  doubt  but  that  the  manu- 
facurer's  wants  will  be  supplied.

Battle  Creek— The  Battle  Creek  Oil 
&  Varnish  Co.  has  been  organized  here 
with  an  authorized  capital  of $1,000,000. 
This  industry  is  already  established 
in 
Chicago  by  George  W.  Bodine  and 
Howard  O.  Bodine,  who  will  remove 
the  business  to  this  city.  The  other 
stockholders  are:  John  F.  Miller  and 
Frank  W.  Clapp,  of  this  city,  and  C.

H.  Daskam,  of  Marshall.  The  new  con­
cern  will  employ  200 men  and  manufac­
ture  varnish  and  paint,  oils,  japans, 
dryers,  varnishes,  paints,  enamels,  var­
nish  stains,  wood  fillers,  printing  inks, 
hard  oiled  finishes  and  aspbaltum  var­
nishes.

Most Creditable Trade Jo u rn al  in  M ichi­

gan.
From the Detroit To-day.

Grand  Rapids  has  the  distinction  of 
sending  out  the  most  creditable  expon­
ent  of  legitimate  commercial  enterprise 
in  the  State  of  Michigan.  The  Michi­
gan  Tradesman  stands 
for  the  finest 
ideals  of  business  conduct  and  develop­
ment  and  it  has  been  a  mighty  factor  in 
the  commercial  uplift  of  the  live  cities 
and  villages  of  all  Michigan  in  the  past 
eighteen  years.  The  Tradesman  has 
built  up  for  itself  a  splendid  constitu­
ency  and  prestige.  Its  great plant  in  the 
Blodgett  block  has  been  amplified  to 
take  in  well  established  and  flourishing 
printing  and  engraving  business.

The  force  that  has  wrought  all  this 
magnificent  success 
is  revealed  in  the 
intense 
individuality  of  E.  A.  Stowe, 
for  over  twenty-five  years  a  progressive 
and  public  spirited  citizen  of  Grand 
Rapids  and  a 
its 
business  organization  and  commercial 
expansion.

leader  in 

tireless 

R etailers Forced  to  a Cash  Basis.

Not  long  ago  all  the  wholesale  meat 
and  provision  houses 
in  Springfield, 
Mass.,  issued  an  order  that  all  bills 
against  their  customers  must  be  paid 
cash  every  Monday  morning  and  not 
one  cent  discount  from  the  face  of  the 
bill.  Things  are  moving  the  same  way 
in  Pittsfield,  Mass.,  where  but  one 
wholesaler  now  stands  out,  and  will 
probably  soon  fall  into  line,  and  when 
that 
the  Westfield 
headquarters  of  the  Swift  Beef  Co.  are 
expected  to  adopt  the  same  weekly  pay­
ment  rule.  This  new  phase  of  business 
has  set  the  retailers  thinking  and  sev­
eral  of  them  will  at  once  make  a  rule 
for  their  trade  that  all  bills  must  be 
paid  in  cash  as  often  as  once  a  week  or 
no  more  goods  will  be  delivered.  They 
are  forced  to  this  by  the  action  of  the 
wholesalers.

is  accomplished 

Seven  Steps  to  Success.

1.  Close  attention  to  the  business  by 

the  proprietor.

counts.

2.  Careful  buying  and  cash  dis­

3.  Short  book accounts.
4.  No  ornamental  help,  but  every 

one  in  the  store  a  worker.

5.  A  stock  of goods  kept  up  to  date.
6.  A  generous  distribution  of accom- 

modation  and  politeness.

7.  Living  within  your  income.

Notwithstanding  the  vast  quantities 
of  petroleum  that  have  been  spread  over 
the  surface  of  New  Jersey,  the  mos­
quitoes  are  stiil  very  much  at  home  in 
that  State.  An  aeronaut  who  made  an 
ascension  at  Union  Hill  came  down  in 
the  mud  of  the  Hackensack  Meadows, 
and  when  he  was  found  the  insects  had 
bitten  his  face  until  it  was  a  mass  of 
red  ridges  and  be  was  almost  uncon­
scious. 
It  will  take  more  oil  than  the 
Jerseyites  can  afford  to  buy  in  order  to 
exterminate  the  mosquito  pest.

Cotton  Rubber  Lined  Mill  Hose

Write for prices.

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company 

_____ ao  Pearl  Street___________  

P EA C H ES  W ANTED

Grand Rapids,  Mich.

Carlots or  Less.

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Grand  Rapids  Oossip

C.  G.  A.  Voigt 

is  taking  a  needed 
respite  from  business  cares,  which  ac­
counts  for the  omission  of  the  review  of 
the  grain  and  flour  market  this  week.

Grant  H.  Otis,  who  recently 

ex­
changed  his  general  stock  at  Shultz  for 
a  farm,  has  re-engaged  in  the  grocery 
The 
business  at  the  same 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
furnished 
the  stock.

location. 

Samuel  M.  Lemon  claims  to  have 
landed  twelve  black  bass 
in  as  many 
minutes  while  a  guest  of  District  Attor­
ney  Covell  at  his  summer  residence  on 
Long  Lake,  near  Traverse  City,  a  few 
days  ago.  In  substantiation  of  his  state­
ment,  he  refers  to  John  Blodgett,  but 
the  latter  is  noncommittal,  because  he 
did  not  get  any  of  the  fish.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Fancy  stock  easily  fetches 
$3@3-5°  Per  bbl.  and cooking stock com­
mands  $2.2532.75.  Sweet  apples  are 
in  strong  demand  at  $131.25  per  bu.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25® 
size. 

1.75  per  bunch,  according  to 
Jumbos,  $2.25.

Beans— Reports 

from  several  bean 
growing  sections  are  very  encouraging, 
indicating  that  the  crop  will  be  large  in 
volume  and— if  nothing  happens— fine 
in  quality.

Beets—40c  per  bu.
Butter—Extra  creamery  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  21c.  Dairy  grades  are 
without  particular  change,  ranging  in 
price  from  i i @I2c  for  packing  stock  to 
14c  for  choice  and  16c  for  fancy.  The 
Daily  Trade  Bulletin  of  Chicago  has  is­
sued  its  annnal  report  of  butter  in  stor­
age,  which  shows  1,069  120  tubs  in  the 
coolers,  as  against  1,017,270  tubs 
in 
1900 and  906,976  in  1899.  This  is  only 
a  further  indication  that  the  storage  of 
butter  was  heavier this  year  than  last. 
Holders  of  storage  stock  feel  well  satis­
fied  with  conditions  and  believe  they 
will  make  from  J^c  to  ic  a  pound  on  all 
good  Junes  put  away.  These  do  not  go 
into  consumption  until  next  February.
Cabbage—The  enormous  demand  has 
subsided  to  some  extent  and  the  price 
has  declined  to  $232.25  per  crate  of 
three  to  four dozen.

Carrots—40c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$131*25  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.  Fine  in  quality 

and  large  in  size.

Corn—Green  commands  8310c  per 

Crabapples— 5o@6oc  per  bu.  ;  $1.50 

doz.
@2  per  bbl.

Cucumbers— 15c per doz.  for  hot  house 
stock ;  40c  per  bu.  for garden  stock ;  12c 
per  100  for  pickling.

Eggs—The  market 

to 
strengthen,  as  is  usually  the  case  after 
Aug.  20,  which  appears  to  be  the divid­
ing  line.  Local  handlers  pay  12313c, 
holding  candled  stock  at  14c.

continues 

Egg  Plant—$1  per doz.
Frogs’  Legs— Large  bulls,  45@5oc; 
medium bulls,  25c;  large frogs,  15320c: 
small  frogs,  5@ioc.

Green  Onions— 10c  for Silverskins. 
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.

Lettuce—Garden,  50c  per  bu.  head, 

60c  per  bu.

Maple  Syrup—$1 per  gal.  for  fancy. 
Musk  Melons—Gems 

fetch  40c  per 
basket.  Osage  and  Cantaloupes  com­
mand  5o@6oc  per  doz.

Onions— 70380c  per  bu.
Parsley—25c  per  doz.
Peppers— 75c  per  bu.
Plums— Receipts  are  heavy..  Brad­
shaws,  $i@i. io ;  Gueii’s, 
75@9oc; 
Green  Gages,  90c@$i;  Lombards,  75 
@8oc.

Peaches—The  frequent  rains have  had 
a  serious  effect  on  the  crop  by  giving 
the  fruit  abnormal  size  and  ripening 
it  ahead.of  time,  which  has  necessarily 
precipitated  a  glut  and  an  era  of  low 
prices.  Crane’s  Early  fetch  75385c;

75c.

Red  Crawfords  and  Barnards,  8sc@$i  ; 
Early  Crawfords,  $¡@1.25.

Pears— Flemish  Beauties,  $1;  sugar, 

Potatoes—The  expected  slump  oc­
curred  on  schedule  time.  Prices  range 
from  6o@75c  per  bu.

Poultry—The  market  is  without  par­
ticular  change.  Live  hens  command  7 
@8c;  spring  chickens,  8@9c;  turkey 
hens,  8@gc ;  gobblers,  8c;  spring ducks, 
8@ioc.  Pigeons  are 
in  moderate  de­
mand  at  5o@6oc  per  doz.  and  squabs 
are  taken  readily  at $1.2031.50.
for Chartiers.

Radishes— 12c  for  China  Rose;  10c 

String  Beans— 75c  per  bu.
Summer  Squash—50c  per  bu.  box.
Tomatoes— 50c  per  bu.  and  tending 

downward.

Watermelons— 14@ 15c 
Indiana 
Sweet  Potatoes--$3.75@4  per  bbl.  for 

for 
Sweethearts  and  home  grown.
Virginias.

The  Grocery  M arket.

Sugars— The  slow  demand  for  refined 
sugar  is  the  principal  depressing  factor 
in  the  market  for  raws,  which  ruled 
quiet  but  unchanged  on  the  previous 
basis  of  prices,  96  deg.  test  centrifugals 
still  being  quoted  at  4c.  Refiners 
showed  a  marked  disinclination  to  pur­
chase  and  it  is  expected  that  they  will 
not  resume  operations  until  the  demand 
becomes  more  active  for  refined  sugar. 
A  well-known  New  York  sugar  broker 
says:  “ Raw  sugar  has  reached  a  point 
where 
it  becomes  a  serious  question 
with  producers  to  cover cost  of  produc­
tion  and,  at  present  value  or  little 
less, 
only  the  most  modern  plantations  in 
Cuba  will  be  able  to  make  the  coming 
crop  without  actual  loss. ”   There  is  a 
somewhat  better  feeling  in  the  refined 
market,although  prices  show  no change. 
Most  of  the  refiners  have  disposed  of 
their  oversupply  of  soft  sugars  and  have 
withdrawn  concessions  on  same.  The 
demand  is  improving  somewhat  and  we 
think  will  continue  to  do  so,  as  buyers’ 
stocks  are  light. 
Indications  point  to  a 
steady  and  unchanged  market  for  the 
next  two  or  three  weeks.

few  weeks  ago. 

Canned  Goods— The  market  for  all 
varieties  of  canned  goods  was  firm  dur­
ing  the  week  and  supplies  are  quite 
generally  cleaned  up.  The  particular 
features  of  the  week  were  the  opening 
of  the  peach  season  and  the  renewed  in­
terest  in  the  tomato  market.  There  has 
been  a  good  demand  for  all  varieties, 
but  the  orders  are  not  so  large  as  they 
were  a 
They  are, 
however,  of  sufficient  size  to  sustain  the 
present  market  and  we  do  not  look  for 
any 
immediate  decline  on  any  of  the 
staple  goods.  Tomatoes are  very  strong 
and  higher,  with  a  continued  active 
demand,  both  for spot  and future goods. 
Spot  stocks  are  held  exceedingly  firm, 
as  they  are  so  light.  The  corn  market 
continues  very  firm,  both  for spot  and 
future  goods.  Spot  supplies,  however, 
are  practically  exhausted.  The  outlook 
is  for  about  a  2o  per  cent,  crop  in  New 
York  State  and,  according  to  one  esti­
mate,  not  over  50  per cent,  anywhere. 
Peas  are  in  good  demand  at  full  prices, 
especially  for  the  fancy  grades.  Baked 
beans  are  higher  on  all  grades.  Spot 
supplies  are  very 
light  and,  with  raw 
material  scarce,  the  situation  on  the 
canned  article  looks  very strong.  Gallon 
apples  are  very  scarce  and  continue  to 
advance. 
It  is  interesting  to  learn  that 
gallon  apples  which  were  exported  to 
England  a  few  months  ago are  now  be­
ing  brought  back  to  New  York  and  sold 
at  a  profit.  The  pineapple  situation  is 
practically  unchanged.  There  is  a  scar­
city  of  the  best  grades  and  we  think 
in 
a  few  weeks  the  better grades  will  be 
entirely  sold  qut.  Salmon  on  the  spot  is

very  quiet  and  easy.  Although  con­
sumptive  demand  is  good,  the  bulk  of 
the  salmon  business  has  already  been 
done,  buyers  having  placed  orders  for 
future  delivery,  but  there  is  still  consid­
erable  interest  in  the  new  fish.  Domes­
tic  quarter-oil  sardines  are  firmer.  Im­
ported  sardines  are  held  firm  and  there 
are  expectations  that  the  market  will 
soon  advance.  The  fishing in  France  is 
reported  even  worse  than  last  year.

Dried  Fruits—Consumptive  demand 
for  dried  fruit  is  very  fair,  in  spite  of 
the  warm  weathei, but there is  only  mod­
erate  activity  in  a  jobbing  way.  Seeded 
raisins  are  attracting  considerable  at­
tention  and  are  moving  out  rapidly  at 
full  prices.  Stocks  of 
loose  muscatel 
raisins  are  practically  exhausted,  but 
the  demand  is  very  light,  seeded  raisins 
having  in  many  cases  taken  the place of 
the  loose  muscatel^.  Prunes  are  in  bet­
ter  demand  and  are  a  trifle  firmer,  lead­
ing  holders  asking  %c  advance.  Some 
of  the  trade,  in  the  general  uncertainty 
as  to  the  outlook  on  prunes  in  Califor­
nia,  are  believed  to  be  providing  for 
early  wants  by  taking 
a  moderate 
amount  at  the  prices  quoted.  Peaches 
and  apricots  are  in  good  demand  at 
previous  prices.  Better trade is expected 
a  little  later.  The  demand  for currants 
is  increasing  and  prices  are  firmly held. 
Latest  advices  state  that  Persian  dates 
are  doing  well  and  shipments  are  ex­
pected  to  commence  somewhat  earlier 
than  in  previous  years.  It  is rather early 
for  definite  estimates  as  to  the  extent  of 
the  crop,  but  it  is,  doubtless,  consider­
ably  larger  than  that  of  1900,  but  some­
what  less  than  the  phenomenal  harvest 
of  1899. 
It  appears  that  during  the 
present  crop  the  bulk  of  the  importa­
tions  for the  United  States will come via 
direct  steamer.  Two  boats  have  been 
chartered  for  New  York,  expected  to 
bring  cargoes  of  about  100,000  boxes 
each,  which  will  be  nearly  sufficient  for 
the  consumption  of  America,  which  av­
erages  about  250,000  boxes  annually. 
The  Smyrna  fig  crop  is  progressing  fa­
vorably.  Latest  advices  report  threaten­
ing  weather,  but  no  actual  damage  has 
yet  been done.  The yield  promises  to  be 
larger than  that  of  19C O .

Rice—The  statistical  position  contin­
ues  to strengthen  and there was  a  further 
hardening  of  prices  for  all  grades,  deal­
ers  naming  higher prices for some  sorts. 
Supplies  of  fancy  rice  are  practically 
exhausted,  the  few  lots  obtainable  being 
held  at  such  high  prices.  According  to 
reports  considerable  damage  was  done 
by  the  recent  storm  to  the  rice  crops 
near  New  Orleans,  but  details  have  not 
been  received  yet.  Spot  sales  were  fair 
and  owing  to  decreasing  supplies,  in­
dications  are  for  a  probable  rise  in 
prices,  particularly  for  fancy  styles.

Tea— The  tea  market  is  very  dull  and 
sales  are  only  of small  lots  for  immedi­
ate  requirements.  The  better  grades  of 
green  tea  continue  scarce  and  holders, 
as  a  rule,  are  not  disposed  to  shade 
prices.

Molasses  and  Syrups—Sales  of  mo­
lasses  are  few  and  far  between  and  the 
usual  summer  quiet  prevails.  Prices 
continued  steady  for  all  grades  and,  in 
order  to  secure  supplies,  buyers  are 
obliged  to  pay  full  prices.  Spot  stocks 
remain  small  and  are  being  well  held. 
Owing  to  the  very  small  supply  on 
hand,  which  will  probably  prove 
in­
adequate  to  meet  the  regular  wants  of 
the  consuming  trade  until  the  approach 
of  fall,  it 
is  not  believed  that  prices 
will  go  any  lower.

Nuts—The  demand  for nuts  is  show­

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ing  some  improvement,  particularly  for 
almonds.

Rolled  Oats—On  account  of  the  weak­
er  market,  for  grains,  rolled  oats  have 
declined  20c  per  barrel;  competitive 
cases, 
ioc  and  Nickel  oats,  5c.  We 
think  now 
is  a  good  time  to  buy,  be­
cause  if  the  oat  market  advances,  rolled 
oats  will  undoubtedly  go  up  again.

Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder:  “ When  I 
go 
into  a  dealer's  store,”   said  a  shoe 
salesman,  “ and  infer  from  the  proprie­
tor’s  manner  that  he  is  annoyed  about 
something  in  connection  with  his  busi­
ness,  I  don’t  make  any  talk  with  him 
unless  I  am  absolutely  obliged  to. 
If 
is  having  a  discussion  with  one  of 
he 
his  employes  or  customers  which  is  of 
an  unpleasant  nature,  I  also  retire  as 
gracefully  as  possible.  There  [is  no  use 
to  attempt  to  do  business  under  such 
circumstances.  Whenever  I  have  tried 
to  do  so  I  have  almost  invariably  been 
turned  down. 
is  a  great  deal  better 
in  my  opinion  to  make  another visit 
even  at  the  expense  of considerable time 
and  trouble 
in  order to  find  conditions 
more  favorable  for  doing  business.”

It 

An  effort  should  be  made  to get  the 
Sultan  to  exhibit  his  collection  of  ulti­
matums  at  the  St.  Louis  world’s  fair of 
I9°3-

The  man  who  will  invent  a  thermom­
eter that  won’t  go  above  80  degrees  will 
do  much  to  make  life  bearable.

That  New  York  judge  who  says  there 
is  about  one  honest  man  to  a  thousand 
is  certainly  an  optimist.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Holland
Herring

Just received a car new 
catch  direct  from  Hol­
land.  “Y.  M.”  brand—  
finest packed  and  larg­
est packages.

W e  are  headquar­
ters.  Send  in  your  or­
der  quick.  This  car 
will  be  all  sold  in  a 
week.

Olncy & 
Judson 
Grocer Co.
Grand Rapids

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W HAT MIGHT HA TE  BEEN.

Palm istry  as  a  Means o f Preventing B usi­

ness Failures.

Do  you  believe  in  palmistry? 

I  sup­
pose 
it  is  unnecessary  to  say  that  it  is 
the  science  by  which  a  palmist  looks  at 
your  palm  and  by  the  lines  on  it  tells 
not  only  your  characteristics,  but  your 
probable  future.

I  never  believed  in  it  much  until  the 
other day,  when  a  palmist  read  my  old 
flipper  and  told  me  what  sort  of  a  man 
I  was. 
I  bad  no  idea  before  that  I  was 
such  a  nice  man. 
I  repeated  the  whole 
thing  to  my  wife  that  night  and  I  could 
see  that  she  was  impressed.  After  I 
was  through  she  observed  that  it  was 
strange  that  after  twenty-eight  years  of 
married  life  she  hadn’t  discovered  some 
of  the  good  qualities  that  the  palmist 
had  found  in  two  minutes.

Seriously,  I  believe 

in  any  science 
or  fad,  whichever  you  please,  that  can 
see  as  far  into  a  man’s  disposition  as 
this  palmist  saw  into  mine.  Actually, 
the  analysis  was  so  close  that  I  felt  an 
involuntary,  modest  shrinking  while  I 
was  in  the  man’s  presence—sort  of  fear­
ful  that  he  could  look  right  through  my 
shirt  and  see  the  old  brown  mole  on  my 
heaving  bosom.

I  asked  this  palmist  whether  he  him­
self  believed 
in  the  thing.  He  said, 
with  great  earnestness,  that  he  did  and 
argued  that,  in  his  opinion,  it  was  not 
in  the  Divine  plan  to send  a  child  to 
earth  with  no  guide  post  by  which  his 
leanings  should  be  determined,  like  a 
compassless  ship.  The 
lines  of  the 
palm,  he  thought,  were  the  signs  of 
character  and  trend  by  which  a  child 
should  be  started  right  on  the  walk  of 
life.

the  argument  is 

This gives  palmistry  a  practical  bent 
that  has  never  been  claimed  for  it  be­
fore. 
logical,  a 
father  could  forecast  from  the  palm  of 
his  month-old  baby  that  baby’s  future 
— what  it  was  cut  out 
it 
should  be.

for;  what 

If 

For  neither  the  shape  of  the  hand  nor 
it  change,  be  a  man  70 

lines  in 

the 
years  old  or  7  days.

I  couldn’t  help  but  think  of  these 
things  the  other  day  as  I  stood  in  the 
little  store  of  a  grocer  and  notion  seller 
in  a  small  Pennsylvania  town. 
I  have 
known  the  old  fellow  who runs  this  store 
for  a  good  many  years.  He  is  about  70 
years  old—one  of the  little,  old,  mild- 
mannered  fellows  who  invariably  have 
large  families.

The  description  of  this  old  man  will 
probably  be  recognized  by  nearly  every 
salesman  who  travels  through  Central 
Pennsylvania.  He  has  never  been  a 
successful  merchant—he  has  never  been 
anything 
is  as 
good  an  example  of a  misfit  as  I  ever 
saw.

like  successful.  He 

This  poor old  grocer  is  absolutely  at 
the  mercy  of  every  salesman  who  sells 
him  goods.  He  knows  nothing  about 
buying— he  can’t  seem  to  learn  any­
thing  about  it.  When  the  salesmen  tell 
him  to  buy,  he  buys.  The  salesmen 
all  know  the  old  fellow  and  they  take 
care  of  him,  for  while  any  traveling 
man  will  dump  with  pleasure  the  mer­
chant  who  poses  as  a  smart  Aleck,  they 
are  protectors  as true  as  steel  to the  man 
who  admits  his  ignorance  and  puts him­
self  in  their hands.

The  old  fellow  takes  a  trade  paper 
and  seems  to  read 
it  in  a  desultory 
fashion,  but  information  about  the  mar­
kets  seems  to  make  no  impression  on 
him.  He  hasn’t  a  shred  of  business  in­
stinct  and  he  has  grown  to  lean  so  ab­
solutely  on  the  salesmen  that  he  no

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

longer  considers  it  necessary  to  think 
for  himself.

If  this  lamentable  old  failure  had 
only  had  a  father  to  study  his  palm  as 
in  his  cradle,  he  might  have 
he  lay 
been  spared  this  lifetime  of  failure. 
I 
looked  at  his  hands  that  day  as  he 
wrapped  up  some  sugar.  They had long, 
slender  fingers—a  beautiful  hand—the 
real  artistic  hand.  The  man  should 
have  been  an  artist  or  a  musician. 
Never  in  the  world  should  he  have  been 
a  grocer  or  a  merchant  of  any  sort.

But  seventy  years  ago  palmistry, 
with  other  things,  was  probably  not 
even  dreamed  of.

I 

His  customer gone,  I  engaged  the  old 
fellow  in  conversation. 
I  wanted  to  see 
whether  my  little  attempt  at  reading  his 
hand  was  borne  out  by  the  facts.

“ It’s  wonderful,”  

I  asked  him  how  business  was. 
I  have  never  heard  him  say 
“ Bad.”  
anything  else  for  ten  years. 
I  looked 
about  the  store  for a  means  of  getting 
at  what  1  wanted.  Finally,  I  saw  a 
gay-colored  poster  back  of  the  counter.
said,  “ how 
beautifully  color  printing  can  be  done 
nowadays.  Look  at  that  child—the  flesh 
tints  in  the  face  there  are  wonderful!”
“ Fair,”   said  the  old  fellow,  briskly, 
little. 
“ but  they  need  brightening  a 
They’re  a 
little  too  pale.  As  a  rule, 
the  tones  in  these  posters  are  exagger­
ated,  but  in  this  case  it's  the  reverse.”
“ Pardon  me,”   I  said,  “ but  you  seem 
to  know  something  about  these  things. 
Do  you  paint?”

little  at 

“ Ob,  no,”   he  replied. 

“ I  used  to 
do  a 
it  when  I  was  younger, 
but  I  haven’t  for  twenty  years.”   And 
the  old  fellow  sighed.

This  aged  and  forlorn  grocer,  rubbing 
along  at  70 with  a  poor  little  unprofit­
able  grocery  store  on  his  bent  back, 
might  have  made  a  National  reputation 
as  an  artist.  He  “ used  to  do  a  little  at 
it  when  he  was  younger” — how  that 
speaks  of  a  born  ambition,  only  half 
gratified,  then  strangled!

One 

look  at  his  hands  had told  me 
more  about  his  bent  than  a 
lifetime 
bad  told  either  himself  or  his  parents.
All  this  for  the  want  of  a  shrewd, 
keen-eyed  palmist  to  look  at that  baby’s 
palm,  and  say,  “ This  child’s  bent  is 
artistic;  be  should  play,  or  sing,  or 
paint.” — Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

Dr.  R.  J.  Gatling,  who  invented  the 
famous  rapid-fire  gun bearing  his  name, 
has  turned  his  attention  toward  farm 
machinery  and  proposes to revolutionize 
existing  agricultural  methods.  Dr. 
Gatling  is  the inventor  of  a  motor  plow, 
which  he  asserts  will  accomplish  from  a 
comparative  standpoint  on  the 
farm 
what  his  gun  did  on  the  field  of  battle. 
The  claim  is  made  by  the great inventor 
that  his  plow, under  the  guidance  of  one 
man,  will  break  the  surface  of  a  30-acre 
field  in  a  single  day.  It  is  the  intention 
of  Dr.  Gatling  and  a  number  of  St. 
Louis  promoters  to  place  his  invention 
on  the  market,  and 
it  is  proposed  to 
organize  a  stock  company  with  a  capi­
tal  of  $1,000,000.

The  courts  of  Belgium  are  to  be 
called  upon  soon  to  decide  an 
interest­
ing  question—whether the  railroad  com­
panies  must  provide  separate  cars  for 
women  who  want  to  smoke.  A  young 
woman  recently  lighted  a  cigarette  in  a 
carriage  reserved  for women.  Her trav­
eling  companions immediately protested 
and  threatened  to  complain  to the  guard 
as  soon  as  the  car  stopped.  When the 
young  woman  reached  her  destination 
she  consulted  a  lawyer,  who  has  taken 
the question  into the  courts.

The  Pan-A m erican’s  E lectric  G lory.
The  fiery  sun  had  sunk  behind  great 
masses  of  heavy  clouds,  making  its  pro­
test  in  the  angry  rays  that  here  and 
there  pierced  the  threatening  darkness 
that  grew  denser until the  arch of heaven 
was  blackest  night.

The  whirring  wheel  of  the  trolley pole 
threw  out  its  lurid  green  glare,  marking 
and  emphasizing  the  more  the  settled 
gloom,  for  it  was  a  night  when  bats 
flew  low  and  swallows  kept  circling 
near their nests.  Soon  we  reached  the 
high  fence  that  separated  the  old  city 
from  the  new  and  passing  the  turnstile 
we  were  in  the  Sunken  Gardens  where 
ghostly  statues  that  flanked  it  peered 
out  upon  us  like  frightened  things  from 
their  home  of  gloom,  while  on  either 
side  and  way  above  us  the  shadowy 
outlines  of  Agriculture  and  Mechanical 
Arts  Buildings  were  just  visible.

Up  the  long  flight  of  steps,  in  front  of 
the  great  Tower,  we  halted  and  listened 
to  the  rush  and  fall  of  many  waters  that 
gushed  with  mighty  force  from  its  face, 
making  weird  sounds  like  fairy  music 
through  the  sultry  air.

On  and  on,  by  the  Court  of the  Foun­
tains  where  myriads  of  tiny  jets  from 
flowering  cups  flung  the  water’s  spray 
high  in  air,as  soft  and  shimmering  as  a 
bridal  veil.

But  ever  wandering  on  we  passed  the 
Fountain  of  Plenty,  where  graceful  fig­
ures  of  children  sport  in  the  babbling 
waters.  Then  still  further  back,  close 
under  the  four  noble  Pylons,  topped 
with  heroic  figures  of  warriors  bestrid­
ing  rearing  chargers,  we  stood  with  the 
gathering  hosts  that,  ever  increasing, 
were  silent,  watchful,  waiting.

From  this  slight  elevation  on 

the 
bridge  that  spans  the  winding  canal  we 
gazed  down  the  long  vista  at  the  faint 
outlines  of  pictured  domes,  great  build­
ings  and  frowning  castles,  with  their 
many  pointed  turrets, 
traceable 
against  the  awful  darkness  of  the  night 
behind. 
Suddenly  a  hushed  silence 
seemed  to  hover  over  all;  then,  as  if 
touched  by  the  wonderful  magic  breath

just 

of  life,  a  soft,  tremulous,  gentle,  dim 
pink  glow, 
from  three-quarters  of  a 
million  incandescent 
twinkled 
and  shone  like  the  first  rays  of  the 
morning  sun.

lights, 

Slowly,  surely,  like  the 

life  eternal, 
the  radiance  grew  deeper  red,  stronger, 
brighter,  clearer,  dazzling  white,  as 
from  out  the  darkness  sprang  celestial 
glory !

this 

The  magnificence  of 

radiant 
firmament  of  light  filled  the  vision,  and 
caught  and  held  the  soul  aloft,  as  from 
every  quarter  of  the  compass 
forms 
and  curves  of  innumerable  buildings 
were  star-decked,  while  the  wondrous 
Tower, looming  far  up  into  the  immeas­
urable  onyx  blackness,  gave  out  a 
beauty  and  brightness  never dreamed  of 
or known  before.

All 

stood 

spellbound,  held  and 
if  by  some  command  from 
thrilled  as 
on  high,  when  softly,  gently, 
like  a 
mother’s  voice,  drifted  from  a  cornet 
afar,  “ Nearer  my  God  to  Thee,  Nearer 
to  Thee,”   and  the  vast  awe-struck  mul­
titude, with bared  heads  and  faces  aglow 
with  keenest  feeling,followed  the  sacred 
song  in  their  hearts, while  their  eyes be­
held  the  glory  of  the  Light !

Robert  Mitchell  Floyd.

The  slow  movements  of  the  average 
fat  man  rather  tend  to  contradict  the 
theory  that  haste  makes  waist.

You ought to sell

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offered.  Write  at  once  for  Agency.

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7

EARLY  CLOSING.

How  Individuallsm   In  Trade  Led  to  Sac- 

cess.

I  believe  there’s a time  for  everything 

and  plenty  of  time  to  do  it  in.

If  I  was  hungry  enough  to  eat  raw 
crawfish  I  wouldn’t  take  a  handout  from 
a  man  who  would  refuse  to  join  his 
brother  merchants 
in  closing  up  at 6 
p.  m.

I  guess  it’s  all  right  to  be  a  little 
stingy,  but  a man  like  that  is  too  stingy 
for  his  own  good.

In  the  first  place  it  is  all  foolishness. 
A  store  can  do  as  much  business  be­
tween  7 :3o a.  m.  and  6  p.  m.  as  it  can 
if  it  stayed  open  all  night.

Hard  to  figure  it?  Well,  just  try  it.
If  a  merchant  wears  all  the 

life  out 
of  his clerks  to-day  he’s  not  going to get 
so  much  good  to-morrow.
is 

like  a  lot  of 
other  machines; 
it  needs  some  time 
every  twenty-four  hours  to  get  it  in 
working  order  and  keep  it  there.

The  human  system 

One  thing  I’ ve  noticed  in  my  travels 
—the  stores  in  the  little towns keep open 
the  latest.

Another thing  I’ve  noticed  is  that  the 
little  towns 

general  population  of  the 
go  to  bed  earliest.

The  bedtime  of  a  town  is  usually  in 
proportion  to  its  size;  the  smaller the 
earlier  to  bed,  until  you  get  to  the  vil­
lage  with  one  general  store  and  a black­
smith  shop,  where  they  go  to  bed  when 
the  chickens  go  to  roost.

If  you  never  thought  about  this  think 
about  it. 
It  is  so,  and  these  little  gen­
eral  stores  keep  open  until  10:30  and  11 
o’clock.

In  towns  of  a  thousand  and  up  to  five 
or  ten,  the  stores  close  at  about  8  p.  m.
Keep  open  those  extra  hours  to  sell  a 
dollar and  forty  cents'  worth  that  they 
could  have  sold  before 6  if  they’d  close 
on  time.

I  think  it  was  in  ’67  that  I  heard  of  a 
fellow  up  in  Waukegan  who  wanted  to 
sell  out.

just 

Waukegan  was  a  hot  rival  of  Chicago 
in  those  days  and  it  looked  good  to  me.
looked  at  the  location  of  the 
two  and  figured  out  that  Waukegan 
would  have  four or five  million  people 
before  Chicago  got  big  enough  to  wear 
long  dresses.

I 

1  have  found  out  since  that  it  takes 
more  than  a  location  to  make  a big city.
Anyway,  in  ’67  I  bought  that  stock  of 
goods  in  Waukegan  and  paid  two  years’ 
rent  in  advance.  Then  I  went  in  to 
show  the  town  how  to  do  business.

As  this  story  is  about  closing  at  6  p. 
m.,  I’ll  not  tell  you  how  I skinned those 
guys 
in  more  ways  than  one,  but  will 
just  confine  my  remarks  to  the  question 
before  the  meeting.

By  “ guys”   I  mean  the  other  fellows 

who  were  in business  in  Waukegan.

I  bought  that  stock 

in  a  lump  and 
closed  up  a  week  to  invoice  and  paint 
up.

After  the  hooks  bad  been  footed  up  I 
found  that  I  hadn’t  landed  on  such  a 
real  soft  snap  as  I  had  at  first  calcu­
lated  on.

But  1  made  the  best  of  it  and  opened 
the  store  with  a  grand  hurrah  sale  “ at 
50  cents  on  the  dollar.”   The  next  week 
1  opened  up  a  couple  of  thousand  in 
new  stuff  and  business  seemed  as  if  it 
was  starting  off  right.

I  hadn’t  said  anything  to  the  folks 
about  closing  time  and  I  noticed  that 
the  head  clerk  didn’t  close  the  doors 
until  8  p.  m.

I  asked  him  about  it  and  be  said  that 

was  the  way  they  were  all  doing.

He  thought  I  wanted  him  to  keep 

open  later.

Picked  me  out  for  a  squeezer,  I guess.
I  told  him  I'd  like  to close  at  6  p.  m. 
That  made  his  eyes  sparkle,  but  he  said 
he  didn’t  think  I  could  make  the  riffle 
as  none  of  the  other  merchants  would 
agree  to  such  early  closing.

I  told  him  I’d  see  about  it,  and 

for 
the  next  four  days  I  tramped  around 
Waukegan  talking  6 o’clock  closing  to 
the  merchants.

I  didn’t  get  any  satisfaction.
They  all  seemed  to  think  they’d  be 
losing  big  business 
if  they  shut  up  at 
6,  because  Waukegan  was  “ a  great 
afternight  town. ”

I  got  tired  of  talking  to  them and then 

I  got  hot.

When  I  went  back  to  the  store  I  told 
the  head  clerk  that  after  this  we  would 
close  up  at  6  p.  m.  sharp.

He  went  around  and told the  salespeo­
ple,  and  it  did  me  good  just  to  see  the 
smiles  on  their  faces.

Next  Monday  morning I  got  out  a  cir­
cular  telling  the  people  of  Waukegan 
all  about  it,  and  that  this  store  would 
close  promptly  at  6  p.  m.  if  we  never 
struck  bottom.

1  had  some  pretty  good  reasoning  in 
the  circular about  clerks  deserving some 
rest,  and  I  roasted  merchants  who 
wouldn’t  close  up  to  a  good  brown  turn. 
That  circular was  about  as  vitriolic  as a 
Sam  Jones  sermon.

It  didn’t  make  ’em  close,but  it  inter­
ested  the  Waukegan  people  in  my  store 
and  started  ’em  my  way.

Every  month  for  two  years  I  sent  out 
a  circular  on  the  same  order,  and  I  be­
lieve  that  those  circulars  and  being  de­
cent  with  my  help  made  me  more  busi­
ness  than  anything  else  I  did.

I  had  the  trade  of  that  town  before  I 

left.

When  Decoration  Day  and  the  Fourth 
of  July,  and  Thanksgiving  Day  would 
come  along,  I  closed  all  day  instead  of 
at  1  and  2  p.  m.,  as  the  other  fellows 
did.

On  these  days  I  had  a  sign  hung  on 
the  front:  “ This  store  will  be  closed 
all  day.  Our clerks  are  as  tired  as  the 
dickens  and  need  a  rest.  We  don’t  be­
lieve  in  half  holidays.”

Occasionally  I  would  send  my  sermon 

circulars  to  the  country,  too.

I  think  if  I  had  stayed  in Waukegan I 
would  have  been  a  millionaire  to-day, 
for  I  never  did  see  a  business  grow 
faster.

But  my  fame  spread  too  fast  and  a 
fellow  from  Chicago  came  up  to  see  me 
and  wanted  me  to go  into  the  wholesale 
dry  goods  business  with  him.

I  had  no  trouble  in  selling  out  at  100 
cents  on  the  dollar—believe I could have 
gotten  a  bonus—and  into  the  wholesale 
business  I  went.— Dry  Goods  Reporter.

Largest A pple  Deal  on  Record.

Chicago,  Aug.  24—What  is  said  to  be 
the  largest  apple  deal  on  record 
in  the 
United  States  was  made  yesterday in the 
sale  of  the  Haseltine  apple  crop,  in 
Green  county,  Missouri, 
for  $54,000. 
The  sale  includes  the  apples  on  1,000 
acres  of  orchard,  which  are  estimated  to 
harvest  100,000  barrels,  about  30,000,000 
apples.  Four  produce  firms  are  the 
purchasers  of  the  crop.

A  Model School.

Old  Gentleman— Do  you  mean  to  say 

your  teacher never  thrashed  you?

Little  Boy— Never.  We  have  moral 

suasion  at  our school.

Old  Gentleman—What’ s that?
Little  Boy—Oh,  we’re  kept  in  and 
stood 
locked  out  and 
locked  in,  and  made  to  write  one  word 
a  thousand  times,  and  scolded  at,  and 
that’s  all.

in  corners,  and 

L ittle  D em and  for  A pplejack  Nowadays
Chester,  N.  Y.,  Aug.  24—“ This  is  a 
year  with  an  odd  number,”   said  an 
old-time  Orange  county 
farmer  who 
seemed  to  be  despondent,  “ and  conse­
quently  the  apple  crop  will  be  short.”
“ I  don’t  know  why  it  is,  but  Orabge 
county  orchards  bear  well  only  in  the 
years  of  even  numbers. 
It’s not  a  ques­
tion  of  every  second  year  but  of  even 
numbered  years.  This was  first  noticed 
as 
long  ago  as  1816,  the  famous  year 
without  a  summer  when  the  fruit,  like 
all  other  crops,  was  destroyed.  The 
following  year  was  all  right,  and  the 
farmers  confidently  expected  that  their 
apple  trees  would  be  laden  with  fruit. 
If  the  orchards  had  blossomed  and 
fruited 
in  that  year,  it  being  an  odd- 
numbered  year,  'the  rule  would  have 
been  broken.  As  a  matter of  fact,  the 
orchard  went  over that  year  without  any 
crop.  But  in  1818  they  came  on  again 
with  great  productiveness,  and  did  not 
fail  again  in  any  even  number  year  un­
til  1850.

“ That  was  the  year the  codling  moth 
first  made  its  appearance 
in  Orange 
county  orchards,  and  put  a  worm  in  al­
most  every  apple.  So  we  gathered  no 
apples  to  speak  of  that  year,  but  there 
was  no  crop  in  1851.  We  had  to  wait 
until  the  even  numbered  year  came 
along,  and  then  the  orchards  were 
loaded.

“ But  it  doesn’t  make  so  much  differ­
ence  any  more  whether Orange  county 
orchards  bear  in  even  years  or  odd 
years,  or  whether  they  bear at  all.  A 
few  years  ago  Orange  county made more 
applejack  than  any  other  county  in  the 
Union,  New  Jersey  not  barred. 
In  the 
town  of  Warwick  alone  there  were 
twenty-seven  applejack  distilleries.  We 
turned  out  100,000  gallons  a  year,  and 
paid  the  Government  $120,000  a  year 
tax  for doing  it.  There  was  scarcely  a 
town 
in  the  county  that  didn’t  squeeze 
its  quota  of  apples  into  cider  and  con­
vert  the  cider  into  applejack.

“ Orange  county  began  the  making  of 
applejack  before the Revolutionary War. 
There 
is  in  use  in  the  Sayre  distillery

near  Warwick  a  kettle  and  worm,  the 
product  of  which  in  applejack  paid  ex­
cise  duty  to  King  George  III. 
It  was 
then  in  a  still  somewhere  in  the Hudson 
highlands.  The  Sayre  still  is  the  only 
one  left  out  of  the  twenty-seven.  All 
the  old  stills  in  other parts  of  the county 
have  disappeared.  There is  perhaps  not 
more  than  10,000  gallons  of  applejack 
made  in  Orange  county  to-day.

If  you  asked 

“ There  was  a  time,  not  so  long  ago, 
when  one  would  hear  no  other  tipple 
asked  for  by  the  bibulously  inclined  in 
Orange  county. 
for 
whisky,  applejack  would  invariably  be 
set  out  to  you.  To-day  if  you  ask  for 
applejack  right  here  in 
its  old-time 
home  the  landlord  will  have  to  take  a 
look  over  his  stock  to  see  whether  he 
has  any. 
It  was  no  uncommon  thing 
for  as  high  as $10 a  gallon  to  be  paid 
for  applejack  known  to  be  from  some 
particular  still,  or  to  have  been  a  cer­
tain  number  of  years 
in  the  farmer’s 
cellar.  Some  of  the  best  applejack  ever 
made 
in  farm  cellars  to-day. 
There  is  some  more  than  forty  years 
old.  But  somehow  the  present  genera­
tion  has  gone  away  from  the  good  old 
taste  of  the  fathers  and  applejack  that 
ought  to  be  worth  $i  a  drop  is 
ignored 
for tumultuous  rye  and  cheap  beer.

lying 

is 

“ The distillers  that  are  left  in  Orange 
county  say  there  is  no  money  in  apple­
jack  any  more,  one  reason  being  that 
rye  and  corn  whisky  can  be  made  so 
much  cheaper.  So  the  glory  of  Orange 
county  applejack  is  gone  and 
it  really 
makes  little  difference  now  whether  her 
orchards  bear 
in  the  even  or the  odd 
number  years,  or  whether they  bear  at 
a ll.”

.No  Affair of Hers.

Hostess—And  does  your  mother  allow 
you  to  have  two  pieces  of  pie  when  you 
are  at  home,  Willie?

Willie  (who  has  asked  for  the  second 

piece)— No,  ma’am.

Hostess— Well,  do you think  she would 

like  you  to  have  two  piehes  here?

Willie  (confidently)—Oh,she wouldn’t 

care.  This  isn’t  her  pie,  you  know.

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County  of  Kent 

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John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of the 
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TH E  COMPOSITE AMERICAN.

Dr.  Henry  Gannett,  geographer,  eth­
nologist  and  linguist,  in  the  service  of 
the  United  States,  has been  studying  the 
United  States  census,  and  he  has  en­
deavored  to  construct  out  of that wilder­
ness  of  statistics  his  idea  of  the  aver­
age  citizen  of  the  United  States. 
It  is 
rather  a  peculiar  product  which  he  has 
manufactured  out  of  figures,  showing 
that  the  average  American  is  a  man five 
feet  eight  inches  in  height,  with  a chest 
girth  of  thirty-six  inches,  and  a  weight 
of  150  pounds.  He 
is  nearly  an  inch 
taller  than  bis  English  cousin,  and more 
than  an 
inch  taller  than  bis  distant 
cousin,  the  German.  He  probably  looks 
over  the  heads  of  all  European  peoples. 
In  weight,  however,  he  is  exceeded  by 
both  the  Englishman  and  German,  be­
ing  of  slimmer  and  lighter  build,  al­
though  he 
is  probably  as  heavy  as  the 
average  European.

His  age 

is  put  at  37  years,  with  an 
expectation  of  30  years  more,  being  an 
expectation  greater  by  a  year  than  that 
of  the  English  or  Germans.  His  wife 
is  35  years  of  age,  is  five  feet  four 
inches  in  height,and weighs  126 pounds. 
She  will  live  to  the  age  of  68  years,  as 
her expectation  of  life  is  slightly  great­
er than  that  of  her  husband.  His  entire 
estate  has  an  estimated  value  of  $5,000, 
and  his  annual  income  is,  on  an  aver­
age,  about  $750.  His  property  is  as­
sessed  at  about  40  per  cent,  of  its  true 
value,  and  he  pays  taxes  amounting  to 
$14.60,  or  73  cents  per  $100  of  assessed 
valuation.

