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GRAND RAPIDS, WEDNESDAY,  SEPTEMBER  II,  1901. 

Number 938

IMPORTANT  FEATURES.

Page. 
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2.  G etting the  People.
3.  The  New  York  M arket.
4.  A round th e  State.
5.  G rand Rapidn  Gossip.
6.  Badly  Advised.
7.  F arm ers  See  Advantages  of Furnaces
8.  Editorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  Clothing.
11.  T ribute  to  Greatness o f W oman.
12.  Shoes  and Rubbers.
14.  D ry Goods.
15.  W indow  Dressing.
16.  B a tte r and  Fggs.
18.  The  Meat  M arket.
19.  How  to  Increase  Coffee Trade.
20.  W om an’s  W orld.
22.  H ardw are.
23.  Clerks’ Corner.
24.  Pennsylvania  D utch.
25.  Com m ercial Travelers.
26.  D rugs and  Chemicals..
27.  D rug P rice  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price Current.
31.  Village  Im provem ent.
32.  V ictory  from   Disaster.

H ardw are  P rice  Current.

W H E R E   IS   T H E   Y A N K E E ?

is  not  particularly 

Even  in  a  country  devoted  only  to  the 
marvelous,  the  present  development  of 
petroleum  in  Texas  is  stupendous.  Ac­
customed  as  we  are  to  big  figures,  the 
reader 
impressed 
with  the  newspaper  report  that  the.  cur­
rent  overflow  from  thirty  wells  at  Beau­
mont  amounts  to  1,500,000 barrels daily. 
With  a  forceful  “ pretty  good”   and  a 
strongly  expressed  desire  that  he  could 
“ get  in  on  the  ground  floor,”   the  state­
ment  receives  little  comment. 
is 
only  when  a  little  calculation  is  made 
that  the  full  meaning  of  the  figures  is 
felt.  An  output  of  1,500,000  barrels  a 
day 
in  a  year—the  oil  well  is  no  re­
specter of  Sunday— amounts  to  537»5°°>* 
000  barrels.  The  annual  production  of 
petroleum  for the  whole  country,  before 
this  discovery,  was  about  60,000,000 
barrels  a  year,  a  difference  of  477,000,- 
000 barrels.  That  is to  say,  the  flowing 
oil  wells  at  Beaumont  are  yielding  as 
much  oil  in  forty  days  as the  whole  out­
side  country  is  producing  in  a  year.

It 

With  this  enormous  amount  to  deal 
with,  it  becomes  a  question  of  much 
importance  what  is  to  be  done  with 
it. 
The  Beaumont  crude  sells  for 20 cents  a 
barrel  of  forty-two  gallons  at  the  wells, 
which 
is  about  one-tenth  that  of  the 
Pennsylvania  and  Ohio  production.  At 
present  there 
lack  of  vessels  for 
is  a 
transportation  and 
little  or  nothing  is 
said  of  the  setting  up  of  refineries.  One 
of  the  first  uses  to  be  made  of  it  is  the 
almost  universal  call  for  it  in  the  way 
of  fuel.  Efforts  have  been  made,  since 
the  early  discovery  of  petioleum  in  the 
United  States,  to  utilize  the  crude  oil, 
and  to  a  certain  extent  this  has  been 
accomplished  where  large  quantities  are 
called  for  in  manufactories;  but  no  in­
vention  has  so  far  safely  met  the  wants 
of  the  public  for  domestic  purposes 
aside  from  the  unsatisfactory  coal  oil 
stove,  at  once 
ill-smelling,  dirty  and 
dangerous.  Twenty-five  years  ago  the 
Noble  brothers,  extensive  producers  in 
the  Russian  oil  fields,  gave  cogent  rea­
sons  for the  use  of  petroleum  as  fuel  for 
steam  vessels;  but,  so  far as  is  known,

these  recommendations  have  not  been 
carried  out.

The  real  need,  however,  exists  to-day 
in  the  household. 
In  the  Middle  West, 
in  places  not  remote  from the coal mine, 
the  price  of  coal  is  quoted  at  over $g  a 
ton.  The  gas  stove  has  shown 
its  effi­
ciency,  but  not  the  families  who  need 
it  most  can  afford  to  use  it,  so  that  coal 
has  still  to  be  depended  upon  for  heat­
ing  and  cooking.  The  consumer  is  in­
dependent  of the  gas  company  for  light­
ing  purposes  only  as  he  is  willing  to 
depend  upon  kerosene,  and  unless  the 
enormous  output  of  the  Texan  wells  in­
terferes  with  the  Eastern  oil  companies 
the  price  of  refined  oil  will  not  soon  be 
materially  reduced.

With  a  surplus  of  477,500,000  barrels 
of  petroleum  yearly  on  the  market,  it 
would  seem  that  the  Yankee  power of 
invention  might  be  depended  upon  to 
revolutionize  the  kitchen  economy  of 
the  present.  Here  are  nearly  a  half  bil­
lion  barrels  of  oil  waiting  to  be  made 
available  in  the  American  household for 
light  and  heat,  the  producer  wants  the 
invention  to  accomplish  this  and  the 
consumer  is  begging  for  it.  Where  is 
the  genius  who  will  meet  the  require­
ments  and  at  the  same  time  perform  the 
double  task  of making himself a million­
aire  and  the  benefactor  of  his  race?

The  fellow  who  rocks  the  boat  has  at 
last  run  upon  the  rocks  of  the 
law.  A 
man  in  Maryland,  whose  criminal  reck­
lessness  resulted 
in  the  drowning  of  a 
young  woman  has  been  held  for the  ac­
tion  of  the  grand  jury.  The  testimony 
taken  at  the  coroner’s  inquest  plainly 
indicated  the  man’s  blame  and  the  ver­
dict  declared  that  he  was  guilty  of hom­
icide.  There  is  no  reason  why individ­
uals  who  are  reckless  in  boats  should 
not  be  as  answerable  for  their  actions  as 
individuals  whose  recklessness  in  other 
circumstances  results  in  prompt  prose­
cution. 
If  a  few  of  them  were punished 
as  their  folly  deserves  the  effect  would 
be  to  discourage  a  practice  which  has 
cost  many  lives.  Such  persons  can  not 
offer  as  good  excuses  as  those  who  kill 
with  weapons  they  didn’t  know  were 
loaded.  People  who  can  not  refrain 
from  rocking  should  stick  to  the  chairs 
in  the  parlor  or on  the  piazza.  They 
should  never  go  near  the  water  unless 
they  go  alone.

God  douhtless  could  have  cursed  the 
world  with  greater  evils  than  the  red- 
handed  anarchist  and  the  walking  dele­
gate,  but  God  never  did.

Character,  like  porcelain  ware,  must 
be  printed  before  it  is  glazed.  There 
can  be  no  change  after  it  is  burned  in.

Czolgosz  doesn’t  like  our  form of Gov­
It  is  to  be  hoped  that  it  will 

ernment. 
not trouble  him  long.

The  thing  to  do  now  is  to  formulate  a 

punishment  that  will  fit  the  crime.

Give  us  the  say-so,  and 

would  need  arnica  before  night.

anarchy 

The  Czar  has  probably  ordered  a  new 

boiler  iron  undershirt.

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

It  is  considered  very  fortunate  that 
the  attempted  assassination  of  the  Pres­
ident  occurred  after  the  close  of  stock 
exchange  trading,  otherwise 
it  would 
have  been  difficult,  if  not  impossible, 
to  prevent  a  disastrous  panic.  As  it 
was,  the  rush  to  sell  Saturday  morning 
carried  the  average  for  sixty  leading 
railways  down  $3.89  per  share  and 
in­
It  speaks  welL for  the 
dustrials  $3.57. 
general  strength  that  such  an 
event 
should  be  attended  with  so  little  decline 
and  that  this  should  have  no  symptoms 
of  real  panic.  The  fact  of  the  occur­
rence  after  business  hours  gave the lead­
ing  financiers  a  chance  to  make  such 
arrangements  as  would  take  care  of  the 
inevitable  rush  to  sell,  so  that  the  de­
cline  was  soon  checked.  This  week  the 
encouraging  prospects  of 
the  Presi­
dent’s  speedy  recovery  have  been  a 
good  barometer  of  the  speculative  mar­
ket,  prices  recovering  steadily,  with 
every  indication  of  going  above  the  for­
mer  level.  The significance  of  the  steel 
strikes  has  been  almost  entirely 
lost 
sight  of 
interest  attending  the 
President’s  condition.  The  labor  con­
troversy 
is  rapidly  disappearing  as  a 
factor  in  trade  conditions,  the  men  re­
turning  to  work  in  so  many  cases  as  to 
make  the  struggle  hopeless.  Railroad 
earnings  show  an  astonishing  increase 
last  year,  which  were 
over  those  of 
enormous,  especially 
in  the  Southwest­
ern  group.  It  is  remarkable  that  money 
continues  plentiful and  easy  at  the  great 
centers,  in  spite  of  the  tendency  toward 
stringency  on  account of  the  shooting  of 
the  President,  coupled  with  unusual  de­
mand  for  crop  moving.  Gold 
in  the 
United  States  Treasury  exceeds  $520,- 
000,000,  breaking'  the  record  for quan­
tity.  Money  in  circulation  per  capita 
is  about  at  the  highest  recorded.

in  the 

It  is  estimated  that  the  yield  of cotton 
is  in  excess  of  that  of  last  year  by about
1,000,000  bales.  This  fact  and  the  great 
increase  in  spindles  in  both  the  South 
and  the  East  do  not  promise  well for the 
cotton  cloth 
industry.  Yet  a  decided 
improvement  is  reported  at  Fall  River, 
with  higher  prices 
for  print  cloths. 
Gains 
in  other  textile  industries  have 
been more  pronounced,  the  woolen  divi­
sion  showing  greater  animation  each 
week.  Few  idle  wheels  are  reported  at 
any  of  the  great  manufacturing  centers 
and  conditions  are  especially  favorable, 
as  raw  material  has  of  late  been  at  the 
lowest  point  for  four  years.  Revival  in 
the  goods  market  can  now  secure  a  start 
with  better  prospect  of  profitable  opera­
tion.  A  heavy  clip  is  being  marketed, 
but much  is  in  the  bands  of  dealers  who 
have  great  faith  in  the  future  and  reject 
bids  at  the  current  level.

In  materials  there 

For  many  weeks  conditions  have been 
prosperous  at  shoe  shops  and  reports 
of  no  change  are  all  that  can  be  de­
sired. 
is  a  steady 
hardening,  hides  commanding  the  best 
prices  of  the  year  and  leather  averag­
ing  higher  than  at  any 
since 
March.  Every  day 
idle  capacity  at 
steel  mills  decreases.
Black  walnut  is 

less  than  half  the 
weight  of  a  corresponding  quantity  of 
ebony.

time 

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Petting the  People

Placing: A dvertisem ents  Through  Agents 

o r by Separate  Contracts.'

Circumstances  alter  cases. 

In a  great 
proportion  of  instances there  is  no ques­
tion  but  that  the  best  way  to  place  ad­
vertising  is  by dealing  directly  with  the 
ones  who  do  the  work.  Certainly,  in 
the  smaller  towns  there  can  be  no  ques­
tion  but  that  the  contracts  with  the  one 
or  two  papers  used  should  be  made 
without  the  medium  of  a  third  party  as 
agent 
Increasing  fields  to  be  covered 
and  greater  numbers  of  papers  may  in­
troduce  the  consideration  of  agents,  but 
the  need  is  likely  to  be  anticipated  by 
the  solicitations  of  those  wishing  a  fin­
ger  in  the  pie.

to 

I  think  there  is  no question  but  that 
the  advertising  agent  is  a  desirable  fac­
tor  in  the  work  of  publicity.  There  are 
too  many  of them  in  the  profession  who 
have  won  undoubted  success  for 
the 
to  be  substantiated  that  the 
claim 
is  an  unnecessary  ad­
agency  system 
imperfectly  developed 
junct 
an 
method.  There 
is  no question  but  that 
many  proprietary  articles  for  national 
consumption  do  well  to  employ  the  reg­
ular  agencies, but  it  does  not  follow  that 
the  host  of  lesser  fry  who  have  sprung 
up  as  a  result  of  the  demand  for  more 
intelligent  advertising  work  should  re­
ceive  the  support  of  those  more  com­
petent  to  manage  such  details  in  less 
extensive  operations.

The  country  is  full  of  advertising  ex­
perts  (?)  who  essay  to  add  the  agents’ 
business,  with  its  emoluments,  to  their 
accomplishments.  Such  are  springing 
up  in  almost  every  country  village,  as 
well  as  in  the  greater cities.  A  little 
fluency  of  expression  and  an  aping  of 
the  sententious  crispness  of  expression 
used  by  some  of the  successful  adver­
tisement  writers  and, lo, you  have  an  ex­
pert !  Such  are  clamoring  for  business, 
and  too  often  the  w.eary  merchant  is 
tempted  to  entrust  his  work  to  unworthy 
hands.

When  the  merchant’s  operations  are 
confined  to  so  small  a  number  of  media 
that  he  can  make  individual  contracts, 
such  a  course  will  always  be  the  most 
satisfactory.  There may  be  more  trouble 
and  detail 
in  checking  up  to  see  that 
the  work 
is  properly  done,  but  this  is 
paid  for  in  saved  commissions;  for as  a 
rule  the  merchant  can  get  the  space  as 
cheaply  as  such  agencies.  Somebody 
has  to  do  the  work,  and  while  the  agent 
is  paid  for  it  there  is  not  the 
incentive 
to  thoroughness  there 
is  in  the  indi­
vidual  contract  system.  This  remark 
may  not  apply  to  the  agencies  where  a 
large  and  varied  business  warrants  a 
thorough  and  complete  system,  but  it 
does  apply  to the  host  of  local  concerns 
who  need  to  make  more  effort to  get 
business  enough  for their support  than 
will  permit  thoroughness  in  its  prosecu­
tion.

An  element  of  cost  in  advertising  is 
the  management  of  the  business.  The 
agent  may  claim  to  do this  cheaper than 
the  merchant  can  do  it.  But  if  the  mer­
chant  satisfies  himself  that  the  work  has 
received  proper  attention  he  must  give 
it  a  considerable  part of the  time  neces­
sary  to  its  direct  management.

*  *  *

Somerville's Book Store advertisement 
has  had  careful  attention 
from  his 
printer and  the  result  is  likely  to  gain 
attention. 
I  think,  however,  it  is  open 
to  the  criticism  of  having  too  much 
space  for the  matter.  Take  it  in  a paper 
where  spaces  are  generally  too closely

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

We are with you  again

School  Books

Enough for 
everyone both

NEW and SECOND HAND

All school books  covered  free of extra charge.

A  few school  books damaged 
at our late fire for sale cheap...........

A   F U L L  L I N E   O F

SCHOOL  AND 
OFFICE  SUPPLIES

Telephone u-a rings.

Bement Peerless Plows

Are just what  the name implies—they have no equals and 
no superiors.  Every quality  and  feature that  could con­
tribute in making  a perfect  implement  is embodied  in the' 
construction  of  this  plow.  It  is  positively  the  lightest 
draft plow ever pat in a field;  it  turns  the  most satisfac­
tory furrows; it handles the easiest; it is the most durable, 
the most rigid  under the hand, the strongest, handsomest 
and best.  We are having a large  sale  on this plow and it 
will be to your interest to come and see it.

Our $20.00 All Steel Laud Roller

is.  one  of  the  best  made.  We  also  have a  Lever  Spike 
Tooth Harrow which should not  be overlooked when you 
call to see our large line of Farm Machinery.

J.  H.  Granger,

w « t Higham Street. 

ST. JOHNS, MICH.

ÿPsasasasascisasasHsasas

St.  Charles  Evaporated 

Cream.

G E L A T IN E

and

TAPIOCA.
Beffa Anerted Wafers.

A large line of

Olives and Olive Oil.

• A large until complete line of

Sear’s Sweet Goods

both in the Balk and Package.

TOO  BUSY SATURDAY

On the Corner.

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filled,  such  a  space  is  apt  to have  a  va­
cant,  cheap 
look.  A  criticism  in  this 
direction -  is  unusual,  crowded  space 
and 
lumbering  paragraphs  being  the 
rule.

J.  H.  Granger  makes  the  opposite 
mistake,  of  saying  too  much  about  his 
plow.  For  instance,  if  they  have  no 
equals  it  may  be  inferred  that  they have 
no  superiors,  and  that  expression  does 
not  add  strength.  The  next  sentence  is 
too  long— use  the  words  “ to  make”  
in 
place  of  “ that  could  contribute  in  mak­
ing.”   There  is  enough  material  for  a 
little  judi­
good  advertisement,  but  a 
cious  trimming  would  make 
it  more 
often  read.  The  printer’s  work  is  done 
simply  and  well.

Sam  Folz  employs  the  sketchy  style 
which,  no  doubt,  takes  well  with  many. 
The  printer  has  done  his  best  to  help 
out  the  mourning  border.

its 

Machemer  &  Son  show  a  well-dis­
played  announcement  which  has 
re­
ceived  careful attention from the printer.
The  well-known  name  of  Sears  almost 
identity  by  the  misplaced 
I  would  strike  out  “ Re­
is  a 

loses 
apostrophe. 
spectfully.”   The  advertisement 
good  one.
Geddes 

indulges  in  a  happy  allitera­
tion  in “ The  suitor  who  suits,"  but  the 
it  is  lost  in  the  proverb  which 
force  of 
follows.  There 
is  good  material  here 
for two  advertisements  and  either  would 
be. made  more  effective  than  as  com­
bined  in  the  one.  The  printer  has  done 
his  work  effectively.

From the Cleveland Leader.

A  Steam Giant.

inside  him 

“ Hercules,the  Iron  Man,”   is  a  steam 
mechanical  walking  man  on  exhibition 
at  the  Forest  City  Park  summer  resort. 
He  is  eight  feet  high,  and  when  the  oil 
fire 
is  lighted  and  steam 
generated,  he  walks  about,  pushing  a 
sort  of  iron-wheeled  cart.  He  wears  a 
plug  hat  and  a  fiendish  grin,  and  puffs 
exhaust  steam  through  his  nostrils. 
Late 
last  night  some  of  the  campers  at 
the  park  lighted  the  fire  in  “ Hercules”  
after  the  resort  was  closed  and  “ Her­
cules’  ”   owner  had  gone  away. 
The 
valve  had  been 
left  open  when  “  Her­
cules’  ’ ’  fire  was  put.out,  and  when  he 
got  up  steam  he  began  to  walk  about 
the  park.  He  beat  Frankenstein's, 
monster  for a  while.

No  one  knew  bow  to  stop  him,  and 
he  walked  all  over  the  park,  through 
the  shallow 
lake,  over  the  tents  of  the 
campers  and  the  sideshow  tents.  Sleep­
ers 
in  his  path  bad  to  be  awakened  to 
get  them  out  of  the  way,  for  it  was 
impossible  to  control  the  steam  man's 
movements.  Inequalities  in  the  ground, 
trees  and  other  obstructions  turned  him 
aside,  but  could  not  stop  him.  He  ter­
rorized  the  park  for an  hour,  but  came 
to  grief  at  the  bar.  He  marched  up  to 
it  just  as  though  he  had money,  bumped 
against  it  and  knocked  it  over. 
“ Her­
cules”   fell  with  the  bar  and  alighted 
on  his  head  on  the  other  side.  He  stood 
there  on  his  head,  kicking  his  feet  in 
the  air until  his  steam  went  down.

To get out  details  of  special  price  in­
ducements.  Be  sure and  come  in  with 
the  boy  Monday.  We've  got  what  he 
needs, af correct prices too.

S A M   F O L Z ,

BIO  CORNER.

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“ The suitor who  suits.** 

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f   tailoring, the air of elegance that  I
*   Geddes puts into his  tailoring. Is  Jp
1   bound to appeal most  strongly to  «»
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2   his clothes. 
¡   SUITS, *18.80 UP. 
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leisure  time 

It  is  a  question  whether an  employer 
has  any  right  to  enquire  into  the actions 
of  bis  employes  outside  of  business 
hours.  Perhaps,  strictly  speaking,  he 
is  only  entitled  to  be  concerned  about 
the  time  for  which  he  pays,  but  so 
many  things  depend  upon  the  way  in 
which  the  employes’ 
is 
occupied  that  the  employer  is  not  only 
justified  in  keeping  track  of  his  assist­
ants after  business  hours,  but  is  morally 
obligated  to  do  so. 
If  beads  of  estab­
lishments  would  pay  more  attention  to 
tbe  way  in  which  their employes  con­
duct  themselves  outside  of  their  places 
of  business,the  companions  they  seek 
and  the  amusements  they  prefer,  we 
would  not  read  with  such  frequency  of 
trusted  clerks  and  other  employes  in 
responsible  positions  becoming  default­
ers  or being  found  to have  been  appro­
priating  goods  or moneys.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

The New York Market
Special F eatures of th e Grocery and P rod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Sept.  9— No  improvement 
is  noted  in  deliveries  of  sugar  on  cop- 
tracts,  refiners  still  being  behind  on 
most  grades.  Some  brokers  express  the 
opinion  that  a  probable  advance 
in 
prices  will  be  made  in  the  near  future.
Prices  of  green  teas  showed  a  firmer 
tendency 
last  week.  This  was  partly 
attributed  to  curtailed  supplies  and  the 
continued  firmness 
in  London  and  the 
East. 
Interior  as  well  as  the  local  de­
mand -from  wholesale  grocers  showed  an 
improvement.  The  call  was  for  a  gen­
eral  assortment  and  a fair  trade  resulted 
at  steady  prices. 
In  some  lines  busi­
ness  was  transacted  on  the  spot  and 
nearby  afloat.

The  rice  market  was decidedly health­
ful 
last  week  and  prices  were  firm  for 
all  grades  of  domestic  and  foreign. 
Country  demand  was  active,  while  lo­
cally  buyers  were  not  inclined  to  pur­
chase  freely.  Total  sales  aggregated  a 
good  volume  and  dealers  realized  full 
prices,  ranging  from  4@6>^c  and  as 
high  as yc for small parcels of fancy  head 
new  crop  rice.  Spot  supplies  have  ma­
terially  decreased  and  assortments  are 
pretty  well  broken  up,  many  dealers  be­
ing  unable  to  fill  orders  for  certain 
grades.  Advices  from  New  Orleans  re­
port  an  enlarged  movement  in  the  new 
rice  crop  with  prices  gradually  easing 
off.  Dealers  here  remained  conservative 
and  no  large  purchases  of  new  crop 
were  announced.

The  market  is  firmer  abroad  for  pep­
per,  with  prices  above  parity  of  spot 
values.  Gingers  and  pimento  show  in­
creased  strength  and  prices  rule  firmer, 
with  an  upward  tendency.  An  improved 
demand  prevailed  for  cassia,  and  in  a 
jobbing  way  sales  aggregated 
some 
2,500  packages  of  various  kinds  on  the 
spot  and  nearby  afloat.  The  supply  of 
white  pepper  on  spot  and  nearby  to  ar­
rive  continues  very  small.

Indications  point  to  a  strong  market 
on  syrups  for  some  time  to  come.  The 
small  production  of  syrups 
is  also  at­
tributed  to  some  extent  to  the  good  de­
mand  and  full  prices  now  being realized 
for  refined  sugar.  Because  of  advancing 
ocean  freight  rates,  some  buyers  held 
off  for  lower  prices.  Mixed  syrups  ruled 
a  shade  easier,  owing  to a  weaker  and 
lower  market  for  glucose.

in  demand 

Only  domestic  grades  of  molasses 
were 
last  week.  Straight 
open  kettles  were  sparingly offered,  sup­
plies  being  nearly  depleted  and  goods 
being  held  at  prices  above  buyers’ 
views.  Foreign  sorts  sold  slowly  at  quo­
tations.  Mixed  molasses  was  not 
wanted,  and  showed  a  downward  tend­
ency,  reflecting  a 
lower  and  weaker 
market  for glucose..  Advices  from  New 
Orleans  noted  steady  markets  and  mod­
erate  receipts.

The  demoralization  of  the  raisin  mar­
ket,  produced  by  President  Kearney’s 
“ smashing”   policy,  and  the  slump 
in 
evaporated  apples  were  the  features  last 
week. 
It  will  be  practically  impossible 
now  to  sell  future  California  raisins  un­
til  the  troubles  on  the  coast  are  settled 
one  way  or the  other,  and  meantime  the 
spot  market  is very  weak,  the  lightness 
of  stocks  of  loose  raisins  here  being  the 
only  saving  clause.

In  spite  of  the  immense  sockeye  pack 
is  growing  stronger daily 
the  feeling 
lowest  price  of  the  year  has 
that  the 
been  seen.  Consumptive  demand  for 
sockeyes  in  this  market  is  very  large 
and  indications  are  that  at  the  present 
range  sockeyes  will  be  consumed  dur­
ing  the  next  twelve  months  in  much 
larger quantities than  heretofore.

The  attempted  assassination  of  Presi­

dent  McKinley bad no appreciable effect 
upon  the  market  for  dry  goods.

in­
The  movement  of  currency  to  the 
terior  proceeded  freely  last  week. 
In 
financial  circles  it is generally admitted, 
in  spite  of  speculative  arguments,  that 
the  relief  requisite  to  avoid  stringency 
in  the  money  market  this  fall  must  be 
looked  for  to  foreign  markets  by  gold 
exports.  The  course  of  foreign  ex­
changes  has  given  promise  all  week  of 
an  early  movement  of  gold  to  New 
York.  But  the  problem  how  far  such  a 
movement  will  be  allowed  to  extend  is 
still  uncertain,  notwithstanding 
large 
stocks  of  gold  in  European banks.  The 
government  of  Austria-Hungary  has 
been  a  persistent  buyer of  gold,and  this 
demand  seems  to  have  come  as  a  sur­
prise  to  the  money  markets.

F eatures  of the Local F ru it and Vegetable 

M arket.

Weather  conditions  have  been  impor­
tant  factors  in  the  market  situation  dur­
ing  the  past  few  days.  The closing  days 
of  last  week  brought  out  a  good  show­
ing  of  fruit,  but  the  size  of  the  market 
wgs 
less  than  on  some  preceding  days. 
Monday  was  rather active,  as  compared 
with  the  day  usually,  but  trade  is  al­
ways  small  on  that  day.  Since  then  the 
rain  has  controlled  the  situation.  Tues­
day  being  very  small  for that  usually 
large  day.

Peaches  are  still  the 

interesting  fea­
ture,  although  the  quantities  offered  are 
not  relatively  as  great  as  in  some  years. 
The  few  days  of  warm  dry  weather 
helped  the  ripening  and  tended  to  less 
en  the  tendency  to  quickly  going  to 
pieces.  The  quality  of  the  fruit  is  very 
fine—often  equaling  in  appearance  the 
famed  product  of  California.  Let  there 
be  a  few  days of  warmer  dry  weather 
and  the  offerings  will  eclipse  any  ever 
seen 
in  this  market.  Prices  have  kept 
up  to figures  to  make  the  growers  re 
joice,  although  the  unduly  ripe 
fruit 
went  begging  some  days  last  week.

Pears  and  plums  are 

increasing  in 
quantities  and  are  meeting  with  ready 
sale.  There  is  still  complaint  that  the 
former  fruit  is  falling  badly  and  in 
many  instances  is  showing  an  unusual 
spottiness.  Apples  are in fair abundance 
and  prices  are  maintained  on  a  basis 
which  gives  the  growers  no  grounds  for 
complaint.  Grapes  are  holding  up  well 
in  price  and  demand,  notwithstanding 
the  rapidly  increasing quantities.  There 
is  an  undue  tendency  to  acidity  in some 
varieties,  owing  to 
lack  of  beat  and 
sunshine.

Melons,  being an  easily  picked  prod 
uct,  have  bad  unusual  attention  and  the 
small  business  on  rainy  days  in  other 
fruits  has  kept  them  in  good  demand. 
It  is  doubtful  that there  have  ever  been 
relatively  so  great  quantities  of  the 
home  grown  offered  and  sold  as  during 
the  past  few  days.  Tomatoes  are 
in 
their  usual  unlimited  abundance  at  this 
time  of the  year,  but  for  the  same  rea­
sons  as  the  melons  the  demand  is  fairly 
good.

Potatoes  are  plentiful,  but  prices  keep 
up  well  and  there  is  always  much  ques­
tioning  as  to  the  quality,  which  can  not 
be  determined  by  appearance  this  year. 
Other  vegetables  are  in  good  demand, 
considering 
In  the 
abundance  there  are  many  who try  to 
buy  at  retail,  but  they  are  not  generally 
successful.  One  said,  " I   tried  to  buy 
a  cauliflower,  but  several  sellers  threat­

the  quantities. 

ened  to  kick  me. ”   The  consumers  are 
finding  that  the  place  to  buy  vegetables 
is  of  the  regular  dealer.
A w aiting the  Governm ent  R eport on  the 

,  A pple  Crop.

New  York,  Sept.  6.— Upon  the  Sep­
tember  Government  report,  showing  the 
condition  of  the  apple  crop,  depends  a 
considerable  proportion  of  business  in 
three 
fresh  apples,  evaporated 
apples  and  canned  apples.

lines, 

Prices  on  all  three  are  very  high  now 
nd  unless  there  is  some  improvement 
in  the  crop  situation  in  the  September 
report  prices  will  continue  to  advance. 
So  far  as  fresh  apples  are  concerned, 
quotations  are  now  almost  up  to  the 
prohibitive  point.  When wholesalers  get 
as  high  as $4  a  barrel,  and  peaches  are 
as  plenty  as  they  are  this  year,  the  out­
look  for an  active  trade  in  apples  is  not 
encouraging.  High prices for evaporated 
apples  may  have  exactly  the  opposite 
effect  and  cause  dryers  who  would  not 
otherwise  have  been  interested  to  start 
their  evaporators  and  work  up  their 
good  stock  because  it  will  pay  better.

Canners  are  not  so  sure  of  getting 
fruit that  is  satisfactory  when  buyers  of 
fresh  stock  and  evaporated  goods  are 
paying  present  prices.  But  with  gallon 
apples  quoted  at  $3  or  better,  there  is 
considerable  incentive  to  make  an  effort 
to secure  the  fruit.

The  National  Apple  Shippers’  Asso­
ciation, at  its  annual  convention,  put  the 
yield  at  46  per  cent,  of  a  normal  crop. 
Well 
informed  men  since  then  have  cut 
that  estimate  and  say  that  it  will  not  go 
over 20  per cent,  of  a  normal  crop.  As­
suming  that  last  season’s yield  was  near 
a  normal  crop  of  say  60,000,000  barrels, 
that  would  cut  the  present  yield down  to
10,000,000  to  12,500,000  barrels. 
If 
either of  these  estimates  are  correct  or 
anywhere  near  correct,  apples  will  be 
profitable  property  this  season.
Maine  advices  report  a  short  crop. 
New  Hampshire,  Vermont,  Massachus­
etts  and  Connecticut  are  about  the  same 
as 
last  year,  possibly  a  trifle  under. 
New  York  is  very  short.  A ride  of  over 
800  miles  through  the  State  failed  to 
disclose  any  important  supplies.  New 
Jersey 
is  short.  Pennsylvania  is  short. 
Ohio  is  uncertain,but  is  probably  short. 
Illinois  is  uncertain. 
Indiana  is  short. 
Iowa 
is  reported  below  the  average. 
Nebraska  is  less  than  last  season.  Kan­
sas  will  be  below  last  year.  Missouri 
reports  shortage  in  some  localities  and 
a  larger  supply  in  others.  Arkansas 
is 
about  the  same  as  last  year.

Averging  these  reports  it  will  be  seen 
that  more  States  are  short  than  are  pro­
ducing  larger  or  as  strong  crops  as 
last 
year.
Michigan  is  uncertain.  Wisconsin  is 
about  the  same.  Montana 
is  more 
liberally  supplied,  and  the  mountain 
States  generally  seem  to  have  a  better 
crop  than 
last  year.  But  no  one  will 
attempt  to  estimate  what  the  yield  is 
likely  to  be.  The  best  that  can  be  done 
is to  say  that  it  will  run  much  below the 
average  and  far  below  some of the yields 
during  the  past  few  years.

Meanwhile  protests  are  coming  from 
certain  sections  of  the  West  against  the 
general  reports  of 
light  crops.  The 
percentage  of  46  is  decried as  too  small, 
and  what  the  20  per  cent,  average  will 
bring  out  can  only  be  imagined. 
It  is 
pointed  out  that  apples  are  uncertain 
and  that  some  years  with  a  promised 
shortage  have  resulted 
liberal 
yield.  Growers  are  cautioned  by experi­
enced  men  to  beware  of  the  possibility 
of  holding  their crop  too  long  and  final­
ly  losing  it  entirely  or being  compelled 
to  sell  at  lower  prices  than  are  now 
offered.
In  any  case  the  Government report  for 
September  will  be  awaited  with unusual 
interest,  for  by  the  time  it  is  issued  the 
crop  will  practically  have  matured  and 
a  fair estimate  will  be  possible.

in  a 

8

New  R ival of Oleo.

From the London Express.!)

Anxious  housewives  will  be  glad  to 
know  that  “ vegetaline,”   made  by  a 
Marseilles  firm  by  refining  oil  extracted 
from  the  coprah  (dried  cocoanut),  a n d 'fi 
now  placed  on  the  English  market,  is 
not,  as  it  was  feared,  an  imitation  but­
ter  or  even  a  substitute  for  butter  in 
its 
domestic  uses.  According  to the  mak­
er’s  agents,  “ vegetaline”   is  almost  en­
tirely  a  manufacturer's  article,  although 
it  can  be  used  in  the  kitchen  for  mak­
ing  pastry,  and  will  be  supplied  in  re­
tail  if  there  is  any  demand  for  it.  But 
the  value  of  the  process  by  which  “ veg­
etaline”   is  made  will,  it  is  claimed,  be 
in  providing  bakers  and  biscuit  manu- 
facturers  with  a  substitute  for  butter 
which 
is  not  only  pure  and  cheap,  but 
which,  for  biscuits  in  particular,  is  bet- 
ter  than  butter.

1 

m

So-called  cures  for  consumption  may 
be  said  to  number  into  the  thousands 
but  so  far  the 
insidious  disease  has 
baffled  all  the  efforts  of  the  physician 
and  the  quack  with  his  nostrums.  The 
latest  cure  comes  by  way  of  Boston  and 
is  in  the  “ open-air”   category with some 
features  altogether new,  the  results,  it  is 
said,  of  extensive  experiments  carried 
on  during  the  winter  of  last  year.  As 
outdoor  life  is  the  foundation  of  the new 
cure,  the  experimenter  proposes  to  pitch 
a  camp,  consisting  of  ten  piano-box 
tents,arranged  in  a  circle  with  an  open- 
air  fire 
in  the  center,  and  surrounded 
by  a  duck  wall  eight  feet  high.  Each 
of  these  tents  will  be  a  consumptive’s 
home;  a  consumptive  will  sleep  there, 
even  through  the  coldest  weather,  with 
no  other  protection  than  plenty  of  felt 
blankets,  felt  sleeping-boots,  and  a  two- 
gallon  jug  of  hot  water.  The  tents  will 
be 
The 
flaps  will  open  towards  the  fire,  the  ten 
tents  making  a 
little  circle  about  a 
clean  gravel  court.  The  people  who  live 
there  will  wear  one  heavy  suit  night 
and  day.  They  will  each  of  them  take 
one  quick  soapless  bath  a  week and  will 
eat  three  good  hearty  meals  a  day,  with 
coffee  in  the  morning  and  hot  chocolate 
any  time  of  the  day  or night.  Their 
bill  of  fare  will 
include  milk,  eggs, 
vegetables,  bread  and  butter,  and  meat 
—chiefly  beef,  mutton,  or  pork  broiled 
on  spits  before  the  fire,or  roasted  in  the 
embers,  or  boiled  down  into  soup. 
If 
a  patient  can  not  afford  the  expense  he 
will  be  taken  free.

lined  with  weather-paper. 

So  popular  is  black  walnut  fumitu-' 
abroad  that  English  and  French  ag^re- 
here  are  buying  even  old  barn  timoet* 
and  fence  rails.  Fifty  or  seventy-five 
years  ago,  when  the  farmers’  chief  de- * 
sire  was  to  clear  the  dense  forests  to 
make  way  for  crops,  they 
laid  barn 
floors,  and  made  barn  mangers  of  wal­
nut,  and  many  of  these  are  even  now  in 
good  condition,  and  find  ready  sale.  i 
This  was  the  case  in  Ohio,  especially, 
where,  by  the  way,  one  of  the  few  wal-h 
nut  groves  left  was  recently  sold  for  ex-j] 
port as  lumber.  The  largest  tree  in  tberl 
grove—eight  feet  in  diameter  at  thcL 
stump— brought  $1,200.

The  “ Ann  Arbor”  Gasoline  Lamps 

Exclusive Territory
Pressure  System  for  store 
lighting. 
Send  us  the  dimensions  and  height  of 
your  store  and  let  us  figure  on  your 
lighting.  Correspondence solicited.

The  Superior Manufacturing  Co.,

Ann Arbor, Mich. 

g. '

You ought to sell

LILY WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use” 

V A L L E Y   C ITY   MILLING  C O ..

GRAND  R A P ID 8.  MICH.

L. O. SNEDECOR  E g g   R eceiver

E S T A B L IS H E D   1 8 6 5

36  Harrison  Street,  New  York

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M ovem ents of M erchants.

Mason— Pratt  &  Hayden  have  pur 
chased  the  drug  stock  of  H.  H.  Bradley 
&  Co.

Manchester—The  People’s  Bank  has 
been  established  with  a  capital  stock  of 
$25,000.

Detroit— Wm.  C.  Patrick  has  pur 
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Robert  B. 
McGaSey.

Belmont— B.  C.  Jones  has  purchased 
the  general  merchandise  stock  of  G.  N 
Reynolds.

Lansing—Sband  &  .Reynolds  have 
purchased  the  grocery  stock  of  Chester 
B.  Leonard.

Reading— R.  B.  Brower  is  succeeded 
^   by  Divine  &  Gibbons  in  the  flour and 

feed  business..

Mottville— Mrs.  Sarah  B.  Madden  has 
sold  her  general  merchandise  stock  to 
Daniel  Hartman.

Jerome—A.  Bibbins  has  changed  the 
style  of  his  hardware  business  to  the 
Bibbins  Hardware  Co.

Alamo—Albert  Aldrich  has  sold  his 
grocery  and  notion  stock  to  Wm.  Eng 
lisb,  of  Thompsonville.

Cold water—C.  Basi  has  purchased  the 
interest  of  his  partner  in  the  fruit  busi­
ness  of  Basi  &  Bonfield.

Detroit— Bosley  &  Thorpe,  dealers 
in  furniture,have  dissolved  partnership, 
Albert  W.  Bosley  succeeding.

Cadillac— G.  W.  Atwood,  manufac­
turer and  dealer  in  lumber and shingles, 
has  removed  to  Tonawanda,  N.  Y.

Big  Rapids—A.  E.  Wells  &  Co.  have 
sold  their  stock  of  clothing  and  men's 
furnishing  goods  to  Robert  Biakeley.

Detroit— Roehm  &  Davison,  Limited, 
succeed  Roehm  &  Davison  in  the  iron 
and  steel  and  wholesale  cordage  busi­
ness.

Marlette—This  place  boasts  of  a  new 
institution 
at 
It  is  styled  the  Marlette  State 

capitalized 

banking 
$25,000. 
Bank.

Saginaw—Wm.  P.  Tredo  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
■ nen’s  furnishing  goods  firm  of  Peck  &

edo.
Lum—Milliken  &  Sons  is  the  style  of 
the  new  firm  organized  to  succeed  W. 
&  R.  Milliken  in  the  grocery  and 
lum­
ber  business.
Charlotte— Millard  Densmore  and

Wm.  E.  Thompson,  of  Albion,  have 
leased  a  store  building  and jwill  put  in 

1 

1 
|  a  bazaar stock.

Charlotte— Frank  Curtis,  who  sold  his 
I  grocery  stock  to  C.  &  M.  Rowley  about 
£  six  weeks  ago,  has  repurchased  the 
m
m

business  and  increased  the  stock.

Nashville— E.  W.  Roe  has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  father  in  the  Old  Re­
liable  meat  market  of  H.  Roe  &  Son 
and  will  continue  the  business  in  his 
own  name.
■  Detroit— The  Newton  Beef  Co.  has 
^^filed  articles  of association  for the  par- 
^ ”*pose  of dealing  in  meats  of  all  kinds  at 
wholesale  and  retail.  The  capital  stock 
is  $15,000. 
incorporators  are 
Thomas  E.  Newton,  Edwin  Dany  and 
William  J.  Streit.

The 

Saranac—Arden  Otis  and  Levi  C. 
Vaughan  have  purchased  the  Henry 
Frace  grocery  stock  and  have  taken 
possession  of  same.  They  have  leased 
the  corner  store  building  owned  by  P. 
"jjr  M.  Van  Drezer.  As  soon  as  necessary 
improvements  are  made  in  the  build- j 
ing,  the  stock  will  be  moved  therein.

t 

Kalamazoo—A..  K.  Edwards,  Secre- 
.  tary  and  Treasurer  of the  Edwards  & 
Chamberlin Hardware  Co.,  has  resigned

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

his  position  as  Secretary,  and  Wm.  D, 
Edwards, 
late  of  Detroit,  has  been 
elected  to  fill  the  vacancy.  Mr.  Ed 
wards  has  been  until  recently  Vice 
Pjpsident  of  the  Fletcher  Hardware 
Co.,  of  Detroit,  although  he  has  been  a 
stockholder  in  the  Kalamazoo  house 
since  its  organization  in  1893.

Monroe—A  stranger  giving  the  name 
of  George  Fairbanks,  worked  a  smooth 
game  on  a 
local  grocer  this  evening. 
He  ordered  a  bill  of  goods  sent  to  a cer 
tain  street  and  number  to  be  paid  for 
on  delivery;  also  six dozen  eggs,  taking 
the 
latter  with  him.  He  immediately 
sold  the  eggs  at  a  near-by  restaurant 
and  was  blowing  the  proceeds  of  the 
sale  in  a  saloon  when  the officers nabbed 
him.  He  was  taken  to  the  city  court 
and  sentenced  to  thirty  days’  hard  labor 
in  the  city  prison.

M anufacturing;  M atters.

Co.  has  removed 

West  Haven— The  Callard  Furniture 
its  plant  to  Bancroft.
Pontiac— The  Crescent  Carriage  Co. 
in  business  with  a 

has  lately  engaged 
capital  stock  of $25,000.

Onaway— The  Lobdell  &  Bailey  Man­
the  Huron 

ufacturing  Co.  succeeds 
Handle  &  Manufacturing  Co.

Detroit—The  American  Vapor Stove 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorporation. 
The  capital  stock  is $100,000.

Olivet—A  new  creamery  has  been  es­
tablished  in  Walton  township  under  the 
style  of  the  Olivet  Creamery  Co. 
The 
capital  stock  is  $4,800.

Union  City—A  new  enterprise  has 
been  established  at  this  place  under  the 
style  of  the  Union  City  Creamery  Co. 
The  capital  stock  is $10,000.

Detroit— The  capital  stock  of 

the 
Miami  Stone  Co.  has  been  increased 
from  $25,000 to $80,000.  An  office  for 
Ohio  will  be  established  at  Toledo.

Owosso—A  knit  goods  manufacturing 
company  has  been  organized  at  this 
place  with  a  capital  stock  of $9,000. 
The  style  is  the  Burnett  Knitting  Co.

Detroit—The  articles  of  incorporation 
of  the  Kingman  Salt  Mining  Co.  have 
been  amended  to  declare  that  the  com­
pany 
is  organized  to  mine  and  prepare 
salt  for  market  and  to  buy  and  sell  real 
estate  for  carrying  out  the  purposes  of 
the  corporation.

West  Bay  City—The  Common  Coun­
cil  has  closed  a  deal  by  which  a  Mt. 
Clemens  casket  company  will  move  to 
this city  and  occupy  the  otd water works 
building  as  a 
factory.  The  company 
gets  it at  a  nominal  rental  for five  years 
with  an  option  on  it  for ten  years  more 
and  the  privilege  of  buying  it.

South  Haven— N.  G. 

Reynolds, 
wagon  manufacturer  and  blacksmith, 
has  sold  out  to John  Quackenbush  and 
David  Scott, who  will  continue  the  busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  Quackenbush  & 
Scott.  Mr.  Reynolds  will  remove  to 
Bemidje,  Minn.,  for the  benefit  of  his 
health  and  will  re-engage  in  the  same 
line  of trade.

Saline—The  Saline  Acetylene  Light­
ing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  the  fol­
lowing  officers  and directors:  President, 
C.  Burkhardt;  Vice-President,  Edmund 
DePup; 
Secretary,  A.  J.  Warren; 
Treasurer,  C.  F.  Unterkircher;  Mana­
ger,  P.  W.  Shute;  Attorney,  L.  N. 
Brown;  Directors,  C.  Burkhardt,  D. 
Nissly,  P.  W.  Shute,  A,  J.  Warren, 
John  Lutz,  G.  J.  Nissly  and  S.  T.  Fair- 
bank.

Kalamazoo— The Kalamazoo Stove Co. 
has  been  organized  with  a  capital  stock 
of  $65,000  for the  manufacture  of  cook­
ing  stoves  and  steel  ranges  from  patents 
and  patterns owned  by  the  company.  A

site  for the  new  plant  has  been  secured 
and  plans  for a  building  122x350  in  di­
mensions,  have  been  submitted.  Fifty 
hands  will  at  first  be  employed,  most  of 
whom  will  be  expert  workmen.  The 
officers  of  the  company  are  as  follows: 
President,  Edward  Woodbury;  Vice- 
President  and  General  Manager,  Wm. 
Thompson;  Secretary,  A.  H.  Dane; 
Treasurer,  C.  A.  Dewing.

Lapeer—The  failure  of  the  John  Mc­
Cormick  Harness  Co.,  of  Port  Huron, 
had 
its  sequel  here  Sept.  10,  when  a 
carload  of  harness,  collars,  whips,  etc., 
stored 
in  the  shop  and  barn  of  Robert 
Beamer  was  seized  by  Sheriff  Myers 
and  deputies  at  the  instigation  of  the 
Cappon  &  Bertsch  Leather  Co.,  of  Hol­
land,  creditors  of  the  above  harness 
company.  The  goods  were  shipped  in 
here  just  prior to the collapse of Beamer, 
who  is  not  a  harnessmaker,  but  is  the 
father-in-law  of  one  of  the  McCormicks 
at  Port  Huron.  Somebody  gave  a  tip  to 
the  Cappon  &  Bertsch Co.,  who attached 
the  property.  Beamer  claims  to  have 
purchased  the  goods 
faith. 
Officers  are  searching  at  other  points 
where 
it  is  alleged  consignments  have 
been  disposed  of.

in  good 

Cranberry  Growers  Declare  W ar on  Low 

Prices.

The  cranberry  growers  of  Barnstable 
and  Plymouth  counties  who  assembled 
at  Buzzard's  Bay,  last  week,  and  held 
their  annual  meeting  openly  declared 
war  against  low  prices  for  berries  on  or 
before  Sept.  20 and  pledged  themselves 
not  to  sell  a  barrel  under any  consider­
ation  before  that  date  for  less  than  $6. 
This  action  on  their  part  is  considered 
the  most 
important  step  that  has  ever 
been  taken  by  the  Association  in  regard 
to  the  regulation  of  the  price  of  their 
product  and  they  believe  that  it  will  be 
productive  of  good  results.  The  attend­
ance  of  members  at  the  meeting was  the 
largest  that  has  been  known  for  some 
years,  and  the  interest  manifested  was 
keen.

The  problem  of  how  to  regulate  the 
selling  price  has  been  one  of  the  most 
difficult  that  has  ever  confronted  the 
cranberry  growers  of  the  Cape,  and  the 
fact  that  the  matter  would  be  given 
consideration  accounted 
large 
gathering.

for  the 

In  years  past  the  sending  of  unripe 
cranberries  to  market  always  had  the 
effect  of  fixing  the  selling  price  at  a 
very 
low  figure  until  the  growers  were 
unable  to  realize  a  profit  on  early  lots, 
regardless  of  their quality.  Some  of  the 
growers  have  also  rushed  the 
small 
quantities  that  they  harvested  into the 
market,  long  before  there  was  any  de­
mand  for  them,  with  the  result  that  the 
prices  were  lower than  the  cost  of  pro­
duction.

Strange  although 

it  may  seem  the 
foisting  of  unripe  fruit  on  markets  be­
fore  there  was  a  demand  for  it  contin­
ued  for  years  and  would 
likely  have 
gone on had  not  the  producers  taken  ac-

tion 
looking  toward  the  discontinuance 
of  the  practice.  Some  say  indeed  that 
the  commission  men  are  to  blame  for 
the  low  figures  that  prevail  in  the  early 
season  and  that  the  latter  invite  ship­
ments  and  often  quote  prices  that  the 
growers  never  receive.

