Nineteenth  Year 

GRAND  RAPIDS,  WEDNESDAY,  NOVEMBER  13,1901. 

Number  947

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ELLIOT  O.  GROSVENOR

Late State  Food  Commissioner 

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jobbers  whose  interests  are  affected  by 
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2.  W indow  Dressing.
3.  U ndertakings  for W omen.
4.  A round  the  State.
5.  Grand  Rapids Gossip.
6.  G etting the  People.
8.  E ditorial.
9.  Taxation  of Mortgages.
11.  H ardw are.
12.  Shoes  and  Rubbers.
14.  Clothing.
15.  D ry  Goods.
16.  The  Meat M arket.
17.  The  W rong Tea-
18.  The  New  York  M arket.
19.  Village  Im provem ent.
20.  W oman’s  W orld.
22.  B u tter and Eggs.
24.  Clerks’ Corner.
25.  Comm ercial Travelers.
26.  D rugs and Chemicals.
27.  D rug Price  Current.
28.  Grocery  Price  Current.
29.  Grocery  Price  Current.
30.  Grocery  Price  Current.
31.  The  A utom obile  Problem . 
H ardw are  Price  Current.
32.  Boys  B ehind  the  Counter.

A TIGHTENED  SCREW.

Without 

loading  upon  sin-stricken 
New  York  the  wickedness  of  the  whole 
country,  there  is  no  doubt  about  her be­
ing  guilty  of  most  of  the  charges  laid  at 
her  door.  The  undoubted  metropolis 
of  the  Western  Hemisphere,  the  trade  of 
the  country  centers  there  and,  as  that 
great  city  condones  crime,  so  her  sister 
municipalities  are  inclined  to  look leni­
ently  upon  the  “ ways  that  are  dark.’ ’ 
For  years  past  that  city  has  not  been 
behaving  herself.  So long as she  played 
the  part  of  injured  innocence,  assuming 
a  virtue  when  she  had 
it  not,  and 
flaunted  the  toggery  of  her  frailty  in  the 
daylight,  that  pitied  and  despised  her, 
she  was  not  dangerous;  but  when,  be­
lieving  that  outraged  public opinion ap­
proved  or  was  powerless,  she  openly 
boasted  of  her  partnership  with  crime, 
self-preservation,  the  first  law of nature, 
asserted  itself  and  at  the  polls  tightened 
the  screw  that  corruption  had  not  only 
loosened,  but had  kept  loose  until  it was 
ready  to  drop  out.

With  the  political affairs of Manhattan 
this  journal  has  nothing  to  do;  with  its 
influence  upon  the  trade  of  the  country 
everything  is  of  interest:  and  when  last 
week  New  York  announced  to  Cbristen-
dom  that  she  has 
freed  herself  from 
political  corruption;  that  within  her 
limits  law  and  disorder  have  been  di­
vorced ;  that  decency  and  uprightness 
have  assumed  control,  it  is  ready  to  af­
firm  that  there  was  not  a  trading  post  in 
all  the  land,  however  far  from  the  near­
est  center  of  commercial  activity  that 
did  not  instantly  feel  safer  and  with  re­
newed  confidence  in  itself  bend  every 
effort  to  its  self-appointed  task.  The 
tigbteningof the main screw strengthened 
the  trade  organization  everywhere  and 
results,  instant  and  wholesome,  may  be 
confidently  expected.

Look  at  it  as  we  may,  the 

lavish  ex­
penditure  of  ill-gotten  gain^can  not  be 
other than  demoralizing. 
It  affects  all 
classes  alike,  and  none  quite  so  much 
as  the  young  man  in  commercial  life, 
irrespective  of  the 
follows. 
From  childhood,  if  be  has  been  well 
brought  up,  “ honesty  is the best policy’ ’ 
has  been  made  the  essence  of  his 
life.

line  he 

He  has  been  trained  to  live  by  it  and  to 
die  by  it  and  he  goes  out  into  the  world 
determined  to  stand  by 
it.  There  he 
receives  his  first  shock.  He  finds  men 
with  the  same  income  as  his own spend­
ing  tripple  what  they  receive  and  he 
wonders  at  it.  Finding  at  last  how  it is 
done  he  consoles  himself  with  the  fact 
that  the  wages  of  sin  is  death  and  that 
an  early  death  may  be  looked  for;  but 
it  does  not  come.  The strictest  economy 
compels  him  to  live an honest life,  while 
at  the  next counter  the  personification of 
vice  lives,  the  pet  and  the  admiration 
of  the  whole  establishment  who  looks 
down  upon  him as a well-meaning young 
man  who  lacks  the  brilliant  qualities  of 
his  prodigal  brother.  Too  often  the 
almost  inevitable  downfall 
is  merely  a 
question  of  time,  and  Crime,  strength­
ened  by  another  recruit,  exultantly asks, 
“ What  is  to  be  done  about  it?”

Municipal  life  is  only  a  reflex  of  the 
larger  means  and  re­
individual  with 
Indifference  to  public j 
sponsibilities. 
affairs  enables  vice  to  walk  boldly 
into 
public  positions  and,  strengthening  it­
self,  carry  on  there  the  corruption  that 
always  brings  ruin.  Checked  by  the 
officers  of  the  law,  it  simply  displaces 
them  by  creatures  of  its  own  and  there­
after  has  everything  its  own  way.  What 
follows  need  not  be stated.  Wrong  rules 
and  every  undertaking  is  affected.

Money  is  the  only  requirement  and 
lago’s  “ Put  money  in  thy  purse”   is the 
only  idea  heeded.  Trade,  whose  legiti­
mate  object  is  gain,  becomes  especially 
susceptible  to  the  influence  of  unbridled 
prodigality  and  as  the  moral 
sense 
weakens,  public  opinion  weakens,  too, 
and,  laughingly  conceding  that there are 
tricks  in  every  trade,  pats the successful 
cheat  upon  the  back  as  the  fellow  he  is 
especially  proud  of.  New  York,  how­
ever,  is  our  metropolis  and  with  a  zeal 
worthy  of  a  better  cause  the  cities  of 
the  United  States  are  copying  her. 
There  is  no  need  of  writing  down  the 
names  of  those  following  notoriously 
in 
her  footsteps,  the  one  thought  in  regard 
to them  being  a  hope  that  they  too  will 
“ follow  their  leader”   and  tighten  the 
screw  that  has  become  dangerously loose 
in  all  of  them.

With  the  New  York  screw  tightened 
comes  the  wish  that  that  municipality 
will  remember  that the task of keeping it 
tight  is  nn  less  an  undertaking  than  the 
tightening  has  been. 
If  Hercules  was 
called  for  to  clean  the  Augean  stables 
he  is  also  needed  to  keep  them  clean, 
a  fact  that  the  imitators  of  New  York 
methods  should  remember.  Unques­
tionably  a  great  gain  has  been  made  in 
that  great  commercial  center,  and 
just 
as  unquestionable  is  the  statement  that 
this  effort  of  reform  will  be  imitated  by 
every  ganglion  and  nerve  in the trading 
world  throughout  the  United  States. 
A  general  cleansing  will  follow  and  as 
a  result  healthier 
things  commercial 
will  stand  on  a  better  footing  than  they 
have  had  for  years.

TIM E  FOR  VIGILANCE.

There  are  good  grounds  for the  posi­
tion  taken  by  the  Michigan  Telephone 
Co.  that  it  can  not  afford  to  furnish tele­
phone  service  at the rates charged by  the 
independent companies.  The reports  of 
the  Michigan  Co.  show  that  the  average 
cost  per  phone  is $248,  based  on  state­
ments  of  the  company  that  it has  50,000 
phones  in  this  State and that  its  bonded 
and  stock 
indebtedness  is  $12,390,000. 
If  the  reports of the company are correct, 
is  subject  to  an  interest 
every  phone 
charge  alone  of  $7.44,  which 
is  more 
than  it  is  receiving 
for telephone  ser­
vice  in  many  places.  To  this  sum  must 
be  added  the  annual  rental  paid  the 
American Telegraph and Telephone Co., 
which  is  about  $2  per  year,  and the  ex­
pense  of  doing  business.

The  independent  companies,  on  the 
other  hand,  have been able to equip their 
plants  with 
superior  phones—which 
they  own  outright,  while the Bell  phones 
are only leased—and more modern equip­
ment  for  from  $80  to  $90  per  phone. 
The  reorganization  of  the  Michigan 
Telephone  Co.,  which  will  probably 
wipeout  the  stockholders  and  floating 
indebtedness  and  probably  compel  the 
bondholders  to  scale  down  their  hold­
ings,  will  probably  result  in  reducing 
the  investment  per  phone  to  a point that 
will  enable  the  new  company  to  furnish 
service  at  a  reasonable  price  and  still 
leave  a  margin  for  the  stockholders.

When  this  is  accomplished,  the  inde­
pendent  companies  will  have  a  foe 
worthy  of  their  steel— providing 
the 
property  happens to  fall  into  the  hands 
of  men  who  are  capable  of  conducting  a 
telephone business successfully, which the 
present  managers  of  the  Michigan  Tele­
phone  Co.  are  not—and  it  would seem to 
be  the  part  of  wisdom  for  the 
inde­
pendents  of  the  State  to form an alliance 
and  purchase  the  property  when  it  is 
offered  for  sale,  in  order  that  the  pres­
ent  duplication  of  service  may  be  done 
away  with.  So  long  as  the  Michigan 
Telephone  Co. 
is  under  the  present 
management  and  hampered  by  entan­
gling contracts and alliance with the  par­
ent  Bell  company,  this  evil  can  not  be 
abolished,  but  a  foreclosure  sale  would 
possibly  enable  the  purchaser  to  bring 
about  a  consolidation  on  an  equitable 
basis. 
independent  companies 
should  keep  in  close  touch  with  the  sit­
uation  and  be  able  to  avail  themselves 
of  the  opportunity  which 
likely  to 
is 
confront  them  on  short  notice.

The 

Levy  Mayer,  who  has been engaged by 
the  Illinois  Manufacturers’  Association 
to  secure  an 
injunction,  enjoining  the 
Chicago  Telephone  Co.  from  increasing 
the  price  of  exchange  service 
in  that 
city  from  $125 to $175  a year,  asserted in 
the  course  of  his  argument  in  court  last 
Saturday  that  the  Chicago  end  of  the 
Bell  institution  is  “ a  fox  in  stealth,  a 
wolf  in  greediness,  a  dog  in  madness 
and  a  lion  in  prey. ”

Turkey  appeared  to recognize  the  fact 
that  France  would  not  be  so  easy a mark 
as  Greece  was.

Chinese  honors—a  great  many of them 
— are  like  life  insurance;  one  has  to die 
to  get  them.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

W indow   P ressing
Trim s  A ppropriate  to  Thanksgiving  and 

P u m p k in   Time..

The  approaching  Thanksgiving  festi­
val  gives  the  trimmer  an  opportunity  to 
interest  passers-by  and  to  attract  pur­
chasers  by  playing  on the traditional  in­
terest  in  this  great  day  of  feasting  and 
gratitude  to generous  Providence.  A l­
most  anything  connected  with  the  oc­
casion,  from  a  turkey’s 
feather  to  a 
pumpkin  pie,  will  serve  to  draw  desir­
In  ar­
able  attention  to  the  display. 
ranging  Thanksgiving  displays, 
the 
colors  of  the  draperies  used  and  of  the 
articles  displayed  must,  so  far  as  pos­
sible,  be  in  sympathy with the  occasion. 
Yellow,  orange  and  shades  of  green will 
provide  ample  and  appropriate  choice 
of  color.  Pumpkin  blossoms  fashioned 
of  tissue  paper  could  be  easily  made 
and  could  be  obtained  at  trifling  cost 
from any large  department  store  in  your 
city,  or  could  be  ordered  by  mail.  A 
background  of  green  cloth, 
festooned 
with  chains  of  pumpkin  vines  and 
flowers,  would  furnish  a  charming  set­
ting  for white  or  light  colored  merch­
andise.  Chains  of  the  blossoms  could 
with  advantage  be  draped  across  the 
roof  of  the  window.

*  *  *

All  over the  country  football  enthusi­
asts  are  thinking  and  talking  of  their 
strenuous  game.  On  Thanksgiving Day 
there  are  always  important  football  bat­
tles  to  be  fought,  so  that  separate 
foot­
ball  displays,  or  some  suggestions  of 
the  subject  in  the Thanksgiving window 
are  still  timely  and  necessary.  A  sim­
ple  idea  for  an 
inexpensive  window 
might  be  carried  out  as  follows:  A 
dummy  man  is  seated  on  a  pumpkin 
facing  somewhat  toward  the  back  of  the 
window.  A  basket  is  placed 'in  front  of 
him  to  receive  the  ears  of  corn  from 
which  the  shucks  have  been  removed. 
The  dummy  should  be  posed  as  natu­
rally  as  possible  and  dressed  in  overalls 
or  other clothing  usually  worn  by  per­
sons  when  engaged  in  agricultural  pur­
suits.  Arrange  stacks  of  corn 
in  the 
background  and  hang  ears  of  corn  at 
suitable  points  all  over  the  back  and 
sides  of the  widnow.  Two or three pigs, 
made  of  white  cotton  flannel  turned  nap 
side  outward  and  stuffed  with  waste, 
could  be  posed  as  .if  rooting  for  stray 
grain.  Make  the  figure  the  center  of  a 
display  of winter clothing and neckwear. 
Show  cards  used  in  displays  of  this 
nature  should  be  lettered  in  green,  with 
a  pumpkin-colored  border.  The  card 
might  bear  this  legend :

To  be  truly thankful 

Take  turkey and  pumpkin  pie  inwardly

And  apply
Our  clothing  outwardly.

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Another display  could  be  founded  on 
the  great  popularity  of  the  pumpkin pie 
on  this  day  of  gastronomic  feats  on  the 
part  of  even  the most dyspeptic persons. 
Tie  a  white  cloth  around  an  extra  large 
washtub,  as  is  done  with  old-fashioned 
pie  dishes  which  have  become  slightly 
soiled  in  cooking.  Smear the  edge  of 
the  tub  all  around  with  mucilage  and 
lay  cotton  along  the  edge  so  smeared. 
Then  cover  this  cotton tightly with some 
white  material  which  is capable of being 
colored  so  as  to  simulate,  as  nearly  as 
possible,  the  delicate  brown  crust  of  a 
pie,  and  fasten  it  with  very  small  tacks 
inside  and  outside  of  the  tub.  Possibly 
some  housewife  of  the  trimmer’s  ac­
quaintance  might  be  able  to  manufac­
ture  a  real  crust  which  would  be  endur­

Standing  on  the  back  edge  of  the  tub 
there  might  be  a  shirt  easel  supporting 
another  card  having  printed  on  it  a 
parody  on  the  old  nursery  rhyme,  after 
this  fashion:

Sing a song of sixpence,
A pocket full of rye;
Wait until you see within'
This mighty pumpkin pie.
What you see inside the pie 
We’ve got inside the shop,
And prices, too, are well inside,
But values are on top.

for  the  purpose.  Fit  a 
ing  enough 
cover  of  brown  card  just  below  this 
crust  and  support  it  with  a  few  strips 
of  wood  laid  across  the  top  of  the  tub. 
Spread  mucilage  on  this  card  cover and 
sprinkle  grated  pumpkin  and  powdered 
sugar  generously  over  it,  trying  to make 
it  look  as  pie-like  as  possible.  A  large 
triangular  opening  (in  the  usual  shape 
of  a  large  slice  of  pie)  should  be  cut  in 
the  cover  and  fastened  underneath  with 
slips  of  cloth  glued  to  the  cover,  and  to 
this  triangular  slip  fasten  a  fine  wire  to 
the  farther  bottom  corner  of  this  slip 
and  pass  it  over  a  small  roller fixed 
in 
the  roof,  and  out  behind  the  back  of  the 
window,  so  that  some  unseen  person 
can  at  intervals  pull  the  wire  and  raise 
the  slip,  disclosing  the  contents  of  the 
tub.  Arrange  collars  and  neckwear  on 
hooks  around  the  sides  of  the  tub  and 
fix  a  small  stand  hung  with  gloves  in 
the  center.  The  tub  should  be  placed 
near the  glass  of the window and slightly 
tilted  forward  so  that  the  contents may 
be  easily  observed.  The  window  dis­
play  should  be  varied  and  calculated  to 
appeal  to  the  generous  purchasers  at 
holiday  time.  Fasten  a  card  around 
the  front  of  the  tub  on which  is  printed :

Our  pie  contains

“ Some  pumpkins’ ’
In  furnishings.

Apparel  Gazette.
Honesty  as  a Foundation  to  Success.
Foundation  digging  at  the  best  is  not 
It  means  toil  and 
exhilarating  work. 
getting  down  to  mother  earth.  But 
if 
it  has  its  difficulties,  it  also  has  its  re­
wards.  The  clear eye,  the  steady  mus­
cle,  the  trained  mind  all  receive  their 
greatest  stimulus 
from  contact  with 
hard  work,  and  the  first  principles  of 
solid  success,  although  as  old  as  the 
hills,  must  be  mastered  by  each  candi­
date  who  would  succeed.  Lessons 
im­
properly  learned  will  be  accounted  for 
with  big  interest  later  in  life.

The  foundation  on  which  success 
should  be  built  to  withstand  the  storms 
of  life  I  would  name  “ Honesty,’ ’  and 
this  I  would  divide  into  three  distinct 
classes:

Honesty  towards  God.
Honesty  towards  man.
Honesty  towards  self.
A  man  can  be  honest  towards  either 
or  both  of  the  other  two  and  cheat  the 
other  one.  A full rounded  and  complete 
life  that  will  stand  the  test  of time must 
do  justice  to  all  three.

First  of  all  we  will  take  honesty 
towards  God.  The  Good  Book  tells  us 
that  man  was  made  in  the  image  of  his 
Maker and  to  that  extent  partakes  of 
divinity.  To  be  honest  towards  God 
means  that  we  must  acknowledge  Him 
as  the  Supreme  Ruler of  the  Universe, 
and 
shape  our  wills  and  actions  to 
accord  with  the  divine  plan  as  near  as 
our  imperfect  understanding  will  allow 
us  to.  The  struggle  between  good  and 
evil  has  been  going  on  from  time 
im­
memorial. 
It  matters  not  under  what 
name  we  are  enrolled—Jew,  Gentile, 
or  Pagan— if  we  are  striving  with  the 
good  to  make  the  world  better.  A 
life, 
spent  in  driving  humanity  further  from 
the  perfection  it  is  striving  for  and

which  it  will  ultimately  attain,  could 
not  be  called  successful  no  matter  how 
much  riches  and  power  fell  to  its  lot.

The  second  is  honesty  towards  man. 
This  used  to  mean  that  a  man  must  not 
take  from  another  what  was  actually  in 
another's  possession,  but  if  nothing  else 
proves  that  the  world  is  getting  better 
another kind  of  honesty  is  coming 
into 
view  as  a  possibility,  viz.,  the  kind  of 
honesty  that  makes  the  stronger  man 
feel  that  he  owes  a  duty  to  the  weaker. 
Examples  of  this  are  seen  in  the  large 
gifts 
colleges, 
churches,  etc.  They  are  merely  the  ac­
knowledgments  of  the  debt  the  wealthy 
owe  to  the  common  humanity.

to  hospitals, 

given 

The  man  who  would  be  strictly  honest 
with  his  fellows must  not take advantage 
of  another's  ignorance  to  gain  profit  to 
himself.  Lots of  practices that  are called 
good  business  and  that  are  possibly 
used  against  himself  must  be  dispensed 
with. 
It  may  mean  fewer  dollars  and 
cents,  but  the  right  to  look  every  man 
in  the  face  and  say,  “ I  have  taken 
nothing  from  you  that  I  have  not given 
you  full  value  in  return,’ ’  will  amply 
repay  such  loss.

Third  and  last  is  honesty towards self.

There  are  lots  of  men  who  are  cheating 
themselves.  A  full  rounded  and  com­
plete  life  demands  that  a  man  do  him­
self  justice  as  well  as  God  and  his  fel­
lows.

How many men have turned themselves 
into  mere  moneymaking  machines, 
leaving  nobler  and  more  worthy  parts 
of  their  nature  to  die from  disease.  To 
tired  from  their  grinding  at their  money 
making  to  enjoy  what  the  money  they 
are  making  would  obtain 
for  them, 
music,  art,  reading,  the  study  of  hu­
manity,  all  these  are  allowed  to  pass 
unheeded  until  after  they  have  got  tired 
of  making  money  and  try  to  enjoy 
it, 
they  find  that they have lost  the  capacity 
for  enjoyment.

Most  of  us  have  to  work  hard  to get  a 
bare  living,  but  if  we  can  not  spare  the 
time  to  pluck  a  big  bunch  of  flowers 
we  can  at  least  get  a  few.

A  man  who  follows  consistently  this 
policy  of  honesty  will  find  solid  satis­
faction  during  life  and  near  its  close 
will  not  feel  the  regrets  of  a 
life  mis­
spent.— Grocers’  Review.

The  most  curious  thing  in  the  world 

is  a  woman  who  is  not  curious.

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U ndertakings  T hrough  W hich  W omen 

Can  Make  Money.

A 

large  number  of  women  are  now 
engaged  in  various  branches of commer­
cial  life,  many  from  country  places  and 
interior  towns,  attracted  to  the  nearest 
large  city  by  the  possibility  of  finding 
employment,  where 
it  is  supposed  that 
abundant  opportunities  are  offered,  pay­
ing  in  proportion  to  good  fortune,  abil­
ity  or  influence.  One naturally  wonders 
why  they  do  not  undertake  enterprises 
on  their own  account  for  which  women 
are  eminently  fitted.

Because  of  their  patience,  determina­
tion,  application  and  painstaking  care 
women  should  be  foremost  in  one  par­
ticular  industry,  that  of  raising  animals 
of  various  kinds,  either  to  be  used  as 
pets  or  for  food  or  fur. 
It  is  conducted 
in  a  quiet  place,  away  from  the  mad 
bustle  and  strife  of  city  life ;  gives  am­
ple  time  for  household  duties  and 
leis­
ure;  is  free  from  insults,  bickerings and 
domineering  employers,  is  not  arduous, 
and  when  conducted  on  a  large  scale, 
the  heavy 
labor  can  be  performed  by 
men  or  boys  hired  for the  purpose.

Never  for  an  instant,  however,  must 
lose  sight  of  the  fact  that 
the  woman 
she  must  oversee  every  detail,and  know 
for  an  absolute  certainty  that  all  work 
has  been  done  at  the  proper  time  and 
as  it  should be.  If  commenced  properly 
the  risk  is  slight,  and  the  way  to  begin 
is  on  a  small  scale,  with  only  a  pair  or 
two of  the  cheapest  animals  of  the  kind 
you  desire  to  raise.  Experiment  with 
these,  and  if  they  are  lost  your  loss  is 
small,  whereas  if  you  succeed,  you  will 
then  be  able  to  purchase  the 
finest 
stock,  and,  as  a  rule,  the  best  stock  pays 
best.

Women  in  various  parts  of  the  coun­
try  are  now  successfully  breeding  fine

animals  and  making  money  at  the  busi­
ness.  Several  in  Chicago  are  raising 
Angora  cats,  and  there  are  others  in 
Louisville,  St.  Louis,  San  Francisco 
and  in  places  about  New  York  City.  In 
Indianapolis  a  woman 
is  raising  toy 
poodles,  Angora  cats  and  cavies,  or 
guinea  p igs;  near  Chicago  a  school 
teacher  has  an  extensive  and  profitable 
business  in  Belgian  hares  and  cavies ; 
in  Denver,  Los  Angeles  and  various 
Western  towns,  and  also  in  New  Eng­
land,  women  are  making  money  raising 
Belgian  hares  and  Angora  cats,  and 
in 
all  parts  of  the  country,  as  is  perhaps 
better  known,  women  are  doing  the 
same  by  raising  poultry.

In  addition  to  the  animals above men­
tioned,  birds,  for  which  there  is a grow­
ing  demand,  may  also  be  raised,  such 
as  pheasants,  with  but 
if  any 
more  trouble  than  poultry.  Their  rare 
beauty  makes 
it  easy  to  dispose  of 
them  at  high  prices,  while  the  fact  that 
they  are  a delicious food adds to the mar­
ket  value.

little 

The  Belgian  hare 

is  in  greatest  de­
mand,  but  there  are  also  many  other 
paying  varieties, 
fine  specimens  of 
which  sell  readily  at  fancy  prices,  in­
cluding  odd  and  beautiful  Dutch  and 
the  Himalayan  rabbits,  both  curiously 
marked,  and,  besides  these,  the  Angora 
and  lop-eared  rabbit.  Then  there  are 
the  cavies  in  three  distinct  and  hand­
some  kinds  in  various  colors,  and  in  ac­
tive  demand  at  profitable  prices.  To 
this  list  may  be  added  fancy  mice  and 
waltzing  mice,  selling  readily  at  $3  to 
$5  a  pair;  ferrets  used  by  warehouse­
men  for  catching  rats  and  by  hunters 
for  driving  rabbits  out  of  their  holes; 
dogs  of  various  kinds,  bringing  from 
$10  to  $1,000  each;  also  canary  and 
other  caged  birds.  American  raised

birds,  when  properly  handled,  are  of 
better quality  than  imported  stock,  and 
bird-rearing  is  certainly  a  delicate  and 
pleasant  occupation,  at  which  women 
naturally  excel.

Raising  frogs 

is  no  work  at  all,  and 
land  suited  for  this  purpose,  that  is, 
wet  and  swampy,  or  land  surrounding 
a  pond,  usually  can  be  used  for  nothing 
else.  By  having  proper  buildings  they 
can  be  marketed  when  the  price is high. 
Frogs’ 
legs  are  always  in  demand,  fre­
quently  at  surprisingly  large  prices,  as 
they  are  considered  a  great  delicacy.

Probably  the  queerest,  and  one  which 
at  first  thought seems the most objection­
able,  is  skunk  farming.  This  little  ani­
mal 
is  really  very  interesting  and  in­
offensive  when  understood  and  properly 
handled.  The  scer.t  sacs  can  be  re­
moved  without  trouble  from  the  young, 
and  old  animals  will  not  use  their  scent 
unless  badly  frightened.  Skunks  are 
possessed  of  more  than  ordinary  animal 
intelligence,  soon 
to  know 
their  keeper,  eating  from  the  hand  and 
following  him  about  quite  like  a  dog.

learning 

Like  frogs,  skunks  are  particularly 
suited  to  raising  on  land  useful  for  no 
other  purpose.  A  rough,  stony,  stumpy 
piece  of  ground  that  can  be used neither 
as  pasture  nor  for  cultivation  can  be 
turned  to  profitable  account  by  utiliz­
ing  it  in  this  way.

Skunks  are  bred  for  their  fur,  which 
is  valuable.  The  skins  are  sent to  Eng­
land,  there  dyed  and  dressed  and  re­
turned  to  this  country  as  marten.

Near  almost  any  large  city  dogs  can 
be  taken  to  board,  as  their  owners  de­
sire  to  place  them  out  while  away  from 
home  or  to  give  them  proper  air  and 
exercise,  and  a  dog  boarding-house  can 
be  handled  by  any  enterprising  woman. 
In  a  city  aquariums  can  be  equipped

In 
and  kept  in  order  under  contract. 
New  York  an  enterprising young woman 
exercises  dogs,  giving  each  an  hour  or 
so  a  day,  her  time  being  fully  occupied 
in  this  way,  at  a  good  price,  by  special 
arrangement  with  aristocratic  owners  of 
valuable  animals.

Then  there 

is  taxidermy,  which 

is 
profitable«  Spare  time  can  be  nicely 
used  teaching  birds  to  pipe  a  tune  and 
training  parrots  to  talk,  as  a  bird  that 
can  whistle  a  tune  is  valuable,  and  one 
having  a  repertory  of  several  tunes  is 
quite  out  of  the  reach  of  an  ordinary 
purchaser,  and  the  same 
is  true  of  a 
good  talking  parrot.

To the F ro n t in Trade.

The  prevalence  of  the  woman  buyer 
in  the 
is,  like  many  other  innovations 
world  of  trade,  chiefly  attributable  to 
the  development  and 
immensely  wide 
distribution of department stores.  These 
beehives  of  universal  supply  are  no 
longer  features  of  the  great  cities  alone. 
Every  town  of  any  pretensions  through­
out  the 
length  and  breadth  of  the 
country  has  one  department  store  or 
more,  and  every  department  is  conduct­
ed  like  a  special  business.  One  estab­
lishment  of  this  character  in  the  West 
had  thirty-seven  buyers  from  its  various 
branches  registered  in New York  a  week 
ago.  Most  of  them  were  women  and 
all  were  conducting  their  business  with­
out  the  slightest  indication of  regard  for 
what  the  rest  were  doing.— Harper’s 
Weekly.

An  A pt Answer.

“ Father,”   said  the  small  boy,  “ what 

is  a  pessimist?”

“ A  pessimist,  my  son,”   was  the  an­
swer,  “ is  a  man  who  deliberately  turns 
out  the  light  so  that  he  may  look  on  the 
dark  side  of  things.”

the Good Old  Days of 

Big Profits

When folks bought goods in quantity, it was possible  to  give  down  weignt 
and not lose money.  TH AT  DAY  IS FO R EVER  PAST.  Retail sales  now­
adays are small.  To give “down weight” on every sale means  a  steady,  con­
stant drain  upon your profits.

Toledo  Automatic  Computing  Scales

the  slightest 

Are the only scales yet devised which absolutely stop “down weight.  They re­
quire  no  hand-balancing—they  balance  themselves  instantly,  automatically.
Computing hand moves right along, indicat- 
ing 
fraction  of  an  ounce 
and showing the exact total  value  in  dollars 
and cents.  R e l ia b l e  in  a l l  w eath er. 
No springs to contract  in  cold weather  and 
force  you  to  give  overweight.  Thousands 
of  satisfied  users  proclaim  it  the  greatest 
time and money-saving  scale ever  invented. 
A scale upon which bankbooks thrive.  Can 
and  full  par-
we send descriptive 

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Capital, $1,000,000. 

Toledo, Ohio, U. S. A.

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Around the State

M ovement) of M erchants.

EastTawas— D.  G.  Lowe,  jeweler,  has 

removed  to  Onaway.

Holland—Al.  VandenBerg  has opened 

a  groceiy  store  in  the  Hall  block.

Pontiac—Alfred  Webb,  of  the  meat 

firm  of  Alfred  Webb  &  Sons,  is  dead.

Benton  Harbor— Dr.  J.  C.  Cole  has 
opened  a drug store on West Main  street.
Ogden  Center—Johnson  & Co.  are suc­
ceeded  by  Lutes Becker in general trade.
Quincy—Michael  &  Spalding  have 
purchased  the  hardware  stock  of  James 
Pope.

Dundee— Bordine  &  Sanderson  have 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  Winfield 
Scott

Montgomery—W.  S.  Prevost  has  sold 
his  general  merchandise  stock  to  Oliver 
Filley.

Linden— Ed.  Wrigglesworth  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  Geo.  P. 
Wiltsie.

Riverdale—J.  C.  Birdsall,  of  Pent- 
water,  has  engaged in  the  meat  business 
at  this  place.

Fremont—C.  M.  Gibson, 

furniture 
dealer and  undertaker,  has  sold  out  to 
F.  P.  Merrill.

Reading— Albert  Walls  continues  the 
hardware  business  of  Walls &  Spaulding 
in  his  own  name.

Ovid—W.  J.  Johnson has purchased the 
W.  D.  McCormick  harness  stock  of 
Eaton  &  Munson.

Detroit— The  Wayne  Fuel  &  Feed Co. 
has  filed  articles  of  incorporation,  with 
a  capital  stock  of $10,000.

Grand Haven—Jos.  Klausssen  has  en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  business  and  will 
handle  produce,  butter  and  eggs.

Vassar— G.  W.  DeWitt has engaged in 
the  furniture  and  undertaking  business, 
having  purchased  the  stock  of  C.  J. 
Buck.

Lawrence— Frank W.  Curtis  has  sold 
his  drug  stock  to  Geo.  W.  Fisher,  who 
will  continue  the  business  at  the  same 
location.

Stanton—J.  L.  Weaver,  who  recently 
purchased  the  meat  market  of  Thos. 
Evans, 
in  his  new 
quarters.

installed 

is  now 

Walkerville— P.  Beyer  has  exchanged 
his  drug  stock  for  the  26-acre  fruit  farm 
of  Dr.  Salmon,  of  Shelby,  and  will  put 
in  a  new  stock  of  drugs.

Kalkaska— H.  Howe,  formerly 

land­
lord  of the  Kalkaska  House,  will  re­
move  to  Boyne  City,  where  he  will  en­
gage  in  the  furniture  business.

Port  Huron—C.  C.  Lowry  has  sold  his 
Huron  avenue  confectionery  stock  to 
Chris.  Lamlein, 
the  Griswold  street 
grocer,  and  will  remove  to  Dallas,  Tex.
Albion— E.  C.  Lester  has  purchased 
an  interest  in  the  meat  market  of  Geo. 
Howard.  The  fitm  will  be  known  as 
the  Howard  Meat  Co.  Mr.  Lester  will 
have  charge  of  the  business.

Kalamazoo— Peter  Datema  has  pur­
chased  the  grocery  stock  of  the  branch 
grocery  store  of  the  L.  Hoekstra  Co.,  at 
139  Parsons  street  aud  will  continue  the 
business  at  the  same  location.

Vassar—C.  J.  Buck  has  sold  his  fur­
niture  and  undertaking  stock  here  to 
Geo.  W.  DeWitt,  of  Belding,  who  has 
already  taken  possession.  Mr.  Buck 
retires  from  business  on  account  of  poor 
health.

Vassar—J.  E.  Buck  &  Son  have  sold 
their  bicycle  stock  and  repair  shop  to 
Durham  &  Mesnard,  who  will  continue 
the  business  under  the  style  of  S.  A. 
Durham  &  Co.  They  will  also  handle 
hunters’  supplies.

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

Port  Huron— H.  V.  Sink,  who  has 
been  with the  wholesale  and  retail  fancy 
goods  firm  of J.  W.  Goulding  &  Co.  for 
several  years,  has  purchased  a  grocery 
stock  at  Memphis  and  will  engage  in 
business  at  that  place.

Mulliken—A.  E.  Lawrence  has  pur­
chased  the  interest  of  his  partner  in  the 
grain  and  produce business of Burroughs 
&  Lawrence.  Mr.  Burroughs  will  de­
vote  his  entire  attention  to  >his  farm 
property  near this  place.

Stanton— Eli  Epley,  who 

recently 
purchased  the  Pakes  meat  market,  has 
taken  possession  of  the  business.  Mr. 
Elpey  is  a  well  known  business  man  of 
this  place,  having 
formerly  been  en­
gaged  in  the  grocery  and  meat  business 
here.

Fenton— E.  G.  Curtis  has  filed  a peti­
tion  in  the  United  States  District Court, 
asking  to  be  adjudged a bankrupt.  The 
liabilities  are  less  than  $1,000  and  the 
nominal  assets  are  about  $900.  His 
drug  store  is  now  closed,  pending  the 
hearing  of  the  petition  by  the  court.

Ovid— Dr.  W.  P.  Beach  will  shortly 
sell  his  dental  practice  and,  on  January 
1,  will engage in the manufacturing busi­
ness  under  the  style  of  the  Ovid  Veneer 
Works.  He  will  manufacture  egg  crates 
and  other  lines  of  thin  wood  goods.  He 
has  already  purchased  the necessary ma­
chinery.

Holland— Henry  R.  Brink  and  Bert 
Slagh  have  purchased  the  New  York 
Racket  Store  stock  of  W.  B.  Brockway, 
and  Mr.  Slagh  will  remove  his  stock  of 
paint  and  wall  paper  from  Central  ave­
nue  to  the  new  location.  Mr.  Brink  has 
for some  time  been  engaged  in  the book 
business.

Adrian— Don  C.  Hoag,  who  has  been 
engaged  in  the  meat  business  here  for 
about  a  year,  has  voluntarily  closed  his 
doors.  He  hopes  to  be  able  to  pay  his 
creditors  75  or 80 cents  on  the  dollar. 
This  result  was  brought  about  in a  great 
measure  by  his  having  a  large  number 
of accounts  on  his  books  that  were  not 
collectible.

Traverse  City— Fay  S.  Hamilton  has 
issued  a  letter  to  the  creditors  of  Rob­
inson &  Hamlin,  stating that his brother, 
Frank  Hamlin,  of  Monroe  Center,  offers 
to  advance  him  sufficient  funds  to  se­
cure  a  settlement  with  the  creditors  and 
re-establishhimself  in  business,  provid­
ing  the  creditors  will  accept 20 per cent, 
in  full  settlement  of  their  claims.  Mr. 
Hamlin  states  that  the  total 
indebted­
ness  is $6,100,of  which  $5,100 is  secured 
by  the  trust mortgage,  and estimates that 
the  $3,879  assets  will  not  bring  over 
$2,426 at forced  sale.  The  largest  cred­
itor  is  the  Musselman  Grocer  Co.,whose 
claim  is  $2,477.

Ishpeming— The  Carpenter-Cook  Co. 
has  opened  for  business 
in  the  whole­
sale  grocery  line,  with  W.  M.  Boaz  as 
manager.  Mr.  Boaz  formerly  traveled 
on  the  road  for  the  wholesale  grocery 
house  of  Wulfing,  Dieckriede  &  Co.,  of 
St.  Louis.  He  was  born 
in  1865  at 
Vandalia,  111.,  and  was  reared  in  Fay­
ette,  Effingham  and  Wayne  counties. 
He  has  been  engaged 
in  the  grocery 
business fifteen years,  both wholesale and 
retail,  and  the experience he has gained, 
together  with  his  wide  acquaintance 
with  the  grocery  trade  of  the  country, 
will  undoubtedly  result  in  a  successful 
outcome  of  the  business.

M anufacturing; M atters.

Dowagiac—Ward  H.  Taylor  succeeds 

the  Taylor  Bros.  Paint  Co.

Saginaw— Frank  Miller  succeeds  the 
Stevens-Miller Lumber Co.  here and  at 
Rose  City.

President;  George  M.  Harrison,  Treas­
urer ;  M.  O.  Rowland,  Secretary; W.  L. 
Miller,  Manager;  F.  R.  Bassett,  Super­
intendent.  The  concern  expects  to  be­
gin  operations  at  once  and  by  spring 
will  employ a  large  force  of  workmen.

Attention  is  directed  to  the advertise­
ment  of  H.  Leonard  &  Sons  on  page  2 
of  this  week’s  issue.  This house  always 
does  as  it  advertises.

Read  an  important  Holiday  Poultry 
Special on  page  23  of  this  week's paper.

Get  your 

A N N   A R B O R

Quick  Lighting 
-Gasoline  Lamp-

F O R

Christmas  Trade

at  once.  There  is  going  to  be  a  fine 
trade in lamps this year  and  we  have  a 
fine lamp to meet it.  All  styles.  Order 
early.

The Superior  Mfg.  Co.

32 South Main  Street, Ann Arbor, Michigan

Detroit—The  Detroit Brick & Tile Co. 
has  engaged  in  business  with  a  capital 
stock  of $75,000.

Detroit—The  style of the Marr  &  Stev­
ens  Shoe  Co.  has  been  changed  to  the 
Dr.  Reed  Cushion  Shoe  Co.

Detroit— The  Granville,  Wood  &  Son 
Pipe  Organ  Co.,  Limited,  succeeds  the 
Wood,  Granville  &  Son  Co.  in  the man­
ufacture  of  pipe  organs.

Saginaw—Wellington  S.  Morse  has 
engaged  in the cedar business on his  own 
account,  having  purchased  the 
interest 
of  his  partners  in  the  Porter  Morse  Co.
Detroit—McClure  &  Zimber  and  Mc­
Clure,  Kelsey  &  Co.  have  merged  their 
hardwood  lumber  business  into  one  con­
cern  under  the  style  of  the  McClure- 
Zimber  Co.

Kalamazoo—John  Frielink  and  David 
Walton,  Jr.,  have  formed  a  copartner­
ship  under  the  style  of  the  Frielink 
Candy  Co.  and  engaged  in the manufac­
ture  and  sale  of  confectionery  at  140 
South  Burdick  street.

Howard  City—A.  W.  Messenger  is 
erecting  an  addition  to  his  feed  mill, 
25x50 feet  in  dimensions,  which  will  be 
equipped  with  the  necessary  machinery 
for  conducting  a  woolen  mill.  Opera­
tions  are  expected 
in 
March.

to  begin  early 

Saginaw—The  Porter  Cedar  Co.  has 
been  organized  here  with  a  capital  of 
$30,000.  The  company  owns  saw  and 
shingle  mills  in  Missaukee  county  and 
several  thousand  acres  of  cedar  lands 
and  yards  in  Missaukee  and  Clare coun­
ties.  The  main  office  of  the  company 
will  be  in  Saginaw.

Paw  Paw—The  Challenge Churn Man­
ufacturing  Co.  has  recently  been  organ­
ized  with  a  capital  stock  of  $10,000. 
The  officers  are  as  follows :  W.  H. 
LaSuer, President ;  F.  P.  Grimes,  Vice-

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

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5

Grand  Rapids  Gossip

Ko  Telephone  Consolidation  at  Present.
The  proposition  of  the  Erie  Tele­
phone  Co.  to  sell  a  controlling 
interest 
in  the  Michigan  Telephone  Co.  to  the 
Citizens Telephone  Co.  of Grand  Rapids 
has  been  carefully  considered  by  the 
directors  of  the  latter  corporation  and 
declined.  Before  taking  this  action  the 
directors  spared  no  pains  or  expense  to 
post  themselves  thoroughly  on  the  sit­
uation,  going  into  every  detail  with  a 
degree  of  thoroughness  which  enabled 
them  to  ascertain  the  exact  facts  con­
nected  with  every  department  of  the 
Michigan  Telephone  Co.  and 
its  rela­
tion  to  the  Erie  Co.  and the  parent  Bell 
Co.  A  representative  of 
the  Citizens 
Co.  was  sent  to  Boston  to  interview  the 
manager  of the  parent  Bell  Co.  and  ex­
perts  were  employed  to  take  up  other 
phases  of  the  company’s  business  and 
prepare  detailed statements regarding its 
condition. 
The  reports  thus  received 
were,  on  the  whole,  so  unfavorable  that 
the  directors  of  the  Citizens  Co.  were 
reluctantly  compelled 
to  decline  the 
proposition  to  assume  the  obligations 
and  management  of  the  Michigan  Tele­
phone  Co.—although  a  controlling 
in­
terest  was  offered  at  35  cents  on  the 
dollar—on  the  ground  that  it  would  be 
impossible  to  assume a bonded and bank 
indebtedness  of  $7,390,000  and  make 
the  investment  a  paying  one.  The  out­
come  of  the  negotiations  was  undoubt­
edly  a  severe  disappointment  to  L.  H. 
Withey,  Clay  H.  Hollister  and  Dudley 
E.  Waters,  who  were 
interested  in  the 
option  obtained  from  the  Erie  Tele­
phone  Co.,  but  as  they  are  all  public 
spirited  gentlemen,  they  will  cheerfully 
acquiesce  in  the  decision  of  the  direct­
ors  of  the  Citizens  Telephone  Co.,  be­
cause  they  would  not  willingly  permit  a 
local  enterprise to be crippled and the in­
terests  of  600  local  stockholders  to  be 
jeopardized  by  consolidating  a corpora­
tion  which  is  incapable  of  paying  divi­
dends  under  existing  conditions  with  a 
company  which  has long been  on  a  divi­
dend paying  basis.

The  Produce  M arket.

Apples— Fancy  Spys  readily 

com­
mand  $5.  Baldwins  are  in  demand  at 
$4.  Other  varieties  range  from  $3.25@ 
3.75.  Cooking  stock  fetches  $2.50@ 
2.75-
1.75  per  bunch,  according  to  size.

Bananas— Prices  range  from  $1.25  @ 

Beets—$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  are  not  so  large  as  a 
week  ago.

Cabbage—$1.75  per  crate  of 

four 

dozen.

Carrots—$1.25  per  bbl.
Cauliflower—$ i @ i . 25  per  doz.
Celery— 15c  per  doz.
Cranberries—Jerseys  command  $7@ 
7.25  per  bbl.  Cade  Cods  range  about 
50c  per  bbl.  higher.

Eggs—Cold  storage  goods  command 
17c  and  fresh  range  from 
i8@19C  for 
case  count to  ig@20c  for  candled.  Re­
ceipts  are  so  small  that jobbers are  com­
pelled  to  solicit  shipments.

Figs—Three  crown  Turkey  command 

l i e   and  5  crown  fetch  14c.

Dates— 5@5)^c  per  lb.
Game— Dealers  pay  $i@i.20 for  rab­

bits.

Grapes—$5@6  per  keg  for  Malagas.
Honey—White  stock  is  in  ample  sup­
ply  at  13314c.  Amber  is  in  active  de­
mand  at  I2@I3C,  and  dark  is  in  moder­
ate  demand  at  io@ iic .

Lemons—Verdellis  range  from  $4.50 
for  300s  to $4.75  for 360s.  Maioris com­
mand  $5 for  300s.  Californias,  $3 .7 5 3 4  
for  either  size.

Lettuce— i2j^c  per  lb.  for hothouse.
Maple  Syrup—$1  per gal.  for  fancy.
Onions—The  market  is  stronger  and 
higher  than  a  week  ago.  Yellow  Dan­
vers  fetch  $1.0531- 10  and  Red  Globes 
command  $ i @ i . 05.

Oranges—Jamaicas  command  $3.50© 
3.75  per  box.  Floridas  are  now  in  mar­
ket,  commanding  $3.25@3.50  per  box.

Parsley—20c  per  doz.
Potatoes—The  boom 

is  on  and  no 
mistake. 
From  every  quarter  comes 
the  clamor  for  shipments,  due  to  the 
fact  that  there  is  a  scarcity 
in  many 
consuming  and  distributing  markets. 
Dealers  meet  with  no  difficulty  in  ob­
taining  65c  on  track  and  are.  paying 
60c.

Poultry—The  market  is  without  par­
ticular  change.  Dressed  hens fetch  8c, 
spring  chickens command 9@ioc,  turkey 
io@ ii c ,  gobblers  command 
hens  fetch 
8@ioc,  ducks  fetch  9@ioc,geese9@ioc. 
Live  pigeons  have  advanced  to  60375c 
and  squabs  to  $1.50.

Winter  Squash— Hubbard  fetches  i% c 

per  lb.