The  family  of  the  average  American, 
consisting  of  wife  and  three  children, 
lives  on  a  scale  and  a  daily  diet  which 
would  be  regarded  in  Europe  as  lavish, 
such  a  one  as  can  be  afforded  there  only 
by  the  rich.  His  table  is  spread  with 
abundance,  not  only  with  articles  of  do­
mestic  production,  but 
imported  food 
stuffs.  For  example,  his  family  con­
sumes  annually  1,250  pounds  of  wheat

A  BIT  OF  BUSINESS  HTMNOLOGT.
A  distinguished  President  of a  well- 
known  University  of  the  Middle West in 
a  recent  lecture  unduly  criticised  the 
more  or  less  popular hymn,  “ Oh,  to  be 
Nothing,  Nothing!”   averring  that  the 
words  do  not  convey  the  idea  of  the  hu­
man  heart;  that  the  whole  thought  is 
nonsense  and  that  the  so-called  hymn 
should  be  stricken  from  future  editions 
of  all  hymn  books.

It 

is  submitted  that  the  criticising 
President  has  made  a  mistake.  While 
from  the  point  of  view  furnished  by  the 
President’s  chair of  a  great  University 
there  may  be,  in  his  field  of  vision,  not 
a  single  soul  who  wants  to  be  “ noth­
ing, ”   or  even  considered  as  such,  he 
must  concede  that  the  college  world  is 
only  a  minor  part  of  the  universe  and 
‘that  there  are,  on  the  part  of  the  great 
majority, 
conditions  which 
might  and  do  make  absolutely  nothing 
one  of  the  most  desirable  things  in  the 
world.

certain 

Morally—and  the  word 

includes  its 
opposite—what  a  difference 
it  would 
make  in  the  life  of  the  average criminal 
I if  the  hateful  record  of  his  wretched 
past  should  reveal  only  “ a  line  of  white 
across  the  page,”   and  if  the  maker of 
that  record,  with  the  past  reduced  to 
nothing,  were  restored  to  his  old  place 
in  the  world  before  crime  had  claimed 
him  for  its  own. 
Is  it  exactly  absurd, 
then,  for  the  prisoner,  from  the  depths 
of  bis  heart,  to  sing  heartily,  “ Oh,  to 
be  nothing,  nothing?”

The  President  of  a  University  hardly 
needs 
to,  be  reminded  that  from  a 
mathematical  point  of  view  the  nothing 
condition 
is  not  the  most  deplorable. 
There  nothing 
is,  indeed,  naught,  but 
it 
is  the  dividing  point  between  noth­
ing  and  what  is  worse  than  nothing. 
The  world,  to  a  man,  could  he  have  his 
choice,  would  never  be  written  down  a 
minus  quantity—zero  minus  something 
—and  the  business  world,  to  a  man,  is 
putting  forth  every  energy  to  keep  on 
the  plus  side  of  zero.  Even  the  prosper­
ous  institution  which  the  President  con­
trols  has  its  business  side  and  that  in­
stitution  and 
its  fellows,  the  country 
over,  are  striving  to  make  both  ends 
meet  or,  what  is  the  same  thing,  to  be 
“ nothing,  nothing,”   at  the  beginning 
of  another college  year.

The  thought  has  a  deeper  meaning 
and  a  wider  application  in  the  world  of 
trade.  There, 
if  statistics  are  to  be 
depended  upon,  the  per  cent,  of  failure 
exceeds  that  of  success.  From  begin­
ning  to  end  it  is  a  constant  struggle  to 
keep  at  nothing  or on  the  right  side  of 
it.  The  nothing 
is  the  pivot  upon 
which  the  balance  of  trade  rests  and, 
dip  the  beam  never so  little,  that  little 
is  just  so  much  less  than  nothing.  The 
groceryman  on  the  corner  understands 
this  as  thoroughly  as  the  merchant 
prince  and both  are  spending  their days 
and  nights  to  reach  that  fateful  noth­
ing,  if  they  can  do  no more.  They know 
as  none  other can  the  fearful  odds  that 
are  against  them.  Uncertainty 
is  the 
only  condition  to  be  depended  upon.  A 
month’s  prosperity  too  often  only  bal­
ances  a  month's  adversity  and  the  level 
beam  of  years  is  but  the  repetition  of 
It  all  turns 
the  same  tedious  tale. 
upon  nothing,  with  the  chances 
largely 
against  that,  and  the  tradesman  who 
is  the  envy  of  his  fel­
comes  out  even 
lows. 
It  is  the  least  that  can  be  de­
sired  and  it  is  no  wonder that hymn and 
sentiment  have  found  favor  with  the 
masses  who  have  learned  from  the  heart 
to  sing,  “ Ob,  to  be  nothing,  nothing!”
The  matter  might  end  here,  but  it

itself.  A 

Indeed,  nothing 

does  not. 
is  by  no 
means  the  symbol  of  failure.  Without 
it  prosperity  would  find  trouble  in  ex­
pressing 
line  of  nothings 
means  much  or  little  according  to the 
relation  they  sustain  to  the  figures  be 
side  them.  Decimally the nothing  swells 
or  shrinks  them  by  ten.  One,  for  in­
stance,  is  only  that  much  better than 
nothing,but  six  nothings  with  that  same 
one  to  lead  them  stands  for  what  the 
commercial  world  to-day  is  fighting  for.- 
They  are  praying  for  it  as  well—a hymn 
is  a  prayer  borne  heavenward  on  the 
wings  of  song,  and  what  better  can  ex­
press  the  desire  of  the  commercial  wor­
shipper,  and  of  those  depending  upon 
him, 
than  “ Oh,  to  be  nothing,  noth­
ing!”

the 

the 

contrary, 

It  is  to  be  hoped  that  wise  second 
thought  will  not  write  down  the  hymn 
as  doggerel  and  cast  it  to  the  dogs. 
It 
is,  on 
tunefully- 
expressed  heart-longing  of  the  world, 
civilized  and  uncivilized.  As  such  it is 
not  an  absurdity  and  can  not  be  con­
sidered  so. 
It  is  widely  catholic and 
no  sect  can  claim  it  as  its  own.  The 
tuneful  methodist  and  the  Wandering 
Jew,  the  deist  and  the  atheist— “ the 
round  world  and  they  that  dwell  there­
in”   can  lift  up  their voices  in  this  uni­
versal  hymn  of  supplication, 
feeling 
sure  that their petition  will  be  granted. 
In  that  respect  it  has  the  advantage  of 
the  other  numbers  of  the  hymnal  and 
for  that  reason,  if  for no  other,  should 
be  retained.

UNIFORM  DATE FOR  PICNICS.

is 

The  Tradesman 

in  receipt  of  the 
following 
letter  from  the  Secretary  of 
the  Grand  Rapids  Retail Grocers’  Asso­
ciation,  with  the  request  for  editorial 
comment  thereon :

Our  Association  has  had  the following 
question  under  consideration,  and  the 
Secretary  has  been  instructed  to  corres­
pond  with  every  grocers’  association  in 
the  State  for an  opinion :

various 

Why  not  hold  the  annual  picnics  of 
the 
associations 
throughout  the  State  on  the  same  day 
and  date?

grocers’ 

Kindly  bring  this  matter  up  at  the 
next  meeting  of  your  Association  and 
let  us  know  the  results.

The  Tradesman  can  see  no  particular 
object  in  bolding all  the  mercantile  pic­
nics  on  the  same  date,  because  a  picnic 
is  supposed  to be  held  at  a  time  which 
is  most  convenient for  the people attend­
ing 
it,  and  whenever the  selection  of  a 
date  becomes  obligatory,  the  duty  of  at­
tending  the  picnic  becomes  irksome. 
If  all  of  the  picnics  were  held  on  the 
same  day,  there  would  be  very  little 
visiting  back  and  forth,  which  would, 
to  a  great  extent,  eliminate  the  theory 
of  fraternity  and  co-operation  which  all 
mercantile  associations  are  endeavor­
ing  to  cultivate.  Under  present  meth­
ods of  conducting  picnics,  it  is  not  un­
usual  for  delegations  from  one  city  to 
attend the picnics of  other cities  nearby, 
and  these  visits  have  had  much  to  do 
with  bringing  about  a better understand­
ing  and  more thorough harmony between 
competing  points.  The  Tradesman  is 
not  advised  as  to  the  reasons  advanced 
for  making  the  enquiry,  and  perhaps 
valid  grounds  can  be  given  therefor: 
but,  in  the  light  of  past  experience  and 
in  view  of  the  varying  conditions  pe­
culiar to  every  town  and  every  associa­
tion,  the  Tradesman  is  steadfast  in  be­
lieving  that  the  selection  of  the  date  of 
the  annual  picnic  is  a  matter  which  can 
be  safely  left  to  the  convenience  and 
good  judgment  of  the  members  of  each 
association.

flour,  and  600  pounds  of  oat  and  corn 
meal,  750  pounds  of  meat,  or  about  two 
pounds  per  day;  750  pounds  of  pota­
toes,  100  pounds  of  butter,  and  300 
pounds  of  sugar.  He 
is  the  greatest 
coffee  drinker  on  earth,  one  pound  a 
week  being  required  for  his  family’s 
consumption.  Of  tea,  however,  he  uses 
little,  five  pounds  per  year  sufficing  for 
bis  needs.  His  table  costs  him  $16  per 
month.  He  eats  three  meals  per  day, 
taking  his  dinner  at  noon.  He  retires 
between  9  and  10  at  night,  and  rises  at 
6  in  the  morning.

As  to  his  vices,  he  is  in  a  measure  a 
slave  to  tobacco.  He  consumes  twenty 
pounds  of  the  narcotic  weed  a  year,  or 
one  ounce  per  day,  and  although  he  has 
used 
it  freely  since  he  was  grown,  as 
did  his  father  and  grandfather  before 
him,  it  does  not  appear  that  he  has 
suffered  any  mental  or  physical  deteri­
oration 
in  consequence  of  such  indul­
gence.  Although by  no  means  an  intem­
perate  man, neither  is  he  an  advocate  of 
total  abstinence.  Annually  his  family, 
which  means  in  the  main  himself,  con­
sumes  seven  and  a  half  gallons of spirits 
and  wine,  and  not  less  than  seventy-five 
gallons  of  beer.  He  uses  less  spirits and 
more  malt  liquors  than  did  his  imme­
diate  ancestors.

For  ciothing,  his  family  expends  an­
nually  about  $100.  His clothing  is  ready 
made,  as  are  the  shoes  of  himself  and 
other  members  of  his  family.  His  wife 
keeps  no  servant,  but  does  the  house­
work  herself.  She 
is  his  companion 
and  business  partner  and  is  the  head 
of  the  house,  as  he  is  the  head  of  the 
farm.  The  American  has  more  news­
papers  at  his  service  than  has  any  other 
reading  creature  and  his  books  are 
cheaper  and  more  numerous  than  are 
those  of  any  other nationality.  He  mav 
not  be  so  generally  educated  as  are  the 
peoples  of  some  countries;  but,  with 
the  excellent  system  of  free  schools  in 
his  reach,  he  hopes  to  find  no deficiency 
in  his  mental  make-up.

Such  is  the  average  man  of  the  nation 
which  is  already  one  of  the  richest  and 
most  powerful  on  the  globe,  and  enjoys 
the  promise  of  becoming  the  mistress 
of  the  other  nations  of  the  earth.  He 
will  doubtless  be  equal  to  all  the  de­
mands  that  are  to  be  made  upon  him.

For  the  first  time  in  the  history of  the 
grain  business,a cargo  of  wheat  shipped 
from  this  country  to  England 
is  being 
returned  without  unloading.  The  cargo, 
which  contains  seven  loads,  in  all 56,000 
bushels  of  hard  Duluth  spring  wheat, 
was  shipped  from  Philadelphia  for Lon­
don  on  the  steamship  Marquette.  The 
scarcity  of  London  storage  and  the  high 
price  of  terminal  [charges  there  makes 
it  cheaper  to  return  the  cargo,  as the low 
rates  of  ocean  freight  amount  to  prac­
tically  nothing  when  compared  to  the 
heavy  charges  abroad.  The  grain  is  not 
being  brought  back  here  for  consump­
tion,  but  for  reshipment,  as  it  is  ex­
pected  that  the  grade  of wheat  which 
constitutes  the  cargo  will  be  in  much 
greater  demand  when  it  again  reaches 
London.

As  the  result  of  the  agreement  of  sev­
eral  Western  companies  to  extend  their 
lines  and  make  new  connections  it  will 
be  possible  within  a  year  to  telephone 
direct  from  New  York  to  San  Fran­
cisco,  without  relays.  The  world  is  in­
deed  fast  becoming  a  vast  whispering 
gallery.  There  will  soon  be  no  such 
thing  as  an  isolated  community.

The  Sultan  has  added  one  more  to  bis 

collection  of  ultimatums.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A  PROPOSED  PARTNERSH IP,

The  announcement  is  made  that  for 
some  time  preceding  the  steel  strike 
and  since,  J.  Pierpont  Morgan  and 
others  associated  with  him  in  the  man­
agement  of  the  United  States  Steel  Cor­
poration  have  been  perfecting  a  plan 
whereby  as  many  of the  employes  of  the 
several  factories  thus  allied  as  desire 
may  purchase  stock  at  par,  however 
much  beyond  that figure  this  stock  may 
be  selling.  In  round  numbers  it  is  said 
that  this  immense  corporation  employs 
something 
It  would 
be 
impracticable  to  suppose  that  all  or 
even  perhaps  a  majority  would  make 
any  such 
investment.  On  the  other 
hand,  there  are  many  among  them  in 
receipt  of  large  wages  and,  being  both 
industrious  and  thrifty,  they  will  lay  by 
money  for  which  they  seek  a  safe  and 
prospectively  profitable 
investment. 
Such  a  scheme 
is  feasible  where  the 
company  has  an  immense  capitaliza­
tion,  although 
it  might  not  be  in  the 
average  manufacturing  corporation.

like  165,000  men. 

in 

The  plan  proposed 

is  theoretically 
ideal  and  some  may  be  tempted  to  re­
gard  it  as  Utopian.  Profit  sharing  has 
been  tried  in  various  ways  and  in  prac­
tical  operation  has  not  been  as  success­
ful  as  its  advocates  could  desire.  The 
Dolgeville  experiment  is  of  easy  recol­
lection.  Profit  sharing  as  a  gratuity  is 
different  from  the  plan  proposed  by  Mr. 
Morgan,  whereby  operatives 
the 
mills  may  become  actual  share  holders 
and  to  that  extent  part  owners  in  the 
In  all  manufacturing 
whole  property. 
enterprises  capital 
is  useless  without 
labor and  labor  is  useless  without  capi­
tal.  They  must  work  together  harmoni­
ously 
if  the  best  results  are  to be  ob­
tained.  Just  as  a  man  who  owns  prop­
erty  is  a  better  citizen,  so  a  man  who 
owns  stock  in  the  concern  is  a  more  in­
terested  workman.  The  announcement 
coming  at  this  time  will  be  subjected 
to  the  criticism  that  it  is  offered  in  the 
hope  of 
influencing  the  adjustment  of 
existing  difficulties.  That  criticism  will 
lose 
is  put  into 
actual  and  practical  operation.  With 
all  the  mills  working,  when  times  are 
good,  steel  stock  bought  at  par  i s  worth 
having.  The  very  general  holding  of  it 
by  employes  would  have  a  very  salutary 
influence  in  more  ways  than  one. 
If  a 
very  considerable  number  of  shares 
were  in  the  hands  of  the  employes,  al­
though  they  would,  of  course,  always  be 
in  the  minority,  still  it  would  be  only 
fair  that  they  should  have  at 
least  one 
representative  in  the  board  of directors. 
Of  course,  there  is  nothing  to  prevent 
any  steel  worker  from  buying  stock  in 
the  company  if  he  wishes  to  and  has the 
price  at  present,  but  the  Morgan  plan 
proposes  to  set  aside  a  block  for this 
special  purpose.  All  forms  of  profit 
sharing  are  more  or less experimental  as 
yet,  and  if  this  is  given  a  trial  the  out­
come  will  be  watched  with  interest.

if  the  plan 

its  force 

THE  POPULATION  OF FRANCE.
The  official  figures  of  the  French  cen­
sus,  taken  during  the  current  year,  show 
that  the  population  of  France  ¡838,641,- 
333,  representing  an 
increase  for  the 
past  five  years  of  412,364.  This  is  an 
increase  of  something  more  than  1  per 
cent.  When  it  is  considered  that  the 
figures  include  all  soldiers  abroad,  as 
well  as  sailors  in  the  navy and merchant 
marine, 
increase  shown  certainly 
does  not  appear  great,  but  it  is,  never­
theless,  gratifying  that  an 
increase  is 
shown,  however small.

the 

The  small  gain  in  France  fully  con­
firms  the  impression  that  France  has

ceased  to  be  a  growing  country,  the 
population,  in  fact,  being  practically 
at  a  standstill.  The  increase  shown  was 
mainly  in  cities.  Twenty-eight  depart­
ments  show  gains  and  fifty-nine 
losses.
It  should  be  remembered  that  French­
men  emigrate  but  little— less,  in  fact, 
than  any other  people— hence  it  can  not 
be  claimed  that  the  absence  of  substan­
tial  growth  in  population  is  due  to  emi­
gration,  that  safety  valve  for the  surplus 
populations 
countries  of 
Europe.  France  has,  therefore,  ceased 
to  grow  actually  as  well  as  compara­
tively.

in  other 

It 

is  useless  to  speculate  upon  the 
causes  for this  lack  of  healthy  growth. 
That  is  a  matter  for  the  French  people 
themselves  and  the  French  government 
has  already  given  the  subject  serious at­
tention.  Whatever the  cause,  the  result 
is  the  same.  France,  without  keeping 
in  growth  of  population  with  her 
pace 
rivals,  must  inevitably  drop  behind 
in 
wealth  and  political  power.  A  great 
military  power,  having  ambitions  to  a 
voice  in  international  affairs,must  keep 
up  a  healthy  growth 
in  population, 
otherwise  it  must  dwindle  steadily  in 
importance  compared  with  those  pow­
ers  whose  populations  maintain  a  rapid 
rate  of  growth,  as  is  the  case  of Russia, 
Germany,  England  and 
the  United 
States. 
In  all  of  these  countries,  and 
particularly  England  and  Germany,  the 
increase 
is  kept  up  in  spite  of  a  very 
large  emigration  to  other  countries.

It 

is 

is  a  matter  of  concern  not  only  to 
Frenchmen,  but  to  foreigners  as  well, 
that  France  is  not  progressing  in  popu­
lation.  France 
in  a  measure  the 
Buffer  State,  or  balance  wheel  for  con­
tinental  Europe.  Her  present  military 
strength  makes  all  powers  hesitate  to 
engage  in  dangerous  enterprises without 
her  consent.  That  France  has  a  splen­
did  army  and  vast  resources  is  well  rec­
ognized,  but  the  fact  that  her  popula­
tion  shows  no  gain,  while  her  rivals  are 
constantly  growing,  is  a  source  of  weak­
ness,  because  her  military  strength  does 
not  continue  to  grow  in  the  same  pro­
portion  as  does  that  of  possible  antago­
nists.  This  fact 
is  an  obstacle  to  the 
maintenance  of  the  balance  of  power  in 
Europe  which  conservative  people  hope 
for. 

’

Arbuckle’s  floating  hotel,  which  was 
to  give  New  Yorkers  a  chance  to  get 
away  from  the  hot  and  stuffy  city  in  the 
night  time,  with  an  opportunity  to 
sleep  where  the  sea  breezes  made  the 
atmosphere  cool  and  invigorating,  has 
proven  a  flat  failure  and  the  enterprise 
has  been  abandoned.  The  fault  seems 
not  to  be  with  the  idea,  but  with  the 
method  of  putting  it  into  practice. 
It 
is  cooler  and  pleasanter down  the  bay 
than  in  the  hot  and  crowded  streets  of 
the  metropolis.  The  difficulty  was  that 
the  floating  hotel  was  an  ordinary  ship 
with  staterooms  for  two  and  four  people 
and  only  a  port  hole  for air.  Few  peo­
ple  sleep  well  in  a  strange  bed  the  first 
night,  anyhow,  and  when  that  bed  is  a 
berth  on  shipboard, 
in  a  stateroom 
shared  by  two  or  three  others,  the  sur­
roundings  are  not  attractive  for  repose. 
Had  the  barge  been  built  on  some  plan 
which 
should  have  provided  single 
staterooms  with  a  window  to  let  in 
plenty  of  air,  the  scheme  would  have 
been  more  successful. 
It  would  be  en­
tirely  practicable  to  construct  such  a 
craft  and  there  is  reason  to  beileve  that 
it  would  prove  popular  and  profitable. 
If  it  is  to  be  called  a  floating  hotel,  it 
should  be  more  like  a  hotel.  The  Ar- 
buckle 
is  all  right.  The  trouble 
was  with  its  application.

idea 

AN IMPRACTICABLE  PLAN.

An 

interesting 

legal  question,  even 
although  apparently  a  one-sided  one, 
comes  up  as  an 
incident  to  the  great 
steel  strike.  The city  of  McKeesport  is 
dependent  very 
largely  for  its  welfare 
and  prosperity  upon  its  manufacturing 
enterprises.  The  mayor  sides  with  the 
strikers  and  avows  his  practical  friend­
liness  for  their  cause  at  every  opportu­
nity.  Believing  that  there  are  other 
places  more  favorable,  either  in  atmos­
phere  or  location,  for  the  steel  business, 
the  trust  announces  its  intention  of  dis­
mantling  one  or  more  of  the  mills  and 
moving  the  machinery  from  McKees­
some  other  more  attractive 
port 
point. 
It is  reported  that  the holders  of 
the  municipal  bonds  of  McKeesport 
will  make  an  application  to  the  court 
fot  an  order  restraining  the  United 
States  Steel  Corporation  from  removing 
the  Dewees-Wood  plant. 
They  will 
claim  that  the  value  of  the  bonds  de­
pends  upon  the  population  and  prosper­
ity  of  the  city,  which  would  be seriously 
affected  by  the  closing  of  its  mills  and 
their  removal.  If  the  citv  has  no  indus­
trial  business  it  will  not  be  able  to meet 
the 
interest  or  principal  of  its  obliga­
tions.

to 

While 

it  is  true  that  the  removal  of 
any  manufacturing  enterprise  from  a 
city  or  village  is  a  severe  blow  to it  and 
in  a  sense  lessens  the  value  of its bonds, 
it is  difficult  to  see  how  any  such  action 
at  law  as  is  suggested  at  McKeesport 
could  have  the  serious  attention  of  any 
court.  The  manufacturing  companies 
were  in  no  sense  a  party  to  the contract. 
The  bond  transaction  was  between  the 
municipality  and  the  investors,  and  the 
latter  have  no  avenue  through  which 
they  can 
legally  reach  a  manufacturer 
any  more  than  they  can  prevent  a  gro­
cer  or a  dry  goods  merchant  from 
leav­
ing  town. 
It  is  not  so  very  many  years 
ago  that  the  New  York  Central,  in  what 
it  thought  was  wisdom,  determined  to 
close  the  West  Shore  shops  at  Frankfort 
and  thereby  struck  a  blow  to  that  pros­
perous  and  thrifty  village,  which  at that 
time  thought  its  death  knell  had  been 
sounded.  There  was  another  element 
which  entered 
into  the  case  of  Frank­
fort,  because  the  people  of  the  Mohawk 
valley  had  contributed  $70,000 worth  of 
land  to  *he  West  Shore  for  the  purpose 
of  securing  the  shop.  Much  as  the  re­
moval  was  regretted  under  such  aggra­
vated  and  aggravating  conditions,  no 
legal  remedy  against  the  road  was  dis­
covered.  The  New  York  Central  Com­
pany,  with  a  greater  generosity than  the 
steel  corporation 
likely  to  exhibit, 
gave  the  free  use  of  its  buildings  for 
the  occupancy  of  other  industries  which 
have  brought  back  to  Frankfort  much  of 
its  former  thrift.  That  was  voluntary 
on  the  company's  part,  however,  and 
not  the  result  of  judicial  compulsion. 
There  seems  to  be  no  law  to  compel  a 
corporation  to  maintain  an  industrial 
plant  in  any  particular  place.

is 

POPULATION  OF CANADA.

The  census  of  the  Dominion  of  Can­
ada,  embracing  the  provinces  of  Brit­
ish  Columbia,  Manitoba,  New  Bruns­
wick,  Nova  Scotia,  Ontario,  Prince  Ed­
ward  Island,  Quebec  and  the  territories, 
shows  the  population  to  be  5,338,883,  a 
gain  of  only  505,644  over  the  census  of 
ten  years  ago.  The  percentage  of  in­
crease  is  10.46.

The  big  provinces  of  Quebec  and  On­
tario  show  a  falling  off  in  the  percent­
age  of 
increase  as  compared  with  the 
growth 
in  population  of  the  previous 
decennial  period, although  they  have,  of

9

in  population.  Prince 
course,  gained 
Edward  Island  shows  an  actual decrease 
in  population  of  5,820.

As  the  representation  in  the  Domin­
ion  Parliament  is  based  on  the  popula­
tion,  Ontario  will  lose  five  seats  in  the 
Commons,  Prince  Edward  Island  one, 
Nova  Scotia  two  and  New  Brunswick 
one.  Manitoba,  on the  other  hand,  gains 
three  seats  and  British  Columbia  two. 
The  representation  of  Quebec  Province 
is  fixed  permanently  at  sixty-five  and 
furnishes  the  unit  on  which  the  repre­
sentation  of  the  other  provinces 
is 
based.  The  representation  of  the  North­
west  territories  is  the  same  as  before.

The  net result  of  these  changes  is  that 
the  number  of  seats  in  Parliament is  re­
duced  from  213  to  209,  and  the  Ottawa 
River,the  north  and  south  boundary  be­
tween  Quebec  and  Ontario,  becomes  the 
dividing  line,  the  country  to  the  east  of 
it  returning  100  members,  and  that  to 
the  west  of  it  109.

The  figures  presented  by  Ontario 
Province  are  particularly unsatisfactory. 
The  entire  province  has  gained  only 
53t657  persons 
in  ten  years;  the  per­
centage  of  gain, which  in  1891  was  9.73, 
has  fallen  to  2.53  per  cent.  This  fact, 
together  with  the 
loss  of  five  seats  in 
Parliament,  has  resulted  in  unfavorable 
comment.

Canada,  with  a  decennial  increase  of 
10.46  per  cent.,  makes  a  poor  show  by 
the  side  of  the  Great  Republic,  with 
20.7  per  cent.,  or nearly double as much. 
It  is  not  strange  that  there  is  great  dis­
appointment  both  in  England  and  the 
Dominion.

The 

instance 

law  relating  to  wills  sometimes 
works  a  forfeiture  of  the  testator's  in­
tention.  An 
in  point  is  con­
nected  with  the  decision  of  Surrogate 
Fitzgerald  of  New  York,  as  to  the  last 
testament  of  Steve  Brodie,  the  gentle­
man  who  won  some  notoriety  as  a 
bridge 
jumper.  He  made  out  a  will 
which  was  perfectly  regular and  fair and 
in  two  friends  who  knew  each 
called 
other  and  asked  them  to  sign 
it,  which 
in  their  presence  be 
they  did,  and 
signed 
it  to  be  his  last 
will  and  testament.  When  it  was  pre­
sented  for  probate  the witnesses  testified 
to  the  facts,  and  because  Brodie  did  not 
sign  first  and  the witnesses afterward the' 
court  refuses  to  admit  the  will  to  pro­
bate  and  declares  it  invalid.  There 
is 
no question  as  to  Mr.  Brodie’s intention 
and  the  case  hangs  merely  on  a  tech­
nicality.  To  a 
layman  it  would  seem 
as  if  the  clear  and  undisputed  intention 
of  the  testator  should  govern.

it,  declaring 

The  French  are  looking  for  some  po­
litical  significance 
in  the  recent  order 
of  the  Japanese  government  that  in  the 
future  all  its  communications  with 
for­
eign  powers  will  be  made  in  the  Eng­
language.  The  Japanese  declare 
lish 
that  there 
is  no  politics  involved  and 
that  they  have  simply  studied  their  own 
convenience  and  that  of  their  most 
im­
French  has 
portant 
long  been  the  official 
language  of  di­
plomacy, but  its  position  is  now  serious­
ly  threatened.  The  Japanese  are  quite 
in  making  the  change,  as  their 
right 
foreign 
is  principally  with 
Great  Britain  and  the  United  States.

correspondents. 

intercourse 

With  September  will  come  the  R ’s 
and  the  oysters.  Lovers  of  the  tooth­
some  bivalves  will  be  gratified  by  the 
reports  that  the  crop  this  year  is  unusu­
ally 
large  and  excellent.  There  are 
only  three  days  more  to  wait  for  their 
appearance.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

10

Clothing

it 

its  place 

R uling Fads and Fashions in Gay Gotham .
Some  time  ago  I  called  attention  to 
the  favor  with  which  Norfolk  suits  are 
regarded  by  men  of  taste. 
I  have  no­
ticed  this  summer  a  considerable  num­
ber  of  young  men  who  wear  the  Norfolk 
jacket  with 
long  trousers  for  business 
dress.  I don’t like  the  idea.  We  natural­
ly  associate  the  Norfolk  suit  with  sport 
and  recreation— with  golf  and  the  bicy­
cle,  with  the  mountains  and  the  shore 
In 
is  a  very  useful  and 
tasteful  garb.  Out  of  its  place  it  be­
comes  offensive  to  men  of  taste.  Some 
years  ago  when  all  of  us (fat  women  not 
excepted)  were  suffering  from  the  bi 
cycle  mania,  one  saw  Norfolk  suits 
everywhere.  People  were  even  married 
and  buried 
in  them.  No  one  was  too 
poor  or  too  humble  to  appear  in 
sloppy  bicycle  suit.  Of  course,  unde 
such  circumstances  men  of  taste  be 
came  weary  of  the  Norfolk  suit  and  it 
was  put  aside,  and 
it  is  only  just  be 
ginning  to  reappear  this  summer, 
hope  that  it  will  be  kept  in  its  proper 
place  as  a  suit  for  sporting  and  recrea 
tion  wear.  Sack  suits  are  quite  good 
enough  for  business  purposes. 
The 
Norfolk  suit  will  be  even  more  in  favor 
next  summer  than  this. 
It  is  a  wise 
thing  to  have  on  hand  a  pair  of  long 
trousers  as  well  as  a  pair  of  knee 
breeches  to  match  the  jacket.  There 
are  times  when  knickerbockers  are 
im 
possible  and  other times  when  trousers 
are  unendurable.  But  a  Norfolk  jacket, 
even  when  worn  with  trousers,  is  not 
just  the  thing  for  business  hours.

*  

*  

*

I  have  noticed  this  summer  what  a 
very  small  number  of  men,  compara 
tively  speaking,  one  sees  about  town  in 
knickerbockers.  Some  few  years  ago, 
when  the  bicycle  craze  was  at its height, 
one  saw  knickerbocker  men everywhere. 
Now  one  sees  but  a  very  few. 
In  fact, 
bicycling  has  fallen  off  here  as  much, 
if  not  more,  than  in  smaller  cities.  The 
people  I  see  on  the  wheel  belong  to  the 
lower  orders  for  the  most  part  and  it  is 
rarely  that  I  see  a  party  of  gentlefolk 
on  wheels.  Of  course,  knickerbockers 
worn  with  the  Norfolk  jacket  or  a  sack 
coat  are  the  best  garments  for  bicycle 
riding.  They  are  cut  tight  about  the 
knees  and  full  about  the  thighs  and  the 
bagginess  at  the  bottoms  is  eliminated. 
The  extensions  are  made  of  other  ma­
terial  than  the  garment  and  fit  the 
leg 
very  closely. 
It  has  been  the  custom 
for  some  time  to  wear  coats  that  do  not 
match  the  knickerbockers,  but  gar­
ments  that  match  are  again  in  favor.  A 
tweed,  or a  cheviot  in  a  quiet  overplaid 
pattern,  is  about  as  good  a  material  as 
one  can  find  for the  suit.  A  dust  col­
is  not  pretty,  but  a  suit that 
ored  suit 
will  not  show  dust  is  necessary 
if  one 
takes  the  sport  with  any  degree  of  seri­
ousness.

Some  fashionable  people  have  the  art 
of  dressing  their  servants  with  good 
taste  for  all  occasions. 
I  saw  up  town 
the  other  day  a  private  automobile 
whose  chauffeur  was  dressed  in  a  way 
that  was  very  tasteful.  His  uniform 
was  a  dark  navy  blue  suit  ^lightweight, 
judge)  cut  with  military  collar and 
I 
closing  up  the 
like  a  military 
coat.  Coat  and  trousers  were  trimmed 
with  black  braid  along  the  edges  and 
the  seams.  A  Panama  hat,  with  rather 
wide  rolling  brim,  completed  a  very 
cool  and  tasteful  livery.
£

front 

*  

*  

I  notice  that  in  the  windows  of  those

stores  that  offer  goods  at  cut prices there 
are  very  few  black  belts  shown  at  re 
duced  rates.  That,  I  think,  is  an  ind 
cation  of  the  popularity  of  black  belts 
this  summer.  The  black  seal  belt  with 
dull  finish,  rounded  edges  and  gold 
buckle  has  been  one  of  the  prettiest 
belts  offered  this  season.  Were 
it  not 
for  the  gold  buckle  I  should  say  the 
prettiest.  While  we  continue  to  show 
a  marked  preference  for  effects  of  som 
bre  and  severe  character  black  belts  are 
to  be  preferred  to  tan,  although  they  are 
less  attractive  in  themselves,  I  think.

*  

*  

*

It 

is  not  too  early  to  begin  to  talk 
about  stiff  bosom  shirts  for  fall.  Will 
plain  white  shirts  be  preferred  to  shirts 
in  colors? 
I  have  no  doubt  that  the 
number of  white  shirts  in  a  gentleman’, 
wardrobe  will  need  increasing  and  that 
colored  shirts  will  be  of quiet  and  sub 
dued  patterns. 
I  would  advise  that 
colored  shirts  with  neat  and  simple  fig 
ures  be  worn.  Stripes  are  so  common 
that  there  is  no  distinction  to  them,  al 
though  they  are  correct.  A  gentleman 
should  have  a  few  colored  shirts  that 
are  out  of  the  ordinary 
in  pattern. 
Colored  shirts  are  indispensable  if  one 
must  work  in  a  dusty  or  dirty  place  and 
for  that  reason  they  are  not  likely  to 
disappear  from  a  business  man’s  ward 
robe.

Yet  I  think  that  they  will  give  way 

somewhat  this  fall  and  winter.

*  

*  

*

general 

I  see  very  few  russet  shoes,  whether 
light  or  dark  in  tone,  worn  here.  The 
black  oxford  enjoys 
favor. 
With  black  and  white  and  other  sombre 
effects  popular  as  they  have  been  this 
year,  the  russet  shoe  has  been  crowded 
out.  When 
lively  colors  come  in  again 
we  will  see  it  once  more  in  favor,  but 
it  does  not  harmonize  with  our  present 
day  dress.  Low  shoes  are  in  favor here 
all  winter  and  I  think  that  they  will  be 
worn  even  more  next  winter  than 
last. 
With  our  mild,  although  changeable, 
winters  there  is  no  reason  why  a man  of 
good  health  and  constitution  should  not 
wear  them  with  comfort  through  the 
better  part  of the  fall  and  winter.— Ap­
parel  Gazette.

The  Only  T hing She  Forgot.

The  young  woman  was  getting  ready 
to  go  for a  short  trip  and  was  holding 
forth  to  some  friends  as  she  made  her 
arrangements  upon  “ the  way  to  travel 
without  luggage. ”

“ I’ m  very  methodical,  you  know,”  
she  remarked  airily,  “ and  I  do  con­
gratulate  myself  that  there  are  few  fem­
inine  creatures  who  have  the  science  of 
packing  down  to  as  fine  a  point  as  my­
self. ”   With  this  she  wrapped  her  tooth 
brush  up 
in  a  bit  of  white  paper,  se­
cured  it  with  elastic  bands  and  tucked 
it  in  her shirt  waist.  Then  she  put  three 
or  four  extra  handkerchiefs  in  the crown 
of  her  hat,  donned 
it  and  pronounced 
herself  ready  to depart.

feel  as  if  I  had  forgotten  some­
thing,”   she  said,  pausing  at  the  door to 
give  a  backward  glance  into  the  room.
“ Your  purse?”   asked  one  solicitous 
friend.

“ 1 

No,  I  have  that,”   replied  the  young 

woman.

“ A  book  to  read  on  the  train?”
Surely  not  your  box  of  chocolates?”  
‘ Not  your  veil?”   chorused  the others.
No,  the  woman had  those,  but  all  the 
way  down  to  the  trolley  car  she  was  op­
pressed  with  the  idea  that,  despite  her 
boasted  experience  as  a  traveler,  she 
had  left  something  behind.  As  soon  as 
she  entered  the  station  and  found  that 
she  had  but  three  minutes  in  which  to 
make  her  train,  she  remembered  what 
it  was.

forgotten  my 

ticket!”   she 

“ I’ve 
gasped.

“ Now  you  haven’t?”   asked  the  man 

with  her  disgustedly.

“ I  have,  indeed!”   she  wailed. 

“ I 
bought  it  yesterday  so  I  wouldn’t  have 
any  trouble,  and  now  I’ve  come  away 
and  forgotten 
it,  and  I’ll  have  to  take 
the  next train,  which  will  put  me  in  my 
town  at  midnight,  and  I  think  it’s  a 
great  pity  that  some  one  couldn't  have 
thought  enough to  ask  me  whether  I  had 
it  or  not,  for goodness  knows  it’s  more 
important  than  chocolates,  and  every­
body  remembered  them, 
f  hope  you’ll 
have  more  consideration  hereafter.”

Then  she  paused  for  breath,  and,  as 
the  man  only laughed  immoderately,  she 
rode  all  the  way  home  in  scornful  si­
lence.  But  when  she  went  to  the  station 
the  next  time  she  had  her  ticket clasped 
firmly 
in  one  hand  and  she  yielded  it 
reluctantly  even  to  the  gatekeeper.

Not  H er Fingers.

Oliver  Wendell  Holmes  enjoyed  noth­
ing  so  much  as  a  clever  retort,  even  if 
it  happened  to  be  at  his  own  expense. 
One  day,  at  an  entertainment,  he  was 
seated  near  the  refreshment  table,  and 
observed  a  little  girl  looking  with  long­
ing  eyes  at  the  good  things.  With  his 
invariable  fondness  for  children,  he 
said,  kindly:

“ Are  you  hungry,  little  girl?”
“ Yes,  sir,”   was  the  reply.
“ Then  why  don’t  you  take  a  sand­

wich?”

“ Because  I  haven’t  any  fork.”
“ Fingers  were  made  before  forks,”  

said  the  doctor,  smilingly.

little  girl  looked  at  him  and  re­

The 
plied,  to  his  delight:
“ Not  my  fingers.”
There  are  two  bad  things  about  cig­
arette  smoking :  first  the  cigarette,  and 
second  the  fellow  who  smokes  it.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Dry  G oods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.
Staple  Cottons— The 

increasing  outlet 

improved  de­
mand  for  four-yard  sheetings,  previous­
ly  referred  to,  is  traceable  to the  in­
creased  requirements  of  the  China  mar­
ket,  and  has  been  of  sufficient  moment 
to  attract  the  attention  of  home  buyers. 
The  opinion  appears  to  hold  that  with 
the 
for  four-yard 
sheetings,  prices  are  not 
likely  to  go 
below  the  present  level,  and  there  are 
those  who  express  themselves  quite 
strongly  on  the  chances  of higher  prices 
in  the  not  distant  future.  For  standard 
and  three-yard  sheetings,  the  market 
has  been  rather quiet,  and  prices  have 
remained  unchanged.  There  has  been 
some 
indication  of  better  business  in 
bleached  cottons,  but  it  has  not  been  of 
a  striking  character.  The  demand  for 
duck  is  rather quiet,  but  the  price  situ­
ation  is  well  maintained.  Drills  have 
been  subjected  to  only  a  small  demand, 
and  no  weakness  is  apparent 
in  the 
price  of  same.

is 

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  present 
condition  of  the  printed  goods  market 
should  occasion 
little  surprise,  for  the 
buyer has  provided  for all  his  early  re­
quirements,  and  in  making  further  pur­
chases 
inclined  to  act  in  a  more  or 
less  cautious  manner.  The  market  is 
generally  regarded  in  a  strong  position 
as  regards  stock 
in  hand.  Prominent 
makes  of  reds,  indigo  blues  and  mourn­
ings  are  sufficiently  well  sold  to  guard 
the  market  against  any  pressure.  On 
certain  popular 
styles,  printers  find 
great  difficulty 
in  making  delivery 
within  the  prescribed  time.  The  sales 
made  of  printed  fabrics  of  the  finer  or­
der  in  special  finishes  and  also  in  sheer 
fabrics  for the  coming  spring  trade have 
been  of  a  pleasing  character,  the  orders 
in  hand  being  of  such  volume  as  to 
practically  assure  the  manufacturer’s 
position.  Woven patterned  goods  of  the 
finer grades  have  attracted  good  busi­
ness  in  both  white  madras  and  gingham 
weaves,  also 
in  colored  effects,  and 
prices  generally  on  such  goods  are  very 
firmly  held.

Dress  Goods—The  approach  of  the 
new  spring  season 
is  being  heralded; 
certain  of  the  foreign  lines  are  being 
shown  to  the  buyer,  and  more  will  be 
ready  for  the  buyer  next  week,  prepa­
rations to  that  end  being  well advanced. 
The  domestic  lines  are  not  yet  ready, 
and 
it  appears  unlikely  that  much,  if 
anything,  will  be  attempted  in  connec­
tion  with  domestic  goods  until  after the 
first  of  September.  The  foreign  selec­
tions  run  almost  entirely  to  plain goods, 
and  their materials  are  strongly  repre­
sented.  Fancy  fabrics  are  confined  al­
most  entirely  to  waistings.  The  prepa­
rations  of  the  domestic  manufacturer 
are  along  the  line  of  plain  goods  as  re­
gards  dress  goods  proper.  The  broad­
cloth 
is  expected  to  continue  to  draw 
well.  The  tendency  appears  to  favor 
lighter  shades  than  were 
in  favor,  in 
heavyweights.  Not  a  few  manufacturers 
claim  to  expect  a  return  of  favor of 
greater  or  less  extent,  to  fancy  goods 
before  the  spring  season  has  run  its 
course;  viewed  from  their  standpoint, 
it  is  a  consummation  devoutly  to  be 
wished,  but 
it  remains  to  be  seen 
whether  events  will  turn  out  as  it  is 
hoped.  The  market  as  regards 
fall 
dress  goods  is  in  a  very  quiet  position. 
The  duplicate  business  is  of  small  pro­
portions,  and  is  not  of  a  character to 
bring  any  fabrics 
into  special  promi­

Haberdashery—The 

nence.  The  jobbers  have  done  a  fair 
business,  but  not  of  sufficient  volume  to 
necessitate  any  considerable  duplicate 
business.  The  jobber  doubtless  expects 
to  require  more  goods,  but  he  sees  no 
necessity  of  hurrying  to  supply  needs 
that  are  prospective  rather  than  actual.
extremely  hot 
weather  which  has  prevailed  in  all parts 
of  the  country  has  resulted  in  bringing 
excellent  business  to  the  retailers  every­
where,  and  on  account  of  stocks  being 
depleted  rapidly,they have  been  obliged 
to  draw  on  the  manufacturers,  reorder­
ing  many  lines  in  considerable  quanti­
ties.  As  the  warm  weather  developed 
and  vacation  time  drew  near,  it  seemed 
as  though  people  who  had  earlier  in  the 
summer contemplated  going  away  with­
out  buying  much  of  anything  extra,  had 
felt  the  extreme  beat,  and  demanded  an 
extra  supply  of  the  various  articles  that 
are  grouped  under  the  name  of  haber­
dashery. 
in  particular  were 
bought  by  the  dozen,  and,  of  course,  the 
rather  low-banded  styles, 
lightweight 
largely  to  the  bal- 
underwear  running 
briggans  in  medium  and 
lower  grades 
with  a  plentiful  sprinkling  of  higher 
grades  and  enormous  quantities  of  neg­
ligee  shirts.  Hosiery,  too,  was  a  strong 
factor  in  the  business  in  fancy  colors 
and  open  work  effects.  A  number of 
lines  of  the  latter  to  sell  for  25c  a  pair 
are  on  the  market  in  rather  handsome 
designs.  The  best  of  them  are  in  solid 
colors,  depending  upon  the  open  work 
for  fancy  effects.  There  are  other  lines 
to  sell  as  low  as  10c per  pair,but neither 
the retailers nor  the  consumers  evidently 
have  much  faith  in  them,  and  compara­
tively  small  quantities  are  sold.  To  sell 
such  cheap 
lines  can  not  reflect  credit 
on  the  store,  and  it  is  a  wise  merchant, 
who,  even  if  he  keeps  them,  points  out 
the  advisability  to  his  customers of pay­
ing  a  little  more  and  getting much  more 
for their  money.

