Nineteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  2,1901

Number 941

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2.  D om inion  Day.
4.  A round th e  State.
6.  G etting  the  People.
7.  Cargo  of Sugar Turned  to  Taffy,
8.  E ditorial.
9.  E ditorial.
10.  Clothing.
12.  Shoes and  Rubbers.
14.  Clerks’ Corner.
16.  W indow  Dressing.
17.  R enting  betters.
18.  D ry Goods.
19.  W om an’s  S tart in  Rusiness.
20.  W om an’s W orld.
22.  B u tter and  Eggs.
23.  The  New  York  M arket.
24.  The  Meat  M arket.
25.  Comm ercial Travelers.
26.  D rugs and Chemicals.
27.  D rag Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
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out  of  dead-beats,  because  both  experi­
ence  and  observation  lead  to  the  belief 
that  the  time,  worry  and  money  ex­
pended 
in  collecting  doubtful  accounts 
are  seldom  compensated  by  the  trouble 
involved  in  making  such  accounts. 
In 
other  words,  the  merchant  is  money  out 
whenever  he  trusts  a  customer who  com­
pels  him  to  resort  to  radical  measures 
to  enforce  collection.

is 

increasing. 

INCREASE  IN  HEALTHFULNESS.
The  United  States  census  bulletin  on 
mortality  shows  that  the  length  of  life 
in  this  country 
The 
great  gain 
is  in  the  lower death  rate 
among  children  under  five.  The  death 
rate  among  this  class 
is  very  much 
lower  than  it  was  twenty-five  years  ago. 
The 
improvement  within  that  period 
has  been 
little  short  of  marvelous. 
Children  under  the  age  of  five  are  pe- 
cularly  susceptible  to  bad  sanitary  con­
ditions,  and  it  is  along  the  lines  of  san­
itation  that  the  greatest  progress  has 
been  made.

live 

Adults 

is  more  money 

longer  than  they  used 
to  because  the  conditions  all  about 
are  constantly 
improving.  The  sur­
in  every  dwelling  place  are 
roundings 
better  than  they  were,  and,  what 
is 
quite  as  important,the  opportunities  for 
getting  good  food  are  very  much  better. 
There 
in  circulation, 
people  are  more  prosperous,  and  they 
are  putting  into  their  stomachs  a  higher 
grade  of  food  than  was  the  case  twenty- 
five  years  ago.  The  question  of  diet  has 
received  very  close  attention,  and  on 
all  sides  new  and  nourishing  foods have 
been  put  on  - the  market  at  a  very  low 
price.
The 

increase  of  general  knowledge 
among  the  masses  has  to  do  directly 
with  the  greater  longevity.  People  in 
the  ordinary  walks  of  life  who  formerly 
knew  nothing  and  cared  less  about  hy­
giene  are  well 
informed  now  through 
the  great  spread  of  practical  knowledge 
by  means of newspapers and periodicals. 
The  result  is  that  our  people  realize and 
recognize  at  once  dangers  to  health  and 
well-being  that  formerly  had  no  exist­
ence  for  them.  They  see  the  pitfalls 
almost  as  readily  as  the most expert  and 
avoid  them.  Twenty  years  ago  one  of 
the  most  prolific  sources  of  sickness 
was  polluted  water,  the  use  of  which 
was  almost  general.  On  the  farms  you 
would  find  almost  invariably  that  the 
well  and  the  cesspool  were  so  close  to­
gether  that  the  water  was  of  necessity 
deleteriously  affected.  Most  people 
could  not  believe  that  so  long  as  water 
was  clean  and  sparkling  it  could  carry 
contagion. 
It  is  understood  that  some­
times  the  most  dangerous  water  is  the 
best  looking.  The  result  of  this  is  that 
typhoid,  which  was  so  common  fifteen 
years  ago,  has  been  very 
largely  put 
under control.

GENERAL TRADE  REVIEW .

It  is  not  at  all  strange  that  trouble  in 
the  financial  centers  of  the  Old  World 
should  be  a  material  influence  in  our 
stock  markets,  so,  when  heaVy  liquida­
tion  is  the  rule  there,  we  must  submit 
to  some  depreciation  here. 
It  remains 
to  be  seen  whether  we  have  yet  reached 
a  position  where  we  can  contend  with  a 
considerable  European  reaction  without 
serious  consequences  here,  but,  in  view 
of  the  fact  that  we  have  met  all  the 
other  accepted  causes  of  financial  panic 
without 
is  not  too  much  to 
believe  that  we  can  meet  this  danger 
safely.  Of  course 
it  is  inevitable  that 
our  stocks  should  suffer  in  the  lessened 
foreign  market  and 
in  sympathy  with 
foreign  declines,  but  the  general  un­
derlying  strength  of  the  situation  here 
gives  assurance  that  such  influences will 
be  only  temporary.

injury,  it 

in  producing  works  and 

The  notable  features  in  the  industrial 
increasing 
world  are  the  continually 
in 
earnings 
transportation.  Aside 
from  the  un­
favorable  situation  of  copper,  there  are 
few  that  do  not  report  constantly  accel­
erating  returns. 
It  is probable  that  the 
speculative  fever  had  too  far  discounted 
the  strength  in  the  red  metal  and  a  re­
action  is  the  result.  There  is  certainly 
its  consumption  in 
no  diminution 
in 
this  country,  but 
it  would  naturally  be 
one  of  the  first  to  suffer  in  the  troubles 
in  Europe. 
It  is  a reassurance  that  this 
stock  has  taken  its  place  in  the  lists  of 
which  recoveries  are  reported,  indicat­
ing  that  the  decline  is  not  likely  to  he 
serious.

The  general  situation  in  the  financial 
world  is  exceptionally  favorable.  Col­
lections  are  generally  good  and  all 
needs  of  legitimate trade are anticipated 
by  prompt  Treasury  payments.

in  the 

is  rapidly 

The  situation 

iron  and  steel 
improving  since 
industries 
the 
interruptions,  which  had 
labor 
caused  heavy  accumulations  of  work. 
Many  old  contracts  were  delayed  and 
new  orders  were  held  pending  the  set­
tlement,  which  have  since  been  placed, 
assuring  plenty  of  work  for  a  consider­
able  time  at  profitable  prices.  It  is  still 
to  be  noted  that  prices  are  not  allowed 
to  be  unduly  inflated  so  as  to  avoid  the 
curtailment  of  the  market.

The  textile  situation  is  so  far  im­
proved  that,  instead  of  threatened  re­
duction  of  prices,  which  was  averted  by 
philanthropic  purchases  of  white  goods* 
for  the  print  mills,  there 
is  now  the 
threat  of  demanding  an  advance  of 
wages.  Orders  for  heavy  weight  wool­
ens  ar«  good  at  the  mills  and  quota­
tions  for  wool  are  maintained.  Ad­
vances  in  prices  are  reported  in  many 
lines  of  footwear,  with  best  grades  in 
leading  demand.  Many  factories  re­
port  their  works  engaged  until  the  be­
ginning  of  the  year.

There  is  a  lesson  for the  youth  of  the 
land  in  the  message  sent  by  Czolgosz  to 
his  father  as  the  gates  of  Auburn  prison 
closed  behind  him. 
‘ ‘ Tell  my  father,”  
said  the  condemned  anarchist,  “ that  I 
am  sorry  I 
left  such  a  bad  name  for 
him 1”

The  provisions  of  the  will  left  by  Mr. 
McKinley  are  of  such a  nature  as  to  add 
to  the  love  and  veneration  in  which  bis 
memory 
is  held  by  the  people  of  the 
country.  _____________

It  is  a  long  lane  that  has  no  turning, 

and  Czolgosz  broke  down  ?t  last.

The  Grocery  World 

is  a  live  trade 
journal  which  pursues  the 
lines  laid 
down  by  its  editor  with great energy and 
fearlessness.  The  Tradesman  does  not 
believe  that  the  Grocery  World  would 
knowingly  advocate  any  measure  or 
plan  of  action  which  would  tend  to 
place  its  readers  in  jeopardy  or  subject 
them  to  unnecessary  expense,  but 
in 
recommending  that  merchants  and  asso­
ciations  of  retail  dealers  advertise  their 
bad  accounts  in  newspapers,  it  ought  to 
know  that  it  is treading  on  dangerous 
ground.  While  there  is  not  necessarily 
any  liability  attached  to  advertising  the 
account  of  a  dead-beat,  there  is  a  great 
element  of  danger  in  treating  a  miscel­
laneous  assortment  of  accounts  in  this 
manner,  because  of  the  liability  of  the 
merchant  advertising  an  account  which 
has  been  paid  or  stating  an  amount 
which  might  be  incorrect  or  of  getting 
a  wrong  initial  or  of  mis-spelling  a 
name,  which  might  correspond  to  the 
name  or  initial  of  some  other  man  in 
the  community,  who  would  thus  have 
just  cause  for  bringing  a  damage  suit. 
It  is  not  an  unusual  thing  for a  news­
paper  to  be  mulcted  in  damages  to  the 
amount  of 
several  hundred  dollars 
through  the  erroneous  publication  of  a 
name,  coupling 
it  with  some  crime  or 
misdemeanor  which  was  committed  by 
a  man  of  similar  name ;  and  the  time 
has  not  yet  arrived  when  the  average 
merchant  is  sufficiently  careful  in  keep­
ing  his  accounts  to  justify  him 
in  ad­
vertising  for  sale  accounts  which  may 
not  be  correctly  set  down  in  his  books. 
The  objection  that  would  apply  to  the 
advertising  of  book  accounts  will  not 
apply  to  the  advertising  of  judgments, 
because  a  judgment  is  prima  facie  evi­
dence  of  indebtedness,  while  a  book 
account  is  not. 
Better  than  either 
method,  however,  is  the  adoption  and 
-maintenance  of  a  system  which  will 
prevent  the  making  of  bad  accounts. 
For  nearly  twenty  years  the  Tradesman 
has  persistently  preached  the  doctrine 
of  protection, 
retaliation, 
believing  that  any  plan  which  prevents 
the  making  of  bad  debts  is  worth  a 
dozen  machines  for  squeezing  money

instead  of 

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DOMINION DAT.

How  the  E vent W as  Celebrated  in  Stub* 

blevllle.
Written for the Tradesman.

Dominion  Day  is  the  only  public hol­
iday  in  Canada  that  is  celebrated  ex­
clusively  by  Canadians.  There  are 
many  holidays,  but  all,  with  this  one 
exception,  are  either  observed  by  all 
Christianized  countries or  by all  parts of 
the  British  Empire.  Dominion  Day  is 
“ Glorious 
to  Canadians  what 
the 
Fourth”   is  to  Americans. 
It  is  cele­
brated  by  games,  sports,  pyrotecnic 
displays  and  unique  processions  of  va­
rious  kinds.  No  patriotic  oratory 
is 
is  quasi— na­
indulged 
tional  in  character. 
It  is  not  a  celebra­
tion  of  the  birth  of  a  nation,  but  it  is  a 
celebration  of  the  birthday  of  the  Do­
minion,  and  the  world  is  daily  learning 
that  the  Dominion 
is  a  federation  of 
states  or  provinces  of  no  mean  propor­
tions.  But  I  am  “ eppisodin, ”   as  Sa­
mantha  Allen  would  say,  and  must 
“ resume,  and  go  on.”

in  and  yet  it 

This  year  Hanksburg  celebrated  on 
the  Queen’s  birthday and Wheytown had 
a  “ doins”  on Jubilee  Day;  and so when 
Dominion  Day  “ hove 
in  sight”   the 
coast  was  clear  for  twenty  miles  all 
around Btubbleville.

Time  was  when  Stubbleville  alter­
nated  with  Hanksburg 
in  getting  up 
celebrations,  but  about  twenty  years  ago 
the  old  village  was  run  over  by  a  rail­
road  and  killed,  and  after  the  funeral 
the  bereft  trade  was  divided  among  the 
neighboring  villages—Wheytown  suc­
ceeding  as  Hanksburg’s  running  mate 
in  celebration  honors.  This  year  Whey­
town  celebrated  on  Jubilee  Day,  and 
thus  it  happened  that the  nearest  Do­
minion  Day  celebration  was  full  twenty 
miles  away.  This  was  an  opportunity 
for  the  raising  of  a  little  revenue  which 
Budge  Bottleby,  landlord  of  the  “ Stub­
bleville  Roost,”   determined  to  grasp 
by  the  foretop.  He had  seen  better  days 
in  an  American  town,  and  although  he 
had  struck  bottom— or  Stubblevillei 
which 
is  the  same  thing— he  still  bad 
one  eye  left  for  best  chances.  He  saw 
that  the  opportunity  might  not  occur 
again  until  the  Queen  had  reigned  an­
other  sixty  years,  and  that  if  he  ever 
made  “ a  haul”   at  the  expense  of  the 
business  men  of  Stubbleville,  now  was 
the  time  to  do  it.

Although  gone  to  seed  Stubbleville 
has  not  parted  with  her  village  sport. 
His  name 
is Adolphus  P.  McStiff,  but 
everybody  calls  him  Dolph.  As  a  rep­
resentative  of  his  class,  he  possesses  no 
distinguishing 
characteristics  which 
make  him  better or  worse  than  the  vil­
lage  sport  of  any  other  village.  His 
wife  is  a  prominent  church  member 
and  a  leader  in  village  social  circles. 
Dolph  does  not  belong  to the  church. 
It  would  be  detrimental  to  the  position 
he  holds  as  Lord  Mayor,  Privy  Coun­
cilor,  General  Custodian  of  Secrets  and 
Universal  Umpire  for the  village.  He 
holds  down  one  or  two township  offices, 
shaves  notes, 
speculates  on  sporting 
events  and 
is  ever  on  the  still  hunt  for 
game.  He  dresses  well  and  lives  well. 
He 
is  built  on  the  “ good  Lord  good 
devil”   principle,  and  is quite  as  much 
at  home 
the 
“ Roost,”   or  in  the  little  back  parlor 
at  the  “ Retreat”   over  in  Hanskburg, 
where  dollars  are  won  and  lost  in  man­
ipulating  pieces  of  cardboard,  as  he  is 
when  sipping 
in  the  basement  of the 
Stubbleville  Baptist  church  or  chatting 
with  the 
ladies  of  the  Home  Mission 
Circle.  Everybody  says  he  is  a  good

the  tap-room 

in 

of 

M IC H IG A N   TRADESMAN

fellow,  and 
a  universal  affirmative.

it  is  not  for  me  to  negative 

an’ 

“ Well,  the  scheme’s  all  right,  but 
ye’ve  got  to  do a  little  funny  work  if  ye 
succeed,”   said  the  village  sport  when 
Bottleby  broached  the  subject  one  night 
at  the  “ Roost.”   “ You  couldn’t  pull 
the  business  men  and  citizens  for  the 
necessary  boodle  .  yourself, 
ye 
couldn’t  get  the  people  to  meet  and  ap­
point  a  committee  to  take  charge  of  it. 
Fact  is,  it’s  been  so  long  since  Stubble­
ville  went  to  seed  I’m  afraid  some  o' 
the  people’d  drop  dead  if  a  brass  band 
happened  to  strike  up  anywhere  on  the 
street. ’ ’

“ I’ll  tell  ye  wot  we’ll  do,”   said  Bot­
tleby,  “ yew  just  draw  up  a  subscription 
paper an*  I’ll  head 'er  with  $20.  Then 
you  put  down  $10  an’  help  the  thing 
through  an'  after  the  show  I’ll  give  it 
back  to  ye,  see?”

“ Yes,  I  see—that  is,  I  don’t  see  any­

thing  in  it  for me,”   said  Dolph.

“ Oh,  well,  ye  know  I’m  alius  willin’ 
to  whack  up  an'  do  wot’s  fair,”   said 
Bottleby,  “ an’  now  less  spring  ’er on, 
hey?”

“ All  right,  I  guess  we  understand 
each  other  now,”   said  the  village  Privy 
Councilor,  as  he  put  down  his  name  for 
a  “ ten.”   “ Now  you  take  his  paper  up 
to Junebug  &  Son’s  where  you  do  your 
trading,  an’  pull  their  leg  for  a 
‘ five,’ 
see?  Then  hold  up  the  butcher  for a 
like  sum  an’  strike  the  little  baker  for 
all  you  can  get,  see?  Sing  ’em  a  song 
of  patriotism,  see?  Tell 
’em  a  big 
crowd  brought  to  Stubbleville would  put 
money 
it 
wouldn’t  benefit  me  a  particle,  finan­
cially,  see?  and  then  blow  ’em  my  gen­
erous  give-down,  see?  After  you  do 
that  we’ll  get  up  a  programme  of  sports 
an’  then  rope  in  a  self-constituted  com­
mittee  to  shoulder  the  responsibility 
and  carry  the  thing  through. ”

in  their  pockets,  whereas, 

And  that  is  the  way  the  thing  was  got 
up.  The  accommodating  committee 
was  made  up  of  that  class  of  handy  fel­
lows  found  in  every  village  who  dearly 
love  to  show  off  their  petty  officiousness 
in  a  crowd  when  clothed  with  some 
pygmean  badge  of  self-constituted  au­
thority.

By  means  of  a  little lightning-rod  elo­
quence  backed  up  by  much  impertinent 
persistency,  the  business  men  and  citi­
zens  of Stubbleville were wheedled out of 
about  $75.  Even  old  Crawfish  Pigley, 
who  keeps  a  general  store  on  the  corner 
opposite  Junebug  &  Son,  put  his  name 
down  for  $ 2 ;  but  when  the  collector 
called  for  it  the  night  before  the  cele­
bration,  he  got  mad  and  kicked  his 
wife’s  pet  dog  out  of  the  back  door, 
found  fault  with  the  entire  programme, 
and  swore  up  and  down  that  it would  be 
the  last  time  the  face  of clay would  ever 
bamboozle  him  into  paying  out  money 
for  any  such  fool  business. 
It  was  the 
first  time  old  Piggle  was  ever known  to 
donate  a  cent  for  any  public  purpose 
whatever;  and  he  was  so  mad  over  it 
he  would  not  go  outside  his  store  dur­
ing  the  celebration,  and  while  the  Cal- 
ithumpians  were  passing  he  went  down 
cellar  and  swore  at  the  butter  and 
kicked  the  mouse-trap  through the cellar 
window.

Some  donated  expecting  to get it back 
in  an  increase  of trade,  but  the  larger 
number  charged 
it  up  to  expense  ac­
count as  “ blood  money,”   the  same  as 
contributions  to  the  various  auxiliary 
church  societies  operated  by  the  ladies, 
God  bless  them.

Of course,  the  celebration was a  bowl­
ing  success. 
the 
“ Roost”   were  diluted  for  the  occasion

Refreshments 

at 

so  that  the  crowd  might celebrate  all 
day  and  not  be  able  to  get  outside  of  a 
sufficient  quantity  to  make  them  drunk 
before  the  show  was  over.  Little Briton, 
the  lame  cobbler  who  lives  near  the 
“ Roost,”   got  an  early  start  and  was 
run  in  by  his  wife  before  the potato race 
came  off,  and  because  she  locked  him 
in  the  bedroom,  he  smashed  the  furni­
ture  and  set  the  bed  on  fire.  Farmer 
Filltub  must  have 
loaded  up  on  hard 
cider  before  he  left  his  own  barnyard, 
because  he,  too,  had  his  old  familiar 
jag  on 
in  advance  of  the  crowd.  One 
of  the  officious  gentlemen  of  the  self- 
constituted  committee,  had  his  head 
punched  for  discovering  a  contrivance 
for  climbing  the  greased  pole  secreted 
in  the  pant-leg  of  a  colored  tough.  The 
pounding  reduced  the  swelling  in  the 
committeeman's  bead  and  was  one  of 
the  best  things  that  happened.  The 
cross-eyed,  freckle-faced  kid  that  won 
in  the  bun-eating  contest 
first  prize 
swallowed 
string  and  all  and  came 
within  a  hair’s  breadth  of  choking  to 
death.  The  Junkheap  brass  band  was 
hired  for the  day  and  because  the  com­
mittee  ordered  them  to  play  “ Annie 
Rooney”   for  the  fifth  time,  after  they 
had  played  every  piece  they  knew,  they 
got  mad  and  went  home  before  the baby 
show  came  off.  Taken  all  in  all,  the 
celebration  might  be  considered  a  most 
beautiful  affair  were 
it  not  for a  dis­
graceful  scene  enacted  in the street right 
in  front  of  the  “ Roost,”   got  up  by  old 
mother  Bubspanker  just  because  Chap 
Jowles  tore  her  old  striped  petticoat 
while  performing  with  it  on  in  the  Cal- 
ithumpian  procession.  Of 
course, 
there  will  always  be  some  to  find  fault. 
The  storekeepers, 
for  instance,  found 
fault  because 
it  was  the  poorest  day’s 
trade  they  had  had  in  a  long  time.  The 
butcher  growled  because  he  killed  an 
extra  calf  and  two  lambs  and  had  'half 
of 
it  spoil  on  his  bands.  The  baker 
kicked  because  he  had  a 
lot  of  stale 
goods  and  rotten  fruits  on his hands,and 
every  law-abiding  and  moral  citizen  in 
the  village  found  fault  just  because  the 
crowd  yelled,  swore,  drank  whisky  and 
celebrated  in  the  usual  way. 
It  beats 
all  how  particular  some  folks  are.

Now,  Budge  Bottleby  and  Adolphus 
P.  McStiff  are  not  of  the  particular 
kind.  They  know  what  a  successful 
celebration  is,  and  they  say the  celebra­
tion  at  Stubblevilje  was  everything  that 
could  be  desired.  Funny,  isn’t  it?

E.  A.  Owen.

Cape  Cod  Cranberry  H arvest  Began. 

From tbe New England Grocer.

The  cranberry  harvesting  season  on 
Cape  Cod  is  now  on  and  the growers are 
getting  their  crops  gathered  without  de­
lay.

Already  heavy  shipments  of  berries 
are  being  made  to  Chicago  and  the  Far 
West,  and  the  markets  of  the  East,  es­
pecially  New  York  and  Boston,  will  re­
ceive  but  a  small  share  of  the crop gath­
ered  on  the  Cape.  Better  prices  pre­
vail  in  the  West  than  are  offered  in  the 
commission  houses  in  the  East.
The  Western  buyers  have  a  decided 
advantage  over  the  Eastern  commission 
house  owing  to  tbe  fact  that  they  pay 
spot  cash  for the  berries  as  soon  as  they 
are  loaded  on  the  cars,  while  the  com­
mission  house  waits  until  the berries are 
sold  and  charges  deducted  before  they 
make  any  returns  to  the  buyers.

This  method  of  doing  business  on  a 
cash  basis  was  started  several  years  ago 
and  has  been  found  to  be  giving  gen­
eral  satisfaction  both  to  the growers  and 
buyers.

By  all  means  make  a  living,  but  re­
is  something  more 
member  that  there 
important  than  making  a  living,  and 
that  is  making  a  life.

A dvertising Accounts  F or  Sale  in  News­

papers  Bisky  Business.

William  B.  French,  Boston,  a  recog­
nized  authority  in  the  United  States  on 
matters  of  commercial  law  and  equity, 
has  prepared  the  following  brief  on  the 
plan  of  publishing  and  offering  for  sale 
the  accounts  of  delinquent  customers, 
by  advertising  names  and  sums 
in  the 
columns  of  local  newspaper,  adopted 
and  carried  into  execution  by  the  Utica 
Retail  Grocers’  Association:

is  the 

I  have  your  letter,  in  which  you  ask 
my  opinion  “ on  the  system  of  attempt­
ing  to collect  bad  debts  by  advertising 
them 
in  the  local  papers  in  Utica.”  
Accompanying  your  letter  is  a  slip  cut 
from  a  trade  journal  of  Sept.  23,  con­
taining  an  article  entitled  “ A  new  way 
to  collect  old  debts.”

From  that  article  it  appears  that  the 
proposed  system 
conspicuous 
publication,  in  a  newspaper,  of  the  ad­
vertisement,  by  sale  at  public  auction, 
of  accounts  payable,  giving  the  names 
and  addresses  of  the  debtors  and  the 
amount  claimed  to  be  due  from  each 
debtor. 
I  understand  that  you  also 
wish  to  know  whether,  in  my  opinion, 
such  a  publication  as  that  proposed  in 
the  above  mentioned  article,  exposes 
those  making  or  procuring  the  publica­
tion  to civil  action.

A  false  statement  concerning  a  per­
son,  by  written,  or  printed  words  tend­
ing  to  impeach  his  honesty,  or  integ­
rity,  or  to  injure  his  reputation,  is 
libelous; 
its  publication  actionable; 
and  all  those  who  assist  in  the  publica­
tion  are  liable  therefor-

The  impeaching  false  statement  need 
not  be  in  express  terms;  but  the  use  of 
any  apt  words  which,  in  connection 
with  other  words,  and 
in  view  of  the 
circumstances 
in  which  they  are  used, 
naturally  impute  an  accusation  affecting 
a  person’s  character  or  reputation,  will 
give  an  action  to  one  who  is  injured 
thereby.

Words  which  are  made  the  basis  of 
an  action  must  be  construed in the sense 
in  which  the  readers  or  hearers  are  jus­
tified 
in  understanding  them,  and  the 
meaning  of  the  words  must  be  deter­
mined  by  the 
judge  or  jury,  from  the 
evidence  submitted  at  the  trial,concern­
ing  the  facts  and  circumstances  under 
which  the  words  were  used.

It  is  impossible  for  me  to  advise  you 
with  certainty  whether  the  publication 
of  such  an  advertisement  as  that  de­
scribed 
in  the  article  to  which  1  have 
referred  will  give  a  cause  of  action  to  a 
person  named  therein,because the words 
ao  not  necessarily 
impute  an  accusa­
tion,  or  reflect  upon  the  character  of 
the  person  named;  but  from  what  I 
know  of  the  methods  of  collection  agen­
cies,  and  from  what  is  disclosed  of  the 
purposes  of  the  new  system  in  tbe  ar­
ticle,  I  think  a 
judge  or  jury  would 
find,  upon  trial  of  an  action  for  libel 
based  on  such  a  publication,  that  the 
one 
in­
tended  thereby  to  accuse  the  persons 
therein  named  of  being  dishonest,  of 
being  “ dead  beats,”   and  that  the  ad­
vertisement  was  made  for the  purpose 
of  extorting  money;  and  further,  that 
those  reading  the  advertisement  would 
so  understand  it.

inserting  the  advertisement 

is  false,  the  person 

If  these  facts  be  found,  and  the  ac­
cusation 
injured 
thereby  is  entitled  to  recover  damages 
from  all  who  actively  assisted  in  pub­
lishing  the  advertisement.

In  conclusion  I  have  to  say, "that  in 
my  opinion  the  new  system  is  perni­
cious  and  that  its  adoption  and  use  by 
an  association,  collection  agency  or 
newspaper  is  likely  to  invite  dangerous 
and  expensive  litigation.

Recommendation  W hich  W as  L iterally 

Correct.

A  kind  hearted  gentleman  dismissed 
a  gardener  who  used  to  steal  his  fruit 
and  ^ vegetables.  For  the  sake  of  the 
man’s  wife  and 
family,  however,  he 
gave  him  a  testimonial  worded  thus:

“ I  hereby  certify  that  A.  B.  has  been 
my  gardener  for  over  two  years,  and 
that  during  that  time  he  has got  more 
out  of  my  garden  than  any  man  I  ever 
employed. ”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

"he  following  from  the  advertisement  of  a  prominent  wholesale  grocer 

should  be  read  and  pondered  by  every  dealer:

‘ Some  grocers  succeed  where  others  seem 
to  work  just  as  hard  and  yet  fail  to  achieve 
much— it  is  just  as  important  to  know  what  to 
push  as  it  is  how  to  push— pushing  pure  and 
pleasing  products  produces  prosperity,  but 
pushing  poor  stuff drives  trade  away.”

It  pays  infinitely  better  to  push  a  baking 
powder 
like  “   Royal,”  an  article  of  known 
merit,  whose  good  qualities  are  recognized  and 
appreciated  by  all  consumers.

,  Royal  Baking  Powder  is  easy  to  sell,  and 
when  sold  there  is  always  a  pleased  purchaser.
Royal  Baking  Powder  is  largely  advertised 
and  that  helps  the  dealer;  but  a  pleased  pur­
chaser  is  the  best  advertiser  for  your  store, 
because  she  will  recommend  to  others  that 
dealer  who  has  pleased  her.

Royal  Baking  Powder  is  the  highest  class 
baking powder, made  from  pure  cream  of tartar, 
and  absolutely  free  from  alum  or  other  harm­
ful  ingredient.

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

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

4

Around the State

M ovements of M erchants.

Bronson—G.  A.  McMasters,  cigar 
manufacturer,  has  removed  to  Batavia.
Grayling— Robert Meyers has removed 
his  general  merchandise  stock to Lewis­
ton.

Lansing— Porter  &  Smith  have  sold 
their  grocery  stock  to  Morris  C.  Bow- 
dish.

Delton—J.  F.  &  A.  D. Williams  have 
sold  their  furniture  stock  to  Aldrich 
Bros.

Juniata—John  Daugherty  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  James  H. 
Mead.

Laurium— Louis  Marmes,  dealer  in 
to 

general  merchandise,  has  removed 
Antigo,  Wis.

Charlotte—Densmore  &  Go.  have 
opened  their  new  racket  store  in  the 
Lockard  block.

Gagetown—T.  C.  Maynard 

is  suc­
in  the  drug  business  by  Mrs. 

ceeded 
Ella  V.  Maynard.

Belding— W.  J.  Mosgrove has  sold  his 
Bridge  street  meat  market  to  Smith  & 
Hines,  of  Rockford.

Hastings—Fred  Spangemacher  has 
removed  his  hardware  stock  from  Mid- 
dleville  to  this  place.

Greenville— W.  W.  Slawson  continues 
the  drug  business  of  G.  R.  Slawson  & 
Co.  in  his  own  name.

Sturgis— Bailey  &  Rider,  black­
smiths,  have  dissolved  partnership,  M. 
L.  Ryder  succeeding.

South  Haven—W.  E.  Stineman  &  Co. 
have  purchased  the  bakery  business  of 
Frank  D.  Scofield  &  Co.

Coldwater—Joslyn  &  Carpenter  suc­
ceed  Joslyn  &  Norris  in  the  bakery  and 
confectionery  business.

Detroit—Thos.  J.  Digby  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
grocery  firm  of  Digby  Bros.

Cassopolis—S.  B.  Thomas  has  his 
new  building  completed  and  has  re­
moved  his  grocery  stock  thereto.

Lansing—Sabin  &  Creyts,  dealers 

in 
hardware,  have  dissolved  partnership. 
The  business  will  be  continued  by 
Walter  D.  Sabin.

Central  Lake—John  Vaughan  has pur­
chased  the 
interest  of  Hugh  Vaughan 
in  the  drug  stock  of  Vaughan  Bros,  and 
will  continue  the  business  in  his  own 
name.

New  Haven—A  new  banking  institu­
tion  has  been  organized  at  this  place 
the  style  of  the  New  Haven 
under 
Savings  Bank. 
is  capitalized  at 
$20,000.

Lake  Odessa—Scheidt  &  McIntyre 
will  shortly  be 
located  in  their  new 
meat  market.  W.  L.  Johnson  has 
opened  a  second  market  at  the  old 
Harry  Hubbard  stand.

It 

Belding— S.  L.  Ellsworth  has  sold  the 
Palace  bakery  to G.  E.  Shaw  and  Hub 
VanBuskirk,  who  will  continue 
the 
business  under the  style  of  Shaw &  Van 
Buskirk,  changing  the  name  to the  Gem 
bakery.

Marshall-----The  People’s  Clothing
House,  composed  of  J.  W.  Fletcher,  R. 
B.  Fletcher,  T.  C.  Fletcher  and  Geo. 
Fletcher,  has  leased  a  store  building  at 
Benton  Harbor and  will  shortly  remove 
to  that  place.

Cadillac—Aaron  F.  Anderson  has  re­
tired  from  the  shoe  firm  of  Anderson, 
Olsen  &  Coffey,  after  having  been  en­
gaged  in  the  business  for  fifteen  years, 
and 
is  succeeded  by  Olsen  &  Coffey. 
Mr.  Anderson j^rill  devote  his  entire  at­
tention  to  the 
lumbering  business  of 
Johnson  &  Anderson.

Lake  Odessa— Hart  &  Hollenbeck, 
dealers  in  furniture  and  hardware,  have 
dissolved  partnership,  W.  W.  Hollen­
beck  retiring  from  the  business,  which 
will  be  continued  by  Guy  N.  Hart  in 
his  own  name.

Boyne  City—Mrs.  F.  A.  Schoolcraft 
has  opened  a  bazaat  store  in  Mrs.  Mc- 
Wain's  millinery  building  and  will 
carry  a  line  of  glassware,  earthenware, 
tinware,  graniteware  and  women's  fur­
nishing  goods.

Bailey—Geo.  Hirschberg  has  sold  his 
dry  goods  stock  to  Nathan  Barth,  who 
has  removed  it  to  Grant,  New  Mexico. 
Mr.  Hirschberg  will  remove  to  Grand 
Rapids  and  engage 
in  the  fruit  and 
produce  business.

Marcellus— Isaac  Solomon  has 

re­
moved  his  clothing  and  boot  and  shoe 
stock 
into  the  building  recently  pur­
chased  by  him.  The  building  just  va­
cated  will  be  occupied  by  H.  Koehl 
with  a  stock  of  boots  and  shoes.

Kalamazoo— Geo.  E.  Bouck  has  sold 
his meat  market  at  810 Washington  ave­
nue  to  Tyson  &  Mason,  who  will  con­
tinue  the  business  at  the  same  location. 
Mr.  Bouck  has  removed  to  Grand  Rap­
ids,  where  he  has  re-engaged 
in  the 
meat  business.

Kalamazoo—The Omaha Packing  Co., 
of  Omaha,  Neb.,  has  established. a 
wholesale  agency  for  the  sale  of  its 
goods 
in  this  city.  The  business  is  in 
charge  of  A.  Anderson  and  C.  Van 
Duine,  with  headquarters  at  the  Ander­
son  market  on  Portage  street.

Milford—The  affairs  of  the  Milford 
State  Bank,  which  closed 
its  doors  in 
September,  1891,  have  finally  been  set­
tled  and  the  receiver  discharged.  The 
creditors have  received  16.3  per  cent,  of 
their  claims,  which 
is  more  than  they 
had  any  expectation  of  getting  at  the 
time  of  the  collapse.

Traverse  City— F.  C.  Thompson, 
whose  drug  stock  in  the  Tonnelier block 
was  destroyed  by  fire  in  May,  is  in  the 
city  for  a  few  days.  Mr.  Thompson 
has  been  filling  a  position  in  the  drug 
store  of  Church  &  West  in  Grand  Rap­
ids,  but  he 
is  seriously  thinking  of 
starting  in  this  city  again,  if  he  can  se­
cure  a  location  to  his  liking.

Jackson— E.  C.  Morrisey,  trustee  in 
bankruptcy  in  the  Charles  Snow  matter, 
sold  the  shoe  stock  at  public  auction 
Sept.  24.  The  stock,  minus  the exemp­
tion  of  $250,  amounted 
to  $671.35. 
There  were  also  accounts  amounting 
upon  their  face  to  about $500.  They 
were  sold  to  Benj.  Williams,  the  stock 
at  27^  cents  on  the  dollar,  or 
for 
$184.62,  and  the  accounts  for  $36.  The 
bid  must  be  confirmed  by  the  United 
States  District  Court  at  Detroit  before 
the  sale  is  valid.

M anufacturing M atters.

Ludington—The  Handy  Things  Co. 

succeeds  the  Cartier  Enameling  Co.

Detroit— The  Wayne  Chemical  Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation.  The 
capital  stock  is $io,oco.

Flint—The  Durant-Dort  Carriage  Co. 
from 

its  capital  stock 

has  incteased 
$1,200,000 to  $1,500,000.

Anchorville—The  Anchorville Milling 
Co.  has  been  organized  at  this  place 
with  a  capital  stock  of  $5,000.

Hermansville—The  Wisconsin  Land 
&  Lumbering  Co.  has  increased  its  cap­
ital  stock  from  $220,000 to $250,000.

Port  Huron— M.  R.  Wood,  general 
manager  of  the  Port  Huron  Salt  Co., 
has  resigned  and  it  is  rumored  that  he 
will  start  a  soda  ash  plant  just  south  of 
I the  salt  block.

Detroit— The  style  of  the  cigar  man­
ufacturing  firm  of  John  C.  Sullivan  & 
Son  has  been  changed  to John  C.  Sulli­
van  &  Co.

East  Jordan—B.  E.  Waterman 

is 
building  an  extension  of  30  feet  on  the 
south  end  of  his  factory  and  will  add 
more  machinery  and  put  in  a  sash  and 
door  factory  for  winter  stock  work.

Pontiac—Sylvester Cole has  purchased 
the  interest  of  his  partners  in  the  Acme 
Carriage  Co.,  one  of  the  recehtly  organ­
ized  carriage  factories  here.  He  will 
conduct  the  business  alone,  and  con­
tinue  the  manufacture  of  high  class 
vehicles.

Cheboygan—Chicago  capitalists  plan 
to  build  a  large  oxalic acid factory here, 
to  use  up  the  sawdust  which  has  ac­
cumulated  from  the 
The 
plant  will  be  the  only  one  of  its  kind  in 
America,  the  acid  heretofore  having 
been  imported.  Plans  are  being  drawn 
for the  factory.

sawmills. 

Adrian— In  all  probability  the  refrig­
erator  company  will  discontinue  busi­
ness  here  after  the  present  stock 
is 
closed  out.  There  are  1,400 boxes  of 
this  season’s  make which will be  carried 
over.  The  company  was  organized  last 
January  and,  from  present  indications, 
will  soon  be  a  thing  of  the  past.

of 

Detroit— The  shareholders 

the 
American  Alkali  Co.  will  on  Oct.  3 vote 
on  a  proposition  approved  by  the  di­
rectors  to  make  the  outstanding  pre­
ferred  stock  full  paid  by  issuing  two 
shares  of  full  paid,  par  value  $50,  for 
five  shares  of  preferred  on  which  $20 
shall  have  been  paid.  Of  the  $6,000,000 
preferred  stock,  $2,400,000  will  then  be 
outstanding  and  $3,600,000  will  have 
been  retired.

Port  Huron—The  McMorran  Milling 
Co.  has  commenced  suit  against  the 
National  Surety  Co.,  of  New  York,  to 
recover  the  amount  of  an  alleged  de­
falcation  of  an  employe,  A.  E.  Eller- 
thorpe,  of  Carsonville,  a  grain  buyer. 
The  McMorran  company  claims  to  have 
been  insured  with  the  surety  company 
against  loss  from  defalcation  by  its  em­
ployes  and  that  Ellerthorpe,  while  buy­
ing  grain  for them,  failed  to  account  for 
some  $2,700,  but  the  surety company  re­
fused  to  pay  the  shortage  when  called 
upon.

Detroit— M.  Rafelson,  President  of 
the  Imperial  Cap  Co.,  116  Jefferson 
avenue,  died  at  his  home,  68  Sherman 
street,  Sunday  morning,  after  a  six 
weeks’ 
illness,  from  a  complication  of 
diseases,  at  the  age  of  32  years.  Mr. 
Rafelson  came  to  Detroit  from  New 
York  about  six  years  ago  and 
in  com­
pany  with  E.  V.  Brigham  and  G.  Me- 
Knight  established  a  cap  factory.  He 
was  a  member  of  Dirigo  Lodge  No.  30, 
F.  &  A.  M.,  New  York,  and  Court 
Bagley  I.  O.  F .,  and  the  Protested 
Home  Circle 
in  Detroit  He  leaves  a 
widow  and  three  children.

Kalamazoo—John  McLarty,  who  was 
the  founder  and  principal  owner  of  the

French  Garment  Co.  for  several  years, 
but  who  has  not  been  actively  engaged 
in  business  for  several  months,  is  about 
to  again  embark 
in  business  in  Kala­
mazoo.  He  has  secured  quarters  over 
215  North  Rose  street  and,  under  the 
name of  the  Diamond  Skirt  Co.,  has  as­
sociated  with  him  his  two  sons,  James 
and  John,  Jr.  The  new  concern  will 
start  about  October  15  in  a  small  way 
and  will  enlarge  the  plant  as  the  busi­
ness  may  demand,  manufacturing  high 
grade  petticoats  and  other  ladies’  wear­
ing  apparel.

Galesburg—When  the  promoters  and 
advocates  of  the  Galesburg canning  fac­
tory  were 
laboring  to  secure  subscrip­
tions  to the  stock,  there  were  not  want­
ing  those  who  based  their  refusal  upon 
the  presumption  that  the  locality  would 
never  produce  material  sufficient  “ to 
make 
it  pay.’ ’  Six  weeks  ago  the  fac­
tory  went  into  operation  and since  there 
has  been  a  constant  procession  of  teams 
drawing  all  kinds  of  seasonable  fruits 
to  the  market  thus  created. 
In  fact,  it 
has  been  difficult  to  obtain  the  help 
necessary  to  care  for  the  quantities  de­
livered,  and  it  is  now  very  evident  that 
those  who  subscribed  “ to  help  the 
town, ”   incidentally  helped  themselves 
in  a  financial  sense.

P athetic  Farew ell.

A  country  minister  in  a  certain  town 
took  permanent  leave  of  his  congrega­
tion  in  the following pathetic manner:

“ Brothers  and  sisters,  1  come  to  say 
good-bye. 
I  don't  think  God  loves this 
church,  because  none  of  you  ever  die.  I 
don't  think  you  love  each other,  because 
you  have  not  paid  my  salary.  Your 
donations  are  mouldy  fruit  and  wormy 
apples,  and 
‘ by  their  fruits  ye  shall 
know  them.’  Brothers,  I  am  going 
away  to  a  better  place. 
1  have  been 
called  to  be  chaplain  of  a  penitentiary. 
1  go  to  prepare  a  place  for  you,  and 
may  the  Lord  have  mercy  on your souls! 
Good-bye. ”

The  Boys  Behind  the  Connter.

Kalamazoo—David  H.  Lull,  of  South 
Haven,  has  taken  a  position  with  the 
Brownson  &  Rankin  Dry  Goods  Co. 
He  was  formerly  in  Schoolcraft.

Ionia— Leon  Sayles,  who  has  for  some 
time  past  been  in  the  employ  of  F.  W. 
Stevenson  &  Co.,  has secured  a  position 
in  Lansing  with  a  shoe  firm.

Traverse City—Claude Thompkins has 
resigned  his  position 
in  the  grocery 
store  of  McCluskey  &  Clancey  to  accept 
a  position  in  the  Boston  Store.

L im burger in  a  Divorce  Salt.

Franklin,  Penn.,  Sept.  28—The  right 
of  a  husband  to  whip  his  wife  because 
she  disobeyed  him  and  insisted  upon 
buying 
limburger  cheese  against  his 
protests  is  one  of  the  points  in  a  di­
vorce  case  here.  The  defendant 
is  S.
D.  Fleming.  The  wife  charges  him 
with  cruelty,  and  the  limburger  cheese 
figures  as  a  cause  of  provocation,  it  be­
ing  shown  that  the  odor  was  disagree­
able  to him.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

HONEY  WANTED

W ill  pay  cash;  write  or  see  us  before  selling.

M.  e .  BAK ER   &  e©.,  Toledo,  Ohio 

W R O U G H T  IRON  P IP E

We have a iarge stock of 

to  8  inch  Black,  %   to  3  inch  Galvanized,  includii 
»  uV alva?'z.ed  flogged.and  Reamed  Pipe,  and  can  fill  orders  prompt! 

Malleable and  Cast  Iron Fittings, Valves,  etc*  Mill and Well Supplies.

G R A N D   R A P ID S   S U P P L Y   C O M P A N Y

20 Pearl Street, Grand  Bapids, Michigan

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

6

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

John  Mros  succeeds  Mros  &  Schar- 
mach  in  the  meat  business  at  87  Stock­
ing  street.

Geo.  E.  Bouck,  formerly  engaged 

in 
the  meat  business 
in  Kalamazoo,  has 
opened  a  market  at  321  West  Bridge 
street,  corner  Petti bone  street.

Thomas  Heffernan,  general  dealer  at 
line  of  shoes. 
Baldwin,  has  added  a 
The  Herold-Bertsch  Shoe  Co.  furnished 
the  stock.  _____________

Ed.  M.  Metheany  and  Geo.  W. 
Lackey  have  purchased  the  patent  and 
good  will  of  the  Automatic  Printer  Co. 
and  will  continue  the  business  under 
the  style  of  Lackey  &  Metheany.  The 
business  was  established  by  Dr.  L.  D. 
Marvin,  D.  B.  Austin  and  P.  Vander- 
linda,  who  perfected  the  device  and 
introduced 
it  to  the  attention  of  Michi­
gan  merchants  before  disposing  of  it  to 
Messrs.  Lackey  &  Metheany.
The  Grocery  M arket.
Sugar— The  refined  market 

is  very 
quiet.  Buyers  have  not  much  confidence 
in  the  market  and  continue to limit their 
purchases  to  such  supplies  as  are  abso­
lutely  needed  to  fill  urgent  wants,  and 
light.  Refiners  are 
new  orders  were 
still  behind 
in  making  deliveries,  but 
are  gradually  getting  caught  up.  The 
expected  decline  was  realized  yester­
day,  when  all  grades  were  reduced  15 
points.

is  a  partial  failure. 