Sweet  Potatoes—Virginias  have  ad­
vanced  to  $2.  Baltimores  command  $2 
and  genuine  Jerseys $3@3.25  per  bbl.

The  G rain  M arket.

State  wheat 

Wheat  has  experienced  a  steady  ad­
vance.  Cash winter has advanced  again 
3c  per  bushel,  while  December  options 
for  spring  are  up  2c.  Receipts  at 
in­
itial  points  in  the  Northwest  have  been 
very  large  during  the  week,  but  exports 
were  also  at  top  notch,  being  6,000,000 
bushels  for  the  week,  which  kept  the 
visible  from  increasing,  as  it  was  but 
767,000  bushels. 
is  not 
in  abundance.  Receipts  from  farmers 
are  only  a  trifle  to  what  we  naturally 
would  expect  them  to  be  at  this  time  of 
the  year.  The  farmers  seem  to  hold 
onto  wheat  in  preference  to  any  other 
market  commodity.  Trading  in  wheat 
also  seems  to  be  developing  a  broader 
Investors  seem  to  think  that 
market. 
wheat  has  seen  bottom.  Well, 
let  the 
good  work  go  on,  it  is  time  the  agricul­
turalists  were  getting  a  fair  value 
for 
wheat.  We  look  for a  still  further  ad­
vance.  We  might  add  that  clearances 
to-day  were  600,000  bushels.

Corn  was  in  demand  at  an  advance  of 
2c  per  bushel.  It  looks  as  though  it  will 
stay  up  and  may  even  look  cheap 
later 
on  at  present  prices.

Oats  made  a  jump of 3@4C per bushel, 
and  are  not  plenty  at  that.  They  are 
taken  as  fast  as  offered  and  more  are 
wanted.

Rye,  not  to  be  outdone,  also scored an 
advance  of fully  3c  per  bushel.  The  ex­
porters  are  taking  it  as  fast as offered.

Beans,  likewise,  are  strong  at  an  ad­
vance  of 6@8c,  so  the  whole  list  of  cer­
eals  is  up,  all  of  which  will  help  the 
farmers,  and  when  the  farmer does well, 
all  other merchandise  will be in demand.
Flour  is  exceptionally  strong,  with  an 
advance  of  io@i5c  per  barrel,  owing  to 
the  firmness  in  wheat.

Mill  feed  has  made  another  advance. 
Jobbers’  prices  are  $18  for  bran  and  $19 
for  middlings,  and  $19  and  $20  for 
smaller  lots.

Receipts  during  the  week  were  as  fol­
lows :  wheat,  68  cars;  corn,  7  cars; 
oats,  10 cars;  rye,  1  car;  flour,  4  cars; 
beans,  5  cars ; hay,  2  cars;  straw,  1  car; 
potatoes,  28  cars.

Millers  are  paying  74c  for  wheat.

C.  G.  A.  Voigt.

Geo.  Seamon  has  engaged  in  general 
trade  at  Bailey.  The  Lemon &  Wheeler 
Co.  furnished  the  groceries,  Rindge, 
Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co.  supplied  the 
shoes  and  P.  Steketee  &  Sons  sold  the 
dry  goods.

Read  an  important  Holiday  Poultry 
Special on page  23  of  this  week's paper.

The  Grocery  M arket.

little 

Sugar—The  raw sugar  market  is quiet 
and  rather weak,  96 deg.  test centrifugals 
showing  a  decline  of  i - i 6c,  making  the 
present  price  3%c.  Offerings  are  light 
and  there  is  very 
inclination  to 
make  purchases.  Buyers’  views are  be­
low  quoted  prices  and,  being practically 
out  of  the  market  for  the  present,  busi­
ness  is  at  a  standstill.  There 
is  very 
little  pressure  to  make  sales,  as  holders 
are  confident  of  obtaining  higher  prices 
a  little  later.  The  world’s  visible  sup­
ply  of  raw  sugar 
is  1,040,000  tons, 
against  440,000  tons  at  the  same  time  in 
1900. 
refined  sugar  market  is 
rather  demoralized.  Hard  sugars  have 
been  reduced  10  points  and  to-day  a  re­
duction  of  10  points  on  softs  was  re­
ported.  The  demand 
is  rather  light, 
except  for  the  Michigan  beet  granu­
lated,  which  is  being  taken  about  as 
fast  as  it  is  manufactured.  The  future 
of  the refined market will  depend  largely 
upon  the  changes  in  the  raw  market.

The 

in  almost  all 

Canned  Goods— The  canned  goods 
market  is  active 
lines. 
Tomatoes  are,  as  usual,  the  most  active 
article  on  the  list  and  some  packers 
have  advanced  their  prices 5c per dozen. 
Prices  advanced  during  the  past  week 
on  a  lighter  volume of business,  instead 
of  a  heavier  one,  as  is  usually  the  case, 
and  the 
long-looked-for  reaction  from 
the  present  high  level  is,  apparently,  as 
far off  as  ever,  but the  conditions  gov­
erning  the  tomato  market  are  of  such  a 
character  as  to  sustain  values,  even  al­
though  the  buying  should  drop  off  more 
than  it  has.  There  is  one  feature  about 
the  tomato  market  which strengthens the 
views  of  the  holders,  as  well  as  the buy­
ers,  and  that  is  the 
lightness  of  the 
stocks  held  by  both  the  packers  and  the 
jobbers.  They  are,  unquestionably,  the 
lightest  on  record  and  it  is  a  question 
whether  there  will  be  sufficient,  even 
if 
the  market  does  advance  to the  highest 
figure,  to  last  until  the  new  pack of 1902 
is  ready  for delivery.  There  is  a  con­
tinued  scarcity  of  gallon  tomatoes,  even 
among  those  packers  who  usually  make 
a  specialty  of  this  size.  Prices  have 
been  climbing  up  on  these  goods,  hav­
ing  advanced  25c  per dozen  during  the 
past  week,  and  are  almost  sure  to  ad­
vance  still 
im­
proved  demand  for  corn  and  this  article 
showed  considerable  activity.  Prices 
are  unchanged,  but are fully maintained. 
The  pea  market  is  very  strong  and  will 
probably  continue  so,  as  stocks  are  very 
light,  particularly  of  the  better  grades. 
Peas  are  wanted,  and  wanted badly,  but 
many  of  the  trade  are  delaying  pur­
chases  of  these  goods  until  they  actually 
need  them,  and  when  that  time  comes 
they  will  be  surprised  to  find  that  they 
can  not  get  what  they  want.  There 
is 
an  excellent  demand 
for  peaches,  es­
pecially for gallon  goods,  and  stocks  are 
rapidly  being  cleaned up,  many  packers 
having sold their entire output of gallons. 
As  a  rule,  the  peach  market  is  quiet at 
this  time  of  the  year.  The  heaviest 
buying  takes  place  during February  and 
March,  but  this  year  conditions in many 
lines  are  changed  and  past  experience 
can  not  always  be  relied  upon 
in  the 
canned  goods  business.  Pumpkin  con­
tinues  very  scarce  and  anything  of  de­
sirable  quality  is  readily  sold  at  good 
prices.  String  beans  are  quiet.  Limas 
also  are  dull.  Stocks  are  light,  but  the 
demand  is  also  light  and  holders  will 
let  the  goods  go  at  a  slight  concession. 
Gallon  apples  are  meeting  with  a  good 
demand.  The  market 
is  exceedingly 
firm  and  is  rapidly  cleaning  up.  Sar­

further.  There 

is  an 

dines  and  salmon  are  both  quiet  and 
easy.

is  considerably 

Dried  Fruits—The  dried  fruit  market 
in  good  shape.  With  the  colder 
is 
im­
weather,  demand 
proved.  Prunes  are 
in  good  request 
and  going  out  well.  Prices  are  firm, 
especially  for  7o-8os,8o-90s  and  90-ioos, 
which  are  very  scarce.  Dealers  report 
stocks  ample  for  present  requirements. 
Unless  an  active  demand  manifests 
it­
self  during  the  first  half  of  November, 
dealers  do  not 
look  for  other  than  a 
hand-to-mouth  business  until  after  Feb. 
15.  The  demand  is  only  fair  for  loose 
muscatels,  but  seeded  are  moving  out 
well  at 
full  prices.  Currants  of  all 
grades  are  in  very  good  demand  and 
prices  have  advanced  %c.  Everything 
points  to  a  good  active  demand  during 
the  winter  for  this article,  of which large 
quantities  are  consumed  every  year. 
There  is  some  demand  for  both  peaches 
and  apricots  at  full  prices.  Dates  are 
in  somewhat  larger  supply  now  and  are 
a trifle easier.  The demand,  however,  is 
fair and stocks are moving out  very  well. 
Figs  are  very  firm  and  show  an advance 
of  K @ ic  per  pound  over  the  better 
grades.  There  is  a  good  demand  for 
evaporated  apples  and  prices  are  fully 
maintained.  Stocks,  however,  are  daily 
growing  less  and  will  soon  be  entirely 
cleaned  up  in  this State.

Rice—The  rice  market  continues  firm 
and  prices  for  all  grades  are  strong. 
Dealers  report  trade  rather  quiet  and 
orders  principally  for  small  lots  of  do­
mestic,  for  which  full  prices  are  ob­
tained.  Receipts  of  new  crop  rice  are 
light  and  advices  from  New  Orleans  re­
port  that  the  larger  planters  are  appar­
ently  in  no  hurry  to  market  their  crop, 
having  confidence  in  the  future  market. 
Spot  stocks  are  moderate,  and  all 
in­
dications  point  to  a  continued  firm mar­
ket.

Tea— The  tea  market  remains  firm, 
with  a  fair  business  in  all lines.  Green 
teas  remained  strong  and,  as  the  avail­
able  supply  is  small,  holders  were  firm, 
refusing  to  make  any  concessions  of 
importance.  There  is  no  reason  to  look 
for  any  lower  prices  in  the  near  future 
and  it 
is  expected  the  demand  will 
gradually  increase.

Molasses  and  Syrups—The  molasses 
market  is  firm,  with  an  advance  of  2c 
per  gallon  on  some  of  the  better grades. 
Buyers  show  much  more inclination now 
to  make  large  purchases  and  business 
for  the  week  was  very  good,  especially 
for  molasses  in  cans,  for  which  there  is 
a  constant  demand.  Advices  from New 
Orleans  note  small  arrivals  of  new  crop 
and  a  scarcity  of  the  better  grades.  The 
molasses  crop,  it  is  estimated,  will  be 
as  large  as  last  year,  which  was  about 
375,000 barrels.  The  corn  syrup  mar­
ket  is  very  firm,  with  a  very  active  de­
mand.  Prices  show  an  advance  of  ic 
per  gallon  and  6c  per  case,  with  the 
probability  of  a  still  further  advance 
shortly.  Refiners  claim  to  be  oversold 
two  weeks.

Nuts— Nuts  are  going  out  freely  and 
a  good  business  is  being  done 
in  this 
line.  Brazil  nuts  and  walnuts  are  both 
very  firm  and  full  prices  are  obtained. 
Almonds,  however,  are  somewhat  easier 
and  prices  show  a  decline  of  J^c.  The 
same  applies  to  filberts,  of  which  there 
is  a  large  supply.  Peanuts  are  selling 
well  at  previous  prices.

Rolled  Oats—The  market 

is  very 
strong  and  prices  show  an  advance  of 
15c  per  bbl.  and  10c  per  case  for  com­
petitive  cases.

For  Gillies’  N.  Y.  tea,all kinds,grades 
and  prices,  call  Visner,  both  phones.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Petting the  People

Visible  O perations  as a  Means  of  Adver­

tising.

I  presume  there  is  nothing  that  more 
generally  interests  people  than  seeing 
the  actual  work  of manufacturing.  They 
are  attracted  by  witnessing  any 
indus­
trial  operation,  partly  from  the  natural 
desire  to  see bow  things  are made,partly 
from  the  interest  excited  by  exhibitions 
of dexterity  and  partly  from  the  gen­
eral  interest of seeing  people busy,  with­
out  much  regard  as  to  what  they  are 
doing.  People  will  stand  to  watch  a 
laborer  shoveling  dirt  not  because  the 
interesting,  but 
operation  is  especially 
they  like  to  see  people  busy. 
It  is  to 
some  extent  on  this  account  that  it  is 
better  for a  customer  to  come 
into  a 
store  and  find  everyone  doing  some­
thing,  even  if  he  is  the  only  customer, 
rather  than  find  all  hands  holding  down 
the  counters  and  things,  waiting  for the 
buyers.  A  busy  man  is  attractive—there 
are  cases  where  the  other kind  is not.

1  know  of  two cobbler  shops  not  far 
from  each  other,  both  about equally  well 
situated  for custom.  One  has  elaborate 
signs  on  building  and in windows.  The 
front  room  is  nicely  fitted  up  for  a  re­
ception  room,  while  the  operator  plies 
his  calling  behind  a  partition  hiding 
him  from  the  street.  The  other  shop  is 
not  especially  elaborate  as  to  signs,  but 
in  the  front  window  sits  the  mender  of 
shoes, 
frankly  plying  his  calling  in 
sight  of  everyone.  The  location  of  this 
shop  is  known  to  everyone  and  its  pro­
prietor  is  kept  busy.  The  other  is 
wondering  why  bis  more  stylishly  man­
aged  place  for  doing  the  necessary,  but 
not  especially  esthetic,  work  on  dilapi­
dated  footwear  is  passed without  notice. 
A  shoemaker  plying  his  trade  is  an  in­
teresting  sight,  not  alone  on  account  of 
the  dexterity  of  his  movements,  but  for 
the  reason  that  people  like  to  see  one 
busy.  The  most  effective  advertising 
the  shoe  mender can  have  is the  plying 
of  his trade  where  all  the  world  can 
see.

Occasionally  this  principle 

is  em­
ployed  in  some  lines  where  the  opera­
tions  are  reasonably  manageable,  as  c i­
garmaking  and  the  like. 
In  such  cases 
the  advertising  is  found  to  be  effective, 
but  when  the  operations  are more varied 
than  in  rolling  tobacco  there  is  corres­
pondingly  more  interest.  Thus  in  a 
glove  store  having  an  extensive  show 
window  the  entire  operations,  from  the 
rough  kid  to  the  finished  product,  are 
carried  on  in  plain  sight  of  the  public. 
More  people  are  attracted,  many  times 
over,  than  by  the  most  elaborate exposi­
tion  of  the  goods  the  most  skillful  win­
dow-dresser  could  devise.

Of  course  it  is  not  always  practicable 
to  use  this  scheme;  but  the  principle  is 
of  such  value  it  is  worth  while  to  take 
advantage  of  any  opportunities  of  the 
kind  even  at  the  expense  of  a  good  deal 
of  time  and  trouble,  rather than  to  plan 
to  keep  all  industrial  operations  in  back 
rooms  or attics.

v  *  *

F.  A.  Kramer  &  Co.  present  a  cloth­
ing  advertisement  which  has  some  ele­
ments  of  smartness.  The  first feature  is 
the  questionable  pun  with  which  they 
start  out  in  the  picture.  This  may  sell 
inclined  to 
goods,  but  I  am  rather 
doubt  its  value.  The  other  pun 
is  not 
so bad  and  yet  it  is  a  little  too  much  of 
a  good  thing  if  we  admit  the  first.  The 
price  feature  is the  most  valuable  and 
will  serve  to  help  out  what  would  other­
wise  be  rather  a  poor  effort.  The

ALL  YOUR  OWN  WAY

We  Push  Our  Business  Right  Your  Way.

We have the  FALL  end  WINTER  STOCK  to do it  The tnpple alliance of  low prices, 
It hes  been 

latest  styles  end  beet  quality ere  behind  oe  We went to tell yon something 
nnacaeonsble. but  we're  sold  lots of

O U E R C O H T S   A N D   S U I T S   T H I S   F H L L
We  didn't stick  fancy  prices  on  them,  expecting-, cold  weather  We  marked  them  at 
bargain figures, which  temperature don't affect.  The price, like  a  Watch s works, regulated 
to beat 
cold.  Overcoats  and  8aits  are  going  to  be  needed;  they  can  be  had  here  at 
one  price  if  it rain or blow, shine or snow, and  that price da  always  below  the  actual  value 
of our clothing.
G V 0 R C O H T S   I 
I 

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$6,  $8,  $10,  $12,  $15. 

$7.50,  $10,  $12,  $15.

ear cUtMs» feetore yee bey jeer eatSt f.r  PeU.

F .   H .  K R A M E R   St  C O .

COMPLETE

STOCK WMMRUIF&CO.,

IKVKBIHè. MICHIGAN

PR IC ES
RIGHT.

FOR  BUSINESS  OR  PLEASURE.

COMFORT  OR  CO NVEN IEN CE.

If  yon  a re   p re p a rin g  for the winter s work  we can  aid 
yo n   very  materially. 
If  “on  p leasu re  bent"  we  can 
add  to  y o u r  comfort.  Here  are  a  few  of  the  things 
you  may  need.  Too  will  find  it  to  your  advantage 
to  get  our  p rice s  before  buying  elsewhere:

LUMBERING  HARNESS,
FARM  HARNESS,

DRIVING  HARNESS,

SINGLE  HARNESS.

HORSE  BLANKETS.

ROBES,

NfHIPS,

FUR  COATS.

LUMBERMENS SUPPLIES A SPECIALTY

GUNS  OF  ALL  KINDS.

HARNESS  SUPPLIES.

THIN

K  OF  SMOKING

A nd Y ou T h in k  of T h e  C ity  D ru g  Store.
merou*

meed rik competition  oe  ptp«$,  tobacco*.  and the uni 
Je convenience* that appeal to loveis  of the weed.
of C ig ars  is N ot E x c elled   in  th e  C ity

We htve dieU 
lit
O ur  Stock

Drop Id  «rhea  writing 

to rn ea r.
0* Any Other Thnl

CITY DRUG STO

You  Are  Invited

RE

E CALL and  inspect a large assortment 
of rn'gs which we have  just received, 
and  which  we’ will  display for a few 
days only.  The  Shipment includes  many 
beautiful

AXMINSTER, WILTON, 

andSMYRNA  RUGS

and it is a  pleasure  to  see-them.  . Those 
not selected will  be  sent back  next Mon­
day, so do not fail to call early.  . By secur­
ing this shipuient'on approval- we are able 
to offer our patrons the lamest assortment 
ever brought to thacity. 
-he  prices  will 
Stand ;comparisoi  with  those  of  any re? 
liable bouse.

F.  W.  CRON

I f  Y o u  
W a n t

A Good  Coffee  for  a 
small stun of  money, 
ask  for  Hosmer  & 
Co.’*  Special  Blend 
Coffee  at  18  cents.
We alio fell the Famou*
F.  H.  C COFFEES.
N o n e   Better.

S.  E .  H o s m e r &  C o.

Him Order*.-Prwaptty  Attested  Id

H -O

Your attention is called to 
ttpe large line  of

I
H-O  Cereal 

Foods

we  are  carrying— thdy 
never disappoint the eater. 
We  can  suit  your  taste, 
too. in other good  things.
‘ Try our
Korker  Teas, 
Spurr’s Coffee,
and you'll not regret it.

DOFF & THORN,

Notti) Washington St. Grocfrs.

t* Where"

X  compounding.  We  never  for*
|  **
1  Oar Responsibility

Experience
Counts.
prescriptions  during' 
the  past 
year, and doubtless a  good share 
of  the number were  for serious 
cases where much  depended 
5  purity of drugs and accuracy of 

I We  Have  filled  thousands  of 
I  ni tin« m atter and  we don’t  want 
!•   3D yr aiy tfg l li y  V ou can avail
(¿jural Drug Store.

you to fu/BBt- th at skill and  ac­
by  long  exper­
curacy 

ience.  Ovfrc«|.t nence  is  of  a

TourfeefWnt w • t bout e x tra cott.

|  B.  M.  Church  Drug

printer’s work  is not badly proportioned, 
but  the  type  is  somewhat  mixed.  So 
black  a  border  needs  more  room.

Wm.  DeKruif  &  Co.  offer an  excep­
tionally  good  harness  advertisement 
which  the  printer  has  handled  well. 
The  use  of  white  space  brings  out  bis 
display  well. 
I  would  have  omitted  the 
comma  after  the  name  of  the  firm,  thus 
giving  it  more  room  in  the  panel,  and 
would  have  omitted  many  pauses  else­
where.  The  line  “ Guns  of  all  kinds” , 
I  would  have  given  a  different  display, 
as  it  is  a  change  in the  kind  of  articles.
The  City  Drug  Store  writes  an  effect­
ive smokers’ goods advertisement,  which 
is  displayed  rather  black  for  the  busi­
ness. 
It  is  well  written  and  the  plan  of 
composition  is  good.

Another  good  advertisement 

is  that 
I  like  the  can­
of  rugs  by  F.  W.  Cron. 
did,  dignified  manner 
in  which  the 
statements  are  made,especially  the  clos­
ing  sentences.  The  printer’s  work 
is 
fine ;  the  only  suggestion  I should  make 
would  be  to  give  the  border a nonpareil 
more  room.

Another  simple,  well-written  adver­
tisement  is  that of S.  E.  Hosmer  &  Co., 
which  is  well  handled  by  the  printer.
Duff  &  Thorn  make  a  plain  statement 
which  is  handled  as  simply  as  possible 
by  the  printer.  The  reader  may  be  at 
a  loss  as  to  whether  the  apparently 
coined  name  "K orker"  is  intended  for 
the  name  of  the  brand,  or  for  a  modi­
fying  adjective. 
impression 
that  a  more  dignified  and  effective 
name  could  have  been  devised.

is  my 

It 

The  H.  M.  Church  Drug  Co.  writes 
an  attractive  and  interesting notice of its 
prescription  department,  which  is  well 
handled  by the  printer—an exceptionally 
good  advertisement.

Florida’s Oranges and Sugar Hopes. 

From the Florida Tlmes-Union.

The  pioneer  sections  of the  orange  in­
dustry  are  asserting  themselves  as  they 
did  eight  years  ago.  The  oranges  are 
moving  and  the  good  times  must  come 
again.  The  world  will  demand  more 
sugar  every  year  and  there  will  be  a 
place  on  the  market  for  all  that  can  be 
produced  on  the  Florida 
lands  suited 
for  it.  We  have  immense  areas  fit  for 
little  else,  and  the  reclamation  of  such 
lands  in  this  State  means  so  much  clear 
gain.

A  woman  is  a  great  deal  better  than 
her neighbor  and  she  always  knows  it, 
too.

Getting  Wet?
Serves  you  right. 
Get an  H.  M.  R. 
Brand

Ready

Gravel

Roof

and keep dry.

Made by

H.  M.  Reynolds & Son

Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

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If you want to secure more than

$ 2 5   R E W A R D

In  Cash  Profits  in  1901,  and  in  addition  give 
thorough  satisfaction to your patrons,  the  sale  of 
but one dozen per day of

F LEISC H M A N N   *   CO .’S

YELLOW  LABEL

C O M P R E SS E D   YEAST

will  secure that result.

Grand Rapids Office, 29 Crescent Ave.  Detroit Office,  111  W. Larned St.

Buckwheat

Flour is ground by most mills, first  by  crushing  the  whole  kernel, 
hide  and all, then separating the outside (black hull) and a part only 
of the inner  (yellow hull).  This  process makes more flour than our 
way, but  it impregnates the flour with enough poison  from the inner 
hull to make you feel, soon after eating  it, as  if you’d been in a cedar 
swamp  infested with  Michigan mosquitoes.

$ Cbe Muskegon milling £0.  %

($J) 
(ft 
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discovered a way to separate  “buckwheat  poison”  from  the  buck-  $
wheat  meat, producing  a pure,  wholesome flour, which can  be  eaten  (¡ft
any season of the year with no injurious  effect.  Sell  our  flour  and 
create a demand  for a good thing. 

¡jjj  mills at muskegon, micb. 

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Q U A L IT Y IS  A   S I L E N T  

S A L E S M A N  
A N D   M A R E S  PERM AN EN T  PATRO N S

T H A T ’S

F .  M .  C .  C o ffe e

F R E E M A N   M E R C A N T I L E   C O .  

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G R A N D   R A P I D S  

M I C H I G A N

■elsbach  Lights 

elsbach  Mantles

Incandescent Gas Light and Gasoline Lamp Supplies 

of all kinds.

Authorized  Michigan  Supply  Depot for the genuine goods.

Write for illustrated catalogue and wholesale prices to

A.  T.  KNOWLSON, 

Detroit,  Michigan

233-235 Griswold Street.

DeBee  $  Son

Dealers  in

Groceries» Provisions» (Country Produce» Etc«

The Computing Scale Co.,

Dayton,  Ohio.

Gentlemen—

East Liverpool,  Ohio,

Oct. 23,  1901.

We have used your Standard Market 
Scales for over four years, and have been 
so much pleased in their wonderful util­
ity as money savers that we have added 
to our business one of your finest 
“ Majestic* * No. 40 scales.  We con­
sider this the handsomest and finest 
scale we have ever seen or used.  We want 
to thank you for bringing this great 
money saving system to our notice.  We 
are,

Yours respectfully,

DeBee & Son.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

DESMAN

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

G rand Rapids, by  the

TRADESMAN  COMPANY

One  D ollar a Tear,  Payable  in   Advance.

A dvertising Bates on  A pplication.

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

Entered at the Grand  Rapids  Post Office as 

Second Class mall  matter.

W hen  w H tlng to any o f  o u r  A dvertisers, 
please  say  th a t  you  saw  th e  advertise­
m ent in th e  M ichigan Tradesm an.

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

WEDNESDAY,  •  •  NOVEMBER 13,1901.

STA TE  OF  MICHIGAN >

County  oi  Kent 

t S8‘

John  DeBoer,  being  duly  sworn,  de­

poses  and  says  as  follows:

I  am  pressman  in  the  office  of  the 
Tradesman  Company  and  have  charge 
of  the  presses  and  folding  machine  in 
that  establishment. 
and 
folded  7,000  copies  of  the 
issue  of 
November 6,  1901,  and  saw  the  edition 
mailed 
in  the  usual  manner.  And 
further deponent  saith  not.

I  printed 

John  DeBoer.

Sworn  and  subscribed  before  me,  a 
notary  public  in  and  for said  county, 
this  ninth  day  of  November,  1901.

Notary  Public  in  and  for  Kent  County, 

Henry  B.  Fairchild, 

Mich.

LACK  OF  FRANKNESS.

Most  of  the  troubles  which  arise  be­
tween  employe  and  employer  nowadays 
can  be  traced  to  the 
lack  of  a  good 
understanding  and  the  absence  of frank­
ness  between  the  two.  Nothing  is  more 
conducive  to  ill  feeling  than 
lack  of 
sincerity  and  a  disposition  to  ignore 
the  rights of  others  by  either  employer 
or  employed,  and  the  sooner  both come 
to  realize  this  and  act 
in  accordance 
with  this  knowledge  the  better  it  will 
be  for  both.

to 

Nothing  is  more  demoralizing to busi­
ness  or  exasperating 
the  business 
manager  than  uncertainty.  The  clerk 
who  absents  himself  without  leave  or 
who  is  compelled  to  remain  at  home  by 
reason  of  illness  or  other  good  cause 
without  notifying  his  employer  of  his 
intention  has  only  himself  to  blame 
if 
he  does  not  receive  a  cordial  greeting 
on  his  return  and 
finds  himself  dis­
criminated  against  when  future  favors 
are  distributed  or  wages  are  increased. 
The  employer  who  leaves  his  store  or 
office  without  informing  his  executive 
staff  or  head  clerk  where  be  may  be 
found  does himself an injustice,  possibly 
injures  his  business  and places bis office 
associates  in  an  embarassing  position 
in  case  they  are  called  upon  to  pass  on 
a  question  which  requires  his  sanction 
or  advice.  The  manager  who  persists 
in  this  policy  has  only  himself  to  blame 
if  his  business  shows  a  shrinkage  or  his 
clerks  appear  to  lose 
in  their 
work.  The  man  who  shirks  his  duty  or 
remains  away  from  his  place  of  busi­
ness  when  he  is  needed  is  not  the  best 
type  of  business  man.

interest 

Strange  as  it  may  seem,  one  of  the 
most fruitful sources of ill feeling centers 
around  the  subject of vacations.  Where 
there  is  no  general  rule  or  established 
custom,  vacations  are  a  matter of  nego­
tiation  and  the  employe  has  no  more 
is  entitled  to
right  to  assume  that  he 

is  away. 

take  a  vacation  on  his  own volition than 
he  has  to  take  money  from  the  cash 
drawer  with  which  to  pay  his  expenses 
while  he 
If  vacations  are 
taken  at  the  expense  of  the  employer— 
in  other  words,  if the  clerk  accepts  pay 
for services  not  rendered  during  his  ab­
sence—it  is  the privilege of the employer 
to 
indicate  when  the  vacation  shall 
be  taken,  because he  can  probably  select 
a  time  of  the  year  or the  week  when  the 
absence  of  the  clerk  will  work  thq  least 
injury  to  bis  business.  To take  a  vaca­
tion  on  another’s  time—to  draw  pay  for 
services  not  rendered—and  then  to  ar­
bitrarily  dictate  when  the  vacation  shall 
be  taken,  without  consulting  the  con­
venience  of  the  employer or considering 
the  exigencies  of  the  business, 
is  not 
only  selfish  but  hovers  on  the  border 
line  of dishonesty.

O E N ER A t TRADE REVIEW .

fact 

that 

The 

the  elections  were 
promptly  followed  by  a  general  rise  in 
stock  quotations  tends  to  show  that  the 
unusual  interest  in  municipal  affairs, 
especially  in  New  York,  engrossed  the 
attention  which  would  otherwise  have 
been  given  to  on  Wall  Street.  The  last 
of  the  week  showed  a  considerable  rise 
in  most leading lines,  which is continued 
still  more  decidedly  this  week.  The 
general  strength  in  all  industries is  such 
that  temporary  causes  can  not  operate 
long  in  restraint  of  trade.

There  is  still  complaint  that  there  is 
not  enough  cold  with  the stormy weather 
now  so  seasonable,but  really  there  is  no 
cause  for complaint.  Two  or  three  se­
vere  days  might  give  a  gratifying  rush 
in  heavy  wear,  but  a  longer  period  of 
more  steady  demand  is  of  more  value. 
Distribution 
is  reported  good  at  all 
points  and  the  lack  of  cars  is  still  a 
manifest  evidence  of  the  tremendous 
movement.

With  the  rise  in  speculative  values 
has  come  a  decided  advance  in  all lead­
ing  staples  except  cotton.  This  is  the 
most  favorable  situation  as  the 
latter 
staple  is  now  as high  as  is  compatible 
with  the  best  interests  of  the  cloth  in­
dustry.  Corn  is  close  to  its  top  record 
for  many  years  past.  The  crop  is  not  as 
large  as  in  some  seasons,  but  at  present 
prices  it  looks  as  though  it  would  bring 
as  great  returns  to  the  growers.  Other 
grains  are  also  showing  advances.

Iron  and  steel  are  still  maintaining 
their  condition  of  strength  and  intense 
activity.  Prices  are  at  the top and orders 
are  being  booked  for  delivery  far  into 
next  year.  Lack  of  cars  has  interfered 
with 
the  operation  of  some  furnaces 
which  are  not  able  to  get  fuel,  but  in 
general  production 
is  going  on  at  a 
tremendous  rate.

The  threatened  interference  of  strikes 
and  undue  changes  in  prices  are  finally 
out  of  the  field  as  disturbing  elements 
in  the  cotton  goods  trade.  Woolens are 
on  the  whole  in  a  more  satisfactory con­
dition than at any time since 1892.  Ship­
ments  of  boots  and  shoes  from  Boston 
show  an  increase  of  over  half  a  million 
cases,  as  compared  with  1900,  and  sur­
pass  all  previous  records.  Considera­
tion  of  the  fact  that  there  is  a  propor­
tional  increase  all  over  the  West  and 
South,  where  the  industry  is  new,  gives 
an  idea  of  the  astonishing boom enjoyed 
by  footwear.  Prices  are  maintained  at 
the recent rise,  which  does  not  yet  bring 
them  to  a  parity  with  the  raw  material.
Prisoners  in  the  Xenia,  Ohio,  work- 
house  have  struck  for  pie  and  the  man­
agement  is  considering  the  advisability 
of  feeding  them  on  prunes  until  they 
show  a  proper  spirit  of  submission.

THE GREATEST QUESTION VET.

The  Citizens  Telephone  Co. 

stock 
has  always  commanded  par  and  has 
paid 2 per cent, quarterly  dividends  dur­
ing  the  past five years with the regularity 
of  clockwork.  The  company  has  never 
authorized  or  issued  any  bonds  and  its 
floating  indebtedness  has  always  been 
kept  within  reasonable  limits.

Michigan Telephone Co.  stock is going 
begging  at  35  cents  on  the  dollar,  with 
no  takers.  No  dividends  have  been 
paid  for  a  long  time  and  the  company 
has  a  bonded  indebtedness  of $5,590,000 
and a floating indebtedness of $1,800,000.
The  underlying  causes  of  these  con­

ditions  are  not  difficult  to trace :

The  Citizens  Telephone  Co.  and  most 
of  the  other  independent  companies  of 
the  State  have  been  managed  by  busi­
ness  men 
in  a  businesslike  manner. 
Exchange  service  has  been  furnished  at 
about  60  per cent,  of  the  rates  formerly 
charged  by  the  Bell  company  and  toll 
service  at  an  even  greater  reduction. 
Notwithstanding the absolutely free serv­
ice  given  by  the  Bell  company  in  some 
localities,  and  the  ruinously 
low  rates 
maintained  in  towns  where  there  is  in­
dependent  competition,  the Citizens Co. 
has  been  able  to  maintain  a  remarkable 
ratio  of  growth,  increase  and  replace  its 
equipment,  improve  its  service,  pay  its 
employes  promptly,  disburse  8  per cent, 
dividends  to  its  stockholders  and 
in­
crease  its  surplus  until  it  amounts  to  a 
comfortable  figure.

telephone  service  was 

The  Michigan  Telephone  Co.,  on  the 
other  hand,  has  been  managed  on  the 
Vanderbiltian  theory  of  “ The  public be 
damned.”   When  the  project  of  inde­
pendent 
first 
broached  in  Grand  Rapids,  a 
leading 
jobber and  manufacturer  was told by  the 
local  manager  of  the  Bell  company  that 
such  a  thing  as competition  was  an  im­
possibility ;  that  there  were  no  phones 
available;  that  the  Bell  company  owned 
all  the  patents on  telephone  appliance, 
and  that  any  attempt  on  the  part  of 
Grand  Rapids  people  to  establish  a 
competing  company  would  result  in 
their  paying  dearly  for their  experience 
later  on—that  it  would  be  simply  a 
question  of  book-keeping  and  good  in­
terest. 
This  position  and  prediction 
are  in  keeping  with  the  policy  of  the 
Bell management in all parts of the State. 
It  has  been  a  policy  of  extermination— 
cruel,  remorseless  and  inhuman—but  it 
has  reacted  on  the  Bell  company  by 
wrecking  an  investment  of  ten  million 
dollars,  ending  in  one  of  the  most  hu­
miliating  surrenders  ever  witnessed  in 
this  country.  Not  since  the  days  of  the 
B.  &  O.  fiasco  under  the  junior  Garrett 
has  a  corporation  been  so  wretchedly 
mismanaged.  Failure  to  forestall  local 
competition  by  threats  and  bluffs—by 
industrial  boycotts,  temporary  injunc­
tions  and  entangling 
legal  proceed­
ings—the  management  resorted to  cajol­
ery  and sought  to  win  people  over  by 
free  telephone  service,  which  was  main­
tained  for  nearly  two  years.  Such  tac­
tics  proving  to  be  unavailing,  as  well 
as  unremunerative,  the  price  of  ex­
change  service  was  increased  to  about 
half  what  it  cost  the  company  to  main­
tain  it,  with  the  result  that  the company 
now  finds  itseifin  a  bankrupt condition, 
as  shown  by  the  present  price  of  the 
stock  and  the  fact  that  the  receipts  the 
first  six  months of this year lacked $235,- 
907.53  of  meeting  expenses.

The  moral  to  be  drawn  from  this situ­
ation  is  obvious:  No  corporation  can 
ultimately  succeed  which  continues  to 
run  counter  to  public  opinion.  Large 
capital  alone,  in  the  bands  of  incompe­

tent  men,  is  powerless  in  dealing  with 
people  who  can  not  be  bought  or  bribed 
or seduced  from  the  path  of  duty.  The 
glitter of  gold  may  corrupt  legislators 
and  aldermen,  boards  of  public  works 
and  city  attorneys,  but  the  rank  and  file 
of  business  men,  who constitute the most 
important  portion of  the  telephone  users 
of  any  community,  can  not  be swerved 
from  their  allegiance  to  local  interests 
by  bluff,  bluster,  cajolery,  flattery or un­
businesslike  methods.  The  old  story  of 
David  and  Goliah  finds  here  a  fitting 
illustration.  But  the  greatest  problem 
the independent companies have ever had 
to  face  now  presents  itself:

What  is  to  be  done  with the dead body 

of  Goliah?

Hides,  Pelts, Tallow  and  Wool.

The  bide  market  shows  a  decline  in 
price  from  a  week  ago.  Small  rec  ipts 
prevent  accumulation  on  a  strong  de­
mand.  Values  are  still high for tanners’ 
use,  but  they  are  forced  to  pay.  Trade 
is  all  one  could  wish,  but  indicates 
lower  prices.

Pelts  are  in  fair  demand  at  full value, 

although  there  is  no  accumulation.

Wools  have  been  in 

Tallow  is  in  larger  offerings,  with  de­
mand  only  normal. 
Values  remain 
fairly  strong.  No  advance is  indicated.
large  sales  and 
dealers  are  busy  sacking  out.  The  de­
mand  is  good  at  old  prices,  but  any  ad­
vance  is  checked.  Manufacturers  have 
a  full  supply from recent purchases,  but 
they  are,  also,  working  up  large  quanti­
ties  of  wool.  What  little  advance  has 
been  obtained  by  dealers  is  strongly 
held,  as  supplies  have  been  drawn  on 
heavily  to  fill  sales;  in  fact,  some  deal­
ers  find  they  have  oversold  and  are 
obliged  to  go  into  states’  holdings  to fill 
and,  naturally,  have been obliged  to  pay 
higher  prices.  Large  quantities  have 
gone  and  are  still  going  forward  to  fill 
the  gap. 
Advantages  of East Jo rd an   to  Be  A dver­

Wm.  T.  Hess.

tised.

East  Jordan,  Nov.  11— Our  business 
men  have  organized  a  Board  of  Trade, 
the  principal  objects  being  to  advertise 
the  advantages  now  offered  to  manufact­
uring  at  East  Jordan  and  South  Arm 
and  to  develop  the agricultural  interests. 
East  Jordan  has  been  a  good  business 
tow_n_  ior  years,  without  any  railroad 
facilities.  Having  now  two  roads,  con­
necting  the  town  with  the  Pere  Mar­
quette,  G.  R.  &  I.  and  the  M.  C.  sys­
tems,  opening  up  an 
immense  amount 
of  standing  timber,  for  which  this 
is 
the  natural  outlet,  and  having  good 
deep  water  shipping  facilities,  make  it 
possible  to  offer  the  advantages  of 
low 
freight  rates  and  an  abundance  of  raw 
material  in  the  line  of  timber;  besides 
which  there  are  extensive  beds  of  marl 
and  clay  yet  undeveloped.  The 
land 
is  first-class  for 
surrounding  the  towns 
agriculture,  stock 
fruit 
growing,  fruit  from  this  locality  having 
taken  first  prize  at  the  last  State  fair.
W.  A.  Loveday.

raising  and 

Detroit—There 

is  some  talk  along 
Griswold  street  to  the  effect that the pro­
posed  increase  of  capital  stock  of  the 
Michigan  Stove  Co.  to  $3,000,000  is  in 
line  with  the  long-expected  formation 
of  a  combination of stove manufacturers. 
It  is  said  that  the  local  stove  men  have 
stipulated  that  in  any  combination  they 
would  have  to  be  given  ten  shares  of 
stock  for  every  one  held 
in  the  com­
panies  as  now  organized. 
It  is  signifi­
cant  that  the  proposed  increase  of  stock 
in  the  Michigan  Stove Co.  is from $300, - 
000.  As  it  is  also  announced  that  the 
other  Detroit  companies  will  follow  the 
lead  of  the  Michigan in the stock raising 
matter,  the  idea- that  the  plan  is  in  line 
with  the  combination idea seems reason­
able.

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9

TAXATION  OF MORTGAGES.

D irect  Fixed Tax  for State  Purposes Most 
Written for t|ie Tradesman.

Desirable.

is  pursued 

The  taxation  of  mortgages  and  other 
securities  is  a  subject  of  commanding 
interest  in  all  American  states. 
In  our 
own  State  it  has attained  special impor­
tance  at  this  time.  There  is  great  di­
vergence  of  practice 
in  such  taxation 
among  the  states. 
In  Michigan,  mort­
gaged  property  is  taxable  at  its  full val­
uation  to  the  mortgagor,  without  deduc­
tion  of  indebtedness,  while the mortgage 
is  taxable  at  its  full  value  to  the  mort­
gagee.  A  like  method 
in 
many  other  states  where  the  general 
property  tax  obtains.  Efforts  have been 
made  by  state  legislatures  to  devise  a 
more  objectionable  method  for  the  taxa­
tion  of  mortgages  than  the  one  now 
in 
vogue  in  Michigan,  but  none  have  suc­
is  generally  re­
ceeded.  This  method 
garded  as  double  taxation 
in  the  ex­
treme,  although  some  eminent  authori­
ties  on  the  subject  contend,  more  or less 
plausibly,that it  is  not,  in the true sense, 
double  taxation.  On  the  other  hand, 
some  states  have  adopted  the  method  of 
taxing  mortgaged property  to  the owner, 
without  deduction  of  debts, and  exempt­
ing  mortgages  entirely 
taxation. 
The  result  of  this  method,  while  an  im­
provement  on  the  Michigan  system,  is 
inadequate  taxation.  Still  other  states, 
in  trying  to  adapt  the  general  property 
tax  to  this  class  of  property,  attempt,  by 
varied  modifications of these methods,  to 
injustice  of  double  taxa­
mitigate  the 
tion  on  the  one  hand  and  avoid 
inade­
quate  taxation  on  the  other.  None  of 
the  methods  involving  the application of 
the  general  property  tax  to  mortgages 
have  proven  satisfactory  in  practice and 
states  have  gone  from  one  to  another  in 
despair.  The  fallacy  of  these  various 
methods  consists  in  the  consideration 
of the  property,  rather  than  the  property 
owner.  The  state  desires  to  reach  the 
individual  primarily. 
It  imposes  a  tax 
upon  his  property  because  it  is regarded 
as  a  test  of  his  ability  to  pay.  The  in­
herent  error  in  all  the  methods  referred 
to  lies  in  the  attempt  to  apply  the  gen­
eral  property  tax  to  forms  of  property 
unlike  in  character;  in  other  words,  to 
like  mort­
subject  intangible  property 
land, 
gages,  and  tangible  property  like 
to  like  valuations  and  rates, 
for  both 
state  and  local  revenue.

from 

in 

Under the  property  tax  system,  which 
regards  property  as  a  true  measure  of 
ability  to  pay  taxes,  it must be conceded 
that,  theoretically,  the mortgagor  should 
be  allowed  to  deduct  from  the  assessed 
value  of  his 
land  the  amount  of  the 
mortgage  upon  it, for the  reason  that  his 
ability  to  pay  taxes  is  reduced  by  the 
incumbrance  which  absorbs  a  portion  of 
his  profits 
interest.  Theoretically, 
also,  the  interest  of  the  mortgagee in the 
property, as  represented  by  the  security, 
should  be  taxed  to  him. 
If  the  interest 
of  each  could  be  taxed to the owner upon 
like  valuations  and 
rates  and 
neither  could  shift  his  burden  to  the 
other,  this  method  would  obviously  be 
equitable  and 
just,  based  upon  their 
respective  ability  to  pay taxes.  In  prac­
tice,  however,  the  method  is  a 
failure. 
The  character  of  these  respective  prop­
erty  interests  is  different,  giving  to  the 
mortgagee  the  advantage  in  the  process 
of  taxation.  He  can  and  does  shift  the 
burden.  He  can  and  does  escape  taxa­
tion.  The  mortgagor can  not  shift  or 
escape. 
In  valuation,  under  the  prop­
erty  tax,  the  land  gets  the  advantage, 
making  a  positive 
to  the 
in  other
mortgagee  to  take  advantage 

incentive 

like 

ways.  The  privilege  of  deduction  of 
indebtedness  is  abused  and  through 
it 
many  escape  just  taxation.

for 

In  Massachusetts, 

In  order to  avoid  these'difficulties and 
secure  equitable  taxation  of  the  respect­
ive  interests  of  the  mortgagor and mort­
gagee,  various  modifications  have  been 
adopted  in  states  that  cling  to  the  prop­
erty  tax  for  securities  as well as tangible 
property. 
in­
stance,  where  it  is  designed  to  impose 
but  one  tax  upon  the  entire 
interest  in 
the  land,  whether  mortgaged  or  not, 
the  value  of  the  land  is  assessed  to  the 
owner,  but  he  can  offset  the  amount  of 
the  mortgage  debt  against  it,  which,  in 
turn,  is  assessable  as  realty  to  the  mort­
gagee  in  the  place  where  the  land  is  lo­
cated. 
If  the  whole  tax  is  paid  by  the 
mortgagor,  he  can  recover  from  the 
mortgagee  to  the  extent  of  his  interest. 
The  mode  of  payment  or  adjustment  of 
this  one  tax,  however,  is,  under the law, 
left  to agreement  between  the  mortgagor

of  mortgages  from taxation by the  law  of 
1881,  providing  for  the  taxation of mort­
gaged  real  estate  once  for all,  and  per­
mitting  mortgagor and  mortgagee  to  ar­
range  between  themselves  for  payment 
of  the  taxes,  was  a  reduction  of  the  rate 
of  interest,  not  by  the  average  rate  of 
taxation,  but  about  three-fourths  of  I 
per cent.  The  competition  in  mortgage 
investments  was  greatly  increased,  and 
there  was  a  general  and  substantial  de­
cline  in  interest  rates.

