Volume  Nineteen

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  4,1901.

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M orning M arket.
E ditorial.
9.  Editorial.
10.  Clothing.
11.  D ry Goods.
19.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
14.  T illage Im provem ent.
Clerical  Career.
16.  The  Meat  M arket.
17.  Trade  W inners.
18.  H ardw are.
19.  The  H appiest Moment.
90.  W om an’s W orld.
93.  The  New  York  M arket.
94.  Clerks’ Corner.
95.  Com m ercial Travelers.
96.  D rugs  and Chemicals.
97.  D rug Price  Current.
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30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
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Tradesman Coups

The  opening  of  fall  trade  is  with  al 
most  phenomenal  activity  in  nearly  all 
departments.  Many  factories  are  work 
ing  over time  and  in  some  cases  ship 
ping  and  packing  departments  are  run 
ning  day  and  night.  Perhaps  the  most 
comprehensive  comparison  is  found  in 
the  bank exchanges,  which  exceed  those 
for  the  same  month  last  year  by  over  44 
per cent.  While  the  benefits  of  this  ac­
tivity  are  felt  in  all  lines,  particularly 
noteworthy  gains  are  found  in  building 
operations,  where  the  limit  seems to  be 
the  ability  to  get  materials.

The  course  of  the  stock  market  has 
been  upward  until  the  interruption  of 
the  holidays,  and  what  would 
seem 
singular  in  view  of the  strike  agitation 
is  that  the  steel  issues  are  taking  the 
lead. 
Financial  conditions  continue 
favorable,  with  abundant  funds  for  all 
legitimate  requirements.

the 

stimulate 

High  prices  for  promptly  delivered 
products  of  iron  and  steel  have  operated 
to 
independent  com­
panies,  which  are  crowding  their  ca­
pacity  to  the  limit.  But  when  time  is 
not  the  principal  consideration,  orders 
are  taken  by  the  trust  without  hesita­
tion 
lines  of  their  productions. 
Even  the  tin-plate  mills,  where  the 
strikers  claimed  a  plate  could  not be 
produced,  are  working  with  more  than 
their  usual  activity.

in  all 

As  the  season  advances  the  prospect 
of  wheat taking  the  lead  among  agricul­
tural  products  is  increasing,  the  return 
to  growers  being  the  most  profitable.  In 
spite  of  the  unexpected  abundance  the 
price  is  well  maintained.  Export  move­
ment 
is  very  heavy,  August  probably 
making  a  new  record.  Corn  shows  an 
improved  outlook,  but  prices  are  kept 
strong.

Late  returns  from  the  South  are  less 
favorable  for  cotton. and  there  is  more 
uneasiness  regarding  the  danger  from 
cold  before  the tardy  crop  is  picked,  al­
though  at  some points the  movement  has 
already  begun,  port  receipts  for  the 
week 
largely  exceeding  last  year  s.  A 
labor controversy  has  broken  out among

Southern  cotton  mills  that  may  tend  to 
curtail  operations,  but  New  England 
spinners  are  fairly  busy  and  the  goods 
market  is  firmer.  Gratifying  reports  are 
received  from  makers  of  woolen  goods, 
mills  frequently  declining  orders  that 
call  for  prompt  delivery.  Revival  in 
this  industry  is  heartily  welcomed  after 
the  long  period  of  depression,  but heavy 
stocks  of  raw  material  purchased  far 
above  current  prices,  greatly  handi­
capped  the  mills.  Recent  inquiries  in­
dicate  that  the surplus  has been depleted 
and  there  appears  to  be  a  good  mar 
ket  for  the  large  clip  secured  this  year 
Shoe  shops  are  urged  to  hasten  ship 
ments  and  the  healthy  tone  is  reflected 
in  the  leather  market.  Exports  are  also 
a  factor of  importance.  Belting  makers 
take  all  the  butts  offered  at  full  values

The  world  is  being  treated  to  another 
scheme  for  the  extraction  of  the ‘ ‘ root of 
from  sea  water.  That  gold 
all  evil”  
does  really  exist  in  the  sea 
is  well 
known  to every  chemist,but the  precious 
metal  is  in  such 
infinitesimal  quantity 
in  proportion  to  bulk  of  water as  to  ren 
der  the  expense  of  extraction  greater 
than  the  actual  returns.  Many 
fake 
schemes  for  an  attack  on  nature’s  labo 
ratory  have  been  foisted  on  the  world 
and  people  with  more  money  than  wi 
have  been  tempted  to  go  into them,  with 
the  result  that they  have  gained  experi 
ence 
for  the  outlay.  The  recent  New 
York  scheme  was  heralded  to  the  world 
as  one  with  money  in  it.  So  there  was 
for  the  projector;  the  investor  got  the 
experience.  The new scheme  hails  from 
England,  and  may  or  may  not be  in  the 
same  category  as  that  of  New  York. 
The  modus operandi  is  so  simple  as  to 
tempt  every  seaside  holiday  seeker  to 
turn  his  hand  to  the  game  in  order  to 
break  the  monotony  of  existence‘ ‘ be 
side  the  sad  sea  waves.”  
It  consists  of 
a  tank  for  the  storage  of  the  sea  wate 
and  as  the  gold  exists  in  the  form  of  an 
iodide,  alkalinity 
is  imparted  to  the 
water  by  means  of  some  form  of  caustic 
lime.  This  precipitates  the  gold,  and 
there  you  are !  The  chemical  techniqu 
is  perfect  on  paper,  but  the  outturn 
highly  problematical._______

Number 937

THE  LESSON  OF TH E STRIKE.

After  days  of  sparring  for  points  with 
the  steel  trust,  the  Amalgamated  Asso­
ciation  of  Steel  Workers  appears to have 
been  driven  to  the  verge  of  despair.

Complaints  are  coming from  its  ranks 
and  from  those  of  its  allies  in  the  strug- 
^ e  in  which  it  is  engaged  with  Mr. 
Schwab  and  his  associates  that 
the 
strike  in  which  it  is  now  engaged  is  ill- 
advised.  Loud  murmurs  against  Presi­
dent  Shaffer  are  being  heard,amounting 
n  some 
instances  to  a  demand  for  his 
mpeachment.  Disapproval  of  his  or­
ders  is  plainly  manifested  by  the  West­
ern  branches  of  the  Association,  and 
everything  points  to  early 
independent 
action  on  their  part  looking to a resump­
tion  of  work  on  a  non-union  basis.  A l­
together  the  future  looks  anything  but 
bright  for  the  Amalgamated,  face  to 
face  with  complete  defeat  as  it  must 
eventually  come,  according  to  the  latest 
nformation  from  the  scene  of  its  opera­
tions.

The 

lesson 

to  be 

learned 

At  this  distanec  it  appears,  from  what 
has  been  made  public  with  regard  to 
the  controversy  between  the  steel  corpo­
ration  and  its  employes,  that  it  was  pre­
cipitated 
in  hot-headed  haste  by  a 
venal  and  unscrupulous  leader  who  very 
foolishly  imagined  that  he  was  able  to 
cope  with  men  who  possessed  an  ample 
supply  of  two things  in  which  he is sad­
ly  deficient—brains  and  common  sense.
from 
what  can  safely  be  foreseen,  as  the  re­
sult  of  Mr.  Shaffer's  efforts  in  this  case, 
s  plain  enough.  Learned  and  profited 
by,  it  can  teach  but  one  thing  and  lead 
to  but  one  conclusion,  and  that  is  that 
strikes  are  invariably  unprofitable  from 
an  economic  standpoint.  Even  when 
successful,  their  cost  is  greater  than  the 
parties  concerned  can  afford, 
to  say 
nothing  of  the 
losses  entailed  upon 
thousands  of  people  neither  concerned 
in  nor  responsible  for the  conditions  by 
which  they  are  brought  about.  The  de­
moralization  occasioned  by  strikes  and 
the  ever  present  danger  of  lawlessness 
accompanying  their  progress  are  other 
features  making  against  them  as  proper 
remedies  for  the  grievances  of  labor.

One  noted  European  political  phil 
osopher  says  that America,  Russia  and 
China  are  to  be  the  three  great  units 
the  future.  However  it  may  be  as 
the  others it  is  pretty  certain that  Amer 
ica  will  be  a  great  unit  of  power  in  the 
affairs  of  the  world. 
Its  influence  may 
be  restricted  by  artificial  means  now 
and  then  but  it  can  not  be  permanently 
restrained. 
influence  that  if 
It  is  an 
natural 
its  development  and  its  ex 
in 
ercise  should  be  expected  to  follow  as 
matter  of  course.  Europe  will  become 
accustomed  to  the  situation  after a time 
It  has  been  slow  in arriving at  the  point 
of  recognition,  but 
it  can  now  see  the 
whole  prospect._____________

After  reading  all  the  scientific  creeds 
on  the  mosquito  question,  the  wonder  is 
that so  many  of  us  who  have fought with 
and  been  bitten  by  mosquitoes  every 
summer  of  our  lives  remain  to  tell  the 
tale.

The  butter trade  of  Russia  with  E ng­
land 
is  so  great—amounting  to  about 
$ 1 0 , 0 0 0 , 0 0 0   a  year—that  a  special  line 
of  butter  steamers  has  been  started  be­
tween  Riga  and  London.  These steam­
ers  are  fitted  with  refrigerating  appar­
atus  and  special  butter trains  will  make 
connections  with  them.  The  butter will 
be  carried  in  hermetically  closed  com­
partments,  and  adequate  supplies  of  ice 
will  be  provided  en  route.

The 

latest  census  figures  show  that 
Rhode  Island  is  the  most  densely  pop­
ulated  state  in  the  Union,  with  407  peo­
ple  to  the  square  mile.  Massachusetts 
is  second,  with  349,  and  Connecticut 
least 
fourth,  with  187.  Nevada  is  the 
for 
crowded,  with  ten  square  miles 
every  four  people,  and 
in  Wyoming 
they  have  one  square  mile  apiece.

An  exchange  tells  how  to  serve  cu­
cumbers  and  doesn’t  say  a  word  about 
Jamaica  ginger.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2

GOT  HIS GUM.

Sum m ary M ethod of E xpediting the W ork 
Written for  the Tradesman.

of Clerks.

It  was  one  of those  general  stores over 
on  the  Lake  Michigan  shore  where  one 
firm  does  all  the  business  and  the  cus­
tomers  are  often  obliged  to  take  a  back 
seat.  The  Czar  of  the  establishment 
kept  himself  in  a  glass  case  in  the  rear 
end,  safely  out  of  the way,  and occupied 
himself  during  business  hours  by  writ­
ing  numerous  letters,  interspersing  this 
duty  with  an  occasional  pull  at  a  long 
black  cigar.

Next  lower  in  the  scale  of  office  came 
the  Superior  High  Potentate,  who 
juggled  the  mail  in  the  little  coop  set 
apart  for  the  dispatch  of  Government 
business. 
In  approaching  this  official, 
remove  the  hat,  bow three  times and  ob­
serve  respectfully  that there  is  no  haste 
about  the  matter  anyway  and  that  you 
can 
just  as  well  get  your  mail  to-mor­
row. 
It is  well  to do this  in  all  serious­
ness,  for  it  may  expedite  matters,  and 
one  does  not  usually  get  his  mail  until 
the  next  day  anyway.

Below  the  Superior  High  Potentate, 
and  in  more  or  less direct  communica­
tion  with  the  vulgar  herd,  could  be 
found  His  Little  Serene  Nibblets,  who 
reigned  over  the  dry  goods,  the  grocer­
ies  and  the  boots and  shoes,  and  who, 
for  a  compensation,  was  supposed  to 
part  with  the  goods  in  his  charge  to any 
person  who  had  the  temerity  and  the 
hardihood  to  communicate  with  him 
upon  so delicate  and  unwelcome  a  sub­
ject.

Under  His  Nibblets  was  an  old  man,  I 
gray,  worn  and  servile.  He  evidently! 
did  most  of  the  work,  and  went  about  it 
as  one  who  lived  in  constant  dread  of 
being  kicked  and  who  would  receive 
any  such  attention  with  becoming  grati­
tude.  He  worked  slowly  and  painfully, j 
never  seemed  sure  of  the  price  of any 
given  article,  nor  whether  it  should 
properly  be  sold  by  weight  or  by  meas­
ure.  He  made  frequent  appeals  to  His 
Little  Serene  Nibblets,  although  he  re­
ceived  but  scant  acknowledgment  or  in­
formation  from  that  dignitary.

There  had  been  a  ball  game  at  a 
neighboring  village  and  two of the play­
ers,  with  their  lady  friends,  had 
just 
returned.  They,  together  with  His  Nib­
blets,  occupied  an  alcove  behind  the 
grocery  counter,  and  explanations  as  to 
how  it  happened  that  their  side  got  the 
worst  of  it  were  being  made.

“ It  was  a  steal,"  said  a  girl  with 

frizzly  hair.

"R an k ,  rank !”  added  her companion 
whose  most  salient characteristic seemed 
to  be  the  wearing  of  a  yellow  silk  shirt 
" I   got  so  mad  I  just  squalled."
waist. 
"Rotten  decisions!"  exclaimed  a  red 
headed  youth. 
"T h at  empire’s  a  thief. 
I ’m 
I'll 
catch  him  alone  some  day,  and  then— 
grrr!”

jest  waiting  for  my  chance. 

"M ig h t 

ferocious 

just  as  well 

"W ish ’t  I ’d  been  there,”   said  His 
shoulder 
Nibblets  with  a 
shrug. 
’agone, 
too.  Nothin’  going  on  here.  Never  is. 
Don’t  think 
longer, 
either.  After  I ’m  gone,  then  mebbe 
they’ll  find  out  how  they’ll  get  along 
alone—yes,  they'll  find  out  pretty  soon 
— then!’ ’

I ’ ll  stay  much 

“ Oh-h-h !’ ’  gasped both  girls  at  once, 
with  intaking  breath.  "D o n ’tgo,  please 
don’t  go.  Goodness!  We  wouldn’t  have 
no  one  to  trade  with—if  you  wasn’t 
here."

" I   don't  know ,"  be  replied  doubt­
fully,  ‘ it  depends.  But  I ’m  a  thinkin’, 
and  thinkin’ bard,  too,  and  when  I  once

make  up  my  mind  to  a  thing,- nothin’ 
couldn’t hold  me  back."  Then,  return­
ing  to  the  original  subject,  he enquired: 
"B u t  how  come it you got  skinned  when 
you  had  the  game  so nigh  safe?"

into  center. 

lined  her  clear  out 

"W ell,  you  see  it  was this  w ay," said 
a  fat  young  man  with  cheeks  like  a 
baby’s,  " i t   was  all  in  the  last  inning. 
We  was  twenty-four to their twenty-six, 
and  us  to  bat.  Hent  made  a  hit  and  got 
first.  Then  Angus  Campbell’s  Archie 
bunted, and  they  both  moved  up.  That 
fetched  me  to  bat  and  I  waited  till  I 
bad  three  balls  and  two  strikes  and  then 
l  got a  dandy  right  over the  platter  and 
I 
I 
knowed  it  was good  for a  three  bagger, 
and  I  heeled  it  around  the  d i’mond  the 
best  I  could.  When  I  got  to  second  the 
other  fellers  was  in,  and  the  boys  hol­
lered  for  me  to  make  home  and  cinch 
I  knowed  their  man  never 
the  game. 
could  throw 
in  the  ball  to  put  me  out 
and  no  chance  of  his  making  a ketch,  so 
I  sailed  right  along,  throwin’  grass  and 
sand  like  a  lawn  mower,  and  just  as  I 
crossed  the  plate  and  hollered  ‘ score,’ 
dum 
’f  the  empire  didn’t  yell  ‘ out.’ 
That  blamed  center fielder  had  stubbed 
his  toe  in  running,  and  fell  head  over 
heels  and  him  and  the  ball  come  to­
gether so’s’t  he  made  a  scoop."

"R ankest  empirin’  ever  I  see,’  vol­

unteered  his  comrade.
"W ell,  he  throwed 

it  to  second  and 
the  side  whs  out.  We kicked  and  beefed 
and  told  the  empire  it  was  a  scoop,  but 
be  stuck  to  it  'twas  a  fair catch,  and  we 
would  of  licked  him  only  they  was  too 
many  for  u s."

I  was  quite  interested  in  the  account 
of the  game  and  had  forgotten  that  we 
had  come 
in  for a  few  supplies  for the 
camp  and  bad  stood  there  for several 
minutes  without  apparently  attracting 
the  slightest  attention.  But there  was  a 
small  boy  near  us  for  whom  the  great 
game  had  as  yet  no  perceptible  attrac­
tions,  and  he  was  doing  his  level  best 
to get  some one  to  notice  him.  He  was 
just  a  common,  everyday  boy—a  very 
homely,  harmless  boy,  with  a  round, 
sensitive  face  and  honest  blue  eyes.

The  old  man  was  puttering  around, 
trying  to  do  up  a  package  of spikes  that 
had  every  appearance  of  being too much 
for  him,  and  His  Nibblets  paid  no  at­
tention  to  the  boy  other than  an  occas­
ional  frown  when  he  made  himself  too 
conspicuous  by  rattling  his  money  upon 
the  show  case.

At  last,  in  response  to  a  clatter of  the 
coin  more  noisy  than  the  rest,  His  Nib­
blets  cast  upon  the  boy  a  look  of  indig­
nation,  annoyance  and  scorn  that 
is 
bard  to  describe,  and  said :

"S a y ,  kid,  if  you  don’t  stop  that,  I ’ll 

come  out  there  and  slap  you!”

"O ,  don’t ,”   protested  the  girl  with 

the  yellow  waist.

" I   will,  though,  if he  does  that again. 

I  hain’t  no  wooden  man.”

" I   want some  gum,” • said  the  boy.
“ W ait  till  you  get  it,  won’t  you?”
" T e   he,”  laughed  the  frizzly  maiden. 
"H e   must  be 
in  a  hurry  for his  gum. 
Gum’s  likely  to  be  scarce  to his house."
" I ’ve  gotter get  it  now,”   whined  the 
"D a d ’ll  lick  me  if  I  don’t  hus­

boy. 
tle.”

"W ell,  if  he  don’t,  I  will.  You  don’t 
need  any  gum,  anyway.  Gum’ll  rot 
your teeth,”   said  His  Nibbs,  facetious­
ly. 
"  I ’ve  got  something  to  do  better’n 
waiting  on  yaps  like  you  be.”

" 0 ,   get  the 

little  feller  his  gum, ”  
said  Yellow  Waist,  coaxingly, 
" I f   his 
pa  licks  him  he  might  weep  tears  into 
the  mixed  candy,"  and  then  she  and 
Frizzles giggled  gleefully,  and  the  boys

grinned  and  snickered,  and  they  all 
turned  theii  heads  and  looked  tantaliz- 
ingly  toward  the  small  boy.

It  was  very  funny—something  so out 
of  the  usual  humdrum  of  the  country 
store.  And  they  went  on  with  quip  and 
jest  and  banter,  and  the  small  boy  wrig­
gled  and  squirmed  and  turned  scarlet 
under  that  volley  of  persiflage,  and 
wished  he  was  home. 
But  he  still 
wanted  his  gum.

Just  then  there  strode 

in  a  typical 
specimen  of the  product  of  the  Northern 
Michigan  lumber  woods.  He  was  tall 
and 
large,  without  an  ounce  of  spare 
flesh.  He  had  hands  like  hams  and 
strength  and  agility  were  depicted  in 
his  every  motion.  His  eyes  were  blue, 
clear  and  alert,  and  when  he  bent  an 
enquiring  gaze  upon  the  small  boy  and 
asked  what  had  kept  him  so  long,  the 
youngster  saw  fit  to  make  brief  and 
rapid  explanation.

"Couldn’t  git  waited  on,”   said  he.
The  man  looked over toward Nibblets, 
who  had  returned  to the  discussion  of 
the  ball  game.

"D id   yo’  tell  the  man  what  yo’ 

wanted?”

he’d  slap  m e.”

"Y e s,  an’  he  told  me  to  shet  up  or 

The  big  man’s  face  twitched  curious­
ly  as  he  stepped  quickly  to  the  counter, 
reached  forth,  seized  His  Highness  by 
the  collar and,  with  one  hand  and  with­
out  apparent  effort,  lifted  him  over  into 
the  center aisle.

"M ercy  on  u s!”   squeaked  the  girls.
” W-wh-what  you  doin’ ?”   stammered 

His  Nibblets.

"M ake  him  quit,”   commanded  Friz­
zles,  addressing  the  ball  players.  But 
they,  viewing  with  evident  dismay  the 
vast  hulk  before  them,shook their heads.
’Tain’t  none  of our  business,"  said 

Red  Head.

ion.

"Y o u   b e t!"  acquiesced  his  compan­

"W hy  didn’t  yo’  wait  on  my  kid?”  

demanded  the  giant.

" I ’ll  have  you  arrested. 

I ’ll 

the—”   threatened  His  Highness.

call 

The  big  man gave  him a gentle shake, 
much  as  one  might  a  handkerchief  to 
straighten  out  the  wrinkles,  and  then 
repeated:

"W hy  didn’t  yo’  wait  on  my  kid?”
"Y o u   quit  that,”   screamed  His  Se­
reneness,  struggling  ineffectually  to  get 
away.

“ Yes,  you  quit,”   said  both  ladies  in 

chorus.

“   Why-didn’t-you-wait-on-my-kid  ? ”  
repeated  the  big  man  with  an  earnest­
ness  that  would  have 
impressed  any 
person  not  entirely  besotted  with  self­
esteem.  And  he  emphasized  his  ques­
tion  with  a  double  back  action  shake 
that  made  the  royal  teeth  rattle  and  the 
imperial  eyes  bulge  from  their  sockets. 
Then  Royalty  was  held  at  arm’s  length 
by  the  giant  who  waited  for a  repiy.

Unable  to  realize  the  situation  and 
overcome  by  rage  and  mortification, 
His  Serenity  made  a  vain  effort  to  kick 
the  big  man,  shrieking  as  he  did  so :

"L e m m e g o !”  
"Y e s,  let  him  go.  He  won’ t  do  it 

.

again,”   begged  the  ladies.

But  the  forest  giant  smiled  quietly, 
it  descended, 
caught  the  foot  before 
into convenient 
doubled  His  Serenity 
shape  and  then,  laying  him  across  a 
neighboring  box,  spanked  him  method­
ically  and 
thoroughly—spanked  him 
carefully  and  painstakingly—spanked 
him  with  a  hand  that  would  cover the 
end  of  a  pickle  keg  or  fell  an  o x -  
spanked  him,  not  as  a  novice  in  the 
art,  but  as  one  who had  done  the  work 
before,  who knew  just  how  to  do  it  and 
who  would  spare  no  pains to  make  his

pronounced 

success.
Then  the  big  man  stood  His  Imperial 
feet  and  asked 

undertaking  a 
Nibblets  upon  his 
quietly:

"W hy  didn’t  you  wait on  my kid ?"
" I   w-was  b-busy,”   was  the  rather 

meek  reply.

zles.

"Y e s,  he  was  busy,”   assented  Friz­

"What  doin’ ?”
"T-talking  with  these  people.”
"Y e s.  he  was  talking  to  us,”   ad­

mitted  Shirt  Waist.

"S e llin ’  goods?”   pursued  the  big 

man  relentlessly.
ball,”   volunteered  the  boy.

"H e   was  talkin'  about  a  game  of 
"B u t  we  might  have  wanted  to  buy,”  

interposed  Frizzles.

"B a il  game,  eh?"  said 

the  giant 
sneeringly,  giving  His  Excellence  an­
"T alkin g  up  a  game  of 
other  shake. 
ball  and  too  busy  to  sell  goods?”   an­
"L ots  o’  money  in  that 
other  shake. 
a ir ."   Two  more  shakes. 
“ I ’ve  been 
thinkin’  fer  quite  a  spell  that  I ’d  have 
to  have  a  little  conversation  with  you. 
Things  hain’t  been  goin’ 
just  to  suit 
me  and  I  don’t  like  it.  Last  tradin’  we 
done  here  we  asked  for golden  syrup  at 
30 cents  a  gallon.  Yo’  put  25  cent  black 
strap  in  the  jug  an’  charged  us  40 cents 
fer two quarts.”   Another shake. 
"W e 
wanted  K.  T.  soda,  an’  yo’  gave  us 
your own  kind  that's  so  bang  fired  poor 
that  it  wouldn’t  raise  a  b’loon  that  was 
already  fer  startin’.  Y o’  gin  us  dried 
apples  that  was  all  peelin’s and  cores 
an’  dirt  an'  so  full  of  worms  they  was 
only  fit  fer  fish  bait.  Then  1  bought  five 
yards  of  all  wool  sbirtin’  at  half  a  dol­
lar  a  yard,  an’  the  piece  you  gin  me 
was  half  cotton  and  a  yard  short  and 
it 
bad  a  hole 
in  the  middle  that  a  calf 
could  walk  through.  You  made  a  mis­
take  of  50 cents  in  footin’  the  bill,  and 
topped  off  by  givin’  out  40 cents  too 
much  change.  Now  yo’ 
fool  around 
with  a  pack  of  kids  when  my  boy is try- 
in’  to get  waited  on  and  tell  him  youMl 
slap  him  if  he  don’t  keep  still.”   An­
other  vigorous  shake. 
"D o   yo’  s’pose 
I ’m  going  to  stand  that  very  long  an’ 
say  nothin’ ?”

I 

"H ow  

fooling,”   moaned  Frizzles.

‘ He  didn’t  mean  to  do  it—he  was 
"Y o u   don't  have  to  trade  here  if  you 
don’t  want  to,”   gasped  H is  Serenity. 
' " I s   that  so?”   said  the  giant,  sarcas­
tically,  lifting  His  Nibblets  clear  from 
the  floor  and  waving  him  back  and 
forth  meditatively,  as  one  might  a  wet 
rag. 
it  take  you  to 
find  that  out? 
I  don’t suppose  I  have 
to trade  no  place  if  I  don’t  want  to ."
And  then  the  big  man  shook  that 
sprig  of  royalty  until  his  coat  ripped, 
his  collar  button  flew  across  the  store, 
and  it  seemed  to the  spectators  that  bis 
eyes  must  certainly  leave  their  resting 
place  for  a  trip  through  space.  Then 
he  set  him  in  a  convenient  chair.

long  did 

"S e t  there,  young  feller,”   said  he, 
"and  listen  to  what  I ’ ve  got  to say.  I ’m 
goin’  to  trade  some  place,  and  for the 
present  I ’ve  took  a  notion  that I ’ll  come 
here. 
like  your  style  so  well  that  I 
can’t  bear  to  think  of  going  nowheres 
else. 
It  hain’t  every  place  that  a  feller 
can  get  good  measure  and  his  right 
change  back  every  time 
like  he  can 
here.  An’  then  I 
like  the  accommo­
datin’  ways  yo’  have  with  your  custom­
ers,  and  I ’m  stuck  on  the  way  yo’  jump 
around  and  wait  on  folks  the  minute 
they  come  in. 
I ’m  going  to  send  the 
boy  here  for stuff  and  if  yo’  take  pains 
to  do  things  right  there  won’t  be  no 
trouble  with  m e;  but  the  minute  yo’ 
commence  to  mix  your drinks  or  fergit 
to  sell  him  stuff  when  he  comes  in  or 
give  him  a  lot of  old  trash  when be pays 
for good  goods  or work  the  short change 
racket  or  talk  about  slapping  of  him, 
your  Uncle  Li j ’ll  put  on  his  war  paint 
again  and  call  on  yo’  personally,  and 
he’ll  give  yo’  all  the  p’ ints  the’  is  out 
in  the  latest  Pawnee  cotillion. 
Johnny, 
did  you’  do  your tradin’ ?”

"N o ,  dad.”
"G e t  your stuff  then  and  come  on.”
“ I  want  some  g u m ,"sa id   Johnny, 
again  rattling  bis  coin  on the show case.
And  Johnny  was  waited  on  so  quickly 
that  he  hadn’t  a  real  good  chance  to  ex­
plain  what  kind  of gum  he  preferred.
Geo.  L.  Thurston,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Royal  is  the  baking  powder  o f 
highest  character  and  reputa­
tion,  the  favorite  among  house­
keepers.  The  cheapest  to  con­
sumers,  the  most  profitable  for 
dealers  to  handle.

Those  grocers  who are most successful  in  business— who  have 
the  greatest  trade,  highest  reputation,  the  largest  bank  ac­
counts—-are  those  who  sell  the  highest  quality,  purest,  best
known  articles.

It  is  a  discredit  to  a  grocer  to  sell  impure,  adulterated 
and  unwholesome  goods;  nor  is  the  sale  of such  goods,  even 
though  the  profits  on  a  single  lot  may  be  larger,  as  profitable 
in  the  long  run  as  the  sale  o f  pure,  wholesome,  high-class
articles  at  a  less  percentage.

Trade is won and held  by the  sale  of the  best, the highest 

grade,  the  most  reliable  goods.

ROYAL  BAKING  POWDER  CO., 100  WILLIAM  ST.,  NEW  YORK.

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Around the State

M ovements o f M erchants.

Ida—Gilhousen  &  Co.  have  removed 

their  general  stock  to  Sberron.

Union  City—John  Clay  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  Chas.  Horton.

Caro—Cummins  Bros,  have  opened  a 

grocery  store  in  the  White  building.

Detroit—Julius  Schultz  has  sold  his 

grocery  stock  to  Procbnow  &  Schafer.

Channing—W.  J.  Boll  succeeds  W.  J. 

Boll  &  Co.  in  the  dry  goods  business.

Battle  Creek—Stringham  &  Orns, 
meat  dealers,  have  sold  out  to  James 
Darling.

Ionia—U.  H.  Lazelle  &  Co.  have 
purchased  the  bazaar stock  of  Geo.  E . 
Nichols.

Battle  Creek—Wm.  H.  VanSickle  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  E .  M. 
Blakeslee.

Shepherd—Mrs.  Ethel  Lathrop  has 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Jas.  H. 
Cavanaugh.

Saginaw—The  grocery  store  of  C.  M. 
Heck  &  Co.  has been  closed  under  chat­
tel  mortgage.

Detroit—R.  Kroll  &  Co.  have  pur­
chased  the  dry  goods  and  notion  stock 
of  Carl  Rinke.

Princeton—Hugh  V.  Sparks  &  Co. 
succeed  Frank  Farquer  in  the  grocery 
and  meat  business.

Detroit—F.  W.  Schwartz  is  succeeded 
J.  (Mrs.  Albert)  Livingston  in 

by  E . 
the  grocery  business.

New  Lothrop—W.  E.  Gustine.of  Cass- 
in  the  mercantile 

opolis,  has  engaged 
business  at  this  place.

Deckerville—Arthur  H.  Grice  has  en­
gaged  in  the  meat  business,having  pur­
chased  the  market of  Nathan  Purcell.

Capac—Geo.  A.  Balden  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
general  merchandise  firm  of  Warren  & 
Balden.

Butternut—G.  R.  Banton  has  pur­
chased  the  N.  W.  Daggett  general  mer­
chandise  stock  and  will  soon  move  into 
the  brick  store.

Central  Lake—R.  Schomberg  has  sold 
bis  stock  of  general  merchandise 
to 
Wolf  Kaplan,  of  Detroit,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business.

Chase—Curtis  Bros.,  of  Reed  City, 
have  purchased  a  warehouse  and  will 
establish  a  flour  and  feed  and  farm 
produce  business  here.

Lansing—C.  B.  Leonard  has  sold  his 
grocery  stock  on  Butler  street  to  Shank 
&  Reynolds.  Both  members  of  the  new 
firm  reside  in  Lansing.

Frankfort—W.  V.  Capron  has  sold  his 
bazaar  stock  to  E .  Z.  Guild,  of  Colum­
bus,  Ohio,  who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  at  the  same  location.

Cassopolis—John  B.  Stemm  will 

in 
the  future  conduct  the  dry  goods  and 
boot  and  shoe  business  of  Stemm  & 
Gustine  in  his  own  name.

Constantine—Sevison Bros,  have made 
a  deal  for  the  J.  R.  Watson  stock  of 
hardware  and  groceries at White Pigeon, 
and  the  stock  will  be  removed  to  this 
place.

Indian  River—R.  T.  Bower  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  Edgar  Rice,of  Bloom- 
ingdale.  The  sale  was  effected  through 
the  Wants  Column  department  of the 
Michigan  Tradesman.

Escanaba—Geo.  M.  Mashek  has  pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  his  partner,  E d ­
ward  Arnold,  in  the  cedar business  of 
Mashek  &  Arnold.  The  deal  includes 
all  'lands,  standing  timber,  tools  and 
vehicles.
•  Petoskey—R .  T.  Bower has  sold  his 
drug  stock  to  the  Eckel  Drug  Co.,  the

Mi c h i g a n   t r a d e s m a n

transfer  to  take  place  Oct.  i,  and  will 
devote  bis  entire  attention  to  the  manu­
facture  and  sale  of  his  hair  tonic  and 
headache  powders.

Albion—F.  F.  Hoaglin  has  sold  his 
clothing  stock  to  Barney 
Julius,  of 
Vicksburg.  Mr.  Hoaglin  has  been  ac­
tively  engaged  in  the  clothing  business 
here  for  the 
last  twenty-seven  years. 
Mr. Julius  has  been  likewise  established 
in  Vicksburg  for  nearly as long—twenty- 
five  years.  He  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  here  at  the  old  stand.

Gladstone—E .  Buckman,  one  of  the 
well-known  merchants  of  this  city,  at­
tempted  to  commit  suicide  Aug.  29  by 
hanging.  He  had  already  suspended 
himself  from  the  ceiling  when  friends 
rushed  into the  room  and  saved  his  life. 
He  recently  failed  in  business  and,  be­
coming  despondent,  it 
is  thought  he 
sought  relief  in  death.  A  close  watch 
is  now  being  kept  over  him. 

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M anufacturing; M atters.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Forging  Co.  has 
been  organized  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$100,000.

Kalamazoo—The  Michigan  Steel  Boat 
Co.  is  considering  the  idea  of  removing 
its  plant to  Freeport.

Dearborn—The  Ives  Automatic  Door 
Co.  is  the  style  of  a  new  concern  at  this 
place.  The  capital  stock  is  $5,000.

Adrian—A.  Breunig has purchased the 
interest of  bis  brother  in  the  cigar  man­
ufacturing  business  of  Breunig  Bros.

Mendon—The  Morgan  Glove  Co. 
writes  the  Tradesman  that  the  report 
that  the  business  has  been  sold  to  John 
Wuerst  is  untrue.

Niles—Joseph  Goodman  has  sold  his 
garment  factory  to  L.  Schwabach,  who 
will  continue  the  business.  The  factory 
employs  fifty  people.

Saline—The  Acetylene  Lighting  Co. 
has  been  organized  here  with  $5,000 
capital  stock.  Charles  Burkhardt 
is 
President  and  A.  J.  Warren  Secretary.
Battle  Creek—The  American  Column 
Co.,  Limited,  succeeds  Angell  Bros,  as 
proprietor  of  the  American  Column 
Co.,  and  in  the  lumbering  and 
interior 
finish  manufacturing  business.

Manchester—The  subject  of  forming 
a  stock  company  to  operate  a  canning 
factory  here 
is  being  discussed  by  the 
business  men  of  the  village  and  the 
farmers  of  the  vicinity  with  consider­
able  interest.

Detroit—The 

Ives  Automatic  Door 
Opener  Co.  has  been  incorporated  with 
a  capital  of $5,000  fully  paid  in.  The 
stockholders  are:  Louis Ives,  333 shares; 
Fred  E .  Gregory,  166  shares;  William 
T.  Gregory,  one  share.

Detroit—A  partnership  with  a  capital 
of $50,000,  all  paid  in,  has  been  formed 
for  the  purpose  of  manufacturing  and 
selling  the  Dr.  A.  Reed  cushion  shoe. 
The  copartners  are  Arthur  G.  Holland, 
William  Goodyear  and  Frederick  D. 
Rolison.

Cadillac—The  Oviatt  Manufacturing 
Co.,  whose  plant  was  burned  some time 
ago,  will  resume  business,  it  having 
been  practically  settled  that  a  new 
building  will  be  put  up  on  the  old  site. 
From  twenty-five  to  forty  men  will  be 
employed.

Hillsdale—The  Adams  Gasoline  E n ­
gine  Co.  has  purchased  the  entire  busi­
ness  and  plant  of  the  Olds  &  Hough 
Gasoline  Co.,  of  Albion,  and  will  move 
the  plant to  this  city  at  once and  consol­
idate  the  two.  Mr.  Olds  will  enter  the 
employ  of the  Hillsdale  Company.

Detroit—The  Detroit  Composite  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation  and 
will  manufacture  advertising  signs,  toys

and  novelties  on  a  capital  stock  of 
$5,000,  with  $500  paid  in.  The  incorpo­
rators  are:  Wm.  M.  Finck,  497;  W’m. 
Schantz,  Wm.  H. 
Jansen  and  Wm. 
Collins,  1  share  each.

St.  Ignace—The  sawmill  of  Sailing, 
Hanson  &  Co.  at  this  place  has  been 
purchased  by  Thomas  &  Woodfield  and 
Wm.  St.  James,  who  wiil  conduct  the 
business  under the  style  of  Woodfield  & 
St.  James.  Besides  the  mill,  the  new 
firm  has  also  purchased  the  lumbering 
outfit,  mill  grounds  and 
lands,  and  a 
considerable  amount  of  timber. 
It  will 
also  add  a  shingle  equipment  to  the 
plant.

Lansing—The  Stone  Lumber  Co. 
plant  has  been  purchased  by  a  number 
of  our  business  men  and  will  be  con­
verted  into  a  factroy  for  the  manufac­
ture  of automobile  and  carriage  bodies. 
The  company  will  begin  operations  at 
once  with  forty  men,  which  is  a  small 
force  compared  to  the  number  it  is  ex­
pected  will  ultimately  be  given employ­
ment.  The  officers  of  the  new  company 
are  as  follows:  Lawrence  Price,  Pres­
ident ;  H.  E.  Bradner,  Secretary  and 
General  Manager,  and  E .  S.  Porter, 
Treasurer.

Pontiac—It  is  still  a  question  here  as 
to whether or  not the  axle  trust  organ­
ized  in  the  East  some  months ago  will 
take  up  the  options  it  has  on  the factory 
of  the  Pontiac  Axle  Co. 
It  was  an­
nounced  that  the  options  would  expire 
September  1,  but  is  now  stated  that  they 
are  good  until  December  1.  The  axle 
company  here  was  organized  by  vehicle 
men  who are  large  users  of  axles,  which 
they  formerly  purchased  of  the  trust.  It 
is  pointed  out  that  if  the  factory  passes 
into  the  new  trust  the  factory  men  here 
will  again  be  obliged  to  buy  trust axles, 
and  all  they  gain  by  selling  the  axle 
plant  will  be  quickly  eaten  up  in  the 
advance  the  trust  will  place  on  axles 
once  it  has  control  of the  market.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Grand Rapids  R etail Grocers’ Association.
At  the  regular  meeting  of  the  Grand 
Rapids  Retail  Grocers’  Association, 
held  Tuesday  evening.  Sept.  3,  Presi­
dent  Dyk  presided.

The  annual  election  of  officers  for  the 

ensuing  year  resulted  as  follows :

President—Fred  W.  Fuller.
Treasurer—L.  John  Witters.
Secretary—Homer  Klap.
Vice  Presidents—F.  L.  Merrill,  John 
Lindemulder,  J.  Frank  Gaskill,  Peter 
Braun,  Ralph  Moore.

Auditing  Committee—B.  S.  Harris, 

J.  Frank  Gaskill,  Gerrit  Roesink.

Mr.  Dyk  presented  his  farewell  ad­
dress.  He  has  served  the  Association 
faithfully  and  acceptably  for the  past 
three  years. 
J.  Geo.  Lehman  also  de­
clined  to  again  accept  the  office  of 
Treasurer,  giving  as  his  reason  the  fact 
that  the  person  who  occupies  this  office 
should  reside  on  the  East  side.  He  has 
given  the  Association  the  benefit  of  his 
experience  and  ability  for several years.
for 
membership  and  were  accepted  as  fol­
lows :  Bert  Petter,  corner  Quimby  and 
Plainfield  avenue ;  N.  K.  Jepson,  692 
Cherry  street,  and  Peter  C.  Cooper,  131 
Turner  street.

Three  new  members  applied 

A  complaint  was  brought  before  the. 
meeting  to the  effect  that  certain  hucks­
ters occupy  too  much  of  the  sidewalk  on 
the  market,  and  the  Secretary  was  in­
structed  to  communicate  with  the  chair­
man  of  the  Market  Committee.

There  being  no  further  business,  the 

meeting  adjourned.

Homer  Klap,  Sec’ y.

The  Boys  Behind th e  Counter.

Holland—Peter  Van  Anrooy,  formerly 
clerk  at  the  grocery  store  of  Will  Bots- 
ford,  has  taken  a  position  at  Will  Bots- 
ford’s  city  bakery.

Eaton  Rapids—Fred L.  Munson,  clerk- 
at  the  Wilcox  &  Godding  drug  store, 
has  had  such  flattering  offers  from  bis 
former  employer  at  Ithaca  that  he  has 
finally  accepted.

Kalamazoo—Louis  Hyman,  who  has 
been  with  the  P.  H.  Loeffler  Drug  Co. 
for the  past  seven  years,  will  leave  Sep­
tember  9  to  take  up  a  course  of  phar­
macy  in  Northwestern  University.

Alpena—Hugh  McGregor,  of  Ypsi- 
in  Wittel- 

lanti,  has  taken  a  clerkship 
shofer’s  book  store.

Carloads of Peaches Wanted Every Day
Cotton  Rubber  Lined  Mill  Nose

M.  O.  B A K ER   <&  CO .,  TOLEDO,  OHIO

References:  First National Bank, Toledo, OMo 

J. J. Coon, Toledo, Ohio 
Commercial Agencies

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Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company 

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W .  N.  FERRIS,  President,  Big  Rapids,  Michigan.

Grand  Rapids  Oossip

L.  J.  Hoffer has  purchased  the  drug
stock  of  J.  G.  Damsky  at  igo  Fourth 
street. 

_________________

The  Grand  Rapids  Book  Case  Co. has 
increased  its  capital  stock  from  $20,000 
to $35,000.

Mrs.  J.  M.  Strehl  has  removed  her 
grocery  stock  from  23  Scribner  street  „to 
11  Broadway.

M.  D.  Emerson  succeeds  the  grocery 
firm  of  M.  D.  Emerson  &  Son  at  143 
Livingston  street.

Thos.  Heffernan,  druggist  at  Bald­
win,  has  added  a  line  of  groceries.  The 
stock  was  furnished  by  the  Ball-Barn- 
hart  Putman  Co.

S.  W.  Porter,  who has  clerked  several 
years  for  Howard  E .  Gill,  at  Northport, 
has  engaged 
in  general  trade  at  that 
place.  Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  & 
Co. 
furnished  the  shoes  and  Roundy, 
Peckham  &  Co.  supplied  the  groceries. 
Lines  of  dry  goods  and  clothing  will  be 
added  later  in  the  season.

John  P.  Coeling,  of  the  grocery  firm 
of  Grebel  &  Coeling,  at  283  Jefferson 
avenue,has purchased  the  interest  of  his 
partner,  John  Grebel,  and  formed  a  co­
partnership  with  Gerrit Smitter,  former­
in  the  crockery  store  of  C. 
ly  clerk 
Blickley,  at  68  Monroe  street. 
The 
style  of  the  new  firm 
is  Smitter  & 
Coeling.  _____  

^______
The  Produce  M arket.

in 

Apples—Fancy  stock  easily  fetches 
$3@3-5°   Per  bbl.  an<I  cooking  stock 
commands  $2.25@2.75. 
Sweet  apples 
in  strong  demand  at $ i @ i .25  per 
are 
bu. 
Buyers  are  said  to  be  visiting 
every  apple  section 
the  country 
and  wherever  possible  they  are  placing 
orders  for  full  orchards  or as  much  as 
growers  will  sell.  The effect  is  to  stim­
ulate  growers’ 
ideas  of  prices  and  be­
lated  buyers  are  finding  the  price  up  so 
high  that  it  is  prohibitive.  Whether the 
conditions  actually  justify  this  situation 
only  the  future  can  determine.  Some 
say  there 
is  no  reason  for  it,  while 
others  equally  as  well  informed  say  that 
growers  will  be  able  to  get  whatever 
they  ask  as  there  are  no  apples  any­
„
„ 
where. 
, 
Bananas—Prices  range  from  $ 1.2 5 ®  
to 
1.75  per  bunch,  according 
size. 
Jumbos,  $2;  extra  jumbos,  $2.25.
received 
from  the 
Michigan  bean  belt 
the 
chances  for  a  normal  crop  are  excellent. 
In  Jackson  county  the  yield  will  be  90 
per  cent.,  against  75  Per  cent-  last  year- 
The  weevil  has  done  some  damage  in 
Calhoun  county,  but  buyers  are  optimis­
tic.  Heavy  rains  in  Ingham  county 
buried  many  of  the  early  varieties  in 
sand,  and  the  damage  from  this  source 
is  likely  to  be  heavy  in  the  other sec­
tions  of  the  bean  belt.  Kalamazoo 
farmers  claim  the  hot  weather  ruined 
the  crop.  Buyers  declare  these  reports 
are  exaggerated.  The bean  harvest  will 
be  at  its  height  in  a  few  days.

Beans—Reports 

show  that 

. 

.

Beets—40c  per  bu. 
Butter—The  market  is  flat  and  deal­
ers  are  disgusted  and  discouraged  over 
the  outlook.  Extra creamery  is  slow  sale 
at  20c,  and  dairy  grades  range  from  10c 
for  packing  stock  to  15c  for  fancy  tubs 
and  crocks.
Cabbage—$2.25  per  crate  of  thiee  to 

.

.

four  dozen.

and  large  in  size.

Carrots—40c  per  bu.
Cauliflower—$ i @ i .25  per doz.
Celery—15c  per  doz.  Fine  in  quality 
Corn—Green  commands  8@ioc  per
doz. 
,
Crabapples—Siberian  are  scarce  and 
high,  commanding  60c  per  bu.  and  $2 
_ 
per  bbl. 
,
Jersey  and 
Wisconsin cranberry harvest began  Mon­
day. 
is  said  that the  crop  ip  New

Cranberries-The  New 

It 

. 

Jersey  will  be  smaller than  last year and 
in  Wisconsin  about  the  same.  Weather 
conditions  have  injured  the  berry  se­
riously
Cucumbers—15c per doz.  for  hot  house 
stock;  40c  per  bu.  for  garden,  stock; 
12c  per  100  for  pickling.
last  week  were  the 
poorest  they  have  been  this  season,  in 
consequence  of the  amount  of  shrunken 
and  sloppy  stock  included in shipments. 
Candled  stock  commands I4@I5C,  which 
enable  dealers  to  net  their  shippers 
I2@ I3C.