Canned  Goods— There  were 

few
changes 
in  the  canned  goods  market 
during  the  past  week.  Business  was 
active  and  the  tone  one  of  firmness,  but 
trade  is  not  as  active  as  it  was  in  Aug­
ust.  The  trade  seems  to  be  poorly  sup­
plied  and  buyers  are  steadily  securing 
stocks  of  all  lines.  Tomatoes  are  firmer 
and  very  active.  It  is  now  a well-known 
fact  that  the  tomato  crop  all  over the 
country 
It  is  not 
believed  that  the  total  pack  during  the 
entire  season  will  exceed  70  per  cent, 
of  the  output  of  1900.  There  is  no  ac­
cumulation  of  stocks.  The  warehouses 
have  plenty  of  spare  room  and  the 
packers  are  shipping  tomatoes  as  fast 
as  they are  packed.  Therefore,  it  stands 
to  reason  that  such  a  line  as  tomatoes, 
which  are  always  in demand,  should  ad­
vance.  Gallon  tomatoes  are  scarce.  The 
pack  of  this  size  is  the  smallest  for  sev­
eral years ;  we  believe prices for this size 
will  show  a  material  advance  shortly. 
Many  think  that prices  of  all grades and 
sizes  of  tomatoes  will  soon  show  quite 
an  advance  and  that  now  is  a good  time 
to  buy. 
In  contrast  with  the  tomato 
market,  the  corn  market  continues  very 
easy,  with  but 
The 
stocks  of  all  grades  of  peas  are  very 
light— far  more 
is  generally 
known.  The  best  quality  of  all  sifted 
grades,  as  well  as  the  best  standards are 
practically  sold  out.  There  are  still  a 
few  good  seconds  on  hand,  hut  an  or­
dinary  buying  movement  will  quickly 
clean  them  up.  There 
little 
to  say  about  the  peach  market.  The 
buying  has  been  for  small  lots,  but  they 
are  numerous,  just  the  sort  of  orders 
that  carry  away stocks without attracting 
any  attention.  Gallon  apples  are  firm 
and  fairly  active.  Pineapples  are  high­
increased 
er as  a  result  of  the  recently 
duty.  Domestic  sardines  are 
lower. 
The  Seacoast  Packing  Co.  has  reduced 
its  prices  35c  on  ] i  oils  and  50c  on  %  
mustards  and  some  of  the  outside  pack­
ers  have  made  prices  10c  lower than  the 
combine.  The  salmon  market  is  rather

little  demand. 

is  very 

than 

unsettled  and  prices  show  a  wide range. 
The 
consumptive  demand,  however, 
continues  active.  The  remainder  of  the 
market  is  unchanged. 
is  not 
anything  of  sufficient  interest  to  report 
in  any  other  line,  but  the  market  closes 
very  strong  all  along  the  line.

There 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried fruit market, 
as,  a  whole,  is  rather  quiet  and  un­
changed.  Raisins,  however,  are  attract­
ing  considerable  attention,  as  the  Asso­
ciation  has  named  exceedingly 
low 
prices  on  the  new  crop  goods.  The 
trade  has  taken  hold  very  freely,  but 
sales  were  comparatively  small,  as  the 
quantity  offered  at  the 
low  price  was 
limited.  The  general  feeling  was  that 
the 
low  price  tactics  would  force  the 
growers  into  line  and  that  prices  would 
be  decidedly  higher  soon.  There  were, 
however,  reports  from  the  coast  that 
prices  would  go  still  lower.  Prunes  are 
in  some  request  at  previous  prices. 
Peaches  are 
in  better  demand  and  are 
moving  out  quite  freely.  There  is  a 
small  trade 
in  apricots,  but  no  very 
large  sales  are  made.  The  demand  for 
currants  continues  slow. 
Some  new 
Symrna  figs  have  arrived,  but  are  meet­
ing  with  a  very  slow  sale,  on  account of 
the  continued  warm  weather.  Evapo­
rated  apples  are  slightly  weaker  as  the 
stock  begins  to  come 
in  more  freely. 
We  do  not  think,  however,  that  there 
will  be  any  material  decline  in  prices 
at  present.

Rice— The  rice  market  is  firm,  with 
good  demand.  Sales  included  a  general 
variety  of  most  all  grades,  for  which 
unchanged  prices  were  obtained.  Busi­
ness  will  probably be of a hand-to-mouth 
character  for  a  few  days,  as  the  opinion 
is  prevalent  that  prices  will  gradually 
go  lower  when  the  crop  moves  more 
freely.

Tea—Stocks  of  tea  show  a  decrease 
and,  with  the  improved  statistical  posi­
tion,  it  is  the  general  belief  that  prices 
will  go  higher  for  green  teas.  The  dis­
tributing  business  was  moderately  ac­
tive.  Prices  are  firm 
for  all  grades 
and  some  grades  show  an  advance  of  # 
@ j4 c .  The  arrivals  of  new  crop  teas 
continue  small  and,  as  supplies  are 
light  and  well  controlled,  there  is  every 
reason  to  believe  that  prices  will  ad­
vance.  Buyers  continue  to  adhere  to 
the  hand-to-mouth  policy  and  confined 
their  purchases  to  small  lots,  but  there 
was  more  disposition  shown  to  trade.

Molasses—The  statistical  position  of 
the  market 
is  growing  stronger  and 
prices  for  all  grades  show  a  hardening 
tendency.  Stocks  in  dealers’  hands  are 
small. 
It  is  believed  that  the  supply 
will  hardly  be  adequate  to  meet  the 
wants  of  the  trade  before  the  arrivals  of 
the  new  crop.  Reports  from  New  Or­
leans  note  favorable crop  prospects  and, 
as  the  crop  will  be  late,  it  is  not  ex­
pected  that  any  large  receipts  will come 
in  before  October  15  or  Nov.  1.  The 
corn  syrup  market  is  weaker  and  prices 
have  declined  ic  per gallon  and  6c  per 
case.
• Fish—’The  mackerel  market  is  very 
firm,  the  catch  being  nearly  over  and 
the  stocks  very  light.  There  is  no  pos­
sibility  of  any  decline  in  values,  and 
every  probability  of  an  advance.

Fred  N.  Blake,  book-keeper  and  ac­
countant  for the  Vinkemulder Company, 
was  married  Sept.  24  to  Miss  Emily 
Taylor,  of  Grandville,  the  ceremony  oc­
curring  at  the  residence  of  the  bride’s 
parents.  The  happy  couple  will  reside 
in  Grandville  for  the  present.

The  man  who  is  imprisoned  for  life 

no  longer dreads  being  found  out.

The  Produce M arket.

Apples—The  situation 

is  changing 
in­
materially.  Receipts  are  largely 
creasing  and  prices  are  easier. 
Instead 
of  buyers  doing  the  seeking,  farmers 
are 
looking  for  buyers,  who  are  grad­
ually  picking  up  supplies  of  choice  va­
rieties,  paying  as  high  as  $2  per  bbl. 
for the  fruit  alone.  The  crop  is  turning 
out  better  in  quality  and  larger in quan­
tity  than  was  expected  earlier  in  the 
in  this 
season.  The  Baldwins  grown 
vicinity  are  especially  fine 
in  quality.
Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25© 
1.75  per bunch,  according  to  size.
Butter—The  butter  market  is  ruling 
steady.  Trade  is  not  active,  but  a  fair 
demand  exists  which  is  confined  prin­
cipally  to  fancy  makes  of  creamery. 
Other  descriptions  are  holding  steady. 
The  receipts  are  small.  This  is  one  of 
the 
firmness. 
Extra  creamery  is  in  active  demand  at 
21c.  Dairy  grades  range  from  12c  for 
packing  stock  to  15c  for  fancy  tubs  and 
crocks.

influences  creating  the 

Beets—$1.25  per  bbl.
Cabbage—$2  per  crate  of  three  to  four 

Carrots—$1.25  per bbl.
Cauliflower—$i@i.25  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.
Corn— Evergreen,  8@ioc  per doz.
Eggs— Receipts  are  not  large  and  the 
market  gradually  strengthening.  Deal­
ers  pay  I5@i6c  and  hold  fancy  candled 
at  i 6 @ I7 c.

Egg  Plant—75c  per  doz.
Frogs’  Legs— Large'  bulls,  40c;  me­
dium bulls,  20c;  large  frogs,  15c;  small 
frogs,  5@ioc.

Grapes—Wordens  fetch  12c  for 8  lb. 
and 
ioc  for  4  lb.  baskets.  Delawares 
command  15c  for  4  lb.  and Niagaras  12c 
for  8  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 
@ I2 C .

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

60c  per  bu.

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

and  Canta­

loupes,  65c  per  doz.

Onions— In  strong  demand  at  75@8sc 

dozen.

per  bu.

Oranges— The  new  crop  of  California 
oranges  is  growing  well.  As  to  its  size, 
the  best  authorities  say  it  will  not  be  so 
last  year,  the  navels  perhaps 
large  as 
being  20  per  cent,  lighter  than 
in  the 
season  now  closing.  Valencia  lates  and 
seedlings  will  be  about  the  same  as  in 
the  season  of  1900-1901.
Parsley—20c  per  doz.
Peppers—Green,  60c  per bu.
Plums—Blue  Dawsons  are 
supply  at  $2.25@2.50  per  bu.

in  small 

Peaches—Old  Mixons, 

60c;  Gold 
Drops,  6o@ 70c ;  Smocks  and  Salaways,. 
6s@85c  per  bu.  This  week  practically 
ends  the  season,  although  Salaways  will 
continue  to  come  in  in  limited  quanti­
ties  for  three  or  four  days  next  week. 
The  season  has  been  one  of  the best and 
most  profitable  ever  enjoyed  by  this 
market.  Prices  have  been  fairly  well 
maintained  and  neither  growers or deal­
ers  have  just  cause  for  complaint,  tak­
ing  the  season  as  a  whole.  One  grower 
stated  yesterday  that  he  marketed  400 
bushels  of  Smocks  from  one  acre  of  tree 
this  year  at  an  average  price  of  50c  per 
bushel,  which  paid  him  better  than 
any  other  variety  of peaches or any other 
crop  he  could  raise.

Pears---- Flemish  Beauties,  $1.50;
sugar,  $1;  Bartletts  and  Duchess,  $1.75 
@2.

Potatoes—The  cry  of  a  short  crop  has 
been  kept  up  so  long  that  many  dealers 
have  begun  to  think  such  was  the  con­
dition.  A  few  cool  heads  who  were 
posted  have  maintained  all  along  that 
the  crop  of  late  potatoes  would  be  good 
and  sufficient  to  keep  the  price  down  to 
50@6oc  during  the  season.

Poultry—The  general  feeling  among 
poultry  receivers  is  that  shipments  will 
be  heavy  during  November  and  Decem­
ber.  The  market  is  weaker and  a  trifle 
lower on  fowls  and  springs.  Live  hens 
command  6@7c;  spring  chickens,  7 }£ @  
8j£c;  turkey  hens,  8@9C;  gobblers,  8c ; 
young  turkeys, 
ioc;  spring  ducks,  7 
@90.  Pigeons  are  in  moderate  demand

at  5o@6oc  per  doz.,-  and  squabs  are 
taken  readily  at $i.20@i.50. 4*

for  Chartiers.

Quinces—$1.40  per  bu. 
Radishes— 12c  for  China  R ose;,  ioc 
String  Beans—75c  per  bu.
Squash— Hubbard  commands  2c  per 

'"*»**7  ,

lb.

Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  have  de­
clined  to  $2.75  and  genuine  Jerseys 
to $3.

Tomatoes— so@6oc per  bu.
Watermelons— I4@i5c for home grown.
Wax  Beans—75c  per  bu.

The  G rain  M arket.

it 

Wheat  has  been  very  steady  during 
the  week.  Receipts 
in  the  Northwest 
have  again  been  very  large,  while  the 
Southwest  receipts  are  falling  off.  The 
only  reason  that  the  receipts  are  falling 
off  in  the  Southwest  is  that the  farmers, 
owing  to  the  shortness  of  the  corn  crop, 
are  feeding  wheat  in  place  of  corn,  as 
they  claim 
is  more  profitable  with 
the  present  high  price  of  beef  and  pork 
to  feed 
it  than  to  sell  at  present  low 
prices.  Some  claim  it  nets  them  90c@ 
$1  per  bushel,  by  feeding  it.  Our  ex­
ports  have  been  very  large  again,  ac­
cording  to  Bradstreets’  report,  being
6.470.000  bushels  from  both  coasts.  Our 
out  shipments  have  been  nearly  79,000,- 
000  bushels  since  July  1,against 39,000,- 
000  bushels  during  the  corresponding 
time  last  year.  Yet  with  this  enormous 
export  demand,  our  visible 
increased
looks  rather 
2.500.000  bushels,  which 
large,  taking  the  outflow  into  considera­
tion.  Futures  have  remained  the  same 
as  before.

Corn,  although  the  increase  was  only

500.000  bushels,  has  sagged  off  ic.  The 
reason  for  the  small  reduction  in  price 
is  that  the  long  interest  wanted  to  see 
more  moving  out,as  the amount  in  sight 
is  13,000,000  bushels,  against  7,000,000 
bushels  last  year.  However,  it  will  be 
a  hard  task  to  depress  the  market  when 
there  was  only  a  trifle  over  a  half  crop 
raised.

Oats  were  rather  strong  and  more  are 
wanted.  The  visible  is  only  8,900,000 
bushels,  against  11,425,000  bushels  last 
year.  Stocks  in  Chicago  are  only  1,900,- 
000  bushels,  which 
is  a  remarkably 
small  amount,  and  it  would  not  take 
much  of  an  effort  to  ship  them  out.

Rye  was  somewhat  easier,  being  ij^c 
lower,  as  distilleries  have  not  started 
yet.  However,  they  will  probably  start 
in  the  near  future,  when  choice  rye 
will be  wanted.

Beans  have  slumped  off  fully  20c  per 
bushel  for Octpber.  Detroit  quotes  them 
at  $1.65.  The  harvest  seems  to  have 
been  larger  than  was  counted  on  earlier 
in  the  season.

The  flour  trade  is  fair.  The mills  are 
running  full,  excepting  the  Star,  which 
is  being  overhauled  and  changed  to  a 
sifter  system.

Mill  feed  seems  to  be  in  demand  as 
is  not 

much  as  ever  and  the  supply 
equal  to  the  demand.

Receipts  for  the  week  were :  wheat, 
35  cars ;  corn,  4  cars ;  oats,  2 cars;  flour, 
4  cars;  beans,  1  car;  hay,  1  car;  straw, 
2  cars;  potatoes,  4  cars.

Receipts  for the  month  of  September 
were:  wheat,  175  cars ;  corn,  10  cars; 
oats.  18  cars;  rye,  2  cars;  flour,  9  cars; 
beans,  1  car,  hay,  5  cars;  straw,  4  cars; 
potatoes,  8  cars.

Mills  are  paying  70c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Reports  of  the  presence  of  bubonic 
plague  come  simultaneously  from  Rio 
Janeiro  and  Naples.  Eternal  vigilance 
will  be  the  price  of  immunity  in  the 
United  States.

6

Petting the  People

Emergency  Schemes  in  and  A round  the 

Pan-A m erican.

A  good  place  to  study  the  latest  in 
what  may  be  called  emergency  adver­
tising  is  in  and  around  the  Exposition 
at  Buffalo.  Naturally  the  great  adver­
tisers  of  goods  for  general  sale  could 
find  no  more  favorable  field  than  when 
the  whole  country 
is  so  widely  repre­
sented.  Thus  the  booths  for  the  na­
tionally  advertised  confections,  etc., 
many  occupying  beautifully  designed 
buildings,  are  the  finest  that  money and 
artistic  ingenuity  can  command.

The  local  merchants  have  taken  ad­
vantage  of  any  schemes  they  could  hit 
upon,  and  the  country  around  Buffalo 
and  the  Falls  is  thoroughly  exploited 
with  signboards  and  signs  on  build­
ings. 
If  this  country  were  to  impose 
taxes on  such  signs,  as  is  done  in  many 
of  the  European  countries,  the  revenue 
from  that 
locality  would  be  consider­
able.

other  of 

the  emergency 
Among 
schemes 
is  the  guessing  contest  by  a 
local  clothing  bouse.  Every  day  a  suit 
of  clothes 
is  given  to  the  one  who 
guesses  nearest  to  the  attendance  for 
each  day  at  the  fair.  The  scheme  is 
proving  very  successful  and  profitable. 
At  first  thought  it  might  be  considered 
rather 
expensive,  especially  as  the 
scheme  has  to  be  widely  advertised 
in 
the  local  papers  in  addition  to the  cost 
of  the  suits,  but  as  the  guesses  have  to 
be  recorded  at  the  store  great  numbers 
are  brought  there.  The  contest  is  prin­
cipally  of  local  interest  as  the  visitors 
do  not think  of  it,  being  too  much  oc­
cupied  by  the  exhibition.  By  the oper­
ation  of the  scheme  many  thousands  of 
the  residents  of  Buffalo  are  made  ac­
quainted  and  every  suit  given  out  has 
its  influence  on  the  lucky  guesser  and 
on  the  circle  of his acquaintance.  There 
was  a  fad  for  guessing  schemes,  as  the 
number  of  seeds 
in  a  pumpkin,  some 
years  ago,  but  as  these  were  long  drawn 
out  the 
interest  could  not  be  main­
tained.  A  contest  every  day  with  some­
thing  worth  while  as  the  prize  will  keep 
up  the  greatest  interest.
I  do  not  think  the 

intrusion  of  so 
many  ugly  glating  signs  in  places  of 
natural  beauty  and  interest  is  of  great 
value.  There 
is  a  sense  of  intrusion 
and  impertinence  which  does  not  con­
duce  to  the  permanent  success  of  the 
advertiser.  There  is  not  enough  consid­
eration  given  to  the  kind  of  impression 
produced.  Thus  at  Niagara  one  is  dis­
gusted to look  over to the  Canadian  side 
and  see  the  view  monopolized  by gigan­
tic  bill  boards  and  built-up  signs.  The 
in  making  an  im­
advertiser  succeeds 
pression,  but  not 
in  the  interest  of  bis 
wares.

Perhaps  the  most  ingenuity in  getting 
before  the  people  is  shown  by  the  kite 
signs so  widely  displayed.  At  the  E x­
position  one  sees  first  the  kites  and 
gradually  his  attention 
is  attracted  to 
the  banners  they  sustain. 
In  such  a 
place,  especially  in  connection  with  the 
Midway,  there 
is  no  incongruity  and 
the  advertising  is  no doubt profitable.  It 
may  also  be  at  the  Falls,  but  to  my 
mind  even  the  daring  ingenuity  which 
.serves  to  sustain  a  great  streamer  with 
“ Kabo Corsets’ *  over the  abyss 
is  not 
enough  to  compensate  for  the  incon­
gruous  intrusion  before  the  eyes  of 
those  who appreciate  that  most  wonder­
ful  of  our Eastern  views.  The  State  of 
New  York  and 
in  smaller  degree  the 
Dominion  have  done  well in  conserving

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

M M M H  M I M I  

I I I —  M t t W W f

Fall  is  Here 

Winter  is Coming

And we want ever;  lad;  in Nashville  and  vicin­
ity to call and eee the finest line of  ladies

C A P E S   AND  JA C K ETS

ever shown in  Nashville.  We have them in three- 
fourths lengbth,  box coat and automobile,  in all  shades.  We  can 
sell ;ou a garment as cheap  as  anyone  can,  taking  quality  into 
consideration.

Yours for business

Dried Apples 5  eta. per pound  T H O S .   A .   W E L S H .

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the  natural  beauties  of  Niagara  from 
the  sign  man’s  desecration,  but  on  the 
Canadian  side  there  is  too  much private 
property  which  affords  opportunity  for 
disfigurement.

Thos.  A.  Welsh  has  written  a  strong 
and  seasonable  advertisement  of  winter 
capes  and  jackets  and  bis  printer  has 
given  him  as  good  display  as  the  space 
and  cuts  will  admit—an  exceptionally 
good  result.  The  complimentary  ad­
dress,  “ Yours 
for  business,”   could 
have  been  omitted  to  advantage.  Then 
there  is  an  incongruity  in  introducing 
the  subject  of  dried  apples.  These  are, 
no  doubt,  well  enough 
in  their  place, 
but  there 
is  no  apparent  relation  be­
tween  this  sort  of  evaporated  fruit  and 
ladies’  wrappers.  Dried  apples  are 
all  right  and may  well  be  made  the  sub­
ject  of  another advertisement  with  arti - 
cles  more  intimately  related,  but  it  is  a 
mistake  to  spoil  a  symmetrical and  well 
rounded  advertisement  by  the  introduc­
tion  of  something  wholly  foreign.

in  spite  of  its 

The  Elk  Rapids  Pharmacy  writes  a 
businesslike  and 
interesting  statement 
of  the  opening  of  their new  drug  store 
and 
length  it  will  be 
read  by  many  people.  A  little  shorter 
it  would  have  caught  more  readers. 
The  border  is  too  heavy  for  the  type 
and  to the  casual  reader the  relation  of 
the  first  display  line  in  type  to  the  gen­
eral  subject  is  not  apparent.

Rich  Brothers  succeed  in  introducing 
all  their  lines  in  a  single  small  adver­
tisement,  and  that  with  good effect.  One 
style  of  type  would  have  given  more 
unity  of  design,  but  for all  that  the  ad­
vertisement  is  a  good  one.

A  well  written  and  well  composed 
drug  advertisement 
is  that  of  Schoon- 
maker's  Drug  Store,  but  it 
is  unfortu­
nate  in  being  barred 
in  a  black  ugly 
border,  which  would  be  too  heavy  for  a 
hardware  store.

A  simply  written  and  plainly  com­
posed  hat  advertisement 
is  that  of 
Jacobi  the  Hatter.  The  writing  is  ex­
ceptionally  good,  and 
the  word 
“ yes"  in  the  first  paragraph  had  been 
omitted  would  make  a  good  model.

Mrs.  A.  A.  Abrams  writes  a  simply 
worded  and  well  expressed  millinery 
advertisement,  but 
the  printer  has 
treated 
it  with  too  much  heavy  type. 
The  result  is  not  bad,  however.

Geo.  Wood  &  Bro.  crowd  their  space 
with  too  much  matter  and  the  printer 
introduces  too  many  styles  of  type.  The 
rhyme  at  the  beginning  is not sufficient­
ly  obvious  and  not  very  strong.  There 
is  material  here  for  a  good  advertise­
ment,  but  it  needs  trimming  and  ar­
ranging.

if 

Torpedo
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Roofing

Coated with  Best Asphalt and 
Fine  Torpedo  Gravel. 
Is 
more  durable  than  metal  or 
shingles.  W rite  for  sample 
and  price.

Manufactured  by

H.  M.  Reynolds &   Son

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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Drug  Store. 

The kind we have told for» yean. 

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Yes  our  new  fall 
and  winter  lines  are 
brime  full  of style.
They were  bought 
from the best manu­
facturers,  whose 
makes  are  the  ac­
knowledged  stand­
ard  of  excellence.

We  are  receiving 
new styles daily  and 
invite  your  inspec­
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We  Are  Ready

M I L L I N E R Y
for  poor  inspection.  If  you 
OfO oondering what  sort of O 
MAT  to  buy  com#  and  look
goods.  Coi 
wo  oro  si« ayo  pfooood

MRS. A. A. ABRAMS

226  WisbiigtH  Amu  Ss.

No other Flour nhe’ll  use instead— 
Pmrl  Floor  makes perfect  hired

UfiHT  BREAD

depends more on the flour than on 
the cook.  You cannot make good, 
light, appetising  bread  with  poor 
flour.

P E A R L

H igh  Patent

is the friend of every bread maker, 
a  pure, rich flour of unrivaled qonl 
hj-  All the oealth  of  the  whet |  
la retained.  Cue PEAllL and your 
loaf will be light, sweet and of  de­
licious flavor.

Geo.Wood&Bro.

Makers of Flour in St. Joint.» 

for 88 years.

PEARL  LEADS  THEM  ALL
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mi  tin*  to   I*» an o pening  wedge  into  public  fa- 
p Tor our  new d ru g  store.  T he  new   d ru g  store* 
opens Thursday. Septem ber  26th, and  is  g oing to  be  in 
every way as good  a d ru g   store aa  it  is possible  fo r  ns  to 
make it.

N'ot  at  nil  in  th e  s p u n  

t n t   i*  th t  way of
¡tiforntftfi«*n,  we  would  lik e to  ¡ ^ t b t i  æ  are  a   g raduate  of 
th e  New  \  ork  C ity C ollege  of  Pharm acy, and  have 4ieeu  aps 
proved  by  th e  M ichigan  State-B oard .of  Pharm acy,  and  th at 
m*  havq had over ten  years  o f  active  service  in  p reparing, 
dispcnsingr and  and  analyzing of  m edicines.

”  e  not  only  know  how 

the 

w ith 
Hoard  f>f  Evanilliers know  flint  we  know  it.

\e .y   hesl  ù f  c jie  

to   com pound  prescriptions 
and  accuracy,  b u t th e  State 

W e  look  upon  pharm acy  i s   a  profession.
\\  **  shall  striv e  in  every  Way 

to   buy  and  m ake  only 

th e  p u re st,  freshest, ami  best inedicm ea

But  a  m odern  d y ig   store  is  something more  th an   a 
place w here  p u re  pharmacy 
is  practiced.  .  Like other d ru g ­
gists.  we  handle  perfum es, 
to ilet  articles,  liquors  form ed! 
cal  purposes,  wall  paper,  ru b b e r goods,  and  o th er  lines  of 
goods  usually found  in  a  well  equipped  d ru g  store.

W e  h a te   m ade ou r  hom e  am ong 

the  people  of  E lk 
R apids  and  we  are  very  anxious  to   heobme  useful  public 
servants.

to e w ant  it  to   become  generally  understood  th a t  our 
th é  price  they  pay, 

d ru g   store will  satisfy  th e  people  with 
and  satisfy  them   w ith  th e   treatm ent  th ey   receive.

In  conclusion,  we  would  like  to  eny  th at  we  will  e n ­
deavor  from   tim e To tim e  to   tell  yon  as m uch new*  abont our 
store in  th is  space  as  will  prove  in tere stin g  to  you  and  p ro f­
itable  to   us all.

ELK  RAPIDS  PHARMACY

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Underwear 

Ar.d W«  u v t   the  kind  jom  e y k t   to  w ear. 
M en's  h en ry   striped  U nderw ear.  S c . 
Men’s   wool  fleeced  and  ribbed  U nderw ear,  Mo.
M en's  N s to rsi  W ool  U nderw ear. Tie. 
M en's  oil  wool  U nderw ear.  m cludin*  W rig h t's  H ealth   brand.  fi-M. 

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Men’s  Wool  Union Suits 

$1.50 and $a.oo

And a  New 

Hat

W e  h a r e   those  stylish  broad- rim med  G olf  H ots a t   S2.M  to  M-Sd. 
S tiff  H ots  In  lead in *  shapes.  S1.M.  1100  and  lt.U .

A t  S3.00  we  veil  a  guaranteed h a t—a   new  one  fo r  e very  one  th at  fa lls   ?  

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It Is the W ilson  H at  and  Is  equal  to the K  M  kinds. 

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o f  new  suitings and overcoatings. 

to  satisfy 

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Cargo  of Sugar Turned  to  Taffy.

Here  is  tbe  story  of  a  ship that started 
with  a  cargo of  sugar  and  reached  her 
port  with  a  cargo  of  taffy.  The  sea  has 
no  other story  quite  like  it,  or  none  that 
has  ever  been  recorded.  The  ship  was 
the  Charing  Cross,  from  Rosario,  Ar­
gentine  Republic,and  the  strange  meta­
morphosis  in  her bold  was  not  discov­
ered  until  she  arrived  at  her  dock  in 
London.

The  cargo—31,000  bags  of  sugar—was 
stowed  away  in  four  different  compart­
ments  of  the  ship,  and  the  work  of  un­
loading  began  on  the  day  following  her 
arrival.  The  ship  and dock hands rapid­
ly  cleared  tbe  first,  second  and  fourth 
holds  without  experiencing  any  diffi­
culty,  but  when  they  came  to  unload 
No.  3  they  found  that  the  sugar  there 
had  become  one  solid  block  of  a  dark 
brown  substance—twelve  thousand bags, 
equal  to one  thousand  tons  of sugar,  had 
been  converted 
The  mass 
was  as  hard  as  marble,and  it  was  found 
impossible  to  unload 
it  in  the  usual 
way.  The  hard  substance  was  firmly 
attached  to  the  sides  of  the  vessel,  and 
had  encompassed  everything  else  in  its 
grip,  so  nothing  could  be  done  but  dig 
the  stuff  out.

into  taffy. 

A body  of  forty  men,  using  picks  and 
in  breaking  up 
shovels,  was  employed 
the  taffy  berg 
in  the  hold  of  the  ship, 
and  after  thirty  days’  labor the  men  at 
length  succeeded 
in  clearing  away  the 
last  bill  of  taffy.

It  had  taken  eight  men  only nine days 
to  unload  the  other  three  hatchways, 
containing  the  major  balance  of  the 
cargo,  the  minimum  rate  at  which  a 
shipload  of  sugar  can  be  discharged 
being  fifty  tons  a  day  per  eight  men. 
But  the  combined  efforts  of  forty  men 
engaged  in  clearing  out  the  taffy  pit  in 
the  ship’s  hold  could  not  turn  out  more 
than  five  tons  a  day.

The  determination  of  the  congealed 
mass  to  resist  the  onslaught  of  the  forty 
men  resulted 
in  tbe  breaking  of  about 
one  ton  of 
iron  tools  of  all  sorts,  in­
cluding  wedges  measuring  three  feet 
long,  which  got  twisted  and  bent  like 
so  many  limp  randies;  pickaxes,  whose 
strong  points  got  flattened  out;  chains, 
the  strong 
links  of  which  snapped  in 
two;  great  iron  bolts  that  got  splintered 
like  clothes  pegs,  and  huge  crowbars 
that  got  bent 
If  these 
twelve  thousand  bags  of  sugar  had  not 
got  converted  by  a  mysterious  agency 
into  taffy  their  removal  from  the  ship 
would  have  cost  only  $165,  but  in  the 
present  instance  the  cost  of  digging  out 
the  hardened  stuff  cost  $2,350.

like  hairpins. 

lost 

The  sugar  market  has 

twelve 
thousand  bags  of  “ fly  fancy,”   as  sugar 
is  called  at  the  docks,  but  confection­
ers  and  brewers  have  bought  the  taffy, 
giving  $35  a  ton  for  it,  or  less  than  half 
its  original  value.  Altogether, 
the 
making  of  that  thousand  tons  of  taffy 
means  a  loss  of $5,000  in  the  aggregate, 
but  the  ship  has  become  famous,  for the 
Charing  Cross  is  now  referred  to  as  the 
“ taffy  ship.”
The  cause  of  the  transformation  can 
not  be  discovered. 
The  sugar  was 
loaded 
in  tropical  weather,  and  those 
particular  bags  which  went  wrong  must

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

7

have  contained  sugar  which  was  in  an 
abnormally  moist  condition.  The  bold 
in  which  it  was  stored  is  just  abaft  the 
engine  room,  and  subject  to  great  heat. 
The  subsequent  change  of  temperature, 
from  torrid  to  frigid  latitudes,  helped  to 
solidify  the  mass.

W hy  Is  a Newspaper  Like  a W oman ?
One  bright  friend  came  in  the  other 
day  with  what  he  thought  was  a  conun­
drum.

“ Why  is  a  newspaper like a woman?”
The  various  answers  were :
* * Because  both  have  to  be  known  to 

be  appreciated. ”

“ Because  it  has  to  have  some  one  to 

run  it. ”

mediums. ”

“ Because  both  are  good  advertising 

“ Because  both  ‘have  to  be  pressed.”
“ Because 
it  sometimes  changes  its 

dress  and  tells  tales.”

The  correct  answer 

“ Because 
every  man  should  have  one  of  his  own, 
and  not  be  running  after  his  neigh­
bor’s.”

is: 

Spoke Too  Quick.

Wife— How  do  you  like  my  new  hat?
idea  of  paying  big 
Husband—The 

prices  for—

Wife— Big  prices!  Why,  I  made  it 

Husband— Um— yes—er—as 

myself.
I  was 
saying,  the  idea  of  paying  big  prices 
for  such  monstrosities  as  the  milliners 
are  showing!  Now  your hat  is  a  work 
of  art.  Looks  as  if  it  came  from  Paris.

macauley  Brothers

Detroit» IHich*

Wholesale

Booksellers  and  Stationers

Our  Mr.  Richard  Jackson,  Jr.,  will  make  a  special  and  un­
usually  large  display  of  our  complete  line  of  Books,  Bibles, 
Calendars,  Christmas  Cards,  E tc.,  for  the  Holiday  Trade,  at 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  in  the  Blodgett Building,  Sept.  23 to Oct. 
25.  W e  give  40%  discount  on  all  new  books.  W e  carry  the 
largest  stock  west  of  New  York.  W e  make  the  lowest  prices, 
we  sell  the  best  trade  and  never  lose  a customer.  At the special 
request of  many  of  our  regular  customers  we  will  also  show  our 
complete  assortment  of  Valentines  with  the  above.

Cbe Trank B. taylor 

Company

Detroit» micb.

Importers and manufacturers9 Agents

Our  Mr.  A.  P.  McPherson,  will  exhibit  in  connection  with 
Mr.  Jackson  special  lines  of  their  own  importation  of  German 
and  Japanese  China,  Cut  Glass,  Statuary,  Den  Decorations 
and  Art  Goods  of  endless  variety.

A  liberal  allowance  will  be  made  by  both  the  above  houses 
to  merchants  visiting  Grand  Rapids  who  place  orders  with 
them.

Cash  Register  Paper

Of all kinds.  Quality best.  Prices guaranteed.  Send 
for price list. 
If in need of  a  Cash  Register  address

S ta n d a rd   G a sh   R e g iste r   Go.,  W ab ash , Ind.

i M m i M I

The  reliable  up-to-date  Commercial  School 
Large  attendance.  Large  SURPLUS  of  calls 
for  its  students.  INVESTIGATE.  Plain  cata­
logue free.  A. S. PARISH, Pres., 76-83 Lyon St

"SAVE  TIME  AND  STAMPS”  *
1 
Pelouze  Postal S cales

THE  HANDSOMEST and  BEST  made

HARDWARE !< STATIONER! DEALERS

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

“The flour the best cooks use”

V A L L E Y   C IT Y   M IL L IN G   C O ..

G R A N D   R A P ID S .  M ICH.

T r a d e s m a n  Co.,  grand rapids Mica

Get  our  prices  and  try 
our  work  when you need
Rubber  and 
Steel  Stamps 

Seals,  etc.

Send  for Catalogue  and  see  what 

we  offer.

Detroit  Rubber Stamp Co.

99 Griswold  St. 

Detroit,  Micb.

Bigger  Box. 
Same  Price.

T H E   M O D E R N   S T O V E   P O L IS H

IMPROVED  QUALITY

Liquid=== 
Best  Yet! 
Fire  Proof!!

Dealers:— September  1st we commenced the sale  of  our  new packages 
of E N A M E L IN E .  No.  4 and  No.  6;  each about 50 PER CENT.  LARG­
ER  THAN  FORM ERLY  and  with  NO  CHANGE  IN  PRICE.  The 
quality has been improved  so the goods will  keep  much  better  than  ever.

E N A M E L IN E   L IQ U ID  is THE  modern stove polish—a great  im­
provement. 
In tin  cans with screw tops—cannot break, slop or spoil;  ready 
to use q u ic k ,  easy,  brilliant,  FIR E  PROOF;  keeps  perfectly  for  years 
Large cans, 5c and  10c.  TH E  BEST  Y E T   and  a  WINNER.

We have appropriated $200,000  FOR  ADVERTISIN G  the  coming  year, 

don’t like it, send  it back, as we guarantee it in every respect.

You  should  get  in  line  for  a  BOOM  on  E N A M E L IN E . 

If  you

J.  L.  PRESCOTT  &  C O .,  NEW  YORK.

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

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Devoted to the Best Interests of Basine« Men
Published  a t th e  New  Blodgett B uilding, 

G rand  Rapids,  by  the

T R A D E S M A N   C O M P A N Y

One  D ollar a  T ear,  Payable  in  Advance.

A dvertising Rates on  A pplication.

Communications Invited from practical business 
men.  Correspondents  must  give  their  full 
names and addresses, not necessarily for  pub­
lication, but as a guarantee of good faith.
Subscribers  may  have  the  mailing  address  of 
their papers changed as often as desired.
No paper discontinued, except  at  the option  of 
the proprietor, until all arrearages are paid.
Sample copies sent free to any address.

Entered at the Grand  Rapids  Post  Office as 

Second Class mall  matter.

W hen w ritin g  to  any  o f  o u r  Advertisers, 
please say  m a t  yon  saw  th e  advertise­
m ent In th e  M ichigan Tradesm an.

E.  A.  STOW E.  E d it o r .

WEDNESDAY,  •  •  OCTOBER 2,1901

STA TE   OF  MICHIGAN 1 
)

County  of  Kent 

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:
I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
that  establishment. 
and 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
September  25,  1901,  and  saw  the edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for  said  county, 
this  twenty-eighth  day  of  September, 
1001.
Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

during  a  generation  which  history  has 
never  before  recorded.

The'  hair-lifter,  however,  remains  to 
be  mentioned.  The  largest  increase  in 
the  complete  statistics  of  the  bureau  is 
that  of  15,376  per  cent,  in  the  amount 
of  steel  produced,  the  figures  running 
from  68,750  to  10,639,857  tons,  and  the 
next  largest  is  that  of  3,130  per cent,  in 
the  tonnage  passing  the  Sault.  Another 
item  producing  complacency  here  and 
consternation  ‘ ‘ over there”   is  that while 
mports  of  manufactures  of  iron  and 
steel  have  declined  37  per  cent.,  exports 
increased  1,008  per  cent.,  a  fact 
have 
which  furnishes  good  and 
sufficient 
grounds  for  the  talk  of  ‘ ‘ the  invasion  of 
Europe”  by  this  country  with  which  the 
European  newspapers  have  been  stir­
ring  up  their  readers  for  some  months 
past.

Of  the  agricultural  staples  corn  has 
hardly  kept  pace  with  the  population, 
but  wheat  has  more  than  done  that  and 
cotton  has  more  than  held  her  own  at 
an 
increase  of  228  per  cent.  How  to 
get  rid  of  the  surplus  is  more  than  ever 
the  important  problem  for  this  country 
to  solve.  Sufficient  unto  the  day  is  the 
evil  thereof;  but  to-day it  is  a  matter  of 
congratulation, 
that 
problem— which  Europe  is  fearful  that 
we  have  solved  at  her  expense—that  in 
a  single  generation  this  country  has 
gone  forward  at  such  rapid  strides  as  to 
fill  with  wonder  and  astonishment  those 
nations  which  until  how  have  looked 
upon  this  country  as  second  rate  and  in 
no  way  able  to  grapple  with  the  lead­
ing  powers  of  the  world.

irrespective  of 

A GENERATION OF PROSPERITY.
While 

it  is  amusing  as  well  as  inter 
esting  to  read  that  the  countries  of  the 
Old  World  are  disturbed by  the  prosper­
ity  of  the  New  and  foretell  from  our 
success  only  coming  failure  and disaster 
to  themselves  it  is  not  until  we  go  back 
a  period 
in  our  history  and  compare 
what  we  were  then  to  what  we  are  now 
that  we  can  feel  that  our  friends  on  the 
other side  of  the  sea  have  any  grounds 
for the  fears  that  possess  them.  The 
bureau  of  statistics  of  the  Treasury  De­
partment  has  published  a  table  on  the 
“ Progress  of  the  United  States 
in  Its 
Material  Industries"  and  thus  furnishes 
means for comparing what we were thirty 
years ago  with  what  is  the  condition  of 
things  to-day. 
It  is  hardly  possible  to 
give  more  than  a  hasty  glance  at  a  few 
of  the many matters  presented,  but  from 
those  few  it  is  easy  to  find  much  to  ac 
count  for  European  alarm.

In  1870 the  salaries  paid 

In  population  we  find  that  in  1870  we 
were  a  nation  of  38,558,371  souls  and  in 
1900  we  had  76,303,387,  a  gain  0198  per 
cent. 
in  the 
public  schools  amounted  to  $37,832, 
566;  in  1900 the  sum  was  $128,662,880, 
a  gain  of  240  per  cent. 
The  numbe: 
of  newspapers  and  periodicals  thirty 
years  ago  was  5,871;  now  it  is  21,178  or 
261  per  cent,  greater  now  than  then 
The  receipts  of  the  Postoffice  Depart 
ment  at  the  earlier date were $19,772,221 
from  the  28,492  postoffices;  at  the 
later 
date they are $102,354,579 from the 76,668 
offices  in  existence,  an  increase  of  169 
per  cent,  for  the  number  of  postoffices 
and  an 
increased  public  patronage  of 
the  department  of  418  per  cent.  There 
were 9,157,646 telegraph  messages  sent 
in  1870  and  79,696,227  in  1900,  an  in 
crease  of  770  per  cent,  during  the  thirty 
years.  Against  52,922  miles  of  rail 
ways  in  operation  in  1870  stand  190,833 
miles  at  the  closing  year  of  the  century 
—the  whole  telling  a  story  of  change  i 
the  life  and  the  thought  of  the  nation

for 

improvement. 

The  municipality  of  Vienna  has  un­
der  consideration  a  project  for  the  dis­
posal  and  utilization  of  the  sewage  of 
the  city  which  at  present  is  discharged 
nto  the  Danube. 
In  England  so-called 
sewage  farms  are  now  quite  common  in 
connection  with  the  smaller  cities,  and 
the  plan  has  been  adopted  by  both  Ber­
lin  and  Paris,  but  to  all  of  the  systems 
in  use  there  is  more  or  less  objection, 
and  even  with  the  best  of  them  there  is 
much  room 
The 
scheme  under  consideration  in  Vienna 
consists 
in  the  application  of  a  method 
developed  by  Herr  Noebel,  of  Posen, 
by  which  the  liquid  part  of  the  sewage 
will  be  utilized  for  the  double  purpose 
of  irrigation  and  enrichment. 
It  is  in 
tended  to  convey  the  sewage  in  pipes  to 
an  extensive  plain  of  poor  land  which 
suffers  from  lack  of  water,  due  to  inad 
equate  rainfall,  over  which  it  is  not  to 
be  carried  in  trenches,  but  the  surface 
of  the 
irrigated  by 
sprinkling  the  sewage  water  over  it. 
It 
is  said  that  by  this  plan  the  land  will 
not  be  over-saturated,  as  it  frequently  is 
farms  at  Berlin  and 
on  the  sewage 
Paris.  The  system 
is  stated  to  have 
been  already  in  use  at  Posen,  with  sat 
isfactory  results.

is  to  be 

land 

in  future. 

The  speech  that  President  McKinley 
made  at  Buffalo,  his  last  public  utter 
ance,  is  destined  to  be  quoted  frequent 
ly 
It  was  a  speech  upon 
which  he  expended  much  time  in  prep 
aration  and  represents  the  conclusions 
of  the  ripest  study.  Three  phrases  are 
said  to  have  formed  the  nucleus  of  this 
remarkable  deliverance. 
They  were 
“ Expositions  are  the  timekeepers  of 
progress,”   “ Amity  is  better  than  an 
imosity”   and  “ Reciprocity 
is  better 
than  retaliation.”   From  these  three 
ideas  the  Buffalo  speech  was developed

If  you  don't  know  where  success  lies, 
perhaps  you  know  where  it  is  not,  and 
that  will  show  you  what  to  avoid.

THE WARS  OF THE  FUTURE 

find,  perhaps, 

The  struggle  for  supremacy  in  this 
twentieth  century 
for 
others  beyond  it,  between  the  nations  of 
the  earth  will  be  between  those  that 
possess  the  greatest  amount  of  raw  ma­
terial,  particularly  of  iron  and  coal, 
with  a  population  skilled  in  the  art  of 
manufacturing  them.

To-day  the  chief  object  of  each  na­
tion  is to  lead  in  commerce. 
In  order 
to  do this,  it  is  necessary  to  be  able  to 
produce  articles  of  common  use  at  the 
lowest  cost  commpatible  with  quality, 
and,  thus  provided,  the  nation  which 
can  sell  cheapest  at  a  profit  will  lead 
the  others.

The  nations  of  the  Western  world 
which  to-day  are  accorded  the  first  rank 
re  the  United  States, 
in  America; 
Great  Britain,  Germany,  France  and 
Russia,  in  Europe,  and  China  and  Jap­
an, in  Asia.  The  Great  Republic of the 
West  is  endowed  above  all  the  countries 
of  Europe  in  coal  and  iron,  in  cotton, 
wool  and  food  products.  Surpassing 
them  all,  except  Russia,  in  population, 
the  American Republic  must  finally  rise 
to the  head  of  all  the  nations,  even  al­
though  all  of  them  should  make  a  com­
mercial  coalition  against  her,  and  sev­
eral  should  enter  into  an  armed alliance 
against  her.

complex, 

extremely 

The  problem  of  an armed coalition  is, 
however, 
since 
among  the  European  nations  there  are 
so  many  varied  and  often  conflicting 
interests  that  it  is  pretty  sure  that  there 
will  be  no universal combination against 
the  United  States.  Russia,  which,  for 
lack  of  development,  is  to-day  weak  in 
many  ways,  will  one  day  become  the 
most  powerful  of  European nations;  but 
her 
interests  are  so  entirely  separate 
from  those  of  the  United  States  that  the 
two  powers  are  not  in  any  way  likely  to 
come 
into  serious  conflict;  therefore 
Russia  is  not  expected  to  engage in  any 
European  coalition  against  the  United 
States.  Great  Britain,  with  vast  pos­
sessions  in  every  quarter of  the  globe, 
will  never be  wantonly  attacked  by  the 
United  States,  while  there 
is  more  or 
less  danger  to  her  of  hostile  collision 
with  European  countries.

Under  any  conditions  of  peace  it  will 
always  be  necessary  to  prepare  for  war 
and  the  coming  era  will  be  one  of  vast 
steel-and  steam  navies.  The  steel  ship 
is  a  floating  fortress;  its  sailors  are 
machinists  who  give  no  regard  to  winds 
and  waves,  but  whose  business  is  to 
steam  through  them  and 
in  spite  of 
them,  in  order  to  enable  the  garrison 
of  artillerists  to  meet  or  evade  thei 
floating  foes.  One  writer  on  the  future 
of  marine  warfare  expresses  the  belief 
that  the  floating  steel  fortresses  will  be 
discarded,  save 
for  harbor  defense 
while  the  open  sea  will  be  kept  by 
swift  cruisers  armed  with  a  few  high 
power  guns,  and  protected  by  plating 
only  in  a  few  vital  parts,  the  entire  ves 
sel  intended  to  assume  the  most  daring 
offensive  tactics,  ready  to  shoot  or to 
ram  as  might  be  necessary,  but  depend 
ing  most  on  swiftness  of  steaming.

War  on 

land  will  mean,  more  than 
ever,  keeping  the  men  under  cover, 
while  machine  guns  and  far-reaching 
rifles  will  be  most  in  demand;  while 
the  horse,  that  was  thought to  have  seen 
his 
last  days  of  usefulness  in  war,  will 
be  required  to  transport  the  troops  to 
and  from  the 
line  of  battle.  On  land 
and  sea  alike  there  will  be  an  unceaS' 
ing  demand  for  swiftness  of  movement, 
accuracy  of  marksmanship  with  guns  of 
far-reaching  range.
H.  S.  Wells,  an 

imaginative  writer

of  fiction  who,  some  time  ago,  amused 
his  readers  with  his  remarkable  crea­
tions  concerning  a  war  with  the  inhabi­
tants  of  the  planet  Mars,  expresses  the 
belief  that  flying  machines  or  aerial 
ships  will  play  a  great  part  in  the  wars 
of  the  future,  hurling  dynamite  and 
other  explosives  from  the  clouds  upon 
hostile  ships  and  armies;  but  the  bal­
loon  has  continued  to  defy  all  efforts  to 
make  it  a  reliable  and  controllable  ma­
chine,  and  promises  so  little  in  the  fu­
ture  that  it  may  be  well-nigh  discarded 
from  the  paraphernalia  of  war,  save  as 
_  means  of  overlooking  a  battle  field,  or 
of  escaping  from  a  beleaguered  city.