The  vigorous  attempts  to  bring  about 
the  actual  assessment  and  taxation  of 
full  land  values  and  mortgages,  such  as 
have  been  made  in  Ohio  and  Indiana, 
have  produced  no  substantial  or  perma­
nent  improvement.  A  similar  attempt 
is  now  being  made  to  enforce  this 
double  taxation  in  Michigan.  The  re­
sult  can  not  be  satisfactory  to  either 
borrower  or  lender. 
It  will  be  detri­
mental  to  both.  The  borrower  will  get 
the  worse  of  it.  He  will  get  the  short

This  method  was  adopted 

and  the  mortgagee.  The  result  is  that 
substantially  all  mortgages  in  that  State 
contain  an  agreement  on  the  part  of  the 
mortgagor  to  pay  the  whole  tax  upon 
the  land;  and,  further,  to  pay  all  tax 
upon  the  mortgage 
in  the  event  of  the 
repeal  of  the  law  as  to  this  agreement. 
The  mortgagee  is, 
therefore,  virtually 
exempted  from  taxation  on  the  mort­
gage. 
in 
Massachusetts  in  1881.  Prior  to  that 
time,  the  mortgage  and  the  mortgaged 
property  were  taxable  for their  full  val­
ues  to  their  respective  owners,  as is now 
the  case  in  Michigan. 
It  is pointed  out 
by  the  State  Tax  Commission  in Massa­
chusetts  that,  under  the  former  method, 
the  taxation  of  mortgages  was  carried 
out  with  great  uncertainty and the larger 
proportion  of  mortgage  securities  held 
by  private  lenders  were  not, 
in  fact, 
taxed,  the  rate  of  interest,  however,  be­
ing  increased  by  the  risk  of  taxation. 
The  result  of  the  practical  exemption

end  of  the  whiffietree. 
In  this  regard, 
we  quote  from  the  able  report  of  the 
Board  of  State  Tax  Commissioners  of 
Michigan,  for the  year  1900,  as  follows :
With  the  tools  and  facilities in posses­
sion  of  the  State  Tax  Commission,  a 
most  heroic  effort  has  been  made  to  se­
cure  the  taxation  of  mortgages,  and  no 
branch  of  our  work  has  received  more 
attention,  at  greater  expense  to  the 
State, than  the  assessment  of  mortgages. 
While  returns  have  been  most gratifying 
and  have  brought  at  the  least  a  hundred 
dollars  for  every  dollar  expended  along 
that  line,  the  system  is  far  from  being 
complete,  and will prove less satisfactory 
as  time  advances.  The  ways  of evasion 
are  so  many  and  easy  that  assessing 
officers  have  made  little  attempt  to  fol­
low  the  escaping  mortgage  or  credit.  It 
is  also  safe  to  predict  that,  should  our 
laws  for the  assessment  of  credits  re­
main  unchanged,  a  very 
large  portion 
of  the  mortgages  now  being  taxed,  and 
that have  been  found  for assessment this 
year,  will  hereafter  secrete  themselves 
beyond  reach  of  the  assessor.

In  this  respect, 

the  Michigan  State

Tax  Commission  is  having  the  experi­
ence  that  other  states  have  passed 
through  in  vain attempt  to  enforce a  bad 
system  of  taxing  mortgages.

California  has  a  somewhat  similar law 
to  that  of  Massachusetts, 
fortified  by 
énactments  making  all  agreements  be­
tween  mortgagor  and.  mortgagee  as  to 
taxes  void  and  seeking  to  compel  the 
interests  to 
taxation  of  these  separate 
their  respective  owners. 
These 
legal 
enactments,  however,  are  rendered  in­
effective  by  the  inexorable  operation 
of  economic  laws.  It  is  said  by  promi­
nent  authotities  on  the  subject  of  taxa­
tion  that,  as  a  matter  of  fact,  the  aver­
interest  rates  in  California  are  in­
age 
creased  in  consequence  of  the 
law  re­
ferred  to,  not  only  to  the  extent  of  the 
tax,  but  something  in  excess,  as  com­
pensation  for  the  trouble  and  risk  of  the 
lender. 
in 
that  State  usually  bear  2  per  cent,  ad­
interest,  as  compared  with 
ditional 
other 
The 
method  does  not  seem  to  work  satisfac­
torily  in  practical  operation.

It  is  said  that  mortgages 

investments. 

loans  and 

The  taxation  of  realty,  as  already 
stated,  to  be  strictly  just,  should  be  ac­
companied  by  debt  exemption.  On  the 
other  hand,  deduction  of mortgage debts 
is  pernicious  and  unjust  in  its operation 
and  state  taxing  officials, 
from  experi­
ence,almost  universally  condemn  it.

if  the  realty 

As  already  stated, 

is 
taxed  at  full  value  and  the  mortgage  at 
full  value,  there  is  double  taxation. 
If 
the  mortgage  indebtedness  is  deducted 
from  the  value  of  the  realty,  and  the 
mortgage  debt  escapes,  the  state  loses  a 
revenue  which  it  should  have.

The  difficulties  encountered  in  actual 
experience  have  led  to the  adoption  of 
the  method  of  taxing  realty  at  full  value 
and  the  exemption  of  mortgages  from 
taxation  by  law.  This  we  understand  to 
be  the  method  embodied  in  the  bill 
in­
troduced  in  the  last  State  Legislature  of 
Michigan  by  Senator  Loomis  of  this 
It  is  a  method advocated by many 
city. 
eminent  authorities. 
It  is  more  simple 
and direct than the Massachusetts method 
which  produces  substantially  the  same 
result  in  a  more  complicated way. 
It is 
doubtless  preferable  to  the  method  now 
in  vogue  in  Michigan  or  even  to  the 
Massachusetts  method.  It  is  based  upon 
the  theory  that,  by  reason  of  exemption 
from  taxation,  capital  will  be  loaned 
more  readily  and  at  cheaper  rates  and 
the  benefits  of  exemption  thereby  be­
come  diffused  among both borrowers and 
lenders.

It  is  urged,  on  behalf  of  this  method, 
that,  under  our  system,  property  only 
should  be  taxed,  that  mortgages  are  not 
property,  but  mere  evidences  of  prop­
erty  and  should  not  be  taxed.  The  fal­
lacy  of  this  statement 
is  apparent,  at 
least  to  those  who  do not own mortgages. 
Mortgages  are  property  for  every  pur­
pose  other  than  taxation.  They consti­
tute  as  accurate  a  measure  of  ability  to 
pay  as  realty  or  any  other  form  of  prop­
erty.  This  method  of  absolute  exemp­
tion  by  law  usually  commends  itself  to 
those  who  loan  money on mortgages ; but 
in  the  very  nature  of  things,  does  not 
receive  the  approval  of  the  public  gen­
erally,  who  believe  that  mortgage  own­
ers  should  be  subjected  to  direct  tax,  so 
far  as  practicable,  under  existing  con­
ditions.  Public  opinion  is  an 
import­
ant  factor  in  any  method  of  taxation.
Perhaps  the  soundest  argument 

in 
favor  of  mortgage  exemption  is  that,  if 
the  mortgage  is  taxed,  the  mortgagee 
will  shift  the  burden  to the  mortgagor, 
through  agreement,  as  in Massachusetts, 
or  by  way  of  increased  rates.  To  the

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extent  that  this  could  or  would  be  done, 
in  practice  it  is  perhaps  good  policy  to 
exempt  mortgages  from  taxation,  be­
cause  the  owner  of  property  can  then 
borrow  money  more  cheaply  and  the 
is  more 
taxation  of  tangible  property 
certain  and  simple;  but,  while 
the 
mortgagee  will  tfcus  attempt  to  shift  the 
burden and  impose it upon the  borrower, 
in  practice  he  does  not  always  succeed, 
and  the  effort  to  do  so  is  troublesome 
and  expensive  and,  to  the  extent that he 
fails,  it  is,  perhaps,  unwise  to  exempt 
In  the  exemption  of 
the  mortgage. 
mortgages  from  taxation, 
the  interest 
rate  is  not  always  reduced  by  the  full 
amount  of  the  tax,  and  the  lender  there­
fore  derives  more  benefit  from 
it  than 
the  borrower. 
Careful  investigation by 
tax  commissioners  has  led  to  the  con­
clusion  that,  while  mortgages  taxable by 
law  generally  escape  taxation  under  the 
property  tax  system,  the  liability  to  tax 
affects  the  interest  rate  to  the  extent  of 
one-half of  I  per  cent. 
It  may  also  be 
assumed  that  those  who 
loan  money 
would  comply  with  a  certain amount,  of 
direct  tax,  rather  than  undertake  the 
trouble  and  expense  of  shifting  the  bur­
den  to  the  borrower.

All  things  considered,  therefore,  the 
simple expedient of exempting mortgages 
by  law  is  doubtless  preferable  to  the 
more  complicated  method  in  vogue 
in 
Massachusetts  and  California,  but either 
is  greatly  preferable  to  the  method  pur­
sued  in  Michigan  which  taxes  the  mort­
gagor  on  the  full  value  of  the  realty  and 
the mortgagee  on  the  mortgage.  Under 
the  Michigan  method,  when  the  mort­
gage  is  discovered,  the 
local  tax  rate 
upon  a  high  valuation  operates  with  un­
due  severity  and  subjects  the  mortgage 
to  many  times  the  tax  actually  paid  by

personal  property  in  general. 
It  sub­
jects  those  who  are  taxed  upon  mort­
gages  composed 
largely  of  women, 
wards  and  those  not  capable  of  shifting 
the  burden  to  the  gross 
injustice  of  a 
tax  equal  to  one-third  or  one-half  the 
income  thereon,  while  the  gteat  mass  of 
mortgages  and  unsecured  credits  es­
cape  entirely.

Under  existing  conditions,  therefore, 
we  believe  it  to  be  unwise  to  exempt 
the  mortgagee  entirely  from  taxation.  A 
tax  should  be  imposed  at least to  the  ex­
tent  that  he  can  not  shift  it or  to  the  ex­
tent  that  it  would  be  troublesome  and 
unprofitable  to  shift  it.  The  man  who 
owns  the  mortgage  should  not  be  per­
mitted  to  escape  the  entire  burden  of 
taxation,  for  his  ability  remains  the 
same,  whether  bis property is in mortga­
ges  or  more  tangible  form.

Under  existing  conditions,  we believe 
that  a  better  method  and  one  that  would 
be  more  satisfactory 
to  both  borrower 
and  lender,  would  be  to  tax  the realty at 
full  value  foi 
local  purposes,  without 
deduction  of  indebtedness,and  impose a 
direct  fixed  tax  for  state  purposes,  upon 
all  mortgages  aiike,  which  would  yield 
substantial  revenue  and  be  universally 
applicable.

Some  of  the  more  advanced  states  are 
pursuing  this  method. 
In Pennsylvania 
mortgages  are  exempt  from  local  taxa­
tion,but a  tax  of  four  mills  on  the  dollar 
is  imposed  for  State purposes—a method 
which  has  resulted  in  greatly 
increased 
revenues  over  the  old  system,  and  ap­
pears  to  be  more  satisfactory 
in  every 
way.

A  special  committee  appointed by  the 
Legislature  of  New  York  recently,  after 
most  careful  investigation,  taking 
into 
consideration  the  revenue  needs  of  the

State,  the  effect  upon  the  rate of interest 
and  the  condition  of  borrowers,  recom­
mended,  in  lieu  of  other  taxes,  a  State 
tax  of  five  mills  on  the  dollar  upon  all 
indebtedness  secured  by  mortgage  upon 
corporate  and  individual  real  property, 
estimating  the  State  revenue  that  would 
be  derived  therefrom  at  ten  millions  of 
dollars  and  concluding  that  such  a  tax 
would  produce  no  substantial  change  in 
the  average  rate  of  interest  in  the  State, 
where,  as 
in  Michigan,  mortgages  are 
taxable,  but  in  fact  not  generally  taxed.
in 
Michigan  would  yield  a  substantial  rev­
enue,  much  larger  than  can  possibly  be 
realized  from  mortgages  by  any  other 
method,  and  thereby  afford  substantial 
relief  to  realty ;  that  it  would  meet  the 
approval  and  acquiescence  of  those  who 
loan  money  and  be  easily  enforced. 
It 
is a simple,  certain, inexpensive method, 
applicable  to  this  form  of  property. 
It 
would 
the  universally 
verified  truths  laid  down  by  the  Michi­
gan  State  Tax  Commission  in  the report 
referred  to,  viz.  :

We  believe  that  such  a  method 

comply  with 

First.  That  aii  property  can  not  be 

taxed  alike  or  by  like  methods.

Second.— That  the  machinery  for  tax­
ation  must  be  suitable  to  the  kind  of 
property  to  be  taxed.

Third.  That  taxation,to  be  effective, 

must be  certain.

Fourth.  That,  as  far  as  possible,  the 
State  should  provide  a  system  whereby 
it  may  not  have  to  rely  solely  upon  the 
statements  of  persons  to  be  assessed 
either  for  the extent or value of property.
We  are  not  unmindful  of  the  difficul­
ties  in  the  way  of  the  adoption  of  such 
a  method  in  Michigan  through  unwise 
constitutional  restrictions,which  can  not 
here  be  discussed. 
If  such  a  method 
could  not  be  adopted,  or  while  efforts 
should  be  made  to  bring  it  about,  the

from  taxation 
exemption  of  mortgages 
in 
would  doubtless  be  advisable  and 
the  interest  of  both  borrowers  and  lend­
ers  and  of  the  industrial  welfare  of  the 
State. 

George  Clapperton.
H is W ord Backed  Up  By  H is  Looks. 

From the Boston Herald.

This  amusing  story 

is  told  by  the 
President  of  a  New  Bedford  bank.  One 
day  not  long  ago  he  and  other  officers 
and  directors  were  engaged  in  a  busi­
in  the  directors’ 
ness  meeting,  held 
room  of  the  bank,  and  as  they  believed 
themselves  secure  from 
intrusion  they 
were  much  surprised  to  see  a  poor  little 
waif  enter the  room— something  which 
any  man  of  business  affairs  would  not 
dare  to  do  under  such  conditions.  The 
little  girl,shabbily  clothed  and  pinched- 
looking,  had  all  unconsciously  entered 
on  forbidden  ground,  but this she  didn’t 
realize,  and  at  once  went  to  the  men. 
seated  about  the  big table,  offering them 
small  cakes  of  soap  for  sale.

The first director whom  she approached 
shook  his  head,  impatient  at  the  inter­
ruption  of  business,  and  said,  sharply : 
“ 1  never  use  it.”   The  tiny  peddler, 
unabashed,  went  from  man  to  man— all 
the  others,  out  of  pity  for  her  wan  little 
figure,  buying  of  her.  As  she  started 
to  leave  the  room,  after  thanking  each 
purchaser,  the  girl  hesitated  a  moment 
in  front  of  the  director  who  never  used 
soap,  according  to  his  own  declaration, 
and  looking  him  over  from  head to  foot, 
look 
said,  disdainfully: 
it!”   and  then  she  swept  out 
like  a 
Duchess.

“ Well,  yer 

The  Department  of  Agriculture 

is 
anxious  to  encourage  the  growing  of 
flowers  for  perfume  making 
in  this 
country,  and  attention  is  called  to  the 
fact  that  conditions 
in  the  Southern 
States,  and  particularly in  Southern Cal­
ifornia,  are  exceptionally  favorable  for 
industries  of  this  kind. 
It  is  believed 
that  in  California  the  essential  oil,  or 
attar,  of  roses  might  be  produced  on  an 
extensive  scale  to  great  advantage.

S C O T T E N -D IL L O N   C O M P A N Y

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

IN D E P E N D E N T   F A C T O R Y  

D E T R O IT ,   M IC H IG A N

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O U R   L E A D IN G   B R A N D S .  K E E P   T H E M   IN  M IN D .

SM O K IN G

PLU G

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F IN E   C U T

UNCLE  DANIEL. 

OJIBWA.

FOREST GIANT. 

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

SW E E T  SPRAY.

See  quotations  in

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

price current.

CREM E  DE  MENTHE. 

STRONG HOLD. 
FLA T  IRON. 

Bigger  Box. 
Same  Price.

IMPROVED  QUALITY

LIquid=== 
Best Yet! 
Fire  Proof!!

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

E N A M E L IN E   L IQ U ID  is 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.

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

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

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

If  you

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

H ardware

The  Gas,  Gasoline  and  Oil  Stove  Trade.
The  manufacturers  of  gas,  gasoline 
and  oil 
stoves  have  hardly  gotten 
through  with  winding  up  the  business 
of  the  summer  season,  yet  they  are  now 
busily  engaged  in  getting  their  lines  in 
condition  for  the  next  campaign.  There 
seems  to  be  no  exception  to  the  general 
conclusion  that  the  trade  of  the  past 
season  has  been  very  good, and  although 
it 
is  early  to  correctly  read  the  future 
is  freely  expressed  that 
the  opinion 
for  a  good  trade  are  very 
promises 
bright.  Equally 
idea 
that  the  market  will  be  firm  and  that  an 
advance 
is  a  reasonable  ex­
pectation.  To  justify  such  a  step  there 
is  a  general  report,  not  only  of  substan­
tial 
improvements  in  old  goods,  but  of 
many  new  goods  being  brought  out  by 
different  houses  and  of  the  extension  of 
lines  that  are  already  popular.

in  prices 

is  the 

strong 

In  gas  stoves  there  is  evidence  that 
there  has  been  some  reduction  in  prices 
beyond  what 
is  considered  advisable, 
and  the  opinion  is  quite  generally  man­
ifest,  not  only  that  there  should  be  an 
advance 
in  prices,  but  that  there  will 
be.  One  manufacturer  points  out  that 
the  trouble  with  the  gas  stove  business 
is  that  there  is  absolutely  no  agreement 
among  manufacturers  and  that  some 
manufacturers  are  weak  in  maintaining 
their  prices.  Because orders do not  come 
in  during  the  winter  months  they  be­
come  afraid  of  being 
left  with  more 
stock  on  their hands  than  they  desire  to 
carry,  and  cut  their  prices  in  order  to 
dispose  of  their  output.  This  year  has 
shown  that  many  orders  were  booked  at 
cut  prices  during  the  winter  months  by 
manufacturers,  who  learned,  as  spring 
opened,  that  the  orders  which  flooded 
them  could  readily  have  been  obtained 
at  a  better  margin  of  profit.  They  were 
forcibly  reminded  through  the  season 
that  the  very  meager  profits  secured 
in 
consequence  of  their  early  scare  were 
not  only  a  disadvantage  to  themselves, 
but  to  their  confreres  in  the  business.

Labor  of  all  kinds,  it  is  pointed  out, 
is  scarce,  and  from  the  small  boy  to  the 
expert  mechanic  wages  have  been  ma­
terially  advanced.  With  these  facts  be­
fore  them 
it  would  seem  that  the  gas 
stove  manufacturers  should  be  about 
ready  to  meet  and  discuss  questions  of 
so  much 
importance  to  them,  with  a 
view  to  reaching  an  agreement  in  re­
gard  to  the  marketing  of  their  product. 
Some  gas  range  manufacturers  hold  to 
the  opinion  that  the  methods  followed 
by  the  vapor  stove  manufacturers  might 
be  adopted  in  the  gas  stove  trade  with 
advantage,  and  that  thereby  a  steady 
market  might  be  maintained  at a  profit­
able  selling  price.  This  action,  it  is 
believed,  would  meet  with  no  serious 
objection  by  those  who  do  the  work  of 
distributing  the  goods.  Some  difficulty, 
however,  might  be  met  with in  reaching 
this  conclusion,  inasmuch  as  the  retail 
stove  dealer  does  not  effect  the  final 
disposition  of  this  class  of  goods,  for 
the  gas  companies  throughout  the  coun­
try  have  been  large  purchasers  of  these 
stoves  and  their  method  of  selling  at 
practically  cost  price  to the  retail  dealer 
has  seriously  crippled  a  very  valuable 
medium  for the  introduction  and  sale  of 
gas  goods.  The  report  is  quite  general 
of  difficulty  in  securing  planished 
iron 
and 
for  manufacturing  these 
goods.

sheets 

Improvements 

in  the  construction  of 
burners  and  of  stoves  is  a  marked  fea­
ture  of  the  outlook  as  well  as  a  declara­

tion  of  intentions  to  bring  out  new  and 
desirable  patterns  of  gas  ranges  and 
other  lines  of  gas  goods. 
“ The  pros­
pects  for  new  business  have  never  been 
better,”   is  the  expression  of  one  manu­
facturer,  and  this  statement  measurably 
reflects  the  opinion  of  many  others. 
It 
s  further  stated  that  prices  are  fair, 
lthough  hot  competition  has  materially 
cut  down  profits.  The  gas  stove  trade 
of  the  present  year  is  looked  upon  in  a 
general  way  as  fairly  satisfactory,  when 
taken  in  comparison  with  that  of  other 
years.  There  seems  to  be  evidence  that 
each  year  the  gas  stove  business  has  a 
tendency  to  open  earlier  and  extend 
over  a 
longer  period,  all  of  which  is 
very  gratifying  to  the  trade.

For  many  years  the  gasoline stove  has 
been  a  large  factor  in  the  consumption 
of  the  gasoline  produced,  and 
it  is 
pointed  out  by  some  that  the  advent  of 
the  gasoline  motor  and  the  scarcity  of 
the  supply  may  have  some  effect  on  the 
price  of  this  fuel.  This,  however,  is 
not  looked  upon  as  likely  to  have  any 
serious  influence  on  the  sale  of  gasoline 
stoves.  The  high  temperature  attain- 
ble  with  gasoline  burners  and  the  fact 
that  the  operation  of  the  stoves  is  now 
so widely  understood  as  to  give  them  an 
established  popularity,  together  with 
the  perfection  obtained  in  the  construe 
tion  of  the  burners,  valves  and  every 
part,  promise  well  for  the  coming  sea­
son’s  business.  Nevertheless,  it  is  re­
ported  by  some  manufacturers  that  new 
and  valuable  improvements,  suggested 
by  the  experience  of  last  year,  will  be 
embodied 
in  new  constructions  and 
manufacturers  are  vying  with each  other 
to  put  on  the  market  more  attractive 
goods  than  ever  before.  Reports  from 
various  sources  for  the  current  season 
disclose  a  very  satisfactory  increase 
in 
the  general  demand  for gasoline  stoves 
and  there  is  a  growing  feeling  of  con 
fidence  that  the  coming  year  will  be  : 
very  profitable  one.  Although  this  sen 
timent  is  quite  general,  it  is,  however, 
too  early  as  yet  to  give  anything  like 
conclusive  opinion  on  this  head.

Evidently  the  cabinet  style  of  stove 
continues  in  popularity,  as  new  lines  of 
these  goods  are  to  be'put  on  the  market 
Complaints  are  quite  general  with  ref 
erence  to  the  impossibility  of  securing 
some  material,  ¿more  especially  sheet 
steel  and  pipe,  within  a  reasonable 
time,  and  it  is  possible  that  sales  have 
been  curtailed  owing  to this  fact. 
It  i 
probable,  however,  that  this  may  have 
been  a  factor  of  strength  in  the  market, 
Owing  to  the  higher  price  of  many  ma 
terials  and 
labor  employed  in  the  con 
struction  of  these  goods,  the  probability 
of  an  advance  in  prices  is  very  strong 
Some  houses  go  so  far  as to  say  that 
their  plans  are  fully  formulated  and that 
there  will  be  a  slight  advance  in  the 
list  prices  of  gasoline  goods  to  com 
pensate  for  the  advance  in  the  cost  of 
production.  Conservatism  and  compe 
tition,  however,  evidently  will  have  an 
effect  on  the  proposed  advance,  as  it  i 
understood  that  the  advance  will  be  by 
no  means  commensurate  with  the  in 
crease  in  the  cost  of  the  goods. 
In  the 
opinion  of  one  prominent  manufacturer 
in  this  field  the  prospect  for  the  coming 
year's  business  is  far  better  than  it  has 
been  for  the  past  two  years,  and  there 
will  be  more  activity 
in  the  industry 
than  there  has  been  for  some  time.

In  connection  with  the  oil  stove  trade 
the  fact  is  brought  out  that oil producers 
are  vigorously  pushing  the  sale  of  all 
oil  consuming  goods,  owing  to  the  fact 
that  the  demand  for  gasoline  bears  an 
excessive  proportion  to  the  natural  pro­

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duction  of  gasoline  and  coal  oil.  The 
manufacturers  seem  to  be  working  in 
harmony  with  this  effort,  and  new  oil 
stoves  are  to  be  brought  out  by  a  num­
ber  of  different  houses.  During  the  past 
year  the  wickless  blue  flame  oil  stove 
of the  newer  construction,equipped  with 
what  is  known as the  student  lamp  tank, 
has  demonstrated  a  high  efficiency,  and 
it  is  probable  that  this  style  will  be  fa­
vored  in many  of  the  new  lines  of  cook- 
ng  apparatus.  This type  of construction 
has  also  won  favor  in  connection  with 
oil  heating  stoves,  and  new  patterns  of 
this  type  of  stove  are  also  to  be  added 
to  the  constructions  to  be  brought  to  the 
attention  of  the  trade  by  the  different 
manufacturers.  Apparently, 
the  oil 
stove  trade  is  divided  into  two  classes, 
characterized  by  some  manufacturers 
as  cheap  stoves  and  high  grade  goods 
Evidence  of  competition  in  these  goods 
s  not  wanting,  and  it  is  probable  that 
while  the past  season is  reported  as  hav- 
ng  been  a  very  good  one,  the  profits 
were  not  as 
large  as  they  would  have 
been'had  competition  been  less sharp.

future 

In  this  line  of  goods  the  prospect  for 
the 
is  said  to  be  excellent,  and 
the  trade  is  not  confined  to  the  United 
States.  It  is  claimed  that quite a consid­
erable  foreign  demand  for oil  stoves  has 
been  created,with  a  promise  of  substan­

tial  increase,  if  it  is  given  the  consider­
ation  which  it  merits.  Some  difficulty 
has  been  experienced  in  securing  mate­
rial  used  in  the  contruction of oil stoves, 
and  the  impression  is  quite  general  that 
prices  will  be  slightly  advanced,  prob­
ably sufficiently  so  to cover the increased 
cost  of 
labor  and  materials.  Others, 
however,  are  of  the  opinion  that  the 
market  will  hold  firm  at  the  present 
level.  The  prevalence  of  these  views 
is  an 
indication  that  buyers  may  have 
to  pay  higher  prices  to  secure  their 
needed  stock.  These  conclusions  re­
flect  a  very  satisfactory  condition  in 
this  line  of  trade,  particularly  as  to  the 
if  the 
manufacturer,  and  it  is  doubtful 
dealers,  when  thoroughly 
conversant 
with  them,  will  raise  any  material  ob­
jection.

It  is  worthy  of  note  that,  so  far as 
gasoline  and  oil  stoves  are  concerned, 
the  distribution  is 
left  to  the  regular 
stove  dealer,  and  there  is  no  competi­
tion,  as  in  the  gas  stove  trade,  to  mar­
ket  these  goods  practically  at  cost  and 
thus  interfere  with  the  regular  trade.— 
Metal  Worker.

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perchance  it  is  the 
love  of  two  good 
womefi.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

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Shoes  and  Rubbers

The  Im pending  Advance  in  the  P rice  of 

Shoes.

That  which  has  long  been  anticipated 
has  at  last  arrived.  Manufacturers  are 
beginning  to  advance the prices on shoes 
all  along  the  line.  This  does  not  apply 
alone  to  men's  and  women’s,  but  to 
misses'  and  children’s shoes.  The trade 
has  been  looking  forward  to such  an  in* 
crease  for  some  time,  and when one con­
siders  that  leathers  of  all  kinds  have 
gone  up  from  i  to  3  cents  a  foot,  also 
that  the  supply  of  heavy  bottom stock  is 
limited,  it  is  not  to  be  wondered  at  that 
an  advance  is  imminent.

The  question  now  arises.  What is  the 
retailer  going  to  do  in  older  to  protect 
himself?  Can  he  afford  to  buy  cheaper 
grades  of  shoes  and  sell  them  at  the 
same  prices,  or  is  his  trade  of  such  a 
character that  he  can arbitrarily advance 
the  figures  in  proportion  to  what  the 
manufacturers  may  add  to the cost in the 
wholesale?  Many  retail  merchants  will 
be  found  to  follow  the  first  method,  and 
in  doing  this  they  will  make  a  serious 
mistake.  We  do  not  say  that  all  retail 
merchants  can  make  an  increase  of from 
10  to  25  cents,  because  there  are  men  in 
the  business  who  have  been sailing close 
to  the  wi nd  and  have  educated  their 
customers  in  such  a  manner  that  they 
anticipate  twice  the  consideration  that 
they  would  receive  from  other  dealers. 
Thus  the  moment  they  add  to  the  retail 
price  of shoes  they will  be  bound  to  lose 
trade.

Merchants  of  this  character  are  not  to 
be  pitied,  and  the sooner they are driven 
out  of  the  trade  the  better  it  will  be  for 
all  concerned.  Shoe  retailing  is  a legit­
imate 
industry,  and  the  merchant  is 
worthy  of  a  fair  profit,  without  which  it 
is  utterly impossible for him to make any 
kind  of  a  showing.  Men  who  are  will­
ing  to  take  10  and  15  per  cent,  as  a 
margin  on  a  pair of  shoes  are  simply 
working  their  lives  out,  and  doing  good 
neither to  the  industry  nor  to  the  trade 
in  general,  for  this  class  of  education 
makes  the  trade  narrow  minded  and  in­
stills  into  them  the  necessity  of  always 
buying  shoes  at  cost.  This  class  of 
education  brings  the  trade to the bargain 
shops,  introduces  in  a community  a< sect 
of  people commonly  known as “ bargain- 
hunters,"   and  steals  from  the  business 
every semblance of the legitimate.  These 
bargain-store  merchants are going to feel 
this  rise  keenly.  They  will be  affected 
by  it  far  more  than  any  one  else,  and  it 
will  be  necessary  for  them  to  reorganize 
their  stores  and  to  do  business  on  busi­
ness  principles.  The  retail  merchants 
who  have  been  going  along,  working  on 
a  legitimate  margin,  will not find it such 
a  task  to  increase the price of their shoes 
from  10  to  25  cents.  They  have  the 
confidence  of  the  trade,  and  an explana­
tion  to  the  customer  will  be  all  that 
is 
necessary.  This  rise  in  shoes  has  been 
predicted  many  times  during  the  last 
year. 
It  is  not  a  matter  of  a  day,  a 
week  or  a  month,  but  it  is  the  result  of 
actual  conditions,  and  is  bound  tc  ma­
terialize.

increased 

To produce leather in the United States 
at  present  it  costs  much  more than it did 
six  months  ago.  The oils,  etc.,  used  in 
the  tanneries  have  been 
in 
price  and  the  supply  of  kid  stock  is  be­
coming  scarcer.  Merchants  have  to 
draw  on  India  and  other  foreign  coun­
tries  where  in  years  past  the  domestic 
stock  was  almost  equal  to the  demand. 
This  is  the  second  rise  that  we  have 
had  within  a  year,  and  in  many  ways

throughout 

it  can  be  attributed  to  the  desire  of 
shoe  manufacturers 
the 
country  to  steal  trade  from  their  neigh­
bors,  and  in  so  doing  they  have  cut 
prices  until  now  many  makers  are  run­
ning  their  factories  on  their  discounts 
and  not  making  one  cent  on  the  product 
itself. 
This  competition  among  the 
manufacturers  has  been  transmitted  to 
the  retail  merchants,  and  the  only  peo­
ple  making  money  now  are  either  the 
very  high-class  merchants  or  those man­
ufacturers  who  handle  their  product 
themselves.

That  this  condition  of  affairs  should 
not  exist  we  all  know,  and  the  sooner  it 
is  rectified  the  better  it  will  be  for  all 
concerned.  Let  us  make  a  substantial 
raise  in  prices,  assist  the  manufacturers 
in  turning  out  good  goods  and  not 
squeal,  for  if  we  do  it  in  unison  no  one 
is  going  to  be  hurt.  The 
local  mer- 
chants’association will be of assistance to 
retailers  in  towns  where  they  are  organ­
ized,  and  it  will  consequently  be  much 
easier  for  them  to  meet  an  advance 
when  it  comes  than  those  who  insist 
on  staying  outside  of  the  fold.

Of  course,  we  would not wish the trade 
to  infer  that  there  will  be  any  advance 
when  it  does  come  on  ' plow  shoes  or 
nailed  brogans  and  other  coarse  work. 
There  may  be  a  slight  increase,  but  in 
speaking  of  the  shoe 
industry  as  a 
whole  we  omit  this  small  fraction  of  it. 
There  has  been  an  advance  of  iy2  and 
5  cents 
in  the  works  on  this  grade  of 
goods,  and  there  may  be  an  advance  of 
10  and  15  cents  in  the  stores, 
it  being 
the  only  class  of  shoes  which  is  sold  at 
odd  prices,  and  retail  merchants  will 
not  of  necessity  be  compelled  to  ask 
what  they  would  on  regular  goods.

Should  an  advance take  effect in wom­
en's  and  men’s  fine  shoes 
it  will  un­
doubtedly  be  to  the  retailer’s  benefit,  as 
these goods are always  sold  either  by  the 
half  or  the  even  dollar.  When manufac­
turers  raise  the  price  15  or  20 cents,  re­
tailers  are  bound  to  raise  it  to  25  cents. 
Should  manufacturers  raise  it  25  cents, 
retailers  almost  invariably  will  be found 
to  raise  it  an  extra  25  cents.  Thus  you 
see  that  no  matter  how  an  advance 
might  come  it  will  not  be  the  retail 
merchants  who  will  suffer.— Shoe  Re­
tailer.

Shattered  Traditions  on B oth Sides.
“ You  young  scoundrel!”   exclaimed 
the  unwilling  father-in-law,  when  the 
eloping  couple  presented  themselves  for 
parental  forgiveness  and  a  place  to live. 
“ You  conscienceless  scamp!  You  stole 
my  daughter  away  and  disregarded  all 
the  conventionalities  of  society.  And 
yet  you  ask  for  forgiveness!”

the  new 

“ You  old  scoundrel,  what  did  you 
do?”   retorted 
son-in-law. 
“ What  did  you  do?  You  let  us  elope, 
and  did  not  pursue  us  on  horseback 
with  a  shotgun.  You  have  shattered  all 
the  traditions  of  elopements  and  have 
blasted  all  the  romance  of  the  affair  for 
us.  We  might  as  well  have  got  married 
to  the  rumty-tum-tum  of  the  church  or­
gan,  and 
let  you  pay  the  bill.  You 
haven’t  a  spark  of  appreciation  in  your 
makeup!”

Crushed  by  the  merited  criticism,  the 
father-in-law  invited  them  in  to  supper, 
for they  were  rather hungry.
The  T ruth  in  Jest.

“ I  wanted  to  go  out  shopping  to­
day,”   sighed young Mrs.  Maddox,  “ but 
I  couldn’t  on  account  of the  rain.”

“ Wanted  to try  to get  something  for 
nothing,  as  usual,  I  suppose,”   said  her 
husband,  attempting  to  be  facetious.

“ Well,  I  did  think  of  getting  you  a 
necktie,”   replied  Mrs.  Maddox,  inno­
cently.

Double Wear  Rubbers

Lycoming  Brand

Extra  Heel  and 

Toe on

Boy’s,  Youth’s 

Misses’ 

and  Child’s

Extra  Heel 

on
Men’s
and

Women’s

For durability they have  no  equal.  Write  for them to

Geo.  H.  Reeder &  Co.

28*30 S.  Ionia Street 

Grand  Rapids, Michigan

Preparedness  in  Boston  Rubbers

Means that you are able to give your customers good  rubber satisfaction.
How about  leather  tops?  Ours  have  proved  themselves  long  wearing  and 
thoroughly  practical.  The  rubbers are  rolled edge  Bostons and the  shoemaking  we 
put Into their, 0 1 grain  tops makes them  set smooth,  fit  snug  and  allows  that  free 
play of calf and ankle that goes to  lessen the fatigue incident to  hard  walking in bad 
weather.  Made high and  low cut.

How about all other kinds of rubbers?  Of course you have bought.  At present 
low prices you could not afford to do  otherwise.  But have you a plentiful sufficiency 
of widths and  sizes?  You always run  shy of something the day after the  first  snow 
falls.

Our stock of  Bostons and  Bay  States is very  large and  in the hour  of  need  we 
can  fill your order.  But when people want  rubbers they  want  them  quick.  Better 
let us complete your assortment now and  you will lose no sales.

Rindge,  Kalmbach,  Logie  &  Co., 

Grand  Rapids, Mich.

We  Make  a  Line  of  Goodyear  W elts

at

$ 2 . 0 0

$ 2.25

$ 2.50

In

Latest 

Styles  and 

Leathers

Bradley  &  Metcalf  Co.

Manufacturers and Jobbers of Shoes and Rubbers, 

Milwaukee,  Wis.

LEG G IN G S

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.

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

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H IG A N

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Make  People  Realize  th a t  Findings  Cost 

Money.

Very  few  customers  of  the  retail  shoe 
store  have  any  conception  of  the  size 
and  importance  of  the  findings  branch 
of  the  shoe  business.  The  writer  per­
sonally  has  met  many  people  who  had  a 
vague  idea  that the manufacturer “ threw 
in’ ’  a  box  of  laces  and  a  box  of  polish 
with  every  dozen  or so  pairs  of  shoes, 
and, 
shoe  dealer 
should  give  them  away  to his customers. 
Others  realize  that  he  pays  for them,  but 
think  it  is  only  a  trifle,  and  that  he 
should  supply  his  trade  with  those  little 
things  free,  never considering  that  even 
in  a  small  business  it  would  amount 
to  a  few  hundred  dollars  every year.

consequently, 

the 

To  the  shoe  retailers  who  are  supply­
ing  customers  with  laces  and  polish free 
we  have  one  word  of  advice  which  we 
wish  to  put  in  capital  letters— DON’T. 
It  isn’t  necessary,  and,  considering  the 
small  retail  profit nowadays,  itisuniust. 
It  is  doing  one  branch  of  your  business 
at  a  loss  when  you  should  be  making  a 
good  profit.  To  help  change  this  con­
dition  of  things  we  have  the  following 
suggestions  to  offer : 
Impress  upon  the 
mind  of  your  trade  the  importance  and 
size  of  the 
The 
easiest  way  to  do  this  will  be  to  get  up 
a  small  folder  devoted  to  that  alone.

findings  business. 

Illustrate  the  folder  with  the  cut  of 
some  large  findings  concern,  and  men­
tion  the  fact that they carry nothing else. 
An  alphabetical 
list  of  all  that  comes 
under  the  head  of  findings,  printed 
in 
small  type,  will  give  readers  an 
in­
teresting  glance  at  the  range and variety 
of  the  small  things  a  shoe  store  needs. 
Also  put  in  cuts  of  some  of  the  fancy 
brands  of  shoe  laces  you  carry  and  of 
the  different  kinds  of  polish  you  have, 
etc.,  and  price  all  these things.  Revise 
it  carefully  and  have  it  printed  neatly. 
Then  put  one 
in  every  package  that 
leaves  your  store  and  you  will  find  it 
invest­
one  of  the  best-paying  small 
ments  you  ever  made. 
It  will  make  thg 
trade  which  you  would  have  had  in  any 
event  more  willing  to  pay  for  these 
things,  and  it  will  bring  you  business 
you  never  would have secured otherwise. 
Try  it.

Good  W ay  to  A rrange  Cheap  Shoes.
Do  you  have  boxes  or tills  in  front  of 
your  store  filled  with  cheap  goods  and 
bargains?  If  your  town  has  any  farming 
trade,  or  any  other class  of trade,  which 
often  buys  shoes  or  rubbers because  they 
are  cheap,  you should have some.  They 
will  change  passing  pedestrians 
into 
customers  and  old  stock  into  money.

They  can  be  quickly  constructed  at 
slight  expense.  Take two or  three  boxes 
of  the  same  size  and  nail them together; 
nail  a  long  board  across  the  bottom  and 
a  good,  strong  board  on  each  corner  for 
a  leg.  Put  an  odd  price  on  each  com­
partment  and  start  in  by  filling  them 
with  genuine  bargains  from  the  odds 
and  ends  in  your  stock,  or  with  some 
line which  is  moving  slowly.

It  is  safe  to  say  that  nine  shoe  stores 
out  of ten have some stock which it would 
be  more  profitable  to  give  away  than  to 
keep  any 
longer.  Bargain-counters  in 
the  store  are  a  very  good  thing,  but 
boxes  in  front will sell goods to strangers 
who  would  not  have  come  inside  other­
wise. 
It  is  true  it  gives  your  store  a 
cheaper  appearance,  but  a  neat  window 
trim  will  overcome  that  to  a  great  ex­
tent,  and  the  good  results  to  be  attained 
are  worthy  of  some  sacrifice.  It  is  also 
true  that  the  cheap  trade  often  comes 
on  days  when  the  swell  trade  is  light, 
and  vice  versa.  You  can  use  the  boxes

where  they  will  do  the  most  good  and 
the  least  harm.

We  know  one  man  who  had  a  very 
amusing  experience  on  account  of  some 
bargain-boxes  in  front.  He  conducted 
a  reliable  one-price  store,  and  had  a 
competitor  who  asked  all  he  dared  and 
took  what  he  could  get.  Among  his 
occasional 
customers  was  one  Ben 
Brown,  a  terrible  stutterer,  who  often 
priced  goods,  offered  io  to  25  cents  a 
pair  less  than  asked,  was  always refused 
and  generally  went  out. 
In  filling  the 
trays  one  morning  the  clerks  accident­
ally  put  a  pair  of $1.50  arctics  into  the 
98-cent  box.  Just  then Ben came  along, 
his  eyes  “ peeled’ ’  for  bargains,  his 
hands  lovingly  squeezing  the  change  in 
bis  pockets.  He  picked  up  the  $1.50 
arctics,  which  happened  to  be  his  size. 
The  proprietor  stepped  out,  expecting 
that  for  once  he  would  be  easy  to  sell 
“ Do  you  want  that  pair,  Mr. 
to. 
Brown?”  
“ N-n-n-not  for  that  price. 
I’ll  give  you  s-s-s-seventy-five.”   “ Oh, 
no,  you  won’t ,”   said  the  shoe  retailer 
very  brusquely,  as  a  man  is  apt to  when 
an  extra  good  offer  is  turned  down.

Mr.  B.  started  for  the other shoe store. 
“ Good-by,  Mr.  B-b-b-b-b-brown,”   said 
Mr.  Shoeman,  imitating  Mr.  B .’s  im­
pediment  of  speech,  receiving  a  glare 
in  reply.  Ten  minutes  later  Mr.  B.  re­
turned  and  wanted  “ that  p-p-p-pair  of 
sir;  $1.50, 
arctics.”  
please.”  
“ The  boy 
put  them  in  the  wrong  box.  They’ve 
been  taken  out  of 
there.”   Mr.  B. 
pleaded  and  stuttered  in vain and finally 
paid  the  $1.50,and  since then has bought 
more  goods  and  with  less trouble.

“ All 
“ How’s  that?”  

right, 

One  thing  more.  When  you  have 
boxes  in  front,  always  keep  an  eye  on 
them  and  go  out  and  assist  any  one  who 
stops  to  find  what they  want,  andvif  it 
isn’t  there  tell  them  you  have 
some­
thing  inside  to  show  them,  for the boxes 
can  not  always  sell  goods  without a little 
help.

The  above  advice  relative  to  exterior 
bargain-tables  does  not  apply  to  general 
stores,  nor to  up-to-date  shoe  houses  in 
large  cities,  for such  a  display  would 
tend  to  stamp  the  store  as  a  bargain- 
shop.

Shoes  W ithout Lining.

Here  is  a  chance for some bright shoe- 
man  in  this  country  to  make  a  coup. 
This  applies  especially  to 
large  cities 
and  mining  communities,  or  to  any 
place  where  you find men are continually 
on  their  feet  and  want  something  soft 
and  easy. 
If  some  shoeman with a little 
nerve  is  willing  to  strike  out  for  him­
self,  open  up  a  store  and  s'ock 
it  with 
shoes  the  greater  portion  of which would 
be  without 
linings,  and  advertise  the 
same  to  the  trade,  he  will  be  bound  to 
make  money.  You  know  how  many  ills 
are  to  be  attributed  to  linings  in  shoes. 
Now  when  a  man  has  an  unlined  shoe 
that  he  can  offer  to  such  retail  trade  as 
policemen, 
collectors, 
etc.,  and makes his advertisement  strong 
enough  he  will  have  installed  a  feature 
in  his  store  which  will  overshadow  all 
the  rest  of  his  stock.

letter-carriers, 

itself. 

It  will  require  a  little judicious adver­
tising,  but  when  it  is  once  brought  be­
fore  the  public  this  character  of  a  store 
will  advertise 
I  do  not  mean 
that  a  man  who  would  put  in  a  stock  of 
unlined  shoes in all the narrow  toes  or  of 
styles  to  which  you  could  trace  every 
ill  that  is  attributed  to  the  human  foot 
would  make  a  success,  but  I  believe  a 
line  devoted  to  men’s  especially,  and 
perhaps  one  or two  styles  of  women’s, 
with  good,  broad  toes,  mock  tips  and

with  a  dearth  of  inner  seams,  would  be 
an  enterprise  which  would  pay  him  a 
good  revenue.

Names  of New  Colors.

The  Celebrated 

“lone”  Shoe  for  Men

Orcbidee— soft  toned  magenta.
Bishop— purple.
Phloxine—dark  dahlia  red.
Coroucon—deep  green.
Tolstoi— another  dark  green.
Paon—bird’s  egg  blue.
Napoleon— rich  blue.
Ferraille—dove  gray.
Delft—a  pale  purple—not  a  blue.
Mulot— light  gray with  a  bluish  tinge.
Automobile— red.
Java,  Marrcn,  Mouflon,  Modore,  Au- 
tomme,  Racine  and  Othello— a  few  of 
the  new  browns.

Coquellicot— red.
Bengaline—<a  tender  pink.
Palmier—green.
Cyclamen—heliotrope.
Beryle—green.
Baltique—a  blue,  lighter  than  Rus­

light,  but  a 

sian  blue.

Myosotis—blue,  very 
shade  darker  than  “ sky.”
Brahmine—dull  orange.
Lobelia—lilac.

J u s t a Few  Figures.

A  Cambridge  University  professor, 
who  dreams  in  figures,  has  done  the fol­
lowing  atrocity :
1  times 9  plus  2  equals  11.
12  times  9  plus  3  equals  in .
123  times  9  plus  4  equals  1111.
1234  times 9  plus  5  equals  m u .
12345  times  9  plus  6 equals  m i l l .  
123456 times  9  plus  7  equals  1111111. 
1234567 times 9  plus 8 equals 11111111. 
12345678 times 9 plus 9 equals 111111111.
1  time  8  plus  1  equals 9.
12  times  8  plus  2  equals  98.
123  times  8  plus  3  equals  987.
1234  times  8  plus  4  equals 9876.
12345  times  8  plus  5  equals  98765.
123456  times  8  plus  6  equals 987654. 
1234567  times  8  plus  7  equals  9876543. 
12345678  times  8  plus  8  equals  98765432. 
123456789 times 8 plusg equals 987654321.