Eggs—Receipts 

Egg  Plant—$1  per  doz.
Frogs’  Legs—Large  bulls,  40@45c.; 
medium  bulls,  25c;  large frogs,  i5@2oc; 
small  frogs,  5@ioc.
Grapes—Moores  and  Wordens  are 
held  at  15c  for 8  lb.,  and  10c  for  snide 
pony  4  lb.  baskets.  The  crop  promises 
to turn  out  good.

Green  Onions—10c  for  Silverskins.
Honey—White  stock  is  in light supply 
at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at  13c  and 
dark  is  in  moderate  demand  at  u@ i2c.
Lettuce—Garden,  50c  per  bu.  ;  head, 

60c  per  bu.

Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Musk  Melons—Osage,  Rocky  Ford 

and  Cantaloupes  fetch  75c  per doz.

Onions—70@75C  per bu.
Oranges—Jamaica  oranges  continue 
very  green,  but  they  stand  shipment 
well  and  the  relatively  high  prices  ob­
tained  for  fi rst  arrivals  seem  to  prove 
that  they  are  wanted.  A  strongly  acid 
fruit  is  liked  by  some  because  it  is  sup­
posed  to  have  curative  properties.  This 
has  something  to  do  with  the  consump­
tion  of  early  Jamaicas.
Oysters—Dealers  claim  that  the  sup­
ply  of  oysters  for  the  season  which 
opened  Sept.  1  will  be  larger and  finer 
than  for  many  years.

Parsley—25c  per  doz.
Peppers—75c  per  bu.
Plums—Gueii’s, 

$ i@ i.i5 ;  Green

Gages,  90c@ $i;  Lombards,  90c@$i.
Peaches—The  market  is  in  good  con­
dition,  considering 
the  unfavorable 
weather  which  prevailed  prior to  this 
week.  White  varieties  move  off  on  the 
basis of  5o@6oc.  Yellow  varieties  are 
in  good  demand  on  the  basis  of  75@&5C 
for  Red  Crawfords,  75@goc  for  Barnards 
90c@$ 1  for  Ingalls,  $i@ i.25  for  Reaves 
and  $ i @ i .25  for  Early  Ctawfords.

Pears—Flemish  Beauties,  $ 1 ;  sugar, 

7 5 c ;  Bartletts,  $ i @ i .25.

Potatoes—7 5 @ 8 o c   per  bu.  There  is 
now  no  shortage  of  supplies  and  the 
market  will  probably  work  to  a  slightly 
lower  basis.  The  uneven  condition  of 
the  crop  over  the  country  continues  to 
attract  attention,  but 
late  rains  have 
benefited  those  which  were  not  too badly 
injured  by  drouth  to  recover  and  the 
later  varieties  promise  a  fair yield.  The 
chief  complaint  in  those  sections  of  the 
country  which  have  a  good  growth  of 
vines 
is  that  the  tubers  are  small  and 
but  few  are  found.
Poultry—The  market  is  without  par­
ticular  change.  Live  hens  command  7 
@8c;  spring  chickens,  8@ ioc;  turkey 
hens,  8@gc;  gobblers,  8c;  spring ducks, 
7@9C.  Pigeons  are  in  moderate  demand 
at  5 0 ® 60c  per  doz.,  and  squabs  are 
taken  readily  at  $i.2o@i.50.
Radishes—12c  for China R ose;  iocfor 

Chartiers.

ginias.

String  Beans—75c  per  bu.
Summer  Squash—50c  per  bu.  box.
Sweet  Potatoes—$4  per  bbl.  for V ir­

Tomatoes—50c  per bu.
Watermelons—I4@i5c for home grown.
Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu.

A  Connecticut  man  is  seeking  a  di­
vorce  from  his  wife  because  she  stole 
chickens.  He  should  not  be  so  impa­
tient ;  turkeys  are  scarce  this  time  of 
year.

Lee  M.  Hutchins,  Secretary  and 
Treasurer  of  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins 
Drug  Co., 
is  spending  a  couple  of 
weeks  on the  Les  Cheneaux  Islands.

Wm.  T.  Hess  has  returned  to  Charle­
voix  from  Thompson,  where  he  spent  a 
week  as the  guest  of  Thomas  Friant,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugar—The  raw sugar  market  is  in  an 
unsettled  and  demoralized  condition, 
despite  an 
improved  demand  for  re­
fined.  Holders  are  storing  sugar  in pref­
erence  to  forcing  sales.  Prices  show  a 
decline  of  3-16C,  making  the  present 
price  of  96  deg.  test  centrifugals  now 
3  13-16C.  Holders,  however,  are  look­
ing  for  a  better  demand  shortly,  owing 
to  the  firmness  and  increased  business 
in  refined  sugar.  There  was  consider­
able  improvement  in  the demand  for  re­
fined  sugars,  attributed  chiefly  to  buy­
ers  being  forced 
into  the  market,  the 
supplies  on  hand  being  insufficient  to 
meet  the  requirements  of the  consuming 
trade.  The  trade  has  more  confidence 
in  the  future  of  the  market  and  there  is 
a  strong  belief  that  prices  will  go  no 
lower this  month.

Canned  Goods—Still  retain  much  of 
the* strength  and  activity  which  brought 
them  into  such  prominence  a  few  weeks 
ago  and  all  indications  point  to  a  con­
tinuance  of  the  present  conditions  for 
some  time.  The  interest  is  confined  al­
most  exclusively  to  the  future  of  toma­
toes  and  peaches.  The  farther  the  sea­
son  advances  the  more  it  becomes  evi­
dent  that,  while  the  crop  of  tomatoes  is 
late,  there  will  probably  be  during 
September  and  October  sufficient  to 
meet  all  wants.  The  peach  crop,  how­
ever,  does  not  show  up  so  well  in  point 
of  quantity,but  in  quality  cannot  be  ex­
celled.  Tomatoes  continue  firm  at  un­
changed  prices.  Spot  stocks  are  about 
closed  out,  and  what  few  remain  on 
hand  are  bringing  good  prices.  Spot 
corn 
is  scarce  and  firmly  held,  but  fu­
tures  are  rather  easy  and  packers  show 
more  disposition  to  sell  than they  did  a 
week  or so ago.  Peas  are  meeting  with 
very  good  demand,  especially  for  the 
better  grades. 
It  is  claimed  that  stocks 
of  all  grades  of  peaches  are  light  and 
that  there 
is  a  probability  of  a  great 
scarcity  in  this  line  before  next  season. 
New  peaches  are  selling  a  little  slowly, 
buyers  taking  but  little  interest  at  pres­
ent  prices,  which  are  considered  rather 
high.  Gallon  apples  are  firmly  held. 
It  is  understood  that  the  total  shipment 
of  gallon  apples  from  England  to  this 
country  is  several  thousand  cases.  One 
in  the  market  was  a  sharp  ad­
feature 
vance 
in  domestic  sardines,  due  to  the 
scarcity  and  high  prices  of  tin  plate. 
The  Seacoast  Packing  Co.  advanced 
quarter-oils  35c  per case  and  mustards 
50c  per  case.  Stocks  on  spot  are  be­
lieved  to  be  light. 
Imported  sardines 
are  very  firm  and  fishing  on  the  other 
side 
is  still  reported  very  poor.  The 
tendency  of  salmon  continues  toward 
lower  prices. 
It  becomes  more  evident 
every  day  that  the  pack  has  been  enor­
mous.  Supplies  of  red  Alaska  actually 
on  the  spot  are  light,  however,  and  in 
most  cases  full  prices  are  obtained.

Dried  Fruits—Stocks 

in  almost  all 
lines are  light  and  prices  are  well main­
tained.  The  consumptive  demand  for 
practically  all  kinds  of  dried  fruits  has 
become  reduced  to  small  proportions, 
due  largely  to  the  heavy  increase  in  re­
ceipts  of  peaches  and  other  fresh  fruits. 
New  prunes,  however,  are  in  excellent 
demand  at continually advancing prices. 
The  demand  is  for  nearly  all  sizes.  The 
statistical  position  of  prunes  is  sized  up 
by  the  California  Fruit  Grower  as  fol­
“ The  Association  now  has  on 
lows: 
hand  a 
little  over  30,000,000  pounds, 
which  should  certainly  be  reduced  to 
25,000,000  before  the  new  crop  is  ready 
to  move  in  any  quantity.  The  coming 
crop  is  variously  estimated  at  from  50,- 
090,009  to  60,090,000  pounds  for  the

or 

little 

lower,  around 

is  very  much 

State  of  California,  a 
less  than 
half  of  which  will  be  in  the  Santa  Clara 
Valley.  The  Pacific  Northwest  will  not 
turn  out  much  over  25,000,000  pounds. 
Some  place  the  figure  higher and  others 
point  to the  recent  heavy  dropping  and 
In  Europe,  while 
say  it  will  be  lower. 
the  crop 
less  than  last 
year’s,  one  must  not  overlook  the  fact 
that 
last  season’s  crop  was  enormous. 
Prunes  will  run  to  large  sizes  this  year 
in  reason­
and  new  fruit  will  be  ready 
able  quantity  within 
two 
three 
weeks.  Raisins  continue  firm  and  are 
in  fair  demand,  especially  for  seeded. 
New  crop  peaches  are  easier  and  apri­
cots  are  very  slow.  Dealers  say  that  the 
demand  for  apricots  is 
less  this  year 
than  for  many  years  past  at  this  season.
It  is  believed  that  prices  have seen their 
highest  level  for  some  time.  Currants 
are  firm  and  are  selling  in  a  small  way, 
business  being  confined  mostly  to  small 
lots  for  immediate  requirements.  Prom­
inent  holders  say  that  stocks  will  be 
largely  cleared  by  the  end  of  Septem­
ber.  Recent  estimates  from  Greece  put 
the  crop 
130,000  tons. 
The  first  new  currants  are  now  expected 
to  arrive  in  this  country  the  first  week 
in  October.  The  regular  fall  demand 
for  dates  is  starting  up  and  holders  are 
firmer,  present  prices  showing  a  loss. 
The  new  crop  is  progressing  well  and 
shipments  will  be  earlier  than  usual. 
New  Smyrna  figs  will  arrive 
in  this 
country  at  an  unusually  early  date  this 
is  expected  about 
year.  The  first  lot 
September  15. 
It  is  said  that,  if  favor­
able  weather  continues,  the  crop  will  be 
of  good  quality  and,  perhaps,  the  larg­
est  on  record.
Rice—Enquiries  are  good,  but, owing 
to  small  supplies,  offerings  for  rice  are 
limited.  There 
is  a  fair  business  in 
both  domestic  and  foreign  goods  at  full 
prices.  Consumption  continues  good 
and  stocks  are 
the 
country.
Tea—The  demand  for teas  is  slightly 
improved.  Prices  remain  unchanged.
Molasses  and  Syrups—Dealers  report 
few  orders  for  molasses.  The  trade  con­
tinues  to  carry 
light  supplies  to  meet 
the  usually  slow  demand  incident  to  the 
warm  weather.  Stocks  are  light  in  the 
hands  of  dealers.  There  is  no  disposi­
tion  to  press  sales  and,  in  order  to  se­
cure  supplies,  buyers  are  obliged  to  pay 
full  prices  for  all  grades.  The  spot 
stocks  of  domestic  and  foreign  straight 
molasses  show  a  further  decrease,  and 
it  is  generally  believed  that,  with  early 
cool  weather,  supplies  will  not  be  suffi­
cient  to  cover  requirements  before  the 
arrivals  of  new  crop.  Prospects continue 
large  crop.  Reports 
favorable  for  a 
from  Barbados  are  that  the 
recent 
heavy  rains  have  been  beneficial  to  the 
sugar cane.
is 
very  firm,  prices  having  advanced  $2@3 
per  barrel  the  past  few  days.  Vessels 
report  finding  very  few  mackerel,  and 
the  present  prospect 
is  that  there  will 
be  a  light  catch.  The  way  things 
look 
now  we  should think  the  present  was  a 
very  good  time  to  make  purchases.

Fish—The  market  for  mackerel 

light  throughout 

Nuts—Nuts  are  beginning  to  attract 
considerable  attention.  Filberts  are  re­
ported  stronger  on  the  other side,  stocks 
in  Sicily  having  been  considerably  re­
duced  recently  by  exportations  to  this 
country.  New  crop  advices  are  favor­
able  and  the  new  crop  will  turn  out,  ac­
cording  to all  reports,  something  in  ex­
cess  o f last  season’s.  Grenoble  walnuts 
are  in  good  demand.  The  new  crop 
is 
reported  to  be  a  record  breaker.  Brazils 
are  higher  with  the  tendency  still  up­
ward.
Rolled  Oats—The  market  is  weaker, 
there  being  a  decline  of  15c  on  barrels 
and  5c  per  case  on  competitive  cases 
and  Nickel  Oats.
in  the 
West  is  reported  to  have  had  a  serious 
effect  on  the  cucumber  crop.  The  cu­
cumber 
fields  are  badly  dried  out. 
Nothing  feels  the  touch  of  a  period  of 
drouth  quicker than  the  cucumber,  and, 
unless  there 
is  a  heavy  rainfall  soon, 
there  will  be  a  great  shortage  in  the 
crop.

Pickles—The  recent  drouth 

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Petting the  People

Strong Contrasts and  S tartling  Effects.
There  was  a  time  in  the  history  of the 
art  of  publicity  when  the  great  object 
to  be  striven  for  was  that  which, by  per­
sistent  appeal  to  the  eye  or  the  ear, 
should  clamor  loudest  for  attention. 
It 
mattered  little  what  kind  of  an  impres­
sion  was  made,  whether  the  rousing 
from  slumber  by  the  uncouth  tones  of 
the  night  watch  and  his  clanging bell  or 
the  more  respectful  appeal  through  the 
pages  of  the  “ news  letter” —as  the  first 
periodicals  were  designated—the  great 
thing  was  to  gain  attention.  At  that 
time  there  was  less  of  consideration  for 
the  finer  feelings  and 
sensibilities, 
probably  on  account  of  the  roughness  of 
a  more  primitive  mode  of  life  or,  what 
is  more  probable,  less consideration  was 
given  to  the  need  of  making  a  better 
kind  of  impression,  on  account  of  the 
newer  stage  of  the science. 
In its  mod­
ern  development  the  successful publicist 
is  the  one  who gives  most  careful  atten­
tion  to the  kind  of  impression  he makes 
on  the  minds  of  his  patrons.

There  are  some  advertisement  writers 
—and  their  number  is  not few—who still 
ape  the  primitive  methods  of  the  crying 
bellman.  These  are  they  who  deface 
every  available  wall  with  the  most  glar­
ing  contrasts  of  uncouth  color,  who  in­
trude  on  the  pleasantest  landscape  by 
any  means  within  their  power,  regard­
less  of  the  execration  such  vandalism 
must  provoke.  There  has  been  a  recent 
protest  along  this  line  so  vigorous  that 
it  has  greatly  diminished  the  work  of 
the  paint  vandal,  but  there  is  yet  far too 
much  of  disregard  for  public  rights  in 
the  intrusion  of  uncouth  pill  announce­
ments.

I  - wish  to  speak  more  particularly  of 
the  blood  and  thunder  element  in  mod­
ern  newspaper  advertising.  The  first 
thought  of  the  advertiser  is  to  make  it 
strong.  He  demands  of  the  printer the 
largest  type  that 
blackest,  boldest  and 
can  be  crowded  into his  space. 
If  he 
uses  a  border  it  must  be  “ good  and 
heavy.”   The  poor  printer  accedes  to 
the  demand  until  his  pages  present  a 
startling  patchwork  of  repellent  con­
is  not good  adver­
trasts.  Such  work 
tising.  The  eye 
instinctively  avoids 
ugly  contrasts.  Glancing  through  the 
pages  of  any  advertising  periodical,  the 
attention 
is  arrested  by  well-balanced 
and  artistic  display.  The  eye  dwells 
with  pleasure  on  a  symmetrical,  com­
plete  and  self-contained  announcement, 
while  the  hideous,  patchy,  black  con­
trasts  are  avoided  as  are  repelling  or 
forbidding  localities  in  a  landscape.

The 

judicious 

advertiser 

to-day 
strains  to  make  every  approach  to  his 
customer  as  pleasing  as  possible.  His 
signs  are  made  artistic  and  unpreten­
tious,and  in  harmony with the surround­
ings.  He  doesn't  strive  to -obtrude  a 
disagreeable,  or  worse,  bill  board 
in 
every  possible 
location.  His  space  in 
the  paper  is  valued  to the  full.  The 
preparation  of  the  matter  receives  the 
most  careful  attention  be  can  give  or 
command.  Moderate  terms  in  moderate 
dress  do  not  stun  the  eye  or  shock  the 
artistic  sense,  but  there 
is  a  candid, 
sensible,  artistic  appeal  which  leaves  a 
lasting  impression  in  behalf  of  the busi­
ness  advertised.

*  *  *

There  are  several  things  about  the 
hardware  advertisement  of  R.  I.  Hen- 
dershott  which  are  worthy  of  comment. 
In  the  first  place  the  writer  has  used 
material  enough  for five  good_advertise-

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

A CORN HARVESTER

Corn harvesting has been made eiisy and rapid.  No more corn cutters  and 
binding bundles by band are required.  The NEW OSBORN CORN HARVESTER 
does the work.  Corn has come to be the profitable crop in this county.  Get one 
of these machines and you can harvest j our own crop and your neighbors  cheaper 

l nave a tresh lot of buggies just in from the factory  comprising  all  kinds 
and styles and will moke you a  price that’s right.  Also bave a nice line of  heavy 
Team Harness, Collars, fly nets. etc.

Gian they can do it themselves.Buggies and Barnett.
Cream Separators.
Pumps and Ulcfl Pipe.
Stows and Ranget.

household should be without one:'

are right. 

Come and see what 1 have in the line of CREAM SEPARATORS.  So farm 

1 have everything required  in the pump ttne and will make you  prices  that  £  
A

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up-to-date. 

My assortment is complete,  my prices are right and my stock 
If  you  are  thinking  of  buying  a  new  stove or ran 

come .and see me.R. I. HENDERSHOTT

WEST END HARDWARE.

— H M M I M M M I — M M i H H H X

Folks who have clothes wash  them,  and  folks 
who wash clothes wring them  All  folks don’ t use 
wringers:  some folks twist their wrists  in  clothes 
twisting.  They get tired.  They  wear  oat.  them­
selves while  wearing  oat  the  clothes.  Clothes 
twisting squeezes out more wear than water.  The 
way to get water out of clothes is to use something 
ramie to take it out, and that's a 

There are poor Wringers  and  good  Wringers. 
A poor  Wringer costs less  and  makes  the  clothes 
cost more.  A good  Wringer costs more and makes 
the clothes cost  less. 
If you  want a good  Wringer 
with  Warranted'Rubber Rolls and  made  of  select* 
«¡d  material,  buy Of us  We won't handle a Wring­
er  with  composition  rolls.

ringer.

A *  f *   Mbit?  &  Son.

W hy  do  people 
trade  at  Shepard’s?

Because when Shepard tells a  thing 
it is  so  EVERY  TIME.  Shepard 
don’t palm off poor goods on custom­
ers.  Every article coming from  his 
store is the  best,  and  always  most 
emphatically the lowest in price.

J .  O. Shepard.

oooooooooooooo

T o   t h e   P e o p l e : .

We  propose  to sell  the  best Shoes made, and 
at  the  lowest  possible  pi ice.  We  have received 
in  Ladies'  Fine Shoes a new  invoice  of the  well 
known  Brook  Bros.’  make.  We  have also secur­
ed  the  celebrated  Keystone  line  of  Misses’ and 
Children's School Shoes.  Every pair fully guar­
anteed.  Come  in  and  see the  new Shoes.

We propose to be a public 
benefit in the Shoe 
Bnshiess.

We  o.re  not  the 
O nly  Grocers

On  the  street,  but  we  are 
selling  the  best  goods  mo­
ney  can  buy  as  cheap  as 
they can  be sold, and  make 
a  living  profit  Give  us a 
call.

S. E . Hosmer & Co.

Phone  Orders  Promptly  Attended  to

THE  GOOD 
OLD  QUAKER

One©  said  to1  his  boy : 

«¿•Nathan,  it  is  not  what 
tim e  reads  th at  m akes 
thee sm art:  it  is not what 
<hee cats th at makes thee 
fa t;  nor  what  thee  earns 
th a t makes thee rich, but 
what thee SAVES.**

This  saving  habit  may  be 
acquired 
the 
I «steady  use o f a  pass’ book 
account itj our bank?

through 

THE  ANTRIM  COUNTY  BANK, 

Central Lake,  Mfc|».

P A   full  line of

SCHOOL 
BOOKS 
AND SCHOOL 
SU P P LIES
At.........
W ILDER’S.

I Do You Need 
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the  Banner Plow.  No

Another good one it.

R.R. EDWARDS.

| F.  E.  Slater,

9   ^ar®   Machinery. 

Coopersviile.

ments—one  devoted  to  each  line.  Such 
advertisements  could  be  written  with 
either of  the  subjects  as  the  main  dis­
play,  and  the  other  lines  enumerated  in 
a  panel  separated  from  the  rest  and  so 
changed  to  one  of  the  other  lines  each 
week  to  excellent  advantage. 
In  this 
way  the  reader’s  attention  is  called  to 
all  the 
lines,  but  one  is  given  promi­
nence,  and  the  change  renews  the  in­
terest.  While  the  type  is  fashionable  it 
is  not  distinct  and  is  not  attractive  in 
such  an  advertisement.  There  are  too 
much  wording  and  too  much  repetition 
of  similar  phrases,  as  “  prices  that  are 
right,”   which  occurs  three  times. 
It  is 
well  to  be  careful  in  punctuation—lack 
of  the  possessive  in  the  word  “ neigh­
bor’s”   leaves  it  uncertain  which  are  to 
be  harvested, 
the  neighbors  or  their 
corn.

A  well-written  and  carefully-com­
posed  advertisement 
is  that  of  M.  F. 
White  &  Son.  The  wide  white  border 
is  effective.  Tbe  display  would  be  im­
proved  by  the  use  of  plainer  type.

J.  O.  Shepard  says  just  enough  and to 
the  point,and his  matter  is  well  handled 
by  the  printer.  Barring  the  prominence 
of the  superlative,  especially  in  the  last 
sentence,  the  advertisement 
is  a  good 
one.

R.  R.  Edwards  has  the  material  for a 
good  advertisement,  but  he  has  put  in 
some  things  which  do  not  add  to the 
strength. 
1  would  strike  out  the  first 
line  and  display  something  pertaining 
to  the  trade  in  its  place  and  would  also 
omit  the  philanthropic  proposition  in 
the  last  sentence.

S.  E.  Hosmer  writes  a  modest  adver­
tisement  which  is  judiciously  handled 
by  the  printer.  The  result  is  exception­
ally  good.

The  Antrim  County  Bank  makes  an 
effective  use  of the  old  Quaker  saying 
which  cannot  fail  to  increase  its  busi­
ness.

The 

seasonable 

advertisement 

of 
Wilder shows  how  few  words  are  nec­
essary  to  a  striking and attractive result.
F.  E.  Slater  writes  a  good  implement 
advertisement  which  will  tend  to  sell 
more than  plows. 
It  is  a  model  of  sim­
plicity  and  the  printer  has  done  his 
work  well 
limited 
space.

considering 

the 

Never Touched  It.

One  of  the  most  remarkable  feats  in 
the  history  of  golfing  was  performed 
near  New  York  a  few  days  ago.  A 
member  of  a  well-known  club  offered 
to  bet that  he  would  drive  his  golf  ball 
from  an  egg  without  breaking  the  egg.
The  bet  was  taken.  He  set  the  egg 
up  with  a 
little  sand  on  the  tee  and 
made  a  slight  indentation  in  the  top  of 
it  on  which  the  golf  ball  was  to  be 
placed.

When  the  ball  had  been  nicely  bal­
anced  on  top  of  the  egg  tbe  player care­
fully  took  aim,  got  an  accurate  swing 
on  his  driver,  and  finally  hit  the  ball, 
making  a 
long  drive.  The  egg  re­
mained  uninjured.

-  The  use  of  paper  for  window  and 
in­
terior  decorations  has  been  tbe  direct 
cause  of  a  great  many  disastrous  fires, 
and  to  those  who  make  use  of  this  ma­
terial  for the  purpose  of  decorations  the 
following  formula,  which  it  is  claimed 
will  render  paper  fireproof,  will  be  of 
interest.  Make  a  solution  of  ammonia 
sulphate,  eight  parts;  boric  acid,  three 
parts;  borax,  two  parts,  in  one  hundred 
parts  of  water.  The  paper  should  be 
immersed  in  this  solution  and  afterward 
pressed  with  a  hot  iron. 
I  do  not  know 
from  a  personal  test  whether this process 
will  do  what  is  claimed  for  it,  but  it  is 
at  least  worth  a'.trial_by’ anyone  who  is 
interested  in  the  subject.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

MORNING  MARKET.

Q uarters A lready  Too  Cramped for Large 

Offerings.

As  we  pass  the  height  of  the  season  it 
is  found  that  the  market  grounds  which 
were  planned  to  meet the  needs  of the 
future  are  already  really  inadequate  for 
their  purpose.  In  a  number of  instances 
the  crowd  of  teams  on  the  main  market 
street  has  been  so great  that those stand­
ing  in  the  alleys  were hopelessly penned 
in  and  had  to  wait  for  the  outward 
movement  to  begin  before  they  could 
leave  their  places.  Order  and  good  na­
ture  are  well  preserved,  considering  the 
density  of  the  crowd,  but  it  will  not  be 
long  before  there  will  have  to  be  an  ex­
tension  of  the  space.  Some  growers 
find 
it  desirable  to  secure  their  places 
at  a  very  early  hour—in  some  cases  as 
soon  as  midnight—although 
just  why 
this 
is  necessary  is  hard  to  conjecture. 
It  may  be  a  continuance  of  the habit ac­
quired  during  the  time  of  the  street 
market,  when  it  was  necessary  to  spend 
much  of the  night  to  secure  a  favorable 
place.

While  the  peach  easily  takes  the  lead 
in  products,  it  is  not as  dominating  as 
has  been  the  case  in  other  years.  There 
is  great  variety  in  the  sizes  of the loads, 
and 
in  many  cases  a  few  baskets  will 
appear  in  loads  devoted  mostly  to  other 
fruits  or even  vegetables.  There  is  also 
great  variety 
in  the  qualities  offered. 
Some  are  small  and  knarled ;  others  so 
overripe  as  to  barely  escape  the  notice 
of  the  inspectors;  but  all  seem  to  sell  at 
prices  making 
it  worth  while  to  bring 
them.  A  noticeable  feature  of  the  mar­
ket 
is  the  great  variation  in  prices,  es­
pecially  as  between  the  yellow  and  the 
white  varieties.  The  change  to  drier 
is  making  a  difference  in  the 
weather 
lasting  qualities  and 
is  giving  buyers 
much  more  confidence.  A  general com­
plaint 
is  the  scarcity  of  labor  in  pick­
ing  and  preparing  for  market;  indeed, 
this  is  a  great  trouble  in  all  kinds  of 
farm  work.  Plenty  of  employment  at 
good  prices 
in  the  cities  is  seriously 
affecting  the  rural  labor  market.  Road 
improvement, 
railroad  building  and 
other  industrial  enterprises  are  being 
postponed  for the  same  reason.

There 

While  apples  take  the  place  next  to 
peaches  in  quantity,  there is  little  inter­
est  in  this  staple.  Prices  are  good  and 
the  offerings  seem  to  sell,  but  loads  are 
generally  small  and  broken—often  only 
a  few  baskets  with  other  fruits or  vege­
tables.  Plums  would  seem  to  come  next 
in  quantity.  These  are  noticeable  for 
their  pale  color—the  damp  weather 
affecting  the  appearance. 
is 
much  complaint  of  rotting  on  the  trees 
and  picking 
is  hurried  in  many  cases 
to  save  the  fruit.  Pears  are  offered  free­
ly,  but  many  of  these  are  pretty  hard. 
There 
is  a  tendency  to  spottiness  in 
much  of  this  fruit  and  a  great  deal  of  it 
is  falling  from  the  trees  before  ripen­
ing.  Grapes  are  not  as  abundant  as 
might  be  expected  at  this time,although 
offerings  are  considerable.
the  usual  variety  and 
abundance  of  most  vegetables,  although 
scarce,  and 
potatoes  are  noticeably 
prices,  while 
the 
break  a  couple  of  weeks  ago,  are  still 
high  enough  to  prevent  reasonable  com­
plaint  from  the  grocer. 
great 
trouble  with  this  product  is  the  tend­
ency  to  streakiness,  especially  when 
grown  in  wet  soils.  Potatoes  will be  po­
tatoes  before  the  winter  is  over.  Other 
vegetables  are  unlimited 
in  quantity, 
but  prices  are  exceptionally  well  main­
tained.
M utations in Cigarette H istory for Twenty 

lower  than  before 

There  are 

The 

Tears.
From Tobacco of Aug. 16.

We  begin  our  review  with  the  year 
that closed  June  30,  1881,  twenty  years

of 

ago.  At  that  time  the  cigarette  was  not 
known  outside  of  a  few  of  the  larger 
cities.  The  industry  was  in  its  infancy, 
for the  product,  made  up  by  the  tedious 
and  expensive  hand  process,  had  at  that 
date  reached  the 
insignificant  total  of 
503,873,783,and  while  there  were several 
manufacturers  in  the  field,  none  of  these 
had  come 
into  prominence  or taken  a 
commanding  place  in  the trade.  A  fac­
tor which  probably  played  an  important 
part  in  keeping  the  manufacture  of  cig­
arettes  within  narrow  boundaries  was 
the  fax  of $1.75  per  thousand,  although 
the  price  at  which  the  goods  were  then 
sold  was  much  higher  than  at  a  later 
date,and certainly  high  enough  to  afford 
a  good  profit  to  the  manufacturer,  job­
ber  and  retailer.  Still,  the  growth  of 
business  was 
comparatively 
speaking,  although 
it  was  steady  from 
year  to  year.

small, 

Within  two  or  three  years  a  vast 
change  came  over  the  industry.  The 
Internal  Revenue  tax  on  cigarettes  was 
reduced  May 
1,  1883,  to  50  cents  per 
thousand,  but  at  the  close  of  that  fiscal 
year on  June  30,  the  production  figures 
indicate  only  602,237,810  made  and 
withdrawn  for consumption.  But  what 
then  occurs?  During  the  next  twelve 
months  the  total  tax-paid  product  was 
pushed  up  to  908,090,723,  or  in  other 
words,a  50  per cent,  increase  was added 
to  the  production  of  the  previous  year, 
and  from  that  time  forward  for fifteen 
years  there  was  no  check  to  the  ever 
increasing 
paper- 
wrapped  cigarettes,  until  the  dull  times 
1893  temporarily  disturbed  the  ad­
of 
vance  movement.
From  the  year  1885 competition which 
had  hitherto  been  more  or  less  friendly 
began  to grow  more  aggressive.  From 
1885  to  1890  over  235,000,000  cigarettes 
were  annually  added  to 
the  number 
made  and  consumed.  With the  tax  still 
at  50  cents  per thousand,  a  production 
of  2,233,254,680  is  recorded for the  fiscal 
year  1890.  The  fierce  storm  of  competi­
tion  soon  to  break  loose  was  not then 
anticipated.

consumption 

By 1893  one  company  was  in  the field, 
and  shortly after that  date  several  of  the 
leading 
tobacco  manufacturers  were 
making  preparations  to  preserve  their 
business  intact  by introducing cigarettes 
in  enormous quantités and  at  or  below 
cost.  This  campaign  was  purely  retali­
atory  in  its  nature  and  the  statistics  of 
production  show  how 
intensely  bitter 
the  fight  was,  for over  1,000,000,000  was 
added  to  the  tax-paid  product  in  less 
than  four  years.  The  low  tax  rate  made 
the  25-cent  packages  possible.

in  the  year 

The  campaign  of  retaliation  which 
went  on  between  1894  and 1897 produced 
marked  results. 
It  cut  big  holes  in  the 
profits  of  the  manufacturers  and  sent the 
statistics  of  production  up  to  the  4,153,- 
252,470  mark 
last  men­
tioned.  The  public  conscience  was  so 
aroused  that  the  sessions  of  every  state 
legislature  found  willing  advocates  of 
anti-cigarette 
laws.  Some  kind  of  a 
measure 
for  the  repression  of  the  sale 
and  use  of  cigarettes  had  been  passed 
in  every  state  of  the  Union,  we  believe, 
yet  so  long  as  the  tax  remained  at  50 
cents  per  thousand  these  laws  were  of 
little  effect  in  curtailing  production.

Within  the  next  year  competition  was 
somewhat  lessened,  but  the  increase  of 
the  tax  from  50 cents  to $1  per  thousand 
has  much  more  to  do  with  checking 
further  growth  than  all  other  factors 
combined.  The  increase  took  effect  July 
24,  1897,  and  with 
it  a  new  classifica­
tion  separating  the  paper-covered  cig­
arette  from  the  all-tobacco  variety,  and 
calling  the  latter  little  cigars.
Within  the  last  three  years  1,476,629,- 
098  cigarettes  have  been  clipped  from 
the  record, and  the  repressive  laws  and 
ordinances  are  scarcely  more  stringent 
than  they  were 
in  1898.  This  means 
either  that  an  equivalent  of  at  least 
200,000  smokers  nave  ceased  to  use 
paper cigarettes  or a  larger number  are 
.more  moderate  in  their use.

A  Green  L ittle  E pitaph.

A  green 

little  boy,  in  a  green  little 
way,  a  green  little  apple  devoured  one 
day,  and  the  green 
little  grasses  now 
tenderly  wave  o’er the  green little  apple 
boy’s  green  little  grave.

FREE  RAW   SUGAR.

P lea  F or  E arly  Action  by  the  Coming 

Congress.
From the  American Grocer.

Will  Congress  grant  it? 

If  public 
is  followed,  free  raw  sugar 
sentiment 
will  be  among  the  results  of  the  next 
Congress.  When  such 
journals  as  the 
New  York  Evening  Post  and  New  York 
Journal  of  Commerce 
look  with  favor 
upon  the  proposition  for  free  raw  sugar, 
we  may  take  courage  and  work  for 
its 
attainment.  The  Evening  Post  denom­
inates  the  matter  “ a  persistent  force  of 
self-interest  which  coincides 
in  some 
degree,  also,  with  the  public  interest, 
and  which  will  work  untiringly  and 
without  ceasing  for  the  introduction  of 
raw  sugar  from  Cuba 
free  of  duty.”  
Not alone  from  Cuba,but  unlimited  free 
raw  sugar,  with  a  protective  duty  of  % 
cent  per  pound  on  refined.

If  Congress  gives  the  country  free raw 
sugar,  it  places  a  premium  on  the  ex­
tension  and  multiplication  of  American 
industries  and  can  work  no  harm  to 
the  beet  sugar  industry  of  the  United 
States.  The  foremost  fact 
is  that the 
grower is getting $4  per  ton  for the  beets 
he  grows,  and 
if  the  sugar companies 
were  compelled  to  pay  $5  per ton,  and 
thus  add  greatly  to  the  gains  of  the 
farmer,  it  would  still  be  possible  for  the 
beet  sugar  factories  to  produce  granu­
lated  sugar  at  3  cents  per  pound,  and 
obtain  a  profit  sufficient  to  pay  8  to  10 
per  cent,  dividend  on  the  capital  in­
vested.
Free  sugar  cannot  hurt  the  farmer, 
nor  his  close  ally,  the  sugar  maker. 
Neither  interest  needs  much,  if  any 
protection,  and,  with  cheap  land,  mod­
ern  machinery,  and  latest  methods,  they 
can  defy  competition  with  countries 
that  grow  sugar  under  favorable  natural 
conditions.  The  American  beet  sugar 
industry  can  hold 
its  own  if  Congress 
gives  the  people  free  sugar.
In  1890 Congress  removed  the  duty  on 
sugar,  the  only  staple  besides  wheat  un­
iversally  used.  And  what  was  the  re­
sult?  The  per  capita  consumption  in­
creased  fifteen  pounds;  American  pre­
servers  almost  destroyed  the  trade  in 
English  jam s;  American  canners  found 
a  rapidly  extending  market  for  pre­
served  fruits;  the  confectionery industry 
life;  every  family  saved 
took  on  new 
enough  yearly  to  pay 
for  a  suit  of 
clothes  for  one  of  the  children;  and 
every  industry  into  which  sugar  entered 
gained  in  capital  and  trade.

its  credit 

When  the  United  States  Treasury 
found 
in  danger,  Congress 
deemed  it  wise  to  restore  the  duty,  and 
it 
is  a  significant  fact  that  from  that 
time  the  per  capita  consumption  fell  off 
below  the  average  of  the  period  of  free 
sugar.
To-day  the  Treasury  has  an  enormous 
surplus;  a  revenue  greater  than  its  ex­
penditures ;  a  credit  second  to  no  other 
government  in  the  world.  Could  there 
be  a  more  propitious  time  for  Congress 
to  give  the  people  free  raw  sugar— 
“ the  greatest  boon 
it  could  confer  on 
the  American  people?”   We  believe  the 
next  Congress  will.

It  will  not  check  the  farmers’  pros­
perity.  The  growers  of  beets  have 
demonstrated  they  do  not  need  a  duty 
on  raw  sugar,  and,  therefore,  it 
is  in 
order that  the  people  should  be  blessed 
with 
It  has  been 
granted  to  Hawaii  and  Puerto  Rico  and 
enjoyed  by  Louisiana  and  the  beet 
growing  States.

free  raw  sugar. 

Even  in  those  particular States  where

7

beet  culture  is  established,  the  benefit, 
outside  of the  profit  to  the  manufacturer 
of  granulated  at  3  cents  a  pound  and the 
extremely  large  advantage  to  the  farm­
er  with  beets  at  $4  a  ton,  is  denied  to 
the  community,  because  the  price  inci­
dental  to  the  reimposition  of  the  2 cents 
a  pound  revenue  advances  the  price 
from  3  cents  to  5  cents,  which  goes  into 
the  Treasury  of  these  beet  corporations. 
The  Sugar  Trust’s  demands  for  one- 
fourth  of  a  cent  a  pound  are  multiplied 
by  eight  by  the inordinate greed  of these 
beet  companies.  We  all  look  forward 
for  Mr.  McKinley,  with  the  aid  of  his 
party,  to  further add  to his  renown  by 
granting  this  inestimable  gift  to  the 
people  of  the  United  States.

Mrs.  O.  H.  P.  Belmont  was  forced  to 
abandon  her  proposed “ patent  medicine 
quadrille,"   which  was  to  have  been  a 
feature  of  her  dance  at  Newport  recent­
ly.  She  was  compelled  to  take  this step 
owing  to  the  avalanche  of  letters  and 
telegrams  which  the  announcement  of 
the  entertainment  brought  down  upon 
herself  and  upon  her  invited guests from 
the  proprietors  of  patent  medicines  and 
from  their advertising  agents.  Eager  to 
avail  themselves  of  such  a  favorable  op­
portunity  to  advertise  their  “ cures”  
among  the  “ four  hundred,”  they offered 
not  only  to  design  the  costumes  worn  to 
represent  each  particular  remedy,  but 
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GEBHANT’S NEW  TA RIFF.

A  good  deal  has  been  said  about  the 
ill-feeling  which  exists  in  Germany  to­
wards  the  United  States,  and  no  little 
of  it  has  been  attributed  to  the  discrim­
inating  duties  levied  by  the  United 
States  upon  the  bounty-protected  beet 
sugar of  Germany.

in  the  markets  of 

Possibly  that  fact  has  something  to 
do  with  the  matter,  but  the  real  cause 
for  the  envy  and  jealousy,  for that  is 
just  what  is  the  matter,  is the  successful 
competition  of  American  products  with 
the  German 
the 
world;  but,  above  all,  there  is  the  anger 
of  the  agricultural,  known  as  the  Agra­
rian,  class  at  the  great  quantities  of 
American  grain and provisions imported 
into  Germany.
•The  Agrarian  class,  composed  of  the 
agriculturists  and landholders,  is  able  to 
dominate  the  Imperial  Parliament,  and 
it  is  in  response  to  the  demand  of  this 
powerful  class  that  a  new  tariff  has 
been  made,  raising  the  tariff  duties  on 
all  food  stuffs  imported  into  the  coun­
try.

Under  the  new  tariff,  raw  cotton,  po­
tatoes  and  fresh  fruits  remain  free  of 
duty.  Petroleum  and  its  products,  lu­
bricating  oil,  paraffin,  etc.,  are  un­
changed  from  the  present  rate.  The 
principal  and  more  important  advances 
in  food  materials,  notably  cereals, 
are 
meats  and  live  animals.  The 
increase 
in  the  present  treaty  rate  of  83  cents 
to $1.54  per  100  kilograms  in  the  duty 
on  wheat  will  affect  most  directly  the 
United  States,  Argentina  and  Russia, 
which  countries  exported  to  Germany, 
in 
1900,  465,933,  479,928  and  278,195 
metric  tons  of  wheat  respectively.  The 
advance  on  rye  will  affect  principally 
Russia, which  sold  to  Germany  last  year 
834,327  tons of  that  cereal,against 21,906 
tons  from  the United States.  Oxen,  hogs 
and  poultry  come  mainly  from  Austria- 
Hungary  and  Russia.
Higher  duties  are 

levied  on  many

manufactured  articles,  by  which,  so  far 
as  American  products  are  concerned, 
bicycles  and  shoes  will be most affected; 
but  while  the  increased  duty  on  agricul­
tural  products 
interest  to 
the  countries  that  have  been  hitherto 
shipping  those  articles  to  Germany, 
what  is  of  vastly  more  concern  to  the 
German  people  will  be  the  increased 
cost  of the  necessaries  of  life.

is  of 

large 

It 

is  calculated  that  the  people  will 
have  to  pay  in  an  average  year  for 
im­
ported  food  about  $18,000,000;  but,  in 
addition  to that,  they  will  have  to  pay 
the  enhanced  price  on  all  the  home- 
raised  food  products  which  will  be  pro­
tected  by  the 
tariff.  United  States 
Consul  General  Mason,  at  Berlin,  in  a 
report  to  the  State  Department  at  Wash­
ington,  quotes  the  Berlin  Tageblatt  to 
the  effect  that  the  increased  prices  of 
food  will  “ revolutionize  the  whole  eco­
nomic, 
and  commercial 
status  of  the  German  people,  drive  a 
large  proportion  of  the  laboring  classes 
back  to  a  diet  of  black  bread  and  pota­
toes,  diminish  the  productive  strength 
of  the  nation  and  its  subsequent  power 
of  competition  and,  by  provoking  re­
prisals  from  agricultural  nations  like 
Argentina,  Austria  and  Russia—to  say 
nothing  of  the  United  States—imperil 
the  foreign  markets  for  German  manu­
factures,  which  have  been  to  so  large 
an  extent  the  mainstay  of  the  empire’s 
export  trade. ’ ’

industrial 

The  new  law  will  take  effect  on  Jan. 
1,  1904,  so that  between  the  dates  of  its 
enactment  and  enforcement  there  will 
be  a  period  of  probably  a  year  or  more, 
during  which,  Consul  Mason  thinks,  its 
provisions  may  be  to  some  extent  modi­
fied  by  concessions  granted  reciprocally 
in  commercial  treaties  with  other na­
is  expected,  may  be 
tions,  which,  as 
negotiated 
intervening 
period.

during 

the 

There  has  been  a  serious  decline  in 
the  earnings  of  the  English  railroads 
and  there  are  no  signs  of 
improvement 
in  the  immediate  future.  Commenting 
upon  the  statistics  a  London  corres­
pondent  remarks: 
“ This  decline-  of 
railway  receipts  is  almost  invariably the 
first  symptom  of  a  wave  of  trade  de­
pression  such  as  now  seems  to  be  be­
ginning  to  pass  over. Germany.  British 
shipowners  predict  that  next  year  will 
be  bad,  and  the  year after very  bad. 
If 
these  premonitions  are  verified,  bad 
times  are  before  the  British  railways, 
and  already  the  directors  are  coming 
in  for  searching  criticism. ”  
In  some 
is  a  disposition  to  find 
quarters  there 
other  reasons  besides  trade  depression. 
The  Westminster  Gazette  says  the  Eng­
lish  railroads  are  not  up  to  the  times 
and  that  their  service  is  far  behind  that 
in  America.  The  remedy  for the  pres­
ent  unsatisfactory  conditions, 
it  de­
clares,  is  to  give  cheaper,  better  and 
quicker  service. 
in 
nearly  all  its  time  honored  institutions 
is  being  badly  shaken  nowadays,  but 
England  will  probably  wake  up  and 
bold  a  prominent  place  in  the  proces­
if  she  ceases  to  be  ’the 
sion,  even 
leader.  Trade  depression 
in  England 
if  long  continued  would  be  a  loss  to this 
country,  for  England  is one  of  our  best 
customers  and  if  England  stops  selling 
it  will  also  stop  buying.  The  things 
that  Englishmen  buy  from  us  are chiefly 
the  things  that  enable  them  to  live  and 
they  will  of  course  buy  only  according 
to their  ability.

England’s  faith 

Horses  ought  to  wear  rubber  shoes  in 

this  era  of  electricity.

ANOTHER HEALTH  FAD.

