Nineteenth  Year

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  OCTOBER  30,1901

Number 945

National  Fire  ins.  Co.

of  Hartford

Successor to

The Grand Rapids Fire Ins. Co.

C A PIT A L ,  $1,000,000

Late State  Food  Commissioner 

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

While 

it  is  true 

in  the  commercial 
world  as  it  is  in  the  physical  that “ Dis­
lends  enchantment  to  the  view ,”  
tance 
the  enchantment  which 
is  turning  the 
tradesman’s  eyes  to  the  Orient  should 
not  be  strong  enough  to  keep  him  from 
taking  an  occasional  glance  at  affairs 
going  on  nearer  home.  True  the  far-off 
prospect 
is  a  pleasing  one,  but  some 
thing  quite  as  pleasing  will  be  found  in 
the  same  lines  on  the  continent  to  the 
south  of  us.  We  get  an  occasional 
scare  when  we  have  it  on good  authority 
that  Germany  and  England  are  push 
ng  things 
in  that  part  of  the  world 
but  to  many  it  has  become  an  absolute 
that  South  America  does  not 
fact 
amount  to  much  anyway. 
It  is  a  con 
tinent  of  republics  and  there  is  consid 
erable  territory  down  there;  but 
to 
many  who  ought  to  know  better  the 
Darkest  Africa  and  the  Darkest  South 
America  are  synonymous  terms.  Then 
too,  it 
is  a  continent  of  unrest.  They 
are  all  the  time  quarreling  and  fighting 
and  a  republic  that  has  not  on  its  hands 
a 
is  hardly  respect 
able.  Trade  does  not  flourish  where 
strife  goes  on  and  South  America  has 
been  left  to  herself.

lively  revolution 

It  is  time,  however, 

for  a  change 
United  States  indifference  has  been 
taken  advantage  of  and,  if  the  Treasury 
Bureau  of  Statistics  amounts  to  any 
thing,  affairs  have  come  to  a  point  that 
calls  for consideration  by  the  trade 
in 
terests  of  this  country. 
It  is  not  grati 
lying  to  read,  for  example,  that  while 
we  are  supplying  52  Per  cent,  of  the 
total  imports  of  British  North  Amer 
ica,  40  per  cent,  of  those  of  Mexico  and 
35 per cent,  of those  of  Central  America 
to  the  South  American  countries  washed 
by  the  Caribbean  Sea  which 
import 
goods  to  the  amount  of $36,000,000 an 
nually,  we  are  represented  by  a  miser 
able  25  per  cent.  We  have  been  brag 
ging,  too,  of  getting  the  inside  track  of 
foreign  markets  and  keeping  it  by  the 
superiority  of  our  goods  and  our  busi 
ness  methods  and  yet  in  the  South 
American  countries  along  the  Atlantic

which  are  annually  importing  goods  to 
the  value  of  $275,000,000,  we  furnish  10 
per  cent.  ;  while  the  countries  along  the 
Pacific  at  the  same  rate pay  us  $60,- 
000,000  yearly.  The  foremost  Nation 
on  the  earth  and  satisfied  with  10  per 
cent.

The  chief  of  the  bureau  takes  the  op­
to  remark  that  this  small 
portunity 
amount  of  trade 
is  due  to  no  lack  of 
American  goods  to  supply  the  South 
American  markets.  We  produce  every­
thing  which  the  people  of  those  coun­
tries  want.  The  question  of  distance  is 
in  our  favor.  The  great  commercial 
cities  of  England  and  Germany  are  not 
much  farther  off  than  New  York,  but 
New  Orleans,  the  trade  center  of  what 
interest  with  the 
must  be  a  growing 
Southern  republics  will  add  to 
this 
country  a  still  greater  advantage  in  this 
respect.  The  important  fact,  however, 
to  be  carefully  considered  is  that almost 
11  the  steamship 
the 
ports  of  South  America  are  under the 
control  of  European  interests  and  they 
divert  the  trade  of  the  South  American 
countries  to  their  own 
land.  What  is 
wanted,  then,  to  get  our  share  of  this 
trade 
lines  of  steamships  running 
between  our  ports  and  those  of  South 
America.  In  the  language  of  the  report: 
That  closer,  more  frequent  and  direct 
im­
steamship  communication 
portant  factor 
in  obtaining  the  com­
merce  of  countries  which  can be reached 
only  by  steamship  lines  is  evidenced  by 
the  more  rapid  growth  of  our  exports  to 
the  countries  fronting  upon  the  Carib­
bean  Sea,  with  which  fairly  satisfactory 
steamship  connections  now  exist.”  

lines  entering 

is  an 

is 

Besides  this  it  must  be  remembered 
that  the  banking  and  business  facilities 
for  direct  intercommunication  between 
those  countries  and  the  United  States 
are  lacking ;  there  is  a  neglect on  the 
part  of  our  merchants  to  study  the  trade 
methods  and  requirements  of  the  South 
ern  countries,  and  an  absence  of  direct 
solicitation  of  trade  in  the  language  of 
the  country  where  business  is  sought 
all  of  which  accounts  in  some  measure 
for  that  10  per  cent.

That'these  are  matters  which  will  be 
looked  after  there  can  be  no  doubt 
but 
in  the  meantime  we  may  be  sure 
that  the  European  countries  that  bav 
secured  a  foothold  there  will  not  give  it 
up  without  a  struggle,  and  the  sooner 
the  struggle  begins  the  better  it  will  be 
for  the  United  States.  That  the  trade 
in  the  Far  East  is  worth  fighting  fo 
goes  without  saying,  that  it  will  be 
fought  for  and  won is a  fact hardly worth 
the  stating ;  but  important  as  the  trade 
of  the  whole  Orient  is,  it  is  hardly more 
so  than  that  our  next  door  neighbors  on 
account  of  our  neglect  and  remissness 
of  duty  should  pour  into the Old World’s 
coffers  an  export  of 90  per  cent.,  while 
we,  who  insist  that  we  are  in  every  way 
superior  to  that  Old  World  and  all  that 
pertains  to  it,  are  contented  and  happy 
over  the  10  per  cent,  that  is  left.

Some  men  are  so  dignified  that  they 

never  unbend  until  they  are  broke.

G E N E R A L T R A D E   R E V IE W . 
Increasing*  intensity  of  demand 

in 
industries,  to  an 
many  of  the  staple 
extent  that  is  putting  heavy  premiums 
on  many  products  for  spot  delivery,  is 
the  present  characteristic  of  the  situa­
tion.  Yet  there  is  complaint  of  dulness 
in  the  stock  markets,  where dealings  are 
almost  entirely  confined  to  professional 
operations.  The  public  seems  to  be 
kept  out through  distrust  of  corporation 
management 
in 
others  through  the  belief  that  watered 
values  make  present  quotations  too 
high.  Most  of  the  activity  has  been  in 
steel  and  copper  stocks  and  in  some  of 
Price 
the 
changes  were  downward,  especially 
for 
the  first  two mentioned—steel  on account 
of  threatened  competition  and  copper 
on  account  of  the  overproduction  which 
has  troubled  the  issues  of  the  red  metal 
for  several  weeks.  This  is  followed  by 
more  general  activity  and  an  upward 

in  some  cases  and 

transportations. 

leading 

movement in  several  leading  lines.

Notwithstanding  the  fact  that  our  ex­
ports  continue  far  in  excess  of  imports, 
the  condition  of the  foreign  money  mar­
ket  would  seem  to  indicate.that  we  are 
not  maintaining  as  heavy  a  credit  bal­
ance 
in  our  dealings  with  Europe  as 
has  been  popularly  supposed.  Actual 
payments  of  accounts  due  American  in­
vestors,  additional 
investments  abroad 
and  the  heavy  expenditures  of  Ameri­
can  travelers  have  gone  far  to  balance 
the  difference  in  trade.  This,  however, 
_s  no  cause  for  uneasiness;  we  have 
abundance  of  money  for  all  legitimate  _ 
trade  requirements.  As  long  as  specu­
lation 
is  kept  in  hand,  as  seems  to  be 
the  case  now’  no  call  that  can  exceed 
the  supply  is  possible.  On  the  other 
hand,  it  is  encouraging  that  so  much  of 
American  capital 
finding  employ­
ment.

is 

It 

The  story  of  the  steel  situation  con­
tinues  the  interesting  features  of intense 
activity  and  increasing  pressure  of  de­
mand. 
It  is  significant  that  in  this,  as 
in  other  industries,  orders  for 
large 
quantities  for  far  future  delivery  are 
In  steel  rails, 
unhesitatingly  offered. 
for  instance,  the  orders  now  in  hand 
in 
excess  of  the  capacity  of  works  for  this 
year  insure  an  output  of  over  2,000,000 
tons  for  1902. 
is  encouraging  that 
pig  iron  stocks  are  not  accumulating  at 
furnaces  even  with  a  production  far  in 
excess  of  all  records.  Cotton  is  a  little 
lower  in  price  as  a  result  of  the  hold­
ing  off  of  frosts  in  the  Southern  fields, 
but  the  manufacturers  are 
in  a  still 
more  favorable  condition.  An  advance 
in  wages  at  Fall  River  is  a  cause  of 
uneasiness  as  to  the  labor  situation  in 
other  mills.  Woolens  have  been  slow 
of  distribution  on  account  of  so  much 
warm  weather,  but  this 
is  apparently 
but  a  temporary  delay.  Demand  is  es­
pecially  notable  in  the  carpet  trade,  as 
well  as  in  hosiery,  knit  goods  and  silks. 
Leather  and  hides  are  still  held  at  the 
highest  price  of  the  year  and  shipments 
of  boots  and  shoes  from  Boston  are
20,000  cases larger  than  during  the  same 
week  last  year. 

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Some  men  have  a  gallon  of  words  to 

every  spoonful  of  thoughts.

To  open  a  bank  in  the  Ohio  way  only 

requires  a  stick  of  dynamite.

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Petting  the  People
T he  Use  o f P rice s  in  G en eral A dv ertisin g .
The  primary  use  of  an  advertisement 
is  not  the  conveying  of  information. 
If  it  were  so,  and  if  it  were desirable  to 
instruct  the  possible  patrons  of  a  store 
as  to  the  price  of  every  article,  a  better 
method  than  using  the  costly  space  in  a 
newspaper  would  be  to  issue  a  cata­
logue  of  prices  as  is  done  by  the  cata­
logue  stores  in  the  great  cities.

What  is  the  primary  use  of  advertis­
ing  prices?  1  should  say,  to  interest 
customers  and  possible  customers.  The 
first  essential  to  this  end 
is  to  make 
them  as  few  as  possible. 
It  is  surpris­
ing  how  quickly  the  average  mind  be­
comes  confused  and  distracted,  and 
thus  repelled,by  the least  apparent  com­
plexity  of  figures.

The  use  of  prices  is to  interest.  To 
do  this  there  may  frequently  be  some 
descriptive  designation  of  the  article 
which  would  appear to  make  the  price 
seem  reasonable,  not  necessarily 
low, 
but  reasonable  and  fair,  as  compared 
with  the  quality  suggested.  But  it  is 
not  essential  that  the  price  should  al­
ways  be  associated  with  description  to 
be  of  use.  One  of  the  most  difficult 
things  for  shoppers  to  do  is  to  make  up 
their  minds  as  to  prices.  As  long  as 
there  is  no suggestion  in  this  direction 
the  want  frequently  stands  in  the  way 
of  any  consideration  of  the  subject. 
If, 
then,  there is furnished  some  suggestion 
on  which  the  mind  may  hinge  it  proves 
in  itself  a  sufficient  attraction.  This  I 
apprehend 
is  the  principal  value  of 
published  prices  in  advertisements.

it 

How  many  prices  should  be  named? 
The  fewer the  better.  It  does  not  follow 
that there  should  always  be  but  one  for 
a  single 
line  of  goods,  although  where 
their nature  will  admit  of  the  use  of  but 
one 
is  frequently  the  most  effective. 
I need  only  cite  such an  example  as  that 
of  the  Douglas  shoe  to  prove  this  point. 
There  is  a  popular  idea  that  people  are 
interested  in  the  picture  of Mr.  Douglas 
which  accompanies  all his  work,but  this 
is  not  the  case.  The  picture  serves  a 
good  purpose  in  giving  individuality— 
something  of  a  designating  character— 
it  would  not 
but  without  the  price 
amount  to  a  row  of  pins. 
It  is  the 
price,  with  the  suggestion  of  good  qual­
ity,  that  sells  the  shoes.

The 

fewer  prices  the  better.  Let  an 
interested  mother  look  into a  large  show 
window,  say  of  children’s  suits,  show­
ing  eight  or  ten  qualities  and  corres­
ponding  prices.  The  display  may  be 
made  as  attractive  as  possible  and  yet 
it  is  not  long  before  she  turns  away  evi­
dently  repelled  by  something.  There 
is  a  chance,  a  narrow  one,  that  her  at­
tention  may  be  monopolized  by  some 
particular  suit  adapted  to  her  needs, 
and  taste,  but  more  frequently  she  be­
gins  to  compare  the  great  variety  of 
prices  and the  consequent comparison  in 
her  mind  soon  sends  her  onward.  Had 
the  display  shown  but,  say,  three prices, 
so selected  as  to  meet  the  average  needs 
she  would  have  looked  longer and likely 
would  have  come  into the  store.  There 
the  judicious  salesman  might  be  able 
to  meet  her  requirements  at  the  price 
which  interested  her  or  he  might  guide 
her  to  another  mutually  profitable  and 
satisfactory.

Multiplicity  of  prices  confuses  every­
where.  The  judicious  merchant  studies 
to  keep  down  the  variety  of  prices  as 
far as  possible.  But  when  it 
is  neces­
sary  to  have  a  great  variety  he  is  care­
ful  to  prevent  their  acting  as  a  means

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

S T O V E S
—  
A ll  kirvds  of  Heatirvg  Stoves ® 
F O R   A L L   KINDS  OF   F U E L   £

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A ll  kirvds  of  C ook  Stoves
FOR.  A L L   KINDS  OF  F U E L

Möcjestic  Steel  R a n g e s  arvd  
Florence  Hot  B la s ts

SnCCtAJLTIES.

ARC  W X  

S p au ld in g^ C o
Rubbers are 
CHEAPER!

The  United  States  Rubber Trust  are  trying  to  freeze  nut 
the  Independent  Rubber  Manufacturers,  and  have  nude  a 
Silt  of  about 

.

.

.

20  per cent  on  all  Rubbers.

We Guarantee  Z & ,

•  I f j e i   buy  •  pair  of RUBBERS of us and  afterwards And that 
iyott  could  bare  bought them cheaper of  some  other  dealer,  lot 
us baow and  wo will  refUad the difference.

We will not be Undersold.!

&SSSS25SS2SaSZ525SSSS253SS5S5S5S525;
Yon  tike  at  risk  in  baying  RUBBERS  of  os.
We  handle  the  Boston Rubbers 

They  are  the  best.

O w  RUBBERS  are all this year’s  manufacture,  we  carried' none  over  from
last  year.  WeTiare a fa ll stock In a ll stylet, 

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W E  BOLXOITaYOUB TBADE^ON  RUBBERS,

S .  Buckner.
NEW U H E   or C O U C H E S ,

TH ERE is a  certain feeling of comfort  gained  from 
*  a rest  on  the  couches  we  sell which cannot  be 
secured from  the cheap inferior goods  sold  in  many 
places. 
fcp-Ouraiinia to offer only each  reliable furniture wt will build 
for uk u permaneut reputation  for  nriliug  the  best  goods  at  reasonable 
pricuM. 
PUTMAN  A  TAMES, 
-   Ovid,  Mtoh.

:  See the handsome new line of couches.

HORSE  CLOTHING.

As usual I have a very full  line  of  HAR­
NESS 
in  all  weights  and  grades.

PLUSH  AND  FUR  ROBES

FUR COATS and BLANKETS.  My stock 
was never larger, tnore complete than now.

BARGAINS 

IN  BUGGIES

A  few  special  bargains to make room for 
other goods—come while they last.

A CuH Una ef 
Man's (Means, Mittens

T .T .  DIXSON

A  Winsome  Woman,

Among her* other aeeompiehmeuts, 
knows- how to dram taatafally and 
kwoMisgty.  To do this abe mast 
deal at a now tbst carries a  large 
stock sod hot’s few stock of wer» 
thhg

Woman  W ants.

V , aim to Ml Nt it ri «Mb v* 
mm'« .lock doni. Uw canwt aa. 
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♦  ♦  ♦

Mr stick of  SB  My  Gauds, Car­
pets. estuar and Sbuca Is tempt- 
lar.  These  csld  days  surrest 
the chaires.  We hare thefsads. 
Come ia sad see us.
M .  B .  N E T Z O R G ,

Elsa's'Leading Dealer. 
Advertiser of facta. 

Established April.  I nni

With  each  fifty  cent» 
worth  of  Tea, 1  will give, 
FREE  OF  CHARGE,  an 
imported  Cup and Saucer, 
like  I  have  for exhibition 
in my window.

i  am  still  selling  the 

celebrated

COFFEE,

2 pounds for 

25c

22 Pounds oi  Brown 

Sugar for $1.00.

L o u i m  

S a w a d y .

DELICIOUS

P A S T R Y ,
Flaky,  crisp  piecrust  cauuot  be 
with  ordinary  floor,  ft  tain»  a 
flue rich flour like

P E A R L

fllGH  PATENT

The best lor bread, «*ak** or paatrr. 
Milled only  by

Geo.Wood&Bro.

Makers>ot  Flour  in  St.Johns tor 

H8 years.

"St »Id  by  all  wise  grocers.

PEARL  LEADS  THEM  ALL.

A   p a r t  That’s Pretty 
Well  Known
^  
(a tbs fact  that  we  e vo   none  bat first 
dass rigs at this barn.  Whea yon come 

or phone No. 82 tyr a  rig, you get a good 

one.  We have gentle faoram, rubber tired 
buggies, and tw o hacks at your series.

PECK & COMPANY

Successors to Peck ft Flynn,
* 

ST.  JOHNS,  MJCH

of  confusion  to  the  customer and  so  re­
pelling  him.  As  far  as  possible  the 
dealer  will  adhere  to  a  few  definite, 
round  prices,  and  this  will  often  effect 
the  sale.

But  especially  in  advertising  must the 
number  of  prices  be  kept  down.  Often 
there is  value  in  the  mention  of  a  single 
one.  Frequently  one  of  each  of  several 
classes  of  goods,  well  separated,  will  be 
should  the 
found  valuable. 
number  in  any  line  exceed  say  three 
in 
any  case.

Seldom 

*  *  *

Spaulding  &  Co.  are  up-to-date  in the 
style  and  display  of  their  store  adver­
tisement.  The  wording 
is  attractive 
and  the  printer  has  done  his  work  well, 
except  that  it  would  be  an  improvement 
to  keep  a 
little  farther  away  from  the 
border.  This  border  is  one  of  those 
unfortunate  ones 
that,  unless  given 
abundant  room,  throw  a  “ dizzy”   effect 
over the  whole.

S.  Buckner  has  the  material  for a 
good  advertisement  and,  in  the  main, 
the  printer’s  work  is  good. 
I  think  the 
advertiser  is  making  a  mistake  in  guar­
anteeing  the  price  of  rubber  goods  and 
offering  to  refund  the  difference  in  case 
someone  is  able,  later  on,  to  buy  goods 
cheaper,  because,  under  this  arrange­
ment,  a  sale 
is  never  a  sale  until  the 
rubber  is  worn  out  and,  even  then,  if  a 
customer hears of  a  place  where  rubbers 
can  be  obtained  at  a  less  price,  friction 
and  iil  feeling must necessarily  ensue.  1 
always  like  to  feel  that  a  sale  is  a  sale; 
that  a  contract  is  a  contract;  that  a  bar­
gain 
is  a  bargain,  and  that  a  deal  is 
closed  when  the  goods  are  passed  over 
the  counter and  the  money  is  raked  into 
the  t ill; 
see 
wherein  any  great  good  can  come  from 
a  proposition  of  this  kind. 
It  is  pos­
sible  that  an  announcement  of  this  kind 
would  attract  customers,  but  it  strikes 
me  that  it  would  attract  altogether  the 
wrong  class—the  fault  finders  and  the 
speculators—and  that  the  tendency  of 
such  advertising  is to  educate  customers 
the  wrong  way.

furthermore,  I  fail 

to 

A good  model  of  writing  in  its  way  is 
the  couch  advertisement  of  Putman  & 
Eames.  There 
is  just  enough  for the 
space  and  the  wording  is  calculated  to 
gain  attention.  The  printer’s  work  is 
good,  notwithstanding  the  black  face  of 
display  type  used.  The  full 
lines  at 
the  top  and  bottom  serve  to  emphasize 
the  space 
if  it  is  not  so  unfortunate  as 
to encounter  heavier  faces.

T.  T.  Dixson  is  happy  in  saying  just 
enough  and  falls  into  the  hands  of  a 
good  printer. 
is 
pretty  heavy,  but the  white  space  helps 
out,  and  the  adherence  to  one  face  of 
severely  plain  type  does  the  rest.

The  black  border 

M.  B.  Netzorg  writes  rather  a  strik­
ing  dry  goods  advertisement,  which  is 
not  bad  for  a  change. 
I  think  I  would 
be  content  with  one  of the  lines  follow­
ing  the  signature  for this  occasion  and 
wonld  use  the  other some  other time.

Louis  Sawady  writes  an  advertise­
ment  of  specialties  which  can  not  fail 
to  interest.  The  price  feature  is  good. 
The  display  is  poor.

Geo.  Wood  &  Bro.  write  a  good  plain 
advertisement,  dignified  and  calculated 
to  interest.  There 
just  enough  for 
the  space  and  the  printer  has  done  well 
to  adhere  to  one  plain  style  of  letter.

is 

Peck  &  Company  write  a  good  livery 
advertisement,  which 
is  handled  well 
by  the  printer  considering  the  space. 
He  woqld  have  done  better to  make  the 
space  a  little  larger.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

3

Only One Manufacturer

We  don’t  mean to say 
that we’re  the  only  man­
ufacturers  of  shoes,  but 
we  do  mean  that  we re
the  only  one  In  a 
c e n t r a l   m a r k e t  
m a n u f a c t u r i n g   a 
full  line from cacks 
to  creoles,  and  sell* 
ing  only  our  own 
goods.

Give us  a  chance  to  show 
you  how  much  “ snap,”  as 
well  as honest  wear,  is  now 
put 
line  of 
“Western  Made  Shoes.”

into  the  great 

Drop  a line to  Department 
F if you would  like to  have a 
salesman  call. 
It  pays  to 
keep  in  touch  with  the people 
who are progressive.

New  Catalogue  F,  just out.

C.  M. Henderson 

&  Co.

“ Western  Shoe  Builders’*

Cor.  Market and  Quincy  Sts.
Chicago,  Illinois

No.  F, 608

Woman’s Dongola Foxed  Lace, Turn,  Lenox Tip 

$ 2.10

Men’s Box Calf,  Machine Sewed,  English  Bal.,  34  D.  S., 

No.  F, 4601

King Tip,  M. S.

$1.65

in  the 

D evelopm ents  in   th e   C lo th in g  T rade.
The  developments 

clothing 
trade  are  of  a  pleasing  character.  The 
repeat  orders  that  are  coming 
in  for 
heavyweight  clothing  are  such  as  to  in­
dicate  that  the  retailer  is  doing  a  busi­
ness  that  comes  fully  up to expectations, 
considering  that  the  new  season  is  still 
in  its  infancy,  so  far  as  the  retailer  is 
concerned.

The  weather  of  the  past  two  or three 
weeks  has  enabled  the  retailer  to  move 
a  very  fair  volume  of  clothing.  He  has 
been  able  to  cut  down  his  stock  in  cer­
tain  directions,  and  is  now  placing  re­
orders  to  make  up  for  the  sales  he  has 
made.  The  business  is  coming  forward 
in  such  a  way  that  certain  clothing 
manufacturers  confess  inability  to  take 
care  of  their  customers’  requirements, 
and  are  turning  down  business.

If 

The  result  of  the  demand  for  clothing 
is  that  the  wholesaler  is  cutting  down 
his  stock,  which  is  by  no  means  large, 
and  in  addition  he  is  culling  such goods 
as  he  can  use from the stock  of the goods 
agent  for  the  purposes  of  his  business.
the  recent  developments  of  the 
heavyweight  clothing  season  are  dupli­
cated 
in  the  future  developments,  the 
clothing  manufacturer  will  have  small 
reason  to  complain  of  the  volume  of 
his  sales  except  in  the  matter  of  impos 
sibility  of  handling  all  the  business 
offered.  If  the  progress  already  noted  is 
continued,  the  clothing  market  will  be 
cleaned  out  to  a  degree  that  is  unusual 
important 
is  the 
* ‘ if s’ ’  to  be  reckoned.  There 
weather  problem. 
cold 
Seasonably 
weather  is  what  is  wanted  to  make  pos 
sible  the  best  results  in  the  clothing 
market.

Of  course,  there  are  some 

One  feature  of  the  duplicate  heavy 
weight  business  that  is  coming  to  the 
wholesale  clothiers’  hands,  and  which 
should  give  encouragement  to  the  over 
coating  manufacturer, 
is  that  a  fai 
number of  reorders  coming  forward  are 
for  overcoats.  Cold  weather  would  be 
particularly  beneficial  to  the  overcoat 
trade.  The  return  business  coming  for 
ward  from  retailers  on  overcoats  is  a 
ready  being  reflected 
increased  at 
tention  to  overcoating  piece  goods.  The 
interest  should  grow  apace  within  a  few 
weeks.

Overcoats  made  of  rough  surfaced 

in 

goods,  such  as  vicunas,  friezes,  etc 
are  being  reordered,  the  Oxford  shade 
being  well  represented.  Novelty  effects 
are  also  among  the  sellers,  and,  ol 
course,  the  staple  kersey  and  melton  are 
also  represented.

Plain  goods,  largely  of  the  worsted 
cheviot  and  unfinished  worsted  order, 
figure  prominently  in  the  duplicate  de­
mand  for  heavyweight  suits.  There 
is 
some  .call  for  fancy  worsteds  in  dark 
effects,  but  the  plain  goods  business 
predominates.

The  wholesale clothier is still  insistent 
in  the  matter  of  deliveries  of  heavy­
weights  yet  to  be  made.  There  are 
mills  which  still  owe  a  large  number  of 
pieces  of  heavyweights. 
It  would  seem 
as  though  they  would  be  unable  to  de­
liver them  all.
Some  of  the  children’s  clothing  and 
pants  houses  are  showing  spring  goods, 
but  enough  time  has  not  elapsed  since 
the  first  showing  of  these  lines  to  give 
further  insight  into the  possibilities and 
promises  of  the  season.

P ro b ab ly   G ot  T hem   M ixed.

“ My  dear  Miss  Billmore,’ ’  sadly 
wrote  young  Hankison,  “ I  return  here­
with  your  kind  note in which  you  accept 
my  offer  of  marriage.  You  will  ob­
serve  that  it begins  ‘ Dear George. ’  1  do 
not  know  who  George  is, ^hut  my  name,

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

Jackson—The 

capital  stock  of  the 
Jackson  Starch  Co.  has  been  increased 
from  $30,000 to $35,000.

Jackson—The  O.  F.  Schmidt  Chem­
ical  Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorpora­
tion  with  a  capital  stock  of $35,000.

Greenville—The  Moore  Plow  &  Im­
plement  Co.  is the  style  of  a  new  corpo­
ration  at  this  place. 
It  is capitalized  at 
$15,000.

New  Haven—The  New  Haven  Mill­
ing  Co.  has  embarked 
in  the  flouring 
mill  business  at  this  place.  The  capi­
tal  stock  is $6,000.

Edwardsburg—June  &,  Allsopp,  of 
Niles,  have  leased  the  grist  mill  at  this 
place  owned  by  Mrs.  Daly and  will  take 
immediate  possession.

Walkerville—A.  C.  Stetson  has retired 
from  the  Walkerville  Milling  Co.  on  ac­
count  of  ill  health.  James  Gleason  will 
continue  the  business  in  his  own  name.
Detroit—The  White  Star  Portland 
Cement  Co.  has  filed  articles  of 
incor­
poration  with  the  Wayne  Circuit  Court; 
capital  stock,  $10,000; 
incorporators,
L.  C.  Waldo,  E.  W.  Sprague  and  W.
M.  Hull.

Detroit— The  Marr  &  Stevens  Shoe 
Co.  has  been  incorporated  with  $50,000 
capital,  53  per  cent,  paid 
in.  The 
stockholders  are  Herbert  J.  Stevens, 
Geo.  A.  Marr,  Arthur  G.  Holland,  Dr. 
Chas.  E.  Ford  and  Edwin  O.  Krentler.
Munising— Ferguson  Bros,  will  get 
out  about  14,000,000  feet  of  pine  in  the 
woods  near this  place  this  winter  and 
will  employ  about  150  men.  They  have 
raised  wages  to  $35  per  month,  includ­
ing  board,  but  at  that  are  finding 
labor 
very  scarce.  •

South  Haven—Winkle  Bros,  and E.  J. 
Reed  have  engaged  in  the  planing  mill 
business  and  will  manufacture  sash  and 
doors  and 
interior  finishings.  They 
have received  two  cars  of  oak  and  black 
ash,  which  they  will  dry  kiln  and  use 
for  this  work.

Detroit—George  W.  Williams  sets  up 
in  a  bill  of  complaint  that  he  was  for 
some  years  engaged  in  the  making  and 
sale  of  “ The  Williams  Canadian  Maple 
Syrup’ ’  from  a  formula  known  only  to 
himself.  September 25  last,  he  formed 
a  partnership  with  Ernest  A.  Worden, 
but  already  the  parties  are  at  odds  and 
Williams  has  begun  suit,  asking  an  ac­
counting  and  the  protection  of  certain 
rights  he  claims  to  the  maple  syrup 
trade-mark.

Around the State

M ovem ents o f M erchante.

Port  Huron—Geo.  Hagan  has  opened 

a  meat  market  on  Erie  street.

Hartford—Chris.  Kirchner  has  sold 

bis  meat  market  to  Goodrode  &  Son.

Augusta— H.  C.  Whipple 

succeeds 

Geo.  W.  Fay  in  the  bakery  business.

Wadsworth—Mathew  Wurm  has  pur­
chased  the  general  stock  of Wm.  Mills.
Ubly—Albert  Edoiison  succeeds  John 
Tyler  in  the  grocery  and  bakery  busi­
ness.

Petoskey— Samuel  Pettingiil  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  L.  N.  Overholt 
&  Co.

Lapeer—C.  M.  Campbell  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Henry  C. 
Gillett.

Detroit—Wm.  Brenner  has  purchased 
the  boot  and  shoe  stock  of  Addison 
Davenport.

Bridgman— Hebb  &  Schroer,  meat 
dealers,  have  dissolved partneship,  Wm.
H.  Hebb  succeeding.

Bessemer—The  Bessemer  Co-opera­
tive  Society  has  been  organized  with  a 
capital  stock  of  $25,000.

Lansing— C.  Blatt  has  opened  a  con­
in  the  Smith  block  on 

fectionery  store 
Washington  avenue,  south.

Perrinton— G.  W.  Groom  &  Co.,  fur­
niture  dealers  and  undertakers,  have 
sold  out  to  E.  E.  Burchard.

Oakville—John  G.  Juckett  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  brother  in  the 
grocery  firm  of  Juckett  Bros.

Flushing— Cameron  &  Shannon  suc­
ceed  C.  A.  Cameron  &  Co.  in  the  fur­
niture  and  undertaking  business.

Bailey— George  Seamon  has leas'd the 
store  building  of  Geo.  Hirscbberg  and 
will  shortly  engage  in  general  trade.

Allen— F.  E.  Burns  has  sold  his  gro­
cery  stock  to  Benge  &  Co.  and  C.  A. 
Smith  and  will  engage  in  other  busi­
ness.

Port  Huron— W.  Maclaren  is the man­
ager  of  the  branch  office  of  the  Free­
dom  Oil  Co.  recently  established  at  this 
place.

Greenville— Peter  Hansen  has  sold 
his  grocery  stock  to  his  brother,  L. 
Hansen,  who  will  continue  the  business 
at  the  same  location.

Lake  Ann— Wm.  Habbeler  died  re­
cently  at  Genoa,  Ohio,  where  he  was 
visiting.  He  was  one  of  the  wealthiest 
citizens  of  Benzie  county.

Owosso— The  shoe  stock  of  the  late 
E.  L.  Brewer  will  be  closed  out  at  the 
expiration  of  the  administrator’s  sale 
now  being  held  by  H.  W.  Parker.

Harbor  Springs—Miss  Lizzie  Hath­
away  has  purchased  the  millinery  stock 
of  Mesdames  Runyan  &  Snyder  and 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Monroe—Wahl  &  Godfrey,  dealers  in 
tobaccos  and  cigars,  have  dissolved 
partnership.  The  business  will  be  con­
tinued  under  the  style  of  Godfrey  & 
Hoffman.

Veizey— Sidney  Stark  has  sold  one- 
half  interest  in  his  store  building  and 
dry  goods  and  grocery  stock  to  Emery 
Brown,  of  Solon.  The  new  style 
is 
Stark  &  Brown.

Quincy— Tames  Pope  has  sold  his 
hardware  stock  to  Clyde  U.  Michael,  of 
Fremont,  Ind.,  and  Hugh  Spaulding, 
of  Reading,  who  have  formed  a  copart­
nership  to  continue  the  business.

Zeeland— The  firm  known  as  Isaac 
VanDyke  &  Co.,  recently  formed  here, 
has  purchased  the  buildings  and  imple­
ment  stock  of  John  Pyl.  The  stock  will 
be  transferred  to.  the  building  of  J.

DePree  &  Sons,  where  the  company  ex­
pects  to  open  an  implement  business 
about  Nov.  1.

Mass  City—The  banking 

institution 
recently  established  at  this  place  will 
open  for  business  about  Nov.  15.  The 
officers  are:  P.  W.  Scott,  President; 
W.  A.  Brown,  Vice-President,  and  M. 
W.  Dorn,  of  New  York,  Cashier.

Kalkaska— Cole  Bros,  shipped  a  car­
load  of  squashes  to  Buffalo  week  before 
last  and  a  carload  of  cabbages  to  Bern, 
Indiana,  last  week.  This  is  the  first 
carload  of  either of  the above vegetables 
that  were  ever  shipped  from  Kalkaska.
is  a 
failure  in  Delta  county  this  fall.  Sev­
eral  thousand  bushels  were  expected  to 
be  harvested,  but  not  one-tenth  of  the 
amount  were  picked.  The  cause  given 
is  that  the  vines  were  flooded last spring 
while  in  blossom.

Escanaba—The  cranberry  crop 

Hancock— E.  R.  Godfrey  &  Sons,  the 
Milwaukee  wholesale  dealers  in  fruits 
and  general  produce,  will  shortly  erect 
a  new  business  block  for  wholesale  pur­
poses  on  Hancock  street,  adjoining  the 
Mineral  Range  grounds.  The  building 
will  be  equipped  with  all  modern  im­
provements,  including  electric  lighting 
and  steam  heating.  The  site  of  the  new 
structure  has  been  leased  for  a  term  of 
years.

last  year,  when 

Alpena—Chas.  E.  Cheney,  an  active 
business  man  of  this  city,  who  organ­
ized  the  Huron  Handle  &  Lumber  Co. 
in  1896,  and  which  was  removed  to  On- 
away 
it  became  the 
Huron  Handle  &  Manufacturing  Co., 
and  continued  until  it  became  a  part  of 
the  Lobdell  &  Daily  plant,has  removed 
to  Detroit  to  become  identified  with  the 
Forester  &  Cheney  Co.,  manufacturer 
of  knit  gloves  and  mittens.  The  con­
cern 
located  at  39 to  49  State  street 
and  employs  about  175  men.

is 

Lake  Linden— The  official  statement 
of  the  Lake  Linden  Co-Operative  Soci­
ety  for the  year  ending  October  1,  1901, 
shows  that  during  the  previous twelve 
months  the  sales  at  the  Society's  gen­
eral  store  amounted  to  $45,578.14.  Out 
of  that  amount  sales  to  the  extent  of 
$42,000  were  made  to  members  of  the 
Society  and 
remainder,  about 
$2,700,  were  made to non-members.  The 
report  also  shows  that  the  Society’s 
membership  was 
increased  by  ninety- 
nine members,  bringing  the total  to  245. 
A  7  per  cent,  dividend  was  paid  on  the 
capital  stock  and  also  7  per cent,  rebate 
distributed  by  the  organization  on  all 
purchases  made  during  the  year.

the 

Mason—Grant  G.  Carter,  a  local  fur­
niture  dealer,  was  the  victim  of  a  pecu­
liar  accident  Monday.  He  was deliver­
ing  a  load  of  furniture  to  parties  living 
east  of  the  city  and  suddenly  perceived 
that  his 
load  was  on  fire.  Mr.  Carter 
took  a  horse  blanket  from  the  seat  and 
tried  to  smother the  flames,  but  the  high 
wind  helped  matters  along  and  he  bare­
ly  had  time  to  unhitch  his  team  from 
the  wagon. 
In  about  ten  minutes  the 
$80  load  of  furniture  and  the  wagon 
were  licked  up  by  the  flames,  with  Mr. 
Carter  powerless  to  save  a  thing.  The 
fire  undoubtedly  caught  in  the  burlap 
and  excelsior around  the  furniture  from 
a  match  used  to light  Mr.  Carter’s cigar.

M an a  facto  ring;  M atters.

Kalamazoo—The  Spiral  Manufactur­
ing  Co.  has  been  organized  with  a  cap­
ital  stock  of $5,000.

Ypsilanti— The  Phoenix  Reed  Co.,  of 
Detroit,  has  removed  to  this  place  and 
has  established 
itself  in  the  Follett 
It  will  employ  a  force  of  from 
block. 
forty-five  to  fifty  men.

Pontiac—There  is  a  pbssibility of this 
city  acquiring  a  large  wholesale  harness 
factory.  W.  R.  Strieby,  who  manufac­
tures  harnesses  and  other  horse goods on 
a  large  scale  at  Akron,  Ohio,  is  contem­
plating  a  removal  to  this  city,  which 
offers  special  attractions  to  that  line  of 
business  on  account  of  the  large number 
of  vehicle  factories  located  here.

Detroit— It 

is  claimed  that  an  amal­
gamation  of  the  computing  scale  indus­
tries  of  the  United  States  has  been 
effected  by  which  the  Stimpson  Com­
puting  Scale  Co.,  of  this  city,  and  in­
stitutions  of  a  similar  character  in  other 
cities  have  been  united  into  one  com­
pany  with  a  capital  of  $3,500,000. 
George  H.  Paine,  Sherman  R.  Miller 
and  John  W.  Leggett  of  the  Detroit 
company,  it  is  stated,  step  out  with  a 
comfortable 
is  also 
stated  that  the  deal  was  engineered  by 
Mr.  Paine  and  a  New  York  broker  by 
the  name  of  Rice.  The  $3,500,000  cap­
ital  stock 
is  divided  into  $1,500,000  7 
per cent,  cumulative  preferred stock and 
$2,000,000  common  stock.  Samuel  B. 
Lawrence 
is  President  and  Henry  M. 
Haviland  Treasurer.  Both  are  Eastern 
men.  The  Knickerbocker  Trust  Co, 
was  the  underwriter.

competence, 

ft 

G otten  O ld  A ccounts  in   Good  Shape.

Chase-Hackley  Piano  Co.

Manufacturers  of 

Grand  and  Upright  Pianos.
Muskegon,  Mich.,  Oct.  17,  1901. 

Commercial  Credit  Company,

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Gentlemen—We have  just  receipted  to 
you  for  check  covering  your  collections 
on  our  accounts  for  the  first  half  of  this 
month  and  we  wish  to  compliment  you 
on  the  satisfactory  manner  in  which  you 
are  handling  this  business  for  us.

When  we  placed  this  business  in  your 
hands, we realized how uncertain any  sat­
isfactory  results  would  be  from  the  fact 
that  we  had  a  great  many  old  accounts 
which  had  not  been receiving  proper  at­
tention,  but  you  have  gotten  these  ac­
counts  in  very  good  shape and payments 
are  coming 
in  a  very  much  more 
satisfactory  way  than  we  had  reason  to 
expect.

Thanking  you  for the careful attention 
you  have  give  our  business,  we  remain 

in 

Very  truly  yours,

Chase-Hackley  Piano  Co.

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

and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

Men  and  watches  are  judged  by  their 

works;  both  have  wheels.
W R O U G H T   IRON  P I P E

We have a  large stock of  %   to  8  inch  Black,  K  to  3  inch  Galvanized,  including 
2  inch  Galvanized  Plugged  and  Reamed  Pipe,  and  can  fill  orders  promptly. 
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 LY   C O M P A N Y

20  Pearl  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Buy the Most Perfect Talking Machine Made
Buy  it of us.  Prices $12 
to  $25.  Until  Dec.  1  we 
offer  extra  inducements, 
besides  prepaying  ex- 
pressage.  Write for par­
ticulars.

**HIS  M A ST E R ’ S   VO ICE'*

POST  MUSIC CO.,

Lansing, Mich.

P O T A T O E S   W A N T E D

Will pay cash;  write  or  see  us  before selling.

M.  ©.  BAKER  & ee., Toledo,  ©hio

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T h e  G rocery  M ark et.

Sugars—The  raw  sugar  market 

re­
mained  quiet  and  unchanged,  9 6   deg. 
test  centrifugals  being  still  quoted  at 
3   1 3 - 1 6 C .   Refiners  practically  withdrew 
from  the  market,  for  the  present  being 
amply  supplied  with  raw  sugar,  which 
is  arriving in  sizable  quantities.  There 
were  no  offerings  of  sugar  pressed  for 
sale  and  importers  remained  firm,  hav­
ing  sufficient  confidence  in  the  market 
to  await 
further  developments.  The 
outlook  is  favorable  and  no  decline  in 
prices  is  expected  until  Cuban  sugars 
are  placed  on  the  market.  The  world’s 
visible  supply  of  raw  sugar  is  7 6 0 , 0 0 0  
tons,  against  4 3 0 ,0 0 0   tons  at  the  same 
last  year.  Reflecting  the  quiet 
time 
market  for  raw  sugars,  there  was 
little 
interest  manifested  by  the  trade  in  re­
fined.  Business  was  fair,  buyers  plac­
ing  orders  for  such  lots  as  were  actually 
needed  to  fill  immediate  wants,  but  no 
speculative  purchases  were made.  Ship­
ments  of  Michigan  beet  granulated  are 
received  alomst  every  day  and  demand 
for  Eastern 
consequently 
much 
less  than  it  otherwise  would  be. 
The  price  of  granulated 
is  unchanged, 
but there  was  an  advance  of  5  points  on 
certain  grades  of  softs  which  are  rather 
scarce.

refined 

is 

Canned  Goods— While 

the  canned 
goods  market  is  not  as  active  as  it  was 
a  few  weeks  ago,  yet there  is  a  feeling 
of  security  and  confidence  existing 
among  the  holders  that  bespeaks  a 
healthy  market  during  the  balance  of 
the  year.  These  remarks  apply  not  only 
to  tomatoes,but  to  almost  all  other  lines 
of  canned  goods.  The  general  outlook 
continues  very  strong  and  prices  show 
an  upward  tendency. 
Tomatoes,  of 
course,  rank  as  the  leading  topic  of  in­
terest  in  the  canned  goods  line,  as  they 
have  done  for  some  time  past. 
It  is 
the  general  opinion  that  tomatoes  pur­
chased  at  to-day’s  prices  are  more  than 
safe,  but  just  the  same  a  safer  plan 
would  be  to  buy  for  current  wants  only. 
To  sum  up  the  tomato  situation  as  it  is 
to-day,  it  can  be  briefly  stated :  First, 
the  crop  was  a  short  one,  the  pack  will 
be  about  40  per  cent,  less  than 
last 
year’s.  Secondly,  the  shortage  extends 
not  to  one  section,  but  all  over  the 
country.  Thirdly,  the  shortage 
is  not 
confined  to  3  pounds  but  includes  2 
pounds  and  gallons  as  well.  Lastly,  the 
jobbers  throughout  the  country  have  not 
sufficient  stocks  to  last  them  until  the 
coming  year  is  well  under way.  There­
fore,  the  logical  conclusion  is  that  the 
present  conditions  are  such  as  require 
constant  and  close  attention.  The  next 
active  article  in  the  list  is  the  different 
sizes  of  peas.  Stocks of the  better  grades 
of  these  goods  have  dwindled  away  un­
til  there  are  practically  none  of  these 
grades  to  be  had  and  some  dealers  will 
simply  have  to  withdraw  quotations  on 
these  goods  because  they  will  not  be 
able  to  get  any  of that  quality  to  sell. 
There  is  a  better  demand  for  corn,  but 
nothing  compared  to  the  interest usually 
taken 
in  this  article  when  tomatoes  are 
on  the  advance,  as  they  have  been  dur­
ing  the  past  two  months.  The  market, 
however,  is  firm  and  offers  at  prices  be­
low  the  regular quotations  are  refused. 
While  every 
indication  points  to  the 
largest  yield  of  corn  in  the  history  of 
the  State  of  Maine,  yet the  acreage  all 
over  the  country  is  less  than  an  average 
and 
in  some  states  less  than  one-half 
the  usual  crop.  Thus the  output  is  less 
than  usual,  which  makes  the  demand

for Maine  corn  greater than  usual,  and 
if  the  demand  is  kept  up  for  the  next 
month  Maine  corn  of  this  year’s  pack 
will  be  a  scarce  article  to find  in  first 
hands.  The  peach  market  is  quiet. 
It 
is  always  so  during  the  months  of  Octo­
ber,  November  and  December. 
The 
market,  however,  is  steady  and  there 
are  no  changes  in  values.  Everybody 
wants  pumpkin.  There  seems  to  be  a 
general  shortage  all  over  the  country. 
The  market  is  very  firm  and  high prices 
are  asked  by  those  who  are  fortunate 
enough  to  hold  any  quantity  of  stock. 
Gallon  apples  are  firm  and  in  good  de­
mand.  Salmon  is  easy  and  in  light  de­
mand.  The  Seacoast  Packing  Co.  has 
reduced  prices  on  X   oil  sardines  35c 
per  case  and  25c on mustards and a large 
number  of  sales  have  been  made  at  the 
reduced  prices.

Both 

rather  demoralized. 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
is 
The  present 
warm  weather  is  not  conducive  to  buy­
ing  of  dried  fruits,  but  as  soon  as  it 
grows  cooler,  we  think trade will  pick 
up  considerably. 
raisins  and 
prunes  show  considerable  weakness  and 
the  market  for  these  two  articles  is  in 
bad  condition.  New  goods,  both  prunes 
and  raisins,  sold  some  weeks  ago  are 
coming 
in  now  and  are  meeting  with  a 
fair  sale.  The  quality  of  the  goods 
seems  to  be  quite  satisfactory.  Apri­
cots  and  peaches  are  both  quiet  and 
with  few  sales  made.  Currants  continue 
in  good  demand  from  the  consuming 
trade,  the 
lower  prices  and  fine  quality 
of  the  goods  proving  very  attractive. 
Figs  are  firm  and  are  moving  out  well, 
especially  for  the  very  best  keeping 
grades,  which  bring  good  prices.  The 
present  mild  weather  is  against  actual 
consumption  and  the actual consumptive 
demand  is  light  as  yet,  but  is  expected 
to  greatly 
increase  soon.  Other  dried 
fruits  are  quiet  and  featureless.

stronger  and  prices  have  advanced  X c 
per  gallon  and  3c  per  case.

Nuts— Nuts  are 

in  quite  active  de­
mand  for both  old  and  new  goods.  A l­
monds  are  becoming  much  more  plenti­
ful  now  and  are  selling  very  well  at 
good  prices.  Brazil  nuts  are  very  firm 
at the  present  high  prices  and  the  tend­
ency  is  still  upward.

Rolled  Oats—The  rolled  oats  market 
is  also  improving  and  prices  have  ad­
vanced 
ioc  per  barrel  and  5c  per  case 
for competitive  cases.  The  market  is 
very firm  at  the  advance  and  it  looks  as 
though  this  advance  would  be  followed 
very  shortly  by  another.

H ides,  Pelt«,  T allow   an d   W ool.

Hides  have  become  scarce  and  high 
in  value.  Eastern  tanners  could  not 
hold  out  of  the  market.  They  were 
obliged  to  have  hides  to  work  or  stop. 
They  have  come  in  and  taken  all  offer­
light  stock  at  a  round  advance 
ings  of 
and  prices  rule  higher.  Sales  the 
lat­
ter  part  of  last  week  were  large.  There 
is  no  money  for  tanners  at  these  prices 
on  present  leather  values.

Pelts  are  in  light  offering  at  low  val­
ues,  although  prices, are  as  high  as  the 
market  will  warrant.  The  demand  is 
good  if  the  value  is  not  too  great.

Tallow  is  lower,  while  prices  are  high 
for  soapers’  use.  Stocks  do  not  accum­
ulate  on  a  fair  value  for  home  use.

Wools  are  firm  in  the  Eastern  market. 
in 
Prices  do  not  advance  and  sales  are 
lots  with  no  easy  spots-.  The 
small 
volume  shows  fairly  well  at  the  end  of 
each  week.  Supplies  are  sufficient  for 
present  wants.  The  States  carry  con­
siderable  wool,  awaiting  higher  prices 
that  do  not  come  to  any  extent.  Large 
quantities  are  being  used  and  manufac­
turers  are  well  supplied 
for  present 
needs.  The  supply 
is  not  as  large  as 
one  year  ago  on  this  side,  while  the 
world’s  supply  is  reported  to  be 
large.

Wm.  T.  Hess.