Velour  and  Vici  Kid  Stock.  Re­

tails  at  $2.50.

The Western Shoe Co., Toledo, Ohio

Distributors

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.

Herold=Bertsch  Shoe  Co.

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Makers  of  Shoes,
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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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 
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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clothing

Care  qnd  Conservatism  in  M aking  Spring 

Purchases.

The  fall  season  has  been  one  of  strain 
and  anxiety  for the  wholesaler. 
It  has 
been  difficult  to  make  deliveries,  diffi­
cult  to  get  goods,  difficult  to  have  the 
garments  made. 
The  retailers  have 
suffered  some  inconvenience  because  of 
delayed  deliveries,  but  we  do  not  think 
that  anyone,  wholesaler  or retailer, would 
be  willing  to  have  these  conditions  re­
placed  by  the  demoralization 
incident 
to the  overproduction  of a few years ago.
To-day  there  is  no  overproduction— 
almost  the  reverse.  There  are  no  goods 
thrown  on  the  market  at the  end  of  the 
season  at  ruinous  prices,  resulting  in 
upsetting  the  retailers’  calculations  and 
eating  into  his profits.  This happy  con­
dition  of  affairs  has  not  been  caused en­
tirely  by  the  determination  of  the  mills 
not  to  accumulate  stock,  nor alone  by 
the  conservatism  of  the  wholesalers  who 
have  bought  few  piece  goods unless they 
had  orders  requiring  them  actually  at 
hand.  The  retailers  themselves  have 
helped  to  produce  these  conditions  by 
the  carefulness  with  which  they  have 
bought.

It  is  very  possible  that  there  may be a 
temptation  on  the  part of  the  dealers  to 
depart  from  this  wise  policy  in  making 
their  spring  purchases.  They may  think 
to  avoid  trouble  in  getting  deliveries  by 
anticipating  all  their  requirements 
in 
their first  order,  and  they  may  easily 
overestimate these requirements.  Should 
they  do  this  and  keep  the  goods  they 
will  only  succeed  in  overloading  them­
selves.  On  the  other  hand,  if  they 
order  exceedingly liberally at first,  after­
ward  become afraid  that  they have  over­

shot  the  mark  and  proceed  to  cancel, 
they  will  upset  the  wholesaler’s  calcu­
lations  and  cause  him  to  cancel  piece 
If  be  afterward  finds  that  the 
goods. 
causes  were  insufficient  which 
led  him 
to  reduce  his  estimate  of  demand,  as 
was  the case with the  drouth  scare  of  the 
past  season,  goods  will  be  hard  to  get 
later  on  and  deliveries  delayed  far more 
than  they  would  be  otherwise.

It  is  now  assured  that  the  salesmen 
will  reach  their  trade  with  spring 
lines 
later  than  usual. 
It  is  not  at  all 
likely 
that  any  number  of  them  will  be  able  to 
start before  the  ioth  and  the  prospects 
are  that  the  majority  will 
leave  any­
where  from  the  15th  to  the  20th.  We 
know  of  quite  a  few  coast  salesmen  who 
have  fixed  their  date  of  leaving  for the 
15th  and  i6tb.  The  result  can  be  im­
agined.  Many,  at  least,  confronted  with 
the  necessity  of  crowding  their  work 
into  a  much  less  time  than  usual,  will 
use  every  argument  in  their  power  to 
induce  the  retailers  to  order  liberally, 
and  will  probably  work  to  the  utmost 
the  argument  that  the  dealer  must  place 
his  orders  early  if  he  wishes  to  get  the 
goods,  or,  at  any  rate,  secure  prompt 
delivery.  While  the  dealer  has  this 
season  unquestionably  been  seriously 
inconvenienced  by  slow  deliveries,  we 
have  our serious  doubts  whether  anyone 
has  lost  or  will  lose  any  trade  as  a  re­
sult.

In  view  of  all  the  foregoing,  we 

feel 
justified  in  saying  that  the  dealer  would 
do  well  to  “ go  a  little  slow”   in  placing 
his  spring  orders.  We  do  not  wish  to 
be  misunderstood. 
In  view  of  the  con­
ditions  of  the  market,  the  dealer  should 
by  all  means place orders  for such  goods 
as  he  is  absolutely  convinced,  after  con­
sidering  everything involved,  he  will  be

able  to  use,  and  he  should  place  them 
early.  This  applies,  of  course,  particu­
larly  to  staples,  but  in  the  case  of  un­
tried  patterns  or  extreme  styles,  it  will 
be  wise  for  him  to  adopt  a  very  con­
servative  policy.

The  head  of  one  of  the  largest  cloth­
ing  houses  on  the  Chicago  market,  and 
who  has  the  reputation  of  being  a  thor­
oughly  enterprising  as  well  as  a  thor­
inter­
oughly  conservative  man,  was 
viewed  on  this  subject.  He 
said: 
“ When  our  men  start  out  for  spring 
they  will  have  positive instructions from 
the  house  not  to  encourage  overbuying. 
They  will  be  toid  to  refuse  to  allow  a 
man  to  purchase  more  goods  than  they 
really  think  he  can  use.  We  shall  also 
give  our  trade  thoroughly  to  understand 
that  they  will  not  be  allowed  to  plunge 
and  then  cancel  later  on. 
I11  fact,  we 
will  not  allow  cancellations  this  season 
unless  for  reasons  that  appeal  to  us  as 
thoroughly  satisfactory  in  every  respect. 
The  clothing  trade  is  in  the  most whole­
some  condition  to-day  that  it  has  been 
for  years,  and  this  house,  for one,  pro­
pose  to  do  everything  in  our  power,  for 
the  good  of  our  customers,  as  well  as 
ourselves,  to  keep  it  there.”

While  not  as  emphatic  by  any  means 
in  their declaration  of  policy,  quite  a 
few  other  houses  speak  much 
in  the 
same  vein.  They  were  in  favor  of  our 
telling  the  retailers  to  go  slow.  Other 
houses  thought  that  there  was  not  the 
slightest  probability  of  merchants  over­
buying  for  spring,  and  others  said  that 
if  anyone  wanted  to  overstock  the  con­
ditions  of  the  market  were  such  that  he 
would  be  unable  to  do  so.  From  the 
talk  of  a  few  houses  it 
is  evident  that 
their  salesmen  will  use  every  argument 
in  their  power to  induce  the  dealers  to

buy  as  liberally  as  possible  at  the  start.
On  the  whole,  however,  while  aware 
of  the  fact  that  if  this  spring’s trade de­
velops  in  any  such  measure  as  it  prom­
ises,  there  may  be,  if  not  a  shortage, 
some  delay  in  delivery,  we  feel  that  we 
are  speaking  for  the 
interests  of  the 
dealer,  serving  the  best  interests  of  the 
wholesale  trade  and  expressing 
the 
views  of  the  greater  majority  of  the 
latter  when  we  advise  the  dealer  to  not 
depart  the  coming  season  from  a  policy 
of  care  and  conservatism  in  making  his 
purchases.— Apparel  Gazette.

Sixty-D ollar  Overcoats  F or  Soldiers. 

From the Minneapolis Journal.

Just  at  present  a  buffalo  overcoat  is  a 
very  scarce  article,  and yet the  humblest 
of  Uncle  Sam’s  soldier  boys  may  have 
one  of  these  highly-prized  garments  for 
the  asking.  All  he  has  to  do  is  to 
in­
clude  the  item  in  his  requisition  for 
supplies,  and  the  coat  will  be  issued  to 
him,  although  it  will  still  belong  to  the 
Government,  and  if  he  loses  or  destroys 
it  he  must  pay  $60  for  bis  carelessness.
The  coats  in  the possession  of  the War 
Department  are  relics  of  the  days  when 
no  man  living 
in  the  Northwest  was 
thought  to  be  properly  equipped  with­
out  a  buffalo  coat.  All  of  them  have 
been  worn,  but  they  are  still in fair  con­
dition  and  are  issued  annually  to  those 
soldiers  who  may  want  them.

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1 5

D ry  Goods

W eekly  M arket  Review  of  the  Principal 

Staples.

Staple  Cottons—Bleached  cottons  are 
selling  moderately  without  any  special 
feature  to  note.  Prices  are  held  firmly. 
Wide  sheetings are firm  as  to  prices,  but 
trading 
is  slow.  Cotton  flannels  and 
blankets  are  steady  at  previous  prices 
and  the  market  is  quiet.  Coarse,  col­
ored  cottons  are  firm  with  scarcely  an 
exception.  Denims  are  in  small  sup­
ply,  the  product  being  absorbed  practi­
cally  as  fast  as  it  appears.  Ducks  and 
brown  Ornaburgs  show  no  change  since 
our  last  report.

in  evidence. 

Prints  and  Ginghams—The  situation 
in  printed  cottons  has  shown 
little,  if 
any,  alteration  this  week,  but  buyers 
have  been 
They  are 
anxious  to  secure  goods  which  agents 
are  not  willing  to  sell.  Perhaps 
if  in­
dications  of  a  strike do not become more 
evident,  they  will  relax  a  little 
in  the 
stand  they  have  assumed.  In several sec­
tions  advances  have  been  made,  and  it 
is  very  probable  that  other  tickets  that 
were  not  changed  may  now  be.  Even 
if  it  becomes  evident  that  a  strike  will 
not  take  place,  it  is  probable  that  the 
prices  will  be  advanced  to  the  same 
basis.  There  is  very  little  in  the  way 
of  spot  goods  to  be  found,  anything  that 
makes  its  appearance  being  taken  up 
almost  immediately.  Goods  that  are 
being  delivered  now  on  back  contracts 
look  pretty  cheap  in  the  face  of  prices 
that  rule  to-day.  Standard  percales  are 
well  sold  ahead  and  quite  firm.  Printed 
flannelettes  and  domets  are  quiet  at 
previous  prices,  which  are  held  firmly. 
Ginghams,  both  dress  and  staple 
lines, 
are  very  strong  and no  ready  supplies  of 
account  are  to  be  found.

in  some 

Dress  Goods—The  developments  of 
the  dress  goods  demand  continue  along 
the  lines of current heavyweight business 
for  immediate  delivery,  rather than  for 
spring  goods.  The 
jobbing  trade  are 
carrying  on  their  preparations  for  the 
instances 
spring  season,  and 
have  their  collections 
in  a  condition 
approaching  completion. 
In  the  mean 
time  they  are  getting  some  good  busi 
ness  on  heavyweights.  There 
is,  of 
course,  more  or  less  of  the  usual  price 
inducement  in  the  business  that is being 
done  on  fall  goods,  but at  the  same  time 
goods  that  are  of  a  desirable  character 
are  well  held.  The  demand  extends 
along  the  same  channels  as  has  been  in 
dicated  in  recent  reviews.  The  cheviot 
has  its  admirers,and  its detractors; like 
wise has  the  zibeline,  and  there is  some 
what  of  a  contest  for  supremacy between 
them.  The  fact that  the  zibeline 
is  a 
fabric  that  can  not  be  evolved  at a  price 
suited  to  the  cheap  trade 
is  against 
its  chances  of  general  popularity.  This 
fact,  however,  is  calculated  to  increase 
its  popularity  in  exclusive circles.  Fab 
rics  have  been  brought out,  however,  for 
the  low  grade  trade  which  have  certaii 
of  the  characteristics  of  the  zibeline 
having  a  rough,  hairy  face,  but  being 
really  of  a  cheviot  order.  There 
is  a 
continued  demand  for  cheap  waisting 
fabrics  for quick  delivery. 
The  com 
ing  to  the  fore  of  the  corduroy  as 
waisting  fabric  is  not  without 
its  effect 
on  the  demand  for  wool  and  worsted 
waisting  cloths.

far  as 

Underwear— As 

lightweight 
underwear  is  concerned,  it is a between 
seasons  period.  The  initial  spring  sea 
son  is  practically  over,  albeit  there  are 
a  few  straggling  buyers  to  be  found who 
are  not  through  with  their  preliminary 
it  is too  early  for the
purchases,  while 

supplementary  season 
to  commence. 
This  being  the  case, 
interest  naturally 
centers  upon  heavy  and  medium  weight 
underwear.  The  situation of  these  goods 
s  rather  peculiar,  because  weather con­
ditions  do  not  affect  the  market 
to  as 
great  an  extent  as  is  usually  the  case  at 
this  time  of  year.  Within the  last month 
or  so,  jobbers  and  retailers  have  placed 
many  good  orders  for  quick delivery,  in 
spite  of  the  fact  that  the  weather  has 
been  the  opposite of  favorable.  The re­
tailers  had  bought  in  such 
light  quan- 
itles  that  a  brisk  demand  among  their 
customers  was  not  necessary  in  order  to 
cause  big  gaps  to  appear in their  under­
wear  line,  and  the  jobbers,  not  being 
loaded  with  stock  were  unable  to  meet 
the  demand.  Hence  the  number  of 
orders  marked  “ rush”   that  the  mills 
re  now  receiving.  As they had not man­
ufactured  any  fall  goods  for  stock  to 
speak  of,  it  can  readily  be  seen  what  a 
scarcity  of  desirable  goods  there 
is  at 
first  hands.  As  far  as  the  number  of 
orders  are  concerned,  a  brisk  business 
s  being  done  by  the  roadmen.  One 
effect  of  this  large  amount  of 
late  buy- 
ng  will  be  a  late  IQ02-1903  fall  season. 
While  it  is  true  that  agents  are  at  pres­
ent  receiving  all  the  business  (if  not 
more)  that  their  mills  can  handle,  it 
must  be  remembered  that  they  still have 
two  very  dull  months  to  make  up,  and 
they  are  going  to  continue  the  present 
season  as  long  as  they  find  a  demand 
among  jobbers.  A  short  cold  snap  will 
end  the  season  with  a  rush,  and  many 
buyers  will  find  themselves  out  of 
i 
when  they  look  for  men’s  heavy  ribbed 
and  flat  wool  underwear at $4.50  or  so, 
Consequently,  although  agents  are  re 
ceiving  their  new  fall  samples,  they  are 
by  no  means  anxious  to  show them.  As 
goods  are  scarce,  and  the  demand large 
t  would  naturally  follow  that  prices 
would  stiffen  somewhat,  especially  as 
manufacturers  have  been  steadily  de
daring  that  prices  were  much  too 
low. 
As  far  as  the  materials  being  cheaper, 
that  has  no  bearing  upon  the  present 
season’s  business.  But  what  one  would 
naturally  expect  and  what  really  takes 
place  are  two  entirely  different  matters, 
and  agents  are  not  asking  any  more  for 
their  mills’  production  than  when  the 
demand  was  half  as  great.

Hosiery—The  feature  of  the  fall  trade 
s  the  unprecedentedly  large  demand for 
fancies.  A  number of  agents  say  that 
they  can  not  remember  a  time  when 
fancies  held  as  great  a  sway  for  fall  as 
at  present.  Naturally  this  cuts  into  the 
sale  of  wool,  cotton  and  merino  staple 
hosiery. 
In  some  cases  we  were  shown 
letters  cancelling  orders  for  the 
latter, 
and  ordering  fancies  instead.  Prices 
remain  about  the  same. 
In  lightweight 
hosiery,  the  mills  are  still  receiving 
additional  orders  for  lace  hosiery.  The 
trade,  in  fact,  seems  to  have  gone  lace- 
hosiery  mad.  Prices  for same are some­
what  more  firm.  Domestic  mills  manu­
facturing  open-work  hosiery  are  now 
seeing  busy  times,  and  the  machinery 
in  same  is  running  on  full  time. 
Im­
porters  find  the  Chemnitz  mills  pretty 
well  sold  up,  especially 
in  open-work 
hosiery  for  both  women  and  men. 
In 
fact,  some  report  that  they  are unable  to 
place  any  more  orders  for  any  earlier 
It  is  going  to  be  a 
than  June  delivery. 
great  black  and  white  year,  as  there 
is 
more  demand  for  these  than  for  any 
other colors.

Carpets—The  large  carpet  mills  of the 
country  running  on  H  goods  are  still 
busy  on  duplicates  and  will  be  as  long 
as  mills  are  placed  in  a  position  where 
they  do  uot  know  which  way to turn.  As

soon  as  the  Smith  Company  open up the 
season  by  announcing  prices,  the  tuni­
ng  out  of  spring  'goods  will  be  com­
menced  at  once.  Manufacturers  of  in­
grains,  as  a  rule,  have  their  plants  idle 
waiting  patiently  for  the  Bigelow  and 
Hartford  companies  to  give  the  signal 
to  start  off  on  the  new  season.  As  soon 
as  that  time  comes,  it  may  be  assured 
that  no  time  will  be  lost 
in  endeavor- 
ng  to make  the coming season  as  profit­
able  as  possible.  The  situation  with 
the  ingrain  manufacturers,  as  a  whole, 
wears  a  much  brighter  aspect  than 
in 
previous  seasons,  and  it  is  hoped  that 
the  favorable  outlook  will  materialize 
nto  some  good  business.  The  jobbing 
end  of  the  carpet  trade  are  beginning to 
find  business  a  little  quiet,  now  that  all 
the  large  orders  for  the  retailers  have 
about  all  been  filled.  The  bulk  of  the 
fall  business  is  over  with  them  and such 
additional  business  as  can  be  expected 
will  come  in  in  smaller  orders  or  where 
retailers  find 
it  necessary  to  piece  out 
their  lines. 
The  wholesale  cut-order 
trade  are doing  a  very  satisfactory  busi­
ness  with  the  small  country  merchants 
in  the  fine  and medium grades of carpets 
as  well  as  rugs,  art  squares  and  the 
cheaper  grades  of  carpets  such  as  the 
ingrains  and  the  rag  carpets.

Smyrna  Rugs  —  Manufacturers 

of 
Smyrna  rugs  still  continue  to  keep  all 
hands  well  employed  on  orders  that  will 
last  for  some  months  yet.  The  demand 
continues  good  for  the  large  and carpet­
sized  rugs.  Wilton  rugs  are  also 
in 
good  request.

Not  Much  Costume  Needed.

“ She's  decided  to  go  to  the  masque­

rade  as  Cleopatra,  I  understand?"

“ Yes;  she  always  was  an  economical 

girl.”

There  is 
Every 

Indication

that  the  sale  of  the  shaped 
muffler  will  be  greater  than 
last  season. 
The  patterns 
are  pretty  and  values  much 
better.  We  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.

Gloves  apd  jVlitteps

Now is the time when you should have a good line of Gloves 
and  Mittens  We have  a  good  assortment  left  in:

Canvas Gloves and Mittens.
Moleskin Gloves and Mittens.
Calfskin Gloves and Mittens.
Buckskin Gloves and Mittens.
Fur Back Gloves and Mittens.
Fur Lined Gloves and Mittens.
Goat Gloves, Golf Gloves.

Golf Gloves and  Knit Mittens for men, women and children.
Ask our traveling men to show you their line.

Wholesale  Dry  Goods 

P.  S T E K E T E E   &  SONS

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

O u r   S p e c ia lty :

M a il  O rd e rs

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Wholesale  Hats, Caps, Gloves and  Mittens 

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

The  M eat M arket

Reaping 

th e  Benefits  o f  R efrigerated 

M eat E xhibit.

The  Department  of  Agriculture 

is 
about  to  issue  a  bulletin  on  meats  and 
meat  products  at  the  Paris  Exposition 
of  1900,  by  Major  Henry  E.  Alvord,  the 
chief of the  dairy  division.  The  bulle­
tin  is  one  that  is indeed  interesting,  de­
scribing  the  difficulties  which  the  de­
partment  encountered 
securing 
ample  room  for  its  exhibit  of  meats  and 
the 
arrangements  perfected  whereby 
there  could  always  be  on  hand  at  Paris 
a  supply  of  refrigerated  beef,  pork, 
lamb,  eggs  and  poultry.

in 

How  difficult  this  was,  Major  Alvord 
states,  no one  can imagine until be takes 
into  consideration  that  in  many  parts  of 
Europe  domestic  refrigerators  are  un­
known,  and merchants are almost equally 
ignorant  of  refrigeration  as  a  means  of 
preserving  perishable  food  products.  In 
Paris  during  the  unusually  severe  sum­
mer of  1900  the  losses  of butchers’ meats 
were  enormous  simply  from  the  lack  of 
ordinary  refrigeration methods.  On one 
Saturday  in  July,  30,000  pounds  of fresh 
meat  were  condemned  by  the  sanitary 
inspectors  at  a  single  large  market  in 
Paris.  As  a  result  of  this  experience, 
combined  with  the  lessons  of  the  Expo­
sition,  of  which  this  American  meat ex­
hibit  was  a  potent  factor,  a  government 
commission  has  been  constituted  by  the 
French  Ministry of Agriculture, to inves­
tigate  and  report  upon  the  economy  of 
refrigeration  and  cold  storage  as  related 
to  producers,  commerce  and  consumers. 
In  addition  to  the exhibit of fresh meats, 
etc.,  there  was  a  large  display  of  meats 
lastingly preserved  by  salting,  smoking, 
drying,  cooking and canning.  No  other 
country  exhibited  meats  or  meat  prod­
ucts  which  could  at  all  compare  with 
the  displays  from  the  United  States. 
There  were  a  few  exhibits  of  smoked 
meats,  one  from  England  being  partic­
ularly  creditable  and  the  best  of its kind 
in  the  Exposition.

from 

The  result  of our  comprehensive  ex­
hibit  at  the  Paris  Exposition,  Major 
Alvord  continues,  must  be  of  material 
benefit  to  the  export  trade of this country 
in  meats  and  meat  products.  Almost 
every  day  merchants 
various 
countries  could  be  found making minute 
examinations,  taking  notes  of particular 
products  or  forms  of  products,  and  the 
addresses  of  packers.  Applications  were 
numerous  from  persons  who  wished  to 
connections  with  an 
form  business 
American  house  for the  purpose  of 
in­
troducing  their  goods.  The  effect  at  the 
French  capital  itself  was  marked  and 
quite  unexpected.  Among  the  many  in­
stances,  examples  may  be  cited:  An 
order  was  given  for a  trial  lot  of  several 
hundred  hams,  with  the  assurance  that 
if  these  proved  equal  to  the  samples  ex­
amined  at  the  exhihit  a  contract  would 
be  made  whereby  five  thousand  a  month 
for  a  couple  of  years  could  be  sent  to  a 
Paris  house.  A  Chicago  firm  closed  an 
agreement  with  a  Paris  buyer  for  50,000 
cases  of  sausage,  or  over  5,000,000 
pounds. 
The  commissary-general  of 
the  French  army  visited  the  United 
States  animal  food  exhibit  twice,  ac­
companied  by  experts  from  his  depart­
ment,  and  spent  several  hours  in closely 
examining  various  products  and  prepar­
ations. 
In  this,  as  in  numerous  other 
cases,  the  surplus  exhibit  material  and 
sample  packages,  generously  and wisely 
contributed  by  exhibitors,  were  used  as 
specimens to  very  great  advantage.

But  with  American  fresh  meats  the

conditions  were  different.  While [the 
wholesale  merchants  and  retail  butchers 
paid  much  attention  to  it  and  acknow­
ledged  the  superiority  of  our  beef,  and 
were  even  willing  to  purchase,  yet  the 
cattle  growers  of  the  republic  and  the 
government  of  France,  ever watchful for 
her  agricultural  interests,  is  so  opposed 
to  the  introduction  of  fresh  meats  and 
all  food  animals  that  everything  pos­
sible,  short  of  absolute  prohibition,  is 
done  to  prevent  this  traffic.

Guy  E.  Mitchell.

Giving: Presents  to  Customers  Not  Wise.
A  gentleman  signing  himself  '“ an 
enterprising  butcher”   has  written  us 
asking  for  advice. 
It  seems  that  for 
several  years  he  has  made  it  the  prac­
tice  to  give  presents  to  his  customers  on 
New  Year’s  Day,  or  so  close  to  that 
day  that  those  who  receive  the  presents 
know  they  are intended fora  New Year’s 
greeting.  He  does  not  say  whether  or 
not  the  practice  has  resulted  profitably 
to  him,  but  the 
inference  is  that  it  has 
not,  because 
it  is  plain  that  he  is  in  a 
quandary  as  to  what  he  shall  do  about 
it  this  year.  He  writes: 
‘ ‘ These  pres­
ents  cost  me  about $150 a  year.  Do you 
advise  me  to  spend  that  much  money 
this  year  on  my  customers?”   The  po­
sition  the  Advocate holds on the “ giving 
away  habit,”   is  well  known,and  we  say 
without  any  “ ifs”   that  we do not advise 
an  enterprising  butcher  to  spend  $150 
for  merchandise  to  be  given  away  to 
people  who  trade  with  him. 
If they did 
not  think  he  was  giving  them  better 
service  than  the  other  butchers  in  his 
neighborhood,  they  would  quickly  go 
to  the  other  butchers.  The thought  that 
by  changing  ^ r e s   they  would  lose  the 
New  Year’s  jiesent  would  not  cause 
them  to  hesitate  a  moment before taking 
action  and  making  the  change.  The 
presents  do  not  create  any  sentiment  in 
the  customers’  minds.  They  are  think­
ing  of  their  own  pockets  at  every  stage 
of  the  game  of  life,  and  laud  the  mer­
chant  who  spends  his  cash  on  them  as 
" a   good  thing.”   I  know  a  butcher  who 
gives  every  customer  a  bottle  of  wine 
and  a  large  cake  for  Christmas.  They 
drink  his  wine  and  eat  his  cake,  and 
buy  the  Christmas  turkey  at  the  market 
that  sells  them  cheapest.  The  present 
game  has  been  a  losing  one  for  him. 
Two  temperance  families  to  whom  he 
sent  wine  cut  him  on  the  spot.  They 
said  he  was  encouraging  the 
liquor 
traffic,  and  consequently  they  could  not 
encourage  him. 
“ An  enterprising 
butcher”   can put his $150 to a better use. 
If  he  is  bound  to  spend  that  much 
money  on  advertising— and  that  is  what 
present  giving  is  really 
intended  for— 
let  him  spend  $25  on  calendars.  They 
will  keep  his  name  before  the customers 
as  long  as  the  calendars  last.  The  other 
$125  could  be  used  in  providing  Christ­
mas  dinners  for  the  poor.  Let  him  ad­
vertise  in  his  local  paper that  on  a  cer­
tain  day  he  will  distribute  100  turkeys 
free  to  as  many  poor  families  deserving 
of charity.  The  application  for  a  tur­
key,  let  him  state,  must  be  signed  by  a 
minister,  priest  or  reputable  citizen  of 
the  town.  That  would  cause  “ an  en­
terprising  butcher”   to  be  talked of  in  a 
desirable  way  by  the  best  people  in  his 
city,  and 
the  newspapers  would  be 
placed  in  a  position  of  having  to  report 
the  scenes  at  the  distribution. 
It  would 
be  a  valuable  advertisement,  would 
bring  him  trade,  and  better  than  all, 
he  would  be  doing  an  act  of charity that 
would  make  him feel  satisfied  with him­
self,  which  he  would  not  do  if  he  spent

$150  for  presents  and  earned  the  repu­
tation  of  being  “ a  good  thing.”

The  Thanksgiving  turkey  is  now tak­
ing  on  the  finishing  touches. 
In  a  few 
days  he  will  have  ceased  to  strut,  and 
will  find  himself  stripped  of  feathers, 
packed  in  boxes,  and  rushing  by  rail 
to  the  cities  throughout  the  country. 
Every  butcher  will  make  a  specialty 
of  turkey  on  the  Monday,  Tuesday  and 
Wednesday  preceding  Thanksgiving 
Day,  and  some  will  do  a  better  turkey 
business  than  others,  even  with  con­
ditions  equal.  Two  shops  of  the  same 
size,  in  the  same  block,  will  not  do  the 
same  amount  of  business.  The  reason 
will  be  that  the  proprietor  of  the  one 
shop  will  not  make  a  play  to get  the 
bulk  of  the  trade,  while  the  other  will. 
The  one  who  does  the  best  turkey  ad­
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The retail  butcher  should  have  hisad-
vertisement  on  every package that leaves 
his  shop.  This  can  be done  at  so  small 
an  expense  that 
it  hardly  counts.  A 
machine  is  made  that  can  be  attached 
to  the  roll  holding  the  wrapping  paper, 
and  as  the  paper  is  pulled  off the  roller, 
the  machine  automatically  prints  the 
advertisement  on  the  paper.— Jonathan 
Price  in  Butchers’  Advocate.

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it  for our  own  calves.”   The boys  calcu­
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TH E  WRONG TEA.

M istake  Made  by  the  G eneral  M erchant 

at  W ayback.

Written for the .Tradesman.
Uncle  Danny  Briggs, 

the  lone  mer- j 
chant  of  Wayback,  was  deep  in  a  game 
of  checkers.  He  and  Granpap Wheelan 
had  been  hard  at 
it  since  supper time 
and  it  was  then  9  o’  clock.  Around 
them  were  scattered  boxes  and  bags and 
cans.  They  sat  on  inverted  nail  kegs 
and  played  with  black and white buttons 
on  a  home-made  board.

The  merchant  had  been  getting rather 
the  worse  of  it  and  was  not  in very good 
in 
humor.  Several  people  had  come 
and  watched  the  game  for  a 
time,  but 
Uncle  Danny  was  too  busy  to  ask  what 
was  wanted,  so  they  gradually  drifted 
out,  saying  that  they’d  come  in  the next 
day  or  that  they  didn’t  want  much  any­
way,  and  so  the  play  went  on  without 
interruption.

Each  time  a  game  was  won  the  suc­
cessful  contestant  made  a  mark  on  his 
end  of  the  board,  and  Granpap  had 
nineteen  scores  against  six  on 
the  op­
posite  side.  He  who  first  had  twenty 
games  to  his  credit  was  to  be  the  win­
ner  of  a  10  cent  package  of  smoking  to­
light  of 
bacco,  and  Granpap,  with  the 
coming  victory  gleaming 
in  his  eyes, 
played  carefully,  feeling for every point, 
and  did  not  waste  a  chance.

But  the  merchant,  growing  desperate 
as  the  play  went  against  him,  made 
several  reckless  moves  and  was worsted, 
calmly  and  systematically,  by  his  cool- 
It  was  evident  that 
headed  opponent. 
too— Uncle 
in 
Danny  would  have  to  “ set  up 
the 
smokin’. ”

the  end— pretty  soon, 

It  had  come  to  the 

last  turn.  The 
game  was  pretty  even.  The  players  sat, 
their  heads  close  together,  moving  or 
watching  the  moves  with  absorbing  in­
terest.  Granpap  played  calmly  and 
confidently,  smiling  with  satisfaction 
and  seeing  far  ahead  into  the  game.

The  merchant  was  rattled  and  he  was 
mad.  He  shoved  the  checkers  about  by 
jerks,  growling  ominously  when  he  lost 
a  man,  or  giving  vent  to  his  emotions 
in  gleeful  chuckles  if  he  made  a  suc­
cessful  play.  But 
finally,  when  he 
thought  he  had  Granpap  safely  corn­
ered,  and  the  old  gentleman  coolly 
jumped  five  of  his  men,  Uncle  Danny 
was  too  overcome 
to  speak.  Words 
failed  him.

It  was  at  this 

inopportune  moment 
that  Si  Green  entered  the  store.  Si  is  a 
man  who  has  but  small  regard  for  any­
one  outside  his  own  family  and  regards 
merchants  as  an  especially  baneful  class 
of  men,  set  on  earth  for  the sole purpose 
of  annoying  honest  folks.  He  considers 
Uncle  Danny  a  particularly  obnoxious 
sample  of  the  breed,  and  buys  of  him 
only  when  in  pressing  need  of  some 
small  item  that  he  has  neglected  to  get 
from  the  mail  order  houses  or  hasn’t 
time  to  procure  from  the  stores 
in  the 
neighboring  villages.  And  as  Uncle 
Danny  has  but  little  use  for  any  of  his 
neighbors  who  do  not  do  a  good  part  of 
their  trading  with  him,  it 
is  not  very 
queer  that  the  social  relations  between 
the  two,  even  at  the  best,  are  somewhat 
strained.

force 

Si  stalked  up  to  where  the  players 
were  sitting  and,  with  considerably 
more 
than  seemed  necessary, 
threw  a  paper  package  upon  the  board, 
scattering  the  checkers  in  all  directions 
and  remarking  as  he  did  so :
“ There’s  that  cussed  tea!”
“ What  tea?”   roared  Uncle  Danny, 

blazing  up  like  a  fagot.

“ That  stuff  yo’  p’tend  to  charge  60 

cents  a  pound  fer. 

It’s  no  good.”  

” ’Tis,  too,  some good—too dog gasted 
good  fer  the  likes  of  you,”   cried  the 
merchant,  angrily. 
“ The's  plenty  of 
folks  what  thinks  that’s  the  only tea the’ 
is.”

“ Aw,  g ’wan.  You  think  you’ve  got 
the  only  tea  an'  the  only  store  in Michi­
gan. 
Just  because  you’ re  the  whole 
thing  at  Wayback’s  no  sign  I’m  goin’ 
to  put  up  with  highway  robbery 
like 
this  'ere.  A  hog  couldn’t  drink  that 
tea.”

Uncle  Danny's  caustic  tongue  seldom 

misses  a  shot  in  a  war  of  words.
“ I  hain’t  never  recommended 

it  fer 
hogs,”   said  he,  “ but of course  if  you’ve 
tried  it  you  otter  know.  The  trouble  is 
it’s  better  tea 
’n  you’re  used  to.  What 
you  want  is  some  o’  that  air  tea  dust 
stuff  they  sell  over to  Central  Lake,  ten 
pounds  fer  half  a  dollar,  an’ 
that  I 
wouldn't  dirty  my scales with.  I  reckon 
that’d  just  about  tickle  yer  palate.”  

“ They  know  enough  over  there  to 
treat  folks  decent,  anyway, ”   said  Si, 
“ and  they  pay  2  cents  a  dozen  more 
fer  eggs  ’n  you  do. 
I  want  my  money 
back  fer  that  air  tea.”

Now,  whatever  may  be  said  of  the 
condition  of  Uncle  Danny’s  temper,  no 
one  could  ever  justly  accuse  him  of  the 
jeckless  expenditure  of  funds,  and when 
it  comes  to  a  matter of  holding  in  his 
wrath  in  order  to  save  his  shekels,  be  is 
the  sweetest  mannered  man  in  the town­
ship.

“ Say,”   said  Uncle  Danny,  pulling 
himself  together  with  an  effort,  “ lavin’ 
all  jokes  aside,  what  ails  that  air  tea, 
anyhow?”

It  steeps  up  red  an’ 

like  doctors’  medicine. 

“ That’s  what  I want to know.  Every­
it 
thing  ails  it. 
tastes 
The’ 
can’t  no  one  to  our  house  drink  it,  an' 
it's  sp’ iled  our  teapot  so  the  woman 
says  she’ll  hafler  git  a  new  one.  What 
yo’  be’n  doin’  to  it  anyhow?”

“ Hain’t  done  nothin’  to  it,”   said  the 

merchant,  untying  the  parcel.
“ Then  by  Gee  you  otter. 

If  it  was 
It’ll 
it 

mine  I’d  throw  it  out  of  doors. 
pizen  the  hull  shebang  if  you  keep 
here  much  longer.”

“ Wall,  by  Gum!”   exclaimed  Uncle 
Danny,  as  he  examined  the  contents  of 
the package.  “ I  don’t  wonder  ye  didn't 
like  this  ’ere  tea.  Say,  that’s  what  I’ve 
be'n a lookin’  fer every sence 3 o’clock. ”  
“ What  is  it?  What  is  it?”   asked  Si 
excitedly,  taking  sudden  alarm  at  the 
merchant's  remarks.  “ Hain’t  nothin'— 
hain’t  nothin  dangerous,  be  it?”

“ You  hain’t  dead  yit,  air  ye?”   asked 
the  storekeeper,  gazing  calmly  at  his 
customer.

“ No,  but  what  is  it?”   repeated  Si, 

with  some  agitation.

“ Don’t  feel  no  pecooliar  sensations 
ner  nothin’  in  the  region  o’  yer  sery- 
bellum?”

“ No,  no,  not  much— that  is,  not  yit. 

Is  it— ”

doc’ ?”

“ None  o’  yer  folks  ailin’ ?”
“ Dunno.  Would  I  better  send  fer the 

“ House  hain’t  blowed  up  er the  barn 
ketched  afire  er the  bosses had pewmony 
or  the  cows  gone  dry?”

“ Say,you  let  up,”   said the  customer, 
reaching  for  an  ax  helve. 
“ Tell  me 
what’s  the  matter or  I’ll brain ye surer’n 
guns. ”

“ Don’t  git  narvous  an'  do  nothin’ 
ye’ll  be  sorry  fer,”   said  Uncle  Danny, 
with  a  grin. 
“ Ye  see,that  air Sol  Wig­
gins  that’s  jest  moved  onto  the  Win- 
throp  farm's  been  a  kickin’ 
fer  black 
tea  every  sence  he  come  here,  an’  I  got

him  some  t’other  day,  an’  I  had  it  done 
up  an’  laid  it  on  the  counter  fer  him 
when  you  was  in  after  yurn.  He’s  got 
your 60  cent  tea,  an’  you  took  home  his 
Oolong  at  $1  a  pound. 
I  was  kinder 
put  out  when  you  broke  up  our  game 
o’  checkers,  but  I’m  glad  you  done  it 
now.  Here’s  yer 60 cent  Japan,  an’ 
if 
yo’ll be reel careful an’ not expose yerself 
to  the  wet  fer  a  few  weeks,  I  guess  the’ 
won’t  nothin’  very  bad  come  of  what 
black  tea  ye  tried  to  drink 
fer  yer 
supper.”  

Geo.  L.  Thurston.

W rinkle  in  A pple  Packing.

From the Morning Oregonian.

it  was  put  in  the  other  box. 

“ There  is  a  knack  in  doing  every­
thing,”   is  an  old  saying,  and  the  truth­
fulness  of  it  was  brought  to  mind  yes­
terday  by  a  gang  of  men  engaged  in 
wrapping  and  packing  apples.  Each 
man  bad  a  full  box  of  apples,  a  pile  of 
into  wrappers  and  an 
thin  paper  cut 
empty  box.  An  apple  was  taken 
from 
the  full  box,  a  wrapper  put  around  it 
and 
It  is 
not  an  easy  thing  to  pick  up  a  wrapper 
of  thin  paper  from  a  pile  without  miss­
ing  one  occasionally  and  in  doing  this 
the  men  adopted  different  schemes.  A 
new  hand  wet  his  thumb  on  his  tongue 
for  every  wrapper.  One  who  had  been 
longer  in  the  business  and  found  that  it 
was  unwholesome  to  be  wetting  his 
thumb  on  his  tongue,  had  a  slice  of 
lemon  beside  his  pile  of  wrappers  and 
moistened  bis  thumb  in  the  lemon  be­
fore  picking  up  a  wrapper.  The  scheme 
worked  well,  but  he  did  not  know 
whether  the  acid  of  the  lemon  would 
make  his  thumb  sore  or  not.  A  third 
man  had  a  thin  rubber  thumb  stall  on 
his  thumb  and  could  pick  up  wrappers 
all  day 
long  and  never  make  a  miss. 
He  was  an  old  hand  at  the  business.

The  W rong  Foot.

It  was  in  a  Pullman  sleeper,  and  just 
across  from  the  bachelor’s  berth  was  a 
handsome  little  woman  and  her  three-

year old  boy.  Early  in  the  morning  the 
two  were  laughing  and playing together, 
and  the  good-natured  bachelor  smiled to 
himself  as  he  arose  to  dress.  Suddenly 
a  little foot  peeped  out  from  the curtains 
of  the  opposite  berth  and,with  a twinkle 
in  his  eye,  the  bachelor  grabbed  the 
plumb  toe  and  began:  “ This  little  pig 
went  to  market,  this 
‘ ‘ That 
is  my  foot,  sir,”   said  the 
indignant 
voice  of  a  woman.  The  silence  which 
followed  could  be  heard  above  the  roar 
of  the  train.

little” —  

Six  women  can  talk  at  once  and  get 
along all right—but no two men can do it.
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Special F eatures  of tb e Grocery and P rod­

Special Correspondence.

uce Trades.

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to 

New  York,  Nov.  9—A  cable  dispatch 
from  the  well-known  house  of  Johnston 
&  Co.,  announcing  the  continuance  of a 
bad  drouth  in  Brazil  and  a  consequent 
shrinkage  of  the  coffee  crop,  which  now 
promises  to  be  about  7,000,000  bags, 
according 
the  above  authority, 
caused quite an excitement and sent spec­
ulators  tumbling  over  each  other. 
In 
fact,  it has been several years  since  there 
has  been  so  great  an  advance,  as  some 
60  points  have  been  gained.  The  actual 
article  was  held  more  firmly,  of  course, 
and  closes  at  7c  for  No.  7—an  advance 
of  ij£c  within  a  short  time.  Supplies 
at  primary  points  have  continued  fairly 
large,  however,  and, 
the  present 
proves  to  be  simply  a  “ scare,"  it  will 
be  no  surprise.  In  store  and  afloat  the 
amount  of  coffee  aggregates  2,168,913 
bags,  against  1,200,711  bag  at  the  same 
time  last  year.  Mild  grades,  in sympa­
thy  with  Brazil  sorts,  have  also  taken 
an  upward  course  and, 
in  fact,  have 
gone  to  a  point  that  has  pretty  much 
stopped  business.  Good Cucuta  is worth 
8%@8}£c.  East  India  coffees  are  firm. 
A  sale  at gc  has  been made of  Singapore 
Strata  Liberian.
teas 
have  monopolized  the  attention  of  the 
trade  and  some  dealers say  that it  would 
be  impossible  to  fill  any number of large 
orders,  as  the  supplies  are  practically 
exhausted  here.  A.  R.  Robertson  says 
that  the  general  situation  all  over  the 
world  shows  more  encouragement  for 
holders  than for two years,  and  the  huge 
surplus  of  recent  times  is  now about  ab­
sorbed.  Ceylon  and  India  are  likely  to 
be  short  many  million  pounds  and,  tak­
ing  all  things  into  consideration,  it  cer­
tainly  seems  a  favorable  time  to  take  a 
supply  of  tea  rather  ahead  of  current 
wants. 

Country  green  and  pingsuey 

It  certainly  will  be  no longer.

Sugars  are  quiet.  Orders  have  been 
few  and  far  between  and 
for  only 
enough  to  keep  up  assortments.  Prices 
have  shown  no change  within a few days 
here,  although  New  Orleans  reports  10 
points  lower.

There  has  been  an  average  amount  of 
business  in  rice  going  forward  all  the 
week  and  dealers  profess  to  be  quite 
well  pleased  with  tbe  outlook.  Sales 
have  not  been  large,  but there have  been 
a  good  many  of  them  and  the  aggregate 
is  very  satisfactory.  Prime  to  choice, 
5@5#c.
Except  for  rather  more  firmness  on 
Singapore  black  pepper  there  is  abso­
lutely  no  change  in  spices  and  the  mar­
ket  is  bare  of 
interest.  Jobbers  report 
fairly  satisfactory  trade.

Molasses 

is  decidedly 

Some 
dealers  say  they  are  unable to fill orders. 
Some  business 
in  blended  new  crop 
goods  has  been  reported  at  30335c. 
Foreign  sorts  are-  quiet. 
Syrups  are 
meeting  with  an  average  degree  of  ac­
tivity.  Prime  to  fancy,  20@30c.

firm. 

In  canned  goods  there  is  not  much  to 
say.  The  market  is  resting  easily  after 
its  recent  excitement.  Prices  are  all 
well  sustained  and  tomatoes  have scored 
another  advance  of about 5c for 3s stand­
ard  New  Jerseys,  making  them  $1.20. 
A  rather  new  thing 
is 
It  is  worth  90c,  as are 
spinach  in  cans. 
squash  and  pumpkin.  Everything 
in 
cans  is  “ good  money." 
The  holiday 
trade  in  dried  fruits  is  beginning  now

in  this  market 

and  fancy  goods  in  still  fancier  pack­
ages  are  meeting  with  good  request. 
Some  of  the  packages  are  fearfully  and 
wonderfully  made  and  add  to  the  cost 
about  as  much  as a  the  contents.  Prunes 
are  selling  fairly  well  and  the  Associa­
tion  which  has  run  things  so  long  on 
the  coast  does  not  seem  to  cut  so  much 
of  a  figure  here  as  formerly.  The  out­
side  packers  seem  to  be  able  to  meet 
every  cut  and  finally  certain 
litigation 
has  “ gone  agin"  the  combine and inde­
pendent  growers  feel  free  to  go  ahead. 
Figs  are  selling  well  and  raisins, 
too, 
are  meeting  with  a  very  good  enquiry.
liberal 
supply  and  prices  are  hardly  as  firm  as 
last  week.  Florida  fruit  is  coming 
in 
fine  green  colors  and  sells  for  $1.7533 
per  box.  California,  the 
few  “ fag 
ends"  of  old  crop, 
is  worth  $637- 
Lemons,  Sicily,  $2.5034.50  per  box. 
Bananas  are  unchanged  and  enquiry 
is  light,  although  all  that  could  be  ex­
pected  at  this  season.

Oranges  have  been 

in  more 

Butter  rules  firm.  Best  Western  is  in 
rather  limited  supply  and  the  demand 
is  sufficient  to  keep  the  market well sold 
up.  For  best  creamery  22>^c  is  the 
prevailing  rate,with  seconds  to  firsts  19 
@2ic.  Other  Western  grades 
range 
from  I7@i8j^c.

Cheese  has  been  in  moderate  move­
ment  and  yet  trading  has  probably  been 
as  active  as  could  be  expected  at  this 
season.  Exporters  have  been  taking 
some  and  the  market  is  certainly  not 
overstocked.  Full  cream  is  worth about 
io^ic.

Eggs  are  way  up.  Arrivals have been 
light  and  the  demand  keeps  the  market 
cleaned  up.  Best  Western are worth 23c. 
Candled  are  held  from  20}£@22c  and 
average  sorts  about  20c.

Beans  are  practically  without  change 
and  tbe  quotations  have  varied  little  if 
any  from  last  week.