However  this  may  be,  the  great  con­
tests  of  the  future,  whether  in  war  or  in 
peace,  will  depend  on  each  nation’s  en­
dowments  in  iron  and  coal.  They  are 
going  to  be  the  chief  elements  of  power 
in  the  future.

The  Canadian  papers  seem  to  be  tak- 
ng  a  rather  roseate  view  of  the  future 
of  the  dominion  as  a  wheat  producer, 
and  attention  has  been  drawn  to the fact 
that,  whereas the  production  is  increas- 
ng  at  a  pace  totally  outside  the  growth 
of  the  population,  the  production  of  this 
country  shows  a  material  decrease  on 
the  same  basis.  Of  course,  some  offset 
must  be  found  by  the  Canucks  for  the 
slow  growth  of  the  population,  and  this 
offset  has  been  found  in  the  increased 
prosperity  of  the  country,  but  any  real 
comparison  between  a  country  of 3,500,- 
000  people  and  77,000,000  is  rather  be­
side  the  mark.  Still,  there  is  room  for 
thought  even 
in  the  comparison  which 
has  been  drawn.  The  Toronto  Globe 
points  out  that  in  1880 the production  of 
wheat  in  the  United  States  was  nearly 
ten  bushels  per  head  of  population ;  in 
later 
889  it  was  7.8  bushels;  ten  years 
t  had  dwindled  to  7.2  bushels,  and 
in 
1900  it  was  but  6.8  bushels.  Across  the 
border  this  decline, 
is  generally 
thought,  will  be  continuous  until  a 
point  is  reached  when  this  country  will 
absorb  the  whole  of 
its  production, 
leaving  nothing  for  export.  In  this  case 
Great  Britain,  which 
is  our  best  cus­
tomer,  will  of  necessity  have  to  rely  on 
Canada  for  its  main  supply. 
In  the 
meantime,  however,  other  sources  of 
supply  may  be  opened  out  or  present 
ones  materially  increased. 
If  so,  Can. 
ada  will  not  be  the  only  peddler  on  the 
road.

it 

in  the 

Numerous  are  the  ways  which  have 
been  discussed  for  putting  a  stop  to  the 
inordinate  expense  which  often  attends 
the  burial  of  the  dead,  hut  as  yet  the 
matter  has  ended 
in  mere  discussion. 
Respect  rendered  the  dead  is  a  great 
thing,  but  when  fashion  and  pride  com­
bine  to  make  this  solemn  duty  weigh  so 
heavily  as  to  spell  impoverishment  to 
the  poor  widow  and  orphans,  it  is  time 
to  cry  a  halt.  This  subject  of  burial 
reform  has  been  tackled  in  a  thoroughly 
practical  way  by  a  society  recently  or­
little  town  of  Soquei, 
ganized 
Cal.  Nearly  every  adult 
in  the  town 
has  signed  the  roll  of  membership;  one 
of  the  members  has  been  engaged  as 
undertaker,  and  another  as  grave-dig­
ger.  The  coffins  are  to  be  made  by  the 
undertaker,  and  are  to  be  plain,  al­
though  strong  and  well  finished.  A  neat 
wagon  is  to  take  the  place  of  the  con­
ventional  hearse; 
the  mourners  will 
walk  to the  cemetery,  and  the  total  cost 
of  a  funeral  is  to  be  about  $20.  On  the 
occasion  of  a  death,  each  member  of 
the  organization  is  expected  to  render 
what  assistance  he  can  to  the  afflicted 
family,  and  to  attend  the  funeral.

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

9

JUST AN  ORDINARY  MACHINE.

The  civilized  world  is  just  now  giv­
ing  undivided  attention  to  the  automo­
bile.  Like  the  horse  owner  each  be­
lieves  his  own  is  the  best  and  each  na­
tion  holds  itself  in  readiness  to  be  con­
vinced  that  its  genius  and its workshops 
hold  the  second  place  in  the  excellence 
of  its  machine.  France  with  the  hered­
itary  right  of  “ all  gall’ ’  mounts  her  lat­
est  achievement  and  proudly  declares 
that  nothing  under the  sun  can  pass  or 
surpass  it.  Germany,  true  to  her  in­
stincts, 
thinks  and  realizes  and  says 
nothing,  but  sends  her automobile  spin­
ning  along  the  capitals  of  Europe  and 
wonders  what  the  inhabitants  think  of 
that,  and the  Englishman,  nothing  loth, 
improves  the  opportunity  and  triumph­
antly  points  to  his  work  of  genius  and 
unchallenged  asserts  that  “ there’s a ma­
chine  to  stand  the  shock of coming ages. 
In  the  meantime  the  Yankee  has  been 
doing  three  things  at  once— whittling, 
whistling  and  thinking—and  the  result 
is  “ suthin*  that'll  go  ’n’  that’s  ’bout 
all.’ ’ 
is  nothing  to  brag  of— just  a 
beginning  as  one  might  say— but  with 
that  to  start  with  the  thinking  goes  on 
and  the  end  is  success.

It 

That  is  the  history  of  the  automobile 
in  the  United  States.  The  method  of 
testing  is  somewhat  different.  Any  ma­
chine  will  go  if  the  road  is  smooth  and 
level;  but  that 
is  not  the  American 
idea.  This  nation  puts  little  confidence 
in  the  dress  parade.  The spick and span 
is  all  well  enough— it 
is  appreciated— 
but  there  must  be  something  under 
the  spick  and  span  to  find  favor.  So 
when  the  American  automobile  is  ready 
for  its  work  it  must  prove itself  equal  to 
the  American  requirements. 
It  must 
go  up  hill  and  down  dale. 
It  must 
stand  the  American  road  as  it  finds  it, 
not  as 
it  ought  to  be,  and  it  must  get 
over that  road  fast  enough  to  satisfy  the 
spirit  of  a  people  determined  not  to 
come  in  second.

increased  speed. 

Such  an  automobile  has  been  making 
a  trial  trip  and  been  pronounced  a  suc­
cess.  A  gentleman  of  Chicago  left  that 
city  Aug.  i  for  a  trip  to  New  York  via 
Boston.  A  machine  of  eight  and  a  half 
horse  power  was  used,  geared  slightly 
for 
It  accomplished 
the  distance  between  Chicago  and 
Buffalo  in  four  and  a  half  days,  one  day 
being  deducted  for two  stops  during  the 
journey,  and  so  making  the  actual  time 
three  days  and  a  half—something  more 
than  165  miles  a  day.  The 
longest 
day’s  run  was  from  Oneida  to  Albany. 
From  Albany  to  Boston  and  New  York 
the  hilliest  routes  were  taken  for  the 
sake  of  the  scenery  and  twice  the  two 
automobilists found  it  necessary  to  walk 
up  hill  on  account  of  the  loose,  fresh 
gravel.  Twice  on  the  entire  run,  when 
the  front  axle  broke,  the  machine  was 
driven  by  other  power  than  its  own  and 
traveling  was  done  regardless  of  the 
weather—the log of  the  run  showing  that 
the  work  done  at  all  times  was  far  in 
excess  of  that  accomplished  by  ma­
chines  that  recently  took  part  in  the  en­
durance  test  from  New  York  to  Buffalo.
Now,  then,  the  American  makes  no 
claim  of  having  produced  a  perfect  ma­
chine.  He  even  admits  that  it  is  cruder 
and 
imperfect  and  needs— it  will  be 
sure  to have  it— no  end of improvement; 
but  wiih  the  work  of  his  brain  and 
hands,  without  the  aid  of  a  mechanic 
or  professional,  be  can  go  farther  week 
in  and  week  out  on  the  American  road 
as  he  finds  it  and  subject  it  to  more 
rough  usage  than  any  other  machine 
which  has  so  far  been  invented  can 
It  is  a  simple,  common  $1,200
stand. 

affair  and,  take 
everything  on  the  road.

it  all 

in  all,  beats 

It  is  not  necessary  to  dwell  at  length 
upon  this  automobile  or  upon  the  trip 
it  has  taken.  The  point  is  that  in  the 
rough  the  American  invention  is  ahead. 
Perfected,  it  will  outstrip  still  farther 
all  rivals. 
Its  superiority  will  create  a 
demand  for  it  everywhere,  and  the  sup­
ply  will  satisfy  the  demand.  Like  all 
that  is  best  it  will  go  where  the  best 
is 
wanted  and  the  result  will  be  that 
Europe  will  be  again  “ invaded”   by 
American  genius,  and  when  European 
patience  ceases  again  to  be  a  virtue 
there  will  be  the  usual  outcry.  The  fact 
is  what  is  destined  to  be  will  be  and 
the  sooner  the  Old  World  settles  con­
tentedly  down  to  the  inevitable  the  bet­
ter  it  will  be  for  all  concerned.

TH E  HONESTY  OF THE  MAN.

There 

is  an  irresistible  tendency  on 
the  part  of  most  Americans  to  estimate 
the  honesty  of  a  public  man  by 
inverse 
ratio  to  his  private  fortune.  The  man 
who while prominent in politics  becomes 
wealthy  is  looked  at  askance  and  with 
evident  suspicion.  Perhaps  the  most 
notable  example  of  that  sort  of  thing 
is 
in  the  career and  wealth  of 
personified 
Richard  Croker,  whom 
everybody 
believes  has  amassed  a 
fortune  by 
corrupt  political  practices.  Another 
wealthy man  in  politics  is  Mark Hanna, 
but  he  escapes  criticism  on  this  account 
because  his  riches  were  all  gathered  be­
fore  he  became  an  important  figure 
in 
national  affairs.  Every  one  recalls  in­
stances  where 
large  political  influence 
and  quickly  acquired  fortunes  have  at 
least  been  coincidences. 
It  does  not 
necessarily  follow  that  a  man  who  has 
grown in wealth  and grown  politically  at 
the  same  time  has  made  the  former  the 
result  of  the  latter,  but  there  is  always 
a  suspicion  about 
it  which  occasions 
comment  even  although  undeserved.

is  reckoned  nowadays. 

McKinley's  career  was  singularly free 
from  criticism  of  this  character.  He 
was  richer  at  his  death  than  at  any  pre­
vious  time,  but  was  far  from  wealthy  as 
wealth 
The 
value  of  his  estate 
is  variously  esti­
mated,  the  highest,  including  large  life 
exceeding  $200,000. 
insurance,  not 
During  his  four  years 
in  the  White 
House  an  annual  salary  of  $50,000  en­
abled  him  to  save  money,  but  when  the 
probate  court  has  finished  with  his  es­
tate  his  widow  will  not  be  a  wealthy 
woman.  Very  many  men  in  public  life, 
while  they  never  take  a  dollar  for  their 
vote  or  for  their  influence,  see  no  barm 
in  taking  timely  advice  from  those  in  a 
position to  make  it  profitable  and by  in­
vestments  thus  suggested  are  enabled  to 
reap  rich  returns.  During  his 
long 
career  Mr.  McKinley steadfastly  refused 
to  indulge 
in  stock  or  other  specula­
tions.  His  surplus  funds  were  de­
posited  in  banks.  He  was  exceptionally 
conscientious  in  th is  respect  and  it  was 
never  successfully  charged 
that  he 
profited  a  penny’s  worth  in  such  a  way. 
In  official  station  he  had  frequently,  in­
deed  almost  continually,to  do with those 
things  which  affect  business,  especially 
manufacturing  and  consequently  the 
markets,  but  through  it  all  he  kept  his 
skirts  clean  and  was  in  every  respect  a 
strictly  honest  man.  What  he  accom­
plished,  the  honors  he  earned,  the  fame 
he  reached  and  the  reputation  be  en­
joyed  signally  verify  the  aged  maxim 
which  says  that  honesty 
is  the  best 
policy. 

_____________

We 

look  backward  regretting  or  for­
ward  hoping,  while  the  present  stands 
offering  us flowers.

PLATTS  PLANS  REVERSED.

The  plots  and  plans  even  of  those 
politicians  who  have  the  greatest  repu­
tation  for cunning  and  for  shrewdness 
often  miscarry.  An  interesting  instance 
is  afforded  by  political  relations  be­
tween  Theodore  Roosevelt,  now  Presi­
dent  of  the  United  States,  and  Thomas 
C.  Platt,  senior  Senator and  Republican 
boss  of  the  State  of  New  York.  These 
two  have  very  little  in  common.  Their 
ideas  and  their  ideals  regarding  the 
public  service  are  very  far  apart.  A l­
though  Platt  consented  to  Roosevelt’s 
nomination  for  Governor  it  was  com­
pulsory,  not  voluntary.  The  Republi­
cans  were  anxious  to  carry  the  State 
and  fearful  of- their  ability  to  do  it. 
Roosevelt,  just  home  from  the  Spanish 
war,  was  a  popular  hero.  He  was  in  a 
campaign  where  probably  any  other 
man  at  the  head  of  the  same  ticket 
would  have  been defeated.  Even Roose­
velt  won  only  by  17,786,  a  very  narrow 
margin 
in  a  vote  amounting  in  round 
numbers  to  1,350,000.  Platt  did  not 
want  him,  but  he  appreciated  his  in­
ability  to  win  with  anybody  else.

Roosevelt’s  fame  was  by  no  means 
confined  to  his  own  State.  He  was  es­
pecially  strong  and  very  popular  in  the 
West,  where  there  was  an  evident  deter­
mination  to  consider  him  as  a  future 
presidential  possibility.  Platt,  accus­
tomed  to  look  a  long  way  ahead,  feared 
that  with  the  colonel  of  the  Rough  Rid­
ers  in  the  White  House  the  latch  string 
might  not  always  be  hanging  out  for 
practical  politicians 
like  himself;  but 
there  was  another  reason  coming  closer 
home.  It  is  customary  to  give  governors 
two  terms,  and  one  term  of  Roosevelt  at 
Albany  was  quite  enough  for  Platt. 
The  Governor  must  be  made  way  with 
somehow  and 
cunning  schemer 
thought  he  saw  in  the  Vice-Presidency 
a  shelf  where  he  would  be  harmless. 
Nothing  but  his  nomination  at  Phila­
delphia  could  have  prevented  his  re­
nomination  for  Governor.  So  Platt  set 
himself  and  all  his  forces  at  work  to put 
him  on  the  ticket  with  McKinley  and 
was  materially  aided  therein  by  the 
honest,  heartfelt  good  will  of  the  Rep­
resentatives  from  many  other states.  He 
succeeded,  as  be  supposed,  in  putting 
Roosevelt  on  the  shelf.

the 

All  that  was  only  a  little  more  than  a 
year  ago.  Roosevelt  stood  out  against 
tremendous  pressure  at  Philadelphia  as 
long  as  he  could  and  then  when  further 
opposition  seemed  useless,  yielded  as 
gracefully  as  possible  and  entered  upon 
the  campaign  with  his  characteristic 
energy  and  enthusiasm.  Platt  stroked 
his  whiskers  and  smiled,  thinking  he 
had  accomplished  his  purpose  and  si­
lenced  an  unruly  factor.  Other  vice- 
presidents  had  cut  small  figure  in  na­
tional  politics  and-  been  wafted  easily 
to  oblivion.  There  were 
indications, 
plenty  of  them,  that  Roosevelt’s  career 
as  Vice-President  would  not  conform  to 
established  precedents, and already  men 
were  organizing  clubs  to  boom  him 
for 
the  presidency 
in  1904.  Suddenly  an 
assasin  struck  down  President  McKin­
ley.  It  came  like  lightning  from  a  clear 
sky.  Roosevelt  was  quickly  summoned 
from  Mount  Marcy  to  Buffalo,  where  he 
took  the  oath  of  office  as  President  of 
the  United  States,  entering  upon  an 
administration  which, 
is 
spared,  will  continue  at  least  for  three 
years  and  six  months.  Mr.  Platt,  who 
connived  to  put  the  man  he  could  not 
control  out  of  the  line  of  promotion,  put 
him  squarely  in  it.  In  trying  to  be  per­
manently  rid  of  Roosevelt  as  a  factor 
in  national  politics  he  unwittingly

if  his 

life 

helped  to  make  him  the  very  head  of 
the  Government.  Platt  must  rub  his 
hands  in  anything  but  glee  when  he 
contemplates  the  situation  to  which  he 
was  so  great  a  contributor.  Roosevelt’s 
worst  enemy  never  charged  him  with 
being  too  stupid  to  appreciate  a  situa­
tion  nor  accused  him  of  having  a  poor 
memory. 
is  to  President  Roosevelt 
that  Senator  Platt  must  go  begging  for 
this  or  that  appointment.  The  condi­
tions  are  suddenly  and  unexpectedly 
changed  and  the  advantage  is  all  with 
the  man  whom  Mr.  Platt  had  calculated 
was  safely  laid  away  upon  the  shelf.

It 

EXPORTS OF  BREADSTUFFS.

With  the  growth  of  the  country  and 
the  moving  of  the  center of  cereal  pro­
duction  farther West,  the  former  custom 
of  shipping  the  bulk  of  the  grain  crops 
to  Europe  via  Eastern  ports  has  given 
place  to  the  shipment  of  the  surplus  in­
tended  for  export  through  Southern 
ports.  This  diversion  of  traffic,  while 
it  has  affected  more  or  less  all  the  East­
ern  ports,  has  principally  hurt  New 
York.  While  New  York 
is  still  the 
largest  exporting  point  in  the  country 
for breadstuffs,  that  port  is  rapidly 
los­
ing  that  distinction. 
For  the  eight 
months  of  the  present  calendar  year, 
Baltimore  is  only  behind  New  York  to 
the  extent  of  $8,000,000  in  round  fig­
ures.

The  Southern  ports  have  been  rapid­
in  their  grain  shipments, 
ly  gaining 
while  the  Eastern  ports  have  been 
los­
ing.  One  of  the  latest  examples  of  this 
is  afforded 
in  a  compilation  which 
shows  that  of  the  increase  of  63,781,967 
bushels  in  the  wheat  exports  in  the 
eight  months  of  1901  over  last  year,  less 
than  one-tenth  was  gained  by  New 
York,  while  New  Orleans  and  Balti­
more  ran  a  close  race,  with  more  than 
one-third  of  the  gain  realized  by  these 
two  Southern  ports.  Taking  the  values 
of  all  breadstuffs  exports  for  the  eight 
months,  it 
is  found  that  of  a  gain  of 
close  to  $40,000,000  over  a  year  ago, 
Baltimore  realized  one-fourth,  and  the 
smallest  gains  were  made  by  New  York 
and  Philadelphia.

Interesting  as  this  showing  is  from 
a  Southern  point  of  view,  it  is  made 
even  more  pronounced  when  the  totals 
are  reduced  to  percentages.  Brought 
down  to  percentages,  while  the  country 
as  a  whole  gains  26  per  cent.,  New 
York  shipments  gain  only  9  per  cent., 
and  New  Orleans  leads  with  a  gain  of 
70  per  cent,  in 
its  shipments.  Other 
percentages  shown  are  those  of  54  per 
cent,  by  Boston,  48  per  cent,  by  Balti­
more  and  45  per  cent,  by  Galveston.

The  friendship  of  William  McKin­
ley  and  Mark  Hanna  was  a  thing  that 
some  of  their  political opponents scoffed 
at  as  being  only  such  a  friendship  as 
exists  between  conspirators. 
It  is  now 
reluctantly  admitted 
that  McKinley 
leaves  behind  him  no  sincerer  mourner 
than  Hanna.  His  grief  at  the  death  of 
the  President  was  of  a  kind  not  to  be 
simulated.  The  bond  between  the  two 
men  was  like  that  between  brothers. 
Hanna  was  not  “ the  power  behind  the 
throne”  
in  the  McKinley  administra­
tion.  He  was  the  President’s  steadfast 
friend,  and 
it  was  to  promote  his 
friend’s  success  that  Hanna  went  into 
politics  and  remained  there. 
It  is  not 
likely  that  he  will  care  to  continue 
much 
longer  in  public  life  now  that 
McKinley  has  gone.

Many  people 

labor  like  an  ox  or  a 
mule,  and  have  to  be  pressed  or  they 
will  not  earn  their  feed.

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MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Clothing

Fads  and  Fashions  From   the  Standpoint 

of a  New  Yorker.

It 

At 

in  full  box  style  and 

last  the  fashions  for  autumn  and 
for  the  winter,  too,  have  reached  me, 
and  I  am  free  to  say  that  some  of  them 
are  very  delightful,  as  well  as  present­
ing  to  one’s  vision  more  than  one  dis­
tinctly  novel  idea.  First  and  foremost,
I  find  myself  tempted  to  record  the  ap­
proach  to  these  shores  of  a  topcoat  from 
England  that  seems  to  me  to  come  very 
close  to the  border  lines  of  artistic  per­
fection.  The  plate  depicting  the  coat 
is  shown  to  me  by  my  tailor,  who  has 
made  some  of  them  already  and  who  is 
is 
enthusiastic  over  the  garment. 
made 
is  built 
practically  on  the  form  of  the 
late 
lamented  Raglan,  with  the  exception  of 
Incidentally 
the  shoulders  and  sleeves. 
I  may  remark  that  the  Raglan 
is  a 
creation  of  the  past  and  can  not  be 
changed  into  an  up-to-date  coat  by  any 
tailor,  so  if  you  want  to  be  correct  you 
might  just  as  well  throw  yours  away 
if 
you  have  one,  or,  better  still,  give  it 
away  to  some  poor  but  honest  person 
and  have  done  with  it.  The  new  coat, 
then,  is  cut  very  long  and  full,  without 
any  seam  in  the  back  and  with  perpen­
dicular  pockets  and  cuffs  turned  up 
from  two  to  four  inches  from the limit of 
the  sleeves.  The  garment  is  made  sin­
gle  or  double  breasted,  at  the  pleasure 
of  the  wearer,  and 
is  built  with  a 
pointed 
lapel  and  a  flare  to  the  skirts. 
The  material  of  which  the  coat  is  made 
varies  according  to  the  temperature 
in 
which  it  is  intended  to  be  worn.  When 
made 
in  the  lightweight  materials  it  is 
of  the  same  stuff  throughout  with  a 
featherweight 
lining  and  no  ornamen­

tation  on  the  collar.  When  the  heavier 
materials  are  used  the  collar,  of  course, 
is  of  velvet.  The  coat,  perhaps,  looks 
best  of  all  when  made  double  breasted 
out  of  a  heavy  lamb’s  wool  mixture,  or 
of  smooth  meltons  or  kerseys.  These 
are  the  winterweights,  although  if  one’s 
taste  run  to  extremes,  in  the  following 
of  new  fashions,  it  will  be  just  as  well 
to  have  two  or  three  of  the  coats  of 
weighs  suited  to  our  erratic  atmospher­
ical  system. 
I  should  have  said  in  the 
first  place  that  the  skirt  of  the  coat  ex­
tends  a 
little  more  than  halfway  from 
the  knee  to  the  ankle.  Hanging  as  it 
does  in  full  and  graceful  folds,  and 
making  almost  any  sort  of  a  figure  look 
dignified,  the  coat  that  I  describe  ought 
to  stand  a  fair chance  of  becoming pop­
ular.

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*  

*

1  notice  with  some  pleasure  an  incli­
nation  to  resuscitate  the  three-button 
cutaway  with  long  skirts  that  was  one 
of  the  agreeable  features  in  the  lives  of 
discriminating  men 
five  or  six  years 
ago. 
I  have  always  held  that  this  was 
one  of  the  most  graceful  garments  for 
morning  wear,  and  I  take  the  liberty  of 
thinking  so  still. 
In  the  pleasant  re­
vival,  the  skirts  of  the  cutaway  are  to 
taper  off  sharply  from  the  waist  line, 
which  waist  line  adheres  sharply  to  the 
figure  and  ascends  to  the  shoulders  and 
to  a  narrow  collar  in  a  way  to  give  de­
light  to  men  of  passable  build  and  to 
its 
the  eyes  of  all  beholders.  Seen  at 
in  soft 
best,  this  cutaway  will  be  seen 
black  unfinished  worsteds. 
It  is  an 
agreeable  relaxation  from  the  severity 
of  the  eternal  frock  and  may  be  worn 
without  violation  of  good  taste  at almost 
any  function,  from  an  afternoon  tea  to 
a  wedding.

I  give  the  stamp  of  my  approval  to 
the  disposition  of  reputable  tailors  to 
induce  their customers  to  return  in  the 
making  of  sack  coats  to  the  straight- 
backed  garment.  The  so-called  “ mili­
tary”   sack,  with  the  absurd  waist  line 
and  the  lower  edges  and  sides  not  with­
out  the  suspicion  of  whalebone  in  them, 
has  happily  been  relegated  to  the  obliv­
ion  merited  by  all  impossible  things.  It 
was  a  nightmare  and  deserved  indecent 
burial.  The  sack  coat  worn  by  well- 
dressed  men  to  business  this  autumn 
will  be  made  with  four  buttons  and  cut 
in  front  with  round  corners.  The 
full 
double-breasted 
rough  and 
heavy  materials  will  be  worn  only  for 
walking  in  bad  weather,  when  one  de­
sires  to  dispense  with  an  overcoat.

sack 

in 

*  

*  

*

It 

it. 

through 

I  have  seen  the  very  newest  and  most 
swagger  thing  in  the  way  of  an  evening 
suit. 
is  made  of  very  dark  oxford 
gray  unfinished  worsted.  The  uninitia­
ted  may  find  food  for  surprise  in  the 
idea  for  an  evening  suit— I  decline  to 
make  use  of  that  grotesque  phrase, 
“ dress  suit” — but,  as  men  of  learning 
know,  an  oxford  gray 
is  practically  a 
infinitesimal  gray  threads 
black  with 
running 
in  day­
light,  the  cloth  might  have  a  gray  tinge 
to  outward  seeming,  but  as  nobody  but 
a  Hindoo  would  wear evening clothes  in 
the  daytime,  that  is  scarcely  worth  con­
sidering.  In  an  artificial light,  however, 
the  oxford  gray  becomes  a  delicate  and 
delicious  black,  and  I  could  never  con­
vey  to  you 
if  I  were  to  try  for  a  week 
any  adequate  idea  of  the  exquisite  con­
trast  afforded  by  the  cloth  itself  and  the 
silk  facing  on  the  lapel  of  the  coat.  To 
look  at  such  a  creation  makes  one  wish 
one  could  afford  to  purchase  a  new

Seen 

evening  outfit  once  a  month.  Perhaps 
some  of  us  can.

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♦  

*  

The  subject  of  trousers  is  always  a 
momentous  one  with  me. 
It  is  so  easy 
to  err  either  in  the  direction of too much 
somberness  or  of  too  striking  an  effect. 
Authority  as  I  claim  to  be,  I  acknowl­
edge  I  have  been  sorely  distressed  at 
times  as  to  the  exact  type  of  trousers  to 
be  worn  to  best  effect  with  a  frock  coat.
I  am  relieved,  therefore,  to  find  that  so 
eminent  an  authority  as  Joseph  L.  Day 
agrees  with  me 
in  the  notion  that  the 
frock  coat  is,  after  all,  a  garment  of 
ceremony,  and  that  any  other  trousers 
than  dark  ones  with  possibly  a  bright 
stripe  by  way  of  relief,  when  worn  with 
it,  constitute  a  barbarism. 
If  one  must 
have  further  relief,  it  may  be  obtained 
with  a  white  waistcoat.  The  trousers 
invariably  in 
themselves  will  be  cut 
medium  pegtop  style,  that 
is  to  say, 
with  a  tolerably  full  knee  and  an  ankle 
sufficiently  narrow  to  fall  gracefully 
over  the  boot.— Percy  Shafton  in  Ap­
parel  Gazette.

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portions  of  your orders?”

“ Oh,  no!  We  need  them,  and  shall 
want  more,  too  badly  before  the  season 
is  over  to  shut  off  any  source  of  sup­
ply.  Only  this  afternoon  I  increased 
several  orders  yet  unfilled,  and  have 
duplicated  quite  a  number  of  our  orig­
judge  from  that 
inal  ones.  You  may 
how  we  expect  fall  trade  to  hold  up 
its 
now  rapid  pace.”

“ What  cause  do  you  assign  for  the 

B right  Outlook  for  the  Clothing  Trade.
“ Business,  thus  far this  fail,  has been 
much  the  largest  in  the  history  of  Chi­
cago  merchandising,”   said  H.  C.  Lyt- 
ton,  President  of  the  “ Hub,”   Chicago, 
in  answer  to  the  question.  “ I  am  not 
speaking  for  myself  only,  when  I  make 
that  statement.  The  same  applies  to 
all  the  better  merchants.  In  many  cases 
business  has,  up  to  this  time,  been 
nearly  double  what  it  was last year—and 
last  year  was  a  wonderfully  good  one. 
It  made  some  sales  records  which  at 
that  time  we  did  not  hope  to  surpass 
this  season. ”

“ When  did  fall  buying  begin?”
“ That  is  rather  hard  to  say,”  was  the 
reply,  “ as  we  began  selling  fall  goods 
in  July. 
It  continued  to  improve  much 
too  rapidly  for  our  preparations  and 
we  have  within  the  month  been  com­
pelled  to get  into  the  market  for  goods 
for  all  of  our departments  of  men’s  ap­
parel.”   -

“ Is 

it  inferred  from  that  that  your 

early  orders  have  been  sold  up?”

“ No,indeed ! 

It  is  the  fault  of  deliv­
eries.  Manufacturers  are  not  getting  the 
goods  to  us  as  we  want  them.  They 
are  behind  and  this  compels  us  to  go 
into  the  market  for  stock  to  keep  us 
going  until  our ordered goods do come. ”
“ Are  you  cancelling  the  undelivered 

tardy  delivery  of  goods?”

“ Inability  of  manufacturers  to  get 
them  out.  Generally  speaking,  most  of 
the  merchants  were  not  anticipating 
such  a  fall  trade  or  such  an  early  one 
and  the  clamor  for  goods  ha3  made  the 
manufacturer  do  the  best  he  could  to 
send  some  here  and  some  there  and 
divide  his  product  as  best  he  could. 
I  do  not  think  strikes  or  any  similar 
disturbances  have  at  all  affected  the 
manufacturers,  consequently 
it  would 
seem  that  they  are,  this  season,  caught 
in  a  position  where  they  are  unable  to 
cope  with  the  wonderfully  increased  de­
mands  made  upon  them.  Our  hat  buyer 
has  been  in  the  market  twice  since 
the 
season  opened  and 
is  now  short  of 
stock. ”

“ Do  you  think  the  death  of  the  Pres­
ident  will  have  any  effect  on  the  busi­
ness  in  its  present  fine  condition?”

“ No,  it  will  not!”   was  Mr.  Lytton’s 
reply. 
“ The  country  has  been  brought 
to  such  a  prosperous  state  and  the  con­
ditions  governing  merchandising  are 
too  stable  to  be  affected  even  momen­
tarily.  The promise of  President  Roose­
velt,  ‘ to  continue  unbroken  the  policy 
of  President  McKinley,’  was  one  of  the 
most  bracing  that  could  have  been  ut­
tered  to  allay  any  doubts  that  might 
have  arisen  as  to  the  continued  pros­
perity  of  this  country.  Besides,  retain­
ing  the  present  cabinet  strengthened 
promise  and 
President  Roosevelt’s 
maintained  the  confidence  we  have 
in 
the  present  administration.  There  are 
too  many  good  men  at  the  head  of  this 
administration  for the  passing  of  even 
the  Executive  to  affect  the  present  con­
ditions,  providing  his  successors  con­
tinue  his  wise  and  noble  aims—and  we 
are  assured  that  they  will 
continue 
them.”

“ What  is  the  outlook  from  now  on?”

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN 

11

“ Our  excellent  trade  will  not  only 
continue  uninterrupted,  but  will  greatly 
increase  with  the  first  bit  of 
cold 
weather  we  have.  As  to  the  class  of 
goods  selling  best?  The  better  and  best 
grades  are  far  in  the 
lead.  People  do 
not  want  cheap  goods  now  and  are pass­
ing  them  for  the  better  grades. 
In  a 
word  the  outlook  has  never  been  as 
bright  at  any  time 
in  the  history  of 
merchandising  in  Chicago.”

The  Question  in  Neckwear.

The  situation  among  neckwear  man­
ufacturers  is  at  present,  as  it  has  been 
for  some  time  past,  very  interesting. 
Neckwear  manufacturers  have  been 
much  perplexed  as  to  what  they  shall 
make  up  in  shapes  for  fall  and  winter.
The  great  question  has  been :  What 
will  be  the  fate  of  the  high  band  turn­
down  collar? 
If  the highband  turndown 
collar  passes  out  of  fashion  there  will 
obviously  be  an  opportunity  for  large 
shapes  that  there  has  not  been  since  it 
has  been 
indications 
of  a  change  of  style  in  collars  this  fall, 
with  the  natural  desire  of  the  leading 
cravat  makers to produce something  new 
and  different,  have  put  the  neckwear 
people 
in  something  of  a  predicament. 
Will  the  effjrt  to  push  large  scarfs  be  a 
success?  Will  various  prominent  buyers 
succeed  in  this  effort  that  they  are mak­
ing?  The  neckwear  people  have  had 
to  consider  these  questions.

in  vogue.  The 

The  result  has  been  that  many  have 
compromised.  They  have  decided  to 
the  narrow  four-in-hand,  but 
make 
wider— from  an 
inch  and  three-quar­
ters  to  two  inches  and  a  half.  They 
have  made  a  graduated  four-in-hand 
three 
inches  wide  at  the  end.  They 
have  made  up,or  are  going  to  make  up, 
a  sufficiently 
large  quantity  of  large 
scarfs  to  supply  what  they  individually 
think  will  be  the  probable  demand  for 
them.  Some  of  those  who  deal  only 
with  that  class  of  the  popular  trade 
which  is  affected  slowly  by  changes  of 
fashion  are  working  upon  the  standard 
imperial  and  the  usual  narrow  four-in- 
hand.  Those  who  cater  to  a  fine  and 
discriminating 
trade  are  making  up 
ascots  and  large  shapes  in  dark  colors. 
Black  and  white  effects  will,  as  usual, 
be  much  in  demand.  Various  shades  of 
in  combination 
gray  (in  some  cases 
with  green)  are  also  expected  to  be 
in 
demand,  because  of  the  pleasing  con­
trast  of  those  colors  with  the  waistcoat 
of  afternoon  dress. 
If  the  waistcoat  is 
high 
in  cut  (as  seems  to  be  the  tend­
ency),  many  prefer that  the  large  scarf 
shall  be  brighter  in  tone  than  if  the 
opening  were  a 
larger  one.  Oriental 
effects  in  patterns  are  among  the bright­
est  shown,  while  checks  and  plaids  are 
not  favored.—Apparel  Gazette.

Collar and  Cuff M anufacturers May Leave 

Troy.

Troy,  N.  Y.,  Sept.  28— Genuine
alarm  is  expressed  at  a  document which 
has  been  sent  to  Mayor  Conway,  signed 
by  the  leading  collar  manufacturers,  in 
which  they  say  that  unless  the  “ reign 
of terror”   which  has  existed  about  their 
shops  since  the  strike  began 
last  sum­
mer  is  discontinued  they  will be obliged 
to 
leave  the  city  or  appeal  to  higher 
authorities  than  the  Mayor.  The  pro­
test  to  the  Mayor  was  sent  on  Friday, 
and  to-day  the  manufacturers’  associa­
tion  sent  copies  to  the  daily  papers. 
The  protest  is  long,  occupying  about  a 
column  and  a  half. 
It  reviews  the  his­
tory  of  the  strike,  and  enumerates  the 
assaults  that  have  been  committed  in 
the  city  arising  from  the  differences 
between  the  employes  and  the  manfac- 
turers’  association. 
laws 
governing  the  case  are cited and quoted. 
After  giving  the  particulars  of  the  case, 
the  document  ends  as  follows :

The  State 

“ We  deem 

it  wise  to  lay  these  facts 
before  you,  that  the  seriousness  of  the 
situation  may  be  fully  understood,  and 
in  the  hope  that  it  will  be  possible  for 
you  to  take  such  steps  as  will  permit 
those  in  our  employ  and  those  desiring 
to  return  to  our  employ  to  go  to  and 
from  their  work  without  molestation  or 
intimidation. 
If  you  are  unable  to  fur­
nish  this  protection,  the  manufacturers 
must  either  appeal  to  higher  authorities 
or 
to  other 
points. ”

transfer  their  business 

The  protest  is  signed  by  Cluett,  Pea­
body  &  Co.,  the  United  Shirt  and  Col­
lar  Company,  the  International  Shirt 
and  Collar  Company,  George  P.  Ide  & 
Co.,  Tim  &  Co.,  H.  C.  Curtis  &  Co., 
Van  Zandt,  Jacobs  &  Co.,  Searle,  Gard­
ner  &  Co.,  Fellows  &  Co.,  the  Wilbur 
Campbell  Stephens  Company,  Hall, 
Hartwell  &  Co.,  E.  W.  Marvin,  George 
A.  Brockway,  Joseph  Bowman  &  Sons, 
Holmes  &  Ide,  the  C.  H.  McClellan 
Company,  Coon Brothers  and  the  Miller 
Hale  Shirt  and  Collar  Company.

It  is  commonly  considered  that this  is 
a  direct  rebuke  to  the .  police  force, 
charging  them  with  incompetence,  and 
indirectly  a  challenge  to  the  entire  city 
The  manufacturers 
administration. 
say:  “ We  believe  there  is  no  trade 
in 
the  country  furnishing  so  many  advan­
tageous  conditions  as  that  of  collar cut­
ting,  paying  higher  wages  or  furnishing 
more  constant  employment,”   and  they 
rightly  consider  that  their  employes, 
being  engaged  in  the  chief  business  of 
the  city,  have  a  right  to  all  the  police 
protection  necessary. 
is  commonly 
said  that  “ it  is  up  to  the  Mayor.”   The 
fact  that  several  of  the  largest  manufac­
turers  have  already  branch  plants  in 
other  places  lends  realism  to  the  threat 
to  move  entirely.

It 

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attraction  the  wood  seems  to  have  for 
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Milwaukee, Wis.,  Sept. 25,  1901. 

Mr. Dealer, Western Michigan:

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

“ There 

Passing of Noisy  Shoes—Quiet Heels Now.
is  far  less  noise  at  the  foot 
now  than  formerly,  if  we  except  the 
click  of  the  feminine  heel  on  the  pave­
ment, ”  observed  the  grizzled  retail  shoe 
dealer  to  the  scribe  who  was  prodding 
him  for  shoe  reminiscences.  “ You  may 
have  noticed  that  a  good  many  people 
wear  their  athletic  and  bicycle  footgear 
on  the  street,  especially 
in  inclement 
weather.  Most  of  these  shoes  are  prac­
tically  noiseless,  being  furnished  with 
rubber  taps  and  heels.  But  with  the 
rubber  heels  alone  the  tread  is compara­
tively 
inaudible,  for  most  persons  in 
walking 
land  on  the  heel  first.  The 
rubber  heel  on  dress  shoes  is  of  quite 
recent adoption,  and  its  use  is  steadily 
increasing.  The  athlete  uses 
for 
promoting  his  agility  and  obtaining  a 
sure  footing,  as  well  as  for  the  protec­
tion  it  affords  him  against  jars  in  run­
linemen  and 
ning  or  jumping.  The 
electric  lamp  trimmers  adopt 
it  as  a 
measure  of 
security  against  shocks 
which might  otherwise  prove  fatal.  The 
ordinary  pedestrian  is gradually  coming 
to  recognize  the  merits  of  a  cushioned 
heel  as  a  promoter of  health,  and,  for 
that  reason,  as  I  said  at  first,  there 
is 
less  noise  at  the  foot  than  ever  before. 
The  human  heel,  tough  as  it  seems  to 
us,  isa vulnerable  point  in  our anatomy, 
and  whatever  can  be  done  by  the  shoe­
maker  to  protect  it  will  prove  a blessing 
to  mankind;  and  this  is  being  done 
effectivel y  by  the  rubber  heel.

it 

“ I  don’t  know  just  why  it  is  that  our 
heels  should  be  so  vulnerable ;  but  the 
fact  remains  that  a  blow  upon  the  heel, 
although 
it  be  only  the  slight  impact 
between  it  and  the  pavement,  produces 
a  slight  concussion  at  the  heel,  brings 
on  headaches  and  even  worse  nerve  dis­
orders  in  some  instances,  and  this  con­
stant  jarring  of  the brain  may  be  almost 
entirely  obviated  by  means  of  an  elas­
tic  heel  on  the  shoe.  The  sensitiveness 
of  our  heels,  perhaps,  may  be  explained 
by  supposing  ourselves  to  have  been 
held  by  the  heel,  like # Achilles,  when 
Thetis  plunged  him  in  the  Styx  and 
made  every  part  of  his  body  invulner­
able  except  the  heel  by  which  she  held 
him,  and  where  the  fatal  arrow  of  Paris 
entered.”

Be  this  as  it  may,  the  anatomist  tells 
us  that  the os  calcareus is  a  bone  not  to 
be  trifled  with  if  we  would  retain  sound 
bodies,  and  the  doctor  assures  us  that 
the  telegraph  from  our  heels  to our  head 
never  fails  to  announce  to the  btain any 
rough  treatment  of  the  former  members. 
An  outside  rubber  heel  or  an  inside 
elastic  cushion  to  the  shoe  vvili  insulate 
this  telegraphic  connection  between 
heel  and  brain,  and  the  latter  will  not 
he  bothered  with  painful  messages  from 
the  foot.  The 
inside  cushion  is  not  to 
be  obtained  without  some  unwieldiness 
at  the  rear  end  of  the  shoe,  but  the  rub­
ber  heel  simply  takes  the  place  of  the 
leather one.

The  noise  of  the  sharp  staccato  click 
of  the  woman’s  heel 
is  likely  to  con­
tinue  for  an  indefinite  period,  because 
the  genuine  rubber  heel  is hardly adapt­
able  to  the  high,  slender  support  de­
manded  by  most  women ;  and  they seem 
loath  to  come  down  to  the  sensible 
height  and  breadth,  suitable  for  affixing 
rubber heels  to.  The  time  may  come, 
however,  when  the  gentler  sex  will 
adopt  common  sense  heels  with  rubber 
attachments;  but  it  may  be  for  years, 
it  may  be  forever,  that  they  shall
and 

go  on  clicking  out  those  painful  heel 
messages  to  their  aching  heads.

The  woman  who  wears  high,  slender 
heels  with  the  idea  that  they  add  grace 
and  beauty  to  the  feet  and  gait,  knows 
but  little  of  the  laws  of  health.  Their 
effect  is  just  the  contrary;  and  they,  in 
some 
instances,  actually  break  down 
the  arch  of  the  foot  on  which  ease  of 
progression  and  grace  of  form  depend. 
This  effect  is  produced  by  the  crowding 
of  the  foot  into  the  forward  part  of  the 
shoe,  so  that  the  posture  of  the  feet  is 
that  of  walking  down  hill  continually 
in  high  heeled  shoes.

The  doctor  says,  among  other  things : 
“ In  the  case  of  girls  who  wear  high 
heeled  shoes  there  often  come  numerous 
deformities  and  derangements,and there 
is,  in  some 
instances,  positive  altera­
tion  of  muscular  structure  and  function, 
accompanied  not 
in­
flammation,  contraction  and  partial 
paralysis  of  the  muscles  of  the  leg.”

infrequently  by 

Every  person  who  has given  the  sub­
ject  careful  thought  and  study  knows 
that 
in  raising  the  body  upon  inordi­
nately  high  heels  it  is  thrown  out  of  its 
normal  position  and  the  natural  center 
of  gravity  is  destroyed.  The  physiolo­
gist  declares  that  “ this  natural  line  of 
gravity  or  equilibrium,  passing  from 
the  brain  to  the  feet,  can  not  be  dis­
turbed  and  displaced  day  after  day 
without  deranging  the  normal  relation 
of  muscles  and  organs  and  thereby 
in­
ducing  disease.  An  unnatural  strain  is 
also  put  upon  the  muscles  of  the  foot, 
leg  and  thigh.”

The 

ill  effects  of  the  narrow,  stilted 
heel  are  more  apt  to  be  produced  upon 
immature subjects,because the hones  are 
not  yet  fully  formed  and  hardened;  but 
the  adult  person  does  not  escape  the  in­
jurious  effect  of  the  unnatural  position 
occasioned  by  this  presence,  nor  does 
any  foot  or  body  ever  become 
immune 
to  the  damage  that  high  heels  can  pro­
duce  on  the  wearer.

“ The  human  heel,”   says  the  shoe 
philosopher,  “ that  has  the  least  poster­
ior  projection  forms  the 
least  secure 
foundation  for  the  body,  and  produces 
a  tendency  on  the  part  of  its  owner to 
lean  habitually  forward  in  order  to  pre­
serve  its  equilibrium.”   As  it is impos­
sible  to  overestimate  the  importance  of 
a  knowledge  of  the  formation  of  the 
human  foot  to  the 
lastmaker  and  the 
shoemaker,  a  closer  study  of  the  human 
heel  may  not  be  out  of  place  here. 
While  lasts  of  the  same length and width 
representing  some  particular  style  are 
supposed  to  be  exactly  alike,  the  vari­
ous  feet  to  whom  the  shoes  made  on 
them  shall  be  allotted  in  the  course  of 
time  are  by  no  means  counterparts  of 
each  other  in  form;  and  in  no  respect, 
perhaps,  is  this  more  conspicuous  than 
at  the  heel.  Many  heels  viewed  on  the 
naked  foot  seem  to  form  an  almost  per­
pendicular 
line  with  the  lower  part  of 
the 
instead  of  assuming  a  graceful 
concave  curve  at  their  union.  This 
is  sometimes  the  result  of 
peculiarity 
natural  scantiness 
in  the  length  of  the 
heel  bone  itself;  but  it  is  also,  in  some 
instances,only  an  apparent  curtailment, 
the  effect  being  produced  by an enlarge­
ment  of  the  powerful  tendon  acbilles,  or 
strong  tendon  which  unites  the  muscles 
of  the  calf  to  the  heel  bone.  But  in 
either  case 
is  a  difficult  heel  to  fit 
with  a  shoe  that  will  not  shift  made  on 
the  average  shaped  last  for  normal  feet.
“ This  posterior  projection  of  the  hu­
man  heels,”   says  the  anatomist  “ is  a 
great  aid  to  man 
in  walking  or even 
standing.  As  we  depart  from  man,  the 
foot  becomes  more  contracted;  the  part

leg 

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serving  for  support  is  reduced,  and  the 
angle  of  the  heel  bone  rendered  more 
acute.  By  reason  of  the  size  and  pe­
culiar  formation  of  his  feet  and  lower 
limbs,  man  can  separate  these  more 
widely  than  any  other animal  without 
danger  to  the  erect  posture.  By  this 
means  we  derive  the  full  benefit  of  our 
feet,  and  are  enabled  to  make  those 
rapid  changes  and  multiplied  combina­
tions  of  movements,  according  to  the 
probable  direction  of  the  expected 
im­
pulse,  that  are  necessary 
in  boxing, 
wrestling  and  similar  feats."