Collars 

Carpets— The  %  goods  continue  to  be 
the 
largest  sellers,  with  the  fine  grades 
having  the  public’s  preference.  Vel­
vets  continue  to 
lead  in  the  ^   goods, 
with  Brussels,  axminsters  and  tapestries 
not  far  behind.  A  good  high-grade 
tapestry  is  reported  to  be  in much better 
demand  than  a  few  weeks  ago.  The 
cheaper  tapestries  have  little  call. 
In­
grains  are  quiet,  but  it  is  said  that  the 
better  grades  are  beginning  to  show  a 
slight  improvement.  The  carpet  mills 
in  the  vicinity  of  Philadelphia are busy, 
taking  them  as  a  whole.  The  ingrain 
milis  are  quiet,  but  the  ^   goods  mills 
are  well  employed.  The  carpet  yarn 
spinners  are  rather quiet,  although  those 
making  worsted  yarns  report  a fair busi­
ness.  Mills  continue  to  buy  raw  stock 
in  lots  equal  only  to  two  to  three  weeks’ 
requirements,  and  nothing  has  been 
heard  that  would 
lead  one  to  believe 
that  they  are  anticipating  their  future 
needs.  The  New  England  mills  are  re­
ported  to  be  well  sold  up,  and  Eastern 
manufacturers  are  said  to  be  well  satis­
fied  with  what  business  has  been  re­
ceived.

Smyrna  Rugs— Rug  mills  report  a 
good  demand  for  Smyrna  rugs  with  a 
very  promising  outlook  for  a  good  fall 
trade.  While prices  for  rugs  are  cheap, 
no  efforts  are  made  to  a dvance  them. 
Wilton  rugs  are  also  reported  to  be  in 
good  request.

T beir Best Chance.

“ Oh,  yes,”   said  the 

ice  magnate, 
“ there  will  be  a  time  when  the  poor 
may  have  all  the  free  ice  they  want.’ ’ ’
“ And  when  will  that  be?’ ’  asked  the 

delighted  listener.
“ Next  winter.”

up  at  an  avenue  soda  fountain.

S tartling  Changes  in  an  Old  Story.
The  four  beauteous  young things lined 
When  they  had  been  served  with  their 
chocolate  ice  creams  they  sat  down  and 
partook  of  the  same  slowly,  chatting  an­
imatedly  the  while.

their 
ice  creams,  and  placed  the 

Each  of  them  carried  a  purse.
When  they  had  disposed  of 
chocolate 
glasses  on  the  counter,  they  all—
' Now,  to  make  this  little  narrative 
dovetail  with  the  cut-and-dried  dog­
mas  of  humorists  who  have  been  doing 
this  sort  of thing  for  a  great  many  years 
all  of  these  four  beauteous  young  things 
should  be  made  to  dig  frantically  into 
their  purses.  Each  of  them  should  be 
made  to  say,  “ Deed,  I  think  you’re 
real  mean  if  you  don't  let  me  pay!”   or 
“ Gracious  sakes  alive, 
let  me  stand 
treat!”   Then 
they  should  be  repre­
sented  as  having  a  desperate  time  of 
trying  to  yank  the  money  out  of  their 
pocketbooks,  and  they  should  be  por­
trayed  as  watching  each  other craftily 
out  of  the  tails  of  their  eyes  and putting 
up  sundry  and  divers  kinks  that  are 
known  to  the  prize  ring  as  sparring  for 
wind,  to  the  end  that  the  one  succumb­
ing  first  be  compelled  to  dig  up  the 
price  of  the  chocolate  ice  creams.
The  above  is  all  right,  and  still  goes, 
even  if  it  was  first  wotked  when  George 
III.  was  King,  but—

When  these 

four  beauteous  young 
creatures  had  finished  with  their  choco­
late  ice  creams  they  just  walked  out.

You  see,  the  one  who  had  dug  up  for 
the  chocolate  ice  creams  had  been  neat­
ly  pushed  up  to  the  cashier’s  desk  when 
they  came 
in,  and  she  had  to  buy  the 
soda  checks  in  advance.

Of Course  He  W as  a Brute.

Mrs.  Stalor—John,  don’t  you  think  I 
need  a  new  gown?  This  one  begins  to 
look  shabby.

Mr.  Stalor—I  don’t  see  anything  the 
matter  with 
it.  You  look  well  enough 
in  it  to  suit  me;  and  why  should  I  pay 
out  money  to  make  you  more  attractive 
to  other  men?

l l

An
Assortment

of handkerchiefs  way  beyond 
any  we  have  ever offered (and 
that  is  saying  a  great  deal)  is 
what we call your attention  to. 
We  have  the  embroidered 
goods  both  hemstitched  and

with  scalloped  edge  from  45 
cents  to  $4.50  per  dozen; 
plain  white  hemstitched  from 
25  cents  per  dozen  up;  col­
ored  borders  12  cents  up,  and 
silks 90  cents  to  $4.50.  Our 
salesmen  will  “ show you.”

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer  &  Co.

Wholesale  Dry Goods,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

This  May  Interest  You

The price  of  Indigo Blue Prints will advance to 
4/^c  on  September  i.  W e expect that  other lines 
will  advance also.

fancies  and  lights. 

We  have  a  good  assortment  left  in  greys, 
blues, 
If  you  wish  to  get 
some  at the  old price mail  in  your  order  and  we 
will  make a good  selection  for you.

P.  Steketee  &  Sons,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Abner
Junior
Generator

The  best  Acetylene  Gas 
Generator on  the  market  for 
p r i v a t e   houses,  schools, 
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Write  for  local  agency,  in­
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Call  at  our  exhibit  at  Buf­
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38  La  Salle  Street,  Chicago,  III.

12

Shoes  and  Rubbers

Some  Exasperating  Features  of  th e  Jo b ­

bing  Shoe  Business.

‘ ‘ Yes,  we  have  our  troubles 

like 
every  one  else,”   said  a  member  of  a 
well-known 
jobbing  house,  while  dis­
cussing  matters  of  interest  to  shoe 
job­
bers,  ‘ ‘ and  I  suppose  we  are  no  differ­
ent  than  those  engaged  in  other  lines  of 
trade.

“ You  have  heard  of  the  countermand 
and  returned  goods  evil,  no  doubt,  and 
the  discussion  of  means  of  suppressing 
these  really  annoying  features  of  the 
wholesale  shoe  trade  has  gone  on  for 
years  with  no  appreciable  diminution 
in  the  amount  of  goods  returned  at 
times,  nor  any  apparent  hesitation  be­
ing  evinced  on  the  part  of  the  dealer  to 
countermand  an  order,  if  his  stock  is 
full  and  the  crop  outlook  not  promis­
ing.  A  reward  awaits  the  man  who  will 
devise  a  means  of  checking  these  evils, 
but  the  solution  seems  to  be  as  far  dis­
tant  as  ever,  and  the  dealers  merrily 
continue  a  practice  which  is  not  only 
exasperating,  but  not  entirely  above  the 
suspicion  of  being  dishonorable.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

This  space  belongs  to

Bradley  &  Metcalf Co.

Milwaukee,  Wis.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of

Honest  Footwear

We  Carry 
Shoes  and  Rubbers

That  are  trade  winners  and  will 
make  money  for you.

THE  WESTERN  SHOE  CO.

TOLEDO,  OHIO

This  is  our  Imitation  Tip

HARD  PAN

assertions  and  promises  out  of  all 
bounds  of  reason.  They  would  not  do 
that  if  they  knew  they  alone  were  re­
sponsible,  but  they  still  have  their  job­
ber  to  fall  back  on,  and  are  not  so 
cautious  as  if they had to pay the freight.
‘ ‘ Of  course  they  retort,  ‘ The  goods 
are  not  up  to  the  sample,’  and  that  is 
usually  the  foundation  for  endless  bick­
ering  and  dispute,  not  calculated  to  be 
of  any  benefit  to  either party  to  the  con­
troversy.  The  fact  of  the  matter  is  the 
jobber strives  to  get  his  goods  from  the 
manufacturer  as  near 
like  sample  as 
possible,  and  aside  from  the  finish  and 
usual  sleek  appearance 
secured  by 
handling  so  much,  the  stock  goods  are 
in  every  way  the  counterpart  of  the 
samples.  A  sensible  jobber  is  not  de­
liberately  seeking  trouble  by  dishonor­
able  substituting.  How  long  could  he 
expect  to  keep  in  business,  if  he  treated 
his  trade  in  such  a  manner?

little 

‘ ‘ What  is  needed  is  a  better  under­
standing  on  the  part  of  the  dealer  and 
a 
less  eagerness  to  make  unjust 
claims.  He  can  rest  assured  that  the 
johber  will  do  everything  in  his  power 
to  promote  the  best  of  feeling  among 
his  trade  and  do  all  that 
is  reasonable 
to  retain  his  custom.  The  less  friction 
the  more  business,  and  that  is  what  we 
are  all  out  for,  of  course.  This  applies 
to  the  dealer  as  well,  and  a 
little  firm­
ness 
in  dealing  with  unreasonable  cus­
tomers  would  do  much  to  break  up  the 
practice  of  returning  shoes  to  the  job­
bers  after they  have  been  worn  a  month 
or  so.

‘ ‘ So  it  goes,  and  it  would 

indeed  be 
interesting  to  know 
just  what  remedy 
would  cure  these  abuses.  Of  course  the 
greatest  trouble  is  to get  the  jobbers  to 
stick  together  and  maintain  a  uniform­
ly  rigid  rule  that  ail  such  claims  should 
not  be  countenanced,  and  that  dealers 
making  a  practice  of  such  reprehensible 
methods  should  be  reported  in  trade  re­
ports  as  being  undesirable  customers.

‘ ‘ But 

in  the  scramble  for  business 
this  is  difficult  to  do,  and  there  is  al­
ways  some  firm  who  is  willing  to  give 
him the benefit  of  the  doubt  and  cater  to 
his  trade.  This  weakens  the  scheme, 
because  as  long  as  one  does  so  all  must 
do  it  or  lose  trade;  and  so  the  evil  con­
tinues  and  the  jobber  suffers  in  silence, 
knowing that  he  is  not  the  only  one  who 
has  to  meet  such  conditions  in  the  shoe 
business.

"When  will 

it  be  remedied?  Wish 
we  all  knew,  then  we  would  have  some­
look  forward  to  and  live  in 
thing  to 
hopes  of  the  millennium 
in  the  boot 
and  shoe  world,  trusting  it  would  come 
before  we  are  gathered  to  our  fathers.”  
— Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

Bad  For the  Shoes.

It 

The  shoe  shiners,  or  polishers,  and 
extension-edge  shoes  are  likely  to  prove 
a  bad  combination  for  the  wearers,  and 
a  good  combination  for  the  manufactur­
ers,  if  one  looks  at  it  that  way. 
is, 
by  reason  of  these  extension  edges, 
more  difficult  for  the  “ polishers”   to 
make  quick  time,  and in many instances 
they  are  satisfied  to  merely  polish  the 
vamp,  and  use  a quick shining  varnishy 
substance  for  the  heels  and  edges. 
It 
is  this  varnish  that 
is  likely  to  make 
trouble,  for  it  is  claimed  that  this  sub­
stance  will  positively  rot  the  leather, 
which,  of  course,  while  making 
it  bad 
for the  wearers  will  permit  the  dealers 
and  the  manufacturers  to  sell  more 
shoes,  but  it  isn’t  healthy.— Shoe  Re­
tailer.

If  candles  were  made  in  the  shape  of 
a  cross,  some  people  would  bum  them 
at  the  four ends.

W ears  Like  Iron

You simply can t get a better shoe for the money, because it can’t be made.

Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

Makers  of  Shoes 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

‘ ‘ But  as  the  saying  goes,  ‘ there  are 
others. ’  These  are  not  the  only  troubles 
that  assail  the  peace  of  mind  of  the job­
ber,  and  cause  untold  disputes  and  anx­
ieties.

" A s  

‘ ‘ There’s  the  ‘ not  up to sample'  howl, 
the  unjust  claims  for new  shoes  to  re­
place  old  ones  obviously  abused,  the  in­
discriminate  use  of  the word'guarantee' 
by  the  dealer, who  expects  to  come  back 
on  the  jobber  in  case  of  necessity,  and 
so  on  through  all  the  various  shades  of 
complaints  and  abuses  too  numerous  to 
enumerate.
it 

is,  the  jobber  is  between  the 
mill  stones,  so  to  speak.  The  dealer 
looks  to  him  to  replace  shoes  he  may 
have  allowed a  customer  on a guarantee, 
regardless  of  whether,  in  the  jobber's 
judgment,  the  claim 
just  one  or 
not.  A  kick  on  the  part  of  the  jobber, 
and  the  dealer  threatens  to  trade  else­
where.  Then,  too,  the  jobber  has  to  put 
up  with  the  inverse  of  the  proposition 
in  his  dealings  with  the  manufacturer. 
Goods  not  up  to  sample are  often  a  bone 
of  contention  between  the  two  and  case 
lots  of  the  same  line  often show startling 
differences 
in  cut  or  grade  of  stock 
used.  This  causes  many  to  stipulate 
that  a  certain  number of  cases  are  to  go 
through  so  as  to  show  that  the  stock  is 
up  to  the  grade  of  the  samples.

is  a 

is  often  overdone. 

‘ ‘ The  dealer  comes  back  to the  job­
ber, 
in  satisfying  his  customer  and 
usually  compels  him  to  make  good  the 
claim,  while  the  jobber  is  not  able  to  do 
so  easily  with  the  manufacturer. 
In 
fact,  the  guarantee  feature  of  the  busi­
ness 
If  there  was 
some  one  competent  to  judge  the  merits 
of  the  controversy  that  usually  arises, 
and  who  would  be  acceptable  to  both 
parties,  well  and  good,but  the  dealer  al­
ways  has  recourse  to  the  position  that  if 
what  he  considers  is  a just  claim  is  not 
allowed  and  he is not indemnified for the 
goods  he  furnished 
in  satisfying  his 
disgruntled  customer,  the 
jobber  will 
lose  his  trade.

‘ ‘ No  two  people  wear  a  pair of  shoes 
alike  and  when  shoes  are  made 
in 
stock,  it  is  to  be  expected  that  the same 
fit  and  wearing  qualities  will  not  be  in­
sured  that  are  found  in  a  custom  made 
shoe.  However 
skillful  the  modern 
shoemaker may.be,  he  can  not  cut  pat­
terns  to  exactly  fit  each  of the  hundreds 
of  wearers  of  his  shoes.  Dealers  are 
too  often  so anxious  to  please  their cus­
tomers  and  secure  trade  that  they  make

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

13

Patience  and  Study  Required  to  Satisfy 

Young  Folks.

In  catering  to  children’s  wants  and 
needs  we  sometimes  have  some  queer 
cases  to  deal  with.  Occasionally  a  poor 
struggling,  hard-working  woman  comes 
along  with  one  out  of a  batch  of  prob­
ably  four  or six  children  a  cripple.  Of 
course,  she has tried every  remedy  heard 
of  and  is  willing  to  try  one  more  in  or­
der to  relieve  the  poor  little  sufferer.  It 
may  have  a  bad  case  of  flat  foot  and  in­
variably  the  shoeman  sums  up  the  case 
as  weak  ankles  and  immediately  pro­
ceeds  to  make  a  shoe  that  is  positive 
agony  for  the  child  to  wear.

Something 

is  cut  extra  high,  about 
two-thirds  up  to  the  knee,  with  stiff 
counters  running  to  the  top  of  the  shoe, 
and  yet  the  child  does  not  improve. 
Why? 
Simply  because  he  does  not 
make  a  study,  or  try  to  reason  out  what 
would  be  the  best  kind  of  shoe  for  this 
particular  case.  Generally, 
the  first 
thought  is  how  much  can  be  gotten  out 
of  the  customer  for such  a  shoe.  Now, 
this  way  of  procedure  is  not  the  way  to 
gain  the  confidence  of  a  customer or  to 
improve  his  business. 
If  he  does  not 
thoroughly  understand  a  case  of this, 
or  similar  kind,  he  should  so  inform 
his  customer and  recommend  her  to  see 
a  specialist;  at  the  same  time  the  cus­
tomer  should  understand  she  is  to  in­
form  the  physician  recommended to her. 
The  physician 
in  turn  will  return  the 
favor  by  sending  an  order  for a  special- 
made  shoe,  thereby  taking  a  little  inter­
est In  your  customers’  welfare,  and  an­
other  is  easily  gained  and  added to your 
list,  for  women  will  talk  and  will  more 
often  recommend  than  talk  you  down. 
The  former  is  good  advertising  and 
good  paying.  This  is  writen  with  good 
intention  (not  to  preach)  and  to  give  a 
little  actual  experience.

Speaking  of trade  in  general,  to cater 
to  the  wants  of  your  customers  it  is  ab­
solutely  necessary  for  you  to  be  among 
them  personally.  There  are  knowledge 
and  good  points  to  be  gained  by  so  do­
ing.  One  will  ask  for  one  particular 
shaped  shoe  and  another,  another,  and 
so  on  until  you  may  build  or  shape  a 
shoe  in  your  mind  which,if  carried  out, 
sometimes  proves  to  be  a  winner.  Ideas 
or  suggestions  from  customers  as  to 
combinations,  etc.,  often  prove  profit­
able.  A  good  point  worth  speaking  of 
is,  never  try  to  force  on  a  customer 
something  she  does  not  want. 
It  is  al­
ways  well  to  show  and  to  recommend 
your goods  and  if  you  are  not  success­
in  making  a  sale,  you  have  per­
ful 
formed  your  duty. 
It  is  best  to  be  as 
polite  as  possible  under  the  circum­
stances,  and  you  stand  a  fairly  good 
chance  of  seeing  your  customer at  some 
future  time.

A  certain  salesman  tried  his level best 
to  suit  a  customer,  but  failed  to  do  so. 
He  had  not  the  style  of  shoe  in  stock 
desired,  and  eventually  recommended 
her  to another store  (not  in  the 
imme­
diate  vicinity).  The  customer  went 
where  directed,  but the  next  day  she  re­
turned  rather  more  disgusted 
than 
pleased,  and  exclaimed,  ‘ ‘ Why 
in  the 
world  did  you  send  me  to  a  place  like 
that?  Whatever  kind  of  a  store  can  it 
be?  Why,  every  man  in  the  place  came 
up  in  turn  and  tried  to  sell  me  some­
thing  I  did  not  want,  so now  you  will 
please  make  me  a  pair  of  shoes  such  as 
I  have  described."  So  it  sometimes 
pays  better not to turn  over  too much,  it 
is often  overdone.

Following  up  this 

incident  a 
salesman  called  on  me  a  few  weeks  ago 
who said,  before  he  opened  bis samples,

little 

he  was  trying  to 
introduce  his  goods 
into  the  better  class  of  stores,  but  if  his 
statements  were  true,  I  am  not  surprised 
to  hear of  customers  running  from  store 
to  store  trying  to get  suited  (or  suitable 
shoes  to  put  on  their  children’s  feet).
I  believe  the  majority  of  the  public 
display  fairly  good  judgment 
in  cloth­
ing  their  children’s  feet.  They  do  not 
now  believe  in  crowding  their  little  feet 
into  pointed,or  so-called  bulldog-shaped 
shoes.  Such  shapes  wjre  at  one  time 
called  smart  or  pretty,  but  they  are  now 
termed  hideous,  and  the  sooner  the 
manufacturers  of  cheap  shoes  learn  this 
the  better  or  more  profitable  it  will  be 
for  their  business. 
It  sometimes  ap­
pears  that  they  must  scour  the  country 
for the  most  ill-shaped  lasts  to be found, 
instead  of  trying  to  improve  their  pres­
ent  style.

In  the  course  of  business  we  find 
many  people  with  queer  ideas.  They 
imagine  the  many 
little  defects  com­
mon  with  children  will  result  in  some­
thing  very  serious.  They  sometimes 
toe-in,  which  seems  to  be  a  common 
habit  with  children.  They  all  appear to 
do so  more  or  less,  up  to  a  certain  age, 
after  which  the  habit  gradually  disap­
pears.  How  many  grown-up  people  do 
you  see  toe-in,  unless  they  wear  an  ex­
cep tio n al  twisted  shoe? 
I  am  free  to 
say  all  of  us  did  not  wear  shoes  to  pre- 
vent'toeing-in  when  we  were  children. 
Of  course,  the  mothers  of  these  times  do 
not  think  of  that.  They  know  that  their 
children  toe-in  ^nd  it must be remedied.
It  is  the  same  again  with  the  baby 
with  twisted  or curved  legs.  Did  you 
ever  see  a  baby  with  perfectly  straight 
legs? 
It  is  an  acknowledged  fact  that 
the  baby’s  legs  are  always  inclined  to 
curve  outward. 
is  natural  to  be  so. 
They  are  born  that  way  and  will  stay 
that  way  until 
is  time  for them  to 
straighten  out,  which  they  will  of  their 
own  accord  unless  Mother  Nature  has 
chosen  rickets  or  some  other disease. 
The  mother,  of  course,  does  not  think 
so.  She  is  on  the  lookout  for  a remedy, 
for  she 
in  mortal  fear  of  her  child 
growing  up  bow-legged  or  pigeon-toed. 
These  and  many  other  little  points,  if 
studied,  will  prove  profitable.

is 

It 

it 

She  was  then 

A  short  time  ago  a  customer  pur­
chased  a  pair of  baby’s  shoes  and  paid 
for  them.  When  she  glanced  inside  the 
shoe  and  saw  a  certain  name  which  did 
not  appear  in  the  two  pairs  she had pur­
chased  previously,  she  at  once  protested 
and  said  something  to  the  effect  that  we 
were  trying  to  sell  her something  differ­
ent  from  those  asked  for,  and  that  she 
did  not  expect  such  treatment from such 
a  firm.  We,  however,  reasoned  with  her 
and  explained  to  the  best  of  our  ability 
that  they  were  the  same  kind  as  pre­
viously  purchased,  but  had  lately  added 
the  name.  This  explanation  was  not 
satisfactory. 
informed 
that  the  shoes  could  be  sent  home -for 
comparison  with  the  others  purchased, 
and 
if  they  were  not  exactly  alike,  the 
price  would  be  refunded.  This  scheme 
did  not  work  either.  Patience  at  last 
being  almost  exhausted,  a  refund  check 
was  made  out,  and  the  queerest  thing, 
as  soon  as  she  saw  the  color  of  her 
money  she  brightened  up  and  changed 
her  mind,  saying  she  guessed  they  were 
the  same  kind  as  before  and  decided  to 
take  them.  She  went  away  apparently 
contented  with  herself.  Such  are  the 
whims  of  some we  have  to contend with.
Referring  to  the  much-talked  subject, 
‘ ‘ tan  shoes,”   who  circulated  the  story 
that  no  tan  shoes  were  going  to  be  worn 
this  season?  We  have  disposed  of  fully 
one-third  more  than  any  other  previous

season. 
I  have  read  statements  where 
dealers  said  they  could  not  get  enough 
of  them,  but  I  have  not  been  so  unfor­
tunate. 
I  believe  there  are  yet  plenty 
to  be  procured.  Probably  the  party 
who  circulated  this  story  wanted  or  ex­
pected  to  get  all  the  tan  trade  this  sea­
son. 
If  so,  he  was  disappointed,  for  I 
have  noticed  in  nearly  all  the  shoe  win­
dows  almost  as  many  tan  shoes  as  ever, 
and  will  wind  up  my  little  say  with  the 
very  much  used  and  worn-out  saying, 
‘ ‘ They  have  come  to  stay.’ ’—A.  R. 
Garrod  in  Shoe  Retailer.

Defined.

Teacher— What  little  boy  can  tell  me 

what  is  a  ‘ ‘ pioneer?’ ’

Tommy— I  know.  My  sister's  one. 
Teacher— Your sister?
Tommy—Yes,  she  plays  the  pianner 

all  the  time.

“Little

Miss M ujfett"

Is the name of the best line 
of  Infants’ Shoes made.

C.  M .  Henderson  &   Co.

“ Western  Shoe  Builders ”

Cor. Market and Quincy Sts. 

jj^hicago, Hi.

A J A X

Dynamite  Works

Bay  City,  Michigan 

Dynamite, Caps,  Fuse, Battery  Supplies 

for Rock Work and Stump Blasting.

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Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Wholesale

Boots  and  Shoes

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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The  Meat Market

P roper  H andling  of Ham s  and  Bacon.
Where  hams  are  to  be  wrapped  in 
paper,  it  is  important  that  a  careful  se­
lection  of  the  wrapping  material  be 
made.  All  papers,  although  they  may 
have  the  glazed  appearance  when  ap­
plied,  do  not  show  the  same  result.  A 
little  experience  might  illustrate  this 
best.  On  a  visit  to  one  of  our  distrib­
uting  stations  in  Portland,  Me.,  1 found 
the  workman  busy  picking  small  pieces 
of  paper  from  the  hams,  the  pieces  be­
ing  the  size  of  a  dime,  on  the  average, 
and  tightly  embedded  into the  meat sur­
face  to  such  an  extent  that rubbing them 
with  a  cloth  did  not  remove  them,  and 
the  picking  off  of  each  individual  piece 
was  necessary.  On  a  consignment  of 
200 or  300  hams  this  was  a  serious  ques­
tion. 
It  was  found  that  this  was  from 
the  paper  wrapped  around  in  the  pack­
ing  house.  A  new  brand  of  paper, 
which  was  supposed  to  be  a  great  im ­
provement  over  the  old  kind,  was  in­
troduced.  We  took  an  ordinary  piece 
of  paraffine  parchment  and  tried 
it  in 
grease,  and  found  that 
it  would  go  to 
pieces  the  same  as  it  had  done  on  the 
hams.  While  water  produced  no  effect 
on  the  paper,  when  grease  came  in  con­
tact  with  it,  it  was  destroyed  after  a  few 
hours  contact.

A  series  of  experiments  were  started 
to  see  what  paper  could  be  used,  and 
the  result  was  that  fully  half  the  paper 
offered 
for  the  purpose  was  useless. 
Finally  a  paper  was  found  that  was 
in  its  make  up,  and  would 
quite  soft 
resist  the  action  of  grease 
from  the 
I  regret  that  I  do  not  know  the 
hams. 
brand  of  this  paper,  but  it  stopped  a 
large  amount  of  labor  at  the  receiving 
end  of  the  shipments,  and  the  writing 
of  many  sharp 
letters  from  the  sales 
end.  The  making  of  pickle  for curing 
hams  and  bacon  is  an  important  part  of 
the  industry.  A tank  of  from  240 to  40c 
cubic  feet  capacity 
is  filled  With  salt, 
through  which  a  stream  of  water  is  kept 
running.  An  overflow  pipe,  which  has 
its  connection  an  inch  or two  from  the 
bottom,  permits  this  brine  to  flow  away. 
The  law  of  specific  gravity,  which  car­
ries  all 
liquids  at  their  level,  due  to 
their  own weight,brings  the  brine  of  the 
greatest  strength  to  the  bottom  of  the 
tank,  and  from  here  it  flows  into  a  sec­
ond  tank,  clear  brine.  There 
is  an­
other  law  of  nature,  which  is  not  gen­
erally  known,  and  that  is  that  water  at 
60  degrees 
temperature,  Fahrenheit, 
takes  up  its  greatest  amount  of  salt,  and 
as  it  varies  from  this.either  hot  or  cold, 
it  deposits  the  salt  in  the  bottom  of  the 
receptacle;  therefore,  when  we  wish  the

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

to 

brine 
stand  at  100  degrees  on 
“ Baume”   scale  of  solution  we  must 
have  a  temperature  of  60  degrees  Fah­
renheit.  We  cure  hams  at  a  temperature 
of  40  degrees  Fahrenheit;  therefore,  use 
a  salt  solution  of  84  degrees  “ Baume,”  
as  all  salt  that  has  been  held  above  this 
amount  has  precipitated  and  settled  to 
the  bottom.  After  the  brine  solution  is 
complete  and  has  settled  into  the  sec­
ond  tank,  it  is  strained  to  take  out  any 
particles  of  dirt  held 
in  suspension, 
and  then  sugar  is  added  to  make  the 
sweet  pickle.  Formerly  fine  granulated 
white  sugar,  such  as  we  are  familiar 
with  on  our  tables,  was  used ;  but  with­
in  a  few  years  the  introduction  of  sac- 
rine  has  been  made,  and  has  driven  out 
to  a  great  extent  the  use  of  sugar.  One 
of  the  chief  reasons  that  sacrine  was 
successful  was  on  account  of  its  econ­
omy.  After  the  pickling  has  been  com­
pleted  there 
is  a  large  quantity  of  the 
water  left;  in  fact,  all  the  water,  with 
a  reduction  of  probably  25  per  cent,  of 
the  sugar  and  salt  originally  put  there­
in.  This  brine  becomes  “  ropy, ”   and 
if  used  too  long  will  become  sour. 
It 
may  be  used  again  by  reboiling  and 
then  cooling 
it.  One  packing  house 
which  is  more  advanced  than  its  neigh­
bors,  has  erected  a  water cooling  tower 
for  the  cooling  of  this  brine.  Starting 
with  a  temperature  of  180  degrees,  the 
brine 
is  brought  to  70 degrees  in  one 
cycle  through  the  blower,  and  thereafter 
is  cooled  to  40  degrees  by  being 
it 
brought  in  contact  with  coils 
in  which 
ammonia  gas  is  being circulated.  Dur­
ing 
and  cleansing 
process  the  brine  must  necessarily  be 
brought  to  its  original  strength,  both  of 
salt  and  sugar.  Usually  this  brine  is 
used  the  second  time  for  the  curing  of 
bacon,  and  finally  it  finds  its 
last  rest­
ing  place  in  the  sewer,  still  loaded  with 
sugar  and  salt,  and  in  addition  thereto 
the  germs  which  produce  the  serious 
fungi  growth  which  is  so  harmful  in  its 
results  to  the  packing  house  industry. 
in  all  this  operation  is  im­
Cleanliness 
perative. 
I  believe  my  readers  com­
prehend  that  the  question  of  cleanliness 
does  not  come  from  the  love  of  keeping 
clean,  but  from  the  necessity  of  check­
ing  any  possible  chance for germinating 
the  fungi  which  come 
in  a  thousand 
different  forms,  and  means  destruction 
to the  product  being manufactured.  The 
germinating  seeds  can  easily  be  des­
troyed  either  by  washing  with  hot  water 
or  by  a  generous  use  of  whitewash .made 
of  strong  slaked  lime  and  water;  this to 
be  applied  to  the  ceilings,  walls,  posts, 
and  a  good, 
liberal  spatting  on  the 
floor.  The  tanks  or  hogsheads  holding 
the  pickled  meat  receive  a  good  scrub­

clarifying 

this 

bing  with  a  brush  and  water,  in  which 
a  strong  solution  of  washing  soda  has 
been  placed. 
This  cleaning  process 
should  be  done  at  the  terminating  of 
each  pickling  before  a  new  lot  of  meat 
is  put 
into  the  tanks  or  pickling  vats. 
In  preparing  bacon  care  must  be  taken 
to  have  the  pieces  all  of  one  size,  so 
that  they  may  be  sliced,  and  the  pieces 
put  into  paper  boxes  holding  a  pound, 
each  package  being  wrapped  up 
in 
paraffine  paper.  The  slicing  is  done 
by machine  knife,and  all  strips of bacon 
brought  to  one  size  by  a  power  press 
operated  by  air  pressure.  Bacon  pre­
pared 
in  this  way  will  bring  five  to 
eight  cents  per  pound  more  than  when 
sold 
in  strips,  principally  because  the 
householder  does  not  want  to  trouble 
himself  to  slice  the  meat,  and  also  be* 
cause  all  pieces  of  bacon  so  sliced  be­
come  of  even  thickness  and  are  cooked 
in  the  pan  uniformly.

in 

In 

sold 

is  an 

important  one. 

shipping  hams  before  being 
wrapped,  the  branding  machine  comes 
in  place,  and  the  strips  of  bacon,  which 
are 
large  pieces,  are  also 
branded.  To  the  uninitiated  this  seems 
to  be  an  advertisement,  and  unques­
tionably  a  great  benefit  comes  from 
it, 
hut  to  the  owner  and  superintendent 
more 
importance  than  advertisement 
attaches  to  this  branding.  The  question 
of  being  able  to  identify  their  pwn 
product 
In  all 
cases  where  there  are  manufactured 
goods  of  a  perishable  nature,  it  is  cus­
tomary  for  the  maker  to  guarantee  his 
goods,  and  if  a  piece  of  bacon  becomes 
rancid  or  rusty,  or a  ham  becomes  filled 
with  “ skippers,”   the  pieces  are  re­
turned  with  a  blessing  from  the  pur­
chaser.  Boston  and  New  York  packers 
have  repaid  many  a  ham  or  bacon  sale 
where  the  meat  was  shipped  from  a 
Western  house.  The  long  time  of  ship­
ments  gave  a  chance  to  change  the meat 
and  a  dealer  who  would  swear  point 
blank  that  these  hams  came  from  an 
Eastern  house,  the  house,  rather  than 
lose a customer,  would refund the amount 
of  money 
laid  out  in  the  sale.  The 
branding  machine  stopped  this  abuse, 
and  placed  the  loss  where  it  belonged. 
It  is  needless  to  say  that  the  branding 
of  meats  originated 
in  the  Eastern 
cities.— Francis  H.  Boyer  in  Ice  and 
Refrigeration.

Chickens  Fattened  By  M achinery.

With  a  machine  to  hatch  out  chick­
ens 
in  record  time,  and  another  ma­
chine  to  fatten  them  quickly,  the  poul­
is  certain  to  undergo 
try  business 
changes  more  remarkable  than 
those 
that  have  transpired  within  the  past 
few  years.  The  time  may  come  when

incubator,  and 

the  butcher  will  have  a “ chicken plant”  
in  operation  behind  his  counter.  A 
lady  will  come  in  his  shop  on  Thursday 
morning  and  order  a  broiler. 
The 
butcher will  place  an  egg  in  his  double­
action 
early  Friday 
morning  the  chicken  will  be  ready  for 
the  fattening  machine.  By  Saturday 
evening  it  will  be  ready  to  kill.  We  do 
not  say  these  things  will  happen. 
In 
fact,  we  do  not  think  that  they  will. 
But  they  may.  Just  see  what  Swift  & 
Co.  are  going  to  do  at  Kansas  City. 
They  have  brought  over  from  England 
S.  Barden,  and  made  him  their  poul­
terer.  Mr.  Barden  has  patented  a  ma­
chine  that  will  make  chickens  grow  a 
pound  and  a  half  a  week.  The  chick­
ens  are  kept  in  coops,  the 
latter  being 
arranged 
in  tiers  of  three,  one  above 
the  other,  five  fowls  being  placed  in 
each  coop.  The  fattening  machine  is 
run  along  the  aisles  between  the  tiers  of 
coops  and  the  latter  are  opened  and  the 
chickens  taken  out  and  fed  one  at  a 
time  as  much  as  their  crops  can  hold. 
It  is  claimed  that  hundreds  of  chickens 
can  be  fed  in  this  way  in  an  hour.  The 
fowls  are  kept  continually 
in  confine­
ment  while  the  feeding  process  is  in 
operation,  and  are  thus  prevented  from 
running  away  any  flesh.  According  to 
Mr.  Barden,  the  flesh  of  chickens  fat­
tened  by  this  process  is  not  fat,but  fine, 
lean  meat.  Chickens  are  to  be  fattened 
at  Kansas  City  by Mr.  Barden’s method, 
and 
if  he  makes  good  bis  claims  we 
will  witness  the  spectacle  of  machine- 
fed  chickens  taking  on  flesh  at  the  rate 
of  about  a  quarter  of  a  pound  a  day. 
Now,  if  some  one  else  can  get  up  a  ma­
chine  that  will  force  bens  to  lay  two  or 
three  eggs  a  day,  the  acme  of  stunts 
in 
the  poultry  line  will  have  been  reached. 
— Butchers’  Advocate.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

15

Clerks*  Corner,
He  Met the  Enem y and  He  Was  His. 

Written for the Tradesman.

Don  Day’s  counter  was  next  to  mine 
and  that  was  one  reason  why  I  knew 
him  first.  A  clerk’s  entrance 
into  a 
department  store  is  a good deal like  that 
of  a  new  cow  into  a  strange  barnyard. 
Everybody 
looks  at  him  with  a  kind  of 
“ Just  see  there!’ ’ and  the acknowledged 
ringleader  goes  for him  first.  The  boy, 
however,  didn’t  mind 
it.  He  went  to 
work 
like  the  old  hand  at  the  business, 
as  he  was,  and  it  wasn't  a  great  while 
before  the  little  realm  that  he  called  his 
own 
recognized  and  announced  his 
kingship.  The  head  of  the  department 
nodded  approval  after a  short  watch  and 
went  to  another  part  of  the  store  where 
he  felt  that  his  presence  was  in  greater 
demand.

itself 

accordingly. 

The  mass  of  mankind  do  not  like  to 
admit  it,  but  in  spite' of  ourselves  we 
wear  our  heart  upon  our  sleeves  and 
the  world  sees,  approves  or  disapproves 
and  conducts 
I 
looked  at  the  tall,  well-proportioned, 
fair  haired,  intelligent-faced  young  fel­
low  of  twenty-five  and  liked  him.  His 
mouth  and  his  eyes  had  out  a  flag  of 
“ Take  care  there!”   but  bis  manners 
were  gentle  and  his  voice  was  pleasing.
I  liked  him  anyway  and  I  still like him. 
He  and  I  do  not  agree on certain points, 
but  that  does  not  prevent  me  from  feel­
ing  to  the  full  the  fellow’s good  points 
and  he  has  them  if  a  human  being  ever 
did.  He 
is  the  best  instance  I  know 
which  illustrates  the  fact  that  Holmes so 
pointedly  brings  out—the  three  that  live 
under  every  man’s  hat:  the  real  John, 
the  John  be  thinks  he  is  and  the  John 
that  the  world 
looks  at.  For the  first 
fortnight  the  store  clerks  sized  him  up 
and  labeled  him  and  this  was the result: 
A  good  sort  of  a  fellow;  and  one  who 
knows  his  own  business  and  wants  no 
interference  and  who  is  scrupulously 
careful  of  his  person  even  to  the  verge 
of  dudedom  without  even  the  slightest 
hint  of  passing  the  danger  line. 
“ A l­
ways  looks  as  if  he  stepped  out  of  a 
bandbox,”   as  one  of  the  saleswomen 
put  it,  and  so  it  came  to  be  understood 
that  nothing  was  so  averse  to  their  fel­
low  clerk’s  soul  as  neglect  of  personal 
appearance  and  an 
to 
whatever  pertains  thereto.

indifference 

It  may  be  that  “ one  touch  of  nature 
which  makes  the  whole  world  kin”   led 
me  to  reach  different  conclusions  or, 
rather,  to  see  the  “ real  John”   in  the 
young  fellow  that  chance  bad  brought  to 
me,  but  the  pensive  face  with  some­
thing  of  sadness  in  i t ;  the  voice,  pleas­
anter  and  pleasanter to  hear as  I  came 
to  know  and  understand  the  real  spirit 
it  stood  for;  and,  finally,  not  a  glimpse 
but the  full  view  of  the  man’s  real heart 
convinced  me  that  the  world  bad  as 
usual  mistaken 
its  man  and  that  the 
“ bandbox”   idea  in  no  way  stood  as  a 
sign  for the  real  thing  signified.

I  can  see  Don  Day  now  as  he  stood 
the  waiting  train  that  summer 
by 
morning  starting  on  his  month’s  vaca­
tion with “ the  old  folks  at  home.”   The 
tailor had  done  his  best  and  the  suit  of 
blue  serge  that  he  wore,  the  drab  hat 
that  was  very  becoming  to  him,  the 
neat  shoe  that  advantageously  encased 
bis  foot,  the  light  overcoat  upon  his 
arm  and  the  handsome  suit  case  beside 
him  made  him  a  pleasant  sight  to  look 
at  for  the  fellows  that  had  come  to  see 
him  off. 
“ It  will  be  a  game  of  hearts 
till  he  gets  home  again”  laughed  one  of 
them,  as  the  happy  face,  framed  by  the

car  window,  moved  out  of the  station; 
but  I who saw down through the ‘ * world’s 
John”   into  his  real  self  knew  that  the 
lips  he  was 
longing  to  press  with  his 
own  were  his  dear  old  mother’s and that 
the  hand  that  would  thrill  his  most  was 
that  of  the  white-haired 
father  he 
would  find  at  the  station  on  bis  arrival 
in  the  leafy  New  England  town.

Well,  the  following  winter,  after  a 
well-earned  victory  at  the  counter which 
left  the  successful  clerk  jubilant,  he 
looked  up  with  a  “ How’s  that?”   to  me 
who  had  watched  the  commercial  battle 
from  start  to  finish,  when  there  stopped 
in  front  of  his  counter a  regular  Rip 
Van  Winkle  just  from  his  nap  among 
the  mountains.  To  the  rest  of  us  it  was 
a  meeting  of  extremes  with  only  the 
counter  between  them—Don in his hand­
some  well-fitting  attire  and  R ip’s— 
well,  Rip  in  his,  the  stockless  gun  bar­
rel,  in  this 
instance,  displaced  by  the 
ranchman’s  whip.  The  shadow»  of  a 
smile  began  to  tug  at  Don’s  mouth  cor­
ners,  but,  as  if  he  saw  the  man  under 
the  ungainly  garb  and  respected  him, 
he  said,  “ Is  there  anything  I  can  do 
for you  to-day,  sir?”

The  only  reply  was  a  genial  smile 
which 
in  due  time  parted  the  tobacco- 
stained  lips  and  disclosed  two  equally 
stained  canine  teeth,  the  relicts  of  com­
panions  long  since  gone  before.  The 
two  littie  eyes  shaded  by  shaggy  eye­
brows  twinkled  an  instant as they peered 
into  the  clerk’s  wondering  face  and then 
a  hearty  but  rough  voice  said:  “ Guess 
ye  don’t  know  me,  Don!”

For  an 

instant  Don  didn’t  and  for 
one  supreme  moment,  clerks  and  cus­
tomers—it  was  bargain  day  and the store 
was  crowded—stood  with  their eyes  fas­
tened  upon  the  two.  Then there  was  an 
honest,hearty,  “ Know  you,John  Ridge­
way?  Of  course,  I  know  you!”   Don 
said  this,  coming from  behind  the  coun­
ter and  then  with  one  hand  clasping the 
ranchman’s  and  the  other  resting  upon 
his  shoulder  he  gave  him  a  greeting 
that  made  John  Ridgeway  glad  that  he 
had  come  and  that  made  the  heart  of 
every 
looker-on  throb  with  admiration 
for  the  young  up-to-date  who  could 
make  the  honest-hearted 
countryman 
feel  that  he  had  not  mistaken  his  man. 
Young  Wiltz, whose  counter was opposite 
mine, 
looked  at  me  and  gave  me  a 
hearty  nod  of  approval  and  not  a  sales­
man  among  us  failed  to  pronounce  a 
mental  “ Amen”   at  the  unexpected  out­
come.

For  myself,  I knew  my  man  and  knew 
also  that  the  end  was  not  yet.  Having 
got  bis  bearings,  John  Ridgeway  soon 
left  the  store  with  the  understanding 
from  Don  Day  that  he  was  to  be  there 
by  six  o’clock  to go  home  with  him  to 
dinner. 
I  was  Don’s  room-mate  then 
and  a  prince  of  the  blood  could not have 
been  better  introduced. 
I  surrendered 
my  place at the table— it  was  next John’s 
—to  Mr.  Ridgeway  and  before  they  left 
me  for  the  evening  it  was  pleasantly  ar­
ranged  that  the  guest  should  take  my 
place  with  Don  as  long  as  he  saw  fit  to 
enjoy  it.  and  then  they  were  off  for  the 
theater.

The  man’s  entertainment  was  not  at 
all  one-sided.  Mr.  Ridgeway  was  “ up 
against 
it”   and  he  was  equal  to  every 
emergency.  Better  cigars  were  never 
bought  than  those  he  paid  for.  Don 
was  invited  to  dine  at  the  grandest 
hotel  in  the  city.  There  were  rides  in 
town  and  out  of town  and  Mr.  Ridge­
way,  knowing  a  fine  horse  when  he  saw 
one  and  wanting  the  rest  of  the  rig  to 
correspond,  patronized  the  best  stables 
regardless  of  expense.

He  stayed  five  days  and  there  wasn’t 
a  minute  of  Don’s  time  out  of  the  store 
that  was  wasted.  Under the  boy’s  fos­
tering  care  the  ranchman’s  appearance 
improved.  The  barbers  took  him 
in 
hand  and  when  they  got  through  with 
him— bath  and  all—he  was  much 
im­
proved.  A  new  hat  displaced  the  old 
one  under  whose  limp  brim  John  had 
first  peered  out  at  his  old  acquaintance 
and  the  rest  of  the  costume  so  far  as 
Don  dared  was  changed  for  something 
more  modern,  so  that*  when  he  went 
away  the  ranchman  was  a  pride  to  him­
self  and  a  comfort,  or  something  akin 
to  it,  to  his  well-mannered  host.  When 
the  time  of  his  departure  came,  Don 
with  his  guest’s  big  valise  in  hand  took 
him  to  the  station  and,  with  a  hearty 
invitation  to  come  again  at  his  earliest 
opportunity,  waved  him  a  kindly  fare­
well.  He  had  been  well  treated  and  he 
carried  home  with  him  such  a  hearty 
appreciation  of 
it  that  he  tendered  to 
Don  the  ranch  and  what  belonged  to  it 
the  following  summer  to  be  used  as  it 
should  seem  best  to  the  young  man.