Early  berries  are  ready  for  picking 
about  September  10,  and under favorable 
conditions  will  keep  and  be  but  little 
affected  by  climatic  changes  for  a  num­
ber of  weeks.  To  hold  them  for  market, 
however,  requires  considerable  trouble 
and  expense  and  in  years  past  as  soon 
as  they  were  picked  they  were  sent  for­
ward.  This  practice  was  fast  becoming 
widespread  among  those  who  bad  only 
small  quantities  to  dispose  of,  much  to 
the  injury  of  every  grower  in Barnstable 
and  Plymouth  counties.

The  man  who  harvested  only  ten  bar­
rels  was  anxious  to  dispose  of  them  as 
soon  as  he  could.  He  believed  that  the 
first  in  the  market  would  bring  good  re­
turns,  despite  the  fact  that  his  or  his 
neighbor's  experience  of  perhaps  the 
year  previous  proved  otherwise.

If  there  were  only  a  few  small  grow­
ers  engaged  in  cultivating  this  crop  the 
matter  of  sending  the  product  to  the 
market  and  the  regulation  of  the  selling 
price  would  be  an  easy  matter, but  there 
are  hundreds  scattered  ail  over  the Cape 
and  Plymouth,  and  a  few  barrels  from 
all  in  the  early  fall  are  sufficient  to  glut 
the  local  markets  and  send  the  rate 
down  below  where  there  is  any  profit  in 
the  business  for  anyone.

The  growers  were  most  enthusiastic 
over  the  action  taken  and  many  of  them 
who  are  not  members  have  signified 
their  intention  of  complying  with  the 
requirements  and  do  all  in  their  power 
to  see  that  the  movement  is  crowned 
with  success.

The  idea  of  holding  the  berries  back 
until  Sept.  20  will,  it  is  believed,  also 
result  in  their  being  a  scarcity  in  and 
around  Boston  and  New  York.  The  last 
named  city,  which  for  years  was  the 
chief  distributing  point  in  the  country 
for  Cape  Cod  cranberries,  is  fast  losing 
ground,  Kansas  City  and  Chicago  offer­
ing  better  prices  and  making  more  sat­
isfactory  returns.  Kansas  City  made 
great  strides  in  handling  the  shipments 
in  1900,  and  it  is  said  that  it  will  be  on 
the  ground  this  year eager  to  purchase 
the  entire  crop  if  possible.

The  refusal  to  send  the  fruit  to  mar­
ket  for 
less  than  $6  before  Sept.  20 
means  also  that  the  commission  men 
will  have  to  guarantee  that  figure  before 
receiving  any  consignments.  The  grow­
ers  have  for  years  been  trying  to  take 
the  handling  of  their  crops  out  of  the 
hands  of  these  middle  men,  and  little 
success  attended  their  efforts  until  with­
in  a  few  years, when buyers  have  visited 
the  Cape  and  made  purchases  for  spot 
cash.  This  season 
it  is  thought  that  a 
large  percentage  of  the  whole  crop  will 
be_  disposed  of  by  shipping  direct  to 
points  West,  and  that  few  lots  will  find 
their  way  to  the  market  to  be  sold  on 
commission.— New  England  Grocer.

Barnes’  Tank  Pumps

Suction  Hose

Grand  Rapids  Supply  Company 

Thresher  Belts

20  Pearl  Street 

Carloads of Peaches Wanted  Every Dav

Grand Rapids, Mich.

References:  First National Bank, Toledo, Ohio 

M.  O.  B A K E R   &  C O .,  T O LE D O ,  OHIO

J. J. Coon, Toledo, Ohio 
Commercial Agencies

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Fancy  stock  easily  fetches 
$3@3-5°  Per  bbl.  and  cooking  stock 
commands  $2.25@2.75. 
Sweet  apples 
are 
in  strong  demand  at $i@i.25  per 
bu.
1.75  per  bunch,  according 
to 
Jumbos,  $2;  extra  jumbos,  $2.25.

Bananas—Prices  range  from  $1.25© 
size. 

dozen.

Beets—$1.25  per  bbl.
Butter— Extra  creamery 

is  slow  sale 
at  20c,  and  dairy  grades  range  from  12c 
for  packing  stock  to  15c  for  fancy  tubs 
and  crocks.

Cabbage—$2  per  crate  of  three  to  four 
Carrots—$1.25  per  bbl.
Cauliflower  ${@1.25  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.
Corn— Evergreen,  8@ioc  per  doz.
Crabapples—Siberian  are  scarce  and 
high,  commanding  75c  per  bu.  and 
$2.25  per  bbl.
Cucumbers— ioc  per  doz.  for hot  house 
stock ;  45c  per  bu.  for  garden stock ;  12c 
per  100  for  pickling.

Eggs—The  market  is  dull  and  fea­
tureless,  due  to  the  return  of  warm 
weather  last  week.  The  cooler  weather 
this  week  ought  to  brace  the  market  up. 
Candled  stock  commands  14® 15c, which 
enables  dealers  to  net their shippers  I2@ 
13c.

Egg  Plant—$1  per  doz.
Frogs’  Legs—Large  bulls, 

40c; 
medium  bulls,  20c;.large  frogs,  15c; 
small  frogs,  5@ioc.
Grapes—Wordens  fetch  I3@I4C  for  8 
lb.  and  9c  for  4  lb.  baskets.  Delawares 
command  15c  and  Niagaras  10c  for 4  lb. 
baskets.

Green  Onions— ioc  for  Silverskins.
Honey—White  stock 

is  in  light  sup­
ply  at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at  13c 
and  dark  is  in  moderate  demand  at  11 
@ I 2 C .
Lettuce—Garden,  50c  per  bu.  ;  head, 

60c  per  bu.

and  Cantaloupes  fetch  75c  per  doz.

i.laple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy.
Musk  Melons— Osage,  Rocky  Ford 
Onions—6o@65c  per  bu.
Parsley—20c  per  doz.
Peppers—Green,  75c  per  doz.
Plums—Green  Gages,  gi@ i.25;  Lom­
bards,  8o@90c ;  Pond  Seedlings,  $1.30 
@1.40.
Peaches— Elbertas,  $1.35;  Barbers 
and  Late  Crawfords,  $i@i.25;  Barnes 
and  'Old  Mixons,  75@goc;  Chilis,  75 
©85c.
sugar,  75c;  Bartletts,  $i@i.25.

Pears—— Flemish  Beauties,  $1.25; 

Potatoes—$1  per  bu.  and  strong  at 

that.
Poultry— The  market  is  without  par­
ticular  change.  Live  hens  command 6 % 
@7 %c'.  spring  chickens,  8@ioc;  tur­
key  hens,  8@9c ;  gobblers,  8c;  spring 
ducks,  7@9C.  Pigeons  are  in  moderate 
demand  at  50@6oc  per  doz.,  and  squabs 
are  taken  readily  at  $i.20@i.50.

Radishes— 12c  for  China  Rose;  ioc 

for Chartiers.

String  Beans—75c  per  bu.
Summer  Squash— 50c  per  bu.  box.
Sweet  Potatoes—$3.75  per  bbl. 

Virginias;  $4  for  genuine  Jerseys.

Tomatoes— 5o@6oc  per  bu.
Watermelons---- I4@ i5c 

for 

000  bushels  and  the  clearances  on  Mon­
day  of  wheat  alone  were  in  excess  of
1,000,000  bushels.  So  it  will  be  seen 
that  our  exports  are  keeping  up  way 
ahead  of  everything  that  this  country 
has  ever seen,while  the  Argentine  ship­
ments  have  been  only  29,000,000  bush­
els  since  January  last,  against 63,898,000 
bushels  last  season.

is 

The  Southwest  receipts— and,  in  fact, 
winter  wheat  receipts— have  fallen  off, 
to the  surprise  of  dealers;  Northwest re­
ceipts  are  more;  but  this,  of  course, 
was  expected,  as  threshing 
in  full 
force.  The  wheat  is  hauled  to  the  mar­
ket  by  parties  who  have  no  granaries 
and  some  who  sell  to  raise  money to pay 
debts,  but  the  amount  of  receipts 
is 
not  pressing,as  is  shown  by  the  visible, 
there  only  being  a  gain  of  650,000  bush­
els,  which 
is  rather  small  for  the  time, 
while  last  year the  increase  was  1,700,- 
000  bushels.  We  still  hold  that  our  large 
crop  will  be. wanted  and at better prices. 
We  might  also  add  that  the  attempt  to 
assassinate  our  President  had  a  de­
pressing  effect  on  prices  of  all  cereals, 
but,  thanks  to  Providence,  the  attempt 
was  not  successful.

Corn,  notwithstanding  better  condi­
tions  in  the  growing  crop,  was  about  ic 
higher  than  last  week.  All  were  looking 
to  the  Government  crop  report,  which 
came  in  as  follows:  Wheat,  82  2-10  or 
2  4-10  per  cent,  lower  than  on  Aug.  10; 
corn,  51  7-10,  which  is  2  3-10  per  cent, 
lower,  and  oats,  72  1-10,  which  is  3  1-10 
per  cent,  lower  than  last  month.  This 
would  justify  a  bullish  feeling  on  corn 
and  oats.
There 

is  considerable  corn  coming 
into  the  market,  because  prices  are  so 
tempting,  being nearly  double  what  they 
usually  are.

Rye 

Oats  are  very  firm  and  steady  prices 
will  remain,  and  possibly  higher ones 
will  be  obtained.

is  rather  weak,  as  much  rye  has 
been  pressing  on  the  market,  which  had 
the  effect  of  weakening  prices,  and  it 
looks  as  though  we  would 
certainly 
have 
lower  prices,  as  our  crop  is  very 
large  and  many  have  gone  to  raising 
rye  instead  of  wheat.

Beans  have  suffered  another drop  of 
5c  per  bushel,  as  the  outlook  for  the 
growing  crop  has  somewhat  improved, 
while  the  consumption  with  these  high 
prices  has been  curtailed.

Flour  remains  very  firm  and  the  trade 
generally  have  come  to  the  conclusion 
that  prices  are  at  the  bottom  and  so  are 
stocking  up  for their  fall  trade.

Mill  feed  is  also  still  in  excellent  de­

mand,  with  no  stock  on  band.

Receipts  during  the  week  were  as  fol­
lows :  wheat,  41  cars;  corn,  1  car;  oats, 
7  cars;  rye,  1  car;  flour,  1  car;  hay,  1 
car;  straw,  1  car;  potatoes,  1  car.

for  home

The  millers  are  paying  70c  for  No.  2 

red  wheat. 

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

grown.

Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu.

The  G rain  M arket.

Wheat  has  about  held  its  own,  while 
the  undertone  is  strong.  The  elevator 
men  have  done  everything  to  depress 
prices,  in  order  to  fill  their  elevators 
full  of  low  priced  wheat;  but  up  to  the 
present  time  they  have  not  been  very 
successful,  as 
the 
is  about
23.290.000  bushels 
less  than  last  year, 
there  being  only  28,440,000  bushels  in 
sight,  where  we  had  51,730.000  in  sight 
last  year.  Again,  our  exports  of  wheat 
and  flour have  been,  since  July  1,  or  in 
ten  weeks,  61,692,000  bushels,  against
29.260.000  bushels  during  the  corres­
ponding  time  last  year.

visible 

The  weekly  exports  were  also  4.400,-

J.  M.  Stowitts  has  engaged  in  the 
clothing  and  men’s  furnishing  goods 
business  at  699  Madison  avenue.  The 
store  will  be  managed  by  Geo.  W. 
Stowitts,  who  has  retired  from  the  road 
in  order to  devote  his  entire attention  to 
the  business.

G.  A.  Lake  and H.  B.  Sturtevant have 
formed  a  copartnership  under the  style 
of  G.  A.  Lake  &  Co.  and  engaged  in 
the  grocery  business  at  Sherman.  The 
Musselman  Grocer  Co. 
furnished  the 
stock, 

_

W.  Halsted  &  Co.  have  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Lyons.  The  stock  was  fur­
nished  by  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.

The Grocery  M arket.

Sugar— Notwithstanding  the  greatly 
improved  demand  for  refined  sugar,  the 
raw  sugar  market 
is  still  in  an  unset­
tled  and  demoralized  state.  The  demor­
alization 
is  very  pronounced,  because 
usually  a  good  demand  for  refined  acts 
as  a  stimulus  to  the  raw  market.  Prices 
i - i 6 c ,  making  96  deg. 
have  declined 
test  centrifugals  now  3^c,  which 
is 
considered  a 
low  price.  The  world’s 
visible  supply  of  raw  sugar  at  present 
is  estimated  at  1,300,000 tons,  against
890,000  tons  last  year.  Despite  the  de­
cline 
in  prices  of  raws,  list  prices  of 
refined  rule  firm  and  unchanged.  There 
is  a  very  heavy  demand  for  refined from 
all  quarters,  but  refiners  are  badly  over­
sold  and  sugars  can  not  be  obtained fast 
enough  to  supply  the  demand. 
It  is 
hoped  that  within  a  day  or  two  things 
will  be  in  better  shape.

interest  manifested 

Canned  Goods— The  canned  goods 
market  is 
in  good  shape  and  the  con­
sumptive  demand  is  very  good.  There 
is  not  the  buying  of  large quantities that 
there  was  a  few  weeks  ago,  but  orders 
are  of  sufficient  size  to  keep  the  matket 
in  good  condition.  There  is,  of  course, 
more 
in  tomatoes 
and  peaches  than  in  anything  else in the 
canned  goods  line  just  now,  but  at  the 
same  time  none  of  the  other  lines  are 
neglected.  Stocks of  all  kinds  of  canned 
goods  are  light  and  for those  lines  that 
can  not  be  packed  between  now  and  the 
season  of  1902  there  will  be  a great scar­
city.  The  situation 
in  tomatoes  is  a 
very  hard  proposition,  but  it  can  surely 
be  said  that  the  pack  will  be  a  short 
one.  The  percentage  will  be  hard  to  de­
termine  until  after  the  first  frost.  But 
few  goods  are  offered  now  and  they  are 
somewhat  irregular  and  unsettled  and 
the  market  lacks  the  strength  it  showed 
a  week or  so  ago.  Corn  is  rather quiet, 
but  unchanged.  Actual  supplies  on 
spot  are 
light.  All  reports  from  the 
corn  growing  districts  agree  that  there 
will  be  a  good  crop.  The  pack  so  far 
has  been  fully  up  to  expectations  and 
there 
is  no  reason  to  anticipate  any 
shortage  in  the  output  this  season.  Peas 
are  very  active  and  firmer  and  a  good 
business  is  being  done. 
The  demand 
during  the  past  week  has  made  a  hole 
in  the  stocks  and,  in  order to  get the 
best quality  of  all  grades  it  will  be  nec­
essary  to  take  up  the  subject  quickly. 
Packers  have  been  very  busy  during 
the 
last  week  with  peaches  and  plums. 
As  stated  earlier  in  the  season  the  qual­
ity  of  the  stock 
is  very  good  and  the 
quantity  is  about  as  expected.  Gallon 
apples  are 
in  good  demand  and  very 
firm;  The  Seacoast  Packing  Co.  has 
again  advanced  prices  on  # s  oil  and 
J4S  mustard  sardines.  The  scarcity  and 
high  -price  of  tin  plate  are  said  to  be 
the  cause  of  the  advance.  Salmon  is 
quiet  and  slightly  easier,with  practical­
ly  nothing  doing.

Dried  Fruits— Trade 

in  dried  fruits 
is  rather  dull.  The  heavier  receipts 
and  improvement  in  the  quality  of  fresh 
fruit  now  coming  forward  and 
the 
warmer  weather  of  the  past  few  days  all 
have  contributed  to  bring  about  a  more 
unsatisfactory  condition  in  dried  fruits 
generally.  There  are  still  the  usual 
number  of  daily  orders,  but  they  are 
small,  being  only  for  stock  for  immedi­
ate  requirements.  Stocks  in  almost  all 
lines,  however,  are  light  and  prices  are 
well  maintained.  There  is  a  good  de­
mand  for  prunes  of  all  sizes.  There 
seems  to  be,  however,  a  great  scarcity 
of  the  small  sizes  and  orders  for only 
small  quantities  of  these  sizes  can  be 
filled.  The  raisin  situation  is  demand­

ing  considerable  attention  just  now,  but 
trade  in  these  goods  is  very  light.  Lat­
est  advices  claim  that  the  Raisin  Asso­
ciation  will  be  able  to control  only  a 
small  percentage  of  the  crop.  Apricots 
are  dull  and  rather easy.  Peaches  are 
firm,  with  fair  demand.  Prices  on  cur­
rants  are  unchanged.  Buying  has  been 
entirely  of  a  hand-to-mouth  character 
for  some  time  and  continues  to  be  so. 
Old  dates  are  meeting  with  a  small  de­
mand.  Stocks  are 
large  of  goods  in 
cold  storage  and  prices are shaded some­
what.  Old  figs  are  well  cleaned  up. 
New  figs  are  somewhat  firmer,  in  conse­
quence  of  the  bad  weather,  which  is 
said  to  be  favorable  to  the  increase  of 
bassara,  the  disease  that  turns  much  of 
the  fruit  black. 
It  is  now  estimated 
that  from  35  to  40  per  cent,  of the  crop 
is  diseased  and  that  for  good  quality 
goods,  suitable  for  packing,  high  prices 
have  to  be  paid.  Evaporated  apples  are 
on  the  downward  grade,  prices  for  fu­
ture  delivery  being  a  trifle  lower this 
week.  There  is  practically  no  new  stock 
in  yet,  but 
it  is  early  and  there  is  not 
usually  much  of  the  fall  stock  evapo­
rated.

Rice—The  demand  for  rice  continues 
good  and  prices  were  well  maintained 
for all grades.  Supplies  are  light  as  yet 
and  it  is  difficult  to  get  the  assortments 
wanted.  Receipts  of  new  crop  show  an 
increase  and  dealers  are  holding  aloof, 
pending  an 
increased  large  movement 
and 
lower  range  of  prices.  The  few 
lots  of  new  rice  arriving  have  been 
rather  disappointing 
in  the  matter  of 
quality. 
The  present  outturn  of  the 
rice  crop  and  recent  advices  indicate 
that  the  latter  will  be  far  lower  than 
for  several  seasons  past.

Tea—The demand for teas  shows  some 
improvement,  especially  for  green  tea, 
which 
is  also  slightly  firmer.  Stocks 
are  fair  but  not  excessive  and  holders, 
refuse  to  shade  prices.

Nuts— Nuts  show  a  little  more  activ­
ity  during  the  past  week.  Peanuts  are 
in  good  demand  at  unchanged  prices. 
Filberts  are  a  trifle  lower.  The  new 
filbert  crop  is  s  ill  reported  to  be  some­
what  in  excess  of  last  year  and  is  re­
ported  as  unusually  early.  Shipments 
will  commence  October  1,  with  a  pos­
sibility  of  some  small  lots  getting  away 
the  latter  part  of  September.  In  view  of 
the  good  outturn  of  the  crop,  it 
is  con­
sidered  piobable  that  moderate  prices' 
will  prevail.

Pickles—There 

is  quite  a  shortage jn 
the  cucumber  crop,  owing  to  the  pro­
tracted  drouth 
in  most  sections  of  the 
country.  One 
large  packer  writes  that 
his  receipts  up  to  the  present  time  are 
only  about  25  per  cent,  of  what  he  ex­
pected  to  get  and  the  same  is  true  all 
over  the  country.  This  has  resulted  in 
high  prices  for  pickles  and  on  account 
of  the  poor  prospects  of  receiving  more 
stock  this  season  and  the  fact  that  prac­
tically  no  stock  was  carried  over,  may 
mean  higher  prices  before  October %. 
The  market  at  present  is  very  firm.

Some  of the  F ru its of th e Carnival. 

From the Marshall Statesman.

Charlotte  had  a  carnival 

last  week 
and  no  one  realizes  it  more  than  Char­
lotte  people  themselves.  Aside  from 
the  fun  and  noise  and  harvests  of  the 
‘ ’ easy  money’ ’  men there is an appalling 
list  of  casualties.  One  person  is  dead, 
another  held  for  murder,  and  four of  the 
specialty  artists  are  in  the hospital nurs­
ing  broken 
limbs  and  bruised  heads, 
the  result  of  an  accident.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

“ All  right,  ma’am ,"  he  said. 
wait on  you  myself  in  a  minute."

“ I’ 

After  the  store  was  closed  and  the 
other  clerks  had  gone  home,  the  two 
brothers  called  Jimmy  up  to  the  cap 
tain's office.

“ You  heard  what  Mrs.  So-and-so  sai 
about  you,  didn’t  you,  Jimmy?"  asked 
one.

“ I  d id ,"  said  Jimmy.
“ Well,  what  have  you  got  to  say 
You’ve  got  to  give  a  better  explanation 
than  I  think  you  can,  if  you  stay  here 
We’ve  worked  too  hard  to get this  trade 
together  to  have  you  ruin  it.  What  have 
you  got  to  say?”

“ I’ve  got  to  say  that  that’s  what 
supposed  1  was  expected  to  do  when 
come  here,”   said  Jimmy,  doggedly.

The  brothers  were  surprised.
“ What  d’ye  mean  by 

that?"  one 
asked. 
“ How  could  you  suppose  any 
such  darn  fool  thing  as  that?  Did  Tom 
or  I .  ever  give  you  any  such  instruc 
tions?”

“ No,”   said  Jimmy,  "but  what  have 

you  got  to  say  to this?”

like  the  one  that  printed  this  idiotic  lie 
about American  grocers  has  such  an  in­
fluence  as  this,  who  can  bound  the  in­
fluence  of  a  good  paper?—Stroller  in 
Grocery  World.

Wilting; to Accept Five-Cent Silver  Coins. 
Correspondence N. Y. Sun.

A  Maine  druggist  has  solved  the 
problem  of  what  to  do  with  the  annoy­
ing 
little  five-cent  silver  pieces,  which 
have  been  the  bane  of  traders  for  a 
number  of  years. 
It  is  said  that  these 
coins  are  more  common  in  Maine  than 
in  any  other State,  because  not  only  are 
the  people  of  this  State  afflicted  with 
their  full  share  of  United  States  mint­
ing,  but  innumerable  specimens  made 
in  Canada,  the  Maritime  Provinces  and 
Newfoundland  find  their  way  across  the 
border  and  circulate  among  the  dis­
gusted  tradespeople  until  their  patience 
and  the  coins  are  worn  out.  Early  last 
spring  a  local  druggist  called  attention 
to  the  fact  that  he  did  not  object  to  the 
tabooed  currency  by  putting  out  the  fol­
lowing  ambiguous  sign  in  front  of  his 
store:
SILVER  NICKELS  TAK EN   HERE 

IN  THE  WAY  OF  TRADE.

6

BADLY  ADVISED.

An  Id iotic  Lie  W hich  N early  Ruined 

Clerk.

I  have  during  the  last  week  run across 
as  good  an  illustration  of  the  power  of 
the  press  as  I  ever  saw.  The  only 
trouble 
in  this  case  is  that  the  young 
fellow  who  is  the  subject  of  this  week 
article  followed  a  false  guidepost.

About  five  years  ago  a  couple  of 
young  Irishmen,  only recently  over  from 
the  old  country,  opened  up  in  the  gro 
eery  business  in  a  small  town  in  Ohio 
They  were  keen,  thrifty  fellows  and 
they  succeeded.  In  these  few  years  they 
have  built  up  a  fine  trade,  both  have 
gotten  good  wives  and  are  happy  and 
prosperous.

A  few  weeks  ago they  brought  over 

Jimmy.  He 

in  a  grocery  store 

had 
younger  brother, 
worked 
in  the  old 
country,  I  believe,  and  he  was  ambi 
tious  to  come  over  and  try  his  hand  on 
us,  too.  So,  out  of  the  fullness  of thei 
prosperity,  the  elder  brothers  said  the 
word  and  over he  came.

Jimmy  was  given  a  job  as  soon  as  he 
landed,  in  his  brothers’  store.  He  was 
a  hustler  and  untiring.  The  business 
had  grown  so  that  there  were  two  clerks 
beside  him.

The  brothers’  customers  took  an  in 
terest  in  the  boy,  knowing  he  was  an 
emigrant  and  here  to  make  his  way, 
and  a  few,  in  order to make  his  brothers 
see  that  he  had  made  some  impression 
very  kindly  used  to  ask  to  have  him 
wait  on  them

By  and  by  the  other  clerks  noticed 
that  the  women  who  came  in  the  store 
had  begun  to  fight  shy  of  Jimmy.  They 
“ wouldn’t  be  quite  ready  to  give  thei 
order’ ’  when  Jimmy  came  over  to  take 
.it,  but  would  get  ready  suspiciously 
quick  when  another clerk  turned  up

This  feeling  grew,  and  one  by  one 
the  customers  seemed  to  get  sour on 
Jimmy  and  would  refuse  to  allow  him 
to  wait  on  them. 
It  came  to  a  climax 
one  Saturday  night  when  the  usual  rush 
was  on.  All  other  clerks  were  busy 
Jimmy  was  doing  practically  nothing  in 
the  way  of  waiting  on  trade,  because 
nobody  wanted  him

A  woman  came  in  the  store  in  a  great 
hurry  to  give  her order.  There  was  no­
body  to  take  it  but  Jimmy  and  one  of 
the  older  brothers  called  on  him  to 
“ wait  on  Mrs.  So-and-so.”

“ He  ain’t  going  to  wait  on me, ’ ’ said 

:  Mrs.  So-and-so.

Jimmy  got  very-red  and  shamefaced.
“ Why  ain’t  he?”   asked  one  of  the 
“ What  objection  have  you 
f brothers. 
I’m  sure  he  tries  his 
got  to  Jimmy? 
best  to  give  you  good  attention.  What 
is  the  trouble  with  him,  ma’am?  We’d 
like  to  know  what  it  is.”

The  woman  didn't  hesitate.
“ He  gives  short  measure,"  she  said, 
“ and  he  charges  two  prices  for  every­
thing  he  gives  you.  Anybody  might 
think  he  owned  the  business  by  the  way 
he  gouges.  Why,  the  other  day  he 
charged  me  io cents  for  two  tomatoes.
1  knew  the  price  was  wrong,  because 
the  book-keeper  said  so  and  cut  it down 
to  4  cents.  He’s  the  stingiest  clerk 
when  he  measures  such things  as  pota­
toes  and  tomatoes  that  I  ever  saw.  I  al­
into  giving 
ways  have  to  prod  him 
proper  measure. 
I  don’t  ask  for  more 
than  is  coming  to  me,  but  Jimmy  gives 
less  than  anybody  else  in  the  store."

All  this  took  place  in  the  open  store, 
and  in  the  presence  of  the  bewildered, 
abashed  Jimmy.

The  brother  who  had  listened,  instead 
of getting  in  a  rage  about  it, had  a  good 
deal  of  tact,  I  thought.
■ S

He  produced  from  a  little  flat  pocket 
book  a  clipping  from  a  grocery trade 
paper  published  somewhere  in  Ireland 
It  purported  to  describe  the  attitude  of 
the  American  grocer  toward  his  cus 
tomers.  Jimmy  had  read  it  before  he 
came  over,  and  wishing  to Americanize 
himself,  had  simply  followed  out  its  ly 
ing  teachings.

One  of  these  brothers,who  told  me  all 
about  the  thing,  gave  me  this  clipping 
and  I  print  it  here. 
It  was  much  worn 
with  reading  and  creasing  and  bad  evi 
dently  been  given  much  study  by  the 
guileless Jimmy:

The  grocers  of  the  United  States do 
not  have  the  same  attitude  toward  their 
patrons  that  is  common  among  the  gro­
cers of the  old  country.  The  latter  holds 
himself  responsible 
in  a  measure  for 
his  patrons'  welfare.  He  will  steadfast­
ly  refuse  to sell  products  that  he  knows 
or  believes  are  impure  and  he  is  withal 
generous  in  his  measures.  The  grocer 
of  Ireland  is  usually  in business because 
of  its  congeniality  to  his  temperament, 
and  for  that  reason  the  lust  of  money­
making  is  not  in  control.  The  grocer 
of  the  United  States,  on  the  contrary, 
sells  the  articles  that  pay  him  the  most 
margin,  regardless  of quality,  and  gives 
by  way  of  measure  no  more  "than  the 
law  allows."

We  are 

informed  that  it  is  a  literal 
fact  that  in  the  United  States  the  clerk 
who can  give  the  smallest  measures  and 
sell  the  most  profitable  goods,  regard­
less  of  quality, is  the  one  whose  services 
re  most  appreciated  by the shopkeeper, 
and  the  one  to  advance  with  the  great­
est  rapidity.

This  is  the  baldest  rot,  of  course,  but 
it  took  poor Jimmy  in  completely.  He 
set  out  the  very  first  day  he  stood  in  his 
brothers’  store,  he  told  them,  to  give  as 
skimpy  measure  as  he  could.  He  would 
charge 
just  as  high  prices  as  he  could, 
too,  for  broken  packages  and  things  of 
that  sort.  Of  course, the  poor devil  was 
perfectly  honest  about  i t ;  every  tent  of 
the  extras  went 
into  his  brothers’ 
pockets.

When  Jimmy’s  story  was  told,  the 
brothers  took  possession  of  the  clipping 
and  opened  the  boy’s eyes a little.  They 
told  me  they  stayed  there  with  him  un­
til  i  o’clock  in  the  morning,  endeavor­
ing  to  sweep  out  the  false  ideas  from 
mmy’s  brain.  They  weren’t  sharp 
with  him—the  boy  had  done  what  he 
did  in  their  interest.

After  that,  as  fast  as  they could,  they 
explained  the  case  to  the  customers 
who  had  had  it  in  for Jimmy,  and  one 
by  one  they  took  the  boy  back  into  fa-1 
vor again.

If  a  foolish,  cross-eyed  little  sheet

M aking A rtificial Woods.

From the Philadelphia Post.

A  process  has  just  been  patented  for 
making  artificial  woods  out  of  pulp  so 
as  to  imitate  such  costly  kinds  as  ma­
hogany  and  rosewood. 
Indeed,  the  in­
ventor claims  to  be  able,  by  the  help  of 
his  machine,  to  reproduce  the  appear­
ance  of  quartered  oak,  curly  maple, 
bird’s-eye  maple,  or  practically  any­
thing  else  that  grows  in  the  forest,  so 
perfectly  as  to  deceive  the  trained  eye. 
Obviously  such  an  achievement  should 
be  of  high  commercial  value,  inasmuch 
as  the  more  expensive  woods  are  luxur­
ies  within  reach  only  of  people  of 
means,  the  rarest  of  them  coming  from 
distant  tropical  countries.

The  process  does  not  reproduce  the 
texture  of  woods,  but  merely  their  ap­
pearance.  The  pulp  is  thrown  upon  a 
cylinder by an air blast projected through 
a  number  of  pipes,  and  an  irregular 
distribution  of  the  particles  is  obtained 
by  various  devices,  such  as  varying  the 
intensity  of  the  blast  and  causing  the 
pipes  to  vibrate. 
In  this  way  the  knots 
and  grain  of  the  natural  woods  are  said 
to  be  counterfeited  with  surprising  suc­
cess.

Artificial  woods  of  this  kind  are 
available  for  use  as  veneers,  the  em­
ployment  of  which  is  so  extensive  at 
the  present  time.  Nearly  all  of  the  im­
ported  natural  woods  are sold as veneers. 
They  are  cut  in  extremely  thin  slices, 
because  they  are  too  costly  to  be  used 
solidly.  Mahogany, 
curly 
ash,  figured  birch,  satin-wood  and  Cir­
cassian  walnut  are  most  in  demand,  and 
veneers  made  from  them  bring  from 
three  cents  to  ten  cents  a  foot.  Some 
veneers  are  worth  twenty  cents  a  foot, 
though  mere  shavings,  and  a  single  log 
of  rare  wood  is  sometimes  valued  at  as 
much  as $2,000.

rosewood, 

Doubtless  a  principal  use  is  expected 
to  be  found  for the  counterfeit  mahog­
any  and  other  woods  in  the  making  of 
furniture.

Days of Reckoning.

Wife— When  we  go  anywhere  now  we 
have  to  walk.  Before  marriage  you  al­
ways  called  a  carriage.

Husband—That’s  why  we  have 

to 

walk  now.

The  word  “ mile”   comes  from  the 
Latin  “ m ille,"  a  thousand.  A  thousand 
paces  of  a  marching  soldier  made  the 
Roman  mile.

“ I  knew  just  what  kind  of  a  sign  I
as  making  when  I  had  it  painted, ”  
said  he  in  reply  to  those  who  came  to 
“ Of  course,  a  silver  coin 
quiz  him. 
can’t  be  a 
‘ nickel.’  That’s  just  put 
there  to whet  their  curiosity  and  make 
the  visitors  believe  I  am  a  ‘ jay.’  I  take 
all  the  silver  five-cent  pieces  that  are 
offered  me  in  the  line  of trade,  and then 
"f  a  fellow  and  bis  girl  come  in  for  a 
glass  of  soda  and  an  ice  cream,  and 
the  man  gives  me  dollar  bill  or a  fifty- 
cent  piece  from  which  to  take  my  pay,
I  manage  to  work  off one  of  my  silver 
pieces  on  him. 
I  know  he  doesn’t  want 
it,  and  that’s  just  why  I  give  it  to 
him. 
In  nine  caes  out  of  ten,  when  he 
finds  what  I  have  done,  he  will  look 
round  the  store  for a  chance  to  spend 
it  again. 
In  this  way  I  get  five  cents’ 
worth  of trade  that  would  not  have come 
if  I  had  not  passed  the  silver 
to  me 
piece. 
It  is  a  small  thing,  but  I  have 
increased  my  trade  more  than $ioo  this 
season  by  putting  out that notice.  There 
is  some  profit  in  $ioo  worth  of  trade, 
even  if  the  dealer  is  a  druggist. 
I'm 
more  than $50 to  the  good  on  account  of 
that  sign."

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F arm ers  Beginning: to  See  Advantages  of 

Furnaces.

farming  community  and 

The  outlook  for  furnace  business  is 
good  except  in 
localities  where  the 
drouth  has  materially  affected the  crops. 
The 
small 
country  towns  are  beginning  to  see  the 
advantages  and  comfort  derived  from  a 
good  hot-air  plant,  and,  with  the  pros­
perity  of  the  last  few  years,  are  begin­
ning  to  feel  that  they  can  and  will  have 
a  few  of  the  luxuries  enjoyed  by  their 
city  cousins,  and  a  well-heated  home 
comes  among  the  first.

I  look  for  an  increase  in  some  locali­
ties  and  a  falling  off  in  others,  so  that 
if  the  business  for  this  year  holds  its 
own  with  1900  my  expectations  will  be 
realized.

The  cheap  furnace  is  a  thing  of  very 
little  or  no  value,  and  as  consumers  be­
gin  to  realize  that  there  is  a  very  great 
difference 
in  value  between  a  furnace 
manufactured  to  sell  at  a  price,  and 
one  to  please  the  trade  in  every particu­
lar-durable,  economical  and  easy  to 
manage— just  in  proportion  will  the  de­
mand  for  the  one  fall  off  and  the  other 
increase,  and,  like  every  other  article 
of  merit,the  good  will  drive  the  bad  be­
fore  it  as  the  wind  does  chaff.

1  consider  cast  iron  the  best  material 
to  use  in  all  heating  surfaces  which  are 
subjected  to  great  heat,  as  the  firepot,

feed  sections  and  domes  usually  are. 
After  the  products  of  combustion  have 
been  forced  against  the  proper  amount 
of  cast  surface  and  the 
intense  heat 
radiated  therefrom,  then,  from  there  on 
to  the  outlet,  or  smoke  pipe,  sheet  steel 
of  a  good  weight  is  preferable.  As  the 
tendency  of  steel  is  to  radiate  a 
larger 
percentage  of  heat  than  will  cast  iron, 
the  main  feature  in  all  furnaces  from 
a  point  of  durability  is  to  have  all  the 
parts  heavy  enough  to  stand  the  heat  to 
which  they  are  subjected,  and  not  to 
join  cast  iron  and  steel  where  there  is 
a 
intense  heat,  otherwise 
leaky  joints  are  sure  to  follow  a  few 
years’  use.

liability  of 

The  manufacturer  should  see  to  it that 
his  are  properly  constructed  and  well 
fitted  before  leaving  the  factory,  and 
if 
he  has  any  weak  points,  either  remedy 
them  or  post  the  retailer,  so that  he  may 
be  able  to  obviate  trouble  as  much  as 
possible.  The  fact  that  a  good  furnace 
poorly  set  amounts  to  about  the  same  in 
results  as  a  poor  furnace  well  set  stands 
the  manufacturer  in  band  to  see  that 
his  goods  are  handled  by  dealers  who 
understand  the  furnace  business  or  look 
after  the  construction  work  themselves.
The  dealer  should  assume  all  the  re­
sponsibility  as  far as  the  consumer  is 
concerned,  as  to  the  satisfactory  work­

ing  of the  plant.  He  should  get  such  a 
price  for  his  work  that  he  can  afford  to 
assume  such 
responsibility,  criticise 
the  work  himself  before  the job is turned 
over  to  the  consumer,  and  if  anything 
is  found  wrong  or  incomplete,  right  it 
before  the  owner  has  a  chance  to enter a 
complaint.  A  satisfied  customer  will 
bring  trade;  one  dissatisfied  will  drive 
it  away.— Frank  F.  Porter  in  American 
Artisan.

A Story  W ithout an  Affidavit.

in 

it. 

“ This  theory,”   said 

the  traveling 
man,  “ that  warts  will  go  away  when 
you  stop  thinking  about them,  may  have 
inclined  to 
something  in  it,  and  I  am 
have  faith 
I  know  from  actual 
observation  that  warts  can  be  trans­
ferred  and  will  give  you  the  case  in 
point.

“ I  was  buying  a  newspaper  when  I 
noticed  that  the  hands  of  the  newsboy 
were  covered  with  warts.  His  stand 
was  within  a  block  of  my  house,  but  I 
am  away  so  much  the  little  fellow  did 
not  know  me  by  name. 
I  said  to  him:
“   ‘ You  should  get  some  one  to  charm 
away 
the 
method  of  getting  rid  of  them  when  1 
was  a  boy.

those  warts,' 

that  being 

“   ‘ They  ain’t  mine  now,’  he  said,  ‘ I 
sold  them  last  week  to  Teddie  Stearns, 
and  they’ll  all  go to  him. ’
“ Now  Teddie  Stearns 

is  my  own 
boy  and  I  did  not  like  to  think  of  his 
smooth,  chubby  hands  being  disfigured 
with  warts  and  we  did  not  live  in  a

Wa y  t o   n tf

wart  atmosphere;  they  belong  more  ex­
clusively 
the  barefoot-boy-with- 
to 
cheek-of-tan 
conditions— I  had  been 
such  myself.  When  1  went  home  I 
called  my  boy  to  me  and  looked  with 
some  anxiety  at  bis  hands.  They  were 
as  clean  and  white  as  a  girl’s.

“   ‘ What  is  itj  papa?’  he  asked  curi­

ously.

“   ‘ I  am  looking  for  warts.’
“   'Oh !’  and  he  drew a long,  delighted 
breath,  ‘ there  ain’t  any  yet,  but  they’re 
sure  to  come,  for  I  bought  them  from 
“ Carrotty  Mike”   forapin.  H esaysl’m 
sure  to  get  ’em.  A in’t  you  glad?’

“ Glad? 

I  could  have  cried,  and  I 
believe  his  mother  did  cry.  But  that 
blamed  little  cub  said  he  wouldn’t  be  a 
tenderfoot  and  he  would  have  warts. 
I 
read  the  riot  act  to  him  and  went  away 
for  a  month’s  trip,  and  when  I  came 
back  he  was  as  proud  as  Punch— his 
hands  had  grown  a  crop  of  warts  that 
discounted  anything  I  ever  saw  in  that 
line.  I  hunted  up  ‘ Carrotty  M ike,’  and, 
would  you  believe 
it,  there  wasn’t  a 
wart  on  his  hands!  He  had  transferred 
them  all  to  my  boy.”

1
“ Are  all  those  beautiful  white  teeth 

A ll  H er  Own. 

her own?”

“ Yes,  all  hers.  She  told  me  only 
yesterday  that  at  last  she  had  the  den­
tist  all  paid  up. ”

The  farmer’s  principal  competitor  is 
his  neighbor  who  has  better  agricultural 
implements  than  he.

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SAXON  OB  ROMAN?

The  suggestions 

lurking  behind  the 
statistics  are  often  more  valuable  than 
the  facts  they  present.  We are  building 
great  hopes  upon  the  advantages  accru­
ing  to  us  from  our  established  relations 
with  Cuba.  Every  move  so  far  has  been 
a  success.  We  have  cleaned  up  the  town 
of  Havana  and  have  made  that  hotbed 
of  yellow  fever  one  of  the  most  salub­
rious  in  the  tropics;  in  the  line  of  trade 
things  are  flourishing,  and  the  future  is 
full  of  promise.  These  matters  fixed, 
we  are  settling  down  to  the  belief  that 
in  the  not  too  far-off  future  Cuba  will 
be  an  American  city  thronged  with  an 
American  citizenship,  throbbing  with 
republican 
ideas  and  sentiments  and 
demanding  a  semi-annual  Fourth  of 
July  to  give  vent  to  their  effervescent 
patriotism.

is 

just  here 

For  realizing  this  happy  condition  of 
things,  however,  one  ingredient  is  lack­
ing :  A  first-class,  up-to-date  Fourth  of 
July 
impossible  without  an  abund­
ance  of  the  first-class,  up-to-date  Yan­
kee,  and 
is  where  the  statis­
tics  come 
in.  They  do  not  show  that 
the  most  desirable  element  in  modern 
civilization 
is  cutting  much  of  a  figure 
in  the  common  everyday 
life  of  the 
Cuban  territory.  During  the  month  of 
July,  for  example,  228  immigrants  were 
landed  at  the  port  of  Havana.  Of  these 
170  were  Spanish  and  58  were  Chinese 
— not  a  Yankee 
lot  to 
leaven  the 
is  not  thus  that 
are  to  be  scattered  in  the  fertile  soil  of 
those  islands  the  seeds  of  political  free­
dom  that  are  to  spring  up  and  bear 
fruit  a  hundred  fold.

in  the  whole 

lump. 

It 

improved  upon 

The  old  Anglo-Saxon methods  can  not 
be 
if  this  country  in­
tends  to Americanize  the  West  Indies. 
The  American  wilds  were  made  Saxon 
by  English-speaking and English-think­
ing  immigrants  who came  here  during 
the  seventeenth  and eighteenth centuries 
with  their gun-backed  Bibles and settled

THE  GOLDEN  DUSTMAN.

Every  person  who has  read  Dickens' 
“ Our  Mutual  Friend”   will  remember 
the  Golden  Dustman,  the  illiterate  la­
boring  man,  who  made  a  large  fortune 
out  of  the  trash and waste material swept 
from  the  houses  of  that  great  metropo­
lis,  London.  Many  articles  of  value, 
sometimes  money  and 
jewels,  were 
found  in  these  sweepings,and  they  were 
ail  utilized  in  one  way  or  another  and 
brought  in  a  profit.

While  similar  opportunities  are  still 
in  the  reach  of  the  dustman,  chemistry 
has  come 
in  to  assist  in  the  important 
work  of  converting  waste  material  into 
profitable  material,  and  the  result  has 
been  astonishing 
this 
science  of  transmuting  base  material 
into  gold  is  barely  more  than  in  its  in­
fancy.

indeed,  while 

Many  people  well  remember  when 
cotton  seed  was  considered  a  worthless 
material  and  was  thrown  out  to  rot.  To­
day  it  furnishes  oil,  and,  after the  ex­
traction  of  the  oil,  it gives  a  residuum 
which 
is  used  for  feeding  cattle  and 
is  shipped  to  Europe  in  large  quanti­
is  of  extreme  value  for 
ties.  The  oil 
human  food,  taking  to  a 
large  extent 
the  place  of  the  more  costly,  but  not 
actually  better, 
The 
products  derived  from  the  once  worth­
less  cotton  seed  now  bring  in  money  to 
the  extent  of  more  than  $100,000,000 a 
year.

imported  oils. 

Coal  tar,  the  malodorous  refuse  which 
results  from  the  manufacture of coai gas, 
has  proved  to  be 
in  a  way  a  mine  of 
gold,  on  account  of  the  great  variety 
and  value  of  the  products  derived  from 
it.  Aniline  colors  of  brilliant  hues, 
perfumes,  medicines,  antiseptics,  are 
well-known  commercial  articles  made 
from 
its  further  possibilities 
seem  illimitable.

it,  and 

to 

In  this  connection.  Prof.  Peter  T. 
Austen,  a  prominent  and  experienced 
chemist,  contributes 
the  August 
Forum  an  interesting  paper on  the  util­
ization  of  waste  matters.  Among  the 
various  substances  which  are considered 
of  little  or no  value,  in  this  country  of 
great  forests  and  vast  lumber industries, 
is  sawdust. 
It  has  been  allowed  to  ac­
cumulate  in  such  quantities  as  to  form 
considerable  bills. 
It  has  been  per­
mitted  to  run  into  streams  and  rivers, 
choking  and  obstructing  their  channels, 
killing  the  fish  and  disfiguring 
the 
shores,  and  it  amounts  to  the  bulk  of 
vast  num bers  of trees.

It  is  compressed 

In  recent  years,improvements  in  saw­
mill  machinery  have  reduced  the  quan­
tity,  but  still  sawdust  represents  enor­
mous  waste. 
into 
blocks  or  briquettes,either  alone  or with 
coal  dust,  and  used  for  fuel. 
It  can  be 
subjected  to  dry  distillation,  thereby 
producing  illuminating  gas,  wood  alco­
hol,  acetic  acid,  tar  and  oils.  From  the 
tar  there  have  been  obtained  benzole, 
toluole, 
paraffine, 
naphthalene,  and  hydrocarbons  which 
are  used  in  the  manufacture  of  aniline 
colors.  Carbolic  acid  and  creosote  are 
also  obtained.  As  a  last  product,  char­
coal  is  left  in  the  retorts.  All  those 
products  are  of  commercial  value ;  but, 
save  the  simpler,  such  as  tar and  char­
coal, few  are  made  in  the  United  States, 
our people  neglecting  the  opportunities 
in  their  reach.

cumole, 

zymole, 

This  is  natural  in  a  country  so  rich, 
where  the  people  have  not  found  it  nec­
essary  to  economize,  and 
it  is  left to 
Europe  to  manufacture  out  of  waste 
matter  a  vast  variety  of  valuable arti­
cles,  pot  a  few  of  which  we  import,

when  we  could  make  them  at  home  out 
of  material  which  we  throw  away.

Thus  are  presented  only  a  few 

in­
stances  of  the  possibilities  for  wealth 
which  go to waste  every  day.  But  there 
lost.  Matter  goes 
is  nothing  finally 
through  a  variety  of  changes,  but 
it  is 
always  at  hand 
form  of  the 
gaseous  or  solid  elementary  substances 
which  constitute  all  created  things.  As 
Prof.  Austen  says:

in  the 

Matter  is  continually  passing  through 
its  endless  cycle.  An overcoat  may  have 
it  the  remains  of  ball  dresses  and 
in 
prison  shirts. 
It  may  have  lain  on  lux­
urious  beds  or  in  the  gutters.  When  our 
shoes  wear out  they  are  made  into  fer­
tilizers,  and  produce  grass  and  grain, 
and  from  the  grass  and  grain  are  raised 
cows,and  out  of  the  cow’s  skin  we make 
leather  again.  So  we  have  the  shoe 
back  again,  less  that  portion  of  it  that 
has  been  consumed  as  milk  and  beef. 
Nothing  is  really  lost  in  nature.  Give 
the  ground  filth  it  returns  us  the  flower. 
Matter  is  in  eternal circulation. 
“ Give 
me  the  sewage  of  New  York City, “  says 
Dr.  Long,  “ and  I  will return  you  yearly 
the  superior  milk  of  100,000 cows.”

Apprehension  has  been  expressed that 
in  time  all  the  wood,  coal  and  oil  will 
be  consumed,  and  there  will  be  left  on 
and 
in  the  earth  no  fuel  with  which  to 
create  power  or  cook  our  food  or  keep 
us  from freezing.  Such an  idea  is  futile, 
since  all  the  carbon,  which  is  the  heat­
ing  constituent  of  fuel,  is  still  upon  the 
earth.  Not  a  grain  of  it  has  been  lost 
from  the  foundation  of  the  world  to  the 
present  time,  and  whenever the  era  of 
lack of fuel  shall  come  it  will  be  met  by 
some  achievement  of  science,  by  which 
the  carbon  that  has  been  set  free  by  the 
combustion  of  the  wood,  coal  and  oil, 
will  be  collected,  recombined  with  the 
necessary  hydrogen  and  oxygen  and 
burned  over  and  over  again  for  every 
purpose  of  heating,  although  electricity 
will  be  made  to  perform  the  office  of 
giving  heat  to  meet  every  demand.