The  importance  of  the  projecting heel 
in  all  of  these  movements,  very 
is, 
great;  as  by 
its  presence  we  retain  a 
firm  foothold,  and  without  it  we  should 
often  be  thrown  over  backward.  Even 
the  bear,  although  naturally  a clumsy 
sort  of  quadruped,  is  enabled,  by  reason 
of  the  length  of  his  heels,to  make  a  fair 
show  of  standing  on  his  hind  legs.

But,  to  get  back  to  the  modern  noise­
less  shoe,  which  gives  rise  to  the  old 
shoe  dealer's  remark,  "there 
is  less 
noise  now  at  the  foot  than  formerly," 
and  to  look  for  some  of  the  causes  that 
have  led  to  the  desirable  change. 
It  is 
but  natural  that  the  introduction  of  the 
rubber  heel  for  shoes  should  claim  first 
attention.  This  is  now  no  longer  an  ob­
ject  of  curiosity  even  to  the  average 
shoe  wearer;  it  is  growing  in favor,  and 
its  adoption  as  a  staple 
in  the  trade 
seems  pretty  well assured.  It is claimed, 
and  not  without  reason  that  any  person 
who  has  once  walked  on rubber cushions 
at  the  back  of  his  feet  will  never go 
without  them.  They  seem  to  be  a  sort 
of  new  century  innovation  on  the  same 
line  as  the  rubber tired  wheels  of  vehi­
cles,  noiseless  and  pleasant. 
It  is  also 
claimed  for  these  attachments  that  they 
will  prevent  shoes  from  running  over at 
the  heels.  This  seems  like  a  very strong 
contention;  if  they  will  do  more to keep 
things 
level  condition  at  the  heels 
than  solid  sole  leather  filled  with  steel 
nails  can  do,  they  will  be  a  boon  to 
shoe  wearers.  One 
is  more  ready  to 
admit 
the  "sure-footed"  claim,  be­
cause,  as  everyone  knows  that  nine  per­
sons  out  of  ten  who  fall  on  the  ice  slip 
up  at  the  heel  and  so  over  backward.

in 

But  there  were  other  noise  producers 
at  the  foot,  not  yet  quite  in  the  distant 
past.  There  was  the  heavy  stiff-soled 
shoe  with  but  little  flexion  at  the  bot­
tom, which  when  the  ball  came  down  on 
the  pavement,  made  itself  disagreeably 
audible.  Lighter  soles  with  great  flex­
ibility  have  removed  a  large  percentage 
of  that  useless  clattering  noise.

Then  there  was  the  old-time  musical 
footgear  that  proclaimed 
its  presence 
and  even  its  distant  approach by sounds 
unlike  anything  else  on  earth—the 
squeaky  shoe.  This,  too, 
is  passing, 
and  will  soon  he  included  among  the 
"lost  arts;”   in  fact,with  modern  meth­
ods  of  sboemaking  it  is  quite 
likely  to 
become  so  completely  lost  as  never  to 
be  found  again.  The  old-timer  recalls 
for  the  scribe  the  days  when  the solitary 
late  comer to  church  walked leisurely up 
the  aisle,  with  his  boots  squeaking  so 
that  the  sound  of  them  filled  the  build­
ing  and  the  thoughts  of  every  worship­
er  there.  This 
is  now  a  rare  occur­
rence,  because  the  squeak  has  been  ex­
tracted  by  modern  methods  of 
shoe 
building.  This  is  not  to  be  regretted.

The  old-timer,  too,  recalls  the  fact 
that  squeaky  shoes  were  not  always  re­
garded  as  a  nuisance  and  as  disturbers 
of  the  peace. 
In  fact,  some  people 
rather  liked  this  audible  property  in 
their own  shoes,  because  the  squeak  of 
the  things  were  taken  as  a  sign  of  new­

ness,  as  few  old  shoes  retained  suffi­
cient  energy  of  sole  to  make much effort 
at  self-assertion. 
It  was  at  one  time 
deemed  desirable  even  to insert between 
the  inner  and  the  outer  sole  a  piece  of 
"squeak  leather”   to  increase  the  sound 
capacity of  the  footwear  to  its maximum 
extent.

Now,  the  squeaky  shoe  was  supposed 
to  derive 
its  power  for  sound  through 
the agency  of  friction  caused  by  the  two 
soles  rubbing  together  when  they  were 
walked 
in ;  much  on  the  same  prin­
ciple  that  the  cricket  produces  his 
harsh,  stridulous  sounds  by  means  of 
friction  of  his  wing  covers  against  each 
other.  Many  people,  however,  were 
averse  to  squeaky  shoes  as  a  means  of 
drawing  too  much  attention  to  them­
selves ;  so  various  remedies  began  to  be 
sought  after  to  abate  or  remove  the 
trouble.  The  most  simple  was  by soak­
ing  the  soles  in  water,  but  this  afforded 
only  a  temporary  relief.  When  dry  they 
would  go  on  squeaking  again  as 
loudly 
as  ever.  A  more  effectual  way  was  to 
drive  a  few  nails  or  pegs  through  the 
soles,  uniting 
them  so  that  friction 
ceased.

Noiseless  shoes  are  often  a  desidera­
tum,  apart  from  their  genteel  place  in 
social  ethics.  Policemen,  ushers,  sex­
tons  and  undertakers  admit  this;  and 
the  hospital  nurse  recognizes  them  as  a 
necessity  in  her  business.  Sole  leather 
imparts  a  variety  of  sounds,  like  a  fid­
dle  string,  according  to  the  manner  in 
which 
is  manipulated.  Some  pro­
duces  a  sharp  crackling  noise,  others  a 
ringing  vibration,  while  some  shoes 
are  noiseless  in  this  respect.

There  is  far  less  noise under foot now. 
The  squeaky  shoe  and  the 
squeaky 
wagon  wheel  are  left  back  in  the  past 
century  to  take  their  places  among  the 
relics  of  former  days.— E.  A.  Boyden  in 
Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

it 

Everything  in  Readiness  For  the  New 

Season.

At  this  season  of  the  year  the  shoe 
dealer  is  beginning  to  receive  his  fall 
goods,and  in  order  to  get  down  to  busi­
ness  it  is  absolutely  necessary  to  make 
a  study  of  the  trade  and  follow  it  up,  if 
possible,  by  a  fall  opening.  There  is 
one  thing  which  should  have  your atten­
tion  before  you  decide  on  your  fall 
opening.  Shoe  men  have  become  rather 
lax  lately  in  inspecting  the  goods which 
they  receive  from  the  manufacturer  and 
jobber.  This  has  resulted  as  the  sea­
son  has  advanced 
their  making 
claims  upon  the  makers,  which  they 
very  rightfully  refused  to  entertain. 
If 
the  goods  are  examined  immediately  on 
their  receipt,  there  will  be  no  necessity 
for  claims  in  the  future,  and  you  will, 
therefore,  avoid  many  unpleasant  dis­
cussions  with  the  salesman  on  his  next 
trip  into  your territory.

in 

It  is  not  a  difficult  matter  for  you  to 
make  an  inspection  of  your  fall  shoes 
immediately  on  receipt  of  same.  Tak­
ing  out  a  pair  here  and  there  usually 
satisfies  the  majority  of  retailers,  but  if 
you  have  had  trouble  with  your  manu­
facturers  in  the  past,  send  one  of  your 
in­
clerks  into  the  stockroom  with  full 
structions  as  to  what  you 
consider 
"goods  up  to  sample." 
If  he  is  in  any 
way  bright  he  will  undoubtedly  notice 
all  of  the  little  faults  which  give  you 
no  end  of  trouble  before  the  goods  have 
been  on  your  shelves  two  months.  One 
of  these  faults  is  very  poor  heel  seats. 
Others  are  bad  foreparts  and  short  tips. 
These  things  are  so  apparent  and  so 
distasteful  to  the  eye  of  prospective 
customers  that  it  is  well  to take  the  bull

by  the  horns  and  refuse  at  once  to  keep 
the  goods.

If,  on  the  other  hand,  you  have  found 
that  your  goods  are  up  to  sample,  it 
would  be  well  for  you  to  rearrange  your 
shoe  department.  The  summer  shoes 
which  you  have  placed  in  the  most  con­
venient  position,  so  as  not  to  delay  the 
clerks  in  handling,  should  be  replaced 
by  the  fall  shoes,  which,  in  all  proba­
bility,  you  will  sell  from  now  until  next 
spring. 
rearrangement  might 
cause  a  few  days’  work,  but  this  will 
be  more  than  offset  by  the  time  which 
you  will  save  when  you  have  the  fall 
goods  placed  in  a  forward  position.

This 

After  this has  been  done  take the sum­
mer  shoes  out  of  your  windows,  form up 
some  of  your  new  fall  styles  and  make 
a  window  display  which  will  be  both 
If  you  use  display 
neat  and  attractive. 
tables,  have  the  display 
in  keeping 
with  the  windows.  Get  out  a  neat  cir­
cular  to  the  trade  announcing  a  fall 
opening  and 
inviting  their  patronage. 
Do  not  expect  that  every  one  who comes 
into  the  store  and 
looks  over  the  fall 
shoes  will  buy,  but  rather  be  anxious  to 
show  prospective  customers  what  they 
may  expect  in  the  future  in  the  way  of 
ready-to-purchase  shoes.

Of  course,  if  you  can  afford  it you can 
carry  on  a  much  more  elaborate  fall 
opening.  You  might  decorate  the 
in­
terior,  arrange  a  handsome  window 
trim  and  send  invitations  to  customers 
to  attend.  You  might  give  a 
little 
souvenir  as  a  memento  of  the  occasion. 
This,  of  course,  all  costs  money,  and  is 
something  which  every  shoe  man  is  not 
able  to  carry  out.

Instances  could  be  cited  where  shoe 
men  have 
issued  elaborate  invitations, 
hired  a  band  of  music,  engaged  an 
opera  singer  and  done  everything  that 
was  possible  to  create  the  impression

IS

that  they  were  far  ahead  of  the  times. 
They  have  spread  an  elaborate  shoe 
display  on  either  shelving,  absolutely 
refused  to  serve  any  customers  with 
shoes  on  the  day  of  the  opening,  deco­
rated  the  salesmen  with  swallow-tail 
coats  and  neat  boutonnieres  and  stood 
them,  like  so  many  foreign  diplomats, 
receiving  prospective  customers  for  the 
whole  day.  But  in  the  end  they  have 
not  made  as  much  out  of the  opening  as 
the  man  who  has  gone  along  in  a  sys­
tematic  way  and  kept  within  his 
bounds.
Trade  is  very  peculiar,  and  often  you 
will  find  people  who,  when  they  see  you 
put  on  so  many  airs,  feel  that  you  are 
taking  all  this  out  of  the  goods  that  you 
are  selling  and  not  giving  them  the 
same  value  for the  money  as  your  more 
staid  competitor 
in  the  next  block. 
This  only  applies  to  sections,  and  it 
is 
often  feasible  for  the  successful  retailer 
to  give  such  an  opening.  But  if  you 
intend  to  do  it,  do  everything thorough­
ly.  Make  your  windows,  your  interior 
arrangement,  your  show  cases  and  your 
goods  all  equally  worthy  of  mention.

Another  point  which  many  retail  shoe 
merchants  seem  to  forget  when  they  put 
in  a  new  stock  of  goods,  and  a  matter 
which  costs  more  or  less  discord  during 
the  day,  is  whether  or  not  the  clerks be­
come  acquainted  with  the  new  shoes.  It 
is  often  the  case  that  a  customer  will 
enter  the  store  and  ask  for something 
which  has  been  placed 
in  stock,  but 
with  which  the  clerks  have  not  yet  be­
come  familiar.  After  futile  attempts  to 
serve  the  customer,  he 
is  eventually 
allowed  to 
leave  the  store  when  the 
goods  are  actually  on  the  shelves. 
Furthermore,you will  find  salesmen  who 
are  not  acquainted  with  the  shoes  in 
the  window,  and  a  customer,  after  try­
ing  to  describe  the  shoe desired,  finds  it 
necessary  to  replace  bis  shoe  and  take 
the  clerk  to  the  window  in  order to  de­
scribe  the  article  which  he  wishes  to 
purchase.  These  are  points  which  make 
a  weak  system  and  which  ought  to  be 
remedied  with  all  possible  haste.—Shoe 
Retailer.

SHOE  LOGIC

Cause:

System— perfect.
Leather—best money can buy.
Machinery— most modern obtainable.
Workmanship— efficient, first class.

Effect:
Shoes stylish, up-to-date.
Shoes unexcelled for wear.
Shoes completely finished in every detail.
Shoes most satisfactory in every respect.

Apply the above logic to our own  factory  shoes  and  you  have  the  reason 

for our successful shoemaking.

Herold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.,

Makers of  Shoes. 

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

T H E   P R O P O R T I O N   O F   W E A R

between  the  average  child’s  and  young  girl’s  shoe  and  that

of  a  woman’s  is  as  three  to  one— unless  the  ideal  calf  or 

cordivan  shoes  made  by  R IN D G E »   K A L M B A C H j  

L O G I E   &   C O .  are  those  in  question— in  which  case 

the  . balance  of  wear  will  almost  invariably  be  in  favor  of

their G R A N D   R A P I D S   M A D E   S H O E S .

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Clerks’  Corner.

Tom  Todd’s  Theory  of  Clim bing  Up  In 
Written for the Tradesman.

the  W orld.

“ You?”
“ M e!"
That  first  paragraph  was  uttered  in  a 
tone  of  withering  contempt  by  a  dealer 
on  Ottawa  street  something  less  than  a 
hundred  years  ago.  He  had  advertised 
for a  boy  and  before  the  store  was  open 
Tom Todd,  the  boy,  had  been  sitting  on 
the  doorstep  long  enough  to  wear a  hole 
in  his  trousers.  Anyway,  that  is  how 
he accounted  for  the  tear  when  the  clerk 
presumed  to  call  attention  to  it.

If  the  storekeeper’s  condensed 

re­
marks  are  unproducible 
in  type  that 
unmistakable  “ M e!”   is  more  so;  but 
it  requires  time,  place  and  circum­
stances  to  convey  to  the  reader  what  it 
was  in  the  applicant  for the  position  to 
turn  the  contempt  into  a  smile  of ap­
proval.  It  was  uttered  by  a  twelve-year- 
old,  “ tattered  and  torn”   and  frowsy, 
who  with  the  air of  a  king  had  followed 
“ the  firm"  into  his  private  office  and 
had  stated  at  once  the  object  of  his call. 
Taking  in  the  boy  at  a  glance—his  rags 
and  his  general  unkemptness,  he  had 
growled  out  his  “ You?”   half  question, 
half  exclamation  and  turned  to  his 
mail,  when  the  “ Me!”   with  fifty  thous­
and  exclamation  points  caused 
the 
storekeeper  to  turn  two  astonished  eyes 
upon  his  visitor.  That  time  he  didn’t 
see  the  rags  nor the  frowsiness  but  an 
unkemp 
size 
with  head  erect,  right  foot  forward,  chin 
up—deeply  dimpled  and  to  be a decided 
square,  one  of  these  days—and  a  pair 
of  black  eyes 
looking  him  full  in  the 
face  from  the  shock  of  hair  that  hung 
low,  on  his  medium  strip  of  forehead— 
face,  form,  attitude,  each, in its  intense­
ness,  proclaiming  the  boy  to  be  “ every 
inch  a  kin g!”

somewhat  under 

lad 

The  storekeeper  hadn’t  looked  at  the 
indignant  youngster  a  quarter  of  a  min­
ute  before  he  felt  ashamed  of  himself 
and  with  his  first-opened  letter  still  un­
read  he  said  with  kindness  in  face  and 
voice,  “ I  don’t  believe  you’re  equal  to 
the  work  to  be  done.

Quick  as  a  flash  came  back  the  un­
expected  answer:  “   ‘ You  can’t  tell  by 
the  looks  of  a  toad  how  fur  he  c’n 
jump!’  ”

The  “ toad”  

idea  seemed  for  a  mo­
ment  so  pat  and  so  amused  the  store­
keeper  that  he  called  out  to  one  of  the 
clerks  to  “ take  this  ‘ toad’  out  into  the 
back  store  and  give  him  a  chance  to 
jump,”   and  in  the  meantime  the  head 
of the  house  kept  bis  eyes  open  to  see 
how  far  this  unpromising  toad  could 
leap.

For  the  next  fortnight  all  that  the 
man  saw  pleased  him.  Striking  into a 
cheery  whistle  Tom  Todd— it  soon  be­
came  “ Todd”   for short— went  into  the 
lengthening  out  business 
in  the  back 
store  with  a  vim  that  startled everybody 
and  set  them  all  to  repeating  the  prov­
erb  about  “ new  brooms.”  
In  this  in­
stance  the  proverb  wasn’t  worth  even 
“ 30  cents.”  
In  the  first  place,  there 
was  noise  enough  out  there  for  three 
grown  men  to  make  and  for  the  whole 
morning  it  sounded  as  if  the  whole  es­
tablishment  was  coming  down  so  that 
twice  the  proprietor  started  for 
the 
back  room  with  a  “ What  in  thunder!”  
took  a  good  look  both  times  and  came 
away  with  an  approving  nod.  There 
was  an 
interval  of  silence  about  noon 
and  then  the  uproar  went  on  until  to­
wards  night.  The  attentive  ear  in  the 
office  took  note  of  the  quiet  and  calling

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

in  the  clerk  in  charge  directed  that  the 
boy  should  have  the  rest  of  the  day  for 
himself.  The  delivery  of  the  order 
brought  the  king  or  the  toad,  as  the 
reader  pleases,  to  the  door  of  the  office.
“ The  clerk  says  I  may  go  home. 
Won't  you  gimme  m’  pay  for  a  day  or 
two,  ev’ry  night?  We’ re  all  on  us  ’bout 
starved. ”

There  were  tears 

in  the  pleader’s 
voice  and  eyes,  but  he  stood  there, 
“ every  inch  a  king,”   and  like  a  king 
was  ready  to  abide  by  his  employer's 
decision.

Lighting 

John  Gray  was  not  a  man  given  to 
sentiment  and  he  was  not  inclined  to 
break 
in  on  a  settled  custom,  but  one 
good  look  at  the  boy  in  the  doorway 
was  enough  and  taking  a  dollar  from 
his  pocket  he  put  it  into  the  boy’s  hand 
and  bade  him  good  night.  The lad  went 
home  and  the  proprietor  went  into  the 
back  store. 
the  gas,  he 
looked  with  amazement  upon  Tom 
Todd’s  day’s  work. 
In  less  than  a  day 
the  twelve-year-old  had  brought  order 
out  of  a  month’s  accumulating  chaos. 
“ The  boy  and  his proverb are all right”  
he  said  to  himself  as  he  went  back  to 
his  desk.  “   ‘ You  can’t  tell  by  the  looks 
of  a  toad  how  far he  can  jump,’  but  by 
jingo,  there’s a difference in toads so  far 
as  my  experience  goes  and  I  like  this 
sort!”

The  next  day  when  Tom  Todd  was 
waiting  on  the  doorstep  for  the  open- 
ing-up  clerk,  that  official  didn't  know 
the  boy  until  he  had  come  close  to  him. 
He  had  bis  hair  cut  and  the 
luxury  of 
soap  had  been  added  to  the  water  of 
his  morning  bath.  What  was  as  com­
mendable  as  it  was  unexpected  was  an 
array  of  ten  finger  nails  without  a  hint 
of  black  to  disfigure  them.  Better  than 
all  that  he  had  lost  the  “ lean  and  hun­
gry 
look”   that  bad  haunted  him  the 
day  before  and,  braced  by  a  good  sup­
per,  a  sound  sleep  and  a  better  break­
fast,  he 
like  King  Lear 
than  the  crazy  old  king  himself.

looked  more 

John  Gray  saw,  heeded  and  kept  his 
own  counsel.  He  also  kept  his  eye  on 
the  boy.  He  noticed  how  Tom  Todd 
kept  improving  every  day. 
If  it wasn't 
in  one  way  it  was  in  another.  The  rags 
followed  the  dirt  and  the  early  haircut. 
The  work  put  into  his  hands  bore  the 
sign  manual  of  the  righted-up  store 
room  and  with  it  all  there  was  a  some­
thing  about his  workmanship,  no  matter 
how  humble  was  the  task  in  hand,  that 
indicated  a  delight  and  “ level  best- 
ness”   which  went  straight  to  the  pro­
prietor’s  heart.

the 

After  five  years  bad  come  and  gone 
and  the  boy,  to  all  intents  and  purposes 
a  man  now,  strong  and  ready  and  “ the 
likeliest  man  on 
force,”   had 
strengthened  the  confidence  placed  in 
him  from  the  first, 
the  stoiekeeper, 
when  the  two  were  out  for  a  Sunday 
afternoon  ride,  asked  the  boy  how  he 
happened  to  steer  clear of  the  good-for- 
nothingness  that  so  often  makes  imps 
of  boyhood.

“ That’s  easy,”   was  the  reply. 

“ All 
a  boy  has  to  do  is  work  and  keep  his 
mouth  shut. 
I  am  better  off  than  most 
boys  for  I  had  something  to  work  for 
from  the  start. 
‘ Ma’  isn’t  my  mother, 
you  know.  She  took  me  in  when  I  was 
almost  a  baby  and  we  had  a  tough  time 
of  it  until  that  day  I  came  to  the  store. 
Turn  about's  fair  play,  you  know;  and 
so  when  my  turn  came  I  was  so glad  to 
begin  to  pay  her  off  that  it  seemed  to 
me  I  never  could  do  enough  and I never 
want  to  stop;  and  all  that  first  day  I 
couldn’t  think  of  anything  but the  sup­
per  enough  she  was  going  to  have.

Working  and  keeping  still  and  having 
Ma  to  work  for’s  what  did  the  business 
for  me,  and  I  guess  that’s  all  there  is to 
it,  anyway.”

“ I  guess  that’s  right,”   said  John 
Gray  and  touching  the  horse he thought, 
“  It’s  no  wonder that  you  can’t  tell  by 
the  looks  of  a  toad  how  far  he  can 
jump!”  
Stum bling  Blocks  in  the  Pathw ay  of  Co- 

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Operative  Buying.

I  have  studied  and  thought  a  good 
deal  about  co-operative  buying,  because 
important  economic 
it  is  a  mighty 
movement—the  sweeping  out  of 
the 
middle-man.

There 

is  one  weak  point 

in 

the 

scheme,  as  I  see  it.

I  don’t  believe  grocers  know  enough 

about  goods  to  buy  for themselves.

Now  don’t  get  all  ruffled  up  until  you 

bear  my  explanation.

In  the  past  every  retail  grocer in busi­
ness,  short  of  the  very  big  ones,  has 
bought  of  the  jobber.  He has depended 
on  the  jobber,  when it  came  to  the  qual­
ity  of  goods,  a  good  deal  more  than  he 
likes  to admit.

On  a good many goods  the  retailer  has 

depended  on  the  jobber  absolutely.

How  many  grocers  could  buy  tea  and 
know  what  they  were  getting,  without 
outside  help?
Or  coffee?
Or  rice?
Or  spices?
Or  syrup?
Or  molasses?
Or  a  whole  lot  of  other things?
Mighty  few.
Don’t  get  into  your  heads that  I’m 
throwing  any  stones  at  grocers—the  av­
erage  grocer  actually  has  not  time  to 
learn  much  about  the  goods  he  sells. 
It  takes  years  in  the  coffee  business  to 
pick  out  grades  and  be  sure  you  are 
right,  and  so  with  a  lot  of  other  things.
Some  grocers  can do  it,  but  they  must 
have  had  more  leisure  than  the average. 
In  the  average  case,  the  grocer  tells  the 
jobber’s  salesman  what  he  wants  and 
trusts  to  the  jobber’s  honesty  to  send 
it 
to  him. 
If  he  does  not  get  it,  the  only 
way  he  has  of  knowing  it  is  by  hearing 
bis  customers  complain.

Some  jobbers  are  as  honest  as  the  sun 
and  never  slipped  up  on  a  retailer  in 
their  lives.

And  some  are  not,  but  that  is  another 

story.

It  is  only  natural  that  the  jobber 
should  know  more  about  goods  than  the 
retailer.  He  has  buyers  who  train  in 
nothing  else.  They  rub  up  against 
coffees,  for  instance,  every  hour  in  the 
day  for  years—comparing  grades  and 
estimating  prices— it  would  be  mighty 
strange 
if  they  didn’t  know  their  busi­
ness.

They  know  it  so  well,  in  fact,  that  it 
is  as  easy  as  falling  off  a  log  for  them 
to  deceive.a  retailer  who  knows  less.

With  the  retailer,  coffee  or  tea  is  one 
of  a  hundred  things—he  has  not  time  to 
study  them.  Although,  unquestionably, 
many  grocers  could  know  more  about 
such  things  than  they  do.

In  the  past,  all  of  the  expert  knowl­
edge  of  the  jobbers’  buyers  has  been  at 
the  retailers'  service.

Now,  co-operative  buying  proposes  to 
make  a  most  radical  change  in  all  this. 
“ Let  the  jobber go,”   it  says,  “ we  do 
our own  buying. ”

The  question 

is—does  the  retailer 
know  enough  about  goods  to  do  his  own 
buying?  Of  course,  he  can  hire 
it 
done,  but  when  you  go  to  that  expense, 
you  are  taking  thé  juice  right out  of

co-operative  buying—what  difference 
whether  you  pay  your  margin  of  profit 
jobber  or  pay  it  to  a  buyer  in  the 
to  a 
the  strong 
form  of  salary?  No,  sir, 
point  of  co-operative  buying  is  that 
it 
gets  cost  down  by  eliminating  expense.
That  is  why  I  say— is  the  retail  gro­
cer,  separately  or  collectively,  a  suffi­
ciently  educated  buyer  to  buy  for  him­
self?

It  does  not  seem  to  me  as  if  he  was.
I  was  witness  once  to  an  attempt 
made  by  a  clerk  to  go  into  business  for 
himself.  He  came  to  me  before  he  did 
it  and  asked  my  advice;  said  there  was 
a  good  opening  at  such  and  such  a 
place  and  he  thought  he  could  raise  a 
little  money.

I  only  asked  him  one  question—did 

he  know  the  business?

in 

He  said  very  positively  that  he  did. 
He  had  only  been 
ten 
months,  but  be  still  thought  that  what 
he  did  not  know  about  the  grocery 
business  would  go  into  a  very  small 
book.

it  about- 

I  told  him  that  if  he  was  sure  to  go 

ahead.

He  went  ahead  and  some  time  after 
told  me  himself  that  when  he  got in that 
new  store,  without  the  employer  who 
had  always  told  him  what  to  do,  he  felt 
like  a  ship  at  sea  without  a  rudder.  He 
did  not  know  which  way  to  turn,  for 
what  he  did  know  about  the  grocery 
business  was  but  a  grain  of  sand  beside 
the  mighty  ocean  of  what  he  didn’t 
know.

Well,  that  is  a  good  deal  like  the  re­
tailer  when  he  breaks  away  from  the 
jobber  whose  honest  knowledge  he  has 
in  buying— a  good  deal 
depended  on 
more  than  he  thinks. 
.He  must  look 
mighty  sharp  or  he  will  be  at  the  mercy 
of  the  salesmen,  for occasionally  you’ll 
find  a  salesman  who  believes  that  tak­
ing  advantage  of  ignorance  is  more  fun 
than  eating.— Stroller  in Grocery World.

Bound To  Get  H er  Money’s  W orth.
“ It  puzzled  me  for  some  tim e,”   said 
the  portly  party,  “ but  the  explanation 
was  simple  enough  from  the  standpoint 
of  my  wife.  During  the  trying  hot  spell 
we  had  in  July  she  visited  a  sister  who 
lives  in  the  Northern  part  of  the  State. 
When  she 
left  I  told  her  to  wire  me 
when  she  got  to  her  destination  so  that 
I  would  know  that  she  had  arrived safe­
ly. 
I  said  that  the  word  “ arrived”  
would  be  all  that  was  necessary,  and  l 
would  know  from  that  that  all  was  well. 
In  due  time  I  received  a  telegram  from 
her  which  read  ‘ Arrived,’  the  big  black 
bug  and  the  big  black  bear.’

“ I  sat  and  looked  at  the  telegram  in 
blank  amazement,  trying  to  figure  out 
what  she  meant. 
I  concluded  at  last 
that the  message  had  been  mixed  up  in 
sending,  so  I  went  to  the  telegraph 
office  and  had  it  repeated.  The  answer 
came  back  that  it  was  correct  and  ac­
cording  to  the  copy  that  had  been  filed. 
Fearing  that  the  heat  had  affected  my 
wife's  head,  I  boarded  the  first  train 
and 
imagined  all  sorts  of  dire  things 
that  might  have  happened  to  her.

Goodness, ’  she  gasped,  when  I  ap­
peared  on  the  scene,  ‘ what  has  brought 
you  here?’

.  -   o “  
p c i u d p a   y u u   w i n
kind  enough  to  explain  what you  me 
by  such  a  fool  jumble  of  words!’

Why,’  says  she,  ‘ the  clerk  sail 
would  cost  no  more  to  send  ten  wc 
than  it  would  to  send  one;  so  I  decii 
to  have  my  money’s  worth !’
Well,’  said  ,1  ‘ it  seems  to  me  t 
you  might  have  picked  out  a less idii 
combination. ’

Why,  you  see,’  she  answered,  ‘ that 
was  what  the  car  wheels  said  all  the 
way  out  here,  so  I  just  put  it  in  to  fill 
out.

The  time  to kill  a  weed  is  before  it 

starts to  grow.

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1 5

men  are  now  on

most  attractive  line  of  shoes  that  ever  went

W e’ve  been  manufacturing:  shoes  more

than  half  a  century  and  still  we  are  making

improvements,

W e  are  exclusive  manufacturers,

W e  are  in  the  great  distributing  center,

No.  E  2000.  Girls’  Dongola  Wedge,  %   D, 
Lace,  Dainty T ip.................... . •

to  creoles

ment  E ”  if

man  call.  A   request  to  “Department 

E ”  will  also  get  your  name  on  our 

regular

•  “Helpful  Hints” 

list,  which 

means  valuable  retailing  ideas  free.

Men’s Patent Leather, Dongola Top, Balmoral,  %   D.  S 
Machine Sewed,  Princeton T ip ..........................................

C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.,

“Western  Shoe Builders”

Cor.  Market  and  Quincy  Streets,  Chicago,  Illinois

16

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

Window  Dressing
O riginality  the  Secret  of Success  in  W in­

dow  T rim m ing.

It  is 

is  made 

One  great  secret  of  success  in window 
trimming,  as  in  everything,  is  to  be 
original,  to  keep  out  of  the  rut.  The 
successful  trimmer  must  ever  be  devis­
ing  something  new  or  must  at  any  rate 
do  the  old  things  in  such  a  fresh  and 
novel  way  as  will  impart  character and 
a  spice  of  originality  to  a  really  thread­
bare 
idea.  He  should  do  nothing  one 
week  in  the  way  in  which  it  was  done 
during  the  preceding week.  Routine  is 
fatal  stagnation. 
impossible  to 
remain  in  the  same  position—one  must 
go  forward  or  backward.  Each  time  a 
display 
it  should  be  an  im­
provement  on  earlier  displays  of  the 
same  kind,  and  should  in  its  turn  sug­
gest  change  and  betterment  in  future 
displays  of  similar articles.  Of  course, 
considerable  labor and  thought  are 
im­
plied  in  such  efforts  for  novelty,  and  a 
place  above  the  ruck,  for  originality, 
although 
it  will  do  much,  will  fail  if 
alone  depended  on  for  success.  Hard 
and  steady  work  is  also  essential.  The 
window  trimmer  will  succeed  who  pos­
sesses,  or  patiently  cultivates,  original­
ity,  and  at  the  same  time  spares  no 
work  incident  to  the  realization  of  his 
ideals.  The  combination  of originality 
and  hard  work  commands  success.

*  *  *

There  are  certain  men  who  will  al­
ways  regard  ready-to-wear clothing,  de­
spite 
its  present  acknowledged  excel­
lence,  as  an  abomination and  an  impos­
sibility,  and  such  men  will  pay  large 
prices  for custom-made  garments  rather 
than  submit  to  the  indignity  of  wearing 
even  the  most  elegant  and  irreproach­
able  ready-made  clothing. 
It  is  a  good 
idea  for  retail  clothiers  and  department 
stores,  having  a  custom  tailoring  de­
partment,  to  draw  attention  to  the  fact 
by  a  display  of  fall  and  winter  material 
in  the  piece,  together  with  a  few  com­
pleted  garments  of  the  materials shown, 
and  a  card  of  prices.  This  is  now  be­
ing  done  at  many  popular  stores.  At 
one  place  I  noticed  half  the  space  of  a 
large  window  was  devoted  to a  display 
of this  nature  and  the  other half  of  the 
window  was  occupied  by  fall  and  win­
ter  hats.  The  beautifully  draped  and 
handsome  material,  shown  with  the  hats 
so  evidently 
intended  to  be  worn  with 
it,  made quite an  unusual  and  attractive 
display.

*  *  *

in 

The  method  followed  in  the  windows 
of  wall  paper  establishments  suggests 
another  idea  for the  attractive  display 
of  fall  and  winter  materials 
the 
piece.  The  fixture  used  should  not  be 
less than  five  feet  in  height  and  should 
have  a  heavy  base  and  a  top  of  suffi­
cient  size  to conveniently  support  a  bolt 
of  material.  Arrange  the  desired  num­
ber  of  bolts  in  a  semi-circle  and  un­
wind  enough  of  each  bolt  to  reach  the 
floor  in  a  graceful  sweep,  about  a  half 
yard  of  the  stuff  lying  ruffled,  and  so 
as  to  conceal  the  base  of the  fixture. 
Turn  the  sides  of two or three  of  these 
units  under,  rather  above  the  middle, 
and  pin  them  together  in  an  easy curve. 
Arrange  a  finished  suit,  overcoat,  or 
other garment  made  of the  material  on 
display  across  one  arm  of  a  handsome 
chair  placed  in  the  center  of  the  semi­
circle.

*  *  *

The  arrangement  of  displays  in  un- 
usualy  large  windows  is  a  very  difficult 
matter  on  account  of  the  quantity  of 
m aterial  to  be  tastefully  disposed,  and

fixture  difficulty  was 

because  fixtures  large  enough  to  fill  the 
window  generally  create  a  stiff  and  la­
bored  effect.  In  a  display  of  neckwear 
at  William  Vogel  &  Sons,  New  York, 
this 
cleverly 
avoided  by  using  brass  chains  attached 
to  the  roof  and  floor  in  the  front  and 
rear  of  the  window.  Crossbars  were 
attached  to  this  chain  by  means  of 
hooks  and  the  neckwear  beautifully 
draped  on  these  bars  and  on  other 
fixtures  in  the  body  of  the  window.  The 
result  was  very  graceful  and  effective. 

*  *  *

The  trimmer  whose  stock  of  fixtures 
does  not  include  any  of  the  oaken  vari­
eties  so  often  described  of  late  in  these 
pages  will  do  well  to  have  some  made. 
In  almost  every furnishing goods depart­
ment  and  store  of  any  modish  preten­
tions  fixtures  made  of oak  or other  light 
woods  have,  for the  present  at  any  rate, 
largely  superseded  those  of  nickel. 
There 
is  certainly  a  very  sympathetic 
and  graceful  quality  in  these  wooden 
fixtures,  and  they  have  also the  advan­
tage  of  being  made in shapes not hither­
to  procurable 
in  metal,  and  which  are 
especially  adapted  to  novel  and striking 
ideas  of  display.  Manufacturers  of 
nickel  fixtures  are  now  offering  nickel 
imitations  of  the  most  popular  styles. 
Some  of  these  are  very  elegant  and  de­
sirable,  others  are  fitted  with  bases  of  a 
white  glazed  porcelain,  adorned  with 
rings  of  gold  color,  giving  a  rather bard 
and  inartistic  effect.—Apparel  Gazette.

T our Best  Salesman.

The  object  of  your  window  display  is 
not  to  show  how  many  classes  of  goods 
you  have,  for  all.  classes  of  goods  are 
not  equally  desirable;  neither  is  it  to 
build  up  a  reputation  for  yourself  or 
your  window  dresser  for  having  the 
most  elaborate  and  gorgeous  window 
display  in  your town,  but  it  is  a  means 
to  an  end— an  advertisement  for  your 
goods.

A  merchant  should  never  dress  bis 
window  for any  purpose  other  than  as 
a  means  to  advertise  bis  goods.  The 
window,  like  newspaper  advertising,  is 
intended  to  bring  results. 
If  the  work 
is  badly  done,the  effectiveness  intended 
will  not  exist,  and  the  advertisement 
will  bring  no  results.

In  making  your  selections  for  fall 
window  dressing,  be  sure  to  have  the 
fall 
latest  and  the  most  appropriate 
goods,  and  begin  the  advertising 
in 
your  window  as  soon  as  possible.  As 
the  season  advances  other  novelties  will 
appear;  get  them  and  put  them  in  your 
window  for  a  change. 
If  you  do  not 
change  your  window  display  with  new 
goods,  be  sure  to  change  the  arrange­
ment  as  often  as  two  or  three  times  a 
week.

You  must  never  let  the  public  think 
your window  display  old-fashioned  and 
monotonous.

People  like  change,  and  hence  fre­
quent  changes  sharpen  the  intellect  and 
develop  attention.— Clothier  and  Fur­
nisher.

A  Common  Mistake.

A  New  York  dry  goods  merchant  has 
related*  his  experience  as  a  newspaper 
advertiser,  and  among  the  pieces  of  ad­
vice  which  he  gives to  others  is  this: 
“ It  is  a  mistake  to  advertise  only  at in­
tervals.  The  man  who  does  this  loses 
the  cumulative  benefit  of  publicity.  His 
business  name 
is  not  kept  constantly 
before  the  public.  He  is  virtually  a 
new  advertiser every  time. 
It  is  profit­
able  to  cultivate  among  the  people  the 
habit of  looking  every  day  for  your  an­
nouncem ent. ”

Not E ntirely  Happy.

“ You  remember  Thrailkill,  that  used 
to  have  such  hard  work  making  both 
ends  meet?”

“ Yes,  I  beard  he  inherited  a  fortune. 
Poor  fellow !  He needed it badly enough. 
What  use  did  he  make  of  it?”

“ You  know  he  bad  a  mania  for  old 
and  rare  books.  Would  rather  handle 
them  and  gloat  over them  than  do  any­
thing  else  in  the  world.  Well  he  bought 
out  a  secondhand  book  store.”
,  “ And  I  suppose  he’s happy  now.”  

“ Yes—except  when  somebody  comes 

in  to  buy  a  book. ”

Cosey  Corner  in  the  Home.

Church— Have  you  a  cosey  corner  in 

your  house?

Gotham—Oh,  yes;  my  wife  has  ar­

ranged  two  of  them.

“ You  must  enjoy  them  after  a  hard 

day’s  work.”

“ Enjoy  nothing!  The  cat  has  one 
and  my  wife's  dog  occupies  the other!”

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Organized 1881.

Insurance Co.
Detroit, Mlchigai.
Caah Autti, 9800,000.
D. M. F erry, Vice Pres.

D. Whitney, Jr.,  Pres.

Cash Capital, t 400,000.  Nat 8urplua, 9200,000.

F. H. W hitney, Secretary.
M.  W .  O’Brien, Treas.

E. J. Booth, Asst Sec’y. 

Directors.

D. Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F.J. Hecker, 
M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Morphy,  Wm.  I.. 
Smith, A. H. Wilkinson, James  Edgar,  II. 
Klrke  White,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A.  Schulte,  Wm.  V.  Brace, 
James  McMillan,  F.  E.  Driggs,  Henry 
Hayden,  CoUins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D. 
Standlsh, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  M iUs, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S. 
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stlnchfield,  Francis  F. 
Palms, Wm. C. Yawkey,  David  C.  Whit­
ney, Dr. J. B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas. 
F. Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

The  Putnam  Candy  Co,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Established  1865

Manufacturers  of  the  A.  A.  brands  of

Fine  Candies  and  Chocolates

Mixtures,  Creams,  Penny  Goods  and  Cough  Drops.

B.  W.  Putnam,  President 

R.  R.  BEAN,  Secretary

6abM

In pounds,  halves  and 

quarters.

JAPAN 

B.  F. JAPAN 

YOUNG  HYSON 
GUNPOWDER 

ENG.  B R E A K FA ST 

CEYLON 
OOLONG 
BLEND

$1  per lb.

Retailed at 50c, 75c,  and 

The best business  propo­
sition  ever  offered  the 
grocer.  Absolutely  the 
choicest teas grown. 

Write for particulars.

The J.M.BOURCO.,

Toledo, Ohio,

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

17

R enting  L etters a New  Occupation.
Did  you  ever  hear  of  renting  letters— 
yes  and  selling  them,  too— the  ordinary 
enveloped  missives  that  the  postman 
hands  you,  the  kind  that our  Uncle  Sam 
carries  from  point  to  point  at  the  rate 
of  2  cents  per  carry?  Not  the  love  letter 
kind.  They  are  for  sale,  too,  but  in  a 
different  way.  Publishers  get  them  and 
give  posterity  the  benefit.  But  the  let­
ters  of  to-day  that  command  favorable 
rates 
in  an  extensive  market  are  the 
letters  of  business.

in 

This  is 

connection  with 

that 
more  or  less  admirable  industry  known 
as  “ the  mail  order  business.”   The 
man  or  woman  who  has  a  mail  order 
scheme  must  have  “ names.”   He  or she 
must  know  to  whom  to  send  the  care­
fully  worded  circulars  which  are  to  be 
productive  of  a  golden  harvest.  The 
old  way  of  the  mail  order  agent  was  to 
insert  an  advertisement  in  one  of  the 
many  hundreds  of  little papers  that  peo­
in  the  big  cities  seldom  see,  but 
ple 
which  have  wide  circulation 
in  the 
rural  districts.  That  was  a  pretty  good 
way,  but  to-day  the  mail  order  man 
thinks  he  has  a  much  better one.

“ There 

He  procures  a 

list  of  names  of  per­
sons  who  have  answered -previous  ad­
vertisements  and  to  the  people  on  this 
list  he  addresses  a  circular.  This  is  to 
It  narrows  down 
him  a  great  saving. 
to  a  special  field. 
Instead  of  declaim­
ing  to  a  scattered  and  necessarily  par­
tially  uninterested  congregation,  he  has 
the  advantage  of  addressing  a  carefully 
selected  audience  all  attention.  One  big 
New  York  dealer  in  letters,  in  speaking 
of  his  specialty the  other  evening,  said :
is  no  way  that  a  man  in  my 
business  can  so  quickly  develop  and 
interests  as  by  the  judi­
promote  his 
letters.  On  the  average 
cious  use  of 
mail  order  proposition  they 
invariably 
yield  prompt,  profitable  returns  to  the 
user. 
in  the  neighbor­
hood  of  1,000,000  of  the  freshest,  best 
assorted  and  most  desirable  agents’  and 
mail  order  buyers’  letters  in  the  United 
States.  A  million  sounds  like  a  pretty 
big  number,  but  then,  there are  a  pretty 
big  percentage  of  us  who  may  be  inter­
ested  in  this  or  that  scheme.  The post­
age  alone  on  these  letters  represents  in 
the  original,  $20,000.

1  own  to-day 

“ I  am  constantly  buying 

letters  and 
as  constantly  selling  them  over  again. 
When  a  man  places  an  advertisement 
in  one  of  the  little  journals  that  circu­
late  through  the  country  districts  I  send 
him  a  letter,  offering  to  buy  his  letters 
after  he 
is  through  with  them  at  so 
much  per  1,000  or  so  much  per  100. 
Usually  he  sells  them  fast  enough.

“ Then  I  put  an  advertisement  in  the

little  journals  calling  the  attention  of 
chaps  who  are  contemplating  offering 
something  along  the  same  line  as  was 
offered  by  the  man  from  whom  I  bought 
the  letters.  They  are,  of  course,  anx­
ious  to  reach,  without  taking  a  round­
about  course,  such  people  as  would  be 
specially 
in  their  offer. 
That’s  where  I  come  in.  Sometimes  I 
sell  outright,  and  again,  I  simply  lease 
the 
letters,  getting  them  back  to  use 
when  another  man  springs  a  similarly 
appropriate  scheme.’ ’— New  York  Her­
ald.

interested 

Raising Rubber in  O ur Colonies.

The  United  States  Department  of 
is  reported  to  have  begun 
Agriculture 
actively  the  investigation  of  the  sources 
of  rubber and  the  possibility  of  produc­
ing  on  American  territory  an  important 
part  of  the  material  used  in  our  facto­
ries.  The  first  expedition  is  likely  to 
be  sent  to  Mexico  and  part  of the results 
of  its  work  may  be  a  report  on  the 
methods  of  the  American  companies 
now  raising  capital  for  planting  rubber 
in  that  country. 
It  is  not  too  much  to 
say  that  the  deparment  does  not  regard 
favorably  the  methods  of  some  of  these 
companies,  and  would  not  hesitate,  if 
supported  by  proof,  to  warn  the  pub­
lic  against  them.  Having  determined 
the  proper  conditions  for  cultivating 
the  Castilloa  elastica,  the  next  step  will 
be  to  learn  whether  the  tree  can  be 
grown  successfully 
in  Cuba  or  Puerto 
Rico,  or  our  possessions  in  the  Pacific.
is  likely 
to  be  on  a  larger  scale,  will  be  in  the 
nature  of  a  botanical  study  of  the  Ama­
zon  region,  from  the  headwaters  to  the 
Atlantic  ocean,  noting  any  plants  of 
economic  value  which  may  possibly 
prove,  after  experiments  have  been 
made,to  be  suited  for  cultivation  in  any 
American  possession.  But  it is expected 
that  the  most 
important  result  of  this 
expedition  will  be  a  report  on  the  Ama­
zon  rubber  species,  which  shall  be  more 
accurate  and  more  exhaustive  than  any­
thing  which  has  yet  been  written.  The 
authorities  at  Washington  are  not  con­
tent  to  assume  that  the  Hevea  rubber 
species  can  not  be  domesticated  outside 
of  the  Amazon  basin.