Tea—Green 

Rice—The  rice  market- is  very  firm. 
The  demand  is  very good  and full prices 
are  realized  for  all  grades.  As  a  result 
of 
liberal  receipts  there  is  a  better  as­
sortment  to  be  had  and  offerings  now 
include  all  grades  from  the  lowest  to 
the  highest.  Dealers  have  been  carry­
ing 
light  stocks  and  have  now  got  to 
where  they  are  compelled 
to  make 
further  purchases  to  meet  their  actual 
needs.  The  position  of  the  market 
is 
strong  and 
indications  point  to  firm 
prices  for  the  immediate  future.  .
teas  were  very 

firm 
throughout  the  week,  prices  showing 
fair  advance  and 
it  is  believed  that  a 
further  advance  will  be  made,  as  stocks 
are  small.  Black  tea  showed  a  slight 
improvement 
in  sympathy  with  green 
grades,and  some  holders  have  advanced 
prices  on  certain  sorts.  The  anticipated 
increased  fall  demand  has  not  as  yet 
materialized.  Wholesale  grocers  did  not 
show  much  desire  to  replenish  stocks 
and  transactions  were  moderate  for  the 
week.  The  statistical  position  is  im­
proving  and  prices  continue  in  favor  of 
sellers.  It  is  stated  that  the  Indian  crop 
of  tea  will  be  below  last  year.

Molasses  and  Syrups— Prices  are  firm 
for  all  grades  of  molasses  and  the statis­
tical  position  of  the  market  continues 
strong.  The  trade,  as  usual  at  this  time 
of  the  year,  is  rather  inactive,  as  a  re­
sult  of  the  near  approach  of  the  new 
crop.  Spot  supplies  are  narrowing  daily 
and  stocks  will  practically  be  depleted 
before  the  new  crop  begins  to  move 
freely.  The 
latest  reports  in  reference 
to  the  molasses  crop  were  favorable  and 
is  expected  to  equal  that  of 
the  yield 
last  season.  The  corn  syrup  market 
is

lia «   th e   E rie   T elephone  Co.  B een  “ D e­

lib e ra te ly   W reck ed ?”

Pinkham in Boston Post, Oct  26.

in  the 

The  principal  feature 

local 
market  to-day  was  a  further hreak  of  5 
points 
in  Erie  Telephone  Co.  stock, 
which  sold  down  to  25.  The  selling 
was  largely  for  Lowell  account.  In  fact, 
a  large  portion  of  the  sales  of  late  have 
been  for  the  account  of  the  Lowell  bank 
which  has  recently  suffered  at  the  hands 
of  speculating  employes. 
The  Erie 
Telephone  stocks  sold  by  this  bank  rep­
resented  collateral  held  to  secure  loans 
advanced  to  a  gentleman  who  has  long 
been  connected  with  the  telephone  in­
dustry.  There  is little  doubt,  therefore, 
that  the  Erie  Telephone  Co.  is  deliber­
ately  wrecked,  and  this  process  has 
been  going  on  ever  since  the  manage­
ment  was  compelled  to  resort  to the 
pawn-shop at  the  head  of  the  street.  At 
it  will  be  remembered,  I 
that  time, 
sounded  a  note  of  alarm. 
In  fact,  I 
have  continually  advised the  sale  of this 
stock  since  February,  1900,  when 
it 
was  up  to  122,  and  when  my  contem­
poraries  were  urging  “ suckers”   to  bite, 
because  it  was  going  to 150.  Some peo­
ple  think  there  are  20  points  in  selling 
it  now.

The  sympathy  of  the  trade  will  go  out 
to  Guy  M.  Rouse,  Secretary  of  the 
Worden  Grocer  Co.,  in  the  death  of  his 
mother,  Mrs.  Wm.  H.  Rouse,  which 
occurred  Monday  evening.  Mrs.  Rouse 
was  a  woman  of  culture  and  refinement, 
of  strong  moral  character  and  an  exem­
plary  wife  and  mother.

The  Freeman  Mercantile  Co.  has 
leased  the  vacant  store  at  20 and  22  Ot­
tawa  street,  formerly  occupied  by  Rice 
&  Matheson,  and  will  shortly  remove 
to that  location.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

5

GOING  BEGGING.

C o n tro llin g   In te re s t o f th e  M ichigan T ele­

p h o n e  Co.

The  daily  papers  have  had  a  good 
deal  to  say  of  late  about  the  option  ob­
tained  by  Dudley  E.  Waters,  of  this 
city,  on  a  controlling 
interest  of  the 
stock  of  the  Michigan  Telephone  Co. 
Considerable  speculation  has  been 
in­
dulged  in  as  to  the  reasons  for  obtain­
ing  the  option  and  the  probable  out­
come  of  the  situation.  As  usual,  it  re­
mains  for  the  Tradesman  to  divulge  the 
exact  facts  connected  with  the  negotia­
tions  and  acquaint  the  business  public 
with 
the  underlying  motives  which 
actuated  the  principals  in  the  deal.

It  is  a  matter of  common  knowledge 
that  the  Erie  Telephone  Co.,  which 
owns  a  controlling  interest  in  the  Mich­
igan  Telephone  Co.,  has  long  been 
weary  of  the 
investment  and  has  de­
spaired  of  ever  bringing  the  business  of 
the  company  up  to  a  paying  basis.  The 
other  subsidiary  companies  of  the  Erie 
company  have  been  making  a 
little 
money,  but  the  profit  thus  made  has 
been  more  than  offset  by the  losses inci­
dent  to  the  management  of  the  Michi­
gan  Telephone  Co.— losses  which  it  was 
found  impossible  to  prevent,  due  to  the 
absorption  of  so 
large  a  proportion  of 
the  profitable  part  of  the telephone busi­
ness  by  the  independent  companies.  In 
Grand  Rapids  and  many  other  places 
in  the  State  the  Michigan  Telephone 
Co.  has  done  business  at  a  fearful  loss, 
furnishing  telephone  service  at  about 
half  what  it  cost,  because  of  its 
inabil­
ity  to  do business  on  an  even  basis with 
the  independent  companies.

Mr.  Waters  conceived  the  idea that  he 
could  pocket  a  handsome commission by 
obtaining  an  option  on  a  controlling  in­
terest  of  the  capital  stock  of  the  M ichi­
gan  Telephone  Co.  and  effect  a  sale  of 
the  property  to  the  Citizens  Telephone 
Co.  of  Grand  Rapids. 
In  the  opinion 
of  the  Tradesman  the  deal  will  not  be 
made,  because, judging  by  authoritative 
statements  made  in  Wall  Street— which 
have  not  been  contradicted—that  the 
Michigan  Telephone  Co.  sunk  $ 2 3 5 , 0 0 0  
during  the  first  six  months  of  this  year, 
there will undoubtedly be  an opportunity 
to  obtain  the  property  on  much  more 
favorable  terms  at  foreclosure  sale  in­
side  of  a  very  few  months. 
If  the  pur­
chase  was  made  on  the  basis  of  the 
present  offer—35  on  the  dollar  for a  con­
trolling 
interest—the  purchaser  would 
have  to  assume  $5,000,000  5  per  cent, 
bonds  of  the  Michigan  Telephone  Co., 
$590,000 bonds  of  the  Detroit  Telephone 
Co.  (assumed  and  guaranteed  by  the 
Michigan  Telephone  Co.),  and  $ 1 , 8 0 0 , -  
000 floating  indebtedness— in all $ 7 , 3 9 0 , -  
ooo—besides  a  minority  interest  of  the 
$5,000,000  capital  stock.  This  can  not 
be  done  without  seriously  jeopardizing 
the  income  and  discounting  the  future 
of  the  Citizens  Telephone  Co.,  which 
the  directors  are  not  justified  in  doing, 
and  are  not  likely  to  do.*

The  offer  to  sell  a  controlling  interest 
of  the  capital  stock  is  an  admission  on 
the  part  of  the  Michigan  Telephone  Co. 
that  it  has  been  beaten  at  its  own  game 
— that  it  has  been  whipped  to  a  finish 
by  “ greenhorns”   and  amateurs  in  the 
business—simply  because 
telephone 
enough  telephone  users 
in  every  com­
munity— patriotic  people  who  refuse  to 
be  made  cat’s-paws  of  by  accepting  tel­
ephone  service  at  less  than  cost— have 
stood  manfully  and  heroically by  the  in­
dependent  companies  and  assisted  them 
to  win  the  most  gigantic  commercial 
battle  ever  fought  out  in  this  State.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

three  feet  from  it. 
It  is  thus  seen  that 
the  operation  of the  manufacture  from 
the  clay  bank  until  the  loading  for ship­
ment  is continuous,  and  no  brick  is  car­
ried  a  foot  farther,  either  by  hand  or 
machinery,  than  is  absolutely  necessary 
to  give  the  plant  its  capacity  and  the 
machinery  its  room  for operation.

When  soft  mud  bricks  are  made  the 
screened  clay  or  silica  rock  is  run into a 
different  machine,  which  also  has  a  ca­
pacity  of  50,000  bricks  per  day.  When 
the  bricks  emerge  from  this  they  are  in 
groups  of-five  and  are  dumped  from  the 
molds  on  pallets,  which  are 
loaded  on 
the  trucks  and  carried  into the  tunnels, 
where  the  operations  are similar to those 
previously  described.—American  E x­
porter.

project,  if  consolidation  were  possible. 
—Hardware.

Simple and practical.  Catalogue if you wish.

Pentone Gas Lamp Co.

T he  J u m b o   Jo b b in g   H ouse.

Bell Phone  2929 

141  Canal  Street

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

“SAVE  TIME  AND  STAMPS

P elouze  Po s t a l S c a le s

THE  HANDSOM EST a n d  BE ST  made

THEY TELL AT A  GLANCE  THE COST OF  POSTAGE IN 
CENTS,AHD ALSO  GIVE THE EXACT WEIGHT IN  /2OZS
NAT I 0NAL:4LB5-t 3 00. UNION .'2 '/z LBS.$2.50- 
THEY SOON  PAY FOR THEMSELVES IN  STAMPS  SAVED

P e l o u z e   S c a l e   & M f g .  C o ..

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Double  3 
3 

the 
Stock

of  Robes and  Blankets are here 
for  you  to  choose  from  as  we 
bad  last season and we thought 
we  bad  a  pretty  good  stock 
things 
then.  Especial,  good 
in  blankets. 
If you have not a 
price  list we will  send you  one. 
It is a good  time  to  place  your 
order  if  that  important  thing 
has not already been done.

L   B r o w n   &   S e h l e r ,■ Grand  Rapids, Mich.

UUUUULÄ.s à

6

Hardware

T he  M an u factu re  o f F ire   B rick .

Various  processes  and 
machines  are  employed 
well-equipped  plant.

labor-saving 
in  a  modern 

The  manufacture  of  fire brick has long 
received  a  great  deal  of  attention  in 
Western  Pennsylvania  and  throughout 
the  steelmaking  districts  of the  United 
States  owing  to  the  steady  demand  for 
such  brick  for the  many  coke  ovens  in 
these  regions.  A  description  of  one  of 
the  plants  engaged  in  making  this  type 
of  fire  brick  that  appeared  recently  in  a 
technical  contemporary  is  of  general  in­
terest  owing  to  the  numerous  ingenious 
methods  and  machines  employed.  The 
clay  is  blasted  with  dynamite  and  pow­
der,  preferably  the  former,  as  it  loosens 
the  blocks  designed  to  come  down with­
out  blowing  the  clay  in  all  directions. 
The  clay  is  loaded  into small cars, which 
travel  over  a  trestle  across  a  creek  to 
the  plant.  The  cars  have  diop  bottoms, 
and  run  directly  over  a  chute,  leading 
down 
into  the  grinding  pans,  two  in 
number.  The  main  chute  branches,  so 
that  the  clay  can  be  let  into  one,  the 
other,  or  both  at  the  same  time.  The 
dry  pans  are  nine feet  each  in diameter. 
From  the  pans  the  ground  clay  goes  up 
an  elevator  30  feet  long.  This  is  made 
of  a  traveling  belt,  on  which  are  steel 
buckets,  5^x10  inches  in  size.  The  ele­
vator  carrier  drops  the  ground  clay  on 
the  screens,  which  are  of  the  regular 
galvanized  gravity  pattern, 
the  mesh 
being  regulated  according  to  the  make 
of  clay  to  be  turned  out  on  the  run. 
From  the  screen  the  clay  travels  auto­
matically  through  a  chute  to  the  brick­
making  machines.  When  stiff  mud 
bricks  are  being  made  the  clay  goes 
into  a  special  machine  having  a  capac­
ity  of  50,000  bricks  a  day.  Connected 
with  this  machine  is  an  automatic  cut­
ter  which  cuts  the  bricks  on  a  carrying 
belt  as  they  emerge.  The  belt  then 
separates  the  bricks  and  carries  them 
further  where  they  are  taken  by  handy 
workmen  and 
loaded  on  trucks  which 
travel  to  the  transfer,  and  from  the 
transfer  the  cars  of  bricks  are  run  into 
the  tunnels  of  the  dryer  at  will.

The  bricks  remain 

in  the  tunnel  on 
the  cars  about  twelve  hours.  As  green 
bricks  are  added  in  front  of  the  tunnel, 
the  dry  bricks  are  pushed  out  towards 
the  rear  of  each  tunnel,  and  each  day 
are  taken  out  of  the  rear,  where  there  is 
another  transfer  track  running  parallel 
with  the  rear end  of  the  dryer,  and  also 
parallel  with  the  face  of  each  of  the 
kilns.  The  tunnels  have  a  drying  ca­
pacity  of  50,000  bricks  per  day.  Over 
the  top  of  the  drying  tunnels there  is  a 
large 
space  on  which  special 
shapes,  that  is,  large  shapes,  including 
tunnels  for coke ovens, fronts,  jams,  etc., 
are  dried. 
It  requires  from  one  to  two 
weeks  for  drying  these  special  shapes. 
Sometimes  this  operation  is  one  of  the 
most  delicate  in  the  manufacture  of  fire 
brick.

floor 

To  resume  the  operation  of  the  manu­
facture  of  bricks,  when  they  are  placed 
in  one  or the  other  of  the  kilns, of  which 
there  are  six,  each  with  a  capacity  of 
80,000  bricks,  they  are  burned  for  five 
days  and  five  nights.  The  secrets  of 
burning  are  said  to  have  been  solved 
after  years  of  trial  and  study  and  the 
expenditure  of  much  money.

The  bricks,  after  being  burned,  are 
taken  out  of  a  door  in  the  rear of  the 
kilns  and  loaded  directly  into  the  rail­
road  cars  on  a  siding  which  is  parallel 
with  the  rear alignment  of  the  kilns  and

A  movement  to  consolidate  the  job­
bing 
interests  of  the  country  into  one 
big  concern  or company  with  branches 
in  the  principal  trade  centers,  has  been 
agitated  in  several  sections  during  the 
past  month.  A  more  impracticable  or 
delusive  scheme  could  scarcely  have 
been  promoted  with  so  much  serious­
ness.

If  the  object  is to  lessen  the  number 
jobbing  houses  doing  business,  a 
of 
number constantly  increasing  in  an 
in­
verse  ratio  to  a  possible  living  profit, 
the  very  fact  of  a  consolidation  throw­
ing  out  in  the  interest  of economy  a 
number  of  skilled  salesmen  whose  serv­
ices  could  be  dispensed  with,  would  of 
itself  assist  in  the  formation  of  smaller 
jobbing  houses  with 
light  expenses, 
whose  efforts  to  sell  would  naturally 
create  conditions  more antagonistic than 
prevail  at  present,  and  to  whom  the 
sympathy  of  the  retailer  would  be large­
ly  extended.  The  competition  which 
makes  a  movement  of  this  kind  assume 
any  interest,  does not  lie  so  much  in  the 
competition  between individual jobbers, 
perhaps,as the temptation among smaller 
manufacturers  to  market  their  products 
to the  retail  dealers  direct  from  the  fac­
tory,  compelling  the  jobber to  retain  his 
already  established  trade  by  making 
cut  prices  to  meet  these  quotations.

What's  to  become  of  the  manufacturer 
when  these  Jumbo  jobbers  consolidate— 
those  who  make  similar  lines  of  goods, 
such  as 
steel  goods,  shovels,  axes, 
horseshoes,  etc. ?  As  the  consolidation 
of  distributers,  it  is  likely,  can  not  buy 
of  all  of  these  competing  producers, 
won’t  they  be  apt  to  go  foraging  for 
trade  on  their  own  account,  and  leave 
the  big  consolidation  to  pare  profits  a 
little  closer?  From  a 
jobber’s  stand­
point,  there  are  enough  manufacturers 
now  selling  the  retail  trade  direct.  Will 
a  Jumbo  jobbing  house  as  contemplated 
lessen  it?

It  would  look  to  an  outsider as  though 
this  plan  was  fostered  and  encouraged 
by  some  old-timers  in  the  trade,  who 
fancy  their  present  business  can  be  dis­
posed  of  for cash  based  on  a  valuation 
in  which  “ good  will’ ’  may  be  largely 
represented  by  a  paper  value. 
It  has 
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valuable  asset.  With  the  present  an­
tipathy  to  trust  influences  on  the  part 
of  the  people,  a  strong  public  sentiment 
would  oppose  this Jumbo  consolidation 
at  the  outset,  and  which  would  grow 
antagonistic  to  its  continuance  as  fast 
as  other sources  of supply  were  opened 
to  the  trade.  There  is  as  little 
likeli­
hood  of  a  consolidation 
like  that  pro­
posed  being  consummated  as  there  is  of 
those  embarking  in  the  scheme  finding 
a  profit  from the operations of  so wild  a

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F L O R ID A   ORANGES

A re  A gain  B ecom ing  a   P o te n t  F a c to r  of 

W ealth .

The  orange  season  begins  in  Florida 
in  ten  days.  A  careful  estimate  made 
this  week corrects  the  erroneous  impres­
sion  that  the  output  will  reach  a  million 
and  a  quarter boxes. 
It  is  closely  fig­
ured  by  Steven  Powers,  Secretary  of  the 
State  Horticultural  Society,  that  1,100,- 
ooo boxes  will  cover  the  crop.  The  re­
habilitation  of  the  orange  industry  in 
Florida  since  the  fatal  freeze  of 1895 has 
shown  more  development  in  the  past 
year than  in  the  five  years  previous, and 
this  great  factor  in  Florida’s  wealth  is 
becoming  potent  again.  Secretary  Pow­
ers,  of  the  State  Horticultural  Society, 
gave  out  the  following  interview  to-day 
in  response  to  various  questions  con­
cerning  the  season’s  crop  and  the  out­
look :

“ What  has  been  the  course  of  de­
velopment  since  the  freeze?”  was asked.
"Somewhat  slow  at  first,  retarded  by 
climatic  conditions  and  the  uncertainty 
of  the  growers.  This  year  the  trees 
have  made  a  wonderful  growth,  the  crop 
is  fine,  and  there  is  widespread  encour­
agement.  Probably  a  million  trees  were 
Sold  last  winter,  largely  for  planting 
in 
Florida.  There 
is  little  fear  of  any 
effective  West  Indian complication.  The 
Florida  orange,  backed  by  American 
will  and  energy,  can  not  be  displaced.’ ’ 
the  orange 
groves  have  been  or  will  be  restored?"
is  difficult  to  answer.  Not  over 
50  per  cent.  But  new groves  are  being 
planted,  which  will  be  better  than  re­
stored  groves,  more  durable,  and  more 
healthy.  The  restoration  of  a  grove, 
properly  done,  enables  one  to  secure 
fruit  quickly,  but  the  trees  are  not  so 
showy  as  one  grown  on  its  own  roots 
from  an  original  setting.”

“ What  percentage  of 

“ It 

“ How  have  the  growers  been  able  to 

make  a  living  while  waiting?”  

lived  at  home, 

“ Florida  has  many  resources,  from 
the  homely  farm  stables  to  the  most  ex­
quisite  fruits  of  the  tropics.  The  grow­
ers  have 
they  have 
canned  their  surplus  fruits,  raised  stock 
and  poultry,  milk  and  eggs.  For  money 
crops  they  have  shipped  melons,  canta­
loupes,  pineapples,  strawberries,  vege­
tables.  They  handle 
less  money,  but 
live  better than  before.”

“ On  what 

lines  is  the  restoration  of 

groves  being  pursued?”

“ On  the  lines  of  more  extensive  cul­
ture  and  smaller  and  more  precocious 
In  the  northwestern  part  of the 
trees. 
State,  the  tendency 
is  toward  dwarf  or 
semi-dwarf  trees,  producing  fruit  two 
years  from  planting.  There  is  now 
in 
sight  in  the  grove  of  the  Society’s  Pres­
ident,  George L.  Taber,  eight miles from 
the  Georgia  State  line,  a  crop  of  fully
1,000  boxes,  all  groves  entirely  outdoors 
and  on  trees  which  have  sprung  up 
from  the  ground  in  twenty  months,  after 
one  of  the  severest  freezes  Florida  has 
ever  experienced.”

“ How  is  this  dwarfing  effected?”  
“ Chiefly  by  the  use  of  the  Japanese 
stock,  the  Citrus  tripliata,  which  is  not 
only  very  hardy 
imparts 
hardiness  to  the  trees  budded  upon  it. 
It  tends  to  dwarf  the  orange  and  make 
it  bear  very  young.”

itself,  but 

“ Is  the  fruit  from  such  trees  of  a  de­

sirable  character?”
-   “ The  fruit  is  excellent.  Thesatsurna, 
which 
is  a  variety  of  the  tangerine, 
when  grown  on  the  tripliata stock, is  de­
licious,  and  matures  in  October  and 
November. 
It  commands  from  $3  to $4 
a  box.  Not  only  is  it the  favorite  and 
in  North  Florida,
almost  a  monopoly 

but  it  is  found  to  do  well  in  Central and 
South  Florida.  At  three  years  a  tree 
on  this  stock  will  produce  half  a  box  of 
fruit;  at  four  years  a  box.”

“ Is  there  a  tendency  to carry  the  or­
industry  further  South  as  a  result 

ange 
of  the  freeze?”

“ To  a  certain  extent,  yes.  A  num­
ber  of  growers  from  central  counties 
have  planted  or  purchased  groves  in  the 
lower  counties,  while  awaiting  the  res­
toration  of  their old  ones,and  these  men 
have  introduced  into  the  extreme  South 
the 
improved  fertilizers  and  cultural 
systems  to  which  they  were  accustomed. 
Their  perfect  success  has  shown  that 
there  is  nothing  in  the  climate  or soil  of 
the  South  unfavorably  influencing  the 
orange. 
Planting  of  groves  is  also 
steadily  advancing 
in  the  Everglades, 
and  soon  there  will  be  a  long  narrow 
margin  of  groves  investing LakeOkech- 
obee,  on  the  southeast  shore.  Kirk 
Munroe  and  hundreds  of  others  are 
planting  acres  on  the  edge  of  the  ever­
glades  in  Dade  county.”

“ How  about  protecting  groves  with 

sheds  and  tents?”

“ Scores  of  determined  and  wealthy 
growers,  and  even  poor  men,  are  pro­
viding  protection  of  this  sort.  One 
grove  at  Deland,  belonging  to  million­
aire  John  B.  Stetson,  is  covered  with  a 
vast  harbor  of  fifty-five  acres.  Many 
sheds  have  been  erected,  costing  from 
$400 to $1,200  an  acre.”

“ Will  such  costly 

structures 

ever 

pay?”

“ Yes,  with  good  management.  One 
of  these  covered  groves 
last  winter 
yielded  several  hundred  boxes  of  the 
finest  fruit  ever  sent  out  of  Florida. 
It 
in  Jacksonville  for  $5  a 
sold  readily 
box.’ ’

“ Are  the  tents  much  used 

in  protec­

tion?”

“ Not  so  much  as  sheds.  They  are 
too  expensive.  The  largest  one  costs  up 
to  $20  apiece.  An  old-established  tree 
will  repay  this 
in  one  year,  or two  at 
the  outside.  But  it  takes  nerve  to  spend 
money  at  that  rate  on  orange  trees.”

“ About  what  figure  will  the  crop  now 

ripening  reach  in  your  opinion?”

“ There  are  not  many  more  oranges 
on  the  trees  than 
last  year,  but  the 
heavy  rainfall  and  the  promises  of  late 
growing  weather  may  increase  the  size, 
so  as  to  make  100,000 or  200,000  boxes 
more  than  last  year.  The  State  Horti­
cultural  Society  has  300  members  who 
are  orange  growers,  and  the  prevailing 
sentiment 
is  that  Florida  will  not  be 
able  to  give  the  country  over  1,000,000 
boxes  this  year.  The  fruit 
is  of  in­
creasingly  good  quality.  Warned  by 
bitter  experience,  the  growers  will  more 
generously  withhold  miniature  fruit. 
They  are  more generally employing pure 
chemical  formulas 
the 
trees,  which  heightens  the  flavor  and 
fortifies  the  carrying  quality.  The  bulk 
of  the  fruit  will  be  shipped  by  Hills­
boro,  Manatee,  Lee  and  Polk  counties. 
Hillsboro  supplies  the  White  House  in 
Washington. ”

in  fertilizing 

Tw elve  P ic k le   M an u factu rers  F o rm   a 

From the Pittsburg Leader.

C om bination.

A  combination  of  dealers  in  raw  ma­
terial  for the  manufacture  of  pickles has 
been  formed.  The  deal  was  consum­
mated  in  New  York,  after  negotiations 
had  been  under  way  for  several  weeks. 
It  comprises  twelve  of  the  leading  con­
cerns  of  the  United  States  and  repre­
sents  a  capital  upwards  of  $3,000,000. 
The  object  of  the  combination  is  to  ob­
tain  a  monopoly  on  the  pickle  supply 
not  only  in  America,  but  also  in  foreign 
countries.

F.  A.  Waidner,  of  Chicago,  a  mem­
ber  of  one  of  the  interested  concerns, 
passed  through  Pittsburg  yesterday  on

in 

the  Pennsylvania 
limited  *en  route|for 
Chicago,  after  having  attended 
the 
meeting 
in  New  York.  Mr.  Waidner 
says  that  the  new  organization  has  been 
formed  with  a  substantial  backing,  and 
promises  to  become  one  of  the  promi­
nent  syndicates 
commercial 
world.  It  was  through  Julius  Wolfe,  the 
well-known  sardine  packer,  of  New 
York,  that  negotiations  for  such  a  com­
bination  were  opened,  and  successfully 
The  company  has 
carried 
bought  up  all  the  surplus  supply 
in 
Germany  and  Holland,  for  which  an 
expenditure  of  more  than  $3,000,000 
was  made.

through. 

the 

“ The  formation  of  this  syndicate  has 
been  prompted  by  the  decrease 
in  the 
crop  of  this  country,”   said  Mr.  Waid­
ner  at  the  Union  station  last  evening. 
“ The  annual  output  of  cucumbers  in 
America  is  about  3,000,000  bushels,  but 
on  account  of  the  prolonged  dry  spell 
during  the  past  summer the  crop  this 
year  is  only  1,500,000  bushels.  We 
have  had  representatives 
in  Germany 
and  Holland  for  several  months  past 
buying  all  the  stock  possible,  ana  as 
nearly  as  we  can  estimate  the  syndicate 
has  succeeded  in  obtaining  all  the  sur­
plus  stock  of  these  countries.

“ We  deal  only  in  the  raw  material. 
There  are  comparatively 
few  of  the 
manufacturers  that  raise  their  own  cu­
cumbers  and  for this  reason  the  effects 
of  the  combination  will  be  felt  not  only 
in  foreign  countries,  but  in  America  as 
well.  Pickles  will  no  doubt  advance 
considerably 
in  price.  At  the  present 
time  they  are  listed  at 75 cents  a bushel, 
but  on  account  of  the  scarcity  of  mate­
rial  the  price  will  doubtless be  doubled. 
The  foreign  countries  will  no  doubt 
awaken  to  the  fact  that  we  have  secured 
the  bulk  of  their  supply.  They  are  now 
almost  entirely  dependent  upon  us  for 
raw  material.  Under  these  conditions 
pickles  sent  from  this  country will bring 
much  greater  profits  than  heretofore.”

Mr.  Waidner  stated  that  no  Pittsburg 
capitalists  are  interested  in  the  project. 
There  are  but  twelve  companies  con­
cerned.  He  states  that  the  consumma­
tion  of  the  deal  was  completed  yester­
day  morning  in  New  York.
C hicago  P ack ers P ro secu ted  in  M innesota.
The  Minnesota  Dairy  and  Food  Com­
mission  has  gone  after  several  of  the 
large  Chicago  packing  companies  doing 
business  in  that  State  for  violating  the 
sausage  law  passed  at  the  last  session of 
the  Legislature,  and  has  brougth  them 
up  with  a  round  turn. 
In  the  past  the 
large  packing  companies  have  been 
among  the  worst  offenders  against  the 
pure  food  laws  of  Minnesota.  The  saus­
age  law  forbids  the  use of preservatives. 
So  far  the  Armour  Packing  Co.,  Swift 
&  Co.  and  Nelson  Morris  &  Co.  have 
been  fined  for  violations  of  the  new  act.

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TA X IN G   FR A N CH ISES.

is 

The  Supreme  Couit  of  Illinois  has 
just  rendered  a  decision  of  great  im­
portance  in  that  State, and  one  that  may 
exert  at  least  a  potential  influence  in 
other  states,  as 
it  may  furnish  a  prec­
edent  for  action  or  a  foundation  for  leg­
islation.
There 

in  Illinois  a  constitutional 
provision  requiring  the  State  Board  of 
Tax  Assessment  Equalization  to  assess 
for  purposes  of  revenue  the  capital stock 
and  franchises  of  all  corporations 
in 
the  State.  Although  this  constitutional 
requirement  has  been  for  some  twenty- 
five  years 
law  has 
never  been  complied  with,  taxes  being 
levied  on  the  value  of  the  property  of 
corporations.

in  existence, 

the 

One  of  the  objects  of  this  constitu­
tional  provision  was  to  squeeze  out  the 
water,  or  fictitious  values  at  which  the 
property  had  been  put 
into  the  stock 
account,  but  did  not  appear  in  the  as­
sessed  values  for  taxation.  But  the  con­
stitutional  mandate  has  never  been com­
plied with,  and,  as  a  result,  the  city  has 
not  only  lost  an  enormous  amount,  but 
its  revenue  is  not  sufficient  to  meet  or­
dinary  needs.  The  city  is  badly  in  ar­
rears  to  the  public  school  teachers,  and 
they,  some  time  ago,  applied  to  the  Su­
preme  .Court  of  the  State  to  issue  a  writ 
of  mandamus  requiring  the  Board  of 
Liquidation  to  make  the  assessment  as 
provided  in  the  Constitution.  The  court 
has  issued  the  writ  and  made it peremp­
tory  and  final.

By  this  decision  every  corporation  in 
the State  of  Illinois  must  be  taxed on  its 
capital  stock  and  franchise  assessed at  a 
fair  cash  valuation  based  on  market 
rates.  The  Chicago  traction,  gas,  elec­
tric  and  other  vast  public  utility  corpo­
rations  must  be  assessed  fully  on  their 
stock  and  their  franchise  rights.  Man­
datory  order  is  laid  on  the  State  Board 
of  Equalization  that  these  properties  be 
added  to the  tax  lists.

By  this  decision,  concurred 

in  by 
every  member of  the  Supreme  Court,  it 
is  estimated  that  from  $200,000,000 to 
$335,000,000  will  be  added  to the  assess­
ment 
lists  of  Cook  county.  Twenty- 
three  Chicago and  Cook  county  corpora­
tions  were  specifically  mentioned 
in 
the  plea  for  mandamus  filed  by  the 
Teachers’  Federation.  Their  demand 
that  $268,000,000  be  added  to  the  tax­
able  property  values  for  1900 and  as­
sessed  against  these  corporations  has 
now  been  approved  and  served  on  the 
State  Board  of  Equalization.

The  decision  opens  the  way,  so  those 
who  have  won  the  fight contend,for legal 
proceedings  to  collect  back  taxes  for 
the  last  twenty-five  years  on  corporation 
stock  and  franchises.  Heretofore  taxes 
have  been  collected  from  coiporations 
chiefly  on  the  small  amounts  of  tangible 
property  unearthed  by  local  assessors.

According  to  the  report  by  the  Cbi- 
ago  Tribune,  members  of  the  Board  of 
Assessors  and  Board  of  Review  assert 
that  Cook  county's  total  assessed  valua­
tion  of  $365,000,000  for  this  year  will  be 
increased  to  from  $600,000,000 to  $700,- 
000,000.  On  the  steam  railroads  alone 
it  is  estimated  that  $8,000,000  in  ad­
ditional  taxes  will  be  gathered 
in.  Of 
this  amount,  $2,000,000  will  go  into  the 
treasuries  of  Cook  county  and  Chicago.
The  tax  levy  ior  municipal  purposes 
in  the  city  of  Chicago  in  1900  was 
$6,953,716.  For  the 
last  six  years  the 
average  has  been  $6,156,982.  Under the 
present  decision  this  return  will  be 
doubled.

For the  public  school  system  the  levy 
in  1900  was  $10,026,965.  During  the 
last  six  years  the  average  annual  tax  for 
this  purpose  has  been  $7,195,197. 
Here,  too,  revenue  returns  will  be 
doubled.  The 
library  tax,  averaging 
$321,088 yearly  for the  period  of  the  last 
six  years,  will  go  the  same  way.

It 

tax 

Cook 

county’s 

levy  averages 
$2,100,000.  As  in  the  case  of  the  other 
governmental  dependencies,  twice  this 
amount,  it  is  estimated,  will  be  brought 
in.

is  plain  that  this  decision  of  the 
highest  court  of  Illinois  is  going  to  pro 
duce  most  striking  changes  in  the  oper­
ation  of  corporations  and  it  will 
insure 
the  squeezing  of  the  water  out  of  their 
stocks  and  bring  them  down  to  a  solid 
basis.  It  will  operate  with  special  force 
against  trusts  which  are  declaring  divi­
dends  upon  enormously 
inflated  stock 
shares. 

_____________

The  physicians  always  say  that  a tem­
perature  of  104  is  very  dangerous  and  if 
perchance 
it  gets  up  two  or  three  de­
grees  above  that  for  any  considerable 
length  of  time  death  is  reasonably  sure 
In  the  face  of  ths  established 
to  ensue. 
is  the  statement  that  a  lady 
doctrine 
whose  home 
is  m  Penn  Yan  lived  two 
years,  during  which  time  her  tempera­
ture  was  never  below  108  and  frequently 
rose  to  120.  More  remarkable  still 
is 
the  statement  that  she  was  recently  suc­
cessfully  operated  on  for  appendicitis 
and  is  now  reckoned  on  the  highway  to 
a  good  recovery.  This  case  properly 
authenticated  will  go  a  good  way  to­
ward 
lessening  the  apprehension  about 
high  temperatures,  although  the  doc­
tors will  undoubtedly  designate  it as one 
of  the  exceptions  which  prove  the  rule.

In  February,  1900,  Erie  Telephone 
Co.  stock  sold  at  122  and  President 
Glidden  predicted  that  it  would  go to 
150.  On  Monday  of  this  week  it  sold  at 
20,and  expert  speculators  predict  that  it 
will  go  to  5  before  the  company  finally 
collapses.  How  bath  the  mighty  fallen !

is  no 

H IG H E R   EDUCATION  O F  W OM EN.
“ The  new  woman”  

longer 
either the  slave  or the  toy  of  man.  She 
is  her  brother’s  equal  and  coworker. 
She  shares  his  ambitions  and  competes 
with  him  for  the  honors  and  material 
rewards  of  success  in  business  and  pro­
fessional  life.  Not  only  she  herself,  but 
society  generally,  is  less  and 
less  in­
clined  to  regard  her endeavor  to  make 
an 
independent  career  for  herself  as a I 
grotesque  exhibition  of eccentricity oras 
in  any  way  out  of  keeping  with  the  es­
sential  fitness  of  things. 
It  would  be 
impossible,  probably,  to  sum  up  all  the 
causes,  all  the.  tendencies,  that  have 
combined  to  induce  this  altered  con­
ception  of  womanhood.  The  immediate 
cause  is,  no  doubt,  a  changed  system  of 
education,  or,  rather,  the  adoption  of  a 
common  curriculum  for the  higher  edu­
cation  of  the  youth  of  both  sexes.  But 
it  has  been  contended  that  this  forward 
step  has  by  no  means  invariably  tended 
to  bring  about  a  better  mutual  under­
standing  and  respect  between  young 
womeu  and  young  men  of  the  same 
life.  Mr.  W.  D.  Howells,  for 
rank 
instance,  says,  in  the 
latest  issue  of 
Harper's  Magazine:

in 

If  we  are  to  believe  some  of the scien­
tific  witnesses,  civilization  is  finding 
the  woman  of  the  higher  education  the 
most  indigestible  morsel  which 
it  is 
obliged  to  assimilate;  and  the  more 
critical  observer  of  its  lighter  society 
aspects  has  noted  that  they  want  a  per­
fect  gayety  from  the  fact  that  the  girls 
seems  to  know  more,  or  at  any  rate  to 
have  read  more,  and  are  altogether 
brighter  and  quicker,  than  the  young 
men  they  meet.

Now,  as  a  rule,  it  is  hardly  to  be  ex­
pected  that  a  woman  will  admire  and 
love  a  man  whom  she  regards  as  her  in­
ferior  in  intellect  and  all the refinements 
of  culture,  unless,  indeed,  she  is  at­
tracted  by  his  apparent  solidity  and 
strength  of  character. 
The  woman’s 
imagination,  her  ability  to  endow  a 
commonplace  fellow  with  all  the  noble 
qualities  of  a  hero  of  romance,  has 
been  for  her a  source  of  danger;  but  it 
may  be  that  her  higher  education  nowa­
days  has  provided  her  with  surer  tests 
of  worth  and  enabled  her to  study  men, 
even  young  and  handsome  men,  in  the 
dry  light  of  an  atmosphere  that  is  void 
of  sentiment.  One,  however,  may  re­
serve  a  doubt,  for  the 
laws  of  nature 
are  persistent  and  some  brilliant  and 
highly  cultivated  women  have  made 
dreadful  mistakes  in  men.  Be  that  as 
it  may,  the  higher  education  of  women, 
the  poorer  culture  of  the  average man, is 
cutting  down  the  marriage  and  birth 
rates. 
“ The  cold  science  of  statis­
tics,”   says  Mr.  Howells,  “ represents 
that  only  about  one  out  of  three  or  four 
or  five  educated  or  coeducated  women 
marry,  and  of  these  as  few  again  be­
come  mothers,  or,  if  they  do,  survive 
the cares  and  duties  of  maternity.”   In­
sofar  as  the  annual  number of marriages 
has  been  reduced  because  women  are  no 
longer  constrained  to  marry  for a  live­
lihood,  the  higher or the  more  practical 
education  of  women  is  not  to  be  de­
plored ;  but  the  prevalent  system  of  fe­
male  education  has  been  attacked  on  its 
own  ground  by  at  least  one  eminent  ed­
ucator  who  has  had  ample  opportunities 
to  examine 
it  narrowly.  Mr.  Howells 
cites the  published  views  of  President 
Stanley  Hall,  of  Clarke  University, 
whose  discussion  of  the  actual  method 
of  woman’s  education  seems  to  have 
been  mainly  devoted  to  “ the  present 
methods  of  teaching  by  text  books  and 
the  methods  of  instruction  or of  sug­
gestion  by  the  teacher himself,  which 
ought  to  replace  the  books;  the  cart-

before-the-horse  system  of  giving  the 
reason  of  things  first, 
instead  of  the 
things;  the non-literariness of all school­
ing ;  the  mistake  of  teaching  boys  and 
girls together  after they  cease  to  be boys 
and  girls;  the  failure  of  women’s  col­
leges  because the  education they  provide 
does  not  include  the  strength  for  wife­
hood  and  motherhood;  the  physical 
break-down  of  most  educated  women 
with  the  birth  of  one  child;  the  small 
families  that  are  now  the  rule  among 
Americans."

Dr.  Hall’s  criticism,  whether  just  or 
otherwise,  is  directed  only  against  cer­
tain  educational  methods  and  can not be 
taken  as  conclusive  against  any  and 
every  possible  system  of  higher  educa­
tion  for  women.  The  main  ques-ion  is 
whether the  results  of  that  education,  by 
whatever  methods  it  may  be  secured, 
necessarily  tend  to  lessen  the  happiness 
of  society  as  a  whole.  There  would 
seem to  be  something absurd  in  the  con­
tention  that  young  women  should be for­
bidden  to  advance  in  learning  lest  they 
should  become  unfit  mates  for  ignorant 
men.  Mr.  Howells,  for  his  part,  denies 
the  contention  attributed  to  Dr.  Hall, 
that  the  gilr’s  colleges  should  educate 
primarily  and  chiefly  for  motherhood. 
“ Girls’  colleges,”   he  remarks,  “ were 
imagined  measurably  out  of  dissatisfac­
tion  with  the  young  ladies’  schools  that 
taught  the  accomplishments;  but  still 
more 
largely  they  arose  from  the  sad 
sense  of  the  necessity,  the  generous  per­
ception  of  the  propriety,  of  qualifying 
girls  to  earn  their  living  with  their 
heads,  since  they  were  too proud  to earn 
it  with  their  hands,  and  seemed  to  have 
a  lessening  chance  to  earn  it  with  their 
hearts.  Now,  when 
that  chance  has 
dwindled  to  the  vanishing  point  for  so 
many  more  of  them,  shall  they  be  bid­
den  to  go  and  get  ready  to  be  married 
as  the  main  end  of  their  education?”

injected  directly 

cases  are  cited  wherein 

About  once  in  so  often  a  sure  cure  for 
consumption  is  discovered,  and  numer­
ous 
it  has 
proved  effective  and  done  all  that  was 
expected  of  it.  Then  after  a  little  while 
it  sinks  out  of  sight  and  the  dread  dis­
ease  keeps  right  on  multiplying  its  vic­
tims.  The 
latest  in  this  line  to  attract 
attention  is  Dr.  W.  G.  Fralick,  of  New 
York,  who  thinks  he  has  found  some­
thing  which  will  not  only cure consump­
tion,  but  every  other  germ  disease,  in­
cluding  pneumonia,  hydrophobia,  chol­
It  is  a  germicidal  fluid  which 
era,  etc. 
is 
into  the  patient’s 
veins,  and  once  it  makes  the  rounds  of 
circulation,  germs  of  every  name  and 
nature  are  dead.  The  New  York  papers 
speak  of  the  discoverer  as  a  reputable 
practitioner  who  makes  a  specialty  of 
surgery. 
It  is  to  be  said  to  his  credit 
that  instead  of  patenting  his  process, 
thus  creating  a  monopoly  of  what,  if  it 
will  do  half  what 
is  claimed  for  it, 
would  make  him  a  fortune,  he  proposes 
to  give  it  outright  to the  profession  for 
genera]  gratuitous  use.  He  claims  to 
have  made  many  practical  experiments 
with  happy  results.  He  is  still  at  work 
attesting  his  remedy  and,  of  course, 
everybody  hopes  it  will  be  entirely  suc­
cessful.  So  many  have  been  the  disap­
pointments  in  this  direction  that  physi­
cians  and  others  will  not  be  too  san­
guine  until  demonstration  has  absolute­
ly  determined  its  efficiency.

Anybody  who  has  tried  to  get  to  a 
Chicago  postoffice  window  to  purchase 
stamps  will  understand  and  sympathize 
with  those  people  who  resorted  to  tun­
neling.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

9

F R E E   PASSES  ON  R A ILR O A D S. 

Every  year  or  so  the  railroad  people 
get  together  and  threaten  to  abolish  the 
free-pass  system  so  generally  in  use 
among  the  various  companies,  despite 
the  prohibitions  of  the  interstate  com­
merce  law  and  many  state  statutes.

The  United  States  interstate  com­
merce  law  prohibits  the  giving  of  trans­
portation  free  to  secure  business,  or as 
a  favor  to  a  heavy  shipper,  when  noth­
ing  of  the  sort  is  given  to  a  less import­
ant  customer.  Many  state 
laws  enact 
that  their  public  officials  shall  not  use 
free  transportation,  the  law  being  based 
on  the  idea  that  such  passes  are 
in  the 
nature  of  bribery  and  corruption.

No  matter  what  degree  of  attention  is 
laws,  the  fact  exists  that 
paid  to  the 
great  number of  passes  for free transpor­
tation  are  yearly 
issued  to  all  sorts  of 
persons.  The  various  companies  have 
been  in  the  habit  of extending free rides 
to the  officials  of  every  other  company, 
and,  under  certain  circumstances, 
to 
even  the  humblest  employes  thereof 

In  many  cases  transportation  is  used 
in  payment  for  debts  or  otherwise  in  a 
business  way.  The  Chicago  Railway 
Review  thinks  that,  while  the  correct 
policy  would  undoubtedly  be  to  cut  ofl 
all  passes  given  for  business  reasons 
there  are  yet  many  men  in  the  railroad 
service  who  assert  the  right  to  buy busi 
ness  and  claim  that  it  can  be  purchased 
with  passes  at  less  cost  to  the  railway, 
than  in  any  other  way.  These  men  can 
issue  passes,  and  so 
long  as  that  is 
possible  they  can  control  the  situation 
Despite  all  the  talk  about  abolish 
ing  free  passes,  the  day  is  very  far  dis 
tant  when  it  will  be  done.  The  rail 
ways  are  constantly  asking  favors  from 
Congress,  from  state 
legislatures,  from 
city  councils,  and  they  are  always  in 
court.  They  would  not  dream  of  with 
drawing  their  favors  from  the  public 
officials  upon  whom  so  much  depends 
It  can  hardly  be  considered  that  publii 
officials  of  any  high  class  could  be 
bribed  with  a  free  pass  on  a  railroad 
and  much 
it  be  suggested 
that  any  judicial  decision  would  be 
affected  by  a  free  pass  on  a  railroad 
but  to  withdraw  a  privilege  that  has 
been  extended  from  the  beginning  al 
most  of  railroads  would  be  construed  as 
a  sort  of  unfriendliness  of  which  the 
railroads  would  not  be  guilty.  What 
ever  may  be  the  rule  with  other  public 
officials  in  the  acceptance  and  use  of 
free  transportation  on  railways,  there  is 
at  least  one  branch  of  the  public  service 
whose officials are above criticism in thi: 
respect.  These  are  the members and em 
ployes  of  the  Interstate  Commerce  Com 
mission.  They  always  pay  their  fares 
These  officials  have  more  business  with 
the  railroads  than  do  any  others,  and 
this  fact  puts  them  above  suspicion

less  could 

A M E R IC A N   AN D   O T H E R   HOGS.

There  are  two  varieties  of  the  Ameri 

can  hog  that  have  become  notorious, 
not  distinguished.  One  sort  is  the  four 
legged  porker  whose  savory  hams  and 
other  important  products  make  up  so 
large  a  portion  of  the  world’s  food.  The 
other  is  the  two-legged  animal  which 
makes  itself  so  odious  by  monopolizing 
with 
its  baggage  and  other  belongings 
the  seats  in  a  railway  car,  and  by  other 
hoggish  and  unbearable  behavior.

It  is  doubtful  if  our  two-legged  hog 
has a rival anywhere,but  the  four-legged 
species  has  to  some  small  extent  in  the 
world's  commerce.

fact  that  hog  products  form  the 
largest  single 
item  in  the  exportations 
of  the  United  States,  having  exceeded

The 

last  year  by  two  million  dollars  those  of 
manufactures  of  iron  and  steel,  whose 
exports  have  attracted  so  much  atten­
tion,  lends  interest to  some  facts  which 
have  just  reached  the  Treasury  Bureau 
of  Statistics  regarding  the  remarkable 
development of the hog-packing industry 
of  Denmark.  This  information  is  pub- 
shed  in  the  Danish  Export  Review, 
and  shows  that  the  number  of  head  of 
swine 
in  Denmark  has  increased  from 
301,000  in  1861  to  771,000  in  1881  and 
,168,000  in  1898,  the  latest  year  for 
which statistics  are  available.  The  pro­
hibition  of  the  importation  of  live  hogs 
nto  Germany  and  the United Kingdom, 
which  countries  were  Denmark’s  prin­
cipal  customers  in  this  line,  resulted  in 
the  establishment  of  slaughter-houses  in 
Denmark  and  the  increase  in  the  pro­
duction  of  Danish  bacon  and  hams  in 
recent  years  has  been  phenomenal.  The 
exports  of  hams  and  bacon  from  Den­
mark  have  grown  from  9,120,000  Dan­
ish  pounds  in  1878 to 129,700,000 Danish 
pounds  in  1898;  the  value  increasing 
from  4,110,000  kroner  in  1878  to 47,080,- 
000  kroner  in  1898,  the  value  of  the 
crown being  26.8c.

formerly 

years.  While 

As  a  consequence  of  the  change  from 
live  swine  to  that  of 
the  export  of 
slaughtered  animals, 
the  slaughter­
houses  have risen  to the  greatest  import 
ance  in  Denmark  during  the  last  ten  or 
tifteen 
the 
slaughter-houses  belonged  to  private  in 
dividuals,  a  large  number of  joint  and 
co-operative  slaughter-houses  have  been 
established  during  this  period.  This 
movement  commenced 
in  1887  on  ac 
count  of  the  German  importation  pro 
hibition  when  it  became  necessary  to 
kill  a  considerable  number  of  swine 
which  were  formerly  sent  to  Germany 
alive.

Since  no  European  country  possesses 
anything  like  the  vast  corn  fields  of  the 
United  States,  in  which  the  best  classes 
of  the  Amercan  hog  are  fattened,  and 
do  not  possess  any  maize  or  American 
corn,  save  small  quantities  which  are 
imported,  the  European  hogs  must  be 
fed  to  a  great  extent  on  slops,  swill  and 
refuse  of  various  sorts,  and  are  more 
apt  to  be  affected  by  the  various  dis 
eases  to  which  hogs  are  liable  than  are 
the 
corn-fed  porkers  of  the  United 
States.  For  freedom  from  such  diseases 
the  American  hog  and  his  products 
should  stand  first  in  the  world.

"likelihood  of 

The  United  States  Department  of  Ag 
riculture  will  have  about  37,000,000 
packages  of  flower  and  vegetable  seeds 
to  distribute  this  winter,  but  this  year 
it  does  not  propose  that  much  of  the 
seed  shall  be  sent  broadcast  or given  a 
chance  to  fall  on  stony  ground.  The 
change  will  more  particularly  apply  to 
the  seeds  of  cotton,  forage  crops  and 
tobacco.  Hitherto  much  of  the  seed  has 
its  way  into  sections  where  there 
found 
was 
little 
its  finding 
its  way  out  of  the  envelopes,  much 
less  being  cultivated  successfully  by  the 
recipients. 
In  the  case  of  tobacco,  the 
seeds  of  the  Sumatra  and  Havana  vari 
eties  will  only  be  sent  to  Florida  and 
certain  parts  of  New  England,  where 
their cultivation  has  been  successfully 
carried  on  under  muslin-covered  sheds 
and  thus  simulating 
tropical  condi 
tions.  Types  of  tobacco  plants  will  be 
sent  to  other sections,  where  the  natural 
conditions  are  conducive  to  their  sue 
cessful  cultivation.