The  revelations  of  science  are  of  ex­
treme  value,  not  only  because  they  en­
able  us  to  convert  waste  matter  into  ar­
ticles  of  value,  but  because  they  teach 
us  that  innumerable  fields  of  labor  now 
unoccupied  will  be  opened  and give em­
ployment  to  human  brain  and  brawn, 
mind  and  muscle,  so  that  the  golden 
dustman  of  the  future  will  not  be  mere­
ly  a  gatherer  of  garbage  and  refuse, 
but,  with  his  magic  wand  of  science  he 
will  transmute  the  basest  substances 
into articles  of  the  greatest  value,  an 
achievement  vastly  more  beneficial  than 
could  result  from  converting  lead  and 
iron  into  silver  and  gold,  which  was  the 
dream  of  the  alchemists  of  the  Middle 
Ages. 

________

Though  there 

is  a  surplus  of  women 
in  New  York  and  other eastern  states 
there  are  a  million  more  men 
than 
women  in  the  country,  and  in  the  world 
at  large  there  is  an  excess  of over fifteen 
million  men.  In  view  of  the  great  num­
bers  of  men  who  have  been  killed  in 
battle  and  who  have  died  of  unrequited 
love,  it  seems  strange  that  the  world 
should  still  contain  a  surplus  of  repre­
sentatives  of  the  male  sex.  Of  course, 
the  more  numerous  the  men  become  in 
proportion  to  the  women  the  more  pre­
cious  the  latter will  be.  If  there  is  any­
thing  that  pleases  the  women  it  is  to 
have  things  so  arranged  that  they  need 
not  be  wall-flowers  except  from  choice. 
This  is  a  lovely  world  when  you  come 
to  understand  the  arrangements  in  it.

A  Parisian  scientist  promises  to  show 
the  world  a  substitute  for  the  potato. 
Meantime  the  potatoes  are  all  eyes  and 
the  com  is  shocked.

down  to  stay.  Taking  root  in  the  soil, 
they  spread.  Fostered  by  the  New  Eng­
land  sunshine  and  rain,  their  shoots 
found  more  congenial soil  westward  and 
the  continent  has  been  overspread  by 
them.  The  26,000  Puritans  who  came 
from  England  from  1620 to  1640  have 
become  15,000,000,  have  made  the  faith 
of  our  forefathers  the  crystallized  law 
of the  land  and  infused  into  it  the  prin­
ciples  of  life,  liberty  and  happiness  to 
be  found  nowhere  else. 
It  was  the  set­
tled  Puritan  that  made  America  the 
stronghold  of  republicanism,  and 
it  is 
only  from  such  settlers that  such  results 
can  come.

Investing  money 

If this  be  conceded the Americanizing 
of our  recent  possessions  is  not  promis­
ing. 
in  Cuba  or  the 
Philippines  may  yield  a  high  rate  per 
cent.,  but  nothing  more.  A  few  hun­
dred  American  school  teachers  may 
teach  the  English  language to  the native 
children,  but  experience  here  at  home 
shows  how  slight  is  the  influence  of  the 
school  teacher over  the  home  circle,  and 
this  influence  is  lessened  in  the  foreign 
country.  There  has  been  no  real  emi­
gration  of  Americans to  it.  The  Amer­
ican  peddler  with  his  pack  has,  indeed, 
entered  these  territories  and  taken  full 
possession  of  the  markets;  but  so  far 
the  conquest 
is  that  of  the  capitalist. 
The  Yankee  machine  will  do the special 
work  required  of  it,  but  it  will  do.noth­
ing  more. 
It  has  followed  the  flag,  and 
the  two  may  slowly  blaze  the  way  for 
the  slowly-advancing  Constitution ;  but 
if  these  peoples  are  to  be  Americans the 
land  they  live  in  must  become  the  home 
of  the  Yankee.  He  must  go  out  and 
come 
in  among  them.  Hands  must 
greet  hands  in  the  market  place  and  the 
home 
Shylock's 
creed,  they  must  eat  together,  drink  to­
gether  and  pray  together. 
In  fact,  the 
statistics  must  stand  for  the  ports  of 
Cuba  and  the  Philippines  228  Yankees, 
with  not  another nationality  in  sight,  if 
these  countries  are  to  be  Americanized. 
To-day  no  American  wants  to  live  in 
those  countries,  and  he  will  not  go  there 
without  a  Government  subsidy  or  salary 
—a  condition  of  things  which  will 
Romanize  territory  which  the  Saxon 
should  begin  to  make  wholly  his  own.

circle.  Reversing 

little  effect.  Now 

Societies  for the  Prevention of Cruelty 
to  Animals  have  long  agitated  against 
the  cruel  and  senseless practice  of  dock­
ing  the  tails  of  horses,  but  the  followers 
of  fashion  seem  hitherto  to  have  had 
the Best  of  the  argument.  Some  years 
ago  King  Edward  prohibited  the  muti­
lation  at  his  stud  at  Wolferton,  but  his 
action  had  but 
it 
seems  that  the  pockets  of  the boise- 
breeders  are  to  be  touched  in  a  tender 
spot,  and  touched  by  the  Norwegian 
war department.  On  and  after  January 
1,  1904,  the  department  will  purchase 
no  horses  for army  purposes  unless  the 
tail  be  of  the  normal dimensions.  Sim­
ilar action  by  other governments  would, 
no  doubt,  be  followed  by  a  material 
falling  off  in-  the  practice,  for the  de­
mand  for  horses  by  the  world  of  fashion 
is  but  a  tithe  of  what  it  is  for armies.

The  exhibit  of  honey  at  the  Minne­
sota  State  Fair  at  St.  Paul  last  week 
is 
declared  to  have  been  the  largest  ever 
displayed 
in  the  Northwest.  One  dis­
play  showed  how  honey  can  be  used  for 
sweetening  and  flavoring 
in  place  of 
sugar  and  extracts.  Honey  vinegar  is 
used  as  a  preserving  fluid  for canned 
fruit  and 
jams  and  pickles.  Several 
glass  cases  containing  hives of bees  at 
work  were shown.

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9

PROBLEMS OF  POPULATION.

The  power  of  a  nation  is  in  its  peo­
ple. 
If  theirs  is  a  poor country,  afford­
ing  them  scanty  means  of  support,  they 
will  emigrate  until  only  enough  are  left 
behind  who  can  live  on  such  resources 
as  may  be  available.

to  other  lands. 

There  has  been,  for  four  centuries 
from 
past,  more  or  less  emigration 
Europe 
Spain  and 
Portugal  led  the  way  in  discovering and 
colonizing  new  countries. 
Later  the 
British  Isles  took  up  the  business  of 
discovery,conquest  and  colonization  and 
surpassed  all  other  nations.

The  French  were  once  very  active 

in 
colonizing  and  they  had  possession  of 
vast  regions  in  the  New  World  of  Can­
ada  and  what  is  now  know  as  the Louis­
iana  purchase ;  but,  when  they  gave  up 
these,  they  seemed  to  have  given  up  all 
enterprise  and  exertion  to  expand 
into 
new  lands,  and,  although  there  has  late­
ly  been  some  movement  into  Asia  and 
Africa,  it  seems  rather  spasmodic  than 
the  result  of  a  settled  policy 
long  pur­
sued.

Germany  had  done  nothing 

in  the 
way  of  colonizing  until  very  recently, 
when  it  started  out  with  a  good  deal  ol 
activity.  One  of  the  most  successful 
colonizers  has  been  Holland,  which 
possesses  some  of  the  most  extensive 
and  profitable  colonies  in  the  world 

But  not  alone  have  foreign  colonies 
swallowed  up  the  population  of  Euro 
pean  countries.  They  have  contributed 
immense  emigration  to  other  lands 
an 
Since  the 
than  their  own  domains. 
United  States  has  acquired 
indepen­
dence  it  has  received  about  15,000, 
000  immigrants  from  other  countries 
These  were  chiefly  from the British Isles 
for  years;  but,  since  then,  Germany 
Scandinavian  countries,  Austria-Hun 
gary,  Italy  and  Russia  have  contributed 
to the  foreign  overflow  into  the  United 
States.  France  has  had  little  part  in  the 
movement. 
indeed,  the  recent 
census  of  the  population  of  France 
which  has  suggested  some  observations 
in  this  connection.

It  is, 

Very 

lately,  M.  Jacques  Bertillon,  of 
the  Paris  police,  the  inventor  of  the 
well-known  Bertillon  system  of  measur 
identification,  has 
ing  criminals  for 
published 
in  a  Paris  journal  some  re 
marks  on  the  results  of  the  last  French 
census  and  a  comparison  of  France with 
other  countries  in  point  of  growth.  The 
number  of  persons  in  France  on  the  day 
of  the  census,  March  24,  1901,  was  ap­
proximately  38,600,000.  The  population 
was  found  to  have  diminished  since  the 
last  census 
in  all  departments  that  do 
not  contain  large  cities.  The  popula 
tion,  exclusively  of  the  department  of 
the  Seine,  which  contains  Paris,  was 
little 
previous  census,  in  1896,  it  was  34,961 
000,  so  that  the 
increase  in  five  years 
amounts  to  39,000 only.  The department 
of  the  Seine  (including  Paris)  shows  an 
increase  of  292,000.

less  than  35,000,000.  At  the  last 

M.  Bertillon  finds,  in  comparing  the 
birth  and  death  rates  in  France,  that 
there  is  very  little  natural  increase,  and 
the  additions 
to  the  population, 
shown  bv  the  census,  he  attributes 
immigration. 
It  is  known  that  there 
a  very  considerable  movement  of  Amer 
icans  to  Paris  and  a  like  state  of  affai 
may  be  declared  of  other  countries 
whose  wealthy  people  seem  specially 
drawn  to the  French  capital.

The  great  wars  of  the  first  Napoleon 

caused  a  tremendous  destruction 
Frenchmen,  and,  nevertheless,  at  the 
middle  of  the  Nineteenth  Century,  the 
first  years  of  which  were  filled  with

the  Napoleonic  wars,  France  still  stood 
first  in  population  of  all  the  nations  of 
Western  Europe.  •  There  was  then  no 
consolidated  German  Em pire;  never­
theless  the  countries  which  were  then 
separate  kingdoms,  but  are  now  con­
stituents  of  the  Empire,  barely  equaled 
France 
in  population.  The  following 
table  shows  the  growth  of  the  six  great 
European  powers  in  the  last  half  cen­
tury :

Great Britain.

1900
38
41
56
45
128
32

Increase
1850
Millions Millions Millions
3
..  35
14
..  27
21
..  35
14
..  30
62
..  66
9
..  23
It  is  seen  that  in  present  population 
ranee 
is  only  ahead  of  Italy  and  is 
behind  Germany,  Austria-Hungary  and 
Great  Britain 
In 
1899,  according  to  M.  Bertillon’s  state 
ment,  the  excess  of  births  over  deaths 
was: 
in  Great 
Britain,  422,000;  in  Germany,  795,000 
n  Austria-Hungary,  531,000;  in  Italy 
385,000.  France  has  fallen  from  the 
second  place,  next  to  Russia,  to  the  fifth 
place,  and  is  not  far  ahead  of  Italy.

In  France,  31,000; 

in  the  order  named. 

Should  this  relative  rate  of  increase 
continue  for  another  half  century,  the 
situation  will  be  serious.  France  has  no 
rich  mines  or  other  great  undeveloped 
resources  to  attract  and  employ  a  great 
mraigration  from  other  countries.  The 
resuscitation  of  the  natural 
is 
the  only  hope  in  sight  for a  change  of 
conditions.  France 
is  now  engaged  in 
close  alliance  with  Russia.  What 
changes  that  may  bring  forth  cannot 
now  be  foreseen,  but  it  may  bring 
benefit  to  the  French  people  and nation 
so  long  at  the  head  of  modern  civiliza 
ation.

increase 

The  expression,  “ money  to  burn,’ ’  i 
mere  slang  phrase  used  in  connection 
i 
with  profligate  extravagance.  But 
has  a  more  specific  meaning  when  it re 
fers  to the  destruction  of  mutilated  cur 
rency.  Twenty  or  twenty-five  years  ago 
the  Government  used  to  burn  canceled 
currency,  but  that  method  of  destroying 
it  was  abandoned  when  it  was  discov 
ered  that  on  windy  days  the  draft  in  the 
chimneys  would  draw  notes  only  par 
tially  burned  from  the  furnaces  and 
spread  them  over  the  white  house  lot 
and  neighboring  streets. 
Such  bills 
in  the  past  and 
have  been  redeemed 
Uncle  Sam  had  to  stand  the 
loss.  The 
Government  destroys  some  five  hundred 
million  dollars  of  soiled  and  ragged 
notes  yearly. 
It  is  now  done  by  con 
verting  the  paper  into  pulp.  These 
notes  are  redeemed  before  they  are 
destroyed.  Two big pulp mills—macera 
tors  they  are  termed  officially—grind 
them 
like 
putty.  The  pulp  is then  treated  with  an 
alkali,  which  extracts  the  ink  that  con 
stituted  all  the  printing  and  inscrip 
tions  on  the  bills.  Next  it  is  converted 
nto  bales  and  shipped  to  a  car  wheel 
manufacturer. 
This  pulp  makes  the 
best  kind  of  wheels.  The  government 
sells 
it  for  $40  a  ton  after  it  is  baled 
and  dry. 

into  a  mass  which 

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looks 

It  is  estimated  that  the  damage  done 
by  bugs  of  various  kinds  amounts  an 
nually  to  $300,000,000  in  the  United 
States.  This  damage  is  said  to  be 
in 
creasing  in  proportion  to the  decrease 
in  the  number of  wild  birds.  The 
im 
portance  of  protecting  our  feathered 
friends 
is  being  strongly  urged.  We 
want  the  birds,  and  the  birds  want  the 
bugs. 

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Old  times  are  sweetest  and old friends 

are  surest.

TH E PAN-AMERICAN  CONGRESS.
In  spite  of  all  the  dissension  which 
has  arisen  between  the  South  American 
publics,  the  Pan-American  Congress 
to  assemble  in  Mexico this  fall.  The 
great  stumbling  block  was  the  arbitra­
tion  proposal  mapped  out  as  one  of  the 
principal  purposes  of  the  congress.  The 
publics  of  Peru,  Argentina  and  Bo­
livia  demanded  that  all  existing  dis­
putes  be  included  in  the  scheme  of  ar­
bitration.  To  this  Chili  strenuously ob­
jected,  holding  that  the  treaty  by  which 
the  conquered  provinces  of  Peru  were 
turned  over  to  her  jurisdiction  could 
not  be  reviewed.  Until  assured  that 
past  treaties  and  old  disputes  would  be 
iminated  from  the consideration  of  the 
congress,  Chili  refused  to  take  part. 
Having  received  such  assurances,  the 
Chilian  government  decided  to  send 
representatives.

The  action  of  Chili  created  much 
issatisfaction  among  the  other  Latin 
American  republics,  and  they  at  one 
time  threatened  to  withdraw  entirely 
from  all  connection  with  the  congress 
Calmer  judgment  and  wiser  counsels 
prevailed,  and  all  causes  of  discontent 
were  apparently  smoothed  out,  when 
it 
was  announced  that  the  Chilian  Con 
gress  had  refused  to  make  an  appropri 
ation  for  the  expenses  of  a  delegation to 
the  congress.  This  announcement  again 
mperiled  the  success  of  the  gathering 
but,  fortunately,  it  now  turns  out  that  it 
was  not  the  Chilian  congress,  but  only 
committee  of  that  body,  that  refused 
to  authorize  an  appropriation. 
The 
congress  itself  promptly  overruled  the 
committee  and  made  the  grant.  Thi 
assures  the  presence  of the  Chilian dele 
gation  and  the  success  of  the  congress 
While  the  Pan-American congress will 
have  the  power  to  bring  up  any  subject 
it  desires,  it  would  act  wisely  in  re 
training  from  opening  up  old  contro 
versies.  General  arbitration  of disputes 
is  well  enough  in  principle,  and  should 
be  resorted  to  as  a  general  thing  by  all 
the  American  republics,  particularly  in 
disputes  among 
themselves;  but  an 
effort  to  force  arbitration  of  an  old  dis 
pute in  which  a  number of  the  republics 
have 
to  Chi  ' 
would  be  too  palpably  taking  advantage 
of  a  single  country.  Chili  could  not  be 
compelled  to  accept  arbitration,  and 
she  certainly  would  not  agree  to  such 
in  the  matter  of  the  conquered 
course 
provinces. 
It  would  be  much  the  wiser 
plan  not  to  bring  up  the  subject  in  the 
congress  at  all.

interests  antagonistic 

THE  COUNTY  FA IR.

If  the  county  fair  is  different  from 
it  used  to  be,  it  is  due  to  the  fact 

what 
that  the  times  have  changed,  though 
still  serves  the  same  general  purpose 
It  has,  perhaps,  less  of  the  strictly agri 
cultural  character  than 
formerly,  al 
though  the  day  will  never  come  when 
the  vegetables,  the  fruit  and  the  hand' 
work  of  the  women  folks  will  be  con 
spicuous  by  their  absence  at  these  an 
nual  exhibitions.  Outside  attractions 
are  given  nowadays  a  more  prominent 
place.  Freaks  and  fakes  and  shows 
depended  on  to  draw  a  crowd,  are  reg 
ularly  recognized,  indeed  employed  by 
the  management.

There  need  be  no  great  fear  that  the 
county  fair  has  degenerated  or  that  it  ' 
on  the  downward  path  leading  to  total 
annihilation. 
is  too 
firmly  fixed  and  too  well  established 
to  be  discarded.  There  will  be  such 
exhibitions  for  many  succeeding  years 
and  the  patronage  will  continue  profit 
able.  There  will  always  be  enough

institution 

The 

it, 

the  actual  agricultural  characteristics  to 
warrant  the  name  and  the  assemblage. 
One  of  the  very  excellent  purposes 
served  is  that  it  presents  an  opportunity 
a  season  of  the  year  when  they  can 
best  avail  themselves  of 
for  the 
farmers  in  all  the  region  round  to  get 
together,compare  notes  and  talk  it  over.
is  customary  for  the  farmer to  take 
his  whole  family  to  the  fair,  and  every 
member  of 
it  has  a  good  time.  They 
not  only  see  the  best  their  neighbors 
have  raised  and  get  new  ideas  there­
from,  but  they  enjoy  the  sociability  of 
and  that  alone  is  sufficient  warrant 
and 
fairs. 
They  afford  a  lot  of  innocent  and  very 
pleasurable  recreation. 
They  are  an 
nstitution  which  will  be  permanently 
preserved.

justification 

for  county 

The rage  for  coats of  arms,  crests  and 
such  like  relics  of  the  dark  ages of mon- 
rchies  seems  to  have  culminated  in 
New  York  in  the  incorporation  of  what 
s  to  be  known  as  a  college  of  heraldry. 
Why  there  should  be  a  hankering  after 
such  figments  in  a  republic  is  somewhat 
inexplicable,  hut  that  there 
is  a  wish 
for  quarterings  is  evident,  as  the  new 
concern  proves.  Hitherto  the  matter of 
coat  armor  and  the  right  to  possess  the 
same  has  been  considerably  muddled 
up  in  this  country.  People  have  ap­
propriated  cognizances  to  which  they 
have no right,the mere  similarity  in  sur­
name  being  sufficient  warranty  for  the 
assumption.  The  business  of  the  New 
York  concern  will  be  to  sweep  all  such 
snobs  from  off  the  face  of  the  earth;  no 
snob  shall  exist  without  the  special  per­
mit  of  its  high  and  mighty  officials.  In 
fact,  it  proposes  to  be  the  prime  arbiter 
and  bottle  washer  in  the  matter  of  gen­
ealogies,  pedigrees,  crests,  mottoes, 
supporters,  charges  and  goodness  knows 
how  many  other  items  connected  with 
blazoning  a  coat  of  arms.  Pride  of  an­
is  just  as  laudable  in  a  republic 
cestry 
in  a  monarchy ;  it  is  grand  to know 
that  one’s  forbears  cut  some  figure  in 
for  a  corporation  of 
the  world,  but 
pseudo-archaeologists  to  ape  a 
state 
is  too  much  of  a  good  thing, 
function 
and  all  right-thinking  people 
in  this 
broad  country  will  give  the  new  con­
cern  the  go-by.

The  potato  bug 

is  slow  but  sure. 
Along  with  other  American  products  it 
has  now  invaded  England. 
It  is known 
over  there  as  the  Colorado  beetle.  E x­
traordinary  measures  have  been adopted 
to  restrict  its  field  of  operations.  The 
board  of  agriculture  has  issued  a  notice 
to  the  public  calling  attention  to the 
law  which  provides  that  any  person may 
be  fined  ^10  who  does  not  immediately 
notify  the  police  of  the  discovery  of  the 
bug. 
Policemen  are  obliged,  under 
heavy  penalties,  to  warn  the  board  of 
the  presence  of  the  bug.  Being  of 
American  origin  this 
insect,  will  be 
found  irrepressible.  It  can  be  depended 
upon  to  make  a  complete  tour  of  the 
British  Islands  despite  obstacles  of 
every  kind.

Within  a  few  years  New  York  City 
the 
must  become  the  metropolis  of 
world. 
in­
In  the  last  decade  London 
creased  17  per  cent.,  while  New  York 
increased  37  per  cent.  London  contains 
about  one-fifth  of  the  population  of 
England,  while  New  York  contains  less 
than  one-seventeenth  of  the  population 
of  the  United  States  and  has  a  vast  im­
migration  to draw  from.

The  first  patent  was  issued  to  Samuel 
in  1790  for  making  “  pot  or 

Hopkins 
pearl  ashes.”

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Clothing

it 

Special  F eatures  o f F a ll Trade in Chicago.
Dressers  who  want  a  change  this  fall 
will  get 
in  handkerchiefs  to  such  a 
degree  that  they  will  forget  everything 
else.  Such  radical  departures have never 
been  shown  before.  This  time  the  jump 
is  made  from  the  neat,  modest  bordered 
white  to  the  all  solid  colors  in  light 
blues,  lavenders,  pinks and  light  greens. 
The  effect  is  startling. 
In  these  solid- 
colored  handkerchiefs  the  borders  are 
made  with  corded  weave  in  alternating 
white  threads  or  cords  and  so  to  some 
extent  counteract  the 
impression  that 
these  new  handkerchiefs  corns  in  yard 
lengths  and  are  cut  and  hemmed  in 
handkerchief  sizes.  Some  of  the  less 
extreme  styles  are 
in  white  or colored 
bars  on  the  contrasting  backgrounds. 
These  are  also  lavishly  corded and savor 
of  the  flashy  instead  of  the  genteel.  The 
new  fall  handkerchiefs  cannot  possibly 
become  popular  with  dressy  men,  but 
will  no  doubt  take  with  the  country 
boys.

*  *  *

Several  of  the 

leading  haberdashers 
are  bringing  out  Quaker gray  neckwear 
for  September  wear.  Several  houses  are 
now  displaying  large  windows  full  of  it 
in  batwings  and  derbies  of  the  narrow 
school.  They  are  displayed  on  white 
shirts  and  are  certainly  fetching.  The 
gray  is  relieved  by  white  figures—very 
small— widely  set.  Again  the  same 
is 
to  be  seen  with  bright  red  figures.  The 
effect  is  new  and  very  pleasing. 
It  is 
quiet  and  genteel  yet  has  plenty  of  life 
to  it  in  the  small  units. 
In  this  same 
display  of  ties  are  batwings  and  derbies 
of  navy  blue  with  white  and  bright 
red  figures,  same  patterns  as  the  Quaker 
grays.  They  serve  to  contrast  the  grays 
and  make  one  of  the  handsomest,  rich­
est  window  displays  seen  this  summer.
The  manner  in  which  English  tweeds 
have  grown 
in  favor  during  the  past 
summer has been  a  source  of  surprise  to 
merchants.  Just  now  they  seem  to  be 
the  rage  with  the  best  dressers.  There 
is  no  reason  why  they  should  not  be.  A 
lightweight  tweed  is  one  of  the  coolest 
suitings  one  can  select  for  hot  weather 
wear. 
loosely  woven  and  comes 
in  cool  colors.  The  summer trousers  in 
tweed  suits  are  made  to  wear  rolled  up 
at  the  bottom.

is 

It 

*  *  *

One  of  the  leading  haberdashers,  who 
is  widely  known  for the  new  things  he 
springs  on  the  dressy  fellows,  showed 
me  a  decidedly  new  thing  in  neckwear 
for  fall. 
It  is  a  stock  tie  of  the  old 
school  made  up  in  modern  silks.  The 
one  shown  to  me  was  made  from  a  me­
dium  heavy  silk,  navy  blue  and  white 
8pots.  To  get  the  effect  this haberdasher 
put  on  a  standing  collar—a  poke  shape 
—and  then  tied  the  stock  tie  with  a 
neat  bow.  He  wore  a  white  shirt.  When 
the  vest  and  coat  were  put  on'and  the 
coat  buttoned  the  effect  was  something 
decidedly  new  and  pleasing. 
It  was  so 
very  much  out  of  the  ordinary  run  of 
modern  neckwear,  yet  so  stylish  and 
distinguished  looking,  that  I  cannot  but 
predict  a  success  for  it.  It  is  not  a  style 
that  a  careless  or  indifferent dresser will 
affect,  because 
in  the  first  place  the 
man  who  is  not  in  the  dresser  class 
can't  tie  it  properly.  Then  again  it  is 
not a  style  that  the  masses  will  take  to, 
as  it  requires  the  wearer to  keep  the 
coat  buttoned  to  get the  proper effect.
It  will  be  a  style that  the  dressy  fellows 
can  have  all  to themselves.

*  *  *

I  said  just  a  year ago,  when  speaking

of  the  incoming  styles,  when  the  grays 
and  oxfords  continued  to  have  such  a 
run,  that  next  year  would  undoubtedly 
see  a  breakaway  and  a  stampede  for 
radical  changes.  That  "next  year”   is 
this  year and  the  radical  change is here. 
The  suitings  which  have  been  selected 
by  the  leading  tailors  will  run  about  70 
per  cent, 
in 
tweeds  and  10  per  cent,  in  oxfords, 
plain  grays  and  black  or  blues.

in  plaids,  20  per  cent, 

Nothing  but  sample  swatches  can  be 
seen  as  yet.  Brown  effects  are  very 
much  in  the  lead,  with  the  greenish and 
dark  blue  effects  greatly  in  evidence. 
All  the  plaids  are  indistinct  except  in 
overcoatings  and  they  are  the  regular 
Scotch  plaids—bold,  distinct,  yet  quiet 
and  comfortable  to  the  senses.  Cheviots 
predominate.—Apparel  Gazette.
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We  offer this  week.

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Used  in  advertising 

Bring  us  daily  customers 

In  numbers  most  surprising.

A  penny  is  worth  saving 
-  To  make  you  rich  at  last;
We’ll  save  you  every  cent  we  can, 

And  help  you  get  rich  fast.

With  profit  small  we’re  quite  content, 

And  that  we’ll  share  with  you;

And  you  can  save  full  ten  per cent. 

While  we  are  making  two.

Though  changes  in  monarchies  years 

may  bring.
There's  one 

Cash  is  king 1

that’s  unchangeable: 

If  words  could  picture  this  great  sale 

As  it  will  prove  on  view,

'Twould  sound  just  like  a  fairy  tale, 

And  yet  ’twould  all  be  true.

Do  you  live  to  eat?  Do  you  eat  to  live?
Just what you need we can always give ; 

We  sell  the  best,  so  come  and  buy,

And  while  you 

live  you’ll  be  living 

high.

To  make  one  dollar  do  the  work 

Of  two  or three  or  more,

Just  come  this  way  ’most  any  day 

And  purchase  at  our store.

Sing  a  song  of  valuables,
A  store  full  of  the  best;

We’ll  promise  you  the  best  there  is ; 
We’ll  prove  it  by  a  test.

Rag  time,  standard time,  sun time,  too— 
Any  time  is bargain time here  for you.

We’ll  make  your  dollar  buy  for  you 

As  much  as  others give for two.

Come  early,  come often ;  and  come when 

Here’s  goodness  and  value  and  little  to 

you  may,

pay.

A  duty  you  owe  to the  green  dollar  b ill; 
To  make  it  go  just  as  far as  it  will. 

Reading  this  rhyme 
Is  wasting  your time 

Unless  it  impresses  upon  you 

The  fact  that  now,  more 
Than  ever  before,

We’ve  bargains  unequaled  on  view.
Takes  H is  Cow  to th e Customer.

"There  are  two  ways  in  which  you 
may  buy  milk  in  Brazil,”   said  the  man 
wljo  had 
"T he  milk 
isn  t  first  rate,  and  milk  and  cream  are 
scarce,  but  there 
is  originality  in  one 
way  of  selling  it.

just  returned. 

"Sometimes  milk 

is  delivered  from 
house  to  house  in  glass  bottles,  carried 
in  wire  baskets,  something  after  the 
fashion  of  the  milkman  here,  but  there 
the  difference  begins.  The  cart  used  in 
Brazil  is  a  three-wheel  pushcart,  always

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painted  some  dark,  dull  color.  The 
bottles  are  typically  Brazilian;  they  are 
long,  small-necked,  dark  green,  second­
hand  wine  bottles,  which  have  advan­
tages  of  their  own  for  the  merchant. 
The  customer  can  not  see  the  water 
which  he  knows  is  in  the  milk,  and  the 
dark  color  simplifies  the  task of washing 
which  is quite  a  point  to  the  native.

"But  the  other  way of delivering  milk 
is  simon-pure  Brazilian,  and  it  is  a  sort 
of  a  case  of  the  mountain  coming  to 
Mahomet.  T h e.  milk  merchant 
leads 
his  cow  around  to  his  customers  by  a 
halter.  Tied  to  the  cow’s  tail 
is  a 
smaller halter,  and  at  the  other  end  of 
is  a  small  muzzle  halter, 
that  rope 
which 
is  fastened  around  the  head  of  a 
calf.  The  Brazilian  milkman  believes 
that  the  covr  will  not  give  milk 
if  un­
accompanied  by  her  calf.
"T he  merchant,  thus 

leading  his 
merchandise  and source  of  supply, walks 
barefooted  over  the  uneven  stone  pave­
ments  from  customer  to  customer. 
In 
his  hand  he  carries  an  ordinary-sized 
drinking  glass  and  a  tin  one-pint  meas­
uring  cup;  these  be  ingeniously  raps 
one  against  the  other,  and  this  is  his 
gong  to  notify  his  customers  of  his  ap­
proach.  A  customer  reached,  the  mer­
chant  gets  down  on  one  knee  and  pro­
ceeds  to  execute  the  order  while  the 
customer waits.

The  stranger  sees  no  chance  for  di - 
luting  the  milk  in  this  system  by  which 
the  consumer  sees  with  his  own eyes  the 
goods  produced.  But  the  natives—and 
they  all  agree  on  this  point— insist  that 
the  milk  merchant  has  under  his  coat  a 
rubber  bottle  filled  with  water  and  with 
a  rubber tube  attachment  which  enables 
him  to  inject  the  water  into  the measure 
along  with  the  milk.  Another  way  the 
artistic  milk  merchant  has  for milking

his  customer  is  by  producing  as  much 
foam  as  possible.  This  is  done  by  hold­
ing  the  glass  as  far as  practicable  fronf 
the  source  of  supply  during  the  process 
of  filling  the  measure.

"In   the  best  hotels  and  restaurants  on 
the  eastern  coast  of  Brazil  I  did  not 
once  see  cream  used  or  offered,  and 
milk  as  a  beverage  was  very  seldom 
seen,  and  I  did  not  once  see  it  men­
tioned  on  a  bill  of  fare.  Milk— such  as 
it  is—brings  about  15  cents  a  quart. 
United  States  money,  and  a  better  sup­
ply  even  at  this  price  would  increase 
the  demand  materially.” — New  York 
Sun.

He  Met  the  Requirem ents.

have  a  family  back  of  him .”

“ The man  I  marry,”   she  said,  "must 
"A ll  right,”   replied  the  widower,  "1 
have  three  boys  and  a  little  girl  that 
are  fairly  aching  to  have  you  be  a 
mother to  them. ”

The  telea  polyphemus,  the best  known 
species  of  American  silk  worm,  feeds 
readily on  the  leaves  of the  oak,  maple, 
mulberry,  willow,  elm  and  several 
other trees.

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B eautiful  T ribute  to 

tbe  Greatness  of 

W oman.

Woman  is  the world-compelling power 
which  makes  for  greatness,  and  if  tbe 
greatest  happiness  of  the  greatest  num­
ber  be  the  standard  of  right  and  wrong, 
or  of  good  and  evil,  it  follows  that  tbe 
source  of  that  goodness  which  makes for 
the  greatest  happiness  must he the great­
est  moral  force  on  earth.  That  source 
is  woman.  She  is  the  helm  of  all  things 
human.  She  is  at  once  tbe  most  incon­
sistent  and  the  most  relevant  thing  in 
nature.  She 
is  sunshine  on  a  holiday, 
balm  o’  Gilead,  strength  in  weakness, 
the  pound  of  sweetness  to  every  ounce 
of  sourness  in  human  life.  She  doubles 
the  joys  and  halves  the  griefs  of  every 
son  of  Adam.

She 

is  the  one  thing  needful,  a  per­
petually  recurring  comfort  and  consola­
tion,  a  whip  and  spur  to  success,  the 
shadow  of  a  great  rock  in  a  weary  land. 
The  words  of  her  mouth  are  sweeter 
than  honey  and  smoother  than  butter  in 
a  lordly  dish.  She  is  a  rod  and  a  staff, 
she  is  a  friend  that  sticketh  closer than 
is  as  good  news  from  a 
a  brother,  she 
far  country  and  as 
cold  water  to  a 
thirsty  soul.  Her  counsel 
the 
counsel  of  princes,  her  love  is  stronger 
than  death,  her  jealousy  is  as  cruel  as 
the  grave.  She  is  a  pearl  of  great  price, 
a  helpmeet  for  man,  the  star  of  his 
hope  and  betimes  the  Nemesis  of  his 
destiny.  She is all  things to all men : she 
is  Lot’s  wife,  Delilah  to Samson,  Helen 
of  Troy,  Cleopatra,  Great  Eliza,  Lu- 
cretia  Borgia,  Jenny  Geddes,  Mollie 
Pitcher,  Florence  Nightingale,  Grace 
Darling,  Flora  Macdonald,  Victoria, 
Nancy  Hanks,  Helen  Gould,  Carrie 
Nation.

is  as 

She  walks  by  faith  and  not  by  sight, 
and  her  hand  is  the  right  hand  of  fel­

lowship.  Her  face  is  the  outward  and 
visible  sign  of  an  inward  and  spiritual 
grace;  she  is  as  fair  as  the  moon,  clear 
as  the  sun  and  terrible  as  an  army  with 
light  which  never  shone 
banners.  A 
on  sea  or  land  twinkles 
in  her  eyes. 
For  her  are  wars,  peace,  fire  and sword. 
For  her  men  spend  their  strength  in 
gathering  gains  and  for  her  men  spend 
their  gains 
strength. 
Thrones, 
principalities 
and  powers  have  bowed  to  her  sway; 
she  has  crushed  empires  beneath  her 
feet;  the  proudest  of  the  sons  of  men 
have  on  bended  knee  besought  her 
mercy.

dominions, 

gathering 

in 

She  soothes  the  wrinkled  brow  of  age 
with  her  soft  caresses,  she  wipes  the 
death  dew  from  the  brow  of  the  dying, 
she  performs  a  thousand  acts  of  grace 
and  gladness  to  friend  and  stranger 
alike,  she  causes  the  widow’s  heart  to 
sing  for  joy,  she  kisses  away  the  tears 
of  the  orphan. 
In  the  first  flush  of 
motherhood  she  is  the  envied  of  gods 
and  men  and  all  angels,  she  is  a  thing 
of  divine  beauty  as  she coos and cuddles 
to  her  breast  her  first  born,the  first  born 
among  many  brethren.  Her  heart  throbs 
and  she  weeps  tears  of  sorrow  o’er  the 
bed  of  suffering,  her  notes  of  angel 
sweetness  ascend  to  heaven  as she carols 
the  yodlings  of  peace;  they  find  echo  in 
the  outmost  depths  of  perdition  as  she 
calls  her  sons  to  go  forth  beneath  the 
banners  of  war.

Nature  even  fights  upon  her  side;  she 
is  a  born  winner.  She may have  brought 
into  the  world,  but  by  her  came 
sin 
also  the  Redeemer  of  mankind. 
It  is 
hers  to  lift  up  the  fallen;  her  way  is  the 
light  dwelleth;  she  un­
way 
loosed  her  sweet 
influences  and  the 
hands  of  devildom  are  unbound.  Public 
policy,  private  happiness,  domestic

in  which 

in  themselves— do 
have  no  confidence 
not  trust  their  own  powers.  They  have 
never  learned  to  stand  squarely  on  their 
feet,  to  think  their  own  thoughts,  and 
make  their own  decisions.  They  have 
leaned  upon  somebody  from  childhood, 
all 
through  the  formative  period  of 
character-building,  until  a  habit  of 
leaning  is  chronic.

loses  its  power. 

Any  faculty  which 

is  unused  for  a 
It  is  a  law 
long  time 
of  nature  that  we  must  use  or  lose. 
If 
a  man  ceases  to  exercise  his  muscles, 
they  soon  become  weak  and  flabby. 
The  same  inexorable  law  governs  man’s 
mental  powers.  So, 
the  men  and 
women  who  have  never  learned  the  fun­
damental 
lesson  of  self-reliance,  who 
have  never  used  their  God-given  facul­
ties  in  reasoning  for  themselves,  mak­
ing  their  own  decisions,  and  being 
their  own  final  court  of  appeal,  grow  up 
weaklings,  parasites.  God 
intended 
them  to  stand  alone,  to  draw  upon  his 
inexhaustible  power  without  stint.  He 
meant  them  to  be  oaks,  but  they  have 
become  vines.  Not  realizing  that  all 
growth 
is  from  within,  they  have  re­
versed  this  fundamental  truth,  and  en­
deavored  to  draw  their  strength  from 
the  outside.— Success.

Iceland’s  Sensible  Cigarette  Cure.

The  cigarette  smoking  mania  has 
lately  broken  out  with  excessive  viru­
lence  among  boys  and  girls  in  Iceland. 
A  proposal  to  cope  with  the  nuisance  is 
being 
considered  by  the  municipa 
authorities  of  Reykjavik. 
It  will,  if 
adopted,  empower  any  male  or  female 
adult  to  box  the  ears  of  a  juvenile 
offender,  confiscate  his  or  her  weed, 
and  impound  the  stock  of  cigarettes.

Inexhaustible  supplies  of 

superior 
graphite,  almost  pure,  and  eminently 
suited  for  pencils,  are  found 
in  Si­
beria.

from  a  good  con­
peace—everything 
science  to  a  good  complexion  attends 
upon  the  will  of  woman. 
She  can 
quench  the purple  fire  of  love  by a ladle­
ful  of  lukewarm  soup,  the  milk  of  hu­
man  kindness  she  can  turn  into  curds 
and whey  by  a  dish of  bony potatoes and 
Monday  washday  hash.

Every  mortal  thing  from  law,  logic, 
literature  and  the  proper  washing  of 
dishes  to  science,  art,  medicine  and  the 
fulfillment  of  prophecy  is  made  either 
better or  worse  because  of  her.  She  is 
the  genius  of  life,  liberty  and  the  pur­
suit  of  happiness,  which  the  framers  of 
the  declaration of independence declared 
to  be  of  the  inalienable  rights  of  man.
is  forever  and  ever.  Her 
love 
beauty  knows  no  horizon.  Her 
knows  no 
limits.  Her  hate  needs  no 
added  bitterness,  and he must  be  a  great 
man  indeed  who  can  defy  her  powers.— 
New  York  Sun.

Her  reign 

The  Chronic  Leaner».

A  large  proportion  of  the  failures  in 
life  are  to  be  found  in  the  ranks  of  the 
chronic  leaners.  Everywhere  we  go  we 
meet  earnest,  conscientious  workers 
who  are  amazed  that  they  do  not  get  on 
faster.  They  wax  eloquent  over their 
fancied  wrongs,  the  injustice  that  con­
fines  them  to  inferior grades,  while  per­
sons  with  no  more  education,  ability  or 
perseverance  than  they  possess  are  ad­
vanced  over their  heads.

To  the  casual  observer,  they  seem  to 
have  cause  for  grievance;  but  when  we 
analyze  these  people,  we  find  what  the 
trouble  really 
is.  They  are  incapable 
of 
independent  action.  They  dare  not 
make  the  slightest  move  without  assist­
ance  from  some  outside  source,  the  ad­
vice  or  opinion  of  some  one  on  whose 
judgment  they  are  wont  to  rely.  They

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Shoes  and  Rubbers
Footw ear a  B ig Item   In  a   Stage  P roduc­

tion.

Through  some  oversight  the  manager 
of  a  theatrical  company  that  is  soon  to 
“ try”   an  elaborate  costume  play  upon 
an  Eastern  city  has  neglected  to  make 
arrangements  to  have  the company shod, 
and  the  anxiety  into  which  the  cast  has 
been  plunged  by.  this  carelessness  gives 
some  idea  of  the  importance  which  at­
taches  to  the  matter  of  shoeing  for a 
modern  stage  production.  The  actors 
who  have  been  engaged  for this one took 
it  for  granted  that  the  usual arrange­
ments  had  been  made  with  the  usual 
bootmaker  for  providing  them  with  the 
proper  footgear,  and  all  that  they  would 
have  to  do  would  be  to  drop  in  any  day 
and  leave  their  measurement.  That 
is 
the  way  they  have  been  accustomed  to 
buying  their  stage  shoes,  and  they  have 
been  dropping 
in 
Union  Square,  which  has  practically 
a  monopoly 
in  theatrical  bootmaking, 
every  day  for  the  last week.  The woman 
who  is  in  charge  of  the  shop  during  the 
proprietor’s  absence,  says: 
“ It  will 
teach  them  all  a  lesson.”

little  shop 

into  a 

A   man,  who  from  dress  and  manners 
was  obviously  from  stageland,  entered 
the  shop,  and  with  an  air  of  easy  assur­
ance  took  a  chair and  announced  that 
he  had  come  to  be  measured.

“ For  what?”   asked  the  woman.
“ For  what?”   repeated 

the  actor. 
“ Why, 
for  the  shoes  I  am  to  wear 
in^ , ”   mentioning  the  title  of  the  play.
“ We  know  nothing  about  the  boots 
you  are  to  wear  in  that  piece,’,’  said  the 
woman;  “ butpossibly  if  you  leave  your 
order  we  can  get  them  out  for  you  in 
time— what  style  is  it  you  want?”

Something 

to  mental 

The  actor’s  easy  assurance  gave  way 
instantly  to  bewilderment,  and  from  be­
wilderment 
stampede. 
"S ty le ,”   he  echoed,  gazing  helplessly 
around  him,  “ why,  classic,  Spanish, 
Louis  X IV .— I  don’t  know,  how  should 
I  know? 
like  that  thing 
there  in  the  show  case,”  and  he  pointed 
to  a  black  satin  Spanish  slipper  with 
high  heels  slashed  with  yellow  and 
trimmed  around  the  top  with  silver, 
“ that’s  what  I  want,  isn’t it?  something 
on  that  order,  anyway.”   The  woman 
told  him  that  it  would  be  impossible  to 
fill  an  order  from  so  meager  a  descrip­
tion,  and  advised  him  to  go  around  to 
the  costumers'  and  obtain  details.  The 
actor humbly  promised  to do  so.

When  he had  gone  the  woman  turned 
to another customer. 
‘ ' That  man, ’ ’  she 
explained,  “ would  have known all  about 
the  boots  he  is  to  wear,  if  he  had  seen 
them;  that  is,  if  we  had  made  them  for 
him  he  could  have  pointed  out  where 
they  were  historically  and  otherwise 
wrong.  As  it  is,  you  can  see  for  your­
self  how  ignorant he  is,  and  how  help­
is  customary  for  a  manager, 
less. 
when  a  new  play 
is  to  be  put  on,  to 
leave  the  order  with  a  bootmaker  for  all 
the  footgear  that  are  to be  worn  by  the 
cast;  the  style  and  the  designs  are  sent 
to  us  by  the  costumer,  ot  in  some  cases, 
are  left  to  our  own  judgment. * ’

It 

“ What  does  it  cost  to shoe  a  company 
for  a  first-class  production?”   inquired 
the  customer.

“ From  $1,000 to $1,600,”   the  woman 
answered.  “ This  present  production 
will  cost  about $900.”

“ And  who  pays  for  all.that?”
“ Why,  the  actors  themselves.  It  costs 
each one  from $80 to $100,  according  to 
the  number of changes he  or she  has  to 
make  in  the  course  of the  play.  The

The  United  States  Rubber  Company 
has  definitely  defined  its  policy  to  Jan­
uary  1,  1903.  Under  date  of  August  28 
the  following  letter  was  sent  to  the  shoe 
jobbing  trade  of  the  country:

Gentlemen—As  we  are  in  a  position 
to  determine  upon  certain 
important 
features  of  policy  for another  year,  we 
take  this  opportunity  to  advise  you  that 
we  have  decided,

1.  To  continue  the  contract  system 
from  January  1,  1902,  to January 1,  1903.
low 

2.  To  continue  a  policy  of 

prices.

3.  To  provide  a  margin  between  our 
selling  price  to  you  and  the  price  at 
which  you  will  sell  to  the  retailer,  be­
ginning  January  1,  1902,  of  8  and  8  per 
cent,  instead  of  8  and  6  per cent,  as  at 
the  present  time.

We  are  glad  to  make  this  announce­
ment  at  this  time,  and  do  so  with  the 
hope  that  it  may  be  of  benefit  to  you  in 
forming  your  plans  for the  future.
It  will  be  seen  by  the  above 

letter 
that  the  policy  of  the  company  is  to 
continue 
its  fight  against  the  outside 
companies.  A  trade  journal  represen­
tative  called  upon  one  of  the  leading 
officials  of  the  company  and  from  him 
learned  that  it  is  the  intention  to  wage 
the  war  to  a  finish,  and  he  went  so  far 
as  to  state  that  unless  there  should  be  a 
successful  termination  by  January  1, 
1903,  the  battle  would  go  on  beyond 
that  time.  The  company  means  to get 
back  the  rubber  trade  of  the  country  if 
such  a  thing  is  possible,  and  from  pres­
ent  indications  doubtless  it will result in 
a  “ survival  of  the  fittest.”

Not  as  much  as  formerly,  perhaps, 
the  complaint  is  beard  that  farming 
does  not  pay.  For  those  who  think  or 
say  such  things  there 
is  interest  and 
perhaps  a  crumb  of  comfort  in  the state­
ment  that  an  ex-governor  of  Colorado 
will  make  $500,000  profit  this  year  from 
16,000  acres  of 
land.  That  is  a  good 
return  on  the  investment.  Perhaps  the 
fact  that  this  remarkable  man 
is  an 
ex-governor  has  given  him  some  politi­
cal  pull  which  has  enabled  him  to  get 
better  prices  for his  produce  than  others 
have  realized.  At  these  figures  farming 
is  more  attractive  than  any  other  pur­
suit

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

supers,  of  course,  do  not  have  to  pay 
for  the  shoes  they  wear—they  are  in­
cluded  in  the  company's  property.”

The  popularity  of  historical  plays  has 
made  the  high  kid bootextending  above 
the  knee,  and  known  to  the  trade  as  a 
“ knickertaur, ”  
in  greater  demand 
than  any  other  style.  They  cost  from 
$xo to $18  a  pair.  Other costume  boots 
vary  in  price  from  $8  to $40 a  pair.

“ How  many  dancing  shoes,”  said  the 
woman  in  the  shop,  “ do  you  suppose 
that  young  woman  there  (pointing  to  a 
photograph  of  a  woman  balancing 
airily  on  one  great  toe)  how  many shoes 
do  you  suppose  she  ordered  here  yester­
day?  Two  hundred  pair.  Almost  as 
many  as  some  people  wear  in  a  life­
time,  isn’t  it?  She’s  going  to  Australia, 
and  she  doesn't  want  to  run  short  of 
shoes. ’ ’

The  shoes  which  the  young  woman 
had  ordered  and  which  are  kept in stock 
were  quite  shapeless and heelless affairs. 
A  pronounced  box  toe  explained  the 
ease  with  which  ballet  dancers  poise for 
minutes  at  a  time  on  them. 
“ And  all 
the 
‘ glittering  tinselled  sham,’  ”   con­
tinued  the  shopkeeper,  “ which you  read 
about  as 
foot­
lights,’  does  not  apply  to  these  wares. 
They  are  of  the  best  material  and  best 
workmanship,  and  cost  more  than  any 
shoes  of  any  sort  sold  in  this  country.”  
— N.  Y.  Evening  Post.