There 

is  no  end  of  fads  about  pro­
moting  health. 
It  goes  without  saying 
that good  health  is  about the  most  val­
uable  possession  any  man  or woman can 
have.  Accordingly  it  is  a  theme  which 
affords  expansive  field  for  speculation 
and  experiment.  The 
ills  to  which 
mankind  is  heir  are  numerous  and  how 
to  cure  them  attracts  the  attention  not 
only  of  the  most  learned  scientists,  but 
as  well  of  the  vast  army  of  cranks  and 
fakirs.  The  other  day  the  Brooklyn 
Eagle  gave  nearly  a  column  of  space  to 
letter  from  a  man  who  declares  that 
a 
going  barefoot 
is  a  universal  panacea. 
He  says  that  the  bottom  of  the  human 
foot  must  be  brought  in  touch  with  the 
soil  and  that 
if  it  is,  there  will  be  an 
end  to  many  maladies.  He  points  out 
that  the  savages  who go  barefooted  do 
not  suffer  from  very  many  ailments 
common  to  a  higher  degree  of  civiliza­
tion.

life  is 

The  Eagle’s  correspondent  says  that 
people  troubled  with  insomnia have only 
to  walk  a  little  while  in  the  garden  or 
on  the  lawn  barefooted  just  before  retir­
ing  to  secure  refreshing  sleep.  He  says 
the  people  who  go  barefooted  never 
suffer  pulmonary  troubles, heart  disease, 
cancer,  toothache  or  poor eyes.  The fact 
remains,  however,  that  the  average  of 
human 
longer among  the  civil­
ized,  than  among  the  uncivilized  peo­
ple.  The  tribes  whose  members go bare­
footed  the  year  round  do  so  because  of 
the  climatic  conditions,  and  are  almost 
as  scantily  clothed 
in  other  respetcs. 
The  rigors  of  the  northern  country  de­
mand  protection  for  the  feet  as  well  as 
for all  other  parts  of  the  body.  Whoever 
should  go  barefooted  out  of  doors  for 
a  few  minutes  about  six  months  of  the 
year  in  this  region  would  in  all  proba­
bility  have  some  pulmonary  troubles  in 
short  order.  Horses  and  dogs  are  cited 
in  support  of  the  enthusiast’s argument, 
and  yet  horses  and  dogs  in  this  climate 
have  many  ills  and  the  veterinary  sur­
geons  do  a  rushing  business  the  year 
round.  Those  periods  are  very  short  in 
which  some  unbalanced  mind  does  not 
suggest  a  new  theory  for  prolonging 
life,  but  those  who  are  led  astray  there­
by  and 
induced  to  desert  established 
methods  for  self-preservation,  as  a  rule 
pay  the  penalty,  which  sometimes  is 
heavy.  Those  who  expect  to 
insure 
good  health  by  going  barefooted  every 
day  will  do  well  to take out an insurance 
policy  with  some  good  company  for  the 
benefit  of  their  families  at  the  earliest 
opportunity.

Postmaster  General  Charles  Emory 
Smith 
is  enthusiastic  over  the  prospect 
for  the  extension  of  the  free  delivery 
system  to  all  the  rural  communities 
in 
the  United  States. 
In  an  address  de­
livered  on  Grange  Day  at  the  New 
Hampshire  state 
fair  the  Postmaster 
General  announced  that  before the pres­
ent  fiscal  year  ends  the  department  will 
have  carried  this  service  over  8,000 
routes,  bringing  the  postoffice  to  the 
doors  of  more  than  6,000,000  people 
residing 
in  rural  districts.  There  are 
in  all  21,00c, 000  people  to  be  eventually 
reached  by  the  rural  delivery  system. 
The  statement  that  nearly  one-third  of 
them  now  enjoy  its  advantages  is  em­
phatic  evidence  of  the  progress  that  has 
been  made  in  the  few  years  since  this 
innovation  was  introduced.  The  terri­
tory  already  covered  is  larger  than  that 
of  all  England.  The  Postmaster  General 
gives  to  the  grange  credit  for the 
influ­
ence  it  has  exerted  and  the  assistance  it 
in  extending  the  service,
has  rendered 

and  he  says,  frankly,  that  the  govern­
ment  owes  as  good  service  to  the  peo­
ple  in  rural  districts  as  to  those in cities 
and  towns.  The  benefits  are  now  so 
generally  appreciated  that  there  is  no 
likelihood  that  any  power  can  prevent 
the  extension  of  free  delivery  to  every 
nook  and  corner  of  the  land.

It 

There  are  few  lands  where  the  Amer­
ican  tourist  is  not  welcome  to-day.  The 
American  spends  his  money  freely  and 
if  anybody  renders  him  a  service  his 
reward 
is  sure  to  be  generous.  There 
are  countries  in  Europe  that  are  jealous 
of  the  position  the  United  States  has 
gained  and  that  would,  if  they  could, 
check  its  further  advance, but personally 
Americans  are  nowadays  treated  with  a 
very  satisfactory  degree  of  respect.  As 
“ citizens  of  no  mean  country’ ’  they  re­
ceive  the  consideration  that 
is  their 
due.  The  power  of  the  Government 
that  is  behind  them  protects  them  from 
indignity. 
is  not often  that  the  ex­
ercise  of  that  power  is  required  in  that 
behalf,  for  Americans  have  a  way  of 
taking  care  of  themselves  wherever they 
go,  and  they  go  everywhere.  There 
have  been  times  when  Americans  ex­
cited 
animosity,  but  those 
times  appear to  be  happily  past.  Even 
in  Spain,  which  was  violent 
its 
hatred 
in  cbnsequence  of  the  war  with 
this  country,  it  is  reported  that  Ameri­
can  visitors  are  treated  with  the  utmost 
courtesy. 
It  is  actually  said  that  they 
are  the  recipients  of  especial attentions. 
Americans  abroad  can  do  a  great  deal 
to  produce  a  favorable  opinion  of  their 
country  and  it  is  to  be  hoped  that  the 
good  feeling  now  manifested 
toward 
them  will  not  for  any  reason  be  dis­
turbed.

intense 

in 

lines 

The  old  feeling  of  quasi  hostility  on 
the  part  of  the  farmers  toward  tbe  rail­
road  is  rapidly  disappearing.  The 
in­
terests  of  both  are  identical.  The  latter 
realize  when  the  farmers  are  prosperous 
it  means 
increased  profits  for  them, 
while  the  tiller  of  the  soil  has long since 
learned  that  the  managers  of  the  “ soul-, 
less  corporations”   do  not  lie  awake  at 
night  studying  ways  and  means  by 
which  they  can  squeeze  his  last  cent  out 
of  him.  The  latest  object  lesson  along 
these 
is  furnished  by  tbe  state­
ment  of  Paul  Morton,  Vice-President  of 
the  Atchison,  Topeka  and  Santa  Fe, 
who  says 
it  becomes  necessary  the 
road  will  haul  corn  into  Kansas  at  re­
duced  rates,  so  that  farmers  may  fatten 
their  live  stock.  This  is  not  the  first  in­
stance  of  the  kind,  either.  Years  ago, 
when  the  grasshoppers  had  eaten  up 
every  vestige  of  growing  grain  in  the 
Sunflower  State,  the  same  road  brought 
thousands  of  bushels  of  wheat,  oats  and 
vegetable  seeds 
into  Kansas  and  dis­
tributed  them  without  reservation,  ex­
cept  that,  if  tbe  farmers  paid  it  back 
when  they  were  able,  “ it  would  be  all 
right;’ ’  or,  if  they  were  never  able  to 
pay  back,  “ it  would  be all  right  any­
how. * ’

if 

Not  so  much  money  as  usual  will  be 
required  to  move  the  crops  in  the  West 
this  year.  Out of  580  banks  in  the  great 
growing  states,  422  report  they  have 
more  funds  on  hand  than  at  this  time 
last  year,  122  are 
in  about  the  same 
condition,  and  30  are  not  so well  sup­
plied  as  they  were  a  year  ago.  The 
is  prosperous  and  is  destined  to 
West 
become 
less  dependent  upon 
the  East  for financial  assistance.

less  and 

The  British  Islands  are  better  pro­
vided  with  rivers  than  any  other  coun­
try  of the  same  size  on  the  globe.

HOUSEKEEPING  BY  CONTRACT.
The  present 

is  an  age  in  which  the 
economies  of  living  and  of  business 
have  come  to  be  of  great  importance. 
In  every  new  country,  rich  in  the  pro­
fusion  of 
its  natural  products,  and  in 
which  the  scarcity  of 
laborers  makes 
high  wages  for  those  that  can  be  se­
cured,  there  is,  naturally,  a  vast  waste, 
because  nobody  sees  any  necessity  for 
economizing  in  the  material  and  meth­
ods  of  living  and  of  business.  But final­
ly  there  comes  a  time  when  all the econ­
omies  must be  looked  after,  because  the 
neglect  of  observance  of  them  means 
failure  or success  in  the  strenuous  com­
petition  that  is  sure  to  arise  when  busi­
ness  and  social  organization  shall  be 
fully  developed.

Such  a  time  has  come  in  the  life  and 
industries  of  the  United  States.  The 
conditions  which  permitted  cotton,  for 
instance,  to  be  sent  thousands  of  miles 
from  the  fields  where  it  was  grown,  to 
the  mills  where 
it  was  manufactured, 
have  now  disappeared,  and  it  has  been 
realized  that the  mills  which  are  put  in 
operation  in  the  immediate  vicinity  oi 
the  cotton  fields,  are  able  to  drive  from 
competition  those  far-away  mills  which 
once  enjoyed  a  monopoly  of  the  spin­
ning  and  weaving.  A  like  rule  obtains 
in  every  other  line  of  manufacturing 
and,  as  a  consequence,  the  old-time 
waste  and  extravagance  in  business  and 
living  need  to  be  eliminated  and  all  the 
In  this 
economies  available  practiced. 
connection  may  be  mentioned  some 
in­
teresting  experiments  in  applying  the 
economy  of  wholesale  methods  to the la­
bor of  family  life.  Of  course,  merchan­
dise  can  be  bought  in  large  quantities 
much  cheaper  than  at  retail,  and  the 
organized 
labor  of  a  given  number of 
skilled  workers  can  accomplish  by  such 
co-operation  vastly  more  than  could  be 
done  by  the  same  number,  each individ­
ual  working  separately  and  of  his  own 
motion.  Acting  on  this  idea,  in  1898 
the  Committee  on  Domestic  Service  of 
the  Boston  branch  of  the  Association 
of  Collegiate  Alumnae,  feeling  that  the 
solution  of  the  domestic  problem  lay, 
not  in  work  with  the  individual  domes­
in  the  evolution  of 
tic  employe,  but 
housekeeping,  decided 
to  study  the 
possibility  of  having  more  housework 
done  outside  the  home.  Laundry  work 
is gradually  being  done  more  and  more 
in  public  laundries,  and  the  standards 
of  work  as  to  cleanliness,  the  treatment 
of  the  clothes,  and  the  quality  of  the 
work,  are  rising.  Cleaning 
is  being 
done  more  often  by  outside  agencies 
coming  to  the  house  by  the  day.  The 
tendency  to  buy  wholly  or  partially pre­
pared  food  is  in  harmony  with  this  de­
velopment  and  with  the  principles  gov­
erning  the  industrial  world.

in 

The  need  and  value  of  the  work  be­
ing  so  clear,the  Domestic  Service  Com­
mittee  was  transformed  into  a  Commit­
tee  on  Domestic  Science,  and  investiga­
tions  were  started 
laundry  work, 
cleaning  and  foods.  When  the  difficul­
ties  of  the  work  were  seen,  it  seemed 
wise  to  do  but  part  at  a  time,  and  the 
work  on  foods  was  chosen  as  most 
im­
portant. 
It  was  determined  by  the 
Committee  that  a  scientific  study  should 
be  made  of  present  facts  in  regard  to 
this  debated  question  of  the  preparation 
of  food,  in  or out of  the  house.  Careful 
experimenters  were  enlisted  and  the 
work  was  begun  under  the  direction  of 
Miss  Gertrude  Bigelow,  a  graduate  of 
Wellesley  College. 
The  operations 
thus  carried  on  during  the  year  1899- 
1900 are  summarized  in  the  August  bul­

letin  of  the  Massachusetts  State  Bureau 
of  Labor.

The  carefully  conducted  experiments 
fora  family,  varying  at  different  times, 
of  from  ten  to  fifteen  persons,  demon­
strated  that the  home-cooked  food  could 
be  prepared  more  cheaply,  because  out­
side  establishments  were  conducted  in 
order to  make  a  profit,  but the  idea  was 
that  a  co-operative  establishment, 
in 
which  the  costs  were  borne  by  all  the 
participants  in  proportion,  with  the  ob­
ject  of  making  expenses  and  no  consid­
erable  profit,  would  be  much  more  eco­
nomical  than 
individual  home  cook­
ing.  But  since  families  must  eat  sev­
eral  times  a  day,  the  necessity  for  keep­
ing  a  kitchen  was  ever  present, whereas, 
in 
laundry  work,  which  only  has  to  be 
done  once  a  week,  and  requires  the  em­
ployment  of  extra  help,the  cost  of  home 
work  was  greater  than  that  hired  out.

Moreover,  when  food  was  procured 
from  outside  establishments  there  was 
no  assurance  that  it  would  be  received 
warm,  and  often 
it  had  to  be  heated. 
The  experiments  embraced  every  de­
scription  of  food,  including  soups,  fish, 
roasts  of  meat,  fowls,  vegetables  and 
desserts.  Some  figures  of  actual  cost 
may  be  interesting  in  this  connection.

In  the  first  experiments  the  average 
cost  per  person  per  meal,  including  fuel 
and  labor,  was 0.25569  cents  when  all 
the  food  was  cooked  outside.  The same 
food  was  prepared  at  home  at  an  aver­
age  cost  of  o. 16485  cents  per  person  per 
meal. 
In  other  words,,  the  cost  per 
person  per  meal  was  55.10  per  cent, 
more  when  the 
food  was  purchased 
ready  cooked  than  when  the  cooking 
was  all  done  at  home.

In  the  second  series  of  experiments, 
in  May,  1901,  the  average  cost  per  per­
including  fuel 
son  per  meal  outside, 
and  labor,  was  0.19533  cents,  while 
in­
side 
is, 
the 
ready-cooked  food  cost  30.22  per  cent, 
more  than  that  prepared  in  the  house.

it  was  0.15  cents,  that 

Without  doubt,  the  day  will  come 
when,  in  cities,  institutions  whose  busi­
ness  will  be  to  furnish  and  deliver 
cooked  meals  to  families  will  be  found 
on  every  hand,  and  they  will  make  it  to 
the 
interest  of  consumers  to  patronize 
them.  But  whether  the  relieving  of 
married  women  from  the  serious  duties 
of  housekeeping  will  be  generally  bene­
ficial  remains  to  be  seen.  When  the 
men  of  the  family  go  out  to  work,  the 
women  are  supposed  to  be  charged  with 
the  care  of  the  home.  They  should  be 
relieved  of  drudgery,  but  would  it  be 
wise  to  have  the  house  run  by  contract­
ors, with no  home  duties  for  the  women?

It 

is  stated  that  a  movement  is  now 
on  foot  in  the  City  of  Mexico  to  estab­
lish  a  permanent  display  of  the  goods 
of  American  manufacturers,  and  at  the 
same  time  to  place  in  at least  one  of  the 
great  cities  of  the  United  States  a  sim­
ilar  permanent  display  of  the  products 
of  Mexico.  By  this  means  it  is  believed 
that  trade  between  the  two countries, 
which  is  now  rapidly  increasing  in  vol­
ume,  will  be  still  further stimulated.

ADMITTING  CHINESE  LABOR.

In  the  course  of  a  year,  the  act  of 
Congress  which  excludes  the  Chinese 
from  immigration  into this  country  will 
become  void  and,  although  it  has  been 
accepted  as  a  matter  of  course  that 
Congress  will  re-enact it,  there  is  a  very 
decided  certainty  that  active  efforts  will 
be  put  torward  to  prevent  the prolonga­
tion  of  the  law.

There 

is  a  strong  and  growing  de­
mand  for  the  admission of Chinese labor 
into the  country  and  its  colonies,  and  it 
is  based  on  two considerations:  One  is 
a  requirement  for  cheaper  labor,  caused 
by  the  strenuousness  of  competition  in 
the  various  manufacturing 
industries, 
wherein  each  nation  is  contending  with 
all  the  others.  The  other  is  the  belief 
that  Chinese  labor  can  be  used  to  com­
bat  the  infamous  tactics  of  the  walking 
delegates  in  handling ignorant  working­
men  who  are  the  victims  of trades union 
organizations.

The  expiration  of  the  Chinese  E x ­
clusion  Act  will  occur  next  May,  and  it 
is  stated  that  in  the  New  England, 
Southern,  and  Middle  Western  States, 
where  the  Chinese  are  not  known,  and 
where  there  is  a  clamor  for cheap  labor, 
and  where  the  pauper  labor  of  Europe 
has  proved,  undesirable,  the  feeling  in 
favor  of  a  repeal  of  the  Exclusion  Act 
is  very  strong.  In  the  Hawaiian  Islands 
there  is  the  same  demand  for  cheap  la­
bor.  All  the  planters  there  and  all  the 
large  owners  of  sugar  stocks 
in  the 
States  and 
in  the  Colonies  are  almost 
sure  to take  a  stand  in  favor  of  Chinese 
immigration  to  the  islands.  Not  only 
this,  but  there  is  a  feeling  among  cer­
tain  employers  of  cheap  labor  that  the 
conditions  of  the  Exclusion  Act  should 
be  modified.

In  this  connection,  United  States  Sen­
ator  Perkins,  of  California,  has  declared 
to  the  San  Francisco  Examiner  that 
the  public  would  be  surprised  to 
learn 
what  prominent  men  have  spoken  to 
him  on  the  subject  of  the  Chinese  E x ­
clusion  Act,  and  against 
its  re-enact­
ment.

Of  course,  white 

labor  in  California 
will  resist  all  it  possibly  can  the  admis­
sion  of  Chinese 
labor  to  fill  up  all  the 
fields  of  industry,  not only  in  the  Col­
onies,  such  as  the  Philippines,  Hawaii 
and  Puerto  Rico,  but also  in  the  United 
States.  The  Chinese  are  not  desired 
for  employment  as  skilled  laborers,  for 
they  have  not  the  training  necessary  to 
the  higher 
make 
branches  of  manufacturing,  but 
in  all 
lower  branches  of  work,  where  no 
the 
special  training  and  experience  are nec­
essary,  the  Chinese  can  be  used,  and  it 
is  safe  to  say  that  neither  whites  nor 
negroes  can  successfully  compete  with 
these  Asiatics.

them  useful 

in 

It  is  not  only  a  matter  of  great  mo­
labor,  but  is  more  than 
ment  to  white 
ever of  vital  interest  to  the  negroes. 
If 
this  country  is  to be  flooded with Asiatic 
pauper 
is  certain  that  it  will 
sound the  doom  of  the  negroes, the  great 
majority  of  whom  are  unskilled  labor­
ers  and  would  suffer  most 
from  the 
competition  of  the  yellow  hordes.

labor,  it 

Statistics  of  farm  labor  prepared  by 
the  Agricultural  Department  show  that 
farm  laborers—those  who  work  for  hire 
—are  a  decreasing  element  as  compared 
with  the  entire  number of  those  who  do 
the  farm  work  of  the  United  States. 
In 
1870 they  constituted  48.9  per  cent.,  or 
nearly  one-half  of  the  agricultural work­
ers;  in  1880,  43.6  per cent.,  and in  1890, 
35.8  per cent., or a  little  more  than  one- 
third.

BETTER SANITARY  CONDITIONS.
Sometimes  there  is  an  inclination  to 
regard  scientific  innovations  as  fancies 
and  fads  possessing  no  real  value  and 
conferring  no  real  benefit.  The  scien­
tists  do  not always  agree  among  them­
selves  as  to  the  importance  of  discover­
ies 
In 
methods  of  sanitation  there  has  been 
such  agreement,  however,  that  general 
application  has  resulted  with  advan­

in  their fields  of  investigation. 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

The 
tages  which  all  can  perceive. 
statistics  recently  issued  by  the  Census 
Bureau,  showing  how  the  death  rate 
in 
American  cities  has  decreased  during 
the  past  decade  illustrate  in  a  striking 
way  the  change  that  has  been  wrought. 
The  health  of  the  nation  has  improved 
and  with  it  the  period  of  longevity  has 
lengthened.  Boards of  health  have  con­
tributed  to  this  desirable  result  by  the 
adoption  of  measures  to  prevent*  isolate 
and  control  cases  of  contagious  and  in­
fectious  disease,  by  showing  the  neces­
sity  for  pure  water  and  efficient  sewer­
age.  The  ravages  of  many  diseases have 
j  been  materially  checked,  consumption 
among  them.  Scientific  study  has  made 
the  nature  of  communicable  diseases 
better known  and  has  developed  means 
of prevention  if  not  cure.  Great  strides 
have  been  made  along  this  line  in  re­
cent  years.  Opposition  has  been  en­
countered  but  the  new  methods  have 
been  so  successful  that  public  sentiment 
strongly  supports  and  demands  their 
use. 
It  is  encouraging  to  have  the  evi­
dence  of  improvement  that  is  now  pre­
sented 
statistics.  Health 
authorities  will  gain  new inspiration  for 
their  tasks.  Much  has  been  accom­
plished  but  undoubtedly much more may 
be  done  to  improve  the  sanitary  condi­
tions  in  cities  and  villages.  Cleanliness 
is  a  virtue  that  is  growing 
in  popular 
estimation.  Clean  streets  are  not  only 
favored  but  insisted  upon  in  every  up- 
to-date  town. 
In  like  manner the  pub­
lic  will  be  sure  in  the  future  to  require 
that  every  possible  means  be  employed 
to  preserve  and  promote  the  general 
health.  There  will  be  no  looking  back­
ward  except  to  observe  advances that 
may  be  made.

in  official 

THE  GOLDEN  AGE  OF  LABOR.

A  writer 

in  the  Forum  relates  some 
interesting  facts  collected  by  him  in  a 
search  for  the  “ golden  age”   of  labor. 
Many  unthinking  persons  entertain  the 
idea  that  the  condition  of  those  who 
toil  is  not  so  favorable  now  as  in  times 
past.  There  is  frequent  reference  to  the 
good  old  times  carrying  with 
it  the 
impression  that  the  present  time  lacks 
advantages  that  formerly  existed. 
In­
vestigation  shows  that  the  number  of 
hours  of  labor  required  of  the  Wiage 
earner  has  steadily  decreased  while  the 
rate  of  wages  has  in  most  instances  in­
creased.  Conditions,  it  is  true,  are  not 
altogether  satisfactory  to-day,  but  the 
causes  for  complaint  are  decidedly  less 
grievous.  Mr.  Ghent,  the  writer  of the 
Forum  article,  expresses  the  opinion 
that  “ the  disparity  of condition between 
a 
laborer  and  a  Charles  Carroll  or  a 
George  Washington was probably greater 
than  exists  to-day between  a  laborer  and 
a  Carnegie.”

interests  been  advanced. 

In  the  last  hundred  years  the  work­
ing  man  has  gained  important  benefits 
and  especially  in  the  United States have 
his 
In  all 
countries  there  has  been  some  improve­
ment  but  here  the  men  who work  with 
their  hands  have  secured  the  most  gen­
erous  treatment.  The  “ golden  age”   of 
labor  is  the  present  age.  Much  has  been 
accomplished  through  organization  and 
legislation,  but  the  greatest  gains  have 
come  through  education  and  apprecia­
tion  of  the  fact  that  the  progress  of  the 
race  can  only  go  forward  as  the  condi­
tion  of  the  masses 
reaches  higher 
planes.  The  millennium has not arrived. 
Capital  and  labor do  not  yet  work  en­
tirely  in  harmony.  They  will  clash 
in 
the  future  as  they  have  in  the  past,  but 
1 labor  is  destined  to  more  and  more 
nearly  obtain  its  full  reward  without 
putting  hindrances  in  the  path  of  capi­
tal  or hampering  its  operations.

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Clothing

B eginning o f  Success  W ith  th e  Coatless 

Costume.

The  coatless  man  is wholly  and  indis­
putably  an  American  institution  of  very 
recent  origin.  Men  have  gone  in  their 
shirt  sleeves  during  the  heat  of the mid­
summer  days  from  time  immemorial, 
but  this  custom  has  nothing  whatever 
to  do  with  the  birth  of  the  coatless  cos­
tume  of  a  year ago  and  its  pronounced 
development  and 
increased  popularity 
this  year.  We  have 
just  reached  the 
beginning  of  success  with  the  coatless 
costume.

American  men  are  dressing  closer  to 
comfort  than  to  ethics  in  dress,  yet  are 
not  violating  the  rules  of  the  latter  with 
apparel  that  is  not genteel,  refined  and 
dressy. 
In  midsummer  negligee  dress 
America  has  set  the  style  for  the  fash­
ionable  world.  During 
the  present 
season  Frenchmen  have  sought  for  and 
to  some  extent  have  picked  up  the  coat­
less  costume.  Englishmen  have  not. 
It  is  said  that  the  only  coatless  cos­
in  London  this  year  were 
tumes  seen 
those  worn  by  American  tourists. 
In 
England  it  is  the  custom  on  hot  days  to 
wear  the  cutaway  or  frock  coat  primly 
buttoned  over  a  waistcoat,  high  collar 
and  stiff  tie,  the  climax  being  reached 
with  a  silk  bat.  Many  institutions 
in­
sist upon  the  silk  hat on  their  employes, 
even  down  to  the  office  boy. 
It  is  an 
absurd  custom,  but  is  one  that  dates 
back  to  an  indefinite  period.

In  one  respect  Americans  have  set 
aside  ethics  of  dress,  but  have  paliated 
the  offense  by  adopting  a coatless  dress, 
which  has  been  both  neat,  fresh  and 
dressy—a  vast 
improvement  over  the 
old  alpaca  coats,  the  limp  linen  coats 
and  trousers  and  the  still  more  dilapi­
dated-looking  seersuckers  of our fathers' 
early  days.

The coatless  costume  really  came  into 
existence  as  a  mode  of  dress  late  last 
season,  when  the  shirt  waist  sprang  into 
guch  prominence  and  furnished  an  un­
limited  source  of 
for  the 
humorous  writer.  The 
lateness  of  the 
season  prevented  the  real fasbionmakers 
from  giving  the  subject  the  thought 
and  study  it  warranted.

fun-stock 

The  dress  of  this  season 

is  such  a 
vast  improvement  over  that  of  last  as to 
immediately  affirm  that  brains  and  ex­
perience  have  been  at  work  on  the  va­
rious  articles  of  apparel  which  go  to 
make  up  a  coatless  costume.

The  negligee  shirt,  which 

in  cities 
has  answered  the  purpose  of  the  dressy 
man  for a  shirtwaist,  has  been  designed 
and  made  with  a  view  of  its  being  worn 
with  or  without  a  coat.  The  patterns 
and  colorings  have  had  the  same  atten­
tion  and  selections  have  been  along  the 
same  line.

The  greatest  and  most  marked  im­
provement  in  the  coatless  costume  is 
noted  in  the  trousers  designed  for  mid­
summer.  They  are  no  longer the  baggy 
affairs  which  masqueraded  as  outing 
trousers  several  years  ago,  and  only 
held  the  name  for the  reason  that  they 
were  made  long  enough  to  roll  up  at  the 
bottoms,  had  belt 
loops,  and  buttons 
sewed  on  the  inside  of  the  waistbands. 
To-day  these  trousers  are  neat  and  trim 
around the  hips,fitting  snugly  across  the 
back  and  hips  which  almost  entirely 
support  the 
tightness 
across  the  abdomen  necessary  to get  a 
fit  around  the  waist  in  the  old  trousers 
has  been  eliminated  and  now  men  who 
can  not  endure  pressure  on  the  stomach 
by  belt  or  waistband  can  comfortably

trousers.  The 

The 

leg  design 

wear  them. 
is  no 
longer  straight,  but  is  conforming to the 
man.  Undoubtedly  the  trousers  as  they 
have  been  made  by  the  better class  of 
firms  for  midsummer  this  season  have 
done  more  toward  increasing  the  popu­
larity  of  the  coatless  costume  than  any 
two  other  reasons.

Attention  of  the  creative  and 

invent­
ive  mind  next  turned  to  the  suspend­
ers,  which  the  majority  of  men  must 
wear.  The  old  six-end  style  gave  way 
to the  simpler and  better two-end  style. 
Now  only  the  one  button  over each  hip 
is  used—at  the  very  point  where  the 
support  is  most  needed  to  hold  up  the 
trousers.  These  are  light  summer  sus­
penders  and  are  worn  under the negligee 
shirt  or shirtwaist.

These  are  most  notable  improvements 
in  the  coatless  costume  over that  of  last 
year.  They  have  added  greatly  to  the 
popularity  of  the  costume  by  getting 
nearer  to  the  sensible  and  the  practical. 
They  are but  starters  on  the  road  to  suc­
cess.

Men  are  now  dressing  cooler and more 
sensibly  than  at  any  time  in  the  history 
of  clothing,  and  their  demand  is  for  a 
costume  that  will  more  nearly  give them 
the  comforts  in  business  that  a  woman 
enjoys  on  the  streets.  They  want 
light 
clothing  and 
little  of  it  in  sweltering 
hot  days,  and  they  are  getting  nearer 
to their wants  every  day.

The  success  of  the  coatless  costume 
this  season  will  undoubtedly  spur shirt 
manufacturers,  clothing  manufacturers 
and  makers  of  furnishing  goods  to  great 
efforts  for  next  year’s  wear.  There  will 
be  many 
improvements,  and  marked 
ones,  too.  The  shortcomings  that  have 
become  apparent  this  season  will  be 
corrected  next.  It  is  not  predicting  im­
possible  things  to  say  that the number of 
coatless  men  next  year  will  be  fully 
double  that  of  this  season.  The  style  is 
established  and 
is  now  on  a  sensible, 
practical  footing.—Apparel  Gazette.

W omen’s  N atures  A pparently Changed by 

Shopping.

“ Ever go  shopping?"  asked  the  ob­
servant  man  of  his  youthful  companion. 
‘ No?  Well,-  probably  you  will  some 
If  you  do,  just  notice  the  women 
day. 
a  suggestion  that  is  needless,  by  the 
way,  because  you  can’t  help  it.  Now, 
ordinarily, I  like  to  look  at  the  women— 
they  are  a  pleasing  sight  usually—but  I 
don’t  like  to  see  them  when  they  are 
shopping. 
It  seems  to  change  their  na­
tures  entirely.

“ No,  1 

am  not  referring 

to  the 
threadbare  bargain'  counter 
jokes,  nor 
do  I  mean  that  bargain  counters  change 
their  demeanor. 
I  suppose  they  do,  but 
I  have  always  carefully  refrained  from 
observing  the  feminine  gender at  a  bar­
gain 
But  the  atmosphere 
contiguous  to  the  big  stores  has an effect 
on  a  woman  that  is  wonderful—awful.

counter. 

“ My  wife 

induced  me  to  go  down 
town  to  a  department  store  with  her  the 
other  day  while  she  selected  some  dress 
goods  that  she  wanted. 
I  noticed  the 
different  manners  of the  women.  They 
think  nothing  of  shouldering  a  man  out 
of  the  way.  And  as  to other women! 
Why,  each  one  seems  bent  on  being  as 
discourteous  as  possible. 
I  am  not  a 
lightweight,  as  you  know,  but  I  was 
shouldered  and  pushed  by  big  women 
and  small  women  a t . times  when  I 
thought  I  was  the  least  in  the  way.

‘ * In  the  stores  and  in  the  street  they 
walked  on  my  heels,  dug  their  elbows 
into  my  sides  and  knocked  my  bat  off 
half a  dozen  times.  Did  they  apologize? 
On  the  contrary,  they  glared  at  me  as

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

I 

closed 

thanks.  Finally, 
the  door 
gently  and  turned  around  to  receive  a 
glare  of  disgust  from  the  woman  who 
would  have  passed  through  next  had  I 
continued  to  hold the door open.  I might 
have  been  standing  there  yet  holding 
that  door 
if  I  had  waited  for  any  ac­
knowledgment  from  the  women.

“ I  tell  you,  my  boy,  woman  is  a  glor­
ious  creature  ordinarily,  but  I'd   rather 
be  in  a  crowd  waiting  to enter  the  scene 
of  a  prize  fight  than  among  a  lot  of 
women  shopping."

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though  I  were  the  one  who  had  done the 
injury.

“ I  can  stand  a  good  deal  when  it  is 
necessary,  but  in  this  case  I  thought 
after  a  few  minutes  in  the  store  that  I 
had  stood  enough.  So  I went outside  to 
let  my  wife,  whose  conduct  was  no  bet­
ter than  that, of  any  other  woman,  get 
along  by  herself,  which  she  seemed  to 
be  amply  competent  to  do.  And  here  I 
experienced  the  worst  treatment  of all. 
I  know  what  I  am  about  to tell  you  will 
seem 
like  a  joke  or a  falsehood,  but  I 
give  you  my  solemn  word  of  honor  that 
it  is  the  truth.

is  where  I  made  a  mistake. 

“ As  I  passed  out  of  the  big  door  I 
it  open  for  a  woman  to  enter. 
held 
There 
I 
noticed  afterward  that  shopping  eti­
quette  requires  that  you 
let  go  of the 
door  as  soon  as  you  can,  no  matter  if  it 
bits  anybody  or  not. 
I  bowed  as  she 
passed,  expecting  to  receive  her  ac­
knowledgments.  Did  I  get  them?  Not 
even  a  stare  to  resent  my  impudence.

“ Such  a  stream  of  women  was  pass­
ing  in  that  I dared  not  let  go  of the door 
for  fear  of  hitting  one  of them  with 
it. 
I  recovered  from  my  astonishment  in  a 
moment,  and  thought  I  would  see  how 
far this  thing  would  go. 
I  counted  the 
women  who  passed  through  the  doorway 
I  was  keeping  open. 
In  the  space  of  a 
very few  minutes,believe  me, no  women 
passed  through  that  portal,  and  not  a 
single  one  of  them  acknowledged  my 
courtesy  by  so  much  as  a  glance  of

M

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^   somely illustrated Fall and Winter sample book.show-
ing a bigassortment of cloth samples representing our
"a 

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

C H I C A G O ,   X X iXiZBrO X S.

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Dry Goods

Weekly  M arket Review  of  the  P rincipal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—The  condition  in  the 
staple  end  of  the  cotton  goods  market 
shows  but  little  change  this  week  from 
It 
what  we  have  previously  reported. 
is  slow  in  changing,  although  there 
is 
some  slight  alteration  for  the  better. 
Heavy  brown  sheetings  and  drills  are 
limited 
for  home  consumption,  and 
prices  are  slightly  irregular.  Bleached 
cottons  are  receiving  a  fair  amount  of 
attention 
in  the  way  of  small  and  me­
dium  sized  orders  at  previous  prices, 
but  sellers  of  all  leading  tickets  hold 
steady.  There  is  small  demand  for den­
ims,  and  the  market  is  reported  as  be­
ing  quite  irregular  in  some  sections.

Prints and  Ginghams—Printed fabrics 
show  an  improved  request  by  way  of 
the  mails,  and  also  from  buyers  in  the 
market.  The  agents  are  only  sorry  that 
they  cannot  supply  the  demand  for  cal­
icoes.  Prices  are  higher  and  show  a 
tendency  to  advance  still  more,  and 
it 
is  probable  that  the  demand  will  in­
crease  as  soon  as  the  situation  is  fully 
understood  by  the  buyers.  Stocks  are 
very  small  and  constantly  decreasing, 
the  demand  already  being  ahead  of  the 
production.

Cotton  Blankets—Have  been  moved 
freely  at  first  hands  on  account  of  the 
demand  on  the  jobbers  by  the  retailers. 
A  portion  of  this  business  has  necessar­
ily  been  turned  down  on  account  of  the 
inability  of  agents  to  comply  with  de­
liveries  as  demanded.  Nearly  all  are 
wanted  at  once  or within  a  very  short 
time.

Shirtings—Are 

in  good  demand,  not 
only  for  shirting,  but  other  purposes, 
and  anything  that  can  be  found  for  spot 
delivery  is  wanted  at  once. 
These 
goods  are  well  sold  ahead  in  the  most 
desirable  patterns,  and  stocks  are  not 
being  replenished  to  any  extent.  A 
large  number  of  the  looms  that  would 
naturally  make  these  goods are now busy 
on  entirely  different  fabrics.

Dress  Goods—The  spring  season  is 
still  in  the  prospective  stage.  Here  and 
there  goods  are  being  shown,  principal­
ly  of  foreign  make,  and  a 
limited  vol­
ume  of  orders  have  been  taken.  There 
are  a  considerable  number  of  foreign 
lines  ready  to be  shown  when  the proper 
time  comes,  and  some  of  the  domestic 
lines  are  nearly  ready  for the 
staple 
buyers’ 
inspection.  Agents,  however, 
are  not  inclined  to  show  undue  haste  in 
launching  their new  lines  on  the  mar­
ket.  For  one  thing,  the  buyer  does  not 
show  any  great  desire  to  start  the  ball 
rolling  on  light  weights,  and  the  agent 
is  disinclined  to  force  his  attention. 
Comparatively  little  will  be  done  on  the 
new  lines  until  after  the 
ioth  of  the 
month,  and 
it  will  be  ten  days  or two 
weeks  longer  before  the  market  will  be 
generally  open.  The feeling  of  the  trade 
is  overwhelmingly 
in  favor  of  plain 
goods,  and  the  course  of  the  demand  is 
expected  to  be  very  much  in  the  nature 
of  a  repetition  of  last  season.  A  good 
business  is  anticipated  on  sheer fabrics.
Knit  Goods—Prices  on  spring  goods 
are  very  unsteady,  caused  partly  by  the 
extreme  unsettled  condition  of the  yarn 
market,  and  partly,  although  to  a  more 
limited  extent,  by  overanxiety  on  the 
part  of  some  manufacturers  to  undersell 
the  others.  This  extreme  cutting  of 
prices  in  some  cases  causes  watering  of 
goods,  and  subsequently  cancellations. 
The  manufacturer  in  these  cases  sees 
that  he  cannot  make  up  the  goods  or­

dered  at  the  price  accepted,  without 
himself  losing  money,  and  so the  goods 
delivered  are  quite  a  different  thing 
from  those  submitted  to  the  buyer.  We 
have  noticed  balbriggan  underwear 
in 
the  window  of  the  retailer,  that  was 
claimed  to  have  been  made  from  gen­
uine  combed  Egyptian  yarn,  selling  at 
25c  per  garment,  when,  as  a  matter  of 
fact,  no  underwear of that  kind  can  be 
profitably  retailed  under  50c  per gar­
ment.

Carpets—The  market  from  the  job­
bers’  standpoint  has  continued  quiet. 
As  this  is  usual  at  this  season  of  the 
year,  there  are  very  few  who  are  disap­
pointed  at  the  volume  of  business.  Re­
garding  an  advance  in  prices,  the 
job­
bers  and  cut-order  stores  do  not  antici­
pate  any  higher  values  this  season. 
In 
fact,  they claim  that at  the  present  level 
the  volume  of  business  with  some  has 
been  below  expectations.  Some  New 
York  selling  agents  have  obtained  of 
late  some  very  fair  orders  for  the  best 
ngrains  and  art  squares. 
In  general, 
the  season  has  been  a  serious  disap­
pointment  to  many  manufacturers  of  in­
grains.  Occasional  mills  have  been 
found  this  week  which  are  quite  busy 
on 
ingrains.  While  the  majority  are 
now  winding  up  their  orders,  some  are 
stopping  their  looms  as  soon  as  orders 
in  hand  are  completed,  and  after  Sep­
large  number of  ingrain 
tember  15,  a 
looms  will  be 
idle.  When  the  writer 
asked  a  large  manufacturer the  cause  of 
the  short  season,  he  replied  that  there 
were  various  reasons,  one  of  the  most 
important  being  the  fact  that 
in  the 
West,  where  such 
large  business  had 
been  done  for  many  years,  the  failure 
in  the  corn  crop,  besides  other  local 
causes,  had  induced  the  Western  buyers 
to  remain  at  home  instead  of  coming 
East  to  place  orders  until  they were sure 
of  future  conditions.

Straw  Mattings—The  sales  are  now 
falling  off as  compared  with  the  distri 
bution  earlier  in  the  season.  Imports  of 
China  matting  have,  to  some  extent 
few 
been  reduced  during  the  past 
months,  while  the  Japanese  matting 
is 
in  volume.  Prices, remain 
increasing 
steady  at  former quotations.

Smyrna  Rugs—The  months  of  July 
and  August  have  been  noticeable  thi 
year,  as  there  have  been  a  number of 
job  lots  sold  in  fair quantities  at 
lower 
than  regular  prices.  Buyers  will  be  able 
to  obtain  them  at  cut  rates  after  Sep 
tember  10,  and  from  that time  on  into 
the  fall  months the  prices  will  be  firmer 
and  h'eld  for an  advance.

A  Correct Estim ation  of Values.

*  One  of the  first  things  to  learn  in  life 
is to  put  the  proper  value  on  things. 
It 
is  most  unfortunate  for  an  American 
youth  to  be  brought  up  to  think  that  no 
one 
is  successful  unless  he  has  been 
able,  by  hook  or  crook,  to  Hit  himself 
above  the  common  order  of  mankind 
No  man 
is  supposed  to  be  successful 
who  has  not  lifted  himself  out  of  pov­
erty.  The  American  youth 
is  seldom 
told  that  to  perform  the  common  duties 
of  life  is  to  succeed.  Somehow  or other 
the  word  “ success,”   is  nearly  always 
linked  with  fame  or with  the attainment 
of  great  riches,  when  it  applies,  just  as 
readily,  to  the  man  who  rises  in  a  mod­
erate  way  in  city  and  in  country. 
The 
fact  is  that  most  of  us  can  never hope  to 
be  rich.  The  greatest  wealth  of this 
country 
is  not  among  the  millionaires, 
but  among  the  common  honest  people, 
who  are  content  to  do  their  duties, 
cheerfully,  willingly,  as  well  as  they 
know  how,  and  then  save  part  of  what 
they  make.—Success.

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.

0.  R.  &  I.

Annual  Excursion

TO

Northern  Michigan

September  10,1901

FROM STATIONS  PLAINWELL 
TO  REED CITY INCLUSIVE

Round  Trip 

TO

P eto sk ey

OB

T raverse
City

$4.00

TO

M ackinac
Island

$5.00

Tickets  good 
returning 
until 
Sept. 20

S P E C IA L   T R A IN S   W IL L   B E  

R U N   A S   FO L LO W S:

(a)  On time of No. 7—

“ The Northern Arrow.”

Lv. Grand Rapids........2:00pm
Ar. Traverse City........6:50pm
Ar. Petoskey................7:36pm

(b)  On time of train No. 3—
Lv. Grand Rapids......10:45pm
Ar. Traverse City  ___ 4:15am
Ar. Petoskey..............  5:35am
Ar. Mackinac Island..  8:15am 
Lv. Grand Rapids...... 7:45am

Passengers  for  Mackinac 
Island  can  stop  off  at  Petos­
key either going  or  returning 
without  extra  charge.  Train 
will stop  at  stations  north  of 
Cadillac  to  leave  passengers. 
Baggage  will  be  checked  ac­
cordingly.  Sleeping cars north 
of  Grand  Rapids.  Baggage 
Checked.

G. R. & I  ticket  agents  will  give  you 
full information, or you can write to 
C. L. Lockwood, General Passenger Agt. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Either will send you FREE afolder with 
all details—'schedules of trains, hotels and 
boarding houses  in  Northern  Michigan.
Grand  Rapids  &  Indiana  Railway

“ The  Fishing L in e”

Dress Goods 

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We have  some  exceptionally  good  values  £ 
in Plain  and  Mixtures  in  all  wool  Flannel  and  4
Fancy  Dress  Goods  from  28  inch  to  36  inch 
to retail from  10 to 50 cents.

Plain Cashmeres  from  28 inch to 44 inch to 

retail from  10 cents to $1.
P.  Steketee & Sons,

Wholesale  Dry  Goods, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

WE  GUARANTEE

O ur V inegar to be an A B S O L U T E L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JU I C E  V I N ­
E G A R .  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find an y deleterious 
acids, or anything that is not produced from the apple, w e will forfeit

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

J . ROBINSON, Manager.

Benton  Harbor.Michigatu

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Shoes and  Rubbers

T rials  and  T ribulations  o f  the  Average 

D ealer.

The  writer  happened 

in  a  store  the 
other day  just  as  the  proprietor and  bis 
clerks  had  finished  the examination  of  a 
shipment  of  shoes  for the  fall  trade,  and 
were  boxing  them  up  to be returned.  VI 
am  sorry,”   said  the  dealer,  ‘ ‘ for  more 
reasons  than  one,  to  be  compelled  to  re­
In  the  first  place  1 
turn  these  goods. 
need  them,  or  rather  I  need  the  shoes  I 
bought,  and  I  don’t  know  where  I  can 
have  them  duplicated  in  time. 
I  sup­
pose  I  will  be  compelled  to  pick  up 
something  from  the  jobbers to take  their 
place.

“ To  say  that  I  am  very  much  disap­
pointed  does  not  half  express  it.  In  the 
second  place  when  1  notify  thèse  people 
that  I  have  returned  the  shoes  for  a 
cause,  they  are  going  to  be  mad  about 
it,  and  will  insist  that  they  are  as  good 
as  the  samples,  etc. 
If  they  happen  to 
belong to  this  Manufacturers’  Protective 
Association  we  read  about  they  will,  no 
doubt,  send 
in  my  name  to  be  placed 
on  the  unfair  list.  But  what am  I  go­
ing  to  do? 
I  can  not  allow  myself  to 
be  coerced 
into  accepting  these  rank 
imitations  of the  shoes  I  bought  for  fear 
that  1  will  be  branded  as  a  “ kicker.”

“ In  my  opinion, 

to  make  things 
equal  the  retailers  should  organize  a 
protective  association  also  and  keep  an 
unfair  list  of  the  manufacturers  and 
jobbers  who  will  continue  to  send  out 
goods  far  inferior  to  the  samples  they 
show  the  trade. 
I am  happy  to  say  that 
I  believe  these  people  compose  a  very 
small  percentage  of  the  whole.  Every­
thing  else  being  equal,  their  proportion 
is  about  the  same  as  the  unfair  retailer, 
and  if  we  are  going  to  keep  a  record  at 
all,  why  not  be  fair and  give  both  sides 
to the  controversy  a  chance?”

The  writer  looked  over this  lot of  re­
jected  shoes and,  taking  the  price 
into 
consideration,  the  dealer  was  certainly 
justified  in  returning  them.  They  were 
men’s  shoes,  Vici  Kid  welts,  kid  lined, 
and  the  price  was $2.50,which  now  days 
pays  for a  pretty  fair  article.  Scarcely 
any  two  pairs  of  this  lot  were  anywhere 
near  alike. 
In  fact,  several  pairs  did 
not  mate  at  all,  the  right  shoe  would  be 
made  of  a  nice  soft  piece  of  stock  and 
the  left  would  contain  a  coarse  grained 
leather  from  a  much  heavier 
piece  of 
The  tips  on  some  were  very 
skin. 
in  nearly  all  of  them  the 
crooked,  and 
linings  were  full  of  wrinkles. 
This 
man  was  certainly  justified  in  refusing 
to accept  such  a  lot  at $2.50.

We  made 

the  acquaintance  some 
time  ago of  a  man  who  manufactures  a 
specialty  line  of  shoes and  he  admitted 
that  he  made  his  samples  from  stock 
costing  from  4  to  6 cents  a  foot  more 
than  the  leather  he  put  in  the  goods and 
paid,  nearly  double  for  finishing.  Of 
course,  we  all  expect  samples  to  look  a 
little  nicer  than  the  general  run  of  the 
goods,  but  such  a  difference  as  this  is 
too  much.