Some  weeks  after John Ridgeway went 
home  and  Don  and  I,  coming  home 
from  the  play,  had  thrown  the  last  of 
our cigars  into  the  slumbering  fire,  the 
young  fellow  broke  out,  as  he  was  wont 
to  do  when  it  was  least  expected,  with 
this :

that  uncut, 

“ When  I  think  of  that  old  hat  and 
that  cussed  overcoat  that  had  been  used 
for a  wagon  cushion  for  a  year  or  two 
and 
juice-stained  beard 
and  the  whole  dumbed  outfit  as  it  ap­
peared  to  me  that  afternoon,  I  wonder 
how  I  ever  got  out  of  it  without  giving 
him  the  kicking  he deserved.  The  man 
with  the  money  he  has  hasn’t  any  busi­
ness  to  come  in  here  looking  like  that.

At  first  I  pitied  him  and-I  felt  every 
word  I  said  to  him  when  I took his dirty 
hand.  Then  I  saw  through  him  and 
thought  I’d  see  if  I  coludn’t  make  him 
ashamed  of  himself. 
I  don’t  believe  I 
did,  but  he  was  beaten  at  his  own  game 
and  that’s  enough  for  me.  Visit  him— 
visit  the  devil  and  done  with  it,  for  it 
amounts—or  would  amount—to 
that. 
I  like  good  clothes  as  well  as  anybody, 
but  I  can  see  a  good  fellow  in  rags  as 
quickly  as  any  one  and,  when  1  see 
that,  that’s  all  1  want.  The rest will take 
care  of  itself,and  John  Ridgeway  would 
have  found  that  out  if  he  had  come 
clothed  in  purple  and  fine  linen.  All  I 
want  now 
is  to  have  him  come  here 
rigged  out  and  let  me  show  him  what 
a  ‘ freeze  out’  is !”

That  was  all  he  ever  said  about  John 
Ridgeway,  but  somehow  the  folks in  the 
store  after  that  saw  Don  Day  from  an­
other  point  of  view  and  were pleased  by 
it.  The  “ handbox.”   figure  in  regard  to 
him  bad 
lost  its  meaning;  and,  while 
another  man  now  stands  at  that  counter, 
the  “ old  hands”   remember  him  “ as 
that  man  that  we  didn’t  think  so  much 
of  until  he  showed  us  that  a  man  was  a 
man 
in  spite  of  the  clothes  he  had  on 
and,  so  far  as  he  was  concerned,  should 
be  treated  accordingly.”

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

W ill  Be  Forced  to  F at  Cat  Meat.

From Farm and Kanch.

New  York  has  a  law  prohibiting  the 
sale  of  horse  flesh  for  food.  That  is  all 
right  now,  but  when  our  modern  immi­
gration  schemes  are fully  carried  out our 
population  will  require  all  the  meat  it 
can  get. 
In  the  densely  populated 
countries  of  Europe,  horses,  mules  and 
even  dogs  are  eaten ;  and in Asia,  where 
the  population 
is  still  denser  rats,  cats 
and  even  vermin  are  greedily  eaten.  We 
will  be  forced  to  the  same  diet  in  the 
course  of  time.

O u f Vinegar to be  an A B S O L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU IC E V I N ­
E G A R .  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find an y deleterious 
adds, or anything that is not produced from the apple» we  will forfeit

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

J. ROBINSON, Manager.

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Benton  Harbor, M ichigan.

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TAMARACK  CITY.

Everyday  Incidents  W hich  Occurred  In 
Written for  the Tradesman.

th e  Van  A lstine  Store.

You  see,  it  was  like  this.  Tamarack 
City  kept  on  growing  and  more  and 
more  people  kept  coming;  and  what 
with  saw 
logging  it  in  the  winter  and 
tan  barking  it  in  the  summer  and  tele­
graph  poling  it between  times,  business 
was  pretty  tolerable  good.  Well,  to  top 
it  all  off,  old  Van  Alstine  got  so  nigh 
blind  that  he  couldn't  run  his  store 
proper,  so  he  wrote  out  to  some  whole­
sale ^ house  in  Chicago  and  told 
’em 
they’d  got  to  send  him  a  clerk  that  was 
some  good  or elst  he’d  have  to quit.

He  only  gin  them  three  days  to  make 
the  riffle,  so  they  wrote  him  they  sent 
the  only  man  they  could  find  on  short 
notice  that  would  live  in  a  town  twenty 
miles  from  a  railroad  and  that  if he 
didn  t  fill  the  bill  they’d  look  furder  as 
soon  as  they  got  the  word.

That  was  what  the  letter  said  that 
Pete  brought  along,  and  old  Van  told 
him  he’d  give  him  a  trial  and  set  him 
to  work.

Pete  was  quite  a  pleasant  feller  for  a 
city  chap.  He  didn’t  seem  at  all  back­
wards  about  jollying  with  the  boys  and 
he  never  let on  that  he  thought  he  was 
a  bit  better’n  the  rest  of us.  He  wasn’t 
a  lady’s  man,  neither,  and  I  ruthertook 
to  him  from  the  start.

The  first  few  days  he  was  there  he 
just  kind  of  monkeyed  around  the store, 
seeing  how  things  was  run,  what  sort  of 
a  trade  they  was  having  and  how  they 
done  business;  and  I  suppose  he  sized 
it  UP  pretty  dost.  He  got  acquainted 
with  a  good  many  of the  customers  and 
made  some  sales,  but  he  didn’t  try  to 
force  hisself  on  no  one.  He  just  kept 
looking  around  and  prying  into  all  the 
old  corners  and  seeing  what  there  was 
hid  away,  and  what  kind  of  goods  was 
in  stock.  And  some  of  the  things  he 
dug  up  was  surprising.

Blue  Sky  Williams  came  in after some 
tobacco,  and  Kidlets—that  was  the  little 
clerk—wapsed  off  a  wad  of  fine  cut  the 
size  of  a  small  mush  melon  and  handed 
it  out.  So  Blue  Sky  throwed  down  his 
coin  and  walked  away.

“ How  much  do  you  charge  for that 

fine  cut?”   asked  Pete.

“ Dollar a  pound,”   says  the  kid. 
“ How  much  did  that  man  buy?”  
“ Nickel’s  worth. ”
“ How  much  did  you  give  him?”  
Kidlets  turned  red,  for  he  knowed 
well  enough  he’d  g i’n  out  too  much,  but 
he  brazened  it  out  and  says,  “ Nickel’s 
worth,  of  course.”

“ O,  all  right,”   says  Pete,  cheerful 
and  chipper,  “ I  didn’t  know  as  you 
knew.  Say,  just  do  me  up  a  nickel's 
worth,  too,”   and  he 
the 
change  and  then 
turned  around  and 
went  to  figuring  on  some  bills  of  goods 
he  had  in  his  hand,  and  didn't  pay  no 
more  attention  to  Kidlets.  After a  while 
he  looks  up  all  at  once. 
“ Where’s  my 
i fine  cut?”   says  he.

laid  down 

Kidlets  banded  him  the  package.

That  ain’t  quite  as  big  as  the  one 
you  did  up  for  the  other  feller,”   says 
Pete. 

“  How’s  that  come?”

Guess 

it  s  about  the  same,”   savs 

Kidlets.

“ O,  you  guess  here,  do  you?”   says 
Pete.  Hain  t  you  got nothin'  to  weigh 
with?”  

6

That  made  Kidlets  warm,  for he  was 
a  sensitive  little  jigger,but Pete  seemed 
to  expect  an  answer,  so  Kid  said  in  an 
off-hand  way,  “ Yes,  but  then  we  don’t 
always  bother  to  weigh. 
I  can  guess 
pretty  dost. ”

“ Don’t  you  know  how  to  use  the 

scales?”   asked  Pete,  innocent-like.

“ Yes,  of course,  but  it  takes  so  long, 

you  know. 

It  don’t  pay. ”
says  Pete. 

O,  1  see, 
“ Of  course, 
it  don’t  pay,  that  settles  it.  Just 

if 
weigh  this. ”

I  had  drove  tote  team  and  done chores 
for the  outfit  for  quite  a  spell  and  used 
to  help  around  the  store  rainy  days  and 
times  when  they  was  busy  and  I thought 
I  knew  what  there  was  on  hand,  but 
Pete  found  stuff  upstairs  and  down  cel­
lar and  in  the  storehouse  that  I’d  took 
oath  couldn’t  have  been 
located  this 
side  of  the  Revolutionary  War.  Old 
spinnidg  wheels  and wool cards, tin  can­
dle  moulds  and  candle  sticks,  hoop- 
skirts  the  size  of  a  cock  of  hay,  and 
bustles  that  had  been  out  of  date  more 
years  than  an  old  maid 
likes  to  talk 
about.  There  was  box  after  box  of  linen 
and  paper  collars  and  cuffs  that  had 
turned  yaller  with  age,  and  when  you 
took  the  covers  off,  they  smelled  like 
„  an  animal  show  on  a  wet  day.  There 
was  half  a  bushel  of  old  galluses  with 
the  rubber  all  played  out  so  that  when 
you  stretched  them  out  they  wouldn’t 
spring  back.  And  I’ll  bet  there  was 
two  hundred  pairs  of  shoes,  and  some 
of 
’em  might  have  come  offen  the  ark 
for  all  of  me— I’d  never  see  nothing  no­
where  that  would  match  ’em.  Rustv 
old  fellers  with  box  toes  and  patent 
leather chaps  with  the  edge  of the  soles 
painted  red,  you  know,  and  some  spike 
toed 
lads  with  steel  buckles.  Must of 
been  tony  enough  sometime,  but  they 
made  me feel  like  weeping  just  to  think 
of  the  age  of  ’em.

Old  Van  hadn  t  kept  no  palace  gro­
cery  when  he  was  able  and,  after his 
eyes  got  so  bad,  the  boys  had  let  things 
run  wild  west  and  crooked.  Pete  didn’t 
show  his  hand  much  for  a  spell,  but 
when  he  did  make  the  start  it  was  this 
w ay:

Kid  had  bis  nerve  with  him  that 
morning,  so  as  soon  as  he’d  weighed 
the  package  he  said 
it  came  to  four 
ounces.

“ That’s  pretty  good,”   says  Pete. 
That  s  the  best  deal  I’ve  struck  yet. 
Twenty-five  cents’  worth  for a  nickel.
I’ll  take  aU  you’ve  got  at  them  rates. 
How  much  salary  are  you  getting?”

“ Six  dollars  a  week.”

A  dollar a  day.  Ten  cents  an  hour 

if  you  work  ten,”   said  Pete.

“ You  lost  twenty  cents’ worth  of  fine
cut  on  me  and  more  than  that  on  what 
you  did  up  for  the  other man  and  all 
inside  of  ten  minutes.  That’s  at  the 
rate  oi  about  $25  a  day  if  you  hold  your 
gait  and  work  full  time.  How  much 
shall  we  have  to  reduce  your  wages  to 
make  the  store  pull  even?”

*  don’t  have  to  work,”   said  the 
Kid. 
“ I’ll  quit  any  minute  you  give 
me  what’s  coming.  You  bet  I  won’ 
stay  around  here  to  be  abused.”

“ Just 

“ I  haven’t  the  faintest  idea-  of  abus­
ing  you,  ’  said  Pete. 
let  me 
talk  a  minute.  Now  you’re  getting  $6 
a  week  and  you  work  hard  enough  to 
earn  more,  but  you’re  too  much  like 
some  of  the  boys  at  the  sawmill— you 
work  with  your  hands  alone.  I’m  going 
to  show  you  how  to  use  your  head,  too, 
and  you  can 
just  as  well  get $10 after 
awhile,  and  be  worth  it,  as  to  work  for 
$6 and  be  a  loss to the business.  There’s 
! a  lot of old  coffee  cans  in  the  warehouse 
that are  m  the  way. 
I  wish  you’d  crate 
them  up  for  shipment  and  we’ll  send 
them  off  next  time  the  team  goes to 
Barry.”

Kidlets  wasn’t  a  bad  sort, 

just 
thoughtless,  so  after  he’d  had  time  to

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

National  Fire 

Insurance  Company

of  Hartford,  Conn.

Successors to the

Grand  Rapids 

Fire  Insurance  Com pany

Michigan’s  Popular  Company

To our  Customers  and  the  Public.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  Aug.

19,  1901.

We  beg  to  announce  that  the  National  Fire 
Insurance  Company,  of  Hartford,  Conn.,  has  succeeded 
to the  business  of the  Grand  Rapids  Fire  Insurance  Com­
pany,  and  will  be  represented  in  this  City  by  the  writer 
who  has  represented  the  Grand  Rapids  and  the  Local 
Agency here  for  the  past  fifteen  years.

The  “ Grand  Rapids”  policy  holders  are  to  be  con­
gratulated  on  the fact  that  their  policies  are  now  guaran­
teed  by  a  strong  American  Company  like  the  National 
Fire,  with  a  capital  stock  of  $1,000,000  and  cash  assets 
of $4,851,789  and  net  surplus  of  $1,533,879;  a  Company 
also  which  has  such  an  enviable  reputation  for  prompt and 
careful  attention  to losses.

The  National  Fire  Insurance  Company,  while  not  a 
institution,  will  endeavor  to  take  the 
Grand  Rapids 
“ Grand  Rapids”  place;  it  will  retain  the  old  “ Grand 
Rapids”  office,  giving  employment  to  several local  people 
Its losses  will  be  personally looked  after  by  the  writer  so 
that you  are  assured  of prompt  and  careful  attention.  No 
strangers  to  deal  with.  There  will be  no  change  whatever 
m the conduct  of  the  business;  it  is  simply  a  change  of 
name,  with  a  change  of capital  and  assets  from  small  to 
large  amount.  Our  Local  Department  will  still  continue 
to represent  eleven  well known  Companies  and  we  ask  the
continuance  of your patronage  to  the  leading  and  largest 
Agency. 

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Yours very truly,

Companies  Represented:

National  Fire  Insurance  Co.,  of  Hartford,  Conn. 
Connecticut  Insurance  Co.,  of  Hartford,  Conn.
Providence Washington Insurance Co., of Providence  R  T
Nortp .Bn.tlsh  &  Mercantile  Insurance  Co.,  of  London  and 

Edinburg.

Niagara  Insurance  Co.,  of New York.
Firemans  Fund  Insurance  Co.,  of California.
Citizens  Insurance  Co.,  of St.  Louis,  Mo.
Union  Assurance  Society,  of London,  England.
Law  Union &  Crown  Insurance Co.,  of  England 
Citizens  Insurance  Co.,  of New  York.
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Occupations  Tears  Ago.

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dred  Employments  Adapted  to  Wom­
en.”   The  compiler stretched  her  ma­
terials  somewhat 
in  order to  make  up 
the  five  hundred,separating “ painters, ”
for  instance, into fifteen different  classes, 
and  assigning  women  to  occupations- 
like  that  of  “ colonization  agent” — 
which,  to  say  the  least,  have  never  been 
overcrowded. _  But  the  book  showed  so 
much  enthusiasm  and  good  will  that  it 
is  certain  the  compiler,  whether  on 
earth  or  in  heaven,  rejoices  at  the  many 
new  opportunities  opened  to  her  sex 
since  her  day.

One  of  these  most  modern  employ­
ments  is  that  of  “ sunshiner, ”   a  woman 
who  visits  and  amuses  invalids  and  de­
pressed  persons.  Another 
is  that  of 
‘ co-operative  housekeeper,”   one  who 
stands  ready  to  supply  any  household 
with  the  necessaries  and  luxuries  of  the 
table,  on  any  scale  of  weekly allowance. 
A  third  is  that  of  “ house  hunter,”   and 
this  brave  woman  engages  to  examine 
and  report  upon  every  house  offered  to 
unfortunate  people  who  find  it  neces­
sary  to  move.

These 

services 

rendered 

for 
money,  of  course.  Doubtless  the  money 
is  earned  and  the  women  play  a  very 
useful  part  in  society.  They  must,  in­
deed,  since  they  are  prepared  to  do  for 
the  public  what  every  good  wife  and 
mother does  for her  own  family.  Such 
a  one  is  housekeeper and  house  hunter 
and  sunshiner,  all  three,  and  in  her case 
no  one  questions  that  these  occupations 
are 
it 
seems  a 
little  curious  that  when  the 
wife’s  unmarried  sister,  say,  undertakes 
to  serve  the  public  and  earn  her  own 
bread  by  these  means  there  should  al- 
wavs  be  some  one  ready  to  define  her 
action  as  “ unwomanly.”

“ adapted  to  women.”  

But 

are 

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think  over  what  had  happened  he  de­
cided  Pete  had  the  best  of  it  and,  being 
a  manly  feller,  he  told  Pete  he  was  with 
him  and  ready  for  instructions.  The 
way  he  took  hold  and  picked  up  after 
that  was  quite  gratifying.

*  *  *

.  One  of  the  toughest  fellers  I  ever  see 
was  Squinty  Hawkins.  He  was  cross 
eyeder  than  common,  dirty  as  they 
make  ’em,  he  could  out  cuss  anything 
ever  struck  Northern  Michigan,  drank 
raw  alcohol  for a  regular  beverage  and 
would fight  at  the  drop  of  the  hat.  He 
was  a  kind  of  instructor at  the  athletic 
rooms,  and  when  he  was  in  liquor— 
which  was  frequent—he  insisted  in  be­
ing  called  ’ ’ Prof. ”

iron 

Pete  had  told  the  boys  that  he  pre­
ferred  to  have  them  set  on  the  chairs  in 
the  store,  instead  of  on  the  counters, 
and  also that  he  didn’t  expect,  now  that 
he  had  good 
spittoons  around 
handy,  that  any  gentleman  was  going  to 
expectorate  on  the  floor.  Things  was 
getting  cleaned  up  gradual  and  we  all 
took  quite  a  bit  of  pride  in  seeing  how 
much  better  it  was  around  the  place,  so 
we  turned  in  and  humored  Pete 
in  his 
new  improvements.

But  when  Squint  heard  about  it  he 
seemed  to  think  that somebody  was  tak­
ing 
liberties  with  something  of  hisn 
and  he  commenced  to  mope.  After  he’d 
sulked  around  a  spell  and  imbibed  a 
good  allowance  of  bis  favorite,  he  took 
a  ramble  over  to  the  store.  Pete  was 
waiting  on  some  women  folks  when 
Squint  made  bis  appearance,  but  that 
didn’t  make  no  difference  to  Squint.

“ Gimme  a  pair  of  socks,  dum 
it 

quick,’ ’  says  Squint,  only  he  said 
meaner than  that,  and  worse,  too.

“ Please  modify  your 

in 
here,”   savs  Pete,  looking  him  straight 
between  the  eyes. 
“ There  are  ladies 
present. ’ ’

language 

Squint  hadn't  been  spoke  to  like  that 
before  nowheres,  by  nobody,  and 
it 
took  his  wind.  Pete  finished  waiting 
on  the 
ladies  and  then  he  asked,  nice 
as  you  please,  “ What  kind,  wool  or 
cotton?”

“ Kin  a  feller  talk  now?”   asked 
Squint,  sort  of ironical,  Kidlets thought. 
Kidlets  was  so  scared  be  was  took  with 
shivers.

“ Certainly,”   said  Pete. 

try 
to  treat  customers  right  here,  and  we 
expect the  same  in  return..  This  pair  is 
io  cents. 
These  are  a  quarter,  and 
these  half  a  dollar. ”  

“ We 

.

“ I'll  take  ’em  all,”   says  Squint,  and 
with  that  he  gutbered  them  off  the coun­
ter,  stuffed  them  into  the  pocket  of  his 
Mackinaw  jacket  and  started  to  go  out. 
Then  Kid  knew  what  the  game  was. 
He  tried  to  signal  to  Pete  to  let him  go, 
but  Pete  said:

“ Sha’n’t  I  do  those  up,  Mr.  Squint?”  
Pete  had  heard  the  boys  speak  of  him 
as  “ Squint,”   and  that's  how  he  came 
to make  the  break.

“ My  name 

is  Hawkins— Professor 
Hawkins!”   bellowed  Squint. 
“ Do  ye 
want  me  to  destroy  ye,  ye  cowardly 
whelp?”

“ Beg  your  pardon,  Professor,”   said 
Pete,  calm  and  polite  as  you  please. 
“ Very  sorry  to  have  made  a  mistake. 
You  see,  I'm  a  new  man  here,  and  I 
misunderstood  your name.  By  the  way, 
my  name  is  Martin,  Pete  Martin.  You 
can  call  me  which  you 
like,  but  I 
haven't  been  used  to  being  called  a 
‘ whelp.’  Shall  I  do  up  the  socks?”  

“ Great  balls  of  fire!  No,  I  don’t 
want  ’em  done  up.  I’m  coming  back  in 
a  minute  an’  I’ll  fix  you  so  yer  mammy

won’t  know  ye  from  a  plate  of  raw 
liver. ”

“ 1  guess  you  forgot  to  pay  for  the 

socks,”   said  Pete,  mild  as  ever.

“ Pay  fer  the  socks!  Yes,  I’ll  pay fer 
I’ll  pay  next  Auguary,  when  saw 

’em. 
logs  is  ripe. ”

“ I  believe  you  have  no  account  here, 
Mr.  Hawkins,”   insisted  Pete.  “ You’ll 
have  to  pay  before  going  out  or  leave 
the  goods. ”

“ Mebbe  yo’  think  ye  can  take  ’em 
“ Yer 

away  from  me,”   says  Squint. 
chanst  is  good  if  you  do.”

“ No,  I  don’t  care  for  the  job.  All  I 
want  is  the  pay. 
I’m  not  looking  for 
trouble,  I’m  working  for  Mr.  Van  Al- 
stine,  and  while  I  hold  my  job  I  shall 
protect  his  interests  the  best  I  can.”

“ Yo’  an’  Van  be  swithered,”   says 
Squint,  with  a  mouthful  of  oaths,  and 
started  out.

Pete  had been following him  up  pretty 
dost,  and  when  Squint  made  for  the 
door  Pete  ketched  him  by the  collar and 
jerked  him  back  so  hard  that  he  lit  into 
a  pile  of  pails  of  mixed  paint  on  the 
floor.

To  say  that  Squint  was  surprised 
would  be  putting 
it  mild,  but  it  was 
right  in  his  line  of  business,  and  the 
feller  that  had  come  victorious  out  of  a 
hundred  rough  and  tumble  bar  room 
fights  raised  to  his  feet  like  a  streak  of 
light,shedding  his  dry  goods  like  a  ripe 
dandelion  drops  its  fuzz.  The  time  was 
short,  but  a  blind  man  could  see  in  the 
swell  of  that  great  chest,  in  the  curve  of 
his  supple  back  and  in  the  ripple  of  his 
ropy  muscles  why  nothing  had  ever 
stood  up  before  Squint  Hawkins  in  a 
square  fight  and  not  got  licked.  There 
wan’t  no  slouch  about  Hawkins  then. 
He  was  all  bone  and  muscle  and  ginger 
and  war;  but  he  didn’t  wait  to  be  ad­
mired.  He  was  spoiling  for some  one
to  lick  and  his  chance  had  come.  He 
launched  himself  at  Pete  like  a  bat  out 
of  the  dark  and  aimed  a  blow  that 
would  have  jarred  a  brick  block.

Nobody  knew  just  how  it  happened. 
Kidlets  says  he  couldn’t  see  right  for 
the  sun,  but  the  chances  are  that  he 
fainted  away.  Anyhow  Squint  missed 
his  aim  and  Pete  took  him  behind  the 
ear  as  he  went by.  Pete  didn’t  go  to  hit 
him  hard,  he  said,  but  I  don’t  think  no 
one  could  have  mistook 
it  for a  love 
pat.

Squint  lay  on  the  floor and  quivered. 
Pete  felt  him  all  over  and  then  got  one 
of  the  boys  to  help  carry  him  out.  They 
laid  him  and  his  duds  in  a  shady  place 
where  he  could  come  to,  and  then  went 
back  to  work.

The  fight  was  over.
After a  while  Pete  went  out  to  take  a 
look  at  the  Professor,  but  he  had  gone. 
Pete  looked  down  the  road,  and away off 
in  the  distance,  hoofing  it  through  the 
sand  towards  Hooligan’s  Four  Corners, 
was  Squint  Hawkins,  the  tail  of  his 
dirty  Mackinaw  flopping  in  the  rays  of 
the  setting  sun.

“ Guess  Mr.  Hawkins  has  left  town,”  
“ He  probably  won’t 

observed  Pete. 
bother us  any  more. ’ ’

“ Mebbe  he  has,”  said  Kidlets  with  a 
shake  of  the  head,  “ but  you  don’t  know 
him  like  I  do.  He’ll  be  back.”

And  Kidlets  was  right.

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

More  Space  Required.

Mr.  Goopb—When  I  die  I  don’t  want 
anything  but  the  truth  about  me  carved 
on  my  tombstone.

Mrs.  Gooph— I  am  afraid  we  will 
have  to  put  up  a  stone  wall,  then,  in­
stead  of a  monument.

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

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Hardware

Personal  Responsibility  for th e Success of 

Associated  Effort.*

combinations  and 

This  organization  is  six  years  old  and 
the  Secretary’s  report  shows  we  have 
been  losing  and  gaining  members—the 
hearted  are  falling by  the wayside 
while  the  “ never-say-die’ *  and  pugna­
cious  members  are  still  in  the  ring— but 
no  “ yellow  streaks. ”  
It  must  be  a  suc­
cess  and  will  be  when  every  hardware 
merchant  is  properly  scared  by  condi­
tions  created  by  labor  and  manufacture 
consolidations 
which  surround  them.  The  only  safe 
way  out  of the  woods  for  us  is  to  take 
hold  of "hands and  not  let  go.  When  I 
say  us 
I  intended  to  be  com prehen 
siye  and  include  every  hardware  mer­
chant  in  the  United  States.  If  we  could 
go  no  further  than  to  effect  this  State 
organization,  I  will  confess  to  you  now 
that  I  would  be  at  the  end  of  my  hopes 
and  ambitions  in  this  direction,  and 
assist  you  in  a  closing  act  in our history 
by  singing  the  doxology  and  pronounc­
ing  a  benediction.  We  are  one  of  the
stones  of  a  greater  structure—the  Na­
tional  Retail  Hardware Association.

following  old 

The  members  of  that  organization  are 
yourselves  you 
are  honest,  earnest, 
unselfish.  We  are  facing new conditions, 
but  not  difficult  to  successfully  meet and 
manage 
if  we  become  a  unit.  The 
manufacturers  and  jobbers  are  not  un- 
fnendly  to  us;  on  the  contrary,  they  are 
friendly.  They  realize  our  value  and 
want  our  business,  but  the  catalogue 
houses  and  department  stores  are 
live­
lier  fellows  than  we  have  been,  and  al­
ready  put  themselves 
in  shape  to  do 
business  broadly  and  for cash.  We  have 
been 
lines,  while  they 
have  marked  out  new  ones.  The  man 
ufacturer and  jobber  want  the  custom­
ers  who  will  make  them  the most  money 
m  the  shortest  time,  so  I  suggest  we 
consider 
improved  methods  at  this 
meeting  which  will  tend  to  make  us 
more  valuable  to  our  manufacturing and 
jobbing  friends,  and  naturally  bring 
them  over to  our  side,  rather  than  adopt 
an  aggressive  course  now  or  ever,unless 
compelled.  We  are  the  legitimate  dis­
tributors  of  factorv  products.  We  do 
our  business  legitimately  and  on  close 
margins,do  as  little  baiting  of the  game 
into commercial  traps  as  possible  and 
the  people  know 
it.  All  of  them  are 
not  patronizing  these  great  city  de­
partment  stores—some  who  did  that 
have  been  cured.  While  we  feel  the 
stings  of  their  competition,  don’t  you 
believe  those  houses are  not  feeling  our 
awakening  and  the  better  we  unite  at 
this  home  gathering  and  put  our  cash 
and  sympathy 
into  the  National,  the 
nearer  we  will  get  to  the  jobber  and 
manufacturer  and  the  better  we  will  be 
hated  by  the  piratical  catalogue  house 
and  department  and  racket  stores.

We  must  come  out  of our  trance  and 
organize  as  securely  and  work  as 
intel­
ligently  as  our competitors and convince 
our jobbing  and  manufacturing  friends 
we  are  worth  more  to  them  than  are  the 
other  fellows. 
They  naturally  rather 
have  the  legitimate  trade  and  we  are 
recognized  as  that. 
Summed  up,  we 
represent  both  the  numbers  and  capital, 
but  through  lack  of  organization  are  in 
business  just  as  the  farmer  is  in  poli­
tics,  votes  galore,  but  no  good  bead. 
Help  to  find  a  Moses  and,  when  found, 
in  sunshine  and 
loyally  stand  by  him 
storm,  with  cash  and  counsel. 
If  we 
gam  ground, become  a  power,  it  will  be 
when  all  the  states  unite  on  a  simple, 
honest  platform  and  adopt  the  motto, 

Justice.
The  retail  hardware  merchant  who 
believes  he  can  paddle  his  own  canoe 
just  as  he  has  always  been  doing  or  as 
his  father  did  will  wake  up  to  find  the 
bottom  ripped  out  of his  boat  by  con- 
•aC!uW u  f   n,ew  variety  of  rock  growing 
in  the  bed  of the  old  stream.  The  re­
tail  merchant  can  convince  himself  that 
his  environments  are  freshly  picked and
variety-  hy  strolling  through
hie 
his  stock  m  search  of  items  not  under 
control  of  trusts  or  combinations.  I  only
address of President Geo. W. Hubbard

refer  to  this  because  I  am  naturally 
mirthful'  and  enjoy  funny  things  pre­
sented 
in  humorous  ways,  and  the  way 
our  hands  and  feet  are  tied  and  then 
cross  tied,  and  we  are  told  to  laugh  and 
enjoy  the  situation,  fills  a  man  full  of 
laughter  who  is  hustling  for  bread  and 
butter  for  bis babies.

I  would  continue  a  first-class  State 
organization,  hustle  to  hold  the  old 
members  and  get  new  ones,  get  more 
cash  into  the  treasury  and  demand  more 
work  from  the  Secretary.  There  is  no 
danger of  getting  too  good  a  one.  We 
need  nearly  all  his  time,  his  brain  and 
his  body.  This  State  organization  is 
especially 
in  controlling  a 
Secretary  who  owns  a  press  and  a  head 
for  organization,  but  he,  like  ourselves, 
has  other  things  to  do.

fortunate 

What  I  shall  now  say  about  the  Na­
tional,  possibly  I  should  leave  unsaid, 
but  I  am  anxious  to  put  the  knife  in 
until  I  touch  the  disease  and  scraping 
is  a  slow  way  of  reaching 
the  surface 
the  bone. 
6
Elect  for  the  organization  the  strong- 
est  organizer  to  be  found  and  capitalize 
him  and  his  plant  so  he  can  employ  as­
sistants  for  detail  work  and  he  be  free 
to  go  from  state  meeting  to  state  meet­
ing,  you  advising  with  him  about  dates 
of  the  same  and  do  not  have  them  con­
flict.  Have  him  enthuse  you  by  telling 
you  what  he  has  accomplished.  Then, 
and  not  until  then,  can  we  answer our 
wavering  brothers’  enquiry,  “ What  has 
u i ?   f cc°pplished  by  organization?’ ’ 
Had  all  this  been  said  ten  years  ago  it 
would  have  fallen  on  deaf  ears.  New 
stings  by  new  competition  have  brought 
about  this  condition.

What  I  have  said  to  you  would  make 
an  outsider say,  “ That  man  has  lost  his 
business—no  man  would  take  such  a 
position 
in  the  midst  of  prosperity.’ ’ 
The  exact  opposite 
is  the  true  condi 
tion,  not  only  with  me  but  with  you 
More  money  has  been  made 
in  our 
places  of  business  during  the  last  two 
years  than  any  two  years  in  the  past 
fifteen  or twenty— but  we  had  the  stock 
contracts.  Crops  have  been  good, 
manufacturing  and  building 
increasing 
and  all  have  been  booming  satisfactor­
ily,  and  I  only  ask  you  to  pause  as  you 
do  at  the  railroad  crossing  and  read  the 
danger  sign  and 
look  both  ways  for 
trains.  We  have  had  a  jolly  ride  to the 
f™sslni>>  now  don’t 
let  ourselves  be 
killed  by  carelessness.

In  time  of  peace  prepare for war.  Our 
danger  lies  in  the  fact  that  we  feel  se­
cure  behind  our  temporary  prosperity. 
The  suggestions  I  have  made  contem­
plate  breadth  of  action  and  quite  an 
outlay  of  thought  and  money.  True 
not  much  for each  individual,  but  to  be 
successful  we  must  create  a  sentiment 
that  will  reach  the  intelligence  of  every 
hardware  dealer  in  this  State,  and  I 
believe  most  of  them  are  thinking  the 
proposition  over  now,  but  don’t  know 
how  to  take  bold'  of  it  and  because  we 
nave  not  accomplished great  things  dur­
ing  our  brief  existence  have 
lost  a 
measure  of  faith  in  us—not  in  our  hon­
esty  of  purpose,  but  in  our ability  to 
ever accomplish  the  ends  sought.

We  must  continue  to  work  along 

im 
proved 
lines  and  tack  with  the  wind 
when  it  changes.  Since  we  began  our 
Association  existence  we  have  shifted 
sails  several  times  and  new  pilots  and 
new  captains  will  have  to  do  the  same 
time  and  again  in  the  future.  The  birth 
of  the  National  has  awakened  a  new 
interest  and,  when  we  convince  the 
members  of  this  State  Association  that 
our  existence  means  the  National  exist- 
ence  and  convince  them  what  a  power 
tnat  organization  can  wield  when  wisely 
directed,  we  shall  not  lack  in  numbers 
or  interest.  Organization  and  concen­
tration  are  the  twin  words  written  on 
every  form  of  commercial  battle  flag. 
Place  in  office  level  headed  leaders  who 
know  the  value  of  “ still hunt”  methods, 
who  have  that  nice  sense  of  justice  and 
they  will  not  expect  or demand  from 
manufacturer or  jobber  a  thing  that 
is 
not  broadly  fair.

I  do not  feel  like  disturbing  the  usual 
literary  inclinations  of  the hardware fra­
ternity  and  ask  them  to  totally  cease 
reading  religious  works and  the family

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Bible,  but  do call  their  attention  to  two 
bits  of  literature,  one  dated  March  r, 
1901,  and  one  dated  June  1,  1901,  and 
issued  at  Argos,  Indiana,  by  a  distrib­
utor of  truths.  Gems  of  succulent  na­
ture  can  be  found  therein  which  will 
nourish  your discouragement  and  force 
you  to  believe  the  doctrines  taught  are 
good  for  the  body  as  well  as  the  soul. 
Our theologians  revised  the  Bible  when 
inteliigence  dictated  the  necessity,  and 
Elder  Corey  and  his  cohorts  are  simply 
rearranging  your  business  creed.

The  National  Association  of Jobbers 
are  men  accustomed  to  large 
ideas, 
large  expenses,  large  disbursements  and 
large  results.  They  capitalized  their 
Association  at $15,000  before  they  con­
sidered  themselves  ready  for  business. 
We  have  just  as  heavy  machinery  to 
it  must  move  with  as  much 
move  and 
speed. 
I  believe  it  has  more  wheels, 
consequently  more  friction.  Arm  and 
equip  our  fighters  with  plenty  of  pa­
tience  and  powder.

I  will  conclude  by  reference  to our 
relations  to  the  Jobbers’  Association. 
Your committee  has  met  theirs,  the job­
bers  have  studied  trade  conditions  "bet­
ter  than  we  have  and  they  are  closer  to 
the  manufacturer  than  we  can  hope  to 
get.  They  realize  our business  is  more 
or  less  demoralized  and  they  know  why 
it  is  so,  for they  are  frequently  in  con­
tact  with  the  same  competition  and 
know  the  difficulties  of  the  situation, 
but  they  are  willing  to  be  our  allies  in 
fighting  the  common  enemy.  And  1 
hope,  in  your  deliberations,  you  will 
consider  we  have  no  better  friends  nor 
those  who  will  be  found  more  loyal  than 
they.  They  were  unexpectedly  frank 
and  freely  and  satisfactorily  answered 
all  enquiries  we  were  intelligent  enough 
to  ask,  and  seemed  entirely  willing  to 
do  so.

We  are  now  fairly  open  for  business 
and  1  want  a  free  exchange  of ideas and 
want  every  member to take  an 
interest 
in  this  session  and  help  reap  profits  by 
making  business  more  pleasant  and 
profitable.

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19

Village  Improvement

Sentim ent and  Beauty  in  the  Im prove 

nient  of Door Yards*

Written for the Tradesman.

horticultor’s 

While  the  prizes  offered  by  the  vari 
ous  improvement  societies  in  different 
parts  of  the  country  will  be  a  leading 
incentive  to  forward  the  good  work  be 
gun, it  is  not  unpleasant  to  see  here  and 
indications  of  something  bette 
there 
than  even  a 
laudable  ambition  in  the 
adornment  of  the  home. 
It  is  not  un 
common  to  hear  the  admirer  of  the 
modern 
masterpiece 
however  lovely  and  dainty  it  may  be 
turn  from  floral  marvel  with  “ After all _ 
love  the  simple  old  blossoms  of  the  long 
ago  best. 
The  American  Beauty  has 
charms  which  we  willingly  concede, 
and  the  time  will  never  come  when  the 
deep  rich  crimson  of  the  Jacqueminot 
will  fail  to  exact  its  greeting  of delight, 
but  when  we  talk  of  roses  the  old  fash 
ioned— if anything  so  sweet  and  beauti 
ful  fresh  from  the  hand  of  its  Maker 
can  be  that—cinnamon  rose,  filling  the 
fence  corner  with  its  flowery  sprays  and 
the  air  with  its  unequaled perfume,  will 
not  be  forgotten  nor  the  common  red 
rose  found  always  in  the  old  gardens 
years  ago.  There 
is  something  of  the 
old 
life  clinging  to  them  which  we  do 
not  see  in  the  up-to-date  parvenues  and 
memory,  often 
in  spite  of  us,  reaches 
out  for  the  favorites  of  the  olden  time 
This  clinging  to  the  flowers  of child 
hood  has  a  pleasing  illustration  in  the 
Middle  West. 
I  have  been  passing  the 
summer  in  the  house  of  a  friend  who  in 
realizing  his 
ideal  of  beautiful  home 
surroundings  has  made  his  grounds  at 
tractive  by  the  wild  plants  that  he  has 
brought  from  his  New  England  home 
Here 
is  a  vigorous  oak  and  one  or two 
determined  chestnuts  whose  lives  began 
in  that  nursery  of  the  United  States. 
His  verandas  are  curtained  by  a  Vir­
ginia  creeper  that  has  succeeded 
in 
shutting  out  the  hot  rays  of  this  sum­
mer’s  fearful  sun.  The  Maine  woods 
have  sent  him  some  columbines  and  on 
both  sides  of  his  front  door  the  spring 
winds  rang  their  golden-throated  bells, 
the  delight  of  the  neighborhood,  and 
above  them 
in  boxes  geraniums  from 
the  far-off  home  have  gladdened  the 
passersby  with  their  rich  red  blossoms 
In  a  nook  which  the  sun  can  not  reach 
there  are  ferns  planted ;  rue  that  never 
dreamed  of  its  possibilités  in  the  thin 
soil  of  the  East  stands  here  “ stately 
and  tall,"  and 
jack-in-the-pulpit  has 
reared  here  some  sounding-boards  that 
would  make  his  kindred  green  with 
envy. 
I  have  found  some  prosperous 
violets  enjoying  life  among  the  rue  and 
the  fern  and  only  yesterday  a  wand  of 
Solomon’s  seal  gave  me  distinctly  to 
understand  that  it  never  knew  what  real 
living  is  until  its  rootlets  began  to  draw 
their  nourishment  from  the  deep  rich 
soil  of  the West.  These  are  not  the  only 
is 
reminders  of  the  childhood  life  that 
now  no  more,  but  they  all  serve  to 
in­
tensify  the 
idea  that,  besides  making 
the  dooryards  attractive,  the  attraction 
is  made  doubly  dear  to  the  inmates  by 
the  memories  kept  alive  in  every  wind- 
kissed  leaf  and  childhood-haunted  blos-

Considerable  stress  has  been  laid  by 
the  management  of  this  department  of 
the  Tradesman  upon  the  costlessness  of 
floral  improvement  in  backyards  and 
other  out  of  the  way  places  by  appro­
priating  whatever is  pleasing  and  wher­
ever  found  of the  wild  flowers  of  woods 
and  fields  and  roadsides.  Mention  has 
already  been  made  of  the  successful

hiding  of the  riot  of  the  heedless  plow 
share  by  the  successful  transplanting  of 
wild  flowers  growing  near  by,  and 
know  of  no  better  illustration  of  the 
idea  of  freedom  from  cost  than  thi 
same  city  lot—a  bit  of  territory  repeat 
ing  what  has  already  been  done  so  sue 
cessfully  by  Mr.  Garfield  in Grand Rap 
ids,  Michigan.

I  do  not  think  that  August  was  espe 
dally  thought  of  in  planning  this  West 
ern  garden,, but  August  is  certainly  so 
asserting  herself  here  that  her  fail  sis 
ters  will  be  surprised  at  what  can  be 
done  with 
limited  moisture  when  the 
summer  sun  is  hottest.  If  the  result  wa_ 
less  astonishing  I  should  be  reluctant  to 
mention  the  flowers  that  have  produced 
it.  They  are  certainly  common  enough. 
Many  a  head  of  yarrow  have  I  struck 
down  with  my  hickory  switch  to  and 
from  the  pasture  when  driving  the  cows 
without  ever  dreaming  there  could  be 
beauty  in  them  even  when  their  petals 
are  painted  red.  What 
is  moth-mullen 
good  for,  the  almost  selfish  plant  that 
bursts  into  bloom  yellow  or  white  with 
a  suddenness  that  startles?  No  wonder 
the  cockroaches  run  where  it  makes 
its 
appearance.  What  New  England  boy­
hood  embittered  by  motherwort  tea, 
ever  found  pleasure  in  plant  or  blossom 
after  drinking  this  New  England  cure 
for  every  New  England  ailment?  No 
old-fashioned  garden  was 
complete 
without  its  tanzy  bed.  It  “ hath  a  sunny 
air”   and  there  comes  to  me  across  the 
years  from  the  garden  first  and  then 
from  the  dusty  roadside  a  picture  of  its 
clustered  yellow  flowers  and  its  strong 
nd  aromatic  smell.  Once,  over-urged,
bit  its  dense,  crisp  leaf  and  learned 
then  what  “ bitter”   means!  Two  other 
flowers  that  brighten  the  waste  places  of 
the  East  and  cheapen  themselves  by 
their  abundance  are  the  meadow  lily 
nd  the  butterfly-weed.  The  first,  a 
bright  orange  with  purple  spots  and  the 
other  steeped 
in  orange.  The  golden- 
is  August’s  torchbearer.  Without 
rod 
'ts  yellow  flame 
is  doubtful  if  the 
month  could  find  its  way  along  the  neg­
lected  lanes  and  dusty  by-paths  of  sum­
mer.  At  all  events  it  is  everywhere  and 
no  collection  of  wild  floral  beauty  is 
complete  without  it. 
It  is  here  in  this 
prairie  garden  and  with  its well-remem­
companions  has  made  the 
bered 
lot 
seem 
like  a  bit  of  transplanted  New 
England.

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Taste  and  skill  and  memory  have 
been  at  work.  No  forbidding  fence  bars 
nut  the  public  gaze.  Green  grass  car­
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from  flower-hidden  fence  in  the  back­
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Eastern  wild  flowers,  the  August  col­
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posit  happiness  subject  to our check 
no  bonds  of  joy  on  whose  interest  we 
can  count  upon  retiring  and  livin g;  no 
trust  company  that  will  guarantee  to 
keep  safe 
for  us  our  youth  and  health 
and  love,  but  none  the  less  we  may 
surely 
lay  up  a  fund  of  comfort  upon 
which  we  may  call  without  fail  in  the 
hour of  need.

To  ail  of  us  there  must  come  a  time 
when  we  stand  above  the  coffined  form 
of  our  best  beloved,  and  the  whole  hori­
zon  of  earth 
is  bounded  by  a  narrow 
grave.  Then  it  is  that  we  need  to  have 
laid  up  a  fund  of  sympathy  that  we  can 
check  upon.  We  want  pity  to  lay  its 
healing  hands  upon  our hearts,  we  want 
tenderness  to  bind  up  our  wounds  and 
love  to  breathe  hope  once  more  into  our 
souls.  The  grief  that  can-weep  itself 
out  upon  another’s  breast  is  already half 
consoled.  The  sorrow  that  has  none  to 
turn  to  in  the  whole  wide  world,  that 
knows  that  it  grieves  alone,  has  gained 
an  added  sting.

Be  sure  there  is  no  accident  in  this. 
If  we  have  been  left  desolate  in  our  sor­
row  it  is  because  we  have lived  a  selfish 
life.  We  have  said  that  other  people’s 
sorrows  and  griefs  and  disappointments 
were  nothing  to  us  and  that  we  had 
nothing  to  do  with  their  joys.  The 
world  is  but  a  mirror that  gives  us  back 
our  own  reflections.  If we  want  love  and 
sympathy,  we  must  show 
it  to  others, 
and  the  man  and  woman  who  have  ful­
filled the divine  injunction  to  weep  with 
those  who  weep  and  rejoice  with  those 
who  rejoice  have  laid  up  that  comfort 
for  their  rainy  day  of  sorrow  that  will 
not  fail  them  in  their  need.