‘ existing  behind  the 

To  Be  a W ar to  the  Finish.

The  Western  Shoe

Toledo,  Ohio
Carry Shoes 
that Sell 
and  Satisfy

Mail  orders shipped the day  they  are  received. 

Agents for Boston  and  Bay State  Rubbers

LEG G IN G S
Same  in  B oys’ ,  above knee.......... $6.00

Over  Gaiters  and  Lam b’s  W ool  Soles. 
(Beware  of  the Imitation W aterproof L eg­
ging  offered.)  Our  price  on

Men’s  W aterproof  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   A CO.  \

M A N U F A C T U R E R S  

G R A N D   RAPIDS.  MICHIGAN 

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Y T Y T Y Y T T i T T r n r T T y T i r T Y T X

Geo. H. Reeder & Co.

Wholesale

Boots  and  Shoes

HELP

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

JULOJLSJLSJUUL

W e will  help you  in­
crease your shoe bus­
iness.  W e  m a k e  
shoes out of  Leather 
and they  are well put 
together.

Bradley & Metcalf Co.f

Milwaukee, Wls.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

18

Im portance  of K now ing the  Men  on  the 

Floor.

What  makes  a  successful  merchant? 
Have  you  ever  asked  yourself this ques­
tion? 
In conversation  with  a  half  dozen 
of  the  best  shoemen  that  this  country 
has  ever  produced,  the  above  question 
was  asked  by  a  leading  manufacturer. 
The  answer  is  this:  Successful  mer­
chants  are  not  only  good  buyers but they 
are  better  sellers.  Good  buying  simply 
forms  a  small  portion  of  the  functions 
of  a  successful  shoeman.  One  of  the 
oldest  and  perhaps  best  known  shoemen 
that  this  world  has  ever  known  used  to 
remark:  “ Any  man  can  buy,  but  it 
takes  a  good  man  to  sell,"  and  that  is 
true.

What  are  the  best  methods  of  selling 
goods  if  that  is  a  fact?  Gentlemen,  no 
matter  how  clever  you  are  in  buying, 
no  matter  how  clever  you  are  individ­
ually  in  selling,  the  first  and  most  nec­
essary  requisite 
is  good  timber on  the 
floor.  When  I  say  good  timber,  I  do 
not  mean  to  say  that  you  must  hire  all 
the  “ crackerjacks"  from  one  end  of the 
United  States  to  the  other,  and  put 
them 
in  your  department.  Make  your 
own  clerks.  This  is  an  easy  matter, 
and  it  has  been  done  by  our  most  suc­
cessful  shoemen.  You  will  ask  the  ques­
tion:  “ How  can  I  make  my  own 
clerks?”

Too  often  shoe  merchants  and  buyers 
feel  their own  importance  and  fall 
into 
the  belief  that  they  know  it  all  and  are 
loath  to  associate  themselves  with  the 
clerks  on  the  floor;  that  is,  in  a  busi­
ness  sense.  This  is  a  mistake.  The 
successful  shoe  seller  is  on  his  floor 
early,  watches  his  clerks  and  finds  out 
their  faults  and  failings.  A  pleasant 
remark  concerning  a  customer  who  has 
left  the  department  without  buying 
gives  you  a  point  on  which  to  work. 
Very  often  a  word  from  you  assists  in 
the  sale  of  goods,  and  it  also  assists  the 
clerk 
in  becoming  a  better salesman. 
Successful  shoemen  do all  these  things 
and  do  them  continually,  not  in  a  spirit 
of  disgust  but  in  a  spirit  of  friendly 
unity  which  inspires  the  salesman.  Let 
me  ask  you  a  few  questions:

Do  you  often  keep  your  clerks  after 6 
o’clock  and  tell  them  all  about  the  con­
ditions  of  trade,  advise  them  what  you 
want  pushed,  and  advise  them  what 
shoes  are  good  sellers,  and  why;  tell 
them  what  shoes  are  bad  sellers,  and 
why,  and  direct  them  to  clean  your 
shelves  of  certain  lines,  and  why?  Do 
you  ask  their  advice  about  lines  which 
you  are  about  to  place  in  the  depart­
ment,  even  though  you  do  not  act  upon 
it? 
If  a  shoeman  tells  you  that  he  feels 
a  certain  shoe  will  sell  readily,  do  you 
ask  his  reason,  or  do  you  simply  nod 
your  head  and  walk  away? 
If  he  tells 
you  a  shoe  is a  poor  fitter,  do  you  ask 
him  why?  If  he  suggests  a  small  change 
for  the  betterment  of  the  department, 
do  you  tell  him  it  is  none  of  his  busi­
ness,  or  do  you  think  twice  upon  the 
subject?  Give  him  a  kindly  word,which 
shows  that  you  appreciate  his 
individ­
ual  efforts  which  are  for your own  wel­
fare.  Do  you  ever  give  him  a  little 
talk  on  how  to approach  a  customer,  or 
on  the  manner  of  handling  shoes,  and 
on  the  styles  to  show,  and  the  best 
methods  of  handling  turnovers?

If  you  do  not  assist  your clerks  in 
every  one  of these  little  details,  remem­
ber that  you  have  a  lot to  learn  and  that 
you  are  not  yet  an  up-to-date  shoeman. 
If  you  doubt  the  soundness  of  this 
advice,  write  a 
letter to this  office  and 
let  us  put  you  in  communication  with 
some  of  the  cleverest  men  that  this

country  has  ever  known  who  continual­
ly  follow  these  lines,  and  for  that  rea­
son  can  show  their  four  turnovers,  with 
nothing  lying  in  their  stock-room  at  the 
end  of  each  season.  Think  it  over.

This 

is  the  first  milestone  on  your 
road  to  success.  The  second,  and  per­
haps  more  important  one,  is  the  confi­
dence  you  have  in  your  head  of  stock  or 
assistant  buyer.  He  is,  or  rather ought 
to  be,  one  in  whom  you  place 
implicit 
confidence  and  to  whom  you  turn  on  all 
occasions'  for  advice  and 
information 
connected  with  the  business.

It 

is  your  head  of  stock  whom  you 
should  hold  strictly  responsible  for  the 
actions  of  your  clerks  on  the  floor,  for 
the  manner  in  which  they  handle  trade, 
the  way  they  keep  their  stock,  their 
promptness,  and,  in  short,  for  every  de­
tail  which  is  connected  with  the  busi­
ness.  You  simply  give  them  your  ad­
vice  as  an  extra  precaution,  otherwise 
they  come  strictly  under the  supervision 
of  your  first  man.

If  you  have  a  man  in  whom  you  have 
no  confidence,  you  might  better  rid 
yourself  of  him ;  or,  if  you  have  a  man 
whom  you  are  afraid  to  trust  fully,  it 
would  be advisable  to  either  resign from 
your  position  or  perform  the  duties  of 
both  buyer  and  head  of  stock,  because, 
when  a  man  works  without  confidence 
in  his  own  ability,  that  man  shows  a 
weakness  which  practically  bespeaks 
failure.

A  good  head  of  stock  is  a  blessing  to 
any  bright,  up-to-date  shoe  buyer,  and 
only  too  often  the  lack  of  apprecia­
tion  shown  him  discourages  him  so 
much  that  he  would  rather  be  on  the 
floor  as  a  regular  salesman  than  hold 
the  position  of  influence  in  which  he 
is  placed.  Warm  up  to  your head  of 
stock  and  get  closer  to  your  clerks,  and 
the  result  will  be  so  favorable  that  you 
will  begin  to  wonder  why  you  did  not 
do  so  long  ago.—Shoe  Retailer.

He  W as A fter  Nickel  Jobs.

A  very  small  pile  of  coal  lay  on  the 
sidewalk  in  front  of  a  house  on A street, 
southeast.  A  correspondingly  small son 
of  Ham  was  sauntering  along,  and,  see­
ing  it,  scented  a  job.  He  rang  the door­
bell.

“ Am  dat  you  all’s  coal?"  he  asked 

the  lady  who  appeared  at  the  door. 

“ Yes.”
“ Want  it  toted  in?”
“  Yes. ’ ’
“ Kain’t  I  git  de  job?”
“ Why,  you’re  pretty  small,  and  then 
you  might  charge  too  much.  You  might 
ask  more  than  I  could  pay."

“ How  much 

small  man  of  business. 
a  dollah?"

is  yo’ got?”   asked  the 
“ Kin  yo’  raise 

“ Oh,  my  goodness,  no.”  
“ Seventy-five  cents?”
“ No;  run  along,  and  don’t  bother 
me,”   and  she  started  to  close  the  door. 

“ Mehbe  so  you’ll  gib  50 cents?”
“ No,  no;  run  along.”
“ I  reckon  yo’  all  ain’t  got  er 

qua’tah?”
“ No.”
“ Ner a  dime?”
“ No,  not  even  a  dime,”   replied  the 

woman,  beginning  to  laugh.

“ Well,  how  much  is  you  got?”   ques­
“ I 

tioned  Ham,  showing  his  ivories. 
sut’nly  does  wanter git  de  job.”

“ I’ve  got  just  a  nickel.
“ Well,  I’m 

jus’  a-lookin’  fer  nickel 

jobs.”   And  he  straightway  began.

Home  In stin ct Strong- Even  in  a Pig.
A  New  Jersey  woman  farmer  tells  the 
following  remarkable  story  and  vouches 
for  its  truth:

I  bad  more  pigs  than  I  wanted  to 
keep,  so  I  sold  one  to  a  man 
in 
the  neighboring  village.  The  little  pig 
had  been  living 
in  the  pen  with  his 
brothers  and sisters,  and  bad  never  been 
outside  of  it  until  the  man  who  bought 
him  put  him  in  a  basket,  tied  down  the

living 

cover  and  put  it  in  his  wagon  to  carry 
to  the  new  home.  Late  in  the  afternoon 
the  farmer  uho  sold  it  saw  something 
coming  across  the  swamp meadow below 
home.  He  watched  it  struggling through 
the  wet  places,  climbing  the  knolls, 
until  be  could  see  that  it  was  his  little 
pig,  all  covered  with  mud  and  very 
tired.  He  went  straight  toward 
the 
barn,  against  which  was  the  only  home 
he  recognized. 
The  money  was  re­
turned  to  the  man  who  had  bought  it, 
and  the  little  pig  stayed  at  home.

Vicissitudes  of a  Secret.

Ella—Bella  told  me  that  you  told  her 

that  secret  I  told  you  not  to  tell  her.

Stella— She’s  a  mean  thing— I  told 

her  not  to  tell  you  I  told  her.

Ella— Well!  I  told  her  I  wouldn’t  tell 
ou  she  told  me,  so  don’t  tell  her  I  did.

For  many  centuries  the  Chinese  have 
dated  all  their  public  acts,  documents 
and  chronology  from  the  accessions  of 
the  emperors.

Our

“ Black  Cat"

Work shoe is  the  best 
for men’s  wear.

C.  M .  Henderson  &   Co.

“ Western  Shoe  Builders”

Cor. Market and Quincy Sts.
Chicago, 111.

A  Chics

Wood  Wanted

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

The Grand Rapids Shoes

we make are not

Indestructible

but the concentration  of  thirty-five  years’  experi­
ence on this line of goods has produced  results that 
we find invariably  surprise  every  one.  They  are 
built for the hardest  kind  of  sustained  wear.  All 
we ask is to  submit samples and  g.ve  our  goods  a 
thorough trial.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.,

Grand  Rapids Shoes

They’ll  Never  Rip

No  Seams  or  Stitches  to  Give  Out

The Tops and Vamps of these 
shoes are cut  out  of  one  piece 
of leather,  with only a  light im­
itation seam around  the  vamp 
to give  it  a  good  appearance. 
Note the heavy full length  out­
side  Back  Stay—a feature  add­
ing strength and stability to the 
shoe.  Made in our own factory. 
Made 
in  men’s,  boys’  and 
youths’ sizes.

Makers  of  Shoes

Herold- Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

FREIGHT TRACERS

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

1 A Ü A A A

One  copy  for  R.  R.  Co.,  one  for  your  customer,  one 
for  yourself,  all  written  at  one  time— 50  c e n t s  p e r   bo ok 
of  100  full  triplicate leaves.

BARLO W   BR O S., 

G R AN D   RAPIDS,  MICH.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Dry Goods,

W eekly M arket  Review  of  th e  P rincipal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— Several  of  the  lead­
ing  tickets  of  bleached  cottons  were  ad­
vanced  %c  per  yard,  including  “ Fruit 
of  the  Loom,”   “ Lonsdale”   and  others. 
The  market  for  all 
lines  is  in  an  ex­
cellent  condition.  Those  intimately  ac­
quainted  with  the  actual  conditions  of 
the  cotton  goods  market  are  not  sur­
prised,  because  they  know  that  within 
a  few  days  all  lots  for  immediate  deliv­
ery  have  been  bought  up,  and,  in  fact, 
it  is  to-day  almost 
impossible  to  get 
anything  for  near-by  delivery,  even  at 
the  present  advanced  prices. 
It  is  ex­
pected  that  not  only  other high  grades 
of  bleached  cottons  will  be  advanced 
soon,  but  lower  grades  will  also  follow. 
Brown  sheetings  and  drills  are  also  in  a 
very  strong  position,  and  buyers  are 
finding  it  bard  to  operate,  both in  heavy 
and 
light-weight  goods.  At  present 
writing  there  have  been no open changes 
named  for  either  wide  sheetings,  cotton 
flannels  or  blankets. 
Coarse  colored 
cottons  are  improving  in  tone,  although 
the  demand  still  remains  rather  quiet, 
and  sellers  are  becoming  more  reserved 
in  their  attitude  toward  buyers.

scarce. 

Prints— Nearly  all  the  staple  prints 
are 
in  excellent  condition.  The  trade 
from  day  to  day,  while  not  showing  any 
special 
increase,  is  enough  to  keep  the 
market  in  a  good  condition,  and  some 
lines  are  positively 
Indigo 
blues  are  well  conditioned  at  the  lastest 
price,  and  no  further  advances  have 
been  made  this  week. 
In  red  prints 
and  low-priced  robes  there  is  a  curtail­
ment  of  production.  The  situation 
in 
fancy  calicoes  is  without  change.  The 
demand  is  only  moderate,  but  the  sup­
plies  are  small.  For  next  spring  there 
has  been  a  good  business  booked  for 
both  woven  and printed patterned goods.
Dress  Goods— The  majority  of domes­
tic  lines  are  not  yet  ready  to  show  and, 
according  to  the  testimony  of agents, 
many 
lines  will  not  be  complete  and 
ready  for  io  days  or  a  couple  of  weeks, 
i t   looks  as  though  it  will  be  well  on  to­
ward  the  end  of  September  before  the 
new  season  will  get 
into  full  swing. 
There  are  more  foreign  lines  showing 
than  anything  else,  but  the  buyer,  as  a 
general  rule,  does  not  show  any  hurry 
to  get 
into  the  market.  The  prepara­
tions  of  both  domestic  and  foreign 
manufacturers  have  been  confined  al­
most  exclusively  to  plain  goods,  aside 
from  waistings,  which  show  some  modi­
fications  of  style  from  last  season’s,  em­
broidered  effects  being  more prominent, 
for  instance.  There  is  little  indication 
of  a  return  to  favor  of  fancies,  although 
there  are  certain  spirits  in  the  market 
who  are  talking  fancies,  claiming  that 
there  will  be  more  of  a  disposition  on 
the  part  of  the  buyer  to  take'  hold  of 
fancies  as  the  season advances.  A return 
to  favor  of  fancy  goods  would  be  great­
ly  appreciated  by  a  great  many  domes­
tic  manufacturers,  but  it  looks  at  pres­
ent  as  though 
it  is  a  hope  which  will 
have  to  be  deferred  beyond  the  present 
season.  The  recent  improvement  in  the 
jobber’s  heavy-weight  business 
is  not 
calculated  to  hurry  his  inspection  of  the 
new  spring 
lines,  although,  of  course, 
in  the 
it  will  improve  the 
chances  of the  spring  season,  by  cutting 
down  the  stock  of  the  jobber.  As 
long 
as  his time  is  engrossed  with  the  devel­
opments  of  heavy-weight  business,  his 
interest  in  light-weights  is  likely  to  lag 
regard
somewhat.  Agents  generally 

long  run 

the  outlook  for  the  new  season  as of a 
promising  nature.  The  difficulty  ex­
perienced  by  buyers 
in  getting  deliv­
eries  as  required,  in  many  instances, 
it  is  believed,  will  lead  to  more 
liberal 
orders  at  the  outset  of  the  season  than 
was  the  case  last  season.

orders 

Underwear— Dulplicate 

for 
heavy-weights  have  been  coming 
in 
with  considerable  freedom  during  the 
past  week.  On  the  higher  grades  even 
very  fair re-orders  are  reported.  Prices 
are  very  firm  and  there  is  considerable 
talk  among  the  agents  and  others  inter­
ested  about  advancing 
in  the  near  fu­
ture,  before  the  end  of  the  season  any­
way.  Manufacturers  have  their  stocks 
in  good  shape  and  they feel  that  the  sit­
uation  is  strong  enough  to  warrant  in­
creasing  prices  to  some  extent.  Fleeces 
do  not  show  the  improvement  or  the 
strength  that  other  lines  do,  and  condi­
tions  are  not  generally satisfactory.  The 
jobbers  have  been  reserved 
in  placing 
their  orders  for  these  goods,  and  it  is 
more  than 
likey  that  they  will  have  to 
increase  their  orders  before  the  end  of 
the  season.

Hosiery— Spring  goods  are  becoming 
more  active  and  several  excellent  or­
ders  have  been  received  by  agents. 
Buyers  have  gained  a  thorough  under­
standing  of  the  market,  and  are  inquir­
ing  for  many  fine  lines of fancies.  Much 
depends  on  prices  now. 
If  the  price  is 
right  on  a  desirable  fancy  pattern,  good 
orders  are  placed  quickly.  There  is  a 
feeling,  however,  that  lower  prices  may 
possibly  prevail,  particularly 
the 
buyers  move  slowly.  Agents,  however, 
are  making  every  effort  to 
sustain 
prices,  and  so  far  with  success.

if 

is  more  favorable 

Carpets— The  selling  agents  of  some 
of  the  largest  carpet  mills  engaged on % 
goods  state  that  up  to this  time  this line 
has  continued  to  run  well.  Some  have 
every  reason  to  be  satisfied  with  the 
business  thus  far  received  this  season, 
as  they  have  sold  all  the  carpets  they 
can  make  up  to  this  time,  and  are  now 
looking  forward  to  the  re­
confidently 
ceipt  of  a 
large  duplicate  business. 
August  is  always  expected  to  be  the 
dullest  month  of  the  year  in  carpets. 
In  September  the  retailers  commence  to 
cut  up  a  large  amount  of  carpets.  The 
drought  and  the  industrial  strikes  have 
tended  to  restrict  some  business  until 
the  outlook 
in  the 
particular  localities  affected.  Manu­
facturers’  agents  do  not  expect  any 
further  advance  this  season.  Some  mills 
in  Philadelphia  on  %  goods  are running 
full.  Body  Brussels  and  Wjlton  rugs  are 
in  good  demand,  and  are  affecting  the 
sale  of  cheap 
ingrains,  body  Brussels 
and  tapestries,  but  have  not  affected  the 
demand  for  pile  carpets.  The  reason 
for  the  demand  for  these  large  rugs 
is, 
first,  they  are  reasonable  in  price;  sec­
ond, 
they  are  an  up-to-date  carpet, 
suited  to  the  present  style;  third,  they 
are  easily  cleaned,  and  also  easily 
taken  up  when  parties  not  owning  their 
own  house  want  to  move.  They  can  be 
easily  taken  up,  cleaned  and  rolled  up, 
and  do  not  need  to  be  cut  to  fit  a  room 
like  a  regular  carpet.  Pile  carpets  not 
only  are  holding  their  own,  but  are 
growing 
in  favor  each  season  with  a 
certain  class  of  the  best  trade.  Tapestry 
carpets  to-day  are  sold  at  popular 
prices.  Some  of  the most active % goods 
are  those  that  permit  retailers  to  resell 
at  $i  per  yard.  Last  May  the  large 
house  of  Sloan  &  Co.  opened  carpets 
one  month  earlier than  was  for  the  ben­
efit  of themselves  and  the  trade  in  gen­
eral.  Not  obtaining 
the  orders  ex­
pected,  they  followed  the  buyers  to  the

taken 

season  by  manufacturers 

West  and  sold  at  such  prices  that  the 
jobbers  in  the  West  have  since that time 
had  a  steady  fight  among  themselves, 
and  have  made  but  very  little  money. 
The  Saxony  axminster,  made  by  the 
Alexander  Smith  &  Sons  Carpet  Co., 
sells  as  low  as  a  cheap  velvet.  There 
have  been  more  orders 
this 
past 
of 
three  ply  ingrain  carpets  than  in  any 
one  season  previous  for  several  years. 
Buyers  begin  to  realize  that this  car­
pet  is  a  good,  serviceable  fabric,  and 
will  outlast  the  ordinary 
ingrain,  made 
with  a  special  weave.  Axminsters  and 
body  Brussels  in  general  have  run  well 
thus  far  this  season,  and  already  some 
duplicates  have  been  received,  but  it  is 
too  early  yet  to  expect  any  large  busi­
ness.  Regular  ingrains  continue  quiet 
in  general  except  in  a  few  exceptional 
instances.

Lace  Curtains—Trade  has shown some 
signs  of  improvement,  and  from  this 
time  on  to the  latter  part  of  September, 
there  is  expected  to  be  a  decided  in­
crease  in  demand.  Manufacturers  of 
tambour  work  have  continued  to  receive 
good  orders  on  this  line,  such  as  bureau 
scarfs,  pillow  shams  and  bed  spreads, 
which  are  well  sought  for.  The  finer 
lines  of  Nottingham  curtains  made  by 
domestic  manufacturers  are  receiving  a 
good  share  of  attention,  and  sales  show 
an 
increase  each  season.  This  line  is 
gradually  replacing  the  foreign  goods, 
as  domestic  manufacturers  each  season 
are  improving  the  designs,  quality  and 
fabrication.

The  new  reporter who  was  instructed 
by  his editor to  be  always  on  the  look­
out  for  any  touch  of  humor,  began  the 
account  of  the  burglary  of  a  meat  mar­
ket  as 
the 
butcher,  is  losing  flesh  rapidly.”

follows:  “ John  Blank, 

iïÂNDSl 
I

UP! 

W e  pay  special  attention  to 
the  needs  of 
the  northern 
l i n e   of  
merchants. 
O u r  
Gloves,  Mittens, 
S o c k s ,  
Mackinaws,  Kqrsey and Duck 
Coats,  Kersey  Pants,  Blan­
kets  and  Comfortables  is  a 
good  one.  Look  us  over. 
If you  can’ t  do  that  send  us 
your  wants  by  mail  and  we’ll 
take  good  care  of  them.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer &  Co.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Dress Goods

W e  have  some  exceptionally  good  values 
in  Plain  and  Mixtures  in  all  wool  Flannel  and 
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.

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Window  Dressing

Trim s  A ppropriate  to  th e M onth  of  Sep­

tem ber.

This  is  the  month  of  all  months  dur­
ing  the  fall  season  that  an  aggressive 
policy  should  prevail  with  the  retail 
merchant.  The  two  dull  months  of  Au­
gust  and  July  are  past,  the  weather  is 
cooler  and  more  comfortable  and  the 
retailer  begins  to  see  a  more  active  de­
mand  for  nearly  all  classes  of  goods. 
Farmers  have  harvested  the  bulk  of 
their  crops  and  are  likely  to  be  heavy 
purchasers  of  many  lines  of  necessaries, 
and  at  least  a  few  luxuries.  Laboring 
people  have  had  work  for six  or  eight 
months  at 
least  and  have  wiped  out 
their  old  obligations  and  are  in  a  posi­
tion  to  increase  their  purchasing power. 
The  common  people  of  the  community, 
and  that  practically  includes  every  one 
in  the  community,  are  in  a  position  to 
buy  more  extensively  of  staple  lines  of 
goods  than  at  almost  any  other time  of 
the  year.

in  all 

Seasonable  goods 

The  first  thing  to  consider  is  the  re­
arrangement  of  the  store  to  suit  the  sea­
son. 
lines 
should  be  brought  forward  and  given  a 
prominent  place  on  the  shelves  and 
in 
the  display  cases.  The  store  should  be 
thoroughly  cleaned  before  this  is  done— 
latter  part  of  August  is  the  best 
the 
period  in  the  fall  for  cleaning—and 
if 
any  redecorating  or  painting  is  on  the 
program  it  should  be  gotten  out  of  the 
way  as  early  as  possible  this  month.

Next  turn  your attention  to  the  win­
dow  displays.  The  general  merchant 
will  find  that  he  can  change  his  dis­
plays  every  week  this  month  and  then 
not  exhaust  his  resources.  One  win­
for  freak  displays, 
dow  may  be  used 
Mr.  Merchant,  if  that 
is  part  of  your 
window  advertising  policy.  By  this  is 
meant  the  display  of  harvest  products 
of  unusual  size,  such  as  immense  stalks 
of 
large 
melons,  big  potatoes,  etc.  When  you 
arrange  these  freak  displays,  put a  large 
card  in  the  window  stating:

corn,  mammoth  pumpkins, 

This  Corn  Was  Raised  By 

Owner of  a  Farm  Ten  Miles 

John  Jones,

From 

Jonesville.

It  is  the  Largest  Raised  In 

This  County,

Measuring  Twelve  Feet  In 

Now  there 

The  Shock.
is  a  definite  aim  in  this. 
John  Jones  may  be  the  meanest  farmer 
in  his  community,  but  every  member of 
that  community  will  take  a  natural 
pride  in  the  fact  that  he  raised  the  big­
gest  corn 
in  the  county  and  when  the 
other  farmers  from  Jonesville  come  to 
town  they  will  drop  into  your  store  to 
look  at 
it  and  talk  over  the  fertility 
and  resources  of  their  section.

Utilize  the  other display  window  for 
business  purposes.  Make  seasonable 
displays  of  seasonable  goods. 
If  you 
have  a  fruit  department  in  your  grocery 
store,"arrange  an  attractive  exhibit  of 
pears,  peaches,  apples,  grapes  and 
other  lines.  Use  green  cloth  for the  lin­
ing  of  the  window  for this  fruit display, 
so  that  the  colors  in  the  ripe  fruit  will 
be  brought  out  effectively.  Then  place 
at  the  back  of  the  window  a  number  of 
baskets  of  grapes  arranged  in  semi-cir­
cular  form  and  in  the  immediate  center 
fashion  an 
cornucopia  of 
paper,  gilding  the  paper  if  you  have 
the  material,  and  gilding  the  inside  of 
the  cornucopia  so  far  as  it  will  show. 
Use  every  vatiety  of  fruit  in  filling  this

immense 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

16

and  give  it  the  appearance  of  having 
been  tipped  over  onto  the  floor  of  the 
window.  A  couple  of  baskets  of  fruit 
on  either  side  of  this  cornucopia  will 
fill  out  the  window.

This  is  also  an  opportune  time  to turn 
your attention  to  the  display  of  fine  fall 
and  winter  shoes.  A  very  attractive ex­
hibit  can  be  arranged  with  a  small  ex­
penditure  of  time  and  money.  Secure 
a  false  floor to  exactly  fit  the  window, 
which  will  rest  on  the  floor of  the  win­
dow  at  the  outer  edge,  but  will  be  four 
or  five  feet  higher  in  the  rear.  This 
can  be  made  of  rough  boards.  Cover 
this  false  floor with a  rich  purple  velvet, 
and  also the  back  of  the  window  that 
remains  exposed with the same material. 
Then  display  your  newest  lines  of  shoes 
on  this  background.  Small  hooks placed 
in  the  false  floor  at  regular  intervals 
can  be  used  to  attach  the  shoes  to  the 
board.  These  hooks  should  be  covered 
up  by  the  shoes  being  placed over them, 
and  the 
latter  may  be  held  firmly  in 
place  by  tying  the  laces  through  the 
hooks.  Attach  neat,  small  price  cards 
to  each  different  style  of  shoe,  and  ar­
range  the  men’s  shoes  in  one  place,  the 
women’s  in  another  and  the  youths' 
and  misses’  at  still  another  point.

The  newest  things  in  dress  goods  for 
fall  and  winter  should  be  given  promi­
nence  for  a  week  during  the  month. 
Use  rare  taste  in  this  window  dressing, 
for  it  will  serve  as  an  advertisement  for 
several  months  to  come,  although 
it 
should  again  be  repeated  later  in  the 
season. 
If  you  have  dummy  pedestals 
about  two  feet  and'a  half  in  height  or 
three  feet,  arrange  them  in  the  rear  of 
the  window  in  semi-circular  form,  and 
display  plain  colors  in  dress  goods,  be­
ing  careful  to  show  only  the  latest colors 
offered  on  the  market.  A  most  effective 
display 
is  created  by  partly  unfolding 
the  fold  of  cloth,  and  draping  it  to  the 
floor of  the  window  over  the  dummy.

In  the  foreground  display  fancy  silks 
for  waists,  etc.  Two  or  three  folds 
in 
harmonious  colors  can  constitute  one 
pile,  the  upper  fold  being  draped  over 
in  the  pile  in  such  a  manner  as 
those 
to  reveal  only  part  of  the 
latter.  Only 
the  very  best  and  most  stylish  offerings 
should  be  given  the  place  of  promi­
nence  at  the  top.  Later  in  the  month 
there  should  also  be  a  display  of  me­
dium  weight  underwear  for  fall  wear, 
and  this  can  be  most  easily  arranged 
by  any  merchant  without  a  complete 
description.

Towards  the  latter  part  of  the  month 
the  grocery  department  should  again 
have  an  inning.  Seasonable  goods  dur­
ing  October,  such  as  canned  goods, 
maple  syrup,  pancake  flour,  cereals, 
etc.,  can  be  used  to  constitute  this  dis­
play,  and  some  original  design  should 
be  planned.

The  retail  hardware  stock  should  also 
receive  attention  at  this  time.  There 
are  many  seasonable  goods  that  should 
be  pushed  to  the  front during the month. 
Com  knives  and  tools,  such  as  husking 
gloves,  etc.,  should  constitute  at  least 
one  window  display  about  the  middle 
of  the  month.

Use  the  same  false  floor that  was - re­
quired  for  the  shoe  display,  but  remove 
the  rich  velvet  with  which  it  was  cov­
ered,  and  replace  it  with  a  yellow  mus­
lin  at  a  small  expense.  Arrange  the 
floor  in  the  same  manner  as  before,  and 
place 
in  the  center  of  it  a  display  of 
corn  knives,  dne  after  another,  in  the 
form  of  an  open  fan,  the  handles  con­
stituting  the  sticks  of  the  can. 
In  the 
upper comers  make  a  showing  of  corn 
husking  gloves,  and  other similar  corn

harvest  requirements.  A  neat 
card 
should  be  placed  at  the  foot  of  the  false 
floor nearest  the  window,  calling  atten­
tion  to the  assortment  of corn  rools  car­
ried  in  stock,  and  the  range  of  retail 
prices  on  the  same.  There  should  have 
been  a  window  display  the  early  part  of 
this  month,  or  the  latter  part  of  August, 
of  ammunition,  guns  and  rifles.  Dur­
ing  the  present  month,  the  dealer  in 
ammunition  and  sporting  goods  of  this 
character  will  find  it  a  drawing  card 
if 
he  will  keep  tab  on  the  hunting  results 
in  his  locality.  Whenever  possible  se­
cure 
information  as  to  the  result  of  a 
hunting  trip  by  those  who  reside  in 
your  community  or  those  who  are 
strangers,  but  who  meet  with  success. 
Paste  a  bulletin 
in  the  window  large 
enough  so  it  can  be  seen,  reading: 

“ John  Jones,  James  Smith  and  John 
Johnson,  of  Minneapolis,  arrived  here 
Monday  on  a  hunting  trip.  They  re­
turned  to-day  and  report  that  they  shot 
sixteen  chickens,  ten  mallard  ducks, 
two  wild  geese,  and  a  squirrel.  Most 
of  their  hunting  was  done  near Goose 
Lake.  They  were  out  two  days,  and 
they  used  Peters’  cartridges  and  two 
Parker  hammerless  guns.’ ’

is  any 

interest 

Keep  up  these  bulletins  as  long  as 
there 
in  them.  They 
may  appear  insignificant,  but  they  will 
attract  attention,  and  will  make  your 
the  headquarters 
store 
for  sporting 
In  most  towns  the  paper  is  is­
news. 
sued  weekly,  and 
information  of  this

sort  is  only  passed  by  word  of  mouth. 
The  bulletins  suggested  would  make 
your  store  the  news  center  for  such 
in­
formation.—Commercial  Bulletin.

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“ This  soda  fountain  is  in'such  bad 
shape  that  it  can  not  be  put  in  running 
order,’ ’  said  the  expert  workman  to  the 
druggist. 

“ I  was  in  hopes  it  might  be  tinkered 
up  so  that  I  could  use  it  this  season, 
anyway,’ ’  said  vhe  druggist.

“ I  fear,”   responded  the expert,  “ that 

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Batter  aad  Eggs

M ovem ent to Im prove th e  Q uality o f Eggs.
Wholesale  egg  dealers  ate  beginning 
now  to  realize  more  than  ever  before the 
necessity  of  starting  a  movement  to  im­
prove  the  quality  of  eggs  placed  upon 
the  market  during  the  hot  weather.  The 
terrible  condition  of  receipts  during 
July  and  August of this  year has aroused 
considerable  interest.  Many  wholesale 
dealers  have  made  attempts  to  improve 
matters.  Some  have  used  the  columns 
of  their  local  papers  to  discuss  the  sub­
ject,  while  others  have  circulated  fre­
quently  attractive  circulars. 
The  best 
results  we  have  beard  of  were  obtained 
in  Kansas.  At  Narka  a  firm  of  general 
merchants— Walker,  Brace  &  Lutz—are 
also engaged  in  the  produce  business. 
During  July  they  decided  to  buy  eggs 
loss  off  only.  Accordingly  they  notified 
all  their  regular  patrons  that  after  a cer­
tain  date  they  would  refuse  to  take  eggs 
case  count,  setting  forth  their  reason 
for the  move.  At  that  time  other  mer­
chants  were  paying  4  cents  per  dozen, 
case  count.  Walker,  Brace  &  Lutz 
agreed  to  pay  8  cents  for  No.  1  eggs, 
candling  all  stock  received. 
It  did  not 
take  long  to  show  the  farmers  that,  with 
frequent  marketing,  they  could  increase 
the  receipts  from  their  egg sales  consid­
the  new  system,  and 
erably  under 
Walker,  Brace  &  Lutz 
insist  that  the 
quality  of their  receipts  was  improved 
200  per  cent.  Two  of  their circulars 
were  as  follows:

July  13— Eggs  are  usually  sold  case 
count,  both  good  and bad,  and  the  price 
is  based  on  average  quality. 
In  the 
spring,  when  the  weather  is  cool,  this 
works  all  right.  But  as  the  weather  be­
comes hotter,  and  a  good  many  eggs  be­
come  heated  and  damaged,  the  price  is 
reduced  lower and  lower.

On  account  of  the  extremely  hot 
weather  this  year the  price  for the  last 
ten  days  has  been  from  $(@1.25  per 
case,  and  a  great  many  merchants  have 
reduced  their  price  to  3  and  4  cents  per 
dozen.  Others  have  paid  5  cents  and 
lost  50 to 60  cents  per case.  By candling 
our  eggs  and  shipping  only  good  ones 
we  have  been  able  to get  out  even,  un­
til 
last  Saturday,  when  our  receipts  ran 
one-half  bad,  thus  making  good  eggs 
cost  us  10  cents  per  dozen.  We  are, 
therefore,  obliged  to  either  reduce  the 
price  again  or adopt  some  plan  to  in­
duce  people  to  take  better  care  of their 
eggs  and  send  them 
in  oftener.’  We 
have,  therefore,  decided  to  candle  our 
receipts  and  pay  8  cents  for  No.  1  eggs, 
5  cents  for  No.  2,  and nothing for cracks 
is  really  the  only  fair 
or  rots.  This 
way  at  present,  as  there 
is  so  much 
difference  in  quality.

Send  them 

Eggs  to  be  No.  1 must  be  of  fair  size, 
reasonably  clean,  and  free  ftom  defects 
from  heat  or  age. 
In  order  to  secure 
this  price,  gather  the  eggs  every  day 
and  put  them  in  a  cellar or  cave  imme­
diately,  in  as  dry  and  cool  a  place  as 
• possible.  Never  put  them 
in  a  warm 
room,  for  the  beat  starts  incubation  very 
quickly. 
in  as  often  as 
possible—twice  each  week  if  you  can— 
and  never,  under  any  circumstances, 
keep  them  over  a  week.  Do  not  send 
cracked  eggs,  as  they  are  worthless  in 
hot  weather  and  can  be  used  at  home. 
Never  send  duck  eggs  to town  as  they 
are  so  large  they  do-not  fit  in  the  fillers, 
and  are  always  broken.  They  are  worth 
more  to feed  to  calves  or  pigs  than  they 
are  to  us.

Parties  living  near  town  are requested 
to  send  eggs  in  during  the  week  and 
avoid  the  Saturday  rush,  as 
it  takes 
time  to  candle  them.  Handle  your eggs 
this  way  for  one  week  and  we  will 
guarantee  that  they  will  net  you  much 
more  than  5  cents  per  dozen.  We  want 
to  help  our  customers  get  all  they  can 
for  their  produce  and  we  believe  that 
this  is  the  only  way  to  do  it  during  the 
hot  weather.

July  22—Remember  that 

in  order  to

pay  our customers  a  good price  for their 
eggs  we  must  be  able  to  sell  them  at  a 
good  price,  and  by  carefully  grading 
them  we  have  been  able  to  establish  a 
market  for  No.  1  eggs,  but  we  must 
keep  up  this  grade.
So  do  not  think  us  cranky  or  notional 
because  we  can  not  take  your cracked 
or small  eggs  at  full  price.  Remember 
that  when  we  pay  you  8  cents  for  your 
No.  1  eggs  we  are  paying  more  than 
they  are  worth 
in  Topeka  or  Kansas 
City.  Also  remember that  our  compet­
itors  in  neighboring  to.vns  who  have 
no  trade  established  for good  eggs are 
losing  money  on  regular  receipts  at  5 
cents  per  dozen,  because  they  do  not 
know  how  to  handle  them,  and  have  no 
trade  established  for  good  brands.  Re­
member  we  are  not  losing  any money on 
them  at  8  cents.  We  want  all  we  can 
handle  and  will  sell  you  goods  ]ust  as 
cheap  as  if  you  were  paying  cash.  Re­
member  we  could  buy  eggs  from  other 
merchants  for  one-half  what  we  pay 
our customers,  but  we  do  not  want  them 
after they  have  been  in  their stores  even 
one  day. 
It  is  fresh  eggs  we  want.  We 
would  much  rather  have  them  grade 
No.  1  at  8  cents  than  to  have  No.  2’s 
at  5  cents.  Remember  that  all  our cus­
tomers  who  took  good  care  of  their  eggs 
last  week  got  an  average  of  jyi  cents 
on  all  they  brought  us  Saturday.  And 
some  of  them  who  sent  them  in  twice 
during  the  week,  got  8  cents  straight. 
Remember,  we  are  not  doing  this  be­
cause  we  are  afraid  our  customers  will 
bring us a  few  spoiled  eggs  knowingly, 
but  because  a  great  many  do  not  realize 
how  quickly  an  egg  will  spoil,  and  be­
cause  they  can  sell  them,  they  take  it 
for granted  that  they  are  all  good.  We 
believe  this  is  a  good  time to show  them 
where  they  are  making  an  expensive 
mistake  by  showing  them  how  muGh 
more  they  can  get  for their eggs  by  tak­
ing  care  of  them,  and  selling  often.

Remmeber there is  no  way  of  preserv­
ing  hot-weather  eggs  so  they  will  not 
spoil.  They  do  not  keep  well  even  in 
cold  storage.  This  is  why  cold  storage 
people  will  pay  twice  as  much  for April 
and  May  eggs  as  they  will  for June  or 
July  eggs.  Don’t  think  because  some 
people  pack  their  eggs  in  summer  and 
sell  them  to the  home  merchants  in  the 
winter,  that  they  do  not  spoil,  for  they 
do,  and  the  merchant  who  buys  them 
must  lose  or  buy  the  good  eggs  cheap 
enough  to  make  up  the  average  price. 
This 
is  one  reason  why  eggs  do  not  go 
higher  early  in  the  fall  and  winter,  so 
the 
loss  really  falls  on  the  producer. 
Remember,  that 
if  your  eggs  are  not 
over  four  days old,  and  have  been  kept 
in  a  cave  or cellar,  it  will  pay  you  to 
bring  them  to  us  and  get  8  cents  for the 
No.  i ' s   and  5  cents  for  the  No.  2’s  and 
throw  out  the  rots  and  cracks,  but  if 
they  have  been 
in  a  warm  room  even 
one  day  or  are  over  a  week  old,  take 
them  to  the  man  who  will  pay  you 4 and 
5  cents  for them  straight,  and  then  next 
week  keep  them  as  we direct,  and  bring 
them  to  us  and  see  which  pays  you  bet­
ter.

One  thing  is  certain :  If  the  quality 
of  hot-weather  eggs  is  to  be  improved,
there  must  be  a  concerted  action  on  the
part  of  the  wholesale  dealers  to  start  the 
thing.  Furthermore,  there  is  only  one 
way  to  improve  matters,  and  that  is  to 
allow  the  producer  to  market  at  the  full 
price  nothing  but  No.  1  eggs,  and  the 
only  way  this  can  be  accomplished  is 
for  the  general  merchants  to  refuse  to 
purchase  stock  case  count.  This  would 
increase  the  profits  of  the  producer  be­
cause  he  would  receive  about  twice  as 
much 
for  his  good  eggs  during  the 
heated  spells  which  would  more  than 
offset  the  loss  in  bad  ones.  It  would  in­
crease  the  profits  of  the  country  mer­
chant  because  he  would  not  have  to 
stand  bis  usual  heavy  losses  on  rots  and 
undergrade  eggs. 
It  would  certainly 
improve  the  quality  of  receipts  at the 
consuming  centers,  though  during  the 
heated  spell  they  must  of  necessity  be 
more  or  less  off.  But the  average  coun­
try  merchant  will  not  dare  take  such  a 
stand,  and  herein  lies  the  difficulty.

A   Page from   a  New  Catalogue

“Store Lighting”

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

be available at any hour, day or night.

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

\

manage;  simple, yet the best.

One that does not increase  your  Insurance  premium;  all  these  and 
more, too, you get if you have a Michigan Gasolene Gas Machine 
and use Welsbach lights  of  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  total. 
than it does the other fellow with his poor yellow light.

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

It is yours for the asking.

Michigan  Brick &  Tile 
.
Machine  Company 

Morenci,  Michigan

New  Penny  Goods

And  old  ones  that  are  always  new

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...  1  for one cent
Honey Cream..............  1  for one cent

PUTNAM  CANDY  CO.,  Grand  Rapids

4 WE GUARANTEE

Our Vinegar to be an A B S O LU TE L Y  P U R E  A P P L E  JUICE V IN ­
EG A R .  T o  anyone  who  will  analyze  it  and  find any deleterious 
acids, or anything that is not produced from the apple, we will forfeit

W e  also  guarantee  it  to be  of  fall  strength  as  required  by  law .  W e  w ill 
prosecute  any  person  found  using  oar  packages for cider  or  vinegar  without  first 
removing  all traces of  our brands therefrom.

j. r o b in s o n ,M anager. 

Benton Harbor.Michigan.

How  H is Hens  W ere  K illed.

"   ‘ No,  sir,’  he 

‘ I 
them  in  the  henhouse  every  night.’

shouted. 

"T he  best  I  could  do  was  to  advise 
the  old  man  to  sue  the  heirs  of  the  thief 
if  he  had  any. ”

“   ‘ And  the  train  ran  over them  when 
in  the  henhouse, 

they  were  locked  up 
did  it?  How  do  you  explain  that?'

"   ‘ Jes’  ez  easy  ez  rollin’  off  a  log,’ 
he  answered.  ‘ A  blame  thief  broke  into 
the  henhouse  and  stole  three  of  my  big­
gest  hens,  an’  then,  ez  he  was  cross’  the 
track  down  here,  the  midnight  train  ran 
into  him  an'  killed  my chickens,  an' the 
man,  too.’

"Railroads  are  often  blamed  for fight­
ing 
legitimate  claims  against  them,”  
said  the  claim  agent.  "Now,  a  railroad 
doesn’t  care  to  be  always  fighting  its 
customers 
in  the  courts,  but  they  are 
fairly  driven  to  it.  Settle  one  legiti­
mate  claim  promptly  and  you  will  be 
immediately  swamped  with claims  that 
are  not 
legitimate.  The  other  day  we 
received  a  claim  for the  price  of  three 
bens  from  an  old  farmer whose  farm  ad­
joins  our  right  of  way.  The  claim  was 
really  too  small  to  pay  any  attention  to, 
but  I  was  called  down  to  that  point  to 
investigate  the  death  of  a  man  who  had 
been  killed  by  one  of  our trains  near 
the  old  man’s  place,  so  I  inquired  con­
cerning  his  claim  for  dead  bens.

Fanny Davenport

"F irst  of  all,”   said  the  merchant  to 
the  youthful  applicant,  " w e ’ll  have  to 
test  your  ability  as  a whistler.  Suppose 
you  try.”

"Hang  up  your  hat,”   cried  the  mer­
chant,  "you ’re  the  boy  we’ re  looking 
for. * ’

“   ‘ What  were  they  doing  on  the  track 
at  midnight— roosting  on  the  rails?’  I 
asked,  sarcastically.

A Trade Maker

" I ’m  sorry,  sir,”   said  the  boy,  "but 

"   ‘ That  thar train  that  gits here  about 

"   'What  train  killed  them?’  I  asked 

midnight,’  he  answered.

I  can’t  whistle  at  all.”

Engaged on  the  Spot.

of  the  old  man.

1

5c Cigar

Trade  Supplied  By:

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

W O R L D ’S  B E S T

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

lock 

Observations by  a  Gotham  Egg H an.
When  it  happens  (as  it  did  early  this 
summer)  that  fresh  collections  of  desir­
able  eggs  fall  below  the  consumptive 
needs  of  the  market,  and  dealers  are 
obliged  to  piece  out  with  refrigerators, 
the  first  goods  to  come  out  are  usually 
those  that  are  owned  by  egg  jobbers 
themselves.  Egg 
jobbers—that  is  the 
class  of  trade  selling  directly to retailers 
— usually  put  away  more  or  less  stock 
in  the  spring  according  to  the  general 
opinion  as  to the  safety  of  storing. 
If 
market  conditions  enable  them  to  use 
these  goods  at  a  profit  they  generally 
work  them  out  before  coming  on  the 
market  for  general  purchases  of  held 
eggs.

Last  spring  the  prices  at  which  the 
stock  was  accumulated  were  very  gen­
erally  regarded  as  dangerously  high, 
and  I  am  inclined  to  think  that  the  job­
bing  trade,  as  a  rule,  put away  less  eggs 
than  usual,  although  the  total  with­
drawals  by  larger  operators  were  unusu­
ally  heavy.  When  the  hot  July  drouth 
struck  the  country  and  supplies  of  use­
ful  fresh  gathered  eggs  fell  below  con­
sumptive  requirements,  the  first  refrig­
erator  eggs  to  be  used  were  those  held 
by  jobbers,  and  the  stock  held  by  this 
class  of  trade  has  since been very largely 
reduced  or,  in  many  cases,  entirely  ex­
hausted.  Many  of  the  egg  jobbers,  hav­
ing  used  up  all  the  reserve  eggs  they 
put  away  themselves,  have  lately  been 
on  the  market  buying  from  the  larger 
holders— both  for  current  and 
later  re­
quirements—and it  is  an  undoubted  fact 
that  at  the  present  time  the  great  bulk 
of  the  storage  eggs  are  held  by  the 
larger  operators  and  that 
in 
consumptive  channels  have  been  re­
duced  to  an  unusually  low  point.

stocks 

the 

This 

in  the 

estimating 

is  a  fact  that  must  be  borne  in 
mind  when 
future 
chances  of  the  egg  market.  Of  course 
the  real  key  to  the  situation  (apart 
from  future  unknown  conditions)  is  in 
the  quantity  of  held  stock  remaining—  
whether  it 
is  in  the  hands  of  one  class 
of  trade  or  another.  But estimates  of 
quantity  are  generally  made  from inves­
tigations 
larger  centers,  and  a 
comparison  here  may  be  misleading. 
There  are  a  great  many  jobbing  houses 
located  in  the  smaller cities  throughout 
the  country  who  have  their  own  cold 
storage  facilities,  and  who  usually  at 
this  season  have  several  weeks’  supply 
of  refrigerator  goods  on  hand.  We  may 
have  more  eggs  in  public  refrigerators 
than  usual,  and  yet,  if  the  stocks  in 
these  smaller,  private  houses  are  about 
exhausted,  the  trade  may  be  so  much 
more  dependent  upon  the  goods 
in 
public  storage  as  to  give  certainty  of

unusually  rapid  reduction  under  equal 
trade  requirements.