The  writer  was 

in  a  store  recently 
while  the  dealer  was  looking  at  a  line 
of  ladies’  shoes.  The  salesman  showed 
him  a  very  pretty  sample  at  $1.60.  The 
dealer  looked  it  over  carefully  and said, 
“ Can  you  send  me  as good a shoe as this 
sample  for $1.75?”   The  salesman  said 
he  could. 
“ Well,  you  can  send  me 
thirty-six  pairs  just  like  that $1.60  sam­
ple  at  $1.7 5 ,”   he  said.  He  liked  the 
shoe  and.  thought 
for 
$1.75, and  he  knew  it  could  not  be  made 
for $1.60.

it  a  good  one 

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Dealers  are  also  complaining  of  the 
season  just  passed.  They  say  shipments 
were  very  unsatisfactory.  Many  were 
from  three  weeks  to  four  months  behind 
time,  others  came  along  on  the 
install­
ment  plan  and  at  intervals  so  far  apart 
that  it caused  loss  of  sales,  to  say  noth­
ing  of  the  annoyance  of  being  com­
pelled  to  “ stand  off”   waiting  custom­
ers  from  day  to  day  with  promises  that 
never  materialized.  If  the  dealer would 
insist  upon  being  served  promptly  or 
not  at  all,  some  of  these  manufacturers 
who  take  orders  for  more  goods  than 
they  can  possibly  deliver on  time  might 
turn  over  a 
leaf  for  the  better.—Shoe 
and  Leather  Gazette.
H ard Com petition  for  th e  Sm all  Dealer.
Has  the  specialty  shoe  come  to  stay, 
or  is  it,  to  a  certain  extent,  a  *fad  that 
will  have  its  run  and  then  go  by?  This 
is  a  question  that  is  puzzling  the  aver­
age  retailer,  and  a  question  upon  which 
there 
is  a  wide  difference  of  opinion 
even  among  those  whose  judgment—ow­
ing  to  their  large  experience  and  close 
observation  of  the  trend  of  affairs—is  of 
value.

it 

By  some  it  is  believed  that  this  twen­
is  to  be  the  great  age  of 
tieth  century 
specialties;  that 
is  the  modern  way 
of  doing  business,  and  that  to  achieve 
success  one  must  conform  to  it  and  be­
come  a  specialist.  On  the  other  hand, 
there  are  those  equally  competent  to 
judge,  who  are  firm  in  the  belief  that 
specialty  shoes  are  but  a  passing  fancy, 
and  that  they  will  soon  lose  their  nov­
elty,  and,  although  perhaps  slowly,  yet 
surely,  pass  out.

But  while  opinions  may  differ  as  to 
its  future,  all  are  agreed  that the  advent 
of  the  specialty  shoe  marked  a  new  era 
and  inaugurated  a  radical  change  in the 
method  of  retailing  shoes. 
It  is  also 
agreed  that  its  effect  has  been  detri­
mental  to  the  great  majority  of  retail 
shoe  dealers,  and  especially  so to  those 
situated  in  or near  large  business  cen­
ters. 
Retailers,  especially  in  cities, 
with  small  or  medium  sized  stocks  have 
been gradually  losing  their trade  on cer­
tain  grades  of  men’s  and  women’s 
goods  until  to-day  that  part  of  their 
business  is  seriously  affected.  That such 
is  the  fact 
is  not  surprising  when  we 
consider  the  advantages  the  specialty 
store,  in  some  respects,  has  over  the 
average  retailer.

In  the  first  place,  the  specialty  shoe 
is  thoroughly  advertised.  Advertise­
ments  are  prepared  by  experts  in  their 
line  and  are  written  in  such  a  way  as  to 
arouse  a  curiosity  and  create  a  desire 
among  the  people  to  see  the  shoe  they 
have  heard  and  read  so  much  about. 
The  second,  and,  I  believe,  the greatest 
advantage  enjoyed  by  the  specialty 
store,  is  that  it  has  the  sizes  and  widths 
and  can  properly fit nearly every one that 
visits  the  store.

While  a  customer  may  find  in  a  regu­
lar  shoe store,  at  the  same  prices,  goods 
of  equal  style  and  value  as  the  adver­
tised  shoe,  yet  he  can  not find  the  com­
plete  run  of  sizes  that  is  found  in  the 
specialty  store.  People  were  never  so 
particular  about  the  fit  of  a  boot  or 
shoe  as  they  are  to-day.  For 
instance, 
the  man  who  was  once  satisfied  with the 
fit  of  an  8-4  boot  now  demands  a  9-2, 
having  found  possibly  by  a  visit  to  a 
specialty  store  that 9-2  was  his  size  and 
width.  Of  course,  such  a  customer  is 
lost  to  the  average  store,  and  there  aie 
many  such  customers.

Yet,  notwithstanding  all'  the  advan­
tages  enjoyed  by  the  specialty  stores,  it 
is  a  well  known  fact  that  with  very  few

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

There  is  a  distinct  and  recognized  com­
mercial  v a l u e  
that goes 
straight  to  you 
with  every  pair 
of our  Seamless 
No-Rip  Shoes.
BRADLEY  &  METCALF  CO.,  Shoemakers,  Milwaukee,  Wis. ♦

Popular  Prices for

Particular  People
Welts  that  W ear
Built on  Honor by

IN

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie & Co.

M akers of the

Grand  Rapids  Shoes

LEGGIN GS
Same in Boys’,  above knee......... $6.00

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

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

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

M A N U FA C T U R ER S  

G RA N D   R A P ID S ,  M ICHIGAN

^ T T T r T Y T T T T F n r F r r n r T T T T l T N

Oco. H. Reeder & Co.

Wholesale

Boots  and  Shoes

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

U u u u u u u u u u u u u i

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

“ I  want  you  to  let  me  have  Eliza­

“ Oh,  you  want  Lizzie,  do  you?  What 

“ For  my  w ife!”
“ For  life?”
“ I  want—to—marry—her!”
“ Oh, -  yes! 

Just  so. 

I  hear  you, 

beth I”

for?”

boy.”

“ I ’m  precious  glad  you  d o !”   mut­

tered  the  Governor.

“ Well,”   slowly  responded  the  vet­
eran,  “ you  needn't  halloa  so  that  the 
whole  neighborhood  knows it !  Yes ;  you 
can  have  her.  You’ve  got  ’em  all  now, 
my  lad,  but  for  goodness  sake,  if  any­
thing  happens  to  that 
'ere  poor  mis­
guided  gal,  don't  come  and  ask  me  for 
the  old  woman!”

Jackson  solemnly  promised  that  he 

never  would.

A  novel  way  of  administering 

justice 
and  bestowing  impartial  punishment  on 
juvenile  offenders  was  shown  in  a  Chi­

18

cago  court  the  other  day.  Two  boys 
were  on  trial  for  fighting,  accompanied 
by  their respective  mothers.  The  justice 
simply  had  the  mothers  swap  sons  and 
then  administer  spankings.  The  pun­
ishment  the  urchins  received  was  vig­
orous. 

*

In  the  future  Boston's  public  school 
buildings  are  to contain  well-appointed 
bathrooms.  The  impulse  was  given  two 
years  ago  when  the  Paul  Revere  School 
was  erected,  and  now  bathrooms  are  to 
become  a  regular adjunct  of  the  public 
school  system.  Five  new  schoolhouses 
are  to  be  opened  this  fall  and  each  is 
provided  with  bathrooms.  The  teachers 
in  the  Revere  School  report  that  under 
the  beneficent  rule  of  cleanliness  the 
scholars  are  better  in  every  way,  they 
themselves  are  able  to  do more  work  by 
seeing  clean  children  all  day,  and  the 
school  work  has  increased  in  results.

Patience 

cess.

is  the  mainspring  of  sue 

exceptions  they  have  not been  paying 
investments.  This  failure  to  net a  profit 
on  the  money  invested  is  owing  chiefly, 
although  not  wholly,  to  heavy  expenses 
—high  rent,  costly  fixtures and  furnish­
ings,  expensive  advertising  and  being 
obliged  to  depend  upon  a  manager  and 
clerks  for  the  success  of  the  venture.

Some  may  think  that  as  these  stores 
are  operated  by  manufacturers  they  can 
sell  goods  at  a  smaller  price,  and  yet 
make  the  same  per cent,  of  profit  that  is 
made  by  other  stores.  That  is  not  so, 
for  rent,  help,  fixtures,  advertising,  in­
surance  and  other  incidental  expenses 
will  cost the  manufacturer the  same  that 
they  would  cost  any  one  else,  and  the 
amount  he  would  save  by  putting  goods 
of  his  own  manufacture 
in  the  store 
would  be  more  than  offset by the amount 
he  would 
in  being  compelled  to 
trust  his  whole  investment  to a  manager 
and  clerks. 
In  other words,  I  believe 
that  the  man  who  personally  conducts 
his  own  store  can  save  more  than  the 
difference  between  what 
it  would  cost 
him  and  what  it  would  cost  the  manu­
facturer to  put  the  same  goods  into  a re­
tail  store.

lose 

Such  phrases  as  “ From  maker  to 
wearer,”   “ Save  the  retailer’s  profit,”  
etc.,  have  a  very  pleasing  sound  and 
may  appeal  to  some,  but  any  person  of 
ordinary 
if 
goods  are  sold  at  retail,  a  retailer’s 
profit  must  be  paid  to  some  one,  either 
a  manufacturer,  jobber or exclusive  re­
tail  dealer.

intelligence  knows 

that 

local 

During  the  past  year  very  few  spec­
ialty  stores  have  been  opened,  and  no 
shoe  has  appeared  which  has  acquired 
more  than  a 
reputation;  their 
existence,  like  so  many  of  their  prede­
cessors,  has  been  very  brief.  The  nov­
elty  has  worn  away ;  sharp  competition 
is  met,  and under  these  conditions  noth­
ing  but  very  expensive  advertising  will 
to-day  cause  an  unusual  demand  for 
any  particular  make  of  shoe,  whatever 
name  may  be  given  it.

That  the  specialty  shoe  some  time 
ago  reached  its  zenith  and  that  the  re­
action  has  already  set  in  is  very  appar­
ent  to  close  observers  of  affairs  and con­
ditions.  How  far  the  pendulum  will 
swing 
in  the  opposite  direction  none 
can  tell,  but  the regular  retail  shoe  deal­
ers'may  rest  assured  that  in  the  future 
the  specialty  shoe  and  the  specialty 
shoe  store  will  not be  the disturbing ele­
ment  in  their  business  that  it  has  been 
in  the  past.—F.  W.  Gilbert  in  Shoe  R e­
tailer. 
W here  the  Responsibility  F or  Shoddy 

_____  

______

Shoes  Rests.

A  retailer  in  a  recent  contribution 
makes  the  following  observations  on 
shoddy  shoes:

“ A  sole  leather counter and inner-sole 
are  to the  shoe  what a  solid  foundation 
is  to  a  building,  without  these essentials 
you  have  nothing. 
If  the  shoe-wearing 
public  would  stop  and  consider  that 
from  twenty-five  to  fifty  cents  more  per 
pair  will  buy  a  sole  leather counter and 
inner-sole,  the  only  foundation  a  shoe 
has,  they  will  find  that  extra  amount 
spent  will  prove  in  the  end_  true  econ­
omy.  The  average  dealer  tries to sell  the 
shoe  that  can  be  sold  for the 
least  pos­
sible  money,‘ regardless  of  quality,  when 
the  object  should  be  to  sell  nothing  but 
a  solid  leather shoe  at  live  and  let 
live 
prices.  These  are  the  kind  of  shoes 
that  give  all  parties  concerned  a  better 
article  than  could  be  bought  twenty 
years  ago,  and  are  selling 
less 
money  than  they  did  then,  with 
leather 
higher  to-day  than  it  was  at  that  time ; 
then  why  buy  the shoddy article?  Come, 
let  us  reason  together  and  drive  the 
shoddy  goods  from the  market  and  one 
and  all  demand  all  leather  shoes,  and 
let  the  shoddy  article  die  with 
the

for 

nineteenth  century,  never  again  to  find 
a  place  with  the  shoe  wearing  public. 
One  of  the  main  things  that  has  given 
them  a  place  is  the  profit  in  the  sale  of 
them.  The  cheaper  the  shoe  the  larger 
the  profit.

“ Much  can  be  learned  of  the  charac­
ter of  people  by  the  condition  of  their 
shoes,  also  much  can  be  learned  of  the 
character  of  the  retailer  by  the  quality 
of  the  shoes  he  sells.”

Are  retailers  responsible  for  the  man­
ufacture  of  shoddy  shoes?  Traveling 
men  who  pay*  more  than  casual  atten­
tion  to  such  things,  say  that  with  the 
manufacturer  or  wholesaler  who  is  so 
anxious  to  place  his  line  that  he  makes 
credit  cheap,  he  is  equally  responsible. 
If  there  was  no  demand  for a  shoddy 
article,  the  people  who  make 
them 
would  soon  find  the  business  unprofit­
able.

The  truth  of  the  matter  is  that  the 
number of  retailers  who are  continually 
clamoring  for  something  cheap  is  large 
enough  to  keep  shoddy  stuff  on  the mar­
ket.  As 
long  as  there  is  a  demand  for 
a  thing, just  so  long  will  it  be produced.
The  people  who  demand  the  cheap 
article  are  not  always  actuated  by  a  de­
sire  to  increase  profits  at  the  expense  of 
their  reputations—to  get  something  for 
nothing.

is,  credit 

One  great  trouble 

is  so 
cheap  now  days  that  most  any  one  can 
engage  in  the  retail  business.  The  re­
sult  is  that  in  every  community  we  find 
people  engaged  in  the  mercantile  busi­
ness  who  by  rights  have  no  business 
there, they  are  totally  unfitted,  financial­
ly  and  morally.  They  frequently  have 
no  business  capacity  whatever,  but the 
anxiety  of  some  wholesale  house  to 
have  their  goods  handled  in  the  town  is 
responsible  for  their  entry  into the ranks 
of  the  retailer.  They  are  given  credit, 
and  nine  times  out  of  ten  abuse  the 
privilege.
Sometimes  because  they  are  dishonest 
and  frequently  from 
ignorance,  they 
indulge  in  expensive  advertising  with­
out  any  conception  of  the  profits the 
goods  must  bring  in  order to  pay all  ex­
penses.  Standard  makes  of  shoes  are 
sold  so  close  that  the  merchant  who 
knows  what  he  is  doing  can  not  com­
pete.  He  knows  there  is  bound  to  be 
an  end  to  such  things,  but  the  other 
fellow  does  not  know  or  perhaps  he 
does  not  care,  and  the  slaughter  of 
profits  continues  on  his  part  until  the 
others  in  desperation  begin  to  demand 
something  that  looks  good  for  a  little 
money  in  order  to  undersell him without 
loss  to  themselves.

The  merchant  who  buys  recklessly 

is 
another  cause.  Right  in  the  middle  of 
the  season  he  awakes  to  the  fact  that  he 
is  overloaded,  bills  begin  to  come  due 
and  he  must  have  money.  His  shelves 
are  loaded  with  goods  that  are  not  mov­
ing.  There  is  only  one  thing  for  him  to 
do,  he  must  make  some  kind  of  a  spe­
cial  sale,  so  he  cuts  prices  and  slaught­
ers  profits.  He will  try  to  come  out  even 
if  possible,  but  he  must  turn  the  sur­
plus  into  money,even  if  he  is compelled 
to  do  so at  a  loss.  The  careful,  conser­
is  con­
vative  dealer  for these  reasons 
tinually  at  a  disadvantage. 
Fortunate­
ly  these  conditions  do  not  exist  in  all 
parts  of  the  country,  but  they  do  occur 
too  frequently, for the  good  of  the  trade. 
Organization  on  the  part  of  the  retailer 
would  be  a  long  step  in  the  direction  of 
reform.

D raw ing  the  O n e   on  Jackson.

five 

sisters—in 

A  good  story 

is  told  in  Missouri  at 
the  expense  of  her  once  famous  Gov­
ernor,  Claiborne  F.  Jackson.  Before he 
lovelock  he  had 
solved  the  enigma  of 
married 
reasonable
lapses  of  consecutiveness.  After  one 
wife  had  been 
lost  and  appropriately 
mourned  he  espoused  another,  and  he 
kept  his  courting  within  a  narrow  cir­
cle  of  his  own  relatives,  for  he  rather 
likee  the  family.
The  antiquated  father  of  these  girls 
was  almost  deaf, and  when  the  Governor 
went to  this  octogenarian  to  ask  for  his 
surviving  daughter  the  following  con­
versation  ensued :

“ I  want  Lizzie!”
“ E h ?”

This  is  our  Imitation  Tip

HARD  PAN

Wears  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.

We  Carry 
Shoes  and  Rubbers

That  are  trade  winners  and  will 
make  money  for you.

THE  WESTERN  SHOE  CO.

TOLEDO,  OHIO

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Village  Improvement

Ups  and Downs of  Tillage  Im provem ent 

Society  W ork.

Written for the Tradesman.

its  garden  and  putting 

While  in  the  lexicon  of*the  Improve­
ment  Society  there  is  no such  word  as 
fail,  there  are  times  when  it  does  seem 
as  if  it  would  have  to  be  written  in  the 
is  busy 
appendix.  When  the  world 
planting 
its 
yards  in  order enthusiasm is unbounded. 
The  ideals  are  high  and  everybody  set­
tles  down  to  business  confident  that  the 
ball  of  progress  fairly  started,  will  be 
kept  in  motion,  and  the  advancing  sea­
sons  will  be  a  record  of  unbounded  suc-i 
cess.  The  theory 
is  all  right,  hut the 
practice  is  often deplorable.  This  sum­
mer wiil  answer  for an  illustration.  The 
outlook  until  the  beginning  of  June  was 
fine.  Things  picked  up,  looked  as  if 
they  were  to  stay  picked  up.  Then  be­
gan  the  unparalleled  heat,  then  the  im­
industry  were  abandoned, 
plements  of 
and  nature  asserting  herself was not long 
in  reducing  affairs  to  their original con­
dition.

as 

"About  this  tim e," 

the  old 
"F arm er’ s  Almanack"  used  to  say,  the 
reign  of  the  weeds  begins,  and  the  gar­
den  that dallies  with  them  is  lost.  Not 
a  corner nor  an  inch  of  territory  is  free 
from  invasion.  From  the  modest,  del­
icate  chickweed—the  biggest  unmiti­
gated  hypocrite  that ever sneaked into  a 
garden—to  the  burly  burdock  and  the 
incorrigible  purslane,  eternal  vigilance 
is  the  only  guaranty  of  victory.  They 
may  be  eradicated  root  and  branch  at 
sunset,  but  sunrise  finds  them  as  fresh 
as the  morning,  and  exulting  over  their 
early  start  and  the  progress  already  ac­
complished. 
If  the  sluggard  ever  gets 
tired  of  going  to  the  ant,  he  will  find 
the  consideration  of  the  garden  weed 
quite  as  profitable.

The  wholesale  neglect  of weedtime  is 
painfully  apparent  even  before  m id­
summer.  By  that  time  both  the  Goth 
and  the  Vandal  have  scaled  the  barriers 
of  civilization  and  taken  forceful  pos­
session  of the  fertile  fields  and  gardens 
and  roadsides  leading  to  them.  Vacant 
lots  are  their  rendezvous,  and  in  the  ab­
sence  of the  owner they  pitch there their 
tents  without 
leave  or  license.  Ac­
knowledged  robbers  of  the  soil,  they 
settle  down  at  once  to  their nefarious 
business,  and,  stealing  the  nourishment 
of  the  grasses  from  under  their  very 
feet,  flaunt their  plunder  in  the  faces  of 
the  plants  they  have 
ignominiously 
robbed.

While  the 

invasion  of  the  dooryard 
by  the  weeds  is discouraging  to  the  Im­
provement  Society,  it  is  often  a  matter 
which  will  correct  itself.  The  too  jubi­
lant  pigweed,  before  its  seeds  are  ripe, 
in  the  very  hour  of 
its  rejoicing,  is 
liable  to  give  point  to  the  well-known 
text:  “ In  the  morning  itgrow ethup; 
in  the  evening  it is cut (pulled up) down 
and  withereth.' ’  There  are  times,  too, 
when  the  ambitious  "p ussly”   radiates 
too  far  from 
its  center  and  the  indig­
nant  gardener  noting  it,  cuts  its  blood­
sucking  root  and throws it  into the alley.
It  is  the  vacant  lot  and  the  neglected 
roadside  that are  the  thorn  in  the  flesh 
and  awaken  despair in  all  but  the  most 
hopeful.  “ We  are  still  fighting  dirt  and 
weeds,"  is  a  recent  wail  from Colorado. 
"Neglected  lots  and  the  roadside  bor­
dering  upon  them  fill  us  with  dism ay,”  
sighs  a  city  society  of  the  Middle 
West.  “ The  ladies  of  the  Society  make 
a  special  request  that  citizens  cut  the 
weeds and  make  their  places more  tidy

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

before  the  opening  of  the  state  fa ir," 
pleads  a  Lincoln,  Neb.,  daily  paper.

fine 

" A   motion  was  made  and  carried  to 
donate  $5  to  be  used  towards  the  clear­
ing^ up  of  vacant  lots  in  territory  under 
the  care  of  the  organization,"  reports 
another  newspaper,  and  so  from  one 
end  of  the  country  to  the  other  the  Im­
provement  Societies  are  wrestling  with 
an  evil  which  should  have  no  existence* 
lot,  instead  of  being 
A  non-resident’s 
exempted  from 
for  negligence, 
should  be  taxed  for the  extra  care which 
in  self-defence  is 
a  well-ordered  town 
forced  to  give  it. 
It  is  often  unfenced ; 
it  is  sure  to  become  the  nursery  of  the 
rankest  and  most  persistent  weeds,  and 
forlorn  from  curbstone  to  alley,  is  often 
the  sorest  eyesore  of  the  neighborhood.
The  only  redeeming  feature  of  such 
lots  is  the  remarkable  mass  of  color 
which  the  height  of  the  seaspn  here 
offers.  The  discouraged  soil  of  the  New 
England  pasture  surrenders  at  discre­
tion  at  the  bars  and  the  victorious 
golden  rod  taking  the  field  for  its camp­
ing  ground,  pitches  tent  after tent  un­
til  the  old  pasture  becomes  another field 
of  the  Cloth  of  Gold.  Within the shadow

joining  forces, 

of the  Rockies  the  honey  flower  crowds 
the  empty  lots  of  Denver with 
its  pur­
ple  plumes,  and  the Middle  West  is  gor­
geous  now  with  the  shining  shields  of 
the  sunflower.  Two  squares  from  my 
desk  a  city  lot,  forgotten  by  its owner, 
is  a  mass  of  waving  yellow.  The  grass 
was  killed  in  spring.  The  purslane  and 
the  knotgrass 
fought 
their common  foe  in  vain,  and  the  weed 
of  the  prairie  had  its  own  way.  The 
field  is  a  grove  of  sunflowers  varying  in 
height  from  three  feet  to  ten,  the 
larg­
est flower  from  ray-tip  to  ray-tip,  meas­
uring  five 
inches.  A  month  from  now 
the  seed  cups  will  alone  remain  and  the 
birds  and  the  Nebraska  winds  will  see 
to  it  that the  seeds  are  widely scattered. 
How  to  stop  the  evil  remains  an  unan­
swered  question.  One  of the  most  feas­
ible  comes  from  Denver,  where  the  So­
ciety  has  received  encouragement in  the 
form  of  substantial  donations  from  citi­
zens,  a  condition  of  things,  it  is  feared, 
in  other cities  of 
not  generally  found 
the  Union. 
R.  M.  Streeter.

How  th e Irishm an  B attled  the  Condnc- 

tor.

A  big,  good-natured-looking Irishman 
boarded  a  street  car  and  took  a  seat  far 
in  the  front.  He  showed  evidences  of

being  a  hard-working  citizen 
in  his 
clothing  and  the  smudge  on  his face and 
hands. 
In  his  mouth  he  wore  his treas­
ure,  a  black,  short  pipe,  which  showed 
evidence  in  its  color  and  in  its  pungent 
odor  of  months  of  tender  nursing  and 
petting.

The  conductor  saw  the  pipe.  The 
rules  said:  "T hree  seats  in  the  rear  for 
smokers."  The  man  with  the  pipe  was 
three  seats  from  the  front.  The  ire  of 
the 
retainer  rose 
accordingly.  He  was  a  bit  of  an  Irish­
man  himself.

transit  company’s 

" D ’y  know  th’  rules  of  the  com­

pany?”

"O i  do  not. ”
"C an ’t  ye  read?”
"O i  kin  not.”
"N o  schmokin*.”
"W ho’s  a  schmokin’ ?’ ’
“ Y e ’ve  yer  poipe  in  yer  mouth." 
"O h,  have  O i!  O i!  Oi’ve  me  shoes 
on  me  fate,  too,  an’  Oi  ain’t  walkin’. ’ ’ 
temporarily 
defeated  in  the  battle  of  wits.  Present­
ly  he  came  back  to  the  assault.

The  conductor  retired 

"D id   Oi  get  yer  fare?”
"H ow   do  Oi  know 

if  you  got  it  or 
dhe  company?  Sb.ure,  Oi  didn’t  hear 
ye  ring  it  up. ”   .

The  conductor  was  so  "rattled”   this 
time  that  he  rang  up  four  transfers 
in­
stead  of  the  four  nickels  that  he  had 
collected.

Will  Bring  Trade  in  Swarm s

It’s  a  business  boomer for September

¥

This  booklet will 
give  you  a 
retailing  plan  for 
September  that 
will  make  your 
competitors  feel 
blue.

If  we have  no 
regular customer 
in  your  town  you 
may  have  this 
plan  for  the 
asking.

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In this  case  you  invest  a  postal  card.

Just  write  us  for 
“Helpful  Hints 
No.  3 E ”  if you 
want  to  get  all 
the  details.

It  will  pay  you to 
keep in touch with 
us  if you  wish  to 
“do  things 
different”  from 
your competitors 
and  incidentally 
corner a big share 
of  the  trade  in 
your  town.

k

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

CLERICAL  CAREER.

Its Advantages  Over T hat of the  Lum ber 

Shover.-

Jack  sat  on  a  dry  goods  box  at  the 
end  of the  counter  waiting  for the  store 
to  close,  when  he  intended  to  have  a 
regular  heart  to  heart  talk  with  the 
senior  clerk.  As  the  store  was  in  the 
country 
it  was  usually  kept  open  until 
8  or  half  past,  as  the  trade  demanded  or 
the  loafer  dictated.

At  last  Mr.  Freemont  drew  the  blinds 
and  bolts,  figured  up  the  counter  books 
the  other  clerks  had  forgotten  or  neg­
lected,  counted  bis  cash,  and 
finally 
announced  that  the  rest  of  the  evening 
was  at  Jack's  disposal.

“ For 

“ Well,  Dick” —Mr.  Freemont,  al­
though  40  years  old,never  received  from 
child  or adult  a  more  dignified  title— 
“ I ’ve  got  a  soft  snap  at 
last,  and 
thought  1  might  as  well  stay  and  re­
ceive your congratulations. ”   This  in  a 
rather  patronizing  tone. 
five 
years  now  I've  rastled  slabs  in  a  mill, 
shoved  lumber,  stayed  in dirty  camps  in 
the  winter,  and  worked  at  every  old 
thing  that  was  hard.  Up  at 6 o'clock 
every  morning 
in  summer  and  earlier 
yet  in  winter,  and  not  know  a  minute’s 
rest  until  8  at  night,  and  I ’ve  got  tired 
of  it. 
So  last  night  I  went  and  saw 
your  boss  and  he  said  he  would  take  me 
into  the  back  room  to  handle  feed  and 
do  the  heaviest  work  for awhile,  and 
meanwhile  work  me  into  the  groceries 
and  dry  goods.  Then  if  I  suit,  I ’m  to 
have  the  first  vacancy  as  a  full  fledged 
clerk.”

Jack  spoke 

in  a  somewhat  excited 
voice  and  with  a  smile  on  his  round 
face  the  length  of  your  arm.  The  face 
of  the  older  man  was  something  of  a 
study,  the  smile  indicating  a  little  cyn­
ical  amusement.

“ Have  you  your  breath  yet,  Jack? 
May  I  get  a  glass  of  water—a  fan—any­
thing?  When  do  you  expect  to  com­
mence  this  soft  snap  of yours,anyway?”
“ Oh,  you  can  do  a  lot  of  sneering  if 
you  like.  You  clerks  all  do a  good  deal 
of  talking  about  how  hard  you  have  to 
work  and  all  that,  but  I  notice  you 
don't 
leave  the  store  unless  you  get 
kicked  out. ’ ’

it  won’t. 

“ Come,.Jack,  don’t  look  cross. 

It 
spoils  your  dimples  and  takes  away 
that  expression  of  perfect  faith  in  the 
unexplored  that  it  so. clearly shows.  Sit 
down  again  and  let  me  turn  the  kaleid­
oscope  of  your  future  as  a  clerk  before 
you.  My  experiences  of  the  past  ten 
years  may  open  your  eyes  a  little and be 
of  some  use  to  you in the time to come. ”
“ Well,  fire  away,  but  remember that 
I  don't  take  everything  that  your  cyn­
ical  views  of  things  suggest  as  gospel.”
“ You’ re  going  to  begin  your  duties 
next  Monday,  believing  that  this  lit­
tle  rosebud  idea  of  a  'soft  snap’ of yours 
is  going  to  blossom  into  a  blush  rose. 
Well, 
It  will  simply  blast. 
In  the  first  place  you  will  have  to get 
down  here  at  6  in  the  morning  to  sweep 
‘he  store opens, 
out  and  dust  bef<L 
while  at  the  mill  you  l 
had  to get 
there  until  7.  Still,  while  you’ re  serv­
ing  your  apprenticeship  shoveling  feed, 
it  won’t  be  quite  as  bad  as  when  you 
into  groceries  and 
commence  to  work 
dry  goods.  Your 
‘ soft  snap’ will  then 
become  manifest  to  you,  having  people 
watching  you  weigh  butter and  lard  and 
thinking,  and  also  hoping,  you’re  try­
ing  to  cheat  them  out of  an  ounce  or 
two  in  order  that  they  may  find  fault 
somewhere.  When  you  have  so  far ad­
vanced  that  you  can  grin  at a  kid  that 
has  just  tipped  over  a  jug  of  molasses 
on the  counter, and  can  assure  its  moth­

er that  it  was all  right  to  set  the  baby 
on  the  counter  to  play  with  the  pretty 
ju g ;  can  take  the  penny  all  sticky  with 
molasses  that  the  little  one  bolds  out to 
you,  and  wait,  with  a  broader  and  more 
admiring  grin,  if  possible,  while  it  se­
lects  the  kind  of  candy  it  wants—by  the 
time  you  can  do  all  this,  I  say,  you 
will  be  fit  to  give  a  little  assistance  on 
the  dry  goods  side.  Now  is  where  the 
‘ snap’  actually  begins;  in  fact,  it would 
be  a  pretty  good  name  to  describe  some 
of  your  customers.  At  a  dry  goods 
counter  is  where  you meet  with  the  very 
meanest  or  best  qualities 
in  a  person. 
It 
is  where  an  extravagant  person 
spends  money  he  can’t  afford  to  spend 
in  that  way;  where  a  stingy  person tries 
to  jew  you  down  so that  he  may  feel  he 
has  made  a  bargain;  where  an  idle 
person-  makes  you  fill  up  the  counter 
with  goods  she  has  no  intention  of  buy­
ing.  Here  is  also  where  you  will  some­
time  meet  the  man  or woman  who  will 
insist  on  your  measuring  all  the  calico 
they  may  buy  with  a  yard  measure 
in­
stead  of  by  the  folds,  and  they  are  es­
pecially  anxious  for  you  to  do  it  if 
there  are  other customers  waiting.”

“ Can’t  you  think  up  a 

few  other 

things  against  clerking?”

“ Just  a  few  to-night.  You  have  been 
accustomed  to  leave  your  work  when 
you  wished  to  see  a  ball  game,  go  fish­
ing,  visit  another  village,  or do  any  of 
a  dozen  other things,  and  could  easily 
supply  another  an  to  take  your  place. 
Pleasures  outside  town  are  no  go  if  you 
hold  your  job  in  a  store.  You  must  be 
there  all  the  time,  and  even  your  even­
ing  doesn’t  commence  until  half-past  8 
or 9. ”

“ And  may  I  ask  why  you  have  kept 
on  clerking  the  past  ten  years?  I  should 
have  thought  you  would  have  shoved 
lumber  in  a  sawmill  for a  year or two 
just  for  relaxation.”

Dick  laughed  and  answered :
“ In  a  store  you  get  all  goods  you  re­
quire  at  cost and  10  per cent.  You  get 
the  experience  that  will  help  you  in 
any  business  you  may  be  employed  in 
later  better than  any  other training  you 
could  go  through;  you  get  an  oppor­
tunity  to  advance,  and  acquire  the  pol­
ish,  if  desired,  that an  European  educa­
tion  couldn't g iv e ;  lastly,  my  boy,  any­
one  who  enjoys  studying  either  Darwin 
or  human  nature—they  are  a  good  deal 
alike,  you  know—really  enjoys  clerk­
ing. 
I ’ve  always  kept 
at  it.”

That’s  why 

“ Yes,  it  would  be  strange 

if  you 
doubted  Darwin’s  theory,”   answered 
Jack,  as  the  clock  struck  11  and  he  rose 
“ On  the  whole,  1  rather  think 
to  go. 
you’re  the  missing 

link  yourself.”  
Louise  Cameron.

The  planting  of  trees  in  the  public 
streets  seems  to  have  its  drawbacks  as 
well  as 
its  advantages.  At  least  this 
seems  to  be  the  experience  in  Portland, 
Oregon,  where,  as  elsewhere 
in  the 
United  States,  there  has  been  consider­
able  planting  of  shade  trees.  The  pop­
its  quick-growing  habit  and 
lar,  from 
the  ease  with  which 
it  could  be  pro­
cured  as  compared  with  many  of the 
other  varieties  commonly  planted  for 
the  purpose,  seems  to  have  been  exten­
sively  used. 
Its  deep-rooting  habits, 
and  the  numerous  fine  shoots  which  it 
sends  through  the  ground  in  search  of 
water,  have,  however,  proved  its  ruin, 
and  the  fiat  has  gone  forth  for  its  de­
struction.  Many  of  the  breaks  in  the 
sewers  have  been  directly  traced  to  this 
habit,  and  the  increasing  expense  to the 
city  from  this  cause  has  prompted  the 
cutting  down  of  the  trees.

You  should  not always  judge  a dentist 

by  the first  impression.

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Their preparation* are pot op 
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“ 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  100  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 bis 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. 

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The Meat Market

W orld Shy  F ifty  M illion  on  Sheep.
The  estimated  total  number of  sheep 
in  the  world  is  469,526000,  a  decrease  of 
53,178,000  from  the  estimate  made  by 
Mulhall  in  1887,  and  of  70,518,000  from 
estimates  made  a  few  years  later.  This 
would  appear,  at  first  glance,  to  be  of 
serious  import  to  the  wool  manufac­
turing  industry  everywhere,  more  espe­
cially in  connection  with  the  production 
of  fine grades  of  woven  goods. 
It  is  a 
fact,  however,  that  the  stock  of  wool  in 
the  world  appears  to  be  as 
large  as 
ever,  and  prices  for  wool  are  so  low 
that  the  producers  declare  that  they  are 
unremunerative.  There  has  been  a  de­
cline  in  the  aggregate  number of  sheep 
in  the  European  countries  of 40,000,000, 
or  19  per cent.,  in  a comparatively short 
period.  The  number  of  these  animals 
in  Germany  decreased  from  25,000,000 
in  1873  to  11,000,000  in  1897.  The  num­
ber  in  Spain  has  decreased  one-half 
since  1880,  and  Hungary  has  only  two- 
thirds  as  many  as  were  in  that  country 
thirty  years  ago.  The  flocks  of  Great 
Britain,  France  and  other  European 
countries  are  not  increasing,  as  all  the 
available  grazing  lands  have  been  util­
ized  for  years.  Russia  is  the  only  ex­
ception  to  the  general  European  de­
cline,  but  the  increase  there  has  been 
slow  in  the  past  few  years.  However, 
it  is  the  only  Old  World  nation  that 
is 
likely  to  increase  its  holdings  of  sheep. 
Australia,  which  was  formerly  noted  for 
its 
immense  flocks,  is  falling  behind 
with alarming  rapidity.  The  Argentine 
flocks  wete  seriously  depleted  last  year 
by  floods,  which  destroyed  millions  of 
sheep, the  losses  more than  equaling  the 
natural  increase.  The  same  was  true, 
on  a  smaller  scale,  with  reference  to 
Uruguay. 
In  the  United  States  there 
are  fewer  sheep  than  there  were  ten 
years  ago,  but  the flocks  are  again slow­
ly  increasing.  Not  only  has  there  been 
a  decrease 
in  the  number of  sheep  in 
the  world,  but there  has  been  a  gradual 
changing  from  the  merino,  or  the  fine- 
wool  breeds,  to  the  mutton-producing 
breeds. 
There  are  economic  reasons 
for  this,  the  most  important  being,  as 
before  mentioned,  the  relatively 
low 
price  for  wool  and  the  increasing  de­
mand  for  mutton.  The  latter  has  been 
stimulated  by  the 
improved  facilities 
for  preservation  and  transportation  of 
meats. 

The  frozen  meat  trade  has  apparently 
revolutionized  the  sheep  husbandry  of 
the  world.  Sheep  can  be  slaughtered 
and  transported  any  number  of  miles 
by 
in  refrigerator cars  and  across 
the  most expansive  part  of  the  ocean  in

land 

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ships  provided  with  systems of  refrig­
eration,  with  the  quality  of  the  meat 
often  improved  upon  reaching 
its  des­
tination. 
In  the  year  1900  the  number 
of  frozen  wethers  exported  from  the  A r­
gentine  Republic 
to  England  was 
2,372,939,  and 
the  number  exported 
from  Australia  to the  same  country  was 
over  4,000,000.  For the  first  quarter of 
1901  the  number  of  frozen  wethers  ex­
ported  from  the Argentine Republic was 
683,972.  This  shows  in  part  how  great 
the  demand  for  mutton  is  and  how  the 
flocks  are  being  depleted thereby.  Prob­
ably  this  will  result  in  higher  prices  for 
wool  and  the  consequent 
increase  in 
certain  countries  of  the  flocks  of  merino 
sheep.  As  the  situation 
is  now,  the 
only 
in  flocks  of  large­
bodied  animals  reared  only  for the  pur­
pose  of disposing  of  them  as  mutton.— 
Butchers’  Advocate.

increases  are 

Good  Meat  a t Two  Cents a Found.

One  of  the  most  promising  branches 
of  business  in  Paraguay  is  that  of  cattle 
breeding,  because  of  the  splendid  qual­
ity  of  the  pastures  and  because  the 
country 
is  one  of  the  best  watered  in 
the  world.  The  northern  part  of  the  re­
public  is  specially  promising  for  start­
ing  cattle 
farms,  as  land  there  is  of 
good  quality  and  cheap.  The  cost  of 
one  square  Spanish  mile  of  land  meas­
uring  4,300  meters  on  each  side 
is 
$1,000.

Meat  is  cheap,  perhaps  cheaper  than 
anywhere  else  on  earth,  since  a  bullock 
four  years  old 
is  worth  only  $10 gold. 
The  hide,  tallow  and  grease  being  val­
ued  at  one-half  that  sum,  there  remains 
say  $5  as  the  value  of  from  300 to  350 
pounds  of  meat,  being 
less  than  two 
cents  per  pound  for  meat  of  the  best 
quality  without  bones.  Under  these 
circumstances  it  is  evident  that it  would 
be  a  most  profitable  business  to  estab­
lish  a  meat  preserving  factory  for the 
manufacture  of  extract  of  beef  and  of 
salted  beef  for  the  Brazilian  and  Cuban 
trade,  where  many  thousands  of  tons  of 
the 
last-named  article  are  consumed 
annually  by  the  native  people.
Because  of  such  an  abundance  of 
cheap  meat,  and  desirous  of  encoura­
ging  the  meat  preserving  industry,  the 
government  of  Paraguay  has 
lately 
passed  a 
law  providing  for the  intro­
duction  ftee  of  duty  of  all  things  neces­
sary  for  equipping  such  a  factory,  pro­
vided  for  the  small  export  duty  of  15 
cents  gold  on  the  finished  product  of 
each  bullock  or  cow.  Wages  are  ex­
low.  The  present  pay  for a 
ceedingly 
good 
laborer  is  but $5  gold  per  month, 
or  15  cents  per  day,  including  board.
College  D iplom as  for  K illing and Cnring.
The  scheme  of  teaching  persons  by 
mail  how  to  become 
lawyers,  actors, 
detectives,  etc.,  has  not  yet  been  ex­
tended  to- include  the  butcher  business. 
Any  man  so  apt  as  to  be  able  to  learn 
how  to  buy,  cut,  and  sell  meat  and 
make  money  at  it,  simply  from  reading 
printed 
instructions,  would  do  better

if  he  instead  went  into the law business. 
In  Germany  they  have  a  butcher’s 
school  of  instruction,  whete  the  students 
are  taught  the  business  from  A  to  Z. 
Good  butchers  are  turned  out  from  that 
school,  but there  really  is  not a  demand 
for so  many  as  are  to be  found 
looking 
for  work.  What  will  become  of  the 
butchers  in  this  country  when  a  school 
similar to the one  in  Germany  is  opened 
is  a  problem 
at  Minneapolis,  Minh., 
that  fills  one  with  dismay. 
It  is  to  be 
conducted  in  connection  with  the  Min­
nesota  Agricultural  School,  and  $7,000 
has  been  appropriated  for  erecting  the 
building.  Students  who  take  a  butcher 
course  will  be taught  how  to  kill,  dress 
and  cure.  We  understand  that  bogs  are 
to  be  given  more  attention than cattle  or 
sheep,  but  that  “ all  branches  will  be 
covered.’ ’  In  a  few  years,  we  presume, 
it  will  be  common  to  see  in  meat  mar­
kets  diplomas  stating  the  owner  is  a 
graduate  of  a  college  and  has  taken  a 
full  course 
in  butchering  and  curing. 
Without  a  business  training,  however,

his  diploma  will  be  of  no  use  to  him 
aside  from  obtaining  a  position  at  the 
usual  salary  in  the  market  of some prac­
tical  butcher  who  does  not  know  a  di­
ploma  from  a  diplomat.

W ant Cheaper Tallow.

According  to a  report  current  in  Kan­
sas  City,  Mo.,  Western  soap  manufac­
turers  are  planning  to  form  an  associa­
tion  to  buy  their tallow,  rosin,  etc.,  at 
cheaper  prices.  This  was  the  decision 
of  a  secret  gathering  in  Kansas  City  of 
representatives  of  several  large  firms  in 
and  west  of  Chicago.  No attempt,  it  is 
said,  will  be  made  to  control  the  prices 
of these  commodities.  The  names  of 
the  firms  are  not  known  at  present.

Man  W ith th e  Heavy Thum b  Again.
The  Widow—The  butcher  offered  me 

his  hand  this  morning.

The  Maid—And  did  you  accept  it?
The  Widow—No,  indeed.  You  see, 
he  tried  to  work  it  off  on  me  with  the 
steak,  but  I  made  him  take  it  off  the 
scales.

MICA AXLE 
GREASE

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

ILLUMINATING  AND 
LUBRICATING  OILS

PER FEC TIO N   OIL  IS  TH E  STAN DARD 

TH E  W ORLD  O V ER

H IQ H BST  P R IO I  PAID  FO R   BM PT Y   OARBON  AND  a  A SO  L IN I  B A R R ELS

STAN DARD OIL  CO .

SCOTTEN-DILLON  COMPANY

TO BACCO   M AN UFACTURERS 

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SO-LO.
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SW E E T  SP R A Y.

See  quotations  in

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D OUBLE CROSS.  Long Cut.  ' 
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F L A T  CAR.  Granulated.

price current.

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TRADE  WINNERS.

Courteous  T reatm ent  of  Customers  and 

U nim peachable  Honesty.

In  this  boasted  and  boastful  age  when 
by-products  of  every  sort  are  being  con­
verted 
into  cold  cash,  a  man  ought  to 
investigate  himself  occasionally  to  see 
if  anything 
is  going  to  waste  which 
might  be  utilized.  Courtesy  has  a  com­
mercial  value  as  much  recognized  and 
sought  after  as  capital,  and  yet  some 
men  are  not  cultivating  it  but  let the 
opportunity  go  to  waste,  while  they  are 
growling  at  fortune’^  scanty  favors. 
In 
fact,  courtesv  has  a  value  above  cash, 
for  you  can  not  go  into  the  market  and 
buy  it  with  money  or  its  equivalent. 
If 
the  commercial  agencies  rated  men  cor­
rectly  they  would 
invoice  their  moral 
and  mental  qualities 
just  as  much  as 
their  stock,  fixtures  and  accounts.

The  entries  might  appear  something 

like  this  in  the  scale  of  ioo:-

Honestv,  75  per  cent.
Executive  ability,  go  per  cent.
Courtesy,  95  per  cent.
And  so  on  through  the  list  of  attri­
butes  which  make  up  a man's character.
It  is  a  fact  that  a  man’s  reputation for 
honesty  and  ability  enters  largely  into 
his  rating,  and  justly  so,  and yet  I know 
men  with  a  fair  amount  of  both  and  a 
stack  of  dollars  on  top  of  them,  who 
failed  because  they  were  cranky  or 
crabbed  or  unpleasant  to  deal  with.

Courtesy 

in  business  ought  to  be  re­
garded  as  much  of  an  asset  as  honesty, 
and  among  employes  it  ought  and  does 
in  many  places  command  a  premium  in 
the  shape  of  higher  salary  or advance­
ment  in  position.

I  know  of  a  popular  restaurant,  made 
so  not  because  they  serve  better or more 
appetizing  dishes  than  others,  but  the 
proprietor 
is  a  brisk,  genial  man,  wel­
coming  his  guests  with  an  appreciative 
word,  and  his  waiters  are  polite  and 
pleasant  and  really  seem  to  belong  to 
the  same  race  of  people  as  yourself, 
while  the  cashier  is  so  affable  that all 
through  the  meal  you  anticipate  the 
pleasure  of  paying  her.