(  Proficiency  proceeds  from  practice 
Bv  working  we  learn  how  to  work. 
In 
ability  is  no  excuse  for  idleness.

W IIX   T H E   PA N -A M ER IC A N   P A T ?
A  question  which  Buffalonians  are 
asking  themselves  about  the  Pan-Amer­
ican  and  answering  quite  extensively 
it  pay?”   As 
in  the  negative  is,  "W ill 
their  great  exposition  approaches 
its 
close  it  is  discouragingly  apparent  that 
the  investors  will  have  no  returns.  Not 
only  will  there  be  no  dividends,  but  no 
principal  coming  back. 
The  money 
paid  for  stock  and  second  mortgage 
bonds 
in  the  show  has  gone,  and  gone 
for  good.  They  will  be  lucky  if  there 
s  not  an  assessment  to  pay  up  the  bal­
ance.  The  managers,  much  as  they  may 
regret  this  state  of  affairs,  can  not  be 
reasonably  blamed  for any  acts  of  omis­
In  the  first  place  the  Pan-Ameri­
sion. 
can 
is  a  splendid  exhibition,  and  in 
the  second  place  no  other  show  of  its 
kind  was  ever  better  advertised.  Even 
more  might  have  been  spent  to  good 
advantage  in  this  direction.  Although 
the  people  came  by  the  hundreds  of 
thousands  from  all  over  the  country, 
they  did  not  come 
in  sufficient  num­
bers  to  balance  the  ledger.

The  Pan-American  has been subjected 
to  a  variety  of  mishaps  and  drawbacks 
which  no  one  could  foresee.  The  month 
of  May  saw  rain  almost  daily,  and  from 
the  first  of  June  until  the  first  of  No 
vember  there  has  been  sufficient  moist 
ure  to  keep  the  lawns  green.  Then  the 
assassination  of  President  McKinley 
bad  a  very  depressing  and 
indeed  dis 
astrous  effect  upon  the  business.  Sep 
tember  was  expected  to  be  the  banner 
month,  and  under  other  circumstances 
the  attendance  would  have  been  much 
larger.  The  real  reason  why  the  Pan 
American  was  not  a  greater  success 
is 
probably  found  in  the  fact  that  Buffalo 
is  not  a  big  enough  city  for  such  an  en 
terprise.  The  show  lacked  the  national 
feature  of  the  World’s  Fair  at  Chicago 
It  savored  more  of  a  municipal  enter 
prise  undertaken  to  boom  a  thrifty  city 
The  attendance  at  Buffalo 
from  the 
large  cities,  such  as  New  York,  Boston 
Philadelphia  and  Chicago,  has  been  by 
no  means  what  was  expected.  New 
Yorkers  in  particular 
felt  that  there 
could  be  nothing  at  a  smaller  town  like 
Buffalo  which  could  not  be  seen  in  the 
metropolis.  The  great  bulk  of  patron 
age  has  come  from  the  smaller  cities 
and  the  rural  districts.  The  show  would 
have  paid  New  Yorkers  for  a  visit,  but 
they  could  not  be  induced  to  take  that 
view  of  it.  Buffalo  failed  to  draw  from 
the  greatest  centers  cf  population.  So 
in  a  sense 
it  was  less  the  fault  of  the 
fair  than  of  its  location.

it  paid. 

The  question  “ Will  it  pay?”   must  be 
answered 
in  the  negative,  certainly  in 
so  far  as  the  enterprise  itself  is  con 
cerned.  Then  the  other  question 
is 
whether  or not  it  has  paid  Buffalonians 
to  make  this  investment,  figuring  in  the 
returns  of  increased  business  and  the 
value  of  the  advertising  it  has  brought 
to  the  city.  Surely  a  great  many  peo 
pie  in  Buffalo  have  made  more  money 
this  season  than 
in  any  previous  two 
years,  and  such  can  safely  say  that  for 
them 
It  is  reported  that  the 
street  railway  system  put  $100,000  into 
the  Pan-American  and that  it  will  make 
ten  times  that  amount  before  the  show 
ends.  One  of  the  big  department 
stores  is  said  to  have  taken  $15,000  of 
the  stock,  and  its  business  this  summer 
has  been  phenomenal,  so  that  the  pro 
prietors  do  not  at  all  regret  their con 
tribution.  These  are  only  examples 
The  regular  hotels  have  coined  money 
and  hundreds  of  thousands  of  dollars 
have  been  taken  in  in  the  aggregate  by 
those  who  opened  their  private  resi

dences  to  lodgers. 
It  has  been  an  an­
noyance  to  such,  but  has  been  profit­
able.  Many  who  went  into  the  hotel  and 
boarding  house  business  extensively  for 
the  fair  alone,  are  heavy  losers. 
It  is 
kely  there  will  not  be  the  reaction  and 
collapse  at  Buffalo  which  followed  the 
World’s  Fair  at  Chicago. 
It  is  under­
stood,  however,  that  there 
is  a  good 
deal  of  dissatisfaction  and  regret  in 
Buffalo,  and  the  experiences  there  will 
prove  an  uncomfortable  and  unhappy 
warning  to  St.  Louis,  which  certainly 
has  no  such  splendid  territory  to  draw 
from  as  that  within  the  200 or  300  mile 
radius  of  the  Pan-American.  There 
is 
reason  to  believe  thht  the  exposition 
business  is  being  overdone.

In 

There  is  a 

lamentable  ignorance  on 
the  part  of  many  people,  and  especially 
young  people,  about  the  duties  and  the 
powers  of  the  minor  as  well  as  the  ma­
jor  offices  in  towns,  cities,  counties  and 
state.  The  subject  is  now  taught  more 
or  less,  but  how  many  children 
in  the 
common  schools  can  tell  at  the  first  ask- 
ng  what  are  the  municipal  offices  of  a 
city  and  what are  the  duties  of  a  mayor, 
an  assessor,  a  supervisor,  an  alderman 
and  a  constable,  or  of  the  several  ward 
offices? 
these  days  of  political 
:quality  clubs,  when  the  women  are 
arguing  for  their  right  to  exercise  the 
elective  franchise,  the  girls  as  well  as 
the  boys  have  need  of  this  information. 
If  they  grow  up understanding the duties 
and  responsibilities  of  the several offices 
they  will  have  a  belter  appreciation  of 
the 
importance  of  putting  good  men 
nto  all  these  places.  The  youths  will 
grow  up  better  citizens 
if  they  are 
taught  the  fundamental  principles  of 
town,  city  state  and  national  govern­
ment. 
It  will  be  answered  that  all 
these  things  already  find  a  place  in  the 
public  school  course.  The  suggestion 
is  that  the  place  is  not  sufficiently  im­
portant,  that  the  pupils  do  not  properly 
appreciate  all  that 
is  involved  in  the 
subject  of  civics.  Without  in  any  sense 
arguing  for  the  introductioh  of  any  par­
ticular  text  book,  the  Tradesman  be- 
ieves  there 
is  room  for  a  strong  plea 
that  this  subject  be  more  generally  and 
in  the 
thoroughly  taught,  particularly 
rural  schools,  where  shortcomings 
in 
this  direction  are  the  more  noticeable. 
The  rising  generation  should  be  edu­
cated  to  a  full  understanding  of  the fun­
damental  questions  upon  which  they 
will  have  to  pass  when  they  reach  the 
voting  period.  There  is  little  danger of 
teaching  civics  too  thoroughly  in  all  the 
public  schools.

Freight  rates  on  railroads  in  the  Brit­
ish  Isles  are  about  four  times  higher 
than  the  rates  on  American 
lines. 
There 
is  a  vigorous  demand  that  they 
shall  be  reduced  and  if  the  demand  is 
complied  with  it  is  predicted  that  there 
will  be  an 
immediate  increase  in  the 
output  of  British  manufactories.  Amer­
ican  railroads  have  a  more  costly equip­
ment  and  pay  better  wages  to  their  em­
ployes  and  yet  earn  bigger dividends on 
smaller charges.  Various  British'  rail­
lately  been  over 
road  managers  have 
here  to  enquire  how  they  miss 
the 
profits  with  all  the  conditions  in  their 
favor.

California  being  a  land  of  fruits  and 
flowers 
is  naturally  also  a  land  of  bees 
and  honey.  The  crop  of  honey  pro­
duced  there  grows 
larger  every  year. 
The  bees  are  kept incessantly busy.  One 
man  has his  hives  on  railroad  cars  and 
moves  them  from  place  to  place,  as  the 
blossoms  of  the  flowers  suggest.

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Dry Goods

W eekly  M ark et  R eview   o f  th e   P rin c ip a l 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons— The  advance  of  % @  
% c  per  yard  on  Fruit  of  the  Loom, 
Lonsdale,  Rivals,  Hope  and  others  is 
the  strongest  evidence  of  the  fundamen­
tal  strength  of  the  market.  Agents  hard­
ly  expected  these  advances  so  soon,  but 
it  was  due  to  the  persistency  of  the buy­
ers  in  demanding  forward  contracts. 
Agents  could  not  guarantee  present 
prices  and,  to  protect  themselves,  made 
these  advances.  These  prices  will  un­
doubtedly  be  followed  by  advances  on 
other 
tickets.  Denims  are  without 
further  change  in  price  but  the  market 
rules  exceptionally  firm  for  all  weights.
Prints  and  Ginghams—The market for 
both  prints  and  ginghams  is  well  sold 
up  and  there  are  remarkably  few  stocks 
to  be  found  of  either  staple  or  fancy 
calicoes,  and  buyers  who  are  in  need 
of  immediate  supplies  find  it  difficult 
to fill  their  wants,  or  even  a  small  por­
tion  of  them.  Blacks  and  whites  and 
grays  are  cleaned  up  and  many  lines 
of  reds  and  checks.  There  are  a  few 
scattered 
lots  of  fancy  prints,  but  they 
are  being  rapidly  taken  up.  Ging­
hams  in  both  staple  and  dress  lines  are 
very  scarce  as  far  as  desirable  patterns 
go.  The  market 
is  therefore  firm  for 
both  prints  and  ginghams.  Fine  grades 
of  wash  fabrics  have  sold  very  well  for 
spring. 
In  a  number  of  cases  it  is  re­
ported  that  next  season’s production  has 
been  already  practically  sold  up.

Dress  Goods— The  past  week  has  not 
been  prolific  in  developments  in  con­
nection  with  the  spring-weight  woolen 
and  worsted  dress  goods.  The  fact  that 
buyers  as  a  rule,  have  gone  a  long  way 
towards  completing  their  initial  selec­
tions  naturally  has  the  effect  of  cutting 
down  the  volume  of  orders  coming  for­
ward  for  forward  delivery.  The  de­
mand  for  lightweight  fabrics is  likely  to 
continue  more  or  less  restricted  until 
the  wholesale  buyer  has  had  an  oppor­
tunity  to test  the  attitude  and  desires  of 
his  trade.  From  the  outset of the  season 
it  has  been  evident  that  buyers  were  not 
altogether  free  from  doubt  as  to  the 
comparative  promises  and  possibilities 
of the  various  fabrics.  The  buyer  has 
operated  in  a  fairly  liberal  manner  on 
staple  goods,  but  it  has  been 
liberality 
tempered  with  conservatism.  There  has 
been  no  unusual  rush,  no  plunging  in 
the  buyers’  operations,  and it is the  gen­
eral  belief that  the  orders  as  placed  will 
be  undisturbed.  The  manner  in  which 
they  are  to  be  augmented  will  depend 
on  the  stand  taken  by  the 
retailer. 
Everything  points  to  a  season  of  popu­
lar  demand  on  staple  cloth  effects  re­
lieved  by  a  good-sized  business  on 
diaphanous  fabrics  of  the  single  yam 
variety  for  evening  and  house  wear. 
There  has  been 
in  the  develop­
ments  of  the  market  to  date  which  can 
be  interpreted  as  distinctly  favorable  to 
the  manufacturer  of  fancy  goods.  While 
business  has  been  done  on  both  domes­
tic and  foreign  novelties,  it has not  been 
on  goods  of  a  striking character,  and the 
true  possibilities  of  this  branch  of  the 
business  are not clearly disclosed.  There 
are  fabrics  bordering  on  the  fancy  on 
which  fair  business  has  been  done.  For 
instance,  worsted  pin  stripes  have  been 
bought  in  a  careful  way  by  garment 
makers  and  for  sale  across  the  counter. 
Some  business  has  been  reported  on 
cotton  and  worsted  plaids,  but  the  gen­
eral  opinion  is  not  favorable  to  plaids.
Carpets— The  tone  of the  carpet  mar­
ket  from  now  up  to  the  middle  of  No-

little 

vember  will  not  be  likely  to  show  any 
material  change.  No  new  business  is 
being  done,  as  this  is  a  between-sea- 
sons  period.  Really  nothing  will  be 
done  in  thé  way  of  getting  orders  until 
the 
large  Eastern  mills  formally  open 
the  season,  as  has  been  the  case  in  past 
years.  This  opening  is  expected  to  oc­
cur  sometime  in  the  early  part  of  No­
vember,  but  just  when  no  outsiders  will 
know  for  some  time  yet.  At  present 
mills  are  overhauling  what machinery  is 
idle  and  getting  what 
supplies  are 
needed  for the  new  season.  As  a  rule, 
however,  mills  are  well  employed  on 
duplicates  for  fall  orders  and  many 
manufacturers  will  find,  little  time  to 
make  repairs  before  the  new  spring  sea­
son  will  be  upon  them  with  a  rush. 
In 
Philadelphia,  however,  where  the  bulk 
of  the  goods  made  are 
ingrains,  the 
business  of  the  past  month  or two  has 
been  so  dull  that  manufacturers  are 
nearly  all  at  this  writing,  ready  to  be­
gin  on  spring  goods.  While  it  is  true 
that  even  the  manufacturer  himself  does 
not  know  what  next  season’s  prices 
will  be,  it  can  be  fairly  assumed  that 
prices  will  show  no  reduction  over those 
of  the  past  season.  With  the  present 
strong  position  of  wool  and  wool* pro­
ductions,  there  is  every  reason  why  an 
advance  should  be  made. 
It  remains 
to  be  seen,  however,  what  the  “ b ig”  
carpet  corporations  will  do,  and  if  their 
prices  are  quoted  so  low  as  to  be  dis­
tasteful  to  the  smaller  manufacturer,  he 
must  nevertheless  grin  and  bear  it.  The 
prospects  are  that  the  big  Eastern  mills 
feel  the  strength  of  the  wool  and  other 
markets  as  keenly  as  do  their  small 
competitors,  and  it is  generally  believed 
about  the  trade  that  the  next  season’s 
prices  will  show the true situation.  Phil­
adelphia  ingrain  carpet  yarn  spinners 
want  3@5c  more  this  season than  last  on 
account  of  the  corresponding advance  in 
wool  and  orders  to some extent are being 
taken  on that basis.  Spinners  are  all,  as 
a  rule,  firm,  and 
it  will  be  no  fault  of 
their  own  if  prices  of  yarn  should  show 
a  weak  spot.  Worsted  carpet  yarn  spin­
ners  are  not  placed 
in  a  position  yet 
where  they  can  take  orders  for  next 
spring’s  goods,  but  it  is  generally -  be­
lieved  that  the  new  prices  will  show  a 
much  larger  advance  than  those  on 
in­
grain  yarns.  Three-quarter  goods  mills 
are  still  devoting  the  bulk  of  their  ma­
chinery  to  duplicate  fall  orders,  but 
some  time  is  given  to  samples  for  the 
new  season.  Some  mills  have  prepara­
tions  all  made  to  make  the  new  lines, 
but  are  waiting  for  the  Smith  and  other 
large  manufacturers  to  make  the  prices. 
While  the  majority  of  the  Philadelphia 
ingrain  mills  are 
idle,  awaiting  the 
opening  of  the  new  season,  there  are  a 
few  who  are  working  on  duplicate  or­
ders  to  a  more  or  less  extent.  Those 
mills  which  are  running  are  in  most 
cases  those  which  turn  out  the  better 
grade  of  goods,  such  as  the  all-wool  in­
grains  and  tbree-plys.  When  the  Hart­
ford  and  Bigelow  companies  open  up 
their  lines,  some  new  business  can  be 
expected  to  be  done.

Smyrna Rugs— Rug  manufacturers  are 
enjoying  a  very  healthy  demand  for 
their  products  at  the  present  time,  with 
good, prospects  of  a  long  continued spell 
of  good  business.  Some  very  fine  de­
signs  are  being  shown  in  Smyrna  rugs, 
which  are  attracting  the  whole  buying 
public.  Wilton  rugs  are  also  in  very 
good  request.

On  November  5  the  price of American 
shirting  prints  will  be  advanced  to  4 
cents.  Until  then  we  will  sell  what  is 
in  stock  at  3#  cents.  Send  in  your or­
ders  early. 

P.  Steketee  &  Sons.

Much  of the  money  that  England 

is 
spending  on  account  of  the  war in South 
Africa  comes  to  the  United  States,  for 
here  a  large  amount  of  the  supplies  is 
purchased.  Nearly  all  the  horses  and 
mules  used 
in  the  army  are  bought  in 
this  country.  Great quantities  of  food 
products  are  also  taken  from  the  Ameri­
can  markets.  So  in  a  way  the war might 
be  considered  a  benefit  to  the  United 
States.  That,  however,  is  not  the  case. 
The  war 
is  a  detriment  to American 
trade 
in  manufactured  goods,  the  de­
mand  for  which  has  decreased  on  ac­
count  of  the  disturbances  in  South  Af­
rica. 
It  is  a  rich  country,  and  Ameri­
cans  are  much  interested  in  its  develop­
ment.  Activities  of  all  kinds  have 
been,  to  a 
large  extent,  discontinued 
pending  a  decisive  result  of  the  hostili­
ties,  which  have  been  protracted beyond 
all  anticipations.  The  British  army  in 
South  Africa  is  composed  of  over  200,- 
000  men,  the  largest  force  of  red-coats 
ever  engaged 
in  a  foreign  war.  The 
Boers  are  only  a  handful,  but  their ca­
pacity  for  fighting 
is  apparently  un­
limited,  and  nobody  is  able  to  prophesy 
when  their  resistance  will  be  overcome.

The  secret  of  American  inventiveness 
has  been  discovered  by  an  Englishman. 
It  is  due  to  our  patent  laws.  He  wants 
England  to  adopt  them  and  thus  stop 
English  inventive  genius  from  coming 
to  this  country.  American  inventions 
are  of  course  protected  by  patent  laws; 
but  it  is  rare  that  an  inventor  reaps  the 
full  reward  due  his  genius.  Necessity 
is  truly  the  mother  of  invention  here. 
Americans  invent  things  because  they 
can  not  help  doing  so.  They  are  in­
ventors  by  nature.

There 
Is
Every 
Indi­
cation
that  the  sale  of  the  shaped 
muffler  will  be  greater  than 
last  season. 
The  patterns 
are  pretty  and  values  much 
better.  W e  have  a  big  as­
sortment.  Prices:

$4.50  to  $7.00 
per  dozen.

We  also 
show  something 
new— a  muffler  for  the  little 
“ little  fellow.”   Price:

$4.00 
per dozen.

All  orders  by  mail  receive 
prompt attention.

Voigt,  Herpolsheimer & Co.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Em a i  
O R £ > £ £ 5

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Just  Arrived

A  big  line  of  Silk,  Linon  and  Cotton  Handker­

chiefs  for ladies and gents.

Silk  Handkerchiefs  ranging  in  price  from  $1  to 

$4.50 per dozen.

Linon Handkerchiefs from $1.25 to $3 per dozen. 
Cotton Handkerchiefs from  12 cents to $1.25  per doz. 
Now is the time to  make  your  selection  for  Xmas 

trade.  Come in and inspect our  line.

P.  Steketee & Sons

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T H A T ’S  —

P. M. C. Coffee

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Irish  flax  is  good,  but  other  countries 
In  fact,  Ireland  imports 
raise  as  good. 
flax  used 
about  seven-eighths  of  the 
there  from  Russia,  which 
is  the  great 
flax  producer  of  the  world.  Belgium, 
Germany,  Italy,  all  go  to  Russia  for 
flax,  but  in  many 
localities  throughout 
Europe  small  quantities  of  flax  are 
grown  which 
in  quality  surpass  any­
thing  that  Russia  has  to offer.  The  fin­
est  flax  of  the  world  is  raised  around 
Courtrai,  and 
is  from  Courtrai  flax 
that  the  most  exquisite  of  the  cobweb 
handkerchiefs 
in  which  women  delight 
are  made.  But  the  Courtrai  flax  is  too 
fine  to  be  spun  in  Belgium,  and  almost 
all  of  it  goes  to Ireland  to  be  spun  there 
and  reshipped.

it 

There 

is  another  linen  besides  the 
plain  white  linen  stuff  in  which  Ireland 
In  the  cheaper  grades 
leads  the  world. 
of  hand-embroidered 
linen,  hand  em­
broidered  for  the  masses,  Ireland  has 
everything  her own  way.  The  work  has 
been  going  on  there  for  hundreds  of 
years  and  no  other country  can  compete 
with  Ireland  successfully  at  it. 
In  a 
certain  kind  of  hand  embroidery  the 
French  are  past  masters, but  embroidery 
costs  in  France  twice  what  it  does  in 
Ireland,  and  the  cheap  grades  of French 
embroidery  will  not  bear  comparison 
with  the  Irish.

When 

it  comes  to  fancy  linens,  col­
ored  damasks, 
linen  elaborately  bor­
dered,  embroidered,  hemstitched,  etc., 
Germany and Austria have their innings. 
Leaving  white  damask  out of  the  ques­
tion,  although  beautiful  white  damask 
is  woven  in  both  Germany  and  Austria, 
all  of  what  wholesale  dealers  call  the 
ultra  fine  linens  are  from  these  two 
countries,  and  most  of  them  come  from 
Silesia.  All  of  both  German  and  Aus­
tria  Silesia 
is  given  over  to  the  linen 
industry. 
It  has  always  been  so.  Back 
in  the  middle  ages  the  linen  weavers  of 
Silesia  were  turning  out  goods  quite  as 
fine  as  those  they  produce  now.

The  work 

The  land  is  unspeakably  barren  and 
poor.  For  centuries  linen  has  kept  the 
whole  population  alive,  although  the 
money  earned  by  a  weaver  seems hardly 
enough  to  keep  the  breath 
in  anyone  s 
is  done  on  hand 
body. 
linen  weaving  is 
looms,  as  the  finest 
done  everywhere,  even 
in  this  day  of 
improved  machinery,and  the  grim  Teu­
tonic  patience  of  the  workers  has  given 
them  control  of  the  market  for  tedious, 
intricate  work.  Every  girl  grows  into 
a  linen  weaver, inheriting  the  traditions 
of  generations  before  her;  and,  for  a 
possible  $2  a  week  she  works  away  with 
infinite  patience  year  after  year,  on 
fancy  colored  table 
elaborate 
towels,  bureau  scarfs,  tray  cloths,  etc:

linen, 

Many  of  the  designs  used  by  the 
workers  to-day  were  used  by  their  an­
cestors  centuries  ago.  The  three  cres­
cents  intertwined,  which 
is  a. favorite 
Silesian  pattern,  is  the  crest  of  the  old 
dukes  of  Poictiers,  and  many  feudal 
coats  of  arms  and  insignia  are  woven 
into  the  linens  for modern homes.  Many 
of  the  dyes,  too,  are  the  same  that  were 
in  the  middle  ages,  but  modern 
used 
taste  has 
led  to  the  introduction  of  a 
host  of  new  tints  and  shades,  all  of 
which  are  warranted  fast  colors  and 
handled  with  consummate  art.

The  American  woman  whc  buys  a 
blue  and  white  German  damask  break­
fast  cloth 
for,  say,  $6,  seldom  realizes 
that  every  thread  of  that  cloth  with  its 
intricate  design,  which 
is  the  same  on 
both  sides,  and its  elaborate  border,  was 
woven  on  a  hand  loom  by  some  woman 
across  the  water,  and  the  fact  that,  after 
including  the  cost  of  shipping  and 
handling  a  50  per  cent,  customs  duty 
and  the  profits  of  manufacture,  whole­
sale  and  retail  dealers,  the  cloth  can  be 
bought  for  that  amount  gives  one  har­
rowing  ideas  of  the  value  of  hand  labor 
in  some  parts  of  the  civilized  world.

There  are  some  domestic  linens,  but 
they  are,  for  the  most  part,  nearer  a 
mercerized  cotton  than  linen,  and  it  is 
only  necessary  to  lay  them  beside  Sil­
esian  colored  damask  to  see  the  infinite 
superiority of  the  product  of  the  country 
where  linen  is  a  tradition.

linen 

In  Russia,  although  flax 

is  every­
where,  no  fine 
is  woven.  The 
chief  manufactured  linen  exported  from 
Russia  is  in  the  shape  of  coarse  kitchen 
towels.  And,  apropos  of  towels,  al­
though  vastly  different  from  those  pro­
duced  in  Russia,  Italy  sends  out  fancy 
huck  towels  which  are  the  most  ex­
pensive 
in  the  market.  Their  value  is 
due,  not  to the  quality  of  the  linen,  al­
though  that  is  fair,  but  to the  wonderful 
elaborateness  of  the  knotted  fringes 
which,  in  some  cases,  are  a  yard  long. 
Such  towels  are  not  adapted  for  serv­
ice,and  are the  despair of  the  laundress, 
but  the  fringe  is  a  work  of  genius,  and 
nothing 
it  is  produced  anywhere 
else  in  the  world.  Even 
in  Italy  the 
fringe  knot  is  rapidly  becoming  a  lost 
art,  and  the  time  will  probably  come 
when  these  guest  room  towels,  now  sold 
for  possibly  $10 or $12  apiece,  will  be 
worth  many  times  that  amount.

like 

Mexico  and  Japan  have  unique  places 
linen  goods  field  on  account 
in  the 
of  their  drawn  work 
linens,  but  the 
Mexican  linen is poor  in quality  and  the 
work 
inferior  to  that  of  the 
Japanese,  which  is  done  upon  the  Jap­
anese  grass  linen.

is  much 

Up  to  the  present  day  the linen indus­

try  has  cut 
little  figure  in  the  United 
States,  but  it  is  growing,  and  machine- 
woven 
linens  will  doubtless  be  pro­
duced  in  great  quantities  here  in  the 
course  of  time.  The  cost  of  labor  in 
this  country  will  prevent  competition 
in  the  hand  woven  goods,  but  the  do­
mestic  output  of  the  cheaper  grades  of 
linen  is  increasing  each  year.

industry 

The  yarn  for  this 

is  im­
ported.  America 
is,  next  to  Russia, 
the  greatest  flax-growing  country  in  the 
world, but  our  flax  is  raised  for  its  seed, 
and  goes 
into  oil.  Experiments  have 
been  made  with  a  view  to  utilizing 
its 
fibre  for  linen  manufacture,  but  it  has 
been  found  that  the  growth  of  American 
flax 
It 
matures  too  quickly  to  produce  a  fine 
fibre.— N.  Y.  Sun.

is  too  rapid  for  that  purpose. 

An  E xpression  P ecu liar  to   th e   South. 

From the Washington Post.

“ My  opinion  of  the  business  instinct 
of  Washingtonians  has  increased greatly 
since  I  came  here, ”   says  a  Louisiana 
woman  who  has  just  come  to  make  her 
home  here,  “ but  I  can’t  say  as  much 
for  my  trust  in  their  straightforward­
ness.  Yesterday  my  little  girl  went  to 
the  grocery  store  with  her  mammy,  and 
after  they  had  bought  quite  a  lot  of sup­
plies  the  little  girl  said  something  that 
the  clerk  did  not  catch.

“   What  does  she  want?’  he  asked 

mammy.

plained.

“   ‘ She  wants  lagniappe,’  mammy  ex­

“ The  clerk 

looked  puzzled,  but  he 

wasn’t  going  to  confess  it.

“   ‘ I’ll  see 

if  we  have  it,’  he  said. 
‘ Was  there  any  particular make or brand 
you  wanted?’
ference  with  the  proprietor,  he  said :

“ And  when  he  returned  from  a  con­

“   ‘ No,  little  girl, .we  are  all  out  of 
lagniappe  this  morning, 
I’m  sorry  to 
say,  but  we’re  expecting  some  in  every 
day.’
“  He  really  didn’t  know  what  lagni­
appe 
is,  but  he  made  a  bold  bluff. 
Lagniappe?  You  don’t  know  what  it 
is?  Why,  where  were  you  raised? 
It’s 
what  the  shopkeeper  gives  you  when 
you’ve  bought  something. 
It’s  a  stick 
of  candy  or  an  apple  or  a  banana  or 
something  like  that,  just  thrown 
in  by 
way  of  compliment.  Lagniappe!  Why, 
every  Southern  child  asks  for  lagniappe 
when 
is  sent  to  a  shop.  But  figure 
to  yourself  that  that  grocer’s  clerk  had 
never  heard  of  it,  but  wouldn’t  own up! 
Where  were  you  all  raised?’ ’

it 

A t  th e   B u ria l  o f a   Dog.

men

Small friend, of faithful heart and liquid eyes, 

We give thee to our Mother Earth again.
And  thank  thee  (or  thy  friendship.  We  are 

Who pride ourselves that we are very wise;
We throw our glances upward to the  skies.

Yet can not tell what death Is.  Even when 
Thy little spark of life escapes our ken.
We’re left to grope in sad ana blind surmise. 
Dear dead companion!  Would that thou could’st 

know

W hat human tears are shed above thy grave! 
How human-Uke we felt thy love to  be!
A rthur  Ransom.

W H E R E   L IN E N   IS   H A D E .

P rices  A re  Dp  and  th e   D esigns  o f  R are 

R ean ty .

The  girl  who  has  to  buy  her  trousseau 
this  year  is  in  hard  luck,  if  money  is  a 
scarce  article  with  her.  Her  household 
linen  will  cost  her  a  pretty  penny,  and 
if  there 
is  one  thing  upon  which  the 
normal  woman  refuses  to  economize, 
that  thing  is  linen.

For  several  years  the  prices  of  table 
linen,  towels,  etc.,  have  been  steadily 
rising,  and  this  season  finds  them  high­
er than  ever.  Yet,  for the  first  time  in 
four  years,  the  merchants  say  the  linen 
trade  is  booming.  For  three  successive 
seasons  scarcity  of  flax  has  kept  prices 
up  and  buyers  have  waited  for a  de­
cline.  Now  prices  are  still  up,  but  the 
need  of  the  buyers  has  become  urgent, 
and  so  the  trade  rolls  merrily  along.

The  girl  who  has  a 

linen  chest  is 
proof  against  the  vagaries  of  the  linen 
market  when  she  comes  to  the  point  of 
It  is 
marrying  and  furnishing  a  house, 
a  pity  that  the  trousseau  chest  idea 
is 
not  more  popular  in  America,  for  it  is 
one  foreign  custom  well  worth  importa­
tion.  Once  in  a  while  even  here,  a  sen­
sible  mother  does  start  a  linen  chest  for 
her  daughter,  and,  although,  at 
io the 
child  probably  does  not  see  the  beauty 
of  fine  napkins  and  would  prefer  a  doll 
to  the  handsomest  of  tablecloths,  later 
in 
life  she  will  rise  up  and  call  the 
mother  blessed.

There  was  never  a  time  when  damask 
was  lovelier  than  it  is  now.  The  qual­
ity  has  not  improved;  at  least  the  fin­
est  damask  is  no  finer  than  it  was  cen­
turies  ago,  but  new  designs  appear  each 
season, and  many  of  the  modern  designs 
are  very  beautiful.  For  all  white  dam­
ask  Ireland  and  France  hold  the  palm. 
One  hears  more  of  Belfast  linen  than  of 
French  linen,  and  the  plain  linen  cloth 
woven  in  Ireland  is  perhaps  the  best  in 
the  world.  But  when  it  comes  to  figured 
damask  the  quality  of  the  French 
linen 
equals  that  of  the  Irish,  and  the  prov­
erbial  French  genius  for artistic  design­
ing  produces  marvelous  results.

Ireland  has  an  advantage  over  France 
in  her  climate,  and  that  same  moist  cli­
mate  has  enabled  her to  keep  her  place 
in  the  linen  industry  of  the  world.  But 
France  overcomes  that  difficulty  by  im­
porting  Irish  yarn,  or 
in  many  cases 
sending 
its  own  flax  to  Ireland  to  be 
spun  into  yarn  there  and  shipped  back 
to  France. 
In  order  to  spin  very  fine 
linen  yarn  the  threads  of  the  flax  must 
be  kept  moist.  Continental  manufactur­
ers  have  tried  to  manage  this  problem 
by  providing  artificial  moisture  in  the 
factories,  but  nothing  quite  equals  the

Bigger  Box. 
Same  Price.

IMPROVED  QUALITY

Liquid— 
Best  Yet! 
Fire  Proof!!

Dealers:— September  1st we commenced the sale  of  our  new packages 
of F N A M E L I N 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.

W e   h a v e   appropriated $200,000  FOR  ADVERTISIN G   the  coming  year, 

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

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

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

If  you

.  L.  P R E S C O TT  <&  C O .,  NEW   YO R K .

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Shoes and . Rubbers

R etu rn e d   G oods  O ne  o f  th e   R esu lts  o f 

L ate  B uying.

The  present  season  has  witnessed  the 
return  of  more  goods  than  at  any  period 
during  the  last  decade.  Thousands  of 
cases  have  been  returned  to  the  manu­
facturers  and 
jobbers  by  retail  mer­
chants,  with  the  excuse  that  they  were 
not  up  to sample.  Few  retail  merchants 
appreciate  the  fact  that  the  fault  lies 
solely  with  themselves,  and  that  they 
should  be  censured  for  receiving  these 
unsatisfactory  shoes,  as  well  as  the  man 
to  whom  they  gave  the  original  orders. 
During  the  early  part  of  the  season 
many  retail  merchants,  being  nervous 
about  the  condition  of  the  market,  were 
not  willing  to  take  chances  and  order 
with  the  same  freedom  which  they  have 
in  previous  years.  Their stock  was  en­
tirely  depleted  before  they  even  placed 
any  orders  for  delivery  the  consequence 
being  that  the 
ink  was  not  dry  on  the 
order  blank  before  they  were  clamoring 
for shipment  of  their  goods.

Men  who  make  any  pretense  of  being 
shoemakers  know  full  well  that  shoes 
can  not  be  turned  out  on  one  or  two 
days'  notice,  and  they  are  also  aware 
of  the  fact  that  theirs  is  not  the  only  or­
der  in  the  works.  And  yet  knowing 
that  these  conditions  were  so,  dealers 
held  off  their  orders  until  the  very  last 
moment,  and  when  placing  same  they 
did  not  ask  the  salesmen  when  they 
could  have  the  goods,  but  in  the  course 
of  two  or 
three  weeks  began  send­
ing  letters  to  the  manufacturer  request­
ing 
shipment.  They  not 
only  expected  the  goods  within  that 
time,  but  they  also  were  so  unreason­
able  as  to  reject  those  that  were  not  up 
to  the  grades  which,  in  other  seasons, 
they  had  given 
the  manufacturers 
twelve  and  fourteen  weeks  to  make. 
This  is  manifestly  unfair,  and 
if  the 
mistake 
is  on  the  dealers'  part  they 
ought  to  bear  the  blame,  no  matter  what 
the  cost  might  be.

immediate 

Manufacturers  do  not  make  such 
large  profits  on  their  product  that  they 
can  afford  to  have  this  wholesale  return 
of  goods,  especially  when  the  fault  is 
If  the  merchants  had 
not  their  own. 
purchased  sample 
lots  of  shoes  from 
some  manufacturer  or  jobber  with whom 
they  had  no  account,  no  doubt 
they 
would  have  kept  them  and  placed  them 
in  stock,  blaming  only  themselves  for 
the  slip  they  had  made.  But  because 
they  realize  that  the  manufacturer  can 
not  afford  to  lose  their  account  they  im­
pose  upon  him  by  rejecting goods which 
very  often  can  not  be  sold  to  other  mer­
chants,  owing  to their  individual  names 
or trade  marks  being  worked  in  the  top 
facing  or  stamped  on  the  soles.

The  worst  feature  of  this  is  that  many 
of  the  returned  goods  are  so  little 
in­
ferior  to  the  ordinary  standard  that  it  is 
difficult  to  discover  the  difference,  and 
it  is  ridiculous  to think  that  a  shoeman 
can  be  so  narrow-minded  as  not  to  give 
the  benefit  of  the  doubt  to  the  manu­
facturer  at  this  season  of  the  year  and 
keep  the  goods,  especially  when  he 
needs  them  so  badly.  By  returning 
shoes  on  so  slight  a  pretext  a  merchant 
is  simply  standing 
in  his  own  light. 
This  hypocritical  spirit  is  unprofitable, 
and  the  sooner  shoe  men  realize  it the 
better  it  will  be  for them.

The  sentiments  expressed  do  not  al­
together  exonerate  shoe  manufacturers, 
who,  knowing  all  of  these  diversities, 
have  allowed  their  salesmen  to  go  along 
taking  order  after  order,  when  they

were  aware  that 
it  was  utterly  impos­
sible  for  them to  turn  them  out  on  time. 
Salesmen  have  promised  shoes  to  mer­
chants  this  year  on  an  unreasonably 
short  notice,  and  this 
in  view  of  the 
fact  that  they  then  had  in  their  pockets 
letters  of  complaint  from  old  customers, 
claiming  they  were  six  and  eight  weeks 
behind  with  their  orders.

This  bad  policy  sooner  or  later  is 
bound  to  react  upon  the  manufacturers 
who continually  fill  their  desks  with  or­
ders  far  in  excess of  their output.  Shoe 
merchants  place  their  orders  so  close  to 
the  season  nowadays  that  they  can  not 
afford  to  do  business  with  men  who  are 
unable  to  ship  on  time,  and  if  they  are 
disappointed  once  they  will  not  order 
from  the  same  house  a  second  time.

One  or  two  of  the  more  conservative 
houses  have  called  their  salesmen  in 
from  the  road,  and 
in  this  way  they 
have  averted  the  storm  which  is  now 
hovering  over  the  heads  of  so  many.  In 
some  instances  they  have  refused 
large 
accounts  from  concerns  with  whom  they 
have  not  done  business  before,  giving 
as  an  excuse  that  they  are  unable  to  fill 
orders  which  they  have  on  hand  and 
in 
any  way  do  justice  to  their  old  custom­
ers.

This 

Shoe  merchants  must  not  be  too  un­
reasonable. 
is  an  exceptional 
year.  Manufacturers  can  not  secure 
help.  The  demand  for  shoes  is  stronger 
than  in  many  years  past,  and  every  one 
must  suffer  in  consequence.— Shoe  Re­
tailer.

To  W h a t  E x te n t  Is   th e   J o b b e r to  B lam e ?
“ Speaking  of  samples,”   said  a  Bos­
ton  jobber,  “ why don’t  you  get  after  the 
jobbers  who  order  first  grade  finishes  on 
the  samples  for  their  second  and  third 
grade  lines?  Their  action  has  forced the 
trade  generally  to  do  the  same  and  so 
we  have  the  system  of  samples  that  do 
not  sample. ”

“ But  why  do  you  locate  the  blame  on 

the  jobbers?"

“ Well,”   was  the  reply,  “ to  my  mind 
the 
jobbers  or  some  of  them  had  an 
idea  that  the  fine  finishes  would  be  a 
great  help 
to  the  salesmen  because 
neither  the  average  salesman  nor  the 
average  dealer  is  a  good  judge  of  qual­
ity  or  materials.  The 
jobber  is  sup­
posed  to  be  and  usually  is  better  in­
formed,  and 
in  dealing  with  the  job­
bers  the  manufacturers  could  not  afford 
to take  any  chances  of  misrepresenting. 
Some  over  spiart  jobbers  when  placing 
orders  give  specific  instructions  for  the 
samples  with  a  view  to  making  them 
more  attractive.  Then,  of  course,  sales­
men  from  other  houses  must  meet  the 
competition  with  equally  good-looking 
samples  and  so  it goes through the whole 
trade.”

“ But  do  the  jobbers  or  manufacturers 

either gain  anything  by  this  policy?"

it 

lose. 

“ On  the  contrary 

If  the  average  dealer 

is  certain  that 
they 
is 
shown  the  grades  at  say $i,  $2  and  $3 
with  so  little  difference  in  the  samples 
that 
it  takes  an  expert  to  pick  out  the 
best,  the  order  will  naturally  be  given 
for  the  $1  grade.  When  the  goods  ar­
rive  there  will  be  dissatisfaction  and 
possibly  returns  and  there  will  be  more 
trouble  when  the  wearers  are  heard 
from. 
If  the  samples  were  taken  from 
the  cases  in  each  line  the  difference 
in 
the  grades  would  be  so  apparent  that 
the  buyers  would  see  the  advantage  of 
the  better  grades  and  order  accord­
ingly.  As  it  is  now  a  good  salesman 
who  aims  to  hold  bis  customers  is  care­
ful  to  explain  that  the  samples  are

A Boys and Youths Shoe for Service
There  are  absolutely  no 
seams  in  these  shoes to rip. 
They  are  made of  Woelfel 
Leather  Co.’s  waterproof 
seal  grain,  soft and  pliable 
and  solid as a rock.
Boys, 2
to 5^,  a t .. .$1.25 
Youths,  11  to 2,  a t .. ..  1.15

GEO.  H.  REEDER &  CO.

28 and  30  South  Ionia  Street,  Qrand  Rapids,  Mich.
We  Make  a  Line  of  Goodyear  Welts

at

$2.00
$2.25
$2.50

Bradley  &  Metcalf  Co.

Manufacturers  and Jobbers  of Shoes and  Rubbers, 

Milwaukee,  Wis.

The Stamp of Approval

When  good  old  reliable  merchants 
buy our own  make shoes year  in  and 
year  out,  buy  them  over  and  over 
again and  keep right on buying them, 
that  shows  the  Stamp  of  Approval.

H erold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

Makers  of  Shoes,
Grand  Rapids,

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

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

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

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out  of  ten 
is  willing  to  pay  it  or he 
would  not  have  asked  for  that  style. 
But  if  your  display  is  not  pleasing  to 
the  eye,  he  comes 
in  and  asks  to  be 
shown  some  shoes.  You  then  make  a 
display  for his  especial  benefit,  and  do 
the  same  for each  and  every  prospective 
customer,  probably  never  realizing  that 
the  time  it  takes  to  make  this  display 
two  or  three  times  would  make  a  dis­
play  which  would  answer  for  nearly  all 
customers.

Consider also  the  relative  value of  the 
me  during  which  the  work  on  the  dis­
is  done.  The  showcase  and  the 
plays 
for 
table  and  window  which  answer 
every  one  are  worked  out  when  no_  one 
in  a  hurry  to  see  them;  the  individ­
ual  display  is  made  while  it  is  waited 
for,  and  often  when  another  customer  is 
waiting  for  another display.  It  will  thus 
be  seen  that  not  only 
is  much  time 
saved,  but  it  is  saved  when  it  is  most 
needed  and  valuable—when  customers 
are  waiting.

Then  comes  the  question  of  cost. 
Good  outside  cases  can  be  bought  for 
$10  and  up,  and  cases  for  inside  use 
should  be  a  little  finer  and  cost  a  little 
more.  Suppose  you  invest  $50  or  $60 
in  two outside  and  one  inside  cases. 
It 
s  not  bard  to  see that it  will not  be  long 
until  they  have  paid  for  themselves  by 
helping  wait  on  customers,  thus  saving 
some  clerk’s  hire,  perhaps,  and  at  least 
saving some sales which otherwise  might 
be  lost.
It  is  also  obvious  that  the  cases  will 
bring  trade  you  otherwise  would  not 
have  secured,  and  soon  pay  for them 
selves  in  this  way.  Strangers  in  your 
town  needing  shoes  will  naturally  go 
where  there  is  the  largest  and  most  at 
tractive  display.  That 
is  where  the 
outside  cases  justify  their  cost.
Then  when  two  friends  come 

in  and 
intends  to  buy,  the  other, 
only  one 
while  waiting,  is  very  apt  to 
into 
the  case  and  see  something  that pleases 
and 
if  the  sale  is  not  made  then  it  is 
likely  to be  a  little  later.

look 

the  new  styles.  You  may  not  make 
sale  at the  time,  but  you  may  rest  as­
sured  that  when  shoes  are  needed  your 
place  of  business  will  be  remembered. 
This  should  be  the  object  of  every  bar- 
in  sale  and  not  to  sell  things  cheap.

The  Celebrated 

“lone”  Shoe  for  Men

M y  N eighbor.

Our domiciles stand side by side,
My trees their cooling shadows throw 
And often, when she saunters forth 
I  watch to catch her eye, but all 

With but a step between.
Across her plat of green:
To view her snug domain,
My scheming is in vain.

She will not look at me; perhaps 
That I should stand beneath my tree 
Or. if she turns my way at all,
That makes me wonder at my gall 

She thinks It is a sin 
And drink earth’s beautieslin;
’Tis with a glassy stare 
For being anywhere.

She moves majestically along—
That is, as best she may:
For she is neither tall nor fair 
And just a trifle gray:
I fancy she was pretty in 
The dim,  dim. long ago.
But  now—ah,  what matters it?
She holds me as her foe.

Sometimes I think how ’twould be 
To dwell in concord sweet.
To nod and smile as neighbors do, 
Whene’er we chance to meet;
But, ah! alas, I know ’tis vain, 
we never can be friends—
She cultivates a garden, and 
And I keep a flock of  hens.

xty-six  miles. 

The  Great  Northern  Railway 

is  to 
utilize  streams 
in  the  Cascade  Moun 
tains  to  develop  electric  power  to  oper 
ate 
its  trains  over  a  section  of  its  route 
in  the  State  of  Washington  covering 
It -  was  originally  in 
tended  to  use  electricity  only  for  short 
it  is  found  to 
grades  and  tunnels,  but 
longer  distances 
be  practicable 
to  the 
There  is  no 
power  that  may  be  developed 
in  these 
it  is  predicted 
mountain  streams,  and 
that  electricity  may  wholly 
supplant 
steam  in  that  region.

limit,  it  is  said, 

for 

Velour  and  Vici  Kid  Stock.  Re­

tails  at  $2.50.

The Western Shoe Co., Toledo, Ohio

Distributors

made  for  show  samples  and  are  not  real 
samples  of  the  goods.”

“ How  about the  samples  of  the  man­

ufacturers  selling  direct?"

“ There 

is  less  trouble  with  them  be­
cause  such  manufacturers  sell  mostly  in 
the  better  grades  and  there  can  be  but 
little  difference  in  the  quality  although 
there  may  be  some  extras  or  a  little 
more  care 
in  the  details  of  the  finish.
. The  trouble  with  the  jobbers  that  they 
have 
in  a  great  measure  brought  upon 
themselves  is  that  by  imitating  the  bet­
ter  lines  with  the  samples  of  inferior 
grades  they  have  discredited  themselves 
and  thereby  forced  their  trade  into  the 
cheaper  grades  that  allow 
little  or  no 
profit.“

“ But  do  not  the  dealers  soon  learn 

the  difference?”

“ That’s  just  the  point.  The  dealer 
does  learn  and  turns  to the  manufactur­
er  for  his  best  grades. 
If  a  jobber’ s 
salesman  offers  a  really  good  line  the 
dealer  who  has  had  experience  with  the 
cheap  grade  samples  thinks  that  he 
must  make  the  same  discount  on  the 
better  grade  samples  and  does  not  care 
to  risk  an  order.  Then,  too,  the  sam 
pies  themselves  do  not  show  the  differ 
ence 
in  value  which  the  prices  of  the 
regular  lines  call  for and  the  buyer  nat­
urally  thinks  that the  prices  on  the  bet 
ter  grades  are  too  high.”

“ What  is  the  present  tendency  with 

samples?"

“ I  think  the  better  class  of  jobbers 
realize  the  mistake  of  fancy  samples 
and  are  getting  closer  to actual samples 
It 
is  found  that  the  buyers  are  much 
better  satisfied  when  they  can  see  ex 
actly  what  they  are  buying,  and  that  the 
better  grades  are  given  a  decided  pref­
erence  where  the  quality  is  clearly  ap 
parent.  Such  jobbers  aim  to  make  reg 
ular  customers  rather than  single  sales 
to  new  victims  and  their  policy  is 
winning  one.  I  am  hopeful  that  we  wi 
gradually  get  back  to  samples  in  a 
branches  of  the  trade,  and  if  you  can 
help  the  movement  along  you will surely 
I  might  add  that 
benefit  the  industry. 
the  sample  question 
is  even  more  im 
portant  when 
it  comes  to  the  export 
trade,  but  that  has  to  do  with  the  man 
ufacturers  more  than  the  jobbers 
Boot  and  Shoe  Recorder.

B est  A id   In  S elling  Shoes  Is  O ften  Ne­

glected.

_

Without  doubt  one  of  the things which 
has  helped  the  most  to  build  up  the 
modern  department  store  has  been  the 
appropriate  and  tempting  display of  the 
goods  for  sale. 
It  has  been  quite  truly 
said  that 
“goods  well  bought  are  half 
sold,”   and  it  is  equally  true  that  when 
■ goods  are  well  displayed  the  other  half 
of  the  sale 
is  all  but  made.  There  is 
not  much  chance  for the  exercise  of  the 
higher  class  of  salesmanship  in  such  a 
case.  About  all  that  is  needed  is  a  po 
lite  person  to  take  money  and  say “ Call 
again.”  
But the  average  shoe  store  confines  its 
efforts  in  displays  to  more  or  less  meri 
torious  window  trims,really  too  often  5- 
the  lesser  class.  The  window  can 
profitably  augmented  by  showcases  and 
tables  inside,  and  also  by  cases  outside. 
Then  why 
is  it  not  done?  Among  the 
causes  of 
principal 
this  neglect  n 
doubtless  the  feeling  that  windows  al 
ready  take  mpre  time  than  can  to 
spared,  and  then,  too,  the  cost  of  fine 
tables  and  cases  is  considered.  But 
these  reasons, with  many  others  that  can 
be  mentioned  should  not  be  considered 
sufficient  excuse  after  a  study  of  the 
cost  in  time  and  labor and  money,  and 
the  result  in  time  and  labor  saved  and 
money  made.
it 
you  have  an  attractive  display he selects 
about  the  style  he  wants,  and  all  you 
have  to do  is to get  the  right  size.  He 
has noticed  the  price,  and  in nine cases

Your  customer  comes  for shoes, 

A  N ew spaper  o f  G eorgia  on  th e   Negro, 
From the Atlanta Constitution.