Talking  with  dealers 

in  outlying 
cities  leads  me  to  the  conclusion  that 
egg  jobbers  who  put  away  eggs  last 
spring  have  already  exhausted  most  of 
their  holdings,  and  if  this  is  a  fact 
it 
means  a  more  active  movement  of  stock 
from  the  larger  warehouses  than  usual 
during  the  early  fall, provided  consump­
tion 
lessened  by  high 
prices.

is  not  much 

This  is,  of  course,  a  favorable feature 
in  the  present  egg  situation,  but  it  is 
still  to  be  remembered  that  pricq^  are 
relatively  high  and  that  it  would  take 
only  a  very  moderate  further advahce  to 
place  prices  where  the  volume  of  con­
sumptive  trade  would  be  considerably 
curtailed.  The  ultimate  safety  of  the 
market  doubtless 
lies  in  conservative 
operations  during  the  coming  six  weeks 
or  more. 
in  fall  fresh 
eggs  is  indulged 
in  to any  extent  the 
market  will  undoubtedly  be  driven  soon 
to  higher  level  and  the  later  position 
seriously  endangered. 
If  fresh  goods 
are  allowed  to  go  freely  into  distribu­
tion  and  refrigerators  pushed  out  at 
about  present  prices  the  outcome,  while 
not  entirely  assured,  will  be  as  favor­
able  as  circumstances  will  permit.

If  speculation 

♦  *  *

I  noticed  a  lot  of  Michigan  eggs  one 
day  last  week  that  served  as  an example 
of  a  good  many.  The  eggs  were  of  good 
quality,  containing  a 
large  percentage 
of  first-class  stock,  but  they  were  poorly 
packed 
in  old,  second  or  third  band 
cases  and  had  been  seriously  damaged 
thereby.  The  cases  were  weak  and  bad 
looking,  the  fillers  did  not  fit  well,  and 
the  shifting  of  the  contents  in  transit 
had  caused  serious  breakage.  These 
eggs  would  have  sold  promptly  at  17c 
at  mark—quite  probably  at  I7J£c—had 
they  been  properly  packed  in new cases, 
but  as  they  were  they  would  not  bring 
over  16c  at  the  most.  Here  there  was  a 
flat  loss  of  30@45c  per  case—enough  to 
more  than  pay  for the  entire  packing  in 
a  first-class  manner. 
In  such  matters  a 
man  who  saves  at  the  spigot  loses  at  the 
bung  hole.— N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

A  Careless  W oman.

Wife— Henry,  can’t  you  let  me  have 

some  money  to-day?

Husband—What  did  you  do  with  that 

dollar  I  let  you  have  last  week?

Wife  (good  naturedly)—Well,  I  had 
to  have  a  new  bonnet  and  a  heavier 
wrap,  and  Willie  and  Katie  needed  new 
shoes,  and  John  had  to  have  a  new  suit, 
and  Frank  a  new  hat,  and  Caroline 
needed  a  new  gown,  and  Mary  a  pair 
of  gloves  and  David  an overcoat—and— 
and—and,  really,  Henry,  I  don’t  re­
member  what  I  did  with  the  change.

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D ETRO IT,  MICHIGAN

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

F IN E   C U T

UNCLE  DANIEL. 

OJIBWA.

FOREST GIANT. 

SW E E T SPRAY.

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

P L U G

CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

SO-LO.

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The  Meat  Market

M eat D ealers  N ever D ie of  Consum ption.
“ Butchers  never  die  of  consum­
ption.’ ’  The  big  man  with  his  sleeves 
rolled  up,  wielding  the  clever  at  the 
block,  said  this  as  he  threw  a  beefsteak 
on  the  scale.

It  sounded  more  like  a  trade  supersti­
tion  than  a  fact,  hut  so  far  as  diligent
inquiry  has  been  able  to  discover  it  is 
true,  although  not  generally  known  out­
side  of  the  meat  chopping  craft.

Butchers  are  no  longer  lived  than men 
in  other  walks  of  life.  They  are  sub­
ject  to  all  the  other  ills  that  human flesh 
is  heir  to,  but  consumption  they  do  not 
have.  So  far  as  a  reporter  was able  to 
learn,  not  a  single  case  is  on  record  of 
a  butcher  in  this  city  being  afflicted 
with  the  incurable  wasting  of  the 
lungs 
which  claims  its  hundreds  of  thousands 
of  victims  annually.*

The  fact  is  well  known  among  butch­
ers  and  has  been  often  the  subject  of 
their  comment,  although  none  of  them 
can  give  a  reason  for  it.

“ N o,’ ’  said  a  man  who  has  swung 
sides  and  rounds  in  a  Washington  mar­
ket  for  20 years ;  “  I  have  had  rheuma­
tism  and  typhoid  fever  and 
lots  of 
other  things,  but  nothing  has  ever  been 
out  of  gear  with  my 
lungs,  and  the 
is  true  of  every  other butcher  in 
same 
this  town. 
I  know  nearly  all  of  them, 
and  I  never  beard  of  one  of  them  hav­
ing  consumption.  They  don’t  drink 
blood  or  take  any  especially  good  care 
of  themselves  either. 
I  don’t  know
why  it  should  be  so  unless  it's  because 
the  continual  inhaling  of  an  atmosphere 
of  fresh  meat  is  strengthening.

“ I  have  often  thought  when  hearing 
of  consumptives  going  to  Colorado  and 
Egypt  that  I  know  of  a  climate  nearer 
home  that  would  do  the  business  just  as 
well. 
If  they  would  stay  in  this  stall 
for  awhile  and  swing  meat,  they  would 
get  well  quite  as  quickly  as  they  would 
on  the  top  of  Pike’s Peak.” — New  York 
Mail  and  Express.

Tim ely  W arning To  Bew are  of Unions. 
From the Butchers’ Advocate.

it 

We  have  repeatedly  warned  the  retail 
butchers  to  guard  against  permitting 
their  employes  to  become  members  of 
unions,  pointing  out  the  fact,  at  the 
same  time,  that  such  a  movement  was 
quietly  going  on  in  various  sections  of 
the  country. 
If  any  lesson  were  needed 
to  point  out  the  harm  such  a  union  can 
do,  we  had 
in  the  affair  just  closed 
in  San  Francisco,  where  the  employes 
of  the  retail  shops  went  on  strike  be­
cause  the  employing  butchers  insisted 
on  serving  meats  to  restaurants  that 
were  being  boycotted  by  the  waiters' 
union.  Later  an  additional  feature  was 
the  demand  that  all  retail  shops  display 
union  cards.  Of  course,  the  employing 
butchers  won  their  fight,  but  not  until 
they  had  been  put  to  a  great  deal  Of  in­
convenience  and 
loss.  A 
union  fight  is  now  threatened  nearer 
home— in  Pittsburg,  Pa.— where  the 
employes  have  formed  a  union  and  kept 
^he  fact  from  their employers.  Now  the 
officers  of  the  union  announce  that  its 
members  want $15  a  week  and  12  hours’ 
work  a  day. 
In  Albany,  N.  Y.,  there 
is  another  strong  union.  Efforts are  be­
ing  made  to  make  it  stronger,  as  will 
be  seen  from  the  following,  which  is  a 
copy  of  a  notice  sent  out:  “ Market 
owners  who  do  not  employ  help  over  16 
years  of age,  meat  cutters,  hotel  butch­

financial 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ers,  wholesale house  and  slaughter house 
employes  are  requested  to  attend  and 
place  their  names  on  the  roll  of  mem­
bership.  All  persons  working  at  the 
trade,  not  joining  at  this  meeting,  will 
be  subject  to  the  increased  initiation 
tax.  The  market  cards  will  be  given  to 
the  members  to  place 
in  the  market 
windows  and  committees  appointed  to 
visit  all  labor  organizations  in  the  city 
and  request  them  to  trade  only  where 
union  cards  can  be  found.’ ’

F.  P.  REYNOLDS  &  CO.

Dealers in Foreign and Domestic

FRUITS

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

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

DETROIT,  MICH.

W hy Londoners  Look  w ith  Suspicion  on 

th e  Sausage.

Established  1876. 

H.  F.  ROSE  &  CO.,

Phones  504.

The  people  of  London  have  taken  a 
sudden  dislike  to  the  sausage.  One 
cannot  blame  them  after  reading  the 
following  from  the  Lancet,  a trustworthy 
English  publication:

About a  year ago  certain  persons  were 
prosecuted  and  heavily  fined  for  selling 
and  using  for human  food  material  pur­
chased  from  a  cats’  and  dogs’  meat 
dealer,  and  somewhat  similar  mysteries 
have  again  been  enacted  in  the  same 
neighborhood. 
It  appeared  for  a  long 
time  that  the  cats'  meat  trade  had 
ceased,  but  by  means  of  a  midnight 
vigil  the  sanitary  inspector  ascertained 
that the  cats’  meat  was  removed  surrep­
titiously  to a  small  private  house,  from 
which  it  was  fetched  by  makers  of saus- 
sages.  After  considerable 
trouble  a 
butcher  was  followed  home  with  a  con­
signment  of  this  material,  which  on 
arrival  at  the  butcher's  premises  was 
seized  and  condemned.  We  are  glad 
to  hear  that  further  legal  proceedings 
are  impending.  The  inspector is  of  the 
opinion  that  an  enormous  amount  of 
this  objectionable  substance,highly  sea­
soned  with  condiments, 
in, 
and  that  regular  markets  exist  for the 
trade.
More  Profit  In  K illing  Than  in  Caring.
A  butcher  who  must  have  understood 
his  business  thoroughly  and  was  not  a 
price  cutter,  was  looking  at  a  row  of 
houses.  We  are  certain  he  was  not  a 
price  cutter  and  that  he  understood  bis 
business,  because  the  row  of  bouses  be­
longed  to  him.  He  had  just  bought  the 
row  and  paid  cash  for  it.  While  con­
gratulating  himself  on  his  purchase  an 
old  doctor  sauntered  along,  and  stopped 
to  say  “ how  de  do”   to  the  hearty 
butcher.

is  dealt 

“ Doctor,  what  do  you  think  of  my 
houses?”   asked  the  butcher.
“ You  don’t  mean  to  tell  me  you  own 
that  row,  do  you?”   inquired  the  doctor 
incredulously. 
“ Well,  well,  my  friend, 
there  is  evidently  more  profit  in  killing 
than  in  curing,”  and  the  doctor smiled.
“ I  don’t  know  about  that,”   said  the 
butcher,  shaking  his  bead. 
“ I  have  to 
kill  before  I  can  cure.”

“ Well,  it’s  different  with  me,”   said 
the  doctor,  absently,  as  he sauntered  on.
it  over  some 
time  before  he  discovered  that  he  had 
spoiled  the  doctor’s  little  joke.

The  butcher  thought 

Tea and  Coffee.

England  and  Russia  are the  two  chief 
tea-drinking  countries  of  Europe,  and 
the  partiality  of  the  Russians  for  tea 
is 
shown  by  the  fact  that  while  the  con­
sumption  of  coffee  in  that  empire  is less 
than  it  was  four  years  ago  the  consump­
tion  of  tea  has  tripled  during  that 
period.  Germany  and  France  are  the 
chief 
countries  of 
Europe,  and 
in  the  United  States,  in 
which,  usually,  tea  has  been  a  more 
popular  beverage  in  the  country  and 
coffee  in  the  urban  districts,the  increas­
latter  has  been 
ing  popularity  of  the 
affecting  adversely  the 
importation  of 
tea  into  the  United  States.

coffee-drinking 

Tea  drinking  in  the  United  States  is 
certainly  not  on  the  increase  and  coffee 
drinking  certainly  is.

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How  the  Coffee  Trade  Can  Be  Increased.
There  are  several  parties  who  are  di­
rectly  interested  in  increasing  the coffee 
trade  and  making  it  profitable.

First  the  importer,  second  the  jobber 
and  last  the  retailer.  The  importer,be­
cause  of  his  volume  of  business,  which 
consists  of  deals  in  thousands  of  sacks, 
is  satisfied  with  a  small  percentage  of 
profit.  The  jobber  who  sells  in  lots  of 
fifty#  to  five  hundred  pounds  or more 
must  necessarily  increase  his percentage 
of  profit,  and  last  the  retailer  who  deals 
out  coffee  to  the  consumer  in  small 
packages  is  rarely  satisfied  with  a  small 
profit.  The  object  of  this  paper  will  be 
to  attempt  to  show  the  retailer  how  to 
increase  his  coffee  business  and  at  the 
same  time  make  it  pay  him a legitimate 
profit.

The  consumption  of  coffee 

in  the 
United  States  has  largely  increased dur­
ing  the  past  three  years.  This  has  been 
brought  about  by  the  tax  of  ten  cents 
per  pound  placed  upon tea by the United 
States  government  in  consequence  of.the 
Spanish-American  war.

This  tax  has  been  borne,  not  by  the 
consumer,  but  by  the  retailer  who,  in­
stead  of  advancing  his  retail  prices,  is 
still  selling  at  the  old  prices,  and  to 
make  this  up  has  pushed  the  sale  of 
in  many  cases  is  selling  a 
coffee  and 
cheap  grade  at  a  large  profit  and 
is  in 
this  way  increasing  his  profits.

This,  upon  first  thought,  would  com­
mend 
itself  to  the  majority  of  retailers 
as  being  the  best  way  to  increase  trade 
and  profit.  This  plan  would  certainly 
work  to  perfection  should  all  the  deal­
ers  do  the  same  thing,  but  unfortunate­
ly  for  those  who  have  been  doing  this, 
there  are  many conscientious merchants, 
who  are  satisfied  with  the  old  and 
legitimate  profit,  who  are  giving  their 
customers  a  good  article  at  a  fair  and 
living  profit.

Experience  has  demonstrated  the  fact 
that  the  merchant  who  sells  good  goods 
at  a  fair  profit  is  the  one  who  has  in­
creased  his  business  and  because  of 
this  increase  his  profits  have  been  com­
paratively  larger. 
It  must  be  admitted 
by  all  dealers  in  groceries  that  there 
is 
a  larger  percentage  of  profit  in  coffee 
than  in  any  other  line  be  carries.

If  this 

is  so,  why  do  you  not  pay 
more  attention to  the buying  of  this  line 
of  goods?

It  is  a  deplorable  fact  that  the  aver­
age  merchant  does  not  know  a  Rio 
coffee  when  he  sees  it,  and  because  of 
this  lack  of  knowledge,  he  is  often  im­
posed  upon  by  unscrupulous  salesmen 
who  call  upon  him  once,  load  him  up 
and  leave  him  with  a  stock  of  goods  on 
his  hands  that  it  sometimes  takes  years 
for  him  to  dispose  of.

The  use  of  coffee  is  on  the  increase 
and  will  continue  to  increase  year  by 
year,  and  I  would  urge  the  retail  mer­
chant  to  study  the  particular details  of 
his  business. 
It  has  been  said,  “ every 
man  to  his  trade,”   and  to  be  a  success­
ful  merchant  one  must  certainly  give  a 
little  time  and  study  to  his  business  or 
he  can  not  hope  to  succeed.

Many  will  say  they  have  not  the  time 
to  give  to these  details.  To  those  who 
are  affected  in  this  way,  let  me  say,  the 
old  reliable  house  you  have  been  deal­
ing  with  for  so  many  years,  has  made 
a  study  of  coffee  and  is  prepared  and 
anxious  to  give  you  the  benefit  of  the 
study.  Why  then  take  up  with  every 
new  scheme  presented  to  you  by  sales­
men  you  have  never  seen  before,  who 
tell  you  some  new  story  about  a  new 
process  of  roasting  and  cleaning  and 
who  have  only  fixed  up  this  piece  of

bait  that  they  may  tempt  you  to  bite? 
Barnum  said,  “ A  sucker  is  born  every 
minute,’ ’ and  I  sometimes  think  there 
is  a  large  percentage of  this  kind  of  fish 
among  the  retail  trade,  when  a  sales­
man  will  offer  a  Mocha  and  Java  coffee 
at  15c  per  pound  and  the dealer bites  off 
a  thousand  pound  order  and 
finds, 
when  too.  late,  he  has  this  amount  of 
low  grade  Rio,  for  which  he  has  paid  a 
big  price.

This  slight  digression  from  my  sub­
ject 
is  the  result  of observation  which 
1  have  made  during  my  limited  experi­
ence  as  a  coffee  salesman  and  my  ex­
perience  as  a  retail  grocer  in  former 
years.

In  closing  let  me  make  a  few  sugges­

tions :

Coffee consumption is  on  the  increase, 
therefore  you  should  give  this  branch  of 
your  business  all  the  attention  possible. 
If  you  feel  you  have  not  the  time  to  de­
vote  to  this  department  of  your  busi­
ness,take  into  your confidence  the  sales­
man who  represents  a  reliable  house and 
who  you  know  will  be  honest  with 
you,  tell  him  what  you  want,  make  your 
complaints  regarding  coffee  known  to 
him,  advise  with  him  and  you  will  find 
him  ready  and  willing  to  do all  he  can 
for  you  to  make  this  branch  of  your 
business  a  success.

Do  not  jump  from  one  line  of  goods 
to  another  unless  you  are  satisfied  you 
are  not  receiving  honest  tieatment  from 
those  with  whom  you  are  dealing.

You  will  be  unable  to  get  any  line  of 
coffee  which  will  satisfy  all  your  trade. 
Push  the  sale  of  bulk  coffee  in  prefer­
ence  to  package  goods.  Be satisfied with 
a  legitimate  profit  and  don’t  represent 
to  your trade  that  you  have  a  coffee  for 
15c  per  pound  that  is  just  as  good  as 
your  neighbor  is  selling  for  forty  cents. 
— E.  Will  French  in  Commercial  Bulle­
tin.

Feeding the  Frisky  Calf.

The  weaned  calf  is  full  of  the  infinite 
It  desires  its  sus­
and  eternal  energy. 
tenance  mightily,  but 
it  desires  it  in 
the  way  nature  has  taught  it  to  obtain 
sustenance.  The  sight  of  the  pail  seems 
to  fill  the  calf's  mind  with  forebodings. 
The  calf  desires  to  look  up  when  it 
drinks.  The  farmer’s  son  desires  it  to 
look  downward  into  the  pail.
The  farmer’s  child  must  hold  the  pail 
between  his  feet  with  his  hands,  using 
his  two  other  hands to  hold  firmly  the 
cow's  child  to  the  milk.  When  the  calf 
humps  its  back  and  tries  to  jump,  it 
is  necessary  to  hold  it  down  with  two 
more  hands.  When 
it  breathes  hard 
into  the  pail  and  blows  the  milk  all out, 
you  must  twist  its  tail  with  two  more 
hands.

Just  before  a  calf  bunts  it  wiggles  its 
tail.  At  the  premonitory  wiggle  the 
tail  must  be  held  also,  meantime  keep­
ing  the  calf's  head  directed 
into  the 
pail.

Don’t  get  excited.  Stand  perfectly 
still,  inspiring  the  calf  to  confidence  by 
your coolness  and  sang  froid.  There  is 
nothing  equal  to  sang  froid in the initial 
lesson,  ana  without  this  attribute  the 
pedagogue  is  sadly  hampered.

There  are  other 

requirements,  the 
chief  one  being  that  the  teacher  must 
know  more  to  begin  with  than  the  calf.
By  following  these  directions closely a 
calf  can  be 
induced  to  fill  itself  with 
invigorating,  life  prolonging  milk  in' a 
very  few  lessons,  so that  it  will  run  its 
nose  clear  to  the  bottom  of  the  pail  at 
the  first  bunt.

When you  feed  a  calf  it  is  better to  be 
alone.  Especially  is  it  necessary  not to 
allow  the  women  of  the  homestead  to  be 
present. 
The  proceeding  sometimes 
looks  like  cruelty,  and  they  have  other 
methods  of  calf  feeding  that  seem  more 
feasible  to  them,  and  they  do  not  hesi­
tate  to  expresss  them  at  critical mo­
ments, 
thus  shaking  your  confidence 
in  yourself,  and  incidentally  shaking

the  calf’s  already  small  confidence  in 
you.
|It  is  an  art—that  of  calf  feeding—that 
has  not  been  sufficiently  treated  in  the 
bulletins of the Agricultural Department.

Refused  $50,000  for  Hts  Apples.

From the Kansas City Journal.

B.  F.  Coombs,  of  Kansas  City,  was 
offered  $50,000  yesterday  for  his  year’s 
apple  crop.  The  proposition  was  made 
by  C.  O.  McDonald,  representing  Pat­
rick  Gleason,  of  LeRoy,  N.  Y.  Mr. 
McDonald 
last  night  that  he 
expected  the  deal  to  be  made,  but  Mr. 
Coombs  stated  still 
later  that  he  had 
decided  not  to  accept  the  offer.

indicated 

“ I  have  concluded,  after  careful 

in­
vestigation,”   he  said,  “ that  my  crop 
will  be  worth  several  thousand  dollars 
more  than  the  amount  it  is  proposed  to 
give.”

Mr.  Coombs  is  one  of  the  largest  ap­

ple  growers  in  the  United  States.

Mr.  McDonald  expresses  the  opinion, 
after  having  visited  twelve  apple-grow­
ing  States,  that  his  crop  this  year  will 
be  more  valuable  than  that  of  any  other 
man.  He  has  640  acres  of  apples  at 
Parker,  Kan.,  500  acres  at  Lane,  Kan.,

and  460 acres  at  Willow  Springs,  Kan. 
It  is  estimated  that  his  entire  yield  will 
exceed  30,000  barrels.  He  will  harvest 
forty  carloads  of  Jonathans  alone.  No 
other  man 
in  the  world  will  have  so 
many.  His  trees vary  in  age  from  seven 
to  fourteen  years,  and 
the 
Jonathan,  Ben  Davis,  Winesap,  Mis­
souri  Pippin  and  a  few  other  varieties.

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W om an’s World
Im ag in ary   Ills  W hich  A re  th e  H ardest 

to  Bear.

Not 

long  ago  a  man  committed  sui­
cide  in  New  York  because  he  believed 
that  be  had  cancer of  the  stomach  and 
was  doomed  to  be  an  incurable  sufferer. 
An  antopsy 
in  this  case  showed  that 
his  only  trouble  was  his  unfounded 
fears.  A  pathetic  incident  of  the  trag­
edy  was  the  coroner's  remark  that  he 
was  often  called  upon  to  hold  autopsies 
upon  the  bodies  of  people  who  had 
killed  themselves  in  fits  of  despondency 
over deadly  diseases,  from  which  they 
were  not  suffering.

This  is  a  strong  and  gruesome 

illus­
tration  of  the  old  paradox  that the  worst 
calamities  of 
life  are  those  that  never 
happen,  but  everybody’s  personal  ex­
perience  will  bear  out  the  assertion  that 
it  is  the  imaginary  ills  that  are  hardest 
to  bear.  The  clouds  that  darken  the 
sunshine  of  to-day,  the  drop  of  bitter 
in  the  present  cup  of  happiness,  are 
not 
trials  and  tribulations  and 
sufferings  we  are  actually facing.  Those 
we  have  the  courage  to  bear. 
It  is  the 
dark  shapes  of  trouble  that  may  be 
waiting  to  pounce  upon  us  ten,  fifteen 
or  twenty  years  hence  that  we  worry 
ourselves  over.  We  are  like  foolish 
children  who  in  the  broad  light  of  day 
frighten  themselves  by  conjuring  up 
bogie  men  out  of  the  shadows.

the 

Women,  having  more  time  than  men 
in  which  to  indulge  their  imaginations, 
are  especially  adept  at this, and  the  rea­
son  that  so  many  women  go  bankrupt 
in  happiness  is  not  that  they  have  so 
much  real  sorrow,  but  because  they  per­
sist  in  borrowing  trouble  at  usurious 
rates  of  interest. 
It  used  to  be  thought 
that 
ill-health  and  delicacy  in  women 
were  a  hall-mark  of  feminine  .refine­
ment  and  delicacy,  and  for a  woman  -to 
have  owned  to  a  hearty  appetite  would 
have  been  esteemed  almost  unladylike. 
Thank  heaven,  we  have  outgrown  that 
piece  of  idiocy, but  women  have  not  yet 
gotten  beyond  a  kind  of  sentimental 
feeling  that  melancholy  is  an  indication 
that  they  are  serious  minded  and  take 
soulful  views  of  life.

Perhaps  no  one  will  exactly  admit  to 
that  charge,  but  a  woman  who  is  bright 
and  lively,  who  enjoys  a  good  dinner 
frankly  and  a  good 
laugh,  and  who 
finds  life  amusing  and  diverting,  espe­
cially  one  who  doesn't  go  into  spasms 
of anxiety  every  time  one  of  her  chil­
dren  stubs  his  toe  for  fear  he  will  have 
blood  poisoning,  and  who  doesn’t  walk 
the  floor  in  anxiety  every  time  her  able- 
bodied  husband  doesn't get  home  at  the 
minute  she  expects  him,  is  sure  to  be 
looked  upon  askance  by  other  women, 
and  to  be  regarded  as'frivolous.

This  faculty  for  suffering  from  im­
aginary  ills  fills  the  sanitariums  of  the 
land And  makes  hundreds  of  thousands 
of cures  for  every  possible  sort  of  fake 
religion.  Half tbe  time  when  a  woman 
is  sick  she  needs  to  have  her 
imagina­
tion  doctored  instead  of  her  body,  and 
anything  that  can  arouse  her out  of  her 
dismal  brooding  on  herself  will  cure 
her.  All  of  us  have  known  women  who 
had 
for  years  who 
were  cured  by  a  sudden  necessity. 
Sometimes  the  kind,  patient  husband 
dies,  and  a  houseful  of  little  children 
must  be  fed  and  clothed,  and  the  in­
valid  forgets  herself  and  gets  up  and 
goes  to  work,  a  well  wdman. 
I  knew 
one  woman  who  was  cured  by  a  couple 
of  new  dresses.  Her  poor  “ nerves”  
had  gotten  into  such  a  state  that  they

invalids 

been 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

In  the 

required  her  to stay  in  a  darkened  room 
and  everybody  in  the  house  to go  by  on 
tiptoe.  * A  celebrated  neurologist  was 
at  last  called 
in.  He  examined  the 
sufferer  carefully  and  then  wrote  a  pre­
scription  calling  for  a  swell  silk-lined, 
tailor-made  frock  and  a  silk  evening 
gown. 
interest  of  getting  the 
clothes  and  wearing  them  to  show  them 
off,  the  woman  forgot  all  about  being 
sick  and  was  permanently  cured.  Still 
another  case  I was personally acquainted 
with  was  that  of  a  woman  who,  after the 
death  of  a  child,  went 
into  a  state  of 
melancholia  that  culminated  in  nervous 
prostration  and  slouchy  wrappers  and 
untidy  hair  and  a  sofa.  One  day  she 
accidentally  overheard 
a  gossiping 
friend  say  that  she—tbe  wife— was  not 
going  to  live  long  and  that  it  would  be 
a  good  thing  for  the  husband,'as  he  was 
too  young  and  handsome  to  be  tied  to 
an 
invalid  for  life,  and  that  remark 
cured  the  wife.  All  the  jealousy  in  her 
nature  flamed  up  and  she  rose  up  and 
got  her  some  good  clothes  and  was  a 
well  woman  from  that  day  on.

in  a 

luxury 

comfortable 

Another  of  the  imaginary  ills  from 
which  women  suffer  is  the  fear  of  pov­
erty.  No  one  believes  in  prudence  in 
money  matters  more  than  I  do,  but there 
! is  reason  in  all  things  and  there  are  so 
many  women  who  never  indulge  them­
selves 
in  the  present  for 
fear  that  some  time  in  the  far  distant 
future  they  may  want  it.  They  can’t 
enjoy  a  good  dinner  to-day,  dreading 
that  twenty  years  on  they  may  be  hun­
gry.  There  are  plenty  of  women 
in 
comfortable  circumstances  who  might 
have,  in  moderation,  the  things  that 
make  life  worth  living—a  pretty  home, 
a 
clothes, 
travel,  books,  amusements,  yet  who 
deny  themselves everything  and  exist  in 
the  most  barren  surroundings,  simply 
because  their  imagination  has  conjured 
up  the  poorhouse  as  a  possible  destina­
tion  for  them.  They  don’t  seem 
to 
make  any  distinction  between  prodigal­
ity  and  prudence,  and  because  of  the 
bugbear  of  possible  poverty  they  do 
without  everything  they  might  have  as 
well  as  not.  Yet  it  is  the  irony  of  fate 
that  those  who  have  what  they  want  and 
•enjoy  themselves  as  they  go along  seem 
to  escape  the  almshouse  just  as  often  as 
anybody  else.
/ 1  know  women  who  get  a  good  gown 
and  hang  it  up  in  the  closet,  because 
it

table,  good 

is  kept  shrouded 

is  too  good  to  wear,  until  it  is  out  of 
fashion. 
I  go to  houses  where  the  par­
lor  is  kept  shut  up  except  when  a 
chance  guest  arrives  and  where  the  best 
bedroom 
is  kept  for company  and  not 
used  once  a  year.  Every  bit  of  pretty 
furniture 
in  linen. 
Mosquito  netting 
is  over  the  pictures 
and  the  bric-a-brac,  everything  is  being 
saved  for—what?  I  don’t  know.  1  have 
asked  myself  that  question  a  thousand 
times,  but  somewhere 
in  the  back  of 
tbe  head  of  the  mistress  is  a  bogie  of 
dread  of some  imaginary 
ill.  Perhaps 
she  thinks  that  the  time  may  come

when  she  won’t  have  enough  clothes  or 
a  chair to  sit on  or a  picture  to  look  a t 
Perhaps  she  doesn’t  know  herself  why 
she  does  it,  but,  none  the  less,  she  is 
doing  a  wrong  and  wicked  thing  to 
cheat  herself  and  her  family  out  of  the 
comfort  and  good  they  could  get  out  of 
their  possessions  to-day.  Be  sure  that 
when  we  come  to  the  end  of  life  it  is 
not  the  things  we  have  enjoyed  we  shall 
regret. 
It  is  the  pleasures  we  have 
missed.  There  is  a  world  of  philosophy 
in  tbe  exclamation  of the  glutonous  old 
king:  “ Let  fate  do  her  worst. 
I  have 
dined.”

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What  women  suffer  in  discounting  the 
misfortunes  that  might  happen  to  their 
families  has  made  the  world  a  good 
understudy  of  purgatory  for  many  a 
wife  and  mother.  As  soon  as  a  woman 
loves  a  man  she  seems  to  regard  him  as 
an  imbecile  who  is  not  capable of  walk­
ing  downtown  without  getting  run  over 
by  the  street  cars.  He  may  have  taken 
perfectly  good  care  of  himself  for  forty 
years  before  she  ever  saw  him,  but  the 
minute  she  marries  him  she  begins 
worrying  about  his  getting  his  feet  wet 
or  eating  something  that  doesn’t  agree 
with  him,  and 
if  he  is  detained  down­
town  at  night,  she  goes  into  hysterics 
while  she  pictures  him  being  set  upon 
by  murderers  and  thieves.

Once  upon  a  time  I  was  the  guest  of 
a  woman  who  was  walking  the  floor  be­
cause  it  was  io o’clock  and  her husband 
hadn't  come  home.  Every  minute  she 
would  advance  a  new  theory  of  sudden 
death,  until  I  got  weary,  and  at  last  1 
said  in  a  tone  of  deep  compassion :

“ I  hadn’t  noticed  it  at  all.”
‘ ‘ Noticed  what?”   she  asked,  stop­
ping  tramping  up  and  down  the  carpet.
“ Why,  that  Mr.  Blank  had  softening 

of  the  brain,”   I  answered.

“ Softening 

of 

the  brain,”  

she 

screamed,  “ what  do  you  mean?”

“ Well,”  

I  replied,  “ nothing  else 
than  the  fact  that  his  mind  has  given 
away  could  account  for  your  anxiety. 
Certainly,  if  he  has  his  senses  about 
him,  a  big,  strapping,  double-jointed, 
6-foot  man  could  be  depended  on  to 
take  care  of  himself  in  his  home  town 
for  a  few  hours  without  throwing  any­
body  into  a  panic.”

She  sat  down  after  that  and  in  the 
course  of  half  an  hour  Mr.  Blank  came 
home  all  right;  but  Mrs.  Blank  doesn’t 
speak  to  me  as  she  passes  by.

There  are  mothers  who  suffer  all  the 
agonies  of  anticipated  death  and  part­
ing  every  time one  of  their children  gets 
a  slight  cold,  friends  who  are  always 
imagining  estrangements  where  none 
exist,  people  who  eat  their  hearts  out 
believing 
themselves  unappreciated 
geniuses—all  darkening  the  world  with 
borrowed  trouble,  when  they  might  just 
as  well  be  cheerful  and  happy  and  en­
joying  the  pleasures  about  them,  for, 
after  all,  dread  it  as  one  may,  one  can 
not  avert  the  common  sorrows  of  our 
common  lot.

In  reality  there 

is  nothing  more  in­
finitely  pathetic  than  this  thought  of  all 
that  we  suffer  from  imaginary  ills.  No­
where  else  do  we  show  a  philosophy  so 
weak  and  a  religion  that  is  such  a 
mockery  as  when  we  fear  to  trust  the 
future  to  the  hand  that  gives  it,  and 
that  will  give  us  heart  and  courage  to 
bear  what  comes  of  joy  or  sorrow.

Dorothy  Dix.
Not  K eeping  W edding Anniversaries.
When  the  man  behind  the  desk  saw 
the  caller  with  the  little  pad  of  yellow 
paper  coming  toward  his  end  of  the 
room  he  braced  himself  as  if  ready  for 
almost  anything,  but  he  was  hardly  pre­
pared  for the  question  that was plumped 
at  him.

“ Are  there  as  many  wedding anniver­
saries  celebrated  now  as  formerly?”  was 
asked.

Notwithstanding  the  unexpectedness 

of  the query,  he  answered  it  offhand.

“ No,”   said  he,  “ there  are  not—at 
least,  not  in  Grand  Rapids. 
In  back- 
woods  districts  it  may  still  be  the 
proper  caper  to  give  a  big  entertain­
ment  to  friends  and  neighbors  every 
year  when  the  marriage  day  comes 
around,  but  people  in  this  town  have

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

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too  many  other  things  on  their  minds  to 
pay  much  attention  to  a  little  thing  like 
that.”

“ Is  that  the  only  reason  they  don’t 
celebrate?”   asked  the  caller.  “ Because 
they  are  too  busy?”

“ Oh,  no,”   said  he,  “ there are others. 
For  one  thing,  a  good  many  people 
don’t 
live  together  long  enough  these 
days  to  do  much  celebrating.  The  aver­
age  couple  is  divorced  and  married over 
again  to  somebody  else  by the  time  they 
reach  the  tin  wedding  period.  Natur­
ally,  this  excess  of  matrimonial  activity 
is  inimical  to  the  wedding  anniversary 
industry. ”

The  caller  frowned  disapprovingly. 
“ What  a  terribly  pessimistic  view  of 
society!”   was  the  severe  comment.

“ Then,  of  course,  there  are  other 
causes  operating  against  metropolitan 
wedding  celebrations,”   continued  the 
man  at  the  desk. 
“ It  is  considered 
old-fashioned  and  in  bad  form  to  cele­
brate  anything  of  less  importance than  a 
silver,  gold  or diamond anniversary,  and 
even  though  the  divorce  court  does  not 
interfere,  death  is  apt  to  step  in  before 
those  milestones  are  reached,  and  thus 
the  number  of  wedding  anniversaries  is 
curtailed.

“ It  may  be  that  several  years  hence 
this  custom  which  is  now 
suffering 
such  a  decline  may  resume  its  former 
popularity,  but  at  present  there  is  noth­
ing  to  indicate 
its  revival.  All  signs 
point  to 
its  decay.  The  newspapers 
show  it,  for  one  thing.  The  society  col­
umns  contain 
less  than  one-half  the 
number  of  notices  of  that  nature  that 
they  had  ten  years  ago,  and  among  the 
regular  paid-for  announcements  there 
is  a  corresponding  decrease.

“ But  society  reports  are  not,  after all, 
the  surest  indication  of  the  unpopular­
ity  of  the  custom,  because  the  majority 
of  people  who  celebrate  their  wedding 
day  do  not  advertise  their  doings  in  the 
newspapers.  The  number  of  invitations 
of  that  character  that  are  printed  by 
stationers  are  the  most  reliable  test,  and 
I,  being 
in  the  business,  am  able  to 
state  positively  that  there  has  been  a 
great  falling  off  in  the  wedding  anni­
versary  business  in  the  past  few  years.
“ I  don’t  know  but  what  this  change 
in  the  fashion  is  a  good  thing,  too,  for, 
of  all  the  fool  contrivances  ever  in­
vented,  some  of  the  presents  given  at 
wedding  anniversaries  are  the  worst. 
I 
know  all  about  it,  because  I  have  been 
I  have  been  married 
through  the  mill. 
twenty-eight 
far  we 
have  celebrated  every  anniversary  that 
was  capable .  of  being  celebrated.  We 
haven't  kept  nearly  all  the  stuff  given 
to  us  on  those  occasions—even  the  sen­
timent  which  forbids  the  giving  away 
of  a  present  could  not  compel  us  to  do 
that—but,  in  spite  of  all  our auction 
sales  and  donations  to  poor  relation, 
we  still  have  our  house  packed  with 
more  trash  than  we  know  what  to  do 
with.

years,  and  so 

“ I  don’t  see,  either,  what  is  the  sense 
in  naming  an  anniversary  the  tin  wed­
ding  or  wooden  wedding  or crystal  wed­
ding,  and  so  on.  People  never  go  by 
the  names.  They  just  give  whatever 
they  want  to give  or  can  afford  to  give. 
We  got  just  as  many  spoons  and  forks 
at  our  wooden  wedding as on our twenty- 
filth  anniversary,  and  the  last  celebra­
tion,  which  was  held 
in  a  hard  times 
year,  called  forth  a  good  deal  more 
wood  than  silver.  At  our tin  wedding, 
about  the  only  thing  we  got  in  the  tin 
line  was  a  dishpan  and  a  wash  boiler, 
while  on  our crystal  anniversary  we  got

enough  tin  cups  and  pans  to  stock  a 
store. ’ ’ 

.

The  caller  looked  at  the  man  quiz­
“ Then  you  don’t  intend  to 

zically. 
celebrate  any  more?”

resignedly. 

“ Oh,  yes,”  

“ ‘ If  we 
live  long  enough  we  will  give  ourselves 
a  big  send-off  when  we  reach  the  fifty- 
year mark.  The  custom  may  be  in  the 
fashion  again  by  that  time,  but  even 
if 
it  is  still  antiquated  we  will  celebrate, 
just  for the  name  of  the  thing.”

Cora  Stowell.

W hy W omen Cannot E ndure One A nother.

Why  do  women  dislike  women?
“ It  isn’t  jealousy,”   said  one  of  the 
sex  who  is  a  newspaper  reporter,  “ be­
cause  the  dislike 
is  not  confined  to 
homely  and  unsuccessful  women,  and 
"the  objects  are  not  always  pretty  and 
It  may  be  because 
successful  ones. 
women  are  not  so  easily  ‘ done.’ 
From 
a  reporter’s  point  of  view,  it  is  distinct­
ly humiliating  to  feel  that  you  are  toler­
ated  in  your  professional  capacity 
just 
because  you  are  a  woman,  that  you  are 
given  time  and  attention  that  would  not 
be  shown  a  man  simply  because  it  is 
not  customary  to  show  a  woman  out  the 
door.

“ And  yet  all  women  in  business  do 
take  advantage  of  these  little courtesies, 
shameful  as  the  admission  may  seem. 
But 
it  is  not  really  indefensible.  A 
woman  works  under  so  many  handicaps 
that  do  not  touch  a  man  that  an  oc­
casional  advantage  must  be  eagerly 
seized  to  make  chances  anything  like 
even.  She 
the  inestimable 
help  of  bullying,  and  her  smiles  and 
glances  are  just  another  form  of  ‘ bluff,’ 
but  then  it  is  the  only  form  left  her  and 
makes  just  so  much  for  success.

is  denied 

“ It  is  not  because  women  are  women 
that  they  are  disliked  by  their  own  sex 
in  business. 
It  is  because  the  average 
‘ home  woman’  doesn’t  understand. 
Usually  she 
is  monarch  in  her  home, 
absolutely  the  most  important  person  in 
it,  and  she  loses  the  true  appreciation

of  the  importance  of  other  people  out­
side  it.  A  man  in  business  is  constant­
ly  brought  in  contact  with  men  who  are 
his  equals  or  superiors,  who  have  equal 
rights  with  him,  whereas  a  woman  may 
spend  two  hours  a  day  visiting  with 
callers  of  her own  grade  of  intelligence, 
as  against  sixteen  spent  with  the  chil­
dren  and  the  servants.  When  she  does 
meet  men,  it  is  either  in  the  capacity 
of  grocery  boys  or  clerks  whose business 
it  is  to  defer  to  her  opinions,  however 
illogical,  or  in  a  social  way  when  it 
isn’t  worth  while  to  combat  her  ideas  if 
they  happen  to  be  erratic.

“ So  that  unless  she  makes  a  very 
great  effort  she  becomes  positive  ana 
dogmatic,  and  when  she  meets  other 
women  where  there  is  a  clash  of  inter­
ests,  she  expects  the  same  deference 
from  them  that  she  receives in  her  daily 
surroundings  from  men,  and  this  is  in 
a  great  measure  the  reason why women’s 
discussion,  when 
it  strays  outside  the 
realms  of  dress  and  babies,  is  not  al­
ways  as  peaceful  as  is  desirable.

“ Their  daily  habit  of  acting  as  sole 
dictator  sometimes  discounts  the  opin­
ions  of  others,  and  leads  each  woman  to 
expect  of  every  other  woman  the  defer­
ence  to  her  little  peculiarities  she  is 
in 
the habit  of  receiving and gives occasion 
for  the  misanthropic  advice 
‘ Peg 
Woffington’ : 
‘ Do  let  the  dear  ladies  be 
natural;  let  them  hate  each  other.’  ”

in 

The  Very  Latest.

Sunday  School  Teacher—God 

first 
made  the  world  and  all  the  beasts  and 
the  birds.  Now,  what  was  the  last  thing 
he  created,  Willie?
Willie  Green—Why,  I  guess  it’s  the 
brand  new  baby  that  came  to  our  house 
Friday. 
I  ain’t  heard  of  anything 
later.

Then  He Takes  H is  Chances.

“ A  millionaire 

pretty  much  his  own  way 
world,”   said  one  philosopher.

can  have  things 
this 

in 

“ He  can,”   answered  the  other,  “ un­

til  he  comes  to  make  his  w ill.”

MICA

AXLE

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 FECTIO N   OIL  IS  TH E  S T A N D A R D  

TH E  W ORLD  O V E R

H IQ H B 8 T   PRIOR  PAID  F O R   E M P T Y   C A R B O N   A N D   S A S O L I N I   B A R R E L S

STA N D A R D   OIL  CO .

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Hardware

Claim s  Com binations  A re  Offspring  of 

la r g e   Buyers.

Prior  to  1860-1870 the  manufacturers 
of  this country  could  invest  their capital1 
in  various  enterprises  with  a  reasonable 
assurance  of  obtaining  a  fair  return 
upon  their  investments.  The  dealer  in 
turn  could  buy  the  products  of  the  man­
ufacturer  with  a  feeling  of absolute  cer­
tainty  that  he  would  be  able  to  realize  a 
fair  margin  of  profit  upon  his  pur­
chases.  Failures  were  rare,  except  dur­
ing  a  few  periods  of  financial  panic, 
and  such,  as  did  occur  were  caused  by 
mismanagement,  or  want  of  business 
capacity.  The  manufacturer, before  de­
ciding  to  embark  bis  capital  in  an 
in­
dustrial  enterprise,would  ascertain, first, 
whether  there  would  be  a  fair demand 
for  his  products,  and,  second,  whether 
they  could be  disposed  of  for  reasonable 
profit.  The 
invariably 
base  bis  prices  upon  those  made  to  him 
by  the  manufacturer,  add  a  fair  per­
centage  of  profit  and  sell  his  goods  with 
less  effort  and  with  greater  satisfaction 
to  the  buyer  and.  consumer  than  at 
present. 
In  more  recent  years there  has 
been  a  marked  change  in  these  condi­
tions,  with  the  result  that  both  manu­
facturers  and  jobbers  have  become  little 
less  than  speculators, and  there  has  been 
about  as  muqh  certainty  of  profit in buy­
ing  Louisiana 
lottery  tickets  or cotton 
futures  as  there  has  been  in  the  pur­
chase  of  an  ordinary  stock  of goods  by 
the  merchant  or the  usual  supply  of  raw 
material  by  the  manufacturer.

jobber  would 

I  am  sure  that  most  hardware  dealers 

will  agree  with  me  that  this  change 
our business  conditions  has been neither 
beneficial  nor  profitable,  and  that  any 
system  which  will  reduce  buying  and 
selling  to  a  more  safe and  certain  basis, 
should  demand  and  receive  the  cordial 
support  and  encouragement  of  every 
business  man  in  this  country. 
I  affirm 
that  this  change  in  conditions  has  been 
brought  about  largely,  if  not  entirely, 
by  buyers  who  are  usually  ignorant  of 
the  actual  cost  of  production  and  who 
are  unwilling  to  allow  the manufacturers 
a  reasonable  profit  over  cost.  These 
buyers  have  been  materially  assisted  by 
over-zealous  salesmen  who  are 
ever 
ready  to  sacrifice  profit  in  order  to  se­
cure  business,  and  the  result  of  theii 
combined  efforts  has  been  the  combina 
tion  and  the  trust.

It  has  struck  me  that  the  original 
cause  of  the  jobber’s  earnest  effort  to 
lower  prices  has  generally  been  a  desire 
on  his  part  to  purchase  goods  cheape 
than  his  competitors,  and  that  in  his 
endeavor to  accomplish  this  end,  he  fre 
quently  seems  utterly  regardless  of  the 
fact  that  he  may  be  forcing  the  manu­
facturer  to  sell  at  an  actual  loss.  This 
constant  and  never  ceasing  pressure  for 
lower  prices  has  finally  resulted  in  forc­
ing  many  manufacturers  to  the  wall, and 
the  survivors  into  agreements  to  main­
tain  prices 
I 
therefore  assert,  without  fear of  success­
ful  contradiction,  that  the  buyer  is  the 
true  parent  of  the  combination.

for  self-preservation. 

The  unfortunate  result  of these  efforts 
on  the  part  of the  jobber  to take  from 
the  manufacturer  his  last  vestige  of 
profit  in  his  endeavor  to  purchase  goods 
at  lower  prices  than  his  competitor  is 
found 
in  the  fact  that  he  seldom,  if 
ever,  accomplishes  his  purpose,  for  it 
is  a  rare  salesman  who  will  confine 
these  “ special”   prices  to  the  original 
beneficiary.  He  feels that  it  would  be 
both  unjust  and  unfair to  his other  cus­

tomers  to  place  them  at  a  disadvantage 
with  others  in  selling  his  goods,  and  the 
usual  result  follows  that his special price 
soon  becomes  a  regular  one.  This  con­
stant  hammering  cf  prices also frequent­
ly  brings  about  a  feeling  of  antagonism 
between  buyer  and  seller  where  only the 
best  of  feeling  and  true  community  of 
interest  should  exist.  My  experience 
has  been  that  the  average  buyer  bases 
his  idea  of  cost  largely  upon  the  prices 
he  has  been  able  to  extort  from  the 
manufacturer  from  time  to  time,  and 
this  is  anything  but  a  safe  guide,  as 
makers  of  such  staple  articles  as  iron, 
steel,  nails  and  wire  can  easily  testify.