Another  expedition,  which 

As  for  the  Philippines,  the  investiga­
tion  into  the  rubber situation  which  has 
been  set  on  foot  is  within  the  province 
of  the  War  Department,  through  which 
the  administration  at  Manilla  is  still 
directed.  It  is  known  that  many persons 
connected  with  the  government  of  the 
Philippines  are  alive  to  the  possibili­
ties  in  the  way  of  the  existence  of India 
rubber  and  gutta-percha  there,  and  the 
principle  will  be  adhered  to  strictly  of

protecting  these  and  all  other  natural 
resources  on  the  public  domain.— India 
Rubber  World.

Poor  Way  to  Advertise.

The  Business  Men’s  Association  held 
an  important  meeting  last  evening  and 
unanimously  voted  to  subscribe  to  an 
agreement not  to  advertise  in  small  pro­
grammes  and  the  like  outside  of  the 
regular  newspaper  and  other established 
publications.  The  question  was  talked 
over  at  length,  and 
it  was  stated  that 
there  was  more or  less  of  a  threat  of  loss 
of  business 
in  some  cases  of  requests 
for  programme  advertising  if  the  mer­
chants  did  not  advertise.  Moreover,  it 
has  been  learned  that  often  the  business 
men  subscribed  to  help  along  some  so­
ciety  when  as  a  matter of  fact  the  pro­
gramme  was  sold  to  a  regular  canvasser 
who  made  the  greater  part  of  the  profit,

the  society  or  organization  getting  very 
little. 
In  case  a  deserving  object  of 
some  special nature came along,  the Sec­
retary  could 
investigate  and  report  to 
the  Association.  Among  those  who took 
part  in  the  discussion  were  the  leading 
merchants  and  business men  of  the city, 
and  the  sentiment  was  unanimous  that 
the programme  solicitation  of  advertise­
ments  bad  passed  the  stage  where  it 
could  be  tolerated.—Springfield  Repub­
lican.

One  K ind  of Conjunction.

“ What  is  a  conjunction?”   asked  the 

“ That  which  joins together, ”   was  the 

illustration,”  

said 

the 

The  up-to-date  miss  hesitated  and 

“ The  marriage  service,”   she  said  at 

teacher.

prompt  reply.
“ Give  an 

teacher.

blushed.

last.

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OJIBWA.

FOREST GIANT. 

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

SW E E T SPRAY.

See  quotations  in

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

price  current.

CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

Dry Goods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  th e  P rincipal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—There  has  been  prac­
tically  no  change  in  the  nature  of  the 
business  for  staples,  except  as  it  has 
become  more  limited  for  future  deliver­
ies and  more  urgent  in  regard  to  quick 
deliveries.  Stocks  everywhere  are 
in 
good  shape  from  the  seller’s  point  of 
view.  That  is,  stocks  are  everywhere 
low,  and  trading  in  the  retail  and 
job­
bing  ends  is  good.  Brown  cottons are  in 
particularly  short  supply,  ¡and  of  the 
leading  brands  there  is  practically  none 
to  be  found,  and  both  for  stock  goods 
and  goods  to  be  made,  both  heavy  and 
light,  prices  are  very  firm.  The  market 
for ducks  and  brown  osnaburgs  remains 
quiet,  and  without  material  change. 
Bleached  cottons  are  firm,  but  without 
further  advances  in  any  lines.  Coarse 
colored  cottons  are  firm  throughout  the 
market,  and  a  moderate  business  is  pro­
gressing.

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  demand 
for  prints  to-day  has  been  quiet  for 
both  staples  and  fancies.  Buyers  have 
stopped  considering  the  future  for the 
present.  They  feel,  for one  thing,  that 
prices  are  as  high  as  they  are  likely  to 
be,  and  as  they  have  placed  quite  gen­
erous  orders  for  future  delivery,  they 
are  more  concerned  with  getting  goods 
for  immediate  use.  They  let  other ends 
of  the  business  go.  Orders  all  around 
are,  however,  of  quite  a  moderate 
character.  The  tone  of  the  market  is 
maintained 
in  the  same  firm  condition 
that  has  been  noted  for  several  weeks, 
and  in  many  cases  orders  are  accepted 
“ at  value”   only.  Mourning  prints 
in 
blacks  and  whites,  grays  and  solid 
blacks  have  been  generally  cleaned 
up.  Percales  have  been 
in  moderate 
request  at  firm  prices.  Printed  flannels 
have  ruled  quiet  and  without  change  in 
price.  Fine  printed  fabrics  are  well 
sold  up,  and  very  firm.  Ginghams 
in 
both  staples  and  fancies  have  seen  a 
moderate  business  only,  but  the  tone  of 
the  market  is  firm.

the 

closely. 

Knit  Goods— It  goes  without  saying 
that 
fall  deliveries  have  been 
marked  by an  unusual  punctuality.  One 
result  of  the  quiet  season,  according  to 
a  prominent  manufacturer,  will  be  that 
goods  will  be  fully  up  to  the  qualities 
shown  in  samples,  for  this reason :  Buy­
ers  are  not  anxious  to  receive  any goods 
but  those  that  have  not  been  watered 
in  the  least. 
In  a  time  like  the  present 
they  are  more  particular  than 
in  a 
rushed  season.  They  have  more  time 
to  examine  deliveries 
The 
manufacturer  is  aware  of  this  fact  and 
is  sure  to be  unusually careful,  especial­
ly  as  the  jobber  may  not  need  very 
much  of  an  excuse  to  cancel  goods  later 
on.  The  spring  season  is  progressing 
on  very  satisfactory  lines.  Fancies  con­
tinue  to  be  among  the  most  popular 
numbers.  Prices  remain  firm  on  almost 
every  line  of  importance.  Buyers  have 
placed  the  majority  of  their orders.  The 
volume  of  business  done  has  been 
good,  and  has  been  tempered  with  a 
degree  of  conservatism  that  is  a  good 
sign,  as  it  does  not  look  as  if  there  had 
been  any  overbuying.  On  some  of  the 
cheap  grades  of  balbriggans  there  has 
been  a  great  deal  of  competition,  and 
with 
it  the  inevitable  price-cutting,  of 
course,  but  these  are  the  few  exceptions 
that  prove  the  rule.

Carpets—The  fall  season  in  the  car­
pet  trade  is  drawing  to  a  close.  To­
day  nearly  every  mill  outside  of  those

the  more  numerous. 

engaged  on  ingrains  is  extremely  busy 
in  turning  out  duplicate  orders,  which 
in  most  cases  will  keep  them  running 
in  full  for  some  months  to  come.  All 
the  business  for  this  season  has  been 
placed,  and  when  manufacturers  have 
finished  all  their  present  duplicates 
preparations  for the  spring  trade  should 
be  under  way. 
In  fact,  some  of  the 
large  mills  are  beginning  to  look  to­
wards  the  new  season,  and  slight  prep­
arations  have  been  going  on  in  the  way 
of  making  up  designs  and  weaving 
samples.  As  a  rule,  however,  the  ma­
jority  of  the  mill  men  so  far  have  given 
the  coming  season  but 
little  thought, 
their  minds  being  too  much  occupied 
in  filling  their  contracts  for the  one  that 
is  now  so  near  its  end.  As  the  new  sea­
son  approaches,  the  enquiries  as  to 
what  the  coming  season’s  prices  will  be 
become 
The 
smaller  manufacturers  and  the  carpet 
yarn  spinners  are  particularly  anxious 
that  a  good-sized  advance  over 
the 
prices  of  to-day  should  be  made  so  that 
a  fair-sized  profit,  as  they  express  it, 
can  be  made.  With  a  continuance  of 
the  conditions  that  rule  at  present,  the 
indications  are  that  their  anxiety  may 
least  some  advance, 
be  allayed  by  at 
either 
small  or 
large,  over  present 
prices.  Perhaps,  however,  it  may  be  a 
trifle  too  early  to  make  any  predictions, 
on  the  strength  of  to-day’s  market,  re­
garding  a  subject  on  which  so  many 
seemingly  unimportant  events  act  so 
adversely.  The  retail  trade  are  now 
beginning  to  dispose  of  this  season's 
goods  to  the  public  very  freely,  accord­
ing  to  their  own  statements,  and  if  a 
continued  demand 
experienced 
throughout  the  fall,  there  should  be  no 
more  than  the  usual  amount  of  surplus 
goods  left  on  the  market  at  the  time  the 
spring  goods  are  formally  opened  up. 
The  cut-order  trade  report  that  they  are 
now  beginning  to  experience  about  the 
same amount of business as  they  had  last 
spring,  which  will  be  remembered  as 
one  of  unusual  satisfaction  to  the  trade. 
They  report  that  this  season’s  call  is 
largely  for  the  finer  grades  of  carpets 
and  also  for  the  medium  grades.  Brus­
sels  and  velvets  are  good  sellers  as  are 
also  the  axminsters  and  tapestries.  The 
>4  goods  continue  to  be  the  feature  of 
the  manufacturing  end  of  the  carpet 
trade,  and  very  few  pieces  outside  of 
these  grades  command  the  buyers'  at­
tentions.  The  standard  makes  of  some 
of  the  well-known  Eastern  mills  are 
conspicuously  prominent  in  the  large 
jobbers’  warerooms,  and  these  makes 
are  having  a  very 
In­
grain  carpet  manufacturers,  especially 
in  Philadelphia,  report  an  exceedingly 
quiet  business,  with  no  hopes  for any 
change  for the  better  this  season  at  the 
most,  owing  to  the 
late  date.  One  or 
two  of  the  large  mills  in  New  England 
are  said  to  be  doing  a  good  business  in 
ingrains,  but  presumably  the 
ingrains 
referred  to  are  no  doubt  above  the  aver­
age  supers.  Philadelphia  manufactur­
ers  report  a  slight  improvement  in  3- 
plys  and  all-wool  ingrains,  but  still  the 
market  continues  to  remain  in  an  un­
satisfactory  state. 
It  can  not  be  ex­
pected  that  much  more  business  will  be 
done  for  this  season,  for the  usual  open­
ing  of  spring  goods  is  only  a  short  dis­
tance  away.  The  demand  at  present 
points  largely  towards  all-wool  goods 
and  3-plys.

large  demand. 

is 

Rugs—Manufacturers  are  doing  a 
good  business  in  Symrna  rugs,  although 
more  active  seasons  have  been  experi­
enced  than  at  present. 
The  buying 
public  are  beginning  to come  into  the

market,  now  that  cool  weather  is  upon 
us, and it  is  thought  that  their  purchases 
may  improve  the  market  very  material­
ly.  Wilton  rugs  are  in  good  request.

The Maxims  of Ju dy.

Show  me  a  man  who  has  never  made 
a  mistake,  and  I  will  show  you  one  who 
has  never  tried  anything.

It  is  a  mistake  to  eat  all  you  can, 
spend  all  you  have,  tell  all  you  know  or 
show  all  you  feel.

Ever  since  I  knew  of  them,  I  have 
been  wanting  to  employ  Schwab,  J.  P. 
Morgan  and  John  Wanamaker,  for there 
is  no  trouble 
in  getting  business—the 
trouble  lies  in  getting  men.

A  bad  pup  often  makes  a  good  dog; 
and  I  would  rather  undertake  to  reverse 
the  force  of  a  bad  man  than  loan  my 
own  to  a  weak  one.

Don't  tell  me  what  you  have  of 
beauty,  strength,  education,  money  or 
genius.  The  only  thing  I  care  to  con­
sider  is  what  you  are  doing  with  it.

You  can’t  escape  criticism, 

if 
you  save  your  money,  you  are  a  miser 
and  a  hog,  and  if  you  spend  it  you  are 
a  spendthrift  and  a  dog.

for 

Many  practice  humanity  to  get  the 

under  hold.

Set  your  stake,  and  before  you  reach 

it  set  it  further ahead.

Some  people  kick  at  everything  they 

don’t  understand.

I  would  rather  fail  and  know  the 
cause,  than  succeed  and  know  not  why.
He  that  opposes  us  sharpens  our  wits 

and  becomes  our  helper.

I  can  tolerate  a  man  who  fails  to  ac­
quire  an  education,  or  one  who  never 
gets  a  dollar  ahead,  but  1  soon  grow 
tired  of  a  person  who  does  not  have 
sense  enough  to  have  a  good  time.— 
Geo.  W.  Stevens  in  Success.

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,  Kersey 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.

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£  and  Bed  Blapkets

We have a big line of  comforts and  bed  blankets.

The prices at present are less than  last year.

Now is the time to buy them  as  the  assortment  is 

complete and the prices are right.

Our traveling men will call on  you  in  a  few  days 

and show you a full line.

P.  S T E K E T E E   &  SONS 
Wholesale  Dry  Goods,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.
JUUUUUUUUUULOJUUUUUL

When  You’re  in  the  City

on  business  or  pleasure,  don’t  forget  that  we  have  a 
line  of  S H O W   C A S E S   that  will  interest  you.  W e 
want  to  see  you  and

We  Are  A lw ays  at  Home

at  the  corner  of  Bartlett  and  South  Ionia  streets,  two 
blocks  south  of  Union  Depot— handy  when  you  come 
in,  handy  when  you  go  out.

Come  and  See  Us

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there  is  no  class  less  likely  to  help  you 
really  than  your  friends  after  the  nov 
elty  of  your shop 
is  worn  off.  Here 
with  me  you  will  begin  in  a  business­
like  fashion,  and  all  the  progress  you 
make  will  be  on  your  merits.’

“ Of  course,  I  had  no  idea  of  depend­
ing  on  my  friends  when  I  started  out, 
but  I  had  always  thought  that  a  girl 
could  count  on  them  to  a  certain  ex­
tent. 
It  was  only  after  I  had  taken  the 
place  with  Madame  that  I  realized  the 
truth  of  what  she  said.  Some  of my  girl 
friends  came  to  the  store  like  bricks 
and  bought  hats  that  cost  a  lot,  but 
there  were  not  enough  of  them  to  make 
existence  profitable.  Even  the  most in­
timate  began to  drop  away  after  awhile, 
just as  all  women  do  because  they  want 
an  occasional  change  in  their  milliner.
I  could  not  help  thinking  how  I  would 
have  fared 
if  I  had  been  compelled  to 
rely  on  the  support  of  my  friends.”

This  young  woman  repeated  the opin­
ion  of  most  of  the  women  who  have 
learned  for  themselves  that  only  the 
ability  to  please  the  great  public  will 
bring  them  success.  Not  only  is  the 
patronage  from  the  public  larger  than 
that  from  one’s  friends,  but  it  is  more 
profitable  for  other  reasons.  Casual  pur­
likely  to  exact  less  in  the 
chasers  are 
way  of  accommodation  than 
friends 
supposed  to  be  anxious  to  help  the 
struggling  young  tradeswoman  who  is 
at  the  outset  of  her  career. 
It  is  a  fact 
that  the  rich  are  sometimes able to drive 
a  better  bargain  than  those  who  are 
not  so  liberally  supplied  with  the means 
to  do  what  they  want.  And  they  are 
very  likely  to  do  this  in  the  case  of 
their  friends.

“ Well,  why  in  the  world  should  I pay 
Mary  Brown,  whom  I  have  known  all 
my  life,  $30  for that  hat?”   one customer 
of  a  young  milliner  asked  at  her  open- 
ng  the  other  day. 
“ I  can  get  it  for 
the  same  money  at  Clementine’s ."

It  did  not  make  any  difference  to  her 
that  the  bonnet  had  come  from  the same 
house 
in  Paris  as  that  shown  by  the 
French  milliner.  She  had  known  Mary 
Brown  for  a 
long  time  and  it  was  too 
much  to  expect  that  she  should  receive 
for  a  hat  the  same  price  that  a  French 
milliner  would  ask.  This  was  her  view 
and  many  customers  of  their  friends 
reason  in  the  same  way.

It  is  just  such  experiences  that  have 
led  the  young  women  who  now  start  in 
business  to  rely  on  what  they  can  do  to 
please  the  great  public  rather  than  to 
expect  to  make  any  permanent  progress 
through  the  help  of  their  friends.  They 
know  that  they  may  expect  but  little 
from  that  source. 
It  may  help  to  start 
them  a 
little  way  on  their  path,  but  it 
will  never  keep  them  going.— N.  Y. 
Sun.

Behind  the  Scenes.

Circus  Manager— What’s  all  that  row 
n  the  dressing  room?
Attendant—Oh,  the  man  who  walks 
barefoot  on  swords  ran  a  splinter  in  bis 
foot.

WOMAN’S START IN   BUSINESS.

G irls W ho Have Learned to Rely on Them 

selves.

The  girl  who  goes  to  work  nowadays 
differs  in  many  particulars  from  her 
predecessor  of  a  decade  or  more  ago. 
The  most  striking  point  of  difference 
probably  is  her  independence  of  her old 
friends  and  her  willingness,  even  her 
determination,  to 
look  out  for  herself 
once  she  has  taken  the  step  that  trans 
fers  her  into  the  ranks  of  the  workers 
and  out  of the  leisure  class  to  which  she 
belonged.

When  a  girl  formerly  decided  to  start 
out  for  herself,  she looked about  the  cir 
cle  of  her  friends  to  see  how  she  might 
do  something 
in  the  line  of  her  work 
If  it  was  millinery  or  dress 
for them. 
making,  she  appealed  first  to 
them 
and  really  began  her  career as  a  worker 
with  the  idea  of  getting  most  of  her 
patronage  from  them.

Even  further  back  in  the  history  of 
woman’s  efforts  to  help  herself  it  was 
on  her  friends  that  she  relied. 
If  she 
made  pickles  or  put  up  jelly,  she  did 
not  put  her  products  on  the  market  at 
first,  but  sought  to  have  her  friends  buy 
them. 
If they  did,  she  considered  that 
she  had  been  fortunate  and  it  was  only 
after  a  year  or  two  when  her  friends 
thought  that  they  had  helped  her  along 
enough  and  ceased 
to  buy  that  she 
learned  that  she  had  made  a  false  start 
in  relying  upon  a  circle  of  customers 
who  were  not  attracted  by  the  quality 
of  what  she  offered  nor  by  any  real need 
of  it,  hut bought only  through  friendship 
and  a  desire  to  help  her.  And  that  is 
not  the  way  to  begin  any  kind  of  busi 
ness  that  is  to  continue  prosperously.

So  the  girl  who  works  to-day  tries  to 
get  as  far  as  she  can  from  the patronage 
that  comes  only  from  good  will.  She 
likes  to  start  out  dependent  only  on  the 
customers  that  the  quality  of  her  work 
may  attract  and  hold.  Of  course  he 
customers  are  likely  to  be  from  her  own 
social  circle  until  she  has  made  a  repu 
tation  in  business.  But  that  difficulty  is 
now  frequently  got  over  by  the  manner 
in  which  the  women  start.

One  of  the  most  prosperous  of  the  so 
called  society  milliners  began  her  work 
two  years  ago  with  a  milliner  who  had 
been  established  for  some  years.

“ 1  had  bought  hats  from  her  when  I 
never  supposed  I would  have  to  think  of 
the  way  I  should  get  the  money  I 
wanted,"  she said,  "and  madameknew 
that  I  had  taste  and  could  frequently 
suggest  things  to  her  that  she  never 
thought  of  herself,  not  because  she 
hadn't  the 
ingenuity  or  the  imagina­
tion,  but  because  she  was  so  much  oc­
cupied  that  things  didn’t  occur  to  her.
“ One  day  after  I  couldn’t  afford  to 
have  just  as  much  as  I  had  always  had, 
she  asked  me  if  I  bad  ever thought  of 
going  to  work. 
I  told  her  that  I  had 
been  discussing  the  matter  with  my 
mother  that  very  morning.

lady 

"   ‘ Come  to  me,’  she  said,  ‘ I  have  too 
much  to  do,  and  you  are  just  the  person 
to  relieve  me. 
1 want  somebody  who is 
like  you  to  stand  here  and  see 
a 
that  the  customers  are  properly 
re­
ceived,  and  I  know  that  you  have  taste 
enough  to  make  me 
suggestions  at 
times.  You  will  be  as  well  paid  here 
as  you  would  be  anywhere  and  the work 
is  not  hard.  And the  easiest  thing  about 
the  work  for  you  here  will  be  your 
in­
dependence  from  your  friends. 
I  won't 
require  you  to  ask  them  to come  and 
buy  my  hats,  because  you  are  in  the 
shop,  and  that  will  be  a  greater  relief 
than  you  realize.  Business  that  is  built 
on  that  principle  is  rarely  lasting,  and

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care  for  you  feelings.  There  will  be 
nothing  to  which  you  can  appeal  if  the 
day  ever  comes  when  you  will  need  to 
save  her  from  making  some  terrible 
mistake— when  you  will  need  to  save 
her  from  herself.”

The  other  day  I  heard  the  sequel  to 
the  story.  The  girl  grew  up,  and  by 
nd  by  she  made  the  acquaintance  on 
the  street  of  people  her  mother could 
not  know,  and  when  her  parents  roused 
up  to  a  sense  of  their duty  at  last,  at­
tempted  to  control  her,  she  laughed  at 
them  and  defied  them  and  went  her 
way,  and  there  came  a  day  when  her 
mother  would  have  been  glad 
to 
look  upon  her  dead 
face  and  know 
that  she  was  safe.

This  is  an  old  view  of  an  old  subject, 
and  it  is  only  of  late  that  we  have  come 
to  realize  that  the  mother  is  as  much 
responsible  for  her  children’s  physical 
welfare  as  she 
is  for  their  mental  and 
moral  development.  The  other  day  I 
had  this  subject forcibly impressed upon 
me  in  a  curious  way. 
I  was  talking  to 
“ beauty  doctor,”   a  man  of  deeply 
scientific  attainments  who  devotes  his 
great  skill  to  making  people better look-

ng,  and  he  boldly  declared  that  a 
mother  who  lets  a  child  grow  up  ugly 
is  a  criminal.

“ Of  course,”   he  said,  “ I  am  not 
speaking  of  those  horrible  deformities 
that  pass  all  human  skill,  but  just  the 
little  blemishes  that  mortify  and  annoy 
people  all  their  lives.  Think,  for  in­
stance,  of  dooming  a  man  to  go through 
the  world  how-legged  or  knock-kneed 
when  the  simplest  of  surgical  opera­
tions  will  remedy  the  defect.  The  same 
thing  may  be  said  about  the  teeth. 
Nothing  is  uglier  than  a  tusk or crooked 
teeth,  and  half  the  time  the  whole mat­
ter  could  be  remedied  simply  by having 
a  tooth  drawn 
in  time  and  giving  the 
other  teeth  room.

It 

“ Then,  there’s  the  nose. 

is  just 
as  much  a  mother’s  duty  to  train  up  a 
nose  in  the  way  it  should  go  as  it  is  for 
her to  cultivate  proper  manners  in  her 
little  ones.  There’s  absolutely  no  use 
in  a  mother  submitting  to  the  affliction 
of  permitting  her child  to  have  a  hide­
ous  nose  because  it  was  born  with  one. 
The  soft  tissues  can  be  molded  early  in 
life.  A  thick  nose  can  be  made thinner 
by  regular  treatment,  such  as  compress-

ing  it  daily,  either  with  the  fingers  or 
with  instruments  made  with springs  and 
padded  ends  so  as  to  clasp  the  nose.  A 
clever  woman  I  once  knew  adjusted  a 
clothespin  so  it  did  the  work  perfectly. 
Many  noses  are  wrung  and  twisted  out 
of  shape  by  the  two  vigorous  use  of  the 
handkerchief.  A  pretty  nose  is  one  of 
the  rarest  and  most  important  elements 
of  good  looks,  and  it  is  surely  a  moth­
er’s  duty  to  see  that  her  child  gets  one 
naturally,  if  she  can,  artificially,  if  nec­
essary.

“ Flopping  ears  can  be  trained  to 
grow  close  to  the  head  by  being  kept 
bandaged  back  while  the child is young. 
Pretty  hair  can,  of  course,  be  secured 
by  proper  brushing  and  cultivation, 
while  a  good  complexion,  woman’s 
crowning  charm  and  beauty,  is  simply 
the  result  of  proper  food.  Ninety-nine 
out  of  a  hundred  sallow,  pasty  skins 
are  merely  the  visible  and  outward  sign 
of  a  childhood  diet  of  pickles  and  pies 
and  candy.

“ A  beautiful  form  can  be  secured  to 
any  child  by  physical  culture.  A  good 
walk  and  a  graceful  carriage,  two  ele­
ments  of  beauty  that  are  not  sufficiently

20
Woman’s World

Responsibility  o t  the  M other  for  the 

Child’s  Looks.

It  must  occur  to  every  thoughtful  per­
son  that  the  occupation  of  being  a 
mother  is  a  much  harder  job  nowadays 
than  it  used  to  be.  Time  was  when the 
comfortable  belief  prevailed  that  chil­
dren  were  merely  little  animals,  and  if 
they  were  kept  reasonably  clean,  fed 
when  they  were  hungry,  kissed  when 
they  were  good  and  spanked  when  they 
needed 
it,  a  woman  felt  that  she  had 
done  her  full  duty,  and  could  leave  the 
rest  to  Providence.

Sometimes  the  children  were  pretty 
and  healthy  and  strong,  and  then  the 
mother  complacently  took  credit  to  her­
self  for them.  Often  they  were  homely 
and  sickly  and  delicate,  and  when  they 
died  she  wept  bitter  tears  and  spoke  of 
mysterious  afflictions,  but  it  never  oc­
curred  to  her  that  she  was  in  any  way- 
responsible  for  the  tragedies  she 
la­
mented.

We  have  gotten  a  long  ways  now  from 
those  cheerful,  happy-go-lucky  views  of 
a  mother’s  duties—so  far,  indeed,  that 
the 
intelligent  mother  who tries  to  do 
her  part  by  her  family  stands  a  good 
chance  of  being  crushed  under  her  load 
of  responsibility.  The  present  view  of 
the  child  is  not  of  the  little  animal  who 
will  grow  up  the  way  he  was  born,  but 
of  something  infinitely  plastic  that  the 
mother’s  hand  may  shape  physically, 
mentally  and  morally  into  whatever  she 
chooses.

inexorable  and 

It  is  a  platitude  to  say  that  the  mold­
ing  of  character  lies almost entirely with 
the  mother.  There 
is  no  luck  in  the 
way  children  turn  out.  The  result  is  al 
ways  the 
inescapable 
logic  of  cause  and  effect.  Men  do  not 
sow  tares  and  expect  to  reap  wheat 
and  no  parent  who  lets  a  child  grow  up 
uncontrolled,  disobedient,  undutiful 
has  any  right  to  look  for  his  teachings 
to  bear  any  harvest  but  sorrow  and  anx 
iety.  The  days  of  miracles  are  past 
and  nothing 
to 
change  the  selfish,  head-strong  boy  or 
girl  into the  loving  and considerate man 
or  woman.

is  going  to  happen 

There 

is  not  a  single  sihy  girl  who 
brings  shame  and  misery  on  herself 
there  is  not  a  wild  boy  who  breaks  his 
mother’s  heart  by  his  dissipation;  there 
is  not  even  an  unsuccessful,  no-account 
loafer  who  have  not  a  right  to  reproach 
their  parents  with  their  fate  and  say, 
"T h is  is  your  work.  If  you  had  con 
trolled  me  while  1  was  a  child,  if  you 
had  taught  me  to  bridle  my  passions 
and  my  appetite,  if  you  had  instilled 
the habit  of  obedience  in  me  and  taught 
me  persistence  of  purpose and  industry 
I  should  not  now  be  the  poor,  ruined 
creature  that  you  see.  I  blame  you  with 
my  wretched  life  and  ruined  happi­
ness. ’ ’

A  few  years  ago  I  was  sitting  on  a 
hotel  piazza  with  a  group  of  women, 
and  one  of  them  kept  calling  to  her  lit­
tle  daughter,  a  child  of 
io,  who  had 
been 
ill,  and  telling  her to  come  into 
the  house.  The  girl  did  not  even  pay 
her  mother the  courtesy  of  a  reply,  and 
the  mother turned  to  me  and  said :  “ I 
can  do  nothing  with  her.  She  doesn’t 
obey  a  word  I  say  and  I  have  absolutely 
no control  over  her. ’ ’

“ Whether she  comes  in  out  of the rain 
or  not,”   I  replied,  “ doesn’t  matter 
much,  but  what  are  you  going  to  do 
when  she  gets  grown?  You  have  estab­
lished  no  habit  of  obedience  in  her,  she 
has  no  respect 
for  your  judgm ent,  no

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New  Jersey,  in  the  Third  Circuit,  on  the  part  of  the  ENOCH  MORGAN’S  SONS  COMPANY,  Complainant,  that 
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KOCH,  your  clerks,  attorneys,  agents,  salesmen  and  workmen,  and  all  claiming  or  holding  through  or  under  you, 
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absolutely  desist  and  refrain  from  in  any  manner  unlawfully  using  the  word  “  SAPOLIO,”  or  any  word  or  words 
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soap  not  made  or  produced  by  or  for  the  Complainant,  and  from  directly,  or  indirectly,

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false  or  misleading  manner.

SAPOLIO"  In  any

f   The  honorable  Melville  W.  F uller,  Chief  Justice  of  the  Supreme  Court  of  the 
in  said  District  of  New 

United  States  of  America,  at  the  City  of  Trenton, 
Jersey,  this  16th  day  of  December,  in  the  year  of  our  Lord,  one 
eight  hundred  and  ninety-two.

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appreciated,  can  be  taught  as  easily  as 
the  a,  b,  c’s,  and,  therefore,  I  say  that 
it  is  absolutely  in  the  mother’s  power 
to  say  whether  her  children  shall  be 
good-looking  or  not. 
If  she  has  the  in­
telligence,  the 
industry  and  the  pa­
tience  she  can  cultivate  beauty  where 
none really  exists,and outwit  old  Mother 
Nature  herself.

“ It 

is  also  in  a  mother’s  power to 
determine  the  health  of  her  family. 
It 
used  to  be  that  when  a  woman  had  del­
icate  and  sickly  children  she  simply 
resigned  herself  to  what  she  called  the 
inscrutable  will  of  Providence,  and  let 
them  die  or grow  up  into  thin-chested, 
spindling  girls  and  boys  who  were 
doomed  to  semi-invalidism  all  their 
lives.

“ Now,  if  she  be 

intelligent  enough, 
she  fights  disease  for  her  children.  The 
most  robust  family  I  know  were  all 
puny  children  who  belonged  to  what 
our  grandmothers  would  have  called  a 
consumptive  family  and  would  have  re­
signed  to  an  early grave.  From the time 
they  were  born,  their  mother  began  to 
build  up  a  constitution  for them.  They 
were  reared  on  simple  and  nourishing 
food,  their  muscles  were  trained,  they 
were  taught  to breathe  deeply  and  they 
into  splendid  specimens  of 
grew  up 
vigorous  and 
joyous  young  man  and 
womanhood.

“ Show  me  a  woman’s 

children,’ ’ 
went  on  the  professor  of  beauty,  “ and  1 
will  tell  you  what  sort  of  a  woman  she 
If  they  are  rosy,  bright-eyed  and 
is. 
healthy  she  is  a  woman  of 
intelligence 
and  industry. 
If  they  are  pasty-faced 
and  sickly,  nine  times  out  of  ten  it  is 
the  direct result  of  their  mother's  ignor­
ance  and  laziness.

it 

“ Being  a  mother— ”   1  began.
“ Being  a  mother,’ ’  interrupted  the 
professor,  “ is  the  greatest  profession 
on  earth,  and  the  one  that  requires  the 
widest  knowledge,  and 
is  this  that 
makes  the  unanswerable  plea  for  the 
higher education  of  women. 
is  ig­
norance,  and  not  intent  to  murder,  that 
makes a woman  give  her  baby  a  cucum­
ber  pickle  to  cut 
its  teeth  upon,  and 
with  a  race  of  educated  mothers  we 
shall  produce  a  race  that  will  not  only 
be  strong  and  healthy,  but  as  beautiful 
as  the  ancient  Greeks. ”

It 

Dorothy  Dix.

W om an’s  W ork  at the  Pan-Am ericau.
That  golf,  tennis  and  country  club 
life  has  not  banished  the  womanly  art 
of  needlework  is  proved  by  the  exhibit 
of  this  work  at  the  Buffalo  fair.  All 
day  long  crowds  of  women  are  grouped 
about  the  cases  filled  with  lace  work, 
embroidered  linen,  drawn  work  and  the 
old-fashioned  tapestry  embroidery.  The 
linens  embroidered  in  the  colored  wash 
in  floral  designs  are  easily  the 
silks 
most  attractive  and 
interesting  of  the 
specimens,  for  the  work 
is  still  com­
paratively  new,  and  the  manufacturers 
of  the  silks  are  constantly  improving 
on  their  colorings  and  adding  new  ones 
for  the  various  designs.
The  strawberry,  with 

its  leaves  and 
blossoms,  seems  to  have  been  brought 
to  the  highest  perfection,  many  speci­
mens  of  this  design  being  shown behind 
handsome  frames  and  having  all  the 
appearance  of  an  exquisite  and  finely 
finished  water  color.  Baskets  of  straw­
berries,  in  which  the  wood  is  faithfully 
copied 
in  silk  and  the  fruit  piled  in  a 
glass  dish,  showing  its  crimson  through 
the  frosted  dish,  show  to  what  wonder­
ful  perfection 
silkmakers  have 
brought  their  wares,  as  well  as  display­

the 

ing  the  skill  of  the  modern  woman  with 
her  needle.

The  linen  work  shows  up  in  contrast 
to  the  cases  of  more  somber  work,  the 
tapestries,  some  of  them,  portraits  of 
notabilities,  resembling  oil  paintings  in 
the  fidelity  with  which  the  flesh  tints 
are  reproduced.  But  the  linen  work 
showing  the  flowers  standing  well  out 
from  the  white  surface,  perfectly  coun­
terfeited  not  only 
in  color  but  in  the 
curve  of  the  petal,  which  is  now  so  per­
fectly  reproduced  by  the  underfilling  of 
soft  cotton,  is  admirable  evidence  that 
embroidery  can  not  be  relegated  to  the 
lost  arts.

A  centerpiece  which  has  pleased  most 
of  the  women  visitors  is  a  combination 
of  the  tea  rose  with  delicate  sprays  of 
maidenhair  fern.  Then  there  are  others 
showing  the  poppy,  the  pansy  and  the 
orchid,  all  beautiful,  as  though  the  col­
ors  were 
laid  on  with  a  brush,  instead 
of  a  needle,  and  possessing  a  softness 
and  sheen  which  no  brush  could  ever 
impart. 
It  is  true  that  in  a  case nearby 
a  sewing  machine  company  has  an  ex­
hibit  of  similar articles,  claimed  to  be 
done  by  their  machines,  but  while  these 
things  at  first  glance  look  the  same  as 
the  handmade  pieces,  no  one  can  ex­
amine  the  floral  reproductions  and  fail 
to  see  the  difference  between  the  me­
chanically  made  centers  and  those made 
by  hand.

A  young  woman  demonstrator  illus­
trates  how  the  work  is  done  on  the  ma­
chine,  and  it  is  a  slow  and  unsatisfac­
tory-looking  process  to  any  one  who 
knows  the  pleasure  of  embroidering  by 
hand,  one  of  the  chief  pleasures  of  life 
to  the  home  woman.  The 
stamped 
linen  is  stretched  on  rings,  as  for  hand­
work,  and 
is  manipulated  under  the 
rising  and  falling  needle,  the  ting  be­

ing  worked  back  and  forth,  and  fre­
quently  turned 
in  order  to  insure  the 
proper  direction. 
looks  extremely 
tedious  and  tiresome  and  would  appar­
ently  tax  the  eyes  to  the  utmost.

It 

An  interesting  exhibit  in  this  room  is 
an  autograph  quilt  valued  at  $30,000, 
made 
in  silk  crazy  patchwork,  each 
patch  bearing  a  distinguished  name 
in  pencil  by  its  owner  and  then 
traced 
worked 
in  silk  by  the  maker  of  the 
quilt.  More  than  a  thousand  celebrities 
are  represented 
in  this  unique  collec­
tion.  While  it  is  undoubtedly  interest­
ing  and  valuable,  it  can  not  be  called 
beautiful.  Crazy  patchwork,  which 
gained  a  great  vogue  when  it  first  came 
out  about  ten  years  ago,  was  a  clever 
method  of  utilizing  old  scraps  of  silk, 
but 
the  work  was  never  especially 
pretty. 
It  was  odd  and  bizarre  and 
suggested  its  name.

Another  exhibit  upon  which  the  enor­
mous  value  of $8,000  is  placed is an old, 
fashioned 
“ sampler-work"  worsted 
afghan. 
It  is  one  of  the  old-time  bits 
of  work  upon  which  an  infinitely  great 
number  of  stitches  were  placed  to  make 
the  background  as  well  as  the  design. 
To  the  modern  woman  the old-fashioned 
work  does  not  appeal.  Unlike old  lace, 
it  has  not  the  charm  of  delicacy  to 
recommend  it.

China  painting,  which  a  few  years 
ago  was  not  only  a  fad  with  women, 
but  promised  to  become  one  of  the  pay­
ing  vocations 
feminine  hands, 
seems  to  have  lost  its  vogue  generally 
in  the  last  five  years,  and the  fine  show­
ing  of  decorated  china  at  the  Buffalo 
exhibition 
is  a  surpiise  to  those  who 
have  lost  their  first  interest  in the  work.
indicates 
that  this  form  of  needle  work  will  dis­
place  the  linen  embroidery  in  popular­

The  showing  of  lace  work 

for 

ity. 
Its  delicacy  and  wonderful  origi­
nality  of  pattern  are  such  that  Ameri­
can  laces,  it  would  seem,  will  excel  the 
foreign-made  article  before  many  years 
have  passed. 

Cora  Stowell.

Not  Getting H er Share.

Eunice  had  been  doing  some  figuring 

on  her  slate.

“ Papa,”   she  said,  “ do  you  know 
this  country  eats  about  2,600,000 tons  of 
sugar every  year?”

“ No,  I  don’t  know  it,”  replied  papa, 
taught  by  past  experience  to  be  cau­
tious.

I  saw  it  in  a paper.”  

“ Well,  it’s  so. 
“ Yes?  What  of  it,  dear?”
“ Nothing,  only  I’ve  been  finding  out 
how  much  every  man,  woman  and  child 
in  the  United  States  eats,  on  an  aver- 
age.”

“ Well,  how  much  is  it?”
“ It’s  about  66  pounds  a  year.  I  don’t 
believe  I  eat  the  half of  that,  and  yet 
you  make  a  fuss  every  time  I  want— ”  
surrender. 
Here’s  a  quarter.  Go  and  get  your  box 
of  candy.”

“ That’ll  do,  child. 

I 

H nstlers  and  Non-Hustlers.

“ I  tell  you,”   the  sprightly  passenger 
in  the  pepper-and-salt  suit  was  saying, 
“ there  is  nothing  like  get  up  and  hus­
tle. 
1  hustle.  If  business  doesn’t  come 
to  me  I  go  out  and  hunt  it.  Yesterday 
1  made  nearly  $11  repairing  sewing 
machines.  Had  six  jobs. 
I  can  afford 
to  take  a  holiday  once  in  a  while.”  

“ Well,”   slowly  replied  the  passenger 
in  the  suit  of  sombre  black,  “ I’m  not 
so  good  on  the  hustle. 
I’ve  had  only 
one  job  in  the  last  six  months.”  

“ That’s  too  bad,”   returned  the  other 
“ What’s  your  occupa­

sympathizingly. 
tion?”

“ Building  lighthouses.”

Im p o rtan t to  Know.

She—The  fortune  teller  says  I  shall 

He—Good !  Did  she  say  how  I  was 

marry  money.

to  make  it?

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increase 

in  prices 

reporting  a 

Observations by a  Gotham   Egg H an.
The  egg  situation  has  taken  on  a  de­
cidedly  stronger  aspect  during  the  past 
week.  There  has  evidently  been  a  con­
siderable 
in  the  current  con­
sumptive  requirements  of  our local trade 
incident  to  the  return  of  citizens  who 
spend  the  summer  out  of  town,  and  it 
has  come  at  the  same  time  with  a  ma­
terial  decrease 
in  our  receipts  of  fresh 
gathered  eggs.  The  recent  rapid  ad­
vance 
is  a  direct  result  of 
these  conditions.  Recent  advices  from 
the  West  have  indicated  some  decrease 
in  collections  and  some 
in 
outlets.  Probably  the  country  accumu­
lations 
that  occurred  during  August 
were  largely  marketed  during  the  first 
half  of  September  for collectors  are  now 
lighter  run  of 
generally 
is  also  doubtless  some 
stock.  There 
holding  back  of  production 
in  the 
hands  of  farmers.  Demands  for  fresh 
eggs  from  Southern  points  and  from  the 
far  Western  mining  sections  have  lately 
been 
increasing,  and  have  stimulated 
prices  at  Western  shipping  points  to 
such  an  extent  that  the  margin  on  East­
ern  shipments,  based  upon  the  values 
recently  ruling  here,  have  been  wiped 
out.  The  natural  result  has  been  a 
lighter  Eastward  movement,  and  the 
indications now  are  that  a  larger  part  of 
the  Eastern  consumptive  demand  will, 
hereafter,  have  to  be  supplied  from  the 
refrigerators.  The  advance 
in  fresh 
gathered  eggs 
lately  established  has 
been  sufficient  to  divert  a  larger  part  of 
the  consumptive  demand  to  refrigerator 
eggs  and  to  relieve  the  stringency  of the 
situation  considerably.  Offerings  of 
refrigerators  are  still  very  free,  and 
while  the  slight  weakness  previously 
noted  has  been  recovered  from,  there 
has  been  no  advance 
commensurate 
with  the  advance 
in  high  grade  fresh 
and  the  difference  in  value  is  now  more 
nearly  normal  to the  season  than  it  has 
been  heretofore.

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Last  year  the  price  of  Western  fresh 
loss  off  basis 
gathered  reached  a  20c 
only  a  few  days 
later  than  this  year, 
and  the  advance  to  that  point  was  then 
maintained  steadily  up  to  October  15, 
when  21c  was  reached  and  carried  with­
out  a  break  up  to  November  2.  Later 
there  was  a  rapid  rise  in  prices,  fancy 
Western  reaching  27c during  the  month 
of  November.  The  only  reason  for  an­
less  extreme  advance  this 
ticipating  a 
year  lies 
in  the  earlier  date  at  which 
prices  have  been  forced  above  a  20  per 
cent,  basis  and  in larger remaining  sup­
plies  of  refrigerator  eggs—but  it  proved 
last  year  that  more  desirable  held  stock 
could  have  been  moved  to  advantage 
than  was  held  over 
into  the  late  fall 
and  winter  months,  so  that  the  present 
situation  seems  to  offer  promise  of  at 
least  a  satisfactory  wind  up. 
It  must, 
however,  be 
considered  that  reserve 
stocks  are  probably more  than  ample  for 
all  requirements  up  to  the  turn  of  the 
year and  that  the  later  markets  depend 
entirely  upon  the  character  of  the  win­
ter  weather.  Egg  production  is  receiv­
ing  more  and  more  attention  every  year 
in  those  Southern  sections  from  which 
winter  egg  supplies  may  be  drawn,  and

M ICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

while  the  possibilities  of  extreme  win­
ter  values,  resulting  from  widespread 
bad  weather,  are  still  a  part  of  the  gam­
ble,  they  are  becoming  less  every  year. 

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A 

lot  of  kids  of  both  sexes  got  into  a 
freight  car  loaded  with  eggs  over  in 
Jersey  City  the  other  day  and,  break­
ing  open  some  of  the  cases,  filled  their 
pockets  with  the  hen  fruit  and  engaged 
in  a  battle  with  dire  results.  A  detec­
tive  appeared  on  the  scene  and  arrested 
one  of  the  youngsters _ named  Mamie 
Burk,  twelve  years  old.  She  needed 
cleaning  before 
incarceration.— N.  Y. 
Produce  Review.

F eatures o f This  T ear’s  B ay  Crop. 

From the New York Commercial.

larger  than 

The  hay  crop  of  the  United  States  for 
this  year  amounts  to  about  51,000,000 
tons,  being  slightly 
last 
year’s,  but  under  the  one  of  1899  and 
1898.  The 
latter  crop  (1898)  was  the 
largest  on  record,  exceeding  66,000,000 
tons.  The  crop  gathered  this  year  has 
been  exceeded  only  seven  times 
in  the 
last  twenty-six  years,  but  it  is  4,000,000 
tons  less  than  the  average  for  the  past 
ten  years.

One  feature  of  interest is that this year 
New  York  State  leads  all  others  with  a 
yield  of  5,263,000 tons. 
Iowa  is  a  good 
second  with  a  crop  of  5,000,000tons  and 
South  Dakota  a  poor  third  with  a  yield 
of  3,290,000  tons.  Pennsylvania  comes 
next  with  a  crop  of  3,159,000  tons. 
Comparisons  made  with  conditions  a 
year  ago  disclose  great  variation  by  in­
dividual  states. 
In  1900  Iowa and  Kan­
sas  were  first  and  second,  respectively, 
in  point  of  hay  yield.  This  year,  as  a 
rule,  the  states  included  in  the  territory 
east  of  Indiana  and  north  of  Virginia 
have  a  much  heavier crop,  while  in  the 
Southern  and  Western  States  the  yield 
is  short  compared  with  production  in 
1900.

Corn  Canning  in   Vermont.

From the Burlington Free  Press.

industry. 

Factories  for  the  canning  of  corn  and 
other  products  have  been  established 
but  a  comparatively  short  time  in  Ver­
mont,  yet  enough 
is  already  known  of 
the  results  of  their operation  to  justify 
the  most  sanguine  predictions  of  suc­
cess  for  this 
Indeed,  in  the 
light  of  present  developments  it  is  sur­
prising  that  the  field  is  not  rapidly  ex­
tended,  not  only  as  regards  the  multi­
plication  of  factories,  but  also  in  rela­
tion  to the  canning  of  fruit  and  various 
kinds  of  vegetables.  For  example,  a 
factory  for  the  canning  of  corn  was  es­
tablished  in  Franklin  county  some  time 
ago  and  operations  have  been  begun 
with  the  expectation  that  a  much  larger 
amount  of  work  will  be  done  this  year 
than  was  done  last season.  Seventy-two 
farmers  planted  corn  for the  company 
this  year,  425  acres  of  land  being  de­
voted  to that  purpose. 
It  is  also  stated 
that  65,000  cans  have  been  put  up  thus 
far,  and 
it  is  estimated  that  the  total 
output  of  this  one  factory  for  the  season 
will  be  the  enormous  number  of  800,000 
cans.

Got Late  Crop  of Pickles.

From the Syracuse Herald.