The  negro  is  here  to  stay. 

Let  the  truth  he  known  that 

It  is  bet 
ter  that  he  should  be  educated— better 
for  him  and  better  for  all.  Much  has 
been  done  for  him  already,  and  much 
more  can  be  donfe.  The  warmest  en 
couragement  Booker Washington  has  re 
ceived  has  been  from  the  people  in  the 
South.  He  was  sympathetically received 
by  an 
immense  audience  of  Southern 
whites  in  Atlanta  eight  years  ago.  We 
refer  to  the  magnitude  of  his  work  only 
to  praise  it,  and  to  arouse  the  whites 
to  friendly  emulation.
the 
It  will  the 
negroes  are  going  forward ! 
better  stir  us  up  to  our own  work. 
In 
Georgia  the  assessed  value  of  property 
held  by  negroes is placed  at  $15,000,000 
representing  a  real  market  value 
$30,000,000.  Of  this  sum  $1,000,000 of 
assessment,  or  $2,000,000  market  value 
was  added  in  the  year  just  closed.  The 
wealth  of  the  negroes  of  the  Southern 
States  is  not  less  than $400,000,000.  The 
building  up  of  wealth  follows a sharpen 
ing  of  the 
If  the  untutored 
colored  men  of  the  past  quarter  of 
century  could  amass  almost  half  a  bil 
lion  of  dollars,  why  not  the  educated 
negro  during  the  next  quarter  of  a  cen 
tury  quadruple  the  amount?

intellect. 

H ave  a   B arg ain   Sale  o f  F indings.

Something  new  in  the  way  of  calling 

attention  to  your  findings  display  is 
have  a  bargain  sale  of  well-called-for 
articles  on  certain  days  of  the  week 
for  instance,  you  might  have  a  barga 
sale  of  dressing  for  one  day  of  the  week 
and  the  next  week  run  a  sale  of  lamb' 
wool soles,  putting  a  new  article  on  sale 
every  week. 
In  fixing  prices  on  these 
it  will  be  a  good  scheme  to  see  that  the 
price  on  these  goods  is  at  such  low  fig 
ure  that they  can  not  be  undersold, 
this  way  you  not  only  attract  customers, 
but  get the  public  to  know  that  the 
tides  needed  to  keep  shoes  in  condition 
are  to  be  had  at  your  store,  and  you 
have  the  chance  of  showing  up  shoes 
and  slippers  useful  for  winter  wear 
Salesmen  should  at  every  bargain  sale 
make  it  a  rule  to have  customers  look

Keystone  Leather

So  called  because  it  is the  only  medium priced  stock  modern tan­
nage  has  evolved  that,  with  any  degree  of  certainty,  can  be  recom­
mended  as  being  wet  proof. 
Is  also  light,  flexible,  very  tough  and 
does  not become hard  and  stiff from  severe usage.  Made  into  depend­
able  men’s, boys’  and youths’  shoes  at our factory.

R1NDGE.  KALMBACH,  LOGIE  &  CO. 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  MICH.

The  Imperial  L i g h t i n g   S y s te m

P a te n ts  P en d in g

Economical, brilliant, durable,  reliable and  sim­
ple to operate.  A light  equal  to  an  electric  arc 
at a very low  cost:  The  Imperial  Lighting  Sys­
tem Is far  superior  to  the  Electric  Arc,  being ( 
softer,  whiter  and  absolutely  steady.  From  a 
tank the gasoline is conveyed  through  an  entire 
building through a flexible  copper  tube  that can 
' be  put  through  crevices,  around  corners  and 
concealed  the  same  as  electric  wires,  and  as 
many lights as  may  be  desired  can  be  supplied 
from  the  same  tank.  The  Imperial  System 
burns common stove gasoline,  gives a  1,200  can­
dle power light, and one gallon of gasoline burns 
16 hours.  All  lamps  are  fully  guaranteed,  and 
are trimmed  complete  with  full  instructions  as 
to Installing and operating the system.

We  also  manufacture  a  complete  line  of  Air 
and  Gravity  Pressure  Lamps.  W rite  for  Illus­
trated catalogue.

THE IMPERIAL GAS LAMP CO., Sole Manufacturers

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clothing

Styles  F av o red   by  Good  D ressers  a t  New 

Y ork.

As  the  fall  advances,  I  am  more  and 
more 
impressed  by  the  vogue  that  the 
full  back  Chesterfield  overcoat  has 
among  well-dressed  men. 
It  is  the  cut 
that  seems  to  be  preferred  for  morning, 
afternoon 
and  evening  dress  alike. 
There  will  always  be  a  place  in  the 
wardrobe  of  the  well-dressed  man for the 
covert  coat,  but  the  Chesterfield  seems 
this  fall  to  be  usurping  some  of  the  cus­
tomary  uses  of  the  covert  coat.  The  lat­
ter,  cut  somewhat  longer  than  the  sack 
coat,  and  with  its  collar  and  sleeves  or­
namented  by  several  lines  of  stitching, 
is  a  very  nice coat,  indeed,  but  the  very 
long  loose  Chesterfield  is  preferable 
in 
point  of  style.  As  for  the  Raglan  coat, 
I  mention  it  only  to  point  out  bow  it 
has  influenced  the  cut  of  the  Chester­
field.  One  gets  now  in  the  Chesterfield 
the  Raglan  amplitude,  the  vertical 
pockets  and,  if  one  wishes,  the  cuffs,  al­
though  I  think  they  had  better  be  left 
off.  But  the  Raglan  coat  has  passed 
away. 
The  yoke  coat,  too,  seems  to 
me  to  be  past,  as  I  see  few  of  them 
worn  by  the  best  dressers.  Even  in  the 
semi-ulster type  of  coat  the  yoke  is  at  a 
discount.  As  for that  peculiar  garment 
which  has  a  yoke  and  a  deep  pleat  up 
the  back,  the  less  said  of  it  the  better. 
It  is  so  perfectly  adapted  to  advertising 
purposes  that  it  can  well  be reserved  for 
a  certain  type  of  actors—and  quack 
doctors.  The  rainproof  coat  everyone 
must  have,  and  there  is  a  wide  variety 
of materials,  colorings,  and  patterns  to 
choose  from. 
I  have  seen  some  im­
ported  rough-faced  goods  in  brown  and 
gray  stripe  and  plaid effects that pleased

It  will  be 

me  particularly,  although  so  many  fab­
rics  are  now  rainproofed  that  it  is  hard 
to  specify  any  one  as  particularly  de­
sirable. 
interesting  to  see 
what  the  result  of  this  preference  for 
waterproofed  coats  will  be.  Will  long 
coats  be 
in  style  this  coming  spring? 
Will  the  waterproofed  garment  continue 
in  favor?  Perhaps  the  winter’s  rain  and 
snows  will  aid  in  the  solution  of  these 
problems.

*  *  *

a 

large 

forms 

I  observe  that  the  styles  of  wing  col­
lars  which  the  best  haberdashers  here 
are  putting  forward  are  distinguished 
by  larger  wings  than  are  found 
in  the 
average  run  of  wing  collars.  The  spac­
ing  between  the  wings  is  wider  than  in 
the  ordinary  fall  style,  and  tbe  stitching 
is  deep  (in  some  cases  a  quarter  of  an 
inch)  and  single 
line,  running,  too, 
from  the  point  of  the  collar.  Budd  is 
now  showing  a  wing  collar  about  two 
and  three-quarter  inches  high,  whose 
wings  are  folded  so  far  back  that  each 
triangle  with 
wing 
marked  droop.  The  style 
is  an  ex­
treme  one,  but  it  is  interesting  as  in­
dicating  a  possible  tendency  in  wing 
styles.  The  wing  collar  is  growing  in 
favor 
for  wear  during  the  morning 
hours.  One  sees  the  narrow  four-in- 
hand  worn  with  it  to  a  great  extent,  al­
though  the  better style  is  an  imperial  or 
a  wide  graduated  four-in-hand  tied  in  a 
sailor  knot.  For  afternoon  wear  the 
poke  collar  is  the  best,  although  many 
of  the  best  dressed  men  continue  to 
wear  the  high  turndown.  For  evening 
wear  tbe  slightly  poked  collar, 
just 
meeting  in  front,  or  the  straight  stand­
ing  collar  with  overlapping  edges,  are 
permissible.  With  the  dinnercoat  the 
is  the 
fold  collar  in  a  medium  height 
¡proper  thing,  as  heretofore.  The  collar

of  medium  height  is  unquestionably 
more  becoming  to  most  men  and  there­
fore  I  hope  that  we  shall  see  no  depart­
ure  in  that  respect  from  present  styles. 

*  *  *

in  neckwear  styles. 

It  begins  to  look  as  if  the  lined  ascot 
scarf  were  again  to  come  into the  fore­
ground 
I  see  two 
styles  of  it  that  will  doubtless  commend 
themselves to  well-dressed  men.  In  one 
scarf,  which  is  about  six  inches  broad, 
the  two  edges  are  parallel  and  cut  in  a 
rather  short  curve  to  the  neckband  of 
the  scarf. 
In  the  other style  the  edges 
are  curved  almost  to  the  end  of  the 
scarf.  Both  these  are  made  of  very  soft 
silks  and 
lined  with  light  soft  silk,  so 
that  they  are  flexible  and  set  as  easily 
as  the  unlined  scarf,  whether they  are 
tied 
in  ascot  oi  once-over style.  The 
once-over  style  is  now  much  worn  with 
morning  dress  and  the  band  collar. 
I 
notice  that  some  men  this  season  as  last 
are  wearing  cameo  scarfpins.  The  idea 
is  a  good  one  if  the  very  large  pins  are 
avoided.  A  cameo  is  a thoroughly mas­
culine  stone  and  a  deal  of  money  can 
be  put  into  fine  carving  on  a  small 
stone.  Because  the  cameo  furnishes  an 
opportunity  as  a  work  of  art,  rich  with­
out  obtrusiveness,  I  hope  that  the  cameo 
scarfpin  will  be  a  success.  The  tur­
quoise  pin  has  not  nearly  as  much  to 
commend 
Turquoises,  anyway, 
should  be  left  to  the  ladies.  The  shop 
windows  are  ablaze  with  neckwear  in 
brilliant,  but  subdued  tones  for  autumn 
wear.  The  Oriental  designs  shown  this 
fall  are  notable  for  tbe  manner  in  which 
colors  brilliant  in  themselves  are  com­
bined  in  designs  of  very  rich,  but  quiet 
effect.  One  sees  many  varieties  of 
ribbed  silks  for  the  large  shapes.  One 
handsome  design  is  a  fancy  silk  of  dark 
green  body  and  black  rib.  Another

it. 

handsome  design 
brocaded  silk  with  a  black  figure.

is  a  dark  green 

*  *  *

The  dressing  gown  is  such  a desirable 
article  to  have  in  one’s  wardrobe,  and 
the  ease  and  comfort  of  the  garment  is 
so  great  that  new  and  elegant  gowns  are 
deserving  of  special  attention. 
I  have 
seen  many  new  ones  this  fall,  but  the 
one  which  commends  itself  to  me  par­
ticularly  for beauty  and  comfort 
is  an 
all-silk  gown  made  of  a  light  crepe  silk 
lined  with  light  smooth  silk  of  tbe  same 
color*.  The  edges  of  the  garment  and 
the  square  collar  are  finished  with  a 
deep  border  of  ribbed  silk  and  the gown 
is  confined  at  the  waist  by  a  twisted 
silk  cord.  A  blue,  a  dark  red,  or  a  gray 
gown  of  this  description 
is  so  very 
beautiful  that  one  can  hardly  imagine 
anything  finer  or  more  luxurious.  By 
the  way,  it  anyone  prefers  a  gown  of 
flannel  let  me  advise  him  to get a white 
gown  with  hairline  stripes  and  with 
wide  rolling  collar,  and  to  have  the 
edges  of  the  gown 
finished  with  a 
twisted  silk  cord  of  two  colors  like  that 
used  for the  girdle.  Then  on  the  breast 
pocket  let  him  have  his  monogram  em­
It  makes  a 
broidered 
very  ornamental  and  effective  finish. 
1 
suppose  that  this  fall,  as  last,  most  men 
will  provide 
themselves  with  house 
jackets  of  two-faced  cloth,  but  I  want 
to  say  a  good  word  for  the  silk  velvet 
jacket. 
I  see  some  late designs  in  dark 
blue  and  deep  red  with  silk  bound 
edges  and  pockets  that  are  far  more 
beautiful  and  elegant  than  any  woolen 
jacket  ever  produced. 
I  know  from 
personal  experience  that  a  velvet  jacket 
combines  elegance  and  wearing  quali­
ties  to  an  extent  surpassed  by  no  other, 
and  now  that  velvet  is  so  fashionable 
for  ladies’  wear  I  hope  that  it will again 
be  appreciated  at 
its  true  worth  for 
men’s  jackets.  The  silk  binding  can 
be  omitted  with  advantage  to  the  wear­
ing  qualities,  but  it  adds  to  the  appear­
ance  of  the  coat.—Apparel  Gazette.

large  letters. 

in 

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getting 
promptness  all around.

the  deliveries  made  with 

The  question  of  garment  has  not  been 
satisfactorily  settled  as  yet,  although 
there  are  many  who  throw  the  weight  of 
their  opinion  in  favor of  the 
long  gar­
ments  of  the  Raglan  and  Newmarket 
patterns. 
In  the  orders  taken  so  far 
both  short  and  long  garments  have  fig­
ured,  the  orders  for the  one  being  prac­
tically  coextensive  with  the  other.

It  would  seem  that  the  question  of 
length  and  character  of garment remains 
for  the  consumers  to  decide  according 
to  the  preference  of  each.  The  opin- 
on  is  expressed  in  some  quarters  that 
both  short  and 
long  garments  will  be 
popular  it  depending  on  developments 
as  to  which  shall  gain  the  whip  hand.
goods  manufacturer 
would  prefer to  see  developments  favor­
able  to  the  long  garments  on  account  of

Naturally 

the 

increased  yardage  of  goods 

the 
would  be  required  in  that  event.

le

that

A  pretty 

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Window  Dressing

D ifficulties  to   B e  M et  an d   O vercom e  in  

th e   C ountry.
trimmers 

located 

Window 

journals,  which  are 

in  the 
country  are  wont  to  complain  that  sug­
gestions  contained 
in  the  columns  of 
trade 
in  part  in­
tended  for  their  benefit,  are  actually  of 
no  use  to them  because  the  carrying  out 
and 
elaborating  of  such  suggestions 
would  be  expensive,  and  would  con­
sume  too  much  time  in  preparation. 
It 
is  further stated,  that  small  retailers  do­
ing  business  in  the  country  can  not 
afford  to  be  up  to  date  in  the  matter  of 
fixtures,  backgrounds,  and  other  ac­
cessories  which  are  essential  to  mod­
ern  window  trimming.  Nor  does  the 
business  done 
in  small  places  justify 
the  expense  of  frequently  changing  the 
backgrounds  of  their  windows.  In  short 
the  country  trimmer  must  content  him­
self  with  very  much  less  in  every  way 
than  is  considered  a  matter  of  positive 
necessity  by  his  fellow  worker  of  the 
large  city.

in  his 

Not  only 

line  are  doing. 

is  he  thus  restricted  in  bis 
choice  of  fixtures  and  equipments,  but 
he 
is  without  the  stimulus  to  better 
work  given  him  by  observation  of  what 
others 
In  the 
city,  a  trimmer  is  surrounded  with  ex­
amples  of  the  best  work  in  his  profes­
sion  and  a  short  tour of  his  neighbor­
hood  sends  him  back  to  his  windows 
full  of  fresh 
ideas,  bis  artistic  sense 
stimulated  and  made  active  by  the work 
of  others.  That  trimmers  watch  for  and 
adopt  each  others’ 
ideas  is  evident  to 
the  most  casual  observer.  A  new  trim 
of  fixtures  once  adopted  by  a  smart shop 
is  soon  in  use  throughout  the  city.  The 
obvious  advantages  of  the  city  trimmer 
in  this  direction  are  of  course  unobtain­
able  by  his  out-of-town  confrere.

imagination,  but 

in  his  own  work. 

Not  only  does  such  observation  stim­
ulate 
it  also  draws  a 
trimmer's  attention  to  faculty,  taste  and 
construction 
It  is  a 
trait  of  human  nature  to  quickly  note 
the  failures  of  others.  One  may  often- 
commit  an  error  and  be blissfully ignor­
ant  of  it  until  the  same  mistake  is made 
by  someone  else,  when,  from  the  point 
of  view  of  the  outsider,  the  mistake  is 
at  once  apparent.  So,  for  the  reasons 
expressed 
in  the  foregoing  paragraphs, 
it  must  be  conceded  that the  work of  the 
country  trimmer  is  beset  with  certain 
difficulties  which  do  not  obtain  in  the 
city.  Yet,  these  difficulties  are  not  in­
superable.

The  prevailing  method  of  modern 
window  trimming  consists  of  the  skill­
ful  and  tasteful  arrangement  of  a  very 
few  articles  arranged  on  fixtures  which 
are  remarkable  for  their  elegant  sim 
plicity,  rather  than  for  size  or  for  cost 
of  the  material  used  in  their  construe 
tion,  and  which  are 
in  many  cases 
easily  imitable  by  the  most  ordinary 
carpenter  or  mechanic.  Nor  is  an  ex 
pensive  background necessary.  A  fresh 
background  composed  of  simple  and  in 
expensive  material  is  far  more  effective 
than  one  of  rich  material  which  is  old 
shabby  or  badly  draped.

Where  the  goods  displayed are of som 
ber  colors,  as  in  displays  of  winter 
clothing,  a  background  of  light  colors  is 
necessary  to  show  the  goods  up.  Sim 
pie  fixtures,  and  extreme  cleanliness  of 
the  window  in  its  every  detail,  are  the 
only  necessary  accessories  of  an  attrac­
tive  and  trade  bringing  window.

The  great  trouble  in  a  country  store 
is that  the  window  trimming 
is  every­
body's  and  therefore  nobody’s  business. 
It  is  no one’s  especial  csre,  The  re-

suit  of  this  lack  of  interest  or  responsi­
bility  on  the  part  of  any  one  worker  in 
the  store  is,  of  course,  painfully  appar­
ent.  The  glass  is  dirty  and  clouded, 
the  fixtures  soiled  and  broken  and  the 
goods  evidently  thrown  in  anyhow,  and 
sometimes  coated  with  dust.  The  back­
ground 
is  often  too  old  and  shabby. 
Sometimes  there  is  no  background.  Can 
the  country  retailer  in  these  days  of 
convenient  postal  arrangements,  of  par­
cel  delivery  and  of  easy  and  rapid 
transit  to  large  cities,  afford  to  so  neg­
lect  his  windows?

Residents  of  some  country  towns  on 
visits  to  any  large  city  can  not  but com­
pare  the  dirt  and  careless  arrangement 
of  the  windows  in  the  shops  of  such 
country  towns  with  the  elegance  and 
spotless  brightness  of  the  city  window 
displays.  The  articles  shown 
in  the 
windows  of  the  country  stores  may  be 
of  the  same  quality  and  are  possibly 
offered  at  a  less  price  than  those  dis­
played  in  the  windows  of  the city shops. 
They  may,  indeed,  have  been  bought 
of  the  same  manufacturer.  But  do  the 
persons  who  should  be  the  natural  cus­
tomers  of  such  a  store  know  or  believe 
this?  Custom 
lost  for the  sake  of  a 
dollar  or  two  spent  in  new  fixtures  and 
a  cake  of  soap  for the  windows.

is 

If  the  goods  on  display  are  all  right, 
very  simple  fixtures,  and  a  very  clean 
and  well  arranged  window  will  prove  to 
be  worth  the  trouble  and  small  expense 
occasioned.  A  merchant  in  a  large  city 
can  push  bis  business  by  means  of 
newspaper  advertisements,  by  posters 
or  billboards,  and  by  many  other  recog 
nized  means  of  advertisements,  besides 
his  window  displays. 
It  is  not  so  with 
the  merchant  located  in  the  town  where 
there  is  not  a  daily paper.  His  windows 
are  his  best  advertising  medium,  the 
only  way 
in  which  he  can  inform  cus­
tomers  that  it  is  unnecessary  to  go  to 
town  for,  or  to order  by  mail the  articles 
which  they  need  which  he  has  in  stock 
and  which  he* is  in  business  to  sell, 
There  are  certainly  some  small  difficul 
ties  in  the  way  of  first-class  window 
trimming 
in  the  country.  But,  they 
are  not  insurmountable.  Were  they 
the  country  retailer  had  better go  out  of 
business.  With the  aid  of  the  units,  and 
few  of  the  modern  fixtures,  and  with 
full  understanding  of  the  advantages 
to  be  derived  from  attractive  window 
displays,  the  trimmer  in  the  country 
should  produce  effects  in  no [way  in 
ferior to  any  work  which  could  be  done 
by  his  city  brother  under  similar  cir 
cumstances.  He  should,  at  any  rate, 
make  an  effort  to  do 
so.—Apparel 
Gazette.

S tatu s  o f th e   C loak  T rade.

The  cloak  manufacturer  is  getting  a 
very  fair  run  of  orders  and  is  in  many 
instances  pushed  for  deliveries.  With 
the  cold  weather  developing  the  retailer 
is  anxious  to  get  the  garments  ordered 
by  him  at  the  earliest  possible  time,  as 
he  desires to  be  ready  to meet  all  the de­
mands  of  his  trade.

As  a  result  of  the  very  careful,  hang­
ing-back  attitude  on  the  part  of the  re­
tail  trade  earlier  in  the  season,  influ­
enced  by  doubts  as  to  the  correct  style, 
cut  and  length  of  garments  to  buy,  the 
cloakmaker  finds  that  everybody  wants 
their  garments  delivered  at  the  same 
time,  and 
it  is  no  easy  task  to  please 
his  trade  in  the  matter  of  deliveries.

It  is  not that  the  orders secured  by  the 
cloakmaker are especially large,although 
of  very  respectable  proportions,  and 
bad  they  come 
in  at  the  usual  time 
in
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Butter  and  Eggs

O bservations  b y   a   G otham   E g g   H a n .
Egg  receivers  have  had  a  hard  time 
to satisfy  many  of  the  egg shippers with 
their  sales  during  the  past  two  or  three 
weeks. 
I  overheard  a  conversation  on 
'Change  the  other  day  that  showed  up 
the  trouble  pretty  plainly.  One  receiver 
mentioned  as  an 
instance  a  mark  of 
eggs  amounting  to  about  a  hundred 
cas^s  a  week  for  which  he  was  getting 
20c at  mark  when  the  market  for  prime 
Western  was  2ic  “ loss  off.”   Shortly 
afterward  the  “ loss  off”   market  ad­
vanced  to  22^c  and  yet  this  same  mark 
of  eggs,  coming  in  on  a  higher  market, 
drew  a  bid  of  only  I7K c*  This  was  re­
fused  as being  absurd  and  yet  repeated 
showing  of  the  goods  failed  to  draw  any 
higher  offer  so  seriously  had  the  quality 
deteriorated.  The  goods  bung  around 
day  after  day  and  as  the  market  for  un­
der grades  got  steadily  worse  they  were 
finally  closed  out  at  17c.  Several  other 
receivers  mentioned  similar  instances 
and  I  have  heard  many  such 
in  my 
rounds  of  the  egg  market. 
Influenced 
by  the  advance  in  fine  grades  the  ship­
pers  had  often  paid  more  for the  later 
and  poorer  shipments  than 
the 
earlier  and  better.

for 

*  *  *

The 

larger  shippers  who  candle  their 
eggs before  shipment  are  able  to  ap­
preciate  the  changing  quality  of  their 
collections  at  this  season  of  year  when 
fresh  production  is  gradually  decreasing 
and  country  dealers  and  farmers  are 
marketing  eggs  accumulated  for  a  long 
time  back;  but  the  smaller  shippers 
who  do  not  examine  their goods  care­
fully  often  fail  to  understand  the  reason 
for  so  great  a  reduction  in  the  selling 
value  of  their  stock  especially  when  the 
tendency  of  values  for  fine  eggs  is  up­
ward.  A  little  consideration,  however, 
will  show  that 
it  is  this  very  loss  of 
quality  in  average  receipts  which causes 
the  upward  movement  in  fine  full  fresh 
eggs,  simply  by  reducing  the  propor­
tion  of  receipts  good  enough  to satisfy  a 
good  class  of  trade.  And  for  the  same 
reason,  the  under  grades  being  in  rela­
tively 
in 
competition  with  refrigerators,  tend  to 
accumulate  unless  prices  are  cut  deeply 
enough  to  attract  cheap  trade.

larger  supply,  and  coming 

*  *  *

This  is  a  condition  that  occurs  almost 
every  year  during  October  and  very 
often  leads  to  loss  by  Western collectors. 
Paying  prices  in  the  country  can  not  be 
based  on  top  quotations  in Eastern  mar­
kets  when  the  quality  of  stock  coming 
in  is  poor,  as  they  can  when  the  goods 
are  more  uniformly  good,  and  the  only 
way  to  take  goods  in  with  any  certainty 
of  profitable  results  is  to  know  positive­
ly  what  their quality  is.  This  can  only 
be  ascertained  by  candling. 
If  collect­
ors—small  or  large— would  candle  their 
eggs  during  the  fall  season  they  would 
soon  see  the  necessity  of  discriminating 
between  good 
fresh  eggs  and  stale 
shakers  when  fixing  their paying prices. 
And 
if  this  discrimination  were  made 
it  would  soon  discourage  country  hold­
ing  and  induce  a  more  prompt  market­
ing  of  the  production.  There  is  a differ­
ence  in  actual  selling  value  between 
full, 
eggs  and  stale, 
shrunken,  weak  bodied  stock  of  fully  7 
@8c  per dozen  and  it  seems  an  absurd 
policy  for  shippers  to  take  a  mixture  of 
them  at  a  uniform  price  without  know­
ing  anything  about  the  proportion  of 
each.  If  they  offered  say  i8@2oc  for the 
first q uality  and  say  X2@ i3C  for  the  sec­

strong, 

fresh 

onds  (basing  the  figures  about  on  pres­
ent  values  here)  they  would  make  rea­
sonable  profit  on  both  grades  and  the 
low  price  of  the  held  goods,  being  no 
better  than  could  have  been  obtained 
when  the  eggs  were  produced,  would 
discourage  holding.

*  *  *

in  modern 

The  only  proper  place  to  hold  eggs  is 
in  cold  storage;  any  system  by  which 
farmers  or  country  storekeepers 
can 
make  a  profit  by  holding  goods  in  cel­
lars  or  store  rooms  in  competition  with 
goods  held 
refrigerator 
houses 
is  evidently  dependent  upon 
their  getting  more  for  such  eggs  than 
they  are  worth,  and  this 
is  just  what 
happens  when  collectors  buy  them  as 
fresh  weeks  after  production  and  with­
out  any  proper  discrimination  in  price. 
But  while  collectors  may  buy  these  poor 
shunken  eggs  blindly  above  their  value 
the  dealers  here  and  at  other  large  mar­
kets  will  not  do  so;  their  presence  in 
better  goods  reduces  the  value  of  the 
whole  even  more  than  proportionately 
because  of  the  labor  of  separation,  and 
the  collector  is  the  one  to  lose. 
It  is  a 
foolish  system  and  ought  to  be  aban­
doned  by  all.

*  *  *

It 

I  saw  some  egg  cases  the  other  day 
which  were  built  on  a  new  plan.  They 
had  some  advantages  and  some  disad­
vantages,  but  the  latter  could,  perhaps, 
j be  overcome,  and  should  be considered. 
The  sides  were  made  of  five  strips 
in­
stead  of  one  or  two  pieces  as  usual  and 
were  placed  about  one-half  inch  apart, 
providing  for  ventilation.  The  ends  of 
the  cases  were  bound  around  with  a nar­
iron,  about  %   in. 
row  strip  of  sheet 
wide,  this  being  perforated  to  permit 
nailing. 
looked  like  a  good  case  on 
first  sight,  but  I  noticed  that  when  four 
or  five  cases  were  piled  together  the 
bottom  case  was  racked  out  of  shape, 
seriously  endangering  the  contents.  Up­
on  closer  examination  it  was  observed 
that  the  side  strips  of  the  case  were  in 
many 
instances  held  only  by  one  nail 
in  each  end  and  one  in  the  middle 
partition. 
It  is  clear  that  such  nailing 
offers  no  resistance  to  endways  pressure 
on  the  cases  and,  if  empty,  they  would 
collapse  until  the  side  pieces  came  to­
gether.  This  fault  could  be  overcome 
by  putting  two  nails  in  each  end  and 
middle  of  each  side  piece ;  unless  that 
is  done  the  cases  are  not  fit  to  use,  for 
they  will  break  more  eggs  than  they  are 
worth.

*  *  *

In  Denmark  there 

is  in  vogue  a  co­
operative  system  of  egg  collection  and 
distribution.  Depots  are  established  at 
convenient  points  along  the  line  of  the 
railroads  at  which  the 
farmers  deliver 
their  eggs  each  of  which  is  required  to 
be  stamped  with  the  name  of  the owner. 
At  the  depots  egg  candling  machines 
are  installed  by  which  a number of  eggs 
are  passed  before  the  light  at  once,  in 
the  same  way  as  provided  by  the  egg 
candling  apparatus  recently 
introduced 
in  this  country.  The  table  upon  which 
the  eggs  emerge  after  passing  through 
the  candling  process 
is  provided  with 
parallel  bars  that  arrest  the  different 
sizes  as  they  pass 'along  and  permit  a 
rapid assortment as to  size— N.  Y.  Prod­
uce  Review.

G rapes  Scarce  in   St.  H elena,  Cal.

Winemaking  in  St.  Helena,  Cal.,  and 
vicinity 
is  progressing  slowly  on  ac­
count  of  the  scarcity  of  grapes,  says  the 
Star  of  that  place. 
In  some  parts  of 
the  valley  the  crop  is better than was ex­
pected,  but  upon  the  whole  it  is  very 
short,  little  more  than  half a  yield.  The 
price  seems  to  ,have  settled  down  to 
from  $25  to $26.50  per ton.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

T he  F lo rid a   L obster.

The  statement  in  these  columns  that 
the  Florida  sea  crawfish  was  an  admir­
able  substitute  for the  vanishing  lobster 
was  quoted  with  surprise  in  many  New 
England  and some  Western  papers,  but 
we  did  not  expect the  crustacean  to  be 
‘ a  new  thing”   to  our  Florida  contem­
poraries.  We  repeat  that  a  gentleman 
who  is  well  known  in  our  State  vouched 
for  its  delicious  qualities  recently  to  a 
congenial  party  in  a  fashionable  New 
York  restaurant,  and  we  assure  our, 
brethren  of  the  State  press  that  we  have j 
not  exaggerated  its  abundance  or  deli- j 
cacy— the  gentleman 
in  question  con- ] 
sidered  it  superior  to the  lobster  at  its 
best. 

Now  we  desire  to quote  another  wit­

I

landed 

ness.  Lieut.  Willoughby,  of  the  navy,  \ 
made  its  acquaintance 
in  the  Bay  of  { 
Florida  and  found  “ the  bottom  alive  | 
with  them  and  in  an  hour  with  a  spear 
in  my  canoe  200  pounds  of 
:bis  delicious  shellfish.”   Further  he 
says:  “ The  crawfish  is  much  like  our 
Northern 
large 
flaws  it  has  feelers  that  are  quite  thick  . 
it  the  base  and  more 
like  the  shrimp. 
is  rougher  than  that  of  the 
The  shell 
iobster,  and  there 
is  more  red  in  the 
irariegated  color. 
in 
They 
weight  about  a  pound  and  a  half,  al- 
;hough  we  caught  one  that  weighed  four 
pounds. “

Instead  of 

average 

lobster. 

Now,  why  should  not  the  crawfish  do ' 
is  much  for  us  as  the  lobster  has  done 
for  New  England?  But  we  need  not  ex­
terminate  him,but  see  that  he constantly 
grows  more  numerous 
in  our  seas.—  j 
Jacksonville  Times-Union.

I
The  cider that  is  in  a  constant  fer-, 
ment  becomes  bard  and  sour— so  do  in­
dividuals.

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Method  of  grinding  buck­
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prive the  kernel  of  all  the 
poison  contained 
in  the 
hull.  The flour  is,  there­
fore,  Non-Irritating.  Those 
who  have  been 
troubled 
with a rash and its irritating 
effects can use our brand of

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in perfect safety, in summer 
or winter, spring or fall. 
If 
those who  love  buckwheat 
cakes  will  use  our  flour, 
they’ll  not  feel  as  if  they 
were  wearing  red  flannel 
underwear  in July.

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Manufactured  by

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with dependable goods.  So long as they 
please  them  they’ll  cling  to  your  store.
That’s why you should  handle

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galling  memory  of  the  long  and  weary 
struggle.

Lacking  a  future  reckoning,  he  had 
better  have  gone  to  stealing,  as  the 
other  man  did.  That  would  have  staved 
off  some  of  his  bad 
luck,  at  least.— 
Stroller  in  Grocery  World.

C om pete,  B u t  Do  N ot  O ppose.

“ Competition 

is  the  life  of  trade.”  
The  merchant  who  promotes  a  healthy 
rivalry  and  honorable  competition  will 
find  it  so.

Opposition  is  rank  poison  to  legiti­
mate  business. 
The  merchant  who 
wastes  his  time  clubbing  his  neighbors 
and  digging  pitfalls  for  them  will  find 
it  so;  he  will  eventually  fall  into  his 
own  trap.

Competition  and  opposition  are  eas­

ily  confounded.
Competition 

means.

is 

an  honest  man’s 

Opposition  is  a  two-edged  sword like­
to  draw  blood  on  the  reckless 

ly 
handler.
tempered  with  fair  play.

Competition,  be 

it  ever  so  sharp,  is 

Opposition  arouses  passion,  puts  a 
premium  on  trickery,  and  degrades 
business.

Competition  brings  improvement  and 

activity.

Opposition suggests any  old  scheme  to 

injure  an  opponent.

Competition  makes  friends.
Opposition  destroys  friendship  and 

makes  enemies.

Competition  nourishes  profits.
Opposition  kills  them.
Competition  means  friendly  rivalry, 

with  honor  and  mutual  success.

Opposition  means  unfriendly  strife 
and  hostility,  without  success  to  either 
party.

The  benefits  of  competition  are  world 

The  Meat  Market

H ow   to   M ake  M oney  on   M eat  an d   Bones.
The  Retired  Butcher  was  passing  a 
few  moments  in  the  market  of  the Give­
away  Beef  Co.,  when  two  girls  entered. 
One  asked  the  Young  Proprietor  for 
some  cat  meat  and  the  other  for  a  soup 
Instead  of  paying  for  it,  they 
bone. 
gave 
the  Young  Proprietor  a  cold 
“ thank  you”   and  he  bowed  the  girls 
out  with  as  much  politeness  as  if  they 
had  left  an  order  for  twenty  pounds  of 
choice  beef. 
The  Retired  Butcher 
looked  at  him  a  few  moments  and  then 
said: 
“ Young  man,  I  owe  you  an 
apology.  The  last  time  1  came  in  here 
it  was  to  complain  about  a  sign  that 
you  had  hung  out  in  front,  bearing  the 
words:

Meat  Given  Away.

if  you 

I  asked  you  if  you  really  gave  meat 
away,  and  you,  by  way  of  answer, 
asked  me 
looked  like  an  easy 
thing,  which  was  meant  to  be  a  wise 
way  of  saying  that  you  do  not give away 
If  I  remember  rightly,  1  found 
meat. 
fault  with  you  for  advertising  to  do  a 
thing  which  you  did  not  do,  and  in­
timated  that 
it  would  not  be  amiss  for 
you  to  submit  to  an  examination  as  to 
your  sanity. 
I 
wish  to  make  amends.  Hang  out  your 
sign  again.  Let  the  people  know  that 
you  do  give  away  meat,  and  let  me  as­
sure  you  that  an  examination  to  estab­
lish 
the  condition  of  your  brain  would 
be  superfluous.  You  are  actually  go n e- 
up  here,”   and  the  Retired  Butcher 
lightly  touched  his  temples.

I  have  wronged  you. 

“ What  do  you  mean,  sir?”   demanded 

the  Young  Proprietor,  hotly.

“ Mean?  Why,  you  actually  giveaway 
meat,  don’t  you?  No  sane  man  would 
pay  for  meat  and  bones,  give 
it  away, 
and  expect  to  make  money  by  the trans­
action,  would  he?”

“ They  were  the  children  of  good  cus­
tomers,”   said  Young  Proprietor,  “ and 
the  meat  I  gave  the  one  girl  didn't  cost 
me  more  than  a  few  cents,  and  the  bone 
1  gave  the other wasn’t worth anything.”  
“ I  don’t  agree  with  you.  That  bone 
was  worth  at  least  two  cents.  You  gave 
away 
cents,  which  practically 
wiped  out  your  profit  on  the  sales  to 
those  two  customers  on  their  day's  pur­
chases.  Am  1  right?”

“ No,  you  are  not,”   said  Young  Pro­
prietor,  and  then  he  added:  “ Because 
they  didn’t  buy  anything  to-day.”

four 

The  Retired  Butcher  looked  as  if  he 
would  explode. 
“ In  the  name  of  com­
mon sense, ”   he  roared,  “ what  good  are 
such  customers?  You  lost  four  cents  on 
them  to-day! 
It  is  these  small  things 
that  count.  Let  me  give  you  some  ad­
vice.  Keep  a  cat  and  bone  book.  1 
used  to  do  it  when  I  was  in  business, 
and  the  result  at  the  end  of  the  first 
year  startled  me.  Every  one  who  dealt 
with  me  knew  I gave nothing away.  For 
cat  meat  I  charged  five  cents  a  pound, 
and  for  bones  an  amount  in  proportion 
to  what  bones  were  worth  to the  bone 
dealers. 
I  found  that  many  people  did 
not  expect  me  to  give  them  meat  for 
their cats— they  preferred  to  pay  for  it. 
Every  time  a  person  came  in  for  cat 
meat  I marked  down  the sale in this spe­
cial  book. 
1  found  that  I  averaged  $i 
worth  of  such  sales  every  day.  Before 
this  I  had  been  giving  away  cat  meat, 
so  by  selling  it,  I  was $313  ahead  at  the 
end  of  the  first  year  under  the  new  sys­
tem.  This  money  I  laid  away,  and  at 
the * end  of  every  month  put  it  in  the 
I  did  the 
same  thing  with  my  soup  bones.  The

*  bank  on  a  separate  account. 

sales  on  them  amounted  to $178  the  first 
year.  At  the  end  of  ten  years  I  had 
,000 as  a  result  of  selling  cat meat and 
soup  bones.  With  this  money  I  bought 
lot  and  built  a  house,  and  two  years 
later  the  city  wanted  the  property  for a 
police  station. 
it  for $10,000. 
There  is  no  need  of  saying  more.  Good 
day.” — Butchers’  Advocate.

I  sold 

r*ay  o f  B eck o n in g   C om ing  fo r  th e   D is­

h o n est  C lerk.

If  there 

is  a  hereafter,  the  merchant 
with  a  conscience  will  be  decidedly 
head. 
If  there  is  not,  the  fellow  with­
out  a  conscience  will  be,  for  he  is  hav- 
ng  a  good  deal  better  time  in  this 
life 
than  the  other  man.

About  ten  years  ago,  in  a  New  Jersey 
country  town  of  5,000,  there  was  a  pros­
perous  butcher.  He  had  a  big  store  on 
the  main  street,  killed  all  his own meats 
and  had  one  of  the  largest  trades  in  the 
place.

He  owned  his  own  bouse,  had  money 
the  bank  and  was  comfortable  and 

happy.

Working  for  this  man  was  a  butcher 
who  was  considered  absolutely  honest 
and  perfectly  trustworthy.  He  had  ac­
cess  to  the  money  drawer;  in  fact,  had 
his  hands 
in  the  business  just  as  the 
proprietor  had.

This  man  had  worked  for the  butcher 
about  fifteen  years.  One  day  certain 
things  happened  which  made  the  em­
ployer  suspicious  and  he  started  a  little 
investigation. 
It  had  startling  results 
It  proved,  beyond  a  reasonable  doubt 
that  the  employe  had  for  years  been 
stealing  from  the  drawer.

The  butcher  taxed  the  man  with  i 
and  he  denied  it  point  blank.  The  de, 
nial  was  unconvincing,  but  for  the  sake 
of  his  family  he  was  simply  told  to 
clear  out  and  nothing  further  was  done 
I  neglected  to  say  that  about  a  year 
before  that  this  butcher’s  trade  had  be 
gun  to  decline  for  one  reason  and  an 
other,  chiefly  because  of  the  advent  of  a 
cut-price  meat  dealer.

The  minute  the  thieving  butcher  was 
discharged  he  started 
in  business  for 
himself.  This  meant  more  competition 
for  his  old  employer,  whose  trade  was 
already  on  the  sag.  The  way  he  fitted 
up  his  store  showed  pretty  clearly  that 
he  had  salted  his  stealings  safely  down 
for  his  salary  bad  never  been  more  thai 
810  a  week,  and  he  had  a  wife  and fam­
ily.

Now,  from  this  point  let  me  trace  the 
respective  careers  of these  two  men  to 
the  present  day.

First,  the  employer  who  has  always 
been  scrupulously  honest  and  a  good 
Christian:

His  trade  got  worse  and  worse  until 

he  had  to  close  out.

His  baby  son  died.
His  daughter  died.
Some  money  that  he  had  been  led  to 
in  a  Western  property  went  in 

invest 
the  hole.

He 

tried 

for  various 
schemes  with  indifferent  success,  never 
making  over  a  few  dollars  a  week.

canvassing 

The  mortgage  on  his  house  was  fore­
closed,  and  he  had  to  move  to  a  smaller 
house  on  a  side  street.

His  wife’s  health  broke  down  and  to­

day  she  is  a  peevish  invalid.

As  this  man  passed  from  one  misfor­
tune  to  another,  his  disposition  soured. 
He  became  a  railer  against  fate—an 
iconoclast—an  embittered  preacher  of 
the  doctrine  that  some  men  are  born 
under a  lucky  star  and  others  under  an 
evil  star,  and  that  no  matter bow  hard

the  latter  work,  they  can  not  change 
predestination.

Now  for the  other  man—the  thief:
His  business 

steadily  prospered— 
probably  he  sells  as  much  stuff to-day as 
any  butcher  in  the  place.

He  has  made  money  and 

is  making 
money,  and  probably  has  a  comfortable 
little  pile  laid away for an  easy  old  age.
One  of  his  daughters  married  a  doc­
tor  and  the  other  a  preacher.  His  wife 
is  strong  and  healthy,  a  comfort  to  him 
and  a  helpmeet.

If  this  man  can  forget,  and  he  seems 
to,  that  the  foundation  of  his  success 
was  laid  with  stolen  money  for  the  want 
of  which  his  honest  old  employer has 
gone  the  pace  of  ruin  and  disaster,  he is 
probably  well  satisfied  with  himself—a 
prosperous  country  merchant,  comfort­
able  and  well  content.

If  there 

Now,  let  us  get  back  to  the  original 
proposition. 
is  going  to  be  a 
hereafter  and  a  day  of  reckoning,  this 
successful  thief,  for all  his  success  here, 
s  going  to  have  a  mighty  bad  quarter 
of  an  hour  when  the  Great  Judge  de­
mands  a  revelation  of  his  dishonesty 
on  the  last  court  day.

And,  on  the  contrary,  the  other  man 
will  experience  a  satisfaction  that  will 
smooth  out  all  the  grooves  and  the 
wrinkles  in  his  hard  life  of  ill-luck.

But  if  there  is  not  going  to  be  a  here­
after,  the  thief  has  much  the  better  of 
the  deal,  for  he  has  succeeded  in  feath 
ering  the  only  nest  he  would  then  have 
to  occupy  with  the  soft  down  of  plen­
teous  success.

And  in  the  absence  of  any  hereafter, 
the  honest  man  will  be  up  against  it 
good  and  hard,  for  he  will  have  been 
straining  for  a  goal  that  does  not  exist 
and  his  only  recompense  will  be  the

wide.  '
widely  distributed. 

The  evils  of  opposition  are  just  as 

\ Opportunity of a Lifetime |

_____  

,

One-half acre of land,  store building and stock of general merchandise 
for sale in town of  200 population  in  Allegan  county.  Real  estate  will 
be  sold for  82,500.  Two  fine  glass  front  wardrobe  show  cases,  with 
drawers;  also large dish cupboard and three movable  wardrobes  in  flat 
above go with building. 
’Will invoice the stock and  fixtures at cost (and 
less where there  is  a  depreciation),  which  will  probably  not  exceed 
81,200 or $1,500.  Require $2,000 cash, balance on mortgage at 5 per cent. 
Branch office of the  West  Michigan  Telephone  Co.  and  all  telephone 
property  reserved.  Store building  26x62;  warehouse  for  surplus  stock, 
wood, coal  and ice,  12x70;  barn,  24x36, with cement floor;  cement walk; 
heated by  Michigan wood furnace on store floor;  large filter  cistern  and 
water elevated to tank  in bathroom  by  force  pump.  Cost  of  furnace, 
bathtub and fixtures, with plumbing,  $295.  Five  barrel  kerosene  tank 
in cellar with  measuring pump.  Pear  and  apple  trees  between  store 
and bam.  For particulars or for inspection  of  photograph  of  premises 
address or call on TRADESMAN  COMPANY, Qrand  Rapids.

18

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Village  Improvement

Tlie  Winding  Up  of the  Tears  Work.
With  the  changing  of  the leaves, while 
there  still  remains  much  to  be  done,  the 
majority  of  Improvement  Societies  will 
feel  that  the  year's  work  is  over and 
that  now  is  the  time  to  compare  notes 
and  to  sum  up  the  results.  However 
little  has  been  accomplished  that  little 
is  gain  and  'is  so  much  capital  for  be­
ginning  again  in  the  spring.  The great­
est  trial  will be  found  in convincing dis­
couraged  fellow  members  that  the  pres­
ent  condition  of  affairs  is  at  all hopeful. 
They  started  out with  the  expectation  of 
doing  great  things;  and  what  have  they 
done?  The  members  of  the  society  have 
looked  out  for  their  own  yards,  back 
and  front,  and  after  no  end  of  persua­
sion  some  few  friends  have  done  some­
thing  towards  brightening  things  up, 
but  beyond  that  there  has  been 
little 
change.  There  was  not  a  dandelion  the 
less  in  the  front  yards  nor a  weed  the 
less  in  the  streets  and  on  this  fair Octo­
ber day  the  autumn  landscape  is marred 
by  the  empty  seed  cups  of  the  huge 
weeds  that  have  flourished  and  fattened 
upon  the  soii  that  ought  to  have  fed 
something  better.

life. 