If  there  was  any  real  benefit  to  be  de­
rived  from  this  unreasonable demand for 
lower  prices,  there  might  be  some  ex­
cuse  for  it,  but  there  is  absolutely  none. 
The  jobber  rarely,  if  ever,  secures  any 
better  profit 
from  these  “ special”  
prices,  for  he  invariably “ passes  it  on”  
to  bis  customer,,  and  he  in  turn  to the 
consumer,  who has  neither  asked  for  nor 
expected  the  concession.  The  manufac­
turer  has  therefore  been  forced  to  sur­
render  his  profit  without  having  ben­
efited  his  customer.  The  combination 
of  business  interests  for  the  purpose  of 
maintaining  profitable  piices  only  came 
into  existence  when  it  became  neces­
sary  for  self-preservation,  and 
is 
therefore  extremely  probable  that  it  is 
here  to  stay.  The  world  has  been  as­
tounded  by  the  enormous  sums  which 
have  recently  been  invested  in  various 
industrial  and  carrying  enterprises  and 
the  character and  standing  of  the  men 
who  have  embarked  the  buik  of  their 
fortunes  in  these  companies  give  us 
reasonable  guaranty  of  their  stability 
for  both  the  present  and  the  future.

it 

The  failure  of  one  or  more  of  these 

enterprises  are 

colossal  combinations  would  cause 
financial  convulsion  such  as  the  world 
has  seldom  seen,  and  the  effects  would 
be  so  far-reaching  and  general  as  to  be 
acutely  felt  throughout  the  four quar­
interests  of 
ters  of  the  globe.  The 
industrial 
these 
so 
closely 
interwoven  with  those  of  the 
great  transportation 
lines  as  to  make 
them  almost  identical,  and  anything 
which 
injuriously  affects  the  one  must 
of  necessity  seriously  affect  the  other, 
It  is  therefore  manifestly  to  the  interest 
of  each  to  foster  and  build  up  the other, 
Those  who  are  at  the  head  of  these  gi 
gantic  companies  are  men  who  have 
fully  demonstrated  their ability  to  man 
age 
large  affairs  successfully,  and  it  is 
reasonable  to  assume  that  they  will  pur 
sue  such  a  course  as  will  popularize  the 
new  concerns  with  the  masses,  and  add 
to  the  general  prosperity  of  the  coun 
try.  They  are  well  aware  that  they  can 
only  hope  to  prosper  when  the  country 
generally  is  prosperous.  Their  policy 
will  therefore  unquestionably  be  such 
as  to  render  prices  stable  and  to  secure 
the  good  will  and  support  of  the  jobber 
and  dealer,  as 
it  is  only  through  them 
that  they  can  hope  to  dispose  of  their 
products. 
clearly
proven  that  violent  fluctuations in prices 
are  alike  injurious  to  both  manufactur 
ers  and  jobbers,  and  that  short  periods 
of  inflated  prices  are invariably followed 
long  periods  of  corresponding  de­
by 
pression  and 
loss.  We  can  therefore 
reasonably 
for  a  considerable
period  of  stable  prices  and  fair  profits 
in  business  for  the  future.

Experience  has 

look 

It  will  be  left  to  the  jobber  in  many 
cases  to  determine  whether  it  is  to  his 
best  interest  to  patronioze  the 
large 
combinations  and  thus  aid  them 
in 
maintaining  stable and profitable prices, 
or  encourage  outside  competition,which

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

almost  invariably  results  in  uncertainty 
as  to  prices,  and  a  corresponding  un­
certainty  as  to  profits.

We  would  do  well  to  remember that 
efforts  to  break  up  combinations  by 
patronizing  outside  manufacturers  usu- 
Uy  result  in  such concerns being bought 
up  by  the  combinations  or  a  protracted 
period  of  price  cutting,  which  is  in­
jurious  alike  to  both  buyer  and  seller, 
and  which  finally  terminates  in 
the 
survival  of  the  fittest.”   Should  the 
fortunes  of  war  eventually  declare 
in 
favor  of  the  stronger concerns,  experi­
ence  has  shown  us  that  the  losses  sus­
tained  by  them  will  have  to  be  made 
good  by  advancing  prices  for  a  consid­
erable  period.  This  being  the  case,  I 
fail  to  see  where  either  the  jobber or 
consumer  has  been  materially  benefitted 
by  purchasing  bis  goods  at  lower  prices 
from  outside  concerns.

C.  M.  Fouche.

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estimated  to  approach  $15,000,000  in 
value.  The  first 
leather  of  the  kind 
known  in  this  country  was  made  in  that 
city  seventy-five  years  ago. 
It  was  first 
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about  fifty  years  ago.  Great  improve­
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time,  and  manufacturers  claim  that  the 
domestic  is  fully  as  good  as  the  foreign 
article,and  wears  as  well  without  crack- 
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Many  tanneries  are  new,  and  most 
of  the  others  have  been  fitted  with  new 
machinery  and  conveniences  for  tan­
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insurance Co.

Organized  1881.

Cash Capital, $400,000.  Net 8urplu&, $200,000.
D. Whitney, Jr., Pres.

Detroit,  Michigan.
Caeh Assets, $800,000.
D.  M. F erry, Vice Pres.

F . H . Whitney, Secretary.
M. W . O’Br ien, Treas.

E. J. Booth, Asst Sec’y. 

Directors.

D. W hitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker,
M. W . O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  M urphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A .  H. W ilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Kirke  W hite,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  H ugo 
.=  Scherer,  F.  A .  Schulte,  W m.  V.  Brace,
®   James  McMillan,  F.  E.  D riggs,  Henry  §  
§   Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D.  ®  

Stan dish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S.
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey,  David  C.  W hit­
ney, Dr. J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

ness,  which  I  have  been  in  ever  since.
I  do  not  know  of  any  experience 
the 
which  more  conclusively  proves 
value  of  perfect  confidence 
in  one’s 
powers  both  felt  and  revealed.—Thomas 
Martindale  in Grocery  World.

it 

How  a Man  Samples  Breakfast Food.
“ Did  you  ever  see  a  man  getting  a 
free  sample  of  breakfast  food?”   asked 
a  salesgirl  in  a  leading  city  store.

serving 

“ He  sneaks  up  to  the  counter where 
they  are 
in  those  little 
dishes,”   she  continued,  “ as  if  he  had 
just  happened  along.  Then  he  sort  o’ 
stands  there,  looking  at  the  goods on  the 
shelves  as 
if  he  wanted  to  buy  some­
thing,  till  the  girl,  just  to  get  rid  of 
him,  asks  him 
if  he  wouldn't  like  to 
try  a  sample  of  the  new  breakfast  dish. 
He  seems  to  be  surprised,  says  he 
doesn't  know,  then  guesses  be  will,  and 
when  she  gives  him  the  dish  he  calls 
for  a  little  more  sugar,  eats  the  stuff  up 
to  the  last  particle,  asks  how  she  sells  it 
and  how  it's  prepared,  says  he  thinks 
it’s  very  good,  and  he’ll  have  his  wife 
get  some  the  next  time  she  comes down­
town.  Then  he  sneaks  away  without 
buying  any  of  it,  and  that's  the  last  the 
girl  ever  sees  or  hears  of him.  And the 
girl  knows  that’ll  be  the  way  of  it  all 
the  time  she’s  waiting  on  him.  There’s 
nothing  makes  me  as  tired  as  a  man 
shopping  in  a  department  store.”

Then  the  salesgirl 

jabbed  her  lead 
pencil  viciously 
into  the  lump  of  hair 
at  the  back  of  her  head  and  turned  to 
wait  on  a  customer.

She’d  Come  Back.

“ You’re  keeping  bachelor’s  hall,  I 

understand.”

ing  of  it?”

“ Temporarily,  yes.”
“ What  kind  of  a  success  are you mak­

say  in  answer to  that.”

“ Well,  there  is  only  one  thing  I  can 
“ What?”
“ It’s  a  mighty  good  thing  my  wife 

doesn’t  know  the  details.”

Clerks’  Corner.

Value  of  Perfect  Confidence 

A bility.

in  One’s 

I  have  not  been  in  the  grocery  busi­
ness  all  my  life;  my  early  experience 
was  in  the  dry  goods  business.  Nearly 
in  the  beginning  I  went  to  a  big  dry 
goods  merchant  in  Toronto,  Ontario, 
and  asked  for  work.

“ What  can  you  do?”   he  asked.
“ I  can  do  anything,’ ’  I  replied.
“ Can  you  run  a  white  goods  coun­

ter?”   asked  the  merchant.

I  answered  that  I  could  so  confidently 
that  I  was  given  charge  of  the  white 
goods  counter at  a  salary  of  $450  a year. 
After  I  had  been  there  a  few  weeks,  the 
manager of  the  silk  department  became 
mixed  up  with  the  flowing  bowl  one 
day,  and  went  home  “ sick.”   His  em­
ployer  was  deeply  put  out  and  sent  for 
me.

“ Do  you  know  enough  about  this 
business  to  run  the  silk  department?’ ’ 
I  was  asked. 
“ Mr.  So-and-so  has  gone 
home  sick,  and  we  have  decided  to 
make  a  change.”

My  knowledge  of  the  silk  business 
was  extremely  scanty,  but  I,  neverthe­
less,  confessed  to  the  necessary  knowl­
edge.

“ I  can  run  the  silk  department,"  1 
said,  “ but  Mr.  So-and-so  gets  $700  a 
year,  while  I  am  only  getting  $450. 
If 
I  am  competent  to  do  his  work,  I  am 
competent  to  draw  bis  salary. 
I  won't 
undertake 
it  under  any  other  circum­
stances. ’ ’

There  was  a  great  time,  but  I  got  the 
advance  and  ran  the  silk department  for 
about  four  months.  Then  the  manager 
of  the  store  was  sent  to  Europe  to  re­
main  as  a  resident  buyer.  Again  the 
firm  sent  for  me.  After  detailing  the 
circumstances,  they  offered  me  the  posi­
tion.  I  thanked  them,  but  observed  that 
the  manager  had  been  getting  a  large 
salary,  while  I  was  drawing  only  $700. 
“ If  I  was  competent  to  do  his  work,”  
etc.,  etc.  This  ended  also  with  my 
getting  the  advance  and  I  remained 
in 
that  position  for quite  a  while.

Each  of  these  positions  was  secured, 
to  begin  with,  very  largely  through  the 
confidence  which  I  showed  that  I  felt  in 
my  own  powers.  So  far  as  two  of  them 
were  concerned,  I  had  had  little  or  no 
experience  in  their  duties.

Yet  I  succeeded  in  them  all,  1  think 
I  may  say  without  egotism,  and so  could 
any  other  young  man  of  pluck  and  per­
sistence.  None  of  these  chances  would 
have  been  open  to  me  at  all  had  I  not 
showed  the  utmost  confidence  in  my 
own  ability.

Some  time  after  that  I  decided  to  try 
my  hand  at  something  beside  the  dry 
goods  business  and  I  came  to the United 
States.  After  traveling  about  a  bit,  I 
found  myself  one  day  on  a  train  pass­
ing  through  Oil  City,  Pa.  There  was  a 
crowd  at  the  station. 
I  disembarked 
and  inquired  where  the  circus  was.  A 
bystander  replied  that  there  was  no  cir­
cus,  the  crowd  was  caused  by $5  oil, 
Oil  City  being  at  that  time  the  all- 
important  oil-speculating  center.

I  thought  I  saw  some  chance,  and  I 
left  the  train.  That  night  I  paid  $1  for 
the  privilege  of  sleeping  on  a  hotel  bil­
liard  table  in  company  with  five  other 
gentlemen.

The  next  day  I  hunted  up  the  largest 
oil  operator  in  the  place,  and  asked  for 
work.

“ What  can  you  do?”   he  asked  me.
“ Anything  that  any  other  man  can

do,”   I  replied,  but  this  time  I  got  in  a 
little  too  deep.

“ Can  you  dress  tools?”
“ No,”   I  replied,  “ I  can’t  do  that.”
“ Can  you  drill?”
“ No,”   I  said,  “ I’m  afraid  I  can’t 

drill.”

“ Can  you  run  an  engine?”
“ No,”   I  answered,  “ I  can’t  do  any 
of  these  things,  but  I  can  learn  them 
a ll."

“ That  may  be,”   the  oil  operator  re­
plied,  “ but  we  aren’t  paying  $3  a  day 
for  learners.”

“ I  know  that,”   I  said,  “ but  why  not 
give  me  a  chance?  I’ll  guarantee  not  to 
do  your  property  any  harm,  and  I’ll 
deposit  $400  that  I  have  saved  as  secur­
ity  that  I  won’t  blow  up  your boiler or 
do  any  other  damage.”

“ Are  you  afraid  of  work?”   he  asked.
When  1  replied  that  I  was  not,  he 
stated  that  he  wanted  a  road  cut  along 
the  side  of  a  bill  and  asked  if  I  could 
do  it. 
I  said  that  I  could,  but  the  hill, 
when  I  saw  it,  was  not  calculated  to 
inspire  joy. 
It  was  rocky  and  gravelly 
and  covered  with  a  stubby  growth  of 
timber. 
I  had  to  build  a  bridge,  in 
addition  to  cutting  the  road. 
I  set  to 
work.  It  was  all  hand  labor.  The  rocks 
had  to  be  removed  and the roots grubbed 
out. 
in  reality  a  terrible  job.
A  week  rolled  by  and  the  operator 
“ The  road 
came  to  inspect  the  work. 
was  very  good  as  far as  it  went,”   he 
said,  "but 
It 
must  be  wide  enough  for two  teams  to 
pass. ”

it  wasn’t  wide  enough. 

It  was 

This  meant  that  I  had  to  widen  the 

road  about  three  feet.

In  a  week  1  had  the 

After this  was  done,  the  operator  told 
me  one  day  that  he  had  ordered  me 
transferred  to  oil  well  No.  1,  with  in­
structions  to  the  foreman  that  as  soon  as 
I  could  learn  to  run  the  engine  and  was 
willing  to  stake  my  $400 on  not  blow­
ing  up  the  boiler, I  was  to  have  the  job.
job  and  was 
placed  on  wages  of $21  a  week,  working 
Sundays  as  well  as  week  days.  During 
that  period  I  did  my  own  cooking  and 
carted  my  groceries  and  supplies  over 
the  mountain  on  my  back,  the  trip  cov­
ering  about  two  miles.  The  grocer  from 
whom  I  bought  much  of  my  stuff  was 
an  old  raftsman  and  a  bad  misfit.  He 
hadn't  taken  stock  for  years,  in  which 
peculiarity,  be 
it  said,  he  did  not 
differ  from  very  many  other  grocers. 
Neither  did  be  know  anything  about 
book-keeping.

Prices  were  extremely  high  in  those 
days—flour,  $10  a  barrel; 
canned 
peaches,  50 cents;  granulated  sugar,  20 
cents  a  pound.  The  old  fellow  ought 
to  have  been  making  money,  but  he 
had  no  business  instincts  and  was  in  a 
bad  way.

He  asked  me  one  day  whether  I  knew 
anything  about  books. 
I  replied  that 
I  knew  a  little  and  be  then  made  an  ar­
rangement  by  which  I  was  to go over his 
books  and  tell  him  how  he  stood.  I  did 
so  and  found  that  he  had  been  bankrupt 
for  a  good  while.  Not  only  that,  but 
at  the  time  of  my  investigation  he  owed 
about  $1,500.  The  books  were  in  fear­
ful  shape.  His  assets  consisted  of  a  lot 
of  bad  accounts,  a  little  old  ramshackle 
building  and  about $450  worth  of  goods.
My  report  sickened  the  old  grocer  so 
much  that  he  offered  his  whole  business 
to  me,  stock, 
fixtures,  good-will  and 
everything,  if  I  would  pay  him  $100  in 
cash  and  pay  off  his  debts,  which would 
enable  him  to get  away.

I  agreed,  took  the  business,  borrowed 
some  money,  paid  off  the  debts,  and 
that  is  how  I  got  into  the  grocery  busi­

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PENNSYLVANIA  BUTCH.

T h eir  Im p o rta n t  P a rt  in   B uilding  Up 

From the Philadelphia Times.

P enn’s  Colony.

Several  historical  writers  in  this  state 
have  been  busily  devoting  themselves 
for  some  years  past  to  the  Pennsylvania 
Germans,  and  they  have  brought  to­
gether  much  interesting  material  about 
a  very  interesting  people.  Judge Penny- 
packer,  Mr.  J.  F.  Sachse  and  Mr. 
Diffenderffer  are  the  best-known  mem­
bers  of  this 
little  group  of  historians. 
Mr.  DiffenderSer,  of  Lancaster,  who 
has  been  very  prominently  connected 
with  the  Pennsylvania  German  Society, 
has  prepared,  at  the  request  of  that  so­
ciety,  an  historical  account  of  the  im­
migration  of  the  Palatines  and  other 
Germans  into  Pennsylvania  in  the  eigh­
teenth  century.  The  edition  is  limited 
and  is  meant  for  a  rather  narrow  pub­
lic,  but  the  results  of  the  author’s 
studies  deserve  to  be  more  widely 
known.

Although  the  German  eagle  screams 
now  and  then  as  we  turn  the  pages  of 
the  book,  it  is  understood  by  this  time 
that  the  “ Pennsylvania  Dutch’ ’  must 
have  their  representative  in  literature, 
like  every  other  important  racial  ele­
ment  of  which  the  American  nation  is 
composed.  The  Puritans,  the  Scotch- 
Irish,  the  Hollanders,  the  Quakers—all 
have  had  their  historians.  For the  good 
they  have  done  they  have been glorified, 
and  for  their  shortcomings  they  have 
been 
justified,  so  that  a  little  unseemly 
zeal  will  have  to  be  overlooked  in  Mr. 
Diffenderffer  when  he  takes  up  his  quill 
in  behalf of  the  Pennsylvania  Germans. 
They  have 
introduced  strong  elements 
of  character  into  this  nation,  such  as 
honesty, 
industry  and  frugality,  and 
their  praises  should  be  sung  by  some 
one.

Mr.  Diffenderffer  goes  back to Europe 
to  find  out  what  were  the  causes  of  this 
great  movement  of  the  German  popula 
tion  to  Pennsylvania.  For a  full  cen­
tury  Germany  had  been  torn  and  rent 
by  devastating  wars. 
In  this  clash  of 
arms  the  peasant  was  no  more  consid 
ered  than  the  cattle  in  bis fields.

The  first  party  of  Germans  to  arrive 
were  those  under  Pastorius,  who  came 
in  1683,  immediately  after  Penn.  This 
party,  numbering  Between  thirty  and 
forty,  settled  in  Germantown,  and  thei 
countrymen  were  rather  slow  to  follow 
them.  The  movement  began  in  earn 
est,  however,  about  1710;  and 
it  was 
kept  up  with  slight  interruption  until 
the  revolution. 
In  1749  no  less  than 
twenty-one 
immigrant  ships, arrived  in 
Philadelphia— nearly  all  of  them  from 
Germany;  and  there  were  nineteen  in 
1752,  and  the  same  number  in  1753, 
Some  of  these  brought  as  many  as  000 
passengers,  though  most  of the  vessels 
were  much  smaller  in  Size.  There  was 
such  an  influx  of  Germans,  indeed,  that 
the  Quaker  government 
took  alarm 
Soon  all  foreigners  were  required to reg 
ister,  and  each  had  to  pay  a  head  tax 
of  40  shillings,  equal  to  about $10.

The 

Travel  by  sea  was  at  that  time  at  best 
a  very  uncomfortable  experience,  and 
for  the  Germans  it  was  more  unpleas 
ant  than  can  be  well 
imagined.  There 
were  many,  of  course,  who  were  able  to 
pay  their  passage  money,  but  not  a  few 
had  to  bind  themselves  out  to  service 
on  arriving  on  these  shores  in  order  to 
indemnify  the  ship  captains.  Trans­
portation,  poor  as  it  was,  was  by  no 
means  cheap.  Most  of  the  ships  set 
sail  from  Rotterdam,  though  some  were 
loaded  at  Amsterdam  and  other conti­
nental  ports. 
immigrants  were 
chiefly  Palatines,  and  they  found  it  nec­
essary  to  leave  their  homes  in  Central. 
Germany  early  in  May in  order to  reach 
Pennsylvania  by  the  end  of  the  follow­
ing  October.  They  were  obliged  to  go 
down  the  Rhine  by  boat,  and  this  voy­
age  to  Rotterdam  often  lasted  as  long 
as  six  weeks. 
The  immigrants  and 
such  goods  as  they  carried with  them 
must  pass  through  thirty-six  custom­
houses, which  the  German  princes whose 
ruined  castles  now  adorn  the  banks  of 
the  Rhine  had  set  up  at  will  on  the 
riverside.  The  boats  were  frequently 
detained  a 
long  while at these  custom- 
stations,  and  when  they  came  a|  last  to

Rotterdam,  five  or  six  weeks  more  were 
spent  in  waiting  for  the  ship  to  com­
plete  its  cargo.

From  Rotterdam  the  vessel  proceeded 
to  Cowes,  in  the  Isle  of  Wight,  where 
there  was  another  custom-house,  with  a 
stop  of  several  days.  Headed  finally 
for the  sea,  the  passengers  must  spend 
from  six  weeks  to  four  months  more, 
packed  like  herrings  in  a  box  on  mis­
erable, unclean  sailing  ships  before  they 
came  to  the  promised  land.

In  port  at  last,  but  without  money— 
and  often 
in  debt  to  the  ship  master— 
they  had  to  sell  themselves  as  servants. 
There  was  a  good  demand  for  able- 
bodied  young  Germans  of  both  sexes; 
and  the  business  attained  such  propor­
tions,  indeed,  that  agents  appeared  on 
the  scene  and  undertook  to  secure 
im­
migrants  for  the  ship  owners.  These 
agents,  well  dressed,  and  pretending  to 
be  rich  merchants  from  Philadelphia, 
went  about  through  the  Rhineland,  ad­
vancing  specious  arguments  to  induce 
the  people  to  emigrate.  For  each 
im­
migrant  furnished  to  the  ship  the  agent 
received  a  commission  from  the  owner. 
The  Germans  called  these  men  “ soul 
sellers,”   or  “ n ew la n d e rsa n d   their 
calling  brought  them 
into  much  dis­
repute  among  the  Germans,  who  were 
often  so  cruelly  deceived  by  their  stor­
ies.  Readers  of  “ Janice  Meredith”   will 
remember  how  these  German  servants 
or  redemptioners  were  sold  and 
inden­
tured  to  their  masters.  Mr.  Diffen­
derffer  gives  the  following  account  of 
the  process,  which  is  from  an  eye-wit­
ness :

“ The  sale  of  human  beings  in  the 
market  on  board  the  ship  is  carried  on 
thus:  Every  day  Englishmen,  Dutch­
men  and  high  German  people  come 
from  the  city  of  Philadelphia  and  other 
places—some  from  a  great  distance,  say 
60,  90  and  120  miles  away— and  go  on 
board  the  newly  arrived  ship  that  has 
brought  and  offers  for  sale  passengers 
from  Europe,  and  select  among  the 
healthy  persons  such  as  they  deem  suit­
able  for  their  business,and  bargain  with 
them  how  long  they  will  serve  for  thei 
passage  money,  for  which  most  of  them 
are  still  in  debt.  When  they  have  come 
to  an  agreement 
it  happens  that  adult 
persons  bind  themselves  in  writing  to 
serve  three,  four,  five  or  six  years  for 
the  amount  due  by  them,  according  to 
their  age  and  strength.  But  very  young 
people,  from  10  to  15  years,  must  serve 
until  they  are  21  years  old.  Many  per 
sons  must  sell  and  trade  away  thei: 
like  so  many  head  of  cattle.’
children 
This  is  not  a  very  pleasant  picture, 
and  yet,  redemptioners  were  not  always 
such  great  sufferers,  after  all.  There  is 
a  brighter  side.  The  immigrants  were 
nearly  all  peasants— but  another  name 
for  serfs  in  Germany  in  the  eighteenth 
century.  They  left  little  that  was  joyful 
behind  them.  Like  the  slave,  the  lot 
of  the  indentured  servant  was  better 
worse  accordingly  as  he  found  good  or 
bad  masters.

to 

lot 

forebears  had 

Mr.  Diffenderffer’s  study,  especially 
as  it  relates  to the  redemptioners,  is  a 
valuable  one.  If will  tell  many  Pennsyl 
vanians  a  great  deal  about  their  anceS' 
tors,  and  lead  them  to  feel  better  satis 
tied  with  their  own 
in  the  world 
after  they  have  considered  what  thei 
immigrant 
pass 
through,  when  each  packed  up  his  chest 
of  goods  and  came  across  the  sea  to  es 
tablish  himself  in  William  Penn’s  wil 
derness  among  the  Indians  as  a  buffer 
for  the  Quakers  in  Philadelphia.  Mr 
Diffenderffer  «mentions 
the  Quakers 
boast  that  they  never  bad  any  quarrels 
or  unpleasantness  with  the  Indians.  He 
sees  good  reason  for this  in  the  fact that 
the  Germans  surrounded  them  on 
sides,  and  their  bodies  became 
the 
shields to  protect the  English  colonists 
who  were  more  happily  situated.  More 
over— and  this  was  for  long  ground  for 
bitter  difference  between  the  Quakers 
and  the  Dutch—the  Quaker assembly 
opposed  to  warlike  measures,  steadfast 
ly  refused  to  vote  money  for the  de 
fense  of  the  frontiersmen  against  the 
Indians.  But  this  old  score  may  have 
evened  up  by  this  time,  for  Mr.  Diffen 
derffer  says  that the  Quakers  have  now 
lost  control  of  everything,  while  the 
Pennsylvania  Germans  are  triumphant

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

in  all  departments  of  life. 
If this  be 
true,  time  has  brought  them  their  justi­
fication,  and  they  should  be  happy  to 
have  come  into  their  rights  at last.
W eapon  w ith  W hich  to  F ight  th e  Mail 

O rder  House.

It  is  surprising  to  learn that  consider­
able  opposition  is  being  manifested  by 
country  merchants  to  the  extension  of 
the  rural  mail  delivery  service.  I should 
think  these  merchants  would  be the ones 
derive  the  most  benefit  from  the 
system  and  would  naturally  do  all  in 
their  power  to  have 
it  extended.  The 
dealers  who  are  not  in  favor  of  the  sys­
tem,  however,  argue  that  where  the 
farmer  does  not  have  to  come  in  for  bis 
mail  he  will  not  make  as  many  visits 
town  as  he  now  does  and  that  there 
will  be  a  consequent  falling  off  in  the 
trade  of  the  farmer  class;  and,  further, 
that  with  the  present  wide  circulation 
of  the  mail  order  house  catalogues  the 
farmers’  trade  will  be  diverted  to  these 
channels  to  a  greater  extent  than  at 
present,  owing  to  the  ease  with  which 
transactions  will  be  facilitated.

It  is  not  contended  that  because  the 
rural  resident  has  his  mail delivered  his 
bodily  wants  will  decrease  to  any  no­
ticeable  extent,  so  it  is  safe  to  assume 
that  the  first  part  of  the  argument  is 
without  a  foundation.  As  the  small 
town  retailer  now  has  to  contend  with 
more  or  less  mail  order  competition,  it 
is  not  reasonable  to  suppose  he  will  be 
compelled  to  go  out  of  business  entirely 
because  a  country  purchaser  writes 
out  his  order  and  delivers  it  to  the  mai 
carrier  instead  of  bringing  it  to town 
nd  depositing  it  in  the  postoffice.  As 
matter  of  fact,  the  rural  mail  delivery 
service  will  be  one  of  the greatest weap 
ons  with  which  to  fight  the  mail  order 
man  at  his  own  game. 
It  will  permit

In 

the  country  retailer  to  do  a  mail  order 
business  on  his  own  account  with  the 
advantage  all  on  his  side. 
the 
first  place,  the  country  merchant  is more 
or  less  familiar  with  the  farmer  class 
n  the  territory  tributary  to  his  town, 
and  will,  therefore,  be  enabled  to  reach 
every  resident  of  the  district,  whereas 
the  mail  order  house  can  only  get  their 
advertising  matter  into  the  hands  of  a 
certain  proportion.  Another  thing  fa­
vorable  to  the 
local  dealer  is  the  fact 
is  known  to  the  farmers,  and 
that  he 
any  business 
literature  that  may  come 
from  his  store  will  receive  the  pur­
chaser's  best  attention.

There  are  a  number  of  ways  to  get 
after  this  trade  by  utilizing  the  free  de­
livery  service  to  place  your  advertising 
matter  in  the  hands  of  the  farmer,  but 
to  my  mind  the  one  that  would  be  pro­
ductive  of  greatest  results  would  be  the 
mailing  of  a  personal  typewritten  letter 
to  each  resident  in  the  district  at  least 
once  a  week,  or  oftener  if  possible. 
These 
letters  should  be  of  a  semi-per­
sonal  nature,  but  should  contain  the 
announcement  of  some  special  bargain 
or other  inducement  to  bring  the  farmer 
to  your  place  of  business.  An  ordinar­
ily  bright  young  man,  a  typewriter  and 
a  stock  of  good  stationery  are  all  that  is 
necessary  to  put  this  plan  in  operation. 
If  so  desired,  the 
letters  could  be  sup­
plemented  by  circulars  or  other  adver­
tising  matter that  might  be  gotten  out. 
If  this  or  a  similar  plan  is  adopted  I  do 
not  believe  the  country  retailer  need 
worry  over  the  fact  that  his  farmer  cus­
tomers  have  copies  of  the  catalogues  of 
mail  order houses.—Apparel  Gazette.

A  new  and  odd  cut  glass  pattern  in  a 
circular  spiral  effect  is  called  the  “ or­
chid.”

Short  Talk

on  Peas 8

Long  experience  combined  with  the  thought  and  care 
Larson  gives  to  the  packing  of  Peas  has  placed  his 
brands  pre-eminently  above  all  others.  No  stock 
can  be  complete  without  a  line  of  his  celebrated

North  Shore

brand  of  Peas. 
Connoisseurs  prefer  Larson’s 
N O R T H   S H O R E   P E A S   to  the  fresh.  They  are 
hand-picked  and  packed  in  the  shortest  possible  time 
after  gathering,  thus preserving perfect natural flavor. 
N O R T H   S H O R E   P E A S   are  very  tender,  evenly 
graded,  and  packed  in  liquor  clear  as  crystal.

W e  are  distributing  agents  for  this  brand  and 

you  will  save  money  by  ordering  N O W .

GRADES:

Fine Sifted Early June. 

Extm. Sifted Early June. 

Standard  Marrowfats.

Standard Champion.

Sifted Melting Sugar. 

Extra Sifted  Melting Sugar.

Worden  Grocer  Co.

Sole  Agents, 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan  Knights  of the Grip

President,  Ge o . F . Ow e n ,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W .  St it t ,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J o h n  W . Sc h r a m :, Detroit.

United  Commercial  Trawlers 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  Ho. 131,  D.  C.  T.

Senior Counselor, W  B.  Co m p t o n ;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan Commercial Trarelen’  Mutual  Accident  Association 
President, J. B o y d  P a n t l in d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o .  F.  Ow e n , 
Grand Rapids.

New  m em bers In itiated —Social  Session to 

Be  Held.

Grand  Rapids,  Sept,  9—The  regular 
September  meeting  of  Grand  Rapids 
Council,  No.  131,  U.  C.  T.,  was  called 
to  order last  Saturday  evening  by Senior 
Counsellor  W.  R.  Compton,  with  all 
officers  of  the  Council 
in  their  chairs 
and  also  all  members  of  the  Executive 
Board  present,  which  has  not  occurred 
at  any  meeting  for  some  time.

Fellow 

Two  candidates  were  in  waiting  to  be 
taken 
into  the  fold  in  which  many  of 
their  brothers  had  been  ‘ ‘ enfolded"  at 
some  previous  time  and,  when  once  in, 
the  word  is  always  sent  out  that  the  or­
der  of  United  Commercial  Travelers  of 
America  for  fraternalism  and  protection 
to  the  traveling  man  stands  pre-emi­
nently  head  and  shoulders  above  any 
other  organization. 
travelers 
who  are  not  in  the  order,  come  and  join 
us;  you  will  never  regret  it,  as  you  can 
then  partake  of  the  genial  good  fellow­
ship.  The  social  features  and  the  fra­
ternal  protection  are given at all times to 
the  wearer of  the  U.  C.  T.  button.  The 
Council  now  has  a  membership  in  good 
standing  -of  131  and  eight  applicants 
have  been  accepted  and  are  ready  for 
initiation  at  the  next  regular  meeting. 
The  two  initiations  Saturday  evening 
were  I.  F.  H.  Cummings  (Scofield, 
Shurmer  &  Teagle) and  John  H.  Taylor 
(American  Bicycle  Co.).

The 

following  committee  was  ap­
pointed  for  the  first  social  session  and 
dancing  party 
in  September:  J.  G. 
Kolb,  G.  R.  Alexander and Harry Snits- 
ler.
We  wish  to  make  two  corrections  in 
last  week’s  account  of  the  picnic  at Jen- 
ison.  The  name  appearing  on  the  com­
mittee  and  in  the  article  as  B.  J.  Law­
rence,  should  have  been  B.  I.  Launiere 
— an  error  with  no  intention  of  robbing 
our friend  Bert  of  all  the  praise  he  de­
served  for  the  hard  work  he  did.  The 
second  error  was  the  omission,  in  some 
unaccountable  manner,  of  the tale  of woe 
of  the  fat  men’s  race.  There  were  five 
entries—C.  P.  Reynolds,  L.  F.  Baker,
B.  S.  Davenport,  B.  M.  Bodwell  and 
W.  S.  Lawton— the  combined  weight 
being  1,753  pounds  and  fifteen  ounces 
and  to  see  these  five  men  run  was  worth 
the  price  of  admission  to  the  entire 
Midway  at  the  Pan-American.  They 
ran,  they  puffed  and  they  tried  to  trip 
each  other  in  their  attempt  to  win  the 
prize.  The  line-up  as  they  came  under 
the  wire  was  in  the  order  in  which their 
names  appear  above,  with  C.  P.  Rey­
nolds  the  winner.

After  the  business  was  concluded,  at 
a  suggestion  made  by  Past  Senior  John
D.  Martin,  Senior  Counsellor  W.  R. 
Compton  closed  the  meeting  with  ex­
pressions  of  sympathy  for our  honored 
President  and  his  family  and  the  hope 
of  a  speedy  recovery. 

JaDee.

Gripsack  Brigade.

The  Tradesman  is  informed  that  B. 
D.  Palmer,  the  veteran  St.  Johns travel­
ing  man,  is  a  candidate  for  Secretary 
of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the  Grip, 
subject  to  the  approval  of  the  Lansing 
convention.

Ed.  Goulding,  Western  Michigan 
traveling  representative  for  the  Bradley 
&  Metcalf  Co.,  Milwaukee,  has returned 
to Grand Rapids after  spending  a  month 
at  the  Pan-American,  Toronto  and  other 
Canadian  points.  Mr.  Goulding  and

wife  have  taken  apartments  at  the  Plaza 
for  the  winter.

Cadillac  Globe:  John  Sparks,  who 
travels  for  the  Grand  Rapids  Brewing 
Co.,  came  in  contact  with  a  game  war­
den  one  day 
last  week.  The  trout  in 
his  basket  were  a  little  under  size.  A 
Reed  City  justice  assessed  him  $8.50, 
which  he  paid.  John  got  off  very cheap 
and  easy  and  the 
little  story  would 
never  have  been  known  had  he  been 
more  careful  in  his  conversation.  But 
it 
is  out  now  and  his  expense  account 
has  been  greatly 
increased  since  the 
extra  demand  for  drinks  began.

At  the  meeting  of  the  Board  of  D i­
rectors  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip,  held  at  Jackson  last  Saturday,  it 
was  decided  to  issue  death  assessment 
No.  3  on  Sept.  10  and  another  assess­
ment  on  Oct.  xo,  in  order to  clean  up 
all  the  outstanding  obligations  against 
the  organization.  There  have  been 
fifteen  deaths  since  Jan.  1  and  it  now 
appears  that  six  death  benefits  which 
should  have  been  paid  last  year  were 
carried  over  to  this  year’s  obligations. 
Twelve  death  claims  which  have  been 
approved  by  the  Board  of  Directors will 
be  paid  from  the  proceeds  of  these  two 
assessments.  The  next  meeting  of  the 
Board  will  be  held  at  Grand  Rapids 
Nov.  16.

The  T raveling Salesman  of To-day.
I  believe  that  there  never  was  a  time 
in  the  history  of  business  in  this  coun­
try  when  the  function  of  the  general 
salesman  was  as  important  as  it  is  to­
day.

The  salesman  of  the  past  carried  bis 
line  of  samples  in  a 
necessarily  small 
single  trunk  or  a  couple  of  valises,  and 
sold  to  small  and  moderate  sized dealers 
$50,000  worth  of  goods  yearly.

The  salesman  of  to-day  cares  for  a 
vastly  more  extensive  line,  carries  sev­
eral  trunks  and  sells  $100,000  worth  in 
the  same  time,  and  this  although  the 
prices  of  goods  have  shrunk  from  25  to 
50  per  cent.

The  small  store  bad  gradually  to  give 
way  to  the  large  one:  and  so  there  are 
to  be  found  all  through  the  country 
mammoth  retail  stores  with  splendidly 
equipped  departments,  and  these 
in 
charge  of  expert  buyers.

To  sell  these  various  departments,  or 
to  properly  direct  special  salesmen  to 
sell  them,  requires  not  a  weakling,  but 
a  master.

It  requires a man  of  thorough  business 
knowledge,broad  and intelligent  enough 
to  see  that  old  methods  will  not  suit 
new  conditions,  and  aggressive  enough 
to  keep  pace  with  the  march  of business 
progress.

This  is  the  salesman  of  the  future. 
His  wider range  of  vision,  and his  facil­
ity  to  grasp  the  changed  and  enlarged 
conditions  of  doing  business,  must 
demonstrate  in  him  a stronger force than 
his  prototype  of  forty  or fifty  years  ago.

Thomas  B.  Fitzpatrick.

A  competent  authority  estimates  that 
the  capital  invested  in  electrical  enter­
prises  in  this  country  now  reaches  the 
sum  of  four  billion  dollars,  and  that 
these  industries  employ  more  than  half 
a  million  people.  Nearly  half  of  the 
capital 
is  represented  by  the  electric 
railways,  and  they  employ  a  majority 
of  the  half-million  persons.  This  shows 
how  foolish  were  the  predictions,  about 
fifteen  years  ago,  that  disaster  would 
come  to  thousands  of  people  when  elec­
tric  cars  came  in.  As  a  matter of  fact, 
the  doing  away  wiin  the  horse  car  has 
thrown  no  one  out  of  work—except  the 
horse  and  he  is  glad  of  it.

Meeting; of the  Board  of D irectors  of  the 

M.  K.  of G.

.

Jackson,  Sept.  10—The  regular  meet­
ing  of  the  Board  of  Directors of  the 
Michigan  Knights of  the  Grip  was  held 
here 
last  Saturday,  all  the  members  of 
the  Board  being  present  except  Mr. 
Weston.  The  meeting  was  called  to 
order  by  President  George  F.  Owen. 
The  minutes  of  the  previous  meeting 
were  read  and  approved.  The  Secre­
tary’s  report  was  read  and  approved,  as 
follows: 

Since  our  last  Board  meeting,  June  1, 
we  have  added  to  our  membership 
twenty-eight  new  names  and  have  re­
instated  one  old  member.  Mingled 
with  the  pleasant  things  we  find  the  un­
pleasant,  for  since  June  2  seven  deaths 
have  occurred:  Afton  T.  Sprague,  Lan­
sing,  formerly  of  Homer;  B.  D.  Night­
engale,  Defiance,  Ohio;  Geo.  F.  Worts, 
Toledo,  Ohio;  S.  T.  Bowen,  Chicago; 
John  Q.  Rykn,  Detroit;  A.  R.  Thayer, 
Saginaw;  Jas.  B.  Childs,  Fremont, 
Ohio.  The  receipts  of  my  office  since 
the 
last  meeting  have  been  as  follows, 
all  of  which  have  been  turned  over to 
the  Treasurer:
Death  fund.................................$2,874.00
34.00
General  fund....................... 
Deposit  fund.....................  
122.00

 

 

 

Total  receipts,  $3.030.00
The  report  of  the  Treasurer,  which 
was  also  approved,  showed  amount  on 
band  and  receipts  during  the  past  quar­
ter  of  $4,342.92  and  disbursements  of 
$3,532.62, 
leaving  $810.30  on  hand. 
Five  death  benefits  have  been  paid— 
Mrs.  F.  Benedict,  Mrs.  E.  C.  Stone, 
Mrs.  Delia  Chase  and  Mrs.  Alexander.
letter  was  read  and 

The  following 

placed  on  file:

As  Chairman  of  the  Bus  and  Bag­
gage  Committee,  I  have  had  only  one 
complaint.  That  was  made  by  one  of 
our  brothers,  Chas.  H.  Smith,  of  Sag­
inaw.  against  David  LaBuff,  liveryman 
of  Harrisville,  Mr.  Smith  claiming  to 
have  been  overcharged  for a  drive. 
I 
took  the  matter  up  and  Mr.  LaBuff  was 
sorry  that  there  had  been  any  trouble 
and  promised  me  that  he  would  see  to 
it that  in  the  future  nothing  of  the  kind 
would  occur  again,  and  wanted  it  fully 
understood  that  he  desired  our  business 
and  apologized  for  any  injury  he  may 
have  done  Brother  Smith.

B.  N.  Mercer,

Chairman  Bus  and  Baggage Committee.
A  communication  was  read  from  L. 
A.  Baker,  of  Lansing,  with  a  check  for 
$5  to  pay  his  dues.  On  motion  of  Mr. 
Koster,  the  Secretary  was  authorized  to 
return  this  check  to  Mr.  Baker,  owing 
to  the  fact  that  be  was  past  the  age 
limit  and  could  not  be  re-instated  ac­
cording  to  our constitution.

Mr.  Smith  moved  that  we  refuse  to 
re-instate  W.  C.  McCrea,  owing  to  the 
fact  that  he  could  not  sign  the  health 
certificate  and  that  we  decline  to  re­
instate  any  member  unless  he  first  signs 
a  health  certificate.  Carried.

Moved  by  Mr.  Smith  that  the  letters 
of  Mr.  Bradford  be  accepted  and  placed 
on  file,  and  that  the  Secretary  be  in­
structed  to  write  the  officers  of  the  Du­
luth  &  South  Shore  Railroad,  thanking 
them  for  their  prompt  attention 
in  ad­
justing  grievances  made  by  the  Michi­
gan  Knights  of  the  Grip.

Moved  by  Mr.  Koster  that  we  call 
assessment  No.  3  September  10,  to  close 
October  10.  Carried.

The  following  death  claims  were  al­

lowed :

Afton  T.  Sprague,  Lansing.
B.  D.  Nightengale,  Defiance,  Ohio
Geo.  Frank  Worts,  Toledo,  Ohio.
S.  T.  Bowen,  Chicago,  111.
John  Q.  Ryan,  Detroit,  Mich.
A.  R.  Thayer,  Saginaw.
James  B.  Childs,  Fremont,  Ohio.
The  following  bills  were  allowed:

Geo.  F.  Owen,  Board  meeting..$  5.75 
4.54
J.  W.  Schram,  Board  meeting... 
C.  H.  Smith,  Board  meeting_ 
4.48
4.54
M.  Howarn,  Board  meeting....... 
6.35
Geo.  R.  Randall,  Board  meeting 
L.  J.  Koster,  Board  meeting__  
6.54
Chas.  H.  Smith,  Board  meeting. 
5.07 
A.  W.  Stitt,  stamps  received  for
assessment.............................. 

10.00

A.  W.  Stitt,  for  stamps...............  100.00
A.  W.  Stitt,  office  supplies  and

salary...................................... \52.45
J.  W.  Schram,  salary..................  58.16
Hunt  Printing  Co.........................  
1 7 -7 5
Moved  by  Mr.  Smith  that  assessment 
No.  4  be  called  October  10,  to  close 
November  10.  After considerable  argu­
ment  on  this  point  the  members decided 
it  was  advisable  to  issue  this assessment 
and  place  our  organization  on  a  good 
financial  footing,  so  that  we  will  have 
money 
in  our  treasury  and  be  able  to 
pay  our  claims  as  soon  as  they  are  ad­
justed.  Carried.

Moved  by  Mr.  Randall  that  an  order 
be  drawn  on  the  Treasurer  for $100  in 
favor of  the  Secretary  for  stamps.  Car­
ried.

Moved  by  Mr.  Schram  that  the  mem­
bers  of  the  Michigan  Knights  of  the 
Grip  in  Jackson  receive  the  thanks  of 
the  entire  Board  for  the  hospitality  ex­
tended  to  them  at  this  meeting.  Car­
ried.

Moved  by  Mr.  Hurd  that  the  Hotel 
Ruhl  receive  our thanks  for  the  many 
courtesies  extended  to  the  Board  during 
their visit  in  Jackson.  Carried.

Moved  by  Mr.  Schram  that  we  ad­
journ  to  meet  at  Hotel  Warwick,  Grand 
Rapids,  November  16.  Carried.

A.  W.  Stitt,  Sec’y.

The  Ethics of Trade  Unionism.

1.  The  right  to  work  belongs 

to 

union  men  only.

2.  Work  that  a  union  man  gives  up 
must  not  be  taken  by  a  non-union  man 
under penalty of  a  drubbing  or of  death.
‘ ‘ Scabs’ ’  have  no  rights  which  a 

3. 

union  man  is  bound  to  respect.

4.  Contracts  are  made  to  be  broken. 
They  bind  the  employer,  but  not  the 
employe.

5.  Employers  must  not  be  allowed  to 

employ  whom  they  please.

6.  Obey 

labor  leaders  always;  other 
authorities  when  they  don’t conflict  with 
the  commands  of  the  former.

7.  Strike  because  you  are  told  to.
8.  The  duty  ‘ to  the  union  is  greater 

than  the  duty  to  the  family.

9.  Never  sympathize  with  your  fam­
ily  or  yourself.  Save  your  sympathy  for 
strikers.  When  they  have  quit  work, 
quit  work  yourself  by  way  of  helping 
them.
10.  Never  learn  anything  by  experi­

ence.
Plea From  the P resident o f the M. K. of O.
Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  10—Once  more 
I  ask  your attention.  Just  one  minute. 
We  lack  just  one  more  new  member.

Will  you  go  out  and  bring  him  in— 

just  one.

This  is  the  third  and  last  call.
Our  Association,  through  your  good 
Now  we  want  just  506  more new mem­

work,  has  prospered  well  this  year.
bers  by  Oct.  1.

Please  make  one  more  grand  effort.
I  am  sorry  that  so  many  of  our  broth­
laid  down  their  grips  and 
ers  have 
taken  that  long,  last  trip  since  my 
last 
letter  to  you, and  it  certainly  must  touch 
our  hearts,  and  prompt  us  to  pay  our 
assessments,  as  the  loved  ones  left  need 
that  small  contribution.

Now,  brother,  kindly  make  that  reso­
lution  good.  Our  Association  is  worthy, 
and  from  a  business  standpoint,  second 
to  none 
in  existence.  Will  you  help 
boost? 

Geo.  F.  Owen.

Distinction  W ell  E arned.

"T h is ,”   said  the  guide,  " is   one  of 
the  most  remarkable  towns  in  the  whole 
country. ”

"What  makes  it  remarkable?"  asked 

the  traveler.

" It  hasn’t  made  any  plans  for  hold­

ing  an  exposition  of  any  kind."

The  Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

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Drugs—Chemicals

M ichigan  Stet«  Board o f Pharm acy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Beynolds,  St. Joseph 
Hknby  He im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 81,1902
- 
Deo. 31,1903
Wirt  P.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. O. Schumacher,  Ann Arbor  .  Dec. 81,190« 
Dec. 81,1906 
John D. M ont, Grand Baplds 

President, A. O.  Sohumacheb,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hknby Hk im. Saginaw. 
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

E xam ination  Sessions.

Lansing, Nov. 6 and 6.

Mich.  State  P harm aceutical  Association.

President—J o h n   D.  Mu i r , Grand Baplds. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Seeley,  Detroit 
Treasurer— D. A.  H a g e n s , Monroe.

P o in tin g   O nt th e   D ark  Side.