Then  there  are  love  and  friendship. 
To  me  there  is  nothing  so  pathetic  as 
the  sight  of  a  lonely  old  age.  Last  win­
ter  I  was  much  with  an  old  woman  who 
had  come  to  the  last  stage  of  the 
jour­
ney  of  life.  She  was  very  rich  and 
dwelt  in  a  splendid  bouse,  and  had  all 
the  perfunctory  attendance  that  paid 
help  gives,  but  there  were  no tender 
hands  to  smooth  her  pillow,  no  loving 
lips  to  press  a  kiss  upon  her  brow.  She 
had  quarreled  with  her own family years 
before;  she  had  been  arrogant,  selfish, 
11-tempered,  and  when  she  could  no 
longer entertain  and  amuse  her  empty 
society  acquaintances  they  went  their 
way  and  forgot  her. 
In  all  her  life  she 
had  laid  up  no  friendship  for her  rainy 
day  of  old  age  and  sickness;  she  had

bound  no  heart* to her by  tenderness  or 
loving  deeds,and  in  the  end  she  reaped 
as  she  had  sown.

People  who  are  what  we  call  unpopu­
lar  always  speak  of  it  as  if  it  was  an 
undeserved  misfortune.  Parents  whose 
children  are  not  companionable  bitterly 
stigmatize  it  as  ingratitude and consider 
themselves  martyrs. 
is  as  well  to 
face  the  truth  in  such  matters.  We  in­
variably  get  exactly  the  measure  of  love 
we  deserve.  No  man  or  woman  has  a 
right  to  expect  to  be  loved  unless  they 
do  something  to  win  love,  and  I  have 
yet  to  see  the  genial,  kindly,  consider­

It 

ate  person  who  turned  a  smiling  face  to 
the  world  on  whom  the  world  did  not 
smile  in  return.

No  parent  who  is  harsh,  dictatorial, 
scornfully  critical  of  his  children— who 
sneers  at  John's  love  of  high  collars  and 
pointed-toed  shoes  and  derides  his 
opinion,  and  who  ridicules  Mamie’s 
friends  and  growls  over  her  bills— has 
any  right  to complain  that  his  children 
do  not  come  to  him  with  their  joys  and 
sorrows  and  want  as  little  of  his  society 
as  possible.

“ In  time  of  peace,”   says  the  wise 
political  economist,  “ prepare  for  war.”

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20

W oman’s World
M aking  Provision  F o r  Old  Age  and  Re­

verses of Fortune.

The  one  thing  upon  which  all prac­
tical  philosophers,  from  Poor  Richard 
down  to  Mr.  Dooley,  have  been 
insist 
is  the  necessity  of  laying  up  some 
ent 
thing  for a  rainy  day.  The  wisdom  of 
such  advice 
is  so  apparent  it  would 
seem  that  it  must  appeal  to  the  way far 
ing  man  and  woman,  even  although 
they  were  stone  blind  and  fools.  One 
of  the  tragedies  of  life  is  the  spectacle 
of  people  who  live  a  gay  butterfly  exist 
ence,  who  feast  and  dance  and  make 
merry  while  the  sun  of  their  prosperity 
shines,  without  taking  thought  for the 
morrow,  and  who  suddenly  find  them 
selves, through  some  turn  of the  wheel  of 
fortune  or  when  old  age  overtakes them 
penniless,  dependent  and  forlorn.

It  would  greatly  offend  such  people 

we  should  tell  them  that  they  have  been 
guilty  of  criminal  carelessness,  yet  it 

.  true  nevertheless,  and  the  pity  of  the 
thing  is  that  so  few  seem  to  be  warned 
by  their  example.  We  see  about  us  men 
on  salaries,  who  know  that  a  change  of 
firm,  a  falling  off  in  trade—any  one  of 
a  thousand  contingencies— may  throw 
them  out  of  work,  but  who are  so  self 
indulgent  they  do  not  lay  by  a  dollar  to 
tide  them  over  the  rainy  day  that  is 
sure  to  come  to  them.  We  see  people 
who,  to  gratify  a  silly  desire  to  go  into 
fashionable  society  that  they  can  not 
affotd,  spend  every  cent  of  their  in 
come,  and  who,  when  the  breadwinner 
dies,  are 
the 
world;  we  see  women  left  a  competence 
that  should  have  kept  them  comfort 
able,  recklessly  encroaching  upon  thei 
capital,  until  they  are 
left  beggared 
when  they  are  old.

thrown  helpless  upon 

If  only  the  poor  butterfly  suffered  as 

result  of  his  folly 
it  would  be  bad 
enough,  but  we  might  comfort  ourselves 
with  the  thought  that  he  got  no  more 
than  he  desreved,  but  in  the  end  it  i 
always  the  grubs  of  life  that  have  to 
settle  the  butterfly’s  score.  Somebody 
has  to  carry  the  clerk  who  did  not  lay 
up  anything  over  his  rainy  d ay;  the 
penniless  family  is  dumped  on the char 
ity  of  the  community,  and  some  hard 
working  relative  must  furnish  the  bread 
and  butter  for  the 
improvident  woman 
who  spent  her  fortune  on  cakes  and  ale. 
In  all  the  heartrending  cases  of  destitu 
tion  that  appeal  to  us  there  is  not  one 
in  a  hundred  that  could  not  have  been 
prevented  by  the  use  of  common  fore 
sight,  and  prudence,  and  self-denial.

There 

is  absolutely  no  excuse  for  not 
looking  forward  to  the  rainy  day  that  is 
sure  to  come  in  every  life  and  making 
some  sort  of  provision  for  it,  and  the 
person  who,  in  prosperity  and  health, 
does  not  insure  against  being  a  burden 
on  his  friends  when  he  is  sick  or old  is 
a  dishonest  sponge.  He  is  deliberately 
eating  his  cake  and  depending  on  also 
devouring  part  of  somebody  else’s.

But  much  as  money  is—and  comfort 
and  peace  of  mind  come  pretty  nearly 
being  expressed  by  the  dollar  mark— it 
is  not  the  only  thing.  Not  the  only 
rainy  days  in  life  are  those  when  busi­
ness  fails  or  we  are  too  old  to  work  any 
more  and  compete  in  the  struggle  for 
gain.  There  are  the  dark  days  when 
sorrows  come  to  us,  when  we  stand 
grief-smitten,  sad  and  alone,  and  it  is 
just  as  much  the  part of  prudence  to  lav 
up  something  for these  times  of  mental 
and  spiritual  disaster  as  rit  is'for'the 
dark  days  of  poverty. 
It  is  true  that 
there  is  no  bank  in  which ^  wej can  de-|

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“It's  as  good  as  Sapolio,” when  they  try  to sell  you 
their  experiments.  Your  own  good  sense  will  tell 
you  that they  are  only  trying  to  get you  to  aid  their  —S  
new  article. 

: 

:

W ho  urges  you  to  keep  Sapolio? 

Is  it  not  the 
public?  The  manufacturers,  by  constant and judi- 
cious advertising, bring customers to your stores whose 
very  presence  creates  a  demand  for other articles.

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21

When  we  are  young,  lay  up  friendshir 
and 
love  for  old  age.  When  we  lose 
the  charm  and  gayety  of  youth,  when 
we  grow  garrulous,  perhaps,  and  behind 
the  times,  and  tell  the  same  old  stories 
over and  over again,  we  are  beyond  the 
time  when  we  attract  new  people  to  us 
but  we  can  have,  if  we  will,  a  bound 
less  store  of  affection  to  draw  upon  that 
is  not  critical,  that  loves  the  same  old 
stories  just  because  they  are  ours,  and 
that  will  make  beautiful  our  last  rainy 
days.

Another  thing  we  do  not  think  about 
enough  is  laying  up  some  provision  for 
a  rainy  day  when  we  are  temporarily 
cut  off 
from  our  usual  occupations. 
Talleyrand  advised  everybody  to  learn 
to  play  whist  in  their  youth  in  order  to 
avoid  a  miserable  old  age.  A  modern 
ized  version  of  that  might  suggest  the 
necessity  of  cultivating,  while  we  are 
happy,  some  fad  that  will  console  us 
while  we  are  miserable.  A  person  with 
a  hobby  can  never  be  altogether deso 
I  have  personally  known  an  ab 
late. 
sorbing 
interest  in  art  or ceramics  or 
golf  or the  Daughters  of  the Revolution 
to  carry  a  man  or  woman  safely  through 
the  inevitable  bad  quarter  of  an  hour  of 
their  life.

to 

Every  child  should  have  a  love  of 
reading  cultivated  in  him,  simply  as  a 
resource  against  being  bored,  if  for  no 
other  reason.  No  people  in  the  world 
are  so  afflicting 
themselves  and 
other  people  as  those  who  do  not  like  to 
read.  With  a  book,  with  all  the  won 
der  and  excitement  of  fiction,  of  adven 
ture  or  sport,  opened  before  one,  a  man 
may  say,  like  Monte  Cristo,  “ The world 
is  mine.”  
It  is  a  preventive  against 
ennui,  a  balm  for  sorrow,  an  antidote 
for  worry.  A  taste  for  reading  should 
surely  be  laid  up  against  the  rainy  days 
of  sickness,  of  disappointment  and  of

Mr.  Depew  said  once  that  plenty  of 
rich  Americans  had  enough  to retire  on 
but  they  had  nothing  to  retire  to.  The 
time  will surely  come  when  we will real 
ize  that  it  is  as  practicable  to  lay  up 
something  spiritually  for a  rainy  day  as 
it  is  financially,  and  just as  much  worth 
while. 

Dorothy  Dix.

'  

Women  have  been  displacing  men  in 
industrial  pursuits  of  every  style  and 
character,  with  a  constantly  growing 
field  of  operations  for  years.  Not  long 
ago  a  street  car  company  in  Indianap­
olis  became  dissatisfied  with  the  work 
of 
its  male  conductors  and  dismissed 
them  all.  Young  ladies  were  employed 
to  take  their  places.  At  first  the  ex­
periment  promised  to  be  very  satisfac­
tory.  There  were  more  passengers  and 
so  the  receipts  were  correspondingly 
greater,  but  after  giving  it  a  fair trial 
the  company  has  been  compelled  to  go 
back  to  male  conductors.  The  manage­
ment  says  that  the  women  show  partial­
ity  to  certain  men  and  improve  the  op­
portunity  to  talk  with  them  during 
business  hours,  and  thus  their  attention 
is  detracted.  The  patronage  fell  off  and 
the  receipts  with 
Perhaps  some 
other company  would  fare  better  as  the 
result  of  like  experiment.

it. 

The  Canadians  are  chagrined  by  the 
showing  of  their census.  The  popula­
tion  of  their country  has  increased  only 
half  a  million  in  the  past  ten  years,  in 
spite  of  prosperous  conditions.  There 
are more  people in  New  York  State  than 
in  all  Canada.  Many 
immigrants  are 
attracted  to  Canada,  but  they  do  not  re­
main  there.  They  quickly 
learn  that 
the  United  States  is  a  better  place.

W hy  Should  Not W oman  Be Taught Bet 

te r M anners?

Let  me  lay  down  the  proposition  that 
in  public  are  bad 

woman’s  manners 
temper-racking  and  soul-wrecking, 
you  doubt  it  you  have  merely  to take the 
testimony  of any  woman  just  back  from 
a  department  store  on  bargain  day.  But 
if  one  woman  crowds  another  out 
place  at  a  counter  or  grabs  a  bargai 
from  under  the  nose  of  a  covetous  riva 
that  is  only  an  affair  between  women 
and  doesn’t  concern  men.

To  be  specific. 

I  go  into  an  office 
building  to  visit  a  man  on  the  sixth 
floor.  At  the  foot  of  the  elevator  is 
woman  who  has  planted  herself  directly 
in  front  of  the  door  and  within  a  foot  of 
it,  ready  to  reach  out  and  seize  the  ele 
vator  if  an  ungallant  operator  should  try 
to  fly  by  and  run  the  car  into the ground 
beneath  the  basement. 
packed  with  book-keepers  and 
type 
writers,  all  eager to  make  a  dash  for  the 
nearest  hand-me-out  lunchroom,  but  the 
waiting  woman  is  sublimely  oblivious 
of  the  rest  of  the  world.  The  instant 
the  elevator  door  is  opened  she  steps 
into  the  car,  or tries  to.

The  car 

let 

When  the  hasty,  hungry  crowd  surges 
out  of  the  elevator  does  she  steps  aside 
it  get  out  with  the  least  possible 
to 
friction  and  loss  of  time? 
If  she  does 
she  is  not  true  to  the  habits  of  her  sex 
You  may  wager  ten  to  one  that  she 
merely  steps  back  twelve  to  eighteen 
nches,  if  she  has  not  delayed  the  whole 
operation by  crowding  into  the  full  car, 
and  the  hurried  passengers  are  forced to 
squeeze  past  her  as  best  they  can.  She 
s  bumped  right  and  left,  her  hat  and 
her  temper  are  ruffled  and  she  darts 
daggers  at  the  passing  crowd.  Here 
and  there  a  man,  more  bashful  or  more 
gallant  than  his  fellows,  pauses  a  mo 
ment,  expecting  the  fair one  to  take  the 
hint  and  move  aside,  and  many  a  gen 
tie  nature  is  bruised  by  the  necessity  of 
being  rude  and  jostling  a  woman. 
In 
cidentally  this  delays  the  exit  of  others 
in  the  back  of  the  car  and  adds  fire  to 
my  impatience  and  indignation.

l
\

After  the  car  is  emptied  the  woman 
steps  inside,  but  does  she  move  to one 
side  or to  the  rear of  the  car?  Never 
She  plants  herself  just  twelve  inches  in 
side  and  in  the  middle  of  the  entrance 
Eight  other  men  have  joined  me  in 
waiting  for the  car  and  every  man  of  us 
must  crowd  by  that  woman  as  best  we 
can,  swearing 
if  she  is 
homely  and  pitying  her  if  she  is  pretty, 
stepping  on  her  toes  with  apologies, 
tearing the  lace  on  her sack with affected 
blindness  and  picking  up  her  bundles 
with  forced  smiles.

in  our  hearts 

One  would  suppose  she  would  learn 
the  simple  lesson  of  stepping aside  after 
two  such  experiences,  but  the  bump  of 
elevator  manners  seems  to  be lacking  in 
the female  cranium.  The  woman  is  go­
ng  to  the  fifteenth  floor.  The  car  stops 
at  more  than  one-half the  intervening 
stages  to  discharge  or  receive  passen­
gers.  The  fair  creature  never  budges. 
She  seems  to  be  animated  by  the  sole 
thought  that  the  fifteenth  floor  may  get 
away  from  her  if  she  is not within arm’s 
length  of 
it,  ready  to  jump  or grab. 
Each  one  of  the  incoming  and  outgoing 
passengers  must  squeeze  by  her  as  best 
he  can,  causing  delay  and  annoyance. 
At the  fifteenth  floor  she stops  the  eleva­
tor  for  apparently  fifteen  minutes  (in 
reality 
it  may  be  only  one)  by  putting 
one  foot  outside  the  car  and  starting  a 
conversation  with  the  operator.  She 
wants  him  to  assure  her  she  is  on  the 
right  floor,  to  tell  her  the  number of  the 
office  she 
is  seeking,  to  explain  the

business  of the  person  she  is  to  visit,  to 
guess  whether she  will  be  successful 
in 
her  affair  and  to  answer  a  variety  of 
other  questions,  unimportant  and 
in­
consequential.

is 

This  is  not  an  imaginary  case. 

It  is 
an  every  day  experience,which  to  many 
a  busy  man 
like  multiplied  pin 
pricks.  One  is  tempted  to  declare  that 
woman  has  no  manners  for  the  public. 
As  a  hostess  she  is  as  charming  as  one 
of  the  graces.  As  a  mother  she  is  more 
self-denying  than  an  angel.  On  parade 
before  people  whose  favor  she  would 
win  she  is  enchanting.  When  her  love 
or  pride 
is  touched  she  is  adorable. 
In  contact  with  plain  Tom,  Dick  and 
Harry  in  public  places  she  is—shall  one 
say  heartless  or  merely  inconsiderate? 
At  the  theater  box  office  she  refuses  to 
get  in  line,  but  majestically  sweeps  up 
to  the  window  and 
insists  on  having 
her  wants  attended  to  without  reference 
to  fifty  who  were  ahead  of  her. 
In 
waiting  for  the  street  car  she  and  her 
companions  spread  themselves  out  on 
the  line  of  the  crosswalk  instead of step­
ping  to  one  side. 
In  the  business  office 
she  calmly  ignores  the  rights  of  three  or 
four  others  who  are  waiting  to  see  a 
man  of  affairs  and  serenely  rushes  up  to 
him  on  sight.  And  so  on,  and  so  on.

This  is  a  practical  age.  Why  should 
not  the  schools  drop  one  of  their  fads 
and  have  a  course  in  the  ethics  of  pub­
ic  conduct? 
It  may  be  sugar-coated 
by  being  taught  to  both  sexes,  but 
should  specially  aim  to  set  women  on 
the  way  they  should  go.  For  the  sake 
of  suffering  man  and  for  the  glory  of 
woman—God  bless  her— let  the  press 
meanwhile  start  a  campaign  of  educa­
tion to reform woman’s  manners  in  pub­
lic- 

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A   Page from   a  New  Catalogue

“Store  Lighting”

Is an  important matter.  The light must be good, must be safe,  must 

be available at any hour, day or night.

Must be reasonable in cost;  should be  easy  to  take  care  of;  easy  to 

manage;  simple, yet the best.

One that does not increase  your  Insurance  premium;  all  these  and 
more, too, you get  if you have a  Michigan  Gasolene Gas Machine 
and  use Welsbach lights  of  ioo  candle  power  each,  or  Gas  In­
candescent  Lamps of 2,000 Candle  Power each.

You can have a light in any  spot  or  place  in  your  building  or  the 
building next to you, or in the next  block, or  across the street,  or 
in the street, or anywhere you can  run  a gas pipe to

Any style of fixture can be used, chandeliers,  pendants, side brackets 
anything  that  you  want  for  the  store,  the  show  windows,  the 
office.

The light is the whitest,  strongest,  steadiest,  safest.  Nothing excels 
it, unless it is  daylight,  and  on  a  dark  day,  or  in a  dark  store, 
daylight does not equal  it.

Do not be satisfied with the trade you have, but  increase it by  having 
It  will  not  cost  you  any  more 

the  best  lighted  store  in  town. 
than it does the other fellow with his poor yellow light.

If you are interested (and you should  be)  in  the  best,  cheapest,  and 
safest light, write to  the  manufacturers  for  their  new  catalogue 
and testimonials. 

It is yours for the asking.

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Machine  Company

Morenci,  Michigan

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

From  time 

la  code  of  honor. 

immemorial  eggs  have 
been  used  as  missiles  with  which  to 
storm  offending  denizens  of  the  stage. 
If  the  forcible  presentation  of  cabbages, 
turnips,  etc.,  was  not  sufficient  to  meas­
ure  the  disapprobation  of  the  audience 
the  rotten  egg  has  always  served  to 
cover  with  obloquy  and  confusion  the 
persons  of  those  who  failed  to  perform 
their  promises  to  the  good  public.  But 
it  is  something  new  to  find  eggs  chosen 
as  weapons  with  which  to  settle  differ­
ences  a 
It  now  ap­
pears,  according  to  newspaper  report, 
that  Lord  Raoul  Arthur  Phillips  de 
la  Vallee,  late  of  Paris,  but 
Gentilly 
in  New  Jersey,  being 
now  sojourning 
annoyed  by  stories 
told  about  him 
around  the  town  of  Morristown  by  one 
George  Kauous,  has  challenged 
the 
in  honorable  combat 
offender  to  fight 
according 
the 
choice  of  weapons  being,  naturally,  left 
to  the  challenged  party.  Whereupon 
Mr.  Kauous  has  presented  his  most 
distinguished  compliments  to  the  chal­
lenger  and  chosen  as  weapons  “ ancient 
eggs—field,  any  old  place,  distance  40 
paces."  It  seems  that  Kauous  is  an  ex­
base  ball  pitcher  and  thinks  that  after 
the  duel  Lord  Raoul  Arthur,  etc.,  la 
Vallee  will  look  like  an  Irish  omelette 
in  distress.  Fortunately  the  supply  of 
suitable  material  for  this  battle 
is,  by 
the  exigencies  of  the  season,  unlimited. 
— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

to  the  ancient  code; 

is  a 

very  startling  statements  sent  out  from 
Canada,  but  our own  observation  is  that 
the  crop 
large  one  there,  with  a 
large  acreage.  New  York  dealers  re­
port  an 
increased  acreage  of  25  to  33 
per  cent.,  and  conditions  favoring  a 
yield  per  acre  equal  to  or greater than 
last  season.  California  expects  to  hold 
her  Western  trade  this  season  and  is 
looking  for  some  of  the  trade  we  filled 
last  season.  A  good  many  beans  were 
shipped  to the  Far West  and to the coast 
from  Michigan  last  season,  but  we  will 
not  be  likely  to  do  so  this  year.  For­
eign  beans are  being  offered  for October 
shipment  at  prices  much  below  present 
prices  for new  crop  in  Michigan.  The 
harvest  will  commence  this  week  and 
with  good  weather  will  be  quite  general 
before  September  1.  With good weather, 
new  beans  will  be  offered  in  limited 
supply  about  September  1.  We  will  un­
doubtedly  have  a  good  demand  for some 
time,  as  stocks  everywhere  are  closely
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qp. 

Geo.  H.  Reifsnider  &   Co.

Commission  Merchants

and Wholesale Dealers In

Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs,  Cheese

321 Greenwich Street, New York 

References:  Irving National Bank of New York 

and Michigan Tradesman.

S  

Established 1876
Charles 

Richardson

Commission  Merchant

Wholesale 

Fruits

Carlots  a  Specialty

58-60  W .  M arket  S t.  and 

121-123  M ichigan  S t. 

Buffalo,  N.  Y.

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

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M ILLE T S . 

FO D D ER   CO RN , 
BU CKW H EAT, 
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TURN IP S E E D .

R O P E,

22

Butter and Eggs

spring  eggs  stored  at 

Observations  by  a Gotham  Egg  H an.
The  prices  recently  quoted  for  refrig­
erator  eggs  on  this market have attracted 
considerable  attention  from  those  who 
have 
interior 
points  and  have  induced  the  offering  of 
such  goods  through 
local  commission 
men.  But  while  the  prices  quoted  have 
been  obtained  here  for  considerable 
stock  in  local  refrigerators  they  are  not 
to  be  depended  upon  for  consignments 
of  refrigerator  eggs  sent  in  from  a  dis­
tance.  The  reason  for  this  will  be  ob­
vious  upon  some  consideration.  The 
only  way  that  dealers  can  use  refrigera­
tor  eggs  to  advantage  during 'warm  and 
often  muggy  weather  is  to  take  out  of 
just  the  quantity  that  can  be 
storage 
very  promptly  worked 
into  consump­
tion.  Their  practice  is  to  buy  a  straight 
car  or  more  in  storage  and  draw  them 
out  only  as  fast  as  needed.  The  price 
paid  generally  covers  the  storage  charge 
until  the  end  of  the  season  so  that  there 
is  no  further  expense  for  holding.  With 
refrigerator  goods  arriving  on  dock  here 
the  case  is  altogether  different.  Buyers 
are  generally  kept  supplied  with 
local 
holdings  and  it  is  difficult  to find an im­
mediate  market  for  goods  on  dock.  And 
when  stock  arrives  here  from  distant  re­
frigerators  without  definite  order  it is  of 
course  necessary  to  force  an  immediate 
sale  of  it  or else  re-store  in  this  market. 
Consequently  such  goods  are  at  a  se 
rious  disadvantage.  While  17c  and 
even  17^0  is  paid  for  choice  to  fancy 
brands  of  April  packings  in  local  stor 
age,  season's  charges  paid,  it  is  prob 
able  that  equal  quality  arriving  on  dock 
from 
interior  points  would  not  draw 
bids  above  i6@i6^ c.

The  movement  of  refrigerator  eggs 
local  cold  storage  has  continued 
from 
quite  free  and  has  reached  proportions 
which  make  the  general  outlook  more 
favorable. 
It  is  noted  that  Boston hold­
ings,  which  reached  the  highest  point 
(214,434  cases)  about  the  middle  of 
July,  have  been  reduced  24,740 cases  or 
over  11  per  cent.,  while  last  year the 
reduction  during  the  same  period  was 
less  than  4  per  cent.  The  total  holdings 
there  are,  however,  still  considerably 
in  excess  of  last  year.  Enquiry  among 
the  storage  men  here  indicates  that  we 
have  reduced  stock  since  July  15  about 
60,000 cases, which,estimating  our  high­
est  holdings  (including  the  new  Jersey 
City  bouse)  at  350,000  cases,  would  be 
no  less  than  17  per  cent.  This  would 
leave  our  present  excess  over  last  year 
so  much  diminished  as  to  make  the out­
look  quite  promising  if  stock  had  been 
reduced  at  interior  points  on  anything 
like  the  same  proportion. 
It  is  prob­
able,  however,  that  the  rate  of  decrease 
in  refrigerator  eggs  has  been 
iarger 
here  and  at  other  Eastern  cities  than  in 
the  West.

♦   *  *

George  Reifsnider,  of  George  H. 
in 
Reifsnider  &  Co.,  has  a  curiosity 
the  shape  of  a  perfectly  spherical  egg. 
It  came  from  a  shipment  of  Iowa  stock 
and  is  almost  a  perfect  sphere.  George 
says  he  is  going  to  make  a  collection 
and  use  them  for  billiard  balls.

P robability  of  a  Large  Production  of 

M ichigan  Beans.

C.  E.  Burns,  the  Detroit  bean  hand­
ler, 
favors  the  Tradesman  with  the 
following  facts  relative  to  the  growing 
bean  crop  in  this  State :

the 

late  potatoes,  with 

The  bean  growing  section  of  Michi­
gan  has  been  favored  with  good  crops 
of  everything  except  early  potatoes,  but 
the 
recent 
rains,  will  be  much  better  than  antici­
pated.  Corn,  oats  and  hay  are  good. 
The  writer has  made  a  personal  inspec­
tion  of  the  bean  fields,  covering  all  of 
the 
larger  bean  growing  sections  of 
Michigan  and  Canada,  and  has  been  in 
close  touch  with  the  dealers  of  Western 
New  York.  We believe we  know  beans, 
and  notwithstanding  ail  the  complaints 
about  heat,  drought,  hot  winds,  insects, 
beans  drowned  out,  cattle  being  turned 
into  the  fields,  crops  plowed  up,  etc., 
etc.,  we  predict  that  Michigan  will 
raise  the  largest  crop  of  beans  in  her 
history  by  25  to  50  per  cent.  We  drove 
miles  and  walked  over  acres  of  ground 
looking  for the  field  that  "d id   not  have 
a  pod  on  and  no  beans  in  the  pods," 
and  failed  to  find  one.  We  do  not  say 
that  there  may  not  be  some  small  sec­
tions  in  the  State  that  have  a  few  fail­
ures,  but  they  are  certainly  local  and 
we  failed  to  find  them.  On  the  con­
trary,  we  found  a  very  large  growth  ex­
ceptionally  well  podded  and 
filled. 
There  are  some  small  sections  on  the 
southern  edge  of the  territory  that  will 
not  produce  as  much  per acre  as  last 
year,  but  the  increase  in  acreage  there 
on  account  of  high  prices  the  past  two 
years  and  failure  of  wheat  will  more 
than  make  up  the  difference.  The 
in­
crease  in  acreage  over  last  year  is  vari­
ously  estimated 
in  different  sections 
from  25  to  100  per  cent  We  believe  40 
to  50  per  cent,  increase  is a  conserva­
tive  estimate.  The  yield  per  acre  for 
the  State  will  be  considerably  larger 
than  last  year,  probably  10  to  20  per 
cent.  Definite 
information  as  to  the 
yield  can  not  be  given  until  thrashing 
begins,  but  we  believe  it  will  over  run 
this  estimate.  There  have  been  some

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

ALFRED J.  BROWN SEED CO.,  SÏÏÎSSÎS.1! l:Î K r “ '

A LL  GROCERS

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

THE  LEROUX  CIDER  &  VINEGAR  CO.,

TOLEDO,  OHIO.

J.  B.  H AM M ER  di CO.

W H O LES A LE

FRUIT  AND  PRO D U CE  D E A LE R S

Specialties:  Potatoes,  Apples,  Onions,  Cabbage,

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

119  E .  FRO N T S T .. 

CIN CIN N ATI.  OHIO

We are making a specialty at present on fancy

Messina  Lemons

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

wire for quotations.

E.  E.  H EW ITT,

Successor  to  C.  N.  Rapp  A  Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

W A T F P M F I   OISIQ 

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C A N TA LO U PE ,  O EM   AN D   O SA G E  M ELO N S
Send us your orders 
Fine fresh stock  in constant supply at lowest prices. 
We want to  buy  Cabbage,  Potatoes,  Onions  and  vegetables.  Write  us 
about anything you have to offer.

THE  VINKEMULDER  COMPANY,

U -.6 OTTAWA  STREET. 

,  

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

F.  J.  SCHAFFER  &  CO.

LEADINO  PRODUCE  HOUSE  ON  EASTERN  MARKET

BUTTER,  EGGS,  POULTRY,  CALVES,  ETC.

BUY  AND  SELL

W e’ll

keep  you  posted.  Just  drop  us 

a  card.

D ETROIT,  M ICH.

BRANCH  AT IONIA,  MICH.

especially  anxious  to  part  with  hold 
ings.

Lemons  are  less  active  and  yet  there 
is  a  good  demand  and  sales  are reported 
that  are  fairly  satisfactory.  Prices  are 
about  as  last  named.  Oranges  are  hard­
ly  as  active  as last week  and  Califoraias 
are  going  at *3-75@5-5°-

The  demand  for  butter  has been rathe, 
light  and  2oJ^c  seems  to  be  top  for  best 
Western  and  from  this  the  descent  is 
rapid  to  16c  for  lower grades.  Imitation 
creamery,  I4@i7c;  Western 
factory,

The  cheese market  is  dull  and  g%c  is 
is 

top  rate  for  fancy  full  cream.  Little 
being  done  in  an  export  way.

Arrivals  of  eggs  are  not  large  and  the 
demand  for  desirable  stock  is  sufficient­
ly  active  to  keep  the  rate  up  to  i8j^c 
for  Western  fresh  gathered.  Refrigera­
tor  goods,  I5@i7^c.

How  Things Grow  in  Hawaii.

From the Fruit Trade Journal.

How  great  are  the  possibilities  of 
Hawaii  as  a  fruit  and  vegetable  grow­
ing  country  will  be  understood  when 
it 
becomes  known  that  four crops  of  pota­
toes  have  been  produced  in  succession 
on  the  same  piece  of  land  within  twelve 
months.  Radishes  become  edible  in  ten 
days  after  sowing. 
Strawberry  vines 
bear fruit  all  the  year.  The  berries  are 
of  the  finest  flavor.

is  planted 

Cabbage  grows  all  the  year,  and  it 
apparently  makes  no  difference  whether 
it 
in  the  spring,  summer, 
autumn  or  winter.  Parsley  once  sown 
grows  forever,  apparently.  Lima  beans 
continue  to  grow  and  bear  for  over a 
year, and  they  have  to  be  gathered  every 
week  after  starting  to  bear.  Cucumbers 
bear the  entire  year,  and  so  do  toma­
toes,  which,  with  proper  attention,  bear 
for  years.  Raspberries  bear 
for  six 
months.

Pineapples  come 

into  bearing  when 
the  plants  are  four  months  old  and  bear 
in  abundance  for  years.  Lettuce  can  be 
planted  at  any  time,  and 
it  develop 
quickly.  The  same  is  true  of  celery.

A  Consoling Judge.

A  certain  judge  who  once  presided 
over a  criminal  court  was  famous  as one 
of  the  most  compassionate  men  who 
ever  sat  on  the  bench.  His  softness  of 
heart,  however,  did  not  prevent  him 
from  doing  his  duty  as  a  judge.  A 
man  who  had  been  convicted  of stealing 
a  small  amount  was  brought 
into  coun 
for  sentence.  He  looked  very  sad  and 
hopeless  and  the  court  was  much  moved 
by  his  contrite  appearance.  “ Have  you 
ever  been  sentenced  to  imprisonment?”  
“ Never!  Never!”  
the  judge  asked. 
exclaimed  the  prisoner,  bursting 
into 
“ Don’t  cry,  don’t  cry,”   said 
tears. 
the 
judge,  consolingly,  “ you’re  going 
to  be  now!”

H alf and Half.

“ Have  you 

suffered  much 

from 

toothache?”   asked  the  dentist.

“ A little, ”  answered the young woman 
in  the  chair,  “ but  not  much.  My  teeth, 
I  suspect,  are  like  mamma’s.  She  has 
never  had  anything  done  to  hers,  and 
she  hasn't  an  unsound  tooth 
in  her 
head.”

“ How  are  your’father’s  teeth?"
“ Poor  papa!  His  are  all  gone.  They 
never  were  anything  but  mere  shells.’ ’
“ Well,”   said  the  dentist,  breaking  it 
to  her  as  gently  as  be  could,  “ it’s 
very  evident  that  you inherit your upper 
jaw  from  your  mother and  your  lower 
jaw  from  your  father.”

Special  Features  of the Grocery and Prod 
Special Correspondence.

nee Trades.

’ .?ut 

New  York,  Aug.  24— General  business 
in  the  grocery  district  is  good.  There 
is  no  mistake  about 
it.  Profits  are 
perhaps,  not  as  large  as  might  be  de- 
, ey  are  more  satisfactory 
than  they  have  been  for some  time  on 
canned  goods  and  this  line  is  steadily 
7
gaining. 
Coffee,  too,  is  stronger—at  least  on 
paper.  What  earthly  reason  there  can 
be  even  for  an  occasional  advance  is 
more  than  the 
layman  can  see.  On 
Thursday  the  receipts  at  Rio  and Santos 
aggregated  85,000  bags.  At  the  close 
No.  7  was  quotable  at  Stt@5%c.  The 
crop  of  Rio  and  Santos  is now estimated 
by  good  authorities  to  be  12,000,000 
bags.  In  store  and  afloat  the  amount  ag­
gregates  1,665,238  bags,  against  770,538 
bags  at  the  same  time  last  year.  Mild 
grades  are  quiet  and  good  Cucuta  is 
selling  at  7%c.  Some  business  is  be­
ing  done  in  East  India  sorts,  but  noth­
ing 
in  the  way  of  a  boom.  The  situa­
tion  of  coffee  in  Puerto  Rico  is  of  in­
terest  to  the  trade  everywhere 
and 
promises  to  grow  more  and  more  so.

in 

sugar 

Part  of  the  week  saw  such  decided 
that  dealers 
improvement 
thought  a turn  had  come,  but  for the last 
three  days  matters  have  sunk  into  the 
old  rut  and  orders  are  few  and  far  be­
tween.  While  list  prices  are  held  on 
about  all  grades  it  is  thought  that  some 
little  concession  might  be  obtained  on 
some  of  the  soft  grades.  Raws  are  dull 
and  easy.

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Teas  show  a  trifle  more  activity  and 
some  fair  sales  have  been  made;  but 
there  is  much  to  be  desired.  The ques­
tion  of  “ creating  a  demand"  has  con­
tinued  to  be  talked  of.  One  paper  says 
that  the  greatest  reason  for the  decrease 
in  consumption  of  tea  is  the  increase 
in  the  use  of  cereals,  owing  to  the  ex­
tensive  advertising  of  the  same.  But 
why  does  the  consumption  of  coffee  re­
main  as  large  as  ever?  The  tea  educa­
tional  campaign  must  begin 
in  the 
is  so  delicate  an  article 
kitchen. 
that 
is  easily  spoiled,  while  the 
it 
cereals  may  boil  while  the  cook  is  talk­
ing  with  the  policeman  and  be  all  the 
better.

It 

Supplies  of  rice  are  not  large  and, 
with  a  fairly  good  demand,  the  outlook 
in  favor  of  the  seller.  Crop  pros­
is 
pects  are  said  to  favor a  yield  about  the 
same  as  last  season.  Choice  Southern, 
5K@6c ;  head,  6%@6%c;  Patna,
5%c;  Japan,  4%@5c.
little  doing. 
invoice 
Prices  are  unchanged. 
way  Singapore  pepper  is  worth  I2J^@ 
I2^c;  Amboyna  cloves,  i i }£@I2c.

Spices  are  quiet,  with 

In  an 

Sales  of  molasses  are  of  small lots and 
altogether  the  outlook 
is  not  very  en­
couraging.  With  better  weather a  turn 
may  come.  Good  to  prime  centrifugal, 
i7@3oc.  Syrups  are  in  limited  supply 
and  the  demand  is  light.

In  canned  goods,  light  offerings  have 
restricted  trade 
in  vegetables  and  the 
transactions  of  the  week  have  been com­
paratively  light.  The  demand has  been 
so  active  that  goods  have  been  readily 
absorbed  and  quotations  show  steady 
advance.  Spot frJew  Jersey  tomatoes  are 
worth  95c.  California  fruits  are  sell­
ing  splendidly  and  prices  are  no  ob­
ject.  There  are  lots  of  orders  for  New 
York  com  which  can  not  be  filled  and 
the  same 
is  true  of  some  other  vege­
tables.  Maine  packers  are  making  no 
offerings,  either  of  spot  or  futures,  and 
are  evidently  hoping  for  something  bet­
ter  further on.

In  dried  fruits,  the  demand  continues 
good  and  prices  are  well  sustained. 
Raisins  are  attracting  more  attention 
than  for  some  time  and  holders  are  not

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A L L   KIN DS  O F  F IE L D   S E E D S

Potatoes,  Onions,  Lemons,  Peaches.  Carlots or less. 

2 8 -3 0 -3 2   OTTAWA  S T . 

GRAND  RA PID S,  MICH.

Correspondence  solicited.

D.  O.  W IL E Y   &   CO.

20  Woodbridge  St.  W est,  Corner  Oriswold,  Detroit,  Mich. 

Commission  Merchants

Wholesale  Dealers  in  Foreign  and  Domestic  Fruits  and  Country  Produce 

We  solicit  consignments  of  Fruits,  Butter,  Eggs and all Country  Produce.

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REYN O LD S
Dealers in  Foreign and  Domestic &  CO.
FRUITS

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

12-14-16-18  Woodbrldge  Street  West,  40-42  Griswold  Street, 

DETROIT,  MICH.

Established  1876.

H.  f .  r o s e   &   c o .,

Phones  504.

Fruits  and  Produce  on  Commission

24  Woodbridge  Street  W est,  Detroit,  Mich.

Members  Detroit Produce  Exchange and  National  League Commission  Merchants. 

Correspondence  solicited.  Reliable  quotations  furnished.  Quick  sales  and

prompt  returns.

Geo.  N.  Huff & Co.

Butter,  Eggs,  Cheese,  Pigeons,  Squabs,  Poultry 

and  Gam e

Wanted at all times.  Guaranteed  highest markets on all  shipments. 

Send for quotations.

55  Cadillac  Square,  Detroit,  Michigan

R.  H IR T,  JR .

34  and  36  Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

FRU ITS  AND  PRODUCE

Write  for  Quotations

References—City Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies

No  Established  Credit.

Credit  Man—Sorry,  sir,  but we can not 
open  an  account  with  you  because  of 
your  financial  standing.

Rubbton— What’s  the  matter  with 
it?
Credit  Man—Why,  you’ve  always 

paid  cash.

Highest  Market  Prices Paid.  Regular Shipments Solicited.

98  South  Division  Street  ____________  

Grand  Rapids,  flichigan

L. O. SNEDECOR  Egg  Receiver

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York

Start  in  with  us  now.

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

..... 

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All  sales  case  count.

Window  Dressing
U tilizing the  Card  W riter—Avoid  Use  of 

W ax  Figures.

With  the  coming  of  September  and 
the  fall  season,  and  with  the  return 
from  their vacations  of  the  bronzed  and 
invigorated  city  folk,  the  responsibil 
ities  of  the  card-writer  grow  more 
im 
portant. 
In  a  short  time  now  numerous 
articles  of  wear  incident  to  the  season, 
together  with  the  novelties,  freaks  and 
improvements,  long  planned  and  prom 
ised,  must  be  displayed  and 
intro 
duced.  For.  the  unqualified  success  of 
these  things  much  depends  on  the  card 
writer’s  ability  to  draw  favorable  atten 
tion  to  the  goods  which  his  cards  are 
intended  to  help  the  sale  of.  What 
matter  if  the  windows  be  finely trimmed 
with  tasteful  and  choice  goods  culled 
from  freshly  stocked  shelves  and  coun 
ters,  if  the  window  card,  the  speech 
maker  of  the  window,  be  pointless  or 
slovenly?  Therefore,  Mr.  Card-Writer, 
get  ready  your  stock  of  fall  cards  and 
spare  no  pains  or thought  to  make  them 
worthy  of  the  beautiful,  bright,  new 
goods.  In  the  opinion  of  a master  of  the 
art,  to  write  a  good  card  one  must  se 
lect  a  single  subject  and  keep  one’i_ 
thoughts  on  it  until  an  acceptable  card 
is  worked  up. 
is  useless  to  allow 
your  mind  to  wander  rapidly  in  and  out 
of  a  vortex  of  ideas  on  clothing,  neck 
wear,  gloves,  hosiery  and  every  pos 
impossible  article,  grasping 
sible  and 
here  and  there  a  workable 
thought, 
merely  to  relinquish 
it  and  fly  off  to 
something  else.  Only  confusion  and 
failure  can  result  from this course.  And, 
by  the  way,  if  you  do  happen  to  think 
of  a  good  idea,  wherever  you  may  be, 
either  work 
it  down  at 
once.  The  written  record  “ never  for 
gets.”   Remember, 
in  this 
line  of  work,  as 
in  all  others,  success 
nearly  always  depends  on  observing  the 
three  words  of  that short  but sure  motto 
‘ ‘ Do  it  now.’ ’

it  out,  or  jot 

too,  that 

It 

Just  a  word  about  wax  figures.  A 
short  time  age  the  writer  noticed  a 
display  of  good  clothing  that  was  made 
positively  ghastly  and  repulsive  by  the 
character  of  the  wax  figures  used  in  the 
display.  We  are  almost  tempted  to  say 
“ Never,  under  any  circumstances,  use 
wax  figures  in  your  window  displays.”  
Do  you  suppose  that  any  man  is 
likely 
to  be  tempted  to  buy  a  suit  of  clothing 
that  he  sees  displayed  upon  a  wax  man 
with  a  peach  blow  complexion,  flaxen 
moustache  and  bleached  blonde  hair? 
One  of those  impossible  young men  who 
are  never  met  in  actual  life  and  who,  if 
they  were  met,  would  be  kept  indoors 
to  preserve  their  complexion? 
If  you 
can  not  afford  to  buy  a  well-made  wax 
figure  of  natural  appearance,  do  any­
thing  rather than  show  one  of 4hose  im­
possible,  sissyfied  young  men 
in  your 
clothing.  A  virile  man  will  be  dis­
gusted  with  the  garments,  as  well  as 
with  the  figure  lhat  wears  them*.  Do  not 
kill  good  garments  by  showing  them  on 
cheap  imitations, of  a  fourth-rate  young 
man.  And 
if  you  do  use  good  wax 
figures,  see  that  they  are  properly  cared 
for.  A  wax  gentleman,  whose  counte­
nance  has  been  split  under  the  action 
of  cold  or  melted  into  an  expression  of 
grief,  is  not  a  fit  object  for the  public 
to  gaze  upon.  Such  a  figure  should  be 
sold  to  a  traveling  medical  show  or  to  a 
museum  of  pathology. 
It  should  not 
appear  in  a  clothing  window.  Don’t 
prop  up  wax  figures  in  the  window  in 
attitudes  and  postures  that  a  sane  man

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

would  never  dream  of  assuming.  The 
agonizing  postures  of  ordinary  wax 
clothing  figures,  supposed  to  be  posed 
with  uncommon  grace,  is  as  amusing 
spectacle  as  can  be  seen  anywhere  out 
side  of  a  wax  works  show.  Study  the 
art  of  posing  and  you  will  find  that  to 
make  a  figure  natural  in  its  pose  is  one 
of  the  most  difficult  of  arts. 
If  you  can 
not  master  that  art  don’t  attempt  any 
settings  that  will  involve  the  use  of  wax 
figures  in  other than  the  simplest  poses 
All  this  leads  up  to  the  advice  to  avoid, 
in  your  trims,the  use  of  wax  figures  and 
other  dummies. 
If  you  have  any  knack 
with  your  hands  you  can  display  a  gar 
ment  with  some  grace.  It  is  better  to 
have  a  simple  display  of  good  garments 
in  graceful  units  than  to  set  up  a  wax 
works  show  that 
funny  as  an 
amateur tragedian  in  the  role  of  Ham 
let.

is  as 

Apropos  of  the  great  popularity  of 
genuine  and  imitation Panama  hats  thi 
summer,  a rather clever  window  display 
which  attracted  considerable  attention 
was noticed in a new  hat  store  on  Broad 
way,  just  below  Thirteenth  street. 
In 
the  center  of  this  window,  the  floor  of 
which  was  strewn  with  plantain  shag 
(dried  plantain 
leaves  and  fibre),  was 
placed  a  rawhide  case,  of  the  size  and 
shape  of  a  barrel.  This  case  was  half 
filled  with  the  same  shag,  and  in  it  lay 
a  single  Panama  hat,  of the  unshaped 
style,  worn  of late  by  many  smart  dress 
ers.  The  case  was  smeared  with  pitch 
over the  seam  where  it  had  been  sewed 
up,  so  as  to  exclude  air  and  dust. 
It 
was  said  by  the  firm  that  each  of  these 
cases  contained  upwards  of  one  thous 
and  genuine  Panamas,  imported  from 
Ecuador,  South  America,  and  retailed 
here  at  the  extraordinarily  low  price  of 
$2  each.  As  showing  the 
large  sales 
of  these  hats  this  season,  it  may  be 
mentioned  that  four  hundred  dozen were 
sold  at  this  place  alone.  The  above 
paragraph  describes  a  display  that  is  an 
llustration  of  the  fact  that  passers-by 
and  possible  customers  are  easily  at 
tracted  by  any  display  revealing  the 
generally  unknown  and  interesting  de 
tails  of  manufacture  of  an  article  of 
current  wear  and 
interest.  A  simple 
display  of  Panama  hats,  even  at  the 
very 
low  figure  quoted  above,  would 
have  provoked  little  or  no  attention  in 
these  waning  summer  days  of  bargain 
sales.  But  this  display  of  the  curious 
rawhide  case,  showing  the  unfamiliar 
methods  of  making  and  packing  these 
popular  hats,  deflected  a  considerable 
number  of  Broadway  pedestrians  from 
their  onward  rush,  to  have  a  peep  at 
the  novelty,  with  the result,  as it proved, 
of  many  sales. 
In  the  same  way  it 
would  seem  that  this  idea  is  capable  of 
more  detailed  cultivation  and  elabora­
tion  than 
In  many  proc­
esses  of  the  manufacture  of  the  number­
less  articles  daily  displayed  in  the  shop 
windows  there  should  be  much  of  a  na­
ture  to  halt  and  interest  people.  Once 
get  them interested  and  a  suitable  price 
may  bring  them  in.—Apparel  Gazette.

it  received. 