It  is  evidently  no  accident  that  these 
people  are  associated 
in  business  to­
gether,  but  the  proprietor  knows  that 
people  come  again  to  a  place  made 
pleasant  and  attractive  by  courteous 
treatment. 
The  general  public  will 
even  go  to  considerable  personal  in­
convenience  and  overlook  many  objec­
tionable  features  for  the  sake  of  dealing 
with  one  who  succeeds 
in  pleasing 
them. 
I  knew  a  man  whose  business 
did  not  seem  to  suffer  in  the  least  be­
cause  of  his  sharp  practices  because  he 
had  such  a  frank,  friendly  manner  that 
people  would  rather  be  swindled  by him 
than  treated  fairly  by  his  less  courteous 
competitors.  Now  this  is  not an  argu­
ment  for  winning  manners  and  dishon­
est  practices,  but  an  illustration  of  what 
can  be  done  notwithstanding  a  known 
reputation  for  trickery.  Add  to 
the 
courteous  treatment  the  most  unim­
peachable  honesty  and  the  combination 
is  doubly  strong.

As  an 

apparently  with 

illustration  of  bow  much  the 
ladies  are  influenced  by  the  bearing  of 
those  who  serve  them,  two  women  sit­
ting  near  me  in  a  railroad  car  were  tell­
ing  their troubles.  The  older  lady  was 
complaining, 
some 
cause,of  the  treatment  she  had  received 
from  the  ticket  agent  and  the  incon­
venience  it  had  caused  her.  On  account 
of  that  the  entire  system  from  section 
hands 
to  general  manager  was  con­
demned,  a  boycott  declared,  and  when 
she  reached  the  home  of  her  friend, who 
was  an  official  of the  road, it  was  prom­

ised  that  the  offending  ticket  agent 
should  be  punished  in  a  manner  befit­
ting  his  offense !  And  the 
younger 
woman  opined  that  such  employes ought 
to  lose  their  positions. 
It  is  a  “ dead”  
certainty  that  the  railroad  or the  store 
which  allows 
its  employes  to  be  dis­
obliging  to  its  patrons  is  going  to  lose 
its  patronage  and  the  lady  patrons  will 
be  the  first  to go.

It  may  be  that  a  railway  company can 
exist  without 
its  lady  patrons,  I  don’t 
know  about  that,  but  I  do  know  that  a 
merchant  who  loses  bis  lady  customers 
may  as  well  close  his doors.  The women 
are  the  principal  buyers of merchandise, 
whether they  hold  the  purse  or  not.

I  have  often  seen  that  demonstrated. 
A  man  may  look  at  goods  and  partially 
select  what  he  thinks  necessary,  but  if 
he  does,  he  will  usually  say,  “ I  will 
have  my  wife  call  and  look  at  them  be­
fore  you  send  them  up,”   and  when  he 
comes  with  her to  show  her what  he  has 
selected,  she  will  say  with  the  utmost 
unconcern,  “ O,  that  isn't  what  I  want 
at  a ll,’ ’ and  calmly  proceed  to  make 
her own  selections. 
It is  because  ladies 
are  the  largest  patrons  of  the  store  and 
because  they  are  easily  attracted  or  re­
pelled  by  the  manner  of  the  salesman, 
that  no  merchant  can  afford  to  ignore 
the  business  value  of  courtesy.—Uncle 
Reuben  in  Furniture  Journal.
“The  Man  W ho  Can.”

Carlyle  wrote  a  considerable  amount 
of  readable  matter 
in  his  day;  but  in 
all  his  works  we  have  never  run  across 
a  line  that  contains  as  much  suggestion 
as  he  has  infused  into  the  seven  one- 
syllable  words  here  quoted:  “ The  King 
is  the  Man  who  C an."

All  the  elements  of  success  are  there. 
The  whole  secret  of  greatness  sticks  out 
conspicuously  from the  simple  sentence. 
If  this  mighty  thinker  had  never  pro­
duced  another  phrase  he  would  not  have 
“ The  King  is  the  Man 
lived  in  vain. 
who  Can.”   That 
individual 
who  attains  to  the  highest  degree  of 
success,  in  any  walk  of  life,  is  the  one 
who  overcomes  whatever  may  stand  in 
bis  way,  and  reaches  the  goal  for  which 
is  striving  despite  all  obstacles. 
he 
Now,  by  a 
little  simple  reasoning  we 
may  finally  arrive  at  the  root  of  the 
matter.

is,  the 

The  Man  who  Can  must  be  a  strong 
man.  To  be  strong  one  must have  a 
sound  body and  a  sound  mind.  A  sound 
body  is  the  result  of  proper  living.  A 
sound  mind 
is  the  result  of  a  sound 
body  together  with  unceasing  study. 
Study  is  productive  of  thought.  There­
fore,  the  Man  who  Can  is  the  man  who 
is,  to 
thinks,  and  to  become  king,  that 
live 
achieve  final  success,  means  to 
properly, 
think. 
Seems  very  simple,  does  it  not?  But 
it  is  not  so  simple  when  we  attempt  to 
follow out  this program  in  our every-dav 
life.  The  present  condition  of the  world 
—the  tendency  to  attempt  to  win  out  by 
a  single  plunge—the  feverishness  of  the 
wonderful  era  through  which  we  are 
passing—all  militate  against  such  a 
method,  and  the  result  is  that  Men  who 
Can  are  not  as  numerous  as  they  might 
be.

study,  and  to 

to 

In  Carlyle’s  brief  sentence  every  one 
may  find  a  motto worthy  their  adoption, 
although  we  fear  that  not  many  will 
it.  Still,  if  only  one  person  is 
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attracted  by 
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“ Have  I  fitted  myself to  become  a  Man 
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Hardware

Changes  W hich  H ave Taken  Place  in  the 

B lacksm ith  Business.

-  times.  True  they  were,  yet 

One often hears the  remark  that  black' 
smithing 
in  the  small  country  shops 
does  not  pay  any  more,  and  that  things 
in  the  good  old 
used  to  be  different 
it  cannot 
be  denied  that  business  with  the  aver­
age  country blacksmith and wagonmaker 
has  not  kept  pace  with  the  times  and 
that  on  the  average  there  is  not as much 
work,  or as  much  money  in  the business 
as  formerly,  and  not enough  to compen­
sate  for. the  time  and  labor expended  at 
it.  All  of  us  will  remember  that  and 
recall  many  of the  good  old  blacksmiths 
who  retired  from  the  business  with  a 
snug  competence, able  to  take  life  easy, 
before  having  reached  a  good  ripe  old 
age.  Also  many  old  men  at  the  trade 
now  and  struggling  young  men, who  are 
working  hard  to  get  along  at  all,  and 
.  who  never  seem  to  hope  for  the  time 
coming  when  they  can  quit  and  retire, 
but  are  destined  to  believe  that  they 
have  to keep  on  working  until  old  age 
compels  them  to quit.

This  is  particularly  true  of the  old 
smiths  in  the trade  now,  who  have come 
down  from  the  past  generation  and  who 
still  cling  to the  old  way  of doing things 
and  continue  business  in  the  same  old 
way  of  their  fathers  and  grandfathers, 
but  it  was  always  that  way.  The  rich 
and  poor  have  always  been  with  us  and 
always  will  be. 
It  is  noticed  more  so 
now.  The  trade  itself  has  lost  none  of 
its  money-making  power,  and  if  any­
thing  the  chances  are  better  now  than 
before.  There  are 
just as  many  if  not 
more  acquiring  a  competence  at  it  and 
laying  something  by  for a  rainy  day  as 
formerly.

We  know  of  many  young  blacksmiths 
who  but  what  seems  a  short time  ago 
started  in  business  with  almost  nothing 
and  have  become  pretty  well  fixed  and 
are  independent  of to-morrow.  But  one 
hears  on  the  other hand  that  times  have 
changed  since  then.  Surely  they  have 
and  will  continue  to  keep  changing,  but 
we  have  to  change  with  them  and  adapt 
ourselves to  the  ever-changing  condition 
of things.  Time  was  when  the  country 
blacksmith  was  a  power  in  the  land 
and  his  shop  was  the  place  where  every 
one  came  for  counsel  and  advice,  and 
his opinion  was  eagerly  sought  after  on 
all  questions,  politically,  socially  and 
otherwise.  History  brings  us down  the 
records  of  many  illustrious  blacksmiths 
and  they  have  played  not  an  unimport­
ant  part  in  the  history  of the  world.  He 
was  the  only  mechanic  outside  of  the 
village  carpenter and  wheelwright,  and 
almost  everything  in  the  way  of  tools, 
household  utensils, 
farm  implements, 
wagons  and  carriages,  weapons,  etc., 
used  to  be  made  by  him,  and  it  was  no 
wonder  that  people 
looked  up  to  him 
with  awe.  He  became  quite  a  manu­
facturer  in  a  small  way,  and  employed 
many  hands  and  many  large  factories 
had  their  origin  from  such  a  small  be­
In  fact  the  blacksmith  was 
ginning. 
the  nucleus  of all  such  enterprises. 
In­
ventive  genius  then  stepped  in and took 
up  the  work  of  the  blacksmith, 
im­
proved  upon  his  methods,  and  with  the 
aid  of machinery  soon  made  everything 
which  he  used  to  make  by  band  or  with 
such  limited  power  as  was  at  his  com­
mand. 
the 
blacksmith  was  distanced  unless  he  as­
sociated  himself  with  the  new  ideas. 
Many  did,  and  as  a  result  many  a  nice 
old  fortune  dates  back  to the blacksmith

It  was  not  long  before 

who  was  the  founder  of 
it.  But  the 
work  of  the  average  smith  became  more 
and  more  confined  and  narrowed,  until 
it  finally  came  down  to the  general  run 
of  repair  work  as  it  exists  in  the  coun­
try  shop  to-day.  Then  the  enterprising 
hardware  merchant  stepped  in  and  the 
machine  dealer  came’ along  and  took 
about  all  of  the  remaining  prerogatives 
of  the  blacksmith  away.  The  mail  or­
der  houses  also  step*ped 
in  with  their 
catalogues  and  complicated  the business 
still  more,  threatening  even  the  very 
foundations,  not  only  of  the  blacksmith 
business,  but  that  of  the  hardware  mer­
implement  dealer  also. 
chant  and  the 
Thus  the  blacksmith 
lost  heart  and 
bowed  to  the  inevitable  and  contented 
himself  with  doing  all  he  could,  and  it 
is  no  wonder that  the  business  declined 
and  is  not  now  what  it  used  to  be.

The  blacksmith  and  wagonmaker  is 
as  much  entitled  to  do  business,  to  buy 
and  sell  to  the  merchant  as  his  neigh­
bor. 
It  is  not necessary  or  well  for him 
to  put  in  all  his  time  at  the  anvil  or  the 
bench.  His  sphere  of  influence  can  ex­
tend  beyond  it.  However  it  is  too  true 
that the  blacksmiths  have  given  up  the 
struggle  too  easily  and  until  now  the 
other fellows  think  that  the blacksmiths 
have  no  right  to  do  business  or keep 
anything  for sale  at  all.  Yes,  and  even 
question  his  right  to  buy  bis  own goods. 
They  think  that  the  supplies  should 
come  through  their  hands.  This  is  pure 
selfishness  and 
is  happily  dying  out, 
and  the  modern  jobber of  heavy  hard­
ware  has  knocked  boles  in  the  once 
in­
vulnerable  armor  of  the  country  store­
keeper.

they  keep 

When  the  smith 

is  asked  why  don’t 
you  keep  such  and  such  an  article,  the 
answer  is,  “ Oh, 
it  at  the 
store,  and 
it  would  not  pay  me  to  keep 
it, and I  do  not  want  to  bother with  it.”  
They  do not  reflect  that  the  store  keeper 
would  not  bother  with  it  either  if  there 
was  nothing  in  it.  Or  the  smith  would 
say  we  have  no  room  for  it,  and  from 
looks  of  his  shop  he  has  not,  but 
the 
with  a 
little  thought  he  could  make 
room  and  have  more  room  than  he  had 
before. 
It  does  not  cost  much  to  put 
up  a  shelf and  takes  but  very  little  time 
to  display  such  goods  to  advantage  so 
that everyone  can  see  them.  *As  a  mat­
ter  of  fact  almost  all  the  blacksmiths 
and  wagonmakers  who  have  made  any 
money  at  all  at  the  business  have 
made 
it  that  way.  Not  by  hard  work 
alone,  but  by  doing  business.

We  recall  some  who  started  in  busi­
ness  with  their  neighbors  at  the  same 
time  and  commenced  in  a  small,  mod­
est  way  to  keep  everything  called  for 
in  the  business.  They,  soon  got  the 
name  and  the  reputation,  until  finally 
it  was  said,  “ Go there  first,  and  if  you 
can  not  find  it  there  you  can  not find  it 
anywhere.”   Work  followed  as  well, 
and  they  have  been  able  to  retire  from 
business  while  their  neighbor still keeps 
plodding  along.  We  do  not  wish  to 
enumerate,  all  of  the  goods  which  the 
smith  can  sell.  Every  season  has  its 
seasonable  goods,  and  the  judgment  of 
the  smith  will  dictate  what  be  can  han­
dle  to  advantage  and  sort  up  a  good 
stock.—Crow  Bar.

Simple  truth  is  an  essential  life  foun­
dation.  No  worthy  life  can  be  built  on 
falsehood,  fraud,  pretense  or  deception. 
Truth 
in  thought  and  word  and  deed 
must  be  at  the  bottom  of every  noble 
life.  Deep  down  in  the  soul  there  must 
be  a  loyalty  to  truth  which  no  question 
of expediency  or  success  can  for an 
in­
stant  shake.  The  life  founded  on  truth 
in  principle  and  practice  can  never  be 
overthrown.

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1 9

The  H appiest  M oment  in  T hat  Young 
Written for the Tradesman.

Man’s Life.

When  the  office  bell  tinkled  and  John 
Boyd,  dentist,  left  his  patient 
in  the 
chair to  s a y ‘ ‘ Good  afternoon”   to  the 
newcomer,  he  halted  an  instant  on  the 
threshold  almost  paralyzed  with  amaze­
ment.  There  in  the  middle  of  the  room 
stood  the  last  man  he  ever  expected  to 
set  eyes  on  in  that  place  and  the  man 
felt  the  awkwardness  of  the  situation 
more  than  the  young  dentist.

‘ ‘ Didn’t quite  expect  t’  see  me,  did 
ye?”   was  the  long,  lean,  lank,  old man’s 
greeting  as the doctor appeared.  ‘ ' Waal, 
I  hain’t got  but  tew 
it’s  jest  this  way : 
teeth  tbet  meet 
’n’  I ’ve  be’n  a  tryin’ 
every  darn  dentist  in  town  to  fill 
’em 
and  have  the  stuff  stay  ’n’  they  can’t 
dew 
it,  ’n’  fin’lly,  Jed  Wadekins  told 
me  about  a  tewth  ye  fixed  f’r  him  a 
year ago  ’n’  showed  it  tew  me  ’n’  here 
I  be.  Naow,  ’f  you  think  you  c ’n  fix 
them  teeth  you  go  ahead  and  dew  it, 
’n’  I ’ll  pay  ye  for  it. ”

‘ ‘ Well,  Mr.  Rankin,  just  be  seated 
until  I  finish  a  little  job  1  have  on  band 
Just 
and  then  I ’ ll  look  at  your  teeth. 
make  yourself  at  home. 
I  will  soon  be 
ready  for  you. ”

If  Dr.  Boyd  had  not  been  the  owner 
of  a  pair of  ears equal to any emergency, 
the  smile  he  put  on  would  have  gone 
clear  around  his  head.  The  dream  of 
his  boyhood  and  youth  was  about  to  be 
realized.  From  the  earliest  of  his  or­
chard-robbing  days  up 
through  his 
struggling  youth  this  man  bad  been  his 
relentless  foe.  He  did  not  care  now  for 
the  pants-dusting  that  he  had  suffered— 
the  fun  was  worth  its  price—but after he 
had  put  aside  boyish  things  this  mean 
old  man’s  spite  had  followed  him  and 
tried 
its  best  to  bar his  progress.  As  a 
farm  hand  he  had  hired  him  and  al­
though  the  boy  was  then  a  man 
in 
strength  and  stature  and  did  a  man’s 
work  in  the  hayfield  when  pay day came 
he  was  offered  a  boy's  wages  and  went 
home 
in  the  old 
cheat’s  hands.

leaving  the  money 

When  urged  by  his  old  teacher,  who 
knew  bis  ability  and  his  worth,  to  ap­
ply  for the  winter  school  in  a  neighbor­
ing  district,this  same  old man  had  done 
his  best  to  thwart  the  ambitious  boy. 
He  got  the  school,  however,  taught  it  to 
a  successful  finish  and  was  put  down  as 
the  best  teacher the  district  had  had  for 
years.  As 
long  as  it  was  possible  the 
young  man  had  kept  to  himself  the  pur­
pose  of  his  life,  fearing  the  opposition 
he  knew  he  would  receive  at  home  and 
especially  by  “ old  Rankin,”   and  when 
it  was  known  that  John  Boyd  was  “ de­
signin’  ”   to  be  a  dentist* the  neighbor­
hood  was  in  an  uproar  and  Rankin  laid 
himself  out to  do  his  worst.  He  laughed 
at  him  and  jeered  bim  to  his  face  and 
behind  his  back.  He  called  him  an  up­
start  and  a fool  and  when  the  young  fel­
low  left  for the  four  years’  course  at  the 
university  old  Jim   Rankin  was  at  the 
station  an  hour before  the  train  left  and 
used  every  minute  of  the  time  in  mak­
ing  all  sorts  of  fun  of  “  our  promisin’ 
boy”   who  was  so  dumbed  stupid  that 
he’s  got  to  have  “ fower  years  to  larn 
how  to  pull  teeth.”

John  Boyd,  student,  kept  his  temper, 
but  when  the  train  left  Birlinburg  he 
made  a  vow  deeper than  the. silence  he 
had  kept  that  if  the  time  should  ever 
come  he’d  get  even  with  old  Jim  Ran­
kin,  so help  him—'Moses!

All  these  things  rushed  through  his 
mind  while  he  was  finishing  the  work 
on  hand  and  then  with  the  coast  clear 
be stepped  to  the  door.

“ Now,  Mr.  Rankin,  if  you’ll  please 
come  this  w ay,”   he  said  and  an  instant 
later the vile-mouthed,  vile-minded  and 
vile-souled  old  man  stretched  himself 
in  the  chair  with  the  comfortable 
out 
assurance  of  a  man  about  to  indulge 
in 
the  luxury  of  a  shave.

“ Now,  Mr.  Rankin,  I  must  tell  you 
beforehand  that  I  don’t  know  whether  I 
can  do  anything  for  you  or  not.  With­
out  doubt 
it’s  a  hard  case  or the  other 
dentists  would  have  been  equal  to  it. 
In  the  first  place  you  have  an  unusual 
jaw.  One  can  see  at  a  glance  that  its 
development  has  had  its  due  lack  of  ex­
ercise.  Open  your  mouth,  please.  That 
will  do,  I 
intend  to  stand  on  the  out­
side.”

A  glance  told  him  that only the slight­
ly  uncommon  was  called  for,  but  it  took 
five  good  minutes  before  the  examina­
tion  was  over,during  which  the  operator 
balanced  his  old-time  spanking  account 
with  compound  interest  at  25  per  cent. 
Then  with  a 
into  the  nerve  that 
lifted  the  old  devil  from  the  chair,  the 
dentist  stepped  back  and  looked  at  his 
victim.

jab 

“ Well,  Mr.  Rankin,  it’s 

just  what  I 
I  don’t  believe  I  care  to 
was afraid  of. 
tackle  that  case. 
In  the  first  place  it 
will  hurt  you  more  than  you  can  stand”  
—it  was  Jim   Rankin’s  boast  that  he 
could  saw  off  his  own  leg  without  winc­
ing—“ in  the  second  place  I  shall  have 
to  charge  you  more  than  you  can  afford 
to  pay,and  I  wouldn’t  undertake  it  any­
way  without  having  the  money  before  I 
lift  an 
instrument.  My  price  will  be 
twenty-five  dollars.  There  comes  my 
two-o’clock  patient” —the  office  bell 
tinkled—“ and  that’s  all  I  can  do  for 
If  you  say  yes  1  can  make 
you  to-day. 
an  appointment  for  you  day  after  to­
morrow  at  nine. 
If  that  suits  you  come 
in  at  that  time  loaded  and  I ’ll  give  you 
the  worth  of  your  money.  Sorry  to 
hurry  you,  Mr.  Rankin,  but  the  young 
lady 
is  waiting  for  the  chair.  Good 
morning.”

Purple  with  rage  and  not daring  to 
swear  before  the  young  beauty  who  had 
come  in  at  the  doctor’s  nod,the old  man 
strode  out  of  the  operating  room  and 
out  of  the  office  without  attempting  to 
speak.  He  went  straight  to  his  team 
and  started  for  home  and  not  until  he 
had  passed  the  city  limits  did  he  dare 
to  trust  himself.  There  his  thoughts 
found  expression  and  the  skies 
re­
sponded  with  a  denser  blue.  That  day 
and  the  next,  he  cursed  and  swore,  but 
“ the  day  after  to-morrow”   found  him 
in  the  dentist  chair,  the  conditions  all 
met—“   ’twas  the  only  thing  I could dew 
and  the  job  had  ter  be  done” —and  the 
doctor  began  to  balance  the  account  of 
years.

Hurt? 

It  was  condensed  agony ;  and 
for  three  mortal  hours  the torture  went 
on  until  there  was  not  a  misdeed  on  the 
memory  record  which  did  not have  its 
pain 
item  on  the  other side  of the  ac­
count.  Then  the  dentist  stopped.

“ There,  Mr.  Rankin,  that's  all  I  can 
do  for you  to-day.  About  day  after  to­
in  and  I’ll  see  how 
morrow  you  come 
the  thing’s  going  to  work. 
I  don’t  be­
lieve  the  filling  will  get  loose  much  be­
fore  that  tim e!”

“ I  d'  know  of  anything  more  ’t  ye 
c’n  dew  th’  aout  it’s  t’  put  in  a  bolt  ’n’ 
a  nut  on  the  aoutside. 
By  g—um ! 
Thet’s  the  d—est  piece  of  blacksmith- 
in’  I  ever had  done  f ’r  m e!”

It  is  a  pleasure  to  state  that  that 

job 
of  dentistry  was  a  success.  It  took  some 
time  for  the  patient  to  get  over the 
shock,  but  after  that 
it  was  the  old 
man’s  pride* and  boast  that he’d  “ got

the  neatest  piece  of  dentistry  aboard 
’t 
there  is  ’n  the  State.  All  the  doctors in 
the  city  bad  ter give  ’t  up  ’n’  fin’ly  one 
o’  our  home  boys  took  hold  on 
’t  ’n’ 
there  ’tis. 
Jes’  look  at  it.  Twenty-five 
dollar  job,  but  arter  I  got  threw  I  knew 
’ Id  got  the  worth  o’  my  money! 
’ Fe 
want  yer  teeth  looked  arier go  t’  Doc­
tor  Boyd.”

When 

Jim  Rankin’s  praise  was 
poured  into  Dr.  John  Boyd’s  ears  that 
gentleman  smiled  “ and  that  was  all  he 
said!”  

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Price Tickets.

Signs  and  price  tickets  and  signs  and 
yet  more  price  tickets—in  the  windows 
—on  the  goods—everywhere.  What  with 
new  goods  arriving  and  new  ways  of 
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his  allowance 
in  this  kind  has  been 
reached,  although  there  are  many  more 
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day  are  sure  to  be  in  sweeter  temper 
and  the  saving  of  time  all  around  is 
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Woman’s World

H aving th e  Courage  o f  O ur  Convictions.
A  woman  who  is  a bit of a philosopher 
told  me  the  other day  that  she  had  dis­
covered  the  true  secret  of  earthly  bliss.
“ A  way  to 
make  money  on  Wall  Street  or a  sure 
system  for  playing  the  races?"

“ What  is  it?’ *  I  asked. 

“ N either,"  she  answered,  “ although 
both  of  your  suggestions  might  be  a 
valuable  annex,  but  my  discovery 
is 
merely  that  the  way  to  be  happy,  al­
though  alive, is  simply  to  have  the  cour­
age  to 
live  your own  life  in  your own 
way.  When  you  can  do  that  you  have 
conquered  fate.  Criticism  can  not  dis­
turb  your  calm.  Gossip  slips  off  of 
your  impervious  armor  as  harmlessly 
and  easily  as  the  proverbial  water  off of 
a  duck’s  back.  Reproof,  even, 
is  a 
boomerang  that  recoils  on the  one  who 
dares  assail  you,  and  leaves  you  unhurt.
“ You simply  ignore  the  fact  that  any­
body  has  a  right  to  object  to  anything 
you  do  and  say  and  think,  so  long  as 
you  do  not  interfere  in  any  way  with 
them.  You  put  a  few  ‘ no  trespass’  signs 
around  your  liberties  and  pleasures, 
and,  presto!  the  thing  is  done  and  you 
find  yourself  living  in  a  kind  of Utopia, 
where  you  are  more  than  queen  and 
your  will  is  law.

“ The  only  trouble  and  the only reason 
individual  Utopias  will  never  become 
popular  is  because  at  heart  we  are  all 
cowards  before  other  people’s  opinions. 
There’s  a  streak  of  yellow  in  us  all  that 
struggles  to the  surface  when  we  think 
about  doing  what  we  want  to  do,  in­
stead  of  what  we  think  Mrs.  Jones  or 
Mrs.  Smith  or  Mrs.  Brown  would  ap­
prove  of our  doing,  and  nine  times  out 
of ten  it  is  the  Browns  and  Smiths  and 
Joneses  that  settle  the  big  questions  of 
life  for  us,  instead  of  our  own  con­
sciences  and  judgments.  We  could  not 
be  any  more  afraid  of our  neighbors’ 
windows  if there  was  a  Gatling  gun  be­
hind  every 
lace  curtain,  instead  of  a 
pair of eyes.

“ But  think  of the  vistas  of  happiness 
my  scheme  opens  up  when  you  have 
emancipated  yourself  from  the  fear of 
other  people’s  eyes  and  tongues.  Who, 
for  instance,  suffer  the  most  by  being 
poor?  Not  the  honestly  poor  people, 
where  the  wife  does  the  cooking  and 
sends  a  cheerful  and  contented  man  out 
with  his  lunch  pail  every  morning— 
there’s  no  pity  coming  to  them.  The 
people  to be  sorry  for  are  the  shabby 
genteel—those  who  break  their  necks 
trying  to keep  up  with  the  rich and  who 
starve  through  a  winter to  give  a  pink 
tea  in  the  spring.

“ Do  you  suppose  any  of  us  would  do 
that  if  we  had  the  courage  to  live  our 
own  lives?  Not  much.  We  should  sim­
ply  not  waste  our  breath  and  strength 
and  nerves  trying  to  keep  up  appear­
ances  which,  after all,  do  not even  fool 
a  baby  and  we  should  settle  down 
into 
good,  comfortable,  unpretentious  poor 
ways  and  be happy.

"Then  we  should  not  work  ourselves 
to death  over  idiotic  causes  that  do  not 
amount  to  a  row  of  pins.  Now,  I  have 
not  a  word  to  say  against  the  women 
who  go  in  for the  daughters  of this  and 
the grandmothers  of that.  ‘ Live  and  let 
live’ 
is  my  motto.  They  enjoy  that 
kind  of  thing  and  I  am  willing  they 
should  have  their share,  and  mine,  too. 
There  are  women  who  are  born  to  be 
chairmen  of  committees  and  run  mis­
sionary  meetings  and  rob  people  at 
church  fairs.  Let  them,  I  say,  but  let’s 
let those of us  who  don't  get  anything

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

but  the  backache  and  headache  and 
remorse  of conscience  out of  such things 
brace  up  and  say  ‘ No’  when  we  are im­
portuned  to  head  committees  and  lead 
movements  that  do  not  move.

“ Nowadays  a  tacit  acknowledgment 
of 
inferiority  seems  to  be  implied  by 
the  very  fact  of a  woman  not  belonging 
to  clubs  or  being  interested  in  reforms, 
and  it  has  driven  into  the  ranks  thous­
ands  of  women  who  do  not  care  one 
button  for the  cause  they  have  spoused, 
for,  a la s!  our  sex  are  not  Columbuses 
who  discover  new  worlds  of  thought. 
They  are  sheep  who  will  follow  any 
leader over the  fence,  and  it’s  my  pri­
vate  belief  that  you  could  stampede 
even  a  missionary  meeting  if  somebody 
would  move  to  buy  chocolate  creams 
with  the  collection,  instead  of  Sending 
pajamas  to  the  heathen.

“ Think,  too,  of the  way  we  bore  our­
selves  reading  books  we 
loathe  and 
hearing  music  we  don’t  understand,  for 
the  benefit  of  our neighbors.  Not  long 
ago  I  was  at  a 
literary  gatheiing  of 
women—or one  supposed  to be literary— 
and  a  new  book,  very  deep,  very  ab­
struse,  very  profound,  was  being  dis­

I  understood  from  the  remarks 
cussed. 
of  the  others  that they  had  found  it so 
fascinating  they  couldn’t  put it  down 
and  that  they  simply  doted  on  it.  At 
last  some  one  asked  me  what  I  thought 
of  it,  and  I  said,  ‘ Well,  I  tackled  a  few 
chapters  in  the  front,  and  I  couldn’t 
make  head  nor  tail  of  them.  Then  I 
grappled  with  a  middle  chapter  with  no 
better  results,  and  then  threw  it  away. 
Life  is  too  short  and  there  are  too  many 
good  books  to  amuse  and  entertain  to 
worry  over a conundrum like that:’  and, 
would  you  believe  it,  every  woman  in 
the  room  came  down  off  her  high  horse 
and  told  the  truth  and  admitted  she 
didn’t  know  what  the  book  was  about 
and  had  only  read it  because she thought 
it  was 
‘ cultured’  to  have  rubbed  up 
against  it,  even 
if  she  took  nothing 
away.  For  my  part  I  am  thrilled  with 
pity  at  the  very  spectacle  of  a  woman 
wrestling  with  Ibsen  and  Maetterlinck 
when  I  know  if  she  had  the  courage  to 
lead  her  own 
life  in  her  own  way  she 
would  be  reveling  in  Marie  Corelli  and 
Laura  Jean  Libbey.

“ Same  way  with  music-----just 

look
at  the  difference  between  a  grand  opera

audience  and  a  vaudeville  performance. 
There’s  an  expression  on  the  Wagner 
audience  that  says  as  plainly  as  print: 
‘ I  know  this  is  the  proper thing  to  do, 
and  I  am  going  to  sit  it  out  if  it  takes 
my  eye  teeth. ’  But  the  other  audience 
that  is  getting  ragtime  music  is  just 
one  broad  grin.  You  can  tell  across  a 
whole 
is 
eating  the  thing  that  is  good  for  his 
stomach  or the  thing  he  likes.

restaurant  whether  a  man 

instead  of  themselves. 

“ The  worst  feature  of  it  all  is,  we. 
haven’t  the  courage  to  live  our own  do­
mestic  lives  as  we  want  to.  Many  a 
girl  and  man  marry  to  please  their  little 
world 
I  have 
known  a  girl  stifle  an  honest  love  for  a 
poor  young 
just  because  her 
friends  expected  her  to  marry  rich. 
I 
have  seen  a  young  man  forsake  a  pretty 
shop  girl,  who  would  have  been  a  real 
helpmeet  to  him  in 
life,  just  because 
his  addle-pated  acquaintances  turned 
up  their  noses  at  a  working  girl.

fellow 

“ Nor  does 

it  stop  here. 

To  any 
sensible  person  one  of  the  sad  sights 
is  that  of  a  young  couple  going,  as  soon 
as  they  are  married,  to  live  in  a  hotel 
or boarding-house.  That  way  extrava-

W x t  § m i t e

tj)c  Unite*  States of America,

To

H ^ N R Y   B . O O H )   your  o l o r b : i l y   attorneys,  ageri.3, 
s a l e s m e n ,   and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  OI 
bedding  through  or  under  yon.

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

SKEBTHIG:tttyereas,

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

ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,

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

j   we  do  strictly  command  and  perpetually  enjoin  you,  the  said  HENRY
KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
under  the  pains  and  penalties  which  may  fall  upon  youjm d_^ach_ofvoii  in  case  of  disobedience,  that  you  do 
absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
substantially  similar  thereto  in  sound  or  appearance,  in  connection  with  the  manufacture  or  sale  of  any  scouring 
soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

B y  word  of  mouth  or  otherwise,  selling  or  delivering  as 

“ SAPO LIO ,”   or  when  “ SAPO LIO ”   is  tusked  for,

that  which  is  not  Complainant’s  said  manufacture,  and  from 
false  or  misleading  manner.

in  any  way 

the  word  “ SAPOLIO"  in  any

IW ita e ** ,

[SBU.]

ROWLAND  COX.

ComtiaiMamts  Solicit**

The  honorable  Melville  W.  Fuller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
in  said  District  of  New 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December, 
in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one  thousand 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two,

fHGHBDl

&   D.  ©LIPHANT,

dark

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

many  qualities  that  I  like  immensely.”
Women  who  like  to  go,  and  long  for 
excitement,  find  themselves  tamed  down 
into  very  domestic  creatures,  caring  a 
great  deal  about  their  homes.  Women 
who  only  ask  for housewifely  duties  find 
themselves  trotting  around  to  all sorts of 
amusements,  and  enjoying  the 
life. 
Women  who  frown  on  Bohemian  ways 
are  transformed 
into  the  least  formal 
and  most delightful of hostesses.  Women 
who  are  Bohemian  are  surprised  some 
day  at  the  way  they  are  observing  the 
conventionalities.  A  woman 
is  aston­
ished  when  she  finds  herself  not  only 
doing  these  things  which  she  said  she 
would  not  do,  but  doing  them  willingly 
and  gladly.

It  is  not  inconsistency  which  causes  a 
change  in  the  point  of  view,  it  is  sim­
ply  a  new  adjustment  to  meet  new  con­
ditions. 
It  is  a  happy  thing  that  one

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naturally  brings  one’s  self  into  line  to 
be  contented  with  what  is.  Only  it  will 
be  easier  to  adjust  one’s  self to  the  new 
if  the  world  has  not  been  made  a  con - , 
fidant  of  one’s  early  plans  and  views.
Cora  Stoweil.

M agnitude  of D epartm ent Stores.

these 

A  way  of  bringing  the  bigness  of the 
department  stores  within  the  realization 
of  the  reader  is  by  reference  to  the  size 
of  its  purchases.  One  store  in  Chicago 
bought  in  one  bill  a  stock  of  granite 
kitchen  ware  which  filled  seventeen  cars 
that  were  made  up  into  a  special  train. 
institutions 
Another  of 
bought  a  trainload  of  shirt  waists  on  a 
single  order. 
in 
quantities  which  are  almost  beyond 
comprehension.  One  department  store 
bought  in  one  invoice  100,000 volumes 
of  standard  works  of  fiction—and  sold 
them,  too ! 
It  is  not  unusual  for any  of 
these  great  concerns  to  place  a  single 
order  for  $50,000  worth  of  goods,  and 
often  that  is  far  exceeded.

Books  are  handled 

great 

lie. 

flirtations,  gossip, 

gance, 
estrange­
ment,  divorce 
1  can  not  but be­
lieve  that,  if  they  had  the  courage  to 
live  their own  lives,  these  young  people 
would  start  some  sort  of a  home,  be  it 
ever  so  humble.  But,  because  they 
can’t  afford  a  fine  establishment  and 
costly  furniture  and  servants,  they  de­
liberately  jeopardize  their happiness  in 
life. 
If  I  were  a  girl  and  a  man  pro­
posed  boarding  to  me,  I  should  say, 
‘ Not  while  there  is  a  three-room  cottage 
to  be  bad,  and  a  gas  cooking  stove  to 
light  as  the  altar  of  a  real  home.’  And 
if  I  were  a  man  and  a  girl  was  not  will- 
* ng  to  begin  life  this  way  with  me,  if 
necessary,  I  wouldn’t  have  her  if  she 
was  the  last  rag  on  the  feminine  bush.
‘•‘ Perhaps  there  is  no  place  where  our 
fear  of  our  neighbors  works  more  harm 
than  in  the  way  we  raise  our  children, 
Our  idea,  if  only  we  had  the  courage  to 
carry  it  out,  is  to  have  them  grow  up 
very  simply,  to  be  good,  honest,  intelli- 
like
gent  men  and  women.  We  would 
to  keep  them  children  for  a 
long  time,
to enjoy  their  sweetness.  Who,  then,  is 
responsible  for  the  present  high  pres- 
sure  system  of  education  that  turns  out 
precocious  little wrecks  with nerve  pros- 
tration?  Strictly  our  neighbors;  and 
we  are  unconsciously  avenged  by  the 
fact  that  we  are  no  more  afraid  of  them 
than  they  are  of  us.

"W e  may  know  our  little  Mary  is  as 
highly  strung  as  a  violin,  with  every 
nerve  tuned  always  to  the 
snapping 
point.  We  may  know  our  little  James 
has  more  brain  than  brawn  or  that  our 
little  Tommy  is  of  the  slow,  plodding, 
methodical  kind,  but  who  nevertheless 
are generally around  when  the  prizes  are 
distributed,  but  who  need  time.  When 
we  think  of 
it,  we  know  that  Mary 
should  be  restrained  at  school  instead 
of  pushed;  that  James  should  develop 
muscle 
instead  of  m ind;  that  infinite 
patience  should  be  shown  Tommy,  but 
we  don't  have  the  courage  of  our  con­
victions  and,  because  we  are  afraid 
other children  will  get  a  grade  ahead  or 
know  more  than  ours,  we  let  the  help­
less 
little  creatures  be  ground  through 
the  mill,  to  come  out  often  and  often 
mental  or'physical  wrecks.

inanities 

"L a st  and  most  glorious  of  all,”   ex­
claimed  the  philosopher  in  petticoats, 
rising  and  going  over  to  the  mirror  and 
settling  her  hat,  "when  we  acquire  the 
courage  to 
live  our  lives  our  own  way 
we  won’t  be  bored  by  bores.  We  shall 
simply  refuse  to  pay  duty  calls  or to  go 
to  places  we  don’t want  to  or to  know 
people  who  tire  us.  Now  we  play 
whist  when  we  hate  it  and  smirk  and 
smile  at  receptions  and  say  ‘ How 
love­
ly ,’  when  people  are  treading  on  our 
corns  and  bawling 
into our 
ears.  We  make  martyrs  of  ourselves  in 
a  hundred  social  ways  because  we  are 
afraid,  if  we  don’t  show  up  at  the  card 
club  or  Mrs.  Borem’s,  small  and  hun­
gry  people  will  say  we  are  not  in  soci­
ety.  When  we  emancipate  ourselves  we 
simply  won’t  care  for  their  opinions. 
You  remember  that  delicious  old  story 
of  the  doughty  old  merchant  who  re­
turned  to  his  natire  town  with  a  fortune 
gotten  in  devious  ways.  Everyone  was 
most  curious  to know  how  he  became  so 
rich,  but he never  gave  his  secret  away. 
Instead,  he  built  a  great  house,  and 
over the  doorway  he  had  carved,  ‘ They 
say—they  will  say—let  them  be saying. ’ 
In  that  is  the  whole  philosophy  of  hap­
piness—indifference  to 
the  barnyard 
cackle.”

"O h,  I  don’t  know,”   I  answered,  " I  
think  there’s  much  virtue  in  our  neigh­

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bors’  opinions.  They  are  the  moral 
police  that  keep  us  straight.”

replied,  scornfully, 

"P o o h !”  

she 

"who  enjoys  being  policed!”

Dorothy  Dix.

The  New  P o in t of View.

"D o n ’t  you  tell  what  you  are  going 
to  do  or what  you  are  not  going  to  do,”  
I  heard  a  wise  matron  say  once;  "you 
don’t  know  what’s  in  the  future  or how 
circumstances  may  alter  everything.”  
She  herself  had  started  out  at  15  to 
make  many  plans  and  confided  them  to 
the  world  at 
large,  only  to  learn  later 
that  it  meant  unkind  ridicule  if  they 
were  not carried  out.  A  young  woman 
feels  almost 
indignant  and  very  flat 
when  an  older  person  warns her that  she 
may  do  directly  the  opposite of what she 
says  she  is  going  to do.  “ I don’t care, ”  
she  declares,  " I   guess  I  know  my  own 
disposition  and  I guess  I can  tell  a  little 
something  about  my 
The 
older  woman  smiles  in  an  amused  way 
and  says  nothing  more.

future.”  

As  a  matter of  fact,  the  young  woman 
can  not  imagine  all  the  conditions  and 
circumstances  which  are  to  come, so she 
can  not 
imagine  herself  changing  her 
point  of  view.  Reasons which have  been 
given  for  acting  in  a  certain  way  have 
not  appealed  to  her  in  the  slightest,  and 
it 
is  not  until  she  arrives  at  the  same 
event  herself  that  she  realizes  that  the 
true  reasons  are  the  ones  which  are  not 
given  out  to  the  public.  She  may  be 
thoroughly  convinced  that  a  certain  life 
is  the  only  one  which  she  is  fitted  to 
lead,  and  twenty  years  hence  may  find 
her  leading  just  the  opposite  sort,  be­
cause  circumstances  have  changed  so 
that  her  point  of  view  has changed.  She 
may  be  cocksure  that  she  will  never  do 
certain  things  that  her  friends  do,  only 
to  find  herself,  several  years  latet,  do­
ing  those  same  things.

It  does  not always  take  years  to  make 
a  woman  change  her  point  of  view  on 
small  matters. 
I  have  seen  a  girl  who 
has  ranted  about  the  foolish  custom  of 
wearing  a  train  skirt  wearing  one  in  a 
year’s  time,  with  all  the  pride  and 
haughtiness  of  her  companions.  She 
shamefacedly  excuse  herself  by 
will 
"Y o u   know  the  tailor  insisted 
saying: 
on  my  having  a 
long  skirt,  said  the 
others  made  a  woman  look  gawky,  and 
so  what  could  1  do?”  
I  have  seen  a 
woman  who  declared  she  would 
live 
way  out  in  the  suburbs  rather  than  live 
in  a  flat  dwelling  in  the  tiniest  of  flats 
in  the  heart  of  a  city  all  because  "John 
could  not  possibly  be  so  far  away  from 
his  business  and 
it  costs  so  much  for 
car  fare.”

When  she  had  made  her  first  state­
ment  about  the  flat there  was no "Jo h n ”  
in  sight  and  the  young  woman  had 
never been  obliged  to  consider  the  cost 
of  anything. 
I  heard  a  young  woman 
say  about  four  years ago  that she thought 
evening  bicycle  riding  with  a  young 
man  was  wholly improper  and bad form. 
Two  years  later  she  was  enjoying  such 
rides  greatly,  and 
in  extenuation  she 
said: 
"W ell,  you  see,  the  men  are  all 
working  and  they  really  have  no  other 
time  to  ride.”

A  young  woman  with  a  keen  sense  of 
humor  looked  quizzically  at  her hus­
band  of  a  year  and  said: 
"D o   you 
know,  you  are  everything  I said  1  would 
not  marry?  I  declared  I  would not marry 
a  man  who  would  make  me  obey,  that 
I  would  not  marry a  man  who  would  ex­
pect  a  thousand 
little  attentions,  and 
who  did  not  care  a  rap  about  society. 
But,  then,  I  didn’t  know  you  when  I 
made  that  statement,  and  you  have  so

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Poultry

P eculiarities  P ertain in g  to  th e   H andling 

of P oultry.

"Y o u   might  say  a  word  about  mixing 
young  spring  ducks and  geese  with  old 
in 
live  poultry  shipments,"  suggested 
a 
“ These  small 
live  poultry  receiver. 
spring  ducks  and  geese are  so smkll and 
poor that  buyers  do  not  want  them  ex­
cept  at  very 
low  prices,  and  where  a 
few  are  mixed  with  fíne  old  stock  they 
ruin  the  sale  of the  whole coop  as  far as 
full  ptices  are  concerned.  We  receivers 
do  not  have  time  to sort  over  stock,  as 
you  know,  and  sell  it  as  received.  Buy­
ers  never  see  any  but  the  poorest  when 
buying  and  one  thin  spring  duck  or 
goose  in  a  coop  is  liable  to  cause a good 
buyer to turn  aw ay."

*  *  *

in 

"M uch  of  the  poultry  has  been  com­
ing 
late  and  a  great  deal  of  money 
has  been 
lost  to  shippers  owing  to  the 
poor condition  of  the  stock  on  arrival." 
said  a  receiver.  "W e  had  one  shipment 
which  was  nine  days  on  the  road  and 
imagine  the  condition  it  was 
you  can 
in  when 
it  finally  reached  here.  We 
could  not  find  out  where  to  place  the 
blame  as  the  railroad  bringing  it 
into 
this  city  claimed  there  was  no delay  on 
their road  and  it  must  have  been  on  the 
roads  handling  it  before  it  reached  the 
point  where  their  road  took  it up.  This 
shipper tried  for  two  or three  weeks and 
last  week  we  have  not 
this  week  and 
I  presume  he 
had  any  stock  from  him. 
is  shipping  to  a  nearer  market. 
It  is 
unfortunate,  however,  as  it  keeps  the 
stock  away  from  the  market  and  these 
new  sections  which  are  opening  up 
should  be  encouraged  as  we need  the 
poultry. *'

*  *  *

“ We  are  receiving  very  little  poultry 
just  now ,"  said  a  Washington  street  re­
ceiver. 
“ Most  of  our  poultry  comes 
from  Ohio,  and  eggs  have  been  doing 
so  well  from  this  section  that  poultry 
has  been  held  for  the  eggs,  shippers 
making  more  money  in  that  way.  We 
are  receiving  some  very  nice  eggs  and 
getting  high  prices  for them.”

*  *  *

A  great  deal  of  poultry  came  in  late 
last  week,  both  live  and  dressed.  The 
market  for  live  held  about  steady  and 
the  only  difference  the  delay  made  to 
shippers  was  perhaps  a 
little  heavier 
shrinkage  by  being  on  the  road  a  day or 
two  longer than  usual.- With  the  dressed 
poultry,  however,  it  was  different  and 
the  delay  favored  shippers  in most cases 
as  the  market  strengthened  Tuesday and 
again  Wednesday  and  Monday’s  ship­
ments  which  did  not  get  in  until  Tues­
day  received  the  benefit of  Tuesday’s 
advance. 
The  same  thing  occurred 
Wednesday  with  the  stock  that  came  in 
which  should  have  been  in  the  previous 
day.  Later  in  the  week  the  market 
showed  less  strength.