In  the  face  of  those  exultant seed cups 
it  may  be  useless  to  insist  that  the  few 
object  lessons  of  the  society  have  ex­
erted  any  influence  upon the  community 
where  they  have  been  given,  but  that  is 
the  fact  nevertheless.  Aside  from  the 
good  it  has  done  to  the  owners  of  the 
cared-for yards not  a  passerby  has  failed 
to  be  benefited  by  the  cheery  sight,  and 
those  who  have  lived  in  the  neighbor­
hood  of  these  yards  have  taken  from 
them 
ideas  which  they  have  carried 
away  with  them  and  made  a  part  of 
their  daily 
I  have  spoken  before 
in  these  columns  of  a  summer garden 
where  the  owner has  set  out  the  wild 
flowers  that  gladdened  his  New  Eng­
land  boyhood.  Among  them  are  some 
purple  asters  which  are  now  showing 
what  rich  soil  will  do  to  plants  that 
have 
living  among  the 
rocks  and  the  poverty  stricken  earth  of 
the  Pilgrim.  The  corner of  the  garden 
given  up  to  them  is  a  mass  of  the  deep­
est  purple  with  here  and  there  a  bit  of 
green,  determined  to have  and  enjoy  a 
little  of  the  fall  sunshine  which  the 
flowers  were  claiming  for  their  own.  A 
day  or  two  ago  a  man  with  a  dinner 
pail,  on  his  way  home  from  work, 
caught  in  passing  a  glimpse  of  the  pur­
ple  flowers  and  stopped  to  ask  if  “ them 
blossoms  ain’t  the  same  that  grow  wild 
down 
in  M aine."  Assured  that  they 
were  and  looking  as  if  nothing  at  that

insisted  upon 

moment  would  do  him  quite  so  much 
good  as  some  of them  a  luxuriant  spray 
of  them  was  put  into  his  delighted 
hands  and  he  went  away  looking  into 
their  royal  depths  and  thinking  only  of 
the  cool  Maine  woods  and  the home that 
he  had  not  seen  for  years. 
I  shall 
not  be  surprised  if  that  man  stops  some 
night  and  asks  for a  root  to  set  out  in 
his  own  back  yard.  After  this  instance 
need  the  members  of  the  Improvement 
Society  give  way  to  despondency? 
It 
requires  the  hopefulness  of  the  optimist 
not  to  be  sometimes  depressed;  but 
here,  as  elsewhere,  it 
is  the  keeping 
verlaslingly  at  it  that  warrants  the  best 
results.  Here 
is  an  instance  that  con­
firms  the  statement.  Some  years  ago 
the  Union  Pacific  Railroad  offered 
prizes  to  the  station  agents  long its lines 
of  road  for the  most  beautiful  grounds 
about  the  stations. 
Interest  was  at  once 
awakened  and  it  has  been  kept  up.  The 
result  is  that  some  of  the  finest  effects 
of  landscape  gardening  are  produced  on 
these  once  repulsive  tracts  of  railroad 
property.  Nebraska 
everywhere 
brightened  with  them.  One  in  partic­
ular took  my  fancy  and  I  have  a  vivid 
mental  picture  of  it  now.  Believing, 
as  I  do,  that  the  influence  of  these 
bright  spots  is  as  catching  as  it  is  civ­
ilizing  I  gave  myself  up  to  the  thought 
that  that  bit  of  garden  paradise  would 
work  upon  the  people  of  that  fortunate 
town  until,  like  the  leaven  in  the  meal, 
the whole would  be  leavened.  The  idea 
took  such  hold  upon  me  that  I  visited 
the  place  and  made  a  careful  examina­
tion  of  it.  Truth  forces  me  to  say,  that 
is  the  only  well-kept 
station  property 
piece  of  ground 
in  that  city  of  some
7,000  souls!  With  that 
lesson  before 
them  those  benighted  people  are  living 
on  streets  choked with weeds and flanked 
with  the  rottenest  of  plank  sidewalks. 
They  live  in  houses  planned  by  skilful 
architects,  but  neglect  and  indifference 
are  seen  everywhere—the  whole  town 
seemingly 
refuting  the  generally  en­
tertained  idea  that  of  all  artists  the 
landscape  gardener  is  surest to make  his

is 

to  prod 

influence  felt  and  always  a  happy  one.
It  did  not take  long  to  find  the  artist 
of  the  station  garden  plot  and  to express 
the  wonder  that  had  taken  possession  of 
me.  With  a  glance  that  took  me  all 
in 
he  said  earnestly  and pleasantly enough, 
“ You  people  from  the  East  forget  that 
you  are  comparing  Western 
life,  a 
quarter  of  a  century  old,  with  the  three 
hundred  years  and  the  results  of  them 
along  the  Atlantic  coast.  Things in this 
line  do  not  move  quickly  with  us,  but 
they  move  all  the  same;  and  I  couldn’t 
do anything  that  would  hustle  me  out  of 
town  so  soon  as  the  tearing  up  of  my 
plot.  You  ought  to  see  ’em  come  here 
and  stand  and  look  at  it  and  then  go 
off  and  praise  it.  They  don’t  copy  it 
because  they  haven’t  got  ready  to ;  but 
they  feel  it  all  right  and  that’s the main 
thing.  Undertake 
’em  and 
they’ll  tell  you  to  mind  your  own  busi­
ness.  Just  let  ’em  alone  and  the  thing’ll 
work  itself  out  all  right. 
In  five  years 
if  you  happen  around  here  things’ll  be 
different.  There’ll  be  trees  and  stone 
walks  and  grass  and  trim  yards  and  all 
that  sort  o’  thing  and  you  won’t  know 
the  place.  The  idea  has  to  get  ’way  in 
it  can  take  root  and  begin  to 
before 
grow;  but  it’ll  do  it. 
It’s  as  true  now 
as 
it  ever  was:  anything  beautiful 
doesn't  get  stale’ ’ —is  that  Western  for 
“ A  thing  of  beauty  is  a  joy  forever?”  
its  surroundings 
— “ and 
beautiful 
it  a  chance." 
There  is  no  fault  to  find  with  that  phil­
it  is  repeated  here  to  point 
osophy  and 
the  moral  which  every 
improvement 
society  can  ponder  with  advantage,  that 
however  little  has  apparently  been  ac­
complished  that  little  will  tell  “ if  you 
give 
it  a  chance"  and  don’t  get  dis­
couraged  because  it  isn’t  done 
imme­
diately. 

it’ll  make 
if  you  give 

R.  M.  Streeter.

R em oving  to   th e  L an d   o f Flow ers.
Oscar  F.  Conklin  has  transferred  his 
residence  at  26  Madison  avenue  to  Geo. 
F.  Sinclair, for a consideration-of $7,000, 
and  will  shortly  remove  his  household 
effects  to  Los  Angeles,  Cal.,  where  the

family  will  reside  hereafter.  He  will 
take  with  him  the  family  horse  and  a 
sufficient  amount  of  quarter  sawed  oak 
and  maple flooring for  the  interior  finish 
of  the  residence  he  proposes  to  erect  at 
Los  Angeles  on  a  lot  he  purchased  for

that  purpose  on  the  occasion  of  his 
visit  to  California.

last 

Mr.  Conklin  has  resided  in  Michigan 
for  about  forty  years  and  his  removal  to 
the  Land  of  the  Setting  Sun  is  the  oc­
casion  for  general  regret  on  the  part  of 
many  friends.  He  has  been  successful 
in  every  field  which  be  has  invaded— 
farming,  merchandising,  real  estate  and 
banking.  He  possesses  rare  business 
qualifications  and  his  judgment  of  men 
and  methods  is  seldom  questioned.

Severe  P en a lty .

“ And  you  positively  refuse  to  accept 
the  soup  because  my  thumb  was  in  it?" 
enquired  the  educated  waiter  of  the 
hotel  guest.

me?”   enquired  the  waiter  gloomily.

“ Take  it  away,”   said  the  guest.
“ Do  you  know  what  this  means  for 
“ Your  discharge?"
“ No,  not  my  discharge.  It means that 

I  must  eat  the  stuff!"

And  snatching  up  the  dish,  he  bore  it 

hastily  away.

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19

O UTSIDE  THE  ASYLUMS.

Som e  S to rek eep ers  W ho  S hould  H ave 

G u ard ian s  A ppointed.

An  article 

in  a  recent  issue  of  the 
Tradesman  contained  so  much  truth that 
I  was  surprised  that  the  writer could 
crowd  it  into  so  short  a  space. 
1  allude 
to  the  one  which  says  that  retail  gro­
cers,  as  a  rule,  do  not  know  enough  to 
select  their own  goods.  The  writer  was 
evidently  afraid  he  would  tread  on some 
one’s  toes,  for  he  put  bis  assertions  in 
the  mildest  manner.  He could have used 
a  good  deal  harder  words  than  he  did, 
however,  and  not  hurt  me  a  hit. 
I  am 
not  as  sensitive  about  some  things  as  I 
I  know  now  that  I  have  fail­
was  once. 
ings, 
’em  and  my  own  weak 
points.  Those  I  know  about  I  can  guard 
against,  but  what  about the  rest?

lots  of 

I 

see  one  of  those  specialty  fellows 

coming  in  with  his  little  square  grip, 
once  in  a  while,  who  makes  me  want  to 
take  to  the  woods.  Why  I  don’t,  heaven 
only  knows.

“ Is  the  buyer  in?”  asks Mr.  Specialty 
Man  with  an  enchanting  smile,  and  I, 
being  of  a  truthful  turn,  admit  that  he 
is,  and  that  I  am  the  criminal.

“ Ah,  delighted,”   says  he  poking  a 
cold,  slippery  wab  of  a  hand  into mine. 
“ I  am  the  representative  of  the  Collins- 
Hatch  Extract  C o.,”   he  adds,  with  an 
expression  that  plainly  says,  “ guess 
you  won’t  get  over  that  in  a  hurry.”  
But,  having  never  heard  of  the  Collins- 
Hatch  Co.,  and  wishing  all  the  time 
that  they  and  their  distinguished  repre­
sentative,  evidently  on  his  first  trip,  had 
been  drowned  while  young,  I  try  to  as­
sume  an  even  more  than  usual  expres­
sion  of 
imbecility,  and  say.  with  a 
slightly  rising  inflection,  “ Oh?”

Sometimes  I  think  be  seems  a  trifle 
disappointed  at  this,  and  if  he  does,  I 
begin  to  feel  just  the  least  little  bit  like 
relenting,  but  if  he  goes  on  in  his  su­
perior  way,I  am  still  able  to  handle  the 
next  stage  of  the  game  to  my  own  satis­
faction.

“ Whose  extracts  are  you  handling  at 

present?”   he  asks.

“ Hay?”
“ I  say  what  line  of  extracts  are  you 

selling  now?”

“ Don’t  handle  ’em.”
“ What?  You  don’t  sell  extracts? 
Why,  man,  with  a  stock  like  yours  you 
ought  to  have  a  big 
line  and  sell  all 
kinds. ”

“ No,  we  don’t  care for  ’em.  There’s 

no  trade  here  for  anything  like  that.”  

“ Why,  you  must  be  crazy. 

Surely 
some  enterprising  merchant  in  this busy 
town  is  coining  money at  your  expense. 
However,  I’ll  take 
just  a  moment  of 
your 
time  and  show  you  something 
that’ll  do  you  more  good  than  anything 
you  ever  put  in  stock.  Now  here’s  our 
two  ounce  full  measure,  double  concen­
trated  lemon  extract,  warrant— ”

“ Oh,  is  that  what  you  call  extract?”  
“ Why,  sure.”
"O h !”
“ What  did  you  think  it  was?”  
“ Upbere  we  always call it flavoring.”  
“ Ha,  ha,  well,  that’s  a  good  enough 
name,  too.  And  it’s  all  right,  only  we 
in  the  city  have  got  into the  habit  of 
calling 
‘ extract.’  So  extract  is  the 
generic  term  used  by  the  trade  for 
lemon,  vanilla,  orange,  pineapple,  rose 
and  many  other  common  and  uncom­
mon  extracts  which  are  used  for  flavor­
ing 
ices,  confectionery  and 
so  on. ’ ’

“ All  right,  I’m  very  much  obliged, 
I’m  sure,  but  we  have  all  the  extracts 
we  need  for the  present. 
I’ll  remember 
the  name  so  that  I’ll  know  when  the

cakes, 

it 

next  man  comes  along  and  not  make 
him  so  much  trouble.”

“ No  trouble  at  all,  to  me.  By  the 
way,  what  brand  of  flavorings  do  you 
sell?”

“ We  sell  the  Humming  Bird  brand.”
“ What!”   he  says  in  evident  surprise, 
and  with  fine  scorn  in  his  voice,  “ You 
sell  the  Humming  Bird  goods?  Do  peo­
ple  really  use  them?”

“ Yes,  they  use  a  few  of  ’em.  You see 
folks  here  are  so  glad  to  get  anything  at 
all  that  they  aren’t  very  particular  what 
they  buy.  Most  anything  goes  at  our 
store. ’ ’

“ A  very  good  way  to  have  your  trade 
educated,  I’m  sure,  but  just think  what 
a  difference  it  would  make  if you should 
give  the  people  a  really  good  article  for 
the  same  money.  Now,  we  have  tested 
our  goods 
repeatedly  alongside  the 
Humming  Bird  brand,  and  there  has 
never  been  any  comparison  between  the 
two. 
In  every  single  instance  we  have 
knocked  it  cold.  Of  course  if  you  are 
bound  to  sell  cheap  goods  we  have  the 
Scalper  brand,  which  we  make  our­
selves  and  can  therefore  guarantee  it  to 
be  in  every  respect  equal  to  the  Hum­
ming  Bird,  but  I  never  offer  it  unless  a 
man  wants  something  cheap.  With  us 
quality  comes  before  everything  else. 
Now  I  have  a  little  proposition  that  I 
want  to  make  you  this  morning  that  you 
will  never  have  offered  again. 
I  am 
only  making  this  to  one  man  in  a  town, 
and  strictly  to  new  trade,  for  where  we 
are  known  we  do  not  need  to  push  our 
goods  at  all.  Our customers  always  send 
in  mail  orders  for  what  they  want,  and 
I  confine  my  efforts  to  new  territory. 
Now  my  proposition  is  this:”

“ Yes,  but  you  see 

it  won’t  do  any 
good  to  talk  extracts  to  me,  for  we  have 
enough  to  last  until  the  Fourth  of  July. 
We  have  eighteen  gross  of  lemon  and 
sixteen  of  vanilla,  besides  an  assort­
ment  of the nnusual flavors good for three 
years.  What  we  need  is  a  bigger outlet 
for  what  we  have  on  band.”

“ Ah,but  wait  until you hear  my  prop­

osition.  What  — ”

“ All  the  proposition  I  am  willing  to 
is  one  that  will  deplete  our 
listen  to 
present  stock.  If  you  are  willing  to  take 
what  we  have  on  hand  at  regular  retail 
prices,  we  can  talk  business.  Otherwise 
it  will only  be  a  waste  of  valuable  time. 
Besides  that  I  have  to  move  a  piano  for 
the  church  social  we’re  going  to  have 
to-morrow  night.  Wish  you  could  stay 
over and  attend.  There  will  be  some 
pretty  good  games  and  a  season  of men­
tal  and  moral  elevation  and  a  spiritual 
re-union  that  would  do  you  good.  The 
charge  will  be  only  ten  cents,  and  a  re­
past  thrown  in  that’s  warranted  equal  to 
anything  you  can  get  at  the  best  hotels 
in  the  large  cities.  Besides,  there  will 
be  the  excitement  incident  to  drawing 
a  partner  for supper.  Think  you’d  bet­
ter  stay  over?”

“ 1  would  like  above  all  things  to  re­
in 
main,  but  you  see  I  have  a  mission 
life  which 
is  not  entirely  one  of  love, 
and  the  bread  and  butter  side  of  the 
question  is  the  one  that  interests me just 
now. 
I  won't  take  but  three  minutes  of 
your  time,  but  I  know  you’ll  be  well 
pleased  with  the  prop— ”

“ Going  to buy  our extracts?”
“ I’d  like  to,  but— ”
“ Say,  see  that  lunatic  out  there  with 
the  knee  sprung  sorrel?  Well,  he’s  got 
an  idea  that  skate  can  trot.  Now  I’ve 
a  little  brown  filly  at  the  barn  that  can 
go  all  around  it  and  never  know  she's 
doing  a  turn. 
If  you  want  to  make  a 
few  cases,  just  go  and  bet  that  feller  a 
hundred  his  hoss  is  9  (lead  one  and

mine’ll  distance  him 
in  a  mile  heat. 
Then  if  you  don't  find  it  the  best  day’s 
work  you  ever  did  I’ll  buy  a  sample  or­
der  of  your  extracts  if I  have  to  use  ’em 
up  for  spavin  cure. 

Is  it  a  go?”

But  the  specialty  man,  suddenly  re­
membering  a  pressing  engagement  in  a 
neighboring  town,  abruptly  took  his 
departure.

I  never  owned  a  horse  in  my  life,  but 
that  imaginary  steed  in  his  imaginary 
stall  has  helped  me  out  of  many  a  tight 
place  and  seldom  fails to  dislodge  the 
over-persistent  specialty  man  on his first 
trip.

What  I  am  getting  at  is  this:  Most 
of  us  in  the  retail  grocery  business  de­
pend  a  great  deal  on  the  impression  the 
traveling  salesman  makes  upon  us. 
If 
we  meet  a  new  man  and  he  is  just  our 
sort,  we  are  apt  to  be  “ easy,”  and often 
buy  articles,  the  quality  of  which  we  do 
not  know,are perhaps  incapable of  judg­
ing—and  possibly  do  not  need,  prin­
cipally  for  the  sake  of  being  considered 
pretty  good  fellows.  Of  course,  we  do 
not  admit  this  even  to  ourselves,  and 
we  resent  with  warmth  imputations  of 
this  nature  from  our  better  halves, but  it 
is  too  often  true,  nevertheless.

On  the  other  hand  we  may  turn  down 
a  good  house  and  excellent  goods  that 
we  either  need  or  will  have  use  for 
very  soon,  just  because  we  do  not  hap­

pen  to  fancy  the  manner  in  which  the 
salesman  approaches  us.

The  fact  is,  there  is  a  whole  lot  of  us 
still  outside  the 
lunatic  asylums,  who 
should  either  be  incarcerated  at  once  or 
else  have  good  and  efficient  guardians 
appointed  to  look  after  our  affairs.

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destroying 
little  hands.  On  the  glum 
table,  where  the  children  eat  in silence, 
are  only  the  wholesome,  tasteless  messes 
that  are  so  good  for  our  digestion  and 
so  bad  to  our  palate.  The  children 
grow  up  with  no  confidences  between 
themselves  and  their  parents,  and  what 
should  be  the  tenderest  and  most  prec­
ious  tie  in  life  becomes  nothing  but  a 
chafing  fetter.

Now,  between  the  no-rule  family  and 
the  too-much-rule  family  there  is  surely 
a  golden  mean,  and  the  most 
import­
ant  thing  on  earth  to  every  father and 
mother  is  to  find  it.  It  is  not  an  easy 
thing  to  do. 
Indeed,  nothing  could  be 
more  difficult  than  to  find  just  the  point 
at  which  indulgence, should  cease  and 
firmness  begin— just  how  far to  let  the 
spirited  young  steed  have  its  head  and 
where  to  draw  the  reins  and  make  it 
feel  it  has  a  master.  The  iron  hand  in 
the  velvet  glove  is  the  ideal  of  family 
government,  as  well  as  state.

life 

A  year  or  two  ago  I  attended  a  big 
mothers'  congress  where  they 
spent 
hours  discussing whether a parent  should 
say  “ must’ ’  to  a  child. 
It  seemed  to 
me  to  be  the  very  quintessence  of 
idiocy,  when 
is  one  long  “ must”  
to  every  one  of  us.  Neither  do  I  be­
lieve  in  hiring  children  to  do  the  things 
they  ought  to  do  or  deceiving  them  by 
telling  them  that  a  bitter  draught  is 
sweet.  The  child  that  is  taught  to  do  a 
thing  simply  because  it  is  bis  duty,  and 
it  is  right  to  do  it,  and  to  stand  up 
bravely  and  take  his  bitter  dose  in  life, 
has  been  given  the  backbone  of  which 
success  is  made  in  this  world.  He  is  no 
weakling  who  wiil  give  in  at  tbe  first 
hardship.  He 
is  the  vertebrate  man 
who  fights  the  good  fight  and  wins  tbe 
victory.

Yet—and  here  comes  in  the  necessity 
for  an  appreciation  of  the  golden  me­
dium  in  family  government— it  is  worse 
than  folly,  it  is  a  crime,  for the  parent 
to  constrain a child  against every natural 
impulse.  Thousands  of  the  failures  in 
life  are  the  direct  result  of  a  father or 
mother  trying  to  make  one  thing  of  a 
child  when  nature  had  made  something 
else.  Because 
it  is  a  tradition  in  the 
family  for  the  oldest  son  to  be  a  pro­
fessional  man,  some  poor  lad,  all  of 
whose  talents 
lean  to  trade,  is  set  out 
on  a  career  of  murder  as  a  doctor  or  of 
boring  people  as  a  preacher  or  of  fail­
ure  as  a  lawyer  or because  a  man  wants 
his  son  to  succeed  him  in  the  business 
he  has  built  up  he  tears  him away from 
the  books  he 
loves  and  the  profession 
he  would  honor  and  chucks  him  into  a 
counting  house,  where  he  wastes  his 
life  and  ends  in  bankruptcy.  We  see 
this  tragedy  of  misapplied  parental 
power every  day,  and  the wonder  is  that 
after  counting  the  wrecks  all  about  us, 
so  many  people  should  still  believe  that 
they  can  work  a  miracle  in  their  own 
children  and  make  a  square  peg  fit  into 
a  round  bole.

No  hard  and  fast  laws  can  he  laid 
down  for  family  government,  because 
so  many  problems  depend  on  the  tem­
perament  of  the  child,  and  a  curious  il­
lustration  of  this  was  afforded  a  few 
weeks  ago  in  New  York  in  the  case  of 
a  young  girl  who  ran  away  from  home 
for  the  third  time  because  her  mother 
forced  her  to  do  the  dishwashing.  Of 
course,  the  mother  argued,  reasonably 
enough,  that  it  was  the  girl’s  duty  to 
help  about  the  housework,  but  a  little 
tact,  a  substitution  of  some  other  work 
for the  hated  task,  would  have  settled 
the  matter  happily  for  all  concerned.

Certainly  I  do  not  think  that  a  child, 
unless  there 
is  the  direct  necessity  for 
such  a  thing,  should  be  forced  to  do 
anything  especially  repugnant  to  her. 
There’s  plenty  of  work  in  the  world  for 
us  all  to  find  a  congenial  task.

Between  the  parents  who  do  not  con­
trol  their  children  and  the  ones  who 
rule  them  with  a  rod  of  iron  there  is 
generally  a  strangely  similar  result  in 
the  way  the  children  turn  out.  The 
children  who  have  been  repressed  at 
every  turn  go  to  excesses  because  they 
are  mad  with  the  first 
intoxicating 
draught  of  liberty,  and  extremes  have 
met.

A  woman  said  to  me  once,  speaking 
bitterly  of  her  wrecked 
life,  “ My 
mother  might  have  saved  me  this  if  she 
had  only  taught  me  self-control.”   At 
another  time  I  heard  a  man  say,  “ The 
deepest  regret  of  my  life  is  that  I  never 
knew  my  father. 
I  know,  now,  that  I 
am  middle-aged  myself,  that  he  was  a 
man  of  wonderful  intellect,a  great  heart 
and  soul  that  doubtless  hungered  for  my 
love  and  companionship,  but  he  raised 
me  to  fear  and  dread  him  as  a  child, 
by  the time  I  was  grown  and  no 
long­
er  afraid  of  him,  a  wall  of  ice  bad 
grown  up  between  us  that  neither  could 
break  down,  and  in  all  my  life  I  never 
had  one  free  conversation  with  him.”  
Of  the  two  speeches  I  do  not  know 
which  was  the  sadder.

Between  the  two  extremes  of  regard­
ing  a  child  as  a  plaything  to  be  petted 
and  indulged  and a little slave to be bull­
dozed  and  tyrannized  over,  there  is  a 
golden  medium  of  companionship where 
the  parent  is  loved  and  respected,  and 
no  father  or  mother  is  doing  their  duty 
unless  they  find  it. 

Dorothy  Dix.

Woman’s World

W om an’s  In a b ility   to   S trik e   tb e   H ap p y  

M edium .

It  is,  of  course,  a  platitude  to  say 
that  the  medium  course  is  always  the 
path  of  wisdom.  One  extreme  is  just 
as  far  from  the  right  as  the  other,  and 
the  opposite  poles  of  opinion  are  equal­
ly  wrong.  Between  a  Mrs.  Nation 
smashing  other  people’s  property  with 
a  hatchet,  because  they  do  not  agree 
with  her  on  the  temperance  question, 
and  a  drunkard  spending  for  liquor  the 
money  that  belongs  to bis  family  there 
is  not  much  to  choose.  The  man  who 
lives only  for  pleasure  is  not  more  fool­
ish  than  the  one  who  shuts  himself  off 
from  all  tbe  sunshine  and  joy  of  life.

Unfortunately— I  say  it  with  bitter  re­
gret—the  virtue  of  moderation  is  one 
not  often  possessed  by  my  sex.  We  are 
extremists  in  everything  and  when  we 
do  a  thing  we  are  almost  sure  to  overdo 
it.  We  are  fanatics  in  religion,  partisan 
in  politics  and  fools  in  love,  and  one  of 
the  reasons  we  get  hurt  so  often 
is  be­
cause  we  have  not  yet  found  out  tbe 
saving  grace  of  taking  everybody  and 
everything  with  a  pinch  of  allowance. 
We  have  still  to 
learn  tbe  wisdom  of 
discounting  our  faith  and  our affections.
You  do  not  have  to  look  far to  see 
how  this  tendency  to  run  everything 
into  the  ground  affects  women.  Let  a 
woman  be  noted  as  a  good  housekeeper 
and  she  becomes  such  a  monomanaic on 
order  and  .cleanliness  she  makes  her 
home  as  uncomfortable  as a reformatory. 
Let  her  be 
in  the  public 
movements  of  the  day  and  nine  times 
out  of  ten  she  will  “ club"  herself to 
death  or  bring  on  nervous  prostration 
running  around  after  meetings.  Let  her 
be  a  working  woman  and  she  is  not  sat 
isfied  with  doing  a  hard  day’s  work— 
she  adds  a  society  or  housekeeping  an­
nex  that  breaks  her  down  in  her  prime. 
Let  her  be  a  church  woman  and  she 
preaches  and  nags  at  you  until  you  fly 
to the  company  of  easy-going  sinners.

interested 

Half  of  women's  failures  and  most  of 
their  unhappiness  come  from  overdo­
ing  things,  for  there  is  a  time  to quit, 
as  well  as  a  time  to  do.  Many  a  wife 
loses  her  point  from  her  determination 
to  have  the  last  word  in  tbe  argument. 
Much  of  woman’s 
influence  is  wasted 
because  she  does  not  know  when  to  stop 
is  a 
rubbing 
in  good  advice.  There 
certain  psychological  moment  up 
to 
which  we  are  tenderly  receptive  of  the 
counsel  of  the  woman  who  loves  us,  but 
if  she  passes  that  her  entreaties,  her 
prayers,  her  very  anxiety  about  us  be­
comes  an  offensive  persecution  that 
makes  us  mulish.

Nowhere •  else,  however,  is  woman’s 
inability  to  strike  the  happy  medium  so 
apparent  as 
in  the  way  she  raises  her 
children.  There  are  two  distinct  schools 
of  child  culture. 
In  one  the  children 
rule  the  house.  They  monopolize  the 
floor and  dominate  the  conversation  and 
are  beastly  little  autocrats  who  know  no 
law  but their  own  sweet  will.  Nobody 
attempts  to  guide  or  control  them  and 
the  mother  is  merely  an  adoring  slave 
that  they  trample  upon  at  pleasure.

is 

school 

The  other 

the  direct 
The  parents  are 
antithesis  of  this. 
tyrants  who  arbitrarily  enforce their will 
upon  their  children.  The  home 
is  a 
gloomy  prison  from  which  the  boys  and 
girls  escape  at  the  earliest  possible  mo­
ment.  No  childish  visitors  are  allowed 
because  they  make  noise  and  dirt.  All 
of  the  pretty  things 
in  the  house  are 
shut away  from  admiring  little  eyes  and

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fere  with  the  proper  breathing  and  offer 
a  lodgment  to  noxious  bacilli.
^M:-ny  signs  show  that  these'reforms 
are  already 
in  the  air  in  Paris,  and 
conturieres  report  that  French  women 
demand  more  and  more  every  day 
"hygienic  outfits,”   while  it 
is  prin­
cipally  foreign  customers  from  E ng­
land,  the  United  States  and  Germany 
who  still  demand  clothes  made  on  the 
old  and  unhealthy  fashions.

Parallel  with  the  development  of  cos­
tumes,  M.  Uzanne  is  investigating  re­
ports  of 
the  French  health  boards, 
which,  he declares,  are prepared  to  urge, 
and 
if  necessary,  to  insist,  on  a  modi­
fication  of  female  dress  for the  sake  of 
the  coming  generation.

“ Heretofore,”   he  continued,  "the 
matter  of  dress  reform  has  been  left  to 
the 
initiative  of  women,  but  so  little 
has  been  accomplished  that  the  day  is 
not  far  distant  when  laws  will  be  made 
on  the  subject. 
It  is  safe  to  say  that  no 
later  than  1920  French  women,  and 
therefore  the  women  of  the  whole world, 
will  forsake  the  abuses  which  are  tend­
ing  to  ruin  the  race  of  mankind.”

The  money  order  business  conducted 
by  the  Postoffice  Department  now  av­
erages  about $1,000,000  per  day,  yet  tbe 
losses  during  the  past  year  were  only 
$ 1 7 4 .   Considering  the  enormous  aggre­
gate  the  loss  is  probably  less  than  in 
any  business  of  equal  magnitude  in  the 
world.  Yet  it  was  once  seriously  pro­
posed  to  take  the  postal  business  of  the 
country  out  of  the  hands  of  the  Govern­
ment  and  give 
it  to  the  express  com­
panies,  on  the  ground  that  they  could 
conduct  it  cheaper  and  better.  The 
Postoffice  Department  is  a  conspicuous 
example  of  the  success  that  is  possible 
in  the  management  of  public  affairs  in 
all  departments. 
V  -J.

______  

T R IA L S  A ND  TROUBLES

W h ich   C on fro n t  th e   Sew ing M achine Col­

lecto r.

Said  the  manager of  the  sewing  ma­

chine  agency:

in  my 

“ Lots  of  men  who  are  first  class  when 
it  comes  to  selling  to  the  trade,  are  not 
worth  their  salt  in  a  house-to-house can­
vass. 
In  the  one  case  a  man  sticks  bis 
head  into  the office  of  the buyer of  a  big 
store,  and  nodding  says: 
‘ Need  any­
thing 
line?  No?  Well,  then 
some  other  day.  So  long!’  But  when 
a  man 
is  canvassing  for  sewing  ma­
chines  he  must  depend  largely  upon  his 
persuasive  powers;  his  ability  to con­
vince  a  woman  that  she  wants and needs 
a  sewing  machine—whether  she wants  it 
or  not.

“ Goodness  me!  there  are  cases  where 
a  woman  needs  a  sewing  machine  des­
perately  bad  and  yet  the  slickest  man 
we  have  can  not 
induce  her  to  buy. 
And  there  are  other  women  who  have 
about  as  much  use  for  a  machine  as  a 
monkey  has 
for  a  violin,  but  the  fit 
comes  on  the  capricious  creature  and 
she  buys.

“ Hard  as  it  is  to  sell  a  machine,  the 
real  fun  of  the  business  comes  in  when 
the  solicitor  is  making  his  weekly  col­
lections.  It  is  all  sorts  of  sights  we  see, 
and  ail  kinds  of  tales  of  woe  we  hear 
to  explain  why  the  regular  weekly  pay­
ment  is  not  made.

“ I  once  sold  a  machine  to  a  Cuban- 
woman.verv  dark  but  with straight hair. 
She  and  her  husband  and  all  their 
friends  were  cigarmakers.  For a  time 
she  made  her  payments  all  right,  until 
one  week— I  shall  never  forget the shock 
the  sight  gave  me  when  1  walked 
into 
the  room.  In  the  middle  of  the  floor  lay 
a  dead  g irl;  and  around  the  corpse were 
seated  all  the  family  and  their  friends, 
all  hands,  men,  women  and  children, 
smoking;  which  I  concluded  was  the 
Cuban  way  of  keeping  a  wake.

“ All  that  I  could  understand  of  what 
they  said  was: 
‘ Next  Monda,’  upon 
which  day  I  called  again.  The  woman 
handed  me  a  two-dollar  bill,for  which  1 
wrote  a  receipt,  and  put  the  money 
in 
my  pocket,  but  the  woman  kept  shak­
ing  her  head  and  saying,  ‘ No,  no.’ 
I 
finally  found  a  girl  that  could  talk  Eng­
lish,  and  she  told  me  that the  Cuban 
woman  would  be  glad  to  pay  $2,  but 
she  could  not  spare  it. 
‘ Very- 
well,  I  have  given  her  the  company’s 
receipt  for  $2,  and  that  she  may  keep 
her  credit  good  there,  without  being  too 
short,  I,  as  a  friend,  will 
lend  her  a 
dollar.’  All  hands  were  pleased.  The 
next  week  I  received  $2  and  a  cigar, 
and  every  week  thereafter  $i  and  a 
cigar,  until  the  account  was  cleared.

I  said: 

“ It  does  not  always  go  as  rosy  as 
that,  though.  The  one  expression  that 
a  collector hears  more  frequently  than 
any  other  is,  ‘ Next  week.’  One  of  my 
customers  proved  a  veritable  thorn  in 
the  flesh  to  me. 
It  was  ‘ next  week,’  or 
she  was  out,  or  there  was  no  response 
to  my  ring,  more  than  half  of  the  time. 
After  I  had  been  there about six straight 
weeks  without  seeing  anybody,  I  sat 
down  on  the  steps  and  began  to  study 
the  architecture  of  the  house.

“ Then  I  went  downstairs  to  the  first 
floor  and  through  a  window  out on  a 
rear fire-escape,  which  I  mounted  to the 
fourth  floor,  where  my  not-at-home  cus­
tomer 
lived.  There  she  sat,  as  big  as 
life  and  twice  as  natural,  with  two  boon 
companions  over a  pint,  all  quite  merry 
at  my  expense  no  doubt.

“ Nothing  dashed,  my  customer  got 
up  from  the  table  and  came  and  raised 
the  window,  at  the  same  time  saying.

P assin g   o f th e  C orset, V eil a n d  L ong S k irt.
According  to  M.  Octave  Uzanne,  a 
well-known  critic  of  Parisian  life  and 
manners,  the  French  capital  is  destined 
to  lose  before  long its  renown  in  matters 
of  feminine  dress,  since  the  French 
woman’s  costume 
is  rapidly  approach­
ing  the  convenience  and  hygienic  char­
acter of  masculi ne  attire.

M.  Uzanne,  who  has  made  a  close 
study  of tbe  gradual  evolution  of French 
modes,  declares  in  an  article  which 
has  just  appeared  in  the Revue Contem­
poraine 
that  before  ten  years  have 
elapsed  rigidly  short  skirts  will  become 
the  fashion  on  all  occasions,  while  cor- 
| sets  will  be 
long  abandoned  and  tbe 
custom  of  wearing  veils  long  prohibited 
by  the  health  department.  M.  Uzanne 
bases  his  prophecies  on  the  evident 
gradual 
ideas  of 
feminine  modesty  and  also  on  the  pres­
sure  brought  by  sane  and  scientific 
ideals  of  health.

correction  of  false 

The  French  women's  clubs 

indig­
nantly  try  to  refute  the  conclusions  of 
this  critic,  who  recently  further  devel­
oped  his  convictions  as  follows :

It  has  been  practically  proved  that 
many  women’s  diseases  originate  in  the 
custom  of  wearing 
long  skirts,  which 
sweep 
tbe  dust,  collect  malignant 
germs,  insuring  later their  lodgment  in 
the  body,  while  the  evils 
resulting 
from  corsets  are  too  familiar  to  need 
emphasis.

fatal  operations,  and 

The  modern  corset  is  a  tyrant  im­
posed  by  bad  taste,  causing  terrible  dis­
orders  and 
is 
therefore  bound  to  give  place  to  light, 
supple,  physiological  belts,  conforma- 
tive  to  the  respiratory  movements  and 
permitting  bodily  development,  while 
allowing  normal  action  of  the  gastro­
nomic  functions.  Health  boards  are  go­
ing  to  absolutely  forbid the'use  of  veils, 
which  destroy  or  harm  the  sight,  inter-

‘ Well,  come  in! 
I’m  at  home.  You’ve 
caught  me. ’  But  I  never  got  such  a 
tongue-lashing 
in  all  my  experience. 
She  made  a  payment  because  I  prac­
tically  refused  to  go  without  one;  but 
she  swore  that  she  would  never  make 
another  one  to  m e;  said  she  would  re­
port  me  at  the  office  for  being  imper­
tinent  and  insulting,  which  she  did.

long  and  was  a 

“ I  hadn't  been  collecting  for the com­
pany  very 
little  in 
doubt  myself  how  my  conduct  would  be 
viewed. 
I  can  see  the  twinkle  in  the 
old  man’s  eye  now  when  he said,  “ Con­
fine  yourself  as  much  as  circumstances 
will  permit  to  gentlemanly  language. 
But  if  you  climbed  the  fire-escape 
lad­
der  four  stories  and  then  made  a  collec­
tion,  I  guess  vou’11  do.’

“ It  is  simply 

impossible  to tell  by 
the 
looks  of  a  woman  or  her  home 
whether  she  will  be  good  pay  or not.  I 
think  that,  as  a  rule,  those  of  the  labor­
ing  class  whose  earnings  are  small  and 
who  put  by  their  single  dollar  every 
week  average  up  the  best. 
I  know  one 
of the  most  difficult  women  to  make  col­
lections  from  that  I  ever  had  on  my  list 
had  money  to  loan  on  bond  and  mort­
gage.  She  help  back  until  she  was  six 
weeks  in  arrears.

“ I  happened  to 

learn  that  she  had 
had  a  mortgage  of  several  thousand  dol­
lars  paid  off;  so  1  hastened  to  her,  sure 
that  she  would  pay  up  the  balance  due. 
How  much  do  you  think  she  paid?  Just 
$ i;  and  that  too  after  more  than  half  an 
hour  of  wrangling.  She  placidly  told 
me  that  she  had  the  mortgage  money for 
reinvestment,  where  it  would  be earning 
something,  not  to  pay  into  the  pockets 
of  a  sewing  machine  company  that  had 
more  millions  than  it  knew  what  to  do 
with.

“ Yes,  the  company  is  rich  and  pros­
perous  and  it  makes  reasonable  conces­
sions  to  its  customers  and  never  takes  a 
machine  away  if  there  is  any  prospect 
of  the  woman’s  paying  for  it.  As  for 
rather  delicate  woman 
instance,  a 
bought  a  machine. 
She  was  by  no 
means  able  to  make  her  payments 
promptly,  but  ultimately  she  got  all 
paid  except $16.  She  was  taken  ill  and 
had  to  go  into  a  hospital  for  an  opera­
tion.  She  wrote  to  the  office  and  asked 
us  to send  for  the  machine  and  keep 
it 
for  her  until  she  got  well.
I 
“ The  machine  Was  in  storage  with  us 
more  than  a  year,  all  of  which  time  we 
had  not  heard  a  word  from  the  owner. 
Finally  it  was  taken  all  to  pieces  and 
put  together  again,  practically  a  new 
machine.  No  sooner  was  this  job  nice­
ly  finished,  than  we  got  a  letter  from 
the  woman,  who  had  at  last  got  well 
enough  to  work  a 
little  once  more. 
Well,  the  company  sent  her  the  new 
machine  and  she paid the remaining  $16 
at  her  convenience.” — N.  Y.  Sun.

I n   th e   H e a rt  o f th e   W oods.

Such beautiful things in tbe heart of  the woods!
Such love of the birds in the solitudes,

Flowers and ferns and the soft green moss; 
W here  the  swift  winds  glance  and  the  tree 

tops toss;

Spaces of silence swept with song,
Spaces where myriad creatures throng.

Which nobody hears but the God above; 
Sunning themselves in his guarding love.

Such safety and peace in the heart of the  woods, 
Far from tbe city’s dust and din,
Where passion nor hate of man intrudes,
Nor f <shlon nor folly has entered in.
Deeper than hunter’s trail hath gone 
Glimmers the tarn where the wild  deer drink; 
And fearless and free comes the gentle fawn,
To peep at herself o’er the grassy brink.

Such pledge of love in the heart of the woods!
For the Maker of all things keeps the feast, 
And ov> r the tiny floweret broods 
With care that for ages has never ceased.
If be cares for this, will he not for  thee—
Thee, wb> rever thou are to-day?
Child of an infinite Father,  see;
And safe in such gentlest keeping stay.

M argaret Sangster.

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

2 2

W h ere  th e   T a lk   Is   A ll  A b o u t  O ysters.
Patchogue  is  one  of  the  ports  of Great 
It  is  in  Suffolk  county,  L.
South  Bay. 
I. 
It  is  also  one  of  the  meeting  places 
of  the  board  which  looks  after  the  in­
terests  of  Suffolk  county, 
chief  of 
which  is the  Blue  Point  oyster.

The  shell  of  a  Blue  Point  is  on  the 
stationery,  the  calendars,  the  signs  on 
the  windows  and  the  wagons  of  Pach- 
ogue.  Some  of the  jewelry  worn  by  men 
is  the  shape  of  an  oyster,  or  an  oyster 
are 
shell.  Oysters 
in 
Patchogue  as  goats 
in  Harlem.  The 
mounds  in  the  yards  of  the  homes  are 
heaps  of  oyster  shells.

as  common 

When  a  visitor goes to  Patchogue they 
ask  him  to  have  an  oyster.  When  two 
men  meet  to  shake  dice,  it  is  for  the 
oysters.  Oyster 
shells  are  used  for 
poker  chips in Patchogue.  Paperweights 
are  made  of  oyster  shells.  When  two 
farmers  of  Suffolk  county  meet  on  the 
road  they  do  not  talk  about  the  crops 
as  farmers 
in  other  places  do,  but the 
question 
is,  “ How  many  oysters  did 
you  tong?”   or,  “ Are  you  going  out 
tonging  to-day?”

Women  in  society  talk  about  the  best 
The  school 
way  to  prepare  oysters. 
children  know  that  the  eagle  is  the  bird 
of  freedom,  but  they  talk  as  if  the  na­
tional  emblem  ought  to  be  the  oyster.

Patchogue  is  a  law  abiding  town;  but 
occasionally  somebody  gets  into 
the 
lock-up.  The  charge  is  robbing  some­
body’s  oyster  lot  in  the  bay.  Most  of 
the  fines  collected  are  for  violation  of 
the  oyster  laws.  Most  of  the  stories  are 
about  oysters.  A  man  never  tells  a  fish 
story  in  Patchogue. 
It  is  always  about 
oysters.  The  other  day  the  County 
Board  had  a  meeting  at Patchogue.  One 
of the  members  was  late  coming  in.

“ I  had  to  take  a  dead  man  to  his 
home,”   said  the  Suffolk  Solon. 
“ I 
picked  him  up  down  near  Blue  Point 
(one  of  the  towns  on  the  mainland  of 
Great  South  Bay).  He  had  been  out 
tonging  and  fell  in .”

“ Drunk,  I  guess,”  said  another mem­

ber  of  the  Board.

“ I  don’t  know  as  to  that,”   was  the 
reply,  “ but  he  was  as  good  an  oyster 
catcher  as  there  was  on  the  bay. ”

The  President  of  the  Board,  Will 

Danes,  rushed  the  business.

“ We  are  to  have  some  visitors  in 
town  to-day,”   he  said,  “ and  we  must 
entertain  them.  I  have  arranged  to  take 
them  out  on  our  sloop  at  the  county’s 
expense.  All  in  favor,  make  it  known 
by  the  usual  sign;  contrary;  carried.”

A  few  minutes 

later  the  visitors  ar­
rived  at  the  station.  A  committee  from 
the  Board  met  them.  As  the  visitors 
and  the  committee  walked  up  the  street 
one  of  the  committee  said :

“ Better  take  the  visitors  up  t o — ’s 
restaurant  and  show 
’em  that  stick  of 
oysters.  The  stick,  gentleman,  is  sev­
eral  feet  long.  There  are  125  oysters on 
the  stick. ”

“ When  they’ve  seen  that,”   said  an­
other  one  of  the  committee,  “ I  want 
’em  to  go  up  to  my  house  and  see  a 
growth  I’ve  got.  Somebody  on  the  bay 
lost  his  store  teeth  overboard.  Well, 
sir,  a  lot  of  oysters  formed  on  that  set 
of  teeth  and  I've  got  the  shells  to  show 
for  it—about  twenty. ”

Just  then  a  carryall  came  around  the

corner. 
It  looked  like  a  Black  Maria. 
The  driver  was  smoking  a  long  cigar. 
He  was  attired  in  his  Sunday  clothes. 
He  backed  his 
ark-shaped  wagon 
against  the  curbstone.  The visitors  and 
committee  were  in  the  house  where  the 
Board  holds  its  sessions.  The  driver of 
the  rig  went  in,  and  bowing  like  a  page 
before  a  stage  king  said 
in  melodram­
atic  manner:

“ Gentlemen,  the  carriage  awaits.”
The  visitors  were  conducted  to  the 
vehicle  and  seated,  and  it  rolled  away, 
down  Ocean  avenue  to  the  pier.  The 
pier  extends  300  feet  into  the  bay.  Be­
yond  was  a  sloop  with  its  mainsail  flap­
ping 
in  the  wind.  The  President  of 
the  Board  led  the  procession  out  to  the 
end  of  the  pier and  holding  one  hand 
open  by  the  side  of  his  mouth  called 
out  across  the  waters,  “ Ship  ahoy!”  
The  man  at  the  tiller  poked  his  head 
in  sight  and  harked  back,  “ Aye,  aye, 
sir.”  
It  was  the  sloop  of  the  County 
Board,  and  one  of  the  things  for  which 
the  sloop  is  employed  is  to  sail  the  bay 
in  search  of  oyster  pirates  who  violate 
the  law.

When  the  sloop  pulled  up  alongside 
of  the  pier  the  vistors  to  Patchogue 
boarded  hei,  followed  by  the  Board. 
The  captain  gave  his  assistant  the  order 
to  cast  off.  A  few  minutes  later the 
sloop  and  its  occupants  were  away  out 
the  mainland.  Later  in  the  day 
from 
after  quite  a  catch  by  the  Board,  an­
other  sloop  was  sighted  and  soon  the 
two  were 
lashed  together.  The  other 
sloop’s  master  had  an  oil  stove.  The 
Board  had  everything  else—stacks  of 
bread,  pounds  of  butter,  bundles  of 
crackers,  sauces,  etc.  There  was  an 
oyster  feast  such  as  a  landsman  doesn’t 
often  get  at  the  best  places  in  the  city. 
Just  after  the  repast  the  captain  of  the 
Board 
sloop  was  seen  to  salute  the 
President  and  tell  him  something.  The 
President  nodded  his  head.  Then  he 
took  an  oyster  shell  and  rapped  on  the 
mast  of  the  sloop.

“ The  Board  will  come  to  order,”   he 
said.  Then  he  said  that  the Board,  in 
its  haste^to  adjourn  in  Patchogue,  had 
neglected  several  things.  One  of  them 
related  to  the  monthly  wages  of  the cap­
tain  of  the  sloop.

“ Move  it  be allowed,”  said one  of  the 

members.

“ You’ve  heard  the  motion,”   said  the 
President. 
in  favor 
make  it  known  by  the  usual sign.  Con­
trary.  Carried.  Any  further  business?”

“ As  many  as  are 

“ Move  we  adjourn.”
“ You’ve  heard  the  motion.  All  in 
favor  make  it  known  by  the  usual  sign. 
Contrary.  Carried. ’

And  thus,  in  connection  with  extend­
ing  the  courtesies  of  Patchogue  to  the 
visitors,  the  Board  transacted  business 
on  the  waters  of the  bay.  And  it  was  all 
about  oysters.

“ It  it  legal?”   asked  one  of  the  vis­
itors. 
“ Yes,”   replied  the  President, 
“ it  was  about  oysters.  Come  again,”  
he  said  with  genuine  hospitality 
to 
his  visitors.  “ The 
latchstring  of  Pat­
chogue 
is  made  of oysters.  They  are 
yours.” — N.  Y.  Sun.
P la te   G lass  W indow   D em olished  by   a 

P a rtrid g e .

From  the Grand Haven Tribune.

One  not  very  large  bird  did  $75  worth 
of  damage  to  the  crockery store  of  Fred

D.  Vos  last  Saturday.  A  wild  partridge 
flew  through  the  thick  plate  glass  front 
of  the  store,  demolishing  a  $50  window 
and  breaking  $25  worth  of  lamps  and 
glassware  in  the  store.  The  partridge’s 
dead  body  was  found  inside  the  store 
fully  fifteen  feet  from  the  window.  The 
bird  must  have  struck the window  while 
going  with  all  possible  speed,  for  glass 
from  the  window  was  thrown  forty  feet 
inside.  People  who  have  viewed  the 
wreck  wonder  at  the  possibility  of  such 
an  accident.  The  glass  in  the  window 
was  of  the  finest  quality  and  fully  one- 
quarter  of  an  inch  thick.  The  partridge 
had,  undoubtedly,  been  frightened  after 
wahdering 
in  town.  The  passageway 
it  made  through  the  glass  was  about  six 
inches  square,  but  the  entire  window 
»vas  demolished.  The 
loss  will  be  a 
total  one  for  Mr.  Vos,  as  he  is  not  in­
sured  against  birds  flying  through  his 
window.

W hy  B a tc h e r’s  D ie  Y oung.

Four  or  five  children  of  varying  ages 
family 
into  a  meat  market  the  other 

evidently  of  the  same 

and 
trooped 
morning.

“ Mother  says,”   began  the 

eldest, 
“ that  she  wants  a  piece  of  beef  for 
roasting. ”

“ A  nice  piece  of  beef,”   put,in  an­

“ With  no  bone  in  it,”   said  a  third.
“ And  no  fat,”   chimed  in  the  fourth.
“ And,”   squeaked  the  youngster  of 
the  party,  “ it  ain't  to  be  as  tough  as 
last  week’s,  neither.”

“ Indeed!”   gasped  the  knight  of  the 
cleaver,  as  soon  as  he  could  get  in  a 
word. 
“ Did  your  mother  give  you  any 
further  orders?”

“ Yes,”   blurted  out  a  couple  of  the

other.

youngest. 
“ She  said  that  when  we  got 
the  beef,  we  were  to  tell  you  to  put  it 
down 
in  the  book  until  Saturday,  and 
that  we  were to  ask  you to put  in a  piece 
of  suet  with 
it,  and  to  be  sure  to  get 
some  meat  for  the  cat.”

T ha  E conom ic  V iew   o f T reatin g .

From the Philadelphia Becord.

the 

for  it’s 

“ Anti-treating  societies  give  me  a 
very  severe  pain,”   remarked  the  man 
with  the 
impressionistic  nose,  as  be 
fished  a  bit  of  lemon  peel  from  the  bot­
tom  of  his  glass  and  chewed  it  medita­
tively. 
“ Treating  is  all  right,  if  it’s 
done  fair. 
It  doesn’t  encourage  drunk­
enness,  either, 
solitary 
drinker,  the  fellow  who goes  and  boozes 
all  alone  that  lands 
in  the  bug  ward. 
Then,  too,  think  of  the  money  consid­
eration.  Good  whisky  costs  15  cents  a 
drink,  but  if  two  men  drink  together 
the  check 
is  usually  a  quarter.  One 
fellow  buys  and  the  other  fellow  comes 
back  at  him,  and  there  you  have  two 
drinks  for  25  cents,  whereas  the  man 
who  drinks  alone  and  doesn't  believe 
in  treating  pays  30 cents  for  his.  Say 
a  fellow  averages  six  drinks  a  day.  By 
drinking  with  a 
friend  he  saves  15 
cents,  and  that,  in  the  course  of  a  year, 
amounts  to  over $50.  Think  of  all  the 
booze  you  can  buy  with  $50!”   And  the 
man  with 
impressionistic  nose 
sighed  a  deep  contemplative  sigh.____
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thing  now  in  the  trade.  As  to  its  pur­
ity.  there  is  no  doubt.  Mr.  McArthur 
used  nothing  but  waste  fruit,  such  as 
had  been  crowded  off  the  trees,  cracked 
while  ripening  and  those  of 
inferior 
size.  There  seems  to  be  a  good  field 
for  prune  vinegar.  The  high  prices  of 
apples  on  the  Pacific  slope  does  not  in­
vite  the  manufacture  of  cider vinegar 
to  any  large  extent,  and  good  prices  are 
demanded.  To  offset  the  shortage  va­
rious  attempts  at  adulteration  have  been 
resorted  to,  and  but  for  the  vigorous 
crusade  of  the  Food  Commissioner  the 
market  would  be  over-run with injurious 
acids  under  the  name  of  vinegar.