Emory  J.  Brown,  of  Oneida,  N.  Y., 
has  been  trying  an  experiment in pickle 
production  which  is  proving  successful. 
On  July  29  he  planted  a  crop  of pickles, 
using  a  field  which  had  already  pro­
duced  a  crop  of  peas.  The  pickle  vines 
have  grown  remarkably,  have blossomed 
fully,  and  small  cucumbers  have already 
set.  Mr.  Brown  will  commence  picking 
them  for  canning  purposes  this  week. 
Those  who  claim  to  know  of  the  growth 
of  the  cucumber  vine  pronounce  this 
growth  after  such  a 
late  planting  as

wonderful.  Next  year  many  farmers 
will  try  the  same  experiment.

How  to  H ake  A pple Cider.

From the Orange Judd Farmer.

Apples  intended  for  cider  should  not 
be  piled  on  the  ground,  for  they  will 
soon  acquire  an  earthy  flavor.  This 
will  taint  the  cider and  lower  its  qual­
ity.  Neither  should  they  be  stored  in 
closed  bins  without  free  circulation  of 
air.  Decay  soon  sets 
loss  of 
quality 
is  sure  to  result.  Lay  down 
some  boards  under the  trees  and  upon 
these  place  the  apples  which  are  to  go 
to  the  cider  mill.  They  will  keep  very 
well  in  that  way,  but  it  is  advisable  to 
get  them  to  the  mill  as  soon  as possible.

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23

The New York Market

Special Features  of the Grocery and P rod­
Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

New  York,  Sept.  28— Nobody  is  sorry 
that  September  is  gone. 
It  has  been  a 
month  of  sad  memories  and  a  partial 
suspension  of  business  for  some  time. 
But  now  that  it  is  evident  no  change 
will  be  made  in  the  policy  of  the  Gov­
ernment,  every  day  is  showing  more  ac­
tivity  and  for  the  next  three  months 
everybody  thinks  we  shall  have  a  mag­
nificent  trade.

The  coffee  market  is  duller than  usual 
and  all  recent  attempts  to  bolster  up 
rates  have  signally  failed.  The  supply 
in  this  city  was  never  so 
large  and 
warehouses  are  almost  as  good  as  gold 
mines. 
In  store  and  afloat  the  amount 
aggregates  2,196,568  bags,  against  868,- 
926  bags  at  the  same  time  last  year. 
Crop  movement  at  primary  points  con­
tinues 
large  every  day,  running  up  to
80,000  bags.  The  demand  has  been  of 
an average  character and  if  anybody  can 
see  any  reason  for  expecting  higher 
prices  than  now  prevail for some time  to 
come  he  can  see  through  a  stone  wall. 
West  Indias  are  mildly  enquired  for and 
are  generally  found  at  a  price  satisfac­
tory  to  the  buyer,  good  Cucuta  being 
held  at  7^c.  East India  sorts  are  quiet 
and  unchanged.

Teas  at  auction  have  shown  some  im­
provement  for  almost  all  sorts  and 
im­
porters  seem  to  be  quite  cheerful  over 
the  situation,  which  has  shown  steady 
improvement.  There 
is  no  tea  boom, 
of  course,  but,  as  compared  with  the 
situation  prevailing  six  weeks  ago,  the 
present  outlook  is  most  encouraging.

is  a 

With 

in  sugars 

New  business 

is  mighty 
light.  There 
little  doing  on  old 
contracts,  but  the  rush  is  over  and  we 
may 
look  now  for only  the  usual  trade. 
Refineries  are  making  prompt  deliv­
eries  of  hard  sugars,  but  Arbuckles  are 
said  to  be  behind  a  week  on  softs.

the  continued  excellent  de­
mand  it  is  a  wonder  that  prices  on  rice 
have  not  advanced  more  than they have. 
The  market  is  firm  and  dealers  express 
great  satisfaction  with  the  present  out­
look.  They  would  be  glad  to  see  pota­
toes  short  every  year.

Only  an  average  trade  is  being  done 
in  spices  and  hardly  that.  Prices  are 
quite  generally  well  sustained,  how­
ever,  and  it  is  probably  as  good  a  time 
to  buy  as  will  be  found  this  year.

Molasses  is  firm.  The  demand  shows 
some 
improvement  almost  every  -day 
and,  as  offerings  are  light  of  open-ket­
tle  goods, quotations  are  well  sustained, 
although  not  higher  than  a  week  ago. 
Syrups  are  rather quiet  and  quotations 
are  unchanged.

There  is  a  steadily  advancing  market 
on  many 
lines  of  canned  goods  and, 
from  present  appearances,  this  state  of 
things  will  continue  right  along.  New 
Jersey  tomatoes,  standard  3s,  can  not  be 
found  for  less  than  $1  and  $1.05  for 
fancy,  and  stock  is  being  rapidly  taken 
at  that.  With  a  frost  soon,  the  tomato 
market  will  simply  boom  and  it  will  be 
well  to  “ make  a  note  on’t.”

Dried  fruits  seem  to  sympathize  with 
the  canned  goods  market  and,  while  the 
strength 
is  not  so  observable,  it  is  in­
creasing.  Prices  are  firm  and  the  de­
mand 
lines.  The 
opening  quotations  made  Friday  by  the 
California  Raisin  Growers’  Association 
caused  considerable  talk  and  a  good 
deal  of  surprise 
is  occasioned  by  the 
low  prices  named.

is  good  for  many 

Butter  is  firm.  The  market  shows 
steady  advance  and  best Western cream­
ery 
is  now  firm  at  22c  and  in  some 
cases  this  figure  has  been  slightly  ex­
ceeded.  Firsts,  i8@2ij£c;  Western  imi­
tation  creamery,  15@ i 8c ;  Western  fac­
tory,  i4@i5Jic.

Exporters have  taken  all  large  colored 
cheese  they  could  find  at  9^c,  and  the 
market  generally  is  rather  firmer than  a 
week  ago.  Small  full  cream  cheese  is 
worth 
io@io#c,  and  small  uncolored 
about  ic  lower.

Eggs  are  firm  and  the  supply  is  not 
equal  to  the  demand  of  the  better  sorts. 
Best  Western,  22c;  candled,  2o@2ic; 
regular  pack,  i8@I9C.

Changes  W hich  Have  Made  Hop Growing 

Unprofitable.

The  question, will  it  pay  to  grow  hops 
at  present  prices?  is  one  that  is  being 
very  generally  discussed  by  growers  at 
present.  A  proper  answer 
involves 
about  every 
interest,  as  the  culture  of 
hops  has  been  for  a  long  time  the  prin­
cipal  industry  of  this  section.  Upon  it 
is  based  not  only  the  success  or  failure 
of  most  farmers  here,  but  in  a  large 
measure  our  financial  policy.  Merchan­
dise,  banking  and  transportation  are 
largely  modified  by  this  crop,  but  under 
the  pressure  of  low  prices  extreme ideas 
are  developed 
in  regard  to  growing  of 
hops,  and  it  seems  difficult  for  the  most 
intelligent  farmers  to  keep  themselves 
upon  an  equilibrium  on  the  subject. 
Many  reasons  are  given  for  the  low 
price  of  hops,  from  the  overproduction 
of  the  crop  to  the  demonetization  of  sil­
ver,  and  it  may  be  that  all  of them have 
had  some 
influence  in  bringing  prices 
down  to  present  figures.  But  we  take 
the  position  that  it  makes  little  differ­
ence  whether  we  agree  as  to  the  cause 
of  the  decline  or  not,  we  must  all  agree 
that  the  decline  has  been  great  and  that 
present  prices  are  nearly  ruinous.

losses  - by  reducing 

What,  then,  must  be  done  to  prevent 
further  decline  and  further  loss?  They 
can  certainly  decline  to  plant,  cultivate 
and  pick  hops  just  to  keep  their  hands 
in  practice  and 
to  furnish  hops  at 
cheap  figures  to  brewers.  They  can  re­
duce  their 
their 
acreage.  This  they  intend  to  do,  some 
by  plowing  up  their  entire  acreage  of 
hops,  while  others  will  decrease,  more 
or  less,  the  extent  of  their  hop  fields. 
Such  a  course  will  cause  our  Pacific 
coast  competitors  to  vastly  stimulate 
their  energies,  and  it  would  be  only  a 
short  time  before  they  would  grow  a 
much 
larger  proportion  of  the  world’s 
hops  than  they  now do.  It  is certain that 
those  who  continue  hop  growing  here 
will  have  to  face  their  competition  and 
must  prepare  to  compete  with  them  by 
paying closer attention to economic laws. 
Another  solution  of  the  hop  problem 
advanced  by  some  is  that,  if  hop  grow­
ers  would  put  themselves  in  position  to 
determine  and  fix  the  price  of  hops,  no 
power  on  earth  could  claim  the  mastery 
of  such  a  combination.  To  do  less,  it 
is  claimed,  is  to  continue  to  be  burden 
bearers  for  mote  enterprising  people, 
while  we  accept,  without  complaint,  the 
dictation  of  self-interested  parties  who 
control  the  entire  hop  product.  But  a 
large  majority  of  the  growers  take  an 
opposite  view  of  the situation  and claim 
that  all  talk  of  holding  hops  back  and 
is  senseless,  that 
forming  associations 
the  inexorable 
law  of  supply  and  de­
mand  regulates  the  price,  and  although 
other  causes  often affect  the  value  of  ar-
tides  of  commerce  one  way or the other, 
their  effect  is  only  temporary  and  the 
law  of  supply  and  demand  always  as­
serts  itself.  The  direct  cause  of  the  low

prices  of  hops,  they  assert,  fs  the  nat­
ural adjustment  of  the  price  to  the  sup­
ply.  That  this  condition  will  eventual­
ly  correct  itself,  if  allowed  to  continue, 
is  a  natural  law  of  political  economy, 
but  while  the  correction  or  adjustment 
is  being  wrought  another  natural  law 
will  also  be  at  work,  the  law  of  the  sur­
vival  of  the  fittest.  The  weaker  will  be 
crushed  out  and  the  stronger  made more 
strong,  the  poor  be  made  poorer,  the 
rich  richer.  The  approaching  disaster 
should  be  modified  if  not  prevented. 
It 
is  quite evident  that  with  present  prices 
and  prevailing  conditions  hops  can  not 
be  grown  at  a  profit.  Like  nearly  all 
the  other  staple  crops  of  this  country,  it 
seems  to  have  had  its  palmy  days. 
It 
is  impossible  to  say  what  the  future  of 
this  industry  will  be.

L.  W.  Griswold.

Characteristics  of Japanese. 

Among  the  characteristics  of  the  Jap­
anese  an  American  at  once notices  their 
love  for  children. 
It  is  doubtful  if  any 
Japanese  child  ever  got  a whipping.  An 
American  woman  who  became  ac­
quainted  with  a Japanese matron noticed 
that  she  allowed  her  little  children  to 
ramble  thorugh  the  streets  at  will,  and 
one  day  commented  on  it.

“ Why,”   said*  the  Japanese 

lady, 
“ what  harm  can  come  of  it?  Our  chil­
dren  never quarrel,  and  no  grown  per­
son  would  harm  a  child.’ ’

“ But,”   said  the  American, 

“ the 

child  might  get  lost.”

in 
inserted  cards  containing 

“ That  would  make  no  trouble,”   was 
the  smiling  reply.  And  then  she showed 
little  children’s  apparel  there 
how 
were 
their 
names  and  address,  and  explaining  that 
should  they  stray  any  person  finding 
them  will  first  give  them  a  full  meal 
and  then  bring  them  home.

Few  people  are  met  coming  back  on 

the  road  to  ruin.

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The Meat Market

The  H eat  Problem  

In 
Islands.

th e  Sandwich 

large 

Since  that  period 

Up  to  the  present  time  the  Hawaiian 
Islands  have  been  supplied  by  home­
grown  meats,  and  the  supply  has  been 
ample. 
In  fact,  it  is  recorded  that  the 
number  of  cattle  ranging  the  grazing 
areas  some  years  ago  was  so  large  in 
proportion  to  the  consumption  of  meat 
that  they  were  slaughtered  chiefly  for 
the  hides,  the  carcasses  having  but  very 
small  value. 
the 
meat-eating  population  has  increased, 
while  the  areas  devoted  to  grazing  and 
the  number  of  cattle  have  gradually 
diminished,  so  that  at  the  present  time 
we  are  face  to  face  with  a  situation  in 
which  the  supply  will  no  longer cover 
the  demand.  The  supply  of  the  country 
districts  is  furnished  by  the 
immediate 
In  some  cases  the  sugar 
localities. 
plantations  have  cattle 
lands  which 
meet  the  demands  of  the  plantation 
la­
bor  and  of  local  private  requirements. 
There  are  also 
independent 
ranches.  After the  local  demands  have 
been  satisfied,  the  surplus  of  meat  cat­
tle  produced  upon  the  several  islands  is 
gathered  up  and  shipped  to  Honolulu, 
to  meet  the  consumption  of  the  city 
tables. 
It.  is  thus  seen  that  the  first  in­
dications  of  short  supply  will  be  felt  in 
Honolulu,  and  the  meat  supply  associa­
tions  state  that  this  is  already  the  case.
It  has  been  found  by  investigation 
that  districts  upon  the  islands,  notably 
Kauai,  which  formerly  had  a  large  sur­
plus  for  shipment,  are  at  this  time 
barely  meeting  the 
in­
creasing 
local  demands.  Ranchmen 
report  that  “ in  given  districts  the  sup­
ply  is  now  hardly adequate  to the imme­
diate 
In  view  of  these 
facts,  it  is  at  once  apparent  that  the 
future  meat  supply  of  the  islands,  and 
particularly  of  Honolulu,  will  depend 
upon  new  factors  and  conditions.  The 
present  requirements  of  the  city  and  of 
vessels  making  port  at  Honolulu  are 
shown  by  the  animals  slaughtered  in 
1898,  as  fellows:  Cattle,  8,780;  calves, 
1,578;  sheep,  9,171; 
7,266. 
These  data  were  furnished  by  William 
T.  Monsarrat,  veterinary  surgeon  and 
Government  inspector  of  meats.  Mr. 
Monsarrat  not  only  possesses  all  data 
relating  to  the  number  of  cattle  slaught­
ered,  but  he  can  aiso  report  upon  the 
state  of  health  of  Hawaiian  cattle.  Con­
cerning  cattle  slaughtered  outside  of 
Honolulu,  data  are  not  available.

increased  and 

local  calls.’ ’ 

swine, 

The  course  through  which  ranching 
may  develop  into  a  more  remunerative 
industry  and  the  means  by  which  the 
home  supply  of  meats  may  be  rendered 
a  sure  factor  and  more  nearly  adequate 
to  the  growing  demands  of  the  com­
munity  are  bound  up  with  the  future 
character ot  other  industries,  more  not­
ably  that  of  sugar.  Formerly,  and  but 
little  more  than  a  quarter of  a  century 
ago,  cattle  were  more  numerous  upon 
the  islands.  They  had  wider  ranges  to 
rove  over an  feed  upon ;  they  were  the 
possessors  of  the  land,  and  their  value 
consisted  chiefly  in  the  labor  and  hides 
which  they  yielded.  At  that  time  the 
plantations,  which  were  of  smaller  areas 
than  now,  were  almost  wholly  worked 
by  bullock  labor.  Even  to-day  there  are 
still  thousands  of  oxen  used  in  plowing 
and  hauling,  their energies  being  util­
ized  as  mechanical  force  instead  of  in 
the  form  of  meat. .In the  course  of  time, 
and  that  very  recent,  the  sugar  indus­
try  has  undergone  great expansion.  The 
lands,  some  of  which  formerly  were

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among  the  best  for  meatmaking  uses, 
have  been  absorbed  by  the  plantations, 
and  the  cattle  have  been  gradually 
forced  within  narrower  limits  at  higher 
altitudes.  With  the 
increase  in  sugar 
the  number  of  cattle  has  become  rela­
tively  and  constantly  less.  A  first  result 
of  this  change  was  that  an  adequate 
supply  of  “ cattle  labor”   was  not  avail­
able.  Room  was  thus  made  for  mule 
and  horse  labor;  more  recently  steam, 
as  applied  to  the  plow,  has  come  in, 
and  in  some  districts  has  almost  wholly 
superseded  animal 
labor  in  the  field. 
With  the  extension  of  the  use  of  steam 
for  plowing  and  hauling,  and  the  intro­
duction  of  electricity  where  steam  is 
less  practicable,  it  appears  a  question 
of  only  a  short  time  when  the  bullocks 
will  be  forever  released  from their yokes 
and  the  island  cattle  will  be  grown  and 
used  only  for  meat  purposes.  The  pres­
ent  trend  is  wholly  in  the  direction  of  a 
higher  condition  of  things,  and  the  rate 
of  change 
is  distinctly  rapid.  Any 
change  or  reversion  of  the  present  rela­
tions  of  the  sugar  and  cattle 
industries 
must  depend  chiefly  upon  the  relative 
values  of  sugar  and  meat.  At  the  pres­
ent  prices  of  sugar  even  the  thinnest 
upland  soils  pay  to  plant  with  sugar 
immediate  fall  in  sugar 
cane.  As  an 
values 
is  not 
imminent,  it  is  not  ap­
parent  that  an immediate  change  in  the 
relations  of  the  two  industries  will  take 
place.  However,  this 
is  not  positive. 
When  sugar  declines  from  the  present 
prices,  which  the  cost  of  production 
makes  probable 
future 
(within  the  comparatively  short  time 
of  three  to  five  years  as  regarded  by 
most  authorities),  and  the  price  of  meat 
goes  up,  then  the  land  areas,  respec­
tively under  sugar  and  meat production, 
will  undergo  some  change.  A  fall  of 
from  1  to  1^   cents  per  pound  in  the 
price  of  sugar  and  an  increase  of  the 
same  amount  in  the  price  of  meat  will 
put  back  certain  areas  of  the  uplands  to 
meat  production.  This  change  would 
very  materially  aid  the  increased  pro­
duction  of  meat,  and  would  not  serious­
ly  if  at  all,  curtail  the  output  of  sugar, 
since  those  poorer  uplands  are  the  least 
productive  in  sugar,  although  among 
the  best  quality  for grazing  at  certain 
seasons  of  the  year.  Moreover,  expeti-l 
ence  has  shown  that  a  greater  and  more 
permanent  increase  in  sugar  production 
is  practicable  by  leaving  out  the  worst 
of  the  uplands  from  sugar  and  concen­
trating 
fertilization,  and  costly 
water  upon  the  richer and  more  durable 
lowlands.

in  the  near 

labor, 

There  are  other  conditions  than  the 
relative  values  of  sugar  and  meat  that 
control  the  remuneration  from  ranch­
ing,  which  depend  upon  the  ranch  own­
ers. 
In  the  first  place  is  mentioned  the 
quality  of  the  cattle, which  is  dependent 
upon  the  management  of  the  herds. 
Very  considerable  sums  of  money  have 
been  expended  by well -known ranchmen 
and  patrons  of  cattle  breeding  for  high 
class  bulls.  Pedigree  animals  of  such 
breeds 
as  Shorthorns,  Devons,  and 
Scotch  Angus  (also  some  of  the  finer 
milk-yielding  Jerseys  and  Alderneys) 
loose 
have  been 
upon  the  ranches.  Considerable 
im­
provement  has  resulted  from  the  use  of 
these  high  bred  animals,  yet  the  perma­
nent  results  have  not  been  anything like 
so  great  as  they  should  have  been,  and 
for the  following  reasons: 
In  the  first 
influence  of  the  pure  bred 
place,  the 
bulls,  when 
in  the  herds,  was 
spread  over cows  and  heifers  of  all  sorts 
and  sizes  instead  of  their  service  being 
confined  to  selected  animals  that  would

introduced  and 

lose 

let 

let 

have  rendered  the  most  immediate  ben­
efits  from  crossing  with  good  blood.  Of 
course,  it  is  not  so  practicable  a  matter 
to  isolate  and  paddock  cattle  on  a  large 
ranch  as 
it  is  upon  a  modern  farm. 
Again,  the  stock  coming  from  the  high 
bred  crosses  were  not  made  the  most of. 
The  selection,  omitted  in  the  first  com­
ing  together  of  the  imported  bulls  and 
ranch  heifers,continued  to  be neglected, 
no  “ culling”   of  the  weaklings  and  un­
der  sizes  being  practiced,  the  breeding 
continuing  from  big  and 
little,  good 
grade  and  scrub  cows alike.  These  mat­
ters  have  been  reported  to  the  writer  by 
several  of  the  better  known  ranch  own­
ers,  and  the  results  are  apparent.  With 
better values in prospect  for  home  grown 
meats,  the  management  of  the  ranching 
properties  will  he  brought  under  the 
more  modern  systems  in  respect  to  the 
methodic  introduction  and  changing  of 
blood  and  a  careful  selection  and  cull­
ing  of  the  breeding  stock.  At  no  pre­
vious  time  have  the  inducements  to  do 
good  work  on  the  ranches  been  so great, 
nor  has  the  certainty  of  remuneration 
been  so  sure  for  investment  in  meat 
production  on  the  islands.  Ranchmen 
will  be  prudent  if  they  take  immediate 
advantage  of  the  present  situation ;  if 
they  do  not,  and  the  supply  of  home 
grown  meat  declines  still  further,  the 
country  will  be  obliged  to  enter  upon 
the  importation  of  frozen  meats.  This 
will  only  be  profitable  if  done  on  a  con­
siderable  scale;  if  large  importations  of 
meats  are  made  it  seems  necessary  for 
prices  to  fall,  and  home  meat  producers 
will  be  the  first  sufferers.  The  meat 
is  a  matter of  prime  concern  to 
supply 
the  city  of  Honolulu. 
It  is  in  the  first 
degree  desirable  that  fresh  meats  shall 
be  available  for  daily use.  Frozen meats

that  have  been  a  long  period  on  the ice, 
and  subjected  to  changes of temperature 
during  movements  in  transit,  are  not 
the  same  as  meats  killed  on  the  ground 
and  kept 
in  cool  chambers  for a  few 
hours,  or  at  the  most  a  day  or  two,  be­
fore  being  consumed. 
It  is  found  that 
meats  and  fowls  that  have  been  long  on 
the  ice  spoil  very  rapidly in warm coun­
tries  after  removal  from  the  ice.  But 
the  argument for the necessity  of  a  home 
meat  supply  in  view  of  the  contingen­
cies  of  a  war  does  not  obtain,  since  if 
an  enemy  were  able  to  cut  off  the  is­
lands  from  the  main  land  of  the  United 
States  it  would  be  a  much  more  simple 
matter  to  stop  shipments  between the is­
lands,  when  Honolulu  would  be  just  as 
effectually  starved out.

Walter  Maxwell.

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illegally 

His  Good  N ature  Cost  H im   Over  $1,600.
Charles  Wattler,  a  well-known  Buffalo 
butcher,  who  is  noted  for  his  good  na­
ture  and  kindly  acts,  heard  of  three 
Chinamen who  were  arrested  in  Buffalo, 
charged  with  being 
the 
United  States. 
It  would  be' some  time 
before  they  could  be  tried,  and  as  they 
were  without  friends,  the  prospect  of 
their  having  to  remain 
jail  was 
gloomy.  Their  bail  was  fixed  at  $500 
each.  Good-natured  Mr.  Wattler  beard 
of  the  plight  the  Chinamen  were  in  and 
became  their  bondsman.  The Chinamen 
disappeared  and  have  not  since  been 
located.  Efforts  were  made  at  Washing­
ton  to  have  the  Treasury  Department 
release  its  ciaim  against  the  bondsman, 
but  the  efforts  were  fruitless,  and  last 
week  Mr.  Wattler  gave  his  check  for 
$1,640.84  to  the  United  States  District 
Attorney.

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If  we  could  get  a  shield  from  the  fear 
of  things  that  never happen,our troubles 
would  be  reduced  90  per  cent.

A  B ig 
Business

in  biscuit  follows  the  sign 
of  the  In=er=seal. 
Fill  in 
your  stock  now  and  be 
ready  for  the  fall  rush.

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C O M P A N Y .

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CommercialTravelers

lie h iru   Knizhtg if the Grip

President,  G e o .  F. O w e n ,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  S t i t t ,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J o h n  W .  S c h k a m , Detroit.

U uM   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  No.  131,  D.  C.  T.

Senior Counselor,  W  R.  C o 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 i n d ,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  G e o .  F.  O w e n , 
Grand Rapids.

Gripsack  Brigade.

Edward  D.  Clark,  salesman-in-chief 
for  the  Michigan  Brick  and  Tile  Ma­
chine  Co.,  of  Morenci,  was  in  town  this 
week  on  his  way  to  Northern  Michigan, 
where  he  expects  to  close  several 
large 
contracts  for  lighting  plants.

Kalamazoo  Gazette-News:  George 
H.  Phelps  spent  Sunday  with  his  uncle 
at  the  Phelps  House,  Greenville.  He 
returned  Monday  and  will  at  once  go 
on  the  road  for  F.  P.  D ’Arcv  as  sales­
man  for  decorated  china,  his  first  trip 
being  to  Indiana  and  Ohio.

Owosso  Times:  Arthur  J.  Bertrand, 
who  has  been  employed  for  the  past 
four  years 
in  the  office  of  the  Owosso 
Carriage  Co.  in  a  clerical  position,  has 
resigned  to  accept  a  place  as  traveling 
salesman  for  the  Akron  Gear  Co.,  of 
Akron,  Ohio,  and 
left  Wednesday  to 
begin  his  new  work.

Lou.  E.  Phillips,  Western  Michigan 
traveling  representative  for  the  West­
ern  Shoe  Co.,  was  married  Sept.  24  to 
Miss  Margie  Otis,  daughter  of  A.  D. 
Otis,  manager  of  the  Grand  Rapids  de­
partment  of  the  Cappon  &  Bertsch 
Leather  Co.  The  happy  couple  will  be 
at  home  to  their  friends  at  148  Island 
street  after  Oct.  15.

Ludwig  Winternitz,  the  urbane  travel­
ing  representative  for  Fleischmann  & 
Co.,  of  Cincinnati,  has  been  in  the  city 
for the  past  four  or  five  days,  renewing 
his  acquaintance  with  old  friends  and, 
incidentally,  making  some  new  ones  as 
well.  Mr.  Winternitz  was  laid  up  for 
nearly  a  month  with  hay 
fever  and 
asthma,  but  is  rapidly  recovering  his 
old-time  bonhommie.

Jose  A.  Gonzalez  is  very  happy  these 
improved  condition  of 
days  over  the 
Cuba,  where  many  of  his  relatives  still 
reside.  Prior  to  and  during  the  Cuban 
war  the  sufferings  of  his  family  were 
severe  and  his  resources  were  taxed  to 
the  utmost  to  keep  them  together  and 
provide  for  their  necessities.  Now that 
peace  is  restored  and  the 
inhabitants 
of  the  Island  have  started  on  a  new 
career  of  prosperity  and  happiness,  Mr. 
Gonzalez’  joy  is  complete.

Jo h n   Scbram  and  W ife  Celebrate  T heir 

P earl  W edding.

last  evening  at 

Detroit,  Sept.  26—A  very  pleasant 
time  was  spent 
the 
beautiful  residence  of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  J. 
W.  Schram,  609  West  Grand  Boulevard, 
the  occasion  being  the  pearl  or  thirtieth 
anniversary  of  their  wedding.  Many 
beautiful  and  valuable  presents  were  re­
ceived  by  the  host  and  hostess.

The  guests  from  out  of  the  city  were: 
Mr.  and  Mrs.  S.  T.  Hart,  Cleveland; 
Miss  Isabella  Hart,  Cleveland;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  A.  Schram,  Ashtabula;  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  J.  B.  Davis  and  son  and  daughter, 
Stony  Creek,  Ontario;  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Victor  Williamson,  Walkerville,  On­
tario;  Mr.  C.  W.  Allen,  Denver,  Col.
The  guests  from  the  city  were  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  J.  J.  Davis,  Mr.  and  Mrs. 
Cheesebrough,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  G.  M. 
Condon,  Mrs.  Agnes  Rolf,  Mr.  and 
Mrs.  C.  T.  Duffie,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Geo.
E.  Norris,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  E.  Dixon,

Many 

Mrs.  M.  Howarn,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Wm. 
Mothersell,  Mrs.  F.  N.  Hackett,  Miss 
Nellie  Dent,  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Thos.  Ward, 
Mrs.  Jones,  Mr. 
and  Mrs.  R.  A. 
Houghton  and  daughter,  Miss  Jessie 
Scbram,  Mr.  Robert  Schram,  Mr.  Stew­
art  Scbram,  Miss  Lillian  M.  Schram; 
Master  Norman  H.  Schram.

letters  of  regret  were  received 
from  friends  at  Grand  Rapids,  Bay 
City,  Jackson,  Port  Huron,  Sandusky, 
Toledo,  Laport,  Lima,  London,  Hamil­
Stony  Creek,  Ont., 
ton,  Toronto, 
Grassie,  Ont.,  Grumbsy,  Ont., 
and 
Montpelier,  Ohio.

The  pleasant  evening  was  brought  to 
a  close  at  1  a.  m.  by  many  good  wishes 
for  long 
life  and  happiness  from  the 
guests  and  all  wishing  many  returns  to 
“ John  and  Fannie.”

Everyone  Received  a Prize.

Grand  Rapids,  Sept.  30— Nearly  sev­
enty-five  people— members  and 
friends 
of  Grand  Rapids  Council  No.  131, 
United  Commercial Travelers—gathered 
at  the  ball  at  the  corner of  Lyon  and 
Campau  streets  Saturday  evening,  Sept. 
28,  the  occasion  being  the  first  indoor 
party  of  the  season. 
It  was  strictly  a 
card  party—progressive  pedro.  The  two 
first  prizes,  consisting  of  100  pounds  of 
Lily  White  flour  for  both  lady  and  gen­
tleman,  went  to  Mrs.  J.  D.  Colson,  66 
Sheldon  street,  and  Henry  Snitseler, 
134  Clancy  street.  Everyone  was  given 
a  booby  prize;  many  amusing  things 
being  received.  Will  Holden  received 
a  baby's  nursing  bottle—by  the  way  not 
a  very  useful  piece  of  furniture  in  the 
Holden  family—and  Mrs.  Emery  re­
ceived  a  pair  of  men’s  socks—some­
thing  that  John  seldom  uses,  hut  they 
may  come  handy.  Brother  Van  was 
given  a  little  tin  pail,  and  be 
immedi­
ately  desired  to  start  out  to  “  rush  the 
growler.”   Charles  Reynolds  is  going 
to  join  hands  with  Carrie  Nation,  as  he 
now  has  a 
little  hatchet  of  his  own. 
Others  who  received  rolling  pins  are 
going  to  join  the  bakers'  union—not 
Roy  Baker,  for  his  union  consists  solely 
of  Mrs.  Baker  and  himself.  The  party 
broke  up  at  an  early  hour,  all  having 
passed  a  very  pleasant  evening  and 
hoping  that  more  such  events  will  oc­
cur  during  the  coming  winter.  They 
will  occur,  and  every  member  should 
make  a  special  effort  to  come  and  bring 
some  friend  and  make  our  parties  this 
season  a  bigger  success  than  ever  be­
fore.  Remember  our  party  for  October, 
which  will  be  announced  iater  on,  and 
by  your  presence  help  to  swell  the 
crowd. 

Ja  Dee.

A  Case  of Conscience.

From the Caledonia News.

J.  A.  Leibler,  Caledonia’s oldest  gen­
eral  dealer,  has  more  faith  in  humanity 
than  he  did.  Recently  a  man  entered 
his  store  and  made  the  startling  an­
nouncement  that  twenty-five  years  ago, 
when  he  was  a  young  lad,  he  forged  a 
due  bill  for 35  cents  and  that  he  now 
wished  to  pay  it  together  with  the  in­
terest.  Mr.  Leibler  “ come  to”   in  the 
course  of  a  few  minutes  and  informed 
the  man  that  the  principal  would  be 
accepted  but  not  the  interest.  The  gen­
tleman,  who  lives  near  the  village,  paid 
the  money  and  departed.  Jake  says 
the  religion  that  will  trouble  a  man's 
conscience  and  make  him  pay  his  debts 
is  the  kind  he  is  looking  for,  but  in  the 
it  fails  to  prick  the 
majority  of  cases 
conscience  sufficiently  to 
the 
pocket  book.

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W hat  Constitutes a M arket.

From Detroit To-Day.

When  Lewis  Cass  deeded  to  the  city 
the  property  on  which  the  G.  A.  R. 
building  is  built,  he  stipulated  that  it 
should  always  be  used  as  a  market. 
Controller  Blades  asked  the  Corporation 
Counsel’s  office  what  he  would  have  to 
do  in  order  to  comply  with  the  terms  of 
the  gift.  Assistant  Corporation Counsel 
McGrath  has  given  an  option  on  what 
constitutes  a  market.  He  says  that  the 
stores  can  not  be  rented  for the  sale  of 
mere,merchandise.  To  constitute  a mar­
ket,  perishable  goods,  such  as  fruits, 
vegetables  and  meats  must  be  sold,

SUCCESSFUL  SALESMEN.

A.  P.  M cPherson,  President of the  F ran k  

B. Taylor Co.

Irish  extraction,  which 

Angus  P.  McPherson  was  born  at 
Watford,  Ont.,  July  24,  1867,  being  the 
fourth  of  a  family  of  five  children.  His 
father  was  Scotch  and  his  mother  was 
of 
explains 
where  he  obtained  his  mother  wit  and 
why  he  has  been  able  to  establish  a 
reputation  as  one  of  the  best  story-tell­
ers  in  the  State.  When  he  was  a  small 
child  his  father  removed  to  Alvinston, 
Ont.,  where  he  remained  until  18  years 
of  age,  receiving  a  common  school  edu­
cation.  His  first  mercantile experience 
was  in the  general  store  of D.  B.  Currie, 
with  whom  he  remained  about  six 
months. 
In  1885,  he  followed  the  for­
tunes  of  his  brother,  who  was  then 
lo­
cated 
in  Saginaw,  securing  a  position 
as  driver  of  a  delivery  wagon  for  Mor- 
ley  Bros.  This  vocation  he  followed 
for  over  two  years,  when  he  secured  a 
clerkship  in  the  retail  hardware  store  of 
R.  J.  Clark,  with  whom  he  remained  a 
year  and  a  half.  He  then  sought  and 
obtained  the  position  of  house  salesman

to  stay 

and  he 

salesman 

for  Foster  &  Post,  wholesale  and  retail 
notion  dealers  of  Saginaw,  and,  on 
Jan.  1,  1890,  he  was  called 
into  the 
office  and  told  he  could  have  a  position 
as  traveling  salesman.  He  demurred to 
the  proposition,  preferring 
in 
the  store  and  make  his  mark  along  the 
lines 
laid  down  by  hjm  when  he  en­
tered  the  employ  of  the  house,  but  his 
employers  convinced  him  that  it  would 
be  to  his  advantage  to  conform  to  their 
wishes  and  take  up  the  work  of  a  trav­
eling 
reluctantly 
mapped  out  his  routes,  which 
included 
all  the  available  towns  north  of  the  D. 
&  M.  Railway,  and  entered  upon  his 
new  career  with  some  forebodings.  The 
experience  of  a  few  weeks demonstrated 
that  he  had  made  a  mistake  in  think­
ing  that  he  was  not  cut  out  for  a  travel­
ing  salesman.  He  found  friends  wher­
ever  he  went  and  readily  converted 
them  into  customers  as  well.  The  vol­
ume  of  his  sales  increased  every  month 
and  each  year’s  sales  showed  a  remark* 
able  gain  over  those  of  the  previous 
year.  Advances  in  salary  follpwed  in 
rapid  succession,  so  that  within  four 
years  atfer  he  started  out  on  the  road 
he  had  come  to  be  regarded  as  one  of 
the  most  successful  salesman  in  his line 
in  the  State. 
In  the  fall  of  1893,  he 
was  offered  a  position  as  traveling  rep­
resentative  for  Frank  B.  Taylor  &  Co., 
importers  and 
jobbers  of  cockery, 
glassware  and  house  furnishing  goods 
at  Jackson,  and 
accorded  Southern 
Michigan  and  Northern  Indiana  as  his

territory.  He  has  since  followed  the 
fortunes  of  this  house,  removing  to  De­
troit  when 
it  transferred  its  headquar­
ters  from  Jackson  to  the  City  of the 
Straits.  On  the  death  of  Mr.  Taylor 
and  the  re-organization  of  the  business 
as  the  Frank  B.  Taylor  Co.,  he  was 
elected  President,  and  shares  with  J. 
H.  Russell,  Jr.,  the  duties  and  respon­
sibilities  incident  to  the management  of 
the  business.

Mr.  McPherson  was  married  Aug.  17, 
1892,  to  Miss  Jessie  A.  Lamb,  of  A l­
vinston,  Ont.  They  have  two  children, 
both  girls,  and  reside 
in  a  pleasant 
home  at  389  Bowen  avenue,  Detroit.

Mr.  McPherson  is  a  member  of  Jack- 
son  Lodge,  No.  113,  B.  P.  O.  E.,  and 
Jackson  Council,  U.  C.  T .,  having 
been  through  all  of  the  chairs  of  the 
latter  lodge.  He  has  no  other  fraternal 
affiliations,  but  he  has  a  wide  acquaint­
ance  among  the  trade  in  consequence  of 
his  having  covered  both  the  Northern 
and  Southern  portions  of  Michigan,  and 
few  men  on  the  road  have  a  larger  cir­
cle  of  acquaintances  or  larger  list  of 
warm  personal  friends.  He 
is  some­
thing  of  an  athlete  and  has  a  strong  lik­
ing  for  athletic  sports,  not  excepting 
base  ball, 
in  which  game  he  has 
achieved  more  than  a  local  reputation 
as  an  amateur  player.

Mr.  McPherson  attributes  his  success 
to  hard  work,to  the  persistence  peculiar 
to  the  Scotch  race  and  to  bis  ability  to 
make  and  keep  friends.

leading 

in  one  of  the 

The  ending  of  one of the saddest cases 
of  retributive  justice  is  marked  by  the 
sentence  of  Wm.  M.  Butts  to  five  years 
at  hard  labor  at  Jackson  State  P.rison. 
The  career of  Mr.  Butts  was  notable 
in 
that  no  opportunity  was 
lacking  that 
any  ambitious  man  could  desire  for  ad­
vancement  in  social  life  and  in  the  ac­
In  the  first  re­
cumulation  of  wealth. 
gard  his  relations  were  with  the 
lead­
ing  families  of  the  city  and  in  his  busi­
ness  he  was  given  a  remunerative  posi­
jobbing 
tion 
houses  where  his.  opportunities 
for 
growth 
in  business  standing  and  for 
making  money  were  enough  to  meet 
afiy  reasonable  desires.  But  he,  with 
apparent  deliberation—for  he  was  a 
man  of  mature  judgment  and  intelli­
gence—chose his  associations among  the 
most  degraded  and  not  only  squandered 
his  own  substance  but  used  the  funds 
that  were  entrusted  to  him  by  his  em­
ployers.  The  consequence  of  his  crime 
endangered,  and  made  necessary,  the 
re-organization  of  his  house,  plunged 
his  family 
into  disgrace  and  grief  and 
placed  himself  in  the  list of  those  whose 
personal  existence  is  no 
longer  recog­
nized. 
In  passing  sentence  the  severe 
words  of  Judge  Newnham  were  emi­
nently  appropriate;  there  was  nothing 
that  he  could  say  that  was  not  in  the 
way  of  denunciation.  The  sentence  was 
as  merciful  as  the  criminal  deserved, 
but  the  punishment  in  this  manner of  a 
man  who  has  been  used  to  the  best  in 
social  life,  although  choosing  the worst, 
is  more  than  for  a  common  criminal.

Whenever  an  employe  gets  a  notion 
into  his  noggin  that  the  business  of  the 
establishment  can’t  run  without  him  it 
is  time  to 
let  him  go.  As  soon  as  he 
gets  that notion he commences to be of no 
account.

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

26

Drugs—Chemicals

M in U p ii  state Board o f P harm acy

L. E. R e y n o l d s,  St. Joseph 
He n r y   He im , Saginaw 
Wi r t   P.  Do t y , Detroit - 
A. C. Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor 
J o h n  D. Mu i r , Grand Rapids 

Term expires
Dec. 31,1901 
Deo. 81,1903 
Deo. 31,1903 
Deo. 81,1904 
Deo. 31,1906
President, A.  0.  Sc h u m a c h e r , Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, H e n r y   He im , Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Do t y ,  Detroit

•

E xam ination  Sessions.

Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association.

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

Pharm acy and P harm acists  M ust  Get O ut 

o f Old  Bnts.

it 

Give 

I  firmly  believe  that  at  present  there 
is  nothing  of  so  great  importance  to  re­
tail  pharmacists  as  our  successful  battle 
to  recover  lost  ground.  We  surely  have 
lost  ground,  although  perhaps  not  as 
much  as  some  calamity  howlers  try  to 
believe.  As  long  as  I can remember, and 
my  United  States  memory  is  good  for 
thirty-four  years,  I have always observed 
that  at  all  times  somebody  would  be­
moan  the  conditions  of  the  present  and 
praise  the  situation  of  fifteen  or  twenty 
years  ago.  But,  having  a  good  memory,
I  well  remember  that  these  same  iden­
tical  pessimists  were  “ kicking”   just  as 
hard  fifteen  years  ago  as  they  are  now. 
While  they  now  want  us  to  believe  that 
fifteen  years  ago  everything  was  lovely 
and  “ flush,”   I  see  them  before  me 
vividly  as  they  appeared  then, and  what 
do  I  behold?  They  were  just  as  pessi­
mistic  as  they  are  now,  and  all  they 
could  say  was  that  times  are  hard,  not 
at  all  as  they  were  fifteen  years  ago! 
Therefore 
is  of  the  greatest  interest 
to  us  not  to  lose  hope.  Let  us  be  cheer­
ful  and  all  unite 
in  the  most  loyal, 
hopeful,  self-sacrificing  support  of  that 
one  Anchor  of  Hope,  the  N.  A.  R.  D.
“ The  press  is  mightier  than  the 
sword.”  
the  pharmaceutical 
press  your  loyal  support  and  more  than 
that,  your  best  thoughts.  You  can  do 
it  if  you  only  say,  “ 1  w ill.”   Not  all 
writers  need  be  editors,  nor are  all  edi­
tors  good  writers.  Some  of  them  write 
by  the  yard— because  they  have  to,  not 
because  they  have  something  on  their 
minds  to  write  about.  Whenever  you 
have  an  idea  to  promulgate,  don’t  hesi­
tate,  don’t  be  timid— pick  up  your  pen 
and  write 
just  as  you'think and  feel, 
and  send  what  you  write  to  your  jour­
nal. 
In  that  way  only  can  you  get  at 
the  best  thought  and  bring  out  new 
ideas.  Cultivate  this  habit  and  you 
will  soon  be  a  better writer,  and,  what 
is  worth  more,  a  better  and  more  care­
ful  reader  of  the  pharmaceutical  press.
My  next  point  of  interest  is  the  ap­
prentice.  Gentlemen,  there  lies  the  rub! 
Most  of  our  present  afflictions  are  due 
to  the  fact that  we  have  been  careless, 
if  not  reckless,  about  the  new  crop  of 
pharmacists. 
In  that  way  our  ranks 
have  become  not  only  overcrowded,  but 
overcrowded  by  undesirable,  incompe­
tent,  unscrupulous  material,  the  very 
material  that  resorts  to  “ peanut  stand”  
tactics  in  order  to  get  a  “ scoop”   on 
Increase  your  ranks  by 
competitors. 
men  who  believe 
in  worth  and  merit, 
and  you  will  find  that  such  men  will 
stand  on  their  dignity,  not  allow  the 
public  to  kick  them  around  like  slaves, 
nor the  medical  profession  to  set  aside 
regards  for  pharmaceutical  skill  and 
thoroughness.  One  of  the  most 
im- 
potrant  points  that  you  should  have  in 
view  constantly 
is:  do  not  allow  un­
schooled  boys  to act as your apprentices! 
And,  although  it  may  be  a  task  on  your

time,  take  the  trouble  to  give  your  ap­
prentices  such  a  training  as  can  only  be 
had  behind  the  prescription  counter  un­
der  intelligent  preceptors.  During  dull 
hours'  of  the  day  or  the  evening,  take 
your  apprentice  in  hand,  show  him  how 
to  make  pills,  powders,  and  galenical 
last  but  not  least, 
preparations,  and, 
give  him  problems  to  work  out 
in 
arithmetic,  in( percentage,  in  the  figur­
ing  out  of  doses  in  mixtures,  and  ac­
quaint  him  with  the  metric  system.

is*  used 

Another  point  of  interest 

Let  there  be  a  pharmaceutical  com­
munity  of 
interest  between  the  active 
pharmacists,  the colleges,  and the boards 
of  pharmacy;  let  all  three  agencies  join 
hands  to  make  the  future  pharmacist  a 
more  competent,  a  more  self-respecting 
and  a  more  reliable  quantity. 
If  you 
will  permit  me  to  draw  on  my  experi­
ence  as  examiner of  applicants  for  reg­
istration,  I  can  assure  you  that  my  ex­
perience  has  shown  a  pitiable  condition 
of  affairs  to  exist.  What  is  the  use  of 
in  theoretical 
examining  a  candidate 
pharmacy  when  we  find  that  he 
is  un­
able  to  figure  out  how  much  morphine 
is  necessary  to  make  two  ounces  of  a 
three-per-cent,  solution,  or  how  much 
strychnine  there  is  in  each  pill 
if  one- 
in  making 
third  of  a  grain 
twenty-four  pills.  Such 
incompetent 
men  ought  not  to  be  admitted  to  exam­
ination,  ought  not  to  be  admitted  to 
colleges,  nay,  ought  not  to  be  permitted 
to  become  apprentices  in  a decent  phar­
macy.  You  can  no  more  raise  peaches 
on  a  huckleberry  bush  than  you  can 
make  a  good  pharmacist  out  of  a  boy 
unable  to  figure  out  the  simplest  prob­
lem 
in  arithmetic.  Let  all  good  and 
true  pharmacists  who  have  the  future 
of  pharmacy  at  heart  join  bands  with 
our colleges  and  boards  to  raise  a  better 
stock  of  young  pharmacists  than  has 
been  our  lamentable  habit  in  the  past.
is  associa­
tion  work.  The  average  attendance  at 
our  meetings  goes  to  show  that the value 
and  importance  of  association  is  not ap­
preciated  as  it  deserves  to  be.  Charity 
commences,  or  ought  to  commence,  at 
home;  and  so  it  should  be  with  associa­
tion  work.  Every  druggist,  no  matter 
in  what  humble  village  he  may  live, 
should  constitute  himself  a committee of 
one  and  visit  his  neighbors  and  get  the 
home  circle  started. 
is  said  of  us 
druggists,  and  I  believe  truthfully,  that 
the  majority  of  us  are narrow and biased 
in  our  views.  How  can  you  expect a 
man  to  be  broad  and  generous  if  he 
does  not  get  away  from  his  counter  year 
in,  year out?  Let  thef druggists  through­
out  the 
land  get  away  from  their  daily 
surroundings  once  in  a  while,  exchange 
opinions,  swap 
lies  with  their  fellow 
druggists—and  what  will  be  the  result? 
By  forming  the  acquaintance  of  your 
neighbors  you  will  find  that  it  is  pos­
sible  to  agree  on  a  price  schedule  that 
affords  a  living  profit— indeed,  we  have 
seen  a  little  band  of  druggists  in  the 
city  of  Chicago  get  together,  agree  that 
they  would  all  charge  50 cents  fora pint 
of  alcohol  instead  of  40,  with  the  result 
that  several  of  these  druggists  at  the 
end  of  one  year  were  over $100  ahead 
on  one  solitary  item  of  their  stock! 
Such  results  can  be  and  are  gained,  and 
is  the  secret  of  it! 
local  organization 
Join  your 
association,  agitate 
affiliation  of  your  local  association  with 
the  State  association  and  the  N.  A.  R. 
D.,  and  the  battle  is  ours.

local 

It 

While  on  the  subject  of associations 
I  would  like  to go  on  record  as  an  earn­
est  supporter  of  drug  clerks’  organiza­
tions.  Let  the  clerks  learn  by  experi­
ence  what  association  work  can  accom­

plish,  and  the  clerk  of  to-day  will  be 
an  enthusiastic  supporter  of  associa­
tions  when  he  becomes  an  employer. 
Our  interests  are  in  common  and  both 
classes  of  druggists  should  work  for  the 
common  good  of  pharmacy.  Attend­
ance  at  association  meetings  is  not  only 
a  powerful  promoter of  the  welfare  of 
pharmacy  and pharmacists:  it  also com­
bines  pleasure  with  business. 
The 
average  man  can  do  much better work  if 
he  gets  out  of  the  rut  once  in  a  while. 
Life  is  short  and  the  time  to  do  things 
is  while  you  are  young.  Don’t  live  like 
a  clam—get  out  of  your  shell,  get •  a 
move  on  you  and  mix  up  with  your 
brethren. 
U niform ity  in  Flavoring  Prescriptions.
it  stated  anywhere 
that  doctors  hold  a  convention every  six 
months  to  decide  what  flavor they  shall 
add  to  medicines  to  make  them  palat­
able,  but  judging  from  prescriptions  I 
am 
led  to  believe  that  they  do  some­
thing  of  the  kind,”   said  the  drug clerk. 
“ At  any  rate,  there  are  styles  in  flavor­
ing,  just  as  there  are  styles  in  sleeves 
and  pompadours.