How  California  Raisins  H are  Displaced 

Malagas.

is  not 

The  development of the raisin industry 
in  California,  as  a  result  of  the  tariff, 
has  bad  a  striking  effect  in reducing the 
importation  of  Malaga  grapes 
from 
Spain.  Consul  B.  H.  Ridgely  reports 
from  Malaga,  Spain,  that although there 
is  an  unusually  large  raisin  crop  in  the 
famous  Malaga  district  this  year  (prob­
ably  1,300,000  boxes),  it 
likely 
that  exportation  to  the  United  States 
will  be  much  in  excess  of  that  of  recent 
years. 
In  view  of  the  heavy  crop, 
prices  are  low,  and  but  for  the  duty  of 
2  cents  a  pound  it  is  almost  certain  that 
Malaga  would  send  from  500,00010750,- 
000  boxes  to the  United States.  As it is, 
she  will  probably  not  send  more  than 
from  75,000  to 90,000  boxes.  The  Con­
sul  says  that  it  is  almost  startling  to 
note  how  Malaga’s  raisin  trade  with  tbe 
United  States  has  declined. 
In  1873 
there  were  1,350,000  boxes  of raisins  ex­
ported  from Malaga to the United States. 
The  decline  has  ljeen  as  follows:  1881, 
exports,  10,000,000  boxes; 1886,  exports, 
450,000  boxes; 
1890,  exports,  66,000 
boxes;  1900,  exports,  51,500 boxes.

Beechnuts  Galore  in  th e  E m pire  State, 
irom the Utica Observer.

It  has  been  years  since  there  were  so 
many  beechnuts  in  this  section.  Every 
pleasant  day  tbe  groves  and  patches  of 
woods  that  can  be  reached  easily  from 
the  city  are  filled  with  people  who  are 
looking  for  the  sweet  and  tender  little 
triangular-shaped  nuts.  They  are  not 
easy  to  gather  on  account  of  their  size,

it  takes  a 

and 
long  time  to  pick  up 
enough  to  make  a  respectable  showing. 
Then,  too,  they  are  slow  to  shell— but 
they  are  sweet enough  to  make  up  for 
the  work  and  trouble.

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been  after  him  ever  since.

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Village  Improvement

The  Comprehensive  Idea of the Im prove­
Written for the Tradesman.

m ent Society.

While  the  work  of  all 

improvement 
societies  is  sure  to  begin  with the  clear­
ing  away  of  “ tin  cans  and  things,”   it 
is  equally  certain  not  to  end  there.  One 
suggestion brings up another,and to those 
watching  the development there seems to 
be  no  end  to the  work  to  be  done.  A 
Pennsylvania  town with its heaps of  cans 
and  ashes  disposed  of  is  engaged 
just 
now  in  trying  to  cultivate  sentiment  in 
favor  of  an  immediate  effort  to  beautify 
the  city  by  additions  to  its  river  park 
and  driveways.  To  the  dwellers  of  the 
plains  whose  existence  depends  upon 
the  amount  of  rainfall  and  to  whom  a 
river and  its  possibilities  are  fit  objects 
of  veneration,  it  is  a  matter  of  wonder 
that  a  people  living  upon  its  banks  or 
miles from it  should  need  urging  to  turn 
the  life-giving  stream  to  every  possible 
those  deprived  of  the 
account. 
blessing  and  longing  for 
it  seems 
that,  with  the  crop  question  settled,  the 
next  idea  would  be  to  consider the  river 
in  its  influence  from  the  esthetic  stand­
point—its  place in the prairie landscape, 
the  verdure  that  attends  it,  the trees that 
would  grow  upon  its  banks and the fields 
carpeted  with  grass  that  grows  because 
it  must,  the  whole  a  living  picture  of 
beauty  that  would  steal  unconsciously 
into  the  human  life  about  it  and  would 
share  with  it  its  own 
loveliness.  What 
town  with  a  river  could  not  be  beautiful 
if 
it  would,  and  what  a  shame  to  the 
town  so  favored  that  will  not  make  the 
most  of  its  advantages!

To 

it, 

A  feature 

in  the  prairie 

landscape 
which  is  common  to  the  people  of  oil 
regions  is  the  framework  of  the  wind­
mill,  taking  as  it  does  to  a  limited  ex­
tent  the  place  of  the  oil  derrick.  No 
stretch  of  the  imagination  can  call 
it 
beautiful.  There  it  stands,  a  tall,  stout 
frame,  square  and  ugly,  the  windmill 
having  the  advantage of the derrick from 
the  wheel  which  the  wind  whirls  at  the 
top.  The  Pennsylvania  mountains  de­
tract  a  little  by  their  irregularity  and 
leafy  ruggedness  from the uncompromis­
ing  derrick;  but  in  a  country  where  all 
is  level  the  only  hope  lies 
in  the  fact 
that  a  single  windmill  is  needed  to  sup­
ply  the. wants  of  the  rancho.  That  one, 
however,  from  the  beauty  standpoint,  is 
a  terror,  and  they  who  are  tortured  with 
it  are  wondering  what  can  be  done. 
Nature  has  already  given  a  hint  which 
the  alert  have  seized  upon—the Virginia 
creeper.  Picture  a  tall,  time-blackened 
derrick  on  the  mountain  side,  hidden in 
leaves  that  autumn  has  painted  in  tints 
of  scarlet,  and  that  the  wind  and  sun 
like to play  with.  From bud  time  until 
dirge  time  the  derrick 
is  as  beautiful 
as  swinging  green  can  make 
it,  and 
against  the  stainless  white  of  the  winter 
snow  the  black,  gaunt  timber  of  the 
derrick  is  not  wholly  unattractive ;  but 
the  windmill  is  not  on  the  mountain 
side. 
lends 
It  is  simply 
enchantment  to  the  view. 
a  means  for  drawing  water. 
It  has  to 
be  up  in  the  air and  there  in  the  air  it 
pumps  and  exults  at  every  attempt  to 
rob  it  of  its  ugliness.

It  is  not  where  distance 

MI CHI GAN  TRADES MAN

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izon  that  shuts  me  in  has  in 
its  wide 
circumference  many  a  home  tree-shel­
tered  and  watched  over  by  a  windpump 
and  that  the  frame  covered  by  the  Vir­
ginia  creeper  would  make  still  more 
pleasing  the  house  in  its  shadow 
if  a 
curtain  of  red  leaves  was  hanging  from 
it  in  the  sunshine  of  this  glorious  day, 
and  adding  to  the  picture  just  that  one 
tint of  color  that  the  otherwise  perfect 
picture  calls  for.

An  organization  which  gives  great 
comfort  to  the  almost  despairing  has 
sprung  into  life  in  Wisconsin.  The  one 
fact that  is  in  itself an assurance  of  suc­
cess  is  that it is a “  commercial”  organi­
zation.  Of  course  civic  improvement 
will  have  a 
leading  place,  but  while 
the  purpose  of  the  society  may  begin 
there  it  certainly  will  not  end there. 
It 
goes  without  saying  that  there  will  be  a 
well-cared  for  city.  No  horses  will  be 
frightened beyond control by wind-tossed 
paper.  Waste  water  will  no  longer  clog 
uncared  for  sewers  and  in  pools  at  the 
street  corners  wet  the  plunging  feet  of 
the  unwary.  The  noisome  alley  and the 
weed-smothered  corners  will  give way to 
the  wholesome  sunshine,  and  when  all 
is  done  that  can  be  for  the  health  of  the 
city  the  esthetic  element  will  be  called 
in  to  give  grace  and  loveliness  to  what 
is  going  to  be  the  finest  and  most  beau­
tiful  City  in  the  Great  Northwest.

It  is  possible  that  I  am  depending too 
much  upon  what  the  “ commercial”   ele­
ment  will  or can  do  in  esthetic 
lines,

but  experience  teaches  that  when  the 
“ commercial  element”   takes  hold  of 
town  affairs  in  any  line  whatever  there 
is  a  “ go"  in  it  which  is  an  earnest  of 
success.  The  reason is  not  hard  to  find : 
In  the  first  place, if the business  element 
be  genuine  the enterprise has to succeed. 
The  object  aimed  at  is  worth  the  effort 
to  attain  it,  and  there  lies  the  prize  for 
the  business  man.  Genuine  trade 
is 
always  wide-gauged  and  far-seeing.  It 
knows  that  there  is  money 
in  the  re­
moved  pile  of  old  bottles  and  tins  and 
removes  them. 
The  attractive  city 
brings  to  town  desirable  citizens  and  it 
is  that  class.of citizens that insist on hav­
ing  the  best  things  at  a  good  price  and 
at  a  good  profit.  Beauty,  then, 
is  not 
gush  and  nonsense.  It means something, 
and  that  something  is  valuable. 
It  may 
be  “ skin  deep,”   but  where  is  the  need 
of  scarring  the  delicate  cheek  of  beauty 
to  satisfy  one’s  self  that  under  the  rose 
flush  there are flesh and blood and bones?
If,  then,  Commerce  can  find  profit  in 
civic 
improvement,  let  him  work.  Be 
assured  that  the  town  he  works  in  will 
be  all  the  better  for  the  energy  he  ex­
pends.  Of  one  fact  we  may  be  assured: 
No  matter about  the  width  of  the  field 
to  be  covered,  it  will  not  be  too  wide 
for his  genius,  and  no  matter  how  com­
prehensive  the  idea;  he  will  be  equal 
to  it.  He  has  been  tested  again  and 
again,  and 
just  as  often  been  found  a 
promoter  of  that  beauty  which  too  often 
the  rest  of  the  world  have  thought  him 
devoid  of. 

R.  M.  Streeter.

How  I t Looks  In  W all  Street.

From the Wall Street Journal.

The United  States  Rubber  Co.  usually 
presents  in  April  a  schedule  of  prices 
for the  ensuing  year,  and  raises  them  5 
per cent,  about  Nov.  1,  in  order  to  pre­
vent  a  rush  of  orders  when  fall  and win­
ter  weather  appears.  No  advance  has 
been  announced 
it 
should  be  remembered  that  last  January 
and  April  severe  cuts  were made.  Con­
sequently  prices  are  now  about  25  per 
cent,  less  than  during  November,  1900. 
A  gentleman  prominent  in the trade says 
the  United  States  Rubber  Co.  must have 
disbursed  over $300,000  in  rebates  to 
those  purchasing  its  goods  before  the 
reductions  of  last  April.

this  month,  and 

in  the  trade  say  there  can  be 
little  profit  to  either  the  United  States 
Rubber  Co.  or  the 
independents  with 
rubbers  selling  at  present  quotations. 
The  latter  concerns,  however,  no  longer 
seem  anxious  to  press  sales  at 
lower 
than  ruling prices.  The outcome of these 
conditions,  some  people  believe,  may 
be  a  combination  of  interests.  Weather 
conditions  between now and January will 
be  an  important  factor  in  prices  and 
profits.

Men 

Bead This  Ont Loud.

Betty  Botter bought some butter: 
“But,” she  said,  “this  butter’s bitter; 
If I put It In my batter 
It  will  make my batter bitter.
But a bit of better butter 
Will but  make  my batter better.”
So she  bought a bit of butter,
Better than  the bitter  butter,
And  made, her bitter batter better. 
So ’twas better Betty Botter 
Bought  a bit of better butter.

It  isn’t  always  the  brightest  girl  that 

casts  the  most  reflections.

Petoskey  Rug  Mfg.  and  Carpet  Co.,  Ltd.

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The only factory’ making a specialty  of clean sanitary work in the manufacture  of  rugs  from  old  carpets,  as  all  orders  are 
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I have  as  yet  seen  no  attempt  to  cover 
the  windmill  with  vines. 
I  shall  not be 
surprised  to  be  told  that  the  constant 
winds  beyond  the  Mississippi  do  not 
favor  vine  culture,  and  that  at  best  the 
exposed  position  of  the  mill  frame 
is 
not  such  as  to  promise  the  result  so 
much desired.  I  only  know  that  the  hor­

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Woman’s World

Decadence  of  Good  M anners  Am ong 

Children.

To  my  mind  the  most  deplorable  fea­
ture  of  modern  life  is  the  decadence  of 
good  manners  among  children. 
In  the 
reaction  from  the  old  Spartan  prunes, 
prisms  and  back-board  school  of deport­
ment,  in  which  our  grandparents  were 
brought  up,  the  pendulum  has  swung  to 
the  opposite  extreme  of  no  manners  at 
all  and,  as  a  result,  the  average  Ameri­
can  child  could  give  a  Piute  Indian 
points  in  an  exhibit  of  pure  and  un­
adulterated  savagery.

it 

indicate 

if  possible, 

You  see  it  everywhere.  Disrespect to 
their  parents,  lack  of  deference  to  age, 
lack  of  courtesy  to  ladies  table  manners 
that  would 
they  had  been 
brought  up  in  a  pig  sty  instead  of  a  re­
fined  home;  these  are  the  salient  char­
acteristics  of  the  childhood  of  our  day. 
Robust  lads  sit  in  the  street  cars  while 
old  ladies  and  gray-headed  men  stand. 
Hotel  corridors  ring  with  children’s 
screams.  Self-conscious  little  prigs  in­
terrupt  the  conversation  of  men  of 
world-wide  fame  to  interject  their  own 
crude  opinions.  Not  one  child  in  fifty 
can answer even politely when spoken to.
This  does  not  overstate  the  case  one 
iota.  Worse  still, 
is 
painfully  apparent  to  every  close  ob­
server that that human boomerang,  whom 
the  French  describe  as  the  “ enfant ter­
rible, ’ ’  is  on the increase.  You not only 
is 
do  not  know  what  the  modern  child 
going  to  do,  you  do  not  know  what 
it 
is  going  to  say  or  when  you  are  to  be 
treated  to  a  criticism  of  your  looks  or 
belongings  whose  brutal  frankness  you 
are  expected  to  enjoy  and  find  amusing 
because  it  emanates  from  childish  lips.
I,  myself,  have  suffered  so much from 
this  peculiar  infliction  that  I  have 
long 
felt  Herod  might  plead  extenuating  c ir ­
cumstances  if he  would  come  and repeat 
his  child  massacre,  but  the  other  day  I 
had  the  whole  subject  brought  to  my 
attention  again  in  such a  painful  way  I 
can not refrain from commenting upon it.
I  was  calling  at  a  typical  American 
child-bossed  home,  where  the  head  of 
the  house  is a pretty and bright little girl 
of  some  8 or 9  years  of  age.  She  had 
already  ingratiated  herself  in  my  affec­
tions  by  asking  me  how  old  I  was  and 
whether  my  frock  was  silk-lined like her 
mother’s  and  how  much  my  rings  cost, 
and  so  on,  when  another  caller  entered. 
She  was  an  old 
lady  with  snow-white 
hair,  and  the  gracious  sweetness  and 
dignity  of  manner  that  bespoke  the 
grande  dame,  but  she  wore  a  shabby 
old  black  frock  and  she  leaned  heavily 
on  a  cane.  She  had  scarcely  taken  her 
seat  when  the  infantile  grand  inquisitor 
turned  her attention  to  the  newcomer.

“ You  are  like  a  witch,  aren’t  you?’ ’ 
she  asked  tactfully,  “ leaning  on  that 
cane. ’ ’

“ I  would  like  to  be  a  fairy godmother 

to  you,  my  dear,’ ’replied  the  old  lady.

“ What  makes  you  wear  such  big 
shoes?’ ’  went  on  the  child,  not  noticing 
her  reply;  “ they  aren’t  a  bit  iike  mam­
ma’s.  Mamma’s  are  patent  leather  and 
have  high  heels  and  silver  buckles.’ ’

“ Old  feet  need  room  to  move  about 
in ,”   replied  the  old  lady,  a  faint  flush 
stealing  into  her cheeks.

“ Is  that  the  best  dress  you have got?”  
pursued  the  tormentor,  “ you  must  he 
dreadfully  poor  to  wear a frock like that. 
It  isn’t  as  good  as  the  one  our  cook 
wears. ”

“ I  hope  you  will  be  more  fortunate 
than  I  and  never have  to  wear  shabby 
lady,  and
clothes, ’ ’  answered  the  old 

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

then,  pained  and  humiliated,  she  got 
up  and  left,  and  the  mother,  instead  of 
taking  that  child  out  and  applying  a 
slipper  in  the  place 
it  would  do  the 
most  good,  remarked  proudly  to  m e:

“ Dear  Mildred  is  such  an  observing 

child.  She sees  everything. ”
“ And  says  everything,”   I  added.
Now,  if  the  mother  had  been  called 
on  to  plead  an  excuse  for  the 
inexcus­
able  behavior  of  the  child,  she  would 
have  said  that  you  can  not  know  before­
hand  what  a  child 
is  going  to  say. 
That  is  true  enough,  but  any  child  that 
is  3  years  old  and  has  been  taught  the 
most  elementary  manners  ought  to  know 
enough  not  to  make  personal  comments 
or  to  ask  what  we call leading questions.
Every  day  I  see  children  pointing  to 
some  one  who  has  met  with  a  personal 
affliction  and  who  is  maimed  or  de­
formed  or  blind  or  who  jeer  at  the  poor 
clothes  of  a  ragged  newsboy  or less well- 
off  companion,  and  I  can  but  wonder  at 
the 
lack  of  breeding  it  shows,  and  the 
utter  heartlessness  and  lack  of sympathy 
it  displays  in  their  parents.

These  kind  of  children  grow  up 

into 
the  blundering  boors  that  go through life 
wounding  and  offending  all  with  whom' 
they  come  in  contact,  and  that  we  are 
expected  to  forgive  for their  outrages on 
decency  and  taste,  because  they  do  not 
intend  to  hurt  us.  A less availing excuse 
was  never  offered.  A person’s intentions 
are  his  private  affairs,  with  which  we 
have  nothing  to  do.  What  concerns  us 
are  his  outward  acts,  and  unless  he 
is 
taught  to  make  these  gentle  and  consid­
erate  in  childhood,  he  never  acquires 
the  art.

The  one  thing 

that  renders  the 

in­
difference  of  mothers  to  how  their child­
ren  behave  inexplicable  is  the 
import­
ance  of  the  subject.  Good  manners  are

the  most  potent  factor  a  man  can  have 
towards  winning  success.  Without  them 
he  never  achieves  much,  unless  he  is  an 
actual  genius.  With  them,  with  a mod­
erate  endowment  of  talent,  he  always 
wins.  They  make  friends  for  him  at 
every  turn.  They  open  doors  that  lead 
to  opportunities.  They  are  a 
letter  of 
credit  that  the  world  accepts  at  its  face 
value.

What  makes  us  send  for  Dr.  Pills,  in­
stead  of  Dr.  Powder,  when  we  get  sick? 
Because  of  Dr.  Pills'  superior  medical 
skill?  Not  at  all.  Dr.  Pills  knows just 
how  to  say  and  do  the  charming  thing, 
while  Dr.  Powder  blunders 
into  the 
wrong  one.  What  makes  Rev.  Mr. 
Churchly go  on  up  to  a  bishopric,  while 
plain  Mr.  Thirdly  remains  a  curate  in a 
country  church  at  a starvation  wage,  all 
his  life?  Eloquence?  Ability?  Not  a 
bit.  Simply  manners.  Why  do we go  to 
one  store, 
instead  of  another?  Some 
clerk’s  agreeable  manners  decide  us.

Every  woman  knows  this,  yet  she  lets 
little 
her  little  Johnny  grow  up  into  a 
boor,  hoping  that  when  he 
is  grown 
some  angel  will  work  a  miracle  in  him, 
and  that,  from  having  been  an awkward 
lout,  he  will  suddenly  burst  forth  upon 
an  astonished  world  as  a  Lord  Chester­
field. 
It  never  happens.  Suavity  must 
be  ingrained,  consideration  of  others 
must  have  become  second  nature,  cour­
tesy  must  have  become  as  indispensable 
a  part  of  one  as  one’s  clothes,  or  else 
one’s  manners  are  only  a  veneer  that 
breaks  through  at  the  critical  moment. 
You  can  not  pick  up  this  kind  of  a  pol­
ish,  as  you  can  a  remnant  on  a  bargain 
counter.  Many  a  man,  after  he gets out 
in  the  world,  would  sell his soul,  almost, 
to  acquire  the  manners  be sees he needs. 
He would like to make himself agreeable, 
but  he  does  not  know  how.

If  I  had  a  son,  and  I  could  teach  him 
but one  thing  on  earth.it  would  be  good 
manners. 
I  would  teach  him  how to get 
in  and  out  of  a  room ;  how  to  meet  peo­
ple,  to  use  the  familiar  phrase,  how  to 
say  the  right  thing  to  the  right  person, 
and  then  I  would  turn  him  out  on  so­
ciety,  certain  he  would  be  able  to  make 
his  way  through  life  successfully.

To  a  girl  the  matter  is  even  more  im­
portant.  No  education,  no  beauty,  no 
wit,  takes  the  place  of  suave  and  grace­
ful  manners,  and it was  an evil day when 
the  higher  mathematics  superseded  the 
class  of  deportment  in  female  schools. 
There  is  no  reason,  of  course,  why  the 
higher  education  and  graciousness  of 
manner  should  not  go  hand 
in  hand. 
When  they  do  they  make  an  ideal  com­
bination,  but  it profiteth  a  woman  noth­
ing  to  know  the  whole  Century Diction­
ary,  and  not  to  know  how  to  speak  and 
behave.

But  look  at the little girls you see play­
ing  on  the  street,  and  saluting  every 
passer-by  with  some 
impertinent  re­
mark.  Watch  our  school  girls— loud, 
slangy,  boisterous. 
they  no 
mothers  to  teach  them  better?  How, 
untaught,  are  they  to  grow  up 
into  be­
ing  ladies?  The  thought  is  an  appall­
ing  one.

Have 

Yet, 

it  is  surely  possible  to 

teach 
children  by  both  precept  and  example 
to  conduct  themselves  quietly  on  the 
street;  to  refrain 
from  petsonal  com­
ment ;  to  enter  and  withdraw  quietly 
from  a  room;  to  salute  their  parents’ 
guests;  to  answer  questions  pleasantly; 
to be  neat,  self-respecting  and  respect­
ful  of  the  feelings  of  others.

On  this  foundation,  good  manners  are 
built,  and  something  more,  for  it  is  the 
bed  rock  of  good  morals.  Unselfishness 
is  the  foundation  of  both  virtue  and 
suavity,  and  good  manners  are  merely 
unselfishness,  adorned  with  grace.

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for  you  to  choose  from  as  we 
had  last season and we thought 
we  had  a  pretty  good  stock 
then.  Especial,  good 
things 
in  blankets. 
If you have not a 
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^ A J U U U U U U U U U l^

P etty  V anities  and  Jealousies  W hich 

M ake W omen  Narrow.

Again  they  bad  invited  the  woman  in 
goggles  to  deliver a  ten-minute  lecture. 
Just  why  they  did  it,  who  can  say?  A 
feminine 
idiosyncrasy?  A  species  of 
fascination?  Or  for  the  same  reason 
that  an  ugly  woman  keeps  a 
looking 
glass?

They  knew  that  she  would  make  their 
eyes  burn  and  their  ears  tingle  before 
she  got  done  with  them,  yet  they 
in­
vited  her  again  and  again.  Women,  as 
a  rule,  are  plucky.  They  know  how  to 
bear  pain  and  they  are  willing  to  hear 
the  worst.  This  was  one  reason.  And 
another,  the  woman  in  goggles  held  the 
touch-stone  of  sympathy.  They  knew 
that  she  had  been  there, 
that  the  pre­
cepts  and  preachments  that  she  flung 
down  before  them  had  been  forced  upon 
her  by  relentless  experience.

No  matter  how  angry  she  made  them, 
they  felt  that  she  stood  for  the  worth  of 
womanhood,  although  her  championship 
was  whimsical,  even  rude.  She  was  not 
always  easy  to  understand.  For 
in­
stance :

“ The  most  perfect  thing  God  ever 
made  is  a  perfect  woman,  but  you  and 
I  know  that  there  is  not  such  a  thing  on 
earth. ”

Ah,  well,  she  was  a  woman,  and  only 
women  were  required  to  understand her.
As  usual,  when  she  came  out  under 
the  light  she  wasted  no  words  upon  a 
beginning:

“ And  to-night  I  want  to  talk  to  you 
about  narrowness;  this  bugaboo  in  the 
dark  that  is  frightening  you  until  the 
whole  country  is  filled  with your clamor.
‘ Narrowing  environment; cramped men­
tal  faculties;  broadening 
influence  of 
travel’— rubbish!

“ As  though  racing  and  chasing  like 
fox  hard  beset  by  hounds,  could 

a 
broaden  one!

“ The  kingdom  of  God  is  within  you, 
and  so  are  all  the  kingdoms of the earth. 
So  long  as  you  carry  about  with  you  a 
concentrated  egotism  you  will  remain 
cramped  and  narrow,  although  your  life 
be  that  of  a  bird  of  passage  and  you  see 
a  thousand  new  sights  daily.

“ Don’t  imagine  that  you  ca  get  away 
from  yourself  by  traveling. 
‘ To  escape 
your  present  thralldom’  you  must  rise 
above  your  pettiness.  Learn  to  stand  on 
tiptoe  and  peer  beyond  the  rim  of  your 
teacup  existence.  Do  this  for  a  min­
ute  each  day  and  it  will  broaden  you 
more  than  a  round-trip ticket to the ends 
of  the  earth.

“ Emerson  says  somewhere  that  you 
can  see  no  more  than  it  is  in  you to see. 
It  matters  little  what  we 
look  upon. 
Mountain  or  sea  is  but  a  mirror  reflect­
ing  sordidness  or  greatness  with  equal 
serenity.  So  long  as  passion  and  petti­
ness  keep  you  in  the  bottom  of your tea­
cup,  it  matters  not  a  whit  whether  it  be 
set  in  a  garden  or  a  desert.

“ If  you  were  willing  to  do 

it,  you 
could  derive  broadening  influence  from 
a  rose  bush  or  a  kitten!  An  artist  once 
painted  a  picture  that  made  people 
gentler  just  to  look  at  it,  yet  the  sight 
that  startled  his  energies 
into  action 
was  only  the  shine  on  the  flap  of  a  pup­
py’s  ears.  You  perhaps  do  not  know 
that  there  is  such  a  thing  as  shine  on  a 
puppy’s ears—’ dreadful little  thing  that 
one  may  see  any  day  knocking  about 
the  streets. ’

“ Yet  it  would  seem  that  you  have 
never  really  seen  them.  You  were  ab­
sorbed  in  your  own  pitiful  plots  and 
plans;  trotting  around  and  around  in 
your  dog-turning-a-spit  existence,  you 
gained  only  a  dim  conception  of  four

It  is  your  everlasting 

legs  and  a  tail—not  that,  unless  the  pup 
happened  to  get in  your  way.  That 
it 
might  be  a  lost,  lonely 
little  dog  glad 
of  a  kind  word,  never  occurred  to  you. 
If  it  had  it  would  have  broadened  you 
more  than  a  day’s  travel  in wonderland.
“ Do  not  flatter  yourself  that  it  is your 
environment  that narrows you— a  woman 
may  think  big  thoughts  in  her  home 
kitchen  as  easily  as  on  the  deck  of  a 
steamer. 
likes 
and  dislikes,  your  petty  vanities  and 
jealousies  that  narrow  you  and  keep 
you  forever  chained  in  stuffy  quarters.
“ Stay  at  home  and  cultivate  a  wide 
tolerance;  try  to  realize  that  what  you 
think  may  not  be  exactly  the  standard 
for  the  rest  of  the  world  to  stand  and 
fall  b y ;  learn  to  look  and  see  with  the 
eyes  of  sympathy.  There  is  your  sov­
ereign  remedy  for  narrowness.  Read­
ing  will  help,  especially 
if  you  read 
books  that  strain  you  up  to  the  level  of 
a  bigger  mind.  But  there  have  been 
broad-minded  men  and  women 
in  this 
world  that  never  read  a  book.

“ Not  environment,  then,  but  our 

in­
look  to 
most  thought,  is  what  we  must 
for  this  much-desired  broadening 
in­
fluence.  Thinkers are not globe-trotters. 
Kant  never  went  500  miles  from  home 
during  the  whole  of  that 
long,  strenu­
ous  life  of  his,  yet  he  added  a  broad 
field  to  the  realms  of  thought.  Locke’s 
chosen  recreation  was  a  walk  through 
the  shady  lanes  not  far  from  his  study 
windows.  Rest  assured,  gadding-about 
will  not  broaden  you,  neither  will 
lec­
tures  nor  study  clubs,  if  it  is  the  same 
self-centered  being  that  is  to  go  and  to 
listen. 
If  you  are  resolved  to  jump  at 
conclusions  and  stick  where  you  hit  to 
your  dying  day,  you  might  as well  erase 
your  name  from  the  list  and  save  the 
fee.  There  is  not  that  course  of  study 
on  earth  that  can  make  you  a  broad­
minded  woman.  What  is  the  use  of  ac­
cumulating  fresh  facts  if  they  are  all  to 
be  dipped  in  the  same  dye-pot?

F.  H.  Lancaster.

you  wanted  him  to  stay?”   smiled  the 
mother.

“ I— I  don’t  know.  Oh,  I  don’t 
know,”   and  the  girl  threw  her  arms 
around  her  mother’s  neck  convulsively.
“ There,  there,  little  one,  don’t  cry,”  
“ Tell  mother 
it  was  all  about,  and  she  will 

lullabied  the  mother. 
what 
bring  Harry  back  to  his  little  girl.”

She  sobbed  for  a  moment  or  two,  and 

then  brokenly  told  her  story.

“ It  was  all  so  lovely  in  the  soft lamp­
light,”   she  whispered,  “ and  Harry  was 
talking  as  he  had  never  talked  before, 
for  he  is  so  bashful,  mamma,  and  be has 
never  said  half  as  much  as  I  wanted 
him  to,  and presently  when  I  thought  he 
was  going  to  say  he  loved  me,  he  said 
he  believed  I  didn’t  think  nearly  as 
much  of  him  as  I  did  of  some  one  else, 
and  I  told  him 
it  wasn't  so,  and  he 
broke  right  out  and  said,  ‘ Ick  leeber 
D ick,’  and  I  got  mad  and  said  I  didn’t 
know  anybody  named  Dick  and  I didn’t 
leeber  him  or  anybody,  whatever  he 
meant  by  leeber,  and  he  had  no  right  to 
say  anything  like  that  to  me.  Then  he 
laughed  at  me  and  kept  on 
laughing 
and 
laughing  until  the  tears  rolled 
down  his  cheeks,  and  1  kept  getting 
madder  and  madder  and  at  last  I  told 
him  he  was  horrid  and  I  didn’t  want  to 
ever  see  him  any  more,  and  I  showed 
him  to  the  door  and  wouldn’t 
listen  to 
any  explanations.  And  now  1  am  sure 
he  will  never  come  back.  Oh,  mamma, 
what  did  he  mean  by  saying  that  to 
me?”

The  mother’s 

linguistic  education 
may  have  been  slightly  defective  as 
well  as  the  daughter’s,  but  she  knew 
what  “ Amo  te,”   “ Je  t’aime,”   “ Ich 
liebe  dich”   and  a  few  more  like  that 
meant,  and 
soon  had  a  peace 
patched  up.

she 

An  Idyl  of Ignorance.

She  was  a  sensitive  young 

thing, 
whose  early  education  in  the  languages 
had  been  so  sadly  neglected  that  she 
didn’t  know  “ Ich  liebe  dich”   was  the 
German  for  “ I 
love  you,"  which,  of 
course,  was  her  misfortune  rather  than 
her  fault.  But  she  was  pretty  and  pink 
white  and  she  had  a  sweetheart.  What 
more  than  these  things  can  a  fair  young 
creature  ask  for  in  this  vale  of  tears? 
Still,  she  was  not  happy.  Possibly  it 
was  because  the  course  of  true 
love 
never  did  run  smooth  and  possibly  it 
was  because  the  young  man  in  the  case 
was  not  as  brave  as  he  was  tender,  and 
he  cloaked  his  sentiments  in  a  foreign 
tongue  instead  of  letting  them  right  out 
in  good  plain  English. 
In  any  event 
she  came  sobbing  to  her  mother  one 
evening at  just  about  the  hour  when lov­
ers  live  their  happiest  moments  and  the 
future  unfolds  from  the twilight shadows 
like  a  scroll  of  morning  sunlight,  all 
rosy  gold  and  promising.

“ Oh,  mamma,”   she  wept,  “ Harry 
and  1  have  quarreled  and  he  has  gone 
away. ”

“ Dear  me,  dear  me,”   soothed  the 
mother,  half  smiling  to  herself  as  she 
pillowed  her  child’s  head  on  its  natural 
resting  place,  “ has  he  gone  away  for­
ever  and  forever?”

“ I— I  don't  know,”   sobbed 

the 
broken-hearted  maiden. 
“ He  acted 
horrid  and  I  told  him  to  leave  me  and 
never  come  back.”

“ Why  did  you  tell  him  to go away  if

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

B utter  and  Eggs

Observations by  a Gotham   Egg  Man.
As  the  season  advances  it  is  interest­
ing  to  study  the  storage  egg  situation 
from  such  data  as  can  be  obtained 
in 
order to  get  a  line  on  the progress of un­
loading  and  size  up  the  chances  for the 
future.

There  is  no  doubt  that  the  accumula­
tions  of  eggs  in  cold  storage  up  to about 
the  middle  of  last  July  were  the 
largest 
ever  made,  and  the  cost  at  which  the 
goods  were  put  away  occasioned  grave 
fears  of  disastrous results under ordinary 
conditions  of  weather  and  trade  when 
the  results  of  previous  years’  operations 
were duly considered.  But  the abnormal 
heat  and  drought  throughout  the  West 
during  July  and part of August improved 
the  situation  materially  by  causing  an 
unusual  amount  of  waste 
in  the  mid­
summer  production  and  opening  the 
doors  of  the  refrigerators  for  unusually 
free  unloading  during  the  summer.

It  has  been  an 

interesting  question 
whether  the  help  thus  obtained  would 
prove  sufficient  to 
insure  a  satisfactory 
wind  up  of  the  stored  goods  as  a  whole, 
and  the  progress  of  fall  unloading,  as 
indicated  by  the  straws  of fact that come 
to  the  surface  of  the  market,  has  been 
watched  with  close  attention  by  all 
classes  of  egg  trade.

In  spite  of  the  unusually  liberal  sum­
mer  reduction  of  egg  stocks,  there  was 
every  indication  that  the  fall  season 
opened  with  far  larger  stocks  on  hand 
than  last  year,  although  probably  not 
larger  than  two  years  ago.

Fall  production  seems  to  have  been 
fully  as  large  during  September  and 
October  as  last  year.  There  have  lately 
been  reports 
from  some  sections  of 
lighter  receipts  as  compared  with  a 
year  ago,  but  the  arrivals  at  New  York 
for  the  two  months  ending  November 
i  were  418,925  cases,  against  402,317 for 
same  time 
last  year,  and  there  is  no 
reason  to think  that  a  materially  greater 
percentage  of  these  consisted  of  refrig­
erator  eggs.  The  rate  of  reduction 
in 
refrigerator  holdings  can  not,  therefore, 
be  supposed  to  have  been  materially 
greater  than  last  year  since  September 
1  and  we  should  expect  a  statement  of 
stock  on  hand  to  show  still,  on  Novem­
ber  1,  a  materially  larger  quantity  than 
on  that  date  a  year  ago.

in  New  York 

The  statements  of  stock  in  Boston  in­
dicate  a  greater  October  reduction  this 
year  than  last,  but  Boston  holders  were 
not  free  sellers 
in  October  last  year 
while  in  this  vicinity  there  was  a  more 
urgent  offering  and  a  relatively  greater 
reduction;  Boston  stocks  have,  there­
fore,  approached  more  nearly 
to  last 
year’s  figures  than  have  New  York’s. 
Boston  had  about  117,000 cases  of  eggs 
left  on  November  1  against  about  n o ,- 
000  last  year;  the  reduction  during  Oc­
tober was  about  23  per  cent.  Estimat­
ing  the  holdings 
from 
such  general  information  as  can  be  ob­
tained  from  the  warehouses,  we  should 
say  the  reduction  for  October  was  about 
25  per  cent,  and  that  we  had 
left  No­
vember  1  about  160,000  cases against 
about  120,000 cases  last  year.  The  Jer­
sey  City  house 
(whose  holdings  are 
really  a  part  of  New  York’s  stock for all 
purposes of comparison) had  28,000 cases 
left  on  November  1;  there  was  no  stor­
age  there  a  year  ago. 
If  our  October  1 
estimate  of  Chicago’s  holdings  was 
about  right,  and  if  the  reduction  there 
has  been  about  the  same  in  proportion 
as  it  has  been  in  the  East,  say  25  per 
cent.,  there  ought  to  be  about  410,000

cases  left  there  on  November  1,  and 
this  agrees  pretty  closely  with  some 
recent  estimates  by  well  posted  Chicago 
operators.  The  surplus  there  over  last 
year  is  greater  than  in  the  East.

One  feature  of  the  situation  deserves 
especial  consideration  —  the  general 
quality  of  remaining  stocks.  It  is  prob­
ably  true  that  the  unloading  so 
far  ac­
complished  has  carried  away  most  of 
the  warm  weather  eggs—stored  during 
the  latter  part  of  May,  June  and  early 
July.  The  earlier  packings  have,  nat­
urally  been  held  with  the  most  con­
fidence.  But  evidences  are cropping up 
that  a  large  part  of  the  May  accumula­
tions,  and  some  of  the  April  eggs  as 
well,  are  disappointing  their holders  in 
point  of  quality.  The  demand  at  good 
prices  is  becoming  more  and  more  dis­
criminating  and  dealers 
looking  for 
first-class  goods  have  lately  had increas­
ing  difficulty in finding stock of  the  high 
grade  wanted.  The  offerings  have  in­
dicated  rather  a  low  average  quality 
in 
the  remaining  goods  and  this  must  be 
regarded  as  an  unfavorable  element 
in 
the  situation.  With  at 
least  another 
six  weeks  of  prospective  light  supplies 
of  fresh  eggs  there  is  a  general  feeling 
of  confidence  in  the  value  of strictly fine 
grades  of  held  stock—such  as  can  be 
satisfactorily  used  to  supplement  the 
supply  of  fresh  in  the  better  classes  of 
trade;  but  there  is  a  very  large quantity 
of  spring  eggs  that  holders  are  offering 
urgently  at  prices  equivalent  to  about 
i6j^@i7c  laid  down in Eastern markets, 
for  which  the  outlook  must  be  regarded 
as  unfavorable.  To  force  a  free  move­
ment  of  these  goods  now  prices  would 
have  to  be  reduced  enough  to  stimulate 
a  demand  from  the  cheaper  classes  of 
trade,  and  it  is  a question worthy of  ser­
ious  consideration  whether better  results 
would  not  be  obtained  by  putting  the 
knife  in  now  rather than  wait  until  the 
last  moment  when  even  more  serious 
reductions  might  have  to  be  made.— 
N.  Y.  Produce  Review.

During  the  last  century the population 
of  the  territory  which  now  constitutes 
the  German  empire  was  very  nearly 
trebled,  notwithstanding  the  enormous 
emigration. 
It  has  increased  from  20,- 
000,000 to  nearly  60,000,000  souls,  and 
at  the  present  rate  of  increase  Germany 
will  have  a  population  of  100,000,000 
before  the  close  of  this  century.  The 
philosophers ask how  this  vast  multitude 
is  to  be  fed,  not  only  at  the  end  of  the 
century,  but  even  ten years hence.  Dur­
ing  the  last  hundred  years  the  agricul­
tural  products  have  been  quadrupled  by 
scientific  culture  and  fertilizing,  expen­
sive  drainage  and  other  intensive  meth­
ods,  which  are  within  the  reach  of  the 
ordinary  farmer  in  thickly  settled  com­
munities,  but  at  the  same  time  increas­
ing  the  cost  in  the  same  ratio  as  the 
volume  of  the  crop.  During  the  last  ten 
years  the  increase  of  acreage  has  been 
about  4  per cent.  ;  the increased produc­
tion  of  wheat  has  been  10  per  cent.,  rye 
19 per  cent.,  barley  3  per  cent,  and  po­
tatoes  25  per  cent.

American  coal  has  lately  been  finding 
some  demand  in  European  markets,  but 
there 
is  no  prospect  that  it  will  very 
soon  be  sold  in  large  quantities  there. 
Texas  oil 
is  believed  to  have  a  much 
better chance  of  adoption  for  fuel  pur­
If  it  can  be  transported  safely 
poses. 
and  cheaply,  it  will  receive 
immediate 
favor.  Texas  oil  is  unlimited  in  quan­
tity, and  it  is  reasonable  to suppose  that 
it  will  become  an  important  factor  in 
the  “ American  invasion”   of  the  Old 
World.

POULTRY

A N D   G A M E

If you have  any  to  market,  why  not  ship  to  a  house  that 
give  their entire  attention  to  that  line?  We  are  the  most  exclu­
sive  poultry handlers  on  our  market.  We  positively  guarantee 
you outside  market  prices  at  all  times  with  prompt  returns.

If you  have  never  shipped  to  us,  we  ask  you  to  look  up  our 
responsibility  carefully through  Dun’s,  Bradstreet’s,  People’s Bank of 
Buffalo, all Express Companies and  Michigan  Tradesman.  For  further 
references write  to  us  for  names  of  shippers  in  your  section  who 
are  sending  us  their  poultry  regularly. 
If  you  find  us  worthy  of 
your  trade,  let  us  keep  you  posted,  and  when  our  market  justi­
fies  try  us  with  light  shipments.  We  know  we  can  hold  your 
steady  business  if we can  only  get  started  with  you.  Our  quo­
tations  you  will  always  find  conservative.  Send  us your  name 
and  we  will  mail  you  printed  instructions  in  full  how  to  dress, 
pack  and  ship  poultry for  our  market  to  obtain best  prices. 
If 
advancement  is  any accommodation,  make  draft  for  reasonable 
amount.  W R IT E   US.

Commission  Merchants

141  and  143  Michigan  Street,  Buffalo,  New  York

e . D. CRITTENDEN,

S u c c e sso r  to  C.  H.  LIBB Y .

Wholesale  Butter,  Eggs,  Fruits,  Produce.

Consignments solicited.  Reference, State Bank of  Michigan.

9 8  S o .  D iv isio n   S t. 
®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®®@@(§)§@

B o th   p h o n es,  1300. 

Grand  R ap id s,  M ich. 

We are making a specialty at present on fancy

Messina  Lemons

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

wire for quotations.

E.  E.  HEWITT,
Successor  to  C.  N.  Rapp  &  Co.

9  North  Ionia  Street,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

Qeo.  N.  Huff & Co.

W A N T E D

10.000 Dozen  Squabs,  or  Young  Pigeons  just  before  leaving  nest  to  fly. 
Also  Poultry,  Butter,  Eggs and Old  Pigeons.  Highest  market  guaranteed 
on all shipments.  Write for references and quotations.

55  Cadillac  Square,  Detroit,  Michigan

R.  HIRT,  JR.

34  and  36 Market  Street,  Detroit,  Mich.

FRUITS  AND  PRODUCE

Write  for  Quotations

References—City Savings Bank, Commercial Agencies

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28

F lorida  Oranges  Again  a  Potent  Factor.
Only  six  years  have  elapsed  since 
the  last  fatal  freeze  in  Florida  destroyed 
most  of  the  orange  trees  in  that  State. 
Florida  had  twice  suffered  from  this  ca­
lamity  within  a  decade. 
It  was  feared 
that  the  days  of  orange  growing  there 
were  at  an  end. 
It  did  not  seem  likely 
that  growers  would  have  the  courage  to 
plant  new  groves,  liable  to  be  destroyed 
in  a  night  after the  investment  of  much 
capital  and  labor.

The  growers  did  plant  again,  how­
ever,  and  this  year’s  crop  is  a  fine  one. 
Mr.  Stephen  Powers,  Secretary  of  the 
Florida  Horticultural  Society,  says  that 
Florida  will  give  the country this  season 
about  1,000,000 boxes.  Nearly a  million 
trees  have  been  planted  within  the  past 
few  years.  Not  more  than  half as  many 
in  bearing,  however,  as 
trees  are  yet 
were  a  source  of  profit  before  the 
last 
great  freeze.

frost. 

The  most 

Florida  orange  growers  have  had  bit­
ter  experience  and  are  profiting  by  it. 
Many  scores  of  wealthy  growers  and 
even  poor  men  are  providing  sheds  and 
tents  for  the  protection  of  their  groves 
against 
expensive 
methods  of  protecting  cost  from  $400 to 
$1,200  an  acre,  but  it  is found that  even 
this  large  outlay  pays  with  good  man­
agement.  Growers  are  also  moving  the 
area  of  cultivation  further  South  yvhere 
no  frost  has  ever  reached.  Groves  are 
now  flourishing  on  the  edge  of  the 
Everglades  in Dade county.  The  fertil­
izers  and  cultural  systems  used 
in  the 
upper  counties  are  aiso  being  employed 
in  the  South.  The southward movement 
has  thus  far  been  very  successful,  the 
results  showing  that  there 
is  nothing  in 
the  climate  or  soil  of  the  new  region 
which unfavorably influences  the orange.
The  orange  growers  did  fairly  well  in 
the  years  they  were  waiting  for  their 
new  groves  to  come  into bearing.  They 
canned  fruits  of  various  kinds,  raised 
stock  and  poultry,  milk  and  eggs,  and 
shipped  melons,  cantaloupes,  pineap­
ples,  strawberries  and  vegetables  to 
Northern markets.  They did not  handle 
as  much  money  as  before  their  orange 
trees  were  killed;  but  they  lived  very 
comfortably  and  now  have  before  them 
the  bright  prospect  of  a  complete  re­
newal  of  their  former  prosperity  as 
raisers  of  Florida  oranges.— New  York 
Sun.

Sent  Pictures  of Bride  and Groom  Ahead 

of Them.

Some  men  have  queer  ideas  of  what 
is  funny  and  Charles  Somers,  a  Cincin­
nati  commercial  traveler,  has  played  a 
joke  on  his  brother  David,  which 
is 
causing  Charles  to  laugh 
inordinately. 
David  Somers  was  married  recently  in 
Ohio,  and  with  his 
trusting  bride 
planned  a  wedding  trip  to  California. 
Charles  helped  David  lay  out  his  route 
and  as  Charles  is  familiar  with  the  ho­
tels  along  the  way,  and  counts  cletks  at 
the  leading  hostelries  among  his  ac­
quaintances,  it  was 
left  to  Charles  to 
make  things  pleasant  for the newly mar­
ried  pair.  David thought. Charles  would 
write  a  letter to  each  hotel,  mentioning 
that his  brother  would  arrive  shortly, 
and  stating  that  any  courtesies,  etc.