*  *  *

" I t   was  only  a  comparatively  short 
time  ago  that  we  receivers  would  not 
consider 
splitting  %c  on  a  poultry 
sale ,"  complained  a  commission  man 
the  other  day. 
"A n d   now  it  is  just  a 
fight  all  the  time  to keep  from  selling 
on  the  X c  basis.  Last  week,  for  ex­
ample,  when  the  fowl  market  was  weak

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

there  were  hundreds  of  barrels  sold  X e 
under  quotations. 
I  presume  a  good 
many  returned  the  full  quotation  and 
lost  their  commission  on  the  goods  in 
order  to  keep  shippers  satisfied  and  I 
tell  you 
it  is  dead  wrong.  We  should 
get  together  and  stop  this  X e business 
or  the  first  thing  we  know  you  market 
reporters  will  be quoting  by  quarters." 
I  assured  him  he  was  about  right  and 
that  while  we  had  quoted  the  market  on 
a  X e  basis  only  in  rare  instances  it  was 
shaping  that  way  and  as  the  market  re­
porters  simply  had  to  follow  the  sales 
they  were  powerless  to  prevent  a  quar­
ter  cent  quotation 
if  the  commission 
man  made  sufficient  sales to  warrant  its 
recognization.—N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

Frog to Succeed  Belgium   H are.

long 

large, 

A  new 

industry 

is  about  to  be 
launched  in  Southern  California,  which 
is  destined  to  enter the  field  as  a  rival 
of  the  bare  industry  as  a  meat  supply­
ing  business.  A  student  of  animal  life 
and  characteristics  has  discovered,  in 
Belgium,  a  frog  of  large  size  and  sym­
metry, 
vertebrae,  slim-pointed 
forelegs,  with  feet  of  a  bright  rufus 
color,  and 
fleshy  hindquarters, 
which  when  prepared  for the  table form 
a  meat  food  that  surpasses  in  flavor  and 
nutriment  all  other kinds  of  game  and 
fowl,  the  Dakota  snipe  even  included. 
They,  like  the  American  frog,  are  pro­
lific,  but  their  peculiar  characteristic  is 
that  their  hindquarters  can  readily  be 
removed  as  often  as  every  two  weeks 
and  new  ones  grow  in  their  place  with 
remarkable  rapidity  and 
apparently 
causing  very  little  inconvenience  to  the 
frog.  A  nest  of  thirteen  has  been  or­
dered ;  one  buck  and  a  dozen  breeders, 
at  an  expense  of  several  thousand  dol­
lars,  as  all  are  pedigreed  prize  winners.
These  gamey  little  animals  supplied 
the  various  committees  at  a  recent  ex­
position  held  in  that  country,  with  legs 
for  breakfast  every  day  during  the  con­
tinuance  of  a 
show. 
Lord  Roberts  and  General  Kitchener 
tried  to  bring  to  bear all  the  diplomacy 
of  England  to  secure  this  nest  with 
which  to  supply  the  army  in  South  A f­
rica  with  regular  rations.  They  ex­
plained  that the  transportation  of  a  nest 
could  be  made  with  comparative  little 
difficulty,  and  when  once  at  the  south 
banks  of  the  Tugela,  which  they  have 
seized,  they  could  stock  the  river  with 
them  and  be  prepared  to  stay  there  in­
definitely. 
The  Belgian  authorities, 
however,  would  not  permit  the  purchase 
as 
it  would  be  a  breach  of  neutrality 
law.  Thus  at  a  much  less  expense  they 
were  secured  for  this  country  by  Prof. 
Pat  Murphy,  whose name  will 
in  time 
to  come  be  revered  by  the  posterity  of 
the  American  people  as  a  great  bene­
factor to  bis  race. 

long-protracted 

C.  W.  Roach.

remember 

Tourists  in  Europe  this  year  have 
that 
been  admonished  to 
matches are  a  government  monopoly 
in 
France  and  are  liable  to  be  taxed  at  the 
rate  of a  franc  per  match  if  an  attempt 
to smuggle  them  in  is  discovered,writes 
a  Paris  correspondent.  These  govern­
ment  monopolies  lead  sometimes  to  the 
exercise  of  an  almost  childish  tyranny. 
In  Italy,  for  instance,  where  salt  is  a 
monopoly,  and 
is  consequently  at  an 
exorbitant  price, 
it  is  a  punishable 
offense  for the  private  individual  to  ex­
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3-crown, 

sustained.  Valencia  off  stalk  raisins, 
5& @ 7c;  California 
6 ^ c ; 
seedless  muscatel,' 6%@6%c.  Domestic 
dried  of  almost  all  sorts  fetch  full  fig­
ures.  Fancy  evaporated  apples  in  bulk 
are  worth  g}4c,  and 
in  cartons  some 
brands  will  fetch  i2j£c.  The  supply  is 
very  light.

Sicily 

lemons  range 

Lemons  and  oranges  have  both  sold 
fairly  well,  and  prices  are  about  un­
changed. 
from 
$3-5°@ 3-75>  California  oranges,  $3.75 
@5.50.  Bananas  are  worth  $i@ i.i2 j£  
per  bunch  for firsts.
The  butter  market  remains practically 
as 
last  week.  Best  Western  creamery 
is  still  held  at  20c,  and  seconds  to  firsts, 
I7@i<pc;  Western  imitation creamery,  15 
17c;  Western  factory,  14 ^ 15 ^ 0 .
In  cheese  little  is  doing,  either  in  the 
way  of  export  or  with  borne  trade. 
While  best  full  cream  stock  will  bring 
9^c,  this is  certainly  top  and  some  very 
good  stock  has  been  sold  for  gj^c.

The  egg  market  is  firm.  The  demand 
seems  to  be  quite  equal  to  the  supply, 
especially  of  the  better  sorts,  and  fresh- 
gathered  Western  will  bring  i8j£c,  av­
erage  sorts  of  same, 17^0, and  refrigera­
tor  stock,  i 6@ i 7c.

Some  2,000  bags  of  foreign beans were 
received  Friday.  The  demand  is  gen­
erally  rather  light.  Choice  marrows, 
$3;  choice  medium,  $2.75.

and  training  is  not  usually  keen in  mat­
ters  foreign  to  merchandising  and  the 
majority  of  those  who  enter  into  specu­
lative  schemes  in  their anxiety  to get 
rich  rapidly  prove  to  be  the  most  fall­
ible  of  lambs  in  the  bands  of  unscrupu­
lous  operators.

No  business  thrives  so  well  as  the  one 
which  receives  the  undivided  attention 
of  the  owner.

Merchants  who  have  spare  time  and 
money  should  turn  them  to  the  advan­
tage  of  their  own  legitimate  vocation ; 
make  money  by  anticipating  bills,  thus 
securing  a  margin  for enlarged  opera­
tions.

Are  W illow  Trees  Lightning-Proof ? 

From the Cleveland Leader.

" In   all  my  forty  years’  experience 
with  trees  and  plants,"  said  a  well- 
known  gardener during  one  of  the  thun­
derstorms  this  week,  " I  have  yet  to  bear 
of  a  willow  tree  being  struck  by 
light­
ning. 
Spruce  trees,  whitewood,  and 
pine  trees  sometimes  almost  seem  to  at­
tract  the  electricity,  and  oak  and  other 
large  trees  and  even  many  small  trees 
are  often  maimed  and  killed.  But  wil­
low  trees  seem  for  some  reason  to  be 
immune  to  death  or  injury 
in  this 
shape,  and  I  have  never  seen  or even 
heard  of  a  tree  of  this  family  which 
lightning  has  ever  struck."

2 3

Twelve  Good  Business  Kales.

1.  Have  a  definite  aim.
2.  Go straight  for  it.
3.  Master all  details.
4.  Always  know  more  than  you  a re 

expected  to  know.

made  to  overcome.
to  further  effort.

5.  Remember that difficulties are only 

6.  Treat  failures  as  stepping-stones 

7.  Never  put  your  hand  out  farther 

than  you  can  draw  it  back.

8.  At  times  be bold ;  always prudent.
9.  The  minority  often  beats  the  ma­

jority  in  the  end.

10.  Make  good  use  of  other men’s 

brains.

decide  promptly.

11.  Listen  w ell;  answer  cautiously; 
12.  Preserve,  by  all  means  within 
your  power,  " a   sound  mind  in  a  sound 
body. ’ ’

The  people  who  look  for  trouble  are 

always  the  ones  who  find  fault.
Geo.  H.  Reif snider  &  Co.

Commission  Merchants

and Wholesale Dealers In

Fancy Creamery Butter, Eggs,  Cheese

331 Greenwich Street, New York 

References :  Irving National Bank of New York 

and Michigan Tradesman.

The New York Market

Special Features of the Grocery and Prod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Aug.  31—September  buy­
ers  are  here  now and  are  making  liberal 
purchases  in  all  lines.  Groceries,  boots 
and  shoes,  hardware  and  dry  goods  are 
all  booming,  and  no  such  thing  as 
strikes  seems  to  enter  into  the  situa­
tion.  Only  one  thing  attracts  New  York 
from 
its  business  and  that  is  Lipton 
and  his  yacht.  When  it  comes  to  sport, 
all  other things  drop.

Coffee  is  mighty  quiet.  Supplies  at 
large  every  day, 
primary  points  are 
amounting  to  some  83,000 bags  at  Rio 
and  Santas  on  Friday. 
In  store  and 
afloat  the  amount  aggregates  1,681,287 
bags  against  763,330  bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  These  figures  are  larger 
than  the  mind  can  grasp—supply  now 
more  than  twice  as  great  as  last  year. 
From  July  1  to  August  28  the  receipts 
at  Rio  and  Santos  aggregate  3,074,000 
bags,  against  2,011,000 bags  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Package  coffee  has  been 
in  fair  request  during  the  week.  Both 
the  leading  grades  are  quotable  at  qc.

Tea  dealers  are  encouraged  to think 
that  the  bottom  of  the  dull  trade  has 
been  reached,  and  that  now  we  are  on 
the  up  grade.  Let  us  hope  they  will  not 
be  disappointed !  There  has  been  quite 
a  good  demand  during  the  week  and  es­
pecially for Formosa grades, while Japans 
and  Chinas  have  received  due  enquiry. 
Prices  are,  perhaps,  not  perceptibly 
higher,  but  there 
is  an  upward  tend­
ency  and  that  is  something.

Now  that  we  are  in  the  height  of  the 
canning  season  the  long  hopedfor  en­
quiry  for  sugar  has  set  in  and  there  is 
really  quite  a-rush, 
in  fact,  some  refin­
ers  are  said  to  be oversold  several  days. 
Orders  have  come  by  mail  and  wire 
from  all  parts.
Speaking  of  sugar,  aside  from  the 
market  a  moment,  it  is  evident  as  time 
into 
passes  that  the  trust  .is  getting 
shape  to  make  a  great  fight  in  Congress 
this  winter  for  free  sugar. 
It  is  not 
likely  it  will  succeed,  but  the  wires  are 
being  laid  with  great  skill.  Free  sugar 
will  mean  dead  beets,  and  the  beet  men 
will  never say  die.  Of  course,  the  cry 
of  3  cent  sugar  is  an  attractive  whoop; 
but  3  cent  sugar  will  not  be  here  right 
away.

The  demand  for  rice  has  been  of  fair 
proportions  and  altogether the  situation 
satisfactory.  The  crop  of 
is 
Louisiana  and  Texas  will,  it  is  thought, 
be  about  2,250,000  bags. 
in 
dealers’  hands  are  not 
large,  and  the 
sales  have  been  sufficiently  numerous  to 
¿lean  the  market  up  well  at  prevailing 
rates.  Choice  to  head,  s%@6%c.

Stocks 

fairly 

Little 

With  the  advance  there  is  a  better  en­
quiry  for  spices  and  sales  have  been 
made  at  well-sustained quotations.  Buy­
ers  are  hardly  high  enough  in  their bids 
to 
interest  sellers,  but  there  is  a  very 
small  margin  between  them.  Zanzibar 
cloves,  7 ^ c ;  Singapore  pepper,  I2|^c.
in  the  way  of  actual 
business  in  molasses,  and  both  sides  are 
simply  waiting  for  some  cooler  weather. 
Good  to  prime,  I7@30c,  or  same  as  for 
several  weeks.  Syrups  are rather limited 
in  supply,  and,  with  a  pretty  brisk  de­
mand,  quotations  are  firm.

is  doing 

The  question  of  obtaining  a  sufficient 
number  of  cans  is  a  most  important  one 
with  some  canners  just  now.  They  will 
sell  no  futures  until  they  know  where 
they  are  at,  and  this  is  hard  to  ascer­
tain,  so  long  as  the  strike  at  the  mills  is 
is  a  good  demand  all 
on. 
around. 
in  New 
York  State  promises  to  be  large  and  the 
quality  is  all  that  can  be  desired.
Dried  fruits  seem  to  gain  strength 
every  day.  Offerings  of  prunes  and 
raisins  are  light,and  quotations  are  well

The  pack  of  corn 

There 

(Jse  Your  Money  in  Your  Own  Business.
In  the  present  rapid  age  the  desite  to 
"g e t  rich  quick"  has  blinded  many 
merchants  who  several  decades  ago 
would  use  all  their  brain  energy  in  de­
veloping  their  business,  and  has  made 
them  aleit  for  outside  schemes  and 
propositions  which  promise  riches  in  a 
remarkably  short  Space  of  time.  Their 
business  is  secondary  to this  inclination 
to  invest  in  outside  schemes.

A  New  England  merchant  advises 
merchants  to  use  their  money  in  their 
own  business  and  gives  as  the  key  to 
success  the  discounting  of  bills.  He  is 
undoubtedly  right  and  mentions  a  thing 
that  too  few  merchants  look  seriously 
.upon.
The  average  country  merchant  will 
usually  take  the 
last  minute  of  the 
eleventh  hour  to  pay  bis  bills,  looking 
upon  discounting 
in  the  light  that  his 
money 
is  worth  as  much  to  him  as  the 
earned  discount,  or  he  doesn't  think  of 
it 
in  any  light  except  that  a  bill  must 
he  paid  on  such  a  date  and  waits  until 
the  last  minute  of  that  date  before mail­
ing  a  check,  although  bis  money  may 
be  idle  days  before  that  date.
Merchants  in  general  should  give  this 
matter  more  serious  consideration.  It  is 
a  matter of  profit  in  many  ways  to  the 
small  dealer  as  well  as  the  large  one.

Manufacturers  and  jobbers  favor  cash 
buyers  to  the  limit  of  their terms,  be­
sides  favoring  them  with "good things" 
in  the  way  of-bargains  which  are  never 
suggested  or shown  to  slow-pay  dealers. 
jobs  are  always  offered 
Clearings  and 
first to  the  cash  buyer.  He 
invariably 
gets  the  best  there  is  of all  deals  and  it 
is  his  discounting  his  bills  that  works 
in  his  favor.
Bills  taken  up  in  advance,  even  if  it 
■ be  at  the  cost of  unusual  exertions,  save 
money  and  worry  to  the  merchant  and 
buy  favors  at  the  hands  of  the  men  he 
deals  with.  He  will  not  only  feel  the 
beneficent  effects 
in  this  way,  but  will 
feel  them  in  the  freer  swing given to his 
business.  A  forestalled  obligation  gives 
a  merchant  an 
independence  that  is 
worth  much  and  makes  him  a  keener, 
shrewder  business  man.
The  danger  that  besets  a  merchant 
who  has  money  on  hand  is  that  of  the 
temptation  to  use 
in  some  outside 
speculation—in  schemes  foreign  to  his 
business  and  bis  knowledge,  and  for 
which  he  relies  upon  the  arguments  and 
persuasion  of  the  projectors.  A  man 
with  a  keen,  shrewd  mercantile  spirit

it 

Order direct from  the grower

Red, White and Blue Grapes

by thousand baskets,  ton or carload.
No fruit shipped on commission.

WM.  K.  MUNSON,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Proprietor of Vinecroft

Rural Route No.  4 

Citizens Phone 3599

J.  B.  HAMMER  & CO.

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Clerks’  Corner.

W hy  So Few Shoe Clerks Achieve Success.
Almost  every  day  you  will  find  clerks 
complaining  about their  lot  in  life,  say­
ing  that  there  are  more  fortunate  peo­
ple  than  they  who  have  been  able  to 
succeed,  while  they  themselves  have, 
continued  along 
in  the  same  old  rut, 
never  being  able  to  advance themselves, 
never  being  able  to  make  a  better show­
ing  under  any  circumstances. 
I  will 
not  say  that  in all  cases  this  is  a  fact,as 
you  are  bound  to  find  an  exception  to 
the  rule,  but  on  the  grand  average  the 
fault  lies  solely  with  the  clerk.

Let  us  start  at  the beginning  and  take 
the  boy  as  be  enters  the'  shoe  store. 
What  are  his  first  duties  other than  do­
ing  a  few  errands  and assisting  the help 
by  getting  shoes out  of  the stock?  They 
have  little  to  do  but  to  learn  their  busi­
ness.  The  first  week  they  are  very  en­
thusiastic.  Everything  seems  to  be  of 
interest  to  them.  They  pick  up  little 
odds  and  ends  of  the  business  and 
note  every  point  which  will  be  of  value 
to  them  in  the  future;  but  right  here  is 
where  they  begin  to  fall  away.  They 
in  the 
associate  with  the  older  boys 
store,  learn  their  ways,  fall 
into  that 
old  rut of  simply  doing  what  they  have 
to,  and 
letting  the  future  take  care  of 
itself.

All  these  things  have  been  noticed  by 
the  employer,  and  he  is  not  slow  to 
realize  that  this'  boy  will  have  to  be 
in  order  even  to  earn  the  small 
driven 
is  receiving  at  the  present 
salary  he 
time. 
In  this  condition  he  drifts  along 
in  the  store  until  eventually,  simply 
through  age  and 
length  of  time,  he  is 
permitted  to  go  on  the  floor  to  sell 
shoes.  His  incompetency  is here  noted, 
and  very  often  after  being  talked  to sev­
eral  times  by  bis  superiors  they  find 
that  he  is  unwiling  to  grasp  the  situa­
tion  and  he  is  quietly  discharged.  Thus 
he  starts  off  in  life  without  a  solid foun­
dation,  which 
is  necessary  for success. 
The  old  saying,  “ As  a  twig  is  bent  so 
the  tree  is  inclined,”   follows,  and  rare­
ly,  if  ever,  will you  find  this  young  man 
able  to  sufficiently  recover  himself  to 
ever  command  a  position  which  pays 
more  than  $12  a  week.

How  many  shoe  clerks  will  you  find 
who  are  willing  to  enter  shoe  stores  five 
or  ten  minutes  ahead  of  time  in  the 
morning  or  wait  five  or  ten  minutes 
after  the  regular  closing  hour  of  the 
night?  They  figure  it  out  that the  day’s 
work 
is  done ;  that  they  have  returned 
measure  for  measure  to  their  employer. 
in  one  sense  this  may  be  true, 
While 
losing  the  most 
they  are  nevertheless 
important  moments  of  their 
lives,  and 
through  their  desire  to  get  away,  they 
never  reach  that  degree  of 
intimacy 
with  their superiors  which would  permit 
them  to take  an interest in their  welfare. 
Have  you  ever  met  a  buyer  or manufac­
turer  who  is  not  willing  to  assist  a 
young  man  who  is  willing  to  help  him­
self?

The  clerk  knows  that  the  buyer’s time 
is  taken  up  during  the  business  of  the 
day,  and 
if  there  are  any  moments 
which  can  be  spared  for his  instruction 
they  will  surely  come  after the  business 
hours.  With  all  this  knowledge he would 
rather  pass  it  by  than  to deprive himself 
of  the  fifteen  or twenty  minutes  which 
would  be  necessary in  order  to  attain  it.
Have  you  asked  yourself  the question 
why,  in  the  last  ten  years,  women  have 
obtained  such  a  foothold  in  shoe depart­
I  have,  and  I  have  endeavored 
ments? 
to  figure  out  the  reason. 
It  is  simply

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

th is:  Women  shoe  clerks  are  much 
more  attentive ;  they  take  greater  care 
in  endeavoring  to  please  their  employ­
ers’  customers,  and  do  everything  in 
their  power, in order  to  make  themselves 
of  value  to  the  house  that employs them. 
It  is  not the  woman  clerk  that  you  will 
find  lingering  around  the  counter;  that 
is 
late  every  morning;  that  wants  an 
extra  fifteen  minutes  for  her  lunch ;  that 
is  continually  grumbling  that  the  trade 
is  extra  heavy;  that  believes  she 
is 
worth  more  money  than  she  is  getting, 
and  a  thousand  and  one  other  com­
plaints  which  are  possible  alone  to  the 
man  clerk.

She  is  always  anxious to obtain knowl­
edge,  ever  willing  and  ready  to  assist  a 
customer,  rarely,  if  ever,  thinking  she 
knows  it  all,  and  the  result  is  that  to­
day  in  the  greatest  number  of  shoe  de­
partments  in  the  country  the women out­
rank  the  men  by  at  least  four  to  one.

I  do  not  wish  to  have  any  one  infer 
that  I  believe  all  sboemen  are  to  be 
classed  as  those  I  have  just  spoken  of, 
but  I  do  say  that  the  grand  average  will 
be  found  among  this  number.

Now,  as  to  how  to  get  away  from 
this,  how  to  regain  their  lost  prestige, 
and  how  to  make  themselves  more  valu­
able  to  their  employers 
is  undoubtedly 
what any  shoeman  will  ask after reading 
this  article. 
It  can  be  summed  up  in  a 
few  words:  Prove  by  your  attention 
that  you  are  anxious  to  succeed;  be 
willing  and  courteous;  do  as  much  as 
possibly  lies  in  your  power  for the  store 
in  which  you  are  working,  and  always 
remember that  your  employer's  success 
is  your  success. 
If  you  have  a  bright, 
practical,  up-to-date  shoeman 
in  your 
department,  follow  his  example,  learn 
his  ways,  and  remember  that  it  was  his 
trade-winning  ideas  which  have  placed 
him  in  the  position  that  he  is  in  at  the 
present  day.

If  you  do  this  you  are  certainly on  the 
high  road  where  no  shoe  woman  can 
follow ;  but even  although  this  is  a fact, 
there  is  one  thing  more  which  is  abso­
lutely  necessary  for  you  to  remember; 
make 
it  your  eleventh  commandment 
and  keep  it  always  in  your  mind. 
It  is 
it  all,  and 
this: 
you  are  never  too  old  to  learn. ”  
Just 
another  word. 
I  wish  to  quote  to  you 
an  old,  typified  saying,  which  it  would 
also  be  well  for  you  to  remember: 
“ A 
thing  is  never  worth  doing  unless  it  is 
worth  doing  well.” —J.  R.  Leacock 
in 
Shoe  Retailer.

“ No  shoeman  knows 

A  Governm ent  Soap  Contract.

From the Washington Star.

“ We 

in  supplying 

invited  bids  some  time  ago,”  
said  an  official  of  the Navy Department, 
“ for  a  number of  minor  supplies,  and 
among  the  articles  required  was  a  small 
amount  of  scouring  soap.  We  awarded 
the  contract  for the  latter to  a  merchant 
in  New  York,  and  on  informing  him  of 
the  acceptance  of  bis  bid  advised  him 
of  the  formalities  which  he  must  ob­
serve 
the  Government, 
how  he  was  to  have  his  contract  drawn 
up  in  triplicate,  and  a  lot of  other  nec­
essary  red  tape,  and  aiso  acknowledged 
the  receipt  of  his  certified  check  for 
$100 to  guarantee  the  faithful  execution 
of  the  contract.  Now,  the  value  of  the 
soap  we  wanted 
just  then  totaled  $3, 
and  when  the  merchant  received  the 
department’s  communication  he  evi­
dently  adjudged  the  game  not  worth  the 
candle,  for  we  received  a  very  nice  lit­
tle  communication  from  him  in  which 
he  stated  that  on  reconsideration  he 
would  withdraw  his  bid,and  would  send 
on  immediately  as  a  gift  to  the  Govern­
ment  enough  soap  to cover our  needs. 
1  don’t  think  his  letter  was  meant  to  be 
sarcastic.  He  was 
just  accommoda­
ting.”

A Trade  Maker

Fanny  Davenport

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Moreland  Bros.  &   Crane,  Adrian,  Michigan.

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Cocoanut Blocks..........  3 for one cent
Jack  Knives..................   4 for one cent
Hobby  Horses..............  4 for one cent
Brown Jugs................... 6 for one cent
Little  Browns.............12  for one cent
Big  Four Caramels....  4 for one cent
Fruit Suckers...............   1  for one cent
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CommercialTravelers

Michigan  Knights  of the Grip

President,  Gao. F. Owns,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbah, Detroit.

United  Commercial T nnlen  of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  B a r t l e t t ,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K e n d a l l ,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. E d e l m a n , Saginaw.

Grand  Rapids  Council  So.  131,  C.  C.  T.

Senior Counselor, W  R.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

Michigan Commercial Trarelen’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J.  Boyd  Pantlind,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids.

sweethearts—to 

T hird Picnic  of Grand Rapids Connell.
Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  3—The  third 
and  last  picnic  for this  season  given  by 
Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131,  United 
Commercial  Travelers,  was  carried  oS 
successfully  under the very able manage­
ment  of  the  Committee—S.  H.  Sim­
mons,  J.  C.  Emery  and  B.  J.  Lawrence 
—at  Jenison,  Saturday  afternoon.  The 
different  cars  until  3  o’clock  kept bring­
ing  down  members  and  their  friends 
until  a  gathering  of  nearly  a  hundred 
bad  assembled  at  the  grounds.  A  wag­
onette—1  think  that  is  the  proper  name 
—had  been  secured  to  convey  the  ladies 
from  the  car  to  the  picnic  grounds,  and, 
after  successfully  climbing  the  ‘ ‘ ladder 
of  fame,”   leading  from  the  ground  to 
the  summit  of  the  vehicle  and  all  were 
comfortably  seated 
in  the  luxuriously 
cushioned  seats,  the  driver,  with  a crack 
of  his  whip  that  would  have  put  the 
ringmaster of  Barnum  & Bailey’s  circus 
to  shame,  guided  the  fiery  charger  with 
its  human  cargo  of  dear  creatures—our 
wives  and 
the  ball 
ground, where  at  3:30 the  ball  game  was 
called  under  Captains  Bodwell  and 
Reynolds.  The  game  was  to  be  five  in­
nings,  but  as 
it  stood  a  tie  of 8  to  8, 
another  inning  had  to  be  played  to  de­
cide  the  winning  side.  Bodwell's  side 
went to  bat  and  got  nit,  and  then  it  was 
left  for  Reynolds’  men  to  make  but  one 
move  to  win  the  game.  The  first  two 
men  going  to  bat  went  out  so quick  it 
made  their  hair  change  color.  Then 
Charlie  Reynolds, with  blood  in  his  eye, 
took  the  club. 
It  was  just  one  man  they 
wanted,  and  already  two  men  were  out. 
Charlie  made  a  good  fly,  but  it  was 
stopped  so  quickly  that  he  only  got  to 
first.  Lawrence  then  batted  and,  by  a 
good  hit,  sent  Reynolds  to  third,  and 
it  was  then 
left  for  Phillips  to  do the 
same  thing  to  get  Reynolds  in.  He  did 
it  very  nicely,  knocking  a  good  fly  out 
in  the  field,  which  brought  Reynolds  in 
and  gave  his  side  the  game. 
It  was  a 
very  exciting  game  all  through,  with 
many  funny 
incidents.  The  first  run 
Byron  Davenport  made  be  got  mixed, 
thinking  probably  he  was  running  a  fat 
men’s  race.  When  he  came  to  he  found 
himself  many  yards  from  first, base  and 
the  first  baseman  bolding  the  ball  in his 
hand  and  Umpire  Will  Holden  calling 
him  out. 
It  was  all  right,  By.  You 
must  remember  bases  are  laid  out  dia­
mond,  not 
in 
in  a  square.  Carlyle 
catcher’s  box  was  ruled  out  of  order 
once  for  having  his  mask  on  upside 
down.  Probably  he  thought  the  other 
side  was  going  to  he  such  an  easy  mark 
that  be  could  stand  on  his  head  part  of 
the  time  and  catch  them  out. 
It is  sug­
gested  that  at  the  next  game  clubs  be 
Furnished  with  straps  on,  so that  brother 
Lawton  can  strap  the  club  down  so  it 
will  not  get  away  from  him.  Two  of 
the  prettiest  catches  made  during  the 
game  were  on  third  by  Brooks,  when  he 
jumped  over  three  feet  in  the  air after 
the  ball  and  caught  the  man  out.  The 
other  was  by  Reynolds  catching  a  fly 
and  putting  the  man  out.  The  Land 
Kickers  were  noticeable  by  their  pres­
ence  and  none  were  louder than  Burns 
and  Bodwell. 
It  was  also  noticeable 
that  Roy  Baker  was  on  the  losing  side. 
The  only  time  the  ambulance was called 
into  service  was  when  Phillips,  making 
third  base,  was  hit  with  the  ball  on  the 
cheek.  Luckily,  it  did  not  land  a  little 
higher  up,  as 
it  might  have  proved  a 
more  serious  affair;  but  Phillips  in  a 
short  time  was  himself  again  and  on 
went the  game.  One  of the  star  play­

ers  of  the  afternoon  was  Japenga,  mana­
ger of  the  Jenison  Mercantile  Co.  store, 
who  played  on  the  winning  side.
In  the  ladies’  running  race,  Mrs.  John 
C.  Emery  proved  herself  the  fleetest  on 
foot  and  was  awarded  first  prize—a  five 
pound  box  of  bonbons. 
In  the  ladies’ 
egg  race  there  were  seven  contestants. 
Mrs.  L.  F.  Baker covered  the  distance 
first,  but  in  going  to  the  judges’  stand 
dropped  the  egg,  and  Mrs. 
John  D. 
Martin,  being  next  under  the  wire  and 
having  successfully carried  the  egg,  was 
awarded  the  prize  of  five  pounds  of 
Parker  House  coffee—is  a  new  brand,  I 
imagine. 
In  the  contest  of  throwing 
the  ball,  nearly  all  the  ladies  present 
took  a  chance.  There were under curves, 
outer  curves,  drops  and,  in  fact,  all 
kinds  of  fancy  throwing,  but  Miss  Min­
nie  Reynolds  proved  herself  a  ball 
thrower  of  considerable  experience  and 
easily  won  over  all  the  others  by several 
feet.  She  was  awarded  as  a  prize  a 
beautiful  pen  knife. 
In  the  standing 
broad 
jump,  Sam  Simmons  proved  the 
winner and  received  a  necktie.  Also  in 
jump  Sam  got  first 
the  running  broad 
prize—a  box  of  cigars. 
In  the  running 
it  was  very  close  between  Sim­
jump 
mons  and  Phillips,  but  Sam  probably 
had  on  cushioned  shoes  and  so  won  out. 
After  the  games  were  ended,  the  wagon­
ette  was  again 
loaded  and  carried  its 
occupants  to  the  hotel  for  supper,  ac­
companied  by  the  band.  A  bountiful 
repast  was  served  and  many  thanks  are 
hereby  extended  to  mine  host,  Frank 
Porter,  and  his  estimable  wife  for  their 
supper.  After supper,  the  party  went to 
the  dance  hall  and  made  merry  until the 
10 o’clock  car  took  the  picnickers  back 
to  Grand  Rapids.
One  thing  we  must  not  forget  to  men­
tion,  and  that  is  the  cake  walk.  Mrs. 
Will  Holden  was  awarded  the  prize—a 
bottle  of  perfume. 
If  Will  Holden  put 
as  much  real  genuine  ginger  in his work 
of  selling  goods  on  the  road  as  Mrs. 
Holden  did  in  that  cake  walk,  all  Will 
be  weil.
The  day  came  to  a  happy  ending,  all 
voting 
it  the  very  best  time  bad  this 
season.  A  vote  of  thanks  is  extended  to 
all  who through  their  efforts  made  the 
picnic  a  success,  to the Committee for its 
arrangement  and  carrying  out,  to  L.  D. 
Moody  for  the  wagonette  (with  a  step 
ladder)  furnished  for  the  ladies,  to those 
who  furnished  the  excellent  music  for 
the  dance 
in  the  evening,  to  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  Porter  for  their  very  fine  supper, 
and  to  every  person  who  came  and  en­
joyed  themselves,  and,  by  so  doing, 
helped  to  make  the  day  a  success.  To 
those  who  did  not  attend,  we  can  truth­
fully  say  that  they  missed  one  of  the 
best  times  this  year. 

JaDee.

A  H eritage  of Hearts.

They whose hearts are whole and strong, 
Loving holiness.
Living clean from soil of wrong,
Wearing truth’s white dress—
They unto no faroff height 
Wearily need climb;
Heaven to them is close in sight 
From these shores of time.

Only the anointed eye 
Gleam of wave and tint of sky—
To the hearts where light has birth 
Budding through the bloom of earth, 

Sees in common things—
Heavenly blossomings.
Nothing can be drear;
Heaven is always near.

Lucy Larcom.

A dvertising  Catch  Phrases.

An  ordinary  price  on  extraordinary 

goods.

cut.

tion.

Shelves  overcrowded—prices  must  be 

Leave  a  dollar and  make  your  selec­

Let  those  begin  to  save  who  never 
If  you  see  them  elsewhere,  the  price 

saved  before.
is  higher.

Yours  not to  question  why—yours  but 

to  come  and  buy.

Business  Repartee.

Strange  Lady—What’s  the  price  of 

this  iron  bedstead?

Dealer—Twelve  dollars,  madame.
Strange  Lady—How  much 

if  I  pay 

Dealer—Madame,  if  you  dPB’t  pay

cash  the  bed  is not  for sale.

cash?

EASY  MARKS.

M erchants  Who  Can  Be  Influenced  by 

Small Bribes.

‘ ‘ O,  old Jones  is  an  easy  mark,”  said 
one  drummer  to  another,  as  they  sat 
in  the  hotel  office.  By  this  he 
talking 
meant  that  it 
is  an  easy  thing  to  sell 
goods  to Jones.  Happening  to  overhear 
the  remark,  and  being  acquainted  with 
the  speaker,  I  asked  him  to tell  me  why 
he  considered  Jones  an  easy  customer 
to  sell  to.  He  replied  that  Jones  bought 
a  good  many  things  that  he  did  not 
really  need  and  that he  seemed  to  have 
a  mania  for  buying. 
“ Why,”   said  he,
‘ * I  have  sold  Jones  goods  enough  of  one 
kind  to  do  him  two  years,  when  he  had 
no  possible  use  for  more  than  enough 
to  do  him  for  three  months."  Not  long 
after  this  conversation  occurred,  Jones 
failed  in  business  and his  creditors  said 
the  reason  for  the  failure  was  ‘ ‘ over­
stocked  on  unseasonable  goods.”   The 
fact  was  that  Jones  invested  his  money 
in  goods  he  could  not sell,  and,  when 
he  needed  the  money  to  buy other goods 
with  or to  pay  other  bills,  he  could  not 
realize 
it  from  his  foolish  purchases. 
There are  lots  of  Jonses  in  business  yet, 
in  time  they  will  fail  unless  they 
and 
quit  buying  goods  they  do  not  need. 
It 
will  be  as  bad  with  them  if  they  buy 
more  than  a  reasonable  quantity  of  any­
thing,  no  matter how  salable  it  is.

‘ ‘ That  cigar  will  be  worth  $ 1 0 0   to 
me,”   said  another  drummer,  as  he 
bought a  15  cent  cigar  of  the  newsboy 
at  the  hotel.  The  next  time  I  met  the 
man  I  asked  him  to  explain  how  a  sin­
gle  cigar  would  be  worth  a  hundred 
“ That 
dollars. 
is  easy  enough,”   he 
replied. 
‘ ‘ It’s  this  way.  Smith  ispar- 
tial  to  that  particular  make  of  cigar, 
and  when  I  give  him  one  of  them,  he 
invariably  orders  more  goods of me than 
he  would  without  the  cigar.  When  I 
get  him 
into  a  buying  humor,  it  is  no 
trick  at  all  to  sell  him  an  extra  $ 1 0 0  
worth  of  goods.”  
‘ ‘ But,  do  you  con­
sider  it  honest to  impose  on  him  in that 
“ Of  course,  it  is  hon­
w ay,”   I  asked. 
est,  if  Smith 
is  fool  enough  to  bite  at 
such  a  bait,”   the  man  replied.

‘ ‘ If  Smith  is  fool  enough” —that  tells 
the  whole  story.  The man  is  on  the  road 
to  sell  goods,  and  he  does  not  scruple 
about  selling  a  dealer an  overstock,  or 
about  selling  him  goods  that  he  will 
find  hard  to  dispose  of. 
If the  dealer 
refuses  to  buy  more  than  he  needs  the 
salesman  tells  his  neighbors  that  be  is 
If  he  buys  too  much,  he 
a  hard  buyer. 
is  known  as  an  easy  mark. 
If  he  has 
prejudices  that  the  salesman  can  im­
pose  upon,  or  if  he  has  weaknesses 
that  can  be  taken  advantage  of,  the 
salesman  is  very  likely  to  offer him 
in­
nocent  bribes.

it 

is 

A  dealer  in  our town  has  a  weakness 
for  good  dinners.  A  certain  salesman 
knows  it  and  makes  a  habit  of  inviting 
the  merchant  to  take  dinner  with  him 
in  town.  The  dinner 
whenever  he 
costs  the  salesman  50 cents. 
It sells $50 
worth  of  goods  for  him.  For the  sales­
man  it  is  a  good  investment;  for the 
merchant 
is  an  expensive  dinner, 
when  he  calculates  how  many  dollars’ 
worth  of  goods  he  has  bought that  he 
would  not  have  bought  without the  din­
ner.  Usually  he  does  not  need  the 
extra  goods,  and  they  are  hard  to  dis­
pose  of.

Occasionally  a  salesman  is  unfair to 
his  customer,  but  as  a  general  rule  he 
will  not 
impose  on  a  customer  who 
knows  what  he  needs,  who buys  nothing 
he  does  not  need,  and  who  will  not  ac­
cept  or  be  influenced  by  cigars,  treats, 
dinners,  theater  tickets,  free  rides  or

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other bribes.  All  these  things  are  bribes 
—offered  to  the  man  for  his  own  trade. 
They  are  usually  expensive  for the  man 
who  accepts  them. 
If  you  want  a  hotel 
dinner,  it 
is  cheaper  to  go  and  buy  it 
for  50  cents  than  it  is  to  pay  the  sales­
man  the  profit  on  $100 worth  of  goods 
you  do  not  want  nor  need.

Have  you  ever taken  time  to  think  of 
these  matters? 
If  you  have  not  done 
so,  now  is  a  good  time  to  sit  down 
alone  and  carefully  calculate  how  very 
costly  a  drummer’ s  cigar  may  be  for 
you.—Yours  Yruly  in  Merchants’  Jour­
nal.

Gripsack  Brigade.

H.  G.  Bedford,  head  clerk  at  the 
Peninsular  Club,  has  engaged  to  cover 
the  city  trade  of  Chicago  for  the  Ne­
waygo  Portland  Cement  Co.  Mr.  Bed­
ford  is  a  man  of  excellent  character and 
is  to  be  congratulated  on  securing  so 
promising  a  position.

Jackson  Citizen :  F.  E.  Hollon.  who 
for  the  past  three  years  has  represented 
in  Michigan  the  tea  and  coffee  house  of 
J.  H.  Conrad  &  Co.,  Chicago,  has  en­
tered  the  service of the Central City Soap 
Co.,  as  its  Indiana  representative,  with 
headquarters  at  Indianapolis.

Commercial 

travelers  who  have 
banded  under  the  name  of  “ Gideons  of 
the  State  of  Illinois,”   held  a  two  days’ 
rally  at  Chicago  Saturday  and  Sunday. 
The  Society 
is  composed  entirely  of 
traveling  men  who  have  pledged  them­
selves  not  to  use  profanity,  drink  intox­
icants  or  play  poker.  A membership  of 
2,000  is  claimed.  The  Gideon  button 
which  members  wear  is  known  to  com­
mercial  travelers  the  country  over.

in  Detroit  August  16, 

George  W.  Hill,  for  many  years  trav­
eling  representative  for  D.  M.  Ferry  & 
Co.,  died  suddenly  at  his  residence  in 
Detroit  Sept.  3  as  the  result  of  a  stroke 
of  apoplexy.  Deceased  was  Sercetary 
of the  now  defunct  Michigan  Commer­
cial  Travelers’  Association  for  several 
years,  and  conducted  a  seed  business  in 
Detroit  for  a  long  time.  Mr.  Hill  was 
born  in  Ypsilanti,  April  21,  1839.  He 
enlisted 
1862, 
with  the  Fifth  Michigan  Cavalry,  but 
was 
later  transferred  to  the  Seventh 
Regiment,  where  he  served  throughout 
the  war,  taking  part  in  many  engage­
ments  and  becoming  a  prisoner  at  the 
battle  of  Yellow  Tavern,  Va.,  May  11, 
1864.  After  the  war he  served  a  short 
time  in  the  cavalry  in  the  West,but  was 
mustered  out  March 
10,  1866,  at  Salt 
Lake  City.  Besides  a  wife,  Mr.  Hill 
leaves  one  son,  John  N.,  who  is  in  the 
seed  business  in  Toledo,  in  addition  to 
the  daughter,  Miss  Jessie  N.  Hill,  a 
teacher  in  the  Palmer  school,  who  lives 
at  home.

Casuistry.

“ I  see  that  some  of the  college  pro­
fessors  have  been  discussing  the  subject 
of  lying.  Now,  honestly,  do  you  think 
there 
is  ever  a  time  in  any  man’s  life 
when  he  is  justified  in  telling  a  lie?”

‘ ‘ I  do.  The  man  who  lives  next  door 
to  me  has  his  second  wife,and  when  she 
gets  him  in  a  corner and  wants  to  know 
whether  he  doesn’t  care  more  for her 
child  than  for  all  three  of  the  little  ones 
who  have  only  a  stepmother,  I  tell  you 
it’s  all  right  for  him  to  lie,  and  to  lie 
hard.”

It  isn’t  always  the  girl  with  the  most 

bathing  suits  who  gets  into  the  swim.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates 12 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  State  Board o f Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reynolds,  St.  Joseph 
Hen by Hu m , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
• 
Dec. 31, loos
W nrr P.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. C. Sohumachkb, Ann Arbor  •  Deo. 31,1904 
J ohn D. Md ib, Grand Rapids 
Deo. 31,1906 

President, A.  0.  Sohumachkb, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Henry He im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit

E xam ination  Sessions.

Lansing, Hoy. B and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association.

President—J ohn  D.  Mu ir , Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—J.  W. Seeley.  Detroit 
Treasurer—D. A.  Hagens, Monroe.

Im portance  of  Always  H aving  M ixtures 

Alike.

from 

There 

is  one  feature  of  prescription 
refilling  that  is  often  the  cause  of  much 
annoyance to the  pharmacist. 
It  is  the 
fact  that  at  times  a  renewal  will  differ 
in  some  minor detail—in the appearance 
of  the  mixture  or  package—from  the 
original prescription;  and this  is a phys­
ical  condition  which  certain  of  the  pub­
lic  are  wont  to  look  upon with suspicion 
of  error.  This  divergence 
the 
original  may  be  in  the  color of  a  liquid 
preparation,  in  the  color  or  kind  of  a 
pill  coating,  in  the dusting  powder  used 
to  protect  pills  from  adhering  to one 
another,  and 
in  other  matters  of  little 
moment from  a  medical  standpoint,  but 
of gross  weight  in  the  eyes  of  a layman.
It  is  not  to  be  expected  that  a  non- 
pharmaceutical  mind  should  reason  the 
cause  or  insignificance  of  these  little 
variances  in  the  general  appearance  of 
a  remedial  agent  or  combination  of 
remedies.  To  the  uninitiated,  unim­
portant  moves  often  mean  much.  When 
a  prescription  is  once  filled  the  patient 
expects  that,  to  the  smallest  detail,  it 
should  present  the  same  appearance 
each  time  it  is compounded.  The slight­
est  disparity  will  often  arouse  a  tumult 
of  doubt.  Let  us  imagine,  for  example, 
that  a  patron  presents  a  prescription  for 
sugar-coated  pills  of  some  composition ; 
and  that  when  they  are  taken  it  is noted 
that  the  color  of  the  coating  is  pink. 
The  prescription 
is  refilled—the  color 
of  the  pill  coating  has  changed—it  is 
now  white.  Very  likely  the  pharmacist 
from  whose  store  they  came  is  mis­
trusted  until  he  has  reassured  the  pa­
tient.  But a  second  occurrence  of  such 
a  nature ¿may  not  so  easily  be  set  aside 
as  unimportant.

it 

While 

is  sometimes  quite  difficult 
to  avoid  these  disparities 
in  refilled 
prescriptions,  such  annoyances  will  usu­
ally  be  obviated  by  system  and  disci­
pline 
in  the  prescription  department, 
preventing  a  “ refill”   from  causing  anx­
iety 
in  the  mind  of  the  patient  by 
differing  in  appearance  from  the  orig­
inal  prescription. 
In  well  regulated 
pharmacies  where  the  potency  and man­
ifold  advantages of system  is  thoroughly 
appreciated,  it  is  an  edict  of  the  pre­
scription  department  that  whatever  re­
cipe  there  may  be  doubt  about  when 
the  time  comes  for  it  to  be  refilled,must 
be  supplemented  by  a  “ working  for­
mula”   in  the  handwriting  of  the  opera­
tor.  For  instance,  the  color  of  a  pill 
coating  should  be  made  note  of  in  lead- 
pencil  on  the  face  or  back  of  the  pre­
scription  blank.  The  kind  of  dusting 
powder  used  for pills  should be recorded 
in  order  that  the  prescriptionist  may 
not  be  led  into  fault  by  the  patient  who 
returns  a  perfectly  empty  box. 
If  no 
specification  appears  on  the prescription 
as  to  whether the  pills,  if  ready-made, 
are  to  be  gelatin  or sugar-coated,  the 
one  filling  the  prescription  should  make 
a  note  of  the  kind  of coating  given.

Often  a  physician  will prescribe  a  prep­
aration  peculiar or common to  the  pro­
prietary  manufacturer without  specify­
ing  any  particular  brand,  which  makes 
necessary  a  marginal  annotation  by  the 
prescriptionist  telling  what  make  of  the 
product  was  employed,  in  order  that  a 
difference -  in  color or consistency  may 
not  be  noticeable  in  a  renewal  through 
the  use  of  a  dissimilar  brand.