Reflections o f a  Bachelor.

The  bitterest  kiss  can  be  gilded  so 
that  most  any  woman  will  take  it  with­
out  making  a  face.

It  seems  as  if  some  old  maids  who 
never  have  any  men  make  love  to  them 
go around  making  love  to  themselves.

Up  to  30 a  woman  wants  to  flirt  with 
men;  from  that  on  to  40,  with  boys; 
after  that,  with  anything,  if  it’s  only 
3
kittens. 
Whenever  a  girl  gets  engaged,  what 
she  considers  the  most  necessary  thing 
to do  is  to  make all  the  other girls think 
she  walks  just  like  he  was  mud.

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Fanny Davenport

5c  Cigar

Trade  Supplied  By:

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

BOURS
COFFEES
MAKE  BUSINESS

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Best on 
the market.

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Standard  Crackers

Are Packed in

“Green  Hoop”  Barrels

See quotations 
in price current.

Manufactured by 

E. J.  Kiuce  &  Co., Detroit, Mich.

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Commercial T ravelers

Mkhixu Knisrhts of the Grip

Pi<S l^.n t,.GKS ;F -0wKN»  Grand  Rapids:  Sec 
St it t,  Jackson;  Treasurer 

John W. Sch bam, Detroit.

United Commercial Trawlers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba rtlett.  Flint 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K en d all,  Hillsdale 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edelm an, Saginaw

Grud Rapid! Council So. 131, D. C. T.

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  Compton;  Secretary 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan Commercial Trawlen’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Boyd  Pa n tlin d,  Grand  Rapids 
Socretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Owen 
Grand Rapids.

Taut U,  C. T.  Picnic of the  Season.

Grand  Rapids,  Aug. 

27—Saturday 
afternoon  at  JenisonviTle  will  occur the 
third  and 
last  picnic  for the  season  to 
be  given  by  Grand  Rapids  Council, 
No.  131,  United  Commercial  Travelers. 
Cars  leave  the  corner of  Canal  and Lyon 
streets  at  12  m.,  1 ¡20,  2 140 and  3 :oo 
m.  On  the  beautiful  grounds  selected 
by  the  Committee  the  following  games 
and  sports  will  take  place :

For  ladies—Egg  race,  throwing  base 

ball,  cake  walk.

For  gentlemen— Base  ball  game,  five 
innings;  captains,  Bert  Bodwell  and 
Henry  Snitzler;  running  high 
jump 
standing  broad  jump,  swimming  race, 
tub  race.  Prices  have  been  donated  by 
the  following  firms:  Lyon,  Kymer, 
Palmer  &  Co.,  Jarvis  &  Daniels,  Voigt 
Herpolsheimer  &  Co.,  Geo.  H.  Sey 
mour  &  Co.,  A.  E.  Brooks  &  Co.. 
Freeman  Mercantile  Co.  and  Olney  & 
Judson  Grocer  Co.

Arrangements  have  been  made  with 
the  hotel  to  serve  lunch,  thus  relieving 
the  ladies  of  any  work  in  preparing 
the  good  things  they  usually  do  and  for 
this,  the  last  picnic  of  the  season,  they 
are  especially  requested  to  wear  thei 
happiest  smiles  and  take  along  thei 
sweetest  dispositions.

After  lunch  is  served,  dancing  will  be 
in  order  for  all  who  wish  to  indulge. 
The  trolley  ride  will  take  about  forty 
minutes  each  way  and  will  be somewhat 
of  an  innovation  for  many.  U.  C.  T 
members  and  your  friends,  don’t  forget 
the  date,  Saturday,  Aug.  31.  JaDee

The  Boys  Behind the  Counter.

Kalamazoo—Arthur  S.  Rice,  who  has 
in  the  Imperial  Tea 
been  employed 
store  the  past  eight  years,  has  resigned 
his  position  there  to  engage  in  the floral 
business  with  his  brother,  C.  F.  Rice, 
formerly  of  this  city,  at  Minneapolis.

Marshall—Charles  R.  Joy,  who  has 
been  head  clerk  for  the  past  sixteen 
years  in  Greene’s  drug  store,  has  re­
signed  his  position,to  take effect in Sep­
tember.  Mr.  Joy  will  take  a  much 
needed  rest  for  some  time  and  will  visit 
the  Pan-American  Exposition.

Jackson— Ralph  W.  White  has 

re­
signed  his  position  with  the  Weeks 
Drug  and  Chemical  Co.,  and  will  go 
into  the  laboratory  of  Schmid  Chemical 
Co.  after a  few  days'  rest  with  his  par­
ents  at  Kalamazoo.

Sturgis— Henry  Neuman 

is  now  a 
salesman  in  the  clothing  department  of 
F.  L.  Burdick  &  Co. 's  store.

Homer—A.  B.  Lacey,  for  the  past 
four  years  in  the  employ  of F.  E.  Strong 
&  Bro.,  has  severed  his  connection with 
that  firm  to  accept  a  more  lucrative  one 
with  the  Albion  Windmill  and  Imple­
ment  Co.

Marshall— Fred  Zanger  has  taken  a 
position  with  Olin,  White  &  Olin,  Kal­
amazoo,  and  will  commence  work  Sep­
tember  i.  He  will  have  charge  of  the 
cloak  and  ready-made  suit  department.
Calumet— The  clerks  of  Calumet  were 
up  against  the  weather  proposition 
proper  Aug.  22,  the  occasion  of  their 
annual  outing.  They  made  every  ar­
rangement  for  a  pleasant  day  and  had 
planned  on  hayipg  the  most  successful

rain. 

affair  in  the  history  of  their  organiza 
tion,  while  Calumet  generally  was  look 
ing  forward  to  an  exceptionally  enjoy 
able  holiday.  The  clerks  didn’t 
things  with  the  weather  man,  however, 
and,  after  giving  the  town  respectable 
weather  for  three  weeks,  he  turned  tbfe 
clerks  down  without  a  ray  of  sunshine 
and  gave  them  as  bad  a  day  as  the  city 
has  had  for  some  time  past.  The  Com 
mittee  of  Arrangements  was  out  at  the 
park  at  5  in  the  morning  to  decorate the 
park  for the  occasion. 
It  was  raining 
then  and,  although  the  weather  man  al 
lowed  the  downpour  to  let  up  once  i 
awhile  for  a  few  moments,he  gave  the 
no  encouragement  and  about  9  o’clock 
the  Committee  gave  up  in  despair  and 
decided  to  give  up  the  idea  of  having 
any  “ doin’s”   at  the  picnic  ground 
While  the  weather  man  spoiled 
the 
picnic  features  he  could  not  do  up  the 
celebration.  About  10 ¡30  the  clerks  i 
Red  Jacket  formed  with  the  Calumet  l 
Hecla  band  at  the  head,  Joe  Adamsk 
carried  the  stars  and  stripes  and  Jos 
eph  Forster  acted  as  marshal  of  the 
parade.  Most  of  the  clerks  wore  white 
duck  caps  and  carried  umbrellas 
to 
They  marched 
keep  off  the 
through  the  streets  of  the  city  to  Laur 
um,  where  they  were  joined  by  a  dele 
gation  from  that  city.  The  parade  was 
then  resumed,  finally  winding  up  at  the 
city  hall 
in  Red  Jacket.  While  there 
was  a  large  turnout  of  clerks  there  were 
a  great  many  members  of  the  organiza 
tion  who  failed  to  put  in an appearance 
At  the  town  hall  a  small  delegation 
lis 
tened  to  the  address  of  Mayor Will  L 
Hagen,  of  Laurium.  The  speech,  which 
was  given  extemporaneously,was worthy 
of  a  much 
larger  audience,  but  those 
who  listened  to  it  showed  their appre 
ciation  of  the  efforts  of  the  speaker  by 
frequent  applause.  Mr.  Hagen  started 
out  by  taking  the  Arrangement Commit 
tee  severely  to  task  for  not  getting  next 
to  the  weather  man  and  fixing  the  cli 
matic  conditions  for  the  occasion.  He 
thought  they  had  committed  an  unpar 
donabie  sin  in  not  attending  to  this  lit 
tie  detail. 
“ I  feel  proud  to  be  able  to 
address  the  clerks  of  this city, ”  said the 
speaker,  “ and  I  am  doubly  pleased  be 
cause  it  is  the  second  time  I  have  had 
this  privilege. 
I  thought  that  after  you 
had  heard  me  once that would  have been 
sufficient,  but  it  seems  that  you  must 
have  made  up  your  minds  to  stand  it 
again  or  the  Committee  made  some 
mistake  and  asked  the  wrong  man, 
nevertheless,  I  am  glad  to  have  the 
chance  to  talk  to  you. 
I  had  hoped  to 
see  more  of  the  business  men  of  the 
ty  here  to-day ;  I had planned  on  talk- 
ng  as  much  to  the  business  men  as  to 
the  clerks.  I  wanted to  say  a  few  words 
about  the  benefits  which  you  ought  to 
derive  from  such  an  organization  as 
yours.  The  business  men  are  organized 
for  business  purposes  and  it  is  a  good 
thing  that  the  clerks  have  an  organiza­
tion  of  their  own,  which  has  social  as 
well  as  other  objects.’ ’  During  the 
afternoon  the  Calumet  and  Hecla  band 
played  a  choice  concert  at  the town hall, 
which  was  listened  to  by  a  large  audi­
In  the  evening  the  town  hall  was 
ence. 
into  a  dancing  room  and  the 
turned 
clerks,  their  wives,  and 
sweethearts 
spent  several  hours  in  a  social  way.

Uncongenial Surroundings.

Mr.  Ferguson— Did  you  have  a  good 

time  at  Mrs.  Highmore’s  tea,  Laura?

Mrs.  Ferguson—No;  I  was  miserably 

lonesome.

Mr.  Ferguson— Lonesome?
Mrs.  Ferguson—Y es;  1  was  the  only 
woman  there  who  hadn't  been  having 
trouble  with  her  help.

Thistledown  Im ported  for Use  Instead  of 
From the Philadelphia Public Ledger.

Silk  Fibre.

A  crowd  of  youngsters  were  passing 
over  a  broad,  open  field  in  Fairmount 
Park  the  other  day,  evidently  making 
their  way  toward  one  of  the  swimming 
resorts  not  far from  Belmont  Mansion. 
One  of  the  lads,  with  the  exclamation, 
“ I  wonder  if  my  mother  wants  me,”  
stooped  and  plucked  a  thistle—one  of 
the  common  kind,  with  a  small,  white, 
silky  ball  on  a  rubber-like  stem.  His 
action  was  imitated  by  the  other  mem­
bers  of  the  crowd,  and  soon  ail  were 
blowing  the  cottonlike  fibre  from  the 
stem.

in 

Some  succeeded 

in  ridding  the  stem 
completely,  but  others, 
including  the 
aforementioned  youngster,  being  de­
ficient 
lung  power,  or owing  to  the 
tenacity  of the  fibre  on  their  particular 
stems,  were  not  so  successful.  The ring­
leader,  for  so  he  seemed  to  be,  with  the 
semblance  of  a  frown  upon  his  brow, 
exclaimed,-  as  he  continued  upon  his 
way,  “ She  does,  but  I'm  not  going.”  
The  youngsters  whose  mothers  did  not 
want  them,  according  to  the  prophecy 
of  the  thistle,  were  evidently  much  re­
lieved  by  the  knowledge  that  had  come 
to them,  while  the  others  for  a  moment 
knew  not  whether to  turn  back  or  keep 
on  their  way.  The  temptation  of  a 
plunge  into  the  cool  flowing  waters  was 
evidently  too  much for them,  as  they  all 
ran  down  the  hill  in  the  direction of  the 
pool.  All  seemed  thoroughly  to  believe 
what  the  prophecy  of  the  thistle  told 
them.

silky-like 

It  is  a  weed,  but 

Nearly  everybody  at  one  time  or  an­
other  in  passing  through  meadows  or 
fields  has  had  his  or her attention drawn 
to  this  thistle,  but  very  few  persons 
is  and  the  purposes  to 
know  what  it 
like 
which  it  is  put. 
many  other small  and  seemingly 
insig­
nificant  things,  it  emphasizes  the  say- 
ng  that  “ there  is  some  valuable  use  for 
everything  that  grows.”   The  real  name 
of  this  weed  is  said  to  be  “ kapok.”   Its 
original  home 
is  in  the  Eastern  coun 
tries,  particularly  Asia.  There  fences 
are  built 
in  the  open  fields  where  the 
thistle  grows  wild,  so  that  the  wind  can 
blow  the  cottony  or 
fibre 
gainst  them,  from  which  it  is  gathered 
In  this  country,  it 
and  sent  to  market. 
s  curious  to  note,  there 
is  a  law  in 
some  states  against  the  cultivation  of 
this  thistle.  Authorities  on  the  subject 
say  that  if  this  were  not  the  case,  and 
f  any  one  started  to  cultivate  it  to  any 
extent,  the  time  would  soon  arrive  when 
farmers  would  be  compelled  to  take  ac 
've measures  to get  rid  of  it.  The  wind 
carries  the  seeds  for  miles,  depositing 
them  on  the  way,  and  within  a  com par 
atively  short  time  they  take  root  and 
pring  up,  spreading  over  whole  fields. 
The  spread  of  the  weed, unless  watched, 
said  to  be  so  rapid  as  to baffle  all 
attempts  to  rid  the  ground  of  it. 
It  is 
of  a  hardy  family  of  weeds,  and  smoth­
ers  ta  death  weaker  and  perhaps  more 
valuable  plants  growing  near  it.

silk  goods. 

Some of  the  uses  of  the  silky  material 
secured  from  this  source,  and  which 
is 
now  coming  into  this  country  from  the 
Eastern  countries, 
through  European 
ports,  are  hid,  or,  rather,  kept  a  secret 
}y  manufacturers. 
It  is  known,  how­
ever,  that  much  of  it  is  used  in  mixing 
It  makes  a  very  strong 
yarn  when  rolled. 
It  is  also  used  as  a 
stuffing,  for  pillows,  cushions,  etc.  A 
is  imported  into 
considerable  quantity 
the  United  States  annually 
in  tight, 
ron-bound  bales  of  from  250  to  300 
pounds. 
Its  competition  with  cotton  is 
now  being  felt  by  the  Southern  growers. 
Most  of  it  comes  in  duty  free  or  under 

petition  with  cotton 

very  small  tax.
Another  thistle  of the  hemp  and  flax 
mily  which  is  coming  into  close  com­
is  known  as 
ramie,”   called  also  reha,  rhea  grass, 
China  grass  and  grass  cloth plant.  Hun­
dreds  of  tons  are  now  imported  annual- 
Its 
competition  with  flax  is  said  to  be  be­
coming  almost  as  serious  as  with  cot­
Its  home  is  in China  and  the  East 
ton. 
Indies. 
It  is  a  perennial  shrubbery  of 
the  nettle  family,-having  numerous  rod­
like  stems  from  four to  six  feet  high.  It 
has  large  heart-shaped  leaves  of  silvery

most  of  it  under  light  duties. 

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white  beneath. 
It  is  now  being'culti- 
vated  quite  extensively  in  the  West  In­
dies,  and  even 
in  some  parts  of  the 
southern  section  of  the  United  States. 
The  fibre  yielded  by  the  stem  of  the 
plant  is  coming  into use for almost every 
purpose  heretofore  served  by  cotton.

Abandons  Soap  to Take  Up  Cigars.
Jackson,  Aug.  27— I  have  handed 

in 
my  resignation  to  the  Central  City  Soap 
Co.,  which  has  been  accepted,  and  Mr. 
Bellamey,  of  Bay  City,  who  has  sold 
paper  for  years,  will  take  my  route  Oc­
tober  1.

' 

I  will  be 

I  have  sold  Jaxon  soap  for  thirteen 
years  and  have  been  connected  with  the 
best  house  on  earth. 
I  have  traveled 
in  Michigan  almost  twenty  years,  but  I 
have  cojne  to  a  place  in  life  where  I 
would 
like  to  spend  more  time  in  my 
home  with  my  family.  W.  B.  Burris, 
formerly  with  the  Bradley  Cigar Co.,  of 
Greenville,  has  manufactured  cigars  in 
Jackson  for  the  past  eighteen  months 
and,  wishing  to  enlarge  his  business, 
sold  me  a  one-half  interest  in  his  busi­
ness.  W.  B.  Burris  is  President  of  the 
corporation  and  your  humble  servant  is 
Secretary  and  Treasurer.  Mr.  Burris 
will  cover  his  old  territory,  beginning 
about  Oct.  1. 
in  charge  of 
the  office,  the  city  trade  and  nearby 
towns. 
F irst  A nnual  Picnic  of Bay  City  Connell.
Bay  City,  Aug.  27— Bay  Council,  No. 
51,  U.  C.  T .,  held  its  first  annual  pic­
nic  Saturday,  Aug.  24,  at  Wenona 
Beach.  A 
large  and  happy  crowd  was 
in  attendance  and  enjoyed  the  boating, 
bathing  and  hospitality  of  the  boys. 
The  wholesale  houses  of" both  Bay  City 
and  West  Bay  City  closed  their  doors 
and  both  principals  and  employes  at­
tended  the  picnic.  Games  of  various 
kinds  were  pulled  off  and  a  very  fine 
supper  was  served  by  the  Ladies’  Aux­
iliary  to  about  400  people,  whose  appe­
tites  were  sharpened  by  the invigorating 
breezes  of  Old  Saginaw  Bayv 

A.  W.  Stitt.

The  members  of  Bay  Council  have 
reason  to  feel  proud  of  the  result  of 
their  efforts.  May  we  long  remember 
the  pleasant  time  spent  and  all  meet  to 
enjoy  many  like  occasions!  Just  So.

Inside  or  Out.

Mrs.  Jumper  was 

in  bad  humor. 
Things  had  gone  wrong  with  her,  and 
she  was  about  to  give  Mr.  Jumper a 
piece  of  her  mind,  when  she  saw  the 
sky  darkening,  and 
looking  out  of  the 
window  said:

“ There’s  a  storm  coming.”
Mr.  Jumper  scratched  bis  head,  then 

pertinently  enquired:

“ Inside  or  out?”

His  One  Success.

Miss  Kulcher—Did  you  ever  go  in  for 

literature,  Mr.  Gay?

Mr.  Gay— Well—er—not  exactly,  but 
once  when  I  was  at  college  1  wrote  a 
short  story  and  got  gioo  for  it.

Miss  Kulcher—Really?  What  was  it?
Mr.  Gay— “ Dear  Father:  I’m  broke. 

Please  send  me  a  hundred.”

Riley  Sweers  has  engaged  to  cover 
Northern  Michigan for Chas.  H.  Werner 
&  Sons  Co.,  jobbers  of  crockery  and 
toys  at  Detroit.  He  has  opened  his 
sample 
in  the 
building  adjoining  the  Boughey  ware­
house  on  Cass  street.

line  at  Traverse  City 

H.  A.  Hudson, 

formerly  with  the 
Continental  Tobacco  Co.,  is  covering 
city  trade  for  the  Bradley  Cigar  Co.

Andrew  Olson  has  gone  on  the  road 

for J.  Cornwell  &  Sons,  of  Cadillac.

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central  location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Drugs—Chemicals

customer  gets  through  with  the 
cream.

M ichigan  State B oard of Pharm acy

,   _   ___ 
Term expires
•  Dec. 81,1901 
L   B.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
Hhnhy He im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
• 
Dec. si, 1903
Wir t p. Doty, Detroit - 
A. C. Schumachkb, Ann Arbor  •  Dec. si, 190« 
J ohn D. Mu ir, Grand Rapids 
Deo. 31,1906 

President, A.  C.  Schumacher,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, HEnby  He im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit

E xam ination  Sessions.

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

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association.

President—John  D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit 
Treasurer—D.  A.  Hagen s, Monroe.

Twenty  “Don’t»”  A pplicable  to  the  Soda 

Fountain.

1.  Don’t  use  extracts  and  low-priced 
syrups,  for  they  won’t  suit  your  trade 
Get  the  best  pure  fruit  juices. 

If  y

•  buy  your  syrup,  be  sure  it  is  good;  the 
best  plan,  however,  is  to  make  it  your 
self.  It  means  more  work,  but  you know 
then  that  it  is  all  right.

2.  Don’t  get  the  idea  in  your  head 
you  can  make  a  success  of  the  soda 
business  without  work,  for  you  can’t 
it.  There’s  hard  work  and  plenty  of 
and  you  can’t  get  around  it.

3.  Don’t  hire  cheap  help—a  cheap 
boy  will  drive  away  much  more  trade 
than  his  salary  amounts  to.  People  a 
as  particular  about  what  they  drink 
about  what  they  eat,  and  no  matter  how 
good 
slovenly  appearance  and  habits  the  cus 
tomer will  get  a  bad  impression.

it  may  be,  if  the  dispenser  is 

4-  Don’t  be  “ short”   with  your  ice. 
Don’t  think  you  can  get  a  drink  too 
cold,  for  that’s  what  a  soda  customer 
wants.  You  won’t  economize  by  cutting 
the 
ice  short,  for,  while  you  “ save  at 
the  spigot,  you  lose  at  the  bung. ’ ’

5. 

'  Don’t  be  slovenly—keep  every 

to  the 

thing  appertaining 
fountai_ 
spotlessly  clean  and  neat.  Don’t  slop 
over  your  soda  water—draw  the  glasses 
full,  but  don't  run  them  over.  Watch 
your  crushed 
fruit  bowls  and  keep 
them  clean;  if  you  don’t  they  will  soon 
look 
like  pig  troughs.  And  keep  the 
syrups  wiped  up  and  the  counter  clean 
and  you  won’t  be  bothered  with  flies 
Wash  your  glasses  as  soon  as  the  cus 
omers  are  through  with  them.  Keep 
plenty  of  clean  water,  clean  towels,  etc.
A  handful  of  sal  soda 
in  your  wash 
water helps  to  clean  the  glasses.

6.  Don’t  be  “ groutchy” —a  pleas 
ant  smile  and  a  kind  word  will  win  at 
the  fountain  as  well  as  everywhere  else. 
Be  as  pleasant  to  the  little  urchin  with 
the  grimy  fist  and  five  coppers  as  to  the 
aristocrat  with  the  $10 bill.  The  for 
mer’s  money  is  as  good  as  the 
latter’s, 
and 
if  you  make  a  friend  of  the  boy 
he’ll  take  a  good  report  of  you  home 
with  him.

7.  Don’t  sell  ice  cream  soda  for 

cents.  Sell  it  for  10  cents.  You can  do 
it  just  as  well  as  not.  Sell  all  ice  cream 
drinks  and  egg  drinks  for  10  cents. 
Push  your  higher priced  drinks.  Make 
them  so good  that  they  are  worth  what 
you  ask  for them,  and  they  will  sell.

8.  Don’t  fail  to  advertise.  Window 
signs  are  good—so  are  sidewalk  signs 
and  circulars,  as  well  as  “ locals”   in 
the  daily  papers.  Keep  at  it.  The  soda 
trade  has  to  be  cultivated.  Keep  the 
fact  constantly  before  the  people  that 
your drinks  are  good—none  better.

9.  Don’t  fail  to  serve  straws  with 
every  drink,  and  napkins  to  the  ladies 
and  children.  Serve  ice  water  with  all 
ice  cream  drinks,  and  put  a  piece of  ice; 
in  it  so  that  it  won’t  be  warm  when  thej

10.  Don’t allow loafing  on  soda  stools 
and  chairs. 
If  the  loafers  can’t  take  a 
hint,  tell  them  plainly  to  go.  You  can’t 
afford  to  have  people  pass  your  door  be 
cause  they  don’t  see  any  place  to  sit 
down.

11.  Don’t  run  an  ice  cream  parlor. 
You  are  in-the  drug  business,  and  your 
fountain 
line.  Get  all  you 
can  out  of  it,  but  don’t let it overshadow 
your  drug  business.

is  a  side 

12.  Don’t 

let  a  customer  wait  any 
longer  than  absolutely  necessary  to  get 
to  him,  but  if  you  are  by  yourself  at 
the  store  and  have  a  prescription  to  fill 
let  your  soda  trade  go.  You  may  lose 
more  than  the  value  of  the prescription, 
but  you  can’t  afford  to  get  the  reputa­
tion  of  neglecting  the  drug  business

13.  Don’t  fail  to  have  plenty  of 
syrups—keep  some  in  reserve  constant 
ly.  Don’t  have  to  say,  “ We  are  just 
out—will  something  else  do?”

14.  Don’t  neglect  to  keep  crushed 
in  neat  bowls  on  your counter. 
like  them  on  their  “ Sun­

fruits 
Most  people 
days, ’ ’  ice  cream  sodas,  glaces,  etc.

lemon  squeezer, 

15.  Don’t  fail  to  have  a  good  ice 
cream 
shaver, 
spoon,  etc.  They  will  more  than  pay 
for  themselves  and  will  last  for  years; 
therefore  get  good  ones.

ice 

“ short”   with 

16.  Don’t  be 

Ice 
water.  Give  any  one  a  drink  that  asks 
for  it.  A  customer  won’t  forget  where 
be  got 
it  when  he  has  a  nickel  or a 
dime  to  spend  for another  drink.

17.  Don’t  seive  alcoholic  drinks  of 
any  kind. 
If  you  are  going  to  run  _ 
saloon  get  out  of  the  drug  business. 
You  may  think  you  are  “ working 
it 
smooth,”   but  the  public  will  disown 
you  and  you  will  lose  your  best  trade

18.  Don’t  appear  behind  the  soda 
bar  in  shirt  sleeves  or street  coat.  Wear 
white  jackets  or  vests  and  keep  them 
clean.

19.  Don’t  have  things  too  bare  about 

the  fountain.  Have  plenty  of  flowers 
cut  flowers  if  you  can  get  them—and 
potted  plants,  such  as  ferns,  etc.,  nice 
glasses,  neatly  displayed,  neat  cards, 
etc.

20.  Don't  think  the  soda  business  is 
small  thing. 
It  will  be  if  you  neglect

it,  but  if  you  attend  to  it  right 
bonanza.— M.  K.  Barber  in  Bulletin  of 
Pharmacy.

it’s 

Danger  From   Potassium   Chlorate. 

From the Western Druggist.

The  explosion  which 
*n ,  vj ew 
recked  the  Tarrant  Building  the  con­
clusions  of  ^  Berthelot, 
the  eminent 
French  chemist,  will  be  of  interest.  He 
states  that  while  the 
salt  does  not 
detonate  under  the  influence  of  pro­
gressive  heating,  it  does  detonate 
if 
placed  quickly  in  an  enclosure  raised 
previously  to  and  kept  at  a  temperature 
essentially  higher than  that  of  the  com­
mencing  decomposition. 
It  is  also nec­
essary  that  the  mass  of  matter  compos­
ing  the  enclosure  shall  be  so  large  that 
the 
introduction  of  the  quantity  of de­
composable  matter at  the  ordinary  tem­
perature  may  not  suffice  to  lower  mate­
rially  the  general  temperature  within, 
these  are  precisely  the  conditions  pre- 
vailmg  in  fires. 
It  also  detonates  more 
readily when heated in a bydrocarbonated 
flame,  a  fact  observed  by  Colonel  Ford, 
chief  inspector  of  explosives  in  Eng­
land,  in  the  explosion  of  156  tons  of 
jotassium 
in  St.  Helens, 
England.  The  presence  of combustible 
material  facilitates  the  explosion,  the 
burning  casks  in  that  explosion  bavins 
served  to  ignite  the  combustible  gas.

chlorate 

Some  men  who  fool  with  a  bent  pin 
can  t see  the  point— but  they  feel  it  fust 
the  same. 

*

The  D rag Market,

Opium— There  is  very  little  interest 
in  this  article.  Prices  are 

manifested 
fairly  steady.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.  Competi­
tion  has  lowered  the  price  in  this  coun 
try  to  about  30c  less  than  any  other, 

Quinine—Is  fairly  steady  at  the  re­
duction  noted  last  week.  There  will  be 
a  sale  at  Amsterdam  on  the  29th  and 
prices  may  change  at  that  time 

Bismuth  Preparations— On  account  of 
lower  price  for  metal,  manufacturers 
for the  different  preparations  have  re­
duced  their  prices,

Cocaine— Owing to competition among 
manufacturers,  price  has  been  reduced 
50c  per  oz.  This  decline  is  not  war­
ranted  by  position  of cocoa  leaves, 

Menthol—On  account  of  very  small 
stocks,  it  has  been  again  advanced  50c 
per  lb.

Buchu  Leaves,  Short—Are 

in  better 

supply  and  slightly  lower.

Oil  Peppermint—There  are  contra­
dictory  reports  in  regard  to  new  crop. 
The  prices  are  very  firm.

Oil  Cedar  Leaf—Very  small  supplies 
and  high  prices  rule.  So-called  oil  of 
cedar,  different  volume  of  turpentine, 
can  be  had  at  most  any  price.

Linseed  Oil— Has  declined,  owing  to 

lower  price  of  seed  and  competition.

Compulsory  Early-Closing in England.
The  subject  of  early-closing  for  re­
tail  merchants  has  assumed  such  an  im­
portance 
in  England  that  Parliament 
has  taken 
it  up.  Some  time  ago  the 
House  of  Lords  appointed  a  committee 
to  look  over  the  matter  with  a  view  to 
passing  an  act  making  early-closing 
obligatory.  This  committee  has  just 
made 
its  report.  The  committee  held 
twelve sittings,and  examined  eighty-six 
witnesses.  Of  these  sixty-two  repre­
sented 
important  tradesmen’s  associa­
tions  in  all  parts  of  the  country.  E vi­
dence  has  convinced  the  committee  that 
earlier  closing  would  be  an  immense 
boon  to  the  shop-keeping  community, 
and  that  the  present hours are grievously 
injurious  to  health,  especially 
in  the 
case  of  women.  Under  these  circum­
stances 
town 
councils  should  be  authorized  to  pass 
provisional  orders,  making  such  regula­
tions  in  respect  to the  closing  of  shops 
as  may  seem  to  them  to  be necessary  for 
the  areas  under  their  jurisdiction,  and 
these  provisional  orders  should  be  sub­
mitted  to  Parliament  in  the  usual  man­
ner  before  acquiring  the  force  of  the 
law,

they  recommend 

that 

An  A ntidote to  Poison  Ivy*

lotions,  nature 

In  addition  to  the  aids  of  the  drug­
gists’ 
is  said  to  have 
provided  a  most  efficient  remedy  for 
poison  ivy  poisoning,  in  the  shape  of 
the  widely  spread 
flower  known  as | 
“ spotted  touch-me  not,”  or  “ Impatiens 
is  also  called  the  “ jewel I 
fulva.”  
It 
weed,’ ’ and 
is  abundant 
in  the  water 
courses  during  June  and  July,  when  the 
Rhus  toxicodendron  and  the  Rhus  ven­
enata  are  most  poisonous.  The  color 
of  the  flower of  “ spotted  touch-me-not”  
is  a  deep  orange,  and  the  spots  are  of 
reddish  brown.  The  lip  forms  a  sac, 
not  much  unlike  the  moccasin  flower, 
and  it  ends in  a  curved  spur.  The  seed 
pods  burst  if  slightly  touched  and  scat- j 
ter  the  seeds  all  around.  To  this  pe­
culiar  property  the  plant  owes  its  com­
It  is  also  called  “ noli-me-1 
mon  name. 
tangere”   and  “ N’y  touchez  pas.”   The 
remedy  is  applied  by  expressing  the 
juices  of  the  plant  and  applying  it  to 
the  skin  which  has  been  poisoned.

B anana  Syrup*

Peel  any  number  of  bananas,  cut them 
in  thin  slices,  and  put 
in  a  wide­
mouthed  bottle  of  sufficient  capacity; 
first  a 
layer  of  banana  slices,  then  a 
layer  of  sugar,  until  the  bottle  is  filled, 
having  as  much  sugar  as  banana.  Place 
the  fc>Pttle  in  a  vessel  of  cold  water,  set

it  on  the  fire,  and  when  the  water  boils 
remove  the  bottle  containing  the  ban­
anas.  Stir  the  contents  thoroughly  for 
several  minutes,  and  when  cool  press 
through  a  fine  sieve  or  coarse  linen 
cloth.  Use  as  much  of this  as  may  be 
necessary  to  give  a  good  strong  flavor.

F ru it Syrups  and  Crushed  F ruits. 

Remove  one  end  of a  suitable keg and 
perforate  the  other  with  small  holes. 
Fill  with  alternate  layers  of  fresh  ripe 
fruit  and  sugar.  As  the 
juice  of  the 
fruit  dissolves  the  sugar,  a  fine  fruit 
syrup  will  percolate  through  the  keg. 
When  dripping  ceases,  the  remaining 
“ marc”   makes  a 
fruit 
syrup.

fine  crushed 

New  York  has  three  banks  now  each 
of  which  has  a  capitalization  of  ten 
million  dollars.  No  other  city  in  the 
country  has  a  bank  with  so  large  an 
amount  of  capital,  Chicago  being  sec­
ond,  one  of  the  Chicago  banks  having  a 
capital  of  five  million dollars.  The three 
New  York  banks  and  the  Chicago  bank 
mentioned  are  each  the  result  of  con­
solidation.

The

Coming  Treatment

Have  you  a  Chronic  trouble  that  medicines 
If  you  have,  Investigate  the 

:wUII  not  reach? 
merits of

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Hundreds of cases are being cured  by  this  po- 
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all the ordinary methods.  It  Is  especially valua- 
TO«««««  of  Gout,  Rheumatism  and 
Asthsltls.  In  aU  diseases  peculiar  to  women. 
In Diabetes and Bright's  Disease it works  mlra- 
SS- 
0  other  remedy  has  earned  as  much 
praise In  the  relief  of  Neuralgic  pains, Sciatic 
and Lumbago.  Its control over  the Nervous and 
Muscular  systems  Is  supreme.  Patients  say, 
0411  at  Dr.  Ran-
Kin s office and Investigate for yourself.

Go or write to

DR,  C.  E.  RANKIN,

Powers'  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Graduate of University of Michigan and  Illinois 

School of Electro-Therapeutics

M ail Treatm 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.

Fred  Brundage 
W holesale  D ruggist

32 and 34  Western  Avenue 

Muskegon,  Mich.

School  Supplies

and 

Stationery 

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*

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

W H O L E SA L E   DRUG  PR ICE  CU R R EN T

Advanced—Menthol.
Declined—Buchu Leaves, Bismuth, Cocaine, Linseed Oil.

Acidnm

Acetlcum  ............... $  6@$
Benzolcum, German.  70®
Boracic.................... 
§
Carbolicum.............   30®
Citrlcum..................   47®
Hydrochlor 
Nltrocum...
Oxalicum...................  
l:
Phosphorium,  dll
Salicyllcum...............  5:
Sulphuricum.............  Hi
Tannlciun................  1 if
Tartaricum............
Ammonia
Aqua, 16 deg............
Aqua, 20 deg............
Carbonas.................
Chloridum...............
A niline
Black.......................  2  00® 2 28
Brown......................  80® 1 00
Red..........................  « ©   »
Yellow.....................   2  80® 3 00

Baccffi
Cubebae...........po,2B  22©  24
Junlperus................  
8
Xanthoxylum.........   1  70© 1  75
Balsam pm

6© 

Copaiba...................  w© 
fj
P e ru ....................... 
8   l m
Terabin,  Canada—   86®  61
Tolutan.................... 
*6©  B®
Cortex
Abies, Canadian...... 
Casslae.............................  
Cinchona  Flava......  
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgini........ 
Qulllala, gr’a ........... 
Sassafras....... po. 20 
Ulmus.. .po.  18, gr’d 
Extractnin

U
18
20
12
J2
Jf
16

Conium Mac............  
eo®  60
Copaiba..................   116®  i 26
Cubebæ...................i  eo® l 60
Exechthltos............  l  oo® l to
Erlgeron.................  i  io@ i 20
Gaultheria..............  i  88® l oo
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  76
Gossippii, Sem. gal.. 
«xfft  «n
Hedeoma.................  i
Junipers.................  i
La vend u la ..............
Limonis..................   i
Mentha Piper.........  i
Mentha Verid.........   l
Morrhuæ, ]gal.........   i
Myrcia....................4
OUve.........................
Plcis Liquida......
Plcls Liquida,  gal. „
Rosmarlnl...............
Rosse, ounce............e
Succinl....................
Sabina....................  90®
Santal..................... 2  76®
Sassafras.................  65®
Sinapls, ess., ounce. 
®
Tiglil......... .............  1  60®
Thyme.....................   40®
Thyme, opt..............  @
Theobromas........... 
16®
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
15®
Bichromate............  
if’
Bromide.................  6!
Carb
Chlorate., .po. i7®io
Cyanide..................
Iodide.....................  2
JJ
Potassa, Bltart, pure 
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @
Potass Nitras, opt... 
7®
Potass  Nitras.........  
6®
Prusslate.................  23®
Sulphate po............  
ie@

© 1 00 
00® 6 60

f e n s

Glycyrrhlza Glabra.  24©  26
Glycyrrhlza,  po......  28©  30
Haematox, 16 lb. box  U©  12
Haematox, is ........... 
13© 
“
Haematox, Mis.........  
Jf
Jig  
Haematox, Mis.........  
16*5  «
if
Carbonate  Preclp... 
citrate and  QuinU.. 
2 26
Citrate Soluble...... 
76
Ferrocyanldum Sol.. 
40
Solut. Chloride........ 
15
Sulphate,  com’l ......  
2
Sulphate,  com’l,  by 
80
bbl, per  cwt....... 
Sulphate,  pure........ 
7

Flora

Arnica.......................  
i&©  18
Anthemls...................  22©  26
Matricaria...............   30©  36

8©

nevelly............ 

Folia
Barosma..................   38©  40
Cassia Acutifol, Tin-
20©
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  26© 
Salvia officinalis,  Ms
and Ms......... ....... 
12©
CTvaUrsi...................... 
Gnmmi 
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia,2d  picked...
Acacia,3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po......... ...
Aloe, Barb. po.i8@20 
Aloe, Cape... .po. 16.
Aloe,  Socotrl.  po. 40
Ammoniac...............
Assafoetida— po. 40
Benzoinum...............
Catechu, is ..............
Catechu, Ms............
Catechu, Ms............
Camphor*..............
Euphorblum... po. 36
Galbanum...............
Gamboge............P°
Gualacum.......po. 26
Kino...........po. 10.76
Mastic  ....................
Myrrh..........-.po. 46
OPU....PO. 4.90@6.00 3 40® 3 60
Shellac........■• ••—   26®  36
Shellac, bleached.... 
40®  «
Tragacant h .............   60®  90

26

a 

Herba
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum. .oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum ....oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha VIr..oz. pkg
Rue..............oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V...oz.pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat...........
Carbonate, Pat........
Carbonate, K. ft M..
’arbonate, Jennings 
Oleum
Absinthium.............. 6
Amygdalae,  Dulc —
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8  1
Anisf.................. 
Aurantl Cortex........2  10
Bergamll...................2  “
Cajlputl...................
Caryophylli............
Cedar......................  1
Chenopadli..............
Cinnamonll...............l
Cltronella............ .

  1

Radix

Aconitum.................  20®
Althae......................  30®
Anchusa................. 
10®
Arum  po................. 
® '
Calamus..................   20®
12®
Gentlana........po. 16 
Glychrrhiza.. ,pv.  16  16®
®
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®
Inula,  po................. 
to®
Ipecac, po................3 60® ;
Iris plox.. .po. 36®38  36®
Jalapa. pr...............   26®
Maranta,  Ms...........  @
Podophyllum,  po...  22®
Rhel................  
 
76®
Rhel,  cut................. 
®  1__
Rhel, pv.................  78®  1  36
Spigelia..................   38®
Sanguinaria... po.  16 
®
Serpentarla............   40®
Senega....................  60®
Smllax, officinalis H. 
®
Smllax, M................ 
®
Scillse..............po.  36  10®
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po................. 
®
Yaleriana.Eng.po.30  @
Valeriana,  German. 
16®
Zingiber a ...............  
14®
Zingiber j.................  26®

Semen

Anisum...........po.  16  ®
Apium (graveleons).  13®
Bird, is.................... 
4®
Carui................po.  16  10®
Cardamon...............   1  26®  :
Coriandrum.,
Cannabis Satlva......   4M@  5
Cydonium...............   76®  1 00
Chenopodlum.........  
16®  16
Dipterlx Odorate__ 1 00® 
1 10
Foenlculum............
Fcenugreek, po......
L ini.......................
Llni, grd...... bbl.4
Lobelia..................
Pharlaris Canarian.
R apa......................
Sinapls  Alba......... . 
Sinapls  Nigra.........  
Spirt tns

_
11®

Frumentl, W. D. Co. 2 
Frumenfl.  D. F. R..  2
Frumentl................   1
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1
Juni peris  Co...........  1 71
Saacnarum  N. E __
Spt. Vini Galll.........   1 71_____
Vini Oporto............   1  26® 2 00
Vini Alba.................  1 26® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60® 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
®  1  60 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
@  1  26
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
76
Yellow  Re e f,   for
slate use...............
1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
Ferri Iod.................
Rhel Arom..............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Sonias.......................