I  recall  with  a  great  deal  of  pleasure 
a  conversation  which  I  had  with  Mr. 
Geo.  Hooper,  the  then  head  of  the  firm 
of  Hooper  &  Co.,  Toronto,  when  first  I 
decided  to  take  up  the  drug  business.  I 
called  on  Mr.  Hooper  to  see  if  he  had 
an  opening  for an  apprentice.  Although 
very  busy,  he  took  me  into  his  private 
office  and,  offering  me  a  chair,  sat  down 
and  talked  for  over an  hour  about  the 
drug  business.  He  said,  in  substance : 
Young  man,  have  you  considered 
what  the  drug  business  means?  Most 
people  see  only  the  outside  and  think 
they  would  like  to  be  druggists,  as  from 
the  array  of  bottles  and  show  cases  they 
think  it  such  a  clean  business.  They 
do not  think  of  how  much  work  it  takes 
to  keep  them  looking  neat  and  clean.  It 
requires  constant  care  and  attention. 
There  are  bottles  to  wash,  mortars  to 
clean  and  much  other  work  not  any  too 
agreeable. 
In  fact  the  drug  business  is 
full  of  dirty  work.  You  have  long  hours 
through  the  week,  and  have  to take  your 
turn  at  working  on  Sundays.  The  pay 
is  small  for  the  hours  put  in,  and  profits 
are  not  what  they  were.  Consider  well 
before  you  make  up  your mind,  and  if 
you  are  only  entering 
it  because  you 
think  it  a  nice,  clean,  genteel  business, 
you  had  better keep  out of  it.  If you  are 
satisfied  to  put  in  the  hours,  are  ready 
to  do  the  dirty  work  and  think  you 
would 
it  up. 
The  drug  business 
is  a business  more 
than  any  other that  requires  a  liking  foi 
it  in  order to succeed.  The  long  hours 
give  you  little  time  for  recreation,  and 
unless  you  are 
in  sympathy  with  the 
work  you  will  become  discontented  and 
neither  do  yourself  nor  your employer 
justice.

like  the  business,  take 

1  had  been  around  drug  stores  a  great 
deal,  and  knew  what  the  work  was  like, 
but  felt  grateful  to  Mr.  Hooper  for his 
advice. 
If  I  had  to  choose  over again, 
I  would  take  up  the  drug  business,  but 
when  any  young  man  asks  me  about 
taking  it  up,  1  remember  our  conversa­
tion,  and  point  out  clearly  both  sides, 
and  tell  him  to  think  it over,  and  if  sat­
isfied  he  would  like  it  to  go  ahead.

W.  J.  Kirkland.

The  Cocaine  H abit.

Cocainism 

is  the  most  insidious  of 
all  drug  habits.  The  use  of  the  drug 
being  unaccompanied  by  disagreeable 
after-effects— headache,  nausea,  vomit­
ing,  etc.,  which  are  met  with  after  the 
ingestion  of  opium  or  alcohol—the  vice 
is  readily  and  rapidly  established.  Co­
cainism  is  occasionaly  acquired  by  the 
local  use  of the  drug  in  diseases  of  the 
nose  and  throat,  teeth,  etc.,  but  more 
often  by  its  use  as  a  substitute  for 
opium  or alcohol.

Cocaine  is  eventually  tolerated  by  the 
system  in  huge  doses.  One  case  is  re­
corded  where  sixty  grains  daily  were 
large  number 
consumed.  A  relatively 
of  habitues  are  found 
in  the  medical 
and  dental  professions  (it  is  said  thirty 
per  cent.)  The  continued 
indulgence 
in  cocaine  invariably,  and  usually soon, 
leads to  marasmus,  with  mental,  moral, 
and  nervous  degeneration.  The  smallest

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

fatal  dose  on  record  is  one-third  grain 
hypodermically.

While  many  cases  of  acute  intoxica­
tion  are  being  continually 
reported, 
there  are  relatively  few  fatal  cases.  The 
majority  of  such  are  the  result  of  large 
doses  injected  into  the  urethra  and 
bladder;  e.  g.,  in  two  cases,  five  and 
six  fluid  drams  respectively  of  a  five- 
per  cent,  solution  into  the  urethra.

The  amount  of  cocaine  sold  yearly 

is 
rapidly  increasing,  and 
its  self-pre­
scribed  use  among  the  laity  and  lower 
classes is becoming proportionately more 
frequent. 

G.  W.  Norris.

Sponges  Grow ing  Scarce..

The  New  York  sponge  dealers  are 
wondering  what  is  going  to  become  of 
their  business.  The  supply  of  sponges 
is  not  increasing,  while  the  demand  is 
growing  larger  every  year.  Five  years 
ago  the  price  of  sponges  began  to  go 
up,  and  this  season’s  quotations  show  a 
rise  of  nearly 
ioo  per  cent,  over  the 
prices  of  1895  and  1896.  Many  varie­
ties  cost  the  buyers  on 
the  fishing 
grounds  more  to-day  than  they  formerly 
sold  for  in  local  markets.  An  importer, 
in  speaking  of  the  present  condition  of 
the  sponge  trade,  said :

There  seems  little  prospect  of  devel­
oping  new  fishing  grounds.  The  last 
sponge  bed  to  be  discovered  was  in 
British  Honduras.  An Englishman  im­
ported  a  score  of  Greek  divers  to  that 
field  about three  years ago.  Only two are 
now  at  work,  as  the  sponges  were  of  so 
low  a  grade  that  they  could  only  be  im­
proved  by  expensive  cultivation.  The 
yield  of  “ Sheep’s  Wool”   or  high  grade 
sponges  in  the  Florida  grounds has been 
steadily  decreasing  since  1895. 
In  that 
year  231,000  pounds  were  marketed. 
Last  year  the  total  product  weighed
181,000  pounds. 
The  deficiency  has 
been  partly  made  up  by  an  increase  in 
the  yield  of  “ Grass”   or  third  grade 
sponges  of 
from  21,000  to  109,260 
pounds.

Fashion  in  D rags.

From the Lancet.

It  must  be  confessed  with  humility 
that  there  is  a  fashion  in  drugs which  is 
comparable  with  nothing  so  much  as 
with  fashion 
in  dress.  Drugs  which 
but  yesterday  were  extensively  used,  are 
to-day  almost  forgotten.  The  antipy­
retics  which  were  prescribed  so  freely 
fifteen  years  ago  are  hardly  ever given 
now  for  their  effect  on  temperature, 
though  the  more  important  members  of 
the  group  are  given  still,  but  for  entire­
ly  different  reasons.  The  drugs  which 
at  the  present  moment  appear to  be  at 
the  height of their  popularity  are  ani­
mal  extracts  and  antitoxins,  yet  the  dis­
cerning  eye may  even  now  perceive  that 
many  of  them  have  passed  their  zenith 
and  ere  long  will  be  forgotten,  or  at 
most  will  be  employed  only  in  rare  and 
isolated  cases.

There  is  much  excuse  to  be  made  for 
the  mental  attitude  of  extreme  hopeful­
ness  with  which  we  receive  each  new 
medicament,  for  there  are  still  so  many 
diseases  and  symptoms  appealing  for 
help  and  we  have  to  acknowledge  that 
we  can  do  but  little  for  them.  Yet  it 
would  be  well 
if  we  adopted  a  more 
cautious  attitude  in  receiving  new drugs 
and  new  methods of tbeatment;  they  de­
serve  to  be  tried  and  to  be  tried  thor­
oughly,  but  we  must  not  expect  too 
much  and  must  sift  carefully  the  evi­
dence  for  and  against  them.

Test for Forgery.

A  method  has  been  devised  by  Prof. 
M.  Bruylauts,  whereby  the  portion  of  a 
document  which  is  suspected  of  having 
been  altered 
is  first  moistened,  ana 
then,  after  being  dried,  is  exposed  to 
the  action  of  vapor  of  iodide.  The  por­
tion  thus  moistened,  if  it  has  been  al­
tered,  assumes  a  violet  tint,  while  the 
other  portion  appears  a  brownish  yel­
low.  This  action  is  evidently  due to  the 
removal  of  a  portion  of  the  starch  con­
tained  in  the  size  of  the  paper.  The 
same  process  will  even  reveal  the  exist­
ence of pencil  marks  erased  by  rubbing.

The  D rag M arket.

Opium— Is  dull  but  unchanged.
Morphine—Is  unchanged.
Quinine— Is  steady  at  the  decline.
Canada  Balsam  Fir— Is  very  scarce 

and  has  advanced.

Juniper  Berries—On  account  of  small 

stocks,  has  been  advanced.

Prickly  Ash  Berries—Small  arrivals 
in  the  market  have  been  picked  up  for 
consumption  and  prices  are  still  very 
high.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  very  firm  and 

continues  to  advance.

Oil  Cloves— Is  tending  higher.
Sunflower  Seeds— Have  advanced,  on 
account  of  unfavorable  report  from  the
crop.

Linseed  Oil— Has  again  declined  and 

is  tending  lower.

Sunshine  for Insom nia.

Let  sleepless  people  court  the  sun. 
The  very  worst  soporific  is  laudanum, 
and  the  very  best  is  sunshine.  There­
fore 
it  is  very  easily  understood  that 
poor  sleepers  should  pass  as  many hours 
in  the  sunshine  as  possible.  Many 
women  are  martyrs,  and  do  not  know  it. 
They  shut  the  sunshine  out  of  their 
houses,  they  wear  veils,  they  carry  sun­
shades,  they  do  all  that  is  possible  to 
keep  off  the  subtlest  and  yet  most  po­
tent  influence  which  is  intended  to give 
them  strength  and  beauty  and  cheerful­
ness. 
Is  it  not  time  to  change  all  this, 
and  so  get  roses  and  color  in  your  pale 
cheeks,  strength 
in  your  weak  backs? 
The  sunlight  would  be  a  potent  influ­
ence  in  the  transformation.

How  “Blood  W riting”  Is  Done.

Ask  anybody for  a  wooden  match,  and 
on  a  piece  of  blank  paper  (previously 
prepared)  write  your  name 
in  bold, 
blood-red  characters.  This  is  accom­
plished  by  having  first  rubbed  over  the 
surface  of  a  sheet  of  note  paper  some 
red 
iodide  of  mercury  with  a  piece  of 
cork.  Take  the  paper  so  prepared  and 
hold  it  over  the  flame  of  a  candle  or 
lamp,  slowly  moving  it  to  prevent  burn­
ing.  The  red  color  will  quickly  dis­
appear.  Anything  now  written  or  drawn 
on  the  paper  with  a  pointed  piece  of 
wood  will  appear  as  if  written  in  blood.

Wm.  Mixton.

To  Avoid  P rickly  H eat.

Not  a  few  people  are  distressed  dur­
ing  the  hot  months  with  an  itching  and 
burning  sensation  of  the  skin,  accom­
panied  by  a 
fine  eruption.  This  is 
caused  by  the  perspiration,  which  can­
not  readily  evaporate  and  thus  produces 
the  irritation.  It  will  be  found  better to 
resort  to  soap  and  water,  used  frequent­
ly,  and  to  avoid  alcoholic  and  alkaline 
washes.  Once  a  day,  perhaps,  the 
ir­
ritated  parts  should  be  gently  bathed, 
then  dried  thoroughly,  and  afterwards 
anointed  with  cocoariut  oil. 
It  is  ab­
sorbed  readily  and  should  be  applied 
with  the  hand. 
is  not  greasy  and 
will  not  soil  the  clothing  unless  an  ex­
cessive  quantity  is  used.

It 

Poisonous  Action  of M ethyl  Alcohol.
The  highly  injurious  effect  of  methyl 
alcohol  on  the  eyes  is  now  well  estab­
lished ;  it  was  shown  in  a  case  reported 
some  time  ago  that  the 
ingestion  of 
even  the  purified  article  had  produced 
blindness;  and 
it  has  been  found  that 
exposure  to  the  fumes  is  also dangerous. 
Dr.  de  Schweinitz  has  described,  be­
fore  the  Ophthalmic  Section  of  the  Col­
lege  of  Physicians  of  Philadelphia,  a 
case  of  sudden  blindness  which  was 
probably  due, to  methyl  alcohol,  the  pa­
tient  for  two  months  prior  to  his  loss  of 
vision  having  been  constantly  employed 
in  using  a  varnish  made  with  this  alco­
hol.  Not  only  this,  but  be,  as  well  as 
his  fellow-workmen,  were 
in  the  habit, 
at  the  close  of  the  day’s  labor,  of  wash­
ing  varnish  stains  from  their  hands, 
forearms  and  faces  with  the  metbyi 
alcohol. 
It  is  evident  that  the  danger­
ous  nature  of  this  liquid  is  not  general-

ly  understood,  and  no  time  should  be 
lost  in  making  known  the  risks  of  its 
u s e . ______ 

____

Tobacco  Made  Harm less.

According  to  American  Medicine  a 
is 
surgeon-general  of  the  German  army 
leaves 
reported  to  have  treated  tobacco 
with  tannin  and  a decoction of origanum 
vulgare  before  they  were  made 
into 
cigars,  and  by  this  means  so  trans­
formed  the  contained  nicotine  as  to  ren­
der  it  harmless  to  the  human  system. 
Experiments  were  made  upon  persons 
having  an  aversion  to  tobacco  in  any 
form,  and  these  smoked  three  cigars 
in 
succession  without  experiencing  any 
inconvenience.

W atchm aker’s Oil.

Take  the  purest  and  lightest  oil  ob­
tainable,  and  place  it  in  a  retort  with 
eight  times  its  weight  of  absolute  alco­
hol.  Boil  it  for  ten  minutes,  decant  the 
liquid  and  allow  it  to  cool,  then 
let  it 
evaporate  until  its  volume  is  reduced  to 
a  fifth;  filter,  and  keep  it  in  well  stop­
pered  and  sealed  bottles.  This  is  suit­
able  for  the  finest  horological  work.

The  best  citizen  is  not  the  man  who 
knows  that  things  are  not  right,  but  the 
one  who  honestly  and  fearlessly  sets 
about  righting  the  wrongs.

Fred  Brundage 
W holesale  D ruggist

32 and 34  Western  Avenue 

Muskegon,  Mich.

School  Supplies

and

Stationery

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

Consultation,  Examination

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

Catarrh,  Head and Throat

Is the voice husky?
Do you ache a>l ov<-r? 
is the nose stopped up?
Do  yon  snore  at  night?
Does the nose bleed easily?
Is  this  worse  toward  night?
Does the nose itch and  burn?
Is there pain  in front 01  h  ad?
Is  there  pain  across  the  eyes?
Is  your  sense  of  smell  leaving?
Is the throat  dry  in  the morning?
Are you losing your  sense of taste?
Do you  sleep  with  the  mouth  open?
Have you a  pain behind  breast bone?
Does  the  nose  stop  up  toward  night?

Go or write to

DR.  C.  E.  RANKIN,

Powers’  Opera  House  Block

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Graduate of University of Michigan  and  Illinois 

School of Electro-Therapeutics

Mail Treatm ent

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

symptom blank.

Window  Shade
Headquarters

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

Heystek  &  Canfield  Co. 
Grand Rapids,  Mich.

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WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced— 
Declined—Linseed Oil.

Menthol..................   @ 5 60
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 05® 2 30 
Morphia, 8..N.Y. Q.  1  95® 2 20
Morphia, Mai...........1  95® 2 20
Moschus  Canton....  @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1......   66®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 15  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................   35®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co...... ............   @  1  00
Plds Llq. N.N.vi gal.
doz....................... 
@200
Plcls Llq., quarts__  @  1  00
Picis Llq., pints......   @  85
PllHydrarg...po. 80  @  50
Piper  Nigra...po. 22  @ 
18
Piper  Alba__po. 35  @  30
Plfx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumb! Acet............  
10® 
12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opil  1  30® l  50
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
@  75
& P. D. Co., doz... 
Pyrethrum,  pv........ 
26®  30
8® 
Quasslae..................  
10
Qulnla, S. P. &  W... 
30®  40
30®  40
Qulnla, 8.  German.. 
Qulnla, N. Y............   30®  40
Rubla Tlnctorum__ 
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv 
20®  22
Saladn....................4 50® 4 75
40®  so
Sanguis  Draconls... 
12® 
Sapo, W................... 
14
SapoM.................... 
10® 
12
Sapo G.................... 
<3 
15

Seldlltz Mixture......
20® 22
Sinapis....................
@ 18
Sinapis,  opt............
® 30
Snuff, Maccabov. De
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..............
lVi® 2
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
3® 5
Soda, Ash............... 3 Vi® 4
Soda, Sulphas.........
@ 2
Spts. Cologne...........
@ 2 60
Spts. Ether  Co........
50® 55
Spts. Myrcla Dom...
@ 2 00
Spts. Vlnl Rect.  bbl.
@
Spts. Vini Rect. Vibbl
@
Spts. Vini Rect. logal
@
Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
@80® 1  05
Strychnia, Crystal... 
Sulphur,  Subl.........
2Vi@ 4
Sulphur, Roll........... 2K@ 3 Vi
Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Terebenth  Venice...
30
Theobromae.............
65
Vanilla.................... 9 00@16 00
Zinci Sulph............
7® 8
Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard, extra..............
Lard, No. l ..............

BBL.  GAL, i
70
70
50

70
60
45

46
Linseed, pure raw... 
Linseed,  Dolled.......  
46
60
Neatsfoot, winter str  54 
Spirits  Turpentine..  41 Vi  46
Pointa  bbl.  lb.
Red Venetian.........  
IX  2  @8
Ochre, yellow Mars.  H£  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  IK  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  214 2Vi@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2Vi  2K@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13®  16
Vermilion, English..  70®  75
Green,  Paris...........  14®  18
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red.................  6Vi@  7
Lead,  white............   6Vi@  7
Whiting, white Span  @
Whiting, gilders’__  @
White, Paris, Amer.  @ 1 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff....................... 
®  l
Universal Prepared,  l  10® l

8
S
8

S
S

 

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10® 1  20
Extra Turp..............  1  60®  1  70
Coach Body,...........  2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Fura...... 1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1 56® 1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

H O LID A Y

GOODS

W e wish  to  assure  our  customers  that 

we  shall  this  season  show  an  even  more 

complete  line  of  Holiday  Goods  than  last 

year.  Our  Mr.  Dudley  will  call  and  dis­

play samples  as  soon  as  the  new  lines  are 

complete.  Our  customers  can  place  their 

entire  orders  with  us  this  season  at  one 

time 

if  they  wish,  saving  the  time  and 

trouble  of  looking  over  several  smaller 

lines.

H azeltine  &  Perkins 

D rug  Co.,

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

$  6@$

Acldnm
Acetlcum  ................$
8
70® 75
Benzolcum, German.
Boraclc.........
@ 17
Carbollcum..............  30®
30® 42
Citricum...................  47@
47® 50
3® 5
Hydrochlor...
8® 10
Nitrocum.......
12® 14
12®
Oxalicum................. 
Phosphorium,  dil
@ 15
52® 55
Salicylieum  .............  52®
Sulphuricum.............  1M@
5
IK®
1  10®  1  20
Tannicum___
38® 40
Tartaricum  ...
4®
6
4®
6® 8
6®
13® 15
13®
12® 14
12®
2 00® 2 25
80®  1  00
45® 50
2  50® 3 00
22© 24
6© 8
1  70©  1  75

a
Am m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas................. 
Chloridum...............  
A niline
Black.......................
Brown......................
Bed..........................
Yellow......................
Baccw
Cubebae...........po,25
Junlperus.......
Xanthoxylum

Balaam um
Copaiba...................  80©  56
P e ru .......................  
® 186
Terabln,  Canada....  65©  60
Tolutan.................... 
45#  50
Cortex
Abies, Canadian......
Cassise......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myrlca Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Qulllata, gr’d ...........
Sassafras....... po. 20
Ulmus...po.  15, gr’d
K xtractum
Glycyrrhiza Glabra.
Glycyrrhiza,  po. 
. box 
________  
Hæmatox, 15 lb. 1
Haematox, is ........... 
Haematox,  Vis.........  
Haematox, Vis.........  
F erru
Carbonate  Precip...
Citrate and  Qulnla..
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanldum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
F lora

15 
2  25 
75 
40 
15 
2
80
7

24©
li©
13©
14©
15©

15©
Arnica..................... 
Anthemls.................  22©
Matricaria...............   30©

Folia

Barosma..................   38©
Cassia Acutifol,  Tin-
nevelly................. 
20©
Cassia, Acutifol, Alx.  25© 
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and Vis.................  
12©
UvaUrsi................... 
8©
G um m l
65
© 
Acacia, 1st picked... 
45
©
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
35
Acacia,3d  picked... 
© 
28
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
©
65
Acacia, po................  46©
14
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12©
12
Aloe, Cape.... po. 15. 
©
30
©
Aloe,  Socotri.. po. 40 
60
Ammoniac................  56©
45
Assafcptida__po. 40 
40©
55
Benzoinum.............. 
50©
13
©
Catechu, is .............. 
14 
Catechu, Vis............. 
©
16 
©
Catechu, 14s............. 
71 
Campnorae..............  68«
40
Bupnorbium... po. 35
®
1  00 
Gafbanum...............
70 
Gamboge............ po
30 
Guaiacum...... po. 25
75 
Kino...........po. $0.75
60 
Mastic  ....................
40
Myrrh............ po. 46
Opil__ po. 4.90®5.00 3 40® 3 50
Shellac....................  25®  35
Shellac, bleached....  40®  45
Tragacanth.............   60®  90

H erba

26
20
25
28
23
25
39
22
25

Absinthium., oz. pkg 
Eupatorlum. .oz. pkg 
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
Malorum__oz, pkg 
Mentha Pip.. oz. pkg 
Mentha Vlr..oz. pkg 
Bue..............oz. pkg 
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, Y.. .oz. pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, P at...........  65®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
18®  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
‘arbonate, Jennings  18®  20

Oleum

Absinthium.............  6  50® 7 00
Amygdalae,  Dulc....  38®  65
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00® 8 25
Anlsl.......................   l  85® 2 oo
Aurantl Cortex........2  10® 2 20
Bergamll.................  2  65® 2 85
Cajlputl...................  80®  85
Caryophylll.............  
75®  80
Cedar......................  60®  85
Chenopadll.............. 
@ 2 75
Clnnamonll...............l  is® l 25
Cltronella................ 
as®  40

io@ 

00® 4 50

so®  60

is® l 25
50®  1 60
10® 1 20
85®  l so
®  75
50®  60
60®  1 75
60® 2 00
30®  1 40

Conlum Mac............  
Copaiba...................   l 
Cubebae...................   l 
Exechthltos............   l 00® 1  10
Erlgeron.................  l 
Gaultherla..............  l 
Geranium, ounce.... 
Gosslppil, Sem. gal.. 
Hedeoma.................  1 
Junlpera.................  l 
Lavendula..............  90® 2  00
Llmonis...................  1 
Mentha Piper.........   l  75®  l  80
Mentha Verid.........   l  SO® 1  60
Morrhuae, ;gal.........   l  10®  l  20
Myrcla....................  4 
Olive.......................   75® 3  00
PlcisLiquida........... 
12
@  35
Picis Llquida,  gal... 
Biclna.....................   96® l  02
Rosmarlnl.............. 
® 1  00
Bosae, ounce............   6 00® 6 50
Succlni....................  40®  45
Sabina....................  90® 1  00
75® 7 00
Santal....................... 2 
Sassafras.................  55®  60
Sinapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  65
TIglil.......................  1 
50® 1 60
Thyme.....................   40®  50
Thyme, opt.............. 
® 1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb....................  
15®  18
13® 
Bichromate............. 
15
Bromide................. 
52®  57
C arb....................... 
12® 
15
Chlorate., .po. 17@19 
16®  18
Cyanide...................  34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 
Potassa, Bltart, pure 
28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com.  @  15
Potass Nitras, opt... 
7®  10
Potass  Nitras.........  
6® 
8
Prussiate.................  23®  26
Sulphate po............  
15®  18

30® 2 40

Radix

___ 

Aconitum.................  20®
Althae......................  30®
Anchusa 
_
__ 
Arum  po.................  @  26
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentiana........po. 15 
12® 
15
Glychrrhiza.. ,pv.  16 
16® 
18 
75
Hydrastis  Canaden.  @ 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @ 8 0
12® 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
15
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 75
Iris  plOX...po. 36@38  35®  40
Jalapa, p r...............   25®  30
Maranta,  V4s...........  @  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Rhei.........................  75® 1  00
Rhei, cut.................  @  1  25
Rhei, pv..................   76®  1  35
Spigelia...................  35®  38
Sanguinaria... po.  15  @  18
Serpentaria............   40®  45
Senega....................  60®  65
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smilax, M................  @  26
Scillae............ po.  35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foetl-
dus,  po.................  @  25
Yaleriana,Eng.po.30  @  25 
15®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber j.................  26®  27
Semen 
.

Anlsum..........po.  15 
®  12
Apium (graveleons).  13® 
15
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
10®  11
Cam!.............. po.  15 
Cardamon................  1  25®  1  76
Coriandrum.............  
8® 
10
Cannabis Sativa......   4%@  5
Cydonium...............   75®  1 00
15®  16
Cnenopodium.........  
Dipterix Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foeniculum..............  @ 
10
9
7® 
Fcenugreek, po........ 
L ini......................... 
4® 
5
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
4 Vi® 
5
Lobelia....................  46®  50
Pharlaris Canarian..  4 Vi® 
5
R apa.......................  4M® 
5
Sinapis  Alba........... 
9® 
10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
li®  
12
Spiritus 

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 60 
Frumenti.  I). F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti................   1  25®  1  50
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1 65® 2 00
Juniperis  Co...........  1 75® 3 50
Saacnarum  N. E __  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........   l  75® 6 60
Vini Oporto............   1  25® 2 00
Vini Alba.................  1  25® 2 00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 50® 2 75
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.................. 2 50® 2  75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......
l  50 
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......
1  25
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
carriage................
1 00 
Hard, for slate use..
76
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use...............
1  40
Syrups
Acacia................. ...  @  50
Aurantl Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..................   @  50
Ipecac......................  @  60
Ferri Iod.................   @  50
Rhei Arom..............  @ 5 0
Smilax  Officinalis...  50®  60
@ 
so
Senega....................  
Soil!»....................... 
a   50

SclllSB  Co.................  @  50
Tolutan...................   @  50
Prunus  virg............   @  50
Tinctures
Aconitine Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellls F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__  
Arnica....................  
Assafoetida.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Auranti Cortex.......  
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Cantharides............  
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co........... 
Castor...................... 
Catechu}................... 
Cinchona................. 
Cinchona Co............  
Columba.................  
Cubebae.................... 
Cassia Acutifol........ 
Cassia Acutifol Co... 
Digitalis................... 
Ergot.......................  
Ferri  Chloridum.... 
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
Gulaca...................... 
Gulaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............  
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless......  
K ino.......................  
Lobelia...................  
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica............  
Opil............... ; ........  
Opil, comphorated.. 
Opil, deodorized...... 
Quassia................... 
Bhatany................... 
Rhei......................... 
Sanguinaria............ 
Serpentaria............  
Stromonium............  
Tolutan................... 
Valerian........... 
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber..................  

60
50
60
60
50
so
60
50
60
so
50
75
so
75
75
1 00
50
5o
60
So
So
5o
5o
50
5o
35
So
60
so
60
5o
75
75
5o
So
5o
5o
75
60
l  So
So
So
So
Bo
5¿
60
60
*0
So
2q

Miscellaneous 

.Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  35
Aether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   2Ü® 
3
4
3® 
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto...................   40®  50
Antlmonl, po........... 
4® 
5
Antimoni et Potass T  40®  50
Antipyrin...............   @  25
Antliebrin..............  @  20
Argent! Nitras, oz...  @  50
Arsenicum.............. 
10® 
12
38®  40
Balm Gilead  Buds..
Bismuth S. N...........  1  65®  1 7»» 
Calcium Chlor., is... 
10 
Calcium Chlor., Vis.. 
Calcium Chlor., Vis.. 
12 
80 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsicl Fructus, a t.. 
15 
15 
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
Capsid Fructus B, po 
15
12®  14
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
Carmme, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
50®  55
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
®  40
Coccus.................... 
Cassia Fructus........  @  35
Centraria.................   @ 
10
Cetaceum.................  @  45
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform,  squlbbs  @ 1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1 40®  1  65
Chondrus................   20®  25
Clnchonidlne.P. & W  38®  48
Clnchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine...................  6 05® 6 25
Corks, list, dis. pr. ct.
■ ..........................  
75
Creosotum...............
@  45
Creta............bbl. 75
2 
@ 
Creta, prep..............
@ 
5
Creta, precip...........
9®  11
Creta, Rubra........... 
_
8 
Crocus....................  
25®
30
Cudbear...................  @
24 
Cupri Sulph.............  6Vi@
8
Dextrine.................  
7®
10 
Ether Sulph............   78®
92 
Emery, all numbers.  @
8 
Emery, po................  @
6 
E rgota......... po. 90  85®
90 
12®
Flake  White........... 
15 
Galla.......................   @
23 
Gambler.................  
8®
9 
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @
60 
Gelatin, French......  
35®
60 
teM
Glassware,  flint, box 
5 
75 &
Less than box......
70 
Glue, brown............  
n@
13
Glue,  white............. 
15®
25 
Glycerlna.................  i7Vi@
25 
Grana Paradisi........  @
25 
Hum ulus.................  
25®
55
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @
1 00 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @
@  90
Hydrarg Ox Rub’m. 
@ 1  10 
Hydrarg Ammonlati 
@ 1 20 
HydrargUnguentum
50®  60
Hydrargyrum.........
@  85
IcnthyoDolla,  Am...
65® 70
75® 1  00
3 40® 3 60
3 60® 3 85
@ 50
89® 85
65® 75
® 25
10® 12
2® 8@ i Vil
50® «1

Lupulin....................
Lycopodium.............
M ads......................
Liquor Arsen et Hy­
drarg Iod..............
LiquorPotassArslnit 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
Manilla,8.  F ........

2 8

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED
L im burger Cheese
Swiss  Cheese
B rick  Cheese
Pecan  Nuts
B razil  N uts

DECLINED
Scotch  Peas
Lemons
Navy  Beans

Tomatoes
F air    ....................  
Good.......................  
Fancy.............  
Gallons...................- 
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints........................2 00
Columbia, M pints.....................l 25

90
95
l  05
2 75

 

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

 

Eocene.......................   @10M
Perfection..................   @ 9M
Diamond White.........   @  8M
D.  S. Gasoline..........    @12M
Deodorized Naphtha..  @10M
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine..........................19  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @1034
CHEESE
Acme.......................  
@10M
till
Amboy....................  
Carson City.............. 
@H
Elsie......................... 
@HM
@ilM
Emblem................... 
Gem............ 
  @12
Gold Medal.............. 
@U
Ideal...................... 
@11
@11
Jersey...................... 
@11M
Riverside................. 
14@15
Brick.......................  
@90
Edam....................... 
Leiden....................  
@17
13@14
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
50@75
Sap  Sago................. 
19@20
CHEWING  GUM 
55
American Flag Spruce—  
Beeman’s Pepsin.................... •.. 60
Black Jack.......................  
55
Largest Gum  Made...................  60
Sen Sen  ,........................... 
55
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
55
Yucatan............................ 
55
Bulk....................................  5
Bed........................................7
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   6M
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

COCOA

Bunkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German  Sweet....................   23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa...................  46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla................................  28
Premium...... ......................   31
Cotton, 40 ft. per doz...........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz...........l 20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz...........1  40
Cotton, 70 fi.  per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz.......... l  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  95
Cleveland.............................   41
Colonial, Ms  .......................   36
Colonial, Ms.........................  33
Epps..............  
42
Huyler.........................-.......  46
Van Houten, Ms..................  12
Van Houten, Ms..................   20
Van Houten, Ms..................  38
Van Houten,  is ..................  70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, Ms.  ........................  41
Wilbur. Ms.............  
42
 
Dunham’s Ms...................  26
Dunham’s Ms and Ms......   26M
Dunham’s  Ms...................  27
Dunham’s  Ms...................  28
Bulk..................................   13
COCOA SHELLS
201b. bags.......................... 
Less quantity........... •__  
Pound packages............  

COCOANUT

3
4

 

 

 

COFFEE
Roasted

2M

I   HIGH GRADE.
C o f f e e s

Special Combination...........15
French Breakfast............... 17M
Lenox, Mocha & Java........ 21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc.26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwinell-Wright  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-is............. 29
White House, 30-2s............. 28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-is.. 
.. 21M
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s.......20M
Royal Java.......................... 26 M
Royal Java & Mocha...........26M
Arabian  Mocha  .................28M
AdenMoch..........................22M
Freeman  Merc. Co. Brands.
Marexo................................ ll
Porto  Rican.........................14
Honolulu  ............................16M
Parker  House J  &M......... 25
Monogram J& M ............... 28
Mandehling.........................31M
Common.............................. 10M
F a ir.....................................11
Choice..................................13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common.............................. ll
F a ir.....................................14
Choice..................................16
Fancy..................................17
Peaberry.............................. 13
F air.................................... 12
Choice......................,...16

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

Mexican

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

G uatem ala

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

Ja v a

African................................ 12M
Fancy African.....................17
O. G .....................................25
P. G ..................................... 29

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

Mocha

Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuokle............................ 10m
Dll worth............................ 10M
Jersey.................................10M
Lion..:................................10M
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.
Valley City M  gross.............  75
Felix M gross.......................115
Hummers foil M gross........  85
Hummel’s tin M gross........1  43

E xtract

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz in case.

Soda

Gail Borden Eagle...... .......6  40
Crown.................................. 6  25
Daisy...................................6 75
Champion............................4 60
Magnolia.............................4  26
Challenge............................ 4  10
Dime....................................3 36
L e a d e r ........................ ...4  00

'  COUPON  BOOKS 
60 books, any  denom... 
l 50 
100books,any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  ll 50 
1,000books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Oyster

B u tter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................   1  50
100  books.......................  2  50
500  books.......................  ll  50
1.000  books.......................   20 00
500, any one denom........  2 00
1.000, any one denom........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour............................ 
6M
New York................. *. —  
6M
6M
Family.............................  
Salted................................ 
6M
634
Wolverine......................... 
Soda  XXX.......................  
6X
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........   13
Zephyrette........................  13
F a u st...............................  7M
Farina..... .........................  6M
Extra Farina.................... 
6%
Sal tine Oyster...................  6M
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals............................  10
Assorted  Cake.................  10
Belle Rose......................... 
8
Bent’s Water....................  16
Cinnamon Bar..................   9
Coffee Cake,  Iced............   10
Coffee Cake. Java............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........  18
Cocoanut Taffy.................  10
Cracknells.......................   16
Creams, Iced.................... 
8
Cream Crisp.....................   10M
Cubans.............................  
llM
Currant Fruit...................  12
Frosted Honey.................   12
Frosted Cream................. 
9
Ginger Gems.l’rgeorsm’U  8 
6M
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C.... 
Gladiator..........................   10M
9
Grandma Cakes...............  
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 Waters.................  16
Marshmallow...................   16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
8
Mary Ann......................... 
Mixed Picnic....................   11%
7M
Milk Biscuit...................... 
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar.................... 
9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12%
Newton.............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers.............  8
Oatmeal Wafers...............   12
Orange Crisp.................... 
9
Orange Gem....................-. 
9
Penny Cake......................  8
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
7%
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8M
Pretzels, hand  made........  8%
Scotch Cookies.................   9
Sears’ Lunch..............  7%
Sugar Cake.................. 
8
Sugar Creaq>, XXX.........   8

Sugar Squares................... 
8
Sultanas............................   13
Tutti Frutti.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. 

J. Kruce & Co. ’s baked goods 

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

with Interesting discounts. 
CREAM TARTAR

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

D RIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundried.........................  @7
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @10 
Apricots.....................  9@ 9M
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches...................... 8  @20
Pears.......................... 7%
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @
90-10025lb. boxes .... ..  @ 4*
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @634
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @ 714
40 - 50 26 lb. boxes__ ..  @ 834
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes__

California Prunes

X cent less in 50 lb. cases

Citron

Peel

C urrants

Leghorn.................................ll
Corsican..................................12
California, l lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package.......12
Imported, bulk.....................n%
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx..l0H 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10H 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown.
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown
L. M„ Seeded, 1  lb........
L. M., Seeded, 34  lb__   6%
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

2  15
7
7%8
8M

Raisins

. 

2 75

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
Dried Lima..........................  7
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland.........................2 to
Cream of Cereal..................   90
Grain-O, small..... ...............1  36
Grain-O, large.......................... 2 25
Grape Nuts............................... 1 36
Postum Cereal, small....... ..1  35
Postum Cereal, large.........  2 25
241 lb. packages...................... l 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs........................2 26
Flake, 60 lb. sack...............  90
Pearl, 200 lb. bbl...................... 3 80
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................1 so
Maccaroni and Verm 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 arina

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

242lb. packages ............2  00
100 lb. kegs............................... 3 00
200 lb. barrels..................... 5 70
100 lb. bags................................2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........1 30
Green, Scotch, bu.....................1 50
Split,  lb............................... 2%
Rolled Avena, bbl.....................5 10
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   2 50
Monarch, bbl............................4 85
Monarch, % bbl........................2 55
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks.........,2 30
Quaker, cases........................... 3 20
East India...........................   234
German, sacks....................   334
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  1101b. sacks.............434
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages...... 6
Cracked, b u lk ....................  314
24 2 lb. packages...................... 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE A JENKS*

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

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

sk
m
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%

P B

4

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Stove

BUTTER  COLOR 

No. 3.....................................  75
No. 2.....................................1  10
No. 1............ .......................1 75
W., B. & Co.’s, 15c size....  1  25 
W.,R.&Co.’s, 25c size....  2 00 
Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s...............12H
Paraffine, 6s........................ 10M
Paraffine, 12s.......................ll
Wtcklng 
................20

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

Corn

Beans

F rench  Peas

B lackberries

Clam  Bouillon

f*o
86
96
22
19
15
  H
90
85
l  86
3 40
2 35
l  75
2 80
l 75
2 80
176
2 80
18®20
22®25

Apples
3 lb. Standards........ 
i  00
3 25
Gallons, standards.. 
80
Standards................ 
Baked......................  i  oo@i  30
76®  85
Bad Kidney............. 
String...................... 
80
Wax......................... 
85
B lueberries
Standard..................  
85
B rook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1 90
Clams.
l  oo
Little Neck, l lb ..... 
Little Neck. 2 lb...... 
1  50
Burnham’s, % pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20
Cherries
Bed  Standards...........
White........................
Fair..........................  
Good.......................  
Fancy.................  
Sur Extra Fine.................  
Extra  Fine.......................  
Fine................................... 
Moyen...... .................... 
Gooseberries
Standard................. 
Hom iny
Standard.................. 
Lobster
Star, % lb................. 
Star, l  lb.................  
Picnic Tails............. 
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ........... 
Mustard, 21b........ 
Soused, l lb.............. 
Soused, 2 lb............  
Tomato, lib ............. 
Tomato, 2 lb............. 
Mushrooms
Hotels.......................  
Buttons....................  
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................  
Cove, 2 lb.................  
Cove, 1 lb Oval........ 
Peaches
P ie ...........................
Yellow ;...................  1 
Pears
Standard.................  
Fancy...................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
Early June.............. 
Early June  Sifted  . 
Pineapple
Grated  ...................  1 
Sliced.......................   1 
Pum pkin
F a ir......................... 
Good........................ 
Fancy...................... 
Raspberries
Standard.................. 
Russian  Cavier
14 lb. cans..............................   3 75
% lb, cans...............................  7 oo
l lb. can................................  12 00
Columbia Biver, tails 
Columbia Elver, flats 
Bed Alaska.............. 
l 
Pink Alaska............ 
l 
Shrim ps
Standard.......................  
Sardines
Domestic, 14s........... 
Domestic, 34s.......... 
Domestic,  Mustard. 
California, Ms__ ... 
California Ms........... 
French, Ms.............. 
French, Ms.............. 
Standard........................ 
Fancy............................  
Succotash
Fair..................... 
 
Hood.....  ................ 
Fancy............................  

65®1 85
1  00
l  25
l  00
1  00
l 60
25@2 76
35®2 55

@i 85
®2 09
30®t 40
10@1 25
i so
4
8
7
11® 14
17@24
7®14
18®28

Straw berries

70
75
85
1 15

Salmon

1  55
95

90
100

Peas

85

 

1 00
1 25

1 20

Index to  Markets

By Columns

C

B

A

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................   15
Alabastine............................   1
Ammonia...............................  1
Axle Grease...........................  1
Baking Powder......................  1
Bath Brick............................   1
l
Bluing.................................... 
Brooms...................................  1
Brushes................................. 
l
Batter Color............................   2
Candies................................    M
Candles....................................     2
Canned Goods.........................  2
Catsup.....................................   3
Carbon O ils............................   3
Cheese.....................................   3
Chewing Gum.........................   3
Chicory....................................  3
Chocolate.................................  3
Clothes Lines...........................  3
Cocoa.......................................  3
Cocoanut.................................  3
Cocoa Shells............................  3
Coffee.....................................   3
Condensed Milk......................   4
Coupon Books.........................  4
Crackers.................................  4
Cream Tartar ... v .................   5
Dried  Fruits...........................  5

D
F

 

H

G

M

N
o

I
J
I.

Farinaceous  Goods.............  6
Fish and Oysters....................  13
Flavoring Extracts.................   6
Fly Paper...............................   6
Fresh Meats......................... 
Fruits ...................................  14
Grains and Flour...................  6
H erb s...................................   6
Hides and Pelts....................   13
Indigo......................................  6
Je lly ........................................  6
Lamp Burners.......................  15
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns................................  15
Lantern  Globes....................   15
Licorice......................... 
Lye..........................................   7
Matches..................................   7
Meat Extracts.........................  7
Molasses.................................   7
Mustard..................................   7
Nuts........................................  14
Oil Cans..................................  15
Olives......................................  7
Oyster K ills...........................   7
Paper Bags............................  7
Paris Green.........................   7
Pickles................- .................  7
Pipes.....................................   7
Potash...................................   7
Provisions..............................  7
Bice.......................................  8
Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda.................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................   8
Sauerkraut............................   9
Seeds...........  
9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   9
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices............... 
9
Starch.....................................  10
Stove Polish...........................  10
Sugar......................................   10
Syrups.................:................   9
Table Sauce............................  12
Tea.........................................   11
Tobacco..................................  li
Twine.....................................  12
Vinegar..................................  12
Washing Powder....................  12
Wlcklng...........-.....................  13
Woodenware..........................  13
Wrapping P ap er....,...........   13
Yeast Cake.............. .-...........  13

V
w

B
S

V

T

P

 

 

 

 

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

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

9 00
6 00

BAKING POW DER 

Mggr

J4 lb. cans,  4 doz. case.......3 75
% lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
l lb. cans, 
l doz. case.,.__3 75
5 lb. cans, % doz. case........ 8 00

14 lb. cans, 4 doz. case......  45
  6
% lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1 60

Queen  Flake

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

Royal

 

_ _ _  

7

lOoslze....  90 
x  lb. cans  1 35 
6 oz. cans.  1  90 
%  lb. cans 2 50 
X 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 fi 00 
Arctic 16 oz. round per gross 9 00

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

BROOMS

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

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 in..................   45
Solid Back, ll i n .................  95
Pointed Ends....... ........I...  85
NO. 8......................................1 00
No. 7......................................1 30
NO. 4................ 
.1  70
No. 3 .» .............. 
1 90

Shoe

 

 

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

W hite fish

100 lbs...........7 50 
40 lbs...........3 30 
10 lb8 ...........  90 
8 lbs...........  76 
SEEDS

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 25
1 65
48
42
Anise..................................... 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3M
Caraway.............................   754
Cardamon, Malabar............1  00
Celery.................................. 10
Hemp, Russian.....................   4
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white.....................  7
Poppy....................................  6
Rape..........................  
Cuttle Bone..........................14
Handy Box, large..............  2 50
Handy Box, small............   1  25
21
Bixby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish___ 
85
60
Scotch, In bladders................  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, in jars.......  43
B. T. Babbit brand—

 
SHOE  BLACKING

SNUFF

SOAP

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

 

to___

P u re  Cane

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

STARCH

4

Klngsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............  
20 l-lb. packages............... 
6 lb. packages...............  
K ingsford’s Sliver Gloss

40 l-lb. packages...............   7M

6K
7
7M

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages..................   5M
3-lb. packages................... 
5
6-lb. packages..................  
6
40 ana 50-lb. boxes............   4
Barrels............................. 
3K

29

__________ _ y ____________
No.  8................................   4
8
No.  9................................   4
S
No. 10................................  4
3
NO. 11................................   4  50
No. 12...................  
4 46
No. 13................................  4 45
No. 14................................   4 40
No. 15................................   4  40
NO. 16................................   4 40

 

 

TEA
Japan

Sundried, medium.............. 28
Sundrled, choice..................30
Sundried, fancy...................40
Regular, medium.................28
Regular, choice...................30
Regular, fancy.................... 40
Basket-fired, medium..........28
Basket-flred, choice.............36
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs......................................27
Siftings...........................19@21
Fannings........................20@22

G unpowder

Moyune, medium................ 26
Moyune, choice................... 36
Moyune, fancy.....................50
Plngsuey,  medium.............. 25
Plngsuey, choice..................30
Plngsuey, fancy...................40

6

8

Vanilla 

Lemon

2ozpanel ..l  20  2 ozpanel.  75 
3 oz taper..2 oo  4 oz taper. .1  so

1». G. 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
No. 4T 
.1 5 2   No  8T ...  2 08
O ar Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60
Tanglefoot, per box.............   35
Tanglefoot, per case...........3 20

FLY PA PER

Standard.

FRESH  MEATS 

Beef

P ork

Carcass.......................  6 @ 8
Forequarters.........  
5  @6
Hindquarters......... 
8  @9
Loins No. 3..............  10  @14
Ribs...........................   9 @i2M
Rounds......................  
8 @  8M
Chucks......................  
5 @5(4
Plates........................   4 @614
Dressed...................
@ 7M
Loins.......................
@12
Boston  Butts...........
mo
Shoulders................
@ 9M 
@  9
Leaf  Lard................
M utton
Carcass...................  
7M@ 914
Lambs......................  9>4@10
9
Carcass....................  8
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 

Veal

W heat

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

W inter W heat F lour 

70

Local Brands

Patents.....'......................  4 35
Second Patent..................   3 85
Straight.............................  3 65
Clear................................   3 20
Graham............................  3 30
Buckwheat.......................  4 oo
Rye...................................   3 00
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbis., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond 14s......................  3  85
Diamond 14s.....................   3  85
Diamond Ms.....................   3  85
Quaker 14s.........................  3  80
Quaker Ms.........................   3 80
Quaker Ms........................   3  80

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Spring W heat F lour 

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 25
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4  15
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 05
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 r5 
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4  05 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4 40
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  go
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wlngold  Ms....................  
4  25
Wlngold  Ms____- .........  
4  15
Wlngold  Ms....................  
4  05
Geresota Ms......................  4  35
Ceresota Ms......................  4  25
Ceresota Ms......................  4  15
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand40
Laurel  Ms......................... 4  25
Laurel  Ms......................... 4  15
Laurel  Ms......................... 4  05
Laurel Ms and Ms paper.. 4 05
Bolted............................... 2 75
Granulated....................... 2 86
Car  lots............................. 38
40
Car lots, clipped...............
Less than car lots............

Meal

Oats

Feed and MillstufTfc

St. Car Feed, screened.... 23 00
No. 1 Cora and  Oats........ 22 50
Unbolted Cora  Meal........ 22 00
Winter Wheat Bran......... 17 00
Winter Wheat  Middlings. 18 00
Screenings....................... 16 00
Cora, car  lots..................
54M

Cora
Hay

No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 10 50
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 11  50
Sage.................................. ....15
Hops....................................... 15
Laurel Leaves......................... 15
Senna Leaves.........................25

HERBS

INDIGO

 

JELLY

Madras, 5 lb. boxes............... 56
S. F., 2, 3 and 5 lb. boxes....... 50
51b. palls, per doz...........  190
151b. palls............................  38
30 lb. palls...... ...........  
72
LICORICE
Pure....................................   30
Calabria...........................  
  23
Sicily....................................  14
Root.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz......................1 20
Condensed, 4 doz......................2 25
j. 
No.  9 sulphur...........................1 65
Anchor ra rlo r......................... 1 50
No. 2 Home.............................. 1 30
Export Parlor.......................... 4 00
Wolverine.................................1 50

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.

MATCHES

LYE

MEAT EXTRACTS

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

40
35
26
22

MOLAS8ES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
.  MUSTARD

OLIVES

Horse Radish, 1 doz............ 1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............ 3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz........... 1 75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............   1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
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

PA PER  BAGS

Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.

Ask your Jobber for them.

Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific
Bottom
Square
M.......... .........  28
50
M.......... .........  34
60
1.......... .........  44
80
2......... .........  54
I  00
3.......... .......   66
1  25
4......... .........  76
1  45
5.......... .......   90
1  70
6..........
2 00
........1  06
8......... ..........1  28
2 40
10.......... .........1  38
2 60
12.......... ....... 1  60
3  15
14......... .........2 24
4  15
16.......... ........2 34
*  4 50
20.......... .........2 52
5 00
25..........
5 50
Sugar
Red......
Gray......

• 
4M
....  4M
PARIS  GREEN

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

PICKLES
Medium

Barrels, 1,200 count.............6 50
Half bbls, Ç00 count.............3 75

Barrels, 2,400 count............ 8  00
Half bbls, 1.200 count..........4 50

Small

PIPES

Clay, No. 216......................... 1 70
Clay, T. D., full count.........   65
Cob, No. 3...........................  85

POTASH 

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
B arreled Pork

Mess.........................  @16 00
Back....................... 
@16 75
Clear back...............   @17 to
Short cut................. 
@17 00
@19 00
Pig.........................  
Bean......................... 
@14 00
Family Mess............  
@16 to
Bellies....-....:........ 
Briskets................... 
Extra shorts............  