If  the  prescription  for syrup  of hydri- 
odic  acid*  is  filled  with  a  clear,  color­
less  syrup,  it  is  important  that  it  should 
not  be  refilled  with  a  product  of  straw 
or amber  color,  and  vice  versa.  To  ex­
plain  that  a  slight  alteration  in the color 
of  this  preparation 
is  an  immaterial 
effect  of  time  will  not  always  reassure  a 
distrustful  mind.  A  physician's  call  for 
compound 
syrup  of  hypopbospbites 
should  not  be  refilled  with  a  cloudy 
syrup  nor  one  with  a distinct precipitate 
if  a  clear  preparation  has  been  origin­
ally  given.  Syrup  of  calcium  lacto- 
phosphate  acquires  a  straw  color,  deep­
ening  to  brown  through  age.  Syrup  of 
the  phosphates  of 
iron,  quinine,  and 
strychnine  is  discolored  by  time  with 
the  formation  of  a  precipitate,  either  of 
which  change  may  cause  a  renewal  to 
differ  in  appearance  from  the original  if 
care  is  not  observed.  Many  products  of 
the  stock  shelf—syrups,  tinctures,  etc. 
—may  prove  the  cause  of  creating  dis­
trust  in  the  manner  we  suggest  if  care­
ful,  constant  attention 
is  not  given  by 
every  attache  of  the  prescription  de­
partment  to  the  smallest  details  of  pre­
scription  compounding  and  refilling.

That  a  physician’s  recipe  when  re­
filled  should  be  an  exact  counterpart  of 
the  original 
is  a  matter of  moment—a 
subject  of  no  little  import  to  a  pharma­
cist,  because  from  both  a  business  and 
professional  standpoint  absolute  confi­
dence  of  the  public  must be maintained. 
A  thought  or  accusation  of  error  or  in­
competency  in  prescription  compound­
ing  is  something  which  the  pharmacist 
should  avoid  at  all  cost,  and  the  drug­
gist  who  is  careful  and  provident  will, 
if  necessary,  make  copious  notes  upon 
the  manner  of  filling  a  prescription,  in 
order  that  a  renewal  may  be  an  exact 
duplicate  in  physical  as  well  as  chem­
ical  or  medicinal  nature.—Joseph  Hos- 
telley  in  Bulletin  of  Pharmacy.

The  Elevation  of Pharm acy.

The  elevation  of  pharmacy  depends 
primarily  on  a  higher standard  of  edu­
cation  for  those  entering  on the  study  of 
pharmacy.  While  our  colleges  are  be­
coming  more  efficient  each  year,  the  re­
quirements  for  entrance  have  not  been 
raised  in  keeping. 
In  consequence  the 
mind 
is  not  always  sufficiently  devel­
oped  to  assimilate  the  teachings  of  the 
colleges  and  much  is  lost.  Pharmacy 
is  to-day  a  combined  profession  and 
business.  As  a  profession  it  is  second 
only  in  importance  to  that  of  medicine, 
and  as  such  the  preliminary  education 
required  should  be  as  high  as  that  nec­
essary  to  enter  a  college  of  medicine, 
not  only  as  a  foundation  for a  thorough 
and 
intelligent  understanding  of  phar­
macy,  but  to  deter  those  from  engaging 
in  it  who  are  mentally  and  morally 
in­
capable  of  appreciating  the  responsibil­
ity  resting  on  them.

In  some  respects  the  responsibility 
resting  on  the  druggist  is greater than 
that  on  the  physician.  The  physician 
writes  a  prescription,  and  whether or 
not  he  gets  the  results  expected depends 
largely  on  the  druggist’s  knowledge  of 
the  purity  and  medicinal  efficiency  of 
the  drugs  dispensed.  He  may  use  none 
but  the  products  of  pharmaceutical  and 
chemical  laboratories  of known  reputa­
tion,  but  drugs  deteriorate  with  age, 
and  unless  he  is  thoroughly  acquainted 
with  their  appearance  and  knows  the 
changes 
likely  to  be  caused  by  age  or 
other agency,  he  may  use  an  article  that 
has  lost  its  properties.

Many  useful  vegetable  drugs  of  high 
into  disre­
medicinal  value  have  come 
pute  from  these  causes. 
(In  my  own 
experience  a  veterinary  physician  had 
almost  given  up  the  use  of  Cannabis 
India  because  of  unsatisfactory  results.
I  called  bis  atttention  to  a  product  of  a 
well-known  laboratory,  and  since  he  has 
used  gallons  of  it  with  invariably  good 
results.)

With  a  first-class  education  the would- 
be  pharmacist  enters  a  drug  store  with 
a  mind  so trained  that  be  observes,  and 
understands  what  he 
is  taught.  On 
entering  college  he  is  able  to  follow  his 
instructors  and  assimilate  their  teach­
ings,  think  for  himself  and  see  when 
and  how  to  apply  the  knowledge  im­
parted.

Twelve  O ut of Fifteen.

The  Michigan  State  Board  of  Phar­
macy  held  a  meeting  at  Marquette 
August  28  and  29.  There  were  fifteen 
applicants  present 
for  examination, 
twelve  for  registered  pharmacist  certifi­
cates  and  three  for  assistant  papers. 
Nine  applicants 
received  registered 
pharmacist  papers  and  three  assistant 
papers.  Following  is  a  list  of those  re­
ceiving  certificates:

Registered  pharmacists,  T.  A.  Cam­
eron,  Pickford;  C.  D.  Church,  Ypsi- 
lanti:  Wm.  H.  Fouch,  Allegan;  J.  J. 
Gorilla,  Ironwood;  W.  C.  Gates,  Rock­
land ;  Gustaf Johnson,  Marquette ;  J.  J. 
U.  Renaud,  Chicago;  H.  H.  Ruona- 
vaara,  Calumet;  O.  E.  TbibauJt,  Han­
cock.

Assistant  pharmacists—Alex.  Brun­
ner,  Howard  City ;  L.  H.  Smith,  Deck- 
erville;  E .  D.  Wilson,  Newberry.

All  members  of  the board  were  pres­

ent.

The  next  meeting  of  the  board will  be 

held  at  Lansing  Nov.  5  and  6.

M isunderstood.'

“ I  would 

like  a  straw  with  this 
lemonade, ”   said  the  lady  at  the  table 
to  the  server of the  beverage.

was  hard of  hearing.

“ Hey?”   ejaculated  the  waiter,  who 
" N o ;  straw,  I  said.”

When  he  leaves  college  he  is  not  only 
a  graduated  but  an  educated  pharma­
cist-educated  as  far  as  the 
college 
can  take  him.  He  will  realize  that  his 
education  has  really 
just  commenced 
and  will  not  rest  there,  but  experiment, 
study,  read  the  drug 
journals,  keep 
abreast  of  the  times,  and  strive  to  add 
continually  to  his  knowledge,  so  that 
year  after  year  he  may  become  a  more 
useful  member of  his  profession.

He  will  not  be  satisfied  to attend  only 
to  the  business  of  pharmacy,  but  will 
take  pride 
in  the  more  important  pro­
fessional  side  as  well.  He  will  impress 
the  public  with  a  sense  of  his  knowl­
edge  and  ability,  and  will  raise  him­
self  to  a  position 
in  the  community 
where  he  will  be  looked  up  to  and  re­
spected  as  much  as  a  member of any 
of  the  other learned  professions.

Wm.  Mallard.

The  D rug  M arket.

Opium—Is weak  at  unchanged  prices.
Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine—On  account  of  lower  prices 
for  bark  at  the  Amsterdam  sale  on 
the  29th,  all  brands  have  declined  2c 
per oz.

Bismuth  Preparations—Are  steady  at 

the  decline  noted  last  week.

Menthol—On  account  of  scarcity,  has 
reached  extreme  prices.  Stocks  to  ar­
rive  are  quoted  lower.

Ichthyol—Has  declined.
Salol—Is  lower.
Sugar  of  M ilk—Was  advanced  by  the 

combination  Sept.  1.

Linseed  Oil—Has  been  reduced  5c 
per gallon  by  the  American Linseed Co.

Cow’s  M ilk  Made  Like  H um an  M ilk.
Prof.  Rotch’s  plan 

is  very  simple, 
and 
is  substantially  as  follows:  Let  a 
quart  of  good  cow’s  milk  stand  in  ice 
water  six  hours,  then  siphon  off  from 
the  bottom  twenty-four  ounces,  leaving 
eight  ounces  of  the  top or cream,  which, 
on  the  average,  contains  ten  per cent, 
of  fat.  Now  to  make  the  nearest  ap­
proach  to  human  milk,  that  is  four  per 
cent,  of  fat,  seven  per  cent,  of  sugar 
and  two  per  cent,  of  proteids  (4-7-2), 
take  the  above  eight  ounces  of  cream 
and  add  two  and  one-half  ounces  of 
milk,  one  ounce  of  lime-water,  eight 
and  one-half  ounces  water  and  seven 
and  one-half  ounces  milk  sugar.

H.  W.  Sparker.

It  takes  the  oar  of  honesty  to  row  the 

boat of  prosperity.

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

Complete lines now ready.  Walt  for our 
travelers.  You will not be disappointed.

The

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and Lumbago.  Its control over the Nervous and 
Muscular  systems  is  supreme.  Patients  say.
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Go or write to 

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Powers’  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Graduate of University of Michigan and  Tiitnni« 

school of Electro-Therapeutics

Mail T reatm ent

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27

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced— Sugar Milk. 
Declined—Quinine, Linseed Oil.

Menthol..................  
© 6 60
Morphia, S., P.& w .  2 06© 2 30 
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.  1  95© 2 20
Morphia, Mal.__ ...  l  96© 2 20
©  40
Moschus  Canton__ 
Myrlstlca, No. l ......   66©  80
Nux Vomica...po. 16 
© 
10
Os Sepia..................  
36©  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
©  l oo
D  Co.................... 
Pltis Llq. N.N.V4 gal.
doz....................... 
©200
© 100
Plcis Llq., quarts 
 
Picis Llq.,  pints......  
©  86
©  60
PilHydrarg...po. 80 
©  18
Piper  Nigra...po. 22 
©  30
Piper  A lba....po.36 
Pltx Burgun............  
©  
7
Plumb! Acet............  
10©  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opii  1  30©  1  60 
Pyre thrum, boxes H.
©  76
& P.D . Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum, pv........ 
26©  30
Quassl»..................  
8©  10
Quinta, S. P. &  W... 
30©  40
Quinta, S.  German..  30©  40
Quinla, N. Y............   30©  40
BublaTlnctorum.... 
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv  20©  22
Saladn....................  4 60© 4 76
40© 
Sanguis  Draconis... 
so
12©  14
Sapo, W................... 
Sapo M.................... 
10©  12
Sapo G.................... 
©  15

Seldlitz Mixture......
20© 22
Sinapis....................
.  © 18
Sinapis,  opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De .  © 30
V oes....................
© 41
Snuff,Scotch.De Vo’s
© 41
Soda, Boras.............
9® 11
Soda,  Boras, po......
9© 11
Soda et Potass Tart.
23© 25
Soda,  Carb..............
ltt®
2
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
3© 5
Soda, ASh...............
3H® 4
Soda, Sulphas.........
2
©
Spts. Cologne..........
© 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........
50© 56
Spts. Myrcla Dom...
© 2 00
Spts. Vini Beet.  bbl.
©
.Spts. Vini Beet. V4bbl
•  ©
Spts. Vini Beet. lOgal
©
Spts. Vini Beet. 6 gal
©
Strychnia, Crystal...
80© 1  06
Sulphur,  Subl.........
4
2tt®
Sulphur, Boll........... 2K@ 3H
Tamarinds..............
8© 10
Terebenth Venice...
30
ßim 66
Theobrom».............
Vanilla.................... 9 00®16 00
Zinci Sulph.............
7® 8
Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard, éxtra..............
Lard, No. 1..............

BBL.  GAL.
70
70
60

70
60
46

64
41

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

62
63
60
46
.  Paints BBL. LB.
Bed Venetian.........
IK  2 ©8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.
IK  2 ©4
Ochre, yellow Ber...
IK  2 ©3
Putty,  commercial.. 2K  2V4@3
Putty, strictly  pure. 2tt  2K®3
Vermilion,  P rim e  
American............
13© 16
Vermilion, English..
70© 75
Green,  Paris...........
14® 18
13© 16
Green, Peninsular...
Lead, red................
6H® 7
Lead,  white............
6tt® 7
Whiting, white Span
© 90
Whiting, gilders’__
© 96
White. Paris, Amer.-
©  1  26
Whiting, Paris, Eng. 
cliff.......................
©  1  40
Universal Prepared,  l  10©  l  20 

Varnishes

No. l Turp  Coach...  l  10©  l  20
Extra Turp..............  1  60© 1 70
Coach  Body............  2 76© 3 oo
No. 1 Turp Furn......1 oo©  l  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  66© 1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.lTurp  70©  76

H O LID AY

GOODS

W e wish to  assure  our  customers  that 

we shall  this  season  show  an  even  more 

complete  line  of  Holiday  Goods  than  last 

year.  Our  Mr.  Dudley  will  call  and  dis­

play samples as  soon  as  the  new  lines  are 

complete.  Our  customers  can  place  their 

entire  orders  with  us  this  season  at  one 

time 

if  they  wish,  saving  the  time  and 

trouble  of  looking  over  several  smaller 

lines.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.,

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

Benzolcum, German
Boracic...................
Carbollcum.............
Hydrochlor. 
Nltrocum...
Phosphorium,  dll.
Sulphurlcum,
Tannicum__
Tartarlcum  ..

Aqua, 16 deg. 
Aqua, 20 deg.

a

$  6®$

8
70© 75
© 17
30© 42
47® 60
3® 5
8© 10
12® 14
© 15
52® 56
5
IK®
1  10©  1  20
38© 40

4© 6
6© 8
13© 15
12® 14

2 00© 2 26
80©  1  00
46© 60
2  60© 3 00
22© 24
6© 8
1  70©  1 75

Bed.

Baccse
Cubebæ...........po,25
Juniperus.......

50@
8
65©
« 0

Balsam um
Copaiba................... 
Peru  .......................  
Terabln,  Canada__  
Tolutan.................... 
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassis......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrica Cerlfera, po.
Prunus  Virgini........
Quillala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus.. .po.  16, gr’d
E xtractum
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
240  26
Glycyrrhlza,  po......  28©  30
Hsmatox, 16 lb. box  11©  12
Hsmatox, is ........... 
13©  14
Hsmatox, V4s.........  
14©  16
Hsmatox, 54s.........  
16©  47

F erro

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

F lora

Folia

Arnica..................... 
15©  18
Anthemis.................  22©  26
Matricaria...............  
30©  36
Barosma..................  38©  40
Cassia Acutlfol,  Tin-
uevelly................. 
20©  26
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  26©  30
Salvia officinalis,  &s
and f ts .........  
12©  20
CvaUrsi..................  
8©  10
Gnmml
©  65
Acacia, 1st picked... 
©
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
Acacia,3d  picked... 
© 
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
©
Acacia, po................  45©
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12©
Aloe, Cape___po. 15.  ©
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40 
©
Ammoniac...............   66©
Assafoetlda... .po. 40  40©
Benzolnum..............  BOfi
Catechu, is.............. 
©
Catechu, vis............  
©
Catechu, 14s............  
©
Campnors..............  68©
Euphorbium...po. 35 
©
Gamboge............po  66®
Guaiacum........ po. 26  ®
Kino...........po. $0.76 
©
M astic....................  
©  w
Myrrh..............po. 46 
Opll....pO. 4.90@5.00 3 40© 3  50
Shellac.................... 
26©  36
Shellac, bleached....  40©  46
Tragacanth.............   60®  90
26
Absinthium. .oz. pkg 
20
Eupatorium. .oz. pkg 
26
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Majorum__oz. pkg 
28
23
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr. .oz. pkg 
26
Bue.............. oz. pkg 
39
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
22
Thymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
26
Magnesia
Calcined, Pat...........  66©  60
Carbonate, P at........ 
18©  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
’arbonate, Jennings  18©  20

H erba

Oleum

Absinthium............   6 60© 7 00
Amygdals,  Dulc__   38®  66
Amygdals, Amars.  8 00© 8 28
A nisi................. 
1 86® 2 00
Aurantl Cortex........2  io@  2 20
Bergamil.................  2 65© 2 85
Cajlputl...................  80©  86
CaryophylU.............  
76©  80
Cedar............... 
60©  86
 
Chenopadll.............. 
© 2 76
Clnnamonll...........  l  15© l  26
Cltronella................  36®  40

io® 

oo© 4 60

u®  l 26
50©  l 60
00® l io
io© 1 20
86©  1 90
©  76
60
60®  l 75
60© 2 oo
30®  1 40

Conium Mac............   60©  60
Copaiba...................  l 
Cubebs...................  l 
Exechthltos...........  1 
Erlgeron.................  l 
Gaultheria..............  1 
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppii, Sem. gal..  60© 
Hedeoma.................  l 
Junlpera.................  l 
Lavendula..............  90® 2 oo
Llmonls..................   l 
Mentha Piper.........   l  76©  1  80
Mentha Verid.........   l  60© 1  60
Morrhu», &al.........   1  10©  l  20
Myrcla......................4 
Olive.......................  76© 3 00
Picis Liquida........... 
12
®  36
PlcisLiquida,  gal... 
Biclna.....................   96©  1  02
Rosmarini................ 
© l  00
Bosse, ounce............6 oo© 6 50
Succlni...................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90© l  oo
San ta l.....................   2 76© 7 00
Sassafras.................  66©  60
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
©  66
60© 1 60
Tiglll.......................  1 
Thyme.....................   40©  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
© 16 0
Theobromas........... 
16©  20
Potassium
Bl-Carb....................  
18©
18 
Bichromate............. 
13©
16 
Bromide.................  62©
67
C arb.......................  
12©
____   __   15
Chlorate...po. 17®19 
16© 
18
  38
M
_
Cyanide...................  34©
Iodide.....................   2 30© 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28©  30 
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
® 
16
7© 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
10
Potass  Nitras.........  
6© 
8
Prussiate................. 
23©  26
Sulphate po............  
15©  18

a

l

l

i

 

Radix

16
2 26
76
40
16
2
80
7

Aconltum.................  20©  26
30©  33
Althse...................... 
Anchusa................. 
io@ 
12
Arum  po................. 
©  26
Calamus..................   20©  40
Gentiana........po. 16 
12©  15
16® 
Glychrrh!za...pv.  16 
18 
Hydrastis  Canaden.  @  75
©  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12©  15
Inula,  po................. 
18©  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60© 3  76
Iris  plOX...po. 35@38  36©  40
Jalapa, pr...............   26©  30
Maranta,  V4s........... 
©  36
22©  26
Podophyllum,  po... 
Bhei.........................  76©  1  00
Bhei, cut.
1  26
Bhei, pv..................   76©  1  36
Spigella..................  
36©  38
Sanguinaria., .po.  15 
©  18
Serpentaria............   40©  45
Senega....................  60©  66
©  40
Smllax, officinalis H. 
Smilax, M...............  
©  26
Scillse............ po.  36 
10©  12
Symplocarpus.Fcetl-
dus,  po................. 
©  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
©  25 
Valeriana,  German. 
16©  20
Zingiber a ...............  
14©  16
Zingiber ].................  26©  27
Semen
46 Anisum......... po.  15
© 12
36 Apium (graveleons).
13© 15
28 Bird, is....................
4© 6
66 Carui..............po.  15
10© 11
14 Cardamon............... 1  26©  1  75
12 Coriandrum.............
8© 10
30 Cannabis Sativa......
4 H@ i
60 Cydoninm...............
76©  1  00
45
Chenopodium.........
16®
16
66
Dipterix Odorate....
10
13 Foeniculum..............
© 10
14 Foenugreek, po........
7© 9
16 L ini.........................
4© 5
71 Lini, grd...... bbl. 4
4H®
5
40
Lobelm...................
45© 50
00 Pharlarls Canarian.. 4H@ 6
70 Bapa....................... 4V4® 5
30 Sinapis  Alba...........
9© 10
75 Sinapis  Nigra.........
11® 12
Spiritns
© 40
Frumentl, W. D. Co. 2 00© 2 60 
Frumenti,  D. F. B..  2 00© 2 26
Frumenti................   1 26© 1  60
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1 66© 2 oo
Junlperis  Co...........  1  76© 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E __ l  90© 2  10
Spt. Vini Galll.........  1 76© 6 60
Vini Oporto............   1 26© 2 00
Vini Alba.................  l  26© 2 00

1  00®  1

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60© 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2 60© 2 76
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
©  1  60
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
© 1  25
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
carriage................
© 1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
©  76
Yellow  B e e f,  for
slate use...............
©  1  40
Syrups
Acacia....................
Aurantl Cortex........
Zingiber..................
Ipecac......................
Ferrl Iod.................
Bhei Arom..............
Smllax  Officinalis...
Senega ....................
Still»......................

©  60 
©  60 
©  60 
©  60 
©  50
©  60 
60©  60 
©  60 
©  60

60
60
60

60
60
60
50
75

6o
6o
6o
6o
5o

5o
&o
6o
6o

6o
5o
5o
&o
7b

Still» Co................. 
Tolutan...................  
Prunus  virg........ . 
Tinctures 
Aconltum Napellis B 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes............ 
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
A rnica.......... 
Assafoetlda...  
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex...... 
Benzoin........  
Benzoin Co.... 
Barosma........ 
Cantharides...........  
Capsicum...... 
Cardamon..... 
Cardamon Co.........  
Castor.....................  
Catechu]........  
Cinchona......  
Cinchona Co.. 
Columba....... 
Cubeb».......... 
Cassia Acutlfol....... 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis........ 
Ergot............. 
Ferrl  Chloridum.... 
Gentian........ 
Gentian Co............  
Gulaca..........  
Gulaca ammon....... 
Hyoscyamus...........  
Iodine  ....................  
Iodine, colorless..... 
K ino............. 
Lobelia......... 
Myrrh...........  
Nux Vomica.. 
Opii...............  
Opil, comphorated.. 
Opii, deodorized...... 
Quassia........  
Bhatany........  
Bhei..............  
Sanguinaria.. 
Serpentaria.. 
Stramonium.. 
Tolutan........  
Valerian....... 
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber........ 

5o
5¿
5o
5¿
5¿
6o
6o
5o
2o
M iscellaneous 

©  60
©  60
®  60

60
60
60

60
60

75

75
i oo

5o
6o

35
6o
6o
6o
75
76

6o
i 6o

6j¡

¿Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30©  36
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34©  38
Alumen................. .*  214© 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3© 
Annatto...................   40©  60
4© 
Antlmonl, po........... 
6
Antimoni et Potass T  40©  60
©  26
Antlpyrln................ 
Antifebrln.............. 
©  20
©  60
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum........... 
10©  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38©  40
Bismuth S. N...........  1  65®  1 70
9
Calcium Chlor.,  is... 
© 
Calcium Chlor., Hs..  @  10
Calcium Chlor.,  14s..  @ 
12
©  80
Cantharides, Bus.po 
® 
Capslcl Fructus, a t.. 
i&
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
©  15
Capsici Fructus B, po 
©  15
Caryophyllus. .po. 15  12©  14
Carmine, No. 40......  
© 3 00
50©  65
Cera Alba.............. 
Cera Flava..............  40©  42
Coccus.................... 
©  40
©  36
Cassia Fructus........ 
Centrarla................. 
©  10
©  46
Cetaceum................. 
Chloroform............   66©  60
Chloroform,  squibbs 
©  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40©  1  65
Chondrus................   20©  25
Cinchonidlne.P. & W  38©  48
Cinchonldlne, Germ.  38©  48
Cocaine..................   6 05©  6 25
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
70
Creosotum...............  
®  36
©
Creta............bbl. 75 
© 
Creta, prep.............. 
5
Creta, preclp........... 
9©  11
Creta, Rubra......... . 
© 
8
Crocus....................   26©  30
Cudbear..................  
©  24
Cuprl  Sulph............   6H© 
8
Dextrine................. 
7©  10
Ether Sulph............   78©  92
Emery, all numbers. 
© 
8
Emery, po................ 
6
© 
E rgota......... po. 90  86©  90
Flake  White...........  12©  15
©  23
G alla...................... 
Gambler................. 
9
8© 
Gelatin,  Cooper......  
©  60
Gelatin, French......   35©  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box...... 
70
Glue, brown............  
li®   13
Glue,  white............  
16©  26
Glycerina.................  17V4©  26
©  26
Grana Paradisl........ 
Humulus.................   26©  66
© l  00 
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite 
©  90
Hydrarg Chlor Cor.. 
Hydrarg Ox Bub’m. 
© l  10 
© l  20 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl 
HydrargUnguentum  60©  60
Hydrargyrum.........  
©  86
IcnthyoDOlla, Am...  66©  70
Indigo......................  76© l 00
Iodine,  Be8ubi........  3 40© 3 60
Iodoform.................  3 60© 3 86
Lupulin.................... 
©  60
Lycopodium.............  80©  86
Macis.....................    66©  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod.............. 
©  26
10© 
LlquorPotassArslnit 
12 
3
2© 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
©  lvt 
Manola, Si  F ........ 
to© 
so

2 8

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
D ried Apples*
Leader M ilk
Lake T rout

DECLINED

H olland  H erring
Rolled  Oats
Caraway  Seed

Index to Markets

B y  Columns

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................   15
l
Alab&stine............................ 
Ammonia..............................  
l
Axle Grease........................... 
l

B

c

Baking Powder...................... 
l
Bath Brick............................  1
Bluing....................................  1
Brooms..................................   1
B rushes...:..........................  
l
Butter Color..........................   2
Candles...................................  14
Candles....................................  2
Canned Goods.........................  2
Catsup.....................................  3
Carbon Oils.......................... 
  3
Cheese.....................................   3
Chewing Gum.........................  3
Chicory...................................  3
Chocolate.................................  3
Clothes Lines..........................   3
Cocoa......................................   3
Cocoa Shells............................  3
Coffee.....................................   3
Condensed Milk......................  4
Coupon Books.........................  4
Crackers.................................  4
Cream T artar.........................  5
"Dried  Fruits...........................  5

D
F

G
H

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

 

 

M

I
J
X.

Grains and Flour.................  6
Herbs....................................  *
Hides and Pelts.....................  13
Indigo...................................   6
Jelly......................................  6
Lamp Burners........................  15
Lamp Chimneys.....................  15
Lanterns.................................  15
Lantern  Globes.....................   15
Licorice.................................  7
Lye........................................   7
Matches...: ..........................   7
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses................................  7
Mustard................................   7
N
Nuts.......................................  14
O
OllCans................-...............  15
Olives................  
7
Oyster Palls..........................   7
P
Paper Bags............................  7
P uls Green..t......................  7
Pickles...................................  7
Pipes.....................................   7
Potash................ 
7
Provisions.............................   7
B
B ice .................  
8
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..............................  
li
Tobacco................................   ll
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder.................   12
Wlcklng.................................  13
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
T o u t Cake.............................U3

v
W

Y

T

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

AXLE GREASE
doz.  gross
a u ro ra ........... 
...56 
Castor  Oil.................... 60 
Diamond......................60 
Frazer’s ....................... 75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 76 

6 00
7 00
4 26
9 00
9 00

Mica, tin boxes........ 76 
Paragon.....................66 

9 00
eoo

BAKING  POW DER 

Egg

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

Queen  Flake

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......  46
*  lb. cans, 4 doz. case.......  85
lb. cans. 2 doz. case.......l 60
1 
3 oz., 6 doz. case................. 2 70
6 oz., 4 doz. case.................3 20
9 oz., 4 doz. case................. 4 80
l lb., 2 doz. case.................4 oo
5 lb., l doz. case.................9 00

Royal

10c size 
  90
*  lb. cans  1 35 
6 oz. cans.  1 90
*  lb. cans 2 50 
lb. cans 3 75
l lb. cans.  4 80 
^  3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21 50

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  70
English.................................  80

BLUING

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

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

BROOMS

No. l Carpet........................2  60
No. 2 Carpet........................2  15
No. 3 Carpet........................1  86
No. 4 Carpet........................1  60
Parlor  Gem........................2  40
Common Whisk...................  86
Fancy W hisk.................... 1  10
Warehouse..........................3  26

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 in...................  45
Solid Back, 11 I n .................   96
Pointed E n ds...........— -  86
No. 8......................................1 00
No. 7...................................... 1 30
No. 4........ ... ..........„ ,..„ ,.,1  70
NO. 8......................................1 90

Shoe

Straw berries

l 00 
1 26
90
1 00
1  20

Standard.................
Fancy......................
Succotash
Fair.......... ..............
...............  
Good.......................
Fancy.................... *.
Tomatoes
..................................  90
F a ir ... 
..................................  95
Good... 
...............  
Fancy.. 
..............................  2 76
Gallons.
CATSUP
Columbia, pints........................2 00
Columbia, *  pints.....................1 25

1 06

CARBON OILS 

B arrels

CHEESE

Eocene.......................   @io*
Perfection...................  @ 9*
Diamond White.........   @ 8*
D. S. Gasoline............   @12*
Deodorized Naphtha..  @10*
Cylinder......................29  @34
Engine..........................19  @22
Black, winter...............   9  @10*
©10* 
Acme...........
© li* 
Amboy.......
© ll 
Carson City.
©ll 
Elsie............
© ll* 
Emblem......
Gem............
@12 
@11 
Gold Medal.
@11 
Ideal...........
@11 
Jersey.........
Riverside....
@H* 
14@16 
Brick...........
@90 
Edam..........
@17 
Leiden........
13@14 
Llmburger.. 
50@75 
Pineapple.. 
19@20
Sap  Sago...,
CHEWING GUM 
American Flag Spruce.... 
66
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
60
Black Jack.......................  
56
60
Largest Gum  Made.........  
Sen Sen  ,........................... 
66
l 00
Sen Sen Breath Perfume., 
Sugar Loaf.......................  
55
Yucatan............................ 
56
Bulk......................  . .: .......  5
Red......................................7
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   6*
Schener’s ..........................  6

CHICORY

Runkel Bros.

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

COCOA

COFFEE 
Roasted

HIGH GRADE.

(anus

Special Combination.......... 15
French Breakfast...............17*
Lenox, Mocha & Java........ 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha..24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwlnell-Wrlght  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls.............29
White House, 30-2s............. 28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls.. 
. .21*
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 20*
Royal Java..........................26*
Royal Java A Mocha.......... 26*
Arabian  Mocha................. 28*
AdenMoch..........................22*
Freeman  Merc. Co. Brands.
Marexo................................ll
Porto Rican........................14
Honolulu  ............................ 16*
Parker  House  J A M .........26
Monogram J  & M...............28

Rio

Maracaibo

Stove

Beans

CANDLES

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

CANNED  GOODS 

BUTTER  COLOR 

No. 3.....................................  75
NO. 2.....................................1  10
No. 1.....................................1 75
W., K. A Co.’s, 16c size....  1  25 
W.,R. & Co.’s, 25c size....  2 00 
Electric Light, 88..............M2
Electric Light, 16s................ 12*
Paraffine, 6s......................... 10*
Paraffine, 12s....................... ll
............................29
Wlcklng 
Apples
1 00 
3 lb. Standards........
3 25
Gallons, standards..
80
Standards................ 
Baked......................  l  oo@i  »
Red Kidney............  
76©  86
String...................... 
80
Wax......................... 
86
B laeberries
86
Standard....................
B rook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
1 00 
Little Neck, 1 lb .....
1  60
Little Neck. 2 lb----
Burnham’s, *  pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20
Cherries
Red  Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy...... ...............
French Peas
Sur Extra Fine.............
Extra  Fine...................
Fine...............................
Moyen............................... 
Gooseberries
Standard................
H om iny
Standard.»..............
Lobster
Star, *  lb.................
Star, l  lb.................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, l lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, lib .............
Tomato, 2 lb.............
Hotels......... .............
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, l ib .................  
Cove, 2 lb.................
Cove, l lb  Oval........
Peaches
P ie..........................
i  68©i 86
Yellow....................  
Pears
1 00
Standard.................
1 26
Fancy.......................
1 00 
Marrowfat..............
1 00 
Early June..............
1 60
Early June  Sifted..
Pineapple
Grated.................... 
l  28@2 76
Sliced.......................   1  36@2 66
P um pkin
70
F air.........................
76
Good.......................
86
Fancy......................
Raspberries
1  16
Standard..................
Russian  Cavler
*  lb. cans..........................  3 75
*  lb, cans..........................  7  00
1 lb. can...........................   12  00
Salmon
@1  86 
Columbia River, tails 
@2 03 
Columbia River, flats
Common.
1 30@1  40 
Red Alaska.............
F a ir......
1  10@1  25
Pink Alaska............
Choice...
Shrim ps
Fancy...
1 60
Standard.................
Common.
Sardines
4
F a ir......
Domestic, * s ...........
Choice...
8
Domestic, 31b .........
7 Fancy...
Domestic,  Mustard.
11@14 Peaberry
California, * s .........
17@24
California * s ..........
7@14 F air......
French, * s..............
18@28 Choice...
French, * s..............

«
90
86
1  85 
3 40
2 35
1  76
2 80
1 76
2 80
1 76
2 80

Mushrooms

1 66 
96

22©25

Peas

86

Mexican

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

G uatem ala

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

Ja v a

African.................•............. 12*
Fancy African.....................17
G .....................26
O . 
P. G..................................... 29
Mocha
Arabian..............................   21

Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuokle............................ 10*
Dllworth............................ 10*
Jersey.................................10*
Lion.................................... 10*
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin A 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City *   gross............   76
Felix *  gross....'............  ..1  15
Hummel’s foil *  gross........  86
Hummel’s tin *  gross........1  43

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle..............6 40
Crown...................................6  26
Daisy....................................5 76
Champion............................4 50
Magnolia............................. 4  25
Challenge............................ 4  lo
Dime....................................3 36
Leader.................................4 00

COUPON  BOOKS 
l 60 
60 books, any  denom... 
100 books, any  denom...  2 60 
600books,any  denom...  11  60 
1,000books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

Oyster

B u tter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
60  books.......................   1 60
100  books.......................   2 60
600  books.......................   ll  60
1.000  books......................... 20 oo
600, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
76
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour..............................  
6*
New York.........................  6*
Family................................  
6*
Salted................................ 
6*
Wolverine.........................
Soda  XXX....................... 
6*
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette........................  13
F a u st............................... 
7*
Farina..............................
Extra Farina....................... 
6*
Saltine Oyster.....................  
6*
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose...........................  
8
Bent’s W ater....................  16
Cinnamon Bar.....................   9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy................... 
10
Cracknells.........................  16
Creams, Iced....................... 
8
Cream Crisp.....................   10*
Cubans.............................  
ll*
Currant Fruit..................... 
12
Frosted Honey.................   12
9
Frosted Cream................. 
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C__ 
6*
Gladiator..........................   10*
Grandma Cakes..................  
9
Graham Crackers............  
8
Graham  Wafers.................   12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials.........  .............. 
8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps......................  12
Lemon Wafers...................  16
Marshmallow.....................   16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__  
16
8
Mary Ann...........................  
Mixed Picnic....................   11*
MCk Biscuit........................  
7*
8
Molasses  Cake.................... 
Molasses Bar....................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar................. 
12*
Newton............................... 
12
Oatmeal Crackers...............   8
Oatmeal Wafers.................  
12
Orange Crisp......................   9
Orange Gem........................  
9
Penny Cake........................   8
7*
Pilot Bread, XXX............... 
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8*
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
8*
Scotch Cookies........».......  9
Sears’ Lunch.......................  7*
8
Sugar Cake........ 
Sugar Cream, XXX........ ; 
8

Sugar Squares................... 
8
"(ultSultanas............................   13
Tutti Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. J. Kruce A Co.’s baked goods 

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

with Interesting discounts. 
CREAM TARTAR

6 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulkin sacks..........................29

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundrled.........................   @7
Evaporated, 60 lb. boxes.  @10 
Apricots....................   9@ 9*
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  @20
Pears.......................... 7*
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  @ 4*
80 - 90 26 lb. boxes........  @
70 - 80 28 lb. boxes........  @
60-7026lb. boxes........  @ 6*
60-60 26lb. boxes........  @ 7*
40-60 25 lb. boxes........  @  8*
30 - 40 26 lb. boxes........

California Prunes

*  cent less In 60 lb. cases 

Citron

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn...................................11
Corsican..................................12
California, l lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package.......12
Imported, bulk.................... 11*
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 10* 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10* 
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, *   lb__   6*
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

2  15
7
7*
8
8*

Raisins

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 
Dried Lima.....................
..  7
Medium Hand Picked  -
2 75
Brown Holland...............
..2 50
Cream of Cereal..............
..  90
Graln-O, small................
..1  35
Grain-O, large.................
..2  26
Grape Nuts......................
..1  36
Postum Cereal, small__ ..1  35
Postum Cereal, large......
.  2 26
..1  13
241 lb. packages.............
Bulk, per 100 Tbs..............
..2 26
Flake, 501b. sack............
90
Pearl,  2001b. bbl.............
..3 80
Pearl, 100 lb. sack...........
..1  80
Macearon!  and V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box........
..  60
Imported. 25 lb. box........ ..  2 50
Common......................... ...2 40
Chester............................ ...2 90
Empire............................
..3 40

P earl  B arley

H om iny

F arin a

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

G rits

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages............. ...2 00
100 lb. kegs...................... ...3 00
200 lb. barrels................. ...6 70
100 lb. bags...................... ...2  90
Green, Wisconsin, bu__ ...1  30
Green, Scotch, bu........... ...1  50
Spilt,  lb...... .................... ...  2*
Rolled A vena, bbl........... ...5  10
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   2 60
Monarch, bbl........................,..4 86
Monarch, *  bbl........................2 56
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2 30
Quaker, cases...........................3 20
East India...........................   2*
German, sacks.................... 3*
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks.............  4*
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3*
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages...... 6
Cracked, bulk......................  3*.
24 2 lb. packages.................... 2 60
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE A JE N E S ’

JAXON

Vanilla 

^HlghestGrad^Extract^
1 oz full m.120  1 oz full m.  80 
2ozfull m.2  10  2 oz full m  l  25 
No.3fan’y.3  16  No,3fan’y.l 76

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W hite fish

9
No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 25
1 65
48
42

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

Anise................................... 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3M
Caraway.............................   7)4
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................. 10
Hemp, Russian.................... 4
Mixed Bird.......................... 4
Mustard, white....................7
Poppy...................................  6
Rape................................... 4
Cuttle Bone..........................14
SHOE  BLACKING
Handy Box, large............   250
Handy Box, small............  
1  25
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish...... 
85
Scotch, in bladders................  37
Maccaboy, in jars................  35
French Rappee, in jars.......  43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SNUFF

SOAP

Babbit’s Best..................
Beaver Soap Co. brands

IO

P u re  Cane

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

STARCH

K ingsford’s Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............   634
20 l-lb. packages...............  7
61b. packages...............  
7%
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss

40 l-lb. packages...............   7)4

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  5)4
3-lb. packages...................  5
6-lb. packages..................  
6
40 ana 60-lb. boxes............   4
Barrels.............................  
334

6

D. C. Lemon 
D. C. Vanilla
2 oz.............. 75  2 oz...........  l  24
3 OZ..........  1 00  3 OZ..........   1  60
6 OZ..........   2 00  4 OZ..........   2 00
.  1 52  No. 3T...  2  08
No. 4T 
O ur Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  75
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60

Standard.

FLT  PA PER

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

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

Pork

Carcass....................   6  @ 8
Forequarters.........   5  @6
Hindquarters.........  
8  @9
io  @14
Loins No. 3.............. 
Ribs.........................  9  @12*4
Rounds.................... 
8  @  8K
ChucKs.................... 
5  @  5%
4  @  5*
Plates...................... 
Dressed................... 
@  7)4
@11
Loins....................... 
Boston  Butts........... 
@  9
Shoulders................ 
@ 8 4
Leaf  Lard................ 
@ 8
M utton
Carcass...................  
Lambs......................  9H@10
Carcass.......... ........  8  @9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

7V4@  9)4

Veal

W heat

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

W inter W heat F lour 

70

Local Brands

Spring W heat F lour 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4  35
Second Patent..................   3  85
Straight.............................  3  65
Clear................................   3  20
Graham............................  3  30
Buckwheat.......................  4 oo
Rye...................................   3 oo
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond %s......................  3  85
Diamond Its.....................  3 85
Diamond )4s.....................   3  85
Quaker Its.........................  3  80
Quaker )4s........................   3 80
Quaker Vis........................   3  so
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 40
Pillsbury’s  Best Vis.........   4 80
Plllsbury’s Best Via.........   4  20
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4 20
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 20
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4 30
Duluth  Imperial Vis.........  4 20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4 40
Wingold  Ms.................... 
Wlngold  Ms.................... 
4 30
Wingold  Ms.................... 
4  20
Ceresota Ms......................  4  40
Ceresota Ms......................  4  30
Ceresota Ms......................  4  20
Laurel  Ms.........................  4 40
Laurel  Ms.........................  4 30
Laurel  Vis.........................  4 20
Laurel Ms and Ms paper..  4 20 
Bolted...............................  2 76
Granulated.......................  2 85
Car  lots.............................  38M
Car lots, clipped...............  
Less than car lots.............
Feed and Millstuflb
St. Car Feed, screened__   23  00
No. 1 Com and  Oats........  22  50
Unbolted Corn Meal........  22  00
Winter Wheat Bran.........  17  00
Winter Wheat Middlings.  18 00
Screenings.........................16 00
Corn, car  lots...................  54M

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Meal

Oats

11

Corn
Hay

No. 1 Timothy car lots....  11  00 
No. 1 Timothy ton lots....  12 00 
Sage.........................................15
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves.............*.......... 25

HERBS

INDICK)

JELLY

LICORICE

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 50
5 lb. palls.per doz........... 
1 90
151b. palls............................  38
301b. palls............................  72
Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily........... ........................  14
Boot..................................... 
10
Condensed, 2 doz..................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz..................2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No. 9 sulphur.......................1 65
Anchor Parlor .....................1 50
No. 2 Home.......................... 1 3C
Export Parlor.......................4 oo
Wolverine............................. 1 50

MATCHES

LYE

MEAT EXTRACTS

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

40
35
26
22

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER  BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Radish, 1 doz............. 1 75
Horse Radish, 2 doz.............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, l doz....... ...1  75
1 25
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs................  
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs................ 
1 10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs................ 
1 00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints......................  2 35
Queen, 19 oz......................  4 50
Queen, 28  oz......................  7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz......................   1 45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................   2 30
Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific 
Square
Bottom 
50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2 00
2 40
2 60
3  15
4 15
4 50
5 00
6 50

X......... .........   28
)4......... .........   34
1......... .........   44
2......... .........  54
3......... .........   66
4......... .........  76
5......... .........   90
6......... ......... 1  06
8......... ......... 1  28
10......... ......... 1  38
12....... ......... 1  60
14......... ......... 2 24
16......... ......... 2 34
20......... ......... 2 52
25.........
Sugar
Red......
........ 
Gray.................................. 

4)4
43i

PARIS  GREEN

Bulk....................................14
Packages, M lb., each........ 18
Packages, M lb., each........ 17
Packages,  lib.,each........ 16

PICKLES
Medium

Small

Barrels, 1,200 count........... 6 so
Half bbls, 600 count............3 75
Barrels, 2,400 count...........8 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count.........4 50
Clay, No. 216........................1 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   65
Cob, No. 3..............................  85

PIPES

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
Barreled  Pork

Mess.........................  @15 75
Back.......................  
@16 50
Clear back...............   @16 75
Short cut................. 
@16 75
Pig..........................   @18 00
Bean.........................  @13 50
Family Mess............   @16 25

D ry  Salt Meats

Smoked  Meats 

Bellies...................... 
10
Briskets..................  
9%
Extra shorts............  
9
Hams, 121b. average.  @  1134
Hams, 14 lb. average.  @  nv>
Hams, I61b.average.  @  11)4
Hams, 201b. average.  @ 11
Ham dried beef......   @  13M
Shoulders (N.Y. cut)  @  -9M
Bacon, clear............   10M@  11
California hams......   @  9
Boiled Hams.......... 
@  16M
Picnic Boiled Hams  @  13
Berlin  Ham pr’s’d.  @  8M
@  9
Mince Hams.........  

Lards—In Tierces

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

7M
9M
794
M
M
M
M
%

l
1

8

Sausages

Bologna..
Liver.......
Frankfort
P o rk ......
Blood......
............ ...................
Headcheese............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’  Feet
34 bbls., 40 lbs.........
V4 bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
)4 bbls., 40 lbs.........
)4 bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef  middles...........
Sheep.......................
B utterine
Solid, dairy..............
12)4@
Rolls, dairy.............. 13  @
Rolls, creamery......
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb__
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  )4s......
Potted ham, 
......
Deviled ham, )4s__
Deviled ham, )4s__
Potted tongue,  )4s..
Potted tongue,  Ks..
RICE
Domestic

Canned  Meats

»
6

10 75
11  50
11  50
1  55
3 50
70
1  26
2 25
21
3
10
60

16)4
16
2 50
17 50
2  50
50
90
50
90
50
90

Carolina head............ ...........6)4
Carolina No. l ........... ......... R
Carolina No. 2 ........... ......... 6)4
Broken ......................
Im ported.
Japan,  No.  1................. 5M@
Japan,  No. 2................. 4H@
Java, fancy head................... @
Java, No. 1 ....................  @
Table...............................  @

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s....................................3 00
Dwight’s  Cow...........................3 15
Emblem....................................2 10
L.  P ..........................................3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms...................3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases.... 1  ro
Lump, bbls.........................  80
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   85

SAL SODA

SALT

Buckeye

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  31b. bags......................300
50  61b. bags...................... 300
2214 lb. bags...........................2 75
In 5 bbL lots  5  per  cent,  dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 76 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 3 lb. sacks.......................2 25
60 5 lb. sacks.......................2  15
2810 lb. sacks..................... 2 05
56 lb. sacks.......................   40
281b. sacks.......................  
22
56 lb. dairy in drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   20
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
561b.  sacks..........................   25
Granulated  Fine.................   85
Medium Fine.......................   90

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
Higgins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6M
Georges selected........  @7
Grand Bank................  @6
Strips or  bricks.........   6M@10M
Pollock.......................   @ 3M
Strips.......................................10
Chunks............... 
12
T rout
No. 1100 lbs......................   6  25
No. 1  40 lbs......................   2 80
NO. 1  10 lbs......................  
78
I No. 1  8 lbs......................  
69
Holland white hoops, bbl.  19 25 
Holland white hoopsMbbl.  5  50 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 00
Round 40 lbs.....................   1  50
Scaled.............................. 
22
Bloaters............................  
l  60
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  ll  00
Mess  40 lbs......................   4 70
Mess  10 lbs......................  
1  26
Mess  8 lbs......................   1  03
NO. 1100 lbs......................   9 75
No. 1  40 lbs......................   4  20
10 lbs....................  1 12
No. l 
No. 1 
8 lbs.................... 
93
No. 2 100 lbs....................    8 25
NO. 2  40 lbs......................   8 60
NO. 2  10 lbs.................... 
98
NO. 2 
8 lbs....................  
81

M ackerel

VSdndSL1

50 cakes, large size................. 3 25
100 cakes, large size..................6 50
50 cakes, small size............ 1  95
100 cakes, small size.................3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—

Coal Oil Johnny..............3 90
Peekin............................   4 00
Queen Anne................... 3  15
Big Bargain..............— 1  75
O
Umpire........................... 2  15
/
German Family.............. 2 45
M
Dingman Soap Co. brand— 
Dingman........................ 3 85 ñ
N. K. Fairbanks brands—
m
Santa Claus.................... 3 25
m
Brown............................. 2 40 m
'¡¡lit
Fairy............................... 4 00
Fels brand
Naptha............................  4 00
Gowans & Sons brands—
Oak Leaf.........................  3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs................. 4 00

JAXON

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single box.................................3 00
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  50
Cuba................................. 2 40
60 cakes.....................  1 95
Ricker’s Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme.........................  4 00
Acme5c..........................  3 25
Marseilles...... .................   4 00
Master.............................   3 70
Lenox............................ 
  3 00
Ivory, 6oz......................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz......................  6 75
sta r...................................3 00
Good Cheer......................3 80
Old Country.....................  3 20
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........ 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz................. 2 40
Boxes...................................  5)4
Kegs, English......................43£

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

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice.............................
Cassia, China in mats......
Cassia, Batavia, in bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken....
Cassia, Saigon, in rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna..............
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Mace.................................
Nutmegs,  75-80.................
Nutmegs,  105-10...............
Nutmegs, 115-20................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot,
are G round in B ulk
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.......8 60
M gallon cans, per doz.......2 00
)4 gallon oam, per doz.......i  02

j

_____  _
i ___________
NO.  8................................   4  45
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
Ja p an

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

 
Gunpowder

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

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

4y,

Young  Hyson

Oolong

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

English B reakfast

India

Ceylon, choice......................32
Fancy...................................42

TOBACCO

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
W orks:  Venice, I1L 
Geneva, 111.