C alifo rn ia’s  O live  C rop  H eavy.

The  California  olive  growers  are 
preparing  to  gather  their  crop  at  an 
early  day.  The  trees  are 
loaded  with 
fruit 
in  almost  every  orchard,  and  the 
acreage  in  bearing  is  much  larger  than 
ever  before.  Heretofore 
the  crop  of 
olives  in  California  has  seldom  run  over 
2,000  barrels.  Seven  barrels  make  a 
ton  of  olives.  The  growers  who  sell 
their  olives  as  they  come  from  the  trees 
have  received  about $60  per  ton,  or  3 
cents  per  pound. 
It  costs  1  cent  per

pound,  or  $20  per  ton,  to  pick  the 
fruit.  This  year  the  crop  on  the  or­
chards  of  the  California  Olive  Grow­
ers’  Association  at  San  Fernando  will 
be  more  than  any  crop  ever  before  har­
vested  in  the  State. 
It  may  be  as  much 
as  400 tons.  The  crop of  the  whole  State 
may  be  as  much  as  800 tons.  Should 
these  estimates  be  correct  the  crop  of 
the  Association  would  fill  2,800  barrels, 
and  that  of  the  whole  State  5,600  bar­
rels.  This  year  olives  will  bring  only 
$40  per  ton  as  they  come  from  the  tree, 
half  of  which  will  go  to  the  pickers. 
But  with  so  abundant  a  crop,  at  $20  per 
ton  net,  the  growers  will,  it  is  thought, 
generally  do  well.

T he  New  V ersion.

Old Mother Hubhard 
Went to her cupboard 
To get her poor dog a bone;
But when she got there,
Her cupboard was bare,

And so her poor dog had none.

But young Mother  Hubbard 
Goes not to her cupboard 
To get her wise dog a bone;
She sends doggie down 
To the meatshop in town 

With a note—and he always gets  one.

R.  HIR T,  JR.

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The New York Market

S pecial  F e a tu re s  o f th e  G rocery an d  P ro d ­

Special Correspondence.

uce T rades.

New  York,  Oct.  26—During  the  first 
few  days  of  the  week  we  had  a  great 
rise  in  coffee.  Cables  came  in  thick and 
fast,  all  to  the  effect  that  the  crop would 
be  destroyed  by  drouth  and  that  the 
trees,  even,  were  likely  to  be  utterly 
ruined.  Then  Rio  No.  7  went  to  7c,  a 
point 
it  had  not  attained  before  for  a 
long  time,  and  somebody  made  some 
money  and  then—the  drop  promptly  ar­
rived.  The  rise  seemed  to  be  only  on 
paper.  In  store  and  afloat  the  amount  of 
coffee  aggregates  2,240,303 bags,  against 
ii 138,254  bags  at  the  same  time  last 
year.  Receipts  at  Rio  and  Santos  from 
July  1  to  Oct.  23  aggregate  7,270,000 
bags,  against  4,872,000  bags  during  the 
same  time  last  year.  Mild  coffees  went 
“ up"  with  the  Brazil  sorts  and  came 
down  again,  too.  Good  Cucuta  is  worth 
about  8^c.  Let  not  the  retailer  worry 
over  high  prices  for  coffee  for  some 
time  yet.

There  has  been  an  average  amount  of 
business  done  in  sugar  during  the  week 
—only  this  and  nothing  more.  Orders, 
while  quite  numerous,  have  been  for 
small  quantities  and  the  end  of  the 
week  sees  no  change  in  list  prices.

The  gain  in  teas  that  has  been  noted 
for  several  weeks  continues  and  that 
holders  have  confidence  in  the outlook is 
evidenced  by  the  advertising  some  of 
then]  are  doing.  Fingsueys  and  country 
greens  attract  most  attention  and  Indias 
and  Ceylons  share  the  growing  strength 
of  the market.  Conservative  authorities 
tell  us  that  the  present  is  a  good  time to 
buy  somewhat  ahead  of  current  wants 
and  that  by  the  end  of the  year  we  will 
be  likely  to  see  a  decided  advance.
Nothing  new  can  be  gathered  from 
rice  dealers.  The  market  is fairly  active 
and  holders  are  not  disposed  to  make 
any  concession 
it  can  be  avoided. 
The  volume  of  business  is  all  that  could 
be  expected  at  this  season,  so  far as 
foreign  sorts  are  concerned.

Cloves  are  firm,  with  a  good  advance 
reported  from  abroad.  Aside  from  this 
there  is  nothing  notable  to  be remarked.
Old  crop  molasses  is  in  very  limited 
supply  and,  indeed,  so  is  new  crop,  as 
arrivals  have  so  far  been  nothing.  The 
little  that  can  be  picked  up  is  held  at 
very  firm  quotations,  centrifugals  sell­
ing  for  2o@30c  for  prime.
The  syrup  market  is  quite closely sold 
up  and  altogether  the  situation  favors 
the  holder.  Prime  to  fancy,  2o@30c.

if 

the 

Without  an  exception 

canned 
goods  market  is  strong.  This  is  partic­
ularly  true  of  tomatoes,  which  are  now 
worth  for  really  good  goods $1.15  for 
New  Jersey  standards.  Corn  is  in  rather 
better  supply  than  tomatoes,  but  it  is 
going  off  well  to  Western  buyers.  The 
two  things  most  sought  for are pumpkin 
and  squash.  The  search  may  not 
last 
long,  probably  will  not,  for  “ they  do 
say”   that  canned  pumpkin  will  be  en­
tirely  out  of  market. 
It  is  worth  from 
90c@$i,  although,  perhaps,  the  latter  is 
a  trifle  extreme.
Domestic  dried  fruits  are  in  fair  re­
quest  and  especially sought for  are fancy 
evaporated  apples.  So  far  as  Pacific 
coast  goods  are  concerned  the  market 
has  lost a  trifle  of  the strength noted dur­
ing  the  past  few  weeks,  but  the  situa­
tion  is  not  at  all  discouraging,  although 
holders  of  some  old  crop  prunes  would 
feel  better 
if  they  could  work  them  off 
at  some  price  or  other.
The  market  for  lemons and  oranges  is 
rather  slack  and  prices  are  certainly  no 
higher  than  a  week  ago.  Sicily  lemons, 
per  box  of  360s,  are  worth  $2. io@2.50 
and  300s $3<25@4.S0.  Other  fresh  fruits, 
apples  for  instance,  are  very  high  for 
really  good  goods  and,  in  fact,  fancy

King  and  Spitzbergens  will  bring  $5@6 
per  barrel,  with  ordinary  stock  $3@4; 
fancy  Bartlett  pears,  $3.50;  quinces, 
$2.75@4.50.

The  weather  has  been  unduly  warm 
and  the  demand  for  butter  is  rather 
light.  Still,  best  Western  creamery 
is 
worth  22J^c,  with  seconds  to  firsts,  I7@ 
21c.  Western 
imitation  creamery,  15@ 
18c.  Western  factory,  I4@i5c.  With 
cooler  weather  a  stronger  market  is  in­
evitable.

The  supply  of  cheese  coming  to  this 
market  is  comparatively  light,  but  there 
seems  to  be  enough  for all  demands  and 
the  general  situation  is  practically  un­
last  week.  Full  cream, 
changed  from 
small  size, 
io^c  and  white 
about  ioc.

is  worth 

Western  fresh  gathered  eggs  are 
quickly  taken  at22@22j^c,  with  regular 
pack  i 6@ 20c.  The  market  closes'  firm 
and,  if  the  weather  becomes  colder,  as 
it  soon  must,  it  is  likely  we  shall  see  a 
material  advance  in  the  egg  market.

F eed in g   T h an k sg iv in g   T urkeys.

All  stock  intended  for  Thanksgiving 
should,  by  this  time,  have  attained  a 
perfect  plumage,  and  now  be 
in  good 
condition  to  put  on  flesh  rapidly.  Do 
not  place  over  twenty  turkeys  in  a  fat­
tening  pen  as  they  do  not  take  on  flesh 
as  rapidly  as  when  more  room  is  al­
lowed.  Place  plenty  of  roosts  within 
easy  reach,  and  have  them  far  enough 
apart  so they  can  not  reach  each  other 
on  the  roosts.  Feeding 
is  an  all-im­
portant  point  just  now,  and  all  our  en­
ergy  should  be  bent  on  a  diet  to  hasten 
their  maturity.  A  good  formula  for fat­
tening  turkeys 
is  as  follows:  Three 
parts  corn  meal,  one  part  buckwheat 
meal,  one  part  wheat  or  bran;  scald 
and  feed  all  they  will  eat  while  it  is  yet 
warm.  Do  not  leave  anything  before 
them  for  any  length  of  time,  as  it  be­
comes  foul  and  unfit  for  use  in  a  short 
time.  Feed  three  times  a  day,  the  mash 
morning  and  noon,  and  corn  at  night 
(cracked  or  whole).  This  diet  will  in 
three  weeks  fatten  the  leanest turkeys.— 
Farmers’  Advocate.

C rude  O il  F o r  San  Jo se   Scale.

From the Indiana Scale.

The results from numerous experiments 
made  at  the  Maryland  Agricultural  Sta­
tion 
in  the  use  of  crude  petroleum  on 
the  San  Jose  scale  are  summed  up  as 
follows:  Cfude  petroleum  seems  to  be 
in  controlling  San  Jose  scale 
effective 
when  properly  and 
intelligently  used. 
Either a  green  or amber colored  oil may 
be  used  provided  it  has  a  specific  grav­
ity  of  not  less  than  43  degrees  at  a  tem­
perature  of  60  degrees  Fahrenheit. 
It 
can  only be  used  when  the trees  are  dor­
In  this  respect  crude  petroleum 
mant. 
and  kerosene  act  directly 
opposite. 
(This  applies  especially  to peach trees.) 
It  may  be  used  either  undiluted  or  in 
the  20 or  25  per  cent,  mixture.

What  to  do  with  the  prunes  grown 

P ru n e   V inegar,  a  New C alifo rn ia P ro d u ct.
in 
the  Pacific  States  has  taxed  the 
ingen­
uity  of  growers,  who  have  spent  great 
sums  in  creating  a  demand  for  their 
crops.  A  grower  has  now  discovered  a 
new  use  for  prunes—the  manufacture  ol 
vinegar.  Experiments  have  been  made 
which  demonstrate  that  from  prunes  can 
be  distilled  a  juice  that  in  quality  goes 
far  above  the  standard  required.  The 
discovery  was  made  by  M.  McArthur, 
of  Portland,  Ore.  Since  the  fruit  began 
to  drop  last  summer  he  has  experi­
mented  with  waste  fruit,  until  there 
is 
now  on  his  farm  250  barrels  of  vinegar 
ready  to  go  on  the  market.  Experts who 
have  tested  it  declare  it  finer than  any­

H.  E L M E R   M O S E L E Y   &  CO.

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M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clerks’  Corner.

H e  C ouldn’t   R ead  H u m a n   N a tu re   W o rth  

a   Cent.
W ritten for The Tradesman.

Rob  Hassett  told  the  truth  when  he 
said  he  went  for the  whole  hog  or  none. 
It  didn’t  take  a  year  for  him  to  find  out 
what  he  wanted.  A  glance  however 
slight  and  the  thing  was  done.  So  that 
morning  when  he  went  behind  the 
counter  and  saw  “ that  man  Ford’ ’  at 
the  next  counter that  was  enough.  At 
one  glance  he  took  the  fellow  all  in, 
wrapped  him  up,  labeled  him  and  put 
him  away  as  a  cad ;  and  that  did  the 
business  for  Ford  so  far  as  Rob  Hassett 
was  concerned.

The  other clerks  after  looking over  the 
newcomer  sized  him  up  and  put  him 
down  as  a  good  enough  fellow  and  went 
about  their  business,  as  they  were  in 
duty  bound  to  do  as  respectable  mem­
bers  of  the  clerking  fraternity.  Not  so 
Hassett. 
“ Hates  any  man  the  thing  he 
would  not  kill?’ ’  and  he  proceeded  at 
once  to  subject  “ Dandy  Ford”   to  the 
tortures  of  an  inquisition  that  could end 
only 
in  death— as  he,  Rob  Hassett, 
thought.  There  was  nothing  that  was 
not  pointed  out,  commented  on  and 
In  the  first  place  he  had 
criticised. 
black  hair  and  blue  eyes. 
“ Wherever 
you  see  that  combination,  boys,  look 
out."  He  dressed  too  well  fora  man 
with  fifteen  dollars  a  week,  and  the 
money  that  paid  for that  suit',  if  it  was 
paid  for,  had  to  come  from  somewhere. 
“ You  can  see  he  changes  his  collar 
every  day  because  he  is  careful  to  put 
on  a  different  style  ev ery   morning;  but 
here’s  dollars  to  doughnuts  that  he 
hasn’t  had  on  a  clean  shirt  for a  month. 
Noticed,  I  suppose,  how  he  likes  burnt 
coffee?  Oh,  mark  my  words,  he’s  a 
duck!"  and  when  Jim  Jarvis  who  had 
got  tired  of  that  sort  of  talk  remarked 
that  he  wasn’t  of  “ the  quacking  breed, 
anyway,”   the  laugh  that  followed  told 
Hassett  that  he  didn’t  have  the  sympa­
thy  of  that  crowd,  and  he  kept  quiet 
and  determinedly  nourished  his  resent­
ment.

In  the  meantime  that  man  Ford  kept 
right  on 
in  the  even  tenor of  his  way. 
His  business  was  selling  goods,the  best 
he  knew  how  and  bis  daily  account  of 
sales  was  finding  increasing favor  at  the 
office. 
“ He  doesn’t  seem  to  have  any 
nonsense  about  him ,"  remarked  the 
head  of  the  department  one day.  “ He’s 
been  well  brought  up  and  had  good 
schooling  somewhere— college,  I  guess 
— and 
is  a  good  man  to  keep  track  of. 
He's  something  of  an  athlete,  I  fancy 
and  you’ll  notice,  now I’ve spoken  of  it, 
that  while  he’s 
in  good  condition  he 
isn't  fat.  His  hands  are  white  but  I’ve 
a  notion  that  if  he  takes  hold  of  a  thing 
he  holds  it  and  if  be  wants  to  hit  any­
thing  hard  he  does  it  the  first  time. 
I 
take  him  for  a  good  all 
’ round  man 
mentally,  morally  and  physically,  and 
I've  a  notion  too  that  Hassett  is  going 
to find  out  some  fine  day  what  happens 
when  be  gets  the  wrong  pig  by  the 
ear."

He 

conclusions. 

Strange  to say  Hassett  formed  oppo­
site 
intentionally 
rubbed  the  fur  the  wrong  way  one  day 
and  because  Ford  did  not  care  to get 
into  a  fuss,  Hassett  thought  he  had 
found  Ford’s  vulnerable  place  and 
“ went  for  him. ”   He  took every oppor­
tunity  to  make  himself  disagreeable. 
He  called  attention  to  what  he  consid­
ered  Ford’s  peculiarity  of  dress—the 
cut  of  his  hair,  the  manner of  his  w alk; 
everything 
in  fact  that  he  could  ridi­
cule  he  did,  until  naturally  the  young

fellow  concluded  he  had  had  about 
enough.  His  fellow  clerks  thought  so 
anyway  and  one  day  when  he  was  pass­
ing  by  Miss  Rockwood's  counter she 
took  occasion  to  say  to him  that  she  and 
the  rest  of  the  girls—and  the  men,  too, 
for  that  matter—thought  that  a  change 
in  the  program  would  meet  with  favor.
The  reply  was  characteristic:  “ He 
doesn’t  annoy  me. 
It’s  like  the  idle 
wind  which  1  regard  not  and  then,  too, 
this  is  no  place  to  hurt  him.  Let  him 
tire  himself  out.  He’ll  stop  then  and  I 
really  don't  think 
it’s  worth  mind­
ing.”

That’s  what  Hassett thought,  too;  and 
when  he  saw  the  two  talking  together 
he  concluded  he’d  change  his  tactics. 
He’d  tease  Miss  Rockwood  about  the 
“ Dandy"  and  show  him  up  to  be  the 
coward  he  was.  He’d  try 
it  the  first 
chance  he  had  and,  tickled  almost  to 
death  with  the 
idea,  he  waited  for an 
opportunity  to  carry  it  out.

It  happened  the  very  next  morning 
that  Miss  Rockwood  improved  the  op­
portunity  offered  by  the  regulations  for 
the  clerking  force  to  make  purchases 
any  time  before  eight.  She  had  gone  to 
Ford’s  counter,  had  made  her  purchase 
and  was  turning  away  when  Hassett 
found 
it  desirable  to  be  there,  too,  and 
to  make  a  remark  that  made  Ford’s 
face  turn  white  and  Miss  Rockwood's 
red.

lifting 

There  was  a  spring  over  the  counter, 
a  gripping  of  a  coat  collar  and  a  neck­
band,  the 
lightly  up  and  the 
bringing  heavily  down  with  a  tremen­
dous  thump  to  the  floor  of  a  pair of 
elbows  and  knees,  then  a  smart  jerk  to 
a  vigorous  and  sudden  standstill  and 
then  a  voice  with  a  not  to  be  disobeyed 
command 
said,  with  alarming 
distinctness,  “ Beg  Miss  Rockwood’.s 
pardon,  you  contemptible  cur,  before  I 
break  every  bone  in  your  body!"

in 

it 

There  was  just  breath  enough  left 

in 
the  craven's  body  to  do  what bad  been 
required  of  it  with  the  grip  still  on  the 
collar  and  then,  daring  him  ever  again 
to  insult  another 
in  that  store 
“ Dandy  Ford"  gave  him  a  shove  that 
sent  him  caroming  along  the  counters 
towards  his  place  behind  his  own.

lady 

There  could  be  but  one  result,  and 

it 
took  place  immediately.  Rob  Hassett 
gathered  himself  together  at  the  earli­
est  possible  moment  and  left  the  estab­
lishment  by  the  way  of  the office.  Rix- 
ford,  the  manager  of  the  department, 
who  had  seen  the  whole  affair,  had  his 
little  blue  envelope  ready  for  him  and 
out  into  the  pitiless  world  the  fellow 
went  “ a  sadder  and  a  wiser  man."

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

D oes  R etailing:  Offer  a   F u tu re  

Young:  M an ?

to  

th e  

Yes,  but  he  must  follow  the  vocation 
of  retailing  the  same  as  others  do  other 
crafts.  He  can  not  be  lazy  and  slothful, 
if  • he  wishes  to  succeed,  but  must  be 
active  and 
industrious;  he  can  not  be 
dishonest,  but  must  be  honest;  he  can 
not  devote  himself  to  pleasures  and 
leave  his  business  to  others  or to  run 
itself.  No  one  can  do  his  business  for 
him  and  when  it  is  left  to  run  itself  it 
soon  fails.

There  are  many  young  men  who  look 
upon  the  retail  business  as  a  line  of 
work  which  does  not  require  much  of  a 
man  to  run 
it.  This  may  be  so,  but 
the  man  who  makes  a  success  of  busi­
ness must  learn  his trade  the same  as  the 
man  who  runs  a  locomotive.

Honesty 

is  the  best  policy. 

I  have 
heard  of  many  cases  where  young  men 
have  started  in  business  and  their finan­

cial  success  at  first  was  noteworthy, with 
the  result  that  their  fellowmen  would 
wonder  how  they  attained  it.  Finally 
some  of  their customers  would  discover 
that  they  were  getting  short  weight  or 
short  measure,  and  one  after  another 
they  would 
leave  this  merchant,  until 
he  had  no trade,  or  until  those  custom­
ers  that  were  left  were  as  dishonest  as 
the  merchant.  This  kind of  a  merchant 
soon  finds  that  his  cash  is  beginning  to 
run  low,  and  that  the  young  man  in 
business  who  has  been  honest,  and  who 
has  done  by  others  as  he  would  have 
them  do  unto  him,  is  gaining  ground 
and  is  winning  success.  The  latter  not 
only  has  a  good  trade,  which  is  growing 
larger  all  the  time,  but  he  has  estab­
lished  good  credit  with  the  wholesale 
houses,  and  he  is  becoming  forehanded 
and  is  getting  more  capital  with  which 
to  do  business.

Not  lazy  but  industrious. 

I  have  seen 
young  men  who  have  started  in business 
and  who  have  spent  a  large  part  of their 
time  around  some  place  of  amusement. 
They  did  not  look  after  their  business, 
and  within  only  a  comparatively  short 
time  they  had  no  business  left.  Then 
there  are  some  who  neglect  the  store  in 
other  ways.  They  do  not  attempt  to 
keep  the  stock  dusted  and  clean,  or  the 
shelving  full.  These  things  demand  all 
the  spare  time  a  man  can  find  around 
the  store  and  it  is  highly  important  that 
they  should  be  looked  after  and  given 
proper  attention.  There  may  not  be 
canned  goods  enough  on  the  shelving  to 
fill  it,  but  by  placing  the  goods  that  are 
in  stock  on  the  front  of  the  shelving 
it 
looks  much  better  and  gives  the  ap­
pearance  of  a  complete  stock.  There  is 
something  to  do  in  the  store  all  of  the 
time,  and  the  pushing  young  business

man  will  find  plenty  of  work  to  absorb 
his  time.

Look  after  the  accounts.  One  should 
look  after  his  accounts,  and  not  allow 
his  customers  to  run  so  far  behind  that 
they  can  not  pay  up. 
If  this  is  per­
mitted  in  many  cases,  after a  while  the 
customer  can  not  pay  at  all.  The  young 
retailer  should  look  after  the  bills  which 
be  owes  just  as  promptly  and should  not 
permit  them  to  become  too  large  before 
paying  them.

There 

is  an  ambitious  tendency 
among  the  young  men  of  the  present 
day  to  become  rich  too  fast,  and  in  or­
der  that  they  may  do  so,  many  resort  to 
means  which  are  detrimental  to  busi­
ness  and  which  should  be  avoided.  A 
man  to  succeed  in  retail  trade,  whether 
young  or  old,  must  work  hard  and  must 
direct  his  efforts  with  proper  intelli­
gence  and  good  judgment;  he  must  be 
honest,  and  he  must  have  a  thorough 
knowledge  of  the  branch  of  business  in 
which  he  is  engaged.

If  these  rules,  and  many  old  ones  of 
which  you  are  ail  probably  aware,  are 
followed  closely,  and 
if  the  golden 
rule, 
"D o   unto  others  as  you  would 
that  they  should  do  unto  you,"  is  made 
the  foundation  principle  of  business,  I 
think  a  young  man  can  make  a  success 
of  the  retail  business.— David  H.  Allen 
in  Commercial  Bulletin.

P ru n e  T rees  Now  in   R loom .

From the Suiter, Cal., Independent.

J.  H.  Roberts,  of  Yuba  City,  reports 

a  rather  uncommon thing  in  horticulture 
now  visible  on  his  place  west  of  town. 
Early 
in  the  season  bis  prune  trees, 
growing  on  the  sandy  ground,  began  to 
shed  their  leaves  and  at  the  time  of 
gathering  the  prunes  the 
leaves  were 
about  all  off.  Now  the  trees  are  full  of 
fruit  blossoms,  making  a  very  uncom­
mon  sight  at  this  time  of  year.

Grand Rapids Fixtures 6o,

A
new

elegant
design

combination

Cigar
Case

No.  64  C igar  Case.  A lso  m ade  w ith   M etal  Legs.

Our  New  Catalogue  shows  ten  other  styles  of  Cigar  Cases  at  prices  to  suit  any

C orner B a r tlett and  S ou th   Ion ia  S tr e e ts,  Grand  R ap id s,  M ich.

pocketbook.

We  give you  the  trade  discount  when  you  buy  your  goods, 
and do  not  ask you  to  wait  6o or 90  days  for  the  same,  nor do 
we want your  money to do  business  with.  Consult  your  in­
terest  and  place  your  next  order  for  CR AC K ER S  and 
BA K E D   GOODS  with

E. J.  Kruce &  Co.,  Detroit,  Michigan 

Not  in  the  Trust

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Michigan  Knights  of the Grip

President,  Geo. F. Ow en,  Grand  Rapids;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  St it t,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Sch ram, Detroit.

United  Otmmercial Traielers  of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Ba r tle tt,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  K e n d all,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M.  Edelm an, Saginaw.

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

Senior  Counselor,  W  R.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.
Michigan  Commercial Trarelers’  Mntnal  Accident  Association 
President, J .  Boyd  Pa n tlin d,  Grand  Rapids; 
Secretary  and  Treasurer,  Geo.  F.  Ow en, 
Grand Rapids.

G rip sack   B rig ad e.

Martin  Koster  has  take  the  position 
of  city  salesman  for  Geo.  H.  Seymour 
&  Co.

Leo  Shire,  Michigan  representative 
for  E.  W.  Gillett,  has  removed  his fam­
ily  from  Chicago  to  this  city  and  taken 
up  his  residence  at  18  Pleasant  street.

Dowagiac  Republican :  Claude  Hay­
den,  for  ten  years  past  telegraph  opera­
tor  at  the  Michigan  Central  office,  has 
resigned  bis  position  to  take  a  position 
as  traveling  salesman  for  the  Beckwith 
Estate.

Adrian  Times:  John  A.  Tice,  who 
has  held  the  position  of  prescription 
clerk  in  Shepherd’s  drug store for nearly 
two  years,  will  sever  his  connection 
with  that  firm  Nov.  i,  and  travel  for the 
William  S.  Merrill  Chemical  Co.,  of 
Cincinnati.

Je w e lry   F o r  M en.

The  wearing  of  jewelry  by  men  has 
recently  been  attracting  the  attention  of 
Londoners  who  have 
learned  that  this 
luxury  has  very  much  spread 
form  of 
among  Englishmen  lately.

The  use  of  expensive  buttons 

for 
waistcoats  is  the  most  marked  way  in 
which  the  new  fashion 
is  seen  here. 
The  buttons  are  made  to  match  the 
shirt  studs  and  cuff  buttons,  except 
when  pearls  are  worn,  in  which  case 
moonstones  and  occasionally  opals  are 
substituted. 
In  the  case  of  sapphires, 
opals,  garnets  and  similar  stones,  the 
cuff  buttons,  shirt  studs  and  waistcoat 
buttons  are  all  alike.  Turquoises  are 
also  worn  by  men  to  a  considerable  ex­
tent  to-day,  although  formerly  they  were 
seen  rarely  as  a  part  of  a  man’s  dress. 
Their  use  is  due  to  the  fact  that  a  com­
plete  set  may  be  had  for  a  sum  not  too 
great  for  a  man  to  spend  on  such  orna­
ments.

The  great 

increase  in  the  number  of 
bracelets  worn  by  Englishmen 
is  at­
tributed  to  the  war  in  South  Africa, 
whither  went  many  men  engaged  to  be 
married  wearing  a  bracelet  put  on  the 
left  arm  by  the  young  woman  as  a  kind 
of  engagement  ring  before  the  two  sep­
arated.  This  style  of  ornament  for  a 
man  has  never  become  popular  here,  in 
spite  of  the  attempts  made  from  time  to 
time  to  prove  that  it  is  not  in  the 
least 
effeminate.  The  German  emperor  is 
known  to  wear a  bracelet  put  on his arm 
and 
locked  by  his  wife,  and  married 
men  in  England  who  wear  bracelets  are 
supposed  always  to  have  had 
them 
from the  same  source.

The  bracelets  are  usually  made  of  sil­
ver  and  can  be  so  worn  as  not  to  fall 
over  the  wrist  but  to  keep  well  out  of 
sight  up  on  the  forearm.  The  jewelers 
here  used  to  keep  some  of  these  silver 
chains 
in  stock,  but  the  demand  for 
them  was  so  light  that  they  are  to  be 
had 
in  only  a  few  shops,  except  as  the 
result  of  a  particular  order.

Many  of  the 

foreigners  who  come 
here  wear  bracelets,  and  there  are  al­

ways  a  number  of  exponents  of  the 
fashion  among  the  singers  at  the  Metro­
politan.  One  man  who  wore  a  thick 
chain  of  gold  when  he  came  here  re­
moved 
if  after  a  while  whenever  he 
went  out  in  the  streets.  He  was  espe­
cially  averse  to  wearing  it  in  the  street 
cars,  as  the  women  who  saw 
it  were 
rarely  able  to  restrain  their  curiosity 
within 
It  always 
created  a  sensation.  One  New  Yorker 
always  wears  a  gold  bracelet,  studded 
with  turquoises,  but  he  is  generally  able 
to  keep  it  out  of  sight  up  bis  sleeve.

reasonable 

limits. 

London  dealers  also  say  that  the  de­
mand  for  men’s  rings  has  increased  50 
per  cent,  in  the  past  three  years,  but  it 
is  certain  that  no  similar growth  in  the 
fashion  has  been  noticed  here.  The 
number  of  a  man’s  rings  is  an  item  of 
his  dress  that  is  limited  here  by  good 
taste.

A  P u m p k in   P a rty .

An  artist  who  is  known  for the origin­
ality  of  bis  entertainments  will  give 
over  his  studio  to  a  children’s  party 
Halloween  in  the  afternoon. 
It  is  to  be 
called  a  pumpkin  party,  for the  reason 
that  that  vegetable  will  form  the  main 
part  of  the  decoration.  The  studio  is  to 
be  lighted  by  pumpkin 
lanterns  hang­
ing  from  the  ceiling,  and  it  will  be  ar­
ranged  to  simulate  a barn,  with  a  hay 
loft  at  one  end,  where  an  orchestra  will 
be  stationed.

There  will  be  ghost  pictures  on  a 
stereopticon,  while  some  thrilling  ghost 
story  is  read  in  the  half  darkness.  Then 
a  magician 
in  costume  of  Mephis- 
topheles  will  perform  tricks  of  all  sorts, 
and  the  band  will  play  ghostly  music  as 
an  accompaniment.  After  two or  three 
hours  of  this  sort  of  fun,  refreshments 
will  be  served  on  a  table  ornamented 
with  bowls  of  apples,  nuts  and  fruit.

Each  ice  will  have  a lighted candle in 
it  as it  is  served,  and  at  the  close  of  the 
feast  each  young  guest  will  receive  as  a 
favor  a  goblin  or  brownie  mask,  which 
will  be  worn  during  the  hour’s  fun  that 
will  precede  the  arrival  of  the  nurses 
and  governesses  who  will  escort  the rev­
elers  to  their  homes.

Albion— As  the  result  of  a  coupon  ad­
vertising  scheme  worked  here  recently 
there 
is  more  trouble  among  society 
folks  than  can  be  healed  in  years.  A 
piano  firm  interested  ten  of  the  leading 
merchants  of  the  city  in  the  scheme  and 
coupons—to  be  voted  for  any  organiza­
tion  or  society  entering  the  contest— 
were  given  with  each  25  cent  purchase, 
the  winner  to  be  given  a  piano.  The 
contest  immediately  waxed  warm,  a 
dozen  organizations  entering,  and  the 
merchants  not  in  the  deal  were  com­
pelled  to  start  a  similar contest  in  order 
to  keep  their  share  of  the  city’s  trade. 
The  first  contest  closed  with  St.  John’s 
church  the  winner,  with  a  total  of  105,- 
424  votes,  a  plurality  of  26,946  over  its 
nearest  competitor,  the  Albion  Musical 
club.  The  contest  was  so  hot  animosi­
ties  have  been  engendered,  charges  and 
counter  charges  of  fraud  have  been 
made  and,  in  one 
irregular 
work  was  alleged  to  have  been  discov­
ered 
in 
transparent  ink,  the  coupons  in  question 
having  been  voted  a  second  time. 
In 
the  face  of  the  charges  one  member  of 
the  committee  to  inspect  ballots  tend­
ered  his  resignation  and 
it  was  ac­
cepted.  The  other  contest  will  close 
shortly.

in  marked  coupons  written 

instance, 

If  Carnegie  doesn’t  wish  to  die  rich 
he  might  deposit  his  money  in  a  Chi­
cago  vault.

SUCCESSFUL  SALESM EN.

M.  S.  B row n,  R ep resen tin g   H azeltin e  & 

P e rk in s  D ru g   Co.

Mark  S.  Brown  was  born  on  a  farm 
near  Hadley,  Lapeer  county,  July  4, 
1866,  his  ancestors  for  four  generations 
having  been  American  born.  He  was 
the  youngest  of  four  children,  all  boys. 
His  next  older  brother,  Wm.  E.  Brown, 
has  been  the  Prosecuting  Attorney  of 
Lapeer  county  for  the  past  four  years. 
He  attended  the  public  schools  at  Had­
ley  until  17  years  of  age,  when  he 
taught  school  two  years  at  Columbia- 
viHe.  Conceiving  a  liking  for  the  drug 
business,he  entered  the  retail  drug  store 
of  Chas.  Moorland,  at  Hadley,  where 
he  remained  three  years.  He  then  went 
on  the  road  for  Lambert  &  Lowman,  of 
Detroit,  with  whom  he  remained  five 
years,  covering  the  retail  trade  of  East­
ern  and  Northern  Michigan.  On  the 
retirement  of  that  bouse,  he  engaged  to 
travel  for  the  Hazeltine  &  Perkins Drug 
Co.,  with  whom  he  has  remained  eight 
years,  covering  the  northeastern  portion 
of  the  Lower  Peninsula  and  the  eastern 
portion  of  the  Upper  Peninsula.

Mr.  Brown  was  married  Aug.  6,  1891, 
to  Miss  Mary  B.  Palmerlee,  who  was

born  at  Hadley,  but.who  had  removed 
to  California,  where  she  graduated  from 
the  State  Normal  School.  Mr  Brown 
started  for  California  to  attend  the  wed­
ding,  but  was  recalled  by  a  telegram 
from  his  house  on  account  of  his  being 
in  court  to  testify 
needed 
in  an  im­
portant 
lawsuit  and,  as  a  result,  the 
California  wedding  was  postponed  and 
the  bride-elect  came  to  Michigan  to 
celebrate  the  nuptials.  The  family  re­
side  at  Saginaw  and  enjoy  the  compan­
ionship  of  a  5-year-old  boy  and  an 
in­
fant  daughter.  Mr.  Brown  is  a  member 
of  the  Knights  of  the  Grip,  U.  C.  T., 
Masonic  order,  Knights  of  Pythias 
and  K.  O.  T.  M.

success 

He  attributes  his 

to  the 
friends  he  has  made  and  to  his  ability 
to  hold  his  friends  and  keep  their 
patronage.  He  speaks  very  highly  of 
his  former  employer  at  Hadley,  who  not 
only  encouraged  him  when  he  started 
out  as  a  traveling  salesman  by  giving 
him  his  own  business,  but  influenced 
ten  or fifteen  other  druggists  in  Lapeer 
county  to throw  the  bulk  of  their  busi­
ness  to  the  young  salesman.  Mr.  Brown 
is  interested 
in  five  retail  drug  stores, 
in  different  parts  of  the  State, 
situated 
and 
is  very  generally  regarded  as  one 
of  the  shrewdest  salesmen  and most  suc­
cessful  business  men  among  the  boys  on 
the  road.

Personally,  Mr.  Brown  is  one  of  the 
most  companionable  of  men.  He is  the 
prince  of  good  nature,  seldom  display­
ing  any  temper,  although  it  is  under­
stood  that  he  has  an  abundance  of  that 
commodity  on  tap  whenever  it  is  neces­
sary  to  use  it.  He  is  an  expert  hunts­
man,  spending  from  two to  four  weeks 
each  fall 
in  the  Upper  Peninsula  in 
search  of  game,bear  and  deer  included.
At  the  last  meeting  of  Post  F  (Sagi­
naw)  Mr.  Brown  received  the  unani­
mous  endorsement  of  the  members  as 
candidate  for  Secretary  of  the  Michigan

Knights  of  the  Grip,  subject  to  the  ap­
proval  of  the  Lansing  convention. 
It 
was  decided  to  go  to Lansing  by  special 
train,  take  along  a  band  and  create  a 
committee  of  three  members  to  conduct 
the  campaign.

Generous 

in  his  treatment  of  his 
friends,  businesslike  in  his  attitude  to­
ward  his  trade,  possessing  a  good  posi­
tion  and  enjoying  the  confidence  and 
respect  of  all  with  whom  he  comes  in 
contact,  Mr.  Brown  certainly  has  every 
reason  to  rejoice  over  the  prosperity  he 
has  achieved  and  to  regard  the  future 
with  that  complacency  which  character­
izes  the  successful  salesman.

World’s  fairs  and  expositions  leave 
their 
impress  in  more  ways  than  one, 
but  while  some  few  of  the  great  shows 
have  left  some  permanent  relic,  in  the 
shape  of  a  great  public  building  or 
park,  the  general  run  has  been  that  the 
aftermath  has  been  a  bald  spot  on  the 
face  of  the  earth  which  has  proved  an 
eyesore  for  years  to  the  more  aesthetic 
of  the  citizens. 
In  the  first  category 
may  be  mentioned  the  exposition  of 
left  to  the  Britisher  his 
1851,  which 
Crystal  Palace,  an 
immense  building, 
which  has  since  been  utilized  for  nu­
merous  expositions  of  minor  character. 
In  fact,  it  may  be  said  that  the  London 
'Arry  has  always  a  show  of  some  sort 
or  other  going  on  in  the  building.  The 
various  expositions  in  Paris  have  re­
sulted  in  the  beautifying  of  much  space 
that  was  previously  occupied  by  build­
ings  of  the  slum  order.  The  New  Or­
leans  world’s  fair  left  the noble horticul­
tural  building  in  Audubon  Park,  while 
that  of  Chicago  entailed  the  reclaiming 
of  a  tract  of  mud  flats  alongside  Lake 
Michigan,  and  which  has  since  been 
added  to  the  public park area, but  it  is  a 
question  whether  St.  Louis  will  be  able 
to  point  to  any  so-called  “ improve­
ments”   after  the  great  show  of  1903.  To 
provide  the  site  the  city  wilbbe  com­
pelled  to  sacrifice  all  the  natural  beau­
ties  of  Forest  Park.  All  the  trees  on  668 
acres  of  this  tract  are  to  be  cut  down, 
including  forty  acres  known  as 
the 
“ Wilderness,’ ’ where nature has  hitherto 
been  allowed  to  work  her  own  sweet 
to 
will.  To  reforest  this  tract,  and 
like 
bring 
its  present 
shape  will 
full  generation. 
There 
is  a  limit  to  utilitarianism,  and 
it  is  a  question  whether  the  Future 
Great  has  not  decided  to  overstep  that 
limit.

it  to  anything 

take  a 

short 

Nashville—A 

time  ago  the 
Hoover  &  Broderick  Stave  &  Hoop Co., 
now 
located  at  Edon,  Ohio,  made  a 
proposition  to  come  here,  providing  the 
village  would  furnish  a  site  and  bonus 
of $100 a year  for five  years.  At  a public 
meeting,  held  Oct.  25,  the  village  voted 
to  raise  the  bonus.  The  firm  will  em­
ploy  over  fifty  hands.

Detroit—The  American  Lubricator 
Co.  has  filed  articles  of  incorporation 
with  the  county  clerk. 
The  capital 
stock  is $5,000,  of  which  $2,500  is  paid 
in,  and  the  shareholders  are:  David 
Blumenthal  and  John  M.  Leckner,  162 
shares  each;  Joseph  H.  Dean, 
113 
shares;  Edmund  H.  Campbell,  63 
shares.

Albert  Damskey  has  opened  a  grocery 
store  at  190  Fourth  street.  The  Ball- 
Barnhart-Putman  Co. 
the 
stock.

furnished 

The Warwick

Strictly first class.

Rates $2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B .  GARDNER,  Manager.

present  price  is  below  cost  of  produc­
tion.

Menthol— Is  very  firm  and  an  advance 
is  ex­

above  the  present  high  price 
pected.

Balsam  Fir—Canada  continues  scarce 

and  high  prices  rule. 

*

Balsam  Tolu— Has  again  advanced 

and  is  tending  higher.

Oil  Bay— Has  again  advanced  and  is 

tending  higher.

Oil  Lemon  Grass—Is  nearly  out  of 
market  and  extreme  prices  are  asked 
for  what  little  there  is  on  hand.

Oil  Cloves— Is  firm,  in  sympathy  with 

the  spice.

Oil  Wintergreen—Has  advanced,  on 

account  of  scarcity.

Oil  Sassafras— Is  tending  higher.
Oil  Peppermint— Has  been  again  ad­

vanced  ioc  per  lb.

again  advanced.

Oil  Cedar  Leaf— Is  very  firm  and  has 

So-called  Cedar— Is  being  sold  by 
some  jobbers  at  half  the  cost  of  pure 
oil.  Possibilities  are  that  from  two- 
thirds  to  three-fourths  is  turpentine.

Buchu  Leaves—Are  firm  and  have  ad­

vanced.

H opelessly  Insane.

a  patient  at  the  insane  asylum.
the 

"And  this  one?”   we  said,  indicating 
reply. 
"Hopeless  case,”   was 
"Thinks  he  has  discovered  perpetual 
motion. ”

"And  the  next  one?”
"Still  more  hopeless.  Claims to  have 

solved  the  servant  girl  question.”

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Drugs—Chemicals

M ich ig an  S tate  B o ard   o f P h a rm a c y

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L.  E.  Reyn old s,  St.  Joseph 
He n k y  He im , Saginaw 
•  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Dec. 31,1903
Wir t  P.  Do t y, Detroit - 
A.C.S0HUMA0HBB, Ann Arbor  •  Deo. 81,1904 
John D. Mu ir , Grand Rapids 
Deo. 31,1905 

President, A.  O.  Sch um ach er, Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, He n r y  He im  .Saginaw.
Treasurer, W.  P.  Do t y,  Detroit.

E x a m in a tio n   Sessions.

Lansing, Nov. 5 and 6.

M ich.  S tate  P h a rm a c e u tic a l  A ssociation.

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

Sound  View s  C o ncerning 

Poisons.

th e   Sale  o f 

We  happened  to  be  in  the  store  of  a 
prominent  pharmacist  the  other  day 
when  some  one  came  in  for  an  ounce  of 
tincture  of  opium.  The  customer  was 
questioned  very  closely,  but courteously, 
regarding  the  substance,  diplomatically 
gotten  to  tell  what  he  wanted  to  use 
it 
for,  and  then  the  sale  was  carefully 
recorded 
poison-registration 
book,  together  with  the  data  required 
by  the 
law.  We  were  impressed  with 
the  thoroughness  with  which  the  phar­
macist  carried  out  the  provisions  of  the 
law,  and  casually  expressed  this 
im­
pression  after  the  customer  had  gone 
out.

the 

in 

" Y e s ,”   replied  the  pharmacist,  "w e 
surround  the  sale  of  poisons  with  every 
care  and  precaution.  We  do  this  not 
only  because the  law  demands it  and  be­
cause  therefore  it  should  be  done,  but 
we  do  it  for  two  or three  equally  good 
reasons. 
I  could  tell  you  a  number  of 
instances  where  people  have  been  pre­
vented  from  making  what  might  easily 
have  been  fatal  mistakes  by  careful 
questioning  on  my  part.

law  required  it. 

"One  night  a  man  came  in  the  store 
and  wanted  some  tincture  of  opium— 
an  ounce  of  it.  This  is,  of  course,  a 
common  substance,  and one used  a  great 
deal.  The  average  druggist  might have 
sold  it  on  this  occasion  without  a  ques­
tion.  But,  following  our  regular custom,
I  politely  asked  the  man what he wanted 
to  use  it  for,  explaining,  as  usual,  that 
I  asked  through  no  idle  curiosity,  but 
because  the 
I  found 
that  he  wanted  i t  for  a  baby,  and  that 
what  he  really  required  was  not  tincture 
of  opium  at  all,  but  paregoric.  A  care­
less  doctor  had  told  him  to  get  an ounce 
of 
tincture  of  opium,’ 
instead  of  using  the  common  name  of 
‘ paregoric.’  The  man  had  failed  to 
catch  the  qualifying  word 
‘ camphor­
ated,*  or  else  had  thought  it  unimport­
ant,  and  his 
ignorance  of  medicines 
had  done  the  rest.  At  any  rate,  had  he 
been  given  tincture  of  opium  it  is  quite 
likely  there  there  would  soon  have  been 
one  less  baby  in  the  world.

‘ camphorated 

" I   could  mention  several  cases  of this 
kind.  Then,  too,  I  could  tell  you  of 
two  or three  occasions  where  I have pre­
vented  persons  from  following  out  their 
hasty  designs  and  committing  suicide. 
Often  people, made  despondent  by  some 
cruel  fate,  decide  quickly  that  they  will 
end  all  their  troubles  at  one  stroke. 
They  enter  the  drug  store,  get  the  poi­
it  before  their 
son,  and  quickly  take 
resolution  changes. 
In  such  cases  they 
are  always  on  the  verge  of  indecision, 
and  if  questioned  a  bit  they  are  quite 
likely  to  break  down  and  confess  their 
design— either  because  their  strong  feel­
ing  of guilt  makes  them  believe they are 
detected,or  because  their  weak  decision 
totters  and  falls.  Anyhow,  whatever  the 
reason, I  have  a  great  satisfaction  in  the 
thought  that,  during  my  twenty  years

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

of  experience,  I  have  saved  from  death 
at  least  three  persons  who  are  now 
liv­
ing  useful  and  happy  lives.

"B ut  from  a  selfish  standpoint  alone, 
it  pays  the  pharmacist  to  observe  the 
poison  laws  strictly.  From  a  mere  busi­
ness  point  of  view,  it  is  good  policy— 
excellent  policy.  The  more  you  can 
convince  people  that  the  sale  of  poisons 
is  an  important  thing  and  that 
it  calls 
for  scientific  knowledge  and  care,  the 
more  they  will  understand  that  compe­
tent  persons  only  should  handle and  dis­
pense  them. 
It  gives  people  a  concep­
tion  of  the  importance  of  pharmacy  and 
makes  them  look  upon  it  as  something 
besides  a  mere  handing  of  merchandise 
over  the  counter.  Why,  the  reason  so 
is  sold  by  grocers  and 
much  poison 
other  incompetent  persons 
is  because 
pharmacists  themselves,  by  their  ac­
tions,  have  Jed  people  to  believe  that 
the  sale  of  poisons  is  an  unimportant 
matter,  is 
in  nowise  different  from  the 
sale  of  sugar,  and  calls  for  no  special 
knowledge  and  fitness.

"T h e  people  are  not  at  fault  for  look­
ing  at  the  matter  in  this  light,  and  for 
buying  many  of  the  more  common  pois­
onous  substances  of  dealers  other  than 
pharmacists—it  is  the  fault  of  pharma­
cists  themselves. 
1  tell  you,  a  man  is 
almost  always  judged  in  this  world  by 
the  estimate  which  be  places  upon  him­
self— unless,  of  course,  it  be  an  exag­
in  a  con­
gerated  one  and  expressed 
ceited  manner.  Pharmacy  is 
largely 
judged,  in  my  opinion,  at  the  standard 
which  pharmacists  themselves  give  to 
If  they  view  it  as  a  mere  business, 
it. 
the  public  will  so  estimate  it. 
If  they 
look  upon  it  as  containing  a  large  share 
of  professionalism  and  science,  the  pub­
lic  will  accept  this  view.  And  if  they 
surround  the  sale  of  poisons  with  no 
more  precaution  than  they  do  the  sale 
of  toilet  soap,  they  must  not  blame  the 
public  if  it  thinks  the  handling  of  pois­
ons  calls  for  no  special  knowledge  and 
fitness,  and  if,  consequently,  it  buys  its 
poisons  of  the  grocer.” — Bulletin  of 
Pharmacy.

S ellin g   T ooth  B rushes.

One  of  the  most  effective  ways of  sell­
ing  large  quantities  of  a  popular  pTiced 
article 
is  to  make  a  big  showing  of  it 
in  your  window;  and  very  often  such  a 
showing  will  be  more  impressive  if  the 
goods  are  literally  dumped  into  the win­
dow  without  any  effort  at  orderly  ar­
" I   was  reminded  of  this 
rangement. 
point  the  other  day  by  seeing 
in  a 
Broadway  drug  store  window, ”   writes 
‘ paddy’ 
Chas.  F.  Jones,  "an   ordinary 
wheelbarrow  tipped  over  on 
its  side 
with  about  a  bushel  of  tooth  brushes  ly­
ing  partly  in  the  barrow  and  partly  on 
the  floor,  and  a  price  card  marked  ten 
cents.  Handling  tooth  brushes  by  the 
wheelbarrow  load  might  convey  the  im­
pression  that  they  are  pretty  cheap,  or­
dinary  articles;  but  I  believe  this  novel 
way  of  displaying  them  will  sell  a  great 
many  ten  cent  brushes  that  that  store 
would  not  sell  through  the ordinary ways 
of  displaying  tooth  brushes  in  the  win­
dow. ’ ’

W h a t  P eo p le  A sk  F o r.

"Coperus  5c.”
“ Asefity  5c.”
* * Copress  2c. ”
" 1   Bottle  Winslous  Susing  Surup.’ ’ 
“ 5c  Camile  tea.”
"Aikacbol  1  pint.”
" 5   re d sip ia . ”
"5 c  Worth  of  tartalic  aced. ”
"50c  laurghet. ”
“ 5c  citrid  acrid.”
"Greens  August  flour.”
"R ow   shell  Salts.”