D ry  Salt Meats

10
9M
9

Smoked  Meats 

Hams, 121b. average.  @  hm
Hams, I4lb.average.  @  hm
Hams, 161b. average.  @  irM
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @ 11
Ham dried beef......   @  13M
Shoulders (N.Y.cut)  @  9M
Bacon, clear............   10M@  U
California hams......   @  9
Boiled Hams.......... 
@  16M
Picnic Boiled Hams  @  13
@  8M
Berlin  Ham pr’s’d. 
Mince Ham s.........  
@  9

Lards—In Tierces

Compound...............  
Pure.........................  
Vegetole................ 
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs..advance 
so lb. Tins...advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Pails., advance 
51b. Palls..ad vance 
81b. Palls., advance 

7%
10M
8
M
M
M
fc
\

1
1

 

 

Tripe

Sausages
Bologna-................... 
Liver.......................  
Frankfort................ 
P o rk .......................  
Blood.......................  
Tongue................ 
Headcheese............  
Beef
Extra Mess.............. 
Boneless..................  
Rump...................... 
Pigs’  Feet
M bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Kits, 15  lbs..............  
M bbls., 40 lbs.........  
M bbls., 80 lbs.........  
Casings
P o rk ...............................  
Beef rounds............. 
Beef middles........... 
Sheep............................... 
B utterlne
Solid, dairy..............  12M@
Rolls, dairy..............  13  @
Rolls, creamery......  
Solid, creamery......  
Corned beef, 2 lb .... 
Corned beef, 14 lb ... 
Roast beef, 2 lb........ 
Potted ham,  Ms......  
Potted ham,  Ms......  
Deviled ham, Ms--.. 
Deviled ham, Ms.... 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
Potted tongue,  Ms.. 
RICE 
Domestic

Canned  Meats 

5M
4
7M
7M
6M
h
6

10  75
11  50
11  50
1  55
3 50
70
1  25
2  25

3
10

16M
16
2 B0
17 50
2  B0
50
90
50
90
50
90

Carolina head...........;...........6M
Carolina No. 1 ......................s
Carolina No. 2 ...................... 6M
Broken .................................
Japan,  No. l ................. 5M@
Japan,  No. 2................. 4M@
Java, fancy head................... @
Java, No. 1....................   @
Table...............................  @

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3 15
Deland’s.............................. 3 00
Dwight’s Cow..................... 3  15
Emblem.............................. 2  10
L.  P .....................................3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms............. 3 00
Granulated,  bbls.................  oo
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..................... 3 00
22 14 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 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 66 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bag8.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks.....................2 25
60 51b. 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 
661b. sacks..........................   26
Granulated  Fine.................  85
Medium Fine.......................   90

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6M
Georges selected........  @ 7
Grand Bank................  @ 6
Strips or  bricks......... 6M@iOM
Pollock.......................   @ 3M
Strips.................................. .'..10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1 100 lbs......................   6 25
No. 1  40 lb8......................   2 80
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
78
1 No. 1  8 lbs......................  
69
Holland white hoops, bbl.  19 25 
Holland white hoops Mbbl.  5  bo 
Holland white hoop, sag.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3 00
Round 40 lbs......................  1  50
Scaled.............................. 
22
Bloaters............................   1  60
Mess 100 lbs......................   11  00
Mess  40 lbs......................   4 70
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  25
Mess  8 lbs.................  
  103
No. 1100 lbs......................   9  75
4 20
No. 1  40lbs................... 
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
l  12
No. l 
8 lbs.....................  
93
No. 2 100 lbs......................   8 25
No. 2  40 lbs......................   8 60
No. 2  10 lbs.....................  
98
No. 3 
81
8 lbs.....................  

M ackerel

W

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

50 cakes, large size............. 3 25
100 cakes, large size..............6 50
50 cakes, small size............. 1 95
100 cakes, small size.............3 86
Bell St Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny............   3  90
Peekln............................   4 00
Queen Anne...................   3  15
Big Bargain..............••••  1  75
Umpire...........................   2  15
German Family..............  2 45
Dingman........................   3 85
Santa Claus....................  3  25
Brown............................... 2 40
Fairy...............................  4  00
Naptha../.-......................  4 00
Oak Leaf........................   3 25
Oak Leaf, bigs...............   4  00

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

Pels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

JA X O N

Lautz Bros, brands—

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

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

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouting

SODA

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  61b......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
W orks:  Venice, I1L 
Geneva, 111.

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

Common Corn

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

b%
4M

Young  Hyson

Oolong

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................38
Formosa, fancy....................42
Amoy, medium..................25
Amoy, choice...................... 32
Medium................................27
Choice.................................84
Fancy...................................42

English Breakfast

In d ia

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

TOBACCO

Cigaro

A. Bomers’ brand.

H. & P. Drag Co.’s brands.

Plalndealer............................ 36 00
Fortune Teller.................  35 00
Our Manager....................  85 00
Quintette..........................   so 00
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

H

8. C. W...................................  80 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb ...  . 
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B. L ........................................ $35 0ft
Gold Star..........................    35 OO

20

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 Car..................... 
32
Prairie Rose..:.....................48

 

5M

12
28
38
55
17

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,  106-10................... 
Nutmegs, 115-20..................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot......................... 
P u ré G round In B ulk
Allspice................................ 
Cassia, Batavia....................  
Cassia, Saigon...................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................... 
Ginger, African................... 
Ginger, Cochin....................  
Ginger,  Jam aica............ 
Mace..................................... 
Mustard............................... 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne................. 
Sage.....................................  

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels».............................. 24
Half bbls............................ 26
l gallon cans, per doz.......8 60
M gallon cans, per doz.......2 00
U gallon cans, per doz....... 1  02

12

No. 4,3 doz In case, gross  4 50 
No. 6,3 doz In case, gross  7 20

8UGAR

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
14
wholesale dealer adds  the local 
55
freight from New York  to your 
50
shipping point, giving you credit 
40
on  the Invoice for  the  amount 
  35
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
18
market  In  which  he  purchases 
28
to his shipping point,  Including 
20
20 pounds for the weight  of the 
barrel.
16
Domino.............................  5 85
28
Cut Loaf..........................  5 85
48
Crushed............................  5 85
17
Cubes................................  5 60
15
Powdered.........................  5 45
18
Coarse  Powdered............   6 45
XXXX  Powdered............   5 50
65
’Fine Granulated...............  5 25
18
21b. bags Fine  Gran____  5  40
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 40
Mould A............................  6 70
Diamond  A . ....................  5 35
Confectioner’s  A..............  520
No.  l, Columbia A...........  5 05
No.  2, Windsor A............   5 00
No.  3, Ridgewood A........  5 00
No.  4, Phoenix  A............   4 95
No.  6, Empire A..............  4 90
No.  6................................   4 85
NO.  7............................. 
4 75

20
20

25

17
25

13

14

MICHIGAN 4  TRADESMAN

15

30

12

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

P lu g

Flat Iron..............................33
Creme de Men the................60
Stronghold..................... 
 
Elmo..................................... 33
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge...... ............................. 33
Bed Cross............................. 3i
Palo......................................35
Kylo......................................35
Hiawatha..............................41
Battle A xe...........................36
American Eagle................... 33
Standard Navy.....................36
Spear Head, 16 oz................44
Spear Head,  8oz................43
Nobby Twist........................47
JoflyTar..............................37
Old Honesty......................... 43
Toddy................................... 34
J. T ...................................... 37
Piper Heidslck.................... 63
Bootjack............................. 80
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32

Sm oking

Hand Pressed......................40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core....................  
F la tc a r............................... 3#
Great Navy.......................... 37
W arpath............................. 26
Bamboo,  8 oz......................28
Bamboo, 16 oz......................26
I X L,  61b...........................28
I X L, 30 lb...........................32
Honey Dew........... ............. 37
Gold  Block.......................... 37
Flagm an..............................41
Chips....................................34
Kiln Dried.......................... 24
Duke’s Mixture................... 38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Honey Dip Twist................. 39
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Yum, IX oz.................40
Yum Yum, l lb. palls.......... 38
Cream.................................. 37
Com Cake, 2*  oz.................25
Com Cake, lib ....................23
Plow Boy, IX oz..................39
Plow Boy, 3* oz..................37
Peerless, 3* oz....................34
Peerless, IN oz....................36
Indicator, 2*4 oz..................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........  8 75
Lea & Perrin’s, small......   2 so
Halford, large...................  3 75
Halford, small...................  2 25
Salad Dressing, large......   4 55
Salad Dressing, small......   2 75

TW INE

Cotton, 3 ply........................16
Cotton, 4 ply....................... 16
Jute, 2 ply........................... 12
Hemp, 6 ply........................ 12
Flax, medium..................... 20
Wool, l lb. balls...................  7*

VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star..........12
Pure Cider, Robinson.........10
Pure Cider, S i l v e r ..........li
WASHING  POW DER

Gold Dust, regular............. 4 50
Gold Dust, 5c...................... 4 00

Bub-No-More...........................3 50
Pearline....................................2 90
Scourlne....................................3 GO

W ICKING

No. 0, per gross...................20
No. *, per gross.....................25
No. 9, per gross.................... 30
No. 3. per gross.................... 55

 

Baskets

WOODENWABE
Bushels......................... 
95
Bushels, wide band..................l 15
M arket..............................    30
Splint, large............................. 4 00
Splint, medium....................... 3 50
Splint, small.............................3 00
Willow Clothes, large..........6 26
.  Willow Clothes, medium...  R 75
*  Willow Clothes, small..........6 25

B u tter Plates

No. 1 Oval, 250 In crate........  45
No. 2 Oval, 250 In crate........  50
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate........  56
No. 5 Oval, 250 in crate........  66

Egg Crates

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

Clothes P lus

Bound head, 5 gross box....  46 
Bound head, cartons...........

Mop  Sticks

Mixed Candy

Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........   86
No l common.......................  75
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
is lb. cotton mop heads...... l  25
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90

Palls

39
2- hoop Standard...................l 40
3- hoop Standard...................1 60
2- wlre,  Cable........................l 50
3- wlre,  Cable........................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound.l 25
K r,  Eureka......................... 2 25
2 40
Hardwood...............................2 GO
Softwood.................................. 2 75
Banquet.....................................1 50
Ideal.....................................l  50

Toothpicks

>................  

 

Tubs

20-lnch, Standard, No. 1.......6 oo
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2...... 5 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 8.......4 00
20-lnch, Cable,  No. l............ 6 50
18-lnch, Cable, No. 2.................6 00
16-lnch, Cable, No. 3.................5 00
No. 1 Fibre............................... 9 45
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20
36
Bronze Globe............................ 2 50
Dewey......................................1 75
Double Acme............................ 2 75
Single Acme.........................  2 25
Double Peerless....................  3 25
Single Peerless......................... 2 60
Northern Queen...................... 2 GO
Double Duplex......................... 3 00
Good Luck................................2 75
Universal.................................. 2 25

W ash  Boards

Wood  Bowls

11 In. Butter.........................  75
13 In. Butter.............................. 1 00
15 in. Butter...............................1 75
17 In. Butter.............................. 2 GO
19 In. Butter..............................3 oo
Assorted 13-15-17.......................l 75
Assorted 15-17-19......................2 50

W RAPPING PA PER
Common Straw.................  
l*
Fiber Manila, white.......... 
3K
Fiber Manila, colored......   4*
No.  l  Manila....................  4
Cream  Manila.........'......... 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
WaxButter, full count —   20
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

glc. 3 doz..............................1 00
Sunlight, 3 doz.......................... l 00
Sunlight, IX  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz...................l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz................... 1 00
Yeast Foam, ltt  doz...........  50
Per lb.
White fish...................  ©  9
Trout..........................   ©  9
Black Bass..................io@ 
li
Halibut.......................  ©  14
Ciscoes or Herring....  ©  5
Blueflsh......................  ©  12
Live  Lobster..............  ©  20
Boiled Lobster...........  @  20
Cod..............................  @  10
Haddock....................   ©  7
No. l Pickerel.............  ©  9
Pike............................  ©  8
Perch..........................  a   5
Smoked White...........  o   l*
Bed  Snapper..............  ©  ll
Col River  Salmon......   ©  12
Mackerel....................  ©  15

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

40
34
27
2 00
l  85

H IDES AND  PELTS 

Hides

The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No. l ............  
Green  No. 2............. 
Cured  No. l ............. 
Cured  No. 2............. 
Calf skins,green No. l 
Calfsklns,greenNo.2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calfsklns,curedNo.2 
Pelts, each............. 
Lamb........................
Tallow

© 6fc
© 6*
©  8H
@ 7*
© 9
@ IX
@10
©  8*
50@i 00

Pelts

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

© 4X

@ 3*

15@17
18@21
li@ u
i4@i6

W ool

Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine......  
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy
Standard................. 
Standard H. H ........ 
Standard  Twist....... 
Cut Loaf..................  
Jumbo, 32 lb.................  
Extra fl.H .............. 
Boston Cream.........  
Beet Boot.............. 

bbls. pails
©7*4
©  754
© 8
© 9
cases
@10*
©10
© 8

© 7X

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

Fancy—In  Palls 

©12©12

9 
12 
10* 
12
10
©12 
© 9 *  
©10 
©11* 
©13* 
©14 
©16 
© 5 
© » *  
©10 
©10 

©14
©12
Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
©65
©60
©66
©85
©1 00 
©30 
©75 
©56 
©60 
©60 
@60 

Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony  Hearts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares......
Fruit Tab., as., wrap 
Sugared Peanuts....
Salted Peanuts........
Starlight Kisses......
San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, plain......
Lozenges, printed... 
Choc. Drops
Eclipse Chocolates... 
Choc. Monumentals. 
Victoria Chocolate..
Gum Drops..............
Moss  Drops.............
Lemon Sours...........
Imperials.................
Ital. Cream Opera... 
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. pails...........
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails.................
Golden W affles......
Lemon  Sours. 
Peppermint Drops.. 
Chocolate Drops.... 
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar..............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams.
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  Wlnt..............
String Book.............
Wlntergreen Berries 
Caram els 
Clipper, 20 lb. pails..
Standard, 20 lb. palls 
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 Carls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus sett.......  
©
Florida Bright........ 
©
©
Fancy Navels.........  
Extra Choice...........  
©
Late Valencias........ 
©
Seedlings.................  
©
©
Medt. Sweets........... 
Jamal cas................. 
©
Bodl...................... 
©
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300..  @
Verdelli, fey 300......  
@
Verdelli, ex chce 300  @
Verdelli, fey 360......  
©
©
Malori Lemons, 300.. 
Messinas  300s.........  
©
Messinas  360s.......... 
@
Bananas
Medium bunches 
Large bunches........

©65
©65
©60
© 9 
@10 
@12*  
©15 
@55 
@65 
@60 
@60 
@50

  1 50@2 00

©55 @56 ©90

Foreign D ried F ru its 

Figs

©17

Californlas,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,...................
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes..
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
Hallowi....................
lb.  cases, new.......
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....
NUTS
Almonds, Tarragona
Almonds, Ivloa.......
Almonas, California,
soft shelled...........
Brazils,....................
Filberts  .................
Walnuts.  Grenobles.
Walnuts soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
Table Nuts, fancy... 
Table Nuts, choice.. 
Pecans,  Med........... 
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
Pecans, Jumbos......  
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio, new............  
Coooanuts, full sacks 
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
Peanuts
Fantey, H. P^Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  p.,  Suns
Choice, H.P., Extras 
Choice, H. P.,Extras
Boasted................ 
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Boasted................  6*@ 7

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© 9 
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1212

AKRON STONEWARE 

B utters
*  gal., per doz...................................
2 to 6 gal., per gal. 
.........................
8 gal. each..........................................
10 gal. each..........................................
12 gill, each..........................................
15 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
30 gal. meat-tubs, eacn.......................

Churns

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

*  gai  hat or rd. bot., per doz.. 
l gal. nat or rd. bot„ each......

F ine Glazed M ilkpans
*  gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

*  gal. fireproof, ball, per doz............
l gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............

S te w p a n s

Ju g s

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

Sealing Wax

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

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

Per box of 6 doz.
1 38
1 54
2 24

F irst Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

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

P earl Top

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

La  Bastie

No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per doz...........
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................
No. 1 Lime (65c doz)..........................
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)..........................
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)"**....................

Rochester

E lectric

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

OIL  CANS

LANTERNS

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

Glover’s Gem Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or Gasoline.

Glover’s W holesale M erchandise  Co.

G rand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers of 

GAS and  GASOLINE SUNDRIES

m icc Statuncni
l E TTL R N O te   " “b i l l HEADS
n«Is- T radesman
c o u n t e r   bI l l s .  I  COMPANY.

JL   G R A N D   R A P I D S .
C R A N D   R A P I D S

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48 
6 
48 
60 
72 
1  05
1  40
2  00 
2 40

6*
84

85 
1  10

60
45
7*

1  85
2  00 
2  90

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 00
5 00 
5  10

1 00 
1  25 
1  35 
1 60

3 504 00 

4 60

4 00 
4 60

1 35 
1  65
3 00
4 30
6 75 
4 60 
6  007 ro
9 00
4 76 
7 25 
7 26 
7 50 
13 60 
3 60

45 
45 
2  00 
1  25

6 26 
6 50 
» 25 
2 40 
26 & 35

“ Sum m er  L ig h t”

Light  your  Hotels,  Cottages and 
Camps with the

" N U L IT E ”

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

C H ICA G O   SOLAR  LIG H T  C O .. 

Chicago, HI.

Dept.  L. 

A  Suggestion

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

Auto-Ri, $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

Sim ple 

A ccount  F ile

Simplest and 
Most Economical 
Method of  Keeping 
Petit Accounts
File and  1,000 printed blank

billheads.......................       $2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed hill heads.........   3  00

Printed blank bill heads,

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

1  25

1  5o

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Hardware  Price  Current

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

Levels

Ammunition

Caps

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

Cartridges

Primers

Gun Wads

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

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

New Bival—For Shotguns 

Drs. of 
Powder 

Loaded  Shells 
oz.of
Shot
1H
1H
1H
1H
1H
1H
1
1
1H
1H
1H
Discount 40 per cent.

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

4
4
4
4
4)4
4H
3
3
314
3K
3%

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

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

Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg.............;.
H kegs, 1214 lbs., per  X  keg........11II
X kegs, 6J4 lbs., per 54  keg...............

Shot

A ugurs  and  Bits

t, 
„  .In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B........
Snell’s .
Jennings  genuine...........,.“ ***........
Jennings’ Imitation.............." I I ” ”
First Quality, 8. B. Bronze*
First Quality, D. B. Bronze.. 
First Quality, 8. B. 8.  Steel.... 
First Quality,  D. B. Steel..............
„   „ 
Railroad..............
6arden.... ......... HUH "H U  HU ;;net
Stove..........................
Carriage, new H«t 
Plow  r..i....... 
_. 
Well, plain.....................................

Bolts
..  .......................
n n iin ii n

Barrows

B ackets

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

. 

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

2 60 
3 00
5 00 
5 76

1  20 
1  20

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

2 66 

4 00 
2 25 
1  25

6  00 
9  00 
6 50 
10 50

12  00 
29 00

$4 00

31

70

66

744
g

12 10 
11  60

4
j
4
4

2 66 
2  66 
Base 
6

7 60 
9 00 
16 00 
7 60 
9 (0 
16 00 
18 00

Mattocks

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

Metals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

Birdcages......................................... 
40
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
75
Screws, New List............................... 
85
Casters, Bed and Plate....... ..............   60&10&10
Dampers, American...........................  
50

Molasses Gates

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

*   Pans
 

 

Fry, Acme..... 
Common,  polished.............................  
P aten t  Planished Iro n  

 

 

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

Broken packages He per pound extra.

60&10
30

60&10&10
70&5

Planes

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

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Nails

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

 

Rivets

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

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean....
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean.......................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway Grade... 
14x20IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Allaway. Grade... 
20x28IX,Charcoal, Allaway  Grade...

Ropes

Sisal, H inch and larger......... ...........
Manilla................................................

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

Sand  P aper

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

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iro n

Village  Improvemen

W oman’s  A daptability  to  the  Profession 

of Landscape  Gardener.

The  visitor  looked  through  the  long 

vista  of  the  park  admiringly.

“ Now,”   said  he,  “ 1*11  bet  $5  that 

was  a  woman  who  designed  this  pros 
pect. * *

The  park  official  shook  his  head.
“ It  is  a  good  thing  I  am  not  a  bet 
“ If  I  were  you 

ting  man,"  he  said. 
lose  your  money,  sure.  There  are  no 
women among our landscape gardeners.

The  visitor  looked  disappointed.
“ Then  you  ought  to  be  ashamed  of 
“ Women 

yourselves,”   he  retorted. 
make  the  best  landscape  gardeners 
the  world. ”

The  official  accepted 

the 

rebuke 

meekly.

“ I  know  it,”  be admitted.  “ They are 
first-class  on  a  small  scale,  and  if  I  had 
my  way  about  it  we  would  have  one  or 
two  of  them 
in  our employ.  Nothing 
but  politics  has  kept  them  out,  so  far, 
and  if  matters  ever  adjust  themselves  so 
that  we  can  manage  our  affairs  inde 
pendent  of  this  power  I  intend  to  see  to 
it  that  we  have  some  women  on  the 
staff.  There  are  some  excellent  women 
landscape  gardeners 
in  New  York  and 
its  vicinity,  but  they  are  ail  employed 
in  a  private  capacity.

“ But  although  we  have  never directly 
employed  a  woman  there 
is  one  who 
has  worked  for  us  in  a  roundabout  way 
and  some  of  the  most  artistic  design 
in  the  arrangement  of  flowers  we  have 
ever  had 
in  any  of  our  parks  were  the 
outcome  of  her  planning.  This  girl’ 
father was  the  ostensible  artist.  He  had 
been  connected  with  the  parks  for  sev 
eral  years.  Last  summer  he was  author 
ized  to  do  his  level  best  in  the beautify 
ing  of  one  of  our  small  parks,  but  be 
fore  he  had  a  chance  to  devote  any  par 
ticular  thought  to  the  work  he  fell  ill 
and  his  daughter took  up  the  task.  The 
color  schemes  she  evolved  were  simply 
gorgeous,  and  ever  since  I  saw  what  she 
could  accomplish  in  the  way  of  flower 
beds  and  winding  paths  and  the  like 
I  have  been  soundly  convinced  that  in 
the  matter of  planting  flowers  a  woman 
who  has  been  educated 
in  landscape 
gardening  can  beat  a  man  all  hollow.

“ When 

it  comes  to  great  reaches, 
however,  I  can  not  say  so  much  for  her,
I  have  seen  some  work  of  women  in 
it  always  strikes 
private  estates,  and 
me  as  having  a  distinctly 
feminine 
tone. 
In  a  large  park,  where  distances 
are  a  matter  of  prime  consideration, 
virility  and  repose  are  necessary  to  the 
beauty  of  the  general  scheme.  Some­
how,  most  women 
just  miss  these  ele­
ments  when  laying  out  great  vistas.

in 

“ They  are  too  much  given  to  clutter­
ing  up  their  material.  They  try  to 
crowd  too  much  into  a  given  area. 
In­
stead  of  leaving  those open spaces which 
every  lover  of  parks  knows  are  so  rest­
ful  to  the  eye,  they  insist  upon  setting 
irritating  multiplicity  objects 
up 
which  may  be  beautiful  enough 
in 
themselves,  such  as  a  specimen  tree,  a 
clump  of  flowers,  or  foliage,  an  ornate 
building,  or  a  statue,  but  which,  if scat­
tered  around  too  profusely,  break  the 
force  of  the  foreground  and  rob  the  dis­
tances  of half their tenderness  and  mys­
tery.

“ This  is  a  defect  that  the  earnest 
student  should  easily  be  able  to obviate.
It  is  probably  due  to  unfamiliarity  with 
nature,  and  the  athletic  life  of the  mod­
ern  woman  will  no  doubt  breed  so  inti­
mate  an  acquaintance with vast stretches

of  forest  and  glade  that  she  will  better 
understand  relative  values  and  learn  to 
utilize  her surplus  trees  and  statues  and 
ginger-bread  adornment  either  by  doing 
away  with  them  entirely  or  distributing 
them  around 
in  unimproved  spots  of 
the  parks.  This  fault  is  so  trivial,  how­
ever,  in  comparison  with  the  general 
excellence  of  the  work  of  women 
land­
scape  gardeners  that  it  seems unpardon- 
ably  hypercritical  to lay  much  stress up­
on  it.

“ In  another  thing  besides  the  ar­
rangement  of  flowers  does  the  woman 
gardener  excel,  and  that  is  the  grouping 
of  foliage.  The  best  way  to  learn  the 
mysteries  of  foliage  that  I  know  of  is 
to  make  an  exhaustive  study  of  half  a 
dozen  of the  very  best  paintings.  While 
painting and landscape  gardening  differ 
widely 
in  some  respects,  they  are  an­
alogous  in  others,  and  the  more  one 
knows  of  the  technique  of the  artist  the 
better  results  will  that  person achieve  in 
landscape  gardening.

“ This 

is  particularly  true  in  regard 
to  foliage.  The  most  uncritical  observer 
can  not  but  see  that  many  mistakes  are 
made  nowadays  in  the  planting  of  trees 
and  shrubbery.  Cultivation  and 
im­
portation  have  produced  so  many  new 
tints  that  fine  discrimination  is required 
to  arrange  the  gradations  with  artistic 
effect.  Women  possess  this  sense  of 
harmony  to  a  high  degree,  and  it  is  a 
gift  which,  alone,  would  make  them 
valuable  as  landscape  gardeners.

“ It  is  a  pity  that  there  are  not  more 
opportunities  for  women  gardeners  of 
experience  and  ability  to  exercise  their 
skill.  Under  present  conditions  there 
s  but  little  incentive  for  a  woman  with 
natural  tastes  in  that  direction  to  culti 
vate  her  talents,  for  to  achieve  a  real 
success  years  of  study  and  experiment 
ng  are  required  as  a  preliminary  train 
ng,  and  the  chances  of  reward  for  all 
this  application  are  so  meager  that,  un 
less  she  feels  herself  irresistibly  drawn 
to the  work  by  sheer  love  of  it,  she  will 
scarcely  find  the  game  worth  the candle
“ However,  since  a  number  of  women 
who  have  the  hardihood  to  pursue  the 
vocation  have  now  a  chance  to make use 
of  their  accomplishments 
in  a  private 
capacity,  others  with 
like  inclinations 
may  be  emboldened  by  (heir  example, 
and  get  ready  for the  time  when  their 
suggestions  wiil  be  valued 
in  public 
mprovements. “ — N.  Y.  Sun.

One  W ay of Owning a  D iam ond, 

rom the Philadelphia Times.
A  young  man  who  works  in  a  Chest­
nut  street  store  bought  a  diamond  ring 
some  time  ago.  He  was  to  pay  for  it 
on  the 
installment  plan,  $15  a  month. 
He  made  the  first  payment  and  the  dia­
mond  was  delivered  to  him.  At the  end- 
the  first  month  the  collector  came 
round  again.  The  young  man  was 
broke.  Finally  he  went  to  a  pawn­
broker,  borrowed  $15  on  the  ring  and 
paid  the  collector. 
In  three  weeks  he 
got  the  ring  out  by  paying  $16.50. 
Then,  in  another  week,  the  collector 
came  around  again.  Once  more  the  ring 
was  pawned.  Then  it  became  a  strug- 
for  the  young  man  to get  the  ring 
out  in  time  to  pawn  it  again,  but  he 
did.  It  has  now  been  four  months  since 
the  diamond  was  purchased.  The  young 
man  is  paying  double  interest  and  the 
pawnbroker  is  custodian  of  the  ring.

The  antidote  for  war  is  trade.  When 
nations  fight  they  do  so  in  order to  se­
cure  trade  advantages.  When  tariffs 
and  restrictions  interfere  with trade,and 
close  the  ports  of  seaboard  cities,  the 
armories  are  filled  and  the  foundries 
cast  larger  numbers  of  cannon.  Trade 
brings  peace  and  good  fellowship  into 
the  camps  of  all  countries.  The  nation 
that  devotes 
its  efforts  to  trade  rather 
than  war  sooner  or later  takes  the  lead 

power and  influence.

6-16 in. %  in.
.. •  614 
.. -  614 

Hin.
Hin.
Com.
7  c.  ...  6  C. .. . 6 0 . . ..  4140,
BB...
8M 
...  6
BBB.
814 
...  6H
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer  ... 
Socket Framing.. 
Socket Comer.... 
Socket Slicks......

. -   7* 
. -   714 
Crowbars
Chisels

76 
1  26 
40&10

70&10
70
70

80&20
808(20
80&20

33H
406(10
70

Elbows
Com. 4 piece, 6 in., per doz......  
net
.
Corrugated, per doz..........  
Adjustable.......................... ..........d ls

.. 

Expansive  Bits 

Files—New  List

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26  .
Ives’1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30...............HI
New American.........................
Nicholson’s...................  . . . . H.” *.......
Heller’s Horse Rasps.... .".".'.".".7.7.1".*.'.
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26:  27. 
List  12 
16

Galvanized  Iron 

13 

14 

Discount,  60

16 
Ganges

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

Glass

Hammers

Single Strength, by box...............  
Double Strength, by box............ 

ai«
"dls
By the Light...........................''.'.dls
Maydole & Co.’s, new list.............  
dls
dls
Yerkes & Plumb’s...................... 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c* list
Gate, Clark’s 1,2,3............................. dls
Pots..................................
Kettles...............................................
Spiders............................... '  " ' .........

Hollow  Ware

Hinges

Horse  Nalls

Au Sable...........  
House  F am ish in g  Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.........  
Japanned Tinware.............................[ 

508(10
50&10
50&10
.........................dls  406(10
70
on^m

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

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

Lanterns

75
gg
> n
$ 00

com. smooth.

com. 
*8 60 
3 60 
3 70 
3 80
3 9*
.
4 0b
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14..............
NOS. 15 to 17.............
Nos. 18 to 21.................................
Nos. 22 to 24..................................  4  00
NOS. 26 to 26..................................4  tO
No. 27.................. .................. .....  4 20 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels and  Spades

First Grade,  D oz.............................. 
Second Grade, Doz............................  

g 00
7 eo

Solder

H@H......................................: .......'. 
19
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Steel and Iron.....................................  60—10—6

Squares

$10 60 
10 60 
12  00

9 00 
9 00 
10 60 
10 60

76
408(10

60
60
608(10 
608(10 
40 
8 26 
2 98

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

Boiler Size  Tin  P late 

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, ) „„„
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, 5 P«r P°und"

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

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VICTORY  FROM   DISASTER.

A  year  ago the  heart  of  the  civilized 
world 
forgot  to  beat  at  the  catastrophe 
at  Galveston.  The  wind  and  the  flood 
joined  forces  and,  struggle as she  might, 
they  swept  into  the  sea  6,000 of  her peo­
ple  and  destroyed  many  million  dollars’ 
worth  of  property.  Worse  than  all  this, 
it  was  generally  believed that  the  city 
could  not  survive  the  calamity  and  that 
Galveston  at  best  would  again  be hardly 
more  than  a  shipping  port  and  the  city, 
as  it  was,  would  be  known  no  more 
among  the  commticial  marts  of  the 
world.  This  conviction  being  the  gen­
eral  one, charity  and  good  wili  did what 
they  could  for  the  sufferers  and  the 
event  passed  into  history.

It  seems,  however,  that  the  conviction 
was  a  trifle  premature. 
“ The  times 
have  been,  that  when  the  brains  were 
out  the  man  would  die  and  there  an 
end;  but  now  they  rise  again  *  *  * 
and  push  us  from  our  stools'*— a  truth 
that,  Galveston  assures  us,  is  as  true  of 
cities  as 
it  is  of  men,  and  one  that  is 
verified  by  the  annual  trade  review  is­
sued  recently  by  the  Galveston  News. 
Here  it  is  seen  that  Galveston's  total 
cotton  receipts  for 1900-1901 were 2,177,- 
983  bales,  compared  with  1,710,263 
bales  for  1899-1900;  while  the  city’s 
bank  clearings  for the  year  just  closed 
amounted 
to  $360,359,000,  compared 
with  $339,624,850  for  the  preceding 
year.

During  the  season  of  1900-1901  the 
total  coastwise  and  foreign  exports  from 
Galveston  were  valued  at  $246,567,247, 
compared  with  $218,884,512  for the  pre­
vious  season.  The  total  foreign  exports, 
including  domestic and  foreign  goods, 
for  the  year  just  closed  were  valued  at 
$101,962,792,  compared  with  $86,376,- 
486,  for the  season  before.  During  the 
season 
just  closed  Galveston  exported 
1,699,197  bales  of  cotton  worth  $82,093,- 
982,  compared  with  1,590,259  bales 
worth  $63,271,221 
for  the  year  before. 
The  total  value  of  exports  of  cotton  and 
by-products  for  the  season  just  closed 
was  $88,373,152,compared  with $69,621,- 
307  for the  previous season.  During  the 
fiscal  year,  the  city  exported  14,010,378 
bushels  of  wheat  valued  at  $10,310,613, 
compared with  13,531,839 bushels valued 
at  $9,327,904  for the  preceding  season. 
.The  total  value  for  wood  and  manufac­
tures  of  wood  exported  through  the  port 
for the  season  just  closed  was  $1,035,- 
572,  compared  with  $987,915  for the pre­
ceding  season.  There 
is  more  to  the 
same  effect  and  the  whole  points  the 
same  moral:  Wisdom  and  need,  per­
haps,  located  the  city  of  Galveston,  the 
same  requirements  have  built 
it  up 
again  and  there  it  will  stand,  in  spite 
of  wind  and  wave,  accomplishing  its 
mission,  and  showing,  too, 
that  the 
same  spirit  that  built  up  modern  Chi­
cago  from  the  ashes  that  buried  the 
primitive  city  can  fight  the  flood  as well 
as  the  flame  and  that  either element, 
when  contending  with  the  American 
spirit, 
following  the  example  of  the 
angel  that  Jacob  grappled,  will  not 
cease  the  struggle  and  depart  without 
leaving  a  blessing  behind.  It  was  so  in 
Chicago,  it  is  so  in  Galveston,  it  will be 
so  wherever the  spirit  of  the  American 
is  aroused,  as  aroused  it  will  be  when 
misfortune  assails  it  with  the  expecta­
tion  of  overcoming 
it  and  keeping  it 
down.

leading  politician 

W HERE  HONESTY  DOES  NOT  PAY.
A 

is  responsible 
for  the  observation  that  “ there's  no 
money  in  holding  office  honestly.’ ’

Most  people  have  known  this  for  a

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

long  time.  Still,  the  expectation  is  in­
dulged  that  men  will  seek  office not only 
for  the  salary  attached,  but  with  a  pur­
pose  to  serve  the  public  honestly  and 
faithfully.

Men  in the  ordinary  walks of life must 
serve 
their  employers  honestly  and 
faithfully  to  hold  their  places,  and  they 
make  money 
in  proportion  to  the  dis­
position  they  manifest  so  to  do.  Why, 
then,  should  more  be  expected  of  pub­
lic  than  of  private  servants? 
Is  not 
faithful  public  service  as  worthy  of ade­
quate  remuneration as  is faithful  private 
service?

is 

in 

Under  the  mistaken 

idea  that  men 
should  be  glad  to  hold  office  for  the 
honor  that  there 
it,  our  public 
service  has  deteriorated.  Occasionally 
some  man  of  sufficient  means to  hold 
office  without  depending  upon the salary 
attached,  and  of  sufficient  ability  and 
experience  to  fill 
it  acceptably,  gets 
elected  and  comes  up to the expectations 
of  those  who  believe  that  office  holders 
should  give  public  business  the  best  at­
tention  foe the  least  of  wages.  A sa  gen­
eral  rule,  though,  office  holders  are  of 
two  classes.  One  looks  upon  place  as  a 
stepping  stone  to  something  better;  the 
other  makes  use  of 
it  for  purposes  of 
private  gain.  The  former  take  a  turn 
at  public  life  for advertising  purposes, 
as 
it  were;  the  latter  for  what  they  can 
make  out  of  it.

It  does  well  enough  for  campaign 
purposes  to  talk  of  being  actuated solely 
by  patriotism  and  a  desire  to  keep  the 
country  from  going  to  the  dogs  and  to 
promise  to  guard  the  public  interests  at 
any  cost.  But  it  is  another thing  to  per­
form  this  sought-after  task  on  a  starva­
tion  salary.  Men  who  amount  to  any­
thing  never  undertake  it  but  once,  un­
less  they  be  indifferent  to  the  trials  of  a 
life  made  up  principally  of  calls  of im­
portunate  bill  collectors or have  the  for­
titude  to  calmly  contemplate  a  future 
promising  in  nothing  but  hard  times  to 
follow  an  ever  possible  defeat  for  an­
other term.

No  sane  business  man  will  trust  bis 
affairs  to  a  cheap  man  picked  up  at 
random  or  just  simply  because  he 
is  a 
good  fellow.  The  best  of  talent  and  the 
best  of  pay  are  depended  on  to  bring 
the  best  of  results  in  the  selection  of 
place  holders  in  the  business  world. 
In 
the  political  world  the  opposite  obtains 
and  the  result  is  necessarily  different. 
The  poorest  of  pay  is  offered  for  taking 
care  of  the  most  vital  and  important  of 
interests  and  the  greatest  of  sacrifices 
must  be  made  by  competent  men  to  ac­
cept  the  responsibilities  attached  to  the 
public  service.

It 

is  hardly  to  be  complained  of, 
therefore,  that  perfection  is  not  always 
a  distinguishing  characteristic  of  the 
officeholder or that dishonesty sometimes 
manifests  itself  among  the  chosen  of  the 
people.  The  wonder  is,  rather,  that  the 
worst  does  not  happen  oftener.

A   Sixty-Dollar a Week  Clerk.

Clerks  who  have  doubts  as  to  the 
promise  held  out  to them  by  the  future 
are  cited  to  the  case  of  E.  H.  Powers,  a 
salesman  for  a  St.  Louis  shoe  retailer. 
Mr.  Powers  began 
in  the  shoe  depart­
ment  of  a  big  department  store  at  a  sal­
ary  of  $2  per  week.  That  was  the start­
ing  point  of  one  of  the  most  successful 
careers  on  record.  To-day  he  draws  a 
salary  of $60  per  week.

Possessed  of  a  rare  memory  and  a 
highly  pleasing  personality,  this  young 
man has made  an  enviable  reputation  as 
a  seller  of  shoes.  He  has,  perhaps,  the 
largest  list  of  personal  customers  of  any 
salesman 
in  the  country.  He  knows 
every  lady  by  name  and  has  in his mind 
the  size  of her  foot,  the  quality  of  shoe

she  buys and  her  residence.  He  seldom 
asks  a  question  when  fitting  shoes,  but 
invariably  gets  the  right  shoe  at the first 
attempt. 
It  is  said  he  remembers every 
sale  made  during  the  day’s  run  and  can 
pick  out  and 
label  for  delivery  any 
pair of  shoes  from  any  number of  pairs 
set  aside  after their  sale.  His  memory 
serves  him  well  in  every  case  and  the 
customer  always  gets  the  right  pair de­
livered  without  the  annoyance  of  leav­
ing  an  address  or card.

Here's  an  example  for  the  ambitious 
clerk  to  follow.  Let  him  familiarize 
himself  with  his  trade  and  become 
in­
dispensable  to  his  employer.

By  68  votes  against  17, the  Norwegian 
chamber  of  deputies  has  decided  to  al­
low  women  who  pay  tax  on  an 
income 
of  at  least  300  francs  to  vote  in  all  busi­
ness  matters.

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

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

45

iiH)B SALE—A $¿,300 STOCK OF BOOTS AND 
1  shoes  in  Dowaglac,  Mich.;  cheap  rent; 
good opening  for  a  shoe  man.  Address  J   F. 
52
Muffley, Kalamazoo, Mich. 
PLANIN O MILL  AND  MANUFACTURING 
plant  for  sale  or  exchange  for  lumber  or 
what have you?  J. A. Hawley, Leslie, Mich.  53
I7»OR SALE—A  WHOLESALE  AND  RETAIL 
. 
trade  and  manufacturing  business,  con­
ducted  for  past  twenty  years;  favorable  and 
convenient  location  for  trade  and  shipping; 
goods staple, non-perishable, with  unending  de­
mand ;  present owner has made money out of it 
and wishes to retire;  will  be  sold  on  favorable 
terms if taken soon.  Address Arthur, 2a0 North 
Burdick St., Kalamazoo, Mich. 
L/»OR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER­
IC  chandise  in  German  town;  stock  Invoices 
about $5,000;  will sell stock and rent  building or 
sell  both.  Two  dwelling  houses  on  same  lot. 
Will  send  photograph  of  place  upon  request. 
Address No. 44. care Michigan Tradesman.  44
Fo r  sa l e—so m e  g o o d  p ie c e s r e so r t
and timbered lands on Crystal  Lake,  Benzie 
county,  Michigan.  Lock  Box  36,  Frankfort, 
43
Mich. 
|/>OK  SALE—AN  UP-TO-DATE  MEAT  MAR 
P   ket and fixtures, ail complete,  in  one  of the 
best  Northern  Michigan  towns  of  the  State; 
population  about  2,000;  good  farming  country; 
reason for selling, too  much  business  to  attend 
to.  Address No. 41, care  Michigan  Tradesman.
__________ 41
t7<OR  SALE-BEST  LOCATION  FOR  CoUN- 
1  try store in Southern Michigan;  store  with 
dwelling attached;  long established good paying 
trade;  no competition;  small stock of absolutely 
new staple  goods.  Write for particulars.  Ad­
dress X, care Michigan Tradesman. 
50
ijiOR  SALE—A  FIRST-CLASS  LAUNDRY 
1  plant in Southern Michigan.  Fully equipped 
and doing good business.  Will be  sold  cheap  if 
taken  soon.  Address  No.  48,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
r   tures, steam sausage machines;  corner ston 
in  brick  block;  doiug  a  business  of  $1.500  i 
month;  a rare  chance  for  a  man  of  moderati 
means.  My reasons for selling, am In the whole 
sale business in adjoining store which  takes  nr 
time,  J. J. Miller. Benton Harbor, Mich. 
47 '
LPOR  KENT —A  GOOD  BRICK  STORE, 
r   splendidly located in a thriving and growing 
business  town.  Address  A.  M.  Colwell,  Lake 
Odessa, Mich. 
46
Da ir y  b u s in e s s f o r   s a l e,  b ig  m on
ey  for  hard  worker.  Easy  terms.  J.  P 
Southard, Harbor Springs, Mich. 
54
F'OR  sa l e—a   sto ck  o f  d r y  g o o d s, 
wall  paper,  carpets,  queensware  and  gro­
ceries  of  about  $7,500  in  a  town  of  1,000,  sur­
rounded by a large farming trade  We do a cash 
business of about $2>,000 (in seven months of this 
year. $12,000) and carry no book account.  Have 
a  good  room  (electric  lights)  which  can  be 
rented.  Want to sell before fall business. Oct; 1. 
Can show any interested party a profitable  busi­
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, but  is  a  strictly  clean  stock.  Address 
Box 115, Sycamore, Ohio. 
38
ii'OK  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  ME1 
chandise  about  $6,000;  selling  $10,000  cai 
per  annum  (easily  increased  to  $15,000);  in 
live  town  of  500  fn  Jackson  county.  Best  1 
reasons  for  selling.  Address  M.  L.,  cai 
Mh-hlgan Tradesman.
—1  ly and  without loss by our new method, 
beats any auction sale, fire sale or  mill end sa 
over held.  Start one now and do a large buslne 
in  the  dull  season.  Terms  and  particulars  1 
writing to New Methods  Sales Co.,  7701  Norm 
Ave., Chicago, HL
f 'OR  SALE—$64500 STOCK  OF DRY  GOOI 
groceries,  shoes  and  store  fixtures;  lc 
lease and low  rent  of  the best  business  con 
in city of 24500.  If preferred,  1  will  sell  part 
stock and rent half the store to desirable tena 
No  agents or traders need  apply.  A.  L.  Bn 
ford, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
3

cLEARANCE  SALES CONDUCTED QUIC1 

4g

30

W HO  WANTS  THIS  GOOD  OPPOBTU- 
nity  of  getting  a  business located  in a 
growing town of4,000 population, on good street; 
brick  store  that  can  be  rented;  a clean  stock 
general  merchandise,  invoicing  about  $4,500; 
will discount it  for cash  $1,0*0.  Those  meaning 
business address No. 34,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
34
WANT TO PURCHASE  FURNITURE  AND 
undertaking business  in  city  of not  less 
than 5,000 population.  Will pay  cash.  Address 
No. 33, care Michigan Tradesman.________ 33
F o r  r e n t—b r ic k   s t o r e,  22x70,  surr-
able for dry  goods or general  store; always 
been  a  money winner.  For particulars address 
W. L. Arnold, Marcellus. Mien. 
31
LM)K  SALE-BEST  PAYING  GENERAL 
JP  merchandise store in Mich gan.  Good rea­
sons for selling.  It will pay to investigate.  Ad­
dress No. 27, care Michigan Tradesman. 
,  27
Ha r d w a r e  b u s in e s s,  w e l l  e s t a b-
lished,  doing  retail-wholesale  business': 
daily sales,  $110  to  $1>4).  Will  arrange  special 
terms  right  party;  for  purchase  next  thirty 
days.  Address  Hardware,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
|7<OR SALE—A  CLEAN  GENERAL  STOCK, 
f   invoicing about  $i,800;  good  farming  com­
munity.  Reason  for  selling,  other  business. 
Address Bert F. Wood, Newark, Mtch. 
26
$2,C00  SHOE  STOCK  FOB  SALE  AT  60 
cents  on  the  dollar.  Address  No.  23,  care 
23
Michigan Tradesman. 
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, IÜ.____________6
IiH)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 guod will and cashing of our  labor 
and  timber  orders.  For  Information  address 
W. C. Sterling & Son, Monroe, Mich. 
7
A  NO. I BUSINESS OPENING INTHEBEST 
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. 
W ANTED-A  SMALL  DRUG  STOCK  IN 
good town for cash.  Address D. M. Byers, 
»99
Fruitport, Mich. 
F o r sa l e—sto ck  o f  je w e l r y ,  to o ls 
. and  material  in  Michigan  county  seat  of 
6,500 inhabitants.  Invoiced  $2,500  Jan.  l.  Will 
sell  right  for  cash.  Address  Western,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
Fo r  sa l e—g o o d  e s t a b l is h e d   g r o-
cery business in town of 6.000;  a bargain  for 
the right person.  Will not  sell  except  to  good, 
reliable party.  For particulars address Grocery, 
983
care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—DRUG  STOCK,  ONE  THAT 
invoices  from  $1,000  to  $1.500.  Address 
980
Edgar E. Tice, Bloominpdale, Mich. 
Fo b  s a l e.  c h e a p- $ i4soo  sto ck  g e n -
eral  merchandise.  Address  No.  945,  care 
945
Michigan Tradesman. 
IF GOING OUT OF  BUSINESS  OR  IF  YOU 
have a bankrupt stock of clothing,  dry goods, 
or  shoes,  communicate  with  The  New  York 
Store, Traverse City, Mich._____________ 728

ll

• 

2

MISCELLANEOUS

55

W ANTED—POSITION 

\»/ANTE®—REGISTERED  A S S I S T A N T  
Vt  pharmacist.  Address No.  56,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 
IN  NOTION  OB 
bazaar  store by young man, with  the very 
best of references;  wishes to learn the business; 
wages no object.  Address No. 42, care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
42
W ANTED—WOMEN  TO  SELL  “8POT- 
clean”  from  house  to  house;  outfit,  25 
cents.  Send stamp for particulars.  Kate Nobles 
51
Manufacturing Co., Niles, Mich. 
PH YS I CI AN  WANTED,  REGISTERED 
pharmacist  preferred.  Drug  business  can 
be bought.  Address Drug  Doctor,  care  Michi­
40
gan Tradesman. 
WANTED—T R A V E L I N G   GROCERY 
W ANTED—ASSISTANT OR REGISTERED 

Salesman of experience to reside at Cadil­
lac, Mich., and travel in the territory contingent 
thereto.  Address No. 32, care Michigan Trades­
man. 

pharmacist.  Correspondence  solicited. 

J. I. Main, Tekonsha, Mich._____________ 28

32

'T'O   EXCHANGE  FOR  STOCK  OF  MER- 
1  chandise—this fine four-story  flat and  store 
building, located in good  business  and  resident 
district of Chicago.  Write at once to P.  O.  Box 
86, Marion, Ind. 

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