“ I  haven’t  seen 

W.  Bodemann.

“ At  present  peppermint  is  the  real 
thing.  Two-thirds  of  the  prescriptions  1 
put  up  nowadays  are  made  pleasing  to 
the  taste  by  the  addition  of  a  harmless 
dash  of  peppermint.

it 

is  bound  to 

“ Notwithstanding  the  popularity  of 
lose  its 
peppermint, 
vogue 
in  the  course  of  a  few  months 
and  be  superseded  by  another  essence. 
No  flavor  holds  its  own  steadily  for  any 
great  length  of  time.  Take  cinnamon, 
for 
instance.  There  was  a  time  when 
that  was  all  the  rage  and  about  a  year 
ago  half  the  medicine 
compounded 
smelled  to  heaven  with  cinnamon.  Now 
you  seldom  hear  of  it 
in  connection 
with  a  druggist's  laboratory.

“ Lavender 

a  nice  flavor. 

I 
shouldn’t  be  surprised  if  that  was  the 
fashion  next 
is  more 
delicate  than  most  of  the  perfumes  used 
and  is  fully  as  efficacious 
in  neutraliz­
ing  the  nastiness  of  the  other drugs.

introduced. 

is 

It 

“ One  of  the  queerest  fads  I  can  re­
call 
in  the  seasoning  of  medicine  was 
the  sweet  pea  flavor.  A  good  many  pa­
tients  put  up  a  protest  against  that. 
Sweet  peas  are  all  right  in  their  place, 
and  few  are  the  people  who  do  not  like 
their odor,  but  there  is  a  vast  difference 
between  the  senses  of  smell  and  taste 
and  what 
is  pleasant  to  the  olfactories 
may  be  nauseous  to  the  palate.  This 
came  to  be  the  case  with  sweet  peas, 
and  finally  the  doctors  switched  off from 
them  and  began  to  recommend  cloves. 
Then came  a  period  of  six  months  when 
our  prescription  department 
smelled 
like  a  clove  factory.

“ These  pleasing  flavors  neither  add 
to  nor  detract  from  the  efficacy  of  a 
medicine,  but  many  concoctions  are  so 
horribly  bitter  that  some  such  conces­
sion  to the  stomach  is  necessary.  I  sup­
pose  that  as  a  rule  it  doesn't  matter  to 
the  patient  what  flavor  is  used,  and  the 
phase  of  the  whole  business  that puzzles 
me  is  how  do  the  doctors  come  to  pre­
scribe  the  same  thing  with  such  marked 
uniformity?” — New  York  Sun.

The  D rag M arket.

Opium— Is 

steady 

at  unchanged 

prices.

Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Quinine—The  market 

is  unsettled. 
The  American  manufacturers  have  re­
duced  their  price  ic  per  oz.,  but  Ger­
man  manufacturers  are  quoting  old 
prices.

Beeswax— Is  firm  and  advancing.
Citric  Acid— Has  declined  ic  per  lb.
Castor  Oil— Has  advanced  4c  per 

gallon.

Hypophosphite  Lime— Soda  and  pot-> 
ash  has  been  reduced  by  manufactur­
ers  to  7c  per  lb.

Menthol—Has  declined,  on  account  of 

better  stocks.

Canada  Balsam  Fir— Is  very  firm  at 

the  advanced  price.

Oil  Wintergreen— Has  been  advanced 
5c  per  lb.,  on  account  of  small  stocks.
Oil  Peppermint—Continues  to  ad­

vance,  on  account  of  small  crops.

Oil  Erigeron— Has  declined.
Asafoetida— Is 

in 

large  supply  and 

dull.  Prices  have  been  reduced.

Red  Rose  Leaves—Are  in  small  sup­

ply  and  have  advanced.

Senega  Root—Is  very  scarce  and  has 

been  advanced.

Linseed  Oil— Is  still  in  the  same  con­
dition  as  noted  last  week.  The  trust 
has  no  oil  to  deliver  and  outside  mills 
are  oversold.

The  M agnet  in  Surgery.

From the London Globe.

Dr.  Garel,  of  Lyons,  has  drawn  a 
French  nail  about  two  inches  long  from 
the  bronchial  tube  of  a  boy  eighteen 
months  old,  from  Buenos  Ayres.  The 
nail  had  been  there  for  some  time,caus­
ing  the  child  to  cough  much.  Roentgen 
rays  showed  the  position  of  it,  and  an 
electro-magnet  drew 
it  out.  Another 
successful  operation  of  the  same  kind 
has  been  performed  by  Dr.  Piechaud, 
of  Bordeaux,  on  a  child  of  three  years. 
In  this  case  the  trachea  was  opened  to 
get  a  projection  from  the  pole  of  the 
magnet  near  the  nail.  These  experi­
ments  are  well  worth  the  attention  of 
surgeons  everywhere.

The  woman  who  tries  to  take  up  two 

seats  in a  car  must  be  beside  herself.

Fred  Brundage

W holesale  D ruggist

32 and 34  Western  Avenue 

Muskegon,  Mlcb.

School  Supplies

and

Stationery

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

Don’t  Buy 

Your

Wall  Papers

P iaster of P aris  Bandages.

These  may  be  removed  by  the  follow­
ing  simple  method:  Soak  some  cotton­
wool  in  hydrogen  dioxid;  then  with 
this  moisten  the  splint  down  its  entire 
length  for a  width  of  about  half an inch. 
When  it  is  thoroughly  soaked,  the  plas­
ter  will  be  found  in  the  same  condition 
as  when  first  put  on,  and  the  bandages 
only  have  to  be  cut  with  a  pair of  scis­
sors,  without  any  injury  to  the  patient 
or any  trouble  whatever.

Until you see our showing of 1902 designs 
and  learn  the  very  low  prices  we  are 
quoting.

No one  shows  a  better  assortment  or 

can quote lower prices.

If our  salesman  does  not  call  in  time 
for you, drop us a line and  we  will  make 
a special trip.  Correspondence solicited.

Heystek  &  Canfield  Co.
Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Michigan Wall Paper Jobbers

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

27

W H O L E S A L E   D R U G   P R I C E   C U R R E N T

Advanced—Oil Wintergreen, Oil Peppermint, Castor Oil.
Declined—Citric Acid, Assafoetida, Oil Krigeron, Menthol, Quinine.

Menthol..................   @  4 70
Morphia, S., P. & W.  2 06® 2 30 
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.  1  96® 2 20
Morphia, Mai...........1  85® 2 20
Moschus  Canton__   @  40
Myrlstlca, No. 1......   66®  80
Nux Vomica...po. 16  @ 
10
Os Sepia..................  
38®  37
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................  @  1 00
Plcis Liq. N.N.Vi gal.
doz........; .............  @ 2 00
Plcis Liq.,quarts....  @ 100
Plcis Liq., pints......   @  86
PllHydrarg. ..po. 80  @  50
Piper  Nigra...po. 22  @  18
Piper  Alba__po. 36  @  30
Plfx Burgun............   @ 
7
Plumbl Acet............  
10®  12
Pulvis Ipecac et Opli  1  30®  1  50 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
& P. D. Co., doz...  @  75
Pyrethrum, pv........ 
26®  30
8®  10
QuasslSB..................  
Quinta, S. P. &  W... 
29®  39
29®  39
Qulnla, 8.  German.. 
Qulnla, N. Y............   29®  39
Bubla Tlnctorum.... 
12®  14
Saccharum Lactls pv  20®  22
Salacln....................  4  60® 4 76
Sanguis  Draconls...  40®  60
12®  14
Sapo, W................... 
SapoM.................... 
10®  12
Sapo  G....................  @ 
15

Seldlttz Mixture......
20® 22
Sinapls....................
® 18
Sinapls,  opt............
@ 30
Snuff, Maccaboy, 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..............
2
1V4®
Soda,  Bl-Carb.........
3®
5
Soda, Ash...............
3Vi@ 4
Soda, Sulphas.........
®
2
Spts. Cologne...........
@ 2  60
Spts. Ether  Co........
60® 65
Spts. Myrcla Dom...
@ 2  00
Spts. Vini Beet.  bbl.
@
Spts. Vini Beet. V4bbl
®
Spts. Vini Beet, lbgal
@
Spts. Vini Reel. 5 gal
®
Strychnia, Crystal... 
80® 1  06
Sulphur,  Subl.........
4
2V4®
Sulphur, Boll...........
2X@ 3 *
Tamarinds..............
8® 10
Terebenth Venice...
30
P>(Yrh 66
Theobromas.............
Vanilla.................... 9  00® 16  00
Zlnci Sulph.............
7®
8
Oils

Whale, winter.........
Lard, extra..............
Lard, No. 1..............

BBL.  G AI»
70
70
60

70
60
46

Linseed, pure raw...
Linseed, boiled.......
Neatsfoot, winter str  64 
60
Spirits Turpentine..  4lVi  46
P aints  BBL.  LB.
Bed Venetian.........   IK  2  @8
Ochre, yellow  Mars.  IX  2  @4 
Ochre, yellow Ber...  IX  2  @3 
Putty,  commercial..  2V4 2Vi@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  2Vi  2X@3 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............  
13®  15
Vermilion, English..  70®  76
Green,  Paris........... 
14®  18
Green, Peninsular... 
13®  16
Lead, red.................  6Vi@  7
Lead,  white............   6Vi®  7
Whiting, white Span  @  90
Whiting, gilders’....  @  96
White,Paris, Amer. 
®  1  26 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................  @140
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

Varnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  l  20
Extra Turp..............  1 60®  1  70
Coach Body............  2 76® 3 00
No. 1 TurpFum......1 00®  1  10
Extra Turk Damar..  1  66®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp  70®  76

H O L ID A Y

GOODS

O ur  Holiday  line  will  be  on  ex­
hibition  at  the  Blodgett  Building, 
opposite  our  store,  from  September 
25  to October 25.

W e  invite  you  to  call  and  inspect 

our  line.

H azeltin e  &  Perkins 

D rug  Co.,

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

Acidum

Acetlcum................$  6@$  8
Benzoicum, German.  70®  75
Boraclc....................   @  17
Carbolicum.............   30®  42
Cltricnm...................  46®  49
Hydrochlor.............. 
3® 
5
8®  10
Nltrocum................. 
Oxalicum.................  12®  14
®  16
Phosphorium,  dil... 
Salicylicum.............  52®  56
Sulpnuricum...........  IX® 
5
Tannlcum................  1  10®  l 20
Tartaricom ......... . 
38®  40
Am m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
6
4® 
Aqua, 20 deg............  
6® 
8
Carbonas.................  13®  15
Chlorldum.............. 
12®  14
A niline

6@ 

Black.........................2 00®  2 28
Brown......................  50® 1  00
Red..........................  45®  50
Yellow......................  2  80®  3 

Baccse
Cubebae......... po,25  22®  24
Juniperus................  
8
Xanthoxylum......... 1  70®  1 75
Balsam nm
Copaiba...................  60®  68
Peru  .......................  
®  l  86
Terabln,  Canada....  60®  65
Tolutan.................... 
*5®  60
Cortez
Abies, Canadian......  
Cassias...................... 
Cinchona  Flava......  
Euonymus atropurp. 
Myrlca Cerifera, po. 
Prunus Virgini........ 
Quillaia, grrd ......... 
Sassafras.......po. 20 
Ulmus...po.  15, gr’d 
E xtractnm
24®  26
Glycyrrhlza Glabra. 
Glycyrrhiza,  po......  28®  30
li®  12
Haematox, 15 lb. box 
Haematox, is ........... 
13®  14
Haematox, 54s.........  
14®  15
Haematox, 14s.........  
16®  17

18
}2
18
30
20
12
J2
lo
16

F erro

Carbonate  Precip... 
Citrate and  Qulnla.. 
Citrate Soluble........ 
Ferrocyanidum Sol.. 
Solut. Chloride........ 
Sulphate,  com’l......  
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bbl, per  cwt.........  
Sulphate,  pure........ 

F lora

16
2  26
76
40
16
2
80
7

Arnica..................... 
16®  18
Anthemls.................  22®  25
Matricaria...............  
30®  36

Folia

Barosma..................   36®  38
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
20®  26
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  26®  30
Salvia officinalis,  14s
and V4s......... ....... 
12®  20
OvaUrsl................... 
8®  10
Gnmmi
g   66 
Acacia, 1st picked... 
®  46
Acacia, 2d  picked... 
Acacia, 3d  picked... 
®  36
Acacia, sifted  sorts. 
®  28
Acacia, po................  46®  66
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12®  14
Aloe, Cape... .po. 15. 
®  12
Aloe,  Socotrl..po. 40 
®  30
Ammoniac...............   66®  60
Assafoetida.. ..po. 40  26®  40
Benzolnum.............. 
60®  66
6   13
Catechu, is .............. 
Catecbu, Vis............  
g   14
Catechu, 14s............  
<9  16
CamphorsB..............  68®  71
Euphorbium... po. 35 
®  40
Gafbanum...............  
®  l  00
Gamboge............ po  66®  70
®  30
Gualacum.......po. 26 
Kino...........po. $0.75 
®  75
Mastic  ....................  
®  60
Myrrh............ po. 46  @ 4 0
Opli__po.  4.9005.00 3 40®  3 60
Shellac....................  26®  36
Shellac, bleached....  40®  46
Tragacanth.............   60®  90'

H erba

26
absinthium. .oz. pkg 
20
Eupatorium. x>z. pkg 
26
Lobelia........oz. pkg 
28
Majorum ....oz, pkg 
23
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
26
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg 
Rue.............. oz. pkg 
39
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
22
Thymus, V.. .oz. pkg 
26
Magnesia
Calcined, P at...........  66®  60
Carbonate, Pat........ 
180  20
Carbonate, K. & M..  18®  20
’arbonate, Jennings  18® ■  20 

Olenm

Absinthium.............  6  60® 7 00
Amygdalae,  Dulc....  38®  66
Amygdalae, Amarae.  8 00® 8 26
Anisl.......................   l  86® 2 oo
Aurantl Cortex........2  10® 2 20
Bergamll.................  2  60® 2 76
Oajlputi...................  80®  86
Caryophyffi.............  
76®  80
Cedar......................  60®  86
Ghenopadll..............  @ 2 75
Clnnamonll.............1 16® l 26
Cltronella................  86®  40

Conium Mac............   60®  60
Copaiba..................   i u®  l 28
Cubebae..................   i 60®  l 60
Exechthltos............  l oo® l io
Erigeron.................  l  00@  1 10
Gaultheria..............  l  90® 2 oo
Geranium, ounce....  @  75 
Gosstppil, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 60®  1 76
Junlpera.................  1 eo® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Llmonis..................   1  20®  1 30
Mentha Piper.........   1  86® 1 90
Mentha Yerid.........   1 60®  1 60
Morrhuae, ;gal.......  1  10®  1 20
M yrda......................4 00® 4 60
OUve....................... 
76® 3 00
PicisLlqulda........... 
10® 
12
Plcis Liqulda,  gal...  @ 3 6
Bicina.....................   1 00®  1 06
Kosmarinl...............   @ 1 00
Rosae, ounce............   6 00® 6 60
Sucdnl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90® 1  00
Santal....................... 2 76® 7 00
Sassafras.................  66®  60
Sinapls,  ess., ounce.  @  66
Tigiil.......................  1  60® 1 60
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt..............  @ 1  60
Theobromas........... 
16®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb.................... 
16®  18
Bichromate............  
13®  16
Bromide.................  62®  57
C arb....................... 
12®  16
Chlorate... po. 17@19 
16®  18
Cyanide...................  34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure 
28®  30
@  15
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7®  10
Potass  Nltras.........  
6® 
8
Prussiate................   23®  26
Sulphate po............  
16®  18

00

Radix

Aconltum.................  20®  25
30®  33
Althae...... .............. 
Anchusa................. 
10® 
12
Arum  po.................  @  26
Calamus..................   20®  40
12®  15
Gentiana...........po. 16 
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15  16®  18
@  75
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., po..  @ 8 0
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  16
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 75
Iris plOX...po. 35@38 
35®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   26®  30
Maranta,  Xs...........  @  36
Podophyllum,  po... 
22®  26
Bhei.........................  76® 1 00
Bhel,  cut.................  @  1  25
Rhei, pv..................   76®  1  35
Splgella..................   36®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po.  16 
@  18
Serpentaria............   50®  56
Senega....................  60®  66
Smilax, officinalis H.  @ 4 0
Smllax, M...............   @  26
Scillae................po. 36 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po.................  @  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
@  25
16®  20
Valeriana,  German. 
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber j.................  26®  27
Semen

Anlsum.............po. 18  @  15
13®  15
Apium (graveleons). 
Bird, is.................... 
6
4® 
Carul............po.  15 
10®  11
Cardamon.........'__   1  26®  1  76
Coriandrum............. 
8®  10
Cannabis Sativa......   4Vi@  5
Cydonium...............   76®  1  00
t6
Cnenopodium.........  
16® 
Dtpterix Odorate__1 00®  1  10
Fcenlculum..............  @ 
10
7® 
Fcenugreek, po........ 
9
L ini.........................  354® 
6
Lini, grd...... bbl. 4 
4Vi@  6
Lobelia....................  45®  50
Pharlarls Canarian..  4Vi@  6
B apa.......................  4vi@ 
6
Sinapls  Alba........... 
9®  10
Sinapis  Nigra.........  
11® 
12
Splrltus

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00® 2 60 
Frumenti,  1). F. R..  2 00® 2 26
Frumentl................   1 26®  1  60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1 66® 2 00
Junlperis  Co...........  1 76® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E __1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli.........  1  76® 6 60
Vini Oporto............   1  26® 2 00
Vini Alba................   1  26® 2 00

carriage................  2 60® 2 76
carriage................   2 60® 2 75
wool, carriage......   @  1  60
wool, carriage......   @  1 25
carriage................  @100

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
Nassau sheeps’ wool
Velvet extra sheeps’
Extra yellow sheeps’
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  B e e f,  for
Syrups

slate use...............   @ 1  40

Acacia....................   @  60
Aurantl Cortex........  @ 6 0
Zingiber..................   @  50
Ipecac......................  @  60
Ferrilod.................  @  60
Bhei Arom..............  @  60
Smilax  Officinalis...  60®  60
Senega....................  @  60
Soillae....................... 
a   bo

@ 75

Scillae Co.................  @  60
Tolutan...................   @  50
Prunus  vlrg............   @  60

Tinctures
Aconitum Napellis R 
Aconitum Napellis F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh__ 
Arnica....................  
Assafoetida.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex.......  
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Cantharldes............  
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co..........  
Castor.....................  
Catechu]................... 
Cinchona................  
Cinchona Co............  
Columba.................  
Cubebae.................... 
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis................... 
Ergot.......................  
Ferri  Chlorldum.... 
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
Gulaca.....................  
Guiaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............  
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless......  
Kino  .......................  
Lobelia.................... 
Myrrh...................... 
Nux Vomica............  
Opli.......................... 
Opli, comphorated.. 
Opil, deodorized...... 
Quassia................... 
Bhatany................... 
Bhei......................... 
Sanguinaria............ 
Serpentaria............. 
Stramonium............  
Tolutan................... 
Valerian................. 
Veratrum  Verlde... 
Zingiber..................  

60
50
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
75
60
75
75
1 00
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
60
50
35
60
60
60
60
60
76
75
60
60
80
60
76
60
1 60
5o
60
60
5¿
60
60
60
5¿
60
2q

Miscellaneous 

¿Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  36
.¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Alumen..................   254® 
3
3®
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
Annatto...................   40®  60
Antimoni, po........... 
4® 
6
Antimoni et Potass T  40®  60
Antipyrin...............   @  26
Antiiebrin  ..............  @  20
Argent! Nltras, oz...  @  60
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
38®  40
Bismuth S. N...........  1  65®  1 70
@  9
Calcium Chlor.,  Is... 
@  10
Calcium Chlor., Vis.. 
@  12
Calcium Chlor.,  54s.. 
@  80
Cantharldes, Bus.po 
@  16
Capslcl Fructus, a t.. 
@  15
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
Capsid Fructus B, po 
@  15
Caryqphyllus. .po. 15 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
50®  56
Cera Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  36
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum.................  @  46
Chloroform............   55®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1  66
Chondrus................   20®  26
Clnchonidine,P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine..................   6 05® 6  26
Corks, list, dls. pr. ct. 
75
Creosotum...............   @  46
Creta............bbl. 75  @  2
Creta, prep..............  @ 
5
Creta, precip........... 
ll
9® 
Creta, Rubra_____   @ 
8
Crocus....................  26®  30
Cudbear..................   @
Cuprl  Sulph............   6V4® 
8
Dextrine................. 
7® 
10
Ether Sulph............   78®  92
Emery, all number's.  @ 
8
Emery, po................  @ 
6
E rgota......... po. 90  86®  90
Flake  White............ -  12® 
16
Galla.......................   @  23
Gambler................. 
8® 
9
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @  60
Gelatin, French......   36®  60
75 &  5
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box......  
70
Glue, brown............  
11®  13
Glue,  white............  
15®  26
Glycerina................   17 Vi®  26
Grana Paradisl........  @  26
Humulus.................  26®  56
Hydrarg Chlor  Mite  @ 1 00 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @  90
Hydrarg Ox Bub’m.  @ 1  10 
Hydrarg  Ammoniatl  @ 1  20 
HydrargU nguentum  60®  60
Hydrargyrum.........   @  86
IcnthyoDolla, Am...  66®  70
Indigo.....................   76® l 00
Iodine,  Besubl........  3 40® 3  60
Iodoform.................   3 60® 3  86
Lupulin....................  @  60
Lycopodium.............  66®  70
M ads......................  66®  75
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @  26
LlquorPotas8Arsinlt 
12 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
3
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl  @  ivi 
Mannia, 8. F ....__   «0®  60

10® 
2® 

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

-..........•---------------f

ADVANCED
Roiled  Oats
Sisal  Rope
Soap  Chips

DECLINED

H and  Picked  Beans
D ried  C urrants
Sundried  Apples
Sugars

doz.  gross

AXLE  GREASE
urora 
....................H  
Castor  OU.....................60 
Diamond...... ........... .60 
Frazer’s ......... ............75 
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 

Stove

6 oo
7 00
4 25
» 00
8 00

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........   — 12 %
Paraffine, 6s..........................10*4
Paraffine, 12s....................... ll
Kicking 
................2#

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

M ushrooms

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

B lueberries
Brook  T rout

H
90
85
1  85 
3 40
2 35
1 76
2 80
1 75
2 80
1 75
2 80
18®20
22®25

Apples
1 00 
3 lb. Standards........
3 25
Gallons, standards..
80
Standards...........
Beaus
Baked......................  l  oo@i  30
Bed Kidney............. 
75®  85
String......................
Wax.........................
85
Standard................
2 lb. cans. Spiced..............  1  90
Clams.
1 00 
Little Neck, 1 lb .....
1  50
Little Neck. 2 lb......
Burnham’s, % pint...........  1  92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7  20
Cherries
Bed Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair....................... .
Good.......................
Fancy.................
F rench  Peas
Sur Extra Fine............
Extra  Fine...................
Fine..............................
Moyen..............................  
Gooseberries
Standard................
H om iny
Standard..... ............
Lobster
Star, % lb.................
Star, l  lb.................
Picnic Tails..............
M ackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 21b...........
Soused, lib ..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb.............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Hotels.......................
Buttons....................
Oysters
Cove, 1 lb.................
Cove, 21b.................  
Cove, l lb Oval........
Peaches
P ie...........................
Yellow....................  
Pears
Standard.................  
Fancy....................... 
Marrowfat.............. 
Early June..............
Early June  Sifted..
Pineapple
Grated 
................... 
Sliced.......................
P um pkin
Fair  .......................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Raspberries
Standard..................
Russian  Cavier
X lb. cans..............................   3 75
% lb, cans.........................   7 00
1 lb. can................................  12 00
Columbia River, tails 
@1  85
©2  01
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska.............   1  30@i  40
i  10®1  25
Pink Alaska............ 
Shrim ps
1 50
Standard.................
Sardines
Domestic, *4«..........
Domestic, X s-------
Domestic,  Mustard.
California, Ms.........
California Ms..........
French, Ms..............
French. Ms..............
Standard.................
Fancy......................
Succotash
Fair..........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................

l  65@i
l
l
l
1 00 
1  60
l 25@2  75
1  35@2  55
70 
75 
85
1  15

8
7
11@14
17@24
7@14
18@28
1 00 
1  25
90 
1 00 
1  20

Straw berries

Salmon

Peas

85

l

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

i
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BAKING POW DER 

Egg

|

X lb. cans,  4 doz. case. „— 3 75
% lb. cans,  2 doz. case.......3 75
1 lb. cans, 
1 doz. case.......3 75
5 lb. cans,  % doz. case....... 8 00

JAXON

it lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
% lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
l 
lb. cans, 2 doz. case........1  60

Queen  Flake

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

Royal

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

BATH  BRICK

American.............................  70
EngUsh.................................  80

BLUING

Arctic, 4 oz. ovals, per gross 4 00 
Arctic, 8 oz. ovals, per gross« 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..........................1 85
No. 4 Carpet..........................l 60
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk............................ l 10
Warehouse..............................3 25

BRUSHES

Scrub

Solid Back,  8 in..................   45
SoUd Back, 11 i n .................  95
Pointed Ends.......................  85
NO. 8...................................... 1 00
No. 7......................................1 30
No. 4......................................1 70
No. 3......................................1 90

Shoe

F air.........................
Good.......................
Fancy......................
Gallons....................
CATSUP
Columbia,  pints.........
Columbia, % pints......

90
95
1  05
2 75
..2 00
...1 25

CARBON  OILS

B arrels
@10tt
Eocene......................
@ 9H
Perfection........— '.
Diamond White........
@  8H
@12Vt
D. S. Gasoline...........
Deodorized Naphtha.
@10%
Cylinder.................... 29 @34
Engine....................... 19 @22
9 @10X
Black, winter............
CHEESE
®11 
Acme.......................
a n  
Amboy....................
@n 
Carson City..............
@liK
Elsie.........................
S um 
Emblem..................
@12 
Gem.........................
@11 
Gold Medal..............
@11 
Ideal......................
@11 
Jersey......................
@UM 
Riverside.................
14@15 
Brick.......................
@90 
Edam.......................
@17 
Leiden....................
13@14 
Llmburger...............
50@75 
Pineapple................
19Q20
Sap  Sago.
CHEWING GUM 
American Flag Spruce—  
Beeman’s Pepsin.............  
Black Jack.......................  
Largest Gum  Made.........  
Sen Sen  ,..........................  
Sen Sen Breath Perfume., 
Sugar  Loaf.......................  
Yucatan............................ 
Bulk....................................  5
Bed......................................7
Eagle-.-...............................  4
Franck’s .............................   6M
Schener’s .............................  6

55
60
55
60
55
l  00
55
55

CHICORY

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

COCOA

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German  Sweet....................   23
Premium..............................  31
Breakfast Cocoa..................   46
Vienna Sweet......... -........   21
Vanilla................................   2sr
Premium..............................  31
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz........... 1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz........... 1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.'per doz........... 1  40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz........... 1 60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz...........1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  95
Cleveland.............................   44
Colonial, Ms  .......................   35
Colonial, Ms.........................  33
Epps.....................................  42
Huyler.................................  45
Van Houten, Ms..................  12
Van Houten, Ms..................   20
Van Houten, Ms..................  38
Van Houten,  is..................  70
Webb.............................. 
  30
Wilbur, Ms..........................   «
Wilbur. Ms...........................  42
Dunham’s Ms..................   26
Dunham’s Ms and Ms......  26M
Dunham’s  Ms....................   27
Dunham’s  Ms.................... "28
13
Bulk..................................
COCOA  SHELLS
20 lb. bags......................
Less quantity.................
Pound packages............

COCOANUT

COFFEE 
Roasted

„  
'HIGH GRADE
Coffees

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

Maracaibo

Santos

R io

 

Mexican

Choice...................................J6
Fancy....................................17

G uatem ala

Ja v a

Choice....................—-....... 16
African.................................12M
Fancy African.....................17
“  ...................................£
.................................  -29

Mocha

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

Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle............................ i0j*
Dilworth............................ 10M
Jersey....'............ .............
Lion.............................„...10M
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin & 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City M  gross............   76
Felix M gross........................l  16
Hummers foil M gross........  85
Hummel’s tin M gross........ 1  43

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz in case.

 

COUPON  BOOKS 

Gall Borden Eagle.............. 6 40
Crown.................................. § 26
Daisy....................................6 75
Champion............................4 50
Magnolia..................................* 25
Challenge.................................4 w
Dime........................  
Leader..................................... 4 °0
50 books, any  denom...  1 50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500books,any  denom...  ll  50 
,000 books, any  denom...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either 
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1,000 books areordered at a time 
customer receives  sp e cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

B utter

CRACKERS

Credit Checks

Conpon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books......................... 
l 50
100  books.........................  2 50
500  books........................  H 50
,ooo  books......................... 20 oo
500, any one denom........  2 oo
.,000, any one denom........  -3 00
2,000, any one denom........  5 00
Steel  punch...................... 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands
Seymour............................ 
6M
New York......................... 
6M
Family.............................   6M
Salted................................ 
6M
Wolverine.........................  6M
Soda  XXX....................... 
6X
Soda, City......................... 
8
Long Island Wafers.........  13
Zepnyrette........................ 
  13
Oyster 
•
F a u st...............................  7M
Farina... 
....................... 
6M
Extra Farina.................... 
6M
Saltlne 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, Tree or sm’ll  8 
6M
Ginger  Snaps, FT B. C —  
Gladiator..........................   10M
Grandma Cakes.................. 
9
Graham Crackers............... 
8
Graham  Wafers.................  12
Grand Rapids  Tea...........  16
Honey Fingers.................  12
Iced Honey Crumpets......  10
Imperials..........................  8
Jumbles, Honey...............   12
Lady Fingers....................  12
Lemon Snaps....................   12
Lemon Wafers.................  16
Marshmallow...................   16
Marshmallow Creams......  16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann......................... 
8
llM
Mixed Picnic....................  
Milk Biscuit.....................   7M
Molasses  Cake................. 
8
Molasses Bar..................-  '  9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  12M
Newton.............................   12
Oatmeal Crackers............   8
Oatmeal Wafers.....*........  12
Orange Crisp....................  9
9
Orange Gem.....................  
Penny Cake......................  8
7M
Pilot Bread, XXX............ 
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
8M
Pretzels, hand  made....... 
8M
Scotch Cookies.................  9
Sears’ Lunch....................  7M
Sugar Cake.......................   8
Sugar Cream, XXX.........  
8

 

Sugar Squares................... 
,8
Sultanas................  
13
 
Tutti Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp................... 
8
E. J. Kruce & Co.’s baked goods 

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

with interesting discounts. 
CREAM TARTAR

5 and 10 lb. wooden boxes......30
Bulk in sacks..........................29

DRIED   FRUITS 

Apples

California F ru its

Sundried.........................  @5
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @10 
Apricots.....................  9@ 9M
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  @20
Pears.......................... 7M
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries..............
100-120 25 lb. boxes........  @
90-100 25 lb. boxes........  ® 4M
80 - 90 25lb.boxes........  @
70 - 80 25lb. boxes........  @
60-7025lb. boxes........  @ 6X
50 - 60 26 lb. boxes........  @  7H
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes........  @  8X
30-40 25 lb. boxes........

California Prunes

v  cent less in 50 lb. cases 

Citron

Peel

Currants

Leghorn...................................U
Corsican..................................12
3 35
California, 1 lb.  package....
Imported, 1 lb package.......10
Imported, bulk...................  9M
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx..l0M 
Orange American 10 lb. bx.. 10M 
London Layers 2 Crown. 
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb........ 
L. M., Seeded. X  lb...:  6M
Sultanas, b u lk ....................
Sultanas, package..............

•
2  15
7
7M
8
8M

R a isin s

Beans

Cereals

FARINACEOUS GOODS 
..  7

Dried Lima............... .
2  00
Medium Hand Picked
Brown Holland................ ..2 50
..  90
Cream of Cereal..............
..1  35
Graln-O, small...............
..2 25
Grain-O, large.................
..1 35
Grape Nuts.....................
Postum Cereal, small__ ..1  35
.  2 25
Postum Cereal, large......
..1  13 
241 lb. packages............
..2  25
Bulk, per 100 Tbs..............
90
Flake, 50 lb. sack............
Pearl,  2001b. bbl.............
..3 80
..1  80
Pearl. 100 lb. sack...........
Macearon!  and V erm icelli
..  60
Domestic, 10 lb. box........
Imported. 25 lb. box........ ..  2 50
Common......................... ...2 40
Chester............................ ...2 90
Empire............................ ...3 40

P earl  B arley

Hom iny

F arina

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. 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
Spilt,  lb......   ......................  2M
Rolled Avena, bbl...............5  30
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   2 55
Monarch, bbl......................5  00
Monarch, % bbl..................2  65
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks........ 2  40
Quaker, cases.....................3  20
East India...........................   2X
German, sacks...................   3X
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks.............  4X
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages...... 6
Cracked, bulk.............. ....... 8X
24 2 lb. packages................2  50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE St JEN K S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
Vanilla 
Lemon

l oz full m.120  1 oz full m.  80 
2 o zfu llm 2 l0   2 oz full m .l  25 
No.3fan’y.3  15  No.Sfan’y .l  75

Index to  Markets

By Columns

 

C

B

A

D
P

G
H

I
J
I,

Col.
Akron  Stoneware.................   15
Alabastlne............................   J
Axle Urease........................... 
l
Baking Powder......................  }
Bath  Brick........................•••  J
Bluing.................................... 
j
Brooms.................................     J
Brushes.................................  *
Butter Color..........................   2
Candies...................................  44
Candles.................................... 
j
Canned Goods.........................  2
Catsup..............*...................   J
Carbon Oils............................   ®
Cheese.....................................   ®
Chewing Gum.........................  3
Chicory....................................  *
Chocolate.................................  »
Clothes Lines......................  
Cocoa......................................  
|
Cocoanut.................................  »
Cocoa Shells..........................  3
Coffee....................................  3
Condensed Milk....................   4
Coupon Books.......................   ■[
Crackers...............................  4
Cream T artar.......................   &
Dried  Fruits.........................  3
Farinaceous  Goods..............  5
Fish and Oysters..................   13
Flavoring Extracts...............
Fly  Paper.............................
Fresh Meats.........................
Fruits....................................  14
Grains and Flour.................   6
Herbs...................................  ®
Hides and Pelts....................   4
Indigo..............*....................  1
Jelly ......................................  1
Lamp Burners.......................  J.
Lamp Chimneys....................  ij>
Lanterns...............................   J®
Lantern  Globes....................   1»
Licorice............................. .
Lye.......................................
Matches...............................
Meat Extracts.....................
Molasses..............................
Mustard...............................
Nuts.....................................
Oil Cans.................................  is
Olives..................................
Oyster Pails.........................
Paper Bags..........................
Paris Green.........................
Pickles..................................
Pipes...............................
Potash....... .........................
Provisions........................
B}ce.....................................
Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut............................  9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking.......................   9
Snuff.....................................   »
Soap.......................................  *
Soda.......................................  9
Spices....................................  9
Starch....................................  10
Stove Polish..........................  10
Sugar....................................  10
Syrups............................•••••  9
Table  Sauce..........................   12
Tea........................................   11
Tobacco...............................   ll
Twine....................................  12
Vinegar.................................  12
Washing Powder...................  12
Wlcklng.................................  13
Woodenware.........................  13
Wrapping Paper...................  13
Yeast Cake.................................  13

N
O

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w

M

B

T

P

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

2d

9

W h ite  fis h

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

No. 1  No. 2  Fam
3 25
1 65
48
42
Anise..................................... 9
Canary, Smyrna..................   3H
Caraway............................. 7h
Cardamon, Malabar............ 1  00
Celery................................... 10
Hemp, Russian....................   4
Mixed Bird............................ 4
Mustard, white....................  7
Poppy....................  
6
Rape...................................   4
Cuttle Bone......................... .14
Handy Box, large............   2 50
Handy Box, small............  125
Blxby’s Royal Polish........ 
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish.__ 
85
Scotch, In bladders..............  37
Maccaboy, In jars................  35
French Rappee, In jars......   43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SHOE  BLACKING

8NUFF

SOAP

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

 

M50 cakes, large size............. 3 25

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

Fels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

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

100 cakes, large size..............6 50
50 cates, small size..............1 95
100 cakes, small size.............3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Coal Oil Johnny............ 3  90
Peekin............................   4 00
Queen Anne...................   3  15
Big  Bargain..............—   1  75
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
J A X O N
Single Pox.................................3 00
5 box lots, delivered........... 2 95
10 box lots, delivered........... 2 90
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.....................   3 60
Calumet Family.............   2  70
Scotch Family................   2  so
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, 6oz......................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.....................  6  75
Star...................................3 00
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3  20
Sapollo, kitchen, 3 doz........ 2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz.............2 40
Boxes................................. .  5H
Kegs, English......................4H

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

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Lautz Bros, brands—

Scouring

SODA

6

7

Vanilla 

Lemon

2 ozpanel..1  20  2 ozpanel.  75 
3 oz taper. .2 00  4 oz taper.. 1  50

3 OZ.........  1  00  3 OZ.........   1  60
6 OZ.........   2 00  4 OZ.........   2  00
No. 4T 
.1 5 2   No. 3 T...  2 08
O ur Tropical.

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure. Lemon..  75
4 oz. full measure. Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60
Tanglefoot, per box.............   35
Tanglefocc, per  case...........3 20

FLY  PA PER

Standard.

• 

Beef

P ork

FRESH  MEATS 
Carcass.......................  6 
Forequarters.........  
6  @6
Hindquarters......... 
7*@ 9
Loins No. 3..............  10  @11
Ribs...........................   9 
7*@  8
Rounds.................... 
Chucks.................... 
514® 6
Plates........................  
4 
Dressed................... 
@8
Loins....................... 
@it
Boston  Butts........... 
@10
Shoulders................ 
@ 94
Leaf  Lard......... . 
@9
M utton
Carcass......................  7 
Lambs........................  
8 
Carcass...................  
8  @9
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR
W heat

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

Veal

W inter  W heat  F lonr 

TO

Local Brands

Spring W heat  F lonr 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4  20
Second Patent..................   3 70
Straight.............................  3  so
Second Straight................  3 30
Clear...............................   3  io
Graham............................  3 40
Buckwheat.......................  4 oo
Rye....................................  3  20
Subject  to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour in bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond * s......................  3  85
Diamond Hs.....................   3  85
Diamond * s.....................   3 85
Quaker Hs.........................  3 80
Quaker Hs........................   3 80
Quaker Hs........................   3  80
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
Pill8bury’s  Best H s.........   4 35
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs.........   4 -¿5
Plllsbury’8  Best Hs.........   4  15
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  15 
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  15 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  40
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  30
Duluth  Imperial Hs.........  4  20
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4 25
Wlngold  Hs....................... 
Wlngold  h s....................... 
4 15
Wlngold  Hs....................... 
4 05
Olney & Judson’s Brand
Ceresota Hs.......................   4 25
Ceresota Hs........................  4 15
Ceresota Hs.......................   4 05
Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand40
Laurel  Hs..........................   4 25
Laurel  Hs...........................  4 is
Laurel  Hs...........................  4 05
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4 05
Bolted...............................  2 60
Granulated.......................  2  76
Car  lots.............................  39H
Car lots, clipped.................  41
Less than car lots.............
Feed and  Millstuflfc

Meal

Oats

St. Car Feed, screened__   22  50
No. 1 Com and  Oats........22  00
Unbolted Com  Meal........21  60
Winter Wheat Bran.........  16  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings.  17 00
Screenings.......................   16 50
Com, car  lots..................   59 h

Corn
Hay

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

 

 

INDIGO

JELLY

LICORICE

Madras, 5 lb. boxes........
....56
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.
....50
51b. pails.per doz........... 1 90
15 lb. palls.......................
..  38
30 lb. palls.......................
..  72
Pure................................
..  30
Calabria..........................
..  23
Sicily...............................
..  14
Roof................................
..  10
Condensed, 2 doz............. ..1  20
Condensed, 4 doz............
..2 25
Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
..1  65
..1  50
..1 30
..4 00
..1 50
MEAT EXTRACTS
Armour & Co.’s, 2 oz........ 4 45
Liebig’s, 2  oz...................
2 75

No.  9 sulphur.................
Anchor Parlor...............
No. 2 Home....................
Export Parlor.................
Wolverine..............  ......

MATCHES

LYE

40
35
26
22

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans
Fancy Open Kettle.........
Choice.............................
F air................................
Good...............................

Half-barrels 2c extra
MUSTARD

@ 8

@514

@1214

@  9
@ 9

OLIVES

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Radish, X 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  o z ..................
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.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific 
Square
Bottom 
50
H....................  28
60
* ....................  34
1....................  44
80
2....................  54
1  00
3....................  66
1  25
4....................  76
1  45
5....................  90
1  70
6....................1  06
2 00
8............. 1  28
2 40
10............. 1  38
2 60
12.............1  60
3  15
14.............2 24
4  15
16.............2 34
4 50
20............. 2 52
5 00
26.............
5 50
Sugar
Red.......... ...........
4*
Gray.....................
4%
PARIS  GREEN
Bulk..................... ...14
Packages, *  lb., each_ ...18
Packages, *  lb„ each_ ...17
Packages,  lib.,each_ ...16
Half bbls, 600 count..... . ..6  50
Barrels, 1,200 count.....
...3 76
...8  00
Barrels, 2,400 count.......
...4 50
Half bbls, 1,200 count__

PICKLES
M edium

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 
Barreled  Pork

Mess.................. ......
Back.......................
Clear back...............
Short cut.................
P ig..........................
Bean........................
Family Mess............

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

D ry  Salt Meats

@16  00
@18 25
@18 50
@18 00
@21  00
@17  25
@17  60
10*
10*
110

Smoked  Meats

Hams, 12 lb. average.
@  12*
Hams, 14 lb. average.
@  12*
@  12
Hams, 16 lb. average.
Hams, 20 lb. average. 
@  11*
Ham dried  beef......
@  13*
Shoulders ( N. Y. cut )
@  9*
Bacon, clear............   10*@  11*
California hams......
@  9
Boiled Hams..........
@  17
Picnic Boiled Hams
@  13
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d.
@  9
Mince Ham s.........
@  9
Compound...............
Pure.........................
Vegetole................
60 lb. Tubs.. advance
80 lb. Tubs.. advance
50 lb. Tins... advance
20 lb. Palls, .advance
10 lb. Palls.. advance
5 lb. Palls,  advance
8 lb. Pall«., advance

8
11
8*
*
*
*
X
1
1

Lards—In Tierces

8

Sausages
Bologna...................
Liver.......................
Frankfort................
P o rk .......................
Blood.......................
Tongue....................
Headcheese............
Beef
Extra Mess..............
Boneless..................
Rump......................
Pigs’  Feet
*  bbls., 40 lbs.........
*  bbls., 80 lbs.........
Tripe
Kits, 15  lbs..............
*  bbls., 40  lbs.........
*  bbls., 80 lbs.........
Casings
P o rk .......................
Beef rounds............
Beef middles...........
Sheep.......................
B utterine
Solid, dairy..............
Rolls, dairy..............
Rolls, creamery......
Solid, creamery......
Corned beef, 2 lb__
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  * s ......
Potted ham,  * s ......
Deviled ham, * s __
Deviled ham, * s __
Potted tongue,  * s ..
Potted tongue,  * s..
RICE
Domestic

Canned  Meats

6
6
8
9
6*
6

10  75
11  50
11  50

1  60
2  90

70
1  25
2  25

21
4
12
65

@13*
@14
17*
17
2 50
17 50
2 60
50
90
50
90
50
90

* 

...... 6*
...... 6*

Carolina head..............
Carolina  No. 1 ............
Carolina No. 2 .............
Broken ........................
Im ported.
Japan,  No.  1................ 5*@
Japan,  No. 2................ 4*@
Java, fancy head......... @
Java, No. i ................... @
Tablé............................ -  @

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 * s ......
....3 00
SAL  SODA
Granulated,  bbls.........
....  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__ 1  10
Lump, bbls...................
...  80
Lump, 145 lb. kegs........
....  85

*

SALT

Ruckeye

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  3 lb. bags..............
....3 00
50  6 lb. bags..............
....3 00
22 14 lb. bags.............. ......2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  ceDt.  dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 1003 lb.bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2  85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks...................... 2  26
60 51b. sacks...................... 2  15
2810 lb. sacks.....................2  05
561b. sacks...................... 
40
281b. sacks.......................  
22
56 lb. dairy In drill bags......   40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags......   20
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy in linen sacks...  60 
561b.  sacks..........................   25
Granulated  Fine.................  85
Medium Fine.......................   90

Solar Rock
Common

Ashton
Higgins

Warsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

H alibut.