®

Scillae  Co.................  @ 6 0
Tolutan...................  @  eo
Prunus  virg............   @  60

Miscellaneous 

Tinctures
Aconitum Napellls R 
60
Aconitum Napellls F 
60
Aloes....................... 
60
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
60
A rnica....................  
60
Assafcetlda.............. 
eo
A trope Belladonna.. 
60
Aurantl Cortex.......  
eo
Benzoin................... 
eo
Benzoin Co.............. 
eo
Barosma..................  
eo
Cantharldes............  
76
Capsicum................  
eo
Cardamon...............  
75
Cardamon Co..........  
75
Castor.....................  
j  00
Catechu]................... 
60
Cinchona................. 
60
Cinchona Co............  
60
Columba................. 
60
Cubebae.................... 
60
Cassia Acutifol........ 
60
Cassia Acutifol Co... 
60
Digitalis................... 
60
Ergot....................... 
60
Ferri  Chloridum.... 
36
Gentian................... 
60
Gentian Co.............. 
60
Gulaca.....................  
60
Gulaca ammon........ 
60
Hyoscyamus............  
60
Iodine  .................... 
76
Iodine, colorless......  
75
K ino.......................  
60
Lobelia „ ................. 
60
Myrrh.....................  
60
Nux Vomica............  
60
Opll.......................... 
76
Opii, comphorated.. 
60
Opll, deodorized...... 
1  60
Quassia................... 
60
................... 
6n
Rhel......................... 
60
Sanguinaria........... . 
60
Serpentarla........... 
60
Stramonium............  
60
Tolutan................... 
6n
Valerian................. 
60
Veratrum  Verlde... 
60
Zingiber..................  
2q
Afther, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  36
•dither, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2M@ 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto...................   40®  60
Antlmonl, po........... 
4® 
6
Antimoui et Potass T  40®  60
Antlpyrln...............   @  26
Antliebrin..............  @  20
Argenti Nitras, oz...  @  60
Arsenicum.............. 
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
Bismuth 8. N...........  1  66®  1 70
Calcium Chlor., is... 
@ 
9
@  10
Calcium Chlor., Ms.. 
Calcium Chlor., Ms..  @  12
@  80
Cantharldes, Rus.po 
@  16
Capsid Fructus, af.. 
@  15
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
Capsid Fructus B,po 
®  16
Caryophyllus..po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
60®  66
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  36
Centraria.................  @ 
10
Cetaceum.................  @  46
Chloroform............   66®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1 10
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1 65
Chondrus................   20®  26
Cinchonldlne.P. & W 
38® 48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®
Cocaine..................   6 05® 6 25
Cörks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
70
Creosotum...............   @  35
Creta........... bbl. 76 
2
@ 
Creta, prep..............  @ 
6
Creta, preclp........... 
9® 
11
Creta, Rubra...........  @ 
9
Crocus....................  28®  30
®  24
Cudbear..................  
Cuprl  Sulph............   6M® 
8
7® 
Dextrine................. 
10
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all numbers. 
® 
8
Emery, po...............   @ 
6
E rgota.........po. 90  86®  90
Flake  White........... 
12®  16
Galla.......................   @  23
8® 
Gambler................. 
9
®  60
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
36®  60
Gelatin, French......  
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
11®  13
Glue,  white............   16®  26
Glycerlna.................  17M®  26
®  25
Grana Paradlsl........ 
Humulus.................  26®  66
®  1  00 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  90
® 1  10 
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
Hydrarg Ammonlati  @ 1  20 
Hy drargU nguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum.........  @  86
IchthyoDolla, Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................   76®  l  00
Iodine,  Resubi........  3 40® 3 60
Iodoform................   3 60® 3 86
Lupulln.
Lycopodium...........-.
M ads......................
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............
LiquorPotassArslnlt 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl

®
Si

Menthol..................   @ 5  eo
Morphia, 8., P. & w .  2 06® 2 30 
Morphia, 8..N.Y. Q.  1 95® 2 20
Morphia, Mai...........1  96® 2 20
Moschus  Canton....  @  40
Myrlstlca, No. l ......   66®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................   36®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. ft P.
D  Co....................  @  1  00
Plcls Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz.................. 
@200
®  1  00
Plcls Llq., quarts__ 
Plcls Liq.,  pints......  
®  86
Pll Hydrarg. ..po.  80  @ 
eo
is
Piper  Nigra...po. 22 
® 
Piper  A lba....po.36  @  30
Pllx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumbl Acet............  
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opll  1  30®  1  60 
Pyre thrum, boxes H. 
ft P. D. Co., doz...  @  76
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
26®  30
QuasslaB..................  
8® 
10
Quinta, S. P. ft  W... 
32®  42
Quinta, S.  German..  32®  42
Quinta, N. Y............   32®  42
Rubia Tlnctorum__ 
14
Saccharum Lactls pv  18®  20
Salacln....................  4 eo® 4 75
Sanguis  Draconls...  40®  eo
Sapo, W................... 
12® 
14
io@ 
SapoM ..,................ 
12
Sapo  G....................  @ 
15

12® 

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

Seldlltz Mixture......  20®  22
Sinapls... 
is
SlnaDls,  opt............   @  30
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................   @  41
Snuff, Scotch, DeVo’s  @  41
Soda, Boras............. 
g@  n
Soda,  Boras, po......  
9® 
11
23®  26
Soda et Potass Tart. 
Soda,  Carb..............  m e  
2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........  
3® 
5
Soda,  Ash...............   3M@ 
4
Soda, Sulphas.........   @ 
2
Spts. Cologne...........  @ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........ 
60®  66
Spts. Myrcia Dom... 
® 2 00
Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.  @ 
Spts. Vini Rect. Mbbl  @
Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal  @
Spts. Vini Rect. 6 gal  @ 
Strychnia, Crystal...  80®  1  06
Sulphur,  Sub!.........   2M@ 
4
Sulphur, Roll...........  2M@  3M
Tamarinds.............. 
s® 
10
Terebenth  Venice... 
28®  30
Theobromae.............  60®  66
Vanilla....................9 00@16 00
Zind Sulph............. 
8

7® 

Oils

. 

__  
Whale, winter.........  
70 
Lard, extra..............  60 
Lard, No. 1..............  45 

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
eo

2 7

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

68
59
60
46
Paints  B B L .  L B .
Red Venetian.........   Hi  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  1J£  2  @4 
Ochre,yellowBer...  1S£  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2M  2M@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2M  2M@3 
Vermilion,  P r i m e
is
American...............  13® 
70©  76
Vermilion, English.. 
Green,  Paris........... 
14® 
18
Green, Peninsular... 
13® 
16
Lead, red................   6M®  7
Lead,  white............   6H®  7
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’__   @  96
White, Paris, Amer.  @  1  26 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff...................... 
®  1  40
Universal Prepared.  1  io@  1  20

Tarnishes

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

H O LID A Y

GOODS

W e  wish  to  assure  our  customers  that 

we  shall  this  season  show  an  even  more 

complete  line  of  Holiday  Goods  than  last 

year.  Our  Mr.  Dudley  will  call  and  dis­

play samples  as  soon  as  the  new  lines  are 

complete.  Our  customers  can  place  their 

entire  orders  with  us  this  season  at  one 

time 

if  they  wish,  saving  the  time  and 

trouble  of  looking  over  several  smaller 

lines.

H azeltine  &  Perkins 

D rug  Co.,

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

28

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED
Galvanived  Tubs 
Sisal  Rope  . 
B utterlne

DECLINED

Canned  Corned  Beef 
Canned  Roast  Beef 
California  Hams

Straw berries

Standard.................
l 00 
Fancy......................
l  25
Succotash
Fair..........................
90 ¡
Good.......................
1  00  I 
Fancy......................
1  20
Tomatoes
F air.........................
90
Good........................
95
Fancy......................
1 05
Gallons....................
2 75
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints__ : ........... 2 00
Columbia, X pints............... 1  25

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

Choice.. 
Fancy..

Choice..

Mexican

Guatem ala

Ja v a

African.
Fancy African.....................17
O. G .....................................25
P- G...................................... 29

Mocha

Arabian............................  

  21

Package 

New York Basis.

E xtract

Arbuokle............................ iovs
Dllworth.............................iox
Jersey.................................iox
Lion....................................iox
M cLaughlin's XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.

Eocene.......................   @10X
Perfection..................   @  9U
Diamond White.........   @ 8X
D. S. Gasoline...-.......  @12W
Deodorized Naphtha..  @10X
Cylinder.......................29  @34
Engine.......................... 19  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @10X
CHEESE
Acme.......................
®10X
Amboy....................
a u x
Carson City.............
@11
Elsie.........................
@11
Emblem..................
@UX
Gem.........................
@12
Gold Medal..............
@11
Ideal......................
@11
Jersey......................
@11
Riverside.................
@11X
Brick.......................
14@15
Edam......................
@90
Leiden....................
@17
13@14
Limburger...............  
50@75
Pineapple................ 
Sap  Sago................. 
19@20
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce 
 
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
Black Jack
Largest Gum  Made.........
Sen Sen  ,...........................
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..
Sugar  Loaf.......................
Yucatan............................
Bulk..................................
Red................................. 7
....................  . 
.....  
Eagle.
Franck’s .............................   6X I  ^an  ma,le to represent any
Sehener’s .............................  6 

Valley City X  gross............
Felix X gross........................1
Hummers foil X gross........
Hummel’s tin X gross........1
CONDENSED  M ILK 
Gall Borden Eagle.............. 6
Crown.................................. e
Daisy....................................'5
Champion............................4
Magnolia............................. 4
Challenge............................ 4
Dime....................................3
Leader................................^3

50 books, any  denom...  1 
100 books, any  denom...  2 
500books,any  denom...  11 
1,000books,any  denom...  20 „  
„   Above quotations arefor either 
l  00  Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
55 I or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
55
customer receives  specially 
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Coupon  Pass  Books

COUPON  BOOKS 

4 doz In case.

CHICORY

56
60

Soda

Oyster

B u tter

COCOA

Runkel Bros.

CRACKERS

Credit Checks

CHOCOLATE 

COFFEE 
Roasted

COCOA SHELLS 

CLOTHES  LINES

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

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.............    96
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, x s  .......................   35
Colonial. Xs.........................  33
42
..........  45
Van Houten, Xs..................   12
Van Houten, Xs..................  20
Van Houten, Xs..................  38
Van Houten,  is..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Xs.  ........................  41
Wilbur, x s ...........................  42
20 lb. bags
Less quantity 
Pound packages

I denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................   1
100  books.......................   2
600  books.......................   11
1.000  books.......................   20
500, any one denom.. ....  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................ 
ex
New York.........................  6X
Family.............................   6h
ex
Salted......  .......................  
ex
Wolverine....................... 
Soda  XXX....................... 
ex
Soda, City.........................  8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette... 
.................  13
F a u st.............................  
714
Farina......... 
-
Extra Farina.................... 
gy.
Sal tine Oyster................... 
ex
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals...-.......................  10
Assorted  Cake................’  10
Belle Rose......................... 
g
Bent’s Water.................... 
ie
Cinnamon Bar...................  9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake, Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons.......   18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells......................... 
ie
Creams, Iced....................  8
Cream Crisp.....................    xox
Cubans.............................   u u
Currant Fruit...................... 12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream.................  9
8
6X
_____   10X
Grandma Cakes................  9
Graham Crackers............   8
Graham  Wafers................  12
Grand Rapids  Tea........... 
ie
Honey Fingers.................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey...............   12
Lady Fingers....................   12
.... 12
16
______ ________   16
Mocha & Java Blend...........23
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Fancy Maricaibo.................isx
Marshmallow Walnuts__  16
Javo Blend.......................... 1714
Mary Ann...........................  
8
Golden Santos...................... 17
Mixed Picnic......................   n u
Ja-Mo-Ka............................1514
7x
MEk Biscuit...................... 
Excelsior Blend..................."1414
Molasses  Cake.................... 
g
No. 55 Blend......................... 14
Molasses Bar......................  
9
Moss Jelly Bar...................  12X
Common........“ ° ...............10x  [ N e w t o n ^ ' . ' . . ' . ' ' . g
Fair
u  
I Oatmeal Crackers
Choice............................ 
'13
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
15
Fancy....................  
 
Orange Crisp....................   9
Santos
Orange Gem......................  9
Common........................  
11
Penny Cake......................  8
F a ir....................................l u
7x
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
Choice....................................
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8X
Fancy.................................. .
PMiWrV............................. ÌI 
sx
Pretzels, hand  made........  
Peaberry..-........ ................ 13 
| Scotch Cookies..................  9
, Sears’ Lunch................... 
744
F air.,
I Sugar Cake......................   8~
12 
Cbpfpp
I Sugar Cream, XXX........   8
16 

Special Combination.......... 15
French Breakfast...............17X
Lenox, Mocha & Java........ 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwinell-Wright  Co.’s Brands
White House, 60-ls..............29
White House, 30-2s..............28
Excelsior M. & J„ 60-ls.. 
. .21X
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s.......20X
Royal Java...........................26X

fc^ocha..................26X I Lemon Snaps 
Mocha...................28X I Lemon Wafers
— a;- - •;............22X  Marshmallow..

HIGH GRADE.
Coffees

M aracaibo

BUTTER  COLOR

Stove
No. 3........................
No. 2................................... 1  io
No. 1.................................... 1 75
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size__  1  25
W., R. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s ................12
Electric Light, 16s......... 
Paraffine, 6s........................10k
Paraffine, 128.......................11
Wlcklng 
................29

CANDLES

i2>4

Cora

Beans

80
85
96
22
19
15
11

F rench  Peas

Gooseberries

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

CANNED  GOODS 

90
85
1  85
3 40
2 35
175
2 so
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 so
is® 20

...... 
Apples
3 lb. Standards........
1  00 
Gallons, standards..
3 25
Standards................
80
Baked......................  1  oo@i  so
Red  Kidney............. 
75@  85
String...................... 
go
Wax......................... 
85
B lueberries
Standard.................... 
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
1
Little Neck. 2 lb......  
1
Burnham’s, % pint...........  1
Burnham’s, pints..............  3
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20
Cherries
Red  Standards.........
White........................
Fair.......................... 
Good........................ 
Fancy...................... 
Sur Extra Fine................. 
Extra  Fine.......................  
Fine................................... ' 
Moyen............................... 
Standard................  
H om iny
Standard.................. 
Lobster
Star, X lb................. 
Star, 1  lb.................  
Picnic Tails.............. 
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 2 lb........... 
Soused, 1 lb.............. 
Soused, 2 lb............  
Tomato, 1 lb............. 
Tomato, 21b ............  
M ushrooms
Hotels............................ 
Buttons....................  
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................  
85
Cove, 21b........................ 
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie...........................
Yellow......................   1 65@1  85
Pears
Standard........................ 
Fancy.............................  
Marrowfat....................  
Early June..................... 
Early June  Sifted.. 
Pineapple
Grated......................   1 25@2 75
Sliced. .......................  1 35@2 56
Pum pkin
F air.........................  
70
Good........................ 
75
Fancy...................... 
85
Raspberries 
Standard..................
I  15
Russian  Cavier
X lb. cans..............................   3 75
X lb, cans..............................   7 00
1 lb. can................................  12 00
Columbia River, tails 
@1  85
Columbia River, flats 
@2 03
Red Alaska..............  1 30@i 40
Pink Alaska............  1  io@i  25
Shrim ps
Standard.................
I  50
Sardines
Domestic, Xs...........
Domestic, X s.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, x s .........
California Xs..........
French, x s..............
French, Xs............ .

8
7
11@14
17@24
7@14

1 00
1 25
1 00
1 00
1 60

Salmon

22@25

Peas

1 55

95

 

Sugar Squares...................  8
Sultanas......................... 
13
Tuttl Frutti....................... 
ie
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. 
30
Bulk In sacks..........................'29
D RIED   FRUITS 
Sundried........................ 
e*g
Evaporated, 501b. boxes.’  @8 
California F ru its

Apples

i B E t e - r " : : : :   80 **
Nectarines.................
Peaches.................... .  8  @20
Pears.......................... 714
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
California Prunes
100-120 25 lb. boxes........■  @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4v;
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........  @  *
70 - 80 25lb.boxes........  @
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes........  @ 6X
50-60 25 lb. boxes........  @ 7u
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @ 8X
30-40 26 lb. boxes........

X cent less In 50 lb. cases 

Citron

»

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn........................... 
Corsican..............................!..*!. 12
California, 1 lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package........12
Imported, bulk.................... n u
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 18 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.  iox 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. iox 
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, X  lb....  6X
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package........

2  15
7
7X
8
8X

Raisins

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima................. 
7
Medium Hand Picked........2 75
Brown Holland...................  210
Cream of Cereal....................  90
Graln-O, small. . . , ...............‘ .*'1 35
Graln-O, large......................    25
Grape Nuts....................... 
135
Postum Cereal, small..........'1  35
Postum Cereal, large.........  2 25
241 lb. packages.................. 
1 13
Bulk,per looibs...................... .9 25
_ 
Flake, 50 lb. sack...... ^____   90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl......................3 80
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................1 go
Maccaroni  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box........ 
eo
Imported. 25 lb. box.............2 50
P earl  B arley
Common...............................  2 40
Chester..........................  
Empire..................................."3  40

H om iny

F arin a

2 90

___ 
Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Grits

Peas

Rolled  Oats........

2 «>. packages..................2 00
ÍSS Í’Í®*8-,.........................*00
5 70
200 lb. barrels.............. 
1001b. bags.......................... . 90
_ 
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........1  30
Green, Scotch, bu........... 
1  50
Spilt,  lb......   .......... 
2?4
Rolled Avena, bbl................ 5 50
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks....  2 75
Monarch, bbl..................   5 25
Monarch, x  bbl...................'2 80
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks....  2 55
Quaker, cases..................... [3 20
East India..........................  2X
German, sacks.................... 3V
German, broken package..  4 
_   . 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks...........  4x
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages...... 6
„  
Cracked, bulk......................  sx
°4 2 lb. packages...............Ü2 50
f l a v o r in g   e x t r a c t s

Tapioca

w h eat

Sago

FOOTE A JEN K S’

JAXON

„Highest  Grade  E xtracts
Lemon

Vanilla 

1 oz full m .120  1 oz full m.  so
2 oz full m  2  10  2 oz full m  l  25 
No.sfan’y.s  15  No.sfan’y .i 75

Index to  M arkets

B y Columns

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................  15
Alabastlne............................  1
Ammonia..............................   1
Axle Grease..........................  
l

B

C

Baking Powder...................... 
i
Bath  Brick............................ 
i
l
Bluing.................................... 
Brooms..................................  
l
Brushes................................. 
l
Butter Color..........................   2
Candies.................................   14
Candles..................................  2
Canned Goods.......................  2
Catsup...................................   3
Carbon Oils.........................   3
Cheese....................................  3
Chewing Gum.......................   3
Chicory..................................  3
Chocolate...............................  3
Clothes Lines.........................  3
Cocoa............. ......................   3
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   4
Crackers...............................   4
Cream T artar.......................   5
Dried  Fruits.........................  5

D
F

G
H

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

H

I
J
L

Grains and Flour ..'..............   6
Herbs....................................  6
Hides and Pelts.....................  13
Indigo......................................  6
Je lly ......................................  6
Lamp Burners........................  i=>
Lamp Chimneys.....................  15
Lanterns.................................  15
Lantern  Globes......................  15
Licorice..................................   7
Lye....................................... 
 
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard..................................   7
Nuts........................................  14
OH Cans.................................   15
Olives.....................................   7
Oyster Fails............................  7
Paper Bags...........................   7
Paris  Green..........................   7
Pickles...................'...............  7
Pipes.....................................   7
Potash..................................     7
Provisions..-.......................   7
R ice.......................................  8

N
O

R

7

S

Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda.................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut............................  9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   9
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices.............._..................9
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar.....................................  10
Syrups...................................  9

Table  Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   ll
Tobacco................................   11
Twine....................................  12

Vinegar................................   12

Washing Powder..............  
12
Wlcklng.................;.............   13
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13

Yeast Cake............................

T

V
W

Y

AXLE GREASE 
doz.
Aurora........................55
Castor  Oil................... 60
Diamond.....................so
Frazer’s ...................... 75
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75

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

X 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

X lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
X 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 30
1 lb., 2 doz. case...................... [4 00
5 lb.,  1 doz. case........................9 00

Royal

10c size__  90
X lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
Vi  lb. cans 2 50 
% lb. cans  3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4 80 
31b. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

BATH  BRICK
American.....................  
70
English................................  go

BLUING

Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross 6 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

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

BROOMS

2 50
No. 1 Carpet................... 
'2  15
No. 2 Carpet................... 
No. 3 Carpet...............  
1  85
No. 4 Carpet.................
'2  40
Parlor  Gem................... 
Common Whisk......  
35
Fancy Whisk............... 
1  10
Warehouse......................Ills 25
BRUSHES

 

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 In............ 
45
Solid Back, 11 in ........... 
‘  qB
Pointed Ends...................... ”   35
_ 
No. 8.......................................... 1 00
No. 7.
.1  3o
1  70
No. 4 ............ ........ 
no. 3.........................:::::Î90

Shoe

6

[fÖOTC&JCNnll

Vanilla

2°2 ^ n e l..ia #   2 oz panel.  75
3 oz taper..2 00  4 oz taper..1  50

Lemon

GPAND PAPtDS. MICH.

1J. C. Lemon
2 OZ............ 
76
3 OZ............  1  00
6 OZ.............  2 00
No. 4 T 
.  1  52

U. C. Vanilla
2 oz.........  i  24
3 oz.........  1  60
4 OZ.........  2  00
No. 3 T...  2 08

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 76c. 

O u r   T r o p ic a l.

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

Standard.

J X Y   P A P E R

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

Beef

Pork

FRESH  MEATS 
Carcass....................  6
@  8 
Forequarters.........  
5
@   6 @ 9
Hindquarters.........  8
Loins No. 3..............  10
BlbS........................  9  @12*
Bounds............... 
8  @  8*
Chucks.................... 
6  @ 5*
Plates......................  4  @ 6*
Dressed................... 
Loins....................... 
Boston Butts........... 
Shoulders................ 
Leaf  Lard...............  
M utton
Carcass...................  
7*@  9*
Lambs...................... 
9*@io
Carcass...................   8  @9
GRAINS AND  FLOUR 
i

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

@ 7
@ 9*
@ 8
@ 8*
@ 8

W heat

Veal

W inter W heat F lour 

Local Brands

Patents.............................  4 36
Second Patent..................   3 85
Straight.............................  3 66
Clear................................   3 20
Graham............................  3 30
Buckwheat....;................  4 00
Bye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dls 
count.
Flour In bbls., 26c per bbl. ad' 
dltlonal.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 34s......................  3 86
Diamond 14s.....................   3 85
Diamond 34s....................   3 86
Quaker 348.........................  3 80
Quaker *8........................   3 80
Quaker 34s........................  3  so

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Spring W heat F lour 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best 34s.........   4 40
Plllsbury’s  Best * s .........   4 33
Plllsbury’s  Best 34s.........   4  20
Plllsbury’s Best *s paper.  4 23 
Plllsbury’s Best 34s paper.  4 20 
Ball-Barn hart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial 34s.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial J4s.........  4 30
Duluth  Imperial 34s.........  4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  34s....................  4 40
Wlngold  34b....................  4 30
Wlngold  * s ....................  4  20
Ceresota 34s......................  4  40
Ceresota Ms......................  4 30
Ceresota *8......................  4 20
Laurel  34s.........................  4 40
Laurel  34s.........................  4 30
Laurel  34s.........................  4 20
Laurel 34 s and 34s paper..  4 20
Bolted...............................  2  76
Granulated.......................  2 86
Car  lots.............................  39*
Car lots, clipped...............   42
Less than car lots.............

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Meal

Oats

Feed and Mlllstuflb 

St. Car Feed, screened....  23 00
No. 1 Com and  Oats........22 60
Unbolted Corn Meal........22 00
Winter Wheat Bran.........  17 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  18 00
Screenings.........................16 00
Cora, car  lots..................   66*
No. 1 Timothy car lots....  11 00 
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  12 00 
Sage.........................................16
Hops.......................................16
Laurel Leaves......................... 16
Senna Leaves..........................26

Corn
Hay

HERBS

JELLY

INDIGO

, 
Madras, 6 lb. boxes................66
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes...... 60
61b. palls, per doz...........  190
151b. palls......................... 
3«
301b. palls............................  72
LICORICE
Pure....................................   30
Calabria....................... 
93
Sicily...................................  71
Root.............................. **"  10
„  
Condensed. 2 doz.................1  20
Condensed, 4 doz................ .2 26

LYE

M A.TC ¥¥H!fi

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur......................1 66
Anchor ra rlo r......................... 1 50
No. 2 Home...............  
‘ 1  30
Export Parlor................ ".'.4  00
Wolverine.................................i 50

MEAT  EXTRACTS

Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........  4 45
Liebig’s, 2  oz.........................  2 75

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

Fancy Open Kettle..........  
Choice..............................  
.................................. 

40
36
26

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz............ 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............ 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........... 1 75
„   , 
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs....................  1 25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs....................  1 10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs....................  1 00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
so
Queen, pints.....................  2 35
Queen, 19  o z....................  450
Queen, 28  oz.....................  7 00
Stuffed, 6 oz...................... 
go
Stuffed, 8 oz...................    145
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30

PA PER  BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.
Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
Bottom
Square
* ........ ...........  28
60
34........
.........   34
60
1........
.........   44
80
2........
.........   64
1  00
3........
.........   66
1  26
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  16
14.......
......... 2 24
4  15
16......... ......... 2 34
4 60
20.......
......... 2 52
6 00
26.........
5 50
Sugar
Red....
4U
Gray.
414

...... 

PARIS GREEN

Bulk........................................
.14
Packages, 34 lb., each........ 18
Packages, *  lb., each........ 17
Packages,  lib.,each......... 16

PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count............e 60
Half bbls, 600 count............3 76

Barrels, 2,400 count........... 8 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 4 60

Small

PIPES

Clay, No. 216........................ 1  70
Clay, T. D., full count........  66
Cob, No. 3............................  86

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
B arreled  Pork

@15 25 
@16 00 
@16 £0 
@16 25 
@18 00 
@13 00 
@16 00
9u
gu
8*

Mess....................
Back...................
Clear back...........
Short cut............
Pig......................
Bean....................
Family Mess........

Dry Salt Meats

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

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 12 lb. average.  @1114
Hams, Ulb.average.  @  11*
Hams, I61b.average.  @  11*
Hams, 201b. average.  @ 11
Ham dried  beef......   @  13*
Shoulders (N.Y. out)  @  9*
Bacon,clear.............  10*@  ilk
California ham«......  
@ 9
Boiled Hams.......... 
@ 17
@  13
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
@  8*
Mince Ham s.........  
@  9

Lards—In Tierces

Compound...............  
Pure..«....................  
Vegetole................ 
60 In. Tubs., advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
60 lb. Tins,.. advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
61b. Palls..advance 
81b. Falls., advance 

7 u
9*
7%
*
34
u
44
«
1 •
1

8

10 76
11  60 
11  60

1  66 
3 60
70
126
2 26
21
3
10
go

Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver.................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood......... .............
Tongue....................
Headcheese........
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’ Feet
34 bbls., 40 lbs.........
*  bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs.............. 
34 bbls., 40 lbs.........  
34 bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk .......................  
Beef rounds............  
Beef middles........... 
Sheep....................... 
B utterlne
Solid, dairy..............  1234a
Rolls, dairy..............  13  @
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  34s......  
Potted ham,  34s......  
Deviled ham,  34s __  
Deviled ham,  34s__  
Potted tongue,  34s.. 
Potted tongue,  34s.. 
RICE 
Domestic
Carolina head...............  
e*
s
Carolina No. 1 .........  
Carolina No. 2 .............  ‘  "*14
Broken........................ .
Japan,  No.  l ................. 534®
Japan,  No. 2................. 434a
Java, fancy head........... 
a
Java, No. 1................ 
a
Table.................................. g
Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Canned  Meats 

SALERATUS 

1634
t6
2 60
17 oo
2 60
go
90
60
90
60
90

Im ported.

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s.................... 
3  00
Dwight’s Cow......................""3  is
L.  P ............................. 
3  ¿5
Wyandotte, 100 34s...................3 00
SAL  SODA
Granulated,  bbls.................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases...  1  fo
Lump, bbls......................... 
so
Lump, 146 lb. kegs...............   86

SALT
Buckeye

100  31b. bags......................300
60  61b. bags...................... 300
2214 lb. bags......................   75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent,  dls-

Diamond Crystal 

Common  Grades

Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 76 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels,20141b.bags.2 86
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs...........  27
Butter, sacks, 66 lbs............   67
100 3 lb. sacks.......................2 26
60 6 lb. sacks.......................2  15
2810 lb. sacks..................... 2 06
661b. sacks.......................   40
281b. sacks.......................   22
66 lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   20
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60
66 lb. dairy In unen sacks.
60
66 lb. sacks..........................   26
Granulated  Fine.................  86
Medium Fine.......................   90

Solar  Rock
Common

Ashton
Hlgglx

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges  genuine........  @ 634
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank...............   @ 6
Strips or  bricks.........   634@i034
Pollock.......................   @ 3 2
Strips.......................................10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1 100 lbs......................  6  00
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 70
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
75
j No. 1  8 lbs......................  
63
Holland white hoops, bbl.  11  26 
Holland white hoops 34bbl.  6 00 
Holland white hoop, keg..  82
Holland white hoop mens.  87
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs...................  3 00
Round 40 lbs.....................   1 60
Scaled.............................  
22
Bloaters............................   1  60
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  12  26
Mess  40 lbs......................  5  20
Mess  10 lbs......................  1  88
Mess  8 lbs......................  1  13
No. 1100 lbs......................  10 eo
No. 1  40 lbs......................  4 60
No. 1  10 lbS......................  1  20
No. 1  8 lbs......................  1  00
No. 2 100 lbs......................  7  00
No. 2  40 lbs......................  3  10
86
No. 2  10 lhS...................... 
No. 2  8 lbs......................  
71

Mackerel

y t a ß j

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

50 cakes, large size...........3 25
100 cakes, large size........... 6 50
50 cakes, small size...........1  95
100 cakes, small size...........3 86
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny.............3 90
Peekin...... ..................  4 qq
Queen Anne...................   3  15
Big Bargain..............■  • •  i   76
Umpire...:.....................   2  15
German Family............ .  2 46
Dingman Soap Co. brand—
Dfngman.........................  3 86
V  K. Fairbanks brands—
Santa Claus....................  3 26
Brown..................  
04«
Fairy.........................4 00
Naptha...........................   4  00
Oak Leaf........................   3 25
Oak Leaf, big 6...............   4 00

Pels brand—
Cowans & Sons brands—

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single box.............................. uo
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 95
10 box lots, delivered......... 2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.......................  3 60
Calumet Family..............   2 70
Scotch Family.................   2 60
Cuba.................................  2 40
60 cakes.....................  j 95
Ricker’s Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme.........................  4 00
Acme 5c...........................   3 26
Marseilles........................  4 00
Master............................  3 70
Lenox..............................   3 00
Ivory, 6oz........................  4 00
Ivory. 10 oz......................  6 75
Star...................................3  00
Good Cheer.....................  3 80
Old Country.....................  3 20
Sapollo. kitchen, 3 doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz.............2 40
Boxes...................................  634
Kegs, English.......................  4X

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

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2 9

9
No. 1  No. 2 

W hite fish 
.... 7 60
.... 3 30
__   90
....  75
SEEDS

IO

P u re  Cane
F air..........................
Good.................

Fam 
3 25
1  65 Choice.........
48
42

STARCH

..  16 ‘20

*2«

Anise..................................   9
Canary, Smyrna......4
Caraway.............................   g
Cardamon, Malabar... 
'  60
Celery..................................'12
Hemp,Russian...................... 4*
Mixed Bird...................... 
434
Mustard, white....................  9
Poppy......................:.!io
R ap e.......................................  434
Cuttle Bone..............................
Handy Box,  large............   2 60
Handy Box, small............   1  26
Blxby’s Royal Polish........  
86
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85

SHOE  B L A C K IN G

8XUFF

Scotch, In bladders...............   37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In  jars......   43

SOAP

B. T. Babbit brand—

Babbit’s Best..................

Beaver Soap Co. brands

K ingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............   6X
20 l-lb. packages............... 
7
6 lb. packages...............  
7%
Kingsford’s Silver Gloss

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

7*

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages................... 
534
61b. packages................... 
5
61b. packages..................   6
40 ana 661b. boxes............   4
Barrels.............................   3^

II

No.  8........................... 
  4  46
No.  9.....................................  4 40
No. 10................................  4  35
No. 11................................  4  30
No. 12................................  4  30
NO. 13................................  4  20
No. 14................................  4  20
No. 15................................  4  20
No. 16................................  4 20

TEA
Japan

Sundrled, medium.............. 28
Sundrled, choice................. 30
Sundrled, fancy................... 40
Regular, medium.................28
Regular, choice...................30
Regular, fancy.................... 40
Basket-fired, medium..........28
Basket-fired, choice.............36
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs..................... 
;...27
Siftings...........................i«@2l
Fannings........................20@22

 

Gunpowder

Moyune, medium................26
Moyune, choice................... 35
Moyune, fancy.................... eo
Plngsuey,  medium.............. 26
Plngsuey,  choice................. 30
Plngsuey, fancy.................  40

p

i

IvM mM l

CHAS. POPE GLUCOSE CO.

CHICAGO.

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  61b......
Best Gloss Starch,  31b......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
Works;  Venice, 111.
Geneva, 111.

Best Corn Starch.................  “
Neutral Pearl Starch In bbl. ■*  ; 
Neutral Powdered Starch In bbl. 
Best Confect’rs In bbl.,thin boll. 
Best Laundry In bbl.,  thin boll. 
Chas. Pope Glucose Co.,
Chicago, 111.

Coipmon Corn

20 l-lb.  packages.............. 
h%
40 l-lb.  packages..............  434
STOVE  POLISH

Young Hyson

Oolong

Choice.............................. ...30
Fancy...................................36
Formosa, fancy...................42
Amoy, medium....................25
Amoy, choice....................... 32
Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy.................................. ..
Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy........................... :....4 2

English B reakfast

India

TOBACCO

Cigarc

American Cigar Factory brands

A. Bomers’ brand.

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

H. St P. Drug Co.’8 brands.

B. C. W.................................
Cigar Clippings, per lb.

36 00 
.  26

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice................................ 
Cassia, China In mats......  
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken.... 
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna.................  
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
Mace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  76-80....................  
Nutmegs,  10610................... 
Nutmegs, 11620.................... 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot.
ure Ground in Bulk
Allspice.............................
Cassia, Batavia.................
Cassia, Saigon...................
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African...............
Ginger, Cochin.................
Ginger,  Jamaica..............
Mace.................................
Mustard............................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne..............
Sage..................................

SYRUPS 

Corn

Barrels............................. . ..24
Half bbls.......................
...26
1 gallon cans, per doz ..
...3 60
34 gallon cans, per doz ..
...2 00
34 gallon cans, per doz..
...1  02

12
28
38
66

18
28

SUGAR

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

4 60 
7  20
12
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New York  to your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
17
on  the Invoice  for  the  amount 
14
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
66
market  In  which  be  purchases 
eo
to his shipping  point,  Including 
40
20 pounds for the  weight of the 
36
barrel.
Domino.............................  6 76
Cut Loaf............................  5 76
Crushed............................  5 75
Cubes................................  5 60
Powdered.........................  6 35
Coarse  Powdered...........   5  36
XXXX Powdered............   5 40
Standard  Granulated......   5 26
Fine Granulated................  e 25
Coarse Granulated...........  5 35
Extra Fine Granulated....  5 35
Conf.  Granulated.............  6 50
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  5  40
6 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 40
Mould A............................  6 60
Diamond  A.......................  6 25
Confectioner’s A..............  6 05
No.  1, Columbia A...........  4 90
No.  2, Windsor A............   4 86
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  4 86
No.  4, Phoenix  A............   4  »0
No.  6, Empire A..............  4 76
No.  6..................................  4 66
- 0.  7................................  4 66

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Fancy—In Palls 

M ixed Candy

Grocers....................
Competition.............
Special.....................
Conserve..................
R oyal......................
Ribbon....................
Broken....................
Opt Loaf...................
English Bock...........
Kindergarten.........
Bon Ton  Cream......
French Cream.........
Dandy Pan..............
Hand  Made  Cream
mixed. .1..............
Crystal Cream m ix..

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

©  6k 
© 7 
© 7k 
@ 8k 
©  8k 
©  9 
@ 8k 
©  9 
© 9 
©  9 
© 9 
©10 
©10
©15k
©13

12
10k
12
10
©12
©  9k
©10
© Ilk
©13k
©14
©15© 5 
© 9k 
©10 
©10 
©12
©12
©14
©12

A K R O N   STONEW ARE 

Hatters

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

Churns

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

M ilkpans

k  g&-  f.at or rd. bot, per doz............
1 gal. nac or rd. bot,, each.................
Fine  Glazsd  M ilkpans
k  gal  fiat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

S te w p a n g

k  gal- fireproof, bail, p<>r doz............
1 gal. fireproof, ball, p*»r doz.............

Jugs

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

Sealing  W ax

5 lbs. In package, per lb  ....................

LA M P  BURNERS

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

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.

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

Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.

Plug

Fine  Cnt

H. Van Tongeren’s Brand.

B. L........................................$35 oo
Gold Star...............................  35 oo
Star G reen...........................35 OO
Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojlbwa................................. 34
Forest  Giant........................34
Sweet Spray........................38
Cadillac.................................57
Sweet  Loma.........................38
Golden Top...........................26
Hiawatha..............................68
Telegram.............................. 28
Pay Car................................32
Prairie Bose......................... 48
Protection.............................38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger.................................... 38
Flat Iron..............................33
Creme de Men the................60
Stronghold........................... 39
Elmo......................................33
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross............................. 32
Palo......................................35
Kylo......................................35
Hiawatha.............................41
Battle A xe...........................36
American Eagle...................33
Standard Navy.....................36
Spear Head, 16 oz................ 44
Spear Head,  8 oz................43
Nobby Twist........................47
Jolly T ar..............................37
Old Honesty......................... 43
Toddy.,................................. 34
J. T .......................................37
Piper Heldslck.....................63
BootJack............................. 80
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32
Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core...........................36
Flat Car................................35
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath.............................. 26
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 28
Bamboo, i6oz...................... 26
I X L ,   6 lb...........................28
I XL, 30 lb...........................32
Honey Dew..........................37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman........... .................. 41
Chips.................................... 34
Kiln Dried...........................24
Duke's Mixture................... 38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist..................39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Yum, 1% oz..................40
Yum Yum, l lb. palls...........38
Cream...................................37
Com Cake, 2k oz................. 25
Com Cake, lib .....................23
Plow Boy, 1% oz...................39
Plow Boy, 3k oz................... 37'
Peerless, 3k oz.....................34
Peerless, 1H oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2k oz................... 28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls........... 31
Col. Choice, 2% oz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz...................21

Sm oking

B u tter Plates

No. 1 Oval, 250 in orate........
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........
No. 6 Oval, 250 In crate........

Egg Crates

Tubs

Mop  Sticks

Toothpicks

Clothes Pius

Humpty Dumpty............... 2
No. 1, complete...................
No. 2, complete...................
Bound head, 5 gross box__
Bound head, cartons...........
Trojan spring......................
Eclipse patent spring........
No 1 common.......................
No. 2 patent brush holder..
19 lb. cotton mop heads.......l
Ideal No. 7 ..........................
Pails
2- 
hoop Standard.1
hoop Standard.1
3- 
2- wire,  Cable....................... 1
3- wlre,  Cable.......................1
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1
Paper,  Eureka.....................2
Fibre....................................2
Hardwood........................... 2 _
Softwood...............................2 76
Banquet.................................1 60
Ideal......................................1 so
20-lnch, Standard, No. 1...... 6 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2.......5 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.......4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l..............6 50
18-lnch, Cable, No. 2..............6 00
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3..............5 00
No. 1 Fibre............................ 9 45
No. 2 Fibre............................ 7 95
No. 3 Fibre............................ 7 20
Bronze Globe......................... 2 50
Dewey...................................l 75
Double Acme......................... 2 75
Single Acme....................   2 25
Double Peerless...................  3 25
Single Peerless...................... 2 60
Northern Queen............  ..2 60
Double Duplex.......................3 00
Good Luck.............................2 75
Universal................................2 25
11 In. Butter.........................  75
13 In. Butter............................1 00
15 In. Butter............................1 75
17 in. Butter............................2 50
19 In. Butter............................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.................... 1 75
Assorted 15-17-19  ................ 2 50
W RAPPING PA PER
Common Straw.................... 
114
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4M
No.  l  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila..................  3
Butcher’s Manila.............. 
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13
Wax Butter, full count__  2o
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

2%

YEAST  CAKE

TABLE SAUCES
L E A   &  
P E R R IN S’ 
S A U C E

TW INE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W orces tershlre.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 75
Lea ft Perrin’s, small......   2 50
Halford, large...................  3 75
Halford, small...................  2 26
Salad Dressing, large. 
4 56
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75
Cotton, 3 ply........................ 16
Cotton, 4 ply........................16
Jute, 2 ply........................... 12
Hemp, 6 ply.........................12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, 1 lb. balls..................   7H
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..ll 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  . 11
Pure Cider, Bed Star...........12
Pure Cider, Boblnson......... 10
Pure Cider,  Silver............... 11
WASHING POW DER
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
N o.», per gross................... 25
No. 9, per gross...... .............35
No. 8. per gross................... 55

W ICKING

WOODENWABE

Baskets

Bushels................................  95
Bushels, wide  band............1  15
M arket................................  30
Splint, large........................4 00
Splint, medium.................. 3 50
Splint, small.......................3 00
Willow Clothes, large.........6 25
Willow Clothes, medium...  5 75 
Willow Clothes,  smsll........ 5 25

FRESH  FISH

Magic, 3 doz........................ 1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz.....................1 00
Sunlight, 1%  doz...................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz..............1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..............1 00
Yeast Foam, l k   doz...........  so
Per lb
White fish....................   ©
Trout............................   a   9
Black  Bass..................10®  11
Halibut........................   ©  14
6
Ciscoes or Herring....  © 
Bluefish........................  ©  12
Live  Lobster................  ©  20
Boiled  Lobster...........  ©  20
Cod...............................   @  10
Haddock....................  © 
7
No. 1 Pickerel..............   ©  9
Pike..............................  ©  8
Perch............................  2   5
Smoked  White...........  ©  11
Bed  Snapper................  ©  11
Col River  Salmon......   ©  12
Mackerel......................  ©  15

H ID ES  AN D   PELTS 

Hides

The Cappon ft Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No. 1............  
Green  No. 2............. 
Cured  No. l ............. 
Cured  No. 2............. 
Calfskins,green No. 1 
Calfsklns.green No. 2 
Calfsklng.cured No. 1 
Calf skins,cured No. 2 

©  6k
©  6k
@  8k
9   7k
@  9
©  7%
@10
©  8 k

Pelts
Pelts,  each..............  
Lamb................. .

Tallow

No. 1......................... 
NO. 2......................... 

W ool

Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine__ 
nwashed, medium. 
CAND IES 
Stick Candy 

50@i  00

© 4U
© 3k

15®17
18©21
H©i4
14© 16

, 

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

_ 

bbls.  palls
© 7H
© 7k
© 8
© 9
cases
© 7k
@iok
©10
© 8

Fancy—In 5 lb. Boxes

Lemon  Sours.........
©56
Peppermint Dropi.. 
©60
Chocolate Drops.... 
©65
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
©86
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............
©1 00 
Gum Drops..............
©30 
Licorice  Drops.
©75 
Lozenges,  plain...
©55 
Lozenges, printed.
©60 
Imperials..............
©60
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar............. 
©55
Molasses Bar........... 
©55
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt.............. 
©65
String Bock............. 
f i t
Wlntergreen Berries  ©60
Caramels 
© 9
Clipper, 20 lb. pails.. 
Standard, 20 lb. palls  ©10
©12k
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
@15
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
@55
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx.. 
©65
Dukes, 2 for ic pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for ic, bx 
@60
AA Cream Carls 31b 
©50
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus sett.......  
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.........  
Extra Choice...........  
Late Valencias........ 
H andling«....................... 
Medt. Sweets..........  
Jamaica»................. 
R odl.................... 
Lemons

©
©
©
©
©e 00
A
©
®
©

Verdelli, ex fey 300.. * 5 00©5 25
Verdelli, icy 3U0......   4 75@5 00
Verdelli, ex chce 300  4 50©4 75
Verdelli, fey 360......  6 25©5 so
MaioriLemons, 300..  5 75@6 00 
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1  50@2 00
Large bunches........

Foreign D ried F ru its 

Figs

Dates

©
©
@ 914
2
S
©
©
5 © 5 k
,  ©
4 k   ©  6
W

California»,  Fancy.. 
Gal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,................... 
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes..  @12
Pulled, 61b. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards in 60 lb. oases. 
Hallowi....................
lb.  cases, new.......
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds,  Ivlca......
Mmonas, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils,....................
"  iberts  .................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnut«., soft shelled 
Calif ornla No. l...
Table Nuts, fancy...
Table  Nuts, choice..
Pecan,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, now............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P., Suns..
Fancy,  H.  p.,  guns
Boasted................
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Span. 8hlld Na  i n’w

■ B
@ 11
©12k
©13k

6k ©
6 k ©

HflirtTrti

First Quality

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

XXX  F lint

No. 1 Sim, crimp top, wrapped ft lab.
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft lab.
No. 2 Sun, binge, wrapped ft 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 
Lam ps......................................

La  Bastie

No. i 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 )" " ....................

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

Electric

OIL CANS

LANTERNS

gal. tin cans with spout, per doz.... 
gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz..
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
gal. Tilting cans............................. 
gal. galv. iron  Nacefas....................  
No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  IB  Tubular................................. 
No. 15 Tubular, dasb..........................  
No.  1 Tubular, glass fountain............ 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp................... 
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................  
LANTERN GLORES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbl8 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 
1  60

3 50
4 00 
4 60

4  00 
4 60

1  35 
1  65
3 00
4 305 16 
__
4 60
6 06
7 co
9 00

476
726
7 26
7 50
13 50
3 60

45
45
2 00
125

6 26
6 50
9 25
240
25 ft  36

Glover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or Gasoline.

Glover’s Wholesale Merchandise Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers  of 

GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES

Office Stationen*

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H

Incandescent  Vapor  Gas  Lamps.  Superior  to 
electricity or carbon gas.  Cheaper than coal  oil 
lamps.  No smoke, no odor,  no  wicks,  no  trou­
ble.  Absolutely  safe.  A  20th  century  revolu­
tion in the art of lighting.  Arc  Lamps, 750  can­
dle  power,  for  indoor  or  outdoor  use.  Table 
Lamps,  100  candle  power.  Chandeliers,  Pen­
dants, Street  Lamps, etc.  Average  cost  l  cent 
•  ul  h?,u™c^Nothln?  Uke  them.  They  sell  at 
sight.  GOOD  AGENTS  WANTED.  Send  for 
catalogue and prices.

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Chicago, 111.

DepL L. 

A  Suggestion

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

Auto-Bl, $200

If you are at all  interested  and  thinking 
of taking  up the  sale  of  Automobiles  or 
Motor  Cycles—or  contemplating  buying 
~  machine for your own  use— we  extend 
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.

A D A M S  &   HART,  Grand  Rapids

Michigan  Sales Agents

P A R IS  

G R E E N  

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

100 labels, 25 cents 
200 labels, 40 cents 
500 labels, 75 cents 
1000 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.