David  did  not  count on Charles’ funny 
bone  itching  so  greatly  as  it  had,  and 
was  unaware  of  what  Charles  really 
would do.  Charles  took  photographs  of 
his  brother  and  his  fiancee  to  an  en­
graver  and  had  fine  half-tone cuts made. 
These  he  turned  over to  a  printer  with 
an  order for  posters  a  foot 
long,  and  a 
foot  wide.  On  the  posters  in  large  type 
is  the  following:

”  Who  are  they?  Look  atound!  Do 
you  recognize  them?  Just married ; now 
on  their  wedding  trip.”

The  large  type  surrounds the  pictures 
of  Mr.  and  Mrs.  Somers,  and  the  post­
ers  were  mailed,  presumably  to  every 
hotel  clerk  between  Ohio  and  Los  An­
geles.  A  few  days  ago  the  guests  and 
employes  of  the  Hotel  Nadeau  in  Los 
Angeles,  were  waiting  for  brother  Dave 
and  his  bride,  and  the  porters  were  at 
the  depot  in  Los  Angeles,  each  with  a 
poster,  which  he  surveyed  hourly  to  im­
print  on  his  mind  the 
likeness  of  the 
couple.  Brother  Charles’  joke  has  cer­
tainly  made  a  hit.

G etting the  Old  Man’s  Consent.

“ It  was  settled  some  time  ago  that 
he  was  to  marry  my daughter, ”   said  the 
father of a  girl  of  the  period,  “ but  it 
yet  remained  for  the  young  man  to  get 
my  consent. 
It  was  merely  a  formality, 
however, as  I  had  cut  no  figure  whatever 
during  the  campaign,  my girl arranging 
matters  to  suit  herself  without  consult­
ing  me  or  my wishes.

‘ ‘ Now,  I  remembered  with  what  trep­
idation  I  had  approached  my  wife’s 
father  when  1  asked  him  for  her  hand, 
and  made  up  my  mind  that  when  that 
young  man  showed  up  to  ask  me  for 
my  daughter’s  hand  I  would  have  re­
venge,  not  only  for  what  1  had  to  pass 
through  when  I  urged  my  suit,  but  for 
being  shoved  to  the  background  during 
the  present  proceedings.

‘ ‘ Well,  he  called  at  my  office  yester- 
.day,  and  I  told  my  office  boy  to  admit 
him  and  leave  us  alone  and  see  that  we 
were  not  disturbed.

”   ‘ Just  dropped  in ,’  said  he,  easily, 
declining  to  take  a  seat,  ‘ ‘ to  tell  you 
that  I  am  going  to  marry  your  daughter 
the  middle  of  next month. 
It will be  an
informal  affair,  so  you  may  consider 
yourself  invited  without  further  notice. 
Good  day. ’

“ Before  I  could  catch  my  breath  he 
was  gone  and  when I  complained  to  my 
daughter  about  his  treatment  of  me, 
all  the  comfort  I  got  was  that  I  could 
consider  myself  fortunate  in  getting  an 
invitation,  as  it  was  to  be  an  exclusive 
affair.”

Got a $14  P earl  W ith  His  Oysters. 

From the Chicago InterO cean.

Morgan  H.  Morgan,  file  clerk  in  the 
office  of  the  Clerk  of  the  Circuit  Court, 
in company  with several friends, lunched 
in  a  restaurant  at  Clark  and  Randolph 
streets,  and,  among  other  things,  the 
entire  party  partook  of  fried  oysters. 
Morgan  picked  out  a  large,  juicy  one, 
and  was  beginning  to  eat  it  with  a  rel­
ish,  when  his  teeth  grated  on  a  hard 
substance.

He  removed  the object from his  mouth 
and  was  about  to  tell  the  waiter  that  he 
bad  not  ordered  the  oysters  to  be  seas­
oned  with  gravel,  when  his  attention 
was  attracted  by  the  reflection  of  the 
light  upon  the  object  he  had  thrown  on 
the  table. 
Investigation  showed  that  it 
was  a  pearl  of  good  size.

Morgan  put  the  pearl  in  his  pocket, 
and  after  leaving  the  restaurant  went  to 
the  office  of  a  lapidary 
in  the  Cham­
plain  building,  where  he  was  offered 
$14  for the  gem.  He took  the  money.

Things  Are  Not  W hat They  Seem.

“ What’s  them?”   enquired  Mrs.  Corn- 
tossel  as  the  farmer  opened  bis  carpet 
bag  and  let  the  contents  drop  on  the 
floor.

“ Them  is  two  gold  bricks.”
“ Swindled!”
“ No,  sirree. 

I  paid  25  cents  apiece 
fur  ’em. 
I ’m goin’ to  leave ’em  around 
the  house  so  that  when  folks come  along 
with  cash  to  pay  fur  country  board 
they’ll  say  we’re sech  simple,  unworldly 
people  it’s  a  pity  to  take  advantage  of 
us.”

HOLIDAY  POULTRY

Thanksgiving Turkeys—Perhaps the largest  proportion  of owners of turkeys prefer 
and  do market their turkeys at Thanksgiving to save further feeding and care.
Hence, as many are thin, it is policy to ship such alive as they will  often  bring  more 
alive than dressed, or as much,  we know three houses who will probably use  a  full  car 
each of live turkeys while  many smaller dealers combined, will use several cars  more,  so 
we can easily place several cars of live turkeys if got here by November 20-21 at  latest, as 
well, we believe, as any market—none excepted.
Dressed Turkeys—We are trying to correctly inform you what we  claim  and  believe 
can prove is a conservative view of Buffalo Thanksgiving poultry market.  We expect  re­
ciprocation by those who feel that our services will be satisfactory; however, if yo do  not 
favor us with your stock we trust we have done you a favor  rather  than  otherwise.  We 
strive to deserve the confidence and risk placed In us and surely  we  value  our  Integrity 
too much to abuse it by misusing you or misadvising you: and as we  are  responsible  for 
what poultry Is likely to come to us we feel, with our ability and  experience with poultry, 
that we should have at least equal consideration by you with any  house  if  you  get  yoar 
money back as quick, or quicker, than expected, and as good prices as anyone can give you.
We also can sell many fat live turkeys at an excellent  price  to  home  dressers,  who 
prefer dressing their own stock, same as we do chickens all the time.
Live Ducks—We can assure you excellent results on all ducks  you  can  ship,  live  or
Ducks, if thin, sell much better alive than dressed.  But fat  ducks  dressed  bring  as 
much as they will any way.  Please let us have all the ducks you can buy right, no matter 
how many, to be here November 22-23.  Either dressed or alive.  Prices  will  equal  New 
York on any poulty. fat or thin, or any other market.
Prospects—With apparent continued prosperity with all classes, It  would  be  reason­
able to presume that this Thanksgiving will be one most observed for years, and  if  so, it 
Is also fair to expect an excellent poultry trade, especially If the weather is favorable.
Chickens—Large fat chickens are the kind wanted for Thanksgiving, and don’t matter 
how many you ship of such.  Common and thin, of course, will  sell  In  big  quantities  at 
proportionate values.
Prices—Fancy fat turkeys will hold up well—probably 12c for dressed and lie for live, 
with the expected supplies, while  with  materially  decreased  receipts  or  extraordinary 
cold weather it is very easy to jump prices sharply.  Heavy  storms,  bad  roads,  etc.,  al­
ways lessen receipts.  We remember Thanksgivings where  exorbitant  values  have  been 
forced, while some seasons also have been bad, but since the cold  storage  men  and  can­
ning factories have been using such enormous amounts of poultry we have not  really  had 
one bad market.  Every sign points to  these  people  wanting  their  usual  supply.  Two 
canning factories alone will probably use $20,000 worth of poultry each  up  to  January  1, 
while another will use nearly as much.
November 22-23 are the dates to have your poultry  HEBE.  If  dressed,  and weather 
justifies, ship by freight;  if hot  ship by express.
Refer to Third National Bank. Buffalo, Berlin  Heights  Bank,  Berlin  Heights,  Ohio. 
Our shippers are our best reference—names of same or satisfactory  reference  most  any­
where on demand.  It is an advantage to us to know what you expect to  ship  us.  W rite 
us for our 50-page book of instructions for dressing, etc.

BATTERSON & CO.,

Prompt,  Reliable and Responsible  Poultry Commission Merchants 

for 33 years.

92  Michigan  Street,  BUFFALO,  N.  Y.

“ W A N T E D ”

We  are  in  the  market  for

BEANS, CLOVER,  ALSYKE,  POTA­

TOES  AND  ONIONS

Correspond with us before selling.

ALFRED  J.  BROW N  SEED  CO.,  GRAND  RAPIDS,  M IC H .

M O SELEY  BRO S.

B U Y  B EA N S,  C L O V E R   S E E D ,  FIE LD  

P E A S ,  P O T A T O E S ,  O N IO N S,
less. 

If  any  stock  to  offer  write  or  telephone  us. 

Carloads  or 

2 8 - 3 0 - 3 2   O TT A W A   S T .,  G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

W H O L E S A L E

O Y S T E R S
P O T A T O E S

F.  J.  DETTENTHALER,  Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

C A N   OR  B U L K .

Wanted  in carlots only.  We pay highest  market  price. 

and  quality.

In  writing  state  variety

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

G R A N D   R A P ID S ,  M IC H .

Long Distance Telephones—Citizens 2417 
B ell Main 66 

304 & 305 Clark B uilding,

Opposite Union D epot

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

Clerks’  Corner.
W hat a  L etter B ig h t to  th e P oint Did. 

Written for The Tradesman.

The 

Hass  Basset  had  left  school  early  and 
gone  West—not  because  he  had  to  but 
because  he  wanted  to.  He  had  a  mother 
who  “ just  idolized’ ’  him  and his father, 
a  good  square  man  all  around, was keep­
ing  his  business  on  the  whirl  and  could 
not  on  that  account  be  bothered  with 
boy-training. 
consequence  was 
that  the  mother,  like any  other  hen  with 
one  chicken,  clucked  and  ruffled  her 
feathers  and  fussed  over  the  pretty  fair­
ly  averaged  boy  that  Heaven  had  given 
her  and  did  everything  she  could  to fur­
nish  him  with  the  essentials  to  get  him 
into  the  reform  school.  Thus  qualified, 
the  fit  took  Hass  to  follow  the  Star  of 
Empire  and  with  a  trunkful  of  clothes 
and  no  end  of  motherly  admonitions  he 
went  to  Denver  to  begin  the  battle  of 
life.  A  business  friend  of  Mr.  Bassett’s 
had  promised  the  boy  a  place  if  he  was 
willing  to  begin  “ way  down’ ’  and  Hass 
was  in  the  right  mood  to  take  anything 
just  then  and  snapped  at  the  offer  with 
all  the  avidity  of  a  hungry  trout.

Things  went  along  swimmingly  at 
first.  The  shoe  business  just-fitted  him 
and,  what  was  more  to  the  purpose,  he 
just  fitted  that  business.  Off  went  his 
coat  and  up  went  his  sleeves  and  down 
into  the  basement  went  the  boy  and  as 
long  as  the  novelty 
lasted  he  satisfied 
himself  and  everybody  who  had  any­
thing  to  do  with  him.  For three  happy 
weeks  this  delightful  condition of things 
went  on  and  then  it  occurred  to  Hass 
that  as 
long  as  he  had  mastered  that 
part  of  the  business  it  was  time  for  him 
to  move  up.  The  basement  was  dark, 
he  was  positive  it  was  damp,  he  knew 
that 
it  was  unhealthy  down  there  and, 
with  all  the  assurance  that  both  father 
and  mother  had  fostered,  he  announced 
to  the  head  of  the  house  that,  having 
mastered  the  business  downstairs,  he 
would  like  to  come  up  into  a  better  po­
sition  at  the  end  of  the  month.

The  tone  and  after  that  the  manner  of 
the  youngster  made  the  man  in the office 
chair  look  up  and  then  the  absurdity  of 
the  whole  thing  so  amused  him  that  he 
burst  into  a  hearty  laugh.

learn  your 

“ Why,  my  boy,  you  haven’t  begun 
to 
letters  yet  in  your  work 
downstairs.  The  man 
in  charge  down 
there  will  know  when  you  have,  a  good 
deal  sooner  than  you  do,  and  all  that 
you  have  to  do  is  to  peg  away  with 
might  and  main,  making  yourself  just 
as  busy  as  you  can  and  just  as  useful  as 
you  can.  Then  when  there  is  a  place 
higher  up  and  the  manager believes that 
you  can  fill  it,  up  you  go  and  there  you 
are.  You'd  better  go  down  as  soon  as 
you  can, 
for  I’m  convinced  that  he 
needs  you  now.”

Well,there  certainly  was  nothing  very 
in  that  and  back  he  went, 
comforting 
in  his  old  habit  of  kicking 
indulging 
in  his  way  and 
everything  that  came 
feeling 
like  the  thunder cloud  that  was 
lowering  and  black  in  his  angry  face. 
For  a  time  it  drew  forth  no  comment, 
but  at 
last  the  boss  concluded  he  had 
enough  of that  and  expressed  himself  in 
terms  that  promptly  accomplished  the 
purpose.  The  inner tempest,  however, 
still  raged.  He,  Hass  Bassett,  wasn’t 
going  to  stand  much  more  of  that  sort 
of  work  and  treatment.  He  didn’t have 
to 
just 
wouldn’t.  His  father  had  a  business 
that  could  discount  this  ten  to  one  and 
all  he  had  to  do  was  to  send  for a  draft 
and  start  for home, and  he  was going  to.

and,  what  was  more,  he 

in  contact  with 

Of  course,  this  twaddle  died  down  at 
sunset  and  the  boy  was  on  hand  bright 
and  early  in  the  morning ;  but  from that 
time  on 
it  was  the  shady  side  of  life 
that  he  saw  and,  when once  foul  weather 
begins, it  is  remarkable  how  it  hangs  on 
and  how 
it  darkens  everything  that 
comes 
it.  So  there 
seemed  to  be  a  coldness  growing  up  be­
tween  the  other  fellows  and  Hass.  Stan­
ton  had  got  to  watching  him  and  was 
“ always  on  the  faultfind.”   The  work 
dragged  and  the  boy  found  more  pleas­
ure  in  watching  the  clock  than  in seeing 
how  much  he  could  crowd 
the 
passing  time.  This  was  only  the  pre­
lude  to  the  effort  to  see  how  little  he 
could  do  and  hqve  it  pass  for a  day’s 
work  and,  finally,  not  liking  at  all  what 
followed,  the  boy  made  up  his  mind 
that  the  best  thing  he  could  do  was  to 
quit  and  go  home.  He  couldn’t  do  that 
without  a  remittance,  and  this 
is  the 
letter  he  wrote:

into 

Dear  Daddy— I’ve  about  made  up 
my  mind  that  home 
is  plenty  gooa 
enough  for  me.  This  firm  don’t  seem 
to  know  when  they  get  a  good  man  and 
don't  appreciate  him. 
I  worked  hard 
for  three  weeks  down  cellar  and  after  I 
had  my  work  down  fine  I  asked  the  old 
man for a  send  up  and he  laughed  at  me 
and  said  I  didn’t know my  a,  b,  c’s.  Of 
course,  that  has  made  me  dissatisfied. 
When  you  take  a  man’s  heart  out of him 
you  can’t  expect  to get  no  more  hpnest 
work  out  of  him.  That’s  where  I 
stand  to-day.  I  want  to  come  home  and 
go  into  business  with  you. 
I  feel  that  I 
can  help  you  a  good  deal.  After  a  fel­
low  has  been  away  from  home  and  seen 
something  of  the  world  he  is  ready  to 
come  home  and  settle  down  and  be 
somebody.  You  had  better  send  me  a 
check  at  once  and  you  had  better  make 
it  more  than  enough  to  cover  my  fare 
and  board  bill  because  I  have  a  few  lit­
tle  items  that  I  had  to  have  and  haven’t 
paid  for. 
It  will  be  a  proud  and  happy 
day  when  I  tell  Stanton  he  may  take  his 
job  and  start  for  thunder  with  it  just  as 
soon  as  he  darn  pleases.

Your  affectionate  son,  Hass.

A  few  mornings  later,  noticing  Hass’ 
cramped  bandwriting,  “ Daddy”  opened 
that  letter  first. 
It  was  nip  and  tuck 
which  would  get  the  upper  hand  for 
some time—amusement or anger;  but the 
proposal  to  go  into  business  tipped  the 
scales  and  the  man  leaned  back 
in  his 
chair and  laughed.  Then,  calling  in  his 
stenographer,  this  is  what  he  dictated:
Mr.  Hassan  Myron  Bassett.  Dear 
Sir:  Yours  of  a  recent  date  has  come 
duly  to  hand  and  contents  noted.

I  have  to  say  in  reply  that  the  firm 
and  the  name  will  remain  unchanged.  I 
have also  to  state  that  I  see  no  reason 
for  forwarding  to  your  address  the check 
your  letter  calls  for.  While  I  regret  ex­
ceedingly the  unfortunate  state  of  affairs 
existing  between  you  and  Mr.  Stanton, 
whom  I  know  to  be  a  most  worthy  gen­
tleman,  I  am  forced  to  believe  that  the 
cause  is  wholly  yours,  the  only  mistake 
in  my  opinion  being  his  not  discharg­
ing  you  at  once.

1  urge  you,  then,  to  regain  his  lost 
good  will  by  making  yourself  necessary 
to  the  house  in  the  position  you  have 
been  so  fortunate  as  to  secure.  You 
will  receive  no  encouragement  from  me 
until  you  are  able  to  assure  me  that  you 
have  made  a  success  in  your present  po­
sition.  The  Bassett  Company 
is  not 
in  the  habit  of  taking  into  its  employ 
persons  who  have  made  a  failure  else­
where. 

Your  affectionate  father,

John  Bassett.

In  due  time  Hass  Bassett  went  home; 
but  when  he  went  he  carried  a  recom­
mendation  from  the  head  of  the  house 
that  made  three  hearts  glad—the  writer, 
the  bearer  and  the  receiver.

Richard  Malcolm  Strong.

Co-operation  Between E m ployer and Em ­

ploye.

An  attentive  employe  maketh  a  glad 
employer;  a  crabbed  employer  maketh 
an  inattentive  employe.  Just  why  em­
ployers  do  not  endeavor  to  make  all 
their  employes  attentive  is  hard  to  dis­
cern,  when  it  is  taken 
into  considera­
tion  that  the  employe  is  one  of  the  most 
valuable  assets  the  employer  has.

it 

A  salesman  is  an  absolute  necessity, 
and 
lies  with  the  employer to  make 
that  salesman  take  the  proper  share  of 
interest 
in  his  business.  By  this  it  is 
not  meant  that  the  salesman  should  be 
petted  and  fawned  upon.

To  the  credit  of  some  merchants  it 
can  be  said that  they do  realize  how  im­
portant  it  is  to  have  salesmen  who  are 
content  and  satisfied  with  their  lot  and 
treatment.  These merchants are the  most 
successful  business  men 
in  the  world, 
yet  the  fact  remains  that  there  are  other 
employers  who  love  to  assert  and  show 
their  authority,  and,  as  a  rule,  they  do 
so  at  the  most 
for 
instance,  when  a  clerk  is  engaged  with 
a  customer,  or  in  the  presence  of  other 
disinterested  parties.  This 
is  a  great 
mistake.

inopportune  times; 

It  creates  a  feeling  of  discontent,  con­
sequently  inattention  to business,  so that 
the  clerk  is  of  no  use  to  his  employer or

to  himself.  Some  others  console  them­
selves  with  the  idea  that  they  can  get 
plenty  of  clerks  if  those  in  their  employ 
are  dissatisfied  with  their lot.  This may 
be  very  true,  yet  one  of  the  greatest 
detriments  to  a  retail  business  is  con­
stant  changing  of  salespeople.  To  be­
gin  with,  the  new  ones  have  to  be  edu­
cated  to  the  way  of  doing  business. 
They  must  learn  the  stock  and  get  ac­
quainted  with  the  trade. 
They  are 
probably  paid  the  same  as  the old clerk, 
who  had  all  of  these  things  learned.

employer 

Then  another  disadvantage  to  the  em­
ployer  is  that  clerks,  when  on  the  out­
side,  are  wont  to  talk  shop,  and  the 
“ crabbed”  
gets 
toasted  to  such an extent that after a time 
it  becomes  a 
little  difficult  to  engage 
competent  salespeople.  So  it  will  pay 
best  for  the  employer to  be  a  little 
lib­
eral  with  his  clerks.

usually 

Teach  employes  that  the  interests  of 
the  proprietor  and  salesman  are  mutual. 
This  can  be  done  without  a  cent  of  cost 
to  the  employer  if  he  will  consult  with 
employes  occasionally  upon  the  needs 
of  the  store  and  the  stock;  whether  it 
would  be  best  to  add  a  certain 
line  or 
discontinue  another,  etc.  Give the clerk 
a  holiday  occasionally 
the  warm 
months.

in 

Lillian  Bell,  who  won  her  first  fame 
as  a  writer  by  her  accurate  portrayal  of 
the  sentiments  of  an  old  maid 
is  mar­
ried  now  and  feels  different. 
“ Tc  be 
in  love,”   she  says,  “ is  to  know  anxiety 
in  the  hour  of  his  illness  and  apprehen­
sion  over  bis  weakness;  to  feel  respon­
sibility,  which  you  must  bear  for  your­
self.  No  one  can  even  share  it  with  you 
to  lighten  your  burden.  To  be  in 
love 
is  to  have  half  your  life  go  with  him 
when  the  door  closes,  and  to 
live  only 
for  his  return. 
is  to  have  all  your 
selfish  desires  lose  shape  and  resolve 
themselves  into  ambitions  for  him. 
It 
is  to  find  happiness 
in  his;  for  your 
ideals  to  take  a  more  virile  form;  your 
hopes  a  loftier  aspect. 
is  to  forget 
yourself  and  your  eager  search  for  hap­
piness  and  to  merge  your  whole  exist­
ence 
into  prayer  to  do  more,  to  give 
more,  to  be  more,  not  for  the  approval 
of  your  little world,  but  closing  the  door 
on  all  in  the  great  without,to  pour  your­
self  and  all  that  you  are  and  all that you 
hope  to  be 
into  the  small  and  sacred 
within— for  his  sake.  That  is  to  be  in 
love.  Are  you?”

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Commercial Travelers

Michigan Knights of the Grip

President,  Geo. F. Owen,  Grand  Baplds;  Sec­
retary,  A.  W.  Stitt,  Jackson;  Treasurer, 
J ohn W. Schbam, Detroit.

United Commercial Trawlers of Michigan 

Grand  Counselor,  H.  E.  Bartlett,  Flint; 
Grand  Secretary,  A.  Kendall,  Hillsdale; 
Grand Treasurer, C. M. Edelman, Saginaw.

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

Senior Counselor,  W  B.  Compton;  Secretary- 

Treasurer, L. F. Baker.

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

.P relim inary  A rrangem ents  for  the  Lan­

sing Convention.

Lansing,  Nov.  n —1  am  in  receipt  of 
yours  of  Nov.  9 and  thank  you  for  your 
kind  words  for  myself  and  for  your  in­
terest  in  the  success  of  the  efforts  of 
Post  A  to  make  the  coming  convention 
a  success.
I  will  endeavor,  hereafter,  to give you 
a  report  of  the  meetings  of  our  Post 
promptly,  and  regret  that  1  have  not 
done  so  before.  One  reason  why  I have 
not  done  so  is  that,  not  being  engaged 
in  selling  goods  on  the  road,  1  bad 
felt 
that,  perhaps,  some  of those actively en­
gaged  in  traveling  would  do  so  and  do 
it  better  than  I. 
1  am  holding  down  a 
job  in  the  State  Land  Office,  but  joined 
the  organization  some  years  ago  while  a 
member  of  the  gripsack  brigade  and 
for  the  past  two  years  “ the  boys”   have 
thought  that  1  could  do  the 
local  Post 
more  good  as  their  scribe  than 
in  any 
other  way  and  have  again  elected  me  to 
that  place.
I  will  say  here  that  everything  is  be­
ing  done  to  make  the  visit  of  our  broth­
ers  here  in  December  a  success.  The 
committees  have  all  been  appointed and 
are  doing  their  work  well.  The  meet­
ings  of  the  convention  will  be  held 
in 
Representative  chamber,  which  has 
been  secured  for  the  occasion,  and  the 
spacious  armory'of  Co.  E.,  M.  N.  G., 
has  been  placed  at  our  disposal  for  the 
social  functions.

A  banquet  will  be  given  on  Thursday 
evening, 
for  which  the  Committee  on 
Banquet  and  Programme  has  arranged 
a  very 
interesting  programme  and  a 
bountiful  menu.  The  Printing  Com­
mittee  and  the Committee on Invitations 
have  arranged  for the  early  completion 
of  their  work,  and  while  the  Committee 
on  Hotels  has  not  yet  submitted  a 
for­
mal  report,  it  is  well  known  that  the 
Lansing  hotels  will  not  fail  to  concede 
the  best  of  rates  and  plenty of accommo­
dations.
The  Ladies’  Auxiliary  is  actively  en­
gaged  in  assisting  Post  A  and  this  is  a 
guarantee  that  everything  will  be  well 
done.

*  *  *

Last  Saturday  evening  the  members 
of  the  Ladies’  Auxiliary  and  their  hus­
bands  surprised  Mayor  Hammell  (our 
Jim),  ex-President  of  Post  A  and  ex- 
President  of  the  M.  K.  of  G., 
in  his 
new  home.  About  seventy  were  present 
and  the  evening  was  passed at cards and 
other  amusements,  as  well  as  with  ice 
cream  and  cake.  Numerous  entertain­
ments  of  a  social  nature  are  promised 
for  the  winter.  Post  A  will  meet  at  the 
Hotel Downey on Saturday evening, Nov. 
16,  in  business  session,  and  all  travel­
ling  men  who  may  chance  to  be 
in  the 
city  at  that  time  will  be  given  a  hearty 
welcome  if  they  will  give  us  a call.

Ed.  R.  Havens.

The  committees  selected  by  Post  A  to 
undertake  the  detail  work  of  the  con­
vention  are  as  follows :
Executive— H.  E.  Bradner,  Jas.  F. 
Hammell,  C.  W.  Wynkoop,  E.  G. 
Hamblen,  J.  H.  Temmink,  E.  R.  Hav­
ens,  I.  L.  Truax,  C.  W.  Gilkey,  J.  D. 
Pilmore,  H.  L.  Robson,  E.  L.  Smith, 
H.  C.  Klockseim,  J.  C.  Saunders,  J.  A. 
Weston,  F.  R.  Lawrence.

Transportation—Jas.  F.  Hammell,  J. 
H.  Temmink,  Geo.  S.  Hyde,  H.  C. 
Klockseim,  Jas.  P.  Edmonds,  John  F. 
Betz. 
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Finance— H.  C.  Klockseim,  J.  J. 
Frost,  J.  A.  Weston.

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Badges—C.  W.  Wynkoop, J.  G.  Riley, 
J.  P.  H.  Armstrong,  C.  H.  Alexander, 
C.  H.  Ball,  W.  T.  Birney.

Carriages  and  Baggage—E.  G.  Ham­
blen,  M.  H.  Gunn.F.  M.  Seibley, R.  M. 
Tubbs,  C.  S.  Smith,  L.  A.  Baker.

Invitation—J.  C.  Saunders,  E.  G. 
Hamblen,  E.  R.  Havens,  L.  J.  May, 
C.  W.  Wynkoop,  W.  F.  Griffith.

Programme  and  Banquet—J.  A.  Wes­
ton,  J.  F.  Hammell,  H.  E.  Bradner,  J. 
C.  Saunders,  W.  H.  Price,  D.  A. 
Wright.

Ball—F.  R.  Lawrence,  A.  B.  Caster- 
lin,  C.  H.  Begg,  C.  C.  Barton,  C.  C. 
Covel,  F.  W.  Terwilliger.

Printing—C.  W.  Gilkey,  D.  J.  Dailey, 
L.  S.  Foster,  D.  D.  Ludlow,  W.  F. 
Sullivan,  C.  E.  Dant.

Hotels—J.  D.  Pilmore,  E.  S.  Porter, 
F.  M.  Ackerman,  E.  J.  Evans,  Leo Er­
lich,  J.  M.  Darrow.

Music— H.  L.  Robson,  E.  L.  Smith,
I.  L.  Truax,  J.  J.  Bush,  T.  K.  Jeffreys, 
L.  C.  Reynolds.

Parade—J.  H.  Temmink,  F.  R.  Law­
rence,  E.  C.  Park,  A.  J.  Patton,  F.  T. 
Nichols,  Geo.  L.  Davies.
Halls— E.  R.  Havens,  E.  S.  Porter,
J.  F.  Hammell,  F.  T.  Collver,  Otto 
Zeigler,  A.  M.  Clark.

Decorations—I.  L.  Truax,  F.  R.  Law­
rence,  W.  F.  Sullivan,  L.  Gibson,  L. 
E.  Frost,  A.  M.  Boice.

Reception—E.  L.  Smith,  A.  B.  Arm­
strong,  Geo.  S.  Armstrong,  E.  R. 
Arndt,  John  C.  Brown,  W.  L.  Bigelow, 
Geo.  C.  Cooper,  M.  R.  Carrier,  F.  T. 
Cushman,  G.  H.  Cook,  Geo.  Freeman, 
E.  D.  Glancy.D.  S.  Duffield.W.  C.  Dud­
ley,  Geo.  A.  Davis,  Theo.  C.  Gross, 
Wm.  Gilkey,  M.  H.  Gunn,  A.  L.  Har­
low,  A.  A.  Griffin,  W.  C.  Hill,  E.  G. 
Hamblen,  C.  J.  Harris,  John  Himel- 
berger,  H.  H.  Herrick,  R.  B.  Kellogg, 
R.  D.  Landon,  R.  W.  Langenbacher, 
C.  H.  Maynard,  L.  G.  Molitor,  H.  F. 
Murray,  T.  McEwing,  J.  J.  Mahoney, 
B.  D.  Northrup,  W.  H.  Newbrough,  A. 
L.  Nickerson,  Stanley  L.  Otis,  Ed.  F. 
Peer,  C.  F.  Paxson,  L.  M.  Patterson, 
J.  D.  Phelps,  L.  C.  Reynolds,  S.  H. 
Row,  A.  M.  Robson,  J.  C.  Saunders,  J.
B. 
Simon,  Bliss  Stebbins,  Harry 
Strong,  J.  H.  Temmink,  R.  U.  Tenney,
C.  H.  VanWaggoner,  J.  Watkins,  A. 
Woodmancy,  E.  E.  West,  Hon.  F.  M. 
Warner,  Geo.  D.  Wilcox,  N.  H.  Wil­
liams,  C.W.  Wynkoop,  J.  A.  Weston.

Free  Dancing; and  Card  Party.

Grand  Rapids,  Nov. 

12—A  good 
United  Commercial  Traveler  is  always 
a  good  traveling  man  (and  all  good 
traveling  men  should  be  U.  C.  T s.).  A 
traveling  man  who  is  called  good  is  one 
who,  from  the  time  he  starts  out  at  the 
commencement  of  his  trip,  whether  for 
one  week  or  one  month,  devotes  his  en­
tire  time  and  energy  to  selling  goods 
at  a  fair  profit  for the  firm  he  represents 
and,  at  the  same  time,  gives  his  cus­
tomers  every  possible  advantage  in  the 
way  of  special  leads  or  prices  and  mis­
represents  nothing  in  his  line.  At  the 
end  of  his  trip,  be  returns  home  and 
turns  his  time  and  attention  to  bringing 
happiness  and  sunshine 
loved 
ones—his  wife  and  family  Be  it  there­
fore  resolved  that  every  member  of 
Grand  Rapids  Council,  No.  131,  United 
Commercial  Travelers,  accompanied  by 
their  wives,  families and friends  (if  you 
have  no  wife,  bring  your  best  girl,  who 
may  sometime  be  your  wife),  attend  the 
complimentary  dancing  and  card  party 
at  the  Council  chambers,  corner  of Lyon 
and  Campau  streets,  Saturday  evening, 
Nov.  16.  Come early and stay  late.  The 
Committee  in  charge—C.  P.  Reynolds, 
S.  H.  Simmons  and  W.  B.  Holden— 
has  money  to  burn  with  which  to  enter­
tain  those  present. 

to  his 

JaDee.

The  regular quarterly  meeting  of  the 
Board  of  Directors  of 
the  Michigan 
Knights  of  the  Grip  will be  held  in  this 
city  Friday  and  Saturday  of  this  week. 
An  executive  session  will  be  held  at 
the  Warwick  Hotel  Friday  evening,  and 
the  business  not  finished  at  that  time 
will  be  completed  at  a  session  the  next 
morning.  President  Owen  is  planning 
a  theater  party  for  the  ladies  Friday 
evening,  after  which  he  expects  to  give 
them  a  lunch  at  one  of  the  clubs.

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POTATO  SITUATION

Interest  us, and  if  the same  is true  in your case wouldn’t  it  be  a 

wise  move to get acquainted?

IT'S  UP  TO  YOU

We  handle  potatoes  exclusively  and  are  open  to  any  sound 

business  proposition.

Wisconsin potatoes are going west and  chances are that  Chicago 
w ill use more Jlichigan  potatoes this year than  for several seasons. 
You  can  often  get  cars  to  make  Chicago  that  won’t  make  other 
points, and wouldn’t  it be a  big  advantage  to  have  a  Chicago  con­
nection  in whom you had  implicit confidence?  Why not take trouble 
to look  us up, we’ve the  reputation  of  treating  shippers  right?  Let 
us hear from you.

*§**§*

QUOTE  PRICES  WE  WILL  BUY

A L B E R T   M IL L E R   &   CO .

A  S O .  C LA R K   S T . 

C H IC A G O ,  ILL.

Owen Acetylene Gas Genrator

New  Improved  1901  Model

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T h e   W a r w i c k

Strictly first class.

Rates f2 per day.  Central location. 

Trade  of  visiting  merchants  and  travel­

ing men solicited.

A.  B.  GARDNER,  Manager.

Nearly  300  in 
use 
in  Michi­
gan  in  1901—  
the  banner year  of  its  ex­
istence. 

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Zeeland,  Mich  ,  Mar.  13,  1901. 
Dear  Sir— We  have  now  used  the 
“ Owen  Gas  Generator”  for  more 
than  two  years  and  are  entirely 
satisfied  with it. 
It is simple,  easy 
of  operation  and  produces  a  light 
as  economically  and  good  as  we 
can  concieve  of  being  produced 
from  carbide. 

Yours  truly,

A.  Lahuis.

Send  for booklet on Acety­

lene  Lighting.

Geo.  F.  Owen
Grand  Rapids,  Michigan

Manufacturer,

Electric & Gas Fixtures
As we design and  manufacture 
our  own  fixtures, and  selling  to 
users only, we save  you jobbers’ 
and  retailers’  profits.  Our  pic­
torial suggestions for the asking.
The T. J. Mosher Electric  Co. 
Mfrs.  Fixtures,  Belts,  Insoles, 
Batteries,  General  Contractors, 
Grand  Rapids,  Mich.,  U.  S.  A-

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

D rugs—Chem icals

Michigan  State  Board  of Pharmacy

Term expires
-  Dec. 31,1901 
L. E.  Reynolds,  St. Joseph 
Hknby  He im , Saginaw 
-  Dec. 31,1902
- 
Deo. 31,1903
Wib t p.  Doty, Detroit - 
A. C. Schumachkb, Ann Arbor  -  Dec. 31,1904 
J ohn d. Mu ib, Grand Rapids 
Dec. si, 1905 

President, A.  C.  Schumachkb,  Ann Arbor. 
Secretary, Hknby Hkim .Saginaw.
Treasurer, W. P.  Doty,  Detroit.

Exam ination  Sessions.

Mich.  State  Pharm aceutical  Association.

President—J ohn  D.  Mu ib , Grand Rapids. 
Secretary—J.  W.  Se e l e y ,  Detroit. 
Treasurer—D.  A.  Ha gen s, Monroe.

Necessity of System  In  the  D rag Store.
At  the  present  day 

it  is  absolutely 
necessary  to  adopt  some  sort  of  system 
in  order  to  conduct  the  business  of  a 
drug  stoie  successfully.  When  once  the 
system  is  established  it  will  prove  itself 
invaluable. 
It  is  sometimes  remarked 
of  a  druggist,  referring  to the managing 
of his  business,  that  he  is  systematic  or 
methodical,  of  another  it  is  said  that  he 
is  orderly,  suggesting  what  the  follow­
ing  proverbs  imply: 
“ A  place  for 
everything  and everything in its  place,”  
and  “ A  time  for  everything,  and  every­
thing  in  its  time. ”

There  are  many  arguments  in  favor 
of  using  a  system  in  the  proper manag­
ing  of  a  drug  store.  Any  reasonable 
druggist  will  appreciate system and  cor­
rectness  in  the  conduct  of  his  business. 
No doubt  we  could  all  call  to  mind 
some  druggist  of  our  acquaintance 
whose  business  affairs  seem  to  move 
along  without  a  hitch,  every  clerk  and 
apprentice  doing  his  duty  as  though  the 
store  was  his  own,  and  everything  tend­
ing  to  prosperity  and  success.  And 
it 
is altogether  likely  that  we  could  also 
think  of  some  other druggist whose  loca­
tion  and  chances  for success  in  the  drug 
business  are  equal  to the  first,  but  who 
has  much  difficulty  in  running  his  drug 
store,  whose  goods  do  not  come  as  they 
are  represented,  whose  accounts  are  not 
paid  as  promptly  as  they  should  be, 
whose  clerks  and  apprentices  neglect 
their  work,  and  who,  in  short,  does  not 
seem to prosper.  What  is  the sercet  that 
enables  one  druggist,  possessed  appar­
ently  of  no  more  ability  than  the  other, 
to  acquire  wealth  and  honor  where  his 
brother  fails  miserably?  Application  to 
business  in  a  systematic  way  is  one  of 
the  secrets  of  success  in  the  drug  busi­
ness.

System  is  of  great  advantage  in  any 
business,  and  most  especially 
in  the 
retail  drug  business,  where  the  details 
are  so  numerous  and  where  it  becomes 
necessary  that  every  little  thing  should 
be  attended  to  promptly  and systematic­
ally.  Some  druggists,  through  lack  of 
system,  drop  into  the  very  bad  habit  of 
putting  off  certain  work,  or  duties,  or 
business  from  day  to  day. 
It  may  be 
that  some  preparation  requires  to  be 
made  up,  some  work 
in  the  drug  store 
needs  to  be  attended to,  or  some  account 
is due and ought  to  be paid. 
If  it  seems 
necessary  to make tincture of  belladonna 
to-day,  make  it,  and  do  not  put  it  off 
until  to-morrow. 
If  you  put  it  off  you 
will  almost  always  be  sure  to  need 
it 
the  next  day  in  a  hurry,  and,  besides, 
you  will  be  behindhand  with your  work. 
The  morning  will  bring  its  own  work. 
It  is  this  putting  off  until  the  next  day 
the  duties  that  should  be  attended  to  at 
once  which  crowds  out  other  duties  that 
continue  to  come  up,  and  which  causes 
these  in  turn  to  be  put  off  until  the  day 
following;  and  keeping  on  at  this  put­
ting-off  process  will  keep  one  always 
behindhand  in  his  business.

How  often  it  happens  that  the  drug­
gist  leaves  bis  store  at  night  promising 
himself that  the  very  first  thing  on  the 
morrow «he  will  attend  to  a  certain  duty 
that  he  should  have  performed  to-day, 
only  to  find  the  next  morning  some 
seemingly  more  pressing  duty  that  re­
quires  instant  attention ;  the  first  duty 
and  the  good 
resolution  are  both 
promptly  forgotten,  and  are  perhaps 
not thought  of again  until  the  necessity 
for  attending  to  it  presses  itself  on  the 
attention.  By  making  it  your  special 
duty  to  complete  each  day’s  work  or 
business  before  you  leave  the  store  at 
night  there  will  never  be  anything 
in 
the  way  to  prevent  your  taking  up  any 
new  work  that  may  present  itself  on  the 
following  morning.

This  putting-off  habit  can  only  be 
disposed  of  by  working  systematically 
and  by  adhering  to  your  system.  You 
can  have  each  apprentice  or  clerk 
understand  distinctly  what  his  special 
duties  are  and  at  what  time  he 
is  ex­
pected  to  attend  to  them.  The  proprie­
tor  must  not  only  see  that  this  is  done, 
but  he  must  also  be  systematic  and 
punctual  in  performing  his  own  duties. 
He  can  help  and  stimulate  bis  clerks 
and  apprentices  by  setting  them  a  good 
example. 
In  war  the  general  who  leads 
his troops  in  the  charge  is more success­
ful  than  the  one  who  simply  commands 
his  soldiers to  go.  The  drug  business 
is  a  war,  and  the  druggist  who  attends 
punctually  and  systematically  to  busi­
ness  will  set  a  good  example  to  his 
clerks,  and  he  will receive  better service 
from  them,  by  thus  taking  the  lead 
in 
the  work  of  the  store.

If  a  little  thinking  and  planning  are 
done  a  system  can  be  evolved  for doing 
all  the  work  and  business  of  a  drug 
store.  One  system  will  not  suit  all 
stores  or  all  druggists.  Each  must 
build  his  own  system  to  please  himself 
and  to  suit  his  business.  Some  drug­
gists  who  are  extremely  systematic, 
frame  a  time  table  of  work  for  each 
clerk  and  apprentice,  containing  what 
is to  be  done  and  indicating  when  it  is 
to  be  done;  and  this  is  pasted  up 
in 
some conspicuous place in the back shop.
I  have  often  seen  the  same  druggist 
washing  and  dressing  his  windows  on 
all  the  days  in  the  week  except  Sunday. 
A  better  plan  is  to  have  one  day  set 
aside  for this  special  work,  since 
it  is 
such  an  important  task,  and  since  so 
much  depends  upon  whether  it  is  done 
well  or  not.  Take  Friday,  say,  since 
that  is  the  day  before  Saturday,  which 
is the  day  when  we  all  calculate  to  do 
a  good  business,  and  consequently  the 
day  on  which  we  should  have  our  show 
windows 
looking  their  best,  so  that 
they  may  help  us  sell  the  goods  inside.
A  certain  day  of  the  week  should  also 
be  set  aside  for  cleaning  and  dusting 
the  shelf  bottles,  another  for  cleaning 
and  polishing 
the  show  cases,  still 
another  for  making  preparations,  and 
so  on.

A  system  or method should be  adopted 
is  one  of  the 
for  dispensing,  which 
It 
druggist’s  most  important  duties. 
is  not  the  province  of  this  article  to  lay 
down  any  definite  rules  for  druggists  to 
follow,  but  only  to  make  suggestions. 
If  a  druggist  decides  that  when  a  pre­
scription  is  received  in  his  store,  and 
after  it  is  read,  the  label should  be  writ­
ten  first  before  the  prescription 
is  dis­
pensed,  then  he  should  see  that  this 
rule  is  adopted  and  that  all  his  clerks 
comply  with  that  regulation  as  well  as 
himself. 
If  the  druggist  decides  that 
after the  prescription  is  read  it  shall  be 
label
immediately  dispepged,  and  the 

written  afterwards,  then  let  that  plan  be 
strictly  adhered  to.  But  at  all  events 
adopt some  system  for  the  dispensing  of 
prescriptions,  whether  they  be  many  or 
few  in  your  store.  You  will  find  that  it 
will  help  to  prevent  mistakes.

Do  not  buy  goods  at  random,  but  buy 
systematically.  Keep  a  "want  book”  
and  insist  that  all  clerks  write  down  in 
this  book  the  name  of  any  product  that 
is 
low  in  stock.  Do  not  speculate  in 
buying  drugs.  The  market  may decline 
before  your  supply  is  exhausted. 
It  is 
better,  as  a  general  rule,  to  buy  for 
present  necessities  only.  Do  not  buy 
any  quantity  of  goods  but  what  you  are 
sure  of  being  able  to  dispose  of  in  a 
reasonable time,  say three or six  months, 
unless  the  goods  keep  well,  are  stable 
in  price,  and  you  have  a  rare  opportun­
ity  to  get  them  cheap  for  some  reason.
Be  systematic  in  paying  all  you  owe. 
Pay  promptly. 
If  you  pay  “ spot”  
cash,  then  pay  all  bills  the  same  way. 
If  you  pay  at  thirty  days,  then  pay  all 
accounts  promptly  at  the  expiration  of 
It  is  easier  to  follow  a  sys­
that  time. 
tem  in  paying  accounts  than 
is  in 
almost  anything  else,  for  all  accounts 
have  to  be  paid  sooner or  later,  and 
if 
a  certain  time  and  way  is  decided  upon 
for  their  payment  it seems  to  make  pay­
ment  easier.

it 

More  and  better  work  can  be  done  by 
than  at  hap­

working  systematically 
hazard.

If  every  druggist  will  adopt  some  sort 
of  system  for managing  bis  business  it 
will  help  him  to  battle  successfully  with 
hard  times, 
competition,  and 
small  margins.—J.  T.  Pepper  in  Bulle­
tin  of  Pharmacy.

sharp 

Unsolicited  Testimonials.

A  Wheaton,  111.,  lady  who  had  "tried 
everything  in  vain  until  I  commenced 
taking  your  valuable  remedy,”   has 
written,  if  the  Wheaton  News  can  be 
believed,  the  following  testimonial  to  a 
country  druggist  who  is  booming  a  new 
tonic:

Dear  Sir— Before  taking  your  medi­
cine  I  was  too  weak  to  spank  the  baby, 
but  now  I  can  lick  my husband.  Heav­
en  bless  you.

This  reminds  one  of  the  Shakopee 
man  who  was  nearly  blind  and  took  Dr. 
Sawyer’s  wonderful  Elixir.  He  wrote:
Dear  Sir— Before  taking  your  Elixir 
I  could  not  see  six  inches  before  my 
face.  Yesterday  1  saw  wood. 
I  feel 
that  I  ought  to  let  these  facts  be  known. 
Send  me  another  bottle.

Phinneas  E.  Perkins,  of  Mound Cen­
ter,  S.  D.,  says  that  before  trying  the 
Snake  Cure  “ he  bad  not  drawn  a  sober 
breath 
for  twenty-five  years.”   Last 
Sunday  he  drew  several  sober  breaths, 
greatly  to  the  astonishment  of  his  wife, 
and  without  injury  to  his  health.  He 
expects  a  perfect  cure—some  time.

Victory  Has Its  Drawbacks.

“ You  are  certainly  elected!”   his 

friends  cried.

“ Yes,”   said  the  successful  candi­

date,  and  he  gritted  bis  teeth  hard.