Georges cured............   @6
Georges genuine........  @ 6H
Georges selected........  @7
Grand Bank................  @ 6
Strips or bricks.........   6 *@10*
Pollock.......................   @ 3H
Strips.......................................10
Chunks....................................12
No. 1100 lbs......................   6  25
NO. 1  40 lb8......................   2  80
No. 1  10 lbs......................  
78
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
69
Holland white hoops, bbl.  19 25 
Holland white hoops Hbbl.  5  50 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mens. 
85
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3  00
Round 40 lbs.....................   1  50
Scaled.............  
19
Bloaters.............................  1  60
Mess 100 lbs.........  ...........  11  00
Mess  40 lbs......................   4 70
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  25
Mess  8 lbs......................   1  03
No. 1100 lbs......................   9  75
  4 20
No. 1  40 lbs................... 
No. 1  10 lbs......................   1  12
NO. 1  8 lbs......................  
93
NO. 2 100 lb8......................   8 25
NO. 2  40 lbs......................   8  60
NO. 2  10 lbs......................  
98
81
NO. 3  8 lbs......................  

 
M ackerel

 

SPICES

W hole Spices

Allspice............................. 
Cassia, China In mats...... 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__ 
Cloves, Amboyna.............. 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Mace................................. 
Nutmegs,  75-80................. 
Nutmegs,  105-10................ 
Nutmegs, 115-20................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot...................... 
Pure G round in B ulk
Allspice........................... '. 
Cassia, Batavia.................  
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar...............  
Ginger, African...............  
Ginger, Cochin.................  
Ginger,  Jamaica.............. 
Mace.................................  
Mustard............................ 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............. 
Sage.................................. 

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels.................................23
Half bbls............................25  •
1 gallon cans, per doz...... 3 50
H gallon cans, per doz....... l  95
H gallon cans, per doz....... l  00

12
12
28
38
55
17
14
56
50
40
35
18
28
20
16
28
48
17
16
18
25
66
18
17
25
20
20

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

SUGAR

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the local 
freight from New York  to your
« Ing point, giving you credit 
e  invoice  for  the  amount 
of freight  buyer  pays  from  the 
market  in  which  he  purchases 
to his shipping  point,  Including 
20 pounds for the weight  of the
barrel.
Domino.............................  5 70
Cut Loaf...........................   5 70
Crushed....................... 
  5 70
Cubes................................  5 45
Powdered.........................  5 30
Coarse  Powdered............   6 30
y y y y  Powdered............   6 35
Fine Granulated...............   5  10
2 lb.  bags Fine  Gran........  5 25
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5 25
Mould A ...........................   6 55
Diamond  A.......................  5 20
Confectioner’s  A..............  5  05
No.  1, Columbia A........   4 90
No.  2, Windsor A..........  4  85
No.  3, Ridgewood A.....   4 85
No.  4| Phoenix  A..........  4 so
No.  5, Empire A............  4  75
No. 
6.............................   4 70
7.............................   4 60
NO. 

IO

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

16
20
25

Kingsford’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages...............   6*
20 l-lb. packages............... 
7
61b. packages...............  
7%
Kinggford’s Silver Gloss

40 l-lb. packages...............   7H

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages................... 
3-lb. packages................... 
6-lb. packages..................  
40 and 50-lb. boxes............  
Barrels............................. 

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb......
Best Gloss Starch,  61b......
Best Gloss Starch,  31b......
Best Gloss Starch,  lib ......
W orks:  Venice, I1L 
Geneva, 111.

Common Corn

20 l-lb.  packages..............  RK
401-lb.  packages.............. 
4H
STOYE POLISH

II

 

 

No.  8................................   4 60
No.  9..................... 
4 45
No. 10................................   4  40
No. 11................................   4  35
No. 12................................   4  30
No. 13................................   4  30
No. 14...............................     4  25
No. 15................................  4  2S
No. 16................................   4 25

TEA
Jap an

Sundrled, medium.............. 28
Sundrled, choice..................30
Sundrled, fancy...................40
Regular, medium.................28
Regular, choice...................30
Regular, fancy.....................40
Basket-fired, medium..........28
Basket-fired, choice.............35
Basket-fired, fancy..............40
Nibs..................................... 27
Siftings...........................i9@2i
Fannings........................20@22

Gunpowder

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

5H
5
6
4
3*

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

Young Hyson

Oolong

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

English B reakfast

In dia

TOBACCO

Cigars

A. Bomers’ brand.

Plaindealer............................ 35 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
For time Teller.................  35
S
Our Manager....................  35
S
Quintette...................  
  85
8
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co.’s brand.

8. C. W..............................  35 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26
Lubetsky Bros.’ Brands.
B. L.................................. $35 00
Gold Star............ >............  35 00

Fine  Cut

Uncle Daniel........................54
Ojibwa.................................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

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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

1 2

13

14

16

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

P lug

Flat Iron..............................33
Creme do Menthe................60
Stronghold............................39
Elmo.....................................33
Sweet Chunk......... ............. 37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross............................. 32
Palo......................................35
Kylo......................................35
Hiawatha...................... 
41
Battle A xe.........................  36
American Eagle...................33
Standard Navy.....................36
Spear Head, 16 oz................44
Spear Head,  8 oz................43
Nobby Twist........................47
JollyT ar.............................37
OldHonesty......................... 43
Toddy................................... 34
J. T .:....................................37
Piper Heidsick.....................63
Boot Jack............................. 80
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32

Smoking

Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex......................................28
Sweet Core...........................36
Flat Car........................... ...36
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................26
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 28
Bamboo, 16 oz...................... 26
I XL,  61b...........................28
I X L, 30 lb...........................32
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold Block...........................37
Flagman..............................41
Chips.................................... 34
Klin 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
Corn Cake, 2K oz................. 25
Com Cake, l lb.....................23
Plow Boy, IX oz..................39
How Boy, 3K oz..................37
Peerless, 3Koz.....................34
Peerless, 1 \  oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2K oz...................28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls...........31
Col. Choice, 214 oz............... 21
Col. Choice. 8oz...................21

TABLE  SAUCES
LEA &  
PERRINS’ 
SAU CE

The Original and 
Genuine 
W  o rc e s te rs h lre .

LeaftPerrin’s,large......  3 76
Lea ft Perrin’s, small......   2 60
Halford, large...................  3 76
Halford, small...................  2 26
Salad Dressing, large......   4 66
Salad Dressing, small......   2 76

TW INE

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

VINEGAR

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..ll 
Pure Cider, B. ft B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Boblnson.........10
Pure Cider, Silver...............ll
WASHING POW DER

Gold Dust, regular.............4 60
Gold Dust, 5c.......................4 00

Bub-No-More.....................3 50
Pearilne.............................. 2 90
Scourine.............................. 3 60

WICKING

No. 0, per gross................... 20
No. i, per gross................... 26
No. 9, per gross...................36
No. 8. per gross................... 66

WOODENWAKE

Baskets

Bushels................................  96
Bushels, wide  band...... ....1  15
Market................................  30
Splint, large........................4 00
Splint, medium..................3 60
Splint, small....................... 3 00
Willow Clothes, large.........6 26
Willow Clothes, medium...  6 76
Willow Clothes, small........ 6 26

B a tte r Plates

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

Egg Crates

Humpty Dumpty...............2 26
No. 1, complete...................  30
No. 2, complete...................  26
Bound head, 5 gross box__   46
Bound head, cartons..........   62

Clothes P ins

Mop  Sticks

Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No l common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  86
12 ft. cotton mop heads.......l  26
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90

Palls

2- hoop Standard........................I 40
3- hoop Standard........................l 60
2- wlre,  Cable............................ l 60
3- wire,  Cable............................ l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound.1 26
Paper,  Eureka......................... 2 26
Fibre.........................................2 40

Toothpicks

Hardwood................................2 50
Softwood..................................2 75
Banquet.................................... 1 60
Ideal......................................... l 60

Tabs

20-inch, Standard, No. 1........... 6 00
18-lnch, Standard, No. 2........... 6 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3........... 4 00
20-lnoh, Cable,  No. l............ 6 60
18-lnch, Cable, No. 2.................6 00
16-lnch, Cable, No. 3.................5 00
No. 1 Fibre............................... 9 46
No. 2 Fibre............................... 7 96
No. 3 Fibre............................... 7 20

W ash  Boards

Bronze Globe............................ 2 60
Dewey......................................1 76
Double Acme............................ 2 76
Single Acme....................   2  26
Double Peerless...............   3 25
Single Peerless......................... 2 60
Northern Queen...................... 2 60
Double Duplex......................... 3 00
Good Luck................................2 76
Universal.................................. 2 26

Wood  Bowls

ll In. Butter.........................  76
13 In. Butter.............................. l 00
16 In. Butter.............................. l 76
17 in. Butter.............................. 2 60
19 In. Butter..............................3 00
Assorted 13-16-17.......................1 76
Assorted 15-17-19...................... 2 60

W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................   1K
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4*4
No.  1  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila..................  
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  9%
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   20
Wax Butter,  rolls.............  15

FRESH  FISH

YEAST  CAKE
Magic, 3 doz..............................l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz..............  
1 00
Sunlight, IK  doz.................   60
Yeast Cream, 3 doz................... 1 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz................... l 00
Yeast Foam, IK  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish....................  8©  9
Trout...........................   8©  9
Black Baas.................. 10©  ll
Halibut.......................   ©  16
Ciscoes or Herring__   ©  5
Bluefish.......................  ©  12
Live  Lobster...............  ©  20
Boiled  Lobster............  ©  20
Cod..............................   ©  10
Haddock.....................  ©  7
No. 1 Pickerel.............   ©  9
Pike...................  
  ©  8
Perch...........................  ©  5
Smoked White............  ©  it
Bed Snapper...............  ©   ll
ColBlver  Salmon.......   ©  12
Mackerel.....................  ©  16

H IDES AND  PELTS 

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

40
33
27
2 00
1 75
1  36
l  15
The Cappon ft Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green No. l ............. 
Green  No.2 .....__  
Cured  No. l ............. 
Cured  No. 2............. 
Calfskins,green No. l 
Calfsklns.greenNo.2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calfskins,cured No. 2 

© 7
© 6
© 8K
© 7K
© 9
© 7K
©10
© 8K

Hides

Pelts

W o o l

Tallow

Pelts,  each. 
Lamb.
No. 1.............................. 
No. 2.............................. 
Washed, fine........... 
Washed,  medium... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 
CANDIES 
Stick Candy
Standard...................... 
Standard H. H ...... 
Standard  Twist......  
Cut Loaf........................ 
Jumbo, 32 lb.................  
Extra H. H .............. 
Boston Cream.........  
Beet Boot.............  

60©1 00

© 4K
© 3K

16©17
18©21
11©14
14©16

Dbls. palls

© 7K
© 7K
© 8
© 
cases
© 7K
©10K
©10
© 8

Mixed Candy

Fancy—In  Pails 

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

©6K 
© 7 
@7 H 
© 8K 
© 8K 
© 9 
© 8K© 9 
© 9 
© 9 
© 9 
©10 
©10
©14K
©13
8K15 
12 
12 
9 
12 
11 
12 
10 
©12 
©9K 
©10 
©liK 
©13K 
©14 
©16 
© 6K 
© 9H 
© 9K 
© 9* 
©12
©12
©13
©12
Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes
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Champ. Crys. Gums.
Pony  Hearts...........
Fairy Cream Squares
Fudge Squares........
Peanut Squares......
Fruit Tab., as., wrap
Sugared Peanuts__
Salted Peanuts.
Starlight Kisses......
San B us 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,  16
lb. palls.................
Golden Waffles........
Lemon  Sours. 
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate Drops__
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
H. M. Choc.  Lt. and
Dk. No. 12............
Gum Drops..............
Licorice Drops
Lozenges,  plain......
Lozenges, printed...
Imperials.................
Mottoes...................
Cream  Bar..............
Molasses Bar...........
Hand Made Creams. 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt.............
String Bock.............
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 lcprbx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bus sett.......
Florida Bright........
Fancy Navels.........
Extra Choice...........
Late Valencias........
Seedlings............
Medt. Sweets...........
Jamalcas 
Rodl..........
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelll, fey 300......  
Verdelli, ex chce 300 
Verdelll, fey 360......  
Malori Lemons, 300.. 
Messlnas  300s.........   4 oo@4  60
Messinas 360s..........  3 50@4 00
Bananas
Medium bunches....  1  60@2 oo
Large bunches........

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Figs

Dates

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
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California«,  Fancy.. 
Cal. pkg, 10 lb. boxes 
Extra  Choice,  10  lb.
boxes,................... 
Fancy, 12 lb. boxes.. 
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes... 
Naturals, In bags.... 
Fards In 10 lb. boxes 
Fards In 60 lb. cases. 
Hallow!....................  
lb.  cases, new......  
Salrs, 60 lb. cases....  4K  © 6
Almonds, Tarragona 
@16
Almonds, Ivloa....... 
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Almonas, California,
soft shelled........... 
15@16
Brazils,....................  
@12
Filberts  .................  
©18K
@14
Walnuts,  Grenobles. 
Walnut*., soft shelled 
©
California No. 1... 
@14
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
5613
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
Pecans,  Med........... 
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Pecans, Ex. Large... 
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
©12
Hickory Nuts per bu.
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Ohio, new......... 
Cocoanuts, full sacks  @
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns..  6K@
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H.P., Extras  @
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted................ 
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A  Suggestion

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

Auto-Bi, $200

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

Michigan  Sales  Agents

6DLD  MEDAL,  PARIS,  1900
falter  Baker  &   Co.
V
iOCOAS AND CHOCOLATES
[

PURE,  HIGH-GRADE

Their  preparations am  pot  op 
in  conformity  to  the  Pure-Food 
Laws  o f all  the  States.

Under the  decisions of the  U. 
S.  Courts  no  other chocolate  or 
cocoa  is  entitled  to  be  labelled 
or sold  as  “  Baker’s  Chocolate”  
or “  Baker’s Cocoa.”

Grocers  will  find  them  in 
the long run the  most profit­
able  to  handle,  as  they  are 
absolutely pare  and  of  uni­
form  quality.

T R A D C -M A R K .

In writing  your  order  specify Walter 
Baker &  Co.’s goods. 
If other goods 
are  substituted please  let  us  know.

W A LT ER   B A K ER   &   CO.  Limited,

DORCHESTER,  MASS.

Established 1780.

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

bill heads.........................   $2  75

File and  1,000 specially

printed bill heads.........   3  00

Printed blank bill heads,

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

1  25

1  5o

A  

Grand  Rapids. 

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STONEWARE

B atters

K gal., per doz........  ........................
1 to 6 gal., per gal.............................
8 gal. each..........................................
10 gal. each..........................................
12 gal. each..........................................
16 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
20 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
25 gal. meat-tubs, each.......................
30 gal. meat-tubs, each...........'...........

2 to 6 gal., per gal...............................
''burn Dashers, per doz.....................

C h u rn s

Milk pan«

K gat  hat or rd. bot, per doz......—
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ each.................
Fine  Glazed M ilkpans
K gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............
l gal. flat or rd. bot., each.................

K gal. fireproof, ball, pnr doz............
1 gal. fireproof, bail, por doz.............

Stewpans

Jo g s

K gal. per doz.....................................
H gal. per doz............. 
.....................
l to 5 gal., per gal...............................

Sealing Wax

6 lbs. In package,per lb .....................

LAMP BURNERS

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

36
36
48
8660
60
Per box of 6 doz.
1 38
1 54
2 24

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

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

A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney In corrugated carton.

No. 0 Crimp......................................... 
No. 1 Crimp......................................... 
No. 2 Crimp......................................... 

F irst  Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped ft  lab. 
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped ft lab........ 
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........................................  
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 (66c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Lime (70c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)"” ....................  

Rochester

L a  Bastie

E lectric

OIL  CANS

No. 2 lim e (70c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c  doz)..........................  
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.. 
6 gal. Tilting cans................................ 
5 gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas.................... 
No.  0 Tubular, side lift...................... 
No.  IB  Tubular................................. 
No. 15 Tubular, dash....................... 
No.  l Tubular, glass fountain............ 
No. 12 Tubular, side lamp..................  
No.  3 Street lamp, each....................  
LANTERN GLOBES 
No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 16c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 6 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No.0Tub.,Bull’8eye,case8laoz.eacb 
MASON  FRUIT JARS.

LANTERNS

48 
6 
54 
66 
',8 
1  20 
1  60 
2 26 
2 70

6K84
48
6

60
6

85 
1  10

60
46
7K

2

160
1 78
2 48

l  85
2 00
2 90

2 76
3 76
4 00
4 00
6 00
5  10
80
1  00
1  26
1  36
1  60
3 60
4 00
4 60

4 00
4 60
1  35
1  65
3 00
4 30
5 76
4 60
6 00
7 00
9 00
4 76
7  26
7 26
7 60
13 60
3 60

46
45
2 00
125

Pints.........................................................  
Quarts........................................................ 
Half  Gallons.............................................  
Caps and  Bubbers.................................... 
Rubbers...............................................  

25 ft 36

6 00
6 25
9 00
2 26

Glover’s Gem  Mantles

are superior to all others 
for Gas or Gasoline.

Glover’s  W holesale  M erchandise  Co.

Grand Rapids, Mich. 

Manufacturers  Importers and  Jobbers of 

GAS and GASOLINE SUNDRIES

Office StatíJíiéru

h e a d s
I ; í ¡ lope¡ s-T r a d e s m a n
COMPANY.
COUNTER  BILLS. 

.............—  

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

MICHIGAN  TRADESMAN

petition  in  the  cycle  industry  all  over 
the  world,are  holding  their own.— N.  Y. 
Sun.

P rom pt Service.

“ I’ll  give  that  waiter,”   said  Rivers, 

“ an  order  that  will paralyze him.”

“ What  will  you  have,  sir?”   presently 

asked  the  waiter.

verulam  and  ova.”

“ Bring  me,”   replied  Rivers,  “ some 

“ Yes,  sir.”
The  waiter,  a  seedy-looking  man  in 
spectacles,  went  away  with  a  strange 
gleam  in  his  eye,  and  returned  about 
fifteen  minutes  later  with a  large  platter 
containing  something  hot.

In  ordinary  English 

“ Here  you  are,  sir,”   he  said. 

“ Ba­
it 
con  and  eggs. 
would  be  25  cents. 
In  classic  form  it 
will  be  45  cents.  Culpam  poena  premit 
comes,  as  we  used  to  say  at  collge. 
Anything  else,  sir?”

Hardware  Price  Current

A m m unition

Caps

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

Cartridges

No. 2 U. M. C., boxes 260,  per m........ 
No. 2 Winchester, boxes 250, per  m... 

Primers

Gun Wads

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

Loaded  Shells

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
136
154
200
208
236
265
264

oz. of
Shot
154
154
154
154
154
154
1
1
154
154
154
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
454
4M
3
3.
354
3*
354
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100,.per 100.. 
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100.. 

Size
Shot
10
9
8
6
5
4
10
8
6
5
4

Gauge
10
10
10
10
10
10
12
12
12
12
12

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg......................... 
54 kegs, 1254 Ids., per  54  keg.............. 
14 kegs, 614 lbs., per 14  keg...............  

In sacks containing 25 lbs.
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B........... 
Snell’s ................................................. 
Jennings  genuine............................... 
Jennings’ imitation.............................  

A ugurs  and Bits

Shot

Axes

40
BO
76
60

260
300
600
576

1  20
1  20

60
70
80

Per
100
$2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 95
3 00
2 50
2 60
2 66
2 70
2 70

72
64

4 00
2 28
1  26

1 76
60
25
60

Barrows

First Quality, S. B. Bronze.......................  
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...................... 
First Quality, S. B. S. Steel...............  
First Quality,  D. B. Steel........................  
Railroad.................................................... 
Garden............................................... net 
Stove................................................... 
Carriage, new list  .............................  
Plow ................................................... 
Well, plain...............................................  

Buckets

Bolts

6 60

6 00
9 00
10 60
12 00

60

29 00
60
60
$4 00

Butts,  Cast

Cast Loose Pin, figured.....................  
Wrought Narrow............................... 

Hardware

A m erican  W heels  Still  P opular  Abroad.
In  view  of  the  steady  annual  decrease 
in  the  exportation  of  American  bicycles 
from  1897  to  1900,  inclusive,  recent  sta­
tistics,  indicating  a  stronger  demand 
abroad  for them,  are  interesting.

The 

latest  official  statement  on  the 
subject,  prepared  by  the  Treasury  De­
partment  at  Washington,  gives 
the 
amount  of  the  cycle  exports  up  to  Aug. 
1,  1901. 
In  July  the  value  of  wheels 
shipped  to  the  United  Kingdom  was 
$37,140,as  against $25,396  in  July,  1900. 
For  seven  months  ending  with  July, 
1901,  the  total  of  the  cycle  exports  to 
that  country  was  $354,196,  as  compared 
with  $348,223  during  a  similar  period 
last  year.

For  the  one  month  named,  the  ex­
portation  of  bicycles  to  France was even 
more  satisfactory  than  that  to  England, 
wheels  to  the  value  of $23,030  having 
been  shipped  there  during  July,  1901, 
as  against  shipments  amounting  to  only 
$7,202 
in  the  corresponding  month  of 
1900.  For  the  first  seven  months  of  this 
year,  though,  the  total  exports  to  that 
country  were  slightly  less  than  those  of 
1900.

Cycle  exports  to  Central  America  and 
British  Honduras  have never been large, 
but 
in  July  of  this  year they  exceeded, 
by  about $300,  those  of  the  same  month 
last  year,  and  for  the  period  ending  on 
July  31  last  they  exceeded  the  exporta­
tions  of  that  period  in  1900  by  nearly 
$3,000.

A  striking 

increase 
is  noticeable  in 
the  shipments  to  China. 
In  July,  1901, 
the  wheels  sent  to  that  country  were 
worth  $28,849,  whereas,  in  July,  1900, 
cycle  exports  amounted  to  only  $1,914; 
and 
in  the  first  seven  months  of  this 
year the  shipments  to  China represented 
a  value  of  $41,991,  as  against  $16,294 
in  1900.

Although  the  cycle  exports  to  Africa 
in  July  of  this  year  were  somewhat  less 
than  those  of  the  same  month 
in  1900, 
the  total  value  of  the  shipments  for  the 
seven  months 
exceeded  by  almost 
$20,000 the  value  of  last  year’s  exports 
for  that  term,  this  year’s  figures  being 
$46,780.

Increases  are  also  recorded  in  the  ex­
ports  to  San  Domingo,  British  Aus­
tralia,  British  North  America  and  the 
British  East  Indies;  while  the  statistics 
show 
in  the  value  of  the 
shipments  to  Cuba,  other  islands  of  the 
West  Indian  group  and  parts  of  Asia 
and  Oceanica.

little  change 

It  is  true  that  the  value  of  the  exports 
to  some  other  countries  still  continues 
to  decrease.  Germany, 
for  example, 
imported  American  wheels  to  the  value 
of  $160,866  during  the first seven months 
of  this  year,  whereas  during  the  same 
period  of  1900 her  imports  amounted  to 
$303.715-

In  South  Africa,  also,  the  sales  of 
in  the  United  States  are 
wheels  made 
not  what  they  should  be,  and  this  is 
conspicuously  the  case 
in  Argentina 
and  Brazil. 
In  these  two  countries,  as 
in  other  parts  of  South  America,  bi­
cycles  of  German  make  appear  just  now 
to  be  the  most  popular;  but  this  state 
of  things  is  due,  for  the  most  part,  to 
the  activity  manifested  there  by  the 
German  cycle  agents  and  the  lack  of 
push  exhibited  by  the  representatives of 
American  manufacturers.

Taking 

it  all  in  all,  however,  Uncle 
Sam’s  wheels, in  spite  of  the  lively com­

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... 
20x28EX,Charcoal, Allaway Grade...

Ropes

Sisal, 54 Inch and larger.....................
Manilla................................................

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

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

Sand  P aper

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iron

31

60
46

7 60 
9 00 
16 00 
7 60 
9 CO 
15 00 
18 00

854
UK
60

26 00

Gauges

Glass

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

60&10

Single  Strength, by box....................... dls  80&20
Double Strength, by box......................dls  80&20
By the Light................................dls  80&20

H am m ers

Maydole ft Co.’s, new list.....................dls 
3354
toftio
Terkes ft Plumb’s .............................. dls 
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel...............30c list 
70
Gate, Clark’s 1,2 ,3 ...............................dls  60&10
Pots...........................................*........  
BOftlO
Kettles................................................  
BOftlO
Spiders................................................  
BOftlO

Hollow  W are

Hinges

Horse  Nails

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

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

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

Lanterns

Levels

Mattocks

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

Hhtals—Zinc

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

Miscellaneous

com. smooth,  com.
$3 60
3 70
3 90

Nos. 10 to 14  ................................. 
Nos. 15 to 17.................................. 
NOS. 18 to 21.................................. 
NOS. 22 to 24..................................  4  10 
Nos. 26 to 26 ..................................  4 20 
No. 27............................................   4 30 
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

3 90
4 00
4 10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Shovels  and  Spades

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

8 00
7 60

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

Solder

Squares

75
86
6 00
6 00
70

66

754
8

40
Bird Cages.......................................... 
Pumps, Cistern................................... 
76
86
Screws, New L ist............................... 
Casters, Bed and Plate.......................  6O&IO&10
Dampers, American...........................  
60

Molasses  Gates

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

60&10
3f>

Pans

Fry, Acme...........................................   60&10&10
Common,  polished.............................  
70&6
P aten t  Planished  Iron 

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

Broken packages Me per pound extra.

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...............................
B oiler Size Tin  P late

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

14x66 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, > ___ nollnd 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, J P®r pouna"

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

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

Planes

N ails

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

Traps

Steel,  Game........................................
Oneida Community, Newhouse’s.......
Oneida  Community',  Hawley  ft  Nor­
ton’s.................................................
Mouse, choker, per doz......................
Mouse, delusion, per doz....................

40
60
40
46

W ire

Bright Market.....................................
Annealed  Market...............................
Coppered Market................................  .
Tinned  Market...................................
Coppered Spring Steel.......................
Barbed Fence, Galvanized.................
Barbed Fence, Painted.......................

W ire Goods

Bright................................................
Screw Eyes...:...................................
Hooks..................................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes.........................

W renches

Baxter’s Adjustable, Nickeled..........
Coe’s Genuine.....................................
Oaa’i  PnlAnt  à 

'W ro ilffM .. 70

2 66
2 66
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
60
16
26
36
26
36
46
85

$10 60
10 60
12 00

9 00 
9 00 
10 60 
10 60

18

76
40&10
66 
15 
1  25
60
60
60&10 
60&10 
40 
3 25 
2 96

80
80
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Ives’ I, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................  
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Heller’s Horse Rasps.......................... 
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M ICHIG AN  TRADESMAN

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CAVIARE’S  RISING  PRICE.

The  Catch  o f  Sturgeon  Is  Growing  Less 

Yearly.

The  great  decline 

in  the  catch  of 
sturgeon  in  American  waters  is  one  of 
the  reasons  for  the  large  increase  in  the 
value  of  caviare,  which  sold  as  low  as 
$9 a  keg  in  1885  and  as  high  as  $105  a 
keg  last  year.  Caviare  is  the  most  val­
uable  by-product  obtained  from  the 
sturgeon.  Until  recently  nearly  all  of 
the  caviare  obtained  in  this country  was 
sent  to  Germany.  John  N.  Cobb,  an 
agent  of  the  United  States  Fish  Com­
mission,  has  been  investigating  for  the 
Government  the  sturgeon  fishery  of  Del­
aware  River  and  Bay.  This  is  the  larg­
est  sturgeon  fishing  ground  in this coun­
try.  Years  ago  the  Delaware  River  and 
Bay  swarmed  with these huge fish.  They 
were  a  nuisance  in  the  river  because  of 
the  damage  which  they  did  to  the  fish 
nets. 
Since  1870,  however,  sturgeon 
fishing  has  been  pushed  so energetically 
that  unless  the  fish  are  protected  they j 
are  threatened  with  extermination.

There  has  been  a  continuous  decrease 
in  the  number  of  sturgeon  taken  by 
fishermen  for  the  past  ten  years.  The 
Delaware  fishermen  use gill  nets  to  cap­
ture  the  sturgeon  and  their  season  be­
gins  early  in  April  and  closes  about  the 
middle  of  June.  The  fishermen 
live 
during  the  season  on  small  vessels  or 
immense  scows  fitted  with  a  cabin  at 
either  end 
is  near  a 
swampy  shore.  Mr.  Cobb  explains  the 
use  of  the  gill  nets,  which  average 
about  250  fathoms  in  length  and twenty- 
one  feet  in  depth:

if  their  camp 

“ The  nets  are  al ways  drifted.  The 
fishermen  generally  go  out  about  two  or 
three  hours  before  slack  water  and  put 
their  nets  overboard.  As  the  fish  feed 
near  the  bottom,  the  nets  must  be  ar­
ranged  so  as  to  reach  close  to  the  bot­
tom.  This  is  done  by  sinking  the  cork­
line  the  necessary  distance  below  the 
surface  by  means  of  extra  heavy 
leads 
on  the 
lower  line,  and  the  net  is  kept 
track  of  by  attaching  to  it  wooden 
buoys,called  ‘ dabs,’  by  means  of  ropes. 
The  fishermen  drift  along  behind  their 
net,  usually  about  the  middle  of  it. 
Should  a  buoy 
indicate  that  anything 
has  been  captured  in  the  net,  the  fisher­
men  at  once  take  in  that  section,  and 
if  a  fish  has  been  gilled  it  is  hauled  in­
to  the  boat  and  the  net  is  reset.  The 
sturgeon  are  taken  aboard  by  means  of 
long-handled  hooks  of  round 
iron.  A l­
though  from  six  to ten  feet  in  length, 
they  struggle  very 
little  when  gilled. 
When  being  hauled  into  the  boat  they 
seem  to lose  all  heart,  and  are  generally 
rolled 
log.  They  make  a 
rather  difficult  object,  however,  to  get 
into  a  boat,  owing  to  their  great  bulk 
and  weight.  The  two  men  forming  the 
crew  have  all  they  can  conveniently 
handle  when  a  big  female  sturgeon  is 
taken.  A  fisherman  at  Bayside  has  been 
known  to  handle  a  seven-foot  female 
single-handed,  but  this  was  a  very  un­
usual  occurrence.  The  net 
is  usually 
fished  but  once  a  day. 
It  is  taken  in  at 
slack  water  and  the  fishermen  come 
back  to  camp  with  the  ebb  tide."

like  a 

in 

The  cowfish  which  have  hard  roe  of 
the  kind  used in  preparing  caviare  are 
the  most  valuable,  being  worth 
from 
$15  to $65  each,  the  latter  price  having 
been  paid  for  an  extra  large  one  last 
year.  Female  fish  which  have  spawned, 
or  with  soft  spawn  which  can  not  be 
used  for  caviare,  and  bucks,  or  male 
fish,  are  valuable  only  for  their flesh. 
The  females  average  about  350  pounds 
each  when taken  from  the  water  and  the 
males  only  sixty-five  pounds  each.  Fer­

tilizer  and  oil  are  made  from  the  refuse 
of the  sturgeon.  The  caviare  is  prepaed 
in  this  w ay:

“ After  the  eggs  have  been  removed 
from  the  fish,  they  are  placed  in  large 
chunks  upon  a  stand,  the  top  of  which 
is  formed  of  a  . small-meshed  screen. 
On  the  under  side  is  arranged  a  zinc- 
lined  trough,  about  eighteen 
inches 
deep,  two  feet  wide,  and  four  feet  long. 
The  operator  gently  rubs  the  mass  of 
eggs  back  and  forth  over  the  screen. 
The  mesh  is  just  large  enough  to  let  the 
eggs  drop  through,  and  as  they  sepa­
rate  from  the  membrane  by  the  rub­
bing  they  fall  through  into  the  trough 
and  are  thence  drawn  off  into  tubs  by 
means  of  a  sliding  door  at  the  end  of 
the  trough.  After all  the  roe  has  been 
separated,the  tub  is  removed  and  a  cer­
tain  proportion  of  the  best  Luneburg 
(Germany)  salt  added  to  the  roe,  after 
which  the  operator  carefully  stirs  and 
mixes  the  mass  with  his  bands.  The 
most  delicate  part  of  the  whole  opera­
tion 
in  the  manner  qf  mixing.  No 
direct  rule  can  be  given  for  doing  this 
portion  of  the  work,  as  the  condition 
of  the  roe  regulates  the  time  consumed 
and  the  manner  of handling.  It  requires 
practical  experience  to  become  profi­
cient.

is 

“ After  adding  the  salt,  the  mass  of 
eggs  first  dries  up,  but  in  ten  or  fifteen 
minutes  the  strength  of  the  salt  draws 
from  the  eggs  their  watery  constituents 
and  a copious brine  is formed, which can 
be  poured  off  when  the  tub  becomes  too 
full.  The  salted  eggs  are  poured 
into 
very  fine-meshed  sieves  which  hold 
about  ten  pounds  each. 
In  the  caviare 
house  are  usually  arranged  long,  slop­
ing  boards,  with  narrow  strips  nailed 
on  each  side.  On  these  the  sieves  are 
placed  and  are  left  there  from  eight  to 
twenty  hours in  order to  drain  thorough­
ly.  The  eggs  have  now  become  the 
caviare  of  commerce  and are transferred 
to  small  casks  of  either oak  or  pine, 
which  have  been  steamed  in  order to 
prevent  any  possible  leakage;  the  casks 
are  covered  and  allowed  to  stand  until 
the  gas  escapes  and  the  eggs settle.  The 
vacant  space  caused  by  the  settling  is 
then  filled  and  the  cask  headed  up  and 
put  in  a  cool  place  until  ready  for  ship­
ment.  The  casks  cost  about  $1  each 
and  bold  about  135  pounds  net. 
It  re­
quires  about  eleven  quarts  of  salt  to 
prepare  a  keg  of  caviare.

“ Formerly  only  the  hard  roe  was used 
in  making caviare,  but  some of  the  fish­
ermen  have  become  so  expert  that  they 
can  handle roe which  is medium soft and 
still prepare a fair grade of caviare. ”

Mr.  Cobb  estimates  that  1,048  kegs 
of  caviare  were  prepared  in  1897  from 
sturgeon  caught  in  the  Delaware  River 
and  Bay  and  these  were sold for $90,738. 
During  the  season  of  1899  only  700  kegs 
of  caviare  were  obtained  from  this same 
district.—N.  Y.  Sun.

A pple-Picking Time.

October’s crown.
golden brown;
southward fly.

When September's purple asters stay to wreathe 
And the misty,  wooded  hill  slopes  are  red  and 
When  morns  are  hazy  purple  and  wild  geese 
And fiery crimsons linger late along  the evening
When swallows on the barn roofs perch, to chat­
When hints of frost are  in  the  air  and  crickets 
Then come the pleasant days we love in Autumn’s 
The jolliest days of all the  year—the  apple pick­
For the laden  boughs  are  bending low  o’er  all 
The apples’  cheeks are  burning  red  and  father 
Some sparkling morn, “ I think to-day we  might 
Be smart now, boys!  you’ll need  a  week  to  get 

ter of their flight.
chirp at night;
mellow prime.
ing time.
the orchard ways,
smiles and says
as well begin.
those apples in.”

Fall.

By the corn shocks on the hill.
By the coal man’s awful bill,
By the rustle in the reeds.
By the books that Johnny needs.
By these signs, by each and all,
And by all the winds that blow 
We may guess and we may know 

Of the presence of the fall.

Forgot  His M other Tongue.

Findlay,  Ohio,  Sept.  27— Charles 
Grandi,  an  aged  fruit  dealer  who  came 
here  from  Italy  a  score  of  years  ago, 
was  called  upon  to-day  to  act  as 
inter­
preter  for  some  Italian  laborers.  He 
started  to  talk  to  them  and  found  that 
he  had  forgotten  his  native  tongue  and 
the  men  could  not  understand  him.  He 
has  confined  himself  to  his  room  and 
will  see  no  one.  On  a  piece  of  paper, 
which  he  shoved  under  the  door,  be  bad 
written  that  be  would  not  emerge  until 
be  had  remembered  the  tongue  of  his 
fathers.

A  workman  going  up  the  gang  plank 
of  a  vessel  in  an  English  dock  fell  and 
hurt  himself  so  badly  that  he  died  in  a 
few  days.  The  judge  decided  that  his 
family  was  not  entitled  to  compensation 
because  a  ship  was  not  a  factory;  on 
appeal  this  decision  was  sustained  by 
another  court,  but  further  appeal  to  the 
in  a  verdict 
House  of  Lords  resulted 
that  a  ship  was  a  factory. 
It  was  a 
factory  to  the  plaintiff 
in  the  action, 
because  that  was  where  he  was  earning 
livin g;  the  ship  was  in  dry  dock 
his 
and 
it  was  a  factory;  therefore,  the 
workman’s  family  were  entitled  to  re­
cover.

Some  day  it  will  dawn  upon  the  lead­
ing  men 
in  the  cities  of  the  United 
States  that  municipal  beauty  is  worth 
more  in  drawing  trade  and  visitors  than 
any  of  the  devices  that  are  now  ex­
pected  to  do  this  service.  Some  day 
boards  of  education  may  begin  to  real­
ize  that  a  cheaply  planned  public school 
building 
is  not  only  an  injury  to  the 
children,  but  an  actual  business  detri­
ment  to  the  whole  community.

A  New  Jersey  octogenarian  thought 
he  wanted  a  wife  and  so  he  advertised. 
So  many  women  responded  that  the  old 
man  became  disgusted  and  decided  to 
remain  single.  Men  never  want  what 
they  can  too  easily  get.

Advertisem ent«  will  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  w ord  th e  first 
Insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisem ents 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
paym ents.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

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84

Fo b  sa l e—$7,000 sto ck  o f  d r y   g o o d s 
In  good  Southern  Michigan  town  of  1,0 0 
people.  Will sell for  76  cents  on  the  dollar  If 
sola before Nov. l.  Address Bargain, care Mich­
igan Tradesman. 
IfO R  SALE-30,000 BOLLS MEDIUM-PRICED 
r   wall paper at 60  cents  on  the  dollar.  Will 
sell in lots  to  suit  the  buyer.  For  particulars 
address No  79, care Michigan Tradesman.  79 
T   OOATION  WANTED  BY  A  FIRST-CLASS 
L i  doctor;  good  town  or  city  preferred.  Do 
not care  to  buy  unless  small  amount  of  office 
fixtures, but will  rent  property,  Write  No.  84, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
ifOR SALE—STOCK GENERAL  MERCHAN- 
dise;  no  rubbish;  no competition;  cash  re­
ceipts last  year,  $10,000;  will  Invoice  $4,000;  no 
trades;  first-class location;  no transients to deal 
with.  Address Postmaster,  Rose Center, Mich.
83
FOR RENT—BRICK STORE  b u il d in g   a t 
Bailey, 26x60 feet In dimensions,  with  eight 
living rooms overhead.  Good  location  for  gro­
cery  or  general  store.  Rent  reasonable.  Ad- 
dress No. 82, care.Mlchlgan Tradesman. 
Fo r  sa l e—a  w e l l-a sso r t e d   stock
of  general  hardware  and  farming  imple­
ments in one of the  best  towns  of  Michigan  of 
about 1,600  inhabitants.  Will  also  sell  or  rent 
brick store, with all the  modern  Improvements. 
Best of reasons  for  selling.  For  further  Infor­
mation call or address Jesse  S.  Harris,  86  Ash 
S t, Detroit, Mich. 
81
IfOR  SALK—GENERAL  STOCK  INVE 
torying about $1,209, located In  Inland  tov 
twelve  miles  from  Grand  Rapids;  doing  ca 
business;  will sell or rent  store  building.  W! 
ard Purchase, Corinth, Mich. 
so

82

glassware, 
and  fixtures,  about  $2,500  The  best  town  In 

FOR  SALE-STOCK  OF  CROCKERY, 
tinware,  graniteware,  notions 
Michigan.  Address Box 674, Alpena, Mich.  77
Docto r—t h e   p e o p l e   o f  f o u n t a in  
desire  a  good  physician  to  locate  there. 
Address  the  Fountain  Pharmacy,  Fountain, 
W  a n t e d —a   sm a ll  se c o n d  h a n d  
75
Mich. 

76

68

safe  (description).  The  Fountain  Phar- 
, Fountain, Mich.
macy
IfO R  SALE-A  SMALL  STOCK  OF  DRUGS 
A   in good  location.  Will  invoice  about  $900. 
Can be bought cheap.  Rent $10 a  month.  Sales 
$9 a day.  Address D. H. Hawks, Goshen, Ind.  74
IfOR SALE—DRUG STORE DOING PAYING 
1  business  in  town  of  1,500;  only  one  other 
store;  best reason for selling;  stock  will  invoice 
about $1,000;  cash oilers ouly will be considered. 
Address No. 72, care Michigan Tradesman.  72
IfOR  SALE—BEST LOCATION  FOR  Ci»UN- 
L   try store in Southern Micbigan;  store  with 
dwelling attached;  long established good paying 
trade;  Is  worth  $1.500 clean  money  per  year 
to any  hustler:  no  competition:  small stock of 
absolutely new staple  goods.  Write for partlcu- 
lars.  Address X, care Michigan Tradesman.  50
■ GENTS  AND  DEALERS  WANTED  TO 
sell  Sear’s  patent  potato  fork  appliance. 
Sells like hot cakes.  Makes potato digging easy. 
Sample postpaid upon receipt of 25 cents, or $l.no 
per doz.  Barnett & Sear*, Rose Center, Mich.  70
W ANTED—TO  LEASE  FURNISHED  Ho­
tel  in  good  town  In  Southern  Michigan. 
Address 919 E. Madison St., South Bend, Ind.  67
ifOK  SALE  CHEAP—FIRST-CLASS  LAUN- 
1  dry;  doing good business;  good  reasons  for 
66
selling.  Box 544, Reed City, Mich. 
IfO R   SA LE —CONTINENTAL  TOBACCO 
tags, $1 per 100.  Have  2,000  on  hand.  Carl 
Dice, Wyandotte. Mich. 
65
I f  OR  SALE—FURNITURE  AND  UNDEK- 
A  taking business in town of  600.  One  of  the 
best locations in Michigan.  Business established 
two  years.  Best  reasons  for  selling.  Stock, 
hearse and buildings about  $2,600.  Address  No. 
68. care Michigan Tradesman. 
OB  SALE-CONFECTIONERY  STOCK, 
A   fixtures, utensils and all tools  necessary  for 
making candy;  also  soda  fountain  on  contract, 
and  all  apparatus  for  the  manufacture  of  ice 
cream;  situated in thriving town of 3,000  Inhabi­
tants;  the only  store  of  its  kind  in  the  town. 
The owner, a first-cla^s candy maker,  will agree 
to teach the buyer for one  month  in  the  manu­
facture  of  candy.  Reasons  for  selling,  other 
business.  Address No. 62, care Michigan Trades- 
man. 
62
■   WILL  SELL  WHOLE  OR  ONE-HALF  IN- 
terestlnm y  furniture  business.  The  goods 
are all new and up-to-date;  located in  a  town  of 
7,000:  has been a furniture store for thirty years; 
only two furniture stores In  the  town.  Address 
all  correspondence  to  No.  63,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman._______ 
|   WISH TO BUY A DRUG STORE FOR CASH 
X  In a good live town.  Karl  H.  Nelson,  Cedar 
Springs, Mich.___________ 
I f  OR  SALE-BO WEN’8  GRIST- AND  SAW 
A   mills and other property  to close  up  an  es­
tate.  Might  trade.  For  particulars, address 
Box 66, Bowen’s Mills, Barry Co, Mich. 
56
PLANING  MILL  AND  MANUFACTURING 
plant  for  sale  or  exchange  for  lumber  or 
what have you?  J. A, Hawley. Leslie. Mich.  53
If  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. 
I f  OR  KENT —A  GOOD  BRICK  STORE, 
A  splendidly located in a thriving and growing 
business  town.  Address  A.  M.  Colwell,  Tai«« 
Odessa, Mich. 
Cl e a r a n c e  sa l e s c o n d u c te d q u ic k -
ly and  without loss by our new method.  It 
beats any auction sale, fire sale or mill end sale 
ever held.  Start one now and do a large business 
In  the  dull  season.  Terms  and  particulars  by 
writing to New Methods  Sales Co.,  7701  Normal 
Ave., Chicago, nL______ 
| f  OR SALE—$6,500 STOCK  OF DRY  GOODS, 
A  groceries,  shoes  and  store  fixtures;  long 
lease and low  rent  of  the  best  business  corner 
in city of 2,500.  If preferred,  I  will  sell  part  of 
stock and rent half the store to desirable tenant. 
No  agents or  traders need apply.  A.  L.  Brad­
ford, Eaton Rapids, Mich. 
w ______
ANT TO PURCHASE  FURNITURE AND 
undertaking business  in  city  of  not  less 
than 3,000 population.  Will  pay » 
fHwtiorL mWlll pay cash.  Address
No. 33, care 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, 111. 
OR  SALE—GOOD  ESTABLISHED  GKO- 
cery business in town of 6.000;  a bargain  for 
right person.  Will not sell  except  to  good, 
reliable party.  For particulars address Grocery 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
983J
IfOR  SALE,  CHEAP—$1,500  STOCK  GEN- 
,  eral  merchandise.  Address  No.  946,  care 
Michigan Tradesman.______ 
945

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MISCELLANEOUS

:A N TB 1) ~  r e g is t e r e d   a s s is t a n t 
t v  pharmacist.  Address, stating  wages  and 
references.John Helmer, 9 E.  Main  St.,  Battle 
Creek, Mich. 
\X 7 ANTED—POSITION  BY  EXPERIENCED 
„   *  general  merchandise or  dry  goods  clerk. 
Good references furnished.  Address  X.  Y.  Z., 
care Michigan Tradesman. 
69
PS Y sTc Ta n   w a n t e d ,  r e g is t e r e d  
pharmacist  preferred.  Drug  business  can 
do bought  Address Drug  Doctor,  care  Michi­
gan Tradesman. 

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