A n  In v a la a b l  R equisite.

it  up 

The  druggist  who  is  in  the  habit  of 
using  one  of  the  ordinary  "water air 
pumps”   to  hasten  filtration  is  not  apt 
to  give 
in  a  hurry,  says  F.  T. 
Gordon,  in  the  Pharmaceutical  Era.  A 
glass  "a ir  pump”   can  be  bought  for 
less  than  fifty  cents,  and  can  be  at­
tached  to  the  spigot  in  a  moment.  Fit  a 
good  sized  fruit  jar  with  an  airtight 
cork 
in  which  are  bored  a  hole  large 
enough  for  a  fair  sized  funnel,  and  a 
smaller  -hole  for  a  bit  of  glass  tube,  to 
which  latter  is  fitted  a  rubber tube  con­
nected  with  the  air  pump.  To  filter  a 
liquid,  put  a  good  sized  wad  of 
thick 
absorbent  cotton 
in  the  bottom  of  your 
funnel,  arranging  it  so  that  it will  reach 
an  inch  or  so  up  the  sides;  this  is  the 
support  for  your  filter  paper,  which 
might  otherwise  break  when  the  pres­
sure  inside  the  jar  is  reduced  (blotting 
paper can  also  be  used  for  this);  fit  the 
filter  paper  in  snugly,  moistening  it  if 
necessary,  and  fill  the  funnel  with  the 
liquid  to be  filtered.  Now start  the  flow 
of  water through  your air  pump ;  partial 
exhaustion  of  the  air  in  the  jar will  en­
sue,  and  the  pressure  of  the  air  on  the 
liquid  will  force  it  rapidly  through  the 
filter.  The  whole  cost  of  this  device 
need  not  be  over  seventy-five  cents,  jar, 
funnel,  and  all.  An  ordinary  bicycle 
pump  makes  a  good  air  pump  when  the 
valves  are  reversed,  and 
its  usual 
condition  is  often  of  use  in  siphoning. 
Fit  the  siphon  through  a  cork  with  two 
holes,  put  this 
into  the  bung  hole  or 
top  of  the carboy,  and  pump  in  air  with 
your  bicycle  pump  through  the  other 
hole ;  the  pressure  of  air  will  start  the 
siphon  to  working 
in  a  moment,  and 
the  tube  from  the  pump  can  be  with­
drawn.

in 

P ra c tic a l  T ests  F o r  F ilte r  P ap er.

In  all  the  finer operations  of  filtration 
in  which  paper  is  the  filtering  medium 
used,  it  is  essential  to  proper  results 
that  a  perfect  filtering  paper  be  em­
ployed—a  paper  free  from  salts  soluble 
in  the  ordinary  solvents,  iron  (a  com­
mon  impurity),  greasy  matter,  or  alka­
line  earths. 
It  is  advisable  to test  the 
paper  through  which  filtration  is  to  be 
conducted.  The  suggestion  to  be  so 
critical  may  seem  to  some  as  ultra-elab­
orate,  but  if  the  contender take  a  less 
superficial  view  of  the  matter,  he  will 
agree  with  the  chemist  when  the  latter 
advises  putting  the  filter  paper  to  a 
crucial  test  before 
it  be  relied  upon. 
Joseph  Hostelley  points out that distilled 
water  passed  through  filtering  paper 
should  leave  no  residue  on  evaporation 
— the  presence  or  absence  of a  residue 
determining  whether  or  not  the  paper 
contains  soluble  salts. 
If  a  10  per  cent, 
solution  of  hydrochloric  acid  passed 
through  the  paper  be  colored  yellow, 
the  presence  of  iron  is  proved.  Dilute 
alkalies  passed  through  the paper should 
not  become  milky  when  neutralized 
with  acids;  and  the  "degree”   of  milk- 
iness  decides  the  extent  of  greasy  mat­
ter 
in  the  paper.  Dilute  acids  passed 
through  the  paper  and  saturated  with 
alkali  carbonates  must  not show a milki­
ness ;  should  the  latter  appear,  alkaline 
earths  are  present.

T he  D ru g   M ark et.

Opium— Is  firmer  in  the  primary mar­

kets,  but  unchanged  here.

Morphine— Is  steady.
Quinine—All  brands  have  advanced 

ic  per ounce  and  are  very  firm.

Cocaine—Manufacturers  have  reduced 
the  price  25c  per  oz.,  on  account  of 
is  claimed  that  the
competition, 

It 

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

27

,E  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT
. Wintergreen, Linseed Oil, Quinine, Menthol.

I ,  VJ

20® 22
M enthol....................
@  5  50 Seldlitz Mixture.......
Morphia, S., P. & W. 2 05®  2  30 Sinapis......................
Ö 18
@ 30
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q. 1  95®  2  20 Sinapis,  opt..............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Morphia, Mai............ 1  96®  2  20
@ 41
® 40
V oes......................
Moschus  Canton__
@ 41
65® 80 Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Myrlstica, No. 1.......
9® 11
@ 10 Soda, Boras..............
Nux Vomica...po. 15
9® 11
35® 37 Soda,  Boras, po.......
Os Sepia....................
23® 25
Soda et Potass Tart.
Pepsin Saac, H. & P. 
2
@  1  00 Soda,  Carb...............
D  Co......................
IK®
3®
5
Soda,  Bi-Carb..........
Picis Liq. N.N.V4 gal.
4
@ 2  00 Soda,  A sh.................
3 Vi®
doz.........................
@ 2
@  1  00 Soda, Sulphas..........
Picis Liq., quarts__
@ 2  60
@ 85 Spts. Cologne............
Picis Liq.,  pints.......
50® 55
@ 50 Spts. Ether  Co........
Ptl Hydrarg. ..po.  80
@ 2  00
@ 18 Spts. Myrcia Dom...
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22
@ 30 Spts. Vini Rect.  bbl.
Piper  Alba__ po. 35
@
@ 7 Spts. Vini Rect. ttbbl
Piix Burgun.............
@
10® 12 Spts. Vini Rect. lOgal
Plumbi licet.............
w
1  30® 1  50 Spts. Vini Rect. 5 gal 
.Pul vis Ipecac et Opil 
@
80® 1  05
Strychnia, Crystal... 
Pyrethrum, boxes H.
4
214®
@ 75
Sulphur,  Sub!..........
& P. D. Co., doz...
25@ 30 Sulphur, Roll............
2Ü® 3*4
Pyrethrum,  pv.........
8® 10
8® 10 Tam arinds...............
Q uasslae........................
28® 30
31® 41 Terebenth  Venice...
Quinia, S. P.&   W ...
60® 65
31® 41 Theobromae..............
Quinta, S.  German..
31® 41 V anilla...................... 9  00® 16  00
Quinia, N. Y.............
8
12® 14 Zinci Sulph..............
7®
Rubla Tlnctorum....
20® 22
Saccharum Lactls pv
O ils
Salacln...................... 4  50® 4  75
40® 60
Sanguis  Draconls...
12® 14 Whale,  winter..........
Sapo, W ....................
10® 12 Lard, extra...............
Sapo M ......................
@ 15 Lard, No. l ...............
Sapo  G ......................

B B L .  GAL.
70
70
50

70
60
45

5* 
69 
54 
41 tt 

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

61
62
60
46
P a in ts  b b l .  LB.
Red  Venetian..........  
IX  2  ®8
Ochre, yellow  Mars, 
lit  2  ®4 
Ochre, yellow B er... 
lli  2  ®3 
Putty,  commercial..  214  2V4@3 
Putty, strictly  pure.  214  25£@3 
Vermilion,  P r im e
A m erican.............  
13®  15
70®  76
VermiUon, English.. 
Green,  Paris............ 
14® 
18
Green, Peninsular... 
13® 
16
Lead,  red..................  6V4@  7
Lead,  white..............  644®  7
®  90
Whiting, white Span 
®   96
Whiting, gilders’ —  
®  1  25 
White, Paris, Amer. 
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.........................  
@ 140
Universal Prepared.  1  10®  1  20

V arnishes

No. 1 Turp  Coach...  1  10®  1  20
Extra Turp...............   1  60®  1  70
Coach  Body,............2 75® 3 00
No. 1 Turp Furn.......1  00® 1  10
Extra Turk  Damar..  1  55®  1  60 
Jap.Dryer.No.lTurp  70®  75

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14
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56
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18
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12
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14
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17

15
25
76
40
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80
7

18
25
35

38
25
30
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65
45
35
28
65
14
12
30
60
40
55
13
14
16
70
40
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70
30
75
60
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I  40
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23
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39
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50® 60

ionium Mac.............  
so®  60
iopaiba....................  l  is®  l  25
iubebse....................   l  50®  l  60
ixechthltos.............   l  oo®  ì  io
Srigeron..................   l  oo®  l  10
laultheria...............  2 00®  2  io
leranium, ounce.... 
xosslppli, Sem. gal.. 
ledeoma..................  1  60®  1  76
runipera..................   1  50® 2  00
■avendula  ............... 
90® 2 00
dmonis....................   1  20®  1  30
dentha P i p e r . __ 2  10® 2  20
dentila Verid..........  1  50®  1  60
dorrhu®, |ga!..........   1  10®  1  20
dyrcia........................4 00® 4 50
)flve......................... 
75® 3 00
’icis Liquida............ 
10®  12
Mels Liquida,  gal... 
Mcina.......................   1  00®  1  06
losmarlnl................. 
®  1  00
tosae, ounce.............   6 00® 6  60
luccinl...................... 
40®  46
iabina...................... 
90®   1  00
iantal......................... 2 75®  7  00
Sassafras..................  
65®  60
iinapis,  ess., ounce. 
Diglll...................  
  1  50®  l  60
40®  50
rhyme.......................  
rhyme, opt............... 
@  l  60
rheobrom as............ 
15®  20
P otassium

® 35

® 65

iromide 
larb  .... 
ihlorate.

Potassa, Bitart, com. 
Potass Nitras, opt... 
Potass  N itras..........

Vrum  po.

Hydrastis  Canaden. 
Hydrastis Can., p o .. 
Hellebore, Alba, po.

Vfaranta,  v4s .........
Podophyllum,  po.
Rhei,  cut. 
Rhei, pv..
Sanguinaria., .po.  15

ämilax, officinalis H.
Smllax,  M.................
âcillæ............. po.  35
âymplocarpus.Fœti-
dus,  po ..................
Valeriana,Eng. po. 30 
Valeriana,  German.

Semen
Anlsum..........po.  18
Apium (graveleons).
Bird, is ......................
Carui.............. po.  15
Coriandrum..

Foeniculum..............
Foenugreek, po.......
L in i..........................
Lini, grd.......bbl. 4
Pharlaris Canarian..
R ap a.........................
Sinapis  Alba............
S pirt tu s

15® 18
13® 15
52® 67
12® 15
16® 18
34® 38
2 30® 2  40
28® 30
® 15
7© 10
6© 8
23® 26
15® 18

20® 25
30® 33
10® 12
® 25
20® 40
12® 15
16® 18
® 76
® 80
12® 15
18® 22
3 60®  3  75
35® 40
25® 30
@ 35
22® 25
75®  1  00
@  1 25
75®  1  35
35® 38
® 18
50® 65
60® 65
® 40
© 25
10® 12
@ 25
@ 25
15® 20
14® 16
25® 27

@ 15
13® 15
4@ 6
10® 11
1  26®  1  75
8® 10
4*4® 5
75©  1  00
15® 16
1  00® 10
® 10
9
7®
5
3î£©
5
414®
45® 50
5
4*4®
5
414®
9® 10
11® 12

Frumentl, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2  50 
Frumenti,  I). F. R..  2 00® 2  26
Frum entl..................  l  26®  1  50
Juniperls Co. O. T...  1  65® 2  00
Juniperis  Co............  1  75® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E __   1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vini Galli..........  1  75® 6 50
Vini  Oporto..............  1  25® 2  00
Vini Alba..................  l  25®  2  00

Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage................   2  50®  2  76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage..................  2 50®  2  76
Velvet extra sheeps’
1  50 
wool, carriage.......
Extra yellow sheeps’
1  25
wool, carriage.......
Grass  sheeps’  wool,
@ 1 00 
carriage.................
@  75
Hard, for slate use..
Yellow  R e e f,  for
@  1  40
slate use.................
Syrups
A cacia......................
Auranti Cortex.........
Zingiber....................
Ipecac........................
Ferrl Iod...................
Rhei Arom...............
Smilax  Officinalis...
Senega ......................
Solllae........................

®  50
®  50
®  50
@  60 
®  50
®  50
50®  60
®  50
®  50

Scillae  Co...................
Tolu ta n .....................
Prunus  virg..............

T in ctu res 
Aconitum Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellis F
Aloes .........................
Aloes and M yrrh....
A rnica......................
Assafoetlda...............
A trope Belladonna..
Auranti Cortex........
Benzoin....................
Benzoin Co...............
Barosma....................
Cantharides.............
Capsicum..................
Cardamon.................
Cardamon Co...........
Castor.......................
Catechu]....................
Cinchona..................
Cinchona Co.............
Columba...................
Cubebse......................
Cassia Acutlfol.........
Cassia Acutlfol Co...
Digitalis....................
Ergot.........................
Ferri  Chlorldum__
G entian....................
Gentian Co...............
Guiaca.......................
Gulaca ammon.........
Hyoscyamus.............
Iodine  ......................
Iodine, colorless.......
Kino .........................
Lobelia.....................
M yrrh.......................
Nux Vomica..............
Opil............................
Opil,  comphorated..
Opil, deodorized.......
Q uassia....................
Rhatany....................
Rhei...........................
Sangulnarla.............
Serpentarla..............
Stramonium.............
T olutan....................
V alerian..................
Veratrum  Verlde...
Zingiber....................

50
5050
60
50
60
60
50
50
6050
60
5050
75
50
75
76 
1 00
50 
50 
60 
50 
50 
50 50 
50 
50 
35 
50 
60 
60 
60 
50 
75 
75 
50 
60 
50 
60 
75 
60 
1  Bo 
80 
5o 
50 
80 
5o
60

M iscellaneous 

ACther, Spts. Nit. ? F  30® 
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F   34®
A lum en....................   2V4@
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
3®
Annatto.....................  
40®
Antimonl, po............ 
4®
Antimon! et Potass X  40®
®
A ntipyrin.................  
A ntiiebrin............... 
@
@
Argenti Nitras, oz... 
Arsenicum...............  
10®
Balm  Gilead  Buds.. 
38®
Bismuth S. N............  1  65®  1  70
Calcium Chlor.,  Is...
Calcium Chlor.,  Ks..
Calcium Chlor.,  J4s.. 
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid Fructus, a t..
Capsicl  Fructus, po.
Capsici Fructus B, po 
12®
Caryophyllus. .po. 15
@ 3 00 
Carmine, No. 40.......
50®  55
Cera Alba...............
40®  42
Cera  Flava...............
®  40
Coccus  ......................
®  35
Cassia  Fructus........
®  10 
Centraria...................
45
Cetaceum..................
55®  60
Chloroform.............  
Chloroform,  squlbbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd C rst....  1  40®  1  65
Chondrus.................. 
20®  25
ClncHonidine.P. & W  38®  48
Cincbonidine, Germ.
Cocaine.......' ...........5
Corks, list.dis.pr.ct.
Creosotum.................
C reta.............bbl. 75
Creta, prep...............
Creta, precip............
Creta, Rubra............
Crocus...................... 
75®
Cudbear....................  
®
Cupri  Sulph..............  6H®
7®
D extrine................... 
Ether Sulph.............  
78®
Emery, all numbers. 
®
@
Emery, po.................  
E rg o ta ..........po. 90  86®
Flake  W hite............ 
12®
G alla.......................... 
®
8®
G am bler................... 
Gelatin,  Cooper....... 
®
Gelatin, French....... 
35®
75  &
Glassware,  flint, box 
Less than box.......
Glue, brown.............. 
11®
Glue,  white.............. 
15®
Glycerina...................  1714®
Grana Paradisl.
Hamulus................... 
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite 
Hydrarg  Chlor Cor..
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m.
Hydrarg  Ammoniati 
50®
HydrargUnguentum
<& 
Hydrargyrum.......... 
so
65®  70
Ichthyobolla,  Am... 
75®  1  00
Indigo.......................  
Iodine,  Resubl.........  3 40®  3 60
Iodoform...................  3 60®  3 85
Lupulin...................... 
®  60
65® 
Lycopodium.............. 
70
M arts........................ 
66®
Liquor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod...............  
®
LiquorPotassArslnit  10® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
2® 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
® 
60®
Mannla, 8.  F . . „ .... 

25

2 8

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

GROCERY  PRICE  CURRENT

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

ADVANCED

C otton  C lothes  L ines
S isal  R ope
C anned  T om atoes

DECLINED

D om estic  S ardines
Scaled  H e rrin g
C om pound  L a rd
B u ck w h e a t  F lo u r

T om atoes
1  00
F a ir...........................  
105
G o o d ./...................... 
F ancy.......: ............... 
i  16
Gallons...................... 
3 00
Columbia,  pints.....................2 00
Columbia, H pints................. 1 25

CATSUP  •

CARBON  OILS 

B arre ls

® n
®h54
@11
@13
@12
@12
@H
@U54
@12
@1154
14@15
@90
@17
13@14
50@75
19® 20

Eocene..........................  @1054
Perfection....................   @  954
Diamond W hite..........   @  854
D. S. Gasoline.............   @1254
Deodorized Naphtha..  @1054
Cylinder..........................29  @34
Engine............................. 1»  @22,
Black, w inter.................  9  @1054
C H EESE
Acme.......................... 
Am boy......................  
Carson City...............  
Elsie........................... 
Em blem....................  
Gem...........................  
Gold Medal...............  
Id e a l........................  
Jersey........................ 
Riverside................... 
B rick.......................... 
Edam ......................... 
L eiden......................  
Llmburger................. 
Pineapple.................  
Sap  Sago................... 
C H E W IN G   GUM 
55
American Flag Spruce.... 
Beeman’s Pepsin............... 
60
55
Black Jack .........................  
Largest Gum  Made..................... 60
Sen S e n ,........................... 
56
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1  00
Sugar  Loaf.......................... 
55
Y ucatan............................... 
55
Bulk........................ 
5
 
R ed ..........................................  7
Eagle.......................................  4
Franck’s ................................   654
Schener’s ........................ 
  6
CHOCOLATE 

CHICORY

 

W alter Baker & Co>’s.

Runkel Bros.

German  Sweet......................   23
Prem ium ................................   31
Breakfast Cocoa....................   46
Vienna Sw eet...................... 
21
V anilla....................................  28
Premium................................   31
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz............1  00
Cotton, 50 ft.  per doz............1  20
Cotton, 60 ft.  per doz............1  40
Cotton, 70 ft.  per doz............1  60
Cotton, 80 ft.  per doz........... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz...............   80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............. 
96

CLOTHES  LIN E S

2 35

COCOA

 

 

Cleveland................................  41
Colonial, 54s  ..........................  35
Colonial, 54s...........................   33
Epps....................... 
42
H uyler....................................  45
Van Houten, 54s....................  12
Van Houten, 54s ....................  20
Van Houten, 54s....................  38
Van Houten,  is ....................  70
W ebb...................................  
30
Wilbur, 54s.............................  41
Wilbur. 54s .............................  42
Dunham’s 54s ....................   26
Dunham’s 54s and 54s.......  26 4
Dunham’s  54s ....................   27
Dunham’s  54s....................   28
Bulk.................. 
..........   13
COCOA  SH ELLS
201b. bags............................  
Less quantity................... 
Pound packages..............* 

COCOANUT

3
4

C O FFE E
R oasted

254

1 00
i *

_   HIGH GRADE

Coffees

Special Combination........... 15
French Breakfast.................1754
Lenox, Mocha & Jav a .........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
W hite House, 30-2S.............. 28
Excelsior M. & J., 60-ls.. 
. .2154
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2S....... 2054
Royal Java............................ 2654
Royal Java & Mocha........... 2654
Arabian  Mocha....................2854
AdenMoch............................ 2254
Freeman  Merc. Co. Brands.
Marexo...................................11
Porto  Rican.......................... 14
Honolulu  ............................... 1«54
Parker  House  J  & M ..........25
Monogram J & M ................ 28
Mandehltng...........................3154
Common.................................1054
F a ir ........................................ll
Choice.....................................13
Fancy..................................... 15
Common.................................11
F a ir ........................................14
Choice.................................... 15
F ancy.................................... 17
Peaberry................................ 13
F a ir........................................12
Choice.................................... 16

M aracaibo

Santos

R io

M exican

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

G u atem ala

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

J a v a

African................................... 1254
Fancy A frican......................17
O .  G ....................................25
P. G.........................................29

M ocha

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

P ack ag e 

New York Basis.

Arbuokle..............................H54
P llw orth....  — .............. H54
Jersey...................................1154
Lion......................................11
M cL au g h lin ’s XXX X  
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mall  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

E x tra c t

Valley City 54  gross..............  76
Felix 54 gross...................  
  1  15
Hummel’s foil 54 gross.........  85
Hummel’s tin 54 gross........ 1  43

CONDENSED  M IL K  

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden E agle ......... . . . . 6   40
Crown......................................6  25
Daisy....................................... 5 76
Champion.............................. 4  50
Magnolia.............. 
4 25
Challenge...............................4  10
D im e.......................................3 35
L eader....................................4  00

 

Soda

COUPON  BOOKS 
SObooks,any  denom... 
l  50 
100 books, any  denom...  2  50 
500 books, any  denom...  11  60
1.000 books, any  denom ...  20 00 
Above quotations are for either
Tradesman, Superior, Economic 
or  Universal  grades.  Where
1.000 books are ordered at a time 
customer re c eiv es  s p e c ia lly  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

B u tte r

O yster 

754
65*
654
654

CRA CK ERS

C red it  C hecks 

C oupon  P ass  B ooks 
denomination from $10 down.

Can be made to represent any 
50  books.........................   1  50
100  books. . . , ...................  2  50
500  books.........................   11  50
1.000  books.........................   20  00
500, any one denom.........  2 00
1.000, any one denom.........  3 00
2.000, any one denom........   5 00
Steel  punch........................ 
75
National Biscuit Co.’s brands 
Seymour..............................  
654
New York...........................  
654
Fam ily................................  
654
  654
Salted.................................. 
Wolverine...........................  
654
Soda  XXX.........................  
654
Soda, City...........................  
8
Long Island Wafers..........  13
Zephyrette... 
...................  13
.
F a u s t.................................. 
F arina.................................  
Extra Farina...................... 
Saltlne Oyster....................  
Sw eet  G oods—Boxes
Animals..............................   10
Assorted  Cake...................  10
Belle Rose........................... 
8
Bent’s W ater......................  16
Cinnamon Bar....................  
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced..............  10
Coffee Cake. Java.............   10
Cocoanut Macaroons........   18
Cocoanut Taffy..................   10
Cracknells...........................  16
Creams, Iced...................... 
8
Cream Crisp........................  1054
Cubans................................   1154
Currant F ru it....................   12
Frosted Honey...................  12
9
Frosted Cream................... 
Ginger Gems, l’rge or sm’ll  8
Ginger  Snaps, N. B. C__  
654
Gladiator.............................  1054
Grandma Cakes................. 
9
Graham Crackers.............. 
8
Graham  Wafers.................  12
Grand Rapids  Tea............  16
Honey Fingers...................  12
Iced Honey .Crumpets.......  10
Im perials............................ 
8
Jumbles, Honey.................  12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps......................  12
Lemon W afers...................  16
Marshmallow.....................  16
Marshmallow Creams.......  16  '
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
8
Mary Ann...........................  
Mixed Picnic......................   1154
Milk Biscuit........................ 
754
Molasses  Cake................... 
8
Molasses Bar...................... 
9
Moss Jelly B ar...................  1254
Newton................................   12
Oatmeal Crackers.............. 
8
Oatmeal Wafers.................  12
9
Orange Crisp...................... 
Orange Gem........................ 
9
Penny Qake........................ 
8
754
Pilot Bread, X X X ............ 
854
Pretzelettes, hand m ade.. 
Pretzels, hand  made........ 
854
Scotch Cookies................... 
9
Sears’ Lunch...................... 
754
Sugar Cake.........................  
8
8
Sugar Cream, XXX..........  

Sugar Squares....................  
8
Sultanas...............................  13
Tuttl F ru tti........................  16
Vanilla Wafers................ 
  16
Vienna CrlmD....................  
8
E. J.  Kruce & C a’s baked goods 

Standard Crackers.
Blue Ribbon Squares.
W rite for  complete  price  list 

with interesting discounts. 
CREAM  TA R T A R

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

D R IE D   FR U IT S 

A pples

8  @20

C alifo rn ia  F ru its

Sundrled...........................   ®6
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @9 
A pricots....................... 
9®  954
Blackberries...............
N ectarines...................
Peaches.................... 
Pears............................. 754
Pitted Cherries............
Prunnelles...................
R aspberries................
100-120 25 lb. boxes.........  @354
90-100 25 lb. boxes.........  @  45*
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes.........  @454
70 - 80 25lb. boxes.........  @554
60-7025lb. boxes.........  @  554
50-60 25 lb. boxes.........  @754
40 - 60 25 lb. boxes.........  @854
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes......... 
854

C alifo rn ia P ru n es

54 cent less In 50 lb. cases 

C itron

P eel

C u rra n ts

Leghorn......................................11
Corsican........................... 
  12
California, 1 lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package........  9
Imported, bulk.....................   854
Citron American 19 lb. bx... 13 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx .. 1054 
Orange American 10 lb. bx .. 1054 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
Cluster 4 Crown..............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
654
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb.......8  @ 9
L. M., Seeded. 54  lb .... 
7
Sultanas, b u lk ......................
Sultanas, package...............

R aisins

1  75

FA RIN A CEO U S  GOODS 

B eans

F a rin a

C ereals

Dried Lima............................  
6
2  00
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland.....................2  60
Cream of Cereal......................   90
Grain-O, sm all............................1 36
Graln-O, large.............................2 26
Grape N uts..................................1 35
Postum Cereal, sm all...........l  35
Postum Cereal, large..........  2  25
241 lb. packages.........................1 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs..........................2 25
Flake, 50 lb. sack................... 
90
Pearl,  2001b. bbl........................ 3 80
Pearl, too lb. sack.......................1 so
M accaronl  an d  V erm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box.............  60
Imported. 25lb. box............2  50
Com m on......................................2 40
Chester.........................................2 90
Em pire......................................... 3 40

P e a rl  B arley

H om iny

G rits

Walsh-DeRoo  Co.’s Brand.

Peas

R o lled   O ats

24 2 lb. packages...................2 00
100 lb. kegs............................ 3  00
200 lb. barrels........................5 70
100 lb. bags.............................2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........l   30
Green, Scotch, b u .................1  50
Split,  lb..................................  254
Rolled Avena, bbl.................5  10
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   2  46
Monarch, bbl.........................4 80
Monarch, 54.bbl....................2 60
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2  30
Quaker, cases........................3  20
East India..............................  254
German, sacks......................   354
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  110 lb. sacks..............  454
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks...............   3%
Pearl, 241 lb.  packages.......  6
Cracked, bulk........................  354
24 2 ft. packages.................. 2  so
FL A V O R IN G  EXTRACTS

T apioca

W h ea t

Sago

FO O TE  A J E N E S ’

JAXO N

J B i^ h e s tG r a d ^ E x tr a c t^

Vanilla 

Lemon

1 oz full m .120  1 oz full  m.  80
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m . 1  25 
No.Sfan’y.3  15  No.Sfan’y .l  75

Stove

 

C orn

CANDLES

F re n c h   P eas

BU TTE R   COLOR

No. 3........................................   75
No. 2........................................1  10
NO. 1.........;............................1  75
W., R. & Co.’s, 15c size__   125
W .,B. & Co.’s, 25c size....  2 00 
Electric Light, 8s — :........... 12
Electric Light, 168.......... 
1254
Paraffine, 6s .......................... 1054
Paraffine, 12s.........................H
Wlcklng 
..................29

G ooseberries

B la ck b e rries

l  oo
3  25
80

C lam   B o u illo n

CANNED  GOODS 

80
86
96
22
19
15
u
90
86
l  86
3  40

......  
A pples
3 lb. Standards......... 
Gallons, standards.. 
Standards.................  
B aked.........1  oo@i  30
75®  85
Rad  Kidney.............. 
80
S tring........................ 
W ax...........................  
85
B lu eb erries
S tandard.....................  
86
B ro o k   T ro u t
lb. cans. Spiced...........  1  90
2 
C lam s.
Little Neck, 1 lb ......  
100
Little Neck. 2 lb....... 
l 60
Burnham’s,  54 p int............  1 92
Burnham’s, pints...............   3 60
Burnham’s, quarts............  7 20
C h erries
Red  Standards............
W hite............................
F a ir............................. 
G ood.......................... 
F ancy................... 
Sur Extra Fine................... 
Extra  Fine.......................... 
Fine—   ............................... 
Moyen..................................  
S tandard.................. 
H o m in y
Standard................. 
L ob ster
Star, 54 lb ..................  
Star, l  lb ................... 
Picnic Tails...................... 
M ackerel
Mustard, l i b ............ 
Mustard, 2 lb ............ 
Soused, l lb ...............  
Soused, 2 lb .............. 
Tomato, l lb .............. 
Tomato, 2 lb .............. 
M ushroom s
Hotels.......................... 
Buttons......................  
Cove, l i b ................... 
Cove, 21b................... 
Cove, l lb  Oval........  
Peaches
P ie .............................
Yellow......................  
S tandard.......................... 
Fancy................................ 
M arrow fat.............. 
Early Ju n e...............  
Early June  Sifted.. 
P in e a p p le
.....................  1  25@2 75
Grated 
Sliced..........................  1  35@2  56
P u m p k in
F a ir ...........................  
70
Good.......................... 
75
85
F ancy........................ 
R asp b erries
Standard.................... 
l  15
R u ssian   C avier
54 lb. cans.................................   3 75
54 lb, cans.................................   7 00
lb. can...............................  12 00
1 
Salm on 
Columbia River, tails 
Columbia River, flats 
Red Alaska............... 
Pink Alaska.............  
S h rim p s
Standard................... 
Sardines
Domestic, 54s ............ 
Domestic, 34s..........  
Domestic,  M ustard. 
California, 54s ..........  
California 54s...........  
French, 54s...............  
French, 54s...............  
Standard................... 
F ancy........................ 
Succotash
Fair............................. 
Good.......................... 
F ancy.....................  

@1  85 
@2  09
l  30@i  40
l  10@1  25
l  50
354
5
5 54
n@i4
17@24
7®14
18@28
l  00
1  25
90
1  00
l  20

l  76
2  80
1  75
2  80
i  76
2  80
18@20
22@25

S traw b erries

l  66@l  86

O ysters

l  55
95

loo
l  00

Peas

1 60

85

 

Index to  Markets

By Columns

A

COL
Akron  Stoneware...................  15
A labastlne............................  1
Ammopl&.................................  
l
Axle G rease............................. 
l

B

C

Bakins Powder........................ 
l
l
Bath  Brick............................... 
Bluing.......................................  1
Brooms......................................  1
B rushes.................................... 
l
Butter Color...............................  2
Candles.....................................  14
Candles.......................................   2
Canned Goods...........................   2
Catsup.........................................  8
Carbon O tis...............................  3
Cheese.........................................  3
Chewing Gum............................  3
Chicory.......................................   3
Chocolate....................................  3
Clothes Lines.............................   3
Cocoa..........................................  3
Cocoanut....................................  3
Cocoa Shells...............................  3
Coffee.........................................  3
Condensed Milk........................   4
Coupon Books............................  4
C rackers....................................   4
Cream T a rta r............................  5
Dried  F ruits.............................   5

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

D
F

G

 

 

P

H

M

N
o

I
J
I.

Grains and F lo u r.....................  6
H erbs.........................................   6
Hides and P elts......................   13
Indigo..........................................  6
Je lly ............................................  6
Lamp Burners.........................   15
Lamp Chimneys......................  15
Lanterns..................................   15
Lantern  Globes......................   15
Licorice............................. —   7
L y e.............................................  7
M atches....................................  7
Meat E xtracts.........................   7
Molasses.................  
7
M ustard....................................   7
Nuts...........................................  14
Oil Cans....................................  15
Olives........................................  7
Oyster Palls.............................   7
Paper Bags...............................  7
Paris  G reen.............................   7
Pickles.......................................  7
P ip es..........................................  7
Potash..... .................................  7
Provisions.................................  7
R ice...........................................  8
Saleratus...................................  8
Sal Soda....................  
8
Salt.............................................  8
Salt  F ish...................................  8
Sauerkraut...............................   8
Seeds.........................................   8
Shoe Blacking..........................  8
Snuff..........................................  »
Soap...........................................   8
Soda...........................................   8
Spices................   
9
Starch.........................................  1°
Stove Polish..............................   10
Sugar..........................................   io
Syrups.......................................  9
Table  Sauce...............................  12
Tea.............................................    11
Tobacco......................................  H
Tw ine.........................................  12
V inegar......................................  12
Washing Powder..............•  12
Wlcklng.....................................  13
Woodenware............................  13
Wrapping P ap er......................  13
Yeast Cake.............................. 

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A X L E   G R EA SE
doz.  gross
...55 
6 00
A urora.............. 
Castor  Oil...................... 60 
7 00
4 25
Diamond........................50 
Frazer’s ................ 
  75 
8 00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75 
9 00

M ica, tin boxes..........75 
Paragon.......................56 

9 00
6 00

54 lb. cans,  4 doz. case...... 3  75
54 lb. cans, 
2 doz. case...... 3  75
lib . cans, 
1 doz. case...... 3 75
5 lb. cans,  14 doz. case...... 8 00

54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case..........  45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case..........  85
l 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........ l  60

Q ueen  F la k e

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

R o y al

lOcsize__   90
54 lb. cans  1  35 
6 oz. cans.  190 
54  lb. cans  2  so 
54 lb.  cans  3 75 
l lb.  cans.  4  80 
3 lb. cans  13 00 
5 lb. cans. 21  50

B A T H   B R IC K

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

B LU IN G

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

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

BROOM S

No. l Carpet.................................2 50
No. 2 Carpet.................................2 15
No. 3 Carpet................................. l 85
No. 4 Carpet..............  
1  60
Parlor  Gem................................. 2 40
Common W hisk.....................  85
Fancy W hisk...............................l io
W arehouse...................................3 26

BRU SHES

S crub

Solid Back,  8 In....................   45
Solid 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

  13

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

29

8

Sausages

P ig s’  F eet

Bologna..
L iver.......
Frankfort
P o rk .......
Blood.......
Headcheese.............
B eef
Extra Mess.............
Boneless....................
R um p.......................
14 bbls., 40  lbs..........
M bbls., 80 lbs..........
T rip e
Kits, 15  lbs...............
14 bbls., 40 lbs..........
M bbls., 80 lbs..........
Casings
P o r k .........................
Beef  rounds..............
Beef  middles............
Sheep.........................
B u tte rin e
SoUd, dairy...............
RoUs, dairy...............
Rolls,  creamery.......
Solid,  creamery.......
Corned beef, 2 lb __
Corned beef, 14 lb ...
Roast beef, 2 lb........
Potted ham,  14s.......
Potted ham,  Ms.......
Deviled ham,  14s __
Deviled ham,  Ms__
Potted tongue,  14s..
Potted tongue,  Ms..
R IC E
D om estic

C anned  M eats

IO_____
F a ir.........................................  16
Good.......................................  26
C hoice....................................  25

P u re   Cane

STARCH

K in g sfo rd ’s  Corn
40 l-lb. packages................. 
20 l-lb. packages................. 
6 lb. packages................. 
K ln g sfo rd ’s S ilver Gloss

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

834
7
1%

7J4

C om m on Gloss

l-lb. packages....................  
3-lb. packages....................  
6-lb. packages....................  
40 ana 60-lb. boxes.............  
Barrels................................ 

5M
6
6
4
3%

W h ite fish

100  lbs............7  50 
40  lb8 ............ 3 30 
10  lbs............  90 
8 lb s..........  75 
SEEDS

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

Anise.......................................9
Canary, Smyrna....................  3M
Caraw ay.................................. 754
Cardamon, Malabar............. 1  00
Celery......................................10
Hemp, Russian......................4
Mixed Bird.............................4
Mustard, white......................7
Poppy......................................  6
R ape.......................................4
Cuttle Bone............................ 14
Handy Box, large..............  2 50
Handy Box, small.............   1  25
Bixby’s Royal Polish........  
85
Miller’s Crown  Polish....... 
85
Scotch, In bladders...............   37
Maccaboy, in ja rs.................   35
French Rappee, In  jars.......  43
B. T. Babbit brand—

SHOE  BLA CK IN G

Babbit’s B est....................  4  00

SNUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

Jydndel

6M
10 75
11  50
11  50
1  60
2  90
70
1  25
2  25
21
4
12
65

@13M
@14
17M
17
2  50
17  50
2 50
50
90
50
90
50
90

____ JJ_____
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  2«
NO. 16...................................   4 25

 

TE A
J a p a n

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

G unpow der

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

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

D. G. Lemon 
D. G. Vanilla
2 0Z.:....... 
75  2 OZ..........  124
3 OZ..........  1  00  3 OZ..........  1  60
6 OZ..........   2  00  4 oz..........  2  00
NO. 4 T  
.1 5 2   No. 3 T ...  2 08
O u r T ropical.

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
70
2 oz.  Panel Vanilla Tonka.. 
2 oz. Panel Lemon..............  
60

S tan d ard .

,  FL Y   P A P E R

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

F R E S H   M EATS 

B eef

P o rk

Garcass............-......... 
F o requarters..........  
H indquarters.......... 
Loins.......................... 
R ibs...........................  
Rounds...................... 
CnucKs...................... 
P lates........................ 
D ressed..................... 
Loins......................... 
Boston  B utts...........  
Shoulders.................  
Leaf  L ard.................  
M utton
Carcass.....................  
Lambs........................ 
Garcass...................... 
W h ea t

V eal

6  @  8
5  @ 6
9
9  @12
8  @10
7M@  8
5M@  6
3  @ 5
@ 7
@10'4
@914
@ 9
@  9
7  @  9
7M@ 814
7  @714

G R A IN S  AN D   FLO U R 

W h eat................................. 

W in te r  W h ea t  F lo u r 

70

Local Brands

S p rin g   W h ea t  F lo u r 

Worden Grocer Co.’s  Brand

P atents...............................   4  20
Second Patent....................   3  70
Straight...............................   3  M
Second Straight.................  3  30
Clear ....................................  3  10
G raham ...............................  3  40
Buckwheat.........................   4  oo
Bye.......................................  3  20
Subject to  usual  cash  dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per  bbl. ad­
ditional.
BaU-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms........................  3  85
Diamond las.......................   3  85
Diamond 14s.......................   3  85
Quaker Ms...........................  3  80
Quaker Ms...........................  3  80
Quaker 14s...........................  3  80
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s  Brand
Ptllsbury’s  Best H s..........   4  45
Plllsbury’s  Best Hs..........   4  35
Plllsbury’s  Best H s..........   4 25
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  25 
Plllsbury’s Best Hs paper.  4  25 
Ball-Barnhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Hs..........  4  26
Duluth  Imperial Hs..........  4  15
Duluth  Imperial Hs..........  4  05
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
Wingold  H s...................... 
4  20
Wingold  H s...................... 
4  lo
Wingold  H s...................... 
4 00
Ceresota Ms........................  4  45
Ceresota H s........................  *  35
Ceresota H s........................  4  25
Laurel  H s...........................   4  40
Laurel  H s...........................   4  30
Laurel  H s...........................   4  20
Laurel Hs and Hs paper..  4  20 
Bolted..................................  2  60
Granulated.........................   2  75

Worden Grocer  Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

M eal

F eed  an d   M illstuflb 

St. Car Feed, screened....  22  50 
No. 1 Corn and  O ats...  ..  22 oo
Unbolted Com  Meal.........21  50
W inter W heat Bran..........  17  oo
W inter W heat  Middlings.  18  00
Screenings.................................16 50
Car  lots................................  40
Car lots, clipped.................  43
Less than car lots..............
Corn, car  lots.....................  60

C orn

O ats

H ay

No. 1 Timothy car lots.. 
No. l Timothy ton  lots..
Sage..................................
H ops................................
Laurel Leaves.................
Senna Leaves..................

H E R B S

.  10  50 
.  12  50
.......16
.......16
.......15
.......25

IN D IG O

JE L L Y

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................. 56
S. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes........so
l  90
61b. palls.per doz............ 
16 lb. palls..............................  38
30 lb. palls................. 
72
LICO R IC E
P u re.......................................   30
Calabria.................................   23
Sicily.....................................  
i4
Root..................................  
io
 
Condensed, 2 doz.................i  20
Condensed, 4 doz................. 2  25

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MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur...................... 1  65
Anchor P arlo r.....................1  50
No. 2 H om e..........................1  3c
Export Parlor...................... 4 00
Wolverine.............................1  50

M EAT  EXTRACTS

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

40
35
26
22

MOLASSES 
New  O rleans

Fancy Open Kettle...........  
Choice.................................  
F a ir..................................... 
Good.................................... 

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

Horse Radish, l doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3  50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz...........1  75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs.................  1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs.................  1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs................   1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz................. 
so
Queen, pints.......................   2  35
Queen, 19  oz.......................  4 50
Queen, 28  oz.......................   7 00
Stuffed, 5 oz........................ 
90
Stuffed, 8 oz.......................   1  45
Stuffed, 10. oz......................  2 30
Continental  Paper  Bag  Co.

P A P E R   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Glory Mayflower
Satchel & Pacific
Bottom
Square
.........  28
........   34
........   44
........   54
........   66
........   76
........   90
........ 1  06
........ 1  28
........ 1  38
........ 1  60
........ 2  24
........ 2 34
.........2 52
S ugar

50
60
80
1  00
1  25
1  45
1  70
2  00
2  40
2  60
3  15
4  15
4  50
5  00
5 50

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

414
434

H..........
m ..........
1..........
2..........
3..........
4..........
5 ..........
6..........
8..........
10..........
12..........
14..........
16..........
20..........
25..........
R ed......
Gray....

P A R IS   G R EEN

Bulk....................................... 14
Packages, M lb., each...........18
Packages, H lb., each...........17
Packages,  l lb., each...........16

P IC K L E S
M edium

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

Barrels, 2,400 co u n t............ 8  00
Half bbls, 1,200 count......... 4  50

S m all

P IP E S

Clay, No. 216................................ 1 70
Clay, T. D., full count..........  65
Cob, No. 3..............................   86

POTASH 

48 cans in case.

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

PROVISIONS 
B arreled   P o rk

Mess........................... 
B ack .........................  
Clear back................. 
Short cut..................  
P ig ............................. 
Bean........................... 
Family Mess.............  

D ry   S alt  M eats

Bellies........................ 
B riskets.................... 
Extra shorts.............  

@16  00
@18  00
@*8  so
@is  0»
@20  75
@17  25
@18  76

10M
10M
10

Sm oked  M eats 

@ 1134
Hams, 12 lb. average. 
@ 11H
Hams, Mlb.average. 
@ 11*
Hams, 16 lb. average. 
@ 11M
Bams, 20 lb. average. 
Ham dried  beef....... 
@  13
@  9M
Shoulders (N.Y. cut) 
Bacon, clear.............   10M@  UH
California hams....... 
@  8H
Boiled Hams........... 
@17
@ 13
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
@  9
Mince H am s.......... 
@  9H

L ards—In Tierces

Compound................. 
Pure............................ 
Vegetole.................  
601b. Tubs., advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
50 lb. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls., advance 
51b. Palls., advance 
81b. Palls..advanoe 

8
10H
8%
H
H
M
K
%

1
1

Im p o rted .

CaroUna head................. __ 6M
Carolina  No. 1 ............... __ 8
Carolina No. 2 ........................ 6H
Broken ....................................
Japan,  No.  1...............5H@
Japan,  No.  2...............4H@
Java, fancy head............   @
Java, No. 1 ..................  @
Table.............................  @
Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

SALERATUS 

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 H s.....................3 00
Granulated,  bbls...................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases___1  (0
Lump, bbls...........................   80
Lump, 145 lb. kegs.................  85

SAL  SODA

SALT

B uckeye

Com m on  G rades

D iam ond C rystal 

100  31b. b ag s.............................3 00
50  6 lb. b ag s............................. 3 00
2214 lb. b ag s............................. 2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5' per  cent,  dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2  75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2  65 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2  85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs..............  27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs.............   67
100 3 lb. sacks.............................. 2 26
60 5 lb. sacks...............................2 15
2810 lb. sacks.............................2 05
40
56 lb. sacks.......................... 
281b. sacks.................. 
22
 
56 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  40
28 lb. dairy In drill bags.......  20
56 lb. dalry*ln linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy In mien sacks...  60 
56 lb.  sacks.............................  25
Granulated  Fine...................  85
Medium Fine.........................   90

S olar  R ock
C om m on

A shton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  F IS H  

Cod

T ro u t

H e rrin g

H alib u t.

Georges cured.............   @ 6
Georges  genuine........   @  6H
Georges selected........   @  7
Grand Bank.................  @ 6
Strips or  bricks..........   6H@10H
Pollock.........................   @  3X
Strips.......................................... 10
Chunks....................................... 12
NO. 1 100 lbs........................   6  25
No. 1  40 lbs...........'............  2  80
No. 1  10 lbs........................  
78
No. 1  8 lbs........................  
69
Holland white hoops,  bbl.  19  25 
Holland white hoops Hbbl.  5  so 
Holland white hoop,  keg.. 
75 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
85
Norwegian.........................
Round 100 lbs......................  3  00
Round 40 lbs...... ................  150
Scaled................................  
15
Bloaters...............................   1  60
Mess 100 lbs.........   ............  ll  00
Mess  40 lbs........................   4  70
Mess  10 lbs........................   1  25
Mess  8 lbs........................  1  03
No. 1100 lbs........................   9  60
No. 1  40 lb s.......................  4  10
No. l  10 lbs........................  
l  10
No. 1  8 lbs........................  
91
No. 2 100 lbs........................   8  00
NO. 2  40 lbs........................   3  60
No. 2  10 lbl........................  
95
79
NO. 2  8 lbl........................  

M ackerel

Detroit Soap Co. brands—

50 cakes, large size...............3 26
100 cakes, large size............  6  50
50 cakes, small size...............1 95
100 cakes, small size..............3 85
Bell & Bogart brands—
Goal Oil Jo h n n y ..............  4 00
King Cole  ........................   4  00
Queen Anne.....................   3  35
Big Bargain...............••••  1  90
Umpire..............................  2  S5
German Family...............  2  65
Dingman...........................  3  85
Santa  Claus......................  3  40
Brown................................  2  22
Fairy..................................  4  00
N aptha................................-4  00
Oak Leaf...........................  3  15
Oak Leaf, b ig s..................  4 25

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

Pels brand—
Gowans & Sons brands—

J A X O N

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single box..............................3  20
5 
box lots, delivered.......3  15
10 box lots, delivered........... 3  10
Johnson Soap Co. brands—
Silver King.......................   3  40
Calumet Family...............  2  40
Scotch Family..................2  55
Cuba...................................2  40
50  cakes......................  1  95
Ricker’s M agnetic..........  3  90
Big Acme..........................  4  25
Acme 5c.............................  3  65
Marseilles.........................   4  00
M aster...............................3 70
Lenox................................  3  20
Ivory, 6oz......................... 4 00
Ivory, 10 oz.......................  6 75
Schultz & Co. b ra n d -
s ta r....................................3  25
A. B. Wrisley brands—
Good C heer................. 
3  80
Old Country......................  3 25
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz........2 40
Sapollo, hand, 3 doz............. 2 40
Boxes......................................  514
Kegs, English..........................434

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

SPICES 

W hole Spices

Allspice...............................  
Cassia, China In m ats....... 
Cassia, Batavia, In bund... 
Cassia, Saigon, broken__  
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__  
Cloves, Amboyna...............  
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
M ace.................................... 
Nutmegs,  75-80................... 
Nutmegs,  105-10................. 
Nutmegs, 115-20.................. 
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white. 
Pepper, shot........................ 
P u re  G round In B u lk
Allspice...............................  
Cassia, Batavia.................. 
Cassia, Saigon................... 
Cloves, Zanzibar................. 
Ginger, African................. 
Ginger, Cochin................... 
Ginger,  Jam aica...............  
Mace..................................... 
M ustard............*................  
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white. 
Pepper, Cayenne.............  
Sage...................................... 

12
12
28
38
56
17
14
55
50
40
36
18
28
20
16
  28
48
17
15
18
25
65
18
17
25
20
20

SYRUPS

Corn

Barrels....................................2*
Half bbls............................... 23
1 gallon cans, per doz........8  20
M gallon cans, per d oz........1  80
J4 gallon cans, per d oz.........  95

Best Gloss Starch, 50 lb.......
Best Gloss Starch, 40 lb .......
Best Gloss Starch,  6 lb.......
Best Gloss Starch,  3 lb .......
Best Gloss Starch,  1 lb .......
W o rk s:  V enice,I1L  
G eneva, 111.

Best Corn Starch...................
Neutral Pearl Starch In bbl. 
Neutral Powdered Starch in bbl. 
Best Confect’rs In bbl.,thin bolL 
Best Laundry In  bbl.,  thin  boll. 
C has. P o p e G lucose Co.,
C hicago, 111.

C om m on C orn

201-lb.  packages...............   &X
40 l-lb.  packages...............  
4M

STOVE  PO L ISH

Y oung  H yson
Choice......................................30
Fancy.............................. 
36

O olong

Formosa, fancy......................42
Amoy, medium...................... 25
Amoy, choice..........................32

E n g lish  B re ak fast

Medium...................................27
Choice......................................34
Fancy........................ 
42
In d ia   ■

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

 

TOBACCO

C igars

A. Bomers’ brand.

Plalndealer............................... 85 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller...................  36
Our Manager......................  85
Quintette.............................  35
G. J . Johnson Cigar Co.’s bran

S

P

8

8

 

i

B. C. W.................................  86  00
Cigar Clippings, per lb....... 
26

F in e  C ut

 

Uncle Daniel..........................54
Ojibwa.............. 
34
Forest  Giant..........................34
Sweet Spray..,.......................38
Cadillac....................................57
Sweet  Loma............................38
Golden Top........................ ...26
Hiawatha................................ 57
Telegram.................................28
Pay C ar...................................82
Prairie Rose............................50

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 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  tne  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
XXXX Powdered..............  6  35
Fine Granulated.................  5  10
2 lb.  bags Fine  G ran.........  5 25
5 lb. bags Fine  G ran........   5 25
Mould A ..............................   5 55
Diamond  A .........................  5 20
Confectioner’s  A ...............   5  05
No.  l, Columbia A............  4  90
No.  2, Windsor A.............   4  85
No.  3, Ridgewood A .........  4  85
No.  4, Phoenix  A ..............  4  80
No.  5, Empire A ...............   4  75
No.  6....................................  4  70
No.  7....................................  4  60

30

1 2

Protection.....................
Sweet Burley...............
Sweet Loma.................
T iger.............................