“ What’s  the  matter?”   they  demanded 
“ Do  you  not  feel  sure  of 

in  surprise. 
your  victory?”

“ Yes;  but  I  am  also sure  that a  band 

will  come  to  serenade  me.”

Completely  B elated.
says 

“ He 

that  you  are  narrow 
minded;  that  you  are  not  a  man  of  lib­
eral  views,”   said  the  friend.

‘ * The  slander carries  its  refutation  on 
its  face, ”   answered  Senator  Sorghum, 
haughtily.

“ No  man  has  ever  paid  the  Legisla­

ture  as  much  as  I  have.”

The  less  hair a  woman  has  the  more 

time  it  takes  her  to  do  it  up.

The  Drag: M arket.

Opium— Is  weak  and  slightly  lower.
Morphine— Is  unchanged.
Codeine—The  market  is unsettled  and 

the  price  has  declined.

Quinine— Has  declined  2C  per oz.
Grain  Alcohol— Has  advanced  2c  per 
gallon,  on  account  of  the  high  price  for 
corn.

Balm  Gilead  Buds— Have  advanced, 

on  account  of  scarcity.

Elm  Bark,  Select— Is 

scarce  and 

Wild  Cherry  Bark— Is  in  small supply 

and  has  advanced.

Oil  Peppermint— Is  very  firm  but  un­

higher.

changed.

Gum  Tragacanth— Is  scarce  and  has 

advanced  ioc  per  lb.

Lobelia  Seed—Is  still  out  of  market.
Linseed  Oil— Has  advanced  2c.
Cocaine— Has  again  declined.

left  hand 

look  graceful 

“ Did  you  ever  watch  a  man  taking  a 
drink  of  water  in a  public  place,  in  a 
a railroad  station  or  on a train,  where  he 
is  aware  that  many  eyes  regard  him? 
Watch  this  sometime,”   a  drummer 
said. 
“ You’ll  find  it  interesting.  The 
man,  you  see,  holds  the  glass  in  his 
right  hand  while  he drinks,  and  it  is his 
inability  meanwhile  to  make  his  unoc­
cupied 
that 
makes  the  spectacle  worth  while.  One 
fellow,  as  he  stoops  over  the  cup  in  an 
elegant  attitude,  an  attitude  like  that  of 
bowing,  solves  the  enigma  of  what  to 
do  with  his 
in 
his  trouser  pocket.  Another  holds  it 
behind  his  back.  A 
third  puts  the 
thumb  of  it  in  the  pocket  of  his  waist­
coat,  and  a  fourth  swings  the  hand  like 
a  pendulum  to  and  fro  at  his  side.  But 
all  men,  do what  they  will  with  their 
left  hand,  look  awkward  and  self-con­
scious  when  drinking  in  public,  and  it 
is  amusing  to  watch  them.”

left  hand  by  putting 

it 

V

™  
H O L I D A Y
G O O D S

All our customers who have visited 
our sample room  (25  by  125  feet) 
this season are

MORE THAN  PLEASED

with the display and  prices—prov­
ing our claim—that we are showing 
the largest line  in  Michigan of
SALABLE HOLIDAY 

ARTICLES

Our  Vast  Assortment  is  still  com­
plete, but orders should  be  placed 
at once to insure prompt shipment. 
Terms liberal.

Fred  Brundage,

Wholesale  Drugs  and  Stationery

^ ^ V U S K E G O N ^ I C H ^ .

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before  you  buy.  We  show  the 
best patterns that the  fifteen  lead­
ing  factories  make.  Our  showing 
is not equaled.  Prices lower  than 
ever.  A card will  bring  salesman 
or samples.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

@   5  60 
2  0 5 ®   2  30
96® 2 20 
96® 2 20 
@  40
66®  80 
@  10 
35®  37
@  1 00

29®
29®

Menthol..................
Morphia, S., P. & W. 
Morphia, S..N.Y. Q.
Morphia, Mai...........
Moschus  Canton....
Myrlstica, No. l ...... '
Nux Vomica...po. 15
Os Sepia..................
Pepsin Saac, H. & P.
D  Co....................
Picis Llq. N.N.M gal.
doz.......................
Picis Liq., quarts__
Picis Llq., pints......
PllHydrarg. ..po. 80 
Piper  Nigra., .po. 22
Piper  Alba__po. 35
Pllx Bur gun............
Plumb! Acet............
Pulvis Ipecac et Opli 
Pyrethrum, boxes H. 
& P. D. Co., doz...
Pyrethrum,  pv........
Quasslae..................
Quinia, S.P.&   W... 
Qulnla, S.  German..
Quinia, N. Y............
Rubla Tlnctorum.... 
Saccharum Lactls pv
Saiadn....................
Sanguis  Draconis...
Sapo, W...................
Sapo M....................
Sapo G....................

Seldlltz Mixture......
Slnapis....................
Slnapis,  opt............
Snuff, Maccaboy, De
Voes....................
Snuff,Scotch,De Vo’s
Soda, Boras.............
Soda,  Boras, po......
Soda et Potass Tart.
Soda,  Carb..............
Soda,  Bi-Carb.........
Soda,  Ash...............
Soda, Sulphas.........
Spts. Cologne...........
Spts. Ether  Co........
Spts. Myrcla Dom... 
Spts. Vlni Rect.  bbl. 
Spts. Vlni Rect. Mbbl 
Spts. Vlni Rect. lOgal 
Spts. Vlni Rect. 6 gal 
Strychnia, Crystal...
Sulphur,  Subl.........
Sulphur, Roll...........
Tamarinds..............
Terebenth  Venice... 
Theobrom».............
Zinc! Sulph...........
Oils
Whale, winter......
Lard, extra...........
Lard, No. 1 ...........

20®  22 
@  18 
30
@  

2 7

60
69
60
69
60
54
41M 46
B B L . L B .
IX  2  @8 
IX  2  @ 4 
IX  2  @3 
2M  2M@3
2M  2X@3
13® 16
70® 75
14® 18
13® 16
6M@ 7
6M@ 7

Linseed, pure raw... 
Linseed, boiled.......
Neatsfoot, winter str
Spirits  Turpentine..
F aints
Red  Venetian.........
Ochre, yellow  Mars. 
Ochre, yellow Ber... 
Putty,  commercial..
Putty, strictly  pure. 
Vermilion,  P rim e
American............
Vermilion, English..
Green,  Paris...........
Green, Peninsular...
Lead, red................
Lead,  white............
90
Whiting, white Span
@ 95
Whiting, gilders’__
1  26
White, Paris, Amer.
Whiting, Paris, Eng.
cliff.......................
@ 1  40
Universal Prepared. 1  10® 1  20

8

Varnishes
No. 1 Turp  Coach...
Extra Turó..............
Coach  Body............

1  20 
1  10®  
1  60®
1  70
2  76® 3  00
70 No. l Turp Fum...... 1  00® 1  10
70 Extra Turk Damar.. 1  66® 1  60
78
60

Jap.Dryer,No.iTurp

70®

7 ®

70
60
45

B B L .  G A L .
. 

WHOLESALE  DRUG  PRICE  CURRENT

Advanced—Cherry Bark. Linseed Oil, Tragacanth 
Declined—Cocaine, Quinine.

Acldnm

Aceticum  ................$  6®$
Benzotcum, German.  70®
Boracic....................   @
Carbolicum.............   30®
Citricum...................  45®
Hydrochlor.............. 
3®
Nttrocum................. 
8®
Oxallcum.................  
12®
Phosphorium,  dil...  @
Salicyllcum.............  52®
Sulphuricum...........  IX®
Tannicum................  l  10®  1
Tartarlcum............. 
38®
A m m onia
Aqua, 16 deg............  
4®
6®
Aqua, 20 deg............  
Carbonas.................  13®
Chloridum...............  
12®
A niline

Black.......................   2 00® 2
Brown......................  80® l
Red..........................  45®
Yellow......................  2  60®  3

Baccse
Cubebae...........po,25  22®
Junlperus................  
6®
Xanthoxylum.........   1  70®  1
Balsam um
Copaiba...................  50®
g   i
Peru  .......................  
Terabln,  Canada—   60®
Tolutan.................... 
45®
Cortez
Abies, Canadian......
Cassis......................
Cinchona  Flava......
Euonymus atropurp.
Myr lea Cerlfera, po.
Prunus Virgini........
Qulllala, gr’d ...........
Sassafras........po. 20
Ulmus...po.  16, gr’d 
Bxtractum
Glycyrrhlza  Glabra. 
24®
Glycyrrhlza,  po.....  28®
Haematox, 15 lb. box  11®
Haematox, is ........... 
13®
Haematox, Ms.........  
“ fg
Haematox, Vis.........  
16®

F erru
Carbonate  Preclp...
Citrate and  Quinia.. 
Citrate Soluble........
Ferrocyanidum Sol..
Solut. Chloride........
Sulphate,  com’l......
Sulphate,  com’l,  by
bol, per  cwt.........
Sulphate,  pure........
Flora

2

Arnica..................... 
J J I
Anthemls.................  22®
Matricaria...............  
3°@

Folia
Barosma..................   36®
Cassia Acutlfol, Tin-
nevelly................. 
20®
Cassia, Acutlfol, Alx.  25® 
„
Salvia officinalis,  14» 
and Vis.........   .... 
12®
UvaUrsi................... 
8®
Guinrnl
Acacia, 1st picked...
Acacia,2d  picked...
Acacia, 3d  picked...
Acacia, sifted  sorts.
Acacia, po...... :-••••
Aloe, Barb. po.l8@20  12(
Aloe, Cape... .po. 16.
Aloe,  SocotrL.po. 40
Ammoniac...............
Assafoetida— po. 40
Benzoinum..............
Catecbu, i s ..............
Catechu, Vis............
Catechu, Ms............
Campnorae..............
Eupnorbium... po. 36  @
Galbanum...............  
®  i
Gamboge.............po  66®
Gualacum...... po. 26 
®
Kino...........po. $0.75  @
Mastic  ........................ 
®
Myrrh............po. 46 
®
Opli__po. 4.80@1.90 3 36®  3
Shellac....................  32®
Shellac, bleached....  40®
Tragacanth.............   70®  1

H erba 
Absinthium..oz. pkg 
Bupatorlum..oz. pkg
Lobelia........oz. pkg
Majorum ....oz. pkg 
Mentha Pip..oz. pkg 
Mentha Vfr..oz. pkg
Rue.............. oz. pkg
Tanacetum V oz. pkg 
Thymus, V...oz.pkg 
Magnesia
Calcined, Fat...........
Carbonate, Pat........ 
Carbonate, K. & M., 
'arbonate, Jennings  18® 
Olenm

it

Absinthium............   7 00®  7
Amygdalae,  Dulc....  38® 
Amygdalae,  Amarae.  8 00® 8
Anisf......................... 1 85®  2
Aurantl Cortex........2  io®  2
Bergamli.................  2 60®  2
Cajtputl...................  80®
Caryophylli............  
76®
Cedar......................  60®
Chenopadil..............  @  2
Cinnamon».............  l  15® 1
Cltronella................  36®

Conium Mac............   60®  60
Copaiba..................   1 16® l  26
Cubebae...................  i 35®  1  40
Exechthltos............  l oo®  1  10
Erlgeron.................  l  oo®  l  10
Gaultherla..............  2 oo® 2  10
Geranium, ounce.... 
®  76 
Gossippil, Sem. gal.. 
60®  60
Hedeoma.................  1 60®  1  76
Junlpera.................  l 60® 2 00
Lavendula..............  90® 2 00
Llmonis..................   l  20®  l 30
Mentha Piper.........   2  10®  2 20
Mentha Verid.........   l  60®  1 60
Morrhuae, ;gal.........   1  10®  1 20
Myrcla......................4 oo®  4 60
Olive.......................  76® 3 oo
PtcisLlquida........... 
10®  12
®  36
Picis Llqulda,  gal... 
Rlcina....................... l  oo®  l 06
Rosmarinl...............  
®  1  00
Rosae, ounce............   6 00® 6 60
Succinl....................  40®  46
Sabina....................  90®  l oo
Santal......................  2 76®  7 00
Sassafras.................  66®  60
Slnapis,  ess., ounce. 
®  65
Tiglll.......................  1  60®  1  60
Thyme.....................   40®  60
Thyme, opt.............. 
®  1  60
Theobromas........... 
15®  20
Potassium
Bi-Carb....................  
16®  18
13®  16
Bichromate............  
Bromide................. 
62®  57
C arb....................... 
12®  15
Chlorate., .po. 17@19 
16® 
18
Cyanide..................   34®  38
Iodide.....................   2 30® 2 40
Potassa, Bitart, pure  28®  30
Potassa, Bitart, com. 
®  16
Potass Nltras, opt... 
7®  10
Potass  Nltras.........  
6® 
8
Prusslate.................  23®  26
Sulphate po............  
16®  18

Radix

Aconltum.................  20®  26
Althae...................... 
30®  33
Anchusa................. 
10®  12
Arum  po.................  @  26
Calamus..................   20®  40
Gentiana.......po.  16  12®  15
Glychrrhiza.. .pv.  15  16®  18
®  76
Hydrastis  Canaden. 
®  80
Hydrastis Can., po.. 
Hellebore, Alba, po. 
12®  15
Inula,  po................. 
18®  22
Ipecac, po...............   3 60® 3 76
Iris plox.. .po. 36@38  36®  40
Jalapa, pr...............   25®  30
Maranta,  Ms...........  @  35
Podophyllum,  po...  22®  25
Rhei.........................  75®  1  00
Rhei,  cut.................  @  1  26
Rhei, pv..................   76®  1  35
Spigella..................  
35®  38
Sanguinaria.. .po.  15 
®  18
Serpentaria............  
so®  65
Senega.................... 
60®  65
®  40
Smilax, officinalis H. 
Smilax, M...............  
®  25
Scillse............ po.  35 
10®  12
Symplocarpus, Foeti-
dus,  po................. 
®  26
®  26
Valeriana,Eng.po.30 
Valeriana,  German. 
16®  20
Zingiber a ...............  
14®  16
Zingiber j.................  26®  27
Semen

Anisum......... po.  18 
®  16
Apium (graveleons).  13®  15
Bird, Is.................... 
4® 
6
10®  11
Carui..............po.  15 
Cardamon....................   1  25®  l 76
Coriandrum.............  
8®  10
Cannabis Satlva......   4Vi®  5
Cydonium...............   76®  l  oo
Cnenopodium.........  
15®  16
Dipterlx Odorate....  1  00®  1  10
Foenlculum.............. 
®  10
9
7® 
Foenugreek, po........ 
L lni.........................  3X@ 
5
Llni, grd...... bbl. 4 
6
4Vi® 
Lobelia........................   1 50®  1 55
Pharlaris Canarian..  4Vi@ 
6
R apa.......................  4Vi® 
5
Slnapis  Alba........... 
9® 
io
Slnapis  Nigra.........  
11®  12
Spiritus

Frumenti, W. D. Co.  2 00®  2 50 
Frumenti,  D. F. R..  2 00® 2 25
Frumenti.....................  1  25® 1 60
Juniperis Co. O. T...  1 66® 2 00
Juniperls  Co...........  1 76® 3 60
Saacnarum  N. E __  1  90® 2  10
Spt. Vlni Galli.........   1 76® 6  60
Vml Oporto.................   l  26® 2 00
Vini Alba.....................  1  26® 2 00
Sponges 
Florida sheeps’ wool
carriage...............  2 60® 2 76
Nassau sheeps’ wool
carriage.....................  2 60® 2 75
Velvet extra sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
Extra yellow sheeps’
wool, carriage......  
Grass  sheepsr  wool,
carriage................ 
Hard, for slate use.. 
Yellow  R e e f,  for
slate use...............  
Syrups
Acacia....................  
®  60
Aurantl Cortex........  @ 5 0
Zingiber..................   @  60
Ipecac......................  @  60
Ferri Iod.................  @  60
Rhei Arom..............  @  60
Smilax  Officinalis... 
60®  60
Senega....................  @  60
80111» ............ 
so

®  l  50
®  1  25
® 100
®  76
®  l  40

a  

 

 

Scillae  Co.................   @ 6 0
Tolutan...................   -  @  60
Prunus  vlrg............   @  60

 

Tinctures 
Aconitum Napellls R 
Aconitum Napellls F 
Aloes....................... 
Aloes and Myrrh.... 
Arnica....................  
Assafoetida.............. 
Atrope Belladonna.. 
Aurantl Cortex.......  
Benzoin................... 
Benzoin Co.............. 
Barosma..................  
Cantharides............  
Capsicum................  
Cardamon...............  
Cardamon Co..........  
Castor.....................  
Catechu)................... 
Cinchona..............  
Cinchona Co............  
Columba................. 
Cubebae....................  
Cassia Acutlfol........ 
Cassia Acutlfol Co... 
Digitalis................... 
Ergot.......................  
Ferri  Chloridum__  
Gentian................... 
Gentian Co.............. 
Gulaca...................... 
Gulaca ammon........ 
Hyoscyamus............  
Iodine  .................... 
Iodine, colorless......  
K ino.......................  
Lobelia.................... 
Myrrh.....................  
Nux Vomica............  
OpU.......................... 
Opil,  comphorated.. 
Opli, deodorized...... 
Quassia................... 
Rhatany................... 
Rhei......................... 
Sanguinaria...........  
Serpentaria............  
Stromonlum............  
Tolutan.................. 
Valerian................. 
Veratrum  Veride... 
Zingiber..................  

60
60
60
60
50
so
60
60
60
60
60
75
60
75
75
l oo
6o
5o
6o
Eo
5o
6o
&o
5o
5o
35
5o
6o
so
6o
5o
75
75
5o
5o
5o
6o
75
5o
l  &o
&o
6o
5o
5¿
6¡j
6o
6o
6¿
5¿
20

Miscellaneous 

¿Ether, Spts. Nit. ? F  30®  36
¿Ether, Spts. Nit. 4 F  34®  38
Aluinen..................   2M@ 
3
Alumen,  gro’d..po. 7 
4
3® 
Annatto...................   40®  60
Antlmonl, po........... 
4® 
6
Antimon! et Potass T  40®  60
Antipyrin................  @  26
Antlfebrln..............  @  20
Argent! Nltras, oz...  @  60
Arsenicum.............. 
10®  12
Balm Gilead  Buds.. 
45®  60
Bismuth S. N...........  1  6 @  1  7n
Calcium Chlor., is... 
9
@ 
@  10
Calcium Chlor., Ms.. 
Calcium Chlor.,  Ms..  @  12
@  80
Cantharides, Rus.po 
Capsid Fructus.ar.. 
i5
@ 
@  15
Capsid  Fructus, po. 
Capsici Fructus B, po  @  15
Caryophyllus. .po. 16 
12®  14
Carmine, No. 40......   @ 3 00
Cera Alba.............. 
50®  65
Cera  Flava..............  40®  42
Coccus....................  @  40
Cassia Fructus........  @  35
Centrarla.................  @  10
Cetaceum.................  @  46
Chloroform............   35®  60
Chloroform,  squibbs  @  1  10 
Chloral Hyd Crst....  1  40®  1  65
Chondrus...............  
20®  26
Clnchonldine.P. & W  38®  48
Cinchonidine, Germ.  38®  48
Cocaine...................   5 55® 5  75
Corks, list, dls.pr.ct.
Creosotum...............   @
Creta.............bbl. 75  @
Creta, prep..............  @
Creta, precip........... 
9®
Creta, Rubra...........  @
Crocus....................   260
Cudbear..................   @
Cupri Sulph.............  6M@
Dextrine.-............... 
7®
Ether Sulph............   78®
Emery, all numbe.s.  @
Emery, po................  @
E rgota...........po. 90 
86®
Flake  White...........  120  .
Galla.......................   @
8®
Gambler.................  
Gelatin,  Cooper......   @
Gelatin, French......  
36®
Glassware,  flint, box 
75 &
Less than box......
Glue, brown....__  
  11®
Glue,  white............  
15®
Gly cerina..................   17 M@
Grana Paradlsl........  @
Humulus.................  25®
Hydrarg  Chlor  Mite  @ 1 
Hydrarg Chlor Cor..  @ 
Hydrarg  Ox Rub’m.  @  1 
Hydrarg Ammoniati  @ l 
HydrargU nguentum  60®
Hydrargyrum.........   @
IchthyoDolla,  Am...  66®
Indigo......................  76®  1
Iodine,  Resubl........  3 40® i
Iodoform..................   3 60® i
Lupulin....................  @
Lycopodium.............  61®
Macis......................  66®
Llguor Arsen et  Hy­
drarg Iod..............  @
LlquorPotassArslnlt  10® 
2® 
Magnesia,  Sulph.... 
Magnesia, Sulph, bbl 
® 
Mannla, 8.  F ,,„ ..„   60®

Freezable 

Goods

Now is the time  to  stock

Mineral  Waters, 
Liquid  Foods, 
Malt  Extracts, 
Butter Colors, 
Toilet  Waters, 
Hair  Preparations, 
Inks,  Etc.

Hazeltine  &  Perkins 

Drug  Co.

Grand  Rapids,  Mich.

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M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

G R O C E R Y   P R IC E   C U R R E N T

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.

AXLE GREASE

doz.  gross
Aurora........................55  600
Castor  Oil.................... 60  7  00
Diamond......................50  4  25
Frazer’s ....................... 75  9  00
IXL Golden, tin boxes 75  9  00

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

9 00
6 00

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

J A X O N

It lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  45
54 lb. cans, 4 doz. case........  85
1 
lb. cans. 2 doz. case........1 60

Queen  Flake

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

Royal

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

BATH  BRICK

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

BLUING

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

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

BROOMS

No. 1 Carpet..............................2 65
No. 2 Carpet..............................2 25
No. 3 Carpet..............................2 15
No. 4 Carpet..............................l 76
Parlor  Gem..............................2 40
Common Whisk...................  85
Fancy Whisk.............................1 10
Warehouse............................... 3 25

BRUSHES

Scrub

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

Sboe

Tomatoes
F air......................... 
l  16
Good.......................  
l  20
Fancy...................... 
1  25
Gallons....................  
3 00
CATSUP
Columbia, pints................... 2 00
Columbia, Vi pints................l 25

CARBON  OILS 

B arrels

Eocene.......................   @1054
Perfection..................   @ 954
Diamond White.........   @ 854
D. S. Gasoline............   @1246
Deodorized Naphtha..  @1054
Cylinder....................... 29  @34
Engine..........................19  @22
Black, winter...............  9  @1054
CHEESE
Acme.......................  
@1154
«1154
Amboy....................  
Carson City.............. 
@12
@13
Elsie......................... 
@1254
Emblem................... 
Gem......................... 
@’.254
Gold Medal.............. 
@1154
Ideal......................  
@12
Jersey...................... 
@12
Riverside.................  
@12
Brick.......................  
I4@i5
@90
Edam....................... 
@17
Leiden....................  
13@14
Llmburger...............  
Pineapple................ 
50@75
Sap  Sago................. 
19@20
CHEWING GUM
American Flag Spruce__ 
55
60
Beeman’s Pepsin.............. 
Black Jack.......................  
55
Largest Gum  Made...................  60
Sen Sen  ,........................... 
55
Sen Sen Breath Perfume..  1 00
Sugar Loaf.......................  
55
Yucatan............................ 
55
Bulk...................... 
5
 
Red........................................7
Eagle....................................  4
Franck’s .............................   654
Schener’s .............................  6

CHICORY

 

CHOCOLATE 

Walter Baker & Co.’s.

 

 

Runkel Bros.

CLOTHES  LINES

German  Sweet....................   23
Premium.............................   31
Breakfast Cocoa..................   46
Vienna Sweet....................  21
Vanilla.................................  28
Premium..............................  31
Cotton, 40 ft.  per doz...........1  00
Cotton, 50 ft. per doz...........1 20
Cotton, 60 ft. per doz...........1  40
Cotton, 70 ft. per doz...........1  60
Cotton, 80 ft. per doz.......... 1  80
Jute, 60 ft. per doz..............  80
Jute. 72 ft. per doz.............  95
COCOA
Cleveland................ 
41
Colonial, 54s  .......................   36
Colonial, 54s.........................  33
Epps................. 
42
fiuyler.................................  46
Van Houten, 54s..................  12
Van Houten, 14s..................   20
Van Houten, 54s..................   38
Van Houten,  is ..................   70
Webb................................  
30
Wilbur, 54s...........................  41
Wilbur, ^ s ...........................  42
Dunham’s s s  ...................  26
Dunham’s 55s and Ms......   2654
Dunham’s  Ms...................  27
Dunham’s  54s...................  28
Bulk..................................   13
COCOA SHELLS
20 lb. bags...................... 
Less quantity..................... 
Pound packages__ •.......... 

COCOANUT

254
3
4

 

 

COFFEE
Roasted

_

  HIG H G RADE.

Coffees

Special Combination..........15
French Breakfast...............1754
Lenox, Mocha & Java........21
Old Gov’t Java and Mocha.,24 
Private Estate, Java & Moc 26 
Supreme, Java and Mocha .27 
Dwlnell-Wrlght  Co.’s Brands.
White House, 60-ls.............29
White House, 30-2s.............28
Excelsior M. & J„ 60-ls.. 
. .2154
Excelsior M. & J., 30-2s...... 2054
Royal Java..........................2654
Royal Java & Mocha.......... 26 M
Arabian  Mocha..................2854
AdenMoch..........................2254
Freeman  Merc. Co. Brands.
Marexo................................11
Porto  Rican........................ 14
Honolulu  .............................1654
Parker  House  J  &M.........25
Monogram J  & M...............28
Mandehllng........................ 3154
Common..............................10 J4
F a ir.....................................11
Choice..................................13
Fancy.................................. 15
Common.............................. 11
F a ir.....................................14
Choice..................................15
Fancy..................................17
Peaberry..............................13
F air.....................................12
Choice..................................16

Maracaibo

Santos

Rio

4

Mexican

Guatem ala

Ja v a

...16
...17

...16

Choice..
Fancy...

Choice..

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

Arabian.

.  21

Mocha

Package 

New York Basis.

Arbuckle............................ 1154
Dll worth.............................1154
Jersey.................................1154
Lion..........’.... . . ................11
M cLaughlin’s XXXX 
McLaughlin’s  XXXX  sold  to 
retailers  only.  Mail  all  orders 
direct  to  W.  F.  McLaughlin  & 
Co., Chicago.

E xtract

Valley City 54  gross............   75
Felix 54 gross............................ 1 15
Hummers foil 54 gross........  85
Hummel’s tin 54 gross........ 1  43

CONDENSED  M ILK 

4 doz In case.

Gall Borden Eagle...................6 40
Crown....................................... 6 25
Daisy........................................ 5 75
Champion................................ 4 50
Magnolia..................................4 25
Challenge.................................4 10
Dime.........................................3 35
Leader..................................... 4 00

COUPON  BOOKS 

50 books, any  denom...  1 50 
100 books, any  denom...  2 50 
500 books, any  denom...  11 50
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 receives  sp e cially  
printed  cover  without  extra 
charge.

Soda

B utter

Oyster

754
6!«
6M
654

CRACKERS

Credit Checks 

Coupon  Pass  Books 
Can be made to represent any 
denomination from $10 down.
50  books.......................   1  50
100  books.......................  2  50
500  books.......................   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
Family......................... ... 
654
Salted........................... ... 
654
Wolverine.................... ... 
634
Soda  XXX................... ... 
654
Soda, City.................... ... 
8
Long Island Wafers.... ...  13
Zephyrette.................... ...  13
F a u st........................... ••• 
Farina.......................... ... 
Extra Farina................ ... 
Saltlne Oyster.............. ... 
Sweet  Goods—Boxes
Animals....................... ...  10
Assorted  Cake............. ...  10
Belle Rose.................... ... 
8
Bent’s Water................ ...  16
Cinnamon Bar.............. ... 
9
Coffee Cake,  Iced........ ...  10
Coffee Cake. Java........ ...  10
Cocoanut Macaroons......  18
Cocoanut Taffy............ ...  10
Cracknells...........................  16
Creams, Iced.......................  8
Cream Crisp.......................   1054
Cubans...............................   1154
Currant Fruit....................   12
Frosted Honey...................  12
Frosted Cream.................... 
9
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
Imperials.........  .................  8
Jumbles, Honey.................   12
Lady Fingers......................  12
Lemon Snaps................... 
Lemon Wafers...................  16
Marshmallow.....................   16
Marshmallow Creams......   16
Marshmallow Walnuts__   16
Mary Ann...........................   8
Mixed Picnic....................   1154
Milk Biscuit........................  
754
Molasses  Cake...................   8
Molasses Bar......................   9
Moss Jelly Bar.................  1254
Newton...............................  12
Oatmeal Crackers............   8
Oatmeal Wafers.................   12
Orange Crisp.......................  9
Orange Gem........................  9
Penny Cake........................   8
Pilot Bread, XXX............  
754
Pretzelettes, hand made.. 
854
Pretzels, hand  made.......  
854
Scotch Cookies....................  9
Sears’ Lunch......................  
714
Sugar Cake..........................  8
Sugar Cream, XXX..........  8

12

 

............. 
8
..............  13
Tuttl Fruttl.......................  16
Vanilla Wafers.................  16
Vienna Crimp..................    8
E. J. Kruce & Co. ’s baked goods 

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

with interesting discounts. 
CREAM TARTAR

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

d r i e d   Br u i t s

Apples

California F ruits

Sundrled.....................  @6
Evaporated, 50 lb. boxes.  @9 
Apricots.....................  I0@l05f
Blackberries..............
Nectarines.................
Peaches......................8  @10
Pears.......................... 754
Pitted Cherries...........
Prunnelles.................
Raspberries...............
100-120 25 lb. boxes___ ..  @   334
90-100 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @   434
80 - 90 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @   554
70 - 80 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @ 534
60 - 70 25 lb. boxes__ ..  @   654
50 - 60 25 lb. boxes___ ..  @ 7 5 4
40 - 50 25 lb. boxes___ ..  @   854
30 - 40 25 lb. boxes___
854

California Prunes

M cent less In 50 lb. cases 

Peel

Currants

Leghorn..................................11
Corsican.................................13
California, l lb.  package__
Imported, 1 lb package.......  854
Imported, bulk............. . 
8
Citron American 19 lb. bx...l3 
Lemon American 10 lb. bx.. 13 
Orange American 10lb. bx.. 13 
London Layers 2 Crown.
London Layers 3 Crown. 
1  75
Cluster 4 Crown............
Loose Muscatels 2 Crown 
654
Loose Muscatels 3 Crown 
654
Loose Muscatels 4 Crown 
7
L. M., Seeded, 1  lb...... 8  @9
L.M., Seeded, 34  lb.... 
7
Sultanas, b u lk....................
Sultanas, package..............

Raisins

FARINACEOUS  GOODS 

Citron

Beans

6
1  80

F arina

Cereals

Dried Lima.......................... 
Medium Hand Picked 
Brown Holland.........................2 60
Cream of Cereal...................  90
Graln-O, small......................... 1 35
Graln-O, large.................. 
  2 25
Grape Nuts...............................1 35
Postum Cereal, small..........1  35
Postum Cereal, large.........  2 25
241 lb. packages...................... 1 13
Bulk, per 100 Tbs....................... 2 25
Flake, 60 lb. sack...............  90
Pearl,  200 lb. bbl...................... 3 80
Pearl, 100 lb. sack.....................1 80
Maccaroni  and Verm icelli
Domestic, 10 lb. box............   60
Imported. 25 lb. box.............2 50
Common.................................. 2 90
Chester..................................... 3 00
Empire......................................3 50

P earl  Barley

Hominy

Grits

Walsh-DeRoo Co.’s Brand.

Peas

Rolled  Oats

24 2 lb. packages...................... 2 00
100 lb. kegs............................... 3 00
200 lb. barrels...........................6 70
100 lb. bags................................2 90
Green, Wisconsin, bu..........1  40
Green, Scotch, bu.....................1 50
Split,  lb...............................   3
Boiled Avena, bbl.....................5 40
Steel Cut, 100 lb. sacks__   2 m
Monarch, bbl............................5 00
Monarch, 54 bbl........................2 65
Monarch, 90 lb. sacks..........2 40
Quaker, cases...........................3 20
East India.......... ................  334
German, sacks....................   334
German, broken package..  4 
Flake,  HO lb. sacks.............  454
Pearl, 130 lb. sacks..............  3%
Pearl, 241 lb. packages...... 654
Cracked, bulk......................  854
24 2 lb. packages...................... 2 50
FLAVORING EXTRACTS

Tapioca

W heat

Sago

FOOTE A JEN K S’

JAXON

H ighest  Grade  Extracts
V anilla 

Lemon

1 oz full m.120  1 oz full m.  8
2 oz full m.2  10  2 oz full m .l  2 
No. 3fan’y.3  15  No.Sfan’y.l  7

DECLINED

H olland  H erring
Straw  P aper
B u tter Dishes

Stove

 

BUTTER  COLOR

NO. 3.....................................  75
No. 2.....................................1  10
No. 1.................................... 1 75
W., B. & Co.’s, 15c size__  125
W., B. & Co.’s, 25c size__  2 00
Electric Light, 8s.................12
Electric Light, 16s........ 
  1254
Paraffine, 6s .........................1054
Paraffine, 12s....................... ll
Wlcklng 
................29

CANDLES

CANNED  GOODS 

80
86
96

Beans

Blackberries

Clam  Bouillon

Apples
3 lb. Standards........
1  00 
Gallons, standards..
3 25
Standards................
80
Baked......................  1  oo@i  30
Bed  Kidney............  
75®  85
String...................... 
70
Wax......................... 
70
B lueberries
Standard..................  
85
Brook  T rout
2 lb. cans, Spiced..............  1 90
Clams.
Little Neck, 1 lb...... 
1 00
Little Neck. 2 lb...... 
1 50
Burnham’s, 54 pint...........  1 92
Burnham’s, pints..............  3 60
Burnham’s, quarts...........  7 20
Cherries
Bed  Standards...........
White.........................
Corn
Fair  ....................... 
Good.......................  
Fancy.................  
French  Peas
Sur Extra Fine.............
Extra  Fine...................
Fine...............................
Moyen...........................
Gooseberries
Standard.................
H om iny
Standard..................
Lobster
Star, Vi lb.................
Star, 1  lb.................
Picnic Tails.............
Mackerel
Mustard, lib ...........
Mustard, 2 lb...........
Soused, 1 lb..............
Soused, 2 lb............
Tomato, 1 lb............
Tomato, 2 lb............
Hotels.
Buttons.
Oysters
Cove, lib .................
Cove, 2 lb.................
Cove, 1 lb  Oval........
Peaches
P ie...........................
Yellow....................   1  65@1  85
Pears
Standard..............
1 00 
Fancy....................
1  25
Peas
Marrowfat...........
1 00 
Early June...........
1  00 
Early June  Sifted
1  60 
85

19
15
11
90
86
2  15
3 63 
2 40
1 75
2  80
1 75
2 80
1 76
2 80
18@20
22@25

Mushrooms

1  25@2
1  35@2

Pineapple
G rated....................
Sliced.......................
Pum pkin
F a ir.........................
95 
Good.......................
1
1  00 
1
Fancy......................
1  10
Raspberries
Standard..................
1
Russian  Cavier
....  3
54 lb. cans...................
54 lb, cans................... ....  7
1 lb. can..................... ....  12
Salmon
Columbia River, tails
@1
Columbia River, flats
@2
Red Alaska.............
1  30@1
Pink Alaska............
I  10@1
Shrim ps
Standard.................
1
1  50
Sardines
Domestic, 14s.
3545
Domestic, 54s.........
Domestic,  Mustard.
554
California, 14s.........
11(3*14 
California 54s..........
17@24 
French, 14s..............
7® 14 
French, 54s..............
18@28
Standard.................
1 00 
Fancy......................
1 25
Succotash
Fair..........................
90 
Good........................
1 00 
Fancy......................
1 20

Straw berries

1  55 
95

85

ADVANCED
Rolled  Oats
Corn  Syrup
Pickles
B razil  Nuts

Index to Markets

By Columns

D
F

G

B

A

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

C

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

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

P

H

M

N
O

I
J
L

Grains and Flour.................  6
Herbs....................................  6
Hides and Pelts....................  13
Indigo...................................   6
Jelly......................................  6
Lamp Burners.......................  is
Lamp Chimneys....................  15
Lanterns...............................   15
Lantern  Globes....................   15
Licorice.................................  7
Lye........................................   7
Matches................................   7
Meat Extracts.......................  7
Molasses................................  7
Mustard................................   7
Nuts........................................  14
Oil Cans..................................  15
Olives....................................  7
Oyster Pails..........................   7
Paper Bags............................  7
Paris  Green..........................   7
Pickles...................................  7
Pipes.....................................   7
Potash...................................  7
Provisions.............................   7
Bice.......................................  8
Saleratus...............................  8
Sal Soda.................................  8
Salt........................................   8
Salt  Fish...............................  8
Sauerkraut...........................     9
Seeds.....................................   9
Shoe Blacking................  
9
Snuff.....................................   9
Soap.......................................  9
Soda.......................................  9
Spices..............  
9
Starch.....................................  10
Stove Polish...........................  10
Sugar......................................  10
Syrups...................................  9
Table Sauce...........................   12
Tea.........................................   11
Tobacco..................................  11
Twine.....................................  12
Vinegar..................................  12
Washing Powder....................  12
Wlcklng..................................  is
Woodenware..........................  13
Wrapping Paper....................  13
Yeast Cake.............................  13

V
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B
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7

Vanilla 

Lemon

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

INDIGO

JELLY

Madras, 5 lb. boxes................55
8. F., 2,3 and 5 lb. boxes.........so
61b. palls, per doz...........  190
151b. palls............................  38
301b. palls............................  72
Pure....................................   30
Calabria...............................  23
Sicily....................................  14-
Root.....................................  10
Condensed, 2 doz................ 1  20
Condensed, 4 doz.................2 25

LICORICE

LYE

MATCHES

Diamond Match Co.’s brands.
No.  9 sulphur..................... 1 65
Anchor Parlor....................1 50
No. 2 Home.........................1 30
Export Parlor..................... 4 00
Wolverine........................... 1 60

MEAT EXTRACTS

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

40
35
26
22

MOLASSES 
New  Orleans

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

Half-barrels 2c extra 
MUSTARD

OLIVES

PA PER   BAGS

Ask your Jobber for them.

Horse Radish, 1 doz............1  75
Horse Radish, 2 doz............3 50
Bayle’s Celery, 1 doz...........1 75
Bulk, 1 gal. kegs...............   1  25
Bulk, 3 gal. kegs...............   1  10
Bulk, 5 gal. kegs...............   1  00
Manzanilla, 7 oz...............  
80
Queen, pints.....................   2 35
Queen, 19  oz.....................   4  50
Queen, 28  oz.....................   7  00
Stuffed, 5 oz...................... 
90
Stuffed, 8  oz.....................   1  45
Stuffed, 10 oz....................  2 30
Continental  Paper Bag  Co.
Glory  Mayflower 
Satchel  & Pacific
Square
Bottom
50
M......... .........   28
*4......... .........   34
60
1......... .........   44
80
2......... .........   54
1  00
3......... .........   66
1  25
4......... .........  76
1  45
5......... .........   90
1  70
6......... ......... 1  06
2  00
8......... .........1  28
2 40
10......... ......... 1  38
2 60
12......... ......... 1 60
3  15
14......... ......... 2 24
4  15
16......... ......... 2 34
4 50
20......... ......... 2 52
5 00
25.........
5 50
Sugar
Red....
4*4
Gray..................................  4M

.... 

PARIS  GREEN

Bulk.....................................14
Packages, M lb.,  each........18
Packages, M lb.,  each........17
Packages,  1 lb.,  each........16

PICKLES
M edium

Barrels, 1,200 count............7 00
Half bbls, 600 count............4 00

Barrels, 2,400 count........... 8 00
Half bbls, 1,200 count.........4 50

Small

PIPES

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

POTASH

48 cans In case.

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

PROVISIONS 
B arreled  P ork

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

D ry  Salt Meats

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

@14  50
@17 00
@16  7*
@16  75
@20 On
@14 75
@17 50

9*4
9*4
9*4

Smoked  Meats

Hams, 12 lb. average.
@  11*4
Hams, 14 lb. average.
@  11*4
Hams, 161b. average.  @  11
Hams, 20 lb. average.  @  10M
Ham dried  beef......   @  12M
Shoulders (N.Y. cut)  @  9*4
Bacon, clear............   10*4@  u*4
California hams......   @ 8
@  16 M
Boiled Hams.......... 
@  13
Picnic Boiled Hams 
Berlin  Ham  pr’s’d. 
@  9
Mince H ams.........  
@  9M

Lards—In Tierces

Compound...............  
Pure.........................   . 
Vegetole................ 
60 lb. Tubs.. advance 
80 lb. Tubs.. advance 
501b. Tins... advance 
20 lb. Palls, .advance 
10 lb. Palls..advance 
5 lb. Palls., advance 
81b. Falls..advance 

7K
9*6
8
M
M
M
X
%

1
1

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

2 oz. Assorted Flavors 75c. 

2 oz. full measure, Lemon..  76
4 oz. full measure, Lemon..  1  50 
2 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  90 
4 oz. full measure, Vanilla..  1  80
2 oz. Panel Vanilla Tonka..  70
2 oz. Panel Lemon............. 
60

Standard.

FLY  PA PER

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

FRESH  MEATS

Beef

Pork

Carcass....................   6  @  8
Forequarters.......... 
5  @6
Hindquarters.........  
^  @8*4
Loins.......................   9  @12
8  @10
Ribs......................... 
Rounds....................  6*4@  7*4
Chucks.................... 
5*4@ 0
Plates...................... 
3  @5
Dressed................... 
Loins....................... 
Boston Butts........... 
Shoulders................ 
Leaf  Lard................ 
M utton
Carcass...................  
Lambs......................  7  @
Carcass.................... 
6  @7
GRAINS  AND  FLOUR 
W h e a t

@654
@9*4
@ 9
@9
@ 9
6S4@  7

Veal

W heat.............................. 
W inter W heat F loor

74

Local Brands

Spring W heat  F loor 

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Patents.............................  4 25
Second Patent...................  3 75
Straight.............................  3 55
Second Straight................  3 30
Clear................................   3 10
Graham............................  3 40
Buckwheat.......................  4 60
Rye...................................   3 20
Subject  to  usual  cash 
dis­
count.
Flour In bbls., 25c per bbl. ad­
ditional.
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Diamond Ms......................  3 76
Diamond Ms.....................   3 75
Diamond Ms.....................   3 75
Quaker Ms.........................  3  80
Quaker Ms........................   3  80
Quaker Ms........................   3 80
Clark-Jewell-Wells  Co.’s Brand
PUlsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 45
Plllsbury’s  Best M8.........   4 35
Plllsbury’s  Best Ms.........   4 25
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4 25 
Plllsbury’s Best Ms paper.  4  25 
Ball-Bamhart-Putman’s Brand
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  25
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  15
Duluth  Imperial Ms.........  4  05
Lemon & Wheeler Co.’s Brand
4 35
Wingold  Ms.................... 
Wingold  Ms.................... 
4 25
Wingold  Ms.................... 
4  15
Ceresota Ms......................  4  45
Ceresota Ms......................  4 35
Ceresota Ms......................  4 25
Laurel  Ms.........................  4 40
Laurel  Ms.........................  4 30
Laurel  Ms.........................  4  20
Laurel Ms and Ms paper..  4  20 
Bolted...............................  2 50
Granulated.......................  2 76

Worden Grocer Co.’s Brand

Olney & Judson’s Brand

Meal

Feed and  Millstaflfe

St. Car Feed, screened__ 23  50
No. 1 Com and  Oats........ 23  00
Unbolted Com  Meal........ 22  50
Winter Wheat Bran......... 17  00
Winter Wheat  Middlings. 18  00
Screenings....................... 16  50
Car  lots.............................
Car lots, clipped...............
Less than car lots.............
Corn, oar  lots...................

Oats

44
46

60

Corn
Hay

No. 1 Timothy car lots.... 10  50
No. 1 Timothy ton lots.... 12  50
Sage.................................. . . . . 1 6
Hops................................ ....1 5
Laurel Leaves.................
....1 5
Senna Leaves..................... ....25

HERBS

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

8

Sausages

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

Canned Meats

IO

P ure  Cane
 

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

 

STARCH

Kingsford’s  Corn

40 l-lb. packages...............   6M
20 l-lb. packages...............  7
61b. packages...............  
7M
K ingsford’s Silver Gloss

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

Common Gloss

l-lb. packages...................  5*4
3-lb. packages................... 
5
6-lb. packages..................  
6
40 and 50-lb. boxes............   4
Barrels.............................  
3M

W hite fish

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

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

SHOE  BLACKING

Babbit’s Best..................  4  oo

SNUFF

SOAP

Beaver Soap Co. brands

6

10 75
h  00
h   00
1  65
2 90
70
1  25
2 25
21
4
12
65
@13*4
@11
17*4
17
2  60
17 50
2  60
50
90
50
90
50
90

2 9

II

No.  8.................................  4 25
No.  9................................   4  20
No. 10................................   4  15
NO. 11................................   4  10
NO. 12................................   4 05
No. 13................................   4  06
No. 14................................    4  00
No. 15................................   4  00
No. 16................................   4 OO

TEA
Jap an

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

Gunpowder

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

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

Im ported.

SALERATUS 

Packed 60 lbs. In box. 