Common Corn

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

SUGAR

No. 4,3 doz in case, gross  .  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz in case, gross  7 20 
Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New York  to your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the Invoice  for  tne  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his  shipping point,  including 
20 pounds tor the  weight  of the 
barrel.
Domino.............................  6 75
Cut Loaf...........................   5 75
Crushed............................  6 75
Cubes................................  5 50
Powdered.........................  5 35
Coarse  Powdered...........   6 35
XXXX Powdered.............  5 40
Standard  Granulated......   5 25
Fine Granulated...............  5 25
Coarse Granulated...........  5 35
Extra Fine Granulated.... 
Conf.  Granulated.............   5 50
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran____  6 40
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 40
Mould A............................  6 60
Diamond A.......................  525
Confectioner’s A..............  505
No.  1, Columbia A..........  4 90
No.  2, Windsor A...........   4 85
No.  3, Ridgewood A.......  4 85
No.  4, Phoenix  A...........   4 «0
No.  5, Empire A.............  4 75
_ 0.  8...............................   4 65
..O,  7...............................   4 65

5 35

Cigars

A. Bomers’ brand.

H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.

Plalndealer............................ 35 00
Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager....................  35 00
Quintette..........................   35 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

S. C. W................................  86 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B. L........................................$35 00
Gold Star...............................  35 00

28

Fine  Cut

Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojlbwa.................................34
Forest  Giant....................... 34
Sweet Spray..,.................... 38
Cadillac................................ 57
Sweet Loma.........................38
Golden Top.......................... 26
Hiawatha............................. 58
Telegram..............................28
Pay C ar..................... 
32
Prairie Rose....................... 48

 

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8 0

1 2

Protection............................ 38
Sweet Burley................. — 40
Sweet Lome......................... 38
Tiger....................................38

P lug

Flat Iron..............................33
Creme de Men the................60
Stronghold........................... 39
Elmo..................................... 33
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Red Cross............................. 32
Palo......................................35
Kylo......................................35
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe.........................  36
American Eagle...................53
Standard Navy.................... 36
Spear Head, 16 oz................44
Spear Head,  8 oz................43
Nobby Twist........................47
JoUyTar..............................37
OldHonesty.........................43
Toddy................................... 34
J .T .......................................37
Piper Held sick.................... 63
Bootjack............................. 80
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob.................  .— 32

Smoking

Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core...........................36
Flat Car............................... 36
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................26
Bamboo,  8oz.............. .— 28
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 26
I XL,  61b...........................28
I X L, 30lb...........................32
Honey Dew.........................37
Gold  Block..........................37
Flagman..............................41
Chips.............................. ...34
B31n Dried...........................24
Duke’s Mixture................... 38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Turn, IN oz..................40
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........38
Cream.................................. 37
Corn Cake, 2k oz................. 25
Com Cake, lib .....................23
Plow Boy, IN oz...................39
Plow Boy, 3k oz...................37
Peerless, 3k oz.....................34
Peerless, IN oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2k ox.................. 28
Indicator, l lb. palls........... 31
Col. Choice, 2% oz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz...................21

TABLE SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE
The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large__ .  3 75
.  2 50
Lea 81 Perrin’s, small...
.  3 75
Halford, large...............
Halford, small................ ..  2 25
.  4 56
Salad Dressing, large...
Salad Dressing, small...
.  2 76

TW INE

Cotton, 3 ply.................. ....16
Cotton, 4 ply................... ....16
Jute, 2 ply...................... ....12
....12
Hemp, 6 ply..................
...20
Flax, medium...............
Wool, 1 lb. balls............
...  7k
VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  . H
Pure Cider, Red Star.............12
Pure Cider, Robinson........... 10
Pure Cider, Silver................. ll

WASHING POW DER

Gold Dust, regular.................4 50
Gold Dust, 6c......................... 4 00

Bub-No-More.......................... 3 50
Pearline....................................2 90
Scourine....................................3 50

WICKING

No. 0, per gross...................2d
No. i, per gross.................    ..26
No. ?, per gross.................... 36
No. 8. per gross.................... 66

WOODENWARE

Basket«

Bushels................................  96
Bushels, wide band..................1 16
M arket................................  30
Splint, large.:.......................... 4 00
Splint, medium....................... 3 60
Splint, small............................ 3 oo
Willow Clothes, large..........6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 76
Wdlow Clothes, small..........6 25
No. l Oval, 260 In crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  55
No. 6 Oval, 250 In crate........  65

B a tte r Plates

Egg Crates

Humpty Dumpty.....................2 25
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  25

Clothes Pins

Bound head, 5 gross box__   45
Bound bead, cartons...........

13

Mop  Sticks

Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........   85
No l common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
19 t>. cotton mop heads...... 1 26
Ideal No. 7 ............... 
90

 

P ails

¡-hoop Standard....................l 40
3-hoop Standard....................l 60
2- wire,  Cable.........................1 50
3- wlre,  Cable........................ l 70
Cedar, all red, brass hound.1 25
Paper,  Eureka.................... 2  25
Fibre....................................2  40

Toothpicks

Hardwood...........................2  60
Softwood.............................2  75
Banquet...............................l to
Ideal....................................l  50

Tubs

20-lnch, Standard, No. l ...... 6 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2......5  00
16-lnch, Standard, No. 3...... 4  00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. L...........6 BO
18-inch, Cable, No. 2............6  00
16-inch. Cable,  No. 3............5  00
No. l Fibre.......................... 9  45
No. 2 Fibre.......................... 7  96
No. 3 Fibre.......................... 7  20
Bronze Globe.......................2  so
Dewey................................ .1 75
Double Acme.......................2  75
Single Acm e....................   2 25
Doable Peerless.................   3 25
Single Peerless....................2  60
Northern Queen.................2  50
Double Duplex....................3  00
Good Luck.......................... 2  75
Universal.............................2  25

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

11 In. Butter.........................  75
13 In. Butter.........................l 00
15 In. Butter........................l 76
17 In. Butter.........................2  60
19 In. Butter........................ 3  00
Assorted 13-15-17.................1  75
Assorted 15-17-19  ................ 2 60

W RAPPING PA PER
Common Straw.................  
lk
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4 Hi
No.  l  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2k
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count....  20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Magic. 3 doz........................l  00
Sumlgnt,3doz.....................l 00
Sunlight, lk   doz.................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz............. l  00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz............. l 00
Yeast Foam. l k   doz...........  50
Per lb.
White fish...................  © 9
Trout..........................   ©  9
Black Bass..................10©  11
Halibut.......................  ©  14
Ciscoes or Herring—   ©
Bluefish................. 
  ©
Live  Lobster..............  ©
Boiled  Lobster...........  ©
Cod..............................  ©
Haddock....................   ©
No. 1 Pickerel............   ©
Pike............................   ©
Perch..........................  ©
Smoked White...........  ©
Bed Snapper..............  ©
Col River  Salmon......   ©
Mackerel....................   ©

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts...........
F. S  D.  Selects......
Selects....................
Counts....................;
Extra Selects...........

Bulk Oysters

2  00 
1  85

HIDES AND  PELTS 
The Cappon & Bertsch Leal 

Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Hides
Green No. 1............
Green No. 2.............
Cured  No. l .............
Cured  No. 2.............
Calfskins,green No. l 
Calfskins.green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins,cured No. 2
Pelts
Pelts, each..............
Lamb
Tallow
N0. 1.
No. 2.

© 6k 
© 6k 
© 8k 
@ 7k 
© 9 
© 7 k  
@10 
© 8k
60©1 00

© 4k
© 3 k

W ool
Washed, fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine.......
Unwashed, medium.

15@17
18@21
11@14
14@16

CANDIES 
Stick Candy

bbls

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

palls 
© 7k 
© 7k 
© 8 
© 9
© 7k
©10k
@10k 
@10 
© 8

Mixed Candy

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

© 6k
© 7
© 7%
@ 8k
© 8k
@9
© 8k
© 9
@ 9
@9
© 9
@io
@io
©15k
@13

Fancy—In  Palls 

' 

■  

Dk. No. 12

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

8
15
12
12
9
12
10k
12
10
@12
© 9 k
@10
© ilk
©13k@14 
@15 
© 5 
© 9k @10 
@10
@12
@12
@14
@12
©55
@60
©66
©86
@1 00 
©30 
@76 
©65 
©60 
©60 
@60 
©56 
©65 
©90
©66

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
Fairy Cream Squares 
Fudge Squares........ 
Peanut Squares......  
Fruit Tab., as., wrap 
Sugared Peanuts.... 
Salted Peanuts........ 
Starlight Kisses...... 
San Bus Goodies.... 
Lozenges, plain....... 
Lozenges, printed... 
Choc.
i. 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. pails.................  
Golden Waffles........ 
Lemon  Sours.........  
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops....
H. M. Choc. Drops..
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and 
Gum Drops......
Licorice Drops. 
Lozenges,  plain.
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar..............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wint..............
String Book.............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caram els 
Clipper, 20 lb. palls..
Standard, 20 lb. pails 
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx..
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus sett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels..........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings..............
Medt. Sweets...........
Jamalcas.................
Rodl......................
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300.. 
5 00@5 25
Verdelii, fey auo......   4 50@i  76
Verdelli, ex chce 300  4 C0@4 50
Verdelli, fey 360......   4 75@6 oo
Maiori Lemons, 300..  5 76@6 00
Messinas  300s..........  3 5oa4 00
Messlnas  3ti0s.........   3 50@4 00
Bananas
Medium bunches__   1  60@2 oo
Large bunches........

© 9 
@10 
@12k @15 
@65 
@55 
@60 
@60 
@60

©
@6  00

©
_

80

Foreign D ried F ru its 
©

Figs

Califomlas,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
olee,  10  lb.
Extra  Chi
boxes.....................
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags....
Dates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. oases.
Hallow!....................
lb.  cases, new.......
Salts, 60 lb. cases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Ivloa.......
Almonas, California,
soft ■ helled...........
Brazils......................
Ftiberts  ............ .
Walnuts.  Grenobles. 
Walnuts soft shelled 
Calif ornla No. l... 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
Table  Nuts, choice..
Pecans,  Med...........
Pecans, Ex. Large...
Pecans, Jumbos......
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b n ...
Peanuts 
Fancy, H. P„ Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Roasted................
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
8pan.BMMNfr'in,w

@ »k 
@12

5k@

0 8

LAMP CHIMNEYS—Seconds

Per box of 6 doz.
1 38
1  51
2 24

AKRON STONEWARE 

B utters

k  gal. 
2 to 6 
8 gal- 
10 gal. 
12 gal. 
15 gal. 
20 gal. 
25 gal- 
30 gal.

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

2 to 6 gal., per gal.................. .
’’burn Dashers, per doz..........
M ilkpans

k  gai  fiat or rd. hot, per doz.. 
1 gal. nat or rd. hot,, each......

Fine  Glazed M ilkpans
k  gal  flat or rd. bot., per doz..........
l gal. flat or rd. bot., each...............

Stewpans

Ju g s

k  gal. fireproof, bail, p«r doz..........
l gal. fireproof, ball, per doz..........

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

Sealing W ax

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

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

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

P earl Top

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

La  Bastie

No. l Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. l Lime (66c doz)..........................
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................
No. 2 Flint (80c  d o z )" " ....................

Rochester

E lectric

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

OIL  CANS

LANTERNS

1 gal. tin cans wltb spout, per doz__
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz..
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz..
3 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
6 gal. galv. iron wltb  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz..
5 gal. Tilting cans................................
6 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas.....................
No.  0 Tubular, side lift......................
No.  IB  Tubular.................................
No. 16 Tubular, dash..........................
No.  l Tubular, glass fountain............
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp..................
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................
LANTERN GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 16c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 5 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye,ca8es 1 aoz. each
MASON  FRUIT JARS.
Pints...................................................
Quarts.................................................
Half  Gallons.......................................
Caps and  Rubbers..............................
Rubbers...............................................

Glover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or i.asollne.

Glover’s W holesale  M erchandise  Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers  of 

GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES

Office Statijnârii

i e T T Ì R M0 T É  
H EA D S
! Ä
COMPANY.
counter bIlls.  COMPANY.

r a d e s m a n

---------------------------------------  A.  GRAND  RAPIDS
GRAND  RAPIDS

s s  T

T

48 
6 
48 
60 
72 
1 OS
1  40
2 00 
2 40

6k84

85 
1  10

60
45
7k

1  85
2  00 
2  90

2 75
3 76
4 00

4 00
5  00
6  10

1  00 
1  26 
1  36 
1 60
3 60
4 00 
4 60

4 00 
4 60

1  35 
1  65
3 00
4 30
5  76 
4 60
6  00 
7 t0 
9  00
4 75 
7 25 
7 25 
7 50 
13 50 
3 60

45 
45 
2  00 
1  25

6 26 
6 50 
9 25 
2 40 
25 & 35

“ Summer  Light”

Light  your  Hotels, Cottages and 
Camps with the

"IM ULITE”

Incandescent  Vapor  Gas  Lamps.  >>uperior  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 tbe 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  1  cent 
for  7  hours.  Nothing  like  them.  They  sell  at 
sight.  GOOD  AGENTS  WANTED.  Send  for 
catalogue and prices.
Dept.  L. 

CH ICAGO  SO LAR  LIGHT  CO .. 

Chicago, W.

A  Suggestion

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

Auto-Bi, $200

If you are at all  interested  and  thinking 
of taking up the  sale  of  Automobiles  or 
Motor  Cycles—or  contemplating  buying 
a machine for your own  use—we  extend 
a special  invitation  to  you  to  visit  the 
factory of the  E.  R.  Thomas  Motor  Co. 
while  at  Buffalo.  The  Thomas  is  the 
cheapest  practical  line  of  Automobiles 
on the market.
ADAMS  &  HART,  Grand  Rapids

Michigan  Sales  Agents

A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A A m

Simple 
Account  File
Simplest  and 
Most  Economical 
Method  of  Keeping 
Petit  Accounts
File and  i,ooo printed blank

billheads............... 

$275

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.......... 

3  00

Printed blank bill heads,

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

1  25

1  5o

Grand  Rapids.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware Price Current

A m m unition

Caps

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

Cartridges

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

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

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

Size
Shot  Gauge
10
10
10
9
8
10
6
10
6
10
4
10
10
12
*  8
12
6
12
5
12
4
12

oz.of
Shot
1*
l*
ltt
1H
1%
1*
1
1
1H
1H
1*
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
*X
4*
3
3
354
3*
3*
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, 12* Ids., per  %  keg.............. 
X kegs, 6)< lbs., per j4  keg...............  

Gunpowder

Shot

40
so
75
so

2#0
300
500
5  75

1  20
1  20

go
70
go

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

72
64
4 00
2 25
1  25

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B........... 
1 76
„ 
Snell’s ....................................  
go
Jennings  genuine...............................................28
Jennings’ imitation.............................  
go

A ugurs  and  Bits

 

 

Axes

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.... 
First Quality, D. B. Bronze... 
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel...
First Quality,  D. B. Steel......
Barrows
Railroad..................................
Garden..................................’
Stove......................................
Carriage, new 11«*  .................
Plow ......................................
Well, plain................................
B utts,  Cast
Cast Loose Pin, figured............
Wrought Narrow......................

Bolts

net

6 00 
» 00 
6 so 
10 60
12  00 
29 00
60
50
$4 00

60

6-16 In.

. ..  7*  
. ..  73Í 

fcin.
* In. H In.
Com.
7  c.  . ..  6  C. .. . 6 C . . ..  43(0.
BB...
8* 
...  6
BBB.
83Í 
. 6*
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer  .. 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket Slicks__

.. •  6* 
.. .  63Í 

31

70

66

7Vi
8

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

le v e ls

M attocks

Adze Eye................................ *17 00..dls 

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
Screws, New List.......................... 
Casters, Bed and Plate....................... 
Dampers, American...........................  

Molasses  Gates

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

40
76
86
 
so&io&io
so

60&10
30

Pans

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

“A’’ Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  12 to 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 26 to 27  11 60 

Broken packages He per pound extra.

so
60
80
so

2 66
2 66
Base
6
10
20
so
48
70
50
15
26
36
26
36
48
88

60
46

7 60
9 00
15 00
7 60
9(0
is 00 
18 00

8
11

60

26 00

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

Nails

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

Rivets

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

Roofing  Plates

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

 

 

 

Sisal, H Inch and larger............................. 
Manilla...................................................... 

Ropes

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

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

Sand  Paper

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

com. smooth,  com.
$3 60
8 60
3 70

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 20 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

3 80
3 90
4 00
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Shovels  and  Spades

First Grade,  Doz................................ 
Second Grade, Doz............................. 

8 00
7 60

Solder

W hy  the  Average  W orkingm an  Cannot 

Pay  H is  Debts.

Syracuse,  N.  Y .,  Sept.  2—1  enclose  a 
clipping  that  is  interesting  to  me  be­
cause  written  by  one  who  makes a  study 
of  poverty  and  who  is  in  close  touch 
with  that  unfortunate  class.  Mr.  Hazel- 
tine is  the  superintendent  of  the  munic­
ipal  lodging  bouse  here  and,  while  his 
sympathy  is  with  the  poor,  he is  not  one 
of  the  kind  who  damn  the  rich  man. 
When  you  come  to  add  whisky  to  his 
figures,  you  see  some  one  must  suffer 
cruelly  and,  of  course,  that strikes  the 
innocent  mother and  helpless  children.

Fred  H.  Ball.

For  a  period  extending  over  many 
years  the  writer  has  beard  severe  de­
nunciations  hurled  at  the  workingmen 
for  their  extravagances.  Nothing 
is 
more  common  than  to  bear  those  who 
are  well  off  in  worldly  goods  upbraid 
wage  earners  for  alleged aping  the  man­
ners  of  their  “ betters,”   and  dreadful 
warnings  are  at  times  given  that,  unless 
some  check  is  put  on  the  luxurious 
liv­
ing  of  the  dependent  employe,  the coun­
try  will  go  to  ruin  and  the  country 
authorities  will  be  swamped  under their 
incumbrances.

It  will  be  the  purpose  of  this  article 
to  examine  into these  charges  of alleged 
extravagances.  Let  us  see  what  those 
charges  are.  Let  us  take  a  family  con­
sisting  of  husband  and  wife  and  four 
children.  Surely  that  is  not  a  very  large 
community.  Let  us  suppose  that  the 
bread  winner 
is  engaged  at  arduous 
manual  labor.

Now,  would  3  cents  a  meal  be  reck­
oned  an  extravagant  sum  to  enable  such 
a  person  to  sustain  his  work?  That 
would  mean  for  him  an  outlay  for  food 
of 9  cents  a  day.  His  wife  must  live, 
for although  women  talk  they  also work, 
and  they  must  eat;  that  means  9  cents 
more.  Children,  as  you  all  know,  must 
eat,  too,  and  they  consume  as  much 
food  as  adults,  if  they  can  get  it,  and 
thus,  for  the  family  at  3  cents  a  meal, 
we  have  a  daily  outlay  of  54  cents.

In  such  a  climate  as  ours,  coal  is  an 
absolute  necessity  in  winter,  and 
in 
summer  coal  or wood  generally  must  be 
used  for  cooking  purposes.  Suppose  we 
allowed  6 cents  a  day,  or $21.90  a  year, 
for  fuel,  no  one  would  say,  with  the 
current  prices  of  coal,  that  this  is  ex­
orbitant.  Families,  too,  must  live 
in 
houses,  and  unless  they  own  them  they 
must  pay  rent  for them.  Suppose  we 
allow  30  cents  a  day,  or $9.12  a  month 
for  rent;  surely  such  can  not  be  called 
high.

Then,  people  can  not  go  naked;  the 
climate  as  well  as the  law  would  pro­
hibit  this.  For  a  family  of  six,  such 
as  I  am  considering,  15  cents  a  day,  or 
$54-75  a  year,  for  necessary  apparel  for 
the  body  and  necessary  goods  for  the 
home  cannot  be  considered  too  much. 
Now,  people  are  in  the  habit  of  occas­
ionally  getting  sick.  No  one  is  exempt 
from  that  possibility,  and  so  if  we 
reckon  2  cents  a  day,  or $7.30 a  year,  to 
meet doctors’  bills  no one  will  grumble 
except,  perhaps,  the  doctor  himself.

He 

is  a  wise  man  who has  himself 
and  his  family  insured,  for should  death 
overtake  any  member,  more  especially 
the  bread  winner,  the  burden  thereby 
imposed  would  be  well nigh unbearable. 
Suppose,  then,  we  allow  5  cents  a  day 
to  pay  premiums  on  six  lives.

Let  us  see  what all  this  amounts to for 
this  family  of  six  persons. 
It  is  pre­
cisely  $1.12   a  d ay;  will  anyone  claim 
that  the  sums  above  given  are  exces­
sive?  Surely  3  cents  a  meal  does  not 
imply 
luxury  nor  will  30 cents  a  day 
enable  a  family  to  live  in  the  fashion­

able quarters. 
It  may  take  them  out  of 
the  slums  in  some  cities,  but  that  is  all.
I  have  not allowed  one  cent  for  lux­
uries,  for tobacco  for  the  husband,  for 
a  street  car  ride  for  the  tired  mother 
and  children,  for  books  for  the  latter 
should  they  attend  school,  fora  dentist’s 
forceps  to  pull  out  an  aching  tooth,  for 
a  church  contribution,  for  one  article  of 
new  furniture,  for  a  broken  lamp  chim­
ney,  for a  hundred  little  things  that  are 
necessary  to the  happiness  and  comfort 
of  a  home,  and  yet  excluding  these 
things  (and  are  they  not almost  as  es­
sential  as  food  or  raiment?)  we  have  a 
daily  outlay  of $1.12.

The  writer  claims  that  the  average 
workingman  doesn’t  work  on an average 
more  than  200 days  in  a  year,  deducting 
Sundays,  holidays  and  days  when  no 
work  can  be  done  or  is  procurable.  He 
doesn’t  average  $1.12,  for the  writer has 
seen  it  stated  that  the  daily  income  of 
the  workers  of  the  United  States,  ex­
cluding  professional  men  and  business 
men,  is  not  over $1  a  day.

How  does  the  workingman  live?  You 
may  figure 
it  out to  suit  yourself;  you 
may  alter  my  figures  to  suit  yourself, 
but  if  you  can  show  me  where  and  bow 
he lives,  paying  all  his  debts,  I ’ll  make 
my  will  in  your  favor  when  I  die.  And 
yet  we  hear  so  much  of  the  poor  labor­
ing  man,  and  the  extravagances  of  the 
workman  and  pauper.  Where,  in  the 
name  of  all  that  is  reasonable,  can  you 
find  this  family  extravagant? 
Indeed, 
there  is  less  extravagance  in  the  homes 
of  the  poor than  in  the  language  of  the 
well  to  do. 

John  Hazeltine.

Shortage of the  Evaporated  A pple  Crop. 
From the New York Commercial.

The  average  annual  consumption  of 
evaporated  apples  is  about  800  carloads 
—that 
is,  the  world  consumption,  as 
“ world”   is  understood  in  a  commercial 
sense.  The  distribution  is  about  equal­
ly  divided  between  the  domestic and the 
foreign  market.  Usually  at  this  time  in 
the  season  250 carloads  of  cured  apples 
have  been  sold  for  early  fall  shipment 
to  Europe,but  this  year only  fifteen  car­
for, 
loads  have  been  contracted 
the 
heavy  falling-off  in  the  trade  being  due 
to  the  rapid  and  sharp  advance 
in 
prices  following  the  confirmation  of  a 
very  short  crop  of apples.

Of  the  800 carloads  of evaporated fruit 
consumed  annually,  fully  250  carloads 
are  supplied  usually  by  Wayne  county, 
New  York,  where  are 
located  2,000 
evaporators. 
year,  however, 
This 
Wayne  county  will  do  well  if  it  fur­
nishes  fifty  carloads.

It  is  estimated,by  those  familiar  with 
the  market  for  thirty  years  or  more, that 
the  world’s  consumption  of  evaporated 
apples  for  this,  the  first  year  of  the 
twentieth  century,  will  be  reduced  to400 
carloads,  and  that amount  of  fruit  has 
been  carried  over  in  cold  storage  from 
the  surplus  stock  of  1900.

Should  the  present  high  prices  hold, 
no  doubt  many  dryers,  even  where  the 
crop  is  light,  will  be  stimulated  to  ac­
tive  work.  The  market  for green  fruit, 
however,  is  equally  high,  and  this  may 
check  such  action. 
The  attitude  of 
foreign  buyers,  too, 
is  an 
important 
factor.

The  course  of  the  market  during  the 
next  few  months  will  be  unusually  in­
teresting.  Future  sales  of  cured  fruit 
often  extend  into January  and  even  be­
yond,  but  this  year  buyers,  thus  far, 
are  not  loaded  with  temerity.

The  Man  W ho  W orks  His Jaw s. 

From the Carson City Gazette.

Monday  was  Labor  Day and the fellow 
who  has  not  done  a  day’ s  work since  his 
father  was  a  boy  improved  the  oppor­
tunity  to  put  up  a  great  wail  about  the 
oppression  of  labor  by  capital.

Between  the  years  1760 and  1776  100,- 
000  pounds  o f silk  were  exported  from 
Georgia  to England.

Elbows

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz............... net
Corrugated, per doz............................
Adjustable.........................................dls

Expansive  Bits

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26..........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................
Files—New  List
New American...................................
Nicholson’s..........................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.....................
Galvanized  Iro n  
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27, 
List  12  13 
16.

16 

14 

Discount,  60

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

Gauges

Glass

Single  Strength, by box...................... dls
Double Strength, by box.................... dls
By the Light...............................dls

H am m ers

Hinges

Hollow  W are

Maydole & Co.’s, new list....................dls
Yerkes & Plumb’s............................... dls
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c list
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3............................. dls
Pots.... 
Kettles. 
Spiders.

50&10
50&10
50&10
Au Sable........................................... dls  40&10
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list................. 
70
Japanned Tinware..............................  
20&10
Bar Iron............................................2 26  0 rates
Light Band.......................................... 
3 c rates

Horse  Nalls

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

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

Lanterns

76 
1  26 
40&10

40
26
70&10
70
70
28
17

60&10

80&20
80&20
80&20

33*
40&10
70

76
86
6 00 
$00

The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
In the market Indicated by private  brands  vary 
according to composition.
Steel and Iron,

Squares

60—10—6

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

Tin—Allaw ay  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

B oiler Slze  Tin  P late 

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers,)
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, J P®r Pound-- 

Traps

 

W ire

ton’s..................... 

Steel,  Game........................................  
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......  
Oneida  Community,  Hawley  &  Nor­
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

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled........... 
Coe’s Genuine.....................................  
Coe’s Patent Agricultural, (Wrought..70

$10 60
10 60
12 00

9  00
9  00
10  60
10  60

13

75
40&10
66
16
1  26
60
60
60&10
so&io
40
3 26
2 96
80
80
80
80

80
$$

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

3 2

THE  GOLDEN  RULE.

Instance  Where  Its  Application  Was  Not 

Appreciated.

My  wife—God  bless  her!—is  a  good 
deal  more  religious  than  I  am  and, 
when  I  spend  a  Sunday  at  home,  she 
usually 
likes  to  drag  me  out to  church 
at  least  once  during  the  day.  It is some­
times  a  tough  job,  for  I  am  an  unregen­
erate  sort  of  a  hairpin,  but  I  often  go  to 
please  her.

I  went  last  Sunday  evening,  and  the 
text  was  the  Golden  Rule—“ Do  unto 
others  as  you  would  have  them  do  unto 
you."

I  spell  it  out,  so that  you  fellows  will 

know  what  the  Golden  Rule  is.

right. 

The  sermon  was  all 

The 
preacher  was  one  of  these  plain  fellows 
who  are  doing  the  best  they  know  how 
in  a  dogged,  honest  sort of  way  to  make 
the  world  better.  He’ll  never  set  the 
world  on  fire  with  his  oratory,  but  what 
he  said  was  straight  and  good.  The  gist 
of  it  was  that  a  man  has  no  right  to  go 
through  the  world  refusing  or neglecting 
to  help  his fellow-creatures.  Everybody, 
he  said,  would  occasionally  see  a  way 
in  which  he  could  help  his  brother or 
his  sister,  and 
it  was  wrong  not to  do 
it,even though  it  seemed  like  meddling.
I ’m  not a  fellow  who  believes  in  mix­
ing 
in  my  neighbors’  business  much, 
but  what  this  preacher  said 
rather 
stirred  me  up.  He  believed  it  himself, 
and  that's  always  convincing.

My  wife  and  I  discussed  the  sermon 

as  we  rode  home  on  the  car. 
soft,  moonlight  evening,  the  spell  of the 
service  was  on  me—I  felt  like  doing 
noble  deeds.

It  was 

tell  you  about  that  boy  you’ve  got. 
I 
was  standing  by  him  when  several  cus­
tomers  asked  him  questions,  and  he had 
an 
impudent  answer  for  every  one. 
When  I  called him  down,  as  I  knew  you 
would  do  if  you  were  there,  he  told  me 
to  go to  a  warmer climate.  Of  course,”  
in  my 
own  estimation  every  minute,  “ a  mer­
chant  can’t  be  around  everywhere  at the 
same  time,  and 
little  things  like  this 
boy’s  actions  escape  him  unless  some 
friend  tells  him  the  situation.”

went  on,  growing  more  noble 

1  paused  and  waited  to  be  thanked. 
The  grocer  said  nothing  for a minute, 

then  he  sa id :

“ I  never did  have  any  use for a tattle­
tale,  especially  a  man  that  runs around 
telling  tales  on  boys! 
I  don't  believe 
there’s  anything  you  want  to  see  me  for 
to-day,  so  I ’ ll  say  good-day.”

When  I  came  to,  I  got  up  and 

feebly 
walked  out.  What  had  hit  me?  What 
had  become  of  the  Golden  Rule?  Had 
gone  to  church  the  night  before  or 

hadn't  I?

A  clerk  was  standing  by  the  door  as  I 

went  out. 

I  stopped  and  asked:

“ Say,  who  is  that  boy  you’ve  got 

here,  anyway?”

“ Him?”   he  replied,  “ he’s  the  boss’s 

son;  ain’t  he  a  bird?”

Thus  did your  uncle  fulfill  the  Golden 
is  what  going  to  church 
impressed  with  a  sermon 

Rule.  This 
and  getting 
did  for  m e!

After  this  I  mind  my  own  business, 
and  don’t  you  forget  i t !—Stroller  in 
Grocery  World.

The Grain  Market.

The  next  morning  I  kissed  my  wife 
road 

good-bye  and  went  off  on  the 
again.

During  that  day  I  was  in  the  store  of 
a  grocer  a  few  miles  beyond  Harris­
burg,  Pa.  In  the  interval  of  waiting  for 
the  proprietor to  get  at  liberty  1  noticed 
the  store  boy.  He  was  about 
15  years 
old  and  stood  at  the  front  of  the  store 
doing  some  cleaning.

It  was  a  good-sized  store  and  there 
seemed  to  be  considerable  business  do 
ing.  People  would  come 
in  and  ask 
the  boy  questions  and  he  would  answer 
them 
I  didn’ t  hea 
him  give  one  polite  answer  while 
stood  there.

like  a  surly  dog. 

The  sermon  of  the  day before recurred 
to  me  and  I  resolved  to  help  this  gro 
cer  by  calling  down  his  insolent  cub  of 
a  boy.  So  after a  particularly  impudent 
reply  which  he  gave  to  an  old  lady  who 
had  asked  him  whether the  proprietor 
was  in,  1  said :

“ See  here,  you  wretched  little  whelp 
why  can’t  you  find  a  civil  word  for 
these  people? 
If  you  answered  my  cus 
like  you  answered  Mr.—’s,  I ’d 
tomers 
break  your  head!”

I  admit  it  was  pretty  strong language, 
but  he  was  such  an  unpleasant  little 
beggar!

The  boy  looked  at  me  insolently,  and 

then  he  said :

“ Wot  t’  ’ell  is  it  your business?”
“ It  isn’t  any  of  my business, ”   I said, 
it  isn’t,  for  if  it  was 

"an d   I ’m  sorry 
I ’d  pull  the  ear  off  you.”

“ Go  to  — !”   observed  this  prize 
Sunday-school  scholar  briefly.  Then, 
to  escape  what  1  had  ready  for  him,  he 
ran.

It  seemed  to  me  that  the  grocer’s  in­
terests  demanded  that  he  be  told  about 
this  boy,  so  when  I  got  at  him  1 said : 

“ I ’ m  going  to do  something  for  you 
that  I ’d  thank  you  to  do  for  me  under 
the  same  circumstances,  and  that  is to

Wheat  has  run  an  even  course  with 
not  much  change. 
Exports  have  not 
been  quite  as  heavy,  still  they  have 
been  over  six  millions  bushels  during 
the 
last  week.  Of  course,  we  all  know 
that  we  can  not  keep  up  such  large  ex­
ports,  even  with  our  large  crop,  as  it 
will  soon  show  in  the  amount  on  hand.
We  might  mention  that  wheat  has 
been  taken  at  one  shilling  a  ton  to Eng 
land,  while  they  charge  seven  shillings 
and  six  pence  per ton  for flour,  giving 
the  millers  there  an  advantage  over 
home  millers.  How  long  the  American 
miller  will  stand  such  discrimination 
remains  to  be  seen. 
It  looks  to  us  that 
this  difference 
in  freight  is  all  out  of 
proportion.  The  harvest  in  the  North 
west 
is  about  over.  Threshing  does 
not  show  up  as  much  as  was  antici 
pated,  especially 
in  North  Dakota, 
where  the  wheat  is  light  and  not  up  to 
standard.

Corn  has  sold  off,  on  account  of  rains 
coming,  which  have  helped  the 
late 
corn;  still  best  informed  crop  reporters 
claim  only  half  a  crop.  Pasturage  also 
has 
improved,  which  has  a  tendency  to 
make  corn  weak.  Receipts  of  corn  have 
also  been  of  a  more  liberal  nature.  All 
this  helps  to depress  the  prices.

Oats  felt  the  decline  of  com  and  sold 
off  a  couple  of  cents.  We  consider oats 
very  cheap  at  the  present  prices.

Rye  also  had  a  downward  tendency 
The  demand  is  not as  urgent  as  it  was 
ten  days  ago.

Beans  have  dropped  about  15c  per 
bushel  for  October and  November deliv 
eries.

Flour  remains  very  strong  and  the  de 
is  good,  millers  selling  all  they 

mand 
make.

Mill  feed  also  remains  steady, 

looks  as though  prices  were  not going to 
drop  for  some  time  owing  to the  large 
demand.

Receipts  for  the*  week  have  been  as 
follows:  Winter  wheat,  69  cars;  corn

;  oats,  8 ;  rye, 

1 ;   flour,  4 ;  beans,  1 ;  

hay,  6;  potatoes,  3.

Millers  are  paying  70c  for  wheat. 
During  the  month  of  August the  re­
ceipts  were  as  follows:  Wheat,  218 
cars;  corn,  48;  oats,  34;  rye,  4;  flour, 
3 1 ;   beans,  3 ;   malt, 
1 ;   hay,  2 ;  pota­
toes,  4. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.
Not  in  Business  For  His  Health. 

From the Cassopolls Vigilant.

A  gentleman  has  been  in  town  the 
past  two  or  three  days  trying  to  inaugu­
rate  the  trading  stamp  scheme  of  secur­
ing  patronage  in  a  number of Cassopolis 
business  houses  and,  so  far as  we  can 
learn,  has  met  with  no  success.  This 
is  as  we  think  it  should  be,  for the  mer­
chant  who  conducts  a  legitimate  busi­
ness  needs  no  continuous  prize  giving 
to  secure  trade,  and  neither  he  nor his 
customer  can  afford  it,  while  it  is cer­
tain  that  the  outsider  who  inaugurates 
the  scheme 
is  not  in  the  business  for 
bis  health  and  that  he  expects  to  reap  a 
profit  from  either the  merchants  or their 
customers.

A  .delegation  of  British  mechanics 
who  are  making  a  tour of  observation 
in  this  country  express  astonishment  at 
the  methods they  have  seen  employed in 
our  big  manufacturing  establishments. 
While  they  had  expected  many  sur­
prises,  they  had  never dreamed  of  such 
tremendous  rush  under  high  pressure, 
especially  such  as  was  seen  at  the  Bald­
win 
locomotive  works,  Cramp’s  ship 
yards,  the  great  textile  mills  and  iron 
and  steel  works,  and  in  the  building  in­
dustries.  The  American  workman,  they 
said,  worked  faster  and  under  higher 
pressure  and  received  more  aid  from 
machinery  than the  British.

Why  ought  a  thirsty  man  always  to 
carry  a  watch?  Because  it  has  a  spring 
nside.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

IT'OR  sa l e—a   sto ck  o f  d r y   g oods 
r   wall  paper,  carpets,  queensware  and  gro­
ceries  of  about  $7,600  in  a  town  of  1,000,  sur­
rounded by a large farming trade  We do a cash 
business of about $2<>,000 (iu seven months of this 
year. $12,000j and carry no book account.  Have 
a  good  room  (electric  lights)  which  can  be 
rented.  Want to sell before fall business. Oct: l. 
Can show any interested party a profitable  bus! 
ness.  Reasons for selling will  be  made  known 
by personal letter or visit.  If necessary, can re 
duce stock to suit buyer.  This is  no  job  lot  of 
goods, hut  is  a.  strictly  clean  stock.  Address 
Box 115, Sycamore, Ohio.
IT'OR SALE- STOCK  OF  FURNITURE  AND 
Jr  undertaking  in  good  lively Michigan  town 
of  fifteen  hundred;  great  opening:  reason  for 
selling,  poor  health.  Address  No.  29,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 

29
Fo r  sa l e—sto ck  o f  g e n e r a l  m e r
chandise about  $6,000;  selling  $10,000  cash
fter  annum  (easily  increased  to  $15,000);  in 
Ive  town  of  500  in  Jackson  county.  Best  of 
reasons  for  selling.  Address  M.  L.,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
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Cl e a r a n c e  s al e s c o n d u c te d q u ic k
ly and  without loss by our new method.  It 
beats any auction sale, fire sale  or  mill end sale 
ever held.  Start one now and do a large business 
in  the  dull  season.  Terms and particulars  by 
writing to New Methods  Sales Co.,  7701  Normal 
Ave., Chicago, ni.______________________36

FOR  SALE—$6,500 STOCK  OF DRY  GOODS 

groceries,  shoes  and  store  fixtures;  long 
lease and low rent of the  best  business  concern 
in city of 2,500.  If preferred,  I  will  sell  part  of 
stock and rent half the store to desirable tenant 
No  agents or  traders  need  apply.  A.  L.  Brad 
ford, Eaton Rapids, Mich._______________ 35
W HO  WANTS  THIS  GOOD  OPPORTU 
nity  of  getting  a  business located  in 
growing town of 4,000 population, on good street 
brick  store  that  can  be rented;  a clean  stock 
general  merchandise,  Invoicing  about  $4,500; 
will discount it  for cash  $l,0u0.  Those  meaning 
business address No. 34,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
34
W ANT TO PURCHASE FURNITURE AND 
undertaking business  in  city  of not  less 
than 5,000 populxtion.  Will pay cash.  Address 
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No. 33, care Michigan Tradesman. 
Fo r  r e n t—b r ic k   s t u r e,  22x70,  s u it - 

able for dry goods or general  store; always 

been a  money winner.  For particulars address 

W. L. Arnold, Marcellus, Mien. 

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dally sales,  $110  to  $1*0.  Will  arrange  spedai 

FOR  SALE-BEST  PAYING  GENERAL 
merchandise store in Mich gan.  Good rea­
sons for selling.  It will pay to Investigate.  Ad­
dress No. 27, care Michigan Tradesman. 
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Ha r d w a r e  b u s in e s s,  w e l l  e s t a b- 
ltshed,  doing  retail-wholesale  business: 
terms  right  party;  for  purchase  next  thirty 
days.  Address  Hardware,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

IX)R SALE—A  CLEAN  GENERAL  STOCK, 

1  invoicing about  $1,800;  good  farming  com­
munity.  Reason  for  selling,  other  business. 
Address Bert F. Wood, Newark, Mich. 
FOR  SALE  AT  60 
*2,COO  SHOE  STOCK 
Address  No.  23,  care 
w cents  on  the  dollar. 
Michigan Tradesman.

Fo r  sa l e—Th e   l .  h .  h u n t & co. drug 

stock, furniture and  fixtures,  soda  fountain 
and fixtures, appraised at $2,200.  Will be sold at 
jublic auction sept. 7.  10  o’clock.  For  particu- 
ars  address  Daniel  R.  Whitney,  Assignee, 
Lowell, Mich.__________________________18

Gr e a t  o p p o r t u n it y   f o r   a   r e t a il
lumber yard.  Address No.  17,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman._______________________ 17
R a r e  o p p o r t u n it y   to  b u y   n e w
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
W ANTED—HARDWARE  STOCK, INVOIC- 
lng $1,500 to $',000;  doing  good  business; 
town, 1,000 to 2,0 0  population.  Address  No.  5, 
care Michigan Tradesman.________________6
Me r c h a n t s  d e s ir o u s  o f  c l o sin g  
out entire or part stock of shoes or wishing 
to dispose of whatever  undesirable  for  cash  or 
on commission correspond with Ries  &  Guettel, 
124-128 Market S t, Chicago, 111.____________6

FOR  SALE—»3,000  GENERAL  STOCK  IN 

thriving  Northern  Michigan  farming  town 
on Pere Marquette Railway.  Good  reasons  for 
selling.  Address No. 8,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man 
IX ) R SALE—A GENERAL STORE IN ANEW 
P   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 good will and cashing of our  labor 
and  timber  orders.  For  Information  address 
W. C. Sterling & Son, Monroe, Mich._______ 7
-i 10  ACRE  FARM  CHEAP  FOR  CASH;  OR 
1  might  exchange  for  business  site.  Chas. 
Cranson, Hubbardston, Mich.____________ 10

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■  NO. 1 BUSINESS OPENING IN THE BEST 

and  material  in  Michigan  county  seat  of 
6,500 inhabitants.  Invoiced  $2,500  Jan.  1.  Will 
sell  right  for  cash.  Address  Western,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.___________________ 2

city in Central  Michigan.  Wishing  to  con­
fine myself to carpets and  readymade  wear  ex­
clusively, I offer 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. 
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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 
FOR  SALE-WELL-ESTABLISHED  MEDI- 
cal practice, averaging $500 per month.  Fine 
office and  equipments.  Address  Box  2320,  Bat­
tle Creek. Mich. 
994
IT'OR  SALE—GOOD  ESTABLISHED  GRO- 
1  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
W ANTED—DRUG  ¡STOCK,  ONE  THAT 
invoices  from  $1,000  to  $1,500.  Address 
Edgar E. Tice, Blooming dale, Mich. 
960
A   SPLENDID  GENERAL  STORE.  HOTEL 
and livery, a great stand for business; good 
transient  trade;  number  of  steady  boarders. 
Sell or exchange  for  A1  farm.  Address  R  A. 
976
Butwell, WIxom, Mich. 

IX)R  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  SHINGLE 

1  and tie mill in very best repair; center crank 
engine, 12xi6;  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._____________________ 970

B. Adams, Frost, Mich. 

1  good  business.  For particulars  address  J. 

IT'OR  SALE—COUNTRY  STORE  DOING 
Fo r  s a l e,  c h e a p- si^ oo  st o c k  g e n - 
IF GOING  OUT  OF  BUSINESS  OR  IF  YOU 

eral  merchandise.  Address  No.  945,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
945
have a bankrupt, stock of clothing, dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York 
Store, Traverse City, Mich._____________ 728

966

MISCELLANEOUS

BH Y SIC IA N   WANTED,  REGISTERED 
pharmacist  preferred.  Drug  business  can 
be bought.  Address Drûg  Doctor,  care  Mlchl- 
gan Tradesman._______________________ 40
WANTED—AN  EXPERIENCED  REGIS- 
tered pharmacist.  Address T, care Michi­
__________________39
gan Tradesman. 
WANTED—T R A V E L IN G   GROCERY 
Salesman of experience to reside at Cadil­
lac, Mich., and travel In the territory contingent 
thereto.  Address No. 32, care Michigan Trades­
man. 
WANTED—ASSISTANT OR REGISTERED 
WANTED—SITUATION BY  YOUNG  MAN 

pharmacist.  Correspondence  solicited. 

J. I. Main, Tekonsha, Mich. 

in general store:  has  had  several  years’ 
experience.  Can furnish  good  references.  Ad­

dress No. 997, care Michigan Tradesman.  997

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