TR A D E SM A N
C O M P A N Y ,

G R A N D   R A P I D S ,   M I C H .

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Thanks  Dorothy  Dix  For  Her Defense  of 

Women.

It 

Dorothy  Dix,  in  defense  of  women  in 
“ Are  Women  Stingy?”   says:  “ Stingy? 
N o! 
is  an  unfounded  charge. 
Women  are  careful  of  money,  they  are 
just  with 
it,  and  when  there  is  need, 
they  are  liberal.”   Thank  you,  heartily, 
Dorothy  Dix,  in  woman’s  name— in  the 
name  of  the  noble  women  all  over  the 
land,  who  have  been  from the beginning 
of  the  world,and  are  now,  making  great 
sacrifices  for  the  furthering  of  every 
good  word  and  work.  What  a  shame  to 
call  them  stingy!

The  Woman  at  Home  Magazine, 
edited  by  Annie  S.  Swan,  published  in 
London,  asks,  in  its  June  number,  the 
startling  question:  “ Are  Women  Mean 
in  Money  Matters?”   together  with  the 
answers  given  by  the  following  well- 
known  authors:  Jerome  K.  Jerome,  W. 
Pett  Ridge,  Annie  S.  Swan,  Adeline 
Sargent  and  Gertrude  Atherton.

Says Jerome  K.  Jerome  in<his  article, 
speaking  of  woman's  meanness,  of 
course 
in  money  matters:  “ Absence  of 
vice  is  their  virtue.”   Which  is  so  very 
guarded  that  one  would  know  at  once 
that  he  was  the  lazyj.  in  “ Three  Men 
in  a  Boat,”   who  always  liked to take  an 
easy  position  and  watch  others  work. 
No  doubt  it  is  owing  to  his 
liver  com­
plaint,  and  doubtless  he  means  w ell;  at 
any  rate,  we  will  be 
liberal  and  give 
him  the  benefit  of the  doubt.  Had  the 
topic  under discussion  been  “ Are  Men 
in  Money  Matters?”   and  had  I 
Mean 
been 
invited,  I  could  have  related  an 
interesting  incident  just  to  the  point,  as 
it  displays  the  vanity  as  well  as  mean­
ness  of  men  in  money  matters.  Come  to 
think,  I  will  not  wait  for an  invitation, 
as  the  topic  I  suggest  may  never  be 
brought  up  for  discussion,  but  will  pro­
ceed  at  once  with  my incident:

A  dear  friend,  newly  married,  but 
long  enough  to  have  broken 
married 
hopes,  mortified  pride  and  bitter  doubts 
take  the  place  of  trust  and  confidence, 
and  to  have  such  a  change  come  over 
her  well-trained,  liberal  nature  that  her 
servants,  her  friends  and  all  with  whom 
she  came 
in  contact  called  her  stingy. 
And  I,  even  I,  her  best  friend,  won­
dered  greatly  at  this  new  peculiarity, 
for  we  had  been  schoolmates  and  chums 
in  our girlhood,  and  I  knew  that  at  that 
time  she  was  most  generous.

One  never-to-be-forgotten  day  she and 
I  were  shopping  together,  when  her 
husband  overtook  us,  and  after  a  mo­
ment’s  polite  talk,  turned  to  her  and 
said  tenderly:  “ Lucy,  you  have  been 
so  economical  with  your  dresses,  come 
in  and  select  a  handsome  silk  now.”  
I 
thought  him  splendid,  and  was  aston­
ished  to  hear her  answer: 
‘ ‘ No,  dear, 
not  now,  I  am  very  well  off  for  dresses; 
you  are  too  kind.”

He 

looked  hurt,  although  he  turned 
to  me  and  said  laughingly:  “ You  see 
what  a  careful  little  wife  I  have.  Well, 
good-day,”   and  with  a  graceful  how  he 
was  gone.

I  was  stunned,  and  said  quickly: 
“ Lucy,  what  a  dunce  you  are;  why 
didn’t  you  go  in  and  take  the  finest  silk 
M.  has?  You  need 
it."   The  tears 
welled  up  to  her  eyes,  her  lips  trem­
bled,  and  an 
indignant  expression 
passed  over  her  face,  as  after  a  mo­
ment’s  hesitation  she  whispered:

“ Dear,  I  didn’t  dare  to!  He  did  not 
mean  a  word  of  it—he  puts on  all  this 
before  the  world— it  is  a  trick  of  h is; 
he  wants to  be  called  generous,  and  he 
wins  the  glory  of  it.  He  smiles  on  the 
street  beggar,  gives  to  every  charity, 
belongs  to  the  B — .  Club,  while  he

keeps  me  absolutely  penniless,  and 
has  from  the  first.  You  don’t  know, 
you  can’t  understand.  You  will  never 
tell,  Mollie?  Hope 
is  dead;  I  must 
bear  my  burden,  but  I  hate  the  hypo­
crite.  His  meanness  is  my  disgrace, 
and  I  must  bear  the  names  of  ‘ mean’ 
and 
'stingy'  because  he  acts  in  a  way 
before  people  to  falsify anything I might 
say.  They  would  believe  his  honeyed 
words  and  acting 
in  preference  to  the 
truth  from  my  lips,  because,  perhaps, 
the  truth  would  be  indignantly  uttered. 
I  hate  him !  There,  you  must  keep  my 
secret,  dear  friend.”

I  recall  the  hour  with 

I  kept  her  secret  many  years,  but  she 
is  gone  now,  and  1  will  tell  it  and  vin­
dicate  my  poor,  broken-hearted  Lucy. 
It  was  years  agone  that  1  bade  her  fare­
well. 
filling 
eyes.  She  talked  of  our girlhood  for  a 
time  and  at  last,  as  her  look  became 
fixed,  she  said:  “ I  am  weary  of  life— 
oh,  so  weary ;  all  my  dreams  have  been 
shadows ;  our—young— days” — and  the 
voice  grew  silent.  The 
life  blighted 
by  “ a  man’s  meanness  in  money  mat­
ters”   went  out  forever.

We 

laid  her away  on  a  bank  of  flow­

ers,  but  what  were  flowers  to  her?

This  experience  opened  my  eyes,  and 
poor  Lucy 
is  not  the  only  woman  who 
has  passed  before  the  world  as  “ mean 
in  money  matters,”   as  “ stingy,”   as 
"devoid  of  taste  in  dress,”   and  other 
things,  from  no  fault  of  theirs  and  be­
cause  of  the  meanness  of  others.

Misunderstood ;  a  living  sacrifice. 

I 
sincerely  hope  a  time  will  come  when, 
in  the  eyes  of  the  assembled  world, 
“ these  wrongs  will  all  be  righted,”  
and  “ murder will  out,”  and tardy  honor 
will  be  given  “ where  honor  is  due.”

Gertrude  Atherton  calls  our  United 
States  women,  “ American  Civiliza­
tion.”   Good!  This  man— Lucy’s  hus­
band—was  not  a  product  of  our soil. 
Gertrude  Atherton  is  sincere;  she  has 
respect  and  a  quiet  reverence  for the 
energy,  industry  and  genius  of  Ameri­
can  womanhood.  W.  Pett  Ridge  ¿ives 
us  a  mild  thrust.  Nevertheless,  as  I 
read  I  note  a  special  painstaking,  good 
feeling  growing  out  of  a  blundering 
mistake.  Annie  S. Swan  does  not  over­
look  “ that  particular  cause  for their ap­
parent stinginess  from too little money. ”  
Very  good.

Adeline  Sargent  tells  us  that:  “ Most 
acts  of  meanness  spring,  of  course, 
from  selfishness.”   This  1  can’t  believe. 
It 
is  not  a  fair conclusion.  There  are 
certain  great  women  who  have  wrought 
their  greatness  by 
learning  to  deny 
themselves for  that  superior  being— man 
—as  the  ambition  of  “ these  poor dears” 
must  not  be  molested  by  the disappoint­
ments  of 
life.  Men  are  only  good— 
some  men  I  mean— before  the  world, 
and  most  of  us  women  find  it  out  before 
“ Man’s  in­
we  get  on  very  far  in  life. 
humanity  to  man”   and  woman, 
too, 
“ makes  countless  thousands  mourn.”
A  Woman.

The  Dough That Father Made.
Why talk about the cakes and pies 
That mother made of yore,
That gladdened both your hungry eyes 
Ana filled you o’er and o’er?
You sing of doughnuts great and small 
That' in the jar were laid;
Why Is it that you ne’er recall 
The dough that father made?

The cakes and pies were well enough.
The biscuits all deserved a pun,
But still when plaudits round you sling 
And now and then In praises sing 

The doughnuts, too, were right;
They were so very light.
Let credit fair be paid,
The dough that father made.

Simplicity ItselL

“ There  are  only  two  points  in  suc­

cess. ’ ’

“ What  are  they?”
“ Work,  and  keep  other  people  from 

working  you. ’ ’

Hardware  Price  Current

A m m unition

Caps

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

Cartridges

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

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Drs. of 
Powder

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

New Blval—For Shotguns

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

Loaded  Shells 
oz. of 
Shot
1H
1H
1H
IK
1H
1H
1
1
IK
1K
1H
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
*H
4H
3
3
3*
3H
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, 12K lbs., per  %  keg..............
H kegs, 6id lbs., per H  keg...............

Gunpowder

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

Shot

... 

A ugurs and  Bits

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B...........
_ 
Snell’s .................................................
Jennings  genuine............... .
Jennings’ imitation......................,
First Quality, S. B. Bronze...
First Quality, D. B. Bronze........
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel..............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel..................
Railroad.............................................
Garden......................................I” !."net
Stove...........................................
Carriage, new li«*  .............. ...............
Plow ............................................
_  .. 
Well, plain..........................................

Barrow s

Buckets

Bolts

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

40
60
76
60

2  60 
3 00 
5  00 
5  76

1  20 
1  20

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

4 00 
2 25 
1  26

60
26
60

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

60 
$4 00

. ..  7H 
. ..  7* 
Crowbars

Kin.
6-16 In. % In.
Com.
7  c.  . ..  6  C. .. . 5 c . .
BB...
8K 
.. .  6* 
BBB.
.. .  6ÎÎ 
8* 
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer  ... 
Socket Framing.. 
Socket Corner.... 
Socket Slicks......

Chisels

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz............   net
Corrugated, per doz.......................
Adjustable........................................ ais
Expansive  Bits
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30...................'
Files—New  List
New American....................................
Nicholson’s..................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.................
NOS. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27,
List  12 
16.

Galvanized  Iron 

14 

15 

13 

Discount,  60

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

Ganges

Glass

Single Strength, by box.................... dls
Double Strength, by box................... dls
By the Light..............................dls

H am m ers

Hin.
..  4*e.
...  6
. ..  6H

75 
1  26 
408410

40
26
708410
70
70
28
17

80&20
808420
80&20

Hinges

H orse  Nails

Maydole & Co.’s, new Ust.................. dls
Yerkes & Plumb’s.............................. dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............aoc list
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3.............................dls
Hollow  W are
Pots...........................................•
Kettles................................................
Spiders................................................

33H
40&10
70
608410
508410
608410
608410
40&10
Au Sable............................................ dls 
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................  
70
Japanned Tinware..............................  
20&10
B a rlro n -;..........................................2 25  orates
Light Band.........................................   3 c rates
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings........... 
Door, porcelain, jap. trimmings......... 
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz....................... 
Warren, Galvanized  Fount................ 

Knobs—New  List

75
85
5 00
$ 00

Lanterns

Iro n

 

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

 

Rivets

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

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean...................  
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean.................... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.................... 
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
14x20IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 

Ropes

Sisal, H Inch and larger.....................  
Manilla................................................ 

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

Sand  P aper

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

2 66
266
Base
5
10
20
so
46
70
60
15
26
35
26
35
46
86

50
46

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

8
11

60

26 00

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

Levels

Adze Eye................................$17 00..dls 

Mattocks

31 eta Is—Zinc

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

31

70

66

7h
»

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages.........................................  
40
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
75
Mi
Screws, New List............................... 
Casters,  Bed and  Plate.......•..............  6084108410
Dampers, American........................... 
60

Molasses Gates

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

Pans
Fry, Acme........................... 
 
Common,  polished.............................  
Patent Planished  Iron 

 

608410
30

6O&10&10
70816

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  10  76 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  9 75

Broken packages He per pound extra.

Planes

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

so
60
so
<w

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

Nails

com. smooth,  com.
$3 60
8 60
3 70
3 80
3 90
4 00
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..................................   4  00 
Nos. 26 to 26 ..................................  4  10 
NO. 27.............................................  4  29 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz................................ 
Second Grade, Doz............................. 

8 00
7  60

Solder

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

Steel and Iron.....................................  60—10—6

Squares

Tin—Melyn Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—Allaway Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler Size Tin  Plate 

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, i ___
14x56 IX, for No.9Boilers, JPerpound.. 

Traps

W ire

Steel,  Game........................................  
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......  
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  81  Nor­
ton’s.................................................  
Mouse,  choker  per doz..................... 
Mouse, delusion, per doz.................... 
Bright Market..................................... 
Annealed  Market............................... 
Coppered Market................................ 
Tinned  Market...................................  
Coppered Spring Steel....................... 
Barbed Fence, Galvanized................. 
Barbed Fence, Painted....................... 
Bright..................................................  
Screw Eyes.........................................  
Hooks..................................................  
Gate Hooks and Eyes......................... 

W ire Goods

W renches

$10 60
10 60
12  00

9  00
9 00
10 60
10  80

is

75
408410
66
15
1  26
60
60
608410
608410
40
3  26
2 96
80
.  80
80
80

 

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine............................. 
 
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, (Wrought..70

 

 

80
so

32

COMMERCIAL  DOMINATION.

Prof.  Eduard  Suess,  of  Vienna,  an 
eminent  authority  on  business,  finance 
and  political  economy,  has  recently  ex­
pressed  great  apprehension  and  anxiety 
over  the  enormous  commercial  power 
of  the  United  States.

industries 

He  observes  the  wonderful  results  of 
the  application  of  machinery  to  the  va­
rious 
in  the  United  States 
and  the  immense  output  by  the  Ameri­
cans  of  all  the  most  necessary  agricul­
tural  products ;  that  while  the  Ameri­
cans  are  pushing  their  products  into 
they  are  able  to  live 
every  country, 
without  buying  anything  abroad. 
It  is 
this  enormous  display  of  resource  and 
of  productive  power that  is  threatening 
to  destroy  the  manufacturing  industries 
of  Europe.  The  alarmed  Professor  be­
lieves  that  it  is  necessary  that the  Euro­
pean  nations  should  join  in  a  coalition 
against  the  commercial  power  of  the 
United  States,  but  nobody  can  say  just 
how  it  is  to  be  done.

If  the  European  nations  should  agree 
not  to  buy  any  more  breadstuffs,  meats, 
dairy  products  or  other  food  articles 
from  the  United  States, 
they  would 
make  a  big  hole  in  our  trade;  but  they 
would  also  increase  to  their  own  people 
the  cost  of  every  article  of  subsistence. 
The  countries  of  Germany,  Austria, 
Italy  and  France  do  not  raise  at  home 
enough  of  provisions  to  feed  their  peo­
ple.  Sometimes  their  crops  are  larger 
or smaller,  as  the  case  may  be,  but  they 
are  never  large  enough  to  make  them 
independent  of  foreign  sources  of  sup­
ply,  and  they  must  purchase  abroad. 
Usually  they  depend  chiefly  on 
the 
United  States,  because  our  markets  are 
the  cheapest.

Then  work  people  of  most  European 
countries  can  not  afford  to  have  the  cost 
of  their  daily  bread 
increased  to  any 
considerable  extent.  Such  an  eventual­
ity,  particularly  when  general  business 
might  be  bad,  would  cause 
immense 
and  widespread  distress  and  suffering.
This  matter  of  a  commercial  coalition 
against  the  United  States  has  been  re­
peatedly  discussed 
in  Austria,  but  no 
practical  method  for  its  accomplish­
ment  has  been  devised. 
It  has  been 
suggested  that,  if  no  better  remedy  be 
available,  war  might  be  tried.  It  is  not 
likely  that  either  Great  Britain  or  Rus­
sia  would  go  into  such  a  war. 
If  they 
should  keep  out  of 
it,  British  ships 
would  continue  to  carry  American prod­
ucts,  as  the  Americans  have  none  worth 
mentioning 
in  the  foreign  trade,  and 
thus  attempts to  cripple  American  com­
merce  would  be  abortive.  As  for  Rus­
sia,  she 
is  so  fully  occupied  with  her 
own  affairs  that  she  would  be  the  last 
country 
in  the  world  to  join  a  coalition 
against  the  United  States.

Russia, 

like  the  American  Union, 
possesses  such  a  vast  extent  of  territory 
capable  of  unlimited  development,  and 
has  the  ability  to  produce  at  home  al­
most  every  article  of  necessity,  she 
would  have  no  interest  in  seeking  an 
assault  on  the  Great  Republic.  Great 
Britain  finds 
in  the  American  people 
her  very  best  customers,  and  she  has  no 
interest  in  quarreling  with  them.  The 
question,  then,  comes  u p :  What  could 
Germany,  France,  Austria  and  Italy ac­
complish  by  any  sort  of  coalition,  com­
mercial  or  military,  against  the  United 
States?

About  the  only  result  that  could  be 
hoped  for  would  be  the  utilization  of 
such  an  opportunity  to  seize  on  Central 
American  and  South American countries 
in  defiance of the Monroe doctrine.  Such 
a  consummation  might  be  worth  some­

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

thing ;  but, 
if  accomplished  at  all,  it 
would  be  at  a  heavy  cost.  The  war 
would  be  fought  on  the  sea,  and  very 
far  from  the  bases  of  supply  of  the 
European  nations,  while  the  Americans 
would  be  fighting  close  at  home.

Some  such  desperate  movement  might 
not  be  out  of  the  reach  of  possibility. 
If  the  manufacturing  industries  of  the 
Continental  European  nations  should  be 
paralyzed  by  the  successful  competition 
of  those  of  the  United  States,  those 
European  nations  would  be  forced  to  do 
something  very  decisive  for the  relief  of 
their  people,  and  it  might  take  the  form 
of  war.  There  would  be  great  activity 
in  shipbuilding,  and  in  supplying  war 
material,  and  that  would  furnish  em­
ployment  to  the  people  until  the  United 
States  should  be  crushed  or  come  out 
victorious.  Then  the  surplus  popula­
tions  of  those  countries  would  have  to 
emigrate  in  order  to  find  opportunities 
to  work  and  means  of  support.

Of  course,  the  possibility  that  matters 
will  ever  come  to  such  an  extreme  is­
sue 
is  highly  remote,  but  it  is  a  possi­
bility.  Statesmanship  demands  that,  if 
possible,  the  people  of  a  country  should 
be  kept  prosperous  by  being  employed 
at  fair  wages 
in  some  useful  line  of 
production,  and 
if  no  other  means  of 
accomplishing  this  than  by  war  can  be 
devised,  then  war  might  result.  People 
engaged  in  the  production  of  articles  of 
use  must  have  markets  in  which  to  dis­
pose  of  them.  To  create such  markets  is 
an  urgent  demand  upon  statesmanship, 
and,  if  this  can  not  be  accomplished  in 
one  way,  it  must  he  done  in  some  other.

rule,  a  tasteless,  insipid  article  which 
requires  a  considerable  appetite  before 
the  idea  of  eating  it  can  be  entertained. 
No  wonder that  the  taste  for  bread 
is 
steadily  diminishing,  and  undoubtedly 
less  bread  is  consumed  than  used  to  be 
the  case.  As  is  well  known,  bread  con­
tains  almost  every  element  of  food  nec­
essary  for  existence,  but  we  should  be 
sorry  for  the  person  who  tried  to  sub­
sist  entirely  upon  the  modern  uninter­
esting  loaf  made  from  blanched  roller 
mill  flour.

It  has  recently  been  stated  that  the 
degradation  of  the  teeth  so  noticeable 
among  us  now 
is  due  to  roller  milling 
having  largely  supplanted  stone  mill­
ing.  We  should  not  be  surprised.  The 
degradation  of  food 
is  a  very  serious 
matter  and 
is  bound  to  lead  sooner  or 
later  to  the  degradation  of  the  eater. 
could  confer  greater 
No  movement 
blessing  upon 
the  people  than  that 
which  aimed  at  bringing  about  a  return 
to  the  older  and  more  rational  methods 
of  preparing  food.  Let  us  see  more  of 
the  home-made article than  we  now  see ; 
let  us  return  to  more  palatable  food  and 
to  food  that  will  do  more  good  than  the 
machine-made  stuffs  and  the  endless 
series  of  substitutes. 
In  all  the  schools 
throughout  the  land  we  would  have  the 
children  taught  the  advantages  of home­
made  food,  and  how  dood  bread,  fruit, 
jam  or  even  beer  and  cider  can be made 
at  home.  It  would  encourage  a  spirit  of 
industry, 
it  would  give  us  palatable 
and  nourishing  articles  to  eat  or  drink, 
and  might  have  a  very  wholesome  effect 
upon  those  who  seem.deliberately  to  at­
tenuate  food as much  as possible  or  who 
pay  no  regard  to  its  naturally_ endowed 
palatability.

7

3

994

good live Central Michigan  city  of  6,500  in­

Fo r SALE—a  g e n e r a l st o r e in  a n e w
lumbering town;  an exceptionally  good  op­
portunity for a man to step right  into  an  estab­
lished business showing a good profit.  With the 
deal goes our guod will and cashing of our  labor 
and  timber  orders.  For  information  address 
W. C. Sterling & Son, Monroe, Mich. 
1 10  ACRE  FARM  CHEAP  FOR  CASH;  OR 
1  might  exchange  for  business  site.  Chas. 
Cranson, Hubbardston, Mich. 
10
A ND. i BUSINESS OPENING in  THEBEST 
city In Central  Michigan.  Wishing  to  con­
fine myself to carpets and  readymade  wear  ex­
clusively, I oiler for  sale  my  fine  stock  of  dry 
goods, which is one  of  the  best  in  the  city  of 
Flint.  This Is a fine chance for  legitimate  busi­
ness and too good a thing to remain on the  mar­
ket long.  Speculators  and  trades  not  wanted. 
Come  and  see  or  address  E.  Trump,  Flint, 
Mich. 
11
TO  EXCHANGE  OR  FOR  SALE—ONE  OF 
the best and richest 80 acre farms  in  South­
ern  Michigan  for  a  good  flour  and  feed  mill. 
13
Address Box 149, Sherwood, Mich. 
W ANTED—A  SMALL  DRUG  STOCK  IN 
good town for cash.  Address D. M. Byers, 
Fruitport, Mich.______________________ 999
Fo r  sa l e—sto ck  o f  je w e l r y ,  to o ls 
and  material  In  Michigan  county  seat  of 
6,500 inhabitants.  Invoiced  $2,500  Jan.  l.  Will 
sell  right  for  cash.  Address  Western,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.___________________ 2_
clothing, dry goods and shoes  In  one  of  the 
best towns of 1,600 population in Northern Mich­
igan.  In the midst  of  the  best  lumbering  and 
farming country.  Reason  for  selling,  sickness. 
Stock  invoices  between  $15,000  and  $16,000,  all 

Ij^OR SALE—A  GOOD  CLEAN  STOCK  OF 
tl'UR  SALE—SET  OF  MEAT  MARKET 
IriOR  SALE—BOOT AND  SHOE  STORE  IN 

1  tools,  in  good  condition.  Address  No.  l, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
1
IfO R   SALE-WELL-ESTABLISHED  MEDI- 
r   cal practice, averaging $500 per month.  Fine 
office and  equipments.  Address  Box  2320,  Bat­
tle Creek, Mich. 

new  fresh  goods.  Have  been  In  the  business 
only a year and a  half.  If  it  was  not  for  sick­
ness,  wouldn’t  sell  for  $3,000  profit.  Must  be 
sold  in  short  time.  Address  No.  3,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

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
|jV>K  SALE—GOOD  ESTABLISHED  GRO- 
P   eery business in town of 6.000;  a  bargain  for 
the right person.  Will not sell  except  to  good, 
reliable party.  For particulars address Grocery, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
983
WANTED—DRUG  STOCK,  ONE  THAT 
Invoices  from  $1,000  to  $1,500.  Address 
980
Edgar E. Tice, Blooming dale, Mich. 
A   SPLENDID  GENERAL  STORE.  HOTEL 
and livery, a great stand for business; good 
transient  trade;  number  of  steady  boarders. 
Sell or exchange  for  Al  farm.  Address  R  A. 
976
Butwell, Wlxom, Mich. 
IX)R  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  SHINGLE 
1  and tie mill in very best repair; center crank 
engine, I2xi6;  plenty boiler room;  Perkins shin­
gle mill;  bolter cut off, drag and knot  saws;  ele­
vator;  endless  log chains;  gummer;  belting  all 
in first-class shape;  mill now turning out 40 to 50 
M. shingles per day.  Any  one  wanting  such  a 
mill will do well to  Investigate.  Will  trade for 
stock of groceries.  Address  A.  R.  Morehouse, 
Big Rapids, Mich. 
UH)R  SALE—COUNTRY  STORE  DOING 
A  good  business.  For  particulars  address  J. 
B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 
Fo r  s a l e,  c h e a p- $ ij>oo  sto ck  g e n - 
eral  merchandise.  Address  No.  945,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
945
cery In the State, all sales spot  cash:  old es­

tablished  stand,  40x80;  low  rent;  stock  about 
$5,000;  can reduce  to  suit;  no  unsalable  goods; 
making  over  $3,000 net per annum.  The  Phila­
delphia Chemical Co. is building a plant near my 
store.  It appropriated  nine  million  dollars  for 
this;  our ship yards  built  the  famous  Erie and 
Tashmo,  and  are  building  two  vessels  to  cost 
over  half  a  million  each:  have  two  large soda 
and many other plants:  this is the second largest 
shipping point in the State;  our  postolfice  rates 
second;  reason  for  selling,  wish  to  take an in­
terest in  a  wholesale  grocery  In  Detroit.  Carl 
Dice, Wyandotte, Mich. 

IX)R  SALE—BEST MONEY-MAKING  GRO- 
IpOR SALE OR RENT—TWO BRICK STORES 
ROMEYN-PARSON8  PAYS CASH 

936
FOR
stocks  of  merchandise  (not  a  trader  or 
920
broker).  Grand Ledge, Mich. 
IF GOING  OUT OF  BUSINESS  OR  IF  YOU 
have a bankrupt stock of clothing,  dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York
728
Store, Traverse City, Mich. 

for department  or  general  store,  of  which  we 
have need here:  will  rent  one  or  both.  Write 
P. O. Box 566. Mendon, Mich. 

connected  with  arch,  22x80  each;  suitable 

966

939

970

MISCELLANEOUS

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payments.

of about 1,200.  Reason for  selling,  going  out  of 
business.  Address No. 22, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

'  Invoicing  about  $1,800;  good  farming  com­
munity.  Reason  for  selling,  other  business. 
Address Bert F. Wood, Newark, Mich. 
26
cents  on  the  dollar.  Address  No.  23,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
23
stock invoicing about $12r0;  located  in town 

IJtOR  SALE  A  CLEAN  GENERAL  STOCK, 
$2,tOO  SHOE  STOCK  FOR  SALE  AT  60 
EfiOR  SALE—GROCERY  AND  CROCKERY 
i7H)R  SALE—THE  BEST  HARDWARE 
Cl  REAT  OPPORTUNITY  FOR  A  RETAIL 

22
IiH>K  SALE—IN  A  BOOMING  TOWN  IN 
A  Southern  Michigan  new  stock  clothing, 
shoes, hats, caps and  groceries,  Invoicing  about 
$3,500;  good room,  good stand, cheap  rent.  Ad-
dress  No. 21, care Michigan Tradesman. 
21
WANTED—STOCK  OF  MERCHANDISE 
or farm in exchange for my equity  in  five- 
story  gray  stone  front  brick  block;  stores  on 
first floor,  residence above;  rents  for  $2C0  per 
month;  valued at $35.000,  with  an  Incumbrance 
of $12,000 on  easy  terms.  Write  particulars  of 
what you have.  B. E.  Begel, Jackson. Mich.  20
.  stock in town of  5.000;  splendid  chance  for 
hustler;  good cash trade.  Address No.  19,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
19
JjIOR  SALE—THE  L.  H.  HUNT & CD. DRUG 
I   stock, furniture and  fixtures,  soda  fountain 
and fixtures, appraised at $2.200.  Will be sold at 
public auction sept. 7.  10  o’clock.  For  particu­
lars  address  Daniel  R.  Whitney,  Assignee, 
Lowell, Mich, 

JT  lumber yard.  Address No.  17,  care  Mlchi- 
gan Tradesman._______________________ 17
Ra r e  opportunity  to  bu y  new
stock, general line dry goods  and  shoes;  In 
excellent  location,  booming  city  of  Saginaw; 
will lease store at low rate for number  of  years. 
Reason for selling, to retire from  business.  Ad­
dress at once, F. Appenzeller, 110  N.  Hamilton, 
Saginaw, Mich. 

_____________________ 16

18

Deterioration  in  Our  Daily Food. 

From the Lancet.

There  can  be  no  doubt  that  during 
the  past  decade  food  has  undergone  a 
steady  degradation,  and  this  can  not  be 
without  a  demoralizing 
influence  upon 
the  human  race. 
It will  be  noticed  that 
by  far the  majority  of  cases  of  tamper­
ing  with  food  relate  to the  substitution 
of  a  cheaper  article  rather  than  to  the 
substance. 
addition  of  an 
The  common  defense 
is  that  modern 
conditions  of 
life  make  substitution  a 
necessity.  It  is  difficult  to  see  the  logic 
of  such  a  defense—at  least,  in  a number 
of  instances.

injurious 

It  is  urged,  for  instance,  that  jam  or 
marmalade  can  not  be  made  without the 
addition  of  glucose,  which  prevents  the 
preserve  from  crystallizing.  Now  long 
before  glucose  was  a  household  word 
jams  and  marmalade  were  made—and 
very  good  they  were,too—consisting  en­
tirely  of  sugar  and  fruit. 
In  the  same 
way  we  are  told  that  beer  must  be 
brewed  from  sugar  and that  brewing  ex­
clusively 
from  malt  presents  untold 
difficulties.  Again,  golden  syrup,  which 
used  formerly  to  be  the  refined  syrup  of 
molasses,  consists  largely  now  of  artifi­
cial  sugar,  which 
is  doubtless  a  more 
marketable  product,  but  is  not  the  same 
thing  as  cane  sugar.  Yet,  again,  we 
are  told  that  the  public  demand  a  per­
fectly  white 
loaf  of  bread,  the  truth  in 
reality  being  that  machinery  has  pro­
duced  a  roller flour which  is  an  inferior 
thing  to  the  now,  we  suppose,  extinct 
stone-milled  flour. 
Instances  of  this 
sort  could  be  multiplied.

We  could  wish  that  all  those  keeping 
house  would  make  up  their  minds  se­
riously  to  return  to  the  excellent  custom 
of  preparing  many  articles  of  food  for 
themselves  at  home.  Who  does  not  ad­
mit  the  charm  of  home-made  bread, 
home-brewed  beer,  or  home-made  jam, 
and  simply  because  they  are  known  to 
be  made  from  an  honest  formula  which 
has  stood  the  test  of  time  and  from 
good  materials  which  yield  a  palatable 
product?  Even  in  the  country  good old- 
fashioned  wheaten  bread,  with  that  fas­
cinating  brown  color  of  rich  wheaten 
flour,  containing  the  entire  nutritious 
portions  of  the berry  and possessing  that 
delightful  wheaten  flavor,  now  seldom if 
ever,  characteristic  of  bread,  is  difficult 
to  obtain.  The  baker’s  loaf  is,  as  a

OR SALE—ONLY  FURNITURE  AND  UN- 
dertaking business In growing  town  of  600; 
stock and building less than $3,000;  good hearse; 
best of reasons for selling.  Address No. 14, care 
Michigan Tradesman.___________________ 14
WANTED—HARDWARE  STOCK,  INVOIC- 
lng $1,500 to $.',000;  doing  good  buslness; 
town, l.ooo to 2.0 o  population.  Address  No.  6, 
care Michigan Tradesman._______________ 5
Merchants  desirous  of  closing

out entire or part stock of shoes  or wishing 
to dispose of whatever  undesirable  for  cash  or 
on commission correspond with Rles  &  Guettel, 
126-128 Market S t, Chicago, 111.___________ 6_
For  sale—f3,ooo  general  stock 
in
thriving  Northern  Michigan  farming  town 
on Pere Marquette Railway.  Good  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 8,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man 

8

25

WANTED—A  REGISTERED  PHARMA- 
cist.  Address H.,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
24
WANTED—AN  ASSISTANT  PHARMA- 
cist.  Address  R., care  Michigan  Trades­
man__________________  
WANTED—COBBLER,  ONE  WHO  CAN 
do hand turn and service  work.  Must  be 
young man capable of helping  in  shoe  store on 
busy days and Saturday nights.  State salary ex­
pected  and  experience.  Address  No.  16,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.__________________is
WANTED—SITUATION BY  YOUNG  MAN 
in general  store:  has  had  several  years’ 
experience.  Can furnish  good  references.  Ad- 
dress No. 997, care Michigan Tradesman.  997
PAN-AMERICAN  ACCOMMODATIONS  AT 
private  house,  conveniently  located.  Lodg­
ing, one  dollar  each.  Address  LeRoy  S.  Oat- 
917
man, Sec’y, Buffalo Produce Exchange. 

If you want to secure more than

$ 2 5   REWARD

In  Cash  Profits  in  1901,  and  in  addition  give 
thorough  satisfaction  to your patrons,  the  sale  of 
but  one  dozen  per day of

FLEISCHMANN  it  CO.’S
COMPRESSED  YEAST

YELLOW LABEL

will  secure that result.

Qraod  Rapids  Office,  29  Crescent  Ave. 

Detroit  Office,  111  W.  Larned  St.

j°  The  M.  I.  Wilcox  Company
■ 

Supply  Depot  for 

Oils,  Cordage,  Belting,  Roofing  Stock,  Twines, 

Waste,  Packing,  etc. 

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Use  our  Celebrated  Diamond  Brand  Lath  Yarn

Stave and Jointer Knives, Leather Belting.  Double 
Dynamo  Belts  a  specialty.  Agents  for  Boston 
Belting  Co  ’s  Rubber  Belts.  White  Leads  and 
Linseed Oil, Harrison Bros. ’  Paints and Varnishes.

Toledo,  Ohio 

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Simple 
Account  File

A  quick  and  easy  method  of 
Es 
keeping  your  accounts. 
pecially  handy  for  keeping  ac­
count  of  goods  let  out  on  ap­
proval,  and  f~r  petty  accounts 
with  which  one  does  not  like  to 
encumber  the  regular 
ledger. 
By using this  file  or  ledger  for 
charging  accounts,  it  will  save 

one-half the  time  and  cost  of keeping  a  set  of  books 
Charge  goods,  when 
purchased, 
directly 
on  file,  then your cus­
tomer’s  bill  is  always 
ready  for  him,  and 
can  be  found  quickly, 
on  account  of 
the 
index.  This 
special 
saves you looking over several  leaves  of  a  day  book  if  not  posted, 
when  a customer  comes  in  to  pay  an  account  and  you  are  busy wait­
ing  on  a  prospective  buyer.

TRADESM AN  COMPANY,  Grand  Rapids

MERCANTILE  ASSOCIATIONS

Michigan Retail Grocers’ Association 

President, C. E. Wa l k e r ,  Bay City;  Vlce-Pres 
ident,  J.  H.  Ho p k in s,  Ypsllanti;  Secretary 
E. A. Stow e, Grand Rapids;  Treasurer,  J.  F 
Tatm an, Clare.  _

Brand  Rapida  Retail Grocers’  Association 

President, Fr a n k  J. Dy k;  Secretary,  Homer 

K l a p ;  Treasurer, J. Georoe  Lehman

Detroit  Retail  Broten’  Protettile  Association 

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

Kalanaioo  Grocers’  and  Meat  Dtalen’  Association 

President, E.  P.  Cr o ss;  Secretary,  He n r y  J, 
Sc h a b e r g;  Treasurer, H.  R. Van Bochove.

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  Rapid* 
to Chicago,  Detroit,  Toledo, Saginaw, Bay  City, 
Petoskey, Ludington, Manistee, Muskegon, Trav­
erse City,  Alma,  Lansing, Beldlng, 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 eller,  G.  P.  A.,

W. E. WOLFENDEN, D, P. A.

Baj  Cities  Retail Broten’  Association 

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

Lit t l e.

GRANDRapid” 4,nd,aB<i feu*«?

Muskegon  Retail  Broten’  Assotiation 

President,  H.  B.  Sm ith ;  Secretary,  1).  A, 

Boelkin s ;  Treasurer,  J.  W.  Caskad on.

President,  J,  Fr a n k  Helm er ;  Secretary,  W 

Jackson  Retail  Graten’  Association 
H. Po r t e r;  Treasurer, L.  Pklton.

Adrian  Retail  Broten’  Association 

President,  A.  C.  Cl a r k ;  Secretary,  E. 
Cl e v e l a n d ; Treasurer,  Wm. c. K oehn

Saginaw  Retail Merchants’  Association 

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

Ph erson;  Treasurer, R. A. Hour.

Traient  Citj  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  thos  T.  Ba t e s:  Secretary,  ai.  B. 

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

Owosso  Business  Men’s Association 

President,  A.  D.  Wh ip p l e ;  Secretary,  G.  T. 

Ca m p b e ll;  Treasurer, W,  E. Co llin s.

Pt.  Hurons  Merchants’  and  Mannfactunn’  Association 
Pe r c iv a l.

President, Chas.  We l lm a n ;  Secretary,  J.  T. 

Alpena  Business  Men’s  Association 

President, F. W, Gilc h r is t;  Secretary,  C.  L. 

Pa r tr id g e. 

_____

Calumet  Bnsiness  Men’s  Association 

President,  J.  D.  Cu d d ih y;  Secretary  W  H 

Hoskin g.

S t  Johns Business  Men’s  Association 

President, Thos. Br o m le y;  Secretary,  Fr a n k 

A.  Pe r c y; Treasurer, Cl a r k A. Putt.

Perry  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  H.  W,  Wa l l a c e;  Secretary,  T.  E. 

Heddle. 

_____

Brand  Hann  Retail  Merchants’  Association 

President,  F.  D. Vos;  Secretary,  J.  W  Ver- 

Hoeks. 

_____

Taie  Business  Men’s  Association 

President,  Ch as.  Rounds;  Secretary,  Fr a n k 

Pu tn e y.

Brand  Rapids  Retail  Moat  Dealers’  Association 

President,  John  G.  Eb l e ;  Secretary,  L.  J. 
Ka t z;  Treasurer,  S. J. Hu ffo bd.

President,  Ma r tin  Bir c h ;  Secretary,  C.  D. 

Mn.kegon  Retail  Botchers’  Association 
Rich a r d s;  Treasurer, Wm. Sm ith.

Going North.

„  

daily  ex Su  ex Su  ex Su
, 
7 45a  2 OOp 10 46p
Lv Gd Rapids...........  4 05p 
11 25a  4 40p  2 10a
Ar.  Cadillac.............   6 45a 
Ar. Traverse City....  8 30a 
I30p  6 60p 
...
Ar. Petoskey............  9 30a 
2 50p  7 35p 5 35a
Ar. Mackinaw City... 11 20a  416p 
......   6 55a
Train leaves for Cadillac 5:20pm, ar’g at 9:00pm.
Trains arrive from the north at 6:00 a m,  11:30 
a m, 12:20 p m,5:15 p m and 9:20 p m.

Going South.
ex Su  ex Su  Daily  ex Su  Daily 
Lv. G’d Rapids.  7 10a  1 OOp  6 OOp  12 30p  9 35p 
Ar. Kalamazoo.  8 50a  3 22p  7 45p 
I45pl0 56p 
Ar. Ft. Wayne.,12 lOp  6 50p  ToCnlcago  145a
Ar. Cincinnati.  6 25p 
.............................  6 55a
Trains arrive from the  south  at  3:56 am   and 
7:20am dally, 1:50pm, 9:35pm and 10:05pm except 
Sunday.!
Pullman sleeping or parlor  cars  on  all  through 
trains  4:05am "Northland Express” has dining 
car  Grand  Rapids  to  Mackinaw  City,  2:00pm 
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
Sunday  Sunday  Sunday
Lv. Grand Rapids....  7 36am  1  53pm  5 40pm
Ar. Muskegon...........  9 00am  3  10pm  7 00pm
Sunday train  leave  Grand  Rapids  at  9:15am. 
Sunday  train  leaves  Grand  Rapids  7:00pm. 
Arrives at Muskegon 8:25pm.
Trains arrive from Muskegon at  9:30am  daily, 
1:30pm and 5:20pm  except  Sunday  and  8:00pm 
Sunday only.

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C H IC A G O   T R A IN S  

G.  R.  &  I  and  Michigan  Central.
TO   CHICAGO 

Dally 
9 35pm 
« 
6 55am
12:30pm train runs solid to Chicago  with  Pull­
9:30pm  train has through coach  and  Pullman 

Lv. G’d Rapids (Union depot)  12 30pm 
Ar. Chicago  (12th St. Station)  5 25pm 
man buffet parlor car attached.
sleeping car.

g S £ S

FROM   CHICAOO 

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Lv. Chicago (12th St.  Station)  5  lspna  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.
11:30pm train  has through coach and  sleeping 
car.
Take G.  R.  &  I.  to Chicago

50 cents  to  Muskegon 

and  Return  Every  Sunday
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G f^ A N D  R A P I D S  f i  IC H .

Is one of the features  of  our 
harnesses.  We  make  them 
ourselves  in  the  very  best 
equipped factory  in the west 
and are sure of them.

As 

We  know  about  other 
harnesses  and  know  their 
shortcomings 
far  as 
we  know,  ours  have  none. 
They are the  best  value  for 
the money in  the country.
Brown  &  Sehler

Front and W. Bridge Sts.
Qrand Rapids,  Mich.

Grand  Rapids Fixtures Go

A
new

elegant
design

in
a

combination

Cigar
Case

Shipped

knocked

down.

Takes

first

class

freight

rate.

This is the finest Cigar Case that we have ever made.  It is an elegant piece of store furniture  and 

would add greatly to the appearance of any store.

-No.  36  Cigar Case.

@orner Bartlett  and  South  Ionia  Streets,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

"The CELEBRATED

Sweet Loma

TOBACCO.

NEW  SCOTTEN  TOBACCO  CO. 

(.Against  the  Trust.)

More Cash Trade

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  w ait—mail us your  order.

Brooms

Diam ond  Fly  Paper 

W ill  m ake  your  business pay

W e  can  get  this  additional trade 
for  you.  A  cash  business  en­
ables  you  to  discount  your  bills. 
If you  want  to  get  it  or  want  to 
increase  what  you  have,  write 
us.  The  cost  is  trifling.

In  double  sheets  9x16  Inches.  Patent 
wax border edges  which  prevents  run­
ning or dripping.  25 double  sheets  (50
single) in fancy box. per box................   $  30
Per case of 10 fancy boxes....................   2  76
In  spite  of  strong  advance  in  broom 
corn  we  quote  as  follows  while  the 
stock lasts.  Our special bargains:
“Leader,” medium fine,  3 colored  sew­
ing, per  doz.................... .......................  1  53
“Belle,” choice  quality,  23  lbs.,  4  col­
ored sewings, fancy lock  finish,  a  fine
carpet broom, per  doz..........................  

A BIO BLIZZARD COMING

“Concave” washboard saves  splashing, 
has more rubbing service,  keeps water 
in  center  and  nas  ventilated  back.
Warranted a quick seller, per doz.......  2 15
Three grades,  all  sizes,  see  catalogue 
for complete list.  1  lb.  bags,  per  500, 
Cream Manila,  square..........................  

131  Wabash  Ave.,  Chicago,  111.

Trio  Silver  Co.,

W ash  Boards 

The best 25c or 30c board. 

P aper  Rags

i 95

32

Galvanized Iron Tubs

No.  l, 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................................  
6 lb. size, per crate................................  
Fine White Glaze, "Macomb” Brand.
54 gaL (5 lbs.). per doz.......................... 
48
72
1  gal. (10 lbs.), per  doz......................... 
2  gal.  (20 lbs.), per doz.........................   1  44

Stone  Butter Crocks 

42
47
67
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.........................................................   2 20

Splint Clothes  Baskets 

45
67

Get  ready  for  it.  Chuck  up  the  chinks  in  your  doors  and 
windows  and  put  an  overcoat  on  that  old-fashioned  Spring 
Balance  Scale  if you  haven’t  got  rid  of  it;  for  a  cold  wave 
will  certainly  give  it  the cramp  colic.  W e mean  this:  cold 
as  well  as hot  weather  plays  havoc on  spring  balance scales 
that  are not  equipped  with  our Thermostat  as  shown  in  the 
cut.  Cold weather shortens the spring coils and makes them 
unreliable.  In  some  cities  these  old  spring scales are thrown 
out  altogether  just  on  this  account.  Our  Boston  Spring 
Balance  Scales  are  reliable  scales  in  all  kinds  of  weather. 
If you  haven’t  one why  don’t you  take  advantage  of  our 
easy  payments  and  own  a  safe,  reliable  money  saver—a
Money  Weight  Boston  Scale  with  a  Thermostat.

The Computing Scale Company

Dayton,  Ohio