Church’s Arm and Hammer. 3  15
Deland’s.............................. 3 00
Dwight’s  Cow.....................3  15
Emblem.............................. 2  10
L.  P .................................... 3 00
Wyandotte, 100 Ms............. 3 00
Granulated, bbls.................  90
Granulated, 100 lb. cases__1  10
Lump, bbls.........................  80
Lump, 145 lb. kegs...............   85

SAL  SODA

SALT

Ruckeye

Common  Grades

Diam ond Crystal 

100  31b. bags.....................300
60  6 lb. bags.....................3 00
22 14 lb. bags.....................2 75
In 5 bbl. lots  5  per  cent, dis­
count.
Table, cases, 24 3 lb. boxes.. 1  40 
Table, barrels, 100 3 lb. bags.3 00 
Table, barrels, 40 7  lb. bags.2 75 
Butter, barrels, 280 lb. bulk.2 65 
Butter, barrels, 2014lb.bags.2 85
Butter, sacks, 28 lbs............   27
Butter, sacks, 56 lbs............   67
100 31b. sacks...................... 2 25
60 51b. sacks...................... 2  15
2810 lb. sacks.....................2 05
561b. sacks.......................  
40
281b. sacks.......................   22
561b. dairy in drill bags..;..  40
28 lb. dairy in drill bags......   20
66 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb. dairy In linen sacks...  60 
56 lb.  sacks..........................   25
Granulated  Fine.................  85
Medium Fine.......................   90

Solar  Rock
Common

Ashton
H iggins

W arsaw

SALT  FISH 

Cod

T rout

H erring

Georges cured...........
@ 6
Georges  genuine......
@ 6*4
Georges selected......
@  7
Grand Bank..............
@ 6
Strips or  bricks........ 6*4@10*4
Pollock......................
@ 3*4
H a lib u t.
Strips........................ ............ 10
Chunks...................... ............ 12
No. 1 100 lbs...............
NO. I  40 lbs......................   2  80
NO. 1  10 lbs......................  
78
No. 1  8 lbs......................  
69
Holland white hoops, bbl.  19  00 
Holland white hoops Mbbl.  5  ?5 
Holland white hoop, keg.. 
72 
Holland white hoop mchs. 
82
Norwegian.......................
Round 100 lbs....................  3  35
Round 40 lbs.....................  
l  65
Scaled.............................. 
15
Bloaters............................  
l  60
M ackerel
Mess 100 lbs........   ...........  11  00
Mess  40 
lbs...................   4  70
Mess  10 lbs......................   1  25
Mess  8 lbs......................   1 03
No. 1100 lbs......................   9  60
NO. 1  40 lb8......................   4  10
No. 1  10 lbs.
AU  .............................
8 lbs............. ........ 
N0.I
No. 2  100 lbs............
No. 2 40 lbs.............
NO. 2 1 0  lbs..............
8  lbs.............
NO. 2

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

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

Coal  Oil Johnny............   4  ro
King Cole  ......................   4 00
Detroit Soap Co. brands—
Queen Anne...................   3 35
Big Bargain..............—   1  90
Umpire...........................  2 ;-5
German Family..............  2  65
Dingman.........................  3 85
Santa  Claus. ..>..............  3  40
Brown............................... 2 22
Fairy...............................  4  00
Pels brand—
Naptha............................  4 00
Gowans & Sons brands—
Oak Leaf.........................  3  25
Oak Leaf, blg5...............   4  15

J A X O N

Lautz Bros, brands—

Single box...........................3  ¿0
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 Magnetic.........   3 90
Big Acme........................  4 25
Acme 5c..........................  3 65
Marseilles.......................  4 00
M aster...,...................... 3  70
Lenox.............................  3 20
Ivory, 6 oz....................... 4  00
Ivory, 10 oz__  .'............   6 75
sta r.................................3  25
Good Cheer....................  3 80
Old Country....................  3 25
Sapollo, kitchen, 3  doz.......2  40
Sapollo. hand, 3 doz........... 2  40
Boxes...................................  5*4
Kegs, English......................  4M

Schultz & Co. b rand-
A. B. Wrisley brands—

Proctor & Gamble brands—

Scouring

SODA

SPICES

W hole Spices

Allspice............................
Cassia, China In mats......
Cassia, Batavia, In bund...
Cassia, Saigon, broken__
Cassia, Saigon, In rolls__
Cloves, Amboyna..............
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Mace................................
Nutmegs,  75-80.................
Nutmegs,  10510...............
Nutmegs, 11520................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper,  Singapore, white.
Pepper, shot.
'ore G round in B olk
Allspice.............................
Cassia, Batavia...................
Cassia, Saigon..................
Cloves, Zanzibar...............
Ginger, African.............
Ginger, Cochin.................
Ginger,  Jamaica..............
Mace.................................
Mustard............................
Pepper, Singapore, black. 
Pepper, Singapore, white.
Pepper, Cayenne..............
Sage..................................

SYRUPS

........  8 00 Half bbls.......................
1 gallon cans, per doz..
........  3 50
*4  gallon cans, per doz ..
9 5
79 M gallon cans, per doz..
........ 

91 Barrels............................. . . . 2 2
. . . 2 4
...8  40
...1  90
9 5
. . .  

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

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

Common Corn

20l-lb.  packages.............. 
5%
40l-lb.  packages..............  4*4

STOVE POLISH

Young  Hyson

Choice.................................. 30
Fancy...................................36

Oolong

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

English B reakfast

Medium................................27
Choice.................................. 34
Fancy...................................42

India

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

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

8UGAR

Below  are  given  New  York 
prices  on  sugars,  to  which  the 
wholesale dealer adds  the  local 
freight from New York to your 
shipping point, giving you credit 
on  the  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  60
Cut Loaf............................  5 60
Crushed............................  5 60
Cubes................................  5  35
Powdered.........................  5  20
Coarse  Powdered.  .........  6  20
XXXX Powdered............   5  25
Fine Granulated...............   5 00
2 lb. bags Fine  Gran------  6  15
5 lb. bags Fine  Gran........  5  15
Mould A............................  5  45
Diamond A.......................  5  10
Confectioner’s A..............  4 95
No.  1, Columbia A..........  4 70
No.  2, Windsor A...........   4  65
No.  3, Ridgewood A.......  4  65
No.  4, Phoenix  A............  4 60
No.  5, Empire A.............  4  55
NO.  6................................  4  46
»0.  7...............................   4 36

TOBACCO

Cigare

A. Bomers’ brand.

Plalndealer............................ 36 00
H. & P. Drug Co.’s brands.
Fortune Teller.................  35
8
Our Manager....................  35
8
Quintette..........................   35
8
G. J. Johnson Cigar Co ,’s brand.

8. C. W..............................  35 00
Cigar Clippings, per lb......  
26

Fine  Cut

Uncle Daniel...... ............... 54
Ojibwa................ ............... 34
Forest  Giant...... ............... 34
Sweet Spray....... ................38
Cadillac.............. ................ 57
Sweet  Loma........ ............... 38
Golden Top......... ............... 26
Hiawatha............ ................67
Telegram............ ............... 26
Pay Car .............. ................32
Prairie Rose........ ............... 50

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

16

STONEWARE

H atters

 

48
6
54
65
58
1  20
1  60
2 26
2 70

614
84

48
6

60
6

85
1  10

60
45
714

2

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

 

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

Churns

M ilkpans

14 ga*  hat or rd. bot, per doz............ 
1 gal. hat or rd. bot„ each................. 
Fine Glazed M ilkpans
14 gal. flat or rd. bot., per doz............ 
1 gal. flat or rd. bot., each................. 

14 gal. fireproof, bail, per doz............  
l gal. fireproof, ball, p*>r doz............. 

Stewpans

Ju g s

14 gal. per doz.....................................  
14 gal. per doz.....................................  
1 to 5 gaL, per gal...............................  

Sealing W ax

5 lbs. in package, per lb  ....................  

LAMP  BURNERS

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

LAMP  CHIMNEYS—Seconds

35
36
48
86
50
50
Per box of 6 doz.
1 38
1  54
2 24

No. 0 Sun............................................. 
No. 1 Sun............................................. 
No. 2 Sim....'....................................... 
A nchor Carton Chimneys 

Each chimney in corrugated carton.

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

F irst Q uality

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

XXX  F lin t

P earl Top

No. 1 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, crimp top, wrapped & lab. 
No. 2 Sun, hinge, wrapped & lab........ 
No. 1 Sun, wrapped and  labeled........ 
No. 2 Sun, wrapped and labeled........ 
No. 2 hinge, wrapped and labeled...... 
No. 2  Sun,  “Small  Bulb,”  for  Globe
Lamps........................................ 
No. 1 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz........... 
No. 2 Sun, plain bulb, per  doz........... 
No. 1 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 2 Crimp, per doz..........................  
No. 1 Lime (66c doz)..........................  
No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)— ..,................ 

Rochester

L a  Bastie

E lectric

OIL  CANS

No. 2 Lime (70c  doz)..........................  
No. 2 Flint (80c doz)..........................  
1 gal. tin cans with spout, per doz—  
1 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
2 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. iron with  spout, per doz.. 
3 gal. galv. iron with faucet, per doz.. 
5 gal. galv. Iron with faucet, per doz.. 
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....................  
LANTERN 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.0Tub., Bull’s eye,cases 1 doz. each 
MASON  FRUIT JARS.

1  50
I 78
2 48

1  85
2 00
2  90

2 75
3 75
4 00
4 00
5 00
5  10
80
1  00
1  26
1  36
1 60
3 60
400
4 60

4 oo
4 60
1  60
l  80
3 00
4 30
5 76
4 60
6 00
7 00
9 00

4 76
7 26
7 26
7 50
13 50
3 60

45
45
2 00 
125

3 0

12

Protection............................ 38
Sweet Burley........................40
Sweet Loma......................... 38
Tiger....................................39

P lug

Flat Iron..............................33
Creme de Men the................60
Stronghold........................... 39
Elmo..................................... 33
Sweet Chunk........................37
Forge....................................33
Bed Cross.............................32
Palo..................................... 36
Kylo..................................... 36
Hiawatha............................. 41
Battle A xe...........................37
American Eagle...................34
Standard Navy.................... 37
Spear Head, 16 oz................42
Spear Head,  8 oz................44
Nobby Twist........................48
Jolly Tar..............................38
Old Honesty......................... 44
Toddy.,.................................34
J .T .......................................3i
Piper Heidsick.....................63
Boot Jack............................. 81
Jelly Cake............................ 36
Plumb Bob...........................32
Honey Dip Twist..................39

Smoking

Hand Pressed...................... 40
Ibex..................................... 28
Sweet Core...........................36
Flat Car............................... 36
Great Navy...........................37
W arpath..............................27
Bamboo,  8oz...................... 29
Bamboo, 16 oz......................27
I XL,  61b...........................27
I XL. 16 oz. palls................ 31
Honey Dew......................... 37
Gold  Block...........................37
Flagman..............................41
Chips....................................34
Kiln Dried...........................22
Duke’s Mixture...................38
Duke’s Cameo......................40
Myrtle Navy........................40
Turn Yum, IK oz..................40
Yum Yum, 1 lb. palls...........38
Cream.................................. 37
Corn Cake, 2% oz.................24
Corn Cake, 1 lb.................... 22
Plow Boy, IK oz...................40
Plow Boy, 3% oz...................39
Peerless, 3% oz.....................34
Peerless, IK oz.................... 36
Indicator, 2% oz...................28
Indicator, 1 lb. palls........... 31
Col. Choice, 2% oz................21
Col. Choice. 8 oz...................21
a  LEA &
M  PERRINS’ 
y |   SAUCE
g jg ; 

TABLE  SAUCES

The Original and
Genuine
F**Ml 
Worcestershire.
Lea & Perrin’s, large........  3 76
Lea & Perrin’s, small... ..  2 80
Halford, large............... ..  3 76
Halford, small................ ..  2 26
Salad Dressing, large......  4 66
..  2 76
Salad Dressing, small... 

TW INE

Cotton, 3 ply.................. ....1 6
Cotton. 4 ply................... ....1 6
Jute, 2 ply...................... ....1 2
Hemp, 6 ply..................
Flax, medium............... .....1 2
...20
Wool, 1 lb. balls............ .....  7%
Malt White Wine, 40 grain..  8 
Malt White Wine, 80 grain..11 
Pure Cider, B. & B. brand.  .11
Pure Cider, Bed Star.......... 12
Pure Cider, Boblnson.........12
Pure Cider, Silver...............12
WASHING  POW DER

VINEGAR

Gold Dust, regular..............4 60
Gold Dust, 6c...................... 4 00

Bub-No-More.....................3 50
Pearline.............................. 3 76
Scourine.............................. 3 50

WICKING

No. 0, per gross................... 20
No. i, per gross................... 26
No. 9, per gross................... 36
No. 3. per gross................... 66

WOODENWARE

Baskets

B u tter Plates

Bushels...................... ..  86
Bushels, wide  band.......... ..1  16
M arket............................. ..  30
Splint, large..................... ..6 00
Splint, medium............... .  5 00
Splint, small....................
..4 00
..5 60
Willow Clothes, large......
Willow Clothes, medium..
.  6 00
Willow Clothes, small...... ..4 76
No. 1 Oval, 260 In crate......  46
No. 2 Oval, 260 In crate__ ..  60
No. 3 Oval, 260 In crate.... ..  66
No. 6 Oval, 280 In crate......  65
Humpty Dumpty.............
..2 25
No. 1, complete................
..  30
No. 2, complete................ ..  25
Bound head, 6 gross box....  45
Bound head, cartons........ ..  62

Clothes  Pins

Egg Crates

13

14

Mop  Sticks

Trojan spring......................  90
Eclipse patent spring........  86
No l common.......................  76
No. 2 patent brush holder..  85
l? lb. cotton mop heads......1  26
Ideal No. 7 ..........................   90

Palls
hoop Standard.l 40
hoop Standard.1 60

2- 
3- 
2- wire,  Cable.............................l 60
3- wire,  Cable.............................l 70
Cedar, all red, brass bound. 1 25
Paper,  Eureka.....................2 25
Fibre.........................................2 40

Toothpicks

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

Tubs

20-inch, Standard, No. 1.......6 00
18-inch, Standard, No. 2.......5 00
16-inch, Standard, No. 3.......4 00
20-inch, Cable,  No. l........:..6  60
18-inch, Cable, No. 2.................6 oo
16-inch, Cable,  No. 3.................6 00
No. l Fibre................................9 45
No. 2 Fibre................................7 95
No. 3 Fibre................................7 20

W ash  Boards

Bronze Globe............................ 2 60
Dewey...................................... 1 76
Double Acme............................ 2 76
Single Acme.........................   2 25
Double Peerless....................  3 25
Single Peerless......................... 2 60
Northern Queen...................... 2 60
Double Duplex......................... 3 00
Good Luck................................2 75
Universal................ 

2  25

 

Wood  Bowls

ll in. Butter.........................  76
13 in. Butter.............................. l oo
16 in. Butter.............................1 75
17 in. Butter..............................2 50
19 in. Butter..............................3 00
Assorted 13-15-17.......................1 75
Assorted 15-17-19  ................2  50

W RAPPING  PA PER
Common Straw.................  
1%
Fiber Manila, white.........  
3%
Fiber Manila, colored......   4%
No.  l  Manila.................... 
4
Cream  Manila.................. 
3
Butcher’s Manila..............  2K
Wax  Butter, short  count.  13 
Wax Butter, full count —   2o
Wax Butter,  rolls............   15

YEAST  CAKE

FRESH  FISH

Magic, 3 doz..............................l oo
Sunlight, 3 doz...........................l 00
Sunlight, 1%  doz.................   50
Yeast Cream, 3 doz................... l 00
Yeast Foam, 3  doz................... l oo
Yeast Foam, 1%  doz...........  60
Per lb.
White fish....................  a a   io
Trout............................  8©  9
Black Bass...................MB  ll
Halibut........................  ©  16
Ciscoes or Herring__   ©  5
Bluefish.......................   ©  12
Live  Lobster...............   ©  20
Boiled  Lobster............  ©  20
Cod...............................  ©  10
Haddock..................    ©  7
No. l Pickerel..............  ©  9
Pike.............................   ©  8
Perch..................... 
  ©  5
Smoked White............  ©  l 1
Bed  Snapper.............  ©  ll
ColBiver  Salmon—   13©  14
Mackerel......................  ©  15

HIDES AND  PELTS 

Oysters.
Can Oysters
F. H.  Counts........... 
F. 8. D.  Selects...... 
Selects....................  
Bulk Oysters
Counts.................... 
Extra Selects........... 
Selects........... .......... 
Standards  ..............  

40
34
27
l  75
1  60
l 36
1  10
The Cappon & Bertsch Leather 
Co., ioo canal  Street,  quotes  as 
follows:
Green  No. l ............. 
Green  No. 2............. 
Cured  No. 1............. 
Cured  No. 2............. 
Calf skins,green No. l 
Calfskins .green No. 2 
Calfskins,cured No. l 
Calfsklns,curedNo.2 

© 7 %
© 6%
© 8K
@  7 a
©  9
©  714
©10
©  814

Hides

Pelts

Tallow

Pelts,  each 
Lamb........
No. 1.........
No. 2.........
W ool
Washed, fine...........
Washed,  medium...
Unwashed,  fine......
Unwashed, medium.

CANDIES 
Stick Candii

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

60©1 00 
.30©  60
© 414 
© 314
©20©23
©15
©17

s. pails 
©714 

©714 © 8 
© 8

© 9 
cases 
©  714 
©1014 
©10 

Mixed Candy

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

© 614
© 7
© 7K
© 8H
© 814
© 9
© 814
© 9
© 9
© 9
© 9
©io
©io
©1414
©13

Fancy—In  P alls 

Fancy—In  5 lb. Boxes

8%
Champ. Crys. Gums. 
Pony  Hearts........... 
15
Fairy Cream Squares 
12
Fudge Squares........ 
12
9
Peanut Squares............... 
Sugared Peanuts__ 
ll
Salted Peanuts........ 
12
Starlight Kisses...... 
10
San Bus Goodies.... 
©12
© 914
Lozenges, plain....... 
Lozenges, printed... 
©10
Choc. Drops............. 
©1114
©1314
Eclipse Chocolates... 
©14
Choc. Monumentals. 
V ictoria Chocolate.. 
©16
Gum Drops.............. 
© 514
© 9vt
Moss Drops............. 
©914
Lemon Sours........... 
Imperials................. 
© 914
Ital. Cream Opera... 
©12
Ital. Cream Bonbons
201b. pails............  
©12
Molasses  Chews,  15
lb. pails................. 
@13
Golden Waffles........ 
@12
Leman  Sours.........  
©56
Peppermint Drops.. 
©60
Chocolate Drops__  
©66
H. M. Choc. Drops.. 
©85
H. M. Choc.  Lt.  and
Dk. No. 12............  
@i oo
Gum Drops.............. 
©35
Licorice Drops........ 
@75
©66
Lozenges,  plain......  
©60
Lozenges, printed... 
Imperials................. 
@60
©60
Mottoes................... 
Cream  Bar.............. 
@55
Molasses Bar........... 
©55
Hand Made Creams.  80  ©90 
Cream Buttons, Pep.
©65
and  WInt.............. 
String Bock............. 
©66
Wintergreen Berries 
©60
Caramels
© 9
Clipper, 201b. pails.. 
Standard, 20 lb. pails 
@10
Perfection, 20 lb.  pis 
@1214
Amazon, Choc Cov’d 
@15
©65
Korker 2 for lc pr bx 
Big 3,3 for lc pr bx.. 
©65
Dukes, 2 for lc pr bx 
@60
Favorite, 4 for lc, bx 
©60
AA Cream Car’Is 3 lb 
@50
FRUITS 
Oranges
Florida Bussett.......  
Florida Bright........ 
Fancy Navels.......... 
Extra Choice........... 
Late Valencias........ 
Seedlings.................  
Medt. Sweets..........  
Jamalcas.................  3 50@4  00
Bodi...................... 
Lemons
Verdelli, ex fey 300.. 
Verdelll, fey 300......   4 28@i 50
Verdelli, ex chce 300 
Verdelli, fey 360......  
Maiorl Lemons, 300.. 
.viessinas  300s.........   4 00©4  60
Messinas  360s..........  3 60@4  00
Bananas
Medium bunches....  1 50©2 00
Large bunches........

©
©
@4 60
©
@
©
©
©
@
©
©
©

NUTS

Foreign D ried F ru its 
@
© 9>
@ 12
@ 14
@
1
@
©
©

Californlas,  Fancy..
Cal. pkg. 10 lb. boxes 
Extra Choice, Turk.,
10 lb. boxes...........
Fancy, Tkrk.,  12  lb.
boxes....................
Pulled, 6 lb. boxes...
Naturals, in bags....
Dates
Fards in 10 lb. boxes 
Fards in 60 lb. cases.
Hallowi....................  
5 © 514
lb.  cases, new......  
Sairs, 60 lb. cases....  414  © 6 
Almonds, Tarragona  @16
Almonds, Ivlca......  
©
Almonds, California,
soft shelled........... 
15©16
Brazils,....................  
@15
Filberts 
................. 
@13
Walnuts.  Grenobles.  @14
Walnuts soft shelled 
California No. 1... 
©11
Table Nuts, fancy... 
©15
Table  Nuts, choice.. 
©13
Pecans,  Med........... 
©10
Pecans, Ex. Large... 
©12
Pecans, Jumbos...... 
@13
Hickory Nuts per bu.
@2 00
Ohio,  new............  
Cocoanuts, full sacks 
©
Chestnuts, per b u ...  @6 60
Peanuts
Fancy, H. P., Suns..  614©
Fancy,  H.  P.,  Suns
Choice, H.P., Extents 
Choice, H. P.,Extras
Boasted................ 
Span. Bhlld No. in ’w  614© 7

Boasted................  614© 7

©
©

Figs

[•  Straight Business 

Proposition

( •
c#
( •
( •

For ($3.00)  Three Dollars  Net 

I’ll sell you a sbow case, like cut,  size 
10% inches front, 19 inches deep, glass 
fitted  in  on  slides—easily  removed 
for cleaning—and ten  pounds  of  the 
best Saratoga Chips 1 can make.  This 
case costs what I ask for  It,  I  throw 
in the chips.  If  you’re  not  different 
from nine dealers out of ten.  I’ll  get 
enough repeat orders for chips within 
a month to pay us both well.
Meyer’s Red Seal  Brand 

SARATOGA  CHIPS

have no equal.  For eight  years  I’ve 
devoted my time to making  the  best 
goods I know how.  Dealers  tell  me 
they are making money on my propo­
sition.  No one complains-; I am confi­
dent  you’ll  not.  Give  my  chips  a 
trial by ordering direct if  you  prefer 
to, and I’ll promise you a deal  which 
will please every reasonable man.

(J J. W. Meyer,

127 Indiana St 
Chicago, III.

WE ARE HEADQUARTERS FOR

AUTOMOBILES  AND 

MOTOR CYCLES.

Oldsmobile, $600.00

This handsome little  gasoline carriage is made 
by by one of the oldest and most successful mak­
ers of gasoline engines in  the  world.  It  is  sim­
ple, safe, compact,  reliable,  always  ready  to  go 
any distance.  It is the best Auto on the  market 
for the money.

We also sell  the  famous  “White”  steam  car­
riage and the “Thomas” line  of  Motor  Bicycles 
and Tricycles.  Catalogues on  application.  Cor­
respondence solicited.
A D A M S   &   H A R T   «*w -Bridgest.
ADAITID  O   I1 / \K 1 ,  Qrand  Rapids, Mich.

6 00
6 25
9 00
2 25

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

26 & 35

You ought to sell

LILY  WHITE

"The flour the best cooks use”

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

6 R A N D   R A P ID S .  M IC H .

Are you not in need of

New  Shelf  Boxes

W e  make  them.
KALAMAZOO  PAPER  BOX CO. 

Kalamazoo,  Michigan

Do  you  need some

Shoe  Cuts?

We furnish them to 
our customers  free.

C.  M.  Henderson  &  Co.

“ Western Shoe  Builders”

Cor.  Market  and  Quincy  Sts.,  Chicago

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

TH E  AUTOMOBILE  PROBLEM.

The  D evelopm ent  of a  Machine  to  Meet 

Conditions.

While  the  rapidity  with  which  the 
new  means  of  locomotion 
is  making  its 
way  in  all  parts  of  the  country  is. some­
thing  wonderful,  so  that  its manufacture 
is  already  numbered  among  the  great 
industries  of  not  only  several  European 
countries,  but  of  our  own  as  well,  yet 
the  difficulties  in  the  way  of  meeting 
the  requirements  of  general  traffic  under 
varying  conditions  are  not  yet  removed. 
Taking  into  consideration  that  the  pro­
duction  of  a  self-propelling  machine 
presents  vastly  more  complications  than 
the  making  of  a  machine  for  its  rider’s 
propulsion  like  the  bicycle,  the  growth 
of  the  horseless  carriage  has  been  far 
the  more  rapid.  This  is  no  doubt  ow­
ing  to  the  greater  development  of  me­
chanical  ability  to  apply  to  the  problem 
both  in  the  manufacture  and 
in  the 
subsequent  operation  of  the machines.

But  the  automobile  is  still  a  problem. 
In  its  present  stage  it  is  of  great  effect­
Its  adoption  is  as  rapid  as  is 
iveness. 
made  possible  by  the  capacity  of 
its 
factories.  But 
it  is  destined  to  far 
greater simplicity of construction,greater 
freedom  from  derangement  and  more 
reasonable  prices.

The  greatest  obstacle  with  which  the 
automobile  has  to  contend  is  the 
lack 
of  practicable  roads.  While  these  are 
improving  very  rapidly  in  all  parts  of 
the  country,  the  adoption  of  the  ma­
chines  is  relatively  still  more rapid.  On 
the  paved  streets  of  cities  and  the  im­
proved  roads  in  their  vicinity  the  pres­
ent  vehicles  are 
fairly  efficient,  but 
when  the  rougher  roads  are  undertaken 
troubles  begin  to multiply.  The field  of 
the  automobile  is  rapidly  widening  by 
the  increase  in  the  milage  of 
improved 
highways.  And this  increase  is  marked 
by  a  wonderfully  rapid  progression.

Disappointment  has  been  expressed 
by  some  that  the 
liability  to  derange­
ment  has  been  so  great,  making  the  re­
pair  bills  so  high;  but  when  all  is  con­
sidered  this  need  not  be  accounted 
strange.  One  of  the  reasons  for  undue 
derangement  of  the  earlier  machines 
was  the  sending  out  of  those  built  too 
light  for  the service  required.  Running 
these  over  rough  places  subjected  them 
to  strains  which  they  were  not  prepared 
to  resist.  The  owners  of  such  vehicles 
are 
learning  to  keep  them  on  reason­
ably  good  surfaces  and  to  give  the  at­
tention  necessary  for  their  keeping 
in 
order. 
In  the  meantime  the  builders 
are  beginning  to  put  out  heavier  and 
stronger construction  when  the  service 
required  is  severe.

It  was to be expected that difficulties of 
this  kind  whould be encountered.  In  the 
first  place,  it  is  considerable  of  a  re­
quirement  to  keep  either  of  the  three 
types  of  engines  in  order.  The  popular 
increase  of  mechanical  knowledge, 
although  very  large  in  recent  years,  has 
scarcely  been  able  to  furnish  engineers 
enough  for  such  needs.  Naturally  a 
large  proportion  of  the  machines  have 
fallen  into  incompetent  hands  and  these 
have  scored  rapidly  in  repair  bills.

The  mechanical  difficulties  to  be  con­
tended  with  are  very  great.  To  keep 
the  dead  weight  down  to  a  reasonable 
figure  the  parts  must  be  fairly 
light. 
Subjecting  them  to  the  vicissitudes  of 
rough  roads  strains  the  parts  and  sets 
up  undue  friction.  The  lack  of  oil,  or 
the  addition  of  dust  and grit  when  there 
is  oil,  soon  causes  cutting  and  before 
the  trouble  comes  to  the  knowledge  of 
the  driver  serious  damage 
is  done.

Then  there  is  the  difficulty 
in  steam 
propelled  machines  of  keeping 
the 
boiler  properly  filled  and  preventing  its 
burning.  With  the  present  construction 
this  is,  undoubtedly  carelessness,  but it 
is  a  trouble  which  very  frequently  hap­
pens  for  all  that.  Lack  of  thorough 
and  frequent  oiling,  allowing  dust  to 
get  into  unprotected  parts— inexcusable 
neglect,  yet  constantly  occurring.  Of 
course,  it  will  be  suggested  that  a  rem­
edy  will  be  found 
in  properly  educat­
ing  the  drivers;  but  all  possible  must 
be  done  in  the  way  of  stronger,  simpler 
and  better  protected  construction.

Already  much  heavier  machines  are 
being  put  out  for  any given service  than 
has  been  the  case  heretofore. 
In  some 
changes  are  being  made  in  the  way  of 
putting  the  working  parts  in  less  ex­
posed  positions  and  in  furnishing  pro­
tection.  But  serious  mechanical  obsta­
cles  are  met 
lines  and  the 
changes  are  being  worked  out  slowly.

in  these 

Perhaps  the  subtlest  and  most  per­
sistent  enemy  to  contend  with  is  dust. 
Impalpably  fine,  this  is  bound  to  get 
into  any  exposed  bearings  or  friction 
surfaces,  where  it  forms  a  cutting medi­
um  with  the  oil  whose  work  is  soon 
in 
evidence.  Cities  are  trying  to  abate 
the  dust,  but  it  will,  no  doubt,  be  an 
element  to  contend  with  even  then  for 
many  years.  Some  builders  are  enclos­
ing  the  working  parts,  but  in  this  there 
is  found  difficulty  in  that  the  operator 
is  still  less  able  to  give  his  machine  the 
proper attention.

The  progress of  the self-propelled  car­
riage  is  wonderfully  great;  but  the  task 
is  but  just  begun.  The  field  yet  to  be 
exploited by the inventor is much greater 
than  that  he  has  already  passed  over. 
But  those  who  have  watched  the  evolu­
tion  of  the  locomotive  and  other  means 
for  propulsion  can  have  no  doubt  that 
the  task  will  be  carried  to  completion.

W.  N.  Fuller.

to  success.

“ True,”   admitted  the  fakir.
“ Well,it  didn't  help  me  a  little  bit.”  
“ The  reason  for that,”   answered  the 
fakir  pleasantly,  “ is  that  you  have been 
buying  the  key 
it. 
It  has  brought  me  success.”

instead  of  selling 

Michigan  Fire  and  Marine 

Insurance  Co.

Organized  iSSi.

Detroit, Michigan.

Cash  Capital, $400,000. 

Nat Surplus,  $200,000.

Cash Assets, $800,000.

D.  W h it n r y , J r ., Pres.

D.  M.  F i r k y ,  Vice Pres.

F . H. W h it n e y , Secretary.
M. W . O'Brien, Treas.

E. J.  B o o t h , A sst  Sec’y.

D ir e c t o r s .

D.  Whitney, Jr., D. M. Ferry, F. J. Hecker,
M. W. O’Brien, Hoyt Post, Christian Mack, 
Allan Sheldon, Simon J.  Murphy,  Wm.  L. 
Smith, A .  H. Wilkinson, James  Edgar,  H. 
Kirke  White,  H.  P.  Baldwin,  Hugo 
Scherer,  F.  A .  Schulte,  Wm.  V .  Brace,  ^ 
James  McMillan,  F.  E.  Driggs,  Henry  ® 
Hayden,  Collins  B.  Hubbard,  James  D.  ® 
Standish, Theodore D.  Buhl,  M.  B.  Mills, 
Alex.  Chapoton, Jr.,  Geo.  H.  Barbour,  S.
G.  Gaskey,  Chas.  Stinchfield,  Frands  F. 
Palms,  Wm. C.  Yawkey,  David  C.  Whit­
ney, Dr.J.  B. Book, Eugene Harbeck, Chas.
F.  Peltier, Richard P. Joy,  Chas.  C. Jenks.

9®®@®®®®®®®®®®®®®S

. TRACTIVE CATALOGUE  I

"SAVE  TIME  AND  STAMPS"

P e l o u z e  Po s t a l S c a l e s

t h e  HANDSOMEST and  BEST  mate

THEY TELL AT A  GLANCE  THE COST OF  POSTAGE IN 
CENTS. AND ALSO GIVE THE EXACT WEIGHT IN  Zi OZS

NAT l ONALlALBS -- 3 00  UNION'S/-  L E = 

50-

"THEY  SOON  PAY  FOR  THEMSELVES IN  STAMPS  SAVED

Pelouze  S cale & M fg.  Co.,
C H I C A G O -  

|

NT  DEALERS 

Hardware Price Current

A m m unition

Caps

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

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

Primers

Gun Wads 

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

Loaded  Shells 

New Rival—For Shotguns

Drs. of
Powder

No.
120
129
128
126
135
154
200
208
236
265
264

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

OZ.OÍ
Shot
IK
1K
IK
1K
IK
IK
1
1
IK
IK
IK
Discount 40 per cent.

4
4
4
4
4*
4%
3
3
3*
3 H
3K
Paper Shells—Not Loaded 
No. 10, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..
No. 12, pasteboard boxes 100, per 100..

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

Gunpowder

Kegs, 26 lbs., per keg.........................
¡4 kegs, 12H lbs., per  %  keg............ .
H kegs, 6ii lbs., per H  keg...............

Shot

Axes

A ugurs  and  Bits

In sacks containing 25 lbs. 
Drop, all sizes smaller than  B...........
Snell’s .................................................
Jennings  genuine...............................
Jennings’ Imitation.............................
First Quality, S. B. Bronze.................
First Quality, D. B. Bronze...............
First Quality, S. B. S.  Steel...............
First Quality,  D. B. Steel..................
Railroad..............................................
Garden................................................net
Stove...................................................
Carriage, new 11«*  .............................
Plow ...................................................
Well, plain..,.....................................

Barrows

Buckets

Bolts

Butts,  Cast

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

•..  7K 
...  7* 
Crowbars
Chisels

Kin-
BB.........
....  8K 
BBB........ ....  8* 
Cast Steel, per lb.
Socket Firmer  .. 
Socket Framing. 
Socket Corner... 
Socket Slicks__
Com. 4 piece, 6 In., per doz............... net
Corrugated, per doz...........................
Adjustable.........................................dls

Elbows

Expansive  Bits

Files—New  List

Clark’s small, $18;  large, $26..............
Ives’ 1, $18;  2, $24;  3, $ 3 0 ............................
New American...................................
Nicholson’s.........................................
Heller’s Horse Rasps..........................
Nos. 16 to 20;  22 and 24;  26 and 26;  27, 
List  12 
16.

Galvanized  Iron 

13 

14 

16 

Discount,  60

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

Ganges

Glass

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

Ham m ers

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

Hollow  W are

Hinges

Horse  Nalls

Au Sable............................................dls
House  F urnishing Goods
Stamped Tinware, new list.................
Japanned Tinware..............................
Bar Iron..............................................2 26
Light Band..........................................  3

Iro n

Knobs—New  List

Door, mineral, jap. trimmings...........
Door, porcelain, Jap. trimmings.........

Regular o Tabular, Doz.......................

Warren, Galvanized Fount................

Lanterns

40
60
75
60
2 60 
3 00 
5 00 
5 76

1  20 
1  20

Per
100
$2 90
2 90
2 90
2 90
2 95
3 00
2 50
2 50
2 65
2 70
2 70

4 00 
2 25 
1  25

6026
60

6  00 
9  00 
6 60 
10 50
12  00 
29 00

$4 00

75 
1  26 
40&10

70&10
70
70
28
17

60&10

80&20
80&20
80&20
33K40&10
70
60&10
60&10
eo&io
60&10

40&10
70
20&10
orates
orates
75
86

5 00 

600

How  I t Helps.
”   said 
5-16 In. % In.
discovered the  key Com........ ....  7  o.  . .  6  C.  .. . 5 0 . .
.  6 H 

the gullible

Chain

K In.
..  4*0
•..  6
.
. .  6% ..  6K

40
50
40
45

2 55 
2 65 
Base 
6 
10 
20 30 
46 
70 
60 
16 
26 
36 
26 
36 
46 
86
50
46

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

60

26 00

Levels

Mattocks

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

Adze Eye................................ $17 00..dls

Metals—Zinc

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

____________________________ 

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

M isc e lla n e o u s

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

Pans

........................................  40
......................................... 75

3 1

7*
8

86
60&10&10
60

60&10
30

Fry, Acme...........................................  60&10&10
Common,  polished.............................  
70&6
P atent Planished Iro n  

“A” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 24 to 27  12 60 
“B” Wood’s patent planished, Nos. 25 to 27  11  60 

Broken packages Vic per pound extra.

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

Planes

Nalls

Advance over base, on both Steel and Wire.

Steel nails, base.
Wire nails, base....................
20 to 60 advance......................
10 to 16 advance.....................
8 advance.............................
6 advance.............................
3 advance..............................
4 advance................................
Fine 3 advance......................
2 advance.............................
Casing 10 advance.................
Casing 8 advance...................
Casing 6 advance....................
Finish 10 advance.................
Finish 8 advance...................
Finish 6 advance....................
Barrel  % advance.................
R iv e ts
Iron and  Tinned...................
Copper Rivets  and  Burs......

Roofing Plates

14x20 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IX, Charcoal, Dean....................
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Dean....................
14x20 IC, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
14x20IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade... 
20x28 IC, Charcoal, Alla way  Grade... 
20x28 IX, Charcoal, Allaway  Grade...

Ropes

Sisal, % inch and larger......................
Manilla................................................

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

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

Sand P aper

Sash  W eights

Sheet Iro n

com. smooth.

com. 
$3 60 
3 70 
3  90
3 90
4 00 
4  10
All Sheets No.  18 and  lighter,  oyer  30  Inches 

Nos. 10 to 14  .................................
Nos. 15 to 17..................................
Nos. 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  and  Spades
First Grade,  Doz..............................
Second Grade, Doz.............................

8  00 
7 60

Solder

1»
K@K................................................... 
The prices of the many other qualities of solder 
in the market Indicated by  private  brands  vary 
according to composition.

Steel and Iron.....................................   60—10—5

Squares

Tin—Melyn  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.25.

Tin—Allaw ay  Grade

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

Each additional X on this grade, $1.50

Boiler  Size  Tin  Plate 
14x56 IX, for No. 8 Boilers, )  DOlmd 
14x56 IX, for No. 9 Boilers, J per pouna" 

$10 50
10 50
12 00

9  00
9  00
10  50
10  50

,a
13

Traps

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

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

W ire  Goods
Bright.........................................
Screw Eyes.................................
Hooks.........................................
Gate Hooks and Eyes................

W renches

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

75
40&10
65
15
1 25
60 
60 
50&10 
50&10 
40 
3 25
2 95

80
80
80
80

80ft

3 2

M I C H I G A N   T R A D E S M A N

The  Boys  Behind  the  Counter.

Kalkaska—Miss  Ruby  Durham  now 
looks  after  the  book-keeping  part  of  W. 
H.  G.  Phelps’ grocery.

Saranac—James  W.  Thomas  has  re­
moved  to  Grand  Rapids  to  take  a  clerk­
ship  in  the  store  of  the  Western  Beef  & 
Provision  Co.

Lyons—Lewis  Somers,  who  has  been 
in  the  employ  of  Hatch  &  Baker  for  a 
year  past,  has taken  a  position  with  a 
hardware  firm  at  Coopersville.

Eaton  Rapids—George  Lindsey  has 
resigned  his  position  as  city  teamster to 
take  a  position 
in  Garrison’s  depart­
ment  store.

Lansing  Republican:  W.  L.  Ash 
has  resigned  bis  position  with  A.  M. 
Donsereaux  and  will  travel  for  a  New 
York  and  Cleveland  clothing  house.

Ed.  Mosher, 

feed,  harness  and 

im­
plement  dealer  at  Luther,  has  added  a 
line  of  groceries.  The  Ball-Barnhart- 
Putman  Co.  furnished  the  stock.

Robert  Rutkowski  has  opened  a  gro­
cery  store  at  Kingsley.  The  stock  was 
furnished  by  the  Ball-Barnhart-Putman 
Co.

Advertisement«  w ill  be  Inserted  nnder 
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  85  cents.  Advance 
payments.

BUSINESS  CHANCES.

business;  established 

Dr a y  l in e   f o r   sa l e  c h e a p ;  g ood 
twenty-five  years; 
must retire on account of  poor  health.  Charles 
Wells, Mendon, Mich. 
138
Fo r  s a l e —m o n e y   m a k in g   st o c k  o f
general merchandise, established  business 
of $1.500 per month  in  liveliest  growing  town 
in Michigan, at 25 per cent,  discount  from  in­
voice if taken within thirty days,  Correspond 
at  once  with  Mac,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man,____________  
136
Dr u g   sto ck f o r  s a l e  in  good to w n  
of 1,2 0.  Must be sold at once;  lull  prices; 
only one other store: investigate.  Address  No. 
135
135, care Michigan Tradesman. 
W ANTED—TO SELL STOCK  AND  BUILD- 
iog  or  stock  of  groceries,  crockery  and 
meats; best location in one of  the  most thriving 
cities in the Upper Peninsula; good  reasons  for 
selling;  correspondence  solicited.  Address  B. 
C.  W., Box 4 3, Crystal Falls, Mich. 
133
Fo r  sa l e —  d r u g   sto ck  a t  jo n e s ,
Mich.;  eight  miles  to  nearest  drug  store; 
good reasons for selling.  Address Box 58, Wake- 
132
lee, Mich. 
Ch o ic e  e m m e t c o u n ty  sto ck  f a r m ,
stock  and  farming  tools  to  exchange  for 
merchandise  Lock  Box  280,  Cedar  Springs, 
131
Mich. 
I7»OR  SALE—COUNTRY  STORE  DOING  A 
'  thriving business;  best  location  in  Central 
Michigan; cash receipts last year,  $10,000;  good 
clean  stock  of  general  merchandise,  invoicing 
about $2,500;  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. S. Hamilton, ColonviUe, Mich. 
130
Fo r sa l e—d r u g  sto ck a n d  f ix t u r e s
inventorying about $3,000; located in growing 
city of Kalamazoo; good reasons for selling; rent 
low; no  cut  prices;  satisfactory  terms  to  pur­
chaser  who  can  pay  one-half  down.  Address 
No. 139. care Michigan Tradesman. 
139
Gro cery  c l e r k ,  p o s it io n   w a n t e d
by an experienced grocery clerk.  Can  give 
the best of references as to ability, etc.  Address 
>40
Clerk, care Michigan Tradesman. 
F o r  s a l e  c h e a p —20  o r  m o r e  colo-
nies  of  bees  In  good  chafi  hives.  Albert 
141
Baxter, R. R. No  3, Muskegon, Mich. 
W ANTED—SECONDHAND GROCERY  DE- 
livery  wagon.  Must  be  in  good  repair. 
125
Address Lock Box 11, Shepherd, Mich. 
WANTED—UNDERTAKING“AND  FURNI- 
ture  business  Will  pay  spot  cash.  Ad­
dress No. 124, care Michigan 1 radesman.  124
FOR SALE—a  DESIRABLE  DRUG  STOCK 
in a thriving  town;  no  competition.  Write 
for  particulars.  Postoffice Box 115,  Silverwood, 
121
Mich 
Fo r  sa l e—sto ck  o f  g e n e r a l  m e r-
chandise ($5,000) In town of i,000 population; 
oldest and best location  in  town;  doing  a  cash 
business;  no book accounts;  have  sold tnis year 
to Oct  1, $14.680.  Will take part real  estate  and 
give  plenty  of  time  on  balance. 
J.  F.  Wels- 
singer, Sycamore, Ohio. 
123
Hu r  sy st em   r e d u c e s  y o u r  b o o k-
keeping  85 per  cent.  Send  for  catalogue. 
Eureka Cash  &  Credit  Register  Co.,  Scrauton, 
%
Pa. 

115

Fo r  sa l e—c o m p l e t e  s e t  o f  t in -
ner’s tools, all  In  good  condition  Address 
Wm. Brummeler & Sons, 249-263 South  Ionia St., 
Grand Rapids. 
113
Hn  a c co u n t  s ic k n e s s  w il l   se l l
warehouse and produce business, best  town 
in State, cheap.  Clark’s Real  Estate Exchange, 
Grand Rapids. 
ill
A  CCOUNT AGE WILL  SELL  $3,500  STOCK 
A  agricultural  stock  in  best  town  In  State, 
clearing $2,500 per  year.  Clark’s  Business  Ex- 
change, Grand Rapids._________________H2
■
  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. 
l/'OR  SALE—A  GOOD  PORTABLE  SAW- 
JT  mill and  about 250,000 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, 
Mien. 
96
C h o ic e so  a c r e  f a r m   f o r   s a l e  o r
trade  for  merchandise.  Address  Box  33, 
Epsilon. Mich. 
119
|/*OK  SALE—A LIVE,  UP-TO-DATE  CHINA, 
r   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. 
101
Jf'OR  SALE—GROCERY  STORE  OF  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. 
PIOR  SALE — BEST  ESTABLISHED  BA- 
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.  Ad­
dress No. 106, care Michigan Tradesman. 
106
ii>OR SALE-STORE, GENERAL MERCHAN- 
dise stock and one-half acre of land  in  town 
of 200 population in Allegan county.  Ask for real 
estate  $2,500.  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
dation), which will probably not exceed $1,200 or 
$1,500.  Require $2,000 cash, balance on mortgage 
at 5 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,  batbtub 
and  fixtures,  with  plumbing,  $295.  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
IjMNE OPENING  FOR  DRY  GOODS  BUSI- 
'  ness.  Now occupied by small stock, for sale 
cheap.  Address No. 97,  care  Michigan  Trades­
man. 
■ OR 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. 
Ji'OR  SALE-CONFECTIONERY  STOCK, 
fixtures, utensils and all tools  necessary  for 
making candy;  also  soda  fountain  on  contract, 
and  au  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-class 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
I  WILL  SELL  WHOLE  OR  ONE-HALF  IN- 
terest in my  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 
ail  correspondence  to  No.  63,  care  Michigan 
Tradesman. 

Me r c h a n t s  d e s ir o u s  o f  c lo sin g

out entire or part stock of  shoes or wishing 
to dispose of whatever  undesirable  for  cash  or 
on commission correspond with Ries  &  Guettel, 
12«-128 Market S t, Chicago, 111.___________ 6

63

97

93

MISCELLANEOUS

W ANTED—SALESMEN  CALLING  ON  RE- 
tailers to handle as a  side  line  a  new  ad­
vertising novelty for grocers;  quick,  easy seller; 
liberal commission;  exclusive  territory.  Ricaby 
137
& Smith, Benton Harbor, Mich. 
W ANTED — REGISTERED  PHARMACIST 
to work in country store; state  wages  and 
references.  Address  X.  Y.,  care  Michigan 
134
Trrdesman. 
W ANTED—A  POSITION  IN  A  GENERAL 
store In the North or Northwest by a  man 
who has for twelve years successfully conducted 
for himself a general store.  Has good  capital to 
invest if after thorough trial be Is  suited.  First- 
class references  given  and  required.  Address 
B. O., care Michigan Tradesman. 
120
E x p e r ie n c e d   s a l e sm a n   a n d  sto ck-
keeper wants position in dry goods, clothing 
or general store.  Good references.  Address No. 
118
118, care Michigan Tradesman. 
WANTED—SITUATION  BY  A  MAN  OF 
large experience in a general  or  hardware 
or  grocery  or  shoe  store.  Can  furnish  refer­
ences.  Address No. 129, care  Michigan  Trades­
129
man. 
WANTED 
.SITUATION  BY  ASSISTANT 
pharmacist  of  fifteen  years’  experience. 
Can give good references.  Address L. E. Bockes, 
Central Lake, Mich. 

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