.........38
.........40
.........38
.........39

P lu g

.........33
Flat Iron......................
.........60
Creme de Mentbe.......
.......39
Stronghold...................
.........33
Sweet Chunk............... .........37
Forge............................. .........33
Bed Cross...................... .........32
P alo.............................. ........ 36
........ 36
Hiawatha...................... .........41
.......37
Battle A x e ..................
American Eagle.......... .........34
Standard Navy............ .........37
Spear Head, 16 oz....... .........42
Spear Head,  8oz....... .........44
Nobby Tw ist............... ........ 48
Jolly T a r...................... .........38
Old Honesty................. .........44
Toddy............................ .........34
j .  x .............................. ........ 38
Piper Heidsick............ .........63
Boot Jack..................... .........81
Jelly Cake..................... .........36
Plumb  Bob................... ........ 32
Honey Dip Twist......... .........39

Sm oking

Hand Pressed.............. ........ 40
Ibex............................... .........28
Sweet Core.................. .........36
Flat Car........................ .........35
Great Navy................... ........ 37
W arpath...................... .........27
Bamboo,  8oz.............. .........29
Bamboo, 16 oz.............. .........27
I X L ,  5 1b................... .........27
I X  L, 16 oz. pails........ ........ 31
Honey D ew ................. .........37
Gold Block.................. .........37
Flagm an...................... .........41
Chips............................. ........ 34
Kiln D ried................... .........22
Duke’s M ixture.......... ........ 38
Duke’s Cameo............. .........40
Myrtle N avy............... ........ 40
Yum Yum, lft oz........ ........ 40
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls.. ........ 38
Cream........................... .........37
Corn Cake, 2ft oz......... ........ 24
Corn Cake, l i b ............ ........ 22
Plow Boy, lft oz.......... .........40
Plow Boy, 3ft oz.......... .........39
Peerless, 3ft oz............ ........ 34
Peerless, lft oz........... ........ 36
Indicator, 2ft oz.......... ........ 28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls .. .........31
Col. Choice, 2ft oz....... .........21
Col. Choice. 8 oz.......... ........21

TABUE SAUCES
LEA &
PERRINS’
SAUCE
The Original and
Genuine
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large.........  3  76
Lea & Perrin’s,  small.......  2  60
Halford, large.....................  3 76
Halford, small.....................  2 26
Salad Dressing, large.......  4 66
Salad Dressing, small.......  2  76

TWINE

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

V IN EG A R

Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..ll
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star............12
Pure Cider, Bobinson. ......1 2
Pure Cider,  Silver.................12
W A SH IN G   P O W D E R

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

ytu M & i/ffa w

Bub-No-More........................3  50
Pearline.................................. 3  75
Scourine..................................3 50

W IC K IN G

No. 0, per gross......................20
No. *, per gross......................26
No. 2, per gross......................36
No. 3. per gross......................66

W O O D E N W A R E

B ask ets

Bushels....................................  85
Bushels, wide  band............. 1  15
M arket....................................  30
Splint, large...........................6 00
Splint, m edium .................... 6  oo
Splint, sm all..........................4 oo
Willow Clothes, large..........5 50
Willow Clothes, m edium ...  6 00
Willow Clothes, small..........4 76

B a tte r   P la te s

No. l Oval, 260 In  crate.........  46
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate.........  60
No. 3 Oval, 250 In crate.........  65
No. 6 Oval, 260 In crate.........  66

E g g  C rates

Humpty D um pty.................2  26
No. l, com plete.....................  30
No. 2, com plete.....................  26

C lothes  P in s

Bound head, 6 gross b o x ....  46 
Bound head, cartons............   62

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

13

14

Hop  Sticks

'EFo’an spring........................  90
Eclipse patent spring......... 
86
No 1 common.........................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85 
12 1h. cotton mop head s.... .1  26 
Ideal No. 7 .............................  90

Pails

2- hoop Standard..................... l  40
3- 
hoop Standard..1 60
2- wlre,  Cable...........................l 60
3- wlre,  Cable........................1  70
Cedar, all red, brass  bound. 1  26
Paper,  Eureka......................2 25
F ib re.......................................2 40

T o o th p ick s
Hardwood...................
Softwood.....................
Banquet........................
Id eal.............................

.2  50 
2  75 
.1  60 
1  50

Tubs

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

7  20

 

Wash  Boards

Bronze Globe...........................2 60
D ew ey.....................................1  75
Double Acme...........................2 76
Single Acme......................  
2  26
Double Peerless.................  3  25
Single  Peerless....................... 2 60
Northern Q ueen....................2 60
Double Duplex....................... 3 00
Good L uck..............................2 76
Universal................................. 2 26

Wood  Bowls

11 In.B u tter...................... 
76
13 In. B utter.............................l 00
15 In. B utter.............................1 75
17 In. B utter.............................2 60
19 In. B utter.............................3 oo
Assorted 13-16-17.....................1 76
Assorted 16-17-19  ..................2  50

WRAPPING  PAPER
Common Straw ................... 
lft
Fiber Manila, white..........  
3ft
Fiber Manila, colored....... 
4ft
4
No.  1  Manila.....................  
Cream  Manila.................... 
3
Butcher’s Manila................ 
2ft
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   20
Wax Butter,  rolls..............  15

YEAST  CAKE

Magic,3 d o z ....I.........................l oo
Sunlight, 3 d o z .......................... 1 00
Sunlight, lft  doz...................  50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz.....................l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz..................... 1 oo
Yeast Foam, lft  doz............  60
Per lb.

F R E S H   F IS H

»
White fish..................... 8@
9
8@
Black  Bass................... 10@ 11
H alibut......................... @ 15
Ciscoes or H erring— @ 5
Bluefish ........................ @ 12
Live  Lobster............... @ 20
Boiled  Lobster............ @ 20
Cod................................ @ 10
H addock...................... @ 7
No. 1 Pickerel.............. @ 9
P ik e............................... @ 8
P erch............................ @ 5
Smoked  W hite............ @ It
Bed  Snapper................ @ 11
Col River  Salmon....... @ 12
M ackerel...................... @ 15

Bulk Oysters

H ID E S   A N D   PE LT S 

O ysters. 
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts............
F. S.  D.  Selects.......
Selects......................
Counts......................
Extra Selects............
Selects........................
Standards  ................

40
33
27
1  75
1  60
1  35
1  16
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., 100 Canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No. 1.............. 
Green  No. 2.............. 
Cured  No. 1.............. 
Cured  No. 2.............. 
Calf skins,green No. 1 
Calfskins,green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. 1 
Calfskins .cured No. 2 

@  7ft
@  6ft
@  8%
@  7%
@  9
@  7ft
@10
@  8ft

H ides

Pelts

Pelts,  each................ 
60@i  oo
Lam b................................30@  60
Tallow
NO. 1................................. 
No. 2................................. 
Washed, fine............ 
Washed,  m edium ... 
Unwashed,  fine....... 
Unwashed, medium. 
CA N D IES
S tick  C andy

15@17
18@21
li@ n
14@16

Wool

@ 4ft
@ 3ft

S tandard...................
Standard H. H .........
Standard  Twist.......
Cut Loaf....................
Jumbo, 32 lb..............
Extra H. H ...............
Boston Cream..........
BeetBr*-1 
...... ,.

bbls .p alls
@  7ft
W  7ft
@ 8
@ 9
cases
@ 7ft
@10ft
@10
@ 8

Mixed Candy

Grocers......................
Competition..............
Special.......................
Conserve...................
R o y al........................
Ribbon......................
Broken......................
Cut Loaf....................
English Bock............
K indergarten..........
Bon Ton  Cream.......
French Cream..........
Dandy P an...............
Hand  Made  Cream
m ixed.....................
Crystal Cream m ix..

@ 6ft
@ 7 
@ 7ft
@ 8ft
@ 8ft
@ 9
@  8ft
@ 9
@ 9
@  9
@  9
@10
@10
@14ft
@13

Fancy—In Pails

F an cy —I n  fi lb. B oxes

Champ. Crys. Gums. 
8ft
Pony  H earts............
12
Fairy Cream Squares
12
Fudge Squares.........
Peanut Squares.......
9
11
Sugared Peanuts__
Salted Peanuts........
12
10
Starlight Kisses.......
@12
San Bias Goodies....
Lozenges, p lain .......
@ 9ft
@10
Lozenges, printed...
Choc. Drops..............
@ llft
@13ft
Eclipse Chocolates...
@14
Choc.  Monumentals.
Victoria Chocolate..
@16
Gum Drops...............
@ 6ft
Moss  Drops..............
@  9ft
Lemon Sours............
@  9ft
Imperials...................
@  9ft
Ital. Cream O pera... 
@12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. palls..............
@12
Molasses  Chews,  16
lb. palls...................
@13
Golden Waffles........
@12
Lemon  Sours..........
@65
@60
Peppermint Drops..
Chocolate  Drops"__
@65
H. M. Choc. D rops..
@86
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12.............. 
@1  00
Gum Drops...............  
@36
@76
Licorice  Drops......... 
@56
Lozenges,  plain....... 
@00
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................... 
@60
@60
M ottoes..................... 
Cream  B ar..... .......... 
@55
Molasses B ar............  
@56
Hand Made Creams.  80  @90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
and  W lnt............... 
@66
String Book.............. 
@65
W lntergreen Berries 
@60
Caramels
@ 9
Clipper, 20 lb. palls.. 
@10
Standard, 20 lb. palls 
@l2ft
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
@15
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
@66
@65
Big 3,3 for lc p r bx.. 
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx  @60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
@60
AA Cream Car’ls 31b 
@60
FR U IT S
O ranges
Florida Russett........
Florida  B right........
Fancy  Navels..........
Extra Choice............
Late Valencias........
Seedlings...................
Medt.  Sweets...........
Jam aicas..................
R odi........................
L em ons
Verdelli, ex fcy 300..
Verdelli, fcy 3Ó0.......
Verdelli, ex chce  300
Verdelli, fcy 360.......
Malori Lemons, 300..
Messinas  300s..........
4  00 @4 50
Messinas  360s..........
3  60@4 00
B an an as
Medium bunches__ 1  50@2 00
Large bunches.........

@
@
@
@
@
@
@
@
©
@
@
@

4  60@4 75

4  25@4 50

NUTS

®
®
®
®
®

F o reig n  D rie d  F r u its
@
@ 9i
® 12
14

Californias,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes............
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes......................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, In bags....
D ates
Fards In 10 lb. boxes
Fards In 60 lb. cases.
5 ® 5ft
Hallowi...................... 
lb.  cases, new....... 
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....  4ft  @ 6
Almonds, Tarragona 
@16
Almonds,  Ivloa....... 
@
Almonas, California,
soft shelled............ 
15@16
Brazils,...................... 
ml5
@i3ft
................... 
Fiiberts 
@14
Walnuts,  Grenobles. 
W alnuts soft shelled 
@15
CsdlfornlaNo. l . ..  
Table Nuts,  fancy... 
@14
Table  Nuts,  choice.. 
@13
Pecans,  Med............   @io
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
@12
Pecans, Jumbos....... 
@13
Hickory Nuts per bu.
Ohio,  new.............. 
@i  60
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
@
Chestnuts, per b u ... 
@6  50
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns.. 
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
B oasted................. 
Choice, H. P., Extras 
Choice, H. P., Extras
Boasted.................  
Span. Shlld No.  1 n ’w  6ft@ 7

5ft@ 
6ft@ 7

®
@

15

STO NEW ARE

B u tte rs

48 
6 
54 
65 
•,8 
1  20 
1  60 
2  26 
2  70

6ft
84

48
6

60
6

85 
1  10

60
46
7ft

2

ft 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, eacn.........................

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

C h u rn s

M ilkpans

ft gar  f.at or rd. hot., per doz.............
1 gal. nat or rd. bot„ taeh ..................
F in e   G lazed  M ilkpans
ft gal  flat or rd. bot., per doz.............
X gal. flat or rd. bot., each...................

Stew pans

ft gal. fireproof, bail, per doz..............
1 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz..............

J u g s

ft gal. per doz.........................................
ft gal. per doz.........................................
l to 5 gal., per gal.................................

S ealing  W ax

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

L A M P  BU RN ERS

No. 0 Son.................................................
No. 1 Sim.................................................
No. 2 Sun.................................................
No. 3 Sun................*...............................
Tubular....................................................
Nutmeg....................................................

L A M P  CHIM NEYS—Seconds

35
36 
48 
86 
50 
50
Per box of 6 doz.

A  Suggestion

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

A uto-B i, $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  A gen ts

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

138
1  54

2  24 Wood  Wanted

A n ch o r C arto n  C him neys 

Each chimney in corrugated carton.

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

F ir s t  Q u ality

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

X X X   F lin t

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

P e a rl  Top

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

L a  B astie

No. l Sun, plain bulb, per  doz............ 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz............ 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz............................. 
No. 2 Crimp, per doz........................... . 

R o ch ester

No. 1 Lime (65c  doz)............................. 
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)............................. 
No. 2 Flint 180c  d o z ) " " ...................... 

E lec tric

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

O IL   CANS

I gal. tin cans with spout, per  doz__  
1 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. Tilting cans................................... 
5  gal. galv. Iron  Nacefas...................... 

LANTERNS

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......................  
LA N TER N   GLOBES 

No. 0 Tub., cases 1 doz. each, box, 10c 
No. 0 Tub., cases 2 doz. each, box, 15c 
No. 0 Tub., bbls 6 doz. each, per bbl.. 
No. 0 Tub., Bull’s eye, cases 1 aoz. each 
MASON  FR U IT   JA R S .
P in ts.................................................... 
Quarts...................................................... 
Half  Gallons........................................... 
ers................................................... 

a  and  Bubbers.......................•........ 

l 50
l 78
2 48

J  85
2 00
2 90

2 75
3 75
4 00

4 oo
5 00
6 10
80

1 00
1 25
l 35
l 60

3  50
400
4  60

4 00
4 60

1  60
1  80
3 00
4 30
5  76
4  50
6 oo
7  ro
9 00

4 76
7  25
7  25
7  50
13 50
3  60

45
45
2  00
1  25

6 00
6 25
9 oo
2  25
26 &  35

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Large  attendance.  Large  SUBPLUS  of  calls 
for  its  students.  INVESTIGATE.  Plain  cata­
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“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 8 .  M IC H .

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

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance  Co.

Organized  1881.

Detroit, Michigan.

Cash  Capital. 9400.000.  Nst Stir./»*, 9200,000.

Cash Assets,  9800,000.

D. W h it n e y , Jr .,  Pres.

D.  M.  F e r r y ,  V ice Pres.

F . H .  W h it n e y , Secretary.
M.  W .  O ’B r ie n , Treas.

E . J.  B o oth, A sst.  Sec’y.

D ir e c t o r s.

D.  W hitney, Jr.,  D.  M. Ferry, F .J . Hecker,
M. W . O ’Brien, H oyt Post, Christian Mack, 
A llan  Sheldon,  Simon J.  M urphy,  W m.  L . 
Smith,  A .  H.  W ilkinson, James  E dgar,  H. 
K irke  W hite,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  H ugo  ¡5 
Scherer,  F .  A .  Schulte,  W m .  V .  Brace,  ® 
James  M cM illan,  F .  E .  D riggs,  Henry  ® 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D .  ® 
Standlsh, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  M ills, 
A lex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S.
G.  Gaskev,  Chas.  Stlnchfield,  Francis  F . 
Palms,  W m . C.  Y aw k ey,  David  C.  W h it­
ney, Dr. J.  B.  Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F. "Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C.  Jenks.

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

billheads................. 
File and  1,000 specially

$2  75

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

Printed blank bill heads,

♦
♦

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

1  25

1  5o

Grand  Rapids. 

*

|  

♦

 

*  

H elp   th e   P o o r  to   H elp   T hem selves. 

W ritten for the Tradesman.

With  the  coming  of  “ the  melancholy 
days,  the  saddest  of  the  year,"  that 
large  and  increasing  number  who  give 
time  and  attention  to  the  always  de- 
plorable  condition  of  the  poor  are  even 
now  planning  to  provide  for the  Na­
tional  feast-day  so  that  not  a  human 
stomach  in -ail  our  borders  shall  on  that 
day  go  unfilled.  As  soon  as  the  day  is 
over  and  before  the  tables  are  cleared 
the  same  generous  hearts  will  gaze  at 
the  remnants  of  the  feast,  be  thankful 
for  what  they  have  done  and,  with  an 
earnestness  which  ought  to  secure  more 
lasting  results,  take  up  the  question  of 
furnishing  these  same  poor  children 
with  Christmas  presents. 
the 
charity  work 
for  the  year  is  over,  the 
world  rolls  around  until another Thanks­
giving  comes,  when  the  same  devoted 
hearts  will  fill  the  same  expectant  stom­
achs  with  more  turkey  and  cranberry 
sauce  and  mince  pie.

Then 

With  no  desire  to  lessen  in  the  slight­
est  degree  the  heart-work  that  prompts 
this  charity, 
there  still  exists  in  the 
minds  of  many  the  opinion  that,  aside 
from  the  blessing  that  comes  from  the 
giving,  there  is  not  much  to  commend 
it.  A  dinner  and  a  Christmas  present, 
although  both  be  generous,are  not  worth 
living  for  if  the  ten  months  separating 
the  present  and  the  dinner  show  only  a 
fortunate— or  unfortunate—survival  of 
the  fittest;  and 
if  the  same  surviving 
stomach 
is  found  at  even  a  second 
Thanksgiving  dinner  the  only  fact  it in­
tensifies 
is  that  the  same  old  pinching 
poverty  has  produced  the  same  old 
dreadful  result,  as  sure  to  be  depended 
upon  as  the  date 
itself.  The  misery 
has  not  been  lessened.  The  same  old 
want  has  existed  unabated  during  the 
whole  slowly-dragging  year,  to  be  con­
tinued  as 
long  as  soul  and  body  hang 
together.

Now  then,  while the  Bible  says,  "The 
poor  ye  have  always  with  you,"  it  does 
not  say,  “ Ye  shall  have  them," and  the 
lack  of  the  imperative  more  than  sug­
gests  that  something  should  be  done  to 
lessen  the  number.  So  then,  while  a 
turkey  dinner  may  be  worth  the  eating, 
it  is  submitted  that  better  than  turkey 
dinner  and  Christmas  present  is  the 
helping  of  the  needy  poor  this  year  to 
pay  for  their  own  good  things  next  year 
by the result of their own exertions.  Help 
the  poor  to  help  themselves  and let them 
work  out  their  own  salvation.

is  the  utter 

Another  fact  which  is  too  rarely  taken 
into  account 
ignorance 
which  the  well-to-do  giver  generally 
displays 
in  supplying  the  supposed 
want;  and  the  turkey  dinner  furnishes 
well  enough  the  needed  illustration.  In­
stinct tells  the  majority  what  to  do  with 
the  turkey  and  mince  pie,  but  many  an 
adult  devouring  both  has  wished  that  he 
had  in  money  the  worth  of  his  dinner, 
that  he  might  spread  it  over  twenty  one 
meals  instead  of  just  that  one.  There 
is  gratitude 
in  his  heart,  he  does  not 
want to ‘ ' look a gift  horse in the mouth, ’ ’ 
but  it  does  look  too  much  like  the  old 
Micawber  caper  of  wasting  his  sub­
stance,  gift  though  it  be,  upon  a  dinner 
of  cake  and  wine  and  then  waiting  for 
weeks  for  “ something  to  turn  up.”

Here 

comes  a  fact  to  “ point  the 
moral,”   even  if  it  does  not  “ adorn  the 
tale:”   “ Of  course,”   said  the  would-be 
helper  of  the  poor  to the  professional 
cooking  teacher,  “ you  teach  the  poor 
women  who  come  to  you  how  to  make 
nice  bread.”   “ No,  I  don’t,”   was  the 
reply. 
is  not to give 
them  ideas  they  never  will  try,  but  to

“ The  best  way 

teach  them  to  do  the  things  they  do  as 
well  as  possible.  The  women  who come 
to  me  buy  from  the  big  bakeries  bread 
that  is  a  day  old  much cheaper than they 
can  make  it  themselves,  and,  although 
there  is  some  difference  in  the  quality, 
after  they  have  been  out  working  hard 
all  day  they  don’t  feel like coming home 
and  making  bread.”

Let  us  hear  the  conclusion  of  the 
whole  matter:  Nine  times  out  of  ten  it 
is  work,  not  charity,  that  the  poor  in 
this  country  want.  That  furnished,they 
can  and  will—and  ought  to—look out for 
themselves.  Then  when  the  feast-day 
and  other  holidays  come  they  can  eat 
turkey  and  buy  presents,  if  they  wish  to 
and,  if  they  do  not  so  desire,  to their 
unspeakable  delight  they  “ don’t  have 
to”   and,  what  is  more  to  the  purpose, 
they  are  not  in  any  sense  whatever  put 
down  as  “ objects  of  charity,”   which 
condition 
thoroughly 
abominates.

the  American 

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Grasshopper Bricks  For  Chickens.

Grasshoppers  are  being  put  to  a  new 
in  Nebraska.  The  farmers  have 
use 
killed 
incredible  numbers  of  them  by 
the  help  of  a  machine  which  is  perhaps 
the  most  effective  ever  devised  for  the 
purpose.  It  is  called  a  “ hopperdozer, ”  
and 
is  nothing  more  nor  less  than  a 
large  flat  pan,  with  a  small  amount  of 
kerosene  contained 
in  a  depression  in 
the  rear  part  of  it.  The  contrivance, 
being  attached  to  a  horse,  is  pushed 
along in front  of  the  animal  as  the  latter 
is  driven  across  the  fields.  Pretty near­
ly  every  grasshopper  encountered  jumps 
upon  the  pan  and  is  promptly suffocated 
by  the  kerosene.  This ingenious instru­
ment  has  been 
in  use  for  a  number  of 
years  in  parts  of  the  West,  but  hitherto 
it  has  not  occurred  to  the  farmers  to 
make  any  use  of  the  dead  grasshoppers. 
Most  commonly  they  were  burned,  al­
though  some  more  enterprising  agricul­
turists  turned  a  portion  of  them  to  ac­
count  as  poultry  feed.  They  found  that 
the  hens  liked  them  exceedingly;  for  it 
is  a  fact  that  a  grasshopper  is  to a  hen 
what  a  canvasback  duck  is  to  a  human 
epicure—the  very  choicest  and  most  es­
teemed  of  delicacies.

Hence  the 

idea  which  is  now  being 
developed  on  a  commercial  scale.  The 
grass  hoppers  after  being  killed  by  the 
hopperdozer are  left  in  windrows  in  the 
fields,  where  they  are  soon dried.  When 
they  have  been  exposed  to  the  sun  for a 
sufficient  time  to  reduce  them  to a prop­
erly  desiccated  condition  they  are  gath­
ered  up  with  rakes,  shoveled  into  carts, 
and  conveyed  to  a  shed,  where  they 
are  put 
into  a  press  somewhat  resem­
bling  an  ordinary  cheesepress,  and  con­
verted  into  solid  bricks.  The  bricks  are 
shipped  in  quantities  to  poultry  raisers, 
who  find  this  new  kind  of hen provender 
most  satisfactory,  and  they  are  anxious 
to  get  more  of  it.  Apparently  it  is  a 
great  encourager  of  egg  production. 
It 
is  not  necessary  to  grind  the  bricks  be­
fore  feeding  the  stuff  to  the  chickens, 
but  merely  to  break  them  into  pieces 
and  soften  with  water.

Thistles For Feed  in  Kansas.

From the Colby, Kas.,  Times.

Owing  to  the  scarcity  of  hay  in  West­
ern  Kansas  farmers  are  feeding  Russian 
thistles  to  their  stock. 
It  has  been  dis­
covered  that  Russian  thistles  make good 
food  for  cattle,and  cattlemen  have  gath­
ered  them  the  same  as  hay  and  stacked 
them  for  winter  feeding.

During  certain  parts  of  the  season 
cattle  pasture  on  the  thistles,  and  seem 
to  do  well. 
In  Thomas  county,  Kansas, 
they  are  being  cut  and  stacked  just  like 
hay.  A  rick  of  these  thistles  looks  as 
woolly  as  the  back of a porcupine.  They 
have  millions  of  fine  spines,  each  of 
is  as  sharp  as  the  point  of  a 
which 
needle.  But  cattlemen 
in  the  section 
where  they  flourish  say  that  when damp, 
cattle  eat  them  readily,  and  get  a  good 
deal  of  nutriment  from  them.

Per
100
Gauge
1Ö $2 90
10
2 90
10
2 90
10
2 90
10
2  96
10
3 00
12
2 50
12
2 60
12
2 66
12
2 70
12
2  70

Hardware  Price  Current

Ammunition

Caps

G. D., full count, per m .................
Hicks’ Waterproof, per m ..............
Musket, per m.........................
Ely’s Waterproof, per m .................

Cartridges

No. 22 short, per m ...........................
No. 22 long, per m .........................
No. 32 short, per m .........................
No. 32 long, per m ..........................

Primers

Gun Wads

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

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

Loaded  Shells

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of 
Powder 

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

oz. of 
Shot 
1(4 
1(4 
1(4 
1(4 
1(4 
1(4 
1 
1 
1(4 
1(4 
1(4 
Discount 40 per cent.

4 
4 
4 
4 
4* 
4(4 
3 
3 
3(4 
3(4 
3(4 
Paper Shells—Not Loaded
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per loo..

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per  keg......................
(4 kegs, 12(4 lbs., per  (4  keg..........
X kegs, 6« lbs., per x   keg............

Shot

In sacks containing 25 lbs.

Drop, all sizes smaller than  B.......
A u g u rs  an d   B its
Snell’s ............................................
Jennings  genuine...........................
Jennings’ Imitation...........................

Axes

First Quality, 8. B. Bronze..............
First Quality, D. B. Bronze............
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel...............
B arro w s
Railroad.................................... '.......................
G arden ...............................................
B olts

Stove....................................................................
Carriage, new  ll«t  ...........................
P lo w ................................................................. .

Well, p lain ......................................................

B uck ets

B u tts,  C ast

Cast Loose Pin, figured .........................
Wrought N arrow ......................................

C hain

hi In. 

6-16 in.

54 In.
. . . 6(4 
. . . 63Í 

(i ln.
Com.....................  7  c.  . . .   6  c.  . . . 6 C . . . .  43íc.
...............  8K 
BB 
B B B ....................   8X 
.  6(4
Cast Steel, per lb .........................................
Socket F irm e r .............................................
Socket Fram ing...........................................
Socket Comer................................................
Socket Slicks.....................................

. . .   7(4 
. . .   7ii 
C row bars
C hisels

.. .  6
.

6
66
66
66
65

E lbow s

Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz.............. . ..net
Corrugated, per doz........................
Adjustable......................................... ...dls
E xpansive  B its
Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26...........
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $30....................
F iles — New  L ist
New Am erican ...........................................
Nicholson’s ....................................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps.............................
G alvanized  Iro n

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

13 

14 

Discount,  60

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

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

...dls
...dis
. .  .dis

H am m ers

Maydole & Co.’s, new list....................
...dis
Yerkes & Plumb’s ....................................
...dis
Mason’s Solid Cast Steel......................30c list
Gate, Clark’s l, 2,3 .................................... ...dis
H ollow   W are
Pots...............................................................* . . .
K ettles .............................................................
Spiders................................................

H inges

16
G auges

G lass

H o rse  N ails

H ouse  F u rn ish in g  Goods

40&10
Au S able ........................................................... . ..dis
Stamped Tinware, new list................
70
Japanned Tinware....................................
20&10
Bar Iron ............................................................. ...2 26  oratea
Light Band...................................................... . . .  
3  crates

Iro n

K nobs — New   L ist
Door, mineral, jap. trimmings.........
Door, porcelain, fap. trim m ings....
Regular 0 Tubular, Doz...........................
Warren, Galvanized  Fount................

L an tern s

72
64

4 00
2  25
1  25

1  76

26
60

6 00
9  00
6 60
10 50
12.00
29 00

60

60
60

$4  00

66
60

75
1  26
40&10

40
26
70&10
70
70

28
17

60&10

80&20
80&20
80&20
33(4
40&10
70
60&10
60&10
50&10
50&10

76
86
6 00
6 00

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

40
60
76
60

2  60
3 00
6 00
6  76

1  20
1  20

60
70
80

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

Bevels

Adze Eye.................................. $17 00..dls 

M attocks

M etals—Zinc

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

31

70

66

7)4
8

Miscellaneous

40
Bird Cages.............................................. 
Pumps, Cistern......................................  
75
86
Screws, New L ist.................................. 
Casters, Bed and Plate.........................  50&10&10
Dampers, American.............................. 
60

M olasses  G ates

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

6O&10
30

Pans

Fry, Acme...............................................  6O&10&10
Common,  polished................................ 
70&6
P a te n t  P la n ish e d   Iro n  

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

Broken packages He per pound extra.

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

P lan es

N ails

Advance over base, on both Steel and  Wire.

40
60
40
46

2'56
2  66
Base
6
10
20
30
46
70
60
16
26
36
26
36
46
88

60
46

7  60
9  00
16  00
7  60
9  (0
16  00
18  00

10
13

60

26 00

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

R iv ets

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

R oofing  P la te s

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

Sisal, (4 Inch and larger....................
Manilla.................................................

R opes

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

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

Sand  P a p e r

Sash  W eig h ts

S heet  Iro n

com. smooth. com.
$3  60
3  70
3  90
3  90
4  00
4  10
All Sheets No.  18  and  lighter,  over  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  ...................................
Nos. 16 to 17.....................................
Noá. 18 to 21.....................................
Nos. 22 to 24.....................................   4 10
NOS. 25 to 26..................................... 4 20
NO. 27.................................................  4  30
wide, not less than 2-10 extra.

Shovels  an d   Spades

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

Solder

8  00
7  60

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

Squares

Steel and Iron......................................... 

T in—M elyn  G rade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.26.

T in—A llaw ay   G rade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.60

B o iler  Slse  T in  P la te  
14x66 IX, for No.8Boilers, i n. rnoilnd 
14x66 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, f P®* pouna" 

T rap s

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

W ire

Bright Market............................ 
Annealed  M arket.................................. 
Coppered Market................................... 
Tinned  Market..................... 
 
 
ed Fence, Galvanized................... 
Barbed Fence, Painted......................... 

a ered Spring Steel.................. 

 

 

•  W ire  Goods

Bright......................................................  
Screw Eyes............................................- 
Hooks....................................................... 
Gate Hooks and Eyes...........................  

W renches

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

60—10—6

$10 60
10  60
12  00

9  00
9  00
10  60
10  60

18

75
40&10
66
16
1  25

60
60
60&10
60&10
40
3  26
2  96

80
80
80
80

So
So

 

 

d à

The Grain  Market.

Wheat  has  been  remarkably  steady. 
higher,  while 
Futures  range  about 
cash  advanced  2c.  Receipts  are 
large 
in  the  Northwest,  while  the  exports  are 
also  large,  being  5,000,000  bushels  for 
the  week,  and  100,056,000 bushels  since 
July  1,against  59,183,000 bushels  for the 
corresponding  time  last  year,  or 40,000,- 
000  bushels  more  this  year  than  last.  At 
this  rate,we  will  export  over  300,000,000 
bushels.  This  is  certainly  good  for the 
United  States.  Montreal  is  counted 
in 
these  sales.  We  might  state  that  the 
world’s  shipments  during 
the  week 
were  7,200,000  bushels,  and  of  this 
amount  this  country  furnished  5,000,- 
000  bushels.  Argentine  still  remains 
dry.  The  drought  has  not  been  broken 
up  to  the  present  time.  However,  there 
were  whispers  that  they  did  have  rains. 
It  looks  as  though  that  country  would 
not  be 
it  next  season,  so  far  as  the 
exporting  of  wheat  is  concerned.  Even 
should  they  get  rain,  they  will  not  have 
as  much  of  a  harvest  as  they  bad  last 
year.  We  hear  of  damage  by  the  Hes­
sian  fly 
in  Kansas,  but  in  this  State, 
up  to  the  present  time  the  fly  has  not 
made  its  appearance,  on  account  of  the 
cold  weather.  Had  our  farmers  sown 
more  wheat,  in  all  probability  they 
would  have  made  a  large  yield,  but,  as 
it  is,  it looks  as though the  usual  amount 
will  not  be  raised  here,  but  undoubted­
ly  we  will  have  more  than  we  harvested 
this  year.  The  visible  made  an 
in­
crease  of  1,241,000  bushels.  Should  out­
side  speculation  set  in,  we  would  see 
prices  ioc  per  bushel  higher.  Wheat  is 
the  cheapest  article  going. 
It  can  not 
always  be  thus.

in 

Corn  has  been  very  strong.  There 
seems  to  be  a  demand  springing  up 
from  exporters,  as  well  as  Eastern  buy­
ers,  which  gave  it  a  strong  tone  and  an 
advance  of  fully  i^ c   per  bushel  can  be 
recorded.

Oats  are  up  fully  ic  per  bushel.  The 
offerings  are  absorbed  as  fast  as  offered 
and  more  are  wanted.

Rye  has  also  advanced  fully  i>£c  per 
bushel,  but  only  choice  rye  is  wanted  to 
bring  that  price.  There 
is  consider 
able  poor  rye,  which,  of  course,  has  to 
be  used  for  feeding  purposes.

Buckwheat  is  enquired  fot,  hut  no  set 
It  is  worth 

price  has  been  established. 
about  50c  per  bushel.

Beans  are  about  5c  off  from last week
Flour  is  firm,  owing  to  the  firmness of 
wheat.  Dealers  also  think  prices  are 
about  low  enough.

Mill  feed  remains  steady.  Sales  are 
fully  equal  to  production,  with  prices 
unchanged—bran,  $18,  and  middlings, 
$19  per  ton.

Receipts  have  been  large,  as  follows: 
wheat,  73  cars';  com,  7  cars;  oats,  ; 
cars;  flour,  10 cars;  beans,  3  cars;  hay 
3  cars;  potatoes,  23  cars.

The  mills  are  paying  72c  for  wheat.
C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

The  Produce Market.

Apples— Fancy  Spys 

readily  com 
same 
mand  $5.  Snows 
Baldwins  are  in  demand  at $3.50.  Other 
varieties  range  from  $3@3>25‘  Cooking 
stock  fetches  $2.5o@2.75.
ra n g e  

B a n a n a s—P r ic e s  

fetch  the 

from   $1.2 

1.75  p e r  b u n c h ,  a c c o rd in g   to  size.

B eets—$1.25  per  bbl.
Butter— Factory  creamery  commands 
22c  for  fresh  and  20c  for  storage.  Dairy 
grades  range  from  12c  for  packing stock 
to  I4@i5c  for  choice  and' i6@i7c  for 
fancy.  Receipts  have  dropped  off  con 
siderably  of 
late,  due  to  the  reduction 
of the  pasturage.

dozen.

Cabbage—$1.75  Per  crate  of 
Carrots—$1.25  per  bbl.

four 

Cauliflower—$ i @ i . 25  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $6.50 
7  per  bbl.  Cape  Cods  range  about  50c 

Eggs— The  market 

per  bbl.  higher.
is  stronger  and 
higher.  Cold  storage  goods  command 
7c  and  fresh  range  from  18c  for  case 
co'unt  to  19c  for candled.

Figs—Three  crown  Turkey  command 
ic  and  5  crown  fetch  14c.
Dates—5@5K c  per  lb.
Game—Dealers  pay  $ i @ i .2o  for  rab­

bits.
Grapes—Wordens  fetch  I3@I4C  for  8 
lb.  and  10c  for  4  lb.  baskets.  Niagaras,
5c  for  8  lb.  baskets.  Malagas,  $5@6 
per  keg.
is  in  light  sup­
ply  at  14c.  Amber  is  slow  sale  at  13c 
and  dark 
in  moderate  demand  at 

Honey— White  stock 

for  300s. 

@I2C.
Lemons— Verdellis  range  from  $4.50 
for  300s  to  $4.75  for  360s.  Maioris 
command  $5 
Californias, 
$3-75@4  f°r  either  size.

Lettuce— I2j£c  per  lb.  for  hot  house. 
Maple  Syrup—$1  per  gal.  for  fancy. 
Onions—goc@$i  for choice  red  or yel­
low.  Spanish  command  $1.50  per  crate.
Oranges—Jamaicas  command  $4@4.25 

is 

per box.

Parsley— 20c  per  doz.
Pears— Keefers  are  in  fair  demand  at 
@1.25.
Potatoes—The  market  is  stronger  and 
higher,  paying  prices  in  Grand  Rapids 
having  jumped  to 6o@65C  to-day.  The 
outlook  for  an  active  demand  at 
lucra­
tive  prices  is  excellent.

Poultry---- Dressed  hens 

fetch  8c,
spring  chickens  command  9@ioc,  tur­
key  hens  fetch  n@ i2c,  gobblers  com­
mand  8@ioc,  ducks  fetch 
io@ nc. 
Geese  are  not  wanted  unitl  the  weather 
gets  colder.  Live  pigeons  command 
5o@6oc  and  squabs  are  taken  at  $1.20 

*•50.
Quinces—$1.40  per  bu.
Squash---- Hubbard 

commands  2c

per  lb.
Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  have  de­
clined  to  $1.6531.75.  Baltimores  com­
mand  $2  and  genuine  Jerseys  $3  per 
bbl. 

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The Boys Behind the Counter. 

Chesaning—A.  Cantwell  has  a  new 
in  the  person  of  Will  Axford,  of 

clerk 
Owosso.

Cedar Springs—Elbert  Wagar  has  re­
signed  his  position 
in  Skinner’s  drug 
store  and 
is  succeeded  by  Claude 
Becker,  of  Courtland.  Mr.  Wagar  will 
devote  his time  to  his  pharmaceutical 
studies  until  the  next  State  examina 
tion.

Whitehall—Charles  Lauterberg  suc­
in  Berg's 

ceeds  Chas.  Wright  as  clerk 
meat  market.

Ionia— Geo.  Wedge,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  grocery  department  of 
the  firm of  G.  F.  Whitney  & Son  for  the 
past  two  and  a  half  years,  has  taken  a 
position  in  the  dry  goods  department.

Adrian—Watson  Bennett,  of  Mont 
pelier,  Ohio,  has  taken  a  position 
in 
the  grocery  store  of  A.  J.  Walters.  H 
was  a  former  employe  of  Mr.  Walters  at 
Montpelier.

Sault  Ste.  Marie—Charles  Senecal 
has  resigned  his  position  in  Prenzlauer 
Bros. ’  dry goods  department  to accept  ; 
similar  position  in  Marquette.

Leroy— Myron  Osborn  has  taken  ; 
in  Frank  Smith’ 

position  as  clerk 
store.

Otsego— George  Frye has  resigned  his 
position 
in  the  grocery  department  of 
A.  W.  Hartman  &  Co.,  and  taken  a  po 
sition  with  his  former  employer,  J.  W 
Phillips,  in  Kalamazoo.  Mr.  Frye  was 
given  the  preference  over  fifteen  other 
applicants.

Lowell— L.  H.  Hunt,  who  has  been 
known  for  years  as  an  experienced 
pharmacist,  is  now  to  be  found  in  the 
W.  S.  Winegar  drug  store.

Pentwater— E.  A.  Wright  has  taken

M IC H IG A N   T R A D E S M A N

position  as  pharmacist  at  the  Crescent 
Drug  Store.

Houghton— B.  J.  Parker,  who  has  had 
charge  of  the  shoe  department  of  L. 
Miller’s  store,  has  been  promoted  to 
be  general  manager  of  the  entire  estab­
lishment. 

_____

Port  Huron—The  Merchants  and 
Manufacturers’  Association  has 
in­
dorsed  the  proposition  of  the  Factory 
Land  Co.,  which  will  be  presented  to 
the  Common  Council  and  Legislature, 
to  set  fifty  acres  into  the  township  by 
changing  the  city  limits.  The  object  is 
to  increase  the  manufacturing industries 
of  the  city.  The  company  has  secured 
five  propositions  from  manufacturing 
establishments  to  locate  here  providing 
they  can  escape  city  taxation.

Marquette— During  the  coming  win­
ter 
the  Armstrong-Thielman  Lumber 
Co.  will  rebuild  its  planing  mill,  which 
was  destroyed  by  fire  not  long"  ago. 
Plans  for  a  structure  to  cost  several 
thousand  dollars  are  now  being  made. 
The  mill  will  be  equipped  with  all 
modern  machinery  and  will  be ready for 
operation  in  the  spring.

M.  Hoffman  has  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Mancelona.  The 
stock  was  sold  by  the  Lemon  &  Wheel­
er  Company.

Boyd  &  Hanna  have  engaged 

in  the 
grocery  business  at  Harlan.  The  Wor­
den  Grocer  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

W.  E.  Taylor  has  purchased  the  gro­
cery  stock  of  Mrs.  E.  Vander Stolpe  at 
625  Broadway.

Advertisements  w ill  be  inserted  under 
this  head  for  two  cents  a  word  the  first 
insertion  and  one  cent  a  word  for each 
subsequent  insertion.  No  advertisements 
taken  for  less  than  25  cents.  Advance 
payments.________________________________

keeplng  86 per  cent.  Send  for  catalogue. 
Eureka Cash  &  Credit  Register  Co.,  Scranton, 

Fo r   s a l e —g r o c e r y   s t o r e   o f   e .  j .
Herrick, 116 Monroe  street,  Grand  Rapids. 
Enjoys  best  trade  In  the  city.  Mr.  Herrick 
wishes to retire from  business.  Address  L.  E. 
102
Torrey, Agt., Grand Rapids. 
7 0 R   SALE—THE  CLOTHING.  HAT,  CAP 
and furnishing goods stock of  the late  L. F. 
Lutz,  of  Byron,  Michigan, 
invoicing  about 
$7,000.  Business  has  been  established  twelve 
years.  Stock is in good shape.  Must be  sold  at 
once..  Address  Mrs. L. F .  L u tz._________ 109
70R   SALE-BEST  GROCERY  BUSINESS 
in  F lin t  Sales  average  $1,600  per  month. 
. 
Will  Inventory  about  $2,000.  Big  bargain  for 
cash.  Best of reason for selling.  W rite quick if 
you want  i t   Address  Derby  &  Choate,  Flint, 
Mich. 

HO

94

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Bu r   s y s t e m   r e d u c e s   y o u r   b o o k - 
Pa. 
Fi n e   o p e n in g   f o r   d r y   g o o d s  Busi­
ness..  Now occupied by small  stock, for sale
Address No. 97,  care  Michigan  Trades- 
cheap.
97
man.
F c jm m u m a m m
thriving  business;  best  location  In  Central 
Michigan;  cash receipts last  year,  $10,000;  good 
clean  stock  of  general  merchandise,  invoicing 
about 12,500;  stock can be  reduced  to  suit  pur­
chaser:  large ice house, with  good  refrigerator, 
capacity  3,000  pounds;  no  competition;  nearest 
store five miles;  good chance for hustler;  a good 
bargain If taken right away;  reason  for  selling, 
other business.  For further particulars  address 
W. 3. Hamilton. Colonville, Mich. 
ir>OR SALE—STORE, GENERAL MERUHAN- 
r   dise stock and one-half acre of land  in  town 
of 200 population in Allegan county.  Ask for real 
estate  $2,600.  Two  fine  glass  front  wardrobe 
show cases, with drawers;  also  large  dish  cup­
board and three movable wardrobes in flat above 
go  with  building.  Will  invoice  the  stock  and 
fixtures at cost (and less where there is a  depre­
ciation), which will probably not exceed $1,200  or 
$1,600.  Require $2,000 cash, balance on mortgage 
at & per cent.  Branch office of the  West  Michi­
gan Telephone  Co.  and  all  telephone  property 
reserved.  Store building  26x62;  warehouse  for 
surplus stock, wood,  coal  and  ice,  12x70;  barn, 
24x36, with  cement  floor;  cement  walk;  heated 
by Michigan wood furnace on  store  floor:  large 
filter cistern and water elevated to  tank  in bath­
room by force pump.  Cost  of  furnace,  bathtub 
and  fixtures,  with  plumbing,  $296.  Five  barrel 
kerosene tank in  cellar  with  measuring  pump. 
Pear and apple  trees  between  store  and  barn. 
For particulars or for  inspection  of  photograph 
of premises address or call on  Tradesman  Com- 
pany. 
99
FOR  SALE—A LIVE,  UP-TO-DATE  CHINA, 
crockery and house furnishing  store,  carry­
ing  a  brand  new  well-bought  stock  of  china, 
crockery, glassware, tinware and  a  general  line 
of house furnishings and notions; located  in  the 
best and busiest city in the Northern  Peninsula; 
the only store of its kind in the city; satisfactory 
reasons for selling; a splendid  chance  for  some 
person.  Address  Queensware,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 
JjV )R SALE- GOOD CLEAN STOCK OF GEN- 
eral merchandise, invoicing  $2,500  to  $3,000. 
Situated in good farming district in Northern In­
diana.  Reason  for  selling,’business  interests 
elsewhere.  Quick  sale  for  cash.  Address  No. 
93, care Michigan Tradesman._____________ 93

101

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

"PLANING  MILL  FOR  SALE—A  FULLY 
I   equipped planing mill, with  sash,  door  and 
blind machinery, in a city of 20,000;  doing all the 
business.  Now  rented  subject  to  sale.  Must 
sell to close up partnership.  A  chance of a  life­
time to the right  man.  Address  No.  114,  care 
Michigan Tradesman. 
____________ 114
TIN
P»OR  SALE-COMPLETE  SET  OF
ner’s tools, all  in  good  condition  Address 
Wm. Brummeler & Sons, 249-263 South  Tonia St. 
Grand Rapids.____________ _____ 113
ON  ACCOUNT  SICKNESS  WILL  SELL 
warehouse and produce business, best  town 
in State, cheap.  Clark's Real  Estate  Exchange. 
Grand Rapids. 
_____________111
A  CCOUNT  AGE WILL  SELL  $3,500  STOCK 
A   agricultural  stock  in  best  town  in  State, 
clearing $2AOO per  year.  Clark’s  Business  Ex- 
change. Grand Rapids.__________________ U2
IPOR  SALE—HARDWARE  AND  IMPLE 
V  ments;  nice  clean  stock;  invoices  about 
$4,000; will sell part or all of stock; also^et of tin­
ner’s tools.  Will sell  or rent  store and dwelling, 
Situated on Pere  Marquette  Railroad  in  Mason 
County. Michigan. Address No. 117 care Michigan 
Tradesman. 
117
Fo r   s a l e —a   f u l l   l i n e   o f   f a r m in g  
implement stock;  all  salable  goods:  estab 
lished over twenty years; best of  reason  for sel 
ling.  Address No. 116, care Michigan Tradesman
116

■   CLEAN  GROCERY  STOCK  FOR  SALE 

of about $1,500, with good  trade,  in  connec­
tion with  a  department  store  with  large  trade, 
No time to give it attention;  good  location;  fine 
chance;  easy  terms.  Lock  Box  1097, Greenville 
Mich. 

115

t lM>R SALE—STOCK OF  DRUGS  AND  GRO- 

1  ceries in the city of Flint, (Michigan,  includ­
ing horses and delivery wagons.  Cash sales  last 
year were $30,000.  Store rents  for  $600.  Employs 
four clerks  and  one  bookkeeper;  gas  and elec­
tric  light  in  store,  and  both  Bell  and .Valley 
phones.  Stock new and in the best of condition. 
Will invoice at  $5,000,  including  horses and wag­
ons.  Will  sell for part cash, balance on time, if 
secured for the sum of  $4,500.  Enquire  of  Geo. 
E. Newall, Flint, Mich. 

i7»OR  RENT—AN  UP-TO-DATE  DRY GOODS 
'  store, centrally located,  in  a  growing  pros­
perous town  in  Southern  Michigan.  Competi­
tion is not strong.  Can  give  Immediate  posses­
sion;  Address  No.  89,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 

89

92

87

I TOR  SALE—STOCK  OF  GENERAL  MER- 

’  chandise in the best town in Northern Mich­
igan.  Large  mills,  tannery,  chemical  works: 
surrounded by  good  farming  country:  stock  of 
about  $2,000;  will  rent  store  and  residence  a t­
tached :  will make price right.  Address  No.  87, 
care Michigan Tradesman. 

ITiOR RENT—BRICK STORE  BUILDING  AT 

.  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 Michigan Tradesman. 

FO R   S A L E —CONFECTIONERY  STOCK, 

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

82

Weldman, Mich., Isabella county.

Go o d   o p e n in g   f o r   n e w s p a p e r   a t
W rite to 
John S. Weldman, Weidman, Mich.
108
Fo r   s a l e —a   g o o d   p o r t a b l e   s a w  
mill and  about 260,000 feet  of logs and stand­
ing timber.  A bargain if taken at once;  situated 
six miles from Dexter and five miles  from  Ham­
burg. Mich.  Address  D.  Hltchlngham,  Dexter, 
Mich. 
96
Fo r   s a l e  — b e s t   e s t a b l is h e d   b a  
zaar, wall paper and picture frame  business 
in  Central  Michigan, in  growing  city  of  20,000. 
Retiring from business only  reason  for  selling; 
inspection Invited; will lease same location.  Aa 
dress No. 106, care Michigan Tradesman. 
106

Fo r   s a l e —a   COUNTRY  STORE;  s e v e n  

miles from railroad; wealthy community,  95 
per  cent  landowners;  invoice  of  storeroom, 
dwelling, sheds and barn, $850;  of  stock,  $2,600; 
good  roads  and  good  trading  point.  Address 
Box 71, Goblesville, Ind. 

105

63

terestin m 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. 

I  WILL  SELL  W.HOLE  OR  ONE-HALF  IN- 
M e r c h a n t s   d e s ir o u s   o f   c l o s in g

out entire or part stock of  shoes  or wishing 
to dispose of whatever  undesirable  for  cash  or 
on commission correspond with Ries  &  Guettel, 
126-128 M arket St-, Chicago, HI._________  
6
Ex p e r ie n c e d   s a l e s m a n   a n d   s t o c k - 
keeper wants position in dry goods, clothing 
or general store.  Good references.  Address No. 
118, care Michigan Tradesman. 
■ ANTED -   CLOTHING  MAN;  MUST 

have  some  experience  in  window  trim­
ming.  Apply at once to Messlnger &  Co., Alma, 
Mich. 

M ISCELLANEOUS

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